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Linguistic Colloquium: Paul Kiparsky
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLinguistic Colloquium: The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. Fall 2015 October 9th: Keith Johnson, UC Berkeley October 16th: Heidi Harley, University of Arizona October 30th: Ivano Caponigro, UC San Diego November 20th: Elliott Moreton, University of North Carolina Winter 2016 January 15th: Sharon Inkelas, UC Berkeley February 5th: Colin Phillips, University of Maryland February […]
FreeMireille Lee “The Archaeology of Ancient Greek Dress”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and The UCSC Archaeological Research Center present: Archaeology provides important evidence for ancient Greek dress, which was essential to the construction of social identities. Although no complete garments survive, preserved fragments of silk and embroideries indicate the elite status of the wearer. Jewelry, dress fasteners, toilet […]
Irene Lusztig: “Yours in Sisterhood: Utopian Conversation, Public Feminisms, and Talking to the 70’s”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIrene Lusztig’s recent nonfiction moving image projects engage the methods and questions of 1970’s collaborative feminist documentary practice, interrogating the contemporary status of public feminism. The presentation focuses on materials and methods from her current work in progress, Yours in Sisterhood, a participatory documentary project based on published and unpublished letters to the editor of Ms. magazine. Lusztig […]
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The Hong Kong Democracy Movement: A Student Leader Speaks
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Hong Kong Democracy Movement: A Student Leader Speaks In the autumn of 2014, a massive protest led by students demanded genuine universal suffrage for China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The protest became known as the Umbrella Movement. Nathan Kwun-chung Law will give an eyewitness report on that movement, as well as an account […]
Humanities Earth Day Lunch and Learn
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Green Team would like to invite you to join us for Earth Day! Friday, April 22nd, 2016 11:30am - 1:00pm Program: 11:30am-12:00pm: Green Team introductions 12:00pm-12:15pm: PSI presentation 12:15pm-1:00pm: "Bin Confused" presentation Come enjoy delicious food provided by local caterers while learning about how to achieve zero waste in your office, events, and at home!
Tony Michels: “Soviet America: The Russian Revolution in Jewish Life”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Russian Revolution of 1917 radically altered American Jewish politics. Whereas most Americans viewed the revolution as a threat to western civilization, Jews wished for the success of the Bolsheviks, who offered the only possibility of rescue from the mass slaughter carried out by anti-Communist forces. A minority of Jews went so far as […]
Joshua Brahinsky: “The Cultivated Event: Why Pentecostals Were the Best Organizers of the 20th Century and How to Translate Their Strategies For the Rest of Us”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoshua Brahinsky’s current book project is “God’s Bodies: Pentecostal Training in Art of Immediacy.” He is working on a research project on global evangelicalism and theory of mind, and is an organizer for UC-AFT and the Economic Justice Alliance. Brahinsky has his PhD from the Department of History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz. Spring 2016 […]
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Sikhism in the Global Age
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMark Juergensmeyer is Kundan Kaur Kapany Chair of Global and Sikh Studies, fellow of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, professor of sociology, and affiliate professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is an expert on religious violence, conflict resolution and South Asian religion and politics, and has […]
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La Ironía y Anticlericalismo En Halma
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC Spanish Studies and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Present: LA IRONÍA Y ANTICLERICALISMO EN HALMA ÁLVARO ROMERO MARCO (UCSC) Más allá de las clasificaciones y evoluciones que la crítica ha venido realizando, la novelística de Galdós es consecuencia de su ideología, pues la realidad es observada y transformada a través de su apuesta por la modernidad. En el caso de Halma, […]
Contemplative Pedagogy Symposium
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesContemplative pedagogy is an integrated approach to teaching and learning that sees education as a transformative process rather than simply a means of accumulating information. With an emphasis on curiosity, collaboration, engagement, and student-centered learning, contemplative approaches seek to cultivate thinkers and responders rather than consumers of knowledge. Practitioners forge links between traditional disciplinary wisdom […]
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