March 2012
12 posts
FIG AND AXLE Reading Series: APRIL 2
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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,...
EMPIRE AND EPISTEMES: WRITING SPACE, ERASING...
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...
From Impunity to Justice in Chile and Argentina,...
March 15
4pm, 2203 SSH (Andrews Conference Room)
Tom Wright ( UNLV Distinguished Professor)
“From Impunity to Justice in Chile and Argentina, 1990-2004”
Chile (1973-1990) and Argentina (1976-1983) experienced state terrorist regimes that detained, tortured, exiled, murdered, and disappeared thousands of people in their quest to eradicate Marxism and “subversion.” Today, hundreds...
THE ENCLOSURE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
The Graduate Group in Religion is having its first faculty lecture this Tuesday, March 13th from 4-6pm. Blake Stimson of Cinema and Technocultural Studies will be discussing “The Enclosure of Contemporary Art” in 912 Sproul Hall. An abstract for the talk is included below.
THE ENCLOSURE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
My inquiry begins with a simple insight, one that is centuries...
Early Modern Research Cluster's winter event
Relics & Commonplaces: Collecting and Curating in the Early Modern World
Wednesday, March 7 at 4:10 pm.
Andrews Conference Room (2203 Social Sciences & Humanities)
We will pre-circulate a short written piece by each scholar, and we will discuss their work and their ideas about research methodology over light refreshments. Katie Harris (History Department): “Gift, Sale, and...
Nigerian Cultural Show
THE NIGERIAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION and THE NIGERIAN STUDENT DANCE GROUP PRESENTS OUR 3RD ANNUAL CULTURAL SHOW. ENJOY A FUN FILLED NIGHT WITH DANCE, FOOD, FASHION SHOWAND OF COURSE DRAMA. EVERYONE IS WELCOME
WHEN: MARCH 16 TIME: 6PM -10:30PM WHERE: GEIDT 1002 CHARGE: ITS FREEEEEE!!!!
FORCE.
AHI 401 will present FORCE: The UC Policy, an exhibition that addresses the question of whether the UC campus police and the UC administration are upholding their stated missions to “prevent violence and protect student rights.” The exhibition focuses on three recent campus protests at UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, and UC Davis between 2005-2011. The exhibition will present a combination of...
Origin, Migration, Tradition: Ethnic Poetry in...
The East Asian Studies Program and Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures are pleased to announce a guest lecture by: Mark Bender Associate Professor Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures The Ohio State University March 2, Friday, 4-5:30pm, 53A Olson Origin, Migration, Tradition: Ethnic Poetry in Contemporary NE India and SW China Abstract: Many contemporary ethnic minority...
