Events
Dr. Immanuel Wallerstein: “World-Systems Analysis and the Disciplines: The Past, the Present, and Hopefully the Future”
Kresge Town HallThe Department of Anthropology’s Emerging Worlds Lecture SeriesProfessor Immanuel Wallerstein Yale University“World-Systems Analysis and the Disciplines: The Past, the Present, and Hopefully the Future” Professor David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University, Discussant Tuesday, May 15, 2012 7:00pm-9:00pm Kresge Town HallGraduate Student Workshop Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:00am – 12:00 noon Social Sciences 1, Room 261 Graduate Student […]
Elsa Davidson: “The Burdens of Aspiration: Schools, Youth, and Success in the Divided Social Worlds of Silicon Valley”
College 8, Room 301 College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesElsa Davidson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Montclair State University in New Jersey. Her research focuses on processes of aspiration formation and social reproduction among youth from diverse class, racial, and ethnic backgrounds. In particular, Dr. Davidson is interested in how young people forge aspirations in relation to experiences of schooling, rapid social and […]
CANCELLED: Linguistics Colloquium: Dominique Sportiche
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDominique Sportiche works on formal syntax. He has focused on the theory of constituent structure, and properties of the syntax/semantics interface (especially in French and the Romance languages) as they bear on the architecture of syntactic or grammatical theory and on cognition in general. He has published work on phrase structure, agreement, clitics, and reconstruction […]
Graduate Research Symposium
University Center, UCSC College Nine and College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us on Friday, May 11th for the 8th Annual Graduate Research Symposium. This event offers students an opportunity to share their research with faculty, staff, friends, colleagues and the local community in the form of poster, oral, live or multimedia presentations. This year's event featurs 20 oral and live presentations, 100 poster presentations and […]
Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Natalie Handal
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesNatalie Handal is an award-winning poet, playwright, and editor. She has lived in Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Arab world. Her poetry collections include: The Neverfield, The Lives of Rain, shortlisted for The Agnes Lynch Starret Poetry Prize and the recipient of the Menada Literary Award, and Love and Strange […]
Trevor Joy Sangrey: “’Put One More “S” in the USA’: Pamphlet Literature and the Productive Fiction of the Black Nation Thesis”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn 1928 the Communist Party developed an unconventional and intriguing proposal that black people in the Black Belt of the Southern United States were an unrecognized national group and should have rights to self-determination, a move later called the “Black Nation Thesis.” Written in Moscow, the Black Nation Thesis was forged in the US through […]
Mussolini’s Secret
Classroom Unit 2 Classroom Unit University of California Santa Cruz, UC Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC Language Program, Italian Studies Program, Cowell Provost and History Department Present: A 2005 documentary folk by Gianfranco Norelli and Fabrizio Laurenti followed by a conversation with director Norelli. Reception at Cowell Provost's House 7:00PM. Running tim 55 minutes in English Mussolini's Secret tells the unknown story of Benito Albino, Mussolini's secret son, and his […]
Jon Varese: “Digital Dickens”.
McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special CollectionsThe Dickens Project would like to welcome everyone to visit the exhibit of its 32-year history, mounted in four display cases just outside Special Collections on the 3rd floor of McHenry Library. The exhibit makes note of both the scholarly and the outreach missions of the Project, and will be up for the duration of […]
Loren Goldman: “Vaclav Havel and the Politics and Practice of Hope”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Loren Goldman Assistant Professor, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Townsend Fellow at UCB Professor Goldman is a political theorist whose work concerns the intersection of utopian thought and political agency. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the concept of political hope in the modern period from Kant to Dewey. Co-sponsored by […]
Are You My Data? A Research Ethics Forum
University Center, UCSC College Nine and College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Office of Research is sponsoring a series of Research Ethics Fora for faculty, postdocs and graduate students. The first forum in the Series "Are You My Data?" is on Tuesday May 8th in the Alumni Room of the University Center and is hosted by Prof. Jennifer Reardon of the Science & Justice Working Group. […]