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February 3, 2016 – Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers and the French Revolution of 1848”

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Jonathan Beecher’s current project consists of linked essays on writers who witnessed and wrote about the first months of the French revolution of 1848, some familiar, others less so. The central question: How do these writers explain the collapse of the radical dreams that inspired revolutionaries in 1848?

Jonathan Beecher is Professor Emeritus of History at UC Santa Cruz.

Date/Time
Febrary 3, 2016 | 12:00 PM
Free and open to the public

Venue
Humanities Building 1, Room 210
University of California, Santa Cruz

February 10, 2016 – B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”

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Ruby Rich is the author of New Queer Cinema. Her new research explores notions of the public as constituted by theatrical exhibition from the postwar era to century’s end. As editor of Film Quarterly, she is currently preparing dossiers on the films of Eduardo Coutinho and Chantal Akerman.

B. Ruby Rich is Professor of Social Documentation Program and Film + Digital Media Department at UC Santa Cruz.
Date/Time
February 10, 2016 | 12:00 PM
Free and open to the public

Venue
Humanities Building 1, Room 210
University of California, Santa Cruz

February 17, 2016 – Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”

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Aaron Benanav’s current research examines the global forces giving rise to both an oversupply of labor and an underdemand for labor, worldwide. He has developed a theory of “surplus populations” to explain the consequences of persistently slack labor markets for working people, who have to work even when no steady work can be found.

Aaron Benanav is a lecturer of History at UC Los Angeles and editor of Endnotes, a journal of political theory and history.

Date/Time
February 17, 2016 | 12:00 PM
Free and open to the public

Venue
Humanities Building 1, Room 210
University of California, Santa Cruz

February 24, 2016 – Belén Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”

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In the context of her larger project on early modern collaborative and multilingual translation, Belén Bistué is currently looking at specific instances in which these practices, together with their underlying conceptual models, were adapted to the colonial Spanish American context.

Professor Bistué is Associate Researcher in Comparative Literature for the Argentine National Research Council and Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina.

Date/Time
February 24, 2016 | 12:00 PM
Free and open to the public

Venue
Humanities Building 1, Room 210
University of California, Santa Cruz

March 2, 2016 – Nathaniel Mackey: "Breath and Precarity"

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Acclaimed poet Nathaniel Mackey’s recent work encompasses three ongoing, decades-long projects: the serial poems Song of the Andoumboulou and “Mu,” and the serial novel or series of novels From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, whose fifth volume, Late Arcade, was recently completed.

Professor Mackey is Reynolds Price Professor of English at Duke University & Distinguished Professor of Literature Emeritus at UC Santa Cruz. His visit is generously sponsored by UCSC’s Critical Race and Ethnic Studies program, Porter College, and Kresge College.

Date/Time
March 2, 2016 | 12:00 PM
Free and open to the public

Venue
Humanities Building 1, Room 210
University of California, Santa Cruz

October 7, 2015 – Tyler Stovall: “White Freedom: Race and Liberty in the Modern Era”

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Tyler Stovall is currently working on two research projects. One concerns the history of migration from the French Caribbean to France during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The other explores the relationship between freedom and race, arguing that modern concepts of liberty are often racialized.

Stovall is the Dean of Humanities and Distinguished Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz.

Date/Time
October 7, 2015 | 12:00 PM
Free and open to the public

Venue
Humanities Building 1, Room 210
University of California, Santa Cruz

October 14, 2015 – Ronnie Lipschutz: “Utopia or Catastrophe”

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This talk is connected to Professor Lipschutz’s work on politics and popular culture, of which his most recent publication was Political Economy, Capitalism and Popular Culture.

Lipschutz is Professor and Chair of Politics and Provost of College Eight at UC Santa Cruz.

Date/Time
October 14, 2015 | 12:00 PM
Free and open to the public

Venue
Humanities Building 1, Room 210
University of California, Santa Cruz

October 21, 2015 – Tyrus Miller: “The Non-Contemporaneity of György Lukács: Cold War Contradictions and the Aesthetics of Visual Arts”

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Tyrus Miller has recently published Modernism and the Frankfurt School, and his forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis will appear in 2015. He is the translator/editor of György Lukács’s, The Culture of People’s Democracy: Hungarian Essays on Literature, Art, and Democratic Transition and series co-editor (with Erik Bachman) of Brill’s Lukács Library Series. Current work includes a study of 20th-century architectural and urbanistic utopias and a translation-in-progress of György Lukács’s Heidelberg writings on aesthetics and the philosophy of art.

Miller is the Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz.

Date/Time
October 21, 2015 | 12:00 PM
Free and open to the public

Venue
Humanities Building 1, Room 210
University of California, Santa Cruz

October 28, 2015 – Juliana Spahr: “The Politics of Poetry Production > The Politics of Poetic Form”

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This talk is part of a larger project about contemporary US literature that asks a very old question about the relation between literature and politics. Professor Spahr suggests that turn of the century US literature is somewhat analogous to the earth’s ailing ecosystem, at risk because of multiple forces– economic changes, government interference, liberal foundations, and higher education–that bolster each other in ways that are expansive and self-reinforcing, like a Fibonacci sequence.

Spahr is Professor of English at Mills College.

Date/Time
October 28, 2015 | 12:00 PM
Free and open to the public

Venue
Humanities Building 1, Room 210
University of California, Santa Cruz

November 4, 2015 – Jasmine Syedullah: “‘Not Contraband, but Soldier:’ Against the Domestic Violence of National Security”

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Jasmine Syedullah’s current project, “No Selves to Defend: Fugitive Justice and Black Feminist Loopholes of Abolition” is a political theory of abolition rooted in the antislavery writings of Harriet Jacobs, the anti-prison testimonies of political prisoners Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, and narratives from the 1971 uprising at Alderson Federal Reformatory for Women.

Syedullah is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at UC Riverside.

Date/Time
November 4, 2015 | 12:15 PM
Free and open to the public

Venue
Humanities Building 1, Room 210
University of California, Santa Cruz