Author: Scott Rappaport
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Century Project challenges stereotypes of the female body
The Century Project is a remarkable exhibition that challenges stereotypical views of the female body, the nature of voyeurism, and the cycle of aging. Featuring 70 photographs of unclothed girls and woman in chronological order-from a newborn baby to a woman in her 90s-it is designed to provoke thought and discussion about subjects that are…
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Sesnon Gallery spring exhibit to feature innovative works from three UC Santa Cruz art faculty
What do exploding soap, the Polaroid I-Zone camera, and an espresso coffeemaker have in common? They’re all part of Faculty Works: 2004, an exhibition of innovative photography, video installation, and printmaking that will be presented by UCSC’s Sesnon Art Gallery from March 31 to May 1. The show will feature works by associate professor of…
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UC Santa Cruz faculty collaborate for innovative, multimedia classical guitar concert
Ever since he arrived at UC Santa Cruz in the fall of 1998, Mesut Ãzgen has been thinking about how to present a more theatrical version of the traditional classical guitar concert. After years of discussion with a wide variety of artists, the UCSC music lecturer has come up with a multimedia concept–designed to visually…
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UC Santa Cruz professor hopes to promote musical connection with Monterey through concert at Carmel Mission
UC Santa Cruz music professor Nicole Paiement is particularly looking forward to a rare appearance by the UCSC Chamber Singers at the Carmel Mission on February 21. The 24-voice ensemble will perform an evening of early music featuring Renaissance and Baroque styles from England and France–including works by Thomas Morley, John Dowland, John Wilbye, and…
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UC Santa Cruz film professor’s revolutionary past to be featured in Berkeley Art Museum retrospective and new DVD
Years before he joined the faculty at UC Santa Cruz, Chip Lord was a member of the Ant Farm, a groundbreaking experimental art and architecture collective he founded in 1968 with fellow architect Doug Michels. Dedicated to finding alternatives to mainstream architectural practice, the Ant Farm combined video, performance, and sculpture–achieving widespread notoriety in the…
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UC Santa Cruz to present 2004 ‘Thinking at the Edge’ Distinguished Lecture Series
Internationally renowned AIDS researcher Robert Gallo, award-winning social psychologist Elliot Aronson, and UC Berkeley astronomy professor and planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy are just a few of the diverse array of speakers set to appear at UC Santa Cruz in the coming year. It’s all part of UCSC’s 2004 “Thinking at the Edge” Distinguished Lecture Series,…
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UC Santa Cruz film professor wins ‘Academy Award’
Associate professor of film and digital media Shelley Stamp has been named one of two 2003 Academy Film Scholars by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences-the same folks who bring us the Academy Awards. Stamp will receive $25,000 from the Academy to complete a book about silent film director/screenwriter/actress Lois Weber. The Film…
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Dickens holiday evening set for December 5 at UC Santa Cruz
The Friends of the UCSC Library and the UCSC Dickens Project will present the annual Dickens Holiday Evening on Friday, December 5, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at UCSC’s McHenry Library Foyer. Admission is free and everyone is welcome. The gathering will feature traditional Victorian entertainment and music, plus a reading from Dickens and sing-along…
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New UC Santa Cruz program sends humanities graduate students into local schools
Literature graduate student Veronica Kirk-Clausen was a little nervous when she stepped into Martha Dyer’s eighth-grade class at Mission Hill Junior High in Santa Cruz last spring. “I’m used to teaching undergraduate sections and writing classes with students ages 18 to 21,” Kirk-Clausen recalled. “I didn’t know what to expect or how to anticipate their…
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UC Santa Cruz receives gift of 2,700 classical CDs from late UC Berkeley professor
The University Library at UC Santa Cruz has received a gift of 2,700 classical CDs from the personal collection of the late Jesse C. Rabinowitz, a distinguished emeritus professor of molecular and cell biology at UC Berkeley, as well as an enthusiastic cellist and avid patron of the arts. “The Music Department is tremendously grateful…
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‘Out In the Redwoods’ history book published by UC Santa Cruz library
The University Library’s Regional History Project has announced the publication of Out in the Redwoods: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, 1965-2003. This documentary oral history book is based on 27 interviews with UCSC students, alumni, and staff. The interviews were conducted by 11 UCSC students who were trained…
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Bay Area recruitment consortium announces launch of first northern California web site for jobs in higher education
The search for a job in higher education at Bay Area universities, community colleges, and professional schools is now a lot less labor intensive due to the development of a new web site. The Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC)–a group of 18 Bay Area campuses founded in 2000 by UC Santa Cruz–announced today the launch…