Events
Week of Events
Faculty Ethics Bowl: Ethics and the Far Future
What role should thinking about the far future—1,000 years ahead and more—play in research on campus? Faculty at UC Santa Cruz have widely divergent views on this question and it's something the administration needs to decide on soon. Some say we should allocate significant resources; others say very little. This will be the focus of UC […]
Nido de Lenguas: Pop-Up at the Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza
Nido de Lenguas: Pop-Up at the Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza
Learn about the indigenous languages of Oaxaca at Nido de Lenguas: Pop-Up, taking place at the 13th Annual Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza. The Pop-Up will feature fun and exciting activities where anybody can directly experience the beauty and value of Oaxacan languages. The Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza is a cultural festival sponsored by Senderos, featuring food, music, […]
The 19th Season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP XIX)
The 19th Season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP XIX)
Cowell College, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 19th season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XIX), May 17, 18, and 19, at 8:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center at UCSC. The program of fully-staged multilingual theater pieces in Chinese, French, Japanese, and Spanish, with English […]
Shadi Rohana: “Cervantes and the Arabs: Don Quixote in translation”
Shadi Rohana: “Cervantes and the Arabs: Don Quixote in translation”
The modern Arab reader cannot be indifferent when reading a novel like Don Quixote. Through its geography, historical context, characters and language, the novel evokes to the modern reader one of the Arabs’ most splendorous historical episodes: Al Andalus. This talk traces the Arab and Andalusian presence in Cervantes’ Don Quixote from 1605, and how […]
Balancing Fair Use and Student Access in Selecting Course Texts: A Workshop for Instructors
Balancing Fair Use and Student Access in Selecting Course Texts: A Workshop for Instructors
About the workshop: Understanding how to balance equitable access to course texts with our ethical and legal responsibility to uphold the values of intellectual property can often be challenging. This workshop will help faculty navigate the complexities of copyright and fair use and focus on best practices and resources for choosing course texts for […]
Coloquio de Spanish Studies: Shadi Rohana
Coloquio de Spanish Studies: Shadi Rohana
Shadi Rohana is a Mexico City-based literary translator, translating between Arabic, Spanish and English. He has introduced and translated a number of Latin American authors from Spanish to Arabic, as well as speeches and declarations from the EZLN in Chiapas. He pursued Latin American Studies in the United States (Swarthmore College) and Mexico (UNAM), and […]
My Own Words: The Law & Legacy of RBG
My Own Words: The Law & Legacy of RBG
In anticipation of Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music's upcoming premiere of a major new work inspired by the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg- When There Are Nine by composer Kristin Kuster The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, Cabrillo Festival, and Bookshop Santa Cruz have come together to present a panel discussion […]
The Twentieth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
The Twentieth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM Friends and family are welcome. Come for any part or all of the day. Opening Remarks 9:30 a.m. Professor Sean Keilen Director, Literature Undergraduate Program Panel One: Creative Writing 9:45 – 10:45 a.m. Moderator: Professor Micah Perks Mary Miki Arlen, La chanson de Lancelot (et Roland) Rosa Scupine, How […]
Veda Popovici-History Does (Not) Repeat Itself: Speculative Histories of Post-Revolutionary Romania
Veda Popovici-History Does (Not) Repeat Itself: Speculative Histories of Post-Revolutionary Romania
Veda Popovici’s work explores the limits of political imagination. In this talk, she presents her latest political art project: a mapping of collective dreams and desires of revolutionary events in the context of post-1989 Romania. Laying out seven radical future pasts, these are stories that could have been, but never happened...feminist unions, Eastern European migrants […]
Living Writers: Student Readings
Living Writers: Student Readings
Students will be reading from their own work. Please stay tuned for more information. Co-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, The Bay Tree Bookstore, The Humanities Institute, The American Indian Resource Center, The Asian […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Katie Ligmond
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Katie Ligmond
The Outcrop of Blue Rocks: Andean Animacy as Illustrated by Guaman Poma Andeanists have cultivated an obsession with the illustrations and writing of Guaman Poma, and with good reason. There are only three truly illuminated manuscript to come out of Colonial Peru, a scat account in comparison with the plethora from Mexico. Guaman Poma is […]