Events
Week of Events
Against Orthodoxies: Working with Hayden White
Event Photos by Jessica Guild: On Friday and Saturday, November 1 and 2, 2019, UC Santa Cruz will hold a conference to honor the late Hayden White. The event is conceived as an invitation to extend Hayden White’s thinking in new directions. Inspired by his rigorous, daring, iconoclastic spirit, this will be a time […]
Sunday, October 27, 2019
No events on this day.
Monday, October 28, 2019
- October 28, 2019 -CANCELLED – Glenn Tiffert: Censorship, Digitalization and the Fragility of Our Knowledge Base – Lessons from China
- October 28, 2019 -Halloween Lecture “The Vampire in Love” (with costume contest)
CANCELLED – Glenn Tiffert: Censorship, Digitalization and the Fragility of Our Knowledge Base – Lessons from China
Technological and economic forces are radically restructuring our ecosystem of knowledge, and opening our information space increasingly to forms of digital disruption and manipulation that are scalable, difficult to detect, and corrosive of the trust upon which vigorous scholarship and liberal democratic practice depend. Using an illustrative case from the people’s republic of china, this […]
Halloween Lecture “The Vampire in Love” (with costume contest)
Brought to you by the UCSC Prof and a Pint Lecture Series Oh yeah, there will be a costume contest! And there will be prizes! If you want to compete please gather on the stage at 6:15pm. The lecture will start at 6:30pm as usual. From the beginning of the earliest English-language vampire narrative in […]
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
- October 29, 2019 -Jasmin Young: She Stood There by Him with a Gun – Mabel Williams and the Philosophy of Armed Resistance
- October 29, 2019 -CANCELLED – Elizabeth Strout: Olive, Again
Jasmin Young: She Stood There by Him with a Gun – Mabel Williams and the Philosophy of Armed Resistance
Stevenson Fall Lecture Presented by Jasmin Young: Mabel Williams practiced armed resistance when white vigilante violence and police repression threatened the lives of activists. This talk interrogates the gendering of armed resistance and reveals the complex set of struggles between Black men and women about Black self-defense. Jasmin A. Young is a University of California […]
CANCELLED – Elizabeth Strout: Olive, Again
Due to disruptions and concerns about ongoing wildfire and power disruptions across California, Elizabeth Strout's entire California tour has been cancelled/postponed to a future date. This means our event with Elizabeth Strout on October 29th has been CANCELLED. If you purchased a ticket to this event, Bookshop Santa Cruz will be in touch with you […]
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
- October 30, 2019 -Cultural Studies Colloquium: Aishwary Kumar
Cultural Studies Colloquium: Aishwary Kumar
“What is Political Cruelty? An Archeology of the Liberalism of Fear” Under what conditions might fear become a saturating phenomenon of liberal democracy and extreme violence cease to be even a moral crime? Is this silent war on the body and idea of the citizen on the constitutional theorist and moral philosopher B. R. Ambedkar’s […]
Thursday, October 31, 2019
No events on this day.
Friday, November 1, 2019
- November 1, 2019 -CANCELLED – Roumyana Pancheva: Linguistics Colloquia- Temporal Interpretation Without Tense
CANCELLED – Roumyana Pancheva: Linguistics Colloquia- Temporal Interpretation Without Tense
Languages without overt tense morphemes have typically been analyzed as having semantic tense, either contributed by a phonologically covert lexical item or supplied by a post-syntactic semantic rule. From a neo-Reichenbachian perspective, having semantic tense means having a linguistic device (a lexical item or a rule) dedicated to invoking a reference time in relation to […]
Saturday, November 2, 2019
No events on this day.