Events
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Shakespeare and the Common Good: The Value of a Literary Education
Shakespeare and the Common Good: The Value of a Literary Education
Julia Reinhard Lupton, Professor of English and Associate Dean for Research in the School of Humanities at UC Irvine, will conduct a professional development seminar for graduate students. The seminar will discuss the purpose of graduate education in the humanities and conclude with a research narrative development workshop, focusing on practical techniques for translating work […]
Regina Kunzel: “In Treatment: Psychiatry and the Archives of Modern Sexuality”
Regina Kunzel: “In Treatment: Psychiatry and the Archives of Modern Sexuality”
Regina Kunzel’s current project explores the encounter of sexual- and gender-variant people with psychiatry in the mid-twentieth-century U.S. Drawing on multiple archives, she argues for the importance of psychiatric scrutiny, stigma, and medicalization in the making of modern sexuality. Regina Kunzel is a Professor of History and Gender and Sexuality Studies and Director, Program in Gender […]
Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Mikki Stelder
Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Mikki Stelder
Towards Other Scenes of Speaking and Listening: Palestinian Anticolonial Queer Spatialities Mikki Stelder, Visiting Scholar In 2010, Palestinian Queers for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions called upon international queer communities to support the Palestinian calls for BDS. My dissertation emerged as one way to respond. First, I lay out the terms within which scholars and activists […]
Christopher Newfield: “After the Great Mistake: Fixing Public Universities in the Trump Administration”
Christopher Newfield: “After the Great Mistake: Fixing Public Universities in the Trump Administration”
Christopher Newfield’s (Professor of literature and American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara) new book, “The Great Mistake,“ shows how privatization has weakened the educational quality and the budgetary stability of public universities and wrecked their true public mission. But how can they recover during an administration that promises to accelerate privatization in […]
Living Writers: PhD Candidates, Creative/Critical Concentration
Living Writers: PhD Candidates, Creative/Critical Concentration
C Dylan Bassett’s books are The Invention of Monsters / Plays for the Theater (2015) and A Failed Performance: The Collected Short Plays of Daniil Kharms (forthcoming 2018). His recent work appears in The American Reader, Black Warrior Review, Ninth Letter, and Washington Square. He lives in Santa Cruz. Matthew Gervase is a Ph.D. candidate in […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Rachel Shellabarger
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Rachel Shellabarger
Sustainable Happy cows: Change and Sustainability in California Dairies California dairy advertisements often feature happy cows, but they mask social and environmental concerns over industrial milk production. Currently, California dairy producers face a mix of challenges with severe drought, regulation of methane emissions from cows, uncertain changes in milk pricing policies, and future implementation of […]