Events
Week of Events
Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination Conference
The Venice Ghetto serves as the starting point from which we address questions of modern Jewish spaces –a site that has played a central role in Jewish and European culture since the Jews were sequestered in the Ghetto at its founding in 1516. Contemporary globalization brings into focus the relationship between identity and spatial location, and highlights new and […]
Humanists @ Work: Graduate Career Workshop
The UC Humanities Research Institute and the UC Humanities Network invite graduate students to attend the next statewide career workshop to be held in San Diego on Friday, February 20th. The daylong, hands-on workshop will include: • Stories from the Field: A roundtable of recent UC PhDs employed in careers alongside/beyond the academy • Two-part workshop […]
Digital Happy Hour
Join the Digital Humanities Research Cluster for an informal cocktail hour. Meet other scholars doing digital work and contribute to a conversation that will help shape what digital scholarship looks like at UC Santa Cruz. This is an open and informal event and we encourage all who are interested to stop by.
Jennifer Horne: "Serial Americans and the 'Conquest Program'"
Jennifer Horne’s work considers the film-program-as-civics-lesson in the context of the American civics movement. Centering on a film series from 1917, rife with conquesting tropes of manifest destiny, empire and nation, it explores the programming context of the late silent era to theorize seriality as a mode of American visual education. She is Assistant Professor […]
Manu Bhagavan – Toward universal relief and rehabilitation: India, UNRRA, and the new internationalism
Please join the History Department for this scholarly talk by Manu Bhagavan of Hunter College: Toward universal relief and rehabilitation: India, UNRRA, and the new “India” had been involved in the United Nations even in its wartime incarnation, inasmuch as the Crown Government of the colonized region brought the territory into the Second World War […]
Karen Barad: Histories of Now: "Time Diffractions, Virtuality, and Material Imaginings"
Please join us for Karen Barad's Visual & Media Cultures Colloquia talk, "Histories of Now: Time Diffractions, Virtuality, and Material Imaginings," on Wednesday, February 18 at 4 pm in Porter D245. Refreshments will be available 30 minutes before the talk. See the attached flyer for all pertinent information, and please distribute widely. Karen Barad is […]
Works in Progress: Abe Stone
Please join the Philosophy Department for a Works-in-Progress presentation by Professor Abe Stone. At least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. The format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited. All members of the […]
Living Writers Series: John Jota Leanos
The Creative Writing Program presents John Jota Leanos in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series. John Jota Leaños is an award-winning Chicano new media artist using animation, documentary and performance focusing on the convergence of memory, social space and decolonization. Leaños' animation work has been shown internationally at festivals and museums including the Sundance Film […]
Steven Salaita: “Inter/Nationalism from the New World to the Holy Land: Encountering Palestine in American Indian Studies”
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) Presents a seminar and a public Lecture by Steven Salaita. At 10 A.M. the reading seminar: “Inter/Nationalism from the New World to the Holy Land: Encountering Palestine in American Indian Studies” *For Pre-Circulated Readings and to RSVP, Please Contact Juliana Bruno (JulianaB@ucsc.edu) At 2 P.M. the public talk: “Silencing […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Melissa Yinger
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 Cultural […]
Steven Salaita: “Silencing Dissent: Palestine, Academic Freedom, and the New McCarthyism”
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) Presents a seminar and a public Lecture by Steven Salaita. At 10 A.M. the reading seminar: “Inter/Nationalism from the New World to the Holy Land: Encountering Palestine in American Indian Studies” *For Pre-Circulated Readings and to RSVP, Please Contact Juliana Bruno (JulianaB@ucsc.edu) At 2 P.M. the public talk: “Silencing […]