Humanities
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UCSC literature professor links Santa Cruz to international theater event for peace
On March 3, Santa Cruz will join hundreds of cities around the world in hosting a staged reading of Aristophanes’ ancient Greek antiwar comedy Lysistrata. The local play reading is part of the international Lysistrata Project, the first-ever worldwide theater event for peace. As of mid-February, 380 readings have been scheduled in 31 countries to…
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UC Santa Cruz to present conference on ‘Desire’ in February
What exactly is the nature of desire? Is it the same in every culture? Has it changed over time? The UC Santa Cruz Center for Cultural Studies will present “Desire: Past, Present, Future,” a two-day conference, February 21-22, at the UCSC campus, to explore these questions and discuss scholarly work that utilizes the concept of…
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Acclaimed author/journalist to speak at UC Santa Cruz
Award-winning author and journalist Barbara Ehrenreich will present a free public lecture, Thursday, February 13, at 4 p.m. in Kresge Town Hall on the UC Santa Cruz campus. Ehrenreich will address themes raised in her recent best-selling book, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. She is the first distinguished visitor to be…
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New book by UC Santa Cruz professor attacks character issue
Does the issue of character matter? Should it influence which political candidate we vote for, whom we hire, or what we teach our children in school? A new book by John M. Doris, associate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, argues that people often profoundly overestimate the behavioral impact of character…
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Raymond Carver correspondence donated to UC Santa Cruz Library
A collection of letters from renowned American short story writer and poet Raymond Carver has been donated to the library at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Valued at $23,650, the donation consists of 26 letters, notes, and cards written to UCSC professor of education and creative writing David Swanger between 1977 and 1984. The…
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Founding member of Free Speech Movement warns of impending loss of Constitutional rights in war against terrorism
U.S. citizens should be less complacent and trusting of a government that has a long record of abuse of power, warns a founding member of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement in 1964 who is now professor and chair of the Women’s Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz. “Because of the horror of the attacks on…
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Renowned scholar and author Norman O. Brown dies at age 89
Norman O. Brown, professor emeritus of humanities at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Life Against Death and Love’s Body, died October 2 at his residence in Santa Cruz, California. He was 89. Brown’s influential scholarship and teaching encompassed the classics, theology, history, psychology, sociology, and literature, among other disciplines. “He was…
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‘Reality’ in art explored in UCSC lecture and film screening
The explosion of “reality” shows during the last few years might make the viewing public think realism is a concept recently invented by television networks. But in “200 Years of Reality Shows,” a talk by University of California, Santa Cruz, dean of humanities, Wlad Godzich, true realism in the arts is revealed as something far…
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UC Santa Cruz experts available to comment on ‘Banned Books Week’
This year’s national Banned Books Week, September 22-28, takes on a heightened importance as Americans debate how to balance national security issues and First Amendment rights. The theme for the 2002 Banned Books Week is “Let Freedom Read: Read a Banned Book.” The following University of California, Santa Cruz, faculty members are available to discuss…
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Rockefeller Foundation gives UC Santa Cruz $325,000 humanities award
The Rockefeller Foundation has awarded a $325,000 Humanities Fellowship to the University of California, Santa Cruz. “This Humanities Fellowship is a very competitive program,” said Lynn A. Szwaja, deputy director of creativity and culture at the Rockefeller Foundation. “This year we received 46 applications and gave eight awards.” The UC Santa Cruz award supports a…
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UC Santa Cruz professor travels country on teaching ‘gig’
For a man who jokes that he’s “out to pasture,” Harry Berger Jr. maintains a teaching and travel schedule that would fatigue a racehorse. The University of California, Santa Cruz, professor emeritus of literature and art history will be crisscrossing the country this year, teaching in two programs featuring distinguished scholars. “I used to be…
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African liberation movement posters exhibited at UC Santa Cruz
The exhibition could be summed up by one featured image: a larger-than-life-sized portrait of a young Nelson Mandela, on a blazing yellow background, under the headline “The struggle is my life.” “A Luta Continúa: African Liberation Movement Posters,” the current exhibition at the McHenry Library of the University of California, Santa Cruz, uses period posters…