Events
Week of Events
Clive Sinclair: “Zion Down Under, or Israel through the Looking Glass”
Photo of Melech Ravitch with a young Aboriginal woman in the outback. Photo courtesy of Monash University. Dr. Sinclair will tell us how Melech Ravitch - poet, traveller, and (until 1934) Executive Secretary of the Fareyn fun Yidishe Literatn un Zhurnalistn in Varshe - got wind of the approaching catastrophe of the Holocaust, and scanned […]
Christopher Connery: “Is China Socialist (And Why Are We Asking this Question)?”
Christopher Connery’s recent work has centered on the global 1960s and its aftermaths, Chinese urbanism, and Shanghai studies. He is currently working on a psychogeographical study of Shanghai. His talk is part of a series of reflections on left and anti-capitalist critical discourse on contemporary China, in China and internationally. Christopher Connery is Professor of […]
UCSC Educational Technology Trade Show: Faculty Helping Faculty
Come learn from faculty and instructional support staff about educational technologies that can charm and engage students. No matter whether you use Mac, PC, iOS, or Linux, we will have examples of educational technologies that work on each of these platforms. Presentations from faculty in each academic division, Learning Technologies, and UCSC Extension. Although the […]
Marilyn Westerkamp: "Gracious Invaders and Frightened Magistrates: Gender, Charisma, and the Limits of Political Power in 17th Century New England"
Marilyn Westerkamp is Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz. Dinner reception follows at the Stevenson Provost House. This event is cosponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research and the History Department.
Jan Boxill: "Using Sports as a Public Forum for Ethics"
Dr. Jan Boxill is Director of the Parr Center for Ethics, Chair of the Faculty, and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. Presented annually by the […]
2013 California Regional High School Ethics Bowl Competition
An Ethics Bowl is a collaborative yet competitive event, more nuanced than debate, in which teams are presented with a series of wide-ranging ethical dilemmas and are asked to analyze them; they are then judged on the basis of their analyses. An exciting tournament, it is also a way for students to gain valuable insight […]
Mediterranean Studies MRP Workshop – UCLA
The Mediterranean Seminar/University of California Multi-Campus Research Project (MRP) in Mediterranean Studies announces its Winter 2013 Workshop, to be held at UCLA on Saturday, 2 February 2013. This is part of a three-day event which also includes the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) Ahmanson Conference, “Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Medieval and Early […]