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Transnational commercial surrogacy brings together India’s colonial history and its economic development through outsourcing and globalization with instrumentalized notions of the reproductive body. Addressing the intertwined historical relationships and contemporary disparities in medical and legal protections to bear upon reections on recent innovations in articial uterine environments, this talk suggests that the metaphors we use […] |
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Please join us for an informational session on the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminars on Thursday, January 8th from noon to 1:00 PM where we can address questions, think about budgets, and possible collaborations. Sawyer Seminar information: http://www.mellon.org/programs/higher-education-and-scholarship-humanities/fellowships/sawyer-seminars/
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Do professional ethicists behave any morally better than do non-ethicists of similar social background? If not, do they at least show greater consistency between their normative attitudes and their outward behavior? Despite a long philosophical tradition associating philosophical reflection with improved moral behavior, these questions have never been empirically examined. I describe four possible models […]
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UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department Presents: Feminist Science Studies Colloquia Kalindi Vora, University of California of San Diego “Life Support: Legacies of Imperial Science and Surrogate Technologies of Racialized Reproduction” January 6, 5:oo – 6:30pm, Humanities 1 Room 210 Ann Fink, New York University “Feminist Ethics and the Neurobiology of Memory” January 13, 5:00 […] |
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Maya Peterson's work stands at the intersection of environmental history and imperial history. Her current book project explores the ways in which a focus on the physical environment might open up new avenues for thinking about modernity and colonial relationships in Central Asia under Russian and Soviet rule. She is Assistant Professor of History at […]
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Alan Christy (History) will share his work on The Gail Project (http://thegailproject.routes.ucsc.edu/). Join us to discuss the challenges of organizing, and sharing digital materials and the possibilities of memory collection online. The Digital Humanities Working Group meets once-a-month to share ongoing work, read foundational texts, and create a vision for Digital Humanities at UCSC. All […]
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Join us in Quarry Plaza for a fun 50th kick-off event. Come dressed up like it’s 1965, be photographed by a professional photographer, and compete for the best outfit. Noon to 2pm January 15, 2015, at Quarry Plaza What did they actually wear in 1965? Follow our social media channels for hot tips from UC […]
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The Creative Writing Program presents Cherrie Moraga in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series. Cherríe L. Moraga is playwright, poet, and essayist whose plays and publications have received national recognition and is a recipient of The American Studies Association Lifetime Achievement Award. Moraga has premiered and developed her work at theatres throughout San Francisco. Brava’s […]
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Friday 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. Fridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202. Winter 2015 Schedule: January 16th - Jesica Siham Fernández, Social Psychology, "Latina/o Children as Cultural Citizens: Membership, […]
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About eight times each year the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. 2014 - 2015 Speakers FALL 2014 October 17th Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers December 12th Adam Albright, MIT WINTER 2015 January 16th Claire Halpert, University of Minnesota January 23rd Valentine Hacquard, Maryland February 6th Rachel Walker, USC mid-March: date […]
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A plan by the U.S. and Japan to build a new military base in a place called Henoko has brought Okinawa into the news lately. Prof. Christy, an expert in the history of Japan, social science, colonialism, and nationalism, will present a history of American Japanese post WWII relations specifically as they pertain to Okinawa. […]
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Pursuing and Managing Your Research: A Library Workshop for Humanities Division Graduate Students -refine strategies for locating materials (e.g., using archivegrid; in-house and ILL resources) -develop facility with tools to manage research (e.g., zotero) -get to know library staff (every researcher's best friends) Led by: Annette Marines and Lucia Orlando When: Tuesday, January 20, 4-5:30 […]
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UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department Presents: Feminist Science Studies Colloquia Kalindi Vora, University of California of San Diego “Life Support: Legacies of Imperial Science and Surrogate Technologies of Racialized Reproduction” January 6, 5:oo – 6:30pm, Humanities 1 Room 210 Ann Fink, New York University “Feminist Ethics and the Neurobiology of Memory” January 13, 5:00 […] |
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Naveeda Khan’s work traverses spaces of religious crisis and conflict in urban Pakistan to everyday life on shifting land and emergent perceptions of climate change in riparian Bangladesh. Her current interest is to explore the physiognomy of the natural from within the social and the theological. She is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins […]
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The Social Impact Fair is targeted toward non-profits and social services that are searching for students who would like to impact their community. Employers are looking to meet qualified UC Santa Cruz students with specific job skills and knowledge developed in a rigorous academic major, and the breadth of a well-rounded liberal arts education. Companies […]
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Warren Neidich is an artist and critic, editor of The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism (Archive Books, 2013). He will be speaking in Warren Sack's lecture course, and interested parties are invited to attend. Those who would like to participate in a further discussion with Neidich that afternoon should email wsack@ucsc.edu.
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The Creative Writing Program presents Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series. Verónica Reyes is a Chicana feminist jota poet from East Los Angeles, California. She earned her BA from California State University, Long Beach and her MFA from University of Texas, El Paso. She scripts poetry for the people. […]
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Friday 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. Fridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202. Winter 2015 Schedule: January 16th - Jesica Siham Fernández, Social Psychology, "Latina/o Children as […]
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About eight times each year the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. More information on the talk will be available soon. 2014 - 2015 Speakers FALL 2014 October 17th Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers December 12th Adam Albright, MIT WINTER 2015 January 16th Claire Halpert, University of Minnesota January 23rd Valentine […]
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Valentine Hacquard from the University of Maryland will be presenting this talk which explores two classic problems at the semantics-pragmatics interface from a learner's perspective. First, the meaning that speakers convey often goes beyond the literal meaning of the sentences they utter. Second, not all content encoded in utterances has equal standing: some is foregrounded, […]
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UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department Presents: Feminist Science Studies Colloquia Kalindi Vora, University of California of San Diego “Life Support: Legacies of Imperial Science and Surrogate Technologies of Racialized Reproduction” January 6, 5:oo – 6:30pm, Humanities 1 Room 210 Ann Fink, New York University “Feminist Ethics and the Neurobiology of Memory” January 13, 5:00 […]
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MAKING THE COSMOS LOCAL For millennia, people across the globe have searched the sky for answers. They have imagined and reimagined the cosmos, from an infinite and eternal backdrop full of other worlds, to a young Earth encircled by nearby planets and crystal spheres of stars. What is the relation between our lives here on […]
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This is a professional development event open to all the graduate students at UCSC. Snacks and beverages will be served. If you plan to attend, please RSVP using the link below by 7pm on Tue, Jan 27th: http://goo.gl/forms/eKhl1mr3PR Presented by Jennifer May, Career Center adviser (http://careers.ucsc.edu/about/staff.html).
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Carolyn Dean is currently working on a co-authored book project entitled Colonial Things, Cosmopolitan Thinking: Locating the Indigenous Art of Spanish America. Recognizing that the humanistic disciplines have often had an uncomfortable relationship with objects created outside Western traditions, this project seeks to illuminate how indigenous things in the colonial past have been used and […]
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Julio Torres: "Individual Differences in Prior Language Experience: The Heritage Language Bilingual"
Julio Torres: "Individual Differences in Prior Language Experience: The Heritage Language Bilingual" Individual differences play a key role in explaining variability in learning outcomes among adult second language learners. Researchers have begun examining the additional language learning experiences of learners with different profiles including bilinguals, aging learners and learners with low literacy levels in their first language. In this talk, I will present briefly data from three […]
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The 2015 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation will feature Angela Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita, UC Santa Cruz Angela Davis: "Racism, Militarism, Poverty: From Ferguson to Palestine" Date: 7 p.m., Wednesday, January 28th 2015 Location: Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium The event is free and open to the public Through her activism and scholarship over the […]
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Learn how to perfect your online identity and social media presence as an academic. Melissa De Witte (Web Coordinator, Social Sciences) will lead a discussion about how to build your network, develop meaningful connections, and how you could Twitter your way into your next speaking engagement or job interview. Whether you are a novice or […]
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Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015. Michael L. Anderson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at F&M, and a Visiting Associate Professor at the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland, College […]
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The Creative Writing Program presents Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano & Maya Chincilla in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series. Maya Chinchilla is a Guatemalan, Bay Area-based writer, video artist, and educator. Maya received her MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College and her undergraduate degree from University of California, Santa Cruz, […]
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The Mediterranean Seminar/University of California Multi-Campus Research Project (MRP) in Mediterranean Studies announces its Winter 2014 Workshop, to be held at UC Davis on Friday, January 30, to be held in conjunction with the Western Ottomanists Workshop (WOW) on Saturday, January 31. The Workshop consists of discussion of three pre-circulated papers and a talk by […]
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Friday 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. Fridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202. Winter 2015 Schedule: January 16th – Jesica Siham Fernández, Social Psychology, “Latina/o […]
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From at least 200 BC to the 16th century CE, the Eurasian Silk Road formed the most extensive network of trade and commerce the world had ever seen. Its pathways linked populations from Beijing to Jerusalem in one of the first global networks. Much of what we know about the Silk Road is defined by archaeology from […]
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