Events
Paul Lee: “The Greeks had a word for it: thumos”
Stevenson Provost HousePaul Lee studied philosophy at St. Olaf College and received his divinity degree and PhD from Harvard. He has taught at Harvard, MIT, and UC Santa Cruz, where he founded the first organic garden on a university with Alan Chadwick in 1967. In 1976 alongside Paige Smith, he began the California Conservation Corps under Jerry […]
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Designing Digital Scholarship: Art, Feminism + the Digital Humanities
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWith Craig Deitrich (Claremont Colleges) and Tara McPherson (USC) The story of the digital humanities is often narrated at a decades-long history of the computational manipulation of print. What alternative histories are concealed by such a story? How might we imagine DH differently if we move beyond a focus on text toward multimodal expression and […]
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Race, Class & Culture through the Lens of Jazz
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterEVENT PHOTOS: Kuumbwa Jazz Center and the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research present: Race, Class & Culture through the Lens of Jazz Featuring a headline performance by jazz vocalist Kim Nalley, UC Santa Cruz Humanities is celebrating International Jazz Day 2016! In the spirit of UNESCO's International Jazz Day and in collaboration […]
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Public Reading and Q&A with novelist Micheal Nava
Kresge Seminar Room 159 Seminar Room Bldg University of California Santa Cruz, University of California Santa Cruz: Kresge College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMichael Nava is an attorney, the author of the acclaimed seven-volume Henry Rios detective series, and has won 6 Lambda Literary awards. He is currently in the midst of writing a new series of novels, the first of which is The City of Palaces (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014). Set before and during the outbreak […]
FREELinguistic Colloquium: Paul Kiparsky
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLinguistic Colloquium: The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. Fall 2015 October 9th: Keith Johnson, UC Berkeley October 16th: Heidi Harley, University of Arizona October 30th: Ivano Caponigro, UC San Diego November 20th: Elliott Moreton, University of North Carolina Winter 2016 January 15th: Sharon Inkelas, UC Berkeley February 5th: Colin Phillips, University of Maryland February […]
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12th Annual Graduate Research Symposium
McHenry Library, UCSCThe Symposium offers graduate students from every division the opportunity to discuss their research with colleagues on campus and with the public. Our students present their work in the form of posters, live presentations, and media demonstrations. The Symposium also awards juried prizes, overseen by a panel of judges comprised of faculty, staff, researchers, alumni, […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Erin McElroy
Humanities 1, Room 202Erin McElroy "Disposals through the #DigitalNomad: The Materialization of a Dispossessive Avatar" The "Digital Nomad," an illusive figure flourishing alongside the growth of digital and network technologies, has conjured ideas of travel and freedom with the emergence of the Silicon Valley induced Tech Boom. I trace how digital networks, accompanied by fantasies of mobility, contribute to […]
The Jungle and the Beast: A Conversation with Lewis Watts and Óscar Martínez
Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Jungle and the Beast: A Conversation with Lewis Watts and Óscar Martínez is the second event in the Borders and Belonging Series hosted by the CLRC. In The Beast (Los migrantes que no importan, in the original Spanish), intrepid Salvadoran journalist Óscar Martínez accompanies migrants on "the Beast," the train that travels from Central […]
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UC Santa Cruz Alumni Weekend 2016
UC Santa CruzSAVE THE DATE April 28 – May 1, 2016 More info and event schedule at: alumniweekend.ucsc.edu Questions? Contact alumni@ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-5003.
María en tierra de nadie: Screening & Q&A with Marcela Zamora
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for a free, public film screening to kickoff Borders and Belonging: A Series of Events on Human Migration To foster a conversation about migration, LALS and the CLRC are jointly hosting a special screening of Marcela Zamora's María en tierra de nadie (María in No Man’s Land), 2010. This is the story of […]
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