Events
UC Santa Cruz Alumni Weekend 2016
UC Santa CruzSAVE THE DATE April 28 – May 1, 2016 More info and event schedule at: alumniweekend.ucsc.edu Questions? Contact alumni@ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-5003.
Designing Digital Scholarship: Art, Feminism + the Digital Humanities
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWith Craig Deitrich (Claremont Colleges) and Tara McPherson (USC) The story of the digital humanities is often narrated at a decades-long history of the computational manipulation of print. What alternative […]
FreePaul Lee: “The Greeks had a word for it: thumos”
Stevenson Provost HousePaul Lee studied philosophy at St. Olaf College and received his divinity degree and PhD from Harvard. He has taught at Harvard, MIT, and UC Santa Cruz, where he founded […]
FreeBuilding in Scalar and Exploring the Future of Scholarly Publishing Workshop
Humanities 1, Room 202With Craig Deitrich and Tara McPherson. This workshop will serve as an introduction to Scalar, a free, open source authoring and publishing platform designed for scholars writing media-rich, long-form, born-digital […]
FreeDonna V. Jones: “’I want more life’: Reflections on Time, Race and Duration in Ridley Scott’s Bladerunner”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDonna V. Jones is the author of Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Vitalism, Negritude and Modernity. Her publications and research interests include comparative modernisms, postcolonial literature, life philosophies and […]
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Book Talk with Donna Haraway: “Manifestly Haraway”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Emerging Worlds, the Center for Cultural Studies, and the Science & Justice Research Center present: Book Talks with Donna Haraway reading from Manifestly Haraway Followed by a […]
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A Book Reading and Conversation with Anubha Bhonsle
Humanities 2, Room 359The Feminist Studies Department, along with the South Asia Studies Initiative and the Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, invite you join us for to a Book Reading & Conversation […]
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Undergraduate History Showcase
The Undergraduate History Showcase is an annual event held each spring that recognizes the exceptional research conducted by UC Santa Cruz history undergraduates. In addition, a history alumnus delivers a […]
Christina Schwenkel – Designing the Rational City: Gender and the ‘Housing Question’ Revisited in Late Socialist Vietnam
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesChristina Schwenkel, Professor of Anthropology, UC Riverside Professor Schwenkel's work addresses transnationalism, historical memory, aesthetics and visual culture in Vietnam. Her book, "The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance […]
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Carol Dougherty: “Nobody’s Home: Metis, Improvisation, and the Instability of Return in Homer’s Odyssey”
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Classical Studies Program presents The Annual Carl Deppe Lecture with Professor Carol Dougherty Wellesley College This talk considers Homer’s Odyssey in light of recent work in improvisatory studies […]
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