Events
Jennifer Derr, Talk title TBA
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk. Jennifer Derr has her B.S. from Stanford University; M.A., Georgetown University; Ph.D., Stanford. Areas of academic interest include modern […]
Herman Gray, “At the Limit of Representation: Neoliberalism, Media and African American Visibility”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHerman Gray With African Americans as the primary example, Professor Gray probes the social, intellectual, and political investment in the cultural politics of recognition and visibility in the context of […]
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther: “Abstraction, the Abstract, and Abstractionism: Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives”
Social Sciences 2, Room 121 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesConcepts, models, and theories; words, propositions, and language; are typically understood as abstract representations and abstract maps. The abstract allows us to navigate tentatively and successfully through the concrete world […]
Alide Cagidemetrio: “Choosing Venice: Seduction, Henry James, and The Wings of the Dove”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesProfessor Alide Cagidemetrio of the University of Venice will speak on “Choosing Venice: Seduction, Henry James, and The Wings of the Dove” Professor Cagidemetrio will offer some observations about details […]
Karen Jesny: “The Interaction of Markedness Factors in Child Consonant Cluster Acquisition”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKaren Jesny Consonant clusters introduce multiple sources of markedness that must be mastered in the course of phonological acquisition. This talk considers how segmental markedness, sonority, and cluster status interact […]
John Mowitt: “Radio Silence”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJohn Mowitt The emergent field of "radio studies" has given new impetus to the study of radio. Specifically, as the name suggests, "radio studies" has fused an older set of […]
Anna Tsing: “Critical Description After Progress”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Anna Tsing Anna Tsing Professor, Anthropology, UCSC "Critical Description After Progress" Professor Tsing’s current research tracks the commerce and ecology of a high-value wild […]
Visual Performance Studies Presents: Kimberly Jannarone
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTemporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series, 2011-2012 Kimberly Jannarone Theater Arts, Digital Arts and New Media, History of Consciousness, UCSC Memory and Mass Performance The recent retrospective of the work […]
R. Zamora Linmark: “Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives”
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesR. Zamora Linmark Creative Writing and Literature present: UCSC Winter Living Writers Series R. Zamora Linmark Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives Ronaldo V. Wilson, Visiting Assistant Professor Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives […]
Chris Chen: “An Axiomatic Chorus”: Serial Black Identities and Allegories of Improvisation in Nathaniel Mackey’s
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary): Chris Chen "An Axiomatic Chorus": Serial […]