Events
Ronaldo V. Wilson: “Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other”
Humanities 2, Room 259Ronaldo V. Wilson is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (2008), Poems of the Black Object (2009), and Lucy 72 (2015). […]
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Anna Tsing & Isabelle Carbonell: “‘Golden Snail Opera’: The More-than-human Performance of Friendly Farming on Taiwan’s Lanyang Plain”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWritten by Anna Tsing, Isabelle Carbonell, Joelle Chevrier and Yen-ling Tsai (Associate Professor of Anthropology at National Chaio Tung University Taiwan), Golden Snail Opera combines video and performance-oriented text into a […]
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Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Redi Koobak
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Rethinking Gender, Art & Geopolitic through Post-national War Rhetoric" Redi Koobak, Assitant Professor, Linkoping University, Sweden After its 50-year occupation by the Soviets, current political disclosure in Estonia revolves around […]
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Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Joseph Stroud
Cabrillo College Room 450Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Joseph Stroud Thursday, November 3, 2016 6:00 pm Cabrillo College, Room 450 (Forum) EVENT PHOTOS: by Lorraine Padgett First Song That long ago morning at […]
FreePhD+: Research Off the Tenure Track
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesNovember's PhD+ workshop focuses on opportunities for research in careers not on the tenure track. Join us for a discussion led by Elaine Sullivan (History) with Yoh Kawano (UCLA, GIS […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Hahkyung Darline Kim
Humanities 1, Room 202"Historicizing Interviews: A Mode of (Re)living and (Re)writing Memories of the Korean War through Documentary" How can we write a history of the officially unsaid and the unsayable? My talk […]
FreeFrom Concept to Project: A Digital Mapping Workshop for Graduate Students with Yoh Kawano
Humanities 1, Room 402Are you developing a digital map but feel unsure about your next steps? Or, having trouble reconciling the complexity of spatial theory with the nuts-and-bolts of GIS? Graduate students interested in mapping and integrating spatial thinking into their research should consider joining this workshop with Yoh Kawano. Kawano is the GIS Specialist at UCLA and a lecturer […]
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Joan Wallach Scott: “Sex and Secularism”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoan Wallach Scott’s recent books, including The Fantasy of Feminist History (2011), focus on the relationship of the particularity of gender to the universalizing force of democratic politics. Her recent work tracks the mutually constitutive operations of gender and politics by examining the discourses of secularism from their nineteenth century anti-clerical origins to their current deployment […]
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The Immigrant Youth Movement and the Fight Against Deportations: A Talk with Dr. Kent Wong
Humanities 2, Room 259Dr. Kent Wong is the author and editor of DREAMS DEPORTED: Immigrant Youth and Families Resist Deportation, a UCLA student publication featuring stories of deportation and of the courageous immigrant youth and families who have led the national campaign against deportations and successfully challenged the president of the United States to act. Kent Wong […]
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Living Writers: Peter Orner
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPeter Orner is the author of two story collections, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge and Esther Stories, and two novels, Love and Shame and Love and The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo. He has received the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Pushcart Prizes, and was a finalist for […]