Events
Living Writers Series: Student Readings
Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! Current UCSC creative writing students read from work they produced during winter quarter.
LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz
Every year towards the end of the Winter Quarter, the Linguistics at Santa Cruz conference showcases the research of second and third year graduate students. This conference coincides with a […]
FreeWHAT WOULD ATTICUS DO?
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryJoin Literature professors Christopher Chen and Micah Perks, poet Danusha Lameris, and attorney Ben Rice on Saturday, March 15, for a benefit screening of To Kill A Mockingbird. Following the movie, Chen, Perks, Lameris and Rice will take part in a panel discussion entitled "Harper Lee's Book and How it Changed My Life and The World." This event, in support of The […]
Misfit Horror Film Series: Freaks
Stevenson, Room 150Misfit Horror: A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. March 16th - Freaks (1932, dir. Tod Browning) - a Pre-Code horror flick that still has the capacity to haunt and creep you out The granddaddy of all the misfit horror […]
Shakespeare to Go!
2nd Stage, Theater Arts Performing Arts, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for the final dress rehearsal of Shakespeare to Go! This year's performance is "Hamlet," directed by Kimberly Jannarone. The final dress rehearsal will be on Friday, March 21st at 4pm in the Theater Art's Second Stage. The performance is approximately 1 hour. Doors will open at 3:45pm.
FreeVENUE CHANGED Rebecca Jo Plant: "Child Soldiers: Militarism and American Youth"
Abbey Coffee ShopProf.Rebecca Jo Plant will be presenting on Child Soldiers: Militarism and American Youth, a book project that she and her collaborator, Frances M. Clarke of the University of Sydney, have undertaken. The project traces debates over the use of child soldiers and the relationship between youth and militarism over two centuries in order to illuminate […]
Ned Block: "Conscious, Preconscious, Unconscious"
Humanities 2, Room 259There are reliably reproducible strong brain activations that have little or no reportability and for that reason could be said to be unconscious, but can become reportable with a shift of attention and do not have many of the signature properties of unconscious states. This lecture discusses whether these states might be phenomenally conscious in […]
FreeJane McAlevey: "Beating Attack on Workers by Building High Participation Unions"
College 8, Room 301 College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJane McAlevey's first book, Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell), published by Verso Press, was named the "most valuable book of 2012" by The Nation Magazine. She has served as Executive Director and Chief Negotiator for SEIU Nevada, as National Deputy Director for Strategic Campaigns of the Healthcare Division for SEIU, and she was the Campaign Director of the one of […]
FreeMorris Ratner: "A Monument Man in the Courtroom: Litigating the Holocaust"
University Center, UCSC College Nine and College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUC Santa Cruz will present a lecture by UC Hastings College of the Law Professor Morris Ratner titled "A Monument Man in the Courtroom: Litigating the Holocaust," on Monday, April 7, at 7 p.m., at UCSC’s University Center. Professor Morris Ratner successfully prosecuted Holocaust-era private law claims against Swiss, German, Austrian, and French entities that […]
FreeRebecca Hester: "Those against whom society must be defended: Mexican migrants, swine flu, and bioterrorism"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSince 9/11 and in the wake of the anthrax letters, there has been a concern about the "dual use" of biological knowledge and material which could variously be used for vaccine development or for the production of biological weapons of mass destruction. Population mobility and biological mutability have been at the center of this concern. […]