All members of the UCSC community and the general public are invited to attend the Twelfth Annual UCSC Literature Undergraduate Colloquium onThursday, May 19, 2011 in Humanities 1, room 210. The Undergraduate Colloquium is a day-long event showcasing and celebrating undergraduate academic work in the Literature Department, and is free and open to the public. […]

University of California, Santa Cruz HUMANITIES DEAN CANDIDATE PRESENTATION Professor William Ladusaw’s Vision for the Humanities The presentation will be followed by a brief question and answer session. Meetings will be held for Humanities Faculty, Students, and Staff, beginning at 2:45PM 2:00 – 2:45pm    Candidate Presentation 2:45 – 3:30pm   Humanities Faculty and Department Chairs […]

The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Mark Franko, Dance and Performance Studies, UCSC "Myth, Nationalism, and Embodiment in Martha Graham's American Document" Professor Franko, a UC Humanities Network Scholar, is editor of Dance Research Journal, founding editor of the Oxford Studies in Dance Theory book series, and Director of the Center for Visual […]

The Science Studies Research Cluster invites you to join us for The Science Studies Creative Writing Workshop: Science Studies teaches us that narratives, tropes, figures, genres, and writing styles matter […]

UCSC Society of the Archeological Institute of America and the President's Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on "Archaeology and the Ancient World" Professor Sarah […]

Join us as we recognize the outstanding accomplishments of our faculty, staff and students who have received awards, honors, grants and/or fellowships over the course of the 2010-11 academic year.

The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Cécile Alduy, French and Italian, Stanford University "Obscenity, Obstetrics, and the Origin of the Pornographic Gaze" Professor Alduy is chair of Renaissances, an interdisciplinary forum on the present and future of early modern studies, and director of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Stanford […]

Frequent or contextually-predictable words are often phonetically reduced, e.g. shortened or produced with articulatory undershoot. Three common explanations for this phenomenon attribute phonetic reduction, and pronunciation variation generally, to variation in (1) intelligibility, (2) speed of lexical access, and (3) probabilistic properties of whole utterances. In this talk, I discuss recent results (Gahl, Yao & […]

Regine Basha has been an curator of contemporary art and art writer since the early 1990s. Her exhibition and writing history can be found on bashaprojects.com. Amongst her most recent projects is Tuning Baghdad, an audio-visual forum for chronicling Iraqi-Jewish music scene and their house parties (based on her own background). This ongoing project brings […]

The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Jacob Metcalf, Science and Social Justice Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSC "Meet Shmeat: Animal Biotechnologies and the Philosophical Tensions of the New Foods Movements" Doctor Metcalf is the Postdoctoral Fellow in an NSF-funded program training graduate students in interdisciplinary inquiry on the co-constitution of ethics and scientific knowledge. His […]