Events
Subatlantic: A Screening and Presentation
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesArts Division, Film & Digital Media, History of Art & Visual Culture, and the Center for Creative Ecologies presents: Ursula Biemann Swiss video practitioner Ursula Biemann will screen and discuss her recent speculative SF video essay Subatlantic (2015), addressing, among related works and topics, the interdisciplinary-discursive ecotone of geology and climatology merged with human politics […]
FreeSugar Beets, Biocolonialism, and Memory in the American West
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe History Department Presents the Thom Gentle Lecture on Environmental History Bernadette Jeanne Pérez Ph.D. Candidate University of Minnesota, Twin Cities What can the sugar beet industry tell us about the relationship between agricultural science, capitalism, and American settler colonialism? In this talk, Pérez draws upon turn of the twentieth century beet sugar manuals, which […]
FreeIsraeli Music Extravaganza!
Porter/Kresge Dining HallFeaturing award-winning singer Moran Arad with members of Brazilian Band SambaDá! Monday, March 7 at 8:30pm @ UCSC Porter/Kresge Dining Hall Doors open at 8:00pm Drums: Gary Kehoe Guitars: Nelsen Hutchison Bass: Etienne David Franc Saxophones: Anne Stafford Keyboard: Avi Tchamni Percussion: Noam Harel The show is FREE for all For more information, contact atchamni@ucsc.edu.
FreeLinguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC) 2016
Every year towards the end of the Winter Quarter, the Linguistics at Santa Cruz conference showcases the research of second and third year graduate students. This conference coincides with a visit to campus of prospective graduate students, and it always features as an invited speaker, a Ph.D. alum of the department. This year's invited speaker […]
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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 […]
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