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Pacific Study Group of the North American Kant Society 2011 Meeting
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Pacific Study Group of the North American Kant Society 2011 Meeting
Kant The Philosophy Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz is proud to host the 2011 Meeting of the Pacific Study Group of the North American Kant Society November 12-13, 2011. Speaking events are open to the public and will be held in the Cowell College Conference Room. For more information or to register […]
Long Bui, “Ms. Little Saigon: Through the Looking Glass of Art, Politics and Community”
Feminist Studies presents Long Bui, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow Ms. Little Saigon: Through the Looking Glass of Art, Politics and Community This presentation examines the historical legacy of the Vietnam War as it continues to shape political conflicts and ideological differences within the Vietnamese diasporic community. Recognizing the power of cultural media and production to […]
Scott Saul, “What You See Is What You Get”?: Wattstax, Richard Pryor, and the Secret History of the Black Aesthetic in 1970s LA”
The Urban Studies Research Cluster presents Scott Saul, ""What You See Is What You Get"?: Wattstax, Richard Pryor, and the Secret History of the Black Aesthetic in 1970s LA". This talk revolves around Pryor’s role as narrator of and interviewee in the 1973 documentary film Wattstax (about the 1972 concert held at the LA Coliseum), examines […]
Caren Kaplan, “The Visual Culture of Stealth: Interpretation & Deception in Militarized Aeromobility
Caren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis and is Affiliated Faculty in Film Studies, Cultural Studies, and Science & Technology Studies. Professor Kaplan authored Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (Duke, 1996) and co-authored and co-edited Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World (McGraw-Hill, 2001/2005); Between […]
Gershom Gorenberg: Distinguished Alumni Lecture
Gershom Gorenberg UCSC alumnus Gershom Gorenberg is the author of the forthcoming book, The Unmaking of Israel, on the crisis of Israeli democracy and how to solve it. The book will be published in November by HarperCollins and is now available for pre-order at all the usual places. Gershom’s previous book is The Accidental Empire: […]
Deanna Shemek, “Digital Princess: Toward an Open-Access Online Archive of Renaissance Correspondence”
Deanna Shemek Professor Shemek studies intersections of elite and popular culture in early modern Italy, especially among women. Her current research focuses on early modern letter writing. She is completing an edition of Isabella d’Este’s letters and a book on the broader significance of early modern women's letters. The talk addresses plans to digitize the […]
A Public Dialogue with Jean Baumgarten and Nathaniel Deutsch
One of the most important—and least appreciated—categories that Jews have employed to experience the world Jewishly is minhag, a Hebrew word typically translated into English as "custom." Historically, minhag enabled Jews to transform practically every event and action into something with Jewish meaning; it also enabled Jews to differentiate themselves from non-Jews, as well as […]
Giancarlo Casale, “What did it mean to be European in the Sixteenth Century? A View from the Ottoman Empire”
The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk. Giancarlo Casale is a specialist in the history of the early modern Ottoman empire, although he also has interests in the history of geography and cartography, global exploration, and comparative empires. He has just completed my first book, "The Ottoman Age of Exploration," about […]
Living Writers Reading Series: David Vann
The Living Writers Reading Series presents David Vann. David Vann writes both fiction and non-fiction and has won several awards, including the Grace Paley Prize 2007, California Book Award 2008, the Prix Medicis 2010, and the Premi Libreter 2011. David Vann's work has been published by 22 different publishers in 16 different languages. His books […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Laurence R. Horn,”On the Contrary: Pragmatic Strengthening and Disjunctive Syllogism”
Laurence R. Horn On the Contrary: Pragmatic Strengthening and Disjunctive Syllogism The dictum that “The essence of formal negation is to invest the contrary with the character of the contradictory” (Bosanquet 1888) describes the tendency for contradictory (apparent wide-scope) negation to be semantically or pragmatically strengthened to contrary readings whenever possible. This tendency is […]