Events
Curating a Decolonial Guide to Hawai’i: The Detours Project
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesFeminist Studies Colloquium: Curating a Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i - The Detours Project Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Friday, March 1 - HUM 1 room 210 12:00 to 2:00 pm Lunch will be provided Publishing Workshop: After the Colloquium, Prof. Gonzales, who is an Associate Editor of the American Quarterly journal, will conduct […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Alessia Cecchet
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Eating and Resurrecting the Goats: Animal bodies, death, and Western cultural practices" According to Norse mythology, two male goats, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr, pull Thor's chariot. Once they have completed their labor, these animals can be eaten and resuscitated thereafter, in order to feed their god in an infinite loop of animal servitude. This myth epitomizes […]
Karen Tei Yamashita Celebration
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us in a joyous celebration on the occasion of the retirement of Karen Tei Yamashita. Karen Tei Yamashita is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Living Writers reading featuring Karen Tei Yamashita, Seshu Foster, and testimonials from other UC Santa Cruz alumni. This event is sponsored by The […]
International Women’s Day: Celebrating Feminist Scholarship from the Americas
Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Research Center for the Americas and Feminist Collective of Sisters in the Borderlands invite you to join us as we celebrate International Women's Day with book talks by two leading feminist scholars. The first speaker is Dr. Ranita Ray of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas who will speak about her book The Making […]
Dee Hibbert-Jones: “Last Day of Freedom & Run With It”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesProfessor Hibbert-Jones will be screening her academy award nominated short film "Last Day of Freedom." When Bill Babbitt realizes his brother Manny has committed a crime he agonizes over his decision- should he call the police? Last Day of Freedom is a richly animated personal narrative that tells the story of Bill’s decision to stand […]
Giving Day 2019
UC Santa Cruz Giving Day is an energized 24-hour giving drive to support students, staff, and faculty initiatives. Join us in the circle of Giving on February 27th 2019 from 12 a.m. - 11:59 p.m. #give2UCSC FIND A HUMANITIES PROJECT TO SUPPORT ON GIVING DAY: Center for Public Philosophy The Okinawa Memories Initiative The Center […]
Lise Getoor: “Responsible Data Science”
Music Center Recital HallThe 53rd Annual Faculty Research Lecture will be given by Professor Lise Getoor on Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at the Music Recital Hall in the Performing Arts Complex. "Responsible Data Science" Data science is an emerging discipline that offers both promise and peril. Responsible data science refers to efforts that address both the technical and […]
Translating America/America Translated Symposium
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States“Translating America/America Translated” is a two-day faculty-graduate student symposium on new hemispheric geographies and languages in pre-20th-century American literary studies. The symposium is funded by UCHRI and co-sponsoring units at UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine, and UC San Diego. Highlighting translation, multilinguality and the transnational as indispensable features of literary studies today, the “Translating America/America […]
Translating America/America Translated Symposium
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States“Translating America/America Translated” is a two-day faculty-graduate student symposium on new hemispheric geographies and languages in pre-20th-century American literary studies. The symposium is funded by UCHRI and co-sponsoring units at UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine, and UC San Diego. Highlighting translation, multilinguality and the transnational as indispensable features of literary studies today, the “Translating America/America […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Alirio Karina
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBetween Two Africas: "Nubia in the Ethnographic Imagination" This paper explores the region and anthropologized people, of Nubia, examining how they are produced as (inhabiting) a borderland between two Africas- North Africa and Africa "proper." By studying three museological movements in which the ethnographic appears and vanishes, together with two literary test animated by ethnographic […]