Events
Week of Events
Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza
Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza
We invite you to join Senderos for our 13th annual Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza on Sunday, May 20 at San Lorenzo Park, Santa Cruz (new location). This is an all-day (9am to 5pm) dance, music, food, crafts festival which brings the rich cultural traditions of Oaxaca to our County. Last year we had over 3700 in […]
Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, Cowell, and Stevenson Colleges at UCSC will present the 18th season of the (MEIP) from May 17th through May 20th at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center on campus. In this unique multilingual program, students will be featured in fully-staged excerpts of short works in Punjabi, French. German, […]
Digital Research and Teaching Symposium featuring Undergraduate Digital Research and Innovative Pedagogy
Digital Research and Teaching Symposium featuring Undergraduate Digital Research and Innovative Pedagogy
This event will showcase the independent, digital research and classroom work of undergraduate students alongside the innovative assignment design and pedagogical experimentation of faculty and graduate students. Join us in the morning to focus on undergraduate digital research and in the afternoon for an in-depth discussion about new methods in active and engaged pedagogy. […]
Saein Park: “Dancing Waste of History: Lumpen in Heine, Marx, & Benjamin”
Saein Park: “Dancing Waste of History: Lumpen in Heine, Marx, & Benjamin”
Saein Park’s current project argues that the discourses of Lumpen record the changing demarcations of disposable lives during the emergence of European industrial modernity. She researches 19th- and early-20th-century German-language literature, political philosophy, and critical theory, focusing on translation and reception studies, theories of waste, and plant studies. Saein Park is a Visiting Assistant Professor […]
Applied Linguistics Colloquia
Mitch Aso: “Rubber and the Making of Vietnam”
Mitch Aso: “Rubber and the Making of Vietnam”
Rubber has been a key commodity for industrial societies since the nineteenth century. Yet, studies of the impact of the production of this good on various regions around the world have mostly been narrowly focused on the industry and its workers. My forthcoming book, Rubber and the Making of Vietnam, adopts a broader lens, […]
Living Writers Series: Sawako Nakayasu
Living Writers Series: Sawako Nakayasu
Sawako Nakayasu is a transnational poet, translator, and occasional performance artist who has lived in Japan, France, China, and the US. Her books include The Ants and Texture Notes, and recent translations include The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa, and Costume en Face – a handwritten notebook of Tatsumi Hijikata’s dance notations. She is co-editor, with Lisa Samuels, of A Transpacific Poetics, a gathering of poetry and poetics […]
Friday Forum: Madison Treece
Friday Forum: Madison Treece
Maya Textile Arts Influence Contemporary Politics in Zapatista Embroidery Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the following departments: HAVC, Literature, […]