Events

The Living Writers Reading Series presents Susie Bright. Susie Bright, known as a "sexpert," is a writer, performer, and teacher on the subject of sexuality. A UCSC alum, she has written several books. including Mommy's Little Girl and How to Write a Dirty Story. Her latest work is titled Big Sex, Little Death: A Memoir. […]

Martin Puchner While re-enactment has long been a popular art, it has entered performance art in two ways: through site-specific performances such as the ones orchestrated by Mike Pearson or David Levine, which often explore the history of a place; and the re-enactment of performance art, as in the recent case of Marina Abramovic. In […]

Lawrence Weschler Lawrence "Ren" Weschler will present a special lecture "Convergences" in advance of his visit to Bookshop Santa Cruz to promote his latest book, Uncanny Valley.  In his talk Weschler will consider a spectrum of such convergent effects, from apophenia (the tendency of humans to see patterns where none exist) through co-causation, fractalization, influence […]

Cary Howie Professor Howie thinks about how contemporary American poets re-imagine early Christianity, using transfiguration to talk about the persistence of figures as they become transformed, and how poetic and theological concerns speak to gender and sexuality. His books include Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in Medieval Literature (Palgrave, 2007) and the co-authored Sanctity and […]

Hagit Borer The paper is a detailed study of the properties of Argument-Structure derived -ing nominals versus those of -ing synthetic compounds. In particular, I show that while -ing Argument Structure nominals are compositional and have event structure, -ing synthetic compounds do not. I further argues that these contrasts may only be accounted for by a syntactic approach to the derivation of complex […]

The Living Writers Reading Series presents C.S. Giscombe. C.S. Giscombe's love of the outdoors is evident in his poetry as well as his teaching at UC Berkeley, where he has taken nonfiction classes on nature-oriented field trips. His books include Giscombe Road, In and Out of Dislocation, and Prairie Style. In 2008 he received the […]

The Living Writers Reading Series presents Maggie Nelson. Maggie Nelson is a poet and non-fiction writer. Her work includes: The Red Parts: A Memoir, Bluets, and, recently, the 2011 release of The Art of Cruelty. Nelson's poetry has been published in six collections; the most recent is Something Bright, Then Holes. Maggie Nelson Nelson has […]

The UCSC Program in Classical Studies presents: Professor Brooke Holmes, Princeton University, 'The Missíng Body: Authority, Immunity, and Objectivity in Early Greek Medical Writing" Brooke Holms Brooke Holmes' paper arises from a simple question: Why doesn't the physician draw on his experience of his own body as a source of knowledge and authority in early Greek medical writing? In trying to answer […]

Benjamin Cawthra, associate professor of history at Benjamin Cawthra California State University, Fullerton and author of Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz (Chicago, 2011), discusses the tradition of jazz photography and its relationship to mid-twentieth century racial politics. Cawthra will discuss the connections among the photographers, art directors, editors, and record producers […]

Steve McKay Professor McKay examines the performance of masculinities among a group of men often considered exemplars of masculinity—merchant sailors. The talk explores their gender projects across liminal space (ocean-going ships) and in productive and reproductive spheres. Professor McKay is co-editor of the forthcoming New Routes for Diaspora Studies (Indiana) and working on Born to […]