Events
Events
Visualizing Abolition: Film Screening “Lessons of the Hour”
Virtual EventIn collaboration with McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, we are pleased to present a limited online screening of Isaac Julien Lessons of the Hour as a part of the Visualizing […]
Visualizing Abolition: Abolition Then and Now w/ Isaac Julien and Robin D.G. Kelley
Virtual EventAbolition Then & Now with historian and cultural theorist Robin D. G. Kelley and artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien, co-presented with McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, is the next event […]
In Vitro: Film Screening and Conversation
Virtual EventIN VITRO | Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind, 2019 (TRAILER) from Spike Island - Productions on Vimeo. Join the Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium for a special screening of the […]
Living Writers: Student Reading
Virtual EventLIVING WRITERS FALL 2020: SEEING RED—RAGE, WRITING, ART features contemporary poets, cultural critics, performance and visual artists interrogating rage, its call and possibilities, rendered across an array of works (text, […]
Adrian Staub – Word frequency and predictability effects in reading: Some outstanding puzzles
Virtual EventThe Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Adrian Staub of the University of Massachusetts speaking on word frequency and predictability effects in reading: some outstanding puzzles Abstract: A word’s […]
Ezra Klein and Will Davies: Living in a Frayed Democracy
FeaturedVirtual EventThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture - Ezra Klein and Will Davies: Living in Frayed Democracy We’re all impacted by this deeply polarized moment. How do we navigate life while […]
Rebecca Tollan: Competing Argument Privileges in Niuean
Virtual EventThe Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Rebecca Tollan from the University of Delaware speaking on competing argument privileges in Niuean. Abstract: Grammatical “subjects” have long been shown to have a privileged linguistic status, as compared with other arguments, in the processing of long-distance dependencies (e.g., Holmes & O’Regan, 1981), in the resolution of […]
Christmas with Dickens
Virtual EventJoin us on Sunday, December 13th at 4 pm for a performance you won't want to miss! Charles Dickens just wants to talk about his book, A Christmas Carol, but what happens when spirits begin to show up? Is Dickens being guilt-tripped by his estranged wife, Catherine; haunted by the Ghost of Christmas Present; regretting […]
Slugs and Steins: Reading Dickens Today with Professor John Jordan
Virtual EventThese days, 150 years after his death in 1870, it is nearly impossible for a week to go by without coming across some reference to Dickens in a news article, movie review, magazine essay, or crossword puzzle clue. The adjective “Dickensian” has entered common parlance throughout the English-speaking world as a way of characterizing certain […]
Demystifying the Book Publishing Process & Connecting with UC Colleagues
Virtual EventUC Press editors will offer insight into the academic book publishing process. The presentation will include: choosing the right publisher; preparing a book proposal; how the peer review and Editorial Committee process works; revising your manuscript; and working with publishers to promote your book. The session is intended to be interactive and questions are welcome. […]