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    Revisiting The Koza Uprising in Global Perspectives/ オンラインセミナー「コザ騒動を世界の視点で」

    Virtual Event

    Fifty years ago this December, Okinawan protests against US military rule turned violent for the first and, so far, only time. On the anniversary, the Okinawa Memories Initiative will host a public discussion about the "Koza Riots," featuring an eyewitness photojournalist, an American army veteran who had been stationed in Okinawa and two Okinawan American […]

  • Demystifying the Book Publishing Process & Connecting with UC Colleagues

    Virtual Event

    UC Press editors will offer insight into the academic book publishing process. The presentation will include: choosing the right publisher; preparing a book proposal; how the peer review and Editorial Committee process works; revising your manuscript; and working with publishers to promote your book. The session is intended to be interactive and questions are welcome. […]

  • Slugs and Steins: Reading Dickens Today with Professor John Jordan

    Virtual Event

    These days, 150 years after his death in 1870, it is nearly impossible for a week to go by without coming across some reference to Dickens in a news article, movie review, magazine essay, or crossword puzzle clue. The adjective “Dickensian” has entered common parlance throughout the English-speaking world as a way of characterizing certain […]

  • Christmas with Dickens

    Virtual Event

    Join us on Sunday, December 13th at 4 pm for a performance you won't want to miss! Charles Dickens just wants to talk about his book, A Christmas Carol, but what happens when spirits begin to show up? Is Dickens being guilt-tripped by his estranged wife, Catherine; haunted by the Ghost of Christmas Present; regretting […]

  • Rebecca Tollan: Competing Argument Privileges in Niuean

    Virtual Event

    The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Rebecca Tollan from the University of Delaware speaking on competing argument privileges in Niuean. Abstract:  Grammatical “subjects” have long been shown to have a privileged linguistic status, as compared with other arguments, in the processing of long-distance dependencies (e.g., Holmes & O’Regan, 1981), in the resolution of […]

  • Living In a Frayed Democracy
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    Ezra Klein and Will Davies: Living in a Frayed Democracy

    Virtual Event

    The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture - Ezra Klein and Will Davies: Living in Frayed Democracy We’re all impacted by this deeply polarized moment. How do we navigate life while political and cultural divisions are dangerously amplified and the world’s oldest democracies are under threat? The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz is honored to […]

  • Adrian Staub – Word frequency and predictability effects in reading: Some outstanding puzzles

    Virtual Event

    The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Adrian Staub of the University of Massachusetts speaking on word frequency and predictability effects in reading: some outstanding puzzles Abstract:  A word’s context-independent frequency and its context-dependent predictability both influence eye fixation durations in reading. In this talk I’ll discuss recent work investigating some questions about relationship […]

  • LIVING WRITERS FALL 2020: SEEING RED—RAGE, WRITING, ART

    Living Writers: Student Reading

    Virtual Event

    LIVING WRITERS FALL 2020: SEEING RED—RAGE, WRITING, ART features contemporary poets, cultural critics, performance and visual artists interrogating rage, its call and possibilities, rendered across an array of works (text, installation, and performance) exploring rage’s circumstances, effects, and configurations through poetry, prose, and interdisciplinary modes.

  • n Vitro, film, 2 channels, 28 minutes, Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind, 2019

    In Vitro: Film Screening and Conversation

    Virtual Event

    IN VITRO | Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind, 2019 (TRAILER) from Spike Island - Productions on Vimeo. Join the Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium for a special screening of the film, In Vitro, after which Peter Limbrick (UCSC professor of Film and Digital Media) will moderate a discussion with filmmakers Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind. […]

  • Visualizing Abolition: Abolition Then and Now w/ Isaac Julien and Robin D.G. Kelley

    Virtual Event

    Abolition Then & Now with historian and cultural theorist Robin D. G. Kelley and artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien, co-presented with McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, is the next event in Visualizing Abolition. Abolition Then & Now features Robin Kelley and Isaac Julien in conversation about the anti-slavery movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries […]

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