Events
Shakespeare and the Common Good: The Value of a Literary Education
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJulia Reinhard Lupton, Professor of English and Associate Dean for Research in the School of Humanities at UC Irvine, will conduct a professional development seminar for graduate students. The seminar […]
FreeRegina Kunzel: “In Treatment: Psychiatry and the Archives of Modern Sexuality”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRegina Kunzel’s current project explores the encounter of sexual- and gender-variant people with psychiatry in the mid-twentieth-century U.S. Drawing on multiple archives, she argues for the importance of psychiatric scrutiny, […]
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Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Mikki Stelder
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTowards Other Scenes of Speaking and Listening: Palestinian Anticolonial Queer Spatialities Mikki Stelder, Visiting Scholar In 2010, Palestinian Queers for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions called upon international queer communities to […]
FreeChristopher Newfield: “After the Great Mistake: Fixing Public Universities in the Trump Administration”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesChristopher Newfield’s (Professor of literature and American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara) new book, “The Great Mistake,“ shows how privatization has weakened the educational quality and the […]
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Living Writers: PhD Candidates, Creative/Critical Concentration
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesC Dylan Bassett’s books are The Invention of Monsters / Plays for the Theater (2015) and A Failed Performance: The Collected Short Plays of Daniil Kharms (forthcoming 2018). His recent work […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Rachel Shellabarger
Humanities 1, Room 202Sustainable Happy cows: Change and Sustainability in California Dairies California dairy advertisements often feature happy cows, but they mask social and environmental concerns over industrial milk production. Currently, California dairy producers face a mix of challenges with severe drought, regulation of methane emissions from cows, uncertain changes in milk pricing policies, and future implementation of […]
Rethinking Labor Mobility and Precarity: A Seminar with Guy Standing, Alejandro Grimson, and Biao Xiang
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPrecarity, the experience of insecurity and constant risk of exclusion, is central to the experience of many labor migrants and citizen-workers in our time. Session II of Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz's Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, focuses on precarity, labor mobility, and denizenship (the status of being a denizen or inhabitant, as opposed to […]
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Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: A Symposium with Guy Standing, Alejandro Grimson, and Biao Xiang (Non-citizenship Series)
Stevenson Event CenterEvent Videos: Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: Guy Standing from IHR on Vimeo. Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: Alejandro Grimson 2.7.17 from IHR on Vimeo. Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: Biao Xiang from IHR on Vimeo. Event Photos: This symposium explores how global labor mobility […]
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“The Widow and the Orphan: Stories of Reform in Multigenerational India”
Humanities 1, Room 402The Center for Emerging Worlds and The Department of Anthropology Present: Dr. Sareeta Amrute "The Widow and the Orphan: Stories of Reform in Multigenerational India" Works-In-Progress Seminar Tuesday, February 7, 2017 2-4pm Humanities 1, Room 402 Email mfernan3@ucsc.edu for copies of the paper "adding.sleep(): Race and Refusal in the Indian Tech Diaspora" Colloquium […]
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Faculty Research Lecture with Sandra Chung: “Language Through the Lens of Diversity”
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAcademic Senate 51st Annual Faculty Research Lecture Honors: Professor Sandra Chung "Language Through the Lens of Diversity." The ease and efficiency with which children acquire their first language(s) reveals that the capacity to know and use language is deeply human. It also raises the possibility that all languages have the same design--universal characteristics that […]
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