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  • LASER (Leonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous)

    Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Arts Division at the University of California, Santa Cruz present: LASER Tuesday, February 2, 2016 Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 […]

    Free

  • Living Writers: Charles Yu

    Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Charles Yu is an Asian American writer of three well received works of speculative fiction, How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe, Third Class Superhero, and Sorry Please […]

    Free

  • PhD+: Online Identity

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Learn how to perfect your online identity and social media presence as an academic or higher ed professional. Melissa De Witte (Web Coordinator, Social Sciences) will lead a discussion about how you can build your social media presence as an academic. Whether you are a novice or an expert, a technophobe or an early adopter, […]

    Free

  • Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Sophia Magnone

    Humanities 1, Room 202

    Sophia Magnone “There is risk in dealing with a partner”: “Bloodchild” and Interspecies Encounter I focus on “Bloodchild,” Octavia Butler’s story of extremely intimate yet profoundly troubling relations between species. On an extraterrestrial world, refugee humans become reproductive partners with their insectoid hosts, a relationship that mixes familial and sexual love with coercion and objectification. Yet in Butler’s own words, […]

    Free

  • Colin Phillips: “Speaking, understanding, and the architecture of language”

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    We speak and understand the same language, but it’s generally assumed that language production and comprehension are subserved by separate cognitive systems. So they must presumably draw on a third, task-neutral cognitive system (“grammar”). So comprehension-production differences are a thorn in the side of anybody who might want to collapse grammar and language processing mechanisms […]

    Free

  • Leadership for Social Justice: Sikh American Perspectives

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    This workshop will provide participants with practical tools for conceptualizing and effecting social change. Modules include: understanding and changing mindsets, community cultural leadership, implementing adaptive change, and supporting citizen-centered rather than client-centered approaches. Workshop trainer: Jyotswaroop Kaur Education Director, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF) Free workshop open to all UCSC students and […]

    Free

  • Brown Bag Workshop: Teaching with Film and Video

    McHenry Library, Room 1350

    Join us to learn how to integrate film and video into your pedagogy. This workshop will include an introduction to the new Learning Glass in the FITC, which allows you to face the camera when you record a lecture with a “blackboard,” and discussion about creating video assignments. We will cover technology, tools, and instructions […]

    Free

  • Critical Leisure Studies Winter Seminar: Introduction & The Right to be Lazy

    Humanities 1, Room 402

    In our introductory Winter Seminar, we hope to foster intellectual dialogue amongst a community of scholars interested in exploring the theoretical implications and transformative possibilities in thinking the category of “leisure” historically and in the contemporary moment. The first half of the meeting, will be an open discussion about the interdisciplinary possibilities of “leisure” as […]

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