Events
Race, Class & Culture through the Lens of Jazz
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterEVENT PHOTOS: Kuumbwa Jazz Center and the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research present: Race, Class & Culture through the Lens of Jazz Featuring a headline performance by jazz vocalist Kim Nalley, UC Santa Cruz Humanities is celebrating International Jazz Day 2016! In the spirit of UNESCO's International Jazz Day and in collaboration […]
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Public Reading and Q&A with novelist Micheal Nava
Kresge Seminar Room 159 Seminar Room Bldg University of California Santa Cruz, University of California Santa Cruz: Kresge College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMichael Nava is an attorney, the author of the acclaimed seven-volume Henry Rios detective series, and has won 6 Lambda Literary awards. He is currently in the midst of writing a new series of novels, the first of which is The City of Palaces (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014). Set before and during the outbreak […]
FREELinguistic Colloquium: Paul Kiparsky
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLinguistic Colloquium: The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. Fall 2015 October 9th: Keith Johnson, UC Berkeley October 16th: Heidi Harley, University of Arizona October 30th: Ivano Caponigro, UC San Diego November 20th: Elliott Moreton, University of North Carolina Winter 2016 January 15th: Sharon Inkelas, UC Berkeley February 5th: Colin Phillips, University of Maryland February […]
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12th Annual Graduate Research Symposium
McHenry Library, UCSCThe Symposium offers graduate students from every division the opportunity to discuss their research with colleagues on campus and with the public. Our students present their work in the form of posters, live presentations, and media demonstrations. The Symposium also awards juried prizes, overseen by a panel of judges comprised of faculty, staff, researchers, alumni, […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Erin McElroy
Humanities 1, Room 202Erin McElroy "Disposals through the #DigitalNomad: The Materialization of a Dispossessive Avatar" The "Digital Nomad," an illusive figure flourishing alongside the growth of digital and network technologies, has conjured ideas of travel and freedom with the emergence of the Silicon Valley induced Tech Boom. I trace how digital networks, accompanied by fantasies of mobility, contribute to […]
The Jungle and the Beast: A Conversation with Lewis Watts and Óscar Martínez
Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Jungle and the Beast: A Conversation with Lewis Watts and Óscar Martínez is the second event in the Borders and Belonging Series hosted by the CLRC. In The Beast (Los migrantes que no importan, in the original Spanish), intrepid Salvadoran journalist Óscar Martínez accompanies migrants on "the Beast," the train that travels from Central […]
FreeMaría en tierra de nadie: Screening & Q&A with Marcela Zamora
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for a free, public film screening to kickoff Borders and Belonging: A Series of Events on Human Migration To foster a conversation about migration, LALS and the CLRC are jointly hosting a special screening of Marcela Zamora's María en tierra de nadie (María in No Man’s Land), 2010. This is the story of […]
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Living Writers: Charlie Jane Anders
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCharlie Jane Anders: I'm probably the only person to have become a fictional character in a Star Trek novel and in one of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City books. I'm the editor of io9.com, where I’m probably best known for my reviews of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and The Last Airbender. Ormy super detailed […]
FreeMireille Lee “The Archaeology of Ancient Greek Dress”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and The UCSC Archaeological Research Center present: Archaeology provides important evidence for ancient Greek dress, which was essential to the construction of social identities. Although no complete garments survive, preserved fragments of silk and embroideries indicate the elite status of the wearer. Jewelry, dress fasteners, toilet […]
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong “Implicit Moral Attitudes”
Humanities 2, Room 259Most moral philosophers and psychologists focus on explicit moral beliefs that people give as answers to questions. However, much research in social psychology shows that implicit moral attitudes (unconscious beliefs or associations) also affect our thinking and behavior. This talk will report our new psychological and neuroscientific research on implicit moral attitudes (using a process […]
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