Events
Sikhism in the Global Age
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMark Juergensmeyer is Kundan Kaur Kapany Chair of Global and Sikh Studies, fellow of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, professor of sociology, and affiliate professor of religious […]
FreeJoshua Brahinsky: “The Cultivated Event: Why Pentecostals Were the Best Organizers of the 20th Century and How to Translate Their Strategies For the Rest of Us”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoshua Brahinsky’s current book project is “God’s Bodies: Pentecostal Training in Art of Immediacy.” He is working on a research project on global evangelicalism and theory of mind, and is […]
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Tony Michels: “Soviet America: The Russian Revolution in Jewish Life”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Russian Revolution of 1917 radically altered American Jewish politics. Whereas most Americans viewed the revolution as a threat to western civilization, Jews wished for the success of the Bolsheviks, […]
Living Writers: Manuel Gonzales
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesManuel Gonzales is the author of The Miniature Wife And Other Stories (Riverhead) and the forthcoming novel, The Regional Office Is Under Attack! (Riverhead). He graduated with a BA in […]
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PhD+: Eric Hayot: “Writing for Publication in the Humanities”
Humanities 2, Room 259PODCAST: "Writing for Publication in the Humanities" Eric Hayot is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Professor Hayot will present strategies--both psychological and practical--for […]
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Humanities Earth Day Lunch and Learn
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Green Team would like to invite you to join us for Earth Day! Friday, April 22nd, 2016 11:30am - 1:00pm Program: 11:30am-12:00pm: Green Team introductions 12:00pm-12:15pm: PSI presentation 12:15pm-1:00pm: "Bin […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Jordan Reznick
Humanities 1, Room 202Jordan Reznick "Selfie Suburbia: Whites Online in the Early Twenty-First Century" Snapshot photography has been a means for white Americans to affirm their identities and collectively participate in circulating fictions […]
Remembering Shakespeare, 1564-1616
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRemembering Shakespeare, 1564-1616 Readings from the works and about the man A memorial service, commemorating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death in 1616. Saturday, April 23, 2016 Music Recital Hall, […]
The Hong Kong Democracy Movement: A Student Leader Speaks
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Hong Kong Democracy Movement: A Student Leader Speaks In the autumn of 2014, a massive protest led by students demanded genuine universal suffrage for China's Hong Kong Special Administrative […]
Irene Lusztig: “Yours in Sisterhood: Utopian Conversation, Public Feminisms, and Talking to the 70’s”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIrene Lusztig’s recent nonfiction moving image projects engage the methods and questions of 1970’s collaborative feminist documentary practice, interrogating the contemporary status of public feminism. The presentation focuses on materials […]
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