Events
Cathy Park Hong: “Stand Up: A Symposium on Race and the Avant-Garde”
Humanities 2, Room 259UCSC's Poetry & Politics Research Collective invites you to attend our spring event, "Stand Up: A Symposium on Race and the Avant-Garde with Cathy Park Hong." Please join us on Friday, May 13 for a symposium featuring creative and critical work by Literature faculty, lecturers, and graduate students, and a keynote reading by Cathy Park […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Cathy Thomas
Humanities 1, Room 202Cathy Thomas "Defining the Fête: The Utopian Potential of Drag, Disease and Diaspora in Oonya Kempadoo's Carnival Imaginary" The catharsis associated with Caribbean Carnivale has always been situated in the body. This paper considers the fête bodies of a transnational costume designer, the Queen of the Band and a gay reveler living with AIDS in […]
POSTPONED PhD+: Research and Grants
Humanities 1, Room 202This event has been postponed to June 3rd. PhD+ Workshop Series Please join us for the launch of PhD+, our new series! We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for humanities PhDs, online identity issues, internship possibilities, work/life balance, elements of style, grants/fellowships and much, more more. October 9, 2015: […]
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Living Writers: Elizabeth McKenzie
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesElizabeth McKenzie is the author of The Portable Veblen, published by Penguin Press and 4th Estate. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and recorded for NPR’s Selected shorts. Her collection, Stop That Girl, was short-listed for The Story Prize, and her […]
FreeLeonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLeonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists, scientists, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations. Please join us in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 for refreshments at 6:30 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by marine biologist Nicole Crane, artist Elaine […]
FreeStephanie Jones-Rogers: “Lady Flesh Stealers, Female Soul Drivers, and She-Merchants: White Women and the American Slave Market”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesStephanie Jones-Rogers is completing her manuscript “Mistresses of the Market: White Women and the Economy of American Slavery.” It examines white women’s economic investments in American slavery and reveals their active participation in the South’s slave market economy. Jones-Rogers is Assistant Professor of History at UC Berkeley. Spring 2016 Colloquium Series April 6, 2016 April 13, 2016 April 20, […]
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Giving Day at UC Santa Cruz
Unnamed VenueGet ready to play the Giving Day Game A 24-hour online fundraising drive to support UC Santa Cruz students, faculty, and programs. Great projects all across campus are being featured by academic divisions, colleges, student groups, and others. The UC Santa Cruz community is invited to be a part of the fun of Giving Day […]
Humanists@Work Graduate Career Workshop
Graduate students, faculty, and staff, please register here. More detailed information is forthcoming, but for now, here is an outline of the workshop sessions that will by offered at the upcoming Humanists@Work Graduate Career Workshop on May 8-9 in Los Angeles, CA. Please see our networking page for information about how to participate in our […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Raul Tadle
Humanities 1, Room 202Raul Tadle "FOMC Sentiment Extraction and its Transmission to Financial Markets" Since December 2004, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the governing board that determines U.S. monetary policy, has expedited the release of the minutes of its meetings from six to three weeks after the meetings are held. The reasoning behind this move is that […]
Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9 (SULA 9)
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEVENT PHOTOS: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in Americas 9 SULA 9 will be held at the University of California, Santa Cruz on May 6-8, 2016. The conference is a venue for researchers working on languages or dialects spoken in the Americas that do not have an established tradition of work in formal semantics. We especially encourage […]
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