Events
Week of Events
Pasolini’s Body: New Directions in Pasolini Scholarship
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) — poet, film director, screenwriter and theatre critic, playwright, essayist, journalist, graphic artist, and novelist — was one of the great Italian artistic and intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Since his mysterious murder in 1975, Pasolini has been reviled; then sanctified. Our goal is to historicize Pasolini. This conference focuses […]
Day by the Bay
An exciting array of events and activities are planned on campus during UCSC's upcoming "Day By The Bay" event. The campus's annual reunion weekend will take place this year from Friday, April 29, through Sunday, May 1. A complete schedule of events — and all related details — can be found at: http://events.ucsc.edu/daybythebay/ We hope […]
Sunday, April 24, 2011
No events on this day.
Monday, April 25, 2011
- April 25, 2011 -Bettina Aptheker: “The Passion and Pageantry of Shirley Graham {Du Bois}: Composer & Playwright, 1920s-1930s”
- April 25, 2011 -The Writing Program’s Reading Series
Bettina Aptheker: “The Passion and Pageantry of Shirley Graham {Du Bois}: Composer & Playwright, 1920s-1930s”
Shirley Graham {Du Bois} (1896-1977) had a successful early career as composer, performer and playwright that included her formal studies at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Yale University, and the near completion of a Ph D at NYU. In 1932 her opera, "Tom-Tom" for which she wrote the libretto and composed the music, was performed […]
The Writing Program’s Reading Series
Please join us for an evening of poetry and prose with past and present Writing Program faculty: Chuck Atkinson, Jeff Arnett, Roxi Power Hamilton, Ingrid Moody, Robin Sommers, and Stephen Sweat
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
- April 26, 2011 -Paul Horwich: “Wittgenstein’s Meta-Philosophy”
Paul Horwich: “Wittgenstein’s Meta-Philosophy”
My aim will be to describe and assess Wittgenstein's anti-theoretical view of why philosophy ought not to be in conducted in the traditional way, how it should instead be done, and what can be accomplished by pursuing it properly. I will be especially concerned with the questions: (1) of how this view is related to […]
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
- April 27, 2011 -Afro-Latinos in the Américas
- April 27, 2011 -Matt O’Hara: “The History of the Future in Mexico”
- April 27, 2011 -Jennifer L. Morgan: “Quotidian Erasures: Gender and the Records of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade”
Afro-Latinos in the Américas
A panel with Juan Flores (NYU), Miriam Jiménez Román (The Schomburg Center), Nancy Raquel Mirabal (SFSU), and Mark Anderson (UCSC). Lourdes Martínez Echazábal (Literature) will be respondent. Juan Poblete (Literature) will moderate In celebration of the recent publication of Juan Flores and Miriam Jimenez Roman's "Afro-Latin@ Reader" (Duke, 2011) The Afro-Latin@ Reader focuses attention on a […]
Matt O’Hara: “The History of the Future in Mexico”
The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Matt O'Hara, History, UCSC “The History of the Future in Mexico” Historians of Latin America have spent much energy studying historical legacies. The notion that “the past weighs heavily on the present” is a standard frame for historical analysis. Stepping outside this paradigm, Professor O’Hara’s book project […]
Jennifer L. Morgan: “Quotidian Erasures: Gender and the Records of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade”
“Quotidian Erasures: Gender and the Records of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade” will argue that the emergence of what early modern political theorists described as “political arithmetic”—and what we term demography—is a product of the trade in slaves that bolstered the colonial economies they were at pains to describe. Numeracy, political arithmetic, and the science of […]
Thursday, April 28, 2011
- April 28, 2011 -Clive Sinclair: “The Belmont Quota”
- April 28, 2011 -Alicia Schmidt Camacho: “When Human Beings Become Illegal”
- April 28, 2011 -Living Writers Series: Claudia Rankine
Clive Sinclair: “The Belmont Quota”
Clive Sinclair has published 14 books of fiction - The Lady and the Laptop received major critical acclaim in England and he is noted for his criticism, including a study of Isaac Bashevis and Isaac Joshua Singer, - a collection of his stories, Bedbugs, was published last year by Syracuse University Press. Clive Sinclair will […]
Alicia Schmidt Camacho: “When Human Beings Become Illegal”
Drawing on migrant testimony, this talk will discuss the implications of government refusals to recognize and protect the mobility of poor people in their pursuit of economic survival. Migrants routinely experience grave abuses and assault in the course of their travels through the North American migratory circuit at the hands of both state and criminal […]
Living Writers Series: Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine was born in Jamaica in 1963. She is the author of four collections of poetry, including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely, The End of the Alphabet, and Nothing in Nature is Private (1995), which received the Cleveland State Poetry Prize. Rankine is co-editor of American Women Poets in the Twenty-First Century (Wesleyan University […]
Friday, April 29, 2011
- April 29, 2011 -Bhanu Kapil: “Performance and Narrative: Writing (not writing) a tragic scene: NOTES: towards the Southall Race Riot of 1979”
- April 29, 2011 -Poetry Reading: Bhanu Kapil and Sesshu Foster
Bhanu Kapil: “Performance and Narrative: Writing (not writing) a tragic scene: NOTES: towards the Southall Race Riot of 1979”
Bhanu Kapil has written four full-length cross-genre works: The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works, 2006), humanimal (Kelsey Street Press, 2009), and Schizophrene (forthcoming, Nightboat Books). Recent classes at Naropa have engaged architecture, somatics, biology and memory as ways to approach or navigate contemporary narrative and […]
Poetry Reading: Bhanu Kapil and Sesshu Foster
Bhanu Kapil has written four full-length cross-genre works: The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works, 2006), humanimal (Kelsey Street Press, 2009), and Schizophrene (forthcoming, Nightboat Books). Recent classes at Naropa have engaged architecture, somatics, biology and memory as ways to approach or navigate contemporary narrative and […]
Saturday, April 30, 2011
No events on this day.