Events

The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk. Jennifer Derr has her B.S. from Stanford University; M.A., Georgetown University; Ph.D., Stanford. Areas of academic interest include modern Middle Eastern history, African history, Ottoman Empire, early Islamic history. Fellow, Society of Junior Fellows in British Studies, University of Texas at Austin (2009–10); James […]

The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk. Beginning in the 1570s, incidents of piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean increased exponentially, as the conclusion of the war for Cyprus with Venice and the withdrawal of the imperial navies left behind numerous underemployed and unsupervised Ottoman naval irregulars and opened the door to […]

THE 2nd ANNUAL MORTON MARCUS MEMOMRIAL POETRY READING honors poet, teacher and film critic Morton Marcus (1936-2009), one of Santa Cruz’s beloved cultural icons. This second annual event will feature Kay […]

Laurence R. Horn On the Contrary: Pragmatic Strengthening and Disjunctive Syllogism   The dictum that “The essence of formal negation is to invest the contrary with the character of the […]

The Living Writers Reading Series presents David Vann. David Vann writes both fiction and non-fiction and has won several awards, including the Grace Paley Prize 2007, California Book Award 2008, […]

The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk. Giancarlo Casale is a specialist in the history of the early modern Ottoman empire, although he also has interests in the history of geography and cartography, global exploration, and comparative empires. He has just completed my first book, "The Ottoman Age of Exploration," about […]

Feminist Studies presents Long Bui, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow Ms. Little Saigon: Through the Looking Glass of Art, Politics and Community This presentation examines the historical legacy of the Vietnam […]

One of the most important—and least appreciated—categories that Jews have employed to experience the world Jewishly is minhag, a Hebrew word typically translated into English as "custom." Historically, minhag enabled Jews to transform practically every event and action into something with Jewish meaning; it also enabled Jews to differentiate themselves from non-Jews, as well as […]

Deanna Shemek Professor Shemek studies intersections of elite and popular culture in early modern Italy, especially among women. Her current research focuses on early modern letter writing. She is completing an edition of Isabella d’Este’s letters and a book on the broader significance of early modern women's letters. The talk addresses plans to digitize the […]

Gershom Gorenberg UCSC alumnus Gershom Gorenberg is the author of the forthcoming book, The Unmaking of Israel, on the crisis of Israeli democracy and how to solve it. The book […]