Events
Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures
Engineering 2, Room 599 Engineering 2, 1156 High St University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCo-authors Neda Atanasoski (UCSC Feminist Studies, CRES) and Kalindi Vora (UC Davis Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies) will present on their new book Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics […]
Living Writers: Student Readings
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesStudents will be reading from their own work.
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 […]
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
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]