Technology is ubiquitous. Computers and phones impact our daily rhythms, communicative abilities, and cognitive energies. Consider being hospitalized, flying from one country to another, or taking a prescription medicine. Or […]
Dr. Easkey Britton lives in Ireland and she’s an amazing competitive big wave surfer –one of the few women in the sport–and she has a PhD in Environment and Society. […]
Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015. Édgar Octavio Valadez Blanco is currently studying […]
The UC Humanities Research Institute and the UC Humanities Network invite graduate students to attend the next statewide career workshop to be held in San Diego on Friday, February 20th. The […]
This talk outlines China’s trajectory of commodification and the counter-movements by state and society in the past quarter century. Unpacking the class specific dynamics and experiences of precarization, I discuss […]
Learn from the experts! Faculty and graduate students who have recently won grants and fellowships discuss the application process and share their tips for a successful application. This roundtable discussion […]
Mathematical knowledge has traditionally been taken to be absolutely objective, i.e. completely independent of contingent facts about the agents who discover the results. Today, this absolutistic view of mathematics has […]
Making the MA/PhD Work Post Graduation: A Career Workshop for Humanities Graduate Students May 8 9:00 AM Breakfast and Registration (please pre-register) 10:00 Welcome by David Theo Goldberg, UCHRI […]
Sharon Holland, Professor of American Studies at UNC Chapel Hill has been working on a book project entitled “Perishment,” a theoretical study that takes German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s notion that humans […]
Prof.Rebecca Jo Plant will be presenting on Child Soldiers: Militarism and American Youth, a book project that she and her collaborator, Frances M. Clarke of the University of Sydney, have […]
What does mountain biking have to do with the Grateful Dead? This talk will discuss the intricate role the counterculture played upon the innovation of mountain biking, begun in the […]
Though an historian of medieval thought, Clare Monagle’s most recent work turns to the twentieth-century and the deployment of the Middle Ages in International Relations Theory. Monagle argues that charting […]
The “Genomics and Philosophy of Race” conference aims to foster a dialogue about race, and, in particular, about relationships between ideas of race and modern genomics research. Four panels of […]
The Department of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz is searching for two positions during 2013-14 in the area of Mediterranean Studies, one in Ancient Comparative and one in Medieval/Early Modern, […]
About the Cluster The Complicated Labor Research Cluster is an interdisciplinary collaboration that brings together artists and scholars around questions of feminism, maternity, and creative process. It seeks to center […]
About the Cluster Capitalism has emerged as a central theme for research in the humanities. Since the global economic crisis of 2008, it has become clear that scholars are returning […]
About the Cluster The working group on the study of children brings together faculty and graduate students from multiple disciplines to explore how to pursue and theorize research on children. […]
About the Cluster For the past 5 years, the Science Studies Research Cluster has brought together faculty and graduate students who research, write, and teach about science, technology, and the […]
About the Cluster The Urban Studies Research Cluster formed in 2007 to provide a home for faculty and graduate students across all major fields at UC Santa Cruz to explore […]
The course will approach literature and literary devices in their capacity to address the patient’s experience of illness, medical education and practice, and medical ethics and to understand and assess how considerations of justice impact these themes in medicine. […]