Events
Week of Events
Sunday, February 27, 2022
- February 27, 2022 -The Dickens Project and Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Bleak House
The Dickens Project and Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Bleak House
The Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. Spontaneous human combustion! Evil lawyers! Detectives! Family intrigue! These all come together in Charles Dickens’s masterwork, Bleak House. The Dickens Project is a multi-campus research consortium headquartered at UC Santa Cruz and consisting of over 40 […]
Monday, February 28, 2022
No events on this day.
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
- March 1, 2022 -Craig Haney – Media and Criminal Justice in the U.S.
Craig Haney – Media and Criminal Justice in the U.S.
Craig Haney is a social psychologist and criminologist whose work leverages interdisciplinary approaches to policy theory and practice in the pursuit of justice and equity within institutions of policing and corrections. Drawing on social histories of crime and punishment, as well as the environments of public media and representation in which opinions and beliefs and […]
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
- March 2, 2022 -Mark Nash with Vladimir Seput – Documenta 11 revisited: Platform 6
- March 2, 2022 -Solidarities for Justice – Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
Mark Nash with Vladimir Seput – Documenta 11 revisited: Platform 6
Following the untimely death in 2019 of curator Okwui Enwezor, Mark Nash was charged with developing a platform for exploring the work of Enwezor’s Documenta11 (2002) for which Mark was a co-curator. This talk will present several related projects including the Platform 6 website. Vladimir Seput, who is visiting scholar at UCSC, is collaborating on […]
Solidarities for Justice – Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
“We are one people, one family, the human family, and what affects one of us affects us all.” ― John Lewis Ready for some Necessary Trouble? In anticipation and in honor of the dedication of John R. Lewis College at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the Division of Social Sciences, Colleges Nine and Ten, […]
Thursday, March 3, 2022
- March 3, 2022 -Guineanismos y el español de Guinea Ecuatorial
- March 3, 2022 -PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session
- March 3, 2022 -LASER Talks with Paula Arai, Kyle Robertson, and Ruth Murray-Clay
- March 3, 2022 -Living Writers Series: Student Reading
Guineanismos y el español de Guinea Ecuatorial
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics presents Práxedes Rabat Makambo, Secretary of Academic Ecuatoguineana de la Lengua Española, and Daniel Owono Sima, Dean of the School of Linguistics and Information Sciences at the National University of Equatorial Guinea, speaking on "Guineanismos y el español de Guinea Ecuatorial." Ecuatorial Guinea is the only country in […]
PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session
Curious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you're thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia, then you may be interested in THI's Public Fellowship program. Public fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute […]
LASER Talks with Paula Arai, Kyle Robertson, and Ruth Murray-Clay
Join us for an online LASER Talk featuring Buddhist scholar Paula Arai, astrophysicist Ruth Murray-Clay, and public philosophy scholar Kyle Robertson. The wide-ranging presentations will explore subjects including the science of Buddhist painting, the formation and evolution of planetary systems and the search for life, and the interconnections between philosophy and social justice. Paula Arai […]
Living Writers Series: Student Reading
Change Me: Stories of Radical Transformation - A Living Writers Series After a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements, many of us are ready for change. This winter’s living writers all have stories of radical transformation to tell. TC Tolbert searches for a language to […]
Friday, March 4, 2022
- March 4, 2022 -Aslı Bâli – “From Revolution to Devolution? Dilemmas of Decentralization in the Middle East”
- March 4, 2022 -War in Ukraine: Background, Context, Prospects and Implications
- March 4, 2022 -Digital Humanities Workshop Series: Digital Mapping
- March 4, 2022 -Okinawa Memories Initiative, “Mobilizing the Reversion: A Geo-Political Perspective”
Aslı Bâli – “From Revolution to Devolution? Dilemmas of Decentralization in the Middle East”
This seminar engages in a qualitative comparison of four experiences with decentralization in the Middle East to explore the ways in which decentralized governance arrangements might address governance crises, identity-based conflict and self-determination demands in the Middle East. I argue that the failure to engage with these and other experiences in the MENA region in […]
War in Ukraine: Background, Context, Prospects and Implications
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_13RXbJpNw&ab_channel=UCSantaCruzArts%2CLectures%2CandEntertainment On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded its neighbor Ukraine, a former republic of the USSR and today an independent, democratic country. Join a panel of UC Santa Cruz faculty, PhD students, and alumni who will discuss the historical and political context for Russia’s war in and on Ukraine, tension with NATO, broader Russian efforts […]
Digital Humanities Workshop Series: Digital Mapping
Join us for the second meeting of the Digital Humanities Workshop series 2022 — “Digital Mapping” — on March 4 from 1-2 PM. The workshop will explore an open-source geospatial analysis tool, Kepler.gl, to create maps to support research and pedagogy. In the hour-long workshop, you will get hands-on experience creating interactive maps such as line maps, arc maps, […]
Okinawa Memories Initiative, “Mobilizing the Reversion: A Geo-Political Perspective”
The Okinawa Memories Initiative is pleased to invite you to our upcoming event, “Mobilizing the Reversion: A Geo-Political Perspective,” a roundtable discussion featuring Professor Mike Mochizuki from George Washington University and Dr. Fumi Inoue, a recent doctoral graduate from Boston College, in conversation with OMI Directors, Professors Alan Christy and Dustin Wright. This is the […]
Saturday, March 5, 2022
No events on this day.