Events

Professor Ochoa works at the conjuncture of the ethnography of media, modernity in Latin America, and queer/transgender studies. Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Misses and Mass Media in Venezuela (Duke, forthcoming) is a queer diasporic ethnography of femininity, spectacle, and nation in Venezuela. Marcia Ochoa is Assistant Professor of Community Studies at UCSC.   Sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies […]

Professor James Young, Director of Jewish and Holocaust Studies at UMass Amherst, will speak Wednesday March 9 at UCSC. His talk will take place in Classroom Building Unit 2 from 8 -9:10 am as part of a class on the Holocaust and is open to the general public. Professor Young was the Chair of the […]

Noel King Memorial Lecture Speakers: Jonathan Brown (Georgetown) and Nathaniel Deutsch (UCSC) Title: "Muslims, Jews, and Modernity: Religious, Cultural, and Intellectual Responses" Reception to Follow

Miguel Tamen specializes in philosophy and literature and Portuguese literature. His interests include the philosophy of language, interpretation, and moral philosophy, as well as aesthetics. He is Professor of Literary Theory and Chair of the Program in Literary Theory at the University of Lisbon. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago […]

Sesshu Foster taught composition and literature in East L.A. and writing at the University of Iowa, the California Institute for the Arts,  and UC Santa Cruz. He has been published in The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Asia and Beyond, and State of the Union: 50 Political Poems. His works, Atomik Aztex and World […]

For the first time in its history, the Jewish community in Venezuela has found itself facing a consistent, 10-year barrage of anti-Israel, anti-Jewish statements from President Chavez’s administration and his pro-government media.  Recent events in Israel, such as the 2006 war in Lebanon, the 2009 Gaza incursion, and the Flotilla event in 2010, have triggered […]

Building upon the last sections of his first book, Violence over the Land, in this presentation Ned Blackhawk reevaluates the American West’s most famous if often under-recognized author, Samuel Clemens, whose more famous pseudonym, Mark Twain, was first deployed in 1863 in Virginia City, Nevada’s Territorial Enterprise. This presentation considers the place of indigenous peoples—specifically […]

Professor Frangos’s “Queer Morphologies” explores metamorphosis and non-human embodiment in literature from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance as sites of queer possibility and potentiality. The project asks how human/animal metamorphoses surface and resurface to produce and negotiate nonnormative configurations of sexuality, gender, and kinship. Professor Frangos is Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature at UCSC. Sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies with […]

In the nineteenth and twentieth centures the Baghdadi Jewish diaspora stretched from Basra to Shanghai, with Calcutta acting as an important trading center on that route. During that time Calcutta was home to a thriving Jewish community that played an important role in the City's mercantile development. After India's Independence, 1947, the community relocated mostly […]

This talk will present a practical overview of the use of authentic texts for language learning purposes within the context of contemporary second language acquisition (SLA) research. Some of the questions that will be addressed during this talk include: What are the benefits and potential difficulties of authentic texts vis-à-vis graded readers? What are the […]