Events

Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: "From the Conservation of Races to the Cosmic Race," Juliet Hooker, Assoc. Prof. of Government, University of Texas at Austin

The Mexican philosopher José Vasconcelos [1882-1959] and the African American political thinker W.E.B. DuBois [1868-1963] are viewed as having developed conceptions of race and racial identity that are quintessentially Latin American and U.S....

Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: "The Return of Pseudoscientific Racism? DNA Ancestry Testing, Race, and the New Eugenics Movement," Paul Spickard, Prof. of History, UCSB

Ancestry.com wants you to swab your cheek and send them a DNA sample and a check.  In return, they promise to tell you who your remote ancestors were.  Eminent literary scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., performs the same miracle on national...

Merced Seminar in the Humanities: "Music and Religious Change in Shakespeare's Tempest," Katherine Steele Brokaw, Asst. Prof. of English, UC Merced

Lyceum Workshop: "Social Sciences, Humanities, and the Art of Leveraging Your Story to Land the Job"

Open to graduate students; refreshments provided by Career Services.

Poetry Reading: "Visiting Hours at the Color Line," Ed Pavlic, Prof. of English, University of Georgia

Brownbag Talk: “Embracing Regime Change: US Foreign Policy Toward the 1963 Coup in Iraq,” Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, Lecturer in History, UC Merced

Merced Seminar in the Humanities: "Personification and the Political Imagination of A Midsummer Night’s Dream," Amanda Bailey, Assoc. Prof. of English, University of Maryland

Film Series: Topsy Turvy

Brownbag Talk: "'Swappin’ a Mon’s Clooas for a Woman’s’: Gender and Victorian Dialect Writing,” Taryn Hakala, Lecturer in English, UC Merced

Central Valley Threads Opening Reception and Lecture: "Life and Art in the Central Valley," Gerald Haslam

Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: "Colorblind?: The Contradictions of Racial Classification," Michael Omi, Assoc. Prof. of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

The dominant racial ideology of colorblindness in the United States holds that the most effective anti-racist policy, and practice, is to ignore race.  Issues continue to arise, however, that present a set of contradictions for colorblind ideology...

Merced Seminar in the Humanities: “Disrupting the Urban-Rural Hierarchy in Fashion and Television,” Susan Kaiser, Prof. of Textiles and Clothing, UC Davis

Brownbag Talk: "The Tale of the Three Cuckolds: Masculinity in Early Modern English Society," Susan Amussen, Prof. of History, UC Merced

Bring your lunch and your questions!

Merced Seminar in the Humanities: "Mesa of Sorrows: Women, Men, and Cycles of Evangelism in the Southwest Borderlands," James Brooks, Research Associate, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe

Fall Reception

Come join us to welcome our two new post-doctoral fellows, meet our five other research fellows, and celebrate the start of a new academic year!  Be sure to check out our full calendar of events: finalfallcalendarforprint.pdf.

Pages