Events
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 […]
Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAll members of the UCSC community and the general public are invited to attend the Twelfth Annual UCSC Literature Undergraduate Colloquium onThursday, May 19, 2011 in Humanities 1, room 210. […]
Emily Greenwood: “Regarding Priam: Reconciliation and Classical Reception”
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Classical Studies Program and the President's Chair in Ancient Studies present the annual Carl Deppe Lecture: In light of David Malouf's 2009 novel Ransom, based on Priam's supplication […]
Film Screening: “La Carta: Sagrario nunca has muerto para mí”
Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOn Friday, May 20th, contributors to the book Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas, will be speaking about their research and activism in the campaign to end feminicide in Mexico […]
Damon Brown: “Porn and Pong”
Engineering 2, Simularium, Room 180 Baskin Engineering, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMcDonald’s has “Fast Food Nation,” the fish industry has “Cod,” but no book has successfully weaved the cautionary tales and humorous history of the world of video games into our […]
Gender Violence in Mexico
Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOn Friday, May 20th, contributors to the book Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas, will be speaking about their research and activism in the campaign to end feminicide in Mexico […]
Scott AnderBois: “What is a Question? An Answer from Yucatec Maya”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe act of questioning is central to human conversation, but how do we know if a given sentence is a question in the first place? Looking at English, there are […]
Women, Jews and Venetians Conference
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"L'Italie, Laboratoire de la modernite juive," -- Workshop of Jewish Modernity – a group of scholars recently characterized Venice and the Ghetto and thereby focused discussion on how this laboratory […]
