Events
Week of Events
Julie Sze: “Situating Sustainability Discourse in Shanghai: Global Flows and Urban Transformations in a Warming World”
This talk is drawn from Sze's current book project which examines flows, fears and fantasies in contemporary urban and global environmental culture, with a sustained look at Shanghai in China. She focuses here on Dongtan, a failed eco-city proposal, framing it within multiple ideological and spatial contexts. Julie Sze is an Associate Professor of American […]
Kathy Lou Shultz: “Diasporic Modernism at Mid-Century: Melvin B. Tolson and Langston Hughes in/and the 1950s.”
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). Kathy Lou Schultz is the author of the forthcoming monograph The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History: Tolson, Hughes, Baraka. Schultz's most recent journal articles are "To Save and Destroy: Melvin B. […]
Vanita Seth: “Faces of the Self”
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Vanita Seth Vanita Seth Associate Professor, Politics, UCSC "Faces of the Self" The French ban on the burqa and niqab is only one example of the primacy accorded the face in modern western societies. Professor Seth here argues that the fortunes of the face are tied to the birth […]
Heather James: “Bison Hamlet”
The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Early Modern Comparative Studies/Shakespeare: “Bison Hamlet” considers the idea of species extinction in myths of the westward transmission of culture in early modern England (translation of empire) and nineteenth-century America (Manifest Destiny). The chief exhibits are […]
Maaike Bleeker: “(Un)Covering artistic thought unfolding”
Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series, 2011-2012 Maaike Bleeker Theatre Studies, Utrecht University (Un)Covering Artistic Thought Unfolding Following a suggestion by a Dutch dance initiative named Cover, this talk proposes the idea of ‘covering’ as practiced in the context of music as perspective on artistic practices of reenactment. The term ´cover´ points to what is […]
UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: Dawn Lundy Martin, Duriel E. Harris, Ronaldo V. Wilson (Black Took Collective)
Creative Writing and Literature present: UCSC Winter Living Writers Series Dawn Lundy Martin, Duriel E. Harris, Ronaldo V. Wilson (Black Took Collective) Dawn Lundy Martin, Duriel E. Harris, Ronaldo V. Wilson Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives Ronaldo V. Wilson, Visiting Assistant Professor Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry […]
“What Latinos Are Reading”
The Latino Literary Cultures Project / Proyecto Culturas Literarias Latinas presents: What Latinos Are Reading Bringing together writers and editors, this symposium explores the conditions of possibility for Latino literature today, focusing on its less-explored popular edges. Panelists will explore the conditions of possibility for a US Latino literature--its varied audiences, the kinds of literacy […]