Events
Week of Events
Radical Reading Practices, A Symposium
Radical Reading Practices, A Symposium, April 18-19, 2013 Presented by UCSC’s Poetry and Politics Research Cluster. Sponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund and the UC Humanities Network, with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. This symposium attends to the work that readers perform when reading and reconstructing poetry. We focus on […]
25th Anniversary of the UC Humanities Initiative & 2013 Society of Fellows Event
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Adriana M. Brodsky: "Becoming Jewish-Argentines: Marriage choice, and the construction of a Jewish Argentine Identity (1920-1960)"
The presentation explores the marriage patterns of the Sephardi Jewish communities, paying special attention to when Sephardim began marrying Ashkenazi Jews, thereby giving birth to a new type of Jewish identity, neither fully Ashkenazi nor fully Sephardi, but Argentine. Although initially Sephardim respected the boundaries of their communities of origin, and usually married ‘within’, as […]
Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium – Christine Hong: "'War Is the Force That Gives Us Meaning': Militarized Queerness, Lieutenant Dan Choi, and Korean War Mascotry"
"'War Is the Force That Gives Us Meaning': Militarized Queerness, Lieutenant Dan Choi, and Korean War Mascotry" Offering a historically layered examination of the rights-based battle waged by former Lt. Dan Choi, son of a war orphan, against the now-defunct policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” this talk inquires into the homology between queer masking in […]
The Living Writers Reading Series: Patrick DeWitt
Patrick DeWitt, author of The Sisters Brothers, finalist for the Man Booker Prize, "If Cormac McCarthy had a sense of humor, he might have concocted a story like Patrick DeWitt's bloody, darkly funny western." The Los Angeles Times.