Events
Week of Events
The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
Description: This year’s program will feature fully-staged works in French, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. English super-titles will translate each of the pieces. The French segment will be devoted to scenes from Jean Giraudoux’s comic fantasy, La Folle de Chaillot, (The Madwoman of Chaillot) directed by Miriam Ellis, while Spanish will present Fable, by Samaniego, with […]
Sunday, May 14, 2017
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Monday, May 15, 2017
- May 15, 2017 -Conjuncture / Crisis / Critique: A Symposium on Cultural Studies
Conjuncture / Crisis / Critique: A Symposium on Cultural Studies
The start time for this event has been changed to 2pm. Featuring: Christopher Chen, Literature Jim Clifford, History of Consciousness Christopher Connery, Literature T.J. Demos, History of Art and Visual Cultures / Center for Creative Ecologies Carla Freccero, Literature / History of Consciousness / Feminist Studies Susan Gilman, Literature Asad Haider, History of Consciousness Donna […]
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
- May 16, 2017 -Susan Gilson Miller: “Vichy on Trial: Cooperation, Collaboration and Confrontation in Wartime Morocco”
Susan Gilson Miller: “Vichy on Trial: Cooperation, Collaboration and Confrontation in Wartime Morocco”
Susan Gilson Miller is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. She will be guest speaking on Tuesday, May 16, 2017 as a part of Professor Alma Heckman's course "The Holocaust and the Arab World" (HIS 1850). When: May 16, 2017 - 3:20-4:55pm Location: Cowell Acad Classroom 113 This event is free and […]
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
- May 17, 2017 -Martin Devecka: “Socratic Economics”
- May 17, 2017 -Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Susan O’Neal Stryker
Martin Devecka: “Socratic Economics”
Socratic Economics Martin Devecka is in the early stages of a research project on leisure and labor in fourth-century Athens. His work explores the processes through which competing claims to leisure and to the labor of others led to the privileging of politics as a way of thinking about collective action. Martin Devecka is an […]
Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Susan O’Neal Stryker
What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need Susan O’Neal Stryker, Associate Professor, University of Arizona History is a story we tell in the present that links what we know of the past to a future we envision. In this talk, drawn from her forthcoming book of the same title, gender theorist and […]
Thursday, May 18, 2017
- May 18, 2017 -The Eighteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
- May 18, 2017 -Maudemarie Clark “Nietzsche’s Nihilism”
- May 18, 2017 -Living Writers: Rosa Alcalá
The Eighteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM Opening Remarks 9:30 a.m. Deanna Shemek, Chair, Literature Department Panel One: Translating Tradition 9:45 – 10:45 a.m. Moderator: Christopher Chen Victoria Jones: Ion Elli Levin: Baby's First Inferno, or Dante Alighieri and the Nine Circles Jessica Ness Poetic: Language in Translation Alexander Pérez: The Nation in You Panel Two: […]
Maudemarie Clark “Nietzsche’s Nihilism”
Nietzsche claims that in realating the "advent of nihilism," he is relating "the history of the next two centuries." He also claims that he himself has been a nihilist, but that he had now left it behind, "outside of self." In this paper, I offer an account of how Nietzsche understands nihilism and of how […]
Living Writers: Rosa Alcalá
Rosa Alcalá, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010) Rosa Alcalá is the author of a poetry collection Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010) and two chapbooks: Some Maritime Disasters This Century (Belladonna, 2003) and Undocumentary (Dos Press, 2008). Alcalá has also translated poetry by Cecilia Vicuña, Lourdes Vázquez, and Lila Zemborain, among others. Recent translations include Zemborain's […]
Friday, May 19, 2017
- May 19, 2017 -Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kara Hisatake
- May 19, 2017 -Non-citizenship Fellows Forum with Emily Mitchell-Eaton, Claudia Lopez, and Tsering Wangmo
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kara Hisatake
Pidgin Comedy in Hawai'i: The Queer Resignification of Settler Culture In 1970s Hawai'i, Pidgin, also known as Hawai'i Creole english, was the major medium of comedy because it was the language, visual culture, and attitude of the islands, a stark contrast to imported U.S. settle norms. Rap Reiplinger was a household name with his 1982 […]
Non-citizenship Fellows Forum with Emily Mitchell-Eaton, Claudia Lopez, and Tsering Wangmo
With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the CLRC awarded two outstanding UC Santa Cruz graduate students year-long fellowships and hired a postdoctoral scholar as part of our 2016-17 Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship. In this free, public forum, our three Mellon fellows will discuss their research and tell us a bit about what […]
Saturday, May 20, 2017
No events on this day.