Events
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Laura Harrison
Humanities 1, Room 202Laura Harrison "Rights Are Not Justice: A Case Study in Campus Segregation and How University Accessibility Policies Do Violence To the Spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act" “Rights Are Not Justice” is the product of a community facilitated project in public sociology and critical disability studies. This project outlines who and what is at stake when a […]
FreePhD+: Work-Life Balance
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPanelists: Shelley Stamp, Professor of Film and Digital Media Meg Corman, Special Assistant to the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor of University Relations Nathaniel Deutsch, Director, Institute for Humanities Research, Professor of History Shelley Stamp will offer reflections on Work/Life Balance based on over 20 years experience teaching at UC Santa Cruz. She is the mother […]
FreeWORKSHOP: GIS for Humanists
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibraryLooking to start a mapping project? Curious about GIS? Start exploring the world of ArcGIS with Professors Elaine Sullivan and Barry Nickel. Join us for this introductory workshop. No previous experience with GIS necessary. Very Limited Seating. Registration Required. Preference will go to graduate students. Lunch will be served.
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Living Writers: Jeremy Love
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJeremy Love is an award-winning writer, illustrator, and animator. His critically acclaimed, Eisner Nominated, serialized graphic novel Bayou has been used as curriculum at various high schools and colleges including the University of South Carolina and Dartmouth college. It was also selected by the American Library Association as a Great Graphic Novel for teens. Other projects include Blackest […]
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Professor Thomas Stoellner Ruhr-University Bochum The Beginnings of Social Inequality: The World’s Earliest Gold Mine
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe rise of social inequality in early societies has been a matter of long-standing debate in archaeology. Often archaeologists explicitly focus on long-distance networks and the accumulation of wealth as driving factors, and the consumption of precious metals plays a prominent role in this discussion. However, seldom are the interwoven roles of producers and the […]
Past Time, Past Place: 3D Reconstruction Modeling for Examining Historic Sites
Archaeologists and historians are utilizing improving 3D technologies to create scholarly reconstructions of ancient places. These visualizations of now-disappeared spaces offer new potential for the examination of the ancient world. In this talk, Professor Sullivan will present her work on the 3D Saqqara project, a 3D visualization of the Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. The project […]
FreeNathaniel Mackey: "Breath and Precarity"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies, in partnership with Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, Kresge College, and Porter College, presents Nathaniel Mackey. Acclaimed poet Nathaniel Mackey’s recent work encompasses three ongoing, decades-long projects: the serial poems Song of the Andoumboulou and "Mu," and the serial novel or series of novels From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, whose fifth […]
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Questions that Matter: “Play: Games, Life, and Death”
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterQuestions that Matter 03.01.16 from IHR on Vimeo. This series brings together UC Santa Cruz scholars with community members to explore questions that matter to all of us. We invite you to join us on March 1, 2016 for the series launch at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center. Featuring: Kimberly Lau, Professor of Literature, UCSC Noah […]
The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection: February 26 – May 22, 2016
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryExplore one of the largest private collections of African American art and artifacts. Spanning 400 years of history, the Kinsey Collection reflects a rich cultural heritage. Includes work by Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, and Richard Mayhew alongside archival material related to Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, and Malcolm X. Join us for a […]
FreeFriday Forum for Graduate Research: Keith Spencer
Humanities 1, Room 202Keith Spencer "What We Talk About When We Talk To Aliens" Throughout the history of the search for ET, strategies for sending radio signals towards potentially inhabited planetary systems have always made unscientific assumptions and projections about alien culture, language, society and even economy. In my presentation I will deconstruct some recent scientific attempts to actively send out radio […]
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