Events
Erica Edwards: “You’ve become so…American: The Post-9/11 Turn in African American Literature”
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) Erica R. Edwards is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside and the author of Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership (University of Minnesota Press, 2011). Her […]
“What is a Reader?” Day of Events
The Teagle Fund Working Group, "What is a Reader?" invites you to attend a day of events to be hosted at the University of California, Santa Cruz on January 26th, 2012. What is a Reader? is a multi-campus project supported by the Teagle Foundation's Big Questions in the Disciplines initiative. Established in 2009 by faculty […]
Gerard Passannante: “Little Big World: Disaster and the Materialist Imagination”
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. Professor Passannante looks at the habit of making much of little--shifting between small things (details, fossilized seashells, words) and big ideas. Tracing this disaster-courting habit of mind from the writings of Montaigne […]
Neville Hoad: “Colonial Erotopolitics: Customary Law and Migrant Labor Sexuality”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Neville Hoad Associate Professor, English and Women's and Gender Studies, UT Austin "Colonial Erotopolitics: Customary Law and Migrant Labor Sexuality" Author of African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality and Globalization (Minnesota 2007), Professor Hoad is working on a book about representations of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. He focuses on […]
POSTPONED: The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: Nathaniel Deutsch
LECTURE POSTPONED: The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium prevention of Nathaniel Deutsch,“The Jewish Dark Continent: Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement” / has ben postponed from This Monday, January 23rd to Monday, March 12 / 3:30 pm, 261 Social Science 1 The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of History, UCSC "The Jewish […]
Mohammed Bamyeh: “Revolutionary Ethics and the Making of the Arab Spring”
College 8, Room 301 College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Sociology Colloquium Series presents: Mohammed Bamyeh Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh "Revolutionary Ethics and the Making of the Arab Spring" Mohammed Bamyeh Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness, Politics, and Colleges 9 & 10 For more information: http://socyeventsucsc.wordpress.com and http://urban.ihr.ucsc.edu For accessibility, contact: Barbara Laurence, balauren@ucsc.edu Event Contact: Deborah Gould, dbgould@ucsc.edu
Chris Chen: “An Axiomatic Chorus”: Serial Black Identities and Allegories of Improvisation in Nathaniel Mackey’s
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): Chris Chen "An Axiomatic Chorus": Serial Black Identities and Allegories of Improvisation in Nathaniel Mackey's From A Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate. Christopher Chen is a Holloway Postdoctoral Fellow […]
R. Zamora Linmark: “Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives”
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesR. Zamora Linmark Creative Writing and Literature present: UCSC Winter Living Writers Series R. Zamora Linmark 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, multi-media artists, and/or […]
Visual Performance Studies Presents: Kimberly Jannarone
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTemporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series, 2011-2012 Kimberly Jannarone Theater Arts, Digital Arts and New Media, History of Consciousness, UCSC Memory and Mass Performance 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 the "reperformance" of her earlier work, […]
Anna Tsing: “Critical Description After Progress”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Anna Tsing Anna Tsing Professor, Anthropology, UCSC "Critical Description After Progress" Professor Tsing’s current research tracks the commerce and ecology of a high-value wild mushroom to illuminate contemporary dilemmas of capitalism and multispecies life. The in-progress Living in Ruins explores the consequences of building capitalist supply chains among cultural […]