Events
Poetry and Politics: Professor Craig Dworkin Poetry Reading
Craig Dworkin is the author of Reading the Illegible (Northwestern UP), Signature-Effects (Ghos-Ti), Dure (Cuneiform), Strand (Roof), and Parse (Atelos), and the editor of Architectures of Poetry (Rodopi), Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern UP), The Sound of Poetry (Chicago UP), and Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writing of Vito Acconci (MIT). He teaches at the University of Utah and curates two on-line archives: Eclipse and The UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing. […]
Craig Dworkin: “The Politics of the Work”
Humanities 1, Room 202In Partnership with Poetry and Politics Research Cluster and the Literature Department presents: Craig Dworkin for a Lecture on Poetics. Craig Dworkin is the author of Reading the Illegible (Northwestern UP), Signature-Effects (Ghos-Ti), Dure (Cuneiform), Strand (Roof), and Parse (Atelos), and the editor of Architectures of Poetry (Rodopi), Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern UP), The Sound of Poetry (Chicago UP), and Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writing of Vito […]
Melissa L. Caldwell: “Sowing the Seeds of Civil Society: Russia’s Garden Democracy”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Melissa L. Caldwell Professor, Anthropology, UCSC Co-Director, UCMRP on Studies of Food and the Body "Sowing the Seeds of Civil Society: Russia's Garden Democracy" Professor Caldwell examines the politics of poverty, social welfare, care and intimacy in Russia through ethnographic research in Dacha Idylls: Living Organically in Russia's Countryside […]
J. Cameron Monroe: “Elephants for Want of Towns? New Light on Old Cities in West Africa’s Atlantic Age”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWestern conceptions of the city have a long and storied history, one that until recently largely dismissed pre-colonial African urbanisms as no more than a passive response to cultural stimulus from outside the continent. This has been particularly true for West African cities that emerged in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. However, landscape […]
Angela Elsey, “Life in Senegal / La Vie senegalaise”
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLANGUAGE PROGRAM COLLOQUIUM SERIES Life in Senegal / La Vie sénégalaise Angela Elsey Angela Elsey Lecturer in French Please join Lecturer in French Angela Elsey for an introduction to daily life in Senegal through photos and short video clips depicting work, school, play, home life, language use, creative activities, and religious practices. Lecturer Elsey has […]
Crosslinguistic Investigations in Phonology-Syntax Research Cluster presents a Seminar with Mary Paster
Cowell Senior Commons Room Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMary Paster (PhD UC Berkeley, 2006) is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College in Claremont, California. Her research focuses on phonology and morphology, and their interface. She specializes in the study of African languages, particularly their tone systems. She has published in such journals as Phonology, […]
2012 Scholarship Benefit Dinner
2012 Scholarship Benefit Dinner More information TBA.
Mary Paster: “Phonologically Conditioned Morphology”
Humanities 1, Room 202Mary Paster (PhD UC Berkeley, 2006) is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College in Claremont, California. Her research focuses on phonology and morphology, and their interface. She specializes in the study of African languages, particularly their tone systems. She has published in such journals as Phonology, […]
UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: Garrett Hongo
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGarrett Hongo Creative Writing and Literature present: UCSC Winter Living Writers Series Garrett Hongo Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives Ronaldo V. Wilson, Visiting Assistant Professor Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities. Whether as editors, publishers, activists, teachers, multi-media artists, and/or co-collaborators, the featured […]
Visual Performance Studies Presents: Andre Lepecki
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTemporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series, 2011-2012 Andre Lepecki, Performance Studies, New York University Not as Before, but Again: Reenactments and "Transcreation" The recent retrospective of the work of Marina Abramovic at MOMA in New York brought to wide public attention the phenomenon of what she called the "reperformance" of her earlier work, which had […]