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Ana Candela: “From Compradors to Hacendados: Cantonese Merchants in Peru and the Expanding Settler Colonial Frontiers of the Cantonese Pacific”
Ana Candela: “From Compradors to Hacendados: Cantonese Merchants in Peru and the Expanding Settler Colonial Frontiers of the Cantonese Pacific”
Event Photos: Biography: Ana Maria Candela is a historian of Modern China and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University. Her research focuses on Chinese migrations to Latin America as a way to explore the global dimensions of Chinese history. Her work has appeared in Critical Asian Studies and the Journal of World-Systems Research. She […]
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PhD+: “Undisciplining Your Research: A Hands-On Workshop to Translate Academic Humanities Research for Multiple Publics”
PhD+: “Undisciplining Your Research: A Hands-On Workshop to Translate Academic Humanities Research for Multiple Publics”
"Undisciplining Your Research: A Hands-On Workshop to Translate Academic Humanities Research for Multiple Publics" Event Photos: Panelists: - Sarah Papazoglakis, PhD Candidate, Literature - Kara Hisatake, PhD Candidate, Literature & MLA Public Engagement Fellow About: As doctoral students in the humanities, how do we communicate the importance of our work outside of our disciplines without it […]
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Center for Public Philosophy: High School Ethics Bowl
What is an Ethics Bowl? The Ethics Bowl is a collaborative yet competitive event, more nuanced than debate, in which teams are presented with a series of wide-ranging ethical dilemmas and are asked to analyze them; they are then judged on the basis of their analyses. An exciting tournament, it is also a way for […]
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Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Introduction to Little Dorrit
Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Introduction to Little Dorrit
Santa Cruz Pickwick Club featuring Little Dorrit The Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel, beginning this January with Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit. Join us each month for conversations about the novel and guest speaker presentations to help us contextualize our readings. Santa Cruz […]
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CANCELED: Roddey Reid: “Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: Affect and Activism in the Trump Era and Beyond”
CANCELED: Roddey Reid: “Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: Affect and Activism in the Trump Era and Beyond”
Roddey Reid is Professor Emeritus of French Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Reid is the author three books including most recently of Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: A Citizen’s Guide for the Trump Era and Beyond; of Families in Jeopardy: Regulating the Social Body in France, 1750-1910; co-editor with Sharon Traweek […]
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Ram Neta: “Puzzle of Transparency”
Ram Neta: “Puzzle of Transparency”
The Puzzle of Transparency As you and I are out for a walk, I notice that the sky is getting cloudier and so I ask you "do you believe that it's going to rain?" In response to this question, you normally do not pay attention to your own states of mind, but rather to the […]
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Martina Wiltschko: “Nominal speech act structure. A personal view.”
Martina Wiltschko: “Nominal speech act structure. A personal view.”
The concept of person is in many ways tied to speech acts. This is obvious just by exploring the interpretation of pronouns: 1st person pronouns are used to refer to the speaker, 2nd person pronouns are used to refer to the addressee, and 3rd person is used for individuals other than the speech act participants. […]
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Megan Moodie: “Emerging Genres: What Lies between Fiction and Ethnography”
Megan Moodie: “Emerging Genres: What Lies between Fiction and Ethnography”
Event Photos: Megan Moodie’s work focuses on feminist political and legal anthropology and experimental ethnographic writing in India, East Europe, and the U.S. Moodie will read from her full-length novel-in-progress, The Wishful, based in part on fieldwork in Rajasthan, India, and discuss the relationship between aesthetics and analytics in ethnographic practice and textual production. Megan Moodie is […]
Humanities Radio Hour
Humanities Radio Hour
Please tune in to KZSC 88.1 FM for Artists on Art's Humanities Radio Hour for a discussion of the upcoming Questions That Matter: Freedom & Race. UC Santa Cruz Humanities Dean Tyler Stovall and History of Art and Visual Culture professor Jennifer González will preview their 1/30 talk. Click here to listen online.
Digital Humanities VizLab Open House
Digital Humanities VizLab Open House
If you’ve never tried VR before, this is your chance. Explore the new DSC VizLab and experience Virtual Reality. We invite you to test the HTC VIVE headset, Samsung Gear VR, and Google Cardboard Headset. DSC Staff will be available to answer questions and introduce you to available resources and hardware. Cosponsored by the IDEA […]
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Living Writers Series: Jennifer Tamayo
Living Writers Series: Jennifer Tamayo
Jennif(f)er Tamayo is a writer and performer. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago and her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Louisiana State University. She is the author of the collection of poems and art work, Red Missed Aches Read Missed Aches Red Mistakes Read Mistakes (Switchback, 2011) and the limited […]
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Steven Haug: “Community in Heidegger’s Philosophy of Art”
Steven Haug: “Community in Heidegger’s Philosophy of Art”
In order for a work of art to be great, according to Heidegger, at least one of the conditions it must meet is the community condition. While this condition is discussed much less in the literature than the relation of art to truth in Heidegger, it is of more consequence. It is art’s inability to […]
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“Intentional Design: Making Assignments that Work”
“Intentional Design: Making Assignments that Work”
"Intentional Design: Making Assignments that Work," with Jessie Dubreuil, Kimberly Helmer, Philip Longo, Tonya Ritola, and Heather Shearer This is the second teaching workshop of The Humanities Institute research cluster “Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now”, designed to promote collective conversations about how we teach in the humanities now. Whether you teach a large lecture […]
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Questions That Matter:”Freedom and Race”
Questions That Matter:”Freedom and Race”
America has famously been called "the land of the free," and yet when the "Star Spangled Banner" was written, people of African descent were enslaved within its borders, including by the song's own author, Francis Scott Key. Today, the relationship between freedom and race continues to vex the United States and the rest of the […]
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Derek Murray: “On Post-Blackness: Queer Satire in Contemporary African-American Art”
Derek Murray: “On Post-Blackness: Queer Satire in Contemporary African-American Art”
Derek Conrad Murray is an interdisciplinary theorist specializing in the history, theory and criticism of contemporary art, visual culture and cultural studies. Author of Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights, Murray is completing two additional book manuscripts, Regarding Difference: Contemporary African-American Art and the Politics of Recognition and Mapplethorpe and the Flower: Radical Sexuality and […]
Yarimar Bonilla: “The Wait of Disaster: Hurricanes and the Politics of Recovery in Puerto Rico”
Yarimar Bonilla: “The Wait of Disaster: Hurricanes and the Politics of Recovery in Puerto Rico”
The Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene Research Cluster Presents: "Dr. Yarimar Bonilla, The Wait of Disaster: Hurricanes and the Politics of Recovery in Puerto Rico" Event Photos: Dr. Yarimar Bonilla is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latino/Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on the colonial logics of sovereignty and on questions of race, […]
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Living Writers Series: Karen Tei Yamashita
Living Writers Series: Karen Tei Yamashita
Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, I Hotel, Anime Wong: Fictions of Performance, and most recently, Letters to Memory, all published by Coffee House Press. I Hotel was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the […]
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PhD+: Effective Interviewing Practices & Job Offer Negotiation Skills: A Workshop with Annie Maxfield (UCLA Career Center)
PhD+: Effective Interviewing Practices & Job Offer Negotiation Skills: A Workshop with Annie Maxfield (UCLA Career Center)
Persuasive Interviewing and Negotiation Tips for Humanities PhDs with Annie Maxfield Excelling in interview settings is a skill that requires thought, practice, and confidence. During this interactive workshop, attendees will practice and refine their interviewing skills by learning persuasive techniques that enhance their storytelling abilities and highlight their key contributions. Annie Maxfield is the associate […]