Events
McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special Collections
Events at this venue
PhD+ Workshop – Archives 101 for Graduate Students
McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special CollectionsFeeling the archival impulse? Come get some hands-on experiences with McHenry Library's Special Collections, chat about archives with your fellow grad students, and get your questions answered about archival research […]
Donna Haraway – Thick, Slimy, Squishy, Squiggly & Generative
McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special CollectionsJoin the UCSC Special Collections & Archives for a conversation with Donna Haraway titled "Thick, Slimy, Squishy, & Generative," featuring History of Consciousness alumni Chela Sandoval (’93), Katie King (’87), and Caren Kaplan (’87). Please register by May 20. Limited space is available; plan to arrive early for seating. The conversation will start promptly at […]
Gary Young: A Retrospective – Exhibition Opening
McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special CollectionsJoin us on April 9th from 12-2 p.m. for the opening of Gary Young: A Retrospective Books, Broadsides, Prints & Ephemera at UCSC Special Collections and Archives. Gary will treat us to an artist talk and a tour of the exhibition. Light refreshments will be provided. Gary Young is a poet and artist whose honors […]
The First Folio at 400 Exhibit Opening
McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special CollectionsSpecial Collections and Archives at UCSC invites you to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio. Working together, Sean Keilen, Katie O’Hare and Peggy Gotthold and Lawrence Van Velzer present an exhibition that explores this landmark event in the history of printing and the transmission of Shakespeare’s works. The First Folio […]
2022 CART Fellows Exhibit
McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special CollectionsPlease join us for the opening reception for this year’s exhibits in the Elisabeth Remak-Honnef Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) These exhibits, curated by the 2022 CART Fellows, feature the following new acquisitions to Special Collections & Archives: the Miriam C. and Raymond Rice Papers exhibit curated by Sienna Ballou and Joseph Finkel and […]
North French Hebrew Miscellany
McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special CollectionsCome to Special Collections to look at and learn about a spectacular book recently acquired by Special Collections. UCSC Special Collections has recently acquired a facsimile of one of the world’s most important medieval Jewish manuscripts, the North French Hebrew Miscellany. The manuscript was written and lavishly illustrated in northern France in about 1280 at […]
9th Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium
McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special CollectionsGrad students share their research by presenting either oral, media or posters with an awards ceremony immediately following along with a reception. Free and open to the public. Main floor conference rooms for orals and media presentations, hallways for poster presentations.
Jon Varese: “Digital Dickens”.
McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special CollectionsThe Dickens Project would like to welcome everyone to visit the exhibit of its 32-year history, mounted in four display cases just outside Special Collections on the 3rd floor of McHenry Library. The exhibit makes note of both the scholarly and the outreach missions of the Project, and will be up for the duration of […]
Open Access Day at McHenry Library
McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special CollectionsOpen Access Week is an annual international event promoting the idea that scholarly research should be freely and openly available. For Open Access Week 2010, the University Library is sponsoring an afternoon event where about a dozen faculty members representing each of the academic divisions will talk about the ways in which they are making […]