Events
David Brundage: "Remembering 1916 in America: The Easter Rising’s Many Faces, 1919-1962"
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDavid Brundage is Professor of history and the History Graduate Program Director. The talk will draw on an essay-in-progress for a collection entitled Remembering 1916: The Easter Rising, the Somme and the Politics of Memory, ed. Richard S. Grayson and Fearghal McGarry. Brundage focuses his attention on a period that has been relatively neglected in […]
FreeMaurice Samuels: "French Universalism and the Jews: Anti-Antisemitism and the Right to Difference"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies presents Maurice Samuels: "French Universalism and the Jews: Anti-Antisemitism and the Right to Difference." In conflicts over the veil or the return of antisemitism in France today, minority difference is often seen as a threat not only to public order but to the Republic itself. […]
FreeFriday Forum with Keegan Cook Finberg: “Reading Poetry of the 1960s: The Fluxus Event Score as Multimedia Encounter”
Humanities 1, Room 202The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. Light refreshments will be available. […]
FreeArts and Humanities Grants and Fellowships Workshop for Graduate Students
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation about funding opportunities, nuts and bolts of grant proposal writing, and campus resources available to you in the Arts and Humanities Divisions. Panelists: Dorian Bell, Associate Professor of Literature Stephanie Moore, Research Grants Coordinator, Arts Division Irena Polic, Associate Director, Institute for Humanities Research Warren Sack, Professor, Film & Digital […]
Free15th Annual Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
Stevenson Event CenterFIFTEEN YEARS AND COUNTING... The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, Cowell College, and Stevenson College, will present The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP), an annual multilingual program of fully-staged short theater pieces, for its 15th season. Four public performances will be held on May 14, 15, 16, 17, at 8:00PM at the Stevenson Event […]
FreeLiving Writers Series: Dawn Lundy Martin
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms, and through a variety of media to include poetry, fiction, film, graphic art, dance, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines […]
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M: Mothers, Mountains, Migration, and Memory
In this spring's Stevenson College Distinguished Faculty Lecture, Lisbeth Haas, Professor of History and Feminist Studies at UCSC, discusses twentieth-century economic and demographic shifts in the Blue Ridge Mountain town of Hillsville, Virginia, home to her mother and a growing Mexican population. In this talk, Lisbeth Haas, Professor of History and Feminist Studies, discusses her […]
FreeMegan Thomas "Lascars, Sepoys, and the Traveling Labor of British Empire (Manila, 1762-4)"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMegan Thomas’ research focuses on the British forces that occupied Manila in 1762 just as East India Company rule in the subcontinent began. She traces their composition, the conditions under which they labored, and the strategies they employed for what they can tell us about the British empire in and around the Indian Ocean. Megan […]
FreePublic Screening of One Summer
Communications 150, Studio CYou're cordially invited to a free public screening of One Summer (2014, 93min.), with Director Yang Yishu (Nanjing University, China) in person. ABOUT THE FILM: One Summer is Director Yang Yishu’s first fiction feature. In tracing a woman’s efforts to find her husband and to understand why the police took him away without explanation, the […]
FreeTo Africa and Back
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAngela Elsy is a lecturer specialized in La Francophonie, the countries and regions around the world where French is spoken. For ten years she served as director of La Maison Francophone, an academic/residential program at Cowell College. She is in her third year and final year as Licker Chair at Cowell. She will present a […]
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