PAs a former director of the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Center, Dan Selden’s long-standing interest in cross-cultural aesthetics extends to film production. Selden focuses on the application of the Western cinematic apparatus to non-Western contexts in an effort to better understand the work of such directors as `Abbās Kiyārostamī and Wong Kar Wai. Daniel […]

Interested in the emotional terrains of activism, Deborah Gould’s current project explores political appetites, encounters, and the "not-yet" of politics. Deborah Gould is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Sociology at UC Santa Cruz.

The direct object relation is a relation of central importance in syntactic theory and so it was an important moment when the nature of that relation was re-thought in a fundamental way in work of the 1990's. This paper examines some of the issues raised in that re-thinking, by looking closely at the expression of […]

Joanne Barker will be lead a seminar followed by a Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) program building discussion. Please register to obtain the seminar readings. Joanne Barker (Lenape ) is associate professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University. She received her Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness Department from the University […]

Oct 3-5, UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis, UC Berkeley. This conference is a pendant to the recent UK conference on Militant Politics and Poetry at Birkbeck College (Saturday, 18 May 2013). It features a large number of US and UK scholar-poets. The conference will take up from a variety of perspectives the relationship of poetry […]

Intervening in populist, Occupy Wall Street discourses about the subprime crisis and its remedies, this talk critically uncovers Manna Hata from Manhattan. Offering a long genealogical view of the militarized dispossession, genocide, and enslavement of Native peoples in order to problematize the subprime crisis as a signifier of racism, this talk focuses on territorial expansion, […]

Note: due to two unfortunate cancellations, the session originally planned for Tuesday evening, June 25th, will not take place. The workshop will begin Wednesday morning. All conference events will take place in Humanities 1, Room 210. Wednesday, June 26th 10:00–11:30 David Hyder (University of Ottawa) “Time and object in Transcendental Deduction §24” Moderator: Dennis Des […]

bodies / moving / borders displacements and dreams of citizenship a research symposium and performances re-membering legacies, pedagogies and ways of knowing with special guests: Julio Salgado, Leti Volpp, and Las Bomberas de la Bahia The symposium will extend the dialogue we have built about citizenship, culture and identity by bringing together scholars and practitioners […]

Join the IHR's Religious and Secular Entanglements Research Cluster for a workshop with Fenella Cannell. We will be discussing an early draft of her current work on kinship and religion with a specific focus on Mormonism. Attendees should read the draft of her chapter on "Mormon Intercessions" by clicking on the two (2) links below. […]