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  • Sara M. Benson: “Locating Leavenworth: Prisons and Political Geography”

    Humanities 1, Room 320

    This talk historicizes the placement of Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary (the U.S. nation’s oldest and largest federal prison designed as a replica of the U.S. capitol building) at the center of the nation in the post-Reconstruction 1890s. Drawing on understandings of political geography from feminist and critical race studies, the talk traces the geography of prisons […]

  • Eva Vibeke Kofoed Pihl: “Pig Patients and their Personalities”

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:  Eva Vibeke Kofoed Pihl Ph.D Fellow, Center for Medical Science and Technology Studies, University of Copenhagen; Visiting Fellow, and The Science and Justice Working Group, UCSC What  makes animal technicians describe a pig as "depressed," "a rebel" or "girly"? How do scientists get pigs to mimic human patients biologically […]

  • Jonathan Boyarin: “Trickster’s Children: Jewishness and the Generations of Anthropology”

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Jonathan Boyarin is the Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has also taught at Wesleyan University, Dartmouth College, the New School for Social Research and the University of Kansas. Boyarin received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1998, after receiving his […]

  • Ondrej Skovajsa: “Written Voice: Walt Whitman’s first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855) and Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer (1934)”

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The Literature Department invites you to a talk by: Ondrej Skovajsa, Visiting Fulbright Scholar "Written Voice: Walt Whitman’s first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855) and Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer (1934)" Discussing first the relevance of oral theory when dealing with texts, the paper deals with the strategies Whitman and Miller share to get […]

  • West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics

    Stevenson Event Center

    The 30th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, hosted by the Department of Linguistics and the Linguistics Research Center, will take place on Friday, April 13 to Sunday, April 15, 2012 at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Conference Program (PDF) For more information and registration, please visit the conference website. This event is sponsored […]

  • Migration and Ethnic Studies

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The Borders, Bodies and Violence Research Cluster presents: Migration and Ethnic Studies This symposium brings together scholars roused by recent legislation targeting migrants and ethnic studies, such as Arizona's SB 1070, one of the most draconian anti-immigration measures in the United States, and HB 2281, the 2010 prohibition on ethnic studies in public schools. Topics […]

  • Charles Post: “The American Road to Capitalism”

    Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    University 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 States

    The 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 States

    The 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.

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