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12 March 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
When I started my Ph.D. at UC Santa Cruz in 2005, I honestly had no idea that there was a thing on my campus called a humanities center. Perhaps I […]
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12 March 2013 / 9 May 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 […]
7 March 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Location: UCLA | Time: April 18-19, 2013 THURSDAY, APRIL 18 | The Fowler Museum at UCLA 6:30 pm | The Terrace 25th Anniversary Opening Reception 7:30 pm | Lenart Auditorium Race, Representation, [...]
Saru Jayaraman, author of Behind the Kitchen Door, will speak and sign copies of her book Thursday, March 21, 7-9 p.m. at the Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave., Santa […]
6 March 2013 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
New book explores the changing cultural scene since Hurricane Katrina A new book by UCSC professors Lewis Watts (Art) and Eric Porter (History, American Studies) maps the changing cultural scene […]
26 February 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
21 February 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Henrik Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt has been staged at theaters across the world since its premiere in 1876—as well as at an insane asylum in Iceland, in the Wild West, on a […]
Fellows News
20 February 2013 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
The student-run Jewish journal, which turns 40 this year, ranks among the longest-running Jewish-themed campus publications in the country. Imagine how hard it would be to publish a respected quarterly […]
Campus partners with education company to deliver ‘MOOCs’ The University of California, Santa Cruz will become one of 62 university campuses from around the world to offer free online courses […]
13 February 2013 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
UCSC humanities professors Sandra Chung and Matthew Wagers have been awarded a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate language comprehension in the Mariana Islands. The project will […]
12 February 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Karen Thompson to present lecture on campus March 7 UC Santa Cruz will present a lecture by Karen Thompson titled “Love is a Dangerous Promise” on Thursday, March 7, at 7 p.m., […]
7 February 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Award-winning documentarian Duki Dror in-residence at UCSC this winter as visiting artist UCSC’s Film and Digital Media Department will present a free public screening of award-winning Israeli documentarian Duki Dror’s acclaimed filmMendelsohn’s Incessant Visions on [...]
5 February 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Event presented by the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Award-winning author and UCSC professor of literature Karen Tei Yamashita will read excerpts from her novel, I Hotel; her forthcoming book of performances, Anime Wong; and the essay “Borges & I,” on [...]
28 January 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
17 January 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Under the Bracero program, from 1942 to 1964, several million men were imported to the United States to work in the fields in one of the largest state-managed migrations in […]
16 January 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Jan Boxill to speak on “Using Sports as a Public Forum for Ethics” and also serve as Judge and Honorary Chair of new High School Ethics Bowl competition at UCSC […]
11 January 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Religions in Diaspora and Global Affairs presents Humanities Studio Jam February 21-22, 2013 at UC Irvine Join us for a jam session for UC faculty and graduate students and CA […]
8 January 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 to stories about emerging research, collaborations, events, and more.
7 January 2013 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Gail Hershatter, History Professor and Department Chair at UC Santa Cruz, is one of few Western women to travel far-flung areas in China. As she made her way through the rural Shannxi province over the course of 10 years, she spoke to 72 [...]
7 January 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
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, which brings scholars from other programs at other universities to UCSC. [...]
On the side of Navdeep Kaur’s left hand, a tattoo reads, “Conquer Your Mind, Conquer The World” in Punjabi. Although subtle in size, the tattoo, written in Gurmukhi, heavily influences […]
The American Associate for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) awarded Professor of Linguistics Sandra Chung, with the distinction of AAAS fellow, “for distinguished contributions to teaching and research in linguistics, advancing [...]
14 December 2012 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. Presented annually by the Philosophy Department, the Ethics Lecture is made possible by the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary [...]
4 December 2012 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
The Modern Language Association of America today announced that it will award its tenth Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for an Outstanding Translation of a Literary Work to Robert M. Durling, translator [...]