Events
Week of Events
Kevin Dawson: “History Below the Waterline – Enslaved Salvage Divers Harvesting Seaports’ Hinter-Seas, c.1540-1840”
Kevin Dawson: “History Below the Waterline – Enslaved Salvage Divers Harvesting Seaports’ Hinter-Seas, c.1540-1840”
Kevin Dawson’s scholarship examines how enslaved Africans carried swimming, surfing, canoe-making, and canoeing skills to the Americas where they informed slave culture and were exploited by slaveholders. “History Below the Waterline” considers how enslaved Africans employed as salvage divers transformed shipwrecks, especially sunken Spanish treasure ships, into hinter-seas of economic production. Scholars typically situate seaports […]
Rachel Gross, The Jewish Deli Revival: Buying and Selling American Jewish Nostalgia
Rachel Gross, The Jewish Deli Revival: Buying and Selling American Jewish Nostalgia
In recent years, there has been a nostalgic resurgence of interest in the Jewish deli menu. Restaurateurs and purveyors of Jewish food are deliberately making American Jewish food fit for the twenty-first century, emphasizing sustainability, local produce, and a nostalgic longing for family and communal histories. By selling and consuming a revitalized deli cuisine, American Jews […]
Living Writers: Valeria Luiselli
Living Writers: Valeria Luiselli
Valeria Luiselli, Hofstra University, is a novelist and non-fiction writer. She is the author of Faces in the Crowd, Sidewalks, The Story of My Teeth, and Tell Me How It Ends. Twice nominated for both the Kirkus Prize and the NBCC Award, she is the two-time winner of an L.A. Times Book Prize, a recipient […]
Save the Waves Film Festival
Save the Waves Film Festival
The 10th annual Save The Waves Film Festival presented by UGG brings its west coast tour home with an epic evening of live music and international surf films at Patagonia Outlet in Santa Cruz, CA on Thursday, November 8th. The night's festivities will feature world premieres of surf, adventure, and documentary films, as well as live […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Gabriella Caballero
Linguistics Colloquia: Gabriella Caballero
Gabriella Caballero, UC San Diego: The Interaction Between Lexical and Grammatical Tone in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara)* The cross-linguistic study of tone has largely focused on its lexical phonological properties, its phonetic implementation and interaction with other prosodic phenomena, but the morphological role of tone is still under-documented: What kind of morphological information may tone convey across […]
The Maghrib Workshop: Sovereignty, Crisis, and Narratives of Belonging
The Maghrib Workshop: Sovereignty, Crisis, and Narratives of Belonging
The Maghrib Workshop: Sovereignty, Crisis, and Narratives of Belonging Part I Morning 8:30 am transportation from Hotel to Humanities 1 by carpool. 9:00 am Coffee and Introduction 9:30 Camilo Gómez-Rivas (UCSC) “Sanctuary, Refuge, and Displacement to the Maghrib during the Reconquista.” 11:00 Ashley V. Miller (UCB) “Designing Moroccan Heritage on the Economic Battlefield of World War I.” 12:30 Lunch Afternoon […]