Events
The Fluidity of Status: A Seminar with Tanya Golash-Boza & Rhacel Parreñas (Non-citizenship Series)
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFocusing on gender, deportation, and labor, the third and final session of Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz's Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture, approaches citizenship, denizenship, and mobility as fluid statuses—as formal (in other words, documented) positions that are in flux and as practices of belonging that morph as […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Junko Ito
Humanities 2, Room 259The Linguistics department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. Spring 2016 April 14: Junko Ito, UC Santa Cruz April 28: Ashwini Deo, Yale May 26: Susan Lin, UC Berkeley May/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
Ethics and Language of Conservation Colloquium
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: Ethics and Language of Conservation What is Lost When a Species Goes Extinct? A Colloquium on the Unspeakable Value of Life Friday, April 14, 2017 2:00-5:30pm Humanities 1, Room 210 Speakers: Claudio Campagna Adjunct Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCSC Wildlife Conservation Society Daniel Guevara Chair, Department of Philosophy, UCSC Paul Koch […]
Critical Conversations in Cultural Heritage
University Center, UCSC College Nine and College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United States3rd Annual Research Conference Free and Open to the Public Advance Registration Required Appeals to "heritage" have become increasingly common and visible in recent decades. Whether within the realms of the promotion and re-creation of history, claims to sovereignty, protection of landscapes and climate, or economic development, connection to the past is often utilized as […]
Living Writers: Tongo Eisen-Martin
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTongo Eisen-Martin, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press, 2015) Born in San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker, educator, and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He has educated in detention centers from New York's Rikers Island to California's San Quentin State […]
Jewish Studies Open House
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCome discover what makes the Jewish Studies program at UC Santa Cruz such a unique and vibrant educational opportunity. Meet Jewish Studies faculty and students, learn about classes, internship opportunities, and the Jewish Studies intellectual community. Wednesday, April 12, 3-5pm Hum 1, 210
FreeCenter for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: Matthew Fuller “In Praise of Plasticity”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAbout the Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, […]
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Humanities Radio Hour: “Language of Conservation with Daniel Guevara and Claudio Campagna”
KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FMPlease tune in to KZSC 88.1 FM for Artists on Art Humanities Radio Hour Wed, April 5th at 12:00PM–1:00PM Interview with Professors Daniel Guevara and Claudio Campagna about the Language of Conservation Project. Click here to listen online UC Santa Cruz Faculty: - Daniel Guevara, Chair and Associate Professor of Philosophy - Claudio Campagna, Adjunct […]
Ideology & Identity in the Revival of Spoken Hebrew
The revival of Spoken Hebrew took place in Palestine in the early 20 th century, and is often seen as a historically unique example of successful language revival. In this talk I suggest that Hebrew is also exemplary, of the ways in which our languages speak through us. What is special about Hebrew is that […]
Akash Kumar: “All the World on a Board: Chess and Cultural Crossings in Dante and Boccaccio”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAkash Kumar focuses on the crossing of poetry, philosophy, and science in 13th-14th century Italy, emphasizing multicultural knowledge transmission in the medieval Mediterranean. His talk emerges from his second book project on medieval Italian representations of chess and the exchange made possible by the game across gender, religious, and social boundaries. Akash Kumar is a […]