Events
PhD+: Research Off the Tenure Track
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesNovember's PhD+ workshop focuses on opportunities for research in careers not on the tenure track. Join us for a discussion led by Elaine Sullivan (History) with Yoh Kawano (UCLA, GIS Specialist and lecturer in Urban Planning and Public Policy) and Rachel Deblinger (Director, Digital Scholarship Commons) to consider the multiple forms that fulfilling, meaningful, and […]
Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Joseph Stroud
Cabrillo College Room 450Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Joseph Stroud Thursday, November 3, 2016 6:00 pm Cabrillo College, Room 450 (Forum) EVENT PHOTOS: by Lorraine Padgett First Song That long ago morning at Ruth’s farm when I hid in the wisteria and watched hummingbirds. I thought the ruby or gold that gleamed on their throats was the honeyed […]
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Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Redi Koobak
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Rethinking Gender, Art & Geopolitic through Post-national War Rhetoric" Redi Koobak, Assitant Professor, Linkoping University, Sweden After its 50-year occupation by the Soviets, current political disclosure in Estonia revolves around the importance of proving that despite being small, Estonia is courages and highly reliable NATO ally to defend against the historically perceived threat from Russia. […]
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Anna Tsing & Isabelle Carbonell: “‘Golden Snail Opera’: The More-than-human Performance of Friendly Farming on Taiwan’s Lanyang Plain”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWritten by Anna Tsing, Isabelle Carbonell, Joelle Chevrier and Yen-ling Tsai (Associate Professor of Anthropology at National Chaio Tung University Taiwan), Golden Snail Opera combines video and performance-oriented text into a genre-bending o-pei-la. This piece is a multispecies enactment of experimental natural history considering the “golden treasure snail,” imported to Taiwan in 1979, which is now major pest of […]
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Ronaldo V. Wilson: “Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other”
Humanities 2, Room 259Ronaldo V. Wilson is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (2008), Poems of the Black Object (2009), and Lucy 72 (2015). He is co-founder of the Black Took Collective, and is currently Associate Professor of Poetry, Fiction, and Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Farther Traveler is […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Mitchell Winter
Humanities 1, Room 202"Polemics of Disintegration: Advaita Metaphysics in the Works of Alejandro Jodorowsky" The Chilean artist Alejandro Jodorowsky (b. 1929) often engages with non-linearity and non-sense as narrative devices in his work. Throughout his career Jodorowsky's thematic repertoire has adopted elements of the Kabbalistic science of the Marseille tarot, European alchemy, and New Age formulations of Hindu […]
FreePhD+: Networking and The Versatile PhD
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Institute for Humanities Research and the Career Center Present PhD+: Networking and Versatile PhD Friday, October 28, 2016 Humanities 1, Room 210 11 am - 12:30 pm Panelists: Christina […]
Film Screening: “Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels” (Non-citizenship series)
Del Mar TheatreThe Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research present an event in the series on Non-citizenship Historians and filmmakers Philip Misevich and Konrad Tuchscherer of St. John's University join UC Santa Cruz's David Anthony and Greg O'Malley in a conversation about forced migration at this free, public screening of "Ghosts of Amistad: In […]
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Roundtable Discussion: Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences beyond Academia
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPhilip Misevich and Konrad Tuchscherer are historians at St. John's University and co-producers of Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels (2014, dir. Tony Buba), the award-winning documentary based on Marcus Rediker's powerful account of the most successful slave rebellion in American history, The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (Penguin, 2012). […]
Living Writers: Elizabeth Willis
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesElizabeth Willis's most recent book, Alive: New and Selected Poems (New York Review Books, 2015), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Other books include Address (Wesleyan, 2011), recipient of the PEN New England prize for poetry; Meteoric Flowers (Wesleyan, 2006); Turneresque (Burning Deck, 2003); and The Human Abstract (Penguin, 1995). Her poems have appeared […]