Events
Dr. Karan Singh, “Nava Vedanta: Ancient Indian Philosophy of Non-dualism & its Modern Transformation.”
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDr. Karan Singh Distinguished Indian statesman and diplomat Dr. Karan Singh will deliver the 2011 Satyajit Ray Lecture at UC Santa Cruz on Saturday, September 24, at 5:30 p.m. in […]
Every Protection: Exploring Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Jewish Pale of Settlement
Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Cowell College Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUntil 1917, most Jews of the Russian Empire were restricted to a region called the Pale of Settlement, where they created their own distinctive folk culture. In 1914 the writer, socialist revolutionary, and ethnographer, Sh. An-sky, produced a massive Yiddish ethnographic questionnaire to
Living Writers Reading Series: Jaimy Gordon
The Living Writers Reading Series presents Jaimy Gordon. Jaimy Gordon's "fantasy" novel, Shamp of the City-Solo, gathered an underground following, and is regarded as one of the finest comic novels […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Pranav Anand, “Assessing the pragmatics of experiments: The case of scalar implicature”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPranav Anand "There is a growing impetus to examine pragmatic phenomena experimentally. Potentially complicating these investigations is the way in which the experimental environment itself shapes participants’ models of extra‐linguistic […]
Clare Hemmings, “Techniques for Reimagining Feminist Theory: Starting from How We Feel”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesClare Hemmings "Feminist theory seems caught in its own narratives of progress, loss and return, which I argue echo broader conservative agendas that position feminism as over or anachronistic. It does not […]
Juliana Schiesari, “Rethinking Humanism: Horses, Honor and Virtue in the Italian Renaissance”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJuliana Schiesari Professor Schiesari is working on the relation between humanism and the post-human by rethinking the human and non-human as they are constructed in the Italian Renaissance. Her recent […]
2011 Humanities Don Rothman Writing Awards Ceremony
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRecipients of the 2010-2011 Humanities Don Rothman Writing Awards recipients and their writing teachers will be honored. Don Rothman Adam Beighley, for Twin Forces of a Wave” (Maggie Amis) AND Sarah […]
Living Writers Reading Series: Nina Revoyr
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Living Writers Reading Series presents Nina Revoyr. Nina Revoyr has authored four novels: The Necessary Hunger, Southland, The Age of Dreaming, and Wingshooters, for which she received the Windwest […]
Rei Terada, “Pasolini’s Acceptance”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRei Terada In his late writings, Pasolini claims to give up on Italian politics and his own erstwhile projects. The talk considers Pasolini's “repudiation” and the questions of periodization it […]
From Civil Defense to Civil Rights: The Growth of Jewish American Interracial Activism in Los Angeles in the 20th Century
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC Jewish Studies and History Department present From Civil Defense to Civil Rights: The Growth of Jewish American Interracial Activism in Los Angeles in the 20th Century Bridges of Reform Shana […]
