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Linguistics Colloquium: Gabriela Caballero
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGabriela Caballero Gabriela Caballero is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests include languages of the Americas (particularly Uto-Aztecan languages), phonology, morphology, language description and documentation, comparative/historical linguistics, and typology. This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.
Akira Mizuta Lippit: “Like Cats and Dogs”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Akira Mizuta Lippit Akira Mizuta Lippit Professor, Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Cultures, USC Chair, Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts […]
Allen Wells: “Lives in the Balance: The United States, the Dominican Republic and the Rescue of Jews during World War II”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAllen Wells Initially supportive of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo’s offer to accept 100,000 Jews at the 1938 Evian Conference, Washington began to back away from its ringing endorsement soon after a succession of German victories throughout Western Europe during the spring of 1940. Only 750 refugees would find their way to Sosúa, a farming […]
Conservation in No Man’s Land: A Colloquium on Values, Science, and the Crisis of Biodiversity
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPANELISTS Daniel Guevara UCSC Department of Philosophy Claudio Campagna Wildlife Conservation Society UCSC Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Ronnie Lipschutz UCSC Politics Department Daniel Press UCSC Department of Environmental Studies AGENDA 9:00 am Introductory Remarks: Daniel Guevara 9:15 am Introductory Remarks: Claudio Campagna 9:30 am On the Place of Science […]
Peter Euben: “Women of Melos”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Peter Euben Peter Euben Emeritus Research Professor, Political Science and Classical Studies, Kenan Distinguished Faculty Fellow Emeritus, Duke University "Women of Melos" Although the […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Matthew Gordon
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMatthew Gordon Matthew Gordon is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include phonetics, phonology, and typology. This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.
Melissa L. Caldwell: “Sowing the Seeds of Civil Society: Russia’s Garden Democracy”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Melissa L. Caldwell Professor, Anthropology, UCSC Co-Director, UCMRP on Studies of Food and the Body "Sowing the Seeds of Civil Society: Russia's Garden Democracy" Professor Caldwell examines the politics of poverty, social welfare, care and intimacy in Russia through ethnographic research in Dacha Idylls: Living Organically in Russia's Countryside […]
J. Cameron Monroe: “Elephants for Want of Towns? New Light on Old Cities in West Africa’s Atlantic Age”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWestern conceptions of the city have a long and storied history, one that until recently largely dismissed pre-colonial African urbanisms as no more than a passive response to cultural stimulus from outside the continent. This has been particularly true for West African cities that emerged in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. However, landscape […]
Sean Keilen: “From Latin Rhetoric to English Poetry: Shakespeare’s Antic Dispositions”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Early Modern Comparative Studies/Shakespeare: Sean Keilen, College of William and Mary "From Latin Rhetoric to English Poetry: Shakespeare’s Antic Dispositions" The talk Shakespeare's efforts to distinguish the poems and plays he was writing from the arguments […]
Megan Moodie: “We Were Adivasis: Collective Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Megan Moodie Megan Moodie Assistant Professor, Anthropology, UCSC "We Were Adivasis: Collective Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe" Professor Moodie studies the sociality engendered by legal and economic projects for uplift and empowerment, including affirmative action, microfinance, and gender-based rights assertions. Her in-progress book, based on ethnographic work with […]