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Shakespeare and the Common Good: The Value of a Literary Education
Shakespeare and the Common Good: The Value of a Literary Education
Julia Reinhard Lupton, Professor of English and Associate Dean for Research in the School of Humanities at UC Irvine, will conduct a professional development seminar for graduate students. The seminar will discuss the purpose of graduate education in the humanities and conclude with a research narrative development workshop, focusing on practical techniques for translating work […]
Regina Kunzel: “In Treatment: Psychiatry and the Archives of Modern Sexuality”
Regina Kunzel: “In Treatment: Psychiatry and the Archives of Modern Sexuality”
Regina Kunzel’s current project explores the encounter of sexual- and gender-variant people with psychiatry in the mid-twentieth-century U.S. Drawing on multiple archives, she argues for the importance of psychiatric scrutiny, stigma, and medicalization in the making of modern sexuality. Regina Kunzel is a Professor of History and Gender and Sexuality Studies and Director, Program in Gender […]
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Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Mikki Stelder
Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Mikki Stelder
Towards Other Scenes of Speaking and Listening: Palestinian Anticolonial Queer Spatialities Mikki Stelder, Visiting Scholar In 2010, Palestinian Queers for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions called upon international queer communities to support the Palestinian calls for BDS. My dissertation emerged as one way to respond. First, I lay out the terms within which scholars and activists […]
Christopher Newfield: “After the Great Mistake: Fixing Public Universities in the Trump Administration”
Christopher Newfield: “After the Great Mistake: Fixing Public Universities in the Trump Administration”
Christopher Newfield’s (Professor of literature and American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara) new book, “The Great Mistake,“ shows how privatization has weakened the educational quality and the budgetary stability of public universities and wrecked their true public mission. But how can they recover during an administration that promises to accelerate privatization in […]
Living Writers: PhD Candidates, Creative/Critical Concentration
Living Writers: PhD Candidates, Creative/Critical Concentration
C Dylan Bassett’s books are The Invention of Monsters / Plays for the Theater (2015) and A Failed Performance: The Collected Short Plays of Daniil Kharms (forthcoming 2018). His recent work appears in The American Reader, Black Warrior Review, Ninth Letter, and Washington Square. He lives in Santa Cruz. Matthew Gervase is a Ph.D. candidate in […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Rachel Shellabarger
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Rachel Shellabarger
Sustainable Happy cows: Change and Sustainability in California Dairies California dairy advertisements often feature happy cows, but they mask social and environmental concerns over industrial milk production. Currently, California dairy producers face a mix of challenges with severe drought, regulation of methane emissions from cows, uncertain changes in milk pricing policies, and future implementation of […]
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Rethinking Labor Mobility and Precarity: A Seminar with Guy Standing, Alejandro Grimson, and Biao Xiang
Rethinking Labor Mobility and Precarity: A Seminar with Guy Standing, Alejandro Grimson, and Biao Xiang
Precarity, the experience of insecurity and constant risk of exclusion, is central to the experience of many labor migrants and citizen-workers in our time. Session II of Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz's Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, focuses on precarity, labor mobility, and denizenship (the status of being a denizen or inhabitant, as opposed to […]
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Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: A Symposium with Guy Standing, Alejandro Grimson, and Biao Xiang (Non-citizenship Series)
Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: A Symposium with Guy Standing, Alejandro Grimson, and Biao Xiang (Non-citizenship Series)
Event Videos: Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: Guy Standing from IHR on Vimeo. Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: Alejandro Grimson 2.7.17 from IHR on Vimeo. Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: Biao Xiang from IHR on Vimeo. Event Photos: This symposium explores how global labor mobility […]
“The Widow and the Orphan: Stories of Reform in Multigenerational India”
“The Widow and the Orphan: Stories of Reform in Multigenerational India”
The Center for Emerging Worlds and The Department of Anthropology Present: Dr. Sareeta Amrute "The Widow and the Orphan: Stories of Reform in Multigenerational India" Works-In-Progress Seminar Tuesday, February 7, 2017 2-4pm Humanities 1, Room 402 Email mfernan3@ucsc.edu for copies of the paper "adding.sleep(): Race and Refusal in the Indian Tech Diaspora" Colloquium […]
Faculty Research Lecture with Sandra Chung: “Language Through the Lens of Diversity”
Faculty Research Lecture with Sandra Chung: “Language Through the Lens of Diversity”
Academic Senate 51st Annual Faculty Research Lecture Honors: Professor Sandra Chung "Language Through the Lens of Diversity." The ease and efficiency with which children acquire their first language(s) reveals that the capacity to know and use language is deeply human. It also raises the possibility that all languages have the same design--universal characteristics that […]
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Camillo Gomez-Rivas: “The Ransom Industry and the Expectation of Refuge on the Medieval Western Mediterranean Muslim-Christian Frontier”
Camillo Gomez-Rivas: “The Ransom Industry and the Expectation of Refuge on the Medieval Western Mediterranean Muslim-Christian Frontier”
Camillo Gomez-Rivas’s current project Refugees of the Reconquista is a history of social responses to displaced populations across the Muslim-Christian frontier over the long territorial decline of al-Andalus. Proceeding from a set of historical questions, the project is based on readings of multiple sources, including Arabic, Castilian, and Catalan legal, historiographical, and literary sources. Camillo […]
adding.sleep(): Race and Refusal in the Indian Tech Diaspora
adding.sleep(): Race and Refusal in the Indian Tech Diaspora
The Center for Emerging Worlds and The Department of Anthropology Present: Dr. Sareeta Amrute "The Widow and the Orphan: Stories of Reform in Multigenerational India" Works-In-Progress Seminar Tuesday, February 7, 2017 2-4pm Humanities 1, Room 402 Email mfernan3@ucsc.edu for copies of the paper "adding.sleep(): Race and Refusal in the Indian Tech Diaspora" Colloquium Wednesday, […]
Spanish Studies Colloquium: Human Rights and US Policy in Post-Coup Honduras: a talk by Dana Frank
Spanish Studies Colloquium: Human Rights and US Policy in Post-Coup Honduras: a talk by Dana Frank
Human Rights and US Policy in Post-Coup Honduras: a talk by Dana Frank Dana Frank is professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of Bananeras:Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America, among other books. Since the 2009 coup her articles about human rights and US policy in Honduras […]
Professor Emeritus Andrew Cohen: “Enhancing the Role of Pragmatics in Teacher Education”
Professor Emeritus Andrew Cohen: “Enhancing the Role of Pragmatics in Teacher Education”
Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Presents Professor Emeritus Andrew Cohen Enhancing the Role of Pragmatics in Teacher Education Wednesday, February 8 210 Humanities Bldg 1 5:15PM Light refreshments will be served The talk starts with the premise that for many target-language (TL) learners, the actual learning process consists of the rote memorization of lots of […]
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Benjamin Jealous: 33rd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Convocation
Benjamin Jealous: 33rd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Convocation
The annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by presenting speakers who discuss the civil rights issues of equality, freedom, justice, and opportunity. The convocation also seeks to build partnerships and develop dialogue within the campus community and with the local communities served by the university. Please join us […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kyuhyun Han
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kyuhyun Han
Sewing the Forest like a state: Forest Management, Wildlife Conservation, and Center-Periphery Relations in Northeast China, 1949 - 1965 My research aims to counter the prevalent premise that Mao-era China (1945-1976) was devoid of environmental consciousness or concern with environmental protection, and places Chinese policy in the context of the international development of environmental consciousness […]
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Waves Passing in the Night: a Conversation on Astrophysics, Harmony, and Boundaries
Waves Passing in the Night: a Conversation on Astrophysics, Harmony, and Boundaries
Event Photos: by Steve Kurtz UC Santa Cruz Original Thinkers Series Cowell College and the Institute for Humanities Research Present Waves Passing in the Night Monday, February 13, 7 p.m. Followed by dessert reception and book signing Music Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz Please join Chancellor George Blumenthal, Walter Murch, a three-time Academy Award-winning […]
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Reading Seminar on Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World
Reading Seminar on Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World
We will read and discuss Gary Wilder’s recent book, Freedom Time. Reading the whole book is encouraged and copies of the book are available at the Literary Guillotine. If you need to focus on a few chapters, please read Chapter 1, 5, 6 & 9 (email sjetha@ucsc.edu for PDFs of those chapters)
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Gary Wilder: “Black Radicalism/Radical Humanism: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Cooperative Commonwealth”
Gary Wilder: “Black Radicalism/Radical Humanism: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Cooperative Commonwealth”
Event Photos: Gary Wilder is the author of Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (2015) and The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism Between the World Wars (2005). He is currently co-editing the volume The Postcolonial Contemporary and working on a book entitled “Cooperative Commonwealth: Radical Humanism and Black […]
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Writing Here → Writing There: A Transfer Model for Teaching and Learning
Writing Here → Writing There: A Transfer Model for Teaching and Learning
Event Photos: This conference invites graduate students, faculty, staff, and administrators to participate in a series of roundtables and presentations that showcase our current successes in developing an innovate, […]
Living Writers: Laura Mullen
Living Writers: Laura Mullen
Laura Mullen is the author of eight books: Complicated Grief, Enduring Freedom: A Little Book of Mechanical Brides, The Surface, After I Was Dead, Subject, Dark Archive, The Tales of […]
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Philosophy@Work: Entrepreneurship and Data Analysis in Educational Consulting and Applied Ethics
Philosophy@Work: Entrepreneurship and Data Analysis in Educational Consulting and Applied Ethics
Philosophy@Work: Entrepreneurship and Data Analysis in Educational Consulting and Applied Ethics Are you interested in learning more about how graduate training in the humanities can lead to successful and intellectually […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Yulia Gilichinskaya
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Yulia Gilichinskaya
Israel and Palestine: The Landscape of Separation The Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank not only live under the occupation of Israel but also, contained behind the Wall […]
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Angel Nieves: 3D Modeling and the Soweto Historic GIS project
Angel Nieves: 3D Modeling and the Soweto Historic GIS project
Join the Digital Humanities working group for a presentation about 3D Modeling, Digital Humanities, and the Soweto Township by Angel Nieves, Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Hamilton College. Learn […]
Sturt Manning: “Tree-Rings and Radiocarbon in the East Mediterranean and Near East”
Sturt Manning: “Tree-Rings and Radiocarbon in the East Mediterranean and Near East”
The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America Presents: Professor Sturt Manning Department of Classics, Cornell University Tree-Rings and Radiocarbon in the East Mediterranean and Near East: […]
I Am Not Your Negro – Film Screening and Panel Discussion
I Am Not Your Negro – Film Screening and Panel Discussion
I Am Not Your Negro, is an award-winning documentary on the life and writings of James Baldwin. Opens at the Del Mar Theater in Santa Cruz on Friday February 17th. […]
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Rick Prelinger: “Silence, Cacophony, Crosstalk: Archival Talking Points”
Rick Prelinger: “Silence, Cacophony, Crosstalk: Archival Talking Points”
Rick Prelinger’s currently researches the political economy and aesthetics of archives. He produces live urban history film events made for participatory audiences and is in the early stages of a […]
Spanish Studies Colloquium: Neo-Extractivismo y Cultura en América Latina
Spanish Studies Colloquium: Neo-Extractivismo y Cultura en América Latina
Neo-extractivismo y cultura en América Latina: A Talk by Héctor Hoyos Se propone un modelo crítico que responde a las nuevas formas del capitalismo en la era digital. Tras examinar […]
Digital Space & Difficult History: Curating The African American and Holocaust Museums
Digital Space & Difficult History: Curating The African American and Holocaust Museums
Digital Space & Difficult History: Curating The African American and Holocaust Museums 2.22.17 from IHR on Vimeo. Event Photos: The new National Museum of African American History and Culture and […]
Dark Deleuze in the Dark
Dark Deleuze in the Dark
Andrew Culp’s Dark Deleuze (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) offers a radical reinterpretation of the theorist Gilles Deleuze that challenges today's world of compulsory happiness, decentralized control, and overexposure. Arranged in a series of contraries, Culp’s cataclysmic politics exhorts us to kill our idols and cultivate “hatred for this world.” “Dark Deleuze in the Dark" […]
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Loess is More: A Spatial and Ecological History of Erosion on Imperial China’s Northwest Frontier
Loess is More: A Spatial and Ecological History of Erosion on Imperial China’s Northwest Frontier
Loess is More: A Spatial and Ecological History of Erosion on Imperial China's Northwest Frontier Ruth Mostern Abstract: Beginning in the eleventh century, the Yellow River shifted from a long-term condition of relative stability to a later state of frequent floods and course changes. In recent years, environmental scientists and historians have converged on […]
Susanna Schellenberg “Perceptual Consciousness as a Mental Activity”
Susanna Schellenberg “Perceptual Consciousness as a Mental Activity”
Abstract: I argue that perceptual consciousness is constituted by a mental activity. The mental activity in question is the activity of employing perceptual capacities, such as discriminatory, selective capacities. This is a radical view, but I hope to make it plausible. In arguing for this mental activist view, I reject orthodox views on which perceptual […]
Living Writers: Micah Perks
Living Writers: Micah Perks
Micah Perks grew up in a log cabin in the Adirondack wilderness. She is the author of two novels, What Becomes Us and We Are Gathered Here, a memoir, Pagan Time, and a long personal essay, Alone In The Woods: Cheryl Strayed, My Daughter and Me. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Maggie Wander
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Maggie Wander
"Its Ok, We're Safe Here": Cultural and Eco Activism in the Film Windjarrameru (The Stealing C*nt$) Since 2008, the Karrabing Film Collective has made four films about the various cultural, political, and social realists of being Aboriginal in twenty-first century Australia. Their 2015 film, Windjarrameru (The Stealing C*nt$), highlights how social inequalities experienced every day […]
Grad Slam
Grad Slam
Grad Slam, also referred to as the 3-Minute Thesis Challenge*, is a competition that challenges graduate students to present years’ worth of academic research in a concise, compelling, three-minute talk to a non-expert audience. It encourages students to clarify their ideas and to help others understand and appreciate the significance of their work. The contest […]
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Cultural Studies Talk with Erick Lyle: “Streetopia and Beyond”
Cultural Studies Talk with Erick Lyle: “Streetopia and Beyond”
The Center for Cultural Studies Presents: Streetopia and Beyond A Talk by Eric Lyle 3-5 pm Monday, February 27 Humanities 1, 210 What does community control look like? How do we organize to build power on a neighborhood level today? In the new Trump Era, cities like Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco have […]
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Hillary Angelo: “Manufacturing Gesellschaft: Urbanized Nature and the ‘Green Screen'”
Hillary Angelo: “Manufacturing Gesellschaft: Urbanized Nature and the ‘Green Screen'”
Hillary Angelo is preparing a book on the history of urban "greening" in Germany’s Ruhr region, as well as projects on infrastructure and sociology, and on equity in urban sustainability planning. Hillary Angelo is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCSC. The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by […]
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Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Omid Mohamadi
Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Omid Mohamadi
The Iranian Women's Movement: Rights and Difference Omid Mohamadi, Lecturer, Feminist Studies My talk centers on the Irania women's movement and the One Million Signatures Campaign that seeks equal rights for all Iranian women within the laws of the Islamic Republic. Focusing on the campaign's central text, The Effect of Laws on Women's Lives, and […]
Audun Dahl: The Empirical Reality of Moral Reasoning
Audun Dahl: The Empirical Reality of Moral Reasoning
Many theories have viewed reason and reasoning as essential to making moral judgments. In contrast, recent psychological proposals have contested the centrality of reasoning, arguing that most or many moral judgments are based on automatic, emotional reactions (sometimes termed "institutions," e.g. Greene, 2013; Haidt 2013). These proposals are based on experiments taken to show that […]
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The Maghrib Workshop and The Spain-North Africa Project
Event Photos: Friday, March 3 Law and Movement: Historical Roots and Contexts, Contemporary Questions, Part 2 (The Maghrib Workshop) Morning 9:00 Coffee and Introduction 9:30 Camilo Gómez-Rivas, Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Refugees of the Reconquista and the Ransoming of Captives” 11:00 Marc Andre, Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes, “Militarizing the Metropolis? The […]
The Center for Emerging Worlds presents Subversive Sounds: Music and Politics of the Global South
The Center for Emerging Worlds presents Subversive Sounds: Music and Politics of the Global South
The Center for Emerging Worlds presents Subversive Sounds: Music and Politics of the Global South Friday March 3, 2017 Humanities 2, Room 359 UC Santa Cruz The event is free and open to the public During the final decades of the major European empires and at the beginning of a century of American hegemony, the […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Chessa Adsit-Morries
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Chessa Adsit-Morries
Creative Ecologies of Practice: Collaborative Agential Modes of Eco-Aesthetic Pedagogy This presentation will discuss two collaborative environmental art projects aimed at creating experimental and experiential trans-disciplinary pedagogical practices. Both projects are examples of "creative ecologies of practice" enabling and requiring multiple modes of thought, multiple modes of encounter, and multiple modes of pedagogy. They are […]
Improvised Shakespeare
Improvised Shakespeare
Improv Playhouse of San Francisco will perform a completely improvised piece using their original format, "Improvised Shakespeare," at Center Stage in downtown Santa Cruz on Friday, March 3, staring at 8:00 pm. Tickets are free and limited to UCSC affiliates. They will be available via Brown Paper Tickets. (One ticket reservation per UCSC email.) The […]