Events
Camillo Gomez-Rivas: “The Ransom Industry and the Expectation of Refuge on the Medieval Western Mediterranean Muslim-Christian Frontier”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCamillo Gomez-Rivas’s current project Refugees of the Reconquista is a history of social responses to displaced populations across the Muslim-Christian frontier over the long territorial decline of al-Andalus. Proceeding from […]
adding.sleep(): Race and Refusal in the Indian Tech Diaspora
Social Sciences 1, Room 261 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Emerging Worlds and The Department of Anthropology Present: Dr. Sareeta Amrute "The Widow and the Orphan: Stories of Reform in Multigenerational India" Works-In-Progress Seminar Tuesday, February 7, […]
Spanish Studies Colloquium: Human Rights and US Policy in Post-Coup Honduras: a talk by Dana Frank
Humanities 1, Room 202Human Rights and US Policy in Post-Coup Honduras: a talk by Dana Frank Dana Frank is professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of […]
Professor Emeritus Andrew Cohen: “Enhancing the Role of Pragmatics in Teacher Education”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDepartment of Languages and Applied Linguistics Presents Professor Emeritus Andrew Cohen Enhancing the Role of Pragmatics in Teacher Education Wednesday, February 8 210 Humanities Bldg 1 5:15PM Light refreshments will […]
Benjamin Jealous: 33rd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Convocation
Santa Cruz Civic AuditoriumThe annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by presenting speakers who discuss the civil rights issues of equality, freedom, justice, and opportunity. The […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kyuhyun Han
Humanities 1, Room 202Sewing the Forest like a state: Forest Management, Wildlife Conservation, and Center-Periphery Relations in Northeast China, 1949 - 1965 My research aims to counter the prevalent premise that Mao-era China […]
Waves Passing in the Night: a Conversation on Astrophysics, Harmony, and Boundaries
Music Center Recital HallEvent Photos: by Steve Kurtz UC Santa Cruz Original Thinkers Series Cowell College and the Institute for Humanities Research Present Waves Passing in the Night Monday, February 13, 7 p.m. Followed by dessert reception and book signing Music Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz Please join Chancellor George Blumenthal, Walter Murch, a three-time Academy Award-winning […]
Reading Seminar on Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World
Humanities 1, Room 402We will read and discuss Gary Wilder’s recent book, Freedom Time. Reading the whole book is encouraged and copies of the book are available at the Literary Guillotine. If you need to focus on a few chapters, please read Chapter 1, 5, 6 & 9 (email sjetha@ucsc.edu for PDFs of those chapters)
Gary Wilder: “Black Radicalism/Radical Humanism: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Cooperative Commonwealth”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: Gary Wilder is the author of Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (2015) and The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism Between the World Wars (2005). He is currently co-editing the volume The Postcolonial Contemporary and working on a book entitled “Cooperative Commonwealth: Radical Humanism and Black […]
Writing Here → Writing There: A Transfer Model for Teaching and Learning
Humanities 2, Room 259Event Photos: This conference invites graduate students, faculty, staff, and administrators to participate in a series of roundtables and presentations that showcase our current successes in developing an innovate, locally-responsive writing curriculum. Participants will also contribute to moving our vision forward so that we set a broader, campus-wide agenda that accounts for the needs […]