Events
Eve Zyzik: Spanish Studies Colloquium
Humanities 1, Room 202Spelling is an aspect of literacy that causes significant difficulties for Spanish heritage language learners. The current research study targets one of the most problematic areas of Spanish orthography: substitution of “s” […]
Anjali Arondekar: What More Remains – Sexuality, Slavery, Historiography
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk engages a ‘small’ history of sexuality and slavery in Portuguese India. At stake are three questions: How do we call attention to the displacement of slave pasts within […]
FrankenCon 2019
UC Santa CruzFor over two hundred years, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has haunted our days and chilled our dreaming nights. Celebrate and explore the enduring legacy of the world’s first science-fiction horror story […]
Dylan Riley: Capitalism, Democracy, and Authoritarianism – A Reconsideration
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesDylan Riley is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe: Italy, Spain, and Romania 1870-1945 (Johns Hopkins University […]
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Database
Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJessica Kolopenuk will talk with Science & Justice and the Crown College about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women database. For resources, news articles, tool-kits and webinars that frame the […]
Living Writers: Peg Alford Pursell and Sophia Shalmiyev
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPeg Alford Pursell is the author of A Girl Goes Into the Forest, (Dzanc Books, July 2019), and of Show Her A Flower, A Bird, A Shadow, the 2017 Indies Book of the […]
Discussion with Peg Alford Pursell and Sophia Shalmiyev
Humanities 1, Room 202Join us to discuss excerpts from Mother Winter, a memoir by Sophia Shalmiyev and A Girl Goes Into The Forest, a collection of short stories by Peg Alford Pursell. Please […]
Stephen Roddy: Testing Allegiances – Ueda Akinari’s Rewriting of an Exemplary Chinese Friendship
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk examines the transcultural implications of Ueda Akinari's (1734-1809) short story "The Chrysanthemum Pledge" (Kikka no chigiri), a masterpiece considered to have overshadowed the 17th-century Chinese tale of exemplary […]
Eugene Park: A Genealogy of Dissent – The Progeny of Fallen Royals in Chosŏn Korea
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis lecture makes observations on politics, society, and culture of Korea since 1392 through a story of human interest. Decades after a bloody persecution that virtually exterminated the royal Wangs […]
CANCELLED: Déborah Danowski & Eduardo Viveiros de Castro: Beyond the End of the World Sawyer Seminar Series
College 9/10 Multi-Purpose Room College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDue to unforeseen circumstances Déborah Danowski & Eduardo Viveiros de Castro had to regretfully cancel their engagement in Santa Cruz.