Events
Events
Living Writers: Kate Schatz
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKate Schatz, UCSC creative writing/Lit alum, is the New York Times bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z, a children's book (for everyone) published by City Lights Books. It's gotten love […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Claudia Lopez
Humanities 1, Room 202Claudia Lopez "Contesting 'Double Displacement': Rural displaces Persons, informal Settlements, and the 'Medellin Miracle'" This presentation examines the Comuna 8, a sector of the city of Medellin resisting displacement by […]
Sabine Iatridou – “Fake Things Here and There: Evidence From Now and Then”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSabine Iatridou is Professor of Linguistics, Syntax, Semantics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. See here for more about Professor Iatridou's work. Stay tuned for more information.
Introducing Contemplative Approaches to Higher Education: A Public Roundtable with Leaders in the Field
McHenry Library UCSC, Room 4286Contemplative pedagogy is an integrated approach to teaching and learning that sees education as a transformative process rather than simply a means of accumulating information. With an emphasis on curiosity, collaboration, engagement, and student-centered learning, contemplative approaches seek to cultivate thinkers and responders rather than consumers of knowledge. Practitioners forge links between traditional disciplinary wisdom […]
FreeContemplative Pedagogy Symposium
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesContemplative pedagogy is an integrated approach to teaching and learning that sees education as a transformative process rather than simply a means of accumulating information. With an emphasis on curiosity, collaboration, engagement, and student-centered learning, contemplative approaches seek to cultivate thinkers and responders rather than consumers of knowledge. Practitioners forge links between traditional disciplinary wisdom […]
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La Ironía y Anticlericalismo En Halma
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC Spanish Studies and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Present: LA IRONÍA Y ANTICLERICALISMO EN HALMA ÁLVARO ROMERO MARCO (UCSC) Más allá de las clasificaciones y evoluciones que la crítica ha venido realizando, la novelística de Galdós es consecuencia de su ideología, pues la realidad es observada y transformada a través de su apuesta por la modernidad. En el caso de Halma, […]
Sikhism in the Global Age
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMark Juergensmeyer is Kundan Kaur Kapany Chair of Global and Sikh Studies, fellow of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, professor of sociology, and affiliate professor of religious […]
FreeJoshua Brahinsky: “The Cultivated Event: Why Pentecostals Were the Best Organizers of the 20th Century and How to Translate Their Strategies For the Rest of Us”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoshua Brahinsky’s current book project is “God’s Bodies: Pentecostal Training in Art of Immediacy.” He is working on a research project on global evangelicalism and theory of mind, and is an organizer for UC-AFT and the Economic Justice Alliance. Brahinsky has his PhD from the Department of History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz. Spring 2016 […]
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Tony Michels: “Soviet America: The Russian Revolution in Jewish Life”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Russian Revolution of 1917 radically altered American Jewish politics. Whereas most Americans viewed the revolution as a threat to western civilization, Jews wished for the success of the Bolsheviks, who offered the only possibility of rescue from the mass slaughter carried out by anti-Communist forces. A minority of Jews went so far as […]
Living Writers: Manuel Gonzales
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesManuel Gonzales is the author of The Miniature Wife And Other Stories (Riverhead) and the forthcoming novel, The Regional Office Is Under Attack! (Riverhead). He graduated with a BA in […]
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