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  • Living Writers: Myriam Gurba

    Myriam Gurba is a native Californian. She attended U.C. Berkeley thanks to affirmative action. She is the author of the 2017 memoir Mean, and two short story collections, Dahlia Season and Painting Their Portraits in Winter. Dahlia Season won the Edmund White Award, which is given to queer writers for outstanding debut fiction. The book […]

  • PhD+ Graduate Student Workshop Series – Understanding the ACLS Public Fellows Program: Reflections from UCSC Alumni

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Learn more about the ACLS Public Fellows program in conversation with two UCSC Grad Alums who have launched careers through the ACLS Public Fellows program.   Sophia Booth Magnone, Literature PhD, is the Development Manager & Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow at the Feminist Press. In her role at FP, she manages grant writing, individual giving, and fundraising […]

  • Nadine Theiler: “A Unified Semantics for Additive Particles”

    Humanities 2, Room 259

    English has several additive particles, which differ in their distribution. One of these is also, a common choice to signal additivity in assertions and polar questions, (1a-b). It has been suggested that this particle can’t appear in a wh-question without triggering a so-called show-master interpretation (Umbach, 2012), in which the speaker already has a certain […]

  • Massimiliano Tomba: “Insurgent Universality – An Alternative Legacy of Modernity”

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    An Alternative Legacy of Modernity” Insurgent Universality offers a new way of thinking political universality that radically differs from the legal universalism of human rights and cosmopolitanism. Assuming a conception of history that is not linear but articulated in a multiverse of historical temporalities, Insurgent Universality excavates an alternative trajectory of modernity, which originally bridges […]

  • Living Writers: Sina Grace

    Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    UCSC alum Sina Grace is the author and illustrator of the autobiographical Self-Obsessed and Not My Bag and the writer of Marvel’s Iceman comic series, featuring the first out gay superhero. More info: https://qz.com/1105347/the-middle-eastern-american-writer-behind-marvels-iceman-the-most-visible-gay-superhero-yet/

  • Ralina Joseph

    Ralina Joseph: “Postracial Resistance-Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity”

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    "Post Racial Resistance-Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity" speaks about how African American women, celebrities. cultural products, and audiences subversively used the tools of postracial discourse-- the media- propagated notion that race and race based discrimination are over-- in order to resist its very tenets.  Ralina Joseph is a Associate Professor at […]

  • Questions That Matter on KZSC

    CA, United States

    Tune in to KZSC to hear the upcoming Transformation Highway featuring Pranav Anand (Associate Professor of Linguistics), Lise Getoor (Professor of Computer Science and Engineering), and Nathaniel Deutsch (Director of the Humanities Institute) who will be discussing the upcoming event Questions That Matter: Data and Democracy

  • Cancelled: Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    This week's Center Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium has been cancelled. See you next week! 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 […]

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