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  • Living Writers: “After Ursula” with Karen Joy Fowler, Molly Gloss, Nisi Shawl, and Kim Stanley Robinson

    Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    After Ursula: Four renowned Sci Fi/Fantasy Writers all mentored by Ursula K Le Guin read from their work. Molly Gloss is the author of several novels including The Jump-Off Creek, The Dazzle of Day, Wild Life, The Hearts of Horses and Falling From Horses, as well as the story collection Unforeseen. She writes both realistic […]

  • THI Open House

    Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Join us as we kick off the 20th anniversary of The Humanities Institute: a vibrant community at the center of UC Santa Cruz and at the cutting edge of Humanities research, education, and public engagement. Raise a glass, meet our fellows, and connect with your colleagues. In many ways, The Humanities Institute is a demonstration […]

  • Extreme Weather and the Mexican Revolution: Historical Reality and Perception

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    This talk will present recently published research that combines environmental history and historical climatology to examine the relationship between extreme weather events, especially drought and frost, and the origins of the Mexican Revolution. Wolfe’s findings suggest that inaccurate and misleading weather reporting—what he calls “politico-environmental” coverage—by a variety of newspapers throughout the country was as […]

  • Mikael Wolfe: Extreme Weather and the Mexican Revolution – Historical Reality and Perception

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Speaker, Mikael Wolfe, presents recently published research that combines environmental history and historical climatology to examine the relationship between extreme weather events, especially drought and frost, and the origins of the Mexican Revolution. His findings suggest that inaccurate and misleading weather reporting—what he calls “politico-environmental” coverage—by a variety of newspapers throughout the country was as […]

  • LOCATION CHANGE Dean Spade: Solidarity Not Charity – Mutual Aid for Mobilization and Survival

    Resource Center for Non Violence

    Join the Feminist Studies department as they present their second FMST Colloquium for the 2019 Fall quarter! Widespread, effective social movements usually include mutual aid strategies that directly address conditions faced by targeted people, such as providing housing, food, healthcare and transportation. Examples include the Black Panther Party's Free Breakfast Program, the Young Lords' hijacking […]

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    LOCATION CHANGE David Biggs: Archipelagic Vietnam – Rethinking Nationalism From the Shoreline

    CA, United States

    Please RSVP for the Cultural Studies Colloquium location Until recent conflicts over islands in the South China Sea, Vietnam’s history was described in terrestrial terms. Vietnam’s nationalist struggles, we were told, involved epic battles with American and other troops in highland jungles and city streets; and the nation’s territorial expansion from Hanoi happened in two […]

  • A Literary Masquerade with Erin Morgenstern

    DNA Comedy Lab 155 S. River St., Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    You are cordially invited to Bookshop Santa Cruz's first-ever Literary Masquerade, celebrating the release of Erin Morgenstern's highly anticipated new novel, The Starless Sea. Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. From Erin Morgenstern, the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground […]

    $37
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    Morton Marcus Poetry Reading: Gary Soto

    Music Center Recital Hall

      Event Photos by Crystal Birns: Gary Soto has published more than forty books for children, young adults and adults, including Too Many Tamales, Chato’s Kitchen, Baseball in April, Buried Onions and The Elements of San Joaquin. He is the author of In and Out of Shadows, a musical about undocumented youth and, most recently, […]

  • Katharyne Mitchell: Cultural Studies Colloquium – Church Sanctuary and the Spatial Politics of the Sacred

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Church sanctuary is not legal in any state in Europe, but the cultural and religious sense of church space as sacred, and the collective memory of this practice as an alternative form of justice, still has a powerful legacy. In citing past sanctuary ideals and practices, from medieval asylum law to recent sanctuary movements on […]

  • CANCELLED – Roumyana Pancheva: Linguistics Colloquia- Temporal Interpretation Without Tense

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Languages without overt tense morphemes have typically been analyzed as having semantic tense, either contributed by a phonologically covert lexical item or supplied by a post-syntactic semantic rule. From a neo-Reichenbachian perspective, having semantic tense means having a linguistic device (a lexical item or a rule) dedicated to invoking a reference time in relation to […]

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