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Digital Humanities VizLab Open House

Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library

If you’ve never tried VR before, this is your chance. Explore the new DSC VizLab and experience Virtual Reality. We invite you to test the HTC VIVE headset, Samsung Gear VR, and Google Cardboard Headset. DSC Staff will be available to answer questions and introduce you to available resources and hardware. Cosponsored by the IDEA […]

Humanities Institute Public Fellows Info Session

Humanities 1, Room 202

Please join us for an information session about The Humanities Institute's Public Fellows program on Tuesday, April 10 from 12:00-1:00 pm in Humanities Room 202 where we will hear from our 2017 cohort of Public Fellows, and also cover the opportunities for public fellows this coming summer which include new partner organizations. In addition, we […]

Living Writers Series: Carmen Giménez Smith & giovanni singleton

Born in New York, poet Carmen Giménez Smith earned a BA in English from San Jose State University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa. She writes lyric essays as well as poetry, and is the author of the poetry chapbook Casanova Variations (2009), the full-length collection Odalisque in Pieces (2009), and the memoir Bring Down the Little […]

Santa Cruz Pickwick: “How Did the Grim Reaper’s Swift Scythe Sharpen Little Dorrit’s Plot?”

Museum of Art & History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Santa 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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Intimate States: Family, Domestic Space, and the State

Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

Center for World History presents: Intimate States: Family, Domestic Space, and the State Full Conference Agenda here: 4-7-18 Intimate States Conference Agenda Conference Key Note: “The Household, the State, and ‘Economic Development Strategies’ in Europe and China Around 1800.” Mary Jo Maynes This talk will explore the comparative logics of statebuilding in China and Europe in […]

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Maeve Cooke: “Civil Disobedience as Civil Regeneration: The Radically Transformative Power of Political Law-Breaking”

Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

Maeve Cooke is Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. Professor Cooke's work focuses on the question of truth (intrinsic value) in social and political theory, with particular attention to debates on religion and politics. Her principal book publications are Language and Reason: A Study of Haberma's Pragmatics (MIT […]

Laura Rosenzweig: “The Story of Hollywood’s Spies: Jewish Resistance to Nazism in Los Angeles in the 1930s”

Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Laura Rosenzweig will present at the Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture during Graduate Recruitment Day on April 4. The title of her talk is: “The Story of Hollywood’s Spies: Jewish Resistance to Nazism in Los Angeles in the 1930s” and will include a discussion about her journey from a UCSC doctoral student to a bestselling author. […]

Jeffrey Santa Ana: “Queer Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Disremembering place and witnessing imperial debris in Han Ong’s The Disinherited”

Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

Jeffrey Santa Ana is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty in Asian & Asian American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University, the State University of New York. He is the author of Radical Feelings: Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of Emotion (Temple University Press, 2015). He is currently writing a […]

Reading Seminar: Jeffrey Santa Ana’s Transpacific Ecological Imagination

Humanities 1, Room 202

Jeffrey Santa Ana is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty in Asian & Asian American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University, the State University of New York. He is the author of Radical Feelings: Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of Emotion (Temple University Press, 2015). He is currently writing a […]

Living Writers Series: Undergraduate Student Reading

Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Living Writers Series Winter 2018: Performing Women: Race, Art, and Space Performing Women: Race, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry, prose, visual and textile arts, photography, film, dance, and improvisation to address questions of gender, sexuality, and race.  This series will explore the intersections of literature, writing and […]

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