Events

The act of questioning is central to human conversation, but how do we know if a given sentence is a question in the first place? Looking at English, there are two reasonable accounts we might give. First, questions are defined by their semantics: i.e. questions have a particular kind of meaning which is distinct from […]

On Friday, May 20th, contributors to the book Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas, will be speaking about their research and activism in the campaign to end feminicide in Mexico and on the borderlands.  The speakers will also address the human rights crisis in Mexico, violence targeting human rights activists, and the social movement for […]

McDonald’s has “Fast Food Nation,” the fish industry has “Cod,” but no book has successfully weaved the cautionary tales and humorous history of the world of video games into our modern society… until now. For "Porn and Pong" Playboy Magazine journalist Damon Brown spent five years exploring how the $20 billion video game industry traces […]

On Friday, May 20th, contributors to the book Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas, will be speaking about their research and activism in the campaign to end feminicide in Mexico and on the borderlands.  The speakers will also address the human rights crisis in Mexico, violence targeting human rights activists, and the social movement for […]

The UCSC Classical Studies Program and the President's Chair in Ancient Studies present the annual Carl Deppe Lecture: In light of David Malouf's 2009 novel Ransom, based on Priam's supplication of Achilles in Book 24 of Homer's Iliad, the lecture will consider the figure of Priam as a vehicle for reconciling cultures and histories via […]

All members of the UCSC community and the general public are invited to attend the Twelfth Annual UCSC Literature Undergraduate Colloquium onThursday, May 19, 2011 in Humanities 1, room 210. The Undergraduate Colloquium is a day-long event showcasing and celebrating undergraduate academic work in the Literature Department, and is free and open to the public. […]

University of California, Santa Cruz HUMANITIES DEAN CANDIDATE PRESENTATION Professor William Ladusaw’s Vision for the Humanities The presentation will be followed by a brief question and answer session. Meetings will be held for Humanities Faculty, Students, and Staff, beginning at 2:45PM 2:00 – 2:45pm    Candidate Presentation 2:45 – 3:30pm   Humanities Faculty and Department Chairs […]

The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Mark Franko, Dance and Performance Studies, UCSC "Myth, Nationalism, and Embodiment in Martha Graham's American Document" Professor Franko, a UC Humanities Network Scholar, is editor of Dance Research Journal, founding editor of the Oxford Studies in Dance Theory book series, and Director of the Center for Visual […]

John Davison, VP of programming at CBS Interactive - GameSpot and Metacritic, will look at the way the audience for games is changing, and how the games industry is adjusting and adapting to new tastes, technology, and trends. John Davison is VP of programming at CBS Interactive for GameSpot and Metacritic. Davison comes to CBS' […]

It has been hailed for a while, in articles, book introductions and sales reports: the gaming revolution. Fun for all is finally here and if we put our minds to it, games may even save the world! Then, what is wrong with the gaming revolution? The question can be read both as a complaint and […]