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  • Encore Papers & Presentations

    Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    This crip-friendly event is an opportunity to learn about what your UCSC colleagues are doing in their Disability Studies work. Presenters will present works-in-progress, or re-deliver papers they have given in professional venues (such as conferences, workshops, etc.). Attendees are invited to actively and passively participate, and speakers will provide notes, a script, and/or links […]

  • Deanna Kreisel

    Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us with Professor Deanna K. Kreisel

    Virtual Event

    Please join the Friends of the Dickens Project for our spring Friends Faculty Fellowship talk series by Associate Professor Deanna K. Kreisel (University of Mississippi) who will be discussing “Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us.” Over the course of three sessions, we will have an opportunity to explore Victorian responses to their changing environment, […]

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    Virtual Reality as ‘Virtual Traveling’ for Student & Public Engagement with Historic Sites

    Humanities 1, Room 202

    3D technologies, such as LiDAR and photogrammetry, are being used by archaeologists at sites all over the world, frequently to record the state of preservation of standing architecture or document field excavations. But 3D and Virtual Reality (VR) can also be used to digitally ‘re-imagine’ or visualize aspects of historic places that are no longer […]

  • From Symptom to Story: Understanding an Epidemic of Kidney Disease in Central America

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

    What does it mean to construct a “cause” of disease? What is the primary source material we consult as we write the narrative of a new disease? When it comes to public health, how do we fairly and accurately reflect scientific evidence, personal experience, and community knowledge? In this talk, journalist Anna Maria Barry-Jester will […]

  • Anna Barry-Jester Reading Group – Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine”

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

    The Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine” will welcome Anna Barry-Jester, who will lead a reading group exploring explanations of the causes of drug-resistant tuberculosis and the subsequent policy implications. One article looks at the history of TB control policy, and how "cost-effective" strategies bred drug resistance. Two recent commentaries […]

  • Living Writers – Ryan Eckes

    Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Ryan Eckes is a poet from Philadelphia. He recently finished writing a book called General Motors about labor and the influence of public and private transportation on city life. Other […]

  • Josúe Rojas

    Creating Art in/with Community: A Conversation with Josúe Rojas and Professor John Jota Leaños

    The Institute of the Arts & Sciences Gallery 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Join us for a public conversation at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences between artist Josúe Rojas and Professor John Jota Leaños (Executive Committee of the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas). Josué Rojas is a Salvadoran-American artist from the Bay Area who has done murals throughout the country. Exploring subjects such as […]

  • Two men on a salt plane

    Future Ancestral Technologies Exhibition Opening

    Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History

    Future Ancestral Technologies is an exhibition by Cannupa Hanska Luger with mixed-media sculpture, regalia, and video, all based in myth, science fiction, and Indigenous futurism. Science fiction has the power to shape collective thinking and serves as a vehicle to imagine the future on a global scale. Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Future Ancestral Technologies is Indigenous […]

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