Events
Veterans Day Remembrance Parade
The Santa Cruz Public Libraries is helping to remind people of the Veterans Day Parade which will take place this year on Tuesday, November 11th at 9:30am-11am from St. Patrick's […]
FreeEye Music: A Festival of American Sign Language Poetry
Free and open to the public. All festival events will be interpreted and are accessible to Deaf and non-Deaf audiences. ASL Festival: Rosa Lee, Sneak Preview House Concert Seating […]
FreeDean Mathiowetz: "Policing the Sensorium: Rancière, Foucault, & Economies of Luxury"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDEAN MATHIOWETZ Associate Professor of Politics, UCSC Dean Mathiowetz’s current work is about the pleasures of luxurious superordination, as a form of what he calls “political sadism.” His work makes […]
FreeMichael Ashley: "Mukurtu CMS: Differential Access for the Ethical Stewardship of Cultural and Digital Heritage"
McHenry Library UCSC, Room 4286Try and recall a family secret, or a cherished memory shared between you and a parent or sibling. Now imagine holding on to that memory so that it could be […]
FreeLiving Writers Series: Patrick Graybill, Interpreter Aaron Brace
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPatrick Graybill is a pioneer in ASL performance through his early work with the National Theater of the Deaf. He is a prolific translator of English to ASL, and a teacher of other poets, having taught for many years at the National Technological Institute of the Deaf in Rochester, New York (one of two American […]
FreeCANCELLED: Eric Schwitzgebel: "The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors"
Humanities 2, Room 259Do professional ethicists behave any morally better than do non-ethicists of similar social background? If not, do they at least show greater consistency between their normative attitudes and their outward behavior? Despite a long philosophical tradition associating philosophical reflection with improved moral behavior, these questions have never been empirically examined. I describe four possible models […]
FreePritam Singh: "Spatial Shift and Ecological Crisis: An Eco-Socialist Perspective”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesA spatial shift has been taking place in global capitalism in the last few decades, in the form of declining importance of the older advanced capitalism and the rising importance of "emerging economies." The most dramatic representation of this shift is that China has recently overtaken US as the largest economy in the world. For […]
FreeFifth Annual Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading
Cabrillo College Room 450THE 5th ANNUAL MORTON MARCUS MEMORIAL POETRY READING honors poet, teacher and film critic Morton Marcus (1936-2009), one of Santa Cruz’s beloved cultural icons. This fifth annual event will feature award-winning poets Peter Everwine and Chuck Hanzlicek. The evening will be hosted by Gary Young and will also feature the winner of the 3rd Annual […]
FreeStephen Zunes: "Israel, Palestine, and the United States: The Failure of Governments and the Hope from Civil Society"
Merrill Academics 102UCSC Cowell College Presents Conflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine Tuesday Evenings Fall 2014 6:00-7:45pm, Merrill Academy 102 Tuesday Oct 7: Christine King (Lecturer Kresge College). “Making Peace with Conflict” Tuesday Oct 14: Dr. Jennifer Derr (History Department, UC Santa Cruz). The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation. Tuesday Oct 21: Dr. […]
FreeLatino Literature/La literatura latina V: A Symposium
Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBringing writers and scholars together in thoughtful interchange, this fifth biennial symposium of the Latino Literary Cultures Project at UCSC culminates in an evening reading by prizewinning novelist and journalist Ana Menéndez; writer/artist Maceo Montoya; and poet Xochiquetzal Candelaria. Please visit the Latino Literary Cultures Project website for the full program. This free, public […]
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