Events
Week of Events
Sunday, April 17, 2022
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Monday, April 18, 2022
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022
- April 19, 2022 -Student Success in the Humanities with Dean Jasmine Alinder
Student Success in the Humanities with Dean Jasmine Alinder
Join Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder for a discussion on her plan to “play offense” in positioning UC Santa Cruz proactively, making strong arguments for the relevance and value of the humanities as an essential, core component of a 21st-century liberal arts education. Learn more about Dean Alinder’s Employing Humanities Initiative designed to prepare career-ready humanities […]
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
- April 20, 2022 -Brandi Thompson Summers – Spatial Temporalities: The Future-Pasts of Black Dispossession
Brandi Thompson Summers – Spatial Temporalities: The Future-Pasts of Black Dispossession
In this talk, Dr. Summers explores the history of unhoused populations in Oakland, the cyclical displacements of Black locals, and the appearance and reappearance of parking lots in these stories of disruption. She tells the story of West Oakland, in particular, as a testing ground for speculative urbanism--an urbanism based not in speculator’s profit or […]
Thursday, April 21, 2022
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Friday, April 22, 2022
- April 22, 2022 -PhD+ Workshop – Stories from the Field
PhD+ Workshop – Stories from the Field
While humanities doctoral programs tend to focus on training students for tenure track faculty positions, many PhDs pursue jobs outside of a university setting. According to the UC Humanities Research Institute’s recent report, Stories from the Field, more than a quarter of UC humanities doctoral alumni reported that they did not seek a tenure track […]
Saturday, April 23, 2022
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