About the Cluster We have probably all heard the factoid that if California were its own country, it would rank fifth in the world based on gross domestic product. This […]
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About the Cluster The main intellectual objective of the cluster is to discuss the historical depth and regional connections of what we have conventionally called “East Asia” and “Southeast Asia.” […]
About the Cluster Recent developments around the world, such as the rise of authoritarianism, the emergence of rightwing populist movements with strongly racist and xenophobic undercurrents, the migration crisis, and […]
About the Cluster Syntax (from Greek σύνταξις, an abstract derivative of συντάσσω ‘put in order together, organize, arrange’), is the set of linguistic rules, principles, and processes that govern the […]
About the Cluster The study of narrative structure (and the imposition of narrative structuring) has been a fundamental question across a wide swath of humanisitic studies — Propp’s folkloric taxonomy, […]
About the Cluster The Language of Conservation Project was founded in 2014, by Claudio Campagna and Daniel Guevara, at UC Santa Cruz, as part of the Center for Public Philosophy. The […]
About the Cluster This research cluster aims to revive and re-envision the Center for World History at UC Santa Cruz. We will focus on new research in, and theoretical discussions […]
About the Cluster The contemporary moment is marked by global environmental change, the collapse of states and the reconfiguration of economies. This era, where human disturbances asymmetrically affect all ecosystems, […]
About the Cluster The growth of digital humanities is making clear how computational technologies can augment many traditional humanities activities, from archival research to publication. UC Santa Cruz is one […]
About the Cluster While Leisure Studies as such is institutionalized as a professional training program for working with public recreation, children, disabled people, and the elderly, the Critical Leisure Studies […]
About the Cluster Contemplative Pedagogy in higher education is an integrated approach to teaching and learning that focuses attention on learning as a transformative process rather than exclusively as a […]
About the Cluster The Digital Humanities Research Cluster is a community of Faculty, Students, and Staff engaged in using technology to define new modes of Humanities research, analysis, publication, teaching […]
About the Cluster The Affect Working Group, formed by Deborah Gould and Dana Takagi from Sociology and Carla Frecerro from Literature, draws together faculty and graduate students from across the […]
About the Cluster The Complicated Labor Research Cluster is an interdisciplinary collaboration that brings together artists and scholars around questions of feminism, maternity, and creative process. It seeks to center […]
About the Cluster Capitalism has emerged as a central theme for research in the humanities. Since the global economic crisis of 2008, it has become clear that scholars are returning […]
About the Cluster The Critical Race and Ethnic Studies research cluster aims to foster dialogue leading to the creation of an institutional home at UC Santa Cruz for the interdisciplinary […]
About the Cluster The Santa Cruz Ellipsis Consortium is a collaboration among faculty and students (undergraduate and graduate) in the language sciences at UCSC, whose purpose is to deepen understanding […]
About the Cluster The working group on the study of children brings together faculty and graduate students from multiple disciplines to explore how to pursue and theorize research on children. […]
About the Cluster The goal of the Asian Diasporas Research Cluster is to foster a much-needed space of collective critical inquiry for UC Santa Cruz Asianist and Asian Americanist faculty […]
About the Cluster This cluster examines the nexus of migration and violence. Drawing from questions, methods, and sources in the humanities and social sciences, members approach this subject via the […]
About the Cluster The Community/Technology Research Cluster investigates the discussions of the notion of ‘community’ precipitated by the publication of Jean-Luc Nancy’s The Inoperative Community, and the turn given to […]
About the Cluster Crosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology (CrISP) is a collaborative research group with members from the Linguistics Department at UC Santa Cruz and the Linguistics Department at Stanford University. […]
About the Cluster The Digital Humanities Initiative at UC Santa Cruz was launched by the Institute for Humanities Research in January 2009. It is constituted by a group of UCSC […]
About the Cluster Living Memories of the Pacific War, will be instrumental in helping scholars around the world confront major issues facing the global humanities including not only problems of […]
