Events

Dai Jinhua at UCSC April 18-April 24 We are pleased to announce the visit of Beijing University Professor Dai Jinhua, who will be on campus for a series of events, detailed below. Professor Dai is one of China’s foremost cultural critics, and her writing on cinema, feminism, Marxism, revolutionary movements of the sixties, class, and […]

Google Earth is an online virtual globe that allows researchers and students to display layered information on modern satellite imagery. In this introductory hands-on tutorial, participants will be taught the basics of the program, including how to navigate and add custom content. We will focus specifically on the use of Google Earth for the Humanities, […]

Dai Jinhua at UCSC April 18-April 24 We are pleased to announce the visit of Beijing University Professor Dai Jinhua, who will be on campus for a series of events, detailed below. Professor Dai is one of China’s foremost cultural critics, and her writing on cinema, feminism, Marxism, revolutionary movements of the sixties, class, and […]

Susan Harding Professor of Anthropology, UCSC Susan Harding’s recent work explores the nexus of secularism, Christian revivalism, Civil Rights, and decolonialization as they imploded in the controversy over a federally funded elementary school curriculum in Anthropology. She reads the curriculum as a national secularizing project that triggered Christian efforts to regulate secularism.

Cowell College Provost, History Department, Italian Studies Program, Languages, and Applied Linguistics Department present A Documentary by Gianfrano Norelli and Suma Kurien Followed by Q&A with Directors Finding the Mother Lode provides a bracing contrast to East Coast stories and a new route to understanding the diversity and complexity of ethnic stories. A vivid interpretation […]

Joy Harjo is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, most recently How We Became Human, New and Selected Poems: 1975-2001; two non-fiction books, most recently Crazy Brave, A Memoir; two children’s books, For a Girl Becoming; and five recordings, including Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears. All are invited.

Dai Jinhua at UCSC April 18-April 24 We are pleased to announce the visit of Beijing University Professor Dai Jinhua, who will be on campus for a series of events, detailed below. Professor Dai is one of China’s foremost cultural critics, and her writing on cinema, feminism, Marxism, revolutionary movements of the sixties, class, and […]

Joy Harjo is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, most recently How We Became Human, New and Selected Poems: 1975-2001; two non-fiction books, most recently Crazy Brave, A Memoir; two children’s books, most recently For a Girl Becoming; and five recordings, most recently Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears. The spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series, Dislocations and the Imagined, will […]

In celebration of Shakespeare's 450th birthday, join us for Shakespeare-to-Go's one-hour production of Hamlet. Starring Porter College affiliate Conor Murphy Original music by Eric Benjamin Parson Fight choreography by Carla Pantoja Directed by Kimberly Jannarone