Author: Public Affairs
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Acting Chancellor George Blumenthal thanks campus on first day
Dear UC Santa Cruz Colleagues: I am overwhelmed by the outpouring of congratulations and support that I have received since the announcement of my appointment as UCSC’s Acting Chancellor. I am truly honored to serve in this capacity. This past month has been a difficult time for our campus, as we have dealt collectively and…
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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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30 years of book arts and printmaking in UC Santa Cruz exhibit
The discovery of an old printing press led to 30 years of fine-press printing now celebrated in a new exhibition at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “Interpreting the Words,” an exhibit of student work created on the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz, will be on display at the McHenry Library from October 2…
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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…
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UC Santa Cruz publishes biography of longtime local resident Hal Hyde
Hal Hyde’s resume might list “founding” as a job title. A fifth-generation Santa Cruz County resident, Hyde has been in on the creation of organizations and institutions ranging from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Cabrillo College to the Community Foundation and the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County. “In those days when something…
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley to speak at UC Santa Cruz
She’s well known for her novels, but when writer Jane Smiley speaks at the Dickens Universe conference at the University of California, Santa Cruz, it will be in a different guise: As a biographer of the man himself, Charles Dickens. Smiley, author of Charles Dickens (New York: Viking Press, 2002), will read from and discuss…
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UC Santa Cruz student work chosen for international arts festival Healing from September 11 explored through dance in “Bodies in Crisis”
A dance performance that started as an experimental production by University of California, Santa Cruz, students will be featured next month at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, one of the largest arts festivals in the world. Bodies in Crisis, a compilation of 10 dance poems exploring the emotional, political, and artistic ramifications of the September 11…