Events
Carolyn Dean: "Seeing is Not Believing: Colonialist Visuality, Inka Masonry, and the Challenge of Aniconism"
Porter College, Room D245Visual & Media Cultures Colloquia talk, the first one of the 2014-15 season, on Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at 4 pm in Porter D245: "Seeing is Not Believing: Colonialist Visuality, Inka Masonry, and the Challenge of Aniconism," featuring Carolyn Dean. Carolyn Dean is a Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa […]
Terry Burke: "The Ethnographic State: France & the Invention of Moroccan Islam"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTERRY BURKE Research Professor of History, UCSC Alone among Muslim countries, Morocco is known for its own national form of Islam, “Moroccan Islam.” In his most recent book The Ethnographic State, Professor Burke argues that Moroccan Islam was actually invented in the early twentieth century by French ethnographers and colonial officers influenced by British colonial […]
FreeAaron Hahn Tapper and Tom Pettigrew: "Intergroup Dialogue and the Question of Normalization"
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. […]
FreeDiaspora and Memory — Sikhs and 1984
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThirty years ago saw the culmination of increasing social conflict in Punjab, a Sikh-majority state in India. In 1984, the government of India launched a military operation on the Sikhs' central religious site, aimed at militants, but also ensnaring innocent pilgrims. Later that year, Sikh bodyguards assassinated India's Prime Minister in retribution, immediately followed by […]
FreeLee Ross and Byron Bland: "Barriers for Peace"
Merrill Academics 102Conflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine Tuesday Evenings Fall 2014 • 6:00-7:45pm, Merrill Academy 102 Next Lecture: Tuesday Dec 2: Aaron Hahn Tapper (Peace and Justice Studies, University of San Francisco) and Tom Pettigrew (Psychology, UC Santa Cruz). Contact, Intergroup dialogue and the Question of Normalization. Previous Lecture in Series: Tuesday Oct 7: […]
FreeBrown Bag Lunch: Doing Digital Humanities (Open to all graduate students)
Graduate Student CommonsInterested in digital tools but not sure where to start? Excited about presenting your research to a public audience, but can't imagine what that might look like? Meet with UCSC faculty and graduate students who are doing digital work and learn more about the process of making digital projects. Jon Ellis (Philosophy), Tracy Perkins (Sociology, […]
FreeSandra Harvey: "The HeLa Bomb and the Science of Unveiling"
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 […]
FreeCornel West: "Ferguson, Racism, and the Media"
Media Theater, M110Engaging Education & Student Media Present (with the endorsement of A/BSA)... Speaker Blowout: FERGUSON, RACISM, AND THE MEDIA Keynote Speaker: CORNEL WEST Limited tickets available. Free tickets available at Engaging Education and Student Media Center for pickup on Nov 17 & a8 with UC Santa Cruz ID.
Living Writers Series: Kelly Link, Kim Stanley Robinson, & Karen Joy Fowler
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKelly Link is the author of three collections of short stories, Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters. Her short stories have won three Nebulas, a Hugo, and a World Fantasy Award. She was born in Miami, Florida, and once won a free trip around the world by answering the question “Why do you want to […]
FreeLucas McGranahan: "Darwinism and Pragmatism: William James on Evolution and Self-Transformation"
Crown 208Lucas McGranahan: "Darwinism and Pragmatism: William James on Evolution and Self-Transformation" Thursday November 20, 2:00 – 3:45 pm Crown 208, UC Santa Cruz Abstract William James presages twentieth-century Neo-Darwinism in his physiological approach to mental life, his early repudiation of the inheritance of acquired characteristics, and his creative extension of the concepts of variation and […]
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