Events
Ashwini Tambe: “Tropical Exceptions: Racial Logics in Twentieth Century Intergovernmental Age of Consent Debates”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesLegal age standards for sexual maturity are challenging enough to devise at the state or national level, but they are especially contentious at the intergovernmental level. Efforts at setting common standards have often been marked by imperial logics on the part of those proposing common standards and misgivings on the part of those most affected. […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Katie Ligmond
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Outcrop of Blue Rocks: Andean Animacy as Illustrated by Guaman Poma Andeanists have cultivated an obsession with the illustrations and writing of Guaman Poma, and with good reason. There are only three truly illuminated manuscript to come out of Colonial Peru, a scat account in comparison with the plethora from Mexico. Guaman Poma is […]
Living Writers: Student Readings
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesStudents will be reading from their own work. Please stay tuned for more information. Co-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, The Bay Tree Bookstore, The Humanities Institute, The American Indian Resource Center, The Asian […]
Veda Popovici-History Does (Not) Repeat Itself: Speculative Histories of Post-Revolutionary Romania
Humanities 1, Room 202Veda Popovici’s work explores the limits of political imagination. In this talk, she presents her latest political art project: a mapping of collective dreams and desires of revolutionary events in the context of post-1989 Romania. Laying out seven radical future pasts, these are stories that could have been, but never happened...feminist unions, Eastern European migrants […]
The Twentieth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesTHE TWENTIETH ANNUAL LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM Friends and family are welcome. Come for any part or all of the day. Opening Remarks 9:30 a.m. Professor Sean Keilen Director, Literature Undergraduate Program Panel One: Creative Writing 9:45 – 10:45 a.m. Moderator: Professor Micah Perks Mary Miki Arlen, La chanson de Lancelot (et Roland) Rosa Scupine, How […]
FeaturedMy Own Words: The Law & Legacy of RBG
DNA Comedy Lab 155 S. River St., Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn anticipation of Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music's upcoming premiere of a major new work inspired by the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg- When There Are Nine by composer Kristin Kuster The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, Cabrillo Festival, and Bookshop Santa Cruz have come together to present a panel discussion […]
Coloquio de Spanish Studies: Shadi Rohana
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesShadi Rohana is a Mexico City-based literary translator, translating between Arabic, Spanish and English. He has introduced and translated a number of Latin American authors from Spanish to Arabic, as well as speeches and declarations from the EZLN in Chiapas. He pursued Latin American Studies in the United States (Swarthmore College) and Mexico (UNAM), and […]
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 […]