Events
Events
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Michael Hardt: “Where have all the leaders gone?”
Kresge Town HallThe Center for Cultural Studies and the Institute for Humanities Research presents: "Where Have All the Leaders Gone?" Each year, we continue to witness the eruption of “leaderless” social movements. From North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia, movements have left journalists, political analysts, police forces, and governments disoriented and […]
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Humanities Radio Hour: “Merchant of Venice” with Sean Keilen, Nathaniel Deutsch, Irena Polic
KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FMPlease tune in to KZSC 88.1 FM for Artists on Art Humanities Radio Hour Click here to listen online.
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Najat Abdulhaq, “Unconventional Revision of Narratives: The Emergence of the ‘Arab Jew’ in Contemporary Arabic Literature”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: For decades, two official nationalist narratives, Arab-Egyptian & Israeli, dominated the discourse on the history of Egypt’s Jews. Recently, a different narrative is emerging in the Arabic speaking sphere, with documentaries, films & novels taking a cardinal role in this process. How and why is this emergence taking place? Najat Abdulhaq is the […]
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Marina Rustow: “The Cairo Geniza and the Middle East’s Archive Problem”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies Presents: Marina Rustow: "The Cairo Geniza and the Middle East’s Archive Problem" The Cairo Geniza, a cache of 400,000 manuscript pages preserved in a medieval Egyptian synagogue, has yielded many unexpected finds, but perhaps none so unexpected as thousands of documents in Arabic script from the […]
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Living Writers Series: Sesshu Foster
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSesshu Foster is a poet, teacher, and community activist born and raised in East Los Angeles. He earned his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and returned to LA to […]
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PhD+ : Gateway to Digital Humanities – an Introduction to Digital Methodologies & Resources at UCSC
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis co-led event provides students with first-hand experience working in DH, resources to continue building upon this project, and a larger discussion regarding the possibilities for individual and collaborative digital […]
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Feminist Studies Colloquium: “Agrarian Questions in Urban India”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFall 2017 Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: "Agrarian Questions in Urban India" Vinay Gidwani, University of Minnesota Priti Ramamurthy, University of Washington Based on recent life histories of urban migrants who work within […]
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Opening reception for “Inside the Gail Project: An Experiential Research Odyssey”
Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Cowell College Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOn November 6 from 4-6 pm, the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery in Cowell College will be hosting an opening reception for "Inside the Gail Project: An Experiential Research Odyssey," a […]
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Before and After: How We Redesigned Courses for Educational Equity and Active Learning
Humanities 2, Room 359Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now Workshop Series Before and After: How We Redesigned Courses for Educational Equity and Active Learning with Alan Christy and Jody Greene The Institute […]
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Freedom, Justice, Difference: The Merchant of Venice Now
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryEvent Video: Freedom, Justice, Difference: The Merchant of Venice Now 11.7.17 from IHR on Vimeo. Event Photos: Karin Coonrod, the Founding Director of Compagnia de’ Colombari, will join Nathaniel Deutsch […]
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