Events
Living Writers Series: Patrick Graybill, Interpreter Aaron Brace
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPatrick Graybill is a pioneer in ASL performance through his early work with the National Theater of the Deaf. He is a prolific translator of English to ASL, and a teacher of other poets, having taught for many years at the National Technological Institute of the Deaf in Rochester, New York (one of two American […]
FreeMichael Ashley: "Mukurtu CMS: Differential Access for the Ethical Stewardship of Cultural and Digital Heritage"
McHenry Library UCSC, Room 4286Try and recall a family secret, or a cherished memory shared between you and a parent or sibling. Now imagine holding on to that memory so that it could be shared with your descendants in 20 years, or 200. How would you preserve it, in what form? Who has access to it now, and how […]
FreeDean Mathiowetz: "Policing the Sensorium: Rancière, Foucault, & Economies of Luxury"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDEAN MATHIOWETZ Associate Professor of Politics, UCSC Dean Mathiowetz’s current work is about the pleasures of luxurious superordination, as a form of what he calls “political sadism.” His work makes sense of the challenges that luxury poses for the realization of democratic aims, and explores the possibilities offered by leisure as a counterpoint to these […]
FreeEye Music: A Festival of American Sign Language Poetry
Free and open to the public. All festival events will be interpreted and are accessible to Deaf and non-Deaf audiences. ASL Festival: Rosa Lee, Sneak Preview House Concert Seating is limited. Please make a reservation at ASLfestival@ucsc.edu Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 7:30pm Private home in Santa Cruz ASL Festival: Poetry Performance by Patrick Graybill […]
FreeVeterans Day Remembrance Parade
The Santa Cruz Public Libraries is helping to remind people of the Veterans Day Parade which will take place this year on Tuesday, November 11th at 9:30am-11am from St. Patrick's Church (Ford & Main Street in Watsonville) to Veterans Memorial Building, 215 E. Beach Street, Watsonville, CA.
FreeAmena Coronado: "The Discipline of Suffering"
Humanities 2, Room 259Friday 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 *November 7th forum will be in Humanities 2, Room 259. This event series […]
FreeBodies of Knowledge in the Japanese Empire
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGender studies, history of science, and Japanese studies intertwine in “Bodies of Knowledge in the Japanese Empire,” a panel featuring Susan Burns (University of Chicago) and Mark Driscoll (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). Susan Burns examines gendered conceptions of mental and physical health that drove the development of “alternative” therapies to orthodox biomedicine. Mark […]
FreeElizabeth Hillman: “Sworn to Protect: Sexual Assault in the Military”
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUC Santa Cruz / UC Hastings Social Justice Speaker Series presents Elizabeth Hillman "Sworn to Protect: Sexual Assault in the Military" Few legal issues have riveted public attention more than sexual assault in the military. This presentation will address the controversies that have erupted over a problem that is often misunderstood and rarely reported. Should […]
$5Living Writers Series: Helene Wecker
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHelene Wecker grew up in Libertyville, Illinois, a small town north of Chicago, and received her Bachelor’s in English from Carleton College in Minnesota. After graduating, she worked a number of marketing and communications jobs in Minneapolis and Seattle before deciding to return to her first love, fiction writing. Accordingly, she moved to New York […]
FreeMurray Baumgarten: "The Letters Propelled Me: Resisting Kristallnacht Then and Now"
Smith Auditorium / Chapel of DeLaSalle and His BrothersThe Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College presents The Seventh Annual Frederick M. Schweitzer Lecture Murray Baumgarten: "The Letters Propelled Me: Resisting Kristallnacht Then and Now" Murray Baumgarten directs the program in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he is Distinguished Professor of English & Comparative Literature. He […]
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