Events
Events
Counteractions: A Symposium of Creative & Critical Inquiries
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFeaturing papers by: James Beneda, Whitney DeVos, Ariane Helou, Katie Lally, Kenan Sharpe, Eric Sneathen, & Melissa Yinger Roundtable conversations from: Christopher Chen, Kendra Dority, Johanna Isaacson, Kyle Lane-McKinley, Brian Malone, Tsering Wangmo, Tim Willcutts, & others. Symposium at UCSC 9:30 a.m.: Breakfast 10:00 a.m.: Welcome & Opening Remarks 10:15 a.m.: Panel 1 […]
FreeFriday Forum with Kali Rubaii: “Writing the Future with a Cement Pen: How to Concretize Displacement”
Humanities 1, Room 202The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. Light refreshments will be available. […]
FreeLinguistics Research Colloquia: Grant Goodall
Grant Goodall: "Grammar and working memory: How experimental syntax can help us tell the difference" The use of formal experiments to measure sentence acceptability, known as “experimental syntax”, is able to capture many fine-grained grammatical contrasts, but it also captures effects that have long been thought to be extra-grammatical, such as those induced by increased […]
FreeBook-to-Action | The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Santa Cruz Public Library - Downtown Branch 224 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAuthor Michelle Alexander helped initiate a national movement with her best selling book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. This month, Santa Cruz Public Libraries sponsors Book-to-Action, a month-long series of events […]
FreeSanchita Saxena: "Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka: The Labor Behind the Global Garments and Textiles Industries"
College 8, Room 201Join Sanchita Saxena as she discusses her new book, Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka: The Labor Behind the Global Garments and Textiles Industries, which earned rave reviews from […]
FreeJoshua Dienstag "The Human Boundary: Democracy in a Post-Species Age"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoshua Dienstag is the author of Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit and many books and articles on the history of political thought, film, literature and democratic theory. He is currently working on […]
FreePattern Recognition, c. 1947
Porter College, Room D245Please join us for this week's VMCC event, Pamela M. Lee will be delivering her talk, entitled "Pattern Recognition, c. 1947." This is the final event of the colloquia's 2014-2015 […]
FreePatrick Murray-John, “Latent Data: How, Where, And Why (Digital) Humanists Discover Data Hidden In Plain Sight”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn this talk, Murray-John will argue that data and the humanities have long held a close and fruitful interrelationship. Data in humanities research is not new; it is the capacity […]
FreeWorking with Omeka: Building a Community of Users
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for an all day symposium about using Omeka across the university and imagining the future of Digital Exhibit Building at the University of California. Calling all scholars, museum […]
FreeHistory Department Undergraduate Research Symposium
The History Department Undergraduate Research Symposium is an annual event held each spring that recognizes the exceptional research being conducted by UC Santa Cruz history undergraduates. The symposium provides undergraduate […]
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