Events
Reading Seminar: Dr. Lesley Green
Humanities 1, Room 408Reading Seminar on #ScienceMustFall and an ABC of Plant Medicine: On Posing Cosmopolitical Questions featuring Dr. Lesley Green (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Cape Town and Founding Director: Environmental Humanities South). Please email krlyons@ucsc.edu for the readings
Kyla Schuller: “The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, & Science in the Nineteenth Century”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesKyla Schuller is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and an External Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center (2017-2018). She has previously held […]
Lesley Green: “Sons and Daughters of Soil?”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States"Sons and Daughters of Soil?" Dr. Lesley Green (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Cape Town and Founding Director: Environmental Humanities South) Responding, as researchers, to Earth Mastery that includes not only violent machines, […]
Philosophy Colloquium: Ori Simchen
Humanities 1, Room 202“Realism and Instrumentalism in Metaphysical Explanation” Ori Simchen is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Professor Simchen works mostly in the philosophy of language and […]
Devin Naar: “Sephardic Archives from Analog to Digital: Three Tales of Memory and Visibility”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States"Sephardic Archives from Analog to Digital: Three Tales of Memory and Visibility" Join us as Devin E. Naar, founder of the Sephardic Studies Program at the University of Washington, traces […]
Living Writers Series: Courtney Kersten
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCourtney Kersten is the author of Daughter in Retrograde: A Memoir (University of Wisconsin Press 2018). Her essays can be seen or are forthcoming from Brevity, The Normal School, River Teeth, Hotel Amerika, DIAGRAM, The Sonora Review, Black Warrior […]
Emerging Ecologies: Arcaeologies of Slavery, Landscape, and Environmental Change
University Center University Center University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Atlantic Era was a period of intense commercial integration linking key economic players in Western Europe, the Americas, the Indian Ocean littorals, and West and Central Africa. The […]
PhD+: PhDs in Leadership Positions at UCSC
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesFoundational Labor: PhDs in Leadership Positions at UCSC Are you interested in learning more about the work of PhDs who are actively reimagining pedagogy and student support at UC Santa Cruz? This session will feature two PhDs who are currently employing their research and teaching experience in a variety of interrelated ways, including program development, project management, and mentorship, […]
Friday Forum: LuLing Osofsky
Humanities 2, Room 359"Based on a (Mostly) True Story: Conflicting Cinematic Portrayals of Jewish Champions Boxing at Auschwitz " In 2011, I traveled to Tel Aviv to interview eighty-seven year old Noah Klieger, […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Liz Coppock, Boston Univeristy
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesLiz Coppock is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Boston University, specializing in semantics and pragmatics. Her research concerns the meanings of small words in various languages, the invisible forces that […]