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How to Live Like Shakespeare
How to Live Like Shakespeare
This series of noontime conversations will feature key passages by Shakespeare, selected for what they reveal about life and living. What are the virtues or capacities that Shakespeare took to be essential to social, spiritual, and civic happiness? How do Shakespeare’s speakers think out loud about values and ends, and how does Shakespeare think in […]
Yasmeen Daifallah — Theorize and Decolonize: Critiques of Colonial Subjectivity in Contemporary Arab Thought
Yasmeen Daifallah — Theorize and Decolonize: Critiques of Colonial Subjectivity in Contemporary Arab Thought
What does it take to cultivate decolonized subjects in postcolonial times? When anti-colonial struggles are all said and done, and the dust settles on a profoundly reshaped social, economic, and political landscape in their wake, what kinds of intellectual and political labor are required to undo colonized subjectivities and to gradually and systematically produce decolonized […]
One year later, have we gotten anywhere?
One year later, have we gotten anywhere?
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered when a white police officer placed his knee on Floyd’s neck. Coast-to-coast, protests erupted, and, locally, Santa Cruz police Chief Andy Mills took a knee alongside Mayor Justin Cummings and a sea of protestors in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. But while that might be […]
Bombay Katta: The City and its Poor
Bombay Katta: The City and its Poor
Katta signifies casual and engaged conversation, but unlike its distant cousin the Bengali Adda, it also denotes a space where friends come to talk and listen. Juned Shaikh and Sheetal Chhabria speak to histories of labor, poverty and caste in colonial and postcolonial Bombay. Sheetal Chhabria is Associate Professor of History at Connecticut College. She […]
Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
Towards the end of the spring quarter each year, the Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) showcases the research of the department's undergraduate students. This conference always features as an invited speaker, a distinguished alumnus or alumna of the department. For more information and to register, please visit the Linguistics Department website at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/conferences/lurc.html
Articulating Trust: A cross-disciplinary roundtable conversation
Articulating Trust: A cross-disciplinary roundtable conversation
"Articulating Trust: A cross-disciplinary roundtable conversation about language rights and socio-linguistic justice in higher education and beyond" will be followed by a Q&A and discussion with the audience. In this conversation, we are hoping to further develop the notion of Language Rights, recently applied to the context of higher education. The right to one’s own […]