Regine Basha: "Tuning Baghdad"
2011-05-05 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Regine Basha has been an curator of contemporary art and art writer since the early 1990s. Her exhibition and writing history can be found on bashaprojects.com. Amongst her most recent projects is Tuning Baghdad, an audio-visual forum for chronicling Iraqi-Jewish music scene and their house parties (based on her own background). This ongoing project brings to light the movement of this diasporic community and their displacement from Iraq as evidenced through their love of Arabic music and the Iraqi Maqam. Basha currently sits on the board of the foundation Art Matters (New York), Aurora Picture Show (Houston) and is a Curatorial Host to Cabinet Magazine’s new space in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
Regine Basha will discuss the background of Tuning Baghdad, the decisions behind creating it online and not as a documentary, and the future plans for the site. During the course of the talk, she will show video, play audio collages and present books related to the subject. If all goes according to plan, a surprise guest may be invited to sing over Skype video.
Regine Basha will give this talk in her capacity as visiting scholar at the Center for Jewish Studies.
Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Living Writers Series: Jessica Hagedorn
2011-05-05 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Jessica Hagedorn received her education at the American Conservatory Theater training program. To further pursue playwriting and music, she moved to New York in 1978. Joseph Papp produced her first play Mango Tango in 1978. Hagedorn’s other productions include Tenement Lover, Holy Food, and Teenytown. Her mixed media style often incorporates song, poetry, images, and spoken dialogue. Hagerdorn is the author of the novel Dogeaters, which illuminates many different aspects of Filipino experience, focusing on the influence of America through radio, television, and movie theaters, and which earned a 1990 National Book Award nomination and an American Book Award.
Each quarter, the Living Writers Reading Series brings visiting authors and poets to UC Santa Cruz to give students an in-depth look into the world of the working writer. Sponsored by Oakes College and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund.

Susanne Gahl: "Why So Short? Competing Explanations for Variation"
2011-05-06 15:30 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Frequent or contextually-predictable words are often phonetically reduced, e.g. shortened or produced with articulatory undershoot. Three common explanations for this phenomenon attribute phonetic reduction, and pronunciation variation generally, to variation in (1) intelligibility, (2) speed of lexical access, and (3) probabilistic properties of whole utterances. In this talk, I discuss recent results (Gahl, Yao & Johnson, under review; Gahl, in prep.) investigating the sources of pronunciation variation. While these results are consistent with speaker-internal approaches to variation, I argue that they are best explained by moving beyond the listener vs. speaker dichotomy: Some perceptually-based effects are speaker-internal; and some production-based effects give rise to structured variation in intelligibility resulting in usable cues for recognition.

Manlio Argueta and Jorge Argueta: Beyond the Volcano
2011-05-10 16:00 - 17:30 | Cervantes & Velasquez Room, Baytree Conference Center, Bay Tree Conference Center, UC Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Latino Literary Cultures Research Cluster presents:
Manlio Argueta is a Salvadoran writer, critic, and novelist born in 1935. Although he considers himself first and foremost a poet, he is known in the English speaking world for his book Un día en la vida, One Day of Life.
Argueta was born in San Miguel, El Salvador, on November 24, 1935. Argueta has stated that his exposure to “poetic sounds” began during his childhood and that his foundation in poetry stemmed from his childhood imagination. Argueta’s interest in literature was strongly influenced by the world literature he read as a teenager. Argueta began his writing career by the age of 13 as a poet. He cites Pablo Neruda and Federico García Lorca as some of his early poetic influences. Although he was relatively unknown at the time, Argueta won a national prize for his poetry around 1956, which gained him some recognition among Salvadoran and Central American poets. As he became more involved with the literary community of El Salvador, Argueta became a member of the “Committed Generation”. Because of his writings criticizing the government, Argueta was exiled to Costa Rica in 1972 and was not able to return to El Salvador until the 1990s. Argueta currently lives in El Salvador where he holds the position of Director of the National Public Library.
Jorge Argueta– Born in El Salvador, Jorge immigrated to San Francisco, California in 1980. He is a prize-winning poet and author of many bilingual children’s books and poetry books. His first book for Children’s Book Press, A Movie in My Pillow / Una película en mi almohada, received numerous awards including the 2002 Américas Book Award for Latin American Literature, the IPPY Award for Multicultural Fiction–Juvenile/Young Adults, and the Skipping Stones Honor Award for Multicultural and International Books. Jorge’s books have been published by pretigious editorial houses in Canada (Groundwood Books), the United States (Children’s Book Press) and Spain (Alfaguara). His books have been beautifully illustrated by well-known Latin- American illustrators.
Jorge makes presentations and holds poetry workshops throughout the United States and Central America – in public and private schools, universities, cultural centers, community centers, museums, festivals, hospitals and youth
guidance centers. In 2009, he was invited to participate in the John F. Kennedy Multicultural Book Festival in Washington, DC. Jorge is active in the cultural life of the city in which he resides and also works with humanitarian organizations to assist families and children in El Salvador. Jorge Argueta is also the Director of “Talleres de Poesia” a literary organization based in the US, that launched and organized the First Annual Children’s Poetry Festival in El Salvador (November 2010).
Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Cécile Alduy: "Obscenity, Obstetrics, and the Origin of the Pornographic Gaze"
2011-05-11 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Cécile Alduy, French and Italian, Stanford University
“Obscenity, Obstetrics, and the Origin of the Pornographic Gaze”
Professor Alduy is chair of Renaissances, an interdisciplinary forum on the present and future of early modern studies, and director of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Stanford University. One of her current projects is Archaeology of a Close-Up: The “Blasons anatomiques” and the Prehistory of Obscenity, which looks at the intersection between the field of obstetrics, its book market, and the pre-history of obscenity.
Cécile Alduy is Associate Professor of French and Italian at Stanford University.
Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research

Humanities Spring Awards
2011-05-11 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join us as we recognize the outstanding accomplishments of our faculty, staff and students who have received awards, honors, grants and/or fellowships over the course of the 2010-11 academic year.

Banu Subramaniam: "Tracking Ghosts: Hauntings from a Eugenic Past"
2011-05-11 16:30 - 18:30 | Engineering 2, Room 599, Engineering 2, 1156 High St‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
What do morning glory flowers or exotic plant and animal species have to do with the history of race or eugenics? In this talk, I trace the genealogies of ecology and evolutionary biology to explore how histories of gender and race shape contemporary biological theories and what lessons we can learn about the relationships between natures and cultures.
Banu Subramaniam is associate professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is coeditor of Feminist Science Studies: A New Generation (Routledge, 2001) and Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005). Trained as a plant evolutionary biologist, she seeks to engage the social and cultural studies of science in the practice of science. Spanning the humanities, social sciences, and the biological sciences, her research is located at the intersections of biology, women’s studies, ethnic studies and postcolonial studies. Her current work focuses on the genealogies of variation in evolutionary biology, the xenophobia and nativism that accompany frameworks on invasive plant species, and the relationship of science and religious nationalism in India.
This event is co-sponsored by the Feminist Studies Department and the Science and Justice Working Group.

Kuan-Hsing Chen: "Asia as Method"
2011-05-12 16:00 - 17:30 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Kuan-Hsing Chen is Professor in the Graduate Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies; coordinator of the Center for Asia-Pacific/Cultural Studies at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan; and co-executive editor of the journal, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements. His most recent book is Asia as Method: Towards Deimperialiazation (Duke, 2010).
Readings available at: http://ccs.ihr.ucsc.edu/files/2011/03/Asia_as_Method.pdf
Presented by the Center for Cultural Studies with co-sponsorship by the Asian Diasporas Research Cluster of the IHR, Film and Digital Media Department, and the Nee Fund of the Dept of History, UCSC. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research, UCSC.

Sarah Nelson: "Korea and the Silk Road"
2011-05-12 17:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UCSC Society of the Archeological Institute of America and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on “Archaeology and the Ancient World”

Professor Sarah Milledge Nelson: “Korea and the Silk Road”
Thursday, May 12 at 5 pm (refreshments at 4:30)
Humanities 1, Room 210

The Korean peninsula was almost the Asian end of the “Silk Road,” yet exotic objects from the Mediterranean world are found in Korean burials beginning in the first century B.C. In studying how these objects came to be deposited in Korean burials, it becomes clear that objects arrived in Korea by at least three different routes. Professor Nelson will discuss the Steppe Route north of the Altai Mountains, the Silk Road through Xinjinag, and a Sea Route, along with the objects that arrived in Korea from as far away as the Mediterranean world.

Sarah Milledge Nelson is the John Evans Distinguished Professor with the University of Denver’s Department of Anthropology. She received her degrees from Wellesley College, and the University of Michigan (M.A. and Ph.D.), and her areas of specialization are East Asia, particularly Korea and northeast China, gender issues, religion in archaeology, leadership, and ethnicity. Professor Nelson has conducted fieldwork in China and South Korea, as well as several sites in the southwest U.S. Her recent main publications include Shamanism and the Origin of States, Spirit, Power and Gender in East Asia (2008, Left Coast Press), and the edited volume Gender in Archaeology (2006, Alta Mira Press).
Free parking for lecture in Cowell-Stevenson parking lots. For more information on the lecture or the AIA, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu.
Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Living Writers Series: Aimee Bender
2011-05-12 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Aimee Bender is the author of four books: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (1998), which was a NY Times Notable Book; An Invisible Sign of My Own (2000), an L.A. Times pick of the year; Willful Creatures (2005), which was nominated by The Believer as one of the best books of the year; and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (2010), which recently won the SCIBA award for best fiction, and an Alex Award. Her short fiction has been published in Granta, GQ, Harper’s, Tin House, McSweeney’s, and The Paris Review, as well as heard on PRI’s This American Life and Selected Shorts. She has received two Pushcart prizes, and was nominated for the TipTree award in 2005, and the Shirley Jackson short story award in 2010.
Each quarter, the Living Writers Reading Series brings visiting authors and poets to UC Santa Cruz to give students an in-depth look into the world of the working writer. Sponsored by Oakes College and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund.

The Science Studies Creative Writing Workshop
2011-05-13 12:30 - 16:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Science Studies Research Cluster invites you to join us for The Science Studies Creative Writing Workshop:
Science Studies teaches us that narratives, tropes, figures, genres, and writing styles matter in knowledge-making practices. For example, in “The Egg and the Sperm,” Emily Martin argues that staging human fertilization as a fairy tale starring active, aggressive, masculine sperm and receptive, passive , feminine ova has both political and epistemological consequences. Although we have become very good at identifying these narrative elements in the stories of others, we do not often address the aesthetics and politics of our own storytelling practices. Due to time constraints and academic convention, we rarely have the opportunity to try out different styles of writing.
With this in mind, the UCSC Science Studies Research Cluster presents “The Science Studies Creative Writing Workshop.” We invite Science Studies scholars (broadly construed!) to submit a short manuscript (<600 words) that presents your research in a style or genre that differs from your regular academic work. The workshop includes a roundtable where we will discuss each piece in detail, while discussing strategies for using, playing with, and subverting academic conventions. We offer this workshop as an opportunity to explore creative approaches to writing, not in service of the “innovative” or “avant-garde,” but as a practical experiment in the political aesthetics of writing.
If you are interested in participating in this workshop, please e-mail Martha Kenney (mkenney@ucsc.edu) by March 25 to reserve your spot. Mini-manuscripts will be due April 29.
This event is funded by the Center for Cultural Studies. Staff support is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Jessica Enevold: "Mama Ludens vs Fanboi – What is wrong with the Gaming Revolution?"
2011-05-16 14:00 - 15:30 | Engineering 2, Room 599, Engineering 2, 1156 High St‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
It has been hailed for a while, in articles, book introductions and sales reports: the gaming revolution. Fun for all is finally here and if we put our minds to it, games may even save the world! Then, what is wrong with the gaming revolution? The question can be read both as a complaint and a celebration of what is happening. This talk questions the gaming revolution by playfully pitting Mama Ludens vs Fan-boi, here representing everyday playing practices of adult female gamers and conservative discursive elements of game culture, in a symbolic battle over ludic fun. It nevertheless welcomes the gaming revolution as a cultural evolution, but calls for a more profound and radical ludic revolution.
Jessica Enevold is Assistant Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, section for ethnology at Lund University, Sweden where she organizes the Digital Cultures and Games Lecture and Lab Series and works as course coordinator, supervisor and teacher in the Master’s Program Applied Cultural Analysis (MACA). She runs the research projects “Gaming Moms: Juggling Time, Play and Family Life” and “Games and Play – For Better For Worse”. She currently co-edits an anthology on Game Love and is the Managing Editor for the international journal Game Studies.

John Davison: "What will the games business look like in 5 years?"
2011-05-17 12:00 - 13:30 | Media Theater, M110
John Davison, VP of programming at CBS Interactive – GameSpot and Metacritic, will look at the way the audience for games is changing, and how the games industry is adjusting and adapting to new tastes, technology, and trends.
John Davison is VP of programming at CBS Interactive for GameSpot and Metacritic. Davison comes to CBS’ gaming properties from IDG’s GamePro, where he served as Executive Vice President of Content. Davison’s career in game journalism spans nearly 20 years and includes high-ranking positions at outlets including Electronic Gaming Monthly, the Official PlayStation Magazine, and What They Play, a family-focused consumer site which he founded and later sold to IGN Entertainment.

Mark Franko: "Myth, Nationalism, and Embodiment in Martha Graham's American Document"
2011-05-18 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Mark Franko, Dance and Performance Studies, UCSC
“Myth, Nationalism, and Embodiment in Martha Graham’s American Document“
Professor Franko, a UC Humanities Network Scholar, is editor of Dance Research Journal, founding editor of the Oxford Studies in Dance Theory book series, and Director of the Center for Visual and Performance Studies at UCSC. He is finishing a book on Martha Graham in the 1940s (Oxford) supported by an NEH research fellowship and a UC President’s Research Fellowship.
Mark Franko is Professor of Dance and Performance Studies in Theater Arts at UCSC.
Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research

Professor William Ladusaw’s Vision for the Humanities
2011-05-18 14:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
University of California, Santa Cruz
HUMANITIES DEAN CANDIDATE PRESENTATION
Professor William Ladusaw’s Vision for the Humanities
The presentation will be followed by a brief question and answer session. Meetings will be held for Humanities Faculty, Students, and Staff, beginning at 2:45PM
2:00 – 2:45pm Candidate Presentation
2:45 – 3:30pm Humanities Faculty and Department Chairs
3:30 – 4:00pm Humanities Graduate Students
4:00 – 4:30pm Humanities Undergraduate Students
4:30 – 5:00pm Humanities Staff & Department Managers

Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
2011-05-19 09:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
All members of the UCSC community and the general public are invited to attend the Twelfth Annual UCSC Literature Undergraduate Colloquium onThursday, May 19, 2011 in Humanities 1, room 210. The Undergraduate Colloquium is a day-long event showcasing and celebrating undergraduate academic work in the Literature Department, and is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be available throughout the day. For more information please see literature.ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-4778.
The colloquium schedule is as follows:
Opening Remarks
9:00 – 9:10 a.m.
Karen Bassi, Literature Department Chair
Panel One: Morphologies
9:10 – 10:30 a.m.
Moderator: John O. Jordan
Kirby A. Conrod, Dialog and Morphology in the Novel
Nicole Green, Explorations of the Nature of Reality in To the Lighthouse
Ashley Overhouse, Read Between the Paratexts: Resistance in the 19th Century Race Novel
Alicia Roll, Poetic Inspiration
Panel Two: Pacific Crossings
10:45 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.
Moderator: Tim Yamamura
Alyssa Benveniste, The Body of a Woman: Exploring the Nation in Chang Rae Lee’s A Gesture Life
David Manalo, An Investigation Into The Literary Sublime of the 21st Century Asian Diaspora
Kyle Murphy, Kerouac and Oriental Worlding
Lunch Buffet 12:10 – 12:55 p.m.
Panel Three: Creative Writing
1:00 – 2:20 p.m.
Moderator: Juliana Leslie
Johan Flyvbjerg, Flakes and Cherries
Katharine Elyse Wheeler-Dubin, Inside Games
Jessica Jones, The Garden Not Forgotten
Panel Four: Negotiating Identity
2:30 – 3:50 p.m.
Moderator: A. Hunter Bivens
Julia Franceschini, Comic-book Cinema: How Maus Captures Reality
Brenda Houser, Zoot Suit: Pachuco Mythology and the Redefinition of Chicano Identity
Jessica Mead, Liberating Cuba: The Use of Historical Romance to Imagine a Nation
Megan Susman, Jews, Errants, Disaster: From the Destruction of the Second Temple to Michael Chabon’s Kavalier and Clay

Emily Greenwood: "Regarding Priam: Reconciliation and Classical Reception"
2011-05-19 17:00 - 19:00 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UCSC Classical Studies Program and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present the annual Carl Deppe Lecture:
In light of David Malouf’s 2009 novel Ransom, based on Priam’s supplication of Achilles in Book 24 of Homer’s Iliad, the lecture will consider the figure of Priam as a vehicle for reconciling cultures and histories via the study of classical receptions, paying particular attention to debates about restorative justice.
Emily Greenwood is Associate Professor of Classics at Yale University. Her research interests include ancient Greek historiography, Greek prose literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, twentieth century classical receptions (especially uses of Classics in Africa, Britain, the Caribbean, and Greece), Classics and Postcolonialism, and the theory and practice of translating the ‘classics’ of Greek and Roman literature. She is the author of Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Reception to follow.

Film Screening: "La Carta: Sagrario nunca has muerto para mí"
2011-05-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Cultural Center at Merrill, Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
On Friday, May 20th, contributors to the book Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas, will be speaking about their research and activism in the campaign to end feminicide in Mexico and on the borderlands. The speakers will also address the human rights crisis in Mexico, violence targeting human rights activists, and the social movement for peace and an end to violence in Mexico.
Speakers: Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba (University of Texas at Austin), Eva Arce (Ciudad Juárez), Alma Gómez (Centro de Derechos Humanos, Chihuahua City), and Cynthia Bejarano (New Mexico State University).
TIME & PLACE: 12-2 PM @ Namaste Lounge, College 9
On Thursday evening, May 19th, there will be a screening: La Carta: Sagrario nunca has muerto para mí (English sub-titles) directed by Rafael Bonilla. The film documents the life of Paula Bonilla Flores and her struggle for justice on behalf of her daughter and other murdered and disappeared women.
Q&A with Paula Flores (director of Fundación María Sagrario and mother of feminicide victim, María Sagrario González from Ciudad Juárez); and Hector Domínguez-Ruvalcaba (University of Texas, Austin).
TIME & PLACE: 7-9 PM @ Merrill College Cultural Center
Please note that ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF THE BOOK, Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas, go to select organizations listed in www.stopterrorizingwomen.com
Sponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies, El Centro (Chicano/Latino Resource Center), Chicano/Latino Research Center, and the Women’s Center.

Damon Brown: "Porn and Pong"
2011-05-20 11:00 - 12:30 | Engineering 2, Simularium, Room 180, Baskin Engineering, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
McDonald’s has “Fast Food Nation,” the fish industry has “Cod,” but no book has successfully weaved the cautionary tales and humorous history of the world of video games into our modern society… until now. For “Porn and Pong” Playboy Magazine journalist Damon Brown spent five years exploring how the $20 billion video game industry traces our evolution in sexual mores, technological dependence and personal interaction. The VCR and the dawn of the modern porn industry parallels the first Atari systems, Reality TV skyrocketed the same year as The Sims, and the surgically-endowed Pamela Anderson was only outshined by one other woman: Lara Croft. In one of the most stimulating moments, Brown examines Presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2005 tirade against Grand Theft Auto, and how politics, hidden agendas and financial pressure affect all controversial art forms.
Damon Brown writes about sex, technology, music and video games for Playboy, New York Post and Family Circle, and is the tech columnist for AARP Online and PlanetOut. He is the author of several books, most recently Porn & Pong: How Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Our Culture. Damon has a Masters in Magazine Publishing from Chicago’s Northwestern University and a degree in Journalism and Computing from Detroit’s Oakland University. The Jersey native considers New Orleans, Chicago and Lansing (Michigan) his hometowns, but recently established his secret headquarters in Northern California.

Gender Violence in Mexico
2011-05-20 12:00 - 14:00 | Namaste Lounge – College 9, Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Scott AnderBois: "What is a Question? An Answer from Yucatec Maya"
2011-05-20 15:30 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The act of questioning is central to human conversation, but how do we know if a given sentence is a question in the first place? Looking at English, there are two reasonable accounts we might give. First, questions are defined by their semantics: i.e. questions have a particular kind of meaning which is distinct from that of other sentences, and, in particular, from assertions. Alternatively, questions might be defined by their syntax: i.e. the form of questions make use of particular elements (e.g. question words like `who’, `what’, and `why’) which distinguish them from assertions.
This talk addresses the title question from the perspective of Yucatec Maya, an indigenous language of Mexico spoken by roughly 800,000 people. Questions in Yucatec Maya often have no single element in their form which distinguishes them from assertions. Rather, they consist of particular combinations of elements, each of which occurs on its own in sentences which are clearly not questions. To understand why such sentences are questions, then, requires a particular understanding of the meaning of these elements individually, and of how these meanings interact in a given sentence. In so doing, we not only shed light on the nature of questions across languages, but also on the nature of the elements from which questions are built.
Scott AnderBois is a fifth year grad student in Linguistics. His dissertation research investigates the grammatical properties of questions and related constructions, such as indefinite pronouns (i.e. words like ‘someone’, ‘something’) whose function is to introduce issues for immediate or future conversation. In order to address these general questions, Mr. AnderBois has been engaged in primary fieldwork on the properties of these constructions in Yukatek Maya, an indigenous language of Mexico, currently spoken by approximately 800,000 people in the Yucatán Peninsula. Whereas questions in English are clearly identified by the presence of question words like ‘who’ and ‘what’, analogous questions in Yukatek Maya are formed by placing a word which otherwise means ‘someone’ or ‘something’ in a particular position within the sentence. Expanding on this exploration of the tight relationship between indefinite pronouns and questions in Yukatek Maya, Mr. AnderBois’s research sheds light on the meanings of both constructions as a general phenomenon in human language.
This event is made possible by the UC Society of Fellows and the UC Humanities Network. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research, UC Santa Cruz.

Women, Jews and Venetians Conference
2011-05-22 - 2011-05-24 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“L’Italie, Laboratoire de la modernite juive,” — Workshop of Jewish Modernity – a group of scholars recently characterized Venice and the Ghetto and thereby focused discussion on how this laboratory shaped Jewish modernity. Carrying forward a recently emerging scholarly view about early modern Jewish communities, these essays emphasize the interaction of the Jews in the Ghetto with the larger Venetian populace and polity, reminding us that the Ghetto came to be named “La Citta degli ebrei.” An island set apart from and yet part of the city on the lagoon, the Ghetto became a political, social, and cultural locus of historical and symbolic status.
Yet the roles women played in this forging of modern Jewish identity are often absent from the conversation. Notable women such as Dona Gracia Nasi and Sarra Copia Sulam appear here and there. However, there is little sustained attentiveness to the ways in which Jewish and Venetian women across the social spectrum responded to emerging modern habits and processes. Their contribution to the “workshop of Jewish modernity” has not been charted – and thus we know little as to how and to what extent women were able to express and take agency in many spheres, from cultural practices and financial activities to intellectual pursuits.
Our gathering is directed to bringing women into the Venetian historical account. We will focus on the ways in which Jewish women, in part through their connections to other Venetian and Italian women, helped to articulate what it was to be modern, and thus participated in the forging of modern Venetian, Italian, and Jewish identities. We anticipate that there also will be discussion of the contributions of non-Jewish women in shaping the image and understanding of contemporary Venice and Venetian Jewish life. We envision that this objective might be approached through multiple disciplines, literature, history, and art history among them.
This conference seeks to help open new lines of scholarly inquiry, which we might continue to build at subsequent gatherings, with the eventual aim of organizing a larger conference in Venice in the near future. In keeping with the exploratory purpose of this gathering, featured lectures are followed by panels, — whose participants will take the conversation forward.
Schedule (View Program)
SUNDAY, MAY 22
7:00–8:30 pm
Shaul Bassi, Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, “From Shakespeare to Erica Jong: Jewish Women and Cultural Politics”
8:30 pm
Reception
MONDAY, MAY 23
9:00–11:00 am
PANEL: Venice, Portal to Jewish Modernity
Lisa Calevi, University of Oregon, “Jewish Childhoods”
Dr. Leonard Rothman, MD OBGYN retired, Independent Scholar formerly of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, “Venetian Midwives, and Modern Medicine”
Monique Balbuena, University of Oregon, “The Languages of the Conversas”
Respondent: Lisa Pon, Southern Methodist University
11:15 am – 12:15 pm
Cynthia Baker, Bates College, “The Essentially Ambiguous Jewess: An Ancient Trope in Modern Europe”
12:15–2:00 pm
Lunch
Murray Baumgarten, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Ghetto Matters, the Venice Center, and Planning for 2016: Suggestions and Discussion”
2:00–3:30 pm
PANEL: Women and the Arts
Jill Fields, California State University Fresno, “The Writing of Peggy Guggenheim: Narrating Gender, Jewish Identity, and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Venice”
Dr. Joanna Harris, dance historian, Osher Lifelong Learning, University of California, Berkeley, “Two Historic Italian Women And Their Contribution To The Arts: Isabella Andreini — Commedia Dell’arte—and Catherine De Medici– Classical Ballet”
Respondent: Deanna Shemek, University of California, Santa Cruz
3:30–4:00 pm
Refreshments
4:00–5:15 pm
Gretchen-Starr-Lebeau, University of Kentucky, “Judging by Gender: Venetian Jewish Women Before the Inquisition”
5:15–6:15 pm
Dinner
6:15–7:15 pm
Howard Adelman, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, “What Jews on the Rialto? The Venetian Adventures of Beatrice and Reyna de Luna”
7:30–8:45 pm
PANEL: Representations of Venetian Jewish Women
Miriam Shein, Independent Scholar, “Reflection from the Ghetto: Creating a Venetian Jewish Heroine”
Yael Chaver, University of California, Berkeley, “20th Century Jewish Translations of Jessica.”
Respondent: Robin Russin, University of California, Riverside
8:45–9: 15 pm
Refreshments
TUESDAY, MAY 24
9:00–10:15 am
Don Harrán, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Sarra Copia Sulam, A Seventeenth-Century Jewish Poet in Search of Immortality”
10:15–10:30
Coffee
10:30–12:30
PANEL: Jewish Women and the Public World
Dr. Ariella Lang, Barnard College, “Margherita Sarfatti, Mussolini, and 20th Century Public Life”
Michael Shapiro, University of Illinois/Loyola University, “Women and Hidden Jews under Nazi Occupation: Roberto Bassi’s Evidence”
Will Wells , Dean, Rhodes State College, “Translating the Poems of Sarra Copia Sulam”
Respondent: Paul Michelson, Huntington University
12:30 pm
Lunch & a riverderci
This conference sponsored by the UCSC Center for Jewish Studies, the Museo Italo-Americano of San Francisco, and the Venice Center for International Jewish Studies. Major support provided by the David B. Gold Foundation, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, and the Department of Literature, with staff support from the Institute for Humanities Research.
The Santa Cruz Conference is free and open to the public. Please let us know if you plan to attend by calling (831) 459–5655 or (831) 459-2566.
For further information, including disabled access, contact Shann Ritchie at the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research, sritchie@ucsc.edu, (831) 459-5655.
*San Francisco Preview Panel at the Museo Italo-Americano in Fort Mason, Sunday morning, May 22, from 9:30 am – 12:30 pm in conjunction with exhibited materials from Il Ghetto: Forging Italian Jewish Identities.

Tamara Spira: "Neoliberal Captivities: Pisagua Prison and the Low Intensity Form"
2011-05-25 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Tamara Spira, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Cultural Studies, UC Davis
“Neoliberal Captivities: Pisagua Prison and the Low Intensity Form”
Doctor Spira works at the intersections of feminist, comparative ethnic and hemispheric American studies, and is completing Movements of Feeling: Neoliberalism, Affect and (Post) Revolutionary Memory in the Americas. The talk provides a reading of (the now converted) Pisagua prison in northern Chile, which intermittently served as a concentration camp for leftists and “sexual dissidents” throughout the 20th century.
Tamara Spira is the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Cultural Studies at UC Davis.
Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research

Joan Retallack: "Reciprocal Alterities, Questions of Poethics for Difficult Times"
2011-05-25 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Poetry and Politics Research Cluster presents:

A talk and workshop with Joan Retallack, followed by a poetry reading at Felix Kulpa Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz.

Joan Retallack’s most recent publication Procedural Elegies / Western Civ Cont’d / (Roof Books) was the poetry volume named by Artforum as a best book of 2010. Other poetry includes Memnoir (Post-Apollo, 2004), How To Do Things With Words (Sun & Moon Classics, 1998), Afterrimages (Wesleyan, 1995), and Errata 5uite (Edge Books, 1993), chosen by Robert Creeley for the Columbia Book Award of that year. Her critical books include Gertrude Stein: Selections (2008) for which she wrote an extensive introduction to Stein’s work, and The Poethical Wager (2004)—both from University of California Press. Poetry & Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary (2006, Palgrave MacMillan) is co-edited with Juliana Spahr; MUSICAGE: John Cage in Conversation with Joan Retallack (1996, Wesleyan University Press) won the America Award for Belles-Lettres. She is a recipient of a Lannan Poetry Award, two Gertrude Stein awards, and National Endowment for the Arts funding for an artist’s book project—Westorn Civ Cont’d, An Open Book. She has recently written the introduction for a new, corrected edition of Gertrude Stein’s Stanzas in Meditation, forthcoming from Yale University Press. Her current projects are “The Reinvention of Truth” and “The Bosch Bookshelf.” Retallack lives in the Hudson Valley where she is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College.
Poetry and Politics is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research, which has provided staff support for this
event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network. Cosponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies, the Hitchcock Poetry Fund, and the Literature Department.

Nancy Hornberger: "Multilingual Education Policy and Practice: Ten Certainties (Grounded in Indigenous Experience)"
2011-05-25 17:15 - 19:00 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Ethnic diversity and inequality, intercultural communication and contact, and global political and economic interdependence are acknowledged realities in today’s world. Multilingual education, too, is a fact of life, and though there are a great variety of contexts, models, contents, and developmental trajectories in multilingual education policy and practice, it is possible to discern continuities that characterize successful multilingual education wherever it is found. My emphasis here is on what we know and are sure of, analytically formulated as ten certainties and illustrated by empirical research.
This talk is presented by the Language Program Colloquium Series.

Joan Retallack: Poetry Reading
2011-05-25 19:00 - 20:30 | Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, 95060, United States

Dai Jin-hua: "In Vogue: Politics and National Ethnicity in Lust, Caution and the Lust, Caution Phenomenon in China"
2011-05-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Dai Jinhua is Founder and Director of the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies and Film Studies at Peking University, where she is also Professor of Chinese Literature and Language. She is a prominent cultural scholar of literature, film, and popular culture. With Meng Yue, she wrote the 1989 Emerging on the Horizon of History, one of the first works of feminist scholarship published in reform-era China. Her work as a film scholar and media critic questions the social legitimacy of consumer culture in China, while problematizing the elitist lineage of Western Marxism and reflecting on Chinese modes of intellectual endeavor during the last three decades. Dai Jinhua’s publications include Film Theory and Criticism, Gendering China, Cinema and Desire, and Scenery in the Fog: Chinese Cinema Culture 1978-1988. The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture comments of her work, “Her innovative experiments with different critical approaches and the feminist perspective with which she re-examined dominant theories of literature, film and popular culture introduced a new way of critical analysis far beyond her field in China. The development of her own dynamic cultural critique also addressed a growing audience in Taiwan, Hong Kong and the West.”
Sponsored by the Department of History with Generous Support from the Nee Fun

Living Writers Series: Neo Benshi
2011-05-26 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Neo Benshi, Roxi Power Hamilton, Jen Hofer and Konrad Steiner present a new take on the Japanese tradition of “benshi”—a writer or actor who provides live narration and commentary alongside films. The neo-benshi concept invites writers/performers to choose scenes from well-known narrative features or TV shows, mute the soundtrack, and re-inscribe the familiar images with new meanings.
Each quarter, the Living Writers Reading Series brings visiting authors and poets to UC Santa Cruz to give students an in-depth look into the world of the working writer. Sponsored by Oakes College and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund.

Roumyana Pancheva
2011-05-27 15:30 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Linguistics Colloquium Series Presents:
Roumyana Pancheva (USC)
Stay tuned for more details!

Under the Sign of War: U.S. Militarism and Asian Americanist Critique
2011-05-27 16:00 - 19:00 | Humanities 1, Room 320
This year’s Pacific Seminar returns focus to war, both as a way of invoking the foundational anti-Vietnam War struggles that inaugurated Asian American studies as an urgent political and epistemological project and as a contemporary analytic that wields the potential of reconfiguring the project of Asian American studies today. In particular, this year’s Pacific Seminar workshop, led by Wei Ming Dariotis (San Francisco State) and Jennifer Kwon-Dobbs (St. Olaf College), highlights and historicizes the emergence of mixed-race studies and critical adoption studies as simultaneously origin-animating and field-transforming directions within Asian American studies. Inquiring into the centrality of U.S. wars in Asia to mixed-race studies and critical adoption studies, this year’s workshop approaches Asian American studies not as a rigid crystallized academic tradition but rather as a critical intellectual formation whose shifting contours are shaped and renewed by engagement with the political. In other words, not simply reducible to new identitarian directions in an academic field whose expansion (and incoherence), as critics have argued, reflect demographic changes brought on by immigration, mixed-race studies and critical adoption studies, by raising the question of geopolitics, biopolitics, and necropolitics relative to U.S. wars and militarism in the Asia Pacific region, pose fundamental challenges to an identity-based approach to Asian American studies. As with the inaugural formation of Asian American studies, these emergent areas of activism and socially engaged scholarship, as this year’s workshop will explore, cannot be theorized outside a framework of U.S. imperialism and war.
Wei Ming Dariotis is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, with an emphasis on Asian Americans of Mixed Heritage and Asian American Literature, Arts, and Culture. She has served on the Boards of Directors of Hapa Issues Forum, the Asian American Theater Company, and iPride, and on the Advisory Boards of Kearny Street Workshop and the Asian American Women Artists Association. Her poetry has been published in Mixed Up,Too Mixed Up, 580 Split, and Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves: A Contemporary Anthology of Asian American Women’s Poetry. Her academic essays have been published in Mixed Race Literature (2002), Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian American Activists (2004), Chinese America: History and Perspectives (2007), The Influence of Star Trek on Television, Film and Culture (2007), and Interracial Relationships in the 21st Century (2009). Her current project is War Baby | Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art, co-curated and co-edited with Laura Kina, an art exhibit (Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle and the De Paul University Art Museum in Chicago, 2013), and a book (under formal review at University of Washington Press).
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing and director of American Race and Multicultural Studies at St. Olaf College. She is former core staff for Truth and Reconciliation for the Adoption Community of Korea (TRACK) and a current fellow with the Korea Policy Institute. Jennifer’s debut collection, Paper Pavilion (White Pine Press 2007), received the White Pine Press Poetry Prize and the Sheila Motton Book Award, and her chapbook, Song of a Mirror, was a finalist for the Tupelo Press Snowbound Series Chapbook Award. Columns and new stories about Jennifer’s present research on Korean adoptee birth searches and unwed mothers have appeared in Chosun Ilbo, Conducive Magazine, Gyeonghyang News, Hankyoreh, Korea Herald, Korea Times, Pressian, and Yonhap News. Currently she is writing a book of essays about unwed moms’ realities with the Korean Unwed Mothers and Families Association and a second book of poetry.
Participation: Please note that this is a reading workshop. To take part in the workshop and to obtain readings in advance, please RSVP to Christine Hong at cjhong@ucsc.edu.

Music and Greek Drama: History, Theory, and Practice
2011-05-28 - 2011-05-29 | College 8, Room 240, College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
University of California, Santa Cruz Presents:
Music and Greek Drama: History, Theory, and Practice
An International Conference

In connection with the UCSC Theater Arts production of Orestes Terrorist,
a new version of Euripides’ Orestes by Mary-Kay Gamel,
Mainstage Theater, UCSC, May 20-29

May 28-29, 2011
College 8, Room 240

Scholars and theater practitioners will discuss how music affects the meaning and impact of dramatic performance ancient and modern. How do scholars and musicians reconstruct the likely sounds and styles of ancient Greek music and dance? How did the music of the Athenian theater respond to, and in turn shape, the socio-cultural trends and political controversies of the day? What can and should be the role of music in modern productions of Greek drama? The use of music in the theatrical production of Orestes Terrorist will serve as a case study.

Keynote Address by Peter Kivy, Rutgers University

Speakers
Amy R. Cohen, Randolph College
Philip Collins, New Music Works, Santa Cruz
Michael Ewans, University of Newcastle
John C. Franklin, University of Vermont
Mary-Kay Gamel, UC Santa Cruz
Mark Griffith, UC Berkeley
Stefan Hagel, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Robert Ketterer, University of Iowa
Pauline Le Van, Yale University
Fiona Macintosh, University of Oxford
C.W. Marshall, University of British Columbia
Donald Mastronarde, UC Berkeley
Lucia Prauscello, University of Cambridge
Danny Scheie, UC Santa Cruz
Andrew Simpson, Catholic University of America

This conference is presented by University of California Humanities Research Institute, with generous support from the Klio Distinguished Professorship, UC Berkeley; Institute for Humanities Research, UCSC; Committee on Research, UCSC.
For further information, including disabled access, contact Courtney Mahaney at the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research, cmahaney@ucsc.edu, (831) 459-3527; web: http://ihr.ucsc.edu/. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu. Staffing provided by the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research.

Humanities Undergraduate Research Award Presentations
2011-05-31 10:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Recipients of this years Humanities Undergraduate Research Award (HUGRA) will be presenting their projects during Student Achievement week. All are welcome and encouraged to support these students!

In 1996, the Humanities Division began awarding undergraduate students to support and encourage innovative research projects. This year’s Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) symposium brings together a unique blend of projects ranging from historical narratives to linguistic experimentations.

Teach-In on Islamaphobia: Between the War on Terror and Arab Revolution
2011-06-01 | Kresge Town Hall
Speakers:
Snehal Shingavi, English and South Asian Studies, UT Austin
Zahra Billoo, Council on American-Islamic Relations
Wednesday, June 1
6 p.m.
Kresge Town Hall
Snehal Shingavi is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas, Austin. He got his PhD from UC Berkeley where he was involved in a number of social justice campaigns. He was a shop steward for the Association of Graduate Student Employees (AGSE/UAW local 2865), a participant in the 1999 strike for Ethnic Studies organized by the third world Liberation Front (twLF), a member of the International Socialist Organization, a member of the Campaign to the End Death Penalty (CEDP), an organizer against the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, a former member of the coordinating committee of the United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), a participant in the 2000 antiglobalization protests and the protest at the Democratic National Convention in LA, a founding member of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a founding member of the Berkeley Stop the War Coalition (BSTW) which organized against the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq, a member of Friends of South Asia (FOSA), a member of the Students for Nader campaign in 2000, campaign manager for Aimee Allison – Green Party candidate for Oakland City Council in 2006, a member of the Texas State Employees Union (TSEU CWA local 6186), and the Stop the Cuts Coalition at the University of Texas. He has published pieces in The Nation, Counterpunch, Z Magazine, and the International Socialist Review, and has appeared on Democracy Now, Flashpoints with Dennis Bernstein, the Real News Network, as well as on MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News.
A community organizer and labor and civil rights advocate committed to promoting justice and understanding at local and national levels, Zahra Billoo is Executive Director for the CAIR San Francisco Bay Area (CAIR-SFBA) chapter. She frequently provides trainings at local mosques and universities as part of CAIR’s efforts to empower the community, while building bridges with allies on key civil rights issues. At her direction, CAIR-SFBA filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice challenging their warrantless use of GPS tracking devices to target American Muslims. Her work with CAIR-SFBA has been highlighted in local and national media outlets. Most notably, she made waves when she appeared on FOX O’Reilly Factor to discuss invasive TSA practices. As an undergraduate, she worked with the California Faculty Association on issues including faculty salaries and the defunding of public higher education. A 2010 recipient of the San Francisco Minority Bar Coalition’s Unity Award, she earned her J.D. from UC Hastings.
Co-sponsored by Asian Diasporas Research Cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research, UC Center for New Racial Studies, Ethnic Resource Centers, Asian American and Pacific Islander Resource Center, Muslim Student Association, Olive Tree Initiative, Committee for Justice in Palestine, Resource Center for Nonviolence, Palestine-Israel Action Committee.
This event is free and open to the public.

Erik Butler: "The Ruse of Faith: Spiritual Politics in Der Nister's Soviet Symbolism"
2011-06-01 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series and the Center for Jewish Studies Present:
Erik Butler, German Studies, Emory University
“The Ruse of Faith: Spiritual Politics in Der Nister’s Soviet Symbolism”
Professor Butler has published Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film (Camden House, 2010) and The Bellum Grammaticale and the Rise of European Literature (Ashgate, 2010). His translation of Der Nister’s Regrowth (Vidervuks) is forthcoming (Northwestern, 2011). The current book, Cruelty and Mystification, explores violence and ruse in modernist fiction.
Erik Butler is Assistant Professor of German Studies at Emory University.
Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research

Between the Disciplines
2011-06-04 09:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join us on June 4th in Humanities I, room 210 as we take the opportunity presented by the current state of crisis to evaluate and re-imagine interdisciplinary work as both a project and an enterprise. Now that interdisciplinarity has itself become something of a philosopher’s stone, a general panacea for the woes and wiles of University research, what is it that those of us engaged in interdisciplinary research are doing and how does that fit in the remaking of University research and education? As the disciplines themselves seek to dissolve their disciplinary boundaries, what sort of work could justify the continued existence of a space and a program that aims to investigate what is left out or discouraged in disciplinary work? And, further, what is the status of disciplinary work itself? As cuts to public higher education and shifting administrative priorities threaten to sink Interdisciplinary programs across the country, we might use this occasion as an opportunity to grasp the foundations and delicate lineaments of the Interdisciplinary project.
9-10: breakfast
10-11:30 – Questioning Crisis: Adam Dylan Hefty (Valences of Discipline in the Times of Imperiled Institutions), Surya Parekh (Graduate Work), and Mario Diaz-Perez (Max Weber and the Crises of the Sciences)
11:45-1:15 – Articulating Histories: Todd Chretien (Listening to the Subaltern Speak: Methods for Recovering History), Joshua Brahinsky (Tentative Musings on the Friction Between Disciplines when Making Resistances from Speaking Tongues), and Fritzie de Mata (Dead Bodies and the Balikbayan Boxes: Unpacking Spatial Linkages in the Subaltern Pacific)
2:15-3:45 – Perceiving Violence: Maya Gonzalez (On Primitive Accumulation), Steve Carter (Military Reading as Interdisciplinary Approach), Aaron Reed (What If I’m the Bad Guy)
4-5:30 – Thinking With/Partaking in the World: Madeline McDonald (On the Problem of Utopias: Toward an Edge-Topology of ‘Post-Sixties Narratives’), Erin Ellison (The Girls are Alright: Addressing Gendered Power Dynamics Within a Youth Participatory Action Research Setting), Joshua LaBare (The Ecology of Everyday Life)
5:45-6:45 – Symposium of HistCon Alumni
6:45-following – refreshments

The Writing Program's 2011 Reading Series
2011-06-06 15:30 - 17:30 | Porter Hall Gallery, UCSC, Porter College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Dr. Karan Singh, "Nava Vedanta: Ancient Indian Philosophy of Non-dualism & its Modern Transformation."
2011-09-24 17:30 - 19:30 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Dr. Karan Singh
Distinguished Indian statesman and diplomat Dr. Karan Singh will deliver the 2011 Satyajit Ray Lecture at UC Santa Cruz on Saturday, September 24, at 5:30 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall.
Currently the president of the Indian Council of Cultural Relations in New Delhi, Singh is the last Maharaja of Kashmir, and served as its governor for 18 years.
He was a member of Indira Gandhi’s cabinet when she was prime minister, and has also served as Indian ambassador to the United States.
Recognized as one of India’s outstanding thinkers and leaders, Singh is the author of numerous books and has lectured widely—both in India and abroad–on political science, philosophy, education, religion and culture.
Singh will speak on the topic: “Nava Vedanta: Ancient Indian Philosophy of Non-dualism & its Modern Transformation.”
The lecture will be preceded by a screening of renowned Indian Director Satyajit Ray’s last movie: Agantuk (The Stranger) at 3 p.m. in the UCSC Media Theater.
The New York Times has described the film as “a gentle, exquisitely realized comedy, beautifully observed, sweet, and enriching,” and the New Yorker called it “ a graceful comedy made in a serene, leisurely classical style.”
The London Times noted: “Ray’s eye for detail and the old magic of his genius can’t let go of The Stranger, a tour-de-force. The camera is wielded like a conductor’s baton as it strikes chords deep in the mind.”
The lecture and film screening are presented by The Satyajit Ray Film and Study Center (Ray FASC)–a research center in the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. The center is dedicated to the preservation of Satyajit Ray’s cinematic, literary and artistic work.
Under the direction of founding director Dilip Basu, Ray FASC has a collection of 32 of Ray’s 36 films, including 22 fully restored prints.
The restoration work is conducted at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles—the same academy that honored Ray with a special Oscar in 2002 for his lifetime achievements as a filmmaker.
Basu noted that film prints from Ray FASC are now screened at major museums and film festivals around the world.
“During the past year, we have curated complete retrospectives at film museums in Munich, Zurich, Basel, London, Paris, Singapore and at the Lincoln Center in New York,” said Basu. “We expect to continue to have similar global reach in the foreseeable future.”
Basu noted that Ray FASC also hosts scholars, students, and film makers who visit its facility for research and study.
A professor of history at UC Santa Cruz, Basu also teaches an annual upper division class titled “Cinema and History: Film Author Satyajit Ray.”
For tickets and/or more information about the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Collection, go to: http://satyajitray.ucsc.edu, call 831-459-4012 or e-mail satyajit@ucsc.edu

Every Protection: Exploring Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Jewish Pale of Settlement
2011-09-27 | Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Cowell College, Cowell College‎ 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Debra Olin: Images and Nathaniel Deutsch: Text

September 27 – October 11, 2011
Opening reception: Tuesday, September 27, 4-7pm

Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Cowell College, UC Santa Cruz

Until 1917, most Jews of the Russian Empire were restricted to a region called the Pale of Settlement, where they created their own distinctive folk culture. In 1914 the writer, socialist revolutionary, and ethnographer, Sh. An-sky, produced a massive Yiddish ethnographic questionnaire to document this culture, including many questions concerning Jewish customs and beliefs connected to pregnancy and childbirth. In The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement (Harvard University Press), UCSC professor Nathaniel Deutsch has translated An-sky’s questionnaire into English for the first time, placing it within a rich historical context. Collaborating with Deutsch and inspired by her deep interest in Jewish women’s folk traditions, Debra Olin has created illuminating artworks that represent and explore the dangerous, magical, and, above all, powerful experience of pregnancy and childbirth in the Pale of Settlement.
Debra Olin is a printmaker, living and working in Somerville, Massachusetts. She received her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art in 1980. Olin has shown in exhibitions across the U.S., South Africa and Cuba. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Boston Public Library; Temple Israel, Brookline, Mass.; YIVO Institute, NYC; The DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Mass.; and the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. In 2004 Debra was awarded the Rappaport Prize, the largest public annual award to an individual artist in New England. For more information, visit the artist’s website: http://debraolin.com/.

Gallery hours: 11am – 4pm, Tuesday – Sunday. For more information call: (831) 459-2953. Gallery is fully accessible.

Living Writers Reading Series: Jaimy Gordon
2011-09-29 18:00 - 19:30 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Jaimy GordonThe Living Writers Reading Series presents Jaimy Gordon. Jaimy Gordon’s “fantasy” novel, Shamp of the City-Solo, gathered an underground following, and is regarded as one of the finest comic novels in the last fifty years. Her most recent book, Lord of Misrule, won the National Book Award for fiction.
Jaimy Gordon is Professor of English at Western Michigan University. For further information about Professor Gordon, please visit her webpage at WMU: http://www.wmich.edu/english/directory/faculty/gordon.html.
For more information about the event, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore.
The Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund, the Porter Hitchcock Fund, the UCSC Literature Department, and the Sain Endowment.

Linguistics Colloquium: Pranav Anand, "Assessing the pragmatics of experiments: The case of scalar implicature"
2011-09-30 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Pranav Anand
“There is a growing impetus to examine pragmatic phenomena experimentally. Potentially complicating these investigations is the way in which the experimental environment itself shapes participants’ models of extra‐linguistic context. A spate of recent results collectively suggest that the computation of scalar implicature may be sensitive to a host of factors: task structure, social norms, and type of response elicited. However, these results provide only a few points in a vast space of potential task parameters, thereby limiting our ability to systematically model the interaction between linguistic forms, context and pragmatic inference. This talk reports ongoing work to systematically investigate the parametric space of task design. We find that implicature calculation rates are sensitive to both the structure of the response elicited (e.g., scalar vs. unordered) as well as the task prompt (whether the participant judges “accuracy”, “informativity”, or “goodness”), and discuss the methodological lessons of this kind of work.”
Pranav Anand is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz. Professor Anand’s research focuses largely on two matters: how context intrudes into or guides the interpretive process and how perspective is grammatically represented. These are manifested by my interest in the de re/de se/de dicto contrasts, the nature of subjectivity in evaluative and epistemic predication, and the structure of indexical shift.
His current projects include the fine lexical semantics of attitude verbs; real-time processing of implicatures and plurality; computational modeling of multi-party discourse; and computational modeling of high-level discourse plans, especially those involved in argumentation and persuasion.
This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.

Clare Hemmings, "Techniques for Reimagining Feminist Theory: Starting from How We Feel"
2011-10-04 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Clare Hemmings
“Feminist theory seems caught in its own narratives of progress, loss and return, which I argue echo broader conservative agendas that position feminism as over or anachronistic. It does not seem enough to tell different stories, to simply multiply feminisms. Might we instead tell stories differently? This paper makes the case for two different modes of telling that start from the affective location of the teller with the aim of interrupting these dominant narratives. The first explores the practice of recitation, a technique to intervene in the histories produced through citation practices; the second starts from affective breakdown by exploring the importance of ‘the unspeakable’ in reimagining recent feminist history and the subject’s role in its narration.”

Clare Hemmings is Reader in Feminist Theory at the Gender Institute, London School of Economics, where she has recently completed a period as Director. She is the author of Why Stories Matter: the Political Grammar of Feminist Theory (Duke, 2011) and Bisexual Spaces (Routledge, 2002). She is a member of the Feminist Review Collective, which seeks to create alternative spaces for feminist theory and practice.

Juliana Schiesari, “Rethinking Humanism: Horses, Honor and Virtue in the Italian Renaissance”
2011-10-05 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Juliana Schiesari
Professor Schiesari is working on the relation between humanism and the post-human by rethinking the human and non-human as they are constructed in the Italian Renaissance. Her recent publications include Beasts and Beauties: Animals, Gender and Domestication in the Italian Renaissance (Toronto, 2010) and Polymorphous Domesticities: Pets, Bodies and Desire in Four Modern Writers (UC, forthcoming).
Juliana Schiesari is Professor of Italian and Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at UC Davis. This colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

2011 Humanities Don Rothman Writing Awards Ceremony
2011-10-05 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Recipients of the 2010-2011 Humanities Don Rothman Writing Awards recipients and their writing teachers will be honored.
Don Rothman
Adam Beighley, for Twin Forces of a Wave” (Maggie Amis)
AND
Sarah Edelstein, for “’Til Death Do We Choose” (Kiva Silver)
Honorable Mentions:
Briana Bernstein, for “Freud’s Model of Civilization and Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four” (Brij Lunine)
Kerianne Doi, for “Mackey Versus Pollan: War of Whole Foods” (Robin Somers)
Rosalie Evans, for “The Graphic Truth” (Carol Gerster)
Jackson Greer, for “Getting Back to the Farm” (Jude Todd)
For information about the ceremony:
James A. Wilson, PhD, Chair, Writing Program
Cowell Office 209, 459-2627, jawilson@ucsc.edu

Living Writers Reading Series: Nina Revoyr
2011-10-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Living Writers Reading Series presents Nina Revoyr. Nina Revoyr has authored four novels: The Necessary Hunger, Southland, The Age of Dreaming, and Wingshooters, for which she received the Windwest Bookseller’s Choice Award and the Indie Bookseller’s Choice Award. Wingshooters was also named one of Oprah’s ‘boks to watch out for.’
Nina Revoyr
Nina is the executive vice president of a large child and family service agency in Los Angeles. She has also been an Associate Faculty member at Antioch University, and a Visiting Professor at Cornell University, Occidental College, and Pitzer College.
For more information about the event, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore.

Rei Terada, "Pasolini’s Acceptance"
2011-10-12 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Rei Terada
In his late writings, Pasolini claims to give up on Italian politics and his own erstwhile projects. The talk considers Pasolini’s “repudiation” and the questions of periodization it raises. Professor Terada is the author of Derek Walcott’s Poetry: American Mimicry (Northeastern, 1992); Feeling in Theory: Emotion after the “Death of the Subject” (Harvard, 2001); and Looking Away: Phenomenality and Dissatisfaction (Harvard, 2009).
Rei Terada is Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Irvine.
This colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. Cosponsored by the Affect Working Group.

From Civil Defense to Civil Rights: The Growth of Jewish American Interracial Activism in Los Angeles in the 20th Century
2011-10-12 16:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UCSC Jewish Studies and History Department present
From Civil Defense to Civil Rights: The Growth of Jewish American Interracial Activism in Los Angeles in the 20th Century
Bridges of Reform

Shana Bernstien
Southwestern University
Author of Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in 20th Century Los Angeles (2011)

Eugene Switkes, "Studies of Visual Perception: A Window into Brain and Behavior"
2011-10-19 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Eugene Switkes
Scientists and humanists have found common interests in understanding correlations between neural events and complex human behavior. Over the past 30 years we have studied how aspects of human visual perception arise from neural processes that occur in the anatomical substrates of human vision. Professor Switkes discusses how understanding the brain’s recoding of spatial and chromatic information sheds light on the neural basis of visual behavioral phenomena.
Eugene Switkes is Professor of Chemistry and Psychobiology at UC Santa Cruz. He is an Affiliate Professor of Vision Sciences and Optometry at UC Berkeley.
This colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies, with staff support from the Institute for Humanities Research.

The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture: Lisa Jean Moore, "Among the Missing: Operations in Recovering Bodies"
2011-10-19 17:30 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Lisa Jean Moore
Lisa Jean Moore, medical sociologist and Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Purchase College, State University of New York, will present a talk based on her recent book Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility. We know more about the physical body—how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposes—than ever before. Yet not all bodies are created equal, some bodies clearly count more than others, and some bodies are not recognized at all. By examining the cultural politics at work in disappearances and inclusions of the physical body Prof. Moore shows how the social, medical and economic consequences of visibility can reward or undermine privilege in society.
The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors.
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Inaugural Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture, November 3, 2010

Living Writers Reading Series: Martha Mendoza
2011-10-20 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Living Writers Reading Series presents Martha Mendoza.
Martha Mendoza
Martha Mendoza graduated from UCSC and starte a career as an Associated Press National Writer. Mendoza won the 2000 Pulitzer Prise in investigative journalism for her work on the No Gun Ri story. Her writing has prompted congressional meetings and Pentagon investigations alike.
For more information about the event, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore.
The Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund, the Porter Hitchcock Fund, the UCSC Literature Department, and the Sain Endowment.

2011 Founder's Day
2011-10-21 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
2011 Founder’s Day
More information TBA.

Kathleen Lynch: “Sex Sells, But Who’s Buying? Erotic Imagery on Athenian Vases”
2011-10-22 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on “Archaeology and the Ancient World”:
Kathleen Lynch
Professor Kathleen Lynch, University of Cincinnati
“Sex Sells, But Who’s Buying? Erotic Imagery on Athenian Vases”
Erotic imagery appears in early Attic black-figure vases but becomes quite popular in red-figure from about 520-475 B.C. The setting of these often-graphic images of heterosexual and homosexual encounters is usually the symposium, the all-male drinking party. Nearly all studies assume that these images are produced for and about Athenians, and thus must represent Athenian views on sexuality and morality. Yet a closer look at the archaeological evidence shows that very few vases with graphic sexual images come from Athens itself; instead, vases with erotic images were sold on the export market, and more specifically to Etruria. Thus we must re-evaluate the use of these images in assessing Athenian values: we find an Athenian pottery industry with an astute marketing sense that distorts Athenian cultural identity to appeal to foreign perceptions of Greek culture.
The lecture will contain vase-painting images of explicit sexual scenes.
Kathleen Lynch is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati and a specialist in Greek pottery, particularly vase painting and the social aspects of pottery, and has completed fieldwork in Albania, Greece, and Turkey. She has a book forthcoming from the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, The Symposium in Context: Pottery from a Late Archaic House near the Athenian Agora.
Free parking for the lecture in Cowell-Stevenson parking lots
Coffee at 1:30 and more refreshments after the talk
For more information, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu

Steven Miller, "Violence Against the Nonliving: the Death Drive & Destruction in Contemporary Philosophy
2011-10-24 04:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Steven Miller
Professor Steven Miller is Professor of English at SUNY Buffalo. He is a faculty mentor for the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture and for Umbr(a). His work in progress is War After Death: Hyperbolic Thinking in Contemporary Philosophy and Psychoanalysis.
This lecture is presented by the History of Consciousness Department, with cosponsorship by the Center for Cultural Studies. For further information, please contact Michael Holohan, mholohan@ucsc.edu.

The Affect Working Group Presents: Affect Across the Disciplines: A Faculty-Graduate Workshop
2011-10-24 15:30 - 17:00 | Red Room, Red Restaurant and Bar‎ 200 Locust Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Panelists:
Vilashini Cooppan, “Affective History and Literary Studies”
Associate Professor, Literature, UCSC
Professor Cooppan’s recent work includes an article in Trauma and Memory in South African Writing (Rodopi, 2011), and a book project on affect, historical violence and world literature.

Sharon Daniel, “Affect in/through New Media Documentary”
Professor, Film and Digital Media and DANM, UCSC
Professor Daniel’s essays have been published in books and professional journals, including Database Aesthetics, the Sarai Reader and Leonardo.

Danilyn Rutherford, “Affect, Ethics, and the Empirical in Anthropology”
Professor and Chair, Anthropology, UCSC
Professor Rutherford is the author of Raiding the Land of the Foreigners: The Limits of the Nation on an Indonesian Frontier (Princeton, 2002) and the forthcoming Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua (Chicago, 2012).

Noah Wardrip-Fruin, “Affective Computational Media”
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Professor Wardrip-Fruin has authored or co-edited books on games and digital media, including The New Media Reader (MIT, 2003) and Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies (MIT, 2009).

Moderator: Kimberly Lau
Professor, Literature, American Studies
Professor Lau is the author of Body Language: Sisters in Shape, Black Women’s Fitness, and Feminist Identity Politics (Temple, 2011).

For further information, please contact Deborah Gould, dbgould@ucsc.edu.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies.

Gildas Hamel, "Monotheism and Empire II"
2011-10-26 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Gildas Hamel
Professor Hamel is working on a history of religious representations in Hellenistic and Roman Palestine and the notion of monotheism. He examines recent histories of monolatry and monotheism and accounts of religious mediations, asking whether monotheism can be explained as a response to the Babylonian and Persian empires, or as an episode in the cultural borrowing and translation of religious stories and practices.
Gildas Hamel is a S.O.E. Lecturer in History.
This colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies, with staff support from the Institute for Humanities Research.

Performing Race at the Victorian Freak Show
2011-10-26 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Museum and Curatorial Studies (MACS) Research Cluster presents: Nadja Durbach, Associate Professor, History and Comparative Gender & Sexuality University of Utah:
Nadja Durbach
Performing Race at the Victorian Freak Show
While scholars have examined the display of non-Western peoples at Victorian exhibitions, and noted that many of the “cannibals” and “savages” who performed were actually fakes, none have explored in earnest either the preconditions for, or the ramifications of, this artifice. This talk interrogates the cultural attitudes that bound ethnic and racial Otherness together, and the ways in which these relationships were embodied and performed, in order to explain what made these fake shows not only possible, but appealing to a broad British public.
The widespread use of working-class men, and the Irish in particular, to portray Africans or other “savages” at sideshows depended upon and contributed to beliefs about the relationships between class, ethnicity, and race. Irishmen were regularly employed to play sideshow savages, whether American Indians, Bushmen, or Zulus, because of long-standing assumptions about their primitive, wild and violent natures. Showmen cast them in these roles, and audiences allowed themselves to be deceived, because the ruse reinforced widespread beliefs about the racial inferiority of the Irish and conversely the whiteness of other Britons. I argue that most audience members were probably not fooled by these fraudulent acts but were nevertheless entertained and reassured by the messages they conveyed about race and empire, perhaps even more so than by authentic exhibitions.
This event is part of the 2011-2012 MACS research theme Exhibitions and Performance. For more information, please contact Lucian Gomoll at macs@ucsc.edu or visit the MACS website at http://macs.ucsc.edu/

Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series: "The Eternal Frame: An Artist’s Reenactment of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy"
2011-10-26 17:30 - 19:30 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Eternal Frame
The Center of Visual and Performance Studies presents Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series: “The Eternal Frame: An Artist’s Reenactment of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy”, a Screening and Conversation with Film & Digital Media Professor Emeritus Chip Lord and Professor Margaret Morse.
The Eternal Frame was a project by Ant Farm and T.R. Uthco, 1975, that resulted in a 24 minute video work about the JFK assassination. At the center of this work was a re-enactment of the tragedy produced and performed for the camera, but unexpectedly many by-standers showed up to watch and were interviewed.
Chip Lord is an artist who works with video and photography. As a member of Ant Farm [1968-1978] he produced the video art classics Media Burn and The Eternal Frame as well as the Cadillac Ranch sculpture in Amarillo, Texas. His media work straddles documentary and experimental genres, often mixing the two, and has been shown widely at film and video festivals and in Museums. In 2005 a retrospective of his video work was shown at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arts Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain. In 2010 he completed a public video art piece for the remodeled Bradley Terminal at LAX Airport titled To & From LAX. He is Professor Emeritus in Film & Digital Media.
Margaret Morse studies cultural change through media in a shifting focus from film to television and video art to new media and digital culture. Her hundred plus publications in books and essays include criticism on a wide range of work by contemporary media artists in the United States and Europe as well as theoretical essays on particular media art forms such as installation and closed-circuit video as well on the meaning of interactivity and immersion in the digital arts.

Wooksik Cheong , “Peace Island”?: Resisting the Militarization of Juju "
2011-10-26 18:00 - 20:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Today, Jeju Island is best known for “its booming tourism, its hardy diving women, and its lush orange groves” (John Merrill). Touted as a romantic honeymoon destination and lucrative site for foreign investment, Jeju is, however, far from a paradise. Prior to June 25, 1950, the purported start of the Korean War, Jeju, deemed a “Red” island, was a site of counter-revolutionary violence—indiscriminate state-sponsored bloodshed justified in the name of “national defense.” In long overdue recognition of the civilian massacres it perpetrated under US watch in 1948, the South Korean government in 2005 designated Jeju an “Island of Peace.”
Yet, the legacy of unrestrained militarism and the abuse of government authority are far from over. Since 2007, the people of Gangjeong village have waged non-violent resistance against the construction of a massive naval base on Jeju. Due to be operational by 2014, the naval base, which will host 20 warships and two Aegis destroyers integrated within the US Missile Defense System, not only stands to destroy a UNESCO biosphere reserve and government-recognized “absolute preservation area” characterized by rare rock formations, abundant and fertile farmlands, pristine fresh and sea waters, and endangered animal species, but also, to displace Gangjeong villagers from their sea- and land-based livelihoods. Not merely a local struggle, the democratic resistance of Gangjeong residents and activists against the naval base raises the question of a neo-Cold War US/South Korea/Japan alliance and a looming regional arms race with China. With growing global attention to the Jeju resistance, the South Korean government has intensified its crackdown, recently dispatching more than 1,000 riot police from the mainland to forcibly remove and arrest protesters to clear the way for construction.
Wooksik Cheong, a founding member and representative of Peace Network, a South Korean NGO formed in 1999 that works for peace and disarmament in Northeast Asia and on the Korean peninsula, will speak on the resistance movement against the militarization of Jeju.
Free and open to the public. Event co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies, the Asian Pacific Islander Resource Center, the East Asian Studies Program, Cowell College, Oakes College, and the Resource Center for Nonviolence. For further information, please contact Christine Hong at cjhong@ucsc.edu.

Ella von der Haide, "Another World is Plantable! A Documentary on Community Gardening and Food Justice in North America 2010"
2011-10-27 16:30 - 18:30 | Communications, Studio C, Room 150, Communications Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This Science and Justice Meeting will feature a film by Ella von der Haide, a Dipl.-Ing. of Urban and Regional Planning, Garden Activist and feminist Filmmaker from Germany. She will show one of four feature films she has made about urban community gardens and their connections to emancipatory social movements in South Africa, Argentina, Germany and North America. Urban community gardening is a phenomenon that is spreading throughout the world. This film will focus on the North American context.

Living Writers Reading Series: Peter Orner
2011-10-27 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Living Writers Reading Series presents Peter Orner. Peter Orner is a human rights lawyer, and editor and writer of novels and short stories. His works include: Esther Stories, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives, and the soon-to-be-released Love and Shame and Love: A Novel. Orner has been awarded several honors including the Guggenheim Fellowship, Lannan Literary Fellowship, and the Bard Fiction Prize.
Peter Orner
Orner has published fiction in the Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, The Southern Review, and various other publications. Stories have been anthologized in Best American Stories and twice won a Pushcart Prize (Best of the Small Presses). Orner was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2006), as well as the two-year Lannan Foundation Fellowship (2007). A film version of one of Orner’s stories, “The Raft” with a screenplay by Orner and the film’s director, Rob Jones, is currently in production and stars Ed Asner.
Orner has taught at the University of Montana, Bard College, Charles University in Prague, Washington University, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Orner is a long time permanent faculty member at San Francisco State where he is an associate professor. He is a currently visiting fiction faculty at the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa.
For more information about the event, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore.
The Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund, the Porter Hitchcock Fund, the UCSC Literature Department, and the Sain Endowment.

Poetry Reading and Exhibition of Poem Paintings
2011-10-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Poetry and Politics research cluster presents A poetry reading with Ronaldo Wilson and Lauren Shufran and an exhibition of poem paintings by Matt Landry.
Matt Landry holds bachelors degrees in French and Comparative Literature from Dickinson College and the University of Toulouse, an MA in French from Yale University and is currently a PhD student in Literature at UC Santa Cruz, where he studies modern aesthetic theory and poetry. He is the translator of two books, The Mills of Toulouse: a Case Study on the Origins of the Corporation and an ancient Chinese book on governance, the Zhouli.

Mary Flanagan, "Propositions from a Critical Play Perspective"
2011-11-01 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Mary Flanagan

Propositions from a Critical Play Perspective
If games always hold within them cultural beliefs, norms, and human values, how are designers to tackle the vexing responsibility of designing digital games? In this talk, Flanagan examines the topics of games and values, games and art, the history of technology and games, and motivation. How does art practice inform designing for values? What pitfalls might designers face when making games for social change? Flanagan takes the audience through a number of propositions that uncover strengths and weakness of games as a medium for social change and revolutionary play.
Known for her theories on playculture, activist design, and critical play, Flanagan has achieved international acclaim for her novel interdisciplinary games, artwork, and theoretical writing, her commitment to theory/practice research, and contributions to social justice design arenas. She is particularly interested in issues of equity and authorship in technological environments, and reworking commonly understood paradigms to provide collective strategies for social change. This talk draws primarily on her work in the Values at Play project and in her 2009 book, Critical Play (MIT Press). Flanagan is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College.
http://www.maryflanagan.com/
http://www.tiltfactor.org/

Steve McKay, "Masculinities Afloat: The Fragile Gender Projects of Filipino Migrant Sailors"
2011-11-02 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Steve McKay
Professor McKay examines the performance of masculinities among a group of men often considered exemplars of masculinity—merchant sailors. The talk explores their gender projects across liminal space (ocean-going ships) and in productive and reproductive spheres. Professor McKay is co-editor of the forthcoming New Routes for Diaspora Studies (Indiana) and working on Born to Sail? Racial Formation, Masculinity and the Making of Filipino Seafarers.
Steve McKay is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Labor Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
This colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies, with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Benjamin Cawthra, “Envisioning Jazz: Considering Photography, Race, and American Music”
2011-11-02 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Benjamin Cawthra, associate professor of history at
Benjamin Cawthra

California State University, Fullerton and author of
Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz
(Chicago, 2011), discusses the tradition of jazz
photography and its relationship to mid-twentieth
century racial politics. Cawthra will discuss the
connections among the photographers, art directors,
editors, and record producers who crafted a
look for jazz that would sell magazines and
albums. And on the other side of the lens, he
explores how musicians shaped their public
images to further their own nancial and political
goals.

Brooke Holmes, "The Missing Body: Authority, Immunity, and Objectivity in Early Greek Medical Writing"
2011-11-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UCSC Program in Classical Studies presents: Professor Brooke Holmes, Princeton University, ‘The Missíng Body: Authority, Immunity, and Objectivity in Early Greek Medical Writing”
Brooke Holms
Brooke Holmes’ paper arises from a simple question: Why doesn’t the physician draw on his experience of his own body as a source of knowledge and authority in early Greek medical writing? In trying to answer it, Professor Holmes argues that the very absence of the physician’s body represents an early phase in the history of disembodied authority in Western medicine and science.
Brooke Holmes works at the intersections of Greek literature, science and medicine, and philosophy, with particular interests in the history of subjectivity and the body, materialism, tragedy, ethics, critical theory, and reception studies. She received her B.A. in Comparative Literature from Columbia and her Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton in 2005. She has taught since 2007 at Princeton, where she is the Elias Boudinot Bicentennial Preceptorship, Her first book, The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece, was published in 2010 by Princeton University Press.

Living Writers Reading Series: Maggie Nelson
2011-11-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Living Writers Reading Series presents Maggie Nelson. Maggie Nelson is a poet and non-fiction writer. Her work includes: The Red Parts: A Memoir, Bluets, and, recently, the 2011 release of The Art of Cruelty. Nelson’s poetry has been published in six collections; the most recent is Something Bright, Then Holes.
Maggie Nelson
Nelson has taught at the Graduate Writing Program of the New School, Wesleyan University, and Pratt Institute of Art; she currently teaches in the CalArts MFA writing program.
For more information about the event, please contact Micah Perks by email atmeperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore.
The Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund, the Porter Hitchcock Fund, the UCSC Literature Department, and the Sain Endowment.

Living Writers Reading Series: C.S. Giscombe
2011-11-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Living Writers Reading Series presents C.S. Giscombe. C.S. Giscombe’s love of the outdoors is evident in his poetry as well as his teaching at UC Berkeley, where he has taken nonfiction classes on nature-oriented field trips. His books include Giscombe Road, In and Out of Dislocation, and Prairie Style. In 2008 he received the American Book award for Prairie Style.
C.S. Giscombe
For more information about the event, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore.
The Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund, the Porter Hitchcock Fund, the UCSC Literature Department, and the Sain Endowment.

Linguistics Colloquium: Hagit Borer, "In the Event of a Nominal"
2011-11-04 04:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Hagit Borer
The paper is a detailed study of the properties of Argument-Structure derived -ing nominals versus those of -ing synthetic compounds. In particular, I show that while -ing Argument Structure nominals are compositional and have event structure, -ing synthetic compounds do not. I further argues that these contrasts may only be accounted for by a syntactic approach to the derivation of complex words. In particular, it can only be accounted for under complete syntactic event decomposition, which severs not only the external but also the internal argument(s) from the root and which allows the internal structure of complex words, so-called, to be syntactically visible.
Taking as a starting point the study of the human language faculty within the generative approach, Professor Borer’s research for the past 15 years spans three sub-areas of linguistics: comparative syntax, morphosyntax and language acquisition. Her study of inter-grammatical variation and comparative syntax led to the development of the hypothesis that this variation is reducible to the functional/inflectional component. This hypothesis, in turn, served as a starting point for the study of the functional/ inflectional system in general and its interaction with syntax in particular, therefore leading to the emergence of a morphosyntactic model. From a different perspective, these hypotheses brought about the investigation of child language and the acquisition of grammatical knowledge.
In recent years, Professor Borer has been pursuing an approach which shifts the computational load away from the lexical entry to the syntactic structure, subscribing to the view that an independent linguistic lexicon includes a minimal amount of structural information, and that it is structural constraints which determine traditionally lexical properties such as syntactic category type and argument structure. She has pursued the consequences of that approach for morphosyntax, for language acquisition, and for the syntax-semantics interface.
Hagit Borer is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southern California. This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.

Cary Howie, "On Transfiguration"
2011-11-09 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Cary Howie
Professor Howie thinks about how contemporary American poets re-imagine early Christianity, using transfiguration to talk about the persistence of figures as they become transformed, and how poetic and theological concerns speak to gender and sexuality. His books include Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in Medieval Literature (Palgrave, 2007) and the co-authored Sanctity and Pornography in Medieval Culture: On the Verge (Manchester, 2010).
Cary Howie is Associate Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University.
This colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies, with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Lawrence "Ren" Weschler
2011-11-09 17:00 - 18:15 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Lawrence Weschler
Lawrence “Ren” Weschler will present a special lecture “Convergences” in advance of his visit to Bookshop Santa Cruz to promote his latest book, Uncanny Valley. In his talk Weschler will consider a spectrum of such convergent effects, from apophenia (the tendency of humans to see patterns where none exist) through co-causation, fractalization, influence (forward and backward, direct and unconscious), homage, apprenticeship, allusion, quotation, appropriation, cryptonesia (verbatim appropriation without realizing you’re doing so), through outright plagiarism.
A graduate of Cowell College of the University of California, Santa Cruz (1974), Weschler was for over twenty years (1981–2002) a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Awards—for Cultural Reporting in 1988 and Magazine Reporting in 1992—and was also a recipient of Lannan Literary Award (1998). Beginning in 1999, his “Convergences” essays appeared regularly in McSweeney’s Quarterly; a collection of these essays, Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, was published in 2006 and received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.
Since 2001, Weschler has been the director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. He taught throughout the 1990s at Sarah Lawrence College in New York.
In 2003, Weschler organized and edited a pilot issue of Omnivore, a prospective periodical described by Steven Heller as a “biannual (but hoping to be quarterly) magazine of writing and visual culture from The New York Institute of the Humanities at New York University.”[1] As of 2007, no subsequent issues of Omnivore have been published.
In February 2006, Weschler took on the position of artistic director for the Chicago Humanities Festival.

Light refreshments will be served. Closest parking is OPERS lot.

Martin Puchner: "Re-Enactment and Site-Specific Performance"
2011-11-09 17:30 - 19:00 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Martin Puchner
While re-enactment has long been a popular art, it has entered performance art in two ways: through site-specific performances such as the ones orchestrated by Mike Pearson or David Levine, which often explore the history of a place; and the re-enactment of performance art, as in the recent case of Marina Abramovic. In both cases, performance art and theater intersect in unexpected ways. I confront these re-enactments with a brief discussion of the New Globe, where historical reconstruction provides the frame for the established art of theatrical revival.
Martin Puchner is Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. After studying philosophy, history, and literature at the University of Konstanz, the Università di Bologna, UC Santa Barbara, and UC Irvine, he earned a Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1998. He taught English and comparative literature at Columbia University from 1998 until 2010, before moving to Harvard University in the summer of 2010.
This event has been made possible by The Center for Visual and Performance Studies.
For more information on this speaker series please see our website: http://artsresearch.ucsc.edu/vps/reenactment
Contact Jenna Purcell at vpsucsc@gmail.com

Living Writers Reading Series: Susie Bright
2011-11-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Living Writers Reading Series presents Susie Bright. Susie Bright, known as a “sexpert,” is a writer, performer, and teacher on the subject of sexuality. A UCSC alum, she has written several books. including Mommy’s Little Girl and How to Write a Dirty Story. Her latest work is titled Big Sex, Little Death: A Memoir. Susie Bright has edited several publications and has a weekly program available through audible.com, called In Bed with Susie Bright. She also founded the first women’s erotica book series, Herotica, and acted as editor for serval of its volumes.
Susie Bright
For more information about the event, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore.
The Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund, the Porter Hitchcock Fund, the UCSC Literature Department, and the Sain Endowment.

Sikh and Punjabi Studies: Achievements and New Directions Opening Event
2011-11-10 19:00 - 22:00 | University Center, University Center‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In this inaugural conference for the Sikh and Punjabi Studies program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, leading and emerging scholars will take stock of the state of the field and its future direction, in the areas of their expertise. Sessions will cover history, philosophy, language and literature, political economy, musicology and contemporary society.
The conference welcomes attendance by scholars and students from all disciplines, as well as interested members of the general public.
UC Santa Cruz is close to the San Francisco Bay Area, with one of the largest concentrations of Sikhs in North America. The conference especially welcomes attendance by community members.
ਜੀ ਆਇਆਂ ਨੂੰ
Welcome from the heart!
The conference will begin with a welcome dinner at the University Center at 7:00 PM on Thursday, November 10.
Registration is required. To register, please visit: http://community.ucsc.edu/sikhpunjabiconference2011.
For further information, please visit: http://ihr.ucsc.edu//sikhstudiesconference, or contact Courtney Mahaney at the Institute for Humanities Research, by phone at (831) 459-3527 or by email at cmahaney@ucsc.edu.

Pacific Study Group of the North American Kant Society 2011 Meeting
2011-11-12 - 2011-11-13 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Kant
The Philosophy Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz is proud to host the 2011 Meeting of the Pacific Study Group of the North American Kant Society November 12-13, 2011.
Speaking events are open to the public and will be held in the Cowell College Conference Room.
For more information or to register for this conference please contact Professor Daniel Guevara via email at guevara@ucsc.edu or 831-459-3600.
2011 Meeting Program
Saturday November 12:
1:00 pm David Hills (Stanford University)
“Of the (Kantian) Standard of Taste”
2:30 pm Michelle Grier (University of San Diego)
“The Transcendental Ideality of the Kantian Sublime”
4:00 pm Julie Tannenbaum (Pomona College)
“Kant’s notion of unconditional goodness”
5:30 pm Business meeting

Sunday, November 13:
8:30 am Light Breakfast
9:00 am Samantha Matherne (University of California, Riverside)
“Kant and the Art of Schematism”
Winner of the Graduate Student Travel Stipend
10:30 am Pierre Keller (University of California, Riverside)
“Kant’s Copernican Revolution: Ideas as the Source of Normativity”
12:00 pm Abe Stone (University of California, Santa Cruz)
“Kant on Objects and Things”

Sikh and Punjabi Studies: Achievements and New Directions Conference
2011-11-12 08:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In this inaugural conference for the Sikh and Punjabi Studies program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, leading and emerging scholars will take stock of the state of the field and its future direction, in the areas of their expertise. Sessions will cover history, philosophy, language and literature, political economy, musicology and contemporary society.
The conference welcomes attendance by scholars and students from all disciplines, as well as interested members of the general public.
UC Santa Cruz is close to the San Francisco Bay Area, with one of the largest concentrations of Sikhs in North America. The conference especially welcomes attendance by community members.
ਜੀ ਆਇਆਂ ਨੂੰ
Welcome from the heart!
Registration is required. To register, please visit: http://community.ucsc.edu/sikhpunjabiconference2011.
For further information, please visit: http://ihr.ucsc.edu//sikhstudiesconference, or contact Courtney Mahaney at the Institute for Humanities Research, by phone at (831) 459-3527 or by email at cmahaney@ucsc.edu.

Sikh and Punjabi Studies: Achievements and New Directions Dinner
2011-11-12 19:00 - 22:00 | TBD, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States

Scott Saul, "What You See Is What You Get"?: Wattstax, Richard Pryor, and the Secret History of the Black Aesthetic in 1970s LA"
2011-11-14 12:30 - 14:00 | College 8, Room 301, College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Saul Scott
The Urban Studies Research Cluster presents Scott Saul, “”What You See Is What You Get”?: Wattstax, Richard Pryor, and the Secret History of the Black Aesthetic in 1970s LA”. This talk revolves around Pryor’s role as narrator of and interviewee in the 1973 documentary film Wattstax (about the 1972 concert held at the LA Coliseum), examines how the film reframes the meaning of the Watts Riots, as well as the political/cultural role of the black community in Los Angeles. By doing so, it addresses persistent questions issues around black aesthetics and representations or urban life.
Scott Saul is an associate professor of American Studies and English at UC-Berkeley. His first book, Freedom Is, Freedom Ain’t, on jazz and the 1960s, was the winner of the American Book Award. He writes frequently on American culture and politics for publications such as Boston Review, Harper’s, and The Nation. He is currently working on “Becoming Richard Pryor” which will be the first critical biography of the comedian-entertainer. The study explores the trajectory of Pryor’s artistic development in conjunction with a set of larger historical trends: the emergence of the counterculture and the Civil Rights and Black Power movements; the debates over the “declining inner city” and the “declining working class” in 1970s culture; and the challenge posed by New Hollywood to the older studio system.
http://urban.ihr.ucsc.edu/speakers/

Caren Kaplan, "The Visual Culture of Stealth: Interpretation & Deception in Militarized Aeromobility
2011-11-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Communications, Room 139, Communications Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Caren KaplanCaren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis and is Affiliated Faculty in Film Studies, Cultural Studies, and Science & Technology Studies.
Professor Kaplan authored Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (Duke, 1996) and co-authored and co-edited Introduction to Women’s Studies: Gender in a Transnational World (McGraw-Hill, 2001/2005); Between Woman and Nation: Transnational Feminisms and the State (Duke, 1999); Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices (Minnesota, 1994); and two digital multimedia scholarly works, Dead Reckoning and Precision Targets.
This colloquium is presented by Visual and Media Culture, with cosponsorships from the History of Art and Visual Culture, Film & Digital Media, and the Arts Division. For further information and to receive the readings, please contact visualmedia@ucsc.edu.

Gershom Gorenberg: Distinguished Alumni Lecture
2011-11-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson Event Center
Gershom Gorenberg
UCSC alumnus Gershom Gorenberg is the author of the forthcoming book, The Unmaking of Israel, on the crisis of Israeli democracy and how to solve it. The book will be published in November by HarperCollins and is now available for pre-order at all the usual places.
Gershom’s previous book is The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977 (Times Books). Based on previously unpublished documents and extensive interviews, The Accidental Empire presents a strikingly new picture of Israel’s post-1967 history, of major Israeli leaders, and of Israel-U.S. relations.
He is also the author of The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount, which portrays the role of religious radicalism in the Mideast conflict. He co-authored The Jerusalem Report’s 1996 biography of Yitzhak Rabin, Shalom Friend, winner of the National Jewish Book Award, and edited Seventy Facets: A Commentary on the Torah from the Pages from the Jerusalem Report.
As a commentator on Middle East affairs and the interface of religion and politics, Gershom has appeared on Sixty Minutes, Nightline, Dateline, Fresh Air and on CNN and BBC. For many years an associate editor of The Jerusalem Report, he is now a senior correspondent for The American Prospect. He has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Mother Jones and in Hebrew for Ha’aretz.
Gershom has been a visiting professor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and has lectured at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Carnegie Council, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Middle East Institute, the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, and for universities, congregations and other organizations seeking a nuanced view of politics, Mideast affairs and religion.
Gershom was born in St. Louis and grew up in California. After graduating from the University of California at Santa Cruz, he came to Israel in 1977 and earned an MA in education at the Hebrew University. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife, journalist Myra Noveck, and their three children, Yehonatan, Yasmin and Shir-Raz. He is an active member of Kehillat Yedidya, the pioneering progressive Orthodox congregation in South Jerusalem.

Deanna Shemek, "Digital Princess: Toward an Open-Access Online Archive of Renaissance Correspondence"
2011-11-16 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Deanna Shemek
Professor Shemek studies intersections of elite and popular culture in early modern Italy, especially among women. Her current research focuses on early modern letter writing. She is completing an edition of Isabella d’Este’s letters and a book on the broader significance of early modern women’s letters. The talk addresses plans to digitize the manuscript sources for her edition and visualize the social network of a Renaissance princess.
Deanna Shemek is Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz.
This colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies, with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

A Public Dialogue with Jean Baumgarten and Nathaniel Deutsch
2011-11-16 13:00 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
One of the most important—and least appreciated—categories that Jews have employed to experience the world Jewishly is minhag, a Hebrew word typically translated into English as “custom.” Historically, minhag enabled Jews to transform practically every event and action into something with Jewish meaning; it also enabled Jews to differentiate themselves from non-Jews, as well as from Jews from other places or backgrounds (e.g., Ashkenazi vs. Sephardi). Significantly, some Jewish sources went so far as to define minhag as a form of Torah and stressed the importance of maintaining minhagim (the plural form of minhag), while other sources cautioned against the dangers of blindly following minhagim. For centuries, Jews learned minhagim mimetically, that is, by imitating other members of their community or family and through oral transmission. In the early modern period, however, Jews also began to publish printed collections of minhagim, eventually creating a literary genre that exists to this day among Ultra-Orthodox Jews. In the twentieth century, the collection and study of minhagim became one of the central interests of the first ethnographers of Jewish life in Eastern Europe.
In this public dialogue, Professor Jean Baumgarten, a world-renowned expert on Yiddish minhag literature and Professor Nathaniel Deutsch, whose recently published book The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement (Harvard University Press) explores the groundbreaking ethnographic work of S. An-sky, will discuss the history and significance of minhag in its many facets.
Jean Baumgarten, is Professor and Directeur de Recherche (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre des Hautes Etudes Juives, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, in France.
Generous support provided by the David B. Gold Foundation.

Long Bui, "Ms. Little Saigon: Through the Looking Glass of Art, Politics and Community"
2011-11-17 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Feminist Studies presents Long Bui, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow
Ms. Little Saigon: Through the Looking Glass of Art, Politics and Community
This presentation examines the historical legacy of the Vietnam War as it continues to shape political conflicts and ideological differences within the Vietnamese diasporic community. Recognizing the power of cultural media and production to symbolize ideas about nation, gender and class, I investigate a recent public controversy involving mass protests by hundreds of people demonstrating against an art exhibit produced by the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association in Orange County, California.

Giancarlo Casale, "What did it mean to be European in the Sixteenth Century? A View from the Ottoman Empire"
2011-11-17 14:00 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk.
Giancarlo Casale is a specialist in the history of the early modern Ottoman empire, although he also has interests in the history of geography and cartography, global exploration, and comparative empires. He has just completed my first book, “The Ottoman Age of Exploration,” about the history of Ottoman expansion in the Indian Ocean during the sixteenth century. The book was based on extensive research in the archives of both Turkey and Portugal, and explored the ways in which the growth of the Ottoman Empire was part of the same historical process that witnessed the expansion of numerous other imperial powers, ranging from the overseas empires of Spain and Portugal to rival Islamic states like Mughal India and Safavid Iran. His next major project, tentatively titled “Curiosity and Intolerance: The Paradox of Early Modernity,” is a comparative study of the development of ethnographic modes of writing in early modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire. At the same time he is also engaged in several smaller research projects on topics including corsairs and the development of Ottoman naval technology, the connection between naval power and deforestation in the Mediterranean region, and a geo-historical study of the earthquake of Dubrovnik in 1667.

Living Writers Reading Series: David Vann
2011-11-17 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Living Writers Reading Series presents David Vann. David Vann writes both fiction and non-fiction and has won several awards, including the Grace Paley Prize 2007, California Book Award 2008, the Prix Medicis 2010, and the Premi Libreter 2011. David Vann’s work has been published by 22 different publishers in 16 different languages. His books have appeared on 43 Best Book lists in 10 countries. His works include Caribou Island, Sukkwan Island, A Mile Down and Legends of a Suicide.
David Vann
David Vann is an assistant professor of English at University of San Francisco. He teaches creative nonfiction and fiction. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.
For more information about the event, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore.
The Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund, the Porter Hitchcock Fund, the UCSC Literature Department, and the Sain Endowment.

Linguistics Colloquium: Laurence R. Horn,"On the Contrary: Pragmatic Strengthening and Disjunctive Syllogism"
2011-11-18 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Laurence R. Horn
On the Contrary:
Pragmatic Strengthening and Disjunctive Syllogism

The dictum that “The essence of formal negation is to invest the contrary with the character of the contradictory” (Bosanquet 1888) describes the tendency for contradictory (apparent wide-scope) negation to be semantically or pragmatically strengthened to contrary readings whenever possible. This tendency is illustrated by lexicalization asymmetries (e.g. none ‘all not’ vs. *nall ‘not all’) and the widespread diachronic reanalyses of weaker negatives to contraries (e.g Il ne faut pas partir —literally = ‘one need not leave’ > ‘one must not-leave’).
Outside the lexical domain, contrary strengthening typically instantiates the inference schema of disjunctive syllogism (modus tollendo ponens):
f v j
¬ f
j
The role of the disjunctive syllogism can be detected in a variety of strengthening shifts in natural language where the disjunctive premise in question is pragmatically presupposed in relevant contexts. It will be shown that a range of apparently quite diverse phenomena—negative strengthening in lexical and clausal contexts (e.g. neg-raising), scope adjustments with negated plural definites and bare plurals, epistemic strengthening of weak implicature in both main and embedded contexts, conjunctive readings of free choice disjunction, and children’s word learning strategies, among others—can be collected under the umbrella of pragmatic strengthening as reflexes of the general preference for contrariety, the operation of disjunctive syllogism, or both.
Laurence R. Horn is Professor of Linguistics and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Yale University. Professor Horn’s primary research program lies in the union (if not the intersection) of classical logic, lexical semantics, and neo-Gricean pragmatic theory. He has been particularly concerned with the exploration of natural language negation and its relation to other operators. He specializes in pragmatics, semantics, syntax, language & gender.
This talk is presented by the Santa Cruz Linguistics and Philosophy Group, a research center of the Institute for Humanities Research. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network and the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.

2nd Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading featuring Kay Ryan
2011-11-20 03:00 - 17:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
THE 2nd ANNUAL MORTON MARCUS MEMOMRIAL POETRY READING honors poet, teacher and film critic Morton Marcus (1936-2009), one of Santa Cruz’s beloved cultural icons. This second annual event will feature Kay Ryan, Pullitzer Prize winner and U.S. Poet Laureate (2008-2010).
FREE ADMISSION. Seating is limited. Parking $6.
MARCUS POETRY ARCHIVE EXHIBIT. An exhibit feturing the Morton Marcus Poetry Archive will be open for viewing in Special Collections at the UC McHenry Library on Sunday, November 20 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM.
DIRECTIONS: Map to UCSC Music Recital Hall. Click Here.
SPONSORS: Poetry Santa Cruz, Ow Family Properties, Cabrillo College English Department, University of California at Santa Cruz, Bookshop Santa Cruz.
For more information: http://www.mortonmarcus.com/reading_current.html

Joshua White "Catch and Release: Piracy, Slavery, and Law in the Early Modern Ottoman Mediterranean"
2011-11-22 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk.
Beginning in the 1570s, incidents of piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean increased exponentially, as the conclusion of the war for Cyprus with Venice and the withdrawal of the imperial navies left behind numerous underemployed and unsupervised Ottoman naval irregulars and opened the door to all manner of pirates from further afield, both Christian and Muslim. The seventeenth century has often been referred to as the “golden age of piracy,” but one aspect of the spectacular rise in maritime violence in this period that has not received adequate attention is the Ottoman administrative and legal response to illegal slave-raiding in its waters. Unscrupulous Ottoman pirates frequently snatched Ottoman subjects and the subjects of the Ottomans’ treaty-partners from ships and shores in contravention of Islamic and sultanic law. The Ottoman government routinely ordered these captives found and freed and was sometimes willing to go to great lengths to ensure that they were released and sent home. In this talk, I shift the spotlight away from the pirates and onto the administrators, jurists, and victims—those who had to contend most with the consequences of maritime violence.
Joshua Michael White studies the social, legal, and diplomatic history of the early modern Ottoman Empire and the Mediterranean. A doctoral candidate in History at the University of Michigan, he earned an M.A in History from the same institution in 2007, a certificate in Arabic from the CASA program at the American University in Cairo in 2005, and a B.A. in History and Islamic Studies from Washington University in St. Louis. His dissertation examines the impact of piracy and amphibious slave-raiding in the early modern Mediterranean from the Ottoman perspective, arguing that increasing maritime violence in the Mediterranean after the 1570s had a tremendous effect on the formation of international law, the conduct of diplomacy, the articulation of Ottoman imperial and Islamic law, and their application in local Ottoman courts. He has conducted dissertation research in Istanbul, Venice, London, and Crete with the support of fellowships and grants from the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, Fulbright-Hays, the American Research Institute in Turkey, and the University of Michigan. His writing is presently supported by a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. He is also the organizer and instructor for the ongoing U-M Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies’ Fall Colloquium Series, “Pirates of the Mediterranean.”

Jennifer Derr, Talk title TBA
2011-11-29 14:00 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk.
Jennifer Derr has her B.S. from Stanford University; M.A., Georgetown University; Ph.D., Stanford. Areas of academic interest include modern Middle Eastern history, African history, Ottoman Empire, early Islamic history. Fellow, Society of Junior Fellows in British Studies, University of Texas at Austin (2009–10); James Birdsall Weter Memorial Fund Dissertation Grant (2008–09); Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2007–08). Has taught at American University in Cairo, University of California at Davis, Stanford University. Articles in Arab Studies Journal, Middle East Report, Molecular and Cellular Biology. At Bard since 2010.

Herman Gray, "At the Limit of Representation: Neoliberalism, Media and African American Visibility"
2011-11-30 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Herman Gray
With African Americans as the primary example, Professor Gray probes the social, intellectual, and political investment in the cultural politics of recognition and visibility in the context of neoliberalism, suggesting that with neoliberalism we have reached the limit of such investments. Looking beyond this investment in representation, recognition and visibility, he examines what other critical modes and sites of cultural analysis and politics are possible.
Herman Gray is Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz.
This colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies, with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther: "Abstraction, the Abstract, and Abstractionism: Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives"
2011-11-30 12:30 - 14:00 | Social Sciences 2, Room 121, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95604, United States
Rasmus Grønfeldt WintherConcepts, models, and theories; words, propositions, and language; are typically understood as abstract representations and abstract maps. The abstract allows us to navigate tentatively and successfully through the concrete world with which we interact as laymen and scientists; adults and infants. How does abstraction take place? What is the abstract, and what is it used for? What are the dangers and limits of both overextending abstractions beyond their appropriate conditions of application, and separating the abstract too much from the concrete, the general too much from the specific, and the universal too much from the particular – i.e., of abstractionism?
This talk explores a variety of analyses of abstraction, the abstract, and abstractionism from psychology (e.g., Barsalou’s “abstraction in perceptual symbol systems,” Gopnik’s and Murphy & Medin’s “theory theory,” and early Kurt Lewin, F. A. Hayek, and Ohlsson and Lehtinen’s “primacy of the abstract”) and from philosophy (e.g., the pragmatism of James and Dewey, the neo-Kantianism of Kuhn and Friedman, and the “kinds of people” analyses of Hacking, following Foucault). The talk also relates abstraction (and the abstract) to closely related—perhaps even co-constitutive—concepts and processes: (1) analogizing (and analogies), (2) mapping (and maps), and (3) distinction-making (and distinctions). In short, a philosophical and psychological anthropology of abstraction, the abstract, and abstractionism is the aim.
Reading: “The Knife and the One” (PDF)
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther is Associate Professor of Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz.

Alide Cagidemetrio: “Choosing Venice: Seduction, Henry James, and The Wings of the Dove”
2011-11-30 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Professor Alide Cagidemetrio of the University of Venice will speak on
“Choosing Venice: Seduction, Henry James, and The Wings of the Dove”
Professor Cagidemetrio will offer some observations about details in the novel, 19th century Venice, James’s biography, and some literary themes such as don juanism, thinking to reinstate curiosity as a legitimate part of aesthetic pleasure. To begin the process, attached is an image of a detail from mosaics of San Marco, and one of Whistler’s lagoon paintings.
At the reception following her talk, Professor Cagidemetriou will discuss the benefits of collaboration between the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari and UCSC and the possibility of summer courses in Venice.
This event is made possible from generous support from the David B. Gold Foundation. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Karen Jesny: "The Interaction of Markedness Factors in Child Consonant Cluster Acquisition"
2011-12-02 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Karen Jesny
Consonant clusters introduce multiple sources of markedness that must be mastered in the course of phonological acquisition. This talk considers how segmental markedness, sonority, and cluster status interact in the acquisition process. Two case studies are presented. The first, drawing on data from the English-acquiring child Trevor (Compton & Streeter 1977, Pater 1997) illustrates how increased segmental markedness can lead to lags in coda cluster acquisition, with a preference for deletion of the segment that contributes the additional markedness. This basic pattern eludes Optimality Theory, but can be modeled within Harmonic Grammar (Legendre, Miyata & Smolensky 1990, Smolensky & Legendre 2006), where weighted constraints interact in a linear fashion. The second case study draws on data from the acquisition of Dutch (Fikkert 1994, Levelt 1994), focusing on cases where sonority and segmental markedness present conflicting demands. Here, segmental factors provide a better explanation for the accuracy and general repair patterns than the sonority cline of the cluster. At the same time, however, the precise simplification patterns observed – specifically the choice of which segment is deleted – are, to the extent possible, governed by sonority. These complex patterns extend beyond what can be modeled through the linear interaction of simple constraints in Harmonic Grammar, and argue in favour of a more articulated series of segmental licensing constraints.
Karen Jesny is a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts. Her primary interests are in phonological theory, phonological acquisition, and learnability.
This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.

John Mowitt: "Radio Silence"
2012-01-10 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
John Mowitt
The emergent field of “radio studies” has given new impetus to the study of radio. Specifically, as the name suggests, “radio studies” has fused an older set of disciplinary preoccupations more typically associated with the concerns of “journalism and mass communications” to the engagements, at once theoretical and political, of “cultural studies.” What this has enabled is the formulation of a set of problematics that have less to do with issues of audience, broadcasts, personalities and the like, and more to do with the conceptual puzzles raised by the experiences transformed in and through radio. In this paper, the puzzle at issue is that of “silence.” In what ways does radiophonic transmission expose us to features of silence that call for theoretical attention? What do the silences of radio provoke us to think about radio itself? Although the matter of music is not engaged explicitly, this line of reflection is meant to remind us that John Cage was interested in both silence and radio.
John Mowitt is Professor of Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature, and English at the University of Minnesota.
This event is presented by the History of Consciousness Department at UCSC.

Anna Tsing: "Critical Description After Progress"
2012-01-18 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Anna Tsing
Anna Tsing
Professor, Anthropology, UCSC
“Critical Description After Progress”
Professor Tsing’s current research tracks the commerce and ecology of a high-value wild mushroom to illuminate contemporary dilemmas of capitalism and multispecies life. The in-progress Living in Ruins explores the consequences of building capitalist supply chains among cultural and biological histories of disturbance and precarious survival.
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The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
ALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.

Visual Performance Studies Presents: Kimberly Jannarone
2012-01-19 17:30 - 19:00 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series, 2011-2012

Kimberly Jannarone
Theater Arts, Digital Arts and New Media, History of Consciousness, UCSC
Memory and Mass Performance
The recent retrospective of the work of Marina Abramovic at MOMA in New York brought to wide public attention the phenomenon of what she called the “reperformance” of her earlier work, which had only existed until then as one-time events recorded on film. Bringing this ephemeral performance work into the museum space as a live artifact raised consciousness of a broader trend currently taking place in contemporary dance, theatre, film, video and performance art. Reenactment raises questions of the differences between reconstruction, revival, adaptation, reinvention, quotation, amplification, and the kinds of temporalities these strategies to recover past performance signify. But beyond the terminological questions, issues of artist identity, authenticity, and history emerge in direct relationship with performative documentary activity. The question of the event and the document become dramatically foregrounded. The question of trauma and catharsis in relation to reenactment is salient as became clear in our first seminar with Chip Lord and Magaret Morse.

Reenactment of the work of one artist by another has been a form of contemporary creativity in theatre, film, dance, and performance for some time, but has been gaining momentum as a major trend of artistic production and research. Clearly, it evokes the connections of historiography and interpretation to art making that documents the past in a non-literal or even paradoxical yet exacting and rigorous way that evades certain mimetic conventions. It is time to ask what sorts of temporality are deployed in reenactments, and how new sorts of temporality reframe notions of documentation, reconstruction/reinvention, citation/quotation, and amplification of an earlier work or event in the contemporary moment.
This year-long speaker series will present artists and scholars specializing in this area of contemporary creativity.

R. Zamora Linmark: "Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives"
2012-01-19 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
R. Zamora Linmark
Creative Writing and Literature present:
UCSC Winter Living Writers Series
R. Zamora Linmark
Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives
Ronaldo V. Wilson, Visiting Assistant Professor
Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities. Whether as editors, publishers, activists, teachers, multi-media artists, and/or co-collaborators, the featured poets in this series present work that reflects their dynamic engagements in the world.
Thursdays / 6:00 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall
Contact: Ronaldo V. Wilson, rvwilson@ucsc.edu or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu
Co-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program.

Chris Chen: "An Axiomatic Chorus": Serial Black Identities and Allegories of Improvisation in Nathaniel Mackey's
2012-01-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for
a position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary):
Chris Chen
“An Axiomatic Chorus”: Serial Black Identities and Allegories of Improvisation in Nathaniel Mackey’s
From A Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate.
Christopher Chen is a Holloway Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley. He received a Ph.D. at Berkeley in 2011 and an MFA in poetry writing from the Iowa Writers Workshop. His dissertation is a comparative study of contemporary African American and Asian American poetry, which explores how the pervasive use of non-narrative, serial poetic forms registers intra- and interracial conflict and foregrounds the question of racial comparison as both impossible and unavoidable in the post-civil rights era.

Mohammed Bamyeh: “Revolutionary Ethics and the Making of the Arab Spring”
2012-01-23 12:30 - 14:00 | College 8, Room 301, College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Sociology Colloquium Series presents:
Mohammed Bamyeh
Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
“Revolutionary Ethics and the Making of the Arab Spring”
Mohammed Bamyeh
Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness, Politics, and Colleges 9 & 10
For more information: http://socyeventsucsc.wordpress.com and http://urban.ihr.ucsc.edu
For accessibility, contact: Barbara Laurence, balauren@ucsc.edu
Event Contact: Deborah Gould, dbgould@ucsc.edu

POSTPONED: The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: Nathaniel Deutsch
2012-01-23 15:30 - 17:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
LECTURE POSTPONED: The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium prevention of Nathaniel Deutsch,“The Jewish Dark Continent: Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement” / has ben postponed from This Monday, January 23rd to Monday, March 12 / 3:30 pm, 261 Social Science 1
The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents:
Nathaniel Deutsch
Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of History, UCSC

“The Jewish Dark Continent: Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement”
On the eve of World War I, the Russian Jewish writer, socialist revolutionary, and aspiring ethnographer named An-sky set out on an ethnographic expedition into the Pale of Settlement, the area of the Russian Empire to which a vast majority of its Jews were restricted prior to the Revolution. Over the course of three seasons, An-sky and his team recorded thousands of tales, jokes, and incantations, took hundreds of photos, and collected numerous artifacts, manuscripts, and other objects. They also designed a massive life-cycle questionnaire consisting of 2087 questions entitled “The Jewish Ethnographic Program” for use in the field. An-sky’s goal was to document the traditional Jewish life of the Pale of Settlement before it disappeared forever and, in the process, to create a distinctly Jewish ethnography.
Nathaniel Deutsch is Professor of History and Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he is also the Director of the Institute for Humanities Research and the Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies. He has been a professor at Swarthmore College, a visiting professor at Stanford University, and the The Workmen’s Circle/Dr. Emanuel Patt Visiting Professor in Eastern European Jewish Studies at the YIVO Institute. Deutsch is the author of five books, most recently The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement(Harvard University Press, 2011), for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Contact: Allyson Ramage, aramage@ucsc.edu for more information.

Neville Hoad: "Colonial Erotopolitics: Customary Law and Migrant Labor Sexuality"
2012-01-25 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Neville Hoad
Associate Professor, English and Women’s and Gender Studies, UT Austin
“Colonial Erotopolitics: Customary Law and Migrant Labor Sexuality”
Author of African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality and Globalization (Minnesota 2007), Professor Hoad is working on a book about representations of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. He focuses on A.S. Mopeli-Paulus and Peter Lanham’s Blanket Boy’s Moon to amplify the dissonances between culture and law on the terrain of sexuality.
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The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
ALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.

Gerard Passannante: "Little Big World: Disaster and the Materialist Imagination"
2012-01-25 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Early Modern Comparative Studies/Shakespeare.
Professor Passannante looks at the habit of making much of little–shifting between small things (details, fossilized seashells, words) and big ideas. Tracing this disaster-courting habit of mind from the writings of Montaigne and Shakespeare’s Othello to Robert Hooke’s discourses on earthquakes and the work of Vico and Boulanger, he argues that this most familiar operation has deep roots in the ways that early modern readers came to terms with the hidden violence of the materialist imagination.
Gerard Passannante received his B.A. from Yale in 2000 and Ph.D. from Princeton in 2007. He is the author of a number of articles on the history of science and literature in the Renaissance, and has recently published a book entitled The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition (Chicago). Professor Passannante has been a Rome Prize fellow at the American Academy in Rome and has had fellowships at The Folger Shakespeare Library and The National Humanities Center.
At 4:30 pm, Professor Passannante will conduct a graduate-student-only seminar on Carlo Ginzburg’s “Clues”
