Events

"The Rubble and the Ruin: Spec Ops:The Line as Anti-War Game" Soraya Murray is an interdisciplinary scholar of contemporary visual culture, with particular interest in new media and globalization in the arts. […]

In Conflicting Commitments, Dr. Shannon Gleeson goes beyond the debate over  federal immigration policy to examine the complicated terrain of immigrant worker rights. Federal law requires that basic labor standards […]

Revisiting Indigenous critiques of the sexualization and racialization of colonial rule, Morgensen highlights how such power is challenged by the Indigenous movement Idle No More. Indigenous feminist and Two Spirit […]

The Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP in Mediterranean Studies present: An International Symposium/Workshop to be held at UC Santa Cruz, 2-4 May, 2013 A maritime perspective provides scholars with a fresh approach to […]

Karen Joy Fowler, author of six novels and three short story collections. The Jane Austen Book Club spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a […]

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“Goldfinger" and the Decline of the Classical Hollywood Narrative The 1964 film Goldfinger, released right after the break-up of the Hollywood studio system, presented a new kind of narrative that […]

For most Americans, the phrase "Jewish education" summons images of Hebrew School. But, Hebrew School, or even what we might call "formal Jewish education" amounts to only a very small […]

What's driving this murderous U.S. policy in Honduras? And how are the Hondurans still rising up in resistance? Since the June 2009 military coup that deposed democratically-elected President Manuel Zeleya, […]

Elizabeth Graver’s new novel, The End of the Point, set in a summer community on Buzzard’s Bay from 1942 to 1999, is forthcoming from HarperCollins in Spring, 2013. She is […]