Events
Tera W. Hunter: “Bound in Wedlock – Slave and Free Black Marriage in the 19th Century”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe History Department Presents: Tera W. Hunter is Professor of History and African-American Studies at Princeton University. She is currently a fellow at the National Humanities Center. She will be speaking about her new book, Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century, a finalist for the Lincoln Prize of the Gilder […]
Cathy Davidson: “The New Education”
University Center University Center University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHow can we revolutionize the university to better prepare students for our age of constant change? How can we retool our classrooms as activist, engaged learning environments that model a more just society? In this talk, Cathy N. Davidson will discuss her book The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a […]
FreePhD+: Ken Wissoker (Duke UP): An Insider’s Guide to Academic Publishing
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: How different is the structure of your dissertation from the form of your first book? Who are the audiences for your research? How soon after completing the dissertation should you expect to begin drafting and pitching your book proposal? What is the history behind these publishing norms and how did they become what […]
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Friday Forum: Elizabeth Goldman
Humanities 2, Room 259Once Helpful, Always Helpful? Infants’ Expectations About Helping and Hindering Behavior Across Scenarios The present work examined 16 to 18 month-olds’abilities to generalize a person’s tendency to help or hinder across multiple scenarios. Infants saw three familiarization events where an agent consistently helped or hindered another agent. In test, infants saw two test trials (consistent […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Kristen Syrett, Rutgers University
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States"Experimental evidence for context sensitivity in the nominal domain: What children and adults reveal" Abstract: Part of what it means to become a proficient speaker of a language is to recognize that the context in which we communicate with each other, including what a speaker’s intentions or goals are, affects the way we arrive at […]
FreeCathy Davidson Workshop
Humanities 1, Room 202Cathy Davidson will offer a hands-on workshop on engaged pedagogy with the Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now research cluster, working with the research group to address a topic of their choice. Students from Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts are all encouraged to attend. Come prepared with a pedagogy question to dive into. For copies […]
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Danny Snelson: “The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats”
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibraryEvent Photos: The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats Danny Snelson (UCLA, English) As you read these lines, the Utah Data Center continues its process of deciphering untold exabytes of information collected by the NSA. This enterprise, like certain strands in the digital humanities and the corporate world alike, stakes its hopes for meaningful […]
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Tyler Stovall: “White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea”
Rio Sands Hotel in Aptos 116 Aptos Beach Dr, Aptos, CAAptos Community Reads presents: White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea Presented by: Tyler Stovall, Dean of Humanities, University of California, Santa Cruz The relationship between freedom and race has been one of the key themes of modern society and politics in the Western world. The enduring presence of racism in the history of America, a nation […]
Ben Breen: “Unknown Pleasures: Intoxication and Globalization in the Eighteenth Century”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: Benjamin Breen’s current project is Age of Intoxication: The Origins of the Global Drug Trade, which examines the trade in medicinal drugs, poisons, and intoxicants in the Portuguese and British empires, circa 1640 to 1800. The book argues that the formation of ‘drugs’ as an epistemological, legal, and commercial category grew out of early […]
Friday Forum: Kiki Loveday
Humanities 2, Room 259What You Love: The Library at Alexandria, Quotation, and Survival The figure of Sappho is paradigmatic of the queer-feminist archive: she is the founding figure of female artistic genius and sexual deviance in Western Civilization, yet neither her work nor her story has survived. Between 1896 and 1931 over twenty cinematic versions of Sappho were […]