Events
Week of Events
Sunday, October 25, 2015
- October 25, 2015 -50th Anniversary: First Annual UCSC Downtown Fair
50th Anniversary: First Annual UCSC Downtown Fair
As part of the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the founding of the University of California, Santa Cruz, the City of Santa Cruz will host the first annual UCSC Downtown Fair on Sunday, October 25, 2015 following the 50th celebration parade being co-organized by the city and University Relations. The fair will be located at Cooper […]
Monday, October 26, 2015
- October 26, 2015 -Melissa Gregg: “From Productivity to Personal Logistics: A Brief History of Time Management from Shop Floor to Departure Gate”
Melissa Gregg: “From Productivity to Personal Logistics: A Brief History of Time Management from Shop Floor to Departure Gate”
EVENT PHOTOS: This talk offers a reading of time management in the workplace and the role of technology in facilitating dominant ideas of productivity. It begins by revisiting classic moments in management theory - Taylor, Gilbreth, Mayo, Drucker, and more - and develops a framework for understanding contemporary productivity tools in light of these precursors. […]
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
- October 27, 2015 -Melissa Gregg: “8 Hours for What We Will”
Melissa Gregg: “8 Hours for What We Will”
Discussion on time management in the workplace and the role of technology in facilitating dominant ideas of productivity. RSVP required. Please email Caroline Kao cakao@ucsc.edu. In preparation, please read 2 chapters of any time management self help book and make a note of those things that are classified as leisure activities by the author. Some […]
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
- October 28, 2015 -Juliana Spahr: "The Politics of Poetry Production > The Politics of Poetic Form"
- October 28, 2015 -UCHRI Funding Information Session
- October 28, 2015 -Ozploitation Film Series presents : Long Weekend (1978)
Juliana Spahr: "The Politics of Poetry Production > The Politics of Poetic Form"
This talk is part of a larger project about contemporary US literature that asks a very old question about the relation between literature and politics. Professor Spahr suggests that turn of the century US literature is somewhat analogous to the earth’s ailing ecosystem, at risk because of multiple forces-- economic changes, government interference, liberal foundations, […]
UCHRI Funding Information Session
UCHRI 2016-2017 Calls for Funding Information Session Have questions about UCHRI's 2016-17 calls for funding? Join our information session and ask UCHRI's Director and Assistant Director any questions you may have. Open to UC faculty, staff, and graduate students. To ask a question, please click on the Google Hangout link below and click on the […]
Ozploitation Film Series presents : Long Weekend (1978)
An unsettling cross between Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) and an early Harold Pinter play, Colin Eggleston’s Long Weekend presents us with an extremely prickly couple on holiday who are finding it harder and harder to tolerate each other even as it becomes increasingly apparent that nature itself might be out to do them in […]
Thursday, October 29, 2015
- October 29, 2015 -Kimberly Robertson: “Dancing with the Devil: Settler Colonialism, Gendered Violence, and Indigenous Anti-Violence Activism”
- October 29, 2015 -Rita Lucarelli: "Ghosts and the Restless Dead in Ancient Egypt"
- October 29, 2015 -Living Writers: Ronaldo V. Wilson: University of California, Santa Cruz
Kimberly Robertson: “Dancing with the Devil: Settler Colonialism, Gendered Violence, and Indigenous Anti-Violence Activism”
Dr. Kimberly Robertson is a citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nation and an activist, teacher, scholar, and mother. She earned an MA in American Indian Studies and a PhD in Women's Studies from UCLA. Dr. Robertson is an Assistant Professor at Cal State Northridge in Gender & Women's Studies and American Indian Studies. Her academic […]
Rita Lucarelli: "Ghosts and the Restless Dead in Ancient Egypt"
EVENT PHOTOS: Rita Lucarelli Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley "Ghosts and the Restless Dead in Ancient Egypt" Center for Ancient Studies at UC Santa Cruz The beliefs in ghosts and spirits of the dead are widespread in world religions. In ancient Egypt, however, there is a certain inconsistency when mentioning the manifestations of the […]
Living Writers: Ronaldo V. Wilson: University of California, Santa Cruz
Ronaldo V. Wilson University of California, Santa Cruz Ronaldo V. Wilson, Ph.D. is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize; Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books, 2009) winner of the 2010 Asian American […]
Friday, October 30, 2015
- October 30, 2015 -Friday Forum: Trey Highton “Surfing the Third Wave: Women’s Professional Surfing & the Ethics of Instagram”
- October 30, 2015 -Linguistic Colloquium: Ivano Caponigro
Friday Forum: Trey Highton “Surfing the Third Wave: Women’s Professional Surfing & the Ethics of Instagram”
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 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. This meeting will feature Trey […]
Linguistic Colloquium: Ivano Caponigro
Linguistic Colloquium: Free-Choice Free Relative Clauses in Italian and Romanian English, Italian, and Romanian (and many other languages) allow for standard free relative clauses, i.e., non-interrogative wh-clauses with the same distribution and interpretation as definite DPs or PPs (e.g. Elena goes ). The same three languages (and many others) also allow for a kind of free relative in which […]
Saturday, October 31, 2015
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