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Building Bridges and Institutions: A Conversation with Bridget Anderson
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBridget Anderson, Deputy Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford, discusses her vision and hopes for COMPAS, the relationship between COMPAS and other institutions (for example, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and other academic units), and the relationship between research and society. This event is open to UC Santa […]
Julia Clancy-Smith “Springs Equinox in 18th Century Tunsia: Wreaks, People, and Things in the Sea”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJulia Clancy-Smith is the author of, most recently, Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800-1900 (2010). Her current work, From Household to Schoolroom: Education and Gender in North Africa, Europe, and the Mediterranean, c. 1900-present, is a multi-sided ethnographic inquiry into gender, education, literacy, and the social circulation of knowledge and people. […]
FreeAlma Heckman: “Absence and Counter-Narratives: The Years of Lead and the Moroccan Jewish Exodus”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAlma Rachel Heckman’s research crosses Jewish history, North Africa, French empire and the history of social movements. Her talk emerges from her project “Radical Nationalists: Moroccan Jewish Communists 1925-1975.” Heckman is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. The Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series, […]
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Linking Citizenship, Migration, Labor, Border, and Carceral Studies: A Seminar with Bridget Anderson
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHow, when, where, and why do citizenship, migration, labor, border, and carceral studies converge? What happens when we put these fields in dialogue with one another? Why the distinction between migration studies and refugee studies? When do forced migration and labor migration overlap and when are they different? Who is a "migrant," "refugee," "citizen," and […]
PhD+: Arts and Humanities Grants & Fellowships Workshop for Graduate Students
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation about funding opportunities, nuts and bolts of grant proposal writing, and campus resources available to you in the Arts and Humanities Divisions. In this workshop we will focus on Fall deadlines and introduce a new research development service for graduate students in the two divisions: one-on-one consultations! Friday, September 30, […]
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Inverting the Spanish Avant Garde: Transatlantic Negotiations in El Estudiante (Salamanca-Madrid 1925-26)
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC Spanish Studies and the Department of Language and Applied Linguistics present: Inverting the Spanish Avant Garde: Transatlantic Negotiations in El Estudiante (Salamanca-Madrid 1925-26) By Vanessa Marie Fernandez (UC Santa Cruz and San Jose SU) Friday June 3rd, 6:00PM Humanities 1, Room 210 Vanessa Marie Fernandez completed her PhD in Hispanic Langiages and Literatures form […]
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PhD+: Research and Grants Workshop and End of Year Luncheon
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPhD+ Workshop Series Please join us for the launch of PhD+, our new series! We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for humanities PhDs, online identity issues, internship possibilities, work/life balance, elements of style, grants/fellowships and much, more more. October 9, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel November 6, 2015: Internship Info Session […]
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Moira Weigel: “A Genealogy of ‘Like’: Taste, Emotional Labor, and Technology on the Dating Market”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLabor of Love: The Invention of Dating "But I Want A Guy I Like To Like The Things I Like" Taste and Emotional Labor on the Dating Market It is a truth universally acknowledged that "likes" play an important role in contemporary courtship. While all social media invite us to produce our online identities by […]
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Ruling Passions: Sexuality, Science and the (Post)colonial State
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe past decade or so has witnessed a rapid rise in scholarship that seeks to seize or transform the language of the “science” for liberatory ends. Such an attachment to the reparative and/or divisive logic of “science” is most evident in minoritized knowledge-formations such as sexuality studies and colonial/postcolonial studies. In the face of contemporary […]
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Dai Jinhua: “A Cultural Landscape with No Coordinates: Contemporary Chinese Cinema”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDai Jinhua is currently researching the cultural politics of China after the post-Cold War, the “rise of China,” and the erasures and elisions of China’s anti-colonial, third world socialist past. Bringing her feminist Marxism to bear, Dai Jinhua interprets Chinese film and culture, examining traces of forgotten histories. This talk is generously co-sponsored by the […]