Though an historian of medieval thought, Clare Monagle’s most recent work turns to the twentieth-century and the deployment of the Middle Ages in International Relations Theory. Monagle argues that charting […]

The spirit of the Salt of the Earth event is to essentially celebrate the indigenous Hawaiian practice of heʻe nalu (surfing) and the impact it has had on the world.

Debarati Sanyal is Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony and the Politics of Form (John Hopkins […]

An important example of socialist realism in Soviet cinema, Chapaev charts the ideological development and refinement of Chapaev (Boris Babochkin), a charismatic leader of a Red Army division. Under the […]

Katherine Gordy’s current book project traces the interrelations between what she identifies as different “spheres” of Cuban political thought—political doctrine (official sphere), political theory (academic sphere), and daily practice (popular […]

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Santa Cruz Korea Peace Day 2013 “No Gun Ri: No Reconciliation Without Truth” Lecture by Charles Hanley (Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist) Screening of Memory of Forgotten War A film by Deann Borshay Liem and Ramsay Liem< Additional Speakers: Paul Liem (Korea Policy Institute), Sarah Sloan (ANSWER Coalition), and Stephen McNeil (American Friends Services Committee) About the talk: Although South Korea’s […]

Thresholds and Breaking Points The writers in this series will present across multiple genres, to include poetry, fiction, criticism, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests thresholds of culture, race, nation, sex, gender, and desire through the creative imagination. Central to each will be how these thresholds are performed, tested, broken, […]

Abstract: In Szabolcsi (2010: Ch 12.5) and subsequent work I embarked on a program to investigate the compositional semantics of quantifier words. Taking apart someone and everyone and specifying what the quantifier particles and the indeterminate pronoun mean are not daunting tasks. The interesting part of the project begins when we observe that in many […]

Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome two-term U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins for a reading and signing of his new collection, Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems. Local poet and artist Gary Young, who teaches at UCSC and was Santa Cruz County's first Poet Laureate, will introduce Mr. Collins. Billy Collins is famous for […]