Events

The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Megan Moodie Megan Moodie Assistant Professor, Anthropology, UCSC "We Were Adivasis: Collective Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe" Professor Moodie studies the sociality engendered by legal and economic projects for uplift and empowerment, including affirmative action, microfinance, and gender-based rights assertions. Her in-progress book, based on ethnographic work with […]

The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Early Modern Comparative Studies/Shakespeare: Sean Keilen, College of William and Mary "From Latin Rhetoric to English Poetry: Shakespeare’s Antic Dispositions" The talk Shakespeare's efforts to distinguish the poems and plays he was writing from the arguments […]

Professor Jean Franco was the first Professor of Latin American Literature in England. She was appointed Professor by the University of Essex in 1968 having previously taught at Queen Mary College and Kings College, London University. In 1972 she took up a position at Stanford University where she was later appointed to the Olive H. […]

To obtain a copy of the paper that will be discussed at the seminar, please contact Courtney Mahaney (cmahaney@ucsc.edu). Professor Jean Franco was the first Professor of Latin American Literature in England. She was appointed Professor by the University of Essex in 1968 having previously taught at Queen Mary College and Kings College, London University. […]

Ory Amitay is Professor of History at the University of Haifa. This event is made possible from generous contributions from the Classical Studies Program, the Center for Jewish Studies, the departments of Literature and History, and the David B. Gold Foundation.

Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series, 2011-2012 Andre Lepecki, Performance Studies, New York University Not as Before, but Again: Reenactments and "Transcreation" The recent retrospective of the work of Marina Abramovic at MOMA in New York brought to wide public attention the phenomenon of what she called the "reperformance" of her earlier work, which had […]

Garrett Hongo Creative Writing and Literature present: UCSC Winter Living Writers Series Garrett Hongo Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives Ronaldo V. Wilson, Visiting Assistant Professor Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities.  Whether as editors, publishers, activists, teachers, multi-media artists, and/or co-collaborators, the featured […]

Mary Paster (PhD UC Berkeley, 2006) is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College in Claremont, California. Her research focuses on phonology and morphology, and their interface. She specializes in the study of African languages, particularly their tone systems. She has published in such journals as Phonology, […]

Mary Paster (PhD UC Berkeley, 2006) is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College in Claremont, California. Her research focuses on phonology and morphology, and their interface. She specializes in the study of African languages, particularly their tone systems. She has published in such journals as Phonology, […]