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Alumni Weekend 2018
SAVE THE DATE Alumni Weekend 2018 April 27-29 For more info visit: alumniweekend.ucsc.edu
Sunday, April 29, 2018
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Monday, April 30, 2018
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Tuesday, May 1, 2018
- May 1, 2018 -Reading Seminar: Dr. Lesley Green
Reading Seminar: Dr. Lesley Green
Reading Seminar on #ScienceMustFall and an ABC of Plant Medicine: On Posing Cosmopolitical Questions featuring Dr. Lesley Green (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Cape Town and Founding Director: Environmental Humanities South). Please email krlyons@ucsc.edu for the readings
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
- May 2, 2018 -Kyla Schuller: “The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, & Science in the Nineteenth Century”
- May 2, 2018 -Lesley Green: “Sons and Daughters of Soil?”
Kyla Schuller: “The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, & Science in the Nineteenth Century”
Kyla Schuller is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and an External Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center (2017-2018). She has previously held fellowships from ACLS and the UC Humanities Research Institute and a visiting scholar position at UC Berkeley. Schuller investigates the intersections between race, gender, sexuality, […]
Lesley Green: “Sons and Daughters of Soil?”
"Sons and Daughters of Soil?" Dr. Lesley Green (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Cape Town and Founding Director: Environmental Humanities South) Responding, as researchers, to Earth Mastery that includes not only violent machines, but a violation of evidence and epistemes including the scientific episteme, requires accumulating and presenting evidence for existences that do not exist -- at least, not in neoliberal discourses. In […]
Thursday, May 3, 2018
- May 3, 2018 -Philosophy Colloquium: Ori Simchen
- May 3, 2018 -Devin Naar: “Sephardic Archives from Analog to Digital: Three Tales of Memory and Visibility”
- May 3, 2018 -Living Writers Series: Courtney Kersten
Philosophy Colloquium: Ori Simchen
“Realism and Instrumentalism in Metaphysical Explanation” Ori Simchen is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Professor Simchen works mostly in the philosophy of language and metaphysics. Most recently he's been working on metasemantics, or foundational semantics, and its relation to formal semantics. He is particularly interested in how to think […]
Devin Naar: “Sephardic Archives from Analog to Digital: Three Tales of Memory and Visibility”
"Sephardic Archives from Analog to Digital: Three Tales of Memory and Visibility" Join us as Devin E. Naar, founder of the Sephardic Studies Program at the University of Washington, traces three key moments in the development of Sephardic Studies libraries and archives in the 1880s, 1930s, and today. Often relying on community members to supply […]
Living Writers Series: Courtney Kersten
Courtney Kersten is the author of Daughter in Retrograde: A Memoir (University of Wisconsin Press 2018). Her essays can be seen or are forthcoming from Brevity, The Normal School, River Teeth, Hotel Amerika, DIAGRAM, The Sonora Review, Black Warrior Review, The Master’s Review, Brevity and elsewhere. She was a Fulbright Fellow to Riga, Latvia, and is currently a PhD student in Literature and CreativeWriting at the University of […]
Friday, May 4, 2018
- May 4, 2018 -Emerging Ecologies: Arcaeologies of Slavery, Landscape, and Environmental Change
- May 4, 2018 -PhD+: PhDs in Leadership Positions at UCSC
- May 4, 2018 -Friday Forum: LuLing Osofsky
- May 4, 2018 -Linguistics Colloquium: Liz Coppock, Boston Univeristy
- May 4, 2018 -Language of Conservation Project: In Search of “Values as Yet Uncaptured by Language”
Emerging Ecologies: Arcaeologies of Slavery, Landscape, and Environmental Change
The Atlantic Era was a period of intense commercial integration linking key economic players in Western Europe, the Americas, the Indian Ocean littorals, and West and Central Africa. The period was marked by dramatic increases in the volume of commerce at both the regional and global levels, radically transforming the societies and environments of […]
PhD+: PhDs in Leadership Positions at UCSC
Foundational Labor: PhDs in Leadership Positions at UCSC Are you interested in learning more about the work of PhDs who are actively reimagining pedagogy and student support at UC Santa Cruz? This session will feature two PhDs who are currently employing their research and teaching experience in a variety of interrelated ways, including program development, project management, and mentorship, […]
Friday Forum: LuLing Osofsky
"Based on a (Mostly) True Story: Conflicting Cinematic Portrayals of Jewish Champions Boxing at Auschwitz " In 2011, I traveled to Tel Aviv to interview eighty-seven year old Noah Klieger, the last remaining Holocaust survivor to have boxed for Nazi officials at Auschwitz. That amateur and champion Jewish boxers boxed at the camps to entertain […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Liz Coppock, Boston Univeristy
Liz Coppock is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Boston University, specializing in semantics and pragmatics. Her research concerns the meanings of small words in various languages, the invisible forces that give complex expressions their meanings, and sometimes even the nature of meaning itself. As Principal Investigator of the Swedish Research Council project Most and more: […]
Language of Conservation Project: In Search of “Values as Yet Uncaptured by Language”
In Search of “Values as Yet Uncaptured by Language:” Learning from Great Historical Paradigm Shifts A Language of Conservation Project Colloquium. Presented by The Humanities Institute and the Center for Public Philosophy. Event Photos: Speakers: Daniel Guevara - Chair, Department of Philosophy at UCSC Claudio Campagna - Adjunct Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at UCSC, Wildlife Conservation Society Karen […]
Saturday, May 5, 2018
- May 5, 2018 -Pacific Island Worlds Transpacific Dis/Positions Symposium
Pacific Island Worlds Transpacific Dis/Positions Symposium
In this symposium, artists and scholars explore creative expression and research that chart Pacific Island Studies in the 21st century. Speakers examine the Pacific Ocean as worlds of complex human interaction and dynamic spaces in which diverse communities have produced a range of cultural and political identity dis/positions through kinship, colonial histories, and diasporas. The […]