Events
Allen Wells: “Lives in the Balance: The United States, the Dominican Republic and the Rescue of Jews during World War II”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAllen Wells Initially supportive of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo’s offer to accept 100,000 Jews at the 1938 Evian Conference, Washington began to back away from its ringing endorsement soon after a succession of German victories throughout Western Europe during the spring of 1940. Only 750 refugees would find their way to Sosúa, a farming […]
Nathaniel Deutsch, “The Jewish Dark Continent: Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement”
Unnamed Venue Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: Nathaniel Deutsch Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of History, UCSC "The Jewish Dark Continent: Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement" On the eve of World War I, the Russian Jewish writer, socialist revolutionary, and aspiring ethnographer named An-sky set out on an ethnographic expedition into the Pale of Settlement, […]
Conservation in No Man’s Land: A Colloquium on Values, Science, and the Crisis of Biodiversity
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPANELISTS Daniel Guevara UCSC Department of Philosophy Claudio Campagna Wildlife Conservation Society UCSC Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Ronnie Lipschutz UCSC Politics Department Daniel Press UCSC Department of Environmental Studies AGENDA 9:00 am Introductory Remarks: Daniel Guevara 9:15 am Introductory Remarks: Claudio Campagna 9:30 am On the Place of Science […]
The Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture: “Interfaith Perspectives on Economic Justice, and its implications for the worldwide Occupy movement”
Stevenson Event CenterThe Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture series celebrates the work of the late Noel King, founding father and Professor of History and Comparative Religion at UC Santa Cruz. The series reflects Noel’s lifelong commitment to, and joy in, dialogue between the faiths. For the 2012 NQK Lecture, representatives of four of the world’s great religions […]
Peter Euben: “Women of Melos”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Peter Euben Peter Euben Emeritus Research Professor, Political Science and Classical Studies, Kenan Distinguished Faculty Fellow Emeritus, Duke University "Women of Melos" Although the Melian Dialogue is not much of a dialogue, it is anointed as the foundation of political realism. The paper argues that realism is delusional and […]
Tracie McMillian: “Real Food vs. Affordable Food: Can we have both?”
Oakes Mural Room, Room 223 Oakes College 150 Heller Drive, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin journalist Tracie McMillan to discuss her work for The American Way of Eating, which chronicles her experience in three undercover jobs across the American food system: California farmworker, produce clerk in a Detroit-area Walmart, New York City Applebee's kitchen wretch. Weaving policy and agricultural economics into personal narrative, McMillan explores what it would cost […]
Helga Tawil-Souri: “Visual Conflict of and in Palestine-Israel”
Communications, Room 139 Communications Bldg University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium Presents: Helga Tawil-Souri, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU “Visual Conflict of and in Palestine-Israel” Helga Tawil-Souri All readings will be available two weeks prior to talk. Co-sponsored by the History of Art and Visual Culture, Film & Digital Media, and the Arts Division. Departmental sites: http://film.ucsc.edu/news_events http://havc.ucsc.edu/news_events […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Matthew Gordon
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMatthew Gordon Matthew Gordon is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include phonetics, phonology, and typology. This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.
Poetry and Politics: Professor Craig Dworkin Poetry Reading
Craig Dworkin is the author of Reading the Illegible (Northwestern UP), Signature-Effects (Ghos-Ti), Dure (Cuneiform), Strand (Roof), and Parse (Atelos), and the editor of Architectures of Poetry (Rodopi), Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern UP), The Sound of Poetry (Chicago UP), and Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writing of Vito Acconci (MIT). He teaches at the University of Utah and curates two on-line archives: Eclipse and The UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing. […]
Craig Dworkin: “The Politics of the Work”
Humanities 1, Room 202In Partnership with Poetry and Politics Research Cluster and the Literature Department presents: Craig Dworkin for a Lecture on Poetics. Craig Dworkin is the author of Reading the Illegible (Northwestern UP), Signature-Effects (Ghos-Ti), Dure (Cuneiform), Strand (Roof), and Parse (Atelos), and the editor of Architectures of Poetry (Rodopi), Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern UP), The Sound of Poetry (Chicago UP), and Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writing of Vito […]