Events
Events
Living Writers Series: Carmen Giménez Smith & giovanni singleton
Born in New York, poet Carmen Giménez Smith earned a BA in English from San Jose State University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa. She writes lyric essays as well as poetry, and is the author of the poetry chapbook Casanova Variations (2009), the full-length collection Odalisque in Pieces (2009), and the memoir Bring Down the Little […]
Humanities Institute Public Fellows Info Session
Humanities 1, Room 202Please join us for an information session about The Humanities Institute's Public Fellows program on Tuesday, April 10 from 12:00-1:00 pm in Humanities Room 202 where we will hear from our 2017 cohort of Public Fellows, and also cover the opportunities for public fellows this coming summer which include new partner organizations. In addition, we […]
Digital Humanities VizLab Open House
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibraryIf you’ve never tried VR before, this is your chance. Explore the new DSC VizLab and experience Virtual Reality. We invite you to test the HTC VIVE headset, Samsung Gear […]
Amanda Smith: “Cartographic Delusion: When Maps Lie & People Believe Them”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesAmanda M. Smith approaches literary expression as a point of entry into spatialities effaced from other official records. She proposes a reading practice of rigorous intertextuality to recover geographic textures […]
Gabrielle Hecht – “Residual Governance: Mining Afterlives and Molecular Colonialism in a South African Anthropocene”
Social Sciences 1, Room 261 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Residual Governance: Mining Afterlives and Molecular Colonialism in a South African Anthropocene" This talk explores residual governance in contemporary South Africa. Since the early 20th century, piles of mine waste have defined […]
Christopher Breu: “In Defense of Sex”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesChristopher Breu: "In Defense of Sex" Lecture at 10am Are sex and gender the same thing? Are trans* and intersex the same thing? Do we even need the category of […]
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Christopher Breu: “The Post-PhD Path”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Post-PhD Path: Nourishing the Internal Career, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Writing RSVP for lunch at 12pm by emailing Janina Larenas (jlarenas@ucsc.edu) Christopher Breu is […]
Living Writers Series: Sherwin Bitsui
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOriginally from White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation, Sherwin Bitsui is the author of two collections of poetry, Flood Song (Copper Canyon) and Shapeshift (University of Arizona Press). He […]
Mayanthi Fernando: “SuperNatureCulture: Human/Nonhuman Entanglements Beyond the Secular”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesMayanthi Fernando works on Islam, secularism, and the politics of difference in the North Atlantic. Her current project tracks the secular genealogies of the recent posthumanist turn. Reading this scholarship alongside […]
Unintelligible: Noise Against Capture
Graduate student conference exploring the potentials of a critical sound studies. This conference seeks to cultivate an interdisciplinary understanding of the field of Sound Studies by taking up the ubiquitous […]
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