Events
Events
Imogen Dickie “Proper Names: Transition to the End Game”
Humanities 2, Room 259Abstract: I shall prove a principle which brings out the significance for accounts of aboutness and reference of the fact that justification is truth conducive; use this principle to develop an account of reference-fixing for proper names which presents an alternative to the tired menu of traditional causalisms, descriptivisms, and crosses between; and identify two […]
Wage Justice: Fighting Wage Theft in Our Community
Civic Plaza Community RoomThis community event will launch the public art and findings of a year-long research project - Working for Dignity: Low-Wage Worker Study of Santa Cruz County produced by the UCSC Center for Labor Studies. The event will showcase the project's website and feature workers, researchers and students sharing their stories about low pay and wage […]
FreePhD+: Internship Info Session
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn the next couple of months, the IHR will be launching a new public fellowship/internship program for our graduate students, allowing them to work in organizations and companies in the area during the summer, while getting fellowship support from the IHR. If you are interested in learning about this program, please join us for the […]
FreeFriday Forum: Samuael Topiary “The Anti-Representational Mode”
Humanities 1, Room 202The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. This meeting will feature Samuael […]
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Joseph M. Pierce: “Writing Queer Sisterhood: The Diaries of Julia and Delfina Bunge and the Argentine Fin de Siglo (1890-1910)”
Humanities 1, Room 402This presentation focuses on a unique coincidence in Argentine fin de siglo (1890-1910): sisters who 1) simultaneously kept a diary for an extended period of time, 2) actually shared, read, and commented on reading each other’s diaries, and 3) though under quite different circumstances, published these diaries subsequently. I read the diary as an interface […]
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Utopian Dreaming: 50 years of Imagined Futures in California and at UCSC
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn 2015, UCSC is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia its 40th. Both are products of a fertile period of ferment across California, during the 1960s and 1970s. Why has California been such a fertile and fruitful site for “Utopian Dreaming,” in film, fiction, media, design, architecture, mobility, electronics, intentional communities,ecology and environment, […]
FreeLeadership for Social Justice: A Sikh-American Perspective
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis one-day workshop provides insights and training for individuals who wish to lead social change efforts. The workshop will be conducted by the Sikh Coalition, a community-based organization that works toward the realization of civil and human rights for all people, including Sikh-Americans. It will include sessions devoted to lobbying, media, legal remedies, and a […]
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HUMANISTS@WORK
The Citizen HotelHumanists@Work is heading to Sacramento, California for our next statewide graduate student career professionalization workshop. We invite humanities PhDs, faculty, and staff to REGISTER for the workshop and join us […]
Enduring Power – Photography Exhibit – Nov. 2 – Dec. 17
Resource Center for Non ViolenceEnduring Power: The Middle Eastern and Iranian Women’s Story — A Photography Exhibit — November 2 – December 17, 2015 AT: Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, […]
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore: "Organized Abandonment and Organized Violence: Devolution and the Police"
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEVENT VIDEO: EVENT PHOTOS: CITY ON A HILL PRESS ARTICLE: The UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies invited Ruth Wilson Gilmore to UC Santa Cruz […]
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