Events
Literature Department
2014 Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Fifteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium 9:00-9:10 AM - Opening Remarks Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Director, Literature Undergraduate Program 9:10-10:15 AM - Panel One: Borderlands: Creative Writers Read Moderator, Micah Perks James Williams: Impertinent Youth Marine Ashnalikyan: "In the Living Room" and other Poems Narine Ashnalikyan: "After Dinner" and other Poems Stephen Richter: A Southern Tradition […]
Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: You're Next
Stevenson, Room 150You never want to do anything interesting anymore. If you’ve ever found yourself wondering what a mumblecore slasher film might be like, then look no further than You’re Next. Directed by Adam wingard (who also helmed 2010’s elliptically grim A Horrible Way to Die and this year’s John-Carpenter-meets-The-Terminator homage The Guest) and featuring a number […]
Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: One Missed Call
Stevenson, Room 150Helmed by the wildly prolific Takashi Miike, whose other notable horror credits include Audition (1999), Visitor Q (2001), Gozu (2003), and Imprint (2006), One Missed Call takes the anxieties surrounding the obsolescence of video tape technology that were so gloomily evoked in Ringu (1998) and shifts them onto the rise of cellular phone communication and […]
Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: À l ́interieur
Stevenson, Room 150A French body horror film that takes home invasion movies to their ne plus ultra, Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s À l'intérieur depicts the attempts of Sarah (Alysson Paradis), very pregnant and very alone in her house on Christmas Eve, to ward off the efforts of “La Femme” (Beátrice Dalle) to break into Sarah’s home […]
Lauren Berlant: "Structures of Unfeeling Mysterious Skin"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States“Scholars” y tópicos: Alicia de Colombí-Monguió como paradigma
Humanities 1, Room 202Conference organized by Jordi Aladro, Professor of Literature Wednesday 18th 7:00pm - Welcome for participants with a “vino español” (a generous donation from Instituto Cervantes, New York) Thursday 19th University of California, Santa Cruz. Humanities 1, Room 202 9:45am Introduction: Jordi Aladro Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz 10:15am “The Indefinite Garden: Ovid’s Metaphors and […]
Celebrating 50 Years of Literature
Kresge College Room 327In order to celebrate our tradition of working and teaching across national, linguistic, and disciplinary divides, the UCSC Literature Department is pleased host 50 Years of Literature at UCSC, an event commemorating the achievement of Literature alumni and faculty. This special anniversary event will feature discussions with emeritus and current faculty, and UCSC alumni. It […]
Sixteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis day-long event, including a lunch buffet, will showcase and celebrate undergraduate academic work in the Literature Department. The Undergraduate Colloquium is open to the public; audience members include faculty, students, families and other interested parties. The Literature Department's 2015 Best Undergraduate Essay and Best Senior Essay prizes will be announced during the Opening Remarks […]
Ozploitation Film Series presents : Long Weekend (1978)
Stevenson, Room 150An unsettling cross between Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) and an early Harold Pinter play, Colin Eggleston’s Long Weekend presents us with an extremely prickly couple on holiday who are finding it harder and harder to tolerate each other even as it becomes increasingly apparent that nature itself might be out to do them in […]
The Eighteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTHE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM Opening Remarks 9:30 a.m. Deanna Shemek, Chair, Literature Department Panel One: Translating Tradition 9:45 – 10:45 a.m. Moderator: Christopher Chen Victoria Jones: Ion Elli Levin: Baby's First Inferno, or Dante Alighieri and the Nine Circles Jessica Ness Poetic: Language in Translation Alexander Pérez: The Nation in You Panel Two: […]