Events

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The Living Writers Reading Series presents Martha Mendoza. Martha Mendoza Martha Mendoza graduated from UCSC and starte a career as an Associated Press National Writer. Mendoza won the 2000 Pulitzer Prise in investigative journalism for her work on the No Gun Ri story. Her writing has prompted congressional meetings and Pentagon investigations alike. For more […]

Lisa Jean Moore, medical sociologist and Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Purchase College, State University of New York, will present a talk based on her recent book Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility. We know more about the physical body—how it begins, how it responds

Eugene Switkes Scientists and humanists have found common interests in understanding correlations between neural events and complex human behavior. Over the past 30 years we have studied how aspects of human visual perception arise from neural processes that occur in the anatomical substrates of human vision. Professor Switkes discusses how understanding the brain’s recoding of […]

Rei Terada In his late writings, Pasolini claims to give up on Italian politics and his own erstwhile projects. The talk considers Pasolini's “repudiation” and the questions of periodization it raises. Professor Terada is the author of Derek Walcott’s Poetry: American Mimicry (Northeastern, 1992); Feeling in Theory: Emotion after the “Death of the Subject” (Harvard, […]

The Living Writers Reading Series presents Nina Revoyr. Nina Revoyr has authored four novels: The Necessary Hunger, Southland, The Age of Dreaming, and Wingshooters, for which she received the Windwest Bookseller's Choice Award and the Indie Bookseller's Choice Award. Wingshooters was also named one of Oprah's 'boks to watch out for.' Nina Revoyr Nina is the […]

Recipients of the 2010-2011 Humanities Don Rothman Writing Awards recipients and their writing teachers will be honored. Don Rothman Adam Beighley, for Twin Forces of a Wave” (Maggie Amis) AND Sarah Edelstein, for “’Til Death Do We Choose” (Kiva Silver) Honorable Mentions: Briana Bernstein, for "Freud’s Model of Civilization and Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four" (Brij Lunine) Kerianne […]

Juliana Schiesari Professor Schiesari is working on the relation between humanism and the post-human by rethinking the human and non-human as they are constructed in the Italian Renaissance. Her recent publications include Beasts and Beauties: Animals, Gender and Domestication in the Italian Renaissance (Toronto, 2010) and Polymorphous Domesticities: Pets, Bodies and Desire in Four Modern […]

Clare Hemmings "Feminist theory seems caught in its own narratives of progress, loss and return, which I argue echo broader conservative agendas that position feminism as over or anachronistic. It does not seem enough to tell different stories, to simply multiply feminisms. Might we instead tell stories differently? This paper makes the case for two different modes of […]