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24 October 2017 / 22 December 2017 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
October 19, 2017 By Scott Rappaport Award-winning American poet, Dorianne Laux will be the featured guest at the eighth annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading, Thursday, November 16, at 5:30 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture […]
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Celebrated writer and cultural critic just named a 2017 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellow October 12, 2017 By Scott Rappaport On October 11, the MacArthur Foundation awarded Viet Thanh Nguyen a 2017 MacArthur […]
11 October 2017 / 22 December 2017 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
October 10, 2017 By Bettina Aptheker, Distinguished Professor, Feminist Studies The Free Speech Movement (FSM) at UC Berkeley in fall 1964 involved upwards of 20,000 students before it was over, and more […]
By Terry Hong for the Christian Science Monitor SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 —“I have no formed definition of this project except an intuition that you would listen and be attentive and […]
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October 06, 2017 By Scott Rappaport Beyond the Wall: War, Refuge, and Home is the name of this fall’s installment of the Living Writers Series at UC Santa Cruz. Curated by the campus’s award-winning […]
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2 October 2017 / 21 February 2018 by Whitney DeVos | 1 Comment on Gail Project exhibition studies military occupation of Okinawa through a photographic lens
The Gail Project: “An Okinawan-American Dialogue” opens on campus October 5 at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery September 29, 2017 By Scott Rappaport The Gail Project is a collaborative public history project […]
31 August 2017 / 22 December 2017 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
By Janet Napolitano, contributor to the Huffington Post August 23, 2017. (Huffington Post) This week, the University of California will begin welcoming thousands of excited, ambitious and (even if they […]
30 August 2017 / 21 February 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
By Jennifer Hansler and Deena Zaru, CNN. (CNN) While the United States grapples with how to deal with roughly 1,500 symbols of the Confederacy in the wake of the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, other nations have […]
Fellows News
23 August 2017 / 9 May 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
August 21, 2017 By Jennifer McNulty. The Mission District in San Francisco boasts good weather, great food, and more murals than any other neighborhood in the city. Many of these paintings […]
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20 August 2017 / 21 February 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
Magnone is one of 20 new Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows nationwide who will take up two-year assignments with government agencies and non-profit organizations, working in the fields of policy, civil rights, arts and culture, and the media.
10 August 2017 / 21 February 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
July 27, 2017 By Scott Rappaport Washington Post correspondent and UC Santa Cruz alumnus Nick Miroff has been awarded a 2017 Maria Moors Cabot Prize for his reporting in Latin America. […]
August 03, 2017 By Scott Rappaport Assistant professor of history and Jewish Studies Alma Rachel Heckman has been appointed as the new holder of the Neufeld-Levin Holocaust Endowed Chair at […]
August 07, 2017 By Scott Rappaport Nearly 300 people attended the Dickens Universe this year–a unique weeklong event held each summer among the redwood trees at UC Santa Cruz. The […]