Events
Week of Events
Ethics Bowl Invitational
What It Is: Every Spring the Center for Public Philosophy holds an Outreach Invitational for high schools that have never participated in the Regional Ethics Bowl. This is a fun, low-stakes way to get their feet wet. This year we have a grant to host ten schools designated LCFF+ by the state of California–schools at […]
Brett Rushforth: “‘Daily Trafficke with the Frenchmen’: Merchant Colonialism and African Sovereignty in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic”
Brett Rushforth: “‘Daily Trafficke with the Frenchmen’: Merchant Colonialism and African Sovereignty in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic”
Center for World History Presents Brett Rushforth “‘Daily Trafficke with the Frenchmen’: Merchant Colonialism and African Sovereignty in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic" May 8, 2017 @ 1:30-3pm Humanities 1, Room 210 Free and open to the public Brett Rushforth is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. He is a scholar of early American and […]
The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies Investiture Ceremony
The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies Investiture Ceremony
The Humanities Division and Feminist Studies department are very excited to announce the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. This endowed chair was recently established with a $500,000 gift from the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation and matching funds from the UC Regents. Bettina Aptheker, Distinguished Professor of […]
Debbora Battaglia: “Roots in Air: People/Plants/Ethics in Suspension”
Debbora Battaglia: “Roots in Air: People/Plants/Ethics in Suspension”
"Roots in Air: People/Plants/Ethics in Suspension" Out of the urban ruins and food deprivation of World War II came the prototype for growing plants aeroponically. Aeroponics has since taken surprising […]
Ecology & the Rise of Capitalism Nature, Power, and the Origins of Our Times
Ecology & the Rise of Capitalism Nature, Power, and the Origins of Our Times
A colloquium by Associate Professor Jason W. Moore Fernand Braudel Center Binghamton University Jason W. Moore is an environmental and world historian at Binghamton University, where he is Associate Professor […]
Living Writers: Aisha Sasha John
Living Writers: Aisha Sasha John
The UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents Aisha Sasha John, author of THOU (BookThug, 2014) AISHA SASHA JOHN is a singing dancer-- and the author of the recently published […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kristen Laciste
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kristen Laciste
From Maidservant to Anomalous Aristocrat: Imaging and Imagining Dido Elizabeth Belle The double portrait of cousins, entitled, Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray, is truly an anomaly in 18th […]
13th Annual Graduate Research Symposium
13th Annual Graduate Research Symposium
Event Photos: Graduate Research Symposium The Symposium offers graduate students from every division the opportunity to discuss their research with colleagues on campus and with the public. Our students present […]