Events
Week of Events
Launch and Presentation of the Critical Sustainabilities Website
From activism to ecology, alternative culture to industry, "sustainability," it seems, is everywhere. In the face of economic and environmental crisis, and unprecedented rates of urbanization, the term has become ubiquitous in policy circles and across many social domains. Yet this ubiquity presents us with competing and often contradictory meanings and applications, and can lead […]
"Cry Havoc"!
Over 23 million living veterans have been wired for war but never re-wired to come home: Cry Havoc, a one-person play by military veteran Stephan Wolfert, that seamlessly interweaves Shakespeare’s most famous speeches with personal experience to help us understand the national crises we face when we fail in re-integrating our veterans. The military recruits […]
Gloria E. Chacón
Sponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center’s Latino Literary Cultures Research Cluster Event 1: Workshop: 10 am-11:30 am in Humanities 1, Room 210 “Political Movements from the South and Chicano Texts” A conversation on indigenismo, Chicana/o theories of mestizaje, and their relationship to Central American and Zapatista political movements. All are welcome. Participants are encouraged […]
Coming Home from War: The Arts and Humanities in the Public Sphere
Join Stephan Wolfert (Founding Director, Veterans Center for the Performing Arts), Humanities and Arts Division faculty and students from UC Santa Cruz, and local veterans and their families for a discussion about the vital role that literature and the arts can play in understanding the veteran experience and the challenges and opportunities, for both veterans […]
Spring Awards & Humanities Undergraduate Research Award Presentations (HUGRA)
SPRING AWARDS & HUMANITIES UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD PRESENTATIONS This annual “Celebrating Humanities” event is an important opportunity to acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition, awards, and distinctions over the course of this past year. The Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) support and encourage undergraduate research. In 1996, the Humanities Division began awarding students undertaking […]
Friday Forum with Veronika Zablotsky: "On the Question of Socialist Governmentality: Being Interested in Early Soviet Armenia”
The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. Light refreshments will be available. […]