Events
Week of Events
Kristina Lyons: “Decomposition as Life Politics: Soils, Shared Bodies, and Stamina Under the Gun of the U.S.-Colombia War on Drugs”
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 […]
Questions that Matter: Making The Cosmos Local
MAKING THE COSMOS LOCAL For millennia, people across the globe have searched the sky for answers. They have imagined and reimagined the cosmos, from an infinite and eternal backdrop full of other worlds, to a young Earth encircled by nearby planets and crystal spheres of stars. What is the relation between our lives here on […]
GSC: Non-Academic Interviewing
This is a professional development event open to all the graduate students at UCSC. Snacks and beverages will be served. If you plan to attend, please RSVP using the link below by 7pm on Tue, Jan 27th: http://goo.gl/forms/eKhl1mr3PR Presented by Jennifer May, Career Center adviser (http://careers.ucsc.edu/about/staff.html).
Carolyn Dean: "All that Glitters: Incommensurability in Spanish American Visual Culture"
Carolyn Dean is currently working on a co-authored book project entitled Colonial Things, Cosmopolitan Thinking: Locating the Indigenous Art of Spanish America. Recognizing that the humanistic disciplines have often had an uncomfortable relationship with objects created outside Western traditions, this project seeks to illuminate how indigenous things in the colonial past have been used and […]
Julio Torres: "Individual Differences in Prior Language Experience: The Heritage Language Bilingual"
Individual differences play a key role in explaining variability in learning outcomes among adult second language learners. Researchers have begun examining the additional language learning experiences of learners with different profiles including bilinguals, aging learners and learners with low literacy levels in their first language. In this talk, I will present briefly data from three […]
Angela Davis: “Racism, Militarism, Poverty: From Ferguson to Palestine” at the 31st Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Convocation
The 2015 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation will feature Angela Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita, UC Santa Cruz Angela Davis: "Racism, Militarism, Poverty: From Ferguson to Palestine" Date: 7 p.m., Wednesday, January 28th 2015 Location: Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium The event is free and open to the public Through her activism and scholarship over the […]
Brown Bag Lunch: Building a Better Online Identity
Learn how to perfect your online identity and social media presence as an academic. Melissa De Witte (Web Coordinator, Social Sciences) will lead a discussion about how to build your network, develop meaningful connections, and how you could Twitter your way into your next speaking engagement or job interview. Whether you are a novice or […]
Michael Anderson: "Neural Reuse and Hebbian Learning: Two Kinds of Neuroplasticity in the Brain"
Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015. Michael L. Anderson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at F&M, and a Visiting Associate Professor at the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland, College […]
Living Writers Series: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano & Maya Chinchilla
The Creative Writing Program presents Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano & Maya Chincilla in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series. Maya Chinchilla is a Guatemalan, Bay Area-based writer, video artist, and educator. Maya received her MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College and her undergraduate degree from University of California, Santa Cruz, […]
"Trade and Exchange" Winter MRP Workshop & Ottomanists Workshop
The Mediterranean Seminar/University of California Multi-Campus Research Project (MRP) in Mediterranean Studies announces its Winter 2014 Workshop, to be held at UC Davis on Friday, January 30, to be held in conjunction with the Western Ottomanists Workshop (WOW) on Saturday, January 31. The Workshop consists of discussion of three pre-circulated papers and a talk by […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Aubrey Hobart
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 […]
Michael Frachetti: "Uncovering a Nomadic City Along the Medieval Silk Road"
From at least 200 BC to the 16th century CE, the Eurasian Silk Road formed the most extensive network of trade and commerce the world had ever seen. Its pathways linked populations from Beijing to Jerusalem in one of the first global networks. Much of what we know about the Silk Road is defined by archaeology from […]