Events

This 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 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 […]

In 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 […]

The 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 […]

The 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 […]

CrISP 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 […]

Michel 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 error too often relied upon in interpretations of Foucault.  I offer a distinction between ethical 'orientations' and ethical 'commitments'.  Rather than offering substantive normative content, I argue, Foucault's […]

In 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 were discovered in 11 caves surrounding Qumran.  The scrolls, which date to about the time of Jesus, were deposited in the caves by members of […]

Professor 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 cultures in contemporary global society with a special focus on the postcolonial. He has begun a long-term project on the question of reason in the […]

This conference brings theories of economic value and regulation into conversation with the study of culture, institutions, ethics, history, geography and theology. Its aim is to consider in what ways capitalism is producing a future that is unlike its past.