Events

Dr. 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 the Music Recital Hall. Currently the president of the Indian Council of Cultural Relations in New Delhi, Singh is the last Maharaja of Kashmir, and […]

Until 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

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 in the last fifty years. Her most recent book, Lord of Misrule, won the National Book Award for fiction. Jaimy Gordon is Professor of English […]

Pranav 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 context. A spate of recent results collectively suggest that the computation of scalar implicature may be sensitive to a host of factors: task structure, social […]

Clare 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 seem enough to tell different stories, to simply multiply feminisms. Might we instead tell stories differently? This paper makes the case for two different modes of […]

Juliana 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 publications include Beasts and Beauties: Animals, Gender and Domestication in the Italian Renaissance (Toronto, 2010) and Polymorphous Domesticities: Pets, Bodies and Desire in Four Modern […]

Recipients 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 Edelstein, for “’Til Death Do We Choose” (Kiva Silver) Honorable Mentions: Briana Bernstein, for "Freud’s Model of Civilization and Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four" (Brij Lunine) Kerianne […]

The 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 Bookseller's Choice Award and the Indie Bookseller's Choice Award. Wingshooters was also named one of Oprah's 'boks to watch out for.' Nina Revoyr Nina is the […]

Rei 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 raises. Professor Terada is the author of Derek Walcott’s Poetry: American Mimicry (Northeastern, 1992); Feeling in Theory: Emotion after the “Death of the Subject” (Harvard, […]