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SUMMARY:John Mowitt: "Radio Silence"
DESCRIPTION:John Mowitt\nThe emergent field of “radio studies” has given new impetus to the study of radio. Specifically\, as the name suggests\, “radio studies” has fused an older set of disciplinary preoccupations more typically associated with the concerns of “journalism and mass communications” to the engagements\, at once theoretical and political\, of “cultural studies.” What this has enabled is the formulation of a set of problematics that have less to do with issues of audience\, broadcasts\, personalities and the like\, and more to do with the conceptual puzzles raised by the experiences transformed in and through radio. In this paper\, the puzzle at issue is that of “silence.” In what ways does radiophonic transmission expose us to features of silence that call for theoretical attention? What do the silences of radio provoke us to think about radio itself? Although the matter of music is not engaged explicitly\, this line of reflection is meant to remind us that John Cage was interested in both silence and radio. \nJohn Mowitt is Professor of Cultural Studies\, Comparative Literature\, and English at the University of Minnesota. \nThis event is presented by the History of Consciousness Department at UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-mowitt-radio-silence-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120118T140000
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SUMMARY:Anna Tsing: "Critical Description After Progress"
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nAnna Tsing\nAnna Tsing\nProfessor\, Anthropology\, UCSC \n“Critical Description After Progress” \nProfessor Tsing’s current research tracks the commerce and ecology of a high-value wild mushroom to illuminate contemporary dilemmas of capitalism and multispecies life.  The in-progress Living in Ruins explores the consequences of building capitalist supply chains among cultural and biological histories of disturbance and precarious survival. \n———————————————————————————————————— \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors.  The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion.  We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/csc-anna-tsing-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120119T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120119T190000
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SUMMARY:Visual Performance Studies Presents: Kimberly Jannarone
DESCRIPTION:Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series\, 2011-2012 \n\n \n\nKimberly Jannarone \n Theater Arts\, Digital Arts and New Media\, History of Consciousness\, UCSC \nMemory and Mass Performance \nThe recent retrospective of the work of Marina Abramovic at MOMA in New York brought to wide public attention the phenomenon of what she called the “reperformance” of her earlier work\, which had only existed until then as one-time events recorded on film.  Bringing this ephemeral performance work into the museum space as a live artifact raised consciousness of a broader trend currently taking place in contemporary dance\, theatre\, film\, video and performance art.  Reenactment raises questions of the differences between reconstruction\, revival\, adaptation\, reinvention\, quotation\, amplification\, and the kinds of temporalities these strategies to recover past performance signify. But beyond the terminological questions\, issues of artist identity\, authenticity\, and history emerge in direct relationship with performative documentary activity. The question of the event and the document become dramatically foregrounded. The question of trauma and catharsis in relation to reenactment is salient as became clear in our first seminar with Chip Lord and Magaret Morse. \n\n\n\nReenactment of the work of one artist by another has been a form of contemporary creativity in theatre\, film\, dance\, and performance for some time\, but has been gaining momentum as a major trend of artistic production and research.  Clearly\, it evokes the connections of historiography and interpretation to art making that documents the past in a non-literal or even paradoxical yet exacting and rigorous way that evades certain mimetic conventions.  It is time to ask what sorts of temporality are deployed in reenactments\, and how new sorts of temporality reframe notions of documentation\, reconstruction/reinvention\, citation/quotation\, and amplification of an earlier work or event in the contemporary moment. \nThis year-long speaker series will present artists and scholars specializing in this area of contemporary creativity. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vps-jannarone-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120119T194500
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SUMMARY:R. Zamora Linmark: "Collaborators\, Collectors & Collectives"
DESCRIPTION:R. Zamora Linmark\nCreative Writing and Literature present:\nUCSC Winter Living Writers Series \nR. Zamora Linmark \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives\nRonaldo V. Wilson\, Visiting Assistant Professor \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities.  Whether as editors\, publishers\, activists\, teachers\, multi-media artists\, and/or co-collaborators\, the featured poets in this series present work that reflects their dynamic engagements in the world. \nThursdays / 6:00 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nContact: Ronaldo V. Wilson\, rvwilson@ucsc.edu or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu \nCo-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lws-r-zamora-linmark-3/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120120T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120120T160000
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SUMMARY:Chris Chen: "An Axiomatic Chorus": Serial Black Identities and Allegories of Improvisation in Nathaniel Mackey's
DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for\na position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary): \nChris Chen \n“An Axiomatic Chorus”: Serial Black Identities and Allegories of Improvisation in Nathaniel Mackey’s\nFrom A Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate. \nChristopher Chen is a Holloway Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California\, Berkeley. He received a Ph.D. at Berkeley in 2011 and an MFA in poetry writing from the Iowa Writers Workshop. His dissertation is a comparative study of contemporary African American and Asian American poetry\, which explores how the pervasive use of non-narrative\, serial poetic forms registers intra- and interracial conflict and foregrounds the question of racial comparison as both impossible and unavoidable in the post-civil rights era.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/chris-chen-an-axiomatic-chorus-serial-black-identities-and-allegories-of-improvisation-in-nathaniel-mackeys-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120123T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120123T140000
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SUMMARY:Mohammed Bamyeh: “Revolutionary Ethics and the Making of the Arab Spring”
DESCRIPTION:The Sociology Colloquium Series presents:\nMohammed Bamyeh\nProfessor of Sociology\, University of Pittsburgh \n“Revolutionary Ethics and the Making of the Arab Spring” \nMohammed Bamyeh\nCo-sponsored by History of Consciousness\, Politics\, and Colleges 9 & 10 \nFor more information: http://socyeventsucsc.wordpress.com and http://urban.ihr.ucsc.edu \nFor accessibility\, contact: Barbara Laurence\, balauren@ucsc.edu \nEvent Contact: Deborah Gould\, dbgould@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/scc-mohammed-bamyeh-3/
LOCATION:College 8\, Room 301\,  College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120123T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120123T170000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: Nathaniel Deutsch
DESCRIPTION:LECTURE POSTPONED: The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium prevention of Nathaniel Deutsch\,“The Jewish Dark Continent: Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement” / has ben postponed from This Monday\, January 23rd to Monday\, March 12 / 3:30 pm\, 261 Social Science 1 \nThe Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: \nNathaniel Deutsch\nNathaniel Deutsch\, Professor of History\, UCSC \n\n\n“The Jewish Dark Continent:  Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement”\nOn the eve of World War I\, the Russian Jewish writer\, socialist revolutionary\, and aspiring ethnographer named An-sky set out on an ethnographic expedition into the Pale of Settlement\, the area of the Russian Empire to which a vast majority of its Jews were restricted prior to the Revolution. Over the course of three seasons\, An-sky and his team recorded thousands of tales\, jokes\, and incantations\, took hundreds of photos\, and collected numerous artifacts\, manuscripts\, and other objects. They also designed a massive life-cycle questionnaire consisting of 2087 questions entitled “The Jewish Ethnographic Program” for use in the field. An-sky’s goal was to document the traditional Jewish life of the Pale of Settlement before it disappeared forever and\, in the process\, to create a distinctly Jewish ethnography. \nNathaniel Deutsch is Professor of History and Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he is also the Director of the Institute for Humanities Research and the Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies. He has been a professor at Swarthmore College\, a visiting professor at Stanford University\, and the The Workmen’s Circle/Dr. Emanuel Patt Visiting Professor in Eastern European Jewish Studies at the YIVO Institute. Deutsch is the author of five books\, most recently The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement(Harvard University Press\, 2011)\, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. \nContact: Allyson Ramage\, aramage@ucsc.edu for more information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/acc-nathaniel-deutsch-3/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120125T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120125T140000
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SUMMARY:Neville Hoad: "Colonial Erotopolitics: Customary Law and Migrant Labor Sexuality"
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: \nNeville Hoad\nAssociate Professor\, English and Women’s and Gender Studies\, UT Austin \n“Colonial Erotopolitics: Customary Law and Migrant Labor Sexuality” \nAuthor of African Intimacies: Race\, Homosexuality and Globalization (Minnesota 2007)\, Professor Hoad is working on a book about representations of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. He focuses on A.S. Mopeli-Paulus and Peter Lanham’s Blanket Boy’s Moon to amplify the dissonances between culture and law on the terrain of sexuality. \n———————————————————————————————————— \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors.  The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion.  We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/csc-neville-hoad-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120125T140000
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SUMMARY:Gerard Passannante:  "Little Big World: Disaster and the Materialist Imagination"
DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Early Modern Comparative Studies/Shakespeare. \nProfessor Passannante looks at the habit of making much of little–shifting between small things (details\, fossilized seashells\, words) and big ideas. Tracing this disaster-courting habit of mind from the writings of Montaigne and Shakespeare’s Othello to Robert Hooke’s discourses on earthquakes and the work of Vico and Boulanger\, he argues that this most familiar operation has deep roots in the ways that early modern readers came to terms with the hidden violence of the materialist imagination. \nGerard Passannante received his B.A. from Yale in 2000 and Ph.D. from Princeton in 2007. He is the author of a number of articles on the history of science and literature in the Renaissance\, and has recently published a book entitled The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition (Chicago). Professor Passannante has been a Rome Prize fellow at the American Academy in Rome and has had fellowships at The Folger Shakespeare Library and The National Humanities Center.\nAt 4:30 pm\, Professor Passannante will conduct a graduate-student-only seminar on Carlo Ginzburg’s “Clues”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gerard-passannante-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120126T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120126T180000
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SUMMARY:"What is a Reader?" Day of Events
DESCRIPTION:Alberto Manguel: "Homage to Humpty Dumpty\, or Can We Make Words Say What We Want Them to Say?"The Teagle Fund Working Group\, “What is a Reader?” invites you to attend a day of events to be hosted at the University of California\, Santa Cruz on January 26th\, 2012. \nWhat is a Reader? is a multi-campus project supported by the Teagle Foundation’s Big Questions in the Disciplines initiative. Established in 2009 by faculty members in English and Literature departments from Mills College\, Stanford University\, UC Berkeley\, and UC Santa Cruz\, the group seeks to understand undergraduate literacy today in historical perspective and its implications for the study of literature at the college level. Please see: whatisareader.stanford.edu. \nOur special event will be a public lecture by book historian\, novelist\, and essayist Alberto Manguel at 5 PM in Humanities 1\, Room 210. See poster for details. In addition\, faculty\, staff\, and graduate students are warmly invited to two events earlier the same day.\n \n10:30-12:30 UCSC MCHENRY LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS. TWO LECTURES.\nElisabeth Remak-Honnef\, McHenry Library Special Collections\n“Ten Weeks with Medieval Books in McHenry Library” \nElisabeth Remak-Honnef is the Rare Books Librarian and bibliographer for Art History\, Art and Classics at McHenry Library. Before coming to UC Santa Cruz in 1995\, she worked for many years at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek cataloging medieval Latin manuscripts. She received her advanced degrees from the University of North Carolina (PhD Comparative Literature) and the Ecole nationale des Chartes in Paris (archiviste-paléographe). \nSince 2001\, she has regularly taught an upper-division class on the history of the medieval book for the Art History and History departments at UC Santa Cruz. The course provides a survey of the evolution of book production and use in medieval Europe.  Concentrating primarily on the relationship between text and image in medieval illuminated manuscripts in the art history class and on the power of writing and book collections in the history class\, students examine how and for whom books were made\, how they were decorated and used\, and how they have survived. This talk will explore how students read and think about reading after an introduction to codicology. \nHeidi Brayman Hackell\, University of California\, Riverside Department of English\n“Early Modern Scenes of Reading” \nWhere did early moderns read?  What objects conjured up a scene of reading in early modern drama and prose fiction?  This talk will explore the materials that ornamented scenes of reading\, the tools readers used\, and the primary objects of readerly attention – books\, broadsides\, letters\, inscriptions\, images – in order to interrogate the category of the “reader” in early modern England. \nHeidi Brayman Hackel is Associate Professor of English at the University of California\, Riverside.  She is the author of Reading Material in Early Modern England: Print\, Gender\, and Literacy (2005) and co-editor of Reading Women: Literacy\, Authorship\, and Culture in the Atlantic World\, 1500-1800 (2008) and Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (forthcoming 2012).  Her current book project is titled “Dumb Eloquence: Deafness\, Muteness\, and Gesture in Early Modern England.”\n \n1:30-3:30 UCSC MCHENRY LIBRARY\, SECOND FLOOR. WORKSHOP DISCUSSION OF ESSAYS.\nThe Teagle Workshop group will be discussing a suite of articles related to the topic of our event\, “Spaces of Reading\, Objects of Reading.” These readings follow upon those we shared at previous Teagle Workshops\, which may be found listed on our group’s Website: whatisareader.stanford.edu \nBrayman Hackel\, Heidi. “Reading Women.” The History of British Women’s Writing\, 1500-1610 (Vol. 2). New York: Palgrave Macmillan\, 2010. 17-33. \nThis article addresses the challenges of discerning women as readers in the sixteenth century\, examining multiple forms of historical evidence of women’s literacy such as diaries and memoirs while carefully distinguishing different reading practices. Evidence of gendered differences in literacy belies any simple assertion that most women were illiterate and therefore not reading. \nGrafton\, Anthony. “Apocalypse in the stacks? The research library in the age of Google.” Daedalus (Winter 2009): 87-98 \nThis article provides an overview of the logistics of traditional print vs. newer online repositories in libraries\, weighing the costs and benefits of both models. Grafton explains that online media are not replacing print media\, but that both are proliferating at once\, putting dual pressures on university libraries. He explores the changes the Internet has brought to research and reading practices as well as to libraries. \nManguel\, Alberto. “The Library as Power.” The Library at Night. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf\, 2006. 91-104. \nThis chapter explores the totemic power granted books and the power of libraries as monuments and memorials founded by public figures. Though built to consolidate power\, ironically\, public libraries such as the Carnegie Libraries had the effect of empowering the public that used them. \nPoblete\, Juan. “Reading as a Historical Practice in Latin America: The first Colonial Period to the Nineteenth Century.” The Literary Cultures of Latin America: A Comparative History (Vol. 1: Configurations of Literary Culture). Oxford: Oxford University Press\, 2004. Eds. Mario J. Valdes and Djelal Kadir. 178-192. \nThis article argues for an understanding of the social\, collective production of meaning in the interpretation of texts\, rather than a decontextualized discourse analysis. This understanding of the location of reading practices is applied to pre-colonial and colonial situations in the reception and understanding of texts in Latin America. The essay offer suggestive points of departure for discussion of the formation of communities of readers in the new media of today. \nInterested faculty\, staff\, and graduates students are welcome to join us. For pdf copies of these readings\, contact Laurel Peacock.\n \n5:00 HUMANITIES 1\, ROOM 210. ALBERTO MANGUEL: “HOMAGE TO HUMPTY DUMPTY\, OR CAN WE MAKE WORDS SAY WHAT WE WANT THEM TO SAY?”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/what-is-a-reader-day-of-events-3/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120127T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120127T163000
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SUMMARY:Erica Edwards: "You've become so...American:  The Post-9/11 Turn in African American Literature"
DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for\na position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary) \nErica R. Edwards is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California\, Riverside and the author of Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership (University of Minnesota Press\, 2011). Her work on African American literature\, politics\, and gender critique has appeared in Callaloo\, American Quarterly\, American Literary History\, and Women and Performance. She is currently at work on a book project titled The Other Side of Terror: African American Literature after 9/11.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/erica-edwards-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120130T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120130T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20111207T210834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111207T210834Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: David Graeber
DESCRIPTION:The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: \nDavid Graeber\nDavid Graeber\, Goldsmith’s University of London \nMonday\, January 30 / 3:30 – 5:00 pm / 261 Social Science 1 \nContact: Allyson Ramage\, aramage@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/acc-avid-graeber-3/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120130T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120130T210000
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CREATED:20111207T212011Z
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SUMMARY:Leigh Raiford: “Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle”
DESCRIPTION:The Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium Presents: \nProfessor Leigh Raiford\, African American Studies\, UCB\nAffiliated Faculty in Film Studies\, Cultural Studies\, and Science & Technology Studies \n“Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle” \nLeigh Raiford\nAll readings will be available two weeks prior to talk. \nCo-sponsored by the History of Art and Visual Culture\, Film & Digital Media\, and the Arts Division. \nDepartmental sites:\nhttp://film.ucsc.edu/news_events\nhttp://havc.ucsc.edu/news_events \nTo receive readings\, contact visualmedia@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vmcc-professor-leigh-raiford-3/
LOCATION:Communications\, Room 139\, Communications Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120201T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120201T140000
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SUMMARY:Alice Yang: “Can the President be Torturer in Chief? John Yoo\, Executive Authority and Historical Memory”
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nAlice Yang\nAlice Yang\nAssociate Professor\, History\, UCSC\nCo-Director\, Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories \n“Can the President be Torturer in Chief? John Yoo\, Executive Authority and Historical Memory” \nProfessor Yang examines the legal reasoning of the former Justice Department lawyer’s “torture memos” and his arguments that Al Qaeda and Taliban members were not entitled to protections under the Geneva Convention. She explores how Yoo and his critics relied on different historical memories during debates about torture and executive authority. \n———————————————————————————————————— \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors.  The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion.  We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/csc-alice-yan-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T140000
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SUMMARY:John Jordan\, Supposing Bleak House
DESCRIPTION:John O. Jordan is giving a reading at Bookshop Santa Cruz in honor of Charles Dickens’s bicentenary (born Feb 7\, 1812). John will read from his book\, Supposing Bleak House\, and discuss Dickens\, Bleak House\, the Dickens Project\, and the upcoming Dickens Universe (focusing on Bleak House this summer). \nThere’s a Bookshop link at http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/john-jordan.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/johnojordan-3/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20111220T203748Z
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SUMMARY:Yair Dalal: "Bridge to Babylon Lecture on Jewish Middle Eastern Music"
DESCRIPTION:Composer\, violinist\, oud player and singer Yair Dalal was born in 1955. His family came to Israel from Baghdad\, and his Iraqi roots are embedded in his musical work. Whether working on his own\, or with his Alol ensemble\, Dalal creates new Middle Eastern music by interweaving the traditions of Iraqi and Jewish Arabic music with a range of influences originating from such diverse cultural milieus as the Balkans to India. \nOver the last decade he has recorded 11 albums covering wide and varied cultural territory and authentically representing Israel’s cultures and fusing them through music as whole. Much of Dalal’s work reflects his extensive musical skills in both classical and Arabic music and also reflects a strong affinity he has for the desert and its habitants. \nHe has played in concerts worldwide\, collaborated with top musicians from all over the world\, from different disciplines\, including: celebrated western classical conductor and Maestro Zubin Mehta\, Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI\, L. Shankar\, Hamza El Din\, Omar Faruk Tekbilek\, Michel Bismuth\, Ken Zuckerman\, Alam Khan\, Jim Santi\, Armand Aamar\, Shlomo Mintz\, Maurice El Medioni\, Mustafa Raza\, Cihat Askin\, Nagati Chelik\, Ensemble Kaboul\, Adel Salameh\, Morwan Abado\, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra\, Kamerata Jerusalem Orchestra\, Melmo symphonic orchestra\, and many more. \nPresented by the Music Department. Sponsored by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation\, the David B. Gold Foundation\, and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/yair-dalal-bridge-to-babylon-lecture-on-jewish-middle-eastern-music-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20120110T210434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120110T210434Z
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SUMMARY:Visual Performance Studies Presents: Fabian Barba
DESCRIPTION:Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series\, 2011-2012\n\nFabian Barba\nIndependent artist\, Belgium\n\nReenacting the Dances of Mary Wigman \nA Lecture Demonstration (Studio A-105\, Theater Arts Center) \nFriday\, February 3rd at 2pm \nThe recent retrospective of the work of Marina Abramovic at MOMA in New York brought to wide public attention the phenomenon of what she called the “reperformance” of her earlier work\, which had only existed until then as one-time events recorded on film.  Bringing this ephemeral performance work into the museum space as a live artifact raised consciousness of a broader trend currently taking place in contemporary dance\, theatre\, film\, video and performance art.  Reenactment raises questions of the differences between reconstruction\, revival\, adaptation\, reinvention\, quotation\, amplification\, and the kinds of temporalities these strategies to recover past performance signify. But beyond the terminological questions\, issues of artist identity\, authenticity\, and history emerge in direct relationship with performative documentary activity. The question of the event and the document become dramatically foregrounded. The question of trauma and catharsis in relation to reenactment is salient as became clear in our first seminar with Chip Lord and Magaret Morse. \n\n\n\nReenactment of the work of one artist by another has been a form of contemporary creativity in theatre\, film\, dance\, and performance for some time\, but has been gaining momentum as a major trend of artistic production and research.  Clearly\, it evokes the connections of historiography and interpretation to art making that documents the past in a non-literal or even paradoxical yet exacting and rigorous way that evades certain mimetic conventions.  It is time to ask what sorts of temporality are deployed in reenactments\, and how new sorts of temporality reframe notions of documentation\, reconstruction/reinvention\, citation/quotation\, and amplification of an earlier work or event in the contemporary moment. \nThis year-long speaker series will present artists and scholars specializing in this area of contemporary creativity.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vps-barba-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T194500
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20111207T214853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111207T214853Z
UID:10004963-1328205600-1328211900@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: Ben Doller and Sandra Doller
DESCRIPTION:Ben Doller and Sandra Doller\nCreative Writing and Literature present:\nUCSC Winter Living Writers Series \nBen Doller and Sandra Doller \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives\nRonaldo V. Wilson\, Visiting Assistant Professor \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities.  Whether as editors\, publishers\, activists\, teachers\, multi-media artists\, and/or co-collaborators\, the featured poets in this series present work that reflects their dynamic engagements in the world. \nThursdays / 6:00 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nContact: Ronaldo V. Wilson\, rvwilson@ucsc.edu or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu \nCo-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lws-ben-and-sandra-doller-3/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120203T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120203T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20120124T203142Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120124T203142Z
UID:10005048-1328277600-1328284800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Cheryl Higashida: "Black Radicalism’s Queer Record: Erna Brodber and the West Indian Jazz Novel"
DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary). \nCheryl Higashida\n“Black Radicalism’s Queer Record: Erna Brodber and the West Indian Jazz Novel” \nCheryl Higashida is Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder\, where she has taught since 2002. She earned her PhD at Cornell University (2003) after completing her dissertation as a Fellow with the Five College Program for Minority Scholars. She is the author of Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left\, 1945-1995 (U of Illinois P\, 2011). Her work on African American and Asian American radical culture has also appeared in American Literature\, American Quarterly\, and Afro/Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections\, edited by Fred Ho and Bill Mullen. Her current book in progress is “Mao and Cabral/ Mingus and Coltrane”: The Global Jazz Circuits of the Black Arts Movement.”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cheryl-higashida-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120203T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120203T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20110817T224645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20110817T224645Z
UID:10004849-1328284800-1328292000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Masaya Yoshida
DESCRIPTION:Masaya Yoshida\nThe focus of Professor Yoshida’s research is on aspects of syntactic representations both in static knowledge of language and in real time sentence processing. The studies carried out so far attempted to integrate work in theoretical and typological syntax and experimental psycholinguistics in order to reveal representations of sentence structures built in real time and mechanisms working behind online sentence processing. \nResearch interests include: \n\nHuman Sentence Processing : Syntactic prediction in online sentence processing\, Processing of Islands\, Processing of Ellipsis.\nSyntax: Cross-Linguistic Studies on Island Constraints\, Ellipsis Phenomena (the syntax of sluicing and gapping)\, P-stranding Parameter\, The syntax of conditional clauses in Japanese.\n\nMasaya Yoshida is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Northwestern University. This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett\, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-masaya-yoshida-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120203T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120203T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20111129T223637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111129T223637Z
UID:10004644-1328295600-1328302800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Yair Dalal with Dror Sinai: An Evening of Jewish Music from Iraq
DESCRIPTION:“Bridge to Babylon” with visiting artists Yair Dalal (oud and violin) and Dror Sinai (percussion) \nComposer\, violinist\, oud player and singer Yair Dalal was born in 1955. His family came to Israel from Baghdad\, and his Iraqi roots are embedded in his musical work. Whether working on his own\, or with his Alol ensemble\, Dalal creates new Middle Eastern music by interweaving the traditions of Iraqi and Jewish Arabic music with a range of influences originating from such diverse cultural milieus as the Balkans to India. \nOver the last decade he has recorded 11 albums covering wide and varied cultural territory and authentically representing Israel’s cultures and fusing them through music as whole. Much of Dalal’s work reflects his extensive musical skills in both classical and Arabic music and also reflects a strong affinity he has for the desert and its habitants. \nHe has played in concerts worldwide\, collaborated with top musicians from all over the world\, from different disciplines\, including: celebrated western classical conductor and Maestro Zubin Mehta\, Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI\, L. Shankar\, Hamza El Din\, Omar Faruk Tekbilek\, Michel Bismuth\, Ken Zuckerman\, Alam Khan\, Jim Santi\, Armand Aamar\, Shlomo Mintz\, Maurice El Medioni\, Mustafa Raza\, Cihat Askin\, Nagati Chelik\, Ensemble Kaboul\, Adel Salameh\, Morwan Abado\, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra\, Kamerata Jerusalem Orchestra\, Melmo symphonic orchestra\, and many more. \nDror Sinai is an international performer\, educator\, and guest artist\, as well as the Founder of Rhythm Fusion\, Inc. in Santa Cruz. Dror has performed as a solo artist and has appeared in ensembles of many different musical styles\, with other talented artists\, including Yair Dalal\, Omar Faruk Tekbilek\, Yuval Ron\, Alessandra Belloni. Dror has presented lectures\, clinics\, and workshops to diverse audiences\, including Universities\, schools\, community gatherings\, children\, and adults\, and has taught both professionals and amateurs. He has been a featured instructor for SPECTRA\, a program of the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County\, and has given clinics at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC). In 2002 he received the Gail Rich Award in Santa Cruz County\, and he is a founding member of the World Music Committee for the Percussive Arts Society. \nPresented by the Music Department. Sponsored by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \n__________ \nHall opens at 7:00 pm\nConcert starts at 7:30pm \n$12 general\n$10 seniors 62+\n$8 youth and students w/ ID \nTickets on sale in December at santacruztickets.com and at the UCSC Ticket Office.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/yair-dalal-with-dror-sinai-an-evening-of-jewish-music-from-iraq-3/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120204T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120204T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20111123T015140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111123T015140Z
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SUMMARY:Labor Across the Food System Conference
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Center for Labor Studies presents\n \n\nFRIDAY & SATURDAY\, FEBRUARY 3-4\, 2012\n\n  \nFOOD SYSTEM WORKERS are often a glaring absence in discussions of the contemporary global food system\, even though they are employed in some of the most labor-intensive industries within the entire economy\, among them agricultural field work\, food processing\, food distribution\, and restaurants of all kinds. The new food localism privileges questions of “where food comes from” over “how” and “who” questions about the conditions under which food is grown\, shipped\, processed\, cooked\, served\, and sold. Labor Across the Food System will advance research and advocacy by bringing key scholars and advocates to Santa Cruz for discussions of the critical role of labor and social justice in remaking the global food system. \nKeynote Lecture by local historian\, Frank Bardacke\nauthor of Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers\nFriday\, February 3\, 2012\, 7pm\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, UCSC \nConference\nSaturday\, February 4\, 2012\, 8:30am-5:30pm\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, UCSC \nParticipants Include:\nPatricia Allen\, UC Santa Cruz\nDana Frank\, UC Santa Cruz\nShannon Gleeson\, UC Santa Cruz\nJulie Guthman\, UC Santa Cruz\nDavid Brundage\, UC Santa Cruz\nCarolina Bank Muñoz\, Brooklyn College\nDeborah Barndt\, York University\nLucas Benitez\, Coalition of Immokalee Workers\nChris Bohner\, UNITE HERE\nSandy Brown\, UC Berkeley\nCharlotte Chang\, UC Berkeley\nMaría Teresa Gastón\, University of Nebraska\nEric Holt-Gimenez\, Food First\nDavid Griffith\, East Carolina University\nSaru Jayaraman\, Restaurant Opportunity Center\nJoann Lo\, Food Chain Workers Alliance\nYvonne Yen Liu\, Applied Research Center\nDon Mitchell\, Syracuse University\nMónica Ramírez\, Southern Poverty Law Center\nChris Tilly\, UC Los Angeles \nLabor Across the Food System\, organized and sponsored by the Center for Labor Studies in collaboration with the UCSC Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) and the Food First Institute for Food and Development Policy. Major conference sponsors include the Food and the Body Multicampus Research Group\, the Institute for Humanities Research\, Community Studies Department\, Environmental Studies Department\, Sociology Department and Politics Department. Additional financial support generously provided by the Departments of American Studies\, Anthropology\, History\, Latin American and Latino Studies\, and Psychology. \nFor further information and updated conference program: http://ihr.ucsc.edu//laboracrossfoodsystem or contact Shann Ritchie at the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research\, sritchie@ucsc.edu\, (831) 459-5655. Maps: maps.ucsc.edu. Staffing provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. Poster Design: © 2011 Kim Ferrell\, kimferrelldesign.com
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/labor-across-the-food-system-3/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120206T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120206T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20111116T203231Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111116T203231Z
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SUMMARY:Julie Sze: "Situating Sustainability Discourse in Shanghai: Global Flows and Urban Transformations in a Warming World"
DESCRIPTION:This talk is drawn from Sze’s current book project which examines flows\, fears and fantasies in contemporary urban and global environmental culture\, with a sustained look at Shanghai in China. She focuses here on Dongtan\, a failed eco-city proposal\, framing it within multiple ideological and spatial contexts. \nJulie Sze is an Associate Professor of American Studies at UC Davis. She is also the founding director of the Environmental Justice Project for UC Davis’ John Muir Institute for the Environment. and in that capacity is the Faculty Advisor for 25 Stories from the Central Valley. \nSze’s book\, Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice\, won the 2008 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize\, awarded annually to the best published book in American Studies. \nSze’s research investigates environmental justice and environmental inequality; culture and environment; race\, gender and power; and community health and activism. She has published on a wide range of topics such as energy and air pollution activism; toxicity; the cultural politics of the Hummer\, and on environmental justice novels and cultural production. \nSze has been interviewed widely in print and on the radio: World’s Fair\, MELDI\, Newsweek\, Asian Reporter\, and Grist Magazine.\nThe Urban Studies is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this event.  Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/julie-sze-3/
LOCATION:College 8\, Room 301\,  College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120206T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120206T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20120124T203522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120124T203522Z
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SUMMARY:Kathy Lou Shultz: "Diasporic Modernism at Mid-Century: Melvin B. Tolson and Langston Hughes in/and the 1950s."
DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary). \nKathy Lou Schultz is the author of the forthcoming monograph The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History: Tolson\, Hughes\, Baraka. Schultz’s most recent journal articles are “To Save and Destroy: Melvin B. Tolson\, Langston Hughes\, and Theories of the Archive” that appeared in Contemporary Literature Vol. 52 No. 1 (Spring 2011) and “Amiri Baraka’s Wise Why’s Wise: Lineages of the Afro-Modernist Epic\,” forthcoming in the Journal of Modern Literature. She is also the author of four collections of poetry and experimental prose. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kathy-lou-shultz-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120208T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120208T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20111202T003342Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111202T003342Z
UID:10004647-1328702400-1328709600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Vanita Seth: “Faces of the Self”
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nVanita Seth\nVanita Seth\nAssociate Professor\, Politics\, UCSC \n“Faces of the Self” \nThe French ban on the burqa and niqab is only one example of the primacy accorded the face in modern western societies. Professor Seth here argues that the fortunes of the face are tied to the birth of modern individuality\, and that the face is both the grounds and the reflection of the modern expressive self. \n———————————————————————————————————— \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors.  The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion.  We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/csc-vanita-seth-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120208T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120208T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20120128T005642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120128T005642Z
UID:10004661-1328709600-1328716800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Heather James: "Bison Hamlet"
DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Early Modern Comparative Studies/Shakespeare: \n“Bison Hamlet” considers the idea of species extinction in myths of the westward transmission of culture in early modern England (translation of empire) and nineteenth-century America (Manifest Destiny). The chief exhibits are an 1861 painting of the American frontier — in which a bison features as Hamlet — and the graveyard scene of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. \nHeather James teaches English and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California\, with emphases on English\, Latin\, and Italian. Her long-standing interests include classical transmission\, poetry and drama\, politics\, book history and gender. Newer interests include commonplacing and the presence of Renaissance culture in the American West. \nAt 4 p.m.\, Professor James will conduct a graduate-student-only seminar on Hamlet Act V\, scene 1
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/heather-james-bison-hamlet-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120209T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120209T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20120110T211147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120110T211147Z
UID:10004970-1328808600-1328814000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Maaike Bleeker: "(Un)Covering artistic thought unfolding"
DESCRIPTION:Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series\, 2011-2012\n \nMaaike Bleeker \nTheatre Studies\, Utrecht University \n(Un)Covering Artistic Thought Unfolding \nFollowing a suggestion by a Dutch dance initiative named Cover\, this talk proposes the idea of ‘covering’ as practiced in the context of music as perspective on artistic practices of reenactment. The term ´cover´ points to what is reenacted being artistic creations by other artists\, as distinguished from the reenactment of historical situations or events. And also how reenacting these works results in new works\, covers. Covers exist in a specific relationship to the original work\, the cover being a remake or response to the original work from the position of another artist at a later moment in time. The notion of cover also points to how this relationship is mediated by recordings and documentation. The term ´cover version´ originates from the 1960´s when it was introduced to describe a rival version of a tune recorded to compete with an already released original version. That is\, the notion of cover is closely connected to recordings and the recording industry\, not to music or songs as live performance. \nMaaike Bleeker is a Professor and the Chair of Theatre Studies. She studied Art History\, Theatre Studies and Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam where she also completed her PhD on Visuality in the Theatre (2002). Previously\, she lectured at the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of Amsterdam\, The Piet Zwart Post-Graduate program in Fine Arts (Rotterdam)\, Media Gn: Centre for Emergent Media (Groningen)\, The School for New Dance Development (Amsterdam)\, the post graduate program Arts Performance Theatricality (Antwerp)\, and in the IPP Performance and Media Studies Summer School of the Johannes Gutenburg Universität\, Mainz. Since 1991\, she also worked as a dramaturge for various theatre directors\, choreographers and visual artists. She performed in several lecture performances\, ran her own theatre company (Het Oranjehotel) and translated five plays that were performed by major Dutch theatre companies. She was an Artist in Residence at the Amsterdam School for the Arts (2006-2007) and member of the jury of the Dutch National Theatre Festival TF (2007-2008). \nFor more information on this speaker series please see our website: http://artsresearch.ucsc.edu/vps/reenactment
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vps-bleeker-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120209T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120209T194500
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20111207T221453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111207T221453Z
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SUMMARY:UCSC Winter Living Writers Series:  Dawn Lundy Martin\, Duriel E. Harris\, Ronaldo V. Wilson (Black Took Collective)
DESCRIPTION:Creative Writing and Literature present:\nUCSC Winter Living Writers Series \n Dawn Lundy Martin\, Duriel E. Harris\, Ronaldo V. Wilson (Black Took Collective) \nDawn Lundy Martin\, Duriel E. Harris\, Ronaldo V. Wilson\nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives\nRonaldo V. Wilson\, Visiting Assistant Professor \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities.  Whether as editors\, publishers\, activists\, teachers\, multi-media artists\, and/or co-collaborators\, the featured poets in this series present work that reflects their dynamic engagements in the world. \nThursdays / 6:00 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nContact: Ronaldo V. Wilson\, rvwilson@ucsc.edu or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu \nCo-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lws-black-tool-collective-3/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120210T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120210T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20120129T011647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120129T011647Z
UID:10004662-1328878800-1328893200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:"What Latinos Are Reading"
DESCRIPTION:The Latino Literary Cultures Project / Proyecto Culturas Literarias Latinas presents: \nWhat Latinos Are Reading\nBringing together writers and editors\, this symposium explores the conditions of possibility for Latino literature today\, focusing on its less-explored popular edges. Panelists will explore the conditions of possibility for a US Latino literature–its varied audiences\, the kinds of literacy it presupposes or fosters. How do Latino children and young adults come to see themselves as readers or as authors? What genres and language modalities are most popular\, most inventive\, most effective in creating a Latino reading public? And in the wake of the controversial Tucson school district book banning\, what are Latinos not reading? \nSchedule:\nSymposium: 1:00-3:00 pm\nReadings: 3:15-5:00 pm\nFollowed by book signings. \nFeaturing:\nGustavo Arellano\, journalist and editor\, Orange County Weekly; author of the syndicated column and book Ask a Mexican!; and Orange County: A Personal History\nMalín Alegría (Ramírez)\, author of three Young Adult books\, and UC Santa Cruz alum\nTheresa Hamman\, veteran in Global and Bilingual Children’s Publishing\nModerated by Juan Poblete\, Literature\, UCSC \nThe Latino Literary Cultures Project / Proyecto Culturas Literarias Latinas is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, as well as a working group of the Chicano/Latino Research Center. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/arellano-alegria-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120215T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120215T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20111202T010201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111202T010201Z
UID:10004944-1329307200-1329314400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Bettina Apthekar: “Queering the History of the Communist Left in the United States”
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\n\nBettina Apthekar\n\nBettina Apthekar\nDistinguished Professor\, Feminist Studies and History\, UCSC \n“Queering the History of the Communist Left in the United States” \nIn 2010 gays and lesbians of the U.S. Communist Party began publishing a newsletter\, The Queer Communist\, whose emblem is a pink triangle superimposed on a hammer and sickle\, marking an extraordinary moment relative to the homophobic history and politics of the CPUSA. The paper analyzes this history. \n———————————————————————————————————— \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors.  The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion.  We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/csc-bettina-apthekar-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120216T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120216T194500
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
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SUMMARY:UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: giovanni singleton and Ara Shirinyan
DESCRIPTION:Creative Writing and Literature present:\nUCSC Winter Living Writers Series \ngiovanni singleton and Ara Shirinyan \ngiovanni singleton\nAra Shirinyan \ngiovanni singleton is founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts\, a critically acclaimed journal dedicated to experimental work by artists and writers of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces. Counterpath Press will publisher ascension\, a collection of poems in 2012. singleton is currently at work on AMERICAN LETTERS: works on paper\, a collection of concrete poems inspired by African American spirit writing\, the aboriginal dreamtime\, Tibetan meditation practice\, and the study of Japanese language and calligraphy. \nAra Shirinyan lives in Los 
Angeles\, where he writes and is editor of Make Now Press. He is the author of two books of poetry\, Syria Is in the World ( Palm Press\, 2007) and Your Country is Great (Futurepoem Books\, 2008). With Stan Apps and Teresa Carmody\, he co-curates The Last Sunday Reading Series at the 
Smell in Los Angeles (an all ages punk/art rock club that he helped 
co-found in 1997 and briefly ran for a year). His work has appeared 
or is forthcoming in Word Ways\, UBUWEB\, Greetings\, Trepan\, Combo\, Area Sneaks\, Tuli & Savu among others. \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities.  Whether as editors\, publishers\, activists\, teachers\, multi-media artists\, and/or co-collaborators\, the featured poets in this series present work that reflects their dynamic engagements in the world. \nThursdays / 6:00 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nContact: Ronaldo V. Wilson\, rvwilson@ucsc.edu or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu \nCo-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lws-giovanni-singleton-ara-shrinyan-3/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120217T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120217T160000
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SUMMARY:Gautam Premnath: "Urban Form\, Minority Identity\, and Narrative Drift   in Altaf Tyrewala’s No God in Sight"
DESCRIPTION:Thirty-two pages into No God in Sight (2005)\, Altaf Tyrewala’s novel undertakes a dramatic formal turn. By this point\, Tyrewala has established an inventive formula\, serving up a series of brief\, elegantly crafted\, loosely connected\, first-person narratives that chart sinuous\, unpredictable pathways through various Bombay localities. Throughout Tyrewala sustains an unvaryingly wry\, detached narratorial voice that levels out differences between petty travails and high tragedy in the lives of his middle-class Muslim characters. Yet as the seventh episode nears its end\, a different tonal register irrupts into the narrative. As Amin-bhai\, a small shoeshop-owner\, anticipates his emigration to the United States\, the laconic speaking style he shares with other narrators gives way to an impassioned litany of recrimination and regret. Cataloguing assaults upon Muslims and other religious minorities by Hindu fundamentalist zealots\, Amin-bhai punctuates his leavetaking of his country\, stating\, “Let them have their Hindustan for Hindus.” Here\, Tyrewala institutes a formal break\, marked by a blank page. When the first-person narrative chain resumes\, the scene has shifted to a Gujarati village whose residents are being harangued by a mahant into violence against unspecified “outsiders.” Tyrewala has retrieved his studied equanimity\, and the novel renders state-sanctioned pogroms in 2002 Gujarat with a remarkably light touch. Before long the narrative returns to Bombay\, and the novel reverts to its earlier guise of urban dérive. But the Gujarat detour has crucially redirected this earlier imperative. This talk analyzes how the novel’s ambitions as urban exploration are conditioned and inflected by its concern to reflect upon the question of contemporary Indian Muslim identity. \nGAUTAM PREMNATH is Assistant Professor of English at UC Berkeley\, where he specializes in the 20th-century Anglophone literatures of Britain\, the Caribbean\, and South Asia\, and in theories of postcoloniality and diaspora. He has published numerous articles of literary criticism and cultural theory. His first book\, Mobile Republics: Itineraries of Postcolonial Authorship between India and the Caribbean\, is forthcoming from University of Virginia Press. \nThis lecture is presented by the Literature Department and the Institute for Humanities Research. \nEvent is free and open to the public. For further information\, please contact Christine Hong at cjhong@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gautam-premnath-urban-form-minority-identity-and-narrative-drift-in-altaf-tyrewalas-no-god-in-sight-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120222T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120222T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20111202T023404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111202T023404Z
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SUMMARY:Megan Moodie: “We Were Adivasis: Collective Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe”
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nMegan Moodie\nMegan Moodie\nAssistant Professor\, Anthropology\, UCSC \n“We Were Adivasis: Collective Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe” \nProfessor Moodie studies the sociality engendered by legal and economic projects for uplift and empowerment\, including affirmative action\, microfinance\, and gender-based rights assertions. Her in-progress book\, based on ethnographic work with the Dhanka\, examines the gendered impact of affirmative action-based upward mobility. \n———————————————————————————————————— \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors.  The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion.  We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/csc-megan-moodie-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120222T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120222T160000
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CREATED:20120216T231123Z
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SUMMARY:Sean Keilen: "From Latin Rhetoric to English Poetry: Shakespeare’s Antic Dispositions"
DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Early Modern Comparative Studies/Shakespeare: \nSean Keilen\, College of William and Mary\n“From Latin Rhetoric to English Poetry: Shakespeare’s Antic Dispositions” \nThe talk Shakespeare’s efforts to distinguish the poems and plays he was writing from the arguments he had learned to make at school—no small task\, given the fact that the study of poetry was subordinate to the study of rhetoric in the Elizabethan curriculum. In particular\, the talk focuses on the difference between the role the emotions play in determining the meaning of works of art in Shakespearean texts and the role they play in determining the meaning of a case in Latin rhetoric. According to the laws that defined rhetoric as species of discourse\, an emotion is a tool that orators must use to make audiences feel what they want them to feel\, and nothing else. Shakespeare’s works\, by contrast\, identify poetry with aesthetic experiences that give rise to ambiguous feelings\, multiple interpretations\, and authorless texts. \nSean Keilen teaches courses about Shakespeare\, English literature and criticism\, and the reception of the classical tradition. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation (2008) and National Humanities Center (2006)\, he is also the author of Vulgar Eloquence: On the Renaissance Invention of English Literature (Yale 2006)\, co-editor of Forms of Renaissance Thought: New Essays on Literature and Culture (Palgrave 2008)\, and a General Editor of the series Studies in Renaissance Literature (Boydell & Brewer).\nAt 4:00 pm\, Professor Keilen will conduct a graduate-student-only seminar on “Reading for Pleasure.” \nTexts: Barthes\, The Pleasure of the Text (excerpts)\, Sontag\, Against Interpretation\, and Shakespeare\, Venus and Adonis
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sean-keilen-from-latin-rhetoric-to-english-poetry-shakespeares-antic-dispositions-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120222T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120222T190000
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CREATED:20120104T191448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120104T191448Z
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SUMMARY:Jean Franco: "Cruel Modernity"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Jean Franco was the first Professor of Latin American Literature in England. She was appointed Professor by the University of Essex in 1968 having previously taught at Queen Mary College and Kings College\, London University. In 1972 she took up a position at Stanford University where she was later appointed to the Olive H. Palmer chair of Humanities. She has been at Columbia University since 1982\, first in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and later in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. She is now Professor Emerita. \nProfessor Franco is one of the editors of the Cultural Studies of the Americas series\, published by Minnesota University Press\, and is General Editor of the Library of Latin America series\, published by Oxford University Press. She has been writing on Latin American literature since the early sixties. She has published The Modern Culture of Latin America (1967)\, An Introduction to Latin American Literature (1969)\, Plotting Women: Gender and Representation in Mexico (1989)\, and Marcando diferencias: Cruzando Fronteras (1996). A selection of essays\, Critical Passions\, edited by Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen Newman was published in October 1999 by Duke University Press. Her book\, The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America and the Cold War was published by Harvard University Press in 2001 and was translated into Spanish as Decadencia y caída de la ciudad letrada in the collection\, Debates. The book was awarded the Bolton-Johnson Prize by the Conference of Latin American Historians for the best work in English on the History of Latin America published in 2003. Plotting Women\, Marcando Diferencias\, and several chapters of Critical Passions and The Decline and Fall specifically focus on gender and the essays\, “Killing Priests\, Nuns\, Women\, Children” and “Gender\, Death and Resistance\,” have been reprinted on numerous occasions. She is at present working on racial discrimination in Latin America. \nProfessor Franco has been decorated by the governments of Mexico\, Chile and Venezuela for her work on Latin American literature and has received awards from PEN and from the Latin American Studies Association for lifetime achievement. She has served as President of the Latin American Studies Association in Great Britain and of the Latin American Studies Association in the U.S.\nCo-sponsored by the Research Groups of Transnationalizing Justice; Borders\, Bodies\, and Violence; and Latino Literary Cultural Project; the Chicano Latino Research Center\, and the Departments of Feminist Studies\, Literature\, and Latin American and Latino Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jean-franco-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20120104T191557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120104T191557Z
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SUMMARY:A Seminar with Jean Franco
DESCRIPTION:To obtain a copy of the paper that will be discussed at the seminar\, please contact Courtney Mahaney (cmahaney@ucsc.edu). \nProfessor Jean Franco was the first Professor of Latin American Literature in England. She was appointed Professor by the University of Essex in 1968 having previously taught at Queen Mary College and Kings College\, London University. In 1972 she took up a position at Stanford University where she was later appointed to the Olive H. Palmer chair of Humanities. She has been at Columbia University since 1982\, first in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and later in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. She is now Professor Emerita. \nProfessor Franco is one of the editors of the Cultural Studies of the Americas series\, published by Minnesota University Press\, and is General Editor of the Library of Latin America series\, published by Oxford University Press. She has been writing on Latin American literature since the early sixties. She has published The Modern Culture of Latin America (1967)\, An Introduction to Latin American Literature (1969)\, Plotting Women: Gender and Representation in Mexico (1989)\, and Marcando diferencias: Cruzando Fronteras (1996). A selection of essays\, Critical Passions\, edited by Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen Newman was published in October 1999 by Duke University Press. Her book\, The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America and the Cold War was published by Harvard University Press in 2001 and was translated into Spanish as Decadencia y caída de la ciudad letrada in the collection\, Debates. The book was awarded the Bolton-Johnson Prize by the Conference of Latin American Historians for the best work in English on the History of Latin America published in 2003. Plotting Women\, Marcando Diferencias\, and several chapters of Critical Passions and The Decline and Fall specifically focus on gender and the essays\, “Killing Priests\, Nuns\, Women\, Children” and “Gender\, Death and Resistance\,” have been reprinted on numerous occasions. She is at present working on racial discrimination in Latin America. \nProfessor Franco has been decorated by the governments of Mexico\, Chile and Venezuela for her work on Latin American literature and has received awards from PEN and from the Latin American Studies Association for lifetime achievement. She has served as President of the Latin American Studies Association in Great Britain and of the Latin American Studies Association in the U.S. \nCo-sponsored by the Research Groups of Transnationalizing Justice; Borders\, Bodies\, and Violence; and Latino Literary Cultural Project; the Chicano Latino Research Center\, and the Departments of Feminist Studies\, Literature\, and Latin American and Latino Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-seminar-with-jean-franco-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20120217T001003Z
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SUMMARY:Ory Amitay: "Mary\, Paulina and Fulvia: Allegorical History in Josephus' Antiquities 18.53-84"
DESCRIPTION:Ory Amitay is Professor of History at the University of Haifa. \nThis event is made possible from generous contributions from the Classical Studies Program\, the Center for Jewish Studies\, the departments of Literature and History\, and the David B. Gold Foundation.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ory-amitay-mary-paulina-and-fulvia-allegorical-history-in-josephus-antiquities-18-53-84-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20120110T211608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120110T211608Z
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SUMMARY:Visual Performance Studies Presents: Andre Lepecki
DESCRIPTION:Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series\, 2011-2012\n \nAndre Lepecki\, \nPerformance Studies\, New York University \nNot as Before\, but Again: Reenactments and “Transcreation” \nThe recent retrospective of the work of Marina Abramovic at MOMA in New York brought to wide public attention the phenomenon of what she called the “reperformance” of her earlier work\, which had only existed until then as one-time events recorded on film.  Bringing this ephemeral performance work into the museum space as a live artifact raised consciousness of a broader trend currently taking place in contemporary dance\, theatre\, film\, video and performance art.  Reenactment raises questions of the differences between reconstruction\, revival\, adaptation\, reinvention\, quotation\, amplification\, and the kinds of temporalities these strategies to recover past performance signify. But beyond the terminological questions\, issues of artist identity\, authenticity\, and history emerge in direct relationship with performative documentary activity. The question of the event and the document become dramatically foregrounded. The question of trauma and catharsis in relation to reenactment is salient as became clear in our first seminar with Chip Lord and Magaret Morse. \n\n\n\nReenactment of the work of one artist by another has been a form of contemporary creativity in theatre\, film\, dance\, and performance for some time\, but has been gaining momentum as a major trend of artistic production and research.  Clearly\, it evokes the connections of historiography and interpretation to art making that documents the past in a non-literal or even paradoxical yet exacting and rigorous way that evades certain mimetic conventions.  It is time to ask what sorts of temporality are deployed in reenactments\, and how new sorts of temporality reframe notions of documentation\, reconstruction/reinvention\, citation/quotation\, and amplification of an earlier work or event in the contemporary moment. \nThis year-long speaker series will present artists and scholars specializing in this area of contemporary creativity.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vps-lepecki-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T194500
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20111207T223032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111207T223032Z
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SUMMARY:UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: Garrett Hongo
DESCRIPTION:Garrett Hongo\nCreative Writing and Literature present:\nUCSC Winter Living Writers Series \nGarrett Hongo \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives\nRonaldo V. Wilson\, Visiting Assistant Professor \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities.  Whether as editors\, publishers\, activists\, teachers\, multi-media artists\, and/or co-collaborators\, the featured poets in this series present work that reflects their dynamic engagements in the world. \nThursdays / 6:00 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nContact: Ronaldo V. Wilson\, rvwilson@ucsc.edu or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu \nCo-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lws-garrett-hongo-3/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120224T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120224T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20120113T232628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120113T232628Z
UID:10005024-1330099200-1330106400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Mary Paster: "Phonologically Conditioned Morphology"
DESCRIPTION:Mary Paster (PhD UC Berkeley\, 2006) is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College in Claremont\, California. Her research focuses on phonology and morphology\, and their interface. She specializes in the study of African languages\, particularly their tone systems. She has published in such journals as Phonology\, Yearbook of Morphology (now Morphology)\, Word Structure\, and Studies in African Linguistics.\nThe Crosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology Research Cluster is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mary-paster-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120225
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120226
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20111209T194058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111209T194058Z
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SUMMARY:2012 Scholarship Benefit Dinner
DESCRIPTION:2012 Scholarship Benefit Dinner \nMore information TBA.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2012-scholarship-benefit-dinner-3/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120225T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120225T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20120113T232814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120113T232814Z
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SUMMARY:Crosslinguistic Investigations in Phonology-Syntax Research Cluster presents a Seminar with Mary Paster
DESCRIPTION:Mary Paster (PhD UC Berkeley\, 2006) is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College in Claremont\, California. Her research focuses on phonology and morphology\, and their interface. She specializes in the study of African languages\, particularly their tone systems. She has published in such journals as Phonology\, Yearbook of Morphology (now Morphology)\, Word Structure\, and Studies in African Linguistics.\n \nThe Crosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology Research Cluster is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/crosslinguistic-investigations-in-phonology-syntax-research-cluster-presents-a-seminar-with-mary-paster-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Senior Commons Room\,  Cowell College 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062-1225\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120227T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120227T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20120221T221148Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120221T221148Z
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SUMMARY:Angela Elsey\, "Life in Senegal / La Vie senegalaise"
DESCRIPTION:LANGUAGE PROGRAM COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nLife in Senegal / La Vie sénégalaise \nAngela Elsey\nAngela Elsey Lecturer in French \nPlease join Lecturer in French Angela Elsey for an introduction to daily life in Senegal through photos and short video clips depicting work\, school\, play\, home life\, language use\, creative activities\, and religious practices. Lecturer Elsey has made two trips to Senegal during which she studied at the University of Dakar\, traveled the country and spent time with the local people. The talk will be in English.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/angela-elsey-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120228T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120228T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20120216T223414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120216T223414Z
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SUMMARY:J. Cameron Monroe: "Elephants for Want of Towns? New Light on Old Cities in West Africa’s Atlantic Age"
DESCRIPTION:Western conceptions of the city have a long and storied history\, one that until recently largely dismissed pre-colonial African urbanisms as no more than a passive response to cultural stimulus from outside the continent. This has been particularly true for West African cities that emerged in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. However\, landscape archeology is enriching our understanding of how urban centers were organized on the coast of West Africa in the Atlantic Era\, providing a sharper picture of indigenous trade\, the values of the elite classes and power relationships across the region. This work is demonstrating the active role played by such communities in shaping the contours of Atlantic commerce in this period. This presentation will focus on one such urban tradition\, located on the Abomey Plateau in the Republic of Bénin\, exploring the dynamic ways that local political factors shaped and were shaped by global economic forces. \nJ. Cameron Monroe is an historical archaeologist in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Monroe’s research examines political\, economic and cultural transformations in West Africa and the African Diaspora in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. He has studied African-American ethnic identity and household-level craft production in early colonial Virginia\, and currently he directs the Abomey Plateau Archaeological Project in the Republic of Bénin\, West Africa. Integrating documentary\, oral and archaeological data\, the project focuses on the political economy of landscape and the built environment\, and the nature of urban transformation in contact-period West Africa. \nLecture will begin at 4:00 PM\, snacks from 3:30 PM. For more information\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu. \nThis lecture is presented by the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ancient-studies-presents-j-cameron-monroe-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120229T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120229T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20111202T023710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111202T023710Z
UID:10004946-1330516800-1330524000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Melissa L. Caldwell: “Sowing the Seeds of Civil Society: Russia’s Garden Democracy”
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: \nMelissa L. Caldwell\nProfessor\, Anthropology\, UCSC\nCo-Director\, UCMRP on Studies of Food and the Body \n“Sowing the Seeds of Civil Society: Russia’s Garden Democracy” \nProfessor Caldwell examines the politics of poverty\, social welfare\, care and intimacy in Russia through ethnographic research in Dacha Idylls: Living Organically in Russia’s Countryside (California 2011). Her new research is on Russian-African assistance and development relations in the twentieth century. She also studies changing food practices in the postsocialist world. \n———————————————————————————————————— \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors.  The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion.  We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/csc-melissa-caldwell-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120229T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120229T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20111114T034340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111114T034340Z
UID:10004903-1330531200-1330538400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Craig Dworkin: "The Politics of the Work"
DESCRIPTION:In Partnership with Poetry and Politics Research Cluster and the Literature Department presents: Craig Dworkin for a Lecture on Poetics. \nCraig Dworkin is the author of Reading the Illegible (Northwestern UP)\, Signature-Effects (Ghos-Ti)\, Dure (Cuneiform)\, Strand (Roof)\, and Parse (Atelos)\, and the editor of Architectures of Poetry (Rodopi)\, Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern UP)\, The Sound of Poetry (Chicago UP)\, and Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writing of Vito Acconci (MIT). He teaches at the University of Utah and curates two on-line archives: Eclipse and The UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing.\nPoetry and Politics is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetry-and-politics-professor-craig-dworkin-on-poetics-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120229T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120229T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
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SUMMARY:Poetry and Politics: Professor Craig Dworkin Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Craig Dworkin is the author of Reading the Illegible (Northwestern UP)\, Signature-Effects (Ghos-Ti)\, Dure (Cuneiform)\, Strand (Roof)\, and Parse (Atelos)\, and the editor of Architectures of Poetry (Rodopi)\, Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern UP)\, The Sound of Poetry (Chicago UP)\, and Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writing of Vito Acconci (MIT). He teaches at the University of Utah and curates two on-line archives: Eclipse and The UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing.\n \nPoetry and Politics is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetry-and-politics-professor-craig-dworkin-poetry-reading-3/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120302T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120302T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20110817T233221Z
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Matthew Gordon
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Gordon\nMatthew Gordon is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. His research interests include phonetics\, phonology\, and typology. \nThis talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett\, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-matthew-gordon-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120305T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120305T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20111207T213443Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111207T213443Z
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SUMMARY:Helga Tawil-Souri: “Visual Conflict of and in Palestine-Israel”
DESCRIPTION:The Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium Presents: \nHelga Tawil-Souri\, Department of Media\, Culture\, and Communication\, NYU \n“Visual Conflict of and in Palestine-Israel” \nHelga Tawil-Souri\nAll readings will be available two weeks prior to talk. \nCo-sponsored by the History of Art and Visual Culture\, Film & Digital Media\, and the Arts Division. \nDepartmental sites:\nhttp://film.ucsc.edu/news_events\nhttp://havc.ucsc.edu/news_events \nTo receive readings\, contact visualmedia@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vmcc-helga-tawil-souri-3/
LOCATION:Communications\, Room 139\, Communications Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120307T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120307T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20120214T174432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120214T174432Z
UID:10004667-1331121600-1331127000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Tracie McMillian: "Real Food vs. Affordable Food: Can we have both?"
DESCRIPTION:Join journalist Tracie McMillan to discuss her work for The American Way of Eating\, which chronicles her experience in three undercover jobs across the American food system: California farmworker\, produce clerk in a Detroit-area Walmart\, New York City Applebee’s kitchen wretch. Weaving policy and agricultural economics into personal narrative\, McMillan explores what it would cost to grow food fairly. \nTracie McMillan\, a freelance journalist whose work centers on food and class\, is a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. Her first book\, The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart\, Applebee’s\, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table\, will be published by Scribner in February 2012. Learn more on her website. \nPresented by the Studies of Food and the Body Multicampus Research Program.  Support is provided by the University of California Office of the President.  Staff support is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tracie-mcmillian-real-food-vs-affordable-food-can-we-have-both-3/
LOCATION:Oakes Mural Room\, Room 223\,  Oakes College‎ 150 Heller Drive\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120307T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120307T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20111202T024558Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111202T024558Z
UID:10004947-1331121600-1331128800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Peter Euben: “Women of Melos”
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nPeter Euben\nPeter Euben\nEmeritus Research Professor\, Political Science and Classical Studies\,\nKenan Distinguished Faculty Fellow Emeritus\, Duke University \n“Women of Melos” \nAlthough the Melian Dialogue is not much of a dialogue\, it is anointed as the foundation of political realism. The paper argues that realism is delusional and defeating. The more inclusive dialogue in Euripides’ The Trojan Women juxtaposes the language of power\, war and empire with loss\, hopelessness and what Saïd called “the crippling sorrow of estrangement.” \n———————————————————————————————————— \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors.  The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion.  We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/csc-peter-euben-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120308T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120308T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20120214T184346Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120214T184346Z
UID:10004668-1331233200-1331240400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:The Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture: "Interfaith Perspectives on Economic Justice\, and its implications for the worldwide Occupy movement"
DESCRIPTION:The Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture series celebrates the work of the late Noel King\, founding father and Professor of History and Comparative Religion at UC Santa Cruz. The series reflects Noel’s lifelong commitment to\, and joy in\, dialogue between the faiths. \nFor the 2012 NQK Lecture\, representatives of four of the world’s great religions join in conversation: \nInterfaith Perspectives on Economic Justice\, and its implications for the worldwide Occupy movement.\nChed Myers\, leading the discussion\, is a fifth generation Californian who has spent three decades working with faith-based peace and justice organizations\, including the American Friends Service Committee\, the Pacific Concerns Resource Center\, and the Pacific Life Community. He is currently with the Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries\, focusing on building capacity for biblical literacy\, church renewal\, and faith based witness for justice. \nRabbi and Congregational Cantor Paula Marcus has served Temple Beth El since 1979. She was ordained as a Rabbi in May\, 2004 by the Academy for Jewish Religion in Los Angeles and has apprenticed with cantors in the U.S. and Israel. She received her BA in Judaic studies from SUNY at Binghamton and\nher MA degree in Rabbinic studies from the Academy of Jewish Religion. \nImam Zaid Shakir is an American Muslim scholar with a background in politics and international relations. His work balances the academic and spiritual study of Islam with being a voice of conscience in issues of race\, peace\, and poverty\, for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. He has been ranked one of America’s most influential Muslim scholars. \nDr. Inder Mohan Singh\, an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley\, has been instrumental in founding several technology companies as well as the Chardi Kalaa Foundation\, which fosters a sense of community and reinforces Sikh values. Dr. Singh is the Chairman of LynuxWorks and cofounder of Excelan and Kalpana. He has long been active in interfaith dialogue. \nReception to follow Stevenson College Event Center University of California\, Santa Cruz\nFree admission\, parking $3.00 \nSponsored by the Noel Q. King memorial fund; the University Inter-faith Council; Santa Cruz Progressive Christian Forum; Cowell and Stevenson Colleges; and the Humanities Division of UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/interfaith-perspectives-on-economic-justice-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120310T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120310T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20120221T181910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120221T181910Z
UID:10005066-1331370000-1331398800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Conservation in No Man's Land: A Colloquium on Values\, Science\, and the Crisis of Biodiversity
DESCRIPTION:PANELISTS \nDaniel Guevara \nUCSC Department of Philosophy \nClaudio Campagna\nWildlife Conservation Society\nUCSC Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology \nRonnie Lipschutz\nUCSC Politics Department \nDaniel Press \nUCSC Department of Environmental Studies \n\n  \nAGENDA \n9:00 am   Introductory Remarks: Daniel Guevara \n9:15 am   Introductory Remarks: Claudio Campagna \n9:30 am   On the Place of Science and Scientists in Conservation \nIntroduced and Moderated by Claudio Campagna \n10:45 am   Public Policy\, Science and Values in Conservation and Environmentalism\nIntroduced and Moderated by Daniel Press \n12:00 pm   Lunch \n1:00 pm   Rights\, Property and Other Key Social and Political Concepts in Conservation and Environmentalism\nIntroduced and Moderated by Ronnie Lipschutz \n2:15 pm   The Relevance of Philosophy to the Language and Fundamental Concepts of the Conservation and Environmental Movements\nIntroduced and Moderated by Daniel Guevara \n3:45 pm   The Direction of the Conservation Movement in the Next Decade: What Is It Likely to Be? What Should It Be? \n  \nThis event is open to the public and campus community. \nPlease email Professor Guevara at guevara@ucsc.edu if you plan to attend. \nSponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology\, UC Santa Cruz
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/conservation-in-no-mans-land-a-colloquium-on-values-science-and-the-crisis-of-biodiversity-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120312T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120312T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20120123T185921Z
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SUMMARY:Nathaniel Deutsch\, “The Jewish Dark Continent: Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement”
DESCRIPTION:The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: \nNathaniel Deutsch\nNathaniel Deutsch\, Professor of History\, UCSC \n\n\n“The Jewish Dark Continent: Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement”\nOn the eve of World War I\, the Russian Jewish writer\, socialist revolutionary\, and aspiring ethnographer named An-sky set out on an ethnographic expedition into the Pale of Settlement\, the area of the Russian Empire to which a vast majority of its Jews were restricted prior to the Revolution. Over the course of three seasons\, An-sky and his team recorded thousands of tales\, jokes\, and incantations\, took hundreds of photos\, and collected numerous artifacts\, manuscripts\, and other objects. They also designed a massive life-cycle questionnaire consisting of 2087 questions entitled “The Jewish Ethnographic Program” for use in the field. An-sky’s goal was to document the traditional Jewish life of the Pale of Settlement before it disappeared forever and\, in the process\, to create a distinctly Jewish ethnography. \nNathaniel Deutsch is Professor of History and Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he is also the Director of the Institute for Humanities Research and the Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies. He has been a professor at Swarthmore College\, a visiting professor at Stanford University\, and the The Workmen’s Circle/Dr. Emanuel Patt Visiting Professor in Eastern European Jewish Studies at the YIVO Institute. Deutsch is the author of five books\, most recently The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement(Harvard University Press\, 2011)\, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. \nContact: Allyson Ramage\, aramage@ucsc.edu for more information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nathaniel-deutsch-the-jewish-dark-continent-inventing-jewish-ethnography-in-the-russian-pale-of-settlement-3/
LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\,  Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120313T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120313T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20120213T172758Z
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SUMMARY:Allen Wells: "Lives in the Balance: The United States\, the Dominican Republic and the Rescue of Jews during World War II"
DESCRIPTION:Allen Wells\nInitially supportive of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo’s offer to accept 100\,000 Jews at the 1938 Evian Conference\, Washington began to back away from its ringing endorsement soon after a succession of German victories throughout Western Europe during the spring of 1940. Only 750 refugees would find their way to Sosúa\, a farming settlement on the island’s north coast. Why did the Roosevelt administration discourage Trujillo from taking in additional refugees\, putting the settlement’s future in jeopardy? This lecture will explore the impact such an abrupt change in policy had for other refugees seeking to flee Nazism and for U.S. policy in Latin America? \nAllen Wells is the Roger Howell\, Jr. Professor of History at Bowdoin College. His scholarship has focused on modern Mexican history\, especially Yucatán\, the history of commodities\, and U.S.-Latin American relations\, and he offers a range of courses in colonial and modern Latin American history. Originally from New York\, he received his M.A (1974) and Ph.D. (1979) in History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his B.A. (1973) in History and Latin American Studies from the State University of New York at Binghamton. \nThis event is sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies\, with generous support from the Jim Joseph Foundation and the David B. Gold Foundation. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/allen-wells-lives-in-the-balance-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120314T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120314T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20111202T025153Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111202T025153Z
UID:10004949-1331726400-1331733600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Akira Mizuta Lippit: “Like Cats and Dogs”
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nAkira Mizuta Lippit\nAkira Mizuta Lippit\nProfessor\, Comparative Literature\,\nEast Asian Languages and Cultures\, USC\nChair\, Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts \n“Like Cats and Dogs” \nProfessor Lippit has recently completed a book on contemporary experimental cinema\, Ex-cinema: Essays on Experimental Film and Video\, and is completing another book on contemporary Japanese cinema and the concept of the world.  He is also writing a book on David Lynch and anagrams. \n———————————————————————————————————— \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors.  The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion.  We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/csc-akira-mizuta-lippit-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120315T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120315T194500
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20111207T223623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111207T223623Z
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SUMMARY:UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: Professor Keorapetse Kgositsile
DESCRIPTION:Keorapetse Kgositsile\nCreative Writing and Literature present:\nUCSC Winter Living Writers Series \nProfessor Keorapetse Kgositsile \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives\nRonaldo V. Wilson\, Visiting Assistant Professor \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities.  Whether as editors\, publishers\, activists\, teachers\, multi-media artists\, and/or co-collaborators\, the featured poets in this series present work that reflects their dynamic engagements in the world. \nThursdays / 6:00 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nContact: Ronaldo V. Wilson\, rvwilson@ucsc.edu or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu \nCo-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lws-keorapetse-kgositsile-3/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120315T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120315T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20120308T210424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120308T210424Z
UID:10004678-1331838000-1331845200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Peter Kenez: "The Coming of the Holocaust"
DESCRIPTION:University of California\, Santa Cruz\,  \nEmeriti group presents Emeriti Faculty Lecture by: \n \nPeter Kenez \nProfessor of History\,\nCo-Holder of Neufield-Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies UC Santa Cruz \nA Holocaust survivor and native of Hungary\, Peter Kenez is a scholar of the history of Russia and the former Soviet Union. He is currently completing a book-length study of the Holocaust-a comparative study of the prerequisites for mass murder in countries occupied by the Nazis during the second world war. Professor Kenez is a founding faculty member of Stevenson College. \n— \nParking is available for $3.00 per car in the Performing Arts lot. For questions or accommodation requirements\, contact UC Santa Cruz Special Events Office at 831. 459.5003 or specialevents@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/peter-kenez-3/
LOCATION:Media Theater\, M110
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120316T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120316T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20110817T234454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20110817T234454Z
UID:10004851-1331913600-1331920800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Gabriela Caballero
DESCRIPTION:Gabriela Caballero\nGabriela Caballero is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of California\, San Diego. Her research interests include languages of the Americas (particularly Uto-Aztecan languages)\, phonology\, morphology\, language description and documentation\, comparative/historical linguistics\, and typology. \nThis talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett\, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-gabriela-caballero-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120402T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120402T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20120314T192043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120314T192043Z
UID:10005085-1333384200-1333389600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Charles Hedrick\, Sr.: "Secret Mark: Second Edition or Forgery?""
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present a pair of lectures in an ongoing series on “Archaeology and the Ancient World”\nProfessor Charles Hedrick\, Sr.\nEmeritus Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies\, Missouri State University \n“Secret Mark: second edition or forgery?” \nMonday\, April 2 at 5 p.m. \n“Secret Mark: the scholarly firestorm that followed…” \nThursday\, April 5 at 5 p.m. \nBoth lectures will be held in Humanities 1\, room 210\nCoffee will be served before and a reception will follow each lecture \n  \nIn 1973\, Columbia University History Professor Morton Smith published an ancient manuscript that contended the author of the Gospel of Mark later wrote a longer second edition of his gospel. The firestorm of criticism prompted by the book eventually led to accusations that Smith had forged the document. Forty years later\, the issue remains unsettled. \nRead more about the Secret Gospel of Mark here. \nCharles W. Hedrick (Ph.D Claremont Graduate University) is a member of the UNESCO team of scholars who reconstructed and translated the Nag Hammadi Codices\, and both a translator and editor of texts in the critical edition of the collection. He is the author of numerous articles and several books including Unlocking the Secrets of the Gospel of Thomas: A Radical Faith for a New Age (Wipf and Stock\, 2010)\, The Gospel of the Savior: A New Ancient Gospel (Polebridge\, 1999)\, and Many Things in Parables: Jesus and his Modern Critics (Westminster\, 2004). He is a Fellow of the Jesus Seminar and a retired U. S. Army Chaplain; today he explores the thin line that separates faith from apostasy in writings published on his blog: www.charleshedrick.com. \nFor more information on the lecture or the AIA\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/charles-hedrick-sr-secret-mark-4/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120403T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120403T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20120328T202134Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120328T202134Z
UID:10005089-1333454400-1333459800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Selma James on Sex\, Race\, and Class
DESCRIPTION:Selma James is a renowned women’s rights and anti-racist campaigner and author. In her activist work and her writings\, Selma has addressed the power relations within the working class movement\, and how to organize across sectors despite divisions of sex\, race\, and class\, South and North. She has founded the International Wages for Housework Campaign in 1972\, and in 2000 she helped launch the Global Women’s Strike\, which she coordinates. She is currently in the United States on a speaking tour for the publication of her new book\, Sex\, Race and Class – The Perspective of Winning: A Selection of Writings\, 1952-2011 (PM Press\, March 2012). \nSelma James will be speaking about the historical and contemporary reality of unwaged work in the household\, the community\, and beyond. She will discuss specifically the exploitation of women in the capitalist system and the context and meaning of the recent assault on welfare and women’s reproductive rights in the current global economic crisis. Come join us for a talk and discussion. \nSponsored by the History of Consciousness Department. Co-sponsored by American Studies\, Community Studies and Feminist Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/selma-james-on-sex-race-and-class-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120403T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120403T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20120214T195424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120214T195424Z
UID:10005054-1333468800-1333474200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Emanuela Trevisan-Semi: "Why Jews left Morocco: Different Narratives"
DESCRIPTION:Emanuela Trevisan Semi is professor of Modern Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice (Italy). She has done research about Jews at the margins (karaites\, Jews of Ethiopia\, Judaising movements) and mizrahim in Israel. She has recentely published a book in French on memory and represention of Jews in Morocco among Moroccan Muslims (Paris\, Publisud\, 2011) \nThis event was made possible by generous support by the David B. Gold Foundation\, and the University of California Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Program. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/emanuela-trevisan-semi-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120404T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120404T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20120308T201515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120308T201515Z
UID:10004670-1333540800-1333548000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Hayden White: “Fictions of the Holocaust”
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nHayden White \nUniversity Professor\, Historical Studies\, Emeritus\, UCSC \nProfessor White serves as American Representative of Pasts\, Inc. Narrative Therapy: “Get the Past You Deserve.” He wears the title of Philologian\, the division of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences into which he was inducted after being rejected by both the history and literature divisions.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hayden-white-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120404T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120404T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111556
CREATED:20120313T210422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120313T210422Z
UID:10005069-1333558800-1333566000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Clive Sinclair: "The Jew in the Crown"
DESCRIPTION:“The Jew in the Crown” will offer a brief examination of the ambiguous role of the semitic anti-hero in English literature; anti-heroes such as Shylock\, Fragin\, and Svengali\, whose half-life continues to radiate. \nClive Sinclair has published 13 books of fiction\, travel\, and autobiography\, some of which have been given prizes. Early in his career he was selected as one of the twenty Best of Young British Novelists. His most acclaimed collection of stories – The Lady and the Laptop – won both the PEN Silver pen for fiction\, and the Jewish Quarterly award for fiction. An earlier collection\, Bedbugs\, was recently republished by Syracuse University Press in its Library of Modern Jewish Literature. In 2008 he published Clive Sinclair’s True Tales of the Wild West\, an exercise in Dodgy Realism. He also leads a double-life as an academic and critic: he has published a study of Isaac Bashevis and Israel Joshua Singer – The Brothers Singer – and writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement. His association with UCSC began in 1969\, when he arrived from England as a graduate student; it continued in 1980-81\, when he returned as a Visiting Lecturer\, as he did again in 2003. \nPresented by the Center for Jewish Studies\, with generous support from the David B. Gold Foundation. Staff support is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/clive-sinclair-the-jew-in-the-crown-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120405T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120405T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111557
CREATED:20120314T192210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120314T192210Z
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SUMMARY:Charles Hedrick\, Sr.: “Secret Mark: The Scholarly Firestorm that Followed...”
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present a pair of lectures in an ongoing series on “Archaeology and the Ancient World”\nProfessor Charles Hedrick\, Sr.\nEmeritus Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies\, Missouri State University \n“Secret Mark: second edition or forgery?” \nMonday\, April 2 at 5 p.m. \n“Secret Mark: the scholarly firestorm that followed…” \nThursday\, April 5 at 5 p.m. \nBoth lectures will be held in Humanities 1\, room 210\nCoffee will be served before and a reception will follow each lecture \n  \nIn 1973\, Columbia University History Professor Morton Smith published an ancient manuscript that contended the author of the Gospel of Mark later wrote a longer second edition of his gospel. The firestorm of criticism prompted by the book eventually led to accusations that Smith had forged the document. Forty years later\, the issue remains unsettled. \nRead more about the Secret Gospel of Mark here. \nCharles W. Hedrick (Ph.D Claremont Graduate University) is a member of the UNESCO team of scholars who reconstructed and translated the Nag Hammadi Codices\, and both a translator and editor of texts in the critical edition of the collection. He is the author of numerous articles and several books including Unlocking the Secrets of the Gospel of Thomas: A Radical Faith for a New Age (Wipf and Stock\, 2010)\, The Gospel of the Savior: A New Ancient Gospel (Polebridge\, 1999)\, and Many Things in Parables: Jesus and his Modern Critics (Westminster\, 2004). He is a Fellow of the Jesus Seminar and a retired U. S. Army Chaplain; today he explores the thin line that separates faith from apostasy in writings published on his blog: www.charleshedrick.com. \nFor more information on the lecture or the AIA\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/charles-hedrick-sr-secret-mark-2-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Linguistics Colloquium: Hotze Rullmann
DESCRIPTION:Hotze RullmannHotze Rullmann is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia. Professor Rullmann’s research interests include (formal) semantics and pragmatics\, and Dutch and other West-Germanic languages. \nThis talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett\, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-hotze-rullmann-3/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120410T110000
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SUMMARY:Amelia Jones: "Activating the Feminist Body and the Curating of Feminist Art"
DESCRIPTION:The Museum and Curatorial Studies (MACS) Research Cluster presents:\nAmelia Jones\, Professor and Grierson Chair in Visual Culture\, McGill University \nThis paper takes off from a brief history of the curating of feminist art in the North American and European contexts. My aim is to think about the exhibition\, and the feminist show in particular\, as a junction between practice and theoretical thought\, a place of intersection between art making\, the writing of art history\, and the positing of critical interventions in institutions. I propose to look at these interrelated questions by a two-part inquiry\, looking at both a history of feminist curating and a small selection of practices that might\, precisely by maintaining an openness to ever- shifting structures of sexual and gender difference\, be impossible to “tame” fully through curatorial practice. \nThis is the final event organized according to the 2011-2012 MACS research theme Exhibitions and Performance. \nFor more information\, please contact Lucian Gomoll at macs@ucsc.edu or visit the MACS website at http://macs.ucsc.edu/ \nCo-sponsored by History of Consciousness\, History of Art and Visual Culture\, and Feminist Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/amelia-jones-activating-the-feminist-body-and-the-curating-of-feminist-art-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120411T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120411T140000
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SUMMARY:Isabelle Delpla: “How to Conceptualize Extreme Evil: Eichmann’s Trial & Modern Theodicies”
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nIsabelle Delpla \nAssistant Professor of Philosophy\, University of Montpellier III \nProfessor Delpla focuses on the relation between philosophy and anthropology in theorizing international ethics and justice. Her work on postwar Bosnia deals with the Srebrenica massacre\, the reception of the International Criminal Tribunal and the status of victims and witnesses.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/isabelle-delpla-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120412T163000
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SUMMARY:Charles Post: "The American Road to Capitalism"
DESCRIPTION:University Press Books and the 2430 Arts Alliance invite you to join\nCharles Post for a reading and discussion of his new book: \nThe American Road to Capitalism:\nStudies in Class Structure\, Economic Development and Political Conflict\, 1620-1877\n\n“Charles Post’s new book\, The American Road to Capitalism\, is sure to become a reference point for debates among historians and Marxists about the transformation of the English colonies into the fully developed capitalist United States. […] it should be widely read\, appreciated for its insights and rigor\, and also debated.” —Ashley Smith\, International Socialist Review \n“This is a thoughtful\, learned\, stimulating\, challenging and altogether valuable volume. It reprints a series of reflections by the Marxist sociologist Charles Post on various aspects of the rise and evolution of capitalism in North America between the colonial era and the late 19th century. The book is anchored in a wide-ranging study of (and it duly credits) the work of generations of historians.” —Bruce Levine\, author of Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War\, in Against the Current \n“Explaining the origin and early development of American capitalism is a particularly challenging task. It is in some ways even more difficult than in other cases to strike the right historical balance\, capturing the systemic imperatives of capitalism\, and explaining how they emerged\, while doing justice to historical particularities… To confront these historical complexities requires both a command of historical detail and a clear theoretical grasp of capitalism’s systemic imperatives\, a combination that is all too rare. Charles Post succeeds in striking that difficult balance\, which makes his book a major contribution to truly historical scholarship.” —Ellen Meiksins-Wood\, York University\, author of The Origins of Capitalism: A Long View. \nUnable to analyze the dynamics of specific forms of social labour in the antebellum U.S.\, most historians of the US Civil War have ignored its deep social roots. To search out these roots\, Post applies the theoretical insights from the transition debates to the historical literature on the U.S. to produce a new analysis of the origins of American capitalism. \nCharles Post Ph. D. (1983) in Sociology\, SUNY-Binghamton\, is Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY. He has published in New Left Review\, Journal of Peasant Studies\, Journal of Agrarian Change\, Against the Current and Historical Materialism. \nSponsored by the History of Consciousness Department. Co-sponsored by the Sociology Department and the History Department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/charles-post-the-american-road-to-capitalism-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Migration and Ethnic Studies
DESCRIPTION:The Borders\, Bodies and Violence Research Cluster presents: \nMigration and Ethnic Studies\nThis symposium brings together scholars roused by recent legislation targeting migrants and ethnic studies\, such as Arizona’s SB 1070\, one of the most draconian anti-immigration measures in the United States\, and HB 2281\, the 2010 prohibition on ethnic studies in public schools. Topics to be addressed include language\, labor\, indigeneity\, nativist populism\, state surveillance\, violence\, trauma\, displacement\, culture wars\, and education. Taken together\, the works presented will shed light on the nexus of migration and Latino studies\, assess the state of this field\, and explore the possibilities for its future. \nThursday\, April 12\n4:00-5:30pm: Keynote\n“Politics\, Process\, and Human Folly: Life among the Arizona Lilliputians of Cultural and Linguistic Suppression”\nCarlos Vélez-Ibáñez\, Director of the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University \nFriday\, April 13\n9:00-9:30am: Welcome \n9:30-11:00am: Panel 1: Ethnographies \n\nRuben Espinoza (Sociology): “Bodies\, Border Thinking\, and the Labor Process”\nTania Cruz Salazar (LALS): “Maya Migrant Youth in California”\nMary Virginia Watson (Politics): “‘Taking America Back’: Arizona Nativists and the\nEmergence of Nativist Populism”\nCarlos Vélez-Ibáñez\, respondent\n\n11:00am-12:30pm: Lunch Break \n12:30-2:00pm Panel 2: Archival Research and Textual Analysis \n\nCecilia Rivas (LALS): “The Bodies in the Television: Salvadoran Gardeners\, Memory\, and Representation”\nFelicity Schaeffer-Grabiel (Feminist Studies): “Tracking Migrants: Sexual Surveillance and Securing Communities”\nCatherine Ramírez (LALS): “Bad Subjects: Chicana/o Studies in the Wake of HB 2281”\nSandra K. Soto\, respondent\n\n2:00-2:30pm: Break \n2:30-4:00pm: Closing remarks\n“Thinking While Brown: Ethnic Studies and Arizona’s Culture Wars”\nSandra K. Soto\, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona: \n4:00-5:00pm: Reception\nDr. Carlos Velez-Ibanez’ intellectual interests are broadly comparative and interdisciplinary and span specific interests in migration\, economic stratification\, political ecology\, transnational community and household formation\, and applied social science. His academic fields include applied anthropology\, complex social organizations\, culture and education\, ethno-class relations in complex social systems\, migration and adaptation of human populations\, political ecology\, qualitative methodology and urban anthropology. \nDr. Velez-Ibanez concentrates his work on the Southwestern United States\, Mexico and the Caribbean. His publications are numerous including eleven books\, four of which are based on original field research and his grants are many from NSF\, NEH\, and private foundations. He is presently conducting transnational field research in two rural valleys in California and New Mexico and their sending communities in Mexico. He received a Ph.D. in Anthropology\, University of California\, San Diego (1975). Later he became Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology\, University of California\, Riverside\, 1994-2005. Additionally\, he was Dean of the College of Humanities\, Arts\, and Social Sciences at the University of California\, Riverside from 1994-1999. \nPreviously he had been appointed Professor of Anthropology\, Department of Anthropology\, University of Arizona\, Tucson\, 1984-1994 and Director of the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology\, Department of Anthropology\, University of Arizona\, Tucson\, 1982-1994. Prior to this appointment\, he was a tenured associate professor at UCLA. His honors include the 2004 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology awarded by the American Anthropology Association\, and in 2003 the Bronislaw Malinowski Medal presented by the Society for Applied Anthropology in addition to a number of other awards and fellowships including a Fellow\, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences\, Palo Alto\, California\, 1993-94 and elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science\, 1999. \nHe is presently Regents Professor and Motorola Presidential Professor of Neighborhood Revitalization\, Professor of School of Transborder Studies and and Human Evolution and Social Change\, Director of the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University\, and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology of the University of California\, Riverside. \nSandra K. Soto is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. She holds a PhD in English\, with a focus in Ethnic and Third World Literature\, from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching interests are in Chicana/o and Latina/o Literary and Cultural Studies. She is co-editor of the journal Feminist Formations and the author of the book\, Reading Chican@ Like a Queer: The De-Mastery of Desire. In 2010 she and Miranda Joseph received the National Education Association Excellence in the Academy Award in Democracy in Higher Education for their essay “Neoliberalism and the Battle over Ethnic Studies in Arizona.” When she is not writing about the politics of Arizona\, she works on her book in progress which draws from queer theories of affect to think about the production\, circulation\, and consumption of cultural production in Greater Mexico\, focusing especially on the internationally-renown Mexican photographer\, Graciela Iturbide.\nThe Borders\, Bodies and Violence Research Cluster is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network with support from the UCSC Office for Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, and El Centro: Chicano Latino Resource Center. \nFor more information\, contact Shann Ritchie at the Institute for Humanities Research\, sritchie@ucsc.edu\, (831) 459-5655.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/migration-and-ethnic-studies-2-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
DESCRIPTION:The 30th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics\, hosted by the Department of Linguistics and the Linguistics Research Center\, will take place on Friday\, April 13 to Sunday\, April 15\, 2012 at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.\nConference Program (PDF)\nFor more information and registration\, please visit the conference website. \nThis event is sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Department of Linguistics\, the Institute for Humanities Research\, the Linguistics Research Center\, and Stevenson College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/west-coast-conference-on-formal-linguistics-3-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120416T153000
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SUMMARY:Ondrej Skovajsa: "Written Voice: Walt Whitman’s first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855) and Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer (1934)"
DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to a talk by: Ondrej Skovajsa\, Visiting Fulbright Scholar \n“Written Voice: Walt Whitman’s first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855)\nand Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer (1934)”\nDiscussing first the relevance of oral theory when dealing with texts\, the paper deals with the strategies Whitman and Miller share to get their voices across to the reader. With some striking similarities already at the paratextual level\, the paper moves to stylistic features\, most important of which is the present tense: it aligns these works with the “future focus” of biblical orality that James Nohnrberg defines as contrary to the “nostalgia” of literature. Further\, the paper discusses how the two texts employ Marcel Jousse’s notion of “mimisme” as the rhythmical creative law of the universe. (Jousse’s notion is parallel to Dorothee Soelle’s notion of creative happiness\, and Elaine Scarry’s notion of beauty that demands a replication of itself.) On a still deeper level\, the paper discusses imitatio Christi strongly embraced by both authors: important is the two flâneurs’ “sympathy”\, and the notion of “rebirth as hermeneutics” – i.e. as resurrection of the spoken living logos from the “grave of the book”\, as discussed by Walter Ong’s in “Maranatha” (1977). Whitman and Miller remain in resurrection of – and constant dialogue with – their textual “fixations” on their further journeys. \nMr. Skovajsa is an assistant professor at Purkyně University in Usti nad Labem\, and a doctoral student at the Department of Comparative Literature at Charles University in Prague.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ondrej-skovajsa-written-voice-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120417T173000
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Boyarin: "Trickster's Children: Jewishness and the Generations of Anthropology"
DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Boyarin is the Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill. He has also taught at Wesleyan University\, Dartmouth College\, the New School for Social Research and the University of Kansas. Boyarin received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1998\, after receiving his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the New School for Social Research in New York in 1984. \nHis research and writing combine his backgrounds in anthropology and Yiddish to point toward new pathways in the study of Jewish culture. His first book\, as co-editor\, was From a Ruined Garden: The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry (1983 and 1998)\, which served as an introduction for younger\, English-speaking Jews to first-hand accounts of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. This was followed by Polish Jews in Paris: The Ethnography of Memory (1991)\, based on his dissertation fieldwork in Paris\, and by a volume on the life history of Yiddish scholar Shlomo Noble. Further ethnographic and critical essays\, including some dealing with the contemporary Lower East Side in New York\, were published in Storm from Paradise: The Politics of Jewish Memory(1992) and Thinking in Jewish (1996). He edited and contributed to The Ethnography of Reading (1993) and Remapping Memory: The Politics of TimeSpace (1994). With his brother\, Daniel Boyarin\, he co-edited Jews and Other Differences: The New Jewish Cultural Studies (1997). His interest in Zionism\, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict\, and revaluation of diaspora in contemporary Jewish life is reflected in Palestine and Jewish History (1996) and (again with Daniel Boyarin) Powers of Diaspora (2002). His books in recent years include Jewishness and the Human Dimension (Fordham\, 2008); Time and Human Language Now (with Martin Land; Prickly Paradigm\, 2009); The Unconverted Self: Jews\, Indians and the Identity of Christian Europe (Chicago\, 2009) and Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Lower East Side Summer (Fordham\, 2011). \nThis event was made possible by generous support by the David B. Gold Foundation. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jonathan-boyarin-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120418T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120418T140000
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SUMMARY:Eva Vibeke Kofoed Pihl: "Pig Patients and their Personalities"
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: \nEva Vibeke Kofoed Pihl \nPh.D Fellow\, Center for Medical Science and Technology Studies\, University of Copenhagen; Visiting Fellow\, and The Science and Justice Working Group\, UCSC \nWhat  makes animal technicians describe a pig as “depressed\,” “a rebel” or “girly”? How do scientists get pigs to mimic human patients biologically and become sources of information on human health? Professor Pihl discusses human/pig becomings in biomedical research\, focusing on apparatuses and spaces.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/eva-vibeke-kofoed-pihl-pig-patients-and-their-personalities-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120418T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120418T183000
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SUMMARY:Sara M. Benson: "Locating Leavenworth: Prisons and Political Geography"
DESCRIPTION:This talk historicizes the placement of Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary (the U.S. nation’s oldest and largest federal prison designed as a replica of the U.S. capitol building) at the center of the nation in the post-Reconstruction 1890s. Drawing on understandings of political geography from feminist and critical race studies\, the talk traces the geography of prisons in what is now the U.S. Midwest\, maps the border politics and competing claims to law that brought the federal prison to Kansas\, and disrupts the conventional regional narrative of American prisons as North/South institutions. The talk locates Leavenworth in the afterlife of a civil war over slavery that began the Civil War and at the center of the federal strategy to establish\, police\, and dissolve Indian Territory. \nSara Benson received her Ph.D. from the Department of Politics and was part of the Designated Emphasis Program in Feminist Studies. She is now a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at UCLA.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sara-m-benson-locating-leavenworth-prisons-and-political-geography-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 320
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120418T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120418T190000
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Kahana and Irene Lusztig: Documentary Reenactment
DESCRIPTION:Filmed reenactment has a long\, inglorious history: for decades from the origins of cinema\, it was a central aesthetic and conceptual method for both fiction and nonfiction filmmakers working with unrecorded pasts. With the invention of cinéma vérité\, an ethos which virtually banished reenactment overnight from the toolkit of “serious” historical documentary\, reenactment fell from favor during the 1960s. But in the past decade\, and with\nremarkable alacrity\, reenactment has been revived as a critical figure\, in all manner of film-historical writing\, both in and on film. UCSC Film and Digital Media professors Jonathan Kahana and Irene Lusztig consider some sources and implications of this renewed interest in reenactment as a trope of history\, with reference to and excerpts from two of Lusztig’s reenacted documentaries\, Reconstruction (2001)\, and The Samantha Smith Project (2005). In Reconstruction\, Lusztig unearths a dark family secret in search of answers and reconciliation\, when she travels to Bucharest to construct a portrait of her enigmatic grandmother. The title of the documentary is derived from a bizarre government propaganda film that reenacts the crime and trial of a robbery that “starred” her grandmother\, as a member of the infamous Ioanid Gang. Braiding together the story of the briefly-famous ten-year-old girl from Manchester\, Maine who became Yuri Andropov’s penpal at the height of the Cold War and a parallel personal narrative of travel to Russia fifteen years after the collapse of the Soviet Union\, The Samantha Smith Project explores the aftermath of the Cold War and the contemporary Russian landscape\, while meditating on notions of forgetting\, nostalgia\, and the manufacturing and dismantling of political enemies. \nPlease visit our website: http://artsresearch.ucsc.edu/vps/reenactment for more information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jonathan-kahana-and-irene-lusztig-documentary-reenactment-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120419T230000
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SUMMARY:Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Laleh Khadivi
DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Fund\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department/Creative Writing Program\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, East Asian Studies Program\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, Latino and Latin American Studies Center\, Office of Diversity\, Equity & Inclusion\, El Centro\, Cantu Queer Center\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, Stevenson College\, Oakes College\, and Merrill College. \nBooks are sold at the readings by The Bay Tree Bookstore.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/laleh-khadivi-3/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120421T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120421T180000
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SUMMARY:WHAT ARE WE DOING WHEN WE DO THE HUMANITIES?
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 21 @ 1 pm  //  Museum of Art & History\nFree and Open to the Public (includes free museum access)\n\nJoin us for an exploration and celebration of the Humanities at the University of California. Hear leading scholars discuss their work and examine the following questions. \n\nWhat does it mean to do the humanities?\nWhy do the humanities matter?\nWhat’s public about the humanities?\n\nThe afternoon will consist of panel discussions and poster presentations. Panel topics include the power of language\, religion and modernity\, empire and nation. Poster presentations cover research on the ethnography of disasters\, feminist art\, slavery and cannibalism\, the criminalization of religious practice\, party-crashing in medieval literature\, the inevitable fate of the novel\, and many others. \nFor details visit: http://humanities.ihr.ucsc.edu/ \nBring your family and friends! All of the MAH exhibits will be free and open to the public that afternoon\, including the highly anticipated “All You Need Is Love” exhibit. Visitors will be able to enter a free raffle for items donated by local businesses – Logos Books and Records\, L’Atelier Salon\, Kuumbwa Jazz Center\, and many others. \nSponsored by the UC Humanities Network\, UCSC Institute for Humanities Research\, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, and local Santa Cruz businesses.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/what-are-we-doing-when-we-do-the-humanities-2-3/
LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120422T140000
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SUMMARY:Rabindranath Tagore 150th Anniversary with Aparna Sen
DESCRIPTION:Aparna Sen starred at age 16 in Samapti\, directed by Satyajit Ray\, in 1961. Based on a story by the Nobel Laureate\, Rabindranath Tagore\, it was her very first film. Since then Sen has achieved critical acclaim\, both nationally and internationally\, as an actress and a feminist filmmaker. \nOn April 21 (Media Theater\, UCSC\, 5 PM) Ms. Sen will appear on stage after the screening of Samapti\, an hour- long film. She will speak on Tagore’s great cultural and literary heritage. (admission free) \nOn April 22 there will be a screening ofst The Japanese Wife\, directed by Ms. Sen\, at Nickelodeon at 2 pm. (Nickelodeon\, 210 Lincoln Street\, Santa Cruz\, 95060. Call: 831.426.7511 for reservation) \nMs. Sen will appear on stage for brief Question & Answer sessions after the screening of both the films. \nPresented by: Satyajit Ray Film & Study Center\, UCSC & ICCR\, New Delhi for more information call us 831.459.4012/459.2696\, or visit http://satyajitray.ucsc.edu/news.htm
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rabindranath-tagore-150th-anniversary-with-aparna-sen-2-3/
LOCATION:Nickelodeon Theater\, 210 Lincoln Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120425T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120425T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111557
CREATED:20120308T202254Z
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SUMMARY:Pedro Di Pietro: “Decolonizing Queer Space: Race\, Sexuality and the Production of the Real”
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nPedro Di Pietro \nVisiting Assistant Professor; Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities and Townsend Fellow\, UCB; Research Affiliate\, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Philosophy\, Interpretation\, and Culture\, Binghamton University \nProfessor Di Pietro examines the production of queer spaces in the Andes and their diasporic dispersal in the Americas. He also examines geopolitical linkages between subaltern queerness and vernacular spirituality among Latino/as in the U.S.\, weaving regional epistemologies of sex/gender/desire together with a critique of the human/non-human distinction and its ethico-political aftermath across ethnic\, gender\, and queer studies. \nCO-SPONSORS: The Department of Latin American and Latino Studies\, and the Critical Race and Ethnicity Studies Research Cluster.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pedro-di-pietro-decolonizing-queer-space-race-sexuality-and-the-production-of-the-real-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120425T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120425T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111557
CREATED:20120313T232745Z
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UID:10005070-1335366000-1335373200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Stephen Tatum: “Cormac McCarthy\, Roberto Bolaño\, and the Natural History of Destruction”
DESCRIPTION:In his 1997 lecture series on literature and the air raids of the Second World War\, W.G. Sebald asks at one point “how ought such a natural history of destruction begin?” In the process of beginning himself to answer this question\, Sebald critiques the German literary failure to confront “the true state of the material and moral ruin in which the country found itself\,” to relay the “very real horrors” of the constitutive feature of the European postwar landscape: death.  As some critics have more recently observed\, death constitutes the very being not only of the Holocaust but also of the contemporary genocide accompanying neoliberalism or our globalizing world system. With Sebald’s question (and provisional answers to it) as a prompt\, this talk explores questions of style and affective dynamics in the representations of violence and genocide in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands exemplified by Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men and Roberto Bolaño’s 2666. \nAs I have argued in another context\, the postregional US West ought to be regarded as a rather spectral\, deterritorialized discursive terrain produced by the intersection of media imagery and the migration of transnational capital and human and animal bodies with particular geophysical terrains. These fictions by McCarthy and Bolaño specifically disclose how a postregional or global South economy of representation centers on the violent manner in which embodied laboring populations on both sides of the border are brought into and positioned in the spaces of relatively wealthy societies\, particularly its maquiladoras and the transportation networks produced by flows of drugs\, weapons\, and immigrants. Through an analysis of figures of suspended agency living in the aftermath of violent trauma\, I will speculate further on the ethical and political consequences of a forensic aesthetic combining pensiveness with parataxis. \nStephen Tatum is Professor of English and Director of the Environmental Humanities graduate program at the University of Utah\, where he teaches courses in US West literature\, theories of popular culture\, and environmental writing and ecocriticism. His recent publications include award-winning essays on postregional western American literature and culture\, an edited collection Reading ‘The Virginian’ in the New West\, and the books Cormac McCarthy’s ‘All the Pretty Horses’: A Reader’s Guide and In the Remington Moment. He is currently at work on a projected titled Morta Las Vegas. \nThis event is sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research\, and the departments of American Studies and Literature.  Staff support provided by the IHR.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stephen-tatum-3/
LOCATION:Cowell\, Room 132\,  Cowell College 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120425T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120425T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111557
CREATED:20120214T200400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120214T200400Z
UID:10005056-1335369600-1335375000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:ChaeRan Freeze: "Crafting an Elite Russian-Jewish Identity: Subjectivity and Gender in Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova"
DESCRIPTION:ChaeRan Freeze\, an associate professor in Jewish history at Brandeis University\, has focused her research on the Jews of Russia and women’s and gender studies. Her first book\, Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia (Waltham\, 2001) examines the impact of modernization on Jewish family practices and patterns in Imperial Russia based on newly-declassified archival materials from the former Soviet Union. It received the Koret Foundation Publication Award and the Salo Baron Award for the Best First Book in Jewish Studies. She also edited Polin: Jewish Women in Eastern Europe\, Volume 18 (Oxford\, 2005) with Paula Hyman and Antony Polonsky. This volume is the first collection of essays devoted to the study of Jewish women’s experiences in Eastern Europe. She is presently completing a project\, “Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia\, 1825-1914: Select Documents” (coauthored with Jay Harris\, Harvard University) which documents the “everyday” (Alltags) as a site of interaction with modernity where Jews confronted the unfamiliar\, and negotiated their environment in strategic and creative ways. This project received a Collaborative NEH Grant\, and will be published by the Brandeis University Press. Her new project is to publish the eight diaries of Zinaida Poliakova (1862-1952)\, a noble Jewish woman who described elite Jewish culture and life in tsarist Russia. \nThis event is made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Foundation. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/helen-diller-family-foundation-distinguished-lecture-chaeran-freeze-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120425T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120425T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111557
CREATED:20120420T193612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120420T193612Z
UID:10004690-1335369600-1335375000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Pranav Anand: "All I Want is Some Honest Answers to My Questions: Tracking Argumentation and Stance in Online Political Debate"
DESCRIPTION:Whereas a generation ago\, engaging in public discourse might have meant leafleting or writing letters to the editor\, today a host of venues exist online\, enabling meaningful dialogue on an unprecedented scale. It also provides researchers with an unprecedented look onto the diversity of positions people hold on a given issue align as well as the structure of argumentative combat in general. This talk will describe efforts to computationally discover both the variety of stances that people express in online debate and tactics through which they seek to defend their position. \nFollowing the lecture\, there will be a catered reception at the Stevenson provost house. \nPranav Anand is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz. Mr. Anand’s work concentrates on elucidating how contextual factors affect the meaning of linguistic expressions\, including expression of affect\, belief\, perspective\, and quantity.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pranav-anand-all-i-want-is-some-honest-answers-to-my-questions-tracking-argumentation-and-stance-in-online-political-debate-3/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120425T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120425T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111557
CREATED:20120418T174902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120418T174902Z
UID:10005090-1335380400-1335387600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:A Tribute to Adrienne Rich
DESCRIPTION:A Tribute to Adrienne Rich\nIt was in 1973\, in the midst of Black and women’s liberation movements\, the Vietnam War\, and her own personal distress\, that Adrienne Rich wrote and published Diving into the Wreck\, which garnered her the National Book Award in 1974. Rich accepted the award on behalf of all women. In the decades that followed\, Rich’s poetry\, essays\, and books addressed issues of feminist politics\, lesbian experience\, and Jewish identity\, and deeply engaged the critical concerns of racial and imperial oppression\, war and environmental degradation. Relentless in her commitment to social justice for all peoples\, her work has enlightened and inspired. She is considered\, in the last half of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century\, one of our greatest American poets. In this tribute\, members of our campus community will read from her work. \n \nSponsored by Literature Department\, Feminist Studies Department\, Porter College\, Oakes College\, Cowell College\, Merrill College\, Colleges 9 & 10\, Stevenson College\, Center for Cultural Studies\, Living Writers & the Creative Writing Program.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-tribute-to-adrienne-rich-3/
LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120426T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120426T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111557
CREATED:20120417T230310Z
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SUMMARY:Herman Blake: About Oakes History and Diversity in the Medical Sciences
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for a conversation with Oakes’ First Provost and UCSC’s first African American faculty member\, Dr. Herman Blake. Dr. Blake is currently the Humanities Scholar in Residence at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Our conversation will center around Oakes History and Diversity in the Medical Sciences field. Refreshments will be served. \nPresented by Oakes College\, Oakes Science Community\, Science and the Justice Working Group.  For more information\, please contact Philip Longo (plongo@ucsc.edu) or Walter Adams (wjadams@ucsc.edu).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/herman-blake-about-oakes-history-and-diversity-in-the-medical-sciences-3/
LOCATION:Guzman Room\, Oakes College\, Oakes College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120426T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120426T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111557
CREATED:20120418T175652Z
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SUMMARY:Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Nalo Hopkinson
DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Fund\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department/Creative Writing Program\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, East Asian Studies Program\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, Latino and Latin American Studies Center\, Office of Diversity\, Equity & Inclusion\, El Centro\, Cantu Queer Center\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, Stevenson College\, Oakes College\, and Merrill College. \nBooks are sold at the readings by The Bay Tree Bookstore.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nalohopkinson-3/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120427T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120427T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111557
CREATED:20120420T191556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120420T191556Z
UID:10005100-1335535200-1335542400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Jeff Hull: "Unlocking the Power of Play; Immersive Narrative in the Civic Realm"
DESCRIPTION:Jeff Hull is engaged in a decade long metaphysical street battle against banality and routine. This takes the form of fictional cults with real world induction centers\, pirate radio broadcasts from rogue agencies\, bizarre team building exercises\, guerrilla masonry\, covert subterranean exploration\, sasquatch dance bombs\, and all manner of subterfuge. As the founder of Oaklandish and The Jejune Institute he has taken Situationism and Street Art in unseen new directions\, blowing minds and winning awards along the way. His talk will offer a glimpse into the future of storytelling. \nJeff Hull is the creative director of Nonchalance\, a San Francisco based Situational Design agency whose mission is to provoke discovery through visceral experience and pervasive play. This is achieved this by means of interactive narrative\, game design\, augmented reality\, automated environments\, event production\, installation art\, spatial navigation and cultural curation. They are best known for their award winning independent projects The Jejune Institute and Oaklandish. \nHosted By the Center for Games and Playable Media
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jeff-hull-unlocking-the-power-of-play-immersive-narrative-in-the-civic-realm-3/
LOCATION:Media Theater\, M110
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120427T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120427T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111557
CREATED:20120214T191010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120214T191010Z
UID:10005050-1335542400-1335547800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Craig Schiffer: Santa Cruz to Wall Street
DESCRIPTION:The University of California Satna Cruz Humanities presents the East Coast Distinguished Alumni Guest Lecture Speaker\, Craig Schiffer – Cowell\, Class of ’78 \nSanta Cruz to Wall Street\nHow I got from UCSC to Wall Street\, my experience in the world of finance and investment banking\, and the options for someone coming out of school now \nReception immediately following the lecture.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/east-coast-distinguished-alumni-lecture-featuring-craig-schiffer-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120428
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120429
DTSTAMP:20260403T111557
CREATED:20120428T160001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120428T160001Z
UID:10004691-1335571200-1335657540@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:2012 Reunion Weekend
DESCRIPTION:2012 Reunion Weekend\nMore information TBA.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2012-reunion-weekend-3/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120502T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120502T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111557
CREATED:20120308T202501Z
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SUMMARY:Catherine Jones: “Children and the Problem of Agency”
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nCatherine Jones \nHistory\, UCSC \nExcluded from favored liberal remedies for realizing new freedoms in postemancipation Virginia\, children nevertheless shaped broad Reconstruction contests over the meaning of freedom. This paper focuses on children in order to consider whether liberal assumptions embedded in the idea of agency have excessively narrowed historians’ analysis of postemancipation politics. \nSPONSORS: The Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/catherine-jones-children-and-the-problem-of-agency-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120502T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120502T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111557
CREATED:20120430T075505Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120430T075505Z
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SUMMARY:Lisa Kaborych of the Medici Archive Project and Its New Digital Interactive Platform
DESCRIPTION:The Medici Archive Project Presents: \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPreview a presentation by Lisa Kaborycha of the Medici Archive Project\, Florence\, of  a new\, interactive digital platform that will debut as freeware this July. This platform is adaptable for the needs of many kinds of document management\, and Lisa will be on hand to discuss its properties and capacities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lisa-kaborych-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 620\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120502T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120502T230000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111557
CREATED:20120319T162820Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120319T162820Z
UID:10005088-1335960000-1335999600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:A Dickens Day Celebration
DESCRIPTION:A Celebration in Honor of Charles Dickens’s 200th Birthday Anniversary Year \nCo-sponsored by The Dickens Project\, University of California\, Santa Cruz \nAn Important Notice of (perhaps) the one and only all-day Dickens Day Celebration in San Francisco\, hence\, one that should not be missed on all account. Thus\, a brief description of  what will occur by way of  discourse and disquisition\, literary enrichment\, theatrical engagement\, delectable fare\, and of course\, sheer fun. \nA Dickens Day Celebration (in honor of Charles Dickens’s 200th Birthday Anniversary Year will be held on Wednesday\, May 2 from NOON – 8:30 pm  at San Francisco’s historic Mechanics’ Institute Library & Chess Room (founded in 1854).   The day will start at Noon with lunch in the Six Jolly Fellowship Porters Pub followed by a series of talks from 12:30 -3:30 pm on Discovering Dickens’s London. From 3:30 – 4:30 pm we feature English Tea with Charles Dickens in Residence (performed by Robert Young) with additional “5 minute Dickens” readings from the audience. The evening program from 6:30 -8:30 pm features a keynote address by Jane Smiley (Charles Dickens (2002)\, followed by a panel titled\, A Writer’s Life: Author\, Celebrity\, Social Reformer\, Intrepid Traveler\, Amateur Actor & Family Man and Dickens in the Digital Age with professors from the UC Santa Cruz Dickens Project and others; culminating with a dramatic reading by actor Paul Whitworth. \nSix Jolly Fellowship Porters Pub will offer hearty tavern fare from NOON – 6:00 pm with a special Tea Service from 3:30 -5:00 pm. The audience and participants are welcomed to come in costumes as favorite characters from Dickens’s novels or people of the times! \nAfternoon Program\nDiscovering Dickens’s London\n12:00 – Six Jolly Fellowship Porters Pub (hearty tavern fare & libations 12:00 – 6:00 pm) \n12:30-1:30 – John Jordan\, Arriving in Dickens’s London \n1:30-2:30 – Murray Baumgarten\, Reading Dickens Writing London \n2:30-3:30 – Peter Orner\, Dickens and Melville: A Tale of Two Scriveners \n3:30-4:30 – Tea Readings with Charles Dickens (Robert Young)  Dramatic Reading  by the Author!\n        “5-Minute Dickens” with audience participation – bring your favorite selection to share!\n        English Tea Service available!\n \nEvening Program\nA Writer’s Life: Author\, Celebrity\, Social Reformer\, Intrepid Traveler\, Amateur Actor & Family Man and\nDickens in the Digital Age\n6:00 – Doors Open – Victorian Guests & Surprises \n6:30-8:30 – Keynote Address:  Jane Smiley\, author of Charles Dickens (2002) \nPanel discussion\, moderated by John Jordan with Murray Baumgarten\, Edwin Eigner\, Jane Smiley\, Peter Orner\, Jon Michael Varese \nFrom Page to Stage –A  Dramatic Reading by actor Paul Whitworth\n \nReservations Required: (415) 393-0100 or rsvp@milibrary.org    www.milibrary.org \nMembers Free; Public $15
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-dickens-day-celebration-3/
LOCATION:Mechanic’s Institute\, 57 Post Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120503T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120503T230000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111557
CREATED:20120503T160001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120503T160001Z
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SUMMARY:Dizikes Award and "Celebrating the Humanities" 2012
DESCRIPTION:Alan Christy\, Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies Director\, is the 2012 recipient of the John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities. Both students and colleagues alike offered high praise regarding Alan’s teaching skills and the positive impact he has had on students over the years. \nJohn Dizikes will be on hand to present the award to Alan and will join Humanities faculty\, staff\, and students in honoring our other Humanities affiliates receiving recognition during our “Celebrating Excellence in the Humanities 2012 “ Spring Awards Event on Thursday\, May 3rd. \nFor more detailed information about this event\, please follow this link: http://humanities.ucsc.edu/news-events/announcements/news-article-spring-awards-call.html \nThe annual “Celebrating Humanities” event is an important opportunity to acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition\, awards\, distinctions and honors over the course of this last year. Highlights include the presentation of the Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award in Humanities\, which honors the teaching efforts of faculty. \nThe categories for acknowledgement this year are:\nFaculty Awards and Honors\nResearch Grants and Fellowships\nTeaching Awards and Instructional Innovation\nMajor Publications\nUndergraduate Awards and Honors:\nHUGRA – supports and encourages undergraduate research in the Humanities\nDean’s and Chancellor’s – granted to undergraduates who have completed an outstanding senior thesis or project during the current academic year \nThis year’s Celebrating Humanities event will be held in conjunction with the HUGRA awards. Following is the schedule: \n1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.: HUGRA Awards\n3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.: Refreshments\n4:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m.: Dizikes Award\n4:15 p.m.-6:00 p.m.: Spring Awards
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dizikes-award-and-celebrating-the-humanities-2012-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120503T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120503T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111557
CREATED:20120314T182336Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120314T182336Z
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SUMMARY:HUGRA Award Presentations
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Humanities Undergraduate Research Award Presentations will be held in conjunction with the Celebrating Humanities event. Following is the schedule: \n1:00 – 3:00 pm: HUGRA Awards \n3:00 – 4:00 pm: Refreshments \n4:00 – 6:00 pm: Spring Awards
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hugra-award-presentations-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120503T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120503T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111557
CREATED:20111209T192727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111209T192727Z
UID:10004650-1336060800-1336068000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Celebrating Humanities Spring Awards
DESCRIPTION:The annual “Celebrating Humanities” event is an important opportunity to acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition\, awards\, distinctions and honors over the course of this last year. Highlights include the presentation of the John Dizikes Teaching Awards in Humanities\, which honors the teaching efforts of faculty. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \n  \nThe categories for acknowledgement this year are: \n\nFaculty Awards and Honors\nResearch Grants and Fellowships\nTeaching Awards and Instructional Innovation\nMajor Publications\nUndergraduate Awards and Honors:\n• HUGRA – supports and encourages undergraduate research in the Humanities\n• Dean’s and Chancellor’s – granted to undergraduates who have completed an outstanding senior thesis or project during the current academic year\n\nThis year’s Celebrating Humanities event will be held in conjunction with the HUGRA awards. Following is the schedule: \n1:00 – 3:00 pm: HUGRA Awards \n3:00 – 4:00 pm: Refreshments \n4:00 – 6:00 pm: Spring Awards \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2011-2012-spring-awards-event-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120504T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120504T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111557
CREATED:20120314T190705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120314T190705Z
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SUMMARY:"Emergent Communities in Experimental Writing" Conference
DESCRIPTION:This conference is organized around experimental writing and its many\, varying communities including performance art collaborations\, small press publishing and editorial projects\, virtual and digital work\, academic affiliations\, and intersecting aesthetic\, social and political identities and representations. The goal of this conference is to embrace the productive and generative connotations of these two terms as innovative acts and encounters that are always in the process of both venturing to do something previously untried\, and questioning and testing the very boundaries and mores\, however contingent\, established by those attempts. Of particular interest is how writing communities might be changing historically in the early twenty-first century\, and how writers theorize and make use (or not) of various conceptualizations and practices of community. What do such formations include and leave out? What are the conditions of possibility for a community to emerge? From where does one emerge? How are writing communities that share an often contested collective vision themselves experimental formations for attempting new modes of relation\, affiliation and creation? This conference is organized around experimental writing and its many\, varying communities including performance art collaborations\, small press publishing and editorial projects\, virtual and digital work\, academic affiliations\, and intersecting aesthetic\, social and political identities and representations. The goal of this conference is to embrace the productive and generative connotations of these two terms as innovative acts and encounters that are always in the process of both venturing to do something previously untried\, and questioning and testing the very boundaries and mores\, however contingent\, established by those attempts. Of particular interest is how writing communities might be changing historically in the early twenty-first century\, and how writers theorize and make use (or not) of various conceptualizations and practices of community. What do such formations include and leave out? What are the conditions of possibility for a community to emerge? From where does one emerge? How are writing communities that share an often contested collective vision themselves experimental formations for attempting new modes of relation\, affiliation and creation? (Conference website: http://ucsccommunitypoetryconf.tumblr.com/) \nFriday\n9:00-9:30am Opening Comments \n9:30-10:45am Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n11:00am-12:15pm Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n12:15-1:15pm Lunch / Collaborative Writing Tables \n1:15-2:30pm Roundtable\n4 presenters \n2:45-4:00pm Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n4:30-6:30pm Dinner  \n7:00pm Poetry Reading at the Felix Kulpa Gallery \nSaturday\n9:00-10:15am Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n10:30-11:45 Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n11:45am-1:00pm Lunch / Reading \n1:00-2:15pm Roundtable\n4 presenters \n2:30-4:00pm Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n4:00-6:15pm Dinner \n6:30pm Poetry Reading at the Felix Kulpa Gallery
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/emergent-communities-in-experimental-writing-conference-4/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120504T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120504T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111557
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SUMMARY:Matthew Tucker\, "Variable Agreement: The Morphosyntax of Syntactic Binding"
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Tucker\nThis talk discusses the interplay between syntax (the order of words and structure in sentences) and morphology (the structure of words) in natural language and the role it can play in linguistic theorizing. While traditional approaches often look at purely syntactic or purely morphological explanations\, data from three unrelated syntactic phenomena can be understood in a unified light if theories of language take the syntax- morphology interface as an object of study. The first of these\, called the Anaphor Agreement Effect\, involves the inability of reflexive elements (such as English himself\, or Italian se stesso) to control verbal agreement. The second and third are the inability of question words in some languages to control regular verbal agreement\, known variably as the Anti-Agreement Effect and wh-Agreement. Drawing on data from Berber\, Italian\, Abaza\, and other genetically unrelated languages\, I show that a unified understanding of these processes can be given if morphology is allowed to interpret the same syntactic structures in one of several different ways\, corresponding to the range of empirical phenomena seen in reflexive and question agreement. This in turn supports a methodological conclusion that deep descriptive\, partially abstract linguistic analysis is a prerequisite to understanding the possible space of cross-linguistic variation. \nMatthew Tucker is a fifth year graduate student in the Department of Linguistics. Mr. Tucker’s research focuses on the interaction between syntax (word order) and other parts of language. He is involved in the IHR research cluster Crosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax-Prosody\, where his work focuses on Arabic and the connections between syntax and word-level metrical structure.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/matthew-tucker-3/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120505T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120505T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111557
CREATED:20120314T190924Z
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SUMMARY:“Emergent Communities in Experimental Writing” Conference
DESCRIPTION:This conference is organized around experimental writing and its many\, varying communities including performance art collaborations\, small press publishing and editorial projects\, virtual and digital work\, academic affiliations\, and intersecting aesthetic\, social and political identities and representations. The goal of this conference is to embrace the productive and generative connotations of these two terms as innovative acts and encounters that are always in the process of both venturing to do something previously untried\, and questioning and testing the very boundaries and mores\, however contingent\, established by those attempts. Of particular interest is how writing communities might be changing historically in the early twenty-first century\, and how writers theorize and make use (or not) of various conceptualizations and practices of community. What do such formations include and leave out? What are the conditions of possibility for a community to emerge? From where does one emerge? How are writing communities that share an often contested collective vision themselves experimental formations for attempting new modes of relation\, affiliation and creation? This conference is organized around experimental writing and its many\, varying communities including performance art collaborations\, small press publishing and editorial projects\, virtual and digital work\, academic affiliations\, and intersecting aesthetic\, social and political identities and representations. The goal of this conference is to embrace the productive and generative connotations of these two terms as innovative acts and encounters that are always in the process of both venturing to do something previously untried\, and questioning and testing the very boundaries and mores\, however contingent\, established by those attempts. Of particular interest is how writing communities might be changing historically in the early twenty-first century\, and how writers theorize and make use (or not) of various conceptualizations and practices of community. What do such formations include and leave out? What are the conditions of possibility for a community to emerge? From where does one emerge? How are writing communities that share an often contested collective vision themselves experimental formations for attempting new modes of relation\, affiliation and creation? (Conference website: http://ucsccommunitypoetryconf.tumblr.com/) \nFriday\n9:00-9:30am Opening Comments \n9:30-10:45am Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n11:00am-12:15pm Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n12:15-1:15pm Lunch / Collaborative Writing Tables \n1:15-2:30pm Roundtable\n4 presenters \n2:45-4:00pm Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n4:30-6:30pm Dinner  \n7:00pm Poetry Reading at the Felix Kulpa Gallery \nSaturday\n9:00-10:15am Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n10:30-11:45 Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n11:45am-1:00pm Lunch / Reading \n1:00-2:15pm Roundtable\n4 presenters \n2:30-4:00pm Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n4:00-6:15pm Dinner \n6:30pm Poetry Reading at the Felix Kulpa Gallery
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/emergent-communities-in-experimental-writing-conference-2-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120507T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120507T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111557
CREATED:20120504T161610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120504T161610Z
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SUMMARY:Patricia Lunn: "In the Defense of Linguistic Grammar"
DESCRIPTION:LANGUAGE PROGRAM COLLOQUIUM SERIES PRESENTS: \n“In the Defense of Linguistic Grammar” \n \nPatricia Lunn \nProfessor Emeritus of Spanish Michigan State University \nDiscussions about teaching grammar in the foreign language classroom are usually cast in terms of when (in order of acquisition) and how much (as against other activities). A little-discussed aspect of grammar teaching is what the content of grammar lessons should be. But not all grammatical description is equal\, and some is not even accurate. This presentation argues that the simplicity and descriptive adequacy of linguistic grammar should be recognized and exploited.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/patricia-lunn-in-the-defense-of-linguistic-grammar-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 320
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120508T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120508T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111557
CREATED:20120418T173537Z
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SUMMARY:Are You My Data? A Research Ethics Forum
DESCRIPTION:The Office of Research is sponsoring a series of Research Ethics Fora for faculty\, postdocs and graduate students.  The first forum in the Series “Are You My Data?” is on Tuesday May 8th in the Alumni Room of the University Center and is hosted by Prof. Jennifer Reardon of the Science & Justice Working Group.  This is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the challenges of managing research data. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAre You My Data?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith a human genome sequenced and a map of variable sites in that genome created\, governments and many other public and private actors now seek to make genomic data relevant to health\, medicine and the society.  However\, to do so they must navigate the conjunction of two different approaches to data.  Within the biomedical domain there are important\, well-articulated infrastructures and commitments arising out of concerns about individual rights\, patient privacy and the doctor-patient relationship that limit access to biomedical data.  This stands in stark contrast to the culture of open access forged by those who worked on the Human Genome Project\, and that has continued to be a central commitment of ongoing Human Genome research.  Thus\, architects of the genomic revolution face competing\, complex technical and ethical challenges that arise from this meeting of these domains with substantially different ethos.  Additionally\, the rise of social media has led to a broad and contested discussion about the proper relationship between persons and data and who profits through access to it. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe goal of the proposed workshop is to map out the challenges of building and controlling genomic data architectures that are responsive to these conditions.  Rather than suggesting that either openness or privacy is the answer\, the workshop will ask which kinds of openness and privacy might be possible and adequate\, and in which contexts?   Further\, who has the authority to decide?  Who can/should authorize the flow of data and what forms of consent are required? What kinds of flow of data should be allowed (e.g.\, ones that lead back to persons\, etc.)?  Finally\, the workshop will consider questions around where and how data should be accessed.  Is “the cloud” a viable option?  What other options exist to manage deluging data\, and what ethical and material challenges do they present? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhile the workshop will focus on the specific context of genomics\, of course the broader issues raised are not unique to genomics.  We hope the workshop is only one of  several we will host to consider the current gathering of fundamental and entwined issues of science\, engineering\, ethics and policy at the site of data. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSchedule\n1:00-2:30 Panel 1: The Collision of Privacy and Openness\n2:30-2:45 Break\n2:45-4:15 Panel 2: Creating and Sustaining Trust\n4:15-4:30 BREAK\n4:30-5:00 Agenda Setting for Future Discussions \nSpeakers:\nConfirmed (*)\n*David Winickoff\, Associate Professor of Bioethics and Society\, UC Berkeley\n*Malia Fullerton\, Associate Professor in the Department of Bioethics & Humanities at the University of Washington School of Medicine\n*Bob Zimmerman\, Program Director\, Cancer Genome Hub\n*John Wilbanks\, VP of Science\, Science Commons
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/are-you-my-data-3/
LOCATION:University Center\, UCSC\, College Nine and College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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