Events
Migration and Ethnic Studies
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Borders, Bodies and Violence Research Cluster presents: Migration and Ethnic Studies This symposium brings together scholars roused by recent legislation targeting migrants and ethnic studies, such as Arizona's SB […]
West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
Stevenson Event CenterThe 30th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, hosted by the Department of Linguistics and the Linguistics Research Center, will take place on Friday, April 13 to Sunday, April 15, […]
Ondrej Skovajsa: “Written Voice: Walt Whitman’s first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855) and Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer (1934)”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Literature Department invites you to a talk by: Ondrej Skovajsa, Visiting Fulbright Scholar "Written Voice: Walt Whitman’s first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855) and Henry Miller’s Tropic of […]
Jonathan Boyarin: “Trickster’s Children: Jewishness and the Generations of Anthropology”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJonathan Boyarin is the Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has also taught at Wesleyan University, Dartmouth […]
Eva Vibeke Kofoed Pihl: “Pig Patients and their Personalities”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Eva Vibeke Kofoed Pihl Ph.D Fellow, Center for Medical Science and Technology Studies, University of Copenhagen; Visiting Fellow, and The Science and Justice Working […]
Sara M. Benson: “Locating Leavenworth: Prisons and Political Geography”
Humanities 1, Room 320This talk historicizes the placement of Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary (the U.S. nation’s oldest and largest federal prison designed as a replica of the U.S. capitol building) at the center of […]
Jonathan Kahana and Irene Lusztig: Documentary Reenactment
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFilmed reenactment has a long, inglorious history: for decades from the origins of cinema, it was a central aesthetic and conceptual method for both fiction and nonfiction filmmakers working with […]
Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Laleh Khadivi
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Fund, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Literature Department/Creative Writing […]
WHAT ARE WE DOING WHEN WE DO THE HUMANITIES?
Museum of Art & History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSaturday, April 21 @ 1 pm // Museum of Art & History Free and Open to the Public (includes free museum access) Join us for an exploration and celebration of […]
Rabindranath Tagore 150th Anniversary with Aparna Sen
Nickelodeon Theater 210 Lincoln Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAparna Sen starred at age 16 in Samapti, directed by Satyajit Ray, in 1961. Based on a story by the Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, it was her very first film. […]