Events
Massimiliano Tomba: “Insurgent Universality – An Alternative Legacy of Modernity”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesAn 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 StatesUCSC 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/
Linguistics Colloquium: Jess Law
Humanities 2, Room 259Jess Law, Constraints on distributivity Abstract
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 StatesTune 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 StatesThis 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 […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Naomi Francis
Humanities 2, Room 259More details available here.
Center for Public Philosophy: High School Regional Ethics Bowl
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTeams of up to five high school students have the fall semester to develop their thinking on 15 real-world ethical questions (“cases”) put out in early September by the National High School Ethics Bowl organization. In the Winter, each team participates at a regional tournament (“bowl”). The team that is deemed to have displayed the […]
Prof and a Pint: “Dickens and the Struggles of Marriage”
Forager, San Jose 420 S 1st St, San Jose, CA, United StatesCharles Dickens is known for his marriage plots: no matter what kinds of twists and turns threaten the path of true love, in the end David Copperfield gets his Agnes, Esther Summerson gets her Woodcourt, and John Harmon gets his Bella. But was marriage really a happy ending for the women in Dickens’s novels? What […]
Book of Joy Community Read
Join Book of Joy author Doug Abrams, in partnership with Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Public Libraries, Temple Beth El, and The Humanities Institute for a community-wide discussion and celebration around the themes of kindness and joy. During this time of social and cultural division and at a time when many are feeling a sense of despair, The Book of Joy: […]