Events
Week of Events
Sunday, November 11, 2012
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Monday, November 12, 2012
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
- November 13, 2012 -Sunaina Maira: “More Delicate Than a Flower, Yet Harder Than a Rock: Human Rights in the Shadow of an Empire”
Sunaina Maira: “More Delicate Than a Flower, Yet Harder Than a Rock: Human Rights in the Shadow of an Empire”
This talk focuses on the political mobilization of young people targeted by the War on Terror, exploring what it means to challenge the U.S. imperial state from within and to engage in solidarity with those beyond its borders who are targets of imperial violence. It draws on an ethnographic study of South Asian, Arab, and […]
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
- November 14, 2012 -Katherine Dunbabin: “The Romans at Dinner: A View from Archaeology and Art”
- November 14, 2012 -Greg O’Malley: “To El Dorado via Slave Trade: British Commercial Imperialism in Spanish America & the Logic of Human Commodification, 1660-1713
- November 14, 2012 -World Melodrama Film Series – Tokyo Twilight
Katherine Dunbabin: “The Romans at Dinner: A View from Archaeology and Art”
Katherine Dunbabin is Emerita with the Department of Classics, McMaster University, and holds her degrees from Oxford University. Her areas of specialization are Roman art and mosaics, Roman dining customs, and theater and spectacle in the Roman Empire, and she has published widely on these topics. She served as the specialist on the Roman mosaics […]
Greg O’Malley: “To El Dorado via Slave Trade: British Commercial Imperialism in Spanish America & the Logic of Human Commodification, 1660-1713
Gregory E. O'Malley is currently finishing his first book, Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807. It examines a complex network for distributing enslaved Africans throughout North America and the Caribbean after their survival of the infamous (and much more thoroughly studied) Middle Passage across the Atlantic. Gregory E. O'Malley is Assistant […]
World Melodrama Film Series – Tokyo Twilight
Tokyo Twilight (1957; dir. Yasujirô Ozu) Japan 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, November 15, 2012
- November 15, 2012 -William Wells: “Keeping Faith in Word and Spirit: Translating the Work of Two Jewish/Italian Poets”
- November 15, 2012 -Philosophy Colloquium ~ Scott Gilbert: “We are all lichens: How symbiosis research has reconstituted a new realm of individuality”
- November 15, 2012 -Learning from the Oak Creek Wisconsin Tragedy: Sikhs and Pluralism in America
- November 15, 2012 -Satyajit Ray Film Series: Agantuk (“The Arriver”)
William Wells: “Keeping Faith in Word and Spirit: Translating the Work of Two Jewish/Italian Poets”
Will’s most recent book of poems, Unsettled Accounts, won the 2009 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and was published in February of 2010 by Ohio University/Swallow Press. On its basis, he was chosen as a Walter E. Dakin Fellow in Poetry for the 2010 Sewanee Writers’ Conference and as 2010 Ohio Poet of the Year (selected […]
Philosophy Colloquium ~ Scott Gilbert: “We are all lichens: How symbiosis research has reconstituted a new realm of individuality”
4:00pm, Humanities 1, Room 210 Co-Sponsored by UCSC Philosophy, History of Consciousness, Cultural Studies, and Science and Justice Working Group ABSTRACT: The notion of the “biological individual” is crucial to studies of genetics, immunology, evolution, development, anatomy, and physiology. Each of these biological sub-disciplines has a specific conception of individuality, which has historically provided conceptual contexts for […]
Learning from the Oak Creek Wisconsin Tragedy: Sikhs and Pluralism in America
The fatal shooting at a Sikh gurdwara (temple) in Wisconsin last August, and the possible motivation of the shooter, require reflection on religious and social tolerance and the idea/ideal of America as a pluralistic society in the 21st century. This event seeks to further our understanding of these issues. 5:30-6:30 pm – Program and Speakers […]
Satyajit Ray Film Series: Agantuk (“The Arriver”)
Satyajit Ray is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. The Ray Film and Study Center (RayFASC) is newly located at Crown College and holds the largest collections of Ray's films outside of India. Please join us for a showing of Agantuk ("The Arriver"), with an introduction by Dr. Daniel Seldon, […]
Friday, November 16, 2012
- November 16, 2012 -Andries W. Coetzee: “A lexical route to voicing co-occurrence restrictions: the case of Afrikaans”
Andries W. Coetzee: “A lexical route to voicing co-occurrence restrictions: the case of Afrikaans”
Many languages have restrictions on the co-occurrence of laryngeally marked segments (such as voiced obstruents, aspirates, glottalized consonants, etc.). Current theories of sound change ascribe the origin of these restrictions either to speaker-oriented articulatory forces (grammaticalization of articulatory simplification) or to listener-oriented perceptual forces (grammaticalization of misperception). In this presentation, I will argue for a […]
Saturday, November 17, 2012
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