Events
Week of Events
Sunday, April 17, 2016
No events on this day.
Monday, April 18, 2016
- April 18, 2016 -La Ironía y Anticlericalismo En Halma
La Ironía y Anticlericalismo En Halma
UCSC Spanish Studies and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Present: LA IRONÍA Y ANTICLERICALISMO EN HALMA ÁLVARO ROMERO MARCO (UCSC) Más allá de las clasificaciones y evoluciones que la crítica ha venido realizando, la novelística de Galdós es consecuencia de su ideología, pues la realidad es observada y transformada a través de su apuesta por la modernidad. En el caso de Halma, […]
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
- April 19, 2016 -Sikhism in the Global Age
Sikhism in the Global Age
Mark Juergensmeyer is Kundan Kaur Kapany Chair of Global and Sikh Studies, fellow of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, professor of sociology, and affiliate professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is an expert on religious violence, conflict resolution and South Asian religion and politics, and has […]
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
- April 20, 2016 -Joshua Brahinsky: “The Cultivated Event: Why Pentecostals Were the Best Organizers of the 20th Century and How to Translate Their Strategies For the Rest of Us”
Joshua Brahinsky: “The Cultivated Event: Why Pentecostals Were the Best Organizers of the 20th Century and How to Translate Their Strategies For the Rest of Us”
Joshua Brahinsky’s current book project is “God’s Bodies: Pentecostal Training in Art of Immediacy.” He is working on a research project on global evangelicalism and theory of mind, and is an organizer for UC-AFT and the Economic Justice Alliance. Brahinsky has his PhD from the Department of History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz. Spring 2016 […]
Thursday, April 21, 2016
- April 21, 2016 -Tony Michels: “Soviet America: The Russian Revolution in Jewish Life”
- April 21, 2016 -Living Writers: Manuel Gonzales
Tony Michels: “Soviet America: The Russian Revolution in Jewish Life”
The Russian Revolution of 1917 radically altered American Jewish politics. Whereas most Americans viewed the revolution as a threat to western civilization, Jews wished for the success of the Bolsheviks, who offered the only possibility of rescue from the mass slaughter carried out by anti-Communist forces. A minority of Jews went so far as […]
Living Writers: Manuel Gonzales
Manuel Gonzales is the author of The Miniature Wife And Other Stories (Riverhead) and the forthcoming novel, The Regional Office Is Under Attack! (Riverhead). He graduated with a BA in English from the University of Texas in 1996 and then with an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Columbia University's School of the Arts in […]
Friday, April 22, 2016
- April 22, 2016 -PhD+: Eric Hayot: “Writing for Publication in the Humanities”
- April 22, 2016 -Humanities Earth Day Lunch and Learn
- April 22, 2016 -Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Jordan Reznick
PhD+: Eric Hayot: “Writing for Publication in the Humanities”
PODCAST: "Writing for Publication in the Humanities" Eric Hayot is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Professor Hayot will present strategies--both psychological and practical--for writing for publication in the humanities from his recent book, The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities (Columbia UP, 2014). His talk will […]
Humanities Earth Day Lunch and Learn
The Humanities Green Team would like to invite you to join us for Earth Day! Friday, April 22nd, 2016 11:30am - 1:00pm Program: 11:30am-12:00pm: Green Team introductions 12:00pm-12:15pm: PSI presentation 12:15pm-1:00pm: "Bin Confused" presentation Come enjoy delicious food provided by local caterers while learning about how to achieve zero waste in your office, events, and at home!
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Jordan Reznick
Jordan Reznick "Selfie Suburbia: Whites Online in the Early Twenty-First Century" Snapshot photography has been a means for white Americans to affirm their identities and collectively participate in circulating fictions about "normal" Americans that naturalize and legitimize ideals of whiteness. As whites became more precarious in the early twenty-first century, they adopted several new snapshot […]
Saturday, April 23, 2016
- April 23, 2016 -Remembering Shakespeare, 1564-1616
Remembering Shakespeare, 1564-1616
Remembering Shakespeare, 1564-1616 Readings from the works and about the man A memorial service, commemorating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death in 1616. Saturday, April 23, 2016 Music Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz 6:00-6:45 p.m. Free and open to the public This event takes place before Experimental Baroque, a concert by Santa Cruz Baroque Festival. Concert info/tickets […]