Events

Join the IHR's Religious and Secular Entanglements Research Cluster for a workshop with Fenella Cannell. We will be discussing an early draft of her current work on kinship and religion with a specific focus on Mormonism. Attendees should read the draft of her chapter on "Mormon Intercessions" by clicking on the two (2) links below. […]

George Estreich is a poet and the author of the memoir, The Shape of The Eye, winner of the Oregon Book Award. “The Shape of the Eye is a memoir of a father’s love for his daughter, his struggle to understand her disability, and his journey toward embracing her power and depth. Estreich is raw […]

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"The Rice Queen's Brown Boy Dream: On Pedophilic Modernity, Performance and Queer Asia" Eng-Beng Lim works on transnational, Asian and queer issues through the lens of performance. His current work is on cultural pedagogies of neoliberal Asia that are produced on the one hand by large-scale transnational theatrical productions and on the other hand by […]

Lauren Shufran is the winner of The Motherwell Prize. Her poetry collection Inter Arma will be published be Fence Books in Spring, 2013. Tsering Wangmo's first book of poems, Rules of the House, was published by Apogee Press in 2002 was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Awards in 2003. Other publications include My […]

I defend a Humean theory of motivation on which desire motivates all action and drives all practical reasoning. I respond to objections from Christine Korsgaard, David Velleman, and others suggesting that this view leaves no room for the self in action. I argue that all the agent's desires are part of the self, and that […]

The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President's Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on "Archaeology and the Ancient World" The tomb complex of the First Emperor of China is arguably the most important archaeological site in the world. Since the tomb will not be excavated […]

"Teaching Natural Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment" Michael Nauenberg has published on the foundations of quantum mechanics and has written extensively on the development of calculus in the seventeenth century with particular reference to the work of Isaac Newton, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and John Barrow. His current work is on Newton’s development of celestial […]

The Graduate Division cordially invites undergraduate and graduate students to an information session on the U.S. Fulbright IIE fellowship program. If you are interested in applying for a 2014-2015 Fulbright U. S. Student Program Grant or English Teaching Assistantship plan to attend this information session. Link to the competition: http://www.iie.org/fulbright Presenters will include: Past successful […]