Events
Linguistics Colloquium: Meghan Sumner
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States"Usage-based linguistic models and understanding human behavior" The past three decades of research in phonetics and psycholinguistics have led to great advances in our understanding of language, representation, and the relationship between language and other cognitive domains. While debates certainly still exist, we can take as established that how often and in what context different […]
Friday Forum: Rebekkah Gross
Humanities 2, Room 359Situational Features Influences College Students' Evaluations About Helping Friday Forum is 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. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the following departments: HAVC, Literature, and […]
“¿Cómo te comunicas?”: 7th annual UC Comparative Iberian Studies Symposium
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe 7th annual UC Comparative Iberian Studies Symposium "¿Cómo te comunicas?" will feature a cohort of 15-17 UC professors, working in a variety of fields within the discipline of Iberian Studies, stretching from medieval topics to cultural studies until the 21st century. Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and UCHRI.
Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
Stevenson Event CenterThe Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, Cowell, and Stevenson Colleges at UCSC will present the 18th season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP) from May 17th through May 20th at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center on campus. In this unique multilingual program, students will be featured in fully-staged excerpts of short […]
Living Writers Series: Carmen Giménez-Smith & giovanni singleton
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBorn in New York, poet Carmen Giménez Smith earned a BA in English from San Jose State University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa. She is the author of six collections of poetry, including Cruel Futures (City Lights, 2018); Milk and Filth (2013), a finalist for the National Book Critics […]
Jennifer Kelly: “Subjection and Performance: Tourism, Witnessing, and Acts of Refusal in Palestine”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCritical Race and Ethnic Studies Program Presents: “Subjection and Performance: Tourism, Witnessing, and Acts of Refusal in Palestine” Drawing from multi-sited ethnographic research on solidarity tours in Palestine, in this talk Jennifer Kelly shows how Palestinian solidarity tour guides reject performing subjection in an industry that treats the recitation of subjection as a prerequisite. On solidarity […]
UCSC Night at the Museum: “Global 1968 – Race and Revolution around the World”
Museum of Art & History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States6:00pm - doors open | 6:30pm - program begins Fifty years ago, countries and cities around the globe erupted with protests and revolutionary movements demanding change and seeking to create a better future. Featuring four renowned historians, "Global 1968" spotlights marginalized groups and lesser-known events and places in the global upheavals of 1968—from Mexico to […]
Jennifer Doyle: “Harassment & the Unravelling of the Queer Commons”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk will attempt to speak to the difficulty of this moment for queer/feminist theorists—for teachers, students and staff who live and work with harassment, with forms of misogyny that are so embedded in professional life as, in some ways, to feel synonymous with it. This work is a return to a scene many of […]
Building a Coding Workflow from Terminal to Github: Workshop with Fabiola Hanna
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibraryConfused by Github? Scared by the black screen of the Terminal? If you’re looking to code, but don’t know how to get started join Fabiola Hanna for an introductory workshop and learn how to set up a coding workflow. We’ll start with basic scripts in Terminal then move to setting up Brackets and working […]
Right Livelihood Conference
UC Santa Cruz'Alternative Nobel Prize' Laureates at UCSC In May 2018, a group of Right Livelihood change-makers based in Canada and the US will convene at the University of California, Santa Cruz to discuss challenges and opportunities for advancing social and environmental justice. In these tumultuous times, this meeting will deepen and ground our local efforts […]