Events
Events
From Concept to Project: A Digital Mapping Workshop for Graduate Students with Yoh Kawano
Humanities 1, Room 402Are you developing a digital map but feel unsure about your next steps? Or, having trouble reconciling the complexity of spatial theory with the nuts-and-bolts of GIS? Graduate students interested in mapping and integrating spatial thinking into their research should consider joining this workshop with Yoh Kawano. Kawano is the GIS Specialist at UCLA and a lecturer […]
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Joan Wallach Scott: “Sex and Secularism”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoan Wallach Scott’s recent books, including The Fantasy of Feminist History (2011), focus on the relationship of the particularity of gender to the universalizing force of democratic politics. Her recent work […]
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The Immigrant Youth Movement and the Fight Against Deportations: A Talk with Dr. Kent Wong
Humanities 2, Room 259Dr. Kent Wong is the author and editor of DREAMS DEPORTED: Immigrant Youth and Families Resist Deportation, a UCLA student publication featuring stories of deportation and of the courageous immigrant youth and families who have led the national campaign against deportations and successfully challenged the president of the United States to act. Kent Wong […]
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Living Writers: Peter Orner
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPeter Orner is the author of two story collections, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge and Esther Stories, and two novels, Love and Shame and Love and The Second Coming […]
Clive Sinclair: “One City, Seven Shylocks: Venice’s Most Famous Son Comes Home”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Podcast: "In my time I have seen many Shylocks ….. But never before have I seen seven Shylocks on a single day.” Clive Sinclair is the author of […]
Robin Hunicke: “The Art of Feel Engineering: Design, Art, Games & Playable Media at UCSC”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRobin Hunicke’s practice focuses on creating boundary-expanding, experimental game experiences by combining unique concepts and technologies. She works to create games that deliver unexpected emotional outcomes to players. This includes […]
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Marc Matera: “The Global 1930s: The International Decade”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe 1930s usually conjure up images of Soviet show trials, jack-booted, brown-shirted German fascists, and breadlines and the dustbowl in the United States. The decade is also associated with the […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Sophie PappenheimBlack
Humanities 1, Room 202"Black Storm Clouds and a Queer Yellow Light: Reading the Affective Edges of Symbolism in Maru" My project is to read postcolonial novels that have typically been analyzed as representations […]
FreeLinguistics Colloquium: Kie Zuraw
Humanities 2, Room 259The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. Fall 2016 Nov 18: Kie Zuraw, UCLA Winter 2017 February 7: TBA March TBD: LASC: Linguistics at […]
The Devil’s Wheels: Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic
Rachel Carson College, Room 301 Rachel Carson College 1156 High Stree, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"The Devil's Wheels Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic" by Sasha Disko During the high days of modernization fever, among the many disorienting changes Germans experienced in the Weimar […]
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