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Gautam Premnath: “Urban Form, Minority Identity, and Narrative Drift in Altaf Tyrewala’s No God in Sight”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThirty-two pages into No God in Sight (2005), Altaf Tyrewala's novel undertakes a dramatic formal turn. By this point, Tyrewala has established an inventive formula, serving up a series of brief, elegantly crafted, loosely connected, first-person narratives that chart sinuous, unpredictable pathways through various Bombay localities. Throughout Tyrewala sustains an unvaryingly wry, detached narratorial voice […]
Bettina Apthekar: “Queering the History of the Communist Left in the United States”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Bettina Apthekar Bettina Apthekar Distinguished Professor, Feminist Studies and History, UCSC "Queering the History of the Communist Left in the United States" In 2010 gays and lesbians of the U.S. Communist Party began publishing a newsletter, The Queer Communist, whose emblem is a pink triangle superimposed on a hammer […]
“What Latinos Are Reading”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Latino Literary Cultures Project / Proyecto Culturas Literarias Latinas presents: What Latinos Are Reading Bringing together writers and editors, this symposium explores the conditions of possibility for Latino literature today, focusing on its less-explored popular edges. Panelists will explore the conditions of possibility for a US Latino literature--its varied audiences, the kinds of literacy […]
Heather James: “Bison Hamlet”
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: “Bison Hamlet” considers the idea of species extinction in myths of the westward transmission of culture in early modern England (translation of empire) and nineteenth-century America (Manifest Destiny). The chief exhibits are […]
Vanita Seth: “Faces of the Self”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Vanita Seth Vanita Seth Associate Professor, Politics, UCSC "Faces of the Self" The French ban on the burqa and niqab is only one example of the primacy accorded the face in modern western societies. Professor Seth here argues that the fortunes of the face are tied to the birth […]
Kathy Lou Shultz: “Diasporic Modernism at Mid-Century: Melvin B. Tolson and Langston Hughes in/and the 1950s.”
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 African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary). Kathy Lou Schultz is the author of the forthcoming monograph The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History: Tolson, Hughes, Baraka. Schultz's most recent journal articles are "To Save and Destroy: Melvin B. […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Masaya Yoshida
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMasaya Yoshida The focus of Professor Yoshida's research is on aspects of syntactic representations both in static knowledge of language and in real time sentence processing. The studies carried out so far attempted to integrate work in theoretical and typological syntax and experimental psycholinguistics in order to reveal representations of sentence structures built in real […]
Cheryl Higashida: “Black Radicalism’s Queer Record: Erna Brodber and the West Indian Jazz Novel”
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 African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary). Cheryl Higashida "Black Radicalism’s Queer Record: Erna Brodber and the West Indian Jazz Novel" Cheryl Higashida is Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder, where she has taught since 2002. She […]
Yair Dalal: “Bridge to Babylon Lecture on Jewish Middle Eastern Music”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesComposer, violinist, oud player and singer Yair Dalal was born in 1955. His family came to Israel from Baghdad, and his Iraqi roots are embedded in his musical work. Whether working on his own, or with his Alol ensemble, Dalal creates new Middle Eastern music by interweaving the traditions of Iraqi and Jewish Arabic music […]
Alice Yang: “Can the President be Torturer in Chief? John Yoo, Executive Authority and Historical Memory”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Alice Yang Alice Yang Associate Professor, History, UCSC Co-Director, Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories "Can the President be Torturer in Chief? John Yoo, Executive Authority and Historical Memory" Professor Yang examines the legal reasoning of the former Justice Department lawyer’s “torture memos” and his arguments that […]