Events
Mortality: Facing Death in Ancient Greece
Mortality: Facing Death in Ancient Greece is a four-week Summer Institute funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Beginning from the premise that mortality is the condition that gives life its singular human quality, the goal of the Institute is to develop a multi-disciplinary approach to mortality in ancient Greece as the basis for […]
Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: À l ́interieur
Stevenson, Room 150A French body horror film that takes home invasion movies to their ne plus ultra, Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s À l'intérieur depicts the attempts of Sarah (Alysson Paradis), very pregnant and very alone in her house on Christmas Eve, to ward off the efforts of “La Femme” (Beátrice Dalle) to break into Sarah’s home […]
FreeWhat Makes Applied Linguistics Applied? Language Acquisition & Language in Use
University Center University Center University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Language Program has been granted department status earlier this spring, and we are hosting an event to celebrate becoming the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics. Professor Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, a leading scholar in second language acquisition, will give a talk on June 6 in the University Center after a brief welcome by Dean William […]
Free"Doing Critical Race and Ethnic Studies in a Neoliberal Age" Symposium
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis spring bears the fruit of many years of student activism at UC Santa Cruz, namely, the inauguration of a Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) program dedicated to studying the ideological formations and institutional productions of race and ethnicity. Recognizing that the institutionalization of CRES is both an exciting moment and a reminder of […]
FreeLiving Writers Series: Publications Reading
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesA selection of Publications Readings. The spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series, Dislocations and the Imagined, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public.
Mary Niall Mitchell: “The Slave Girl in the Archive: a Tale on Paper and Glass”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWorkshop: "Archival Challenges: Children, Slavery, and Nineteenth Century Visual Culture" Wednesday, June 4 @ 9-11a.m. For access to pre-circulated readings for the workshop, please contact Institute for Humanities Research at ihr@ucsc.edu. Cultural Studies Colloquium: "The Slave Girl in the Archive: A Tale of Paper and Glass" Wednesday June 4 @ 12:15-1:30p.m. In her current […]
FreeMary Niall Mitchell: Workshop “Archival Challenges: Children, Slavery, and Nineteenth Century Visual Culture”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWorkshop: "Archival Challenges: Children, Slavery, and Nineteenth Century Visual Culture" Wednesday, June 4 @ 9-11a.m. For access to pre-circulated readings for the workshop, please contact Institute for Humanities Research at ihr@ucsc.edu. Cultural Studies Colloquium: "The Slave Girl in the Archive: A Tale of Paper and Glass" Wednesday June 4 @ 12:15-1:30p.m. In her current project, […]
Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Feminist Studies Department is proud to announce... Queen for a Day Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela A Conversation & Book Party for Marcia Ochoa with Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal & B. Ruby Rich Tuesday, June 3 About the Book Queen for a Day is a queer diasporic ethnography of beauty and […]
FreeContemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: One Missed Call
Stevenson, Room 150Helmed by the wildly prolific Takashi Miike, whose other notable horror credits include Audition (1999), Visitor Q (2001), Gozu (2003), and Imprint (2006), One Missed Call takes the anxieties surrounding the obsolescence of video tape technology that were so gloomily evoked in Ringu (1998) and shifts them onto the rise of cellular phone communication and […]
FreeSpring Awards & Humanities Undergraduate Research Award Presentations
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: You are cordially invited to Spring Awards 2014 on Thursday, May 29, 2014. This annual "Celebrating Humanities" event is an important opportunity to acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition, awards, and distinctions over the course of this past year. The Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) support and encourage undergraduate research. In […]