Events
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Alumni Weekend 2018
SAVE THE DATE Alumni Weekend 2018 April 27-29 For more info visit: alumniweekend.ucsc.edu
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
Kyla Schuller: “The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, & Science in the Nineteenth Century”
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?”
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, […]
Philosophy Colloquium: Ori Simchen
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 […]
Devin Naar: “Sephardic Archives from Analog to Digital: Three Tales of Memory and Visibility”
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 […]
Living Writers Series: Courtney Kersten
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 […]
Emerging Ecologies: Arcaeologies of Slavery, Landscape, and Environmental Change
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 […]
PhD+: PhDs in Leadership Positions at UCSC
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 […]
Friday Forum: LuLing Osofsky
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, […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Liz Coppock, Boston Univeristy
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 […]
Language of Conservation Project: In Search of “Values as Yet Uncaptured by Language”
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 […]
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 […]