Events

Laurence R. Horn On the Contrary: Pragmatic Strengthening and Disjunctive Syllogism   The dictum that “The essence of formal negation is to invest the contrary with the character of the contradictory” (Bosanquet 1888) describes the tendency for contradictory (apparent wide-scope) negation to be semantically or pragmatically strengthened to contrary readings whenever possible. This tendency is […]

The Living Writers Reading Series presents David Vann. David Vann writes both fiction and non-fiction and has won several awards, including the Grace Paley Prize 2007, California Book Award 2008, the Prix Medicis 2010, and the Premi Libreter 2011. David Vann's work has been published by 22 different publishers in 16 different languages. His books […]

The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk. Giancarlo Casale is a specialist in the history of the early modern Ottoman empire, although he also has interests in the history of geography and cartography, global exploration, and comparative empires. He has just completed my first book, "The Ottoman Age of Exploration," about […]

Feminist Studies presents Long Bui, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow Ms. Little Saigon: Through the Looking Glass of Art, Politics and Community This presentation examines the historical legacy of the Vietnam War as it continues to shape political conflicts and ideological differences within the Vietnamese diasporic community. Recognizing the power of cultural media and production to […]

One of the most important—and least appreciated—categories that Jews have employed to experience the world Jewishly is minhag, a Hebrew word typically translated into English as "custom." Historically, minhag enabled Jews to transform practically every event and action into something with Jewish meaning; it also enabled Jews to differentiate themselves from non-Jews, as well as […]

Deanna Shemek Professor Shemek studies intersections of elite and popular culture in early modern Italy, especially among women. Her current research focuses on early modern letter writing. She is completing an edition of Isabella d’Este’s letters and a book on the broader significance of early modern women's letters. The talk addresses plans to digitize the […]

Gershom Gorenberg UCSC alumnus Gershom Gorenberg is the author of the forthcoming book, The Unmaking of Israel, on the crisis of Israeli democracy and how to solve it. The book will be published in November by HarperCollins and is now available for pre-order at all the usual places. Gershom’s previous book is The Accidental Empire: […]

Caren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis and is Affiliated Faculty in Film Studies, Cultural Studies, and Science & Technology Studies. Professor Kaplan authored Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (Duke, 1996) and co-authored and co-edited Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World (McGraw-Hill, 2001/2005); Between […]

In this inaugural conference for the Sikh and Punjabi Studies program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, leading and emerging scholars will take stock of the state of the field and its future direction, in the areas of their expertise. Sessions will cover history, philosophy, language and literature, political economy, musicology and contemporary society. […]