Events
Week of Events
Alumni Weekend 2017
SAVE THE DATE April 28 – 30, 2017 More info and event schedule at: alumniweekend.ucsc.edu
Sunday, April 23, 2017
No events on this day.
Monday, April 24, 2017
No events on this day.
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
- April 25, 2017 -Traci Brynne Voyles: “Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country”
Traci Brynne Voyles: “Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country”
The IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene Presents Traci Brynne Voyles Tuesday April 25, 3-5pm Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country (reading workshop for faculty and graduate students) Humanities 1, room 210 Contact krlyons@ucsc.edu for readings Wednesday April 26, 2-4pm “Can a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea […]
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
- April 26, 2017 -Eric Porter, “‘The Future Appears Both Bleak and Promising’: The Politics of Jet Noise Around SFO”
- April 26, 2017 -Traci Brynne Voyles: “Can a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea and Settler Colonial Frames for Thinking about Environmental (Justice) History”
- April 26, 2017 -The Politics of Belonging: Moroccan Communist Jews, French Empire, and Nationalisms in the 20th Century
Eric Porter, “‘The Future Appears Both Bleak and Promising’: The Politics of Jet Noise Around SFO”
This talk is drawn from Professor Porter’s current book project examining the history of San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and various social and political phenomena associated with it as a means of better understanding the core San Francisco Bay Area as a physical, social, and imagined urban space. The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a […]
Traci Brynne Voyles: “Can a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea and Settler Colonial Frames for Thinking about Environmental (Justice) History”
The IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene Presents Traci Brynne Voyles Tuesday April 25, 3-5pm Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country (reading workshop for faculty and graduate students) Humanities 1, room 210 Contact krlyons@ucsc.edu for readings Wednesday April 26, 2-4pm Can a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea […]
The Politics of Belonging: Moroccan Communist Jews, French Empire, and Nationalisms in the 20th Century
This talk examines the place of Jews in colonial Morocco from the interwar period though to independence (achieved in 1956) and beyond. It is structured around one central question: how Moroccan Jews see themselves as emancipated citizens in a future independent Moroccan state? From a period of ideological porosity during the interwar period, through the […]
Thursday, April 27, 2017
- April 27, 2017 -Pictures & Progress: Black Panther, 1966-2016 closing reception
Pictures & Progress: Black Panther, 1966-2016 closing reception
Pictures & Progress: Black Panther, 1966-2016 closing reception Thursday, April 27, from 4PM to 6PM UCSC McHenry Library, 4th floor 414 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz CA. 95064 Light refreshments served The closing reception of "Pictures & Progress: Black Panther, 1966-2016” will be a public program bringing into conversation the power of visual representation and the […]
Friday, April 28, 2017
- April 28, 2017 -Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Baizhu Chen
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Baizhu Chen
Do Lenders Value the Right Characteristics?: Evidence from Peer-to-Peer Lending Using a unique dataset of peer-to-peer lending with detailed loan and borrower information, I study the following research questions:|1) What are the borrower characteristics that lenders value when choosing which loans to fund?; and (2) Do lenders value the correct characteristics with respect to minimizing […]
Saturday, April 29, 2017
- April 29, 2017Ethics and the Language of Conservation
- April 29, 2017Humanities Mix & Mingle
- April 29, 2017Graduate Alumni Panel Discussions
- April 29, 2017 -Teach-in with Gina Dent: “Ex Post Facto: How to respond to a ‘post-truth’ world”
- April 29, 2017Graduate Alumni Networking Mixer
- April 29, 2017 -An Immersion into Dickensian Cocktails
Ethics and the Language of Conservation
Daniel Guevara (Philosophy) and Claudio Campagna (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Wildlife Conservation Society) assert that we need to radically rethink the meaning of conservation. “Sustainable Development” is a failed term, and as a result, the crisis of conservation is fundamentally a philosophical crisis with real-world implications. Their goal is to give a compelling and […]
Humanities Mix & Mingle
Please join us from 12-1 for a lunchtime Mix & Mingle in the Humanities courtyard. Connect with Humanities alumni, faculty, and beloved emeriti professors while enjoying complementary beverages and desserts. Tables and chairs will be set up, so grab your lunch at Quarry Plaza and come spend some time with the Humanities Division! Registration link: […]
Graduate Alumni Panel Discussions
Join us for lively panel discussions: Careers and Resources for Entrepreneurship for Graduate Students in the Santa Cruz Region, San Francisco to Monterey (1p-2:15p); Graduate Student Alumni Leaders in Santa Cruz Region, San Francisco to Monterey (2:30p-3:45p) and, Life after Graduate School. Panelists will share their stories and work experience in academic career, non-academic career, […]
Teach-in with Gina Dent: “Ex Post Facto: How to respond to a ‘post-truth’ world”
Gina Dent, associate professor of feminist studies, history of consciousness, and legal studies, will discuss the role of the humanities in responding to the current discussion of “alternative facts.” How can we develop a critical relationship to “facticity,” while preserving the ability to think and act politically? Registration link: http://alumniweekend.ucsc.edu/sessions/teach-in-2/
Graduate Alumni Networking Mixer
Graduate Alumni and current graduate students will have an opportunity to meet each other, discuss their work and enjoy a relaxed opportunity to reconnect and network. Refreshments will be provided. Location: Graduate Student Commons and Cafe Iveta Registration link: REGISTER HERE
An Immersion into Dickensian Cocktails
Charles Dickens was a unique and protean fellow; writer, social commentator, reporter, actor, father, and much more.He was also a great lover of the table and glass, a noteworthy bon vivant who created wondrous punches, cups, cocktails, and other nourishing potations, in novels as well as in daily life. This lecture will address Dickens’s skill […]