2023

Literature Undergraduate Colloquium

 

Thanks to all who participated in the

Literature Undergraduate Colloquium in 2023. 



This year, join us on 

May 23, 2024 

for the 

Twenty-fourth Annual 

Literature Undergraduate Colloquium;

Details To Be Announced Soon! 




Interested in participating in the colloquium in 2024?

Click below to submit your writing for consideration!




In the meantime, please read all the papers presented at the colloquium in 2023:


   Colloquium Schedule:   


2024 schedule TBA—

Check back soon for more information! 


The Twenty-third Annual Undergraduate Colloquium will begin with opening remarks to introduce the panels. 


The event will consist of multiple panel discussions. Each panel will feature a discussion moderator from the UCSC Literature faculty, who will ask the presenters questions from the audience and engage in discussion about the papers. 


Full-length versions of all of the papers to be presented can be found below. 


Undergraduate Program Director Camilo Gomez Rivas, will announce the 2022-23 Literature Department award winners at the conclusion of the discussion.

PANELS

Boundaries and Crossings


Latin American and Latinx Literatures: Critical Ecologies, Migrations, and Feminisms


Global Antiquity


 Papers to be presented at the 2023 Colloquium are available to read below! 


 2023 Panel One:

Boundaries and Crossings

Butera, Anthony_Layli Long-Soldier’s Whereas_ How to Read the Voice of Oppression.pdf
Jimenez, Ivan_Mentalities.pdf
Melamed, Shavit_Parallel Principles_ Colonialism and Fascism in Camp de Thiaroye.pdf
Pistole, Jacqueline - LIT 102 - How Meaning is Created.pdf

 2023 Panel Two:

Latin American and Latinx Literatures: Critical Ecologies, Migrations, and Feminisms

Gutierrez, Mia_Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.pdf
Thaw - LIT 190L - Reconstructing Notions of Environmental Care Through the Configuration of the Maternal Figure in Fever Dream.pdf

 2023 Panel Three:

Global Antiquity

Ledeboer, Rachel_ Metamorphoses .pdf
Sethi, Sharan - LIT 114A - Contemporary Lenses on Yasna IX.pdf