The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. Light refreshments will be available.

For more info, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

Spring 2015 Schedule:

10 April — Jess Whatcott, Politics, “Abolition Feminism Against Eugenics in California Prisons”

17 April — Evan Grupsmith, History, “Revolutionary Movement: Class Based Inclusion and Exclusion in the Cultural Revolution Chuanlian Movement”

24 April — Rose Grose, Social Psychology, “A Sexual Empowerment Process for Heterosexual and Sexual Minority Women”

1 May — Kali Rubaii, Anthropology, “Writing the Future with a Cement Pen: How to Concretize Displacement”

8 May — Cristopher Chitty, History of Consciousness, “Scandals of Appetite: Machiavelli, Sodomy and the Fall of the Florentine Republic”

15 May — Keegan Cook Finberg, Literature, “Reading Poetry of the 1960s: The Fluxus Event Score as Multimedia Encounter”

22 May — Muiris Macgiollabhui, History, “Carrying The Green Bough: An Atlantic History of the United Irishmen, 1791-1830″

29 May — Ann Drevno, ENVS, “Unintended Consequences of Regulatory Spotlighting Pesticides: The Case of California’s Central Coast Agricultural Waiver program”

5 June — Veronika Zablotsky, FMST, “On the Question of Socialist Governmentality: Being Interested in Early Soviet Armenia”

This event series is made possible through the generous support from the Institute for Humanities Research and the departments of Literature, History of Consciousness, Anthropology, Feminist Studies, HAVC, Philosophy, Joe’s Pizza and Subs, Politics, Psychology and Sociology as well as the GSA and GSC.