Events
Week of Events
Sunday, February 5, 2017
No events on this day.
Monday, February 6, 2017
- February 6, 2017 -Rethinking Labor Mobility and Precarity: A Seminar with Guy Standing, Alejandro Grimson, and Biao Xiang
Rethinking Labor Mobility and Precarity: A Seminar with Guy Standing, Alejandro Grimson, and Biao Xiang
Precarity, the experience of insecurity and constant risk of exclusion, is central to the experience of many labor migrants and citizen-workers in our time. Session II of Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz's Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, focuses on precarity, labor mobility, and denizenship (the status of being a denizen or inhabitant, as opposed to […]
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
- February 7, 2017 -Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: A Symposium with Guy Standing, Alejandro Grimson, and Biao Xiang (Non-citizenship Series)
- February 7, 2017 -“The Widow and the Orphan: Stories of Reform in Multigenerational India”
- February 7, 2017 -Faculty Research Lecture with Sandra Chung: “Language Through the Lens of Diversity”
Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: A Symposium with Guy Standing, Alejandro Grimson, and Biao Xiang (Non-citizenship Series)
Event Videos: Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: Guy Standing from IHR on Vimeo. Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: Alejandro Grimson 2.7.17 from IHR on Vimeo. Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: Biao Xiang from IHR on Vimeo. Event Photos: This symposium explores how global labor mobility […]
“The Widow and the Orphan: Stories of Reform in Multigenerational India”
The Center for Emerging Worlds and The Department of Anthropology Present: Dr. Sareeta Amrute "The Widow and the Orphan: Stories of Reform in Multigenerational India" Works-In-Progress Seminar Tuesday, February 7, 2017 2-4pm Humanities 1, Room 402 Email mfernan3@ucsc.edu for copies of the paper "adding.sleep(): Race and Refusal in the Indian Tech Diaspora" Colloquium […]
Faculty Research Lecture with Sandra Chung: “Language Through the Lens of Diversity”
Academic Senate 51st Annual Faculty Research Lecture Honors: Professor Sandra Chung "Language Through the Lens of Diversity." The ease and efficiency with which children acquire their first language(s) reveals that the capacity to know and use language is deeply human. It also raises the possibility that all languages have the same design--universal characteristics that […]
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
- February 8, 2017 -Camillo Gomez-Rivas: “The Ransom Industry and the Expectation of Refuge on the Medieval Western Mediterranean Muslim-Christian Frontier”
- February 8, 2017 -adding.sleep(): Race and Refusal in the Indian Tech Diaspora
- February 8, 2017 -Spanish Studies Colloquium: Human Rights and US Policy in Post-Coup Honduras: a talk by Dana Frank
- February 8, 2017 -Professor Emeritus Andrew Cohen: “Enhancing the Role of Pragmatics in Teacher Education”
Camillo Gomez-Rivas: “The Ransom Industry and the Expectation of Refuge on the Medieval Western Mediterranean Muslim-Christian Frontier”
Camillo Gomez-Rivas’s current project Refugees of the Reconquista is a history of social responses to displaced populations across the Muslim-Christian frontier over the long territorial decline of al-Andalus. Proceeding from a set of historical questions, the project is based on readings of multiple sources, including Arabic, Castilian, and Catalan legal, historiographical, and literary sources. Camillo […]
adding.sleep(): Race and Refusal in the Indian Tech Diaspora
The Center for Emerging Worlds and The Department of Anthropology Present: Dr. Sareeta Amrute "The Widow and the Orphan: Stories of Reform in Multigenerational India" Works-In-Progress Seminar Tuesday, February 7, 2017 2-4pm Humanities 1, Room 402 Email mfernan3@ucsc.edu for copies of the paper "adding.sleep(): Race and Refusal in the Indian Tech Diaspora" Colloquium Wednesday, […]
Spanish Studies Colloquium: Human Rights and US Policy in Post-Coup Honduras: a talk by Dana Frank
Human Rights and US Policy in Post-Coup Honduras: a talk by Dana Frank Dana Frank is professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of Bananeras:Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America, among other books. Since the 2009 coup her articles about human rights and US policy in Honduras […]
Professor Emeritus Andrew Cohen: “Enhancing the Role of Pragmatics in Teacher Education”
Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Presents Professor Emeritus Andrew Cohen Enhancing the Role of Pragmatics in Teacher Education Wednesday, February 8 210 Humanities Bldg 1 5:15PM Light refreshments will be served The talk starts with the premise that for many target-language (TL) learners, the actual learning process consists of the rote memorization of lots of […]
Thursday, February 9, 2017
- February 9, 2017 -Benjamin Jealous: 33rd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Convocation
Benjamin Jealous: 33rd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Convocation
The annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by presenting speakers who discuss the civil rights issues of equality, freedom, justice, and opportunity. The convocation also seeks to build partnerships and develop dialogue within the campus community and with the local communities served by the university. Please join us […]
Friday, February 10, 2017
- February 10, 2017 -Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kyuhyun Han
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kyuhyun Han
Sewing the Forest like a state: Forest Management, Wildlife Conservation, and Center-Periphery Relations in Northeast China, 1949 - 1965 My research aims to counter the prevalent premise that Mao-era China (1945-1976) was devoid of environmental consciousness or concern with environmental protection, and places Chinese policy in the context of the international development of environmental consciousness […]
Saturday, February 11, 2017
No events on this day.