Events
Saein Park: “Dancing Waste of History: Lumpen in Heine, Marx, & Benjamin”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesSaein Park’s current project argues that the discourses of Lumpen record the changing demarcations of disposable lives during the emergence of European industrial modernity. She researches 19th- and early-20th-century German-language […]
Applied Linguistics Colloquia
Humanities 1, Room 202
Mitch Aso: “Rubber and the Making of Vietnam”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesRubber has been a key commodity for industrial societies since the nineteenth century. Yet, studies of the impact of the production of this good on various regions around the […]
Living Writers Series: Sawako Nakayasu
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSawako Nakayasu is a transnational poet, translator, and occasional performance artist who has lived in Japan, France, China, and the US. Her books include The Ants and Texture Notes, and recent translations include The Collected Poems of Chika […]
Friday Forum: Madison Treece
Humanities 2, Room 359Maya Textile Arts Influence Contemporary Politics in Zapatista Embroidery Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and […]
Opera Works: Journey in Creation
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterWorkshop rehearsals with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe. "Opera Works: Journey in Creation" Tuesday, May 29, 2018 2 pm - 5 pm […]
Jeff Michno: “Nicaragua Y ¿Vos, tú o usted?”
Humanities 1, Room 202In this talk, I highlight variation in second-person singular pronoun use (vos, tú, and usted) by local residents of a rural Nicaraguan community experiencing linguistic and cultural contact driven […]
“Always Moving Uphill: Women in the Arts” Panel
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterOur panel will discuss the struggle of women artists, writers, and poets to find voice in a world that has been, until very recently, so completely dominated and controlled by […]
Robin Coste Lewis: “Voyage of the Sable Venus: Bodies, Art, Race, & Poetry”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesRobin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015), which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including The Massachusetts […]
Robin Coste Lewis at Bookshop Santa Cruz
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRobin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015), which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including The Massachusetts […]