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  • Safiya Noble

    Safiya Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

    Kresge Town Hall

    Please note: this event was rescheduled from February 12 The landscape of information is rapidly shifting as new imperatives and demands push to the fore increasing investment in digital technologies. Yet, critical information scholars continue to demonstrate how digital technology and its narratives are shaped by and infused with values that are not impartial, disembodied, […]

  • Prof and a Pint: “Polarization and Public Discourse: How We Got Here and What We Do Now”

    Forager, San Jose 420 S 1st St, San Jose, CA, United States

    Political discourse in the United States is devolving. From social media to Washington D.C. closed-mindedness, confirmation bias, and agenda-driven reasoning are undermining the possibility for constructive dialogue. Where do these destructive tendencies come from? Are they the result of a person’s upbringing, or intelligence, or education? A matter of their character? Our research is beginning […]

  • Anne Norton; “Theses on Democracy or, The People, Steering”

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

      Anne Norton is professor and department chair of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Norton is the author of seven books, including On the Muslim Question and 95 Theses on Politics, Culture and Method. She is Co-Founding Editor of the journal Theory and Event and on the executive board of the journal […]

  • Linguistics at Santa Cruz 2019

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

    About eight times each year, the department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For more information: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

  • Grad Slam

    Kuumbwa Jazz Center

    UC Santa Cruz master’s and doctoral students are a force for innovation and new ideas that keep California in the forefront. Grad Slam is an annual contest to communicate research. It aims to make research accessible by providing emerging scientists and scholars with the skills to engage the public in their work. Participants are judged […]

  • PhD+ Workshop Series: Building Online Identities with Humanities Commons with Anne Donlon

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Humanities Commons can help you develop your online presence, expand the reach of your scholarship—whatever form it may take—and connect with other scholars who share your interests. Humanities Commons is a not-for-profit, scholar-run network for people in the humanities and humanistic social sciences to collaborate and share work. You can create a profile, connect with colleagues in groups, […]

  • Dana Frank

    Book Launch: Dana Frank, “The Long Honduran Night”

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Professor Dana Frank will join us to discuss and sign copies of her new book, The Long Honduran Night—a story of resistance, repression, and U.S. policy in Honduras in the aftermath of a violent military coup. This powerful narrative recounts the dramatic years in Honduras following the June 2009 military coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya, […]

  • Living Writers: Juan Felipe Herrera

    Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Born on the migrant roads of Central California, Juan Felipe grew up in the literary centers of the new Latinx Civil Rights Movement - San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco. There he was inspired by bilingual and Aztec, Mayan cultural roots, as well as urban, and multi-cultural and spoken word, jazz styles on community […]

  • Anne Donlon, “Making Scholarship Open with Humanities Commons”

    Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library

    Learn how scholars have used Humanities Commons to work in public and to publish open access work. Scholars have used Humanities Commons to support their work in a number of ways: finding collaborators, researching, drafting, sharing work in progress, getting informal and formal feedback, publishing on a Commons site, or sharing work published elsewhere in our open access repository. This presentation will explore several options for engaging a broader […]

  • Borderbus: A Community Conversation about Migration, Art, and Social Justice – A Conversation between Felicia Rice and Juan Felipe Herrera

    Museum of Art & History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Join recent U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera and Santa Cruz book artist Felicia Rice in an exploration of the powerful role that poetry and art can play in conversations about the pressing issues of immigration, belonging, and home. Herrera and Rice will be joined in this community conversation by representatives of local groups working on social justice and […]

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