Events
Diaspora and Memory — Sikhs and 1984
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThirty years ago saw the culmination of increasing social conflict in Punjab, a Sikh-majority state in India. In 1984, the government of India launched a military operation on the Sikhs' […]
FreeAaron Hahn Tapper and Tom Pettigrew: "Intergroup Dialogue and the Question of Normalization"
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 […]
FreeTerry Burke: "The Ethnographic State: France & the Invention of Moroccan Islam"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTERRY BURKE Research Professor of History, UCSC Alone among Muslim countries, Morocco is known for its own national form of Islam, “Moroccan Islam.” In his most recent book The Ethnographic […]
FreeCarolyn Dean: "Seeing is Not Believing: Colonialist Visuality, Inka Masonry, and the Challenge of Aniconism"
Porter College, Room D245Visual & Media Cultures Colloquia talk, the first one of the 2014-15 season, on Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at 4 pm in Porter D245: "Seeing is Not Believing: Colonialist Visuality, […]
Facebook Employee Panel Discussion on Careers
Cervantes & Velasquez Room, Baytree Conference Center Bay Tree Conference Center, UC Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesInterested in working in tech but currently pursuing a degree outside the hard sciences? Come hear from a panel of Facebook content strategists who work in the field of user […]
FreeLiving Writers Series: Katie Crouch
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKatie Crouch is a New York Times bestselling novelist and essayist. Her books include Girls in Trucks, Men and Dogs, and Abroad. She has also written two novels for young adults, and has […]
FreeDigital Happy Hour: Why Digital Humanities?
Cowell Senior Commons Room Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin the Digital Humanities Research Cluster for an informal cocktail hour. The first of a series of casual get togethers will start with the question, "Why the Digital Humanities?" Meet other […]
FreeCrystal Am Nelson: "We Ain't Gotta Be This: Queering Sites of Blackness, an Aesthetic Approach"
Humanities 1, Room 202Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. […]
FreeThor Sawin and Jason Martel: "Fostering foreign language learners’ speaking through ongoing feedback"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIt is now well accepted in foreign language pedagogy that assessment is not solely an end-‐of-‐unit activity. Rather, it is important for teachers to monitor learners’ language development using a […]
FreeFranco "Bifo" Berardi: "Social Morphogenesis: The Historical Transition from Revolution to Disentanglement"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe subject of this lecture comes from the recent experience of the Occupy movement against financial capitalism. It investigates the political and conceptual limits of these movements, and their inability […]
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