Events
Wage Justice: Fighting Wage Theft in Our Community
Civic Plaza Community RoomThis community event will launch the public art and findings of a year-long research project - Working for Dignity: Low-Wage Worker Study of Santa Cruz County produced by the UCSC Center for Labor Studies. The event will showcase the project's website and feature workers, researchers and students sharing their stories about low pay and wage […]
FreeImogen Dickie “Proper Names: Transition to the End Game”
Humanities 2, Room 259Abstract: I shall prove a principle which brings out the significance for accounts of aboutness and reference of the fact that justification is truth conducive; use this principle to develop an account of reference-fixing for proper names which presents an alternative to the tired menu of traditional causalisms, descriptivisms, and crosses between; and identify two […]
Jasmine Syedullah: "‘Not Contraband, but Soldier': Against the Domestic Violence of National Security"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJasmine Syedullah’s current project, “No Selves to Defend: Fugitive Justice and Black Feminist Loopholes of Abolition” is a political theory of abolition rooted in the antislavery writings of Harriet Jacobs, the anti-prison testimonies of political prisoners Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, and narratives from the 1971 uprising at Alderson Federal Reformatory for Women. Syedullah is a […]
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Berel Lang: “Primo Levi: Chemist, Survivor, Writer”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOn Wednesday, November 4, Professor Berel Lang of Wesleyan University, author of Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life, will visit our campus and offer a lecture entitled "Primo Levi: Chemist, Survivor, Writer." Professor Lang's many books include Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide (University of Chicago Press, 1990), The Anatomy of Philosophical Style (Basil Blackwell, 1990), Holocaust Representation: Art within […]
FreeLeonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLeonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists, scientists, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations. Please join us in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 for refreshments at 6:30 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by: Giacomo Bernardi "Finding general patterns in the natural […]
FreeFall Job and Internship Fair
College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Fall Job and Internship Fair is an excellent opportunity for you to meet with hundreds of students seeking employment opportunities. Meet with students from a variety of majors to have dialogue and collect resumes. This event can provide your organization with talent for entry-level positions, internships, and summer jobs. Many of our students have […]
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e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies “The Future of Education: Advanced Computing, Ubiquitous Learning, and the Knowledge Economy”
Stevenson Event CenterEVENT PHOTOS: Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR. UCSC to host an International e-Learning Conference, November 2-3 2015 This year, UC Santa Cruz will play host to the Eighth International Conference on e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies from November 2-3, 2015. The conference is built upon four key features: Internationalism, Interdisciplinarity, Inclusiveness, and Interaction. Conference delegates include leaders […]
Enduring Power – Photography Exhibit – Nov. 2 – Dec. 17
Resource Center for Non ViolenceEnduring Power: The Middle Eastern and Iranian Women’s Story — A Photography Exhibit — November 2 – December 17, 2015 AT: Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, CA Exhibit HOURS: M-TH noon – 4p.m. or by appointment, 831-423-1626 Sponsored by the Resource Center for Nonviolence and Senses Cultural, Enduring Power’s striking images […]
Freee-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies “The Future of Education: Advanced Computing, Ubiquitous Learning, and the Knowledge Economy”
Stevenson Event CenterEVENT PHOTOS: Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR. UCSC to host an International e-Learning Conference, November 2-3 2015 This year, UC Santa Cruz will play host to the Eighth International Conference on e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies from November 2-3, 2015. The conference is built upon four key features: Internationalism, Interdisciplinarity, Inclusiveness, and Interaction. Conference delegates include leaders […]
Linguistic Colloquium: Ivano Caponigro
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLinguistic Colloquium: Free-Choice Free Relative Clauses in Italian and Romanian English, Italian, and Romanian (and many other languages) allow for standard free relative clauses, i.e., non-interrogative wh-clauses with the same distribution and interpretation as definite DPs or PPs (e.g. Elena goes ). The same three languages (and many others) also allow for a kind of free relative in which […]
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