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Linguistic Colloquium: Kyle Johnson
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLinguistic Colloquium: The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. Fall 2015 October 9th: Keith Johnson, UC Berkeley October 16th: Heidi Harley, University of Arizona October 30th: Ivano Caponigro, UC San Diego November 20th: Elliott Moreton, University of North Carolina Winter 2016 January 15th: Sharon Inkelas, UC Berkeley February 5th: Colin Phillips, University of Maryland February […]
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Marjorie Agosin: “Gender & Sexuality in the Work of Gabriela Mistral”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMarjorie Agosin is the Luella La Mer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies and Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. Professor Agosin’s poetry is inspired by social justice and the dedicated to the remembrance and memorialization of traumatic historical events in the Americas and in European holocaust. As a Chilean-American of Jewish heritage Agosin’s poetry […]
FreeRonaldo V. Wilson: “Your Micro-Aggression, My Macro-Response: Some Renderings”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRonaldo Wilson’s current project AVATAR|DIASPORA, wrestles with the idea of the obliterated black body and its juncture with poetry and visual culture. This project documents his current practice through sonic landscapes, video, dance, and writing as ways to explore race, sexuality, and representation. Wilson is Associate Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. EVENT PHOTOS: Spring 2016 Colloquium Series […]
FreeLeonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLeonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists, scientists, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations. Please join us in […]
FreeStephanie Jones-Rogers: “Lady Flesh Stealers, Female Soul Drivers, and She-Merchants: White Women and the American Slave Market”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesStephanie Jones-Rogers is completing her manuscript “Mistresses of the Market: White Women and the Economy of American Slavery.” It examines white women’s economic investments in American slavery and reveals their active participation in the South’s slave market economy. Jones-Rogers is Assistant Professor of History at UC Berkeley. Spring 2016 Colloquium Series April 6, 2016 April 13, 2016 April 20, […]
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Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9 (SULA 9)
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEVENT PHOTOS: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in Americas 9 SULA 9 will be held at the University of California, Santa Cruz on May 6-8, 2016. The conference is a venue for researchers working on languages or dialects spoken in the Americas that do not have an established tradition of work in formal semantics. We especially encourage […]
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Christina Schwenkel – Designing the Rational City: Gender and the ‘Housing Question’ Revisited in Late Socialist Vietnam
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesChristina Schwenkel, Professor of Anthropology, UC Riverside Professor Schwenkel's work addresses transnationalism, historical memory, aesthetics and visual culture in Vietnam. Her book, "The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation (2009) examines encounters between U.S. and Vietnamese recollections and representations of the war, and seeks to define and maintain particular visions of historical […]
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Book Talk with Donna Haraway: “Manifestly Haraway”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Emerging Worlds, the Center for Cultural Studies, and the Science & Justice Research Center present: Book Talks with Donna Haraway reading from Manifestly Haraway Followed by a conversation between Donna Haraway & Cary Wolfe Manifestly Haraway brings together Donna Haraway’s seminal “Cyborg Manifesto” and “Companion Species Manifesto.” Manifestly Haraway also includes a […]
FreeDonna V. Jones: “’I want more life’: Reflections on Time, Race and Duration in Ridley Scott’s Bladerunner”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDonna V. Jones is the author of Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Vitalism, Negritude and Modernity. Her publications and research interests include comparative modernisms, postcolonial literature, life philosophies and biopolitics, and science fiction and science studies. Her current project is Cursed Immortality: Life, Duration, and Biopolitics in Late Capitalism. Jones is Associate Professor of English at […]
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Designing Digital Scholarship: Art, Feminism + the Digital Humanities
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWith Craig Deitrich (Claremont Colleges) and Tara McPherson (USC) The story of the digital humanities is often narrated at a decades-long history of the computational manipulation of print. What alternative histories are concealed by such a story? How might we imagine DH differently if we move beyond a focus on text toward multimodal expression and […]
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