Events
PhD+ Workshop – Personal and Professional Wellness
Virtual and In PersonNavigating UC health insurance and counseling services can be complicated for graduate students. Join the Graduate Student Commons for lunch and a panel with experts from our Student Health and Outreach Promotion office, UC SHIP insurance office, and Counseling and Psychological Services. You will leave with a clearer understanding of how to support your wellness […]
Zac Zimmer – An Internet Built of Books
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesOn the Internet, the book is a drag: a literal metaphor that pulls us back to the material world. This talk focuses on three examples of the book-object’s material drag on the supposed ephemeral nature of online existence in the digital cloud: 1) Philip Zimmermann and MIT Press’ PGP Source Code and Internals (1995), a […]
Dr. Wangui Muigai Reading Group – Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesDr. Wangui Muigai will be leading a reading group exploring three distinct frameworks (theoretical, methodological, and analytic) for understanding the causes of racial health disparities. Two articles take us back to the 1990s wave of research on “minority health” and ethnic health disparities, revealing how a generation of researchers in the biological, social, and epidemiological sciences sought […]
The MARCH Continues, An Evening with Andrew Aydin
University Center University Center University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Arts Division, John R. Lewis College, and The Humanities Institute present: The MARCH Continues, An Evening with Andrew Aydin. Co-Author with John R. Lewis, of the award wining graphic novel series MARCH. Attendees will receive a free copy of the first book in the MARCH series, and can have it signed by Andrew […]
Indigenous Border/lands Symposium
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Peggy and Jack Baskin Presidential Chair of Feminist Studies, in collaboration with the Indigenous Border/lands Collective, present "Indigenous Border/lands," an exploration of the border/lands from the perspective of Indigenous peoples, scholars and activists across the Americas. 4:00pm Aa‘a Mat Tipaay Ak’wee, Bringing Her/Voice Back to the Land: Incomplete Repatriations in The Autobiography of Delfina […]
Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore
Virtual EventThe Friends of the Dickens Project invites you to participate in "Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore." The three sessions will offer the Friends a chance to examine Victorian responses to the environment, with a particular emphasis on Australia. The first session will involve a presentation on […]
Zakir Hussain: Masters of Percussion at the Rio Theatre
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvery other year since 1996, Zakir Hussain has served as curator, conductor and producer to bring the very cream of Indian music and world percussion to tour America and Europe with his series, Zakir Hussain and Masters of Percussion. Growing out of his renowned international tabla duet tours with his father, the legendary Ustad Allarakha, […]
Jessica Marglin – The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn the winter of 1873, Nissim Shamama, a wealthy Jew from Tunisia, died suddenly in his palazzo in Livorno, Italy. His passing initiated a fierce lawsuit over his large estate. Before Shamama's riches could be disbursed among his aspiring heirs, Italian courts had to decide which law to apply to his estate—a matter that depended […]
Elizabeth McKenzie, The Dog of the North
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFREE IN-PERSON EVENT: Acclaimed local writer Elizabeth McKenzie will be in conversation with Karen Joy Fowler about McKenzie's highly-anticipated new novel, The Dog of the North. This event is cosponsored by Catamaran Literary Reader and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. "Even funnier, even more romantic than McKenzie's wonderful last, The Portable Veblen, this […]
Dr. Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic – Do L2 and L3 learners benefit from training their awareness of cross- linguistic similarity?
Humanities 1, Room 202The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Winter Colloquium Words whose form is similar across languages: cognates (formally and semantically similar) and false cognates (formally similar) are claimed to be learned differently than non-cognates. Raising learners’ "cognate awareness" means consciously focusing their attention on cross-linguistic similarity between L1 and L2 words. However, it is unclear […]