Humanists@Work: Graduate Career Workshop in Silicon Valley
2017-05-01 | UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus
Humanists@Work Graduate Career Workshop – UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus
Santa Clara – May 1, 2017
What is Humanists@Work?
Humanists@Work is a UC-wide initiative geared towards UC Humanities and humanistic Social Science MAs and PhDs interested in careers outside/alongside the academy.
On May 1, 2017, HumWork will host a sixth workshop for graduate students and faculty members in partnership with the University of California, Santa Cruz. Inspired by its location, Humanists@Work Graduate Career Workshop – Silicon Valley will engage the synergistic possibilities at the intersection of new media, community engagement, education and public humanities that is characteristic of the greater Bay Area.

WORKSHOP LOCATION
UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Campus
3175 Bowers Ave
Santa Clara, CA 95054
FREE PARKING ON CAMPUS
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
8:00—9:00 AM: HOT BREAKFAST
9:00—9:30 AM: WELCOME
9:30—11:00 AM: STORIES FROM THE FIELD
In Stories from the Field, four UC humanities PhDs discuss how long-term, sustained humanistic thought and labor shape, and potentially transform, their career trajectories and the industries in which they find themselves employed. How did their values, ethics, and politics inform their post-PhD work choices?
Christian Blood
Curriculum Specialist
Zoho Corporation
Dana Douglas DePietro, Ph.D.
Cultural Resources Division Lead, FirstCarbon Solutions
Executive Director, S.H.A.R.E
Tamao Nakahara, PhD
Co-organizer
DevXCon
Sheri J. Tatsch, PhD
Owner/Principal
Indigenous Consulting Services
11:00—11:30 AM: COFFEE BREAK AND INFORMAL NETWORKING
11:30 AM—1:00 PM: FROM ACADEMIC CV TO INNOVATIVE RÉSUMÉ USING JARED REDICK’S “PURPOSE, CONTENT, DESIGN” METHODOLOGIES
The Résumé Studio’s Jared Redick returns to Humwork, sharing his “purpose, content, design” techniques aimed at helping recent and soon-to-be PhDs shape a purposeful résumé, while framing the possibilities of a fulfilling future beyond or alongside academia.
1:00—2:00 PM: LUNCH
2:00—3:30 PM: BREAKOUT SESSIONS
SESSION 1 – HUMANITIES PHDS: DESIGNING CAREER PATHS
Debra Behrens, PhD
PhD Counselor
University of California, Berkeley
This interactive workshop is for humanities PhDs in the early stages of researching careers who want to Explore career ideas, Learn to research jobs and engage short-term strategies for gaining experience, and Design potential career paths.
SESSION 2 – PERSUASIVE INTERVIEWING
Annie Maxfield, MS
Associate Director, Graduate Student Relations and Services
University of California, Los Angeles
Excelling in interview settings is a skill that requires thought, practice, and confidence. During this interactive workshop, attendees will practice and refine their interviewing skills by learning persuasive techniques that enhance their storytelling abilities and highlight their key contributions.
3:30—4:00 PM: COFFEE BREAK AND INFORMAL NETWORKING
4:00—5:30 PM: CANDID CONVERSATIONS: DEBT IN THE HUMANITIES
Student debt is a collective experience shared by the majority of humanities PhDs, so why aren’t we talking about it? Candid Conversations engages faculty, graduate students, and university staff in a dialogue around the issue of debt and how it influences your post-PhD careers.
Joshua A. Anderson
Graduate Student
University of California, Berkeley
Jessica Beard, PhD
Higher Education Project Organizer
American Federation of Teachers
Jennifer E. McSpadden
ABD
University of California, Davis
Allison Perlman, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of California, Irvine

Digital Pedagogy Showcase
2017-05-02 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities 2, Room 359
Get some syllabus inspiration! The inaugural cohort of the Digital Instruction Project lead this Brown Bag Session about developing and implementing new digital assignments in their classes. Join us as we discuss the benefits and challenges of adding digital tools into your syllabus and pushing your students to try new forms of scholarly writing.
The panel includes Philip Longo (Writing Program), Kyle Parry (HAVC), Cat Ramirez (LALS), Amanda Smith (Literature), and Dustin Wright (History)
The Digital Instruction Project was launched in Fall 2016 by the Digital Scholarship Commons and the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL).

"What's Left of Progressive Politics?"
2017-05-02 13:30 - 15:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
The Center for Emerging Worlds presents
“What’s Left of Progressive Politics?”
Roundtable Discussion with
Dr. Vijay Prashad, Dr. Lisa Rofel, Dr. Mayanthi Fernando, and Asad Haider
Dr. Vijay Prashad is Professor of International Studies and South Asian History at Trinity College, Connecticut and a renowned journalist. He was trained as a historical anthropologist and received his Ph.D from the University of Chicago. Prashad’s work addresses issues like race and imperialism, race and immigrant communities in the US, geopolitical changes in the global South after 9/11, the propagation of policies that produce and exacerbate income inequalities, the possibilities of political solidarities among social movements committed to progressive change in the world, and the role of national governments and regional alliances in the context of economic and political changes in the world. He is the author of numerous books. Some of them are – The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016 and New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2016). No Free Left: The Futures of Indian Communism (New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2015). The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (London: Verso and New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2013). Arab Spring, Libyan Winter (Baltimore: AK Press and New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2012). The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World, (New York: New Press and New Delhi: LeftWord, 2007). Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (Boston: Beacon Press, 2001). Karma of Brown Folk (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000). Untouchable Freedom: The Social History of a Dalit Community (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999). His articles appear in media organization s like the Guardian, the Hindu, Frontline, jadaliyya, and AlterNet.
For more information, contact sjetha@ucsc.edu
These events are free and open to the public

In the Ruins of the Present: Neoliberalism and Cruel Populism Suffocate the Future
2017-05-02 17:00 - 19:00
Vijay Prashad’s talk In the Ruins of the Present: Neoliberalism and Cruel Populism Suffocate the Future traces the rise of populism across the world, including the global South and North, in the present historical moment. This type of populism expresses itself in anti-immigrant politics and defines the nation in narrow terms – race, ethnicity, and religion. It seeks to exclude immigrants who do not fit within the narrow confines of these categories. This populism does not address the substantive issues of inequality and jobless even if some of its energy is derived from it.

Dr. Vijay Prashad is Professor of International Studies and South Asian History at Trinity College, Connecticut and a renowned journalist. He was trained as a historical anthropologist and received his Ph.D from the University of Chicago. Prashad’s work addresses issues like race and imperialism, race and immigrant communities in the US, geopolitical changes in the global South after 9/11, the propagation of policies that produce and exacerbate income inequalities, the possibilities of political solidarities among social movements committed to progressive change in the world, and the role of national governments and regional alliances in the context of economic and political changes in the world. He is the author of numerous books. Some of them are – The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016 and New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2016). No Free Left: The Futures of Indian Communism (New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2015). The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (London: Verso and New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2013). Arab Spring, Libyan Winter (Baltimore: AK Press and New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2012). The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World, (New York: New Press and New Delhi: LeftWord, 2007). Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (Boston: Beacon Press, 2001). Karma of Brown Folk (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000). Untouchable Freedom: The Social History of a Dalit Community (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999). His articles appear in media organization s like the Guardian, the Hindu, Frontline, jadaliyya, and AlterNet.
Location: TBD
For more information, contact sjetha@ucsc.edu
These events are free and open to the public

Chris Connery: "Contemporary Chinese Capitalism and Its Critical Landscape"
2017-05-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Contemporary Chinese Capitalism and Its Critical Landscape”
This talk draws on a work in progress entitled Revolutionary China and its Late Capitalist Fate, an analysis of the nature of post-reform China’s political economy, with particular attention to how this has affected everyday life, intellectual and critical work, ideological formation, cultural production, social movements, political action, and social space.
Chris Connery is a Professor of Literature at UCSC and Professor of Cultural Studies at Shanghai University.
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.

Earl Jackson: "Critical Conditions: Japanese Film Theory and Practice"
2017-05-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Earl Jackson Jr. is Professor at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan and Co-Director of the Trans-Asian Screen Cultures Institute in South Korea.
Co-Sponsored by Cultural Studies, Cowell College, and the Literature Department.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Doris Leibetseder
2017-05-04 14:00 - 16:00 | Humanites 1, Room 320, Humanities and Social Science Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Doris Leibetseder, Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley
In this paper I present part of an allied queer-feminist and transgender ethics of reproduc-tion. I look at ARTs and how they raise challenges for transgender and queer people. My focus lies in the ways these technologies confront queer and people with normative expectations concerning biological sex, gender, sexuality, kinship relations and the right to procreate, and how this leads to medical migration. This presentation gives an overview of my new EU-funded (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) project starting August 2017 at Uppsala University: “Towards an Inclusive Common European Framework for Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART): Queer Transgender Reproduction in the Age of ART.”

Doris Leibetseder is a researcher at the University of Uppsala, Sweden in the Centre for Gender Research and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, CSMTS (Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society).

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series Spring 2017 Schedule:
May 4th: Doris Leibetseder, “QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies”
May 17th: Susan O’Neal Stryker, “What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need”
June 1st: Patricia de Santana Pinho, “We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring Brazil and Bearing their Nation”

Living Writers: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa & Eric Sneathen
2017-05-04 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Poet Tsering Wangmo Dhompa’s parents fled Tibet in 1959. Raised by her mother in Tibetan communities in Dharamsala, India, and Kathmandu, Nepal, She is the author of the poetry chapbooks In Writing the Names (2000) and Recurring Gestures (2000). She has published the full-length collections Rules of the House (2002), In the Absent Everyday (2005), and My Rice tastes like the lake (2011), which was a finalist for the Northern California Independent Bookseller’s Book of the Year Award for 2012. Dhompa’s non-fiction book based on her life is called A Home in Tibet (Penguin India, 2013).
Eric Sneathen, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya, 2016)
Eric Sneathen is a poet who whose writing has been published by Mondo Bummer, Elderly, and Faggot Journal. He is the editor and organizer of Macaroni Necklace, a Bay Area–based DIY literary journal and reading series. Snail Poems is his first book.
The UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents
The Lives of Other Songs
Living Writers Series Spring 2017
Thursdays / 5:20-6:50pm / Humanities Lecture Hall
April 13, 2017: Tongo Eisen-Martin, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press, 2015)
May 4, 2017: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, author of A Home in Tibet (Penguin, 2014) and Eric Sneathen, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya, 2016)
May 11, 2017: Aisha Sasha John, author of THOU (BookThug, 2014)
May 18, 2017: Rosa Alcalá, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010)
June 1, 2017: Lauren Levin, author of The Braid (Krupskaya, 2016)
June 8, 2017: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading

PhD+: Mentorship
2017-05-05 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Mentorship Managed Up: cultivating successful professional relationships within, alongside, and outside the academy

This PhD+ session is being presented in coordination with members of the NEH Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grant Committee. Please join faculty, administration, and graduate students in a facilitated discussion and share your thoughts about how to foster and maintain successful mentorship relationships in humanities graduate programs. We’ll open with brief introductory comments before moving into a moderated panel discussion addressing:

the benefits and challenges associated with establishing a mentor/mentee relationship with different types of individuals who may serve in the mentor role, e.g., faculty advisers (intra- and inter-department), non-academic professionals, peer graduate student mentors, etc
the goals of a mentor/mentee relationship, discussing achievable milestones or benchmarks, and setting corresponding expectation
the processes for “managing up” in a mentor/mentee relationship in terms of navigating successful accomplishment of the expected milestones and how to resolve conflict, overcome obstacles or inertia, etc.

Each question will be followed by a brief response from the panelists meant to generate a larger discussion including the members of the audience. The Planning Committee hopes to use the feedback and discussion to inform its strategic proposals for further discussion, development, and possible implementation to better serve the UCSC humanities community.

PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the second 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, online identity issues, and much, much more.
Lunch will be served, as always.
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Danielle Crawford
2017-05-05 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Shooting Cameras and Shooting Weapons: U.S. Military Violence and Ecological Ruin in Coppola’s Apocalypse Now
This presentation examines the shooting history of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979), which was shot on the Philippine island of Luzon. I investigate the collision between Hollywood’s shooting of cameras and the U.S. military’s shooting of weapons, and the ways these forms of violence intertwine on the set of this Vietnam War film. While the film attempts to blur the geographic boundaries between Vietnam and the Philippines by using Philippine “jungles” as substitute, I argue that Apocalypse Now ultimately blurs the boundaries between real U.S. warfare and the cinematic reproduction of warfare through its military collaborations and its production of ecological ruin.
Friday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
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.
April 21, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz, History
April 28, 2017: Baizhu Chen, Economics
May 5, 2017: Danielle Crawford, Literature
May 12, 2017: Kristen Laciste, HAVC
May 19, 2017: Kara Hisatake, Literature
May 26, 2017: Yuki Obayashi, Literature
June 2, 2017: Angela Nguyen, Psychology

Brett Rushforth: “‘Daily Trafficke with the Frenchmen’: Merchant Colonialism and African Sovereignty in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic"
2017-05-08 13:30 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Center for World History Presents
Brett Rushforth
“‘Daily Trafficke with the Frenchmen’: Merchant Colonialism and African Sovereignty in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic”
May 8, 2017 @ 1:30-3pm
Humanities 1, Room 210
Free and open to the public
Brett Rushforth is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. He is a scholar of early American
and Atlantic history who specializes in slavery, race, and the law in the French Atlantic world. His
most recent book, “Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France”, uncovered the
hidden history of French colonists enslaving Native North Americans by the thousands in the 1700s,
sending captive Sioux, Apache, and other Indians to a life of slavery in Montreal, Quebec, and even the
French Caribbean. In 2013-14, “Bonds of Alliance” was named the best book in American social history
by the Organization of American Historians, the best book on the history of French colonialism by the
French Colonial Historical Society, the best book on the history of European expansion by the Forum
on European Expansion and Global Interaction, and the best book in French Cultural Studies.

The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies Investiture Ceremony
2017-05-08 14:00 - 15:30 | Stevenson Event Center
The Humanities Division and Feminist Studies department are very excited to announce the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. This endowed chair was recently established with a $500,000 gift from the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation and matching funds from the UC Regents. Bettina Aptheker, Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies, is the inaugural chair holder. The endowed chair will help fund research and teaching as well as graduate fellowships in feminist studies.

Feminist Studies Investiture Ceremony from IHR on Vimeo.
Event Photos: by Steve Kurtz
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
Join us for the Investiture Ceremony, May 8, 2017 at 2pm to be held at the Stevenson Event Center. Reception to follow.
Complimentary parking will be available in the Barn Theater parking lot. Parking permits will be on sale for $4. Continuous shuttle service to Stevenson Event Center will be available from 1:15 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Barn Theater.

About Bettina Aptheker

Bettina Aptheker is a nationally recognized historian and a scholar of feminist studies. She received her Ph.D. in History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz and became the first ladder-rank faculty member of the Feminist Studies Department, then known as Women’s Studies, in 1987. For nearly three decades Bettina has taught one of the country’s largest and most influential introductory feminist studies courses, exposing more than 10,000 students to her deeply compelling teaching. Bettina works extensively with graduate students in Feminist Studies, and other departments, and teaches graduate seminars, including Feminist Pedagogy and Black Feminist Reconstruction. She has received numerous awards over the years, and in June will be presented with the Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award in the Humanities.
About the The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation

The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation currently focuses on improving the lives of women and girls and ensuring equal access to education for all community members. UC Santa Cruz and the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation have been partnering on advancing innovative and impactful scholarship for many years. The foundation has funded the Baskin Feminist Scholars Program and the Baskin Scholars Program in Engineering that enable community college students to transfer to UC Santa Cruz, underwritten fellowships to women doctoral students in engineering, offered scholarships to women transfer students, and funded the summer Girls in Engineering program for middle-school girls since its inception. With this new Presidential Chair, the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation is leading the way in support of teaching and research in feminist studies at UC Santa Cruz.

Debbora Battaglia: "Roots in Air: People/Plants/Ethics in Suspension"
2017-05-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Roots in Air: People/Plants/Ethics in Suspension”
Out of the urban ruins and food deprivation of World War II came the prototype for growing plants aeroponically. Aeroponics has since taken surprising turns as a technology for anthropocenic conditions – in Global South laboratories; “vertical gardens”; art installations; plant biology experiments for colonizing the cosmos. In its wake, questions open concerning the ethics of plant-people relations in future-making projects.
Debbora Battaglia is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Mt. Holyoke College.
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.

Ecology & the Rise of Capitalism Nature, Power, and the Origins of Our Times
2017-05-11 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
A colloquium by
Associate Professor Jason W. Moore
Fernand Braudel Center
Binghamton University

Jason W. Moore is an environmental and world historian at Binghamton University, where he is Associate Professor of Sociology and Research Fellow at the Fernand Braudel Center. He is author of Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso, 2015) and editor of Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism (PM Press, 2016). A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, written with Raj Patel, will be published this fall (University of California Press). He is coordinator of the World-Ecology Research Network.

This event is co-sponsored by Rachel Carson College, the UCSC Humanities Research Institute, and the Sociology and Environmental Studies Departments. Professor More will also be speaking at EXTRACTION: A Two-Day Conference on Decolonial Visual Cultures in the Age of the Capitalocene, May 12-13, sponsored by the Center for Creative Ecologies.

Living Writers: Aisha Sasha John
2017-05-11 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents
Aisha Sasha John, author of THOU (BookThug, 2014)
AISHA SASHA JOHN is a singing dancer– and the author of the recently published I have to live. (McClelland & Stewart). Aisha’s previous poetry collection THOU (BookThug 2014) was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the ReLit Poetry Award. Later this spring, Aisha dances the aisha of oz at the Whitney Museum as part of the 2017 Whitney ISP exhibition. Aisha is trained in various Congolese and Ethiopian dances and has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. She was born in Montreal.
The Lives of Other Songs
Living Writers Series Spring 2017
Thursdays / 5:20-6:50pm / Humanities Lecture Hall
April 13, 2017: Tongo Eisen-Martin, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press, 2015)
May 4, 2017: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, author of A Home in Tibet (Penguin, 2014) and Eric Sneathen, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya, 2016)
May 11, 2017: Aisha Sasha John, author of THOU (BookThug, 2014)
May 18, 2017: Rosa Alcalá, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010)
June 1, 2017: Lauren Levin, author of The Braid (Krupskaya, 2016)
June 8, 2017: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kristen Laciste
2017-05-12 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
From Maidservant to Anomalous Aristocrat: Imaging and Imagining Dido Elizabeth Belle
The double portrait of cousins, entitled, Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray, is truly an anomaly in 18th century British art. Depicting two aristocratic women, one back and one white, the painting inspired the 2014 film, Belle. Incorporating the fancy and flair of period dramas, the creators of Belle fabricated a largely fictional account, envisioning Dido with a generous measure of agency and influence despite being black and female. This is evident in the portrait revealed in the movie. Though the original painting and film version are nearly identical, this presentation examines the two, considering the implications of the alterations made in the latter.
Friday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:30-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
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.
April 21, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz, History
April 28, 2017: Baizhu Chen, Economics
May 5, 2017: Danielle Crawford, Literature
May 12, 2017: Kristen Laciste, HAVC
May 19, 2017: Kara Hisatake, Literature
May 26, 2017: Yuki Obayashi, Literature
June 2, 2017: Angela Nguyen, Psychology

13th Annual Graduate Research Symposium
2017-05-12 13:00 - 16:30 | McHenry Library, UCSC
Event Photos:
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
Graduate Research Symposium
The Symposium offers graduate students from every division the opportunity to discuss their research with colleagues on campus and with the public. Our students present their work in the form of posters, live presentations, and media demonstrations. The Symposium also awards juried prizes, overseen by a panel of judges comprised of faculty, staff, researchers, alumni, and industry professionals, for presenters from each division and two overall awards.
*This year’s event will be held in the “Information Commons South” area on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library.
Registration Information
We welcome presenters from all disciplines on campus, and encourage live and media presentations as well as traditional poster presentations! For 2016, registration was available for 48 posters, 30 live presentations, and 10 media presentations.
Each presentation must have a primary presenter, but may also list up to three co-presenters.
Presenters will be asked to check into the event between 12:30 and 1:15 depending on their selected format. Presentation judging officially begins at 1:30 pm.
An awards reception will immediately follow the Symposium until 4:30 pm. Graduate students are also encouraged to attend the Graduate Alumni Social at the Graduate Student Commons in the Quarry Plaza that evening.
*Please click here to view the 2016 Graduate Research Symposium Program

Presenters
Poster Presentations: All posters must fit on 4′ x 4′ easels provided in the Information Commons South. Posters will be arranged in the order in which they arrive. There will be personnel available to assist with set up. Posters presenters must check in at the registration table between 12:45 and 1:15 pm on the 2ndfloor of the McHenry Library. After you register to present, you will be assigned a one-hour window during which you must stay with your poster for judging.Posters may be removed after 3:30 pm.
Oral Presentations: Oral and live presentations will be in three classrooms on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library. A computer and projector will be available so that presenters can bring slides via either flash drive in PowerPoint or Keynote format, or saved to Google Drive in Google Slides; you may bring your own laptop if you like, though this is not recommended because of the time constraints involved in setting up/down. An easel will also be available for additional visual aids upon request. Be sure to indicate your media needs on the registration form. Oral presenters must check in at the registration table between 12:30 noon and 1:00 pm on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library. (Due to time restrictions, oral/live presentations must be limited to 10 minutes in length including set-up and taking-down.)
Media Presentations: Media presentations may be in audio and/or video format. Media presenters will be required to set up a short meeting with McHenry Library staff the week prior to the Symposium to discuss technical and/or physical space needs. Please specify your media needs on your registration form. Media presenters must check in at the registration table between 12:30 noon and 1:00 pm on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library. After you register to present, you will be assigned a one-hour window during which you must stay with your presentation for judging.
*Please click here to review our Best Practices site!

Click here to see our previous symposium awardees.

Ethics Bowl Invitational
2017-05-13 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
What It Is:
Every Spring the Center for Public Philosophy holds an Outreach Invitational for high schools that have never participated in the Regional Ethics Bowl. This is a fun, low-stakes way to get their feet wet.
This year we have a grant to host ten schools designated LCFF+ by the state of California–schools at which more than 75% of enrolled students are eligible for free/reduced price lunch, foster youth, and/or English-language learners.
The grant allows us to provide a top undergraduate philosophy student to coach the school’s team(s) in the two months leading up to the event and to provide each school with $1,000 for costs. We are grateful to the Division of Student Success for this grant.

Participating Teams:
Alisal High School
Salinas, CA
Burton High School
San Francisco, CA
Costanoa High School
Santa Cruz, CA
Diamond Technology Institute
Watsonville, CA
Downtown College Prep Alum Rock
San Jose, CA
Escuela Popular
San Jose, CA
Latino College Preparatory Academy
San Jose, CA
Luis Valdez Leadership Academy
San Jose, CA
Pajaro Valley High School
Watsonville, CA
Watsonville High School
Watsonville, CA

Information for May 13:
This year there will be two rounds, followed by a lunch, one more round and then a debrief over dessert. In each round, teams will be discussing two of the eight cases downloadable here.

For Teams & Coaches:
Teams should arrive on campus no later than 8:30am and proceed to the Humanities Lecture Hall.
Information on parking and directions can be downloaded here.
The day’s events will conclude at 2:30pm. You can read the rules of High School Ethics Bowl here.

For Judges
To our judges: first, thank you. We couldn’t hold this event without you. We appreciate your time and support.
Judges should meet in Humanities 1, 210 at 8:30am for the judges’ meeting. Coffee and pastries provided. Information on parking and directions can be downloaded here.
In preparation, all judges should familiarize themselves with the cases teams will be discussing. And if this is your first time judging, please watch the judges’ training video here.

Best of luck to all participating teams!
If you’re school or a individual interested in participating next year, or if you have any questions, please contact the Bowl Director Kyle Robertson.

Conjuncture / Crisis / Critique: A Symposium on Cultural Studies
2017-05-15 14:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The start time for this event has been changed to 2pm.
Featuring:
Christopher Chen, Literature
Jim Clifford, History of Consciousness
Christopher Connery, Literature
T.J. Demos, History of Art and Visual Cultures / Center for Creative Ecologies
Carla Freccero, Literature / History of Consciousness / Feminist Studies
Susan Gilman, Literature
Asad Haider, History of Consciousness
Donna Haraway, History of Consciousness
Sandra Harvey, Politics
Gail Hershatter, History
Laurie Palmer, Art
Warren Sack, Film and Digital Media / Digital Arts and New Media

Coffee and refreshments will be provided.

Susan Gilson Miller: "Vichy on Trial: Cooperation, Collaboration and Confrontation in Wartime Morocco"
2017-05-16 15:20 - 16:55
Susan Gilson Miller is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. She will be guest speaking on Tuesday, May 16, 2017 as a part of Professor Alma Heckman’s course “The Holocaust and the Arab World” (HIS 1850).
When: May 16, 2017 – 3:20-4:55pm
Location: Cowell Acad Classroom 113
This event is free and open to the public
Professor Miller was formerly head of the Moroccan Studies Program at Harvard University and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. She is currently a Research Associate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Prof. Miller has held Visiting Lecturer appointments at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, the lnstitut d’Etudes de l’Islam et des Sociétés du Monde Musulman (IISMM) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and at the Woolf Institute of the University of Cambridge. Her B.A. is from Wellesley College, she has an M.A. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in the History of the Modern Middle East. Her research has been supported by grants from the Social Science Research Council, the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Institute of Maghribi Studies and the University of California Humanities Research Institute. Her book, The History of Modern Morocco, 1830-2000, (Cambridge University Press, 2013) was a Finalist for the Leon Carl Brown Best Book award of the American Institute of Maghribi Studies in 2014. Her research interests center on colonial and post-colonial histories in the Maghrib, minorities, urbanism, and the history of travel and migration. Prof. Miller is a frequent visitor to Morocco, where she spent three years as a Peace Corps volunteer. Her current project is about the life and times of Hélène Cazes Benatar, Morocco’s first woman lawyer and human rights activist, who rescued thousands of Jews and non-Jews during the period of Vichy rule in North Africa.

Martin Devecka: "Socratic Economics"
2017-05-17 12:00 - 13:30
Socratic Economics
Martin Devecka is in the early stages of a research project on leisure and labor in fourth-century Athens. His work explores the processes through which competing claims to leisure and to the labor of others led to the privileging of politics as a way of thinking about collective action.
Martin Devecka is an Assistant Professor of Literature and Classics at UCSC.
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.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Susan O’Neal Stryker
2017-05-17 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need
Susan O’Neal Stryker, Associate Professor, University of Arizona
History is a story we tell in the present that links what we know of the past to a future we envision. In this talk, drawn from her forthcoming book of the same title, gender theorist and historian Susan Stryker examines the trans-temporal dimensions of what gets labelled “transgender” today, but which can be thought of as a more general capacity for life to exceed whatever current configurations it might have. At stake, Stryker contends, in vexing contemporary conflicts over pronouns and public toilets, is a deeper ontological struggle over which fantasies of past and futurity have the ability to ground themselves in materiality and come to count as real.

Susan Stryker is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona, where she spearheads the Transgender Studies Initiative.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series Spring 2017 Schedule:
May 4th: Doris Leibetseder, “QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies”
May 17th: Susan O’Neal Stryker, “What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need”
June 1st: Patricia de Santana Pinho, “We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring Brazil and Bearing their Nation”

The Eighteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
2017-05-18 09:00 - 16:45 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM
Opening Remarks 9:30 a.m.
Deanna Shemek, Chair, Literature Department
Panel One: Translating Tradition
9:45 – 10:45 a.m.
Moderator: Christopher Chen
Victoria Jones: Ion
Elli Levin: Baby’s First Inferno, or Dante Alighieri and the Nine Circles
Jessica Ness Poetic: Language in Translation
Alexander Pérez: The Nation in You
Panel Two: Cross/Cultural Encounters
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Moderator: Martin Devecka
Marcus Dovigi Language and the Law: A Comparison of the American and Islamic Legal Systems
Savanna Heydon Breaking Borders: Foreigner
Pang Yang Embellishing Lia
FREE! LUNCH BUFFET
12:00 – 12:45 p.m.
Panel Three: Practices of Reading
12:45 – 1:45 p.m.
Moderator: Amanda Smith
Sarah Ali Reading as an Act of Self Construction
Samantha Alsina Poetry Politics: Short Commentaries
Harold D. Surh Jr. Mad in Craft
Panel Four: Rock and Romanticism
2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Moderator: Rob Wilson
Sylvester Cruz On the English Disease
Isaac Mier The Highway of Excess and the Path to Endless Nights: William Blake and Jim Morrison
John Wilber The Nightingale Up in Arms: Bob Dylan’s “Jokerman”
Panel Five: The Time of Slavery
3:15 – 4:15 p.m.
Moderator: Dorian Bell
Isla Cunningham Blake and Of One Blood: Representations of “Messianic” Time
Fiona Murphy Historicizing Slavery in Fiction: A Study of Cuban Slave Narratives
Carina Zhur Race Against Time: How Time Fetishizes Race and Suppresses Messianic Power
Closing Remarks 4:15 p.m.
A. Hunter Bivens, Director, Literature Undergraduate Program Committee
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. ALL ARE INVITED!

Maudemarie Clark "Nietzsche's Nihilism"
2017-05-18 15:15 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Nietzsche claims that in realating the “advent of nihilism,” he is relating “the history of the next two centuries.” He also claims that he himself has been a nihilist, but that he had now left it behind, “outside of [him]self.” In this paper, I offer an account of how Nietzsche understands nihilism and of how to understand his own (early and middle-period) work as nihilistic. I argue (against Bernard Reginster) that the nihilism of interest to Nietzsche is not, or at least not mainly, a philosophical position, but a cultural condition. The upshot of my account is two-fold: first, that it was only in overcoming the naturalistic orientation that it has become standard to attribute to him (and that I once attributed to him) that Nietzsche left nihilism behind, and, second, that our current cultural and political situation is well on its way to the kind of nihilism that Nietzsce was particularly concerned with.
About:
Maudemarie Clark is a Professor of Philosophy at UC Riverside. She specializes in 19th Century German philosophy with a focus on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Advanced Reading:
The Will to Power – first 20 pages
Genealogy of Morality

Living Writers: Rosa Alcalá
2017-05-18 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Rosa Alcalá, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010)
Rosa Alcalá is the author of a poetry collection Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010) and two chapbooks: Some Maritime Disasters This Century (Belladonna, 2003) and Undocumentary (Dos Press, 2008). Alcalá has also translated poetry by Cecilia Vicuña, Lourdes Vázquez, and Lila Zemborain, among others. Recent translations include Zemborain’s Guardians of the Secret (Noemi Press, 2009), and poems for The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry (2009). She teaches in the Department of Creative Writing and Bilingual MFA Program at the University of Texas at El Paso.
The UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents
The Lives of Other Songs
Living Writers Series Spring 2017
Thursdays / 5:20-6:50pm / Humanities Lecture Hall
April 13, 2017: Tongo Eisen-Martin, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press, 2015)
May 4, 2017: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, author of A Home in Tibet (Penguin, 2014) and Eric Sneathen, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya, 2016)
May 11, 2017: Aisha Sasha John, author of THOU (BookThug, 2014)
May 18, 2017: Rosa Alcalá, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010)
June 1, 2017: Lauren Levin, author of The Braid (Krupskaya, 2016)
June 8, 2017: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading

The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
2017-05-18 20:00 - 2017-05-21 22:00 | Stevenson Event Center
Description:
This year’s program will feature fully-staged works in French, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. English super-titles will translate each of the pieces. The French segment will be devoted to scenes from Jean Giraudoux’s comic fantasy, La Folle de Chaillot, (The Madwoman of Chaillot) directed by Miriam Ellis, while Spanish will present Fable, by Samaniego, with Marta Navarro directing her students in this study. Russian will be devoted to an original work, Happy Dating, Everyone, directed by Natasha Samokhina, who created the piece with her students and will direct. For Japanese, we will present Music of Japan, directed by Sakae Fujita.
Admission Details:
There is no admission charge for this unique multicultural event. Parking is available and attendants will be selling $4.00 permits in the Stevenson parking lots, 109 and 110 from 7:15pm – 8:30pm all nights of production.
Dates:
May 18th – 8:00pm
May 19th – 8:00pm
May 20th – 8:00pm
May 21st – 8:00pm

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kara Hisatake
2017-05-19 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Pidgin Comedy in Hawai’i: The Queer Resignification of Settler Culture
In 1970s Hawai’i, Pidgin, also known as Hawai’i Creole english, was the major medium of comedy because it was the language, visual culture, and attitude of the islands, a stark contrast to imported U.S. settle norms. Rap Reiplinger was a household name with his 1982 TV special Rap’s Hawaii, which addressed local culture, politics, and tourism. Analyzing Reiplinger’s TV special, I claim that his Pidgin comedy resignifies settler culture and in doing so, queers dominant settler norms. Reiplinger’s comedy thus becomes a place where Pidgin values are embodied through queer performative-it reiterates to critique.
Friday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:30-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
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.
April 21, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz, History
April 28, 2017: Baizhu Chen, Economics
May 5, 2017: Danielle Crawford, Literature
May 12, 2017: Kristen Laciste, HAVC
May 19, 2017: Kara Hisatake, Literature
May 26, 2017: Yuki Obayashi, Literature
June 2, 2017: Angela Nguyen, Psychology

Non-citizenship Fellows Forum with Emily Mitchell-Eaton, Claudia Lopez, and Tsering Wangmo
2017-05-19 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the CLRC awarded two outstanding UC Santa Cruz graduate students year-long fellowships and hired a postdoctoral scholar as part of our 2016-17 Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship. In this free, public forum, our three Mellon fellows will discuss their research and tell us a bit about what their awards allowed them to achieve and their plans for the future.

Geographies of Imperial Citizenship
Emily Mitchell-Eaton, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chicano Latino Research Center
This talk addresses the modes of imperial citizenship and non-citizenship that have emerged for subjects of non-sovereign U.S. territories. An examination of the legal statuses held by these subjects reveals the margins of formal legal citizenship to be quite blurry. As imperial subjects attempt to cross U.S. borders, pursue employment, access public benefits and services, and resist deportation, these practices often result in precarious mobility and different forms of exclusion. Drawing on a case study of Marshall Islanders who have migrated to Arkansas, Dr. Mitchell-Eaton explores how Marshallese immigrants’ unique legal status is produced through their encounters with three groups: law enforcement and legal actors; social service providers; and activists.

The Life-Cycle of Forced Migration: Partial Citizenship and Internally Displaced Peasants in Medellín, Colombia
Claudia Lopez, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology
In this presentation, Claudia discusses the dynamics of internal and forced migration of rural peasant farmers, focusing on their urban resettlement and integration into the city of Medellín, Colombia. Using this case study of conflict-induced displacement in Colombia—which has the largest population of internally displaced persons in the world—her research brings new attention to internal and forced migration, viewing the resulting displacement as a serial process that constitutes what she calls the lifecycle of forced migration. She draws from ethnographic interviews and surveys with rural internally displaced persons, as well as interviews with representatives of government agencies and NGOs, to argue that, across the lifecycle, the state marginalizes displaced peasants and does not consider them capable urban citizens due to their rural origin and inability to contribute through formal labor practices in the city, thereby rendering them Partial Citizens. Ultimately, Claudia contends that this research demonstrates the limits of integration and national citizenship, offers a more nuanced lens for examining citizenship as a spectrum, and prompts us to examine belonging beyond the binary categories of citizen/non-citizen and included/excluded.

Belonging in Exile: The Exclusionary Agenda of Unity
Tsering Wangmo, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Literature
Tsering Wangmo’s dissertation, “From the Margins of Exile: Democracy and Dissent within the Tibetan Diaspora,” juxtaposes the external struggle for international recognition of the Tibetan government-in-exile with the internal struggle to command Tibetan unity since the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1950. It presents a nuanced understanding of how the project of nation building within the conditions of exile must be seen as a constant negotiation between deference and dissent and between unity and difference. In her talk, Tsering argues that unity was presented simultaneously as the moral and political responsibility of the modern Tibetan “refugee-citizen,” as well as the traditional duty of a Tibetan Buddhist, and that, ultimately, unity was an exclusionary discourse.

This free, public forum is co-sponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Dr. Nikhil Anand: "Waterlines: Uncertainty and the Future Urban"
2017-05-23 13:30 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
The IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene presents Dr. Nikhil Anand Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Pennsylvania.
Nikhil Anand’s research focuses on the political ecology of urban infrastructures, and the social and material relations that they entail. He is the author of Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai (Duke, 2017). His talk is based on a new project that focuses on the uncertain boundaries of land and water in Mumbai, looking at how sea level rise and struggles over coastal property intersect with the livelihoods of coastal people.
The IHR Research Cluster will also host an off-campus Dinner Salon with Dr. Anand later that evening to discuss his afternoon talk and Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement. The dinner salon will start at 6pm. Please email Mayanthi Fernando (mfernan3@ucsc.edu) by Saturday May 20 to RSVP for the salon and to get the Ghosh reading.

Humanities Radio Hour: “Radical Jewish Politics with Alma Heckman and Tony Michels”
2017-05-24 12:00 - 13:00 | KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FM
Please tune in to KZSC 88.1 FM for Artists on Art
Humanities Radio Hour
Wed, May 24th at 12:00PM–1:00PM
Interview with Professors
– Alma Rachel Heckman Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz whose research crosses Jewish history, North Africa, French empire, and the history of social movements.
– Tony Michels Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York and editor of Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History
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Johan Mathew, “Smoke on the Water: Hashish Smuggling and Imperial Surveillance between Asia and the Middle East”
2017-05-24 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Johan Mathew’s current project, Opiates of the Masses: Labor, Narcotics, and Global Capitalism, explores the history of narcotics in order to interrogate the concepts of “consumer demand” and “rational choice” in market exchange, focusing on the consumption of narcotics by workers in Asia and Africa to alleviate the stresses of labor under capitalism.
Johan Matthew is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University.
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.
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UCSC Night at the Museum - Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie
2017-05-24 18:00 - 20:00 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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Event Photos: by Crystal Birns
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Join us for “UCSC Night at the Museum – Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie” at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
As we mark the centennial of the Russian Revolution and the stunning electoral success of Bernie Sanders, the revival of interest in socialism inspires this discussion of the history of radical Jewish Politics.

RSVP has closed – Due to an overwhelming response, we are no longer accepting registrations to this event. However you are welcome to come to the Museum the night of the event and we will do our best to accommodate you if a sufficient number of people who have already RSVP’d are not in attendance.

6:00pm – Doors open
6:30pm – Public Conversation with Tony Michels Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York and editor of Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History; and Alma Rachel Heckman Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz whose research crosses Jewish history, North Africa, French empire, and the history of social movements.
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH)
705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Radical Jewish Politics Workshop
2017-05-25 14:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Marking the centennial of the 1917 Russian Revolution, the UCSC Center for Jewish Studies invites you to attend an afternoon of roundtable discussions around the theme of “Radical Jewish Politics.” This event both addresses and pushes the standard canon to discuss a wide variety of contexts, not only on their own, but in conversation with one another. Geographically, these contexts include Iran, Iraq, Israel and Palestine, Egypt, Russia, Hungary, Egypt, Morocco, and the United States of America. Thematically, these contexts include Queer Jewish histories within the left, the contemporary Orthodox populations of New York City and reactionary politics, interactions with Zionism and other nationalisms, historiography and state memory, and much more.
2:00-5:00pm
Afternoon Roundtable 1: Thematic conversation 1 (including approximately 3-4 panelists)
Afternoon Roundtable 2: Thematic conversation 2 (including approximately 3-4 panelists)
Concluding remarks
Dinner
RSVP required – Please register for the event here
Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, History Department, Center for Cultural Studies, and Institute for Humanities Research.
Scholar Bios:
Bettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies at UCSC, and is the holder of the UC Presidential Baskin Foundation Endowed Chair in Feminist Studies. She is affiliated faculty in Jewish Studies, and in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies. Her most recent research has been a project on queering the history of the Communist Left in the United States. Her most recent book is a memoir, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech and Became a Feminist Rebel. A scholar-activist she was featured in the film Free Angela! and all political prisoners, (2013). She also does work in Black feminist History, and recently published a scholarly piece, “The Pageantry of Shirley Graham’s Opera Tom-Tom” published in the journal Souls, Fall 2016.
Orit Bashkin is a historian who works on the intellectual, social and cultural history of the modern Middle East. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University (2004), writing a thesis on Iraqi intellectual history under the supervision of Professors Robert Tignor and Samah Selim, and her BA (1995) and MA (1999) from Tel Aviv University. Since graduation, she has been working as a professor of modern Middle Eastern history in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Her publications deal with Iraqi history, the history of Iraqi Jews, the Arab cultural revival movement (the nahda) in the late 19th century, and the connections between modern Arab history and Arabic literature. Her current research project explores the lives of Iraqi Jews in Israel. Her books (published by Stanford University Press are): The Other Iraq, Pluralism and Culture and Hashemite Iraq, New Babylonians, A history of Iraqi Jews, and Impossible Exodus, Iraqi Jews in Israel. At the University of Chicago, she teaches classes on nationalism, colonialism and postcolonialism in the Middle East, on modern Islamic civilization, and on Israeli history.
Joel Beinin is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1982 before coming to Stanford in 1983. Beinin’s research and writing focus on the social and cultural history and political economy of modern Egypt, Palestine, and Israel and on US policy in the Middle East.
Arie M. Dubnov is the inaugural Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies at George Washington University. His fields of expertise are modern Jewish and European intellectual history, with emphasis on the history of political thought and nationalism studies. His current research examines the relationship and exchange of ideas between pre-1948 Zionist activists and British political thinkers. It seeks to place Jewish nationalism within the context of interwar neo-imperial thinking, acknowledging a wide spectrum of intra-Zionist ideas ranging from pro-imperial, federalist thinking to radical anti-colonial notions of struggle.
Peter Kenez is Professor emeritus of history at UC Santa Cruz. He was one of the founding members of Stevenson College andhas taught and published widely on the history of the Soviet Union and related geopolitical questions.
Lior Sternfeld is an Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Penn State University. He is a social historian of the modern Middle East with particular interests in Jewish (and other minorities’) histories of the region. Sternfeld’s first book manuscript tentatively titled: “Integrated After All: Iranian Jews in the Twentieth Century,” which examines the integration of the Jewish communities in Iran into the nation-building projects of the twentieth century, is now under review. This book examines the development of the Iranian Jewish communities vis-à-vis ideologies and institutions such as Iranian nationalism, Zionism, and constitutionalism, among others. His current research project examines the origins of “third-worldism” in the Middle East.
Bob Weinberg is Isaac H. Clothier Professor of History and International Relations at Swarthmore College. He teaches Russian and European history and has published on the 1905 Revolution in Odessa, anti-Jewish pogroms, blood libel, antisemitism in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, and Birobidzhan

Linguistics Colloquium: Susan Lin
2017-05-26 02:40 - 15:40 | Humanities 2, Room 259
The Linguistics department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.
Fall 2016
May/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Yuki Obayashi
2017-05-26 12:00 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“This is Your Life”: Hiroshima Maidens and the American ideological superiority in the midst of the Cold War
In 1955, twenty-five female victims of the atomic bombing flown to the United States and received extensive plastic surgery to correct severe deformity from keloids. Initiated by the American journalist Norman Cousins and the Japanese minister Tanimoto Kiyoshi, this project was supported on multiple fronts in the United States. This paper analyzed the American capitalistic mode of generosity from the TV program, “This is Your Life” aired on May 11, 1955, which featured the Japanese minister Tanimoto, who recently arrived in the United States with Hiroshima Maidens. The TV program and its host successfully collected $56,000 in donations by asking its viewers to show their “American way”. This American way generosity demonstrated multiple problematic viewpoints in the ways of how the Americans constructed their superiority through the victims’ radicalized and gendered bodies.
Friday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:30-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
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.
April 21, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz, History
April 28, 2017: Baizhu Chen, Economics
May 5, 2017: Danielle Crawford, Literature
May 12, 2017: Kristen Laciste, HAVC
May 19, 2017: Kara Hisatake, Literature
May 26, 2017: Yuki Obayashi, Literature
June 2, 2017: Angela Nguyen, Psychology

Critical Race & Ethnic Studies Works In Progress
2017-05-26 14:30 - 15:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“Delinquency As Labor”
Chrissy Anderson-Zavala
Chrissy Anderson-Zavala is a PhD candidate in education with designated emphases in critical race and ethnic studies and feminist studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her dissertation, How to Write ‘Trouble/d Youth,’ bridges participatory ethnographic work in a continuation high school and reading practices that “track the figure” of “trouble/d youth” in district and state-level archives to explore how narratives of young people as “trouble” (threat) or “troubled” (at-risk) inform the limits and possibilities of schooling.

“BioRobotics: Surveillance at the Borders of AnimalHumanInsect”
Felicity Amaya Schaeffer
Felicity Amaya Schaeffer is an Associate Professor in the Feminist Studies Department here at UCSC. Her book, Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship Across the Americas, was published in 2013 with NYU Press. She is working on a new project called “Tracking Migrants: Biosecurity Across Erotic Borders” that follows the de-humanization of Latina/o migrants branded as biothreats, or deviant and criminal threats. In this project I follow the ways state surveillance remakes relations between technology-the-body-and nature, and then decolonizes these state regimes through an Anzalduan approach to what I call an erotic cosmology: using the body as a technology to hone our senses deeper into the sensual relationality of human-animal-cosmic ontologies.

Symposium: Charting the Library's Future
2017-05-31 10:00 - 14:30 | McHenry Library UCSC, Room 4286
Program:
10:00-10:30am
Welcome and Opening Remarks by Chancellor George Blumenthal and University Librarian Elizabeth Cowell

10:30-12:00pm
Panel Discussion
MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian at UC Davis
Expanding Research Support in University Libraries
Academic libraries’ research support is inherently interdisciplinary (or omnidisciplinary) so they are uniquely positioned to expand those services to include common modern research tools and methods, such as spatial and data science, informatics and analytics, writing and programming. Providing central, democratically accessible facilities, instruction, and expert support for these essential modern research skills is a natural role for libraries while increasing their value to the universities they serve.
Günter Waibel, Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of the California Digital Library
This Magic Moment: Are We Coming Together, or Falling Apart?
Abstract: What kind of a library does a globally connected faculty working on the grand challenges of our time need? The recent election has sparked a public debate about factual information, the scientific method and intellectual freedom; it has also deepened the academy’s resolve to uphold those core values. At the same time, our blue planet faces grand challenges that become tractable only through collective and collaborative action. Both faculty and librarians are striving to respond by working across traditional organizational and/or geopolitical boundaries. The UC system, and the UC libraries within it, are a microcosm of a community finding a collective response, and a case-study in an experiment to go further together. (Examples illustrating these dynamics might came from the national response to safeguarding federal research data, and the UC libraries strategy to realize our goal of a fully open access future.)
Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, University Librarian at UC Berkeley
Bringing Together People, Information and Technology: Connected Learning
Astract: University libraries always have been providers of public goods and gateways to discovery. They amassed collections of millions of books and scholarly articles to share with all faculty and students, who could not afford to do so individually. New learners coming through the doors had transcendent — often ecstatic — discovery experiences that fueled individual growth, and social and scientific progress. We should continue to provide public goods to excite the passions and open the eyes, but the information environment has changed drastically and so must the learning environments and experiences. We must create connected learning spaces as open-to-all gateways before students reach specialized labs and facilities limited to their choice of major. These spaces must connect people, information and technology to support collaborative and active learning. The public goods we provide should include not just books and articles (and videos and maps and…) but also new information technologies most students can’t afford for themselves (e.g., virtual reality gear, data visualization systems, programmable 3-D scanners, etc.). And we need to provide experts to help them find those head-exploding discoveries that open their eyes to the Age of Information.

12:00-1:00pm:
Lunch provided for all registered attendees

1:00-2:30pm:
Lightning Talks and Discussion sessions
The Changing Practices of Scholarly Work
Sylvanna Falcón, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies
Danielle Crawford, Graduate Student in Literature and former CART Fellow
Jody Greene, Professor of Literature, Feminist Studies, and History of Consciousness, and director of the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)
Christy Caldwell, Research Support Services Librarian

Shahzad Bashir, “Islamic Pasts and Futures: Conceptual Issues”
2017-05-31 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk emerges from Professor Bashir’s current project, Islamic Pasts and Futures: Conceptual Explorations, a critique of the conceptualization of Islamic history in modern scholarship. Bashir suggests alternatives emphasizing multiple temporalities and engaging contemporary academic debates regarding language, historiography, and history on the basis of materials of Islamic provenance.
Shahzad Bashir is professor in Islamic Studies and Director of the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University.
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.

Mat Callahan, “The Explosion of Deferred Dreams”
2017-06-01 14:00 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Presented by The History of Consciousness, The Center for Cultural Studies, & UCSC University Library Special Collections & Archives, with support from Logo’s Books.
With special musical guest Dry Days
As the fiftieth anniversary of the Summer of Love floods the media with debates and celebrations of music, political movements, “flower power,” “acid rock,” and “hippies”; author, musician, and native San Franciscan Mat Callahan’s new book, The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco, 1965–1975 (PM Press, 2017) offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties. Callahan explores the dynamic links between the Black Panthers and Sly and the Family Stone, the United Farm Workers and Santana, the Indian Occupation of Alcatraz and the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and the New Left and the counterculture.
Callahan’s meticulous, impassioned arguments both expose and reframe the political and social context for the San Francisco Sound and the vibrant subcultural uprisings with which it is associated. Using dozens of original interviews, primary sources, and personal experiences, the author shows how the intense interplay of artistic and political movements put San Francisco, briefly, in the forefront of a worldwide revolutionary upsurge.
A must-read for any musician, historian, or person who “was there” (or longed to have been), The Explosion of Deferred Dreams is substantive and provocative, inviting us to reinvigorate our historical sense-making of an era that assumes a mythic role in the contemporary American zeitgeist.
Mat Callahan is a musician and author originally from San Francisco, where he founded Komotion International. He is the author of three books, Sex, Death & the Angry Young Man, Testimony, and The Trouble with Music as well as the editor of Songs of Freedom: The James Connolly Songbook. He currently resides in Bern, Switzerland.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Patricia de Santana Pinho
2017-06-01 14:00 - 16:00 | Humanites 1, Room 320, Humanities and Social Science Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring Brazil and Bearing their Nation
Patricia de Santana Pinho, Associate Professor, UC Santa Cruz
The talk presents a chapter of my nearly completed book manuscript Diaspora Detours: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil. Previous chapters examine the effects of national identities on the connections between black diaspora communities. In this chapter I analyze how gender impacts these transnational relations while simultaneously differentiating the experiences of female and male travelers. Analyzing why and how women travel is important in deconstructing the implicitly masculinist abstract tourist subject. At the same time, by focusing on women travelers, it is crucial not to confirm men as the norm that goes unexamined and unquestioned. While the chapter looks more closely at women, it does so in order to examine how travel and tourism function as fundamentally gendered and embodied practices, which in turn contribute to the gendering of the black diaspora.

Patricia de Santana Pinho, Associate Professor in LALS, is a Brazilian social scientist whose research focuses on topics of blackness, whiteness, racism, anti-racism, tourism, and the black diaspora. She is author of Mama Africa: Reinventing Blackness in Bahia (Duke University Press, 2010).

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series Spring 2017 Schedule:
May 4th: Doris Leibetseder, “QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies”
May 17th: Susan O’Neal Stryker, “What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need”
June 1st: Patricia de Santana Pinho, “We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring Brazil and Bearing their Nation”

Living Writers: Lauren Levin
2017-06-01 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Lauren Levin, author of The Braid (Krupskaya, 2016)
Lauren Levin is the author of THE BRAID (Krupskaya, 2016) and the forthcoming TWO ESSAYS (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2018) as well as several chapbooks, including The Lens (Little Red Leaves, 2014) and Working (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2012). From 2011-2014, she co–edited the Poetic Labor Project. She grew up in New Orleans.

The UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents
The Lives of Other Songs
Living Writers Series Spring 2017
Thursdays / 5:20-6:50pm / Humanities Lecture Hall
April 13, 2017: Tongo Eisen-Martin, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press, 2015)
May 4, 2017: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, author of A Home in Tibet (Penguin, 2014) and Eric Sneathen, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya, 2016)
May 11, 2017: Aisha Sasha John, author of THOU (BookThug, 2014)
May 18, 2017: Rosa Alcalá, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010)
June 1, 2017: Lauren Levin, author of The Braid (Krupskaya, 2016)
June 8, 2017: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading

PhD+: Thinking Ahead: Grants and Fellowships Workshop for Graduate Students
2017-06-02 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the second 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, online identity issues, and much, much more.
This year-end workshop is devoted to developing your fellowship / grant strategy to support your graduate career. We’ll focus on year-long prestigious fellowships such as American Council of Learned Societies, Ford Foundation, American Association of University Women, Fulbright, and others, as well as smaller grants, including UC MEXUS, designed to fund small, short-term, field-specific projects. This workshop will assist you in thinking through your funding timeline for next year and beyond. Please bring any and all of your questions as a significant portion of this year-end meeting will function as an open forum for your questions and ideas.
Presenters / Facilitators:
Stephanie Moore, Director of Research Development, Arts Division
Irena Polic, Managing Director, Institute for Humanities Research
Samuael Topiary, Graduate Research Development Fellow
Lunch will be served.
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Angela Nguyen
2017-06-02 12:00 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“Mom, can you help me with my homework?” Identifying Tools and Conditions for Intergenerational Dialogue Among Southeast Asian Refugees and Their Children
The collective memories of the Southeast Asian diaspora are interwoven with histories of war and colonial violence that continue to be felt in everyday experiences as hauntings. Post-war generations are often without access to resources for contextualizing and deconstructing these lived realities. I discuss my reflexive process while interviewing my family about their experiences with the American-Vietnam War and how this ongoing dialogic process has transformed my relationships to my family and community, as well as highlighted sociopolitical tensions within Vietnamese American communities. I identify possible tools for intergenerational dialogue and emphasize the need to engage with these loud silences to support communities displaced by war in negotiating “the ending that are not over” (Espiritu, 2014).
Friday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:30-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
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.
April 21, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz, History
April 28, 2017: Baizhu Chen, Economics
May 5, 2017: Danielle Crawford, Literature
May 12, 2017: Kristen Laciste, HAVC
May 19, 2017: Kara Hisatake, Literature
May 26, 2017: Yuki Obayashi, Literature
June 2, 2017: Angela Nguyen, Psychology

Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC)
2017-06-02 12:45 - 15:45 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
The Linguistics Department’s annual Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) will be held Friday, June 2nd, from 12:45 – 3:45pm in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. The Distinguished Alumna speaker will be Maura O’Leary, who is a PhD graduate student at UCLA.
We hope you will attend.
Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference Program – coming soon!

Deanna Shemek: "Digital Isabella d’Este: New Renaissance Navigations"
2017-06-02 16:00 - 17:00 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Digital Isabella d’Este: New Renaissance Navigations
When you look at a piece of art in a museum do you ever wonder about the context? Where was the art originally hung? What did the room look like? Who were the people viewing the art? Did they listen to music as they viewed the art?
Please join us for Deanna Shemek’s Gary D. Licker Memorial Lecture as she discusses how she and her team are using Isabella d’Este’s personal correspondence to reconstruct Renaissance Italy. Using state of the art technology in virtual and augmented reality along with the work of numerous historians and researchers in the US and in Italy, Deanna’s work is bringing a whole new meaning to the term bringing history to life.

Intrigued? Here is a short video about the project:

Isabella d’Este Virtual Studiolo from Future Film Festival on Vimeo.

Please RSVP here.

IDEA Hub: A Pitch for Social and Creative Enterprise
2017-06-07 15:00 - 21:00 | Hotel Paradox
IDEA Hub: Creative and Social Entrepreneurship at UCSC presents
A Pitch for Social and Creative Enterprise
June 7th, 2017 3-9PM
Paradox Hotel, Santa Cruz, CA
3-6pm – IDEA Hub Pitch for
Social Change
6-9pm – SCNT MeetUp
Applications are currently being sought from UCSC students and community collaborators who have ideas for innovations that promote positive social change.
Requirements/Eligibility: Team must have at least one UCSC student member. Innovations must be an original idea that addresses an area of societal need, including (but not limited to) poverty, affordable housing, income inequality, drug abuse, violence, mental & public health, food security, discrimination, cultural sustainability, participatory governance, education, transportation, environmental sustainability, climate change. Innovations must have completed R&D sufficient to demonstrate viability and potential to scale beyond initial target application or customers.
How to Apply: Send enterprise summary (max 3 pages) that includes name of Team, Team
members and affiliations, contact information for team lead, one sentence mission statement, problem being solved and your solution to problem, your intended customers and the value you bring to those
customers, competing products or services and why your innovation offers a better solution, estimates of financial costs to develop your innovation/run your enterprise, and potential source of revenue to cover those costs, expertise and resources you bring.]
Email pdf to: cied@ucsc.edu
For more info: cied.ucsc.edu
ideahub.sites.ucsc.edu
Deadline: May 19th, 2017
Prizes:
$3K first place, $2K second place, $1K third & possibility to apply for seed funding and services

Celebrating Excellence in the Humanities: 2016-17 Spring Awards
2017-06-07 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
Event Photos: by Sarah Caldwell
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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. Past year’s categories for acknowledgement have been:
Faculty Awards and Honors
Research Grants and Fellowships
Teaching Awards and Instructional Innovation Major Publications
Undergraduate Awards and Honors
Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) – supports and encourages undergraduate research in the Humanities
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Awards – granted to undergraduates who have completed an outstanding senior thesis or project during the current academic year.

Click here to download the Humanities Spring Awards Program

Living Writers: UCSC Creative Writing Program
2017-06-08 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading

The UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents
The Lives of Other Songs
Living Writers Series Spring 2017
Thursdays / 5:20-6:50pm / Humanities Lecture Hall
April 13, 2017: Tongo Eisen-Martin, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press, 2015)
May 4, 2017: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, author of A Home in Tibet (Penguin, 2014) and Eric Sneathen, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya, 2016)
May 11, 2017: Aisha Sasha John, author of THOU (BookThug, 2014)
May 18, 2017: Rosa Alcalá, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010)
June 1, 2017: Lauren Levin, author of The Braid (Krupskaya, 2016)
June 8, 2017: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading

OpEd Project Workshop: "Write to Change the World"
2017-06-09 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Write to Change the World
The “Write to Change the World” program builds participants’ capacity to translate their research for the public and to engage in debate at a national level based on their areas of  expertise. This program focuses on increasing the number of underrepresented voices in the media and bringing the humanities to bear on public debates. Working in partnership with the OpEd Project, we will host three one-day workshops led by OpEd Project facilitators, with approximately 20 fellows in each workshop, from nine participating campuses (UCSF, UCSB, UCI, UCR, UCSD, UCSC, UCD, UCM, UCLA), for a total of 60+ fellows. After the 1-day workshop, fellows will have access to a yearlong mentorship with media mentors through the OpEd Project. This program provides extraordinary resources, access and support, including cutting edge game-based, research-driven programming, and access to a prestigious network of fellows at peer institutions nationwide. Apply now for Spring 2017 workshops at UC Merced, UC Santa Cruz, or UC Irvine.
About the OpEd Project
The Op-Ed Project envisions a world where the best ideas – regardless of where they come from – will have a chance to be heard, and to shape society and the world. Working with top universities, foundations, think tanks, nonprofits, corporations and community organizations, the OpEd Project scouts and trains under-represented experts to take thought leadership positions in their fields; the OpEd Project connects them with national networks of high-level media mentors; and vets and channels the best new experts and ideas directly to media gatekeepers who need them, across all platforms. For more on the OpEd Project, visit their website.
Our fellows will:
1) Attend a 1-day workshop
2) Draft an Op-Ed within three months following the workshop
3) Connect with a media mentor through the OpEd Project within three months following the workshop
Dates and Locations:
UC Merced: April 14, 2017
UC Santa Cruz: June 9, 2017
UC Irvine: June 16, 2016
Apply
Faculty and postdoctoral fellows can apply online for Spring 2017 workshops here by Feb. 1, 2017.
For more information, contact the Center for the Humanities at UC Merced at humanities@ucmerced.edu.
UCSC OpEd Workshop Participants
Click here to read about the faculty fellows at the UCSC workshop

Symposium on Oaxacan Linguistics
2017-06-12 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Guest Speakers:
Eric Campbell (UC Santa Barbara)
Emiliana Cruz (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Christian DiCanio (State University of New York, Buffalo)

Organized by the Workshop on the Languages of Meso-America.

*Stay tuned for more information.

Jonathan Safran Foer, Here I Am
2017-07-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz High Theater
Bookshop Santa Cruz, Institute for Humanities Research, and Temple Beth El present best-selling and award-winning author Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) for a reading and signing of his latest novel, Here I Am. Ticket packages are $19.98 and include two tickets to the event and one copy of Here I Am in paperback (publication date: June 6th). Purchase tickets here
Location: Santa Cruz High Theater
“In Foer’s latest novel, generations of history are laid on the shoulders of one modern Jewish-American family during a time of crisis. So much is endured, revealed, and lost that they seem inextricably bound to the reader. At the heart of it all is this: What does it mean to be fully present in one’s life? There are no easy answers, but I am in awe at the skill with which Foer delves into the heart of familial life.” – Jax, Bookshop Santa Cruz Staff
Unfolding over four tumultuous weeks in present-day Washington, D.C., Here I Am is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. As Jacob and Julia Bloch and their three sons are forced to confront the distances between the lives they think they want and the lives they are living, a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a quickly escalating conflict in the Middle East. At stake is the meaning of home—and the fundamental question of how much aliveness one can bear. One of the year’s most anticipated novels, Here I Am is bestselling Safran Foer’s most searching, hard-hitting, and grandly entertaining novel yet.
Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the novels Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and the nonfiction book Eating Animals. His work has received numerous awards and has been translated into thirty-eight languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

37th Annual Dickens Universe featuring Middlemarch
2017-07-30 - 2017-08-05 | College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room, College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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.

In 2017, in anticipation of the 2019 bicentenary of George Eliot’s birth, the Universe will feature her novel, Middlemarch.

Now in its 37th 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 as 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 of reading, talking with one another, and bringing Victorian culture to life.
Registration link:

REGISTER HERE
Watch the Dickens Project Mini Documentary {https://youtu.be/JJgV87yGBSs}

Weekend with Shakespeare
2017-08-18 - 2017-08-20 | UCSC Arboretum
About: Join Shakespeare scholars and artists for two days of lectures, discussions, and demonstrations about this season’s mainstage productions. Educator’s Day on Sunday, August 20 is built to provide teachers with tools and lesson plans to gain confidence and strategies for teaching Shakespeare in the classroom and beyond.
Weekend schedule:
Weekend with Shakespeare will be Friday & Saturday, 12-5pm at the UCSC Arboretum.
Educator’s Day will be Sunday, 11-3pm, featuring three 45 minute workshops including an acting/text workshop led by Artistic Director Mike Ryan, and a workshop on Common Core integration at UCSC Humanities 1, Room 210.
Registration:
Attend the lectures only, or attend both the lectures and performances at a great discount!
Lecture only: $50 members / $55 non-members*
Lecture + 2 play package: $135 members / $150 non-members*
Teacher Training Day: $25
*Lecture only and Teacher Training Day tickets can be purchased at the Ticket Office or online. Packages (lecture + 2-plays) must be purchased by phone to ensure the exclusive reserved seating.
Register online: https://www.santacruzshakespeare.org/wws/
Weekend with Shakespeare is sponsored in partnership with Shakespeare Workshop, a program with the Institute for Humanities Research at UC Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz Shakespeare.
Full program schedule available at: https://www.santacruzshakespeare.org/wws/
Location:

Day 1 and 2 of the workshop will take place at the UCSC Arboretum

Educator’s Day on Sunday August 20 will take place at Humanities 1, Room 210

Humanities Radio Hour: “Ben Breen”
2017-09-26 12:00 - 13:00 | KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FM
Please tune in to KZSC 88.1 FM for Artists on Art
Humanities Radio Hour
Click here to listen online

Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140
2017-10-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Bookshop Santa Cruz and the Institute for Humanities Research are pleased to welcome New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson as he returns for a book talk and signing of his bold and brilliant vision of New York City in the next century: New York 2140.
“In the not-so-distant future, a diverse cast of characters inherit a New York that has been flooded and overwhelmed as a result of the environmental, economic, and social disasters we are facing today. New York 2140 is timely and relevant and more realistic than the sci-fi I typically read. Significantly, it purposes a future in which ethics and moral reasoning are still being undermined by the status quo. I’d recommend reading it with friends!” – Ashley, Bookshop Santa Cruz Staff
Register for the event: http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/event/kim-stanley-robinson-new-york-2140
As the sea levels rose, every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. For the residents of one apartment building in Madison Square, however, New York in the year 2140 is far from a drowned city. There is the market trader, who finds opportunities where others find trouble. There is the detective, whose work will never disappear — along with the lawyers, of course. There is the internet star, beloved by millions for her airship adventures, and the building’s manager, quietly respected for his attention to detail. Then there are two boys who don’t live there, but have no other home– and who are more important to its future than anyone might imagine. Lastly there are the coders, temporary residents on the roof, whose disappearance triggers a sequence of events that threatens the existence of all– and even the long-hidden foundations on which the city rests. New York 2140 is an extraordinary and unforgettable novel, from a writer uniquely qualified to the story of its future.
Kim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of nineteen previous books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, Sixty Days and Counting, The Years of Rice and Salt, and Antarctica. In 2008, he was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine, and he recently joined in the Sequoia Parks Foundation’s Artists in the Back Country program. He lives in Davis, California.
“A thoroughly enjoyable exercise in worldbuilding, written with a cleareyed love for the city’s past, present, and future.” ―Kirkus
“The tale is one of adventure, intrigue, relationships, and market forces…. The individual threads weave together into a complex story well worth the read.” ―Booklist
“Science fiction is threaded everywhere through culture nowadays, and it would take an act of critical myopia to miss the fact that Robinson is one of the world’s finest working novelists, in any genre. New York 2140 is a towering novel about a genuinely grave threat to civilisation.” ―Guardian

Humanities Radio Hour: “Gail Project” with Alan Christy, Shelby Graham, & Irena Polic
2017-10-04 12:00 - 13:00 | KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FM

Briohny Doyle, "Postapocalypse Now"
2017-10-04 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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Briohny Doyle’s research positions the postapocalyptic imagination as a reply to apocalyptic forms that obliterate & totalize. Her work considers postapocalyptic literary & theoretical texts that move beyond revelation to consider the various breakdowns of capitalism through potent figures like the ruin, the virus, & the nomad. ​
Briohny Doyle is a Melbourne-based writer and academic. Her debut novel, The Island Will Sink, is the critically acclaimed first book published by The Lifted Brow. Her first book of nonfiction Adult Fantasy is out through Scribe in 2017.
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.

Opening Reception: The Gail Project Exhibition - An Okinawan-American Dialogue
2017-10-05 17:00 - 19:00 | Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery
The Gail Project Exhibition – An Okinawan-American Dialogue at the Sesnon Gallery, Porter College
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 5, 5:00-7:00 pm
Exhibition run dates:
Thu, Oct 5, 2017 to Sat, Dec 2, 2017
Weekly events every Wednesday 6-8pm.
Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday November 23- 27
The Gail Project is a collaborative, international public history project that explores the founding years of the American military occupation of Okinawa. The project is inspired by a collection of photos taken in Okinawa in 1952 by an American Army Captain: Charles Eugene Gail. The photos were generously donated to Special Collections at McHenry Library by Charles’ daughter, Geri Gail, and have since been made available for student research. Our team of faculty, staff, and undergraduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are developing a traveling exhibition of Gail’s photographs with an accompanying digital archive that is comprised of the photos, key texts and documents, and oral histories from both America and Okinawa. We believe that using the photographs as a lens through which to view this crucial time is relevant to populations throughout Okinawa, Japan, the United States and the entire Pacific region, and we aim to establish a dialogue by shedding light on both historical and contemporary issues.
The project emphasizes hands-on research and creation by undergraduate students and as an innovative platform for new educational methods that encourage the use of multimedia, social media, archival research and travel.
The Gail Project is directed by Professor Alan Christy of the Department of History at UC Santa Cruz and curated by Shelby Graham of the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery at Porter College, UC Santa Cruz.
Gallery hours:
(through the academic year)
Tuesday – Saturday, 12–5 p.m.
Wednesday 12-8 p.m.
For more information: https://gailproject.ucsc.edu/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheGailProject
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegailproject/
Medium: https://medium.com/the-gail-project
Tumblr: http://thegailproject.tumblr.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheGailProject

Living Writers Series: Michael Arcega
2017-10-05 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Michael Arcega is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture and installation. His research-based work revolves largely around language and sociopolitical dynamics. Directly informed by Historic narratives, material significance, and geography, his subject matter deals with circumstances where power relations are unbalanced.
As a naturalized American, his investigation of cultural markers are embedded in objects, food, architecture, visual lexicons, and vernacular languages. For instance, vernacular Tagalog, is infused with Spanish and English words, lending itself to verbal mutation. This malleability result in wordplay and jokes that transform words like Persuading to First wedding, Tenacious to Tennis Shoes, and Masturbation to Mass Starvation. His practice draws from the sensibility of the insider and outsider- jumbling signifier, material, linguistics, and site.
Michael has a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited at venues including the Asian Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, the de Young Museum in San Francisco, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Orange County Museum of Art, The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Cue Arts Foundation, and the Asia Society in NY among many others.

"Writing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World" Symposium
2017-10-06 11:00 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Writing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World”
In the past decade, historians and literary scholars have become increasingly interested in the global circulation of the written word. Much of this scholarship has focused on the movement of printed books. Other projects, such as Stanford’s Mapping the Republic of Letters initiative, have traced epistolary networks that spanned continents and oceans. But what about the cross-cultural movement of textual artifacts that weren’t books or letters? This symposium will explore the limits of book history. At what point does an object shade into being a textual artifact? How can we make space for a less Eurocentric book history by following the itineraries of objects, like textiles, tattoos, or mummies, which encoded information in ways that differed from the format of book or the letter?

Guest Speakers:
Chris Heaney – University of Texas, Austin – “Dead Archives: Inca Bodies as the Lost Founding Texts of Peru?” – In 1989, the social anthropologist Paul Connerton highlighted how Western scholarship privileges inscriptive practices of history—which write, photograph, record, and trap information “long after the human organism has stopped informing”—over incorporative practices: gestures, ceremonies, rituals that invoke and transmit the past and its continuities via the human body. Inspired by Connerton, the cultural anthropologist Frank Salomon subsequently observed that when the Spanish invaded in 1532, they encountered a Peruvian dead that “transmit[ted] both kind of messages”: a society headed by the ancestral mummies of Inca emperors and other pre-conquest Andeans who were seated, dried, and dressed as if they were alive—arms posed in authoritative gesture—and paraded in ceremonies whose commemorative ballads further made legible their sanctity, nobility, and orders of descent and importance. This paper explores how the earliest Spanish managed their illiteracy when faced with those mummies’ inscribed historicity; it shows how they moved from attempting to inscribe the corpse of Atahualpa as a founding text of Christian Peru, to outright confiscating what we might call the ‘banned books’ of the Inca dead, the mummies themselves, 27 years after the conquest begun. While other scholars have asked what the loss of those mummified ancestors meant socially and religiously for the Inca and other Andeans, this paper ultimately asks what their loss as ‘texts’ meant for the foundational histories of Peru written by both Spaniards and Incas between 1533 and the early seventeenth century, many of which attempted to reproduce the absent and illegible imperial bodies at their core.

Mairin Odle – University of Alabama – Marin Odle is Assistant Professor of American Studies and teaches courses in Native American Studies and early American culture. Her research interests include Native-newcomer relations, the history of the body, and how selfhood, experience, and identity were narrated in early America. Her current book project investigates how cross-cultural body modification in early America remade both physical appearances as well as ideas about identity. Focusing on indigenous practices of tattooing and scalping, the book traces how these practices were rapidly adopted and transformed by colonial powers, making them key sites of cultural contestation.
Professor Odle’s talk “Reading Their ‘Marckes’: English Perceptions of Tattooing as Indigenous Literacy” explores early English interpretations of Native American tattooing, focusing on writing and art produced in response to late sixteenth-century voyages. Artists and scholars on such expeditions paid close attention to bodily appearance and inscription. Lines marked on Native bodies were then transferred—and translated—as lines within European books. Colonial observers conceived of indigenous tattooing as an important communication system, and one that they hoped to employ for their own goals—even as they simultaneously claimed that Natives were people with “no letters”.

Hosted by the Center for World History
Co-sponsored by the “Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography at Rare Books School”

Linguistics Colloquium: Ashwini Deo
2017-10-06 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Linguistics Colloquium 2017-2018
Ashwini Deo, “Alternative circumstances of evaluation and the ser/estar distinction in Spanish”
Abstract: The Spanish copulas ser and estar have distributional and interpretational patterns that have resisted an adequate analysis. In this talk, I work towards a unified analysis that treats the two copulas as being presuppositional variants that are differentially sensitive to properties of the circumstances at which the truth of the copular sentence is evaluated. On the proposed analysis, estar presupposes that the prejacent is boundedly true at the evaluation circumstance. The prejacent’s bounded truth at a circumstance i at a given context of use c depends on two conditions:
(a) there are no-weaker alternative circumstances i′ accessible at c where the prejacent is false, and
(b) i is a maximal verifying circumstance at c.
Central to the analysis is the notion of a strength ordering over alternative circumstances of evaluation — a circumstantial counterpart to the more familiar ordering over alternative propositions. Assuming that this content is conventionally associated with estar allows for an account of its distinct flavors and readings with a range of predicates. ser is shown to be associated with its own inferences that derive from its status as the presuppositionally weaker, neutral member of the pair.
Ashwini Deo is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Ohio State University.
About eight times each year, the department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. Unless otherwise stated, talks take place on Fridays in Humanities 1, Room 210 at 4 p.m. during the fall quarter 2017 and at 2:30 p.m. during winter and spring quarters 2018.

Calamities, Prose, Houses: The Art And Writing of Renee Gladman
2017-10-10 10:30 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join us next Tuesday October 10th for a Creative/Critical symposium on the art and writing of Renee Gladman–featuring a talk and reading by the author from 10:30-12 in Hum 1 210. There will also be a later panel on Gladman’s work from 1:30-3 in Hum 1 210 featuring Mary Wilson, Cathy Thomas, and David Buuck.
This event is part of Communal Presence: New Narrative Writing Today, a joint UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley conference on the legacy of New Narrative–a literary movement emerging from the Bay Area in the 1970s. For a full schedule of UC Berkeley readings, film showings, walks, and talks, see: https://communalpresence.com/
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Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with lines, crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out in the interstices of poetry and prose. She is the author of eleven published works, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants, the Ravickians—Event Factory (2010), The Ravickians (2011), Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge (2013), and Houses of Ravicka (forthcoming fall 2017)—as well as the recently released Prose Architectures, her first monograph of drawings, and Calamities, a collection of linked essay-fictions on the intersections of writing, drawing, and community, which won the 2017 CLMP Firecracker Award for Creative Non-Fiction. Recent essays and visual work have appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, Harper’s, Stonecutter, and Poetry Magazine. A 2014-15 fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and recipient of a 2016 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant and a 2017 Lannan Foundation Writing Residency in Marfa, TX, she makes work in New England.
​This event is sponsored by the Department of Literature, Living Writers, and the Puknat Endowment.

Carrie Smith, "Digital Feminist Futures: Creative Resistance, Art Activism, & the Affects of Political Practice"
2017-10-11 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Carrie Smith-Prei’s research examines how the digital restructures cultures of feminism, including creative materializations & world-making practices. It asks after the future of feminist craft & activism in the digital sphere & the meaning (and limits) of global feminist solidarity, intersectional community-building, & transnational collaboration in developing just futures on & offline.
Smith-Prei Associate Professor of of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta.
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.

IDEA Hub Fall Open House
2017-10-11 13:00 - 17:00 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Engage in social and creative enterprise with a growing community of entrepreneurs at UCSC. Learn about social and creative innovation projects and opportunities. Tour the OpenLap incubator spaces.
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
1:00-5:00 p.m.
Digital Arts Research Center
Room 108
Schedule of Events:
1:00 p.m. Information Botths OpenLab Tours Lunch Buffet
1:45 p.m. Introductions
2:00 p.m. Current Project Presentations Pitches: Funding Opportunties
3:30 p.m. Networking Team Formations

Feminist Studies Colloquium: Fatima Mojaddedi
2017-10-11 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Fatima Mojaddedi, “Body Mike: Alternating Words on the Afghan Frontier”
This talk examines how the U.S. military’s counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan relies on a fetishistic misrecognition of speaking as inspiration, and takes linguistic expression as the dissemination of terroristic violence through oral networks of exchange and emboldening. It suggests that the more obvious powers of language (particularly a language that demands its own translation (English) into one that signifies what Afghans do not know (Persian/ Pashto), doubles as a harbinger of wartime death and surveillance. It illustrates how military translators mediate the exchange of words and sense-making, and participate in the construction of a dangerous rural subjectivity as the exemplification of ineradicable danger.
Linguistic and biometric practices deployed in intercultural translation within military campaigns, while newly commodified and bearing much greater and more devastating consequences, are also the ideological heirs of an earlier imperial discourse on nomadism and irregular frontier movement in the subcontinent. This now transpires in contexts of counterinsurgency, and speech has come to signify collaboration or guilt (apostasy or terrorism). It informs the contemporary fear about the status of dialect in the Afghan countryside, where rural subjects are thought to be especially (and dangerously) itinerant, taking their dialect with them in order to evade military interrogation and biometric capture.
Fatima Mojaddedi, a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Anthropology Department at UCBerkeley, completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology at Columbia University in 2016. Her ethnographic research, based in Kabul, Afghanistan, considers the nature of contemporary warfare, language, and questions of cultural representation and catastrophe.

Philosophy Colloquium: Jonathan Cohen, "Many Molyneux Questions"
2017-10-12 15:15 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Many Molyneux Questions”
Mohan Matthen and Jonathan Cohen
Molyneux asked whether a newly sighted man would recognize and distinguish a sphere and a cube by sight alone, assuming that he could previously do this by touch. The most historically important responses to Molyneux arise from views that apply uniformly to questions about the transferability of representations of (not just shape, but) any arbitrary feature shared by any two modalities. Our starting point is that this is over-simple. The scientific literature contains investigations of many such questions; some are answered positively, others negatively. The answer to each question is empirical and each has to be investigated separately. Given this fragmentation, we suggest that the most fruitful approach to MQ is “dimensional:” we identify and organize the problem around parameters that pose processing difficulties for various modalities, and ask how these difficulties affect MQ. This approach yields many novel MQs, some new, others re-applications of problems posed in other contexts.
Jonathan Cohen is a Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego. He specializes in Philosophy of mind, language, and perception, particularly as these are informed by the cognitive sciences; color and color vision.
Advanced Reading: Molyneux Questions, p. 364 (pdf p. 186) to p. 399 (pdf p. 203).

Living Writers Series: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
2017-10-12 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, novelist and theorist of post-colonial literature, is currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, USA. He was born in Kenya, in 1938 into a large peasant family. He was educated at Kamandura, Manguu and Kinyogori primary schools; Alliance High School, all in Kenya; Makerere University College (then a campus of London University), Kampala, Uganda; and the University of Leeds, Britain.
In his latest book, Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening, Ngũgĩ recounts the four years he spent in Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, where he found his voice as a playwright, journalist, and novelist.

PhD+: Pedagogy Beyond the College Classroom - Careers in Curriculum Development & Instructional Design
2017-10-13 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Pedagogy Beyond the College Classroom: Careers in Curriculum Development & Instructional Design” is the first event for the 2017-2018 PhD+ series. Three panelists who completed their PhDs in the humanities at UC Santa Cruz will will discuss their careers in curriculum development and instructional design and offer insights into transferring skillsets and content knowledge into this field of work. A moderated question and answer period will follow the panel presentation.
Panelists
Joanna Meadvin
PhD Literature, 2016
Sobrato Early Academic Language Model Trainer
Sobrato Foundation
Laura Rosenzweig
PhD History, 2013
Instructional Designer
University of California Office of the President
Michele Ryan
PhD History, 2003
Instructional Design Consultant
Google Inc.
Moderator
Sarah Papazoglakis
PhD Candidate, Literature
About the 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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Taking Scholarship Public: White Supremacy, Medieval Studies, and Mass Media
2017-10-17 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The “unofficial medievalist to CNN,” David M. Perry is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in CNN.com, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Salon, Chicago Tribune, and many other venues. In addition to commenting on Medieval History in the news, he focuses on issues of history, higher education, and disability rights. He is currently at work on Cult of Compliance: Disability Is Not A Crime, expected from Beacon Press in 2018.
Trained as a medieval historian, Perry was formerly Associate Professor of History at Dominican University. His book Sacred Plunder: Venice and the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade was published by Penn State University Press in 2015.
Sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research, Cowell College, and the Literature Department.

María Inés La Greca: "The Collective Shout of 'Ni una menos' ('Not one less') in the Streets, the Media & the University: Feminists & Women’s Movement Against Gender Violence in Argentina"
2017-10-18 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
María Inés La Greca’s research focuses on the relationship between narrativity, performativity and gender. In light of Judith Butler’s work, especially her recent ethical interest on narrative, psychoanalysis & subject formation, her aim is to offer a critical reflection on discourse, embodiment & identity constitution in gender theory and feminist writing.
Inés La Greca is an adjunct professor at Tres de Febrero National University in Argentina.
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.

Digital Humanities Happy Hour
2017-10-19 15:30 - 17:30 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Share your digital research with the DH community!
Join the DH Research Cluster to learn more about DH research on campus at an informal happy hour. 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 Institute for Humanities Research.

No Place Like Home
2017-10-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
No Place Like Home is a campus-community event to unveil the findings of our county-wide research on the affordable housing crisis in Santa Cruz. We will share the results of over 1400 surveys and interviews with local residents an dhow they are experiencing the housing crisis. The event also features a visual and literary art exhibit on the meaning on “home”. Finally, the event kicks off Affordable Housing week, with a wide-range of county organizations and community groups participating in an open discussion of responses to the crisis and sharing information about strategies, campaigns, and upcoming events seeking a way forward.
No Place Like Home is on-going research project funded by the UC Humanities Research Initiative and an extension of the Working for Dignity program of the Center for Labor Studies, the Critical Sustainabilities Project, Department of Sociology, Division of Social Sciences, the Chicano Latino Research Center, Community Bridges, Community Action Board, and the Economic Justice Alliance.

Living Writers Series: Việt Thanh Nguyễn
2017-10-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Việt Thanh Nguyễn’s novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Other honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association, the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction, a Gold Medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and the Asian/Pacific American Literature Award from the Asian/Pacific American Librarian Association. His other books are Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction) and Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His current book is the bestselling short story collection, The Refugees.

Linguistics Colloquium: Judith Aissen
2017-10-20 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Linguistics Colloquium 2017-2018
Judith Aissen is Professor Emeritus in the Linguistics Department at UCSC. Her research focuses on morphosyntax, especially in the Mayan languages, especially Tzotzil, a language spoken in Chiapas, Mexico.

Carla Freccero, "Queer/Animal/Theory: Psychoanalysis & Subjectivity"
2017-10-25 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Psychoanalysis is queer insofar as it does not presume a model of sexuality & gender from which to extrapolate a normative outcome. Likewise, psychoanalysis does not presume “the human” as the starting point for analyzing how adult human subjectivity is achieved. How might we describe a non-anthropocentric subjectivity in psychoanalytic & queer theoretical terms?
Carla Freccero is Distinguished Professor of Literature and History of Consciousness, and Professor of Feminist Studies, 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.

Informal Reading Seminar on Assembly by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
2017-10-25 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In conjunction with Michael Hardt’s lecture on Friday October 27, we will hold an informal reading seminar for faculty and graduate students on Wednesday October 25 from 5-7pm (Humanities 1, Room 210) to discuss excerpts from Assembly (Oxford, 2017). Please email sjetha@ucsc.edu for a PDF of the reading (Ch. 1-3, 5, 14-15; though you are welcome to read more of the book if you can). Please note that Hardt himself will not be there; this is simply an occasion to discuss his and Negri’s work in anticipation of his talk.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies and Center for Emerging Worlds

Digital Humanities: A Virtual Reality Open House
2017-10-26 13:00 - 16:00 | Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library
Explore the new DSC VizLab and experience Virtual Reality. We invite you to test the HTC VIVE headset, Samsung Gear VR, and Google Cardboard Headset. DSC Staff will be available to answer questions and introduce you to available resources and hardware.
If you’ve never tried VR before, this is your chance.
Location: Digital Scholarship Commons (Ground Floor McHenry Library)
Co-Sponsored by the Digital Scholarship Commons and the Institute for Humanties Research

Living Writers Series: Renee Tajima-Peña
2017-10-26 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Professor Renee Tajima-Peña is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker whose credits include the documentaries, Calavera Highway, Skate Manzanar, Labor Women, My America…or Honk if You Love Buddha and Who Killed Vincent Chin? Her films have premiered at the Cannes, Locarno, New Directors/New Films, San Francisco, Sundance and Toronto film festivals and the Whitney Biennial.
Her current works are the documentary and transmedia project, No Más Bebés Por Vida (No More Babies For Life) about the sterilization of Mexican-origin women at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center during the 1960s and 70s, and an interactive history documentary and video game-based learning project on the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans, Building History 3.0.
Tajima-Peña has been deeply involved in the Asian American independent film community as an activist, writer and filmmaker. She was the director at Asian Cine-Vision in New York and a founding member of the Center for Asian American Media (formerly National Asian American Telecommunications Association. As a writer, she was a film critic for The Village Voice, a cultural commentator for National Public Radio and editor of Bridge: Asian American Perspectives.

Michael Hardt: "Where have all the leaders gone?"
2017-10-27 16:00 - 18:00 | Kresge Town Hall
The Center for Cultural Studies and the Institute for Humanities Research presents:
“Where Have All the Leaders Gone?”
Each year, we continue to witness the eruption of “leaderless” social movements. From North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia, movements have left journalists, political analysts, police forces, and governments disoriented and perplexed. Activists too have struggled to understand and evaluate the power and effectiveness of horizontal movements. Why have the movements, which express the needs and desires of so many, not been able to achieve lasting change and a more just society? Many assume that if only social movements could find new leaders they would return to their earlier glory and be able to sustain and achieve projects of social transformation and liberation. Where, they ask, are the new Martin Luther King Jr.s, Rudi Dutschkes, Patrice Lumumbas, and Stephen Bikos? Where have all the leaders gone?
In this lecture Professor Hardt will use examples from past theory and practice to situate and clarify some of the issues and alternatives involved in the organization of social movements today.
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About Professor Hardt: Michael Hardt teaches at Duke University, where he is co-director of the Social Movements Lab. He is author of Gilles Deleuze and co-author (with Antonio Negri) of six books. Their Empire trilogy (Empire, Multitude, and Commonwealth) analyzes the contemporary capitalist global order and investigates the existing resources for creating alternatives oriented toward democracy and liberation. Their most recent book, Assembly, explores how social movements today can enact lasting political transformations. Michael Hardt also currently serves as the editor of The South Atlantic Quarterly.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public.
CO-SPONSORED BY THE LITERATURE DEPARTMENT, THE POLITICS DEPARTMENT, AND THE HISTORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS DEPARTMENT.

Humanities Radio Hour: "Merchant of Venice" with Sean Keilen, Nathaniel Deutsch, Irena Polic
2017-11-01 12:00 - 13:00 | KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FM
Please tune in to KZSC 88.1 FM for Artists on Art
Humanities Radio Hour
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Najat Abdulhaq, "Unconventional Revision of Narratives: The Emergence of the 'Arab Jew' in Contemporary Arabic Literature"
2017-11-01 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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For decades, two official nationalist narratives, Arab-Egyptian & Israeli, dominated the discourse on the history of Egypt’s Jews. Recently, a different narrative is emerging in the Arabic speaking sphere, with documentaries, films & novels taking a cardinal role in this process. How and why is this emergence taking place?
Najat Abdulhaq is the author of Jewish and Greek Communities in Egypt: Entrepreneurship and Business Before Nasser (I. B. Tauris).
This week’s Cultural Studies colloquium is co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program.
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.

Marina Rustow: "The Cairo Geniza and the Middle East’s Archive Problem"
2017-11-02 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies Presents:
Marina Rustow: “The Cairo Geniza and the Middle East’s Archive Problem”
The Cairo Geniza, a cache of 400,000 manuscript pages preserved in a medieval Egyptian synagogue, has yielded many unexpected finds, but perhaps none so unexpected as thousands of documents in Arabic script from the archives of the Fatimid caliphs (969–1171). How did papers from a state archive in Cairo find their way into the hands of the Jewish scribes who reused them as scrap paper for compositions in Hebrew script? Did Jews who handled government documents know what they were looking at? This is a period from which only a tiny number of documents is believed to have survived. The very abundance and ubiquity of documentation in the Geniza suggest otherwise, and have much to say about the largest Jewish community in the medieval world and about the culture of legal and political rights in the Middle East.
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Marina Rustow is the Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East and Professor of History at Princeton University, where she also directs the Princeton Geniza Lab. She is the author of Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate (2008). In 2015, she was named a MacArthur Fellow.

Every year, we honor Helen Diller, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz by hosting a public lecture series on campus by an internationally recognized scholar. This event is made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Endowment and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz.

Please direct any questions or disability accommodation requests to ihr@ucsc.edu or 831-459-1274.

Living Writers Series: Sesshu Foster
2017-11-02 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Sesshu Foster is a poet, teacher, and community activist born and raised in East Los Angeles. He earned his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and returned to LA to continue teaching, writing, and community organizing. His first collection of poetry, City Terrace Field Manual (1996), celebrates the neighborhood Foster grew up in. He has said that representing his community as one of his central tasks. He is the author of American Loneliness: Selected Poems (2006). His third collection of poetry, World Ball Notebook (2009), won an American Book Award and an Asian American Literary Award for Poetry. Foster is the author of the novel of speculative fiction Atomik Aztex (2005), which won the Believer Book Award and imagines an America free of European colonizers.
Foster’s work has been published in The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry (2000), Language for a New Century: Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond (2008), and State of the Union: 50 Political Poems (2008). He coedited the anthology Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry (1989). Foster taught in East LA for 25 years as well as at the University of Iowa, the California Institute for the Arts, Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. He lives in Los Angeles.

PhD+ : Gateway to Digital Humanities - an Introduction to Digital Methodologies & Resources at UCSC
2017-11-03 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This co-led event provides students with first-hand experience working in DH, resources to continue building upon this project, and a larger discussion regarding the possibilities for individual and collaborative digital research. Rachel Deblinger will open with a 45 minute hands-on workshop, introducing the process of building a dataset and visualizing data as an analytical method. She will also share the resources available through the Digital Scholarship Commons (DSC) and discuss the range of digital skills sought on the academic job market. Following this workshop and discussion, Zac Zimmer will talk about his personal experience with DH communities as well as the need to engage with digital concerns in traditional scholarly pursuits. Together, they present DH not as a set of tools or skills, but as a way of learning about and developing a critical vocabulary for a understanding the contemporary digital world. This includes the network interfaces we use daily, the tools we employ to collect and organize research materials, etc. For this session, advance registration (below) will be required. Please review this handout: https://docs.google.com/a/ucsc.edu/document/d/1u1CQq2SNOj-wVduFclQTQcLGSckE46MpJ1ifnhRH2mU/edit?usp=sharing, and bring the requested materials to the session.
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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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Feminist Studies Colloquium: "Agrarian Questions in Urban India"
2017-11-03 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Fall 2017 Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: “Agrarian Questions in Urban India”
Vinay Gidwani, University of Minnesota
Priti Ramamurthy, University of Washington
Based on recent life histories of urban migrants who work within informal sector occupations in Delhi and Hyderabad, we ask how “agrarian questions” orient workers’ attitudes to forms of labor and habitation. By also considering gender and caste, we ask how these, as embodied imprints of the agrarian, impose limit conditions on possible politics for urban migrants. We explore two propositions: First, workers are constantly striving to disarticulate from the sway of value, and the growth of urban informal economies has made this both necessary and more possible. Second, agrarian origins, when mediated through gender and caste, become limit conditions on possible autonomy. The issue is not only proscriptions on forms of labor, but also how workers – females more acutely than males – remain orientated to agrarian caste relations and norms even when they work in the city (and are the enablers of men’s economic trajectories). In short, we foreground the spatial dialectics of social reproduction: how social reproduction straddles village and city, and is at once oppressive and nurturing.
Vinay Gidwani is a professor of Geography, Environment, and Society at the Institute forGlobal Studies, University of Minnesota. He studies the interactions of labor processes and ecologies in agrarian and urban settings, as well as capitalist transformations of these.
Priti Ramamurthy, a professor in Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington, is an ethnographer, who has returned to the same villages in the Telangana region of southern India for three decades, to understand the relationship between the social reproduction of families, lives and livelihoods and processes of agrarian transformation.
Presented by the UCSC Feminist Studies Department and the Center for South Asian Studies, with generous contributions from the UCSC Division of the Humanities, UCSC Arts Department, and UCSC Economics Department

Opening reception for "Inside the Gail Project: An Experiential Research Odyssey"
2017-11-06 16:00 - 18:00 | Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Cowell College, Cowell College‎ 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
On November 6 from 4-6 pm, the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery in Cowell College will be hosting an opening reception for “Inside the Gail Project: An Experiential Research Odyssey,” a companion show to the current exhibition at the Sesnon Gallery. This exhibition highlights student research and the active learning that takes place in the Gail Project.

Before and After: How We Redesigned Courses for Educational Equity and Active Learning
2017-11-07 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 2, Room 359
Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now Workshop Series
Before and After: How We Redesigned Courses for Educational Equity and Active Learning
with Alan Christy and Jody Greene
The Institute for Humanities Research cluster “Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now” is hosting a new workshop series that features educators in humanities fields at UC Santa Cruz sharing changes they have made to their teaching—ranging from changes to in-class policies and styles, to assignment re-design, to whole course transformations. The workshop series seeks to promote collective conversations about how we teach in the humanities now, and is open to all graduate students and faculty.
In the first workshop, “Before and After: How We Redesigned a Course for Educational Equity and Active Learning,” Alan Christy (Associate Professor of History) and Jody Greene (Professor of Literature, Feminist Studies, and History of Consciousness) will discuss how they transformed lecture or survey courses to enhance educational equity and active learning in their classrooms.
Transforming “The Japanese Empire”
Associate Professor Alan Christy will discuss the transformation of a survey history course into a research seminar driven by the experience of discovery and focused on three key skills for researchers: asking good questions, finding sources, and articulating value.
Transforming “The Eighteenth-Century English Novel”
Professor Jody Greene will discuss the transformation of a traditional lecture course into a small course for entering transfer students, including the introduction of sequenced writing assignments, structured in-class activities, and presentations on the “hidden” aspects of the curriculum—e.g. how to take notes, how to read for a literature course, and how to write effectively within the discipline.
**If you’re interested in joining the research cluster and would like to be included on the cluster email list, please contact Jody Greene at jgreene@ucsc.edu.

Freedom, Justice, Difference: The Merchant of Venice Now
2017-11-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
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Karin Coonrod, the Founding Director of Compagnia de’ Colombari, will join Nathaniel Deutsch and Sean Keilen for a public discussion of her path-breaking production of The Merchant of Venice in the Venice Ghetto (2016). Join us to discover why Shakespeare’s play about Jews and Christians in Renaissance Italy is a key text for deciding how to be free and just in the global society we inhabit now. With introductory remarks by Mike Ryan (Santa Cruz Shakespeare) and Murray Baumgarten.
Doors open at 6:00pm
Event begins at 6:30pm
RSVP Appreciated, Seating is first come, first serve. Overflow space will be available.
Please RSVP for the event here.
If you have disability-related needs, please contact the IHR at ihr@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274.
Sponsored by Institute for Humanities Research, Center for Jewish Studies, Shakespeare Workshop, Porter College, and Arts Division.

Nirvikar Singh, "The Other One Percent? Indians in Trump’s America"
2017-11-08 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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What is the selection process that governed the migration of people of Indian origin to the United States? How has that selection been important in determining of the economic success of this group? This talk highlights the diversity within this broad group, & the lessons of that diversity, and concludes by exploring some of the challenges that Indian Americans face as a minority in the contemporary United States & the implications of events in contemporary India.
Nirvikar Singh holds the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair of Sikh and Punjabi Studies at UC Santa Cruz. He also directs the UCSC South Asian Studies Initiative within the Division of Social Sciences.
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: Toni Jensen
2017-11-09 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Toni Jensen’s first story collection, From the Hilltop, was published through the Native Storiers Series at the University of Nebraska Press. Her stories have been published in journals such as Ecotone, Denver Quarterly, and Fiction International and have been anthologized in New Stories from the South, Best of the Southwest, and Best of the West: Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri. She’s working on a collection-in-progress, called Cowboyistan, about fracking and the sex trafficking of Indigenous women. She teaches in the Programs in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas. She is Métis.

On Barak, "Against Energy: Provincializing Thermodynamics between Aden and Port Said"
2017-11-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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Despite feigning perpetuity, “energy” is a child of its time, the nineteenth century. Born from the related challenges of steam engineering and British imperialism its legacies still haunt and limit our thinking on matters ranging from fossil fuels to race, from labor to the underground. This talk seeks to situate the emblematic energy source – coal – back in its imperial context, revealing what may be called “coalonialism” at play in the territories between the two major global fueling stations of the century, Aden and Port Said. Such acts of provincializing flesh out alternative ways for regarding fossil fuels, including ethical, political and environmental insights that the science of thermodynamics helped evaporate.
Barak is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern & African History at Tel Aviv University.
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.

Digital Humanities: Intro to Scalar Workshop
2017-11-15 13:00 - 14:00 | Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library
Online Publishing and Non-Linear Argumentation
This introductory workshop is designed to let you start using Scalar, an online publishing platform. The workshop will focus on adding media content to Scalar and creating non-linear relationships. This is a hands on opportunity: bring ideas and content to the workshop. You will leave ready to explore and build on your own.
Location: Digital Scholarship Commons (Ground Floor McHenry Library)
Co-Sponsored by the Digital Scholarship Commons and the Institute for Humanties Research

Reading Seminar with On Barak, "Strands of Tentacular Thinking"
2017-11-16 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 408
The “Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene” Research Cluster invites faculty and graduate students to a reading seminar with On Barak, Senior Lecturer in the History Department at Tel Aviv University. Dr. Barak is a historian of the modern Middle East, specializing in the introduction of science and technology into non-Western settings. He is the author of On Time: Technology and Temporality in Modern Egypt (UC Press, 2013). We will be meeting in Humanities 408, on Thursday, November 16, from 4:00-6:00 pm.
Strands of Tentacular Thinking:
What can the non-Western humanities offer in the face of climate change – a phenomenon usually situated squarely in the domain of technoscience and entrenched in the fossil-fueled European Industrial Revolution and capitalism? A chapter-draft from On Barak’s book project Coalonialism grapples with such questions by drawing on nineteenth-century translations of geology books into Arabic and Ottoman Turkish. The reading seminar puts this chapter in dialogue with works by Donna Haraway and Peter Godfrey-Smith. Read together, these texts constitute an attempt to recruit the octopus – a creature whose arms are said to be smarter than its brain – to reconsider imperial flows of concepts and power.​
Seminar readings:
Staying with Trouble – Donna Haraway
The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life – Peter Godfrey-Smith

Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Dorianne Laux
2017-11-16 17:30 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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The Eighth Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading presented by the Institute for Humanities Research and the Living Writers Series featuring Dorianne Laux Thursday November 16, 2017 at 5:30pm
Poet Gary Young, will host the program, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1,000 prize). This annual free event will have first-come, first-served seating. Doors will open at 5:20 PM. The reading will conclude with a book signing and reception.
The Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet, teacher, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus, a nationally acclaimed poet, called Santa Cruz his home for more than fifty years. This annual poetry series continues Mort’s tradition of bringing acclaimed poets to Santa Cruz County, continues to acknowledge the significant role poetry has played in our community’s history, and works to maintain poetry’s influence in our county’s culture.
Free Admission
Doors will open at 5:20pm, event starts at 5:30pm
Book signing and reception to follow
Parking information and directions:
Please park at the Cowell/Stevenson Parking lot 109 (map here: http://maps.ucsc.edu/sites/default/files/Humanities_and_Social_Sciences_Facility.pdf). Follow path from lot 109 to Humanities Lecture Hall. Permits are $4.00 and attendants will be present at parking lot to sell permits to event attendees. For disability accommodations, please contact ihr@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274.
About Dorianne Laux: Dorianne Laux’s fifth collection, The Book of Men, was awarded The Paterson Prize. Her fourth book of poems, Facts About the Moon won The Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Laux is also the author of Awake; What We Carry, a finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award; Smoke; as well as a fine small press edition, The Book of Women. She is the co-author of the celebrated text The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. Laux teaches poetry in the Program in Creative Writing at North Carolina State University and is a founding faculty of Pacific University’s Low Residency MFA Program.
About Morton Marcus: The Morton Marcus Poetry Reading event commemorates Santa Cruz poet Morton Marcus who was a poet, author, teacher, film critic, as well as an activist for the arts. Born in New York City, Morton spent most of his professional life in Santa Cruz, California, and he is strongly associated with its poetry and art community. For more information visit www.mortonmarcus.com
Visit the Morton Marcus Archive in Special Collections at UCSC: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8fx79zs/entire_text/.
This community event is co-sponsored by: The Institute for Humanities Research, Living Writers Series, Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Special Collections & Archives, Cowell College, Porter College, Ow Family Properties, Poetry Santa Cruz, Cabrillo College English Department, Bookshop Santa Cruz, and Santa Cruz Writes.

Linguistics Colloquium: Brian Dillon
2017-11-17 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Department of Linguistics presents:
Brian Dillon
“Process and representation in morphosyntactic processing: A psychophysical approach using Signal Detection Theory”

Abstract:
Intuitive acceptability judgments have long formed the empirical foundation of syntactic and (to a lesser extent) psycholinguistic theories (Schütze, 1996). Despite their centrality, there remain many open issues in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of acceptability judgment data. One important thread of research in experimental syntax addresses these issues by borrowing methodology from psychophysics, such as magnitude estimation (Bard et al. 1996; Cowart, 1997), to more precisely model the relationship between linguistic stimuli and perceived acceptability.
In this talk I will follow these researchers in treating intuitions of acceptability as psychological evidence. Accordingly, I will argue that acceptability judgments can be fruitfully understood as psychophysical data. To this end, I will describe a framework for analyzing acceptability judgment data using Signal Detection Theory (Bader & Haussler, 2010; Macmillan & Creelman, 2005). This approach offers an explicit model of how the underlying percept of acceptability is reflected in experimental measures of acceptability, such as judgments in a rating task.
To illustrate this approach, I survey a series of studies that investigate diverse illusory agreement licensing phenomena (“agreement attraction”) in English using untimed acceptability judgment measures (joint work with Charles Clifton, Christopher Hammerly, Joshua Levy, and Adrian Staub). I report several results. First, untimed judgment measure mirror the patterns seen in more ‘online’ measures of sentence comprehension. Second, the untimed judgment data exhibit surprisingly little evidence of contamination from slow, ‘deliberative’ processes (cf. Bader & Haussler, 2010). Third, and perhaps most interestingly, this analysis of the judgment data yields unique insights into the cognitive processes and representations that underly agreement attraction effects. In particular, the judgment data lend support to models that analyze illusory agreement errors as the result of mis-identification of an agreement controller in working memory (e.g. Badecker & Kuminiak, 2007; Wagers et al., 2009), rather than models that locate the error in a noisy representation of the morphosyntactic features of the agreement controller (e.g. Eberhard, Cutting & Bock, 2005).

SPOT (Syntax-Prosody in OT) Workshop
2017-11-18 10:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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This is a one-day IHR-sponsored workshop (Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017), called SPOT (“Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory”, which is part of a research project aiming to create a computational platform that generates prosodic candidate sets from syntactic structure. The syntax-prosody interface is the study of how syntactic (grammatical) structures are mapped onto the prosodic structures in different languages. Several strands of work in prosodic theory have recently converged on a number of common themes, from different directions, broadly couched in Optimality Theory. Selkirk (2011) has developed a vastly simplified approach to the syntax-prosody mapping which distinguishes only three levels (word, phrase, and clause), and syntactic constituents are systematically made to correspond to phonological domains (“Match Theory”). In an independent line of research, a long string of papers reaching back into the 1980s has convincingly demonstrated that recursive structures are by no means an exclusive property of syntax, but also play a crucial role in phonology. One of the hallmarks of Match Theory is the idea that the main force interfering with syntax-prosody isomorphism is not some kind of non-isomorphic mapping algorithm flattening out the structure, as first contemplated in SPE (Chomsky and Halle 1968, 372) and more fully worked out in later proposals, such as the edge-based theory built on one-sided alignment. It is rather the effect of genuine phonological wellformedness constraints on prosodic structure.
Besides presenting the pilot SPOT program for comments, the workshop will consist of research talks focused on the syntax-prosody interface by both invited speakers from the East Coast and Europe and Bay Area researchers.
More information about the IHR SPOT Research Cluster: http://ihr.ucsc.edu/portfolio/syntax-prosody-in-optimality-theory-spot/
PROGRAM
SPOT Program: Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017
9:15am – 10:00am Pre-workshop coffee/tea, bagels, pastries and fruit
10:00am -11:00am “Match Theory and the Asymmetry Problem: Intonational phrase marking in Stockholm Swedish” (abstract and handouts)
Shinichiro Ishihara (Lund University)
11:15am -12:00pm “Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory” (abstract and handouts) Jenny Bellik and Nick Kalivoda (UC Santa Cruz)
12:00pm -1:00pm Mexican buffet lunch
1:00pm – 2:00pm“Syntactic Constituency Spell-Out through Match Constraints” (abstract and handouts)
Lisa Selkirk (UMass/Amherst)
2:15pm – 3:00pm“Syntactic Constituency Spell-Out through Match Constraints” (abstract and handouts)
Nicholas Rolle (UC Berkeley)
3:00pm -3:30pm Coffee Break
3:30pm – 4:15pm“Syntactic Constituency Spell-Out through Match Constraints” (abstract and handouts)
Ryan Bennett, Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz), and Emily Elfner (York University)
4:30pm – 6:30pm Post-workshop reception
For more information contact Junko Ito (ito@ucsc.edu) or Armin Mester (mester@ucsc.edu)

Jenny Reardon, "The Postgenomic Condition: Meaning and Justice After the Genome"
2017-11-29 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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Jenny Reardon’s research draws into focus questions about identity, justice and democracy that are often silently embedded in scientific ideas and practices, particularly in modern genomic research. Her training spans molecular biology, the history of biology, science studies, feminist and critical race studies, and the sociology of science, technology and medicine.
Dr. Reardon is a Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Science and Justice Research Center at the 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.

Living Writers Series: James Janko & Ellen Greenblatt
2017-11-30 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
James Janko refused to carry a weapon while serving in Viet Nam as a medic in an infantry battalion commanded by Colonel George Armstrong Custer III in 1970. His medals include the Bronze Star for Valor, which he returned to the U.S. government in 1986 to protest their involvement in wars in Central America. In 2008, Janko gave away other medals to Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange: Mrs. Dang Hong Nhut, who suffers from thyroid cancer and has had numerous miscarriages, and Ms. Tran Thi Hoan, who was born without legs due to her mother’s exposure to Agent Orange. Janko’s novel, The Clubhouse Thief, won the AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) Award for the Novel and is forthcoming from New Issues Poetry and Prose (Western Michigan University) in January of 2018. An earlier novel, Buffalo Boy and Geronimo (Curbstone Press), received wide critical acclaim and two awards: The Association of Asian American Studies Prose Award and the Northern California Book Award for Fiction. Janko’s short stories have appeared in The Massachusetts Review.
Ellen Greenblatt’s work as an educator has often focused on teaching literature in the context of social and historical issues. She met and became friends with James Janko when he appeared several times as a guest in her course about the American War in Vietnam, a course which included the voices of American, Vietnamese, and Vietnamese-American speakers and authors. As a result of that course, Ellen became part of the Veterans Writing Group started by Maxine Hong Kingston.
Ellen’s writing work includes creating educational materials for television documentaries and for teachers of literature, and she has developed a literature-based approach to teaching about conflict and its aftermaths. Ellen has worked with teachers throughout the US and internationally, and she has been an on-stage interviewer for City Arts and Lectures in San Francisco, conducting literary interviews before a live audience.

PhD+: Proposal Writing - Framing Your Research for Fellowship and Grant Proposals
2017-12-01 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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This workshop is devoted to developing a fellowship and grant strategy that will assist you in making your research proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss how the jargon of field-specific descriptions can affect both the clarity and persuasiveness of funding proposals, and focus instead on teasing out the larger humanistic stakes of individual research projects. Please upload an abstract of your own by Friday, November 24 to the shared Google Drive folder at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YR76sm_j34z5-0i3NOIsAVgLNHgMhTMP, and bring a hardcopy with you to the workshop. A portion of our conversation will be devoted to revising current and/or future research proposals in order to appeal to scholars from a variety of humanistic departments and programs.
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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2017 Symposium for Undergraduate Research at UCSC - Humanities And Social Sciences
2017-12-02 12:00 - 16:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
The Symposium for Undergraduate Research at UCSC – Humanities And Social Sciences (SURU-HASS) is an event designed to allow students from different disciplines to come together to share and learn about research. Because of a need for more events like this in the Humanities and Social Sciences, we especially encourage students from those disciplines to apply, but research projects from all areas are welcome!
The application deadline is November 18, 2017 at 11:59pm and the event will take place on December 2, 2017.
Check out the SURU-HASS website to learn more: https://tinyurl.com/SURU-HASS
What SURU-HASS can do for you:
– We will be hosting workshops for doing an oral presentation and making a poster to help you with practical presentation skills!
– This symposium is a great opportunity to network with other undergraduates, graduate students, and even faculty and staff, within your major and beyond.
– The symposium is an opportunity to know the real-world problems other majors are trying to solve.
For more information contact: SURU-HASS@UCSC.EDU
