Events
Week of Events
HUMANISTS@WORK
Humanists@Work is heading to Sacramento, California for our next statewide graduate student career professionalization workshop. We invite humanities PhDs, faculty, and staff to REGISTER for the workshop and join us for what will be another meaningful and productive gathering of humanities PhDs. We are offering a limited number of travel grants to 3 students from […]
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 […]
Ruth Wilson Gilmore: "Organized Abandonment and Organized Violence: Devolution and the Police"
EVENT VIDEO: EVENT PHOTOS: CITY ON A HILL PRESS ARTICLE: The UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies invited Ruth Wilson Gilmore to UC Santa Cruz to discuss police violence and mass incarceration in a lecture called “Organized Abandonment & Organized Violence: Devolution and The Police.” Her discussion in the UCSC […]
UPDATED TIME: Amalia Mesa-Bains Talk & Film Screening of “Eduardo Carrillo: A Life of Engagement”
Monday, November 9, 2015 6 PM, Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 The Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Museo Eduardo Carrillo invite you to a talk by internationally renowned artist Amalia Mesa-Bains and a screening of the Museo's new 30 minute documentary Eduardo Carrillo: A Life of Engagement. Amalia Mesa-Bains is an […]
Miriam Posner: “Head-and-Shoulder Hunting in the Americas: Exploring Lobotomy's Visual Culture”
Co-sponsored by the University Library Between 1936 and 1967, Walter Freeman, a prominent neurologist, lobotomized as many as 3,500 Americans. Freeman was also an obsessive photographer, taking patients' photographs before their operations and tracking them down years — even decades — later. In this presentation, Miriam Posner details her efforts to understand why Freeman was […]
Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading with California's Poet Laureate Emeritus Al Young
UC Santa Cruz presents California's Poet Laureate Emeritus Al Young. Al Young, born in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, is an American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and professor. In 2005, he was named poet laureate of California by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Widely translated, Al Young’s twenty-two books include: poetry—Heaven, The Sound of Dreams Remembered, Coastal Nights and […]
Workshop with Miriam Posner: "How Did They Make That?"
Directions in Digital Humanities presents: Miriam Posner UCLA Head-and-Shoulder Hunting in the Americas: Exploring Lobotomy’s Visual Culture Workshop: How Did They Make That? The catch-all term “digital project” can refer to a daunting array of technologies and methods. For a newcomer (or even an experienced practitioner), it can be hard to know where to start. […]
Friday Forum: Maya Iverson “Re-reading the Black Civil Rights Documentary ‘Sit-In'”
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 Maya […]
Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez: “A Net Made of Words: Intertextuality in Chicano/a Literature”
This lecture will explore ways in which Chicano/a literature crosses literary borders, establishing a net of ties and connections with other literary traditions. Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez is Professor of Literature and founding faculty at the University of California, Merced. He has published the books The Textual Outlaw: Reading John Rechy in the 21st Century (co-edited […]