Events
Week of Events
Sunday, February 12, 2017
No events on this day.
Monday, February 13, 2017
- February 13, 2017 -Waves Passing in the Night: a Conversation on Astrophysics, Harmony, and Boundaries
Waves Passing in the Night: a Conversation on Astrophysics, Harmony, and Boundaries
Event Photos: by Steve Kurtz UC Santa Cruz Original Thinkers Series Cowell College and the Institute for Humanities Research Present Waves Passing in the Night Monday, February 13, 7 p.m. Followed by dessert reception and book signing Music Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz Please join Chancellor George Blumenthal, Walter Murch, a three-time Academy Award-winning […]
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
- February 14, 2017 -Reading Seminar on Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World
Reading Seminar on Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World
We will read and discuss Gary Wilder’s recent book, Freedom Time. Reading the whole book is encouraged and copies of the book are available at the Literary Guillotine. If you need to focus on a few chapters, please read Chapter 1, 5, 6 & 9 (email sjetha@ucsc.edu for PDFs of those chapters)
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
- February 15, 2017 -Gary Wilder: “Black Radicalism/Radical Humanism: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Cooperative Commonwealth”
Gary Wilder: “Black Radicalism/Radical Humanism: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Cooperative Commonwealth”
Event Photos: Gary Wilder is the author of Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (2015) and The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism Between the World Wars (2005). He is currently co-editing the volume The Postcolonial Contemporary and working on a book entitled “Cooperative Commonwealth: Radical Humanism and Black […]
Thursday, February 16, 2017
- February 16, 2017 -Writing Here → Writing There: A Transfer Model for Teaching and Learning
- February 16, 2017 -Living Writers: Laura Mullen
Writing Here → Writing There: A Transfer Model for Teaching and Learning
Event Photos: This conference invites graduate students, faculty, staff, and administrators to participate in a series of roundtables and presentations that showcase our current successes in developing an innovate, locally-responsive writing curriculum. Participants will also contribute to moving our vision forward so that we set a broader, campus-wide agenda that accounts for the needs […]
Living Writers: Laura Mullen
Laura Mullen is the author of eight books: Complicated Grief, Enduring Freedom: A Little Book of Mechanical Brides, The Surface, After I Was Dead, Subject, Dark Archive, The Tales of Horror, and Murmur. Recognitions for her poetry include Ironwood’s Stanford Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Award. She has […]
Friday, February 17, 2017
- February 17, 2017 -Philosophy@Work: Entrepreneurship and Data Analysis in Educational Consulting and Applied Ethics
- February 17, 2017 -Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Yulia Gilichinskaya
Philosophy@Work: Entrepreneurship and Data Analysis in Educational Consulting and Applied Ethics
Philosophy@Work: Entrepreneurship and Data Analysis in Educational Consulting and Applied Ethics Are you interested in learning more about how graduate training in the humanities can lead to successful and intellectually stimulating careers in consulting? Consulting is an expansive and evolving field, one that many values-driven PhDs are currently shaping by challenging organizational tenets based on […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Yulia Gilichinskaya
Israel and Palestine: The Landscape of Separation The Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank not only live under the occupation of Israel but also, contained behind the Wall that Israel erected, populate a space of physical, social, and cultural isolation. The Wall severs communities, people's access to services, livelihoods and religious and cultural […]
Saturday, February 18, 2017
No events on this day.