Events
Noreen Khawaja – What is a University? Humboldt and HistCon in Perspective
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk reteaches the history of the research university as a series of answers to the question of what symbols are for, what symbols can do. By answers I do not mean simply what scholars have said about these matters, but also what we have done, the worlds we have made in our teaching and […]
Engaging Digital Democracy: Tools to Recognize Political Dis- and Mis-Information
Virtual and In PersonThis event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series - Power, Politics, and Our Democracy UC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How […]
Burnout: Recognizing, Preventing, Mitigating with Audrey Kim and Nicolette Severson
Graduate Student Commons, Room 204 420 Hagar Dr, Santa CruzBurnout is a state of exhaustion that can impact our work, personal lives, health, and overall sense of well-being and purpose. Join us to discuss common causes and symptoms, and learn strategies to recognize, prevent, and manage burnout. This event is on Oct 22, 4:00-5:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204. Register below […]
Book Celebration: Toxic City and A People’s History of SFO
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesJoin the Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies to celebrate the release of two important new books by UCSC faculty exploring power, historical development, and environmental justice in the Bay Area: Lindsey Dillon’s Toxic City and Eric Porter’s A People’s History of SFO (both published by University of California Press). The authors will be […]
Mastering the Elevator Pitch with Nada Miljkovich
Graduate Student Commons, Room 204 420 Hagar Dr, Santa CruzIn this interactive workshop, graduate students will learn how to craft a compelling and concise elevator pitch tailored to their specific goals—whether it’s securing funding, attracting partners, or landing clients. Participants will explore techniques to clearly communicate their vision, project, or business in just a few sentences, leaving a lasting impression. Through guided exercises and […]
Dana Frank: What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop welcomes Dana Frank, UC Santa Cruz Professor Emerita of History, for a discussion about her new book What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. "The most important book on the Great […]
Living Writers with Stacey D’Erasmo
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLiving Writers Series – Fall 2024 Growing Things ~ gardens, poems, emotions, relationships, stories, our artistic practices, carefully tended, beautifully ordered, rewilded and wild ~ About The Living Writers Series The Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series […]
WordPress Website Design with Jason Chafin
Graduate Student Commons, Room 204 420 Hagar Dr, Santa CruzProfessional websites can boost your reputation and aid your networking and job search. UCSC provides free access to WordPress (with several design templates) to faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students. Get design tips from Jason and get started using WordPress to make a blog or static website to showcase your graduate or postdoctoral work! This […]
Curating Your Digital Reputation with Lisa Nielsen
Virtual and In PersonYour digital reputation refers to your presence on the internet, on social media platforms and on personal and professional websites. Learn tips on how to distinguish yourself from the crowd and create a lasting impression in an evolving digital communications landscape. This event has two sessions: Oct 16, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. via Zoom or […]
Lisa Blackmore: Hydrocommoning
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn this talk, Lisa will present 'hydrocommoning' as a concept to think with emergent water cultures by asking what work a theory and praxis of hydrocommoning might do to support transitions to alternative hydrosocial relations beyond modern urban and extractive paradigms. She will lay out a methodological route for interdisciplinary water research that takes seriously […]