Events
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FrankenCon 2019
For over two hundred years, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has haunted our days and chilled our dreaming nights. Celebrate and explore the enduring legacy of the world’s first science-fiction horror story with FRANKENCON, a three-day conference of scientists, theorists, and artists on November 21-23, 2019 at UC Santa Cruz. The conference is in conjunction with the Theater Arts Department […]
Eve Zyzik: Spanish Studies Colloquium
Eve Zyzik: Spanish Studies Colloquium
Spelling is an aspect of literacy that causes significant difficulties for Spanish heritage language learners. The current research study targets one of the most problematic areas of Spanish orthography: substitution of “s” and “c” letters to represent /s/. Participants (n=72) were young adults, heritage speakers of Spanish, who completed a dictation task in addition to a standardized measure of […]
Anjali Arondekar: What More Remains – Sexuality, Slavery, Historiography
Anjali Arondekar: What More Remains – Sexuality, Slavery, Historiography
This talk engages a ‘small’ history of sexuality and slavery in Portuguese India. At stake are three questions: How do we call attention to the displacement of slave pasts within histories of sexuality that are themselves routinely displaced? How do we locate those displacements in itinerant archives of profit and pleasure, than in archives of […]
Dylan Riley: Capitalism, Democracy, and Authoritarianism – A Reconsideration
Dylan Riley: Capitalism, Democracy, and Authoritarianism – A Reconsideration
Dylan Riley is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe: Italy, Spain, and Romania 1870-1945 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, Verso, 2019). He is also the co-author of a two-volume work with Rebecca Jean Emigh and Patricia Ahmed entitled Antecedents of Censuses: From Medieval […]
Living Writers: Peg Alford Pursell and Sophia Shalmiyev
Living Writers: Peg Alford Pursell and Sophia Shalmiyev
Peg Alford Pursell is the author of A Girl Goes Into the Forest, (Dzanc Books, July 2019), and of Show Her A Flower, A Bird, A Shadow, the 2017 Indies Book of the Year for Literary Fiction. Her work has been published in many journals and anthologies, including Permafrost, Joyland, and the Los Angeles Review. Most recently, her microfiction, flash fiction, […]
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Database
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Database
Jessica Kolopenuk will talk with Science & Justice and the Crown College about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women database. For resources, news articles, tool-kits and webinars that frame the issues, refer to the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center's page on the special collection. Read or Listen to: Native American Activists Look To Next Steps […]
Stephen Roddy: Testing Allegiances – Ueda Akinari’s Rewriting of an Exemplary Chinese Friendship
Stephen Roddy: Testing Allegiances – Ueda Akinari’s Rewriting of an Exemplary Chinese Friendship
This talk examines the transcultural implications of Ueda Akinari's (1734-1809) short story "The Chrysanthemum Pledge" (Kikka no chigiri), a masterpiece considered to have overshadowed the 17th-century Chinese tale of exemplary friendship on which it is closely modeled. Despite the Confucian tenor of both the Chinese and the Japanese versions, I argue that Akinari subtly but […]
Discussion with Peg Alford Pursell and Sophia Shalmiyev
Discussion with Peg Alford Pursell and Sophia Shalmiyev
Join us to discuss excerpts from Mother Winter, a memoir by Sophia Shalmiyev and A Girl Goes Into The Forest, a collection of short stories by Peg Alford Pursell. Please email Micah Perks at (meperks@ucsc.edu) for the readings and to RSVP for the discussion. Peg Alford Pursell is the author of A Girl Goes Into […]