Events
Alumni Weekend 2017
SAVE THE DATE April 28 – 30, 2017 More info and event schedule at: alumniweekend.ucsc.edu
Pictures & Progress: Black Panther, 1966-2016 closing reception
McHenry Library UCSC, Room 4286Pictures & Progress: Black Panther, 1966-2016 closing reception Thursday, April 27, from 4PM to 6PM UCSC McHenry Library, 4th floor 414 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz CA. 95064 Light refreshments served The closing reception of "Pictures & Progress: Black Panther, 1966-2016” will be a public program bringing into conversation the power of visual representation and the […]
The Politics of Belonging: Moroccan Communist Jews, French Empire, and Nationalisms in the 20th Century
This talk examines the place of Jews in colonial Morocco from the interwar period though to independence (achieved in 1956) and beyond. It is structured around one central question: how Moroccan Jews see themselves as emancipated citizens in a future independent Moroccan state? From a period of ideological porosity during the interwar period, through the […]
Traci Brynne Voyles: “Can a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea and Settler Colonial Frames for Thinking about Environmental (Justice) History”
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 Traci Brynne Voyles Tuesday April 25, 3-5pm Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country (reading workshop for faculty and graduate students) Humanities 1, room 210 Contact krlyons@ucsc.edu for readings Wednesday April 26, 2-4pm Can a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea […]
Eric Porter, “‘The Future Appears Both Bleak and Promising’: The Politics of Jet Noise Around SFO”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk is drawn from Professor Porter’s current book project examining the history of San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and various social and political phenomena associated with it as a means of better understanding the core San Francisco Bay Area as a physical, social, and imagined urban space. The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a […]
Traci Brynne Voyles: “Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country”
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 Traci Brynne Voyles Tuesday April 25, 3-5pm Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country (reading workshop for faculty and graduate students) Humanities 1, room 210 Contact krlyons@ucsc.edu for readings Wednesday April 26, 2-4pm “Can a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea […]
Lothar Von Falkenhausen: “Trying to Do the Right Thing to Protect the World’s Cultural Heritage: One Committee Member’s Tale”
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 presents Lothar Von Falkenhausen Professor of Chinese Archaeology and Art History, UCLA Trying to Do the Right Thing to Protect the World's Cultural Heritage: One Committee Member's Tale Friday, April 21 at 5:00 p.m. Humanities 1, Room 210 Free and open to the public Refreshments at […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Jaclyn N. Schultz
Humanities 1, Room 202Advertising Female Futurity: Children's Books Printed as Advertisements in the U.S., 1850-1870 In this presentation, I examine children's books printed as advertisemtns between 1850 and 1870 that were directed at female children. Beginning around 1850, companies produced books that served as advertisements but took the shape of children's primers, rhymes, or storybooks. This presentation carefully […]
PhD+: Humanities Townhall to Discuss Graduate Education for Graduate Students and Faculty
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLast year, the NEH awarded UCSC a Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grant to help support the campus in instituting wide-ranging changes in its humanities doctoral programs. As such a process process will ultimately affect everyone in the Humanities division, the grant participants would like to invite Humanities affiliates to a town-hall style forum for a short […]
Humanities Earth Day
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join the Health Humanities Committee and Green Team for our Earth Day Lunch & Learn on April 20th from 12:00 - 1:00pm in Humanities 1, Room 210.