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COMMA Talk 2022-23

May 26, 2023 in /by

Friday, May 26, 3:00–5:00 p.m.The Sankey Room, South Hall (second floor) We invite you to a talk: Professor Caren Irr (Brandeis University): “Bridging the Metabolic Rift with Tom Comitta’s The Nature Book” Professor Caren Irr, Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities at Brandeis, is the author of Towards the Geopolitical Novel: U.S. Fiction in the 21st […]

COMMA Talk, 2022-23

May 10, 2023 in /by

Juan Evaristo Valls Boix, Professor of Philosophical Anthropology, the Complutense University of Madrid “Towards a Vindication of the Right to Laziness from Anarchy to Paradox” The talk examines the philosophical foundation of the right to laziness, a right that imposes a limit to the capitalist exploitation of bodies and reclaims life that is not governed […]

Prof. Glyn-Salton Cox, 1983-2022

March 10, 2023 in /by

In Memoriam In Memoriam With profound sadness, the COMMA center of the English Dept. at UC Santa Barbara memorializes our esteemed and cherished colleague and friend the late Glyn Salton-Cox, who passed away suddenly and unexpectedly as 2022 ended.  Our thoughts are with his wife Beth Sadler, his parents, brother, sister-in-law and extended family in […]