Events
Sandra Harvey: "The HeLa Bomb and the Science of Unveiling"
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 […]
FreeCornel West: "Ferguson, Racism, and the Media"
Media Theater, M110Engaging Education & Student Media Present (with the endorsement of A/BSA)... Speaker Blowout: FERGUSON, RACISM, AND THE MEDIA Keynote Speaker: CORNEL WEST Limited tickets available. Free tickets available at Engaging Education and Student Media Center for pickup on Nov 17 & a8 with UC Santa Cruz ID.
Living Writers Series: Kelly Link, Kim Stanley Robinson, & Karen Joy Fowler
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKelly Link is the author of three collections of short stories, Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters. Her short stories have won three Nebulas, a Hugo, and a World Fantasy Award. She was born in Miami, Florida, and once won a free trip around the world by answering the question “Why do you want to […]
FreeLucas McGranahan: "Darwinism and Pragmatism: William James on Evolution and Self-Transformation"
Crown 208Lucas McGranahan: "Darwinism and Pragmatism: William James on Evolution and Self-Transformation" Thursday November 20, 2:00 – 3:45 pm Crown 208, UC Santa Cruz Abstract William James presages twentieth-century Neo-Darwinism in his physiological approach to mental life, his early repudiation of the inheritance of acquired characteristics, and his creative extension of the concepts of variation and […]
FreeCANCELLED: David L. Clark: "On the Promise of Peace: Kant’s Wartime & the Tremulous Body of Philosophy"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDAVID L. CLARK Professor of English and Cultural Studies and Associate Member of the Department of Health, Aging and Society, McMaster University, Canada In addition to completing a book on Immanuel Kant’s late work, (Bodies and Pleasures in Late Kant), David Clark is pursuing two projects: one on the question of animality, atrocity, and the […]
FreeEran Kaplan: "Changes in Israel Society and the Peace Process"
Merrill Academics 102UCSC 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. […]
FreeGlobal Islam: Reading Seminar
Social Sciences 1, Room 261 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCENTER FOR EMERGING WORLDS 2104-2015: GLOBAL ISLAM INAUGURAL EVENT Monday, November 17, 3:30-5, Humanities 1, Room 202 Panel: Entangled Universalisms Dr. Darryl Li, Associate Research Scholar, Yale Law School, "Jihad and Other Universalisms" Professor Henri Lauzière, Northwestern University "Imperial Entanglement as Moderating Factor" Monday, November 17, 7:00pm, Social Sciences 2, Room 071 Public Discussion with […]
FreeGlobal Islam: "Taking Radicalism Seriously: Or How to Think (or Not Think) About Jihad"
Social Sciences 2, Room 071CENTER FOR EMERGING WORLDS 2104-2015: GLOBAL ISLAM INAUGURAL EVENT Monday, November 17, 3:30-5, Humanities 1, Room 202 Panel: Entangled Universalisms Dr. Darryl Li, Associate Research Scholar, Yale Law School, "Jihad and Other Universalisms" Professor Henri Lauzière, Northwestern University "Imperial Entanglement as Moderating Factor" Monday, November 17, 7:00pm, Social Sciences 2, Room 071 Public Discussion with […]
FreeGlobal Islam: Entangled Universalisms Panel
Humanities 1, Room 202CENTER FOR EMERGING WORLDS 2104-2015: GLOBAL ISLAM INAUGURAL EVENT Monday, November 17, 3:30-5, Humanities 1, Room 202 Panel: Entangled Universalisms Dr. Darryl Li, Associate Research Scholar, Yale Law School, "Jihad and Other Universalisms" Professor Henri Lauzière, Northwestern University "Imperial Entanglement as Moderating Factor" Monday, November 17, 7:00pm, Social Sciences 2, Room 071 Public Discussion with […]
FreeBrian Turner: "Poetry, War, And Coming Home"
Brian Turner, combat veteran of the Iraq war and award-winning poet, will lead the last discussion of the War Comes Home series in The Forum at Cabrillo College. Mr. Turner will read from his work and interact with the audience discussing veterans returning home from war. Brian has won the Pen Center Best in the […]
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