Events
Week of Events
Symposium: Charting the Library’s Future
Symposium: Charting the Library’s Future
Program: 10:00-10:30am Welcome and Opening Remarks by Chancellor George Blumenthal and University Librarian Elizabeth Cowell 10:30-12:00pm Panel Discussion MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian at UC Davis Expanding Research Support in University Libraries Academic libraries’ research support is inherently interdisciplinary (or omnidisciplinary) so they are uniquely positioned to expand those services to include common modern research […]
Shahzad Bashir, “Islamic Pasts and Futures: Conceptual Issues”
Shahzad Bashir, “Islamic Pasts and Futures: Conceptual Issues”
This talk emerges from Professor Bashir’s current project, Islamic Pasts and Futures: Conceptual Explorations, a critique of the conceptualization of Islamic history in modern scholarship. Bashir suggests alternatives emphasizing multiple temporalities and engaging contemporary academic debates regarding language, historiography, and history on the basis of materials of Islamic provenance. Shahzad Bashir is professor in Islamic […]
Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Patricia de Santana Pinho
Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Patricia de Santana Pinho
We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring Brazil and Bearing their Nation Patricia de Santana Pinho, Associate Professor, UC Santa Cruz The talk presents a chapter of my nearly completed book manuscript Diaspora Detours: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil. Previous chapters examine the effects of national identities on the connections between black […]
Mat Callahan, “The Explosion of Deferred Dreams”
Mat Callahan, “The Explosion of Deferred Dreams”
Presented by The History of Consciousness, The Center for Cultural Studies, & UCSC University Library Special Collections & Archives, with support from Logo’s Books. With special musical guest Dry Days As the fiftieth anniversary of the Summer of Love floods the media with debates and celebrations of music, political movements, “flower power,” “acid rock,” and […]
Living Writers: Lauren Levin
Living Writers: Lauren Levin
Lauren Levin, author of The Braid (Krupskaya, 2016) Lauren Levin is the author of THE BRAID (Krupskaya, 2016) and the forthcoming TWO ESSAYS (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2018) as well as several chapbooks, including The Lens (Little Red Leaves, 2014) and Working (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2012). From 2011-2014, she co–edited the Poetic Labor Project. […]
PhD+: Thinking Ahead: Grants and Fellowships Workshop for Graduate Students
PhD+: Thinking Ahead: Grants and Fellowships Workshop for Graduate Students
PhD+ Workshop Series Please join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more. This year-end workshop is devoted to developing your […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Angela Nguyen
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Angela Nguyen
"Mom, can you help me with my homework?" Identifying Tools and Conditions for Intergenerational Dialogue Among Southeast Asian Refugees and Their Children The collective memories of the Southeast Asian diaspora are interwoven with histories of war and colonial violence that continue to be felt in everyday experiences as hauntings. Post-war generations are often without access […]
Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC)
Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC)
The Linguistics Department's annual Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) will be held Friday, June 2nd, from 12:45 - 3:45pm in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. The Distinguished Alumna speaker will be Maura O’Leary, who is a PhD graduate student at UCLA. We hope you will attend. Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference Program - coming soon!
Deanna Shemek: “Digital Isabella d’Este: New Renaissance Navigations”
Deanna Shemek: “Digital Isabella d’Este: New Renaissance Navigations”
Digital Isabella d’Este: New Renaissance Navigations When you look at a piece of art in a museum do you ever wonder about the context? Where was the art originally hung? What did the room look like? Who were the people viewing the art? Did they listen to music as they viewed the art? Please join […]