Events
Cowell Provost House
The Deppe Memorial Lecture with Professor Emily Gowers
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Classical Studies Program presents The Carl Mark Deppe Memorial Lecture, taking place this Friday, April 5 at the Cowell Provost house at 4:00pm (reception to follow). This year, Professor Emily Gowers (University of Cambridge) will be giving a talk titled "Sallust's Salient Snails." The lecture will focus on a brief episode in Sallust's […]
Celebrating the Humanities Spring Awards
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease mark your calendars for Thursday, June 1, 2022 as we acknowledge the achievements of our outstanding students and faculty at the annual Celebrating the Humanities Spring Awards event. This year, the hybrid event will take place at the Cowell Provost House with the program beginning at 4 p.m and a reception to follow the […]
Humanities Division Graduate Student Awards Celebration
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us on Friday, May 19, 2023 as we acknowledge the achievements of our exceptional graduate students at the inaugural Humanities Division Graduate Student Awards Celebration! This in-person event will take place at the Cowell College Provost House. The program will begin at 4:30 p.m, with a reception to follow the ceremony. Friends and families […]
The Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series: Inaugural Lecture by Asif Siddiqi
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesYou are invited to attend the inaugural lecture for The Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series, taking place on Wednesday, May 17th, 2023, at 2:00pm at the Cowell Provost House. This event will also be livestreamed and recorded: Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series Inaugural Lecture. Drawing on insights from Maya Peterson’s […]
Karen Tei Yamashita Lifetime Achievement Award Celebration
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us in a celebration of Karen Tei Yamashita's Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Foundation. Karen's books will be for sale at the event through Bookshop Santa Cruz. For more information contact: meperks@ucsc.edu. Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, the Literature Department, and Cowell College.
Stephen Roddy: Testing Allegiances – Ueda Akinari’s Rewriting of an Exemplary Chinese Friendship
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk examines the transcultural implications of Ueda Akinari's (1734-1809) short story "The Chrysanthemum Pledge" (Kikka no chigiri), a masterpiece considered to have overshadowed the 17th-century Chinese tale of exemplary friendship on which it is closely modeled. Despite the Confucian tenor of both the Chinese and the Japanese versions, I argue that Akinari subtly but […]
THI Open House
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us as we kick off the 20th anniversary of The Humanities Institute: a vibrant community at the center of UC Santa Cruz and at the cutting edge of Humanities research, education, and public engagement. Raise a glass, meet our fellows, and connect with your colleagues. In many ways, The Humanities Institute is a demonstration […]
CANCELLED – Glenn Tiffert: Censorship, Digitalization and the Fragility of Our Knowledge Base – Lessons from China
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTechnological and economic forces are radically restructuring our ecosystem of knowledge, and opening our information space increasingly to forms of digital disruption and manipulation that are scalable, difficult to detect, and corrosive of the trust upon which vigorous scholarship and liberal democratic practice depend. Using an illustrative case from the people’s republic of china, this […]
Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join the Writing Program in celebrating UC Santa Cruz’s tenth annual Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing ceremony on Friday, October 18 from 2:00-3:30pm in Cowell Provost House. Chancellor Larive, UCSC VPDUE Richard Hughey, Writing Program Chair Tonya Ritola, and Writing Program faculty members will be attending the ceremony along with this year’s […]
The Carl Mark Deppe Memorial Lecture: Alex Purves
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCarl Deppe was a charismatic young man and a promising student. In 1985 he was a sophomore at UCSC, studying Greek and ancient philosophy. While returning from a rock concert, he was killed by a drunk driver on Highway 17. His parents, George and Patricia Deppe, along with his friends, established this annual lecture series […]