Events
Graduate Friday Forum with Aaron Franklin
Humanities 1, Room 408Transcendental Sentimentalism - An Introduction Broadly construed, moral sentimentalism is the position that human emotions or sentiments play a crucial role in our best normative or descriptive accounts of moral value or judgements thereof. With this presentation, Aaron introduces and sketches a defense of a novel form of more sentimentalism he calls “Transcendental Sentimentalism.” According […]
Neal Stephenson: Fall, or Dodge in Hell
Santa Cruz Veterans Hall AuditoriumBookshop Santa Cruz is thrilled to welcome bestselling author Neal Stephenson for a reading and signing of his highly-anticipated new book, Fall, or Dodge in Hell. This offsite and ticketed event will take place at the Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building, 846 Front Street, Santa Cruz. Cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa […]
Nido de Lenguas: Clases
Branciforte Small Schools Campus 840 N Branciforte Ave, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesNido de Lenguas: Clases will offer regular classes turning native speakers into language teachers to share their linguistic heritage with dedicated community members.
Living Writers: Diana Khoi Nguyen
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBorn and raised in Los Angeles, Diana Khoi Nguyen is a multimedia artist and award-winning poet whose work has appeared widely in literary journals such as Poetry, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, PEN America, and The Iowa Review, among others. She recently won the 92Y's Discovery / Boston Review2017 Poetry Contest and the Omnidawn Open […]
Keith A. Spencer Book Talk
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States"A People's History of Silicon Valley: How the Tech Industry Exploits Workers, Erodes Privacy and Undermines Democracy" with author Keith A. Spencer Keith A Spencer is an editor at salon.com where he writes about science and technology, the politics of space colonization, the social and cultural ramifications of the tech industry. http://keithspencer.org/ Light refreshments provided […]
Humanities Spring Awards
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAnnual Humanities Spring Awards Celebration at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn on Wednesday, June 5th, starting at 4:00 pm. The event includes the Spring Awards ceremony for undergraduate achievements, the Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellows poster session, and a celebration of faculty milestones. The Humanities Spring Awards Celebration is a wonderful opportunity for staff, faculty, alumni, […]
Hindustani Music and Performance of Modernity: A talk and film screening by Tejaswini Niranjana
Music Center Room 131 1156 HIGH STREET, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHindustani Music and Performance of Modernity A documentary film and talk on Hindustani music in Mumbai, based on the forthcoming book, Musicophila in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious. 1:20PM - 3:00PM Talk 3:00PM - 5:00PM Screening Refreshments will be provided. Seating is limited.
Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC)
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesProgram: 1:00 PM- Refreshments 1:15 PM- Opening remarks: Amanda Rysling Session 1: Session Chair: Jennifer Bellik 1:20 PM- Madeleine King and Koy Ruguma: "Recency and Semantic Difference: Effects on Verbatim Memory" 1:45 PM- Max Tarlov: "Trans-derivational Correspondence beyond the Word Level" 2:10 PM- BREAK Session 2: Session Chair: Steven Foley 2:20 PM- Melanie Gounas: "The Syntactic Representation of Constituent Negation" 2:45 PM- Jared […]
Feminist Science Studies Conference: Indigeneity and Climate Justice Day 2
UCSC ArboretumOrganized by Karen Barad and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer. The 2019 UCSC Feminist Science Studies conference takes as its focus the theme of “Indigeneity and Climate Justice.” Climate Justice, as opposed to the more narrow framings of “environmental justice,” marks the consideration of the entanglement of ecological, cultural, social, political, geological, biological and other forces, understood […]
*ROOM CHANGE* NOW IN 420 – Thi Nguyen: “The Gamification of Public Discourse”
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe pleasures of games include, among other things, the experience of a fantasy of value clarity. In games, our goals and values are clear, quantified, and easy to apply and rank. This provides us with a particular existential balm - a momentary liberation from the ambiguities and difficult pluralities of moral life. Games instrumentalize our ends, […]