Events
Forager, San Jose
Prof and a Pint: Death on the Nile – A 3D Visit to Egypt’s Most Enduring Cemetery
Forager, San Jose 420 S 1st St, San Jose, CA, United StatesThe ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara was the burial place of kings, queens, priests, and elite officials for 2500 years (3000-332 BCE), and boasts some of the most spectacular architecture and art from the Pharoanic Period. In this talk, we'll make a virtual visit to the site, using a 3D model that digitally 'reconstructs' the […]
Sean Keilen: Reading Hamlet Now
Forager, San Jose 420 S 1st St, San Jose, CA, United StatesShakespeare's works are rightly famous for their lifelikeness and insights into human affairs. What can they show us about our circumstances now, in a world where truth is inscrutable, social and political institutions are in decline, and we seem to relish conflict more than peace? This lecture will explore that question in the context of […]
Halloween Lecture “The Vampire in Love” (with costume contest)
Forager, San Jose 420 S 1st St, San Jose, CA, United StatesBrought to you by the UCSC Prof and a Pint Lecture Series Oh yeah, there will be a costume contest! And there will be prizes! If you want to compete please gather on the stage at 6:15pm. The lecture will start at 6:30pm as usual. From the beginning of the earliest English-language vampire narrative in […]
Prof and A Pint- The 1930s: The Past of Our Present?
Forager, San Jose 420 S 1st St, San Jose, CA, United StatesMarc Matera challenges this image of the decade and draws different lessons for our time by considering the 1930s through examples in which global connections and international organization reached new levels on many fronts, from struggles for colonial and racial freedom to the spread of populist authoritarianism. Comparisons between 1930s and our contemporary moment are […]
Prof and a Pint: “Polarization and Public Discourse: How We Got Here and What We Do Now”
Forager, San Jose 420 S 1st St, San Jose, CA, United StatesPolitical discourse in the United States is devolving. From social media to Washington D.C. closed-mindedness, confirmation bias, and agenda-driven reasoning are undermining the possibility for constructive dialogue. Where do these destructive tendencies come from? Are they the result of a person’s upbringing, or intelligence, or education? A matter of their character? Our research is beginning […]
Prof and a Pint: “Dickens and the Struggles of Marriage”
Forager, San Jose 420 S 1st St, San Jose, CA, United StatesCharles Dickens is known for his marriage plots: no matter what kinds of twists and turns threaten the path of true love, in the end David Copperfield gets his Agnes, Esther Summerson gets her Woodcourt, and John Harmon gets his Bella. But was marriage really a happy ending for the women in Dickens’s novels? What […]
Ben Breen, When Drugs Became Global: Technologies of Intoxication in the Enlightenment
Forager, San Jose 420 S 1st St, San Jose, CA, United StatesOver the course of the seventeenth eighteenth centuries, psychoactive substances from opiates to cannabis to coffee underwent rapid globalization. Enlightenment thinkers were by no means immune to the allure of these novel drugs. Scientists and physicians tried to discover the “occult virtues” of these drugs through an array of experimental methods, including testing them on themselves. This […]