Events
Peter Euben: “Women of Melos”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Peter Euben Peter Euben Emeritus Research Professor, Political Science and Classical Studies, Kenan Distinguished Faculty Fellow Emeritus, Duke University "Women of Melos" Although the Melian Dialogue is not much of a dialogue, it is anointed as the foundation of political realism. The paper argues that realism is delusional and […]
Tracie McMillian: “Real Food vs. Affordable Food: Can we have both?”
Oakes Mural Room, Room 223 Oakes College 150 Heller Drive, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin journalist Tracie McMillan to discuss her work for The American Way of Eating, which chronicles her experience in three undercover jobs across the American food system: California farmworker, produce clerk in a Detroit-area Walmart, New York City Applebee's kitchen wretch. Weaving policy and agricultural economics into personal narrative, McMillan explores what it would cost […]
Helga Tawil-Souri: “Visual Conflict of and in Palestine-Israel”
Communications, Room 139 Communications Bldg University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium Presents: Helga Tawil-Souri, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU “Visual Conflict of and in Palestine-Israel” Helga Tawil-Souri All readings will be available two weeks prior to talk. Co-sponsored by the History of Art and Visual Culture, Film & Digital Media, and the Arts Division. Departmental sites: http://film.ucsc.edu/news_events http://havc.ucsc.edu/news_events […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Matthew Gordon
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMatthew Gordon Matthew Gordon is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include phonetics, phonology, and typology. This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.
Poetry and Politics: Professor Craig Dworkin Poetry Reading
Craig Dworkin is the author of Reading the Illegible (Northwestern UP), Signature-Effects (Ghos-Ti), Dure (Cuneiform), Strand (Roof), and Parse (Atelos), and the editor of Architectures of Poetry (Rodopi), Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern UP), The Sound of Poetry (Chicago UP), and Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writing of Vito Acconci (MIT). He teaches at the University of Utah and curates two on-line archives: Eclipse and The UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing. […]
Craig Dworkin: “The Politics of the Work”
Humanities 1, Room 202In Partnership with Poetry and Politics Research Cluster and the Literature Department presents: Craig Dworkin for a Lecture on Poetics. Craig Dworkin is the author of Reading the Illegible (Northwestern UP), Signature-Effects (Ghos-Ti), Dure (Cuneiform), Strand (Roof), and Parse (Atelos), and the editor of Architectures of Poetry (Rodopi), Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern UP), The Sound of Poetry (Chicago UP), and Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writing of Vito […]
Melissa L. Caldwell: “Sowing the Seeds of Civil Society: Russia’s Garden Democracy”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Melissa L. Caldwell Professor, Anthropology, UCSC Co-Director, UCMRP on Studies of Food and the Body "Sowing the Seeds of Civil Society: Russia's Garden Democracy" Professor Caldwell examines the politics of poverty, social welfare, care and intimacy in Russia through ethnographic research in Dacha Idylls: Living Organically in Russia's Countryside […]
J. Cameron Monroe: “Elephants for Want of Towns? New Light on Old Cities in West Africa’s Atlantic Age”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWestern conceptions of the city have a long and storied history, one that until recently largely dismissed pre-colonial African urbanisms as no more than a passive response to cultural stimulus from outside the continent. This has been particularly true for West African cities that emerged in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. However, landscape […]
Angela Elsey, “Life in Senegal / La Vie senegalaise”
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLANGUAGE PROGRAM COLLOQUIUM SERIES Life in Senegal / La Vie sénégalaise Angela Elsey Angela Elsey Lecturer in French Please join Lecturer in French Angela Elsey for an introduction to daily life in Senegal through photos and short video clips depicting work, school, play, home life, language use, creative activities, and religious practices. Lecturer Elsey has […]
Crosslinguistic Investigations in Phonology-Syntax Research Cluster presents a Seminar with Mary Paster
Cowell Senior Commons Room Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMary Paster (PhD UC Berkeley, 2006) is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College in Claremont, California. Her research focuses on phonology and morphology, and their interface. She specializes in the study of African languages, particularly their tone systems. She has published in such journals as Phonology, […]