Events
Week of Events
Sunday, October 7, 2012
No events on this day.
Monday, October 8, 2012
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
- October 10, 2012 -Carla Freccero: “Wolf, or Homo homini lupus”
- October 10, 2012 -World Melodrama Film Series – Opfergang
Carla Freccero: “Wolf, or Homo homini lupus”
Carla Freccero has taught at UCSC since 1991. This paper, a chapter of the in-progress Animate Figures, explores the long genealogy of human wolf eradication and figuration in the west, from economic competitor in Plautus's "homo hominy lupus" to sovereign double in Derrida's The Beast and the Sovereign. Carla Freccero is Professor and Chair of […]
World Melodrama Film Series – Opfergang
Opfergang (1944; dir. Veit Harlan) Germany Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu
Thursday, October 11, 2012
- October 11, 2012 -The Living Writers Reading Series: Tisa Bryant
The Living Writers Reading Series: Tisa Bryant
Into Archives—Across Genres is a reading/performance series featuring poets, critics, memoirists, activists, visual artists, essayists, short story writers, and novelists who mine various archives to investigate race, gender, sexuality, and class. Writing across multiple disciplines – whether via the epistle, film & photo essay, poem, story, collage or hybrid text – these authors mine history […]
Friday, October 12, 2012
- October 12, 2012 -Founder’s Day Faculty Research Lecturer: Gail Hershatter
Founder’s Day Faculty Research Lecturer: Gail Hershatter
Faculty Research Lecturer: For pioneering field research and oral history among Chinese women, and her major contributions to the history of women, labor, and sexuality. Gail Hershatter is a specialist in Modern Chinese social and cultural history who has pioneered field research and oral history among Chinese women. Her books have covered topics including the […]
Saturday, October 13, 2012
No events on this day.