Events
The 19th Season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP XIX)
Stevenson Event CenterCowell College, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 19th season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XIX), May 17, 18, and 19, at 8:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center at UCSC. The program of fully-staged multilingual theater pieces in Chinese, French, Japanese, and Spanish, with English […]
Nido de Lenguas: Pop-Up at the Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza
San Lorenzo Park Santa CruzLearn about the indigenous languages of Oaxaca at Nido de Lenguas: Pop-Up, taking place at the 13th Annual Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza. The Pop-Up will feature fun and exciting activities where anybody can directly experience the beauty and value of Oaxacan languages. The Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza is a cultural festival sponsored by Senderos, featuring food, music, […]
The 19th Season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP XIX)
Stevenson Event CenterCowell College, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 19th season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XIX), May 17, 18, and 19, at 8:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center at UCSC. The program of fully-staged multilingual theater pieces in Chinese, French, Japanese, and Spanish, with English […]
Norman O. Brown Conference: Into the Future, Day 2
Page Smith LibraryDay 1 Information A weekend of presentation, reflection, and inquiry addressing the work and life of Norman O. Brown. From poetics to politics, theology to pedagogy, utopia to apocalypse: scholars from around the country will meet to engage Brown’s long shadow. Amidst the landscapes he traversed incessantly, we can gauge the importance of Norman O. […]
The 19th Season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP XIX)
Stevenson Event CenterCowell College, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 19th season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XIX), May 17, 18, and 19, at 8:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center at UCSC. The program of fully-staged multilingual theater pieces in Chinese, French, Japanese, and Spanish, with English […]
Norman O. Brown Conference: Into the Future, Day 1
Page Smith LibraryA weekend of presentation, reflection, and inquiry addressing the work and life of Norman O. Brown. From poetics to politics, theology to pedagogy, utopia to apocalypse: scholars from around the country will meet to engage Brown’s long shadow. Amidst the landscapes he traversed incessantly, we can gauge the importance of Norman O. Brown for the […]
PhD+ Workshop Series: Writing for Graduate School and Beyond
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesWorkshop with Eric Hayot (Penn State) Why is writing so hard? Can It be easier? Possibly, Eric Hayot argues. But answering these questions well also asks us to think about the place of writing in humanities scholarship, and the ways in which our institutional patterns and structures, and our daily and psychological ones, shape what […]
Monterey Bay Applied Linguistics Symposium
Humanities 2, Room 259Symposium Program 9:00AM- Opening Remarks: Bryan Donaldson, Mark Amengual, Kimberly Adilia Helmer 9:30-10:00 – Thor Sawin (Middlebury Institute of International Studies): From Serial Monolingualism to Polylingualism in the Field: Policy and Perspective Challenges in a Large NGO 10:00-10:30 - John Hedgcock (Middlebury Institute of International Studies): Obstacles and Opportunities in Cultivating Teacher Language Awareness 10:30-11:00 […]
Living Writers: Daniel Borzutzky
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDaniel Borzutzky’s latest poetry collection is Lake Michigan (Pitt Poetry Series, 2018). He is the author of The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press), recipient of the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry. His other books include Memories of my Overdevelopment (Kenning Editions, 2015); In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy (Nightboat, 2015), […]
David Kazanjian: “‘I am he:’ Revising the Theory of Dispossession from Colonial Yucatán”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn this paper, “‘I am he:' Revising the Theory of Dispossession from Colonial Yucatán,” I examine a legal case involving an enslaved Afro-diasporan named Juan Patricio and a Mayan woman named Fabiana Pech from turn-of-the-eighteenth-century Yucatán. The case challenges a fundamental presupposition of many contemporary theories of dispossession: namely, that the dispossessed had prior possession […]