Events
IDEA Hub Fall Open House
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEngage in social and creative enterprise with a growing community of entrepreneurs at UCSC. Learn about social and creative innovation projects and opportunities. Tour the OpenLap incubator spaces. Wednesday, October […]
Feminist Studies Colloquium: Fatima Mojaddedi
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFatima Mojaddedi, "Body Mike: Alternating Words on the Afghan Frontier" This talk examines how the U.S. military’s counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan relies on a fetishistic misrecognition of speaking as inspiration, […]
Philosophy Colloquium: Jonathan Cohen, “Many Molyneux Questions”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Many Molyneux Questions" Mohan Matthen and Jonathan Cohen Molyneux asked whether a newly sighted man would recognize and distinguish a sphere and a cube by sight alone, assuming that he […]
Living Writers Series: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesNgũgĩ wa Thiong’o, novelist and theorist of post-colonial literature, is currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, USA. He was born in Kenya, […]
PhD+: Pedagogy Beyond the College Classroom – Careers in Curriculum Development & Instructional Design
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Pedagogy Beyond the College Classroom: Careers in Curriculum Development & Instructional Design" is the first event for the 2017-2018 PhD+ series. Three panelists who completed their PhDs in the humanities […]
Taking Scholarship Public: White Supremacy, Medieval Studies, and Mass Media
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe “unofficial medievalist to CNN,” David M. Perry is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in CNN.com, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, […]
María Inés La Greca: “The Collective Shout of ‘Ni una menos’ (‘Not one less’) in the Streets, the Media & the University: Feminists & Women’s Movement Against Gender Violence in Argentina”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMaría Inés La Greca's research focuses on the relationship between narrativity, performativity and gender. In light of Judith Butler’s work, especially her recent ethical interest on narrative, psychoanalysis & subject […]
Digital Humanities Happy Hour
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesShare your digital research with the DH community! Join the DH Research Cluster to learn more about DH research on campus at an informal happy hour. We invite researchers across campus to share their work with a short, […]
No Place Like Home
Santa Cruz Civic AuditoriumNo Place Like Home is a campus-community event to unveil the findings of our county-wide research on the affordable housing crisis in Santa Cruz. We will share the results of […]
Living Writers Series: Việt Thanh Nguyễn
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesViệt Thanh Nguyễn’s novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Other honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Edgar Award for […]