Events

Poetry and Politics Research Cluster presents: A talk and workshop with Joan Retallack, followed by a poetry reading at Felix Kulpa Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz. Joan Retallack’s most recent publication Procedural Elegies  / Western Civ Cont’d / (Roof Books) was the poetry volume named by Artforum as a best book of 2010. Other poetry […]

Ethnic diversity and inequality, intercultural communication and contact, and global political and economic interdependence are acknowledged realities in today’s world. Multilingual education, too, is a fact of life, and though there are a great variety of contexts, models, contents, and developmental trajectories in multilingual education policy and practice, it is possible to discern continuities that […]

Poetry and Politics Research Cluster presents: A talk and workshop with Joan Retallack, followed by a poetry reading at Felix Kulpa Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz. Joan Retallack’s most recent publication Procedural Elegies  / Western Civ Cont’d / (Roof Books) was the poetry volume named by Artforum as a best book of 2010. Other poetry […]

The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Tamara Spira, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow in Cultural Studies, UC Davis "Neoliberal Captivities: Pisagua Prison and the Low Intensity Form" Doctor Spira works at the intersections of feminist, comparative ethnic and hemispheric American studies, and is completing Movements of Feeling: Neoliberalism, Affect and (Post) Revolutionary Memory in […]

"L'Italie, Laboratoire de la modernite juive," -- Workshop of Jewish Modernity –  a group of scholars recently characterized Venice and the Ghetto and thereby focused discussion on how this laboratory shaped Jewish modernity.  Carrying forward a recently emerging scholarly view about early modern Jewish communities, these essays emphasize the interaction of the Jews in the […]

The act of questioning is central to human conversation, but how do we know if a given sentence is a question in the first place? Looking at English, there are two reasonable accounts we might give. First, questions are defined by their semantics: i.e. questions have a particular kind of meaning which is distinct from […]

On Friday, May 20th, contributors to the book Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas, will be speaking about their research and activism in the campaign to end feminicide in Mexico and on the borderlands.  The speakers will also address the human rights crisis in Mexico, violence targeting human rights activists, and the social movement for […]

McDonald’s has “Fast Food Nation,” the fish industry has “Cod,” but no book has successfully weaved the cautionary tales and humorous history of the world of video games into our modern society… until now. For "Porn and Pong" Playboy Magazine journalist Damon Brown spent five years exploring how the $20 billion video game industry traces […]

On Friday, May 20th, contributors to the book Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas, will be speaking about their research and activism in the campaign to end feminicide in Mexico and on the borderlands.  The speakers will also address the human rights crisis in Mexico, violence targeting human rights activists, and the social movement for […]

The UCSC Classical Studies Program and the President's Chair in Ancient Studies present the annual Carl Deppe Lecture: In light of David Malouf's 2009 novel Ransom, based on Priam's supplication of Achilles in Book 24 of Homer's Iliad, the lecture will consider the figure of Priam as a vehicle for reconciling cultures and histories via […]