April 2013
1 post
fig+axle reading 4/17/2013
Please join us on Wednesday, April 17th @ 7:30 in Voorhies 126 for the first fig+axle Graduate Student Reading Series of the Spring Quarter. Our featured graduate readers are:
Susana Ponce Fiction
Brandon Norris Poetry
Ishelle Payer Fiction
About our readers:
Susana Ponce
Susana is pursuing a MA in Creative Writing (Fiction) at UC Davis. Her work typically explores such topics as: early...
March 2013
1 post
Graduate Student Reading Series - Thursday March...
Come one, come all to March’s Graduate Student Reading. This month we have a fiction writer and two poets who will read in Voorhies 126.
Ryan Mattern is an M.A. student in the Creative Writing Program at the University of California, Davis. He earned his B.A. in Creative Writing from California State University, San Bernardino. He is the recipient of the Felix Valdez Award for short...
February 2013
4 posts
Cold War Aesthetics: The Case of Trilling and...
The Dept. of English is very pleased to welcome Amanda Anderson, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English at Brown University and Director of the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University.
Professor Anderson’s talk, “Cold War Aesthetics: The Case of Trilling and Adorno,” will be drawn from an in-progress book entitled “Bleak Liberalism.” ...
Avid Reading Feb. 16th
Join us at the Avid Reader in downtown Davis this Saturday for a reading by several poets including UC Davis’s own CJ Morello and Joe Wenderoth. The thrill ride kicks off at 7pm! “The Avid Reader” always makes me think “The Arid Reader” instead for some reason. Does that make me weird? Probably. Be there on Saturday!
Exploring Ecopoetics
What: “Exploring Ecopoetics: A Satellite Event of the 2013 Conference on Ecopoetics,” presented by the UC Davis English Department with co-sponsorship support from the UC Davis Humanities Institute When: 1-3 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21 Where: Voorhies 126 Please join us for an afternoon poetry reading and discussion, featuring poets Hillary Gravendyk and Brian Teare. “Exploring...
Graduate Student Reading Series Feb. 14th
Come one, come all to the next installment of the fig+axle graduate student reading series! Featuring the ample talents of Art MIddleton (our host!), Christina Magaña, and Kurt Wooden. Come to Voorhies 126 at 8pm on February the 14th for a night of poems, prose, and possibly prophecy.
Christina Magaña
Christina Magaña is a graduate student in creative writing (poetry) at the University of...
January 2013
3 posts
PRIZED WRITING Reading
Join us Tuesday, January 29th at 4pm in Voorhies 126 for a reading by UC Davis student authors!
Jennifer Rotondo will read from and discuss her essay, Brazilian Beauty, and Julia-Rose Padilla Gonzales will also read from and discuss hers, titled Conventions of the English Language in the Twitterverse. Both of these pieces were recently published in Prized Writing, which is produced every year by...
Graduate Student Reading Series JAN. 16th VENUE...
With apologies for the stressful image, fig+axle is thrilled to the bones to announce our first graduate student reading of 2013. Featuring the frequently incredible and always amazing Paola Capó-García, Eleanor Liu, and Joseph Hill. Come to Voorhies 126 at 8pm on January 16th and get some culture in your ears.
A bit more about our readers:
Paola Capó-García
Paola Capó-García is a poet and...
Adriana Craciun on January 16th
I’m excited to announce a talk by Adriana Craciun who received her Ph.D. in English at UCD and is now Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, and the Multicampus Director of the Research Group on The Material Cultures of Knowledge. Her talk “The Seeds of Disaster: Relics of La Pérouse” is on the history of recovering relics from the eighteenth-century French explorer La...
December 2012
1 post
Art Auction Against Political Repression Dec.11th
Join us on December 11th for a night that’s been a long time coming that will feature art from a wide variety of contributors. A note from the Davis Antirepression Crew:
Please join us for an Art Auction Benefit to fight political repression on campus.
The Davis Antirepression Crew is fundraising to support legal expenses for students experiencing political repression on campus. For...
November 2012
5 posts
Laura Mullen and Catherine Walsh
Join us for a night of poems with experimental poets Laura Mullen and Catherine Walsh at Voorhies 126 on Wednesday, November 28th from 7-10pm. It’s guaranteed to be some of the most stimulating poetry you’ll hear/read all quarter so come out on the 28th and lend an ear or two!
Laura Mullen is the author of seven books: Enduring Freedom: A Little Book of Mechanical Brides, just out...
Conversations with Writers: Adair Lara
On November 15, from 5 to 6:30 pm, Adair Lara will talk with her audience about her book Naked, Drunk and Writing (Ten Speed Press, 2012) at the UWP Conversations with Writers series in 126 Voorhies. Lara is the author of several Chronicle Press books, including The Granny Diaries (2008), The Bigger the Sign, the Worse the Garage Sale (2007), andNormal is Just a Setting on the...
Graduate Readins Series CHANGE OF VENUE
Due to concerns about the weather, tonight’s event will now be held at Voorhies 126.
So for a complete recap: Come to Voorhies 126 at 7:30pm tonight to hear the poetry of Emma Estrella and Eric Sneathen, and the prose of Ben Hinshaw!
Poetry Night Against Political Repression
Poetry Night Against Political Repression
Please join us for a benefit art auction and poetry reading featuring internationally renowned poets Joe Wenderoth, Juliana Spahr, and Joshua Clover. This event, a special edition of Poetry Night, supports a UC Davis student being charged more than five thousand dollars in restitution after being forced into a plea deal for graffiti art; by remarkable...
First Graduate Student Reading NOV. 8th
Come one, come all to fig+axle Graduate Student Reading Series 2012-2013 inaugural event featuring a trio of wonderful readers. On November 8th, 8pm at 239 3rd St. next to Sam’s Mediterranean, come hear Ben Hinshaw, Emma Estrella, and Eric Sneathen read their prose and poetry.
A bit more about the readers:
Ben Hinshaw
Ben Hinshaw is a writer and occasional musician, born on the...
October 2012
6 posts
Sandra Gilbert at the John Natsoulas Gallery
Come one, come all to a night of poetry, puns, and perennial pleasure with the poet Sandra Gilbert! Where? The John Natsoulas Gallery (521 First st.). When? November the 1st. Who? Sandra Gilbert!
Sandra M. Gilbert, Distinguished Professor of of English Emerita at the University of California, Davis, is the author of eight collections of poetry: In the Fourth World (Alabama), The Summer...
fig+axle Graduate Student Reading Series
fig+axle is pleased to announce the schedule of events for the 2012-13 Graduate Student Reading Series! The list that follows is spilling over with talent, and we at fig+axle cannot wait to get started. Come out for each reading and support your local writers!
Tentatively:
NOVEMBER 8
eric sneathen
emma estrella
ben hinshaw
JANUARY 10
eleanor liu
joseph hill
paola capó-garcía
FEBRUARY 14
art...
Erick Lyle
Come out this Wednesday, October 24th at 7pm to Voorhies 126, for a talk by writer/activist/artist/curator Erick Lyle. See the description below for the details. In recent years, city planners across the country have fallen in love with art. From big cities like Miami and San Francisco to small towns like Braddock, PA, it has become conventional wisdom that art and artists are the key to...
A.D. Winans at the Davis Jazz Beat Festival
You’re in luck! A.D. Winans will be reading at The John Natsoulas Gallery at 521 First Street onOctober 19th at 7:30pm! Come out for a night of poems and good feelings.
Here’s more about the man himself and the excellent Davis Jazz Beat Festival:
A native of San Francisco, Allan Davis Winans is a poet, essayist, photographer, and short story writer whose work has appeared in over...
Mary Favret Talk
We are pleased to announce that this Friday, October 12th, Mary Favret will speak on “Suicide and the Soldier” in Voorhies 126 at 4pm.
Buy her book at http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9033.html or at your local bookstore.
Here’s more about the author and her book:
What does it mean to live during wartime away from the battle zone? What is it like for citizens to go about...
Cathy Park Hong
We at fix and axle are thrilled to announce a reading by Cathy Park Hong on October 22nd! She will read at 6pm in Voorhies 126 so don’t miss the opportunity to hear Hong read some of her work.
Again, the details: October 22nd, 6PM Voorhies 126
A little more about Cathy Park Hong: Cathy Park Hong’s first book, Translating Mo’um was published in 2002 by Hanging Loose Press....
May 2012
13 posts
FIG + AXLE Double-Header!
A gentle reminder that this Thursday, MAY 24th, there’s a double-header reading event happening at sibling locations. Here are all the fine details:
New Writing From UC Davis Thursday, May 24 at 7pm in Voorhies 126 Alumni Melanie Thorne and Stephan Clark will be reading from their new books! followed by at 8:30pm at 239 3rd St. (next to Sam’s Mediterranean) thee one and only ...
Nathalie Handal and Megan Kaminski
SPC SACRAMENTO POETRY CENTER Presents Nathalie Handal and Megan Kaminski Monday, May 14 at 7:30 PM SPC at 1719 25th Street Host: Bob Stanley
Nathalie Handal is an award-winning poet, playwright, and editor. She has lived in Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Arab world. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, such as, The Guardian,...
Pam Houston and Greg Glazner
Pam Houston and Greg Glazner will be reading in Sacramento at the Shine Cafe on Wednesday at 8 p.m., and Greg’s band, Professor Len and the Big Night, will be playing.
If you like writing and the blues, I hope you can join us Wednesday night. The forecast calls for enjoyable. There’s more info at www.gregglazner.com.
Shine on.
Scholar's Symposium
Please join us for the first of two Scholar’s Symposium events next Thursday, May 17th at 330pm in 126 Voorhies.
The first, titled Phases of Thought, is a paper jam style event featuring 8 early-program PhD student paper presentations and 4 later-program PhD student respondents. This event will demonstrate the vast range and keen insight of our department’s newest voices and will...
The Semiotics of War
If you have an interest in the semiotics of war with a focus on the Middle East, this presentation will likely be of interest:
Food for Thought Workshop
Monday, May 14th, at 12 noon
STS/Center for Science & Innovation Studies (room 1246 SS&H).
Kali Rubaii is a past Prized Writing Winner and UCD graduate, currently working towards her PhD in Anthropology at UCSC.
Greg Glazner & Pam Houston
Professor Len & the Big Night w/ Greg Glazner & Pam Houston
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16TH
Shine Cafe, Sacramento CA. 8 p.m. Cover $5 1400 E Street Readings by Greg Glazner, author of Singularity and Opening the World, and Pam Houston, author of Cowboys Are My Weakness and Contents May Have Shifted. Live performance by Professor Len and the Big Night. The blues says hello to the...
The Context of Innovation Journeys: May 9th
Please join the Center for Science and Innovation Studies, the School of Law, and the Program in Science and Technology Studies for our next Lunchtime Seminar:
Arie Rip (Department of Science, Technology, and Policy Studies, School of Management and Governance, University of Twente) “The Context of Innovation Journeys” Wednesday, May 9th, 2012, 12-2pm 1246 SS&H...
SARAH VALENTINE/ Gennady Aygi
On Thursday, May 10, at 7:30 in Voorhies 126, Sarah Valentine will read from her book, INTO THE SNOW: translations of Chuvash poet, Gennady Aygi (1934-2006). Sarah will read some of the poems, talk about Aygi’s life, and talk about the process of translating him. Admission is more or less free. There is a Fig & Axle reading at Art’s house afterwards, which you’ll be able to get to on-time,...
FIG + AXLE presents: The Last Student Reading of...
john conrad berkey takes us into the future
Join us for the final FIG+AXLE student reading of the academic year, this Thursday, May 10th, 8:30 in the fine ass p.m. We have one more reading after this and then you’ll be all alone to wander the poetic and fictional wilderness of a season without. Get it while you can.
8:30pm 239 3rd St. (off of B, right next to Sam’s Mediterranean)
OUR...
Nanovation! — Nanotechnology and Regimes of...
Nanovation! — Nanotechnology and Regimes of Innovation UC Davis Conference Center, Room A May 10, 2012
Schedule is here on this super psychedelic (hard to read) but! informative ”poster.”
Please RSVP for Lunch and Reception: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/T5BSMXW
Modernist Studies Association in Las Vegas, Oct. 18-21? The registration deadline for seminars is July 31st.
LABOR IN THE UNIVERSITY
Please join us for the American Cultures and Politics (ACAP) Research Cluster’s Spring Symposium:
“Labor in the University” Friday, May 11, 2011 10:30-2:30 P.M. Hart Hall 3201 Roundtable Discussion: The Politics of Graudate Service Labor, 10:30-12:00 P.M. Dyani Johns Taff, English: “Graduate Academic Service: What do (or should) Grads Actually Do When They Serve?” Jordan Smith...
QUEER (IN)SECURITY CONFERENCE
Please join the QFT and the Militarization and Gender Research Cluster for Queer (In)Security, an interdisciplinary conference on the links between queerness, security, policing, and surveillance. MAY 3-4
LINK TO AWESOME POSTER WITH ALL THE DETAILS Cosponsored by: The Cultural Studies Graduate Group; The Graduate Student
Association; The Postcolonial Research Cluster; The Cross Cultural...
April 2012
12 posts
“Queer Studies and the Crises of Capitalism”
TOMORROW: Jordana Rosenberg recently edited a special issue of GLQ on “Queer Studies and the Crises of Capitalism” (Vol. 18.1). She and I will hold a workshop/discussion on curating and contributing to special journal issues and publishing in the field of sexuality studies (or publishing in general). Date: Fri., April 27th Time: 10:00-11:50 Place: Voorhies 126 All are invited!
TODAY REMINDER! EMPIRE AND EPISTEMES: WRITING...
THE MELLON RESEARCH INITIATIVE IN EARLY MODERN STUDIES presents EMPIRE AND EPISTEMES: WRITING SPACE, ERASING HISTORY Tom Conley (Visual and Environmental Studies & Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University) “Montaigne que voicy: Torsion and Vision of the Essais” AND Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (History, University of Texas at Austin) “How Imperial Historiographies Silence...
FIG+AXLE Reading Event & DAVIS DOZEN FUNDRAISER
A reading and dance party fundraiser for the Bankers Dozen at 239 3rd St., starting at 7:30pm
The Fig & Axle reading series welcomes:
Anna Joy Springer (author of The Vicious Red Relic, Love: A Fabulist Memoir, and The Birdwisher; former singer for Blatz; former member of Sister Spit; professor at UC San Diego)
Tisa Bryant (author of Unexplained Presence)
Doug Rice (author of The...
ABIGAIL LANG- this wednesday!
“FRANGLOPHONE: some correspondences in French and American poetry” this Wednesday at 6:10 in Voorhies 126, with Prof. Abigail Lang, visiting from the University of Paris (Diderot). It should be of interest particularly to poetry folks, modern/contemporaneists, those who work on translation, French and comp lit.
Ambiguity and Neutrality circa 1800
Please join us to hear Celeste Langan (Associate Professor, English, UC Berkeley) on “Ambiguity and Neutrality circa 1800” Monday, April 16, at 4:00 Voorhies 126 Professor Langan is the author of Romantic Vagrancy: Wordsworth and the Simulation of Freedom (1995) as well as numerous articles on nineteenth-century poetry, disability studies, and media.
The 7th Annual DAVIS FEMINIST FILM FESTIVAL
The Consortium for Women and Research presents … The 7th Annual DAVIS FEMINIST FILM FESTIVAL Thursday April 12 & Friday April 13 Reception with food & beverages at 5pm Films begin at 6pm Veteran’s Memorial Center Theatre 203 East 14th Street The Davis Feminist Film Festival is a grassroots festival of short films from around the world featuring issues and perspectives often...
Shannon Cain!
Fiction writer Shannon Cain reads from her story collection *The Necessities of Certain Behaviors*, winner of the Drue Heinz Award, current finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. Cain’s stories chart the treacherous territory of the illicit. They expose the absurdity of our rituals, our definitions of sexuality, our expectations of family life, happiness and self-fulfillment. Irreverent...
Toward a Critical Legal Ruralism
Please join us this Wednesday, April 11, for the final meeting of ACAP’s brown bag lunch series on “Labor in the Americas”:
Professor Lisa R. Pruitt, UC Davis School of Law, “Toward a Critical Legal Ruralism” The talk will be held from 12:10-1:30 in Sproul 912. Coffee and dessert will be provided. All best, Grace Tirapelle, Anna Einarsdottir, and Meg Sparling ACAP...
WOLF, or homo homini lupus
Wolf, or homo homini lupus
Event Date: Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Location: Voorhies 126
Carla Freccero is professor of Literature, Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness at UCSC, where she has taught since 1991. This paper considers the long genealogy of the relationship between humans and wolves as it finds figuration in medieval and early modern texts. I take...
CELESTE LANGAN- April 16
Celeste Langan speaks on “Ambiguity and Neutrality circa 1800” Monday, April 16, at 4:00 in Voorhies 126 Celeste Langan is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at UC Berkeley and the Acting Director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities. She specializes in nineteenth-century British poetry as well as media and disability studies. Here are some links of interest:...
March 2012
12 posts
FIG AND AXLE Reading Series: APRIL 2
[image by nicola kuperus]
Department of English 126 Voorhies Hall One Shields Avenue University of California Davis, CA 95616
OUR READERS: Kurt Wooden lives and writes in Berkeley, CA, and is currently earning a Master’s degree in creative writing at UC Davis.
Eric Sneathen was born and raised in San Diego, where he got up to nothing much. After graduating from UC Davis in...
Gaming the Game: Tweaking, Cheating, Hacking,...
UC Davis, April 12-13, 2012
Vanderhoef Studio Theater, Mondavi Center
Link to Conference Website
Gaming the Game will address the challenges posed simultaneously by new interactive media and new structures of technopolitical power. How do new media technologies modify behavior? How does technological “function creep” lead to unpredictable patterns, actions and reactions? How do we think about...
Marco Abel
The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School: Filming the Nation in the Age of Neoliberalism
Marco Abel, Associate Professor, English, University of Nebraska Thursday, April 5, at 4:10-5:30 pm 53A Olson
here’s the flyer
AVID READER Author Event: Contents May Have...
Reports the Avid Reader:
“Heart-stopping prose and crackling observations on a spiritual journey toward a life rich in love and freedom.
Stuck in a dead-end relationship, this fearless narrator leaves her metaphorical baggage behind and finds a comfort zone in the air, “feeling safest with one plane ticket in her hand and another in her underwear drawer.” She flies around the world,...
