Events
Marcia Ochoa: “‘La moda nace en Paris y muere en Caracas’: Fashion, Beauty and Consumption on the (Trans) National”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesProfessor Ochoa works at the conjuncture of the ethnography of media, modernity in Latin America, and queer/transgender studies. Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Misses and Mass Media in Venezuela (Duke, forthcoming) is a queer diasporic […]
Living Writers Series: Graduate Student Readings
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis week the Living Writers Series offers a selection of readings by UCSC Graduate Students, including Juliana Leslie, Tim Yamamura, Jake Thomas, Andrea Quaid, and Eireene Nealand. Co-sponsored by the […]
The Writing Program’s 2011 Reading Series
Charles E. Merrill LoungeThe Writing Program's 2011 Reading Series Please join us in welcoming two new voices to the Faculty Reading Series: Terry Terhaar will be reading non-fiction and Travis Mossetti will be […]
Norvin Richards: “Generalized Contiguity”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn Richards (2010) I posited a universal condition on the prosody of wh-questions, which was intended to predict whether a given language would move its wh-phrases or leave them in […]
Food Anxieties: A Symposium on the Question of “What to Eat”
Cellar Door Cafe 328 Ingalls Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UC Multi-Campus Research Program on Studies of Food and the Body invite you to the Public Event "Food Anxieties: A Symposium on the Question of 'What to Eat.'” This […]
Paul Festa: “Apparition of the Eternal Church” and “The Glitter Emergency”
First Congregational Church 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Center for Cultural Studies, departments of History of Art and Visual Culture, History of Consciousness, Literature, Sociology, Film and Digital Media, and the Queer Theory Research Cluster present […]
Michael Wagner: “The Locality of Allomorph Selection and Production Planning”
Stanford UniversityCrISP is proud to present: Michael Wagner (McGill University): "The Locality of Allomorph Selection and Product Planning" English -ing varies between two phonologically distinct allomorphs, and . Across different varieties of […]
Colin Koopman: “Pleasure and Parrhesia in Foucault’s Self-Transformative Ethics”
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMichel Foucault's late writings on ethics have been subjected to severe scrutiny by a host of critics. I suggest that these criticisms have for the most part been misguided because of a meta-ethical […]
Jodi Magness: “The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn 1946-47, Bedouins found the first Dead Sea Scrolls in a cave near the site of Qumran, by the shore of the Dead Sea. Eventually remains of over 900 scrolls […]
Guriqbal Singh Sahota: “Resemblances of Pure Content”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesProfessor Sahota will join the Literature department as an Assistant Professor in 2011. He is finishing Late Colonial Sublime (UC, 2012). His research addresses conflicts of dogmatic and speculative belief […]