Events
Linguistics Colloquia: Josefina Bittar Prieto
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesAbout eight times each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
Living Writers: Lara Vapnyar
Virtual EventLara Vapnyar moved from Moscow to Brooklyn in the 1990s. Knowing very little English, she quickly picked up the language and soon began writing in it. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and Zoetrope: All-Story. She is the author of two short story collections, […]
Naya Jones + Jennifer Steverson — The Art of Black Ecologies: A Virtual Studio Visit & Conversation
Virtual and In PersonThe concept of black ecologies underscores the undue impact of climate and environmental injustice on Black diaspora communities while lifting up “insurgent” Black ecological knowledge (Roane & Hosbey 2019). Join us for a virtual studio visit and conversation on art and black ecologies with independent scholar and artist Jennifer Steverson. Steverson uses indigo dye, textiles, […]
PhD+ Workshop – Website Design, WordPress
Graduate Student CommonsLearn how to design a better website and how to use WordPress. Prior to October 26, if you don’t already have a personal professional website, create one. UCSC provides free access to WordPress (with several design templates) to faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students. This workshop will be led by Jason Chafin (Senior Web Developer, […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Mark Amengual – Phonetic interactions in multilingual speech
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesAbout eight times each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
Living Writers: Nouri al-Jarrah with translator Camilo Gómez-Rivas and Omar Pimienta with translator José Antonio Villarán
Virtual EventNouri al-Jarrah is a Syrian poet and influential poetic voice on the Arab literary scene. He has lived in exile and been publishing his poetry for nearly 40 years. His poetry draws on diverse cultural sources, and is marked by a special focus on mythology, folk tales and legends. A Boat to Lesbos and Other […]
Radhika Natarajan – Post-Imperial Contractions: Asian Migration and Marriage in Deindustrializing Britain
Virtual and In PersonThe talk explores how Asian women became unassimilable in social work and public discourse in 1970s Britain. In the context of decolonization and deindustrialization, the Pakistani woman who worked for wages posed a threat to the stability of the white male working class. To keep the Pakistani woman at home, social workers created new forms […]
Douglas Abrams – The Book of Hope
Virtual EventVIRTUAL EVENT: Local author Douglas Abrams (The Book of Joy) will join Bookshop Santa Cruz for an online discussion of The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times, his wonderful new collaboration with environmentalist Jane Goodall. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. “Vibrant with wry humor, scientific […]
“By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution” with David Talbot and Margaret Talbot
Virtual EventSalon.com founder and former editor-in-chief David Talbot and his sister Margaret, a longtime staff writer at the New Yorker, together explore the potential landscape of the 1960s and 1970s. Based on exclusive interviews, original documents, and archival research, By the Light of Burning Dreams explores critical moments in the lives of a diverse cast of […]
PhD+ Workshop – Slide Presentation Design
Graduate Student CommonsStudents will view an instructional video by Sonya prior to class. Students will practice giving 3-minute-maximum presentations with slides about their graduate work. This workshop will be led by Sonya Newlyn (Professional Development Coordinator, Division of Graduate Studies). The Division of Graduate Studies' professional communication workshop on "Slide Presentation Design" is co-sponsored by The Humanities […]