News
25 May 2018 / 25 May 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz will present Always Moving Uphill: Women in the Arts, on Tuesday, May 29, at Kuumbwa […]
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Event Recaps Freedom and Race Signature Events
16 May 2018 / 21 May 2020 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
On May 16, 2018, our speakers challenged the centrality of 1968 in the world’s collective memory of revolutionary change. Instead, they offered “the long sixties” as a decade of violence […]
26 April 2018 / 26 April 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
The five recipients of this year’s Distinguished Graduate Student Alumni awards return to campus this Alumni Weekend to share career and life advice during the 2018 Graduate Student Alumni Career […]
3 April 2018 / 3 April 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
Two contemporary Japanese American authors whose elder kin were incarcerated in the Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah during World War II address the issue in ambitious new books, offering […]
27 March 2018 / 27 March 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
After the Trump administration proposed the elimination of the NEH, NEA, and several other humanities programs, the humanities community sent over 160,000 messages to Congress, wrote scores of op-eds, and […]
Events
21 March 2018 / 21 March 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
The Return of the Prodigal Slugs, otherwise known as Alumni Weekend 2018, will be a moveable slug-fest for alumni and their loved ones.
14 March 2018 / 14 March 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
Hayden V. White, professor emeritus in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz, died at his Santa Cruz home on March 5, 2018, at age 89. He was […]
Freedom and Race Mellon
12 March 2018 / 1 April 2020 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
The Humanities Institute and Cowell College will present a special screening of And Then They Came for Us, March 14, at the Del Mar Theater in downtown Santa Cruz. The Humanities […]
In an effort to better prepare students for today’s complex and changing world, professor and author Cathy N. Davidson delivered a talk that chronicled the ways in which educators nation-wide […]
9 March 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Marlene Tromp will join Aptheker in conversation. The newly restored and reopened Quarry Amphitheater is the biggest event space on the […]
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9 March 2018 / 22 March 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz is the lead institution on a $100,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) to help build a […]
5 March 2018 / 5 March 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
The Times of Israel quoted Alma Rachel Heckman in an article about a new book that explores the story of the many Jewish refugees in the Vichy Moroccan port of Casablanca fleeing the Holocaust.
Events News
19 February 2018 / 6 April 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
Okinawa, Japan: August 16 – 26, 2018 In a first-of-its-kind UC Santa Cruz travel experience, alumni are invited on a Japanese adventure, led by Professor Alan Christy, co-director of the […]
5 February 2018 / 22 February 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
The new book examines her family’s experience through personal records found in the family archive. Award-winning author and UC Santa Cruz literature professor Karen Tei Yamashita will read from her […]
4 February 2018 / 22 February 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
An opening celebration to formally launch the VizWall, a large-scale visualization installation, and the VizLab, a Virtual Reality and 360 Lab, will take place on February 7, at the David Kirk Digital Scholarship […]
11 January 2018 / 21 February 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
Tom Killion is in his studio on Inverness Ridge, describing the process for making his elaborate woodcut prints. First, there are hours of sketching and note-taking in the wild. Then […]
Freedom and Race Grants Mellon
16 December 2017 / 9 April 2020 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
The project includes a two-part humanities initiative that is designed to support doctoral student success for students from diverse backgrounds, and to expand the impact of the campus’s public humanities “Questions That Matter” outreach program.
5 December 2017 / 4 January 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
By Sana Saleem and Rose Aguilar, for KALW San Francisco August 27, 2017 In the wake of the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville and this weekend’s events in the […]
21 November 2017 / 5 March 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
It’s not your imagination. The turkeys have multiplied. The number of wild turkeys on campus seems to be on the upswing, creating drama, amusement, mild alarm—and a few ruffled feathers.
14 November 2017 / 21 February 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
Brown recently returned to campus to display her latest project, Conversations I Wish I Had. She spent an afternoon at UC Santa Cruz in the Humanities courtyard, alongside a beautiful custom-made, collapsible wooden phone booth—complete with vivid green plants and a stylish blue telephone.
The panelists included UCSC Literature PhD alum Kendra Dority, who is now Assistant Director at the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning on campus, and Literature graduate students Sarah Papazoglakis and Kara Hisatake.
14 November 2017 / 22 December 2017 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
The Marcus Poetry reading is hosted by poet and publisher Gary Young, and honors the late poet and critic Morton Marcus, who was at the center for Santa Cruz’s literary life for four decades.
Freedom and Race Mellon News
1 November 2017 / 27 July 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
Since it was first performed in 1605, The Merchant of Venice has been one of Shakespeare’s most controversial works. For the past 400 years, a debate has raged among critics and scholars […]
24 October 2017 / 22 December 2017 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
October 19, 2017 Each year, we continue to witness the eruption of “leaderless” social movements. From North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia, movements have […]
