Events
Barry Lam – Fighting the Future: The Philosophy of Predictive Algorithms in Criminal Justice
Humanities 1, Room 202At different stages of the criminal justice system, from policing, bail hearings, and sentencing, computerized algorithms are replacing human decision-making in determining where to police, who to arrest, who goes […]
Living Writers: Roger Reeves
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRoger Reeves received an M.F.A. in creative writing and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas, Austin.Roger Reeves's poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boston […]
2nd Annual Grad Student Conference: “Citizenship in Flux: Migration and Exclusion in World History, 1750-2019”
Humanities 2, Room 259The rise of nativist or nationalist movements in many countries and the closing of borders to migrants seeking refuge from persecution, war, and violence calls into question the world historical […]
PhD+ Workshop – The Future of the Humanities: High School Teaching and Innovative Curriculum
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Future of the Humanities: High School Teaching and Innovative Curriculum with Adam Casdin (Horace Mann School, Bronx, NY) Independent high schools, committed to the humanities and able to develop […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Sandy Chung
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesSandy Chung, UC Santa Cruz, is committed to the idea that lesser-studied languages have as much to contribute to syntactic theory as do languages like English, French, and Italian. These […]
Bernard Harcourt: “The Counterrevolution Takes a New Right Turn”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesBernard E. Harcourt is a contemporary critical theorist and social justice advocate. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is the founding director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought at Columbia University. He is also a Directeur d’études (chaired professor) […]
Doing Scholarship in Public: Podcasts, Print Media, and the Urgency of the Humanities
Humanities 1, Room 202An informal conversation and open Q & A with Barry Lam about his work as a public scholar, launching a podcast, and his advice about getting started in public scholarship.
Vanessa Ogle: “‘Funk Money’: Decolonization and the Expansion of Tax Havens, 1950s-1960”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk explores the emergence of modern offshore tax havens as a way to reopen the history of the decades ca. 1920s-1980s. During these decades an archipelago of distinct legal spaces appeared in a world otherwise increasingly dominated by more sizable nation-states. Tax havens were particularly important among these spaces, reaching from the Channel […]
Counterpoints Book Launch
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCounterpoints: Bay Area Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement An Atlas by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project This event will feature members of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project will be offering a preview of their new atlas manuscript, Counterpoints: Bay Area Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement, which will be released by PM Press in the spring […]
Ahmed Kanna: “De-Exceptionalizing the Arab Gulf: Bringing back Class Struggle & Social Reproduction”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesDiscourses of urban knowledge professionals (architects, PR professionals, etc.) on the Arab Gulf city have framed this city as an “laboratory,” a “sci-fi” space, and generally have disconnected the […]