Events
Opening reception for “Inside the Gail Project: An Experiential Research Odyssey”
Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Cowell College Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOn November 6 from 4-6 pm, the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery in Cowell College will be hosting an opening reception for "Inside the Gail Project: An Experiential Research Odyssey," a companion show to the current exhibition at the Sesnon Gallery. This exhibition highlights student research and the active learning that takes place in the Gail […]
Feminist Studies Colloquium: “Agrarian Questions in Urban India”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFall 2017 Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: "Agrarian Questions in Urban India" Vinay Gidwani, University of Minnesota Priti Ramamurthy, University of Washington Based on recent life histories of urban migrants who work within informal sector occupations in Delhi and Hyderabad, we ask how “agrarian questions” orient workers’ attitudes to forms of labor and habitation. By also considering gender […]
PhD+ : Gateway to Digital Humanities – an Introduction to Digital Methodologies & Resources at UCSC
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis co-led event provides students with first-hand experience working in DH, resources to continue building upon this project, and a larger discussion regarding the possibilities for individual and collaborative digital research. Rachel Deblinger will open with a 45 minute hands-on workshop, introducing the process of building a dataset and visualizing data as an analytical method. […]
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Living Writers Series: Sesshu Foster
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSesshu Foster is a poet, teacher, and community activist born and raised in East Los Angeles. He earned his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and returned to LA to continue teaching, writing, and community organizing. His first collection of poetry, City Terrace Field Manual (1996), celebrates the neighborhood Foster grew up in. He has said that […]
Marina Rustow: “The Cairo Geniza and the Middle East’s Archive Problem”
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: Marina Rustow: "The Cairo Geniza and the Middle East’s Archive Problem" The Cairo Geniza, a cache of 400,000 manuscript pages preserved in a medieval Egyptian synagogue, has yielded many unexpected finds, but perhaps none so unexpected as thousands of documents in Arabic script from the […]
FreeNajat Abdulhaq, “Unconventional Revision of Narratives: The Emergence of the ‘Arab Jew’ in Contemporary Arabic Literature”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: For decades, two official nationalist narratives, Arab-Egyptian & Israeli, dominated the discourse on the history of Egypt’s Jews. Recently, a different narrative is emerging in the Arabic speaking sphere, with documentaries, films & novels taking a cardinal role in this process. How and why is this emergence taking place? Najat Abdulhaq is the […]
Humanities Radio Hour: “Merchant of Venice” with Sean Keilen, Nathaniel Deutsch, Irena Polic
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Michael Hardt: “Where have all the leaders gone?”
Kresge Town HallThe Center for Cultural Studies and the Institute for Humanities Research presents: "Where Have All the Leaders Gone?" Each year, we continue to witness the eruption of “leaderless” social movements. From North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia, movements have left journalists, political analysts, police forces, and governments disoriented and […]
Living Writers Series: Renee Tajima-Peña
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesProfessor Renee Tajima-Peña is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker whose credits include the documentaries, Calavera Highway, Skate Manzanar, Labor Women, My America...or Honk if You Love Buddha and Who Killed Vincent Chin? Her films have premiered at the Cannes, Locarno, New Directors/New Films, San Francisco, Sundance and Toronto film festivals and the Whitney Biennial. Her current works are the documentary and transmedia project, No Más […]
Digital Humanities: A Virtual Reality Open House
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibraryExplore the new DSC VizLab and experience Virtual Reality. We invite you to test the HTC VIVE headset, Samsung Gear VR, and Google Cardboard Headset. DSC Staff will be available to answer questions and introduce you to available resources and hardware. If you've never tried VR before, this is your chance. Location: Digital Scholarship Commons […]