Events
The Living Writers Reading Series: Truong Tran
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesInto Archives—Across Genres is a reading/performance series featuring poets, critics, memoirists, activists, visual artists, essayists, short story writers, and novelists who mine various archives to investigate race, gender, sexuality, and […]
UC Mediterranean Studies MRP Fall Workshop: “Excavating the Past”
The McCune Conference Room, UCSB 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesThe UC Mediterranean Studies MRP Fall Workshop, “Excavating the Past,” will feature three pre-circulated papers and a presentation by our featured scholar. All interested graduate students and scholars are welcome; […]
Tanya Luhrmann Workshop: “How the Hippie Christians Became the Religious Right”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Religious and Secular Entanglements Research Cluster hosts a workshop with Tanya Luhrmann. Participants should read her current work-in-progress, "How the Hippie Christians Became the Religious Right," in advance. Two graduate students, Sarah […]
“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 […]