Events
9th Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium
McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special CollectionsGrad students share their research by presenting either oral, media or posters with an awards ceremony immediately following along with a reception. Free and open to the public. Main floor […]
Noel Q. King Annual Lecture: “Higher Mysteries: Faith and Theology in Crime Fiction”
Santa Cruz Public Library - Downtown Branch 224 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe King Lecture Series, preserving the work of UCSC History and Comparative Religion professor Noel Q. King, promotes and explores the dialogue between faiths. This year's lecture also incorporates the […]
Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium – Blake Wentworth: "Bhakti Demands Biography: Crafting the Life of a Tamil Saint"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Bhakti Demands Biography: Crafting the Life of a Tamil Saint" Blake Wentworth’s current work revolves around a central feature of south Indian political life in premodernity, the mapping of sexuality […]
Richard Miskolci: "Undisciplined studies & the (geo)politics of knowledge"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesChallenges for a North-South dialogue Why does knowledge continue to travel only from North to South? To understand the powerful continuity in this exchange, this presentation will start with a […]
Ad Neeleman: "Person: Inventory and Realization"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Person: Inventory and Realization" is a joint work with Peter Ackema, of the University of Edinburgh. In this presentation Dr. Neeleman will develop a theory in which person features are […]
Grant McGuire: "Separating voice prototypicality and stereotypicality"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCurrent theories of speech perception emphasize the demonstrated role of direct experience in voice processing where greater experience with a voice or voice type results in various processing advantages. This […]
International Playhouse XIII
Stevenson Event CenterThe Language Program, Cowell College, and Stevenson College cordially invite you and your students to attend a performance of The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XIII (IP), an annual multilingual program of […]
Lisa Lowe: "Sugar, Tea, Opium, and Coolies: The Intimacies of Four Continents"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLisa Lowe This lecture examines the fetishism of colonial commodities as a mediation of often obscured connections between the transatlantic African slave trade to the Americas, settler colonialism, the import […]
U.S. Fulbright IIE Information Session
Humanities 1, Room 202The Graduate Division cordially invites undergraduate and graduate students to an information session on the U.S. Fulbright IIE fellowship program. If you are interested in applying for a 2014-2015 Fulbright […]
Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium – Michael Nauenberg: "Teaching Natural Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Teaching Natural Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment" Michael Nauenberg has published on the foundations of quantum mechanics and has written extensively on the development of calculus in the seventeenth […]