Events
Week of Events
POSTPONED – Slugs and Steins with Professor Eric Porter: What Can We Learn from the Airport?
POSTPONED – Slugs and Steins with Professor Eric Porter: What Can We Learn from the Airport?
For many people, airports may seem like alienating “nonplaces”—as anthropologist Marc Augé put it—where we rush to make connections and spend long, monotonous hours waiting for delayed flights. But airports are fascinating sites that can tell us a lot about the places where they are situated. Among other things, they are complex infrastructures where people, […]
PhD+ Workshop – Grad Slam Presentation Prep: Public Speaking
PhD+ Workshop – Grad Slam Presentation Prep: Public Speaking
This brief workshop provides an overview of strategies and best practices for public speaking, including managing anxiety, key delivery techniques, and composition tips for crafting clearer and more focused speeches, with an emphasis on the parameters of the Grad Slam’s short presentations. It will include some interactive personalized exercises. If you have your grad slam […]
Jarrod Shanahan – Skyscraper Jails
Jarrod Shanahan – Skyscraper Jails
How did a campaign to end the humanitarian catastrophe of New York City's Rikers Island penal colony culminate in the planned creation of skyscraper jails across the city, with no closure of Rikers in sight? The tragic story of recent jail reform efforts in New York City is at once novel, and indicative of broader […]
Gershom Gorenberg: The Secret War Against the Nazis for the Middle East
Gershom Gorenberg: The Secret War Against the Nazis for the Middle East
At the midpoint of World War II, an Axis army under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was on the brink of conquering the Middle East. Drawing on his latest book, War of Shadows, historian and alumnus Gershom Gorenberg (Kresge '76, Religious Studies) will reveal the espionage affair that led to the British victory against Rommel at […]
PhD+ Workshop – Carole McGranahan, “Drafting Stages”
PhD+ Workshop – Carole McGranahan, “Drafting Stages”
Join UCSC's Dr. Gina Athena Ulysse in a series of intimate conversations with speakers working inside and outside of academia and at different points in their careers about writing as an evolving and non-linear process. Focusing on conditions, inspirations, and methods, each speaker will offer personal insight into their processes and the messiness and vulnerabilities […]
Elora Shehebuddin – Bangladesh, Third World Solidarity, and the Global Politics of Feminism
Elora Shehebuddin – Bangladesh, Third World Solidarity, and the Global Politics of Feminism
“Bangladesh, Third World Solidarity, and the Global Politics of Feminism” is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2022-2023 lecture series, Futures. Guests can register to attend the virtual event here. Speaker: Professor Elora Shehebuddin, UC Berkeley