Events
Literature Department
Christopher Breu: “In Defense of Sex”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesChristopher Breu: "In Defense of Sex" Lecture at 10am Are sex and gender the same thing? Are trans* and intersex the same thing? Do we even need the category of sex anymore? Is it hopelessly retrograde, a category that has run its course and has rightly been replaced by the endlessly more flexible category of […]
Victoria Bañales: “Community College Teaching – A View From Inside”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Literature Department Graduate Program Alumni Speaker Series Presents: "Community College Teaching: A View From Inside" Victoria Bañales Victoria Bañales earned a Ph.D. in Literature with a Parenthetical Notation in Feminist Studies from UCSC. Her work has appeared in the anthologies Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representations and Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of […]
Taking Scholarship Public: White Supremacy, Medieval Studies, and Mass Media
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe “unofficial medievalist to CNN,” David M. Perry is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in CNN.com, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Salon, Chicago Tribune, and many other venues. In addition to commenting on Medieval History in the news, he focuses on issues of history, […]
The Eighteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTHE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM Opening Remarks 9:30 a.m. Deanna Shemek, Chair, Literature Department Panel One: Translating Tradition 9:45 – 10:45 a.m. Moderator: Christopher Chen Victoria Jones: Ion Elli Levin: Baby's First Inferno, or Dante Alighieri and the Nine Circles Jessica Ness Poetic: Language in Translation Alexander Pérez: The Nation in You Panel Two: […]
Earl Jackson: “Critical Conditions: Japanese Film Theory and Practice”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEarl Jackson Jr. is Professor at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan and Co-Director of the Trans-Asian Screen Cultures Institute in South Korea. Co-Sponsored by Cultural Studies, Cowell College, and the Literature Department.
Clive Sinclair: “One City, Seven Shylocks: Venice’s Most Famous Son Comes Home”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent 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 […]
Sixteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis day-long event, including a lunch buffet, will showcase and celebrate undergraduate academic work in the Literature Department. The Undergraduate Colloquium is open to the public; audience members include faculty, students, families and other interested parties. The Literature Department's 2015 Best Undergraduate Essay and Best Senior Essay prizes will be announced during the Opening Remarks […]
Celebrating 50 Years of Literature
Kresge College Room 327In order to celebrate our tradition of working and teaching across national, linguistic, and disciplinary divides, the UCSC Literature Department is pleased host 50 Years of Literature at UCSC, an event commemorating the achievement of Literature alumni and faculty. This special anniversary event will feature discussions with emeritus and current faculty, and UCSC alumni. It […]
Envisioning Central Coast Water in 2030: Ecology, Equity, Ingenuity
Oakes College 231Governor Jerry Brown's recent move to implement mandatory state-wide drought restrictions re-affirms growing uncertainties about California's water future. Images of dwindling rainfall and worsening drought often re-enforce popular perceptions of impending shortages as chiefly physical phenomena, restricting possibilities for robust and innovative responses through the social sphere. In the Central Coast, in particular, seemingly intractable […]
“Polly Want a Caesar? Talking Birds and Prophetic Birds in Early Imperial Rome”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn Republican Rome, birds had served as the messengers of the gods, communicating in ways that only a few religious specialists could fully understand and interpret. At the turn of the first century CE, these same birds began to speak plain Latin, apparently endorsing the new regime of the Caesars in language that anyone could […]