Events
PhD+ Workshop – Stop #disserhating, Start Writing
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesNot sure how to begin your dissertation work? Having a hard time fitting writing in amidst other obligations? Stuck in the middle of your process? Huh, what process? 8th-year PhD candidate struggling to finish? In this interactive workshop, PhD students at all stages will have the opportunity to anonymously submit questions and concerns about the […]
Urmi Engineer Willoughby – Cultivating Malaria in the Gulf South, 1718-1860
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Thom Gentle Environmental History Lecture In this talk, Urmi Willoughby will present her research on agriculture, development, and the growth of endemic fevers in lower Louisiana. She will explore why fevers spread in the borderlands of the Gulf South and lower Mississippi Valley in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and show how economic and […]
Savannah Shange – Abolition as Method: Anti-blackness, Anthropology and Ethics
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk draws on Savannah Shange's recently published book, Progressive Dystopia, in which she argues that San Francisco is a site of social apocalypse for Black communities. Given the momentum ‘abolition’ has as a political critique of prisons and policing, what does it offer us as scholars trying to apprehend the broad set of violences […]
CANCELLED: Stephanie Shih – The Nature of Lexical Categories: Consideration from Sound Symbolism
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThere are many approaches to modeling lexically-conditioned phonology in current formal theories, including lexically-indexed constraints and cophonologies. Nearly all of these existing approaches assume categorical membership in the lexical classes that condition differential phonotactics or phonological behaviors: for example, a lexical item is either a noun or a verb, or of one gender class or […]
FeaturedLayali Morocco: Jewish Songlines & Soundscapes
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterEvent Photos by Jessica Guild: Samuel Torjman Thomas & ASEFA ASEFA (meaning “gathering”) is led by ethnomusicologist and multi-instrumentalist Samuel Torjman Thomas, Ph.D. Blending vocals, oud, violin, nay, and plenty of percussion, with songs in Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish, and Ladino, this trio ensemble traverses several North African song traditions. Drawing upon a rich intercultural […]
Sean Keilen: Reading Hamlet Now
Forager, San Jose 420 S 1st St, San Jose, CA, United StatesShakespeare's works are rightly famous for their lifelikeness and insights into human affairs. What can they show us about our circumstances now, in a world where truth is inscrutable, social and political institutions are in decline, and we seem to relish conflict more than peace? This lecture will explore that question in the context of […]
TEDx Santa Cruz
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTEDxSantaCruz 2019: The Art of Hope Features riveting talks and performances from a diverse range of inspired, innovative and renowned speakers and artists. Join the local conference on December 7, 2019, at the Rio Theatre. Nine UCSC speakers join TEDx Santa Cruz extravaganza on Dec. 7 For tickets and more information visit www.tedxsantacruz.org
Linguistics Colloquia: Dave Kush
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesDave Kush (NTNU-Norway) - Title TBD About eight times each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full information visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
PhD+ Workshop – Where Can I Go From Here? Exploring Careers Beyond Academia
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCurious about careers outside of academia, but not sure where to begin? In this interactive workshop, we’ll begin to explore the many career paths PhDs in the humanities can enter upon graduation. After a brief orientation to ImaginePhD, a career exploration and planning tool designed for PhDs in the Humanities and Social Sciences, we’ll discuss […]
Living Writers: Student Readings
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesStudents will be reading from their own work.