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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]