Events
Humanities 2, Room 259
Ecology & the Rise of Capitalism Nature, Power, and the Origins of Our Times
Humanities 2, Room 259A colloquium by Associate Professor Jason W. Moore Fernand Braudel Center Binghamton University Jason W. Moore is an environmental and world historian at Binghamton University, where he is Associate Professor of Sociology and Research Fellow at the Fernand Braudel Center. He is author of Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso, 2015) and editor of […]
“What’s Left of Progressive Politics?”
Humanities 2, Room 259The Center for Emerging Worlds presents "What's Left of Progressive Politics?" Roundtable Discussion with Dr. Vijay Prashad, Dr. Lisa Rofel, Dr. Mayanthi Fernando, and Asad Haider Dr. Vijay Prashad is Professor of International Studies and South Asian History at Trinity College, Connecticut and a renowned journalist. He was trained as a historical anthropologist and received […]
Graduate Alumni Panel Discussions
Humanities 2, Room 259Join us for lively panel discussions: Careers and Resources for Entrepreneurship for Graduate Students in the Santa Cruz Region, San Francisco to Monterey (1p-2:15p); Graduate Student Alumni Leaders in Santa Cruz Region, San Francisco to Monterey (2:30p-3:45p) and, Life after Graduate School. Panelists will share their stories and work experience in academic career, non-academic career, […]
Spanish Colloquium: Ximena Briceño, “A vuelo de pájaro: Vallejo y Arguedas”
Humanities 2, Room 259A vuelo de pájaro: Vallejo y ArguedasA talk in Spanish by Ximena Briceño Ximena Briceño enseña literatura latinoamericana en el Departamento de Culturas Ibéricas y Latinoamericanas de Stanford University desde 2008. Es doctora por la Universidad de Cornell y egresada de la Universidad Católica del Perú. Su trabajo de investigación se enfoca en teorías de […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Junko Ito
Humanities 2, Room 259The Linguistics department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. Spring 2016 April 14: Junko Ito, UC Santa Cruz April 28: Ashwini Deo, Yale May 26: Susan Lin, UC Berkeley May/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
Writing Here → Writing There: A Transfer Model for Teaching and Learning
Humanities 2, Room 259Event Photos: This conference invites graduate students, faculty, staff, and administrators to participate in a series of roundtables and presentations that showcase our current successes in developing an innovate, locally-responsive writing curriculum. Participants will also contribute to moving our vision forward so that we set a broader, campus-wide agenda that accounts for the needs […]
Engaging Precarity: A Seminar with Marcel Paret
Humanities 2, Room 259Inaugurating Session II of Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz's 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture, labor scholar Marcel Paret of the University of Utah and University of Johannesburg leads a seminar on Guy Standing's concept of the precariat. Professor Standing of the School of Oriental and African […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Kie Zuraw
Humanities 2, Room 259The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. Fall 2016 Nov 18: Kie Zuraw, UCLA Winter 2017 February 7: TBA March TBD: LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz Spring 2016 April 14: Junko Ito, UC Santa Cruz April 28: Ashwini Deo, Yale May 26: Susan Lin, UC Berkeley May/June TBD: LURC: […]
The Immigrant Youth Movement and the Fight Against Deportations: A Talk with Dr. Kent Wong
Humanities 2, Room 259Dr. Kent Wong is the author and editor of DREAMS DEPORTED: Immigrant Youth and Families Resist Deportation, a UCLA student publication featuring stories of deportation and of the courageous immigrant youth and families who have led the national campaign against deportations and successfully challenged the president of the United States to act. Kent Wong […]
Ronaldo V. Wilson: “Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other”
Humanities 2, Room 259Ronaldo V. Wilson is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (2008), Poems of the Black Object (2009), and Lucy 72 (2015). He is co-founder of the Black Took Collective, and is currently Associate Professor of Poetry, Fiction, and Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Farther Traveler is […]