Events

Historians often narrate to periodize, which is an effort, Frederic Jameson writes, to ascertain "the sharing of a common objective situation." Yet what can the compulsion to periodize into "civilisational ages" tell us about how history becomes a narrative object, as Kathleen Davis and Daud Ali, have asked? What does the encounter with the impossibility […]

JOIN US as we celebrate two distinguished members of our UCSC community and their new books. We'll be discussing Danilyn Rutherford’s Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World (Duke University Press) and Noah Wardrip-Fruin’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Can a game take care of us? (University of Chicago Press). Joined by Donna Haraway and Megan […]

The Center for Jewish Studies presents, The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies. Until the middle of the twentieth century, Algeria hosted an array of Jewish communities—some deeply-rooted, others more recently settled—that played important roles in North African society. French colonial rule, however, brought changes that profoundly reshaped Jews’ relationship to their Muslim neighbors. […]