The Humanities Institute

Music of The Waves: A Conversation with Lawrence Weschler and William Finnegan Moderated by Harry Berger Jr.
2014-12-19 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Page Smith Library
Lawrence Weschler and William Finnegan both graduated from Cowell College, UCSC, in 1974. Both worked at The New Yorker, where Finnegan still works. Both studied here at UCSC with Harry Berger. And all three – Weschler, Finnegan, and Berger – are public intellectuals known for their humor and incisiveness and also for the zany connections they like to make.
In this symposium the three literary giants reflect on writing, music, time, and surfing. Weschler focuses on the temporality of both writing and music. The writer and the musician structure time much as the architect, the painter, and the sculptor structure spaces. Finnegan sees timing as crucial to his writing and to his passion for surfing, where the consequences of poor timing can be much more disastrous than in writing. Berger, who is still prolific into his ninth decade, will comment briefly on the ideas presented by Weschler and Finnegan; and then the gates will be thrust open for discussion among all in the room.
For more information, please contact Katie Linder, Cowell Events and Outreach Coordinator at klinder@ucsc.edu or call Emily Sloan-Pace, Cowell’s College Academic Programs Coordinator at cwprvsta@ucsc.edu.
Please note that parking can pose a challenge, but we hope the Cowell and Stevenson lots will be relatively open. Those lots include a parking station.

Kalindi Vora: “Life Support: Legacies of Imperial Science and Surrogate Technologies of Racialized Reproduction”
2015-01-06 17:00 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Transnational commercial surrogacy brings together India’s colonial history and its economic development through outsourcing and globalization with instrumentalized notions of the reproductive body. Addressing the intertwined historical relationships and contemporary disparities in medical and legal protections to bear upon reections on recent innovations in articial uterine environments, this talk suggests that the metaphors we use to structure our understanding of bodies and body parts impact how we imagine appropriate roles for people and their bodies in ways that are still deeply entangled with imperial histories of science. The techno-fantasy of the isolated womb is part of the originating conditions for the structure and discourse of Indian surrogacy as “wombs for rent,” and the notion of the disembodied uterus that has arisen in scientic and medical practice allows for alienating logic of the “gestational carrier” as a functional role in Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) practices. Given these ongoing histories and metaphors, it is important to consider the unequal positions of participants in transnational fertility exchanges when evaluating recent articulations of the relationship between governance, medicine, and transnational ART markets in the debates about draft ART legislation in India.
Kalindi Vora is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and aliate faculty of the Critical Gender and Science Studies Programs at UC San Diego. Her book, Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor (University of Minnesota Press, 2015), examines domestic work, customer care, the commodication of human organs, gestational surrogacy and knowledge work as representing a global economy of vitality that relies on aective and biological labor of feminized workers. Her research and publications have focused on gendered labor, globalization, South Asian area and diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, and feminist theory.

Upcoming Feminist Science Studies Colloquia
Ann Fink, New York University
“Feminist Ethics and the Neurobiology of Memory”
January 13, 5:00 – 6:30pm, Humanities 1 Room 210
Sara Giordano, San Diego State University
“Tinkering with Science: IRB, DIY and Feminist Science Ethics”
January 20, 5:00 – 6:30pm, Humanities 1 Room 210
Kristina Lyons, University of California of Santa Cruz
“Decomposition as Life Politics: Soils, Shared Bodies, and Stamina Under the Gun of the U.S.-Colombia War on Drugs”
January 27, 5:00 – 6:30pm, Humanities 1 Room 210

Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar Informational Session
2015-01-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join us for an informational session on the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminars on Thursday, January 8th from noon to 1:00 PM where we can address questions, think about budgets, and possible collaborations.
Sawyer Seminar information: http://www.mellon.org/programs/higher-education-and-scholarship-humanities/fellowships/sawyer-seminars/

Eric Schwitzgebel: "The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors"
2015-01-08 16:00 - 17:45 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Do professional ethicists behave any morally better than do non-ethicists of similar social background? If not, do they at least show greater consistency between their normative attitudes and their outward behavior? Despite a long philosophical tradition associating philosophical reflection with improved moral behavior, these questions have never been empirically examined. I describe four possible models of the relationship between philosophical moral reflection and real-world moral behavior (boosterism, epiphenomenalism, rationalization, and inert discovery). I then present convergent evidence from studies of about a dozen different types of moral behavior. The results suggest that ethicists behave no morally better on average or any more consistently with their espoused values, compared to other groups of professors. Using a combination of direct observation and self-report measures, I examine: the misappropriation of library books, voting in public elections, courtesy at professional meetings, responsiveness to student emails, charitable donation, organ and blood donation, staying in touch with one’s mother, vegetarianism, honesty in responses to surveys, nonpayment of conference registration fees, Nazi party membership in the 1930s, and peer evaluation of overall moral behavior. The overall results will be compared with the predictions of the four models.
Eric Schwitzgebel is a Professor of Philosophy at UC Riverside. He has written extensively on consciousness, self-knowledge, attitudes, and moral psychology. His most recent book is Perplexities of Consciousness. He blogs at The Splintered Mind.

Ann Fink: “Feminist Ethics and the Neurobiology of Memory”
2015-01-13 17:00 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department Presents: Feminist Science Studies Colloquia
Kalindi Vora, University of California of San Diego
“Life Support: Legacies of Imperial Science and Surrogate Technologies of Racialized Reproduction”
January 6, 5:oo – 6:30pm, Humanities 1 Room 210
Ann Fink, New York University
“Feminist Ethics and the Neurobiology of Memory”
January 13, 5:00 – 6:30pm, Humanities 1 Room 210
Sara Giordano, San Diego State University
“Tinkering with Science: IRB, DIY and Feminist Science Ethics”
January 20, 5:00 – 6:30pm, Humanities 1 Room 210
Kristina Lyons, University of California of Santa Cruz
“Decomposition as Life Politics: Soils, Shared Bodies, and Stamina Under the Gun of the U.S.-Colombia War on Drugs”
January 27, 5:00 – 6:30pm, Humanities 1 Room 210

Maya Peterson: "The Padishah of the Hungry Steppe: Irrigation and Empire in Russian Turkestan"
2015-01-14 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Maya Peterson’s work stands at the intersection of environmental history and imperial history. Her current book project explores the ways in which a focus on the physical environment might open up new avenues for thinking about modernity and colonial relationships in Central Asia under Russian and Soviet rule. She is Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz.

Winter 2015 Colloquium Series
January 14 : Maya Peterson
January 21: Naveeda Khan
January 28: Carolyn Dean
February 4: Madhavi Murty
February 11: Kris Alexanderson
February 18: Jennifer Horne
February 25: Gayle Salamon
March 4: Christopher Chen

DH Working Group Meeting / Works in Progress Session
2015-01-14 17:00 - 19:00 | Cowell Senior Commons Room, Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062-1225, United States
Alan Christy (History) will share his work on The Gail Project (http://thegailproject.routes.ucsc.edu/). Join us to discuss the challenges of organizing, and sharing digital materials and the possibilities of memory collection online.
The Digital Humanities Working Group meets once-a-month to share ongoing work, read foundational texts, and create a vision for Digital Humanities at UCSC. All students, faculty, and staff welcome.
Contact digitalhumanities@ucsc.edu for more details about any of the above events.
Follow @DH_UCSC on Twitter and Digital Humanities at UCSC on Facebook.

Campus 50th Anniversary Kickoff: Dress Up Like It's 1965!
2015-01-15 12:00 - 14:00 | Quarry Amphitheater
Join us in Quarry Plaza for a fun 50th kick-off event. Come dressed up like it’s 1965, be photographed by a professional photographer, and compete for the best outfit.
Noon to 2pm
January 15, 2015, at Quarry Plaza
What did they actually wear in 1965?
Follow our social media channels for hot tips from UC Santa Cruz alumna and Mad Men Co-Costume Designer Tiffany White Stanton (Kresge ‘03, psychology). Share your “look” by hashtagging your photos #ucsc50
Compete for the most authentic 1965 outfit by posing for a photo for Tiffany to judge. The winners will be featured in the UCSC alumni magazine and on our social media channels.
KZSC will be onsite broadcasting live and spinning tunes from 1965.
It’ll be swinging’.
More info at: 50years.ucsc.edu/kick-off

Living Writers Series: Cherrie Moraga
2015-01-15 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Creative Writing Program presents Cherrie Moraga in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series.
Cherríe L. Moraga is playwright, poet, and essayist whose plays and publications have received national recognition and is a recipient of The American Studies Association Lifetime Achievement Award.
Moraga has premiered and developed her work at theatres throughout San Francisco. Brava’s production of “Heroes and Saints” in 1992 received numerous awards for best original script, including the Drama-logue and Critic Circles Awards and the Pen West Award. Her most recent play, NEW FIRE—To Put Things Right Again, a collaboration with visual artist, Celia Herrera Rodríguez, had its world premiere at Brava Theater Center in San Francisco in January 2012.
Moraga has served as an Artist in Residence in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University and currently also shares a joint appointment with Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity. She teaches Creative Writing, Chicano/Latino and Indigenous Studies, and Playwriting.
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Winter 2015 Living Writers Series:
January 15: Cherrie Moraga, poet/playwright
January 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta, poets
January 29: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet)
February 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez, poet
February 12: Luis Alfaro, performance artist/playwright
February 19: John Jota Leanos, filmmaker
February 26: Anita Hill, attorney
March 5: Maceo Montoya, fiction writer
March 12: student reading

The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Jesica Siham Fernández
2015-01-16 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202.

Winter 2015 Schedule:
January 16th – Jesica Siham Fernández, Social Psychology, “Latina/o Children as Cultural Citizens: Membership, Sense of Belonging, Space and Rights”
Jesica Siham Fernández is a Ph.D. Candidate in Social Psychology with an emphasis in Latin American & Latino Studies (LALS). Her research focuses on social constructions of citizenship, specifically how people define, practice and embody citizenship in everyday life. Jesica is the recipient of the UC President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship. Her dissertation is a critical ethnography of Latina/o children’s cultural citizenship. In her work, she explores how fourth- and fifth-grade Latina/o children in an after-school program define the terms citizen, citizenship and rights, and how they enact cultural citizenship. Jesica will be discussing a chapter of her dissertation, which focuses on children’s cultural citizenship embodiment and processes (e.g. membership, sense of belonging, space and rights).
January 23rd – Wes Modes, DANM, “A Secret History of American River People”
January 30th – Aubrey Hobart, Visual Studies, “The Queen of Heaven and the Prince of Angels: Saintly Rivalry in Colonial Mexico”
February 6th – Melissa Brzycki, History, “Inventing the Socialist Child, 1945-1976”
February 13th – Delio Vásquez, HISC, “The Criminal Revolutionary and the Revolutionary Criminal: Illegal Black Resistance in the 60s and 70s”
February 20th – Melissa Yinger, Literature, “Ronsard’s Echo-critical Poetic Narcissism: The Elegies for Narcissus and Gâtine”
February 27th – Tracy Perkins, Sociology, “From Protest to Policy: The Political Evolution of California Environmental Justice Activism, 1980s-2010s”
March 6th – Michael Wilson, Politics, “Violent Constructions: Classifying, Explaining, and Misrepresenting Contentious Politics”
March 13th – Jessica Calvanico, Feminist Studies, “On the Politics of Owning a Kara Walker”

This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the departments of Literature, History of Consciousness. Anthropology, Feminist Studies, HAVC, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Sociology, Institute for Humanities Research, as well as the GSA and GSC.

Linguistics Research Colloquia: Claire Halpert
2015-01-16 14:00 - 16:00 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
About eight times each year the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.

2014 – 2015 Speakers
FALL 2014
October 17th
Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers
December 12th
Adam Albright, MIT
WINTER 2015
January 16th
Claire Halpert, University of Minnesota
January 23rd
Valentine Hacquard, Maryland
February 6th
Rachel Walker, USC
mid-March: date TBA
LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz Conference
SPRING 2015
April 10th
Daniel Lassiter, Stanford
April 17th
Keith Johnson, UC Berkeley
May 1st
Grant Goodall, UC San Diego
May/June: date TBA
LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference

Alan Christy: "The Keystone of the Pacific: A History of America in Okinawa"
2015-01-18 10:00 - 12:15 | Stevenson Event Center
A plan by the U.S. and Japan to build a new military base in a place called Henoko has brought Okinawa into the news lately. Prof. Christy, an expert in the history of Japan, social science, colonialism, and nationalism, will present a history of American Japanese post WWII relations specifically as they pertain to Okinawa. This will set the stage for looking at modern relations with Okinawa, where a recent gubernatorial election revealed strong opposition to the base construction.
Alan S. Christy is Associate Professor of History, East Asian Studies Director, and Co-Director, Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories.

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UCSC General Meetings
Our members gather monthly, September through May inclusive, except in December, on the third Sunday from 10 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in the Stevenson College Event Center to socialize, conduct business, and hear a speaker, often a UCSC professor. We greet, meet, and eat (coffee & cake), and interact with a speaker of note. At the first meeting of the year after the summer break, in September, in lieu of hearing from a speaker, we find out about and sign-up for interest groups.

Research Workshop for Humanities Graduate Students
2015-01-20 16:00 - 17:30 | McHenry Library, Room 2353
Pursuing and Managing Your Research: A Library Workshop for Humanities Division Graduate Students
-refine strategies for locating materials (e.g., using archivegrid; in-house and ILL resources)
-develop facility with tools to manage research (e.g., zotero)
-get to know library staff (every researcher’s best friends)
Led by: Annette Marines and Lucia Orlando
When: Tuesday, January 20, 4-5:30 p.m.
Where: McHenry Library, room 2353
Please RSVP: www.surveymonkey.com/s/RSVPHumanities

Sara Giordano: “Tinkering with Science: IRB, DIY and Feminist Science Ethics"
2015-01-20 17:00 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Naveeda Khan: "The Call to Islam and Early Warning Systems in Bangladesh: The Mutual Absorption of the Political, Religious and the Natural"
2015-01-21 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Naveeda Khan’s work traverses spaces of religious crisis and conflict in urban Pakistan to everyday life on shifting land and emergent perceptions of climate change in riparian Bangladesh. Her current interest is to explore the physiognomy of the natural from within the social and the theological. She is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.
Winter 2015 Colloquium Series
January 14 : Maya Peterson
January 21: Naveeda Khan
January 28: Carolyn Dean
February 4: Madhavi Murty
February 11: Kris Alexanderson
February 18: Jennifer Horne
February 25: Gayle Salamon
March 4: Christopher Chen

Social Impact Career Fair
2015-01-21 16:30 - 19:30 | College 8, West Field House
The Social Impact Fair is targeted toward non-profits and social services that are searching for students who would like to impact their community. Employers are looking to meet qualified UC Santa Cruz students with specific job skills and knowledge developed in a rigorous academic major, and the breadth of a well-rounded liberal arts education.
Companies scheduled to attend:
CALPIRG – Citizen Outreach Chapter
We are the Citizen Outreach office for CALPIRG in Santa Cruz! We work to educate individuals about extremely pressing issues and to win campaigns that will benefit the public. We’re looking for students to fill part-time PAID positions to help us win these campaigns and protect public interest! Right now we’re working on a campaign to protect public health and stop the overuse of antibiotics on factory farms. This is an extremely urgent and important campaign and UCSC students are the perfect types of passionate individuals we need to really make a difference!
Industry: Social Services & Non-Profit
FoodCorps
FoodCorps is a nationwide team of leaders that connects kids to real food and helps them grow up healthy. We do that by placing motivated leaders in limited-resource communities for a year of paid public service. Working under the direction of local partner organizations, we implement a three-ingredient recipe for healthy kids. Our Service Members teach kids about what healthy food is and where it comes from, build and tend school gardens, and bring high-quality local food into public school cafeterias.
Industry: Social Services & Non-Profit
Los Gatos-Saratoga Sport & Recreation
The mission of LGS Recreation is to provide fee-based public recreation programs for Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Saratoga and the Los Gatos mountain communities, as well as to provide fee-based supplemental education programs and child care services for Los Gatos Union School District, Saratoga Union School District and Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District.
Industry: Social Services & Non-Profit

Seneca Family of Agencies
At Seneca Family of Agencies, our mission is to help children and families through the most difficult times of their lives. Throughout the 1990s and into the 21st century, Seneca has dedicated itself to becoming a “system of care” agency providing a comprehensive continuum of community-based and family-focused treatment services for children and families. Seneca’s continuum of care now includes in-home wraparound services; foster family-based treatment; mobile crisis response services; integrated day treatment and special education services; after-school therapeutic recreation services; and public school-based mental health services.
Industry: Social Services & Non-Profit
Teach For America
We recruit a diverse group of leaders with a record of achievement who work to expand educational opportunity, starting by teaching for two years in a low-income community.
Industry: Education & Higher Education
US Department of State
As the lead foreign affairs agency, the US Department of State is dedicated to protecting and strengthening America’s interests worldwide. We work to ensure that our country’s diplomatic leadership enhances our economic, food and energy security and stability.
Industry: ﻿Government
More info: http://careers.ucsc.edu/student/CareerEvents/Fairs/Winter/socimpact2015.html

Warren Neidich on "Cognitive Capitalism"
2015-01-22 10:00 - 11:45 | Oakes College, Room 105, Oakes College,‎ 150 Heller Drive, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Warren Neidich is an artist and critic, editor of The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism (Archive Books, 2013). He will be speaking in Warren Sack’s lecture course, and interested parties are invited to attend. Those who would like to participate in a further discussion with Neidich that afternoon should email wsack@ucsc.edu.

Lauren Berlant: "Structures of Unfeeling Mysterious Skin"
2015-01-22 14:00 - 15:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Living Writers Series: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta
2015-01-22 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Creative Writing Program presents Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series.
Verónica Reyes is a Chicana feminist jota poet from East Los Angeles, California. She earned her BA from California State University, Long Beach and her MFA from University of Texas, El Paso. She scripts poetry for the people. Her poems give voice to all her communities: Chicanas/os, immigrants, Mexicanas/os, and la jotería. Reyes has won AWP’s Intro-Journal Project, an Astraea Lesbian Foundation Emerging Artist award, and was a Finalist for Andrés Montoya Poetry award. Her work has appeared in Calyx, Feminist Studies, ZYZZYZVA, The New York Quarterly, Ms. Magazine (Online), and The Minnesota Review. She is a proud member of Macondo Writers’ Workshop.
Her first poetry book, Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from Bordered Lives (Arktoi Books, an imprint of Red Hen Press 2013), has won Best Poetry from International Latino Book Awards 2014, Best Poetry from Golden Crown Literary Society Awards 2014, Goldie award, and was a Finalist for Lesbian Poetry from Lambda Literary Awards 2014.
Javier O. Huerta is the author of Some Clarifications y otros poemas (Arte Publico 2007), which received the Chicano/Latino Literary Prize from UC Irvine, and American Copia: An Immigrant Epic (Arte Publico 2012). His poems have recently been anthologized in American Tensions: Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011, and Everyman’s Library Art and Artists: Poems. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Winter 2015 Living Series:
January 15: Cherrie Moraga, poet/playwright
January 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta, poets
January 29: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet)
February 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez, poet
February 12: Luis Alfaro, performance artist/playwright
February 19: John Jota Leanos, filmmaker
February 26: Anita Hill, attorney
March 5: Maceo Montoya, fiction writer
March 12: student reading

The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Wes Modes
2015-01-23 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202.

Winter 2015 Schedule:
January 16th – Jesica Siham Fernández, Social Psychology, “Latina/o Children as Cultural Citizens: Membership, Sense of Belonging, Space and Rights”
January 23rd – Wes Modes, DANM, “A Secret History of American River People”
January 30th – Aubrey Hobart, Visual Studies, “The Queen of Heaven and the Prince of Angels: Saintly Rivalry in Colonial Mexico”
February 6th – Melissa Brzycki, History, “Inventing the Socialist Child, 1945-1976”
February 13th – Delio Vásquez, HISC, “The Criminal Revolutionary and the Revolutionary Criminal: Illegal Black Resistance in the 60s and 70s”
February 20th – Melissa Yinger, Literature, “Ronsard’s Echo-critical Poetic Narcissism: The Elegies for Narcissus and Gâtine”
February 27th – Tracy Perkins, Sociology, “From Protest to Policy: The Political Evolution of California Environmental Justice Activism, 1980s-2010s”
March 6th – Michael Wilson, Politics, “Violent Constructions: Classifying, Explaining, and Misrepresenting Contentious Politics”
March 13th – Jessica Calvanico, Feminist Studies, “On the Politics of Owning a Kara Walker”

This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the departments of Literature, History of Consciousness. Anthropology, Feminist Studies, HAVC, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Sociology, Institute for Humanities Research, as well as the GSA and GSC.

Linguistics Research Colloquia: Valentine Hacquard
2015-01-23 14:00 - 16:00 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
About eight times each year the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.

More information on the talk will be available soon.
2014 – 2015 Speakers
FALL 2014
October 17th
Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers
December 12th
Adam Albright, MIT
WINTER 2015
January 16th
Claire Halpert, University of Minnesota
January 23rd
Valentine Hacquard, Maryland
February 6th
Rachel Walker, USC
mid-March: date TBA
LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz Conference
SPRING 2015
April 10th
Daniel Lassiter, Stanford
April 17th
Keith Johnson, UC Berkeley
May 1st
Grant Goodall, UC San Diego
May/June: date TBA
LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference

Valentine Hacquard: "Bootstrapping into Attitudes"
2015-01-23 14:00 - 16:00 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Valentine Hacquard from the University of Maryland will be presenting this talk which explores two classic problems at the semantics-pragmatics interface from a learner’s perspective. First, the meaning that speakers convey often goes beyond the literal meaning of the sentences they utter. Second, not all content encoded in utterances has equal standing: some is foregrounded, some backgrounded. Yet a sentence does not formally distinguish what a speaker asserts from what she presupposes or merely implicates. For this reason, the child acquiring a language has a daunting task. She must both extract the literal meaning from the overall message, and separate the background assumptions that are linguistically required from those that are incidental. I will discuss, through a few case studies on children’s acquisition of attitudes, the ways in which the syntax might guide the child with this daunting task.

Kristina Lyons: “Decomposition as Life Politics: Soils, Shared Bodies, and Stamina Under the Gun of the U.S.-Colombia War on Drugs”
2015-01-27 17:00 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Questions that Matter: Making The Cosmos Local
2015-01-27 18:00 - 20:30 | Kuumbwa Jazz Center
MAKING THE COSMOS LOCAL
For millennia, people across the globe have searched the sky for answers. They have imagined and reimagined the cosmos, from an infinite and eternal backdrop full of other worlds, to a young Earth encircled by nearby planets and crystal spheres of stars. What is the relation between our lives here on Earth and the wider realm of nearby planets, distant stars, unfathomably faraway galaxies, and a potentially infinite universe—or swarm of universes? Where do we find, or create, meaning in such a picture?
Questions That Matter is a series of public dialogues presented by the Institute for Humanities Research. This series brings together UC Santa Cruz scholars with community residents to explore questions that matter to all of us. We invite you to join us on Jan 27, 2015 for the series launch at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center.
Featuring: Minghui Hu (History) and Anthony Aguirre (Physics). Facilitated by: Nathaniel Deutsch (IHR Director)
Please join us for an evening of conversation and connection as we bring these questions down to earth and make the cosmos local.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015
6pm wine and hors d’ oeuvres * 7pm program starts
Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Seating is limited. Tickets are $10 (includes service charges and one complimentary drink).
Questions: ihr@ucsc.edu or 831-459-5655
Background readings available at Bookshop Santa Cruz, including The View from the Center of the Universe by Joel Primack and Nancy Abrams.

Bios:
Anthony Aguirre, Professor of physics at UC Santa Cruz, studies the formation, nature, and evolution of the universe, focusing primarily on the model of eternal inflation—the idea that inflation goes on forever in some regions of universe—and what it may mean for the ultimate beginning of the universe and time. He is the co-founder and associate scientific director of the Foundational Questions Institute, which supports research on questions at the foundations and new frontiers of physics and cosmology. Learn more at www.anthony-aguirre.com.
Minghui Hu is an Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz and his research focuses on the intellectual history of early modern China. His monograph “China’s Transition to Modernity: The Classical Vision of Dai Zhen” will be published by the University of Washington Press in 2015. He has organized an international conference “Cosmopolitanism in China, 1600-1950” at UCSC. The multi-authored book, drawn from this conference, will be published under the same tile by Cambria Press in 2015. He is currently working on a new monograph tentatively called “Becoming a Communist: Qu Qiubai and the Formation of Chinese Communist Party.”

Nathaniel Deutsch is a Professor in the Department of History at UC Santa Cruz, where he is also the Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies and the Director of the Institute for Humanities Research.

Sponsors:

UC Santa Cruz Celebrating 50 Years of Being Truly Original. This is a place like no other. It was imagined from the minds of original thinkers—the rebels and visionaries, artists, scientists, and poets who had the courage to strike off on a different path in search of ideas that question norms in hopes of making the world a better place. Let’s celebrate 50 amazing years. Visit 50years.ucsc.edu and see what we are planning.
Questions that Matter is a public humanities series developed by UCSC Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) and the community of Santa Cruz. It will bring together in conversation two or more UC Santa Cruz scholars with community residents and students to explore questions that matter to all of us. The series is a part of a strategic initiative of the IHR to champion the role and value of the humanities in contemporary life. At the University of California Santa Cruz, we understand that the humanities are a crucial element of any first-rate liberal arts education. Indeed, what distinguishes the best universities in the United States is the fact that the humanities are an integral part of their core curriculum, along with the arts and sciences. The series is designed as a lecture and conversation, with plenty of time built in for participant questions and answers. The series will be in partnership with Bookshop Santa Cruz, the Santa Cruz Public Libraries, and the Kuumbwa Jazz Center.

GSC: Non-Academic Interviewing
2015-01-28 10:30 - 12:00 | Graduate Student Commons
This is a professional development event open to all the graduate students at UCSC.
Snacks and beverages will be served. If you plan to attend, please RSVP using the link below by 7pm on Tue, Jan 27th:
http://goo.gl/forms/eKhl1mr3PR [You need to be logged into your UCSC email/google account.]
Presented by Jennifer May, Career Center adviser (http://careers.ucsc.edu/about/staff.html).

Carolyn Dean: "All that Glitters: Incommensurability in Spanish American Visual Culture"
2015-01-28 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Carolyn Dean is currently working on a co-authored book project entitled Colonial Things, Cosmopolitan Thinking: Locating the Indigenous Art of Spanish America. Recognizing that the humanistic disciplines have often had an uncomfortable relationship with objects created outside Western traditions, this project seeks to illuminate how indigenous things in the colonial past have been used and invested with meaning. She is Professor of History of Art & Visual Culture Department at UC Santa Cruz.

Winter 2015 Colloquium Series
January 14 : Maya Peterson
January 21: Naveeda Khan
January 28: Carolyn Dean
February 4: Madhavi Murty
February 11: Kris Alexanderson
February 18: Jennifer Horne
February 25: Gayle Salamon
March 4: Christopher Chen

Julio Torres: "Individual Differences in Prior Language Experience: The Heritage Language Bilingual"
2015-01-28 17:00 - 18:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Individual differences play a key role in explaining variability in learning outcomes among adult second language learners. Researchers have begun examining the additional language learning experiences of learners with different profiles including bilinguals, aging learners and learners with low literacy levels in their first language. In this talk, I will present briefly data from three studies that address the prior language learning experience of adult heritage bilinguals, or speakers who grew up speaking a non-English language (Spanish) at home and in their communities. These studies entertain the following general questions: (1). Are heritage bilinguals the true agents of language change?; (2). Do heritage bilinguals demonstrate an advantage in cognitive control?; and (3). Are task-based pedagogical interventions effective in promoting heritage bilinguals’ (re) learning of the heritage language? The results of these studies imply that the experience of heritage bilinguals lead to various learning and cognitive outcomes.
Julio Torres is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Irvine.

Angela Davis: “Racism, Militarism, Poverty: From Ferguson to Palestine” at the 31st Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Convocation
2015-01-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
The 2015 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation will feature Angela Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita, UC Santa Cruz
Angela Davis: “Racism, Militarism, Poverty: From Ferguson to Palestine”
Date: 7 p.m., Wednesday, January 28th 2015
Location: Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
The event is free and open to the public
Through her activism and scholarship over the last decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in our nation’s quest for social justice. Her work as an educator – both at the university level and in the larger public sphere – has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender equality. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz, and the author of nine books, including her most recent book of essays called The Meaning of Freedom.
In recent years a persistent theme of her work has been the range of social problems associated with incarceration and the generalized criminalization of those communities that are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination. She draws upon her own experiences in the early seventies as a person who spent eighteen months in jail and on trial, after being placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted List.”
She is a founding member of Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to the dismantling of the prison industrial complex. Internationally, she is affiliated with Sisters Inside, an abolitionist organization based in Queensland, Australia that works in solidarity with women in prison.
Having helped to popularize the notion of a “prison industrial complex,” she now urges her audiences to think seriously about the future possibility of a world without prisons and to help forge a 21st century abolitionist movement.
Also featuring a performance by: Singer and songwriter, AlexisRose

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UCSC Shuttles
UC Santa Cruz shuttles will be provided to students for transportation to the Civic Auditorium and return to campus after the event.
Beginning at the campus main entrance at 5:30pm and 6:30pm, the shuttle will make all stops along the perimeter route to pickup students, exit the west entrance, and arrive at the Civic at app. 6:00pm and 7:00pm. (With an expectation of a large audience this year, riders are encouraged to consider taking the earlier shuttle to insure securing of the best seats. Doors open at 6:30pm, and a line is anticipated.)
The shuttle will be parked in front of the Civic at the conclusion of the Convocation and depart for campus app. 10 minutes after the Convocation ends. It will make all perimeter route stops on its return trip.

Tony Hill Memorial Award
Members of the Santa Cruz and UCSC community are invited to nominate outstanding individuals for the Tony Hill Memorial Award. The recipient will be recognized at the convocation.
Criteria for nomination: The individual is actively engaged in the needs of the community and seeks to provide tools to work toward a solution. The individual demonstrates hands-on service that results in building connections among diverse groups, promoting equality and justice.
The deadline for the Tony Hill award nomination is January 9th, 2015.

Brown Bag Lunch: Building a Better Online Identity
2015-01-29 12:00 - 13:30 | Graduate Student Commons
Learn how to perfect your online identity and social media presence as an academic. Melissa De Witte (Web Coordinator, Social Sciences) will lead a discussion about how to build your network, develop meaningful connections, and how you could Twitter your way into your next speaking engagement or job interview.
Whether you are a novice or an expert, a technophobe or an early adopter, this interactive talk will discuss the dos and don’ts, tips, strategies and more to making the most out of an online presence. Discover the importance social media plays on your search engine results and learn how elevating your digital profile is as easy as a Tweet and just a “like” away.
The session will also include practical exercises with the hope that you will leave with some digital collateral of your own. Laptops are encouraged but not required.
Melissa De Witte handles the digital and social media for the Division of Social Sciences here at UC Santa Cruz. She is also an editorial contributor to Social Media Club, the world’s largest community of social media professionals. She has an extensive background across the media industry in New York and London. Melissa has an MA in Media, Culture and Communication from New York University. You can Tweet her @melissadewitte
Open to all graduate students, staff, and faculty.
Contact digitalhumanities@ucsc.edu for more details about any of the above events.
Follow @DH_UCSC on Twitter and Digital Humanities at UCSC on Facebook.

Living Writers Series: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano & Maya Chinchilla
2015-01-29 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Creative Writing Program presents Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano & Maya Chincilla in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series.
Maya Chinchilla is a Guatemalan, Bay Area-based writer, video artist, and educator. Maya received her MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College and her undergraduate degree from University of California, Santa Cruz, where she also founded and co-edited the annual non-exclusive publication, La Revista. Maya writes and performs poetry that explores themes of historical memory, heartbreak, tenderness, sexuality, and alternative futures. Her work —sassy, witty, performative, and self-aware— draws on a tradition of truth-telling and poking fun at the wounds we carry.
Her work has been published in anthologies and journals including: Mujeres de Maíz, Sinister Wisdom, Americas y Latinas: A Stanford Journal of Latin American Studies, Cipactli Journal, and The Lunada Literary Anthology. Maya is a founding member of the performance group Las Manas, a former artist-in-residence at Galería de La Raza in San Francisco, CA, and La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley, CA, and is a VONA Voices and Dos Brujas workshop alum. She is the co-editor of Desde El Epicentro: An anthology of Central American Poetry and Art and is a lecturer at San Francisco State University.

Winter 2015 Living Writers Series:
January 15: Cherrie Moraga, poet/playwright
January 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta, poets
January 29: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chinchilla (poet)
February 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez, poet
February 12: Luis Alfaro, performance artist/playwright
February 19: John Jota Leanos, filmmaker
February 26: Anita Hill, attorney
March 5: Maceo Montoya, fiction writer
March 12: student reading

The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu.

Michael Anderson: "Neural Reuse and Hebbian Learning: Two Kinds of Neuroplasticity in the Brain"
2015-01-29 18:00 - 19:45 | Jack Baskin 152
Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015.
Michael L. Anderson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at F&M, and a Visiting Associate Professor at the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he is also a member of the Graduate Faculty in the Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science. He earned a B.S. with honors in pre-medical studies at the University of Notre Dame, a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University (where he was a Sterling Prize Fellow), and did a post-doc in computer science at the University of Maryland. In 2012 he was selected to be a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, at Stanford University.
Prof. Anderson is author or co-author of over eighty scholarly and scientific publications in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and philosophy of mind. His work has appeared in such journals as Artificial Intelligence, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Connection Science, Journal of Logic and Computation, The Neuroscientist, Philosophical Psychology and Synthese.
Winter 2015 Lecture Series Schedule:
Robin Dunkin
Tuesday, January 27, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Building Blocks of the Brain: Neuron and Glia Form & Function”
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Michael Anderson
Thursday, January 29, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neural Reuse and Hebbian Learning: Two Kinds of Neuroplasticity in the Brain”
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Nicolas Davidenko
Tuesday, February 3, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Suggestible Nature of Motion Perception”
*****
Janette Dinishak
Thursday, February 12, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Autism & Neurodiversity”
*****
Ray Gibbs
Thursday, February 12, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Embodied Meaning, Thinking, and Communication”
*****
Craig Schindler
Tuesday, February 17, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Enduring Wisdom, Mindfulness & Emerging Neuroscience”
*****
John Brown Childs
Thursday, February 19, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Transcommunality”
*****
Dada Nabhaniilananda
Thursday, February 19, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Dragon Taming for Smart People”
*****
Natalia Carrillo
Tuesday, February 24, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“A History of the Action Potential”
*****
Doc Edge
Tuesday, February 24, Humanities Lecture Hall at 12:00
“Talking About Race: Geneticists, Philosophers, the Media, and the People”
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Brian Cantwell Smith
Thursday, February 26, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“The Three R’s: Representation, Registration, and Reality”
Thursday, February 26, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction and the Anxious Mind”
*****
Octavio Valadez
Tuesday, March 3, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Co-Teaching and Revolutionary Teaching”
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Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero
Thursday, March 5, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“From Queer Theory to Teoria Cuir: Latinamerican appropriations of Gay Identities”
Thursday, March 5, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neuro-Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation and Their Counter-explanations”

"Trade and Exchange" Winter MRP Workshop & Ottomanists Workshop
2015-01-30 09:30 - 17:30 | UC Davis
The Mediterranean Seminar/University of California Multi-Campus Research Project (MRP) in Mediterranean Studies announces its Winter 2014 Workshop, to be held at UC Davis on Friday, January 30, to be held in conjunction with the Western Ottomanists Workshop (WOW) on Saturday, January 31.
The Workshop consists of discussion of three pre-circulated papers and a talk by our featured scholar, Molly Greene (History, Princeton University), who will present “Where are the Ottomans in Mediterranean History?”
Please stay tuned for more information.
For the WOW workshop, see https://faculty.unlv.edu/curryj5/WOW/WOWindex.html

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Aubrey Hobart
2015-01-30 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202.

Winter 2015 Schedule:
January 16th – Jesica Siham Fernández, Social Psychology, “Latina/o Children as Cultural Citizens: Membership, Sense of Belonging, Space and Rights”
January 23rd – Wes Modes, DANM, “A Secret History of American River People”
January 30th – Aubrey Hobart, Visual Studies, “The Queen of Heaven and the Prince of Angels: Saintly Rivalry in Colonial Mexico”
February 6th – Melissa Brzycki, History, “Inventing the Socialist Child, 1945-1976″
February 13th – Delio Vásquez, HISC, “The Criminal Revolutionary and the Revolutionary Criminal: Illegal Black Resistance in the 60s and 70s”
February 20th – Melissa Yinger, Literature, “Ronsard’s Echo-critical Poetic Narcissism: The Elegies for Narcissus and Gâtine”
February 27th – Tracy Perkins, Sociology, “From Protest to Policy: The Political Evolution of California Environmental Justice Activism, 1980s-2010s”
March 6th – Michael Wilson, Politics, “Violent Constructions: Classifying, Explaining, and Misrepresenting Contentious Politics”
March 13th – Jessica Calvanico, Feminist Studies, “On the Politics of Owning a Kara Walker”

This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the departments of Literature, History of Consciousness. Anthropology, Feminist Studies, HAVC, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Sociology, Institute for Humanities Research, as well as the GSA and GSC.

Michael Frachetti: "Uncovering a Nomadic City Along the Medieval Silk Road"
2015-01-30 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
From at least 200 BC to the 16th century CE, the Eurasian Silk Road formed the most extensive network of trade and commerce the world had ever seen. Its pathways linked populations from Beijing to Jerusalem in one of the first global networks. Much of what we know about the Silk Road is defined by archaeology from lowland oases, but mountainous regions occupied by nomads offer new insights. The newly discovered city of Tashbulak, unearthed in 2011 in the highlands of Uzbekistan, is one of the most recent and exciting discoveries along the Medieval Silk Road. Tashbulak pushes us to question our common understanding of the role of nomads in shaping the history and technology of medieval empires across Central Asia and sparks many questions about political, religious and economic change in the 11th century CE.
Dr. Michael Frachetti is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. His work addresses the ancient nomadic societies of Central and Eastern Eurasia and how these shaped inter-regional networks from as early as 2000 BCE (the Mid-Bronze Age) down to the time of the later Silk Roads. He is the author of Pastoralist Landscapes and Social Interaction in Bronze Age Eurasia (UCPress, 2008). He currently conducts archaeological field research in Eastern Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

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Steve Wright: "The Political: Some Experiences from the Italian Operaismo of the 1960s and 1970s"
2015-02-02 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk will critically examine debates around ‘the political’ amongst the Italian workerists. While championing new understandings of class composition that challenged the traditional leninist separation of economic and political struggles, the workerists of the 1960s and 1970s nonetheless struggled to formulate an agreed approach to theorising and practicing ‘the political’. The talk will seek to explore the ways in which this tension played itself out, from early debates concerning the traditional institutions of the workers movement, to efforts to develop organizational projects outside the existing parties and unions. Along the way, attention will also be paid to the contributions of those (such as the editors of Collegamenti and Le operaie della casa) who, despite the incisiveness of many of their contributions, found themselves situated largely on the margins of the workerists’ debates as these unfolded at the time.
Steve Wright teaches in the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, and is the author of Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism (Pluto Press, 2002). His current research is focussed on the creation and use of documents amongst the Italian workerists of the 1960s and 1970s.

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“The Political:  Some Experiences from the   Italian Operaismo of the 1960s & 1970s”

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Steve Wright seminar: “Revolution from Above? Money and Class Composition in Italian Operaismo"
2015-02-03 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Steve Wright will be leading a seminar discussion based on “Revolution from Above? Money and Class Composition in Italian Operaismo,” recently published in Marcel van der Linden and Karl Heinz Roth, Beyond Marx: Theorising the Global Labour Relations of the Twenty-First Century (Brill, 2013).
Participants are invited to read the text and join the discussion.
The text can be downloaded at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/037e976xsu37xzv/Steve%20Wright%2C%20Revolution%20from%20Above.pdf?dl=0
This seminar is part of the series “What Is to Be Done? Organizational Forms and Political Futures,” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster and the Institute for Humanities Research, with the co-sponsorship of the Literature, Sociology, Anthropology, and Politics Departments; Stevenson, Cowell, and Porter Colleges; and the Vice Chancellor for Research.

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Madhavi Murty: "The Story about Development: Caste, Religion and Poverty in Post Reform India’s Popular Culture"
2015-02-04 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Madhavi Murty works in the fields of feminist media studies, gender and globalization, nationalism and South Asian cultural studies. Madhavi is currently working on a book manuscript titled Myths of the Real: Political Economy and the Spectacle of the Ordinary in Post Reform India. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech.

Winter 2015 Colloquium Series
January 14 : Maya Peterson
January 21: Naveeda Khan
January 28: Carolyn Dean
February 4: Madhavi Murty
February 11: Kris Alexanderson
February 18: Jennifer Horne
February 25: Gayle Salamon
March 4: Christopher Chen

Living Writers Series: Rigoberto Gonzalez
2015-02-05 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Creative Writing Program presents Rigoberto Gonzalez in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series.
Rigoberto González is the author of fifteen books of poetry and prose, and the editor of Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing. He is the recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, winner of the American Book Award, The Poetry Center Book Award, The Shelley Memorial Award of The Poetry Society of America, the Lambda Literary Award, the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is contributing editor for Poets & Writers Magazine, on the executive board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle, and is professor of English at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey.

Winter 2015 Living Writers Series:
January 15: Cherrie Moraga, poet/playwright
January 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta, poets
January 29: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet)
February 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez, poet
February 12: Luis Alfaro, performance artist/playwright
February 19: John Jota Leanos, filmmaker
February 26: Anita Hill, attorney
March 5: Maceo Montoya, fiction writer
March 12: student reading

The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Melissa Brzycki
2015-02-06 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202.

Winter 2015 Schedule:
January 16th – Jessica Siham Fernández, Social Psychology, “Latina/o Children as Cultural Citizens: Membership, Sense of Belonging, Space and Rights”
January 23rd – Wes Modes, DANM, “A Secret History of American River People”
January 30th – Aubrey Hobart, Visual Studies, “The Queen of Heaven and the Prince of Angels: Saintly Rivalry in Colonial Mexico”
February 6th – Melissa Brzycki, History, “Inventing the Socialist Child, 1945-1976”
February 13th – Delio Vásquez, HISC, “The Criminal Revolutionary and the Revolutionary Criminal: Illegal Black Resistance in the 60s and 70s”
February 20th – Melissa Yinger, Literature, “Ronsard’s Echo-critical Poetic Narcissism: The Elegies for Narcissus and Gâtine”
February 27th – Tracy Perkins, Sociology, “From Protest to Policy: The Political Evolution of California Environmental Justice Activism, 1980s-2010s”
March 6th – Michael Wilson, Politics, “Violent Constructions: Classifying, Explaining, and Misrepresenting Contentious Politics”
March 13th – Jessica Calvanico, Feminist Studies, “On the Politics of Owning a Kara Walker”

This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the departments of Literature, History of Consciousness. Anthropology, Feminist Studies, HAVC, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Sociology, Institute for Humanities Research, as well as the GSA and GSC.

Rachel Walker: "Partially Overlapping Harmonies: Implications for Agreement by Correspondence"
2015-02-06 14:00 - 16:00 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Abstract: Correspondence relations among segments in an output, known as surface correspondence, provide a means for enforcing (dis)agreement among segments (Hansson 2001, Rose & Walker 2004, Bennett 2013). In this talk, I examine a problematic prediction of proposals about the formal properties of surface correspondence for harmony patterns that are partially overlapping in a language. I discuss the types of refinements necessary for a surface correspondence account, and consider implications for the theoretical approach in general.
More specifically, this talk identifies a novel and problematic typological prediction of transitive surface correspondence relations with chain-‐adjacent evaluation of identity, dubbed the Closest Correspondent Trigger Prediction. The problem is exemplified by the interaction of two overlapping vowel harmonies in the dialect of Pasiego Montañes, where a target vowel agrees with different trigger segments for different features. A revised feature-‐restricted evaluation of identity constraints that operate over surface correspondents is proposed, where evaluation is restricted to the subset of correspondents that share a given set of features. This move essentially merges the previous division of labor in surface correspondence theory between constraints that promote interactions among similar segments and those that enforce identity between such segments. The result is a theory where surface identity constraints are the prime locus of pattern-‐shaping and there is a much reduced role for constraints that drive surface correspondence. Future directions on the status of constraints that drive surface correspondence and the treatment of locality are considered.

About eight times each year the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.

2014 – 2015 Speakers
FALL 2014
October 17th
Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers
December 12th
Adam Albright, MIT
WINTER 2015
January 16th
Claire Halpert, University of Minnesota
January 23rd
Valentine Hacquard, Maryland
February 6th
Rachel Walker, USC
mid-March: date TBA
LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz Conference
SPRING 2015
April 10th
Daniel Lassiter, Stanford
April 17th
Keith Johnson, UC Berkeley
May 1st
Grant Goodall, UC San Diego
May/June: date TBA
LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference

Fighting for the Emperor: Nisei Soldiers in the Imperial Armed Forces
2015-02-07 13:00 - 14:30 | Japanese American Museum of San Jose
While more than 110,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans in the United States endured mass incarceration during WWII, the war also altered the lives of thousands of Japanese Americans who were stranded in Japan. For many Nisei strandees in Japan, the war blurred the boundaries of their citizenship, as they found themselves in situations where they had little room to negotiate their national allegiance. As the battles in the Pacific theater dragged on, the Japanese government drafted a significant number of Nisei men in Japan to serve in the military and take arms against the United States.
The Nisei soldiers and sailors in the Japanese armed forces who survived the war learned that they had been stripped of their U.S. citizenship as a result of their service to the Japanese emperor. Although these veterans of the Japanese military could recover their U.S. citizenship after the war, the onus was on them to convince the U.S. government that they had been forced to serve the Japanese emperor.
Dr. Michael Jin of Texas A&M University will be at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose (JAMsj) to discuss his research in a presentation entitled “The War and Its Aftermath: Nisei Draftees in the Imperial Armed Forces.” His presentation will be followed by a special discussion featuring two Japanese Americans who found themselves serving in the Japanese military during WWII: Peter Sano and Jimmie Matsuda.

MICHAEL JIN is an assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. His areas of specialty include migration and diaspora studies, critical race and ethnic studies, and Asian American and Pacific Islander history. He is currently working on a manuscript that examines the experiences of U.S.-born Japanese American migrants in Japan and the Japanese colonial world in Asia before and during WWII.
PETER SANO grew up in a large farming family in Brawley, California. At the age of 15, although he knew no Japanese, he was sent to Japan to become the adopted son of a wealthy uncle and aunt who were childless. In 1945, he was drafted into the Japanese Army and was sent to Korea, then Manchuria, close to the Soviet border. After his unit surrendered to the Russians, he was sent to a Siberian POW camp for nearly three years. He returned to the United States in 1952 and later wrote a book about his experiences entitled 1,000 Days in Siberia.
JIMMIE MATSUDA was born in 1927 in Hood River, Oregon. At the age of 11, while visiting Japan, he got sick, causing his family to miss the ship that was to carry them back to the United States. So they decided to stay in Japan. Bu t in 1943, after graduating from high school, Matsuda volunteered for the Japanese Navy and became a kamikaze pilot. His unit was ordered to Okinawa in 1945, but because of his knowledge of English, he was ordered to stay behind to translate U.S. military code. He returned to California in the early 1950s.

Cost: Free with admission to the museum (non-members, $5; students and seniors over age 65, $3; JAMsj members and children under 12, free).
RSVP: Contact PublicPrograms@jamsj.org or call (408) 294-3138 to reserve a spot.

Ching Kwan Lee: "Buying Stability in China: Markets, Protests and Authoritarianism”
2015-02-09 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk outlines China’s trajectory of commodification and the counter-movements by state and society in the past quarter century. Unpacking the class specific dynamics and experiences of precarization, I discuss how the commodification of land, labor, housing and the environment has triggered collective struggles by farmers, workers and the middle class. To maintain social stability, the Chinese state has responded, on the one hand, with new social protection policies of uneven effectiveness, and on the other, a practice of “buying stability” which unwittingly commodifies state authority and citizen’s rights, sowing seeds of precariousness in the regime’s authoritarian governance.
Ching Kwan Lee is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She obtained her PhD in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Michigan before moving to UCLA. Her publications have focused on labor, social activism, political sociology and development in China and the Global South.
Lee is author of Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt (2007), and Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women (1998). Her edited and co-edited books include From the Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization: Markets, Workers and the State in a Changing China (2011); Reclaiming Chinese Society: New Social Activism (2009), Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: Politics and Poetics of Collective Memory in Reform China (2007) and Working in China: Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation (2007).
She is currently working on two book manuscripts. One is on forty years of state and society relation in China, and the other on Chinese investment in Zambia.

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Robert Davis: “The Socio-Economy of Head Hunting in Late Renaissance Italy”
2015-02-09 17:00 - 18:30 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
A distinguished professor of Early Modern Italy, Venice, and the Mediterranean, Professor Robert Davis has written or co-authored eight books and many articles that deal with a variety of topics, including slavery in the Mediterranean, Venetian shipbuilding, masculinity and the rituals of public violence, and Venice as a modern tourist city. His broad interests are always anchored by his fascination with the lives of ordinary people. Professor Davis’ current work is on brigandage in Early Modern Italy.
This lecture is co-sponsored by Italian Studies, the History Department, and Stevenson College. Contact: clpolecr@ucsc.edu

Understanding Conflict in South Sudan
2015-02-10 18:30 - 19:30 | Social Sciences 2, Room 75, Social Sciences 2‎ University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
CENTER FOR EMERGING WORLDS
2014-2015 Theme: GLOBAL ISLAM
Winter Quarter Events
Featuring: Noah Salomon, Assistant Professor of Religion, Carleton College

Tuesday, February 10th
Public Event
“Understanding Conflict in South Sudan”
6:30-7:30 PM,
Social Sciences 2, Room 075
Moderated by Mark Massoud, Assistant Professor of Politics and Legal Studies, UCSC
Wednesday, February 11th
Colloquium
“When the State is Everywhere: Rethinking the Islamic Public Sphere”
3:30-5:00 PM, Humanities 1, Room 202
Thursday, February 12th
Manuscript Reading Seminar*
Selections from “The People of Sudan Love You, Oh Messenger of God: An Ethnography of the Islamic State”
10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Social Sciences 1, Room 261
*To receive readings, please email sjetha@ucsc.edu

Kris Alexanderson: "Japanese Penetration and Dutch Conciliation: Transoceanic Politics in Maritime Asia during the 1930s"
2015-02-11 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Kris Alexanderson’s current book project examines the collaborative efforts of the Netherlands East Indies’ colonial administration, Dutch shipping businesses, and foreign consulates in port cities across the Middle East and Asia in controlling the flow of anti-Western and anti-colonial ideas—including pan-Islamism, Communism, and pan-Asianism. She is Assistant Professor of History at University of the Pacific.

Winter 2015 Colloquium Series
January 14 : Maya Peterson
January 21: Naveeda Khan
January 28: Carolyn Dean
February 4: Madhavi Murty
February 11: Kris Alexanderson
February 18: Jennifer Horne
February 25: Gayle Salamon
March 4: Christopher Chen

GSC: The Secrets of Negotiation for Grad Students
2015-02-11 15:00 - 17:00 | Graduate Student Commons
Dr. Richard Kaye will share the skills and tools for successful negotiations in every aspects of your lives.
This is a professional development event open to all the graduate students at UCSC. Snacks and beverages will be served.
If you plan to attend, please RSVP using the link below by 7pm on Mon, Feb 9th:
http://goo.gl/forms/ZoC18frvdy [You need to be logged into your UCSC email/google account.]

"When the State is Everywhere: Rethinking the Islamic Public Sphere"
2015-02-11 15:30 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202

DH Working Group Meeting / Digital Pedagogy Session
2015-02-11 17:00 - 19:00 | Cowell Senior Commons Room, Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062-1225, United States
Join the DH Working Group to begin an ongoing conversation about teaching in the digital age. What kinds of digital tools have you used in the classroom? What worked and what didn’t? How do new technologies change learning practices? Bring your experiences, your questions, and your skepticism as we debate new pedagogical frontiers.
The Digital Humanities Working Group meets once-a-month to share ongoing work, read foundational texts, and create a vision for Digital Humanities at UCSC. All students, faculty, and staff welcome.
Contact digitalhumanities@ucsc.edu for more details about any of the above events.
Follow @DH_UCSC on Twitter and Digital Humanities at UCSC on Facebook.

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Manuscript Reading Seminar: "The People of Sudan Love You, Oh Messenger of God"
2015-02-12 10:00 - 12:00 | Social Sciences 1, Room 261, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Living Writers Series: Luis Alfaro
2015-02-12 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Creative Writing Program presents Luis Alfaro in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series.
Luis Alfaro is a Chicano writer and performer known for his work in poetry, theatre, short stories, performance and journalism. He is also a producer and director who spent ten years at the Mark Taper Forum as Associate Producer, Director of New Play Development and co-director of the Latino Theatre Initiative.
His work has been shown at venues including La Jolla Playhouse, Smithsonian Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art in London, The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Magic Theatre, Goodman Theatre-Chicago, and Latino Chicago and Playwrights Arena in Los Angeles. His plays and performances includeOedipus el Rey, Electricidad, Downtown, No Holds Barrio, Body of Faith, Straight as a Line, Bitter Homes and Gardens, Ladybird, Black Butterfly, and Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.
He teaches at the University of Southern California (in the Graduate Playwriting Program, Solo Performance, and Youth Theater) and California Institute of the Arts (in Solo Performance and Actors Studio).

Winter 2015 Living Writers Series:
January 15: Cherrie Moraga, poet/playwright
January 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta, poets
January 29: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet)
February 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez, poet
February 12: Luis Alfaro, performance artist/playwright
February 19: John Jota Leanos, filmmaker
February 26: Anita Hill, attorney
March 5: Maceo Montoya, fiction writer
March 12: student reading

The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu.

Ray Gibbs: "Embodied Meaning, Thinking, and Communication"
2015-02-12 18:00 - 19:45 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015.
Ray Gibbs is a psychology professor at UCSC.
Winter 2015 Lecture Series Schedule:
Robin Dunkin
Tuesday, January 27, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Building Blocks of the Brain: Neuron and Glia Form & Function”
*****
Michael Anderson
Thursday, January 29, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neural Reuse and Hebbian Learning: Two Kinds of Neuroplasticity in the Brain”
*****
Nicolas Davidenko
Tuesday, February 3, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Suggestible Nature of Motion Perception”
*****
Janette Dinishak
Thursday, February 12, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Autism & Neurodiversity”
*****
Ray Gibbs
Thursday, February 12, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Embodied Meaning, Thinking, and Communication”
*****
Craig Schindler
Tuesday, February 17, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Enduring Wisdom, Mindfulness & Emerging Neuroscience”
*****
John Brown Childs
Thursday, February 19, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Transcommunality”
*****
Dada Nabhaniilananda
Thursday, February 19, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Dragon Taming for Smart People”
*****
Natalia Carrillo
Tuesday, February 24, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“A History of the Action Potential”
*****
Doc Edge
Tuesday, February 24, Humanities Lecture Hall at 12:00
“Talking About Race: Geneticists, Philosophers, the Media, and the People”
*****
Brian Cantwell Smith
Thursday, February 26, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“The Three R’s: Representation, Registration, and Reality”
Thursday, February 26, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction and the Anxious Mind”
*****
Octavio Valadez
Tuesday, March 3, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Co-Teaching and Revolutionary Teaching”
*****
Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero
Thursday, March 5, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“From Queer Theory to Teoria Cuir: Latinamerican appropriations of Gay Identities”
Thursday, March 5, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neuro-Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation and Their Counter-explanations”

Carmen Boullosa: “Texas: The Great Theft”
2015-02-13 10:00 - 12:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Carmen Boullosa is one of Mexico’s leading novelists, poets, and playwrights, whose works interweave speculative, historical, and psychological themes with a powerful feminist point of view and a sharp satirical wit. She has published fifteen novels, among them El complot de los románticos (winner of the Premio de Novela Café Gijón in 2008), Las paredes hablan, La virgen y el violin, and perhaps most famously, Llanto. Her works in English translation include They’re Cows, We’re Pigs; Leaving Tabasco; and Cleopatra Dismounts, all published by Grove Press, and Jump of the Manta Ray, with illustrations by Philip Hughes, published by The Old Press. Her novels have also been translated into Italian, Dutch, German, French, Portuguese, Chinese, and Russian. A prominent essayist and journalist, she writes a regular column for El Universal in Mexico City. She has taught at Georgetown, Columbia, and New York University, as well as at universities in nearly a dozen other countries. She is currently Distinguished Lecturer at the City College of New York.
In her latest novel, Texas: The Great Theft (Deep Vellum, 2014), originally published as Tejas: La gran ladronería en la frontera norte (Editorial Alfaguera, 2013), Carmen Boullosa challenges US versions of the romantic origins of Texas. Set on the eve of the US Civil War in the fictional twin border cities of Bruneville and Matasanchez, the novel depicts relations among gringos, German immigrants, Mexican landowners and laborers, escaped slaves, Apaches, and Comanches. In the words of the Dallas Morning News’ Roberto Ontiveros, it “sardonically explodes and seductively reins itself back in with a panoptic prose that stares down hard into the absurd and uncomfortable prejudices that have historically split this region.”
For an advance PDF copy of the novel in Spanish and/or in English, please contact Kirsten Silva Gruesz (ksgruesz@ucsc.edu).

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Delio Vásquez
2015-02-13 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202

“Polly Want a Caesar? Talking Birds and Prophetic Birds in Early Imperial Rome”
2015-02-13 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In Republican Rome, birds had served as the messengers of the gods, communicating in ways that only a few religious specialists could fully understand and interpret. At the turn of the first century CE, these same birds began to speak plain Latin, apparently endorsing the new regime of the Caesars in language that anyone could understand. On closer examination, however, these talking birds turn out to be transmitting a much more troubling message about the constitution of the Roman body politic at a moment of uncertainty and rapid change.
Martin Devecka is a post-doctoral fellow at Yale University who will join the Classical Studies faculty at UC Santa Cruz in 2015-16. He is a cultural historian with a special interest in applying the methods of sociology to the ancient world. Current projects include a comparative history of ruins, a historical zoology of the Roman Empire, and an investigation of peripatetic attitudes toward technology.

Digital Happy Hour
2015-02-17 17:00 - 19:00 | Cowell Senior Commons Room, Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062-1225, United States
Join the Digital Humanities Research Cluster for an informal cocktail hour. Meet other scholars doing digital work and contribute to a conversation that will help shape what digital scholarship looks like at UC Santa Cruz. This is an open and informal event and we encourage all who are interested to stop by.

Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination Conference
2015-02-18 - 2015-02-19 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Venice Ghetto serves as the starting point from which we address questions of modern Jewish spaces –a site that has played a central role in Jewish and European culture since the Jews were sequestered in the Ghetto at its founding in 1516. Contemporary globalization brings into focus the relationship between identity and spatial location, and highlights new and cross-cutting transnational allegiances.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

WEDNESDAY, February 18th (5:00-7:00PM):5:00-5:30PM: Opening Remarks, “The Importance of the Venice Ghetto for Modern Jewish Studies” by Professor Murray Baumgarten
5:30-7:00PM: Panel #1: Sculptural and Literary Israeli Space
Amanda Sharick, University of California, Riverside: “Envisioning “Friends” (2011) and “Brotherhood” (2013) in Haifa: Yosl Bergner and Contested Histories of Cooperation/Coercion in ‘Mixed’ City Spaces.”
Chen Bar-Itzhak, Ben-Gurion University: “The Dissolution of Utopia: Literary Representations of Haifa, from Herzl’s Altneuland to Later Israeli Writing” (VIDEO TALK)
Respondent: Professor Bruce Thompson, University of California, Santa Cruz
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THURSDAY, February 19th (9:30-4:30PM, Reception To Follow):
9:30-11:00AM: Panel #2: European Jewish Spaces
Erica Smeltzer, University of California, Santa Cruz: “Metamorphosis and Other Stories: Narrating Life on the Borders of a Divided City.”
Professor Peter Kenez, University of California, Santa Cruz: “Jewish Budapest.”
Professor Emily Finer, University of St. Andrews: “Lev Lunts’ ‘Across the Border.’”
Respondent: Professor Vilashini Cooppan, University of California Santa Cruz
11:00-11:30AM – Coffee Break
11:30-1:00PM: Panel #3: American Jewish Spaces
Joanna Meadvin, University of California, Santa Cruz: “An Other Jewish America: Henry Roth discovers Sepharad.”
Katie Trostel, University of California, Santa Cruz: “Ceques: Networked Jewish Memory in the works of Tununa Mercado (Argentina) and Karina Pacheco Medrano (Peru).”
Respondent: Professor Dorian Bell
1:00-2:15PM: Lunch
2:30-4:00PM: Panel #4: Virtual Jewish Spaces
Lee Jaffe, University of California, Santa Cruz: “The Jewish Anthology: A Space For Negotiating Jewish Identity.”
Caroline Luce, University of California, Los Angeles: “Reconstructing the Landscape of Yiddish Culture in “Dos Durem-Land Baym Yam (The Southland by the Sea).”
Respondent: Rachel Deblinger, CLIR Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of California, Santa Cruz.
4:00-4:30PM: Concluding Remarks with Professor Nathaniel Deutsch
Performance by Michael Alpert, klezmer musician.
Reception with light food and refreshments held in Humanities 1, Room 202

SPONSORS:
Center for Jewish Studies, Helen Diller Endowment for Jewish Studies, and Institute for Humanities ResearchDIRECTIONS & PARKING:
http://ihr.ucsc.edu/directions/

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Jennifer Horne: "Serial Americans and the 'Conquest Program'"
2015-02-18 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Jennifer Horne’s work considers the film-program-as-civics-lesson in the context of the American civics movement. Centering on a film series from 1917, rife with conquesting tropes of manifest destiny, empire and nation, it explores the programming context of the late silent era to theorize seriality as a mode of American visual education. She is Assistant Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz.

Winter 2015 Colloquium Series
January 14 : Maya Peterson
January 21: Naveeda Khan
January 28: Carolyn Dean
February 4: Madhavi Murty
February 11: Kris Alexanderson
February 18: Jennifer Horne
February 25: Gayle Salamon
March 4: Christopher Chen

Manu Bhagavan - Toward universal relief and rehabilitation: India, UNRRA, and the new internationalism
2015-02-18 14:00 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join the History Department for this scholarly talk by Manu Bhagavan of Hunter College:
Toward universal relief and rehabilitation: India, UNRRA, and the new
“India” had been involved in the United Nations even in its wartime incarnation, inasmuch as the Crown Government of the colonized region brought the territory into the Second World War and, in turn, voted to support various institutions created to deal with the challenges wrought by the conflict. Among the most prominent of these was the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (UNRRA), the mission of which was to aid countries negatively impacted by the military campaigns. The British Government of India strongly signaled its support even as the subcontinent weathered the effects of one the worst famines ever encountered in the region. UNRRA was based in the United States and led by several men who considered themselves friends of India, most notably famed New Yorkers Herbert Lehman and Fiorello LaGuardia. Over the next several years, UNRRA pushed to create an Indian office and to incorporate Indians into administration based in the US, in a good faith effort to circumvent charges of imperial complicity. So the agency leadership was especially surprised when they ran into resistance from India’s anti-colonial icons. UNRRA was too blind to the pernicious stranglehold of imperialism the Indians believed, and so had to be challenged, even as it was admired. The encounter thus exemplifies colonial India’s efforts to challenge and undo Great Power/Global North/Western control of UN bureaucracies from the outset, and to reset both the tone and the substance of international relations by insisting on shared responsibilities and mutual respect.
Manu Bhagavan is the Chair of the Human Rights Program at the Roosevelt House Public Policy institute and a Professor of History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. He is a specialist on modern India, focusing on the twentieth-century late-colonial and post-colonial periods, with particular interests in human rights, (inter)nationalism, and questions of sovereignty. His most recent publication is The Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World (Haper Collins, 2012).

Karen Barad: Histories of Now: "Time Diffractions, Virtuality, and Material Imaginings"
2015-02-18 16:00 - 18:00 | Porter College, Room D245
Please join us for Karen Barad’s Visual & Media Cultures Colloquia talk, “Histories of Now: Time Diffractions, Virtuality, and Material Imaginings,” on Wednesday, February 18 at 4 pm in Porter D245. Refreshments will be available 30 minutes before the talk. See the attached flyer for all pertinent information, and please distribute widely.
Karen Barad is Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Barad’s Ph.D. is in theoretical particle physics and quantum field theory. Barad held a tenured appointment in a physics department before moving into more interdisciplinary spaces. Barad is the author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Duke University Press, 2007) and numerous articles in the fields of physics, philosophy, science studies, poststructuralist theory, and feminist theory. Barad’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Hughes Foundation, the Irvine Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Barad is the Co-Director of the Science & Justice Graduate Training Program at UCSC.

Works in Progress: Abe Stone
2015-02-19 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Please join the Philosophy Department for a Works-in-Progress presentation by Professor Abe Stone.
At least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. The format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited.
All members of the campus community and interested public are welcome to attend.
Coffee, tea, and cookies served.

Reviving Philosophy of History
Paul Roth
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
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“Why Does Space Have More than One Dimension?”
Abe Stone
Thursday, February 19, 2015
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Ernst Cassirer’s Philosophy of Physics
Samantha Matherne
Thursday, April 9, 2015

Living Writers Series: John Jota Leanos
2015-02-19 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Creative Writing Program presents John Jota Leanos in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series.
John Jota Leaños is an award-winning Chicano new media artist using animation, documentary and performance focusing on the convergence of memory, social space and decolonization. Leaños’ animation work has been shown internationally at festivals and museums including the Sundance Film Festival, the Morelia International Film Festival, Mexico, San Francisco International Festival of Animation, the KOS Convention ’07, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Leaños has also exhibited at the 2002 and 2008 Whitney Biennial in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Leaños is a Guggenheim Fellow in Film (2012), Creative Capital Foundation Grantee and has been an artist in residence at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Center for Chicano Studies, Carnegie Mellon University in the Center for Arts in Society, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. Leaños is currently an Associate Professor of Social Documentary at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Winter 2015 Living Writers Series:
January 15: Cherrie Moraga, poet/playwright
January 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta, poets
January 29: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet)
February 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez, poet
February 12: Luis Alfaro, performance artist/playwright
February 19: John Jota Leanos, filmmaker
February 26: Anita Hill, attorney
March 5: Maceo Montoya, fiction writer
March 12: student reading

The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu.

Humanists @ Work: Graduate Career Workshop
2015-02-20 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UC Humanities Research Institute and the UC Humanities Network invite graduate students to attend the next statewide career workshop to be held in San Diego on Friday, February 20th.

The daylong, hands-on workshop will include:

• Stories from the Field: A roundtable of recent UC PhDs employed in careers alongside/beyond the academy
• Two-part workshop on informational interviews and career trajectories for Humanities PhDs led by Dr. Debra Behrens, Career Counselor at UCB
• Hands-on workshop with The Resume Studio
• Theorizing Our Moment: A panel conversation about work and graduate student experiences

The UC Humanities Network is pleased to provide travel and lodging grants for up to three students from each UC campus to attend the event. To register for or learn more about the conference, and to apply for a travel grant, please visit Humanists@Work, humwork.uchri.org. Travel grant applications due January 19, 2015.

Steven Salaita: “Inter/Nationalism from the New World to the Holy Land: Encountering Palestine in American Indian Studies”
2015-02-20 10:00 - 12:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) Presents a seminar and a public Lecture by Steven Salaita.
At 10 A.M. the reading seminar: “Inter/Nationalism from the New World to the Holy Land: Encountering Palestine in American Indian Studies”
*For Pre-Circulated Readings and to RSVP, Please Contact Juliana Bruno (JulianaB@ucsc.edu)
At 2 P.M. the public talk: “Silencing Dissent: Palestine, Academic Freedom, and the New McCarthyism”
Co-Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Labor, the IHR Cultures in the Crisis of Capitalism Research Cluster, Students for Justice in Palestine, UAW 2865, the Santa Cruz Resource Center for Non-Violence, and the Palestine-Israel Action Committee.
For Further Information, Contact Juliana Bruno (JulianaB@ucsc.edu).

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Melissa Yinger
2015-02-20 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202

Steven Salaita: “Silencing Dissent: Palestine, Academic Freedom, and the New McCarthyism”
2015-02-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Public Film Screening: "Anita: Speaking Truth to Power"
2015-02-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Nickelodeon Theater, 210 Lincoln Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Public Film Screenings:
“Anita: Speaking Truth to Power” (77 min. Documentary by Director Freida Mock)
Nickelodeon Theater
Sunday, Feb 22 @ 11am
Monday, Feb 23 @ 7pm
Tickets: www.thenick.com
An entire country watched transfixed as a poised, beautiful African-American woman in a blue dress sat before a Senate committee of 14 white men and with a clear, unwavering voice recounted the repeated acts of sexual harassment she had endured while working with U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. That October day in 1991 Anita Hill, a bookish law professor from Oklahoma, was thrust onto the world stage and instantly became a celebrated, hated, venerated, and divisive figure.
Anita Hill’s graphic testimony was a turning point for gender equality in the U.S. and ignited a political firestorm about sexual misconduct and power in the workplace that resonates still today. She has become an American icon, empowering millions of women and men around the world to stand up for equality and justice.
Against a backdrop of sex, politics, and race, ANITA reveals the intimate story of a woman who spoke truth to power. Directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Freida Mock, the film is both a celebration of Anita Hill’s legacy and a rare glimpse into her private life with friends and family, many of whom were by her side that fateful day 22 years ago. Anita Hill courageously speaks openly and intimately for the first time about her experiences that led her to testify before the Senate and the obstacles she faced in simply telling the truth. She also candidly discusses what happened to her life and work in the 22 years since.

Public Lecture with Anita Hill at UCSC:
ANITA HILL: “SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: GENDER AND RACIAL EQUALITY – 1991-2015″
A candid dialogue regarding resistance to individual civil rights, campus sexual assault debates, why black lives matter, and challenges to equality in ‘post-identity’ America.
Thursday, February 26, 2015
UC Santa Cruz, College 9/10 Multipurpose Room
5:30pm Doors Open | 6pm Program | 7:30pm Book signing
Free and open to the public. Limited seating is first-come first-serve (no tickets).
MORE INFO: www.ihr.ucsc.edu/event/anita-hill

Campus Film Screening:
“Anita: Speaking Truth to Power” documentary will be shown in the Humanities Lecture Hall with a panel and Q&A on campus sexual harassment, gender and race.
Panel: Professors Eileen Zurbriggen (Psychology) and Sylvanna Falcon (LALS) and Tracey Tsugawa (UCSC Title IX Officer). Everyone is welcome to attend.
Tuesday, Feb 24 @ 7:30pm
Humanities Lecture Hall (map)

For more information on the film visit: anitahill-film.com

Natalia Carrillo: "A History of the Action Potential"
2015-02-24 18:00 - 19:45 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015.
Natalia Carrillo is a graduate student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). SHe studied a master degree in Philosophy of Cognitive Science (2 year program) at UNAM. Her thesis (“Objetividad en el modelo mecanicista de expliación en las neurociencias”) versed on the notion of objectivity (structural, mechanical, procedural, absolute, etc) behind the mechanistic model of explanation.
She has a bachelor degree in mathematics where she had the opportunity of taking several courses in science: Molecular Biology, Neurobiology, Cognitive Science, Dynamical Systems, Mechanics, Artificial Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence. During her master she has taken several courses in Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind and Epistemology.
She is also interested in Gender and Science, different notions of objectivity, the Hodgkin Huxley Model of the action potential, Philosophy of Mind and Humanistic Psychoanalysis.
Winter 2015 Lecture Series Schedule:
Robin Dunkin
Tuesday, January 27, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Building Blocks of the Brain: Neuron and Glia Form & Function”
*****
Michael Anderson
Thursday, January 29, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neural Reuse and Hebbian Learning: Two Kinds of Neuroplasticity in the Brain”
*****
Nicolas Davidenko
Tuesday, February 3, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Suggestible Nature of Motion Perception”
*****
Janette Dinishak
Thursday, February 12, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Autism & Neurodiversity”
*****
Ray Gibbs
Thursday, February 12, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Embodied Meaning, Thinking, and Communication”
*****
Craig Schindler
Tuesday, February 17, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Enduring Wisdom, Mindfulness & Emerging Neuroscience”
*****
John Brown Childs
Thursday, February 19, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Transcommunality”
*****
Dada Nabhaniilananda
Thursday, February 19, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Dragon Taming for Smart People”
*****
Natalia Carrillo
Tuesday, February 24, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“A History of the Action Potential”
*****
Doc Edge
Tuesday, February 24, Humanities Lecture Hall at 12:00
“Talking About Race: Geneticists, Philosophers, the Media, and the People”
*****
Brian Cantwell Smith
Thursday, February 26, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“The Three R’s: Representation, Registration, and Reality”
Thursday, February 26, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction and the Anxious Mind”
*****
Octavio Valadez
Tuesday, March 3, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Co-Teaching and Revolutionary Teaching”
*****
Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero
Thursday, March 5, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“From Queer Theory to Teoria Cuir: Latinamerican appropriations of Gay Identities”
Thursday, March 5, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neuro-Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation and Their Counter-explanations”

Campus Film Screening: "Anita: Speaking Truth to Power"
2015-02-24 19:30 - 21:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Campus Film Screening:
“Anita: Speaking Truth to Power” documentary will be shown in the Humanities Lecture Hall with a panel and Q&A on campus sexual harassment, gender and race.
Panel: Professors Eileen Zurbriggen (Psychology) and Sylvanna Falcon (LALS) and Tracey Tsugawa (UCSC Title IX Officer). Everyone is welcome to attend.
Tuesday, Feb 24 @ 7:30pm
Humanities Lecture Hall (map)
An entire country watched transfixed as a poised, beautiful African-American woman in a blue dress sat before a Senate committee of 14 white men and with a clear, unwavering voice recounted the repeated acts of sexual harassment she had endured while working with U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. That October day in 1991 Anita Hill, a bookish law professor from Oklahoma, was thrust onto the world stage and instantly became a celebrated, hated, venerated, and divisive figure.
Anita Hill’s graphic testimony was a turning point for gender equality in the U.S. and ignited a political firestorm about sexual misconduct and power in the workplace that resonates still today. She has become an American icon, empowering millions of women and men around the world to stand up for equality and justice.
Against a backdrop of sex, politics, and race, ANITA reveals the intimate story of a woman who spoke truth to power. Directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Freida Mock, the film is both a celebration of Anita Hill’s legacy and a rare glimpse into her private life with friends and family, many of whom were by her side that fateful day 22 years ago. Anita Hill courageously speaks openly and intimately for the first time about her experiences that led her to testify before the Senate and the obstacles she faced in simply telling the truth. She also candidly discusses what happened to her life and work in the 22 years since.

Public Lecture with Anita Hill at UCSC:
ANITA HILL: “SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: GENDER AND RACIAL EQUALITY – 1991-2015″
A candid dialogue regarding resistance to individual civil rights, campus sexual assault debates, why black lives matter, and challenges to equality in ‘post-identity’ America.
Thursday, February 26, 2015
UC Santa Cruz, College 9/10 Multipurpose Room
5:30pm Doors Open | 6pm Program | 7:30pm Book signing
Free and open to the public. Limited seating is first-come first-serve (no tickets).
MORE INFO: www.ihr.ucsc.edu/event/anita-hill

Public Film Screenings:
“Anita: Speaking Truth to Power” (77 min. Documentary by Director Freida Mock)
Nickelodeon Theater
Sunday, Feb 22 @ 11am
Monday, Feb 23 @ 7pm
Tickets: www.thenick.com

For more information on the film visit: anitahill-film.com

Gayle Salamon: "The Life and Death of Leticia King"
2015-02-25 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Gayle Salamon is currently working on two manuscripts the first of which is an exploration of narrations of bodily pain and disability titled Painography: Metaphor and the Phenomenology of Chronic Pain while the second manuscript Passing Period, analyzes the 2008 classroom shooting of gender-transgressive 15-year-old Leticia King. She is Associate Professor of English and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University.

Winter 2015 Colloquium Series
January 14 : Maya Peterson
January 21: Naveeda Khan
January 28: Carolyn Dean
February 4: Madhavi Murty
February 11: Kris Alexanderson
February 18: Jennifer Horne
February 25: Gayle Salamon
March 4: Christopher Chen

Jaye Padgett: What Irish Gaelic tells us about all linguistic sound systems
2015-02-25 16:00 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
A Distinguished Faculty Lecture Presented by Stevenson College,the Linguistics Department,and the Institute for Humanities Research.
Irish, one of the Celtic languages, is a minority language in Ireland, with some features that are rare among the world’s languages. We’ll look at these striking properties of the Irish sound system. However, we’ll also see ways in which Irish reflects deep truths about all linguistic sound systems. This will include considering how the language’s status as a minority language in a largely English- speaking country may be permanently altering its sound system. Along the way we’ll learn about using ultrasound and perceptual experiments to study sound systems.

Alt-ac Careers and Digital Humanities in the Academic Job Market
2015-02-25 16:00 - 18:00 | Graduate Student Commons
Snacks and beverages will be provided.
What does it mean when a job ad lists DH preferred? Can digital skills help you get a tenure track job? Does a blog count as a publication?
Open to all graduate students: Rachel Deblinger, the Digital Humanities Specialist, will share her experience navigating the academic and alt/ac job markets as a Digital Humanist and answer questions about how Digital Humanities has impacted traditional academic job searches. Bring any and all questions.
If you plan to attend, please RSVP using the link below:
http://goo.gl/forms/0bSc1Pf9nk

Stephanie Lain: "Content-Based Design Using Constructivist Connectionist Principles"
2015-02-25 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In this talk I discuss the challenges involved in designing content-based curricula for foreign language courses. I will illustrate the main concepts by focusing on the example of a first-year Spanish course developed for The Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS), whose Language Studies division follows an exclusively content-based model of instruction. Though I will be speaking about a strict interpretation of content-based instruction (where only authentic target language materials are used), the information presented will be easily applicable to any foreign language learning context where the instructor seeks to incorporate authentic content as part of the curriculum.
In order to plan effectively for a content-‐based course, it is important to establish and clarify early on a set of guidelines for how the curriculum should be structured. I argue that an understanding of language as expressed through the perspectives of constructivism and connectionism not only lends support to the validity of content-‐based methodology but also can provide clear directives for the kinds of activities instructors can use to engage students.

Brian Cantwell Smith: "The Three R's: Representation, Registration, and Reality"
2015-02-26 12:00 - 13:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015.
Brian Cantwell Smith received his B.S. (1974), M.S. (1978) and Ph.D. (1982) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After receiving his doctorate, he held senior research and administrative positions at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre in California, and was an adjunct associate professor in the Philosophy and Computer Science departments at Stanford University. He was a founder and principal investigator of the Stanford-based Centre for the Study of Language and Information, and was a founder and first President of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
In 1996 Brian moved to the Indiana University at Bloomington, where he was professor of cognitive science, computer science, philosophy, and informatics, and a fellow of the Center for Social Informatics in the School of Library and Information Sciences. He then moved to Duke University, as the Kimberly J. Jenkins University Professor of Philosophy and New Technologies, and professor of Philosophy and Computer Science.
Brian is the author of more than 35 articles and of On the Origin of Objects (MIT, 1996). His research focuses on the conceptual foundations of computation and information (to be reported in a 7-volume series, entitled The Age of Significance: An Essay on the Origins of Computation and Intentionality, accepted for publication by MIT Press) and on new forms of metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology. A two-volume series of edited papers, entitled Indiscrete Affairs, will be published by Harvard University Press in 2013.
As well as being Professor at the Faculty of Information Studies, Brian is cross-appointed as Professor in the departments of Philosophy and Computer Science and in the Program in Communication, Culture and Technology at University of Toronto at Mississauga. He is also a senior fellow at Massey College, and a fellow of University College.
Winter 2015 Lecture Series Schedule:
Robin Dunkin
Tuesday, January 27, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Building Blocks of the Brain: Neuron and Glia Form & Function”
*****
Michael Anderson
Thursday, January 29, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neural Reuse and Hebbian Learning: Two Kinds of Neuroplasticity in the Brain”
*****
Nicolas Davidenko
Tuesday, February 3, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Suggestible Nature of Motion Perception”
*****
Janette Dinishak
Thursday, February 12, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Autism & Neurodiversity”
*****
Ray Gibbs
Thursday, February 12, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Embodied Meaning, Thinking, and Communication”
*****
Craig Schindler
Tuesday, February 17, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Enduring Wisdom, Mindfulness & Emerging Neuroscience”
*****
John Brown Childs
Thursday, February 19, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Transcommunality”
*****
Dada Nabhaniilananda
Thursday, February 19, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Dragon Taming for Smart People”
*****
Natalia Carrillo
Tuesday, February 24, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“A History of the Action Potential”
*****
Doc Edge
Tuesday, February 24, Humanities Lecture Hall at 12:00
“Talking About Race: Geneticists, Philosophers, the Media, and the People”
*****
Brian Cantwell Smith
Thursday, February 26, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“The Three R’s: Representation, Registration, and Reality”
Thursday, February 26, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction and the Anxious Mind”
*****
Octavio Valadez
Tuesday, March 3, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Co-Teaching and Revolutionary Teaching”
*****
Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero
Thursday, March 5, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“From Queer Theory to Teoria Cuir: Latinamerican appropriations of Gay Identities”
Thursday, March 5, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neuro-Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation and Their Counter-explanations”

A Dramatic Reading of Dacia Maraini's Play "Norma '44"
2015-02-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Italian Studies Program Presents:
A Dramatic Reading of Dacia Maraini’s Play
Norma ’44
Adapted for the stage from the translation by Monica Streifer and Lucia Re
Directed by Kimberly Jannarone (UCSC Theater Arts)
Set in an unnamed concentration camp in 1944 Germany, Norma ’44 tells the story of the perverse bond that grows between two female prisoners and the SS officer who coerces them into a performance of Bellini and Romani’s bel canto opera, Norma. The play explores dynamics of power, women’s solidarity, and art’s capacity to mediate, resist, and revise experience.
Author Dacia Maraini will be present for discussion with the audience.

ANITA HILL at UCSC: “Speaking Truth to Power: Gender and Racial Equality - 1991-2015"
2015-02-26 17:30 - 19:30 | College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room, College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies is pleased to bring Anita Hill to UC Santa Cruz for a candid dialogue regarding resistance to individual civil rights, campus sexual assault debates, why black lives matter, and challenges to equality in ‘post-identity’ America. After the talk Anita Hill will be signing copies of her book, “Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding a Home” (book signing hosted by Bookshop Santa Cruz). There will also be a public screening of the film “Anita! Speaking Truth to Power” at the Nickelodeon Theater in Santa Cruz and a campus film screening with a panel on campus sexual harassment issues.
5:30pm Doors Open | 6pm Program | 7:30pm Book signing
Free and open to the public. Limited seating is first-come first-serve (no tickets).
$4 parking and shuttles available at Core West Parking Structure.
Overflow simulcast in Humanities Lecture Hall Living Writers Series.
Talk Description:
In 1991, Judge Clarence Thomas’ Senate Confirmation hearing sparked nation-wide conversations regarding gender representation, sexual harassment, and race. Anita Hill testified about Thomas’ inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace when he served as Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in the Department of Education and Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Her testimony before a television audience of 22 million put the issues of sexual harassment on the national agenda. In her lecture, she will explore the impact of the hearing, including the legal developments, and related issues of credibility, consent, agency, and the interplay of culture, race, class, gender, and sexuality.
Public Film Screenings:
“Anita! Speaking Truth to Power” (77 min. Documentary by Director Freida Mock) will be shown at the Nickelodeon Theater on:
Sunday, Feb 22 @ 11am
Monday, Feb 23 @ 7pm
Tickets: www.thenick.com
Campus Film Screening:
“Anita! Speaking Truth to Power” documentary will be shown in the Humanities Lecture Hall with a panel and Q&A on campus sexual harassment, gender and race.
Panel: Professors Eileen Zurbriggen (Psychology) and Sylvanna Falcon (LALS) and Tracey Tsugawa (UCSC Title IX Officer). Everyone is welcome to attend.
Tuesday, Feb 24 @ 7:30pm
About Anita Hill:
Senior Advisor to the Provost, Brandeis University
Professor of Law, Public Policy and Women’s Studies
Heller Graduate School of Policy and Management
Of Counsel at Cohen, Milstein, Sellers and Toll
Anita Hill was thrust into the public spotlight in 1991 when she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee during the confirmation hearing for U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Judge Clarence Thomas. After, the hearings Ms. Hill began speaking to audiences worldwide about how to build on the great strides of women’s and civil rights struggles. She presents concrete proposals that encourage us to extend our vision of equality to include more than legal rights. Her goal is to encourage creative, equitable and positive resolution of race, gender and class issues.
Sponsors:

Co-Sponsors: UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, Office of the Dean of Students, Humanities Division, Social Sciences Division, Arts Division, and the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Questions:
For information and disability accommodations, please contact ihr@ucsc.edu or 831-459-5655.

UC Santa Cruz Celebrating 50 Years of Being Truly Original
This is a place like no other. It was imagined from the minds of original thinkers—the rebels and visionaries, artists, scientists, and poets who had the courage to strike off on a different path in search of ideas that question norms in hopes of making the world a better place. Let’s celebrate 50 amazing years. Visit 50years.ucsc.edu and see what we are planning.

Living Writers Series: Anita Hill
2015-02-26 18:00 - 19:45 | College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room, College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Creative Writing Program presents Anita Hill in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series.
In 1991, Anita Hill was thrust into the public spotlight when she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee during the confirmation hearing for U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Judge Clarence Thomas. After the hearings, Ms. Hill began speaking to audiences worldwide about how to build on the great strides of women’s and civil rights struggles. In 1997, Ms. Hill published her autobiography, Speaking Truth to Power, in which she chronicles the events of the Clarence Thomas confirmation and in 2011 Ms. Hill published her second book, Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home. Ms. Hill is the subject of a 2013 documentary film, Anita, which chronicles her experiences during the Clarence Thomas confirmation.
In her work, Ms. Hill presents concrete proposals that encourage us to extend our vision of equality to include more than legal rights. Her goal is to encourage creative, equitable and positive resolution of race, gender and class issues.

Winter 2015 Living Writers Series:
January 15: Cherrie Moraga, poet/playwright
January 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta, poets
January 29: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet)
February 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez, poet
February 12: Luis Alfaro, performance artist/playwright
February 19: John Jota Leanos, filmmaker
February 26: Anita Hill, attorney
March 5: Maceo Montoya, fiction writer
March 12: student reading

The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu.

Brian Cantwell Smith: "The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction and the Anxious Mind"
2015-02-26 18:00 - 19:45 | Jack Baskin 152

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Tracy Perkins
2015-02-27 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202

An Evening with Italian Writer: Dacia Maraini
2015-02-27 17:15 - 19:00 | Cowell, Room 131, Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Cowell College Provost, Italian Studies Program, Languages & Applied Linguistics Department present:
An Evening with Italian Writer, Dacia Maraini
Preceded by Screening of 2013 Irish Braschi’s documentary film IO SONO NATA VIAGGIANDO: I was born travelling: A travel in Dacia Maraini’s memories.
Dacia Maraini is an influential writer, social critic and iconic figure in Italian contemporary literature and culture. She is the author of numerous novels, plays, short story and poetry collections including La lunga vita di Marianna Ucria, 1990, The Silent Duchess, and her latest work Chiara d’Assisi, Elogio della Disobbedienza, 2013, Chiara of Assisi, in Praise of Disobedience.

Octavio Valadez: "Co-Teaching and Revolutionary Teaching"
2015-03-03 12:00 - 13:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015.
Édgar Octavio Valadez Blanco is currently studying his PhD in Philosophy of Science at UNAM in Mexico City, with the project “Complexity and Transdisciplinarity: Theory and practice of cancer as a complex problem.” Octavio obtained his B.Sc. degree in Basic Biomedical Research at UNAM with his thesis work “Cancer as a complex disease: networks and levels of organization” (2008), with Germinal Cocho Gil as advisor. In 2010, he obtained his Masters in Philosophy from the UAM-Iztapalapa and was awarded the UAM academic merit medal. His thesis (advised by Mario Casanueva) addressed the scientific explanation of cancer based on the model of “part-whole science” proposed by Rasmus (Winther 2011, Synthese), which develops a pluralistic research horizon.
Octavio’s main academic interests are the complexity of cancer, as this problem cannot be understood, much less solved if we do not consider and articulate the philosophical, sociological, historical and political aspects involved. Octavio intends to contribute to a critical focus on the theories and practices in the scientific disciplines related to cancer research–especially the biomedical sciences–in which abstractions often turn into reifications of reality thus hampering the creativity and the possibility of a plurality of scientific views and practices. This critical approach has in part evolved from Octavio’s great concern for the deep contradictory realities prevailing in Mexico, which has also prompted him to undertake studies on politics and pedagogy, as well as to actively participate in novel scholarly projects, extra-curricular organizations, and general education.
Winter 2015 Lecture Series Schedule:
Robin Dunkin
Tuesday, January 27, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Building Blocks of the Brain: Neuron and Glia Form & Function”
*****
Michael Anderson
Thursday, January 29, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neural Reuse and Hebbian Learning: Two Kinds of Neuroplasticity in the Brain”
*****
Nicolas Davidenko
Tuesday, February 3, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Suggestible Nature of Motion Perception”
*****
Janette Dinishak
Thursday, February 12, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Autism & Neurodiversity”
*****
Ray Gibbs
Thursday, February 12, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Embodied Meaning, Thinking, and Communication”
*****
Craig Schindler
Tuesday, February 17, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Enduring Wisdom, Mindfulness & Emerging Neuroscience”
*****
John Brown Childs
Thursday, February 19, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Transcommunality”
*****
Dada Nabhaniilananda
Thursday, February 19, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Dragon Taming for Smart People”
*****
Natalia Carrillo
Tuesday, February 24, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“A History of the Action Potential”
*****
Doc Edge
Tuesday, February 24, Humanities Lecture Hall at 12:00
“Talking About Race: Geneticists, Philosophers, the Media, and the People”
*****
Brian Cantwell Smith
Thursday, February 26, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“The Three R’s: Representation, Registration, and Reality”
Thursday, February 26, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction and the Anxious Mind”
*****
Octavio Valadez
Tuesday, March 3, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Co-Teaching and Revolutionary Teaching”
*****
Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero
Thursday, March 5, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“From Queer Theory to Teoria Cuir: Latinamerican appropriations of Gay Identities”
Thursday, March 5, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neuro-Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation and Their Counter-explanations”

Johanna Ogden: "Mutiny in Oregon: Early Twentieth Century East Indian Radicals and the Birth of the Ghadar Party"
2015-03-03 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Hindustani Association of the Pacific Coast, better known as the Ghadar Party, was a game-changing development in Indian history. Ghadarites called for and attempted the overthrow of British colonial rule in India during WWI, seeking a caste-free, secular and independent Indian nation. Ghadar was overwhelmingly initiated by and composed of Sikh laborers from the North American West and became a worldwide movement drawn from people of all castes and religions. San Francisco was home to the movement’s public office and its weekly newspaper, Ghadar, and has often been logged as the movement’s birthplace, especially by historians of the North American West. But remote Astoria, Oregon holds this distinction. Drawing on Indian historical accounts, oral histories and Oregon archival materials, Ms. Ogden both repopulates the East Indian community in Oregon and traces reasons for and key moments in Ghadar’s seemingly unlikely genesis there. Her larger interest, however, is exploring the dis-remembering of East Indians in Oregon and the window it provides into the targeting of Arabs, Muslims and South Asians in post-9/11 America.
Johanna Ogden is an independent historian and activist from Oregon. In 2013 she initiated and was the consulting historian for Astoria’s two-day Ghadar Party Centenary Commemoration and in 2014 participated in an international conference on Ghadar in Chandigarh, Punjab. Her most recent publications include the award-winning “Ghadar, Historical Silences & Notions of Belonging” Oregon Historical Quarterly, Summer 2012; “Ghadar’s Oregon Roots,” The Ghadar Movement: Background, Ideology, Action and Legacies (Punjabi Uni: 2013). She is presently writing a book about Ghadar’s roots in Oregon for the University of Washington Press.

EVENT PHOTOS:

Will the Robots Win? Promises and Perils of Technology in Society
2015-03-03 18:00 - 19:45 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Technology is ubiquitous. Computers and phones impact our daily rhythms, communicative abilities, and cognitive energies. Consider being hospitalized, flying from one country to another, or taking a prescription medicine. Or think about the police searching big databases, or the government military-industrial complex and its automated war machines. Or imagine the potential of nanotechnology, transhumanism, and artificial intelligence. Technology is powerful.
Which effects does technology have on our individual psychology, and on our social values celebrating freedom, diversity, and the pursuit of happiness? Can it help us lead healthier, fuller, and more democratic lives? Which dark sides does technology have, and how might it inflict pain and violence?
Come join us for a broad-ranging conversation on technology and on its ethical, political, religious, and social dimensions. The panelists are scientists and philosophers who have thought deeply about the promises and strengths—and perils and weaknesses—of technology. The public is free to ask questions and challenge all of us on urgent matters.
This event is free and open to the public.

PANELISTS
Scott Lokey received his undergraduate degree from Trinity University in San Antonio, TX. Here, he cultivated a strong interest in both the sciences and the humanities. During his time at Trinity University, Scott developed an interest in Chemistry, which he pursued to receive his PhD at the University of Texas, Austin. After receiving his PhD, Scott spent time away from academia traveling the world. Upon his return to the US, Scott began a Post Doc at Genentech in San Francisco. Afterwards, he pursued a second Post Doc at the Institute of Chemistry and Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School. Finally, in 2002, Scott joined UCSC as a Chemistry Professor and started his own research lab. Currently, Scott and his lab are researching new drug paradigms, hoping to develop drugs that go beyond typical drugs which pass through the cell membrane. Scott and his lab study membrane permeability in molecules that are traditionally considered to be too large to be used in drugs. He has strong interests in consciousness studies and Buddhism.
Andrew Sivak is a doctoral candidate in History of Consciousness at UCSC. He is interested in political theory, theology, and William Blake. His courses include “Nuclear Criticism,” “The Adventure of French Philosophy,” and “Prophecy Against Empire.”
Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero studied Biology in the Faculty of Sciences at UNAM from 2000 to 2004 and wrote, as his undergraduate thesis, a taxonomic revision of the genus Jatropha (fam. Euphorbiaceae). From 2004 to 2006 he was a masters student in the Program in Philosophy of Science also at UNAM. There he wrote his master thesis focusing on the philosophical problems of phylogenetic reconstruction. His masters thesis won two prizes: the Norman Sverdlin prize for best philosophy thesis in 2006, and the UNAM prize medal “Alfonso Caso.”He started his doctorate in the same program in 2006. In his dissertation, he analyzed homosexuality in the context of philosophical accounts of mechanistic explanation and biopower.He successfully defended (with honors) his dissertation in November 2010: La homosexualidad a la luz de la filosofía de la ciencia: Mecanismos biologicos, subjetividad y poder (Homosexuality in Light of the Philosophy of Science: Biological Mechanisms, Subjectivity, and Power).
Octavio Valadez is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy of Science at UNAM in Mexico City, with the project “Complexity and Transdisciplinarity: Theory and practice of cancer as a complex problem.” Octavio obtained his B.Sc. degree in Basic Biomedical Research at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) with his thesis work “Cancer as a complex disease: networks and levels of organization” (2008), with Germinal Cocho Gil as advisor. In 2010, he obtained his Masters in Philosophy from the UAM-Iztapalapa and was awarded the UAM academic merit medal. His thesis (advised by Mario Casanueva) addressed the scientific explanation of cancer based on the model of “part-whole science” proposed by Rasmus Winther (2011, Synthese), which develops a pluralistic research horizon. His main academic interests are the complexity of cancer, as this problem cannot be understood, much less solved, if we do not consider and articulate the philosophical, sociological, historical and political aspects involved.
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). At UCSC he is also affiliated faculty with the Department of Psychology and the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies. He was previously an assistant professor at UNAM and a part-time guest researcher at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. His degrees are from Stanford University (Philosophy) and Indiana University (History and Philosophy of Science; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology). Winther works in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of biology, and has strong interests in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, the history of philosophy, comparative philosophy, and the philosophy of multiculturalism. To date he has published over 40 articles in journals both in philosophy of science and philosophy of biology and in science more generally. Winther has held over 60 lectures at international conferences in Australia, Denmark, Germany, Mexico, South Africa, UK, USA, and at universities including Berkeley, Cambridge, Humboldt (Berlin), London School of Economics, MIT, University of Chicago, as well as venues like Google. He is the PI of the “Philosophy in a Multicultural Context” Research Cluster, a collaborative research project involving UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis, and Stanford University. Currently, he is working on maps in science and philosophy, and the science and philosophy (and art) of maps: http://ihr.ucsc.edu/when-maps-become-the-world/

CANCELLED "Into the Sea" Documentary Screening
2015-03-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Cultural Center at Merrill, Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Dr. Easkey Britton lives in Ireland and she’s an amazing competitive big wave surfer –one of the few women in the sport–and she has a PhD in Environment and Society. Among her many projects, Easkey recently led an expedition to Iran to introduce young women there to the ocean and to surfing. She is looking for ways to use her love of the ocean and her research interests to promote understanding of the ocean, gender equity, international diplomacy, etc.
There will be a screening of a 52-min. documentary, Into the Sea, about this experience, which will be followed by a Q&A with Dr. Easeky Britton. The event will be on Tuesday evening, March 3rd, from 6-8pm in the Merrill Cultural Center.
This event is free and open to the public and proudly supported by The Institute for Humanities Research, Porter College, Literature Department, Environmental Studies Department, & the Sea Slugs.
EVENT WEBSITE
Into The Sea info
TED Talk

Christopher Chen: "Ed Roberson and the Poetics of Serial Identities"
2015-03-04 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Christopher Chen’s scholarly interests include theories of comparative racialization, racial capitalism and the black radical tradition, and debates over what Charles Taylor and others have called the “politics of recognition.” Christopher is currently working on a book-length comparative study of contemporary African-American and Asian-American experimental or “avant-garde” writing. He is Assistant Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz.

Winter 2015 Colloquium Series
January 14 : Maya Peterson
January 21: Naveeda Khan
January 28: Carolyn Dean
February 4: Madhavi Murty
February 11: Kris Alexanderson
February 18: Jennifer Horne
February 25: Gayle Salamon
March 4: Christopher Chen

Antonella Guidazzoli: "Open Virtual Heritage Applications: From Research Tools to Emotional and Participatory Virtual Spaces"
2015-03-04 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Antonella Guidazzoli, CINECA Supercomputer Center, Bologna Italy, leads research services for the 3D Virtual Information Research Lab at Italy’s supercomputer center in Bologna, CINECA, a non-profit consortium comprising 69 Italian universities, two national research centres, and the Ministry of Universities and Research. She has done distinguished work in the creation of virtual cultural heritage sites, including a 3D project on the Etruscans that includes an educational video featuring the Etruscan character, Ati: http://www.glietruschielaldila.it
Contact digitalhumanities@ucsc.edu for more details about any of the above events.
Follow @DH_UCSC on Twitter and Digital Humanities at UCSC on Facebook.

Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero: "From Queer Theory to Teoria Cuir: Latinamerican appropriations of Gay Identities"
2015-03-05 12:00 - 13:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015.
Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero studied Biology in the Faculty of Sciences at UNAM from 2000 to 2004 and wrote, as his undergraduate thesis, a taxonomic revision of the genus Jatropha (fam. Euphorbiaceae). From 2004 to 2006 he was a masters student in the Program in Philosophy of Science also at UNAM. There he wrote his master thesis focusing on the philosophical problems of phylogenetic reconstruction. His masters thesis won two prizes: the Norman Sverdlin prize for best philosophy thesis in 2006, and the UNAM prize medal “Alfonso Caso.”He started his doctorate in the same program in 2006. In his dissertation, he analyzed homosexuality in the context of philosophical accounts of mechanistic explanation and biopower.He successfully defended (with honors) his dissertation in November 2010: La homosexualidad a la luz de la filosofía de la ciencia: Mecanismos biologicos, subjetividad y poder (Homosexuality in Light of the Philosophy of Science: Biological Mechanisms, Subjectivity, and Power)
Fabrizzio is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at UNAM.
Winter 2015 Lecture Series Schedule:
Robin Dunkin
Tuesday, January 27, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Building Blocks of the Brain: Neuron and Glia Form & Function”
*****
Michael Anderson
Thursday, January 29, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neural Reuse and Hebbian Learning: Two Kinds of Neuroplasticity in the Brain”
*****
Nicolas Davidenko
Tuesday, February 3, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Suggestible Nature of Motion Perception”
*****
Janette Dinishak
Thursday, February 12, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Autism & Neurodiversity”
*****
Ray Gibbs
Thursday, February 12, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Embodied Meaning, Thinking, and Communication”
*****
Craig Schindler
Tuesday, February 17, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Enduring Wisdom, Mindfulness & Emerging Neuroscience”
*****
John Brown Childs
Thursday, February 19, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Transcommunality”
*****
Dada Nabhaniilananda
Thursday, February 19, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Dragon Taming for Smart People”
*****
Natalia Carrillo
Tuesday, February 24, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“A History of the Action Potential”
*****
Doc Edge
Tuesday, February 24, Humanities Lecture Hall at 12:00
“Talking About Race: Geneticists, Philosophers, the Media, and the People”
*****
Brian Cantwell Smith
Thursday, February 26, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“The Three R’s: Representation, Registration, and Reality”
Thursday, February 26, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction and the Anxious Mind”
*****
Octavio Valadez
Tuesday, March 3, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Co-Teaching and Revolutionary Teaching”
*****
Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero
Thursday, March 5, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“From Queer Theory to Teoria Cuir: Latinamerican appropriations of Gay Identities”
Thursday, March 5, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neuro-Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation and Their Counter-explanations”

Living Writers Series: Maceo Montoya
2015-03-05 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Creative Writing Program presents Maceo Montoya in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series.
Maceo Montoya grew up in Elmira, California. He graduated from Yale University in 2002 and received his Master of Fine Arts in painting from Columbia University in 2006. His paintings, drawings, and prints have been featured in exhibitions and publications throughout the country as well as internationally. Montoya’s first novel, The Scoundrel and the Optimist (Bilingual Review, 2010), was awarded the 2011 International Latino Book Award for “Best First Book” and Latino Stories named him one of its “Top Ten New Latino Writers to Watch.” In 2014, University of New Mexico Press published his second novel, The Deportation of Wopper Barraza, and Copilot Press published Letters to the Poet from His Brother, a hybrid book combining images, prose poems, and essays.
Montoya is an assistant professor in the Chicana/o Studies Department at UC Davis where he teaches the Chicana/o Mural Workshop and courses in Chicano Literature. He is also affiliated with Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer (TANA), a community-based arts organization located in Woodland, CA.

Winter 2015 Living Writers Series:
January 15: Cherrie Moraga, poet/playwright
January 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta, poets
January 29: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet)
February 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez, poet
February 12: Luis Alfaro, performance artist/playwright
February 19: John Jota Leanos, filmmaker
February 26: Anita Hill, attorney
March 5: Maceo Montoya, fiction writer
March 12: student reading

The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu.

Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero: "Neuro-Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation and Their Counter-Explanations"
2015-03-05 18:00 - 19:45 | Jack Baskin 152
Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015.

Explaining Sexual Orientation, or for that matter, Gender Identity in Trans subjects, has been at the core of Human Biology for the last 150 years. The technological innovations that nowadays allow us to gain epistemic access to the brain in terms of its structure, physiology and development are only the most recent examples of this historical trend. In this talk I analyze the structure of these explanations and suggest how an analytic feminist perspective might be useful in detecting and criticizing possible gender biases.
Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero studied Biology in the Faculty of Sciences at UNAM from 2000 to 2004 and wrote, as his undergraduate thesis, a taxonomic revision of the genus Jatropha (fam. Euphorbiaceae). From 2004 to 2006 he was a masters student in the Program in Philosophy of Science also at UNAM. There he wrote his master thesis focusing on the philosophical problems of phylogenetic reconstruction. His masters thesis won two prizes: the Norman Sverdlin prize for best philosophy thesis in 2006, and the UNAM prize medal “Alfonso Caso.”He started his doctorate in the same program in 2006. In his dissertation, he analyzed homosexuality in the context of philosophical accounts of mechanistic explanation and biopower.He successfully defended (with honors) his dissertation in November 2010: La homosexualidad a la luz de la filosofía de la ciencia: Mecanismos biologicos, subjetividad y poder (Homosexuality in Light of the Philosophy of Science: Biological Mechanisms, Subjectivity, and Power)
Fabrizzio is currently Assistant Professor, Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM), in Mexico City.
This talk is supported by the “Philosophy in a Multicultural Context” IHR Research Cluster

Winter 2015 Lecture Series Schedule:
Robin Dunkin
Tuesday, January 27, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Building Blocks of the Brain: Neuron and Glia Form & Function”
*****
Michael Anderson
Thursday, January 29, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neural Reuse and Hebbian Learning: Two Kinds of Neuroplasticity in the Brain”
*****
Nicolas Davidenko
Tuesday, February 3, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Suggestible Nature of Motion Perception”
*****
Janette Dinishak
Thursday, February 12, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Autism & Neurodiversity”
*****
Ray Gibbs
Thursday, February 12, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Embodied Meaning, Thinking, and Communication”
*****
Craig Schindler
Tuesday, February 17, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Enduring Wisdom, Mindfulness & Emerging Neuroscience”
*****
John Brown Childs
Thursday, February 19, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Transcommunality”
*****
Dada Nabhaniilananda
Thursday, February 19, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Dragon Taming for Smart People”
*****
Natalia Carrillo
Tuesday, February 24, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“A History of the Action Potential”
*****
Doc Edge
Tuesday, February 24, Humanities Lecture Hall at 12:00
“Talking About Race: Geneticists, Philosophers, the Media, and the People”
*****
Brian Cantwell Smith
Thursday, February 26, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“The Three R’s: Representation, Registration, and Reality”
Thursday, February 26, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction and the Anxious Mind”
*****
Octavio Valadez
Tuesday, March 3, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Co-Teaching and Revolutionary Teaching”
*****
Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero
Thursday, March 5, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“From Queer Theory to Teoria Cuir: Latinamerican appropriations of Gay Identities”
Thursday, March 5, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neuro-Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation and Their Counter-explanations”

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Michael Wilson
2015-03-06 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202

Rebecca Kukla CHANGED TO MARCH 6: "The Sedimentation of Bias in Medical Institutions"
2015-03-06 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Abstract:
Bias is becoming an increasingly central topic in both moral psychology and bioethics. We have ample evidence that biases shape our interactions, including interactions between health professionals and patients, in complicated and penetrating ways that are resistant to first person access and to manipulation. Typically, biases are presumed to be distortions at the level of individual cognitive processes. I examine how bias can be built into the institutions, spaces, policies, and practices of medicine, quite apart from any person-level cognitive distortions. I examine three types of examples: (1) judgments of scientific uncertainty and epistemic risk in health care research and delivery; (2) material medical environments that perpetuate specific ideological distortions; (3) the inflation of drug-treatable diseases and the overvaluing of pharmaceutical interventions. The upshot is that bias in medicine requires structural solutions, not just the ‘education’ of individuals.
About:
Rebecca Kukla is a Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Her research interests include social epistemology (including the epistemology and methodology of medical research), philosophy of language, feminist philosophy, metaethics, reproductive ethics and the culture of pregnancy and motherhood, and research ethics. Much of her research bridges ethics, epistemology, and philosophy of language. She also has serious interests in eighteenth century philosophy, especially the work of Rousseau and Kant.
She received her B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1990 and her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh in 1996. From 2003-2005, she was a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at The Johns Hopkins University. In the summer of 2004, she was a Visiting Scholar at the USDA, studying ethical issues concerning food and nutrition assistance programs. She also received her Sommelier certification from Algonquin College in 2007.

The campus community and interested public are welcome at all Philosophy Department sponsored colloquia, conferences and workshops.
Spring 2015

Shelley Wilcox, San Francisco State

Winter 2015

Rebecca Kukla, Georgetown
Felipe De Brigard, Duke

Fall 2014

Eric Schwitzgebel, UC Riverside: The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors

More info at: http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia-conferences/index.html

First Annual Grad Slam
2015-03-06 17:30 - 19:00 | B206 Earth & Marine Sciences
Also known as the 3 Minute Thesis® competition, started by the University of Queensland, Australia, the UCSC Grad Slam will challenge graduate students to present a compelling presentation of their dissertation research in just three minutes, using language appropriate for a non-specialist audience.
The Grad Slam is not an exercise in trivializing or dumbing-down research; rather, it is meant to encourage students to clarify their ideas and to help others understand and appreciate the significance of their research.
The Grad Slam is open to all graduate students who have Advanced To Candidacy.
Finalists will present their three minute thesis presentations at a live event on March 6th in Earth & Marine Sciences B206. This event will be open to the public, and a final panel of judges will choose a first place and runner-up winner; the audience will vote for a people’s choice awardee. If the people’s choice awardee is the same as the winner or runner-up, both awards will go to that person.
The winner of the UCSC Grad Slam will receive $3,000; the runner-up receives $1,500; and the people’s choice winner receives $750.
The UCSC Grad Slam winner will go on to present at a UC-wide final Grad Slam to be held in Oakland, on May 4th.

From Ferguson to Salinas: Intersections Against State-Sanctioned Violence
2015-03-07 10:00 - 16:00 | Resource Center for Non Violence
From Ferguson to Salinas: Intersections Against State-Sanctioned Violence
March 6 at the Oakes Learning Center, University of California, Santa Cruz
March 7 at the Resource Center for Nonviolence, Santa Cruz
As folks across the country demand justice for Mike Brown and Eric Garner, community members in Salinas, CA are fighting the police murders of Angel Ruiz, 42 (d. March 20, 2014); Osman Hernandez, 26 (d May 9, 2014); Carlos Mejia-Gomez, 44 (d. May 20, 2014); Frank Alvarado, Jr., 39 (d. July 10, 2014); and Jaime Garcia, 35 (d. October 31, 2014). “From Ferguson to Salinas: Intersections Against State-Sanctioned Violence” brings together community members, political organizers, scholars, and artists/poets from across California to discuss the ongoing historical crisis of state-sanctioned violence against people of color and the movement to oppose white supremacist policing in the U.S. We hope to build upon the momentum we’ve witnessed over the last six months as people have taken to the streets to demand justice and offer visions of a world in which black and brown lives matter. We seek an analysis of the historical relationship between anti-black and anti-brown violence in the U.S. in the hopes of strengthening cross-racial solidarities. We seek to raise awareness about the intersections between racialization and economic violence, between police brutality and mass incarceration, and between intimate and state-based gender violence. We are interested in building connections between those who are grieving the loss of their loved ones, those who fight to stay alive despite the injustices of the U.S. justice system, and those who mobilize poetic imaginaries to build the world anew.
March 7, 10-4 // Resource Center for Nonviolence
Ofrenda y altares Workshop, 10-11:30 am
Led by Emma Garcia from the Santa Cruz Arts Council, this workshop will teach participants how to create altars to commemorate people who have been harmed by the state. We will make four altars in total — one for the indigenous communities who lived, struggled, and died at Mission Santa Cruz in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; one for the people persecuted by the anti-Chinese movement in Santa Cruz throughout the nineteenth century; one for Jose Chamales and Francisco Arias, who were lynched by a mob and hanged from the Water Street Bridge in 1877; and one for the people of Salinas who are being targeted and murdered by police today. Participants will later deliver these altars to sites we visit during the anti-colonial walking tour.
Lunch served by Food Not Bombs
Poetic Imaginaries Against Violence, 12-1:30 pm
Readings and Discussion with Ronaldo Wilson (Assistant Professor, Literature and Creative Writing, UCSC, and author of Poems of the Black Object and Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man) and Tisa Bryant (Critical Studies Faculty, California Institute of the Arts, and author of Unexplained Presence, [the curator], and Tzimmes).
Anti-Colonial Walking Tour, 2-5 pm
We will leave the RCNV at 2 pm to visit sites of white supremacist violence in Santa Cruz, including Mission Santa Cruz, the Front St. Post Office (one of four former Chinatowns), the alley beside the El Palomar Restaurant (where Eduardo Carrillo’s mural was destroyed by the city), the Water Street Bridge, and the Beach Flats. Each site will be narrated by a different storyteller, as well as activated by the altars we leave behind.

DH Working Group Meeting / Reading Group
2015-03-11 17:15 - 19:00 | Cowell Senior Commons Room, Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062-1225, United States
The Digital Humanities Working Group will meet to discuss a shared reading. This quarter we will consider the field of Digital Humanities broadly and the challenges to the idea of a Digital Humanities field. To spark this discussion, we will read 3 selections from Matthew Gold, ed. Debatesin Digital Humanities (First published in print by University of Minnesota, 2012 and now available and expanded online at http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates).
Matthew Gold, “The Digital Humanities Moment”
Matthew Kirshenbaum, “What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments?“
Tom Scheinfeldt, “Sunsetfor Ideology, Sunrise for Methodology?“
Co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Commons.
The Digital Humanities Working Group meets once-a-month to share ongoing work, read foundational texts, and create a vision for Digital Humanities at UCSC. All students, faculty, and staff welcome.
Contact digitalhumanities@ucsc.edu for more details about any of the above events.
Follow @DH_UCSC on Twitter and Digital Humanities at UCSC on Facebook.

Felipe De Brigard: "The Explanatory Indispensability of Memory Traces"
2015-03-12 16:15 - 17:45 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Abstract:
Many philosophers of memory have wondered whether or not it is indispensible to postulate the existence of memory traces to explain remembering. In this talk I will offer an argument in favor of the explanatory indispensability of memory traces. To that end, I will begin by demonstrating that the main arguments in favor of the claim that we need memory traces to explain remembering share the logical structure of a inference to the best explanation. As a result, most arguments against the claim that we need memory traces to explain remembering aim to show that we can have equally successful explanations that do not require the postulation of such entities. My argument aims to show that there is a large number of memory phenomena for which explanations that do not postulate the existence of memory traces would be inadequate.
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About:
Felipe De Brigard
Assistant Professor
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Philosophy, Arts & Sciences
Duke University
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Research Interests: Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science and Neuroscience; Neurophilosophy; Moral Psychology
Most of my research focuses on the way in which memory and imagination interact. So far, I have explored ways in which episodic memory both guides and constrains episodic counterfactual thinking (i.e., thoughts about alternative ways in which past personal events could have occurred), and how this interaction affects the perceived plausibility of imagined counterfactual events. I also explore the differential contribution of episodic and semantic memory in the generation of different kinds of counterfactual simulations, as well as the effect of counterfactual thinking on the memories they derive from. In addition, my research attempts to understand how prior experience helps to constrain the way in which we reconstruct episodic memories. Finally, I am also interested in the role of internal attention during conscious recollection. To address these issues I use behavioral and functional magnetic resonance imaging techniques, as well as the conceptual rigor of philosophical analysis.

The campus community and interested public are welcome at all Philosophy Department sponsored colloquia, conferences and workshops.
Spring 2015

Shelley Wilcox, San Francisco State

Winter 2015

Rebecca Kukla, Georgetown
Felipe De Brigard, Duke

Fall 2014

Eric Schwitzgebel, UC Riverside: The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors

More info at: http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia-conferences/index.html

Sikh Rappers & Social Justice
2015-03-12 18:00 - 19:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Sikh hip-hop artists Baagi and Hoodini will explore facets of the immigrant and minority experience in multicultural America, in an evening of music, poetry and collective discussion. The evening will touch on topics such as race relations and social inequalities in today’s complex society. Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
Baagi
“Babbey nu Kanna, Gaggay nu Bihari.” In spelling the word “Baagi,” the celebration of a rebellious Punjabi heritage is reborn. Baagi is one of the few artists to rap exclusively in Panjabi. Born and raised in Bombay until moving to Los Angeles in his early teens, Baagi brings a unique perspective both to Hip-Hop and to the evolution of Punjabi culture. A childhood passion for composing Punjabi poetry coupled with his love for Hip-Hop eventually turned an after-school hobby into a career of expression. This artist uses Farsi, Hindi and Panjabi vocabulary to add a new voice to the musical conglomerate. Baagi uses his platform to paint pictures of social issues, easygoing personal anecdotes, and day-to-day experiences, as seen through the lens of a young man influenced by the intersections of many worlds. Professor Navdeep Dhillon writes, “I am looking to forward to seeing what else he comes up with and remain optimistic that he will be the breath of fresh air for Punjabi music, both in Punjab and overseas…” Baagi has performed extensively throughout North America and has collaborated with renowned Punjabi artists such as Nishawn Bhullar and Tigerstyle. His debut album, titled Baagi Di Vaari, is available for free download at http://beabaagi.bandcamp.com. You can follow him on Twitter @BaagiMedia.
Hoodini
Hoodini, also known as Hoodeez the Hindoo, has been hailed as “one of the most lyrical and charismatic emcees of South Asian descent” by critics. The poet and Hip-Hop artist combines witty wordplay, lyrical agility, and keen storytelling to present a novel narrative to his audience with natural ease. Born and raised in Los Angeles to immigrant parents from Punjab, Hoodini shares the experiences of a young man trying to find his way in an increasingly complex society. He is both participator and observer, analytical of the world around him while reporting on it with humor and abandon. In listening to a Hoodini record, you may easily find yourself migrating from a commentary on issues of race relations to a jaunty reminiscence of a past love interest, often within the same verse. Hoodeez has released four studio albums to date and has shared the stage with notable Hip-Hop artists including Blu, Pacific Division, Skeme, and RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan. You can keep up with his latest works at http://HoodiniDidIt.com and on Twitter @HoodiniDidIt.
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Living Writers Series: Student Reading TBD
2015-03-12 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
To end the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series, a selected student TBD will present their work.

Winter 2015 Living Writers Series:
January 15: Cherrie Moraga, poet/playwright
January 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta, poets
January 29: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet)
February 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez, poet
February 12: Luis Alfaro, performance artist/playwright
February 19: John Jota Leanos, filmmaker
February 26: Anita Hill, attorney
March 5: Maceo Montoya, fiction writer
March 12: student reading

The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Jessica Calvanico
2015-03-13 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202

Shakespeare and Music
2015-03-14 13:00 - 16:30 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Shakespeare is famous for his speeches, but the London theaters where his plays took place were also filled with music. “Shakespeare and Music” is a symposium exploring the popular music of Renaissance England, the practice of vocal and instrumental music in Shakespeare’s plays, and Shakespeare’s meditation on music as a metaphor for his art and its effects. Featuring a keynote address by Ross Duffin, The Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music at Case Western University and author of Shakespeare’s Songbook (W.W. Norton 2004). Free and open to the public. The symposium is held in conjunction with “Treasures from the Age of Shakespeare”, a performance of the Baltimore Consort for the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival at 7:30pm in the UCSC Music Recital Hall (Tickets: scbaroque.org/tickets).
Panelists:

Ross Duffin: “Reconstructing Shakespeare’s Songbook”
Samuel Arkin: “Shakespeare’s Music and Shylock’s Ears”
Ariane Helou: “Shakespeare’s Singers”

Sponsors:
Shakespeare Workshop, Institute for Humanities Research, and the Arts Division.
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Parking $3 (permits available at vending machines in parking lot 126 “Performing Arts”).
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After the conference, please join us at the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival featuring:
Treasures From the Age of Shakespeare with The Baltimore Consort
March 14, 2015 @ 7:30pm
UCSC Music Recital Hall
$5 student tickets / $20 seniors / $25 general
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Vera Gribanova: "Head movement, ellipsis, and Russian polarity focus"
2015-03-14 16:00 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Vera Gribanova is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University.

Abstract:
In this talk I chart the interaction between head movement, ellipsis, and non-canonical word orders in the analysis of a variety of Russian responses to statements or questions that raise polar alternatives in the discourse.

(1) Evgenija poslala posylku v Moskvu?
Evgenija send.PST.3SG.F package.ACC to Moscow.LOC
‘Did Eugenia send the package to Moscow?’
a. (Net,) Ne poslala / (Da,) Poslala.
No NEG send.PST.3SG.F / yes send.PST.3SG.F
‘(No,) she didn’t / (Yes,) she did.’
b. (Də) (net,) ne poslala ona eë!
PRT no NEG send.PST.3SG.F she.nom it.F.ACC
‘(No,) she DIDN’T send it!’
c. V Moskvu {poslala / da}, a v Piter {ne poslala / net}.
to Moscow {send.PST.3SG.F / yes} but to Piter {NEG send.PST.3SG.F / no}
‘To Moscow yes (she did), to St. Petersburg, no (she didn’t).’

Although some of these seemingly diverse constructions have already received individual analyses (Kazenin, 2006; Laleko, 2010; Gribanova, 2013; Bailyn, To appear), I argue that besides sharing a discourse function, they are also syntactically unifiable. As a first step, I defend an axis of novel claims about the expression of polarity in canonical Russian clauses: features associated with polarity are located in Pol, but may be expressed in a lower head (Neg), which enters the syntactic derivation with unvalued polarity features that are valued via an agree relation with Pol. I then extend this analysis to the cases in (1), arguing that these involve the expression of polarity features in a high clausal Polarity head (Pol), either via the realization of polarity particles or via the movement of the verbal complex to this high position (yielding discourse-marked vso orders).
Since many of the expressions in (1) also involve some readily observable form of ellipsis (Kazenin, 2006; Gribanova, 2013), the resulting empirical picture provides fertile ground for an exploration of the interaction of ellipsis and head movement, ultimately shedding light on the controversial question of the modular status of head movement (see Matushansky 2006; Roberts 2010 for useful overviews). Considering the head movement alone, a consequence of my proposal is that there are two possible landing sites for the verb: an intermediate position below T and the surface position of the subject for canonical svo orders (Bailyn, 1995; Gribanova, 2013) and a high position (above the surface position of the subject) for various instantiations of polarity focus, yielding discourse-marked vso orders. We can combine this observation with insights from the current literature on ellipsis in Russian, which suggests that at least two sizes of ellipsis site are available: TP (Kazenin, 2006) and vP (Gribanova, 2013). Crossing the ellipsis and head movement possibilities, we arrive at four logical possibilities:
I demonstrate that only three of these are attested, explaining the impossibility of the variant in D as the result of a violation of MaxElide (Merchant, 2008), a constraint which forces ellipsis of a larger domain over a smaller one in certain configurations. The effect of MaxElide canonically emerges when a variable inside the ellipsis site is bound from outside that ellipsis site — that is, it emerges in the context of movement in the narrow syntax. The finding that head movement also may trigger a MaxElide effect indicates — echoing similar findings by Hartman (2011) — that it, too, occurs in the narrow syntax.

References
Bailyn, John Frederick. 1995. Underlying phrase structure and ‘short’ verb movement in Russian. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 3 (1): 13–58.
Bailyn, John Frederick. To appear. Against a VP ellipsis account of Russian verb-stranding constructions. In Studies in Japanese and Korean linguistics and beyond, ed. Alexander Vovin. Folkestone and Leiden: Global Oriental/Brill.
Gribanova, Vera. 2013. Verb-stranding verb phrase ellipsis and the structure of theRussian verbal complex. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 31 (1): 91–136.
Hartman, Jeremy. 2011. The semantic uniformity of traces: Evidence from ellipsis parallelism. Linguistic Inquiry 42 (3): 367–388.
Kazenin, Konstantin. 2006. Polarity in Russian and typology of predicate ellipsis. Moscow State University.
Laleko, Oksana. 2010. Negative-contrastive ellipsis in Russian: Syntax meets information structure. In Formal studies in Slavic linguistics, eds. Anastasia Smirnova, Vedrana Mihaliˇcek, and Lauren Ressue, 197–218. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Matushansky, Ora. 2006. Head movement in linguistic theory. Linguistic Inquiry 1: 69–109.
Merchant, Jason. 2008. Variable island repair under ellipsis. In Topics in ellipsis, ed. Kyle Johnson, 132– 153. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Roberts, Ian. 2010. Agreement and head movement: Clitics, incorporation, and defective goals. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Santa Cruz Baroque Festival: Treasures from the Age of Shakespeare
2015-03-14 19:30 - 21:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Featuring: The Baltimore Consort
Heavenly harmony and earthly delights from the time of the bard. Reveal in the triumphal return of America’s favorite early music ensemble, playing their ‘exquisite consort’ of Renaissance instruments -lute, cittern, viols, and flute. Concertgoers will also enjoy the grand prize winning group from our Youth Chamber Music Competition. UCSC Music Recital Hall.

Individual ticket prices: $25 general, $20 seniors, $5 student & youth. Purchase tickets to the concert online at: scbaroque.org/tickets

Join us for “Shakespeare and Music” Conference earlier in the day on March 14, 2015 from 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm. Free and open to the public. Click here for more info: ihr.ucsc.edu/event/shakespeare-and-music-conference
