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  • POSTPONED – Slugs and Steins with Professor Eric Porter: What Can We Learn from the Airport?

    Virtual Event

    For many people, airports may seem like alienating “nonplaces”—as anthropologist Marc Augé put it—where we rush to make connections and spend long, monotonous hours waiting for delayed flights. But airports are fascinating sites that can tell us a lot about the places where they are situated. Among other things, they are complex infrastructures where people, […]

  • PhD+ Workshop – Grad Slam Presentation Prep: Public Speaking

    Virtual and In Person

    This brief workshop provides an overview of strategies and best practices for public speaking, including managing anxiety, key delivery techniques, and composition tips for crafting clearer and more focused speeches, […]

  • Jarrod Shanahan – Skyscraper Jails

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    How did a campaign to end the humanitarian catastrophe of New York City's Rikers Island penal colony culminate in the planned creation of skyscraper jails across the city, with no closure of Rikers in sight? The tragic story of recent jail reform efforts in New York City is at once novel, and indicative of broader […]

  • PhD+ Workshop – Carole McGranahan, “Drafting Stages”

    Zoom CA, United States

    Join UCSC's Dr. Gina Athena Ulysse in a series of intimate conversations with speakers working inside and outside of academia and at different points in their careers about writing as an evolving and non-linear process. Focusing on conditions, inspirations, and methods, each speaker will offer personal insight into their processes and the messiness and vulnerabilities […]

  • ACLS Workshop with Joy Connolly

    Humanities 2, Room 259

    Professor Connolly will present an overview of current American Council of Learned Societies programs in support of humanistic scholarship, including fellowships, grants, and projects accelerating equity and progressive change; She will also discuss recent and emerging scholarly directions, including digital publications, collaborative research, translation, and publicly engaged work. Joy Connolly began her service as President […]

  • PhD+ Workshop – Psychology of Writing

    Virtual and In Person

    Sometimes we can be our severest writing critics and biggest hindrances to writing success. Learn about the VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center (for graduate students only) and how to overcome psychological barriers and start writing! Andrea Seeger received a bachelor’s degree in literature from UC Santa Cruz, master’s in English literature from the University of […]

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