Events

Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together? Through noticing, describing, and imagining, we renuew conversation about life on earth. Conference schedule: Thursday, May 8, 2014, 7-9 pm Ursula K. Le Guin Discussants: James Clifford and Donna Haraway Tickets no longer available for The Rio Theater. However, there are still two options […]

Making the MA/PhD Work Post Graduation: A Career Workshop for Humanities Graduate Students May 8  9:00 AM       Breakfast and Registration (please pre-register) 10:00            Welcome by David Theo Goldberg, UCHRI 10:15            The Working Life This two-part conversation with Christine Baker, Director, California Department of Industrial Relations,Ralph Lewin, Director, Cal Humanities, and Alison Mudditt, […]

Sex, or the Unbearable (Duke University Press, 2013) is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, two leading theorists of sexuality, politics and culture. In juxtaposing sex and the unbearable they don't propose that sex is unbearable, but that it unleashes unbearable contradictions, which we nonetheless struggle to bear. Through interpretations of works of […]

This talk is located in a shattered, yet intelligible zone defined by being in life without wanting the world--a state traversing misery and detachment that, the talk claims, is well-known to historically structurally subordinated people (people of color, of non-normative sexuality, proletarianized laborers . . .). Reading with Claudia Rankine (Don’t Let Me Be Lonely), […]

UCSC's Institute of the Arts and Sciences invites you to the final LASER of the academic year Tuesday, May 6! Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists, scientists, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations. Please join us in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 […]

Tacitus' Germania, a brief ethnography of the peoples the Romans called Germani, exerted a profound impact on the European History of ideas. By no fault of its author, it ended up as an ideological cornerstone of the National Socialist regime. This talk will trace the influence of the Germania and reflect more generally on what […]

Elisabeth L. Cameron holds the Patricia & Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in the History of Art and Visual Culture. Her research is concentrated primarily in two regions: Zambia, where she has observed, studied, and documented womenʼs visual culture, including initiation rites, art, power and hierarchy, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where she has […]

They're not the enemy. The film that put Shion Sono on the international art house horror map, Suicide Club opens with the bizarre and eerie sight of 54 uniformed teenage schoolgirls queued up beside a subway platform where they hold hands, begin to sing, and then all at once hurl themselves into the path of […]

Abstract: In this talk I will look again at one kind of counterfactual conditionals, which I will call Negative Conditionals (NCs), from a cross-linguistic perspective. NCs have properties that set them aside from standard would conditionals: (i) they contain a negative element in the antecedent clause or in the complementizer domain; (ii) they are obligatorily […]