Events
Week of Events
Public Film Screening: “Anita: Speaking Truth to Power”
Public Film Screenings: “Anita: Speaking Truth to Power” (77 min. Documentary by Director Freida Mock) Nickelodeon Theater Sunday, Feb 22 @ 11am Monday, Feb 23 @ 7pm Tickets: www.thenick.com An entire country watched transfixed as a poised, beautiful African-American woman in a blue dress sat before a Senate committee of 14 white men and with […]
Natalia Carrillo: "A History of the Action Potential"
Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015. Natalia Carrillo is a graduate student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). SHe studied a master degree in Philosophy of Cognitive Science (2 year program) at UNAM. Her thesis ("Objetividad […]
Campus Film Screening: "Anita: Speaking Truth to Power"
Campus Film Screening: “Anita: Speaking Truth to Power” documentary will be shown in the Humanities Lecture Hall with a panel and Q&A on campus sexual harassment, gender and race. Panel: Professors Eileen Zurbriggen (Psychology) and Sylvanna Falcon (LALS) and Tracey Tsugawa (UCSC Title IX Officer). Everyone is welcome to attend. Tuesday, Feb 24 @ 7:30pm […]
Gayle Salamon: "The Life and Death of Leticia King"
Gayle Salamon is currently working on two manuscripts the first of which is an exploration of narrations of bodily pain and disability titled Painography: Metaphor and the Phenomenology of Chronic Pain while the second manuscript Passing Period, analyzes the 2008 classroom shooting of gender-transgressive 15-year-old Leticia King. She is Associate Professor of English and the […]
Alt-ac Careers and Digital Humanities in the Academic Job Market
Snacks and beverages will be provided. What does it mean when a job ad lists DH preferred? Can digital skills help you get a tenure track job? Does a blog count as a publication? Open to all graduate students: Rachel Deblinger, the Digital Humanities Specialist, will share her experience navigating the academic and alt/ac job […]
Jaye Padgett: What Irish Gaelic tells us about all linguistic sound systems
A Distinguished Faculty Lecture Presented by Stevenson College,the Linguistics Department,and the Institute for Humanities Research. Irish, one of the Celtic languages, is a minority language in Ireland, with some features that are rare among the world's languages. We'll look at these striking properties of the Irish sound system. However, we'll also see ways in which […]
Stephanie Lain: "Content-Based Design Using Constructivist Connectionist Principles"
In this talk I discuss the challenges involved in designing content-based curricula for foreign language courses. I will illustrate the main concepts by focusing on the example of a first-year Spanish course developed for The Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS), whose Language Studies division follows an exclusively content-based model of instruction. Though […]
Brian Cantwell Smith: "The Three R's: Representation, Registration, and Reality"
Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015. Brian Cantwell Smith received his B.S. (1974), M.S. (1978) and Ph.D. (1982) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After receiving his doctorate, he held senior research and administrative positions at the Xerox […]
A Dramatic Reading of Dacia Maraini's Play "Norma '44"
The Italian Studies Program Presents: A Dramatic Reading of Dacia Maraini's Play Norma '44 Adapted for the stage from the translation by Monica Streifer and Lucia Re Directed by Kimberly Jannarone (UCSC Theater Arts) Set in an unnamed concentration camp in 1944 Germany, Norma '44 tells the story of the perverse bond that grows between […]
ANITA HILL at UCSC: “Speaking Truth to Power: Gender and Racial Equality – 1991-2015"
UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies is pleased to bring Anita Hill to UC Santa Cruz for a candid dialogue regarding resistance to individual civil rights, campus sexual assault debates, why black lives matter, and challenges to equality in ‘post-identity’ America. After the talk Anita Hill will be signing copies of […]
Living Writers Series: Anita Hill
The Creative Writing Program presents Anita Hill in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series. In 1991, Anita Hill was thrust into the public spotlight when she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee during the confirmation hearing for U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Judge Clarence Thomas. After the hearings, Ms. Hill began speaking to audiences worldwide about […]
Brian Cantwell Smith: "The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction and the Anxious Mind"
Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015. Brian Cantwell Smith received his B.S. (1974), M.S. (1978) and Ph.D. (1982) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After receiving his doctorate, he held senior research and administrative positions at the Xerox […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Tracy Perkins
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 […]
An Evening with Italian Writer: Dacia Maraini
Cowell College Provost, Italian Studies Program, Languages & Applied Linguistics Department present: An Evening with Italian Writer, Dacia Maraini Preceded by Screening of 2013 Irish Braschi’s documentary film IO SONO NATA VIAGGIANDO: I was born travelling: A travel in Dacia Maraini’s memories. Dacia Maraini is an influential writer, social critic and iconic figure in Italian […]