Events
Week of Events
West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
The 30th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, hosted by the Department of Linguistics and the Linguistics Research Center, will take place on Friday, April 13 to Sunday, April 15, 2012 at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Conference Program (PDF) For more information and registration, please visit the conference website. This event is sponsored […]
Ondrej Skovajsa: “Written Voice: Walt Whitman’s first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855) and Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer (1934)”
The Literature Department invites you to a talk by: Ondrej Skovajsa, Visiting Fulbright Scholar "Written Voice: Walt Whitman’s first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855) and Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer (1934)" Discussing first the relevance of oral theory when dealing with texts, the paper deals with the strategies Whitman and Miller share to get […]
Jonathan Boyarin: “Trickster’s Children: Jewishness and the Generations of Anthropology”
Jonathan Boyarin is the Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has also taught at Wesleyan University, Dartmouth College, the New School for Social Research and the University of Kansas. Boyarin received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1998, after receiving his […]
Eva Vibeke Kofoed Pihl: “Pig Patients and their Personalities”
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Eva Vibeke Kofoed Pihl Ph.D Fellow, Center for Medical Science and Technology Studies, University of Copenhagen; Visiting Fellow, and The Science and Justice Working Group, UCSC What makes animal technicians describe a pig as "depressed," "a rebel" or "girly"? How do scientists get pigs to mimic human patients biologically […]
Sara M. Benson: “Locating Leavenworth: Prisons and Political Geography”
This talk historicizes the placement of Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary (the U.S. nation’s oldest and largest federal prison designed as a replica of the U.S. capitol building) at the center of the nation in the post-Reconstruction 1890s. Drawing on understandings of political geography from feminist and critical race studies, the talk traces the geography of prisons […]
Jonathan Kahana and Irene Lusztig: Documentary Reenactment
Filmed reenactment has a long, inglorious history: for decades from the origins of cinema, it was a central aesthetic and conceptual method for both fiction and nonfiction filmmakers working with unrecorded pasts. With the invention of cinéma vérité, an ethos which virtually banished reenactment overnight from the toolkit of “serious” historical documentary, reenactment fell from […]
Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Laleh Khadivi
The Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Fund, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Literature Department/Creative Writing Program, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, East Asian Studies Program, Bay Tree Bookstore, Latino and Latin American Studies Center, Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, […]
WHAT ARE WE DOING WHEN WE DO THE HUMANITIES?
Saturday, April 21 @ 1 pm // Museum of Art & History Free and Open to the Public (includes free museum access) Join us for an exploration and celebration of the Humanities at the University of California. Hear leading scholars discuss their work and examine the following questions. What does it mean to do the […]