Events

Panelists: Vilashini Cooppan, “Affective History and Literary Studies” Associate Professor, Literature, UCSC Professor Cooppan’s recent work includes an article in Trauma and Memory in South African Writing (Rodopi, 2011), and […]

Gildas Hamel Professor Hamel is working on a history of religious representations in Hellenistic and Roman Palestine and the notion of monotheism. He examines recent histories of monolatry and monotheism […]

The Museum and Curatorial Studies (MACS) Research Cluster presents: Nadja Durbach, Associate Professor, History and Comparative Gender & Sexuality University of Utah: Nadja Durbach Performing Race at the Victorian Freak Show While scholars […]

The Eternal Frame The Center of Visual and Performance Studies presents Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series: "The Eternal Frame:  An Artist’s Reenactment of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy", a Screening and […]

Today, Jeju Island is best known for “its booming tourism, its hardy diving women, and its lush orange groves” (John Merrill).  Touted as a romantic honeymoon destination and lucrative site […]

This Science and Justice Meeting will feature a film by Ella von der Haide, a Dipl.-Ing. of Urban and Regional Planning, Garden Activist and feminist Filmmaker from Germany.  She will […]

The Living Writers Reading Series presents Peter Orner. Peter Orner is a human rights lawyer, and editor and writer of novels and short stories. His works include: Esther Stories, The […]

Mary Flanagan Propositions from a Critical Play Perspective If games always hold within them cultural beliefs, norms, and human values, how are designers to tackle the vexing responsibility of designing […]

Steve McKay Professor McKay examines the performance of masculinities among a group of men often considered exemplars of masculinity—merchant sailors. The talk explores their gender projects across liminal space (ocean-going […]