Events

Baskin Ethics Lecture with Fania Davis: Restorative Justice: A Relational, Healing, and Radical Practice
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for an evening with restorative justice and civil rights champion Fania Davis.
PhD+: Meet our Public Fellows
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for our next PhD+ Workshop on December 2nd where we will hear from our fist cohort of Public Fellows. These fellowships provide the opportunity for Humanities doctoral students to contribute to research, programming, communications and fundraising at non-profit organizations, cultural institutions, or companies and are meant to allow the students to apply […]

Engaging Precarity: A Seminar with Marcel Paret
Humanities 2, Room 259Inaugurating Session II of Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz's 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture, labor scholar Marcel Paret of the University of Utah and University of Johannesburg leads a seminar on Guy Standing's concept of the precariat. Professor Standing of the School of Oriental and African […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Nicole Vandermeer
Humanities 1, Room 202"Writing Hawai'i into the Nation: Narrative Re-mapping in Mark Twain's Letter's s a Colonial Prelude to Annexation" This portion of my dissertation project examines the 1866 letters written by Mark Twain (while dispatched by The Sacramento Union in Hawai'i) as engaged in the colonial process of cartographic incorporation by encouraging American ambitions in, and imaginings […]
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Michael Chabon: “Moonglow”
Peace United Church 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Telegraph Avenue) for an offsite book talk and signing of Moonglow, his first novel in four […]

The Land Beneath Our Feet: A film by Sarita Siegel & Gregg Mitman
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: The IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene presents The Land Beneath Our Feet: A film by Sarita Siegel & Gregg Mitman The Land […]
Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene presents Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record A reading seminar with Dr. Gregg Mitman We will read two chapters […]
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Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Soma de Bourbon
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesParenting Binary Trans Children on the Edge of the Bay Area Soma de Bourbon, Lecturer, Feminist Studies Parents feel urgency to mitigate the disproportionally high rates of depression and suicide […]
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Northern California High School Ethics Bowl
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: by Crystal Birns What is an Ethics Bowl? The Ethics Bowl is a collaborative yet competitive event, more nuanced than debate, in which teams are presented with […]
Susan Buck-Morss: “History as Translation”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSusan Buck-Morss’s current project, Year 1, dives into recent research on the first century in order to topple various conceptual givens that have shaped modernity as an episteme (and led […]
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