Events
Mireille Lee “The Archaeology of Ancient Greek Dress”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and The UCSC Archaeological Research Center present: Archaeology provides important evidence for ancient Greek dress, which was essential to the construction of social identities. Although no complete garments survive, preserved fragments of silk and embroideries indicate the elite status of the wearer. Jewelry, dress fasteners, toilet […]
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong “Implicit Moral Attitudes”
Humanities 2, Room 259Most moral philosophers and psychologists focus on explicit moral beliefs that people give as answers to questions. However, much research in social psychology shows that implicit moral attitudes (unconscious beliefs or associations) also affect our thinking and behavior. This talk will report our new psychological and neuroscientific research on implicit moral attitudes (using a process […]
FreeIrene Lusztig: “Yours in Sisterhood: Utopian Conversation, Public Feminisms, and Talking to the 70’s”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIrene Lusztig’s recent nonfiction moving image projects engage the methods and questions of 1970’s collaborative feminist documentary practice, interrogating the contemporary status of public feminism. The presentation focuses on materials and methods from her current work in progress, Yours in Sisterhood, a participatory documentary project based on published and unpublished letters to the editor of Ms. magazine. Lusztig […]
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The Hong Kong Democracy Movement: A Student Leader Speaks
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Hong Kong Democracy Movement: A Student Leader Speaks In the autumn of 2014, a massive protest led by students demanded genuine universal suffrage for China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The protest became known as the Umbrella Movement. Nathan Kwun-chung Law will give an eyewitness report on that movement, as well as an account […]
Remembering Shakespeare, 1564-1616
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRemembering Shakespeare, 1564-1616 Readings from the works and about the man A memorial service, commemorating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death in 1616. Saturday, April 23, 2016 Music Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz 6:00-6:45 p.m. Free and open to the public This event takes place before Experimental Baroque, a concert by Santa Cruz Baroque Festival. Concert info/tickets […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Jordan Reznick
Humanities 1, Room 202Jordan Reznick "Selfie Suburbia: Whites Online in the Early Twenty-First Century" Snapshot photography has been a means for white Americans to affirm their identities and collectively participate in circulating fictions about "normal" Americans that naturalize and legitimize ideals of whiteness. As whites became more precarious in the early twenty-first century, they adopted several new snapshot […]
Humanities Earth Day Lunch and Learn
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Green Team would like to invite you to join us for Earth Day! Friday, April 22nd, 2016 11:30am - 1:00pm Program: 11:30am-12:00pm: Green Team introductions 12:00pm-12:15pm: PSI presentation 12:15pm-1:00pm: "Bin Confused" presentation Come enjoy delicious food provided by local caterers while learning about how to achieve zero waste in your office, events, and at home!
PhD+: Eric Hayot: “Writing for Publication in the Humanities”
Humanities 2, Room 259PODCAST: "Writing for Publication in the Humanities" Eric Hayot is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Professor Hayot will present strategies--both psychological and practical--for writing for publication in the humanities from his recent book, The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities (Columbia UP, 2014). His talk will […]
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Living Writers: Manuel Gonzales
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesManuel Gonzales is the author of The Miniature Wife And Other Stories (Riverhead) and the forthcoming novel, The Regional Office Is Under Attack! (Riverhead). He graduated with a BA in English from the University of Texas in 1996 and then with an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Columbia University's School of the Arts in […]
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Tony Michels: “Soviet America: The Russian Revolution in Jewish Life”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Russian Revolution of 1917 radically altered American Jewish politics. Whereas most Americans viewed the revolution as a threat to western civilization, Jews wished for the success of the Bolsheviks, who offered the only possibility of rescue from the mass slaughter carried out by anti-Communist forces. A minority of Jews went so far as […]