Events
Grant McGuire: "Separating voice prototypicality and stereotypicality"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCurrent theories of speech perception emphasize the demonstrated role of direct experience in voice processing where greater experience with a voice or voice type results in various processing advantages. This […]
International Playhouse XIII
Stevenson Event CenterThe Language Program, Cowell College, and Stevenson College cordially invite you and your students to attend a performance of The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XIII (IP), an annual multilingual program of […]
Lisa Lowe: "Sugar, Tea, Opium, and Coolies: The Intimacies of Four Continents"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLisa Lowe This lecture examines the fetishism of colonial commodities as a mediation of often obscured connections between the transatlantic African slave trade to the Americas, settler colonialism, the import […]
U.S. Fulbright IIE Information Session
Humanities 1, Room 202The Graduate Division cordially invites undergraduate and graduate students to an information session on the U.S. Fulbright IIE fellowship program. If you are interested in applying for a 2014-2015 Fulbright […]
Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium – Michael Nauenberg: "Teaching Natural Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Teaching Natural Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment" Michael Nauenberg has published on the foundations of quantum mechanics and has written extensively on the development of calculus in the seventeenth […]
Anthony Barbieri-Low: "Imagining the Tomb of the First Emperor of China"
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President's Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on "Archaeology and the Ancient World" The […]
Neil Sinhababu: "Desire's Explanations"
Humanities 1, Room 320I defend a Humean theory of motivation on which desire motivates all action and drives all practical reasoning. I respond to objections from Christine Korsgaard, David Velleman, and others suggesting […]
The Living Writers Reading Series: Lauren Shufran, Tsering Wangmo, and Juliana Leslie
Unnamed Venue Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLauren Shufran is the winner of The Motherwell Prize. Her poetry collection Inter Arma will be published be Fence Books in Spring, 2013. Tsering Wangmo's first book of poems, Rules […]
Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium – Eng-Beng Lim: "The Rice Queen's Brown Boy Dream: On Pedophilic Modernity, Performance and Queer Asia"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"The Rice Queen's Brown Boy Dream: On Pedophilic Modernity, Performance and Queer Asia" Eng-Beng Lim works on transnational, Asian and queer issues through the lens of performance. His current work […]
Celebrating the Humanities Spring Awards
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos:
