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“Intentional Design: Making Assignments that Work”
“Intentional Design: Making Assignments that Work”
"Intentional Design: Making Assignments that Work," with Jessie Dubreuil, Kimberly Helmer, Philip Longo, Tonya Ritola, and Heather Shearer This is the second teaching workshop of The Humanities Institute research cluster “Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now”, designed to promote collective conversations about how we teach in the humanities now. Whether you teach a large lecture […]
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Questions That Matter:”Freedom and Race”
Questions That Matter:”Freedom and Race”
America has famously been called "the land of the free," and yet when the "Star Spangled Banner" was written, people of African descent were enslaved within its borders, including by the song's own author, Francis Scott Key. Today, the relationship between freedom and race continues to vex the United States and the rest of the […]
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Derek Murray: “On Post-Blackness: Queer Satire in Contemporary African-American Art”
Derek Murray: “On Post-Blackness: Queer Satire in Contemporary African-American Art”
Derek Conrad Murray is an interdisciplinary theorist specializing in the history, theory and criticism of contemporary art, visual culture and cultural studies. Author of Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights, Murray is completing two additional book manuscripts, Regarding Difference: Contemporary African-American Art and the Politics of Recognition and Mapplethorpe and the Flower: Radical Sexuality and […]
Yarimar Bonilla: “The Wait of Disaster: Hurricanes and the Politics of Recovery in Puerto Rico”
Yarimar Bonilla: “The Wait of Disaster: Hurricanes and the Politics of Recovery in Puerto Rico”
The Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene Research Cluster Presents: "Dr. Yarimar Bonilla, The Wait of Disaster: Hurricanes and the Politics of Recovery in Puerto Rico" Event Photos: Dr. Yarimar Bonilla is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latino/Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on the colonial logics of sovereignty and on questions of race, […]
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Living Writers Series: Karen Tei Yamashita
Living Writers Series: Karen Tei Yamashita
Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, I Hotel, Anime Wong: Fictions of Performance, and most recently, Letters to Memory, all published by Coffee House Press. I Hotel was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the […]
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PhD+: Effective Interviewing Practices & Job Offer Negotiation Skills: A Workshop with Annie Maxfield (UCLA Career Center)
PhD+: Effective Interviewing Practices & Job Offer Negotiation Skills: A Workshop with Annie Maxfield (UCLA Career Center)
Persuasive Interviewing and Negotiation Tips for Humanities PhDs with Annie Maxfield Excelling in interview settings is a skill that requires thought, practice, and confidence. During this interactive workshop, attendees will practice and refine their interviewing skills by learning persuasive techniques that enhance their storytelling abilities and highlight their key contributions. Annie Maxfield is the associate […]
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Roddey Reid: “Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: Affect and Activism in the Trump Era and Beyond”
Roddey Reid: “Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: Affect and Activism in the Trump Era and Beyond”
Roddey Reid is Professor Emeritus of French Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Reid is the author three books including most recently of Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: A Citizen’s Guide for the Trump Era and Beyond; of Families in Jeopardy: Regulating the Social Body in France, 1750-1910; co-editor with Sharon Traweek […]
Opening Reception: New Visualization Spaces in the Digital Scholarship Commons
Opening Reception: New Visualization Spaces in the Digital Scholarship Commons
Celebrate two new Visualization spaces in McHenry Library and the campus partnerships that enhance digital scholarship at UCSC. The David Kirk Digital Scholarship Commons is thrilled to formally launch the VizWall, a large scale visualization installation, and the VizLab, a Virtual Reality and 360 Lab. These new spaces are built through partnerships between the University […]
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Kimberlé Crenshaw: 34th Annual Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Convocation
Kimberlé Crenshaw: 34th Annual Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Convocation
The annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by presenting speakers who discuss the civil rights issues of equality, freedom, justice, and opportunity. The convocation also seeks to build partnerships and develop dialogue within the campus community and with the local communities served by the university. Speaker: Kimberlé Crenshaw […]
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Friday Forum: Stephen David Engel
Friday Forum: Stephen David Engel
Stephen David Engel is a PhD student in the History of Consciousness Department. Friday Forum is 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. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the […]
Victoria Bañales: “Community College Teaching – A View From Inside”
Victoria Bañales: “Community College Teaching – A View From Inside”
The Literature Department Graduate Program Alumni Speaker Series Presents: "Community College Teaching: A View From Inside" Victoria Bañales Victoria Bañales earned a Ph.D. in Literature with a Parenthetical Notation in Feminist Studies from UCSC. Her work has appeared in the anthologies Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representations and Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of […]
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Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Little Dorrit in Historical Context
Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Little Dorrit in Historical Context
Santa Cruz Pickwick Club featuring Little Dorrit The Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel, beginning this January with Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit. Join us each month for conversations about the novel and guest speaker presentations to help us contextualize our readings. Santa Cruz […]
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Neel Ahuja: “Reversible Human: Rectal Feeding, Gut Plasticity, and Racial Control in US Carceral Warfare”
Neel Ahuja: “Reversible Human: Rectal Feeding, Gut Plasticity, and Racial Control in US Carceral Warfare”
Neel Ahuja’s research explores the relationship of the body to forms of imperial warfare and security. Focusing on the association of rectal feeding, used as a form of medical rape in CIA prisons, and bodily plasticity, the presentation argues that the terrorist body is not only a useful discursive figure in the current wars, but […]
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Daniel Lee: “A Sleepy English Village and a North African Jew: An Unlikely Story of French Resistance during World War Two”
Daniel Lee: “A Sleepy English Village and a North African Jew: An Unlikely Story of French Resistance during World War Two”
The story of the Free French who rallied to Charles de Gaulle in London following the fall of France in June 1940 is well-known. But until now, historians have ignored the experiences of men and women from France and the French Empire who were not sympathetic to De Gaulle and the Free French, but who […]
Living Writers Series: Duriel E. Harris
Living Writers Series: Duriel E. Harris
Duriel E. Harris, poet, performer, and sound artist, is author of No Dictionary of a Living Tongue, Drag and Amnesiac and coauthor of the poetry video Speleology. Current undertakings include “Blood Labyrinth” and the solo performance project Thingification. Harris is an associate professor of English in the graduate creative writing program at Illinois State University […]
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Adam Ussishkin: “Roots, or consonants? On the early role of morphology in lexical access”
Adam Ussishkin: “Roots, or consonants? On the early role of morphology in lexical access”
Words consist of a phoneme or letter sequence that maps onto meaning. Most prominent theories of both auditory and visual word recognition portray the recognition process as a connection between these units and a semantic level. However, there is a growing body of evidence in the priming literature suggesting that there is an additional, morphological […]
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Dr. Angus Forbes: “Immersive Interpretation – Exploring Data in Virtual Reality”
Dr. Angus Forbes: “Immersive Interpretation – Exploring Data in Virtual Reality”
Event Photos: Immersive Interpretation: Exploring Data in Virtual Reality Angus Forbes (UCSC, Computational Media) Forbes will discuss the opportunities for exploring and analyzing data using contemporary display technologies, such as interactive video walls, ambisonic theaters, and virtual reality headsets. I present a range of projects that examine novel ways of representing scientific and cultural datasets, […]
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Jodi Byrd: “Fire & Flood – Settler Colonialisms & Pessimistic Indigenous Futurisms”
Jodi Byrd: “Fire & Flood – Settler Colonialisms & Pessimistic Indigenous Futurisms”
Event Photos: The Feminist Studies Department and CRES are pleased to partner with The Center for Cultural Studies to present this CULT Colloquium Series talk: "Fire & Flood: Settler Colonialisms & Pessimistic Indigenous Futurisms" Caught within the both/and of dystopic collapse, colonial fantasies of American futurities often reproduce themselves through nineteenth-century signs of the struggle […]
Film Screening: Io sono Li (Shun Li & the Poet)
Film Screening: Io sono Li (Shun Li & the Poet)
Crossings Film Series Over 2017-18, the CLRC and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is proud to present "Crossings," a quarterly film series about migration and the Mediterranean. We open with the 2014 documentary, "Io sto con la sposa," winner of the Human Rights Nights Award at the Venice International Film Festival. All films […]
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Titas Chakraborty: Controlling “Quarrelsome Workers”: Boatmen of Bengal, English East India Company State and the Global Mobility Transition, 1701-1806
Titas Chakraborty: Controlling “Quarrelsome Workers”: Boatmen of Bengal, English East India Company State and the Global Mobility Transition, 1701-1806
Event Photos: The Center for World History presents: Controlling “Quarrelsome Workers”: Boatmen of Bengal, English East India Company State and the Global Mobility Transition, 1701-1806 Titas Chakraborty
Sora Y. Han: “Poetics of MU”
Sora Y. Han: “Poetics of MU”
The daughter appears in Hortense Spillers’s literary criticism as an oblique subject of both the Oedipal “law of the Father” and the slave law of partus sequitur ventrem. With this figure, this talk presents the broader question of how a law of reproduction without genealogy raises the stakes of theorizing race, colonialism, and the limits […]
Living Writers Series: Gabriella Ramirez-Chavez & José Villarán on the work of Cecilia Vicuña
Living Writers Series: Gabriella Ramirez-Chavez & José Villarán on the work of Cecilia Vicuña
ANNOUNCEMENT: Cecilia Vicuña will be unable to join us on February 22. However, the event will be held as scheduled but in a different iteration. In Lieu of Cecilia Vicuña's absence, Literature Creative-Critical PhD students, Gabriella Ramirez-Chavez, and José Antonio Villarán will curate some of Cecilia Vicuña's work, showing video/sound footage, and providing comments, revolving around their own engagements […]
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Reading Group: Cathy Davidson “The New Education”
Reading Group: Cathy Davidson “The New Education”
The Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now research cluster will meet on Friday, February 23 (9-11am in 2 HUM 259) to discuss The New Education in preparation for Cathy Davidson's visit on March 1. Davidson will also be facilitating a hands-on workshop with the research cluster on Friday, March 2 at 2-4 pm in […]
Graduate Funding Support Info Session
Graduate Funding Support Info Session
Join us to learn more about support services offered for grant and fellowship research and writing through Arts Research Development Office and The Humanities Institute. In this information session, we will share key resources for finding funding opportunities and crafting compelling application materials. You will also meet the graduate student fellows who offer one-on-one consultations. […]
UCSC Grad Slam
UCSC Grad Slam
Congratulations to our 12 finalists for 2018! Come cheer them on at the Grad Slam and vote for the People's Choice Award: Tony Assi Kimberley Bitterwolf Stephan Bitterwolf Eilin Francis Sharmistha Guha Helen Holmlund Courtney Kersten Nickolas Knightly Stephanie Montgomery Rebecca Ora Tiffany Thang Talia Waltzer Grad Slam, a competition also referred to as the 3-Minute […]
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Giving Day
Be a Part of Giving Day at UC Santa Cruz Giving Day is an energized 24-hour online fundraising drive to support UC Santa Cruz students, faculty, and campus programs. It’s a day for people everywhere to come together in a circle of giving for UC Santa Cruz. Generous donors provide incentives to make the day […]
Christina Gerhardt: “The Legacy of 1968 & Global Cinema”
Christina Gerhardt: “The Legacy of 1968 & Global Cinema”
Event Photos: Christina Gerhardt is the author of Screening the Red Army Faction: Historical and Cultural Memory, and co-editor of 1968 and Global Cinema and Celluloid Revolt: German Screen Cultures and the Long Sixties. Currently, she is working on a new book project, 1968 and West German Cinemas, which examines the cinemas of West Germany’s […]
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Tera W. Hunter: “Bound in Wedlock – Slave and Free Black Marriage in the 19th Century”
Tera W. Hunter: “Bound in Wedlock – Slave and Free Black Marriage in the 19th Century”
The History Department Presents: Tera W. Hunter is Professor of History and African-American Studies at Princeton University. She is currently a fellow at the National Humanities Center. She will be speaking about her new book, Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century, a finalist for the Lincoln Prize of the Gilder […]
Cathy Davidson: “The New Education”
Cathy Davidson: “The New Education”
How can we revolutionize the university to better prepare students for our age of constant change? How can we retool our classrooms as activist, engaged learning environments that model a more just society? In this talk, Cathy N. Davidson will discuss her book The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a […]
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PhD+: Ken Wissoker (Duke UP): An Insider’s Guide to Academic Publishing
PhD+: Ken Wissoker (Duke UP): An Insider’s Guide to Academic Publishing
Event Photos: How different is the structure of your dissertation from the form of your first book? Who are the audiences for your research? How soon after completing the dissertation should you expect to begin drafting and pitching your book proposal? What is the history behind these publishing norms and how did they become what […]
Friday Forum: Elizabeth Goldman
Friday Forum: Elizabeth Goldman
Once Helpful, Always Helpful? Infants’ Expectations About Helping and Hindering Behavior Across Scenarios The present work examined 16 to 18 month-olds’abilities to generalize a person’s tendency to help or hinder across multiple scenarios. Infants saw three familiarization events where an agent consistently helped or hindered another agent. In test, infants saw two test trials (consistent […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Kristen Syrett, Rutgers University
Linguistics Colloquium: Kristen Syrett, Rutgers University
"Experimental evidence for context sensitivity in the nominal domain: What children and adults reveal" Abstract: Part of what it means to become a proficient speaker of a language is to recognize that the context in which we communicate with each other, including what a speaker’s intentions or goals are, affects the way we arrive at […]
Cathy Davidson Workshop
Cathy Davidson Workshop
Cathy Davidson will offer a hands-on workshop on engaged pedagogy with the Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now research cluster, working with the research group to address a topic of their choice. Students from Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts are all encouraged to attend. Come prepared with a pedagogy question to dive into. For copies […]
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