Events

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]