Events
Santa Cruz Pickwick Club
Virtual EventPlease join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our monthly Pickwick Club meeting. New this year, we will be devoting an entire year to one novel instead of two, and will dive deeply into Great Expectations. Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members for a series of discussions about […]
The Micro as Macro: Narrating World Histories of Science, Technology, and Environment
Virtual and In PersonThe Center for World History presents the fourth Graduate Student Conference: “The Micro as Macro: Narrating World Histories of Science, Technology, and Environment” in Humanities 1, Room 210 (and online), 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. While world history topics have expanded recently to include diverse areas, the Euro-American experience continues to dominate scholarship and is […]
Living Writers – J. Vanessa Lyon
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJ. Vanessa Lyon is the author of Lush Lives (an inaugural title of Roxane Gay Books/Grove Atlantic), the Audible Original The Groves, and Meet Me in Madrid, written under the pseudonym Verity Lowell. A James Baldwin fellow at MacDowell and Bread Loaf Contributor in Nonfiction, she received a PhD in the history of art from […]
Martina Broner – From Arboreal to Aerial: Seeing the Amazon from Above
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCan seeing the Amazon from above bring about new perspectives on the forest at a critical time? This talk proposes that the documentary Helena Sarayaku manta (dir. Eriberto Gualinga, 2021) rethinks the aerial view by pushing against its historical associations with omniscience and a desire for mastery and by reframing it instead around the vitality […]
PhD+ Series – Preparing the Teaching Statement and Portfolio
Graduate Student Commons, Room 204 420 Hagar Dr, Santa CruzGain tools and tips for effectively writing a teaching statement, a common document in faculty hiring and review processes and an opportunity to reflect on how your teaching supports student learning. We’ll also review how to select teaching portfolio materials that tell a compelling story of who you are as an educator. Kendra Dority, left, […]
National Endowment for the Humanities Q&A
Virtual EventPlease join us on Tuesday, October 17th from 12:00-1:30 p.m. for a virtual open forum Q&A with Program Officers from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). This event will be guided by faculty questions. If you would like to submit questions for the Program Officers in advance, please fill out this form. We will […]
PhD+ Series – Mastodon, Threads, X: Promote Research on Text-Based Social Media Platforms
Graduate Student Commons, Room 204 420 Hagar Dr, Santa CruzReady to promote your research on social media? This seminar will help you learn how! Explore how to promote your research and expertise on the text-based social media platforms Mastodon, Threads, and X (formerly Twitter). We’ll cover how to use each platform, how each works, how to communicate effectively on each platform and how to […]
micha cárdenas – Atoms Never Touch
Two Birds Books 881 41st Ave, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us in celebrating the debut of Atoms Never Touch by micha cárdenas; forward by adrienne maree brown. Jumping to alternate realities sounds great, if you're in control. But what if you're not? What if you're propelled away from the people and places you love the most in the blink of an eye? And what […]
PhD+ Series – Plática with the authors of The Latinx Guide to Graduate School
Cervantes and Velasquez Conference Room Bay Tree Building, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for a delightful conversation and book talk with Dr. Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales and Dr. Magdalena Barrera, authors of The Latinx Guide to Graduate School. Graduate Students are invited to meet with the authors from 2-3:30pm to learn about the unwritten rules for surviving and thriving in graduate school including strategies for writing and finding […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Ryan Bennett
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesRyan Bennett, UC Santa Cruz: "Vowel deletion as grammatically-controlled gestural overlap in Uspanteko" Uspanteko (Mayan) is spoken by ~5000 people in the central highlands of Guatemala. Unstressed vowels in Uspanteko often delete, though deletion is variable within and across speakers. Deletion appears to be phonological, being sensitive to phonotactics, foot structure, vowel quality, and morphology; […]