Events
Micah Perks Book Launch: True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute welcomes local author Micah Perks to celebrate the publication of her new book, True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape. Magical and funny, profound and seductive, the linked stories in True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape explore the life-bending power of love. In these interwoven lives, ardent desire […]
PhD+ Workshop: “Navigating Career Choices Post-PhD – Reflections on Work and Identity”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States"Navigating Career Choices Post-PhD: Reflections on Work and Identity" This workshop will provide space to discuss, critique, and engage with some of the thorny questions about transitioning to non-tenure track careers. Kelly Anne Brown, Associate Director of UCHRI, and Shana Melnysyn, Competitive Grants Officer at UCHRI, will share their perspectives as PhDs at work in […]
David Lee: “Pictures of the Past – Introduction to the Rock Art of Western North America”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesAncient hunter-gatherer peoples across the globe painted and carved designs on rock walls for tens of thousands of years. The deserts of western North America contain some of the largest and most complex rock art sites known, and careful documentation of them has helped us to understand how these enigmatic images fit into the lives […]
UCHRI Funding Workshop
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesUCHRI has just announced their call for applications for the 2018-2019 Academic Year. Join us for an Information Session with Kelly Anne Brown (Associate Director, UCHRI) and Shana Melnysyn (UCHRI Competitive Grants) to learn more. UCHRI has released six new competitive grants. The workshop will address these new opportunities and cover what you need to […]
Sharad Chari: “Apartheid Remains”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States“Apartheid Remains” explores how people subjected to life in a patchwork landscape of industry and residence in the Indian Ocean City of Durban, South Africa, have sought to contest their social and spatial subjection across the 20th century, particularly in the revolutionary 1970s and 1980s, and in today’s racial capitalism. Event Photos: Sharad Chari […]
Ben Breen, When Drugs Became Global: Technologies of Intoxication in the Enlightenment
Forager, San Jose 420 S 1st St, San Jose, CA, United StatesOver the course of the seventeenth eighteenth centuries, psychoactive substances from opiates to cannabis to coffee underwent rapid globalization. Enlightenment thinkers were by no means immune to the allure of these novel drugs. Scientists and physicians tried to discover the “occult virtues” of these drugs through an array of experimental methods, including testing them on themselves. This […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Ur Shlonsky
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States"Subjects of copular constructions" Ur Shlonsky, University of Geneve More info at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
Nido de Lenguas: Clases
Small Schools Campus 840 N. Branciforte Ave., Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLed by Maestra Fe Silva-Robles of Senderos, Clases is a monthly opportunity to learn Santiago Laxopa Zapotec in an interactive classroom setting. All oral instruction is in Spanish only; written materials are in Spanish and English. Maestra Fe and the Nido de Lenguas team collaborate extensively to produce a cohesive set of lessons. Each lesson is designed to introduce new sounds, vocabulary, […]
Living Writers: Samiya Bashir
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSamiya Bashir is the author of three books of poetry: Field Theories, and Gospel, and Where the Apple Falls. Sometimes she makes poems of dirt. Sometimes zeros and ones. Sometimes variously rendered text. Sometimes light. Her work has been widely published, performed, installed, printed, screened, and experienced. Bashir holds a BA from the University of […]
Chris Benner: “A Universal Technology Dividend? – Rethinking price, value, work and the commons”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn this talk, Dr. Benner will discuss his current work exploring the idea of a Universal Technology Dividend. He will explore questions related to the common-property characteristics of technology and innovation, the monopolistic characteristics of information markets, and the need to rethink how we define work in contemporary labor markets. Event Photos: Chris Benner is […]