Events
Living Writers: Sina Grace
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC alum Sina Grace is the author and illustrator of the autobiographical Self-Obsessed and Not My Bag and the writer of Marvel’s Iceman comic series, featuring the first out gay […]
Massimiliano Tomba: “Insurgent Universality – An Alternative Legacy of Modernity”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesAn Alternative Legacy of Modernity” Insurgent Universality offers a new way of thinking political universality that radically differs from the legal universalism of human rights and cosmopolitanism. Assuming a conception […]
Nadine Theiler: “A Unified Semantics for Additive Particles”
Humanities 2, Room 259English has several additive particles, which differ in their distribution. One of these is also, a common choice to signal additivity in assertions and polar questions, (1a-b). It has been […]
PhD+ Graduate Student Workshop Series – Understanding the ACLS Public Fellows Program: Reflections from UCSC Alumni
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesLearn more about the ACLS Public Fellows program in conversation with two UCSC Grad Alums who have launched careers through the ACLS Public Fellows program. Sophia Booth Magnone, Literature […]
Living Writers: Myriam Gurba
Myriam Gurba is a native Californian. She attended U.C. Berkeley thanks to affirmative action. She is the author of the 2017 memoir Mean, and two short story collections, Dahlia Season […]
Questions That Matter: Data and Democracy
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterTechnology increasingly shapes our habits and defines our access to information. As our society navigates shifting sources of news, targeted advertising, and polarizing online rhetoric, it is essential that we […]
Leta Hong Fincher: “The Feminist Awakening in China”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesOn the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre, […]
Jessica Bauman: “What Refugees Taught Me About Shakespeare”
Kresge Town HallNew York City theater director Jessica Bauman and UCSC Professor Cat Ramirez will explore the ways that the stories we hear and tell about refugees shape our responses to the […]
Living Writers: Ronaldo V. Wilson
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC Professor Ronaldo V. Wilson is an award-winning writer, artist and performer and co-founder of the critically lauded performance group Black Took Collective.
Maitra Memorial Lecture / Foundation Medal with Janet Yellen
Join us as we present the Foundation Medal to Janet Yellen, distinguished fellow of Brookings Institution and former chair of the Federal Reserve. UC Santa Cruz is proudly recognizing influential […]