Events

A hands-on workshop designed to construct innovative assignments using Wikipedia and its content editing platform. Building assignments that ask students to work on Wikipedia pages will help them: • Develop writing skills • Improve Media and Information Literacy • Refine Critical Thinking and Research Skills • Learn to work collaboratively The workshop will also include […]

Roland Tolentino works on Philippine film, literature, and popular culture in national and transnational contexts. He is a fellow of the UP Institute of Creative Writing and a member of the Filipino Film Critics Group, Congress of Teachers and Educators for Nationalism and Democracy, and People’s Alternative Media Network. Tolentino is Faculty at University of the […]

You are invited to the Spring Job & Internship this Wednesday. Don't miss the last job and internship fair of the academic year! Spring Job & Internship Fair Wednesday, April 13 3:00-6:00pm College Eight West Field House Where companies come to meet Slug talent! Check out the companies that are signed up. More to come! […]

Inspired by Nicholas De Genova, et. al's “New Keywords: Migration and Borders”, the International Organization for Migration's Key Migration Terms, and recent debates regarding the distinction between "refugee" and "migrant," this one-day seminar explores key and emerging terms in migration studies and the growing gap between vocabulary and lived reality.  It kicks off Borders and Belonging, a series of events […]

Hands on (Digital) Humanities with Prof. Anne MacNeil Anne MacNeil will give a demonstration of her digital humanities project, IDEA Music, and the new software toolkit, Prospect, that powers it. In the last year, MacNeil’s close collaboration with programmer Michael Newton (UNC Digital Innovation Lab) and other members of the DIL community in developing Prospect […]

This talk revisits the essentialism debates within feminism, and reconsiders the impasse in which those debates landed. What understanding of "essence" was operative in those conversations about gender essentialism? And might there be a different way of thinking about the relation between essence and gender? I turn to singular and plural essences in Merleau-Ponty and […]

Kate Schatz, UCSC creative writing/Lit alum, is the New York Times bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z, a children's book (for everyone) published by City Lights Books. It's gotten love from BUST, Publisher's Weekly, BuzzFeed, MTV, Ms., Teen Vogue, Kirkus Reviews, GOOD, The New York Times, AFROPUNK, and all kinds of other rad outlets. Her […]

Claudia Lopez "Contesting 'Double Displacement': Rural displaces Persons, informal Settlements, and the 'Medellin Miracle'" This presentation examines the Comuna 8, a sector of the city of Medellin resisting displacement by urban renewal. I highlight a historic voting process in 2014, lead by a committee of displaced persons, to contest the implementation of the redeveloped plan. […]

Contemplative pedagogy is an integrated approach to teaching and learning that sees education as a transformative process rather than simply a means of accumulating information. With an emphasis on curiosity, collaboration, engagement, and student-centered learning, contemplative approaches seek to cultivate thinkers and responders rather than consumers of knowledge. Practitioners forge links between traditional disciplinary wisdom […]

Sabine Iatridou is Professor of Linguistics, Syntax, Semantics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  See here for more about Professor Iatridou's work. Stay tuned for more information.  

Contemplative pedagogy is an integrated approach to teaching and learning that sees education as a transformative process rather than simply a means of accumulating information. With an emphasis on curiosity, collaboration, engagement, and student-centered learning, contemplative approaches seek to cultivate thinkers and responders rather than consumers of knowledge. Practitioners forge links between traditional disciplinary wisdom […]