Events

All members of the UCSC community and the general public are invited to attend the Twelfth Annual UCSC Literature Undergraduate Colloquium onThursday, May 19, 2011 in Humanities 1, room 210. The Undergraduate Colloquium is a day-long event showcasing and celebrating undergraduate academic work in the Literature Department, and is free and open to the public. […]

University of California, Santa Cruz HUMANITIES DEAN CANDIDATE PRESENTATION Professor William Ladusaw’s Vision for the Humanities The presentation will be followed by a brief question and answer session. Meetings will be held for Humanities Faculty, Students, and Staff, beginning at 2:45PM 2:00 – 2:45pm    Candidate Presentation 2:45 – 3:30pm   Humanities Faculty and Department Chairs […]

The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Mark Franko, Dance and Performance Studies, UCSC "Myth, Nationalism, and Embodiment in Martha Graham's American Document" Professor Franko, a UC Humanities Network Scholar, is editor of Dance Research Journal, founding editor of the Oxford Studies in Dance Theory book series, and Director of the Center for Visual […]

John Davison, VP of programming at CBS Interactive - GameSpot and Metacritic, will look at the way the audience for games is changing, and how the games industry is adjusting and adapting to new tastes, technology, and trends. John Davison is VP of programming at CBS Interactive for GameSpot and Metacritic. Davison comes to CBS' […]

It has been hailed for a while, in articles, book introductions and sales reports: the gaming revolution. Fun for all is finally here and if we put our minds to it, games may even save the world! Then, what is wrong with the gaming revolution? The question can be read both as a complaint and […]

The Science Studies Research Cluster invites you to join us for The Science Studies Creative Writing Workshop: Science Studies teaches us that narratives, tropes, figures, genres, and writing styles matter in knowledge-making practices.  For example, in “The Egg and the Sperm,” Emily Martin argues that staging human fertilization as a fairy tale starring active, aggressive, […]

Aimee Bender is the author of four books: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (1998), which was a NY Times Notable Book; An Invisible Sign of My Own (2000), an L.A. Times pick of the year; Willful Creatures (2005), which was nominated by The Believer as one of the best books of the year; and […]

UCSC Society of the Archeological Institute of America and the President's Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on "Archaeology and the Ancient World" Professor Sarah Milledge Nelson: "Korea and the Silk Road" Thursday, May 12 at 5 pm (refreshments at 4:30) Humanities 1, Room 210   The Korean peninsula was […]

Kuan-Hsing Chen is Professor in the Graduate Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies; coordinator of the Center for Asia-Pacific/Cultural Studies at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan; and co-executive editor of the journal, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements. His most recent book is Asia as Method: Towards Deimperialiazation (Duke, 2010). Readings available at:  http://ccs.ihr.ucsc.edu/files/2011/03/Asia_as_Method.pdf Presented […]

What do morning glory flowers or exotic plant and animal species have to do with the history of race or eugenics? In this talk, I trace the genealogies of ecology and evolutionary biology to explore how histories of gender and race shape contemporary biological theories and what lessons we can learn about the relationships between […]