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Institute for Humanities Research, UC Santa Cruz
PhD+: Research Tools and Methods
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRefine your research skills, learn about new available research tools, and get to know the library staff that can help you in your research pursuits. This panel, including presentations by Annette Marines, Lucia Orlando, and Rachel Deblinger will offer introductions to: Locating primary and secondary materials through library-based subscription databases Analyzing data using web-based tools […]
William D. Adams: “‘Wicked Problems’: The Humanities in the Time of STEM”
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC Institute for Humanities Research presents: "Wicked Problems": The Humanities in the Time of STEM 15th Annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture by William D. Adams, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities William D. Adams, NEH ChairmanPhoto by Fred Field, courtesy of Colby College Dr. William D. Adams was nominated by President Barack Obama […]
PhD+: Online Identity
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLearn how to perfect your online identity and social media presence as an academic or higher ed professional. Melissa De Witte (Web Coordinator, Social Sciences) will lead a discussion about how you can build your social media presence as an academic. Whether you are a novice or an expert, a technophobe or an early adopter, […]
Questions that Matter: “Play: Games, Life, and Death”
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterQuestions that Matter 03.01.16 from IHR on Vimeo. This series brings together UC Santa Cruz scholars with community members to explore questions that matter to all of us. We invite you to join us on March 1, 2016 for the series launch at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center. Featuring: Kimberly Lau, Professor of Literature, UCSC Noah […]
PhD+: Work-Life Balance
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPanelists: Shelley Stamp, Professor of Film and Digital Media Meg Corman, Special Assistant to the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor of University Relations Nathaniel Deutsch, Director, Institute for Humanities Research, Professor of History Shelley Stamp will offer reflections on Work/Life Balance based on over 20 years experience teaching at UC Santa Cruz. She is the mother […]
Sherene Seikaly: “Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSherene Seikaly’s current work explores the construction and regulation of the poor in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt in terms of governance and of popular politics. Through a political economy of the history of food, this project rethinks our understanding of the “masses” and the specter of the “bread riot.” This talk is generously co-sponsored by the […]
Roland Tolentino: “Cinema and State in Crisis: Political Film Collectives and the People’s Struggles in the Philippines”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRoland Tolentino works on Philippine film, literature, and popular culture in national and transnational contexts. He is a fellow of the UP Institute of Creative Writing and a member of the Filipino Film Critics Group, Congress of Teachers and Educators for Nationalism and Democracy, and People’s Alternative Media Network. Tolentino is Faculty at University of the […]
Joshua Brahinsky: “The Cultivated Event: Why Pentecostals Were the Best Organizers of the 20th Century and How to Translate Their Strategies For the Rest of Us”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoshua Brahinsky’s current book project is “God’s Bodies: Pentecostal Training in Art of Immediacy.” He is working on a research project on global evangelicalism and theory of mind, and is an organizer for UC-AFT and the Economic Justice Alliance. Brahinsky has his PhD from the Department of History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz. Spring 2016 […]
PhD+: Eric Hayot: “Writing for Publication in the Humanities”
Humanities 2, Room 259PODCAST: "Writing for Publication in the Humanities" Eric Hayot is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Professor Hayot will present strategies--both psychological and practical--for writing for publication in the humanities from his recent book, The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities (Columbia UP, 2014). His talk will […]
Irene Lusztig: “Yours in Sisterhood: Utopian Conversation, Public Feminisms, and Talking to the 70’s”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIrene Lusztig’s recent nonfiction moving image projects engage the methods and questions of 1970’s collaborative feminist documentary practice, interrogating the contemporary status of public feminism. The presentation focuses on materials and methods from her current work in progress, Yours in Sisterhood, a participatory documentary project based on published and unpublished letters to the editor of Ms. magazine. Lusztig […]