Events
Week of Events
Festival of Monsters
Monsters lurk in our culture. They rise in times of growing prejudice, discrimination and othering. The 2023 Festival of Monsters (Oct. 13-15) — hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies — explores the ways monsters and tropes of monstrosity both preserve and conflict with forms of social and cultural injustice. Held in […]
micha cárdenas – Atoms Never Touch
micha cárdenas – Atoms Never Touch
Join us in celebrating the debut of Atoms Never Touch by micha cárdenas; forward by adrienne maree brown. Jumping to alternate realities sounds great, if you're in control. But what if you're not? What if you're propelled away from the people and places you love the most in the blink of an eye? And what […]
PhD+ Series – Mastodon, Threads, X: Promote Research on Text-Based Social Media Platforms
PhD+ Series – Mastodon, Threads, X: Promote Research on Text-Based Social Media Platforms
Ready to promote your research on social media? This seminar will help you learn how! Explore how to promote your research and expertise on the text-based social media platforms Mastodon, Threads, and X (formerly Twitter). We’ll cover how to use each platform, how each works, how to communicate effectively on each platform and how to […]
National Endowment for the Humanities Q&A
National Endowment for the Humanities Q&A
Please join us on Tuesday, October 17th from 12:00-1:30 p.m. for a virtual open forum Q&A with Program Officers from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). This event will be guided by faculty questions. If you would like to submit questions for the Program Officers in advance, please fill out this form. We will […]
PhD+ Series – Preparing the Teaching Statement and Portfolio
PhD+ Series – Preparing the Teaching Statement and Portfolio
Gain tools and tips for effectively writing a teaching statement, a common document in faculty hiring and review processes and an opportunity to reflect on how your teaching supports student learning. We’ll also review how to select teaching portfolio materials that tell a compelling story of who you are as an educator. Kendra Dority, left, […]
Martina Broner – From Arboreal to Aerial: Seeing the Amazon from Above
Martina Broner – From Arboreal to Aerial: Seeing the Amazon from Above
Can seeing the Amazon from above bring about new perspectives on the forest at a critical time? This talk proposes that the documentary Helena Sarayaku manta (dir. Eriberto Gualinga, 2021) rethinks the aerial view by pushing against its historical associations with omniscience and a desire for mastery and by reframing it instead around the vitality […]
Living Writers – J. Vanessa Lyon
Living Writers – J. Vanessa Lyon
J. Vanessa Lyon is the author of Lush Lives (an inaugural title of Roxane Gay Books/Grove Atlantic), the Audible Original The Groves, and Meet Me in Madrid, written under the pseudonym Verity Lowell. A James Baldwin fellow at MacDowell and Bread Loaf Contributor in Nonfiction, she received a PhD in the history of art from […]
The Micro as Macro: Narrating World Histories of Science, Technology, and Environment
The Micro as Macro: Narrating World Histories of Science, Technology, and Environment
The Center for World History presents the fourth Graduate Student Conference: “The Micro as Macro: Narrating World Histories of Science, Technology, and Environment” in Humanities 1, Room 210 (and online), 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. While world history topics have expanded recently to include diverse areas, the Euro-American experience continues to dominate scholarship and is […]