Events
Carol Lynn McKibben: "Gender and Italian Immigration in California: A Monterey Case Study"
Humanities 1, Room 202Regional context is of critical importance in understanding processes of migration. As well, gender analysis complicates group migration experiences. Dr. McKibben's talk will focus both on the economic and social environment of California and on the role of women in families that made for a migration experience for Sicilians that counters the usual narratives of […]
Clive Sinclair: “The Jew in the Crown”
Humanities 1, Room 202“The Jew in the Crown” will offer a brief examination of the ambiguous role of the semitic anti-hero in English literature; anti-heroes such as Shylock, Fragin, and Svengali, whose half-life continues to radiate. Clive Sinclair has published 13 books of fiction, travel, and autobiography, some of which have been given prizes. Early in his career […]
Craig Dworkin: “The Politics of the Work”
Humanities 1, Room 202In Partnership with Poetry and Politics Research Cluster and the Literature Department presents: Craig Dworkin for a Lecture on Poetics. Craig Dworkin is the author of Reading the Illegible (Northwestern UP), Signature-Effects (Ghos-Ti), Dure (Cuneiform), Strand (Roof), and Parse (Atelos), and the editor of Architectures of Poetry (Rodopi), Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern UP), The Sound of Poetry (Chicago UP), and Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writing of Vito […]
Mary Paster: “Phonologically Conditioned Morphology”
Humanities 1, Room 202Mary Paster (PhD UC Berkeley, 2006) is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College in Claremont, California. Her research focuses on phonology and morphology, and their interface. She specializes in the study of African languages, particularly their tone systems. She has published in such journals as Phonology, […]
A Seminar with Jean Franco
Humanities 1, Room 202To obtain a copy of the paper that will be discussed at the seminar, please contact Courtney Mahaney (cmahaney@ucsc.edu). Professor Jean Franco was the first Professor of Latin American Literature in England. She was appointed Professor by the University of Essex in 1968 having previously taught at Queen Mary College and Kings College, London University. […]
Jean Franco: “Cruel Modernity”
Humanities 1, Room 202Professor Jean Franco was the first Professor of Latin American Literature in England. She was appointed Professor by the University of Essex in 1968 having previously taught at Queen Mary College and Kings College, London University. In 1972 she took up a position at Stanford University where she was later appointed to the Olive H. […]
A Public Dialogue with Jean Baumgarten and Nathaniel Deutsch
Humanities 1, Room 202One of the most important—and least appreciated—categories that Jews have employed to experience the world Jewishly is minhag, a Hebrew word typically translated into English as "custom." Historically, minhag enabled Jews to transform practically every event and action into something with Jewish meaning; it also enabled Jews to differentiate themselves from non-Jews, as well as […]
Dai Jin-hua: “In Vogue: Politics and National Ethnicity in Lust, Caution and the Lust, Caution Phenomenon in China”
Humanities 1, Room 202Dai Jinhua is Founder and Director of the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies and Film Studies at Peking University, where she is also Professor of Chinese Literature and Language. She is a prominent cultural scholar of literature, film, and popular culture. With Meng Yue, she wrote the 1989 Emerging on the Horizon of History, one […]
Florence Howe
Humanities 1, Room 202Kresge Writer’s House, Living Writers, & Feminist Studies presents: Florence Howe, founder of The Feminist Press and author of the memoir, A Life in Motion
Ned Blackhawk: “The Indigenous West of Mark Twain: Samuel Clemens and American Empire, 1861-1866”
Humanities 1, Room 202Building upon the last sections of his first book, Violence over the Land, in this presentation Ned Blackhawk reevaluates the American West’s most famous if often under-recognized author, Samuel Clemens, whose more famous pseudonym, Mark Twain, was first deployed in 1863 in Virginia City, Nevada’s Territorial Enterprise. This presentation considers the place of indigenous peoples—specifically […]