Events
Ray Gibbs: "Embodied Meaning, Thinking, and Communication"
Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015. Ray Gibbs is a psychology professor at […]
FreeCarmen Boullosa: “Texas: The Great Theft”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCarmen Boullosa is one of Mexico’s leading novelists, poets, and playwrights, whose works interweave speculative, historical, and psychological themes with a powerful feminist point of view and a sharp satirical […]
FreeFriday Forum for Graduate Research: Delio Vásquez
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 […]
Free“Polly Want a Caesar? Talking Birds and Prophetic Birds in Early Imperial Rome”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn Republican Rome, birds had served as the messengers of the gods, communicating in ways that only a few religious specialists could fully understand and interpret. At the turn of […]
FreeDigital Happy Hour
Cowell Senior Commons Room Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin the Digital Humanities Research Cluster for an informal cocktail hour. Meet other scholars doing digital work and contribute to a conversation that will help shape what digital scholarship looks […]
FreeLiminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination Conference
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Venice Ghetto serves as the starting point from which we address questions of modern Jewish spaces –a site that has played a central role in Jewish and European culture since the […]
FreeJennifer Horne: "Serial Americans and the 'Conquest Program'"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJennifer Horne’s work considers the film-program-as-civics-lesson in the context of the American civics movement. Centering on a film series from 1917, rife with conquesting tropes of manifest destiny, empire and […]
FreeManu Bhagavan – Toward universal relief and rehabilitation: India, UNRRA, and the new internationalism
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join the History Department for this scholarly talk by Manu Bhagavan of Hunter College: Toward universal relief and rehabilitation: India, UNRRA, and the new “India” had been involved in […]
FreeKaren Barad: Histories of Now: "Time Diffractions, Virtuality, and Material Imaginings"
Porter College, Room D245Please join us for Karen Barad's Visual & Media Cultures Colloquia talk, "Histories of Now: Time Diffractions, Virtuality, and Material Imaginings," on Wednesday, February 18 at 4 pm in Porter […]
FreeWorks in Progress: Abe Stone
Humanities 2, Room 259Please join the Philosophy Department for a Works-in-Progress presentation by Professor Abe Stone. At least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the […]
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