Events
THI Coffee Hour
Humanities 1, Room 515 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students, faculty, staff, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays, 11am to noon. We invite you to visit our team, meet our new Faculty Director, Pranav Anand, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how […]
Donna Haraway – Making Kin: Lynn Margulis in Sympoiesis with Sibling Scientists
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by History of Consciousness: GeoEcologies + TechnoScience Conversations Sympoiesis is a simple word; it means “making with.” We live in a profoundly sympoietic world. This talk begins with Lynn Margulis (1938-2011), a multi-faceted biologist who co-founded the view of Earth as Gaia, a planet with wildly improbable gas ratios and with sustained, unlikely equilibria […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Cynthia Yoonjeong Lee
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Department of Linguistics is pleased to present: "Articulating linguistic prosody: representation and choreography" with Cynthia Yoonjeong Lee University of Michigan Abstract During a communicative act, language users adeptly control and coordinate intricate movements of vocal tract organs, including the lips, tongue, and larynx, to craft linguistic messages. The spatiotemporal patterning of these vocal tract […]
Zhiying Qian – “Verb Bias and Plausibility in Native and Non-native Sentence Processing”
Humanities 1, Room 202The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: “Verb Bias and Plausibility in Native and Non-native Sentence Processing” with Zhiying Qian, Ph.D. Florida State University Abstract The influence of the properties of a first language (Mandarin, Korean) on the comprehension of sentences in a second language (English) was investigated in a series […]
Living Writers with Undergraduate debut novelists Chiara Barzini & Rebecca Rukeyser
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLiving Writers - Winter 2024 - Return of the Beloved: An Alumni Series Chiara Barzini is a screen, fiction, and journalism writer who was born in Rome and raised as a teenager in Los Angeles, where she became obsessed with canyons, quartz, and the Grateful Dead. When she moved to New York she steered her […]
What Actually Happened in 1619: The Origins of Slavery in North America
Music Center Recital HallThe New York Times’s The 1619 Project sparked controversy and conversation across the United States about the history and legacies of slavery. The project drew its name from a date, 1619, connected to the origins of American slavery, and its publication coincided with the four-hundredth anniversary of that event. But what actually happened in 1619? […]
Before Justice: Meister’s Legacies of Critique
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe History of Consciousness Department is delighted to invite you for an upcoming celebration of Professor Robert Meister, who has been teaching at UC Santa Cruz for 50 years! Please join us on Friday, February 2nd for an afternoon of discussion reflecting on Professor Meister’s research and teaching contributions, to be followed by a reception […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Drew McLaughlin
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Department of Linguistics is pleased to present, Drew McLaughlin (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language). Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
THI Coffee Hour
Humanities 1, Room 515 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students, faculty, staff, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays, 11am to noon. We invite you to visit our team, meet our new Faculty Director, Pranav Anand, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how […]
Nicole Starosielski – Socializing the Network
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by Film + Digital Media This talk is a story about the ways that global digital infrastructure, especially the data centers and subsea cable networks that form the backbone […]