Events
American Indian Writers Series: Rain Gomez
Ethnic Resource Lounge, Bay Tree Conference Center Bay Tree Conference Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRain Gomez won the 2009 First Book Award in poetry for Smoked Mullet Cornbread Crawdad Memory (Mongrel Empire Press, Fall 2012). A self described “TriRacially Fluffy and Fabulous” Louisiana Méstiza,poet, […]
Joseph Sabbagh: "Specificity and Objecthood in Tagalog"
LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM Joseph Sabbagh (UT Arlington) Current analyses of the syntax of transitive constructions in Tagalog (Austronesian, Philippines) are constructed around the claim that the theme argument of a transitive […]
"Asian America: Triangulations about a Semisphere"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies presents: Asian America: Triangulations about a Semisphere A creative presentation, Karen Tei Yamashita will read excerpts from her novel, […]
Living Writers Reading by Amaranth Borsuk
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAmaranth Borsuk is the author of Handiwork (Slope, 2012), selected by Paul Hoover for the 2011 Slope Books Prize, and, together with programmer Brad Bouse, of Between Page and Screen […]
Tanya Maria Golash-Boza: "Mass Deportation and the Neoliberal Cycle"
College 8, Room 301 College Eight Rd, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe United States is deporting more people than ever before – nearly 400,000 each year since 2006. Many deportees have close ties to the United States: in 2011, 100,000 deportees […]
David Myers: "A Hasidic Town in New York? As American as Apple Pie?"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDavid Myers is professor of Jewish history and chair of the UCLA History Department. He is currently at work with Nomi Stolzenberg (USC) on a book on the Satmar Hasidic […]
“Mendelsohn’s Incessant Visions” Screening and Q&A with Director Duki Dror
Media Theater, M110Free and Open to the Public General Admission Seating, first come, first served Parking available in Performing Arts Lot ($4) Synopsis: This film is a cinematic mediation about the untold […]
Claire Farago: "Seeing the Unmodern in the Modern: Leonardo and the Legibility of Religion"
Porter C-118Written in an era before modern distinctions among art, science, and religion existed, Leonardo da Vinci’s treatise on painting is regarded today as a canonical text in the history of […]
Marc Matera: “Modernism in the Art & Criticism on Ronald Moody”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMarc Matera is finishing a book, London and the Black International, on the wider Atlantic and imperial horizons of black activism, intellectual work, and cultural production in London between the […]
Film Screening: Dante's Inferno directed by Sandow Birk
Stevenson, Room 150Free and open to the public (English dialogue) Melding the seemingly disparate traditions of apocalyptic live-action graphic novel and charming Victorian-era toy theater, Dante’s Inferno is a subversive, darkly satirical […]