Events
Film Screening: Inequality for All
Kresge Town HallAn award winning documentary that follows former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich as he looks to raise awareness of the country's widening economic gap. Introduction by UC Santa Cruz Professor […]
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Modeling Culture: 3D Archaeology and the Future of the Past
McHenry Library UCSC, Room 4286Organizers: Elaine Sullivan, UC Santa Cruz J. Cameron Monroe, UC Santa Cruz Conference Theme: The past decade has witnessed a dramatic surge in the availability and use of digital […]
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Saving Capitalism For the Many, Not the Few: A Curated Conversation with Robert Reich
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRobert Reich, Former Secretary of Labor, in the Clinton administration, is the author of more than a dozen books, including Aftershock, The Work of Nations, and Beyond Outrage. He is Chancellor's […]
FreeSherene Seikaly: “Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSherene Seikaly’s current work explores the construction and regulation of the poor in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt in terms of governance and of popular politics. Through a political economy of the […]
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Grad Slam for 2016 Finalists
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGrad Slam, also referred to as the 3-Minute Thesis Challenge, is a competition that challenges doctoral students to present years’ worth of academic research in a concise, compelling, three-minute talk […]
Book Talk: Sherene Seikaly
Humanities 2, Room 259Men of Capital examines British-ruled Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s through a focus on economy. In a departure from the expected histories of Palestine, this book illuminates dynamic class […]
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Living Writers: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSpring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line Why Out of Line? "I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across […]
FreeRESCHEDULED PhD+: Writing for Publication in the Humanities
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Andrew Woods
Humanities 1, Room 202Andrew Woods "Punk the Academy (aka. Punk as Method) With a particular emphasis on the non-hierarchical, ambiguous, and D.I.Y. ethos of punk cultures, this paper makes the case that punk […]
Brown Bag Workshop: Teaching with Wikipedia (CANCELED)
FITC, 1336 McHenry LibraryA hands-on workshop designed to construct innovative assignments using Wikipedia and its content editing platform. Building assignments that ask students to work on Wikipedia pages will help them: • Develop […]
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