Events
UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: giovanni singleton and Ara Shirinyan
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCreative Writing and Literature present: UCSC Winter Living Writers Series giovanni singleton and Ara Shirinyan giovanni singleton Ara Shirinyan giovanni singleton is founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts, a critically acclaimed journal dedicated to experimental work by artists and writers of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces. Counterpath Press will publisher […]
Bettina Apthekar: “Queering the History of the Communist Left in the United States”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Bettina Apthekar Bettina Apthekar Distinguished Professor, Feminist Studies and History, UCSC "Queering the History of the Communist Left in the United States" In 2010 gays and lesbians of the U.S. Communist Party began publishing a newsletter, The Queer Communist, whose emblem is a pink triangle superimposed on a hammer […]
“What Latinos Are Reading”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Latino Literary Cultures Project / Proyecto Culturas Literarias Latinas presents: What Latinos Are Reading Bringing together writers and editors, this symposium explores the conditions of possibility for Latino literature today, focusing on its less-explored popular edges. Panelists will explore the conditions of possibility for a US Latino literature--its varied audiences, the kinds of literacy […]
UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: Dawn Lundy Martin, Duriel E. Harris, Ronaldo V. Wilson (Black Took Collective)
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCreative Writing and Literature present: UCSC Winter Living Writers Series Dawn Lundy Martin, Duriel E. Harris, Ronaldo V. Wilson (Black Took Collective) Dawn Lundy Martin, Duriel E. Harris, Ronaldo V. Wilson Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives Ronaldo V. Wilson, Visiting Assistant Professor Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry […]
Maaike Bleeker: “(Un)Covering artistic thought unfolding”
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTemporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series, 2011-2012 Maaike Bleeker Theatre Studies, Utrecht University (Un)Covering Artistic Thought Unfolding Following a suggestion by a Dutch dance initiative named Cover, this talk proposes the idea of ‘covering’ as practiced in the context of music as perspective on artistic practices of reenactment. The term ´cover´ points to what is […]
Heather James: “Bison Hamlet”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Early Modern Comparative Studies/Shakespeare: “Bison Hamlet” considers the idea of species extinction in myths of the westward transmission of culture in early modern England (translation of empire) and nineteenth-century America (Manifest Destiny). The chief exhibits are […]
Vanita Seth: “Faces of the Self”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Vanita Seth Vanita Seth Associate Professor, Politics, UCSC "Faces of the Self" The French ban on the burqa and niqab is only one example of the primacy accorded the face in modern western societies. Professor Seth here argues that the fortunes of the face are tied to the birth […]
Kathy Lou Shultz: “Diasporic Modernism at Mid-Century: Melvin B. Tolson and Langston Hughes in/and the 1950s.”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary). Kathy Lou Schultz is the author of the forthcoming monograph The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History: Tolson, Hughes, Baraka. Schultz's most recent journal articles are "To Save and Destroy: Melvin B. […]
Julie Sze: “Situating Sustainability Discourse in Shanghai: Global Flows and Urban Transformations in a Warming World”
College 8, Room 301 College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk is drawn from Sze's current book project which examines flows, fears and fantasies in contemporary urban and global environmental culture, with a sustained look at Shanghai in China. She focuses here on Dongtan, a failed eco-city proposal, framing it within multiple ideological and spatial contexts. Julie Sze is an Associate Professor of American […]
Labor Across the Food System Conference
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Center for Labor Studies presents FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3-4, 2012 FOOD SYSTEM WORKERS are often a glaring absence in discussions of the contemporary global food system, even though they are employed in some of the most labor-intensive industries within the entire economy, among them agricultural field work, food processing, food distribution, […]