Events
Week of Events
Sunday, February 2, 2020
No events on this day.
Monday, February 3, 2020
- February 3, 2020 -Teaching in Tense Times: A Workshop on Academic Freedom, Inclusive Classrooms, and Some Challenges in College Teaching Today
Teaching in Tense Times: A Workshop on Academic Freedom, Inclusive Classrooms, and Some Challenges in College Teaching Today
The Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning and the Humanities Institute invite you to a workshop on academic freedom in the classroom environment with visiting scholars Andrea Brenner and Lara Schwartz. This hands-on workshop is open to faculty and graduate students from all fields who teach or plan to teach in higher education settings. […]
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
- Featured February 4, 2020 -Featured Questions That Matter: Reporting the Middle East
Questions That Matter: Reporting the Middle East
The Humanities Institute and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa present: Questions That Matter: Reporting the Middle East and the Future of Investigative Journalism Veteran NPR journalists Hannah Allam & Leila Fadel, in conversation with Jennifer Derr Associate Professor of History at UCSC, discuss their careers in journalism in the Middle East […]
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
- February 5, 2020 -Lukas Rieppel – Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition
- February 5, 2020 -Student Meet and Greet with Leila Fadel and Hannah Allam
Lukas Rieppel – Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition
During the 1920s, researchers from the New York natural history museum led by Roy Chapman Andrews spent nearly a decade exploring the Gobi Desert in Central Asia. But they were expelled from their base of operations in northern China when the Guomindang party created a new state in Nanjing. Whereas Chinese intellectuals accused American paleontologists […]
Student Meet and Greet with Leila Fadel and Hannah Allam
Join us to meet and talk with the award-winning NPR journalists Leila Fadel and Hannah Allam. The journalists have covered a wide range of questions concerning the Middle East, Islam in America, race, culture, and American extremism. Coffee and light refreshments will be provided. Leila Fadel is currently a national correspondent for NPR, covering […]
Thursday, February 6, 2020
- February 6, 2020 -Marc Herbst – “Culture Beside Itself: On Common Sociality and its Relation to More Law-Like Cultural and Governmental Forms”
- February 6, 2020Linguistics Colloquium: Nikos Angelopoulos
- February 6, 2020 -Can We Talk? What Makes Campus Conversations So Tough, And How To Do Better
- February 6, 2020 -Living Writers: Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
Marc Herbst – “Culture Beside Itself: On Common Sociality and its Relation to More Law-Like Cultural and Governmental Forms”
Marc Herbst will be presenting a talk titled "Culture Beside Itself: On common sociality and its relation to more law-like cultural and governmental forms," based on his ongoing research on social movements and eco-social planning and his part in the collective efforts of the 11th issue of the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest. These efforts […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Nikos Angelopoulos
Please see the Linguistics Department website for more information.
Can We Talk? What Makes Campus Conversations So Tough, And How To Do Better
In the classroom and other campus spaces, scorn and indignation for people we disagree with are preventing productive discussion on contested issues. On especially hot-button topics, there's even a growing tendency to remain silent rather than risk rebuke. We've got to do better. But how? Join us for a presentation by and collaborative discussion with […]
Living Writers: Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint was born in Yangon, Myanmar and grew up in Bangkok, Thailand and San José, California. She is the author of the lyric novel The End of Peril, the End of Enmity, the End of Strife, a Haven (Noemi Press, 2018) and the family history project Zat Lun, which won the 2018 […]
Friday, February 7, 2020
- February 7, 2020 -Jeffrey Wasserstrom – Hong Kong on the Brink
- February 7, 2020 -Bia Labate: Dilemmas of Ayahuasca Globalization in the 21st Century
Jeffrey Wasserstrom – Hong Kong on the Brink
This talk will focus on patterns of protest and the tightening of political controls in Hong Kong during the last few decades, paying particular attention to the 2014 Umbrella Movement and the dramatic events of 2019. Jeff Wasserstrom, a historian of China who has been visiting Hong Kong regularly since 1987, will draw on his […]
Bia Labate: Dilemmas of Ayahuasca Globalization in the 21st Century
The use of the psychedelic plant brew ayahuasca has expanded significantly during the last 50 years. Once only known to Amazonian communities, ayahuasca is now used in diverse social and cultural contexts across the world. The Brazilian ayahuasca religions, originating with the Santo Daime in Brazil founded in the 1930s, are now internationally recognised and […]
Saturday, February 8, 2020
No events on this day.