Events
Balancing Fair Use and Student Access in Selecting Course Texts: A Workshop for Instructors
Humanities 2, Room 259About the workshop: Understanding how to balance equitable access to course texts with our ethical and legal responsibility to uphold the values of intellectual property can often be challenging. This workshop will help faculty navigate the complexities of copyright and fair use and focus on best practices and resources for choosing course texts for […]
Shadi Rohana: “Cervantes and the Arabs: Don Quixote in translation”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe modern Arab reader cannot be indifferent when reading a novel like Don Quixote. Through its geography, historical context, characters and language, the novel evokes to the modern reader one of the Arabs’ most splendorous historical episodes: Al Andalus. This talk traces the Arab and Andalusian presence in Cervantes’ Don Quixote from 1605, and how […]
Faculty Ethics Bowl: Ethics and the Far Future
University Center University Center University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWhat role should thinking about the far future—1,000 years ahead and more—play in research on campus? Faculty at UC Santa Cruz have widely divergent views on this question and it's something the administration needs to decide on soon. Some say we should allocate significant resources; others say very little. This will be the focus of UC […]
The 19th Season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP XIX)
Stevenson Event CenterCowell College, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 19th season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XIX), May 17, 18, and 19, at 8:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center at UCSC. The program of fully-staged multilingual theater pieces in Chinese, French, Japanese, and Spanish, with English […]
Nido de Lenguas: Pop-Up at the Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza
San Lorenzo Park Santa CruzLearn about the indigenous languages of Oaxaca at Nido de Lenguas: Pop-Up, taking place at the 13th Annual Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza. The Pop-Up will feature fun and exciting activities where anybody can directly experience the beauty and value of Oaxacan languages. The Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza is a cultural festival sponsored by Senderos, featuring food, music, […]
The 19th Season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP XIX)
Stevenson Event CenterCowell College, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 19th season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XIX), May 17, 18, and 19, at 8:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center at UCSC. The program of fully-staged multilingual theater pieces in Chinese, French, Japanese, and Spanish, with English […]
Norman O. Brown Conference: Into the Future, Day 2
Page Smith LibraryDay 1 Information A weekend of presentation, reflection, and inquiry addressing the work and life of Norman O. Brown. From poetics to politics, theology to pedagogy, utopia to apocalypse: scholars from around the country will meet to engage Brown’s long shadow. Amidst the landscapes he traversed incessantly, we can gauge the importance of Norman O. […]
The 19th Season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP XIX)
Stevenson Event CenterCowell College, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 19th season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XIX), May 17, 18, and 19, at 8:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center at UCSC. The program of fully-staged multilingual theater pieces in Chinese, French, Japanese, and Spanish, with English […]
Norman O. Brown Conference: Into the Future, Day 1
Page Smith LibraryA weekend of presentation, reflection, and inquiry addressing the work and life of Norman O. Brown. From poetics to politics, theology to pedagogy, utopia to apocalypse: scholars from around the country will meet to engage Brown’s long shadow. Amidst the landscapes he traversed incessantly, we can gauge the importance of Norman O. Brown for the […]
PhD+ Workshop Series: Writing for Graduate School and Beyond
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesWorkshop with Eric Hayot (Penn State) Why is writing so hard? Can It be easier? Possibly, Eric Hayot argues. But answering these questions well also asks us to think about the place of writing in humanities scholarship, and the ways in which our institutional patterns and structures, and our daily and psychological ones, shape what […]