Events
Events
Jeffrey Santa Ana: “Queer Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Disremembering place and witnessing imperial debris in Han Ong’s The Disinherited”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesJeffrey Santa Ana is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty in Asian & Asian American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University, the State University of New York. He is the author of Radical Feelings: Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of Emotion (Temple University Press, 2015). He is currently writing a […]
Reading Seminar: Jeffrey Santa Ana’s Transpacific Ecological Imagination
Humanities 1, Room 202Jeffrey Santa Ana is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty in Asian & Asian American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University, the State University of New York. He is the author of Radical Feelings: Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of Emotion (Temple University Press, 2015). He is currently writing a […]
Living Writers Series: Undergraduate Student Reading
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLiving Writers Series Winter 2018: Performing Women: Race, Art, and Space Performing Women: Race, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry, prose, visual and textile arts, photography, film, dance, and improvisation to address questions of gender, sexuality, and race. This series will explore the intersections of literature, writing and […]
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And Then They Came for Us: “From the Incarceration of Japanese Americans to the Travel Ban”
Del Mar TheatreSeventy-five years ago, Executive Order 9066 paved the way to the profound violation of constitutional rights that resulted in the forced incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans. "And Then They Came for Us" brings history into the present, retelling this difficult story and following Japanese American activists as they speak out against the Muslim registry and […]
IPAs are like a Hoppy Craft Beer: Acquiring a Taste for Task-based Language Teaching and Integrated Performance Assessments
Humanities 1, Room 202The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: “IPAs are Like a Hoppy Craft Beer: Acquiring a Taste for Task-based Language Teaching and Integrated Performance Assessments” Jill Pellettieri, Ph.D. This workshop focuses on the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) as simply one specific model of task-based language learning and assessment. Like the hoppy […]
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Letters to Memory: A Reading by Karen Tei Yamashita
The Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department presents: Letters to Memory featuring a reading by Karen Tei Yamashita with remarks by Alice Yang and Christine Hong Letters to Memory is an excursion through the Japanese mass incarceration during World War II using archival materials from the Yamashita family as well as a series of epistolary […]
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Writing Crises: How to Write When You Just Can’t Write
Graduate Student CommonsRegister at https://tinyurl.com/WritingCrises
Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Victorian Colonialism
Museum of Art & History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSanta Cruz Pickwick Club featuring Little Dorrit The Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel, beginning this January with Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit. Join us each month for conversations about the novel and guest speaker presentations to help us contextualize our readings. Santa Cruz […]
FreePeter Svenonius: Linguistics at Santa Cruz
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvery year towards the end of the Winter Quarter, the Linguistics at Santa Cruz conference showcases the research of second and third year graduate students. This conference coincides with a visit to campus of prospective graduate students, and it always features as an invited speaker, a Ph.D. alum of the department. This year's invited speaker […]
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Friday Forum: Kiki Loveday
Humanities 2, Room 259What You Love: The Library at Alexandria, Quotation, and Survival The figure of Sappho is paradigmatic of the queer-feminist archive: she is the founding figure of female artistic genius and sexual deviance in Western Civilization, yet neither her work nor her story has survived. Between 1896 and 1931 over twenty cinematic versions of Sappho were […]