Events
Living Writers Series: Katie Crouch
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKatie Crouch is a New York Times bestselling novelist and essayist. Her books include Girls in Trucks, Men and Dogs, and Abroad. She has also written two novels for young adults, and has […]
FreeDigital Happy Hour: Why Digital Humanities?
Cowell Senior Commons Room Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin the Digital Humanities Research Cluster for an informal cocktail hour. The first of a series of casual get togethers will start with the question, "Why the Digital Humanities?" Meet other […]
FreeCrystal Am Nelson: "We Ain't Gotta Be This: Queering Sites of Blackness, an Aesthetic Approach"
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. […]
FreeThor Sawin and Jason Martel: "Fostering foreign language learners’ speaking through ongoing feedback"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIt is now well accepted in foreign language pedagogy that assessment is not solely an end-‐of-‐unit activity. Rather, it is important for teachers to monitor learners’ language development using a […]
FreeFranco "Bifo" Berardi: "Social Morphogenesis: The Historical Transition from Revolution to Disentanglement"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe subject of this lecture comes from the recent experience of the Occupy movement against financial capitalism. It investigates the political and conceptual limits of these movements, and their inability […]
FreeFranco Berardi, Seminar Discussion: "Aesthetic Genealogy of Globalization"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFranco "Bifo" Berardi will be leading a seminar discussion based on "Aesthetic Genealogy of Globalization," an excerpt from his forthcoming book And – Phenomenology of the End. Participants are invited to […]
FreeCANCELLED: Abe Stone: "Why Does Space Have More than One Dimension?"
Humanities 1, Room 202At least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. The format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment […]
FreeMadeline Lane-McKinley: "Free Love Utopias: A Feminist Spatial Analysis of New Communalism"
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. […]
FreeAdam Albright: "Testing phonological biases with Artificial Grammar learning experiments"
As with most linguistic input, the data that children receive about phonological patterns is rife with ambiguity. For example, children hearing voicing alternations in German ( ~ ‘thief-sg./pl.’, ~ ‘mouse-sg./pl.’) […]
FreeMusic of The Waves: A Conversation with Lawrence Weschler and William Finnegan Moderated by Harry Berger Jr.
Page Smith LibraryLawrence Weschler and William Finnegan both graduated from Cowell College, UCSC, in 1974. Both worked at The New Yorker, where Finnegan still works. Both studied here at UCSC with Harry […]
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