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Playing with Fire: A Hot Symposium
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Santa Cruz Film Festival
The Humanities Institute is happy to co-sponsor the 18th annual Santa Cruz Film Festival. Founded in 2001 by Jane Sullivan and Johnny Davis, the Santa Cruz Film Festival has exhibited over 1,300 independent films by national and international filmmakers, as well as films and videos produced in the greater Santa Cruz County and Monterey Bay […]
Playing with Fire: A Hot Symposium
We will explore the pleasures, perils & politics of fire through art, theory, practice, and activism. On the UCSC campus in the DARC building, room #108. This event is organized by E.A.R.T.H Lab with support from The Humanities Institute. The symposium is free and open to the public, but registration is required. The full schedule for the Symposium […]
Brendan Regan – The Effect of Short-Term Study Abroad on the Production and Perception of Language- and Dialect-Specific Sounds by L2 and Heritage Spanish Speakers
Brendan Regan – The Effect of Short-Term Study Abroad on the Production and Perception of Language- and Dialect-Specific Sounds by L2 and Heritage Spanish Speakers
There is a growing interest in examining the effect of study abroad on language acquisition. However, compared to other linguistic domains, there is a lack of studies that examine phonetic acquisition in the study abroad (henceforth SA) context. Of the previous studies that have examined phonetic acquisition in the SA context, the role of linguistic proficiency and bilingualism […]
PhD+ Workshop – Writing the Curriculum Vitae
PhD+ Workshop – Writing the Curriculum Vitae
Applications for academic positions require a CV, and some alternative-academic employers also require them. Learn how a CV differs from a resume, about hybrid CV-resumes, what goes on a CV, and what order to put information depending on type of academic institution you're applying to and for what type of position. Also, check out the […]
PhD+ Workshop – Using Twitter Professionally
PhD+ Workshop – Using Twitter Professionally
Learn how to promote your research or creative work and create a virtual community of Tweeple. Kayla Isenberg is senior director of digital engagement for UC Santa Cruz, where she runs the main campus social media properties and advises on divisional and other social media accounts across campus. She has 16 years of experience in […]
Louise Meintjes – Giving Voice to a Politics of Breath
Louise Meintjes – Giving Voice to a Politics of Breath
Drawing on her longterm study of Zulu song and dance, Meintjes revisits instances of ngoma vocal performance in order to explore the idea of breath and aesthetic vitality foregrounded in popular political expression in the USA during the global turbulence of the last two and a half years. Louise Meintjes has worked as an ethnographer in Johannesburg […]
Gianluca Bonaiuti: Domesticity and Beyond
Gianluca Bonaiuti: Domesticity and Beyond
The History of Consciousness department is pleased present their upcoming speaker series this fall quarter and invites you to join them. These will be hybrid events, hosted in-person in Humanities 1 Room 420 & virtually via Zoom, except for the talk on October 25th which will only be on Zoom. The Zoom link for all […]
PhD+ Workshop – Developing Your Digital Reputation
PhD+ Workshop – Developing Your Digital Reputation
Your digital reputation refers to your presence on the internet, on social media platforms and on personal and worksite websites. Learn tips on how to distinguish yourself from the crowd and create a lasting impression in an evolving digital communications landscape. Lisa Nielsen has over 25 years of design and marketing experience in the private […]
Asli Bâli – From Revolution to Devolution? Dilemmas of Federalism & Decentralization in the Middle East
Asli Bâli – From Revolution to Devolution? Dilemmas of Federalism & Decentralization in the Middle East
“From Revolution to Devolution? Dilemmas of Federalism and 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. Bâli argues that the […]