Events
Learning from the Oak Creek Wisconsin Tragedy: Sikhs and Pluralism in America
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe fatal shooting at a Sikh gurdwara (temple) in Wisconsin last August, and the possible motivation of the shooter, require reflection on religious and social tolerance and the idea/ideal of […]
Satyajit Ray Film Series: Agantuk (“The Arriver”)
Crown Fireside Lounge Fireside Lounge University of California Santa Cruz, Crown College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSatyajit Ray is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. The Ray Film and Study Center (RayFASC) is newly located at Crown College and holds the […]
Andries W. Coetzee: “A lexical route to voicing co-occurrence restrictions: the case of Afrikaans”
Many languages have restrictions on the co-occurrence of laryngeally marked segments (such as voiced obstruents, aspirates, glottalized consonants, etc.). Current theories of sound change ascribe the origin of these restrictions […]
Elizabeth Lambourn: “The Material Presence of a Medieval Past: New Approaches to the Materiality & ‘Thingness’ of Cairo Geniza”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAn historian of Islamic South Asian and the Indian Ocean world, Elizabeth's research focuses on the mobility of people, things and ideas in the medieval and early modern periods. Elizabeth […]
World Melodrama Film Series – The Cranes Are Flying
Social Sciences I, Room 110 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cranes Are Flying (1957; dir. Mikhail Kalatozov) U.S.S.R. Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all […]
Phaedon Sinis to Lecture on the Music of the Ottoman Empire
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOn November 29, Phaedon Sinis will give a lecture on music in the Ottoman empire: its history and development, the interaction between Jewish and non Jewish musicians, and introduction to […]
A Night of Poetry & Music with M. NourbeSe Philip
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies presents A Night of Poetry & Music with M. NourbeSe Philip accompanied by a jazz duo led by Karlton […]
Latino Literature / La literatura latina IV Conference
Stevenson Event CenterBringing writers and scholars together in thoughtful interchange, “Latino Literature/La literatura latina IV” is the fourth biennial conference of the Latino Literary Cultures Project/ Proyecto culturas literarias latinas. This […]
UCSC will host the California Regional Ethics Bowl
Stevenson, Room 150The philosophy department is proud to announce that UCSC will be hosting two Ethics Bowl debate competitions this year. On December 1st, 2012, UCSC will host the California Regional Ethics […]
Ethan Michaeli: “Between Memory and History: Growing Up in the Shadow of the Holocaust”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe children of survivors must navigate between the intimate legacy of their parents’ experiences and their own encounter—via books, films, and other sources—of the Holocaust as a historical event. As […]