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Giving Day
Be a Part of Giving Day at UC Santa Cruz Giving Day is an energized 24-hour online fundraising drive to support UC Santa Cruz students, faculty, and campus programs. It’s a day for people everywhere to come together in a circle of giving for UC Santa Cruz. Generous donors provide incentives to make the day […]
Christina Gerhardt: “The Legacy of 1968 & Global Cinema”
Christina Gerhardt: “The Legacy of 1968 & Global Cinema”
Event Photos: Christina Gerhardt is the author of Screening the Red Army Faction: Historical and Cultural Memory, and co-editor of 1968 and Global Cinema and Celluloid Revolt: German Screen Cultures and the Long Sixties. Currently, she is working on a new book project, 1968 and West German Cinemas, which examines the cinemas of West Germany’s […]
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Tera W. Hunter: “Bound in Wedlock – Slave and Free Black Marriage in the 19th Century”
Tera W. Hunter: “Bound in Wedlock – Slave and Free Black Marriage in the 19th Century”
The History Department Presents: Tera W. Hunter is Professor of History and African-American Studies at Princeton University. She is currently a fellow at the National Humanities Center. She will be speaking about her new book, Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century, a finalist for the Lincoln Prize of the Gilder […]
Cathy Davidson: “The New Education”
Cathy Davidson: “The New Education”
How can we revolutionize the university to better prepare students for our age of constant change? How can we retool our classrooms as activist, engaged learning environments that model a more just society? In this talk, Cathy N. Davidson will discuss her book The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a […]
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PhD+: Ken Wissoker (Duke UP): An Insider’s Guide to Academic Publishing
PhD+: Ken Wissoker (Duke UP): An Insider’s Guide to Academic Publishing
Event Photos: How different is the structure of your dissertation from the form of your first book? Who are the audiences for your research? How soon after completing the dissertation should you expect to begin drafting and pitching your book proposal? What is the history behind these publishing norms and how did they become what […]
Friday Forum: Elizabeth Goldman
Friday Forum: Elizabeth Goldman
Once Helpful, Always Helpful? Infants’ Expectations About Helping and Hindering Behavior Across Scenarios The present work examined 16 to 18 month-olds’abilities to generalize a person’s tendency to help or hinder across multiple scenarios. Infants saw three familiarization events where an agent consistently helped or hindered another agent. In test, infants saw two test trials (consistent […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Kristen Syrett, Rutgers University
Linguistics Colloquium: Kristen Syrett, Rutgers University
"Experimental evidence for context sensitivity in the nominal domain: What children and adults reveal" Abstract: Part of what it means to become a proficient speaker of a language is to recognize that the context in which we communicate with each other, including what a speaker’s intentions or goals are, affects the way we arrive at […]
Cathy Davidson Workshop
Cathy Davidson Workshop
Cathy Davidson will offer a hands-on workshop on engaged pedagogy with the Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now research cluster, working with the research group to address a topic of their choice. Students from Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts are all encouraged to attend. Come prepared with a pedagogy question to dive into. For copies […]
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Danny Snelson: “The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats”
Danny Snelson: “The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats”
Event Photos: The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats Danny Snelson (UCLA, English) As you read these lines, the Utah Data Center continues its process of deciphering untold exabytes of information collected by the NSA. This enterprise, like certain strands in the digital humanities and the corporate world alike, stakes its hopes for meaningful […]
Tyler Stovall: “White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea”
Tyler Stovall: “White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea”
Aptos Community Reads presents: White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea Presented by: Tyler Stovall, Dean of Humanities, University of California, Santa Cruz The relationship between freedom and race has been one of the key themes of modern society and politics in the Western world. The enduring presence of racism in the history of America, a nation […]
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Ben Breen: “Unknown Pleasures: Intoxication and Globalization in the Eighteenth Century”
Ben Breen: “Unknown Pleasures: Intoxication and Globalization in the Eighteenth Century”
Event Photos: Benjamin Breen’s current project is Age of Intoxication: The Origins of the Global Drug Trade, which examines the trade in medicinal drugs, poisons, and intoxicants in the Portuguese and British empires, circa 1640 to 1800. The book argues that the formation of ‘drugs’ as an epistemological, legal, and commercial category grew out of early […]
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Friday Forum: Kiki Loveday
Friday Forum: Kiki Loveday
What You Love: The Library at Alexandria, Quotation, and Survival The figure of Sappho is paradigmatic of the queer-feminist archive: she is the founding figure of female artistic genius and sexual deviance in Western Civilization, yet neither her work nor her story has survived. Between 1896 and 1931 over twenty cinematic versions of Sappho were […]
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Peter Svenonius: Linguistics at Santa Cruz
Peter Svenonius: Linguistics at Santa Cruz
Every year towards the end of the Winter Quarter, the Linguistics at Santa Cruz conference showcases the research of second and third year graduate students. This conference coincides with a visit to campus of prospective graduate students, and it always features as an invited speaker, a Ph.D. alum of the department. This year's invited speaker […]
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Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Victorian Colonialism
Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Victorian Colonialism
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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Writing Crises: How to Write When You Just Can’t Write
Writing Crises: How to Write When You Just Can’t Write
Register at https://tinyurl.com/WritingCrises
Letters to Memory: A Reading by Karen Tei Yamashita
Letters to Memory: A Reading by Karen Tei Yamashita
The Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department presents: Letters to Memory featuring a reading by Karen Tei Yamashita with remarks by Alice Yang and Christine Hong Letters to Memory is an excursion through the Japanese mass incarceration during World War II using archival materials from the Yamashita family as well as a series of epistolary […]
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IPAs are like a Hoppy Craft Beer: Acquiring a Taste for Task-based Language Teaching and Integrated Performance Assessments
IPAs are like a Hoppy Craft Beer: Acquiring a Taste for Task-based Language Teaching and Integrated Performance Assessments
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: “IPAs are Like a Hoppy Craft Beer: Acquiring a Taste for Task-based Language Teaching and Integrated Performance Assessments” Jill Pellettieri, Ph.D. This workshop focuses on the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) as simply one specific model of task-based language learning and assessment. Like the hoppy […]
And Then They Came for Us: “From the Incarceration of Japanese Americans to the Travel Ban”
And Then They Came for Us: “From the Incarceration of Japanese Americans to the Travel Ban”
Seventy-five years ago, Executive Order 9066 paved the way to the profound violation of constitutional rights that resulted in the forced incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans. "And Then They Came for Us" brings history into the present, retelling this difficult story and following Japanese American activists as they speak out against the Muslim registry and […]
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Living Writers Series: Undergraduate Student Reading
Living Writers Series: Undergraduate Student Reading
Living Writers Series Winter 2018: Performing Women: Race, Art, and Space Performing Women: Race, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry, prose, visual and textile arts, photography, film, dance, and improvisation to address questions of gender, sexuality, and race. This series will explore the intersections of literature, writing and […]
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