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COMMA Talk 2022-23

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

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

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 […]