Events
Cathy Park Hong: “Stand Up: A Symposium on Race and the Avant-Garde”
Humanities 2, Room 259UCSC's Poetry & Politics Research Collective invites you to attend our spring event, "Stand Up: A Symposium on Race and the Avant-Garde with Cathy Park Hong." Please join us on […]
Free
Hearing Gender: Stereotypes and Context in Voice Processing
When we speak, in addition to our intended linguistic message, we communicate quite a bit about ourselves, such as our perceived gender, ethnicity, region of origin, etc. Expectations about these […]
FreeRonaldo V. Wilson: “Your Micro-Aggression, My Macro-Response: Some Renderings”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRonaldo Wilson’s current project AVATAR|DIASPORA, wrestles with the idea of the obliterated black body and its juncture with poetry and visual culture. This project documents his current practice through sonic landscapes, video, dance, […]
Free
Marjorie Agosin: “Gender & Sexuality in the Work of Gabriela Mistral”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMarjorie Agosin is the Luella La Mer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies and Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. Professor Agosin’s poetry is inspired by social justice and the […]
FreeUCSC Night at the Museum: The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryPODCAST: EVENT PHOTOS: by Steve Kurtz UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research Presents: UCSC Night at the Museum: The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection 6:30pm | “The […]
FreeMarjorie Agosin: “Translating the Soul: Meditations on Poetry”
Humanities 1, Room 202Marjorie Agosin is the Luella La Mer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies and Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. Professor Agosin's poetry is inspired by social justice and the dedicated […]
FreeJonathan Ellis: “Motivated Reasoning, Heavy and Light”
Humanities 1, Room 202At least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. The format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment […]
Free
Living Writers: Lev Grossman
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLev Grossman: I was born in 1969 and grew up in Lexington, MA. My parents were both English professors, so naturally I read a lot. I read a lot in […]
Free
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Trung Nguyen
Humanities 1, Room 202Trung Nguyen "War Material: Vietnamese Objects of Post-War Subjectivity" Hong-An Truong and Dinh Q. Le are two widely received diasporic Vietnamese artists whose installations have engaged with the interpretative terrains […]
Linguistic Colloquium: Kyle Johnson
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLinguistic Colloquium: The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. Fall 2015 October 9th: Keith Johnson, UC Berkeley October 16th: Heidi Harley, University of Arizona October 30th: Ivano […]
Free