Events
Week of Events
Deep Read Salon: Revisiting Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Deep Read Salon: Revisiting Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Join us for a Deep Read salon on Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn featuring UC Santa Cruz Professor of Literature and Twain Scholar, Susan Gillman. Prof. Gillman will discuss Twain's novel in the context of 19th-century literature and history and explain its broader cultural influence and reach. She'll help lay the groundwork for understanding […]
Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens – Episode 1
Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens – Episode 1
Join us for this year's, Undiscovered Shakespeare featuring Timon of Athens (1606), a late play focusing on the corrosive effects of prodigality and ingratitude in an apparently democratic society. Gretchen Minton, Professor of English at the University of Montana, Bozeman and the editor of the most recent Arden edition of the play, will be the […]
Derek Penslar – Is Israel a Settler-Colonial State?
Derek Penslar – Is Israel a Settler-Colonial State?
The Center for Jewish Studies Presents The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies featuring Derek Penslar. Derek Penslar will be presenting his talk titled Is Israel a Settler-Colonial State? Since the 1960s, referencing Israel as settler-colonial has been a common polemical practice, a means of delegitimization of the state of Israel and those who […]