Events
Week of Events
Sunday, October 23, 2016
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Monday, October 24, 2016
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016
- October 25, 2016 -Digital Research Happy Hour
Digital Research Happy Hour
Get to know the DH Research community to learn more about digital research on campus at an informal happy hour. We invite researchers across campus to discuss their work with a short, lightening style presentation. This is an opportunity to share our projects and meet new colleagues. Interested researchers are encouraged to send 1 slide that […]
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
- October 26, 2016 -Alma Heckman: “Absence and Counter-Narratives: The Years of Lead and the Moroccan Jewish Exodus”
- October 26, 2016 -P. Sainath: “The People’s Archive of Rural India”
Alma Heckman: “Absence and Counter-Narratives: The Years of Lead and the Moroccan Jewish Exodus”
Alma Rachel Heckman’s research crosses Jewish history, North Africa, French empire and the history of social movements. Her talk emerges from her project “Radical Nationalists: Moroccan Jewish Communists 1925-1975.” Heckman is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. The Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series, which […]
P. Sainath: “The People’s Archive of Rural India”
P. Sainath is India's most highly awarded journalist and a winner of the Ramon Magsayay Prize (often referred to as the 'Asian Nobel'). The only Indian to win the Magsayay for journalism in 32 years, Sainath was also the first reporter in the world to win Amnesty International's Global Journalism Prize, and the only Indian […]
Thursday, October 27, 2016
- October 27, 2016 -Living Writers: Elizabeth Willis
- October 27, 2016 -Roundtable Discussion: Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences beyond Academia
- October 27, 2016 -Film Screening: “Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels” (Non-citizenship series)
Living Writers: Elizabeth Willis
Elizabeth Willis's most recent book, Alive: New and Selected Poems (New York Review Books, 2015), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Other books include Address (Wesleyan, 2011), recipient of the PEN New England prize for poetry; Meteoric Flowers (Wesleyan, 2006); Turneresque (Burning Deck, 2003); and The Human Abstract (Penguin, 1995). Her poems have appeared […]
Roundtable Discussion: Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences beyond Academia
Philip Misevich and Konrad Tuchscherer are historians at St. John's University and co-producers of Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels (2014, dir. Tony Buba), the award-winning documentary based on Marcus Rediker's powerful account of the most successful slave rebellion in American history, The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (Penguin, 2012). […]
Film Screening: “Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels” (Non-citizenship series)
The Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research present an event in the series on Non-citizenship Historians and filmmakers Philip Misevich and Konrad Tuchscherer of St. John's University join UC Santa Cruz's David Anthony and Greg O'Malley in a conversation about forced migration at this free, public screening of "Ghosts of Amistad: In […]
Friday, October 28, 2016
- October 28, 2016 -PhD+: Networking and The Versatile PhD
- October 28, 2016 -Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Mitchell Winter
PhD+: Networking and The Versatile PhD
The Institute for Humanities Research and the Career Center Present PhD+: Networking and Versatile PhD Friday, October 28, 2016 Humanities 1, Room 210 11 am - 12:30 pm Panelists: Christina Hall, Career Advisor for Graduate Students in the Arts and Humanities, Career Center Whitney deVos, PhD Candidate Literature; GSR, Institute for Humanities Research; Peer Advisor, […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Mitchell Winter
"Polemics of Disintegration: Advaita Metaphysics in the Works of Alejandro Jodorowsky" The Chilean artist Alejandro Jodorowsky (b. 1929) often engages with non-linearity and non-sense as narrative devices in his work. Throughout his career Jodorowsky's thematic repertoire has adopted elements of the Kabbalistic science of the Marseille tarot, European alchemy, and New Age formulations of Hindu […]
Saturday, October 29, 2016
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