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  • Jonathan Boyarin: “Trickster’s Children: Jewishness and the Generations of Anthropology”

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Jonathan Boyarin is the Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has also taught at Wesleyan University, Dartmouth College, the New School for Social Research and the University of Kansas. Boyarin received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1998, after receiving his […]

  • Ondrej Skovajsa: “Written Voice: Walt Whitman’s first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855) and Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer (1934)”

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The Literature Department invites you to a talk by: Ondrej Skovajsa, Visiting Fulbright Scholar "Written Voice: Walt Whitman’s first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855) and Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer (1934)" Discussing first the relevance of oral theory when dealing with texts, the paper deals with the strategies Whitman and Miller share to get […]

  • Migration and Ethnic Studies

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The Borders, Bodies and Violence Research Cluster presents: Migration and Ethnic Studies This symposium brings together scholars roused by recent legislation targeting migrants and ethnic studies, such as Arizona's SB 1070, one of the most draconian anti-immigration measures in the United States, and HB 2281, the 2010 prohibition on ethnic studies in public schools. Topics […]

  • Isabelle Delpla: “How to Conceptualize Extreme Evil: Eichmann’s Trial & Modern Theodicies”

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Isabelle Delpla Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Montpellier III Professor Delpla focuses on the relation between philosophy and anthropology in theorizing international ethics and justice. Her work on postwar Bosnia deals with the Srebrenica massacre, the reception of the International Criminal Tribunal and the status of victims and […]

  • Amelia Jones: “Activating the Feminist Body and the Curating of Feminist Art”

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The Museum and Curatorial Studies (MACS) Research Cluster presents: Amelia Jones, Professor and Grierson Chair in Visual Culture, McGill University This paper takes off from a brief history of the curating of feminist art in the North American and European contexts. My aim is to think about the exhibition, and the feminist show in particular, […]

  • Charles Hedrick, Sr.: “Secret Mark: The Scholarly Firestorm that Followed…”

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President's Chair in Ancient Studies present a pair of lectures in an ongoing series on "Archaeology and the Ancient World” Professor Charles Hedrick, Sr. Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, Missouri State University “Secret Mark: second edition or forgery?” Monday, April 2 at 5 […]

  • Hayden White: “Fictions of the Holocaust”

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Hayden White University Professor, Historical Studies, Emeritus, UCSC Professor White serves as American Representative of Pasts, Inc. Narrative Therapy: "Get the Past You Deserve." He wears the title of Philologian, the division of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences into which he was inducted after being rejected by […]

  • Emanuela Trevisan-Semi: “Why Jews left Morocco: Different Narratives”

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Emanuela Trevisan Semi is professor of Modern Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Ca' Foscari University in Venice (Italy). She has done research about Jews at the margins (karaites, Jews of Ethiopia, Judaising movements) and mizrahim in Israel. She has recentely published a book in French on memory and represention of Jews in Morocco among Moroccan […]

  • Selma James on Sex, Race, and Class

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Selma James is a renowned women's rights and anti-racist campaigner and author. In her activist work and her writings, Selma has addressed the power relations within the working class movement, and how to organize across sectors despite divisions of sex, race, and class, South and North. She has founded the International Wages for Housework Campaign […]

  • Charles Hedrick, Sr.: “Secret Mark: Second Edition or Forgery?””

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President's Chair in Ancient Studies present a pair of lectures in an ongoing series on "Archaeology and the Ancient World” Professor Charles Hedrick, Sr. Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, Missouri State University “Secret Mark: second edition or forgery?” Monday, April 2 at 5 […]

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