Events
Living Writers: Ronaldo V. Wilson
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC Professor Ronaldo V. Wilson is an award-winning writer, artist and performer and co-founder of the critically lauded performance group Black Took Collective.
Jessica Bauman: “What Refugees Taught Me About Shakespeare”
Kresge Town HallNew York City theater director Jessica Bauman and UCSC Professor Cat Ramirez will explore the ways that the stories we hear and tell about refugees shape our responses to the worldwide migration crisis. They will ask, how can we connect with the full humanity of displaced people, and what role should the arts and humanities […]
Leta Hong Fincher: “The Feminist Awakening in China”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesOn the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. But the Five are only symbols of a much […]
Questions That Matter: Data and Democracy
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterTechnology increasingly shapes our habits and defines our access to information. As our society navigates shifting sources of news, targeted advertising, and polarizing online rhetoric, it is essential that we work to understand the complex and often obscured relationship between data and democracy. Join THI to explore how we got here and to imagine a […]
Living Writers: Myriam Gurba
Myriam Gurba is a native Californian. She attended U.C. Berkeley thanks to affirmative action. She is the author of the 2017 memoir Mean, and two short story collections, Dahlia Season and Painting Their Portraits in Winter. Dahlia Season won the Edmund White Award, which is given to queer writers for outstanding debut fiction. The book […]
PhD+ Graduate Student Workshop Series – Understanding the ACLS Public Fellows Program: Reflections from UCSC Alumni
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesLearn more about the ACLS Public Fellows program in conversation with two UCSC Grad Alums who have launched careers through the ACLS Public Fellows program. Sophia Booth Magnone, Literature PhD, is the Development Manager & Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow at the Feminist Press. In her role at FP, she manages grant writing, individual giving, and fundraising […]
Nadine Theiler: “A Unified Semantics for Additive Particles”
Humanities 2, Room 259English has several additive particles, which differ in their distribution. One of these is also, a common choice to signal additivity in assertions and polar questions, (1a-b). It has been suggested that this particle can’t appear in a wh-question without triggering a so-called show-master interpretation (Umbach, 2012), in which the speaker already has a certain […]
Massimiliano Tomba: “Insurgent Universality – An Alternative Legacy of Modernity”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesAn Alternative Legacy of Modernity” Insurgent Universality offers a new way of thinking political universality that radically differs from the legal universalism of human rights and cosmopolitanism. Assuming a conception of history that is not linear but articulated in a multiverse of historical temporalities, Insurgent Universality excavates an alternative trajectory of modernity, which originally bridges […]
Living Writers: Sina Grace
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC alum Sina Grace is the author and illustrator of the autobiographical Self-Obsessed and Not My Bag and the writer of Marvel’s Iceman comic series, featuring the first out gay superhero. More info: https://qz.com/1105347/the-middle-eastern-american-writer-behind-marvels-iceman-the-most-visible-gay-superhero-yet/
Linguistics Colloquium: Jess Law
Humanities 2, Room 259Jess Law, Constraints on distributivity Abstract