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 is a prominent cultural scholar of literature, film, and popular culture. With Meng Yue, she wrote the 1989 Emerging on the Horizon of History, one […]

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 films. The neo-benshi concept invites writers/performers to choose scenes from well-known narrative features or TV shows, mute the soundtrack, and re-inscribe the familiar images with […]

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 project and as a contemporary analytic that wields the potential of reconfiguring the project of Asian American studies today.  In particular, this year’s Pacific Seminar […]

University of California, Santa Cruz Presents: Music and Greek Drama: History, Theory, and Practice An International Conference   In connection with the UCSC Theater Arts production of Orestes Terrorist, a new version of Euripides’ Orestes by Mary-Kay Gamel, Mainstage Theater, UCSC, May 20-29   May 28-29, 2011 College 8, Room 240   Scholars and theater […]

Recipients of this years Humanities Undergraduate Research Award (HUGRA) will be presenting their projects during Student Achievement week. All are welcome and encouraged to support these students!   In 1996, the Humanities Division began awarding undergraduate students to support and encourage innovative research projects.   This year’s Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) symposium brings together a […]

Speakers: Snehal Shingavi, English and South Asian Studies, UT Austin Zahra Billoo, Council on American-Islamic Relations Wednesday, June 1 6 p.m. Kresge Town Hall Snehal Shingavi is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas, Austin. He got his PhD from UC Berkeley where he was involved in a number of […]

The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series and the Center for Jewish Studies Present: Erik Butler, German Studies, Emory University "The Ruse of Faith: Spiritual Politics in Der Nister's Soviet Symbolism" Professor Butler has published Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film (Camden House, 2010) and The Bellum Grammaticale and the Rise of European […]