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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
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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 […] |
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The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Alice Yang Alice Yang Associate Professor, History, UCSC Co-Director, Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories "Can the President be Torturer in Chief? John Yoo, Executive Authority and Historical Memory" Professor Yang examines the legal reasoning of the former Justice Department lawyer’s “torture memos” and his arguments that […] |
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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.
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Composer, violinist, oud player and singer Yair Dalal was born in 1955. His family came to Israel from Baghdad, and his Iraqi roots are embedded in his musical work. Whether working on his own, or with his Alol ensemble, Dalal creates new Middle Eastern music by interweaving the traditions of Iraqi and Jewish Arabic music […]
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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 […]
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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, […] |
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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 […]
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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 […]
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"Bridge to Babylon" with visiting artists Yair Dalal (oud and violin) and Dror Sinai (percussion) Composer, violinist, oud player and singer Yair Dalal was born in 1955. His family came to Israel from Baghdad, and his Iraqi roots are embedded in his musical work. Whether working on his own, or with his Alol ensemble, Dalal […] |
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The UCSC Center for Labor Studies presents FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3-4, 2012 FOOD SYSTEM WORKERS are often a glaring absence in discussions of the contemporary global food system, even though they are employed in some of the most labor-intensive industries within the entire economy, among them agricultural field work, food processing, food distribution, […] |
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This talk is drawn from Sze's current book project which examines flows, fears and fantasies in contemporary urban and global environmental culture, with a sustained look at Shanghai in China. She focuses here on Dongtan, a failed eco-city proposal, framing it within multiple ideological and spatial contexts. Julie Sze is an Associate Professor of American […]
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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). Kathy Lou Schultz is the author of the forthcoming monograph The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History: Tolson, Hughes, Baraka. Schultz's most recent journal articles are "To Save and Destroy: Melvin B. […] |
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The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Vanita Seth Vanita Seth Associate Professor, Politics, UCSC "Faces of the Self" The French ban on the burqa and niqab is only one example of the primacy accorded the face in modern western societies. Professor Seth here argues that the fortunes of the face are tied to the birth […]
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The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Early Modern Comparative Studies/Shakespeare: “Bison Hamlet” considers the idea of species extinction in myths of the westward transmission of culture in early modern England (translation of empire) and nineteenth-century America (Manifest Destiny). The chief exhibits are […] |
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Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series, 2011-2012 Maaike Bleeker Theatre Studies, Utrecht University (Un)Covering Artistic Thought Unfolding Following a suggestion by a Dutch dance initiative named Cover, this talk proposes the idea of ‘covering’ as practiced in the context of music as perspective on artistic practices of reenactment. The term ´cover´ points to what is […]
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Creative Writing and Literature present: UCSC Winter Living Writers Series Dawn Lundy Martin, Duriel E. Harris, Ronaldo V. Wilson (Black Took Collective) Dawn Lundy Martin, Duriel E. Harris, Ronaldo V. Wilson Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives Ronaldo V. Wilson, Visiting Assistant Professor Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry […] |
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The Latino Literary Cultures Project / Proyecto Culturas Literarias Latinas presents: What Latinos Are Reading Bringing together writers and editors, this symposium explores the conditions of possibility for Latino literature today, focusing on its less-explored popular edges. Panelists will explore the conditions of possibility for a US Latino literature--its varied audiences, the kinds of literacy […] |
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The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Bettina Apthekar Bettina Apthekar Distinguished Professor, Feminist Studies and History, UCSC "Queering the History of the Communist Left in the United States" In 2010 gays and lesbians of the U.S. Communist Party began publishing a newsletter, The Queer Communist, whose emblem is a pink triangle superimposed on a hammer […] |
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Creative Writing and Literature present: UCSC Winter Living Writers Series giovanni singleton and Ara Shirinyan giovanni singleton Ara Shirinyan giovanni singleton is founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts, a critically acclaimed journal dedicated to experimental work by artists and writers of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces. Counterpath Press will publisher […] |
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Thirty-two pages into No God in Sight (2005), Altaf Tyrewala's novel undertakes a dramatic formal turn. By this point, Tyrewala has established an inventive formula, serving up a series of brief, elegantly crafted, loosely connected, first-person narratives that chart sinuous, unpredictable pathways through various Bombay localities. Throughout Tyrewala sustains an unvaryingly wry, detached narratorial voice […] |
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The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Megan Moodie Megan Moodie Assistant Professor, Anthropology, UCSC "We Were Adivasis: Collective Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe" Professor Moodie studies the sociality engendered by legal and economic projects for uplift and empowerment, including affirmative action, microfinance, and gender-based rights assertions. Her in-progress book, based on ethnographic work with […]
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The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Early Modern Comparative Studies/Shakespeare: Sean Keilen, College of William and Mary "From Latin Rhetoric to English Poetry: Shakespeare’s Antic Dispositions" The talk Shakespeare's efforts to distinguish the poems and plays he was writing from the arguments […]
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Professor Jean Franco was the first Professor of Latin American Literature in England. She was appointed Professor by the University of Essex in 1968 having previously taught at Queen Mary College and Kings College, London University. In 1972 she took up a position at Stanford University where she was later appointed to the Olive H. […] |
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To obtain a copy of the paper that will be discussed at the seminar, please contact Courtney Mahaney (cmahaney@ucsc.edu). Professor Jean Franco was the first Professor of Latin American Literature in England. She was appointed Professor by the University of Essex in 1968 having previously taught at Queen Mary College and Kings College, London University. […]
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Ory Amitay is Professor of History at the University of Haifa. This event is made possible from generous contributions from the Classical Studies Program, the Center for Jewish Studies, the departments of Literature and History, and the David B. Gold Foundation.
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Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series, 2011-2012 Andre Lepecki, Performance Studies, New York University Not as Before, but Again: Reenactments and "Transcreation" 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, which had […]
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Garrett Hongo Creative Writing and Literature present: UCSC Winter Living Writers Series Garrett Hongo 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 co-collaborators, the featured […] |
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Mary 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, […] |
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Mary 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, […] |
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LANGUAGE 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 […] |
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Western 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 […] |
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The 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 […]
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In 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 […]
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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. […] |
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Matthew 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. |
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