Events
Kimberlé Crenshaw: 34th Annual Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Convocation
Santa Cruz Civic AuditoriumThe annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by presenting speakers who discuss the civil rights issues of equality, freedom, justice, and opportunity. The […]
Friday Forum: Stephen David Engel
Humanities 2, Room 359Stephen David Engel is a PhD student in the History of Consciousness Department. Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us […]
Victoria Bañales: “Community College Teaching – A View From Inside”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Literature Department Graduate Program Alumni Speaker Series Presents: "Community College Teaching: A View From Inside" Victoria Bañales Victoria Bañales earned a Ph.D. in Literature with a Parenthetical Notation in […]
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Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Little Dorrit in Historical Context
Museum of Art & History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSanta Cruz Pickwick Club featuring Little Dorrit The Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel, beginning this January […]
FreeNeel Ahuja: “Reversible Human: Rectal Feeding, Gut Plasticity, and Racial Control in US Carceral Warfare”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesNeel Ahuja’s research explores the relationship of the body to forms of imperial warfare and security. Focusing on the association of rectal feeding, used as a form of medical rape […]
Daniel Lee: “A Sleepy English Village and a North African Jew: An Unlikely Story of French Resistance during World War Two”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe story of the Free French who rallied to Charles de Gaulle in London following the fall of France in June 1940 is well-known. But until now, historians have ignored […]
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Living Writers Series: Duriel E. Harris
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDuriel E. Harris, poet, performer, and sound artist, is author of No Dictionary of a Living Tongue, Drag and Amnesiac and coauthor of the poetry video Speleology. Current undertakings include […]
FreeAdam Ussishkin: “Roots, or consonants? On the early role of morphology in lexical access”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesWords consist of a phoneme or letter sequence that maps onto meaning. Most prominent theories of both auditory and visual word recognition portray the recognition process as a connection between […]
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Dr. Angus Forbes: “Immersive Interpretation – Exploring Data in Virtual Reality”
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibraryEvent Photos: Immersive Interpretation: Exploring Data in Virtual Reality Angus Forbes (UCSC, Computational Media) Forbes will discuss the opportunities for exploring and analyzing data using contemporary display technologies, such as […]
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Jodi Byrd: “Fire & Flood – Settler Colonialisms & Pessimistic Indigenous Futurisms”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: The Feminist Studies Department and CRES are pleased to partner with The Center for Cultural Studies to present this CULT Colloquium Series talk: "Fire & Flood: Settler Colonialisms […]