Events
Week of Events
Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140
Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140
Bookshop Santa Cruz and the Institute for Humanities Research are pleased to welcome New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson as he returns for a book talk and signing of his bold and brilliant vision of New York City in the next century: New York 2140. "In the not-so-distant future, a diverse cast of […]
Humanities Radio Hour: “Gail Project” with Alan Christy, Shelby Graham, & Irena Polic
Humanities Radio Hour: “Gail Project” with Alan Christy, Shelby Graham, & Irena Polic
Please tune in to KZSC 88.1 FM for Artists on Art Humanities Radio Hour Click here to listen online
Briohny Doyle, “Postapocalypse Now”
Briohny Doyle, “Postapocalypse Now”
Event Photos Briohny Doyle’s research positions the postapocalyptic imagination as a reply to apocalyptic forms that obliterate & totalize. Her work considers postapocalyptic literary & theoretical texts that move beyond revelation to consider the various breakdowns of capitalism through potent figures like the ruin, the virus, & the nomad. Briohny Doyle is a Melbourne-based writer and […]
Opening Reception: The Gail Project Exhibition – An Okinawan-American Dialogue
Opening Reception: The Gail Project Exhibition – An Okinawan-American Dialogue
The Gail Project Exhibition - An Okinawan-American Dialogue at the Sesnon Gallery, Porter College Opening Reception: Thursday, October 5, 5:00-7:00 pm Exhibition run dates: Thu, Oct 5, 2017 to Sat, Dec 2, 2017 Weekly events every Wednesday 6-8pm. Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday November 23- 27 The Gail Project is a collaborative, international public history project […]
Living Writers Series: Michael Arcega
Living Writers Series: Michael Arcega
Michael Arcega is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture and installation. His research-based work revolves largely around language and sociopolitical dynamics. Directly informed by Historic narratives, material significance, and geography, his subject matter deals with circumstances where power relations are unbalanced. As a naturalized American, his investigation of cultural markers are embedded in objects, […]
“Writing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World” Symposium
“Writing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World” Symposium
"Writing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World” In the past decade, historians and literary scholars have become increasingly interested in the global circulation of the written word. Much of this scholarship has focused on the movement of printed books. Other projects, such as Stanford’s Mapping the Republic of Letters initiative, have traced epistolary networks […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Ashwini Deo
Linguistics Colloquium: Ashwini Deo
Linguistics Colloquium 2017-2018 Ashwini Deo, "Alternative circumstances of evaluation and the ser/estar distinction in Spanish" Abstract: The Spanish copulas ser and estar have distributional and interpretational patterns that have resisted an adequate analysis. In this talk, I work towards a unified analysis that treats the two copulas as being presuppositional variants that are differentially sensitive […]