Events
Jim McCloskey: Clauses without verbs – The Irish landscape and beyond
Virtual and In PersonThe Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz) speaking on Clauses without verbs - The Irish landscape and beyond. Please join us Friday, November 8 at 1:20pm in Humanities 1 - Room 210 or virtually via Zoom: One of the ways (perhaps the principal way) in which contemporary Irish departs […]
Ellen Bass: Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for the 15th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading, featuring honored guest Ellen Bass. Poet Gary Young will host the program, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1,000 prize). Unfortunately we have had to cancel this event, Ellen has caught Covid. […]
A Post-Election Conversation
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesJoin the CCS community as we process what just happened. We will be discussing electoral politics, the role of media in the election, political affects, and what is to be done. With: Liz Beaumont, Jody Biehl, and Daniel Wirls. Liz Beaumont is Associate Professor of Politics and Legal Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her research explores […]
“What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”: Spooky Reading Group Potluck
Westlake Park 149-111 Bradley Dr, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOn Saturday, November 2 from 6-7pm, we will have a SPOOKY READING GROUP POTLUCK at West Lake Park. On theme for Halloween and Day of the Dead, Alisa Puga Keesey will lead us in a discussion of the essay “What is it like to be a bat?” (We think we can observe bats at dusk […]
Decoding the Headlines: Top News Stories, Misinformation, and the 2024 Presidential Campaign
Virtual and In PersonThis event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series - Power, Politics, and Our Democracy UC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How […]
Walking in the Ecotone with Jim Clifford
Humanities 1A not to be missed opportunity to explore the UC Santa Cruz Campus, on and off the footpaths with Professor Jim Clifford. We’ll wander among the trees, down in the ravines, out in the meadows. Pooling our different knowledges of environmental, social, cultural, technological and architectural history, we will try to disentangle the overlapping layers […]
Sandhya Shukla – Cosmopolitanism and Relationality: The Logic of the Cultural Studies We Need Now
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesWhen Immanuel Kant suggested in 1798 that a citizenship of the world could be staged in Konigsberg without physical travel, he illuminated the dense heterogeneity of place. Kant’s insight might be seen to have informed many projects of British cultural studies that situated globality inside locality by focusing on the potential of working-class cultures built […]
Proactive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with Lorato Anderson
Graduate Student Commons, Room 204 420 Hagar Dr, Santa CruzHow do you proactively promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in your role as a graduate student, a researcher, a teaching assistant, and a peer and undergraduate mentor? Learn active steps you can take in every role to promote a just and welcoming environment at UCSC in every space. Recommended Reading: Ely, Robin J., and Thomas, […]
Art and Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Investigation with Alice Barale
Virtual and In PersonThe History of Consciousness department presents "Art and Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Investigation" with Alice Barale, University of Milan as part of the 2024-2025 HistCon Speaker Series. Join us Monday, October 28 at 1pm PST in Hum 1 Rm 210 or register below to attend virtually: It has been several years since the first artwork […]
Living Writers with Carolina Ixta
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLiving Writers Series – Fall 2024 Growing Things ~ gardens, poems, emotions, relationships, stories, our artistic practices, carefully tended, beautifully ordered, rewilded and wild ~ About The Living Writers Series The Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series […]