Events

Interested faculty and graduate students are welcome to learn more about the Pacific Rim Research Program grants during this informational meeting. The current Call is now available from the PRRP website at: http://pacrim.ucsc.edu. Here is a snapshot of what is offered this year. FACULTY GRANTS Initiative: This is a new thematically focused grant in the […]

Philosophy graduate student Christopher Durt will give the following talk, "Galileo and the Emergence of Modern Philosophy," as a Work in Progress. Come join us!

John Mraz will examine the photography made during the armed struggle, 1910-1920, through a profusely illustrated lecture. He will then place particular emphasis on identifying the commitment of photographers to different groups in Mexico by looking at five Revolutionary icons. John Mraz is a Research Professor at Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico. This series is […]

Open 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 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 […]

The 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 […]