Events
POSTPONED – Linguistics Colloquia: Julia Swan
Humanities 1, Room 202Julia Swan, SJSU Over the course of 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
Dickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection, First-Person Narration, and the Mind by Tyson Stolte
Virtual EventPlease join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our May Pickwick Club talk by Associate Professor Tyson Stolte (New Mexico State University) who will be discussing Dickens and Victorian Psychology. Dickens and Victorian Psychology returns Dickens’s fiction to the midst of nineteenth-century debates about the nature of the mind, […]
Sebastián Gil-Riaño – Stolen Evidence: Indigenous Children and Bio-historical narratives of the Western Hemisphere during the Cold War
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe talk is sponsored by the Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine This talk examines how anthropologists and human biologists used abducted Indigenous children in […]
Roxanne Euben – The Power of Humiliation: Rhetoric, Retaliation and Resistance
Charles E. Merrill LoungeFrom Trump to ISIS to the Arab uprisings, invocations of humiliation pervade the political landscape. But what does ‘humiliation’ mean exactly, and how does it work rhetorically? In this lecture […]
Sebastián Gil-Riaño Reading Group – Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States"Indigenous Health and Infrastructures of Race" - In the past few decades, biomedical researchers and human biologists have called for more ethical guidelines for conducting fieldwork on Indigenous groups in […]
Celebrating the Humanities Spring Awards
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease mark your calendars for Thursday, June 1, 2022 as we acknowledge the achievements of our outstanding students and faculty at the annual Celebrating the Humanities Spring Awards event. This […]
Living Writers – Mai Der Vang
Virtual EventMai Der Vang is the author of Yellow Rain (Graywolf Press, 2021), winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, an American Book Award, and […]
Jairus Banaji Reading Group
Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Vernaculars of Travel in South Asia and the Middle East cluster invites you to the final event of their THI working group, which will be a reading group (5:30 - 7) and dinner (7pm - 8:30pm) on Thursday, June 1st. Please RSVP by Friday May 26th with Muriam Davis (muhdavis@ucsc.edu) to receive the readings […]
Futurescapes: Projects from the Coha-Gunderson Collective
The Institute of the Arts & Sciences Gallery 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute presents "Futurescapes: Projects from the Coha-Gunderson Collective," a multi-media exhibition by UCSC students and alumni winners of the Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures. 13 winners of the Coha-Gunderson prize in Speculative Futures, a prize competition made possible by UCSC alumni Peter Coha (Kresge ’78, Mathematics) and James Gunderson (Rachel Carson ’77, Philosophy, […]
Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC)
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Linguistics Department's annual Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) will be held Friday, June 2nd, from 2:00 – 5:00pm in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge & Courtyard. The Distinguished Alumnus speaker will be Caroline Andrews who is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Zurich. We hope you will attend.