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Lisa Lowe: "Colonial Difference and the Neoliberal Present"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis lecture casts the history of liberal modernity as a complex, braided project, which includes at once the universal promises of rights, emancipation, wage labor and free trade, as well as the global divisions and colonial asymmetries upon which those promises depend, and according to which such liberties are reserved for some and denied to […]
Bali Sahota: "Veils of the Absolute Subject: Benjamin’s Sublime"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBALI SAHOTA Assistant Professor of Literature, UCSC G.S. Sahota is currently completing two books, Late Colonial Sublime: Neo-Epics and the End of Romanticism and The Name of Reason: Sikhism, Secularism, Modernism. Fall 2014 Colloquium Series: October 15: Bali Sahota October 22: Vilashini Cooppan October 29: Nirvikar Singh November 5: Juned Shaikh November 12: Dean […]
FreeMaster Memoir Workshop with Ariel Gore
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMaster Memoir Workshop with Ariel Gore for faculty and graduate students. Participants will read Gore's short memoir, Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver and bring 2-3 pages of their own autobiographical material to workshop. Space is limited. Contact Micah Perks meperks@ucsc.edu to RSVP. Sponsored by the IHR Complicated Labor Research Cluster.
FreeLRC Workshop: On Syntax and Information Structure
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWe will begin the academic year at Santa Cruz with a workshop centered on issues at the interface between syntax and information structure. The workshop will feature four talks. 10:00-10:10 AM - Opening Remarks 10:10-11:10 AM - Bern Samko (Santa Cruz): Verum Focus and Scalar Emphasis in English VP-Preposing 11:10-11:30 AM - Break 11:30-12:30 […]
FreeIntegrative Graduate Humanities Education and Research Training (IGHERT) Workshop
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUC Santa Cruz’s Institute for Humanities Research is one of four CHCI member centers and institutes that will lead the research through 2017 on one of the pilot projects, Integrative Graduate Humanities Research Education and Training (IGHERT). The project brings together faculty, doctoral students, and post-doctoral scholars in a series of structured collaborations to undertake […]
Mary Niall Mitchell: “The Slave Girl in the Archive: a Tale on Paper and Glass”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWorkshop: "Archival Challenges: Children, Slavery, and Nineteenth Century Visual Culture" Wednesday, June 4 @ 9-11a.m. For access to pre-circulated readings for the workshop, please contact Institute for Humanities Research at ihr@ucsc.edu. Cultural Studies Colloquium: "The Slave Girl in the Archive: A Tale of Paper and Glass" Wednesday June 4 @ 12:15-1:30p.m. In her current […]
FreeMary Niall Mitchell: Workshop “Archival Challenges: Children, Slavery, and Nineteenth Century Visual Culture”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWorkshop: "Archival Challenges: Children, Slavery, and Nineteenth Century Visual Culture" Wednesday, June 4 @ 9-11a.m. For access to pre-circulated readings for the workshop, please contact Institute for Humanities Research at ihr@ucsc.edu. Cultural Studies Colloquium: "The Slave Girl in the Archive: A Tale of Paper and Glass" Wednesday June 4 @ 12:15-1:30p.m. In her current project, […]
Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Feminist Studies Department is proud to announce... Queen for a Day Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela A Conversation & Book Party for Marcia Ochoa with Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal & B. Ruby Rich Tuesday, June 3 About the Book Queen for a Day is a queer diasporic ethnography of beauty and […]
FreeSpring Awards & Humanities Undergraduate Research Award Presentations
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: You are cordially invited to Spring Awards 2014 on Thursday, May 29, 2014. This annual "Celebrating Humanities" event is an important opportunity to acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition, awards, and distinctions over the course of this past year. The Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) support and encourage undergraduate research. In […]
Gopal Balakrishan: "Breakthroughs of the Young Marx"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGopal Balakrishan Professor, History of Consciousness, UCSC Offering an intellectual history of the phases of Marx's thought from his dissertation on Greek philosophy to The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Gopal Balakrishnan seeks to explain why the emergent syntheses of this early Marx broke down in the aftermath of the failures of the revolutions of […]