Events
Humanities Radio Hour: “Merchant of Venice” with Sean Keilen, Nathaniel Deutsch, Irena Polic
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FreeNajat Abdulhaq, “Unconventional Revision of Narratives: The Emergence of the ‘Arab Jew’ in Contemporary Arabic Literature”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: For decades, two official nationalist narratives, Arab-Egyptian & Israeli, dominated the discourse on the history of Egypt’s Jews. Recently, a different narrative is emerging in the Arabic speaking sphere, with documentaries, films & novels taking a cardinal role in this process. How and why is this emergence taking place? Najat Abdulhaq is the […]
Marina Rustow: “The Cairo Geniza and the Middle East’s Archive Problem”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies Presents: Marina Rustow: "The Cairo Geniza and the Middle East’s Archive Problem" The Cairo Geniza, a cache of 400,000 manuscript pages preserved in a medieval Egyptian synagogue, has yielded many unexpected finds, but perhaps none so unexpected as thousands of documents in Arabic script from the […]
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Living Writers Series: Sesshu Foster
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSesshu Foster is a poet, teacher, and community activist born and raised in East Los Angeles. He earned his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and returned to LA to continue teaching, writing, and community organizing. His first collection of poetry, City Terrace Field Manual (1996), celebrates the neighborhood Foster grew up in. He has said that […]
PhD+ : Gateway to Digital Humanities – an Introduction to Digital Methodologies & Resources at UCSC
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis co-led event provides students with first-hand experience working in DH, resources to continue building upon this project, and a larger discussion regarding the possibilities for individual and collaborative digital research. Rachel Deblinger will open with a 45 minute hands-on workshop, introducing the process of building a dataset and visualizing data as an analytical method. […]
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Feminist Studies Colloquium: “Agrarian Questions in Urban India”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFall 2017 Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: "Agrarian Questions in Urban India" Vinay Gidwani, University of Minnesota Priti Ramamurthy, University of Washington Based on recent life histories of urban migrants who work within informal sector occupations in Delhi and Hyderabad, we ask how “agrarian questions” orient workers’ attitudes to forms of labor and habitation. By also considering gender […]
Opening reception for “Inside the Gail Project: An Experiential Research Odyssey”
Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Cowell College Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOn November 6 from 4-6 pm, the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery in Cowell College will be hosting an opening reception for "Inside the Gail Project: An Experiential Research Odyssey," a companion show to the current exhibition at the Sesnon Gallery. This exhibition highlights student research and the active learning that takes place in the Gail […]
Before and After: How We Redesigned Courses for Educational Equity and Active Learning
Humanities 2, Room 359Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now Workshop Series Before and After: How We Redesigned Courses for Educational Equity and Active Learning with Alan Christy and Jody Greene The Institute for Humanities Research cluster “Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now” is hosting a new workshop series that features educators in humanities fields at UC […]
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Freedom, Justice, Difference: The Merchant of Venice Now
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryEvent Video: Freedom, Justice, Difference: The Merchant of Venice Now 11.7.17 from IHR on Vimeo. Event Photos: Karin Coonrod, the Founding Director of Compagnia de’ Colombari, will join Nathaniel Deutsch and Sean Keilen for a public discussion of her path-breaking production of The Merchant of Venice in the Venice Ghetto (2016). Join us to discover […]
FreeNirvikar Singh, “The Other One Percent? Indians in Trump’s America”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: What is the selection process that governed the migration of people of Indian origin to the United States? How has that selection been important in determining of the economic success of this group? This talk highlights the diversity within this broad group, & the lessons of that diversity, and concludes by exploring some […]