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:...
