Events
Events
Book-to-Action | The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Santa Cruz Public Library - Downtown Branch 224 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAuthor Michelle Alexander helped initiate a national movement with her best selling book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. This month, Santa Cruz Public Libraries sponsors Book-to-Action, a month-long series of events […]
FreeSanchita Saxena: "Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka: The Labor Behind the Global Garments and Textiles Industries"
College 8, Room 201Join Sanchita Saxena as she discusses her new book, Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka: The Labor Behind the Global Garments and Textiles Industries, which earned rave reviews from […]
FreeJoshua Dienstag "The Human Boundary: Democracy in a Post-Species Age"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoshua Dienstag is the author of Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit and many books and articles on the history of political thought, film, literature and democratic theory. He is currently working on […]
FreePattern Recognition, c. 1947
Porter College, Room D245Please join us for this week's VMCC event, Pamela M. Lee will be delivering her talk, entitled "Pattern Recognition, c. 1947." This is the final event of the colloquia's 2014-2015 […]
FreePatrick Murray-John, “Latent Data: How, Where, And Why (Digital) Humanists Discover Data Hidden In Plain Sight”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn this talk, Murray-John will argue that data and the humanities have long held a close and fruitful interrelationship. Data in humanities research is not new; it is the capacity […]
FreeWorking with Omeka: Building a Community of Users
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for an all day symposium about using Omeka across the university and imagining the future of Digital Exhibit Building at the University of California. Calling all scholars, museum […]
FreeHistory Department Undergraduate Research Symposium
The History Department Undergraduate Research Symposium is an annual event held each spring that recognizes the exceptional research being conducted by UC Santa Cruz history undergraduates. The symposium provides undergraduate […]
FreeLiving Writers Series: Jared Harvey, Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez, Whitney De Vos, Nicholas James Whittington, Eric Sneathen
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms, and through […]
FreeWorking for Dignity: The Santa Cruz County Low-Wage Worker Study, Photo Exhibit, and Community Dialog
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryThursday, May 7, 2015 • 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Museum of Art and History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz Free Public Event This campus-community event will showcase the findings […]
FreeIn Loving Memory of Christopher Chitty
Humanities 1, Room 202In Loving Memory of Chris Chitty: We mourn the loss of a friend and vibrant member of our academic community. However, his work is not lost and will continue to act on this world. We would like to invite everyone to join us for a reading and celebration of Chris’s academic writing in place of […]
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