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  • Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium – Michael Nauenberg: "Teaching Natural Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment"

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    "Teaching Natural Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment" Michael Nauenberg has published on the foundations of quantum mechanics and has written extensively on the development of calculus in the seventeenth century with particular reference to the work of Isaac Newton, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and John Barrow. His current work is on Newton’s development of celestial […]

  • Anthony Barbieri-Low: "Imagining the Tomb of the First Emperor of China"

    Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President's Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on "Archaeology and the Ancient World" The tomb complex of the First Emperor of China is arguably the most important archaeological site in the world. Since the tomb will not be excavated […]

  • Neil Sinhababu: "Desire's Explanations"

    Humanities 1, Room 320

    I defend a Humean theory of motivation on which desire motivates all action and drives all practical reasoning. I respond to objections from Christine Korsgaard, David Velleman, and others suggesting that this view leaves no room for the self in action. I argue that all the agent's desires are part of the self, and that […]

  • The Living Writers Reading Series: Lauren Shufran, Tsering Wangmo, and Juliana Leslie

    Unnamed Venue Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Lauren Shufran is the winner of The Motherwell Prize. Her poetry collection Inter Arma will be published be Fence Books in Spring, 2013. Tsering Wangmo's first book of poems, Rules of the House, was published by Apogee Press in 2002 was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Awards in 2003. Other publications include My […]

  • Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium – Eng-Beng Lim: "The Rice Queen's Brown Boy Dream: On Pedophilic Modernity, Performance and Queer Asia"

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    "The Rice Queen's Brown Boy Dream: On Pedophilic Modernity, Performance and Queer Asia" Eng-Beng Lim works on transnational, Asian and queer issues through the lens of performance. His current work is on cultural pedagogies of neoliberal Asia that are produced on the one hand by large-scale transnational theatrical productions and on the other hand by […]

  • The Living Writers Reading Series: George Estreich

    Unnamed Venue Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    George Estreich is a poet and the author of the memoir, The Shape of The Eye, winner of the Oregon Book Award. “The Shape of the Eye is a memoir […]

  • Workshop with Fenella Cannell: "Mormon Intercessions"

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Join the IHR's Religious and Secular Entanglements Research Cluster for a workshop with Fenella Cannell. We will be discussing an early draft of her current work on kinship and religion […]

  • Fenella Cannell: "Ghosts and Ancestors in the Modern West"

    Unnamed Venue

    This Anthropology Colloquium is co-sponsored by the IHR's Religious & Secular Entanglements Research Cluster. Dr. Fenella Cannell is a specialist in Southeast Asian anthropology, and has also conducted research on […]

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