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Historias de acción: Acción comunitaria frente al racismo en América Latina con Natalia Barrera Francis
Historias de acción: Acción comunitaria frente al racismo en América Latina con Natalia Barrera Francis
*Charla en español* "Historias de acción: Acción comunitaria frente al racismo en América Latina con Natalia Barrera Francis." The Dolores Huerta Research Center of America is proud to welcome and sponsor two talks by Natalia Barrera-Francis, an award-winning journalist and anti-racist activist from Lima, Perú. She will deliver two talks at UCSC on Nov. 1st […]
Ching Kwan Lee – Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive Frontier
Ching Kwan Lee – Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive Frontier
How did Hong Kong transform itself from a “shoppers’ and capitalists’ paradise” into a “city of protests” at the frontline of an anti-China global backlash in 2019? Most analysts interpret the recent turmoil in Hong Kong as a political and ideological struggle between a liberal, capitalist democratizing city and its Communist authoritarian sovereign. This talk […]
Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz – “The Idea ‘Asia’ in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Philippine Political Thought and Action”
Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz – “The Idea ‘Asia’ in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Philippine Political Thought and Action”
This talk will excavate the Philippine nation’s cosmopolitan and transnational Asian intellectual moorings, in order to reconnect Philippine history to that of Southeast Asia, from which it has been historiographically separated. It argues that turn-of-the-twentieth-century Philippine Asianism was crucial to the concept of the Filipino nation that the ilustrados (educated elite) constructed, to the ilustrado-led […]
George Saunders, Liberation Day
George Saunders, Liberation Day
We are delighted to welcome award-winning writer George Saunders for an event to celebrate the release of his new book, Liberation Day: Stories—a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. This event is cosponsored […]
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PhD+ Workshop – Interviewing and Negotiating the Job Offer
PhD+ Workshop – Interviewing and Negotiating the Job Offer
Learn interviewing strategies to land the job offer. Then learn how to negotiate the best salary and benefits package when you receive the job offer. This class offers strategies that apply to both academic and alternative-to-academic job applications and negotiations. The negotiation strategies also apply to asking for raises, job reclassifications, and title and responsibilities […]
Charne Lavery – Vertical Indian Ocean: A Cultural History of the Southern Submarine
Charne Lavery – Vertical Indian Ocean: A Cultural History of the Southern Submarine
This talk describes a new book project, an exploration of deep sea culture centered on the Indian Ocean as an ‘ocean of the south’. Drawn by the alternative histories and geography of the world of the Indian Ocean at the surface—the topic of my first book, Writing Ocean Worlds—the new book explores what possibilities exist, […]
Christian Sorace: Steppe Immunity
Christian Sorace: Steppe Immunity
The History of Consciousness department is pleased present their upcoming speaker series this fall quarter and invites you to join them. These will be hybrid events, hosted in-person in Humanities 1 Room 420 & virtually via Zoom, except for the talk on October 25th which will only be on Zoom. The Zoom link for all […]
A Tamiment Book Talk with Bettina Aptheker
A Tamiment Book Talk with Bettina Aptheker
Presented by NYU Libraries - Join scholar activists Bettina Aptheker and Judith Smith as they discuss Aptheker's most recent book Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s. Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s explores the history of gay, lesbian, and non-heterosexual people in the Communist Party in the United States. The Communist Party banned […]
Stories of Action: Community Activism in the Face of Racism in Latin America with Natalia Barrera Francis
Stories of Action: Community Activism in the Face of Racism in Latin America with Natalia Barrera Francis
"Stories of Action: Community Activism in the Face of Racism in Latin America with Natalia Barrera Francis." The Dolores Huerta Research Center of America is proud to welcome and sponsor two talks by Natalia Barrera-Francis, an award-winning journalist and anti-racist activist from Lima, Perú. She will deliver two talks at UCSC on Nov. 1st and […]
Alberto Ortiz-Díaz – Carceral Care: Health Professionals and the Living Dead in Colonial Puerto Rico’s Sanitary City, 1920s-1940s
Alberto Ortiz-Díaz – Carceral Care: Health Professionals and the Living Dead in Colonial Puerto Rico’s Sanitary City, 1920s-1940s
Using an array of primary sources, this talk explores the early history of the Río Piedras sanitary city or medical corridor, a transnationally and imperially inspired built environment and complex of welfare institutions (a tuberculosis hospital, an insane asylum, and a penitentiary) constructed and consolidated on the margins of San Juan by Puerto Rico’s colonial-populist […]
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PhD+ Workshop – WordPress Website Design
PhD+ Workshop – WordPress Website Design
Professional websites can boost your reputation and aid your networking and job search. UCSC provides free access to WordPress (with several design templates) to faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students. Get design tips from Jason and get started using WordPress to make a blog or static website to showcase your graduate work! Jason Chafin graduated […]
Natasha Trethewey – Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
Natasha Trethewey – Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
Please join us for the 13th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading, featuring honored guest Natasha Trethewey. Poet Gary Young will host the program, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1,000 prize). Seating will be first come, first served. Registration required. Natasha Trethewey […]
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Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox – Discussion of Dracula (Beginning-Chap. 16)
Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox – Discussion of Dracula (Beginning-Chap. 16)
Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox As part of the series “Victorian Necromancies,” Professor Fox will lead three sessions that offer the Friends an opportunity to explore the Victorian gothic, one of her favorite genres of 19th-century literature. From Professor Fox: “The first session will be a presentation on my forthcoming book, The Necromantics: Reanimation, […]
3 events,
Telling Your Research Story Through Comics
Telling Your Research Story Through Comics
Join us for "Telling Your Research Story Through Comics" on Nov. 7 at 10 a.m. on Zoom. Featuring: Felicia Lopez (UCM), Carolyn Jennings (UCM), Jordan Collver, and Pino Cao. Register here.
Sawyer Seminar Reading Group with Alberto Ortiz-Díaz
Sawyer Seminar Reading Group with Alberto Ortiz-Díaz
This reading group is part of the Sawyer Seminar “Race, Empire, and Environments of Biomedicine.” Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute. The talk will occur virtually and guests can register to join the Zoom meeting ahead of the event. Alberto Ortiz Díaz is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas, Arlington, and […]
Humanizing Technology Launch Event
Humanizing Technology Launch Event
The Humanizing Technology Certificate Program is a Humanities Division initiative targeted to early career Engineering students but open to all UCSC undergraduates. The program features small class sizes and GE courses that examine the goals and impacts of technology in various ways. To earn the certificate, students take three of the five lower-division Humanities courses […]
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Karen Tei Yamashita Fall 2022 Emeriti Lecture – Questions 27 & 28: Loyalty and Japanese American Incarceration
Karen Tei Yamashita Fall 2022 Emeriti Lecture – Questions 27 & 28: Loyalty and Japanese American Incarceration
In 1942, at the outset of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the incarceration of all Japanese Americans on the West Coast. The following year, the War Relocation Authority had the task of determining the loyalty of their inmates in order to release them for productive normalized lives outside camp. A loyalty questionnaire […]
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PhD+ Workshop – Preventing and Mitigating Burnout
PhD+ Workshop – Preventing and Mitigating Burnout
A vexing problem for academics is burnout: the experience of exhaustion, cynicism, and ineffectiveness that results from stretching across the gap between the ideals of your academic vocation and the reality of your academic job. Jonathan Malesic left his job as a tenured theology professor at a small liberal arts college after undergoing burnout over […]
Yoav Di-Capua: Reconsidering the 60s Generation in the Arab World and Beyond
Yoav Di-Capua: Reconsidering the 60s Generation in the Arab World and Beyond
This is a talk about a book that is still being written. It begins and ends with a funeral. In between, lies the story of the 60s generation in the Arab world. The funeral was that of Egyptian leader Gamal Abd al-Nasser. His 1970 death was just another reminder of the weighty collective defeat of […]
Living Writers: Duriel E. Harris, Bakar Wilson, Elizabeth Owuor, and Fahima Ife
Living Writers: Duriel E. Harris, Bakar Wilson, Elizabeth Owuor, and Fahima Ife
Duriel E. Harris, Bakar Wilson, Elizabeth Owuor, and Fahima Ife, a reading and conversation to celebrate the launch of "Genre Queer/ Gender Queer Playground," Obsidian: Litrature and Arts in the African Diaspora, guest edited by Ronaldo V. Wilson (moderator). Conversations: Power Forged, the Fall Living Writers theme, features poets, novelists, academics, curators, and artists in conversation […]
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CANCELED – Dean Mathiowetz – Luxuriating as a Political Structure of Feeling
CANCELED – Dean Mathiowetz – Luxuriating as a Political Structure of Feeling
This event has been cancelled, please stay tuned for a future date for this event. According to premodern elites, the luxurious appetites of the poor were not only feminine and exotic but also the greatest threat to social order. Popular demands for better wages, sustenance, more festival days, or any improvement in the conditions of […]
Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain & Rogues
Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain & Rogues
Bookshop Santa Cruz presents Bestselling author Patrick Radden Keefe will visit Santa Cruz for a discussion about his most recent books Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (in paperback October 18th) and Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks. Empire of Pain is a grand, devastating portrait of three generations of […]
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Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts XI-XV
Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts XI-XV
Join Professor Karen Hattaway (San Jacinto College) for a series of discussions about the book that stunned Conrad and Dostoevsky. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens Sept. 25, Oct. 23, Nov. 27, and Jan. 22 at 1:00-3:00 PM (PDT) | Virtual Events Charles Dickens published Our Mutual Friend in twenty monthly parts from May 1864 […]
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CANCELED – PhD+ Workshop – Mindfulness
CANCELED – PhD+ Workshop – Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a particular way of paying attention. It is the mental faculty of purposefully bringing attention to one’s present moment experience. Practicing mindfulness can lead to: improved ability to focus, increased patience and adaptability, greater empathy and compassion, and improved feelings of well-being. In this session we’ll review mindfulness basics and try a couple […]
Patti Smith: Songs & Stories, A Book of Days
Patti Smith: Songs & Stories, A Book of Days
Bookshop Santa Cruz is thrilled to welcome Patti Smith, National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, back to town for a celebration of A Book of Days—her deeply moving and idiosyncratic visual book of days featuring more than 365 images and reflections. Tickets include entry to the event and a copy of […]
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CANCELED – PhD+ Workshop – Maintaining Work-Life Balance in Academia
CANCELED – PhD+ Workshop – Maintaining Work-Life Balance in Academia
Join Angel Dominguez for an interactive workshop and discussion of what it means to cultivate a healthy work-life balance. The interactive discussion will cover the importance of setting boundaries, time management, how technology can be your friend, and why saying “no” doesn't make you a bad person! Angel is a queer, first-generation, Latinx UCSC alumnus […]
CANCELED: Hannah Zeavin – Hot and Cool Mothers
CANCELED: Hannah Zeavin – Hot and Cool Mothers
“Hot and Cool Mothers” moves toward a media theory of mothering and parental “fitness.” The article begins with an investigation into midcentury pediatric psychological studies on Bad Mothers and their impacts on their children. The most famous, if not persistent, of these diagnoses is that of the so-called refrigerator mother. The refrigerator mother is not […]
PhD+ Workshop – Career Pathways for Humanities Graduate Students
PhD+ Workshop – Career Pathways for Humanities Graduate Students
Join us for a virtual workshop with Katina Rogers, "Career Pathways for Humanities Graduate Students," Nov. 30 at 1 p.m. on Zoom. Register here. This workshop is presented by the Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Merced and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. About the […]
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CANCELED – PhD+ Workshop – Public Speaking
CANCELED – PhD+ Workshop – Public Speaking
Learn techniques to warm up, deal with nerves, craft your talk, and deliver an engaging oration for any audience. This interactive workshop will take you through Bri’s trademarked W.A.V.E.® methods to get you ready to connect with an audience and keep them engaged. Bri McWhorter is the founder and CEO of Activate to Captivate, where […]
CANCELED: Hannah Zeavin – Sigmund Freud: Tele-Analyst
CANCELED: Hannah Zeavin – Sigmund Freud: Tele-Analyst
In The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy, Hannah Zeavin shows that, far from a recent concern in the COVID-19 pandemic, teletherapy is as old as psychoanalysis itself. It may be well known that Sigmund Freud routinely used media metaphorically in his theories of the psychic apparatus; this talk recovers the early history of Freud’s […]
Living Writers: Student Reading
Living Writers: Student Reading
Conversations: Power Forged, the Fall Living Writers theme, features poets, novelists, academics, curators, and artists in conversation with one another, in person, across genre and media to open up a space between them, and all of us, within dialogue, collaboration, politics, intimacy and difference which poet and activist Audre Lorde describes as that raw and powerful […]
POSTPONED – Douglas Brinkley: Silent Spring Revolution
POSTPONED – Douglas Brinkley: Silent Spring Revolution
New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley will present his new book Silent Spring Revolution, which chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), on December 1 at the UC Santa Cruz Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. The book tells the story of an indomitable generation that saved the […]
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