Events
ANITA HILL at UCSC: “Speaking Truth to Power: Gender and Racial Equality – 1991-2015"
College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies is pleased to bring Anita Hill to UC Santa Cruz for a candid dialogue regarding resistance to individual civil rights, campus sexual assault debates, why black lives matter, and challenges to equality in ‘post-identity’ America. After the talk Anita Hill will be signing copies of […]
FreeA Dramatic Reading of Dacia Maraini's Play "Norma '44"
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Italian Studies Program Presents: A Dramatic Reading of Dacia Maraini's Play Norma '44 Adapted for the stage from the translation by Monica Streifer and Lucia Re Directed by Kimberly Jannarone (UCSC Theater Arts) Set in an unnamed concentration camp in 1944 Germany, Norma '44 tells the story of the perverse bond that grows between […]
FreeBrian Cantwell Smith: "The Three R's: Representation, Registration, and Reality"
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGuest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015. Brian Cantwell Smith received his B.S. (1974), M.S. (1978) and Ph.D. (1982) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After receiving his doctorate, he held senior research and administrative positions at the Xerox […]
FreeStephanie Lain: "Content-Based Design Using Constructivist Connectionist Principles"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn this talk I discuss the challenges involved in designing content-based curricula for foreign language courses. I will illustrate the main concepts by focusing on the example of a first-year Spanish course developed for The Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS), whose Language Studies division follows an exclusively content-based model of instruction. Though […]
FreeAlt-ac Careers and Digital Humanities in the Academic Job Market
Graduate Student CommonsSnacks and beverages will be provided. What does it mean when a job ad lists DH preferred? Can digital skills help you get a tenure track job? Does a blog count as a publication? Open to all graduate students: Rachel Deblinger, the Digital Humanities Specialist, will share her experience navigating the academic and alt/ac job […]
FreeJaye Padgett: What Irish Gaelic tells us about all linguistic sound systems
A Distinguished Faculty Lecture Presented by Stevenson College,the Linguistics Department,and the Institute for Humanities Research. Irish, one of the Celtic languages, is a minority language in Ireland, with some features that are rare among the world's languages. We'll look at these striking properties of the Irish sound system. However, we'll also see ways in which […]
Gayle Salamon: "The Life and Death of Leticia King"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGayle Salamon is currently working on two manuscripts the first of which is an exploration of narrations of bodily pain and disability titled Painography: Metaphor and the Phenomenology of Chronic Pain while the second manuscript Passing Period, analyzes the 2008 classroom shooting of gender-transgressive 15-year-old Leticia King. She is Associate Professor of English and the […]
FreeCampus Film Screening: "Anita: Speaking Truth to Power"
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCampus Film Screening: “Anita: Speaking Truth to Power” documentary will be shown in the Humanities Lecture Hall with a panel and Q&A on campus sexual harassment, gender and race. Panel: Professors Eileen Zurbriggen (Psychology) and Sylvanna Falcon (LALS) and Tracey Tsugawa (UCSC Title IX Officer). Everyone is welcome to attend. Tuesday, Feb 24 @ 7:30pm […]
FreeNatalia Carrillo: "A History of the Action Potential"
Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015. Natalia Carrillo is a graduate student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). SHe studied a master degree in Philosophy of Cognitive Science (2 year program) at UNAM. Her thesis ("Objetividad […]
FreePublic Film Screening: “Anita: Speaking Truth to Power”
Nickelodeon Theater 210 Lincoln Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPublic Film Screenings: “Anita: Speaking Truth to Power” (77 min. Documentary by Director Freida Mock) Nickelodeon Theater Sunday, Feb 22 @ 11am Monday, Feb 23 @ 7pm Tickets: www.thenick.com An entire country watched transfixed as a poised, beautiful African-American woman in a blue dress sat before a Senate committee of 14 white men and with […]
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