Events
Clive Sinclair: “The Jew in the Crown”
Humanities 1, Room 202“The Jew in the Crown” will offer a brief examination of the ambiguous role of the semitic anti-hero in English literature; anti-heroes such as Shylock, Fragin, and Svengali, whose half-life […]
Hayden White: “Fictions of the Holocaust”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Hayden White University Professor, Historical Studies, Emeritus, UCSC Professor White serves as American Representative of Pasts, Inc. Narrative Therapy: "Get the Past You Deserve." […]
Emanuela Trevisan-Semi: “Why Jews left Morocco: Different Narratives”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEmanuela Trevisan Semi is professor of Modern Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Ca' Foscari University in Venice (Italy). She has done research about Jews at the margins (karaites, Jews of Ethiopia, Judaising movements) and mizrahim in Israel. She has recentely published a book in French on memory and represention of Jews in Morocco among Moroccan […]
Selma James on Sex, Race, and Class
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSelma James is a renowned women's rights and anti-racist campaigner and author. In her activist work and her writings, Selma has addressed the power relations within the working class movement, […]
Charles Hedrick, Sr.: “Secret Mark: Second Edition or Forgery?””
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President's Chair in Ancient Studies present a pair of lectures in an ongoing series on "Archaeology and the Ancient World” Professor Charles Hedrick, Sr. Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, Missouri State University “Secret Mark: second edition or forgery?” Monday, April 2 at 5 […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Gabriela Caballero
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGabriela Caballero Gabriela Caballero is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests include languages of the Americas (particularly Uto-Aztecan languages), phonology, morphology, language description and documentation, comparative/historical linguistics, and typology. This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.
Peter Kenez: “The Coming of the Holocaust”
Media Theater, M110University of California, Santa Cruz, Emeriti group presents Emeriti Faculty Lecture by: Peter Kenez Professor of History, Co-Holder of Neufield-Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies UC Santa Cruz A Holocaust survivor and […]
UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: Professor Keorapetse Kgositsile
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKeorapetse Kgositsile Creative Writing and Literature present: UCSC Winter Living Writers Series Professor Keorapetse Kgositsile Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives Ronaldo V. Wilson, Visiting Assistant Professor Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities. Whether as editors, publishers, activists, teachers, multi-media artists, and/or co-collaborators, the […]
Akira Mizuta Lippit: “Like Cats and Dogs”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Akira Mizuta Lippit Akira Mizuta Lippit Professor, Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Cultures, USC Chair, Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts "Like Cats and Dogs" Professor Lippit has recently completed a book on contemporary experimental cinema, Ex-cinema: Essays on Experimental Film and Video, and is completing […]
Allen Wells: “Lives in the Balance: The United States, the Dominican Republic and the Rescue of Jews during World War II”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAllen Wells Initially supportive of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo’s offer to accept 100,000 Jews at the 1938 Evian Conference, Washington began to back away from its ringing endorsement soon after a succession of German victories throughout Western Europe during the spring of 1940. Only 750 refugees would find their way to Sosúa, a farming […]