Events
Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Tom Marshall & Rusty Morrison
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHaving survived residence in 4 states and 1 province, 20 towns & cities, 23 jobs, 3 families, and 15 schools, Marshall has slipped the noose of his handful of chapbooks […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Lisa Davidson
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLisa Davidson Lisa Davidson is Associate Professor of Linguistics, Director of the Phonetics & Experimental Phonology Lab and Affiliate Faculty in Psychology at New York University. Her research focuses on […]
International Playhouse XII
Stevenson Event CenterCOWELL COLLEGE, STEVENSON COLLEGE, & THE LANGUAGE PROGRAM present International Playhouse XII THEATER PIECES in EIGHT languages with ENGLISH SUPERTITLES THURSDAY & SATURDAY, May 17 &19, 2012, at 8 PM (Chinese Italian […]
An Evening with David Talbot
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Division and the Institute for Humanities Research presents: An Evening with David Talbot David Talbot, founder and CEO of the San Francisco based web magazine Salon, is uniquely poised to tell his iconic city’s story in all its terrible glory. He will read from his new book, Season of the Witch. Talbot has […]
Anjali Arondekar: “Orienting Margins: Sexuality’s Geopolitics”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Anjali Arondekar Associate Professor, Feminist Studies, UCSC Histories of sexuality routinely mediate geopolitical difference(s) through the narrative forms of marginality, disenfranchisement and loss. What happens if we shift our attention from the reading of sexuality as marginality to understanding it as a site of vitalized abundance--even futurity?
Thirteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOpening Remarks 8:45 – 9:00 a.m. Karen Tei Yamashita Director, Literature Department Undergraduate Program Panel One: Creative Writing: Memoir 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Claire Williams: This Girl Pulls the Whole […]
Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Justin Chin
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJustin Chin was born in Malaysia, raised & educated in Singapore, shipped to the U.S. by way of Hawaii, and now living in San Francisco. Author of 3 books of poetry, all published by Manic D Press: Bite Hard (1997); Harmless Medicine (2001), a finalist in the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Awards; and, Gutted […]
Michael Ursell:“Surviving Humanism: Petrarchan Autobiography and Ecology”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Michael Ursell Literature, UCSC While critics have dismissed an image of the Renaissance humanist Petrarch as a nature-lover, this talk reconsiders a poetics of […]
Sam Ball: “Graphic Novelists on Film”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSAM BALL WILL PRESENT HIS WORK WITH TWO GRAPHIC NOVELISTS: Joann Sfar Draws from Memory and Ben Katchor: Pleasures of Urban Decay Sam Ball’s documentaries have been exhibited at many […]
Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Lysley Tenorio
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLysley Tenorio is a Filipino-American short story writer. Lysley Tenorio’s stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, Manoa, and The Best New American Voices and Pushcart Prize anthologies. […]