Events

Humanists study the stories of humanity, in all their wonderful and tragic manifestations. The annual “Celebrating the Humanities” event is an opportunity for you to participate in this never-ending exploration of what it means to be human. Event Photos: I hope you will be able to join me on Tuesday, May 31 from 4-6 pm […]

Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating "But I Want A Guy I Like To Like The Things I Like" Taste and Emotional Labor on the Dating Market It is a truth universally acknowledged that "likes" play an important role in contemporary courtship. While all social media invite us to produce our online identities by […]

Spring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line Why Out of Line? “I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre, in different genres, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I’m hoping it will encourage our students to think […]

PhD+ Workshop Series Please join us for the launch of PhD+, our new series! We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for humanities PhDs, online identity issues, internship possibilities, work/life balance, elements of style, grants/fellowships and much, more more. October 9, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel November 6, 2015: Internship Info Session […]

Veronika Zablotsky "Dealing with the East: Orientalism and the Ideas of Eurasia in Contemporary Geopolitics" In this talk, I mobilize Edward Said's critique of Orientalism (1978) as a Europrean "style of thought," a "corporate institution" and a "systematic discipline" that produces, manages and deals with the "Orient" by means of discourse to think about the idea […]

UCSC Spanish Studies and the Department of Language and Applied Linguistics present: Inverting the Spanish Avant Garde: Transatlantic Negotiations in El Estudiante (Salamanca-Madrid 1925-26) By Vanessa Marie Fernandez (UC Santa Cruz and San Jose SU) Friday June 3rd, 6:00PM Humanities 1, Room 210 Vanessa Marie Fernandez completed her PhD in Hispanic Langiages and Literatures form […]