Events
Week of Events
Hindustani Music and Performance of Modernity: A talk and film screening by Tejaswini Niranjana
Hindustani Music and Performance of Modernity: A talk and film screening by Tejaswini Niranjana
Hindustani Music and Performance of Modernity A documentary film and talk on Hindustani music in Mumbai, based on the forthcoming book, Musicophila in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious. 1:20PM - 3:00PM Talk 3:00PM - 5:00PM Screening Refreshments will be provided. Seating is limited.
Humanities Spring Awards
Humanities Spring Awards
Annual Humanities Spring Awards Celebration at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn on Wednesday, June 5th, starting at 4:00 pm. The event includes the Spring Awards ceremony for undergraduate achievements, the Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellows poster session, and a celebration of faculty milestones. The Humanities Spring Awards Celebration is a wonderful opportunity for staff, faculty, alumni, […]
Keith A. Spencer Book Talk
Keith A. Spencer Book Talk
"A People's History of Silicon Valley: How the Tech Industry Exploits Workers, Erodes Privacy and Undermines Democracy" with author Keith A. Spencer Keith A Spencer is an editor at salon.com where he writes about science and technology, the politics of space colonization, the social and cultural ramifications of the tech industry. http://keithspencer.org/ Light refreshments provided […]
Nido de Lenguas: Clases
Nido de Lenguas: Clases
Nido de Lenguas: Clases will offer regular classes turning native speakers into language teachers to share their linguistic heritage with dedicated community members.
Living Writers: Diana Khoi Nguyen
Living Writers: Diana Khoi Nguyen
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Diana Khoi Nguyen is a multimedia artist and award-winning poet whose work has appeared widely in literary journals such as Poetry, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, PEN America, and The Iowa Review, among others. She recently won the 92Y's Discovery / Boston Review2017 Poetry Contest and the Omnidawn Open […]
Neal Stephenson: Fall, or Dodge in Hell
Neal Stephenson: Fall, or Dodge in Hell
Bookshop Santa Cruz is thrilled to welcome bestselling author Neal Stephenson for a reading and signing of his highly-anticipated new book, Fall, or Dodge in Hell. This offsite and ticketed event will take place at the Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building, 846 Front Street, Santa Cruz. Cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa […]
Graduate Friday Forum with Aaron Franklin
Graduate Friday Forum with Aaron Franklin
Transcendental Sentimentalism - An Introduction Broadly construed, moral sentimentalism is the position that human emotions or sentiments play a crucial role in our best normative or descriptive accounts of moral value or judgements thereof. With this presentation, Aaron introduces and sketches a defense of a novel form of more sentimentalism he calls “Transcendental Sentimentalism.” According […]