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2 months ago | 
news.ucsc.edu | Dan White
The new cohort of THI Oaxacan Language Public Fellows will develop an exhibition in collaboration with and under the layered mentorship of library professionals, museum professionals, local transnational Indigenous activists and scholars, and academic faculty.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
news.ucsc.edu | Dan White
This year, UC Santa Cruz researchers are advancing cutting-edge projects that tackle critical issues such as antiracist education, environmental resilience, and the intersections of identity and power, with critical funding from the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
news.ucsc.edu | Dan White
In 2004, while she was still a meticulous young graduate student, Elaine Sullivan made a discovery that would deepen the history of human writing. Using trowels and brushes to remove ancient soil at an Early Bronze Age burial site in Umm el-Marra, Western Syria—35 miles from modern-day Aleppo—Sullivan unearthed a pivotal clue: four small clay cylinders inscribed with mysterious symbols.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
wallaceburgcourierpress.com | Dan White
Advertisement 1 • Article contentI know we are in the midst of holiday everything and you, dear person who does not take this paper directly from your doorstep or driveway to your recycle bin or hamster cage, may expect more of the same. Advertisement 2Article contentArticle contentWe apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team. We apologize, but this video has failed to load.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
wallaceburgcourierpress.com | Dan White
Advertisement 1 • • Article contentSo, here we are days away from December. This is one of the busiest times of the year for artists. Advertisement 2Article contentWe apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
news.ucsc.edu | Dan White
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson, renowned for her deeply reflective explorations of faith, humanity, and the divine, will deliver this year’s Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture on Dec. 3 at the Rio Theater in Santa Cruz. The lecture, part of The Humanities Institute’s 25th anniversary celebration, promises to be an evening of profound insight and reflection, featuring one of the most celebrated writers of our time.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
wallaceburgcourierpress.com | Dan White
Advertisement 1 • • Article contentIf you ever get the chance to see Salesman in China, take the opportunity. Advertisement 2Article contentWe apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team. Joni and I added it as a rather last-minute show to our Stratford shows this year.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
news.ucsc.edu | Dan White
UC Santa Cruz Humanities Professor Gina Athena Ulysse has traveled to Senegal to transform the facade of a sprawling Brutalist building into an enchanted portal adorned with cowry shells, woven tails of twine, and hundreds of calabashes painted in vibrant colors.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
news.ucsc.edu | Dan White
In the opening images of UC Santa Cruz Anthropology Professor Dolly Kikon’s award-winning new documentary, Abundance: Living With A Forest, insects chime in the background as foragers make their way through a lush landscape, searching for edible plants. The scene is unhurried and contemplative, but there is an elegiac quality to the story.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
universityofcalifornia.edu | Dan White
A highlight of the course involves analyzing the portrayal of mummies in popular culture, including film. They will watch Boris Karloff as a living corpse in Karl Freund’s “The Mummy” from 1932, as well as the director Stephen Sommer’s 1999 reimagining also called “The Mummy” (1999) starring Brendan Fraser. Both professors are unabashed about their affection for the Sommers movie. “Brendan Fraser's The Mummy is a movie I absolutely love with every ounce of my being,” Fox said.
