Events
Yair Dalal with Dror Sinai: An Evening of Jewish Music from Iraq
"Bridge to Babylon" with visiting artists Yair Dalal (oud and violin) and Dror Sinai (percussion) Composer, violinist, oud player and singer Yair Dalal was born in 1955. His family came to Israel from Baghdad, and his Iraqi roots are embedded in his musical work. Whether working on his own, or with his Alol ensemble, Dalal […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Masaya Yoshida
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMasaya Yoshida The focus of Professor Yoshida's research is on aspects of syntactic representations both in static knowledge of language and in real time sentence processing. The studies carried out so far attempted to integrate work in theoretical and typological syntax and experimental psycholinguistics in order to reveal representations of sentence structures built in real […]
Cheryl Higashida: “Black Radicalism’s Queer Record: Erna Brodber and the West Indian Jazz Novel”
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). Cheryl Higashida "Black Radicalism’s Queer Record: Erna Brodber and the West Indian Jazz Novel" Cheryl Higashida is Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder, where she has taught since 2002. She […]
UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: Ben Doller and Sandra Doller
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBen Doller and Sandra Doller Creative Writing and Literature present: UCSC Winter Living Writers Series Ben Doller and Sandra Doller Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives Ronaldo V. Wilson, Visiting Assistant Professor Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities. Whether as editors, publishers, activists, teachers, […]
Visual Performance Studies Presents: Fabian Barba
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTemporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series, 2011-2012 Fabian Barba Independent artist, Belgium Reenacting the Dances of Mary Wigman A Lecture Demonstration (Studio A-105, Theater Arts Center) Friday, February 3rd at 2pm The recent retrospective of the work of Marina Abramovic at MOMA in New York brought to wide public attention the phenomenon of what she called […]
Yair Dalal: “Bridge to Babylon Lecture on Jewish Middle Eastern Music”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesComposer, violinist, oud player and singer Yair Dalal was born in 1955. His family came to Israel from Baghdad, and his Iraqi roots are embedded in his musical work. Whether working on his own, or with his Alol ensemble, Dalal creates new Middle Eastern music by interweaving the traditions of Iraqi and Jewish Arabic music […]
John Jordan, Supposing Bleak House
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJohn O. Jordan is giving a reading at Bookshop Santa Cruz in honor of Charles Dickens's bicentenary (born Feb 7, 1812). John will read from his book, Supposing Bleak House, and discuss Dickens, Bleak House, the Dickens Project, and the upcoming Dickens Universe (focusing on Bleak House this summer). There's a Bookshop link at http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/john-jordan.
Alice Yang: “Can the President be Torturer in Chief? John Yoo, Executive Authority and Historical Memory”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Alice Yang Alice Yang Associate Professor, History, UCSC Co-Director, Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories "Can the President be Torturer in Chief? John Yoo, Executive Authority and Historical Memory" Professor Yang examines the legal reasoning of the former Justice Department lawyer’s “torture memos” and his arguments that […]
Leigh Raiford: “Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle”
Communications, Room 139 Communications Bldg University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium Presents: Professor Leigh Raiford, African American Studies, UCB Affiliated Faculty in Film Studies, Cultural Studies, and Science & Technology Studies “Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle” Leigh Raiford All readings will be available two weeks prior to talk. Co-sponsored by the History of […]
CANCELLED: The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: David Graeber
The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: David Graeber, Goldsmith’s University of London Monday, January 30 / 3:30 – 5:00 pm / 261 Social Science 1 Contact: Allyson Ramage, aramage@ucsc.edu