Events
Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies Investiture Ceremony and Reception
College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa CruzWeek of Events
Sunday, January 22, 2017
- January 22, 2017 -Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies Investiture Ceremony and Reception
Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies Investiture Ceremony and Reception
Please join Chancellor George Blumenthal in celebration of the: Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies Investiture Ceremony and Reception College 9/10 Multipurpose Room, UC Santa Cruz Sunday, January 22, 2017 4 p.m. Light refreshments will be served RSVP HERE RSVP by January 6, 2017 Questions? Contact Jessica Guild at (831) 459-1274 or jguild@ucsc.edu HONOREES Professor Murray Baumgarten […]
Monday, January 23, 2017
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017
- January 24, 2017 -Wiring Gaia at the Water-Energy Nexus: Indigenous Water Guardians and Decolonizing Water Science
Wiring Gaia at the Water-Energy Nexus: Indigenous Water Guardians and Decolonizing Water Science
As emblematized by the ongoing protests at Standing Rock, water is a foundational element—biophysical, epistemological, and spiritual—in Indigenous societies and lifeways. This crucial life source has come under increased threat due to the claimed necessity of extractivist development projects which impact the lives of all of our relations: human and more-than-human. In North America, energy […]
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
- January 25, 2017 -Emily Mitchell-Eaton: “What’s Free About ‘Freely Associated Statehood’? Preserving Colonial Legacies in the Marshall Islands”
Emily Mitchell-Eaton: “What’s Free About ‘Freely Associated Statehood’? Preserving Colonial Legacies in the Marshall Islands”
Emily Mitchell-Eaton’s work explores imperial citizenship forms and statecraft in the U.S. Pacific territories. Her research follows territorial migration policies from their enactment in the islands to the new sites of diaspora where imperial migrants resettle, exposing new racial formations, modes of (un)belonging, and immigrant solidarities. Emily Mitchell-Eaton is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Non-citizenship, […]
Thursday, January 26, 2017
- January 26, 2017 -Living Writers: Wayne Koestenbaum
Living Writers: Wayne Koestenbaum
Wayne Koestenbaum has published eighteen books of poetry, criticism, and fiction, including Notes on Glaze, The Pink Trance Notebooks, My 1980s & Other Essays, Hotel Theory, Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, Andy Warhol, Humiliation, Jackie Under My Skin, and The Queen’s Throat (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist). His essays and poetry have appeared in […]
Friday, January 27, 2017
- January 27, 2017 -Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Sarah Papazoglakis
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Sarah Papazoglakis
American Philanthropy and "Aggressive Altruism" in Richard Wright's Native Son and Miguel Angel Asturias' The Green Pope My dissertation interrogates the narrative power of American philanthropy in the story of the United States' rise as a global superpower in the twentieth century. For this presentation, I will present an excerpt of a chapter that considers […]
Saturday, January 28, 2017
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