Events
Victorian Kitchens & Cocktails
Virtual EventDust off your copies of What Shall We Have for Dinner? by Lady Clutterbuck and Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management and join us for three interactive sessions exploring Victorian kitchens and cocktails. Dickens Project alumna Liz Pollock explores food and drink preparation in the Victorian kitchen on November 9th. In subsequent lessons, she will demonstrate how to make […]
Visualizing Abolition: Film Screening “Lessons of the Hour”
Virtual EventIn collaboration with McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, we are pleased to present a limited online screening of Isaac Julien Lessons of the Hour as a part of the Visualizing Abolition series. The ten-screen immersive film installation exploring the life of Frederick Douglass is on view at McEvoy Arts Oct 14, 2020–Mar 13, 2021. A […]
Visualizing Abolition: Abolition Then and Now w/ Isaac Julien and Robin D.G. Kelley
Virtual EventAbolition Then & Now with historian and cultural theorist Robin D. G. Kelley and artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien, co-presented with McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, is the next event in Visualizing Abolition. Abolition Then & Now features Robin Kelley and Isaac Julien in conversation about the anti-slavery movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries […]
In Vitro: Film Screening and Conversation
Virtual EventIN VITRO | Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind, 2019 (TRAILER) from Spike Island - Productions on Vimeo. Join the Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium for a special screening of the film, In Vitro, after which Peter Limbrick (UCSC professor of Film and Digital Media) will moderate a discussion with filmmakers Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind. […]
Living Writers: Student Reading
Virtual EventLIVING WRITERS FALL 2020: SEEING RED—RAGE, WRITING, ART features contemporary poets, cultural critics, performance and visual artists interrogating rage, its call and possibilities, rendered across an array of works (text, installation, and performance) exploring rage’s circumstances, effects, and configurations through poetry, prose, and interdisciplinary modes.
Adrian Staub – Word frequency and predictability effects in reading: Some outstanding puzzles
Virtual EventThe Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Adrian Staub of the University of Massachusetts speaking on word frequency and predictability effects in reading: some outstanding puzzles Abstract: A word’s […]
Ezra Klein and Will Davies: Living in a Frayed Democracy
Virtual EventThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture - Ezra Klein and Will Davies: Living in Frayed Democracy We’re all impacted by this deeply polarized moment. How do we navigate life while […]
Rebecca Tollan: Competing Argument Privileges in Niuean
Virtual EventThe Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Rebecca Tollan from the University of Delaware speaking on competing argument privileges in Niuean. Abstract: Grammatical “subjects” have long been shown to […]
Christmas with Dickens
Virtual EventJoin us on Sunday, December 13th at 4 pm for a performance you won't want to miss! Charles Dickens just wants to talk about his book, A Christmas Carol, but […]
Slugs and Steins: Reading Dickens Today with Professor John Jordan
Virtual EventThese days, 150 years after his death in 1870, it is nearly impossible for a week to go by without coming across some reference to Dickens in a news article, […]