Events
Visual Performance Studies Presents: Fabian Barba
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTemporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series, 2011-2012 Fabian Barba Independent artist, Belgium Reenacting the Dances of Mary Wigman A Lecture Demonstration (Studio A-105, Theater Arts Center) Friday, February 3rd at 2pm 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 […]
Yair Dalal: “Bridge to Babylon Lecture on Jewish Middle Eastern Music”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesComposer, 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 creates new Middle Eastern music by interweaving the traditions of Iraqi and Jewish Arabic music […]
John Jordan, Supposing Bleak House
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJohn O. Jordan is giving a reading at Bookshop Santa Cruz in honor of Charles Dickens's bicentenary (born Feb 7, 1812). John will read from his book, Supposing Bleak House, and discuss Dickens, Bleak House, the Dickens Project, and the upcoming Dickens Universe (focusing on Bleak House this summer). There's a Bookshop link at http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/john-jordan.
Alice Yang: “Can the President be Torturer in Chief? John Yoo, Executive Authority and Historical Memory”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Alice Yang Alice Yang Associate Professor, History, UCSC Co-Director, Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories "Can the President be Torturer in Chief? John Yoo, Executive Authority and Historical Memory" Professor Yang examines the legal reasoning of the former Justice Department lawyer’s “torture memos” and his arguments that […]
Leigh Raiford: “Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle”
Communications, Room 139 Communications Bldg University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium Presents: Professor Leigh Raiford, African American Studies, UCB Affiliated Faculty in Film Studies, Cultural Studies, and Science & Technology Studies “Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle” Leigh Raiford All readings will be available two weeks prior to talk. Co-sponsored by the History of […]
CANCELLED: The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: David Graeber
The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: David Graeber, Goldsmith’s University of London Monday, January 30 / 3:30 – 5:00 pm / 261 Social Science 1 Contact: Allyson Ramage, aramage@ucsc.edu
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 […]