Events
Week of Events
Cristina Lombardi-Diop: “Spotless Italy: Advertising Culture and the Post-racial Imagination”
The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Cristina Lombardi-Diop, Italian Studies, UC Berkeley "Spotless Italy: Advertising Culture and the Post-racial Imagination" Professor Lombardi-Diop has published on gender and Italian colonial literature, African-Italian autobiographies, and the African diaspora in Italy. Her in-progress book is on the memory of Italian colonialism in Italy’s postwar cultural history. […]
Florence Howe
Kresge Writer’s House, Living Writers, & Feminist Studies presents: Florence Howe, founder of The Feminist Press and author of the memoir, A Life in Motion
Gregg Herken: “Was J. Robert Oppenheimer, ‘Father of the Atomic Bomb,’ a Soviet Spy?”
One of the great unresolved controversies of the Cold War is whether American physicist Robert Oppenheimer--the "father of the atomic bomb"--was, in fact, a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union. Recently-declassified documents--from U.S. and former Soviet sources--make it possible to finally answer that question. Gregg Herken (Stevenson College with Honors, History BA with Honors, […]
Karen Sánchez-Eppler: “In the Archives of Childhood”
Karen Sánchez-Eppler is Professor of American Studies and English at Amherst College. She is the author of Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body (California, 1993) and Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (Chicago, 2005), and a founding co-editor of The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. […]
Hans Sluga: “From Normative Theory to Diagnostic Practice”
From the Greeks to the present our moral and political philosophizing has been preoccupied with a search for the timeless and the universal: timeless norms of moral action and universal principles of political life. Where this may once have seemed to be a plausible undertaking, it is not obviously so any longer. A clear understanding […]
Living Writers Series: Andrew Sean Greer
Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage, which The New York Times has called an “inspired, lyrical novel,” and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named a Best Book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. His first novel, The Path of Minor Planets, […]
Rajesh Bhatt: “Locating Agreement in Grammar”
The Linguistics Colloquium Series Presents: Rajesh Bhatt (UMass Amherst) The location of agreement in the grammar has been the topic of considerable recent discussion. Bobaljik 2008 has argued that agreement is a post-syntactic process, other approaches (Boskovic 2009 and Chomsky 1999) locate it entirely within the syntactic system. More recently the data from agreement with […]
Gianfranco Norelli and Surma Kurien: “Pane Amaro”
Italian Studies Program, Language Program, American Studies Program and History Department Present a screening of the 2009 documentary film, Pane Amaro (Bitter Bread) dir. Gianfranco Norelli Followed by a conversation with the director and co‐producer Suma Kurien “The story of migration to the U.S. is a very complex one. "Feel good" narratives about immigrants catapulting from […]