Events
Week of Events
Sunday, October 12, 2014
No events on this day.
Monday, October 13, 2014
No events on this day.
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
- October 14, 2014 -Dr. Jennifer Derr: "The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation"
Dr. Jennifer Derr: "The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation"
UCSC Cowell College Presents Conflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine Tuesday Evenings Fall 2014 6:00-7:45pm, Merrill Academy 102 Tuesday Oct 7: Christine King (Lecturer Kresge College). “Making Peace with Conflict” Tuesday Oct 14: Dr. Jennifer Derr (History Department, UC Santa Cruz). The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation. Tuesday Oct 21: Dr. […]
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
- October 15, 2014 -Bali Sahota: "Veils of the Absolute Subject: Benjamin’s Sublime"
Bali Sahota: "Veils of the Absolute Subject: Benjamin’s Sublime"
BALI SAHOTA Assistant Professor of Literature, UCSC G.S. Sahota is currently completing two books, Late Colonial Sublime: Neo-Epics and the End of Romanticism and The Name of Reason: Sikhism, Secularism, Modernism. Fall 2014 Colloquium Series: October 15: Bali Sahota October 22: Vilashini Cooppan October 29: Nirvikar Singh November 5: Juned Shaikh November 12: Dean […]
Thursday, October 16, 2014
- October 16, 2014 -Lisa Lowe: "Colonial Difference and the Neoliberal Present"
Lisa Lowe: "Colonial Difference and the Neoliberal Present"
This lecture casts the history of liberal modernity as a complex, braided project, which includes at once the universal promises of rights, emancipation, wage labor and free trade, as well as the global divisions and colonial asymmetries upon which those promises depend, and according to which such liberties are reserved for some and denied to […]
Friday, October 17, 2014
- October 17, 2014 -SA Smythe: "Culture as the Site of War: On the Production of Italianita"
- October 17, 2014 -"Lasting and Passing": The Poetics of Remainders with Margaret Ronda
- October 17, 2014 -Jane Grimshaw: "The use of force in clausal complementation"
SA Smythe: "Culture as the Site of War: On the Production of Italianita"
Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 - 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202 This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the […]
"Lasting and Passing": The Poetics of Remainders with Margaret Ronda
Poetry & Politics Presents: Margaret Ronda, featuring Whitney DeVos and Keegan Cook Finberg This talk offers an extended reading of the work of rural Midwestern modernist poet Lorine Niedecker, whose poetry attends to various forms and speeds of what she calls “human material obsolescing.” The imaginative tarrying with these “outdated remains” (in Benjamin’s phrase) offers […]
Jane Grimshaw: "The use of force in clausal complementation"
The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Jane Grimshaw of Rutgers University speaking on The use of force in clausal complementation. Abstract: The SAY-schema verbs (Grimshaw in press) combine with a wide range of clauses in complex complementation structures, including quoted and non-quoted clauses in post-verbal complement position, and quoted and non-quoted clauses hosting […]
Saturday, October 18, 2014
- October 18, 2014 -1984 — Beyond the Trauma
1984 — Beyond the Trauma
Thirty years ago saw the culmination of increasing social conflict in Punjab, a Sikh-majority state in India. In 1984, the government of India launched a military operation on the Sikhs' central religious site, aimed at militants but also ensnaring innocent pilgrims. Later that year, Sikh bodyguards assassinated India's Prime Minister in retribution. This was followed […]