Events
Jennifer Doyle: “Harassment & the Unravelling of the Queer Commons”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk will attempt to speak to the difficulty of this moment for queer/feminist theorists—for teachers, students and staff who live and work with harassment, with forms of misogyny that are so embedded in professional life as, in some ways, to feel synonymous with it. This work is a return to a scene many of […]
Building a Coding Workflow from Terminal to Github: Workshop with Fabiola Hanna
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibraryConfused by Github? Scared by the black screen of the Terminal? If you’re looking to code, but don’t know how to get started join Fabiola Hanna for an introductory workshop and learn how to set up a coding workflow. We’ll start with basic scripts in Terminal then move to setting up Brackets and working […]
Right Livelihood Conference
UC Santa Cruz'Alternative Nobel Prize' Laureates at UCSC In May 2018, a group of Right Livelihood change-makers based in Canada and the US will convene at the University of California, Santa Cruz to discuss challenges and opportunities for advancing social and environmental justice. In these tumultuous times, this meeting will deepen and ground our local efforts […]
Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: The Dickens Universe
Museum of Art & History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSanta Cruz Pickwick Club featuring Little Dorrit The Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel, beginning this January with Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit. Join us each month for conversations about the novel and guest speaker presentations to help us contextualize our readings. Santa Cruz […]
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Friday Forum: Sam Hughes
Humanities 2, Room 359The Origins of Kink-Oriented Desires: Perspectives from an Online Community of Kinky People Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the […]
Engaging and Including Student Veterans in the Classroom
Humanities 2, Room 359Writing Program Pedagogy Workshop The number of student veterans is rapidly growing, with more than a million currently enrolled in US colleges. Many institutions support veterans by promoting access to student services but overlook what actually happens in the classroom. What do we need to know as instructors about student veterans' learning practices, literacies, and […]
Philosophy Colloquium: Gene Witmer
Humanities 1, Room 202“Metaphysics and A Priori Vindication” Is there reason to expect any interesting kind of a priori access to metaphysical truths of the sort often in dispute in contemporary philosophy? In this paper I zero in on truths about what is metaphysically necessary and about the essences or natures of things as key topics in metaphysics […]
POSTPONED Digital Humanities Meet Up
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States**THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED** Share your digital research with the DH community! Join the DH Research Cluster to learn more about DH research on campus at an informal meet up. We invite researchers across campus to share their work with a short, lightening style presentation. The introductions will be open-mic style, do you do not have to prepare in advance. This […]
Pacific Island Worlds Transpacific Dis/Positions Symposium
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn this symposium, artists and scholars explore creative expression and research that chart Pacific Island Studies in the 21st century. Speakers examine the Pacific Ocean as worlds of complex human interaction and dynamic spaces in which diverse communities have produced a range of cultural and political identity dis/positions through kinship, colonial histories, and diasporas. The […]
Language of Conservation Project: In Search of “Values as Yet Uncaptured by Language”
Page Smith LibraryIn Search of “Values as Yet Uncaptured by Language:” Learning from Great Historical Paradigm Shifts A Language of Conservation Project Colloquium. Presented by The Humanities Institute and the Center for Public Philosophy. Event Photos: Speakers: Daniel Guevara - Chair, Department of Philosophy at UCSC Claudio Campagna - Adjunct Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at UCSC, Wildlife Conservation Society Karen […]