Events
William D. Adams: “‘Wicked Problems’: The Humanities in the Time of STEM”
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC Institute for Humanities Research presents: "Wicked Problems": The Humanities in the Time of STEM 15th Annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture by William D. Adams, Chairman of the National Endowment […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Whitney Devos
Humanities 1, Room 202Whitney Devos "After Lives, After Palimpsests: Aimé Césaire & Claudia Rankine's (Caribbean) 'American Lyrics' " My project seeks to frame certain forms of poetry as attempts at experimental, non-linear historiography, examining […]
Shaul Bassi: “Shylock vs. Sarra Copia Sullam: Reframing the Venice Ghetto, 1516-2016”
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Ghetto of Venice, founded 500 years ago, has been long haunted by the ghostly presence of Shylock, the most famous imaginary Jew. The lecture will consider Shakespeare alongside the […]
OpEd Project Fellowship Application Deadline: “Write to Change the World”
UCSCThe "Write to Change the World" program will build our faculty's capacity to translate their research for the public and to engage in debate at a national level based on […]
Zephyr Frank: “Beyond Eyeballmetrics: Visualization and Analysis in Digital Scholarship”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPart of the Hands on (Digital) Humanities Series This talk explores the boundary between visualization and analysis in contemporary digital scholarship. It argues for a shift in focus from creating […]
LASER (Leonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous)
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Arts Division at the University of California, Santa Cruz present: LASER Tuesday, February 2, 2016 Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 […]
Jonathan Beecher: "Visions of Revolution: European Writers and the French Revolution of 1848"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies presents Jonathan Beecher Jonathan Beecher’s current project consists of linked essays on writers who witnessed and wrote about the first months of the French revolution of […]
Living Writers: Charles Yu
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCharles Yu is an Asian American writer of three well received works of speculative fiction, How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe, Third Class Superhero, and Sorry Please […]
PhD+: Online Identity
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLearn how to perfect your online identity and social media presence as an academic or higher ed professional. Melissa De Witte (Web Coordinator, Social Sciences) will lead a discussion about […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Sophia Magnone
Humanities 1, Room 202Sophia Magnone “There is risk in dealing with a partner”: “Bloodchild” and Interspecies Encounter I focus on “Bloodchild,” Octavia Butler’s story of extremely intimate yet profoundly troubling relations between species. On an […]