Events
Week of Events
Sunday, February 24, 2013
No events on this day.
Monday, February 25, 2013
- February 25, 2013 -Tanya Maria Golash-Boza: "Mass Deportation and the Neoliberal Cycle"
- February 25, 2013 -David Myers: "A Hasidic Town in New York? As American as Apple Pie?"
- February 25, 2013 -“Mendelsohn’s Incessant Visions” Screening and Q&A with Director Duki Dror
Tanya Maria Golash-Boza: "Mass Deportation and the Neoliberal Cycle"
The United States is deporting more people than ever before – nearly 400,000 each year since 2006. Many deportees have close ties to the United States: in 2011, 100,000 deportees had U.S. citizen children. The vast majority of deportees are men of color. How do we explain this devastating policy shift? I argue that neoliberalism […]
David Myers: "A Hasidic Town in New York? As American as Apple Pie?"
David Myers is professor of Jewish history and chair of the UCLA History Department. He is currently at work with Nomi Stolzenberg (USC) on a book on the Satmar Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel, New York. This project represents a significant departure from his work in the fields of German-Jewish intellectual history, the history of […]
“Mendelsohn’s Incessant Visions” Screening and Q&A with Director Duki Dror
Free and Open to the Public General Admission Seating, first come, first served Parking available in Performing Arts Lot ($4) Synopsis: This film is a cinematic mediation about the untold story of Erich Mendelsohn, whose life and career were as enigmatic and tragic as the path of the century. He drew sketches on tiny pieces […]
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
- February 26, 2013 -Claire Farago: "Seeing the Unmodern in the Modern: Leonardo and the Legibility of Religion"
Claire Farago: "Seeing the Unmodern in the Modern: Leonardo and the Legibility of Religion"
Written in an era before modern distinctions among art, science, and religion existed, Leonardo da Vinci’s treatise on painting is regarded today as a canonical text in the history of western art for its scientific approach to problems of representation. New evidence suggests that prior to publication this text was appropriated in a Catholic Reformation […]
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
- February 27, 2013 -Marc Matera: “Modernism in the Art & Criticism on Ronald Moody”
- February 27, 2013 -Film Screening: Dante's Inferno directed by Sandow Birk
Marc Matera: “Modernism in the Art & Criticism on Ronald Moody”
Marc Matera is finishing a book, London and the Black International, on the wider Atlantic and imperial horizons of black activism, intellectual work, and cultural production in London between the world wars. His most recent work examines the Jamaican visual artist Ronald Moody’s agonistic relationship to modernism. Marc Matera is Assistant Professor of History at […]
Film Screening: Dante's Inferno directed by Sandow Birk
Free and open to the public (English dialogue) Melding the seemingly disparate traditions of apocalyptic live-action graphic novel and charming Victorian-era toy theater, Dante’s Inferno is a subversive, darkly satirical update of the original 14th-century literary classic, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. Retold with the use of intricately hand-drawn paper puppets and miniature sets, and without […]
Thursday, February 28, 2013
- February 28, 2013The Living Writers Reading Series: Geoffrey G. O'Brien
- February 28, 2013 -Emerging Worlds Lecture Series: "Shifting Worlds"
The Living Writers Reading Series: Geoffrey G. O'Brien
Geoffrey G. O'Brien is the author of Metropole (2011), Green and Gray (2007), and The Guns and Flags Project (2002), all from The University of California Press. His next book, People on Sunday (Wave Books), Fall 2013; his chapbooks include Hesiod (Song Cave, 2010), and Poem with No Good Lines (Hand Held Editions, 2010). He […]
Emerging Worlds Lecture Series: "Shifting Worlds"
The Anthropology Department presents: Emerging Worlds Lecture Series: "Shifting Worlds" Marilyn Strathern Dame Marilyn Strathern was the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University from 1994 to 2008. She has written about new reproductive technologies and intellectual property law and her most recent work focuses on the complexities of transparency, accountability, and audit, […]
Friday, March 1, 2013
No events on this day.
Saturday, March 2, 2013
- March 2, 2013 -"Occupation Affect: On Political Emotion" Conference
"Occupation Affect: On Political Emotion" Conference
“Occupation Affect” seeks to take the emotional pulse of the current moment. Staging a day of public talks and a roundtable discussion, followed by a half-day meeting, we will gather a group of scholars to investigate the feelings that permeate both this era of economic collapse and the modes of adaptation as well as rebellion […]