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  • John W. Reid, “Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet”

    Virtual Event

    Five stunningly large forests remain on Earth: the Taiga, extending from the Pacific Ocean across all of Russia and far-northern Europe; the North American boreal, ranging from Alaska's Bering seacoast to Canada's Atlantic shore; the Amazon, covering almost the entirety of South America's bulge; the Congo, occupying parts of six nations in Africa's wet equatorial […]

  • Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: “Night Walks” by Charles Dickens

    Virtual Event

    For its next meeting, the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club will read Dickens’s short, semi-autobiographical essay, “Night Walks.” Professor John Jordan will lead the discussion. Originally published in 1860 in Dickens’s weekly magazine All the Year Round, the essay is a good example of Dickens’s work as a journalist, social activist, and observer of the modern […]

  • The 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing

    Virtual Event

    HSP2022 will interrogate the connection between prosody, gesture and meaning. We are delighted to welcome the following researchers to address questions related to the perception and production of prosody and the planning and interpretation of co-speech gesture. By what mechanisms are these multimodal communication channels integrated with, or segregated from, other aspects of linguistic cognition, […]

  • Linguistics Colloquia: Mara Breen

    Virtual Event

    About eight times each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

  • Agnes Callard – “Inquisitive Politics”

    Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The public intellectual space seems to be dominated by various forms of bullying, in various kinds of disguise. One person wants to "call out" your bad assumptions; another commands you to concede their point of view. The overall effect, for participants, is of being in a tug of war for one's attentions, emotions, allegiance. Is […]

  • Latino Role Models Virtual 2022 Conference: Dolores Huerta

    Virtual Event

    We are honored that Dolores Huerta, Founder and President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation and co-founder with Cesar Chavez of the United Farm Workers Union will be our keynote speaker this year. Senderos specializes in teaching Latino culture and history through the artistic expression of dance and music, hosts an annual Guelaguetza, and offers other […]

  • Living Writers Series: Sandra Lim

    Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Sandra Lim is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection The Curious Thing (W.W. Norton, 2021). Her previous books of poetry are The Wilderness (W.W. Norton, 2014), winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize selected by Louise Glück, and Loveliest Grotesque (Kore Press, 2006). Her writing has appeared in a range of literary journals, including The New York Review of Books, Poetry, The […]

  • Noel Q. King Annual Lecture: “People Love Dead Jews”

    Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Please note: this event has been rescheduled for March 9th, 2022. The King Lecture Series, preserving the work of UCSC History and Comparative Religion professor Noel Q. King, promotes and explores the dialogue between faiths. This year’s lecture features award-winning author Dara Horn. You are invited to join us in person or virtually this year. […]

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