Events
Kristina Lyons: “Decomposition as Life Politics: Soils, Shared Bodies, and Stamina Under the Gun of the U.S.-Colombia War on Drugs”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department Presents: Feminist Science Studies Colloquia Kalindi Vora, University of California of San Diego “Life Support: Legacies of Imperial Science and Surrogate Technologies of Racialized Reproduction” January 6, 5:oo – 6:30pm, Humanities 1 Room 210 Ann Fink, New York University “Feminist Ethics and the Neurobiology of Memory” January 13, 5:00 […]
Valentine Hacquard: "Bootstrapping into Attitudes"
Valentine Hacquard from the University of Maryland will be presenting this talk which explores two classic problems at the semantics-pragmatics interface from a learner's perspective. First, the meaning that speakers convey often goes beyond the literal meaning of the sentences they utter. Second, not all content encoded in utterances has equal standing: some is foregrounded, […]
FreeLinguistics Research Colloquia: Valentine Hacquard
About eight times each year the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. More information on the talk will be available soon. 2014 - 2015 Speakers FALL 2014 October 17th Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers December 12th Adam Albright, MIT WINTER 2015 January 16th Claire Halpert, University of Minnesota January 23rd Valentine […]
FreeFriday Forum for Graduate Research: Wes Modes
Humanities 1, Room 202Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202. Winter 2015 Schedule: January 16th - Jesica Siham Fernández, Social Psychology, "Latina/o Children as […]
FreeLiving Writers Series: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Creative Writing Program presents Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series. Verónica Reyes is a Chicana feminist jota poet from East Los Angeles, California. She earned her BA from California State University, Long Beach and her MFA from University of Texas, El Paso. She scripts poetry for the people. […]
FreeLauren Berlant: "Structures of Unfeeling Mysterious Skin"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFreeWarren Neidich on "Cognitive Capitalism"
Oakes College, Room 105 Oakes College, 150 Heller Drive, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWarren Neidich is an artist and critic, editor of The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism (Archive Books, 2013). He will be speaking in Warren Sack's lecture course, and interested parties are invited to attend. Those who would like to participate in a further discussion with Neidich that afternoon should email wsack@ucsc.edu.
FreeSocial Impact Career Fair
College 8, West Field HouseThe Social Impact Fair is targeted toward non-profits and social services that are searching for students who would like to impact their community. Employers are looking to meet qualified UC Santa Cruz students with specific job skills and knowledge developed in a rigorous academic major, and the breadth of a well-rounded liberal arts education. Companies […]
FreeNaveeda Khan: "The Call to Islam and Early Warning Systems in Bangladesh: The Mutual Absorption of the Political, Religious and the Natural"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesNaveeda Khan’s work traverses spaces of religious crisis and conflict in urban Pakistan to everyday life on shifting land and emergent perceptions of climate change in riparian Bangladesh. Her current interest is to explore the physiognomy of the natural from within the social and the theological. She is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins […]
FreeSara Giordano: “Tinkering with Science: IRB, DIY and Feminist Science Ethics"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department Presents: Feminist Science Studies Colloquia Kalindi Vora, University of California of San Diego “Life Support: Legacies of Imperial Science and Surrogate Technologies of Racialized Reproduction” January 6, 5:oo – 6:30pm, Humanities 1 Room 210 Ann Fink, New York University “Feminist Ethics and the Neurobiology of Memory” January 13, 5:00 […]