Events
The Humanities and Changing Conceptions of Work Culminating Conference
Making the MA/PhD Work Post Graduation: A Career Workshop for Humanities Graduate Students May 8 9:00 AM Breakfast and Registration (please pre-register) 10:00 Welcome by David Theo Goldberg, UCHRI […]
Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Conference
UC Santa CruzCan humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together? Through noticing, describing, and imagining, we renuew conversation about life on earth. Conference schedule: Thursday, May 8, 2014, 7-9 […]
Living Writers Series: Ursula Le Guin (live at the Rio Theater with live feed to Hum Hall) in concert with conference: Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (hosted by Anna Tsing)
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSpring 2014 UCSC Creative Writing Living Writers lineup: Ursula LeGuin is the author of over thirty novels, children's books, and short story, poetry and essay collections, mainly in the genres of fantasy […]
Ursula K. le Guin
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAnthropocene: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Video Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the most-loved writers of our time. Her work includes science fiction, novels, essays, and […]
10th Annual Graduate Research Symposium
McHenry Library, UCSCJoin us at 1:30 pm on Friday, May 9th, for the 10th Annual Graduate Research Symposium. This event offers graduate students an opportunity to share their research with faculty, staff, […]
Jean Fox Tree: "Spontaneous Communication"
Spontaneous communication, both verbal and written, includes a wide variety of phenomena generally not found in prepared communication. These include restarted ideas, ums and uhs, words like you know and […]
Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: The House of the Devil
Stevenson, Room 150During the 1980s, over 70% of American adults believed in the existence of abusive satanic cults. A typically low key and intelligent horror film from Ti West, perhaps the most […]
Carl Mark Deppe Lecture: Harry Berger Jr.: "Dying Angry: The Wrath of Socrates in Plato's Dialogue, Phaedo"
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlato wrote four dialogues dramatizing the last days and death of Socrates: Euthyphro, The Apology, Crito, and Phaedo. “Dyng Angry” will focus on Socrates’s behavior and performance —and weirdness—in Phaedo. […]
Rebecca Hester: "Bodies as=of knowledge: The ethics and politics of biometrics in health care"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWhat are the proposed uses of biometrics in health care and the ethics and politics of body data in the digital age? As security and surveillance become the order of […]
Martin Holbraad: "How Myths Make Men in Afro-Cuban Divination"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMartin Holbraad Professor Social Anthropology, University College London and Co-Director of Cosmology, Religion, Ontology and Culture Research Group (CROC) Martin Holbraad's main field research is in Cuba, where he focuses […]