Humanities
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Global affairs expert to deliver UCSC’s 2007 Maitra Lecture at Montalvo on Nov. 2
UC Santa Cruz and Montalvo Arts Center will present the seventh annual Sidhartha Maitra Endowed Lecture–featuring global affairs expert and award-winning author Shashi Tharoor–on Friday, November 2, at 7 p.m, in the Carriage House Theater at Montalvo. The chairman of Dubai-based Afras Ventures and former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Tharoor will present an insider’s…
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Saving Endangered Languages
On a planet that seems to be growing smaller by the day, it’s surprising to discover that people still use approximately 6,500 languages for their day-to-day communication. But linguists estimate that nearly half of these will be gone within the next hund
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UCSC alumna receives award from Academy of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets has honored UCSC alumna Brenda Shaughnessy with the 2007 James Laughlin Award, which gives $5,000 for the most outstanding second book by an American poet published in the previous year. Shaughnessy, who earned a B.A. in literature/creative writing from UCSC in 1991, received the award for her collection Human Dark…
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NPR features poetry by Professor Emeritus David Swanger
Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor recently read Professor Emeritus David Swanger’s poem, “Patriarch at the Beach,” on National Public Radio’s Writers’ Almanac program. The poem is from Swanger’s latest book, Wayne’s College of Beauty, which won the 2005 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry from MkBk Press. Produced by Prairie Home Productions and presented by…
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UCSC receives $367,000 gift to establish endowed chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a gift of $367,000 from Hardit and Harbhajan K. Singh, through the Sikh Foundation, to fund an endowed chair in Sikh and Punjabi studies in the History Department. The Sarbjit Singh Aurora Endowed Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies, established in memory of the donors’ son, will…
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UCSC students present research at World History Association conference
Under the direction of professor Edmund Burke III, director of the UC Santa Cruz Center for World History, seven UCSC current and past graduate students in history presented papers at the 16th annual
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UCSC to host weeklong philosophy conference on Wittgenstein
More than 40 scholars from across the country and abroad will gather at UCSC the week of June 21-28 for a conference on philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and his significance for contemporary philosophy of mind. The event will be hosted by UCSC associate professor of philosophy Daniel Guevara and assistant professor of philosophy Jonathan Ellis. “Wittgenstein…
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UCSC graduate awarded $10,000 for best American thesis on modern India
UC Santa Cruz graduate Gillian Goslinga has been honored with the 2006 Sardar Patel Award for “the best dissertation submitted at any American university on the subject of modern India.” The award of $10,000 is administered each year by the UCLA Center for India and South Asia. Eligible dissertations must be completed at an American…
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Two history of consciousness professors to give readings at bookstore
Members of the campus community are invited to a book reading and signing by professors of history of consciousness Teresa de Lauretis and David Marriott at the Bay Tree Bookstore at noon on Tuesday, June 5.
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History Department presents talk by author and manga translator Frederik L. Schodt
The History Department will present a free public talk by author and noted manga (Japanese comic book) translator Frederik L. Schodt on Monday, June 4, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall. Frederik L. Schodt is a writer and interpreter who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has written extensively…
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Assistant philosophy professor awarded President’s Research Fellowship
Assistant professor of philosophy Abraham Stone has been awarded a UC President’s Research Fellowship in the Humanities grant of $25,000. Stone joined the UCSC Philosophy Department in 2005. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University in 2000 and spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow in Israel, as well as four years as…