Events
Stephen Tatum: “Cormac McCarthy, Roberto Bolaño, and the Natural History of Destruction”
Cowell, Room 132 Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn his 1997 lecture series on literature and the air raids of the Second World War, W.G. Sebald asks at one point “how ought such a natural history of destruction […]
ChaeRan Freeze: “Crafting an Elite Russian-Jewish Identity: Subjectivity and Gender in Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesChaeRan Freeze, an associate professor in Jewish history at Brandeis University, has focused her research on the Jews of Russia and women’s and gender studies. Her first book, Jewish Marriage […]
Pranav Anand: “All I Want is Some Honest Answers to My Questions: Tracking Argumentation and Stance in Online Political Debate”
Whereas a generation ago, engaging in public discourse might have meant leafleting or writing letters to the editor, today a host of venues exist online, enabling meaningful dialogue on an […]
A Tribute to Adrienne Rich
Kresge Town HallA Tribute to Adrienne Rich It was in 1973, in the midst of Black and women's liberation movements, the Vietnam War, and her own personal distress, that Adrienne Rich wrote […]
Herman Blake: About Oakes History and Diversity in the Medical Sciences
Guzman Room, Oakes College Oakes College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCome join us for a conversation with Oakes' First Provost and UCSC's first African American faculty member, Dr. Herman Blake. Dr. Blake is currently the Humanities Scholar in Residence at […]
Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Nalo Hopkinson
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Fund, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Literature Department/Creative Writing […]
Jeff Hull: “Unlocking the Power of Play; Immersive Narrative in the Civic Realm”
Media Theater, M110Jeff Hull is engaged in a decade long metaphysical street battle against banality and routine. This takes the form of fictional cults with real world induction centers, pirate radio broadcasts […]
Craig Schiffer: Santa Cruz to Wall Street
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe University of California Satna Cruz Humanities presents the East Coast Distinguished Alumni Guest Lecture Speaker, Craig Schiffer - Cowell, Class of '78 Santa Cruz to Wall Street How I […]
2012 Reunion Weekend
2012 Reunion Weekend More information TBA.
Catherine Jones: “Children and the Problem of Agency”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Catherine Jones History, UCSC Excluded from favored liberal remedies for realizing new freedoms in postemancipation Virginia, children nevertheless shaped broad Reconstruction contests over the […]