Events
Global Islam: Entangled Universalisms Panel
Humanities 1, Room 202CENTER FOR EMERGING WORLDS 2104-2015: GLOBAL ISLAM INAUGURAL EVENT Monday, November 17, 3:30-5, Humanities 1, Room 202 Panel: Entangled Universalisms Dr. Darryl Li, Associate Research Scholar, Yale Law School, "Jihad and Other Universalisms" Professor Henri Lauzière, Northwestern University "Imperial Entanglement as Moderating Factor" Monday, November 17, 7:00pm, Social Sciences 2, Room 071 Public Discussion with […]
FreeBrian Turner: "Poetry, War, And Coming Home"
Brian Turner, combat veteran of the Iraq war and award-winning poet, will lead the last discussion of the War Comes Home series in The Forum at Cabrillo College. Mr. Turner will read from his work and interact with the audience discussing veterans returning home from war. Brian has won the Pen Center Best in the […]
FreeKaren Armstrong: "Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence"
Peace United Church 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe renowned author of A History of God will discuss and sign copies of her new book, Fields of Blood—a sweeping exploration of religion and the history of human violence. For the first time, religious self-identification is on the decline in America. Some analysts have cited as cause a post-9/11 perception: that faith in general […]
$32.70Elsewheres and Other-Wise: Critical Theory in a Different Register
UCHRI presents: Elsewheres and Other-Wise: Critical Theory in a Different Register Discussants: Aijaz Ahmad Gregoire Chamayou Derek Gregory Hsiao Li-Chun Li Hung-Chiung Achille Mbembe Sarah Nuttall Eyal Weizman Respondent: Ackbar Abbas If you are unable to attend, the event will be live streamed at uchri.org/events/elsewheres.
FreeJeffrey Omari: "Cyber Insecurity: Intellectual Property, Urban Development, and Civic Unrest in Brazil"
Humanities 1, Room 202Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 - 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202 This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the […]
FreeLatino Literature/La literatura latina V: A Symposium
Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBringing writers and scholars together in thoughtful interchange, this fifth biennial symposium of the Latino Literary Cultures Project at UCSC culminates in an evening reading by prizewinning novelist and journalist Ana Menéndez; writer/artist Maceo Montoya; and poet Xochiquetzal Candelaria. Please visit the Latino Literary Cultures Project website for the full program. This free, public […]
FreeStephen Zunes: "Israel, Palestine, and the United States: The Failure of Governments and the Hope from Civil Society"
Merrill Academics 102UCSC Cowell College Presents Conflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine Tuesday Evenings Fall 2014 6:00-7:45pm, Merrill Academy 102 Tuesday Oct 7: Christine King (Lecturer Kresge College). “Making Peace with Conflict” Tuesday Oct 14: Dr. Jennifer Derr (History Department, UC Santa Cruz). The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation. Tuesday Oct 21: Dr. […]
FreeFifth Annual Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading
Cabrillo College Room 450THE 5th ANNUAL MORTON MARCUS MEMORIAL POETRY READING honors poet, teacher and film critic Morton Marcus (1936-2009), one of Santa Cruz’s beloved cultural icons. This fifth annual event will feature award-winning poets Peter Everwine and Chuck Hanzlicek. The evening will be hosted by Gary Young and will also feature the winner of the 3rd Annual […]
FreePritam Singh: "Spatial Shift and Ecological Crisis: An Eco-Socialist Perspective”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesA spatial shift has been taking place in global capitalism in the last few decades, in the form of declining importance of the older advanced capitalism and the rising importance of "emerging economies." The most dramatic representation of this shift is that China has recently overtaken US as the largest economy in the world. For […]
FreeCANCELLED: Eric Schwitzgebel: "The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors"
Humanities 2, Room 259Do professional ethicists behave any morally better than do non-ethicists of similar social background? If not, do they at least show greater consistency between their normative attitudes and their outward behavior? Despite a long philosophical tradition associating philosophical reflection with improved moral behavior, these questions have never been empirically examined. I describe four possible models […]
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