Events
Events
Shadi Rohana: “Cervantes and the Arabs: Don Quixote in translation”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe modern Arab reader cannot be indifferent when reading a novel like Don Quixote. Through its geography, historical context, characters and language, the novel evokes to the modern reader one […]
Balancing Fair Use and Student Access in Selecting Course Texts: A Workshop for Instructors
Humanities 2, Room 259About the workshop: Understanding how to balance equitable access to course texts with our ethical and legal responsibility to uphold the values of intellectual property can often be challenging. […]
Coloquio de Spanish Studies: Shadi Rohana
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesShadi Rohana is a Mexico City-based literary translator, translating between Arabic, Spanish and English. He has introduced and translated a number of Latin American authors from Spanish to Arabic, as […]
My Own Words: The Law & Legacy of RBG
FeaturedDNA Comedy Lab 155 S. River St., Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn anticipation of Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music's upcoming premiere of a major new work inspired by the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg- When There Are Nine […]
The Twentieth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesTHE TWENTIETH ANNUAL LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM Friends and family are welcome. Come for any part or all of the day. Opening Remarks 9:30 a.m. Professor Sean Keilen Director, Literature Undergraduate Program Panel One: Creative Writing 9:45 – 10:45 a.m. Moderator: Professor Micah Perks Mary Miki Arlen, La chanson de Lancelot (et Roland) Rosa Scupine, How […]
Veda Popovici-History Does (Not) Repeat Itself: Speculative Histories of Post-Revolutionary Romania
Humanities 1, Room 202Veda Popovici’s work explores the limits of political imagination. In this talk, she presents her latest political art project: a mapping of collective dreams and desires of revolutionary events in […]
Living Writers: Student Readings
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesStudents will be reading from their own work. Please stay tuned for more information. Co-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading, The Laurie Sain Creative […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Katie Ligmond
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Outcrop of Blue Rocks: Andean Animacy as Illustrated by Guaman Poma Andeanists have cultivated an obsession with the illustrations and writing of Guaman Poma, and with good reason. There are only three truly illuminated manuscript to come out of Colonial Peru, a scat account in comparison with the plethora from Mexico. Guaman Poma is […]
Ashwini Tambe: “Tropical Exceptions: Racial Logics in Twentieth Century Intergovernmental Age of Consent Debates”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesLegal age standards for sexual maturity are challenging enough to devise at the state or national level, but they are especially contentious at the intergovernmental level. Efforts at setting common standards have often been marked by imperial logics on the part of those proposing common standards and misgivings on the part of those most affected. […]
Feminist Science Studies Conference: Indigeneity and Climate Justice Day 1
UCSC ArboretumOrganized by Karen Barad and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer. The 2019 UCSC Feminist Science Studies conference takes as its focus the theme of “Indigeneity and Climate Justice.” Climate Justice, as opposed to the more narrow framings of “environmental justice,” marks the consideration of the entanglement of ecological, cultural, social, political, geological, biological and other forces, understood […]