Event Recaps
28 April 2018 / 16 January 2024 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
On April 28th, 2018, Bettina Aptheker, distinguished professor and Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, delivered the weekend’s faculty keynote address and 2018’s Peggy Downes Baskin […]
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Opera Parallèle, a Bay Area opera company, founded by UCSC Music Professor Emerita, Nicole Paiement, who is its musical director and conductor, has commissioned an opera based on the life […]
“The Ethical Role of the Public University” Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture / Alumni Weekend Faculty Keynote with Bettina Aptheker and Marlene Tromp Bettina Aptheker, distinguished professor and Peggy and […]
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9 March 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Marlene Tromp will join Aptheker in conversation. The newly restored and reopened Quarry Amphitheater is the biggest event space on the […]
SAVE THE DATE Alumni Weekend 2018 April 27-29 For more info visit: alumniweekend.ucsc.edu
Grants News
20 August 2017 / 21 February 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
Magnone is one of 20 new Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows nationwide who will take up two-year assignments with government agencies and non-profit organizations, working in the fields of policy, civil rights, arts and culture, and the media.
Daniel Guevara (Philosophy) and Claudio Campagna (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Wildlife Conservation Society) assert that we need to radically rethink the meaning of conservation. “Sustainable Development” is a failed […]
Please join us from 12-1 for a lunchtime Mix & Mingle in the Humanities courtyard. Connect with Humanities alumni, faculty, and beloved emeriti professors while enjoying complementary beverages and desserts. […]
Join us for lively panel discussions: Careers and Resources for Entrepreneurship for Graduate Students in the Santa Cruz Region, San Francisco to Monterey (1p-2:15p); Graduate Student Alumni Leaders in Santa […]
Charles Dickens was a unique and protean fellow; writer, social commentator, reporter, actor, father, and much more.He was also a great lover of the table and glass, a noteworthy bon […]
Graduate Alumni and current graduate students will have an opportunity to meet each other, discuss their work and enjoy a relaxed opportunity to reconnect and network. Refreshments will be provided. […]
Gina Dent, associate professor of feminist studies, history of consciousness, and legal studies, will discuss the role of the humanities in responding to the current discussion of “alternative facts.” How […]
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9 January 2017 / 22 December 2017 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
James Freeman (Stevenson ’90, philosophy), a disaffected clarinetist-turned-coffee maven, started Blue Bottle in 2002 and is now recognized as a pioneer and leader of alt-coffee in America. Coffee allowed him to pursue artistry and excellence.
SAVE THE DATE April 28 – 30, 2017 More info and event schedule at: alumniweekend.ucsc.edu
18 August 2016 / 22 December 2017 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
A memoir of surfing by UC Santa Cruz graduate William Finnegan, (Cowell, ’74, English literature) is at the top of President Obama’s 2016 Summer Reading List. The White House released […]
4 April 2016 / 19 February 2018 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
By Dan White Returning Slugs and the general public will have an immersive jazz experience that is sure to stimulate minds, move feet, and soothe souls during Alumni Weekend. The […]
By Dan White UC Santa Cruz’s Alumni Weekend festivities will include a thought-provoking symposium on learning, a farm-to-fork luncheon, a tour of the beloved Quarry Amphitheater, an informative and rocking […]
By Scott Rappaport Out of Line–the spring edition of the Creative Writing Program’s 2016 Living Writers Series–features eight writers who generally have fun with the unexpected. “I chose the theme […]
A distinguished group of speakers will explore the question, “How do we learn?,” at a brand-new Alumni Weekend event that will range from the world of virtual reality to the […]
EVENT PHOTOS: Kuumbwa Jazz Center and the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research present: Race, Class & Culture through the Lens of Jazz Featuring a headline performance by […]
4 February 2016 / 19 February 2018 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
By Alison F. Takemura, Sentinel When society grapples with issues such as racism, violence and life-altering technologies, it needs more than science. It needs humanity. William Adams, chairman of the […]
SAVE THE DATE April 28 – May 1, 2016 More info and event schedule at: alumniweekend.ucsc.edu Questions? Contact alumni@ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-5003.
27 April 2015 / 19 February 2018 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
By Wallace Baine, Santa Cruz Sentinel Back when Jesse Thorn was spending most of his waking hours at the studios of KZSC, hardly anybody had heard of podcasting. But for […]
17 April 2015 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
Alumni returning for Alumni Weekend should get ready to exercise their brains and have some fun at the ever-popular “Teach-Ins,” an academic afternoon that lets Banana Slugs be students once […]
