Events
UCSC Alumni Weekend
UC Santa CruzUC Santa Cruz is a place like no other. It was imagined from the minds of original thinkers—the rebels and visionaries, artists, scientists, and poets who had the courage to […]
Brian Connolly "The Curse of Canaan: A Fantasy of Race in the Nineteenth-Century United States"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBrian Connolly is currently working on two book projects. The first, Sacred Kin: Sovereignty, Kinship, and Religion in the Nineteenth-Century United States, excavates the relationship between national sovereignty and religion. The […]
FreeTranscultural Interpretation and the Production of Alterity: Photography, Materiality, and Mediation in the Making of "African Art"
Porter College, Room D245Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie (Ph.D. Northwestern University, 2000) is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture of Global Africa at the University of California Santa Barbara. He is the author of […]
FreeDigital Humanities Working Group/Digital Pedagogy
McHenry Library, Room 1350Wednesday, April 29 (5 – 7 PM) at FITC (McHenry 1350) Digital Humanities Working Group/Digital Pedagogy Co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Commons, Learning Technologies, and FITC Faculty from across the university […]
FreeShelly Wilcox: "Immigration Justice in Nonideal Circumstances"
Humanities 2, Room 259Abstract: In recent years, political philosophers have begun to interrogate the methodology they use to construct normative principles. Some have voiced the concern that prevailing liberal egalitarian principles are constructed […]
FreeLiving Writers Series: Marilyn Chin
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms, and through […]
FreeCounteractions: A Symposium of Creative & Critical Inquiries
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFeaturing papers by: James Beneda, Whitney DeVos, Ariane Helou, Katie Lally, Kenan Sharpe, Eric Sneathen, & Melissa Yinger Roundtable conversations from: Christopher Chen, Kendra Dority, Johanna Isaacson, Kyle Lane-McKinley, […]
FreeFriday Forum with Kali Rubaii: “Writing the Future with a Cement Pen: How to Concretize Displacement”
Humanities 1, Room 202The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve […]
FreeLinguistics Research Colloquia: Grant Goodall
Grant Goodall: "Grammar and working memory: How experimental syntax can help us tell the difference" The use of formal experiments to measure sentence acceptability, known as “experimental syntax”, is able […]
FreeBook-to-Action | The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Santa Cruz Public Library - Downtown Branch 224 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAuthor Michelle Alexander helped initiate a national movement with her best selling book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. This month, Santa Cruz Public Libraries sponsors Book-to-Action, a month-long series of events […]
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