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The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XIV: Theater Pieces in Five Languages
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The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XIV: Theater Pieces in Five Languages
Cowell College, Stevenson College & Languages and Applied Linguistics present: The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XIV Theater Pieces in Five Languages with English Subtitles Chinese Three Pots of Tea by Ting-Ting Wu & Students Directed by Ting-Ting Wu French Scenes from Marius and Fanny by Marcel Pagnol Directed by Miriam Ellis Hebrew Songs of Israel […]
Sex and the Archive
Workshop on Sex and the Archive May 20-21, 2014 • UC Santa Cruz Open to graduate students at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and UC Santa Cruz Application deadline: Wednesday April 23, 2014 This workshop is part of a UCHRI Humanities Studio on Regulating Sex/Religion, directed by Saba Mahmood (UC Berkeley) and Mayanthi Fernando (UC Santa […]
Despina Kakoudaki: "Robots and Slaves: History, Allegory, and the Structural Logic of the Robot Story"
Despina Kakoudaki’s work focuses on literature, film, visual and cultural studies, and the history of technology. Her new book, titled Anatomy of a Robot: Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People, traces our fascination with mechanical and constructed people, such as robots, cyborgs, androids and automata. Despina Kakoudaki is Associate Professor at American […]
"Working w/ Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale" Conference
In celebration of Shakespeare’s 450th birthday, Working w/ Shakespeare fosters a dialogue between three professions that are especially dedicated to understanding his work: literary critics, theater designers, and professional actors. What makes literary criticism, design, and performance different as forms of interpretation? How might their distinctive practical techniques and theoretical concerns enrich and transform each […]
Sunday, May 18, 2014
- May 18, 2014 -Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: Pulse
Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: Pulse
Pulse (2001) Would you like to meet a ghost? About as bleak a depiction of apocalypse as you’re ever likely to come across, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Pulse is a J-Horror film in which short episodic vignettes slowly disclose a world where ghosts outnumber people and people have been reduced to black ashy stains on the wall. […]
Monday, May 19, 2014
- May 19, 2014 -Lora Bartlett: "Migrant Teachers: How American Schools Import Labor"
- May 19, 2014 -Yiqun Zhou: “Helen and the Chinese Femmes Fatales”
Lora Bartlett: "Migrant Teachers: How American Schools Import Labor"
Migrant Teachers investigates an overlooked trend in U.S. public schools today: the growing dependence on overseas trained teachers, as federal mandates require K-12 schools to employ qualified teachers or risk funding cuts. A narrowly technocratic view of teachers as subject specialists has led districts to look abroad, Lora Bartlett argues, resulting in transient teaching professionals […]
Yiqun Zhou: “Helen and the Chinese Femmes Fatales”
Helen, the Spartan queen whose abduction by Paris the prince of Troy ignited the ten-year-long Trojan War, may be regarded as the femme fatale par excellence. The prominence of Helen’s images in the Greek tradition is as notable as their complexity and ambiguity. Alongside commonplace condemnations of Helen as the cause of a devastating war, […]
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
- May 21, 2014 -Prasenjit Duara: "Circulatory and Competitive Histories: Temporal Foundations for Cosmopolitanism
- May 21, 2014 -Graduate Seminar with Despina Kakoudaki
Prasenjit Duara: "Circulatory and Competitive Histories: Temporal Foundations for Cosmopolitanism
Stories – narratives of the past – are necessary in all collectivities that seek to constitute and maintain themselves. In modern times, competitive states have sought to mobilize all resources and bio-power in their territory by adopting singular, linear histories of the state, nation and civilization. But, ironically, just as these singular stories were becoming […]
Graduate Seminar with Despina Kakoudaki
All graduate students are welcome but an RSVP is required by May 19th. Contact ihr@ucsc.edu to RSVP and request seminar readings. Despina Kakoudaki’s work focuses on literature, film, visual and cultural studies, and the history of technology. Her forthcoming book, Anatomy of a Robot: Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People, traces our […]
Thursday, May 22, 2014
- May 22, 2014 -2014 Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
- May 22, 2014 -Ken Waltzer Seminar: A Holocaust Micro-History
- May 22, 2014 -Ken Waltzer and Film Screening: Kinderblock 66
2014 Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
The Fifteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium 9:00-9:10 AM - Opening Remarks Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Director, Literature Undergraduate Program 9:10-10:15 AM - Panel One: Borderlands: Creative Writers Read Moderator, Micah Perks James Williams: Impertinent Youth Marine Ashnalikyan: "In the Living Room" and other Poems Narine Ashnalikyan: "After Dinner" and other Poems Stephen Richter: A Southern Tradition […]
Ken Waltzer Seminar: A Holocaust Micro-History
Professor Kenneth Waltzer is currently director of the Jewish studies program at Michigan State University. His interests cover American social and political history, including urban, labor, and minority history, immigration and social relations in the United States and elsewhere, and modern Jewish history, including the study of anti-Semitism and of the Holocaust. His major current […]
Ken Waltzer and Film Screening: Kinderblock 66
Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald. Kinderblock 66 is the story of four men who, as young boys, were imprisoned by the Nazis in the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp and who, sixty-five years later, return to commemorate the sixty-fifth anniversary of their liberation. The film tells the story of the effort undertaken by the camp's Communist-led […]
Friday, May 23, 2014
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Saturday, May 24, 2014
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