Events
Events
Book Reading and Conversation with Saru Jayaraman: Behind the Kitchen Door
Behind the Kitchen DoorHow do restaurant workers live on some of the lowest wages in America? And how do poor working conditions—discriminatory labor practices, exploitation, and unsanitary kitchens— affect the […]
“(Re-)Building Punjab: Political Economy, Society and Values” Conference
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPunjab is a state in the nation of India, but also a state of mind. The larger geographic region of Punjab was the birthplace of the Sikh religion. The Indian […]
A Feminist Studies Legal Luncheon: Practicing Domestic Violence Law
Unnamed VenueThe Department of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz Presents: A Feminist Studies Legal Luncheon PRACTICING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LAW Featuring distinguished UC Santa Cruz Women's Studies Alumna NANCY K.D. LEMON […]
The Living Writers Reading Series: Tupelo Hassman
Unnamed Venue Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTupelo Hassman, author of the novel Girlchild (FSG 2012) "It takes real talent to make something beautiful out of a trailer park. Girlchild, Tupelo Hassman’s lacerating debut novel, is the […]
Bruce Lawrence: "Minor Matters – Asian/African, Muslim/Christian"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHow do Muslims and Christians together meet the challenge of majority-minority identity politics in the 21st century? I will assess the status of minority citizenship in places of Africa and Asia that […]
Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium – Kimberly Lau: "Camping Masculinity"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKimberly Lau’s work explores some of the ways that World of Warcraft engages masculinity in play through the convergence of player practices, game designers, and the ongoing interaction between the […]
Stevenson College Faculty Lecture Series: Adrian Brasoveanu
NEGATION IS A PERVASIVE FEATURE of natural language and for the most part, the linguistic and psycholinguistic literature takes it to be a categorical, binary notion: the sentence “Sue left” […]
The Living Writers Reading Series: Justin Torres
Unnamed Venue Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJustin Torres, author of We The Animals, was a finalist for the 2012 Indies Choice Book Awards, winner of a National Book Award for 5 under 35, and named one […]
Simon Goldhill: "First Words, Dying Moments: Starting and Ending in Sophocles and Euipides"
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Classical Studies Program and the President's Chair in Ancient Studies present the annual Carl Deppe Lecture How does tragedy start and stop – and what does it tell us about the ends of man? Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek at Cambridge where he also runs the university's interdisciplinary research center. He has […]
Adriana M. Brodsky: "Becoming Jewish-Argentines: Marriage choice, and the construction of a Jewish Argentine Identity (1920-1960)"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe presentation explores the marriage patterns of the Sephardi Jewish communities, paying special attention to when Sephardim began marrying Ashkenazi Jews, thereby giving birth to a new type of Jewish identity, neither fully Ashkenazi nor fully Sephardi, but Argentine. Although initially Sephardim respected the boundaries of their communities of origin, and usually married ‘within’, as […]