Events
Week of Events
Sunday, May 19, 2013
- May 19, 2013 -International Playhouse XIII
International Playhouse XIII
The Language Program, Cowell College, and Stevenson College cordially invite you and your students to attend a performance of The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XIII (IP), an annual multilingual program of fully-staged short theater pieces, now in its 13th season. Four public performances will be held on May 16, 17, 18, 19, at 8:00 PM at the […]
Monday, May 20, 2013
- May 20, 2013 -Lisa Lowe: "Sugar, Tea, Opium, and Coolies: The Intimacies of Four Continents"
Lisa Lowe: "Sugar, Tea, Opium, and Coolies: The Intimacies of Four Continents"
Lisa Lowe This lecture examines the fetishism of colonial commodities as a mediation of often obscured connections between the transatlantic African slave trade to the Americas, settler colonialism, the import of Asian indentured labor, the East Indies and China trades, and the emergence of European liberal ideas of citizenship, wage labor, and free trade in […]
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
- May 22, 2013 -U.S. Fulbright IIE Information Session
- May 22, 2013 -Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium – Michael Nauenberg: "Teaching Natural Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment"
U.S. Fulbright IIE Information Session
The Graduate Division cordially invites undergraduate and graduate students to an information session on the U.S. Fulbright IIE fellowship program. If you are interested in applying for a 2014-2015 Fulbright U. S. Student Program Grant or English Teaching Assistantship plan to attend this information session. Link to the competition: http://www.iie.org/fulbright Presenters will include: Past successful […]
Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium – Michael Nauenberg: "Teaching Natural Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment"
"Teaching Natural Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment" Michael Nauenberg has published on the foundations of quantum mechanics and has written extensively on the development of calculus in the seventeenth century with particular reference to the work of Isaac Newton, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and John Barrow. His current work is on Newton’s development of celestial […]
Thursday, May 23, 2013
- May 23, 2013 -Anthony Barbieri-Low: "Imagining the Tomb of the First Emperor of China"
- May 23, 2013 -Neil Sinhababu: "Desire's Explanations"
- May 23, 2013 -The Living Writers Reading Series: Lauren Shufran, Tsering Wangmo, and Juliana Leslie
Anthony Barbieri-Low: "Imagining the Tomb of the First Emperor of China"
The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President's Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on "Archaeology and the Ancient World" The tomb complex of the First Emperor of China is arguably the most important archaeological site in the world. Since the tomb will not be excavated […]
Neil Sinhababu: "Desire's Explanations"
I defend a Humean theory of motivation on which desire motivates all action and drives all practical reasoning. I respond to objections from Christine Korsgaard, David Velleman, and others suggesting that this view leaves no room for the self in action. I argue that all the agent's desires are part of the self, and that […]
The Living Writers Reading Series: Lauren Shufran, Tsering Wangmo, and Juliana Leslie
Lauren Shufran is the winner of The Motherwell Prize. Her poetry collection Inter Arma will be published be Fence Books in Spring, 2013. Tsering Wangmo's first book of poems, Rules of the House, was published by Apogee Press in 2002 was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Awards in 2003. Other publications include My […]
Friday, May 24, 2013
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Saturday, May 25, 2013
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