Events
Northern California High School Ethics Bowl
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: by Crystal Birns What is an Ethics Bowl? The Ethics Bowl is a collaborative yet competitive event, more nuanced than debate, in which teams are presented with […]
Susan Buck-Morss: “History as Translation”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSusan Buck-Morss’s current project, Year 1, dives into recent research on the first century in order to topple various conceptual givens that have shaped modernity as an episteme (and led […]
Susan Buck-Morss Seminar: “Prolegomena to Any Future”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSusan Buck Morss, CUNY Graduate Center and Cornell University, will conduct a seminar for faculty and graduate students following her Cultural Studies Colloquia. Cultural Studies Colloquia with Susan Buck-Morss: "History […]
PhD+ Workshop Postponed
This workshop has been postponed for April 2017.
Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies Investiture Ceremony and Reception
College 9/10 Multi-Purpose Room College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join Chancellor George Blumenthal in celebration of the: Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies Investiture Ceremony and Reception College 9/10 Multipurpose Room, UC Santa Cruz Sunday, January 22, 2017 4 p.m. Light […]
Wiring Gaia at the Water-Energy Nexus: Indigenous Water Guardians and Decolonizing Water Science
College 8, Room 301 College Eight Rd, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAs emblematized by the ongoing protests at Standing Rock, water is a foundational element—biophysical, epistemological, and spiritual—in Indigenous societies and lifeways. This crucial life source has come under increased threat […]
Emily Mitchell-Eaton: “What’s Free About ‘Freely Associated Statehood’? Preserving Colonial Legacies in the Marshall Islands”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEmily Mitchell-Eaton’s work explores imperial citizenship forms and statecraft in the U.S. Pacific territories. Her research follows territorial migration policies from their enactment in the islands to the new sites […]
Living Writers: Wayne Koestenbaum
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWayne Koestenbaum has published eighteen books of poetry, criticism, and fiction, including Notes on Glaze, The Pink Trance Notebooks, My 1980s & Other Essays, Hotel Theory, Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, Andy Warhol, Humiliation, Jackie Under My Skin, and The Queen’s Throat (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist). His essays and poetry have appeared in […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Sarah Papazoglakis
Humanities 1, Room 202American Philanthropy and "Aggressive Altruism" in Richard Wright's Native Son and Miguel Angel Asturias' The Green Pope My dissertation interrogates the narrative power of American philanthropy in the story of the United States' rise as a global superpower in the twentieth century. For this presentation, I will present an excerpt of a chapter that considers […]
Shakespeare and the Common Good: The Value of a Literary Education
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJulia Reinhard Lupton, Professor of English and Associate Dean for Research in the School of Humanities at UC Irvine, will conduct a professional development seminar for graduate students. The seminar will discuss the purpose of graduate education in the humanities and conclude with a research narrative development workshop, focusing on practical techniques for translating work […]