Events
Maaike Bleeker: “(Un)Covering artistic thought unfolding”
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTemporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series, 2011-2012 Maaike Bleeker Theatre Studies, Utrecht University (Un)Covering Artistic Thought Unfolding Following a suggestion by a Dutch dance initiative named Cover, this talk proposes the idea of ‘covering’ as practiced in the context of music as perspective on artistic practices of reenactment. The term ´cover´ points to what is […]
Heather James: “Bison Hamlet”
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: “Bison Hamlet” considers the idea of species extinction in myths of the westward transmission of culture in early modern England (translation of empire) and nineteenth-century America (Manifest Destiny). The chief exhibits are […]
Vanita Seth: “Faces of the Self”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Vanita Seth Vanita Seth Associate Professor, Politics, UCSC "Faces of the Self" The French ban on the burqa and niqab is only one example of the primacy accorded the face in modern western societies. Professor Seth here argues that the fortunes of the face are tied to the birth […]
Kathy Lou Shultz: “Diasporic Modernism at Mid-Century: Melvin B. Tolson and Langston Hughes in/and the 1950s.”
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). Kathy Lou Schultz is the author of the forthcoming monograph The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History: Tolson, Hughes, Baraka. Schultz's most recent journal articles are "To Save and Destroy: Melvin B. […]
Julie Sze: “Situating Sustainability Discourse in Shanghai: Global Flows and Urban Transformations in a Warming World”
College 8, Room 301 College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk is drawn from Sze's current book project which examines flows, fears and fantasies in contemporary urban and global environmental culture, with a sustained look at Shanghai in China. She focuses here on Dongtan, a failed eco-city proposal, framing it within multiple ideological and spatial contexts. Julie Sze is an Associate Professor of American […]
Labor Across the Food System Conference
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Center for Labor Studies presents FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3-4, 2012 FOOD SYSTEM WORKERS are often a glaring absence in discussions of the contemporary global food system, even though they are employed in some of the most labor-intensive industries within the entire economy, among them agricultural field work, food processing, food distribution, […]
Yair Dalal with Dror Sinai: An Evening of Jewish Music from Iraq
"Bridge to Babylon" with visiting artists Yair Dalal (oud and violin) and Dror Sinai (percussion) Composer, violinist, oud player and singer Yair Dalal was born in 1955. His family came to Israel from Baghdad, and his Iraqi roots are embedded in his musical work. Whether working on his own, or with his Alol ensemble, Dalal […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Masaya Yoshida
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMasaya Yoshida The focus of Professor Yoshida's research is on aspects of syntactic representations both in static knowledge of language and in real time sentence processing. The studies carried out so far attempted to integrate work in theoretical and typological syntax and experimental psycholinguistics in order to reveal representations of sentence structures built in real […]
Cheryl Higashida: “Black Radicalism’s Queer Record: Erna Brodber and the West Indian Jazz Novel”
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). Cheryl Higashida "Black Radicalism’s Queer Record: Erna Brodber and the West Indian Jazz Novel" Cheryl Higashida is Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder, where she has taught since 2002. She […]
UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: Ben Doller and Sandra Doller
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBen Doller and Sandra Doller Creative Writing and Literature present: UCSC Winter Living Writers Series Ben Doller and Sandra Doller 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, […]