Events
Events
Cornel West: "Ferguson, Racism, and the Media"
Media Theater, M110Engaging Education & Student Media Present (with the endorsement of A/BSA)... Speaker Blowout: FERGUSON, RACISM, AND THE MEDIA Keynote Speaker: CORNEL WEST Limited tickets available. Free tickets available at Engaging […]
Sandra Harvey: "The HeLa Bomb and the Science of Unveiling"
Humanities 1, Room 202Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. […]
FreeBrown Bag Lunch: Doing Digital Humanities (Open to all graduate students)
Graduate Student CommonsInterested in digital tools but not sure where to start? Excited about presenting your research to a public audience, but can't imagine what that might look like? Meet with UCSC […]
FreeLee Ross and Byron Bland: "Barriers for Peace"
Merrill Academics 102Conflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine Tuesday Evenings Fall 2014 • 6:00-7:45pm, Merrill Academy 102 Next Lecture: Tuesday Dec 2: Aaron Hahn Tapper (Peace and Justice Studies, University […]
FreeDiaspora and Memory — Sikhs and 1984
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThirty years ago saw the culmination of increasing social conflict in Punjab, a Sikh-majority state in India. In 1984, the government of India launched a military operation on the Sikhs' […]
FreeAaron Hahn Tapper and Tom Pettigrew: "Intergroup Dialogue and the Question of Normalization"
Merrill Academics 102UCSC Cowell College Presents Conflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine Tuesday Evenings Fall 2014 6:00-7:45pm, Merrill Academy 102 Tuesday Oct 7: Christine King (Lecturer Kresge College). “Making Peace with Conflict” Tuesday Oct 14: Dr. Jennifer Derr (History Department, UC Santa Cruz). The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation. Tuesday Oct 21: Dr. […]
FreeTerry Burke: "The Ethnographic State: France & the Invention of Moroccan Islam"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTERRY BURKE Research Professor of History, UCSC Alone among Muslim countries, Morocco is known for its own national form of Islam, “Moroccan Islam.” In his most recent book The Ethnographic State, Professor Burke argues that Moroccan Islam was actually invented in the early twentieth century by French ethnographers and colonial officers influenced by British colonial […]
FreeCarolyn Dean: "Seeing is Not Believing: Colonialist Visuality, Inka Masonry, and the Challenge of Aniconism"
Porter College, Room D245Visual & Media Cultures Colloquia talk, the first one of the 2014-15 season, on Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at 4 pm in Porter D245: "Seeing is Not Believing: Colonialist Visuality, Inka Masonry, and the Challenge of Aniconism," featuring Carolyn Dean. Carolyn Dean is a Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa […]
Facebook Employee Panel Discussion on Careers
Cervantes & Velasquez Room, Baytree Conference Center Bay Tree Conference Center, UC Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesInterested in working in tech but currently pursuing a degree outside the hard sciences? Come hear from a panel of Facebook content strategists who work in the field of user experience design. They'll share information about: • The content strategy profession • How their career paths have taken shape • Pursuing careers in tech with […]
FreeLiving Writers Series: Katie Crouch
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKatie Crouch is a New York Times bestselling novelist and essayist. Her books include Girls in Trucks, Men and Dogs, and Abroad. She has also written two novels for young adults, and has contributed to The London Guardian, The San Francisco Chronicle, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Slate, Salon and Glamour. She has a regular column on The Rumpus called […]
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