Events

A Conversation with Michael Scherer - White House Correspondent for TIME Magazine and UCSC Literature/Creative Writing Alum. Questions? Contact: Micah Perks meperks@ucsc.edu Flyer is available here.

Presented by the Linguistics Research Center, UCSC. For more information, please contact Debbie Belville at irc@ling.ucsc.edu.

Earll Kingston, a fourth generation Californian, has performed with many Bay Area Theatres including the Berkeley Rep, The Magic Theatre, The Aurora Theatre, and Anima Mundi. While living in Hawaii he acted in various episodes of "Hawaii 5-0" and "Magnum P.I.". From 1990 to 1997 Kingston performed "Down The Great Unknown" at the Grand Canyon […]

This talk explores luxury as one way that hierarchy, social distance, and subordination are felt affectively by bodies in consumption-oriented societies. The project seeks to upend a tradition of social thought that interprets luxury consumption as an other-directed, visually-mediated, and easily-subverted “language” of hierarchy and class. Professor Mathiowetz is a political theorist and the author […]

Please see full posterfor speaker list and complete announcement! The academy has been under considerable pressure recently, both fiscally and fueled by new pressures on knowledge formation, and on pedagogical, and organizational form. The university as such has come into question, both within and without. This understandably has prompted both anxiety and critical responses among […]

Join us for the second talk in the Unfinished Revolutions Lecture Series: Mario Garcia: "Rediscovering and Rethinking the Chicano Movement: A Historian's Quest"

At this critical time in the history of our university and the academy, in general, please join us for a workshop on the future of the Humanities led by David Theo Goldberg, Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). Goldberg, a professor at UC-Irvine, is a ground breaking scholar of critical race […]

In this richly illustrated lecture, Joan Judge explores the emergence of “Republican Ladies,” a new group of women in early twentieth century China, who were more visible than their talented late imperial forebears and more respectable than their infamously public courtesan contemporaries. She draws upon photographs and texts that appeared in China’s first commercial women’s […]

Interested faculty and graduate students are welcome to learn more about the Pacific Rim Research Program grants during this informational meeting. The current Call is now available from the PRRP website at: http://pacrim.ucsc.edu. Here is a snapshot of what is offered this year. FACULTY GRANTS Initiative: This is a new thematically focused grant in the […]

Philosophy graduate student Christopher Durt will give the following talk, "Galileo and the Emergence of Modern Philosophy," as a Work in Progress. Come join us!