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Elizabeth Graver’s new novel, The End of the Point, set in a summer community on Buzzard’s Bay from 1942 to 1999, is forthcoming from HarperCollins in Spring, 2013. She is the author of three other novels: Awake, The Honey Thief, and Unravelling. Her short story collection, Have You Seen Me?, won the 1991 Drue Heinz […]

What's driving this murderous U.S. policy in Honduras? And how are the Hondurans still rising up in resistance? Since the June 2009 military coup that deposed democratically-elected President Manuel Zeleya, the U.S. has been supporting a repressive regime that continues to commit massive human rights violations. Honduras now has the highest murder rate in the […]

For most Americans, the phrase "Jewish education" summons images of Hebrew School. But, Hebrew School, or even what we might call "formal Jewish education" amounts to only a very small percentage of where and how people learn to be Jewish. The landscape of Jewish learning might include those sites, but it certainly includes a much […]

“Goldfinger" and the Decline of the Classical Hollywood Narrative The 1964 film Goldfinger, released right after the break-up of the Hollywood studio system, presented a new kind of narrative that did not conform to the classical Hollywood three-act model. In this talk, I will examine how Goldfinger differed dramaturgically from the classical Hollywood style and […]

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Karen Joy Fowler, author of six novels and three short story collections. The Jane Austen Book Club spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel, Sister Noon, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel, Sarah Canary, […]

The Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP in Mediterranean Studies present: An International Symposium/Workshop to be held at UC Santa Cruz, 2-4 May, 2013 A maritime perspective provides scholars with a fresh approach to the study of society and culture, including the development of art, literature, and institutions. In the mid-twentieth century, Fernand Braudel first reformulated the history of […]

Revisiting Indigenous critiques of the sexualization and racialization of colonial rule, Morgensen highlights how such power is challenged by the Indigenous movement Idle No More. Indigenous feminist and Two Spirit critiques explain that heteropatriarchy and white supremacy produce settler colonization and settler state governance. As explained by participants, the leadership of Idle No More by […]

In Conflicting Commitments, Dr. Shannon Gleeson goes beyond the debate over  federal immigration policy to examine the complicated terrain of immigrant worker rights. Federal law requires that basic labor standards apply to all workers, yet this principle clashes with increasingly restrictive immigration laws and creates a confusing bureaucratic terrain for local policymakers and labor advocates. […]

"The Rubble and the Ruin: Spec Ops:The Line as Anti-War Game" Soraya Murray is an interdisciplinary scholar of contemporary visual culture, with particular interest in new media and globalization in the arts. In her analysis of photography, film and digital media, Murray seeks to illuminate these technological expressions in their cultural contexts. Soraya Murray is Assistant Professor […]