Humanities
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Key campus appointments
Executive Vice Chancellor and Campus Provost Alison Galloway announces two key campus leadership appointments.
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Student Achievement Week: recognizing excellence
UC Santa Cruz will honor a long list of outstanding scholars, visual artists, performers and researchers during the annual Student Achievement Week festivities from May 28 to June 3. This week allows these students to present their work in highly public settings, from an annual print sale to a sciences and engineering poster symposium.
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‘Searching For Yiddish Land’
“Having been in decline for decades, Yiddish is fading as a spoken language in the United States. But at UCSC, a small group of students and faculty are committed to its preservation…”
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Well-known alumni writers discuss their craft in May 1 symposium
UC Santa Cruz alumnus David Talbot, founder of Salon.com and best-selling author of “Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years,” will kick off “A Writer’s Life: A Celebration of Writing at UCSC” Sunday, May 1. Talbot will be joined by other well-known UCSC alumni novelists, journalists, and screenwriters.
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Three UCSC professors elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Three UCSC faculty are among 212 leaders in the sciences, arts, humanities, business, public affairs, and nonprofit sector, who have been elected this year as fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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UCSC Literature professor Karen Tei Yamashita wins California Book Award
Karen Tei Yamashita–professor of literature and co-director of the Creative Writing Program at UC Santa Cruz–has been honored with a 2011 California Book Award.
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Labor activist to speak on the rise of right-wing populism April 21
Bill Fletcher Jr., a longtime labor activist, will present a free, public lecture, “Right-Wing Populism and the Crisis of Organized Labor,” 4 p.m. Thursday, April 21 in Humanities I, Room 210, at UC Santa Cruz.
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Nuclear policy expert to discuss implications of Fukushima nuclear plant disaster April 19
Daniel Hirsch, a UC Santa Cruz lecturer on nuclear policy, will give a free, public lecture Tuesday, April 19 on the aftermath of the current nuclear plant disaster in Japan.
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Center for Visual and Performance Studies to host conference on Pasolini
On April 29-30, the UCSC Arts Division’s center for Visual and Performance Studies (VPS) will host an international conference titled “Pasolini’s Body: New Directions in Pasolini Scholarship” at the Cowell College Conference Room.
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History alum winning acclaim for second feature film
UCSC alumnus Cary Joji Fukunaga has followed his award-winning debut film Sin Nombre with Jane Eyre, his own take on the classic 1847 novel by Charlotte Bronte.
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Reading and inspiration: Tobias Wolff at UCSC
Tobias Wolff drew a capacity crowd to the Humanities Lecture Hall on the first night of the 2011 Living Writers series. Wolff read three short stories and regaled the crowd with stories of “binge reading” and his earliest inspirations as an author.
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Bettina Aptheker delivers 17th Annual Du Bois Lecture
Professor of feminist studies and history Bettina Aptheker delivered the 17th annual Du Bois Lecture on February 28, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.