Events
CANCELED – PhD+ Workshop – Public Speaking
Virtual and In PersonLearn techniques to warm up, deal with nerves, craft your talk, and deliver an engaging oration for any audience. This interactive workshop will take you through Bri’s trademarked W.A.V.E.® methods […]
CANCELED: Hannah Zeavin – Sigmund Freud: Tele-Analyst
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy, Hannah Zeavin shows that, far from a recent concern in the COVID-19 pandemic, teletherapy is as old as psychoanalysis itself. It may […]
Living Writers: Student Reading
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesConversations: Power Forged, the Fall Living Writers theme, features poets, novelists, academics, curators, and artists in conversation with one another, in person, across genre and media to open up a space […]
POSTPONED – Douglas Brinkley: Silent Spring Revolution
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesNew York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley will present his new book Silent Spring Revolution, which chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties […]
CANCELED – Linguistics Colloquia: Argyro Katsika
Humanities 2, Room 359Argyro Katsika, UC Santa Barbara Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
Miriam Ellis Memorial Celebration
Stevenson Event CenterJoin us to celebrate the life of Miriam Ellis, lecturer emerita of French, fellow of Cowell College, and founder of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP). The memorial will be held at Stevenson Event Center (SEC), where audiences have long enjoyed and will continue to enjoy performances of the MEIP. Miriam’s irrepressible joy touched the […]
Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox – Discussion of Dracula (Chap. 17-End)
Virtual EventVictorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox As part of the series “Victorian Necromancies,” Professor Fox will lead three sessions that offer the Friends an opportunity to explore the Victorian gothic, one of her favorite genres of 19th-century literature. From Professor Fox: “The first session will be a presentation on my forthcoming book, The Necromantics: Reanimation, […]
CANCELED: Faculty and Graduate Student Grants Session with UCHRI
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesInterested in faculty & graduate student funding opportunities from the UC Humanities Research Institute and want to know more about the advisory committee selection process? Join UCHRI Interim Director Julia Lupton, Associate Director Kelly Anne Brown, and Research Grants Manager Sara Černe for a grants presentation and Q&A. This year, UCHRI is offering up to […]
Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore
Virtual EventThe Friends of the Dickens Project invites you to participate in "Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore." The three sessions will offer the Friends a chance to examine Victorian responses to the environment, with a particular emphasis on Australia. The first session will involve a presentation on […]
Race, Violence, and Form in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Dream Inn Santa Cruz 175 W Cliff Dr, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis symposium will bring together invited speakers from the US and Ireland to examine how recent sea changes in the field of Victorian studies—particularly its embrace of critical race studies, strategic presentism, and new formalism—create space to rethink both Ireland’s place in 19th-century British literary studies and the pressures Irish literature and its contemporary reverberations […]