Events
A Reading by Monique Truong
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe University of California, Santa Cruz Center for Labor Studies Presents In Collaboration with UCSC's Living Writers Reading Series: A Reading by Internationally Acclaimed Novelist Monique Truong Monique Truong is the author of the "poetically rendered and literally savory" 2003 novel, The Book of Salt, the fictional story of a gay Vietnamese cook who […]
Angela Davis: Legacies in the Making
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRecognizing the Academic, Activist and Cultural Interventions of a Contemporary Visionary For almost four decades, Angela Y. Davis’s scholarship and activism has defined the meaning and practice of being a public intellectual and has radically transformed many sites of knowledge production, including the positioning of the U.S. academy as a site of intervention and social […]
Ruth Mueller: “Bound to Nothing but Science Itself? Academic Life Science Careers and the Nomadic Disposable Research Scientist”
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRuth Mueller is a contract researcher at the Department of Social Studies of Science and a lecturer at the Faculty of Life Sciences and the Centre for Gender Studies at […]
Open Access Day at McHenry Library
McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special CollectionsOpen Access Week is an annual international event promoting the idea that scholarly research should be freely and openly available. For Open Access Week 2010, the University Library is sponsoring […]
John Mraz: “Photographing the Mexican Revolution: Commitments, Icons, Documents”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJohn Mraz will examine the photography made during the armed struggle, 1910-1920, through a profusely illustrated lecture. He will then place particular emphasis on identifying the commitment of photographers to […]
CHRISTOPHER DURT: “Galileo and the Emergence of Modern Philosophy”
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPhilosophy graduate student Christopher Durt will give the following talk, "Galileo and the Emergence of Modern Philosophy," as a Work in Progress. Come join us!
Pacific Rim Research Program 2011-12 Call for Proposals & INFORMATIONAL MEETING
Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesInterested faculty and graduate students are welcome to learn more about the Pacific Rim Research Program grants during this informational meeting. The current Call is now available from the PRRP […]
Joan Judge: “The Courtesan’s Other: Visibility, Sexuality, and the Republican Lady in Early Twentieth Century China”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn this richly illustrated lecture, Joan Judge explores the emergence of “Republican Ladies,” a new group of women in early twentieth century China, who were more visible than their talented […]
Workshop on the Future of the Humanities w/ David Theo Goldberg (UCHRI)
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAt this critical time in the history of our university and the academy, in general, please join us for a workshop on the future of the Humanities led by David […]
Mario Garcia: “Rediscovering and Rethinking the Chicano Movement: A Historian’s Quest”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for the second talk in the Unfinished Revolutions Lecture Series: Mario Garcia: "Rediscovering and Rethinking the Chicano Movement: A Historian's Quest"