Events
Santa Cruz Baroque Festival: Treasures from the Age of Shakespeare
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFeaturing: The Baltimore Consort Heavenly harmony and earthly delights from the time of the bard. Reveal in the triumphal return of America's favorite early music ensemble, playing their 'exquisite consort' of Renaissance instruments -lute, cittern, viols, and flute. Concertgoers will also enjoy the grand prize winning group from our Youth Chamber Music Competition. UCSC Music […]
Vera Gribanova: "Head movement, ellipsis, and Russian polarity focus"
Vera Gribanova is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University. Abstract: In this talk I chart the interaction between head movement, ellipsis, and non-canonical word orders in the analysis of a variety of Russian responses to statements or questions that raise polar alternatives in the discourse. (1) Evgenija poslala posylku v Moskvu? Evgenija […]
FreeShakespeare and Music
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesShakespeare is famous for his speeches, but the London theaters where his plays took place were also filled with music. "Shakespeare and Music" is a symposium exploring the popular music of Renaissance England, the practice of vocal and instrumental music in Shakespeare's plays, and Shakespeare's meditation on music as a metaphor for his art and […]
FreeFriday Forum for Graduate Research: Jessica Calvanico
Humanities 1, Room 202Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202. Winter 2015 Schedule: January 16th - Jesica Siham Fernández, Social Psychology, "Latina/o Children as Cultural […]
Living Writers Series: Student Reading TBD
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTo end the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series, a selected student TBD will present their work. Winter 2015 Living Writers Series: January 15: Cherrie Moraga, poet/playwright January 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta, poets January 29: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet) February 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez, poet February […]
FreeSikh Rappers & Social Justice
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSikh hip-hop artists Baagi and Hoodini will explore facets of the immigrant and minority experience in multicultural America, in an evening of music, poetry and collective discussion. The evening will touch on topics such as race relations and social inequalities in today’s complex society. Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Baagi […]
FreeFelipe De Brigard: "The Explanatory Indispensability of Memory Traces"
Humanities 2, Room 259Abstract: Many philosophers of memory have wondered whether or not it is indispensible to postulate the existence of memory traces to explain remembering. In this talk I will offer an argument in favor of the explanatory indispensability of memory traces. To that end, I will begin by demonstrating that the main arguments in favor of […]
FreeDH Working Group Meeting / Reading Group
Cowell Senior Commons Room Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Digital Humanities Working Group will meet to discuss a shared reading. This quarter we will consider the field of Digital Humanities broadly and the challenges to the idea of a Digital Humanities field. To spark this discussion, we will read 3 selections from Matthew Gold, ed. Debatesin Digital Humanities (First published in print by University of […]
FreeFrom Ferguson to Salinas: Intersections Against State-Sanctioned Violence
Resource Center for Non ViolenceFrom Ferguson to Salinas: Intersections Against State-Sanctioned Violence March 6 at the Oakes Learning Center, University of California, Santa Cruz March 7 at the Resource Center for Nonviolence, Santa Cruz As folks across the country demand justice for Mike Brown and Eric Garner, community members in Salinas, CA are fighting the police murders of Angel […]
FreeFirst Annual Grad Slam
B206 Earth & Marine SciencesAlso known as the 3 Minute Thesis® competition, started by the University of Queensland, Australia, the UCSC Grad Slam will challenge graduate students to present a compelling presentation of their dissertation research in just three minutes, using language appropriate for a non-specialist audience. The Grad Slam is not an exercise in trivializing or dumbing-down research; […]
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