Events
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
Common Front for the Right to Housing in Bucharest
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesComparative urban studies are on the rise, raising new questions about translation, fungibility, and transit. How can we study the material effects of global capital in various urban spaces without conflating the spatial struggles and transformations of one space upon another? How can superimposing Western understandings of gentrification upon non-Western places impose onto-epistemological violence? This […]
The Fluidity of Status: Non-citizenship, Deportation, and Indentured Mobility: A Conversation with Tanya Golash-Boza and Rhacel Parreñas
Museum of Art & History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: by Steve Kurtz Presented by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research In two Ted-style talks, Tanya Golash-Boza (UC Merced) and Rhacel Parreñas (University of Southern California) help close UC Santa Cruz's Andrew W. Mellon John E. Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship by discussing what they see as some of the […]
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Undergraduate Digital Research Symposium
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibrarySponsored by Center for Jewish Studies, Digital Scholarship Commons, University Library, IHR With support from the Koret Family Foundation The Digital Scholarship Commons is thrilled to announce the first Undergraduate Digital Research Symposium on April 19, 2017. At UC Santa Cruz, undergraduate students are engaged in creative, critical research using digital tools and platforms. This […]
FreeZac Zimmer: “Conquest, Contact, and Cosmovision: SF Rewritings of the Conquest of the Americas”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesConquest, Contact, and Cosmovision: SF Rewritings of the Conquest of the Americas Zac Zimmer’s current project reads original narratives of the conquest of the Americas and the philosophical debates it engendered with and against recent aesthetic attempts to reimagine that historical moment in marginal genres, especially alternative history and first contact science fiction, creating a […]
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The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies presents: Mitchell Duneier the Maurice P. During, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University on "Ghetto: Invention of a Place, History of […]
FreeSpanish Colloquium: Ximena Briceño, “A vuelo de pájaro: Vallejo y Arguedas”
Humanities 2, Room 259A vuelo de pájaro: Vallejo y ArguedasA talk in Spanish by Ximena Briceño Ximena Briceño enseña literatura latinoamericana en el Departamento de Culturas Ibéricas y Latinoamericanas de Stanford University desde […]