Events
Lisa Snyder: "The Devil is in the Detective Work: Researching and Reconstructing Cultural Heritage Sites with Special Emphasis on The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOne might argue that the creation of a computer reconstruction of a cultural heritage site requires a curious mix of academic training, detective work, and obsession. Unlike automated or algorithmic technologies that record extant sites and artifacts, building a three-dimensional computer model of an ephemeral or long-demolished environment combines traditional historical methods with new technologies […]
FreeThe Targeted Village, A Documentary by Chie Mikami
Resource Center for Non Violence"In Okinawa, the people of Takae village are convicted by the Japanese government for obstructing traffic in the struggle against the construction of new helipads. Their story embodies U.S. military strategy dating back to the Vietnam War, the blocking of gates to the Futenma base, and their town's rage against their state." Film will be […]
$10Linguistics@Santa Cruz: Theory & Practice
SESSION I 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Opening remarks / MC: Pranav Anand Judith Aissen: Bill Shipley: Founding linguist at UC Santa Cruz Amy Rose Deal: Possibilities in Nez Perce Maziar Toosarvandani: Creating Northern Paiute documentation for linguists and the language community Judith Aissen: Working among the Maya 12:30 – 1:00 pm Break SESSION […]
FreeLeonardo Art and Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for another Leonardo Art and Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) March 31 in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108. There will be refreshments at 6:45 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by the conceptual artist/photographer Catherine Wagner, Mills College; documentary filmmaker Jennifer Maytorena Taylor, UCSC; composer, artist, and bio-acoustic reseacher David […]
Free“Scholars” y tópicos: Alicia de Colombí-Monguió como paradigma
Humanities 1, Room 202Conference organized by Jordi Aladro, Professor of Literature Wednesday 18th 7:00pm - Welcome for participants with a “vino español” (a generous donation from Instituto Cervantes, New York) Thursday 19th University of California, Santa Cruz. Humanities 1, Room 202 9:45am Introduction: Jordi Aladro Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz 10:15am “The Indefinite Garden: Ovid’s Metaphors and […]
FreeSanta Cruz Baroque Festival: Treasures from the Age of Shakespeare
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFeaturing: The Baltimore Consort Heavenly harmony and earthly delights from the time of the bard. Reveal in the triumphal return of America's favorite early music ensemble, playing their 'exquisite consort' of Renaissance instruments -lute, cittern, viols, and flute. Concertgoers will also enjoy the grand prize winning group from our Youth Chamber Music Competition. UCSC Music […]
Vera Gribanova: "Head movement, ellipsis, and Russian polarity focus"
Vera Gribanova is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University. Abstract: In this talk I chart the interaction between head movement, ellipsis, and non-canonical word orders in the analysis of a variety of Russian responses to statements or questions that raise polar alternatives in the discourse. (1) Evgenija poslala posylku v Moskvu? Evgenija […]
FreeShakespeare and Music
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesShakespeare is famous for his speeches, but the London theaters where his plays took place were also filled with music. "Shakespeare and Music" is a symposium exploring the popular music of Renaissance England, the practice of vocal and instrumental music in Shakespeare's plays, and Shakespeare's meditation on music as a metaphor for his art and […]
FreeFriday Forum for Graduate Research: Jessica Calvanico
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 from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202. Winter 2015 Schedule: January 16th - Jesica Siham Fernández, Social Psychology, "Latina/o Children as Cultural […]
Living Writers Series: Student Reading TBD
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTo end the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series, a selected student TBD will present their work. Winter 2015 Living Writers Series: January 15: Cherrie Moraga, poet/playwright January 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta, poets January 29: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet) February 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez, poet February […]
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