Events
Week of Events
Michael Thaler: “Role of Bio-Science and Medicine in Nazi Radical Policies and the Holocaust”
Reception to follow lecture. Michael Thaler is a Professor Emeritus of Pediatric Medicine, UC San Francisco, and a Lecturer in History, UC Santa Cruz.
Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable XV
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SANTA CRUZ: MARCH 22-24, 2013 Session V (9 a.m.-Noon) Chair: Paul Roth, UCSC Analytical sociology and rhetoric: Large scale social phenomena arguably triggered by innocuous rhetorical devices Alban Bouvier, Jean Nicod Institute, Paris The Idea of Philosophy and its Relation to Social Science Mark Theunissen, The New School The Concept of a ‘Process’ […]
Gail Hershatter: "Rural Women, Memory, and China’s Collective Past"
The 47th Annual Faculty Research Lecture will be given by Distinguished Professor of History, Gail Hershatter, on Tuesday February 12th, 2013 at 7pm at the Music Recital hall in the Performing Arts Complex. A reception in the lobby will immediately follow the lecture. Doors open at 6:30pm. This event is free and open to the […]
Dora Sorell: “Tell the Children”
Reception following lecture. Dora Sorell grew up in the small town of Sighet in Northern Romania between the two World Wars. In May 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz along with most of the town's 10,000 Jewish inhabitants. She survived the ordeal, but her parents, two of her brothers, and some 40 members of her […]
Sharon Kinoshita: “Re-Orientations: The Worlding of Marco Polo”
In her new translation of Marco Polo’s Travels, Sharon Kinoshita reorients a text typically read as a western narrative of first contact, by returning it to its original context, the midpoint of the century chronicled in Abu-Lughod’s Before European Hegemony, and to its original title, The Description of the World. Sharon Kinoshita is Professor of […]
Creative Writing Reading by Ronaldo Wilson
Ronaldo V. Wilson is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh, 2008), winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books, 2009), winner of the Thom Gunn Award and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry in […]
David Blank: “Volumina Herculanensia: the Library of the Villa of the Papyri and its books”
Between 1752 and 1754 the only library to survive from the Roman world complete with its books was discovered in a grand villa in the seaside town of Herculaneum. The talk will serve as an introduction to this remarkable discovery and the treatment of its books, from the 18th to the 20th centuries. David Blank […]
Living Writers Reading by Ronaldo Wilson
Ronaldo V. Wilson is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh, 2008), winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books, 2009), winner of the Thom Gunn Award and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry in […]