Events
Week of Events
Hearing Gender: Stereotypes and Context in Voice Processing
When we speak, in addition to our intended linguistic message, we communicate quite a bit about ourselves, such as our perceived gender, ethnicity, region of origin, etc. Expectations about these social categories interact with our comprehension at a very basic perceptual level. In this talk I'll discuss current research on how gender stereotype affects on […]
Ronaldo V. Wilson: “Your Micro-Aggression, My Macro-Response: Some Renderings”
Ronaldo Wilson’s current project AVATAR|DIASPORA, wrestles with the idea of the obliterated black body and its juncture with poetry and visual culture. This project documents his current practice through sonic landscapes, video, dance, and writing as ways to explore race, sexuality, and representation. Wilson is Associate Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. EVENT PHOTOS: Spring 2016 Colloquium Series […]
Marjorie Agosin: “Gender & Sexuality in the Work of Gabriela Mistral”
Marjorie Agosin is the Luella La Mer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies and Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. Professor Agosin’s poetry is inspired by social justice and the dedicated to the remembrance and memorialization of traumatic historical events in the Americas and in European holocaust. As a Chilean-American of Jewish heritage Agosin’s poetry […]
UCSC Night at the Museum: The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection
PODCAST: EVENT PHOTOS: by Steve Kurtz UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research Presents: UCSC Night at the Museum: The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection 6:30pm | “The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America” Public conversation with Ethan Michaeli, author of The Defender, and David Anthony, Professor of History at UC […]
Marjorie Agosin: “Translating the Soul: Meditations on Poetry”
Marjorie Agosin is the Luella La Mer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies and Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. Professor Agosin's poetry is inspired by social justice and the dedicated to the remembrance and memorialization of traumatic historical events in the Americas and in European holocaust. As a Chilean-American of Jewish heritage Agosin's poetry enshrines women's […]
Jonathan Ellis: “Motivated Reasoning, Heavy and Light”
At least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. The format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited. All members of the campus community and interested public are welcome to attend. Jonathan Ellis Motivated […]
Living Writers: Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman: I was born in 1969 and grew up in Lexington, MA. My parents were both English professors, so naturally I read a lot. I read a lot in college too, and read even more in graduate school. Then I moved to New York City and started writing full time. My first novel, Warp, […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Trung Nguyen
Trung Nguyen "War Material: Vietnamese Objects of Post-War Subjectivity" Hong-An Truong and Dinh Q. Le are two widely received diasporic Vietnamese artists whose installations have engaged with the interpretative terrains and problematics of memory, subjectivity, and colonialism through Vietnamese historical experience. This presentation will study two of their respective pieces that explicitly confront modes of […]
Linguistic Colloquium: Kyle Johnson
Linguistic Colloquium: The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. Fall 2015 October 9th: Keith Johnson, UC Berkeley October 16th: Heidi Harley, University of Arizona October 30th: Ivano Caponigro, UC San Diego November 20th: Elliott Moreton, University of North Carolina Winter 2016 January 15th: Sharon Inkelas, UC Berkeley February 5th: Colin Phillips, University of Maryland February […]