Mary Paster: "Phonologically Conditioned Morphology"
2012-02-24 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities 1, Room 202
Mary Paster (PhD UC Berkeley, 2006) is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College in Claremont, California. Her research focuses on phonology and morphology, and their interface. She specializes in the study of African languages, particularly their tone systems. She has published in such journals as Phonology, Yearbook of Morphology (now Morphology), Word Structure, and Studies in African Linguistics.
The Crosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology Research Cluster is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research, which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network.

2012 Scholarship Benefit Dinner
2012-02-25 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
2012 Scholarship Benefit Dinner
More information TBA.

Crosslinguistic Investigations in Phonology-Syntax Research Cluster presents a Seminar with Mary Paster
2012-02-25 10:00 - 12:00 | Cowell Senior Commons Room, Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062-1225, United States

Angela Elsey, "Life in Senegal / La Vie senegalaise"
2012-02-27 17:00 - 19:00 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
LANGUAGE PROGRAM COLLOQUIUM SERIES
Life in Senegal / La Vie sénégalaise
Angela Elsey
Angela Elsey Lecturer in French
Please join Lecturer in French Angela Elsey for an introduction to daily life in Senegal through photos and short video clips depicting work, school, play, home life, language use, creative activities, and religious practices. Lecturer Elsey has made two trips to Senegal during which she studied at the University of Dakar, traveled the country and spent time with the local people. The talk will be in English.

J. Cameron Monroe: "Elephants for Want of Towns? New Light on Old Cities in West Africa’s Atlantic Age"
2012-02-28 15:30 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Western conceptions of the city have a long and storied history, one that until recently largely dismissed pre-colonial African urbanisms as no more than a passive response to cultural stimulus from outside the continent. This has been particularly true for West African cities that emerged in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. However, landscape archeology is enriching our understanding of how urban centers were organized on the coast of West Africa in the Atlantic Era, providing a sharper picture of indigenous trade, the values of the elite classes and power relationships across the region. This work is demonstrating the active role played by such communities in shaping the contours of Atlantic commerce in this period. This presentation will focus on one such urban tradition, located on the Abomey Plateau in the Republic of Bénin, exploring the dynamic ways that local political factors shaped and were shaped by global economic forces.
J. Cameron Monroe is an historical archaeologist in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Monroe’s research examines political, economic and cultural transformations in West Africa and the African Diaspora in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. He has studied African-American ethnic identity and household-level craft production in early colonial Virginia, and currently he directs the Abomey Plateau Archaeological Project in the Republic of Bénin, West Africa. Integrating documentary, oral and archaeological data, the project focuses on the political economy of landscape and the built environment, and the nature of urban transformation in contact-period West Africa.
Lecture will begin at 4:00 PM, snacks from 3:30 PM. For more information, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu.
This lecture is presented by the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Melissa L. Caldwell: “Sowing the Seeds of Civil Society: Russia’s Garden Democracy”
2012-02-29 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Melissa L. Caldwell
Professor, Anthropology, UCSC
Co-Director, UCMRP on Studies of Food and the Body
“Sowing the Seeds of Civil Society: Russia’s Garden Democracy”
Professor Caldwell examines the politics of poverty, social welfare, care and intimacy in Russia through ethnographic research in Dacha Idylls: Living Organically in Russia’s Countryside (California 2011). Her new research is on Russian-African assistance and development relations in the twentieth century. She also studies changing food practices in the postsocialist world.
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The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
ALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.

Craig Dworkin: "The Politics of the Work"
2012-02-29 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
In Partnership with Poetry and Politics Research Cluster and the Literature Department presents: Craig Dworkin for a Lecture on Poetics.
Craig Dworkin is the author of Reading the Illegible (Northwestern UP), Signature-Effects (Ghos-Ti), Dure (Cuneiform), Strand (Roof), and Parse (Atelos), and the editor of Architectures of Poetry (Rodopi), Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern UP), The Sound of Poetry (Chicago UP), and Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writing of Vito Acconci (MIT). He teaches at the University of Utah and curates two on-line archives: Eclipse and The UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing.
Poetry and Politics is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research, which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network.

Poetry and Politics: Professor Craig Dworkin Poetry Reading
2012-02-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Craig Dworkin is the author of Reading the Illegible (Northwestern UP), Signature-Effects (Ghos-Ti), Dure (Cuneiform), Strand (Roof), and Parse (Atelos), and the editor of Architectures of Poetry (Rodopi), Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern UP), The Sound of Poetry (Chicago UP), and Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writing of Vito Acconci (MIT). He teaches at the University of Utah and curates two on-line archives: Eclipse and The UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing.

Poetry and Politics is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research, which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network.

Linguistics Colloquium: Matthew Gordon
2012-03-02 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Matthew Gordon
Matthew Gordon is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include phonetics, phonology, and typology.
This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.

Helga Tawil-Souri: “Visual Conflict of and in Palestine-Israel”
2012-03-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Communications, Room 139, Communications Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium Presents:
Helga Tawil-Souri, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU
“Visual Conflict of and in Palestine-Israel”
Helga Tawil-Souri
All readings will be available two weeks prior to talk.
Co-sponsored by the History of Art and Visual Culture, Film & Digital Media, and the Arts Division.
Departmental sites:
http://film.ucsc.edu/news_events
http://havc.ucsc.edu/news_events
To receive readings, contact visualmedia@ucsc.edu.

Tracie McMillian: "Real Food vs. Affordable Food: Can we have both?"
2012-03-07 12:00 - 13:30 | Oakes Mural Room, Room 223, Oakes College‎ 150 Heller Drive, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join journalist Tracie McMillan to discuss her work for The American Way of Eating, which chronicles her experience in three undercover jobs across the American food system: California farmworker, produce clerk in a Detroit-area Walmart, New York City Applebee’s kitchen wretch. Weaving policy and agricultural economics into personal narrative, McMillan explores what it would cost to grow food fairly.
Tracie McMillan, a freelance journalist whose work centers on food and class, is a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. Her first book, The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table, will be published by Scribner in February 2012. Learn more on her website.
Presented by the Studies of Food and the Body Multicampus Research Program. Support is provided by the University of California Office of the President. Staff support is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Peter Euben: “Women of Melos”
2012-03-07 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Peter Euben
Peter Euben
Emeritus Research Professor, Political Science and Classical Studies,
Kenan Distinguished Faculty Fellow Emeritus, Duke University
“Women of Melos”
Although the Melian Dialogue is not much of a dialogue, it is anointed as the foundation of political realism. The paper argues that realism is delusional and defeating. The more inclusive dialogue in Euripides’ The Trojan Women juxtaposes the language of power, war and empire with loss, hopelessness and what Saïd called “the crippling sorrow of estrangement.”
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The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
ALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.

The Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture: "Interfaith Perspectives on Economic Justice, and its implications for the worldwide Occupy movement"
2012-03-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson Event Center
The Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture series celebrates the work of the late Noel King, founding father and Professor of History and Comparative Religion at UC Santa Cruz. The series reflects Noel’s lifelong commitment to, and joy in, dialogue between the faiths.
For the 2012 NQK Lecture, representatives of four of the world’s great religions join in conversation:
Interfaith Perspectives on Economic Justice, and its implications for the worldwide Occupy movement.
Ched Myers, leading the discussion, is a fifth generation Californian who has spent three decades working with faith-based peace and justice organizations, including the American Friends Service Committee, the Pacific Concerns Resource Center, and the Pacific Life Community. He is currently with the Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries, focusing on building capacity for biblical literacy, church renewal, and faith based witness for justice.
Rabbi and Congregational Cantor Paula Marcus has served Temple Beth El since 1979. She was ordained as a Rabbi in May, 2004 by the Academy for Jewish Religion in Los Angeles and has apprenticed with cantors in the U.S. and Israel. She received her BA in Judaic studies from SUNY at Binghamton and
her MA degree in Rabbinic studies from the Academy of Jewish Religion.
Imam Zaid Shakir is an American Muslim scholar with a background in politics and international relations. His work balances the academic and spiritual study of Islam with being a voice of conscience in issues of race, peace, and poverty, for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. He has been ranked one of America’s most influential Muslim scholars.
Dr. Inder Mohan Singh, an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, has been instrumental in founding several technology companies as well as the Chardi Kalaa Foundation, which fosters a sense of community and reinforces Sikh values. Dr. Singh is the Chairman of LynuxWorks and cofounder of Excelan and Kalpana. He has long been active in interfaith dialogue.
Reception to follow Stevenson College Event Center University of California, Santa Cruz
Free admission, parking $3.00
Sponsored by the Noel Q. King memorial fund; the University Inter-faith Council; Santa Cruz Progressive Christian Forum; Cowell and Stevenson Colleges; and the Humanities Division of UCSC.

Conservation in No Man's Land: A Colloquium on Values, Science, and the Crisis of Biodiversity
2012-03-10 09:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
PANELISTS
Daniel Guevara
UCSC Department of Philosophy
Claudio Campagna
Wildlife Conservation Society
UCSC Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Ronnie Lipschutz
UCSC Politics Department
Daniel Press
UCSC Department of Environmental Studies

AGENDA
9:00 am Introductory Remarks: Daniel Guevara
9:15 am Introductory Remarks: Claudio Campagna
9:30 am On the Place of Science and Scientists in Conservation
Introduced and Moderated by Claudio Campagna
10:45 am Public Policy, Science and Values in Conservation and Environmentalism
Introduced and Moderated by Daniel Press
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Rights, Property and Other Key Social and Political Concepts in Conservation and Environmentalism
Introduced and Moderated by Ronnie Lipschutz
2:15 pm The Relevance of Philosophy to the Language and Fundamental Concepts of the Conservation and Environmental Movements
Introduced and Moderated by Daniel Guevara
3:45 pm The Direction of the Conservation Movement in the Next Decade: What Is It Likely to Be? What Should It Be?

This event is open to the public and campus community.
Please email Professor Guevara at guevara@ucsc.edu if you plan to attend.
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Santa Cruz

Nathaniel Deutsch, “The Jewish Dark Continent: Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement”
2012-03-12 15:30 - 17:00 | Unnamed Venue, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents:
Nathaniel Deutsch
Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of History, UCSC

“The Jewish Dark Continent: Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement”
On the eve of World War I, the Russian Jewish writer, socialist revolutionary, and aspiring ethnographer named An-sky set out on an ethnographic expedition into the Pale of Settlement, the area of the Russian Empire to which a vast majority of its Jews were restricted prior to the Revolution. Over the course of three seasons, An-sky and his team recorded thousands of tales, jokes, and incantations, took hundreds of photos, and collected numerous artifacts, manuscripts, and other objects. They also designed a massive life-cycle questionnaire consisting of 2087 questions entitled “The Jewish Ethnographic Program” for use in the field. An-sky’s goal was to document the traditional Jewish life of the Pale of Settlement before it disappeared forever and, in the process, to create a distinctly Jewish ethnography.
Nathaniel Deutsch is Professor of History and Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he is also the Director of the Institute for Humanities Research and the Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies. He has been a professor at Swarthmore College, a visiting professor at Stanford University, and the The Workmen’s Circle/Dr. Emanuel Patt Visiting Professor in Eastern European Jewish Studies at the YIVO Institute. Deutsch is the author of five books, most recently The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement(Harvard University Press, 2011), for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Contact: Allyson Ramage, aramage@ucsc.edu for more information.

Allen Wells: "Lives in the Balance: The United States, the Dominican Republic and the Rescue of Jews during World War II"
2012-03-13 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Allen Wells
Initially supportive of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo’s offer to accept 100,000 Jews at the 1938 Evian Conference, Washington began to back away from its ringing endorsement soon after a succession of German victories throughout Western Europe during the spring of 1940. Only 750 refugees would find their way to Sosúa, a farming settlement on the island’s north coast. Why did the Roosevelt administration discourage Trujillo from taking in additional refugees, putting the settlement’s future in jeopardy? This lecture will explore the impact such an abrupt change in policy had for other refugees seeking to flee Nazism and for U.S. policy in Latin America?
Allen Wells is the Roger Howell, Jr. Professor of History at Bowdoin College. His scholarship has focused on modern Mexican history, especially Yucatán, the history of commodities, and U.S.-Latin American relations, and he offers a range of courses in colonial and modern Latin American history. Originally from New York, he received his M.A (1974) and Ph.D. (1979) in History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his B.A. (1973) in History and Latin American Studies from the State University of New York at Binghamton.
This event is sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, with generous support from the Jim Joseph Foundation and the David B. Gold Foundation. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Akira Mizuta Lippit: “Like Cats and Dogs”
2012-03-14 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Akira Mizuta Lippit
Akira Mizuta Lippit
Professor, Comparative Literature,
East Asian Languages and Cultures, USC
Chair, Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts
“Like Cats and Dogs”
Professor Lippit has recently completed a book on contemporary experimental cinema, Ex-cinema: Essays on Experimental Film and Video, and is completing another book on contemporary Japanese cinema and the concept of the world. He is also writing a book on David Lynch and anagrams.
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The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
ALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.

UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: Professor Keorapetse Kgositsile
2012-03-15 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Keorapetse Kgositsile
Creative Writing and Literature present:
UCSC Winter Living Writers Series
Professor Keorapetse Kgositsile
Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives
Ronaldo V. Wilson, Visiting Assistant Professor
Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities. Whether as editors, publishers, activists, teachers, multi-media artists, and/or co-collaborators, the featured poets in this series present work that reflects their dynamic engagements in the world.
Thursdays / 6:00 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall
Contact: Ronaldo V. Wilson, rvwilson@ucsc.edu or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu
Co-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program.

Peter Kenez: "The Coming of the Holocaust"
2012-03-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Media Theater, M110
University of California, Santa Cruz,
Emeriti group presents Emeriti Faculty Lecture by:

Peter Kenez
Professor of History,
Co-Holder of Neufield-Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies UC Santa Cruz
A Holocaust survivor and native of Hungary, Peter Kenez is a scholar of the history of Russia and the former Soviet Union. He is currently completing a book-length study of the Holocaust-a comparative study of the prerequisites for mass murder in countries occupied by the Nazis during the second world war. Professor Kenez is a founding faculty member of Stevenson College.
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Parking is available for $3.00 per car in the Performing Arts lot. For questions or accommodation requirements, contact UC Santa Cruz Special Events Office at 831. 459.5003 or specialevents@ucsc.edu.

Linguistics Colloquium: Gabriela Caballero
2012-03-16 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Gabriela Caballero
Gabriela Caballero is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests include languages of the Americas (particularly Uto-Aztecan languages), phonology, morphology, language description and documentation, comparative/historical linguistics, and typology.
This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.

Charles Hedrick, Sr.: "Secret Mark: Second Edition or Forgery?""
2012-04-02 16:30 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present a pair of lectures in an ongoing series on “Archaeology and the Ancient World”
Professor Charles Hedrick, Sr.
Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, Missouri State University
“Secret Mark: second edition or forgery?”
Monday, April 2 at 5 p.m.
“Secret Mark: the scholarly firestorm that followed…”
Thursday, April 5 at 5 p.m.
Both lectures will be held in Humanities 1, room 210
Coffee will be served before and a reception will follow each lecture

In 1973, Columbia University History Professor Morton Smith published an ancient manuscript that contended the author of the Gospel of Mark later wrote a longer second edition of his gospel. The firestorm of criticism prompted by the book eventually led to accusations that Smith had forged the document. Forty years later, the issue remains unsettled.
Read more about the Secret Gospel of Mark here.
Charles W. Hedrick (Ph.D Claremont Graduate University) is a member of the UNESCO team of scholars who reconstructed and translated the Nag Hammadi Codices, and both a translator and editor of texts in the critical edition of the collection. He is the author of numerous articles and several books including Unlocking the Secrets of the Gospel of Thomas: A Radical Faith for a New Age (Wipf and Stock, 2010), The Gospel of the Savior: A New Ancient Gospel (Polebridge, 1999), and Many Things in Parables: Jesus and his Modern Critics (Westminster, 2004). He is a Fellow of the Jesus Seminar and a retired U. S. Army Chaplain; today he explores the thin line that separates faith from apostasy in writings published on his blog: www.charleshedrick.com.
For more information on the lecture or the AIA, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu.

Selma James on Sex, Race, and Class
2012-04-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Selma James is a renowned women’s rights and anti-racist campaigner and author. In her activist work and her writings, Selma has addressed the power relations within the working class movement, and how to organize across sectors despite divisions of sex, race, and class, South and North. She has founded the International Wages for Housework Campaign in 1972, and in 2000 she helped launch the Global Women’s Strike, which she coordinates. She is currently in the United States on a speaking tour for the publication of her new book, Sex, Race and Class – The Perspective of Winning: A Selection of Writings, 1952-2011 (PM Press, March 2012).
Selma James will be speaking about the historical and contemporary reality of unwaged work in the household, the community, and beyond. She will discuss specifically the exploitation of women in the capitalist system and the context and meaning of the recent assault on welfare and women’s reproductive rights in the current global economic crisis. Come join us for a talk and discussion.
Sponsored by the History of Consciousness Department. Co-sponsored by American Studies, Community Studies and Feminist Studies.

Emanuela Trevisan-Semi: "Why Jews left Morocco: Different Narratives"
2012-04-03 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Emanuela Trevisan Semi is professor of Modern Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice (Italy). She has done research about Jews at the margins (karaites, Jews of Ethiopia, Judaising movements) and mizrahim in Israel. She has recentely published a book in French on memory and represention of Jews in Morocco among Moroccan Muslims (Paris, Publisud, 2011)
This event was made possible by generous support by the David B. Gold Foundation, and the University of California Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Program. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Hayden White: “Fictions of the Holocaust”
2012-04-04 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Hayden White
University Professor, Historical Studies, Emeritus, UCSC
Professor White serves as American Representative of Pasts, Inc. Narrative Therapy: “Get the Past You Deserve.” He wears the title of Philologian, the division of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences into which he was inducted after being rejected by both the history and literature divisions.

Clive Sinclair: "The Jew in the Crown"
2012-04-04 17:00 - 19:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“The Jew in the Crown” will offer a brief examination of the ambiguous role of the semitic anti-hero in English literature; anti-heroes such as Shylock, Fragin, and Svengali, whose half-life continues to radiate.
Clive Sinclair has published 13 books of fiction, travel, and autobiography, some of which have been given prizes. Early in his career he was selected as one of the twenty Best of Young British Novelists. His most acclaimed collection of stories – The Lady and the Laptop – won both the PEN Silver pen for fiction, and the Jewish Quarterly award for fiction. An earlier collection, Bedbugs, was recently republished by Syracuse University Press in its Library of Modern Jewish Literature. In 2008 he published Clive Sinclair’s True Tales of the Wild West, an exercise in Dodgy Realism. He also leads a double-life as an academic and critic: he has published a study of Isaac Bashevis and Israel Joshua Singer – The Brothers Singer – and writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement. His association with UCSC began in 1969, when he arrived from England as a graduate student; it continued in 1980-81, when he returned as a Visiting Lecturer, as he did again in 2003.
Presented by the Center for Jewish Studies, with generous support from the David B. Gold Foundation. Staff support is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Charles Hedrick, Sr.: “Secret Mark: The Scholarly Firestorm that Followed...”
2012-04-05 16:30 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

CANCELLED: Linguistics Colloquium: Hotze Rullmann
2012-04-06 16:00 - 18:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Hotze RullmannHotze Rullmann is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia. Professor Rullmann’s research interests include (formal) semantics and pragmatics, and Dutch and other West-Germanic languages.
This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.

Amelia Jones: "Activating the Feminist Body and the Curating of Feminist Art"
2012-04-10 11:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Museum and Curatorial Studies (MACS) Research Cluster presents:
Amelia Jones, Professor and Grierson Chair in Visual Culture, McGill University
This paper takes off from a brief history of the curating of feminist art in the North American and European contexts. My aim is to think about the exhibition, and the feminist show in particular, as a junction between practice and theoretical thought, a place of intersection between art making, the writing of art history, and the positing of critical interventions in institutions. I propose to look at these interrelated questions by a two-part inquiry, looking at both a history of feminist curating and a small selection of practices that might, precisely by maintaining an openness to ever- shifting structures of sexual and gender difference, be impossible to “tame” fully through curatorial practice.
This is the final event organized according to the 2011-2012 MACS research theme Exhibitions and Performance.
For more information, please contact Lucian Gomoll at macs@ucsc.edu or visit the MACS website at http://macs.ucsc.edu/
Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness, History of Art and Visual Culture, and Feminist Studies.

Isabelle Delpla: “How to Conceptualize Extreme Evil: Eichmann’s Trial & Modern Theodicies”
2012-04-11 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Isabelle Delpla
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Montpellier III
Professor Delpla focuses on the relation between philosophy and anthropology in theorizing international ethics and justice. Her work on postwar Bosnia deals with the Srebrenica massacre, the reception of the International Criminal Tribunal and the status of victims and witnesses.

Charles Post: "The American Road to Capitalism"
2012-04-12 15:00 - 16:30 | Humanities 1, Room 420, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
University Press Books and the 2430 Arts Alliance invite you to join
Charles Post for a reading and discussion of his new book:
The American Road to Capitalism:
Studies in Class Structure, Economic Development and Political Conflict, 1620-1877

“Charles Post’s new book, The American Road to Capitalism, is sure to become a reference point for debates among historians and Marxists about the transformation of the English colonies into the fully developed capitalist United States. […] it should be widely read, appreciated for its insights and rigor, and also debated.” —Ashley Smith, International Socialist Review
“This is a thoughtful, learned, stimulating, challenging and altogether valuable volume. It reprints a series of reflections by the Marxist sociologist Charles Post on various aspects of the rise and evolution of capitalism in North America between the colonial era and the late 19th century. The book is anchored in a wide-ranging study of (and it duly credits) the work of generations of historians.” —Bruce Levine, author of Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War, in Against the Current
“Explaining the origin and early development of American capitalism is a particularly challenging task. It is in some ways even more difficult than in other cases to strike the right historical balance, capturing the systemic imperatives of capitalism, and explaining how they emerged, while doing justice to historical particularities… To confront these historical complexities requires both a command of historical detail and a clear theoretical grasp of capitalism’s systemic imperatives, a combination that is all too rare. Charles Post succeeds in striking that difficult balance, which makes his book a major contribution to truly historical scholarship.” —Ellen Meiksins-Wood, York University, author of The Origins of Capitalism: A Long View.
Unable to analyze the dynamics of specific forms of social labour in the antebellum U.S., most historians of the US Civil War have ignored its deep social roots. To search out these roots, Post applies the theoretical insights from the transition debates to the historical literature on the U.S. to produce a new analysis of the origins of American capitalism.
Charles Post Ph. D. (1983) in Sociology, SUNY-Binghamton, is Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY. He has published in New Left Review, Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal of Agrarian Change, Against the Current and Historical Materialism.
Sponsored by the History of Consciousness Department. Co-sponsored by the Sociology Department and the History Department.

Migration and Ethnic Studies
2012-04-13 09:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Borders, Bodies and Violence Research Cluster presents:
Migration and Ethnic Studies
This symposium brings together scholars roused by recent legislation targeting migrants and ethnic studies, such as Arizona’s SB 1070, one of the most draconian anti-immigration measures in the United States, and HB 2281, the 2010 prohibition on ethnic studies in public schools. Topics to be addressed include language, labor, indigeneity, nativist populism, state surveillance, violence, trauma, displacement, culture wars, and education. Taken together, the works presented will shed light on the nexus of migration and Latino studies, assess the state of this field, and explore the possibilities for its future.
Thursday, April 12
4:00-5:30pm: Keynote
“Politics, Process, and Human Folly: Life among the Arizona Lilliputians of Cultural and Linguistic Suppression”
Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez, Director of the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University
Friday, April 13
9:00-9:30am: Welcome
9:30-11:00am: Panel 1: Ethnographies

Ruben Espinoza (Sociology): “Bodies, Border Thinking, and the Labor Process”
Tania Cruz Salazar (LALS): “Maya Migrant Youth in California”
Mary Virginia Watson (Politics): “‘Taking America Back’: Arizona Nativists and the
Emergence of Nativist Populism”
Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez, respondent

11:00am-12:30pm: Lunch Break
12:30-2:00pm Panel 2: Archival Research and Textual Analysis

Cecilia Rivas (LALS): “The Bodies in the Television: Salvadoran Gardeners, Memory, and Representation”
Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel (Feminist Studies): “Tracking Migrants: Sexual Surveillance and Securing Communities”
Catherine Ramírez (LALS): “Bad Subjects: Chicana/o Studies in the Wake of HB 2281”
Sandra K. Soto, respondent

2:00-2:30pm: Break
2:30-4:00pm: Closing remarks
“Thinking While Brown: Ethnic Studies and Arizona’s Culture Wars”
Sandra K. Soto, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona:
4:00-5:00pm: Reception
Dr. Carlos Velez-Ibanez’ intellectual interests are broadly comparative and interdisciplinary and span specific interests in migration, economic stratification, political ecology, transnational community and household formation, and applied social science. His academic fields include applied anthropology, complex social organizations, culture and education, ethno-class relations in complex social systems, migration and adaptation of human populations, political ecology, qualitative methodology and urban anthropology.
Dr. Velez-Ibanez concentrates his work on the Southwestern United States, Mexico and the Caribbean. His publications are numerous including eleven books, four of which are based on original field research and his grants are many from NSF, NEH, and private foundations. He is presently conducting transnational field research in two rural valleys in California and New Mexico and their sending communities in Mexico. He received a Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of California, San Diego (1975). Later he became Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, 1994-2005. Additionally, he was Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of California, Riverside from 1994-1999.
Previously he had been appointed Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, 1984-1994 and Director of the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, 1982-1994. Prior to this appointment, he was a tenured associate professor at UCLA. His honors include the 2004 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology awarded by the American Anthropology Association, and in 2003 the Bronislaw Malinowski Medal presented by the Society for Applied Anthropology in addition to a number of other awards and fellowships including a Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, California, 1993-94 and elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1999.
He is presently Regents Professor and Motorola Presidential Professor of Neighborhood Revitalization, Professor of School of Transborder Studies and and Human Evolution and Social Change, Director of the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University, and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology of the University of California, Riverside.
Sandra K. Soto is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. She holds a PhD in English, with a focus in Ethnic and Third World Literature, from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching interests are in Chicana/o and Latina/o Literary and Cultural Studies. She is co-editor of the journal Feminist Formations and the author of the book, Reading Chican@ Like a Queer: The De-Mastery of Desire. In 2010 she and Miranda Joseph received the National Education Association Excellence in the Academy Award in Democracy in Higher Education for their essay “Neoliberalism and the Battle over Ethnic Studies in Arizona.” When she is not writing about the politics of Arizona, she works on her book in progress which draws from queer theories of affect to think about the production, circulation, and consumption of cultural production in Greater Mexico, focusing especially on the internationally-renown Mexican photographer, Graciela Iturbide.
The Borders, Bodies and Violence Research Cluster is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network with support from the UCSC Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the Chicano Latino Research Center, and El Centro: Chicano Latino Resource Center.
For more information, contact Shann Ritchie at the Institute for Humanities Research, sritchie@ucsc.edu, (831) 459-5655.

West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
2012-04-15 10:00 - 15:00 | Stevenson Event Center
The 30th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, hosted by the Department of Linguistics and the Linguistics Research Center, will take place on Friday, April 13 to Sunday, April 15, 2012 at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Conference Program (PDF)
For more information and registration, please visit the conference website.
This event is sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Department of Linguistics, the Institute for Humanities Research, the Linguistics Research Center, and Stevenson College.

Ondrej Skovajsa: "Written Voice: Walt Whitman’s first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855) and Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer (1934)"
2012-04-16 15:30 - 16:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Literature Department invites you to a talk by: Ondrej Skovajsa, Visiting Fulbright Scholar
“Written Voice: Walt Whitman’s first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855)
and Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer (1934)”
Discussing first the relevance of oral theory when dealing with texts, the paper deals with the strategies Whitman and Miller share to get their voices across to the reader. With some striking similarities already at the paratextual level, the paper moves to stylistic features, most important of which is the present tense: it aligns these works with the “future focus” of biblical orality that James Nohnrberg defines as contrary to the “nostalgia” of literature. Further, the paper discusses how the two texts employ Marcel Jousse’s notion of “mimisme” as the rhythmical creative law of the universe. (Jousse’s notion is parallel to Dorothee Soelle’s notion of creative happiness, and Elaine Scarry’s notion of beauty that demands a replication of itself.) On a still deeper level, the paper discusses imitatio Christi strongly embraced by both authors: important is the two flâneurs’ “sympathy”, and the notion of “rebirth as hermeneutics” – i.e. as resurrection of the spoken living logos from the “grave of the book”, as discussed by Walter Ong’s in “Maranatha” (1977). Whitman and Miller remain in resurrection of – and constant dialogue with – their textual “fixations” on their further journeys.
Mr. Skovajsa is an assistant professor at Purkyně University in Usti nad Labem, and a doctoral student at the Department of Comparative Literature at Charles University in Prague.

Jonathan Boyarin: "Trickster's Children: Jewishness and the Generations of Anthropology"
2012-04-17 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Jonathan Boyarin is the Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has also taught at Wesleyan University, Dartmouth College, the New School for Social Research and the University of Kansas. Boyarin received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1998, after receiving his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the New School for Social Research in New York in 1984.
His research and writing combine his backgrounds in anthropology and Yiddish to point toward new pathways in the study of Jewish culture. His first book, as co-editor, was From a Ruined Garden: The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry (1983 and 1998), which served as an introduction for younger, English-speaking Jews to first-hand accounts of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. This was followed by Polish Jews in Paris: The Ethnography of Memory (1991), based on his dissertation fieldwork in Paris, and by a volume on the life history of Yiddish scholar Shlomo Noble. Further ethnographic and critical essays, including some dealing with the contemporary Lower East Side in New York, were published in Storm from Paradise: The Politics of Jewish Memory(1992) and Thinking in Jewish (1996). He edited and contributed to The Ethnography of Reading (1993) and Remapping Memory: The Politics of TimeSpace (1994). With his brother, Daniel Boyarin, he co-edited Jews and Other Differences: The New Jewish Cultural Studies (1997). His interest in Zionism, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and revaluation of diaspora in contemporary Jewish life is reflected in Palestine and Jewish History (1996) and (again with Daniel Boyarin) Powers of Diaspora (2002). His books in recent years include Jewishness and the Human Dimension (Fordham, 2008); Time and Human Language Now (with Martin Land; Prickly Paradigm, 2009); The Unconverted Self: Jews, Indians and the Identity of Christian Europe (Chicago, 2009) and Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Lower East Side Summer (Fordham, 2011).
This event was made possible by generous support by the David B. Gold Foundation. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Eva Vibeke Kofoed Pihl: "Pig Patients and their Personalities"
2012-04-18 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Eva Vibeke Kofoed Pihl
Ph.D Fellow, Center for Medical Science and Technology Studies, University of Copenhagen; Visiting Fellow, and The Science and Justice Working Group, UCSC
What makes animal technicians describe a pig as “depressed,” “a rebel” or “girly”? How do scientists get pigs to mimic human patients biologically and become sources of information on human health? Professor Pihl discusses human/pig becomings in biomedical research, focusing on apparatuses and spaces.

Sara M. Benson: "Locating Leavenworth: Prisons and Political Geography"
2012-04-18 17:00 - 18:30 | Humanities 1, Room 320
This talk historicizes the placement of Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary (the U.S. nation’s oldest and largest federal prison designed as a replica of the U.S. capitol building) at the center of the nation in the post-Reconstruction 1890s. Drawing on understandings of political geography from feminist and critical race studies, the talk traces the geography of prisons in what is now the U.S. Midwest, maps the border politics and competing claims to law that brought the federal prison to Kansas, and disrupts the conventional regional narrative of American prisons as North/South institutions. The talk locates Leavenworth in the afterlife of a civil war over slavery that began the Civil War and at the center of the federal strategy to establish, police, and dissolve Indian Territory.
Sara Benson received her Ph.D. from the Department of Politics and was part of the Designated Emphasis Program in Feminist Studies. She is now a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at UCLA.

Jonathan Kahana and Irene Lusztig: Documentary Reenactment
2012-04-18 17:30 - 19:00 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Filmed reenactment has a long, inglorious history: for decades from the origins of cinema, it was a central aesthetic and conceptual method for both fiction and nonfiction filmmakers working with unrecorded pasts. With the invention of cinéma vérité, an ethos which virtually banished reenactment overnight from the toolkit of “serious” historical documentary, reenactment fell from favor during the 1960s. But in the past decade, and with
remarkable alacrity, reenactment has been revived as a critical figure, in all manner of film-historical writing, both in and on film. UCSC Film and Digital Media professors Jonathan Kahana and Irene Lusztig consider some sources and implications of this renewed interest in reenactment as a trope of history, with reference to and excerpts from two of Lusztig’s reenacted documentaries, Reconstruction (2001), and The Samantha Smith Project (2005). In Reconstruction, Lusztig unearths a dark family secret in search of answers and reconciliation, when she travels to Bucharest to construct a portrait of her enigmatic grandmother. The title of the documentary is derived from a bizarre government propaganda film that reenacts the crime and trial of a robbery that “starred” her grandmother, as a member of the infamous Ioanid Gang. Braiding together the story of the briefly-famous ten-year-old girl from Manchester, Maine who became Yuri Andropov’s penpal at the height of the Cold War and a parallel personal narrative of travel to Russia fifteen years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, The Samantha Smith Project explores the aftermath of the Cold War and the contemporary Russian landscape, while meditating on notions of forgetting, nostalgia, and the manufacturing and dismantling of political enemies.
Please visit our website: http://artsresearch.ucsc.edu/vps/reenactment for more information.

Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Laleh Khadivi
2012-04-19 00:00 - 23:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Fund, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Literature Department/Creative Writing Program, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, East Asian Studies Program, Bay Tree Bookstore, Latino and Latin American Studies Center, Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, El Centro, Cantu Queer Center, Chicano Latino Research Center, Stevenson College, Oakes College, and Merrill College.
Books are sold at the readings by The Bay Tree Bookstore.

WHAT ARE WE DOING WHEN WE DO THE HUMANITIES?
2012-04-21 13:00 - 18:00 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Saturday, April 21 @ 1 pm // Museum of Art & History
Free and Open to the Public (includes free museum access)

Join us for an exploration and celebration of the Humanities at the University of California. Hear leading scholars discuss their work and examine the following questions.

What does it mean to do the humanities?
Why do the humanities matter?
What’s public about the humanities?

The afternoon will consist of panel discussions and poster presentations. Panel topics include the power of language, religion and modernity, empire and nation. Poster presentations cover research on the ethnography of disasters, feminist art, slavery and cannibalism, the criminalization of religious practice, party-crashing in medieval literature, the inevitable fate of the novel, and many others.
For details visit: http://humanities.ihr.ucsc.edu/
Bring your family and friends! All of the MAH exhibits will be free and open to the public that afternoon, including the highly anticipated “All You Need Is Love” exhibit. Visitors will be able to enter a free raffle for items donated by local businesses – Logos Books and Records, L’Atelier Salon, Kuumbwa Jazz Center, and many others.
Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network, UCSC Institute for Humanities Research, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, and local Santa Cruz businesses.

Rabindranath Tagore 150th Anniversary with Aparna Sen
2012-04-22 14:00 - 16:30 | Nickelodeon Theater, 210 Lincoln Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Aparna Sen starred at age 16 in Samapti, directed by Satyajit Ray, in 1961. Based on a story by the Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, it was her very first film. Since then Sen has achieved critical acclaim, both nationally and internationally, as an actress and a feminist filmmaker.
On April 21 (Media Theater, UCSC, 5 PM) Ms. Sen will appear on stage after the screening of Samapti, an hour- long film. She will speak on Tagore’s great cultural and literary heritage. (admission free)
On April 22 there will be a screening ofst The Japanese Wife, directed by Ms. Sen, at Nickelodeon at 2 pm. (Nickelodeon, 210 Lincoln Street, Santa Cruz, 95060. Call: 831.426.7511 for reservation)
Ms. Sen will appear on stage for brief Question & Answer sessions after the screening of both the films.
Presented by: Satyajit Ray Film & Study Center, UCSC & ICCR, New Delhi for more information call us 831.459.4012/459.2696, or visit http://satyajitray.ucsc.edu/news.htm

Pedro Di Pietro: “Decolonizing Queer Space: Race, Sexuality and the Production of the Real”
2012-04-25 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Pedro Di Pietro
Visiting Assistant Professor; Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities and Townsend Fellow, UCB; Research Affiliate, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture, Binghamton University
Professor Di Pietro examines the production of queer spaces in the Andes and their diasporic dispersal in the Americas. He also examines geopolitical linkages between subaltern queerness and vernacular spirituality among Latino/as in the U.S., weaving regional epistemologies of sex/gender/desire together with a critique of the human/non-human distinction and its ethico-political aftermath across ethnic, gender, and queer studies.
CO-SPONSORS: The Department of Latin American and Latino Studies, and the Critical Race and Ethnicity Studies Research Cluster.

Stephen Tatum: “Cormac McCarthy, Roberto Bolaño, and the Natural History of Destruction”
2012-04-25 15:00 - 17:00 | Cowell, Room 132, Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In his 1997 lecture series on literature and the air raids of the Second World War, W.G. Sebald asks at one point “how ought such a natural history of destruction begin?” In the process of beginning himself to answer this question, Sebald critiques the German literary failure to confront “the true state of the material and moral ruin in which the country found itself,” to relay the “very real horrors” of the constitutive feature of the European postwar landscape: death. As some critics have more recently observed, death constitutes the very being not only of the Holocaust but also of the contemporary genocide accompanying neoliberalism or our globalizing world system. With Sebald’s question (and provisional answers to it) as a prompt, this talk explores questions of style and affective dynamics in the representations of violence and genocide in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands exemplified by Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men and Roberto Bolaño’s 2666.
As I have argued in another context, the postregional US West ought to be regarded as a rather spectral, deterritorialized discursive terrain produced by the intersection of media imagery and the migration of transnational capital and human and animal bodies with particular geophysical terrains. These fictions by McCarthy and Bolaño specifically disclose how a postregional or global South economy of representation centers on the violent manner in which embodied laboring populations on both sides of the border are brought into and positioned in the spaces of relatively wealthy societies, particularly its maquiladoras and the transportation networks produced by flows of drugs, weapons, and immigrants. Through an analysis of figures of suspended agency living in the aftermath of violent trauma, I will speculate further on the ethical and political consequences of a forensic aesthetic combining pensiveness with parataxis.
Stephen Tatum is Professor of English and Director of the Environmental Humanities graduate program at the University of Utah, where he teaches courses in US West literature, theories of popular culture, and environmental writing and ecocriticism. His recent publications include award-winning essays on postregional western American literature and culture, an edited collection Reading ‘The Virginian’ in the New West, and the books Cormac McCarthy’s ‘All the Pretty Horses’: A Reader’s Guide and In the Remington Moment. He is currently at work on a projected titled Morta Las Vegas.
This event is sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research, and the departments of American Studies and Literature. Staff support provided by the IHR.

ChaeRan Freeze: "Crafting an Elite Russian-Jewish Identity: Subjectivity and Gender in Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova"
2012-04-25 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
ChaeRan Freeze, an associate professor in Jewish history at Brandeis University, has focused her research on the Jews of Russia and women’s and gender studies. Her first book, Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia (Waltham, 2001) examines the impact of modernization on Jewish family practices and patterns in Imperial Russia based on newly-declassified archival materials from the former Soviet Union. It received the Koret Foundation Publication Award and the Salo Baron Award for the Best First Book in Jewish Studies. She also edited Polin: Jewish Women in Eastern Europe, Volume 18 (Oxford, 2005) with Paula Hyman and Antony Polonsky. This volume is the first collection of essays devoted to the study of Jewish women’s experiences in Eastern Europe. She is presently completing a project, “Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia, 1825-1914: Select Documents” (coauthored with Jay Harris, Harvard University) which documents the “everyday” (Alltags) as a site of interaction with modernity where Jews confronted the unfamiliar, and negotiated their environment in strategic and creative ways. This project received a Collaborative NEH Grant, and will be published by the Brandeis University Press. Her new project is to publish the eight diaries of Zinaida Poliakova (1862-1952), a noble Jewish woman who described elite Jewish culture and life in tsarist Russia.
This event is made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Foundation. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Pranav Anand: "All I Want is Some Honest Answers to My Questions: Tracking Argumentation and Stance in Online Political Debate"
2012-04-25 16:00 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Whereas a generation ago, engaging in public discourse might have meant leafleting or writing letters to the editor, today a host of venues exist online, enabling meaningful dialogue on an unprecedented scale. It also provides researchers with an unprecedented look onto the diversity of positions people hold on a given issue align as well as the structure of argumentative combat in general. This talk will describe efforts to computationally discover both the variety of stances that people express in online debate and tactics through which they seek to defend their position.
Following the lecture, there will be a catered reception at the Stevenson provost house.
Pranav Anand is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz. Mr. Anand’s work concentrates on elucidating how contextual factors affect the meaning of linguistic expressions, including expression of affect, belief, perspective, and quantity.

A Tribute to Adrienne Rich
2012-04-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Kresge Town Hall
A Tribute to Adrienne Rich
It was in 1973, in the midst of Black and women’s liberation movements, the Vietnam War, and her own personal distress, that Adrienne Rich wrote and published Diving into the Wreck, which garnered her the National Book Award in 1974. Rich accepted the award on behalf of all women. In the decades that followed, Rich’s poetry, essays, and books addressed issues of feminist politics, lesbian experience, and Jewish identity, and deeply engaged the critical concerns of racial and imperial oppression, war and environmental degradation. Relentless in her commitment to social justice for all peoples, her work has enlightened and inspired. She is considered, in the last half of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century, one of our greatest American poets. In this tribute, members of our campus community will read from her work.

Sponsored by Literature Department, Feminist Studies Department, Porter College, Oakes College, Cowell College, Merrill College, Colleges 9 & 10, Stevenson College, Center for Cultural Studies, Living Writers & the Creative Writing Program.

Herman Blake: About Oakes History and Diversity in the Medical Sciences
2012-04-26 17:00 - 18:30 | Guzman Room, Oakes College, Oakes College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Come join us for a conversation with Oakes’ First Provost and UCSC’s first African American faculty member, Dr. Herman Blake. Dr. Blake is currently the Humanities Scholar in Residence at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Our conversation will center around Oakes History and Diversity in the Medical Sciences field. Refreshments will be served.
Presented by Oakes College, Oakes Science Community, Science and the Justice Working Group. For more information, please contact Philip Longo (plongo@ucsc.edu) or Walter Adams (wjadams@ucsc.edu).

Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Nalo Hopkinson
2012-04-26 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Jeff Hull: "Unlocking the Power of Play; Immersive Narrative in the Civic Realm"
2012-04-27 14:00 - 16:00 | Media Theater, M110
Jeff Hull is engaged in a decade long metaphysical street battle against banality and routine. This takes the form of fictional cults with real world induction centers, pirate radio broadcasts from rogue agencies, bizarre team building exercises, guerrilla masonry, covert subterranean exploration, sasquatch dance bombs, and all manner of subterfuge. As the founder of Oaklandish and The Jejune Institute he has taken Situationism and Street Art in unseen new directions, blowing minds and winning awards along the way. His talk will offer a glimpse into the future of storytelling.
Jeff Hull is the creative director of Nonchalance, a San Francisco based Situational Design agency whose mission is to provoke discovery through visceral experience and pervasive play. This is achieved this by means of interactive narrative, game design, augmented reality, automated environments, event production, installation art, spatial navigation and cultural curation. They are best known for their award winning independent projects The Jejune Institute and Oaklandish.
Hosted By the Center for Games and Playable Media

Craig Schiffer: Santa Cruz to Wall Street
2012-04-27 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The University of California Satna Cruz Humanities presents the East Coast Distinguished Alumni Guest Lecture Speaker, Craig Schiffer – Cowell, Class of ’78
Santa Cruz to Wall Street
How I got from UCSC to Wall Street, my experience in the world of finance and investment banking, and the options for someone coming out of school now
Reception immediately following the lecture.

2012 Reunion Weekend
2012-04-28 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
2012 Reunion Weekend
More information TBA.

Catherine Jones: “Children and the Problem of Agency”
2012-05-02 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Catherine Jones
History, UCSC
Excluded from favored liberal remedies for realizing new freedoms in postemancipation Virginia, children nevertheless shaped broad Reconstruction contests over the meaning of freedom. This paper focuses on children in order to consider whether liberal assumptions embedded in the idea of agency have excessively narrowed historians’ analysis of postemancipation politics.
SPONSORS: The Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Lisa Kaborych of the Medici Archive Project and Its New Digital Interactive Platform
2012-05-02 12:00 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 620, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Medici Archive Project Presents:

Preview a presentation by Lisa Kaborycha of the Medici Archive Project, Florence, of a new, interactive digital platform that will debut as freeware this July. This platform is adaptable for the needs of many kinds of document management, and Lisa will be on hand to discuss its properties and capacities.

A Dickens Day Celebration
2012-05-02 12:00 - 23:00 | Mechanic’s Institute, 57 Post Street, San Francisco, CA, United States
A Celebration in Honor of Charles Dickens’s 200th Birthday Anniversary Year
Co-sponsored by The Dickens Project, University of California, Santa Cruz
An Important Notice of (perhaps) the one and only all-day Dickens Day Celebration in San Francisco, hence, one that should not be missed on all account. Thus, a brief description of what will occur by way of discourse and disquisition, literary enrichment, theatrical engagement, delectable fare, and of course, sheer fun.
A Dickens Day Celebration (in honor of Charles Dickens’s 200th Birthday Anniversary Year will be held on Wednesday, May 2 from NOON – 8:30 pm at San Francisco’s historic Mechanics’ Institute Library & Chess Room (founded in 1854). The day will start at Noon with lunch in the Six Jolly Fellowship Porters Pub followed by a series of talks from 12:30 -3:30 pm on Discovering Dickens’s London. From 3:30 – 4:30 pm we feature English Tea with Charles Dickens in Residence (performed by Robert Young) with additional “5 minute Dickens” readings from the audience. The evening program from 6:30 -8:30 pm features a keynote address by Jane Smiley (Charles Dickens (2002), followed by a panel titled, A Writer’s Life: Author, Celebrity, Social Reformer, Intrepid Traveler, Amateur Actor & Family Man and Dickens in the Digital Age with professors from the UC Santa Cruz Dickens Project and others; culminating with a dramatic reading by actor Paul Whitworth.
Six Jolly Fellowship Porters Pub will offer hearty tavern fare from NOON – 6:00 pm with a special Tea Service from 3:30 -5:00 pm. The audience and participants are welcomed to come in costumes as favorite characters from Dickens’s novels or people of the times!
Afternoon Program
Discovering Dickens’s London
12:00 – Six Jolly Fellowship Porters Pub (hearty tavern fare & libations 12:00 – 6:00 pm)
12:30-1:30 – John Jordan, Arriving in Dickens’s London
1:30-2:30 – Murray Baumgarten, Reading Dickens Writing London
2:30-3:30 – Peter Orner, Dickens and Melville: A Tale of Two Scriveners
3:30-4:30 – Tea Readings with Charles Dickens (Robert Young) Dramatic Reading by the Author!
“5-Minute Dickens” with audience participation – bring your favorite selection to share!
English Tea Service available!

Evening Program
A Writer’s Life: Author, Celebrity, Social Reformer, Intrepid Traveler, Amateur Actor & Family Man and
Dickens in the Digital Age
6:00 – Doors Open – Victorian Guests & Surprises
6:30-8:30 – Keynote Address: Jane Smiley, author of Charles Dickens (2002)
Panel discussion, moderated by John Jordan with Murray Baumgarten, Edwin Eigner, Jane Smiley, Peter Orner, Jon Michael Varese
From Page to Stage –A Dramatic Reading by actor Paul Whitworth

Reservations Required: (415) 393-0100 or rsvp@milibrary.org www.milibrary.org
Members Free; Public $15

Dizikes Award and "Celebrating the Humanities" 2012
2012-05-03 00:00 - 23:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Alan Christy, Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies Director, is the 2012 recipient of the John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities. Both students and colleagues alike offered high praise regarding Alan’s teaching skills and the positive impact he has had on students over the years.
John Dizikes will be on hand to present the award to Alan and will join Humanities faculty, staff, and students in honoring our other Humanities affiliates receiving recognition during our “Celebrating Excellence in the Humanities 2012 “ Spring Awards Event on Thursday, May 3rd.
For more detailed information about this event, please follow this link: http://humanities.ucsc.edu/news-events/announcements/news-article-spring-awards-call.html
The annual “Celebrating Humanities” event is an important opportunity to acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition, awards, distinctions and honors over the course of this last year. Highlights include the presentation of the Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award in Humanities, which honors the teaching efforts of faculty.
The categories for acknowledgement this year are:
Faculty Awards and Honors
Research Grants and Fellowships
Teaching Awards and Instructional Innovation
Major Publications
Undergraduate Awards and Honors:
HUGRA – supports and encourages undergraduate research in the Humanities
Dean’s and Chancellor’s – granted to undergraduates who have completed an outstanding senior thesis or project during the current academic year
This year’s Celebrating Humanities event will be held in conjunction with the HUGRA awards. Following is the schedule:
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.: HUGRA Awards
3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.: Refreshments
4:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m.: Dizikes Award
4:15 p.m.-6:00 p.m.: Spring Awards

HUGRA Award Presentations
2012-05-03 13:00 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This year’s Humanities Undergraduate Research Award Presentations will be held in conjunction with the Celebrating Humanities event. Following is the schedule:
1:00 – 3:00 pm: HUGRA Awards
3:00 – 4:00 pm: Refreshments
4:00 – 6:00 pm: Spring Awards

Celebrating Humanities Spring Awards
2012-05-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The annual “Celebrating Humanities” event is an important opportunity to acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition, awards, distinctions and honors over the course of this last year. Highlights include the presentation of the John Dizikes Teaching Awards in Humanities, which honors the teaching efforts of faculty.
Event Photos:
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The categories for acknowledgement this year are:

Faculty Awards and Honors
Research Grants and Fellowships
Teaching Awards and Instructional Innovation
Major Publications
Undergraduate Awards and Honors:
• HUGRA – supports and encourages undergraduate research in the Humanities
• Dean’s and Chancellor’s – granted to undergraduates who have completed an outstanding senior thesis or project during the current academic year

This year’s Celebrating Humanities event will be held in conjunction with the HUGRA awards. Following is the schedule:
1:00 – 3:00 pm: HUGRA Awards
3:00 – 4:00 pm: Refreshments
4:00 – 6:00 pm: Spring Awards

"Emergent Communities in Experimental Writing" Conference
2012-05-04 09:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This conference is organized around experimental writing and its many, varying communities including performance art collaborations, small press publishing and editorial projects, virtual and digital work, academic affiliations, and intersecting aesthetic, social and political identities and representations. The goal of this conference is to embrace the productive and generative connotations of these two terms as innovative acts and encounters that are always in the process of both venturing to do something previously untried, and questioning and testing the very boundaries and mores, however contingent, established by those attempts. Of particular interest is how writing communities might be changing historically in the early twenty-first century, and how writers theorize and make use (or not) of various conceptualizations and practices of community. What do such formations include and leave out? What are the conditions of possibility for a community to emerge? From where does one emerge? How are writing communities that share an often contested collective vision themselves experimental formations for attempting new modes of relation, affiliation and creation? This conference is organized around experimental writing and its many, varying communities including performance art collaborations, small press publishing and editorial projects, virtual and digital work, academic affiliations, and intersecting aesthetic, social and political identities and representations. The goal of this conference is to embrace the productive and generative connotations of these two terms as innovative acts and encounters that are always in the process of both venturing to do something previously untried, and questioning and testing the very boundaries and mores, however contingent, established by those attempts. Of particular interest is how writing communities might be changing historically in the early twenty-first century, and how writers theorize and make use (or not) of various conceptualizations and practices of community. What do such formations include and leave out? What are the conditions of possibility for a community to emerge? From where does one emerge? How are writing communities that share an often contested collective vision themselves experimental formations for attempting new modes of relation, affiliation and creation? (Conference website: http://ucsccommunitypoetryconf.tumblr.com/)
Friday
9:00-9:30am Opening Comments
9:30-10:45am Panel
3 papers, one respondent
11:00am-12:15pm Panel
3 papers, one respondent
12:15-1:15pm Lunch / Collaborative Writing Tables
1:15-2:30pm Roundtable
4 presenters
2:45-4:00pm Panel
3 papers, one respondent
4:30-6:30pm Dinner
7:00pm Poetry Reading at the Felix Kulpa Gallery
Saturday
9:00-10:15am Panel
3 papers, one respondent
10:30-11:45 Panel
3 papers, one respondent
11:45am-1:00pm Lunch / Reading
1:00-2:15pm Roundtable
4 presenters
2:30-4:00pm Panel
3 papers, one respondent
4:00-6:15pm Dinner
6:30pm Poetry Reading at the Felix Kulpa Gallery

Matthew Tucker, "Variable Agreement: The Morphosyntax of Syntactic Binding"
2012-05-04 16:00 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Matthew Tucker
This talk discusses the interplay between syntax (the order of words and structure in sentences) and morphology (the structure of words) in natural language and the role it can play in linguistic theorizing. While traditional approaches often look at purely syntactic or purely morphological explanations, data from three unrelated syntactic phenomena can be understood in a unified light if theories of language take the syntax- morphology interface as an object of study. The first of these, called the Anaphor Agreement Effect, involves the inability of reflexive elements (such as English himself, or Italian se stesso) to control verbal agreement. The second and third are the inability of question words in some languages to control regular verbal agreement, known variably as the Anti-Agreement Effect and wh-Agreement. Drawing on data from Berber, Italian, Abaza, and other genetically unrelated languages, I show that a unified understanding of these processes can be given if morphology is allowed to interpret the same syntactic structures in one of several different ways, corresponding to the range of empirical phenomena seen in reflexive and question agreement. This in turn supports a methodological conclusion that deep descriptive, partially abstract linguistic analysis is a prerequisite to understanding the possible space of cross-linguistic variation.
Matthew Tucker is a fifth year graduate student in the Department of Linguistics. Mr. Tucker’s research focuses on the interaction between syntax (word order) and other parts of language. He is involved in the IHR research cluster Crosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax-Prosody, where his work focuses on Arabic and the connections between syntax and word-level metrical structure.

“Emergent Communities in Experimental Writing” Conference
2012-05-05 09:00 - 20:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Patricia Lunn: "In the Defense of Linguistic Grammar"
2012-05-07 17:00 - 19:00 | Humanities 1, Room 320
LANGUAGE PROGRAM COLLOQUIUM SERIES PRESENTS:
“In the Defense of Linguistic Grammar”

Patricia Lunn
Professor Emeritus of Spanish Michigan State University
Discussions about teaching grammar in the foreign language classroom are usually cast in terms of when (in order of acquisition) and how much (as against other activities). A little-discussed aspect of grammar teaching is what the content of grammar lessons should be. But not all grammatical description is equal, and some is not even accurate. This presentation argues that the simplicity and descriptive adequacy of linguistic grammar should be recognized and exploited.

Are You My Data? A Research Ethics Forum
2012-05-08 13:00 - 17:00 | University Center, UCSC, College Nine and College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Office of Research is sponsoring a series of Research Ethics Fora for faculty, postdocs and graduate students. The first forum in the Series “Are You My Data?” is on Tuesday May 8th in the Alumni Room of the University Center and is hosted by Prof. Jennifer Reardon of the Science & Justice Working Group. This is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the challenges of managing research data.

Are You My Data?

With a human genome sequenced and a map of variable sites in that genome created, governments and many other public and private actors now seek to make genomic data relevant to health, medicine and the society. However, to do so they must navigate the conjunction of two different approaches to data. Within the biomedical domain there are important, well-articulated infrastructures and commitments arising out of concerns about individual rights, patient privacy and the doctor-patient relationship that limit access to biomedical data. This stands in stark contrast to the culture of open access forged by those who worked on the Human Genome Project, and that has continued to be a central commitment of ongoing Human Genome research. Thus, architects of the genomic revolution face competing, complex technical and ethical challenges that arise from this meeting of these domains with substantially different ethos. Additionally, the rise of social media has led to a broad and contested discussion about the proper relationship between persons and data and who profits through access to it.

The goal of the proposed workshop is to map out the challenges of building and controlling genomic data architectures that are responsive to these conditions. Rather than suggesting that either openness or privacy is the answer, the workshop will ask which kinds of openness and privacy might be possible and adequate, and in which contexts? Further, who has the authority to decide? Who can/should authorize the flow of data and what forms of consent are required? What kinds of flow of data should be allowed (e.g., ones that lead back to persons, etc.)? Finally, the workshop will consider questions around where and how data should be accessed. Is “the cloud” a viable option? What other options exist to manage deluging data, and what ethical and material challenges do they present?

While the workshop will focus on the specific context of genomics, of course the broader issues raised are not unique to genomics. We hope the workshop is only one of several we will host to consider the current gathering of fundamental and entwined issues of science, engineering, ethics and policy at the site of data.

Schedule
1:00-2:30 Panel 1: The Collision of Privacy and Openness
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-4:15 Panel 2: Creating and Sustaining Trust
4:15-4:30 BREAK
4:30-5:00 Agenda Setting for Future Discussions
Speakers:
Confirmed (*)
*David Winickoff, Associate Professor of Bioethics and Society, UC Berkeley
*Malia Fullerton, Associate Professor in the Department of Bioethics & Humanities at the University of Washington School of Medicine
*Bob Zimmerman, Program Director, Cancer Genome Hub
*John Wilbanks, VP of Science, Science Commons

Loren Goldman: “Vaclav Havel and the Politics and Practice of Hope”
2012-05-09 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:

Loren Goldman
Assistant Professor, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Townsend Fellow at UCB
Professor Goldman is a political theorist whose work concerns the intersection of utopian thought and political agency. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the concept of political hope in the modern period from Kant to Dewey.
Co-sponsored by The Politics Department

Jon Varese: "Digital Dickens".
2012-05-09 16:30 - 18:00 | McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special Collections
The Dickens Project would like to welcome everyone to visit the exhibit of its 32-year history, mounted in four display cases just outside Special Collections on the 3rd floor of McHenry Library. The exhibit makes note of both the scholarly and the outreach missions of the Project, and will be up for the duration of Spring Quarter.In conjunction with the exhibit, Jon Varese, Director of Digital Initiatives for the Dickens Project, who recently completed his PhD in Literature at UCSC, will give a talk called “Digital Dickens”, Seating is very limited. A reception will follow, downstairs in the Library.

Mussolini's Secret
2012-05-09 17:30 - 19:00 | Classroom Unit 2, Classroom Unit‎ University of California Santa Cruz, UC Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UCSC Language Program, Italian Studies Program, Cowell Provost and History Department
Present:

A 2005 documentary folk by Gianfranco Norelli and Fabrizio Laurenti followed by a conversation with director Norelli.
Reception at Cowell Provost’s House 7:00PM.

Running tim 55 minutes in English
Mussolini’s Secret tells the unknown story of Benito Albino, Mussolini’s secret son, and his mother Ida Dalser, and documents the inner workings of a dictatorship and the ways in which ordinary people collaborate in the destruction of innocent fellow citizens.
For information contact gckg@ucsc.edu

Trevor Joy Sangrey: “’Put One More “S” in the USA’: Pamphlet Literature and the Productive Fiction of the Black Nation Thesis”
2012-05-10 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In 1928 the Communist Party developed an unconventional and intriguing proposal that black people in the Black Belt of the Southern United States were an unrecognized national group and should have rights to self-determination, a move later called the “Black Nation Thesis.” Written in Moscow, the Black Nation Thesis was forged in the US through direct action campaigns for the Scottsboro Nine, local organizing around unemployment, and an extensive production of pamphlets.
This paper focuses on pamphlets produced between 1932 and 1935, especially The American Negro, The Position of Negro Women, and The Negroes in a Soviet America, looking at the pamphlets as a literature of dissent that offers a strong critique of Jim Crow, Chain Gangs, Lynch Law, and the economic and cultural oppression of black people. Alongside a critical analysis of the US, the pamphlet develops a fictional a concept of a “Soviet America” in the Black Belt, offering a new vision of radical freedom for black Southerners and enabling new conversations about race and class.
Tracing a different history of black radicalism in small press pamphlet literature, this paper looks at a specific moment of dissident print culture, whcih was spectacular, imaginative, and importantly pedagogical. Probing how radical visions grow and spread, my research on 1930s CPUSA pamphlets reveals how pamphlets offer a place for internal critical thinking and stimulate movement participants to generate substantive critique of the US while also developing their own visions for a radical future.
Trevor Joy Sangrey is a PhD candidate working in history, education, american studies, race and ethnicity studies, and gender studies, with a focus on social movements. Trevor also teaches and has published in the interdisciplinary field of Transgender Studies.

Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Natalie Handal
2012-05-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Natalie Handal is an award-winning poet, playwright, and editor. She has lived in Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Arab world. Her poetry collections include: The Neverfield, The Lives of Rain, shortlisted for The Agnes Lynch Starret Poetry Prize and the recipient of the Menada Literary Award, and Love and Strange Horses, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010, winner of the Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award 2011, and an Honorable Mention at the San Francisco Book Festival and the New England Book Festival. The New York Times says it is “a book that trembles with belonging (and longing).” She is a Lannan Foundation Fellow, a Fundación Araguaney Fellow, recipient of the Alejo Zuloaga Order in Literature 2011, the AE Ventures Fellowship, an Honored Finalist for the 2009 Gift of Freedom Award, and was shortlisted for New London Writers Awards and The Arts Council of England Writers Awards. Handal was listed as one of the “100 Most Powerful Arab Women 2011” in a Special Report by ArabianBusiness.com. Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa writes: “This cosmopolitan voice belongs to the human family, and it luxuriates in crossing necessary borders.” Her new collection, Poet in Andalucía, is forthcoming in Spring 2012.
The Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Fund, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Literature Department/Creative Writing Program, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, East Asian Studies Program, Bay Tree Bookstore, Latino and Latin American Studies Center, Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, El Centro, Cantu Queer Center, Chicano Latino Research Center, Stevenson College, Oakes College, and Merrill College.
Books are sold at the readings by The Bay Tree Bookstore.

Graduate Research Symposium
2012-05-11 13:30 - 16:30 | University Center, UCSC, College Nine and College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join us on Friday, May 11th for the 8th Annual Graduate Research Symposium. This event offers 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 featurs 20 oral and live presentations, 100 poster presentations and 5 media presentations, representing a wide range of research from insight into California Sea Otter population, to song and rhetoric in mondern Italy. Once again the Terminal Degree Jazz Band will entertain us out on the veranda for the entirety of the event.
For participant and presenter information, please click here to download the program, or visit the Division of Graduate Studies website.

CANCELLED: Linguistics Colloquium: Dominique Sportiche
2012-05-11 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Dominique Sportiche works on formal syntax. He has focused on the theory of constituent structure, and properties of the syntax/semantics interface (especially in French and the Romance languages) as they bear on the architecture of syntactic or grammatical theory and on cognition in general. He has published work on phrase structure, agreement, clitics, and reconstruction phenomena. His current theoretical interests and ongoing works include phrase structure and the functional sequence, the internal structure of VPs, reconstruction phenomena and the binding theory. From an empirical standpoint his work focalizes primarily on various aspects of the syntax systems of English, and of French and the Romance languages (complementizers, relative pronouns, reflexive constructions, binding theory). In recent years his work has extended to the relation between linguistic theory and (i) linguistic impairment (in Huntington’s disease patients), (ii) very early acquisition of syntax and (iii) grounding theoretical choices in more systematic methods of data collection and control (particularly regarding the binding theory, and the French complementizer system).
Dominique Sportiche is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles.
This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.

Elsa Davidson: "The Burdens of Aspiration: Schools, Youth, and Success in the Divided Social Worlds of Silicon Valley"
2012-05-14 12:30 - 14:00 | College 8, Room 301, College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Elsa Davidson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Montclair State University in New Jersey. Her research focuses on processes of aspiration formation and social reproduction among youth from diverse class, racial, and ethnic backgrounds. In particular, Dr. Davidson is interested in how young people forge aspirations in relation to experiences of schooling, rapid social and economic transformation, and their exposure to emergent ideals of citizenship in the contemporary United States. She is the author of The Burdens of Aspiration: Schools, Youth, and Success in the Divided Social Worlds of Silicon Valley (New York University Press, 2011) from which this talk is drawn. She has also published articles in American Anthropologist, Environment & Planning A, and Ethnography.
The Urban Studies is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research, which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network.

Dr. Immanuel Wallerstein: “World-Systems Analysis and the Disciplines: The Past, the Present, and Hopefully the Future”
2012-05-15 | Kresge Town Hall
The Department of Anthropology’s Emerging Worlds Lecture SeriesProfessor Immanuel Wallerstein

Yale University“World-Systems Analysis and the Disciplines: The Past, the Present, and Hopefully the Future”

Professor David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University, Discussant
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
7:00pm-9:00pm
Kresge Town HallGraduate Student Workshop
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
10:00am – 12:00 noon
Social Sciences 1, Room 261
Graduate Student and Faculty Reading Seminar
Reading: Immanuel Wallerstein, The Uncertainties of Knowledge (available at the Literary Guillotine)
2:00pm – 4:00pm
Location: TBA

Pre-registration requested: Please email Allyson Ramage ataramage@ucsc.edu

Professor Immanuel Wallerstein is the pre-eminent theorist of world-systems. His writings have consistently focused on the unequal distribution of resources, power and life chances resulting from world-systems hierarchies. His work on world-systems subsequently led him to analyze the ordering of disciplinary knowledge. Professor Wallerstein is currently Senior Research Scholar at Yale and formerly Director of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations at SUNY, Binghamton, where he was also distinguished professor of Sociology.Professor David Palumbo-Liu co-edited, with Bruce Robbins and Nirvana Tanoukhi, Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture (Duke University Press, 2011). His most recent work is The Deliverance of Others–Reading Literature in a Global Age ( Duke UP, forthcoming).
These events are co-sponsored by the Division of Graduate Studies, the Division of Social Sciences and Kresge College.

Kate Brown: "Dismantling the Plutonium Curtain: Local Knowledge and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters"
2012-05-16 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Kate Brown
History Associate Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Modern utopias and nuclear wastelands come together in Professor Brown’s “Plutopia” about the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium–Richland, Washington and Ozersk, Russia. New postwar communities of high-risk affluence alongside plutonium disasters and public health catastrophes were thus created on two of the world’s most radiated landscapes.
CO-SPONSORS: History, Anthropology

Reading: Immanuel Wallerstein: "The Uncertainties of Knowledge"
2012-05-16 14:00 - 16:00 | Kresge Town Hall
The Department of Anthropology’s Emerging Worlds Lecture Series
Professor Immanuel Wallerstein

Yale University“World-Systems Analysis and the Disciplines: The Past, the Present, and Hopefully the Future”

Professor David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University, Discussant
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
7:00pm-9:00pm
Kresge Town Hall Graduate Student Workshop
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
10:00am – 12:00 noon
Social Sciences 1, Room 261Graduate Student and Faculty Reading Seminar
Reading: Immanuel Wallerstein, The Uncertainties of Knowledge (available at the Literary Guillotine)
2:00pm – 4:00pm
Location: TBA

Pre-registration requested: Please email Allyson Ramage ataramage@ucsc.edu

Professor Immanuel Wallerstein is the pre-eminent theorist of world-systems. His writings have consistently focused on the unequal distribution of resources, power and life chances resulting from world-systems hierarchies. His work on world-systems subsequently led him to analyze the ordering of disciplinary knowledge. Professor Wallerstein is currently Senior Research Scholar at Yale and formerly Director of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations at SUNY, Binghamton, where he was also distinguished professor of Sociology.
Professor David Palumbo-Liu co-edited, with Bruce Robbins and Nirvana Tanoukhi, Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture (Duke University Press, 2011). His most recent work is The Deliverance of Others–Reading Literature in a Global Age ( Duke UP, forthcoming).These events are co-sponsored by the Division of Graduate Studies, the Division of Social Sciences and Kresge College.

Tarlochan Singh Nahal: "Religion and Politics in Sikhism"
2012-05-16 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Dr. Tarlochan Singh Nahal will speak about his new book, Religion and Politics in Sikhism, in conversation with Professor Nirvikar Singh. Dr. Nahal received his PhD in Political Science from Senior University International, under the supervision of Dr. Noel Q. King, then Professor Emeritus at UCSC. Dr. Nahal has organized several international conferences on Sikhism, and he works actively with local Sikh youth promoting sports and healthy living.
All are welcome to attend. There will be time for questions and answers with the audience, and light refreshments will be served.
Biography: Dr. Tarlochan Singh Nahal was born in the Jalandhar district of Punjab, India. He received an M.A. degree in English from Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar in 1977. He also studied Punjabi at M. A. level and finished M.A. Part I with a distinction. He won the Punjab State Merit Scholarship in B.A. Part III. He was the captain of the college wrestling team at Guru Gobind Singh Republic College, Jandiala (Jalandhar), Punjab. He came to the US in 1979. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Senior University International, Wyoming in 1999 under the supervision of late Dr. Noel Q. King, Professor Emeritus UC Santa Cruz, California. The topic of his Ph.D. thesis was “Miri and Piri: Religion and Politics in Sikhism with Special Reference to the Sikh Struggle (1947-1997).”
Dr. Nahal is currently employed as a Sr. Staff Technical Writer at Qualcomm Atheros, Inc. in San Jose, CA. He has been working as a Technical Writer in the Silicon Valley for the last 29 years and has written over 150 technical manuals in the computer industry. Dr. Nahal has been invited by various Universities and Sikh and non-Sikh organizations to speak on various topics related to Sikhism in the US and Canada. He has organized several Sikh Academic conferences in the San Jose area over the last seventeen years. He has appeared on local and regional television and radio many times on the Sikh issues. He is often consulted by the news media on various Sikh issues. Dr. Tarlochan Singh Nahal is one of the founding members of Sikh Gurdwara – San Jose. He has served as the Secretary General of World Sikh Council – America Region, a representative body of Sikh Gurdwaras and institutions in the US.
Dr. Nahal has been actively working with local Sikh youth in promoting sports and healthy living. He has been working as the Secretary General of Sikh Sports Association of USA for the last several years.
Dr. Nahal has written dozens of research papers. He is an avid reader and maintains a large personal library that has thousands of books. He is the author of Religion and Politics in Sikhism: The Khalsa Perspective, a major academic work dealing with religious and political aspects of Sikhism, especially the Khalistan movement. He is currently doing some research on ancient Punjab related to Alexander the Great’s invasion of Punjab in 326 B.C. He is also doing some research on the Ghadar Movement started by the Sikhs in California around 1914.
Dr. Nahal has been honored twice with a siropa (Robe of Honor) from Sri Akal Takhat Sahib the seat of Sikh Spiritual and Temporal authority at Amritsar, India in 2008 and 2011, respectively for his research on the Sikh history and dedication to the Khalsa Panth.
Dr. Nahal lives in San Jose, California with his family. He can be reached at tnahal99@yahoo.com.

Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Tom Marshall & Rusty Morrison
2012-05-17 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Having survived residence in 4 states and 1 province, 20 towns & cities, 23 jobs, 3 families, and 15 schools, Marshall has slipped the noose of his handful of chapbooks and for now settled into a fresh way of making his poetry: free and green in blogbooks online. Impressed by the productive tensions between vocabularies in leading arts like dance, he has let pictures into his poems. This began with a chuckle at Facebook and the form it offered with its way for posting a photo and saying something about it. His work still gets picked up by magazines, but they too are drifting into the ether to find new formats. Teaching at many institutions (Cabrillo College for the last 22 years) has taught him about ineffable effect, and politics have turned him away from object production. Marshall is a product of his times, here and there on the web, but not a commodity.
Rusty Morrison is an American poet and publisher. She received a BA in English from Mills College in Oakland, California, an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California, and an MA in Education from California State University, San Francisco. She has taught in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco, and was Poet in Residence at Saint Mary’s College in 2009. She has also served as a visiting poet at a number of colleges and universities, including the University of Redlands, Redlands, California; University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; Boise State University, Boise, Idaho; Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, Oregon, and Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois. In 2001, Morrison and her husband, Ken Keegan, founded Omnidawn Publishing in Richmond, California and continue to work as co-publishers.
The Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Fund, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Literature Department/Creative Writing Program, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, East Asian Studies Program, Bay Tree Bookstore, Latino and Latin American Studies Center, Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, El Centro, Cantu Queer Center, Chicano Latino Research Center, Stevenson College, Oakes College, and Merrill College.
Books are sold at the readings by The Bay Tree Bookstore.

Linguistics Colloquium: Lisa Davidson
2012-05-18 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Lisa Davidson
Lisa Davidson is Associate Professor of Linguistics, Director of the Phonetics & Experimental Phonology Lab and Affiliate Faculty in Psychology at New York University. Her research focuses on laboratory phonology, speech production and perception, and language acquisition.
This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.

International Playhouse XII
2012-05-18 20:00 - 22:00 | Stevenson Event Center
COWELL COLLEGE, STEVENSON COLLEGE, & THE LANGUAGE PROGRAM present
International Playhouse XII
THEATER PIECES in EIGHT languages with ENGLISH SUPERTITLES
THURSDAY & SATURDAY, May 17 &19, 2012, at 8 PM (Chinese Italian Russian French)
神來之筆 (The Magic Brush)
by A. Stang, directed by Ting-Ting Wu and Anna Stang
LA RAGAZZA MELA (The Apple Girl)
by I. Calvino, directed by Giulia Centineo and Tessa Brown
Пациент (The Patient)
by S. Dovlatov, directed by Natalya Samokhina
LA CANTATRICE CHAUVE (The Bald Soprano)
by E. Ionesco, directed by Miriam Ellis

FRIDAY & SUNDAY, May 18 & 20, at 8 PM (Greek German Japanese Spanish)
ΝΕΦΕΛΑΙ (Clouds)
by Aristophanes, directed by Alexander Clayden
AUGEN IN DER GROßSTADT (Metropolitan Montage)
by Tucholsky et al., directed by Judith Harris-Frisk
柑子 (Three Tangerines)
Based on an Izumi School script
DIFUNTOS DE FIN DE SIGLO (The Dead at Century’s End)
by E. Carballido, directed by Carolina Castillo-Trelles and Marta Navarro

An Evening with David Talbot
2012-05-22 16:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Humanities Division and the Institute for Humanities Research presents:
An Evening with David Talbot

David Talbot, founder and CEO of the San Francisco based web magazine Salon, is uniquely poised to tell his iconic city’s story in all its terrible glory. He will read from his new book, Season of the Witch. Talbot has worked as a senior editor for Mother Jones magazine and as a features editor for the San Francisco Examiner. Talbot has written for The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, TIME among other publications. Talbot, who lives with his family in San Francisco is a 1973 graduate of Stevenson College, UC Santa Cruz.
This event is cosponsored by Stevenson College.
Photo by Sibylla Herbrich.

Anjali Arondekar: "Orienting Margins: Sexuality’s Geopolitics"
2012-05-23 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Anjali Arondekar
Associate Professor, Feminist Studies, UCSC
Histories of sexuality routinely mediate geopolitical difference(s) through the narrative forms of marginality, disenfranchisement and loss. What happens if we shift our attention from the reading of sexuality as marginality to understanding it as a site of vitalized abundance–even futurity?

Thirteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
2012-05-24 08:45 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Opening Remarks 8:45 – 9:00 a.m.
Karen Tei Yamashita Director, Literature Department Undergraduate Program
Panel One: Creative Writing: Memoir
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Claire Williams: This Girl Pulls the Whole World Over Herself: A Short Memoir in 3 Parts
Lauren Vargas: The Echoes of Light
Cynthia Pinto: A Picture Starts a Lifetime
Cheyenne Street Houck: Heritage
Brooke Velasquez: Things I Did After My Mother Died
Panel Two: Translation Theory
10:45 – 11:45 a.m.
Rosa Angélica Castañeda: En Palabras Este Son: A creative transposition of the Mexican Folklórico dance El Son de La Negra
Abigail Louise Jennings: Huckleberry Finn: Putting Theory into Practice
Kyle Thomson: Playing for a Limited Stage Only: The Difficulty of Translating Resistance and Spectatorship as Cultural Memory
Panel Three: Literature and the Body
12:00 – 1:15 p.m.
Hannah Louise Denyer: Code, Language, and the Wild
Cory Austin Knudson: Mind/Body: Toward Asymptotic Becoming
Kerry Keith: Escaping Exile: The (Im)Prisoned Body of Assata Shakur
Alexis Robles: Transformations of Little Red Riding Hood: Erotic, Traditional, and Feminist Bodies
LUNCH BUFFET 1:15 – 1:45 p.m.
Panel Four: Poetry: Pre/Early/Modern
1:45 – 2:45 p.m.
Crystal Franco: How to go Beyond Language by Using Language: Metaphor’s Groundbreaking Role in Maurice Scève’s Emblems of Desire
Amber McCready: Visual and Auditory Codes in “El Desdichado”
Brenda Houser: Transgendering Comedy and Pathos in Ovid’s “Iphis and Ianthe”
Panel Five: Literature and Film
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Kile Bigbee: Lost in Fear: The Experience of The Blair Witch Project
Merav Walklet: “I’VE COME HERE TO CHEW BUBBLEGUM AND TO KICK ASS… …AND I’M ALL OUT OF BUBBLEGUM.”
Alyssa Shimmin: Fantasy and Wish Fulfillment in Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994): An Oedipal Reading of Dylan
Closing Remarks 4:00 p.m.
Karen Bassi Chair, Literature Department
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. ALL ARE INVITED!
For more information: Literature.ucsc.edu, or litdept@ucsc.edu

Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Justin Chin
2012-05-24 18:00 - 19:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Justin Chin was born in Malaysia, raised & educated in Singapore, shipped to the U.S. by way of Hawaii, and now living in San Francisco. Author of 3 books of poetry, all published by Manic D Press: Bite Hard (1997); Harmless Medicine (2001), a finalist in the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Awards; and, Gutted (2006), which received the 2007 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry by the Publishing Triangle. Squeezed in between these were 2 non-fictions: Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes & Pranks (St. Martins, 1999), and the ur-memoir, Burden of Ashes (Alyson Publications, 2002).
The Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Fund, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Literature Department/Creative Writing Program, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, East Asian Studies Program, Bay Tree Bookstore, Latino and Latin American Studies Center, Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, El Centro, Cantu Queer Center, Chicano Latino Research Center, Stevenson College, Oakes College, and Merrill College.
Books are sold at the readings by The Bay Tree Bookstore.

Michael Ursell:“Surviving Humanism: Petrarchan Autobiography and Ecology"
2012-05-30 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Michael Ursell
Literature, UCSC
While critics have dismissed an image of the Renaissance humanist Petrarch as a nature-lover, this talk reconsiders a poetics of the living in his work. Professor Ursell looks at how Petrarch’s “life writing” and “life reading” have been understood in relation to global ecology and world literature.

Sam Ball: "Graphic Novelists on Film"
2012-05-31 10:00 - 12:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
SAM BALL WILL PRESENT HIS WORK WITH TWO GRAPHIC NOVELISTS:
Joann Sfar Draws from Memory and Ben Katchor: Pleasures of Urban Decay
Sam Ball’s documentaries have been exhibited at many of America’s most prestigious venues for independent film, ranging from the Sundance Film Festival to the Museum of Modern Art – New York’s documentary fortnight, and several of them have aired on public television. His most recent film, Joann Sfar Draws from Memory (a collaboration with KQED PRESENTS, distributed to PBS affiliates nationally) profiles a bestselling graphic novelist whose work explores intersections of North African and European heritage.
This event is presented by UCSC’s Center for Jewish Studies, and is made possible from generous support from the David B. Gold Foundation. For more information, please contact Shann Ritchie at the Institute for Humanities Research, sritchie@ucsc.edu, or (831) 459-3527.

Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Lysley Tenorio
2012-05-31 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Lysley Tenorio is a Filipino-American short story writer. Lysley Tenorio’s stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, Manoa, and The Best New American Voices and Pushcart Prize anthologies. A Whiting Writer’s Award winner and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he has received fellowships from the University of Wisconsin, Phillips Exeter Academy, Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Tenorio currently lives in San Francisco, and is an associate professor at Saint Mary’s College of California.
The Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Fund, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Literature Department/Creative Writing Program, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, East Asian Studies Program, Bay Tree Bookstore, Latino and Latin American Studies Center, Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, El Centro, Cantu Queer Center, Chicano Latino Research Center, Stevenson College, Oakes College, and Merrill College.
Books are sold at the readings by The Bay Tree Bookstore.

Hotze Rullman: "Epistemic Modality in the Scope of Past Tense"
2012-06-01 04:00 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Abstract: For many years the majority opinion in the literature has been that epistemic modals cannot scope under past tense (e.g., Groenendijk & Stokhof 1975, Cinque 1999, Abraham 2001, Drubig 2001, Fagan 2001, Condoravdi 2002, Stowell 2004, Hacquard 2006, Borgonovo & Cummins 2007, Demirdache & Uribe-Etxebarria 2008, Laca 2008). This view is based largely on the claim that epistemic modals in unembedded contexts are never interpreted with a past temporal perspective (in the sense of Condoravdi 2002).
In this paper we provide data from four languages (English, Dutch, Gitksan, and St’át’imcets) to show that epistemic modals can scope under past tense. We thus join the minority of researchers who believe that past-T.P. epistemic readings are possible (e.g., Eide 2003, Boogart 2007, Martin 2009, Homer 2010, von Fintel and Gillies 2008), but unlike many of these authors, we do not explain away the readings as dependent on free indirect discourse or some other exceptional mechanism. On the contrary, we claim that the null hypothesis holds with respect to interactions between tense and the conversational backgrounds of modals: there are no grammatical constraints. In principle, any modal can have any type of conversational background, irrespective of its relation to tense.
Our analysis is a modified version of Condoravdi’s, with certain restrictions removed; we also build on insights from Abusch (2008). For English, we rely not on have optionally scoping over the modal, but on have optionally triggering the defective past tense of might. This is independently motivated by the behaviour of might and the other defective past-tense modals in sequence of tense environments (cf. Stowell 2004).
Hotze Rullman is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia. This talk is presented by UCSC’s Department of Linguistics.

Digital Art & Democracy: People, Places, Participation
2012-06-01 14:00 - 17:00 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab, Room 306
Have recent developments in digital art led to new “democratic” spaces? Who constitutes a democratic subject in on-line digital space? What does a new politics of representation look like? How do race and ethnicity appear (or disappear) in such spaces? How can artworks constitute democratic audiences? Join scholars and artists as they discuss these topics and recent online projects. Participants include Jennifer Gonzalez, Carlos Motta, Soraya Murray, Warren Sack and Peggy Weil.
http://people.ucsc.edu/~jag/digitalartdemo.html

Robert Weinberg: "Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia: Popular Antisemitism, the Occult and the Trial of Mendel Beilis"
2012-06-05 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Professor Weinberg will explore the nature of popular antisemitism in the Russian Empire during the trial of Mendel Beilis, a Kievan Jew accused of ritual murder in 1913. Concerned citizens sent letters to the prosecution during the trial in order to buttress the government’s case against Beilis. The letters permit us to delve into the popular beliefs and practices of the literate public and provide insight into the social, intellectual, and cultural tensions caused by late Imperial Russia’s encounter with modernity.
Bio: Professor Weinberg has been teaching at Swarthmore College for nearly 25 years. His research has focused on various aspects of the Jewish experience in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. His first book examined Jewish-gentile relations in the context of the 1905 revolution in Odessa (Blood on the Steps: The Revolutoin of 1905 in Odessa) and his second book explored the establishment of the Jewish Autonomous Region, aka Birobidzhan, in the Soviet Far East (Stalin’s Forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland). He is currently putting the finishing touches on a document reader about the Beilis Affair.

Funding Workshop for Graduate Students on June 6
2012-06-06 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The IHR will host a workshop on funding opportunities and grant writing on Wednesday, June 6.
FOOD AND COFFEE provided! Please email Irena Polić (ipolic@ucsc.edu) by May 23rd if you are interested in coming, so that we can order the appropriate amount of food.
Please also email Irena by then a list of topics you would like to see covered, and any questions you have about resources available to you on our campus.
We hope to see you there!

Zaricor Rare Flags on Display
2012-06-07 13:30 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join us for this unique opportunity to view the Zaricor Flag Collection.

Flags from: U.S. Presidents, Abraham Lincoln, World Trade Center, George Custer, True Betsy Ross, Women’s Suffrage, Taliban, and many more will be shown.

36 Star President A. Lincoln Mourning Flag, photo courtesy of Zaricor Flag Collection.

1:30-3:00 pm with formal remarks and Q&A at 2 pm

Open to students, staff, faculty and the general public. Admission is free.

Parking permits may be purchased at the main entrance kiosk.
Similar information and flyer (attached) can be found by visiting
http://socialsciences.ucsc.edu/news-events/events/zaricor-flags.html

Sponsored by the Zaricor Family, the Division of Humanities, and the Division of Social Sciences.

Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Student Reading
2012-06-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

The Sammy Awards
2012-06-15 19:00 - 22:00 | Rio Theater, 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062, United States
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Join us for the Sammy Awards, the UC Santa Cruz Annual Game Design Awards showcasing student work from the Computer Science Game Design major.
Featuring CS Chair Jim WHitehead as MC, and a panel of tech and game industry judges from Google, Microsoft, EA, Pixar, and more!
Music by Terminal Degree! http://terminaldegree.posterous.com/
This event is open to the public.
When: Friday, June 15th, 7-10pm
Where: The Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Avenue.
Tickets: $5, advance purchase only. We can not sell tickets at the door!
To register: http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/registration/1
More info: http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/sammys-2012

Media Systems Workshop
2012-08-26 - 2012-08-29 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Full dates: Sunday, August 26th through Wednesday, August 29th.
Our project seeks to catalyze major progress in how we create and understand the computational systems that drive interactive media. We will begin by convening a set of field leaders who have been working across the boundaries of media-focused computer science, the digital humanities, and the digital arts. This is supported by an unprecedented group of partners: the National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, and both Microsoft Research and Microsoft Studios. Our meeting will take place August 26th through 29th of 2012 on the campus of UC Santa Cruz, hosted by the Center for Games and Playable Media in collaboration with the Institute for Humanities Research.
Please visit the website for more information: http://mediasystems.soe.ucsc.edu/

Cosmopolitanism in China: 1600-1950
2012-09-08 09:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Over the course of this conference, Cosmopolitanism in China, 1600–1950, we shall explore and rethink aspects of modern Chinese culture, religion, state, and society from various Eurasian and global perspectives. A focus on cosmopolitanism will open new views of the literati theory of knowledge, the transition from the Qing regime to the modern republic, the creation of new social and legal associations, and shifting perceptions of the domestic and the foreign. The conference will be held at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on September 7 and 8, 2012, and is part of “Constructing Modern Knowledge in China, 1600–1949,” a project headed by So-an Chang of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica.
For more information, please visit: http://humweb.ucsc.edu/huminghui/

World Melodrama Film Series - Lumière d'été
2012-10-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Social Sciences I, Room 110, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Lumière d’été (1943; dir. Jean Grémillon) France
Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu

Carla Freccero: "Wolf, or Homo homini lupus"
2012-10-10 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Carla Freccero has taught at UCSC since 1991. This paper, a chapter of the in-progress Animate Figures, explores the long genealogy of human wolf eradication and figuration in the west, from economic competitor in Plautus’s “homo hominy lupus” to sovereign double in Derrida’s The Beast and the Sovereign.
Carla Freccero is Professor and Chair of Literature and History of Consciousness, and Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz.

World Melodrama Film Series - Opfergang
2012-10-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Social Sciences I, Room 110, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Opfergang (1944; dir. Veit Harlan) Germany
Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu

The Living Writers Reading Series: Tisa Bryant
2012-10-11 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Into Archives—Across Genres is a reading/performance series featuring poets, critics, memoirists, activists, visual artists, essayists, short story writers, and novelists who mine various archives to investigate race, gender, sexuality, and class. Writing across multiple disciplines – whether via the epistle, film & photo essay, poem, story, collage or hybrid text – these authors mine history and present day experience, exploring and complicating the possibilities and features of genre in their art.
Tisa Bryant is the author of Unexplained Presence (Leon Works, 2007); co-editor/founder of The Encyclopedia Project, and co-editor of the anthology, War Diaries, a collection of writings on Black gay male desire and survival in the aftermath of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. She recently participated in a conference, “Emergent Communities,” hosted by the Poetics & Politics research cluster at UCSC, a reading tour with The Dark Room Collective, which celebrates the 25th anniversary of their founding of a nationally-renown, self-funded African diasporic reading series and arts exhibition, and has just completed research at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, in Harlem, NY, for her novel, The Curator. Ms. Bryant is faculty in the MFA Writing Program at the California Institute of the Arts.
Co-Sponsored by Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund; Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation; Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center; Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program; UC Presidential Chair Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies; Music Department; Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment; The Ethnic Resource Centers and the African American Resource & Cultural Center; Institute for Humanities Research

Founder's Day Faculty Research Lecturer: Gail Hershatter
2012-10-12 18:30 - 21:00 | Cocoanut Grove, 400 Beach Street , Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Faculty Research Lecturer: For pioneering field research and oral history among Chinese women, and her major contributions to the history of women, labor, and sexuality.
Gail Hershatter is a specialist in Modern Chinese social and cultural history who has pioneered field research and oral history among Chinese women. Her books have covered topics including the formation of the working class in Tianjin in Northern China, prostitution in Shanghai, and the construction of socialism in China in the ’50s and ’60s. She has helped develop feminist theory and has made major contributions to women’s history.
During her 21 years at UCSC, Hershatter also has served as director of the Institute for Humanities Research and co-director of the Center for Cultural Studies on campus.
Registration: Buy Tickets
For more information about Founders Day please visit: http://events.ucsc.edu/founders/

James Martel: "A Revolution No One Believed In: The Haitian Subversion of the Ideals of the French Revolution"
2012-10-17 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Through a study of the Haitian Revolution, James Martel’s recent work not only questions the liberal universalism of the French Revolution, but also the myriad of ways in which Haitians appropriated, subverted, and radicalized Enlightenment principles.
James Martel is Professor and Chair of Political Science at San Francisco State University.

World Melodrama Film Series - Madonna of the Seven Moons
2012-10-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Social Sciences I, Room 110, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945; dir. Arthur Crabtree) United Kingdom
Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu

The Living Writers Reading Series: Kevin Killian and Dodie Bellamy
2012-10-18 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Into Archives—Across Genres is a reading/performance series featuring poets, critics, memoirists, activists, visual artists, essayists, short story writers, and novelists who mine various archives to investigate race, gender, sexuality, and class. Writing across multiple disciplines – whether via the epistle, film & photo essay, poem, story, collage or hybrid text – these authors mine history and present day experience, exploring and complicating the possibilities and features of genre in their art.
Kevin Killian has written two novels, Shy (1989) and Arctic Summer (1997), a book of memoirs, Bedrooms Have Windows (1990), and three books of stories, Little Men (1996), I Cry Like a Baby (2001), and Impossible Princess (2009). He is the author of two coillections of poetry, Argento Series (2001), and Action Kylie (2008). For the San Francisco Poets Theater Killian has written forty plays, most recently Box of Rain (2012). Recent projects include Screen Tests, an edition of Killian’s film writing, a show inspired by the late poet Elizabeth Bishop (in collaboration with artist Ajit Chauhan) at Oakland’s Sight School last fall, and a book of Killian’s intimate photographs, Tagged, to appear in the spring. His new novel, 22 years in the making, is called Spreadeagle from Publication Studio.
Dodie Bellamy’s most recent book is the buddhist. Time Out New York named her chapbook Barf Manifesto, “Best Book Under 30 Pages” for 2009. Other books include Academonia, Pink Steam, Cunt-Ups and The Letters of Mina Harker. She has been awarded a Firecracker Alternative Book Award and a Bay Guardian Goldie Award. She is a columnist for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Open Space blog.
Co-Sponsored by Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund; Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation; Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center; Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program; UC Presidential Chair Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies; Music Department; Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment; The Ethnic Resource Centers and the African American Resource & Cultural Center; Institute for Humanities Research.
