Events
Week of Events
Sunday, November 6, 2022
- November 6, 2022Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox – Discussion of Dracula (Beginning-Chap. 16)
Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox – Discussion of Dracula (Beginning-Chap. 16)
Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox As part of the series “Victorian Necromancies,” Professor Fox will lead three sessions that offer the Friends an opportunity to explore the Victorian gothic, one of her favorite genres of 19th-century literature. From Professor Fox: “The first session will be a presentation on my forthcoming book, The Necromantics: Reanimation, […]
Monday, November 7, 2022
- November 7, 2022 -Telling Your Research Story Through Comics
- November 7, 2022 -Sawyer Seminar Reading Group with Alberto Ortiz-Díaz
- November 7, 2022 -Humanizing Technology Launch Event
Telling Your Research Story Through Comics
Join us for "Telling Your Research Story Through Comics" on Nov. 7 at 10 a.m. on Zoom. Featuring: Felicia Lopez (UCM), Carolyn Jennings (UCM), Jordan Collver, and Pino Cao. Register here.
Sawyer Seminar Reading Group with Alberto Ortiz-Díaz
This reading group is part of the Sawyer Seminar “Race, Empire, and Environments of Biomedicine.” Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute. The talk will occur virtually and guests can register to join the Zoom meeting ahead of the event. Alberto Ortiz Díaz is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas, Arlington, and […]
Humanizing Technology Launch Event
The Humanizing Technology Certificate Program is a Humanities Division initiative targeted to early career Engineering students but open to all UCSC undergraduates. The program features small class sizes and GE courses that examine the goals and impacts of technology in various ways. To earn the certificate, students take three of the five lower-division Humanities courses […]
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
- November 8, 2022 -Karen Tei Yamashita Fall 2022 Emeriti Lecture – Questions 27 & 28: Loyalty and Japanese American Incarceration
Karen Tei Yamashita Fall 2022 Emeriti Lecture – Questions 27 & 28: Loyalty and Japanese American Incarceration
In 1942, at the outset of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the incarceration of all Japanese Americans on the West Coast. The following year, the War Relocation Authority had the task of determining the loyalty of their inmates in order to release them for productive normalized lives outside camp. A loyalty questionnaire […]
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
- November 9, 2022 -PhD+ Workshop – Slide Design Workshop
- November 9, 2022Mark Massoud – The Power of Positionality
- November 9, 2022 -Chih-ming Wang – Retelling Chinese Stories in the Era of Global China: On Ha Jin’s Immigrant Novels
PhD+ Workshop – Slide Design Workshop
Have you ever inflicted a boring slide presentation on an audience? Learn tips and techniques for using slides the way they should be used, as visual aids to your spoken-word presentation. Prior to attending this workshop, review this slide design page, including viewing the video by Sonya. Sonya Newlyn received her M.A. in English literature […]
Mark Massoud – The Power of Positionality
What is the impact on and influence of the researcher in their scholarship? Drawing in part on Mark’s empirical research and professional experience, this talk investigates the benefits and burdens of positionality. Positionality is the disclosure of how an author’s racial, gender, class, or other self-identifications, experiences, and privileges influence research methods. A statement of […]
Chih-ming Wang – Retelling Chinese Stories in the Era of Global China: On Ha Jin’s Immigrant Novels
Examining Ha Jin’s immigrant novels in the crossfires of US-China competition, this talk proposes post/Cold War entanglements as a critical frame for reconsidering Asian American studies today. It argues that attention to Chineseness as a political, rather than cultural, construct is more urgent than ever. Ha Jin’s emphasis on immigration as freedom in his novels […]
Thursday, November 10, 2022
- November 10, 2022 -PhD+ Workshop – Preventing and Mitigating Burnout
- November 10, 2022 -Yoav Di-Capua: Reconsidering the 60s Generation in the Arab World and Beyond
- November 10, 2022 -Living Writers: Duriel E. Harris, Bakar Wilson, Elizabeth Owuor, and Fahima Ife
PhD+ Workshop – Preventing and Mitigating Burnout
A vexing problem for academics is burnout: the experience of exhaustion, cynicism, and ineffectiveness that results from stretching across the gap between the ideals of your academic vocation and the reality of your academic job. Jonathan Malesic left his job as a tenured theology professor at a small liberal arts college after undergoing burnout over […]
Yoav Di-Capua: Reconsidering the 60s Generation in the Arab World and Beyond
This is a talk about a book that is still being written. It begins and ends with a funeral. In between, lies the story of the 60s generation in the Arab world. The funeral was that of Egyptian leader Gamal Abd al-Nasser. His 1970 death was just another reminder of the weighty collective defeat of […]
Living Writers: Duriel E. Harris, Bakar Wilson, Elizabeth Owuor, and Fahima Ife
Duriel E. Harris, Bakar Wilson, Elizabeth Owuor, and Fahima Ife, a reading and conversation to celebrate the launch of "Genre Queer/ Gender Queer Playground," Obsidian: Litrature and Arts in the African Diaspora, guest edited by Ronaldo V. Wilson (moderator). Conversations: Power Forged, the Fall Living Writers theme, features poets, novelists, academics, curators, and artists in conversation […]
Friday, November 11, 2022
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Saturday, November 12, 2022
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