Events
Steve Wright: "The Political: Some Experiences from the Italian Operaismo of the 1960s and 1970s"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk will critically examine debates around 'the political' amongst the Italian workerists. While championing new understandings of class composition that challenged the traditional leninist separation of economic and political struggles, the workerists of the 1960s and 1970s nonetheless struggled to formulate an agreed approach to theorising and practicing 'the political'. The talk will seek […]
FreeMichael Frachetti: "Uncovering a Nomadic City Along the Medieval Silk Road"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFrom at least 200 BC to the 16th century CE, the Eurasian Silk Road formed the most extensive network of trade and commerce the world had ever seen. Its pathways linked populations from Beijing to Jerusalem in one of the first global networks. Much of what we know about the Silk Road is defined by archaeology from […]
FreeFriday Forum for Graduate Research: Aubrey Hobart
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 […]
Free"Trade and Exchange" Winter MRP Workshop & Ottomanists Workshop
UC DavisThe Mediterranean Seminar/University of California Multi-Campus Research Project (MRP) in Mediterranean Studies announces its Winter 2014 Workshop, to be held at UC Davis on Friday, January 30, to be held in conjunction with the Western Ottomanists Workshop (WOW) on Saturday, January 31. The Workshop consists of discussion of three pre-circulated papers and a talk by […]
FreeMichael Anderson: "Neural Reuse and Hebbian Learning: Two Kinds of Neuroplasticity in the Brain"
Jack Baskin 152Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015. Michael L. Anderson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at F&M, and a Visiting Associate Professor at the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland, College […]
FreeLiving Writers Series: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano & Maya Chinchilla
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Creative Writing Program presents Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano & Maya Chincilla in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series. Maya Chinchilla is a Guatemalan, Bay Area-based writer, video artist, and educator. Maya received her MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College and her undergraduate degree from University of California, Santa Cruz, […]
FreeBrown Bag Lunch: Building a Better Online Identity
Graduate Student CommonsLearn how to perfect your online identity and social media presence as an academic. Melissa De Witte (Web Coordinator, Social Sciences) will lead a discussion about how to build your network, develop meaningful connections, and how you could Twitter your way into your next speaking engagement or job interview. Whether you are a novice or […]
FreeAngela Davis: “Racism, Militarism, Poverty: From Ferguson to Palestine” at the 31st Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Convocation
Santa Cruz Civic AuditoriumThe 2015 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation will feature Angela Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita, UC Santa Cruz Angela Davis: "Racism, Militarism, Poverty: From Ferguson to Palestine" Date: 7 p.m., Wednesday, January 28th 2015 Location: Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium The event is free and open to the public Through her activism and scholarship over the […]
FreeJulio Torres: "Individual Differences in Prior Language Experience: The Heritage Language Bilingual"
Humanities 1, Room 202Individual differences play a key role in explaining variability in learning outcomes among adult second language learners. Researchers have begun examining the additional language learning experiences of learners with different profiles including bilinguals, aging learners and learners with low literacy levels in their first language. In this talk, I will present briefly data from three […]
FreeCarolyn Dean: "All that Glitters: Incommensurability in Spanish American Visual Culture"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCarolyn Dean is currently working on a co-authored book project entitled Colonial Things, Cosmopolitan Thinking: Locating the Indigenous Art of Spanish America. Recognizing that the humanistic disciplines have often had an uncomfortable relationship with objects created outside Western traditions, this project seeks to illuminate how indigenous things in the colonial past have been used and […]
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