Events

Chang-Rae Lee's first two novels, Native Speaker and A Gesture Life, have between them won a host of literary honors, including the Hemingway/PEN Award for first fiction, QPB’s New Voices Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, the Oregon Book Award, and the […]

Russian has a well-known rule called yer deletion: stem mid vowels are deleted when a vowel-initial suffix follows (as in `ditch (nom sg)' vs. (gen sg)). The rule is lexically idiosyncratic: most mid vowels in identical contexts do not alternate (as in `howl (nom sg)' vs. (gen sg)). There are two types of approaches to […]

The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Cristina Lombardi-Diop, Italian Studies, UC Berkeley "Spotless Italy: Advertising Culture and the Post-racial Imagination" Professor Lombardi-Diop has published on gender and Italian colonial literature, African-Italian autobiographies, and the African diaspora in Italy. Her in-progress book is on the memory of Italian colonialism in Italy’s postwar cultural history. […]

Kresge Writer’s House, Living Writers, & Feminist Studies presents: Florence Howe, founder of The Feminist Press and author of the memoir, A Life in Motion

One of the great unresolved controversies of the Cold War is whether American physicist Robert Oppenheimer--the "father of the atomic bomb"--was, in fact, a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.  Recently-declassified documents--from U.S. and former Soviet sources--make it possible to finally answer that question. Gregg Herken (Stevenson College with Honors, History BA with Honors, […]

Karen Sánchez-Eppler is Professor of American Studies and English at Amherst College. She is the author of Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body (California, 1993) and Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (Chicago, 2005), and a founding co-editor of The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. […]

From the Greeks to the present our moral and political philosophizing has been preoccupied with a search for the timeless and the universal: timeless norms of moral action and universal principles of political life. Where this may once have seemed to be a plausible undertaking, it is not obviously so any longer. A clear understanding […]

Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage, which The New York Times has called an “inspired, lyrical novel,” and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named a Best Book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. His first novel, The Path of Minor Planets, […]

The Linguistics Colloquium Series Presents: Rajesh Bhatt (UMass Amherst) The location of agreement in the grammar has been the topic of considerable recent discussion. Bobaljik 2008 has argued that agreement is a post-syntactic process, other approaches (Boskovic 2009 and Chomsky 1999) locate it entirely within the syntactic system. More recently the data from agreement with […]

Italian Studies Program, Language Program, American Studies Program and History Department Present  a screening of the 2009  documentary film,  Pane Amaro (Bitter Bread) dir. Gianfranco Norelli  Followed by a conversation with the director and co‐producer Suma Kurien “The story of migration to the U.S. is a very complex one. "Feel good" narratives about immigrants catapulting from […]