Events
Events
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Melissa Gregg: “8 Hours for What We Will”
Humanities 1, Room 402Discussion on time management in the workplace and the role of technology in facilitating dominant ideas of productivity. RSVP required. Please email Caroline Kao cakao@ucsc.edu. In preparation, please read 2 chapters of any time management self help book and make a note of those things that are classified as leisure activities by the author. Some […]
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Juliana Spahr: "The Politics of Poetry Production > The Politics of Poetic Form"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk is part of a larger project about contemporary US literature that asks a very old question about the relation between literature and politics. Professor Spahr suggests that turn of the century US literature is somewhat analogous to the earth’s ailing ecosystem, at risk because of multiple forces-- economic changes, government interference, liberal foundations, […]
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UCHRI Funding Information Session
Google HangoutUCHRI 2016-2017 Calls for Funding Information Session Have questions about UCHRI's 2016-17 calls for funding? Join our information session and ask UCHRI's Director and Assistant Director any questions you may have. Open to UC faculty, staff, and graduate students. To ask a question, please click on the Google Hangout link below and click on the […]
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Ozploitation Film Series presents : Long Weekend (1978)
Stevenson, Room 150An unsettling cross between Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) and an early Harold Pinter play, Colin Eggleston’s Long Weekend presents us with an extremely prickly couple on holiday who are finding it harder and harder to tolerate each other even as it becomes increasingly apparent that nature itself might be out to do them in […]
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Kimberly Robertson: “Dancing with the Devil: Settler Colonialism, Gendered Violence, and Indigenous Anti-Violence Activism”
B206 Earth & Marine SciencesDr. Kimberly Robertson is a citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nation and an activist, teacher, scholar, and mother. She earned an MA in American Indian Studies and a PhD in […]
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Rita Lucarelli: "Ghosts and the Restless Dead in Ancient Egypt"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEVENT PHOTOS: Rita Lucarelli Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley "Ghosts and the Restless Dead in Ancient Egypt" Center for Ancient Studies at UC Santa Cruz The beliefs in ghosts and spirits of the dead are widespread in world religions. In ancient Egypt, however, there is a certain inconsistency when mentioning the manifestations of the […]
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Living Writers: Ronaldo V. Wilson: University of California, Santa Cruz
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRonaldo V. Wilson University of California, Santa Cruz Ronaldo V. Wilson, Ph.D. is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of […]
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Friday Forum: Trey Highton “Surfing the Third Wave: Women’s Professional Surfing & the Ethics of Instagram”
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 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve […]
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Linguistic Colloquium: Ivano Caponigro
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLinguistic Colloquium: Free-Choice Free Relative Clauses in Italian and Romanian English, Italian, and Romanian (and many other languages) allow for standard free relative clauses, i.e., non-interrogative wh-clauses with the same distribution and […]
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e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies “The Future of Education: Advanced Computing, Ubiquitous Learning, and the Knowledge Economy”
Stevenson Event CenterEVENT PHOTOS: Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR. UCSC to host an International e-Learning Conference, November 2-3 2015 This year, UC Santa Cruz will play host to the Eighth International Conference on e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies from November 2-3, 2015. The conference is built upon four key features: Internationalism, Interdisciplinarity, Inclusiveness, and Interaction. Conference delegates include leaders […]