Events
An Evening with Marilynne Robinson: Noel Q King Memorial Lecture
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMarilynne Robinson, a prolific novelist and essayist, is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a National Humanities Medal. President Barack Obama applauded "her grace and intelligence in writing." Her most recent book, Reading Genesis, is a meditation on the origins of humankind and the meaning of […]
Interviewing and Negotiating the Job Offer with Veronica Heiskell
Virtual EventLearn interviewing strategies to land a job offer. Then, learn how to negotiate the best salary and benefits package when you receive the job offer. This class offers strategies that apply to both academic and alternative-to-academic job applications and negotiations. The negotiation strategies also apply to asking for raises, job reclassifications, and title and responsibility […]
Slide Design with Sonya Newlyn
Graduate Student Commons, Room 204 420 Hagar Dr, Santa CruzHave you ever inflicted a boring slide presentation on an audience? Learn tips and techniques for using slides the way they should be used, as visual aids to your spoken-word presentation. Prior to attending this workshop, review this slide design page. This event is on Mon, Nov 25, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. in Graduate Student […]
Kunal Purohit – H-Pop, The Secretive World of Hindutva Popstars
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCan a song trigger a murder? Can a poem spark a riot? Can a book divide a people? Away from the gaze of mainstream urban media, across India’s dusty, sleepy towns, a brand of popular culture is quietly seizing the imagination of millions, on the internet and off it. From catchy songs with acerbic lyrics […]
Chris Benner & Manuel Pastor – Charging Forward
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Chris Brenner and Manuel Pastor for a reading and signing of their new book Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future—a clarion call for justice in the quest for clean energy. "Charging Forward brilliantly uses the Valley to illustrate what's at stake as we move to a clean […]
Christmas Carol Dramaturgy Talk with Santa Cruz Shakespeare
Santa Cruz Public Library - Downtown Branch 224 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin Santa Cruz Shakespeare for a presentation and talk by their brilliant Christmas Carol dramaturgs Dr. Renee Fox (UC Santa Cruz), Dr. Michael Chemers (UC Santa Cruz), and Charles Pasternak (SCS Artistic Director). Renee and Michael will discourse on Dickens and his marvelous novella. Q&A to follow. Expertise breeds love; don't be a Scrooge; join […]
CANCELLED – California Community Colleges Panel Discussion
Graduate Student Commons, Room 204 420 Hagar Dr, Santa CruzLearn how to apply to (first step: register with and upload your CV to the CCC Registry) and what it’s like to work for a California community college by talking to director of the CCC Registry, Beth Au, moderator of the panel, and a panel of UCSC graduate student alumni and a former UCSC postdoc, […]
POSTPONED: Lara Sheehi – “The Imperative to Refuse Psychic Intrusion in Palestine-Lebanon Solidarities”
Cervantes and Velasquez Conference Room Bay Tree Building, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk will discuss the ways psychic intrusions are central features of settler colonial logics and how they are used with specific intent to disrupt solidarities. Palestine-Lebanon solidarities will be used as a “case study” to read the psycho-politico-affective forces that demobilize. About the Speaker Lara Sheehi (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology […]
Giving Day 2024
Virtual EventMark your calendar for Wednesday, November 20 and join us for UC Santa Cruz’s annual Giving Day—a 24-hour online fundraising event dedicated to supporting projects that enrich the UCSC student experience. Giving Day is an opportunity to unite the entire UCSC community—students, alumni, faculty, and friends—to create a lasting, positive impact on our students, the […]
Public Film Screening and Filmmaker Q&A: A Feeling Greater than Love with Mary Jirmanus Saba
Communications 150, Studio CIn her directorial debut, Mary Jirmanus Saba deals with a forgotten revolution, saving from oblivion bloodily suppressed strikes at Lebanese tobacco and chocolate factories. These events from the 1970s, which held the promise of a popular revolution and, with it, of women's emancipation were erased from collective memory by the country’s civil wars. Rich in […]