Events
CANCELLED – Glenn Tiffert: Censorship, Digitalization and the Fragility of Our Knowledge Base – Lessons from China
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTechnological and economic forces are radically restructuring our ecosystem of knowledge, and opening our information space increasingly to forms of digital disruption and manipulation that are scalable, difficult to detect, […]
Halloween Lecture “The Vampire in Love” (with costume contest)
Forager, San Jose 420 S 1st St, San Jose, CA, United StatesBrought to you by the UCSC Prof and a Pint Lecture Series Oh yeah, there will be a costume contest! And there will be prizes! If you want to compete […]
Jasmin Young: She Stood There by Him with a Gun – Mabel Williams and the Philosophy of Armed Resistance
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesStevenson Fall Lecture Presented by Jasmin Young: Mabel Williams practiced armed resistance when white vigilante violence and police repression threatened the lives of activists. This talk interrogates the gendering of […]
CANCELLED – Elizabeth Strout: Olive, Again
DNA Comedy Lab 155 S. River St., Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDue to disruptions and concerns about ongoing wildfire and power disruptions across California, Elizabeth Strout's entire California tour has been cancelled/postponed to a future date. This means our event with […]
Cultural Studies Colloquium: Aishwary Kumar
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States“What is Political Cruelty? An Archeology of the Liberalism of Fear” Under what conditions might fear become a saturating phenomenon of liberal democracy and extreme violence cease to be even […]
Against Orthodoxies: Working with Hayden White
Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos by Jessica Guild: On Friday and Saturday, November 1 and 2, 2019, UC Santa Cruz will hold a conference to honor the late Hayden White. The event […]
CANCELLED – Roumyana Pancheva: Linguistics Colloquia- Temporal Interpretation Without Tense
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesLanguages without overt tense morphemes have typically been analyzed as having semantic tense, either contributed by a phonologically covert lexical item or supplied by a post-syntactic semantic rule. From a […]
Katharyne Mitchell: Cultural Studies Colloquium – Church Sanctuary and the Spatial Politics of the Sacred
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesChurch sanctuary is not legal in any state in Europe, but the cultural and religious sense of church space as sacred, and the collective memory of this practice as an […]
Morton Marcus Poetry Reading: Gary Soto
Music Center Recital HallEvent Photos by Crystal Birns: Gary Soto has published more than forty books for children, young adults and adults, including Too Many Tamales, Chato’s Kitchen, Baseball in April, Buried […]
A Literary Masquerade with Erin Morgenstern
DNA Comedy Lab 155 S. River St., Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesYou are cordially invited to Bookshop Santa Cruz's first-ever Literary Masquerade, celebrating the release of Erin Morgenstern's highly anticipated new novel, The Starless Sea. Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at […]