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  • Jerome Morgan and jackie sumell – Abolition and Healing

    DARC 108 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    This event is limited to the campus community and not open to the public. We invite students, staff, and faculty to join us for a live conversation about incarceration, harm, and healing with Jerome Morgan and jackie sumell. Jerome Morgan was wrongfully incarcerated at the age of 17 in Angola State Penitentiary for 20 years […]

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    A Conversation with Michelle Obama

    Virtual Event

    The Humanities Institute is excited to announce that UC Santa Cruz has been invited to participate in a special event with Michelle Obama on Tuesday, November 9th, 2021, at Prince George’s Community College in Largo, Maryland. This event will feature Mrs. Obama in conversation with a moderator and selected students from a small group of […]

  • Precarity and Belonging Book Launch

    Virtual Event

    Moderated by Dr. Camilla Hawthorne, this webinar will celebrate UCSC professors and their recent publication of Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship (Rutgers University Press, 2021). Precarity and Belonging looks at mobility through space and society. It examines how the movement of people and their incorporation, marginalization, and exclusion, under epochal conditions of labor […]

  • PhD+ Workshop – Preparing the Teaching Statement and the Teaching Portfolio

    Virtual Event

    Gain tools and tips for effectively writing a teaching statement, a common document in faculty hiring and review processes and an opportunity to reflect on how your teaching supports student learning. We’ll also review how to select teaching portfolio materials that tell a compelling story of who you are as an educator. This workshop will […]

  • Lital Levy – World Literature, Translation, and Diaspora: The Intimately Global Journey of Grace Aguilar’s The Vale of Cedars

    Virtual and In Person

    This talk follows the translation history of the Anglo-Jewish author Grace Aguilar’s 1850 novel The Vale of Cedars from Victorian England to Mainz, Warsaw, Vilna, Calcutta, and Tunis. A case study for Levy's broader project on “Global Haskalah,” it brings together Sephardic studies, world literature and translation studies, transnational literary history, and Jewish literary studies. […]

  • PhD+ Workshop – Publishing in Academia

    Virtual and In Person

    Learn how to publish scholarly work, from finding and evaluating a publisher to negotiating the publication contract and navigating copyright. This workshop will be led by Martha Stuit (Scholarly Communication […]

  • A.M. Darke – Games and Play as Social Intervention

    Virtual Event

    Game designer A.M. Darke frames powerful dialogue about the role of games in the shaping of power in contemporary digital culture, and beyond. What is at stake in self-representation, and […]

  • PhD+ Workshop – Interviewing and Negotiating Salary

    Virtual Event

    Practice Mock Interviews and Salary Negotiations. This workshop will be led by Veronica Heiskell, Ph.D. (Associate Director of Experiential Learning and Student Employment, Career Success). The Division of Graduate Studies' […]

  • Nasser Zakariya – Questions on “Anthroperiphery”

    Virtual and In Person

    Taking recent discussions of "Copernican Forecasting" as a point of departure, this talk will look to historical and probabilistic arguments representing science in terms of ongoing demonstrations of the increasingly […]

  • PhD+ Workshop – Teaching at California Community Colleges

    Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    A panel discussion with current and recent instructors at California Community Colleges, who are all UC Santa Cruz graduate student alumni, including: Beth Au, Moderator Director California Community Colleges Registry […]

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