Events
Week of Events
Sunday, October 2, 2016
No events on this day.
Monday, October 3, 2016
No events on this day.
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
- October 4, 2016 -Linking Citizenship, Migration, Labor, Border, and Carceral Studies: A Seminar with Bridget Anderson
- October 4, 2016 -Alma Heckman: “Absence and Counter-Narratives: The Years of Lead and the Moroccan Jewish Exodus”
- October 4, 2016 -Micah Perks: “What Becomes Us”
Linking Citizenship, Migration, Labor, Border, and Carceral Studies: A Seminar with Bridget Anderson
How, when, where, and why do citizenship, migration, labor, border, and carceral studies converge? What happens when we put these fields in dialogue with one another? Why the distinction between migration studies and refugee studies? When do forced migration and labor migration overlap and when are they different? Who is a "migrant," "refugee," "citizen," and […]
Alma Heckman: “Absence and Counter-Narratives: The Years of Lead and the Moroccan Jewish Exodus”
Alma Rachel Heckman’s research crosses Jewish history, North Africa, French empire and the history of social movements. Her talk emerges from her project “Radical Nationalists: Moroccan Jewish Communists 1925-1975.” Heckman is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. The Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series, […]
Micah Perks: “What Becomes Us”
Join us as we celebrate the launch of this wonderfully consuming new novel from local author, professor, and co-director of UCSC’s creative writing program Micah Perks. Following a near-fatal accident, Evie, a mild-mannered, pregnant school teacher, abandons her controlling husband and flees California for the wilds of western New York. She rents a farm house […]
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
- October 5, 2016 -Julia Clancy-Smith “Springs Equinox in 18th Century Tunsia: Wreaks, People, and Things in the Sea”
- October 5, 2016 -Building Bridges and Institutions: A Conversation with Bridget Anderson
Julia Clancy-Smith “Springs Equinox in 18th Century Tunsia: Wreaks, People, and Things in the Sea”
Julia Clancy-Smith is the author of, most recently, Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800-1900 (2010). Her current work, From Household to Schoolroom: Education and Gender in North Africa, Europe, and the Mediterranean, c. 1900-present, is a multi-sided ethnographic inquiry into gender, education, literacy, and the social circulation of knowledge and people. […]
Building Bridges and Institutions: A Conversation with Bridget Anderson
Bridget Anderson, Deputy Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford, discusses her vision and hopes for COMPAS, the relationship between COMPAS and other institutions (for example, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and other academic units), and the relationship between research and society. This event is open to UC Santa […]
Thursday, October 6, 2016
- October 6, 2016 -Living Writers: Jennifer Chang
- October 6, 2016 -Bridget Anderson: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Citizenship and the Politics of Exclusion (Non-citizenship series)
Living Writers: Jennifer Chang
Poet and scholar Jennifer Chang was born in New Jersey. She is a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia, where she is a PhD candidate. Chang’s lyrical poems often explore the shifting boundaries between the outer world and the self. Chang’s debut poetry collection, The History of Anonymity (2008), was selected for the […]
Bridget Anderson: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Citizenship and the Politics of Exclusion (Non-citizenship series)
The Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research present Leading labor and migration scholar, Bridget Anderson, for the inaugural event in a series of events on Non-citizenship, our 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture.. Bridget Anderson: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Citizenship […]
Friday, October 7, 2016
- October 7, 2016 -Linguistics Colloquium: Akira Omaki
Linguistics Colloquium: Akira Omaki
Akira Omaki will be speaking on Developing incrementality: Grammar and parsing of wh-dependencies in children It is well established in the adult psycholinguistics literature that our comprehension is incremental: based on partial sentence input, the parser uses linguistic knowledge and multiple sources of information to assign interpretations. However, it has largely remained unknown how such […]
Saturday, October 8, 2016
- October 8, 2016 -The Maghrib Workshop: Law and Movement Historical Roots and Contexts Contemporary Questions Part I
The Maghrib Workshop: Law and Movement Historical Roots and Contexts Contemporary Questions Part I
Please join us for the first meeting of the Maghrib Workshop, an interdisciplinary network for Maghrib studies based at UC Santa Cruz. The meeting is open to the public, but please RSVP by writing to cgomezri@ucsc.edu in order for us to have a head count and circulate the papers for discussion. Four scholars will share […]