Events
Humanities 2, Room 259
Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing Ceremony
Humanities 2, Room 259Please join the Writing Program in celebrating UC Santa Cruz’s ninth annual Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing ceremony. UCSC VPDUE Richard Hughey, Humanities Dean Tyler Stovall, Writing Program Chair Tonya Ritola, and Writing Program faculty members will be attending the ceremony along with this year’s six winners and their families. Please RSVP by completing […]
Stephanie Bosch Santana: “The Digital Worlding of African Literature: From Blog and Facebook Fiction to the Blockchain”
Humanities 2, Room 259Stephanie Bosch Santana is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her work, which has been supported by the Mellon foundation, focuses on Anglophone and African language fiction from southern Africa. Her current book project examines an alternative history of literary forms in periodical print and digital media from the […]
Friday Forum: Kiki Loveday
Humanities 2, Room 259What You Love: The Library at Alexandria, Quotation, and Survival The figure of Sappho is paradigmatic of the queer-feminist archive: she is the founding figure of female artistic genius and sexual deviance in Western Civilization, yet neither her work nor her story has survived. Between 1896 and 1931 over twenty cinematic versions of Sappho were […]
Friday Forum: Elizabeth Goldman
Humanities 2, Room 259Once Helpful, Always Helpful? Infants’ Expectations About Helping and Hindering Behavior Across Scenarios The present work examined 16 to 18 month-olds’abilities to generalize a person’s tendency to help or hinder across multiple scenarios. Infants saw three familiarization events where an agent consistently helped or hindered another agent. In test, infants saw two test trials (consistent […]
Reading Group: Cathy Davidson “The New Education”
Humanities 2, Room 259The Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now research cluster will meet on Friday, February 23 (9-11am in 2 HUM 259) to discuss The New Education in preparation for Cathy Davidson's visit on March 1. Davidson will also be facilitating a hands-on workshop with the research cluster on Friday, March 2 at 2-4 pm in […]
Sora Y. Han: “Poetics of MU”
Humanities 2, Room 259The daughter appears in Hortense Spillers’s literary criticism as an oblique subject of both the Oedipal “law of the Father” and the slave law of partus sequitur ventrem. With this figure, this talk presents the broader question of how a law of reproduction without genealogy raises the stakes of theorizing race, colonialism, and the limits […]
Film Screening: Io sono Li (Shun Li & the Poet)
Humanities 2, Room 259Crossings Film Series Over 2017-18, the CLRC and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is proud to present "Crossings," a quarterly film series about migration and the Mediterranean. We open with the 2014 documentary, "Io sto con la sposa," winner of the Human Rights Nights Award at the Venice International Film Festival. All films […]
Yarimar Bonilla: “The Wait of Disaster: Hurricanes and the Politics of Recovery in Puerto Rico”
Humanities 2, Room 259The Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene Research Cluster Presents: "Dr. Yarimar Bonilla, The Wait of Disaster: Hurricanes and the Politics of Recovery in Puerto Rico" Event Photos: Dr. Yarimar Bonilla is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latino/Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on the colonial logics of sovereignty and on questions of race, […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Susan Lin
Humanities 2, Room 259The Linguistics department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. Fall 2016 May/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
Radical Jewish Politics Workshop
Humanities 2, Room 259Marking the centennial of the 1917 Russian Revolution, the UCSC Center for Jewish Studies invites you to attend an afternoon of roundtable discussions around the theme of “Radical Jewish Politics.” This event both addresses and pushes the standard canon to discuss a wide variety of contexts, not only on their own, but in conversation with […]