Events
SPOT Research Cluster Workshop
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesSPOT (Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory) is part of an NSF-funded research project aiming to create a computational platform that generates prosodic structure candidate sets from syntactic (grammatical) structure in different […]
Banu Bargu: “Catching a Moving Train: Decolonizing Aleatory Materialism”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis paper analyzes Althusser's proposal for an aleatory materialism through his engagement with historical materialism, and particularly with Marx on "primitive accumulation." It identifies two different legacies of Marx's […]
Michael Vann: The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt – Empire, Disease, and Modernity In French Colonial Vietnam
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt - Empire, Disease, and Modernity In French Colonial Vietnam" The History Department Presents Michael Vann Professor of History at Sacramento State University and UCSC History […]
Deirdre de la Cruz: “Psychic Surgery and Other Philippine Phenomena of the Global Occult”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn the variegated landscape of the Filipino paranormal, one phenomenon garnered worldwide attention in the last quarter of the twentieth century: psychic surgery. A form of spiritual healing in […]
Living Writers: Brenda Shaughnessy with Ellen Bass
Peace United Church 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBrenda Shaughnessy earned a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MFA from Columbia University. She is the author of Interior with Sudden Joy (1999), Human Dark […]
FeaturedAntisemitism and the Internet: Old Hatred and New
CA, United StatesEvent Photos by Paul Schraub: As Ian Bogost noted in The Atlantic this week, recent events have shown that internet technologies facilitate the rapid spread of forms of bigotry […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Sandy Chung
CA, United StatesSandy Chung (UC Santa Cruz) presents The Ingredients of Control in Chamorro. About eight times each year, the department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For more information: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
A Book Talk and Discussion with Dr. Emily Thuma
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCritical Race & Ethnic Studies and Feminist Studies present: A Book Talk and Discussion with Dr. Emily Thuma (Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies, UC Irvine): ALL OUR TRIALS: […]
David Kazanjian: “‘I am he:’ Revising the Theory of Dispossession from Colonial Yucatán”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn this paper, “‘I am he:' Revising the Theory of Dispossession from Colonial Yucatán,” I examine a legal case involving an enslaved Afro-diasporan named Juan Patricio and a Mayan woman […]
Living Writers: Daniel Borzutzky
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDaniel Borzutzky’s latest poetry collection is Lake Michigan (Pitt Poetry Series, 2018). He is the author of The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press), recipient of the 2016 National […]