Events
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 […]
The Science Studies Creative Writing Workshop
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Science Studies Research Cluster invites you to join us for The Science Studies Creative Writing Workshop: Science Studies teaches us that narratives, tropes, figures, genres, and writing styles matter […]
Jessica Enevold: “Mama Ludens vs Fanboi – What is wrong with the Gaming Revolution?”
Engineering 2, Room 599 Engineering 2, 1156 High St University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIt has been hailed for a while, in articles, book introductions and sales reports: the gaming revolution. Fun for all is finally here and if we put our minds to […]
John Davison: “What will the games business look like in 5 years?”
Media Theater, M110John Davison, VP of programming at CBS Interactive - GameSpot and Metacritic, will look at the way the audience for games is changing, and how the games industry is adjusting […]
Mark Franko: “Myth, Nationalism, and Embodiment in Martha Graham’s American Document”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Mark Franko, Dance and Performance Studies, UCSC "Myth, Nationalism, and Embodiment in Martha Graham's American Document" Professor Franko, a UC Humanities Network […]
Professor William Ladusaw’s Vision for the Humanities
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUniversity of California, Santa Cruz HUMANITIES DEAN CANDIDATE PRESENTATION Professor William Ladusaw’s Vision for the Humanities The presentation will be followed by a brief question and answer session. Meetings will […]
