Events
Latino Literature / La literatura latina IV Conference
Stevenson Event CenterBringing writers and scholars together in thoughtful interchange, “Latino Literature/La literatura latina IV” is the fourth biennial conference of the Latino Literary Cultures Project/ Proyecto culturas literarias latinas. This daylong event is free and open to the public. 11am – 4:30pm Scholarly panels featuring: • Marcial González • Claudia Milian • Desirée Martín • […]
A Night of Poetry & Music with M. NourbeSe Philip
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies presents A Night of Poetry & Music with M. NourbeSe Philip accompanied by a jazz duo led by Karlton Hester, Professor of Music, UCSC M. NourbeSe Philip is a poet, essayist, novelist and playwright who lives in the space-time of the City of Toronto. […]
Phaedon Sinis to Lecture on the Music of the Ottoman Empire
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOn November 29, Phaedon Sinis will give a lecture on music in the Ottoman empire: its history and development, the interaction between Jewish and non Jewish musicians, and introduction to Turkish music theory and Maqam system. He will demonstrate singing an playing techniques on several Turkish instruments, among them the Kemence, and the Qanun. Phaedon […]
World Melodrama Film Series – The Cranes Are Flying
Social Sciences I, Room 110 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cranes Are Flying (1957; dir. Mikhail Kalatozov) U.S.S.R. Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu
Elizabeth Lambourn: “The Material Presence of a Medieval Past: New Approaches to the Materiality & ‘Thingness’ of Cairo Geniza”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAn historian of Islamic South Asian and the Indian Ocean world, Elizabeth's research focuses on the mobility of people, things and ideas in the medieval and early modern periods. Elizabeth is also interested in issues of periodization and the need for dialogue and thinking across the pre-Modern/Modern/Contemporary divides. Elizabeth Lambourn is Professor of South Asian […]
Andries W. Coetzee: “A lexical route to voicing co-occurrence restrictions: the case of Afrikaans”
Many languages have restrictions on the co-occurrence of laryngeally marked segments (such as voiced obstruents, aspirates, glottalized consonants, etc.). Current theories of sound change ascribe the origin of these restrictions either to speaker-oriented articulatory forces (grammaticalization of articulatory simplification) or to listener-oriented perceptual forces (grammaticalization of misperception). In this presentation, I will argue for a […]
Satyajit Ray Film Series: Agantuk (“The Arriver”)
Crown Fireside Lounge Fireside Lounge University of California Santa Cruz, Crown College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSatyajit Ray is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. The Ray Film and Study Center (RayFASC) is newly located at Crown College and holds the largest collections of Ray's films outside of India. Please join us for a showing of Agantuk ("The Arriver"), with an introduction by Dr. Daniel Seldon, […]
Learning from the Oak Creek Wisconsin Tragedy: Sikhs and Pluralism in America
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe fatal shooting at a Sikh gurdwara (temple) in Wisconsin last August, and the possible motivation of the shooter, require reflection on religious and social tolerance and the idea/ideal of America as a pluralistic society in the 21st century. This event seeks to further our understanding of these issues. 5:30-6:30 pm – Program and Speakers […]
Philosophy Colloquium ~ Scott Gilbert: “We are all lichens: How symbiosis research has reconstituted a new realm of individuality”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States4:00pm, Humanities 1, Room 210 Co-Sponsored by UCSC Philosophy, History of Consciousness, Cultural Studies, and Science and Justice Working Group ABSTRACT: The notion of the “biological individual” is crucial to studies of genetics, immunology, evolution, development, anatomy, and physiology. Each of these biological sub-disciplines has a specific conception of individuality, which has historically provided conceptual contexts for […]
William Wells: “Keeping Faith in Word and Spirit: Translating the Work of Two Jewish/Italian Poets”
Will’s most recent book of poems, Unsettled Accounts, won the 2009 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and was published in February of 2010 by Ohio University/Swallow Press. On its basis, he was chosen as a Walter E. Dakin Fellow in Poetry for the 2010 Sewanee Writers’ Conference and as 2010 Ohio Poet of the Year (selected […]