Events
Joshua Dienstag "The Human Boundary: Democracy in a Post-Species Age"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoshua Dienstag is the author of Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit and many books and articles on the history of political thought, film, literature and democratic theory. He is currently working on a project entitled The Animal Condition: A Political Theory of Human Citizenship. Joshua Dienstag is a Professor of Political Science and Law at UCLA; as well […]
FreeSanchita Saxena: "Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka: The Labor Behind the Global Garments and Textiles Industries"
College 8, Room 201Join Sanchita Saxena as she discusses her new book, Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka: The Labor Behind the Global Garments and Textiles Industries, which earned rave reviews from leading experts. It is essential reading for students and researchers in policy studies, labor studies, South and Southeast Asian studies, international trade, and political science, […]
FreeBook-to-Action | The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Santa Cruz Public Library - Downtown Branch 224 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAuthor Michelle Alexander helped initiate a national movement with her best selling book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. This month, Santa Cruz Public Libraries sponsors Book-to-Action, a month-long series of events fostering community dialog and civic engagement. Event Dates and Information: Friday April 3 | 6:30pm | Prison USA Resource Center for Nonviolence | 612 […]
FreeLinguistics Research Colloquia: Grant Goodall
Grant Goodall: "Grammar and working memory: How experimental syntax can help us tell the difference" The use of formal experiments to measure sentence acceptability, known as “experimental syntax”, is able to capture many fine-grained grammatical contrasts, but it also captures effects that have long been thought to be extra-grammatical, such as those induced by increased […]
FreeFriday Forum with Kali Rubaii: “Writing the Future with a Cement Pen: How to Concretize Displacement”
Humanities 1, Room 202The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. Light refreshments will be available. […]
FreeCounteractions: A Symposium of Creative & Critical Inquiries
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFeaturing papers by: James Beneda, Whitney DeVos, Ariane Helou, Katie Lally, Kenan Sharpe, Eric Sneathen, & Melissa Yinger Roundtable conversations from: Christopher Chen, Kendra Dority, Johanna Isaacson, Kyle Lane-McKinley, Brian Malone, Tsering Wangmo, Tim Willcutts, & others. Symposium at UCSC 9:30 a.m.: Breakfast 10:00 a.m.: Welcome & Opening Remarks 10:15 a.m.: Panel 1 […]
FreeLiving Writers Series: Marilyn Chin
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms, and through a variety of media to include poetry, fiction, film, graphic art, dance, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines […]
FreeShelly Wilcox: "Immigration Justice in Nonideal Circumstances"
Humanities 2, Room 259Abstract: In recent years, political philosophers have begun to interrogate the methodology they use to construct normative principles. Some have voiced the concern that prevailing liberal egalitarian principles are constructed under idealized assumptions and thus are ill-suited to real-world circumstances where such assumptions do not apply. Specifically, critics have raised three related objections to so-called […]
FreeDigital Humanities Working Group/Digital Pedagogy
McHenry Library, Room 1350Wednesday, April 29 (5 – 7 PM) at FITC (McHenry 1350) Digital Humanities Working Group/Digital Pedagogy Co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Commons, Learning Technologies, and FITC Faculty from across the university will offer lightning talks about new assignments and classroom strategies that integrate technologies into their pedagogy. Join the Digital Pedagogy group for a broad introduction […]
FreeTranscultural Interpretation and the Production of Alterity: Photography, Materiality, and Mediation in the Making of "African Art"
Porter College, Room D245Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie (Ph.D. Northwestern University, 2000) is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture of Global Africa at the University of California Santa Barbara. He is the author of Ben Enwonwu: The Making of an African Modernist (University of Rochester Press, 2008: winner of the 2009 Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association for […]
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