Events

A plan by the U.S. and Japan to build a new military base in a place called Henoko has brought Okinawa into the news lately. Prof. Christy, an expert in the history of Japan, social science, colonialism, and nationalism, will present a history of American Japanese post WWII relations specifically as they pertain to Okinawa. […]

Pursuing and Managing Your Research: A Library Workshop for Humanities Division Graduate Students -refine strategies for locating materials (e.g., using archivegrid; in-house and ILL resources) -develop facility with tools to manage research (e.g., zotero) -get to know library staff (every researcher's best friends) Led by: Annette Marines and Lucia Orlando When: Tuesday, January 20, 4-5:30 […]

UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department Presents: Feminist Science Studies Colloquia Kalindi Vora, University of California of San Diego “Life Support: Legacies of Imperial Science and Surrogate Technologies of Racialized Reproduction” January 6, 5:oo – 6:30pm, Humanities 1 Room 210 Ann Fink, New York University “Feminist Ethics and the Neurobiology of Memory” January 13, 5:00 […]

Naveeda Khan’s work traverses spaces of religious crisis and conflict in urban Pakistan to everyday life on shifting land and emergent perceptions of climate change in riparian Bangladesh. Her current interest is to explore the physiognomy of the natural from within the social and the theological. She is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins […]

The Social Impact Fair is targeted toward non-profits and social services that are searching for students who would like to impact their community. Employers are looking to meet qualified UC Santa Cruz students with specific job skills and knowledge developed in a rigorous academic major, and the breadth of a well-rounded liberal arts education. Companies […]

Warren Neidich is an artist and critic, editor of The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism (Archive Books, 2013). He will be speaking in Warren Sack's lecture course, and interested parties are invited to attend. Those who would like to participate in a further discussion with Neidich that afternoon should email wsack@ucsc.edu.

The Creative Writing Program presents Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series. Verónica Reyes is a Chicana feminist jota poet from East Los Angeles, California. She earned her BA from California State University, Long Beach and her MFA from University of Texas, El Paso. She scripts poetry for the people. […]

Friday Forum For Graduate Research: 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. Fridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202.     Winter 2015 Schedule: January 16th - Jesica Siham Fernández, Social Psychology, "Latina/o Children as […]

About eight times each year the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.   More information on the talk will be available soon. 2014 - 2015 Speakers FALL 2014 October 17th Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers December 12th Adam Albright, MIT WINTER 2015 January 16th Claire Halpert, University of Minnesota January 23rd Valentine […]

Valentine Hacquard from the University of Maryland will be presenting this talk which explores two classic problems at the semantics-pragmatics interface from a learner's perspective. First, the meaning that speakers convey often goes beyond the literal meaning of the sentences they utter. Second, not all content encoded in utterances has equal standing: some is foregrounded, […]