Amanda Smith: "Cartographic Delusion: When Maps Lie & People Believe Them"
2018-04-11 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Amanda M. Smith approaches literary expression as a point of entry into spatialities effaced from other official records. She proposes a reading practice of rigorous intertextuality to recover geographic textures smoothed by homogenizing processes of spatial integration. In this talk, she addresses the stakes of such a spatial reading by exploring the legacy of misreading in contemporary Amazonia.
Smith is Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature in the Department of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She specializes in 20th and 21st-century Latin American literatures and cultures, working across the fields of Indigenous studies and the spatial humanities, with emphasis on the Andean and Amazonian regions. Her current project, tentatively titled Novel Maps, examines how literature and cartography have both overlapped and clashed in transforming Amazonia into a landscape of extraction.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Gabrielle Hecht - "Residual Governance: Mining Afterlives and Molecular Colonialism in a South African Anthropocene"
2018-04-11 15:00 - 17:00 | Social Sciences 1, Room 261, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Residual Governance: Mining Afterlives and Molecular Colonialism in a South African Anthropocene”
This talk explores residual governance in contemporary South Africa. Since the early 20th century, piles of mine waste have defined Johannesburg’s topography. Today, corporations and individuals continually revisit these piles – at very different scales – in the eternal hope of extracting further value. Particles from these mine wastes seep into water supplies, infiltrating bodies with heavy metals, solvents, and radioactive particles. Violence results from entanglements between human, corporate, geological, (post)colonial, and chemical time. New sacrificial topographies emerge continually, as the “new South Africa” demands that some people give up immediate personal aspirations for the sake of the collective good, engaging in its own forced relocations in the name of development, moving people onto valueless land – excess earth, contaminated by radioactive debris, chemicals, and heavy metals.

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Christopher Breu: "In Defense of Sex"
2018-04-12 10:00 - 12:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Christopher Breu: “In Defense of Sex”
Lecture at 10am
Are sex and gender the same thing? Are trans* and intersex the same thing? Do we even need the category of sex anymore? Is it hopelessly retrograde, a category that has run its course and has rightly been replaced by the endlessly more flexible category of gender? “In Defense of Sex” will put forward a concept of sex as embodying a different materiality than gender, one that can form in tension with gendered embodiments and identifications and that asserts its own forms of agency, resistance, and refusal. It will do so by drawing on intersex theory, gender theory, trans* theory, and a range of different materialist theories. A robust and nonreductive account of gender, sexuality, identification, and subjectivity needs to retheorize sex. This talk will begin the work of retheorizing sex for the present.
Christopher Breu is Professor of English at Illinois State University, where he teaches courses on cultural and critical theory, American literature 1900 to the present, American popular culture, literature and culture in a global context, gender and sexuality. His publications include Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics (Minnesota 2014) and Hard-Boiled Masculinities (Minnesota 2005). He earned his PhD in Literature from UC Santa Cruz in 2000.
Sponsored by the Department of Literature, Siegfried and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment.

Christopher Breu: "The Post-PhD Path"
2018-04-12 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The Post-PhD Path: Nourishing the Internal Career, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Writing
RSVP for lunch at 12pm by emailing Janina Larenas (jlarenas@ucsc.edu)
Christopher Breu is Professor of English at Illinois State University, where he teaches courses on cultural and critical theory, American literature 1900 to the present, American popular culture, literature and culture in a global context, gender and sexuality. His publications include Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics (Minnesota 2014) and Hard-Boiled Masculinities (Minnesota 2005). He earned his PhD in Literature from UC Santa Cruz in 2000.
Sponsored by the Department of Literature, Siegfried and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment.

Living Writers Series: Sherwin Bitsui
2018-04-12 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Originally from White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation, Sherwin Bitsui is the author of two collections of poetry, Flood Song (Copper Canyon) and Shapeshift (University of Arizona Press). He is Diné of the Todích’ii’nii (Bitter Water Clan), born for the Tlizílaaní (Many Goats Clan) and holds an AFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts Creative Writing Program and a BA from University of Arizona in Tucson. His recent honors include a 2011 Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship and a 2011 Native Arts & Culture Foundation Arts Fellowship. He is also the recipient of 2010 PEN Open Book Award, an American Book Award, and a Whiting Writers Award. Bitsui has published his poems in Narrative, Black Renaissance Noir, American Poet, The Iowa Review, LIT, and elsewhere.
Steeped in Native American culture, mythology, and history, Bitsui’s poems reveal the tensions in the intersection of Native American and contemporary urban culture. As an ecopoet, his poems are imagistic, surreal, and rich with details of the landscape of the Southwest.
Spring 2018 Living Writers:
A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement
This spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories, persons and things, race and freedom, kinship and loss, and the human and non-human natural world.
April 12: Sherwin Bitsui
April 26: Leif Haven, Jared Harvey
May 3: Courtney Kersten
May 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton
May 24: Sawako Nakayasu
May 31: Robin Coste Lewis
June 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Thursdays, 5:20-6:50 PM
All Readings are Free and Open to the Public
Contact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu)
This event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, American Indian Resource Center, El Centro, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, the Chicano Latino Research Center, Cowell College, Bay Tree Bookstore, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment, the Literature Department, and the Creative Writing Program.

Mayanthi Fernando: "SuperNatureCulture: Human/Nonhuman Entanglements Beyond the Secular"
2018-04-18 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Mayanthi Fernando works on Islam, secularism, and the politics of difference in the North Atlantic. Her current project tracks the secular genealogies of the recent posthumanist turn. Reading this scholarship alongside other traditions of nonhuman ontologies, including Islamic sciences of the unseen, she asks whether we might rethink “natureculture” as “supernatureculture.”
Mayanthi Fernando is an associate professor of Anthropology at UCSC, and the director of the Center For Emerging Worlds. Her current project attends to the nexus of sex and religion in the articulation of modern secularity, analyzing how the secular state’s project of regulating and transforming religious life is interwoven with its project of sexual normalization, i.e. the production of secular, sexually “normal” citizens. She is interested in how proper religion and proper sexuality are mutually constituted (often in opposition to each other) by secular rule.
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The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Unintelligible: Noise Against Capture
2018-04-20 - 2018-04-21 | CA
Graduate student conference exploring the potentials of a critical sound studies.
This conference seeks to cultivate an interdisciplinary understanding of the field of Sound Studies by taking up the ubiquitous sonic trope of noise, considering its counter-productive character and how it can be a tactic for critique against the capture of individuals and communities of resistance. We will look at how “Others” are produced by noise, asking: can we understand these subjects that destabilize normativity to be a kind of noise? Can noise understood as negation (“disruptive,” “illegible,” “unintelligible”) still be productive and resistant? How do we slow the impulse to turn noise into a metaphor and highlight its material role in neighborhoods, institutions, and culture?

Keynote (Arpil 20): Jeramy DeCristo, UC Davis
Jeramy DeCristo is Assistant Professor in American Studies at UC Davis. Their work focuses on the interplay between sound, race, gender, and embodiment, as well as the ways in which sound and race are continually bound together through forms of mediation. In their most current book project, Blackness and the Writing of Sound in Modernity, Jeramy tracks and imagines a legacy of black sonic experimentation, in artists ranging from Bessie Smith to Roscoe Mitchell, that emerges out of black music’s refusal and dissemblance of technological modernity’s legacies of embodiment and capture. Their talk is entitled, “Sounds Like Us”.

Panels and presentations:

April 20, 2018 in Humanities 1, Room 210
April 21, 2018 in the Humanities Lecture Hall

Additional Events:

April 20th: Evening concert co-presented by Indexical at Idea Fab Labs Santa Cruz; featuring Happy Valley Band, Zachary James Watkins, and Blectum from Blechdom.
April 21st: Continental breakfast at the UCSC Arboretum, and tour of FOREST (for a thousand years), co-presented by Institute of the Arts & Sciences. [rsvp ias@ucsc.edu]

For the most recently updated information please visit https://noise.sites.ucsc.edu/unintelligible/

Support has been provide by UC Humanities Research Institute, with additional support from The Humanities Institute, The Dickens Project, History of Consciousness and Institute of the Arts and Sciences, part of the Arts Division.

PhD+ Stephanie Montgomery and Melissa Brzycki: "Podcasting Pop Culture - Engaging Public Audiences in East Asian History"
2018-04-20 11:00 - 12:30 | Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library
“Podcasting Pop Culture – Engaging Public Audiences in East Asian History”
Stephanie Montgomery and Melissa Brzycki
A Special PhD+ Event at the VizWall (DSC, McHenry Library)
Consumable anywhere, podcasts have emerged as an important medium for cultural discussions. Join us for a conversation about East Asia for All, a public history podcast that provides nuanced discussion and context for English-speaking fans of East Asian popular culture. History graduate students Melissa Brzycki and Stephanie Montgomery created EAFA to reach a wide audience outside academia, but still allow for in-depth, “long-form” discussions. They will consider how, as scholar-educators, podcasting can help us hone our communication skills and challenge us to think about representing historical narratives in a way that is both informed and accessible.
Sponsored by the Digital Scholarship Commons, The Humanities Institute, and the History Department.
PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, and much more.
Please RSVP that you would like to attend this event. Lunch will be provided.

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Yiannis Papadakis: "Here/There: Immigrants, Comparison & Critique"
2018-04-25 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Yiannis Papadakis holds an appointment in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cyprus, and is a visiting scholar at UCSC. Papadakis’s published work on Cyprus has focused on ethnic conflict, borders, nationalism, memory, museums, historiography, history education and cinema. His recent work explores issues of migration and social democracy in Denmark, based on fieldwork with Greek and Greek Cypriot immigrants in Copenhagen.
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The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Living Writers Series: Leif Haven & Jared Harvey
2018-04-26 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Leif Haven Martinson is a writer, poet, and designer. His first book, Arcane Rituals From The Future, was selected by Claudia Rankine as the winner of the 1913 Book Prize and published by 1913 Press in 2016. He is currently the Lead Designer at Botanic Technologies, where he helps develop chatbots, voice assistants, and avatars. Previously, he developed user-centered web services for the City of Oakland and designed educational games and experiences about CRISPR, neutrinos, and gardening in space with Field Day Lab, an education innovation lab at the University of Wisconsin.
Jared Harvey (Jared Joseph) is the author of Drowsy. Drowsy Baby from Civil Coping Mechanisms and, alongside Sara Peck, the co-author of here you are via Horse Less Press. Recent work has been published in Fence, Yes, and Prelude, while maybe a million chapbooks float around. He lives in Santa Cruz.
Spring 2018 Living Writers:
A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement
This spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories, persons and things, race and freedom, kinship and loss, and the human and non-human natural world.
April 12: Sherwin Bitsui
April 26: Leif Haven, Jared Harvey
May 3: Courtney Kersten
May 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton
May 24: Sawako Nakayasu
May 31: Robin Coste Lewis
June 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Thursdays, 5:20-6:50 PM
All Readings are Free and Open to the Public
Contact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu)
This event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, American Indian Resource Center, El Centro, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, the Chicano Latino Research Center, Cowell College, Bay Tree Bookstore, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment, the Literature Department, and the Creative Writing Program.

Alumni Weekend 2018
2018-04-27 - 2018-04-29 | UC Santa Cruz
SAVE THE DATE
Alumni Weekend 2018
April 27-29
For more info visit: alumniweekend.ucsc.edu

Linguistics Colloquium: Pronouns in Competition Workshop
2018-04-27 08:00 - 2018-04-28 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Pronouns in Competition
Long distance dependencies involving pronouns have figured prominently both in theories of competence and in theories of performance. Bringing these diverse lines of inquiry closer together is a challenging, yet fundamental, goal for linguistic theory. In this workshop we propose to study the role(s) that competition and optimality may play in these domains.
The idea that the distribution of pronouns, even some aspects of their interpretation, may be governed by competition with a more optimal alternative, is not new. However, so far relatively little progress has been made towards a general theory of pronominal competitions and especially on the question of how the candidate set for comparison is determined. We propose to broaden the empirical domain of inquiry by considering pronominal competitions of various kinds, and across languages: between pronouns and anaphors, pronouns and gaps in A-bar dependencies, pronouns and demonstratives, overt vs. null pronouns, pronouns and definite descriptions (in ‘Condition C’ effects) and so on.
The idea that competition plays a role in sentence processing has long been recognized and it is inherent in computational models of constraint satisfaction as well as in theories of encoding and retrieval from working memory. In the past decade especially, the empirical breadth of sentence processing research on pronouns has increased dramatically. And interestingly there are many recent experiments on bound pronouns (primarily reflexives, but also resumptives) that give evidence that initial interpretive processes can be selective and non-competitive. So an important goal of the workshop will be to consider whether or how notions of competition that can explain distributional facts about pronouns are related to mechanisms of sentence production and comprehension. We also hope that discussions which take place might guide future explorations of the territory.

Organizers

Jim McCloskey, Ivy Sichel & Matt Wagers

2018 Graduate Student Alumni Career Paths Panel
2018-04-27 10:00 - 11:15 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Distinguished graduate student alumni honorees serve as panelists to discuss their career paths from UCSC after receiving their graduate-level degrees to their positions of distinction. Current and alumni graduate students encouraged to attend.
The Humanities recipient is Naomi J. Andrews, associate professor of history at Santa Clara University, had a comprehensive educational experience at UC Santa Cruz, where she earned a B.A. in history in 1988, an M.A. in history in 1993, and a Ph.D. in history in 1998.

Friday Forum: Allison Nguyen
2018-04-27 12:30 - 13:45 | Humanities 1, Room 408
Fake News and Desirable Difficulties
Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the following departments: HAVC, Literature, and History of Consciousness.
For questions, email fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

14th Annual Graduate Research Symposium
2018-04-27 13:00 - 18:00 | McHenry Library, UCSC
14th Annual Graduate Research Symposium
McHenry Library
April 27, 2018
The UC Santa Cruz Graduate Research Symposium offers graduate students from every division the opportunity to discuss their research with colleagues on campus and with the public. Graduate students present their work in the following formats and venues:

8-minute-maximum talk with or without visual aids, which may be an overhead-projected slide presentation (e.g., Microsoft PowerPoint) in a library classroom bordering the 2nd-floor Information Commons South
4’ x 4’ poster in the open-forum showcase of the library’s Information Commons South
recorded media presentation in the open-forum showcase of the library’s Information Commons South

The chancellor, vice provost and dean of the Division of Graduate Studies, and the five academic deans sponsor symposium awards decided by judges invited by the Division of Graduate Studies from among faculty, staff, postdoctoral scholars, alumni, trustees, and community members.

2018 Baskin Ethics Lecture & Alumni Weekend Keynote "The Ethical Role of the Public University"
2018-04-28 11:00 - 12:15 | Quarry Amphitheater, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062, United States
“The Ethical Role of the Public University”
Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture / Alumni Weekend Faculty Keynote
with Bettina Aptheker and Marlene Tromp
Bettina Aptheker, distinguished professor and Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, will deliver the weekend’s faculty keynote address and this year’s Baskin Ethics Lecture. Aptheker, an alumna herself, created one of the country’s largest and most influential introductory feminist studies courses, taken by more than 16,000 UC Santa Cruz students over the last four decades. Aptheker will talk about the ethical role of the public university and its potential to be a center of courage, insight, and principled rational discourse. Marlene Tromp, Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor will join her in conversation.
Register today to be part of this compelling discussion!
Register here: http://alumniweekend.ucsc.edu/sessions/faculty-keynote/

Bettina Aptheker: "Women in the Arts"
2018-04-28 13:30 - 14:30 | Cervantes & Velasquez Room, Baytree Conference Center, Bay Tree Conference Center, UC Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Opera Parallèle, a Bay Area opera company, founded by UCSC Music Professor Emerita, Nicole Paiement, who is its musical director and conductor, has commissioned an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe, in her early career and before she was the icon we know today. This represents a milestone for women in the arts: a commissioned work by a woman composer, about a woman artist, with a woman conductor.
This new opera will be rehearsed in workshops while it is still in the process of creation, May 29, 30 and 31 at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz and on campus. Rehearsals will be free and open to the public.
Bettina Aptheker, distinguished professor of feminist studies at UCSC and chair holder of the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, is collaborating with Nicole Paiement. Bettina and panelists will talk about the opera, and more generally about women in the arts.
Come and enjoy. Light refreshments will be served.
Register here: http://alumniweekend.ucsc.edu

Reading Seminar: Dr. Lesley Green
2018-05-01 11:30 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 408
Reading Seminar on #ScienceMustFall and an ABC of Plant Medicine: On Posing Cosmopolitical Questions featuring Dr. Lesley Green (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Cape Town and Founding Director: Environmental Humanities South).
Please email krlyons@ucsc.edu for the readings

Kyla Schuller: "The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, & Science in the Nineteenth Century"
2018-05-02 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Kyla Schuller is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and an External Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center (2017-2018). She has previously held fellowships from ACLS and the UC Humanities Research Institute and a visiting scholar position at UC Berkeley. Schuller investigates the intersections between race, gender, sexuality, and the sciences in U.S. culture, and is particularly interested in ideas about how the body interacts with its environment from the periods both before and after classical genetics, i.e. the 19th century and the present. Overall, she examines how science and culture function as systems of knowledge that share methods and sources in common, even as they rhetorically claim distinct spheres.
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The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Lesley Green: "Sons and Daughters of Soil?"
2018-05-02 15:30 - 17:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
“Sons and Daughters of Soil?”
Dr. Lesley Green (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Cape Town and Founding Director: Environmental Humanities South)
Responding, as researchers, to Earth Mastery that includes not only violent machines, but a violation of evidence and epistemes including the scientific episteme, requires accumulating and presenting evidence for existences that do not exist — at least, not in neoliberal discourses. In trying to research and support specific situations of Black environmental struggle in South Africa, I find myself standing with that which has no existence in conventional discourses: for a cliff that no longer exists; for molecules that have no existence in local knowledge; for people who have no existence in the mining companies, for the assassinated Bazooka Radebe, whose existence is now with the Ancestors, and with the soil he died to conserve. Environmental Humanities South had begun by asking a question about how to generate evidence in the geological Anthropocene. By the time our first three years had ticked by and we had encountered the Capitalocene, I had learned that a far more fundamental struggle has to be the focus of our work. What exists? Who exists? In what registers and modes? How do we take on the new conquistadors with their machines called Earth Masters, given that it is their owners’ logic that has come to define who exists and what exists and what can be ground to dust? How can scholarship contribute to the building of a broad-based environmental public? Presented as a dilemma tale, this talk sketches six moves toward an ecopolitics in South Africa, with the question: what else could be in this discussion?
*This event is co-sponsored by the Science and Justice Research Center and the Anthropology Department, and is open to the public.

Philosophy Colloquium: Ori Simchen
2018-05-03 15:15 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“Realism and Instrumentalism in Metaphysical Explanation”
Ori Simchen is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Professor Simchen works mostly in the philosophy of language and metaphysics. Most recently he’s been working on metasemantics, or foundational semantics, and its relation to formal semantics. He is particularly interested in how to think about intentionality (or aboutness) in light of the pronouncements of contemporary semantic theory.

Devin Naar: “Sephardic Archives from Analog to Digital: Three Tales of Memory and Visibility"
2018-05-03 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
“Sephardic Archives from Analog to Digital: Three Tales of Memory and Visibility”
Join us as Devin E. Naar, founder of the Sephardic Studies Program at the University of Washington, traces three key moments in the development of Sephardic Studies libraries and archives in the 1880s, 1930s, and today. Often relying on community members to supply source materials, these archiving efforts have legitimized and rendered more visible the often-marginalized Sephardic experience. Professor Naar’s work demonstrates how digital humanities initiatives can draw upon methods and aspirations of previous generations while also providing new possibilities and opportunities in the 21st century.
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Devin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies, Associate Professor in the department of History and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. As the founder and chair of the Sephardic Studies Program, Naar oversees the Sephardic Studies Digital Collection, which has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His book, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece (Stanford University Press, 2016), won a National Jewish Book Award and the Keeley Prize for best book in Modern Greek Studies.

Living Writers Series: Courtney Kersten
2018-05-03 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Courtney Kersten is the author of Daughter in Retrograde: A Memoir (University of Wisconsin Press 2018). Her essays can be seen or are forthcoming from Brevity, The Normal School, River Teeth, Hotel Amerika, DIAGRAM, The Sonora Review, Black Warrior Review, The Master’s Review, Brevity and elsewhere. She was a Fulbright Fellow to Riga, Latvia, and is currently a PhD student in Literature and CreativeWriting at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Spring 2018 Living Writers:
A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement
This spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories, persons and things, race and freedom, kinship and loss, and the human and non-human natural world.
April 12: Sherwin Bitsui
April 26: Leif Haven, Jared Harvey
May 3: Courtney Kersten
May 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton
May 24: Sawako Nakayasu
May 31: Robin Coste Lewis
June 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Thursdays, 5:20-6:50 PM
All Readings are Free and Open to the Public
Contact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu)
This event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, American Indian Resource Center, El Centro, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, the Chicano Latino Research Center, Cowell College, Bay Tree Bookstore, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment, the Literature Department, and the Creative Writing Program.

Emerging Ecologies: Arcaeologies of Slavery, Landscape, and Environmental Change
2018-05-04 09:00 - 17:00 | University Center, University Center‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Atlantic Era was a period of intense commercial integration linking key economic players in Western Europe, the Americas, the Indian Ocean littorals, and West and Central Africa. The period was marked by dramatic increases in the volume of commerce at both the regional and global levels, radically transforming the societies and environments of these core areas. In fact, it is arguable that few communities on earth escaped the wide-reaching effects of commercial expansion and integration in this period. African slavery in the Atlantic World facilitated this integration. The slave trade linked four continents as traders carried European exports to Africa, exchanged them for enslaved people, and ferried those captives to the Americas. African people and cultures dispersed across the Americas, and the crops and natural resources that enslaved people harvested in the New World were shipped around the globe. This political, cultural, and ecological process laid the foundations for the cultures, environments, and economies of the modern world. At the very heart of this transformation were cities, ports, and plantations that wreaked vast ecological changes across their respective landscapes. Large swaths of land were cleared for agricultural production, port cities were established for import and export, and flora and fauna were transplanted across hemispheres in a process known as the Columbian Exchange. These intentional and unintentional ecological transformations were accompanied by violent social and economic changes. Plantation labor regimes emerged as models for industrial factory work, contributing directly to rapid industrialization in the Atlantic world. The trans-Atlantic Slave Trade thus stands as a point of origin for the Anthropocene, the contemporary moment in which environments around the world have been profoundly shaped by human action. This one-day symposium explores of the impacts and legacies of slavery and the slave trade across the landscapes of our rapidly changing world.
Organizers
Justin Dunnavant and J. Cameron Monroe
Speakers
Georgia Fox (CSU Chico)
Mark Hauser (Northwestern University)
Paul Lane (Uppsala University)
Amanda Logan (Northwestern University)
Marco Meniketti (Sans José State University)
Fraser Neiman (Monticello Archaeology)
Lisa Randle (University of South Carolina)
Meredith Reifschneider (San Francisco State University)
Elizabeth Reitz (Georgia Museum of Natural History)
Krish Seetah (Stanford University)
Diane Wallman (University of South Florida)
***Keynote Address – Judith Carney (UCLA)
Admission is FREE and open to the public.
Advance registration is REQUESTED to ensure we have sufficient seating.

PhD+: PhDs in Leadership Positions at UCSC
2018-05-04 11:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Foundational Labor: PhDs in Leadership Positions at UCSC
Are you interested in learning more about the work of PhDs who are actively reimagining pedagogy and student support at UC Santa Cruz? This session will feature two PhDs who are currently employing their research and teaching experience in a variety of interrelated ways, including program development, project management, and mentorship, all of which are vital to the University’s mission and its commitment to equitably serving undergraduate students and graduate student-instructors. Kendra Dority is Assistant Director of the UCSC Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL), and Zia Isola is Director of the UCSC Genomics Institute Office of Diversity Programs, Co-Director of the UCSC Bridge to Doctorate Program (NSF-LSAMP), and Staff Advisor for UCSC Women in Science & Engineering (WISE). Participants will have an opportunity to hear about the day-to-day experience of working in two campus positions, as well as how the PhD has influenced or helped reimagine their approach to their work.
PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, and much more.
Lunch provided to all attendees.
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Friday Forum: LuLing Osofsky
2018-05-04 12:30 - 13:45 | Humanities 2, Room 359
“Based on a (Mostly) True Story: Conflicting Cinematic Portrayals of Jewish Champions Boxing at Auschwitz ”
In 2011, I traveled to Tel Aviv to interview eighty-seven year old Noah Klieger, the last remaining Holocaust survivor to have boxed for Nazi officials at Auschwitz. That amateur and champion Jewish boxers boxed at the camps to entertain SS is largely unknown, and the few accounts are contested and contradictory. The “based on a true story” 1989 film Triumph of the Spirit shows Jews boxing fellow Jews to the death; Klieger derided the film as lies. It compelled me to investigate the complications and consequences of representing and narrativizing this horrific predicament in film. My essay blends interview and film criticism, and reflects on which Holocaust narratives get preserved, adapted, or willfully winnowed away.
LuLing Osofsky is a PhD student in the History of Art and Visual Culture program. She’s interested in how artists, filmmakers, curators, and political entities represent and narrativize trauma, destruction and disaster.
Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the following departments: HAVC, Literature, and History of Consciousness.

Linguistics Colloquium: Liz Coppock, Boston Univeristy
2018-05-04 13:45 - 14:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Liz Coppock is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Boston University, specializing in semantics and pragmatics. Her research concerns the meanings of small words in various languages, the invisible forces that give complex expressions their meanings, and sometimes even the nature of meaning itself.
As Principal Investigator of the Swedish Research Council project Most and more: Quantity superlatives across languages, she maintains a part-time position as biträdande lektor at the University of Gothenburg, in the department of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Theory of Science, where she has worked since 2012.
She received a B.A. in Linguistics from Northwestern University in 2002 and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University in 2009. She became Docent in Linguistics through the University of Gothenburg in December 2013. (“Docent” is the Swedish equivalent of a German “Habilitation”, a post-Ph.D. qualification, regardless of what Google Translate might have you believe.)
Abstract:
This paper focuses on languages in which a superlative interpretation is typically indicated merely by a combination of a definiteness marker with a comparative marker, including French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Greek (‘DEF+CMP languages). Despite ostensibly using definiteness markers to form the superlative, superlatives are not always definite-marking in these languages, and the distribution of definiteness-making varies across languages. Constituently structure appears to vary across languages as well. To account for these patterns of variation, we identify conflicting pressures that all of the languages in consideration may be subject to, and suggest that different languages prioritize differently in the resolution of these conflicts. What these languages have in common, we suggest, is a mechanism of Definite Null Instantiation for the degree-type standard argument of the comparative. Among the parameters along which languages are proposed to differ is the relative importance of marking uniqueness vs. avoiding determiners with predicates of entities that arrant individuals.

Language of Conservation Project: In Search of “Values as Yet Uncaptured by Language”
2018-05-04 14:00 - 17:00 | Page Smith Library
In Search of “Values as Yet Uncaptured by Language:” Learning from Great Historical Paradigm Shifts
A Language of Conservation Project Colloquium. Presented by The Humanities Institute and the Center for Public Philosophy.
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Speakers:
Daniel Guevara – Chair, Department of Philosophy at UCSC
Claudio Campagna – Adjunct Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at UCSC, Wildlife Conservation Society
Karen Barad – Professor of Feminist Studies at UCSC
Eric Porter – Chair, History of Consciousness at UCSC & Professor of History at UCSC
RSVP required. Reading materials sent upon RSVP.
Please RSVP here: http://bit.ly/2G3PIvQ
Co-sponsored by: Cowell College, The Dean of Humanities, and Department of Philosophy

Pacific Island Worlds Transpacific Dis/Positions Symposium
2018-05-05 08:30 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
In this symposium, artists and scholars explore creative expression and research that chart
Pacific Island Studies in the 21st century. Speakers examine the Pacific Ocean as worlds of
complex human interaction and dynamic spaces in which diverse communities have produced a
range of cultural and political identity dis/positions through kinship, colonial histories, and
diasporas. The symposium honors the memory of UCSC alum Teresia Teaiwa.
Speakers will discuss performance and poetry, debates on cultural preservation, imaging
Oceanic histories and places, the cultures of Pacific travel and diasporas, and Oceanic
ecopoetics.
Speakers
‘Ava ceremony with student group Oceania Navigators Empowerment
James Clifford, UC Santa Cruz, Keynote
Diana Looser, Stanford University
Joe Balaz, Poet
Kiri Sailiata, UC Los Angeles
Jewel Castro, University of Washington
Jane Chang Mi, Pepperdine University
Kaili Chun, Kapi’olani Community College
Jesi Lujan Bennett, University of Hawai’i
David Chang, University of Minnesota
Rob Wilson, UC Santa Cruz
All events are free and open to the public.
Paid parking available at Cowell, Stevenson, and DARC lots. Weekend free parking at East Remote lot. See parking map for more details.
For disability-related or other questions, please contact Stacy Kamehiro (kamehiro@ucsc.edu) or Kara Hisatake (khisatak@ucsc.edu).

Related Events
May 4, 2018
DARC 206
“Veritas”: Talk by Award-Winning Artist Kaili Chun, 2 pm
“Seeing the Unseen: A Telephotography Workshop” with Jane Chang Mi, 4:30 pm

POSTPONED Digital Humanities Meet Up
2018-05-09 15:00 - 17:00 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
**THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED**
Share your digital research with the DH community!
Join the DH Research Cluster to learn more about DH research on campus at an informal meet up. We invite researchers across campus to share their work with a short, lightening style presentation. The introductions will be open-mic style, do you do not have to prepare in advance. This is an opportunity to meet new colleagues, share your work, and recognize mutual research interests.

All students, faculty, staff welcome. You do not have to present to attend.
Food and drinks courtesy of The Humanities Institute.

Philosophy Colloquium: Gene Witmer
2018-05-10 15:15 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“Metaphysics and A Priori Vindication”
Is there reason to expect any interesting kind of a priori access to metaphysical truths of the sort often in dispute in contemporary philosophy? In this paper I zero in on truths about what is metaphysically necessary and about the essences or natures of things as key topics in metaphysics and aim to delineate a well-motivated thesis about a priori access to such. After examining a few approaches that don’t succeed, I introduce and defend a positive thesis of “semantic rationalism.” The relevance of that thesis for the topics of metaphysical necessities and essences is then explored, with attention in particular to whether the rationalism in question has enough bite to be of interest.
Gene Witmer is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department at the University of Florida. His research focuses on metaphysics and philosophy of mind, with a special focus on physicalism.

Engaging and Including Student Veterans in the Classroom
2018-05-10 15:20 - 17:00 | Humanities 2, Room 359
Writing Program Pedagogy Workshop
The number of student veterans is rapidly growing, with more than a million currently enrolled in US colleges. Many institutions support veterans by promoting access to student services but overlook what actually happens in the classroom. What do we need to know as instructors about student veterans’ learning practices, literacies, and instructional needs? This workshop will enhance your cultural competence and provide new pedagogical tools to engage and include student veterans in our classrooms.
Dr. Brenda Sanfillipo is a lecturer with the UCSC Writing Program, Stevenson College, and Porter College. Her research focuses on representations of war since 9/11. In addition to her academic work and teaching on contemporary warfare, she spent five years as part of the Army community.

Friday Forum: Sam Hughes
2018-05-11 12:30 - 13:45 | Humanities 2, Room 359
The Origins of Kink-Oriented Desires: Perspectives from an Online Community of Kinky People
Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the following departments: HAVC, Literature, and History of Consciousness.

Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: The Dickens Universe
2018-05-13 14:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Santa Cruz Pickwick Club featuring Little Dorrit
The Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel, beginning this January with Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit. Join us each month for conversations about the novel and guest speaker presentations to help us contextualize our readings.

Santa Cruz Pickwick Club meets every second Sunday of each month from January – May 2018 at 2pm at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.
Schedule:
January 14th: Introduction of the Novel
February 11th: Little Dorrit in Historical Context
March 11th: Victorian Colonialism
April 8th: “How Did the Grim Reaper’s Swift Scythe Sharpen Little Dorrit’s Plot?”
May 13th: The Dickens Universe
More information, including schedule can be found by visiting: https://goo.gl/zFQq2M.

Book club is free and open to the public.
Registration requested.
Questions? Contact Courtney at (831)459-2103 or dpj@ucsc.edu.

Right Livelihood Conference
2018-05-15 - 2018-05-17 | UC Santa Cruz
‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ Laureates at UCSC
In May 2018, a group of Right Livelihood change-makers based in Canada and the US will convene at the University of California, Santa Cruz to discuss challenges and opportunities for advancing social and environmental justice. In these tumultuous times, this meeting will deepen and ground our local efforts toward a more sustainable, equitable, and peaceful world.
Public Program Dates: May 15 – 17, 2018
Place: University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

The Right Livelihood Award
The Right Livelihood Award—widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’—was established in 1980 to honor and support courageous people and organizations offering visionary and exemplary solutions to the root causes of global problems. In addition to presenting the annual award, the Right Livelihood Award Foundation also supports the work of its Laureates, particularly those whose lives may be in danger due to the nature of their activities.

The Right Livelihood College
Common Ground Center at UC Santa Cruz’s Kresge College is the one and only Right Livelihood College in North America, and we are honored to host the first North American Regional Conference featuring many Laureates from the USA and Canada. By linking activists and academics, the Right Livelihood College highlights UC Santa Cruz’s trailblazing leadership in service of people and the planet, and makes vital contributions to the intellectual life of the campus and community.

Laureates attending
The following Laureates have confirmed their attendance:

Robert Bilott (USA, 2017)

“…for exposing a decades-long history of chemical pollution, winning long-sought justice for the victims, and setting a precedent for effective regulation of hazardous substances.”

Sheila Watt-Cloutier (Canada, 2015)

“…for her lifelong work to protect the Inuit of the Arctic and defend their right to maintain their livelihoods and culture, which are acutely threatened by climate change.”

Bill McKibben / 350.org (USA, 2014)

“…for mobilising growing popular support in the USA and around the world for strong action to counter the threat of global climate change.”

Paul Walker (USA, 2013)

“…for working tirelessly to rid the world of chemical weapons.”

Jamila Raqib on behalf of Gene Sharp (USA, 2012)

“…for developing and articulating the core principles and strategies of nonviolent resistance and supporting their practical implementation in conflict areas around the world.”

Yannick Beaudoin (David Suzuki Foundation), on behalf of David Suzuki (Canada, 2009)

“…for his lifetime advocacy of the socially responsible use of science, and for his massive contribution to raising awareness about the perils of climate change and building public support for policies to address it”.

Amy Goodman (USA, 2008)

“…for developing an innovative model of truly independent political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by mainstream media.”

Daniel Ellsberg (USA, 2006)

“…for putting peace and truth first, at considerable personal risk, and dedicating his life to inspiring others to follow his example.”

Maude Barlow (Canada, 2005)

“… for their exemplary and longstanding worldwide work for trade justice and the recognition of the fundamental human right to water.”

Tony Clarke (Canada, 2005)

“… for their exemplary and longstanding worldwide work for trade justice and the recognition of the fundamental human right to water.”

Wes Jackson / The Land Institute (USA, 2000)

“…for his single-minded commitment to developing an agriculture that is both highly productive and truly ecologically sustainable.”

Alice Tepper Marlin (USA, 1990)

“…for showing the direction in which the Western economy must develop to promote the well-being of humanity.”

Frances Moore Lappé (Small Planet Institute) (USA, 1987)

“…for revealing the political and economic causes of world hunger and how citizens can help to remedy them.”

Amory Lovins (USA, 1983)

“…for pioneering soft energy paths for global security.”

Pat Mooney (Canada, 1985)

“…for working to save the world’s genetic plant heritage.”

Lisa Wartinger, Bruce Curtis and/or Peter Schweizer of Plenty International (USA, 1980)

“…for caring, sharing and acting with and on behalf of those in need at home and abroad.”

Partner Organisations
A number of groups at UC Santa Cruz are collaborating to co-host this event, including:UCSC Foundation
Common Ground Center
Kresge College
Blum Center on Poverty, Social Enterprise, and Participatory Governance
Everett Program for Technology & Social Change
Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
Division of Social Sciences
The Humanities Institute
University Relations
Science and Justice Research Center
Sustainability Office
Environmental Studies Department
Heller Chair in Agroecology
Rachel Carson College & Headley Chair for Integral Ecology and Environmental JusticePlease contact us using the information below if you would like to contribute to the conference.

Conference Background
Since 2013, the Right Livelihood Award has arranged a series of regional conferences for its Laureates. It was after a call from one of our Colombian Laureates, asking for help to strengthen their regional network, that we decided to bring Laureates from Latin America and the Caribbean together for the first time. Since it was such an important and fruitful meeting, this meeting was followed by regional meetings for Laureates in Africa and the Middle East in 2014, in Asia in 2015, and, in 2016, Laureates in Europe. The meeting of North American Right Livelihood Award Laureates will be the fifth regional conference. In times when safe spaces for action are shrinking for civil society all over the world, these meetings provide an enabling environment for important actors toward a more sustainable and peaceful world. Award recipients have been able to share struggles, exchange ideas, strengthen networks of collaboration, and engage more deeply with change makers and communities local to the areas where the meetings have been held.

Add strength to change-makers by supporting this conference
Since its founding by Jakob von Uexkull, Individual donations have been the backbone of the Right Livelihood Award. Institutional donors also help to support the Award. If you would like to contribute to this meeting of courageous people and organisations in North America that have found practical solutions to the root causes of global problems, please visit the ‘Donate‘ section.
Mark your support: “Regional conf., Santa Cruz”

Contact information
Kajsa Övergaard
Senior Programme Director
Right Livelihood Award Foundation
kajsa@rightlivelihood.org
+46-8-7020340
David Shaw
Coordinator, RLC Campus Santa Cruz
Co-Director, Common Ground Center
UCSC Kresge College
daveshaw@ucsc.edu
+1-831-222-0253

Building a Coding Workflow from Terminal to Github: Workshop with Fabiola Hanna
2018-05-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library
Confused by Github? Scared by the black screen of the Terminal?
If you’re looking to code, but don’t know how to get started join Fabiola Hanna for an introductory workshop and learn how to set up a coding workflow. We’ll start with basic scripts in Terminal then move to setting up Brackets and working with GitHub. You’ll learn how to fork, branch, push, pull, etc… If you don’t know what any of these words mean, you’re more than welcome! Start here.
Registration Required. Limited Seating.

Jennifer Doyle: "Harassment & the Unravelling of the Queer Commons"
2018-05-16 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
This talk will attempt to speak to the difficulty of this moment for queer/feminist theorists—for teachers, students and staff who live and work with harassment, with forms of misogyny that are so embedded in professional life as, in some ways, to feel synonymous with it. This work is a return to a scene many of us have never left, but which critical formations tend to represent as having passed: super-sexual political writing calling for openness against an intolerable future.
Jennifer Doyle is a Professor of English at UC Riverside.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

UCSC Night at the Museum: "Global 1968 - Race and Revolution around the World"
2018-05-16 18:00 - 20:00 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
6:00pm – doors open | 6:30pm – program begins

Fifty years ago, countries and cities around the globe erupted with protests and revolutionary movements demanding change and seeking to create a better future. Featuring four renowned historians, “Global 1968” spotlights marginalized groups and lesser-known events and places in the global upheavals of 1968—from Mexico to China, Oakland to West Africa—while considering what lessons can be drawn for politics and protest today.
Registration Required – Registration has closed
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Speakers:
Jean Allman (Washington University in St. Louis)
Jaime Pensado (University of Notre Dame)
Donna Murch (Rutgers University)
Emily Honig (UC Santa Cruz)
Moderated by: Marc Matera (UC Santa Cruz)

Photography Exhibit:
Included in the evening’s event will be a pop-up exhibit of images from a 1968 photography project launched by artist Ruth-Marion Baruch to document the people and the work of California’s Black Panther Party. The now-iconic photographs she and her husband Pirkle Jones took of the Panthers were both celebrated and criticized for their sympathetic portrayal of a maligned community. Black Panthers, 1968 is one of many projects revealing Baruch’s and Jones’s commitment to art and social change that are preserved in their archive at UC Santa Cruz’s Special Collections & Archives.

Registration Required. Each attendee must submit a registration form. Seating is first come, first serve. Overflow space will be available. If you have disability-related needs, please contact The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274. Please note that if you do not receive an email confirmation with your form responses, you have not successfully registered for the event.

Co-sponsored by: The Center for World History and the History Department. Part of The Humanities Institute’s Freedom and Race Series, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Jennifer Kelly: “Subjection and Performance: Tourism, Witnessing, and Acts of Refusal in Palestine”
2018-05-17 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program Presents:
“Subjection and Performance: Tourism, Witnessing, and Acts of Refusal in Palestine”
Drawing from multi-sited ethnographic research on solidarity tours in Palestine, in this talk Jennifer Kelly shows how Palestinian solidarity tour guides reject performing subjection in an industry that treats the recitation of subjection as a prerequisite. On solidarity tours, Palestinians are expected to rehearse their displacement and provide evidence of their dispossession against a constellation of U.S. and Israeli state sanctioned narratives that have rendered them unreliable narrators. Kelly shows how Palestinian tour guides disrupt tourist expectations by refusing to perform subjection for the tourist gaze. In alternative performances of pleasure and through acts of “hanging out,” Palestinian tour guides intervene in tourist expectations of performances of trauma and instead ask tourists to confront the violences of their own desire in Palestine.
Jennifer Kelly is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Asian American Studies.

Living Writers Series: Carmen Giménez-Smith & giovanni singleton
2018-05-17 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Born in New York, poet Carmen Giménez Smith earned a BA in English from San Jose State University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa. She is the author of six collections of poetry, including Cruel Futures (City Lights, 2018); Milk and Filth (2013), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Goodbye, Flicker (University of Massachusetts Press, 2012), winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. She is the author of the memoir Bring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering, Art, Work, and Everything Else (University of Arizona Press, 2010), which received an American Book Award. She also coedited Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing (Counterpath Press, 2014).
giovanni singleton earned a BA from American University and an MFA from the New College of California. She is the author of the poetry collections AMERICAN LETTERS: works on paper (2017) and Ascension (2011), which won a California Book Award for Poetry. The book earned praise for its evocative use of white space, silence, and omissions. Poet Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon noted that singleton’s “poems are minimalist, while engaging a concern for the historical, the personal, the spiritual, as expanses… The buildup is slow, and culminates as play, in the clear space left as we literally watch an I disappear. Thereafter, we find the blank page again. And time to make another poem.”
Spring 2018 Living Writers:
A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement
This spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories, persons and things, race and freedom, kinship and loss, and the human and non-human natural world.
April 12: Sherwin Bitsui
April 26: Leif Haven, Jared Harvey
May 3: Courtney Kersten
May 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton
May 24: Sawako Nakayasu
May 31: Robin Coste Lewis
June 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Thursdays, 5:20-6:50 PM
All Readings are Free and Open to the Public
Contact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu)
This event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, American Indian Resource Center, El Centro, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, the Chicano Latino Research Center, Cowell College, Bay Tree Bookstore, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment, the Literature Department, and the Creative Writing Program.

Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
2018-05-17 20:00 - 22:00, 2018-05-18 20:00 - 22:00 | Stevenson Event Center
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, Cowell, and Stevenson Colleges at UCSC will present the 18th season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP) from May 17th through May 20th at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center on campus. In this unique multilingual program, students will be featured in fully-staged excerpts of short works in Punjabi, French. German, and Spanish, with English super-titles.
There is no admission charge for the event; nearby parking is $4.00.
There are exciting innovations in the program this year, with the first MEIP presentation of works in Punjabi, including a short play and poetry, directed by Arshinder Kaur, and excerpts from Mozart’s opera, The Magic Flute, sung in German, directed by Sheila Willey, and performed by students of the University Opera Theater, as a preview of their upcoming production of the opera, which will take place from May 31 to June 3 at the UCSC Music Center Recital Hall. Students of French will portray scenes from Marcel Pagnol’s Fanny, one of the plays in his trilogy about a group of serio-comic characters in Marseille, directed by Miriam Ellis and Renée Cailloux. Spanish will offer a contemporary comedy, Black and White, by Ignacio Dominis, directed by Carolina Castillo-Trelles, which explores characters who live in two different worlds, separated by a line never to be crossed. Over the years, our multilingual theater presentations have attracted loyal audiences who look forward to hearing their native or acquired languages in this unusual format, and we cordially invite the community to attend.
For more information, please contact Lisa Leslie at lmhunter@ucsc.edu or (831-459- 2054).

"¿Cómo te comunicas?": 7th annual UC Comparative Iberian Studies Symposium
2018-05-18 08:00 - 19:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The 7th annual UC Comparative Iberian Studies Symposium “¿Cómo te comunicas?” will feature a cohort of 15-17 UC professors, working in a variety of fields within the discipline of Iberian Studies, stretching from medieval topics to cultural studies until the 21st century.
Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and UCHRI.

Friday Forum: Rebekkah Gross
2018-05-18 12:30 - 13:45 | Humanities 2, Room 359
Situational Features Influences College Students’ Evaluations About Helping
Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the following departments: HAVC, Literature, and History of Consciousness.
For questions, email fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

Linguistics Colloquium: Meghan Sumner
2018-05-18 13:30 - 14:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
“Usage-based linguistic models and understanding human behavior”
The past three decades of research in phonetics and psycholinguistics have led to great advances in our understanding of language, representation, and the relationship between language and other cognitive domains. While debates certainly still exist, we can take as established that how often and in what context different speech patterns occur influence both memory and processing. The question now is what we do with this rich foundation.
In this talk, I present a few, short examples of how usage-based approaches to phonetics and psycholinguistics help us understand social biases and human behavior. I provide some evidence showing that phonetically-cued talker information (e.g., emotion, gender) directly activates lexical items, providing us with some insights into the timing and availability of this
information. The purpose of this first part is to illuminate the complexity of experiencing linguistic events from the perspective of a listener.
For the remainder of the talk, I move away from phonetics, taking the basic insights from the studies initially presented (e.g., that we are pattern recognizers) to question assumptions about language use and experience and ask how our understanding of language use, semantic associations and culture can inform society at large. Specifically, I spend the last large chunk of
this talk investigating how we can understand the refugee experience through the lens of spoken language comprehension.
Meghan Sumner is an associate professor of Linguistics at Stanford University.

Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
2018-05-19 20:00 - 22:00 | CA

Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza
2018-05-20 09:00 - 17:00 | San Lorenzo Park, Santa Cruz
We invite you to join Senderos for our 13th annual Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza on Sunday, May 20 at San Lorenzo Park, Santa Cruz (new location). This is an all-day (9am to 5pm) dance, music, food, crafts festival which brings the rich cultural traditions of Oaxaca to our County. Last year we had over 3700 in attendance.
In addition to Guelaguetza we are presenting these FREE family-friendly events in May!
Saturday, May 5 – MÚSICA CLÁSICA EN LA MISIÓN 2-5:30pm
Santa Cruz Mission Historic Park: tours of Mission, crafts, Oaxacan food for sale with outdoor concert at 3:30pm featuring the wonderful student musicians from Oaxaca who will be with Senderos for a 3 week cultural exchange.
This event presented in partnership with Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks and California State Parks
Saturday, May 12 – Senderos Fiesta – 5-7pm, Cooper Street
Music, dancing, Oaxacan food for sale – street party!
This event presented in partnership with Santa Cruz City Arts and Santa Cruz MAH
Co-sponsored by:
Nido de Lenguas – a project of the UCSC Humanities Institute and the UCSC Linguistics Department to share the value of the indigenous languages of Oaxaca.

Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
2018-05-20 20:00 - 22:00 | Stevenson Event Center
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, Cowell, and Stevenson Colleges at UCSC will present the 18th season of the (MEIP) from May 17th through May 20th at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center on campus. In this unique multilingual program, students will be featured in fully-staged excerpts of short works in Punjabi, French. German, and Spanish, with English super-titles.
There is no admission charge for the event; nearby parking is $4.00.
There are exciting innovations in the program this year, with the first MEIP presentation of works in Punjabi, including a short play and poetry, directed by Arshinder Kaur, and excerpts from Mozart’s opera, The Magic Flute, sung in German, directed by Sheila Willey, and performed by students of the University Opera Theater, as a preview of their upcoming production of the opera, which will take place from May 31 to June 3 at the UCSC Music Center Recital Hall. Students of French will portray scenes from Marcel Pagnol’s Fanny, one of the plays in his trilogy about a group of serio-comic characters in Marseille, directed by Miriam Ellis and Renée Cailloux. Spanish will offer a contemporary comedy, Black and White, by Ignacio Dominis, directed by Carolina Castillo-Trelles, which explores characters who live in two different worlds, separated by a line never to be crossed. Over the years, our multilingual theater presentations have attracted loyal audiences who look forward to hearing their native or acquired languages in this unusual format, and we cordially invite the community to attend.
For more information, please contact Lisa Leslie at lmhunter@ucsc.edu or (831-459- 2054).

Dayna Barnes: "Learning Lessons? A comparison of Planning for the Occupations of Japan and Iraq"
2018-05-21 15:30 - 17:00 | Charles E. Merrill Lounge

Digital Research and Teaching Symposium featuring Undergraduate Digital Research and Innovative Pedagogy
2018-05-23 09:00 - 15:00 | Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library
This event will showcase the independent, digital research and classroom work of undergraduate students alongside the innovative assignment design and pedagogical experimentation of faculty and graduate students. Join us in the morning to focus on undergraduate digital research and in the afternoon for an in-depth discussion about new methods in active and engaged pedagogy.
Lunch will be included for participants and registered attendees.
Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute, the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, and The Digital Scholarship Commons (University Library).
REGISTER NOW

PROGRAM
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
9 am – 3pm in the Digital Scholarship Commons (Ground Floor, McHenry Library)
9: 00 Light Breakfast + Coffee
9:30 – 10:30 Digital Poster Session​: Undergraduate Research + Graduate Student Pedagogy projects
10:30 – 11:45 Panel of Undergraduate Digital Research Fellows (Moderator, Ebad Rahman)
11:45 – 1:30 Lunch + Break
1:30 – 3:00 Round table on Innovative Pedagogy with Faculty and Graduate Students (Moderators, Kendra Dority and Aaron Zachmeier)

Saein Park: "Dancing Waste of History: Lumpen in Heine, Marx, & Benjamin"
2018-05-23 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Saein Park’s current project argues that the discourses of Lumpen record the changing demarcations of disposable lives during the emergence of European industrial modernity. She researches 19th- and early-20th-century German-language literature, political philosophy, and critical theory, focusing on translation and reception studies, theories of waste, and plant studies.
Saein Park is a Visiting Assistant Professor at UC Santa Cruz.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Applied Linguistics Colloquia
2018-05-23 15:30 - 19:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202

Mitch Aso: "Rubber and the Making of Vietnam"
2018-05-24 13:30 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Rubber has been a key commodity for industrial societies since the nineteenth century. Yet, studies of the impact of the production of this good on various regions around the world have mostly been narrowly focused on the industry and its workers. My forthcoming book, Rubber and the Making of Vietnam, adopts a broader lens, what I call an ecological history, to examine the role of rubber in shaping Vietnamese society in the twentieth century. Through this lens, I examine how the evolving relationships between humans and non-humans contributed to both the projects of empire and nation building. I argue that rubber, and rubber plantations, structured the material and symbolic bodies and landscapes of the postcolonial nation of Vietnam. In my talk, I will touch on the promises and the perils of such ecological histories and the new perspectives on the past that they offer.
More info on The Center for World History

Living Writers Series: Sawako Nakayasu
2018-05-24 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Sawako Nakayasu is a transnational poet, translator, and occasional performance artist who has lived in Japan, France, China, and the US. Her books include The Ants and Texture Notes, and recent translations include The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa, and Costume en Face – a handwritten notebook of Tatsumi Hijikata’s dance notations. She is co-editor, with Lisa Samuels, of A Transpacific Poetics, a gathering of poetry and poetics engaging transpacific imaginaries. She teaches at Brown University.
Spring 2018 Living Writers:
A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement
This spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories, persons and things, race and freedom, kinship and loss, and the human and non-human natural world.
April 12: Sherwin Bitsui
April 26: Leif Haven, Jared Harvey
May 3: Courtney Kersten
May 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton
May 24: Sawako Nakayasu
May 31: Robin Coste Lewis
June 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Thursdays, 5:20-6:50 PM
All Readings are Free and Open to the Public
Contact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu)
This event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, American Indian Resource Center, El Centro, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, the Chicano Latino Research Center, Cowell College, Bay Tree Bookstore, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment, the Literature Department, and the Creative Writing Program.

Friday Forum: Madison Treece
2018-05-25 12:30 - 13:45 | Humanities 2, Room 359
Maya Textile Arts Influence Contemporary Politics in Zapatista Embroidery
Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the following departments: HAVC, Literature, and History of Consciousness.
For questions, email fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

Opera Works: Journey in Creation
2018-05-29 | Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Workshop rehearsals with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe.
“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop
The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, and the Humanities Institute, invite students, faculty, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele, a San Francisco based company under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita, UCSC Music Department), commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers, the librettists, the composer, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshop is free and open to everyone.

RELATED EVENTS

Tuesday, May 29th
Panel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts” – Registration Required
Featuring:
Robin Coste Lewis, Poet, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus
Nicole Paiement, Conductor, Musical Director, Opera Parallele
Laura Kaminsky, Opera Composer
Jennifer Gonzalez, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture, UCSC
Bettina Aptheker, Professor of Feminist Studies, UCSC (moderator)
Doors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen
Event starts at 7:00pm

Wed, May 30th
Cultural Studies talk with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities 1, Room 210 @ 12:15pm
Robin Coste Lewis reading and book signing – Bookshop Santa Cruz @ 7pm

Thurs, May 31st
Living Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm

These events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, Arts Division, Porter College, Living Writers & Cultural Studies.

Jeff Michno: "Nicaragua Y ¿Vos, tú o usted?"
2018-05-29 17:15 - 19:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
In this talk, I highlight variation in second-person singular pronoun use (vos, tú, and usted) by local residents of a rural Nicaraguan community experiencing linguistic and cultural contact driven by tourism. I demonstrate that pronoun selection can vary according to the amount of contact locals have with outsiders in their community, providing evidence that locals use tú, a variant reported as virtually absent from Nicaraguan Spanish, with both outsiders and other locals. Utilizing local commentary, I show that this practice coincides with a sense of prestige attributed to the tú form, and stigma, to vos, the form reported as ubiquitous in Nicaraguan Spanish. In addition, through an interactional analysis, I identify several functions of pronoun switching (e.g. from vos to tú) by a given speaker with the same conversational partner, including: flirting, enhancing or reducing deference, emphasizing youthfulness, and negotiating identity status and stance in new relationships. Most notably, I show how locals systematically switch pronouns to shift from direct address (e.g. ¿Cómo te llamas? ‘What is your[tú] name?’) to an impersonal stance (e.g. Tenés que trabajar para comer. ‘You[vos] have [one has] to work to eat.’). The evidence supports the view that impersonal use of second-person pronouns implies some type of generalization, which can serve to create solidarity between conversational partners.
Jeff Michno is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at Furman University in Greenville, SC. Professor Michno’s research focuses on language and culture contact, examining both well-established contact settings, such as the Texas-Mexico region, as well as more recent scenarios rooted in migration, globalization and tourism. He is currently investigating a rural Nicaraguan community experiencing linguistic and cultural contact due to tourism. His primary research goal is to highlight ways in which language varies according to the social characteristics of individuals as well as their moment-to-moment communicative moves (i.e. variation according to both social and pragmatic factors).

"Always Moving Uphill: Women in the Arts" Panel
2018-05-29 18:30 - 20:30 | Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Our panel will discuss the struggle of women artists, writers, and poets to find voice in a world that has been, until very recently, so completely dominated and controlled by (white) male power and money.
Panel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts” featuring:
Robin Coste Lewis, Poet, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus
Nicole Paiement, Conductor, Musical Director, Opera Parallele
Laura Kaminsky, Opera Composer
Jennifer Gonzalez, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture, UCSC
Bettina Aptheker, Professor of Feminist Studies, UCSC (moderator)
Event Photos:
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
Registration required – registration has closed

Doors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen
Event starts at 7:00pm
RELATED EVENTS
Tuesday, May 29th
“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”
Workshop rehearsal with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe.
2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop
The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, and the Humanities Institute, invites students, faculty, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele, San Francisco based company, under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita, UCSC Music Department), commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers, the librettists, the composer, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshops are free and open to everyone.
Wed, May 30th
Cultural Studies talk with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities 1, Room 210 @ 12:15pm
Robin Coste Lewis reading and book signing – Bookshop Santa Cruz @ 7pm
Thurs, May 31st
Living Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm
These events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, Arts Division, Porter College, Living Writers & Cultural Studies.

Robin Coste Lewis: "Voyage of the Sable Venus: Bodies, Art, Race, & Poetry"
2018-05-30 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Robin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015), which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including The Massachusetts Review, Callaloo, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, Transition, and VIDA.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
RELATED EVENTS
Tuesday, May 29th
“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”
Workshop rehearsals with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe.
2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop
The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, and the Humanities Institute, invites students, faculty, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele, San Francisco based company, under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita, UCSC Music Department), commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers, the librettists, the composer, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshops are free and open to everyone.

Tuesday, May 29th
Panel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts”– Registration Required
Featuring:
Robin Coste Lewis, Poet, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus
Nicole Paiement, Conductor, Musical Director, Opera Parallele
Laura Kaminsky, Opera Composer
Jennifer Gonzalez, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture, UCSC
Bettina Aptheker, Professor of Feminist Studies, UCSC (moderator)
Doors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen
Event starts at 7:00pm

Wed, May 30th
Robin Coste Lewis reading and book signing – Bookshop Santa Cruz @ 7pm

Thurs, May 31st
Living Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm

These events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, Arts Division, Porter College, Living Writers & Cultural Studies.

Robin Coste Lewis at Bookshop Santa Cruz
2018-05-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Robin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015), which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including The Massachusetts Review, Callaloo, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, Transition, and VIDA.
This free event will take place in Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins.
Full event info: http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/event/robin-coste-lewis-voyage-sable-venus
RELATED EVENTS
Tuesday, May 29th
“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”
Workshop rehearsals with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe.
2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop
The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, and the Humanities Institute, invite students, faculty, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele, San Francisco based company, under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita, UCSC Music Department), commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers, the librettists, the composer, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshops are free and open to everyone.

Tuesday, May 29th
Panel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts” – Registration Required
Featuring:
Robin Coste Lewis, Poet, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus
Nicole Paiement, Conductor, Musical Director, Opera Parallele
Laura Kaminsky, Opera Composer
Jennifer Gonzalez, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture, UCSC
Bettina Aptheker, Professor of Feminist Studies, UCSC (moderator)
Doors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen
Event starts at 7:00pm
Wed, May 30th
Cultural Studies talk with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities 1, Room 210 @ 12:15pm

Thurs, May 31st
Living Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm

These events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, Arts Division, Porter College, Living Writers & Cultural Studies.

Living Writers: Robin Coste Lewis
2018-05-31 17:20 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Robin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015), which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including The Massachusetts Review, Callaloo, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, Transition, and VIDA.
Lewis earned her MFA from NYU’s Creative Writing Program where she was a Goldwater fellow in poetry. She also earned a MTS degree in Sanskrit and comparative religious literature from Harvard Divinity School. She is a Cave Canem fellow and was awarded a Provost’s fellowship in the Creative Writing & Literature PhD Program at USC. Other fellowships and awards include the Caldera Foundation, the Ragdale Foundation, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Can Serrat International Art Centre in Barcelona, and the Summer Literary Seminars in Kenya. She was a finalist for the International War Poetry Prize, the National Rita Dove Prize, and semi-finalist for the “Discovery”/Boston Review Prize and the Crab Orchard Series Open Poetry Prize.
Lewis has taught at Wheaton College, Hunter College, Hampshire College and the NYU Low-Residency MFA in Paris. Born in Compton, California, her family is from New Orleans.

About Living Writers, Spring 2018: “A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement”
Spring quarter 2018 will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories, persons and things, race and freedom, kinship and loss, and the human and non-human natural world.
This event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, American Indian Resource Center, El Centro, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, the Chicano Latino Research Center, Cowell College, Bay Tree Bookstore, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment, the Literature Department, and the Creative Writing Program.
RELATED EVENTS
Tuesday, May 29th
“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”
Workshop rehearsals with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe.
2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop
The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, and the Humanities Institute, invite students, faculty, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele, San Francisco based company, under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita, UCSC Music Department), commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers, the librettists, the composer, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshops are free and open to everyone.

Tuesday, May 29th
Panel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts” – Registration Required
Featuring:
Robin Coste Lewis, Poet, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus
Nicole Paiement, Conductor, Musical Director, Opera Parallele
Laura Kaminsky, Opera Composer
Jennifer Gonzalez, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture, UCSC
Bettina Aptheker, Professor of Feminist Studies, UCSC (moderator)
Doors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen
Event starts at 7:00pm

Wed, May 30th
Cultural Studies talk with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities 1, Room 210 @ 12:15pm
Robin Coste Lewis reading and book signing – Bookshop Santa Cruz @ 7pm

Thurs, May 31st
Living Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm

These events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, Arts Division, Porter College, Living Writers & Cultural Studies.

Friday Forum: Sheeva Sabati
2018-06-01 12:30 - 13:45 | Humanities 2, Room 359
Coloniality of the West: The Formation of the UC System
Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the following departments: HAVC, Literature, and History of Consciousness.
For questions, email fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

Stephanie Bosch Santana: "The Digital Worlding of African Literature: From Blog and Facebook Fiction to the Blockchain"
2018-06-06 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Stephanie Bosch Santana is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her work, which has been supported by the Mellon foundation, focuses on Anglophone and African language fiction from southern Africa. Her current book project examines an alternative history of literary forms in periodical print and digital media from the 1950s to the present. It argues that writers from South Africa, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe have developed new genres of fiction in these media to imagine changing modes of interconnection across space.
This Cultural Studies Colloquium is part of the UCHRI Junior Faculty Lecture Circuit.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Jennifer Egan: "Manhattan Beach"
2018-06-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Peace United Church, 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
BUY TICKETS
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan to town for a reading and signing of her fantastic novel, Manhattan Beach.
Tickets for this special offsite event (which will be held at Peace United Church) are on sale now online at Bookshop Santa Cruz. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute UC Santa Cruz.
Join us prior to the event for a wine reception at 6:30.
Praise for Manhattan Beach
Manhattan Beach may seem like a straightforward historical novel, but with Egan’s peerless writing and keen emotional intelligence, it plumbs the depths of human will, connection, and reinvention. Mesmerizing, hauntingly beautiful, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller and a wealth of detail about organized crime, the merchant marine and the clash of classes in New York, Egan’s first historical novel is a masterpiece, a deft, startling, intimate exploration of a transformative moment in the lives of women and men, America, and the world.
– Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
– A San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Book of the Year
– A New York Times Notable Book & Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2017
– Winner of the Booklist Top of the List for Fiction
– Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction
– Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, The Guardian & Kirkus Reviews
“Joy, purification, renewal, death—the sea is all of these things in Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egan’s intricately patterned and visionary new novel.” —The Atlantic
“Manhattan Beach is stunning. Read the first page and sigh with immense pleasure at having started something magnificent.” —Melinda, Bookshop Head Book Buyer
Bio
Jennifer Egan is the author of five previous books of fiction: A Visit from the Goon Squad, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Keep; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus.

Ticket Details
Ticket packages are $20.00 and include one ticket to the event and one paperback copy of Manhattan Beach (paperback release: June 5th). A companion ticket (event only, no book included) is available for $7.00 when purchasing a ticket package.

LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
2018-06-08 13:00 - 15:45 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Towards the end of the spring quarter each year, the Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) showcases the research of the department’s undergraduate students. This conference always features as an invited speaker, a distinguished alumnus or alumna of the department.

Celebrating the Humanities: Spring Awards and Retirement Celebration
2018-06-08 16:00 - 19:00 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Humanists study the stories of humanity, in all their wonderful and tragic manifestations. The annual “Celebrating the Humanities” event is an opportunity for you to participate in this never-ending exploration of what it means to be human.
Humanities Division’s awards acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition, distinctions and honors over the course of this last year. See the event program and all award winners here.

Celebrating the Humanities – 2018 Spring Awards from THI on Vimeo.
View our full event photo album on Flickr:
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
Program Schedule
4:00-5:00pm Spring Awards
5:00-5:30pm Undergraduate Research Fellowship Poster Session
5:30-7:00pm Retirement Celebration

38th Annual Dickens Universe Conference featuring Little Dorrit
2018-07-15 - 2018-07-21 | CA
The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars, teachers, students, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels, usually (but not always) one by Charles Dickens.
View our full event photo album on Flickr:
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.

In 2018, the Universe featured Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens. Full of contrasts—light and shade, comedy and pathos—Little Dorrit is one of the great social novels of the Victorian age. It takes as its central themes the prison of this lower world, the vicissitudes of love in middle age and the inescapable power of money. Intricately plotted and full of Dickensian humor and sentiment, the novel displays a broad social vision and remarkable psychological insight.
Now in its 38th year of operation, the Dickens Universe combines features of a scholarly conference, a festival, a book club, and summer camp. Participants include people of all ages and walks of life—distinguished scholars, graduate students, undergraduates, retirees, young professionals, high school teachers, anyone who loves to read and who enjoys long Victorian novels. Here are some of the things that make the Universe such a special experience:

The college lifestyle: participants live on campus, eat together in the student dining hall, have time to meet and come to know each other in different ways.
Everyone is reading the same book. We all have this one important thing in common.
The range of activities—formal lectures, small discussion groups, films, daily Victorian teas, performances, and Victorian dancing.

The Universe offers a week of total immersion in the world of Victorian fiction with friendly, like-minded colleagues in a beautiful setting. Whether we’re returning to a Dickens novel that everyone knows and loves, or branching out into a Victorian novel by another author who might be less familiar, during the Universe we build a community out of our passion for reading, talking with one another, and bringing Victorian culture to life.
More information and registration:
General Website: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/
Registration Link: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/universe/registration/index.html
Phone: (831) 459-2103
Email: cmahaney@ucsc.edu
Video Link: https://youtu.be/JJgV87yGBSs

Cabrillo Music Festival Community Night
2018-08-09 19:00 - 20:00 | Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
The Humanities Institute is excited to announce a new public partnership with the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. THI will serve as a sponsor of the Festival’s new Community Night event on August 9, 2018. Community Night will include a dynamic short concert of chamber works performed by members of the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra designed for new listeners. The program includes fan favorites from recent seasons plus a few surprises – all led by conductor Cristi Măcelaru.
To celebrate this new partnership, THI will make 100 free tickets available for Community Night. The first 50 people to request tickets through this online form will receive 2 free tickets.
“THI and the Cabrillo Festival share a deep commitment to telling stories that reflect diverse cultural backgrounds and speak to the human spirit. We’re honored to be part of the community they have cultivated for more than 50 years,” says Irena Polic, THI Managing Director.
The annual music festival serves as a celebration of music and community, bringing together players, composers and music lovers for two weeks of contemporary musical performances.
“The Festival’s rich tradition of showcasing new and experimental music embodies our goal of making culture accessible and meaningful to everyone in our community,” says Polic. “We’re proud to be a co-sponsor of Community Night and look forward to rolling out additional programming connected to the festival in the years ahead.”
The Cabrillo Festival runs from July 29 through August 12 and tickets are now on sale.

Weekend with Shakespeare
2018-08-11 - 2018-08-12 | UCSC Arboretum
Join Shakespeare scholars and artists for two days of lectures, discussions, and demonstrations about the 2018 Season’s mainstage productions, Romeo & Juliet and Love’s Labour’s Lost.
Weekend with Shakespeare Lecture Series: This year, the Weekend With Shakespeare Lecture Series is free! However, we suggest interested participants RSVP through The Santa Cruz Shakespeare website.
Weekend with Shakespeare is sponsored in partnership with Santa Cruz Shakespeare.
LECTURE SERIES SCHEDULE
DAY ONE Lecture Series, Love’s Labour’s Lost: Saturday, August 11
Noon welcome (light lunch provided)
12:15-1:15 – Sean Keilen, Professor of Literature (UC Santa Cruz), discusses Shakespeare’s wit in Love’s Labour’s Lost
1:15-1:30 – Break
1:30-2:30 – Conversation with Michael Warren, Emeritus Professor of Literature (UC Santa Cruz) and Head of Dramatugy at Santa Cruz Shakespeare, and Ashley Herum, Dramaturg for Love’s Labour’s Lost
2:30-3:00 – Break with refreshments and light snacks.
3:00-4:00 – Q&A with cast from Love’s Labour’s Lost, moderated Mike Ryan, Artistic Director of Shakespeare Santa Cruz .
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7:00 – Bring your own picnic dinner at The Grove.
7:00-7:15 – Pre-performance talk: ‘5 Things to Look For,” with Sean Keilen
8:00 – Evening performance of Love’s Labour’s Lost.
DAY TWO: Lecture Series, Romeo & Juliet: Sunday, August 12
Noon Welcome (light lunch provided)
12:15-1:30 – Dr. Ariane Helou, Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies (UCLA) and Dramaturg for Romeo and Juliet, discusses poetry and transformation in Romeo and Juliet
1:30-2:15 – Break with refreshments and light snacks
2:15-3:30 – Workshop on sonnets with Mike Ryan and Sean Keilen
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7:00 – Bring your own picnic dinner at The Grove.
7:00-7:15 – Pre-performance discussion of “5 Things to Look For,” with Ariane Helou
8:00 – Evening performance of Romeo and Juliet

Nido de Lenguas: Summer Camp
2018-09-29 10:00 - 16:00 | Santa Cruz Adult School, 319 La Fonda Ave, Santa Cruz, 95062, United States
Nido de Lenguas Summer Camp is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Please sign up online using the form or by emailing us at nidodelenguas@ucsc.edu.
What is Summer Camp?
It is a one-day event where anybody has the opportunity to learn about — and learn how to speak — a Oaxacan language. Currently, participants can choose the Zapotec of Santiago Laxopa or the Mixtec of San Martín Peras.
Summer Camp brings together community members with native speaker and linguists from UC Santa Cruz. There are fun group activities and fast-paced games, each geared toward learning a Oaxacan language.
Who comes to Summer Camp?
Participants are community members who were excited to discover the indigenous languages of Oaxaca, many spoken by their neighbors across the Monterey Bay area. Native speakers of Mixtec and Zapotec teach their languages, and linguistics professors and students from UC Santa Cruz facilitate the activities.
Date: Saturday, September 29, 2018
Time: 10 am to 4 pm
Where: Santa Cruz Adult School, 319 La Fonda Ave, Santa Cruz

Madhuri Shekar’s Queen + Panel
2018-09-29 14:00 - 17:00 | De Anza College, Cupertino, CA, United States
With prestigious accolade only days away, the numbers start adding up to an ethical dilemma for UC Santa Cruz graduate researchers, Ariel Spiegel [Stacy Fairley] and Sanam Rao [Nandini Ravindran], and their supervisor, Dr. Philip Hayes [Michael Boehm] in Madhuri Shekar’s Queen. Is financier, Arvind Patel [Snehal Pachigar], correct that their whole hypothesis is motivated by left-wing bias?
The drama directed by EnActe Arts’ Artistic Director and Founder, Vinita Sud Belani, and launches EnActe Art’s 2018-19 season dedicated to the telling of women’s stories in response to author Kamila Shamsie’s challenge to publishing houses for 2018 to be a year of publishing women.
Following the 2 pm performance on September 29, a panel of UCSC faculty will address the joys and challenges facing women in academia and scientific research. Featuring: Vilashini Coopan (Literature), Needhi Bhalla (Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology), and Jennifer Derr (History).

Tickets Required
UCSC Students, Faculty and Staff, use code UCSCQUEEN for free tickets.
General Seating $25.00
Student/Senior $10.00
Tickets available at https://www.tikkl.com/enacte/c/queen

Reyna Grande Book Launch: A Dream Called Home
2018-10-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Peace United Church, 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UC Santa Cruz alumna, Reyna Grande, will discuss her new memoir, A Dream Called Home, in conversation with Micah Perks, UC Santa Cruz Literature Professor.
A DREAM CALLED HOME is Grande’s lyrical and moving follow-up to The Distance Between Us. This memoir tells the story of her pursuit to become the first in her family to earn a college degree at UC Santa Cruz and become an award-winning and bestselling author. Grande shares an inspiring, personal account of what it means to find a home and place of belonging in America as a undocumented, first-generation Latina.
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Get a copy of A Dream Called Home at Bookshop Santa Cruz, at the event, or at www.bookshopsantacruz.com. Free books will be given out to the first 50 UCSC students to attend (student ID required at the door).
Reyna Grande is the recipient of the 2015 Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. Her first novel, Across a Hundred Mountains (Atria, 2006), received a 2006 El Premio Aztlan Literary Award, a 2007 American Book Award, and a 2010 Latino Books Into Movies Award. Her second novel, Dancing with Butterflies (Washington Square Press, 2009) was critically acclaimed and was the recipient of a 2010 International Latino Book Award, Best Women’s Issues, and a 2010 Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club Selection. She was also a 2003 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow. The Distance Between Us was a 2012 National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalist and has been selected by numerous city-wide read programs, including Rochester Reads 2018, MacReads 2018, One Book/One Michiana 2018, All Henrico Reads 2018, Timberland Reads Together 2017, Telluride One Book/One Canyon 2017, Estes Park One Book/One Valley 2017, Saginaw One Book/One Community 2016, Camarillo Reads 2016, Roswell Reads 2015, and One Maryland/One Book 2014, among others. To learn more about Reyna Grande and her work, visit www.reynagrande.com.
Presented by: Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute
Co-sponsored by:
Research Center for the Americas
UCSC First Gen Initiative
Kresge College
UCSC Year of Alumni
Parking is limited. Please carpool or choose alternative transportation if you are able. If you have disability-related needs, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274.

Digital Humanities Meet Up
2018-10-08 16:00 - 18:00 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join the Digital Humanities campus community for a Fall Quarter Meet Up. This is an opportunity to meet digital scholarship practitioners across campus and connect as we start a new year. The Meet Up is informal: please invite colleagues interested in building a DH portfolio and learning more about digital scholarship.
Zac Zimmer, Assistant Professor of Literature, will present a short paper, “Cryptography, Subjectivity and Spyware: From PGP Source Code and Internals to Pegasus,” to kick off a DH-focused conversation related to the 2018 – 2019 THI theme, Data and Democracy.
Read Cyberwar for Sale beforehand and come prepared to discuss the issues
This brief intervention will use two examples from the world of secure communications to explore the intersection of global norms of privacy and local conceptions of political subjectivity.
The first example is a book published by Philip Zimmermann and MIT Press in 1995. That 900-page tome was a hard copy print out of the source code for his open source implementation of the public-key RSA cryptosystem. In the early 1990s, Zimmermann was being prosecuted by the US Government for distributing his software. By publishing his source code as a book, Zimmermann claimed free speech protections, while resourceful users knew that by scanning the pages they’d be able to compile their own versions of the software. PGP has since gone through several iterations, yet remains a global standard for email encryption. And yet it is not foolproof. In 2017, The Citizen Lab reported an exploit used by the Mexican state. “Pegasus,” produced by the Israeli cyberarms firm the NSO Group, allowed Mexican authorities to surveil and target Mexican lawyers, journalists, activists, and others. Pegasus uses social engineering and “spear-phising” attacks to compromise communications systems. There is no cryptographic solution to Pegasus.
Through tracing the trajectory from PGP to Pegasus, I pose the following questions: Is there a work-around to surveillance society? Will Big Data recognize any other civil rights framework, other than “privacy”? Is there a way to “transmediate” cryptographic protocols, in the spirit of Zimmermann and MIT Press’ collaboration, in order to protect against exploits like Pegasus?

Co-sponsored by the Digital Scholarship Commons

Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams: History vs. Women
2018-10-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Join us at Bookshop Santa Cruz for discussion and signing with Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams, moderated by UCSC Professor of Film and Digital Media Shelley Stamp, about their new book, History vs. Women.
Rebels, rulers, scientists, artists, warriors and villains.
Women are, and have always been, all these things and more.
Looking through the ages and across the globe, Anita Sarkeesian, founder of Feminist Frequency, along with Ebony Adams PHD, have reclaimed the stories of twenty-five remarkable women who dared to defy history and change the world around them. From Mongolian wrestlers to Chinese pirates, Native American ballerinas to Egyptian scientists, Japanese novelists to British Prime Ministers, History vs Women will reframe the history that you thought you knew.
Featuring beautiful full-color illustrations of each woman and a bold graphic design, this standout nonfiction title is the perfect read for teens (or adults!) who want the true stories of phenomenal women from around the world and insight into how their lives and accomplishments impacted both their societies and our own.
Anita Sarkeesian is an award-winning media critic and the creator and executive director of Feminist Frequency, an educational nonprofit that explores the representations of women in pop culture narratives. Best known as the creator and host of Feminist Frequency’s highly influential series Tropes vs. Women in Video Games, Anita lectures at universities, conferences and game development studios around the world. Anita dreams of owning a life-size replica of Buffy’s scythe. She is the coauthor of History vs Women.
Ebony Adams, Ph.D. is an author, activist, and former college educator whose work foregrounds the lives and work of black women in the diaspora. She lives in Los Angeles with a steadily-increasing collection of Doctor Who memorabilia. She writes widely on film criticism, social justice, and pop culture, and is the coauthor of History vs Women.
This free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. While seating is open (chairs are usually set up an hour ahead of time), you can reserve you place in the signing line by preordering your copy of History vs. Women with a priority signing line voucher from Bookshop Santa Cruz below.
If you have any ADA accommodation requests, please contact bookshopevents@gmail.com by October 8th.

Chris Benner: "A Universal Technology Dividend? - Rethinking price, value, work and the commons"
2018-10-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
In this talk, Dr. Benner will discuss his current work exploring the idea of a Universal Technology Dividend. He will explore questions related to the common-property characteristics of technology and innovation, the monopolistic characteristics of information markets, and the need to rethink how we define work in contemporary labor markets.
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Chris Benner is the Dorothy E. Everett Chair in Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship, and a Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He currently directs the Everett Program for Technology and Social Change and the Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation. His research examines the relationships between technological change, regional development, and the structure of economic opportunity, focusing on regional labor markets and the transformation of work and employment. He has authored or co-authored six books (most recently Equity, Growth and Community, 2015, UC Press) and more that 70 journal articles, chapters and research reports. He received his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Living Writers: Samiya Bashir
2018-10-11 17:20 - 18:55 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Samiya Bashir is the author of three books of poetry: Field Theories, and Gospel, and Where the Apple Falls. Sometimes she makes poems of dirt. Sometimes zeros and ones. Sometimes variously rendered text. Sometimes light. Her work has been widely published, performed, installed, printed, screened, and experienced. Bashir holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as Poet Laureate, and an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she received two Hopwood Poetry Awards. Bashir lives in Portland, Oregon where she teaches at Reed College.

About Living Writers, Fall 2018: “Sentence & Sentience: Forms”
This series features seven contemporary poets, critics, and artists who each render, albeit in differing forms and across a diversity of experiences, the unit of the sentence for powerfully sentient effects. Whether through poetic argument, the fictive line, or the scholarly imagination, each of these authors explore questions of race, gender, sexuality, nature, and nation in their respective practices and forms.
*Note: All Readings, except for the Morton Marcus Reading, featuring Gary Snyder, will take place from 5:20-6:55 in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the dates listed below. The Gary Snyder Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading will be held in the Music Recital Hall on November 15th from 6-8:00 PM.

All events are free and open to the public.

Nido de Lenguas: Clases
2018-10-11 17:30 - 19:00 | Small Schools Campus, 840 N. Branciforte Ave., Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Led by Maestra Fe Silva-Robles of Senderos, Clases is a monthly opportunity to learn Santiago Laxopa Zapotec in an interactive classroom setting. All oral instruction is in Spanish only; written materials are in Spanish and English. Maestra Fe and the Nido de Lenguas team collaborate extensively to produce a cohesive set of lessons. Each lesson is designed to introduce new sounds, vocabulary, and grammar, building on previous lessons. Students increase their language skills through a variety of group exercises. There is also homework, so students can keep their Zapotec skills sharp between classes.
Clases is free and open to the public. To attend, it is necessary to register online here:

Linguistics Colloquia: Ur Shlonsky
2018-10-12 13:20 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
“Subjects of copular constructions”
Ur Shlonsky, University of Geneve
More info at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

Ben Breen, When Drugs Became Global: Technologies of Intoxication in the Enlightenment
2018-10-15 18:30 - 20:00 | Forager, San Jose, 420 S 1st St, San Jose, CA, 95172, United States
Over the course of the seventeenth eighteenth centuries, psychoactive substances from opiates to cannabis to coffee underwent rapid globalization. Enlightenment thinkers were by no means immune to the allure of these novel drugs. Scientists and physicians tried to discover the “occult virtues” of these drugs through an array of experimental methods, including testing them on themselves. This talk explores how the globalization of drugs in the eighteenth century influenced Enlightenment-era science, commerce, and technology. It does so through three case studies: Jesuits observing ayahuasca ceremonies in South America, East India Company merchants sampling cannabis in South Asia, and the strange story of the invention of nitrous oxide.

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An alumni Council Silicon Valley Lecture

Sharad Chari: “Apartheid Remains”
2018-10-17 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
“Apartheid Remains” explores how people subjected to life in a patchwork landscape of industry and residence in the Indian Ocean City of Durban, South Africa, have sought to contest their social and spatial subjection across the 20th century, particularly in the revolutionary 1970s and 1980s, and in today’s racial capitalism.
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Sharad Chari is a geographer working at the interface of political economy, historical ethnography, Marxist geography, agrarian studies, Black and subaltern radical traditions and oceanic studies. He has spent time at the Michigan Society of Fellows and the ‘Anthrohistory’ program at Michigan, Geography at the LSE, and Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand, before returning to Berkeley Geography. Sharad is a scholar of agrarian transition and industrialization in South India (his first book, Fraternal Capital, 2004) and has been working on South Africa since 2002 (on the book project Apartheid Remains which he is speaking from.) He has also begun new work on an oceanic conception of capitalism, in relation to the fetishism of ‘the Ocean Economy’ in the Southern African Indian Ocean region, focusing on the South African and Mozambican Indian Ocean littorals, Réunion and Mauritius. At Berkeley, he is also part of Berkeley Black Geographies and the Submergent Archive, both collective projects in Geography Department, and at WiSER he is part of the project on the Oceanic Humanities in the Global South.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

UCHRI Funding Workshop
2018-10-18 14:00 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
UCHRI has just announced their call for applications for the 2018-2019 Academic Year. Join us for an Information Session with Kelly Anne Brown (Associate Director, UCHRI) and Shana Melnysyn (UCHRI Competitive Grants) to learn more. UCHRI has released six new competitive grants. The workshop will address these new opportunities and cover what you need to know to apply.
One-on-one Consultations also available
Brown and Melnysyn will also be available for informal consultations about faculty-led research projects. Contact thi@ucsc.edu if you would like to set up time to meet with them.

David Lee: "Pictures of the Past - Introduction to the Rock Art of Western North America"
2018-10-18 16:30 - 19:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Ancient hunter-gatherer peoples across the globe painted and carved designs on rock walls for tens of thousands of years. The deserts of western North America contain some of the largest and most complex rock art sites known, and careful documentation of them has helped us to understand how these enigmatic images fit into the lives of the peoples who made them and their descendants. This lecture will explore many of the various rock art styles of this region and place them within the greater context of national and international rock art studies.
Free and open to the public
Metered parking available in lower Cowell-Stevenson lot (109)

David Lee is an independent rock art researcher, focusing on the function and context of Native American rock art in the Great Basin and the Mojave Desert. Beginning in 1996 he has documented rock art in California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, and Australia, and has authored and co-authored many papers and reports on the Mojave Desert, eastern California, and Australia. Since 2005 he has also been documenting rock art and associated traditional stories in northern Australia. He is a founding member of Western Rock Art Research, a non-profit organization dedicated to the study and management of rock art.
For more information on the lecture, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu

PhD+ Workshop: "Navigating Career Choices Post-PhD - Reflections on Work and Identity"
2018-10-19 11:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
“Navigating Career Choices Post-PhD: Reflections on Work and Identity”
This workshop will provide space to discuss, critique, and engage with some of the thorny questions about transitioning to non-tenure track careers. Kelly Anne Brown, Associate Director of UCHRI, and Shana Melnysyn, Competitive Grants Officer at UCHRI, will share their perspectives as PhDs at work in an Institute that hires many PhDs. We will begin by engaging with a few examples of “quit lit” from across the affective spectrum, and discuss how we might approach them as primary sources in our research on broadening career horizons. We will ask graduate students to come prepared with questions about pursuing different kinds of work–particularly those they wouldn’t feel comfortable asking in other contexts.
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Please read these texts ahead of the workshop and join the conversation:

Just Another Piece of Quit Lit, by Joseph Conley
The Sublimated Grief of the Left Behind, by Erin Bartram
Thesis Hatement, by Rebecca Schuman
Quit Lit is About Labor Conditions, by Katie Rose Guest

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About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.
Lunch will be served.

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Micah Perks Book Launch: True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape
2018-10-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute welcomes local author Micah Perks to celebrate the publication of her new book, True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape.
Magical and funny, profound and seductive, the linked stories in True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape explore the life-bending power of love. In these interwoven lives, ardent desire meets a keen sense of reality deep in the heart of progressive California. When Sadie opens a funky bookstore in Santa Cruz, she is swept off her feet by Daniel, a true-blue romantic–athletic, bookish, from Santiago, Chile. Their connection is heady and erotic, and it echoes through the love lives around them: from Harry Houdini’s first encounter with the widow Winchester to the threatening intimacy between a wife and her brother to a grumpy teenager who inspires her divorced parents. Years later, when Sadie and Daniel take an overdue trip to Paris, their blended family doesn’t blend so well, sending them back to rediscover their roots. In these interconnected lives, the desire for passion is as strong as the desire to escape, and the terror of claustrophobic connection competes with the deepest human yearning. A funny, intoxicating look at the complexity and simplicity of embracing and running from love. By the award-winning author of What Becomes Us.
Micah Perks is the author of What Becomes Us, a novel; We Are Gathered Here, a novel; Pagan Time, a memoir; and a long personal essay from Shebooks, Alone In The Woods. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Epoch, Zyzzyva, Tin House, The Toast, OZY and The Rumpus, amongst many journals and anthologies. She has won an NEA, five Pushcart Prize nominations, and the New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More info and work at micahperks.com.
Read more about Perks and her teaching in a recent interview by UCSC Literature PhD Student, Thais Miller.
This free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins.
If you have any ADA accomodation requests, please contact bookshopevents@gmail.com by October 22nd.

CANCELED: Cultural Studies Colloquium with Ashwini Tambe
2018-10-24 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
“Tropical Exceptions – Racial Logics in Twentieth Century Intergovernmental Age of Consent Debates” Legal age standards for sexual maturity are challenging enough to devise at the state or national level, but they are especially contentious at the intergovernmental level. Efforts at setting common standards have often been marked by imperial logics on the part of those proposing common standards and misgivings on the part of those most affected. Dr. Tambe’s talk traces how intergovernmental efforts at setting common age standards for sexual consent and marriage occasioned elaborate posturing and coding of racial difference. In the two cases Tambe discusses —League of Nations conventions on trafficking in the 1920s and United Nations conventions on marriage in the 1950s— she show how the proceedings staged contests between competing imperialisms and foregrounded moral differences between parts of the world. In effect, seemingly neutral age categories became a means to express geopolitical hierarchies and undercut formal liberal relationships of equivalence.
Ashwini Tambe studies how societies regulate sexual practices, and why sexual practices are freighted with political meaning. Her previous work has engaged the history of sex trade regulation in Bombay. Her forthcoming book focuses on age standards for sexual consent and the legal paradoxes in defining girlhood in India. She is also writing a book on academic feminism and the #MeToo movement, and co-editing a volume on the history and future of transnational feminist theory. She is the editorial director of Feminist Studies, the oldest US journal of feminist interdisciplinary scholarship.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

VENUE CHANGE: Living Writers - Khary Polk
2018-10-25 17:20 - 18:55 | Peace United Church, 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Khary Polk is an Assistant Professor of Black Studies & Sexuality, Women’s and Gender Studies at Amherst College. He attended Oberlin College as an undergraduate, where he majored in English with a concentration in Creative Writing, and received his Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University. Polk has written for the Studio Museum of Harlem, The Journal of Negro History, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Gawker, the journal Biography, and has contributed essays to a number of queer of color anthologies, including Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity Objectification, and the Desire to Conform, If We Have To Take Tomorrow, Corpus, and Think Again. His forthcoming book, We Don’t Need Another Hero: Race, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers Abroad, will be published by University of North Carolina Press in Fall 2019.

Living Writers Series Fall 2018: Sentence & Sentience: Forms
This series features seven contemporary poets, critics, and artists who each render, albeit in differing forms and across a diversity of experiences, the unit of the sentence for powerfully sentient effects. Whether through poetic argument, the fictive line, or the scholarly imagination, each of these authors explore questions of race, gender, sexuality, nature, and nation in their respective practices and forms.
*Note: All Readings, except for the Morton Marcus Reading, featuring Gary Snyder, will take place from 5:20-6:55 in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the dates listed below. The Gary Snyder Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading will be held in the Music Recital Hall on November 15th from 6-8:00 PM.
All events are free and open to the public.

Markus Zusak: Book Discussion and Signing - Bridge of Clay
2018-10-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz Veterans Hall Auditorium
Markus Zusak, award-winning and internationally best-selling author of The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger, will celebrate the release of his highly-anticipated new book, Bridge of Clay, at an offsite and ticketed event. An unforgettable and sweeping family saga, written in powerfully inventive language and bursting with heart, as signature Zusak. Tickets for this celebration and book signing event are on sale at Bookshop Santa Cruz and at https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/markus-zusak. This event is co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz and KAZU.
This offsite book discussion and signing event will be held at: Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building, 846 Front St., Downtown Santa Cruz
TICKET PACKAGES: Ticket packages are $30.00, include one copy of Bridge of Clay and one ticket to the event. One companion ticket may be purchased for $10.00. (No book included. Limit one per full price ticket.)
The publication date of Bridge of Clay is October 9th, 2018. Ticket packages purchased before that date will include a voucher redeemable for one copy of Bridge of Clay (at Bookshop Santa Cruz on and after October 9th, or at the venue on the night of the event).
The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their father’s disappearance.
At the center of the Dunbar family is Clay, a boy who will build a bridge–for his family, for his past, for greatness, for his sins, for a miracle.
The question is, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much can he overcome?
Markus Zusak is the author of the extraordinary international bestseller The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger, an LA Times Book Award Finalist and Printz Award Honor book. He lives in Sydney, Australia, with his wife and children.

Sanctuary & Subjectivity Practices Workshop
2018-10-26 10:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Session 1: Chair: Prof. Megan Thomas
“Re-rooting ‘We Refugees’: Lessons on the Conditions of Displacement from Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil” – Dr. Scott Ritner
“Sites of Emancipation: Contributions from a Rancièrian Perspective” – Hannes Glück
“Humanitarian Subjects in Neoliberal Times” – Veronika Zablotsky
12:00-1:30 pm: Lunch Break
1:30-3:30 pm
Session 2: Chair: Prof. Max Tomba
“Borders and Crossings: Lessons of the 1980s Central American Solidarity Movement for 2010s Sanctuary Practices” – Prof. Susan Coutin (skype)
“History, Sense, Sanctuary: The Time-Lapse Politics of Church Asylum” – Key MacFarland
“Hotspot Geopolitics versus Geosocial Solidarity: Contending Constructions of Safe Space for Migrants in Europe” – Prof. Katharyne Mitchell and Prof. Matthew Sparke
3:30-4:00 pm: Coffee break
4:00-6:00pm
Session 3: Keynote Address
“Time, Sanctuary, and Decoloniality: Notes from Manus Island Prison” – Prof. Anne McNevin
6:00-8:00 pm
Dinner at the Cowell Provost’s House

DATE CHANGE - Anne McNevin - "Time, Sanctuary and Decoloniality: Notes from Manus Island Prison"
2018-10-26 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Please note that this event date has changed and will now be on Friday, October 26th, 2018
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Anne McNevin is Associate Professor of Politics at The New School and is spending 2018-19 as a member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Her work focuses on the transformation of political belonging, the regulation of borders and migration, and spatiality and temporality in world politics. She is author of Contesting Citizenship: Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political (Columbia UP, 2011) and co-editor of Citizenship Studies. Her current research explores contemporary social movements that enliven a politics of membership and mobility beyond the terms of open/closed borders and citizen/migrant subjects.
Co-sponsored by: The After Neo-Liberalism Research Cluster and University of California Office of the President Multi-campus Research Programs and Initiative Funding

Linguistics Semantics-Pragmatics Workshop
2018-10-27 09:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
More info at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/conferences/index.html

Jaron Lanier: How the Internet Failed and How to Recreate It
2018-10-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Music Recital Hall
The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture, Presented by the Humanities Institute
The internet as it exists might destroy our world. In the developed countries, its arrival has corresponded to bizarre political dysfunction, while in the developing world, ethnic rivalries that had been waning have been re-ignited in the most grotesque fashion. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The internet was supposed to empower people and enrich culture and democracy. What went wrong was based on a simplistic, nerdy philosophy. The solution can be discerned, and it involves creating and strengthening societal structures that are in between giant tech platforms and individuals.
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The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Series is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. The Ethics Lecture is made possible by the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics which enables the Humanities Division to promote a dialogue about ethics and ethics related challenges in an interdisciplinary setting. The endowment was established in honor of Peggy Downes Baskin’s longtime interest in ethical issues across the academic spectrum.
Data and Democracy: This event kicks off a year of programming on “Data and Democracy.” The Humanities Institute will be hosting numerous events and other activities around this theme. As our society navigates shifting definitions of fake news, targeted ad programs, and compromised voting systems, it is essential that we work to understand the complex and often obscured relationship between data and democracy. During the 2018-2019 Academic Year, The Humanities Institute will lead a community-wide conversation about this topic through a range of events focused on the ethics of social media, online privacy, big data, and algorithmic bias.
Directions and Parking
The UCSC Music Recital Hall is located at 402 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Parking lot attendants will be on site to sell permits and direct guests to available parking in the Performing Arts parking lot #126. Click here for directions.
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Michel Feher: "Creditworthiness - The Political Stake of a Speculative Age"
2018-10-31 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Michel Feher’s current research and forthcoming book, Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age (Zone Books, September 2018) examines the extraordinary shift in conduct and orientation generated by financialization, particularly the new political resistances and aspirations that investees draw from their rated agency.
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Michel Feher is a philosopher who has taught at the École Nationale Supérieure, Paris, and at the University of California, Berkeley, and was recently a Visiting Professor at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the publisher and a founding editor of Zone Books, NY (in 1986) as well as the president and co-founder of Cette France-là, Paris (in 2008), a monitoring group on French immigration policy. He is the author of Powerless by Design: The Age of the International Community (2000) and, most recently, of Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age (2018); the co-author, with Cette France-là, of Xénophobie d’en haut: le choix d’une droite éhontée (2012) and Sans-papiers et préfets: la culture du résultat en portraits (2012) and the co-editor of Nongovernmental Politics (2007), with Gaëlle Krikorian and Yates McKee, and of Europe at a Crossroads/near Futures Online, with William Callison, Milad Odabaei and Aurélie Windels (2015).
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Living Writers: Julian Talamantez Brolaski
2018-11-01 17:20 - 18:55 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Julian Talamantez Brolaski is the author of Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books, 2017), which was recently shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry; Advice for Lovers (City Lights 2012); and Gowanus Atropolis (Ugly Duckling Press, 2011. It is coediter of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of Kari Edwards, as well as lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the Brooklyn-based Juan & the Pines and Oakland-based The Western Skyline. Julian is currently at work on The Apache Pollen Path (forthcoming from University of New Mexico Press) with its grandmother, Inés Talamantez.

About Living Writers, Fall 2018: “Sentence & Sentience: Forms”
This series features seven contemporary poets, critics, and artists who each render, albeit in differing forms and across a diversity of experiences, the unit of the sentence for powerfully sentient effects. Whether through poetic argument, the fictive line, or the scholarly imagination, each of these authors explore questions of race, gender, sexuality, nature, and nation in their respective practices and forms.
*Note: All Readings, except for the Morton Marcus Reading, featuring Gary Snyder, will take place from 5:20-6:55 in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the dates listed below. The Gary Snyder Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading will be held in the Music Recital Hall on November 15th from 6-8:00 PM.
All events are free and open to the public.

Kevin Dawson: “History Below the Waterline - Enslaved Salvage Divers Harvesting Seaports’ Hinter-Seas, c.1540-1840”
2018-11-07 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Kevin Dawson’s scholarship examines how enslaved Africans carried swimming, surfing, canoe-making, and canoeing skills to the Americas where they informed slave culture and were exploited by slaveholders. “History Below the Waterline” considers how enslaved Africans employed as salvage divers transformed shipwrecks, especially sunken Spanish treasure ships, into hinter-seas of economic production. Scholars typically situate seaports between hinterlands and overseas markets, assuming economies pivoted around rural production. This talk shifts our intellectual focus seaward to consider how enslaved aquanauts’ African-based expertise enabled them to harvest hinter-seas to produce capital that helped finance terrestrial production throughout the English Empire.
Kevin Dawson grew up surfing, swimming, and freediving in south Los Angeles County, all of which profoundly informed his scholarship. He received a BA from California State University, Fullerton and was awarded his PhD from the University of South Carolina in 2005, where his advisor was Dan Littlefield. Dawson’s scholarship and teaching focus on the African diaspora and Atlantic History from roughly 1444, when the Portuguese first sailed into Sub-Saharan Africa to 1888, when Brazil became the last country in the New World to abolish slavery.
He has conducted research throughout the continental US, Hawai‘i, the Caribbean, and West Africa and has published articles in the Journal of American History and Journal of Social History, as well as several chapters in edited volumes. His book Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the Africa Diaspora was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2018.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Rachel Gross, The Jewish Deli Revival: Buying and Selling American Jewish Nostalgia
2018-11-08 13:30 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In recent years, there has been a nostalgic resurgence of interest in the Jewish deli menu. Restaurateurs and purveyors of Jewish food are deliberately making American Jewish food fit for the twenty-first century, emphasizing sustainability, local produce, and a nostalgic longing for family and communal histories. By selling and consuming a revitalized deli cuisine, American Jews express their longing for authentic Jewish pasts, build community in the present, and pass on their values to future generations.

Prof. Rachel B. Gross is the John and Marcia Goldman Professor of American Jewish Studies in the Department of Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University. She is currently working on a book entitled Feeling Jewish: Nostalgia and American Jewish Religion. She received her PhD from Princeton University.

Living Writers: Valeria Luiselli
2018-11-08 17:20 - 18:55 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Valeria Luiselli, Hofstra University, is a novelist and non-fiction writer. She is the author of Faces in the Crowd, Sidewalks, The Story of My Teeth, and Tell Me How It Ends. Twice nominated for both the Kirkus Prize and the NBCC Award, she is the two-time winner of an L.A. Times Book Prize, a recipient of the National Book Foundation “5 under 35” award, and the Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney’s, among other publications, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives and teaches in New York City.

Living Writers Series Fall 2018: Sentence & Sentience: Forms
This series features seven contemporary poets, critics, and artists who each render, albeit in differing forms and across a diversity of experiences, the unit of the sentence for powerfully sentient effects. Whether through poetic argument, the fictive line, or the scholarly imagination, each of these authors explore questions of race, gender, sexuality, nature, and nation in their respective practices and forms.
*Note: All Readings, except for the Morton Marcus Reading, featuring Gary Snyder, will take place from 5:20-6:55 in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the dates listed below. The Gary Snyder Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading will be held in the Music Recital Hall on November 15th from 6-8:00 PM.

All events are free and open to the public.

Save the Waves Film Festival
2018-11-08 19:00 - 23:00 | Patagonia Outlet, 415 River St C, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The 10th annual Save The Waves Film Festival presented by UGG brings its west coast tour home with an epic evening of live music and international surf films at Patagonia Outlet in Santa Cruz, CA on Thursday, November 8th. The night’s festivities will feature world premieres of surf, adventure, and documentary films, as well as live music and a raffle at intermission. The Save The Waves Film Festival is a fundraiser for the Save The Waves Coalition and World Surfing Reserves, and all proceeds support their work to protect surf ecosystems.

This event will have a cash bar with offerings from Tito’s Vodka, Suerte Tequila, and Kona Brewery. To make our film festival more eco-responsible, we have eliminated single-use plastic cups at our bars. We will be selling stainless steel pint cups for $10 (one free drink with purchase!) or feel free to bring your own reusable cup. Thanks for helping us make this year’s film festival the greenest yet!
All Eventbrite ticketholders (pre-door sales) will receive a free raffle ticket at the door. Prizes include a Patagonia wetsuit, Firewire surfboard, GoPro Hero 6 Black, Peak Designs photographer’s messenger bag, Clif Bar prize pack + more!
**this is an all ages show**

Linguistics Colloquia: Gabriella Caballero
2018-11-09 13:20 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Gabriella Caballero, UC San Diego: The Interaction Between Lexical and Grammatical Tone in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara)*
The cross-linguistic study of tone has largely focused on its lexical phonological properties, its phonetic implementation and interaction with other prosodic phenomena, but the morphological role of tone is still under-documented: What kind of morphological information may tone convey across languages? And what mechanisms regulate the outcome when there are lexical and grammatical tones in conflict?
This talk addresses these questions through the lens of Choguita Rarámuri (CR; Uto-Aztecan), a prosodically complex language of northern Mexico.

CR has three lexical tones exclusively realized in stressed syllables. Stress-accent is morphologically
conditioned and tonal patterns are partially predictable from stress. Yet there is evidence for grammatical tone and tonal classes independent of stress. We argue that the full range of grammatical tone patterns in CR follows from an analysis that incorporates tonal underspecification and construction-specific tonal patterns as output-oriented schemas. This analysis captures several properties of this system, including: (i) arbitrary relationship between tone patterns of related forms, (ii) heterogeneous nature of morphosyntactic classes expressed by tone melodies, and (iii) overwriting/avoidance of lexical tone by grammatical tone. We contrast this analysis with an alternative morphemic analysis that has been proposed in the literature (Spahr 2016), and argue that a construction-based analysis makes the correct empirical predictions.
* Work in collaboration with Austin German (UCSD/UT Austin)

More info at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

The Maghrib Workshop: Sovereignty, Crisis, and Narratives of Belonging
2018-11-10 09:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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The Maghrib Workshop: Sovereignty, Crisis, and Narratives of Belonging
Part I

Morning
8:30 am transportation from Hotel to Humanities 1 by carpool.

9:00 am Coffee and Introduction

9:30 Camilo Gómez-Rivas (UCSC) “Sanctuary, Refuge, and Displacement to the Maghrib during the Reconquista.”

11:00 Ashley V. Miller (UCB) “Designing Moroccan Heritage on the Economic Battlefield of World War I.”

12:30 Lunch

Afternoon
1:30 Idriss Jebari (Bowdoin) “Critical Thought, Nation-Building and Language Politics in the Maghreb.”

3:00 Break

3:15 Nouri Gana (UCLA) “Twilight Arabic: The Politics of Language in Postrevolutionary Tunisia.”

4:45 Concluding remarks

6:00 Dinner at Cowell Provost’s House

Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing Ceremony
2018-11-13 13:30 - 15:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Please join the Writing Program in celebrating UC Santa Cruz’s ninth annual Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing ceremony. UCSC VPDUE Richard Hughey, Humanities Dean Tyler Stovall, Writing Program Chair Tonya Ritola, and Writing Program faculty members will be attending the ceremony along with this year’s six winners and their families.
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