Events
Michael Chabon: “Moonglow”
Peace United Church 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Telegraph Avenue) for an offsite book talk and signing of Moonglow, his first novel in four years. Moonglow takes the form of a grandfather's deathbed confession to his grandson and covers the course of the 20th century. It is a novel of […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Nicole Vandermeer
Humanities 1, Room 202"Writing Hawai'i into the Nation: Narrative Re-mapping in Mark Twain's Letter's s a Colonial Prelude to Annexation" This portion of my dissertation project examines the 1866 letters written by Mark Twain (while dispatched by The Sacramento Union in Hawai'i) as engaged in the colonial process of cartographic incorporation by encouraging American ambitions in, and imaginings […]
Engaging Precarity: A Seminar with Marcel Paret
Humanities 2, Room 259Inaugurating Session II of Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz's 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture, labor scholar Marcel Paret of the University of Utah and University of Johannesburg leads a seminar on Guy Standing's concept of the precariat. Professor Standing of the School of Oriental and African […]
PhD+: Meet our Public Fellows
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for our next PhD+ Workshop on December 2nd where we will hear from our fist cohort of Public Fellows. These fellowships provide the opportunity for Humanities doctoral students to contribute to research, programming, communications and fundraising at non-profit organizations, cultural institutions, or companies and are meant to allow the students to apply […]
Baskin Ethics Lecture with Fania Davis: Restorative Justice: A Relational, Healing, and Radical Practice
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for an evening with restorative justice and civil rights champion Fania Davis.
Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Cleo Woelfle-Erskine
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Queer x Trans x Feminist x Ecology: Toward a Field Science Practice" Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow Ecologist are on the front line of the sixth mass extinction, as intimates die at alarming rates. What radical politics and transformative potentials can arise from witnessing these transgressive intimacies, even or especially among more-than-human others dying […]
WHAT GOES UP, MUST COME DOWN: Contemporary Activist Scholarship
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWe hope you can join us for this speaker series jointly hosted by Feminist Studies & the History of Consciousness, with support from the Center for Cultural Studies. AK Thompson Epistemologies of the Visual From Raphael to Late Capital: Some Observations Regarding Keywords for Radicals and Data Visualization Thursday, DECEMBER 1 | 12:20-2:00 | HUM […]
Jordi Aladro “Maria Magdalena: de la santa a la prostituta”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDesde su primera representación en el año 230 en Europos hasta Joaquin Sabina, pasando por Dan Brown y Martin Scorsese, la santa de Magdala ha sido la mujer sin rostro: invención de teólogos, fantasía de misóginos, amor y temblor de poetas. Del medioevo al barroco y de ahi a la modernidad, la cristiandad la ha […]
Spatial Humanities & Digital Humanities Reading Group: Enchanting the Desert
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibraryThe Spatial Humanities interest group is hosting the first reading group event of the quarter. Explore the Stanford Press publication, Enchanting the Desert, and discuss the work with a group of faculty, graduate students and staff investigating how digital tools can enable visualization, representation and analysis of spatial questions. *Event will be hosted at the Digital […]
The Devil’s Wheels: Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic
Rachel Carson College, Room 301 Rachel Carson College 1156 High Stree, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"The Devil's Wheels Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic" by Sasha Disko During the high days of modernization fever, among the many disorienting changes Germans experienced in the Weimar Republic was an unprecedented mingling of consumption and identity: increasingly, what one bought signaled who one was. Exemplary of this volatile dynamic was the era’s […]