Events

The act of questioning is central to human conversation, but how do we know if a given sentence is a question in the first place? Looking at English, there are […]

"L'Italie, Laboratoire de la modernite juive," -- Workshop of Jewish Modernity –  a group of scholars recently characterized Venice and the Ghetto and thereby focused discussion on how this laboratory […]

The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Tamara Spira, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow in Cultural Studies, UC Davis "Neoliberal Captivities: Pisagua Prison and the Low Intensity Form" Doctor Spira […]

Poetry and Politics Research Cluster presents: A talk and workshop with Joan Retallack, followed by a poetry reading at Felix Kulpa Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz. Joan Retallack’s most recent […]

Ethnic diversity and inequality, intercultural communication and contact, and global political and economic interdependence are acknowledged realities in today’s world. Multilingual education, too, is a fact of life, and though […]

Poetry and Politics Research Cluster presents: A talk and workshop with Joan Retallack, followed by a poetry reading at Felix Kulpa Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz. Joan Retallack’s most recent […]

Dai Jinhua is Founder and Director of the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies and Film Studies at Peking University, where she is also Professor of Chinese Literature and Language.  She […]

Neo Benshi, Roxi Power Hamilton, Jen Hofer and Konrad Steiner present a new take on the Japanese tradition of “benshi”—a writer or actor who provides live narration and commentary alongside […]

The Linguistics Colloquium Series Presents: Roumyana Pancheva (USC) Stay tuned for more details!

This year’s Pacific Seminar returns focus to war, both as a way of invoking the foundational anti-Vietnam War struggles that inaugurated Asian American studies as an urgent political and epistemological […]