Events
Week of Events
"Genomics and Philosophy of Race" Conference
The "Genomics and Philosophy of Race" conference aims to foster a dialogue about race, and, in particular, about relationships between ideas of race and modern genomics research. Four panels of experts and two keynote speakers will consider scientific, historical, sociological, and philosophical questions: Does contemporary genomics inform and shift our classifications, conceptualizations, and consciousness of […]
"Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism" Conference
Over the course of the year, the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster has brought together scholars from UCSC and beyond for an interdisciplinary inquiry into the history and future of the capitalist world-system. A few focal points have arisen: the history of separation from the means of subsistence, and the emergence of […]
Sunday, April 13, 2014
No events on this day.
Monday, April 14, 2014
- April 14, 2014 -Nimrod Rosler: "Challenges in the Way to Peace in Israel/Palestine"
- April 14, 2014 -Rick Baldoz: "The Strange Career of the Filipino 'National': Race, Immigration, and the Bordering of U.S. Empire"
Nimrod Rosler: "Challenges in the Way to Peace in Israel/Palestine"
The winding way to peace in Israel and Palestine requires addressing challenges in the intersection between leaders, society and the political context. The current talk will present a framework to conceptualize the change process and studies – both qualitative and quantitative – that examine its different aspects during real events within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Nimrod […]
Rick Baldoz: "The Strange Career of the Filipino 'National': Race, Immigration, and the Bordering of U.S. Empire"
This talk will explore the incorporation of Filipino immigrants in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on the interplay of colonialism, racial boundaries and citizenship policy. The influx of Filipinos to the United States that followed the annexation of the Philippines confounded American authorities tasked with enforcing traditional racial […]
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
No events on this day.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
- April 16, 2014 -CANCELLED – Kris Alexanderson: "Transoceanic Politics and Dutch Maritime Conciliation in East Asia during the 1930s"
- April 16, 2014 -Marjorie Venit: "Strangers in a Strange Land: Negotiating the Afterlife in Monumental Greek tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt"
CANCELLED – Kris Alexanderson: "Transoceanic Politics and Dutch Maritime Conciliation in East Asia during the 1930s"
Due to a medical emergency, this event has been cancelled. – April 12, 2014 Kris Alexanderson "Transoceanic Politics and Dutch Maritime Conciliation in East Asia during the 1930s" Kris Alexanderson’s current work examines the collaborative efforts of the Netherlands East Indies’ colonial administration, Dutch shipping businesses, and Dutch foreign consulates in port cities across the […]
Marjorie Venit: "Strangers in a Strange Land: Negotiating the Afterlife in Monumental Greek tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt"
Marjorie S. Venit is Professor of Art History & Archaeology at the University of Maryland. She specializes in the art and archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean world with an emphasis on the Greek center and its periphery considered both geographically and temporally. Particularly interested in the intersection of cultures and ethnicities, she has excavated at […]
Thursday, April 17, 2014
- April 17, 2014 -Living Writers Series: Annie Boutelle in concert with Cowell College's Mary Holmes Festival
- April 17, 2014 -Models of Mediterranean Modernity: The Perspective From the Longue Duree
Living Writers Series: Annie Boutelle in concert with Cowell College's Mary Holmes Festival
Annie Boutelle is the author of Thistle and Rose: A Study of Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry, as well as two poetry collections, Becoming Bone and Nest of Thistles. The spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series, Dislocations and the Imagined, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public.
Models of Mediterranean Modernity: The Perspective From the Longue Duree
The UC Santa Cruz Emeriti Group presents the 2014 spring Emeriti Faculty Lecture "Models of Mediterranean Modernity: The Perspective From the Longue Duree" Viewed from a global perspective, the Mediterranean region has enjoyed a common historical experience since 1500. Increasingly semi-peripheral with respect to the world capitalist system, and characterized by weak states, delayed or […]
Friday, April 18, 2014
- April 18, 2014 -Julie Legate: "Noncanonical Passives"
Julie Legate: "Noncanonical Passives"
Abstract: In this talk, I investigate the syntactic structure of voice, focusing on noncanonical passives; I build on previous work by myself and others showing that voice is encoded in a functional projection, VoiceP, which is distinct from, and higher than, vP. I demonstrate that microvariation in the properties of VoiceP explains a wide range of noncanonical passives, […]
Saturday, April 19, 2014
No events on this day.