Events
Nimrod Rosler: "Challenges in the Way to Peace in Israel/Palestine"
Social Sciences 2, Room 121The winding way to peace in Israel and Palestine requires addressing challenges in the intersection between leaders, society and the political context. The current talk will present a framework to […]
FreeRick Baldoz: "The Strange Career of the Filipino 'National': Race, Immigration, and the Bordering of U.S. Empire"
College 8, Room 301 College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk will explore the incorporation of Filipino immigrants in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on the interplay of colonialism, racial boundaries and […]
FreeCANCELLED – Kris Alexanderson: "Transoceanic Politics and Dutch Maritime Conciliation in East Asia during the 1930s"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDue to a medical emergency, this event has been cancelled. – April 12, 2014 Kris Alexanderson "Transoceanic Politics and Dutch Maritime Conciliation in East Asia during the 1930s" Kris Alexanderson’s current work examines the collaborative efforts of the Netherlands East Indies’ colonial administration, Dutch shipping businesses, and Dutch foreign consulates in port cities across the […]
Marjorie Venit: "Strangers in a Strange Land: Negotiating the Afterlife in Monumental Greek tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMarjorie S. Venit is Professor of Art History & Archaeology at the University of Maryland. She specializes in the art and archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean world with an emphasis on the Greek center and its periphery considered both geographically and temporally. Particularly interested in the intersection of cultures and ethnicities, she has excavated at […]
Living Writers Series: Annie Boutelle in concert with Cowell College's Mary Holmes Festival
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAnnie Boutelle is the author of Thistle and Rose: A Study of Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry, as well as two poetry collections, Becoming Bone and Nest of Thistles. The spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series, Dislocations and […]
Models of Mediterranean Modernity: The Perspective From the Longue Duree
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UC Santa Cruz Emeriti Group presents the 2014 spring Emeriti Faculty Lecture "Models of Mediterranean Modernity: The Perspective From the Longue Duree" Viewed from a global perspective, the Mediterranean […]
"Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism" Conference
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOver the course of the year, the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster has brought together scholars from UCSC and beyond for an interdisciplinary inquiry into the history […]
Julie Legate: "Noncanonical Passives"
Abstract: In this talk, I investigate the syntactic structure of voice, focusing on noncanonical passives; I build on previous work by myself and others showing that voice is encoded in a […]
Dai Jinhua Film Screening: Still Life
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDai Jinhua at UCSC April 18-April 24 We are pleased to announce the visit of Beijing University Professor Dai Jinhua, who will be on campus for a series of events, […]
Google Earth Workshop
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGoogle Earth is an online virtual globe that allows researchers and students to display layered information on modern satellite imagery. In this introductory hands-on tutorial, participants will be taught the […]
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