Events
Events
Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Victorian Colonialism
Museum of Art & History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSanta Cruz Pickwick Club featuring Little Dorrit The Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel, beginning this January […]
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Writing Crises: How to Write When You Just Can’t Write
Graduate Student CommonsRegister at https://tinyurl.com/WritingCrises
Letters to Memory: A Reading by Karen Tei Yamashita
The Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department presents: Letters to Memory featuring a reading by Karen Tei Yamashita with remarks by Alice Yang and Christine Hong Letters to Memory is […]
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IPAs are like a Hoppy Craft Beer: Acquiring a Taste for Task-based Language Teaching and Integrated Performance Assessments
Humanities 1, Room 202The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: “IPAs are Like a Hoppy Craft Beer: Acquiring a Taste for Task-based Language Teaching and Integrated Performance Assessments” Jill […]
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And Then They Came for Us: “From the Incarceration of Japanese Americans to the Travel Ban”
Del Mar TheatreSeventy-five years ago, Executive Order 9066 paved the way to the profound violation of constitutional rights that resulted in the forced incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans. "And Then They Came […]
Living Writers Series: Undergraduate Student Reading
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLiving Writers Series Winter 2018: Performing Women: Race, Art, and Space Performing Women: Race, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry, prose, visual and textile arts, photography, film, dance, and improvisation to address questions of gender, sexuality, and race. This series will explore the intersections of literature, writing and […]
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Reading Seminar: Jeffrey Santa Ana’s Transpacific Ecological Imagination
Humanities 1, Room 202Jeffrey Santa Ana is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty in Asian & Asian American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University, the State University of New York. He is the author of Radical Feelings: Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of Emotion (Temple University Press, 2015). He is currently writing a […]
Jeffrey Santa Ana: “Queer Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Disremembering place and witnessing imperial debris in Han Ong’s The Disinherited”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesJeffrey Santa Ana is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty in Asian & Asian American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University, the State University of New York. He is the author of Radical Feelings: Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of Emotion (Temple University Press, 2015). He is currently writing a […]
Laura Rosenzweig: “The Story of Hollywood’s Spies: Jewish Resistance to Nazism in Los Angeles in the 1930s”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLaura Rosenzweig will present at the Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture during Graduate Recruitment Day on April 4. The title of her talk is: “The Story of Hollywood’s Spies: Jewish Resistance to Nazism in Los Angeles in the 1930s” and will include a discussion about her journey from a UCSC doctoral student to a bestselling author. […]
Maeve Cooke: “Civil Disobedience as Civil Regeneration: The Radically Transformative Power of Political Law-Breaking”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesMaeve Cooke is Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. Professor Cooke's work focuses on the question of truth (intrinsic value) in social and political theory, with particular attention to debates on religion and politics. Her principal book publications are Language and Reason: A Study of Haberma's Pragmatics (MIT […]