Events
Events
Digital Pedagogy: New Possibilities for Teaching with Canvas
McHenry Library, Room 1350Co-sponsored by FITC and Academic Affairs UCSC is piloting the Canvas learning management system in the 2015-2016 academic year. Learn more about how Canvas can help manage your course materials and facilitate interactive online student engagement. A brief presentation will be followed by a series of demonstrations and opportunities to experiment with Canvas. Learn how […]
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Tyler Stovall: "White Freedom: Race & Liberty in the Modern Era"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTyler Stovall is currently working on two research projects. One concerns the history of migration from the French Caribbean to France during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The other explores […]
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Living Writers: CA Conrad: The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCA Conrad The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage CA Conrad’s childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He is the author […]
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PhD+ : Humanists@Work*
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOur panelists will discuss their current positions, what factored into their decisions, how they found – and got – their jobs. We will also discuss converting CVs into Resumes, hybrid […]
FreeFriday Forum: Candy Martinez "In Search of Decolonizing Representations: Learning from indigenous visual media in Oaxaca, Mexico"
Humanities 1, Room 202The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. This meeting will feature Candy […]
FreeUCHRI Funding Workshop
Humanities 1, Room 202UCHRI's Assistant Director Kelly Brown will provide an overview of UCHRI's funding opportunities for the 2016-17 year, with special attention to the four new calls for funding (digital humanities grant, supplemental graduate student funding grant, graduate dissertation support grant, and the junior faculty manuscript review grant). Kelly will be available to meet individually with faculty […]
FreeKeith Johnson: "Adventures in Phonetic Neuroscience"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAbstract: In studying linguistic knowledge and the cognitive processing that uses this knowledge, linguists and psycholinguists have looked for ways to find out what is cognitively "real" that underlies the patterns found in language and linguistic behavior. We are generally faced with the problem of being on the outside looking in. Each method of acquiring […]
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Amitav Ghosh: "Flood of Fire: India and the First Opium War"
Kresge Town HallUC Santa Cruz Center For Emerging Worlds presents in collaboration with Kresge College and the UCSC Living Writers Series “Flood of Fire: India and the First Opium War” A talk and reading by Dr. Amitav […]
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DataLex: Privacy, Big Data, & the Law
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesToday, across nearly every societal sector, from corrections to education to health care, large-scale data analysis is a widely adopted tool. Our most personal behaviors and traits are regularly quantified by a rapidly growing array of sensors and devices around us. These devices are connected to intelligent systems that can render critical predictions about our […]
$99.00Ronnie Lipschutz: "Utopia or Catastrophe"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk is connected to Professor Lipschutz’s work on politics and popular culture, of which his most recent publication was Political Economy, Capitalism and Popular Culture. Lipschutz is Professor and Chair of Politics and Provost of College Eight at UC Santa Cruz. The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and […]
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