Events
Cameron McNeil: “The Chocolate Tree and Its History among the Ancient Maya”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis presentation will explore the use of the chocolate tree (Theobroma cacao L.) in Mesoamerican communities with a focus on the ancient Maya polity of Copan in Honduras. While the […]
Living Writers Series: Dion Farquhar and Gary Young
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDion Farquhar is a poet and fiction writer with recent poems in The Southeast Review, Shampoo, and/or, Dark Sky Magazine, etc. Her chapbook, Cleaving, won first prize at Poets Corner […]
Barbara Thompson: “Curatorial Activism: Exhibiting Arts of the ‘Other'”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn curatorial practices today, asking the question “What is art?” leads to a clear lack of a singularly “correct” answer. Expand the question to “What is African art?” and the […]
Sandra Koelle: “Intimate Bureaucracies: Roadkill, Policy, and Fieldwork in the Shoulder”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDoctor Koelle researches how to develop data visualizations that represent spatial experience as subjective and relational rather than as defined through place. The goal is to map animal and human movements and constraints across the […]
Sarah Abrevaya Stein: “In Search of a Novel Archive of the Jewish Past”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWhat sources are essential to the study of the Jewish past? Where can they be found? In this talk, Sarah Abrevaya Stein discusses her on-going efforts to stretch the linguistic, […]
Jill Hoy: “Singular Dualities: Painting from Life, Painting in the Studio”
UCSC Humanities Presents the East Coast Distinguished Visiting Alumni lecture featuring Jill Hoy Cowell '77. This is the inaugural talk from the East Coast Distinguished Alumni fund. Jill will present […]
Whose City? Labor and the Right to the City Movements
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesA one-day conference at the University of California Santa Cruz Sponsored by the Center for Labor Studies & Urban Studies Research Cluster The right to the city is…far more than […]
Eve Zyzik: “Authentic texts, vocabulary load, and focus-on-form in foreign language teaching”
Humanities 1, Room 320This talk will present a practical overview of the use of authentic texts for language learning purposes within the context of contemporary second language acquisition (SLA) research. Some of the […]
Jael Silliman: “Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women’s Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn the nineteenth and twentieth centures the Baghdadi Jewish diaspora stretched from Basra to Shanghai, with Calcutta acting as an important trading center on that route. During that time Calcutta […]
Maria Frangos: “Queer Morphologies”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesProfessor Frangos’s “Queer Morphologies” explores metamorphosis and non-human embodiment in literature from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance as sites of queer possibility and potentiality. The project asks how human/animal metamorphoses surface and resurface to produce […]