The Humanities Institute

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

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

RELATED EVENTS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
2018-05-19 20:00 - 22:00
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, Cowell, and Stevenson Colleges at UCSC will present the 18th season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP) from May 17th through May 20th at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center on campus. In this unique multilingual program, students will be featured in fully-staged excerpts of short works in Punjabi, French. German, and Spanish, with English super-titles.
There is no admission charge for the event; nearby parking is $4.00.
There are exciting innovations in the program this year, with the first MEIP presentation of works in Punjabi, including a short play and poetry, directed by Arshinder Kaur, and excerpts from Mozart’s opera, The Magic Flute, sung in German, directed by Sheila Willey, and performed by students of the University Opera Theater, as a preview of their upcoming production of the opera, which will take place from May 31 to June 3 at the UCSC Music Center Recital Hall. Students of French will portray scenes from Marcel Pagnol’s Fanny, one of the plays in his trilogy about a group of serio-comic characters in Marseille, directed by Miriam Ellis and Renée Cailloux. Spanish will offer a contemporary comedy, Black and White, by Ignacio Dominis, directed by Carolina Castillo-Trelles, which explores characters who live in two different worlds, separated by a line never to be crossed. Over the years, our multilingual theater presentations have attracted loyal audiences who look forward to hearing their native or acquired languages in this unusual format, and we cordially invite the community to attend.
For more information, please contact Lisa Leslie at lmhunter@ucsc.edu or (831-459- 2054).

Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
2018-05-18 20:00 - 22:00, 2018-05-17 20:00 - 22:00 | Stevenson Event Center

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Laureates attending
The following Laureates have confirmed their attendance:

Robert Bilott (USA, 2017)

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

Sheila Watt-Cloutier (Canada, 2015)

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

Bill McKibben / 350.org (USA, 2014)

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

Paul Walker (USA, 2013)

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

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

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

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

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

Amy Goodman (USA, 2008)

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

Daniel Ellsberg (USA, 2006)

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

Maude Barlow (Canada, 2005)

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

Tony Clarke (Canada, 2005)

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

Wes Jackson / The Land Institute (USA, 2000)

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

Alice Tepper Marlin (USA, 1990)

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

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

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

Amory Lovins (USA, 1983)

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

Pat Mooney (Canada, 1985)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friday Forum: LuLing Osofsky
2018-05-04 12:30 - 13:45 | Humanities 2, Room 359
“Based on a (Mostly) True Story: Conflicting Cinematic Portrayals of Jewish Champions Boxing at Auschwitz ”
In 2011, I traveled to Tel Aviv to interview eighty-seven year old Noah Klieger, the last remaining Holocaust survivor to have boxed for Nazi officials at Auschwitz. That amateur and champion Jewish boxers boxed at the camps to entertain SS is largely unknown, and the few accounts are contested and contradictory. The “based on a true story” 1989 film Triumph of the Spirit shows Jews boxing fellow Jews to the death; Klieger derided the film as lies. It compelled me to investigate the complications and consequences of representing and narrativizing this horrific predicament in film. My essay blends interview and film criticism, and reflects on which Holocaust narratives get preserved, adapted, or willfully winnowed away.
LuLing Osofsky is a PhD student in the History of Art and Visual Culture program. She’s interested in how artists, filmmakers, curators, and political entities represent and narrativize trauma, destruction and disaster.
Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the following departments: HAVC, Literature, and History of Consciousness.

PhD+: PhDs in Leadership Positions at UCSC
2018-05-04 11:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Foundational Labor: PhDs in Leadership Positions at UCSC
Are you interested in learning more about the work of PhDs who are actively reimagining pedagogy and student support at UC Santa Cruz? This session will feature two PhDs who are currently employing their research and teaching experience in a variety of interrelated ways, including program development, project management, and mentorship, all of which are vital to the University’s mission and its commitment to equitably serving undergraduate students and graduate student-instructors. Kendra Dority is Assistant Director of the UCSC Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL), and Zia Isola is Director of the UCSC Genomics Institute Office of Diversity Programs, Co-Director of the UCSC Bridge to Doctorate Program (NSF-LSAMP), and Staff Advisor for UCSC Women in Science & Engineering (WISE). Participants will have an opportunity to hear about the day-to-day experience of working in two campus positions, as well as how the PhD has influenced or helped reimagine their approach to their work.
PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, and much more.
Lunch provided to all attendees.
*Stay tuned for more information.
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Emerging Ecologies: Arcaeologies of Slavery, Landscape, and Environmental Change
2018-05-04 09:00 - 17:00 | University Center, University Center‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Atlantic Era was a period of intense commercial integration linking key economic players in Western Europe, the Americas, the Indian Ocean littorals, and West and Central Africa. The period was marked by dramatic increases in the volume of commerce at both the regional and global levels, radically transforming the societies and environments of these core areas. In fact, it is arguable that few communities on earth escaped the wide-reaching effects of commercial expansion and integration in this period. African slavery in the Atlantic World facilitated this integration. The slave trade linked four continents as traders carried European exports to Africa, exchanged them for enslaved people, and ferried those captives to the Americas. African people and cultures dispersed across the Americas, and the crops and natural resources that enslaved people harvested in the New World were shipped around the globe. This political, cultural, and ecological process laid the foundations for the cultures, environments, and economies of the modern world. At the very heart of this transformation were cities, ports, and plantations that wreaked vast ecological changes across their respective landscapes. Large swaths of land were cleared for agricultural production, port cities were established for import and export, and flora and fauna were transplanted across hemispheres in a process known as the Columbian Exchange. These intentional and unintentional ecological transformations were accompanied by violent social and economic changes. Plantation labor regimes emerged as models for industrial factory work, contributing directly to rapid industrialization in the Atlantic world. The trans-Atlantic Slave Trade thus stands as a point of origin for the Anthropocene, the contemporary moment in which environments around the world have been profoundly shaped by human action. This one-day symposium explores of the impacts and legacies of slavery and the slave trade across the landscapes of our rapidly changing world.
Organizers
Justin Dunnavant and J. Cameron Monroe
Speakers
Georgia Fox (CSU Chico)
Mark Hauser (Northwestern University)
Paul Lane (Uppsala University)
Amanda Logan (Northwestern University)
Marco Meniketti (Sans José State University)
Fraser Neiman (Monticello Archaeology)
Lisa Randle (University of South Carolina)
Meredith Reifschneider (San Francisco State University)
Elizabeth Reitz (Georgia Museum of Natural History)
Krish Seetah (Stanford University)
Diane Wallman (University of South Florida)
***Keynote Address – Judith Carney (UCLA)
Admission is FREE and open to the public.
Advance registration is REQUESTED to ensure we have sufficient seating.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Organizers

Jim McCloskey, Ivy Sichel & Matt Wagers

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

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

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

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

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

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

Panels and presentations:

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

Additional Events:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Digital Humanities VizLab Open House
2018-04-10 13:00 - 15:00 | Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library
If you’ve never tried VR before, this is your chance. 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.
Cosponsored by the IDEA Hub and the Digital Scholarship Commons.

Humanities Institute Public Fellows Info Session
2018-04-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Please join us for an information session about The Humanities Institute’s Public Fellows program on Tuesday, April 10 from 12:00-1:00 pm in Humanities Room 202 where we will hear from our 2017 cohort of Public Fellows, and also cover the opportunities for public fellows this coming summer which include new partner organizations.
In addition, we are launching a new public fellows program that will allow students to work as public fellows during the school year (we will cover tuition, fees, and stipends for selected applicants).
These fellowships provide the opportunity for doctoral students in the humanities to contribute to research, programming, communications and fundraising at non-profit organizations, cultural institutions, or companies and are meant to allow the students to apply and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study.
The 8 fellows below will share with us their summer experiences and will be able to help serve as mentors for those of you who are considering applying for the program going forward:
Danielle Crawford, Literature, Project: “Planning and Conservation League”
Andrew Hedding, Linguistics, Project: “Senderos”
Ryan King, Feminist Studies, Project: “Digital NEST”
Amani Liggett, Literature, Project: “Santa Cruz Shakespeare
Priscilla Martinez, History, Project: “Tucson Chinese Cultural Center”
Jason Ostrove, Linguistics, Project: “Barra Heritage Centre”
Kirstin Wagner, Literature, Project: “Catamaran Literary Reader”
We hope to see you there!

Living Writers Series: Carmen Giménez Smith & giovanni singleton
2018-04-10 08:00 - 17:00
Born in New York, poet Carmen Giménez Smith earned a BA in English from San Jose State University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa. She writes lyric essays as well as poetry, and is the author of the poetry chapbook Casanova Variations (2009), the full-length collection Odalisque in Pieces (2009), and the memoir Bring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering, Art, Work, and Everything Else (2010). Her most recent book, Milk and Filth (2013), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poems have been included in the anthologies Floricanto Si! U.S. Latina Poets (1998) and Contextos: Poemas (1994). Giménez Smith is the editor-in-chief of Puerto del Sol and publisher of Noemi Press. She teaches at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
giovanni singleton is a native of Richmond, Virginia, a former debutant, and founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts, a journal dedicated to experimental work of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces. Her debut poetry collection, Ascension (Counterpath Press), informed by the music and life of Alice Coltrane, received the 81st California Book Award Gold Medal. She has received fellowships from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Workshop, Napa Valley Writers Conference, and Cave Canem. singleton regularly consults and gives presentations on writing, editing, graphic design, and publishing at high schools, colleges, and conferences. Her work has appeared in What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America, Best American Experimental Writing, Inquiring Mind, Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology, and elsewhere, and has also been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institute’s American Jazz Museum, San Francisco’s first Visual Poetry and Performance Festival, and on the building of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She has taught poetry at the de Young Museum, CalArts, Naropa University, and Sonoma State University. She was the 2015-16 Visiting Assistant Professor in the creative writing programs at New Mexico State University and currently coordinates the Lunch Poems reading series at UC Berkeley. A new book, American Letters: works on paper, was published by Canarium Books in 2018.
Spring 2018 Living Writers:
A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement
This spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories, persons and things, race and freedom, kinship and loss, and the human and non-human natural world.
April 12: Sherwin Bitsui
April 26: Leif Haven, Jared Harvey
May 3: Courtney Kersten
May 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton
May 24: Sawako Nakayasu
May 31: Robin Coste Lewis
June 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Thursdays, 5:20-6:50 PM
All Readings are Free and Open to the Public
Contact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu)
This event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, American Indian Resource Center, El Centro, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, the Chicano Latino Research Center, Cowell College, Bay Tree Bookstore, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment, the Literature Department, and the Creative Writing Program.

Santa Cruz Pickwick: "How Did the Grim Reaper's Swift Scythe Sharpen Little Dorrit's Plot?"
2018-04-08 14:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States

Intimate States: Family, Domestic Space, and the State
2018-04-07 09:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Center for World History presents: Intimate States: Family, Domestic Space, and the State
Full Conference Agenda here: 4-7-18 Intimate States Conference Agenda
Conference Key Note: “The Household, the State, and ‘Economic Development Strategies’ in Europe and China Around 1800.”
Mary Jo Maynes
This talk will explore the comparative logics of statebuilding in China and Europe in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, focusing in particular the ways in which state policies had implications for the household-economy nexus. Mary Jo will discuss several dimensions of state policy having implications for household structure, and for gender and generational relations including: fiscal policy (taxation, subsidy, etc.); state-run industries; state-produced information and education (technology manuals, encyclopedias, schools, etc.); laws and regulations; and state relations with relevant social groups such as producers and merchants. She hopes to rise comparative questions for discussion about long-term historical developments that connect statebuilding processes with the economic viability of household economies.
Mary Jo Maynes is a Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She is a historian of Modern Europe with interests in comparative and world history. Her work explores the social and cultural history of the family, gender and generational relations, class dynamics, and personal narratives. Her books include The Family: A World History (Oxford, 2012), co-authored with Ann Waltner; Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History (Cornell, 2008), co-authored with Jennifer Pierce and Barbara Laslett and Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European History (Indiana, 2004), co-edited with Birgitte Søland and Christina Benninghaus. She is currently a co-editor of Gender & History and co-organizer of two U of MN research collaboratives: “Narrative/Medicine” at the Institute for Advanced Study and “Subjects, Objects, Agents: Young People’s Lives and Livelihoods in the Global South” at the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Social Change.

Maeve Cooke: "Civil Disobedience as Civil Regeneration: The Radically Transformative Power of Political Law-Breaking"
2018-04-05 15:15 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Maeve Cooke is Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. Professor Cooke’s work focuses on the question of truth (intrinsic value) in social and political theory, with particular attention to debates on religion and politics. Her principal book publications are Language and Reason: A Study of Haberma’s Pragmatics (MIT Press, 1994) and Re-Presenting the Good Society (MIT Press, 2006). She is editor and translator of Habermas: On the Pragmatics of Communication (MIT Press, 1998) and has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and books, mainly in the areas of social and political philosophy.

Laura Rosenzweig: “The Story of Hollywood’s Spies: Jewish Resistance to Nazism in Los Angeles in the 1930s”
2018-04-04 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Laura Rosenzweig will present at the Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture during Graduate Recruitment Day on April 4. The title of her talk is: “The Story of Hollywood’s Spies: Jewish Resistance to Nazism in Los Angeles in the 1930s” and will include a discussion about her journey from a UCSC doctoral student to a bestselling author. The talk will be from 4-5:30 at the Stevenson Fireside Lounge and will be followed by a reception at the Stevenson provost’s house.

Jeffrey Santa Ana: "Queer Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Disremembering place and witnessing imperial debris in Han Ong’s The Disinherited"
2018-04-02 15:00 - 16:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Jeffrey Santa Ana is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty in Asian & Asian American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University, the State University of New York. He is the author of Radical Feelings: Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of Emotion (Temple University Press, 2015). He is currently writing a book entitled Transpacific Ecological Imagination: Environmental Memory in the Asian-Pacific Diaspora.

Reading Seminar: Jeffrey Santa Ana's Transpacific Ecological Imagination
2018-04-02 10:00 - 12:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Jeffrey Santa Ana is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty in Asian & Asian American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University, the State University of New York. He is the author of Radical Feelings: Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of Emotion (Temple University Press, 2015). He is currently writing a book entitled Transpacific Ecological Imagination: Environmental Memory in the Asian-Pacific Diaspora.
For pre-circulated readings, please email Christine Hong at cjhong@ucsc.edu.

Living Writers Series: Undergraduate Student Reading
2018-03-15 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Living Writers Series Winter 2018:
Performing Women: Race, Art, and Space
Performing Women: Race, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry, prose, visual and textile arts, photography, film, dance, and improvisation to address questions of gender, sexuality, and race. This series will explore the intersections of literature, writing and performance, and the ways that themes of nation, exile, trauma, and joy move through individual, collective and individual artistic practices.
This series will also feature three “Live Models,” in the form of master conversations/performances, mainly for the Creative/Critical (and other) graduate students, faculty, and the larger Cowell College Community.

Winter 2018 Schedule:
January 25th: Jennifer Tamayo
February 1st: Karen Tei Yamashita
February 15th: Duriel E. Harris
February 22nd: Cecilia Vicuña
March 15th: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading

All Living Writers readings are free and open to the public. Please contact Ronaldo Wilson at rvwilson@ucsc.edu with any questions or concerns.

This event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, the Chicano Latino Research Center, Cowell College, Bay Tree Bookstore, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment, and Literature Department and Creative Writing Program.

And Then They Came for Us: "From the Incarceration of Japanese Americans to the Travel Ban"
2018-03-14 18:40 - 20:30 | Del Mar Theatre
Seventy-five years ago, Executive Order 9066 paved the way to the profound violation of constitutional rights that resulted in the forced incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans. “And Then They Came for Us” brings history into the present, retelling this difficult story and following Japanese American activists as they speak out against the Muslim registry and travel ban. Knowing our history is the first step to ensuring we do not repeat it. “And Then They Came for Us” is a cautionary and inspiring tale for these dark times. Part of the Humanities Institute’s Freedom and Race Series.
Presented by The Humanities Institute and Cowell College. Co-sponsored by the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, CRES, Stevenson College, the History Department, and McHenry Library.
Due to overwhelming interest, this event is SOLD OUT. We hope to see you at another event soon!
Film screening and panel discussion.
6:40 pm – Doors open
7:00 pm – program begins
Parking and directions to the Del Mar Theater here
If you have disability-related needs, please contact The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274.
Featuring:
Abby Ginzberg – Director “And Then They Came for Us”
Donald K. Tamaki – Managing Partner of Minami Tamaki
Ammad Rafiqi – Civil rights attorney with the Council on American Islamic Relations
Q & A moderated by Alice Yang – History Professor, UC Santa Cruz
Abby Ginzberg is a Peabody-winning producer and director who has been making award-winning documentaries about race and social justice for the past 30 years. Her most recent film, “And Then They Came for Us” has screened at film festivals across the country. Agents of Change, co-directed with Frank Dawson, tells the story of the black-led student protest movement of the late 1960’s on college campuses. It will be broadcast on America Reframed in Feb, 2018.
Her film Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa won a Peabody award in 2015 and has screened at film festivals around the world, winning four audience awards for Best Documentary. The Barber of Birmingham, (Consulting Producer), was nominated for an Oscar in the short doc category in 2012.
Donald K. Tamaki is the Managing Partner of Minami Tamaki LLP in San Francisco. In 1983 to 1985, he served on the legal team which reopened the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case of Fred Korematsu, overturning his criminal convictions for refusing to be interned. The reopening was based on newly discovered evidence from the Justice Department, War Department, Navy, F.B.I., and F.C.C. admitting that Japanese Americans had committed no wrong and posed no threat. Other Justice Department memoranda characterized the Army’s claims that Japanese Americans were spying as “intentional falsehoods.” These official reports were never presented to the Supreme Court, having been intentionally suppressed, altered and destroyed pursuant to the orders of high government officials so as to manipulate the outcome of the Korematsu decision. Mr. Tamaki graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley in 1973 and received his J.D. from Berkeley in 1976. Upon graduation, he practiced poverty and civil rights law in San Jose and there, he co- founded the Asian Law Alliance, a public interest law firm which has provided representation and advocacy for thousands of low-income Asian Americans in Santa Clara County, and is a past Executive Director of the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco, the nation’s first public interest law firm representing Asian Americans in civil rights and poverty law cases.
Ammad Rafiqi is a civil rights attorney with the Council on American Islamic Relations chapter of the San Francisco Bay Area. As the office’s Civil Rights and Legal Services Coordinator, he assists individuals facing structural and private discrimination, hate crimes, law enforcement harassment/surveillance as well as documenting and writing reports.

IPAs are like a Hoppy Craft Beer: Acquiring a Taste for Task-based Language Teaching and Integrated Performance Assessments
2018-03-14 17:30 - 19:15 | Humanities 1, Room 202
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present:
“IPAs are Like a Hoppy Craft Beer: Acquiring a Taste for Task-based Language Teaching and Integrated Performance Assessments”
Jill Pellettieri, Ph.D.
This workshop focuses on the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) as simply one specific model of task-based language learning and assessment. Like the hoppy beer, it pairs well in some settings but not in others. We will critically examine the IPA with an eye towards identifying its strengths and weaknesses as a tool for assessment in university language courses and programs. Participants will learn general principles for designing authentic, integrated language tasks and specific guidelines for modifying and adapting the ACTFL IPA for their language courses. It is unclear at this time whether we will actually be sampling craft brews.

Jill Pellettieri is an Associate Professor of Spanish and chair of the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at Santa Clara University. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish applied linguistics with a Designated Emphasis in Second Language Acquisition from the University of California, Davis. Her areas of specialization include oral and computer-mediated interaction, task-based language learning, and community-based learning. Prior to joining the faculty at SCU, she was an Associate Professor of Spanish, Graduate TA trainer and supervisor, and chair of the Dept. of World Languages at Cal State San Marcos. She has published several articles and book chapters in her areas of specialization, and she has authored and coauthored several textbooks for the teaching of Spanish at the university level, including Palabra abierta, an advanced composition text, and Rumbos, a textbook for intermediate Spanish.

Letters to Memory: A Reading by Karen Tei Yamashita
2018-03-12 17:00 - 19:30
The Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department presents:
Letters to Memory
featuring a reading by Karen Tei Yamashita with remarks by Alice Yang and Christine Hong
Letters to Memory is an excursion through the Japanese mass incarceration during World War II using archival materials from the Yamashita family as well as a series of epistolary conversations with composite characters representing a range of academic specialties. Historians, anthropologists, classicists—their disciplines, and Yamashita’s engagement with them, are a way for her to explore various aspects of the mass incarceration and to expand its meaning beyond her family, and our borders, to ideas of debt, forgiveness, civil rights, orientalism, and community.
About the Author: Karen Tei Yamashita is a Professor of Literature and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Yamashita is the author of Letters to Memory, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, I Hotel, and Anime Wong, all published by Coffee House Press. I Hotel was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the California Book Award, the American Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award, and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. She has been a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellow and co-holder of the University of California Presidential Chair for Feminist & Critical Race & Ethnic Studies.

March 12, 2018
5-:00-7:30pm
Feminist Studies Library
Humanities 1, Room 316

Writing Crises: How to Write When You Just Can't Write
2018-03-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Graduate Student Commons
Register at https://tinyurl.com/WritingCrises

Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Victorian Colonialism
2018-03-11 14:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States

Peter Svenonius: Linguistics at Santa Cruz
2018-03-10 09:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Every year towards the end of the Winter Quarter, the Linguistics at Santa Cruz conference showcases the research of second and third year graduate students. This conference coincides with a visit to campus of prospective graduate students, and it always features as an invited speaker, a Ph.D. alum of the department. This year’s invited speaker is Peter Svenonius (PhD, 1994), Professor of English Linguistics & Senior Researcher at the University of Tromsø.
Click here for more information.

Friday Forum: Kiki Loveday
2018-03-09 12:30 - 13:45 | Humanities 2, Room 259
What You Love: The Library at Alexandria, Quotation, and Survival
The figure of Sappho is paradigmatic of the queer-feminist archive: she is the founding figure of female artistic genius and sexual deviance in Western Civilization, yet neither her work nor her story has survived. Between 1896 and 1931 over twenty cinematic versions of Sappho were produce for the screen, making it one of the most ubiquitous texts of the silent film era. Yet this once wildly popular and frequently re-made text has been all but erased from cinema history. How might we reimagine the parameters of cinema and media history and theory by reimagining and remaking the parameters of the archive? Drawing examples from What You Love, an archive of contemporary queer feelings produced in residency at The Huntington Library in Los Angeles, this presentation will rethink the history of cinema and sexuality, questioning contemporary conceptions of romantic love, the loss of queer female voices from the historical imagination, and the parameters of the archive.
Kiki Loveday is a PhD student in Film and Digital Media. She is an experimental filmmaker obsessed with deconstructing (and reconstructing) cinematic conventions: rethinking genre, mixing mediums, and practicing alternative production paradigms. Much of her work is concerned with isolation, people’s sometimes silly and heartbreaking inability to fit-in, connect with each other, or figure out how to live in a culture they didn’t create.
Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the following departments: HAVC, Literature, and History of Consciousness.

Ben Breen: "Unknown Pleasures: Intoxication and Globalization in the Eighteenth Century"
2018-03-07 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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Benjamin Breen’s current project is Age of Intoxication: The Origins of the Global Drug Trade, which examines the trade in medicinal drugs, poisons, and intoxicants in the Portuguese and British empires, circa 1640 to 1800. The book argues that the formation of ‘drugs’ as an epistemological, legal, and commercial category grew out of early modern colonialism.
Ben Breen is an Assistant Professor of History 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.

Tyler Stovall: "White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea"
2018-03-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Rio Sands Hotel in Aptos, 116 Aptos Beach Dr, Aptos, CA, 95003
Aptos Community Reads presents:
White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea
Presented by: Tyler Stovall, Dean of Humanities, University of California, Santa Cruz
The relationship between freedom and race has been one of the key themes of modern society and politics in the Western world. The enduring presence of racism in the history of America, a nation built both upon ideas of liberty and upon African slavery, Indian genocide, and systematic racial discrimination, has provided the most dramatic (but not the only) example of this complex relationship. In this talk, Dean of the Humanities Division and French historian, Tyler Stovall, will explore the ways in which freedom and race are not just enemies but also allies whose histories cannot be understood separately. Part of the Humanities Institute’s Freedom and Race series.
March 6, 2018 @ 6:30 p.m. (doors open at 6)

The Aptos Community Reads program is designed to bring members of the Santa Cruz County community together around one book. This year the winning book is:
Born a Crime
Stories from a South African Childhood
by Trevor Noah

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZE for AMERICAN HUMOR
This memoir depicts Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother his birth was an offence punishable by five years in prison. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist.

From late January through early March 2018 the selected book, and themes in the book, will be highlighted in a series of special events: Films • Art Exhibits • Discussion Groups • Trivia Nights • Guest Speakers • Happy Hours • Music • Story Times • and more.
We encourage all readers to get involved!
Gifts of $50 or more, received by March 1, 2018, will entitle you to a free copy of the winning book!
Donate online. Please direct your gift to Aptos Chapter of Friends of SCPL.

Danny Snelson: "The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats"
2018-03-06 15:30 - 17:00 | Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library
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The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats
Danny Snelson (UCLA, English)
As you read these lines, the Utah Data Center continues its process of deciphering untold exabytes of information collected by the NSA. This enterprise, like certain strands in the digital humanities and the corporate world alike, stakes its hopes for meaningful interpretation of the present on the parsing of tremendous amounts of data. Directly responding to these currents, I turn to the little database as an integral model for understanding our place in a rapidly changing information environment. Ranging from a private collection of MP3s hosted on your personal computer to a collection of poetry readings on a university-hosted website like PennSound, a little database is at once too large to “read” in a traditional way and, at the same time, small enough to be absolutely ordinary. Like the little magazines of the historical avant-gardes, the little database presents a dynamic forum for investigating the situation of politics, aesthetics, and meaning in a time of extensive technological change. In this presentation, I discuss a series of influential sites presenting avant-garde art and letters online, including Eclipse, PennSound, and UbuWeb. Tracing the transformative role of media formats, I examine an unlikely and contingent poetics that emerges through the use and reuse of historical works across the formats and platforms of the present.

Cathy Davidson Workshop
2018-03-02 14:00 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Cathy Davidson will offer a hands-on workshop on engaged pedagogy with the Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now research cluster, working with the research group to address a topic of their choice. Students from Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts are all encouraged to attend. Come prepared with a pedagogy question to dive into.
For copies of Cathy Davidson’s book The New Education, please email the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning at citl@ucsc.edu
Presented by UC Santa Cruz Humanities Institute and Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning
Please note that the Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now research cluster will meet on Friday, February 23 (9-11am in 2 HUM 259) to discuss Cathy Davidson’s book “The New Education” in preparation for Davidson’s event on March 1.

Linguistics Colloquium: Kristen Syrett, Rutgers University
2018-03-02 13:30 - 15:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
“Experimental evidence for context sensitivity in the nominal domain: What children and adults reveal”
Abstract: Part of what it means to become a proficient speaker of a language is to recognize that the context in which we communicate with each other, including what a speaker’s intentions or goals are, affects the way we arrive at certain interpretations. This seems entirely reasonable for context-dependent expressions like pronouns (they) or relative gradable adjectives (big, expensive), but what about seemingly stable expressions, such as count nouns (fork, ball)? Are words like these—words that appear early in child-directed and child-produced speech—also sensitive to context? In collaborative research with Athulya Aravind (MIT), we have asked precisely this question. We start with a curious yet robust puzzle observed in the developmental psychology literature: young children, when presented with a set of partial and whole objects (like forks) and asked to count or quantify them, appear to treat the partial objects as if they were wholes (Shipley & Shepperson 1990, among others). While children’s non-adultlike behavior may be taken to signal a conceptual shift in development, we adopt a different perspective, entertaining the possibility that children are doing something that adults might indeed be willing to do in certain instances, and that their response patterns reveal something interesting about the context sensitivity of nouns, which we argue is similar to that seen with gradable adjectives. Across three tasks, we show that adults and children are more alike than the previous research has revealed: both age groups not only include partial objects but also impose limits on their inclusion in a category, depending on the speaker’s intentions or goals and the perceptual representation of the object, and a comparison with gradable adjectives reveals (perhaps surprisingly) that adults recruit a minimum standard of comparison for nominals. Thus, we argue there is conceptual and linguistic continuity in this aspect of development, and that experimental data from both children and adults sheds light on the semantics of nominal expressions.

Friday Forum: Elizabeth Goldman
2018-03-02 12:30 - 13:45 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Once Helpful, Always Helpful? Infants’ Expectations About Helping and Hindering Behavior Across Scenarios
The present work examined 16 to 18 month-olds’abilities to generalize a person’s tendency to help or hinder across multiple scenarios. Infants saw three familiarization events where an agent consistently helped or hindered another agent. In test, infants saw two test trials (consistent or inconsistent with the behavior in familiarization) in a new scenario. Experiment 1 showed that infants tracked a person’s helping behavior across scenarios and expected the person to be helpful again in the future. However, generalizing a person’s tendency to hinder proved more challenging. Experiment 2 replicated the positive results in Experiment 1 and showed that with the stronger cues of hindering intent, tracking hindering behavior across events appeared easier for infants.
Elizabeth Goldman is Psychology PhD student who works in the Infant Development Lab. Her research
primarily focuses on children’s understanding of prosocial (helping) behavior. This project looks at whether
children expect a person’s helping or hindering behavior to continue and carryover to other situations.
Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the following departments: HAVC, Literature, and History of Consciousness.

PhD+: Ken Wissoker (Duke UP): An Insider's Guide to Academic Publishing
2018-03-02 11:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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How different is the structure of your dissertation from the form of your first book? Who are the audiences for your research? How soon after completing the dissertation should you expect to begin drafting and pitching your book proposal? What is the history behind these publishing norms and how did they become what they are today?
These are some of the mysteries around academic publishing that Ken Wissoker, the editorial director for Duke University Press and the director of The Graduate Center at CUNY’s Intellectual Publics program, will demystify for us. Ken is known for giving people an optimistic way of thinking about their own work, to help them see what is really at stake in their research and how to structure a book around it. This event promises to generate a lively discussion around all aspects of academic publishing from edited volumes to developing your first book manuscript. Bring your questions, concerns, and anxieties

About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.
Lunch will be served.
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Cathy Davidson: "The New Education"
2018-03-01 17:00 - 19:00 | University Center, University Center‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
How can we revolutionize the university to better prepare students for our age of constant change? How can we retool our classrooms as activist, engaged learning environments that model a more just society? In this talk, Cathy N. Davidson will discuss her book The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux and show how we can revolutionize our universities to help students be leaders of change, not simply subject to it.

Cathy Davidson: "The New Education" 3.1.18 from IHR on Vimeo.
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Reception: 5:00pm | Talk begins: 5:30pm
Parking will be very limited at Colleges 9/10 so please plan to either walk from Core West Parking structure or take alternative transportation to campus for the event. Parking attendants will be on hand at Colleges 9/10 to direct attendees to the University Center.

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Cathy N. Davidson is Distinguished Professor of English and Founding Director of the Futures Initiative at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the co-founding director (2002-2017, now co-director) of HASTAC, the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance Collaboratory. As the 2016 recipient of the Ernest J. Boyer Award for Significant Contributions to Higher Education, she champions new ideas and methods for learning and professional development—in school, in the workplace, and in everyday life. For more information on Cathy Davidson, visit her website at: www.cathydavidson.com

Additional Events: The Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now research cluster will meet on Friday, February 23 from 9-11am to discuss The New Education in preparation for Davidson’s visit. Davidson will also facilitate a hands-on workshop with the research cluster on Friday, March 2 at 2-4pm.
For copies of Cathy Davidson’s book The New Education, please email the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning at citl@ucsc.edu

Presented by: The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning. Co-sponsored by: Arts Division, Physical & Biological Sciences Division, Student Achievement & Equity Innovation, Literature Department, History Department, Social Sciences Division, Sociology Department, Philosophy Department, Chicano Latino Research Center.

If you have disability-related needs, please contact The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274.

Tera W. Hunter: "Bound in Wedlock - Slave and Free Black Marriage in the 19th Century"
2018-03-01 13:30 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The History Department Presents: Tera W. Hunter is Professor of History and African-American Studies at Princeton University. She is currently a fellow at the National Humanities Center. She will be speaking about her new book, Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century, a finalist for the Lincoln Prize of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Her first book, To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War, was the recipient of multiple awards and established her as one of the most prominent scholars of African American history and US women’s history.
Co-sponsored by the Feminist Studies and Sociology Departments, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, The Center for Labor Studies and The Humanities Institute.

Christina Gerhardt: "The Legacy of 1968 & Global Cinema"
2018-02-28 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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Christina Gerhardt is the author of Screening the Red Army Faction: Historical and Cultural Memory, and co-editor of 1968 and Global Cinema and Celluloid Revolt: German Screen Cultures and the Long Sixties. Currently, she is working on a new book project, 1968 and West German Cinemas, which examines the cinemas of West Germany’s long sixties that have long stood in the shadow of New German Cinema.

Christina Gerhardt is a Visiting Scholar at the UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies.
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.

Giving Day
2018-02-28 | UCSC
Be a Part of Giving Day at UC Santa Cruz
Giving Day is an energized 24-hour online fundraising drive to support UC Santa Cruz students, faculty, and campus programs. It’s a day for people everywhere to come together in a circle of giving for UC Santa Cruz. Generous donors provide incentives to make the day a success. They create matching funds that increase the impact of gifts to individual projects and they support challenge funds that inspire friendly competition among project teams. Givingday.ucsc.edu
Humanities participants are: The Center for Public Philosophy, The Classics Program, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES), The Dickens Project, and The Gail Project.
Our Classics Program will be competing for a prize of $500-$1000 for the 7-8 am “Challenge Hour”. The goal is to have the most donors during that time window, so if you plan to give to the Carl Deppe Memorial Lecture in Classics, that will be a great time to do so!
We would appreciate your participation in whatever way suits you: whether it is by spreading the word through social media or by donating. The minimum donation this year is $5, and every bit helps.
If you have questions, or are interested in providing a matching gift, please contact Jenna Hurley at jehurley@ucsc.edu.

UCSC Grad Slam
2018-02-23 17:30 - 19:00 | Music Recital Hall
Congratulations to our 12 finalists for 2018! Come cheer them on at the Grad Slam and vote for the People’s Choice Award:
Tony Assi
Kimberley Bitterwolf
Stephan Bitterwolf
Eilin Francis
Sharmistha Guha
Helen Holmlund
Courtney Kersten
Nickolas Knightly
Stephanie Montgomery
Rebecca Ora
Tiffany Thang
Talia Waltzer
Grad Slam, a competition also referred to as the 3-Minute Thesis Challenge,* challenges graduate students to present years’ worth of academic research in a concise, compelling, three-minute talk to a non-expert audience. It encourages students to clarify their ideas and help others understand and appreciate the significance of their research or other graduate work. The contest is open to all graduate students.
The winner of the UCSC Grad Slam receives $3,000; the runner-up receives $1,500; and the people’s choice winner receives $750. The UCSC Grad Slam winner goes on to compete in the UC-wide Grad Slam in late April or early May. UCSC’s 2017 champion, John Felts, took second place at the UC Grad Slam held May 4, 2017, at LinkedIn, 222 2nd Street in San Francisco. Visit UCOP Grad Slam to view the 2017 finalists from all UC campuses and learn the first-place, third-place, and people’s choice winner of that competition.
Registration for the 2018 Grad Slam opened November 13, 2017, and closed January 21, 2018, at midnight PST. All registrants must submit a 3-minute-maximum video of their presentation via a share link entered in the registration form. A panel of UCSC staff judges will review the videos and select the finalists (10 to 12 graduate students) to compete in UCSC’s live Grad Slam on Friday, February 23, 2018, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., at the Music Center Recital Hall, with a reception following for competitors and audience.

Check out the 2017 winners here.
View video of the three awardees, and the complete list of finalists from the UCSC 2016 Grad Slam
View video of the three awardees, and the complete list of finalists from the UCSC 2015 Grad Slam

*Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is a registered trademark of The University of Queensland.

Graduate Funding Support Info Session
2018-02-23 11:00 - 12:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Join us to learn more about support services offered for grant and fellowship research and writing through Arts Research Development Office and The Humanities Institute.
In this information session, we will share key resources for finding funding opportunities and crafting compelling application materials. You will also meet the graduate student fellows who offer one-on-one consultations.
Register

Presenters:
S. Topiary Landberg, Arts/Humanities Research Development Fellow
Sarah Papazoglakis, Graduate Fellow, Chancellor’s Graduate Internship Program

Reading Group: Cathy Davidson "The New Education"
2018-02-23 09:00 - 11:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
The Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now research cluster will meet on Friday, February 23 (9-11am in 2 HUM 259) to discuss The New Education in preparation for Cathy Davidson’s visit on March 1. Davidson will also be facilitating a hands-on workshop with the research cluster on Friday, March 2 at 2-4 pm in 1 HUM 202.
For copies of Cathy Davidson’s book The New Education, please email the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning at citl@ucsc.edu

Living Writers Series: Gabriella Ramirez-Chavez & José Villarán on the work of Cecilia Vicuña
2018-02-22 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
ANNOUNCEMENT: Cecilia Vicuña will be unable to join us on February 22. However, the event will be held as scheduled but in a different iteration.

In Lieu of Cecilia Vicuña’s absence, Literature Creative-Critical PhD students, Gabriella Ramirez-Chavez, and José Antonio Villarán will curate some of Cecilia Vicuña’s work, showing video/sound footage, and providing comments, revolving around their own engagements with her art and poetry.

Cecilia Vicuña is a poet, artist, filmmaker and activist. Her work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world including ecological destruction, human rights and cultural homogenization. Born and raised in Santiago de Chile, she has been in exile since the early 1970s, after the military coup against elected president Salvador Allende. Vicuña’s work began in the mid 60s in Chile, as a way of “hearing an ancient silence waiting to be heard”;. Her art has been exhibited at The Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago; The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London; The Whitechapel Art Gallery in London; The Berkeley Art Museum; The Whitney Museum of American Art; and MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art in New York. It was included in Documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel, Germany, 2017. Her itinerant exhibition Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, opened at the Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans in March 2017 and will travel to various museums in the U.S during 2018. Vicuña has published twenty-five art and poetry books, including About to Happen, 2017, Read Thread, The Story of the Red Thread, 2017, and Kuntur Ko, 2015.

Living Writers Series Winter 2018:
Performing Women: Race, Art, and Space
Performing Women: Race, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry, prose, visual and textile arts, photography, film, dance, and improvisation to address questions of gender, sexuality, and race. This series will explore the intersections of literature, writing and performance, and the ways that themes of nation, exile, trauma, and joy move through individual, collective and individual artistic practices.
This series will also feature three “Live Models,” in the form of master conversations/performances, mainly for the Creative/Critical (and other) graduate students, faculty, and the larger Cowell College Community.

Winter 2018 Schedule:
January 25th: Jennifer Tamayo
February 1st: Karen Tei Yamashita
February 15th: Duriel E. Harris
February 22nd: Cecilia Vicuña
March 15th: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading

All Living Writers readings are free and open to the public. Please contact Ronaldo Wilson at rvwilson@ucsc.edu with any questions or concerns.
This event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, the Chicano Latino Research Center, Cowell College, Bay Tree Bookstore, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment, and Literature Department and Creative Writing Program.

Sora Y. Han: "Poetics of MU"
2018-02-22 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
The daughter appears in Hortense Spillers’s literary criticism as an oblique subject of both the Oedipal “law of the Father” and the slave law of partus sequitur ventrem. With this figure, this talk presents the broader question of how a law of reproduction without genealogy raises the stakes of theorizing race, colonialism, and the limits of translation. Slave law, Oedipus, kinship, and language as forms of law contain two essential a-genealogical characteristics. The first concerns the perverse logics of law, and the fact that submission to or refusal of law offers no protection against its violence and judgment; and the second, where genealogy can neither be named nor established, what issues forth can only, in the present circumstances, be described as an obscene obliteration of law’s reference. This peculiar co-presence of law and non-referentiality, differentially explored by Edouard Glissant, David Marriott, Nathaniel Mackey, Fred Moten, and Theresa Had Kyung Cha, can only be grasped by a transversal writing, the “poetics of mu,” not simply at the limits of translation, but also, transliteration and utterance.

Sora Han is Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and and the School of Law at UC Irvine. She also is core faculty of the Culture and Theory Ph.D. program, and affiliate faculty of African American Studies. Professor Han is the author of Letters of the Law (Stanford University Press 2015) and she has two books in-progress: Slavery as Contract: A Study in the Case of Blackness, which brings together poetics, contract law and afro-pessimist theory to think beyond the property metaphor of slavery; and Mu, the First Letter of an Anti-Colonial Alphabet, an experimental text which offers a speculative meditation on the “anagrammatic scramble” (Nathaniel Mackey) of the unconscious materiality of abolitionism. Her most recent publication on this new line of research, “Slavery as Contract,” was published by Law and Literature (2016)

Titas Chakraborty: Controlling "Quarrelsome Workers": Boatmen of Bengal, English East India Company State and the Global Mobility Transition, 1701-1806
2018-02-22 13:30 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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The Center for World History presents:
Controlling “Quarrelsome Workers”: Boatmen of Bengal, English East India Company State and the Global Mobility Transition, 1701-1806
Titas Chakraborty

Film Screening: Io sono Li (Shun Li & the Poet)
2018-02-21 17:30 - 19:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Crossings Film Series
Over 2017-18, the CLRC and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is proud to present “Crossings,” a quarterly film series about migration and the Mediterranean. We open with the 2014 documentary, “Io sto con la sposa,” winner of the Human Rights Nights Award at the Venice International Film Festival. All films are subtitled and screenings are free and open to the public.
Io sono Li (Shun Li & the Poet, 2013)
Two outsiders become unlikely friends in this drama from filmmaker Andrea Segre. Shun Li (Zhao Tao) is a thirtysomething single mother from China who has come to Italy in the hope of providing a better life for herself and her son. However, Shun Li has partnered with an unscrupulous employment agency that shifts her from job to job and makes it difficult for her to pay her fees so she can make enough money to bring her son to Italy. She works as a barmaid in a shabby waterfront tavern in the fishing village of Chioggia; there, she meets Bepi (Rade Serbedzija), an exile from Eastern Europe who has a fondness for poetry and pens doggerel verse himself. Shun Li shares with Bepi stories of Qu Yuan, China’s most celebrated poet, and the two strike up a friendship that has the potential to become something more. However, the Chioggia natives make it clear that they don’t approve of Shun Li and Bepi’s budding relationship, especially given their suspicions about her Chinese heritage.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics

Jodi Byrd: "Fire & Flood - Settler Colonialisms & Pessimistic Indigenous Futurisms"
2018-02-21 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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The Feminist Studies Department and CRES are pleased to partner with The Center for Cultural Studies to present this CULT Colloquium Series talk:
“Fire & Flood: Settler Colonialisms & Pessimistic Indigenous Futurisms”
Caught within the both/and of dystopic collapse, colonial fantasies of American futurities often reproduce themselves through nineteenth-century signs of the struggle for colonial dominance. This talk closely reads HBO’s Westworld alongside LeAnne Howe’s Indian Radio Days to consider how procedural elements of technological play produce dystopic visions of American collapse as the failure of indigenous futures.

Jodi Byrd is Associate Professor, English and Gender & Women’s Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prof. Byrd is a Chickasaw decolonial thinker, writer, teacher, and video gamer. She is a faculty affiliate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

Dr. Angus Forbes: "Immersive Interpretation - Exploring Data in Virtual Reality"
2018-02-20 12:00 - 13:30 | Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library
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Immersive Interpretation: Exploring Data in Virtual Reality
Angus Forbes (UCSC, Computational Media)
Forbes will discuss the opportunities for exploring and analyzing data using contemporary display technologies, such as interactive video walls, ambisonic theaters, and virtual reality headsets. I present a range of projects that examine novel ways of representing scientific and cultural datasets, including an interactive art installation that explores connections between photographic images and literary themes in the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ One Hundred Years of Solitude, dynamic visualizations of the human brain connectome and protein interaction networks, and an outdoor museum exhibition that superimposes historical photographs onto relevant architectural features. By taking advantage of the new forms of representation and interaction that these technologies make possible, we can provide useful interpretations of and new perspectives into the complex systems that that govern, or perhaps define, contemporary life.

Dr. Angus Forbes is an assistant professor in the Computational Media department at University of California, Santa Cruz, where he directs the UCSC Creative Coding lab. His research investigates new forms of visualizing and interacting with complex scientific information; his computational artwork has been featured at museums, galleries, and festivals throughout the world. Angus was the general chair of the IEEE VIS Arts Program from 2013 through 2017, and will serve as the art papers chair for ACM SIGGRAPH 2018.
Click here for any additional information about Angus’s research and artwork.

Adam Ussishkin: "Roots, or consonants? On the early role of morphology in lexical access"
2018-02-16 13:20 - 15:20 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Words consist of a phoneme or letter sequence that maps onto meaning. Most prominent theories of both auditory and visual word recognition portray the recognition process as a connection between these units and a semantic level. However, there is a growing body of evidence in the priming literature suggesting that there is an additional, morphological level that mediates the recognition process. In morphologically linear languages like English, however, morphemes and letter or sound sequences are co-extensive, so the source of priming effects between related words could be due to simple phonological overlap as opposed to morphological overlap. In Semitic languages, though, the morphological structure of words reduces this confound, since morphemes are interdigitated in a non-linear fashion. Semitic words are typically composed of a discontiguous root (made up of three consonants) embedded in a word pattern specifying the vowels and the ordering between consonants and vowels. Active-passive pairs in Maltese illustrate this relationship (the root is underlined); e.g., fetaħ ‘open’-miftuħ ‘opened’. In this talk, I report on a series of experiments on the Semitic language Maltese investigating the extent to which root morphemes facilitate visual and auditory word recognition, and to what extent potential priming effects are independent of the phonological overlap typically inherent in morphological relationships. These experiments make use of the visual masked (Forster and Davis, 1984) and auditory masked (Kouider and Dupoux, 2005) priming techniques. The results of the experiments show that not only do roots facilitate visual and auditory word recognition in Maltese, but that these morphological effects are independent of phonological overlap effects.
Adam Ussishkin is associate professor in the Department of Linguistics, with appointments in the UA Cognitive Science program, the UA Second Language Acquisition and Teaching program, the Department of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. His research focuses on the lexicon, and is informed by psycholinguistic experimentation, as well as formal and laboratory phonology and morphology. Much of the research he conducts centers on Semitic languages, especially Maltese and Modern Hebrew. He also works on corpus creation and evaluation.

Living Writers Series: Duriel E. Harris
2018-02-15 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Duriel E. Harris, poet, performer, and sound artist, is author of No Dictionary of a Living
Tongue, Drag and Amnesiac and coauthor of the poetry video Speleology. Current undertakings
include “Blood Labyrinth” and the solo performance project Thingification. Harris is an
associate professor of English in the graduate creative writing program at Illinois State
University and the Editor of Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora.

Living Writers Series Winter 2018:
Performing Women: Race, Art, and Space
Performing Women: Race, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry, prose, visual and textile arts, photography, film, dance, and improvisation to address questions of gender, sexuality, and race. This series will explore the intersections of literature, writing and performance, and the ways that themes of nation, exile, trauma, and joy move through individual, collective and individual artistic practices.
This series will also feature three “Live Models,” in the form of master conversations/performances, mainly for the Creative/Critical (and other) graduate students, faculty, and the larger Cowell College Community.

Winter 2018 Schedule:
January 25th: Jennifer Tamayo
February 1st: Karen Tei Yamashita
February 15th: Duriel E. Harris
February 22nd: Cecilia Vicuña
March 15th: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading

All Living Writers readings are free and open to the public. Please contact Ronaldo Wilson at rvwilson@ucsc.edu with any questions or concerns.

This event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, the Chicano Latino Research Center, Cowell College, Bay Tree Bookstore, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment, and Literature Department and Creative Writing Program.

Daniel Lee: "A Sleepy English Village and a North African Jew: An Unlikely Story of French Resistance during World War Two"
2018-02-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The story of the Free French who rallied to Charles de Gaulle in London following the fall of France in June 1940 is well-known. But until now, historians have ignored the experiences of men and women from France and the French Empire who were not sympathetic to De Gaulle and the Free French, but who nonetheless fought in Britain for the allied cause. In the same vein, existing scholarship has not explored how North African Jews, persecuted by Vichy antisemitic laws, sought to re-integrate into the new structures that emerged following the allied liberation of North Africa in November 1942. This talk will re-examine these dual phenomena through the unlikely lens of the village of Elvington in Yorkshire and the diary of a North African Jewish airman stationed there, whose story reveals a new Sephardi perspective on World War Two.
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Daniel Lee is a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Sheffield. Before joining Sheffield in 2015, Lee was a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford. His first book, Pétain’s Jewish Children: French Jewish Youth and the Vichy Regime, 1940–1942 was published with Oxford University Press in 2014. He has held fellowships at the Institute of Historical Research, the European University Institute, Yad Vashem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. As a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker, Lee is a regular broadcaster on radio.

Neel Ahuja: "Reversible Human: Rectal Feeding, Gut Plasticity, and Racial Control in US Carceral Warfare"
2018-02-14 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Neel Ahuja’s research explores the relationship of the body to forms of imperial warfare and security. Focusing on the association of rectal feeding, used as a form of medical rape in CIA prisons, and bodily plasticity, the presentation argues that the terrorist body is not only a useful discursive figure in the current wars, but also an experimental material that can be used to modulate time, sensation, and resistance toward forms of racial control.
Neel Ahuja teaches in the interdisciplinary humanities programs at UC Santa Cruz.
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The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Little Dorrit in Historical Context
2018-02-11 14:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States

Victoria Bañales: "Community College Teaching - A View From Inside"
2018-02-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Literature Department Graduate Program Alumni Speaker Series Presents:
“Community College Teaching: A View From Inside”
Victoria Bañales
Victoria Bañales earned a Ph.D. in Literature with a Parenthetical Notation in Feminist Studies from UCSC. Her work has appeared in the anthologies Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representations and Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/ a Américas. Victoria is a tenured English faculty member at Cabrillo College where she has taught for over twelve ears. She serves on numerous committees and is the chair of the Cabrillo Hispanic Affairs Council. She is last year’s recipient of Cabrillo’s EOPS Instructor of the Year Award.

Other Upcoming Events:
April 11 & 12th: “‘In Defense of Sex’ and the Post PhD Path” by Chris Breu
