Events
“Digging up a Mediterranean Past? Archaeology and Comparative Material Culture”
The McCune Conference Room, UCSB 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesA one-day conference sponsored by the UCSB Program in Medieval Studies. The conference will feature a panel of UC Santa Barbara scholars, including John Lee, Chris Thomas, Claudio Fogu, and […]
Sunaina Maira: “More Delicate Than a Flower, Yet Harder Than a Rock: Human Rights in the Shadow of an Empire”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk focuses on the political mobilization of young people targeted by the War on Terror, exploring what it means to challenge the U.S. imperial state from within and to […]
Katherine Dunbabin: “The Romans at Dinner: A View from Archaeology and Art”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKatherine Dunbabin is Emerita with the Department of Classics, McMaster University, and holds her degrees from Oxford University. Her areas of specialization are Roman art and mosaics, Roman dining customs, […]
Greg O’Malley: “To El Dorado via Slave Trade: British Commercial Imperialism in Spanish America & the Logic of Human Commodification, 1660-1713
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGregory E. O'Malley is currently finishing his first book, Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807. It examines a complex network for distributing enslaved Africans throughout North […]
World Melodrama Film Series – Tokyo Twilight
Social Sciences I, Room 110 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTokyo Twilight (1957; dir. Yasujirô Ozu) Japan Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe […]
William Wells: “Keeping Faith in Word and Spirit: Translating the Work of Two Jewish/Italian Poets”
Will’s most recent book of poems, Unsettled Accounts, won the 2009 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and was published in February of 2010 by Ohio University/Swallow Press. On its basis, he […]
Philosophy Colloquium ~ Scott Gilbert: “We are all lichens: How symbiosis research has reconstituted a new realm of individuality”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States4:00pm, Humanities 1, Room 210 Co-Sponsored by UCSC Philosophy, History of Consciousness, Cultural Studies, and Science and Justice Working Group ABSTRACT: The notion of the “biological individual” is crucial to studies […]
Learning from the Oak Creek Wisconsin Tragedy: Sikhs and Pluralism in America
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe fatal shooting at a Sikh gurdwara (temple) in Wisconsin last August, and the possible motivation of the shooter, require reflection on religious and social tolerance and the idea/ideal of […]
Satyajit Ray Film Series: Agantuk (“The Arriver”)
Crown Fireside Lounge Fireside Lounge University of California Santa Cruz, Crown College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSatyajit Ray is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. The Ray Film and Study Center (RayFASC) is newly located at Crown College and holds the […]
Andries W. Coetzee: “A lexical route to voicing co-occurrence restrictions: the case of Afrikaans”
Many languages have restrictions on the co-occurrence of laryngeally marked segments (such as voiced obstruents, aspirates, glottalized consonants, etc.). Current theories of sound change ascribe the origin of these restrictions […]