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Homer’s The Odyssey Reading Group
Virtual EventHomer’s Odyssey is becoming a major motion picture. Whether you like movies or not, this is a great excuse to read this millennia-old story about a salty war hero who just wants to go home. Join us on June 24th and July 1 to discuss the Odyssey with UC Santa Cruz Ancient Studies faculty Anne […]
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Homer’s The Odyssey Reading Group
Virtual EventHomer’s Odyssey is becoming a major motion picture. Whether you like movies or not, this is a great excuse to read this millennia-old story about a salty war hero who just wants to go home. Join us on June 24th and July 1 to discuss the Odyssey with UC Santa Cruz Ancient Studies faculty Anne […]
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PhD+ Workshop with ARI — Grants and Fellowship Funding
Virtual EventArts Research Institute (ARI) workshop with Holly Unruh (ARI Executive Director) and Hannah Jasper (ARI Research Development Analyst) on finding funding to support your work, and proposal writing 101. This workshop is geared toward graduate students and early career faculty, and is appropriate for anyone wanting to hone their grant-seeking skills. **Please rsvp to Hannah (hannahjasper@ucsc.edu) […]
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Jean Drèze – “Yummy: School Meals in India”
Virtual EventJoin the Center for South Asian Studies for a virtual talk by Jean Drèze, “Yummy: School Meals in India.” School meals have been a legal entitlement of Indian children since 2001. It took some years for this legal entitlement to translate into functional schemes, but from then onwards school meals have made important contributions to […]
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Slugs and Steins with Greg O’ Malley – The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution
Virtual EventThe Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution describes the life of a man born enslaved in colonial Virginia, whose repeated escape attempts made his life a remarkable odyssey. He survived enslavement on Virginia and Carolina plantations, stints hiding in backcountry Carolina settlements, captivity in Native American communities, battlefields […]
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Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen – Episode III
Virtual EventShakespeare returns to the characters and themes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in what may have been the last play he had a hand in writing: The Two Noble Kinsmen. This time, however, the story of Theseus and Hippolyta, the disorienting experience of adolescent sexual desire, and the conflict of duties to sovereigns, parents, friends, and spouses are […]
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Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen – Episode II
Virtual EventShakespeare returns to the characters and themes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in what may have been the last play he had a hand in writing: The Two Noble Kinsmen. This time, however, the story of Theseus and Hippolyta, the disorienting experience of adolescent sexual desire, and the conflict of duties to sovereigns, parents, friends, and spouses are […]
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Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen – Episode I
Virtual EventShakespeare returns to the characters and themes of A Midsummer Night's Dream in what may have been the last play he had a hand in writing: The Two Noble Kinsmen. This time, however, the story of Theseus and Hippolyta, the disorienting experience of adolescent sexual desire, and the conflict of duties to sovereigns, parents, friends, […]
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Geetha Sukumaran – Kanji Before and After Mullivaikkal: Resistance Histories of Jaffna
Virtual EventTamils in Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka endured a protracted civil war that ended in 2009 in Mullivaikkal. During the war’s end, hundreds of thousands of Tamils were murdered and several thousand were displaced. In this last phase, kanji (rice gruel) became the sole source of sustenance. Kanji, a versatile traditional Tamil dish that is […]
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John O. Jordan – Dickens and Soundscape: The Old Curiosity Shop
Virtual EventPlease join the Dickens Project for the rescheduled Dickens Universe talk by John Jordan, Dickens Project Co-Founder and Co-Director. Critics have long recognized and commented on the striking visual quality of Dickens’s writing, including the ways in which his novels seem to have anticipated and even influenced the development of certain film techniques. With the […]
