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 SAVE THE DATE Alumni Weekend 2018 April 27-29 For more info visit: alumniweekend.ucsc.edu |
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Reading Seminar on #ScienceMustFall and an ABC of Plant Medicine: On Posing Cosmopolitical Questions featuring Dr. Lesley Green (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Cape Town and Founding Director: Environmental Humanities South). Please email krlyons@ucsc.edu for the readings |
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Kyla Schuller is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and an External Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center (2017-2018). She has previously held fellowships from ACLS and the UC Humanities Research Institute and a visiting scholar position at UC Berkeley. Schuller investigates the intersections between race, gender, sexuality, […]
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"Sons and Daughters of Soil?" Dr. Lesley Green (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Cape Town and Founding Director: Environmental Humanities South) Responding, as researchers, to Earth Mastery that includes not only violent machines, but a violation of evidence and epistemes including the scientific episteme, requires accumulating and presenting evidence for existences that do not exist -- at least, not in neoliberal discourses. In […] |
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“Realism and Instrumentalism in Metaphysical Explanation” Ori Simchen is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Professor Simchen works mostly in the philosophy of language and metaphysics. Most recently he's been working on metasemantics, or foundational semantics, and its relation to formal semantics. He is particularly interested in how to think […]
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 "Sephardic Archives from Analog to Digital: Three Tales of Memory and Visibility" Join us as Devin E. Naar, founder of the Sephardic Studies Program at the University of Washington, traces three key moments in the development of Sephardic Studies libraries and archives in the 1880s, 1930s, and today. Often relying on community members to supply […]
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 Courtney Kersten is the author of Daughter in Retrograde: A Memoir (University of Wisconsin Press 2018). Her essays can be seen or are forthcoming from Brevity, The Normal School, River Teeth, Hotel Amerika, DIAGRAM, The Sonora Review, Black Warrior Review, The Master’s Review, Brevity and elsewhere. She was a Fulbright Fellow to Riga, Latvia, and is currently a PhD student in Literature and CreativeWriting at the University of […] |
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 The Atlantic Era was a period of intense commercial integration linking key economic players in Western Europe, the Americas, the Indian Ocean littorals, and West and Central Africa. The period was marked by dramatic increases in the volume of commerce at both the regional and global levels, radically transforming the societies and environments of […]
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Foundational Labor: PhDs in Leadership Positions at UCSC Are you interested in learning more about the work of PhDs who are actively reimagining pedagogy and student support at UC Santa Cruz? This session will feature two PhDs who are currently employing their research and teaching experience in a variety of interrelated ways, including program development, project management, and mentorship, […]
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 "Based on a (Mostly) True Story: Conflicting Cinematic Portrayals of Jewish Champions Boxing at Auschwitz " In 2011, I traveled to Tel Aviv to interview eighty-seven year old Noah Klieger, the last remaining Holocaust survivor to have boxed for Nazi officials at Auschwitz. That amateur and champion Jewish boxers boxed at the camps to entertain […]
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 Liz Coppock is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Boston University, specializing in semantics and pragmatics. Her research concerns the meanings of small words in various languages, the invisible forces that give complex expressions their meanings, and sometimes even the nature of meaning itself. As Principal Investigator of the Swedish Research Council project Most and more: […]
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 In Search of “Values as Yet Uncaptured by Language:” Learning from Great Historical Paradigm Shifts A Language of Conservation Project Colloquium. Presented by The Humanities Institute and the Center for Public Philosophy. Event Photos: Speakers: Daniel Guevara - Chair, Department of Philosophy at UCSC Claudio Campagna - Adjunct Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at UCSC, Wildlife Conservation Society Karen […] |
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 In this symposium, artists and scholars explore creative expression and research that chart Pacific Island Studies in the 21st century. Speakers examine the Pacific Ocean as worlds of complex human interaction and dynamic spaces in which diverse communities have produced a range of cultural and political identity dis/positions through kinship, colonial histories, and diasporas. The […] |
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**THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED** Share your digital research with the DH community! Join the DH Research Cluster to learn more about DH research on campus at an informal meet up. We invite researchers across campus to share their work with a short, lightening style presentation. The introductions will be open-mic style, do you do not have to prepare in advance. This […] |
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“Metaphysics and A Priori Vindication” Is there reason to expect any interesting kind of a priori access to metaphysical truths of the sort often in dispute in contemporary philosophy? In this paper I zero in on truths about what is metaphysically necessary and about the essences or natures of things as key topics in metaphysics […]
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 Writing Program Pedagogy Workshop The number of student veterans is rapidly growing, with more than a million currently enrolled in US colleges. Many institutions support veterans by promoting access to student services but overlook what actually happens in the classroom. What do we need to know as instructors about student veterans' learning practices, literacies, and […] |
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The Origins of Kink-Oriented Desires: Perspectives from an Online Community of Kinky People 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 […] |
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 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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 'Alternative Nobel Prize' Laureates at UCSC In May 2018, a group of Right Livelihood change-makers based in Canada and the US will convene at the University of California, Santa Cruz to discuss challenges and opportunities for advancing social and environmental justice. In these tumultuous times, this meeting will deepen and ground our local efforts […]
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Confused by Github? Scared by the black screen of the Terminal? If you’re looking to code, but don’t know how to get started join Fabiola Hanna for an introductory workshop and learn how to set up a coding workflow. We’ll start with basic scripts in Terminal then move to setting up Brackets and working […] |
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This talk will attempt to speak to the difficulty of this moment for queer/feminist theorists—for teachers, students and staff who live and work with harassment, with forms of misogyny that are so embedded in professional life as, in some ways, to feel synonymous with it. This work is a return to a scene many of […]
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 6:00pm - doors open | 6:30pm - program begins Fifty years ago, countries and cities around the globe erupted with protests and revolutionary movements demanding change and seeking to create a better future. Featuring four renowned historians, "Global 1968" spotlights marginalized groups and lesser-known events and places in the global upheavals of 1968—from Mexico to […] |
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 Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program Presents: “Subjection and Performance: Tourism, Witnessing, and Acts of Refusal in Palestine” Drawing from multi-sited ethnographic research on solidarity tours in Palestine, in this talk Jennifer Kelly shows how Palestinian solidarity tour guides reject performing subjection in an industry that treats the recitation of subjection as a prerequisite. On solidarity […]
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Born in New York, poet Carmen Giménez Smith earned a BA in English from San Jose State University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa. She is the author of six collections of poetry, including Cruel Futures (City Lights, 2018); Milk and Filth (2013), a finalist for the National Book Critics […]
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 The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, Cowell, and Stevenson Colleges at UCSC will present the 18th season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP) from May 17th through May 20th at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center on campus. In this unique multilingual program, students will be featured in fully-staged excerpts of short […] |
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 The 7th annual UC Comparative Iberian Studies Symposium "¿Cómo te comunicas?" will feature a cohort of 15-17 UC professors, working in a variety of fields within the discipline of Iberian Studies, stretching from medieval topics to cultural studies until the 21st century. Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and UCHRI.
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Situational Features Influences College Students' Evaluations About Helping 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 following departments: HAVC, Literature, and […]
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 "Usage-based linguistic models and understanding human behavior" The past three decades of research in phonetics and psycholinguistics have led to great advances in our understanding of language, representation, and the relationship between language and other cognitive domains. While debates certainly still exist, we can take as established that how often and in what context different […]
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The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, Cowell, and Stevenson Colleges at UCSC will present the 18th season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP) from May 17th through May 20th at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center on campus. In this unique multilingual program, students will be featured in fully-staged excerpts of short […] |
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The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, Cowell, and Stevenson Colleges at UCSC will present the 18th season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP) from May 17th through May 20th at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center on campus. In this unique multilingual program, students will be featured in fully-staged excerpts of short […] |
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We invite you to join Senderos for our 13th annual Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza on Sunday, May 20 at San Lorenzo Park, Santa Cruz (new location). This is an all-day (9am to 5pm) dance, music, food, crafts festival which brings the rich cultural traditions of Oaxaca to our County. Last year we had over 3700 in […]
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The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, Cowell, and Stevenson Colleges at UCSC will present the 18th season of the (MEIP) from May 17th through May 20th at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center on campus. In this unique multilingual program, students will be featured in fully-staged excerpts of short works in Punjabi, French. German, […] |
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This event will showcase the independent, digital research and classroom work of undergraduate students alongside the innovative assignment design and pedagogical experimentation of faculty and graduate students. Join us in the morning to focus on undergraduate digital research and in the afternoon for an in-depth discussion about new methods in active and engaged pedagogy. […]
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Saein Park’s current project argues that the discourses of Lumpen record the changing demarcations of disposable lives during the emergence of European industrial modernity. She researches 19th- and early-20th-century German-language literature, political philosophy, and critical theory, focusing on translation and reception studies, theories of waste, and plant studies. Saein Park is a Visiting Assistant Professor […] |
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 Rubber has been a key commodity for industrial societies since the nineteenth century. Yet, studies of the impact of the production of this good on various regions around the world have mostly been narrowly focused on the industry and its workers. My forthcoming book, Rubber and the Making of Vietnam, adopts a broader lens, […]
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Sawako Nakayasu is a transnational poet, translator, and occasional performance artist who has lived in Japan, France, China, and the US. Her books include The Ants and Texture Notes, and recent translations include The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa, and Costume en Face – a handwritten notebook of Tatsumi Hijikata’s dance notations. She is co-editor, with Lisa Samuels, of A Transpacific Poetics, a gathering of poetry and poetics […] |
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Maya Textile Arts Influence Contemporary Politics in Zapatista Embroidery 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 following departments: HAVC, Literature, […] |
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 Workshop rehearsals with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe. "Opera Works: Journey in Creation" Tuesday, May 29, 2018 2 pm - 5 pm Opera Workshop The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, and the Humanities Institute, invite students, faculty, staff and community to witness the […]
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 In this talk, I highlight variation in second-person singular pronoun use (vos, tú, and usted) by local residents of a rural Nicaraguan community experiencing linguistic and cultural contact driven by tourism. I demonstrate that pronoun selection can vary according to the amount of contact locals have with outsiders in their community, providing evidence that […]
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Our panel will discuss the struggle of women artists, writers, and poets to find voice in a world that has been, until very recently, so completely dominated and controlled by (white) male power and money. Panel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts” featuring: Robin Coste Lewis, Poet, National Book Award Winner for Voyage […] |
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Robin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015), which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including The Massachusetts Review, Callaloo, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, Transition, and VIDA. The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions […]
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Robin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015), which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including The Massachusetts Review, Callaloo, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, Transition, and VIDA. This free event will take place in Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up […] |
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Robin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015), which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including The Massachusetts Review, Callaloo, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, Transition, and VIDA. Lewis earned her MFA from NYU’s Creative Writing Program where she […] |
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Coloniality of the West: The Formation of the UC System 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 following departments: HAVC, […] |
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