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SUMMARY:VMCC Talk with Maggie Cao—Sepia: Biotic Media and Ocean Worlds
DESCRIPTION:Sepia is a term used to describe inks of a rich\, brown color\, but few know that this artistic usage is taken from the animal world\, where sepia refers to a genus of cuttlefish—a nod to the long history of extracting melanin fluid from cephalopods for drawing and writing. This talk uses cuttlefish ink as a vehicle for rethinking human-ocean relations in the mid nineteenth century\, tracing flows between Victor Hugo’s maritime drawings made in the Channel Islands to paleontological discoveries and scientific illustrations on nearby coastlines. During the nineteenth century\, the expansion of fisheries and the growth of marine biology fostered public interest in the strangeness of cephalopods\, or “devil fish\,” whose inkiness was associated with artistic creation. Experiments with biotic media\, the talk argues\, were efforts to conceptualize the nonhuman environment of the ocean. \nThis event is presented as part of the Visual & Media Cultures Colloquium (VMCC) Series.\n—\nADMISSION\n– FREE and open to the public\n– Located in Porter College Rm. D245\n—\nPARKING\n– Lot 124 & 125 are the closest parking lots to the event.\n– Parking is by permit or ParkMobile.\n– Refer to TAPS for more parking information.\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law. \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/vmcc-maggie-cao/
LOCATION:Porter College\, D-Building\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:VMCC Series: Yiman Wang
DESCRIPTION:In a lecture delivered by UC Santa Cruz Professor Yiman Wang\, this talk delves into Mao-era moving image culture that featured experimentation with public health\, horticulture\, and animal husbandry to unpack what cinematic experiments were developed\, how scientific experiments were conducted\, and in what ways they were intended to intertwine with the nation-wide experiment with rebuilding the new socialist human’s psyche and a new socio-political world. The talk also explores why such conjoined experiments often fell apart\, what one might gain by recentering the unruly human and more-than-human “raw material” that were experimented on\, and ultimately\, how the environmental turn in media studies could benefit from a study of socialist trifold cinematic-scientific-socio-political experimentations.\n—\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nYiman Wang (Ph.D.\, Graduate Program in Literature\, Duke University) is Professor and Chair of Film & Digital Media at University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is author of Remaking Chinese Cinema: Through the Prism of Shanghai\, Hong Kong and Hollywood (University of Hawaii Press 2013)\, and To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong’s Cross-Media World (University of California Press 2024). She has published numerous articles in journals and edited volumes on topics of socialist environmental media\, feminist media histories\, ethnic border-crossing stardom\, eco-cinema\, Chinese cinema\, independent documentary\, film remakes and adaptations. She is editor of a special issue of Feminist Media Histories on Asian Feminist Media (2019)\, co-editor of an InFocus Dossier on Queering Asian Media in Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (2023)\, co-editor of Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion (2025)\, associate editor of Journal of Chinese Cinemas\, and co-editor of the Global East Asian Screen Cultures book series published by Bloomsbury.\n—\nADMISSION\n– FREE and open to the public\n– Located in Porter College Rm. D245\n—\nPARKING\n– Lot 124 & 125 are the closest parking lots to the event.\n– Parking is by permit or ParkMobile.\n– Refer to TAPS for more parking information.\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law. \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/vmcc-series-yiman-wang/
LOCATION:Porter College\, D-Building\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Campus Clean-Up Day 2025
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a student-run Sustainability Office Campus CleanUp! Our meet-up spot will be in front of the Porter Squiggle! We’ll be picking up litter\, beautifying our campus\, and celebrating with some snacks and prizes. Bring a friend\, and help us save the planet! \nLink to RSVP: https://forms.gle/4t7cWRHy5Bw15FVm9\nInstagram Flyer with information: https://www.instagram.com/p/DQqFu3_iQF3/
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/campus-clean-up-day-2025/
LOCATION:Porter College\, D-Building\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Book Talk with Winnie Wong—VMCC Series
DESCRIPTION:In this public talk\, Winnie Wong presents and discusses her most recent book\, The Many Names of Anonymity: Portraitists of the Canton Trade. She explores two countervailing urgencies in contemporary cultural politics: the drive to recognize all individuals as artists so that they may be granted the rights and privileges of authorship; and\, at the same time\, the inadequacy of the modern figure of “the artist” to contain the ingenuity\, imagination\, and originality of anonymous workers. It does so by focusing on a long marginalized but ubiquitous genre of painting: portraits produced by Chinese artisans in the port of Guangzhou for European merchants at the height of the Qing dynasty. In this relationship\, makers are anonymized\, while merchants’ lives are preserved in vivid detail\, but portraiture occasions the empirical scene of their encounter. This book charts a framework for understanding visual production and trade across overlapping imperial spaces\, and demonstrates how contemporary art historical inquiry can yet decouple authorial names from authorial works\, a step necessary to looking anew at anonymity\, multiplicity\, and the ingenuity of nameless artisans. \nWinnie Wong is a professor of rhetoric at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is an art historian with a special interest in fakes\, forgeries and counterfeits. \nThis event is presented as part of the Visual & Media Cultures Colloquium (VMCC) series.\n—\nADMISSION\n– Open seating/admission (no ticket or registration required)\n– FREE and open to the public.\n– Located at Porter College D245\n—\nFULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS\n– Wed.\, Nov 12: Book Talk with Winnie Wong\n– Additional dates to be announced\n—\nPARKING\n– Lot 124 & 125 are the closest parking lots to the event\n– Parking by permit or ParkMobile\n– TAPS provides additional parking information\n—\nABOUT THE SERIES\nThis event is presented as part of the Visual & Media Cultures Colloquium (VMCC)\, an annual lecture series that brings cutting-edge scholars to speak on a broad range of subjects related to visual and media culture. The series is co-sponsored with the graduate programs in the History of Art & Visual Culture (HAVC) and the Film & Digital Media departments. Each year\, the students and a faculty coordinator are responsible for selecting\, inviting and hosting speakers from a list of suggested names submitted by their peers and HAVC faculty. Together they share the unique challenge and opportunity of creating a program that brings to campus an array of cutting-edge scholars to speak on a broad spectrum of subjects.\n—\nImage Credit: Peabody Essex Museum\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/vmcc-winnie-wong/
LOCATION:Porter College\, D-Building\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Visual & Media Cultures Colloquium (VMCC) Series
DESCRIPTION:The Visual & Media Cultures Colloquium (VMCC) is an annual lecture series that brings cutting-edge scholars to speak on a broad range of subjects related to visual and media culture. The series is co-sponsored with the graduate programs in the History of Art & Visual Culture (HAVC) and the Film & Digital Media departments. Each year\, the students and a faculty coordinator are responsible for selecting\, inviting and hosting speakers from a list of suggested names submitted by their peers and HAVC faculty. Together they share the unique challenge and opportunity of creating a program that brings to campus an array of cutting-edge scholars to speak on a broad spectrum of subjects.\n—\nADMISSION\n– Open seating/admission (no ticket or registration required)\n– FREE and open to the public.\n– Refer to individual event listings for more information.\n—\nFULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS\n– Wed.\, Nov 12\, 4:00 p.m.: Book Talk with Winnie Wong\n– Additional event dates to be announced\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/visual-media-cultures-colloquium-vmcc-series/
LOCATION:Porter College\, D-Building\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Return to the Redwoods
DESCRIPTION:Return to the Redwoods is your chance to reconnect with friends\, family\, and fellow alumni while exploring the beauty of campus. Enjoy a variety of activities for all ages\, including a lively kick-off party\, Stars & S’mores\, guided hikes\, hands-on workshops\, and plenty of opportunities for fun and relaxation. \nYou definitely don’t want to miss out!
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/return-to-the-redwoods-5670/
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