Events
Week of Events
Sunday, November 17, 2013
No events on this day.
Monday, November 18, 2013
- November 18, 2013 -Inaugural Talk: "Lit Up"
Inaugural Talk: "Lit Up"
What first turned your professors into readers? What do they read for pleasure, and why? Come find out at "LIT UP," a new series of informal talks by UCSC Literature professors specifically for the undergraduate community, and open to everyone. The inaugural LIT UP event is "Welcome to the Jungle: Conrad and Me," with Professor Vilashini Cooppan, […]
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
No events on this day.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
- November 20, 2013 -CANCELLED: Gopal Balakrishnan: "The Historical World of Karl Marx"
- November 20, 2013 -CANCELLED: Sarah Rebolloso McCullough: "Groovin' and Movin': Mountain Biking, Counterculture, and the Grateful Dead"
CANCELLED: Gopal Balakrishnan: "The Historical World of Karl Marx"
Following on his earlier work on Adam Smith and David Ricardo, Gopal Balakrishnan’s current work on Marx seeks to demonstrate the logical unity of Marx’s mature economic thought, while recognizing its specifically 19th century assumptions, as well as its incompleteness as an account of the history of capitalism. Gopal Balakrishnan is associate professor in the […]
CANCELLED: Sarah Rebolloso McCullough: "Groovin' and Movin': Mountain Biking, Counterculture, and the Grateful Dead"
What does mountain biking have to do with the Grateful Dead? This talk will discuss the intricate role the counterculture played upon the innovation of mountain biking, begun in the hills of Marin county in the early 1970s. The scene and culture surrounding the Grateful Dead and the San Francisco music scene proved crucial to […]
Thursday, November 21, 2013
- November 21, 2013 -Living Writers Series: Douglas Kearney
Living Writers Series: Douglas Kearney
Thresholds and Breaking Points The writers in this series will present across multiple genres, to include poetry, fiction, criticism, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests thresholds of culture, race, nation, sex, gender, and desire through the creative imagination. Central to each will be how these thresholds are performed, tested, broken, […]
Friday, November 22, 2013
No events on this day.
Saturday, November 23, 2013
No events on this day.