Events
Week of Events
Mohammed Bamyeh: “Revolutionary Ethics and the Making of the Arab Spring”
The Sociology Colloquium Series presents: Mohammed Bamyeh Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh "Revolutionary Ethics and the Making of the Arab Spring" Mohammed Bamyeh Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness, Politics, and Colleges 9 & 10 For more information: http://socyeventsucsc.wordpress.com and http://urban.ihr.ucsc.edu For accessibility, contact: Barbara Laurence, balauren@ucsc.edu Event Contact: Deborah Gould, dbgould@ucsc.edu
POSTPONED: The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: Nathaniel Deutsch
LECTURE POSTPONED: The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium prevention of Nathaniel Deutsch,“The Jewish Dark Continent: Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement” / has ben postponed from This Monday, January 23rd to Monday, March 12 / 3:30 pm, 261 Social Science 1 The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of History, UCSC "The Jewish […]
Neville Hoad: “Colonial Erotopolitics: Customary Law and Migrant Labor Sexuality”
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Neville Hoad Associate Professor, English and Women's and Gender Studies, UT Austin "Colonial Erotopolitics: Customary Law and Migrant Labor Sexuality" Author of African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality and Globalization (Minnesota 2007), Professor Hoad is working on a book about representations of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. He focuses on […]
Gerard Passannante: “Little Big World: Disaster and the Materialist Imagination”
The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Early Modern Comparative Studies/Shakespeare. Professor Passannante looks at the habit of making much of little--shifting between small things (details, fossilized seashells, words) and big ideas. Tracing this disaster-courting habit of mind from the writings of Montaigne […]
“What is a Reader?” Day of Events
The Teagle Fund Working Group, "What is a Reader?" invites you to attend a day of events to be hosted at the University of California, Santa Cruz on January 26th, 2012. What is a Reader? is a multi-campus project supported by the Teagle Foundation's Big Questions in the Disciplines initiative. Established in 2009 by faculty […]
Erica Edwards: “You’ve become so…American: The Post-9/11 Turn in African American Literature”
The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary) Erica R. Edwards is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside and the author of Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership (University of Minnesota Press, 2011). Her […]