Events
Dr. Angus Forbes: “Immersive Interpretation – Exploring Data in Virtual Reality”
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibraryEvent Photos: Immersive Interpretation: Exploring Data in Virtual Reality Angus Forbes (UCSC, Computational Media) Forbes will discuss the opportunities for exploring and analyzing data using contemporary display technologies, such as interactive video walls, ambisonic theaters, and virtual reality headsets. I present a range of projects that examine novel ways of representing scientific and cultural datasets, […]
FreeAdam Ussishkin: “Roots, or consonants? On the early role of morphology in lexical access”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesWords consist of a phoneme or letter sequence that maps onto meaning. Most prominent theories of both auditory and visual word recognition portray the recognition process as a connection between these units and a semantic level. However, there is a growing body of evidence in the priming literature suggesting that there is an additional, morphological […]
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Living Writers Series: Duriel E. Harris
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDuriel E. Harris, poet, performer, and sound artist, is author of No Dictionary of a Living Tongue, Drag and Amnesiac and coauthor of the poetry video Speleology. Current undertakings include “Blood Labyrinth” and the solo performance project Thingification. Harris is an associate professor of English in the graduate creative writing program at Illinois State University […]
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Daniel Lee: “A Sleepy English Village and a North African Jew: An Unlikely Story of French Resistance during World War Two”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe story of the Free French who rallied to Charles de Gaulle in London following the fall of France in June 1940 is well-known. But until now, historians have ignored the experiences of men and women from France and the French Empire who were not sympathetic to De Gaulle and the Free French, but who […]
FreeNeel Ahuja: “Reversible Human: Rectal Feeding, Gut Plasticity, and Racial Control in US Carceral Warfare”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesNeel Ahuja’s research explores the relationship of the body to forms of imperial warfare and security. Focusing on the association of rectal feeding, used as a form of medical rape in CIA prisons, and bodily plasticity, the presentation argues that the terrorist body is not only a useful discursive figure in the current wars, but […]
Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Little Dorrit in Historical Context
Museum of Art & History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSanta Cruz Pickwick Club featuring Little Dorrit The Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel, beginning this January with Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit. Join us each month for conversations about the novel and guest speaker presentations to help us contextualize our readings. Santa Cruz […]
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Victoria Bañales: “Community College Teaching – A View From Inside”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Literature Department Graduate Program Alumni Speaker Series Presents: "Community College Teaching: A View From Inside" Victoria Bañales Victoria Bañales earned a Ph.D. in Literature with a Parenthetical Notation in Feminist Studies from UCSC. Her work has appeared in the anthologies Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representations and Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of […]
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Friday Forum: Stephen David Engel
Humanities 2, Room 359Stephen David Engel is a PhD student in the History of Consciousness Department. Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the […]
Kimberlé Crenshaw: 34th Annual Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Convocation
Santa Cruz Civic AuditoriumThe annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by presenting speakers who discuss the civil rights issues of equality, freedom, justice, and opportunity. The convocation also seeks to build partnerships and develop dialogue within the campus community and with the local communities served by the university. Speaker: Kimberlé Crenshaw […]
Opening Reception: New Visualization Spaces in the Digital Scholarship Commons
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibraryCelebrate two new Visualization spaces in McHenry Library and the campus partnerships that enhance digital scholarship at UCSC. The David Kirk Digital Scholarship Commons is thrilled to formally launch the VizWall, a large scale visualization installation, and the VizLab, a Virtual Reality and 360 Lab. These new spaces are built through partnerships between the University […]
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