Events
Joan Raspo: DANM BIRTH OF STARS: a play that asks "What would you give up to gain the universe?"
Humanities 1, Room 202Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 - 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202 This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the […]
FreeLiving Writers Series: Tobias Wolff
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTobias Wolff is the author of the novels The Barracks Thief and Old School, the memoirs This Boy’s Life andIn Pharaoh’s Army, and the short story collections In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, Back in the World, and The Night in Question. His most recent collection of short stories, Our Story Begins, won The Story Prize for 2008. Other honors include the […]
FreeArlene Davila: Locating Neoliberalism in Time, Space & Latino/Latin American Cultures
University Center, UCSC College Nine and College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Latin American & Latino Studies Distinguished Speaker Series is proud to present Arlene Davila to begin the 2014-15 year. Davila uses ethnographic and transnational perspectives to theorize the intersections of culture and neoliberalism across the Americas. More information on the speaker and the rest of the LALS Distinguished Speaker Series will be available […]
FreeBryan Donaldson: "Information structure and word order in medieval Occitan"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn this talk, I draw on elements of discourse analysis and information structure–specifically topic-marking–to address a long-standing problem in the syntax of Old Occitan, a medieval Romance language spoken in what is now the south of France. In Old Occitan, the position of object and adverbial clitic (weak, atonic) pronouns remains incompletely understood (Wanner 2010). […]
Free"Digital is not a Dirty Word” – Digital Humanities Graduate Student Open House
Graduate Student CommonsLet's talk digital. Are you unsure what Digital Humanities means? Are you interested in mapping, databases, blogs, or twitter, but don't know how they help your work? Are you skeptical, but curious? Come join an open, informal, and frank talk about the Digital Humanities. Rachel Deblinger, the new Digital Humanities Specialist, will offer a brief […]
FreeNirvikar Singh: "Sikh Studies & Post-Modern Orientalism"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesNIRVIKAR SINGH Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies and Professor of Economics, UCSC Professor Singh explores how Sikh Studies in the North American academy is engaging with intellectual currents that can broadly be termed "post-modern." More specifically, he critiques the asymmetrical privileging of Western ‘post-modern’ scholarship on Sikhs against the Sikh community’s […]
FreeAzar Nafisi: "The Republic of Imagination"
Peace United Church 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran will discuss and sign copies of her new book, The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books—a hymn to the power of fiction to change lives. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of […]
$31.50UCSC's Institute of the Arts and Sciences presents LASER
UCSC’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences invites you to the first LASER of the academic year Tuesday, October 28! Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists, scientists, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations. Please join us in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 […]
FreeJean-Jacques Surbeck: "Israel and the World, a Unique Lesson in Double Standards"
UCSC Cowell College Presents Conflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine Tuesday Evenings Fall 2014 6:00-7:45pm, Merrill Academy 102 Tuesday Oct 7: Christine King (Lecturer Kresge College). “Making Peace with Conflict” Tuesday Oct 14: Dr. Jennifer Derr (History Department, UC Santa Cruz). The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation. Tuesday Oct 21: Dr. […]
FreeAnnual Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDon Rothman began teaching undergraduate writing classes at UC Santa Cruz in 1973. After more than three decades of guiding teachers and teaching college students, the senior lecturer emeritus in writing--and recipient of the 2002 Distinguished Teaching Award from the UCSC Center for Teaching Excellence--has established an endowment to honor exceptional freshman students and their […]
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