Events
bodies / moving / borders symposium and performance
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United Statesbodies / moving / borders displacements and dreams of citizenship a research symposium and performances re-membering legacies, pedagogies and ways of knowing with special guests: Julio Salgado, Leti Volpp, and […]
The Living Writers Reading Series: Student Readings
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for readings by UCSC's creative writing students.
Fenella Cannell: "Ghosts and Ancestors in the Modern West"
Unnamed VenueThis Anthropology Colloquium is co-sponsored by the IHR's Religious & Secular Entanglements Research Cluster. Dr. Fenella Cannell is a specialist in Southeast Asian anthropology, and has also conducted research on […]
Workshop with Fenella Cannell: "Mormon Intercessions"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin the IHR's Religious and Secular Entanglements Research Cluster for a workshop with Fenella Cannell. We will be discussing an early draft of her current work on kinship and religion […]
The Living Writers Reading Series: George Estreich
Unnamed Venue Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGeorge Estreich is a poet and the author of the memoir, The Shape of The Eye, winner of the Oregon Book Award. “The Shape of the Eye is a memoir of a father’s love for his daughter, his struggle to understand her disability, and his journey toward embracing her power and depth. Estreich is raw […]
Humanities Undergraduate Research Award (HUGRA) Presentations
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesStay tuned for more information.
Celebrating the Humanities Spring Awards
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Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium – Eng-Beng Lim: "The Rice Queen's Brown Boy Dream: On Pedophilic Modernity, Performance and Queer Asia"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"The Rice Queen's Brown Boy Dream: On Pedophilic Modernity, Performance and Queer Asia" Eng-Beng Lim works on transnational, Asian and queer issues through the lens of performance. His current work is on cultural pedagogies of neoliberal Asia that are produced on the one hand by large-scale transnational theatrical productions and on the other hand by […]
The Living Writers Reading Series: Lauren Shufran, Tsering Wangmo, and Juliana Leslie
Unnamed Venue Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLauren Shufran is the winner of The Motherwell Prize. Her poetry collection Inter Arma will be published be Fence Books in Spring, 2013. Tsering Wangmo's first book of poems, Rules […]
Neil Sinhababu: "Desire's Explanations"
Humanities 1, Room 320I defend a Humean theory of motivation on which desire motivates all action and drives all practical reasoning. I respond to objections from Christine Korsgaard, David Velleman, and others suggesting that this view leaves no room for the self in action. I argue that all the agent's desires are part of the self, and that […]
