Events

McDonald’s has “Fast Food Nation,” the fish industry has “Cod,” but no book has successfully weaved the cautionary tales and humorous history of the world of video games into our […]

On Friday, May 20th, contributors to the book Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas, will be speaking about their research and activism in the campaign to end feminicide in Mexico […]

The act of questioning is central to human conversation, but how do we know if a given sentence is a question in the first place? Looking at English, there are […]

"L'Italie, Laboratoire de la modernite juive," -- Workshop of Jewish Modernity –  a group of scholars recently characterized Venice and the Ghetto and thereby focused discussion on how this laboratory […]

The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Tamara Spira, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow in Cultural Studies, UC Davis "Neoliberal Captivities: Pisagua Prison and the Low Intensity Form" Doctor Spira […]

Poetry and Politics Research Cluster presents: A talk and workshop with Joan Retallack, followed by a poetry reading at Felix Kulpa Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz. Joan Retallack’s most recent […]

Ethnic diversity and inequality, intercultural communication and contact, and global political and economic interdependence are acknowledged realities in today’s world. Multilingual education, too, is a fact of life, and though […]

Poetry and Politics Research Cluster presents: A talk and workshop with Joan Retallack, followed by a poetry reading at Felix Kulpa Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz. Joan Retallack’s most recent […]

Dai Jinhua is Founder and Director of the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies and Film Studies at Peking University, where she is also Professor of Chinese Literature and Language.  She […]

Neo Benshi, Roxi Power Hamilton, Jen Hofer and Konrad Steiner present a new take on the Japanese tradition of “benshi”—a writer or actor who provides live narration and commentary alongside […]