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1 event,This symposium features emergent approaches to labor in light of the surge of interest in technological socioeconomic transformations (including robotics, AI, and app-based on demand services).This symposium, held on March 2-3, is part of the UC Speculative Futures Collective (UCSD, UCR, UCI, UCSC) that over a period of two years will feature events which will […] |
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For the last four years, Puerto Ricans have experienced challenges that will leave an indelible mark on their collective memory and history. In 2016, the U.S. government started to implement extreme austerity measures on the island and in 2017, the island experienced one of the most devastating hurricanes from the past 100 years. In 2019, […] |
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Being secular means not being religious, but it also means participating in a religion-like tradition. This paradox shapes the everyday lives of secular people, as well as institutions that depend on categories like secular, spiritual, religious, and superstitious. Relying on years of ethnographic research among very secular people, this lecture describes four ways of producing […]
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How are artists envisioning radical futures? This free film series assembles a diverse group of visionaries whose films offer points of light in a dark world. Get Tickets Here >> Featuring films by Black Audio Film Collective, Kahlil Joseph, Black Quantum Futurism, Danis Goulet, and Woodbine Collective. For more information on the Beyond the World's End […] |
1 event,Please note that this Thursday's Living Writers reader, Konrad Steiner, wanted to respect the graduate student strike and not cross the picket lines. His reading/performance will be rescheduled for next year. Konrad Steiner is a San Francisco based experimental filmmaker. He has been making 16mm films since 1981, and since 2004 has been working with […] |
2 events,In our current moment, apocalyptic narratives are all around us. They tempt us with their catastrophic fatalism and seemingly inescapable dystopias. Against that danger, it’s crucial to ask how we might imagine a more socially just and ecologically sustainable future? But is the disaster ahead of us or behind us? Many people around the world--including […] Matthew Shepard was a young gay man, beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die in the Wyoming countryside, 22 years ago. His death catalyzed a generation of poets, musicians and playwrights to change our attitudes about being different, and to embrace “the other.” This beautiful masterpiece has been called the first important major […] |
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The past few decades have witnessed the rapid growth in interest by both historians and archaeologists, in the everyday lives of enslaved Africans in Caribbean colonial settings. At the same time, however, scholars in these closely related fields find few opportunities to interact and learn from one another. In light of this emerging demand for […] |
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The ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara was the burial place of kings, queens, priests, and elite officials for 2500 years (3000-332 BCE), and boasts some of the most spectacular architecture and art from the Pharoanic Period. In this talk, we'll make a virtual visit to the site, using a 3D model that digitally 'reconstructs' the […] |
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 Focusing on Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments the Santa Cruz Salon will be an opportunity to discuss the book with UCSC professors and your fellow community members. Speakers David Draper, Statistics, Director of the College Scholars Program Marcia Ochoa, Feminist Studies Andrew S. Mathews, Anthropology Moderator: Laura Martin, Porter College Details 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm Cowell […] |
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 Alongside discussions of worldliness, globalization, and planetarity, the talk will focus on a global network of camera operators working on behalf of the Lumière Brothers film company from 1896-1903. This microhistory of the transnational origins of early cinema will lead to questions about what it means to apprehend the world through the eyes of a […]
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 Due to the new campus policy regarding events and the coronavirus, this event is cancelled. Get in the Deep Read spirit with a community of readers. Every Wednesday from 4:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. (through April 1), students, staff, and faculty are welcome to join Kresge Provost Ben Leeds Carson at the Kresge Provost House to read […]
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This colloquium will be rescheduled at a later date. The DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS presents: Jason Martel (Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey) - "Stories to Not Begin By: A Spanish Teacher Candidate’s Identity Deconstruction" Within the robust research literature on teacher identity, there is a growing interest in “stories to leave […]
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How are artists envisioning radical futures? This free film series assembles a diverse group of visionaries whose films offer points of light in a dark world. Get Tickets Here >> Featuring films by Karrabing Film Collective, Sky Hopinka, Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), Antonio Paucar, and Nanobah Becker. For more information on the Beyond the […] |
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2 events, With deep sadness, we have to announce that this weekend’s conference in honor of Helene Moglen, Writing for Life, March 13-14, with the first memorial Helene Moglen Lecture in Feminism and the Humanities and many other wonderful talks and events, plus some amazing food, is canceled because of the evil Covid 19 virus. Following CDC […]
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In this interactive PhD+ session, we will explore what current research in teaching and learning can bring to the Humanities, and what Humanities values, contexts, and ways of thinking can bring to our conceptions of teaching and learning. First, we'll define what equity means to us, both within our specific disciplines and within Humanities teaching […] | |
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The Research Development Office is holding an online workshop for Humanities faculty and graduate students to learn how to use Pivot to find funding opportunities. Pivot is a grant search engine that exists to connect researchers to private and federal funding. In this session, you will learn how to: 1. Effectively tailor funding opportunity searches […] |
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Get in the Deep Read spirit with a community of readers. Every Wednesday from 4:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. (through April 1), students, staff, and faculty are welcome to join Kresge Provost Ben Leeds Carson at the Kresge Provost House to read aloud and discuss The Testaments. To find the location, follow Google Maps to “Kresge Provost […]
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How are artists envisioning radical futures? This free film series assembles a diverse group of visionaries whose films offer points of light in a dark world. Get Tickets Here >> Featuring films by Isabelle Carbonel, Cauleen Smith, The Otolith Group, Allora and Calzadilla, John Jota Leaños, Thirza Jean Cuthand, and Woodbine. For more information on the […] |
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The leadership of this event has decided that it is in the community's best interest to cancel this event. We will do our best to reschedule this event for a future date. Thank you for understanding. The UC Santa Cruz Humanities Institute presents: The Future of Jewish Food at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San […] |
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 Due to the coronavirus outbreak, this event has been postponed to a TBD later date. This program brings high school juniors and seniors to UCSC for an essay writing competition at UCSC. The grand prize winner will receive a scholarship worth 5 UC credits to study nineteenth-century literature at the Dickens Universe summer conference. |
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Get in the Deep Read spirit with a community of readers. Every Wednesday from 4:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. (through April 1), students, staff, and faculty are welcome to join Kresge Provost Ben Leeds Carson at the Kresge Provost House to read aloud and discuss The Testaments. To find the location, follow Google Maps to “Kresge Provost […] |
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 March 12, 2020 Recognizing the mandate from the Governor of California, Kuumbwa Jazz is cancelling/postponing all concerts through at least March 30th. Ticketholders will be contacted directly, on or by Monday, March 16th, regarding ticket refunds and other ticketing options. We will be working on rescheduling as many concert dates as possible and will provide […] |
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California Humanities wants to hear from you. We are embarking on a listening tour throughout California over the next few months to find out who is producing humanities content and programming in our regions and across California. Our goal is to sit down and talk with organizations and individuals focused on telling California stories through […]
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Get in the Deep Read spirit with a community of readers. Every Wednesday from 4:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. (through April 1), students, staff, and faculty are welcome to join Kresge Provost Ben Leeds Carson at the Kresge Provost House to read aloud and discuss The Testaments. To find the location, follow Google Maps to “Kresge Provost […] |
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 We Are Not Aliens: Arthur Jafa, Martine Syms, and Afro-Futurism 2.0 assembles select artistic projects that investigate emancipatory futures of justice opposed to historical and contemporary racism, socioeconomic inequality, and state violence. It centers around Arthur Jafa's startling and moving video "Love is the Message, the Message is Death," which offers a short account of anti-black […] |
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The UC Santa Cruz Graduate Research Symposium offers graduate students from every division the opportunity to discuss their research with colleagues on campus and with the public. McHenry Library Information Commons South and Adjoining Classrooms April 3, 2020 1:15 p.m. Kickoff 1:30–3:30 p.m. Judging 3:30–5:30 p.m. Award Reception, south terrace and lawn For more information […]
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Kathryn Davidson (Harvard) - Title TBD Kathryn Davidson is an assistant professor in Linguistics at Harvard University where her research investigates the unique capacity that we have to understand an infinite number of sentences that we’ve never encountered before (semantics), how we incorporate contextual information into these meanings (pragmatics), and how we ever learn to […] |
2 events,Save the date for UCSC's Alumni Weekend! The 2020 event is on the way, and this year’s gathering will be held Saturday, April 4 and Sunday, April 5, 2020. Alumni Weekend is a signature campus event at which we honor our ever-growing network of 115,000+ fellow Banana Slugs by inviting them to come back to campus to reconnect […]
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 Celebrate the publication of a uniquely compelling book and the shared history it brings to life. Illustrated with rarely-seen archival images, Seeds of Something Different—debuting this weekend after years in the making—chronicles UC Santa Cruz history in the voices of more than two hundred students, community members, staff, faculty, and campus leaders who have contributed […] |