Events
Intimate States: Family, Domestic Space, and the State
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCenter for World History presents: Intimate States: Family, Domestic Space, and the State Full Conference Agenda here: 4-7-18 Intimate States Conference Agenda Conference Key Note: “The Household, the State, and ‘Economic […]
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Santa Cruz Pickwick: “How Did the Grim Reaper’s Swift Scythe Sharpen Little Dorrit’s Plot?”
Museum of Art & History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSanta Cruz Pickwick Club featuring Little Dorrit The Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel, beginning this January […]
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Living Writers Series: Carmen Giménez Smith & giovanni singleton
Born in New York, poet Carmen Giménez Smith earned a BA in English from San Jose State University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa. She writes lyric […]
Humanities Institute Public Fellows Info Session
Humanities 1, Room 202Please join us for an information session about The Humanities Institute's Public Fellows program on Tuesday, April 10 from 12:00-1:00 pm in Humanities Room 202 where we will hear from […]
Digital Humanities VizLab Open House
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibraryIf you’ve never tried VR before, this is your chance. Explore the new DSC VizLab and experience Virtual Reality. We invite you to test the HTC VIVE headset, Samsung Gear […]
Amanda Smith: “Cartographic Delusion: When Maps Lie & People Believe Them”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesAmanda M. Smith approaches literary expression as a point of entry into spatialities effaced from other official records. She proposes a reading practice of rigorous intertextuality to recover geographic textures […]
Gabrielle Hecht – “Residual Governance: Mining Afterlives and Molecular Colonialism in a South African Anthropocene”
Social Sciences 1, Room 261 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Residual Governance: Mining Afterlives and Molecular Colonialism in a South African Anthropocene" This talk explores residual governance in contemporary South Africa. Since the early 20th century, piles of mine waste have defined […]
Christopher Breu: “In Defense of Sex”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesChristopher Breu: "In Defense of Sex" Lecture at 10am Are sex and gender the same thing? Are trans* and intersex the same thing? Do we even need the category of […]
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Christopher Breu: “The Post-PhD Path”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Post-PhD Path: Nourishing the Internal Career, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Writing RSVP for lunch at 12pm by emailing Janina Larenas (jlarenas@ucsc.edu) Christopher Breu is […]
Living Writers Series: Sherwin Bitsui
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOriginally from White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation, Sherwin Bitsui is the author of two collections of poetry, Flood Song (Copper Canyon) and Shapeshift (University of Arizona Press). He […]