Events
25th Anniversary of the UC Humanities Initiative & 2013 Society of Fellows Event
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The Living Writers Reading Series: Patrick DeWitt
Unnamed Venue Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPatrick DeWitt, author of The Sisters Brothers, finalist for the Man Booker Prize, "If Cormac McCarthy had a sense of humor, he might have concocted a story like Patrick DeWitt's […]
Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium – William Marotti: "Timely and Untimely Politics: Art and Protest in Early 1960s Japan"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Timely and Untimely Politics: Art and Protest in Early 1960s Japan" William Marotti explores politics and timeliness by examining the advent of a critical art of the everyday in Japan […]
Feminist Poetry with Brenda Shaughnessy
Unnamed Venue Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesReception: 5:00-6:00 PM • Humanities Building 1, Room 210 Reading: 6:00-7:30 PM • Humanities Lecture Hall Brenda Shaughnessy is a prize-winning poet and UCSC alumni (Women's Studies, Literature, 1993) whose […]
Giovanna Di Chiro: “Embodied Ecologies: Connecting Sustainability and Environmental Justice”
Dr. Giovanna Di Chiro’s research bridges academic and community action domains and integrates the fields of environment, sustainability, and social justice. She teaches interdisciplinary courses in environmental studies and women’s […]
Víctor Fuentes: "Literatura memorialista de la inmigración"
Humanities 1, Room 408Víctor Fuentes is the author of a memoir, Memorias del segundo exilio español (2011) and fourteen books, among them, La marcha al pueblo en las letras españolas (1917-1936), El cántico […]
Brenda Shaughnessy: "Feminism & Poetry, Empowerment & Passion"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join Women's Studies / Feminist Studies alumni, classmates, and faculty for an intriguing afternoon. 2:00-3:00 PM: Reception 3:00-4:30 PM: Brenda Shaughnessy will present a talk entitled: "Feminism & Poetry, […]
Leviathan: Celebrating 40 Years of Jewish Journalism at UCSC
Please join former and current staff members of Leviathan in a celebration of the student publication's 40th anniversary. Leviathan is one of the longest-running university student publications devoted to Jewish […]
Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium – Soraya Murray: "The Rubble and the Ruin: Spec Ops:The Line as Anti-War Game"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"The Rubble and the Ruin: Spec Ops:The Line as Anti-War Game" Soraya Murray is an interdisciplinary scholar of contemporary visual culture, with particular interest in new media and globalization in the arts. […]
Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant WorkerRights in San Jose and Houston
In Conflicting Commitments, Dr. Shannon Gleeson goes beyond the debate over federal immigration policy to examine the complicated terrain of immigrant worker rights. Federal law requires that basic labor standards […]