Events
Events
Spring Job & Internship Fair
College 8, West Field HouseYou are invited to the Spring Job & Internship this Wednesday. Don't miss the last job and internship fair of the academic year! Spring Job & Internship Fair Wednesday, April […]
FreeRoland Tolentino: “Cinema and State in Crisis: Political Film Collectives and the People’s Struggles in the Philippines”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRoland Tolentino works on Philippine film, literature, and popular culture in national and transnational contexts. He is a fellow of the UP Institute of Creative Writing and a member of […]
FreeBrown Bag Workshop: Teaching with Wikipedia (CANCELED)
FITC, 1336 McHenry LibraryA hands-on workshop designed to construct innovative assignments using Wikipedia and its content editing platform. Building assignments that ask students to work on Wikipedia pages will help them: • Develop […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Andrew Woods
Humanities 1, Room 202Andrew Woods "Punk the Academy (aka. Punk as Method) With a particular emphasis on the non-hierarchical, ambiguous, and D.I.Y. ethos of punk cultures, this paper makes the case that punk […]
RESCHEDULED PhD+: Writing for Publication in the Humanities
Unnamed VenueThis event has been rescheduled for April 22. Click here for more info.
Living Writers: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSpring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line Why Out of Line? "I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across […]
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Book Talk: Sherene Seikaly
Humanities 2, Room 259Men of Capital examines British-ruled Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s through a focus on economy. In a departure from the expected histories of Palestine, this book illuminates dynamic class […]
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Grad Slam for 2016 Finalists
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGrad Slam, also referred to as the 3-Minute Thesis Challenge, is a competition that challenges doctoral students to present years’ worth of academic research in a concise, compelling, three-minute talk to a non-expert audience. It encourages students to clarify their ideas and to help others understand and appreciate the significance of their work. The contest […]
Sherene Seikaly: “Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSherene Seikaly’s current work explores the construction and regulation of the poor in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt in terms of governance and of popular politics. Through a political economy of the history of food, this project rethinks our understanding of the “masses” and the specter of the “bread riot.” This talk is generously co-sponsored by the […]
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Saving Capitalism For the Many, Not the Few: A Curated Conversation with Robert Reich
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRobert Reich, Former Secretary of Labor, in the Clinton administration, is the author of more than a dozen books, including Aftershock, The Work of Nations, and Beyond Outrage. He is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and a Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economics. Reich is also the subject of Inequality […]
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