Events
Events
Christina Gerhardt: “The Legacy of 1968 & Global Cinema”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: Christina Gerhardt is the author of Screening the Red Army Faction: Historical and Cultural Memory, and co-editor of 1968 and Global Cinema and Celluloid Revolt: German Screen Cultures […]
Tera W. Hunter: “Bound in Wedlock – Slave and Free Black Marriage in the 19th Century”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe History Department Presents: Tera W. Hunter is Professor of History and African-American Studies at Princeton University. She is currently a fellow at the National Humanities Center. She will be speaking […]
Cathy Davidson: “The New Education”
University Center University Center University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHow can we revolutionize the university to better prepare students for our age of constant change? How can we retool our classrooms as activist, engaged learning environments that model a […]
FreePhD+: Ken Wissoker (Duke UP): An Insider’s Guide to Academic Publishing
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: How different is the structure of your dissertation from the form of your first book? Who are the audiences for your research? How soon after completing the dissertation […]
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Friday Forum: Elizabeth Goldman
Humanities 2, Room 259Once Helpful, Always Helpful? Infants’ Expectations About Helping and Hindering Behavior Across Scenarios The present work examined 16 to 18 month-olds’abilities to generalize a person’s tendency to help or hinder […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Kristen Syrett, Rutgers University
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States"Experimental evidence for context sensitivity in the nominal domain: What children and adults reveal" Abstract: Part of what it means to become a proficient speaker of a language is to […]
FreeCathy Davidson Workshop
Humanities 1, Room 202Cathy Davidson will offer a hands-on workshop on engaged pedagogy with the Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now research cluster, working with the research group to address a topic […]
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Danny Snelson: “The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats”
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibraryEvent Photos: The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats Danny Snelson (UCLA, English) As you read these lines, the Utah Data Center continues its process of deciphering untold exabytes […]
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Tyler Stovall: “White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea”
Rio Sands Hotel in Aptos 116 Aptos Beach Dr, Aptos, CAAptos Community Reads presents: White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea Presented by: Tyler Stovall, Dean of Humanities, University of California, Santa Cruz The relationship between freedom and race has […]
Ben Breen: “Unknown Pleasures: Intoxication and Globalization in the Eighteenth Century”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: Benjamin Breen’s current project is Age of Intoxication: The Origins of the Global Drug Trade, which examines the trade in medicinal drugs, poisons, and intoxicants in the Portuguese and British empires, circa 1640 to 1800. The book argues that the formation of ‘drugs’ as an epistemological, legal, and commercial category grew out of early […]