Events
Living Writers – Ryan Eckes
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRyan Eckes is a poet from Philadelphia. He recently finished writing a book called General Motors about labor and the influence of public and private transportation on city life. Other books include Valu-Plus and Old News (Furniture Press 2014, 2011). His poetry can be found in Tripwire, Slow Poetry in America Newsletter, Public Pool, and […]
Anna Barry-Jester Reading Group – Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine” will welcome Anna Barry-Jester, who will lead a reading group exploring explanations of the causes of drug-resistant tuberculosis and the subsequent policy implications. One article looks at the history of TB control policy, and how "cost-effective" strategies bred drug resistance. Two recent commentaries […]
From Symptom to Story: Understanding an Epidemic of Kidney Disease in Central America
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesWhat does it mean to construct a “cause” of disease? What is the primary source material we consult as we write the narrative of a new disease? When it comes to public health, how do we fairly and accurately reflect scientific evidence, personal experience, and community knowledge? In this talk, journalist Anna Maria Barry-Jester will […]
Kathleen Cruz Guttierrez – Vernaculars of Plant Knowing: Woven Transformations in the Early 20th-Century Davao Gulf
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn this talk, Gutierrez will share from her first book project on the history of colonial botany in the Philippines. The book argues that vernaculars of plant knowing made and unmade […]
Virtual Reality as ‘Virtual Traveling’ for Student & Public Engagement with Historic Sites
Humanities 1, Room 2023D technologies, such as LiDAR and photogrammetry, are being used by archaeologists at sites all over the world, frequently to record the state of preservation of standing architecture or document […]
2023 Helene Moglen Lecture in Feminism and Humanities with Wendy Brown – After Humanism and the Nation State: More Democracy, Democracy that is More, or Democracy No More?
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn most accounts of dangers to democracy today, the value of the object is assumed. At the same time, we know that the “demos” of Western democracy violently excludes all […]
Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us with Professor Deanna K. Kreisel
Virtual EventPlease join the Friends of the Dickens Project for our spring Friends Faculty Fellowship talk series by Associate Professor Deanna K. Kreisel (University of Mississippi) who will be discussing “Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us.” Over the course of three sessions, we will have an opportunity to explore Victorian responses to their changing environment, […]
Encore Papers & Presentations
Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis crip-friendly event is an opportunity to learn about what your UCSC colleagues are doing in their Disability Studies work. Presenters will present works-in-progress, or re-deliver papers they have given […]
Debjani Bhattarcharyya – Climate Ledgers: Atmospheric Politics, Risk and Liability in the Indian Ocean, 1770-1850
Virtual Event“Climate Ledgers” is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2022-2023 lecture series, Futures. Speaker: Professor Debjani Bhattarcharyya, University of Zurich
The 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
Stevenson College Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL, pronounced /ˈwɪkfəl/) is an annual linguistics conference, held in the spring at a university in western North America. It is a top […]