Events
Regine Basha: “Tuning Baghdad”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRegine Basha has been an curator of contemporary art and art writer since the early 1990s. Her exhibition and writing history can be found on bashaprojects.com. Amongst her most recent […]
Living Writers Series: Jessica Hagedorn
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJessica Hagedorn received her education at the American Conservatory Theater training program. To further pursue playwriting and music, she moved to New York in 1978. Joseph Papp produced her first […]
Susanne Gahl: “Why So Short? Competing Explanations for Variation”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFrequent or contextually-predictable words are often phonetically reduced, e.g. shortened or produced with articulatory undershoot. Three common explanations for this phenomenon attribute phonetic reduction, and pronunciation variation generally, to variation […]
Manlio Argueta and Jorge Argueta: Beyond the Volcano
Cervantes & Velasquez Room, Baytree Conference Center Bay Tree Conference Center, UC Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Latino Literary Cultures Research Cluster presents: Manlio Argueta is a Salvadoran writer, critic, and novelist born in 1935. Although he considers himself first and foremost a poet, he is […]
Cécile Alduy: “Obscenity, Obstetrics, and the Origin of the Pornographic Gaze”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Cécile Alduy, French and Italian, Stanford University "Obscenity, Obstetrics, and the Origin of the Pornographic Gaze" Professor Alduy is chair of Renaissances, […]
Humanities Spring Awards
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us as we recognize the outstanding accomplishments of our faculty, staff and students who have received awards, honors, grants and/or fellowships over the course of the 2010-11 academic year.
Banu Subramaniam: “Tracking Ghosts: Hauntings from a Eugenic Past”
Engineering 2, Room 599 Engineering 2, 1156 High St University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWhat do morning glory flowers or exotic plant and animal species have to do with the history of race or eugenics? In this talk, I trace the genealogies of ecology […]
Kuan-Hsing Chen: “Asia as Method”
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKuan-Hsing Chen is Professor in the Graduate Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies; coordinator of the Center for Asia-Pacific/Cultural Studies at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan; and co-executive […]
Sarah Nelson: “Korea and the Silk Road”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC Society of the Archeological Institute of America and the President's Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on "Archaeology and the Ancient World" Professor Sarah […]
Living Writers Series: Aimee Bender
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAimee Bender is the author of four books: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (1998), which was a NY Times Notable Book; An Invisible Sign of My Own (2000), an […]
