Events
Charles Post: “The American Road to Capitalism”
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUniversity Press Books and the 2430 Arts Alliance invite you to join Charles Post for a reading and discussion of his new book: The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class Structure, Economic Development and Political Conflict, 1620-1877 "Charles Post's new book, The American Road to Capitalism, is sure to become a reference point for […]
Isabelle Delpla: “How to Conceptualize Extreme Evil: Eichmann’s Trial & Modern Theodicies”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Isabelle Delpla Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Montpellier III Professor Delpla focuses on the relation between philosophy and anthropology in theorizing international ethics and justice. Her work on postwar Bosnia deals with the Srebrenica massacre, the reception of the International Criminal Tribunal and the status of victims and […]
Amelia Jones: “Activating the Feminist Body and the Curating of Feminist Art”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Museum and Curatorial Studies (MACS) Research Cluster presents: Amelia Jones, Professor and Grierson Chair in Visual Culture, McGill University This paper takes off from a brief history of the curating of feminist art in the North American and European contexts. My aim is to think about the exhibition, and the feminist show in particular, […]
CANCELLED: Linguistics Colloquium: Hotze Rullmann
Hotze Rullmann is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia. Professor Rullmann's research interests include (formal) semantics and pragmatics, and Dutch and other West-Germanic languages. This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.
Charles Hedrick, Sr.: “Secret Mark: The Scholarly Firestorm that Followed…”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President's Chair in Ancient Studies present a pair of lectures in an ongoing series on "Archaeology and the Ancient World” Professor Charles Hedrick, Sr. Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, Missouri State University “Secret Mark: second edition or forgery?” Monday, April 2 at 5 […]
Clive Sinclair: “The Jew in the Crown”
Humanities 1, Room 202“The Jew in the Crown” will offer a brief examination of the ambiguous role of the semitic anti-hero in English literature; anti-heroes such as Shylock, Fragin, and Svengali, whose half-life continues to radiate. Clive Sinclair has published 13 books of fiction, travel, and autobiography, some of which have been given prizes. Early in his career […]
Hayden White: “Fictions of the Holocaust”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Hayden White University Professor, Historical Studies, Emeritus, UCSC Professor White serves as American Representative of Pasts, Inc. Narrative Therapy: "Get the Past You Deserve." He wears the title of Philologian, the division of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences into which he was inducted after being rejected by […]
Emanuela Trevisan-Semi: “Why Jews left Morocco: Different Narratives”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEmanuela Trevisan Semi is professor of Modern Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Ca' Foscari University in Venice (Italy). She has done research about Jews at the margins (karaites, Jews of Ethiopia, Judaising movements) and mizrahim in Israel. She has recentely published a book in French on memory and represention of Jews in Morocco among Moroccan […]
Selma James on Sex, Race, and Class
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSelma James is a renowned women's rights and anti-racist campaigner and author. In her activist work and her writings, Selma has addressed the power relations within the working class movement, and how to organize across sectors despite divisions of sex, race, and class, South and North. She has founded the International Wages for Housework Campaign […]
Charles Hedrick, Sr.: “Secret Mark: Second Edition or Forgery?””
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President's Chair in Ancient Studies present a pair of lectures in an ongoing series on "Archaeology and the Ancient World” Professor Charles Hedrick, Sr. Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, Missouri State University “Secret Mark: second edition or forgery?” Monday, April 2 at 5 […]