Events
The Writing Program’s Reading Series
Silverman Conference Room, Stevenson Stevenson College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for an evening of poetry and prose with past and present Writing Program faculty: Chuck Atkinson, Jeff Arnett, Roxi Power Hamilton, Ingrid Moody, Robin Sommers, and Stephen […]
Paul Horwich: “Wittgenstein’s Meta-Philosophy”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMy aim will be to describe and assess Wittgenstein's anti-theoretical view of why philosophy ought not to be in conducted in the traditional way, how it should instead be done, […]
Afro-Latinos in the Américas
Kresge, Room 159 Kresge College, UC Santa Cruz, Kresge College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesA panel with Juan Flores (NYU), Miriam Jiménez Román (The Schomburg Center), Nancy Raquel Mirabal (SFSU), and Mark Anderson (UCSC). Lourdes Martínez Echazábal (Literature) will be respondent. Juan Poblete (Literature) will […]
Matt O’Hara: “The History of the Future in Mexico”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Matt O'Hara, History, UCSC “The History of the Future in Mexico” Historians of Latin America have spent much energy studying historical legacies. […]
Jennifer L. Morgan: “Quotidian Erasures: Gender and the Records of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States“Quotidian Erasures: Gender and the Records of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade” will argue that the emergence of what early modern political theorists described as “political arithmetic”—and what we term demography—is […]
Clive Sinclair: “The Belmont Quota”
Kresge, Room 325 Kresge College, UC Santa Cruz, Kresge College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesClive Sinclair has published 14 books of fiction - The Lady and the Laptop received major critical acclaim in England and he is noted for his criticism, including a study […]
Alicia Schmidt Camacho: “When Human Beings Become Illegal”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDrawing on migrant testimony, this talk will discuss the implications of government refusals to recognize and protect the mobility of poor people in their pursuit of economic survival. Migrants routinely […]
Living Writers Series: Claudia Rankine
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesClaudia Rankine was born in Jamaica in 1963. She is the author of four collections of poetry, including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely, The End of the Alphabet, and Nothing […]
Pasolini’s Body: New Directions in Pasolini Scholarship
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) — poet, film director, screenwriter and theatre critic, playwright, essayist, journalist, graphic artist, and novelist — was one of the great Italian artistic and intellectual figures […]
Bhanu Kapil: “Performance and Narrative: Writing (not writing) a tragic scene: NOTES: towards the Southall Race Riot of 1979”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBhanu Kapil has written four full-length cross-genre works: The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works, 2006), humanimal (Kelsey Street Press, 2009), […]
