Events
Distinguished Graduate Student Alumni Award Luncheon and Career Paths Panel
Stevenson Event Center11:30am-12:50pm Annual award luncheon for five distinguished graduate student alumni, one from each academic division. This year's luncheon will include a panel discussion with the five distinguished graduate student alumni honorees […]
Jody Greene: “Radical Learning – The Heart of the UC Santa Cruz Experience”
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis event will review the bold and radical educational vision of UC Santa Cruz since its inception, while introducing alumni to the innovative 21st-century approaches we are taking to ensure […]
Nidhi Mahajan: “Moorings: Trade Networks and States in the Western Indian Ocean”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesSailing vessels or dhows have long connected different parts of the western Indian Ocean, transporting goods, and people across South Asia, the Middle East and East Africa. These dhows […]
Paolo Gerbaudo, The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesPaolo Gerbaudo is the Director of the Centre for Digital Culture at King's College, London. He is the author of Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism […]
The Carl Mark Deppe Memorial Lecture: Alex Purves
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCarl Deppe was a charismatic young man and a promising student. In 1985 he was a sophomore at UCSC, studying Greek and ancient philosophy. While returning from a rock concert, […]
SPOT Research Cluster Workshop
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesSPOT (Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory) is part of an NSF-funded research project aiming to create a computational platform that generates prosodic structure candidate sets from syntactic (grammatical) structure in different […]
Banu Bargu: “Catching a Moving Train: Decolonizing Aleatory Materialism”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis paper analyzes Althusser's proposal for an aleatory materialism through his engagement with historical materialism, and particularly with Marx on "primitive accumulation." It identifies two different legacies of Marx's […]
Michael Vann: The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt – Empire, Disease, and Modernity In French Colonial Vietnam
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt - Empire, Disease, and Modernity In French Colonial Vietnam" The History Department Presents Michael Vann Professor of History at Sacramento State University and UCSC History […]
Deirdre de la Cruz: “Psychic Surgery and Other Philippine Phenomena of the Global Occult”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn the variegated landscape of the Filipino paranormal, one phenomenon garnered worldwide attention in the last quarter of the twentieth century: psychic surgery. A form of spiritual healing in […]
Living Writers: Brenda Shaughnessy with Ellen Bass
Peace United Church 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBrenda Shaughnessy earned a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MFA from Columbia University. She is the author of Interior with Sudden Joy (1999), Human Dark […]