Events
Amena Coronado: "The Discipline of Suffering"
Humanities 2, Room 259Friday 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 *November 7th forum will be in Humanities 2, Room 259. This event series […]
FreeBodies of Knowledge in the Japanese Empire
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGender studies, history of science, and Japanese studies intertwine in “Bodies of Knowledge in the Japanese Empire,” a panel featuring Susan Burns (University of Chicago) and Mark Driscoll (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). Susan Burns examines gendered conceptions of mental and physical health that drove the development of “alternative” therapies to orthodox biomedicine. Mark […]
FreeElizabeth Hillman: “Sworn to Protect: Sexual Assault in the Military”
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUC Santa Cruz / UC Hastings Social Justice Speaker Series presents Elizabeth Hillman "Sworn to Protect: Sexual Assault in the Military" Few legal issues have riveted public attention more than sexual assault in the military. This presentation will address the controversies that have erupted over a problem that is often misunderstood and rarely reported. Should […]
$5Living Writers Series: Helene Wecker
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHelene Wecker grew up in Libertyville, Illinois, a small town north of Chicago, and received her Bachelor’s in English from Carleton College in Minnesota. After graduating, she worked a number of marketing and communications jobs in Minneapolis and Seattle before deciding to return to her first love, fiction writing. Accordingly, she moved to New York […]
FreeMurray Baumgarten: "The Letters Propelled Me: Resisting Kristallnacht Then and Now"
Smith Auditorium / Chapel of DeLaSalle and His BrothersThe Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College presents The Seventh Annual Frederick M. Schweitzer Lecture Murray Baumgarten: "The Letters Propelled Me: Resisting Kristallnacht Then and Now" Murray Baumgarten directs the program in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he is Distinguished Professor of English & Comparative Literature. He […]
FreeDigital Humanities Working Group and Opening Reception
Cowell Senior Commons Room Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin the IHR Digital Humanities Research Cluster to interrogate new trends in Digital Humanities. This first meeting will include a spirited and critical discussion about visualization based on Johanna Drucker's "Graphesis: Visual Knowledge Production and Representation." The article can be found online at the Poetess Archive Journal. Please download and read before the meeting. We will also discuss […]
FreeUCSC Career Center: Fall Job & Internship Fair
College 8, West Field HouseNetwork with a variety of companies hiring for full-time positions and internships. Dress professionally and bring multiple copies of your resume. Student ID or Career Center Access Card is required for entrance. Tips to Get the Most Out of Job Fairs
FreeLionel Cantu Lecture Featuring Jasbir Puar
Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Sociology Department is pleased to present the LIONEL CANTÚ LECTURE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2014 2:00 – 4:00 pm Namaste Lounge, Colleges Nine/Ten Reception at 3:30 Featuring: JASBIR PUAR Associate Professor of Women's & Gender Studies Rutgers University "The Right to Maim: Disablement, Palestine, and Disaster Capitalism" Jasbir K. Puar is Associate Professor of […]
Juned Shaikh: "Translation & Transmission: Marxism & Social Hierarchies in Bombay, 1928-1934"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJUNED SHAIKH Assistant Professor of History, UCSC Juned Shaikh works on labor, urbanity, and caste in India. His book focuses on the entanglements and contradictions of space in Bombay city in the 20th century. It explores the role of caste –more particularly the former untouchable or Dalit castes – in city planning, labor markets, trade […]
FreeHatam Bazian: "Palestine, Islamophobia and Global Dispossession"
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. […]
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