Events
Digital Research and Teaching Symposium featuring Undergraduate Digital Research and Innovative Pedagogy
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibraryThis event will showcase the independent, digital research and classroom work of undergraduate students alongside the innovative assignment design and pedagogical experimentation of faculty and graduate students. Join us in the morning to focus on undergraduate digital research and in the afternoon for an in-depth discussion about new methods in active and engaged pedagogy. […]
Saein Park: “Dancing Waste of History: Lumpen in Heine, Marx, & Benjamin”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesSaein Park’s current project argues that the discourses of Lumpen record the changing demarcations of disposable lives during the emergence of European industrial modernity. She researches 19th- and early-20th-century German-language literature, political philosophy, and critical theory, focusing on translation and reception studies, theories of waste, and plant studies. Saein Park is a Visiting Assistant Professor […]
Applied Linguistics Colloquia
Humanities 1, Room 202
Mitch Aso: “Rubber and the Making of Vietnam”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesRubber has been a key commodity for industrial societies since the nineteenth century. Yet, studies of the impact of the production of this good on various regions around the world have mostly been narrowly focused on the industry and its workers. My forthcoming book, Rubber and the Making of Vietnam, adopts a broader lens, […]
Living Writers Series: Sawako Nakayasu
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSawako Nakayasu is a transnational poet, translator, and occasional performance artist who has lived in Japan, France, China, and the US. Her books include The Ants and Texture Notes, and recent translations include The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa, and Costume en Face – a handwritten notebook of Tatsumi Hijikata’s dance notations. She is co-editor, with Lisa Samuels, of A Transpacific Poetics, a gathering of poetry and poetics […]
Friday Forum: Madison Treece
Humanities 2, Room 359Maya Textile Arts Influence Contemporary Politics in Zapatista Embroidery Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the following departments: HAVC, Literature, […]
Opera Works: Journey in Creation
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterWorkshop rehearsals with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe. "Opera Works: Journey in Creation" Tuesday, May 29, 2018 2 pm - 5 pm Opera Workshop The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, and the Humanities Institute, invite students, faculty, staff and community to witness the […]
Jeff Michno: “Nicaragua Y ¿Vos, tú o usted?”
Humanities 1, Room 202In this talk, I highlight variation in second-person singular pronoun use (vos, tú, and usted) by local residents of a rural Nicaraguan community experiencing linguistic and cultural contact driven by tourism. I demonstrate that pronoun selection can vary according to the amount of contact locals have with outsiders in their community, providing evidence that […]
“Always Moving Uphill: Women in the Arts” Panel
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterOur panel will discuss the struggle of women artists, writers, and poets to find voice in a world that has been, until very recently, so completely dominated and controlled by (white) male power and money. Panel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts” featuring: Robin Coste Lewis, Poet, National Book Award Winner for Voyage […]
Robin Coste Lewis: “Voyage of the Sable Venus: Bodies, Art, Race, & Poetry”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesRobin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015), which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including The Massachusetts […]