Events
Jane Grimshaw: "The use of force in clausal complementation"
The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Jane Grimshaw of Rutgers University speaking on The use of force in clausal complementation. Abstract: The SAY-schema verbs (Grimshaw in press) combine with a wide range of clauses in complex complementation structures, including quoted and non-quoted clauses in post-verbal complement position, and quoted and non-quoted clauses hosting […]
Free"Lasting and Passing": The Poetics of Remainders with Margaret Ronda
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPoetry & Politics Presents: Margaret Ronda, featuring Whitney DeVos and Keegan Cook Finberg This talk offers an extended reading of the work of rural Midwestern modernist poet Lorine Niedecker, whose poetry attends to various forms and speeds of what she calls “human material obsolescing.” The imaginative tarrying with these “outdated remains” (in Benjamin’s phrase) offers […]
FreeSA Smythe: "Culture as the Site of War: On the Production of Italianita"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFriday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 - 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202 This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the […]
FreeLisa Lowe: "Colonial Difference and the Neoliberal Present"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis lecture casts the history of liberal modernity as a complex, braided project, which includes at once the universal promises of rights, emancipation, wage labor and free trade, as well as the global divisions and colonial asymmetries upon which those promises depend, and according to which such liberties are reserved for some and denied to […]
Bali Sahota: "Veils of the Absolute Subject: Benjamin’s Sublime"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBALI SAHOTA Assistant Professor of Literature, UCSC G.S. Sahota is currently completing two books, Late Colonial Sublime: Neo-Epics and the End of Romanticism and The Name of Reason: Sikhism, Secularism, Modernism. Fall 2014 Colloquium Series: October 15: Bali Sahota October 22: Vilashini Cooppan October 29: Nirvikar Singh November 5: Juned Shaikh November 12: Dean […]
FreeDr. Jennifer Derr: "The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation"
UCSC Cowell College Presents Conflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine Tuesday Evenings Fall 2014 6:00-7:45pm, Merrill Academy 102 Tuesday Oct 7: Christine King (Lecturer Kresge College). “Making Peace with Conflict” Tuesday Oct 14: Dr. Jennifer Derr (History Department, UC Santa Cruz). The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation. Tuesday Oct 21: Dr. […]
FreeKarl Marlantes: "What It Is Like To Go To War"
Cal State Monterey Bay (CSUMB), Rm 1188Santa Cruz Public Libraries presents an author visit and discussion with best selling author, Karl Marlantes. As a Marine lieutenant during the Vietnam War, Karl Marlantes learned what every young officer learns – to fire a rifle, to command a platoon, to fight and to kill. Over the next four decades, he spent his time […]
FreeMaster Memoir Workshop with Ariel Gore
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMaster Memoir Workshop with Ariel Gore for faculty and graduate students. Participants will read Gore's short memoir, Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver and bring 2-3 pages of their own autobiographical material to workshop. Space is limited. Contact Micah Perks meperks@ucsc.edu to RSVP. Sponsored by the IHR Complicated Labor Research Cluster.
FreeErica Smeltzer: "Porous Time in the City of Gdansk/Danzig"
Humanities 1, Room 202Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 - 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202 This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the […]
FreeLiving Writers Series: Ariel Gore
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAriel Gore is the editor & publisher of the Alternative Press Award-winning magazine Hip Mama and the author of eight books. Her latest, The End of Eve, chronicles her years spent caring for her dying mother. The memoir has been called “Terms of Endearment meets Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” She’s also edited half a dozen anthologies, including […]
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