Events
Events
Nirvikar Singh: "Sikh Studies & Post-Modern Orientalism"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesNIRVIKAR SINGH Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies and Professor of Economics, UCSC Professor Singh explores how Sikh Studies in the North American academy is engaging with […]
Free"Digital is not a Dirty Word” – Digital Humanities Graduate Student Open House
Graduate Student CommonsLet's talk digital. Are you unsure what Digital Humanities means? Are you interested in mapping, databases, blogs, or twitter, but don't know how they help your work? Are you skeptical, […]
FreeBryan Donaldson: "Information structure and word order in medieval Occitan"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn this talk, I draw on elements of discourse analysis and information structure–specifically topic-marking–to address a long-standing problem in the syntax of Old Occitan, a medieval Romance language spoken in what is now the south of France. In Old Occitan, the position of object and adverbial clitic (weak, atonic) pronouns remains incompletely understood (Wanner 2010). […]
FreeArlene Davila: Locating Neoliberalism in Time, Space & Latino/Latin American Cultures
University Center, UCSC College Nine and College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Latin American & Latino Studies Distinguished Speaker Series is proud to present Arlene Davila to begin the 2014-15 year. Davila uses ethnographic and transnational perspectives to theorize the intersections […]
FreeLiving Writers Series: Tobias Wolff
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTobias Wolff is the author of the novels The Barracks Thief and Old School, the memoirs This Boy’s Life andIn Pharaoh’s Army, and the short story collections In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, Back in […]
FreeJoan Raspo: DANM BIRTH OF STARS: a play that asks "What would you give up to gain the universe?"
Humanities 1, Room 202Friday Forum For Graduate Research: 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. Fridays from 12:00 - 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202 This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the […]
FreeVeterans History Project
The Santa Cruz Public Libraries invites you to contribute to the national archive. Were you a veteran? Your story matters. What is the Veterans History Project? The United States Congress […]
FreeHatam Bazian: "Palestine, Islamophobia and Global Dispossession"
UCSC Cowell College Presents Conflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine Tuesday Evenings Fall 2014 6:00-7:45pm, Merrill Academy 102 Tuesday Oct 7: Christine King (Lecturer Kresge College). “Making Peace […]
FreeJuned Shaikh: "Translation & Transmission: Marxism & Social Hierarchies in Bombay, 1928-1934"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJUNED SHAIKH Assistant Professor of History, UCSC Juned Shaikh works on labor, urbanity, and caste in India. His book focuses on the entanglements and contradictions of space in Bombay city […]
FreeLionel Cantu Lecture Featuring Jasbir Puar
Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Sociology Department is pleased to present the LIONEL CANTÚ LECTURE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2014 2:00 – 4:00 pm Namaste Lounge, Colleges Nine/Ten Reception at 3:30 Featuring: JASBIR PUAR […]