Events

Please join us for an evening of poetry and prose with past and present Writing Program faculty: Chuck Atkinson,  Jeff Arnett, Roxi Power Hamilton, Ingrid Moody,  Robin Sommers, and Stephen Sweat

Shirley Graham {Du Bois} (1896-1977) had a successful early career as composer, performer and playwright that included her formal studies at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Yale University, and the near completion of a Ph D at NYU. In 1932 her opera, "Tom-Tom" for which she wrote the libretto and composed the music, was performed […]

This talk is about the strange accent on disorder in 17th century Dutch paintings of still life. The still-life genre includes pictures of flowers and food in domestic and outdoor settings. Its focus is on the conflict between an emphasis on order, harmony, and formal beauty, and an emphasis on disorder, damage, and death. I’ll […]

The American Indian Resource Center will be hosting internationally acclaimed poet/musician/playwright JOY HARJO (Har-joe) on April 21st, 2011, at Merrill College Event Center, from 7-9pm. Harjo will be performing a brand new solo work Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears, blending music, poetry, personal reflection, and cultural histories, accompanied by Grammy-award winning guitarist and producer […]

The UCSC Center for Labor Studies presents: Bill Fletcher, Jr.:  "Right-Wing Populism and the Crisis of Organized Labor" Free and Open to the Public Right-wing populism is a phenomenon deeply rooted in the US system.  It tends to emerge in a virulent form during times of economic distress and crisis.  It plays upon fears and […]

Patricia T. Clough is a Professor of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Intercultural Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her books include Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology (Minnesota 2000), Feminist Thought: Desire, Power and Academic Discourse (co-edited with Charles Lemert, J.W. Wiley, 1995) and The […]

Italian Studies Program, Language Program, American Studies Program and History Department Present  a screening of the 2009  documentary film,  Pane Amaro (Bitter Bread) dir. Gianfranco Norelli  Followed by a conversation with the director and co‐producer Suma Kurien “The story of migration to the U.S. is a very complex one. "Feel good" narratives about immigrants catapulting from […]

The Linguistics Colloquium Series Presents: Rajesh Bhatt (UMass Amherst) The location of agreement in the grammar has been the topic of considerable recent discussion. Bobaljik 2008 has argued that agreement is a post-syntactic process, other approaches (Boskovic 2009 and Chomsky 1999) locate it entirely within the syntactic system. More recently the data from agreement with […]

Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage, which The New York Times has called an “inspired, lyrical novel,” and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named a Best Book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. His first novel, The Path of Minor Planets, […]

From the Greeks to the present our moral and political philosophizing has been preoccupied with a search for the timeless and the universal: timeless norms of moral action and universal principles of political life. Where this may once have seemed to be a plausible undertaking, it is not obviously so any longer. A clear understanding […]