Events
Week of Events
Victorian Kitchens & Cocktails
Victorian Kitchens & Cocktails
Dust off your copies of What Shall We Have for Dinner? by Lady Clutterbuck and Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management and join us for three interactive sessions exploring Victorian kitchens and cocktails. Dickens Project alumna Liz Pollock explores food and drink preparation in the Victorian kitchen on November 9th. In subsequent lessons, she will demonstrate how to make […]
Slugs and Steins with Sylvanna M. Falcón: The Evolving Practice of Human Rights Accountability
Slugs and Steins with Sylvanna M. Falcón: The Evolving Practice of Human Rights Accountability
Sylvanna M. Falcón, founder of UC Santa Cruz’s Human Rights Investigations Lab for the Americas, will explain how human rights accountability has shifted in the digital realm and the ways in which a new generation of human rights activists are needed with critical digital literacy skills in search for the truth. Dr. Falcón founded Human […]
Book talk and conversation: Peter Limbrick, Arab Modernism as World Cinema
Book talk and conversation: Peter Limbrick, Arab Modernism as World Cinema
Peter Limbrick (Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz) will discuss his new book Arab Modernism as World Cinema: The Films of Moumen Smihi in conversation with Professor Tarek El-Ariss (Dartmouth College). Arab Modernism as World Cinema (University of California Press, 2020) explores the radically beautiful films of Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi, demonstrating the importance […]
PhD+ Workshop – Using Twitter Professionally
PhD+ Workshop – Using Twitter Professionally
Learn how to promote your research and create a virtual community of Tweeple in Twitter! Learn the basics, including how to set up your page, use hashtags, use best practices, and more with Kayla Isenberg (Senior Director, Digital Engagement, University Relations at UC Santa Cruz). The Division of Graduate Studies' professional communication workshop on "Using […]
Manan Ahmed: The Loss of Hindustan
Manan Ahmed: The Loss of Hindustan
Manan Ahmed is Associate Professor for History of South Asia at Columbia University. He specializes in the littoral western Indian Ocean world from 1000-1800 CE. He is the author of A Book of Conquest (2016) and The Loss of Hindustan (2020) Part of the 2020-21 Center For South Asian Studies Lecture Series. Organized by The […]
Morgan Parker – Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
Morgan Parker – Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
Please join us for the 11th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading, featuring honored guest Morgan Parker. Poet Gary Young will host the program, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1,000 prize). Gary Young is the author of many volumes of poems and […]
Idan Landau: A Selectional Criterion for Adjunct Control
Idan Landau: A Selectional Criterion for Adjunct Control
The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Idan Landau, from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Israel, speaking on A Selectional Criterion for Adjunct Control. Zoom Information will be emailed on Thursday, November 12, 2020 Nonfinite adjuncts display a non-uniform control distribution: While all adjuncts accept control by the local matrix subject (Obligatory Control, […]
PhD+ Workshop – Impassioned Online Teaching: Empathy, Embodiment and Radical Pedagogy in Practice
PhD+ Workshop – Impassioned Online Teaching: Empathy, Embodiment and Radical Pedagogy in Practice
How do we, as educators, create virtual experiences that are inclusive, engaging, and impactful for our students? How can we make remote conditions more intimate, accessibility more equitable, and our classrooms more collaborative? What do design strategies grounded in compassion and creativity look like? From decolonizing the syllabus to somatic abolitionism and interactive storytelling, this […]
Moor Mother + Rasheedah Phillips: Black Quantum Futurism
Moor Mother + Rasheedah Phillips: Black Quantum Futurism
The exhibition is Moor Mother—a Philadelphia artist praised as part of “a new generation of visionary black storytellers” (The New York Times—premieres a new video followed by a discussion of Black Quantum Futurism theory and practice with her collaborator Rasheedah Phillips. Weaving through haunting slave narratives as dystopian allegory, negro spirituals, and Black ritual, Moor […]