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  • Brown Bag Workshop: Teaching with Wikipedia (CANCELED)

    FITC, 1336 McHenry Library

    A hands-on workshop designed to construct innovative assignments using Wikipedia and its content editing platform. Building assignments that ask students to work on Wikipedia pages will help them: • Develop writing skills • Improve Media and Information Literacy • Refine Critical Thinking and Research Skills • Learn to work collaboratively The workshop will also include […]

    Free

  • Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Andrew Woods

    Humanities 1, Room 202

    Andrew Woods "Punk the Academy (aka. Punk as Method) With a particular emphasis on the non-hierarchical, ambiguous, and D.I.Y. ethos of punk cultures, this paper makes the case that punk can be used as a lens informing our investigations of other objects, scenes, themes, and theories. The information of punk as method is not assuming […]

  • Living Writers: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)

    Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

      Spring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line Why Out of Line? "I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre, in different genres, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I'm hoping it will encourage our students to think […]

    Free

  • Book Talk: Sherene Seikaly

    Humanities 2, Room 259

    Men of Capital examines British-ruled Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s through a focus on economy. In a departure from the expected histories of Palestine, this book illuminates dynamic class constructions that aimed to shape a pan-Arab utopia in terms of free trade, profit accumulation, and private property. And in so doing, it positions Palestine […]

    Free

  • Grad Slam for 2016 Finalists

    Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Grad Slam, also referred to as the 3-Minute Thesis Challenge, is a competition that challenges doctoral students to present years’ worth of academic research in a concise, compelling, three-minute talk to a non-expert audience. It encourages students to clarify their ideas and to help others understand and appreciate the significance of their work. The contest […]

  • Sherene Seikaly: “Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine”

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Sherene Seikaly’s current work explores the construction and regulation of the poor in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt in terms of governance and of popular politics. Through a political economy of the history of food, this project rethinks our understanding of the “masses” and the specter of the “bread riot.” This talk is generously co-sponsored by the […]

    Free

  • Saving Capitalism For the Many, Not the Few: A Curated Conversation with Robert Reich

    Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Robert Reich, Former Secretary of Labor, in the Clinton administration, is the author of more than a dozen books, including Aftershock, The Work of Nations, and Beyond Outrage. He is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and a Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economics. Reich is also the subject of Inequality […]

    Free
  • ARC Modeling Culture

    Modeling Culture: 3D Archaeology and the Future of the Past

    McHenry Library UCSC, Room 4286

    Organizers: Elaine Sullivan, UC Santa Cruz J. Cameron Monroe, UC Santa Cruz   Conference Theme: The past decade has witnessed a dramatic surge in the availability and use of digital technologies in Archaeology, where the increasing power and declining cost of computing technology has transformed the way we think about collecting, analyzing, and presenting archaeological […]

    Free

  • Film Screening: Inequality for All

    Kresge Town Hall

    An award winning documentary that follows former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich as he looks to raise awareness of the country's widening economic gap. Introduction by UC Santa Cruz Professor Mary Beth Pudup. Robert Reich, Former Secretary of Labor, in the Clinton administration, is the author of more than a dozen books, including Aftershock, The Work […]

    Free
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