Events
Ory Amitay: “Mary, Paulina and Fulvia: Allegorical History in Josephus’ Antiquities 18.53-84”
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOry Amitay is Professor of History at the University of Haifa. This event is made possible from generous contributions from the Classical Studies Program, the Center for Jewish Studies, the departments of Literature and History, and the David B. Gold Foundation.
A Seminar with Jean Franco
Humanities 1, Room 202To obtain a copy of the paper that will be discussed at the seminar, please contact Courtney Mahaney (cmahaney@ucsc.edu). Professor Jean Franco was the first Professor of Latin American Literature in England. She was appointed Professor by the University of Essex in 1968 having previously taught at Queen Mary College and Kings College, London University. […]
Jean Franco: “Cruel Modernity”
Humanities 1, Room 202Professor Jean Franco was the first Professor of Latin American Literature in England. She was appointed Professor by the University of Essex in 1968 having previously taught at Queen Mary College and Kings College, London University. In 1972 she took up a position at Stanford University where she was later appointed to the Olive H. […]
Sean Keilen: “From Latin Rhetoric to English Poetry: Shakespeare’s Antic Dispositions”
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: Sean Keilen, College of William and Mary "From Latin Rhetoric to English Poetry: Shakespeare’s Antic Dispositions" The talk Shakespeare's efforts to distinguish the poems and plays he was writing from the arguments […]
Megan Moodie: “We Were Adivasis: Collective Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Megan Moodie Megan Moodie Assistant Professor, Anthropology, UCSC "We Were Adivasis: Collective Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe" Professor Moodie studies the sociality engendered by legal and economic projects for uplift and empowerment, including affirmative action, microfinance, and gender-based rights assertions. Her in-progress book, based on ethnographic work with […]
Gautam Premnath: “Urban Form, Minority Identity, and Narrative Drift in Altaf Tyrewala’s No God in Sight”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThirty-two pages into No God in Sight (2005), Altaf Tyrewala's novel undertakes a dramatic formal turn. By this point, Tyrewala has established an inventive formula, serving up a series of brief, elegantly crafted, loosely connected, first-person narratives that chart sinuous, unpredictable pathways through various Bombay localities. Throughout Tyrewala sustains an unvaryingly wry, detached narratorial voice […]
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 […]