Events
Jaye Padgett: What Irish Gaelic tells us about all linguistic sound systems
A Distinguished Faculty Lecture Presented by Stevenson College,the Linguistics Department,and the Institute for Humanities Research. Irish, one of the Celtic languages, is a minority language in Ireland, with some features that are rare among the world's languages. We'll look at these striking properties of the Irish sound system. However, we'll also see ways in which […]
Gayle Salamon: "The Life and Death of Leticia King"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGayle Salamon is currently working on two manuscripts the first of which is an exploration of narrations of bodily pain and disability titled Painography: Metaphor and the Phenomenology of Chronic Pain while the second manuscript Passing Period, analyzes the 2008 classroom shooting of gender-transgressive 15-year-old Leticia King. She is Associate Professor of English and the […]
FreeCampus Film Screening: "Anita: Speaking Truth to Power"
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCampus Film Screening: “Anita: Speaking Truth to Power” documentary will be shown in the Humanities Lecture Hall with a panel and Q&A on campus sexual harassment, gender and race. Panel: Professors Eileen Zurbriggen (Psychology) and Sylvanna Falcon (LALS) and Tracey Tsugawa (UCSC Title IX Officer). Everyone is welcome to attend. Tuesday, Feb 24 @ 7:30pm […]
FreeNatalia Carrillo: "A History of the Action Potential"
Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015. Natalia Carrillo is a graduate student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). SHe studied a master degree in Philosophy of Cognitive Science (2 year program) at UNAM. Her thesis ("Objetividad […]
FreePublic Film Screening: “Anita: Speaking Truth to Power”
Nickelodeon Theater 210 Lincoln Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPublic Film Screenings: “Anita: Speaking Truth to Power” (77 min. Documentary by Director Freida Mock) Nickelodeon Theater Sunday, Feb 22 @ 11am Monday, Feb 23 @ 7pm Tickets: www.thenick.com An entire country watched transfixed as a poised, beautiful African-American woman in a blue dress sat before a Senate committee of 14 white men and with […]
$10.50Steven Salaita: “Silencing Dissent: Palestine, Academic Freedom, and the New McCarthyism”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCritical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) Presents a seminar and a public Lecture by Steven Salaita. At 10 A.M. the reading seminar: “Inter/Nationalism from the New World to the Holy Land: Encountering Palestine in American Indian Studies” *For Pre-Circulated Readings and to RSVP, Please Contact Juliana Bruno (JulianaB@ucsc.edu) At 2 P.M. the public talk: “Silencing […]
FreeFriday Forum for Graduate Research: Melissa Yinger
Humanities 1, Room 202Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202. Winter 2015 Schedule: January 16th - Jesica Siham Fernández, Social Psychology, "Latina/o Children as Cultural […]
FreeSteven Salaita: “Inter/Nationalism from the New World to the Holy Land: Encountering Palestine in American Indian Studies”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCritical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) Presents a seminar and a public Lecture by Steven Salaita. At 10 A.M. the reading seminar: “Inter/Nationalism from the New World to the Holy Land: Encountering Palestine in American Indian Studies” *For Pre-Circulated Readings and to RSVP, Please Contact Juliana Bruno (JulianaB@ucsc.edu) At 2 P.M. the public talk: “Silencing […]
FreeHumanists @ Work: Graduate Career Workshop
The UC Humanities Research Institute and the UC Humanities Network invite graduate students to attend the next statewide career workshop to be held in San Diego on Friday, February 20th. The daylong, hands-on workshop will include: • Stories from the Field: A roundtable of recent UC PhDs employed in careers alongside/beyond the academy • Two-part workshop […]
Living Writers Series: John Jota Leanos
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Creative Writing Program presents John Jota Leanos in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series. John Jota Leaños is an award-winning Chicano new media artist using animation, documentary and performance focusing on the convergence of memory, social space and decolonization. Leaños' animation work has been shown internationally at festivals and museums including the Sundance Film […]
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