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30 November 2012 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Don Rothman, a leading voice for writers and writing during a distinguished 39-year career at UC Santa Cruz, died in his sleep Wednesday night at his Santa Cruz home. He […]
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29 November 2012 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Two professors at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have been awarded the distinction of AAAS Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the association announced this week. They are Ilan Benjamin, professor and chair of chemistry and biochemistry, and Sandra Chung, professor of linguistics. [...]
27 November 2012 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Is it ethical for a school to punish or fire teachers for conduct that occurs off campus? Is street art that is created in public spaces–or on private property not […]
Bringing writers and scholars together in thoughtful interchange, “Latino Literature/La literatura latina IV” is the fourth biennial conference of the Latino Literary Cultures Project/ Proyecto culturas literarias latinas. This daylong event is free and open to the public. [...]
26 November 2012 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
The UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies presents an evening with acclaimed poet, writer, and lawyer M. NourbeSe Philip on Thursday, November 29, at the UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall. Philip will perform a dramatized reading of her extended poetry cycle Zong!, accompanied by a jazz duo led by UCSC professor of music Karlton Hester. [...]
Grants
26 November 2012 / 21 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) support and encourage undergraduate research in the humanities. Up to 10 awards in the amount of $500 each are given each year. There are no constraints on the expenditure of the stipend. [...]
26 November 2012 / 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 […]
20 November 2012 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Dustin Wright, a Ph.D. student in the UCSC History Department, has received a $43,800 Fulbright-Hays doctoral fellowship to pursue research in Japan. Wright will spend all of next year abroad working on his dissertation and will be affiliated with Waseda University in Tokyo. [...]
13 November 2012 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
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Last August, a lone gunman opened fire at a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six people and wounding four others. The tragic shooting drew strong reactions from people […]
8 November 2012 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
The UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department officially celebrated the launch of its long-awaited graduate program with a kick-off reception on October 29 at the Chancellor’s house. Guests included Chancellor […]
News Profiles
2 November 2012 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Gail Hershatter built a career by talking to people left out of history. She has traveled to rural parts of China uncovering stories that would otherwise have been lost. She […]
30 October 2012 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
25 October 2012 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Sunaina Maira, Professor of Asian American Studies at UC Davis, will give a lecture on Tuesday, November 13 at 4:00 p.m. in the Humanities 1 building, Room 210. “More Delicate […]
21 October 2012 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
A recent article in the Los Angeles Times examines the growth of Sikh Studies programs at California Universities. Mistaken for Muslims — and targeted — after 9/11, members of the […]
15 October 2012 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Welcome to the UC Humanities Forum, 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 […]
3 October 2012 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
“I often say, only partly facetiously, that I have the best job in Washington D.C.,” notes UC Santa Cruz alumna Rachel Goslins, executive director of the President’s Committee on the […]
1 October 2012 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Welcome back faculty, students, staff, and friends! There have been a lot of exciting developments over the summer here at UCHRI and with new grants, awardees, websites, and team members […]
28 August 2012 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
[rb_sharing facebook=”true” twitter=”true” google=”true” pinterest=”false” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] Feminist Studies professor Bettina Aptheker and Literature professor Karen Yamashita have been appointed to a UC Presidential Chair […]
23 August 2012 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
All interactive media—whether in art, entertainment, education, or research---are driven by computational processes. But it has become apparent that as interactive media have been rapidly growing in importance [...]
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20 July 2012 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Catherine Jones, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been selected as an NEH Summer Scholar from a national applicant pool to attend on of 20 institutes […]
27 June 2012 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Over the course of this conference, Cosmopolitanism in China, 1600–1950, we shall explore and rethink aspects of modern Chinese culture, religion, state, and society from various Eurasian and global perspectives. […]
22 June 2012 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
“Feature Representation, Manipulation, and Realization: The View from Estonian and Icelandic Nominals” Most theories of morphosyntax in use by linguists today make some use of the notion of a feature, […]
“Too ‘Chinese’ to play a ‘Chinese’: Anna May Wong, the Segregationist Era, and American Cinema” This book project explores the significance of Anna May Wong, the most important, yet understudied […]