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  • ShylockVsSophia

    Shaul Bassi: “Shylock vs. Sarra Copia Sullam: Reframing the Venice Ghetto, 1516-2016”

    Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The Ghetto of Venice, founded 500 years ago, has been long haunted by the ghostly presence of Shylock, the most famous imaginary Jew. The lecture will consider Shakespeare alongside the work of Jewish Venetian poet Sarra Copia Sullam (1592-1641), as well as contemporary poetry and fiction that reimagines the Ghetto for the global present. Shaul […]

    Free

  • OpEd Project Fellowship Application Deadline: “Write to Change the World”

    UCSC

    The "Write to Change the World" program will build our faculty's capacity to translate their research for the public and to engage in debate at a national level based on their areas of
 expertise. Our focus will be on increasing underrepresented voices within these debates. Working in partnership with the OpEd Project, we will host […]

    Free
  • Zephyr Frank poster 2.2.16

    Zephyr Frank: “Beyond Eyeballmetrics: Visualization and Analysis in Digital Scholarship”

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Part of the Hands on (Digital) Humanities Series This talk explores the boundary between visualization and analysis in contemporary digital scholarship. It argues for a shift in focus from creating visualizations (and related tools) toward a more robust analytical practice based on quantitative measurement. In this sense, visualization is seen as a useful but often […]

    Free

  • LASER (Leonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous)

    Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Arts Division at the University of California, Santa Cruz present: LASER Tuesday, February 2, 2016 Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 […]

    Free

  • Living Writers: Charles Yu

    Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Charles Yu is an Asian American writer of three well received works of speculative fiction, How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe, Third Class Superhero, and Sorry Please […]

    Free

  • PhD+: Online Identity

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Learn how to perfect your online identity and social media presence as an academic or higher ed professional. Melissa De Witte (Web Coordinator, Social Sciences) will lead a discussion about […]

    Free

  • Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Sophia Magnone

    Humanities 1, Room 202

    Sophia Magnone “There is risk in dealing with a partner”: “Bloodchild” and Interspecies Encounter I focus on “Bloodchild,” Octavia Butler’s story of extremely intimate yet profoundly troubling relations between species. On an […]

    Free

  • Colin Phillips: “Speaking, understanding, and the architecture of language”

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    We speak and understand the same language, but it’s generally assumed that language production and comprehension are subserved by separate cognitive systems. So they must presumably draw on a third, […]

    Free

  • Leadership for Social Justice: Sikh American Perspectives

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    This workshop will provide participants with practical tools for conceptualizing and effecting social change. Modules include: understanding and changing mindsets, community cultural leadership, implementing adaptive change, and supporting citizen-centered rather […]

    Free
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