Events
Linguistics Colloquium: Liz Coppock, Boston Univeristy
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesLiz Coppock is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Boston University, specializing in semantics and pragmatics. Her research concerns the meanings of small words in various languages, the invisible forces that give complex expressions their meanings, and sometimes even the nature of meaning itself. As Principal Investigator of the Swedish Research Council project Most and more: […]
Friday Forum: LuLing Osofsky
Humanities 2, Room 359"Based on a (Mostly) True Story: Conflicting Cinematic Portrayals of Jewish Champions Boxing at Auschwitz " In 2011, I traveled to Tel Aviv to interview eighty-seven year old Noah Klieger, the last remaining Holocaust survivor to have boxed for Nazi officials at Auschwitz. That amateur and champion Jewish boxers boxed at the camps to entertain […]
PhD+: PhDs in Leadership Positions at UCSC
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesFoundational Labor: PhDs in Leadership Positions at UCSC Are you interested in learning more about the work of PhDs who are actively reimagining pedagogy and student support at UC Santa Cruz? This session will feature two PhDs who are currently employing their research and teaching experience in a variety of interrelated ways, including program development, project management, and mentorship, […]
Emerging Ecologies: Arcaeologies of Slavery, Landscape, and Environmental Change
University Center University Center University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Atlantic Era was a period of intense commercial integration linking key economic players in Western Europe, the Americas, the Indian Ocean littorals, and West and Central Africa. The period was marked by dramatic increases in the volume of commerce at both the regional and global levels, radically transforming the societies and environments of […]
Living Writers Series: Courtney Kersten
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCourtney Kersten is the author of Daughter in Retrograde: A Memoir (University of Wisconsin Press 2018). Her essays can be seen or are forthcoming from Brevity, The Normal School, River Teeth, Hotel Amerika, DIAGRAM, The Sonora Review, Black Warrior Review, The Master’s Review, Brevity and elsewhere. She was a Fulbright Fellow to Riga, Latvia, and is currently a PhD student in Literature and CreativeWriting at the University of […]
Devin Naar: “Sephardic Archives from Analog to Digital: Three Tales of Memory and Visibility”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States"Sephardic Archives from Analog to Digital: Three Tales of Memory and Visibility" Join us as Devin E. Naar, founder of the Sephardic Studies Program at the University of Washington, traces three key moments in the development of Sephardic Studies libraries and archives in the 1880s, 1930s, and today. Often relying on community members to supply […]
Philosophy Colloquium: Ori Simchen
Humanities 1, Room 202“Realism and Instrumentalism in Metaphysical Explanation” Ori Simchen is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Professor Simchen works mostly in the philosophy of language and metaphysics. Most recently he's been working on metasemantics, or foundational semantics, and its relation to formal semantics. He is particularly interested in how to think […]
Lesley Green: “Sons and Daughters of Soil?”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States"Sons and Daughters of Soil?" Dr. Lesley Green (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Cape Town and Founding Director: Environmental Humanities South) Responding, as researchers, to Earth Mastery that includes not only violent machines, but a violation of evidence and epistemes including the scientific episteme, requires accumulating and presenting evidence for existences that do not exist -- at least, not in neoliberal discourses. In […]
Kyla Schuller: “The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, & Science in the Nineteenth Century”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesKyla Schuller is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and an External Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center (2017-2018). She has previously held fellowships from ACLS and the UC Humanities Research Institute and a visiting scholar position at UC Berkeley. Schuller investigates the intersections between race, gender, sexuality, […]
Reading Seminar: Dr. Lesley Green
Humanities 1, Room 408Reading Seminar on #ScienceMustFall and an ABC of Plant Medicine: On Posing Cosmopolitical Questions featuring Dr. Lesley Green (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Cape Town and Founding Director: Environmental Humanities South). Please email krlyons@ucsc.edu for the readings