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Event Podcast:   "In my time I have seen many Shylocks ….. But never before have I seen seven Shylocks on a single day.” Clive Sinclair is the author of fourteen books; one of which won the Somerset Maugham Award, another both the PEN Silver Pen and the Jewish Quarterly Prize for Fiction. His fifteenth […]

Robin Hunicke’s practice focuses on creating boundary-expanding, experimental game experiences by combining unique concepts and technologies. She works to create games that deliver unexpected emotional outcomes to players. This includes games that are peaceful and introspective, creative and healing as well as experiences that encourage intergenerational and international communication and play. Hunicke is Associate Professor of […]

The 1930s usually conjure up images of Soviet show trials, jack-booted, brown-shirted German fascists, and breadlines and the dustbowl in the United States. The decade is also associated with the failure of internationalism in the face of economic depression and militaristic nationalisms. Certainly these form part of the picture, but a Europe- and North American-centered […]

"Black Storm Clouds and a Queer Yellow Light: Reading the Affective Edges of Symbolism in Maru" My project is to read postcolonial novels that have typically been analyzed as representations of postcolonial politics and instead attend to the nonrepresentational aspects of their language: namely, their affect and literariness. In this talk I focus on Bessie […]

The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. Fall 2016 Nov 18: Kie Zuraw, UCLA Winter 2017 February 7: TBA March TBD: LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz Spring 2016 April 14: Junko Ito, UC Santa Cruz April 28: Ashwini Deo, Yale May 26: Susan Lin, UC Berkeley May/June TBD: LURC: […]