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16 December 2017 / 9 April 2020 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
The project includes a two-part humanities initiative that is designed to support doctoral student success for students from diverse backgrounds, and to expand the impact of the campus’s public humanities “Questions That Matter” outreach program.
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America has famously been called “the land of the free,” and yet when the “Star Spangled Banner” was written, people of African descent were enslaved within its borders, including by […]
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18 October 2016 / 21 May 2020 by Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell | Leave a Comment
On October 18th, 2016, UC Santa Cruz faculty asked the community to join them for a conversation about anger and politics, from Shakespeare to Donald Trump. What place does anger […]
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22 September 2016 / 8 May 2018 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
What place does anger have in public life? Should we welcome the expression of anger in our elections and political deliberations, or does the common good depend on the existence […]
Presented by the Institute for Humanities Research and Shakespeare Workshop What place does anger have in public life? Should we welcome the expression of anger in our elections and political […]
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1 March 2016 / 21 May 2020 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
On March 1st, 2016, UC Santa Cruz faculty asked the community to join them for a conversation about violence and video games. Over the past decade, the revolution in gaming […]
25 February 2016 / 8 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Over the past decade, the revolution in gaming has created new communities, identities, and careers. Games can now help detect early dementia, reduce pain felt by burn victims, and may […]
Questions 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 […]
1 February 2015 / 19 February 2018 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
by Georgia Johnson, City on a Hill Press The UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research launched its first public event, “Questions That Matter: Making the Cosmos Local,” on Jan. […]
27 January 2015 / 21 May 2020 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
On January 27th, 2015, UC Santa Cruz faculty asked the community to join them in an evening of conversation and connection as they brought questions of the universe down to earth […]
8 January 2015 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
The UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) will present Making the Cosmos Local—the first event in a new series of public dialogues titled Questions That Matter—on Tuesday, January […]
MAKING THE COSMOS LOCAL For millennia, people across the globe have searched the sky for answers. They have imagined and reimagined the cosmos, from an infinite and eternal backdrop full […]