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Interviewing and Negotiating the Job Offer with Veronica Heiskell
Interviewing and Negotiating the Job Offer with Veronica Heiskell
Learn interviewing strategies to land a job offer. Then, learn how to negotiate the best salary and benefits package when you receive the job offer. This class offers strategies that apply to both academic and alternative-to-academic job applications and negotiations. The negotiation strategies also apply to asking for raises, job reclassifications, and title and responsibility […]
An Evening with Marilynne Robinson: Noel Q King Memorial Lecture
An Evening with Marilynne Robinson: Noel Q King Memorial Lecture
Marilynne Robinson, a prolific novelist and essayist, is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a National Humanities Medal. President Barack Obama applauded "her grace and intelligence in writing." Her most recent book, Reading Genesis, is a meditation on the origins of humankind and the meaning of […]
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Laliv Melamed – On Intimacy and Other Sovereignties
Laliv Melamed – On Intimacy and Other Sovereignties
How can we explain decades of Israeli civil society’s consensus around a regime of oppression and impunity? What mediated attachments and disavowals mandate settler colonial violence? This talk follows what the private media complex in order to articulate the intimate channels through which state sovereignty is distributed, structured and internalized. A prerequisite to the current […]
A Discussion of Mike Wilson’s book, What Side Are You On?, with Professor Felicity Amaya Schaeffer
A Discussion of Mike Wilson’s book, What Side Are You On?, with Professor Felicity Amaya Schaeffer
Join us for a discussion of Mike Wilson’s book What Side Are You On? with Professor Felicity Amaya Schaeffer on Wednesday, December 4th, from 4:00-6:00pm at Merrill Provost’s House, Public Living Room. Light refreshments will be provided. Mike Wilson is a dedicated humanitarian and co-author of What Side Are You On? with Dr. Jose Antonio […]
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Living Writers Student Reading
Living Writers Student Reading
Living Writers Series – Fall 2024 Growing Things ~ gardens, poems, emotions, relationships, stories, our artistic practices, carefully tended, beautifully ordered, rewilded and wild ~ Sponsored by The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Laurie Sain Endowment, The Humanities Institute, Bookshop Santa Cruz, and Two Birds Books, which provides books for purchase at the readings.
Casting the Dice: A Dialogue on Migration Through Music
Casting the Dice: A Dialogue on Migration Through Music
Join us for a special event with composer Iván Enrique Rodríguez and UC Santa Cruz scholar Amy Argenal to discuss the complex experiences of migrants, the many challenges of seeking asylum and refuge in the United States, and the power of music as a tool for social change. Presented by The Humanities Institute and the […]
Slug Book Club Holiday Party with the Deep Read
Slug Book Club Holiday Party with the Deep Read
Join us for an undergraduate holiday party with the Slug Book Club and the Deep Read. Come for pizza and drinks as well as holiday crafts and a literary white elephant exchange ($10-$15 budget). We'll be handing out copies of this year's Deep Read book, James by Percival Everett, and discussing opportunities to participate in […]
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American Analects: Book Launch and Poetry Reading
American Analects: Book Launch and Poetry Reading
Please join us for the release of American Analects, poems by Gary Young and Feasting on the World, an exhibition at MK Contemporary Art Gallery, paintings by Gene Holton paired with poems by Gary Young. Gary Young will be reading from his new book inspired by his friend and mentor Gene Holton. Presented by MK […]
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Slugs and Steins with Professor Renee Fox and Professor Elaine Sullivan – The Curse of the Mummy
Slugs and Steins with Professor Renee Fox and Professor Elaine Sullivan – The Curse of the Mummy
This talk focuses on a new UCSC Humanities course called “The Curse of the Mummy,” co-taught by Associate Professor of Literature Renée Fox and Associate Professor Elaine Sullivan. Combining analysis of 19th-century Egyptology’s transformation of ancient Egypt into a European fantasy with study of ancient Egyptian culture itself, the course relies on the collaborative expertise […]
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Humanities Division Graduate Awards Make-up
Humanities Division Graduate Awards Make-up
Dean Jasmine Alinder will recognize Kimberly Tallbear (Ph.D. ’05, History of Consciousness) with the 2023-2024 Distinguished Humanities Graduate Alumni award. Professor Tallbear will give remarks, and we will recognize graduate student awards from last year, with a reception following. The event will take place at the Merrill Provost House from 4 - 6 pm. We […]