Events
Migrant Futures: South Asia and The Middle East (I) Sound into Form
Virtual EventPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa. Featuring Lawrence Abu Hamdan (Artist) and Kareem Khubchandani (Mellon Bridge Assistant Professor, Tufts University).
Living Writers: Sofia Samatar
Virtual EventSofia Samatar is the author of the novels A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories, the short story collection, Tender, and Monster Portraits, a collaboration with her brother, the artist Del Samatar. Her work has received several honors, including the World Fantasy Award. She teaches Arabic literature, African literature, and speculative fiction at James […]
FeaturedAn evening with Jennifer Brea and Megan Moodie – Talking about chronic illness, care, and Covid
Virtual EventJoin Sundance Award winning Filmmaker Jennifer Brea and anthropologist and writer Megan Moodie for an evening of conversation and reflection on chronic illness, the global crisis of care, and Covid-19. As the numbers of the chronically ill grow rapidly worldwide due to what is being called “long Covid,” there is much to be learned from […]
Yarimar Bonilla – An Unthinkable State: Puerto Rico, the United States and the Aporias of U.S. Empire
Virtual EventIn the wake of Hurricane Maria, unprecedented attention turned to the unincorporated territory of Puerto Rico and its enduring colonial relationship with the United States. This presentation will examine the rising popularity and shifting strategies of the Puerto Rican statehood movement, with a focus on how and why annexation has come to be imagined as […]
Book Talk: Alma Heckman, The Sultan’s Communists
Virtual EventAlma Rachel Heckman is the Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies and an Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She specializes in modern Jewish history of North Africa and the Middle East with an interest in citizenship, political transformations, transnationalism, and empire. Her first book is The Sultan’s […]
FeaturedRevisiting The Koza Uprising in Global Perspectives/ オンラインセミナー「コザ騒動を世界の視点で」
Virtual EventFifty years ago this December, Okinawan protests against US military rule turned violent for the first and, so far, only time. On the anniversary, the Okinawa Memories Initiative will host a public discussion about the "Koza Riots," featuring an eyewitness photojournalist, an American army veteran who had been stationed in Okinawa and two Okinawan American […]
Demystifying the Book Publishing Process & Connecting with UC Colleagues
Virtual EventUC Press editors will offer insight into the academic book publishing process. The presentation will include: choosing the right publisher; preparing a book proposal; how the peer review and Editorial Committee process works; revising your manuscript; and working with publishers to promote your book. The session is intended to be interactive and questions are welcome. […]
Slugs and Steins: Reading Dickens Today with Professor John Jordan
Virtual EventThese days, 150 years after his death in 1870, it is nearly impossible for a week to go by without coming across some reference to Dickens in a news article, movie review, magazine essay, or crossword puzzle clue. The adjective “Dickensian” has entered common parlance throughout the English-speaking world as a way of characterizing certain […]
Christmas with Dickens
Virtual EventJoin us on Sunday, December 13th at 4 pm for a performance you won't want to miss! Charles Dickens just wants to talk about his book, A Christmas Carol, but what happens when spirits begin to show up? Is Dickens being guilt-tripped by his estranged wife, Catherine; haunted by the Ghost of Christmas Present; regretting […]
Rebecca Tollan: Competing Argument Privileges in Niuean
Virtual EventThe Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Rebecca Tollan from the University of Delaware speaking on competing argument privileges in Niuean. Abstract: Grammatical “subjects” have long been shown to have a privileged linguistic status, as compared with other arguments, in the processing of long-distance dependencies (e.g., Holmes & O’Regan, 1981), in the resolution of […]