Events

John Mowitt The emergent field of "radio studies" has given new impetus to the study of radio. Specifically, as the name suggests, "radio studies" has fused an older set of disciplinary preoccupations more typically associated with the concerns of "journalism and mass communications" to the engagements, at once theoretical and political, of "cultural studies." What […]

Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series, 2011-2012  Kimberly Jannarone  Theater Arts, Digital Arts and New Media, History of Consciousness, UCSC Memory and Mass Performance The recent retrospective of the work of Marina Abramovic at MOMA in New York brought to wide public attention the phenomenon of what she called the "reperformance" of her earlier work, […]

R. Zamora Linmark Creative Writing and Literature present: UCSC Winter Living Writers Series R. Zamora Linmark Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives Ronaldo V. Wilson, Visiting Assistant Professor Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities.  Whether as editors, publishers, activists, teachers, multi-media artists, and/or […]

The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary): Chris Chen "An Axiomatic Chorus": Serial Black Identities and Allegories of Improvisation in Nathaniel Mackey's From A Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate. Christopher Chen is a Holloway Postdoctoral Fellow […]

The Sociology Colloquium Series presents: Mohammed Bamyeh Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh "Revolutionary Ethics and the Making of the Arab Spring" Mohammed Bamyeh Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness, Politics, and Colleges 9 & 10 For more information: http://socyeventsucsc.wordpress.com and http://urban.ihr.ucsc.edu For accessibility, contact: Barbara Laurence, balauren@ucsc.edu Event Contact: Deborah Gould, dbgould@ucsc.edu

LECTURE POSTPONED: The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium prevention of Nathaniel Deutsch,“The Jewish Dark Continent: Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement” / has ben postponed from This Monday, January 23rd to Monday, March 12 / 3:30 pm, 261 Social Science 1 The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of History, UCSC "The Jewish […]

The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Early Modern Comparative Studies/Shakespeare. Professor Passannante looks at the habit of making much of little--shifting between small things (details, fossilized seashells, words) and big ideas. Tracing this disaster-courting habit of mind from the writings of Montaigne […]

The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary) Erica R. Edwards is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside and the author of Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership (University of Minnesota Press, 2011). Her […]

The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: David Graeber, Goldsmith’s University of London Monday, January 30 / 3:30 – 5:00 pm / 261 Social Science 1 Contact: Allyson Ramage, aramage@ucsc.edu

The Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium Presents: Professor Leigh Raiford, African American Studies, UCB Affiliated Faculty in Film Studies, Cultural Studies, and Science & Technology Studies “Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle” Leigh Raiford All readings will be available two weeks prior to talk. Co-sponsored by the History of […]

John O. Jordan is giving a reading at Bookshop Santa Cruz in honor of Charles Dickens's bicentenary (born Feb 7, 1812). John will read from his book, Supposing Bleak House, and discuss Dickens, Bleak House, the Dickens Project, and the upcoming Dickens Universe (focusing on Bleak House this summer). There's a Bookshop link at http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/john-jordan.

Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series, 2011-2012 Fabian Barba Independent artist, Belgium Reenacting the Dances of Mary Wigman A Lecture Demonstration (Studio A-105, Theater Arts Center) Friday, February 3rd at 2pm The recent retrospective of the work of Marina Abramovic at MOMA in New York brought to wide public attention the phenomenon of what she called […]

Ben Doller and Sandra Doller Creative Writing and Literature present: UCSC Winter Living Writers Series Ben Doller and Sandra Doller Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives Ronaldo V. Wilson, Visiting Assistant Professor Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities.  Whether as editors, publishers, activists, teachers, […]

The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary). Cheryl Higashida "Black Radicalism’s Queer Record: Erna Brodber and the West Indian Jazz Novel" Cheryl Higashida is Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder, where she has taught since 2002. She […]

Masaya Yoshida The focus of Professor Yoshida's research is on aspects of syntactic representations both in static knowledge of language and in real time sentence processing. The studies carried out so far attempted to integrate work in theoretical and typological syntax and experimental psycholinguistics in order to reveal representations of sentence structures built in real […]