Events
An Evening with David Talbot
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Division and the Institute for Humanities Research presents: An Evening with David Talbot David Talbot, founder and CEO of the San Francisco based web magazine Salon, is uniquely […]
Anjali Arondekar: “Orienting Margins: Sexuality’s Geopolitics”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Anjali Arondekar Associate Professor, Feminist Studies, UCSC Histories of sexuality routinely mediate geopolitical difference(s) through the narrative forms of marginality, disenfranchisement and loss. What […]
Thirteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOpening Remarks 8:45 – 9:00 a.m. Karen Tei Yamashita Director, Literature Department Undergraduate Program Panel One: Creative Writing: Memoir 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Claire Williams: This Girl Pulls the Whole […]
Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Justin Chin
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJustin Chin was born in Malaysia, raised & educated in Singapore, shipped to the U.S. by way of Hawaii, and now living in San Francisco. Author of 3 books of […]
Michael Ursell:“Surviving Humanism: Petrarchan Autobiography and Ecology”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Michael Ursell Literature, UCSC While critics have dismissed an image of the Renaissance humanist Petrarch as a nature-lover, this talk reconsiders a poetics of […]
Sam Ball: “Graphic Novelists on Film”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSAM BALL WILL PRESENT HIS WORK WITH TWO GRAPHIC NOVELISTS: Joann Sfar Draws from Memory and Ben Katchor: Pleasures of Urban Decay Sam Ball’s documentaries have been exhibited at many […]
Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Lysley Tenorio
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLysley Tenorio is a Filipino-American short story writer. Lysley Tenorio’s stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, Manoa, and The Best New American Voices and Pushcart Prize anthologies. […]
Hotze Rullman: “Epistemic Modality in the Scope of Past Tense”
Abstract: For many years the majority opinion in the literature has been that epistemic modals cannot scope under past tense (e.g., Groenendijk & Stokhof 1975, Cinque 1999, Abraham 2001, Drubig […]
Digital Art & Democracy: People, Places, Participation
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab, Room 306Have recent developments in digital art led to new "democratic" spaces? Who constitutes a democratic subject in on-line digital space? What does a new politics of representation look like? How […]
Robert Weinberg: “Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia: Popular Antisemitism, the Occult and the Trial of Mendel Beilis”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesProfessor Weinberg will explore the nature of popular antisemitism in the Russian Empire during the trial of Mendel Beilis, a Kievan Jew accused of ritual murder in 1913. Concerned citizens […]