Events
Week of Events
Angela Elsey, “Life in Senegal / La Vie senegalaise”
LANGUAGE PROGRAM COLLOQUIUM SERIES Life in Senegal / La Vie sénégalaise Angela Elsey Angela Elsey Lecturer in French Please join Lecturer in French Angela Elsey for an introduction to daily life in Senegal through photos and short video clips depicting work, school, play, home life, language use, creative activities, and religious practices. Lecturer Elsey has […]
J. Cameron Monroe: “Elephants for Want of Towns? New Light on Old Cities in West Africa’s Atlantic Age”
Western conceptions of the city have a long and storied history, one that until recently largely dismissed pre-colonial African urbanisms as no more than a passive response to cultural stimulus from outside the continent. This has been particularly true for West African cities that emerged in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. However, landscape […]
Melissa L. Caldwell: “Sowing the Seeds of Civil Society: Russia’s Garden Democracy”
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Melissa L. Caldwell Professor, Anthropology, UCSC Co-Director, UCMRP on Studies of Food and the Body "Sowing the Seeds of Civil Society: Russia's Garden Democracy" Professor Caldwell examines the politics of poverty, social welfare, care and intimacy in Russia through ethnographic research in Dacha Idylls: Living Organically in Russia's Countryside […]
Craig Dworkin: “The Politics of the Work”
In Partnership with Poetry and Politics Research Cluster and the Literature Department presents: Craig Dworkin for a Lecture on Poetics. Craig Dworkin is the author of Reading the Illegible (Northwestern UP), Signature-Effects (Ghos-Ti), Dure (Cuneiform), Strand (Roof), and Parse (Atelos), and the editor of Architectures of Poetry (Rodopi), Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern UP), The Sound of Poetry (Chicago UP), and Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writing of Vito […]
Poetry and Politics: Professor Craig Dworkin Poetry Reading
Craig Dworkin is the author of Reading the Illegible (Northwestern UP), Signature-Effects (Ghos-Ti), Dure (Cuneiform), Strand (Roof), and Parse (Atelos), and the editor of Architectures of Poetry (Rodopi), Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern UP), The Sound of Poetry (Chicago UP), and Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writing of Vito Acconci (MIT). He teaches at the University of Utah and curates two on-line archives: Eclipse and The UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing. […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Matthew Gordon
Matthew Gordon Matthew Gordon is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include phonetics, phonology, and typology. This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.