Events
PhD+ Workshop – Demystifying the Publishing Process with UC Press
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesLearn about the publishing process, including book proposals, pitches, meeting with editors, and contracts. University of California Press (UC Press) is one of the most forward-thinking scholarly publishers, committed to influencing public discourse and challenging the status quo. At a time of dramatic change for scholarship and publishing, UC Press collaborates with faculty, librarians, authors, and […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Jorge Hankamer
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesJorge Hankamer (UC Santa Cruz) - CP Complements to D About eight times each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full information visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
After Ursula Discussion
Humanities 1, Room 202Join us to discuss excerpts from authors Karen Joy Fowler, Molly Gloss, Nisi Shawl, and Kim Stanley Robinson. Please email Micah Perks at (meperks@ucsc.edu) for the readings and to RSVP for the discussion. Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the international bestselling […]
Nido de Lenguas: Camp
Watsonville Public Library 275 Main St., Ste 100, Watsonville, CA, United States¡Únete a nosotros para un día de aprendizaje de idiomas y desarrollo comunitario! Nuestros maestros compartirán el mixteco de San Martín Peras, un idioma de Oaxaca. Comienza a aprender o desarrolla tus habilidades con juegos y otras actividades grupales. ¡No se necesita experiencia previa! Gratuito y abierto al público ¡Por favor regístrete en línea! Join us […]
Eve Zyzik: Spanish Studies Colloquium
Humanities 1, Room 202Spelling is an aspect of literacy that causes significant difficulties for Spanish heritage language learners. The current research study targets one of the most problematic areas of Spanish orthography: substitution of “s” and “c” letters to represent /s/. Participants (n=72) were young adults, heritage speakers of Spanish, who completed a dictation task in addition to a standardized measure of […]

Anjali Arondekar: What More Remains – Sexuality, Slavery, Historiography
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk engages a ‘small’ history of sexuality and slavery in Portuguese India. At stake are three questions: How do we call attention to the displacement of slave pasts within […]

FrankenCon 2019
UC Santa CruzFor over two hundred years, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has haunted our days and chilled our dreaming nights. Celebrate and explore the enduring legacy of the world’s first science-fiction horror story […]
Dylan Riley: Capitalism, Democracy, and Authoritarianism – A Reconsideration
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesDylan Riley is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe: Italy, Spain, and Romania 1870-1945 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, Verso, 2019). He is also the co-author of a two-volume work with Rebecca Jean Emigh and Patricia Ahmed entitled Antecedents of Censuses: From Medieval […]
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Database
Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJessica Kolopenuk will talk with Science & Justice and the Crown College about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women database. For resources, news articles, tool-kits and webinars that frame the issues, refer to the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center's page on the special collection. Read or Listen to: Native American Activists Look To Next Steps […]
Living Writers: Peg Alford Pursell and Sophia Shalmiyev
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPeg Alford Pursell is the author of A Girl Goes Into the Forest, (Dzanc Books, July 2019), and of Show Her A Flower, A Bird, A Shadow, the 2017 Indies Book of the Year for Literary Fiction. Her work has been published in many journals and anthologies, including Permafrost, Joyland, and the Los Angeles Review. Most recently, her microfiction, flash fiction, […]
