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  • Jarrod Shanahan – Skyscraper Jails

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    How did a campaign to end the humanitarian catastrophe of New York City's Rikers Island penal colony culminate in the planned creation of skyscraper jails across the city, with no […]

  • PhD+ Workshop – Carole McGranahan, “Drafting Stages”

    Zoom CA, United States

    Join UCSC's Dr. Gina Athena Ulysse in a series of intimate conversations with speakers working inside and outside of academia and at different points in their careers about writing as […]

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    Baskin Ethics Lecture with Joy Connolly – A Connected Planet: Scholarship for the Global Good

    University Center, Bhojwani Room CA, United States

    “Serving the public good” is the motto and a strategic goal of many an American research university. In this lecture, Joy asks: what public do humanistic scholars serve, how do we define the public and its good, and how does and how might our study contribute to this project? Thinking critically about the tradition of […]

  • ACLS Workshop with Joy Connolly

    Humanities 2, Room 259

    Professor Connolly will present an overview of current American Council of Learned Societies programs in support of humanistic scholarship, including fellowships, grants, and projects accelerating equity and progressive change; She will also discuss recent and emerging scholarly directions, including digital publications, collaborative research, translation, and publicly engaged work. Joy Connolly began her service as President […]

  • PhD+ Workshop – Psychology of Writing

    Virtual and In Person

    Sometimes we can be our severest writing critics and biggest hindrances to writing success. Learn about the VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center (for graduate students only) and how to overcome psychological barriers and start writing! Andrea Seeger received a bachelor’s degree in literature from UC Santa Cruz, master’s in English literature from the University of […]

  • Amelia Glaser – Angry Winds: Jewish Leftists and the Challenge of Palestine, 1929

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    In the summer of 1929, a week of violence in Mandate Palestine left hundreds of Jews and Arabs dead and many more wounded. These events, which began with protests in Jerusalem, divided the world-wide Jewish Left into those who sympathized with the Arabs and those who condemned the violence as a new manifestation of the […]

  • Keya Ganguly – Reason and the Image: On Satyajit Ray’s Shatranj Ke Khilari (The Chess Players)

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    This talk focuses on Satyajit Ray’s cinematic treatment of an episode from India’s late colonial history in Shatranj Ke Khilari (“The Chess Players,” 1977). Through his portrayal of the betrayal of reason under the pretext of law, Ray makes an appeal on behalf of the visual image as a critique of reason rather than its […]

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