Events
Toni Morrison: "Literature and the Silence of Goodness" (Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture)
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHumanities Division and Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Presents: Toni Morrison: "LITERATURE AND THE SILENCE OF GOODNESS" at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz Tickets: $12 Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics […]
2014 Founders Celebration Dinner
Cocoanut Grove 400 Beach Street , Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSave the date for the eighth annual UC Santa Cruz Founders Celebration dinner, honoring extraordinary individuals and their outstanding contributions to society. This year's honorees include Toni Morrison, novelist, editor, […]
Annual Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDon Rothman began teaching undergraduate writing classes at UC Santa Cruz in 1973. After more than three decades of guiding teachers and teaching college students, the senior lecturer emeritus in […]
Jean-Jacques Surbeck: "Israel and the World, a Unique Lesson in Double Standards"
UCSC Cowell College Presents Conflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine Tuesday Evenings Fall 2014 6:00-7:45pm, Merrill Academy 102 Tuesday Oct 7: Christine King (Lecturer Kresge College). “Making Peace […]
UCSC's Institute of the Arts and Sciences presents LASER
UCSC’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences invites you to the first LASER of the academic year Tuesday, October 28! Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of […]
Azar Nafisi: "The Republic of Imagination"
Peace United Church 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran will discuss and sign copies of her new book, The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books—a hymn to the power of fiction to change […]
Nirvikar Singh: "Sikh Studies & Post-Modern Orientalism"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesNIRVIKAR SINGH Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies and Professor of Economics, UCSC Professor Singh explores how Sikh Studies in the North American academy is engaging with […]
"Digital is not a Dirty Word” – Digital Humanities Graduate Student Open House
Graduate Student CommonsLet's talk digital. Are you unsure what Digital Humanities means? Are you interested in mapping, databases, blogs, or twitter, but don't know how they help your work? Are you skeptical, […]
Bryan Donaldson: "Information structure and word order in medieval Occitan"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn this talk, I draw on elements of discourse analysis and information structure–specifically topic-marking–to address a long-standing problem in the syntax of Old Occitan, a medieval Romance language spoken in […]
Arlene Davila: Locating Neoliberalism in Time, Space & Latino/Latin American Cultures
University Center, UCSC College Nine and College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Latin American & Latino Studies Distinguished Speaker Series is proud to present Arlene Davila to begin the 2014-15 year. Davila uses ethnographic and transnational perspectives to theorize the intersections […]