Events
Week of Events
e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies “The Future of Education: Advanced Computing, Ubiquitous Learning, and the Knowledge Economy”
EVENT PHOTOS: Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR. UCSC to host an International e-Learning Conference, November 2-3 2015 This year, UC Santa Cruz will play host to the Eighth International Conference on e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies from November 2-3, 2015. The conference is built upon four key features: Internationalism, Interdisciplinarity, Inclusiveness, and Interaction. Conference delegates include leaders […]
e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies “The Future of Education: Advanced Computing, Ubiquitous Learning, and the Knowledge Economy”
EVENT PHOTOS: Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR. UCSC to host an International e-Learning Conference, November 2-3 2015 This year, UC Santa Cruz will play host to the Eighth International Conference on e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies from November 2-3, 2015. The conference is built upon four key features: Internationalism, Interdisciplinarity, Inclusiveness, and Interaction. Conference delegates include leaders […]
Enduring Power – Photography Exhibit – Nov. 2 – Dec. 17
Enduring Power: The Middle Eastern and Iranian Women’s Story — A Photography Exhibit — November 2 – December 17, 2015 AT: Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, CA Exhibit HOURS: M-TH noon – 4p.m. or by appointment, 831-423-1626 Sponsored by the Resource Center for Nonviolence and Senses Cultural, Enduring Power’s striking images […]
Fall Job and Internship Fair
The Fall Job and Internship Fair is an excellent opportunity for you to meet with hundreds of students seeking employment opportunities. Meet with students from a variety of majors to have dialogue and collect resumes. This event can provide your organization with talent for entry-level positions, internships, and summer jobs. Many of our students have […]
Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists, scientists, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations. Please join us in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 for refreshments at 6:30 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by: Giacomo Bernardi "Finding general patterns in the natural […]
Berel Lang: “Primo Levi: Chemist, Survivor, Writer”
On Wednesday, November 4, Professor Berel Lang of Wesleyan University, author of Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life, will visit our campus and offer a lecture entitled "Primo Levi: Chemist, Survivor, Writer." Professor Lang's many books include Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide (University of Chicago Press, 1990), The Anatomy of Philosophical Style (Basil Blackwell, 1990), Holocaust Representation: Art within […]
Jasmine Syedullah: "‘Not Contraband, but Soldier': Against the Domestic Violence of National Security"
Jasmine Syedullah’s current project, “No Selves to Defend: Fugitive Justice and Black Feminist Loopholes of Abolition” is a political theory of abolition rooted in the antislavery writings of Harriet Jacobs, the anti-prison testimonies of political prisoners Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, and narratives from the 1971 uprising at Alderson Federal Reformatory for Women. Syedullah is a […]
Imogen Dickie “Proper Names: Transition to the End Game”
Abstract: I shall prove a principle which brings out the significance for accounts of aboutness and reference of the fact that justification is truth conducive; use this principle to develop an account of reference-fixing for proper names which presents an alternative to the tired menu of traditional causalisms, descriptivisms, and crosses between; and identify two […]
Wage Justice: Fighting Wage Theft in Our Community
This community event will launch the public art and findings of a year-long research project - Working for Dignity: Low-Wage Worker Study of Santa Cruz County produced by the UCSC Center for Labor Studies. The event will showcase the project's website and feature workers, researchers and students sharing their stories about low pay and wage […]
PhD+: Internship Info Session
In the next couple of months, the IHR will be launching a new public fellowship/internship program for our graduate students, allowing them to work in organizations and companies in the area during the summer, while getting fellowship support from the IHR. If you are interested in learning about this program, please join us for the […]
Friday Forum: Samuael Topiary “The Anti-Representational Mode”
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 Samuael […]
Joseph M. Pierce: “Writing Queer Sisterhood: The Diaries of Julia and Delfina Bunge and the Argentine Fin de Siglo (1890-1910)”
This presentation focuses on a unique coincidence in Argentine fin de siglo (1890-1910): sisters who 1) simultaneously kept a diary for an extended period of time, 2) actually shared, read, and commented on reading each other’s diaries, and 3) though under quite different circumstances, published these diaries subsequently. I read the diary as an interface […]
Utopian Dreaming: 50 years of Imagined Futures in California and at UCSC
In 2015, UCSC is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia its 40th. Both are products of a fertile period of ferment across California, during the 1960s and 1970s. Why has California been such a fertile and fruitful site for “Utopian Dreaming,” in film, fiction, media, design, architecture, mobility, electronics, intentional communities,ecology and environment, […]
Leadership for Social Justice: A Sikh-American Perspective
This one-day workshop provides insights and training for individuals who wish to lead social change efforts. The workshop will be conducted by the Sikh Coalition, a community-based organization that works toward the realization of civil and human rights for all people, including Sikh-Americans. It will include sessions devoted to lobbying, media, legal remedies, and a […]