Events
Week of Events
The 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
The West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL, pronounced /ˈwɪkfəl/) is an annual linguistics conference, held in the spring at a university in western North America. It is a top international venue for researchers in theoretical linguistics, studying any aspect of human language from a formal perspective, including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and their interfaces. […]
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series February 26, March 26, and April 30 at 1:00-3:00 PM | Virtual Event The next three Pickwick Club sessions will focus on Dickens’s last and most enigmatic work, the unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood. Considered by many lovers of detective fiction to be the ultimate mystery novel, since […]
Alev Çinar – The Predicament of Islamic Decoloniality in Turkey: Sufi Political Thought and the “Great East” Project of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
Alev Çinar – The Predicament of Islamic Decoloniality in Turkey: Sufi Political Thought and the “Great East” Project of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
After winning its battle against the occupying colonial powers during The War of Independence in 1919-1922, Turkey set on a secular, Westernizationist path toward modernization under Mustafa Kemal’s leadership. Turkey spent what can be referred to as its postcolonial period under its founding ideology, Kemalism, which launched a West-oriented secular modernization project that framed the […]
Hanna Musiol – Wounded Landscapes and Maps of Hurt: Breaths, Scars, and Tender Story-Sharing
Hanna Musiol – Wounded Landscapes and Maps of Hurt: Breaths, Scars, and Tender Story-Sharing
This event is co-sponsored by Film and Digital Media Maps always sense and often cut. Much has been written about their violence, as an overture for the genocidal touch, as […]
Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land Book Talk and Celebration
Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land Book Talk and Celebration
Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land, examines the ongoing settler colonial war over the US-Mexico border from the perspective of Apache, Tohono O'odham, and Maya […]
Labor Hope, Labor Reality: Organizing Unions in 2023 – An Evening with E. Tammy Kim
Labor Hope, Labor Reality: Organizing Unions in 2023 – An Evening with E. Tammy Kim
On Wednesday, May 3, at 5:30pm in the Namaste Lounge (College Nine), New Yorker writer and co-host of the podcast Time to Say Goodbye E. Tammy Kim will be giving a talk on the […]
On Salon: Reading Series
On Salon: Reading Series
On Salon: A new reading series featuring UCSC’s incredible writers and poets. Join us for a new quarterly reading series sponsored by the Literature Department featuring graduate and undergraduate creative […]
The Deep Read: Faculty Salon
The Deep Read: Faculty Salon
On May 4, you’ll be able to join the conversation—either in person or online—at a salon-style event where our participating professors will lead a discussion of this year's Deep Read book, Under a White Sky, with UCSC students and the broader Deep Read community. Faculty Speakers Jorge Menna Barreto, Environmental Art Mike Beck, Marine Sciences, […]
Debjani Bhattarcharyya – Climate Ledgers: Atmospheric Politics, Risk and Liability in the Indian Ocean, 1770-1850
Debjani Bhattarcharyya – Climate Ledgers: Atmospheric Politics, Risk and Liability in the Indian Ocean, 1770-1850
“Climate Ledgers” is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2022-2023 lecture series, Futures. Speaker: Professor Debjani Bhattarcharyya, University of Zurich
Encore Papers & Presentations
Encore Papers & Presentations
This crip-friendly event is an opportunity to learn about what your UCSC colleagues are doing in their Disability Studies work. Presenters will present works-in-progress, or re-deliver papers they have given […]
Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us with Professor Deanna K. Kreisel
Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us with Professor Deanna K. Kreisel
Please join the Friends of the Dickens Project for our spring Friends Faculty Fellowship talk series by Associate Professor Deanna K. Kreisel (University of Mississippi) who will be discussing “Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us.” Over the course of three sessions, we will have an opportunity to explore Victorian responses to their changing environment, […]