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Music Center Recital Hall
Grad Slam
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGrad Slam, also referred to as the 3-Minute Thesis Challenge*, is a competition that challenges graduate students to present years’ worth of academic research in a concise, compelling, three-minute talk to a non-expert audience. It encourages students to clarify their ideas and to help others understand and appreciate the significance of their work. The contest […]
Faculty Research Lecture with Sandra Chung: “Language Through the Lens of Diversity”
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAcademic Senate 51st Annual Faculty Research Lecture Honors: Professor Sandra Chung "Language Through the Lens of Diversity." The ease and efficiency with which children acquire their first language(s) reveals that the capacity to know and use language is deeply human. It also raises the possibility that all languages have the same design--universal characteristics that […]
Baskin Ethics Lecture with Fania Davis: Restorative Justice: A Relational, Healing, and Radical Practice
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for an evening with restorative justice and civil rights champion Fania Davis.
Remembering Shakespeare, 1564-1616
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRemembering Shakespeare, 1564-1616 Readings from the works and about the man A memorial service, commemorating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death in 1616. Saturday, April 23, 2016 Music Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz 6:00-6:45 p.m. Free and open to the public This event takes place before Experimental Baroque, a concert by Santa Cruz Baroque Festival. Concert info/tickets […]
Grad Slam for 2016 Finalists
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGrad Slam, also referred to as the 3-Minute Thesis Challenge, is a competition that challenges doctoral students to present years’ worth of academic research in a concise, compelling, three-minute talk to a non-expert audience. It encourages students to clarify their ideas and to help others understand and appreciate the significance of their work. The contest […]
Sex Radical, Afro-Fututrist, and Grand Master of Science Fiction, Samuel R. Delany Reads from His Work
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSex Radical, Afro-Fututrist, and Grand Master of Science Fiction, Samuel Delany Talk 03.10.16 from IHR on Vimeo. UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series present: Sex Radical, Afro-Futurist, and Grand Master of Science Fiction, SAMUEL R. DELANY, Reads from His Work Thursday, March 10, 2016 Music Recital Hall, […]
Discovering the UC Santa Cruz Campus by James Clifford
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UC Santa Cruz Emeriti Group presents the Spring Emeriti Faculty Lecture featuring James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, History of Consciousness. March 8, 2016, 7:30pm Doors open at 7pm. Free and open to the public. (Seating is limited) The University of California, Santa Cruz, built in a redwood forest overlooking Monterey Bay, is famously beautiful. But […]
William D. Adams: “‘Wicked Problems’: The Humanities in the Time of STEM”
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC Institute for Humanities Research presents: "Wicked Problems": The Humanities in the Time of STEM 15th Annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture by William D. Adams, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities William D. Adams, NEH ChairmanPhoto by Fred Field, courtesy of Colby College Dr. William D. Adams was nominated by President Barack Obama […]
Hedy Rose: “My Childhood in Hiding: Amsterdam, 1942-1945”
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for a talk with Hedy Rose. Following her father's arrest by the Nazis, Hedy Rose, her mother, and sister spent nearly four years hidden in an Amsterdam cellar by a Christian samaritan. Admission is free, but pre-registration is required: http://goo.gl/forms/3Q3LZbYz8y Reception will follow at 8pm. $4 parking; Recommended lot: Performing Arts For […]
Margaret Frantz Memorial
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesA memorial for Marge Frantz (1922-2015) a Hist Con graduate (1984) and longtime colleague at UC Santa Cruz in Women's Studies and American Studies will be held on Sunday, January 17th from 2-5pm. Refreshments & reception following the program. Ample and free parking is available. Enter UCSC at the WEST entrance. Three stop signs and […]