Events

Mary Flanagan Propositions from a Critical Play Perspective If games always hold within them cultural beliefs, norms, and human values, how are designers to tackle the vexing responsibility of designing […]

Steve McKay Professor McKay examines the performance of masculinities among a group of men often considered exemplars of masculinity—merchant sailors. The talk explores their gender projects across liminal space (ocean-going […]

Benjamin Cawthra, associate professor of history at Benjamin Cawthra California State University, Fullerton and author of Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz (Chicago, 2011), discusses the tradition […]

The UCSC Program in Classical Studies presents: Professor Brooke Holmes, Princeton University, 'The Missíng Body: Authority, Immunity, and Objectivity in Early Greek Medical Writing" Brooke Holms Brooke Holmes' paper arises from a simple question: […]

The Living Writers Reading Series presents Maggie Nelson. Maggie Nelson is a poet and non-fiction writer. Her work includes: The Red Parts: A Memoir, Bluets, and, recently, the 2011 release […]

The Living Writers Reading Series presents C.S. Giscombe. C.S. Giscombe's love of the outdoors is evident in his poetry as well as his teaching at UC Berkeley, where he has […]

Hagit Borer The paper is a detailed study of the properties of Argument-Structure derived -ing nominals versus those of -ing synthetic compounds. In particular, I show that while -ing Argument Structure nominals are compositional and have […]

Cary Howie Professor Howie thinks about how contemporary American poets re-imagine early Christianity, using transfiguration to talk about the persistence of figures as they become transformed, and how poetic and […]

Lawrence Weschler Lawrence "Ren" Weschler will present a special lecture "Convergences" in advance of his visit to Bookshop Santa Cruz to promote his latest book, Uncanny Valley.  In his talk […]

Martin Puchner While re-enactment has long been a popular art, it has entered performance art in two ways: through site-specific performances such as the ones orchestrated by Mike Pearson or […]