Events
Camille Fauroux: “Framing Gender across Boundaries: French Women at Work in Berlin’s War Industry (1940-1945)”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDuring the Second World War, 50,000 to 100,000 French women chose to leave France to work for the war industry in Germany. Their transnational experience points to the racial and gendered division of labor that deployed itself throughout Nazi occupied Europe. In an attempt to sustain the war effort while limiting German’s women’s draft and […]
FreeLinguistic Colloquium: Kyle Johnson
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLinguistic Colloquium: The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. Fall 2015 October 9th: Keith Johnson, UC Berkeley October 16th: Heidi Harley, University of Arizona October 30th: Ivano Caponigro, UC San Diego November 20th: Elliott Moreton, University of North Carolina Winter 2016 January 15th: Sharon Inkelas, UC Berkeley February 5th: Colin Phillips, University of Maryland February […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Trung Nguyen
Humanities 1, Room 202Trung Nguyen "War Material: Vietnamese Objects of Post-War Subjectivity" Hong-An Truong and Dinh Q. Le are two widely received diasporic Vietnamese artists whose installations have engaged with the interpretative terrains and problematics of memory, subjectivity, and colonialism through Vietnamese historical experience. This presentation will study two of their respective pieces that explicitly confront modes of […]
Living Writers: Lev Grossman
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLev Grossman: I was born in 1969 and grew up in Lexington, MA. My parents were both English professors, so naturally I read a lot. I read a lot in college too, and read even more in graduate school. Then I moved to New York City and started writing full time. My first novel, Warp, […]
FreeJonathan 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 […]
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