Events
Music of The Waves: A Conversation with Lawrence Weschler and William Finnegan Moderated by Harry Berger Jr.
Page Smith LibraryLawrence Weschler and William Finnegan both graduated from Cowell College, UCSC, in 1974. Both worked at The New Yorker, where Finnegan still works. Both studied here at UCSC with Harry Berger. And all three – Weschler, Finnegan, and Berger – are public intellectuals known for their humor and incisiveness and also for the zany connections […]
FreeKalindi Vora: “Life Support: Legacies of Imperial Science and Surrogate Technologies of Racialized Reproduction”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTransnational commercial surrogacy brings together India’s colonial history and its economic development through outsourcing and globalization with instrumentalized notions of the reproductive body. Addressing the intertwined historical relationships and contemporary […]
Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar Informational Session
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for an informational session on the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminars on Thursday, January 8th from noon to 1:00 PM where we can address questions, think […]
FreeEric Schwitzgebel: "The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDo professional ethicists behave any morally better than do non-ethicists of similar social background? If not, do they at least show greater consistency between their normative attitudes and their outward […]
FreeAnn Fink: “Feminist Ethics and the Neurobiology of Memory”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department Presents: Feminist Science Studies Colloquia Kalindi Vora, University of California of San Diego “Life Support: Legacies of Imperial Science and Surrogate Technologies of Racialized […]
Maya Peterson: "The Padishah of the Hungry Steppe: Irrigation and Empire in Russian Turkestan"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMaya Peterson's work stands at the intersection of environmental history and imperial history. Her current book project explores the ways in which a focus on the physical environment might open […]
FreeDH Working Group Meeting / Works in Progress Session
Cowell Senior Commons Room Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAlan Christy (History) will share his work on The Gail Project (http://thegailproject.routes.ucsc.edu/). Join us to discuss the challenges of organizing, and sharing digital materials and the possibilities of memory collection […]
FreeCampus 50th Anniversary Kickoff: Dress Up Like It's 1965!
Quarry AmphitheaterJoin us in Quarry Plaza for a fun 50th kick-off event. Come dressed up like it’s 1965, be photographed by a professional photographer, and compete for the best outfit. Noon […]
Living Writers Series: Cherrie Moraga
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Creative Writing Program presents Cherrie Moraga in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series. Cherríe L. Moraga is playwright, poet, and essayist whose plays and publications have received national recognition […]
FreeFriday Forum for Graduate Research: Jesica Siham Fernández
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. Fridays […]
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