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Juliana Spahr: "The Politics of Poetry Production > The Politics of Poetic Form"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk is part of a larger project about contemporary US literature that asks a very old question about the relation between literature and politics. Professor Spahr suggests that turn of the century US literature is somewhat analogous to the earth’s ailing ecosystem, at risk because of multiple forces-- economic changes, government interference, liberal foundations, […]
FreeMelissa Gregg: “From Productivity to Personal Logistics: A Brief History of Time Management from Shop Floor to Departure Gate”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEVENT PHOTOS: This talk offers a reading of time management in the workplace and the role of technology in facilitating dominant ideas of productivity. It begins by revisiting classic moments in management theory - Taylor, Gilbreth, Mayo, Drucker, and more - and develops a framework for understanding contemporary productivity tools in light of these precursors. […]
FreeTyrus Miller: "The Non-Contemporaneity of György Lukács: Cold War Contradictions and the Aesthetics of Visual Arts"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTyrus Miller has recently published Modernism and the Frankfurt School, and his forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis will appear in 2015. He is the translator/editor of György Lukács’s, The Culture of People’s Democracy: Hungarian Essays on Literature, Art, and Democratic Transition and series co-editor (with Erik Bachman) of Brill’s Lukács Library Series. Current work […]
FreeQuantifying Creativity: Art through the Eyes of Computation
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by the Data Science Initiative Is the experience of art uniquely human? Can algorithms be artistic producers? Or, do machines remove the context and meaning from creativity? As artificial agents generate media and evaluate originality, how will we draw the line between human and machine aesthetics? How will the relationship between art, and […]
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Comparative Empires: Feminist Meditations
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHistories of empire have been tethered over-determinedly to singular histories of nation-states, temporalities and/or geopolitics. Rather than locate empire as a stable or temporal concept, the colloquium attends to the imaginative possibilities offered by a turn to a more comparative relationship to empire within a south-south framework. To do so, we turn to two clusters of […]
FreeLinguistic Colloquium: Sabine Iatridou
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 […]
FreeRonnie Lipschutz: "Utopia or Catastrophe"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk is connected to Professor Lipschutz’s work on politics and popular culture, of which his most recent publication was Political Economy, Capitalism and Popular Culture. Lipschutz is Professor and Chair of Politics and Provost of College Eight at UC Santa Cruz. The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and […]
FreeKeith Johnson: "Adventures in Phonetic Neuroscience"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAbstract: In studying linguistic knowledge and the cognitive processing that uses this knowledge, linguists and psycholinguists have looked for ways to find out what is cognitively "real" that underlies the patterns found in language and linguistic behavior. We are generally faced with the problem of being on the outside looking in. Each method of acquiring […]
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PhD+ : Humanists@Work*
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOur panelists will discuss their current positions, what factored into their decisions, how they found – and got – their jobs. We will also discuss converting CVs into Resumes, hybrid positions, and the wild-west of Digital Humanities. Panelists: Kelly Anne Brown, Assistant Director, UC Humanities Research Institute (PhD, Literature, UC Santa Cruz) Rachel Deblinger, Digital […]
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Tyler Stovall: "White Freedom: Race & Liberty in the Modern Era"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTyler Stovall is currently working on two research projects. One concerns the history of migration from the French Caribbean to France during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The other explores the relationship between freedom and race, arguing that modern concepts of liberty are often racialized. Stovall is the Dean of Humanities and Distinguished Professor of […]
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