History
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Celebration of two new Jewish Studies books Nov. 13
UCSC’s Center for Jewish Studies and University Library will present a celebration of two new books on Jewish Studies–featuring professors Peter Kenez and Murray Baumgarten, and librarian Lee Jaffe, Nov. 13 at Stevenson College.
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UCSC’s first ‘Ed Talks’ draws crowd in downtown Santa Cruz
An enthusiastic audience of 250 community members gathered at the “Top of the Ritt” in downtown Santa Cruz last night to celebrate UCSC’s very first evening of “Ed Talks”—three TED-style talks by acclaimed UC Santa Cruz faculty.
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UCSC to receive $500,000 in support of endowed chair in Jewish Studies
UC Santa Cruz has announced a major new gift to support the campus’s Jewish Studies Program.
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History professor receives ACLS Fellowship to research ‘history of future’ in Mexico
UCSC associate professor of history Matt O’Hara has received a 2013-14 fellowship of $45,000 from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to write and additionally research his upcoming book titled “The History of the Future in Mexico.”
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UCSC’s Dana Frank speaks in Congress about Human Rights in Honduras
UC Santa Cruz history professor Dana Frank testified last week before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the U.S. House of Representatives about human rights and U.S. policy in Honduras.
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UC Santa Cruz launches first online course with Coursera
UC Santa Cruz announced today the launch of its first free online course open to the public through the Coursera platform. Titled The Holocaust, the course traces the destruction of the Jews and Jewish life in Europe by Nazi Germany, drawing on major works of history, literature, and film.
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Steck Award winner shares stories of survival
Kristoffer Hellén traveled to Europe and Russia, to find out why two small and vulnerable ethnic groups resist assimilation, hold onto their cultures, and survive. Now he is being recognized with one of UCSC’s highest undergraduate honors.
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History professor Dana Frank to speak May 8 in Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
UCSC history professor and alumna Dana Frank (American Studies, ’78) will speak about human rights in Honduras on May 8 as part of the Stevenson College Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series.
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Model UN competitor wins ‘verbal acclamation’ award
Kelsey Hill, a first-year history major affiliated with Kresge College, won a Verbal Acclamation Award at the UC Berkeley Model United Nations Conference held earlier this month in San Francisco.
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UCSC arts, humanities professors collaborate for ‘New Orleans Suite’
A new book by UCSC professors Lewis Watts (Art) and Eric Porter (History, American Studies) maps the changing cultural scene in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina hit the Crescent City in the summer of 2005.
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Gail Hershatter to deliver 47th annual UCSC Faculty Research Lecture
UC Santa Cruz professor of history Gail Hershatter will deliver the 47th annual UCSC Faculty Research Lecture on Tuesday, February 12, at 7 p.m. at the Music Recital Hall in the UCSC Performing Arts Complex.
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Screening of ‘Harvest of Loneliness, the Bracero Program’ set for January 23
The documentary film “Harvest of Loneliness, the Bracero Program” will be shown Wednesday, January 23 at 7 p.m. at the Kresge Town Hall on the UC Santa Cruz campus. It is free and open to the public.