Events

The Medici Archive Project Presents: Preview a presentation by Lisa Kaborycha of the Medici Archive Project, Florence, of  a new, interactive digital platform that will debut as freeware this July. This platform is adaptable for the needs of many kinds of document management, and Lisa will be on hand to discuss its properties and capacities.

2012 Reunion Weekend More information TBA.

The University of California Satna Cruz Humanities presents the East Coast Distinguished Alumni Guest Lecture Speaker, Craig Schiffer - Cowell, Class of '78 Santa Cruz to Wall Street How I got from UCSC to Wall Street, my experience in the world of finance and investment banking, and the options for someone coming out of school […]

Jeff Hull is engaged in a decade long metaphysical street battle against banality and routine. This takes the form of fictional cults with real world induction centers, pirate radio broadcasts from rogue agencies, bizarre team building exercises, guerrilla masonry, covert subterranean exploration, sasquatch dance bombs, and all manner of subterfuge. As the founder of Oaklandish […]

The Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Fund, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Literature Department/Creative Writing Program, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, East Asian Studies Program, Bay Tree Bookstore, Latino and Latin American Studies Center, Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, […]

Come join us for a conversation with Oakes' First Provost and UCSC's first African American faculty member, Dr. Herman Blake. Dr. Blake is currently the Humanities Scholar in Residence at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Our conversation will center around Oakes History and Diversity in the Medical Sciences field. Refreshments will be served. […]

A Tribute to Adrienne Rich It was in 1973, in the midst of Black and women's liberation movements, the Vietnam War, and her own personal distress, that Adrienne Rich wrote and published Diving into the Wreck, which garnered her the National Book Award in 1974. Rich accepted the award on behalf of all women. In […]

Whereas a generation ago, engaging in public discourse might have meant leafleting or writing letters to the editor, today a host of venues exist online, enabling meaningful dialogue on an unprecedented scale. It also provides researchers with an unprecedented look onto the diversity of positions people hold on a given issue align as well as […]

ChaeRan Freeze, an associate professor in Jewish history at Brandeis University, has focused her research on the Jews of Russia and women’s and gender studies. Her first book, Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia (Waltham, 2001) examines the impact of modernization on Jewish family practices and patterns in Imperial Russia based on newly-declassified archival […]