Events
Digital Exhibit Building Symposium
McHenry Library, Digital CommonsThe Digital Exhibit Building Symposium will consider the value of curating digital exhibits, communicating with online audiences, and implementing new digital assignments in the classroom. We will also offer hands on workshops that can help you get started. By reorienting the conversation around digital exhibit building away from specific platforms, we will explore the process […]
Weekend with Shakespeare 2016
De Laveaga Elementary SchoolWeekend with Shakespeare - August 12 – 14, 2016 Join Shakespeare Workshop for a weekend of lectures, discussions, and demonstrations about Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s summer productions, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hamlet. New this year is an Educators’ Workshop on Sunday, August 14, an event for teachers that provides creative and scholarly resources for enlivening Shakespeare’s […]
MAH 3rd Friday: Changemakers
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryMeet the creative leaders making change happen in Santa Cruz County. Engage with county supervisors and cycling advocates. Meet artists and food justice activists. Network with film festival directors and Oaxacan cultural preservationists. Interact with hands-on workshops, demonstrations and performances. C3 (Creative Community Committee) is the MAH’s community think tank of 45 diverse leaders across […]
Inverting the Spanish Avant Garde: Transatlantic Negotiations in El Estudiante (Salamanca-Madrid 1925-26)
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC Spanish Studies and the Department of Language and Applied Linguistics present: Inverting the Spanish Avant Garde: Transatlantic Negotiations in El Estudiante (Salamanca-Madrid 1925-26) By Vanessa Marie Fernandez (UC Santa Cruz and San Jose SU) Friday June 3rd, 6:00PM Humanities 1, Room 210 Vanessa Marie Fernandez completed her PhD in Hispanic Langiages and Literatures form […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Veronika Zablotsky
Humanities 1, Room 202Veronika Zablotsky "Dealing with the East: Orientalism and the Ideas of Eurasia in Contemporary Geopolitics" In this talk, I mobilize Edward Said's critique of Orientalism (1978) as a Europrean "style of thought," a "corporate institution" and a "systematic discipline" that produces, manages and deals with the "Orient" by means of discourse to think about the idea […]
PhD+: Research and Grants Workshop and End of Year Luncheon
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPhD+ Workshop Series Please join us for the launch of PhD+, our new series! We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for humanities PhDs, online identity issues, internship possibilities, work/life balance, elements of style, grants/fellowships and much, more more. October 9, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel November 6, 2015: Internship Info Session […]
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Living Writers: Student Reading
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSpring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line Why Out of Line? “I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre, in different genres, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I’m hoping it will encourage our students to think […]
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Moira Weigel: “A Genealogy of ‘Like’: Taste, Emotional Labor, and Technology on the Dating Market”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLabor of Love: The Invention of Dating "But I Want A Guy I Like To Like The Things I Like" Taste and Emotional Labor on the Dating Market It is a truth universally acknowledged that "likes" play an important role in contemporary courtship. While all social media invite us to produce our online identities by […]
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Celebrating Excellence in the Humanities: 2015-16 Spring Awards
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHumanists study the stories of humanity, in all their wonderful and tragic manifestations. The annual “Celebrating the Humanities” event is an opportunity for you to participate in this never-ending exploration of what it means to be human. Event Photos: I hope you will be able to join me on Tuesday, May 31 from 4-6 pm […]
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CANCELLED Covell Meyskens: “Visualizing the Past: The Making of the Website ‘Everyday Life in Mao’s China'”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCovell Meyskens, Assistant Professor of History at the Naval Postgraduate School, will talk about his website Everyday Life in Mao's China which currently houses over 5,000 images China. Meyskens will discuss the website's origins, its intended and unintended contributions to the expanding field of PRC history, and suggestions for offer suggestions on how to conduct […]
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