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Teach English in Spain
Teach English in Spain
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics in collaboration with Spanish Studies & Consulate of Spain in San Francisco is pleased to present Enrique Asorey Brey, Spanish Consul in San Francisco, who will be speaking on the North American Language and Culture Program in Spain (NALCAP 2023-2024). Light refreshments will be provided. Organized by: Spanish […]
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Linda Garber – The Present in Our Past: Reading Lesbian Historical Fiction
Linda Garber – The Present in Our Past: Reading Lesbian Historical Fiction
Join us for a guided tour of the pleasures and perils of lesbian historical fiction, as Linda Garber (author of Novel Approaches to Lesbian History) introduces the thrilling and heart-wrenching adventures, trenchant theoretical insights, and critical political shortcomings of novels that establish a historical footing for contemporary lesbian identity in the face of a problematic, […]
Ethnographic Trans-formations: Cases, Life Histories, and Other Entanglements of Emergent Research
Ethnographic Trans-formations: Cases, Life Histories, and Other Entanglements of Emergent Research
The Mellon Sawyer Seminar on "Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine" will welcome, as a residential scholar, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at the University of Chicago. Professor Rajan's first two books focused on the global political economy of the […]
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Living Writers – K-Ming Chang
Living Writers – K-Ming Chang
K-Ming Chang is a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice novel Bestiary (One World/Random House, 2020), which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. In […]
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POSTPONED: Linguistics Colloquia: Marc Garellek
POSTPONED: Linguistics Colloquia: Marc Garellek
Marc Garellek, UC San Diego Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please […]
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POSTPONED – Slugs and Steins with Professor Eric Porter: What Can We Learn from the Airport?
POSTPONED – Slugs and Steins with Professor Eric Porter: What Can We Learn from the Airport?
For many people, airports may seem like alienating “nonplaces”—as anthropologist Marc Augé put it—where we rush to make connections and spend long, monotonous hours waiting for delayed flights. But airports […]
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Jarrod Shanahan – Skyscraper Jails
Jarrod Shanahan – Skyscraper Jails
How did a campaign to end the humanitarian catastrophe of New York City's Rikers Island penal colony culminate in the planned creation of skyscraper jails across the city, with no […]
Gershom Gorenberg: The Secret War Against the Nazis for the Middle East
Gershom Gorenberg: The Secret War Against the Nazis for the Middle East
At the midpoint of World War II, an Axis army under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was on the brink of conquering the Middle East. Drawing on his latest book, War […]
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Elora Shehebuddin – Bangladesh, Third World Solidarity, and the Global Politics of Feminism
Elora Shehebuddin – Bangladesh, Third World Solidarity, and the Global Politics of Feminism
“Bangladesh, Third World Solidarity, and the Global Politics of Feminism” is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2022-2023 lecture series, Futures. Guests can register to […]
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Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore
Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore
The Friends of the Dickens Project invites you to participate in "Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore." The three sessions will offer […]
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Baskin Ethics Lecture with Joy Connolly – A Connected Planet: Scholarship for the Global Good
Baskin Ethics Lecture with Joy Connolly – A Connected Planet: Scholarship for the Global Good
“Serving the public good” is the motto and a strategic goal of many an American research university. In this lecture, Joy asks: what public do humanistic scholars serve, how do […]
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ACLS Workshop with Joy Connolly
ACLS Workshop with Joy Connolly
Professor Connelly will present an overview of current American Council of Learned Societies programs in support of humanistic scholarship, including fellowships, grants, and projects accelerating equity and progressive change; She […]
Amelia Glaser – Angry Winds: Jewish Leftists and the Challenge of Palestine, 1929
Amelia Glaser – Angry Winds: Jewish Leftists and the Challenge of Palestine, 1929
In the summer of 1929, a week of violence in Mandate Palestine left hundreds of Jews and Arabs dead and many more wounded. These events, which began with protests in […]
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Keya Ganguly – Reason and the Image: On Satyajit Ray’s Shatranj Ke Khilari (The Chess Players)
Keya Ganguly – Reason and the Image: On Satyajit Ray’s Shatranj Ke Khilari (The Chess Players)
This talk focuses on Satyajit Ray’s cinematic treatment of an episode from India’s late colonial history in Shatranj Ke Khilari (“The Chess Players,” 1977). Through his portrayal of the betrayal […]
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Aurora Workshop – Gramsci: Southern Questions
"The Aurora Workshop - Gramsci: Southern Questions" will take place Friday, February 17th from 3-5pm (PST) and Saturday, February 18th from 9am-3pm (PST). This workshop will be in person in Humanities 2, Room 259 and virtual (Zoom: 99170004783 PW: gramsci). Friday, February 17th from 3:00-5:00pm (PST) Keynote presentation: Gramsci as a Typical Interwar Communist: The […]
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Christina Heatherton – Making Internationalism
Christina Heatherton – Making Internationalism
Making Internationalism with Christina Heatherton (Trinity College). This talk is part of the History of Consciousness Winter 2023 Speaker Series and co-sponsored by the History Department at UC Santa Cruz. […]
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Richard Jean So – How #BLM Became a Story: Black Fiction in the Age of Platform Capitalism
Richard Jean So – How #BLM Became a Story: Black Fiction in the Age of Platform Capitalism
Event co-sponsored with Kresge College, Media and Society Lecture Series and the Departments of Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. New online writing platforms, like Wattpad, are massively popular […]
2023 Helene Moglen Lecture in Feminism and Humanities with Wendy Brown – After Humanism and the Nation State: More Democracy, Democracy that is More, or Democracy No More?
2023 Helene Moglen Lecture in Feminism and Humanities with Wendy Brown – After Humanism and the Nation State: More Democracy, Democracy that is More, or Democracy No More?
In most accounts of dangers to democracy today, the value of the object is assumed. At the same time, we know that the “demos” of Western democracy violently excludes all […]
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Living Writers – Shruti Swamy
Living Writers – Shruti Swamy
Shruti Swamy is the author of the story collection A House Is a Body, which was a finalist for the PEN/Bingham Prize, the LA Times First Fiction Award, and longlisted […]
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Geographies of/and the Indigenous: South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa Workshop
Participants: Dolly Kikon, Nour Joudan, Aomar Boum, Prita Meier Pasang Sherpa, R. Benedito Ferrao, Maisnam Arnapal, Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh The Geographies of/and the Indigenous Workshop to take place at UC Santa Cruz from February 24-25, 2023. Please note that this workshop is open to faculty and graduate students only. This workshop is presented by the UCSC […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Junko Ito & Armin Mester
Linguistics Colloquia: Junko Ito & Armin Mester
Junko Ito & Armin Mester, UC Santa Cruz Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and […]
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series February 26, March 26, and April 23 at 1:00-3:00 PM | Virtual Event The next three Pickwick Club sessions will focus on Dickens’s […]
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John R. Rickford, Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture
John R. Rickford, Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture
John R. Rickford, Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture. Rickford will read the UCSC chapter from his 2022 memoir Speaking my Soul: Race, Life and Language. This event will take place at the […]