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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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The Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium Presents: Helga Tawil-Souri, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU “Visual Conflict of and in Palestine-Israel” Helga Tawil-Souri All readings will be available two weeks prior to talk. Co-sponsored by the History of Art and Visual Culture, Film & Digital Media, and the Arts Division. Departmental sites: http://film.ucsc.edu/news_events http://havc.ucsc.edu/news_events […] |
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Join journalist Tracie McMillan to discuss her work for The American Way of Eating, which chronicles her experience in three undercover jobs across the American food system: California farmworker, produce clerk in a Detroit-area Walmart, New York City Applebee's kitchen wretch. Weaving policy and agricultural economics into personal narrative, McMillan explores what it would cost […]
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The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Peter Euben Peter Euben Emeritus Research Professor, Political Science and Classical Studies, Kenan Distinguished Faculty Fellow Emeritus, Duke University "Women of Melos" Although the Melian Dialogue is not much of a dialogue, it is anointed as the foundation of political realism. The paper argues that realism is delusional and […] |
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The Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture series celebrates the work of the late Noel King, founding father and Professor of History and Comparative Religion at UC Santa Cruz. The series reflects Noel’s lifelong commitment to, and joy in, dialogue between the faiths. For the 2012 NQK Lecture, representatives of four of the world’s great religions […] |
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PANELISTS Daniel Guevara UCSC Department of Philosophy Claudio Campagna Wildlife Conservation Society UCSC Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Ronnie Lipschutz UCSC Politics Department Daniel Press UCSC Department of Environmental Studies AGENDA 9:00 am Introductory Remarks: Daniel Guevara 9:15 am Introductory Remarks: Claudio Campagna 9:30 am On the Place of Science […] |
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The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: Nathaniel Deutsch Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of History, UCSC "The Jewish Dark Continent: Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement" On the eve of World War I, the Russian Jewish writer, socialist revolutionary, and aspiring ethnographer named An-sky set out on an ethnographic expedition into the Pale of Settlement, […] |
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Allen Wells Initially supportive of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo’s offer to accept 100,000 Jews at the 1938 Evian Conference, Washington began to back away from its ringing endorsement soon after a succession of German victories throughout Western Europe during the spring of 1940. Only 750 refugees would find their way to Sosúa, a farming […] |
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The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Akira Mizuta Lippit Akira Mizuta Lippit Professor, Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Cultures, USC Chair, Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts "Like Cats and Dogs" Professor Lippit has recently completed a book on contemporary experimental cinema, Ex-cinema: Essays on Experimental Film and Video, and is completing […] |
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Keorapetse Kgositsile Creative Writing and Literature present: UCSC Winter Living Writers Series Professor Keorapetse Kgositsile 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 […]
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University of California, Santa Cruz, Emeriti group presents Emeriti Faculty Lecture by: Peter Kenez Professor of History, Co-Holder of Neufield-Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies UC Santa Cruz A Holocaust survivor and native of Hungary, Peter Kenez is a scholar of the history of Russia and the former Soviet Union. He is currently completing a book-length study […] |
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Gabriela Caballero Gabriela Caballero is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests include languages of the Americas (particularly Uto-Aztecan languages), phonology, morphology, language description and documentation, comparative/historical linguistics, 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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