Events

 Micah Perks is the author of a novel, We Are Gathered Here and a memoir, Pagan Time. She has published short stories in ZYZZYVA, Massachusetts Review, The Best Underground Fiction […]

Dazzling and ambitious, this hip, multi-voiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy spins an epic tale of America’s struggle for civil rights as it played out in San […]

Using Mikhail Bakunin’s theorization of authority as a starting point, this talk explores secrecy as a strategy for political enlightenment, and calls attention to earlier conceptions of “propaganda” as education that were lost with the […]

Current wisdom has it that syntactic agreement between one head and multiple dependents (Multiple Agree) is possible and perhaps empirically required. In this talk, I will consider data from West […]

Today, just as during any other period since the end of the eighteenth century, the idea of Heimat (home, homeland) is a central part of German-speaking people’s attempts to make […]

Emily Carr’s first book, directions for flying (Furniture Press,) is available through SPD. 13 ways of happily: books 1 & 2, chosen by Cole Swensen as the winner of the […]

Donna Haraway, Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz, has shaped an entire generation of scholars and scholarship. Her wit, brilliance, generosity, dedication to her […]

Eric Porter, Professor and Chair of American Studies, will be reading from his new book The Problem of the Future World: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Race Concept at Midcentury.  The […]

Compared with other Jewish Communities in the diaspora, the Argentine Jewish community presents a remarkable paradox: Although it is the largest, most plural and probably the most highly institutionalized Jewish […]