Events
Week of Events
Sunday, November 27, 2022
- November 27, 2022 -Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts XI-XV
Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts XI-XV
Join Professor Karen Hattaway (San Jacinto College) for a series of discussions about the book that stunned Conrad and Dostoevsky. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens Sept. 25, Oct. 23, Nov. 27, and Jan. 22 at 1:00-3:00 PM (PDT) | Virtual Events Charles Dickens published Our Mutual Friend in twenty monthly parts from May 1864 […]
Monday, November 28, 2022
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Tuesday, November 29, 2022
- November 29, 2022 -CANCELED – PhD+ Workshop – Mindfulness
- November 29, 2022 -Patti Smith: Songs & Stories, A Book of Days
CANCELED – PhD+ Workshop – Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a particular way of paying attention. It is the mental faculty of purposefully bringing attention to one’s present moment experience. Practicing mindfulness can lead to: improved ability to focus, increased patience and adaptability, greater empathy and compassion, and improved feelings of well-being. In this session we’ll review mindfulness basics and try a couple […]
Patti Smith: Songs & Stories, A Book of Days
Bookshop Santa Cruz is thrilled to welcome Patti Smith, National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, back to town for a celebration of A Book of Days—her deeply moving and idiosyncratic visual book of days featuring more than 365 images and reflections. Tickets include entry to the event and a copy of […]
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
- November 30, 2022 -CANCELED – PhD+ Workshop – Maintaining Work-Life Balance in Academia
- November 30, 2022CANCELED: Hannah Zeavin – Hot and Cool Mothers
- November 30, 2022 -PhD+ Workshop – Career Pathways for Humanities Graduate Students
CANCELED – PhD+ Workshop – Maintaining Work-Life Balance in Academia
Join Angel Dominguez for an interactive workshop and discussion of what it means to cultivate a healthy work-life balance. The interactive discussion will cover the importance of setting boundaries, time management, how technology can be your friend, and why saying “no” doesn't make you a bad person! Angel is a queer, first-generation, Latinx UCSC alumnus […]
CANCELED: Hannah Zeavin – Hot and Cool Mothers
“Hot and Cool Mothers” moves toward a media theory of mothering and parental “fitness.” The article begins with an investigation into midcentury pediatric psychological studies on Bad Mothers and their impacts on their children. The most famous, if not persistent, of these diagnoses is that of the so-called refrigerator mother. The refrigerator mother is not […]
PhD+ Workshop – Career Pathways for Humanities Graduate Students
Join us for a virtual workshop with Katina Rogers, "Career Pathways for Humanities Graduate Students," Nov. 30 at 1 p.m. on Zoom. Register here. This workshop is presented by the Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Merced and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. About the […]
Thursday, December 1, 2022
- December 1, 2022 -CANCELED – PhD+ Workshop – Public Speaking
- December 1, 2022 -CANCELED: Hannah Zeavin – Sigmund Freud: Tele-Analyst
- December 1, 2022 -Living Writers: Student Reading
- December 1, 2022POSTPONED – Douglas Brinkley: Silent Spring Revolution
CANCELED – PhD+ Workshop – Public Speaking
Learn techniques to warm up, deal with nerves, craft your talk, and deliver an engaging oration for any audience. This interactive workshop will take you through Bri’s trademarked W.A.V.E.® methods to get you ready to connect with an audience and keep them engaged. Bri McWhorter is the founder and CEO of Activate to Captivate, where […]
CANCELED: Hannah Zeavin – Sigmund Freud: Tele-Analyst
In The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy, Hannah Zeavin shows that, far from a recent concern in the COVID-19 pandemic, teletherapy is as old as psychoanalysis itself. It may be well known that Sigmund Freud routinely used media metaphorically in his theories of the psychic apparatus; this talk recovers the early history of Freud’s […]
Living Writers: Student Reading
Conversations: Power Forged, the Fall Living Writers theme, features poets, novelists, academics, curators, and artists in conversation with one another, in person, across genre and media to open up a space between them, and all of us, within dialogue, collaboration, politics, intimacy and difference which poet and activist Audre Lorde describes as that raw and powerful […]
POSTPONED – Douglas Brinkley: Silent Spring Revolution
New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley will present his new book Silent Spring Revolution, which chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), on December 1 at the UC Santa Cruz Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. The book tells the story of an indomitable generation that saved the […]
Friday, December 2, 2022
- December 2, 2022 -CANCELED – Linguistics Colloquia: Argyro Katsika
CANCELED – Linguistics Colloquia: Argyro Katsika
Argyro Katsika, UC Santa Barbara Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
Saturday, December 3, 2022
- December 3, 2022 -Miriam Ellis Memorial Celebration
Miriam Ellis Memorial Celebration
Join us to celebrate the life of Miriam Ellis, lecturer emerita of French, fellow of Cowell College, and founder of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP). The memorial will be held at Stevenson Event Center (SEC), where audiences have long enjoyed and will continue to enjoy performances of the MEIP. Miriam’s irrepressible joy touched the […]