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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mark Anderson "Franz Boas, George Schuyler and Miscegenation: A Chapter in the History of Anthropology, Race/Racism, and the Harlem Renaissance"
2014-04-09 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Mark Anderson
Associate Professor of Anthropology, UCSC
Mark Anderson is an anthropologist who works on the politics of race and culture, particularly in the Americas. He is currently working on a project tentatively titled Anthropology and Race/Racism: From The Harlem Renaissance to Decolonizing the Discipline, which traces anthropological approaches to race/racism from the 1920s to the 1970s.

Film Screening: After Tiller
2014-04-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Communications, Studio C, Room 150, Communications Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
the film explores the issue of late-term abortion in the U.S. in the aftermath of the murder of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in 2009, one of the very few doctors to perform this procedure. We will actually have one of the physicians featured in the film, Dr. Shelley Sella, in attendance at the screening and she will answer questions afterwards.
After Tiller intimately explores the highly controversial subject of third-trimester abortions in the wake of the 2009 assassination of practitioner Dr. George Tiller. The procedure is now performed by only four doctors in the United States, all former colleagues of Dr. Tiller, who risk their lives every day in the name of their unwavering commitment toward their patients. Directors Martha Shane and Lana Wilson have created a moving and unique look at one of the most incendiary topics of our time, and they’ve done so in an informative, thought-provoking, and compassionate way.

Space is limited. If you would like to attend, please make a free reservation using this link to Brown Paper Tickets:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/608547

Presented by the Complicated Labor Research Cluster with support from Planned Parenthood Mar Monte.

Living Writers Series: Rabih Alameddine
2014-04-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Rabih Alameddine is the Author of four novels: An Unnecessary Woman; Koolaids; I, the Divine; and The Hakawati; as well as The Perv, a collection of short stories.

The spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series, Dislocations and the Imagined, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public.

Film Screening: Caesar Must Die
2014-04-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s Caesar Must Die deftly melds narrative and documentary in a transcendently powerful drama-within-a-drama. The film was made in Rome’s Rebibbia Prison, where the inmates are preparing to stage Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. After a competitive casting process, the roles are eventually allocated, and the prisoners begin exploring the text, finding in its tale of fraternity, power and betrayal parallels to their own lives and stories. Hardened criminals, many with links to organised crime, these actors find great motivation in performing the play. As we witness the rehearsals, beautifully photographed in various nooks and crannies within the prison, we see the inmates also work through their own conflicts, both internal and between each other.
Discussion after the film will be led by the UCSC Shakespeare’s Disciplines Research Cluster.

Sun-Ah Jun: "Prominence and phrasing in ambiguity resolution: Evidence from priming and individual differences"
2014-04-11 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Sun-Ah Jun is Professor of Linguistics at UC Los Angeles.
Abstract: In a sentence such as Someone shot the servant of the actress who was on the balcony, it is ambiguous whether the relative clause (RC) modifies NP1 the servant (i.e., high attachment) or NP2 the actress (low attachment). Although the details of attachment preference are language-specific (Fodor 1998, Fernández 2003), it is known that, crosslinguistically, attachment decisions are sensitive to the sentence’s prosodic characteristics, including the location of a prosodic boundary. This fact has been used to support the Implicit Prosody Hypothesis (IPH; Fodor 1998, 2002), which holds that the human sentence parser favors low attachment when the RC forms a single prosodic phrase with NP2, but favors high attachment when a prosodic break directly precedes the RC. In this talk, I will provide new evidence supporting the IPH based on two experiments using the structural priming paradigm. These experiments show that attachment decisions for a target sentence are influenced by an explicit, as well as an implicit, prosodic boundary in a prime sentence. However, I will also show that sensitivity to a prosodic boundary varies across individuals, and is in part predictable based on “autistic”-like traits. A mechanism underlying this variation will be discussed.

"Genomics and Philosophy of Race" Conference
2014-04-12 - 2014-04-13 | Kresge Town Hall
The “Genomics and Philosophy of Race” conference aims to foster a dialogue about race, and, in particular, about relationships between ideas of race and modern genomics research. Four panels of experts and two keynote speakers will consider scientific, historical, sociological, and philosophical questions: Does contemporary genomics inform and shift our classifications, conceptualizations, and consciousness of race? To what extent is race real? Which inferences, if any, about the body, mind, and culture might race and related concepts (e.g., ancestry and ethnicity) ground? We invite students, researchers, and the public at large to join our conversation.
This event is free and open to the public.
AGENDA & PANELISTS:
Saturday, April 12, 2014 • 10am-6pm
10:00am Brief Opening Comments:
William A. Ladusaw, UC Santa Cruz, Humanities Dean
Nathaniel Deutsch, UCSC, IHR Director
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC PI “Philosophy in a Multicultural Context”
10:15am Opening Keynote:
Sarah Richardson, Harvard: “Race in the Postgenomic Moment”
11:00am Biology Panel:
Bridget Algee-Hewitt, Stanford: “Forensic Casework and the Clustering of Human Craniofacial Variation”
Doc Edge, Stanford: “Multilocus Classification Accuracy and Polygenic Trait Differences”
Scott Lokey, UCSC: “Pharmacology in the genomic age: targeting drugs to (and keeping them away from) specific subpopulations”
Rasmus Nielsen, UC Berkeley: “On the genomic basis of the biological concept of race”
Noah Rosenberg, Stanford: “Properties of human population-genetic clustering”
1:00pm Lunch
2:00pm History Panel:
Nathaniel Deutsch, UCSC: “The ‘Jewish Question’ Revisited: Genomics and Jewish Difference”
Lisa Gannett, St. Mary’s University: “The relevance (or not) of Dobzhansky and the evolutionary synthesis for contemporary population genomics”
Minghui Hu, UCSC: “The Eclipse of Darwinism and Its Chinese Accommodation”
Carlos López Beltrán, National Autonomous Univ of Mexico: “Mestizo Genomics. National, regional and ethnic figurations”
Paula Moya, Stanford: “Racial Realisms, or When Do We Describe, and When Do We ‘Do Race’?”
4:00pm Sociology Panel:
John Brown Childs, UCSC: “Geneologies of the Spirit: Spiraling Strands of Ethical Kinship Across Racialized Spaces”
Guillermo Delgado-P, UCSC: “Genomics and Isolation: the Case of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America”
Hiroshi Fukurai, UCSC: “Genomics and Race: Social, Political, Legal, & “Performative” Construction of Race”
Sandra Harvey, UCSC: “On the “HeLa Bomb”: Race and Gender Passing Narratives in Biotechnology”
Stephanie Montgomery, UCSC: “Nǚfàn: Gender, Criminality and the Prison in 1930s Qingdao”
Sunday, April 13, 2014 • 9am-12pm
9:00am Philosophy Panel:
Josh Glasgow, Sonoma State: “Biological-trait race without biological race”
James Griesemer, UC Davis: “Some Thoughts on Population Studies and the Ethics of Attention”
Jonathan Kaplan, Oregon State University: “Some Relationships Between Biological and Folk Races”
Roberta Millstein, UC Davis: “Thinking about populations and races in time”
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC: “Are Races like Constellations?”
11:00am Closing Keynote:
Quayshawn Spencer, University of San Francisco: “Philosophy of Race Meets Population Genetics”
12:00pm Lunch
1:00-2:30pm Student Workshops:
Student workshops will be led by PhD students involved in the Philosophy in a Multicultural Context research cluster. Workshops will be held in Kresge Seminar Room 159.
Sponsors
This event is presented by the Philosophy in a Multicultural Context Research Cluster, and co-organized by the Institute for Humanities Research and Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther. Generous support provided by UCSC: UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, the UC Center for New Racial Studies, the Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Kresge College, Cowell College, College Eight, College Nine, Merrill College, Departments of Philosophy, Anthropology, and Sociology. Additional support from: Center for Computational, Evolutionary, and Human Genomics, Stanford University, and Science and Technology Studies, UC Davis.
Directions & Parking
Click here for directions and parking for Kresge Town Hall, which is located in the northwest corner of the UCSC campus. For those driving, we recommend parking in the Core West Parking Structure (FREE parking on weekends). From Highway 17, exit Highway 1 North (toward Half Moon Bay) and make a slight right to follow the highway as it becomes Mission Street through town. Travel approximately one mile north to Bay Street in Santa Cruz. Turn right on Bay and proceed up the hill to UC Santa Cruz. Turn left on High Street (you want the west campus entrance, not the main entrance). Continue onto Empire Grade towards the west entrance. Turn right onto Heller Drive. The Core West Parking Structure entrance is on Heller Drive @ McLaughlin Drive (map). After parking, walk across Heller Drive and take the pedestrian bridge to Kresge College. The Kresge Town Hall will be located on your right, next to the Owl’s Nest Cafe. Accessible parking spaces are available behind the Town Hall in lot 142. Those walking or arriving by Metro bus or campus shuttle should get off at the Kresge College bus stop on Heller Drive and walk over the pedestrian bridge.

Graduate Student Conference: "Matters Out of Place: Landscapes of Absence and Dislocation"
2014-04-12 09:00 - 17:00 | Social Sciences 1, Room 261, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
While Mary Douglas’ oft-quoted maxim states that, “dirt is matter out of place,” it is also the soil in which life takes root. This conference positions landscapes as fertile ground from which to explore the politics of dirt and other matters out of place. Moving away from engagements with landscape as inert background or pristine setting, we consider perspectives on dynamic, dirty landscapes produced by dislocations and emplacements, abandonment and occupation, or human and more-than-human movements.
Matters Out of Place capture the anthropological imagination because they draw attention to the ways social orders are maintained, destabilized and transformed. They are not simply boundary-making sources of cognitive dissonance, as Mary Douglas’ maxim implies, but material presences and absences that lead to unexpected forms of flourishing. This conference puts forth a dirty kind of anthropology, one that works the boundaries of social orders as well as the boundaries of anthropology itself.
For the complete schedule, please visit: http://ucscanthro.tumblr.com/schedule.

Nimrod Rosler: "Challenges in the Way to Peace in Israel/Palestine"
2014-04-14 10:30 - 12:00 | Social Sciences 2, Room 121
The winding way to peace in Israel and Palestine requires addressing challenges in the intersection between leaders, society and the political context. The current talk will present a framework to conceptualize the change process and studies – both qualitative and quantitative – that examine its different aspects during real events within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Nimrod Rosler is Visiting Israel Professor of the Jewish Studies Program at the Center for Global and International Studies at the University of Kansas.

Rick Baldoz: "The Strange Career of the Filipino 'National': Race, Immigration, and the Bordering of U.S. Empire"
2014-04-14 12:30 - 14:00 | College 8, Room 301, College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk will explore the incorporation of Filipino immigrants in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on the interplay of colonialism, racial boundaries and citizenship policy. The influx of Filipinos to the United States that followed the annexation of the Philippines confounded American authorities tasked with enforcing traditional racial checkpoints in American society. This talk will illustrate how the geo-political imperatives of U.S. imperial expansion repeatedly collided with domestic practices of racial exclusion forcing American policymakers to recalibrate the administrative boundaries of the national polity to address the status of colonial migrants. Contestation over the socio-legal status of Filipinos in the United States offers important insights into the contingent and contested nature of America’s ascriptive hierarchies and the interlocking politics of immigration, race and U.S. statecraft.
Rick Baldoz is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at Oberlin College. He is the author of the award winning book, The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America, 1898-1946 (NYU Press). He is currently working on a book project about the 1965 Hart Celler Immigration Act, examining this historical legislation against the backdrop of Cold War politics, anti-colonial upheaval, and domestic civil rights mobilization.

CANCELLED - Kris Alexanderson: "Transoceanic Politics and Dutch Maritime Conciliation in East Asia during the 1930s"
2014-04-16 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Due to a medical emergency, this event has been cancelled. – April 12, 2014
Kris Alexanderson
“Transoceanic Politics and Dutch Maritime Conciliation in East Asia during the 1930s”
Kris Alexanderson’s current work examines the collaborative efforts of the Netherlands East Indies’ colonial administration, Dutch shipping businesses, and Dutch foreign consulates in port cities across the Middle East and Asia to control the flow of anti-Western and anti-colonial ideas across its colonial borders during the interwar period.
Kris Alexanderson is Assistant Professor of History at University of the Pacific.

Marjorie Venit: "Strangers in a Strange Land: Negotiating the Afterlife in Monumental Greek tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt"
2014-04-16 16:30 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Marjorie S. Venit is Professor of Art History & Archaeology at the University of Maryland. She specializes in the art and archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean world with an emphasis on the Greek center and its periphery considered both geographically and temporally. Particularly interested in the intersection of cultures and ethnicities, she has excavated at Tel Anafa, Israel, and Mendes, Egypt and is the author of Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria: The Theater of the Dead and Greek Painted Pottery from Naukratis in Egyptian Museums. Her book projects have been supported by generous grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Kress Foundation, and the J.P Getty Trust. Among her other national awards are a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship and fellowships from the American Research Center in Egypt, the American Association of University Women, and the American Philosophical Society.
Dr. Venit has contributed chapters or entries to the The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt, and to other collections of scholarly papers. Her articles on monumental tombs and on Greek vases and sculpture, which consider the social, religious, economic, and political context and implications of the monuments, have appeared in the American Journal of Archaeology, Hesperia, Antike Kunst, and the Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt and in other periodicals.
She served four years as President of the Washington Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and is currently its webmaster. She has delivered over fifty public lectures, many of them as a circuit lecturer for the AIA.

Living Writers Series: Annie Boutelle in concert with Cowell College's Mary Holmes Festival
2014-04-17 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Annie Boutelle is the author of Thistle and Rose: A Study of Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry, as well as two poetry collections, Becoming Bone and Nest of Thistles.

The spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series, Dislocations and the Imagined, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public.

Models of Mediterranean Modernity: The Perspective From the Longue Duree
2014-04-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UC Santa Cruz Emeriti Group presents the 2014 spring Emeriti Faculty Lecture “Models of Mediterranean Modernity: The Perspective From the Longue Duree”
Viewed from a global perspective, the Mediterranean region has enjoyed a common historical experience since 1500. Increasingly semi-peripheral with respect to the world capitalist system, and characterized by weak states, delayed or muffled class formation, agrarian backwardness and the persistence of pastoralism, the coming to modernity of the Mediterranean foreshadowed the historical experience of the Third World in its unity and diversity.
Edmund “Terry” Burke III is Research Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Burke is the author of The Ethnographic State: France and the Invention of Moroccan Islam (forthcoming, California, 2014). He is the co-editor of The Environment and World History (UC Press, 2009) and Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East (Athens OH: Ohio University, 2011), and Genealogies of Orientalism (Nebraska, 2008).

"Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism" Conference
2014-04-18 14:30 - 2014-04-19 09:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Over the course of the year, the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster has brought together scholars from UCSC and beyond for an interdisciplinary inquiry into the history and future of the capitalist world-system. A few focal points have arisen: the history of separation from the means of subsistence, and the emergence of market dependence and waged labor; the interpretation of the history of economic thought, and its relationship to capitalist development; the political problem of work, as a process generative of capitalist subjectivities, and a horizon of post-capitalist imaginaries; the constitution of family forms, and practices of gendering that reproduce capitalist social relations.
The eponymous conference of the cluster, April 18-19, 2014 will provide a framework for collective discussion of the theoretical questions that have been raised over the course of the cluster’s events. It will also be a space for generating the research questions that the cluster will pursue as it continues its activities.
This conference is free and open to the public.
For more information, including the an agenda and panels, please visit Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Conference page

Julie Legate: "Noncanonical Passives"
2014-04-18 16:00 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Abstract: In this talk, I investigate the syntactic structure of voice, focusing on noncanonical passives; I build on previous work by myself and others showing that voice is encoded in a functional projection, VoiceP, which is distinct from, and higher than, vP. I demonstrate that microvariation in the properties of VoiceP explains a wide range of noncanonical passives, including agent-agreeing passives, restricted agent passives, accusative object passives, impersonals, and object voice. The analysis draws on data from a typologically diverse set of languages.
Julie Legate is Associate Professor of Linguistics at University of Pennsylvania.

Dai Jinhua Film Screening: Still Life
2014-04-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Dai Jinhua at UCSC April 18-April 24

We are pleased to announce the visit of Beijing University Professor Dai Jinhua, who will be on campus for a series of events, detailed below. Professor Dai is one of China’s foremost cultural critics, and her writing on cinema, feminism, Marxism, revolutionary movements of the sixties, class, and intellectual politics have been enormously influential in China and internationally. Self-described as a communist, a feminist, and an internationalist, she provides original critical perspectives on current configurations of contemporary capitalism–in the cultural, gender, political, social, and economic spheres–and its possible alternatives. Her work has been translated into many languages, and has been published in journals such as Positions, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, and Social Text. An English translation of an essay collection–Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua–was published in 2002 at Verso. A second collection of translated essays is in preparation.
Seminar Readings (English)   Seminar Readings (Chinese)

Schedule:
I. Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Conference, April 18 and 19
Professor Dai is a panelist on “China and the Future of Global Capitalism”, Friday April 18, 2:30 to 5:00 PM, and is also a panelist on the closing roundtable discussion, “Ending Capitalism: Speculations and Prospects”, Saturday April 19, 3:45-6:00 PM.
II. Public screening of Still Life
Monday, April 21, at 7PM, in Humanities I, room 210.
There will be no lecture/discussion at the screening. All are welcome.
III. Seminar on Still Life, directed by Jia Zhangke.
Tuesday, April 22, 4:00-6:00 PM, Humanities I, room 202. Refreshments will be served.
Still Life is one of the most important films to come out of China in years, and Professor Dai’s analysis treats recent mutations in subjectivity, spatiality, and socio-economic change, both in the Chinese context and in relation to international cinema. Prior to the seminar, participants should view Still Life and read Professor Dai’s essay, “Temporality, Nature Morte, and the Filmmaker: A Reconsideration of Still Life“, either in the original Chinese or in English translation.
IV. Lecture: After the Post-Cold War
Thursday, April 24, 4:00PM, Humanities I, room 210.
Where in time is China, now that the Cold War is over and China seems to have joined a unified “world history”? How does China stand in relation to possible futures, including a post-capitalist future? What place does the legacy of the Chinese revolution have in these figurations and imaginings? Dai Jinhua’s analysis makes clear that the question of the future of China is a central question for all of our futures.

Professor Dai’s visit is made possible primarily by funds from the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Studies Endowment , the Department of Literature, and the IHR. Additional support comes from the Departments of Anthropology and History. Principle Organizers: Christopher Connery, Literature; Lisa Rofel, Anthropology; Gail Hershatter, History, Asad Haider, History of Consciousness.

Google Earth Workshop
2014-04-22 13:00 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Google Earth is an online virtual globe that allows researchers and students to display layered information on modern satellite imagery. In this introductory hands-on tutorial, participants will be taught the basics of the program, including how to navigate and add custom content. We will focus specifically on the use of Google Earth for the Humanities, covering how to import and scale historic maps on top of the satellite imagery, how to add descriptive text and digital imagery to locations on the surface of the earth, and how to use the power of the program to organize one’s data temporally or thematically.
This workshop is especially useful for instructors wishing to add Google Earth mapping assignments to their courses. No prior knowledge required. Please bring laptops with the regular version of Google Earth pre-installed.
Space is limited, pre-registration required. Please check back for registration information

Dai Jinhua: Seminar on Still Life, directed by Jia Zhangke
2014-04-22 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202

Susan Harding: "Secular Trouble: Anthropology, Public Schools, and De/regulating Religion in late 20th Century America"
2014-04-23 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Susan Harding
Professor of Anthropology, UCSC
Susan Harding’s recent work explores the nexus of secularism, Christian revivalism, Civil Rights, and decolonialization as they imploded in the controversy over a federally funded elementary school curriculum in Anthropology. She reads the curriculum as a national secularizing project that triggered Christian efforts to regulate secularism.

"Finding the Mother Lode: Italian Immigrants in California" Screening and Q&A with Directors
2014-04-23 17:00 - 18:30 | Cowell, Room 131, Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Cowell College Provost, History Department, Italian Studies Program, Languages, and Applied Linguistics Department present
A Documentary by Gianfrano Norelli and Suma Kurien
Followed by Q&A with Directors
Finding the Mother Lode provides a bracing contrast to East Coast stories and a new route to understanding the diversity and complexity of ethnic stories. A vivid interpretation of the past–one that recalls the ugly along the beautiful and the conflicts and tragedies along with the solidarity and triumphs.
– Donna R. Gabaccia, University of Minnesota

Lunch Discussion with Joy Harjo
2014-04-24 12:00 - 13:30 | Ethnic Resource Lounge, Bay Tree Conference Center, Bay Tree Conference Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Joy Harjo is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, most recently How We Became Human, New and Selected Poems: 1975-2001; two non-fiction books, most recently Crazy Brave, A Memoir; two children’s books, For a Girl Becoming; and five recordings, including Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears.
All are invited.

Dai Jinhua: "After the Post-Cold War"
2014-04-24 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Living Writers Series: Joy Harjo (in support of UC Pres Chair-sponsored course: American Indian Feminist writers, taught by Carolyn Dunn)
2014-04-24 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Joy Harjo is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, most recently How We Became Human, New and Selected Poems: 1975-2001; two non-fiction books, most recently Crazy Brave, A Memoir; two children’s books, most recently For a Girl Becoming; and five recordings, most recently Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears.
The spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series, Dislocations and the Imagined, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public.

Alumni Weekend
2014-04-25 - 2014-04-27 | UC Santa Cruz
Please stay tuned for more information.

Shakespeare-to-Go: Hamlet
2014-04-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Porter Amphitheater
In celebration of Shakespeare’s 450th birthday, join us for Shakespeare-to-Go’s one-hour production of Hamlet.
Starring Porter College affiliate Conor Murphy
Original music by Eric Benjamin Parson
Fight choreography by Carla Pantoja
Directed by Kimberly Jannarone

Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: Martyrs
2014-04-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
It’s easy to create a victim.
One of the more insightful recent examples of French extreme cinema and “torture porn,” Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs is a singularly divisive horror film experience. After police officers rescue her following over a year of repeated exposure to torture and torment, Lucie build up her strength in an orphanage and befriends Anna, another victim of abuse. Fifteen years later Lucie (Mylène Jampanoï) and Anna (Morjana Alaoui) break into the house of a seemingly middle-of-the-road bourgeois family whom Lucie proceeds to slaughter with gory abandon because she believes them to be the perpetrators of her yearlong suffering and abuse as a child. These gruesome acts give way to some obvious problems (primarily having to do with how to dispose of the bodies) and the unexpected discovery of a hidden staircase that leads to the more affecting and startling atrocity exhibitions (and almost spiritual ordeals of survival) in the film’s second half. Though it is certainly one of the most graphic films we’ll be showing this quarter, Martyrs is not to be missed!
For the remainder of the quarter, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France, Japan, and the United States each week. Same time, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family, invite your friends.
Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

"Legacies of the Sent-down Youth Movement in Contemporary China" Conference
2014-04-28 09:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This conference explores the contemporary legacies of the sent-down youth movement that accompanied the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-76), during which approximately 15 million urban youth were sent to live in rural villages and state farms for up to ten years. This is a timely moment for such a workshop, as an increasing number of scholars in China are engaged in research on this subject, a result of the cottage industry of individual memoirs, collections of letters, diaries, and archival materials that have been published.
Although all of the conference participants have conducted research on historical aspects of the movement, they share a concern with the legacies of that movement for contemporary China: the large percentage of the current political leadership (including President Xi Jinping) that were sent-down youth; the implications of economic relationships established in the context of the sent-down youth movement for contemporary economic development; and social issues facing the post-sent-down youth generation. Participants from China and the U.S. include historians, sociologists, and political scientists.

9:00-9:15 AM – Opening Remarks
Emily Honig, Department of History, UC Santa Cruz
9:15 AM – 12:15 PM – Panel One
Chair: Benjamin Read, Department of Politics, UCSC
Sun Peidong (Department of History, Fudan University)
“Who will marry my daughter? Shanghai Parental Matchmaking Corner and the Zhiqing generation”
Xie Chunhe (Center for Research on Sent-down Youth, Heihe College, Heilongjiang)
“The Quest for Social Identity of Sent-down Youth in the Post-Cultural Revolution Era”
Emily Honig (Department of History, UCSC) and Xiaojian Zhao (Department of Asian American Studies, UCSB)
“Calling the Phoenix Back to its Nest: Economic Legacies of Sent-down Youth in Contemporary China”
Discussant: Kevin O’Brien, Department of Politics, University of California, Berkeley
12:15-2:00 PM – Lunch break
2:00-5:00 PM – Panel Two
Chair: Christopher Connery, Department of Literature, UCSC
Tan Shen (Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
“Remembering the Past in the Post Sent-down Youth Era”
Jin Guangyao (Department of History, Fudan University)
“Former Sent-down Youth in Post-Cultural Revolution China: Literature and Scholarship”
Lin Shengbao (Department of History, Fudan University)
“An Analysis of Sent-down Youth Oral Histories”
Discussant: Thomas Gold, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Cécile Whiting: "Apocalypse in Paradise: Niki de Sainte Phalle in Los Angeles"
2014-04-28 17:00 - 18:30 | Porter College, Room D245
Cécile Whiting is a Chancellor’s Professor of Art History and Professor of Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Professor Whiting examines mid-twentieth century American art and has published three books on this subject Antifacism in American Art, A Taste For Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture, and Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s. Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s, her most recent book, was awarded the 21st Charles C. Eldredge Prize by the Smithsonian American Art Museum for outstanding scholarship in the field of American Art. At present, she is researching the apocalyptic imaginary in 1950s and early 1960s art practice.
Image: King Kong, Niki de Sainte Phalle, 1962.

Presented by the Visual and Media Cultures Colloquia, with support from the Arts Division, Film & Digital Media, and History of Art & Visual Culture.

Morten Axel Pedersen: "Collaborative Damage: A Comparative Ethnography of Chinese Infrastructure Projects in Mozambique and Mongolia"
2014-04-30 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Morten Axel Pedersen
Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
Morten Axel Pedersen has conducted fieldwork in Mongolia, the Russian Far East, and Western China on topics as diverse as shamanism, political cosmology, post-socialist transition, infrastructure, social networks, and hope. He is currently completing a comparative ethnography of Chinese resource-extraction projects in Mongolia and Mozambique.

Film Screening: "Dalip Singh Saund: His Life and Legacy"
2014-05-01 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Dalip Singh Saund: His Life, His Legacy tells the inspiring story of an ethical and passionate man who rose above prejudice and racism to serve as the first Asian, the first Indian, and the first Sikh elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Presented by the Heritage Series, LLC. In association with the U.S. Capital Historical Society and Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies. Support provided by the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Endowed Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies.
For more information about this program, please email DSSaundDoc@gmail.com.

Living Writers Series: Meena Alexander (also, honoring Roshni Rustomji-Kerns) and in support of graduate conference: Feminist Interventions: On Gender & South Asia (hosted by Anjali Arondekar)
2014-05-01 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Meena Alexander is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Birthplace with Buried Stones; an autobiography, Fault Lines; two novels, most recently Manhattan Music; the academic study Women in Romanticism; and Poetics of Dislocation, a collection of essays.
Roshni Rustomji-Kerns is the editor of Living in America: Poetry and Fiction by South Asian American Writers; and coeditor of three books: Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas, Blood Into Ink: South Asian And Middle Eastern Women Write War, and La china poblana.

The spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series, Dislocations and the Imagined, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public.

South Asia by the Bay: Feminist Interventions on Gender and South Asia (Graduate Conference)
2014-05-02 - 2014-05-03 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Michela Ippolito: "Negative Conditionals"
2014-05-02 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Abstract: In this talk I will look again at one kind of counterfactual conditionals, which I will call Negative Conditionals (NCs), from a cross-linguistic perspective. NCs have properties that set them aside from standard would conditionals: (i) they contain a negative element in the antecedent clause or in the complementizer domain; (ii) they are obligatorily counterfactual; (iii) the negation does not anti license PPIs; (iv) the negation does not license NPIs. Drawing on work by Schwarz (2006) and Schwarz and Bhatt (2006), I will call the negation that occurs in NCs light negation (LN) and I will argue that (a) LN is a strengthening operator modifying the modal operator and forcing an “iff” interpretation; (b) for interpretability reasons, LN must move close to the modal and it can do that overtly (as in Chinese) or covertly (as in German and English); (c) LN is factive. This analysis will allow us to explain the facts above as well as other interesting properties of NCs such as their incompatibility with the pro form then in the consequent, the impossibility of a “backtracking” NC and the rhetorical flavor of questions formed with NCs.

Michela Ippolito is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Toronto.
Lecture sponsored by the Santa Cruz Linguistics and Philosophy Group. Please stay tuned for more information.

Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: Suicide Club
2014-05-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
They’re not the enemy.
The film that put Shion Sono on the international art house horror map, Suicide Club opens with the bizarre and eerie sight of 54 uniformed teenage schoolgirls queued up beside a subway platform where they hold hands, begin to sing, and then all at once hurl themselves into the path of an arriving train. The police investigation into their deaths seems to be going nowhere when an alarming number of suicides start to sweep through the country, and a semi-anonymous phone tip directs the detectives to a website keeping count of the suicides, sometimes listing deaths even before the police know about them. Braiding together this police procedural narrative with comedic skewerings of Japanese popular culture (most notably through the appearances of the fictional pre-teen pop band called Dessert) and some serious misgivings about the loss of interpersonal contact due to developments in technology, Suicide Club is a tonally shifty film that evades giving the viewer much in the way of resolution even as it leaves you with a set of images and sequences you won’t soon be forgetting. Not to be missed!
For the remainder of the quarter, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France, Japan, and the United States each week. Same time, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family, invite your friends.
Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

Elisabeth L. Cameron: "A Perfect Colonial Storm: Atinga and Iconoclasm in Southwestern Nigeria"
2014-05-05 17:00 - 18:30 | Porter College, Room D245
Elisabeth L. Cameron holds the Patricia & Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in the History of Art and Visual Culture. Her research is concentrated primarily in two regions: Zambia, where she has observed, studied, and documented womenʼs visual culture, including initiation rites, art, power and hierarchy, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where she has concentrated on colonial and missionary architecture and its impact on indigenous visual culture. Professor Cameron is the author of several publications including Reclusive Rebels: An Approach to the Sala Mpasu and their Neighbors (1991); Isnʼt S/He a Doll? (1996); The Art of the Lega (2001); and numerous articles and reviews. At present, Professor Cameron is working on a book-length project on the iconoclastic impact of the Atinga movement in Nigeria on the Yoruba during the early 1950s.

Image Caption: In 2006, a woman reflects back on her experience as a member of Atinga in 1950. Photograph by Elisabeth Cameron.

This event is presented by the Arts Division, Film & Digital Media, and History of Art & Visual Culture.

Christopher Krebs: "What Makes Books Dangerous? The Case of Tacitus' Germania"
2014-05-06 16:30 - 19:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Tacitus’ Germania, a brief ethnography of the peoples the Romans called Germani, exerted a profound impact on the European History of ideas. By no fault of its author, it ended up as an ideological cornerstone of the National Socialist regime. This talk will trace the influence of the Germania and reflect more generally on what it is that makes books “dangerous.”
Christopher B. Krebs is associate professor of classics at Stanford university. He has also held appointments at Harvard university, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), and the University of Oxford. His research interests are in ancient historiography, Latin lexicography, and the classical tradition. His most recent monograph is A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’ Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, which won the 2012 Christian Gauss Award. He is currently engaged in studies of Caesar and the intellectual life of the first century BCE. He also enjoys writing for wider audiences to communicate his fascination with the ancient world and its long and lasting reach.
Refreshments at 4:30 and reception to follow the lecture.
Lecture presented by UCSC’s Classical Studies, and the Departments of History and Literature. For more information, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu

LASER: Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous
2014-05-06 18:45 - 21:00 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UCSC’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences invites you to the final LASER of the academic year Tuesday, May 6! Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists, scientists, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations. Please join us in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 for refreshments at 6:45 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by:

Paul Koch, “Conservation Paleobiology: Mining the Past to Plan for the Future”
Norman Locks, “Photographic Social Landscape Narratives by an Abstract Realist”
Elaine Sullivan, “Old Places & New Technologies: Visualizing an Ancient Egyptian Temple in 4D”
Ronaldo V. Wilson, “Art Digital—Ars Poetica”

Paul Koch is Dean of Physical and Biological Sciences and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UCSC. His research focuses on vertebrate paleoecology and evolution, which he places in environmental context through reconstruction of ancient ecosystems and climates. Koch’s work often includes biogeochemical analysis of animal tissues (teeth, bones, fur, skin, etc.) or environmental samples (soil minerals, fossil plants, etc) to study environmental changes over the Cenozoic (the last 65 million years.) In this talk, Koch will discuss how the study of Paleobiology is used in thinking about, and planning for, the environmental future.
Norman Locks is a photographer and Professor of Art at UCSC. He has exhibited his photographic works widely around the United States, Japan, and the Czech Republic and published numerous essays and photographic portfolios. His talk will discuss current and past projects including “Digital Narratives,” an ongoing series of landscape panoramas designed to pose questions about human, social, environmental concerns. In “Digital Narratives”, Locks makes reference to both the forms within art history and to poetic forms to narrate the past, current, and future entanglements between people and landscapes.
Elaine Sullivan is Assistant Professor of History at UCSC. Sullivan is an Egyptologist and a Digital Humanist whose work focuses on applying new technologies to ancient cultural materials. Her talk will discuss the Digital Karnak Project, a multi-phased 3D virtual reality model of the famous ancient Egyptian temple complex of Karnak. Sullivan will show imagery from the model and discuss how geo-temporal exploration of ancient places offers completely new ways to look at archaeological sites.
Ronaldo V. Wilson is a Assistant Professor of Poetry, Fiction and Literature in the Literature Department at UCSC. He is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh, 2008), winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books, 2009), winner of the Thom Gunn Award and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry in 2010. His latest book is Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other (Counterpath Press, 2013). This talk/screening will explore the activities between poetry, art, dance, and visual art, exemplified through Wilson’ mixed-media video series TEAR-E-AVATAR, recently completed during his tenure as a 2014 artist-in-residence through the Center for Art and Thought (CA+T). Wilson will explore the ways that digital technologies (video, audio recordings, movie and music software) complicate and help to render, and ultimately reveal what’s possible as both the poem’s form and its formation.

Lauren Berlant: "On Being in Life Without Wanting the World: On Biopolitics and the Attachment to Life"
2014-05-07 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk is located in a shattered, yet intelligible zone defined by being in life without wanting the world–a state traversing misery and detachment that, the talk claims, is well-known to historically structurally subordinated people (people of color, of non-normative sexuality, proletarianized laborers . . .). Reading with Claudia Rankine (Don’t Let Me Be Lonely), the novel and film of A Single Man (Christopher Isherwood, 1964; Tom Ford, 2009), and Harryette Mullen (Sleeping with the Dictionary (2002), it describes life at the limit of optimism in terms of a dissociative poetics.
Lauren Berlant teaches English at the University of Chicago. Her national sentimentality trilogy — The Anatomy of National Fantasy (1991), The Queen of America Goes to Washington City (1997) and The Female Complaint (2008) — has morphed into a quartet, with Cruel Optimism (2011) addressing precarious publics and the aesthetics of affective adjustment in the contemporary US and Europe. Her interest in affect, aesthetics, and politics is also expressed in the edited volumes Intimacy (2000), Compassion (2004), and On the Case (Critical Inquiry, 2007). Her most recent sexuality books are Desire/Love (2012) and, with Lee Edelman, Sex, or the Unbearable (2014). Her current projects are to do with modes of comic and of recessive affective performance in relation to critical theory, political emotion, and imaginaries of the social.

Lauren Berlant: Sex, or the Unbearable — a faculty-graduate student seminar
2014-05-07 15:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Sex, or the Unbearable (Duke University Press, 2013) is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, two leading theorists of sexuality, politics and culture. In juxtaposing sex and the unbearable they don’t propose that sex is unbearable, but that it unleashes unbearable contradictions, which we nonetheless struggle to bear. Through interpretations of works of cinema, photography, critical theory, and literature, Berlant and Edelman explore what it means to live with negativity, with those divisions that may be irreparable. Together, they consider how such negativity affects politics, theory and intimately felt encounters.
Lauren Berlant is George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Cruel Optimism, The Female Complaint, and The Queen of America Goes to Washington City, all also published by Duke University Press.
Lee Edelman is Fletcher Professor of English Literature at Tufts University. He is the author of L’impossible Homosexuel; No Future, also published by Duke University Press; and Homographesis.
The book is available at the Literary Guillotine, on the DUP web site, as an e-book and for download at https://anonfiles.com/file/2cdfec2994dea16fa6535d23ce016801.
The seminar aspires for people to have read the entire (short!) book but welcomes readers of the introduction, chapter 3 and the afterword. For more information please contact Carla Freccero, freccero@ucsc.edu and Deborah Gould, dbgould@ucsc.edu.
Co-sponsored by Oakes College and the Center for Cultural Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

The Humanities and Changing Conceptions of Work Culminating Conference
2014-05-08 - 2014-05-09 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Making the MA/PhD Work Post Graduation: A Career Workshop for Humanities Graduate Students
May 8
9:00 AM Breakfast and Registration (please pre-register)
10:00 Welcome by David Theo Goldberg, UCHRI
10:15 The Working Life
This two-part conversation with Christine Baker, Director, California Department of Industrial Relations,Ralph Lewin, Director, Cal Humanities, and Alison Mudditt, Director, University of California Press, addresses the evolving nature of work in our contemporary moment and the transformation of the culture and environments of work. The panelists will also reflect upon their own paths from education to careers.
11:15 Coffee Break
11:45 Continuation of The Working Life…
12:45 PM Lunch
1:45 Front Liners Panel: Demystifying the HR Screen
Ever wonder what happens to your resume after you hit SEND? WestEd Human Resources recruiting managers along with another industry HR department (TBA) provide a look behind the HR curtain at who reads your resume and what they’re looking for.
3:00 The Art of the Informational Interview
What is an informational interview? And why is it important? What do you do in it, and who should you contact for one? Dr. Debra Behrens, PhD Career Counselor, UC Berkeley, presents the art of the informational interview and answers any questions you may have about the process and experience.
3:30 Coffee Break
4:00 Resume Workshop with The Resume Studio
This interactive, hands-on workshop, geared towards Humanities graduate students, will be preceded by an online workshop to facilitate the creation of a resume that can be workshopped at the conference. Be prepared to walk away with a resume that looks quite different from your CV.
6:30 Hosted Dinner
May 9
Culminating Conference–More Details Coming Soon!
8:30 Breakfast and Registration
9:00 Welcome and Introductions, Carolyn de la Pena, UC Davis, and David Theo Goldberg, UCHRI
9:30 Session I: Precarious Labor
11:00 Break
11:15 Session 2: University + Public + Labor
1:00 Lunch
1:45 Session 3: The Culture of Labor/Cultural Labor
3:30 Break
3:45 Session 4: The Future of Work and the Humanities
5:30 Reception
Conference grants will be awarded to up to three graduate students from each UC campus (transportation and lodging, if required, covered by UCHN). The deadline for applying for a conference grant is April 7, 2014. Visit humanitiesandwork.org for more information and to register for the workshop.

Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Conference
2014-05-08 - 2014-05-10 | UC Santa Cruz
Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together? Through noticing, describing, and imagining, we renuew conversation about life on earth.
Conference schedule: Thursday, May 8, 2014, 7-9 pm
Ursula K. Le Guin
Discussants: James Clifford and Donna Haraway
Tickets no longer available for The Rio Theater. However, there are still two options for attending: 1) A few seats will be available at The Rio Theater on a first-come, first-serve basis. There will be a line outside the theater on the evening of the event for these last-minute seats. 2) The event with be live-casted to the Humanities Lecture Hall (Room 206), and you are welcome to view it there (as seating permits).
Friday, May 9, 2014
College 9/10 Multipurpose Room UCSC campus
No registration, all welcome
9:00am Introduction
Anna Tsing
9:20-10:50am Inhabiting Multispecies Bodies
Donna Haraway (speculative fabulation) and Margaret McFall-Ngai (microbes)
Discussant: Jenny Reardon (Sociology)
11:00am-12:30pm On Damaged Landscapes
Kate Brown (plutonium) and  Deborah Bird Rose (extinction)
Discussants: Eric Porter (History), William Cronon (History)
1:45-3:15pm Caring for Country/Rewilding
Jens-Christian Svenning (future megafaunas) and Jessica Weir (indigenous ecologies)
Discussants: Ingrid Parker (Biology), Chris Connery (Literature)
3:45-5:45pm Memory, History, Place
William Cronon (American landscapes)
Discussants: Andrew Mathews (Anthropology), Jens-Christian Svenning (Biology)
Saturday, May 10, 2014
College 9/10 Multipurpose Room, UCSC campus
No registration, all welcome
9:30-11:00am Arts of Noticing
Deborah Gordon (ants) and Anne Pringle (lichens)
Discussants: Donna Haraway (Science Studies), Anna Tsing (Anthropology)
11:15am-12:45pm Cross-Species Histories
Carla Freccero (wolf/men) and Marianne Lien (homeless salmon)
Discussants: Thomas Wentzer (Philosophy), Maya Peterson (History)
1:45-2:45pm Gardens and Graves
Lesley Stern (US-Mexico borderlands)
3:00-5:00pm Roundtable Nils Bubandt (anthropology), Margaret Fitzsimmons (environ- mental studies), Peter Funch (zoology), Nora Bateson (film)
For more information, visit the conference website.

Living Writers Series: Ursula Le Guin (live at the Rio Theater with live feed to Hum Hall) in concert with conference: Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (hosted by Anna Tsing)
2014-05-08 19:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Spring 2014 UCSC Creative Writing Living Writers lineup:
Ursula LeGuin is the author of over thirty novels, children’s books, and short story, poetry and essay collections, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. LeGuin’s work includes the Earthsea and Hainish Cycle novels and short fiction; The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories;Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems; and The Catwings Collection.
Note: this event will begin at 7:00 p.m., and will be a simulcast of a live talk.
The spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series, Dislocations and the Imagined, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public.
More info and full conference agenda at: anthropo.ihr.ucsc.edu

Ursula K. le Guin
2014-05-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Rio Theater, 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062, United States
Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
Video
Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the most-loved writers of our time. Her work includes science fiction, novels, essays, and children’s books.
Donna Haraway the author of When Species Meet.
James Clifford is the author of Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century.
Tickets Required • Sign up free at www.anthropocene.brownpapertickets.com
More info and full conference agenda at: anthropo.ihr.ucsc.edu

10th Annual Graduate Research Symposium
2014-05-09 13:30 - 16:30 | McHenry Library, UCSC
Join us at 1:30 pm on Friday, May 9th, for the 10th Annual Graduate Research Symposium. This event offers graduate students an opportunity to share their research with faculty, staff, friends, colleagues and the local community in the form of poster, oral, live or multimedia presentations.
This year’s event will take place in the “Information Commons South” area on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library. The Symposium will feature up to 30 oral and live presentations, 64 poster presentations and 10 media presentations. The Awards Reception begins at 3:30, with refreshments being provided by the Global Village Café.
For more information, please visit the Graduate Division website: http://graddiv.ucsc.edu/current-students/student-achievements/graduate-research-symposium.html

Jean Fox Tree: "Spontaneous Communication"
2014-05-09 16:00 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Spontaneous communication, both verbal and written, includes a wide variety of phenomena generally not found in prepared communication. These include restarted ideas, ums and uhs, words like you know and like, and prosodic phenomena such as uptalk. Spontaneous communication also includes other behaviors whose productions might vary across spontaneous and rehearsed settings, such as facial expressions, gestures, laughter, backchannels, and quotation devices. In this talk, I will present some of the research findings coming out of my lab that provide information about why these phenomena are produced and how they are used.
Jean Fox Tree is Professor of Psychology at UC Santa Cruz.

Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: The House of the Devil
2014-05-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
During the 1980s, over 70% of American adults believed in the existence of abusive satanic cults.
A typically low key and intelligent horror film from Ti West, perhaps the most critically lauded of America’s rising generation of horror movie auteurs, The House of the Devil is a moody and evocative spin on the satanic cult sub-genre. In an attempt to raise money for a deposit on an apartment, Samantha (Jocelin Donahue) agrees to babysit for the Ulmans (Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov) on the night of a total lunar eclipse. After admitting that in fact they do not have a child but rather a grandmother who needs tending to, the Ulmans insist that the old woman not be disturbed and that Samantha really ought to order a pizza for dinner on their dime. True to form for West, what ought to scare you here might not be the Satanists but the pizza. Not to be missed!
For the remainder of the quarter, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France, Japan, and the United States each week. Same time, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family, invite your friends.
Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

Carl Mark Deppe Lecture: Harry Berger Jr.: "Dying Angry: The Wrath of Socrates in Plato's Dialogue, Phaedo"
2014-05-12 17:00 - 18:30 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Plato wrote four dialogues dramatizing the last days and death of Socrates: Euthyphro, The Apology, Crito, and Phaedo. “Dyng Angry” will focus on Socrates’s behavior and performance —and weirdness—in Phaedo.
Harry Berger Jr. came to Cowell College and UCSC from Yale in 1965 when our campus opened. He was the first appointment in English Literature, and he was largely responsible for hiring the original cadre of English literature faculty. Since that time he’s taught courses ranging from classics to modern poetry for Cowell College, the Literature Department, and History of Consciousness. He retired in 1994 but has taught a lot since then and in general keeps himself too busy to stay out of trouble.
In 2003 he received a Lifetime Award from the International Spenser Society.The proceedings of a 2006 conference in his honor were published with revisions and additions in a volume of essays: A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger, Jr., and the Arts of Interpretation, ed. David Miller and Nina Levine (New York: Fordham University Press, 2009). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006, and in 2010 he received the Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award from the University of California.
Berger has published 13 books and over 100 essays on a wide variety of topics in classics, art history, Renaissance culture, and modern poetry. Many of these deal with Plato, Shakespeare, Spenser, Vermeer, Rembrandt, and theories of literature and art. Three new books are forthcoming from Fordham University Press:
Simonides in Couch City: Studies in Plato’s Republic and Protagoras, 2014.
Harrying: Skills of Offense in Shakespeare’s Henriad, 2014.
The Perils of Uglytown: Studies in Structural Misanthropology from Plato to Rembrandt. 2014.

Rebecca Hester: "Bodies as=of knowledge: The ethics and politics of biometrics in health care"
2014-05-13 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
What are the proposed uses of biometrics in health care and the ethics and politics of body data in the digital age? As security and surveillance become the order of the day, biometric technologies have become a ubiquitous and naturalized part of most aspects of everyday life. Operating from the premise that “bodies don’t lie,” biometrics promises increased safety, security, accuracy, and reliability in identity recognition and verification. These promises are especially appealing in the health care industry where the verification of patient and provider identities is a necessary security feature for protecting patient data. Despite their promises, however, the fact that biometrics facilitates the coding, analysis, and judgment of embodied information in new, more complex, and more far-reaching ways than were previously possible in health care opens up a host of ethical and political issues for patients, providers, and populations. Long-standing virtues in medicine such as privacy, confidentiality, justice and beneficence are challenged as numerous and often unknown institutions and individuals beyond the clinic can and will have access to this embodied information for security, surveillance, and marketing purposes.
Rebecca J. Hester is assistant professor of social medicine in the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch. She holds a Ph.D. in Politics with an emphasis in Latin American and Latino Studies from UCSC. Her research focuses on the politics of the body as they are manifested at and through the intersections of immigration, health, and security. She is co-author, with Ronnie Lipschutz, of “We are the Borg! Human Assimilation into Cellular Society,” pp. 366-407, in: M.G. Michael and Katina Michael (eds.), Uberveillance and the Social Implications of Microchip Implants: Emerging Technologies (Hershey, Penna.: IGI Global, 2014).

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

Martin Holbraad: "How Myths Make Men in Afro-Cuban Divination"
2014-05-14 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Martin Holbraad
Professor Social Anthropology, University College London and Co-Director of Cosmology, Religion, Ontology and Culture Research Group (CROC)
Martin Holbraad’s main field research is in Cuba, where he focuses on Afro-Cuban religions and revolutionary politics. Author of Truth in Motion: the Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination (Chicago, 2012). Holbraad currently directs a major comparative project on the anthropology of revolutions.

Celebrating Gloria Anzaldúa's Legacy: 10th Anniversary of Passing
2014-05-14 18:30 - 20:30 | Namaste Lounge – College 9, Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Gloria Anzaldúa’s passing. In honor of the legacy left by Gloria Anzaldúa, The Chicano Latino Resource Center will be hosting a celebration of her life through a formal program with speakers, an art exhibit from local artists, an altar, refreshments, and an open mic.
Gloria Anzaldúa was a Chicana-tejana-lesbiana-feminist poet, theorist, and fiction writer from South Texas. In addition to authoring Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, she was the editor of the critical anthology Making Face/Making Soul: Haciendo Caras and co-editor of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, winner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award.
She passed away in 2004 and was honored around the world for shedding visionary light on the Chicana experience by receiving the National Association For Chicano Studies Award in 2005. Gloria was also posthumously awarded her doctoral degree in literature from the University of California Santa Cruz. A number of scholarships and book awards are awarded in her name every year.
El Centro is committed to continuing her vision of the New Mestiza Consciousness. The borderlands of higher education are real and thus making a program to remember and celebrate all of the gifts she left us is necessary and important.
We look forward to having you and celebrating together the legacy of Gloria Anzaldúa.
Facebook Event Page: www.facebook.com/events/700386210007910/

The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XIV: Theater Pieces in Five Languages
2014-05-15 - 2014-05-18 | Stevenson Event Center
Cowell College, Stevenson College & Languages and Applied Linguistics present:
The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XIV
Theater Pieces in Five Languages with English Subtitles
Chinese
Three Pots of Tea
by Ting-Ting Wu & Students
Directed by Ting-Ting Wu
French
Scenes from Marius and Fanny
by Marcel Pagnol
Directed by Miriam Ellis
Hebrew
Songs of Israel
Directed by Gali Rosen & Students
Russian
Cheburashka and Crocodile Ghena
by Edward Uspensky
Directed by Natalya Samokhina & Students
Spanish
Something Very Serious is Going to Happen in this Town
by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
Directed by Marta Navarro

Meaghan Morris, "In Praise of Parochial Blockbusters" (seminar)
2014-05-15 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Noted film and cultural studies critic Meaghan Morris will give a seminar on the theme of “parochial blockbusters”. The seminar will center on a discussion of her essay, “Transnational Glamour, National Allure: Community, Change and Cliché in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia”, which is available for downloading at http://ihr.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Morris-Transnational-Glamour-final.pdf, and which should be read before the seminar. Professor Morris will also discuss examples of other films of this type from elsewhere in the world. For those interested, there will be a screening of Australia on Tuesday night, May 13, at 7:30 PM in Humanities 620 (viewing the film is not a prerequisite for the seminar).
Meaghan Morris is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, and Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She works on history in popular culture, especially on popular thinking about social and historical change. Her books include Too Soon, Too Late: History in Popular Culture (1998); Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema (co-ed. 2005); Identity Anecdotes: Translation and Media Culture (2006) and Creativity and Academic Activism: Instituting Cultural Studies (co-ed. 2012). A former Chair of the international Association for Cultural Studies, Professor Morris is currently Chair of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society.

This event is sponsored by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster with generous support from the Literature Department.

Mikkel Johansen: Material and Social Conditions for the Development of Mathematics
2014-05-15 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Mathematical knowledge has traditionally been taken to be absolutely objective, i.e. completely independent of contingent facts about the agents who discover the results. Today, this absolutistic view of mathematics has been challenged by a number of different theories. Most noticeably, social constructivists such as David Bloor and Donald MacKenzie have stress the influence social factors have had on the development of mathematics, and Bloor simply describes mathematics as a social institution. Other theorists such as Rafael Núñez and George Lakoff have claimed mathematics to be embodied and fundamentally shaped by sensory-motor experience and certain cognitive strategies. In my talk I will report from a qualitative study of the practice of working mathematicians. The study shows that the production of mathematical knowledge is clearly conditioned both by social factors and by our experience of and ability to actively use the material world. Thus, the study confirms some of the basic ideas of the two approaches mentioned above. However, the study also gives reason to questions the reductionism inherent in both the social constructivistic and the embodiment approach. Mathematics cannot be reduced either to the social or to sensory-motor experience.
ADVANCE READING: Whats in a diagram?
Mikkel Willum Johansen is an assistant professor at the faculty of science, University of Copenhagen. He has a PhD in the philosophy of the mathematical sciences and has worked extensively with mathematical cognition and with the different version of naturalism in the philosophy of mathematics. In 2014 he published the book Invitation til matematikkens videnskabsteori (Eng: Invitation to the philosophy of the mathematical sciences).
Please click here for more information

Living Writers Series: Mark Axelrod
2014-05-15 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Mark Axelrod is the author of four novels: Capital Castles; Cloud Castles; Cardboard Castles; and Bombay California; a novel in three books, The Posthumous Memoirs of Blase Kubash; short story collections Dante’s Foil & Other Sporting Tales, The Apotheosis of Aaron, and Borges’ Travel, Hemingway’s Garage; two books on screenwriting, Aspects of the Screenplay and Character & Conflict: Cornerstones of Screenwriting; and a book on adaptation, I Read It At The Movies.
The spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series, Dislocations and the Imagined, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public.

Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: Pulse
2014-05-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
Pulse (2001)
Would you like to meet a ghost?
About as bleak a depiction of apocalypse as you’re ever likely to come across, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Pulse is a J-Horror film in which short episodic vignettes slowly disclose a world where ghosts outnumber people and people have been reduced to black ashy stains on the wall. In the midst of dealing with the emotional fallout of their friend’s suicide, a group of young people start to notice that their computers are accessing the internet on their own and loading websites that ask them if they would like to meet a ghost. As we cycle through a shifting set of characters faced with these phenomena, it becomes clear that direct contact with the blurry spectral beings results in life-ending melancholy and forlornness, and the only escape from this dire outcome seems to be isolating yourself in your barricaded house indefinitely. The bleak cinematography, empty cityscapes, and knife-like integration of cacophony and silence in the sound design make this an understated and creepily effective counterpoint to the more widely known Ringu (1998). A remarkably atmospheric expression of technological angst and the fear of being alone, Pulse is not to be missed!
For the remainder of the quarter, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France, Japan, and the United States each week. Same time, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family, invite your friends.
Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

Lora Bartlett: "Migrant Teachers: How American Schools Import Labor"
2014-05-19 12:00 - 14:00 | College 8, Room 301, College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Migrant Teachers investigates an overlooked trend in U.S. public schools today: the growing dependence on overseas trained teachers, as federal mandates require K-12 schools to employ qualified teachers or risk funding cuts. A narrowly technocratic view of teachers as subject specialists has led districts to look abroad, Lora Bartlett argues, resulting in transient teaching professionals with little opportunity to connect meaningfully with students.
Highly recruited by inner-city school districts that struggle to retain educators, approximately 90,000 teachers from the Philippines, India and other countries came to the United States between 2002 and 2008. From administrators’ perspective, these instructors are excellent employees—well educated and able to teach shortage subjects like math, science and special education. Because they depend on the school system for their visas, they are cooperative with authority. But all of this comes at a price. As Bartlett shows, American schools are failing to reap the possible benefits of the global labor market. Framing teachers as stopgap, low status workers, schools may cultivate a high turnover, low investment workforce that undermines the conditions needed for good teaching and learning. Bartlett calls on schools to provide better support to both overseas-trained teachers and their American counterparts.
Lora Bartlett is an Associate Professor in the Education Department at UC Santa Cruz and author of Migrant Teachers: How American Schools Import Labor (Harvard Press). An interview with Lora appeared in Education Week last month.

Yiqun Zhou: “Helen and the Chinese Femmes Fatales”
2014-05-19 16:30 - 19:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Helen, the Spartan queen whose abduction by Paris the prince of Troy ignited the ten-year-long Trojan War, may be regarded as the femme fatale par excellence. The prominence of Helen’s images in the Greek tradition is as notable as their complexity and ambiguity. Alongside commonplace condemnations of Helen as the cause of a devastating war, there are also enduring efforts to exonerate, to redeem, and even to exalt her act. Ancient China had its own lore of femmes fatales. The fall of each of the three earliest Chinese dynasties is blamed on a woman, the evil consort of the last monarch. The judgment passed on the three women in the sources is invariably negative, and their stories are routinely invoked as cautionary lessons for later rulers and noble houses about the potential dangers of female beauty. Whereas the indeterminacy of Helen’s images perpetuated over time and became ever more elusive with the proliferation of representations, the portrayals of the three classical Chinese femmes fatales conformed to one broad pattern that was only clarified and reinforced with the multiplication of texts. In this talk, I shall illustrate the contrast just laid out and attempt to explain how it came into being, thereby illuminating some important differences between the conceptions of beauty and the contexts and functions of literary and historical writings in the two ancient societies.
Yiqun Zhou is Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (and, by courtesy, of Classics) at Stanford University. Her research interests include comparative studies of China and Greece as well as Chinese and comparative women’s history, early Chinese literature and history, and Chinese and English fiction (1600-1900). Her recent publications include Festivals, Feasts, and Gender Relations in Ancient China and Greece (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010) and “Spatial Metaphors and Women’s Religious Activities in Ancient China and Greece,” in Shubha Pathak, ed. Figuring Religions: Comparing Ideas, Images, and Activities (Albany: SUNY Press, 2013).
Refreshments at 4:30pm with reception to follow lecture.
Free parking for lecture in the lower Cowell-Stevenson parking lot.

Sex and the Archive
2014-05-20 - 2014-05-21 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Workshop on Sex and the Archive
May 20-21, 2014 • UC Santa Cruz
Open to graduate students at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and UC Santa Cruz
Application deadline: Wednesday April 23, 2014
This workshop is part of a UCHRI Humanities Studio on Regulating Sex/Religion, directed by Saba Mahmood (UC Berkeley) and Mayanthi Fernando (UC Santa Cruz), that examines how sex and religion are mobilized together in the management of minoritized communities in Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia. Rather than take for granted the secular narrative of sexual and religious life as private, we analyze how secular power entails the twinned regulation of religion and sexuality, and how the public/private boundary that ostensibly underpins secularity and guarantees both religious freedom and sexual freedom hinges on the management by the secular state of religious and sexual communities.
A major focus of the Studio, and of this workshop in particular, concerns how subjects are produced as members of religious and/or sexual “communities” – Copts and Muslims in Egypt, Maronites, Shi‘a, and Sunni “sects” in Lebanon, Devadasis in India, Muslim “natives” in French Algeria – through various technologies of colonial rule, such as the census and personal status legal codes. The Studio thus excavates the colonial archive, inquiring into the conditions of production of religious/sexual difference in Egypt, Lebanon, India, Britain, France, and Algeria in order better understand the relationship between past and present legal, political, and discursive arrangements of religious and/as sexual difference.
The workshop includes one day of graduate seminars on Tuesday, May 20th led by faculty participants on subjects related to their current research and within the broad rubric of sex and the archive. Graduate students will be expected to have read the relevant texts assigned for each seminar by the faculty leaders and to join in discussion alongside faculty participants. Seminar leaders and faculty participants include: Anjali Arondekar (UC Santa Cruz), Michael Allan (University of Oregon), Gina Dent (UC Santa Cruz), Mayanthi Fernando (UC Santa Cruz), Suad Joseph (UC Davis), Saba Mahmood (UC Berkeley), Marc Matera (UC Santa Cruz), Maya Mikdashi (NYU/Jadaliyya), and Judith Surkis (Rutgers University).
The graduate seminars are open to students at UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, and UC Davis. Student participants from UC Berkeley and UC Davis will have a hotel room provided for them for the nights of Monday May 19th and Tuesday May 20th. The graduate seminars begin at 9am on Tuesday May 20th. On Wednesday May 21, faculty participants will meet in a closed-door session to discuss work-in-progress.
Preliminary Schedule
Tuesday May 20th – Graduate Seminars 9AM-5PM
9:00AM Opening Remarks and Introductions
9:30-11:00 Seminar 1 (Faculty leader: Saba Mahmood; topic TBA)
11:15-12:45 Seminar 2 (Faculty leaders: Anjali Arondekar & Judith Surkis; topic TBA)
12:45-1:45 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Seminar 3 (Faculty leaders: Mayanthi Fernando & Marc Matera; topic TBA)
3:45-5:00PM General discussion
5:15-6:45PM Reception
Wednesday May 21st – Closed Workshops 9AM-5PM
How to apply
Graduate students wishing to participate should send a CV and a brief statement (maximum 1 page) regarding their current or prospective dissertation project and/or research interests to ihr@ucsc.edu by Wednesday April 23, 2014. Contact Mayanthi Fernando (mfernan3@ucsc.edu) with any questions.

Despina Kakoudaki: "Robots and Slaves: History, Allegory, and the Structural Logic of the Robot Story"
2014-05-21 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Despina Kakoudaki’s work focuses on literature, film, visual and cultural studies, and the history of technology. Her new book, titled Anatomy of a Robot: Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People, traces our fascination with mechanical and constructed people, such as robots, cyborgs, androids and automata.
Despina Kakoudaki is Associate Professor at American University, in Washington, DC.
Cosponsored by the Graduate Student Association, Literature Department, Computer Science Department, Film & Digital Media, and Anthropology Department.

Prasenjit Duara: "Circulatory and Competitive Histories: Temporal Foundations for Cosmopolitanism
2014-05-21 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Stories – narratives of the past – are necessary in all collectivities that seek to constitute and maintain themselves. In modern times, competitive states have sought to mobilize all resources and bio-power in their territory by adopting singular, linear histories of the state, nation and civilization. But, ironically, just as these singular stories were becoming dominant, the world was globalizing more actively than ever. The stories themselves have come to be shaped by global forces.
While the historical enterprise of collective formation – in which distinctive stories are developed within the framework of single states – remains important for the building of local, national or regional communities, these enterprises can no longer deny the cosmopolitan circulations that condition them. This is especially so now that planetary sustainability is at stake. And indeed, the most significant Eurasian historical developments have tended to be circulatory and shared. The early modern era is a particularly fruitful period to consider, because the distinction between the local and the universal was less pronounced; state territoriality and culture were not conflated. Can we recapture those kinds of stories? How might social and political theory look if our histories were not linear, exclusive accounts of nations and civilizations, but rather dispersed, cross-referenced, mutually shaping and shared histories?
Prasenjit Duara is Raffles Professor of Humanities and Director of Asia Research Institute and of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore, where he has taught since 2008. Prior to that, he was professor and chairman of the History Department at the University of Chicago. Among his books are Rescuing History from the Nation (1995), Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern (2003), and Culture, Power and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942 (1988), which won the Fairbank Prize of the AHA and the Levenson Prize of the AAS. His most recent work is The Global and the Regional in China’s Nation-Formation (Routledge, 2009). His work has been widely translated into Chinese, Japanese and Korean. He will speak from forthcoming book The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Cambridge, 2014).
Sponsored by the Department of History and the East Asian Studies Program.

Graduate Seminar with Despina Kakoudaki
2014-05-21 16:30 - 18:00 | Graduate Student Commons
All graduate students are welcome but an RSVP is required by May 19th. Contact ihr@ucsc.edu to RSVP and request seminar readings.
Despina Kakoudaki’s work focuses on literature, film, visual and cultural studies, and the history of technology. Her forthcoming book, Anatomy of a Robot: Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People, traces our fascination with mechanical and constructed people, such as robots, cyborgs, androids and automata.
Despina Kakoudaki is Associate Professor of Literature at American University.
Cosponsored by the Graduate Student Association, Literature Department, Computer Science Department, Film & Digital Media, and Anthropology Department.

2014 Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
2014-05-22 09:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Fifteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
9:00-9:10 AM – Opening Remarks
Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Director, Literature Undergraduate Program
9:10-10:15 AM – Panel One: Borderlands: Creative Writers Read
Moderator, Micah Perks
James Williams: Impertinent Youth
Marine Ashnalikyan: “In the Living Room” and other Poems
Narine Ashnalikyan: “After Dinner” and other Poems
Stephen Richter: A Southern Tradition (or Triple Consciousness)
10:30-11:30 AM – Panel Two: Literature and Metamorphoses
Moderator: Sean Keilen
Jessica Imber: History, Fiction and a Little Something In Between: Searching for the Migrant Voice through the Labyrinth of Narrative
Andrew Harmatz: “Where Should This Music Be? I’ Th’ Air or Th’ Earth?”: Ovid’s Orpheus and Poetry as a Harmony of Authorial Voices
Abbie Jennings: The Chink in the Wall: A Peek at Ovid Through Shakespeare
11:45-12:45 PM – Panel Three: Doubling and Dialectics
Moderator: A. Hunter Bivens
Sophie Cox: Rose-White Boyhood: Floral Language as Veiled Homosexuality in The Picture of Dorian Gray
Josephe David Watkins: And Equally We May Find the Opposite
Melissa Ott: Torches of Progress and Enlightenment: Imperialist Language in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and “To the Person Sitting in Darkness”
12:45-1:30 PM – Lunch Buffet
1:30-2:30 PM – Panel Four: History and Memory
Moderator: Vilashini Cooppan
Ian L. Silva: Herodotus and his ‘Setting forth’
Mariah Padilla: The Imagination and Postmemory: The Postgeneration’s Working-through of Trauma
Matthew Strebe: The Problem of Memory in Literary Representations of the Holocaust
2:45-3:45 PM – The Pen, The Book, and The Robot
Moderator: Kirsten Silva Gruesz
Taylor Backman: “My Pen”: Oroonoko and the Rise of Female and Subjugated Authors
C. Austin Knudson: Diego Herva’s Journey To Hell: Relationships Between Textual Materiality and Modern Authorship in The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
James Vitiello: RoboCop: Delta City is Inevitable
3:45-4:00 PM – Closing Remarks
Carla Freccero, Chair, Literature Department

Ken Waltzer Seminar: A Holocaust Micro-History
2014-05-22 12:00 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Professor Kenneth Waltzer is currently director of the Jewish studies program at Michigan State University. His interests cover American social and political history, including urban, labor, and minority history, immigration and social relations in the United States and elsewhere, and modern Jewish history, including the study of anti-Semitism and of the Holocaust. His major current project is a book on The Rescue of Children and Youths at Buchenwald. His research on the Buchenwald concentration camp has focused on the rescue of children and youths inside the camp and has included some notable findings.
Moving Together, Moving Alone: The Story of Boys on a Transport from Auschwitz to Buchenwald
On January 17, 1945, a large group of about ten thousand predominantly Jewish prisoners were evacuated from Auschwitz-Buna (Monowitz) and Birkenau and taken on a death march to the west. A few days later, approximately four thousand survivors of this ordeal reached Gleiwitz, a rail head and the site of several Nazi satellite camps, where the Nazis loaded them onto open coal cars and transported them to Buchenwald, a huge concentration camp near Weimar in Thuringia. The weather was so cold that some prisoners sat on frozen dead bodies as benches. According to Nazi records, the transport arrived on January 26, 1945, with 3,784 prisoners. Of this number, 304 youths, 16 years old or under, comprised about 8% of the human cargo. One of them, Lazar (Eliezer) Wiesel, later wrote about the ordeal in a remarkable memoir, Night, which is now known all over the world.
These were mostly Slovak-, Hungarian-, and Rumanian-Jewish boys who had survived terrible family losses on entering Birkenau in late May 1944 and were in Buna under atrocious conditions. Then, eight months later they were in Buchenwald, where many were relocated to the children’s barrack, Kinderblock 66. In this group, there were surprisingly numerous social clusters – boys with their fathers like Elie Wiesel, boys with other boys, especially brothers or cousins, and boys with relatives or friends often from the same towns. Many were acting out deep commitments, they say in their testimonies, to stay together and help one another under all pressures. But others were alone.
A large literature stresses that life in the Nazi camps approximated a war of all against all: social relations among prisoners were egoistic and pathogenic. This seminar seeks to test this hypothesis. Using the techniques of micro-history, it asks in what ways these youths at Buna and Buchenwald were moving together and also moving alone during their ordeal. It shows how by focusing in a detailed way on a distinctive group within prisoner society, we can study the remarkable and diverse forms of solidarity that continued to co-exist in prisoner society alongside separateness and aloneness among these tormented young people. In this case, we can also discover the fates of nearly all boys on the transport – those like Wiesel who were in block 66, those who were not, and those who were sent out of Buchenwald to the killing satellites.
Ken Waltzer will also be at the film screening of Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald shown at UCSC on May 22 @ 6pm in College 8, Room 240.
These events are free and open to the public.
Sponsored by: UCSC Center for Jewish Studies and Neufeld-Levin Endowed Chair in Holocaust Studies.

Ken Waltzer and Film Screening: Kinderblock 66
2014-05-22 18:00 - 20:00 | College 8, Room 240, College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald. Kinderblock 66 is the story of four men who, as young boys, were imprisoned by the Nazis in the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp and who, sixty-five years later, return to commemorate the sixty-fifth anniversary of their liberation. The film tells the story of the effort undertaken by the camp’s Communist-led underground to protect ad save Jewish children who were arriving in Buchenwald toward the end of the Holocaust. Kinderblock 66 also tells the story of Antonin Kalina, the head of the block who was personally responsible for saving 904 boys in Buchenwald.
The Film Screening of Kinderblock 66 will be shown at UCSC on May 22 @ 6pm in College 8, Room 240.
Professor Kenneth Waltzer is currently director of the Jewish studies program at Michigan State University. His interests cover American social and political history, including urban, labor, and minority history, immigration and social relations in the United States and elsewhere, and modern Jewish history, including the study of anti-Semitism and of the Holocaust. His major current project is a book on The Rescue of Children and Youths at Buchenwald. His research on the Buchenwald concentration camp has focused on the rescue of children and youths inside the camp and has included some notable findings.
Seminar with Ken Waltzer held earlier in the day: A Holocaust Micro-History
May 22 @ 12pm in Humanities 1, Room 210.
These events are free and open to the public.
Sponsored by: UCSC Center for Jewish Studies and Neufeld-Levin Endowed Chair in Holocaust Studies.

"Working w/ Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale" Conference
2014-05-23 - 2014-05-24 | UC Santa Cruz
In celebration of Shakespeare’s 450th birthday, Working w/ Shakespeare fosters a dialogue between three professions that are especially dedicated to understanding his work: literary critics, theater designers, and professional actors. What makes literary criticism, design, and performance different as forms of interpretation? How might their distinctive practical techniques and theoretical concerns enrich and transform each other? These questions are the framework for the conference’s three workshops, each of which will focus on The Winter’s Tale.

Mike Ryan is an actor and the Co-Artistic Director of Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Acting with Shakespeare is an interactive workshop that explores how actors move from the page to the stage; how verse, rhetoric and complex imagery are made more intelligible to the ear; and how to pull useful clues from Shakespeare’s text that translate the spoken word into action. As one of Shakespeare’s final works, The Winter’s Tale combines bold experimentation with verse form with the theatrical cunning of a producer at the peak of his game.

Kate Edmunds, Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz, has designed scenery for over thirty years, from New York to California, to great acclaim. In Designing with Shakespeare, participants will move from the written to the spoken word, and then from words to the visual images that reflect their own thoughts, developing designs for The Winter’s Tale that communicate their own insights about the play. Through design, we will try to “see what we mean” when we work with Shakespeare.

Sean Keilen teaches Shakespeare in the Literature Department at UC Santa Cruz. Writing with Shakespeare takes The Winter’s Tale as the starting point for a dialogue about literary criticism’s long-standing investment in the hermeneutics of suspicion and the prospect of grounding interpretation, instead, in aesthetic experience. Suppose that we approach Shakespeare’s play not only as an object for analysis but also as a model for thinking and writing about art. What, then, could our criticism become?

Friday, May 23
Location: Digital Arts Research Center, Room 108 (Map – Park in lot #126)
9:00-9:30 AM – Welcome and Introductions
9:30 AM -12:00 PM – Workshop I: Acting with Shakespeare
12:00-1:00 PM – Lunch @ DARC 3rd floor balcony
Location: Theater Arts, Second Stage (Map – Park in lot #126)
1:00-3:30 PM – Workshop II: Designing with Shakespeare
Saturday, May 24
Location: Humanities Building 1, Room 210 (Map – Park in lot #109)
9:30 AM – 12:00 PM – Workshop III: Writing with Shakespeare
12:00-12:30 PM – Closing Lunch Reception

Working w/ Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale is presented by Shakespeare’s Disciplines, a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research, with generous support from the Dean of Arts, the Seigfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Studies Endowment and the Department of Literature, and w/Shakespeare, a Multicampus Research Group of the University of California Humanities Network.

Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: You're Next
2014-05-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
You never want to do anything interesting anymore.
If you’ve ever found yourself wondering what a mumblecore slasher film might be like, then look no further than You’re Next. Directed by Adam wingard (who also helmed 2010’s elliptically grim A Horrible Way to Die and this year’s John-Carpenter-meets-The-Terminator homage The Guest) and featuring a number of prominent figures from the mumblecore scene (most notably Amy Seimetz and Joe Swanberg), the film is a wild recasting of the slasher film’s “Final Girl” as a survivalist killing machine let loose amidst murderous familial dysfunction in a Home Alone-like scenario. Not to be missed!
For the remainder of the quarter, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France, Japan, and the United States each week. Same time, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family, invite your friends.
Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

Gopal Balakrishan: "Breakthroughs of the Young Marx"
2014-05-28 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Gopal Balakrishan
Professor, History of Consciousness, UCSC
Offering an intellectual history of the phases of Marx’s thought from his dissertation on Greek philosophy to The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Gopal Balakrishnan seeks to explain why the emergent syntheses of this early Marx broke down in the aftermath of the failures of the revolutions of 1848.

Spring Awards & Humanities Undergraduate Research Award Presentations
2014-05-29 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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You are cordially invited to Spring Awards 2014 on Thursday, May 29, 2014. This annual “Celebrating Humanities” event is an important opportunity to acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition, awards, and distinctions over the course of this past year.
The Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) support and encourage undergraduate research. In 1996, the Humanities Division began awarding students undertaking truly innovating research projects. The projects must involve research within or including any of the humanities disciplines, and the research must be performed during the current academic year.
Highlights include:
Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award in Humanities
Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards
Schedule:
4:00-5:00PM “Celebrating Humanities” Spring Awards (Humanities 1, Room 210)
4:00PM Opening Remarks by Dean Ladusaw
4:15PM Dizikes Award
5:00-6:00PM HUGRA Poster Presentations and Reception (Humanities Courtyard)
Refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public.

Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: One Missed Call
2014-06-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
Helmed by the wildly prolific Takashi Miike, whose other notable horror credits include Audition (1999), Visitor Q (2001), Gozu (2003), and Imprint (2006), One Missed Call takes the anxieties surrounding the obsolescence of video tape technology that were so gloomily evoked in Ringu (1998) and shifts them onto the rise of cellular phone communication and the exploitative potentials of reality television. Yumi Nakamura (Kô Shibasaki) tries to find out who or what is behind the death of her friend, Yoko (Anna Nagata). Two days before her death, Yoko receives a voice message from herself dated two days in the future, and in this message Yoko and Yumi can hear Yoko screaming. Yumi’s search for answers becomes increasingly urgent as she too receives a voice message from herself with the date of her future death. Followed by two sequels, a short-lived Japanese TV series, and an American remake, One Missed Call is not to be missed!
For the remainder of the quarter, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France, Japan, and the United States each week. Same time, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family, invite your friends.
Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
2014-06-03 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Feminist Studies Department is proud to announce…
Queen for a Day
Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
A Conversation & Book Party
for Marcia Ochoa
with Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal & B. Ruby Rich
Tuesday, June 3
About the Book
Queen for a Day is a queer diasporic ethnography of beauty and femininity that connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national femininity. is ethnography examines how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela contest, on the well-traveled Caracas avenue where transgender women (transformistas) project themselves into the urban imaginary, and on the bodies of both
transformistas and beauty pageant contestants (misses). Placing transformistas and misses in the same analytic frame enables Ochoa to delve deeply into complex questions of media and spectacle, gender and sexuality, race and class, and self-fashioning and identity.
Venezuela has won more international beauty contests than any other. e femininity performed by Venezuelan women in high-profile, widely viewed pageants defines a kind of national femininity. Ochoa argues that as transformistas and misses work to achieve the bodies, clothing and makeup styles, and postures and gestures of this national femininity, they come to embody Venezuelan modernity.
About the Author
Marcia Ochoa is an Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz. An ethnographer of media, Ochoa’s work focuses on the role of the imaginary in the survival of queer and transgender people in Latin America, and the place of these subjects in the nation. She is a founder and advisor to El/La Para TransLatinas, a social justice project for transgender Latina immigrants in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. Ochoa is incoming co-editor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.
A chapter from the book will be available to read prior to the talk at:
Chapter 5: Sacar el Cuerpo
Please join us for a small reception in the Feminist Studies library following the reading.

Mary Niall Mitchell: Workshop “Archival Challenges: Children, Slavery, and Nineteenth Century Visual Culture”
2014-06-04 09:00 - 11:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Workshop: “Archival Challenges: Children, Slavery, and Nineteenth Century Visual Culture”
Wednesday, June 4 @ 9-11a.m.
For access to pre-circulated readings for the workshop, please contact Institute for Humanities Research at ihr@ucsc.edu.
Cultural Studies Colloquium: “The Slave Girl in the Archive: A Tale of Paper and Glass”
Wednesday June 4 @ 12:15-1:30p.m.
In her current project, Mary Niall Mitchell tells the story of a girl named Mary Botts, the first light-skinned formerly enslaved child to be
photographed for abolitionist purposes. Beginning with the deposit of the child’s daguerreotype portrait at the Massachusetts Historical
Society in 1921, she unspools the history of Mary’s family and their long efforts to be free from slavery. “The Slave Girl in the Archive” uses
this narrative to explore connections between the lives of enslaved people and the variety of documents and artifacts that contain traces of
them.”
Mary Niall Mitchell, author of Raising Freedom’s Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future after Slavery (New York University Press, 2010), is
Joseph Tregle Professor in Early American History, Ethel & Herman Midlo Chair in New Orleans Studies, and Associate Professor at the
University of New Orleans.
This event is presented by the Working Group on the Study of Children (Research Cluster), with generous support from the Society for the History of Children and Youth, and the Center for Cultural Studies at UCSC.
Directions and Parking
Parking permits are required seven days a week in the lots located closest to Humanities (Cowell/Stevenson parking lots 107, 109, and 110). One-day visitor permits may be purchased from the parking attendants in the lot (during the first hour of the event) or at the main entrance Kiosk (open M-F 8am-1pm). On evenings and weekends, the pay station in lot 109 will dispense permits for $3 after 4:30pm on weekdays, and all day on weekends.
For more information, including disabled access, please contact Evin Guy at ecguy@ucsc.edu, or (831) 459-5655.

Mary Niall Mitchell: “The Slave Girl in the Archive: a Tale on Paper and Glass”
2014-06-04 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Workshop: “Archival Challenges: Children, Slavery, and Nineteenth Century Visual Culture”
Wednesday, June 4 @ 9-11a.m.
For access to pre-circulated readings for the workshop, please contact Institute for Humanities Research at ihr@ucsc.edu.
Cultural Studies Colloquium: “The Slave Girl in the Archive: A Tale of Paper and Glass”
Wednesday June 4 @ 12:15-1:30p.m.
In her current project, Mary Niall Mitchell tells the story of a girl named Mary Botts, the first light-skinned formerly enslaved child to be
photographed for abolitionist purposes. Beginning with the deposit of the child’s daguerreotype portrait at the Massachusetts Historical
Society in 1921, she unspools the history of Mary’s family and their long efforts to be free from slavery. “The Slave Girl in the Archive” uses
this narrative to explore connections between the lives of enslaved people and the variety of documents and artifacts that contain traces of
them.”
Mary Niall Mitchell, author of Raising Freedom’s Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future after Slavery (New York University Press, 2010), is
Joseph Tregle Professor in Early American History, Ethel & Herman Midlo Chair in New Orleans Studies, and Associate Professor at the
University of New Orleans.
This event is presented by the IHR Working Group on the Study of Children (Research Cluster), with generous support from the Society for the History of Children and Youth, and the Center for Cultural Studies at UCSC.
Directions and Parking
Parking permits are required seven days a week in the lots located closest to Humanities (Cowell/Stevenson parking lots 107, 109, and 110). One-day visitor permits may be purchased from the parking attendants in the lot (during the first hour of the event) or at the main entrance Kiosk (open M-F 8am-1pm). On evenings and weekends, the pay station in lot 109 will dispense permits for $3 after 4:30pm on weekdays, and all day on weekends.
For more information, including disabled access, please contact Evin Guy at ecguy@ucsc.edu, or (831) 459-5655.

Living Writers Series: Publications Reading
2014-06-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
A selection of Publications Readings.
The spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series, Dislocations and the Imagined, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public.

"Doing Critical Race and Ethnic Studies in a Neoliberal Age" Symposium
2014-06-06 - 2014-06-07 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This spring bears the fruit of many years of student activism at UC Santa Cruz, namely, the inauguration of a Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) program dedicated to studying the ideological formations and institutional productions of race and ethnicity. Recognizing that the institutionalization of CRES is both an exciting moment and a reminder of the work we must keep showing up for, we ask:
• How can we foster creative ways to keep activist and academic knowledges in conversation?
• How can scholarly activity be held accountable to social justice struggles?
• How can we build and strengthen ties across institutional and organizational walls?
The context of this moment of institutionalization is the neoliberal erosion of public education and the casualization of all forms of academic labor that have transformed education into a privileged commodity available only to a few and rendered education a site of labor precariousness. At UC Santa Cruz, recent student experiences with the literal “campus to jail busline” attest to these neoliberal processes. Aimed at fostering critical dialogue about doing critical race work in this historical moment, this symposium brings together community organizers and social justice activists with campus organizers, students, staff, and faculty from regional community colleges, state colleges, and universities to examine militarization, post-9/11 terror-baiting, and the criminalization of racialized bodies as the effects of neoliberal policies that cut across campus and community boundaries.
Please join us June 6-7 at UC Santa Cruz to strengthen the bonds of solidarity, combine our knowledges, and build coalitions around interconnected struggles.
Free and open to the public.
Note, event has been moved to the Humanities Lecture Hall.

Friday, June 6
4:00 PM: Welcome and Coffee Sandra Harvey (CRES Student Working Group)
4:05 PM: Blessing by Corrina Gould (Indian People Organizing for Change)
4:20 PM: State of CRES and Reportback on Critical Ethnic Studies Conference by Jasmine Syedullah (CRES Student Working Group)
4:30-6:30 PM: Discussion I: The Prison Industrial Complex & the Public University
Facilitator: Gina Dent (Feminist Studies)
Participants: Sadie Reynolds (Sociology, Cabrillo College), OT Quintero (Barrios Unidos), Misty Rojo (Justice Now), Tash Nguyen* (Sin Barras), Ivan Medina (IGNITE)

Saturday, June 7
9:30 AM: Welcome and Coffee William Ladusaw (Dean of Humanities)
10:00-12:00 PM: Discussion II: Militarization, Criminalization, and Racial and Gender Violence
Facilitator: Christine Hong (Literature)
Participants: Lara Kiswani (Arab Resource & Organizing Center), Sami Abed (Resource Center for Non-Violence), Boian-Christoph Boianov (Committee for Justice in Palestine), Tierney Yates (Black Unity Group, San Jose State), Isa Noyola and Marcia Ochoa (El/La Para Translatinas), Monica Jones (Sex Worker Outreach Program Phoenix)
12:00-1:30 PM: Lunch
1:30-3:30 PM: Discussion III: Political Education and Activist Knowledges
Facilitator: Cindy Cruz (Education)
Participants: Nancy Kim (Asian American & Pacific Islander Resource Center and Ethnic Resource Centers), Carolyn Dunn (American Indian Resource Center), Corrina Gould (Indian People Organizing for Change), Xamuel Banales (Ethnic Studies, Northern Arizona University), Shaila Ramos, David Padilla, Mayra Chavez, Marjory Ruiz (Students Informing Now), Michael James (Popular Education 2.0)
3:30 PM: Coffee Break
4:00-5:30 PM: Closing Discussion: Envisioning CRES on Campus and Beyond
Facilitators: Marcia Ochoa (Feminist Studies) and Jessica Whatcott (CRES Student Working Group)
6:00-7:00 PM: Closing reception with light food and refreshments

Presented by the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Research Cluster, with generous support from the Division of Humanities; Graduate Student Association; UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; UC Center for New Racial Studies; Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Stevenson College; and the Departments of American Studies, History, Literature, and Politics.
Poster Art: LA PROMESA DE LOMA PRIETA: QUE NO SE REPITA LA HISTORIA (THE PROMISE OF LOMA PRIETA: THAT HISTORY NOT REPEAT ITSELF), the University of California at Santa Cruz, Oakes College Mural, by Juana Alicia ©1992. All rights reserved. Photo by Aleixo Goncalves.

Parking permits are required seven days a week in the lots located closest to Humanities (Cowell/Stevenson parking lots 107, 109, and 110). One-day visitor permits may be purchased from the parking attendants in the lot (during the first hour of the event) or at the main entrance Kiosk (open M-F 8am-1pm). On evenings and weekends, the pay station in lot 109 will dispense permits for $3 after 4:30pm on weekdays, and all day on weekends.

What Makes Applied Linguistics Applied? Language Acquisition & Language in Use
2014-06-06 17:00 - 20:00 | University Center, University Center‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Language Program has been granted department status earlier this spring, and we are hosting an event to celebrate becoming the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics. Professor Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, a leading scholar in second language acquisition, will give a talk on June 6 in the University Center after a brief welcome by Dean William Ladusaw. The event will begin at 5 pm, with a reception following 6-8 pm.

Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: À l ́interieur
2014-06-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
A French body horror film that takes home invasion movies to their ne plus ultra, Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s À l’intérieur depicts the attempts of Sarah (Alysson Paradis), very pregnant and very alone in her house on Christmas Eve, to ward off the efforts of “La Femme” (Beátrice Dalle) to break into Sarah’s home and (if she can) Sarah’s womb to take the baby for herself. Mixing together this gruesome premise with yuletide ennui and the aftereffects of the banlieue riots of 2005, the film is a moody and unsettlingly downbeat Christmas tale. Not to be missed!
For the remainder of the quarter, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France, Japan, and the United States each week. Same time, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family, invite your friends.
Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

Mortality: Facing Death in Ancient Greece
2014-06-29
Mortality: Facing Death in Ancient Greece is a four-week Summer Institute funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Beginning from the premise that mortality is the condition that gives life its singular human quality, the goal of the Institute is to develop a multi-disciplinary approach to mortality in ancient Greece as the basis for rigorous and innovative teaching and scholarship in the Humanities. Under the guidance of experts, the Institute will bring together twenty-five college and university teachers and three graduate students to examine relevant material from a broad range of ancient Greek literary sources, visual and archaeological remains, and historical periods, ranging from the 8th to the 3rd centuries BCE. The Institute encourages the study of mortality in ancient Greece as the basis for comparative study across cultures, disciplines, and historical periods.
Institute Faculty:
Karen Bassi, Institute Director
Brooke Holmes, Visiting Scholar
Sarah Iles Johnston, Visiting Scholar
Sheila Murnaghan, Visiting Scholar
Yiannis Petropoulos, Visiting Scholar
Kirk Sanders, Visiting Scholar
Yannis Tzifopoulos, Visiting Scholar
Michael Wedde, Local Guest Scholar
Visit the Institute website for more information: mortality.ihr.ucsc.edu

Modern Jewish Spaces From the Venice Ghetto to Contemporary Classifications: Summer Workshop for Young Researchers in Jewish Culture and Identity
2014-06-30 08:00 - 2014-07-02 17:00 | Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Modern Jewish Spaces From the Venice Ghetto to Contemporary Classifications
Summer Workshop for Young Researchers in Jewish Culture and Identity
In conjunction with the University of California, Santa Cruz
June 30 – July 2, 2014 at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Attending the workshop is by invitation only
Summer Workshop Program
Contemporary globalization brings to the forefront the relation between identity and spatial location; it highlights new and multiple cross-cutting transnational allegiances that bear on central aspects of Jewish identity, which some contemporary writers and researchers have begun to explore and elaborate. The Venice Ghetto raises a range of questions about Modern Jewish Spaces that have played central roles in Jewish and European culture since the Jews were sequestered in the Ghetto at its founding in 1516. The history of the Ghetto, its image and its symbolic resonances have generated different models that have become subtexts of several Modern Jewish Spaces, often implicitly reverted to in desperate Jewish historical moments. A broad range of questions arise from the study of Modern Jewish Spaces, such as the following:
• Are there sets of necessary and sufficient conditions that constitute different paradigmatic Modern Jewish Spaces?
• What do Modern Jewish Spaces mean for those who live in them, or for those outside?
• What roles do political, social and cultural power play in and for these Modern Jewish Spaces?
• What was/is the influence of the State of Israel on contemporary definitions of Jewish people?
• What roles do minority cultures in Modern Jewish Spaces assume and fulfill?
The summer workshop will provide an opportunity to investigate these and other related questions.
Academic committee:
Prof. Shaul Bassi, Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten,
Prof. Murray Baumgarten, Dr. Yotam Benziman,
Dr. Manuela Consonni, Prof. Shmuel Feiner,
Prof. Aviad Hacohen, Prof. Debra Kaplan,
Prof. Haviva Pedaya, Prof. Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin,
Prof. Uzi Rebhun, Dr. Avinoam Rosenak,
Rabbi Naftali Rothenberg, Dafna Schreiber
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
43 Jabotinsky St., Jerusalem
www.vanleer.org.il
Photographs taken at the event will be posted on the Institute’s website and on social networks.

Santa Cruz Shakespeare: "As You Like It" (Jul 1 - Aug 10)
2014-07-01 | Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen
As You Like It
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Mark Rucker
In the Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen
July 1 – August 10
Previews July 1st , 2nd and 3rd
(All Preview Tickets are $20.00)
Love at first sight, a wrestling match, cross-dressing and a fool! Shakespeare’s delightful, romantic comedy As You Like It boasts all four, cleverly intertwined with the trials and triumphs of love. Exiled from court, Rosalind ventures into the idyllic Forest of Arden with the fool, Touchstone, only to discover her true love Orlando awaits her. What follows is an elaborate scheme to capture his heart through her witty and playful ploy: instruct Orlando how to woo a woman while disguised as a boy. As You Like It explores the vast and varied incarnations of love culminating in a woodland wedding extravaganza!
Santa Cruz Shakespeare (SCS) is a new, independent non-profit theatre company rooted in Santa Cruz, California and dedicated to the plays of William Shakespeare and other dynamic playwrights whose work celebrates language. SCS will carry on the tradition of professional, thought-provoking and passionate theater in Santa Cruz.
SCS was funded by theatre-lovers in Santa Cruz and beyond after its predecessor, a 32-year old Shakespeare Festival affiliated with the University of California at Santa Cruz, closed in December 2013. Thanks to the generosity of its donors, and the fiscal sponsorship of Arts Council Santa Cruz County, SCS’s 2014 Summer Season is fully forward-funded. This means that all the money required for production this year is already in-hand. Simply put: ticket revenue, along with all donations and grants received after March 1, 2014, will help to ensure a 2015 season. As we are fond of saying, “we have thrown away the credit card and broken out the debit card.” It also means that in many ways our future success as a company rests in the hands of this community. If our audiences buy tickets to the season, donate, volunteer, and urge friends to do the same, Santa Cruz Shakespeare will not only survive, but thrive.
In addition to the summer repertory season, SCS is proud to interface with the community through a number of vital education and outreach initiatives including an Intern Program, the Don Rothman pre-show and post-show discussion talkbacks as well as Weekend with Shakespeare in conjunction with UCSC’s Associate Professor of Literature Sean Keilen and Professor Emeritus, Michael Warren.

Santa Cruz Shakespeare: "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (Jul 13 - Aug 10)
2014-07-13 | Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen
The Merry Wives of Windsor
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Kirsten Brandt
In the Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen
July 13 – August 10
Previews July 13th, 14th and 15th
(All Preview Tickets are $20.00)
The Merry Wives of Windsor marks the return of audience favorite Sir John Falstaff once again down on both luck and cash. Hatching a ruse to fatten his wallet he schemes to seduce Mistresses Ford and Page in an attempt to swindle their husbands’ money. Falstaff, as always, overestimates his ingenuity and the two women concoct a plan of their own to make a buffoon of the knight. Richard Ziman returns to Santa Cruz to helm this cheeky, mischievous romp.
Santa Cruz Shakespeare (SCS) is a new, independent non-profit theatre company rooted in Santa Cruz, California and dedicated to the plays of William Shakespeare and other dynamic playwrights whose work celebrates language. SCS will carry on the tradition of professional, thought-provoking and passionate theater in Santa Cruz.
SCS was funded by theatre-lovers in Santa Cruz and beyond after its predecessor, a 32-year old Shakespeare Festival affiliated with the University of California at Santa Cruz, closed in December 2013. Thanks to the generosity of its donors, and the fiscal sponsorship of Arts Council Santa Cruz County, SCS’s 2014 Summer Season is fully forward-funded. This means that all the money required for production this year is already in-hand. Simply put: ticket revenue, along with all donations and grants received after March 1, 2014, will help to ensure a 2015 season. As we are fond of saying, “we have thrown away the credit card and broken out the debit card.” It also means that in many ways our future success as a company rests in the hands of this community. If our audiences buy tickets to the season, donate, volunteer, and urge friends to do the same, Santa Cruz Shakespeare will not only survive, but thrive.
In addition to the summer repertory season, SCS is proud to interface with the community through a number of vital education and outreach initiatives including an Intern Program, the Don Rothman pre-show and post-show discussion talkbacks as well as Weekend with Shakespeare in conjunction with UCSC’s Associate Professor of Literature Sean Keilen and Professor Emeritus, Michael Warren.

Santa Cruz Shakespeare: "The Fringe Show: The Beard of Avon" (Jul 29 & Aug 5)
2014-07-29 | Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen
The Fringe Show: The Beard of Avon
By Amy Freed
Directed by Steve Boyle
In the Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen
July 29th and August 5th ONLY
(All Fringe Show Tickets are $16.00)
In this mad-cap comedy a swain known as “Will Shakspere” who longs to be an artist flees his rural life for the stages of Elizabethan London. Did this novice actor become the ghost writer for the Earl of Oxford, Sir Francis Bacon, and even Queen Elizabeth? Authors too proud to admit they scribbled plays for the unwashed masses? This intelligent and fun-filled farce deliberates the longstanding debate over who really penned Shakespeare’s canon. With a gleeful wink at intervening centuries, Amy Freed’s deliciously witty The Beard of Avon portrays Will’s comic struggles to become an artist in his own right in this bawdy, hilarious, conspiracy-laden origin story of how a poor hayseed with wild dreams found himself in over his head and became the man we know as Shakespeare.
Santa Cruz Shakespeare (SCS) is a new, independent non-profit theatre company rooted in Santa Cruz, California and dedicated to the plays of William Shakespeare and other dynamic playwrights whose work celebrates language. SCS will carry on the tradition of professional, thought-provoking and passionate theater in Santa Cruz.
SCS was funded by theatre-lovers in Santa Cruz and beyond after its predecessor, a 32-year old Shakespeare Festival affiliated with the University of California at Santa Cruz, closed in December 2013. Thanks to the generosity of its donors, and the fiscal sponsorship of Arts Council Santa Cruz County, SCS’s 2014 Summer Season is fully forward-funded. This means that all the money required for production this year is already in-hand. Simply put: ticket revenue, along with all donations and grants received after March 1, 2014, will help to ensure a 2015 season. As we are fond of saying, “we have thrown away the credit card and broken out the debit card.” It also means that in many ways our future success as a company rests in the hands of this community. If our audiences buy tickets to the season, donate, volunteer, and urge friends to do the same, Santa Cruz Shakespeare will not only survive, but thrive.
In addition to the summer repertory season, SCS is proud to interface with the community through a number of vital education and outreach initiatives including an Intern Program, the Don Rothman pre-show and post-show discussion talkbacks as well as Weekend with Shakespeare in conjunction with UCSC’s Associate Professor of Literature Sean Keilen and Professor Emeritus, Michael Warren.

Church Street Fair: A celebration of music, art, food and wine
2014-08-02 - 2014-08-03 | Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
Saturday and Sunday, August 2nd and 3rd see the return of Cabrillo Festival’s popular Church Street Fair – a festival of music, art & wine. Celebrating its 23rd year, the two-day festival within the Festival offers an inspiring reflection of the arts in Santa Cruz. The weekend bursts with non-stop world and ethnic music and dance on the outdoor Church Street Stage, and dozens of premier artists and craftspeople selling their treasures all along Church Street in front of the Civic Auditorium.
Never is the spirit of Santa Cruz more alive than on the Church Street Stage when the spotlight is focused on Santa Cruz’s exceptional musicians. Audiences will travel the globe with musical voices from Mexico to Ireland, Africa to Cuba, and dance traditions from the Middle Eastern to European classical ballet, American urban styles. Some groups make their Church Street Stage debut, and many are old favorites returning for the fun.
You’ll have lots of tasty local treats to choose from, including mobile gourmet vendors Cruz’n Gourmet and Low n Slow, scoops from the Penny Ice Creamery, and wine tasting with Vinocruz.
To learn more about the wonderful musicians, artists and vendors involved in the Church Street Fair, check out our Tumblr blog, and check out even more content on our Facebook and Pinterest pages!
Hosted by KUSP programmer Brett Taylor, the Church Street Fair is a collaboration between the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium.
CHURCH STREET STAGE PERFORMERS:
SATURDAY, AUGUST 2
11:15 The Great Morgani
12:15 Samba Cruz Quartet
1:15 Shakti Bhakti Ensemble
2:15 Rebecca Lomnicky & David Brewer
3:30 Diaspora Dance Company
4:15 Pacific Voices
5:15 Desert Dream Music & Dance
6:30 The Mosaic Quartet
SUNDAY, AUGUST 3
11:15 Jesse Autumn & Shelley Phillips Harp Duo
12:15 Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre
1:00 Free Family Concert
2:30 Watsonville Taiko
3:30 Xochipilli CompaÃ±ia Danza De Mexico
4:15 On The Spot Trio
5:15 Kat Parra Latin World Ensemble
6:30 AZA

Free Family Concert: A Conference of the Birds Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, conductor Marin Alsop
2014-08-03 13:00 | Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
The Cabrillo Festival’s wildly popular Free Family Concert introduces kids to the wonderful world of orchestral music. It begins with a Tour of the Orchestra where kids can make an up-close and personal connection to the different instruments and players. This year weâ€™ll feature a world premiere Festival Commission composed and narrated by Jonathan Sheffer. The Conference of the Birds was inspired by a Persian folk tale about a flock of birds on a spiritual journey, and explores the orchestraâ€™s ability to imitate the chirps, coos, and calls of our feathered friends.

Integrative Graduate Humanities Education and Research Training (IGHERT) Workshop
2014-09-19 - 2014-09-20 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UC Santa Cruz’s Institute for Humanities Research is one of four CHCI member centers and institutes that will lead the research through 2017 on one of the pilot projects, Integrative Graduate Humanities Research Education and Training (IGHERT). The project brings together faculty, doctoral students, and post-doctoral scholars in a series of structured collaborations to undertake jointly mentored, international research. The four partners are the Institute for Humanities Research, University of California, Santa Cruz; Center for 21st Century Studies, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus Liebig University in Giessen; and Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra. Focusing on the interdisciplinary theme of indigeneity, together they will engage graduate students in a series of collaborative training and research activities and will test, refine, and assess a scalable model of skill training and digital archiving that can be applied in multiple contexts and to multiple themes.
IGHERT further aims to attune the participants to the larger public contexts in which expert knowledge in the humanities is meaningful and to equip them with the written and oral skills necessary to communicate with these public constituencies more effectively. Students from Ph.D. programs in UC Santa Cruz’s Division of Humanities will be selected to participate in a series of themed meetings and workshops in Santa Cruz, Milwaukee, Canberra, and Giessen, as well as to receive on-going mentoring from both local and partner faculty participants over the period of the project. In collaboration with the Division of Graduate Studies, the IGHERT pilot will provide fellowship and project travel support for our student participants.
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