Events
Events
Friday Forum with Veronika Zablotsky: "On the Question of Socialist Governmentality: Being Interested in Early Soviet Armenia”
Humanities 1, Room 202The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. Light refreshments will be available. […]
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Spring Awards & Humanities Undergraduate Research Award Presentations (HUGRA)
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSPRING AWARDS & HUMANITIES UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD PRESENTATIONS This annual “Celebrating Humanities” event is an important opportunity to acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition, awards, and distinctions over the course of this past year. The Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) support and encourage undergraduate research. In 1996, the Humanities Division began awarding students undertaking […]
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Coming Home from War: The Arts and Humanities in the Public Sphere
Kresge Town HallJoin Stephan Wolfert (Founding Director, Veterans Center for the Performing Arts), Humanities and Arts Division faculty and students from UC Santa Cruz, and local veterans and their families for a discussion about the vital role that literature and the arts can play in understanding the veteran experience and the challenges and opportunities, for both veterans […]
FreeGloria E. Chacón
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center’s Latino Literary Cultures Research Cluster Event 1: Workshop: 10 am-11:30 am in Humanities 1, Room 210 “Political Movements from the South and Chicano Texts” A conversation on indigenismo, Chicana/o theories of mestizaje, and their relationship to Central American and Zapatista political movements. All are welcome. Participants are encouraged […]
Free"Cry Havoc"!
Santa Cruz Veterans Hall AuditoriumOver 23 million living veterans have been wired for war but never re-wired to come home: Cry Havoc, a one-person play by military veteran Stephan Wolfert, that seamlessly interweaves Shakespeare’s most famous speeches with personal experience to help us understand the national crises we face when we fail in re-integrating our veterans. The military recruits […]
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Launch and Presentation of the Critical Sustainabilities Website
College 8, Room 201From activism to ecology, alternative culture to industry, "sustainability," it seems, is everywhere. In the face of economic and environmental crisis, and unprecedented rates of urbanization, the term has become ubiquitous in policy circles and across many social domains. Yet this ubiquity presents us with competing and often contradictory meanings and applications, and can lead […]
FreeLinguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
The Linguistics Department's annual Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) will be held Friday, May 29th, from 12:45 - 4:45pm in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. The Distinguished Alumnus speaker will be Aaron White (2008), who is a fifth year PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland. We hope you will attend. 12:45 p.m. Refreshments 12:55 […]
FreeComplicated Labor: Feminism, Maternity and Creative Practice Presents a Conversation with Sarah Manguso and Maggie Nelson
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesConversation will be based on two readings. Contact Micah Perks at meperks@ucsc.edu to request reading selections. Additional Event: Public reading by Sarah Manguso and Maggie Nelson in the UCSC Living Writers Series, Thursday May 28, Humanities Lecture Hall Free and open to the public. The Complicated Labor Research Cluster is an interdisciplinary collaboration that brings together artists and scholars around questions of feminism, maternity, […]
FreeFriday Forum with Ann Drevno: “Unintended Consequences of Regulatory Spotlighting Pesticides: The Case of California’s Central Coast Agricultural Waiver program”
Humanities 1, Room 202The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. Light refreshments will be available. […]
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Global Islam: A Weekend of Film and Video
Communications 150, Studio CFriday, May 29th 4:00-5:30pm Videos by Mounir Fatmi: Mixology (2010), Technologia (2010), and Rain Making (2004) Discussion with: Tarek El Haik, Assistant Professor, Cinema, San Francisco State University Peter Limbrick, Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz. 7:00-9:00pm Feature film: Dernier Maquis/Aden, dir. Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche (France, 2008) Discussion with: Mayanthi Fernando, Associate Professor, […]
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