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Ronaldo V. Wilson: “Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other”
Ronaldo V. Wilson: “Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other”
Ronaldo V. Wilson is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (2008), Poems of the Black Object (2009), and Lucy 72 (2015). He is co-founder of the Black Took Collective, and is currently Associate Professor of Poetry, Fiction, and Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Farther Traveler is […]
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Anna Tsing & Isabelle Carbonell: “‘Golden Snail Opera’: The More-than-human Performance of Friendly Farming on Taiwan’s Lanyang Plain”
Anna Tsing & Isabelle Carbonell: “‘Golden Snail Opera’: The More-than-human Performance of Friendly Farming on Taiwan’s Lanyang Plain”
Written by Anna Tsing, Isabelle Carbonell, Joelle Chevrier and Yen-ling Tsai (Associate Professor of Anthropology at National Chaio Tung University Taiwan), Golden Snail Opera combines video and performance-oriented text into a genre-bending o-pei-la. This piece is a multispecies enactment of experimental natural history considering the “golden treasure snail,” imported to Taiwan in 1979, which is now major pest of […]
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Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Redi Koobak
Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Redi Koobak
"Rethinking Gender, Art & Geopolitic through Post-national War Rhetoric" Redi Koobak, Assitant Professor, Linkoping University, Sweden After its 50-year occupation by the Soviets, current political disclosure in Estonia revolves around the importance of proving that despite being small, Estonia is courages and highly reliable NATO ally to defend against the historically perceived threat from Russia. […]
Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Joseph Stroud
Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Joseph Stroud
Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Joseph Stroud Thursday, November 3, 2016 6:00 pm Cabrillo College, Room 450 (Forum) EVENT PHOTOS: by Lorraine Padgett First Song That long ago morning at Ruth’s farm when I hid in the wisteria and watched hummingbirds. I thought the ruby or gold that gleamed on their throats was the honeyed […]
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PhD+: Research Off the Tenure Track
PhD+: Research Off the Tenure Track
November's PhD+ workshop focuses on opportunities for research in careers not on the tenure track. Join us for a discussion led by Elaine Sullivan (History) with Yoh Kawano (UCLA, GIS Specialist and lecturer in Urban Planning and Public Policy) and Rachel Deblinger (Director, Digital Scholarship Commons) to consider the multiple forms that fulfilling, meaningful, and […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Hahkyung Darline Kim
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Hahkyung Darline Kim
"Historicizing Interviews: A Mode of (Re)living and (Re)writing Memories of the Korean War through Documentary" How can we write a history of the officially unsaid and the unsayable? My talk focuses on the case of the Korean War whose language of antagonism and ideological conflict remains very much alive in Korean society today. I will […]
From Concept to Project: A Digital Mapping Workshop for Graduate Students with Yoh Kawano
From Concept to Project: A Digital Mapping Workshop for Graduate Students with Yoh Kawano
Are you developing a digital map but feel unsure about your next steps? Or, having trouble reconciling the complexity of spatial theory with the nuts-and-bolts of GIS? Graduate students interested in mapping and integrating spatial thinking into their research should consider joining this workshop with Yoh Kawano. Kawano is the GIS Specialist at UCLA and a lecturer […]
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Joan Wallach Scott: “Sex and Secularism”
Joan Wallach Scott: “Sex and Secularism”
Joan Wallach Scott’s recent books, including The Fantasy of Feminist History (2011), focus on the relationship of the particularity of gender to the universalizing force of democratic politics. Her recent work tracks the mutually constitutive operations of gender and politics by examining the discourses of secularism from their nineteenth century anti-clerical origins to their current deployment […]
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The Immigrant Youth Movement and the Fight Against Deportations: A Talk with Dr. Kent Wong
The Immigrant Youth Movement and the Fight Against Deportations: A Talk with Dr. Kent Wong
Dr. Kent Wong is the author and editor of DREAMS DEPORTED: Immigrant Youth and Families Resist Deportation, a UCLA student publication featuring stories of deportation and of the courageous immigrant youth and families who have led the national campaign against deportations and successfully challenged the president of the United States to act. Kent Wong […]
Living Writers: Peter Orner
Living Writers: Peter Orner
Peter Orner is the author of two story collections, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge and Esther Stories, and two novels, Love and Shame and Love and The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo. He has received the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Pushcart Prizes, and was a finalist for […]
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Clive Sinclair: “One City, Seven Shylocks: Venice’s Most Famous Son Comes Home”
Clive Sinclair: “One City, Seven Shylocks: Venice’s Most Famous Son Comes Home”
Event Podcast: "In my time I have seen many Shylocks ….. But never before have I seen seven Shylocks on a single day.” Clive Sinclair is the author of fourteen books; one of which won the Somerset Maugham Award, another both the PEN Silver Pen and the Jewish Quarterly Prize for Fiction. His fifteenth […]
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Robin Hunicke: “The Art of Feel Engineering: Design, Art, Games & Playable Media at UCSC”
Robin Hunicke: “The Art of Feel Engineering: Design, Art, Games & Playable Media at UCSC”
Robin Hunicke’s practice focuses on creating boundary-expanding, experimental game experiences by combining unique concepts and technologies. She works to create games that deliver unexpected emotional outcomes to players. This includes games that are peaceful and introspective, creative and healing as well as experiences that encourage intergenerational and international communication and play. Hunicke is Associate Professor of […]
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Marc Matera: “The Global 1930s: The International Decade”
Marc Matera: “The Global 1930s: The International Decade”
The 1930s usually conjure up images of Soviet show trials, jack-booted, brown-shirted German fascists, and breadlines and the dustbowl in the United States. The decade is also associated with the failure of internationalism in the face of economic depression and militaristic nationalisms. Certainly these form part of the picture, but a Europe- and North American-centered […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Sophie PappenheimBlack
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Sophie PappenheimBlack
"Black Storm Clouds and a Queer Yellow Light: Reading the Affective Edges of Symbolism in Maru" My project is to read postcolonial novels that have typically been analyzed as representations of postcolonial politics and instead attend to the nonrepresentational aspects of their language: namely, their affect and literariness. In this talk I focus on Bessie […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Kie Zuraw
Linguistics Colloquium: Kie Zuraw
The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. Fall 2016 Nov 18: Kie Zuraw, UCLA Winter 2017 February 7: TBA March TBD: LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz Spring 2016 April 14: Junko Ito, UC Santa Cruz April 28: Ashwini Deo, Yale May 26: Susan Lin, UC Berkeley May/June TBD: LURC: […]
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The Devil’s Wheels: Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic
The Devil’s Wheels: Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic
"The Devil's Wheels Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic" by Sasha Disko During the high days of modernization fever, among the many disorienting changes Germans experienced in the Weimar Republic was an unprecedented mingling of consumption and identity: increasingly, what one bought signaled who one was. Exemplary of this volatile dynamic was the era’s […]
Spatial Humanities & Digital Humanities Reading Group: Enchanting the Desert
Spatial Humanities & Digital Humanities Reading Group: Enchanting the Desert
The Spatial Humanities interest group is hosting the first reading group event of the quarter. Explore the Stanford Press publication, Enchanting the Desert, and discuss the work with a group of faculty, graduate students and staff investigating how digital tools can enable visualization, representation and analysis of spatial questions. *Event will be hosted at the Digital […]
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Jordi Aladro “Maria Magdalena: de la santa a la prostituta”
Jordi Aladro “Maria Magdalena: de la santa a la prostituta”
Desde su primera representación en el año 230 en Europos hasta Joaquin Sabina, pasando por Dan Brown y Martin Scorsese, la santa de Magdala ha sido la mujer sin rostro: invención de teólogos, fantasía de misóginos, amor y temblor de poetas. Del medioevo al barroco y de ahi a la modernidad, la cristiandad la ha […]
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WHAT GOES UP, MUST COME DOWN: Contemporary Activist Scholarship
WHAT GOES UP, MUST COME DOWN: Contemporary Activist Scholarship
We hope you can join us for this speaker series jointly hosted by Feminist Studies & the History of Consciousness, with support from the Center for Cultural Studies. AK Thompson Epistemologies of the Visual From Raphael to Late Capital: Some Observations Regarding Keywords for Radicals and Data Visualization Thursday, DECEMBER 1 | 12:20-2:00 | HUM […]
Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Cleo Woelfle-Erskine
Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Cleo Woelfle-Erskine
"Queer x Trans x Feminist x Ecology: Toward a Field Science Practice" Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow Ecologist are on the front line of the sixth mass extinction, as intimates die at alarming rates. What radical politics and transformative potentials can arise from witnessing these transgressive intimacies, even or especially among more-than-human others dying […]
Baskin Ethics Lecture with Fania Davis: Restorative Justice: A Relational, Healing, and Radical Practice
Baskin Ethics Lecture with Fania Davis: Restorative Justice: A Relational, Healing, and Radical Practice
Join us for an evening with restorative justice and civil rights champion Fania Davis.
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Engaging Precarity: A Seminar with Marcel Paret
Engaging Precarity: A Seminar with Marcel Paret
Inaugurating Session II of Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz's 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture, labor scholar Marcel Paret of the University of Utah and University of Johannesburg leads a seminar on Guy Standing's concept of the precariat. Professor Standing of the School of Oriental and African […]
PhD+: Meet our Public Fellows
PhD+: Meet our Public Fellows
Please join us for our next PhD+ Workshop on December 2nd where we will hear from our fist cohort of Public Fellows. These fellowships provide the opportunity for Humanities doctoral students to contribute to research, programming, communications and fundraising at non-profit organizations, cultural institutions, or companies and are meant to allow the students to apply […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Nicole Vandermeer
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Nicole Vandermeer
"Writing Hawai'i into the Nation: Narrative Re-mapping in Mark Twain's Letter's s a Colonial Prelude to Annexation" This portion of my dissertation project examines the 1866 letters written by Mark Twain (while dispatched by The Sacramento Union in Hawai'i) as engaged in the colonial process of cartographic incorporation by encouraging American ambitions in, and imaginings […]
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