A live and participatory event series featuring readings from the new illustrated book Seeds of Something Different: the Oral History of the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Reading #5: A Research University with Experimental Roots (2000-2010)
Wednesday, July 8, 4:30-6 pm - REGISTER HERE
Panelists from SEEDS team: Sarah Rabkin and Irene Reti
Moderator: Teresa Mora, Head of Special Collections & Archives
Guest Commentators: Gary Griggs and Murray Baumgarten
Murray Baumgarten arrived at Stevenson College in 1966 as a professor of literature. He served as the first chair of the Modern Society and Social Thought major, offered through Stevenson College. In 1967, Professor Baumgarten co-founded the world-renowned Dickens Project, and ten years ago, with the help of the Helen Diller Family Foundation, he established the Jewish Studies program, for which he is now the projects coordinator. Murray is also well known as the co-teacher (with Peter Kenez) of the course Holocaust: the Destruction of European Jewry.
Gary Griggs arrived in UCSC’s earth sciences department in 1968 as the campus’s first faculty member with expertise in oceanography, teaching a wildly popular undergraduate course on the subject. He served as associate dean of natural sciences from 1991 to 1994. From 1991 to 2017, Griggs directed the Institute of Marine Sciences and Long Marine Laboratory. Griggs is an internationally known consultant, writer, and public speaker on coastal erosion, sea-level rise, adaptation to climate change, and other issues related to coastal geology. See Griggs’s oral history.
SEEDS Webinar dates:
- June 17: The Changing City on a Hill (1970s)
- June 24: Rocks Ahead: Reorganization of the College System (1980s)
- July 1: Open the Door: Finding a Place on “A Very White Campus” (1990s)
- July 8: A Research University with Experimental Roots (2000-2010)
- July 15: For Times We Can’t Imagine” (2010-2020)
Event Date:
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
4:30 p.m.
Locations:
Virtual Event
