Events
Open Access Day at McHenry Library
McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special CollectionsOpen Access Week is an annual international event promoting the idea that scholarly research should be freely and openly available. For Open Access Week 2010, the University Library is sponsoring an afternoon event where about a dozen faculty members representing each of the academic divisions will talk about the ways in which they are making […]
Ruth Mueller: “Bound to Nothing but Science Itself? Academic Life Science Careers and the Nomadic Disposable Research Scientist”
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRuth Mueller is a contract researcher at the Department of Social Studies of Science and a lecturer at the Faculty of Life Sciences and the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Vienna. She will present: "Bound to Nothing but Science Itself? Academic Life Science Careers and the Nomadic Disposable Research Scientist," at UCSC […]
Angela Davis: Legacies in the Making
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRecognizing the Academic, Activist and Cultural Interventions of a Contemporary Visionary For almost four decades, Angela Y. Davis’s scholarship and activism has defined the meaning and practice of being a public intellectual and has radically transformed many sites of knowledge production, including the positioning of the U.S. academy as a site of intervention and social […]
A Reading by Monique Truong
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe University of California, Santa Cruz Center for Labor Studies Presents In Collaboration with UCSC's Living Writers Reading Series: A Reading by Internationally Acclaimed Novelist Monique Truong Monique Truong is the author of the "poetically rendered and literally savory" 2003 novel, The Book of Salt, the fictional story of a gay Vietnamese cook who […]