Events
Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC)
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesProgram: 1:00 PM- Refreshments 1:15 PM- Opening remarks: Amanda Rysling Session 1: Session Chair: Jennifer Bellik 1:20 PM- Madeleine King and Koy Ruguma: "Recency and Semantic Difference: Effects on Verbatim Memory" 1:45 PM- Max Tarlov: "Trans-derivational Correspondence beyond the Word Level" 2:10 PM- BREAK Session 2: Session Chair: Steven Foley 2:20 PM- Melanie Gounas: "The Syntactic Representation of Constituent Negation" 2:45 PM- Jared […]
Feminist Science Studies Conference: Indigeneity and Climate Justice Day 2
UCSC ArboretumOrganized by Karen Barad and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer. The 2019 UCSC Feminist Science Studies conference takes as its focus the theme of “Indigeneity and Climate Justice.” Climate Justice, as opposed to the more narrow framings of “environmental justice,” marks the consideration of the entanglement of ecological, cultural, social, political, geological, biological and other forces, understood […]
*ROOM CHANGE* NOW IN 420 – Thi Nguyen: “The Gamification of Public Discourse”
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe pleasures of games include, among other things, the experience of a fantasy of value clarity. In games, our goals and values are clear, quantified, and easy to apply and rank. This provides us with a particular existential balm - a momentary liberation from the ambiguities and difficult pluralities of moral life. Games instrumentalize our ends, […]
Feminist Science Studies Conference: Indigeneity and Climate Justice Day 1
UCSC ArboretumOrganized by Karen Barad and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer. The 2019 UCSC Feminist Science Studies conference takes as its focus the theme of “Indigeneity and Climate Justice.” Climate Justice, as opposed to the more narrow framings of “environmental justice,” marks the consideration of the entanglement of ecological, cultural, social, political, geological, biological and other forces, understood […]
Ashwini Tambe: “Tropical Exceptions: Racial Logics in Twentieth Century Intergovernmental Age of Consent Debates”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesLegal age standards for sexual maturity are challenging enough to devise at the state or national level, but they are especially contentious at the intergovernmental level. Efforts at setting common standards have often been marked by imperial logics on the part of those proposing common standards and misgivings on the part of those most affected. […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Katie Ligmond
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Outcrop of Blue Rocks: Andean Animacy as Illustrated by Guaman Poma Andeanists have cultivated an obsession with the illustrations and writing of Guaman Poma, and with good reason. There are only three truly illuminated manuscript to come out of Colonial Peru, a scat account in comparison with the plethora from Mexico. Guaman Poma is […]
Living Writers: Student Readings
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesStudents will be reading from their own work. Please stay tuned for more information. Co-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, The Bay Tree Bookstore, The Humanities Institute, The American Indian Resource Center, The Asian […]
Veda Popovici-History Does (Not) Repeat Itself: Speculative Histories of Post-Revolutionary Romania
Humanities 1, Room 202Veda Popovici’s work explores the limits of political imagination. In this talk, she presents her latest political art project: a mapping of collective dreams and desires of revolutionary events in the context of post-1989 Romania. Laying out seven radical future pasts, these are stories that could have been, but never happened...feminist unions, Eastern European migrants […]
The Twentieth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesTHE TWENTIETH ANNUAL LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM Friends and family are welcome. Come for any part or all of the day. Opening Remarks 9:30 a.m. Professor Sean Keilen Director, Literature Undergraduate Program Panel One: Creative Writing 9:45 – 10:45 a.m. Moderator: Professor Micah Perks Mary Miki Arlen, La chanson de Lancelot (et Roland) Rosa Scupine, How […]
My Own Words: The Law & Legacy of RBG
DNA Comedy Lab 155 S. River St., Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn anticipation of Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music's upcoming premiere of a major new work inspired by the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg- When There Are Nine by composer Kristin Kuster The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, Cabrillo Festival, and Bookshop Santa Cruz have come together to present a panel discussion […]