Events
Debbora Battaglia: “Roots in Air: People/Plants/Ethics in Suspension”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Roots in Air: People/Plants/Ethics in Suspension" Out of the urban ruins and food deprivation of World War II came the prototype for growing plants aeroponically. Aeroponics has since taken surprising turns as a technology for anthropocenic conditions – in Global South laboratories; “vertical gardens”; art installations; plant biology experiments for colonizing the cosmos. In its […]
Ecology & the Rise of Capitalism Nature, Power, and the Origins of Our Times
Humanities 2, Room 259A colloquium by Associate Professor Jason W. Moore Fernand Braudel Center Binghamton University Jason W. Moore is an environmental and world historian at Binghamton University, where he is Associate Professor of Sociology and Research Fellow at the Fernand Braudel Center. He is author of Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso, 2015) and editor of […]
Living Writers: Aisha Sasha John
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents Aisha Sasha John, author of THOU (BookThug, 2014) AISHA SASHA JOHN is a singing dancer-- and the author of the recently published […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kristen Laciste
Humanities 1, Room 202From Maidservant to Anomalous Aristocrat: Imaging and Imagining Dido Elizabeth Belle The double portrait of cousins, entitled, Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray, is truly an anomaly in 18th […]
13th Annual Graduate Research Symposium
McHenry Library, UCSCEvent Photos: Graduate Research Symposium The Symposium offers graduate students from every division the opportunity to discuss their research with colleagues on campus and with the public. Our students present […]
Ethics Bowl Invitational
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWhat It Is: Every Spring the Center for Public Philosophy holds an Outreach Invitational for high schools that have never participated in the Regional Ethics Bowl. This is a fun, […]
Conjuncture / Crisis / Critique: A Symposium on Cultural Studies
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe start time for this event has been changed to 2pm. Featuring: Christopher Chen, Literature Jim Clifford, History of Consciousness Christopher Connery, Literature T.J. Demos, History of Art and Visual […]
Susan Gilson Miller: “Vichy on Trial: Cooperation, Collaboration and Confrontation in Wartime Morocco”
Susan Gilson Miller is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. She will be guest speaking on Tuesday, May 16, 2017 as a part of Professor Alma Heckman's […]
Martin Devecka: “Socratic Economics”
Socratic Economics Martin Devecka is in the early stages of a research project on leisure and labor in fourth-century Athens. His work explores the processes through which competing claims to […]
Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Susan O’Neal Stryker
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWhat Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need Susan O’Neal Stryker, Associate Professor, University of Arizona History is a story we tell in the present that links what […]