Events
VENUE CHANGED Rebecca Jo Plant: "Child Soldiers: Militarism and American Youth"
Abbey Coffee ShopProf.Rebecca Jo Plant will be presenting on Child Soldiers: Militarism and American Youth, a book project that she and her collaborator, Frances M. Clarke of the University of Sydney, have […]
Ned Block: "Conscious, Preconscious, Unconscious"
Humanities 2, Room 259There are reliably reproducible strong brain activations that have little or no reportability and for that reason could be said to be unconscious, but can become reportable with a shift […]
FreeJane McAlevey: "Beating Attack on Workers by Building High Participation Unions"
College 8, Room 301 College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJane McAlevey's first book, Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell), published by Verso Press, was named the "most valuable book of 2012" by The Nation Magazine. She has served as Executive Director and Chief Negotiator for […]
FreeMorris Ratner: "A Monument Man in the Courtroom: Litigating the Holocaust"
University Center, UCSC College Nine and College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUC Santa Cruz will present a lecture by UC Hastings College of the Law Professor Morris Ratner titled "A Monument Man in the Courtroom: Litigating the Holocaust," on Monday, April […]
FreeRebecca Hester: "Those against whom society must be defended: Mexican migrants, swine flu, and bioterrorism"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSince 9/11 and in the wake of the anthrax letters, there has been a concern about the "dual use" of biological knowledge and material which could variously be used for […]
Mark Anderson "Franz Boas, George Schuyler and Miscegenation: A Chapter in the History of Anthropology, Race/Racism, and the Harlem Renaissance"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMark Anderson Associate Professor of Anthropology, UCSC Mark Anderson is an anthropologist who works on the politics of race and culture, particularly in the Americas. He is currently working on […]
Film Screening: After Tiller
Communications, Studio C, Room 150 Communications Bldg University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United Statesthe film explores the issue of late-term abortion in the U.S. in the aftermath of the murder of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in 2009, one of the very few […]
FreeLiving Writers Series: Rabih Alameddine
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRabih Alameddine is the Author of four novels: An Unnecessary Woman; Koolaids; I, the Divine; and The Hakawati; as well as The Perv, a collection of short stories. The spring 2014 Living Writers Reading […]
Film Screening: Caesar Must Die
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWinner of the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's Caesar Must Die deftly melds narrative and documentary in a transcendently powerful drama-within-a-drama. The film was made in […]
FreeSun-Ah Jun: "Prominence and phrasing in ambiguity resolution: Evidence from priming and individual differences"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSun-Ah Jun is Professor of Linguistics at UC Los Angeles. Abstract: In a sentence such as Someone shot the servant of the actress who was on the balcony, it is […]
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