Events
Digital Humanities Meet Up
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin the Digital Humanities campus community for a Fall Quarter Meet Up. This is an opportunity to meet digital scholarship practitioners across campus and connect as we start a new year. The Meet Up is informal: please invite colleagues interested in building a DH portfolio and learning more about digital scholarship. Zac Zimmer, Assistant Professor […]
Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams: History vs. Women
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us at Bookshop Santa Cruz for discussion and signing with Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams, moderated by UCSC Professor of Film and Digital Media Shelley Stamp, about their new book, History vs. Women. Rebels, rulers, scientists, artists, warriors and villains. Women are, and have always been, all these things and more. Looking through the ages and […]
Chris Benner: “A Universal Technology Dividend? – Rethinking price, value, work and the commons”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn this talk, Dr. Benner will discuss his current work exploring the idea of a Universal Technology Dividend. He will explore questions related to the common-property characteristics of technology and innovation, the monopolistic characteristics of information markets, and the need to rethink how we define work in contemporary labor markets. Event Photos: Chris Benner is […]
Living Writers: Samiya Bashir
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSamiya Bashir is the author of three books of poetry: Field Theories, and Gospel, and Where the Apple Falls. Sometimes she makes poems of dirt. Sometimes zeros and ones. Sometimes variously rendered text. Sometimes light. Her work has been widely published, performed, installed, printed, screened, and experienced. Bashir holds a BA from the University of […]
Nido de Lenguas: Clases
Small Schools Campus 840 N. Branciforte Ave., Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLed by Maestra Fe Silva-Robles of Senderos, Clases is a monthly opportunity to learn Santiago Laxopa Zapotec in an interactive classroom setting. All oral instruction is in Spanish only; written materials are in Spanish and English. Maestra Fe and the Nido de Lenguas team collaborate extensively to produce a cohesive set of lessons. Each lesson is designed to introduce new sounds, vocabulary, […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Ur Shlonsky
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States"Subjects of copular constructions" Ur Shlonsky, University of Geneve More info at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
Ben Breen, When Drugs Became Global: Technologies of Intoxication in the Enlightenment
Forager, San Jose 420 S 1st St, San Jose, CA, United StatesOver the course of the seventeenth eighteenth centuries, psychoactive substances from opiates to cannabis to coffee underwent rapid globalization. Enlightenment thinkers were by no means immune to the allure of […]
Sharad Chari: “Apartheid Remains”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States“Apartheid Remains” explores how people subjected to life in a patchwork landscape of industry and residence in the Indian Ocean City of Durban, South Africa, have sought to contest their […]
UCHRI Funding Workshop
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesUCHRI has just announced their call for applications for the 2018-2019 Academic Year. Join us for an Information Session with Kelly Anne Brown (Associate Director, UCHRI) and Shana Melnysyn (UCHRI […]
David Lee: “Pictures of the Past – Introduction to the Rock Art of Western North America”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesAncient hunter-gatherer peoples across the globe painted and carved designs on rock walls for tens of thousands of years. The deserts of western North America contain some of the largest […]