Events
A Feminist Studies Legal Luncheon: Practicing Domestic Violence Law
Unnamed VenueThe Department of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz Presents: A Feminist Studies Legal Luncheon PRACTICING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LAW Featuring distinguished UC Santa Cruz Women's Studies Alumna NANCY K.D. LEMON […]
The Living Writers Reading Series: Tupelo Hassman
Unnamed Venue Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTupelo Hassman, author of the novel Girlchild (FSG 2012) "It takes real talent to make something beautiful out of a trailer park. Girlchild, Tupelo Hassman’s lacerating debut novel, is the […]
Bruce Lawrence: "Minor Matters – Asian/African, Muslim/Christian"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHow do Muslims and Christians together meet the challenge of majority-minority identity politics in the 21st century? I will assess the status of minority citizenship in places of Africa and Asia that […]
Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium – Kimberly Lau: "Camping Masculinity"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKimberly Lau’s work explores some of the ways that World of Warcraft engages masculinity in play through the convergence of player practices, game designers, and the ongoing interaction between the […]
Stevenson College Faculty Lecture Series: Adrian Brasoveanu
NEGATION IS A PERVASIVE FEATURE of natural language and for the most part, the linguistic and psycholinguistic literature takes it to be a categorical, binary notion: the sentence “Sue left” […]
The Living Writers Reading Series: Justin Torres
Unnamed Venue Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJustin Torres, author of We The Animals, was a finalist for the 2012 Indies Choice Book Awards, winner of a National Book Award for 5 under 35, and named one […]
Simon Goldhill: "First Words, Dying Moments: Starting and Ending in Sophocles and Euipides"
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Classical Studies Program and the President's Chair in Ancient Studies present the annual Carl Deppe Lecture How does tragedy start and stop – and what does it tell […]
Adriana M. Brodsky: "Becoming Jewish-Argentines: Marriage choice, and the construction of a Jewish Argentine Identity (1920-1960)"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe presentation explores the marriage patterns of the Sephardi Jewish communities, paying special attention to when Sephardim began marrying Ashkenazi Jews, thereby giving birth to a new type of Jewish […]
Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium – Christine Hong: "'War Is the Force That Gives Us Meaning': Militarized Queerness, Lieutenant Dan Choi, and Korean War Mascotry"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"'War Is the Force That Gives Us Meaning': Militarized Queerness, Lieutenant Dan Choi, and Korean War Mascotry" Offering a historically layered examination of the rights-based battle waged by former Lt. […]
Radical Reading Practices, A Symposium
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRadical Reading Practices, A Symposium, April 18-19, 2013 Presented by UCSC’s Poetry and Politics Research Cluster. Sponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund and the UC Humanities Network, with staff […]
