Events
Events
Marion Nestle – Sustainable Food in the Trump Era
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWhat is the state of sustainable food now, what are the forces affecting food choice, and what can we do about it? Join us for this year’s Peggy Downes Baskin […]
Of Body and Soul: Politics and Eschatology in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis seminar explores how pre-modern debates over body and soulshaped political and eschatological thought in the Mediterranean. Each panel brings Jewish, Christian, and Islamic voices into dialogue, with Dante Alighieri's oeuvre as a recurring point of comparison. Our aim is to situate questions of embodiment, psychology, soteriology, and collective destiny in light of their historical […]
Martin Rizzo-Martinez – Wounded Lee: the Red Power movement in 1970s Santa Cruz in the wake of Alcatraz
Humanities 2, Room 259In the spring of 1975, a 1,500-year-old Indigenous cemetery on Lee Road in Watsonville, California, was threatened by a development project. Members of the local Native American community with ties to this sacred site occupied the construction site in protest of the development. The local Sheriff called upon the newly formed well-armed County SWAT force, […]
PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCurious about becoming a THI Graduate Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program. Public fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to […]
Living Writers with Nathalie Khankan
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCraft Between Worlds Nathalie Khankan is a poet and scholar, author of quiet orient riot (Omnidawn). The collection won Omnidawn's 2019 1st/2nd Book Prize and received the 2021 California Book Award in Poetry. Fady Joudah calls the book “a flowering wound,” posing subversive questions about the body, motherhood, and settler colonialism while insisting on tenderness. […]
Linguistics Colloquium with Ethan Poole
Humanities 1, Room 202 +1 moreJoin the Linguistics Department for Ethan Poole's talk “Syntactic Variables and Semantic Minimality” in collaboration with Zahra Mirrazi. In this talk, Poole argues that when two syntactic variables are "related" and stand in a c- command relationship at LF, a 3⁄4-pattern emerges: free/free, bound/bound, bound/free, and *free/bound. Several otherwise-disparate puzzles are shown to fall under […]
Latino Role Models Conference
Cabrillo College Crocker Theater 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA, United StatesAchieve your dreams for college and career! A free annual event for Santa Cruz County students, grades 6 to college, and their families, featuring Latino professionals, college students, and resource information. Presented in Spanish with English translation. Attendees eligible for prizes. For more information: SCSenderos.org Presented by Cabrillo College, Live Oak School District, Mexican Consulate […]
Hillary Angelo – Climate Change as Large-Scale Social Transformation
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIt is a common (aspirational) refrain that climate change “changes everything,” and equally common to note that climate-related transitions seem to be changing very little at all. What climate-related changes are happening now? And how might we grasp emergent trajectories while we’re in the midst of these transitions? With a substantive focus on the city-hinterland […]
Work – in – Progress with Geoffrey C. Bowker
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesJoin SJRC scholars for an open discussion of works-in-progress! This is a wonderful chance to engage with one another’s ideas, and support our own internal work. At this session, we will hear from Geoffrey Bowker, Emeritus Professor in Irvine and Science & Justice Advisor about works-in-progress and ongoing work on the death of infrastructure, AI, […]
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa – Kyi-dug, Tibetan Welfare Groups: Sharing Ups and Downs
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States +1 moreAs many as 80,000 Tibetans fled to India and Nepal in 1959 following the Chinese occupation of Tibet. The establishment of a Tibetan government in exile helped foster a sense of belonging, but it was also through mutual aid groups, such as the kyi-dug, that Tibetan refugees took care of one another. The word kyi-dug: […]