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Written in an era before modern distinctions among art, science, and religion existed, Leonardo da Vinci’s treatise on painting is regarded today as a canonical text in the history of western art for its scientific approach to problems of representation. New evidence suggests that prior to publication this text was appropriated in a Catholic Reformation […]

Free and Open to the Public General Admission Seating, first come, first served Parking available in Performing Arts Lot ($4) Synopsis: This film is a cinematic mediation about the untold story of Erich Mendelsohn,  whose life and career were as enigmatic and tragic as the path of the century. He drew sketches on tiny pieces […]

David Myers is professor of Jewish history and chair of the UCLA History Department. He is currently at work with Nomi Stolzenberg (USC) on a book on the Satmar Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel, New York. This project represents a significant departure from his work in the fields of German-Jewish intellectual history, the history of […]

The United States is deporting more people than ever before – nearly 400,000 each year since 2006. Many deportees have close ties to the United States: in 2011, 100,000 deportees had U.S. citizen children. The vast majority of deportees are men of color. How do we explain this devastating policy shift? I argue that neoliberalism […]

Amaranth Borsuk is the author of Handiwork (Slope, 2012), selected by Paul Hoover for the 2011 Slope Books Prize, and, together with programmer Brad Bouse, of Between Page and Screen (Siglio, 2012), a book of augmented-reality poems. In 2010, her chapbook-length erasure, Tonal Saw, was published by The Song Cave. Her poems, essays, translations and […]

LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM Joseph Sabbagh (UT Arlington) Current analyses of the syntax of transitive constructions in Tagalog (Austronesian, Philippines) are constructed around the claim that the theme argument of a transitive verb, if it is semantically specific, must be realized as the subject of a ‘theme-subject’ clause. In reality, a specific theme may be realized in […]

Rain Gomez won the 2009 First Book Award in poetry for Smoked Mullet Cornbread Crawdad Memory (Mongrel Empire Press, Fall 2012). A self described “TriRacially Fluffy and Fabulous” Louisiana Méstiza,poet, academic and musician.Her critical work, “Brackish Bayou Blood: Weaving Mixed Blood Indian Creole Identity Outside the Written Record,” appears in American Indian Culture and Research […]

Amaranth Borsuk is the author of Handiwork (Slope, 2012), selected by Paul Hoover for the 2011 Slope Books Prize, and, together with programmer Brad Bouse, of Between Page and Screen […]

Janette Dinishak’s work explores how Wittgenstein’s concept “noticing an aspect” can provide a frame for capturing and understanding commonly neglected phenomena that are characteristic of autistic experience. She also traces the inter-relations between scientific, cultural, and first-person perspectives on autism and how these perspectives interact in shaping our understanding of autism. Janette Dinishak is Visiting […]