Events
Bali Sahota: "Veils of the Absolute Subject: Benjamin’s Sublime"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBALI SAHOTA Assistant Professor of Literature, UCSC G.S. Sahota is currently completing two books, Late Colonial Sublime: Neo-Epics and the End of Romanticism and The Name of Reason: Sikhism, Secularism, Modernism. Fall 2014 Colloquium Series: October 15: Bali Sahota October 22: Vilashini Cooppan October 29: Nirvikar Singh November 5: Juned Shaikh November 12: Dean […]
FreeDr. Jennifer Derr: "The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation"
UCSC Cowell College Presents Conflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine Tuesday Evenings Fall 2014 6:00-7:45pm, Merrill Academy 102 Tuesday Oct 7: Christine King (Lecturer Kresge College). “Making Peace with Conflict” Tuesday Oct 14: Dr. Jennifer Derr (History Department, UC Santa Cruz). The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation. Tuesday Oct 21: Dr. […]
FreeKarl Marlantes: "What It Is Like To Go To War"
Cal State Monterey Bay (CSUMB), Rm 1188Santa Cruz Public Libraries presents an author visit and discussion with best selling author, Karl Marlantes. As a Marine lieutenant during the Vietnam War, Karl Marlantes learned what every young officer learns – to fire a rifle, to command a platoon, to fight and to kill. Over the next four decades, he spent his time […]
FreeMaster Memoir Workshop with Ariel Gore
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMaster Memoir Workshop with Ariel Gore for faculty and graduate students. Participants will read Gore's short memoir, Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver and bring 2-3 pages of their own autobiographical material to workshop. Space is limited. Contact Micah Perks meperks@ucsc.edu to RSVP. Sponsored by the IHR Complicated Labor Research Cluster.
FreeErica Smeltzer: "Porous Time in the City of Gdansk/Danzig"
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 from 12:00 - 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202 This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the […]
FreeLiving Writers Series: Ariel Gore
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAriel Gore is the editor & publisher of the Alternative Press Award-winning magazine Hip Mama and the author of eight books. Her latest, The End of Eve, chronicles her years spent caring for her dying mother. The memoir has been called “Terms of Endearment meets Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” She’s also edited half a dozen anthologies, including […]
FreeChristine King: "“Making Peace with Conflict”
UCSC Cowell College Presents Conflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine Tuesday Evenings Fall 2014 6:00-7:45pm, Merrill Academy 102 Tuesday Oct 7: Christine King (Lecturer Kresge College). “Making Peace with Conflict” Tuesday Oct 14: Dr. Jennifer Derr (History Department, UC Santa Cruz). The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation. Tuesday Oct 21: Dr. […]
FreeLRC Workshop: On Syntax and Information Structure
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWe will begin the academic year at Santa Cruz with a workshop centered on issues at the interface between syntax and information structure. The workshop will feature four talks. 10:00-10:10 AM - Opening Remarks 10:10-11:10 AM - Bern Samko (Santa Cruz): Verum Focus and Scalar Emphasis in English VP-Preposing 11:10-11:30 AM - Break 11:30-12:30 […]
FreeIntegrative Graduate Humanities Education and Research Training (IGHERT) Workshop
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUC Santa Cruz’s Institute for Humanities Research is one of four CHCI member centers and institutes that will lead the research through 2017 on one of the pilot projects, Integrative Graduate Humanities Research Education and Training (IGHERT). The project brings together faculty, doctoral students, and post-doctoral scholars in a series of structured collaborations to undertake […]
Free Family Concert: A Conference of the Birds Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, conductor Marin Alsop
Santa Cruz Civic AuditoriumThe Cabrillo Festival's wildly popular Free Family Concert introduces kids to the wonderful world of orchestral music. It begins with a Tour of the Orchestra where kids can make an up-close and personal connection to the different instruments and players. This year we’ll feature a world premiere Festival Commission composed and narrated by Jonathan Sheffer. […]
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