Events
Stephanie Montgomery: "Convicts and Mothers: Gender, Criminality, and the Prison in China, 1927-1953"
Humanities 1, Room 202Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 - 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202 This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the […]
FreeToni Morrison: "Literature and the Silence of Goodness" (Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture)
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHumanities Division and Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Presents: Toni Morrison: "LITERATURE AND THE SILENCE OF GOODNESS" at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz Tickets: $12 Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture with Toni Morrison $145 Founders Celebration Dinner and Baskin Ethics Lecture with Toni Morrison (combo ticket) *If you were not able to get tickets […]
$122014 Founders Celebration Dinner
Cocoanut Grove 400 Beach Street , Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSave the date for the eighth annual UC Santa Cruz Founders Celebration dinner, honoring extraordinary individuals and their outstanding contributions to society. This year's honorees include Toni Morrison, novelist, editor, and professor; The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation, long-time advocate and supporter of the Santa Cruz community; Mark Headley, board chairman of Matthews International Capital […]
$135Annual Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDon Rothman began teaching undergraduate writing classes at UC Santa Cruz in 1973. After more than three decades of guiding teachers and teaching college students, the senior lecturer emeritus in writing--and recipient of the 2002 Distinguished Teaching Award from the UCSC Center for Teaching Excellence--has established an endowment to honor exceptional freshman students and their […]
FreeJean-Jacques Surbeck: "Israel and the World, a Unique Lesson in Double Standards"
UCSC Cowell College Presents Conflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine Tuesday Evenings Fall 2014 6:00-7:45pm, Merrill Academy 102 Tuesday Oct 7: Christine King (Lecturer Kresge College). “Making Peace with Conflict” Tuesday Oct 14: Dr. Jennifer Derr (History Department, UC Santa Cruz). The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation. Tuesday Oct 21: Dr. […]
FreeUCSC's Institute of the Arts and Sciences presents LASER
UCSC’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences invites you to the first LASER of the academic year Tuesday, October 28! Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists, scientists, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations. Please join us in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 […]
FreeAzar Nafisi: "The Republic of Imagination"
Peace United Church 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran will discuss and sign copies of her new book, The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books—a hymn to the power of fiction to change lives. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of […]
$31.50Nirvikar Singh: "Sikh Studies & Post-Modern Orientalism"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesNIRVIKAR SINGH Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies and Professor of Economics, UCSC Professor Singh explores how Sikh Studies in the North American academy is engaging with intellectual currents that can broadly be termed "post-modern." More specifically, he critiques the asymmetrical privileging of Western ‘post-modern’ scholarship on Sikhs against the Sikh community’s […]
Free"Digital is not a Dirty Word” – Digital Humanities Graduate Student Open House
Graduate Student CommonsLet's talk digital. Are you unsure what Digital Humanities means? Are you interested in mapping, databases, blogs, or twitter, but don't know how they help your work? Are you skeptical, […]
FreeBryan Donaldson: "Information structure and word order in medieval Occitan"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn this talk, I draw on elements of discourse analysis and information structure–specifically topic-marking–to address a long-standing problem in the syntax of Old Occitan, a medieval Romance language spoken in […]
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