Events
Week of Events
Ahmed Kanna: “De-Exceptionalizing the Arab Gulf: Bringing back Class Struggle & Social Reproduction”
Ahmed Kanna: “De-Exceptionalizing the Arab Gulf: Bringing back Class Struggle & Social Reproduction”
Discourses of urban knowledge professionals (architects, PR professionals, etc.) on the Arab Gulf city have framed this city as an “laboratory,” a “sci-fi” space, and generally have disconnected the space from its social and historical contexts. In this paper I argue that a Marxist or class struggle perspective can best highlight how such discourses […]
Susanah Shaw Romney, “Unfree Intimacies: Gender and the Taking of Terraqueous Space at Batavia in the Seventeenth Century”
Susanah Shaw Romney, “Unfree Intimacies: Gender and the Taking of Terraqueous Space at Batavia in the Seventeenth Century”
Colonization is not a one-time land grab, but rather an ongoing process of claiming space. Batavia, as the Dutch urban port city on Java in the seventeenth century was known, provides an opportunity to explore the role of gender in this unfolding process. There, the appropriation of local and regional terraqueous space relied on […]
Living Writers: Wendy Trevino and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
Living Writers: Wendy Trevino and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
Wendy Trevino is the author of Cruel Fiction (Commune Editions, 2018). She hails from the Rio Grande Valley and works as a grant writer in San Francisco, California, where she lives.Wendy Trevino was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She lives & works as a grant writer in San Francisco. […]
Graduate Research Symposium
Linguistics Colloquia: Laura McPherson
Linguistics Colloquia: Laura McPherson
Laura McPherson, is an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics program at Dartmouth College. McPherson finished her Ph.D. at UCLA in 2014, with the dissertation Replacive grammatical tone in the Dogon languages. Her primary research interests lie in phonology, morphology, and fieldwork/language documentation. She published her first reference grammar, A Grammar of Tommo So, in 2013 based […]
Graduate Research Symposium Award Reception
Graduate Research Symposium Award Reception
Come celebrate the announcement of the winners of this year's Graduate Research Symposium. Live music, light refreshments. Free and open to the public
Distinguished Graduate Student Alumni Award Luncheon and Career Paths Panel
Distinguished Graduate Student Alumni Award Luncheon and Career Paths Panel
11:30am-12:50pm Annual award luncheon for five distinguished graduate student alumni, one from each academic division. This year's luncheon will include a panel discussion with the five distinguished graduate student alumni honorees about their career trajectories after receiving their graduate-level degree from UCSC to their current positions of distinction, for the benefit of audience members of current […]
Jody Greene: “Radical Learning – The Heart of the UC Santa Cruz Experience”
Jody Greene: “Radical Learning – The Heart of the UC Santa Cruz Experience”
This event will review the bold and radical educational vision of UC Santa Cruz since its inception, while introducing alumni to the innovative 21st-century approaches we are taking to ensure all students can thrive at UC Santa Cruz and leave with the tools to make change in society. We will emphasize the university's history of […]