Events
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 […]
The Eighteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTHE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM Opening Remarks 9:30 a.m. Deanna Shemek, Chair, Literature Department Panel One: Translating Tradition 9:45 – 10:45 a.m. Moderator: Christopher Chen Victoria Jones: Ion Elli […]
Maudemarie Clark “Nietzsche’s Nihilism”
Humanities 1, Room 202Nietzsche claims that in realating the "advent of nihilism," he is relating "the history of the next two centuries." He also claims that he himself has been a nihilist, but […]
Living Writers: Rosa Alcalá
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRosa Alcalá, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010) Rosa Alcalá is the author of a poetry collection Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010) and two chapbooks: Some Maritime Disasters This Century (Belladonna, […]
The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
Stevenson Event CenterDescription: This year’s program will feature fully-staged works in French, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. English super-titles will translate each of the pieces. The French segment will be devoted to scenes […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kara Hisatake
Humanities 1, Room 202Pidgin Comedy in Hawai'i: The Queer Resignification of Settler Culture In 1970s Hawai'i, Pidgin, also known as Hawai'i Creole english, was the major medium of comedy because it was the […]