News
17 May 2013 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
UCSC graduate students from all divisions shared their research with faculty, staff, friends, colleagues, and the local community at the 9th Annual Graduate Research Symposium on Friday, May 10. The symposium, held this year at McHenry Library, featured live oral presentations, [...]
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The Division of Undergraduate Education is pleased to announce the appointment of Sean Keilen as Porter College Provost. An Associate Professor of Literature and affiliated faculty member of Theater Arts, Keilen studies […]
Grants
15 May 2013 / 21 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition 5 Project:Connect — Summer Youth Programming Competition The fifth Digital Media and Learning Competition, the Project:Connect — Summer Youth Programming Competition, is now [...]
7 May 2013 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
We’re pleased to announce that Deanna Shemek, Professor of Literature, has been awarded a Residential Research Group during the spring quarter for her Digital Princess research project. Digital Isabella d’Este […]
6 May 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Welcome to the UC Humanities Update, a fortnightly e-news blast designed to bring you the latest news and information about humanities across the UC system, from opportunities for funding and networking […]
Fellows News
2 May 2013 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Graduate students in a wide range of disciplines from all five academic divisions at UC Santa Cruz will present their research on Friday, May 10, at the 9th annual Graduate Research Symposium. This year’s symposium will be held in the newly renovated McHenry Library, from 1:30 to [...]
30 April 2013 / 21 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Deadline: May 15, 2013 Amount: $500 – $2,500 Summer research fellowships are to be used for research and research-related travel during Summer 2013. Applicants are current graduate students in good […]
29 April 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz will present International Playhouse XIII–an annual program of fully-staged short theater pieces by students in the university’s Language Program—on May 16-19, at 8 p.m. in the Stevenson Event Center. Directed by the students’ Language instructors, the four public performances will feature works in French, Italian [...]
19 April 2013 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Poet Brenda Shaughnessy returns to campus for Alumni Weekend including a free public reading on April 25 UC Santa Cruz 1993 graduate Brenda Shaughnessy has been awarded a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship […]
18 April 2013 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
UCSC is sending two graduate student fellows to the Society of Fellows event being held at UCLA April 18-19. The two-day event is a showcase of the humanities at the […]
17 April 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
The University of California, Merced is a dynamic new university campus in Merced, California, which opened in September 2005 as the tenth campus of the University of California and the first American research university in the 21st century. [...]
The Eloise Pickard Smith Galleries at Cowell College will present In Her Place: Visual Narratives by Bonnie Stone, an exhibition opening April 26 and running through June 22 on the UCSC campus. Stone, who lives in Saratoga, CA, has been producing vivid watercolors for more than five decades. [...]
16 April 2013 / 21 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
This program is designed to encourage and support research in any area of the Humanities. In addition to programming, we encourage the clusters to view this as seed funding and to think about ways the cluster can serve as an incubator for larger projects in the future and how they can leverage cluster funds to secure extramural funding. [...]
10 April 2013 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
We are pleased to announce that Expressive Intelligence Studio (EIS) co-director Noah Wardrip-Fruin, and Eric Kaltman, along with Christy Caldwell at UCSC Library and Henry Lowood of Stanford University Library, have been awarded an NEH Digital Start Up [...]
Tagged
9 April 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
News Profiles
5 April 2013 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Nearly 5,500 miles away, a Japanese Cold War protester serves History Ph.D. candidate Dustin Wright a steaming cup of green tea as a kerosene heater rattles in the corner. A Fulbright-Hays doctoral fellowship recipient, Wright is spending 2013 in Japan, [...]
2 April 2013 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Mondo Nano. The Art of Parties. The Worlding of Marco Polo. The Smell of Petroleum. These are just a few of the projects that will be showcased at this year’s Society […]
2 April 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Acclaimed up-and-coming writer Tupelo Hassman–author of the novel Girlchild–will kick off the spring installment of UCSC’s Living Writers reading series, Thursday, April 4, at the Humanities Lecture Hall. As the New York Times has noted: “It takes real talent to make something beautiful out of a trailer park. [...]
In anticipation of the development of a formal Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) proposal to the Academic Senate, the Humanities Division is sponsoring a 2012-13 CRES visiting speaker series, […]
1 April 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
30 March 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Roma Sprung (Porter ’74, biology), is eager to reconnect with the campus she left behind. “I haven’t been in this region of the world for years,” she said. “I was […]
28 March 2013 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
UCSC humanities lecturer and alumnus Gary Young has received the 2013 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America (PSA) for best original poem on a humanitarian theme. Awards from the PSA—the nation’s oldest poetry organization—are among the most prestigious honors available to poets, [...]
28 March 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
I am thinking through this blog post while sitting in the audience at UC Berkeley’s Critical Issues in Online Education 2-day conference. It is a gathering of edtech leaders, computer scientists and […]
22 March 2013 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
The UC Santa Cruz Sikh and Punjabi Studies program will present an international conference titled (Re-)Building Punjab: Political Economy, Society and Values on campus, March 29-30. Prominent scholars from Punjab, England, and the United States will come together for six sessions [...]