October 30, 2024 | Walking in the Ecotone with Jim Clifford

A not to miss opportunity to explore of the UC Santa Cruz Campus, on and off the footpaths with Jim Clifford! We’ll wander among the trees, down in the ravines, out in the meadows. Pooling our different knowledges of environmental, social, cultural, technological and architectural history, we will try to disentangle the overlapping layers that constitute a unique environment.

Jim Clifford is Emeritus Professor in the History of Consciousness Department. Since his retirement he has photographed the campus, co-curated an exhibition about its history https://exhibits.library.ucsc.edu/exhibits/show/an-uncommon-place and published a book of Images and texts, In the Ecotone , that evokes the site’s “poetics of space,” its planning/design history, and its utopian potential (in pdf here: https://people.ucsc.edu/~jcliff/books.html)

Co-sponsored by Geoecologies and Technoscience Conversations, History of Consciousness and the Science and Justice Research Center