Events
Florence Howe
Humanities 1, Room 202Kresge Writer’s House, Living Writers, & Feminist Studies presents: Florence Howe, founder of The Feminist Press and author of the memoir, A Life in Motion
Gregg Herken: “Was J. Robert Oppenheimer, ‘Father of the Atomic Bomb,’ a Soviet Spy?”
One of the great unresolved controversies of the Cold War is whether American physicist Robert Oppenheimer--the "father of the atomic bomb"--was, in fact, a communist and a spy for the […]
Karen Sánchez-Eppler: “In the Archives of Childhood”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKaren Sánchez-Eppler is Professor of American Studies and English at Amherst College. She is the author of Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body (California, 1993) and […]
Hans Sluga: “From Normative Theory to Diagnostic Practice”
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFrom the Greeks to the present our moral and political philosophizing has been preoccupied with a search for the timeless and the universal: timeless norms of moral action and universal […]
Living Writers Series: Andrew Sean Greer
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAndrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage, which The New York Times has called an “inspired, lyrical novel,” and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, […]
Rajesh Bhatt: “Locating Agreement in Grammar”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Linguistics Colloquium Series Presents: Rajesh Bhatt (UMass Amherst) The location of agreement in the grammar has been the topic of considerable recent discussion. Bobaljik 2008 has argued that agreement […]
Gianfranco Norelli and Surma Kurien: “Pane Amaro”
Cowell, Room 131 Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesItalian Studies Program, Language Program, American Studies Program and History Department Present a screening of the 2009 documentary film, Pane Amaro (Bitter Bread) dir. Gianfranco Norelli Followed by a conversation with […]
Patricia Clough: “War by Other Means: What Difference Do(es) the Graphic(s) Make?”
Rachel Carson College, Room 301 Rachel Carson College 1156 High Stree, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPatricia T. Clough is a Professor of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Intercultural Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her books include Autoaffection: […]
Bill Fletcher, Jr.: “Right-Wing Populism and the Crisis of Organized Labor”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Center for Labor Studies presents: Bill Fletcher, Jr.: "Right-Wing Populism and the Crisis of Organized Labor" Free and Open to the Public Right-wing populism is a phenomenon deeply […]
Joy Harjo: “Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears”
Merrill Event Center Merrill Event Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe American Indian Resource Center will be hosting internationally acclaimed poet/musician/playwright JOY HARJO (Har-joe) on April 21st, 2011, at Merrill College Event Center, from 7-9pm. Harjo will be performing a […]
