Events
Events
The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP) XVI
Stevenson Event CenterThe Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, Cowell College, and Stevenson College, will present The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP), an annual multilingual program of fully-staged short theater pieces, for its 16th […]
Living Writers: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEmily Hunt is the author of the poetry collection Dark Green (The Song Cave, 2015). She holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and her poems have appeared […]
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Ruling Passions: Sexuality, Science and the (Post)colonial State
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe past decade or so has witnessed a rapid rise in scholarship that seeks to seize or transform the language of the “science” for liberatory ends. Such an attachment to […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Rebecca Ora
Humanities 1, Room 202Rebecca Ora "Filming Israel From Afar: Ambivalent Diasporic Visions in Performative Non-Fiction" Citing her recent short film The Intifada-ing and the work of other Jewish American women filmmakers, I discuss the […]
BIOS Research Colloquium: Historicizing Surveillance
Humanities 1, Room 202BIOS Research Colloquium: Historicizing Surveillance Featuring Guest Speakers: Simone Browne and Simon A. Cole Friday May 27th, 2-5 pm, Humanities 1 Room 202 Simone Browne, Draw a black line through it: On the Surveillance of Blackness Situating blackness as an absented presence in the field of surveillance studies, this talk questions how a realization […]
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CANCELLED Covell Meyskens: “Visualizing the Past: The Making of the Website ‘Everyday Life in Mao’s China'”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCovell Meyskens, Assistant Professor of History at the Naval Postgraduate School, will talk about his website Everyday Life in Mao's China which currently houses over 5,000 images China. Meyskens will discuss the website's origins, its intended and unintended contributions to the expanding field of PRC history, and suggestions for offer suggestions on how to conduct […]
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Celebrating Excellence in the Humanities: 2015-16 Spring Awards
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHumanists study the stories of humanity, in all their wonderful and tragic manifestations. The annual “Celebrating the Humanities” event is an opportunity for you to participate in this never-ending exploration of what it means to be human. Event Photos: I hope you will be able to join me on Tuesday, May 31 from 4-6 pm […]
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Moira Weigel: “A Genealogy of ‘Like’: Taste, Emotional Labor, and Technology on the Dating Market”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLabor of Love: The Invention of Dating "But I Want A Guy I Like To Like The Things I Like" Taste and Emotional Labor on the Dating Market It is a truth universally acknowledged that "likes" play an important role in contemporary courtship. While all social media invite us to produce our online identities by […]
FreeLiving Writers: Student Reading
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSpring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line Why Out of Line? “I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre, in different genres, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I’m hoping it will encourage our students to think […]
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PhD+: Research and Grants Workshop and End of Year Luncheon
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPhD+ Workshop Series Please join us for the launch of PhD+, our new series! We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for humanities PhDs, online identity issues, internship possibilities, work/life balance, elements of style, grants/fellowships and much, more more. October 9, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel November 6, 2015: Internship Info Session […]
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