Events

Elsa Davidson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Montclair State University in New Jersey. Her research focuses on processes of aspiration formation and social reproduction among youth from diverse class, racial, and ethnic backgrounds. In particular, Dr. Davidson is interested in how young people forge aspirations in relation to experiences of schooling, rapid social and […]

The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Kate Brown History Associate Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore Modern utopias and nuclear wastelands come together in Professor Brown's "Plutopia" about the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium--Richland, Washington and Ozersk, Russia. New postwar communities of high-risk affluence alongside plutonium disasters and public health catastrophes were […]

The Department of Anthropology’s Emerging Worlds Lecture Series Professor Immanuel Wallerstein Yale University“World-Systems Analysis and the Disciplines: The Past, the Present, and Hopefully the Future” Professor David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University, Discussant Tuesday, May 15, 2012 7:00pm-9:00pm Kresge Town Hall Graduate Student Workshop Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:00am – 12:00 noon Social Sciences 1, Room 261Graduate […]

Dr. Tarlochan Singh Nahal will speak about his new book, Religion and Politics in Sikhism, in conversation with Professor Nirvikar Singh. Dr. Nahal received his PhD in Political Science from Senior University International, under the supervision of Dr. Noel Q. King, then Professor Emeritus at UCSC. Dr. Nahal has organized several international conferences on Sikhism, […]

Having survived residence in 4 states and 1 province, 20 towns & cities, 23 jobs, 3 families, and 15 schools, Marshall has slipped the noose of his handful of chapbooks and for now settled into a fresh way of making his poetry: free and green in blogbooks online. Impressed by the productive tensions between vocabularies […]

Lisa Davidson Lisa Davidson is Associate Professor of Linguistics, Director of the Phonetics & Experimental Phonology Lab and Affiliate Faculty in Psychology at New York University. Her research focuses on laboratory phonology, speech production and perception, and language acquisition. This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett, […]

COWELL COLLEGE, STEVENSON COLLEGE, & THE LANGUAGE PROGRAM present International Playhouse XII THEATER PIECES in EIGHT languages with ENGLISH SUPERTITLES THURSDAY & SATURDAY, May 17 &19, 2012, at 8 PM (Chinese Italian Russian French) 神來之筆 (The Magic Brush) by A. Stang, directed by Ting-Ting Wu and Anna Stang LA RAGAZZA MELA (The Apple Girl) by I. Calvino, […]