Events
Markus Zusak: Book Discussion and Signing – Bridge of Clay
Santa Cruz Veterans Hall AuditoriumMarkus Zusak, award-winning and internationally best-selling author of The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger, will celebrate the release of his highly-anticipated new book, Bridge of Clay, at an offsite and ticketed event. An unforgettable and sweeping family saga, written in powerfully inventive language and bursting with heart, as signature Zusak. Tickets for this celebration and book signing event are […]
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VENUE CHANGE: Living Writers – Khary Polk
Peace United Church 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKhary Polk is an Assistant Professor of Black Studies & Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College. He attended Oberlin College as an undergraduate, where he majored in English with a concentration in Creative Writing, and received his Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University. Polk has written for the Studio Museum of […]
CANCELED: Cultural Studies Colloquium with Ashwini Tambe
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States“Tropical Exceptions - Racial Logics in Twentieth Century Intergovernmental Age of Consent Debates" Legal age standards for sexual maturity are challenging enough to devise at the state or national level, but they are especially contentious at the intergovernmental level. Efforts at setting common standards have often been marked by imperial logics on the part of those […]
Micah Perks Book Launch: True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute welcomes local author Micah Perks to celebrate the publication of her new book, True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape. Magical and funny, profound and seductive, the linked stories in True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape explore the life-bending power of love. In these interwoven lives, ardent desire […]
PhD+ Workshop: “Navigating Career Choices Post-PhD – Reflections on Work and Identity”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States"Navigating Career Choices Post-PhD: Reflections on Work and Identity" This workshop will provide space to discuss, critique, and engage with some of the thorny questions about transitioning to non-tenure track careers. Kelly Anne Brown, Associate Director of UCHRI, and Shana Melnysyn, Competitive Grants Officer at UCHRI, will share their perspectives as PhDs at work in […]
David Lee: “Pictures of the Past – Introduction to the Rock Art of Western North America”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesAncient hunter-gatherer peoples across the globe painted and carved designs on rock walls for tens of thousands of years. The deserts of western North America contain some of the largest and most complex rock art sites known, and careful documentation of them has helped us to understand how these enigmatic images fit into the lives […]
UCHRI Funding Workshop
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesUCHRI has just announced their call for applications for the 2018-2019 Academic Year. Join us for an Information Session with Kelly Anne Brown (Associate Director, UCHRI) and Shana Melnysyn (UCHRI Competitive Grants) to learn more. UCHRI has released six new competitive grants. The workshop will address these new opportunities and cover what you need to […]
Sharad Chari: “Apartheid Remains”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States“Apartheid Remains” explores how people subjected to life in a patchwork landscape of industry and residence in the Indian Ocean City of Durban, South Africa, have sought to contest their social and spatial subjection across the 20th century, particularly in the revolutionary 1970s and 1980s, and in today’s racial capitalism. Event Photos: Sharad Chari […]
Ben Breen, When Drugs Became Global: Technologies of Intoxication in the Enlightenment
Forager, San Jose 420 S 1st St, San Jose, CA, United StatesOver the course of the seventeenth eighteenth centuries, psychoactive substances from opiates to cannabis to coffee underwent rapid globalization. Enlightenment thinkers were by no means immune to the allure of these novel drugs. Scientists and physicians tried to discover the “occult virtues” of these drugs through an array of experimental methods, including testing them on themselves. This […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Ur Shlonsky
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States"Subjects of copular constructions" Ur Shlonsky, University of Geneve More info at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html