Events
Week of Events
THATCamp Alt-Ac: an Alternative Academics Unconference
A space for grad students and recent Ph.D.'s to think through the multiple career options we can explore amidst a declining tenure track job market. We will invite professionals in administrative academic, non-profit, arts administration, tech, ed-tech, digital humanities, and secondary education careers to join our two-day unstructured conference. Planned sessions will include a C.V. […]
Joanne Barker: "In Debt: A Reconsideration of 'Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime' from Manna-Hata"
Intervening in populist, Occupy Wall Street discourses about the subprime crisis and its remedies, this talk critically uncovers Manna Hata from Manhattan. Offering a long genealogical view of the militarized dispossession, genocide, and enslavement of Native peoples in order to problematize the subprime crisis as a signifier of racism, this talk focuses on territorial expansion, […]
Otávio Bueno: "Seeing with a Microscope"
In this talk, Professor Bueno will propose an empiricist account of visual evidence in the sciences and examine the role it plays in scientific representation (particularly, in microscopy). To motivate the view, a critical examination of Bas van Fraassen's empiricist proposal will be provided. Otávio Bueno is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy […]
Poetry and/or Revolution
Oct 3-5, UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis, UC Berkeley. This conference is a pendant to the recent UK conference on Militant Politics and Poetry at Birkbeck College (Saturday, 18 May 2013). It features a large number of US and UK scholar-poets. The conference will take up from a variety of perspectives the relationship of poetry […]
Joanne Barker Seminar
Joanne Barker will be lead a seminar followed by a Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) program building discussion. Please register to obtain the seminar readings. Joanne Barker (Lenape ) is associate professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University. She received her Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness Department from the University […]
Jim McCloskey: "Preverbs, Phases, and Objecthood: An Irish Perspective on Some Old Problems"
The direct object relation is a relation of central importance in syntactic theory and so it was an important moment when the nature of that relation was re-thought in a fundamental way in work of the 1990's. This paper examines some of the issues raised in that re-thinking, by looking closely at the expression of […]