Events
WORKSHOP: Coding for Humanists with Fabiola Hanna
Humanities 2, Room 259Interested in coding, but not sure where to start? Fabiola Hanna, a new media artist and PhD Candidate in the department of Film and Digital Media, will walk us through the basics […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Alex Moore
Humanities 1, Room 202Alex Moore "Captive Natures: Grotesque desire in the performative sculptures of Amber Hawk Swanson" In this paper I examine two projects by the artist Amber Hawk Swanson, Tilikum, 2011 and Lolita, […]
FreeBrown Bag Workshop: Teaching with Multimedia & Audio
FITC, 1336 McHenry LibraryInterested in creating multimedia presentations to support your lectures or creating short narrated videos that students can listen to before class? Join us over lunch to learn how. This workshop […]
FreeJoes Segal: “Cultural Integration”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn an interview from 1990, German artist Georg Baselitz asserted that there were no artists in the GDR. Instead, there were “assholes” who had supported a criminal system by […]
FreeJoes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies and the Socialism/Postsocialism Research Cluster presents Joes Segal Like street names, public monuments tend to celebrate historical heroes and events that are deemed exemplary for […]
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Living Writers: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesStephen Graham Jones is the author of fifteen novels and six story collections. Next up is the werewolf novel Mongrels, from William Morrow. Stephen lives in Boulder, Colorado, and teaches in the MFA program there […]
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William D. Adams: “‘Wicked Problems’: The Humanities in the Time of STEM”
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC Institute for Humanities Research presents: "Wicked Problems": The Humanities in the Time of STEM 15th Annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture by William D. Adams, Chairman of the National Endowment […]
FreeFriday Forum for Graduate Research: Whitney Devos
Humanities 1, Room 202Whitney Devos "After Lives, After Palimpsests: Aimé Césaire & Claudia Rankine's (Caribbean) 'American Lyrics' " My project seeks to frame certain forms of poetry as attempts at experimental, non-linear historiography, examining […]
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Shaul Bassi: “Shylock vs. Sarra Copia Sullam: Reframing the Venice Ghetto, 1516-2016”
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Ghetto of Venice, founded 500 years ago, has been long haunted by the ghostly presence of Shylock, the most famous imaginary Jew. The lecture will consider Shakespeare alongside the […]
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OpEd Project Fellowship Application Deadline: “Write to Change the World”
UCSCThe "Write to Change the World" program will build our faculty's capacity to translate their research for the public and to engage in debate at a national level based on […]
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