Events
Jonathan Ellis: “Motivated Reasoning, Heavy and Light”
Humanities 1, Room 202At least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. The format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited. All members of the campus community and interested public are welcome to attend. Jonathan Ellis Motivated […]
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Marjorie Agosin: “Translating the Soul: Meditations on Poetry”
Humanities 1, Room 202Marjorie Agosin is the Luella La Mer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies and Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. Professor Agosin's poetry is inspired by social justice and the dedicated to the remembrance and memorialization of traumatic historical events in the Americas and in European holocaust. As a Chilean-American of Jewish heritage Agosin's poetry enshrines women's […]
FreeUCSC Night at the Museum: The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryPODCAST: EVENT PHOTOS: by Steve Kurtz UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research Presents: UCSC Night at the Museum: The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection 6:30pm | “The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America” Public conversation with Ethan Michaeli, author of The Defender, and David Anthony, Professor of History at UC […]
FreeMarjorie Agosin: “Gender & Sexuality in the Work of Gabriela Mistral”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMarjorie Agosin is the Luella La Mer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies and Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. Professor Agosin’s poetry is inspired by social justice and the dedicated to the remembrance and memorialization of traumatic historical events in the Americas and in European holocaust. As a Chilean-American of Jewish heritage Agosin’s poetry […]
FreeRonaldo V. Wilson: “Your Micro-Aggression, My Macro-Response: Some Renderings”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRonaldo Wilson’s current project AVATAR|DIASPORA, wrestles with the idea of the obliterated black body and its juncture with poetry and visual culture. This project documents his current practice through sonic landscapes, video, dance, and writing as ways to explore race, sexuality, and representation. Wilson is Associate Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. EVENT PHOTOS: Spring 2016 Colloquium Series […]
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Hearing Gender: Stereotypes and Context in Voice Processing
When we speak, in addition to our intended linguistic message, we communicate quite a bit about ourselves, such as our perceived gender, ethnicity, region of origin, etc. Expectations about these social categories interact with our comprehension at a very basic perceptual level. In this talk I'll discuss current research on how gender stereotype affects on […]
FreeCathy Park Hong: “Stand Up: A Symposium on Race and the Avant-Garde”
Humanities 2, Room 259UCSC's Poetry & Politics Research Collective invites you to attend our spring event, "Stand Up: A Symposium on Race and the Avant-Garde with Cathy Park Hong." Please join us on Friday, May 13 for a symposium featuring creative and critical work by Literature faculty, lecturers, and graduate students, and a keynote reading by Cathy Park […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Cathy Thomas
Humanities 1, Room 202Cathy Thomas "Defining the Fête: The Utopian Potential of Drag, Disease and Diaspora in Oonya Kempadoo's Carnival Imaginary" The catharsis associated with Caribbean Carnivale has always been situated in the body. This paper considers the fête bodies of a transnational costume designer, the Queen of the Band and a gay reveler living with AIDS in […]
POSTPONED PhD+: Research and Grants
Humanities 1, Room 202This event has been postponed to June 3rd. PhD+ Workshop Series Please join us for the launch of PhD+, our new series! We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for humanities PhDs, online identity issues, internship possibilities, work/life balance, elements of style, grants/fellowships and much, more more. October 9, 2015: […]
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Living Writers: Elizabeth McKenzie
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesElizabeth McKenzie is the author of The Portable Veblen, published by Penguin Press and 4th Estate. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and recorded for NPR’s Selected shorts. Her collection, Stop That Girl, was short-listed for The Story Prize, and her […]
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