Events
Linguistics Colloquium: Gabriela Caballero
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGabriela Caballero Gabriela Caballero is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests include languages of the Americas (particularly Uto-Aztecan languages), phonology, morphology, language description and documentation, comparative/historical linguistics, and typology. This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.
Peter Kenez: “The Coming of the Holocaust”
Media Theater, M110University of California, Santa Cruz, Emeriti group presents Emeriti Faculty Lecture by: Peter Kenez Professor of History, Co-Holder of Neufield-Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies UC Santa Cruz A Holocaust survivor and native of Hungary, Peter Kenez is a scholar of the history of Russia and the former Soviet Union. He is currently completing a book-length study […]
UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: Professor Keorapetse Kgositsile
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKeorapetse Kgositsile Creative Writing and Literature present: UCSC Winter Living Writers Series Professor Keorapetse Kgositsile Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives Ronaldo V. Wilson, Visiting Assistant Professor Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities. Whether as editors, publishers, activists, teachers, multi-media artists, and/or co-collaborators, the […]
Akira Mizuta Lippit: “Like Cats and Dogs”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Akira Mizuta Lippit Akira Mizuta Lippit Professor, Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Cultures, USC Chair, Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts "Like Cats and Dogs" Professor Lippit has recently completed a book on contemporary experimental cinema, Ex-cinema: Essays on Experimental Film and Video, and is completing […]
Allen Wells: “Lives in the Balance: The United States, the Dominican Republic and the Rescue of Jews during World War II”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAllen Wells Initially supportive of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo’s offer to accept 100,000 Jews at the 1938 Evian Conference, Washington began to back away from its ringing endorsement soon after a succession of German victories throughout Western Europe during the spring of 1940. Only 750 refugees would find their way to Sosúa, a farming […]
Nathaniel Deutsch, “The Jewish Dark Continent: Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement”
Unnamed Venue Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: Nathaniel Deutsch Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of History, UCSC "The Jewish Dark Continent: Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement" On the eve of World War I, the Russian Jewish writer, socialist revolutionary, and aspiring ethnographer named An-sky set out on an ethnographic expedition into the Pale of Settlement, […]
Conservation in No Man’s Land: A Colloquium on Values, Science, and the Crisis of Biodiversity
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPANELISTS Daniel Guevara UCSC Department of Philosophy Claudio Campagna Wildlife Conservation Society UCSC Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Ronnie Lipschutz UCSC Politics Department Daniel Press UCSC Department of Environmental Studies AGENDA 9:00 am Introductory Remarks: Daniel Guevara 9:15 am Introductory Remarks: Claudio Campagna 9:30 am On the Place of Science […]
The Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture: “Interfaith Perspectives on Economic Justice, and its implications for the worldwide Occupy movement”
Stevenson Event CenterThe Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture series celebrates the work of the late Noel King, founding father and Professor of History and Comparative Religion at UC Santa Cruz. The series reflects Noel’s lifelong commitment to, and joy in, dialogue between the faiths. For the 2012 NQK Lecture, representatives of four of the world’s great religions […]
Peter Euben: “Women of Melos”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Peter Euben Peter Euben Emeritus Research Professor, Political Science and Classical Studies, Kenan Distinguished Faculty Fellow Emeritus, Duke University "Women of Melos" Although the Melian Dialogue is not much of a dialogue, it is anointed as the foundation of political realism. The paper argues that realism is delusional and […]
Tracie McMillian: “Real Food vs. Affordable Food: Can we have both?”
Oakes Mural Room, Room 223 Oakes College 150 Heller Drive, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin journalist Tracie McMillan to discuss her work for The American Way of Eating, which chronicles her experience in three undercover jobs across the American food system: California farmworker, produce clerk in a Detroit-area Walmart, New York City Applebee's kitchen wretch. Weaving policy and agricultural economics into personal narrative, McMillan explores what it would cost […]