Events
Week of Events
Sunday, January 20, 2013
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Monday, January 21, 2013
No events on this day.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
- January 22, 2013 -American Indian Writers Reading Series: Deborah Miranda
American Indian Writers Reading Series: Deborah Miranda
Deborah Miranda (Esselen/ Chumash) is the author of the poetry volumes The Zen of La Llorona (2005), Deer (2001) and Indian Cartography (1999). She will be reading and signing her new book, Bad Indians: A Memoir. This project is co-sponsored by the American Indian Resource Center, Care Council, The Departments of American Studies, Literature, and […]
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
- January 23, 2013 -Donna Haraway: “Playing String Figures with Companion Species: Staying with the Trouble”
- January 23, 2013 -Creative Writing Reading by Javier O. Huerta
- January 23, 2013 -Documentary Film Screening and Discussion with Professor Gilbert Gonzalez
Donna Haraway: “Playing String Figures with Companion Species: Staying with the Trouble”
This paper insists on working, playing, and thinking in multispecies cosmo- politics in the face of the killing of entire ways of being on earth that characterize the age cunningly called “now” and the place called “here.” Thinking with work- ing homing pigeons leads us into needed knots of SF – string figures, science fic- […]
Creative Writing Reading by Javier O. Huerta
Javier O. Huerta is the author of American Copia: An Immigrant Epic (Arte Publico 2012) and Some Clarifications y otros poemas (Arte Publico 2007), which received the 31st Chicano/Latino Literary Prize from UC Irvine. His poems have recently been anthologized in Art and Artists: Poems, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011, and American Tensions: Literature of […]
Documentary Film Screening and Discussion with Professor Gilbert Gonzalez
Laborers in the Bracero Program The UC Humanities Working Group on Immigrant Labor and Changing Conceptions of Work is pleased to announce that Gilbert Gonzalez, Professor Emeritus of Chicano/Latino Studies at UC Irvine, will return to UC Santa Cruz on January 23, 2013, to present his award-winning documentary Harvest of Loneliness: The Bracero Program. Dr. Gonzalez was […]
Thursday, January 24, 2013
- January 24, 2013 -Living Writers Reading by Javier O. Huerta
Living Writers Reading by Javier O. Huerta
Javier O. Huerta is the author of American Copia: An Immigrant Epic (Arte Publico 2012) and Some Clarifications y otros poemas (Arte Publico 2007), which received the 31st Chicano/Latino Literary Prize from UC Irvine. His poems have recently been anthologized in Art and Artists: Poems, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011, and American Tensions: Literature of […]
Friday, January 25, 2013
No events on this day.
Saturday, January 26, 2013
- January 26, 2013 -The Sikh: The Feminine, The Activist
The Sikh: The Feminine, The Activist
Sikhi is like an ocean, boundless and all encompassing, composed of many shades and hues. During this conference, we will explore two of these colors. First, we will delve into the feminine aspect of spirituality and how it is characterized by the words of the Sikh Gurus, and the importance of women in Sikh tradition. […]