Events

The Linguistics Colloquium Series Presents: Roumyana Pancheva (USC) Stay tuned for more details!

This year’s Pacific Seminar returns focus to war, both as a way of invoking the foundational anti-Vietnam War struggles that inaugurated Asian American studies as an urgent political and epistemological project and as a contemporary analytic that wields the potential of reconfiguring the project of Asian American studies today.  In particular, this year’s Pacific Seminar […]

University of California, Santa Cruz Presents: Music and Greek Drama: History, Theory, and Practice An International Conference   In connection with the UCSC Theater Arts production of Orestes Terrorist, a new version of Euripides’ Orestes by Mary-Kay Gamel, Mainstage Theater, UCSC, May 20-29   May 28-29, 2011 College 8, Room 240   Scholars and theater […]

Recipients of this years Humanities Undergraduate Research Award (HUGRA) will be presenting their projects during Student Achievement week. All are welcome and encouraged to support these students!   In 1996, the Humanities Division began awarding undergraduate students to support and encourage innovative research projects.   This year’s Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) symposium brings together a […]

Speakers: Snehal Shingavi, English and South Asian Studies, UT Austin Zahra Billoo, Council on American-Islamic Relations Wednesday, June 1 6 p.m. Kresge Town Hall Snehal Shingavi is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas, Austin. He got his PhD from UC Berkeley where he was involved in a number of […]

The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series and the Center for Jewish Studies Present: Erik Butler, German Studies, Emory University "The Ruse of Faith: Spiritual Politics in Der Nister's Soviet Symbolism" Professor Butler has published Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film (Camden House, 2010) and The Bellum Grammaticale and the Rise of European […]

Please join us on June 4th in Humanities I, room 210 as we take the opportunity presented by the current state of crisis to evaluate and re-imagine interdisciplinary work as both a project and an enterprise. Now that interdisciplinarity has itself become something of a philosopher’s stone, a general panacea for the woes and wiles […]

Dr. Karan Singh Distinguished Indian statesman and diplomat Dr. Karan Singh will deliver the 2011 Satyajit Ray Lecture at UC Santa Cruz on Saturday, September 24, at 5:30 p.m. in […]

Until 1917, most Jews of the Russian Empire were restricted to a region called the Pale of Settlement, where they created their own distinctive folk culture. In 1914 the writer, socialist revolutionary, and ethnographer, Sh. An-sky, produced a massive Yiddish ethnographic questionnaire to