Events
Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC)
The Linguistics Department's annual Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) will be held Friday, June 2nd, from 12:45 - 3:45pm in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. The Distinguished Alumna speaker will be Maura O’Leary, who is a PhD graduate student at UCLA. We hope you will attend. Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference Program - coming soon!
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Angela Nguyen
Humanities 1, Room 202"Mom, can you help me with my homework?" Identifying Tools and Conditions for Intergenerational Dialogue Among Southeast Asian Refugees and Their Children The collective memories of the Southeast Asian diaspora are interwoven with histories of war and colonial violence that continue to be felt in everyday experiences as hauntings. Post-war generations are often without access […]
PhD+: Thinking Ahead: Grants and Fellowships Workshop for Graduate Students
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPhD+ Workshop Series Please join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more. This year-end workshop is devoted to developing your […]
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Living Writers: Lauren Levin
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLauren Levin, author of The Braid (Krupskaya, 2016) Lauren Levin is the author of THE BRAID (Krupskaya, 2016) and the forthcoming TWO ESSAYS (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2018) as well as several chapbooks, including The Lens (Little Red Leaves, 2014) and Working (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2012). From 2011-2014, she co–edited the Poetic Labor Project. […]
Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Patricia de Santana Pinho
Humanites 1, Room 320 Humanities and Social Science Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWe Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring Brazil and Bearing their Nation Patricia de Santana Pinho, Associate Professor, UC Santa Cruz The talk presents a chapter of my nearly completed book manuscript Diaspora Detours: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil. Previous chapters examine the effects of national identities on the connections between black […]
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Mat Callahan, “The Explosion of Deferred Dreams”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPresented by The History of Consciousness, The Center for Cultural Studies, & UCSC University Library Special Collections & Archives, with support from Logo’s Books. With special musical guest Dry Days As the fiftieth anniversary of the Summer of Love floods the media with debates and celebrations of music, political movements, “flower power,” “acid rock,” and […]
Shahzad Bashir, “Islamic Pasts and Futures: Conceptual Issues”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk emerges from Professor Bashir’s current project, Islamic Pasts and Futures: Conceptual Explorations, a critique of the conceptualization of Islamic history in modern scholarship. Bashir suggests alternatives emphasizing multiple temporalities and engaging contemporary academic debates regarding language, historiography, and history on the basis of materials of Islamic provenance. Shahzad Bashir is professor in Islamic […]
Symposium: Charting the Library’s Future
McHenry Library UCSC, Room 4286Program: 10:00-10:30am Welcome and Opening Remarks by Chancellor George Blumenthal and University Librarian Elizabeth Cowell 10:30-12:00pm Panel Discussion MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian at UC Davis Expanding Research Support in University Libraries Academic libraries’ research support is inherently interdisciplinary (or omnidisciplinary) so they are uniquely positioned to expand those services to include common modern research […]
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Critical Race & Ethnic Studies Works In Progress
Humanities 1, Room 202"Delinquency As Labor" Chrissy Anderson-Zavala Chrissy Anderson-Zavala is a PhD candidate in education with designated emphases in critical race and ethnic studies and feminist studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her dissertation, How to Write ‘Trouble/d Youth,’ bridges participatory ethnographic work in a continuation high school and reading practices that “track the figure” of “trouble/d youth” in district and state-level […]
FreeFriday Forum for Graduate Research: Yuki Obayashi
Humanities 1, Room 202"This is Your Life": Hiroshima Maidens and the American ideological superiority in the midst of the Cold War In 1955, twenty-five female victims of the atomic bombing flown to the United States and received extensive plastic surgery to correct severe deformity from keloids. Initiated by the American journalist Norman Cousins and the Japanese minister Tanimoto […]