Events
Events
A Dramatic Reading of Dacia Maraini's Play "Norma '44"
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Italian Studies Program Presents: A Dramatic Reading of Dacia Maraini's Play Norma '44 Adapted for the stage from the translation by Monica Streifer and Lucia Re Directed by Kimberly Jannarone (UCSC Theater Arts) Set in an unnamed concentration camp in 1944 Germany, Norma '44 tells the story of the perverse bond that grows between […]
FreeANITA HILL at UCSC: “Speaking Truth to Power: Gender and Racial Equality – 1991-2015"
College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies is pleased to bring Anita Hill to UC Santa Cruz for a candid dialogue regarding resistance to individual civil rights, campus sexual assault debates, why black lives matter, and challenges to equality in ‘post-identity’ America. After the talk Anita Hill will be signing copies of […]
FreeLiving Writers Series: Anita Hill
College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Creative Writing Program presents Anita Hill in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series. In 1991, Anita Hill was thrust into the public spotlight when she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee during the confirmation hearing for U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Judge Clarence Thomas. After the hearings, Ms. Hill began speaking to audiences worldwide about […]
FreeBrian Cantwell Smith: "The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction and the Anxious Mind"
Jack Baskin 152Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015. Brian Cantwell Smith received his B.S. (1974), M.S. (1978) and Ph.D. (1982) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After receiving his doctorate, he held senior research and administrative positions at the Xerox […]
FreeFriday Forum for Graduate Research: Tracy Perkins
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 […]
FreeAn Evening with Italian Writer: Dacia Maraini
Cowell, Room 131 Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCowell College Provost, Italian Studies Program, Languages & Applied Linguistics Department present: An Evening with Italian Writer, Dacia Maraini Preceded by Screening of 2013 Irish Braschi’s documentary film IO SONO […]
FreeOctavio Valadez: "Co-Teaching and Revolutionary Teaching"
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGuest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015. Édgar Octavio Valadez Blanco is currently studying […]
FreeJohanna Ogden: "Mutiny in Oregon: Early Twentieth Century East Indian Radicals and the Birth of the Ghadar Party"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Hindustani Association of the Pacific Coast, better known as the Ghadar Party, was a game-changing development in Indian history. Ghadarites called for and attempted the overthrow of British colonial […]
FreeWill the Robots Win? Promises and Perils of Technology in Society
Technology is ubiquitous. Computers and phones impact our daily rhythms, communicative abilities, and cognitive energies. Consider being hospitalized, flying from one country to another, or taking a prescription medicine. Or […]
FreeCANCELLED "Into the Sea" Documentary Screening
Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDr. Easkey Britton lives in Ireland and she's an amazing competitive big wave surfer --one of the few women in the sport--and she has a PhD in Environment and Society. […]
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