Events
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Mitchell Winter
Humanities 1, Room 202"Polemics of Disintegration: Advaita Metaphysics in the Works of Alejandro Jodorowsky" The Chilean artist Alejandro Jodorowsky (b. 1929) often engages with non-linearity and non-sense as narrative devices in his work. Throughout his career Jodorowsky's thematic repertoire has adopted elements of the Kabbalistic science of the Marseille tarot, European alchemy, and New Age formulations of Hindu […]
FreePhD+: Networking and The Versatile PhD
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Institute for Humanities Research and the Career Center Present PhD+: Networking and Versatile PhD Friday, October 28, 2016 Humanities 1, Room 210 11 am - 12:30 pm Panelists: Christina […]
Film Screening: “Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels” (Non-citizenship series)
Del Mar TheatreThe Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research present an event in the series on Non-citizenship Historians and filmmakers Philip Misevich and Konrad Tuchscherer of St. John's University join UC Santa Cruz's David Anthony and Greg O'Malley in a conversation about forced migration at this free, public screening of "Ghosts of Amistad: In […]
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Roundtable Discussion: Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences beyond Academia
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPhilip Misevich and Konrad Tuchscherer are historians at St. John's University and co-producers of Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels (2014, dir. Tony Buba), the award-winning documentary based on Marcus Rediker's powerful account of the most successful slave rebellion in American history, The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (Penguin, 2012). […]
Living Writers: Elizabeth Willis
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesElizabeth Willis's most recent book, Alive: New and Selected Poems (New York Review Books, 2015), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Other books include Address (Wesleyan, 2011), recipient of the PEN New England prize for poetry; Meteoric Flowers (Wesleyan, 2006); Turneresque (Burning Deck, 2003); and The Human Abstract (Penguin, 1995). Her poems have appeared […]
P. Sainath: “The People’s Archive of Rural India”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesP. Sainath is India's most highly awarded journalist and a winner of the Ramon Magsayay Prize (often referred to as the 'Asian Nobel'). The only Indian to win the Magsayay for journalism in 32 years, Sainath was also the first reporter in the world to win Amnesty International's Global Journalism Prize, and the only Indian […]
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Alma Heckman: “Absence and Counter-Narratives: The Years of Lead and the Moroccan Jewish Exodus”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAlma Rachel Heckman’s research crosses Jewish history, North Africa, French empire and the history of social movements. Her talk emerges from her project “Radical Nationalists: Moroccan Jewish Communists 1925-1975.” Heckman is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. The Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series, which […]
FreeDigital Research Happy Hour
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGet to know the DH Research community to learn more about digital research on campus at an informal happy hour. We invite researchers across campus to discuss their work with a […]
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2016 Founders Celebration
UCSC Science and Engineering LibraryPlease join us at Founders Celebration 2016 for a look into the library as a "collision space" where technology, information, and ideas collide to create new knowledge and support dynamic exploration. This is an exclusive opportunity to celebrate and mingle in a special campus location that symbolizes both the excitement of change and the tradition […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kali Rubaii
Humanities 1, Room 202"Enemy Inside Out: Birth Defects in Fallujah" Hotly debated and widely misunderstood is the epidemic of birth defects in Fallujah, Iraq. While the possibility of knowing the exact cause of this epidemic is diluted by ongoing war, layers of chemical toxicity, and mass displacement/destruction of doctors, patients, and medical facilities; the surrounding enviro-medical discourse is […]
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