Events
David Landy: “Explanation and Personal Identity in the Appendix to Hume’s Treatise”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn the Appendix to his Treatise, Hume famously expresses a deep dissatisfaction with the account of personal identity that he had earlier presented, but offers only the briefest description of […]
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Living Writers: Alfredo Vea
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAlfredo Vea Alfredo Véa was born in the desert outside of Phoenix, but not in America. His grandfather was a Yaqui Indian, his grandmother was a Spanish-Mexican curandera who had […]
California Semantics and Pragmatics 9 (CUSP)
Humanities 2, Room 259CUSP 9 will be held at UC Santa Cruz on October 21-22, 2016. Established in 2009, CUSP serves as a venue for researchers in semantics and pragmatics to exchange ideas […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kali Rubaii
Humanities 1, Room 202"Enemy Inside Out: Birth Defects in Fallujah" Hotly debated and widely misunderstood is the epidemic of birth defects in Fallujah, Iraq. While the possibility of knowing the exact cause of […]
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2016 Founders Celebration
UCSC Science and Engineering LibraryPlease join us at Founders Celebration 2016 for a look into the library as a "collision space" where technology, information, and ideas collide to create new knowledge and support dynamic […]
Digital Research Happy Hour
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGet to know the DH Research community to learn more about digital research on campus at an informal happy hour. We invite researchers across campus to discuss their work with a […]
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Alma Heckman: “Absence and Counter-Narratives: The Years of Lead and the Moroccan Jewish Exodus”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAlma Rachel Heckman’s research crosses Jewish history, North Africa, French empire and the history of social movements. Her talk emerges from her project “Radical Nationalists: Moroccan Jewish Communists 1925-1975.” Heckman […]
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P. Sainath: “The People’s Archive of Rural India”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesP. Sainath is India's most highly awarded journalist and a winner of the Ramon Magsayay Prize (often referred to as the 'Asian Nobel'). The only Indian to win the Magsayay […]
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Living Writers: Elizabeth Willis
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesElizabeth Willis's most recent book, Alive: New and Selected Poems (New York Review Books, 2015), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Other books include Address (Wesleyan, 2011), recipient of […]
Roundtable Discussion: Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences beyond Academia
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPhilip Misevich and Konrad Tuchscherer are historians at St. John's University and co-producers of Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels (2014, dir. Tony Buba), the award-winning documentary […]