Events
Events
Living Writers Series: Rabih Alameddine
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRabih Alameddine is the Author of four novels: An Unnecessary Woman; Koolaids; I, the Divine; and The Hakawati; as well as The Perv, a collection of short stories. The spring 2014 Living Writers Reading […]
Film Screening: Caesar Must Die
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWinner of the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's Caesar Must Die deftly melds narrative and documentary in a transcendently powerful drama-within-a-drama. The film was made in […]
FreeSun-Ah Jun: "Prominence and phrasing in ambiguity resolution: Evidence from priming and individual differences"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSun-Ah Jun is Professor of Linguistics at UC Los Angeles. Abstract: In a sentence such as Someone shot the servant of the actress who was on the balcony, it is […]
Free"Genomics and Philosophy of Race" Conference
Kresge Town HallThe "Genomics and Philosophy of Race" conference aims to foster a dialogue about race, and, in particular, about relationships between ideas of race and modern genomics research. Four panels of […]
Graduate Student Conference: "Matters Out of Place: Landscapes of Absence and Dislocation"
Social Sciences 1, Room 261 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWhile Mary Douglas' oft-quoted maxim states that, "dirt is matter out of place," it is also the soil in which life takes root. This conference positions landscapes as fertile ground […]
FreeNimrod Rosler: "Challenges in the Way to Peace in Israel/Palestine"
Social Sciences 2, Room 121The winding way to peace in Israel and Palestine requires addressing challenges in the intersection between leaders, society and the political context. The current talk will present a framework to […]
FreeRick Baldoz: "The Strange Career of the Filipino 'National': Race, Immigration, and the Bordering of U.S. Empire"
College 8, Room 301 College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk will explore the incorporation of Filipino immigrants in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on the interplay of colonialism, racial boundaries and […]
FreeCANCELLED – Kris Alexanderson: "Transoceanic Politics and Dutch Maritime Conciliation in East Asia during the 1930s"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDue to a medical emergency, this event has been cancelled. – April 12, 2014 Kris Alexanderson "Transoceanic Politics and Dutch Maritime Conciliation in East Asia during the 1930s" Kris Alexanderson’s […]
Marjorie Venit: "Strangers in a Strange Land: Negotiating the Afterlife in Monumental Greek tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMarjorie S. Venit is Professor of Art History & Archaeology at the University of Maryland. She specializes in the art and archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean world with an emphasis […]
Living Writers Series: Annie Boutelle in concert with Cowell College's Mary Holmes Festival
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAnnie Boutelle is the author of Thistle and Rose: A Study of Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry, as well as two poetry collections, Becoming Bone and Nest of Thistles. The spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series, Dislocations and […]