Living Writers Series: Ruth Ellen Kocher
2013-10-24 18:00 - 19:45 (America/Los_Angeles) | Kresge Town Hall
Thresholds and Breaking Points
The writers in this series will present across multiple genres, to include poetry, fiction, criticism, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests thresholds of culture, race, nation, sex, gender, and desire through the creative imagination. Central to each will be how these thresholds are performed, tested, broken, clarified and complicated in their works.
Ruth Ellen Kocher is the author of Ending in Planes (Noemi Press, date TBA), Goodbye Lyric: The Gigans and Lovely Gun (Sheep Meadow Press 2014), domina Un/blued (Tupelo Press 2013), One Girl Babylon (New Issues Press 2003), When the Moon Knows You’re Wandering, winner of the Green Rose Prize in Poetry (New Issues Press 2002), and Desdemona’s Fire winner of the Naomi Long Madget Award for African American Poets (Lotus Press 1999). Her poems are widely anthologized, and she has been awarded fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation, the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, and Yaddo. She is Associate Chair of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Colorado where she teaches innovative Poetry, Poetics, and Literature.
Location and Time: All Readings located at Kresge Town Hall 466 | 6-7:45pm
The Living Writers Series is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, a Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation, the Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program, Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading, and a Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment.

"Unfixed Itineraries: Film and Visual Culture from Arab Worlds"
2013-10-25 - 2013-10-26 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab, Room 306
Peter Limbrick, Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media, UCSC
Omnia El Shakry, Associate Professor, History, UC Davis

Shelby Graham, Director/Curator, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, UCSC
Soraya Murray, Assistant Professor, Film and Digital Media, UCSC
Irene Lusztig, Assistant Professor, Film and Digital Media, UCSC
Neda Atanasoski, Associate Professor, Feminist Studies, UCSC
Jennifer Derr, Assistant Professor, History, UCSC

Unfixed Itineraries has two components:
a symposium, free and open to the public, that will take place October 25-26 2013 at the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC), bringing scholars and artists together for two days of screenings, presentations, and conversations.
a concurrent exhibition at UCSC’s Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery that runs from October 25-December 10.
Both events coincide with the series “Moumen Smihi, Poet of Tangier,” curated by UCSC film and digital media professor Peter Limbrick, which takes place at the Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, between October 10 and 27. Smihi will also be a participant at the symposium. http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/smihi
The Unfixed Itineraries symposium will encourage innovative perspectives on Arab film and visual culture, emphasizing their multifaceted and plural nature. Rather than homogenize “the Arab world,” for example, we stress the multiple worlds that have been made by diverse histories. Instead of taking for granted the meaning of the word “Arab,” our event continually questions fixed narratives that produce rigid identities. And by refusing the common tendency to reduce Arab art to the realm of the political or the religious, we also affirm the inspiring, arresting pleasures of the aesthetic, the sensory, the intellectual, and the social aspects of film and media from the region.
Participants will focus on the production and circulation of Arab visual cultures across multiple temporal and spatial boundaries: from the historical to the recent, at “home” and in diaspora. The symposium includes opportunities for seeing film and media and for engaging in scholarly, critical debates with cultural producers (rather than just “about” them).
Artists and scholars will visit from Lebanon, Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Canada, Europe, and the US and the work presented will cover a wide area of forms, styles, and thematic concerns.
Symposium screenings, panels, and presentations will address topics such as: Movement and Extra-territoriality; Itineraries of Intertextuality; Past, Present, and Future Itineraries; Narrative and non-Narrative Itineraries; Archives, Images, Memory.

Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners Film Screening
2013-10-25 19:00 - 21:45 | Classroom Unit 2, Classroom Unit‎ University of California Santa Cruz, UC Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Free Angela! is a brilliant documentary that captures the sensational murder and kidnapping trial of Black Communist and UCLA Professor Angela Davis in the early 1970s. It provides extraordinary archival footage, interviews with Davis, all four of her trial lawyers and the activists who co-led a massive international movement for her freedom. Davis was deeply involved in a movement to help save the lives of three Black prisoners known as the Soledad Brothers, and was also active in the Black Panther Party and the anti- Vietnam war movement. Davis was indicted as a co-conspirator by a Marin County Grand Jury and when “unavailable” was placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list.This was the result of an attempt by prisoners from San Quentin to escape during a court case in Marin County on August 7th, 1970. The judge, two of the prisoners, and their young would-be liberator were killed by San Quentin prison guards; the prosecuting attorney and the other escaping prisoner were critically wounded. Condemned in sensational media coverage, then President Richard Nixon and then California Governor Ronald Reagan denounced Davis as a “dangerous terrorist.” Davis was in fact the target of government revenge as a symbol of the radical fervor of those times. The film tells a complicated story in a comprehensible, powerful way that continues to reverberate in our own time.
Q & A following the film with Howard Moore, lead counsel for Angela Davis, and Bettina Aptheker, Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
Showing sponsored by the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and by the Feminist Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz.

The Stanford School of Philosophy of Science
2013-10-26 09:00 - 17:15 | Cordura Hall – CSLI
In the 80s and early 90s, a group of influential philosophers, historians, and philosophers of science were concerned with the following themes: disunity and pluralism of scientific theory and practice the nature of scientific modeling (in its dizzying variety, including mathematical, diagrammatic, and classificatory models) post-positivistic and practice-based articulations of scientific knowledge and practice. The aim of this conference is to invite scholars to reflect on the nature, thematics, and influence of the “Stanford School” of philosophy of science.
This event is free and open to the public.
Please e-mail Jill Covington (jillj@stanford.edu) or Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther (rgw@ucsc.edu) if you have any questions.
Event Poster (PDF)

9:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Opening Comments:
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther (UC Santa Cruz)
Panel #1: Next Generation(s)
Jordi Cat (Indiana)
Hasok Chang (Cambridge)
Jonathan Kaplan (Oregon State University)
Naomi Oreskes (Harvard)
Janet Stemwedel (San José State University)
Michael Weisberg (University of Pennsylvania)
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther (UC Santa Cruz)
Chair: Arezoo Islami (Stanford)
1:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Panel #2: Parallel Philosophers
Philip Kitcher (Columbia)
Helen Longino (Stanford)
Sergio Martínez Muñoz (National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM)
Bas van Fraassen (San Francisco State University)
Co-Chairs: Debra Satz (Stanford) and John Perry (Stanford)

9:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Panel #3: Collaborative Local Scientists
Brian Cantwell-Smith (Toronto)
Persi Diaconis (Stanford)
CWF Everitt (Stanford)
Solomon Feferman (Stanford)
Marcus Feldman (Stanford)
Melissa Franklin (Harvard)
Denis Phillips (Stanford)
Chair: Paolo Mancosu (UC Berkeley)
1:30 PM – 5:15 PM
Panel #4: Stanford School Core Members
Nancy Cartwright (Durham)
John Dupré (Exeter)
Peter Galison (Harvard)
Peter Godfrey-Smith (CUNY)
Patrick Suppes (Stanford)
Chair: R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford)
Closing Comments:
Thomas Ryckman (Stanford)

Conference organized by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther. Co-sponsored by Stanford University, Stanford Philosophy Department, Stanford Humanities & Sciences Dean’s Office, Stanford Humanities Center, Center for the Study of Language and Information, and the Patrick Suppes Center for History and Philosophy of Science.

Saru Jayaraman: "Behind the Kitchen Door in Santa Cruz and Across America"
2013-10-28 18:00 - 21:00 | Oakes Learning Center, UCSC
More Americans are choosing to dine healthy and ethically at restaurants offering organic and fair-trade ingredients. Yet few diners are aware of the working conditions at the restaurants themselves. How do restaurant workers live on some of the lowest wages in America? And how do poor working conditions—discriminatory labor practices, exploitation, and unsanitary kitchens—affect the meals that arrive at our restaurant tables? In her book, Behind the Kitchen Door, Saru Jayaraman tries to answer these questions by following a group of restaurant workers, among the 10 million – many of whom are immigrants and people of color – who make up the nation’s second-largest private sector workforce. Whether you eat haute cuisine or fast food, the well-being of restaurant workers is a pressing concern, affecting our health and safety, as well as our local economies.
Ms. Jayaraman’s talk will be followed with a Q&A session with the author along with Gretchen Regenhardt, attorney and representative of the Watsonville-based group, California Rural Legal Assistance, which is launching a survey and research project on low-wage restaurant workers in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties.
Saru Jayaraman is a graduate of Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and director of the Food Labor Research Center at UC Berkeley. She is also co-Founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United), a national organization with 10,000 members across 26 cities, which organizes restaurant workers to win workplace justice, conducts research, partners with responsible employers, and launched cooperatively-owned restaurants. She has appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher, MSNBC, NBC Nightly News, and PBS, among others.
California Rural Legal Assistance, founded in 1966 as a nonprofit legal services program, now has 21 offices, providing more than 40,000 low-income rural Californians with free legal assistance and a variety of community education and outreach programs.
Co-Sponsored by the UCSC Center for Labor Studies, the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, the Sociology Department, the Chicano Latino Resource Center, Oakes College, and the Institute for Humanities Research.
For more information, please contact smckay@ucsc.edu

Helene Moglen: "From Frankenstein to Facebook: Reflections on the Dissolution of the Humanities"
2013-10-29 19:00 - 20:30 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UC Santa Cruz Emeriti group presents an Emeriti Faculty Lecture cosponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies and the Department of Literature
Are accounts of our love affairs with our machines stories of imprisonment or empowerment? Are we in charge of our avatars, personal profiles and robots, or have they actually mastered us? Drawing on Mary Shelley’s iconic science fiction novel, Frankenstein, Moglen explores the relation of humanism to technology and considers the various realities that pleasures of the virtual have concealed.
Helene Moglen is a literary, feminist, and psychoanalytic critic. In addition to the books and articles she has published in the area of literary studies, she has written about literacy, pedagogy, competition among academic women, power, and the erosion of the humanities. She is the author of The Trauma of Gender: A Feminist Theory of the English Novel (UC Press 2001) and the co-editor of Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism (UC Press, 1997).
FREE parking is available in the Performing Arts lot. For questions or accommodation requirements, contact UC Santa Cruz Special Events Office at 831.459.5003 or specialevents@ucsc.edu.

Film Screening: Gold (1934)
2013-10-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Porter C-118
The Golden Plague Forging Its Path of Annihilation!
One of the few expressly science fiction films produced under German National Socialism, Gold makes a spectacle of British-German relations in the early years of the Third Reich. An “evil” British alchemist sabotages a “good” German chemist’s experimental attempt to obtain gold from base metals with the help of an atomic reactor, and the chemist dies in the ensuing explosion. The deceased chemist’s “good” engineer assistant, Werner Holk (Hans Alber), survives the disaster and starts to look for the parties responsible for the death of his mentor. Effectively kidnapped by the Brits during his search and coerced into aiding them, Holk finds himself in a vast underwater facility where the atomic reactor designed by his dead friend is being reconstructed on a grand scale. While attempting to sabotage this new alchemical project before it destroys the world economy with mass-produced artificial gold, Holk also has to figure out what to do about his feelings for the daughter of the British alchemist, Florence (Brigitte Helm). Playing on many of the anxieties and fears connected with Germany’s experiences with hyperinflation in the 1920s, Hartl’s film is a unique peek into Nazi cinema of the 1930s. Wittily “sampled” in Curt Siodmak’s American sci-fi classic, The Magnetic Monster (1953), excerpts from which will be shown as well, Gold is not to be missed!

Presented by It Came from the Thirties! For the remainder of the quarter, we will be showing 1930s films from different countries each week. Same time, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family, invite your friends.

Clare Monagle: "Neo-medievalism and the Postcolonial: International Relations Theory and Temporality"
2013-10-30 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Though an historian of medieval thought, Clare Monagle’s most recent work turns to the twentieth-century and the deployment of the Middle Ages in International Relations Theory. Monagle argues that charting the medieval in this frame enables a new insight into the understanding of historical time that informs the discipline of international relations.
Clare Monagle is a graduate of Monash and the Johns Hopkins Universities. She received her PhD in 2007. She is broadly interested in history of intellectuals in the Middle Ages, as well as the histories of the institutions that housed them. Her work is also concerned with the “medievalism” of twentieth and twenty-first century thought, that is, the uses to which the concept of the medieval is put within definitions of modernity and progress.

Salt of the Earth: Exploring the Cultural Diasporas of Surfing
2013-11-01 - 2013-11-02 | Rio Theater, 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062, United States
Proudly presented by the UCHRI and Porter College, the spirit of the Salt of the Earth event is to essentially celebrate the indigenous Hawaiian practice of heʻe nalu (surfing) and the impact it has had on the world. Events include an artist talk by Drew Brophy and an alaia surfboard shaping demo by Tom Pohaku Stone at Porter College on the afternoon of Friday, 11/1. That evening there will be screening of Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau presented by director Sam George at the Rio Theater – doors and live music start at 6:45pm. The following day a surf conference will be held at the UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, from 9:30am – 5:00pm, that will use the film to segue into some of the most debated aspects of contemporary surf culture: the changing aesthetic representations of surfing, the evolving methods of surfboard production, surf industry environmentalism and surfer activism, and contextualizing localisms in both Oʻahu and Santa Cruz. These events are free* and open to the public. For more information, please visit the event website at saltoftheearth-ucsc.blogspot.com or email Trey Highton at treyhighton@gmail.com.
Sponsored by: Arbor Collective, Big Creek Lumber, Burger, Dark Seas, Hula’s Island Grill, Kanalu, Mollusk Surf Shop, Obey, Patagonia, Santa Cruz Mountain Brewery, Save the Waves Coalition, Sawyer Land & Sea Supply, Surfline, Surfrider Foundation, Trader Joe’s, Woodstock’s Pizza, and the UCSC Literature Department.
* A $5 donation will be strongly suggested at the door for the film screening. This donation will purchase a raffle ticket for various door prizes supplied by our community sponsors. All proceeds will benefit the Surfrider & Aikau Foundations.

1:00 PM – Artist Talk with Drew Brophy – “How to Survive as an Artist”
Hitchcock Lounge, Porter College, UCSC
2:30 PM – Indigenous Alaia Surfboard Shaping Demo with Tom Pohaku Stone
Porter College Amphitheater, UCSC
6:45 PM – Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau screening, plus live music from The Shapes
Rio Theater, 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

9:30am – 5pm – Surf Conference at UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall
Panel Discussions Include:
Changing Aesthetics of Surfing: Technologies of Framing the Oceanic
Sam George, Marcus Sanders, Julie Cox, Daniel Duane, & Drew Brophy
Of Surfboards & Soul: A look at the changing manufacturing technologies of surfboards, and if the surfboard has a soul…
Tom Pohaku Stone, Chad Kaimanu Jackson, Ashley Lloyd, Danny Hess, & Bob Pearson
Clear Water: An honest conversation about SIMA, Environmentalism, and Surfer Activism
Jess Ponting, Jim Kempton, Kristian Gustavson, Kyle Thiermann, & Nick Mucha
Deconstructing Localisms: Contextualizing Oahu & Santa Cruz
Isaiah Helekunihi Walker, Tom Pohaku Stone, Ken Collins, & Frosty Hesson
Free on-campus parking

For more information, please visit the conference website: http://saltoftheearth-ucsc.blogspot.com

Debarati Sanyal: "Camus's Afterlives: From the Holocaust to the Age of Terror"
2013-11-04 17:00 - 19:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Debarati Sanyal is Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony and the Politics of Form (John Hopkins University Press, 2006) and a forthcoming book titled Dangerous Intersections: Complicity, Trauma and Holocaust Memory. She has recently published articles on Alain Resnaiss, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Jonathan Littell, Giorgio Agamben, the memory of World War II, and Holocaust memory. She has also co-edited a 2-volume issue of the Yale French Studies issue titled Noueds de mémoire: Multidirectional Memory in French and Francophone Literature (2010).

1930's FIlm Series: "Chapaev (1934)"
2013-11-05 08:00 - 17:00 | Porter C-118
An important example of socialist realism in Soviet cinema, Chapaev charts the ideological development and refinement of Chapaev (Boris Babochkin), a charismatic leader of a Red Army division. Under the guidance of his accompanying Party commissar, Dmitri Furmanov (Boris Blinov), the impetuous and proud Chapaev learns important lessons in the dialectic of spontaneity and consciousness. Released on the seventeenth anniversary of the October revolution and directed by Georgii and Sergei Vasil’ev (often referred to as the Vasil’ev Brothers, even though they weren’t fraternally related), Chapaev was the most popular Soviet film of its time and a huge hit internationally. Not to be missed!

For the remainder of the quarter, we will be showing 1930s films from different countries each week. Same time, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family, invite your friends.

Katherine Gordy: "Situated Theory: Radical Political Thought in Latin America"
2013-11-06 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Katherine Gordy’s current book project traces the interrelations between what she identifies as different “spheres” of Cuban political thought—political doctrine (official sphere), political theory (academic sphere), and daily practice (popular sphere)—in order to challenge accounts that treat Cuban socialist ideology as solely state-originated dogma or as necessarily in opposition to academic and popular forms of political thought.
Katherine Gordy is Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University in the Department of Political Science.

Humanities Research Development Workshop
2013-11-06 14:30 - 15:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please stay tuned for more information

Korea Peace Day
2013-11-07 16:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Santa Cruz Korea Peace Day 2013
“No Gun Ri: No Reconciliation Without Truth”
Lecture by Charles Hanley
(Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist)
Screening of Memory of Forgotten War
A film by Deann Borshay Liem and Ramsay Liem<
Additional Speakers: Paul Liem (Korea Policy Institute), Sarah Sloan (ANSWER Coalition), and Stephen McNeil (American Friends Services Committee)
About the talk: Although South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has investigated many of more than 200 alleged cases of what it categorizes as civilian massacres committed by U.S. soldiers during the Korean War, a war that has yet to be ended with a peace treaty, the U.S. government has investigated only one, the refugee killings at No Gun Ri. The U.S. government’s 300-page report on that inquiry exonerated the U.S. military of wrongdoing. President Clinton stated that the evidence was not clear that there was responsibility “high enough in the chain of command.” In reporting their findings, however, the U.S. Army investigators ignored and left undisclosed many of the most relevant documents and testimony. The most significant example is the “Muccio letter,” in which the U.S. ambassador to South Korea informed the State Department that the Army, fearing infiltrators, had decided to fire on South Korean refugees approaching U.S. lines despite warning shots. The No Gun Ri carnage began the next day.
About the speaker: Charles J. Hanley is a retired journalist with more than 40 years’ experience as reporter and editor, largely internationally. As an Associated Press special correspondent from the late 1970s to 2011, he reported from some 100 countries on stories ranging from summit conferences and arms negotiations to climate change and the plight of a threatened tribe in New Guinea. He also reported from a dozen war zones, including extensively from Afghanistan and Iraq beginning in 2002. He served as AP assistant and deputy managing editor in 1987-92. In 1998-99, he was part of the Associated Press investigative team that confirmed the U.S. military’s large-scale killing of South Korean refugees at No Gun Ri in 1950, early in the Korean War. That work earned the team a Pulitzer Prize and 11 other major national and international journalism awards. Hanley’s reporting was recognized with a half-dozen other major awards over the years.
About the film: Four Korean American survivors testify to the brutality of the Korean War and the pain of divided families, 60 years later. Interwoven with the history of the war, their stories speak loudly for a long overdue end to the unresolved Korean War.

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research, the Asian American and Pacific Islander Resource Center, the Department of History, the Department of Film and Digital Media, Cowell College, Stevenson College, the Korea Policy Institute, and the American Friends Services Committee.
Free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Christine Hong (cjhong@ucsc.edu).

Living Writers Series: Carolyn Cooke
2013-11-07 18:00 - 19:45 | Kresge Town Hall
Thresholds and Breaking Points
The writers in this series will present across multiple genres, to include poetry, fiction, criticism, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests thresholds of culture, race, nation, sex, gender, and desire through the creative imagination. Central to each will be how these thresholds are performed, tested, broken, clarified and complicated in their works.
Carolyn Cooke’s novel Daughters of the Revolution was listed among the best novels of 2011 by the San Francisco Chronicle and The New Yorker Magazine. Her short fiction, collected in The Bostons, won the PEN/Bingham Award, and has appeared in AGNI, The Paris Review, Ploughshares and two volumes each of Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prize Stories. Her new collection, Amor & Psycho, was published by Alfred A. Knopf this summer. Carolyn directs the MFA programs at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.
Location and Time: All Readings located at Kresge Town Hall 466 | 6-7:45pm
The Living Writers Series is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, a Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation, the Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program, Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading, and a Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment.

Anna Szabolcsi: "What do quantifier particles do?"
2013-11-08 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Abstract: In Szabolcsi (2010: Ch 12.5) and subsequent work I embarked on a program to investigate the compositional semantics of quantifier words. Taking apart someone and everyone and specifying what the quantifier particles and the indeterminate pronoun mean are not daunting tasks. The interesting part of the project begins when we observe that in many languages, the “quantifier particles” also serve in multiple other roles, and set out to investigate whether and how the same interpretations extend to those contexts. Best-known is the case of Japanese, where “someone” (dare-ka) is formed with the morpheme ka and “everyone/anyone” (dare-mo) with the morpheme mo, both of which have busy lives of their own. In addition to indefinites, ka shows up in disjunctions (John-ka Mary(-ka)) and questions (Dare-ga VP ka; John-ga VP ka) . In addition to universals, mo serves as an additive and scalar particle (John-mo) and shows up in distributive conjunctions (John-mo Mary-mo). Hungarian vala/vagy, –e, mind, and is exhibit very similar behavior. A natural first stab is to observe that members of the cross-linguistic KA family are join operators, whereas members of the MO family are meet operators. This talk will confront a particular problem for that interpretation: the fact that in many constructions multiple copies of the same particle occur. A semantic approach will be proposed.
Anna Szabolsci is Professor of Linguistics at New York University.

Billy Collins: "Aimless Love"
2013-11-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome two-term U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins for a reading and signing of his new collection, Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems. Local poet and artist Gary Young, who teaches at UCSC and was Santa Cruz County’s first Poet Laureate, will introduce Mr. Collins.
Billy Collins is famous for conversational, witty poems that welcome readers with humor but often slip into quirky, tender or profound observation on the everyday, reading and writing, and poetry itself. Aimless Love combines more than fifty new poems with selections from four previous books—Nine Horses, The Trouble with Poetry, Ballistics, and Horoscopes for the Dead. By turns playful, ironic, and serious, Collins’s poetry captures the nuances of everyday life while leading the reader into zones of inspired wonder. In the poet’s own words, he hopes that his poems “begin in Kansas and end in Oz.” Touching on the themes of love, loss, joy, and poetry itself, these poems showcase the best work of this “poet of plenitude, irony, and Augustan grace” (The New Yorker).

This offsite event will take place at UCSC Music Recital Hall. Parking is $3, but is located next to the venue and is easily accessible.
People with disabilities needing assistance are asked to contact us in advance: email bookshopevents@yahoo.com or call 46-3232
PLEASE NOTE: Tickets will be sold by row, with open seating within each row. If you are planning on attending this event with others, you will want to purchase tickets as a group if you’d like to sit next to each other.

TICKETS: $28.30, includes one ticket to the event & one copy of Aimless Love.
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Author photo courtesy of Suzannah Gilman

Karla Mallette: "'A narcocracy of language': The Cosmopolitan Language Against Translation"
2013-11-13 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Karla Mallette is currently working on a monograph, tentatively titled Lives of the Great Languages, which is a theoretical study of the cosmopolitan language system: the trans-regional and trans-historical mega-languages that were the literary media of cultural life in the pre-modern Mediterranean.
Karla Mallette is Associate Professor, Italian and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan.

An Evening with Peter Kenez, Murray Baumgarten, and Lee Jaffe
2013-11-13 18:00 - 19:30 | Silverman Conference Room, Stevenson, Stevenson College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join us for a celebration of two recently published books: The Coming of the Holocaust: From Anti-Semitism to Genocide by Peter Kenez, and The Jewish Street: The City and Modern Jewish Writing by Murray Baumgarten and Lee Jaffe. The authors will discuss their books, copies of which will be available for sale and signing. Refreshments will be served.
Peter Kenez is Emeritus Professor of History, UCSC
Murray Baumgarten is Distinguished Professor of Literature and Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies, UCSC
Lee Jaffe is the Librarian for Jewish Studies, Philosophy & Theater Arts, UCSC
This event is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies and the University Library.

Bettina Aptheker: "The Meaning of Freedom of Speech: Surveillance, Incarceration & the Politics of the First Amendment"
2013-11-13 19:00 - 20:30 | Namaste Lounge – College 9, Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Bettina Aptheker co-led the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in 1964. She will give a brief retrospective and then consider the different ways in which race, gender, class, and sexuality effect the exercise of freedom of speech as a collective right established by the First (and Fourteenth) amendments. Bettina will clarify the difference between freedom of speech and academic freedom, and ask us to think about both in the context of Tea Party politics, mass incarceration, and the unprecedented technologies of surveillance.
Everyone welcome. Questions and answers to follow the talk.
Food for Thought Quarterly Faculty Speaker Series is an opportunity for students to connect with faculty in an informal and interactive setting. Join us each quarter for a presentation from a renowned UCSC faculty member. Hear about the speaker’s research and professional experience, learn more about an aspect of their work, and enjoy an opportunity to interact and ask questions. And, get to know the other side of the faculty member through food – light refreshments provided will represent some favorite food or cuisine of our invited guest.
Presented by the College Nine and College Ten CoCurricular Programs Office. For more information or accessibility needs, please contact coco@ucsc.edu.

Rachel Chrastil: "Inventing Humanitarianism: Gender and the Civilian Male in Besieged Strasbourg"
2013-11-14 14:00 - 15:30 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In August 1870 the Prussians and their German allies laid siege to the French city of Strasbourg and bombed the city center, killing and wounding civilian men, women and children. The siege gave rise to the first instance of wartime international humanitarian aid to civilians. This talk examines the experience of that aid from the perspective of the recipients as well as the ethical debates over the city’s continued resistance in the face of overwhelming force.

Rachel Chrastil joined the faculty at Xavier University in 2005, after receiving her Ph.D. in History at Yale University. Since then, she has written two books on the civilian experience of war, including The Siege of Strasbourg (forthcoming, Harvard University Press). She has been a Fulbright U.S. Scholar and an invited speaker on humanitarianism, human rights and historical memory. She currently holds a Xavier University Faculty Fellowship to promote quantitative literacy across the curriculum.

Philosophy Colloquium with Seth Yalcin: "Epistemic Modality De Re"
2013-11-14 16:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
I describe some new puzzles about the interaction of epistemic modality with quantification. I offer to dissolve the puzzles using a nonstandard kind of situation semantics. On the theory I develop, possibilities are partial, and quantification involves tacit modality.
(Ph.D., MIT) Professor Yalcin works primarily in the philosophy of language, though his research extends to issues in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, formal epistemology, and linguistics. Yalcin runs the Meaning Sciences Club at UC Berkeley, which is focused on semantics and related topics in syntax, pragmatics, logic, cognitive science, and the philosophy of language. Yalcin is also co-organizer of The History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science group at UC Berkeley, a Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities Working Group devoted to the discussion of historical and philosophical issues in symbolic logic, mathematics, and science.

Morton Marcus Poetry Reading: Naomi Shihab Nye
2013-11-14 18:00 - 19:45 | Kresge Town Hall
Thresholds and Breaking Points
The writers in this series will present across multiple genres, to include poetry, fiction, criticism, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests thresholds of culture, race, nation, sex, gender, and desire through the creative imagination. Central to each will be how these thresholds are performed, tested, broken, clarified and complicated in their works.
Naomi Shihab Nye is an Award-winning Palestinian-American Poet, Writer, Anthologist, and Educator. She is the author/or editor of more than thirty volumes of poetry, essays, short stories, novels and anthologies including: 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, A Maze Me: Poems for Girls, Red Suitcase, Words Under the Words, Fuel, and You & Yours (a best-selling poetry book of 2006). She has read and led writing workshops extensively both nationally and internationally. Shihab Nye has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Witter Bynner Fellow. She has received a Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, four Pushcart Prizes, and numerous honors for her children’s literature. In 2010, Shihab Nye was elected to the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets. In 2012, she was named laureate of the 2013 NSK Prize for Children’s Literature.
Location and Time: All Readings located at Kresge Town Hall 466 | 6-7:45pm
The Living Writers Series is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, a Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation, the Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program, Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading, and a Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment.

Translation and Mediterranean Culture Conference
2013-11-15 08:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Mediterranean Seminar UCMRP Fall Workshop and Conference will be held in conjunction with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California Berkeley on Friday and Saturday, November 15 and 16, 2013.
The theme of the Conference (November 15) is Translation and Mediterranean Culture. We are interested in translation as both a social and a literary practice. Who the translators were; what translation meant in different historical and cultural contexts; the existence of lingua francas; translation and the foundation of Mediterranean culture, etc. We especially welcome presentations that address the role of translation in Mediterranean Studies.
Confirmed speakers include:
Ellen Finkelpearl, Scripps College
Dan Selden, UC Santa Cruz
Chris Chism, UCLA
Zrinka Stahuljak, UCLA
David Wacks, University of Oregon
The Workshop (November 16) consists of discussion of three pre-circulated papers and a talk by our featured scholar, Karla Mallette (Romance Languages, University of Michigan), “Against translation: The cosmopolitan language as literary medium.”

UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-campus Research Project Fall Workshop
2013-11-16 08:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Inaugural Talk: "Lit Up"
2013-11-18 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
What first turned your professors into readers? What do they read for pleasure, and why? Come find out at “LIT UP,” a new series of informal talks by UCSC Literature professors specifically for the undergraduate community, and open to everyone.

The inaugural LIT UP event is “Welcome to the Jungle: Conrad and Me,” with Professor Vilashini Cooppan, on Monday, November 18 from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. in Humanities 1, room 210.
Professor Cooppan was honored with a campuswide Excellence in Teaching Award in 2013. Her courses this year include LTEL 190L/Studies in English Language Literature: Trauma, History, Memory; LTWL 115A/Fiction in a Global Context: Postcolonial Novel; and LIT 101/Theory and Interpretation: Race/Colonialism/Ethnicity.
Questions, discussion, and light refreshments will follow the talk. We look forward to seeing you there!

CANCELLED: Gopal Balakrishnan: "The Historical World of Karl Marx"
2013-11-20 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Following on his earlier work on Adam Smith and David Ricardo, Gopal Balakrishnan’s current work on Marx seeks to demonstrate the logical unity of Marx’s mature economic thought, while recognizing its specifically 19th century assumptions, as well as its incompleteness as an account of the history of capitalism.
Gopal Balakrishnan is associate professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, working on political thought, intellectual history, and critical theory.

CANCELLED: Sarah Rebolloso McCullough: "Groovin' and Movin': Mountain Biking, Counterculture, and the Grateful Dead"
2013-11-20 16:15 - 17:45 | California Room
What does mountain biking have to do with the Grateful Dead? This talk will discuss the intricate role the counterculture played upon the innovation of mountain biking, begun in the hills of Marin county in the early 1970s. The scene and culture surrounding the Grateful Dead and the San Francisco music scene proved crucial to building the social networks and bodily desires from which mountain biking emerged.
Sarah Rebolloso McCullough studies the role of bodily sensation and ability in the making of technology and the built environment. McCullough is the Associate Director of the Center for the Humanities at UC San Diego and received her PhD in Cultural Studies from UC Davis. She has published articles in Fashion Theory and thirdspace: a journal of feminist theory & culture (available online), and is currently working on a manuscript on the origins of mountain biking. She is also the curator of the Mountain Biking History & Culture Archive.
This talk is presented by the McHenry Library and cosponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information, including disabled access, please contact Robin Chandler: rlchandler@ucsc.edu, (831) 459-4212.

Living Writers Series: Douglas Kearney
2013-11-21 18:00 - 19:45 | Kresge Town Hall
Thresholds and Breaking Points
The writers in this series will present across multiple genres, to include poetry, fiction, criticism, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests thresholds of culture, race, nation, sex, gender, and desire through the creative imagination. Central to each will be how these thresholds are performed, tested, broken, clarified and complicated in their works.
Poet/performer/librettist Douglas Kearney’s second, full-length collection of poetry, The Black Automaton (Fence Books, 2009), was Catherine Wagner’s selection for the National Poetry Series. Red Hen Press will publish Kearney’s third collection, Patter, in 2014. He has received a Whiting Writers Award, a Coat Hanger award and fellowships at Idyllwild, Cave Canem, and others. He teaches at CalArts.
Location and Time: All Readings located at Kresge Town Hall 466 | 6-7:45pm
The Living Writers Series is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, a Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation, the Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program, Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading, and a Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment.

Language Program Colloquium with Midori Ishida
2013-11-25 17:15 - 19:00 | Humanities 1, Room 408
This paper explores the issue of roles of social interaction for developing pragmatic competence in a second language. As an example, it examines interactions between a learner of Japanese and native speakers, focusing on ‘receipts’, or a kind of listener responses (e.g. soo desu ne [That’s true]). A learner’s conversations recorded during one-year study abroad in Japan and recorded in the U.S. before and after the period were analyzed using conversation analysis. Even though corrective feedback was rarely provided to the learner’s inappropriate receipt use, his interlocutor’s next-turn action served as implicit feedback and provided him an opportunity for a more competent action. Moreover, although not interactionally modified, the interlocutor’s utterances and embodied actions provide comprehensible linguistic resources that the L2 speaker can draw on when performing similar actions.
Midori Ishida earned her Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her research interests include interlanguage pragmatics, conversation analysis, and the roles of interaction in second language acquisition. Her works have been published in Language Learning, Pragmatics and Language Learning, the Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, and other edited books. She is currently teaching Japanese at Santa Clara University.

Contemporary Capitalism and Marxist Critique
2013-12-03 17:00 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
To inaugurate a year of events, the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism research cluster is holding a panel which follows two interrelated threads. The first is the analysis of capitalism as a system, from its origins to its contemporary transformations. This analysis extends across disciplines and theoretical orientations, and one goal of this interdisciplinary panel is to represent the wide range of approaches that UCSC faculty are taking in their research into capitalism. The second thread is the reexamination of Marxist theory. Throughout its history Marxism has extended into a range of fields, from sociology to literary criticism, and has remained a crucial reference point for theory which seeks to understand social life historically. This panel will extend the historical analysis to Marxism itself, critically reexamining its evolution and its engagement with its changing social and political context.
Panelists include:

Miriam Greenberg, Associate Professor of Sociology: “Crisis-Driven Urbanization and Contemporary Capitalism”
Jonathan Beecher, Professor Emeritus of History: “David Riazanov and the Marx-Engels Institute”
Tyrus Miller, Professor of Literature, Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies: “Theaters of History: Drama, Action, and Historical Agency in the Work of György Lukács
Neda Atanasoski, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies: “Revolutions and Networks: Technology and the Social Body after Socialism”
Moderated by Gopal Balakrishnan, Associate Professor of History of Consciousness

Upcoming event series: “The Origins of Civil Society”
The development of the discipline of political economy, including its dialogue with modern political philosophy, is closely intertwined with the rise and expansion of capitalist society. As we turn our attention today to capitalism’s crisis tendencies and the future of market society, a critical examination of this foundational history becomes the starting point of the analysis of the present. This lecture series addresses the origins of civil society from several vantage points: the legal and political forms that underlie market relations; the transformation of the labor process; the role of gender and reproductive labor; and the history of separation from the means of subsistence.
Jan 16, 2014 – Warren Montag: “The Revocation of the Right to Subsistence: On the Legal and Political Origins of the Market”
Feb 6, 2014 – Kathi Weeks: “The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries”
Mar 6, 2014 – Michael Perelman: “Primitive Accumulation: From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel”
Presented by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information, including disabled access, please contact Evin Guy: (831) 459-5655, ecguy@ucsc.edu. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu.

Chair Lisbeth Haas - Saints & Citizens: Book Reading & Discussion
2013-12-04 17:00 - 19:30 | Humanities 1, Room 320
Saints and Citizens is a bold new excavation of the history of Indigenous people in California in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, showing how the missions became sites of their authority, memory, and identity. Shining a forensic eye on colonial encounters in Chumash, Luiseño, and Yokuts territories, Lisbeth Haas depicts how native painters incorporated their cultural iconography in mission painting and how leaders harnessed new knowledge for control in other ways. Through her portrayal of highly varied societies, she explores the politics of Indigenous citizenship in the independent Mexican nation through events such as the Chumash War of 1824, native emancipation after 1826, and the political pursuit of Indigenous rights and land through 1848.
Lisbeth Haas is Professor of History and Chair of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Pablo Tac, Indigenous Scholar: Writing on Luiseño Language and Colonial History, c. 1840 (UC Press, 2011) and Conquests and Historical Identities in California, 1769–1936 (UC Press, 1995). Professor Haas’s research interests include local histories of globalization, indigenous histories of California, subaltern scholars and their writing and painting, Spanish colonial and Mexican California, the Borderlands – especially the U.S. and Mexico, the Colonial Americas, California Studies, Global Histories of Race, Ethnicity, and Diaspora, Gendered Stories.
There will be a small reception following the reading.

Julia Phillips Cohen: "Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era"
2013-12-05 18:00 - 19:45 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Ottoman-Jewish story has long been told as a romance between Jews and the empire. The prevailing view is that Ottoman Jews were protected and privileged by imperial policies and in return offered their unflagging devotion to the imperial government over many centuries. In this talk, Julia Phillips Cohen offers a corrective, arguing that Jewish leaders who promoted this vision did so in response to a series of reforms enacted by the nineteenth-century Ottoman state: the new equality they gained came with a new set of expectations. Ottoman subjects were suddenly to become imperial citizens, to consider their neighbors as brothers and their empire as a homeland. Yet the process was not seamless: as they sought to teach each other how to become modern citizens of their state, Ottoman Jews soon learned that their patriotic project could entail uncomfortable choices and disturbing consequences.
Charting Ottoman Jews’ responses to these developments, this talk provides new perspectives for understanding Jewish encounters with modernity and citizenship in a centralizing, modernizing Islamic state and an imperial, multi-faith landscape.
Julia Phillips Cohen is Assistant Professor in the Program in Jewish Studies and the Department of History at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), and, together with Sarah Abrevaya Stein, editor of Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014).
Presented by the Center for Jewish Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information, including disabled access, please contact Evin Guy: (831) 459-5655, ecguy@ucsc.edu. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu.

Living Writers Series: Reyna Grande
2014-01-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni!
Novelist/Memoirist Reyna Grande is the author of the novels Across a Hundred Mountains andDancing with Butterflies, for which she received an American Book Award (2007) and an International Latino Book Award (2010). Her most recent book, The Distance Between Us, is a memoir about her life before and after illegally immigrating from Mexico to the United States. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as“the Angela’s Ashes of the modern Mexican immigrant experience,” it was a finalist for the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award.

Berenice Darwich: "Continuity and discontinuity in syntactic patterns in New York City. A look at co-referential complex sentences"
2014-01-13 17:00 - 18:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Speaker: Berenice Darwich, Hispanic Linguistics, CUNY Colleges; New York, New York.
Abstract:
The variable phenomenon of subject expression, specifically in the second clause of co-referential complex sentences, is analyzed in a subset of interviews of Mexican and Dominican Spanish speakers from the Otheguy and Zentella corpus of Spanish in New York City.
By taking into account the generation of speakers (first and second) and the syntactic hierarchy of the second clause (main or subordinate), the study will address the following questions:
Is there pattern continuity in regards to subject expression in contexts of co-reference among generation of speakers?
Is there an influence of English in regards to this pattern in second generation speakers?
Is there a correlation between subject expression and the syntactic hierarchy of a clause across geographical varieties?
The hypothesis that guides this investigation is that in this context, subject pronoun expression in the second clause is an instrument to signal the principal information of a message, carried in the main clause of a complex sentence.
Results confirm previous studies regarding this variable phenomenon in Spanish in general and in New York City: Dominican Spanish speakers favor pronoun subject expression more than Mexican Spanish speakers, even in the second clause of co-referential complex sentences. When we look at the frequencies by each geographical variety in this very specific context, the distributional differences allow a classification of the varieties in two different groups (Mexican pattern and Dominican pattern). But this trend does not hold when the generational group is considered, showing a reverse pattern in the second generation Dominican speakers.
These findings confirm partially the hypothesis since it is only the first generation Dominicans who do not use subject pronoun expression as a mean to signal hierarchical syntactic information.

Warren Montag: "Althusser's Lenin"
2014-01-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Warren Montag’s research has two foci: French and Italian thought of the 1960s and 1970s, especially Althusser; and Literature and Philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. His recent book concerns the emergence of a necro-economics from French economic thinkers to Adam Smith (and beyond, from Malthus to Von Mises).
Warren Montag is Brown Family Professor of Literature in the English Department at Occidental College.

Warren Montag: “The Revocation of the Right to Subsistence: On the Legal and Political Origins of the Market”
2014-01-16 17:00 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Warren Montag is the Brown Family Professor of Literature, English Department, Occidental College. He has published widely on French and Italian thought of the 1960s and 1970s, especially Louis Althusser, as well as on literature and philosophy of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Swift, and Adam Smith. His most recent book is Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy’s Perpetual War (Duke University Press,2013), and he has also published translations of Althusser, Pierre Macherey, and Étienne Balibar. His forthcoming book, co-authored with Mike Hill, is “The Other Adam Smith: Popular Contention, Commercial Society and the Birth of Necro-Economics” (Stanford University Press).
This event is part of “The Origins of Civil Society” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. The development of the discipline of political economy, including its dialogue with modern political philosophy, is closely intertwined with the rise and expansion of capitalist society. As we turn our attention today to capitalism’s crisis tendencies and the future of market society, a critical examination of this foundational history becomes the starting point of the analysis of the present. This lecture series addresses the origins of civil society from several vantage points: the legal and political forms that underlie market relations; the transformation of the labor process; the role of gender and reproductive labor; and the history of separation from the means of subsistence.
Additional events in this series:
Feb 6, 2014 – Kathi Weeks: “The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries”
Mar 6, 2014 – Michael Perelman: “Primitive Accumulation: From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel”
Presented by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information, including disabled access, please contact Evin Guy: (831) 459-5655, ecguy@ucsc.edu. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu.

Lisa Pearl: "More learnable than thou? Testing knowledge representations with realistic acquisition data"
2014-01-17 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Abstract: One (often implicit) motivation for a linguistic knowledge representation (e.g., a set of linguistic parameters or constraints) comes from an argument from acquisition, where language acquisition is assumed to be straightforward if children’s hypothesis space is defined by the correct knowledge representation. Acquisition then becomes the process of selecting the correct language-specific grammar from that hypothesis space, based on the language input encountered. I discuss quantitative metrics based on an argument from acquisition for comparing knowledge representations and the grammars they define. These metrics involve assessing grammar learnability from realistic input data, and I use them to evaluate three prominent knowledge representations in the domain of metrical phonology that each define a grammar for English. Somewhat surprisingly, I discover that learnability issues arise for the English grammars in all three representations. I discuss aspects of the proposed English grammars that may be hurting learnability as well as ways a child may still be able to learn the proposed English grammars from English input.
Lisa Pearl is Assistant Professor of Cognitive Sciences at UC Irvine.

Marcela Depiante: "Preposition Stranding in Heritage Speakers of Spanish: Implications for the Interface Hypothesis"
2014-01-17 17:00 - 18:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Abstract:
In this talk, we discuss the properties of Heritage Languages by examining Preposition Stranding in the Spanish of Heritage
speakers versus monolingual speakers of Spanish. We discuss the implications of this work for the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace 2000, Tsimpli and Sorace 2006) as applied to Heritage speakers (Montrul 2009, Montrul & Polinsky 2011) according to which changes in Heritage speaker syntax are restricted to areas of the grammar where the syntax interfaces with interpretable domains such as discourse/pragmatics.
Since the possibility of preposition stranding constructions is one of purely syntactic features, this hypothesis predicts that Heritage speakers of Spanish should not show variation from monolingual Spanish speakers with respect to these constructions. However, the data that will be presented will show that they do and they do so in different syntactic contexts and with different types of prepositions. The data argues against extending the Interface Hypothesis to Heritage Speakers.
In addition, we do not interpret the data found in this study of Spanish Heritage speakers as instances of incomplete acquisition. Instead, the variation we observe between Heritage speakers and monolingual Spanish speakers with respect to the possibility of preposition stranding can be seen as variation between speakers of different varieties of Spanish and used as a further source of insight into the human language faculty.
Speaker: Marcela Depiante is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire

Misfit Horror Film Series: Who Can Kill a Child?
2014-01-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
Misfit Horror
A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected.

January 19th – Who Can Kill a Child? One of the most disturbing horror films from a decade that was conspicuously filled with them, Who Can Kill a Child? takes The Birds (1963) and replaces Alfred Hitchcock’s bloodthirsty birds with an island full of homicidal children. Directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador (whose other horror film of note is the wonderfully sordid and atmospheric The House That Screamed from 1969), this Spanish production opens with a documentary montage of atrocity footage from around the world (the Holocaust, the Korean War, the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, etc.) to polemically motivate the reasons why the children of the small island of Almanzora have collectively murdered the adult population there. Arriving in Almanzora on holiday, the baby-expecting couple of Tom (Lewis Fiander) and Evelyn (Prunella Ransome) discover that the island appears to be deserted. Shops are untended, no bellboys are waiting in the foyers of the island’s hotels, restaurants are totally devoid of patrons or servers. The benign suspicion that the inhabitants are all on siesta, however, soon shifts to doubts and fears about the children who start to appear everywhere. Though not a gory film, Who Can Kill a Child? remains a supremely unsettling film that will linger with you for a long time, like it or lump it. Not to be missed!

Sunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

For more information, please visit: ihr.ucsc.edu

Rebecca Karl: "Economics, Culture, and Historical Time: A 1930s Chinese Critique"
2014-01-22 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Rebecca Karl’s current work includes a forthcoming book entitled The Magic of Concepts: Philosophy and the Economic in Twentieth Century China; this book examines the intersections between philosophical and economic questions as they emerge and re-emerge over the course of China’s twentieth century. Ongoing work includes a project on histories of economic concepts in China tentatively entitled, Worlds of Chinese Economic Thought.
Rebecca Karl is Professor of Chinese History at New York University.

Research Proposal Writing Workshop for Faculty and PIs
2014-01-22 14:00 - 15:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Goal: Guide Humanities faculty on the processes and resources available when submitting a Humanities research proposal and post-award considerations
Presenters: Irena Polić, Cayla McEwen, Anne Callahan, Lisa Oman
To sign up for this session, please RSVP to: annem@ucsc.edu

Living Writers Series: Beth Lisick
2014-01-23 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni!
Writer/Performer Beth Lisick is the author of five books: the memoir collection Yokohama Threeway and Other Small Shames, the New York Times bestselling comic memoir Everybody Into the Pool, the gonzo self-help manifesto Helping Me Help Myself, the story collection This Too Can Be Yours, and the performance poetry/story collection Monkey Girl. Since 1999 she has been collaborating with writer/comedian Tara Jepsen on stage and video projects. They have performed at Dixon Place, UCB Theatre, SF MOMA and screened their films at OUTfest, Frameline, and the Mix Film Festival of Sexual Diversity in Sao Paulo, Brasil.

Martin Devecka: "Some Ends of the City: Ruins and Utopia in the Ancient World"
2014-01-24 15:15 - 17:00 | 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 Mediterranean Studies: Ancient Comparative
Why do ruins happen? Are they caused by natural catastrophes, invasions, economic collapse, state failure, or by something else? This talk will address these questions from a new perspective, integrating sociological comparison of ancient societies including Arabia, Athens, and Rome with analysis of ancient writings about ruins to suggest that literary fantasies about post-urban life may play as important a part in bringing about the destruction of cities as any of the causes conventionally invoked by historians.
Martin Devecka is a Mellon Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University, where he received his Ph.D. in Classics and Comparative Literature in 2012. He has taught there and at Brown University on subjects ranging from Latin political thought to Greco-Roman zoology. His research interests include animals, the history of technology, and the cultures of the Red Sea.

Annie Gagliardi: "Grammar-parser tension in language acquisition: Evidence from Q'anjob'al relative clauses"
2014-01-24 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Built into the grammatical architecture of any language we find constraints on possible structures. The processing system that uses these structures appears to have inherent preferences in how we interpret them. By looking at a domain where there exists tension between what constraint a learner might expect their language to conform to and the interpretations that are easier to arrive at, we can learn more about what a learner’s own abilities and expectations contribute to language acquisition. In this talk we look at one case where grammatical constraints pull in the opposite direction of the preferences of the system using those constraints: A-bar extraction of transitive subjects. In particular, we look at the comprehension of relative clauses by children and adults in Q’anjob’al, Mayan language where extraction of ergative marked subjects is reportedly banned. Results of a comprehension experiment with adults and children suggest that this tension does affect language acquisition, and may effect language change.
Annie Gagliardi is a Linguistics Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University.

Gabriela Zapata: "Investigating the Connection between Learning and Assessment: Formative Assessment in Intermediate L2 Spanish Classes"
2014-01-24 17:00 - 18:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Abstract: This paper investigates the connection between learning and assessment by examining the implementation of ACTFL’s Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) in intermediate, L2 Spanish classes. There were 880 students who participated in this classroom-based study. This presentation will discuss the following: 1) the theoretical and pedagogical bases of IPA; 2) the materials and tasks that were created; 3) the steps followed for its successful implementation; and 4) the results of a study on students’ and instructors’ perceptions of IPA and the relationship between classroom content and assessment. In addition, we will compare the results of IPA-based assessment tools with those from previous, more traditional evaluation tools.
Gabriela Zapata is Associate Professor and Director of Spanish and Portuguese Language Programs at the University of Southern California.

Misfit Horror Film Series: The House with Laughing Windows
2014-01-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
The House with Laughing Windows (1976, dir. Pupi Avati) – a moody and masterful giallo (Italian thriller / mystery / slasher film)
One of the most remarkable (albeit atypical) examples of a giallo (Italian mystery-thriller-slasher film) out there, Pupi Avati’s The House with Laughing Windows is a masterpiece of mood and ambient creepiness whose ability to stretch an atmosphere of queasy apprehension to the absolute breaking point over the course of a feature-length film is probably second only to Nicholas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now, made just three years previously. A young art historian named Stefano (Lino Capolicchio) comes to a remote Italian village to restore some twentieth-century frescos that depict the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian in an old church. Some rumors suggest that the deceased artist of the works actually tortured and murdered his real-life models. Meanwhile, Stefano’s efforts to restore the frescoes get sidetracked by all the locals who have secrets they want to share with him but cannot because they keep dying under mysterious circumstances before they can actually get down to the business of telling him much of anything. This is a movie whose tensions and uneasiness build and build and build . . . Not to be missed!
Misfit Horror is a film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected.
Sunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

Silvia Perpiñan: "Microparametric variation among Romance languages: the L2 acquisition of Spanish locative and existential constructions by Catalan and Italian speakers"
2014-01-27 17:00 - 18:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Abstract: Selection of copula verbs in Spanish is a classic challenging area for L2 learners. Even so, it has received moderate attention on SLA research, and most of the studies have focused on the acquisition of the semantic and pragmatic distinctions between ser and estar, particularly when combined with adjectives (Bruhn de Garavito & Valenzuela, 2006; Geeslin, 2002; 2003; Schmitt & Miller, 2007; among others). The present study goes beyond the alternation between ser and estar + adjective by looking at the selection of copula verbs to express location, and existentials.
Following Freeze (1992), I assume a universal locative paradigm with three surface structures that imply the use of three different verbs in Spanish: estar for the predicate locative when the subject is an object (1), and ser when it is an event (2); the existential with haber (2); and the possessive or ‘have’ using tener.
Three microparametric differences among Spanish, Italian, and Catalan are investigated, which regulate (a) the distribution of ser vs. estar in locatives (the eventiveness effect, which does not exist in Standard Catalan or Italian), (b) the distribution of haber vs. estar (the definiteness effect, Milsark, 1977, which is only obeyed in Spanish), and (c) the use of clitics in locatives (Spanish does not have a locative clitic, whereas in Catalan and Italian it is obligatory). Given these differences, we question whether L2 speakers of Spanish are able to fully acquire the distribution of estar in locative predicates and observe the restriction on definite DPs in Spanish existential constructions. Furthermore, we wonder how the bilingual mind will restructure her clitic system into a reduced morphological paradigm with no partitive or locative clitics.
The present study analyzes the expression of L2 Spanish existential and locative constructions in 20 native speakers of Catalan, 34 native speakers of Italian (from Rome), and 20 monolingual Spanish speakers with two main tasks, an Acceptability Judgment Task and an elicited oral production task. Results indicated that L2 learners used significantly less ester to express location than native speakers, showing that this verb develops later than ser as previously reported for English (VanPatten, 1985, 1987), and as predicted by recent analyses of the copular ser/estar (Brucart, 2012; Gallego & Uriagereka, 2011). Nonetheless, Italian speakers also overgeneralized estar to localize events, and in existential constructions, when ser or haber are required in Spanish.
Finally, Italian speakers of intermediate proficiency, and some Catalan speakers continued using ser to localize objects. More interestingly, both L2 groups accepted definite DPs in presentational sentences, violating the definiteness effect, displaying problems when assembling semantic features into specific lexical pieces. These results will be discussed within the debate on dissociation between acquisition of syntax and acquisition of semantics, and the feature assembly or feature matching hypothesis (Lardiere, 2008, 2009; Slabakova, 2009).
Speaker: Silvia Perpiñan is Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Western Ontario.

Mayanthi Fernando: "Improper Intimacies, or the Cunning of Secularism"
2014-01-29 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Mayanthi Fernando works on religion, politics, and the secular. Her first book on the Islamic revival and French secularity will be out in 2014. Her new project examines the nexus of sex, religion, and secularism, and in particular the French state’s regulation of Muslim women’s sexual and religious intimacies.
Mayanthi Fernando is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UCSC.

North French Hebrew Miscellany
2014-01-30 16:30 - 17:30 | McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special Collections
Come to Special Collections to look at and learn about a spectacular book recently acquired by Special Collections.
UCSC Special Collections has recently acquired a facsimile of one of the world’s most important medieval Jewish manuscripts, the North French Hebrew Miscellany.
The manuscript was written and lavishly illustrated in northern France in about 1280 at a time of upheaval for the Jews of Europe. Comprising almost 1500 pages with 84 different groups of texts, this small volume served as a portable library. The texts include scripture, daily prayers, mahzor, the Passover Haggadah, religious poetry, blessings, calendars, formularies for legal deeds and the earliest known copy of Isaac de Corbeil’s Sefer Mitsvot Katan, composed in 1277. Three to five artists worked with the scribe to decorate and illuminate the manuscript, most likely in or near Troyes. It is now housed in the British Library.
Please join us on to welcome this wonderful addition to Special Collections – the facsimile will be on display and Professors Sharon Kinoshita and Gildas Hamel will share their expertise with us.

Living Writers Series: Rachel Swirsky and Sina Grace
2014-01-30 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni!
Fantasy Writer Rachel Swirsky has published over fifty short stories in venues including The New Haven Review, Tor.com and Clarkesworld Magazine. Her speculative fiction has been nominated for most of the genre’s major awards, including the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award, and in 2010, she won the Nebula Award for her novella “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window.” She holds a master’s degree in fiction from the Iowa Writing Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her second collection, HOW THE WORLD BECAME QUIET: MYTHS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE, came out from Subterranean Press at the end of September.
Sina Grace is the author and illustrator of the indie mini-series Books with Pictures, the neo-noirCedric Hollows in Dial M for Magic, and the autobiographical one-shot, Self-Obsessed. Not My Bag, which recounts a story of retail hell, is his new book from Image Comics. He lives in Los Angeles, where he can be found in coffee shops working on his revenge video game-kickback, Burn the Orphanage.

An Evening with the UCSC Dickens Project
2014-01-30 18:50 - 21:00 | Nickelodeon Theater, 210 Lincoln Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The Nickelodeon Theatre will host “An Evening with the UCSC Dickens Project” on Thursday January 30 in conjunction with the screening of “The Invisible Woman” film, showing at 6:50 pm. The film, which stars Ralph Fiennes as Charles Dickens, is based on the Claire Tomalin book of the same title, delves into the closely-held secret of Dickens’s love affair with the much-younger actress, Ellen Ternan. During this period, Dickens was also involved in a harrowing railway accident, and nearly lost the manuscript to his novel, Our Mutual Friend. The novel is the featured book for this summer’s Dickens Universe conference.
Dickens Project founders Murray Baumgarten and John Jordan will lead a discussion after the film, joined by Jessica Kuskey and Nirshan Perera. The event is open to the public. Students will receive a special discount of $3 off the normal admission.

Politics of the Digital: Poetry, Technology, and the University
2014-01-31 - 2014-02-01 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This two-day event includes a poetry reading and an interdisciplinary symposium featuring graduate students, faculty, and a keynote from Johanna Drucker.
Friday, January 31, 2014: Poetry reading at 6 p.m. at the Felix Kulpa Gallery
Featuring Johanna Drucker with Eireene Nealand, Margaret Rhee, and Tsering Wangmo
Saturday, February 1, 2014: Interdisciplinary symposium at Humanities 1, room 210
Panel One: Textual and Visual Technologies—Pre-Histories of a Digital Era
Panel Two: Digital Practice and Database Aesthetics
Panel Three: Neoliberalism and the Digital Future
Keynote from Johanna Drucker: Towards a New Humanism
The activities associated with the term “digital humanities” have gained much attention recently in academic and mainstream venues. But have core values of humanism been discounted as a result? Do the techniques of analytic processing or other engagements with large data displace or devalue those of more traditional method and even, perhaps, traffic in the worst kind of concessions to administered culture? Might these digital approaches be at odds with the tenets of humanistic inquiry? What are the ways out of a binaristic opposition between a retro-oriented, possibly conservative, defense of “the humanities” and a techno-digital approach that seems to some to dehumanize cultural materials by treating them as “data”? The answer might be in recovering the methods of humanism, rather than just its objects. Engagement with the materiality of texts and artifacts crosses many disciplinary lines—from traditional critical studies, bibliography, and law to current studies of media archaeology, new materialism, and digital interpretation. This talk addresses ways in which the cultural authority of the humanities might be formulated as a new humanism whose methods and values extend traditional interpretative work while taking up some of the potential offered by data-driven and algorithm-based approaches to the study of human culture.
Reception at the Kresge Provost House
More info and full agenda available at http://www.ucscpoetrypolitics.com/upcoming-events.html

Kathryn Pruitt: "Culminativity in Harmonic Serialism"
2014-01-31 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Abstract: This talk considers the typology of word-headedness in languages with iterative stress and discusses a traditional classification of such systems—top-down vs. bottom-up (Hayes 1995)—in the context of Harmonic Serialism (McCarthy 2010). In some languages the primary stress is autonomous, having properties that are different from those of its secondary stresses, which has been used to argue against bottom-up metrification in serial theories (van der Hulst 1984, 1997, 2009, Bailey 1995). Other languages, however, show a primary stress which is clearly parasitic on secondary stresses, which follows straightforwardly from a bottom-up theory but is incompatible with a top-down one (Hayes 1995). To account for both autonomous and parasitic culminativity in Harmonic Serialism, this talk outlines the following proposals: (1) primary stress assignment can and must happen simultaneously with foot-building, in a basically top-down fashion, and (2) the primary stress must be allowed to move to another foot in the course of a derivation. In other words, the conclusion will be that attested patterns of primary stress assignment provide evidence for limited parallelism in stress, even when general metrification, and the grammar itself, is otherwise serial. Allowing limited parallelism without giving up serialism altogether is also defended, as the predicted typology of culminativity in a serial theory with limited parallelism is shown to be superior to that of theory with unrestricted parallelism.
References
Bailey, Todd Mark (1995). Non-metrical constraints on stress. Doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota.
Hayes, Bruce (1995). Metrical stress theory: principles and case studies. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
van der Hulst, Harry (1984). Syllable structure and stress in Dutch. Foris, Dordrecht.
van der Hulst, Harry (1997). Primary accent is non-metrical. Revista di Linguistica 9: 99–127.
van der Hulst, Harry (2009). Brackets and grid marks, or theories of primary accent and rhythm. In Eric Raimy and Charles E. Cairns (eds.), Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representations in Phonological Theory, pp. 225–245. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
McCarthy, John J. (2010). An introduction to Harmonic Serialism. Language and Linguistics Compass 4(10): 1010–1018.
Kathryn Pruitt is at Assistant Professor of English at Arizona State University.

CANCELLED: Misfit Horror Film Series: Arrebato
2014-02-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
Misfit Horror
A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected.
February 2nd – Arrebato (1980, dir. Iván Zulueta) – think of it as a Spanish Videodrome, only avant la lettre
For more information, please visit: ihr.ucsc.edu

Kristin Ross: "Notes on the 'Cellular Regime of Nationality': Internationalism & The Paris Commune"
2014-02-04 14:00 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 620, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The talk is taken from Communal Luxury (forthcoming from Editions La fabrique). Ross discusses the political imaginary that fueled and outlived the Paris Commune of 1871, here considered within frames provided by contemporary militant concerns: the problem of refashioning an internationalist conjuncture; the future of education, labor and the status of art; the commune-form and its relation to ecological theory. The “communal luxury” produced by the Commune’s “working existence” was prolonged and elaborated in the political thought produced in the 1870s and the 1880s, when Communard exiles met up and collaborated with a number of their supporters and fellow travelers, notably Marx, Kropotkin and William Morris.
Kristin Ross is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author of The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune (1988); Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (1995); and May ’68 and its Afterlives (2002).
This talk is presented by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster, and the History of Consciousness and Literature Departments.

Steven J. Zipperstein: "How the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom Changed Jewish History"
2014-02-04 17:00 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies presents:
Steven J. Zipperstein: “How the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom Changed Jewish History”
Kishinev’s 1903 pogrom was the first instance when an event in Russian Jewish life received wide hearing. The riot, leaving 49 dead, in an obscure border town, dominated headlines in the western world for weeks, it intruded on US-Russian relations, and it left an imprint on an astonishingly diverse range of institutions including the nascent Jewish army in Palestine, the NAACP, and, most likely, the first version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. How was it that incident came to define so much, and for so long?
Steven J. Zipperstein is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. He has also taught at universities in Russia, Poland, France, and Israel; for six years, he taught at Oxford University. For sixteen years he was Director of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford. He is the author and editor of eight books including The Jews of Odessa: A Cultural History (1986, winner of the Smilen Prize for the Outstanding book in Jewish history); Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha’am and the Origins of Zionism (1993, winner of the National Jewish Book Award); Imagining Russian Jewry (1999); and Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing (2008, shortlisted for the National Jewish Book Award in Biography, Autobiography and Memoir). His work has been translated into Russian, Hebrew, and French. He has been awarded the Leviant Prize of the Modern Language Association, the Judah Magnes Gold Medal of the American Friends of the Hebrew University, and the Koret Prize for Outstanding Contributions to the American Jewish community. Zipperstein’s articles have appeared in The New York Times Sunday Book Review, the Washington Post, The New Republic, the Jewish Review of Books, Chronicle of Higher Education and elsewhere. He is an editor of the journal Jewish Social Studies, the book series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture, and the Yale University Press/Leon Black Foundation Jewish Lives series. In spring 2013, he will be the first Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Zipperstein is Chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History, in New York.
Every year we honor Helen Diller, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz, by hosting a public lecture series on campus by an internationally recognized scholar.
This event was made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Endowment and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz.

Complicated Labors: Feminism, Maternity, and Creative Practice (Symposium & Gallery Exhibition)
2014-02-05 10:00 - 19:00 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab, Room 306
The Complicated Labor Research Cluster is an interdisciplinary collaboration that brings together artists, writers, and scholars around questions of feminism, maternity, and creative process. It seeks to center questions of care in our research and art whether they are explicit sites of inspiration and study or simply important to the conditions in which we undertake expressive practices. Through film, visual art and photography, performance, writing, and scholarship we will explore the complexities of contemporary motherhood.
This symposium, with keynote address by foundational feminist artist Mary Kelly, will create a space for critical interdisciplinary dialogue around issues of maternity, feminism, art-making, and writing, explicitly putting the 1970s in conversation with the current moment and putting writers in conversation with visual artists. The symposium is on Feb 5th from 10am-5pm at the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab and will be followed by a gallery exhibition and reception from 5-7pm at the Sesnon Art Gallery.
Symposium – Feb 5 @ 10:00am-5:00pm
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab, UCSC
Free and Open to the Public
Nearly forty years after Mary Kelly’s germinal 1976 exhibition of Post-Partum Document, the work of women artists who explicitly engage with images, processes, and experiences of maternity remains marginalized and relatively misrecognized in the art world. Despite a notable resurgence of attention to the maternal in 21st Century art theory and practice, such work is more often than not, read inside a discourse of indulgence, sentimentality, and identity rather than as representative of larger concerns with ecological systems, ethics, care, or labor. Complicated Labors investigates this problem, bringing together historical and contemporary work addressing maternal labor to ask questions about the status of feminism — and feminist art — today.
Gallery Reception – Feb 5 @ 5:00-7:00pm
Sesnon Art Gallery, UCSC
Complicated Labors Gallery Exhibition runs from February 5 – March 15, 2014
Complicated Labors builds on recent group exhibitions on the topic, including Myrel Chernick’s and Jennie Klein’s 2004 and 2006 Maternal Metaphors and Maternal Metaphors II and Natalie Loveless’s 2010 New Maternalisms. This exhibition addresses recent books such as Andrea Liss’s 2009 Feminist Art and the Maternal, new journals such as Studies in the Maternal, and new collectives such as Broodwork.
Symposium Schedule:

10:00 AM – Welcome (Micah Perks and Irene Lusztig)
10:30 AM – Mary Kelly Keynote (opening remarks)
11AM: Maternal Interventions (artist panel and discussion)
12:30 – LUNCH
2:30 PM – Maternal Secrets (writer panel and discussion)
4:15 PM Closing Remarks by Megan Moodie
5:00 – 7:00 PM Opening reception, Sesnon Gallery (with performance by Alejandra Herrera Silva)
All events are free and open to the public.
Symposium & Gallery Participants:
Keynote:
Mary Kelly is an American conceptual artist, feminist, writer, and professor of art and critical theory in the School of Art and Architecture at UCLA.
Writers:
Amra Brooks was born and raised in California. Her novella California was published in 2008 by Teenage Teardrops. Her fiction, critical reviews, essays, interviews, and poems have appeared in such publications as Artforum, Spin Magazine, index, the LA Weekly, The Encyclopedia Project Volume F-K, Ping Pong: the literary journal of the Henry Miller Library, Not Enough Night, Inventory Magazine, and others. She has taught at the University of California in Santa Cruz and San Diego, Naropa University, and Muhlenberg College. Currently she lives in Providence, Rhode Island with her family and is the Director of the Creative Writing program at Stonehill College in Easton, MA.
Kate Moses is the author of Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath and Cakewalk: A Memoir . Moses is the coeditor, with Camille Peri, of Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race & Themselves and the national bestselling, American Book Award-winning Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood. As a senior editor and contributing writer for Salon, Moses cofounded Salon’s groundbreaking, award-winning Mothers Who Think site.
Micah Perks is the author of a novel, We Are Gathered Here, and a memoir, Pagan Time, about growing up on a commune in the Adirondack Wilderness. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Epoch, Zyzzyva, Tin House, and The Rumpus, among many other journals and anthologies. She’s won an NEA Award, a Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts grant, four Pushcart Prize nominations, and several residencies at the Blue Mountain Center. Her most recent publication is the short memoir, Alone In The Woods, an ebook from Shebooks, about motherhood and the wild.
Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of a memoir, Bring Down the Little Birds, four poetry collections— Milk and Filth, Goodbye, Flicker, The City She Was, and Odalisque in Pieces. She is the recipient of a 2011 American Book Award, the 2011 Juniper Prize for Poetry, and a 2011-2012 fellowship in creative nonfiction from the Howard Foundation. Formerly a Teaching-Writing Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she now teaches in the creative writing programs at New Mexico State University, while serving as the editor-in-chief of the literary journal Puerto del Sol and the publisher of Noemi Press.
Michelle Tea is the founder and editor of Mutha Magazine, an alternative parenting site obsessed with all things Mom. Her blog Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea, on xoJane.com, has documented her struggle to get knocked up. Tea is the founder and Artistic Director of RADAR Productions, a literary non-profit which oversees the annual Sister Spit performance tours; Sister Spit Books, a publishing imprint with City Lights; the monthly RADAR Reading Series at the San Francisco Public Library, and other programs. She is the author of many memoirs and novels, and a collection of poetry.
Artists:
Lenka Clayton is a British conceptual artist whose work exaggerates and reorganizes the accepted rules of everyday life, extending the familiar into the realms of the poetic and absurd.
Natalie Loveless is a Canadian artist, curator, writer and professor of contemporary art and theory at the University of Alberta whose work explores feminist embodiment, material entanglement in the everyday, and the frameworks of artistic research.
Irene Lusztig is an American filmmaker, media archeologist, and new media artist whose film and video work mines old images and technologies for new meanings to reframe, recuperate, or reanimate forgotten and neglected histories.
Jill Miller is an American conceptual artist who works collaboratively with communities, with a focus on on motherhood, feminism and performance art. Faculty in New Genres and Design and Technology at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Mother Art Collective
Alejandra Herrera Silva is a Chilean visual and performance artist living and working in LA. Recent body and action-based pieces have investigated the body as object at the intersection of maternal labour and affect.
Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Video Program Artists:
Myrel Chernick, Mark and Beth Cooley, Masha Godovanaya, Courtney Kessel, Ellina Kevorkian, Dillon Paul and Lindsay Wolkowitz

This exhibition and symposium are sponsored by UCSC Institute for Humanities Research, Sesnon Gallery, Porter College, University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA), UCSC Arts Dean’s Excellence Fund, UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Kresge College, Cowell College, Oakes College, Merrill College, Stevenson College, History of Art and Visual Culture, Art, Literature, Film and Digital Media, and Feminist Studies Departments.

For more information visit: arts.ucsc.edu/complicatedlabors

Aristea Fotopoulou: "‘All these emotions, all these yearnings, all these data': Platform openess, data sharing and visions of democracy"
2014-02-05 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Aristea Fotopoulou works at the intersections of media & cultural studies with science & technologies studies. She has written on digital networks and feminism, information politics, knowledge production, and digital engagement. She currently explores algorithmic living and practices of data sharing.
Aristea Fotopoulou is Research Fellow, University of Sussex, UK and 2014 Visiting Scholar at the Science and Justice Research Center, UCSC.

Kathi Weeks: “The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries”
2014-02-06 17:00 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Kathi Weeks is an Associate Professor in the Women’s Studies Program at Duke University. Her primary interests are in the fields of political theory, feminist theory, Marxist thought, the critical study of work, and utopian studies. She is the author of The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries (Duke UP, 2011) and Constituting Feminist Subjects (Cornell UP, 1998), and a co-editor of The Jameson Reader (Blackwell, 2000).
This event is part of “The Origins of Civil Society” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. The development of the discipline of political economy, including its dialogue with modern political philosophy, is closely intertwined with the rise and expansion of capitalist society. As we turn our attention today to capitalism’s crisis tendencies and the future of market society, a critical examination of this foundational history becomes the starting point of the analysis of the present. This lecture series addresses the origins of civil society from several vantage points: the legal and political forms that underlie market relations; the transformation of the labor process; the role of gender and reproductive labor; and the history of separation from the means of subsistence.
Additional events in this series:
Jan 16, 2014 – Warren Montag: “The Revocation of the Right to Subsistence: On the Legal and Political Origins of the Market”
Mar 6, 2014 – Michael Perelman: “Primitive Accumulation: From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel”
Presented by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information, including disabled access, please contact Evin Guy: (831) 459-5655, ecguy@ucsc.edu. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu.

Living Writers Series: Panel of Editors
2014-02-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni!
Zoë Ruiz is the managing editor of The Rumpus. Her work was been published by The Weeklings, Salon, Two Serious Ladies, and elsewhere.
Elizabeth McKenzie is the author of Stop That Girl, which was short-listed for the Story Prize, and a novel, MacGregor Tells the World. Her fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Pushcart Prize Anthology, Threepenny Review and others, and has been recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts. She is currently Managing Editor of Catamaran Literary Reader and Senior Editor of the Chicago Quarterly Review.
Daniel Mirk was a staff writer for the satirical website The Onion from 2006 to 2012. He is one of the creators of the Peabody Award winning Onion News Network web series, the IFC television series of the same name, and the Amazon Studios pilot Onion News Empire. Daniel has also written for Comedy Central, Funny Or Die, and The Upright Citizens Brigade. In 2013 Daniel was nominated for an Emmy for his work on the writing staff of the Comedy Central special “Night Of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together For Autism Programs” hosted by Jon Stewart.

Misfit Horror Film Series: The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
2014-02-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
Misfit Horror
A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected.
February 9th – The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960, dir. Terence Fisher) – perhaps the sleaziest and most affecting adaptation of Stevenson’s novella
Sunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

For more information, please visit: literature.ucsc.edu

Poetry Santa Cruz presents Michael Hannon and Gary Young
2014-02-11 19:30 - 21:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Michael Hannon was born in California in 1939. He has been writing and publishing poetry for 53 years. His work has appeared in journals and anthologies both here and abroad. Much of his work has been published by California’s leading book artists in limited editions. His thirty-year collaboration with the artist William T. Wiley has produced books, sculptures and numerous gallery and museum shows. Kenneth Rexroth said of Hannon’s work: “A very good poet indeed and certainly one of the few Tantric writers in any language who is both profound and witty.” Hannon is the author of thirty-five poetry titles, including four full-length poetry collections: A Door in the Water(1975), Poems & Days (1985), Ordinary Messengers (1991), Trusting Oblivion (2002),Imaginary Burden: Selected Poems (2013). Michael is married to Nancy Dahl and lives in Los Osos, California. He has 3 grown sons, Dylan, Jason, and Colin and 3 grandsons, Jadrien, Oliver and Kai.Download a PDF of two poems by Michael Hannon from the Imaginary Burden:Selected Poems.
Read praise for Imaginary Burden from Gary Young and Joseph Stroud.

Gary Young is a poet, artist, printer, and educator. His numerous awards include recognition from the Poetry Society of America—the 2013 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award (2013), the Shelley Memorial Award (2009), the William Carlos Williams Award (2003), and the Lyric Poem Award (2001). Gary has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities, and his print work is represented in the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Getty Center for the Arts, and special collection libraries throughout the country. He teaches Creative Writing, and is the Director of the Cowell Press at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His books include Hands, The Dream of a Moral Life, Days, Braver Deeds, No Other Life, and Pleasure. His latest book, Even So: New and Selected Poems, was released in 2012. His most recent poems were written while studying in Japan in 2011. In 2014 White Pine Press will release Precious Mirror, his translations of and the calligraphy of Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi and Ninja Press will publish a limited edition of new poems, In Japan.
See Gary Young’s website.

Poetry Santa Cruz is funded, in part, by a grant from Arts Council Santa Cruz County. Some events are supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation. Poetry Santa Cruz is also grateful for the support of its members and donors, In Celebration of the Muse, and those who donated in memory of Maude Meehan and Kathleen Flowers. The William James Association acted as our fiscal sponsor for our first four years. Our readings are supported by Bookshop Santa Cruz, Capitola Book Café, Cabrillo College, Darling House, and KUSP. Membership premiums have been donated by Graywolf Press, the University of Pittsburgh Press, Robert Sward, Coffee House Press, Copper Canyon Press, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Gildas Hamel: "Stretching time: emergence of apocalyptics and its uses"
2014-02-12 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Gildas Hamel’s current work is on the economy, society and religion of ancient Israel and Graeco-Roman Judaea. His research focuses on taxes, forms of labor, the competition of various groups for resources and political power, and the evolution of religious structures, including the appearance of monotheism and new notions of time.
Gildas Hamel is Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the History Department at UCSC.

Living Writers Series: Panel of Journalists
2014-02-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni!
Martha Mendoza is a Puliter Prize-winning Associated Press National Writer whose reports have won numerous awards and prompted Congressional hearings, Pentagon investigations and White House responses. She has reported for the AP since 1997, in Albuquerque, N.M., New York and Mexico City. A UC Santa Cruz graduate, she was a 2001 Knight Fellow at Stanford University and a 2007 Ferris Professor for Humanities at Princeton University.
Nick Miroff is a correspondent for The Washington Post covering Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. He is also a senior correspondent for GlobalPost and a contributor to National Public Radio. Miroff has a master’s degree from the UC Berkeley School of Journalism (2006) and studied Spanish and Latin American literature at UC Santa Cruz (2000). He grew up in Albany, New York.
Michael Scherer is TIME magazine’s Washington D.C. Bureau Chief. He joined TIME in December of 2007 and became the magazine’s White House correspondent following the 2008 campaign. He has written a number of cover stories in recent years, including The Informers, The Gunfighters, The New Sheriffs of Wall Street and Yo Decido: the Rise of the Latino Voter. He won the 2012 National Press Club’s Lee Walczak Award for Political Analysis for his series on how the Obama campaign harnessed technology to win the Presidential race. Before coming to TIME, he worked as a Washington Correspondent for both Salon.com and Mother Jones magazine, and as a beat reporter for the Daily Hampshire Gazette of Northampton, Mass.

Misfit Horror Film Series: Love Object
2014-02-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
Misfit Horror
A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected.

Relationships come and go, but plastination is forever!
The only film hitherto written and directed by Robert Parigi, Love Object creepily tells the story of a love triangle involving a young man, a young woman, and an anatomically correct sex doll that looks an awful lot like the young woman. Kenneth (Desmond Harrington) is a socially maladroit technical writer who pines for a temp typist in his office, Lisa (Melissa Sagemiller), but cannot work up the nerve to ask her out. Shown an internet site selling deluxe sex dolls for thousands of dollars, he designs a life-size rubber doll made to look like Lisa, though he christens the doll Nikki. After developing a comprehensive relationship with Nikki (including sex and nightly tête–à–têtes), Kenneth works up the nerve to approach Lisa, which only makes Nikki more and more violently jealous. In many respects a companion film to Lucky McKee’s May, a much more widely known and respected horror film released the previous year—in his excellent book Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen since the 1960s Kim Newman goes so far as to suggest that May and Kenneth “might be soulmates if they weren’t in different films”—Love Object is not to be missed!
Sunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

Hedwig C. Rose: "Living the Life of Anne Frank: A Childhood in Hiding"
2014-02-18 10:00 - 11:45 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Jewish Studies with support from the Neufeld Levin Holocaust Chair Endowment presents:
Hedwig C. Rose: “Living the Life of Anne Frank: A Childhood in Hiding”
Dr. Hedwig C. Rose, education specialist and former Director of Education Studies at Wesleyan University, was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. After her father, his five brothers and their families were rounded up by the Nazi occupiers in 1942, she spent three years hidden in an Amsterdam cellar. She came to the United States in 1947.
A visiting fellow at the Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (War Document Archives) in Amsterdam in 2008, for past eight years she has been visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where she is continuing her research for a book on The Netherlands before and during World War II.

Warren Sack - "A Machine to Tell Stories: From Propp to Software Studies:
2014-02-19 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Warren Sack is currently working on a book entitled “The Software Arts” (for the Software Studies series at MIT Press) where he explores an understanding of computer science as a liberal art and computer programming as a form of writing.
Warren Sack is Professor of Film & Digital Media at UCSC.

Sharon Holland: "Perishment: Thoughts on Blackness and the Human/Animal Distinction"
2014-02-20 10:00 - 11:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Sharon Holland, Professor of American Studies at UNC Chapel Hill has been working on a book project entitled “Perishment,” a theoretical study that takes German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s notion that humans “die” while animals “perish,” and reads across the theoretical spectrum of works on the human/animal distinction in order to arrive at a fundamental question: what is the relationship of “blackness” to discourse on the animal? Do black humans “die” or “perish”? The prevailing thought in the field of African Americanist scholarship is that “blackness” – through Martin Heidegger and Frantz Fanon in particular – is related to “thingness,” rather than animality. This theoretical project re-thinks that interpretive paradigm. I am particularly invested in how movement away from “the animal,” writ large in the Cartesian framework, does not allow for much discussion of an ethical commitment (Emanuel Levinas) to the animal within African Americanist discourse. My intention is to provide both a critique of the present condition in critical discourse on blackness (especially its gendered assumptions) and a model for how to begin such a conversation within the theoretical language available to us on the human/animal divide.
Sharon P. Holland is a graduate of Princeton University (1986) and holds a PhD in English and African American Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1992). She is the author of RAISING THE DEAD: READINGS OF DEATH AND (BLACK) SUBJECTIVITY (Duke UP, 2000), which won the Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association (ASA) in 2002. She is also co-author of a collection of trans-Atlantic Afro-Native criticism with Professor Tiya Miles (American Culture, UM, Ann Arbor) entitled Crossing Waters/ Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (Duke University Press, 2006). Professor Holland is also responsible for bringing a feminist classic, THE QUEEN IS IN THE GARBAGE by Lila Karp to the attention of The Feminist Press (Summer 2007) for publication (2007). She is the author of The Erotic Life of Racism (Duke University Press, 2012), a theoretical project that explores the intersection of Critical Race, Feminist, and Queer Theory. She is also at work on the final draft of another book project entitled simply, “little black girl.” You can see her work on food, writing and all things equestrian on her blog, http://theprofessorstable.wordpress.com//. She is currently at work on a new project, “Perishment” an investigation of the human/animal distinction and the place of discourse on blackness within that discussion. She is presently a Professor in the Department of American Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Presented with generous support from: the Institute for Humanities Research, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) and the Feminist Studies Department at UCSC.

Becko Copenhaver: "Berkeley on the Language of Nature and the Objects of Vision"
2014-02-20 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
ABSTRACT: Berkeley holds that vision, in isolation, presents only color and light. He also claims that typical perceivers experience distance, figure, magnitude, and situation visually. The question posed in New Theory is how we perceive by sight spatial features that are not, strictly speaking, visible. Berkeley’s answer is “that the proper objects of vision constitute an universal language of the Author of nature.” For typical humans, this language of vision comes naturally. Berkeley identifies two sorts of objects of vision: primary (light and colors) and secondary (distance, figure, magnitude, situation). But Berkeley also appeals to a third class of a different sort: visible figure, magnitude, and situation, constituting the vocabulary of the language of vision. By considering two perceivers who lack this vocabulary we may better understand this third category and the difference between those who must learn the language of vision and those for whom it is a natural endowment.
Read the paper here: Berkeley on the Language of Nature and the Objects of Vision

Rebecca Copenhaver is Professor of Philosophy at Lewis & Clark College, where she has taught since 2001. Her research interests are in Early Modern Philosophy, Thomas Reid, and Philosophy of Mind. Her work has appeared in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Res Philosophica, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Quarterly, History of Philosophy Quarterly, The Journal of the History of Philosophy, The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, and The Oxford Handbook on British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century. She is co-author with Brian P. Copenhaver of From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800 – 1950 (University of Toronto Press, 2012). She is currently writing a book on Thomas Reid’s theory of mind.

Gender. Region. Slavery.
2014-02-21 09:30 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Video from this event will be posted soon. Please click here for updated media.

For slavery studies, engagements with the geopolitical have robustly shifted the angles through which the field might begin to imagine collusions, collaborations and conversations with regions of the world. Historians, in particular, have contributed to our understanding of the forces at work in the making of ‘regions’ and ‘slavery’ between the fifteenth and the twentieth centuries. However, such scholarship has minoritized gender relations in the making of such geographies. This colloquium reverses the trend by foregrounding the question: what would regional histories of ‘slavery’ look like if interrogated as formulations of gender? Eschewing the conventional segregation and/or minoritization of regions as spatialities that provide local historical flavor, the colloquium seeks to simultaneously correct regional asymmetries of the past of slavery, as well as highlight the centrality of gender in the making and conceiving of ‘region’ itself. Central to our concerns is an interrogation of race as understood primarily through the history of the transatlantic slave trade, such that this idea of race could be said to constitute the background against which all representations of racial formation take place. Rather, our presenters ask, for example, what would it mean to imagine an analytic of race that would take the transatlantic trade to the Indian Ocean and not produce African subjects in the same trajectory of slavery? What are the different life-forms and histories of slavery that exceed the hegemonic plantation model of slavery?
9:30 AM: Introductory Remarks by Anjali Arondekar, University of California, Santa Cruz
10:00 AM: Ronaldo V. Wilson, University of California, Santa Cruz
Slave Slips | Life Forms: a poetry performance
10:45 AM: Indrani Chatterjee, University of Texas, Austin
Decolonizing the History of Slavery
Respondent: Juned Shaikh, University of California, Santa Cruz
12:00 PM: Lunch
1:00 PM: Stephen Best, University of California, Berkeley
Unfit for History
Respondent: Vilashini Cooppan, University of California, Santa Cruz
2:00 PM: Tea Break
2:15 PM: Jenny Sharpe, University of California, Los Angeles
The Degraded Image of Slavery
Respondent: Gina Dent, University of California, Santa Cruz
Sponsored by the Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, with generous contributions from the Departments of Literature, History, Sociology, Anthropology and the Institute for Humanities Research.
For further information, please contact Anjali Arondekar: aarondek@ucsc.edu

From Books to MOOCs: The Evolution of Teaching in the Liberal Arts
2014-02-22 18:00 - 20:30 | St. Francis Yacht Club on the Marina
Please join UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal for a special evening of conversation and connection.
Featuring:
Murray Baumgarten, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
Peter Kenez, Professor Emeritus of History
Facilitated by Bill Ladusaw, UCSC Dean of Humanities
Murray Baumgarten and Peter Kenez will discuss how teaching in the liberal arts has changed over the years, and how their course, The Holocaust–taken by hundreds of UCSC students each year–has expanded from the lecture hall to the global electronic stage. As a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), the class reached nearly 18,000 students worldwide. While student-faculty interaction is still a hallmark of UCSC education, the evening will explore how great teachers can leverage technology to broaden their reach.

RSVP by February 12, 2014 online at http://specialevents.ucsc.edu/books-to-moocs
Questions? (831) 459-5003 or specialevents@ucsc.edu

Misfit Horror Film Series: A Chinese Ghost Story
2014-02-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
Misfit Horror
A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected.
A Chinese Ghost Story (1987, dir. Siu-Tung Ching) is a remarkable high point of 80s Hong Kong cinema.
Both an adaptation of a story by Pu Songling written during the Qing Dynasty and a remake of a Shaw Brothers film entitled The Enchanted Shadow (1960), A Chinese Ghost Story is feverish mix of romance, comedy, and Evil Dead-style supernatural horror. After he fails to collect a debt owed to him, a young scholarly tax collector (Leslie Cheung) is forced to spend the night in an abandoned temple where he meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman (Joey Wong), whom he subsequently realizes is a ghost enslaved to a Tree Demon (Siu-Ming Lau). With a Taoist swordsman (Ma Wu) at his side, he sets out to free his beloved spirit from eternal servitude, even if he has to follow the Tree Demon into the underworld to do so. The inspiration for two sequels, an animated film version, a television series, and a remake in 2011, A Chinese Ghost Story is a high point of Hong Kong cinema during what was arguably its most fertile creative period. Not to be missed!
Sunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

Screening and Panel Discussion - The Stuart Hall Project: Revolution, Politics, Culture, and the New Left Experience
2014-02-25 19:30 - 22:00 | Communications 150, Studio C
A major success in Britain last Fall, “The Stuart Hall Project” is now being distributed in the USA. It will be screened at UCSC on Tuesday evening, February 25th. 7:30 PM, Studio C. (Communications 150)
The film, 102 minutes, will be followed by an informal panel and general discussion animated by James Clifford (History of Consciousness), Jennifer Gonzalez (HAVC), and Herman Gray (Sociology).
Read reviews of and interviews about the film here and here.
Generously funded by the Arts Dean’s Fund for Excellence. Co-sponsored by The Center for Cultural Studies and the Department of Film and Digital Media.

Matthew Wolf-Meyer - "Nervous Materialities: Love Robots, Pacified Bulls, Stimoceivers and Spinoza’s Brain"
2014-02-26 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Matthew Wolf-Meyer’s work focuses on medicine, science and media in the United States. He is currently finishing a book manuscript, tentatively titled What Matters: Autism, Neuroscience and the Politics of American Brains, on the alternative histories of American neuroscience, seen through the lens of extreme anti-social forms of autism.
Matthew Wolf-Meyer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UCSC.

A Conversation & Book Party for Neda Atanasoski with Lisa Rofel & Shelley Stamp
2014-02-26 17:00 - 19:00 | Humanites 1, Room 320, Humanities and Social Science Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
When is a war not a war? When it is undertaken in the name of democracy, against the forces of racism, sexism, and religious and political persecution? This is the new world of warfare that Neda Atanasoski observes in Humanitarian Violence, different in name from the old imperialism but not so different in kind. In particular, she considers U.S. militarism—humanitarian militarism—during the Vietnam War, the Soviet-Afghan War, and the 1990s wars of secession in the former Yugoslavia.
What this book brings to light—through novels, travel narratives, photojournalism, films, news media, and political rhetoric—is in fact a system of postsocialist imperialism based on humanitarian ethics. Humanitarian Violence identifies an emerging discourse of race that focuses on ideological and cultural differences and makes postsocialist and Islamic nations the potential targets of U.S. disciplining violence.

The Introduction and Chapter 4 will be available to read prior to the talk at:
http://feministstudies.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/neda-book-2014.html
Please join us for a small reception in the Feminist Studies library following the reading.

Neda Atanasoski is an Associate Proressor in the Feminist Studies Department at UCSC. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of U.S and Eastern European media and cultural studies, with a focus on the politics of religion and sexuality, postsocialism, human rights and humanitarianism, and war and nationalism. Professor Atanasoski’s current research project, in collaboration with Kalindi Vora (UCSD), takes up the relationship between notions of the “network” and “revolution” in the postsocialist era as they assess the ethical frames and moral imperatives undergirding current-day modes of waging war, biomedical modes of extending life, and understanding the politics of dissent and consent that both use and critique the “revolutionary” technologies associated such social and political shifts of our postsocialist era.

Conversation and book reading presented by the Feminist Studies Department.

Shakespeare in ASL: A Performance and Discussion with Monique Holt and Tim Chamberlain
2014-02-26 18:30 - 20:00 | Theater Arts, E100
O, learn to read what silent love hath writ:
To hear with eyes belongs to love’s fine wit.
The Provost of Porter College and the IHR Research Cluster, Shakespeare’s Disciplines, invite you to experience a phenomenal new translation of Shakespeare’s Sonnets into American Sign Language.
In addition to performing a selection of sonnets in ASL, Monique Holt and Tim Chamberlain will discuss the art of translation, the concept of style in signing, and the relationship between Shakespeare’s poems and his plays.

Nicholas D. Cahill: "The City of Sardis"
2014-02-27 17:00 - 18:30 | 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”
This lecture will present the results of current research at Sardis in western Turkey, the capital city of the Lydians and of their last king, Croesus. Recent excavation has dramatically changed our ideas about the Lydian city, with the discovery of the monumental city wall, terraces that regularized and organized the rugged natural topography, very probably used as a palatial quarter; houses burned by the Persian sack of the city in 547 BC. It will consider the later history of the city, including the temple of Artemis, the Hellenistic theater, and a temple of the Roman imperial cult.
Nicholas D. Cahill earned his B.A. at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 1981. After that, Cahill went on to the University of California-Berkeley to earn both his M.A. in 1984 and his Ph.D. in 1991 in Ancient History and Archaeology. Cahill specializes in Greek and Anatolian archaeology, especially urbanism and housing. He has done field work in Turkey, England and Israel. Professor Cahill has been honored with the National Endowment for the Humanities / American Research Institute in Turkey award for sabbatical year research (2005-2006); the title of UW Humanities Institute Fellow (2000-2001); and the American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (1995-1996.) Nicholas is currently teaching at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) where he has been employed since 1993.
Talk begins at 5:00 pm, refreshments served at 4:30 pm, with a reception following lecture.

Living Writers Series: Poets
2014-02-27 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni!
Sesshu Foster has taught composition and literature in East L.A. for 25 years. He’s also taught writing at the University of Iowa, the California Institute for the Arts, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and the University of California, Santa Cruz. His work has been published in The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Language for a New Century: Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond, and State of the Union: 50 Political Poems. Local readings are archived at www.sicklyseason.com. He is collaborates with artist Arturo Romo-Santillano and other writers on the website, www.ELAguide.org. His most recent books are the novel Atomik Aztex and the hybrid text World Ball Notebook.
Angel Dominguez writes things. Originally from Los Angeles, he received his BA in Poetry from UC Santa Cruz. He is currently an MFA candidate at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. He is the founding editor of the Omni Writers Collective Press, the co-founding editor of TRACT / TRACE: an investigative journal, and presently the senior editor for the Bombay Gin literary journal. His work has appeared in The Bombay Gin, Omni Symposium vol.1, and is forthcoming in the Berkeley Poetry Review. Most recently he completed an interview chapbook TIME-SCAPING with Mary Burger, published by Pinball Press. Now residing in Boulder Colorado, he is exploring the sentence and what it is for.

Mark A. Raider: "The Changing Image of the Israeli Hero in American Culture"
2014-02-28 15:30 - 16:40 | Social Sciences 2, Room 75, Social Sciences 2‎ University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Jewish Studies presents: Mark A. Raider
This talk surveys the long arc of the Zionist and Israeli hero as perceived in the American setting. Taking a page from scholars of semiotics and iconography, it pays close attention to a variety of texts, visual images, and cultural artifacts drawn from Zionist propaganda and recruitment literature, photographs and films, poetry, novels, and memoirs, art, music, and dance, textbooks, children’s literature and memoirs, etc. By examining how the trope of the Zionist and Israeli hero changed over time, I seek to enhance our understanding of the strong bond between the Jews of America and Israel as well as help to explain the ideational linkages that inform the contemporary U.S.-Israel relationship.
Mark A. Raider is Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Department of History at the University of Cincinnati and a Research Associate in the University’s Center for Studies in Jewish Education and Culture. He is also Visiting Professor of American Jewish History at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
Dr. Raider’s scholarly articles have appeared in The American Jewish Archives Journal, American Jewish History, Jewish Social Studies, The Journal of Israeli History, and elsewhere. In 2010 he was awarded the American Jewish Historical Society’s Leo Wasserman prize for the best article published in American Jewish History (“The Aristocrat and the Democrat: Louis Marshall, Stephen S. Wise and the Challenge of American Jewish Leadership”).
His books include The Emergence of American Zionism (1998); Abba Hillel Silver and American Zionism, with Jonathan D. Sarna and Ronald W. Zweig (1997); The Plough Woman: Records of the Pioneer Women of Palestine–A Critical Edition, with Miriam B. Raider-Roth (2002); American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise, with Shulamit Reinharz (2005); and Nahum Goldmann: Statesman Without a State (2009). He also wrote a book-length history of the American Jewish experience for the new edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica (vol. 20, 2006).
He most recently completed an edited and annotated anthology titled Free Associations: Selected Writings of Hayim Greenberg–A Critical Edition, which is under advance contract with the University of Alabama Press. An excerpt from this volume appeared in the summer 2013 issue of The Jewish Review of Books. He is now working on a full-scale biography of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, one of the twentieth century’s most important and controversial American Jewish and Zionist leaders.
Dr. Raider teaches courses on U.S. history, the American Jewish experience, modern Jewish history, and Zionism and Israel. He is married to Dr. Miriam B. Raider-Roth and they have three children–Jonah, Emma, and Talia.

Misfit Horror Film Series: Mother Joan of the Angels
2014-03-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
Misfit Horror
A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected.
March 2nd – Mother Joan of the Angels (1961, dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz) – an impressive and unsettling Polish film about the demonic possession of a group of nuns in the early 1600s
Sunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

For more information, please visit: ihr.ucsc.edu

Naftali Rothenberg: "Jewish Identity in Contemporary Israel: Between Separatism and Cohesion"
2014-03-05 15:30 - 16:40 | Social Sciences 2, Room 75, Social Sciences 2‎ University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Rabbi Professor Naftali Rothenberg is a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (since 1994), where he is Jewish Culture and Identity chair and editor of Identities, Journal for Jewish Culture & Identity. He also serves as the Rabbi and spiritual leader of Har Adar.
His main fields of research are: The wisdom of love; Political Philosophy; Philosophy of Halakha; Democratic education.
He has published numerous articles and 12 books. His most recent books are: Unity within Diversity: A Common Core Curriculum for Israeli Schoolchildren, (With Libat Avishay), Jerusalem 2012, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute; Wisdom by the week – the Weekly Torah Portion as an Inspiration for Thought and Creativity, New York 2012: Yeshiva University Press and The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute; Values and Citizens – Civic Democratic Education, Jerusalem 2011: The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute; Rabbi in the New World: The Influence of Rabbi J. B. Soloveitchik on Culture, Education and Jewish Thought, (with Avinoam Rosenak) Jerusalem 2011: Magnes Hebrew University Press and the VLJI; and The Wisdom of Love—Man, Woman & God in Jewish Canonical Literature, Boston 2009: Academic Studies Press.
Naftali Rothenberg is the 2011 laureate of the Liebhaber Prize for the encouragement of religious tolerance in Israel.

Brian Catlos: "Islamic Spain and the Culture of the West: From al-Andalus to Bob Dylan and Bill Gates"
2014-03-06 14:00 - 15:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
What do Bob Dylan and Bill Gates owe to medieval Islam? More than you might think. From the computing to rock and roll much of what we consider emblematic of Western Civilization was in fact adapted from the world of Islam in the Middle Ages. The particular historical circumstances of Muslim Spain made this the chief venue for this process. Understanding how this came about deepens our understanding of the world of Islam and complicates our notions of what we consider “Western culture.”
Brian Catlos is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Research Associate in Humanities at UCSC, and co-director of the UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Project. His The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050–1300 (Cambridge) won two major prizes; two books: The Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, 1050–1614 (Cambridge) and Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors: Power, Faith and Politics in the Age of Crusade and Jihad (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) will be published in 2014. He also writes travel books and featured in the PBS documentary Cities of Light. For more see www.brianacatlos.com.

Michael Perelman: “Primitive Accumulation: From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel”
2014-03-06 17:00 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Michael Perelman is a professor of economics at California State University, Chico. He is an American economist and economic historian and writes extensively in criticism of conventional or mainstream economics. Perelman has written 19 books, including Railroading Economics, Manufacturing Discontent, The Perverse Economy, and The Invention of Capitalism. His latest project is, The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism: How Market Control Undermines the Economy by Stunting Workers, under contract with Stanford University Press. The basic theme is the way that capitalism is structured to be incapable of efficiently managing the labor process and that capitalism’s efforts to control the labor process create serious social and economic damage.
This event is part of “The Origins of Civil Society” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. The development of the discipline of political economy, including its dialogue with modern political philosophy, is closely intertwined with the rise and expansion of capitalist society. As we turn our attention today to capitalism’s crisis tendencies and the future of market society, a critical examination of this foundational history becomes the starting point of the analysis of the present. This lecture series addresses the origins of civil society from several vantage points: the legal and political forms that underlie market relations; the transformation of the labor process; the role of gender and reproductive labor; and the history of separation from the means of subsistence.
Additional events in this series:
Jan 16, 2014 – Warren Montag: “The Revocation of the Right to Subsistence: On the Legal and Political Origins of the Market”
Feb 6, 2014 – Kathi Weeks: “The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries”
Presented by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster.Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information, including disabled access, please contact Evin Guy: (831) 459-5655, ecguy@ucsc.edu. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu.

18 IUs Soli: Film Screening with Director Fred Kuwornu
2014-03-06 17:00 - 19:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Fred Kuwornu an Italian-Ghanaian activist, director, and producer, will be screening his documentary, 18 IUs Soli, is on the denial of citizenship to children born of immigrants in Italy. He will also be participating in a Q&A following, and there will be reception in Stevenson Fireside Lounge.
Fred Kudjo Kuwornu, born and raised in Italy, is an Italian-Ghanaian activist-producer-writer-director. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Mass Media. After college, Fred moved to Rome where he began working as a TV show writer for RAI 1. He has produced several works with his production company, Struggle Filmworks. In 2008, after working with the production crew of Spike Lee’sMiracle at St. Anna (2008), Fred decided to research the unknown story of the 92nd Infantry “Buffalo Soldiers” Division, discovering the journey taken by the real 92nd veterans, the African American segregated combat unit which fought in Europe during WW II. Fred then produced and directed the award-winning documentary Inside Buffalo. Inside Buffalo was awarded “Best Documentary” at the Black Berlin International Cinema Festival, and has been shown at the Pentagon, the Library of Congress, and many other venues including the top U.S. Black Film Festivals. He worked alongside talents such as Derek Luke (Captain America; Notorius; Catch a Fire; Lions for Lambs); Laz Alonso (Jumping the Broom, Avatar, Fast and Furious); Omar Benson Miller (CSI Miami, 8 Miles); Michael Ealy; and Oscar-nominated cinematographer Matthew Libatique (Black Swan). Fred Kuwornu founded the non-profit organizatiion Diversity Italia promoting the importance of racial and ethnic diversity in Italy and Europe using film and other arts as tools for building a more inclusive society. His next projects are Paisan Soldiers, a documentary about Italian-Americans in World War II, and ’64, a film about the U.S. Civil Rights

Living Writers Series: Molly Antopol
2014-03-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni!
Novelist Molly Antopol teaches creative writing at Stanford University, where she was a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow. Her debut story collection, The UnAmericans, is forthcoming in February 2014 from W.W. Norton. She is a recipient of the 2013 ‘5 Under 35’ Award from the National Book Foundation and holds an M.F.A. from Columbia University. Her writing has appeared on NPR’s This American Life and in many publications, including One Story, Ecotone, American Short Fiction, Glimmer Train, Esquire and Mississippi Review Prize Stories. She lives in San Francisco and is at work on a novel, The After Party, which will also be published by Norton.

Minorities in the Mediterranean, A Symposium and Workshop
2014-03-08 09:30 - 17:15 | SFSU Humanities Building
The Mediterranean Seminar/University of California Multi-Campus Research Project and the departments of Comparative and World Literature, History, Jewish Studies, and the Spanish Program of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at San Francisco State University invite participants to a two-day, two-part event on Medieval and Early Modern Minorities in the Mediterranean, to be held on 7 & 8 March 2014 at San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA. Participants from the broadest range of relevant disciplines are welcome and encouraged to register.
Mediterranean Minorities – Symposium
Friday, 7 March, 10am—5:30pm
San Francisco State University
Humanities Bldg., Room 587
A one-day symposium consisting of three round table discussions:
Opportunity
Assimilation and Exchange
Vulnerability
featuring:
• Fred Astren (Jewish Studies, San Francisco State)
• Jeremy Brown (Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University)
• Brian Catlos (Religious Studies, CU Boulder/ Humanities, University of California, Santa Cruz)
• Tom Dandelet (History, University of California at Berkeley)
• John Dagenais (Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA)
• Federica Francesconi (Jewish Studies, University of Oregon)
• Paolo Girardelli (History, Boğaziçi University)
• Mike Hammer (Spanish, San Francisco State)
• Joshua Holo (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion)
• Slobodan Dan Paich (Artship Foundation, San Francisco CA)
• Jonathan Ray (Jewish Studies, Georgetown University)
• Jarbel Rodriguez (History, San Francisco State)
• Stefan Stantchev (History, Arizona State University)
• David Wacks (Romance Languages, University of Oregon)
• Valerie Wilhite (Romance Languages, University of Oregon)
• Megan Williams (History, San Francisco State)

Mediterranean Minorities – Workshop
Saturday, 8 March, 9:30am—5:15pm
San Francisco State University
Humanities Bldg., Room 587
A workshop consisting of three pre-circulated papers and a talk by our featured scholar:
• “Do Mediterranean Studies Speak to Latin American Colonial Studies? A Suspected German Lutheran Conquers A Suspected “Morisco”in the Canaries Before Taking On the New World”
Giovanna Montenegro (Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis)
• “Alexandria ad Aegyptum”
Dan Selden (Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz)
• “Being Different in the Medieval Middle East? The Poet’s Story”
Jocelyn Sharlet (Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis)
• Featured scholar:
Stephen Humphreys (History, University of California Santa Barbara):
“Adapting to the Infidel: the Christian Communities of Syria in the Early Islamic Period”
Full program for conference and workshop available here.
All interested graduate students and scholars are welcome. Both events are free but pre-registration is required; attendance is limited so please register soon. UC-and SFSU-affiliated scholars may register immediately, non-UC scholars on or after February 7. Lunch will be provided on both days for attendees who register prior to February 26.
To register for the workshop and/or conference and receive the workshop papers, please contact Courtney Mahaney (cmahaney@ucsc.edu) at the University of California, Santa Cruz. UC-affiliated faculty and graduate students will be eligible for up to $350 for travel expenses; non-UC participants may apply but support will granted as available (contingent on availability and attendance at both events).
The Mediterranean Seminar is an interdisciplinary scholarly forum, the aim of which is to promote collaborative research and the development of the field of Mediterranean Studies. The UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Project is funded by the UC Office of the President and is administered by the Institute for Humanities Research at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
To join the Mediterranean Seminar, send your name, professional status, affiliation and fields of interest to mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org.

Misfit Horror Film Series: Possession
2014-03-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
Misfit Horror
A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected.
March 9th – Possession (1981, dir. Andrzej Zulawski) – for those of you who suspect that marriage is intrinsically a horror film
Sunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

For more information, please visit: ihr.ucsc.edu

RESCHEDULED Karen Bassi - "Fading into the Future: Visibility and Legibility in Thucydides History"
2014-03-12 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk was originally scheduled for March 5th. It has been rescheduled to take place on March 12th.
Karen Bassi’s current book project, In Search of Lost Things: Classics Between History and Archaeology is a study of visual perception as the source of knowledge about the past in ancient Greek epic, history writing, and drama. The book explores the dominance of vision and visual metaphors in making truth claims, the role of language in distinguishing fiction from fact, and the criteria for establishing the reality of the past.
Karen Bassi is Professor of Literature and Classics, UCSC

Noriko Aso: "Mitsukoshi at War: Rationalizing Luxury"
2014-03-12 16:00 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Although Mitsukoshi, Japan’s preeminent department store, did its best to rework luxury and play for the total war state through such efforts as a fashion spread on Vichy French style, the state’s demands stripped the retailer bare by 1945. Yet opposing “luxury” and “war” gives Mitsukoshi and unwarranted alibi: collaboration with imperialism had been hither to profitable. Mitsukoshi at war exposes the tangled nature of alliance and opposition between civilian and state institutions, as negotiated in the midst of crisis.
Noriko Aso is Associate Professor of History, and serves as the History Department’s Undergraduate Program Director.

This talk is presented by Stevenson College as a Distinguished Faculty Lecture. Co-sponsored by East Asian Studies Program, the History Department, and the Institute for Humanities Research.

Living Writers Series: Student Readings
2014-03-13 18:00 - 20:00
Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni!
Current UCSC creative writing students read from work they produced during winter quarter.

LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz
2014-03-15 09:30 - 17:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Every year towards the end of the Winter Quarter, the Linguistics at Santa Cruz conference showcases the research of second and third year graduate students. This conference coincides with a visit to campus of prospective graduate students, and it always features as an invited speaker, a Ph.D. alum of the department. This year’s invited speaker will be Ruth Kramer (Ph.D. 2009) an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University.

WHAT WOULD ATTICUS DO?
2014-03-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
Join Literature professors Christopher Chen and Micah Perks, poet Danusha Lameris, and attorney Ben Rice on Saturday, March 15, for a benefit screening of To Kill A Mockingbird. Following the movie, Chen, Perks, Lameris and Rice will take part in a panel discussion entitled “Harper Lee’s Book and How it Changed My Life and The World.” This event, in support of The Young Writers Program of Santa Cruz County, will take place on Saturday, March 15 at 7:00 p.m. at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (705 Front Street, Santa Cruz). For more information and to purchase tickets, please see http://santacruzwrites.org/.

Misfit Horror Film Series: Freaks
2014-03-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
Misfit Horror: A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected.
March 16th – Freaks (1932, dir. Tod Browning) – a Pre-Code horror flick that still has the capacity to haunt and creep you out
The granddaddy of all the misfit horror films we’ve been exploring this quarter, Freaks is Tod Browning’s empathetic depiction of the physically deformed performers who comprise the circus sideshow of Madame Tetrallini (Rose Dione). A beautiful acrobat marries and poisons a rich midget named Hans (Harry Earles) in order to get his inheritance, for which the “freaks” in the circus enact a gruesome revenge. As this brusque summary suggests, it is the “normal” people in the film who often come across as monstrous and grotesque, though the film does provocatively pose the question of where compassion for these “freaks” stops and the exploitation of them begins. Made the year following his famous adaption of Dracula with Bela Lugosi, Browning’s Freaks is not to be missed!
Sunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

Shakespeare to Go!
2014-03-21 16:00 - 17:00 | 2nd Stage, Theater Arts, Performing Arts, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join us for the final dress rehearsal of Shakespeare to Go! This year’s performance is “Hamlet,” directed by Kimberly Jannarone. The final dress rehearsal will be on Friday, March 21st at 4pm in the Theater Art’s Second Stage. The performance is approximately 1 hour. Doors will open at 3:45pm.

VENUE CHANGED Rebecca Jo Plant: "Child Soldiers: Militarism and American Youth"
2014-04-03 14:00 - 16:00 | Abbey Coffee Shop
Prof.Rebecca Jo Plant will be presenting on Child Soldiers: Militarism and American Youth, a book project that she and her collaborator, Frances M. Clarke of the University of Sydney, have undertaken. The project traces debates over the use of child soldiers and the relationship between youth and militarism over two centuries in order to illuminate how changing attitudes toward the U.S. as military nation intersected with evolving attitudes toward childhood and youth. The event will take the form of a workshop with precirculated readings.
Rebecca Jo Plant is an associate professor in the History Department at the University of California, San Diego, since 2002, and is the author of Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America (University of Chicago Press, 2010) and a co-editor of Maternalism Reconsidered: Motherhood, Welfare, and Social Policies in the Twentieth Century (Berghahn, 2012). She received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University and has been awarded fellowships by the American Association of University Women, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the American Council for Learned Societies. Plant’s research interests focus on women’s, gender, and family history; the history of therapeutic culture and the psychological professions; and the social and psychological impact of war in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S.
For access to the readings please contact catjones@ucsc.edu.

Ned Block: "Conscious, Preconscious, Unconscious"
2014-04-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
There are reliably reproducible strong brain activations that have little or no reportability and for that reason could be said to be unconscious, but can become reportable with a shift of attention and do not have many of the signature properties of unconscious states. This lecture discusses whether these states might be phenomenally conscious in the light of the close conceptual tie between conscious perception and first person authority.
Advance reading: Consciousness, accessibility, and the mesh between psychology and neuroscience
Professor Block is the Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science at NYU. He works in philosophy of mind and foundations of neuroscience and cognitive science.

Jane McAlevey: "Beating Attack on Workers by Building High Participation Unions"
2014-04-07 12:30 - 14:00 | College 8, Room 301, College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Jane McAlevey’s first book, Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell), published by Verso Press, was named the “most valuable book of 2012” by The Nation Magazine. She has served as Executive Director and Chief Negotiator for SEIU Nevada, as National Deputy Director for Strategic Campaigns of the Healthcare Division for SEIU, and she was the Campaign Director of the one of the only successful multi-union, multi-year, geographic organizing campaigns for the national AFL-CIO (in Stamford, Connecticut). She has led power structure analyses and strategic planning trainings for a wide range of union and community organizations and has had extensive involvement in globalization and global environmental issues. She worked at the Highlander Research and Education Center as an educator (and as Deputy Director) in her early 20’s. McAlevey is a contributing writer at The Nation Magazine.
Jane will discuss the lessons learned from ten years of building strong local unions that win collective bargaining and political gains based on deep and extensive membership involvement, particularly in the context of the right-to-work state of Nevada and in the face of intensive union-busting efforts of for-profit hospital employers. She will shed light on the ongoing debates over how to rebuild union power in the face of austerity, growing inequality, and Conservative parties’ attacks on the basis of union organizational security.
For a sense of Jane’s take on these matters, see her interview with Laura Flanders or visit janemcalevey.com. Copies of Jane’s book will be available at the talk for $20.
Book talk co-sponsored by the Center for Labor Studies.
For Information about access, please contact Steve McKay at smckay@ucsc.edu. For information about the Sociology Colloquium Series: http://socyeventsucsc.wordpress.com.

Morris Ratner: "A Monument Man in the Courtroom: Litigating the Holocaust"
2014-04-07 19:00 - 20:30 | University Center, UCSC, College Nine and College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UC Santa Cruz will present a lecture by UC Hastings College of the Law Professor Morris Ratner titled “A Monument Man in the Courtroom: Litigating the Holocaust,” on Monday, April 7, at 7 p.m., at UCSC’s University Center.
Professor Morris Ratner successfully prosecuted Holocaust-era private law claims against Swiss, German, Austrian, and French entities that profited from Nazi atrocities by retaining dormant bank accounts, failing to pay on life insurance policies, and benefitting from the use of slave labor. Ratner’s litigation resulted in a series of settlements that, together, yielded payments in excess of $8 billion to victims of Nazi persecution. Using Holocaust litigation as a lens, this lecture explores the topics of “what ‘justice’ means for victims of major atrocities like the Holocaust, the role of private litigation in advancing social causes, and the ability of individual advocates to prevail on behalf of victims in seemingly lost causes.” Ratner’s discussion of “social justice lawyering” also addresses the question: “Did it matter whether the lawyers in the Holocaust cases were–like the victims–Jewish, Gay, or Romani?”
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Morris Ratner joined the UC Hastings Faculty in 2012, after teaching at Harvard Law School. An expert in civil procedure, legal ethics, and law practice management, Ratner’s research explores ethical, procedural, and organizational questions that arise in multi-party actions, including class actions and multidistrict litigations. Ratner worked as a litigator at the San Francisco-based plaintiffs’ firm Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, where he was a partner for 10 years. During that time he prosecuted product liability, mass personal injury, consumer, and human rights actions.
Please join us for this inaugural lecture in the Hastings Social Justice Speakers Series given by Hastings faculty at UCSC. The Series is a product of the UCSC-Hastings collaboration that also features the “3+3 BA/JD” Program which enables UCSC students to complete the BA and JD degrees in six, rather than the usual seven, years by attending both UCSC and Hastings College of the Law.
Admission is free and the public is invited, with pre-registration encouraged to ensure a seat in the event of a sold out event.
Questions: Please call Kristin Palma at 831.459.5075, or e-mail kpalma@ucsc.edu.

Rebecca Hester: "Those against whom society must be defended: Mexican migrants, swine flu, and bioterrorism"
2014-04-08 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Since 9/11 and in the wake of the anthrax letters, there has been a concern about the “dual use” of biological knowledge and material which could variously be used for vaccine development or for the production of biological weapons of mass destruction. Population mobility and biological mutability have been at the center of this concern. The swine flu outbreak in 2009 in which the source of a potential pandemic was traced back to Oaxaca, Mexico led to outcries for a better and stronger cross-border public health infrastructure. This presentation assesses the implications of an increased focus on infectious disease as a biosecurity concern for Latin American origin migrants in Mexico and the United States. The talk shows how Latin American origin populations have particularly been targeted for biosurveillance and have discursively, if never materially, been linked to bioterrorism. The human rights consequences of this discursive link are potentially very grave for cross-border migrants as biological explanations are used to foment xenophobia and policies are implemented to “pre-empt” and “prevent” any and every lethal biological “contaminant” from entering the United States.
Rebecca J. Hester is assistant professor of social medicine in the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch. She holds a Ph.D. in Politics with an emphasis in Latin American and Latino Studies from UCSC. Her research focuses on the politics of the body as they are manifested at and through the intersections of immigration, health, and security. She is co-author, with Ronnie Lipschutz, of “We are the Borg! Human Assimilation into Cellular Society,” pp. 366-407, in: M.G. Michael and Katina Michael (eds.), Uberveillance and the Social Implications of Microchip Implants: Emerging Technologies (Hershey, Penna.: IGI Global, 2014).

These talks are co-sponsored by CGIRS, College Eight, the Politics Department, the Institute for Humanities Research, the Institute of the Arts & Sciences, and the Science and Justice Research Center. The BIOS (Bodies Imag(in)ed to be Obstacles to Security) Research Cluster is a new project of the Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, focused on the surveillance, management, interrogation, discipline and intervention of human and other bodies in the digital age. If you are interested in joining the cluster, please contact Ronnie Lipschutz at rlipsch@ucsc.edu.
