BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20130310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20131103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20140309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20141102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140422T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140422T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140415T194127Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140415T194127Z UID:10004923-1398182400-1398189600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dai Jinhua: Seminar on Still Life\, directed by Jia Zhangke DESCRIPTION:Dai Jinhua at UCSC April 18-April 24 \n \nWe are pleased to announce the visit of Beijing University Professor Dai Jinhua\, who will be on campus for a series of events\, detailed below. Professor Dai is one of China’s foremost cultural critics\, and her writing on cinema\, feminism\, Marxism\, revolutionary movements of the sixties\, class\, and intellectual politics have been enormously influential in China and internationally. Self-described as a communist\, a feminist\, and an internationalist\, she provides original critical perspectives on current configurations of contemporary capitalism–in the cultural\, gender\, political\, social\, and economic spheres–and its possible alternatives. Her work has been translated into many languages\, and has been published in journals such as Positions\, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies\, and Social Text. An English translation of an essay collection–Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua–was published in 2002 at Verso. A second collection of translated essays is in preparation. \nSeminar Readings (English)   Seminar Readings (Chinese)\n \nSchedule:\nI. Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Conference\, April 18 and 19\nProfessor Dai is a panelist on “China and the Future of Global Capitalism”\, Friday April 18\, 2:30 to 5:00 PM\, and is also a panelist on the closing roundtable discussion\, “Ending Capitalism: Speculations and Prospects”\, Saturday April 19\, 3:45-6:00 PM. \nII. Public screening of Still Life\nMonday\, April 21\, at 7PM\, in Humanities I\, room 210.\nThere will be no lecture/discussion at the screening. All are welcome. \nIII. Seminar on Still Life\, directed by Jia Zhangke.\nTuesday\, April 22\, 4:00-6:00 PM\, Humanities I\, room 202. Refreshments will be served.\nStill Life is one of the most important films to come out of China in years\, and Professor Dai’s analysis treats recent mutations in subjectivity\, spatiality\, and socio-economic change\, both in the Chinese context and in relation to international cinema. Prior to the seminar\, participants should view Still Life and read Professor Dai’s essay\, “Temporality\, Nature Morte\, and the Filmmaker: A Reconsideration of Still Life“\, either in the original Chinese or in English translation. \nIV. Lecture: After the Post-Cold War\nThursday\, April 24\, 4:00PM\, Humanities I\, room 210.\nWhere in time is China\, now that the Cold War is over and China seems to have joined a unified “world history”? How does China stand in relation to possible futures\, including a post-capitalist future? What place does the legacy of the Chinese revolution have in these figurations and imaginings? Dai Jinhua’s analysis makes clear that the question of the future of China is a central question for all of our futures.\n  \nProfessor Dai’s visit is made possible primarily by funds from the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Studies Endowment \, the Department of Literature\, and the IHR. Additional support comes from the Departments of Anthropology and History. Principle Organizers: Christopher Connery\, Literature; Lisa Rofel\, Anthropology; Gail Hershatter\, History\, Asad Haider\, History of Consciousness. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dai-jinhua-april-18-april-24-seminar-on-still-life-directed-by-jia-zhangke-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140423T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140423T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140228T203928Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140228T203928Z UID:10005650-1398254400-1398259800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Susan Harding: "Secular Trouble: Anthropology\, Public Schools\, and De/regulating Religion in late 20th Century America" DESCRIPTION:Susan Harding \nProfessor of Anthropology\, UCSC \nSusan Harding’s recent work explores the nexus of secularism\, Christian revivalism\, Civil Rights\, and decolonialization as they imploded in the controversy over a federally funded elementary school curriculum in Anthropology. She reads the curriculum as a national secularizing project that triggered Christian efforts to regulate secularism. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/susan-harding-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140423T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140423T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140422T180520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140422T180520Z UID:10004930-1398272400-1398277800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"Finding the Mother Lode: Italian Immigrants in California" Screening and Q&A with Directors DESCRIPTION:Cowell College Provost\, History Department\, Italian Studies Program\, Languages\, and Applied Linguistics Department present \nA Documentary by Gianfrano Norelli and Suma Kurien\nFollowed by Q&A with Directors \nFinding the Mother Lode provides a bracing contrast to East Coast stories and a new route to understanding the diversity and complexity of ethnic stories. A vivid interpretation of the past–one that recalls the ugly along the beautiful and the conflicts and tragedies along with the solidarity and triumphs.\n– Donna R. Gabaccia\, University of Minnesota URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/finding-the-mother-lode-italian-immigrants-in-california-screening-and-qa-with-directors-2/ LOCATION:Cowell\, Room 131\, Cowell College 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140424T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140424T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140421T165233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140421T165233Z UID:10004928-1398340800-1398346200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Discussion with Joy Harjo DESCRIPTION:Joy Harjo is the author of fourteen collections of poetry\, most recently How We Became Human\, New and Selected Poems: 1975-2001; two non-fiction books\, most recently Crazy Brave\, A Memoir; two children’s books\, For a Girl Becoming; and five recordings\, including Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears. \nAll are invited. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lunch-discussion-with-joy-harjo-2/ LOCATION:Ethnic Resource Lounge\, Bay Tree Conference Center\, Bay Tree Conference Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140424T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140424T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140415T195957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140415T195957Z UID:10004924-1398355200-1398362400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dai Jinhua: "After the Post-Cold War" DESCRIPTION:Dai Jinhua at UCSC April 18-April 24 \n \nWe are pleased to announce the visit of Beijing University Professor Dai Jinhua\, who will be on campus for a series of events\, detailed below. Professor Dai is one of China’s foremost cultural critics\, and her writing on cinema\, feminism\, Marxism\, revolutionary movements of the sixties\, class\, and intellectual politics have been enormously influential in China and internationally. Self-described as a communist\, a feminist\, and an internationalist\, she provides original critical perspectives on current configurations of contemporary capitalism–in the cultural\, gender\, political\, social\, and economic spheres–and its possible alternatives. Her work has been translated into many languages\, and has been published in journals such as Positions\, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies\, and Social Text. An English translation of an essay collection–Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua–was published in 2002 at Verso. A second collection of translated essays is in preparation. \nSeminar Readings (English)   Seminar Readings (Chinese)\n \nSchedule:\nI. Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Conference\, April 18 and 19\nProfessor Dai is a panelist on “China and the Future of Global Capitalism”\, Friday April 18\, 2:30 to 5:00 PM\, and is also a panelist on the closing roundtable discussion\, “Ending Capitalism: Speculations and Prospects”\, Saturday April 19\, 3:45-6:00 PM. \nII. Public screening of Still Life\nMonday\, April 21\, at 7PM\, in Humanities I\, room 210.\nThere will be no lecture/discussion at the screening. All are welcome. \nIII. Seminar on Still Life\, directed by Jia Zhangke.\nTuesday\, April 22\, 4:00-6:00 PM\, Humanities I\, room 202. Refreshments will be served.\nStill Life is one of the most important films to come out of China in years\, and Professor Dai’s analysis treats recent mutations in subjectivity\, spatiality\, and socio-economic change\, both in the Chinese context and in relation to international cinema. Prior to the seminar\, participants should view Still Life and read Professor Dai’s essay\, “Temporality\, Nature Morte\, and the Filmmaker: A Reconsideration of Still Life“\, either in the original Chinese or in English translation. \nIV. Lecture: After the Post-Cold War\nThursday\, April 24\, 4:00PM\, Humanities I\, room 210.\nWhere in time is China\, now that the Cold War is over and China seems to have joined a unified “world history”? How does China stand in relation to possible futures\, including a post-capitalist future? What place does the legacy of the Chinese revolution have in these figurations and imaginings? Dai Jinhua’s analysis makes clear that the question of the future of China is a central question for all of our futures.\n  \nProfessor Dai’s visit is made possible primarily by funds from the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Studies Endowment \, the Department of Literature\, and the IHR. Additional support comes from the Departments of Anthropology and History. Principle Organizers: Christopher Connery\, Literature; Lisa Rofel\, Anthropology; Gail Hershatter\, History\, Asad Haider\, History of Consciousness. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dai-jinhua-april-18-april-24-lecture-after-the-post-cold-war-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140424T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140424T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140124T185019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140124T185019Z UID:10004902-1398362400-1398369600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Joy Harjo (in support of UC Pres Chair-sponsored course: American Indian Feminist writers\, taught by Carolyn Dunn) DESCRIPTION:Joy Harjo is the author of fourteen collections of poetry\, most recently How We Became Human\, New and Selected Poems: 1975-2001; two non-fiction books\, most recently Crazy Brave\, A Memoir; two children’s books\, most recently For a Girl Becoming; and five recordings\, most recently Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears. \nThe spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series\, Dislocations and the Imagined\, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-joy-harjo-in-support-of-uc-pres-chair-sponsored-course-american-indian-feminist-writers-taught-by-carolyn-dunn-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140425 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140428 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20130607T154105Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130607T154105Z UID:10004822-1398384000-1398643199@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Alumni Weekend DESCRIPTION:Please stay tuned for more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reunion-weekend-2/ LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140425T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140425T120000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140421T154757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140421T154757Z UID:10004927-1398423600-1398427200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Shakespeare-to-Go: Hamlet DESCRIPTION:In celebration of Shakespeare’s 450th birthday\, join us for Shakespeare-to-Go’s one-hour production of Hamlet. \nStarring Porter College affiliate Conor Murphy \nOriginal music by Eric Benjamin Parson \nFight choreography by Carla Pantoja \nDirected by Kimberly Jannarone URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/shakespeare-to-go-hamlet-2/ LOCATION:Porter Amphitheater END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140427T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140427T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140425T221011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140425T221011Z UID:10004932-1398625200-1398632400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: Martyrs DESCRIPTION:It’s easy to create a victim. \nOne of the more insightful recent examples of French extreme cinema and “torture porn\,” Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs is a singularly divisive horror film experience. After police officers rescue her following over a year of repeated exposure to torture and torment\, Lucie build up her strength in an orphanage and befriends Anna\, another victim of abuse. Fifteen years later Lucie (Mylène Jampanoï) and Anna (Morjana Alaoui) break into the house of a seemingly middle-of-the-road bourgeois family whom Lucie proceeds to slaughter with gory abandon because she believes them to be the perpetrators of her yearlong suffering and abuse as a child. These gruesome acts give way to some obvious problems (primarily having to do with how to dispose of the bodies) and the unexpected discovery of a hidden staircase that leads to the more affecting and startling atrocity exhibitions (and almost spiritual ordeals of survival) in the film’s second half. Though it is certainly one of the most graphic films we’ll be showing this quarter\, Martyrs is not to be missed! \nFor the remainder of the quarter\, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France\, Japan\, and the United States each week. Same time\, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family\, invite your friends. \nSponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-martyrs-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140428T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140428T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20130903T235845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130903T235845Z UID:10005443-1398675600-1398704400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"Legacies of the Sent-down Youth Movement in Contemporary China" Conference DESCRIPTION:[vc_column width=”2/3″ el_position=”first”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \nThis conference explores the contemporary legacies of the sent-down youth movement that accompanied the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-76)\, during which approximately 15 million urban youth were sent to live in rural villages and state farms for up to ten years. This is a timely moment for such a workshop\, as an increasing number of scholars in China are engaged in research on this subject\, a result of the cottage industry of individual memoirs\, collections of letters\, diaries\, and archival materials that have been published. \nAlthough all of the conference participants have conducted research on historical aspects of the movement\, they share a concern with the legacies of that movement for contemporary China: the large percentage of the current political leadership (including President Xi Jinping) that were sent-down youth; the implications of economic relationships established in the context of the sent-down youth movement for contemporary economic development; and social issues facing the post-sent-down youth generation. Participants from China and the U.S. include historians\, sociologists\, and political scientists. \n[/vc_column_text] [rb_blank_divider height=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [rb_section_title title=”Schedule” icon=”con-none” border=”true” margin=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \n9:00-9:15 AM – Opening Remarks\nEmily Honig\, Department of History\, UC Santa Cruz \n9:15 AM – 12:15 PM – Panel One\nChair: Benjamin Read\, Department of Politics\, UCSC \nSun Peidong (Department of History\, Fudan University)\n“Who will marry my daughter? Shanghai Parental Matchmaking Corner and the Zhiqing generation” \nXie Chunhe (Center for Research on Sent-down Youth\, Heihe College\, Heilongjiang)\n“The Quest for Social Identity of Sent-down Youth in the Post-Cultural Revolution Era” \nEmily Honig (Department of History\, UCSC) and Xiaojian Zhao (Department of Asian American Studies\, UCSB)\n“Calling the Phoenix Back to its Nest: Economic Legacies of Sent-down Youth in Contemporary China” \nDiscussant: Kevin O’Brien\, Department of Politics\, University of California\, Berkeley \n12:15-2:00 PM – Lunch break\n2:00-5:00 PM – Panel Two\nChair: Christopher Connery\, Department of Literature\, UCSC \nTan Shen (Institute of Sociology\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)\n“Remembering the Past in the Post Sent-down Youth Era” \nJin Guangyao (Department of History\, Fudan University)\n“Former Sent-down Youth in Post-Cultural Revolution China: Literature and Scholarship” \nLin Shengbao (Department of History\, Fudan University)\n“An Analysis of Sent-down Youth Oral Histories” \nDiscussant: Thomas Gold\, Department of Sociology\, University of California\, Berkeley \n  \n[/vc_column_text] [/vc_column] [vc_column width=”1/3″ el_position=”last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \n \n[/vc_column_text] [rb_blank_divider height=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [rb_button size=”medium” style=”light” url=”http://ihr.ucsc.edu/directions” label=”Location & Directions” target=”_blank” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [rb_button size=”medium” style=”light” url=”mailto:ihr@ucsc.edu?subject=Request for Legacy of Sent-down Youth in Contemporary China Conference Readings&body=Please send me the readings for the Legacy of Sent-down Youth in Contemporary China conference.%0A%0AName:%0A%0AAcademic Department:%0A%0AInstitution:” label=”Request Readings” target=”_blank” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \n \n \n[/vc_column_text] [/vc_column] URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sent-down-youth-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140428T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140428T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140423T223706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140423T223706Z UID:10004931-1398704400-1398709800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cécile Whiting: "Apocalypse in Paradise: Niki de Sainte Phalle in Los Angeles" DESCRIPTION:Cécile Whiting is a Chancellor’s Professor of Art History and Professor of Visual Studies at the University of California\, Irvine. Professor Whiting examines mid-twentieth century American art and has published three books on this subject Antifacism in American Art\, A Taste For Pop: Pop Art\, Gender\, and Consumer Culture\, and Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s. Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s\, her most recent book\, was awarded the 21st Charles C. Eldredge Prize by the Smithsonian American Art Museum for outstanding scholarship in the field of American Art. At present\, she is researching the apocalyptic imaginary in 1950s and early 1960s art practice. \nImage: King Kong\, Niki de Sainte Phalle\, 1962.\n  \nPresented by the Visual and Media Cultures Colloquia\, with support from the Arts Division\, Film & Digital Media\, and History of Art & Visual Culture. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cecile-whiting-2/ LOCATION:Porter College\, Room D245 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140430T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140430T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140228T204109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140228T204109Z UID:10005652-1398859200-1398864600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Morten Axel Pedersen: "Collaborative Damage: A Comparative Ethnography of Chinese Infrastructure Projects in Mozambique and Mongolia" DESCRIPTION:Morten Axel Pedersen \nProfessor of Social Anthropology\, University of Copenhagen \nMorten Axel Pedersen has conducted fieldwork in Mongolia\, the Russian Far East\, and Western China on topics as diverse as shamanism\, political cosmology\, post-socialist transition\, infrastructure\, social networks\, and hope. He is currently completing a comparative ethnography of Chinese resource-extraction projects in Mongolia and Mozambique. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/morten-pedersen-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140501T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140501T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140311T202232Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140311T202232Z UID:10004917-1398945600-1398952800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Film Screening: "Dalip Singh Saund: His Life and Legacy" DESCRIPTION:Dalip Singh Saund: His Life\, His Legacy tells the inspiring story of an ethical and passionate man who rose above prejudice and racism to serve as the first Asian\, the first Indian\, and the first Sikh elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. \nPresented by the Heritage Series\, LLC. In association with the U.S. Capital Historical Society and Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies. Support provided by the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Endowed Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies. \nFor more information about this program\, please email DSSaundDoc@gmail.com. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dalip-singh-saund-his-life-and-legacy-film-screening-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140501T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140501T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140124T190233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140124T190233Z UID:10004904-1398967200-1398974400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Meena Alexander (also\, honoring Roshni Rustomji-Kerns) and in support of graduate conference: Feminist Interventions: On Gender & South Asia (hosted by Anjali Arondekar) DESCRIPTION:Meena Alexander is the author of four collections of poetry\, most recently Birthplace with Buried Stones; an autobiography\, Fault Lines; two novels\, most recently Manhattan Music; the academic study Women in Romanticism; and Poetics of Dislocation\, a collection of essays.  \nRoshni Rustomji-Kerns is the editor of Living in America: Poetry and Fiction by South Asian American Writers; and coeditor of three books: Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas\, Blood Into Ink: South Asian And Middle Eastern Women Write War\, and La china poblana. \n  \nThe spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series\, Dislocations and the Imagined\, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-meena-alexander-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140502 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140504 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20130607T160514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130607T160514Z UID:10004828-1398988800-1399161599@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:South Asia by the Bay: Feminist Interventions on Gender and South Asia (Graduate Conference) DESCRIPTION:  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-interventions-in-south-east-asia-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140502T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140502T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20130918T225623Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130918T225623Z UID:10004841-1399046400-1399051800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Michela Ippolito: "Negative Conditionals" DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In this talk I will look again at one kind of counterfactual conditionals\, which I will call Negative Conditionals (NCs)\, from a cross-linguistic perspective. NCs have properties that set them aside from standard would conditionals: (i) they contain a negative element in the antecedent clause or in the complementizer domain; (ii) they are obligatorily counterfactual; (iii) the negation does not anti license PPIs; (iv) the negation does not license NPIs. Drawing on work by Schwarz (2006) and Schwarz and Bhatt (2006)\, I will call the negation that occurs in NCs light negation (LN) and I will argue that (a) LN is a strengthening operator modifying the modal operator and forcing an “iff” interpretation; (b) for interpretability reasons\, LN must move close to the modal and it can do that overtly (as in Chinese) or covertly (as in German and English); (c) LN is factive. This analysis will allow us to explain the facts above as well as other interesting properties of NCs such as their incompatibility with the pro form then in the consequent\, the impossibility of a “backtracking” NC and the rhetorical flavor of questions formed with NCs.\n  \nMichela Ippolito is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. \nLecture sponsored by the Santa Cruz Linguistics and Philosophy Group. Please stay tuned for more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-michela-ippolito-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140504T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140504T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140425T221357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140425T221357Z UID:10005684-1399230000-1399237200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: Suicide Club DESCRIPTION:They’re not the enemy.\nThe film that put Shion Sono on the international art house horror map\, Suicide Club opens with the bizarre and eerie sight of 54 uniformed teenage schoolgirls queued up beside a subway platform where they hold hands\, begin to sing\, and then all at once hurl themselves into the path of an arriving train. The police investigation into their deaths seems to be going nowhere when an alarming number of suicides start to sweep through the country\, and a semi-anonymous phone tip directs the detectives to a website keeping count of the suicides\, sometimes listing deaths even before the police know about them. Braiding together this police procedural narrative with comedic skewerings of Japanese popular culture (most notably through the appearances of the fictional pre-teen pop band called Dessert) and some serious misgivings about the loss of interpersonal contact due to developments in technology\, Suicide Club is a tonally shifty film that evades giving the viewer much in the way of resolution even as it leaves you with a set of images and sequences you won’t soon be forgetting. Not to be missed! \nFor the remainder of the quarter\, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France\, Japan\, and the United States each week. Same time\, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family\, invite your friends. \nSponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/contemporary-horror-auteur-film-series-suicide-club-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140505T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140505T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140430T180250Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140430T180250Z UID:10005724-1399309200-1399314600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Elisabeth L. Cameron: "A Perfect Colonial Storm: Atinga and Iconoclasm in Southwestern Nigeria" DESCRIPTION:Elisabeth L. Cameron holds the Patricia & Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in the History of Art and Visual Culture. Her research is concentrated primarily in two regions: Zambia\, where she has observed\, studied\, and documented womenʼs visual culture\, including initiation rites\, art\, power and hierarchy\, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo\, where she has concentrated on colonial and missionary architecture and its impact on indigenous visual culture. Professor Cameron is the author of several publications including Reclusive Rebels: An Approach to the Sala Mpasu and their Neighbors (1991); Isnʼt S/He a Doll? (1996); The Art of the Lega (2001); and numerous articles and reviews. At present\, Professor Cameron is working on a book-length project on the iconoclastic impact of the Atinga movement in Nigeria on the Yoruba during the early 1950s.\n  \nImage Caption: In 2006\, a woman reflects back on her experience as a member of Atinga in 1950. Photograph by Elisabeth Cameron.\n  \nThis event is presented by the Arts Division\, Film & Digital Media\, and History of Art & Visual Culture. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/elisabeth-cameron-2/ LOCATION:Porter College\, Room D245 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140506T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140506T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140311T200649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140311T200649Z UID:10004916-1399393800-1399404600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Christopher Krebs: "What Makes Books Dangerous? The Case of Tacitus' Germania" DESCRIPTION:Tacitus’ Germania\, a brief ethnography of the peoples the Romans called Germani\, exerted a profound impact on the European History of ideas. By no fault of its author\, it ended up as an ideological cornerstone of the National Socialist regime. This talk will trace the influence of the Germania and reflect more generally on what it is that makes books “dangerous.” \nChristopher B. Krebs is associate professor of classics at Stanford university. He has also held appointments at Harvard university\, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences\, the École Normale Supérieure (Paris)\, and the University of Oxford. His research interests are in ancient historiography\, Latin lexicography\, and the classical tradition. His most recent monograph is A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’ Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich\, which won the 2012 Christian Gauss Award. He is currently engaged in studies of Caesar and the intellectual life of the first century BCE. He also enjoys writing for wider audiences to communicate his fascination with the ancient world and its long and lasting reach. \nRefreshments at 4:30 and reception to follow the lecture. \nLecture presented by UCSC’s Classical Studies\, and the Departments of History and Literature. For more information\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christopher-krebs-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140506T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140506T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140429T170032Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140429T170032Z UID:10005722-1399401900-1399410000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:LASER: Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous DESCRIPTION:UCSC’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences invites you to the final LASER of the academic year Tuesday\, May 6! Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists\, scientists\, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations. Please join us in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 for refreshments at 6:45 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by:\n  \nPaul Koch\, “Conservation Paleobiology: Mining the Past to Plan for the Future”\nNorman Locks\, “Photographic Social Landscape Narratives by an Abstract Realist”\nElaine Sullivan\, “Old Places & New Technologies: Visualizing an Ancient Egyptian Temple in 4D”\nRonaldo V. Wilson\, “Art Digital—Ars Poetica”\n  \nPaul Koch is Dean of Physical and Biological Sciences and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UCSC. His research focuses on vertebrate paleoecology and evolution\, which he places in environmental context through reconstruction of ancient ecosystems and climates. Koch’s work often includes biogeochemical analysis of animal tissues (teeth\, bones\, fur\, skin\, etc.) or environmental samples (soil minerals\, fossil plants\, etc) to study environmental changes over the Cenozoic (the last 65 million years.) In this talk\, Koch will discuss how the study of Paleobiology is used in thinking about\, and planning for\, the environmental future. \nNorman Locks is a photographer and Professor of Art at UCSC. He has exhibited his photographic works widely around the United States\, Japan\, and the Czech Republic and published numerous essays and photographic portfolios. His talk will discuss current and past projects including “Digital Narratives\,” an ongoing series of landscape panoramas designed to pose questions about human\, social\, environmental concerns. In “Digital Narratives”\, Locks makes reference to both the forms within art history and to poetic forms to narrate the past\, current\, and future entanglements between people and landscapes. \nElaine Sullivan is Assistant Professor of History at UCSC. Sullivan is an Egyptologist and a Digital Humanist whose work focuses on applying new technologies to ancient cultural materials. Her talk will discuss the Digital Karnak Project\, a multi-phased 3D virtual reality model of the famous ancient Egyptian temple complex of Karnak. Sullivan will show imagery from the model and discuss how geo-temporal exploration of ancient places offers completely new ways to look at archaeological sites. \nRonaldo V. Wilson is a Assistant Professor of Poetry\, Fiction and Literature in the Literature Department at UCSC. He is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh\, 2008)\, winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books\, 2009)\, winner of the Thom Gunn Award and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry in 2010. His latest book is Farther Traveler: Poetry\, Prose\, Other (Counterpath Press\, 2013). This talk/screening will explore the activities between poetry\, art\, dance\, and visual art\, exemplified through Wilson’ mixed-media video series TEAR-E-AVATAR\, recently completed during his tenure as a 2014 artist-in-residence through the Center for Art and Thought (CA+T). Wilson will explore the ways that digital technologies (video\, audio recordings\, movie and music software) complicate and help to render\, and ultimately reveal what’s possible as both the poem’s form and its formation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/laser-leonardo-artscience-evening-rendezvous-2/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140507T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140507T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140228T204304Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140228T204304Z UID:10005669-1399464000-1399469400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Lauren Berlant: "On Being in Life Without Wanting the World: On Biopolitics and the Attachment to Life" DESCRIPTION:This talk is located in a shattered\, yet intelligible zone defined by being in life without wanting the world–a state traversing misery and detachment that\, the talk claims\, is well-known to historically structurally subordinated people (people of color\, of non-normative sexuality\, proletarianized laborers . . .). Reading with Claudia Rankine (Don’t Let Me Be Lonely)\, the novel and film of A Single Man (Christopher Isherwood\, 1964; Tom Ford\, 2009)\, and Harryette Mullen (Sleeping with the Dictionary (2002)\, it describes life at the limit of optimism in terms of a dissociative poetics. \nLauren Berlant teaches English at the University of Chicago. Her national sentimentality trilogy — The Anatomy of National Fantasy (1991)\, The Queen of America Goes to Washington City (1997) and The Female Complaint (2008) — has morphed into a quartet\, with Cruel Optimism (2011) addressing precarious publics and the aesthetics of affective adjustment in the contemporary US and Europe. Her interest in affect\, aesthetics\, and politics is also expressed in the edited volumes Intimacy (2000)\, Compassion (2004)\, and On the Case (Critical Inquiry\, 2007). Her most recent sexuality books are Desire/Love (2012) and\, with Lee Edelman\, Sex\, or the Unbearable (2014). Her current projects are to do with modes of comic and of recessive affective performance in relation to critical theory\, political emotion\, and imaginaries of the social. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lauren-berlant-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140507T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140507T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140310T175945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140310T175945Z UID:10004914-1399474800-1399482000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Lauren Berlant: Sex\, or the Unbearable — a faculty-graduate student seminar DESCRIPTION:Sex\, or the Unbearable (Duke University Press\, 2013) is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman\, two leading theorists of sexuality\, politics and culture. In juxtaposing sex and the unbearable they don’t propose that sex is unbearable\, but that it unleashes unbearable contradictions\, which we nonetheless struggle to bear. Through interpretations of works of cinema\, photography\, critical theory\, and literature\, Berlant and Edelman explore what it means to live with negativity\, with those divisions that may be irreparable. Together\, they consider how such negativity affects politics\, theory and intimately felt encounters. \nLauren Berlant is George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Cruel Optimism\, The Female Complaint\, and The Queen of America Goes to Washington City\, all also published by Duke University Press. \nLee Edelman is Fletcher Professor of English Literature at Tufts University. He is the author of L’impossible Homosexuel; No Future\, also published by Duke University Press; and Homographesis. \nThe book is available at the Literary Guillotine\, on the DUP web site\, as an e-book and for download at https://anonfiles.com/file/2cdfec2994dea16fa6535d23ce016801. \nThe seminar aspires for people to have read the entire (short!) book but welcomes readers of the introduction\, chapter 3 and the afterword. For more information please contact Carla Freccero\, freccero@ucsc.edu and Deborah Gould\, dbgould@ucsc.edu. \nCo-sponsored by Oakes College and the Center for Cultural Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lauren-berlant-sex-or-the-unbearable-a-discussion-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140508 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140510 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140219T005141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140219T005141Z UID:10005638-1399507200-1399679999@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Humanities and Changing Conceptions of Work Culminating Conference DESCRIPTION:Making the MA/PhD Work Post Graduation: A Career Workshop for Humanities Graduate Students \nMay 8 \n 9:00 AM       Breakfast and Registration (please pre-register) \n10:00            Welcome by David Theo Goldberg\, UCHRI \n10:15            The Working Life \nThis two-part conversation with Christine Baker\, Director\, California Department of Industrial Relations\,Ralph Lewin\, Director\, Cal Humanities\, and Alison Mudditt\, Director\, University of California Press\, addresses the evolving nature of work in our contemporary moment and the transformation of the culture and environments of work. The panelists will also reflect upon their own paths from education to careers. \n11:15              Coffee Break \n11:45              Continuation of The Working Life… \n12:45 PM        Lunch \n1:45                Front Liners Panel: Demystifying the HR Screen \nEver wonder what happens to your resume after you hit SEND? WestEd Human Resources recruiting managers along with another industry HR department (TBA) provide a look behind the HR curtain at who reads your resume and what they’re looking for. \n3:00                The Art of the Informational Interview \nWhat is an informational interview? And why is it important? What do you do in it\, and who should you contact for one? Dr. Debra Behrens\, PhD Career Counselor\, UC Berkeley\, presents the art of the informational interview and answers any questions you may have about the process and experience. \n3:30                Coffee Break \n4:00                Resume Workshop with The Resume Studio \nThis interactive\, hands-on workshop\, geared towards Humanities graduate students\, will be preceded by an online workshop to facilitate the creation of a resume that can be workshopped at the conference. Be prepared to walk away with a resume that looks quite different from your CV. \n6:30               Hosted Dinner \nMay 9 \nCulminating Conference–More Details Coming Soon! \n8:30      Breakfast and Registration \n9:00      Welcome and Introductions\, Carolyn de la Pena\, UC Davis\, and David Theo Goldberg\, UCHRI \n9:30      Session I: Precarious Labor \n11:00     Break \n11:15     Session 2: University + Public + Labor \n1:00       Lunch \n1:45       Session 3: The Culture of Labor/Cultural Labor \n3:30       Break \n3:45       Session 4: The Future of Work and the Humanities \n5:30       Reception \nConference grants will be awarded to up to three graduate students from each UC campus (transportation and lodging\, if required\, covered by UCHN). The deadline for applying for a conference grant is April 7\, 2014. Visit humanitiesandwork.org for more information and to register for the workshop.\n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-humanities-and-changing-conceptions-of-work-culminating-conference-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140508 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140511 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20130607T160149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130607T160149Z UID:10004826-1399507200-1399766399@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Conference DESCRIPTION:Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together? Through noticing\, describing\, and imagining\, we renuew conversation about life on earth. \nConference schedule: Thursday\, May 8\, 2014\, 7-9 pm\nUrsula K. Le Guin\nDiscussants: James Clifford and Donna Haraway \nTickets no longer available for The Rio Theater. However\, there are still two options for attending: 1) A few seats will be available at The Rio Theater on a first-come\, first-serve basis. There will be a line outside the theater on the evening of the event for these last-minute seats. 2) The event with be live-casted to the Humanities Lecture Hall (Room 206)\, and you are welcome to view it there (as seating permits).    \nFriday\, May 9\, 2014\nCollege 9/10 Multipurpose Room UCSC campus\nNo registration\, all welcome \n9:00am Introduction \nAnna Tsing \n9:20-10:50am Inhabiting Multispecies Bodies\nDonna Haraway (speculative fabulation) and Margaret McFall-Ngai (microbes)\nDiscussant: Jenny Reardon (Sociology) \n11:00am-12:30pm On Damaged Landscapes
\nKate Brown (plutonium) and 
Deborah Bird Rose (extinction)\nDiscussants: Eric Porter (History)\, William Cronon (History) \n1:45-3:15pm Caring for Country/Rewilding\nJens-Christian Svenning (future megafaunas) and Jessica Weir (indigenous ecologies)\nDiscussants: Ingrid Parker (Biology)\, Chris Connery (Literature) \n3:45-5:45pm Memory\, History\, Place\nWilliam Cronon (American landscapes)\nDiscussants: Andrew Mathews (Anthropology)\, Jens-Christian Svenning (Biology)   \nSaturday\, May 10\, 2014\nCollege 9/10 Multipurpose Room\, UCSC campus\nNo registration\, all welcome \n9:30-11:00am Arts of Noticing\nDeborah Gordon (ants) and Anne Pringle (lichens)\nDiscussants: Donna Haraway (Science Studies)\, Anna Tsing (Anthropology) \n11:15am-12:45pm Cross-Species Histories\nCarla Freccero (wolf/men) and Marianne Lien (homeless salmon)\nDiscussants: Thomas Wentzer (Philosophy)\, Maya Peterson (History) \n1:45-2:45pm Gardens and Graves\nLesley Stern (US-Mexico borderlands) \n3:00-5:00pm Roundtable Nils Bubandt (anthropology)\, Margaret Fitzsimmons (environ- mental studies)\, Peter Funch (zoology)\, Nora Bateson (film) \nFor more information\, visit the conference website. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/environmental-humanities-interdisciplinary-conference-2/ LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140508T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140508T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140124T190640Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140124T190640Z UID:10004906-1399575600-1399579200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Ursula Le Guin (live at the Rio Theater with live feed to Hum Hall) in concert with conference: Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (hosted by Anna Tsing) DESCRIPTION:Spring 2014 UCSC Creative Writing Living Writers lineup: \nUrsula LeGuin is the author of over thirty novels\, children’s books\, and short story\, poetry and essay collections\, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. LeGuin’s work includes the Earthsea and Hainish Cycle novels and short fiction; The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories;Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems; and The Catwings Collection.  \nNote: this event will begin at 7:00 p.m.\, and will be a simulcast of a live talk. \nThe spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series\, Dislocations and the Imagined\, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public. \nMore info and full conference agenda at: anthropo.ihr.ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-ursula-le-guin-live-at-the-rio-theater-with-live-feed-to-hum-hall-in-concert-with-conference-anthropocene-arts-of-living-on-a-damaged-planet-hosted-by-anna-tsing-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140508T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140508T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20131211T224014Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131211T224014Z UID:10004874-1399575600-1399582800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ursula K. le Guin DESCRIPTION:Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet \nVideo \nUrsula K. Le Guin is one of the most-loved writers of our time. Her work includes science fiction\, novels\, essays\, and children’s books. \nDonna Haraway the author of When Species Meet. \nJames Clifford is the author of Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century. \nTickets Required • Sign up free at www.anthropocene.brownpapertickets.com \nMore info and full conference agenda at: anthropo.ihr.ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ursula-k-le-guin-2/ LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140509T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140509T163000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140407T184910Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140407T184910Z UID:10005680-1399642200-1399653000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:10th Annual Graduate Research Symposium DESCRIPTION:Join us at 1:30 pm on Friday\, May 9th\, for the 10th Annual Graduate Research Symposium. This event offers graduate students an opportunity to share their research with faculty\, staff\, friends\, colleagues and the local community in the form of poster\, oral\, live or multimedia presentations. \nThis year’s event will take place in the “Information Commons South” area on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library. The Symposium will feature up to 30 oral and live presentations\, 64 poster presentations and 10 media presentations. The Awards Reception begins at 3:30\, with refreshments being provided by the Global Village Café. \nFor more information\, please visit the Graduate Division website: http://graddiv.ucsc.edu/current-students/student-achievements/graduate-research-symposium.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/10th-annual-graduate-research-symposium-2/ LOCATION:McHenry Library\, UCSC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140509T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140509T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20130918T225913Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130918T225913Z UID:10004842-1399651200-1399656600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jean Fox Tree: "Spontaneous Communication" DESCRIPTION:Spontaneous communication\, both verbal and written\, includes a wide variety of phenomena generally not found in prepared communication. These include restarted ideas\, ums and uhs\, words like you know and like\, and prosodic phenomena such as uptalk. Spontaneous communication also includes other behaviors whose productions might vary across spontaneous and rehearsed settings\, such as facial expressions\, gestures\, laughter\, backchannels\, and quotation devices. In this talk\, I will present some of the research findings coming out of my lab that provide information about why these phenomena are produced and how they are used. \nJean Fox Tree is Professor of Psychology at UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-jean-fox-tree-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140511T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140511T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140425T221515Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140425T221515Z UID:10005686-1399834800-1399842000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: The House of the Devil DESCRIPTION:During the 1980s\, over 70% of American adults believed in the existence of abusive satanic cults.\nA typically low key and intelligent horror film from Ti West\, perhaps the most critically lauded of America’s rising generation of horror movie auteurs\, The House of the Devil is a moody and evocative spin on the satanic cult sub-genre. In an attempt to raise money for a deposit on an apartment\, Samantha (Jocelin Donahue) agrees to babysit for the Ulmans (Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov) on the night of a total lunar eclipse. After admitting that in fact they do not have a child but rather a grandmother who needs tending to\, the Ulmans insist that the old woman not be disturbed and that Samantha really ought to order a pizza for dinner on their dime. True to form for West\, what ought to scare you here might not be the Satanists but the pizza. Not to be missed! \nFor the remainder of the quarter\, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France\, Japan\, and the United States each week. Same time\, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family\, invite your friends. \nSponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/contemporary-horror-auteur-film-series-the-house-of-the-devil-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140512T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140512T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140502T170656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140502T170656Z UID:10005726-1399914000-1399919400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Carl Mark Deppe Lecture: Harry Berger Jr.: "Dying Angry: The Wrath of Socrates in Plato's Dialogue\, Phaedo" DESCRIPTION:Plato wrote four dialogues dramatizing the last days and death of Socrates: Euthyphro\, The Apology\, Crito\, and Phaedo. “Dyng Angry” will focus on Socrates’s behavior and performance —and weirdness—in Phaedo. \nHarry Berger Jr. came to Cowell College and UCSC from Yale in 1965 when our campus opened. He was the first appointment in English Literature\, and he was largely responsible for hiring the original cadre of English literature faculty. Since that time he’s taught courses ranging from classics to modern poetry for Cowell College\, the Literature Department\, and History of Consciousness. He retired in 1994 but has taught a lot since then and in general keeps himself too busy to stay out of trouble. \nIn 2003 he received a Lifetime Award from the International Spenser Society.The proceedings of a 2006 conference in his honor were published with revisions and additions in a volume of essays: A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger\, Jr.\, and the Arts of Interpretation\, ed. David Miller and Nina Levine (New York: Fordham University Press\, 2009). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006\, and in 2010 he received the Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award from the University of California. \nBerger has published 13 books and over 100 essays on a wide variety of topics in classics\, art history\, Renaissance culture\, and modern poetry. Many of these deal with Plato\, Shakespeare\, Spenser\, Vermeer\, Rembrandt\, and theories of literature and art. Three new books are forthcoming from Fordham University Press: \nSimonides in Couch City: Studies in Plato’s Republic and Protagoras\, 2014.\nHarrying: Skills of Offense in Shakespeare’s Henriad\, 2014.\nThe Perils of Uglytown: Studies in Structural Misanthropology from Plato to Rembrandt. 2014. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2014-carl-mark-deppe-lecture-2/ LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140513T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140513T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140224T172531Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140224T172531Z UID:10005642-1399982400-1399987800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rebecca Hester: "Bodies as=of knowledge: The ethics and politics of biometrics in health care" DESCRIPTION:What are the proposed uses of biometrics in health care and the ethics and politics of body data in the digital age? As security and surveillance become the order of the day\, biometric technologies have become a ubiquitous and naturalized part of most aspects of everyday life. Operating from the premise that “bodies don’t lie\,” biometrics promises increased safety\, security\, accuracy\, and reliability in identity recognition and verification. These promises are especially appealing in the health care industry where the verification of patient and provider identities is a necessary security feature for protecting patient data. Despite their promises\, however\, the fact that biometrics facilitates the coding\, analysis\, and judgment of embodied information in new\, more complex\, and more far-reaching ways than were previously possible in health care opens up a host of ethical and political issues for patients\, providers\, and populations. Long-standing virtues in medicine such as privacy\, confidentiality\, justice and beneficence are challenged as numerous and often unknown institutions and individuals beyond the clinic can and will have access to this embodied information for security\, surveillance\, and marketing purposes. \nRebecca J. Hester is assistant professor of social medicine in the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch. She holds a Ph.D. in Politics with an emphasis in Latin American and Latino Studies from UCSC. Her research focuses on the politics of the body as they are manifested at and through the intersections of immigration\, health\, and security.  She is co-author\, with Ronnie Lipschutz\, of “We are the Borg!  Human Assimilation into Cellular Society\,” pp. 366-407\, in: M.G. Michael and Katina Michael (eds.)\, Uberveillance and the Social Implications of Microchip Implants: Emerging Technologies (Hershey\, Penna.: IGI Global\, 2014).\n  \nThese talks are co-sponsored by CGIRS\, College Eight\, the Politics Department\, the Institute for Humanities Research\, the Institute of the Arts & Sciences\, and the Science and Justice Research Center.  The BIOS  (Bodies Imag(in)ed to be Obstacles to Security) Research Cluster is a new project of the Center for Global\, International and Regional Studies\, focused on the surveillance\, management\, interrogation\, discipline and intervention  of human and other bodies in the digital age. If you are interested in joining the cluster\, please contact Ronnie Lipschutz at rlipsch@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rebecca-hester-bodies-asof-knowledge-the-ethics-and-politics-of-biometrics-in-health-care-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140514T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140514T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140228T204406Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140228T204406Z UID:10005670-1400068800-1400074200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Martin Holbraad: "How Myths Make Men in Afro-Cuban Divination" DESCRIPTION:Martin Holbraad \nProfessor Social Anthropology\, University College London and Co-Director of Cosmology\, Religion\, Ontology and Culture Research Group (CROC) \nMartin Holbraad’s main field research is in Cuba\, where he focuses on Afro-Cuban religions and revolutionary politics. Author of Truth in Motion: the Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination (Chicago\, 2012). Holbraad currently directs a major comparative project on the anthropology of revolutions. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/martin-holbraad-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140514T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140514T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140505T193914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140505T193914Z UID:10004935-1400092200-1400099400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Celebrating Gloria Anzaldúa's Legacy: 10th Anniversary of Passing DESCRIPTION:This year marks the 10th anniversary of Gloria Anzaldúa’s passing. In honor of the legacy left by Gloria Anzaldúa\, The Chicano Latino Resource Center will be hosting a celebration of her life through a formal program with speakers\, an art exhibit from local artists\, an altar\, refreshments\, and an open mic. \nGloria Anzaldúa was a Chicana-tejana-lesbiana-feminist poet\, theorist\, and fiction writer from South Texas. In addition to authoring Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza\, she was the editor of the critical anthology Making Face/Making Soul: Haciendo Caras and co-editor of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color\, winner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. \nShe passed away in 2004 and was honored around the world for shedding visionary light on the Chicana experience by receiving the National Association For Chicano Studies Award in 2005. Gloria was also posthumously awarded her doctoral degree in literature from the University of California Santa Cruz. A number of scholarships and book awards are awarded in her name every year. \nEl Centro is committed to continuing her vision of the New Mestiza Consciousness. The borderlands of higher education are real and thus making a program to remember and celebrate all of the gifts she left us is necessary and important. \nWe look forward to having you and celebrating together the legacy of Gloria Anzaldúa. \nFacebook Event Page: www.facebook.com/events/700386210007910/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/celebrating-gloria-anzalduas-legacy-2/ LOCATION:Namaste Lounge – College 9\, Namaste Lounge\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140515 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140519 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140502T182515Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140502T182515Z UID:10004933-1400112000-1400457599@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XIV: Theater Pieces in Five Languages DESCRIPTION:Cowell College\, Stevenson College & Languages and Applied Linguistics present: \nThe Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XIV\nTheater Pieces in Five Languages with English Subtitles\nChinese\nThree Pots of Tea\nby Ting-Ting Wu & Students\nDirected by Ting-Ting Wu \nFrench\nScenes from Marius and Fanny\nby Marcel Pagnol\nDirected by Miriam Ellis \nHebrew\nSongs of Israel\nDirected by Gali Rosen & Students \nRussian\nCheburashka and Crocodile Ghena\nby Edward Uspensky\nDirected by Natalya Samokhina & Students \nSpanish\nSomething Very Serious is Going to Happen in this Town\nby Gabriel Garcia Márquez\nDirected by Marta Navarro URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/international-playhouse-xiv-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140515T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140515T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140502T225549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140502T225549Z UID:10004934-1400169600-1400175000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Meaghan Morris\, "In Praise of Parochial Blockbusters" (seminar) DESCRIPTION:Noted film and cultural studies critic Meaghan Morris will give a seminar on the theme of “parochial blockbusters”. The seminar will center on a discussion of her essay\, “Transnational Glamour\, National Allure: Community\, Change and Cliché in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia”\, which is available for downloading at http://ihr.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Morris-Transnational-Glamour-final.pdf\, and which should be read before the seminar. Professor Morris will also discuss examples of other films of this type from elsewhere in the world. For those interested\, there will be a screening of Australia on Tuesday night\, May 13\, at 7:30 PM in Humanities 620 (viewing the film is not a prerequisite for the seminar). \nMeaghan Morris is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney\, Australia\, and Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University\, Hong Kong. She works on history in popular culture\, especially on popular thinking about social and historical change. Her books include Too Soon\, Too Late: History in Popular Culture (1998); Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema (co-ed. 2005); Identity Anecdotes: Translation and Media Culture (2006) and Creativity and Academic Activism: Instituting Cultural Studies (co-ed. 2012). A former Chair of the international Association for Cultural Studies\, Professor Morris is currently Chair of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society.\n  \nThis event is sponsored by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster with generous support from the Literature Department. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/meaghan-morris-in-praise-of-parochial-blockbusters-seminar-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140515T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140515T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140421T201812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140421T201812Z UID:10004929-1400169600-1400176800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mikkel Johansen: Material and Social Conditions for the Development of Mathematics DESCRIPTION:Mathematical knowledge has traditionally been taken to be absolutely objective\, i.e. completely independent of contingent facts about the agents who discover the results. Today\, this absolutistic view of mathematics has been challenged by a number of different theories. Most noticeably\, social constructivists such as David Bloor and Donald MacKenzie have stress the influence social factors have had on the development of mathematics\, and Bloor simply describes mathematics as a social institution. Other theorists such as Rafael Núñez and George Lakoff have claimed mathematics to be embodied and fundamentally shaped by sensory-motor experience and certain cognitive strategies. In my talk I will report from a qualitative study of the practice of working mathematicians. The study shows that the production of mathematical knowledge is clearly conditioned both by social factors and by our experience of and ability to actively use the material world. Thus\, the study confirms some of the basic ideas of the two approaches mentioned above. However\, the study also gives reason to questions the reductionism inherent in both the social constructivistic and the embodiment approach. Mathematics cannot be reduced either to the social or to sensory-motor experience. \nADVANCE READING: Whats in a diagram? \nMikkel Willum Johansen is an assistant professor at the faculty of science\, University of Copenhagen. He has a PhD in the philosophy of the mathematical sciences and has worked extensively with mathematical cognition and with the different version of naturalism in the philosophy of mathematics. In 2014 he published the book Invitation til matematikkens videnskabsteori (Eng: Invitation to the philosophy of the mathematical sciences). \nPlease click here for more information URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mikkel-johansen-material-and-social-conditions-for-the-development-of-mathematics-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140515T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140515T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140124T191729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140124T191729Z UID:10004908-1400176800-1400184000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Mark Axelrod DESCRIPTION:Mark Axelrod is the author of four novels: Capital Castles; Cloud Castles; Cardboard Castles; and Bombay California; a novel in three books\, The Posthumous Memoirs of Blase Kubash; short story collections Dante’s Foil & Other Sporting Tales\, The Apotheosis of Aaron\, and Borges’ Travel\, Hemingway’s Garage; two books on screenwriting\, Aspects of the Screenplay and Character & Conflict: Cornerstones of Screenwriting; and a book on adaptation\, I Read It At The Movies. \nThe spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series\, Dislocations and the Imagined\, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-mark-axelrod-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140518T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140518T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140429T164339Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140429T164339Z UID:10005690-1400439600-1400446800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: Pulse DESCRIPTION:Pulse (2001) \nWould you like to meet a ghost?\nAbout as bleak a depiction of apocalypse as you’re ever likely to come across\, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Pulse is a J-Horror film in which short episodic vignettes slowly disclose a world where ghosts outnumber people and people have been reduced to black ashy stains on the wall. In the midst of dealing with the emotional fallout of their friend’s suicide\, a group of young people start to notice that their computers are accessing the internet on their own and loading websites that ask them if they would like to meet a ghost. As we cycle through a shifting set of characters faced with these phenomena\, it becomes clear that direct contact with the blurry spectral beings results in life-ending melancholy and forlornness\, and the only escape from this dire outcome seems to be isolating yourself in your barricaded house indefinitely. The bleak cinematography\, empty cityscapes\, and knife-like integration of cacophony and silence in the sound design make this an understated and creepily effective counterpoint to the more widely known Ringu (1998). A remarkably atmospheric expression of technological angst and the fear of being alone\, Pulse is not to be missed! \nFor the remainder of the quarter\, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France\, Japan\, and the United States each week. Same time\, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family\, invite your friends. \nSponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/contemporary-horror-auteur-film-series-pulse-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140519T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140519T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140428T173607Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140428T173607Z UID:10005688-1400500800-1400508000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Lora Bartlett: "Migrant Teachers: How American Schools Import Labor" DESCRIPTION:Migrant Teachers investigates an overlooked trend in U.S. public schools today: the growing dependence on overseas trained teachers\, as federal mandates require K-12 schools to employ qualified teachers or risk funding cuts. A narrowly technocratic view of teachers as subject specialists has led districts to look abroad\, Lora Bartlett argues\, resulting in transient teaching professionals with little opportunity to connect meaningfully with students. \nHighly recruited by inner-city school districts that struggle to retain educators\, approximately 90\,000 teachers from the Philippines\, India and other countries came to the United States between 2002 and 2008. From administrators’ perspective\, these instructors are excellent employees—well educated and able to teach shortage subjects like math\, science and special education. Because they depend on the school system for their visas\, they are cooperative with authority. But all of this comes at a price. As Bartlett shows\, American schools are failing to reap the possible benefits of the global labor market. Framing teachers as stopgap\, low status workers\, schools may cultivate a high turnover\, low investment workforce that undermines the conditions needed for good teaching and learning. Bartlett calls on schools to provide better support to both overseas-trained teachers and their American counterparts. \nLora Bartlett is an Associate Professor in the Education Department at UC Santa Cruz and author of Migrant Teachers: How American Schools Import Labor (Harvard Press). An interview with Lora appeared in Education Week last month. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lora-bartlett-migrant-teachers-how-american-schools-import-labor-2/ LOCATION:College 8\, Room 301\, College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140519T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140519T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140311T203521Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140311T203521Z UID:10004918-1400517000-1400527800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Yiqun Zhou: “Helen and the Chinese Femmes Fatales” DESCRIPTION:Helen\, the Spartan queen whose abduction by Paris the prince of Troy ignited the ten-year-long Trojan War\, may be regarded as the femme fatale par excellence. The prominence of Helen’s images in the Greek tradition is as notable as their complexity and ambiguity. Alongside commonplace condemnations of Helen as the cause of a devastating war\, there are also enduring efforts to exonerate\, to redeem\, and even to exalt her act. Ancient China had its own lore of femmes fatales. The fall of each of the three earliest Chinese dynasties is blamed on a woman\, the evil consort of the last monarch. The judgment passed on the three women in the sources is invariably negative\, and their stories are routinely invoked as cautionary lessons for later rulers and noble houses about the potential dangers of female beauty. Whereas the indeterminacy of Helen’s images perpetuated over time and became ever more elusive with the proliferation of representations\, the portrayals of the three classical Chinese femmes fatales conformed to one broad pattern that was only clarified and reinforced with the multiplication of texts. In this talk\, I shall illustrate the contrast just laid out and attempt to explain how it came into being\, thereby illuminating some important differences between the conceptions of beauty and the contexts and functions of literary and historical writings in the two ancient societies. \nYiqun Zhou is Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (and\, by courtesy\, of Classics) at Stanford University. Her research interests include comparative studies of China and Greece as well as Chinese and comparative women’s history\, early Chinese literature and history\, and Chinese and English fiction (1600-1900). Her recent publications include Festivals\, Feasts\, and Gender Relations in Ancient China and Greece (New York: Cambridge University Press\, 2010) and “Spatial Metaphors and Women’s Religious Activities in Ancient China and Greece\,” in Shubha Pathak\, ed. Figuring Religions: Comparing Ideas\, Images\, and Activities (Albany: SUNY Press\, 2013). \nRefreshments at 4:30pm with reception to follow lecture.\nFree parking for lecture in the lower Cowell-Stevenson parking lot.\n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/yiqun-zhou-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140520 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140522 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20131112T183702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131112T183702Z UID:10004872-1400544000-1400716799@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sex and the Archive DESCRIPTION:Workshop on Sex and the Archive\nMay 20-21\, 2014 • UC Santa Cruz\nOpen to graduate students at UC Berkeley\, UC Davis\, and UC Santa Cruz\nApplication deadline: Wednesday April 23\, 2014\nThis workshop is part of a UCHRI Humanities Studio on Regulating Sex/Religion\, directed by Saba Mahmood (UC Berkeley) and Mayanthi Fernando (UC Santa Cruz)\, that examines how sex and religion are mobilized together in the management of minoritized communities in Europe\, the Middle East\, and South Asia. Rather than take for granted the secular narrative of sexual and religious life as private\, we analyze how secular power entails the twinned regulation of religion and sexuality\, and how the public/private boundary that ostensibly underpins secularity and guarantees both religious freedom and sexual freedom hinges on the management by the secular state of religious and sexual communities. \nA major focus of the Studio\, and of this workshop in particular\, concerns how subjects are produced as members of religious and/or sexual “communities” – Copts and Muslims in Egypt\, Maronites\, Shi‘a\, and Sunni “sects” in Lebanon\, Devadasis in India\, Muslim “natives” in French Algeria – through various technologies of colonial rule\, such as the census and personal status legal codes. The Studio thus excavates the colonial archive\, inquiring into the conditions of production of religious/sexual difference in Egypt\, Lebanon\, India\, Britain\, France\, and Algeria in order better understand the relationship between past and present legal\, political\, and discursive arrangements of religious and/as sexual difference. \nThe workshop includes one day of graduate seminars on Tuesday\, May 20th led by faculty participants on subjects related to their current research and within the broad rubric of sex and the archive. Graduate students will be expected to have read the relevant texts assigned for each seminar by the faculty leaders and to join in discussion alongside faculty participants. Seminar leaders and faculty participants include: Anjali Arondekar (UC Santa Cruz)\, Michael Allan (University of Oregon)\, Gina Dent (UC Santa Cruz)\, Mayanthi Fernando (UC Santa Cruz)\, Suad Joseph (UC Davis)\, Saba Mahmood (UC Berkeley)\, Marc Matera (UC Santa Cruz)\, Maya Mikdashi (NYU/Jadaliyya)\, and Judith Surkis (Rutgers University). \nThe graduate seminars are open to students at UC Santa Cruz\, UC Berkeley\, and UC Davis. Student participants from UC Berkeley and UC Davis will have a hotel room provided for them for the nights of Monday May 19th and Tuesday May 20th. The graduate seminars begin at 9am on Tuesday May 20th. On Wednesday May 21\, faculty participants will meet in a closed-door session to discuss work-in-progress. \nPreliminary Schedule\nTuesday May 20th – Graduate Seminars 9AM-5PM \n9:00AM Opening Remarks and Introductions\n9:30-11:00 Seminar 1 (Faculty leader: Saba Mahmood; topic TBA)\n11:15-12:45 Seminar 2 (Faculty leaders: Anjali Arondekar & Judith Surkis; topic TBA)\n12:45-1:45 Lunch\n2:00-3:30 Seminar 3 (Faculty leaders: Mayanthi Fernando & Marc Matera; topic TBA)\n3:45-5:00PM General discussion \n5:15-6:45PM Reception \nWednesday May 21st – Closed Workshops 9AM-5PM \nHow to apply\nGraduate students wishing to participate should send a CV and a brief statement (maximum 1 page) regarding their current or prospective dissertation project and/or research interests to ihr@ucsc.edu by Wednesday April 23\, 2014. Contact Mayanthi Fernando (mfernan3@ucsc.edu) with any questions. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sex-and-the-archive-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140521 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140522 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140228T204621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140228T204621Z UID:10005671-1400630400-1400716799@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Despina Kakoudaki: "Robots and Slaves: History\, Allegory\, and the Structural Logic of the Robot Story" DESCRIPTION:Despina Kakoudaki’s work focuses on literature\, film\, visual and cultural studies\, and the history of technology. Her new book\, titled Anatomy of a Robot: Literature\, Cinema\, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People\, traces our fascination with mechanical and constructed people\, such as robots\, cyborgs\, androids and automata. \nDespina Kakoudaki is Associate Professor at American University\, in Washington\, DC. \nCosponsored by the Graduate Student Association\, Literature Department\, Computer Science Department\, Film & Digital Media\, and Anthropology Department.\n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/despina-kakoudaki-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140521T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140521T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140512T225258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140512T225258Z UID:10004939-1400688000-1400695200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Prasenjit Duara: "Circulatory and Competitive Histories: Temporal Foundations for Cosmopolitanism DESCRIPTION:Stories – narratives of the past – are necessary in all collectivities that seek to constitute and maintain themselves.  In modern times\, competitive states have sought to mobilize all resources and bio-power in their territory by adopting singular\, linear histories of the state\, nation and civilization.  But\, ironically\, just as these singular stories were becoming dominant\, the world was globalizing more actively than ever.  The stories themselves have come to be shaped by global forces. \nWhile the historical enterprise of collective formation – in which distinctive stories are developed within the framework of single states – remains important for the building of local\, national or regional communities\, these enterprises can no longer deny the cosmopolitan circulations that condition them.  This is especially so now that planetary sustainability is at stake.  And indeed\, the most significant Eurasian historical developments have tended to be circulatory and shared.  The early modern era is a particularly fruitful period to consider\, because the distinction between the local and the universal was less pronounced; state territoriality and culture were not conflated.  Can we recapture those kinds of stories?  How might social and political theory look if our histories were not linear\, exclusive accounts of nations and civilizations\, but rather dispersed\, cross-referenced\, mutually shaping and shared histories? \nPrasenjit Duara is Raffles Professor of Humanities and Director of Asia Research Institute and of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore\, where he has taught since 2008.  Prior to that\, he was professor and chairman of the History Department at the University of Chicago. Among his books are Rescuing History from the Nation (1995)\, Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern (2003)\, and Culture\, Power and the State: Rural North China\, 1900-1942 (1988)\, which won the Fairbank Prize of the AHA and the Levenson Prize of the AAS. His most recent work is The Global and the Regional in China’s Nation-Formation (Routledge\, 2009). His work has been widely translated into Chinese\, Japanese and Korean. He will speak from forthcoming book The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Cambridge\, 2014). \nSponsored by the Department of History and the East Asian Studies Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/circulatory-and-competitive-histories-temporal-foundations-for-cosmopolitanism-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140521T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140521T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140519T170740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140519T170740Z UID:10004941-1400689800-1400695200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Graduate Seminar with Despina Kakoudaki DESCRIPTION:All graduate students are welcome but an RSVP is required by May 19th. Contact ihr@ucsc.edu to RSVP and request seminar readings. \nDespina Kakoudaki’s work focuses on literature\, film\, visual and cultural studies\, and the history of technology. Her forthcoming book\, Anatomy of a Robot: Literature\, Cinema\, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People\, traces our fascination with mechanical and constructed people\, such as robots\, cyborgs\, androids and automata. \nDespina Kakoudaki is Associate Professor of Literature at American University. \nCosponsored by the Graduate Student Association\, Literature Department\, Computer Science Department\, Film & Digital Media\, and Anthropology Department.\n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/graduate-seminar-with-despina-kakoudaki-2/ LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140522T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140522T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140508T181011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140508T181011Z UID:10004936-1400749200-1400778000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:2014 Literature Undergraduate Colloquium DESCRIPTION:The Fifteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium\n9:00-9:10 AM – Opening Remarks\nKirsten Silva Gruesz\, Director\, Literature Undergraduate Program \n9:10-10:15 AM – Panel One: Borderlands: Creative Writers Read\nModerator\, Micah Perks \nJames Williams: Impertinent Youth\nMarine Ashnalikyan: “In the Living Room” and other Poems\nNarine Ashnalikyan: “After Dinner” and other Poems\nStephen Richter: A Southern Tradition (or Triple Consciousness) \n10:30-11:30 AM – Panel Two: Literature and Metamorphoses\nModerator: Sean Keilen \nJessica Imber: History\, Fiction and a Little Something In Between: Searching for the Migrant Voice through the Labyrinth of Narrative\nAndrew Harmatz: “Where Should This Music Be? I’ Th’ Air or Th’ Earth?”: Ovid’s Orpheus and Poetry as a Harmony of Authorial Voices\nAbbie Jennings: The Chink in the Wall: A Peek at Ovid Through Shakespeare \n11:45-12:45 PM – Panel Three: Doubling and Dialectics\nModerator: A. Hunter Bivens \nSophie Cox: Rose-White Boyhood: Floral Language as Veiled Homosexuality in The Picture of Dorian Gray\nJosephe David Watkins: And Equally We May Find the Opposite\nMelissa Ott: Torches of Progress and Enlightenment: Imperialist Language in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and “To the Person Sitting in Darkness” \n12:45-1:30 PM – Lunch Buffet\n1:30-2:30 PM – Panel Four: History and Memory\nModerator: Vilashini Cooppan \nIan L. Silva: Herodotus and his ‘Setting forth’\nMariah Padilla: The Imagination and Postmemory: The Postgeneration’s Working-through of Trauma\nMatthew Strebe: The Problem of Memory in Literary Representations of the Holocaust \n2:45-3:45 PM – The Pen\, The Book\, and The Robot\nModerator: Kirsten Silva Gruesz \nTaylor Backman: “My Pen”: Oroonoko and the Rise of Female and Subjugated Authors\nC. Austin Knudson: Diego Herva’s Journey To Hell: Relationships Between Textual Materiality and Modern Authorship in The Manuscript Found in Saragossa\nJames Vitiello: RoboCop: Delta City is Inevitable \n3:45-4:00 PM – Closing Remarks\nCarla Freccero\, Chair\, Literature Department URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2014-literature-undergraduate-colloquium-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140522T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140522T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140509T225436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140509T225436Z UID:10004937-1400760000-1400767200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ken Waltzer Seminar: A Holocaust Micro-History DESCRIPTION:Professor Kenneth Waltzer  is currently director of the Jewish studies program at Michigan State University.  His interests cover American social and political history\, including urban\, labor\, and minority history\, immigration and social relations in the United States and elsewhere\, and modern Jewish history\, including the study of anti-Semitism and of the Holocaust. His major current project is a book on The Rescue of Children and Youths at Buchenwald. His research on the Buchenwald concentration camp has focused on the rescue of children and youths inside the camp and has included some notable findings. \nMoving Together\, Moving Alone: The Story of Boys on a Transport from Auschwitz to Buchenwald \nOn January 17\, 1945\, a large group of about ten thousand predominantly Jewish prisoners were evacuated from Auschwitz-Buna (Monowitz) and Birkenau and taken on a death march to the west. A few days later\, approximately four thousand survivors of this ordeal reached Gleiwitz\, a rail head and the site of several Nazi satellite camps\, where the Nazis loaded them onto open coal cars and transported them to Buchenwald\, a huge concentration camp near Weimar in Thuringia. The weather was so cold that some prisoners sat on frozen dead bodies as benches. According to Nazi records\, the transport arrived on January 26\, 1945\, with 3\,784 prisoners. Of this number\, 304 youths\, 16 years old or under\, comprised about 8% of the human cargo. One of them\, Lazar (Eliezer) Wiesel\, later wrote about the ordeal in a remarkable memoir\, Night\, which is now known all over the world. \nThese were mostly Slovak-\, Hungarian-\, and Rumanian-Jewish boys who had survived terrible family losses on entering Birkenau in late May 1944 and were in Buna under atrocious conditions. Then\, eight months later they were in Buchenwald\, where many were relocated to the children’s barrack\, Kinderblock 66. In this group\, there were surprisingly numerous social clusters – boys with their fathers like Elie Wiesel\, boys with other boys\, especially brothers or cousins\, and boys with relatives or friends often from the same towns. Many were acting out deep commitments\, they say in their testimonies\, to stay together and help one another under all pressures. But others were alone. \nA large literature stresses that life in the Nazi camps approximated a war of all against all: social relations among prisoners were egoistic and pathogenic. This seminar seeks to test this hypothesis. Using the techniques of micro-history\, it asks in what ways these youths at Buna and Buchenwald were moving together and also moving alone during their ordeal. It shows how by focusing in a detailed way on a distinctive group within prisoner society\, we can study the remarkable and diverse forms of solidarity that continued to co-exist in prisoner society alongside separateness and aloneness among these tormented young people. In this case\, we can also discover the fates of nearly all boys on the transport – those like Wiesel who were in block 66\, those who were not\, and those who were sent out of Buchenwald to the killing satellites. \nKen Waltzer will also be at the film screening of Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald shown at UCSC on May 22 @ 6pm in College 8\, Room 240. \nThese events are free and open to the public. \nSponsored by: UCSC Center for Jewish Studies and Neufeld-Levin Endowed Chair in Holocaust Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ken-waltzer-seminar-a-holocaust-micro-history-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140522T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140522T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140509T230557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140509T230557Z UID:10004938-1400781600-1400788800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ken Waltzer and Film Screening: Kinderblock 66 DESCRIPTION:Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald. Kinderblock 66 is the story of four men who\, as young boys\, were imprisoned by the Nazis in the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp and who\, sixty-five years later\, return to commemorate the sixty-fifth anniversary of their liberation. The film tells the story of the effort undertaken by the camp’s Communist-led underground to protect ad save Jewish children who were arriving in Buchenwald toward the end of the Holocaust. Kinderblock 66 also tells the story of Antonin Kalina\, the head of the block who was personally responsible for saving 904 boys in Buchenwald. \nThe Film Screening of Kinderblock 66 will be shown at UCSC on May 22 @ 6pm in College 8\, Room 240. \nProfessor Kenneth Waltzer is currently director of the Jewish studies program at Michigan State University.  His interests cover American social and political history\, including urban\, labor\, and minority history\, immigration and social relations in the United States and elsewhere\, and modern Jewish history\, including the study of anti-Semitism and of the Holocaust. His major current project is a book on The Rescue of Children and Youths at Buchenwald. His research on the Buchenwald concentration camp has focused on the rescue of children and youths inside the camp and has included some notable findings. \nSeminar with Ken Waltzer held earlier in the day: A Holocaust Micro-History\nMay 22 @ 12pm in Humanities 1\, Room 210. \nThese events are free and open to the public. \nSponsored by: UCSC Center for Jewish Studies and Neufeld-Levin Endowed Chair in Holocaust Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ken-waltzer-film-screening-kinderblock-66-2/ LOCATION:College 8\, Room 240\, College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140523 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140525 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20130703T182656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130703T182656Z UID:10005424-1400803200-1400975999@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"Working w/ Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale" Conference DESCRIPTION:[vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \nIn celebration of Shakespeare’s 450th birthday\, Working w/ Shakespeare fosters a dialogue between three professions that are especially dedicated to understanding his work: literary critics\, theater designers\, and professional actors. What makes literary criticism\, design\, and performance different as forms of interpretation? How might their distinctive practical techniques and theoretical concerns enrich and transform each other? These questions are the framework for the conference’s three workshops\, each of which will focus on The Winter’s Tale. \n[/vc_column_text] [vc_column width=”1/3″ el_position=”first”] [rb_section_title title=”Workshop I: Acting with Shakespeare” icon=”con-none” border=”true” margin=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \n \nMike Ryan is an actor and the Co-Artistic Director of Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Acting with Shakespeare is an interactive workshop that explores how actors move from the page to the stage; how verse\, rhetoric and complex imagery are made more intelligible to the ear; and how to pull useful clues from Shakespeare’s text that translate the spoken word into action. As one of Shakespeare’s final works\, The Winter’s Tale combines bold experimentation with verse form with the theatrical cunning of a producer at the peak of his game. \n[/vc_column_text] [/vc_column] [vc_column width=”1/3″] [rb_section_title title=”Workshop II: Designing with Shakespeare” icon=”con-none” border=”true” margin=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \n \nKate Edmunds\, Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz\, has designed scenery for over thirty years\, from New York to California\, to great acclaim. In Designing with Shakespeare\, participants will move from the written to the spoken word\, and then from words to the visual images that reflect their own thoughts\, developing designs for The Winter’s Tale that communicate their own insights about the play. Through design\, we will try to “see what we mean” when we work with Shakespeare. \n[/vc_column_text] [/vc_column] [vc_column width=”1/3″ el_position=”last”] [rb_section_title title=”Workshop III: Writing with Shakespeare” icon=”con-none” border=”true” margin=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \n \nSean Keilen teaches Shakespeare in the Literature Department at UC Santa Cruz. Writing with Shakespeare takes The Winter’s Tale as the starting point for a dialogue about literary criticism’s long-standing investment in the hermeneutics of suspicion and the prospect of grounding interpretation\, instead\, in aesthetic experience. Suppose that we approach Shakespeare’s play not only as an object for analysis but also as a model for thinking and writing about art. What\, then\, could our criticism become? \n[/vc_column_text] [/vc_column] [rb_blank_divider height=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column width=”1/2″ el_position=”first”] [rb_section_title title=”Schedule” icon=”con-none” border=”true” margin=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \nFriday\, May 23\nLocation: Digital Arts Research Center\, Room 108 (Map – Park in lot #126) \n9:00-9:30 AM – Welcome and Introductions \n9:30 AM -12:00 PM – Workshop I: Acting with Shakespeare \n12:00-1:00 PM – Lunch @ DARC 3rd floor balcony \nLocation: Theater Arts\, Second Stage (Map – Park in lot #126) \n1:00-3:30 PM – Workshop II: Designing with Shakespeare \nSaturday\, May 24\nLocation: Humanities Building 1\, Room 210 (Map – Park in lot #109) \n9:30 AM – 12:00 PM – Workshop III: Writing with Shakespeare \n12:00-12:30 PM – Closing Lunch Reception \n[/vc_column_text] [/vc_column] [vc_column width=”1/2″ el_position=”last”] [rb_section_title title=”Sponsors” icon=”con-none” border=”true” margin=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \nWorking w/ Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale is presented by Shakespeare’s Disciplines\, a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, with generous support from the Dean of Arts\, the Seigfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Studies Endowment and the Department of Literature\, and w/Shakespeare\, a Multicampus Research Group of the University of California Humanities Network. \n[rb_blank_divider height=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \n[rb_button size=”medium” style=”light” url=”mailto:ihr@ucsc.edu” label=”Request Readings” target=”_blank” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \n[/vc_column_text] [/vc_column] URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/working-with-shakespeare-2/ LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140525T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140525T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140429T164458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140429T164458Z UID:10005707-1401044400-1401051600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: You're Next DESCRIPTION:You never want to do anything interesting anymore. \nIf you’ve ever found yourself wondering what a mumblecore slasher film might be like\, then look no further than You’re Next. Directed by Adam wingard (who also helmed 2010’s elliptically grim A Horrible Way to Die and this year’s John-Carpenter-meets-The-Terminator homage The Guest) and featuring a number of prominent figures from the mumblecore scene (most notably Amy Seimetz and Joe Swanberg)\, the film is a wild recasting of the slasher film’s “Final Girl” as a survivalist killing machine let loose amidst murderous familial dysfunction in a Home Alone-like scenario. Not to be missed! \nFor the remainder of the quarter\, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France\, Japan\, and the United States each week. Same time\, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family\, invite your friends. \nSponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/contemporary-horror-auteur-film-series-youre-next-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140528T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140528T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140228T204810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140228T204810Z UID:10004912-1401278400-1401283800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gopal Balakrishan: "Breakthroughs of the Young Marx" DESCRIPTION:Gopal Balakrishan \nProfessor\, History of Consciousness\, UCSC \nOffering an intellectual history of the phases of Marx’s thought from his dissertation on Greek philosophy to The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte\, Gopal Balakrishnan seeks to explain why the emergent syntheses of this early Marx broke down in the aftermath of the failures of the revolutions of 1848. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gopal-balakrishan-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140529T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140529T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20130607T153832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130607T153832Z UID:10004818-1401379200-1401386400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Spring Awards & Humanities Undergraduate Research Award Presentations DESCRIPTION:  \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nYou are cordially invited to Spring Awards 2014 on Thursday\, May 29\, 2014. This annual “Celebrating Humanities” event is an important opportunity to acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition\, awards\, and distinctions over the course of this past year. \nThe Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) support and encourage undergraduate research. In 1996\, the Humanities Division began awarding students undertaking truly innovating research projects. The projects must involve research within or including any of the humanities disciplines\, and the research must be performed during the current academic year. \nHighlights include:\nDizikes Faculty Teaching Award in Humanities\nHumanities Undergraduate Research Awards \nSchedule:\n4:00-5:00PM “Celebrating Humanities” Spring Awards (Humanities 1\, Room 210)\n4:00PM Opening Remarks by Dean Ladusaw\n4:15PM Dizikes Award\n5:00-6:00PM HUGRA Poster Presentations and Reception (Humanities Courtyard) \nRefreshments will be served. Free and open to the public. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/spring-awards-humanities-undergraduate-research-award-presentations-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140601T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140601T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140429T164550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140429T164550Z UID:10005718-1401649200-1401656400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: One Missed Call DESCRIPTION:Helmed by the wildly prolific Takashi Miike\, whose other notable horror credits include Audition (1999)\, Visitor Q (2001)\, Gozu (2003)\, and Imprint (2006)\, One Missed Call takes the anxieties surrounding the obsolescence of video tape technology that were so gloomily evoked in Ringu (1998) and shifts them onto the rise of cellular phone communication and the exploitative potentials of reality television. Yumi Nakamura (Kô Shibasaki) tries to find out who or what is behind the death of her friend\, Yoko (Anna Nagata). Two days before her death\, Yoko receives a voice message from herself dated two days in the future\, and in this message Yoko and Yumi can hear Yoko screaming. Yumi’s search for answers becomes increasingly urgent as she too receives a voice message from herself with the date of her future death. Followed by two sequels\, a short-lived Japanese TV series\, and an American remake\, One Missed Call is not to be missed!  \nFor the remainder of the quarter\, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France\, Japan\, and the United States each week. Same time\, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family\, invite your friends. \nSponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/contemporary-horror-auteur-film-series-one-missed-call-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140603T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140603T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140523T230107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140523T230107Z UID:10005730-1401814800-1401822000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Queen for a Day: Transformistas\, Beauty Queens\, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela DESCRIPTION:The Feminist Studies Department is proud to announce… \nQueen for a Day\nTransformistas\, Beauty Queens\, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela\nA Conversation & Book Party\n for Marcia Ochoa\n with Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal & B. Ruby Rich \nTuesday\, June 3 \nAbout the Book\nQueen for a Day is a queer diasporic ethnography of beauty and femininity that connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national femininity. is ethnography examines how femininities are produced\, performed\, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants\, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela contest\, on the well-traveled Caracas avenue where transgender women (transformistas) project themselves into the urban imaginary\, and on the bodies of both\ntransformistas and beauty pageant contestants (misses). Placing transformistas and misses in the same analytic frame enables Ochoa to delve deeply into complex questions of media and spectacle\, gender and sexuality\, race and class\, and self-fashioning and identity. \nVenezuela has won more international beauty contests than any other. e femininity performed by Venezuelan women in high-profile\, widely viewed pageants defines a kind of national femininity. Ochoa argues that as transformistas and misses work to achieve the bodies\, clothing and makeup styles\, and postures and gestures of this national femininity\, they come to embody Venezuelan modernity. \nAbout the Author\nMarcia Ochoa is an Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz. An ethnographer of media\, Ochoa’s work focuses on the role of the imaginary in the survival of queer and transgender people in Latin America\, and the place of these subjects in the nation. She is a founder and advisor to El/La Para TransLatinas\, a social justice project for transgender Latina immigrants in the Mission District of San Francisco\, CA. Ochoa is incoming co-editor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. \nA chapter from the book will be available to read prior to the talk at:\nChapter 5: Sacar el Cuerpo \nPlease join us for a small reception in the Feminist Studies library following the reading. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/queen-for-a-day-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140604T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140604T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140514T224027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140514T224027Z UID:10004940-1401872400-1401879600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mary Niall Mitchell: Workshop “Archival Challenges: Children\, Slavery\, and Nineteenth Century Visual Culture” DESCRIPTION:Workshop: “Archival Challenges: Children\, Slavery\, and Nineteenth Century Visual Culture”\nWednesday\, June 4 @ 9-11a.m. \nFor access to pre-circulated readings for the workshop\, please contact Institute for Humanities Research at ihr@ucsc.edu. \nCultural Studies Colloquium: “The Slave Girl in the Archive: A Tale of Paper and Glass”\nWednesday June 4 @ 12:15-1:30p.m. \nIn her current project\, Mary Niall Mitchell tells the story of a girl named Mary Botts\, the first light-skinned formerly enslaved child to be\nphotographed for abolitionist purposes. Beginning with the deposit of the child’s daguerreotype portrait at the Massachusetts Historical\nSociety in 1921\, she unspools the history of Mary’s family and their long efforts to be free from slavery. “The Slave Girl in the Archive” uses\nthis narrative to explore connections between the lives of enslaved people and the variety of documents and artifacts that contain traces of\nthem.” \nMary Niall Mitchell\, author of Raising Freedom’s Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future after Slavery (New York University Press\, 2010)\, is\nJoseph Tregle Professor in Early American History\, Ethel & Herman Midlo Chair in New Orleans Studies\, and Associate Professor at the\nUniversity of New Orleans. \nThis event is presented by the Working Group on the Study of Children (Research Cluster)\, with generous support from the Society for the History of Children and Youth\, and the Center for Cultural Studies at UCSC. \nDirections and Parking\nParking permits are required seven days a week in the lots located closest to Humanities (Cowell/Stevenson parking lots 107\, 109\, and 110). One-day visitor permits may be purchased from the parking attendants in the lot (during the first hour of the event) or at the main entrance Kiosk (open M-F 8am-1pm). On evenings and weekends\, the pay station in lot 109 will dispense permits for $3 after 4:30pm on weekdays\, and all day on weekends. \nFor more information\, including disabled access\, please contact Evin Guy at ecguy@ucsc.edu\, or (831) 459-5655. \n[rb_button size=”medium” url=”http://ihr.ucsc.edu/directions” label=”Location & Directions” target=”_blank” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mary-niall-mitchell-workshop-archival-challenges-children-slavery-and-nineteenth-century-visual-culture-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140604T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140604T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140414T202041Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140414T202041Z UID:10005682-1401883200-1401888600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mary Niall Mitchell: “The Slave Girl in the Archive: a Tale on Paper and Glass” DESCRIPTION:  \nWorkshop: “Archival Challenges: Children\, Slavery\, and Nineteenth Century Visual Culture”\nWednesday\, June 4 @ 9-11a.m. \nFor access to pre-circulated readings for the workshop\, please contact Institute for Humanities Research at ihr@ucsc.edu. \nCultural Studies Colloquium: “The Slave Girl in the Archive: A Tale of Paper and Glass”\nWednesday June 4 @ 12:15-1:30p.m. \nIn her current project\, Mary Niall Mitchell tells the story of a girl named Mary Botts\, the first light-skinned formerly enslaved child to be\nphotographed for abolitionist purposes. Beginning with the deposit of the child’s daguerreotype portrait at the Massachusetts Historical\nSociety in 1921\, she unspools the history of Mary’s family and their long efforts to be free from slavery. “The Slave Girl in the Archive” uses\nthis narrative to explore connections between the lives of enslaved people and the variety of documents and artifacts that contain traces of\nthem.” \nMary Niall Mitchell\, author of Raising Freedom’s Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future after Slavery (New York University Press\, 2010)\, is\nJoseph Tregle Professor in Early American History\, Ethel & Herman Midlo Chair in New Orleans Studies\, and Associate Professor at the\nUniversity of New Orleans. \nThis event is presented by the IHR Working Group on the Study of Children (Research Cluster)\, with generous support from the Society for the History of Children and Youth\, and the Center for Cultural Studies at UCSC. \nDirections and Parking\nParking permits are required seven days a week in the lots located closest to Humanities (Cowell/Stevenson parking lots 107\, 109\, and 110). One-day visitor permits may be purchased from the parking attendants in the lot (during the first hour of the event) or at the main entrance Kiosk (open M-F 8am-1pm). On evenings and weekends\, the pay station in lot 109 will dispense permits for $3 after 4:30pm on weekdays\, and all day on weekends. \nFor more information\, including disabled access\, please contact Evin Guy at ecguy@ucsc.edu\, or (831) 459-5655. \n[rb_button size=”medium” url=”http://ihr.ucsc.edu/directions” label=”Location & Directions” target=”_blank” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mary-niall-mitchell-the-slave-girl-in-the-archive-a-tale-on-paper-and-glass-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140605T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140605T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140404T182538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140404T182538Z UID:10005677-1401991200-1401998400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Publications Reading DESCRIPTION:A selection of Publications Readings. \nThe spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series\, Dislocations and the Imagined\, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-publications-reading-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140606 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140608 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140225T203112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140225T203112Z UID:10005643-1402012800-1402185599@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"Doing Critical Race and Ethnic Studies in a Neoliberal Age" Symposium DESCRIPTION:[vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \n \nThis spring bears the fruit of many years of student activism at UC Santa Cruz\, namely\, the inauguration of a Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) program dedicated to studying the ideological formations and institutional productions of race and ethnicity. Recognizing that the institutionalization of CRES is both an exciting moment and a reminder of the work we must keep showing up for\, we ask: \n• How can we foster creative ways to keep activist and academic knowledges in conversation?\n• How can scholarly activity be held accountable to social justice struggles?\n• How can we build and strengthen ties across institutional and organizational walls? \nThe context of this moment of institutionalization is the neoliberal erosion of public education and the casualization of all forms of academic labor that have transformed education into a privileged commodity available only to a few and rendered education a site of labor precariousness. At UC Santa Cruz\, recent student experiences with the literal “campus to jail busline” attest to these neoliberal processes. Aimed at fostering critical dialogue about doing critical race work in this historical moment\, this symposium brings together community organizers and social justice activists with campus organizers\, students\, staff\, and faculty from regional community colleges\, state colleges\, and universities to examine militarization\, post-9/11 terror-baiting\, and the criminalization of racialized bodies as the effects of neoliberal policies that cut across campus and community boundaries. \nPlease join us June 6-7 at UC Santa Cruz to strengthen the bonds of solidarity\, combine our knowledges\, and build coalitions around interconnected struggles. \nFree and open to the public. \nNote\, event has been moved to the Humanities Lecture Hall.\n[/vc_column_text] [rb_blank_divider width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [rb_section_title title=”Schedule” icon=”con-none” border=”true” margin=”0″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \nFriday\, June 6\n4:00 PM: Welcome and Coffee Sandra Harvey (CRES Student Working Group) \n4:05 PM: Blessing by Corrina Gould (Indian People Organizing for Change) \n4:20 PM: State of CRES and Reportback on Critical Ethnic Studies Conference by Jasmine Syedullah (CRES Student Working Group) \n4:30-6:30 PM: Discussion I: The Prison Industrial Complex & the Public University \nFacilitator: Gina Dent (Feminist Studies) \nParticipants: Sadie Reynolds (Sociology\, Cabrillo College)\, OT Quintero (Barrios Unidos)\, Misty Rojo (Justice Now)\, Tash Nguyen* (Sin Barras)\, Ivan Medina (IGNITE) \n  \nSaturday\, June 7\n9:30 AM: Welcome and Coffee William Ladusaw (Dean of Humanities) \n10:00-12:00 PM: Discussion II: Militarization\, Criminalization\, and Racial and Gender Violence \nFacilitator: Christine Hong (Literature) \nParticipants: Lara Kiswani (Arab Resource & Organizing Center)\, Sami Abed (Resource Center for Non-Violence)\, Boian-Christoph Boianov (Committee for Justice in Palestine)\, Tierney Yates (Black Unity Group\, San Jose State)\, Isa Noyola and Marcia Ochoa (El/La Para Translatinas)\, Monica Jones (Sex Worker Outreach Program Phoenix) \n12:00-1:30 PM: Lunch \n1:30-3:30 PM: Discussion III: Political Education and Activist Knowledges \nFacilitator: Cindy Cruz (Education) \nParticipants: Nancy Kim (Asian American & Pacific Islander Resource Center and Ethnic Resource Centers)\, Carolyn Dunn (American Indian Resource Center)\, Corrina Gould (Indian People Organizing for Change)\, Xamuel Banales (Ethnic Studies\, Northern Arizona University)\, Shaila Ramos\, David Padilla\, Mayra Chavez\, Marjory Ruiz (Students Informing Now)\, Michael James (Popular Education 2.0) \n3:30 PM: Coffee Break \n4:00-5:30 PM: Closing Discussion: Envisioning CRES on Campus and Beyond \nFacilitators: Marcia Ochoa (Feminist Studies) and Jessica Whatcott (CRES Student Working Group) \n6:00-7:00 PM: Closing reception with light food and refreshments \n[/vc_column_text] [/vc_column] [rb_blank_divider width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [rb_section_title title=”Sponsors & Acknowledgements” icon=”con-none” border=”true” margin=”0″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \n[vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”]\nPresented by the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Research Cluster\, with generous support from the Division of Humanities; Graduate Student Association; UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; UC Center for New Racial Studies; Office of Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion; Stevenson College; and the Departments of American Studies\, History\, Literature\, and Politics. \nPoster Art: LA PROMESA DE LOMA PRIETA: QUE NO SE REPITA LA HISTORIA (THE PROMISE OF LOMA PRIETA: THAT HISTORY NOT REPEAT ITSELF)\, the University of California at Santa Cruz\, Oakes College Mural\, by Juana Alicia ©1992. All rights reserved. Photo by Aleixo Goncalves.\n[/vc_column_text] [rb_blank_divider width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [rb_section_title title=”Directions & Parking” icon=”con-none” border=”true” margin=”0″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \nParking permits are required seven days a week in the lots located closest to Humanities (Cowell/Stevenson parking lots 107\, 109\, and 110). One-day visitor permits may be purchased from the parking attendants in the lot (during the first hour of the event) or at the main entrance Kiosk (open M-F 8am-1pm). On evenings and weekends\, the pay station in lot 109 will dispense permits for $3 after 4:30pm on weekdays\, and all day on weekends. \n[rb_button size=”medium” url=”http://ihr.ucsc.edu/directions” label=”Location & Directions” target=”_blank” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”]\n[/vc_column_text] URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/doing-cres-in-neoliberal-age-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140606T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140606T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140521T022504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140521T022504Z UID:10004942-1402074000-1402084800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:What Makes Applied Linguistics Applied? Language Acquisition & Language in Use DESCRIPTION:The Language Program has been granted department status earlier this spring\, and we are hosting an event to celebrate becoming the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics. Professor Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig\, a leading scholar in second language acquisition\, will give a talk on June 6 in the University Center after a brief welcome by Dean William Ladusaw. The event will begin at 5 pm\, with a reception following 6-8 pm.\n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/what-makes-applied-linguistics-applied-language-acquisition-language-in-use-2/ LOCATION:University Center\, University Center‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140608T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140608T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140429T164851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140429T164851Z UID:10005720-1402254000-1402261200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: À l ́interieur DESCRIPTION:A French body horror film that takes home invasion movies to their ne plus ultra\, Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s À l’intérieur depicts the attempts of Sarah (Alysson Paradis)\, very pregnant and very alone in her house on Christmas Eve\, to ward off the efforts of “La Femme” (Beátrice Dalle) to break into Sarah’s home and (if she can) Sarah’s womb to take the baby for herself. Mixing together this gruesome premise with yuletide ennui and the aftereffects of the banlieue riots of 2005\, the film is a moody and unsettlingly downbeat Christmas tale. Not to be missed! \nFor the remainder of the quarter\, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France\, Japan\, and the United States each week. Same time\, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family\, invite your friends. \nSponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/contemporary-horror-auteur-film-series-a-l-interieur-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140629 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140630 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140609T185235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140609T185235Z UID:10005734-1404000000-1404086399@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mortality: Facing Death in Ancient Greece DESCRIPTION:Mortality: Facing Death in Ancient Greece is a four-week Summer Institute funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Beginning from the premise that mortality is the condition that gives life its singular human quality\, the goal of the Institute is to develop a multi-disciplinary approach to mortality in ancient Greece as the basis for rigorous and innovative teaching and scholarship in the Humanities. Under the guidance of experts\, the Institute will bring together twenty-five college and university teachers and three graduate students to examine relevant material from a broad range of ancient Greek literary sources\, visual and archaeological remains\, and historical periods\, ranging from the 8th to the 3rd centuries BCE. The Institute encourages the study of mortality in ancient Greece as the basis for comparative study across cultures\, disciplines\, and historical periods. \nInstitute Faculty:\nKaren Bassi\, Institute Director\nBrooke Holmes\, Visiting Scholar\nSarah Iles Johnston\, Visiting Scholar\nSheila Murnaghan\, Visiting Scholar\nYiannis Petropoulos\, Visiting Scholar\nKirk Sanders\, Visiting Scholar\nYannis Tzifopoulos\, Visiting Scholar\nMichael Wedde\, Local Guest Scholar \nVisit the Institute website for more information: mortality.ihr.ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mortality-facing-death-in-ancient-greece-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140630T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140702T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140703T173259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140703T173259Z UID:10005740-1404115200-1404320400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Modern Jewish Spaces From the Venice Ghetto to Contemporary Classifications: Summer Workshop for Young Researchers in Jewish Culture and Identity DESCRIPTION:Modern Jewish Spaces From the Venice Ghetto to Contemporary Classifications \nSummer Workshop for Young Researchers in Jewish Culture and Identity \nIn conjunction with the University of California\, Santa Cruz \nJune 30 – July 2\, 2014 at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute \nAttending the workshop is by invitation only \nSummer Workshop Program \nContemporary globalization brings to the forefront the relation between identity and spatial location; it highlights new and multiple cross-cutting transnational allegiances that bear on central aspects of Jewish identity\, which some contemporary writers and researchers have begun to explore and elaborate. The Venice Ghetto raises a range of questions about Modern Jewish Spaces that have played central roles in Jewish and European culture since the Jews were sequestered in the Ghetto at its founding in 1516. The history of the Ghetto\, its image and its symbolic resonances have generated different models that have become subtexts of several Modern Jewish Spaces\, often implicitly reverted to in desperate Jewish historical moments. A broad range of questions arise from the study of Modern Jewish Spaces\, such as the following: \n• Are there sets of necessary and sufficient conditions that constitute different paradigmatic Modern Jewish Spaces?\n• What do Modern Jewish Spaces mean for those who live in them\, or for those outside?\n• What roles do political\, social and cultural power play in and for these Modern Jewish Spaces?\n• What was/is the influence of the State of Israel on contemporary definitions of Jewish people?\n• What roles do minority cultures in Modern Jewish Spaces assume and fulfill? \nThe summer workshop will provide an opportunity to investigate these and other related questions. \nAcademic committee:\nProf. Shaul Bassi\, Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten\,\nProf. Murray Baumgarten\, Dr. Yotam Benziman\,\nDr. Manuela Consonni\, Prof. Shmuel Feiner\,\nProf. Aviad Hacohen\, Prof. Debra Kaplan\,\nProf. Haviva Pedaya\, Prof. Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin\,\nProf. Uzi Rebhun\, Dr. Avinoam Rosenak\,\nRabbi Naftali Rothenberg\, Dafna Schreiber \nThe Van Leer Jerusalem Institute\n43 Jabotinsky St.\, Jerusalem\nwww.vanleer.org.il\nPhotographs taken at the event will be posted on the Institute’s website and on social networks. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/18537-2/ LOCATION:Van Leer Jerusalem Institute END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140701 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140702 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140625T220138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140625T220138Z UID:10005736-1404172800-1404259199@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Shakespeare: "As You Like It" (Jul 1 - Aug 10) DESCRIPTION:As You Like It \nBy William Shakespeare\nDirected by Mark Rucker \nIn the Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen \nJuly 1 – August 10\nPreviews July 1st \, 2nd and 3rd\n(All Preview Tickets are $20.00) \nLove at first sight\, a wrestling match\, cross-dressing and a fool! Shakespeare’s delightful\, romantic comedy As You Like It boasts all four\, cleverly intertwined with the trials and triumphs of love. Exiled from court\, Rosalind ventures into the idyllic Forest of Arden with the fool\, Touchstone\, only to discover her true love Orlando awaits her. What follows is an elaborate scheme to capture his heart through her witty and playful ploy: instruct Orlando how to woo a woman while disguised as a boy. As You Like It explores the vast and varied incarnations of love culminating in a woodland wedding extravaganza! \nSanta Cruz Shakespeare (SCS) is a new\, independent non-profit theatre company rooted in Santa Cruz\, California and dedicated to the plays of William Shakespeare and other dynamic playwrights whose work celebrates language. SCS will carry on the tradition of professional\, thought-provoking and passionate theater in Santa Cruz. \nSCS was funded by theatre-lovers in Santa Cruz and beyond after its predecessor\, a 32-year old Shakespeare Festival affiliated with the University of California at Santa Cruz\, closed in December 2013. Thanks to the generosity of its donors\, and the fiscal sponsorship of Arts Council Santa Cruz County\, SCS’s 2014 Summer Season is fully forward-funded. This means that all the money required for production this year is already in-hand. Simply put: ticket revenue\, along with all donations and grants received after March 1\, 2014\, will help to ensure a 2015 season. As we are fond of saying\, “we have thrown away the credit card and broken out the debit card.” It also means that in many ways our future success as a company rests in the hands of this community. If our audiences buy tickets to the season\, donate\, volunteer\, and urge friends to do the same\, Santa Cruz Shakespeare will not only survive\, but thrive. \nIn addition to the summer repertory season\, SCS is proud to interface with the community through a number of vital education and outreach initiatives including an Intern Program\, the Don Rothman pre-show and post-show discussion talkbacks as well as Weekend with Shakespeare in conjunction with UCSC’s Associate Professor of Literature Sean Keilen and Professor Emeritus\, Michael Warren. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-shakespeare-as-you-like-it-july-1-aug-10-2/ LOCATION:Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140713 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140714 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140625T220517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140625T220517Z UID:10005738-1405209600-1405295999@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Shakespeare: "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (Jul 13 - Aug 10) DESCRIPTION:The Merry Wives of Windsor \nBy William Shakespeare\nDirected by Kirsten Brandt \nIn the Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen \nJuly 13 – August 10\nPreviews July 13th\, 14th and 15th\n(All Preview Tickets are $20.00) \nThe Merry Wives of Windsor marks the return of audience favorite Sir John Falstaff once again down on both luck and cash. Hatching a ruse to fatten his wallet he schemes to seduce Mistresses Ford and Page in an attempt to swindle their husbands’ money. Falstaff\, as always\, overestimates his ingenuity and the two women concoct a plan of their own to make a buffoon of the knight. Richard Ziman returns to Santa Cruz to helm this cheeky\, mischievous romp. \nSanta Cruz Shakespeare (SCS) is a new\, independent non-profit theatre company rooted in Santa Cruz\, California and dedicated to the plays of William Shakespeare and other dynamic playwrights whose work celebrates language. SCS will carry on the tradition of professional\, thought-provoking and passionate theater in Santa Cruz. \nSCS was funded by theatre-lovers in Santa Cruz and beyond after its predecessor\, a 32-year old Shakespeare Festival affiliated with the University of California at Santa Cruz\, closed in December 2013. Thanks to the generosity of its donors\, and the fiscal sponsorship of Arts Council Santa Cruz County\, SCS’s 2014 Summer Season is fully forward-funded. This means that all the money required for production this year is already in-hand. Simply put: ticket revenue\, along with all donations and grants received after March 1\, 2014\, will help to ensure a 2015 season. As we are fond of saying\, “we have thrown away the credit card and broken out the debit card.” It also means that in many ways our future success as a company rests in the hands of this community. If our audiences buy tickets to the season\, donate\, volunteer\, and urge friends to do the same\, Santa Cruz Shakespeare will not only survive\, but thrive. \nIn addition to the summer repertory season\, SCS is proud to interface with the community through a number of vital education and outreach initiatives including an Intern Program\, the Don Rothman pre-show and post-show discussion talkbacks as well as Weekend with Shakespeare in conjunction with UCSC’s Associate Professor of Literature Sean Keilen and Professor Emeritus\, Michael Warren. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-shakespeare-the-merry-wives-of-windsor-jul-13-aug-10-2/ LOCATION:Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140729 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140730 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140625T221042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140625T221042Z UID:10005739-1406592000-1406678399@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Shakespeare: "The Fringe Show: The Beard of Avon" (Jul 29 & Aug 5) DESCRIPTION:The Fringe Show: The Beard of Avon \nBy Amy Freed\nDirected by Steve Boyle \nIn the Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen \nJuly 29th and August 5th ONLY\n(All Fringe Show Tickets are $16.00) \nIn this mad-cap comedy a swain known as “Will Shakspere” who longs to be an artist flees his rural life for the stages of Elizabethan London. Did this novice actor become the ghost writer for the Earl of Oxford\, Sir Francis Bacon\, and even Queen Elizabeth? Authors too proud to admit they scribbled plays for the unwashed masses? This intelligent and fun-filled farce deliberates the longstanding debate over who really penned Shakespeare’s canon. With a gleeful wink at intervening centuries\, Amy Freed’s deliciously witty The Beard of Avon portrays Will’s comic struggles to become an artist in his own right in this bawdy\, hilarious\, conspiracy-laden origin story of how a poor hayseed with wild dreams found himself in over his head and became the man we know as Shakespeare. \nSanta Cruz Shakespeare (SCS) is a new\, independent non-profit theatre company rooted in Santa Cruz\, California and dedicated to the plays of William Shakespeare and other dynamic playwrights whose work celebrates language. SCS will carry on the tradition of professional\, thought-provoking and passionate theater in Santa Cruz. \nSCS was funded by theatre-lovers in Santa Cruz and beyond after its predecessor\, a 32-year old Shakespeare Festival affiliated with the University of California at Santa Cruz\, closed in December 2013. Thanks to the generosity of its donors\, and the fiscal sponsorship of Arts Council Santa Cruz County\, SCS’s 2014 Summer Season is fully forward-funded. This means that all the money required for production this year is already in-hand. Simply put: ticket revenue\, along with all donations and grants received after March 1\, 2014\, will help to ensure a 2015 season. As we are fond of saying\, “we have thrown away the credit card and broken out the debit card.” It also means that in many ways our future success as a company rests in the hands of this community. If our audiences buy tickets to the season\, donate\, volunteer\, and urge friends to do the same\, Santa Cruz Shakespeare will not only survive\, but thrive. \nIn addition to the summer repertory season\, SCS is proud to interface with the community through a number of vital education and outreach initiatives including an Intern Program\, the Don Rothman pre-show and post-show discussion talkbacks as well as Weekend with Shakespeare in conjunction with UCSC’s Associate Professor of Literature Sean Keilen and Professor Emeritus\, Michael Warren. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-shakespeare-the-fringe-show-the-beard-of-avon-jul-29-aug-5-2/ LOCATION:Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140802 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140804 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140731T220309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140731T220309Z UID:10005777-1406937600-1407110399@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Church Street Fair: A celebration of music\, art\, food and wine DESCRIPTION:Saturday and Sunday\, August 2nd and 3rd see the return of Cabrillo Festival’s popular Church Street Fair – a festival of music\, art & wine. Celebrating its 23rd year\, the two-day festival within the Festival offers an inspiring reflection of the arts in Santa Cruz. The weekend bursts with non-stop world and ethnic music and dance on the outdoor Church Street Stage\, and dozens of premier artists and craftspeople selling their treasures all along Church Street in front of the Civic Auditorium. \nNever is the spirit of Santa Cruz more alive than on the Church Street Stage when the spotlight is focused on Santa Cruz’s exceptional musicians. Audiences will travel the globe with musical voices from Mexico to Ireland\, Africa to Cuba\, and dance traditions from the Middle Eastern to European classical ballet\, American urban styles. Some groups make their Church Street Stage debut\, and many are old favorites returning for the fun. \nYou’ll have lots of tasty local treats to choose from\, including mobile gourmet vendors Cruz’n Gourmet and Low n Slow\, scoops from the Penny Ice Creamery\, and wine tasting with Vinocruz. \nTo learn more about the wonderful musicians\, artists and vendors involved in the Church Street Fair\, check out our Tumblr blog\, and check out even more content on our Facebook and Pinterest pages! \nHosted by KUSP programmer Brett Taylor\, the Church Street Fair is a collaboration between the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. \nCHURCH STREET STAGE PERFORMERS: \nSATURDAY\, AUGUST 2\n11:15 The Great Morgani\n12:15 Samba Cruz Quartet\n1:15 Shakti Bhakti Ensemble\n2:15 Rebecca Lomnicky & David Brewer\n3:30 Diaspora Dance Company\n4:15 Pacific Voices\n5:15 Desert Dream Music & Dance\n6:30 The Mosaic Quartet \nSUNDAY\, AUGUST 3\n11:15 Jesse Autumn & Shelley Phillips Harp Duo\n12:15 Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre\n1:00 Free Family Concert\n2:30 Watsonville Taiko\n3:30 Xochipilli Compañia Danza De Mexico\n4:15 On The Spot Trio\n5:15 Kat Parra Latin World Ensemble\n6:30 AZA URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/church-street-fair-a-celebration-of-music-art-food-and-wine-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140803T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140803T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140731T215259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140731T215259Z UID:10005776-1407070800-1407070800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Free Family Concert: A Conference of the Birds Cabrillo Festival Orchestra\, conductor Marin Alsop DESCRIPTION:The Cabrillo Festival’s wildly popular Free Family Concert introduces kids to the wonderful world of orchestral music. It begins with a Tour of the Orchestra where kids can make an up-close and personal connection to the different instruments and players. This year we’ll feature a world premiere Festival Commission composed and narrated by Jonathan Sheffer. The Conference of the Birds was inspired by a Persian folk tale about a flock of birds on a spiritual journey\, and explores the orchestra’s ability to imitate the chirps\, coos\, and calls of our feathered friends. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/free-family-concert-a-conference-of-the-birds-cabrillo-festival-orchestra-conductor-marin-alsop-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140919 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140921 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140711T180710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140711T180710Z UID:10005741-1411084800-1411257599@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Integrative Graduate Humanities Education and Research Training (IGHERT) Workshop DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz’s Institute for Humanities Research is one of four CHCI member centers and institutes that will lead the research through 2017 on one of the pilot projects\, Integrative Graduate Humanities Research Education and Training (IGHERT). The project brings together faculty\, doctoral students\, and post-doctoral scholars in a series of structured collaborations to undertake jointly mentored\, international research. The four partners are the Institute for Humanities Research\, University of California\, Santa Cruz; Center for 21st Century Studies\, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture\, Justus Liebig University in Giessen; and Humanities Research Centre\, Australian National University\, Canberra. Focusing on the interdisciplinary theme of indigeneity\, together they will engage graduate students in a series of collaborative training and research activities and will test\, refine\, and assess a scalable model of skill training and digital archiving that can be applied in multiple contexts and to multiple themes. \nIGHERT further aims to attune the participants to the larger public contexts in which expert knowledge in the humanities is meaningful and to equip them with the written and oral skills necessary to communicate with these public constituencies more effectively. Students from Ph.D. programs in UC Santa Cruz’s Division of Humanities will be selected to participate in a series of themed meetings and workshops in Santa Cruz\, Milwaukee\, Canberra\, and Giessen\, as well as to receive on-going mentoring from both local and partner faculty participants over the period of the project. In collaboration with the Division of Graduate Studies\, the IGHERT pilot will provide fellowship and project travel support for our student participants. \nClick here for more info \n  \nEVENT PHOTOS: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/integrative-graduate-humanities-education-and-research-training-ighert-workshop-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141004T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141004T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140930T161255Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140930T161255Z UID:10005796-1412416800-1412438400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:LRC Workshop: On Syntax and Information Structure DESCRIPTION:We will begin the academic year at Santa Cruz with a workshop centered on issues at the interface between syntax and information structure. The workshop will feature four talks.\n  \n10:00-10:10 AM – Opening Remarks \n10:10-11:10 AM – Bern Samko (Santa Cruz): Verum Focus and Scalar Emphasis in English VP-Preposing \n11:10-11:30 AM – Break \n11:30-12:30 PM – Line Mikkelsen (Berkeley): What goes post verbal in a verb-final language? On the interplay of prosody\, information structure\, and word order in Karuk \n12:30-01:30 PM – Lunch \n01:30-02:30 PM – Vera Gribanova (Stanford): On certain manifestations of polarity focus in Russian \n02:30-03:00 PM – Break \n03:00-04:00 PM – Karen Lahousse (Leuven): Syntax and information structure in verb-subject inversion in French URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lrc-workshop-on-syntax-and-information-structure-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141007T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141007T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20141016T164253Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141016T164253Z UID:10005879-1412704800-1412711100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Christine King: "“Making Peace with Conflict” DESCRIPTION:UCSC Cowell College Presents\nConflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine \nTuesday Evenings Fall 2014\n6:00-7:45pm\, Merrill Academy 102 \nTuesday Oct 7: Christine King (Lecturer Kresge College). “Making Peace with Conflict” \nTuesday Oct 14: Dr. Jennifer Derr (History Department\, UC Santa Cruz). The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation. \nTuesday Oct 21: Dr. Bruce Thompson (History and Jewish Studies\, UCSC)- “The History of Zionism: From Hertzl to Ben-Gurion. \nTuesday Oct 28: Jean-Jacques Surbeck (Executive Director of Training and Education about the Middle East). Israel and the World\, a Unique Lesson in Double Standards. \nTuesday Nov 4: Hatam Bazian (Near Eastern Studies and Ethnic Studies\, UC Berkeley). Palestine\, Islamophobia and Global Dispossession \n*Thursday Nov 13: Stephen Zunes (Politics and International Studies\, University of San Francisco)- Israel\, Palestine\, and the United States: The Failure of Governments and the Hope from Civil Society \nTuesday Novr 18: Eran Kaplan (Chair Israel Studies\, San Francisco State University). Changes in Israel society and the Peace Process. \nTuesday Nov 25: Lee Ross (Psychology\, Stanford) and Byron Bland (Stanford Law School). Barriers for Peace. \nTuesday Dec 2: Aaron Hahn Tapper (Peace and Justice Studies\, University of San Francisco) and Tom Pettigrew (Psychology\, UC Santa Cruz). Contact\, Intergroup dialogue and the Question of Normalization. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christine-king-making-peace-with-conflict-2/ LOCATION:CA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141009T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141009T174500 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140910T203636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140910T203636Z UID:10004950-1412870400-1412876700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Ariel Gore DESCRIPTION:Ariel Gore is the editor & publisher of the Alternative Press Award-winning magazine Hip Mama and the author of eight books. Her latest\, The End of Eve\, chronicles her years spent caring for her dying mother. The memoir has been called “Terms of Endearment meets Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” \nShe’s also edited half a dozen anthologies\, including Breeder (Seal Press)\, The People’s Apocalypse (Lit Star Press)\, and the LAMBDA-award winning Portland Queer (Lit Star Press). \nAriel lives in Oakland\, California\, and teaches online at Ariel Gore’s School for Wayward Writers. \n  \nFall 2014 Living Writers Series: \nOctober 9: Ariel Gore \nOctober 16: Kelly Link\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, Karen Joy Fowler \nOctober 23: Andrew Lam\, Kate Gale \nOctober 30: Tobias Wolff \nNovember 6: Helene Wecker \nNovember 13: ASL Performer Patrick Graybill\, Interpreter Aaron Brace \nNovember 20: Kelly Link\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, Karen Joy Fowler \nDecember 4: Katie Crouch \nDecember 11: Student Reading \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public from 4:00-5:45pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information\, or email meperks@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-ariel-gore-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141010T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141010T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20141008T000210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141008T000210Z UID:10005871-1412942400-1412947800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Erica Smeltzer: "Porous Time in the City of Gdansk/Danzig" DESCRIPTION:Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nFridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1\, Room 202 \n  \n\n  \nThis event series is also made possible through the generous support of the departments of Literature\, History of Consciousness. Anthropology\, Feminist Studies\, HAVC\, Philosophy\, Politics\, Psychology and Sociology as well as the GSA and GSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/erica-smeltzer-porous-time-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141010T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141010T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140930T210839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140930T210839Z UID:10005814-1412953200-1412960400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Master Memoir Workshop with Ariel Gore DESCRIPTION:Master Memoir Workshop with Ariel Gore for faculty and graduate students. Participants will read Gore’s short memoir\,  Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver and bring 2-3 pages of their own autobiographical material to workshop. Space is limited. Contact Micah Perks meperks@ucsc.edu to RSVP.\n  \nSponsored by the IHR Complicated Labor Research Cluster. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/master-memoir-workshop-with-ariel-gore-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141010T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141010T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20141001T204109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141001T204109Z UID:10004974-1412962200-1412969400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Karl Marlantes: "What It Is Like To Go To War" DESCRIPTION:Santa Cruz Public Libraries presents an author visit and discussion with best selling author\, Karl Marlantes. \nAs a Marine lieutenant during the Vietnam War\, Karl Marlantes learned what every young officer learns – to fire a rifle\, to command a platoon\, to fight and to kill. Over the next four decades\, he spent his time reading\, thinking and writing a memoir that helped him come to terms with that experience. \nIn his book\, “What It Is Like to Go to War\,” Marlantes writes that while the Marine Corps trained him to kill\, “it didn’t teach me how to deal with killing.” \nIf the folks at the nonprofit organization Cal Humanities have their way\, people will be reading Marlantes’ book this fall. It’s the featured selection of California Reads: The War Comes Home\, a program offered by libraries throughout the state. Its goal: to bring people together to think and talk about what it is like to be a veteran. \nMarlantes’ book tour as part of California Reads includes multiple stops in Northern and Southern California\, at public libraries\, colleges and universities\, and veterans centers. \n  \nLocally\, Monterey County Free Libraries will sponsor a discussion with the author on Oct. 10 at 5:30 p.m. in CSU Monterey Bay’s library\, Room 1180. While the event is free\, attendees must purchase a parking permit from a machine on the lot or online. \nThe first 100 attendees will receive a free copy of the book. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karl-marlantes-2/ LOCATION:Cal State Monterey Bay (CSUMB)\, Rm 1188 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141014T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141014T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20141016T163957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141016T163957Z UID:10004991-1413309600-1413315900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dr. Jennifer Derr: "The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation" DESCRIPTION:UCSC Cowell College Presents\nConflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine \nTuesday Evenings Fall 2014\n6:00-7:45pm\, Merrill Academy 102 \nTuesday Oct 7: Christine King (Lecturer Kresge College). “Making Peace with Conflict” \nTuesday Oct 14: Dr. Jennifer Derr (History Department\, UC Santa Cruz). The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation. \nTuesday Oct 21: Dr. Bruce Thompson (History and Jewish Studies\, UCSC)- “The History of Zionism: From Hertzl to Ben-Gurion. \nTuesday Oct 28: Jean-Jacques Surbeck (Executive Director of Training and Education about the Middle East). Israel and the World\, a Unique Lesson in Double Standards. \nTuesday Nov 4: Hatam Bazian (Near Eastern Studies and Ethnic Studies\, UC Berkeley). Palestine\, Islamophobia and Global Dispossession \n*Thursday Nov 13: Stephen Zunes (Politics and International Studies\, University of San Francisco)- Israel\, Palestine\, and the United States: The Failure of Governments and the Hope from Civil Society \nTuesday Novr 18: Eran Kaplan (Chair Israel Studies\, San Francisco State University). Changes in Israel society and the Peace Process. \nTuesday Nov 25: Lee Ross (Psychology\, Stanford) and Byron Bland (Stanford Law School). Barriers for Peace. \nTuesday Dec 2: Aaron Hahn Tapper (Peace and Justice Studies\, University of San Francisco) and Tom Pettigrew (Psychology\, UC Santa Cruz). Contact\, Intergroup dialogue and the Question of Normalization. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-jennifer-derr-the-history-of-palestine-from-colonialism-to-occupation-2/ LOCATION:CA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141015T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141015T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140929T181946Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140929T181946Z UID:10004966-1413374400-1413379800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Bali Sahota: "Veils of the Absolute Subject: Benjamin’s Sublime" DESCRIPTION:BALI SAHOTA\nAssistant Professor of Literature\, UCSC \nG.S. Sahota is currently completing two books\, Late Colonial\nSublime: Neo-Epics and the End of Romanticism and The Name\nof Reason: Sikhism\, Secularism\, Modernism.\n  \nFall 2014 Colloquium Series: \nOctober 15: Bali Sahota \nOctober 22: Vilashini Cooppan \nOctober 29: Nirvikar Singh \nNovember 5: Juned Shaikh \nNovember 12: Dean Mathiowetz \nNovember 19: David L. Clark \nDecember 3: Terry Burke URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-bali-sahota-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141016T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141016T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140922T225307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140922T225307Z UID:10004958-1413475200-1413480600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Lisa Lowe: "Colonial Difference and the Neoliberal Present" DESCRIPTION:This lecture casts the history of liberal modernity as a complex\, braided project\, which includes at once the universal promises of rights\, emancipation\, wage labor and free trade\, as well as the global divisions and colonial asymmetries upon which those promises depend\, and according to which such liberties are reserved for some and denied to others. A history of the present\, which defamiliarizes given narratives of the present social formation\, may reveal the subsumption of colonial difference in the history of modern progress\, and query the assumptions regarding the continuity of the neoliberal present as either the apotheosis or betrayal of the liberal project. \nLisa Lowe is a scholar in the fields of comparative literature\, and the cultural politics of race\, colonialism\, and diaspora at Tufts University. Before joining Tufts\, she taught in the Literature Department at UC San Diego for over two decades. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations\, the UC Humanities Research Institute\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, the School of Advanced Study-University of London\, and the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. Lowe is the author of Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Cornell UP)\, Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Duke UP)\, and coauthor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Duke UP). Her most recent project\, The Intimacies of Four Continents\, a study of the global conditions for liberal economy\, knowledge\, culture\, and politics\, is forthcoming from Duke UP in 2015. Lowe received her Ph.D. in Literature from UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lisa-lowe-colonial-difference-and-the-neoliberal-present-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141017T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141017T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20141009T164141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141009T164141Z UID:10005873-1413547200-1413552600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:SA Smythe: "Culture as the Site of War: On the Production of Italianita" DESCRIPTION:Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nFridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1\, Room 202 \n  \n\n  \nThis event series is also made possible through the generous support of the departments of Literature\, History of Consciousness. Anthropology\, Feminist Studies\, HAVC\, Philosophy\, Politics\, Psychology and Sociology as well as the GSA and GSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sa-smythe-culture-as-the-site-of-war-on-the-production-of-italianita-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141017T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141017T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140929T155713Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140929T155713Z UID:10004964-1413558000-1413561600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"Lasting and Passing": The Poetics of Remainders with Margaret Ronda DESCRIPTION:Poetry & Politics Presents: Margaret Ronda\, featuring Whitney DeVos and Keegan Cook Finberg \nThis talk offers an extended reading of the work of rural Midwestern modernist poet Lorine Niedecker\, whose poetry attends to various forms and speeds of what she calls “human material obsolescing.” The imaginative tarrying with these “outdated remains” (in Benjamin’s phrase) offers an example of a larger poetic archive that reflects on\, and reflects\, poetry’s diminishing cultural status in the twentieth century. The talk draws on Benjamin and Adorno’s theory of natural history (Naturgeschichte)\, which understands transience and susceptibility to ruin as the shared characteristic of “natural being” and “historical being.” Bringing a materialist philosophy of history to bear on this poetic archive throws into relief the ecological character of obsolescence itself\, illuminating a different version of ecologically-oriented literature than the American environmentalist tradition\, with its emphasis on wild nature\, has privileged. In turn\, this poetics of remainders—the material remnants of the production and commodification of nature\, now displaced\, unproductive\, and uncanny—renders visible the dispossessions and ecological violence on which capital accumulation depends. \nMargaret Ronda specializes in American poetry of the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries. Particular areas of interest include Marxist criticism\, aesthetic and genre theory\, ecological literary modes\, and avant-garde poetics. She is currently writing a book entitled Remainders: Poetry at Nature’s End\, which examines how modern poetry serves as a distinctive site for charting uneven development and for archiving obsolescent forms of experience. Her first book of poetry\, Personification\, won the 2009 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. \nWe invite you to join us at the Felix Kulpa Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz for a reading with Margaret Ronda and local poets and UCSC graduate students Keegan Cook Finberg and Whitney DeVos. The reading will begin at 6 p.m.\, with an opening reception at 5:30 p.m. \nMore information about these events and others can be found at www.ucscpoetrypolitics.com URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lasting-and-passing-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141017T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141017T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20141001T214144Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141001T214144Z UID:10004978-1413561600-1413568800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jane Grimshaw: "The use of force in clausal complementation" DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Jane Grimshaw of Rutgers University speaking on\nThe use of force in clausal complementation. \nAbstract:\nThe SAY-schema verbs (Grimshaw in press) combine with a wide range of clauses in complex complementation structures\, including quoted and non-quoted clauses in post-verbal complement position\, and quoted and non-quoted clauses hosting parentheticals.\nSome SAY-schema verbs encode the Illocutionary Force of the speech acts that they report. Others do not. Some of the complementation structures themselves encode Force\, while others do not.\nThe patterns of verb-clause combination\, or “selection” effects\, result from the interplay between the Force encoded in the verb’s meaning and the Force of the clause. Variation among predicates is highly restricted\, and the evidence needed to learn which complements a verb combines with is accessible in simple discourses.\n  \n\n  \n2014 – 2015 Speakers \nFALL 2014\nOctober 17th\nJane Grimshaw\, Rutgers \nDecember 12th\nAdam Albright\, MIT \nWINTER 2015\nJanuary 16th\nClaire Halpert\, University of Minnesota \nJanuary 23rd\nValentine Hacquard\, Maryland \nFebruary 6th\nRachel Walker\, USC \nmid-March: date TBA\nLASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz Conference \nSPRING 2015\nApril 10th\nDaniel Lassiter\, Stanford \nApril 17th\nKeith Johnson\, UC Berkeley \nMay 1st\nGrant Goodall\, UC San Diego \nMay/June: date TBA\nLURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-research-colloquia-jane-grimshaw-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141018T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141018T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20141009T231523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141009T231523Z UID:10004989-1413630000-1413644400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:1984 -- Beyond the Trauma DESCRIPTION:Thirty years ago saw the culmination of increasing social conflict in Punjab\, a Sikh-majority state in India. In 1984\, the government of India launched a military operation on the Sikhs’ central religious site\, aimed at militants but also ensnaring innocent pilgrims. Later that year\, Sikh bodyguards assassinated India’s Prime Minister in retribution. This was followed by pogroms against Sikhs all over India\, and a decade of violence and repression in Punjab. The perpetrators of state violence have not been brought to justice\, and the events of 1984 and after continue to cast a shadow on the people of the region. Prof. Rahuldeep Singh Gill of California Lutheran University (CLU) will speak about this history\, and how to move forward positively\, but without forgetting the past\, especially in the context of the Sikh diaspora in the US. Prof. Gill is Director of the Center for Equality and Justice at CLU.\nThe talk will be followed by an interactive discussion\, moderated by Prof. Nirvikar Singh\, Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair of Sikh and Punjabi Studies at UCSC. Prof. Singh was visiting India in 1984 and experienced some of the events described above. All students\, faculty and community members are invited. Lunch will be provided\, and RSVPs are requested by October 15 at 1 pm. Please RSVP by email to Evin Guy\, Institute for Humanities Research\, ecguy@ucsc.edu. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the UCSC Sikh Student Association and the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair of Sikh and Punjabi Studies. \n[rev_slider sikhbeyondtrauma] URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/1984-beyond-the-trauma-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141021T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141021T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20141016T163343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141016T163343Z UID:10004990-1413914400-1413920700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dr. Bruce Thompson: "The History of Zionism: From Hertzl to Ben-Gurion" DESCRIPTION:UCSC Cowell College Presents \n Conflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine \nTuesday Evenings Fall 2014\n6:00-7:45pm\, Merrill Academy 102 \nTuesday Oct 7: Christine King (Lecturer Kresge College). “Making Peace with Conflict” \nTuesday Oct 14: Dr. Jennifer Derr (History Department\, UC Santa Cruz). The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation. \nTuesday Oct 21: Dr. Bruce Thompson (History and Jewish Studies\, UCSC)- “The History of Zionism: From Hertzl to Ben-Gurion. \nTuesday Oct 28: Jean-Jacques Surbeck (Executive Director of Training and Education about the Middle East). Israel and the World\, a Unique Lesson in Double Standards. \nTuesday Nov 4: Hatam Bazian (Near Eastern Studies and Ethnic Studies\, UC Berkeley). Palestine\, Islamophobia and Global Dispossession \n*Thursday Nov 13: Stephen Zunes (Politics and International Studies\, University of San Francisco)- Israel\, Palestine\, and the United States: The Failure of Governments and the Hope from Civil Society \nTuesday Novr 18: Eran Kaplan (Chair Israel Studies\, San Francisco State University). Changes in Israel society and the Peace Process. \nTuesday Nov 25: Lee Ross (Psychology\, Stanford) and Byron Bland (Stanford Law School). Barriers for Peace. \nTuesday Dec 2: Aaron Hahn Tapper (Peace and Justice Studies\, University of San Francisco) and Tom Pettigrew (Psychology\, UC Santa Cruz). Contact\, Intergroup dialogue and the Question of Normalization. \n\n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-bruce-thompson-the-history-of-zionism-from-hertzl-to-ben-gurion-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141022T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141022T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140929T183732Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140929T183732Z UID:10005778-1413979200-1413984600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Vilashini Cooppan: "World-Scale: World Literature\, Comparison\, & the Work of Memory" DESCRIPTION:VILASHINI COOPPAN\nAssistant Professor of Literature\, UCSC \nVilashini Cooppan is the author of Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing\, published by Stanford University Press in 2009. Her most recent scholarship engages postcolonial studies\, race and ethnicity\, and comparative and world literature.\nFall 2014 Colloquium Series: \nOctober 15: Bali Sahota \nOctober 22: Vilashini Cooppan \nOctober 29: Nirvikar Singh \nNovember 5: Juned Shaikh \nNovember 12: Dean Mathiowetz \nNovember 19: David L. Clark \nDecember 3: Terry Burke \n[rev_slider vilasinicooppan] URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-vilashini-cooppan-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141022T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141022T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20141009T224727Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141009T224727Z UID:10004987-1413993600-1414000800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Applying for Grants and Fellowships: A Roundtable for Faculty and Graduate Students in the Humanities and Social Sciences DESCRIPTION:Learn from the experts! Faculty and graduate students who have recently won grants and fellowships discuss the application process and share their tips for a successful application. This roundtable discussion takes place Wednesday\, October 22\, 2014\, 4:00-6:00pm\, in the Charles E. Merrill Lounge. Reservations are recommended\, but not necessary. \nFeatured Speakers: \nSylvanna Falcón\, Assistant Professor\, Latin American and Latino Studies\, Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement for Junior Faculty Fellow\, 2013-14 \nClick here to read Professor Falcón’s abstract from her Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship application. \n\nClaudia M. Lopez\, PhD candidate\, Sociology\, University of California Chancellor’s Graduate Teaching Fellowship\, 2014-15\, and Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Fellow\, 2011-12 \nClick here to read Claudia’s abstract from her SSRC application. \nMatt O’Hara\, Associate Professor\, History\, American Council of Learned Societies Fellow\, 2013-14\, andFranklin Research Grant recipient\, American Philosophical Society\, 2013-14 \nClick here to read Professor O’Hara’s abstract from his ACLS application.  \nEdward Noel Smyth\, PhD candidate\, History\, Atlantic History Research Grant recipient\, Harvard University\, 2013-14\, UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Dissertation Year Fellow\, 2013-14\, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellow\, Huntington Library\, 2012-13\, Global Gulf South Research Fellow\, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South\, Tulane University\, 2012-13\, Phillips Fund Grant for Native American Research recipient\, American Philosophical Society\, 2011 \nClick here to read Noel’s abstract from his IHR Dissertation Year Fellowship application. \nJimiliz Valiente-Neighbours\, PhD candidate\, Sociology\, University of California President’s Dissertation-Year Fellow\, 2014-15\, and University of California Center for New Racial Studies Grant recipient\, 2013-14 \nClick here to read Jimi’s abstract from her President’s Dissertation-Year Fellowship application. \nTo read the speakers’ successful project statements and other application materials\, please RSVP toclrc@ucsc.edu by October 20\, 2014. \nThe Chicano Latino Research Center is proud to cosponsor this free\, public event with the Division of Graduate Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/applying-for-grants-and-fellowships-a-roundtable-for-faculty-and-graduate-students-in-the-humanities-and-social-sciences-2/ LOCATION:Charles E. Merrill Lounge ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141022T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141022T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140930T213423Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140930T213423Z UID:10005818-1413997200-1414004400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rachel Deblinger: "Making Memories/Motifs: Holocaust Memory & the Unexpected Inspiration of Digital Humanities" DESCRIPTION:Please join the Digital Humanities Research Cluster and the University Library for a series of interactive lectures focused on “Digital Humanities & Cultural Heritage.” This inaugural speaker series will highlight digital projects from across the humanities and enable lively discussion about the role of the digital in preserving\, building\, and making accessible cultural materials from around the world. \nNo digital skills required. Contact digitalhumanities@ucsc.edu for more information. \n\n  \nDr. Rachel Deblinger is the Digital Humanities Specialist at UCSC\, working with the University Library and Humanities Division to foster digital scholarship across campus as a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow. Rachel received her Ph.D. in history from UCLA\, where she developed Memories/Motifs\, an online exhibit that showcases the diversity of Holocaust survivor narratives in the immediate postwar period. The exhibit features three Holocaust survivors and traces the transformation of their stories through print\, audio\, and visual media. For this talk\, Memories/Motifs serves as a case study for exploring the possibilities of knowledge making through online tools and the ethical concerns around making personal artifacts and memories publicly accessible. \n\n  \nNext in the series:\nMichael Ashley: “Mukurtu CMS: Differential access for the ethical stewardship of cultural and digital heritage”\nNovember 12\, 5-7\, McHenry Library 4286\nFollow us at @DH_UCSC and start a conversation with #DHUCSC\nEVENT PHOTOS: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rachel-deblinger-making-memories-2/ LOCATION:McHenry Library UCSC\, Room 4286 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141023T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141023T174500 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140929T192836Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140929T192836Z UID:10005786-1414080000-1414086300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Andrew Lam & Kate Gale DESCRIPTION:Andrew Lam is the author of Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora\, which won the 2006 PEN Open Book Award\, and East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres. Lam is an editor and cofounder of New America Media\, an association of over three thousand ethnic media outlets in America. He was a regular commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered for many years\, and was the subject of a 2004 PBS documentary called My Journey Home. His essays have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times\, The LA Times\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Baltimore Sun\, The Atlanta Journal\, the Chicago Tribune\, Mother Jones\, and The Nation\, among many others. Birds of Paradise Lost is his first story collection. He lives in San Francisco. \nDr. Kate Gale is Managing Editor of Red Hen Press\, Editor of the Los Angeles Review and President of theAmerican Composers Forum\, LA. She teaches in the Low Residency MFA program at the University of Nebraska in Poetry\, Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction. She serves on the boards of A Room of Her Own Foundation\, the School of Arts and Humanities of Claremont Graduate University and Poetry Society of America. \nShe is author of six books of poetry (her most recent\, The Goldilocks Zone\, University of New Mexico Press)\, a novel Lake of Fire\, and six librettos including Rio de Sangre\, a libretto for an opera with composer Don Davis which had its world premiere October 2010 at the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee. \nKate lives in Los Angeles with her husband and children. \n  \nFall 2014 Living Writers Series: \nOctober 9: Ariel Gore \nOctober 16: Kelly Link\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, Karen Joy Fowler \nOctober 23: Andrew Lam\, Kate Gale \nOctober 30: Tobias Wolff \nNovember 6: Helene Wecker \nNovember 13: ASL Performer Patrick Graybill\, Interpreter Aaron Brace \nNovember 20: Kelly Link\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, Karen Joy Fowler \nDecember 4: Katie Crouch \nDecember 11: Student Reading \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public from 4:00-5:45pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information\, or email meperks@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-andrew-lam-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141023T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141023T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140922T160420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140922T160420Z UID:10004954-1414080000-1414087200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Richard T. Rodriguez of: "Undocumented Desires: On Day Labor\, Sex Work\, and Neoliberal Queer Politics" DESCRIPTION:Richard T. Rodríguez is Associate Professor of English and Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign\, where he is also affiliated with the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. He received his B.A. in English from the University of California\, Berkeley and his Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness from the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His research\, teaching\, and writing are grounded in Latina/o cultural studies\, literary and film studies\, and queer theory. The author of numerous articles and reviews\, his book\, Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics (Duke University Press)\, won the 2011 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Book Award. Recently named a Conrad Humanities Scholar\, a designation supporting the work of promising associate professors in the humanities within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Illinois\, he is currently writing a book on queer Latino representation in film and literature and the politics of social space. \nEvent presented by the Chicano Latino Research Center\, cosponsored by the Departments of Literature and Feminist Studies\, and the Center for Labor Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/richard-t-rodriguez-of-undocumented-desires-on-day-labor-sex-work-and-neoliberal-queer-politics-2/ LOCATION:Charles E. Merrill Lounge ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141024T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141024T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20141009T172452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141009T172452Z UID:10004983-1414152000-1414157400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Stephanie Montgomery: "Convicts and Mothers: Gender\, Criminality\, and the Prison in China\, 1927-1953" DESCRIPTION:Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nFridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1\, Room 202 \n  \n\n  \nThis event series is also made possible through the generous support of the departments of Literature\, History of Consciousness. Anthropology\, Feminist Studies\, HAVC\, Philosophy\, Politics\, Psychology and Sociology as well as the GSA and GSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stephanie-montgomery-convicts-and-mothers-gender-criminality-and-the-prison-in-china-1927-1953-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141025T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141025T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140716T192603Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140716T192603Z UID:10005742-1414252800-1414260000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Toni Morrison: "Literature and the Silence of Goodness" (Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture) DESCRIPTION:[vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \nHumanities Division and Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Presents: \nToni Morrison: “LITERATURE AND THE SILENCE OF GOODNESS”\nat the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz \nTickets:\n$12 Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture with Toni Morrison\n$145 Founders Celebration Dinner and Baskin Ethics Lecture with Toni Morrison (combo ticket) \n*If you were not able to get tickets to the Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture with Toni Morrison it will be live streamed on Oct 25th from 4-6pm at  http://specialevents.ucsc.edu/founders/. \nRegister Now \n[vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”]\nAfter the lecture\, Toni Morrison will be awarded the UC Santa Cruz Foundation Medal at the 2014 Founders Celebration at Coconut Grove for her powerful writing and expressive depictions of Black America\, giving life to an essential aspect of American reality. Click here for more information. \nToni Morrison is a novelist\, editor\, and professor\, best known for her novels Beloved\, The Bluest Eye\, Sula\, and Song of Solomon. She studied humanities at Howard and Cornell Universities\, followed by an academic career at Texas Southern University\, Howard University\, Yale\, and Princeton. She made her debut as a novelist in 1970\, soon gaining the attention of both critics and a wider audience for her epic power\, unerring ear for dialogue\, and poetically-charged and richly-expressive depictions of Black America. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for Beloved\, the Nobel Prize in 1993\, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. \nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Series is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. The Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics enables the Humanities Division to promote a dialogue about ethics and ethics related challenges in an interdisciplinary setting. The endowment was established in honor of Peggy Downes Baskin’s longtime interest in ethical issues across the academic spectrum. \n[/vc_column_text] URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/toni-morrison-peggy-downes-baskin-ethics-lecture-2/ LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141025T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141025T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140716T200039Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140716T200039Z UID:10005743-1414260000-1414270800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:2014 Founders Celebration Dinner DESCRIPTION:[vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \nSave the date for the eighth annual UC Santa Cruz Founders Celebration dinner\, honoring extraordinary individuals and their outstanding contributions to society. This year’s honorees include Toni Morrison\, novelist\, editor\, and professor; The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation\, long-time advocate and supporter of the Santa Cruz community; Mark Headley\, board chairman of Matthews International Capital Management; and Craig Haney\, celebrated UC Santa Cruz psychology professor. Learn more \nReception 6 p.m.\nDinner 7 p.m.\nCocoanut Grove\, Santa Cruz \nToni Morrison will also deliver the Baskin Ethics Lecture at 4 p.m.\n“Literature and the Silence of Goodness”\nRio Theatre\, Santa Cruz \nTickets:\n$135 Dinner\n$145 Dinner and Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture with Toni Morrison (combo ticket)\n$12 Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture with Toni Morrison \n  \n[/vc_column_text] [rb_button size=”small” style=”light” url=”http://specialevents.ucsc.edu/founders/” label=”Register Now” target=”_blank” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2014-founders-celebration-dinner-2/ LOCATION:Cocoanut Grove\, 400 Beach Street \, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141028T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141028T153000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20141009T230455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141009T230455Z UID:10004988-1414504800-1414510200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Annual Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing DESCRIPTION:Don Rothman began teaching undergraduate writing classes at UC Santa Cruz in 1973. \nAfter more than three decades of guiding teachers and teaching college students\, the senior lecturer emeritus in writing–and recipient of the 2002 Distinguished Teaching Award from the UCSC Center for Teaching Excellence–has established an endowment to honor exceptional freshman students and their writing teachers. \n“The ‘First Year Writing Award’ seeks to celebrate excellence in writing among first-year UCSC students\, and to give them the chance to honor instructors who contributed to their growth as writers\,” said Rothman. \n“It’s likely that UCSC would not be the institution that it is now if its founders hadn’t intuited the importance of identifying\, challenging\, and respecting our beginning students’ strengths as thinkers and writers.” \nThe first awards were presented at an October ceremony which honored seven students and their instructors. \nMolly Carpenter received the top prize and had nothing but praise for her teacher\, writing lecturer Jeff Arnett. \n“Although I’ve always loved to write\, I don’t think I knew how to truly write thoughtfully until I took Jeff’s class\,” said Carpenter. “Jeff consistently pushed me to be the very best writer I could be.” \n“I just want to express how lucky I am to attend a university that encourages original and creative thought through writing\, regardless of whether you’re an engineering or art major\,” she added. \nThe UCSC Writing Program serves approximately 3\,000 students each year\, taking into account core classes. More than 100 classes are offered annually. \nWriting Program chair James Wilson noted Rothman’s visionary impact over the years\, citing his deep commitment to the writing process\, and his ability to bring out the best in both teachers and students. \n“Through his years of serving as director of the Central California Writing Project\, Don has been a strong advocate for outreach in the wider community\, working in schools at all levels from K-12\, especially in Santa Cruz County\,” said Wilson. \nWilson added that Rothman has also been a “deliberate\, persistent\, and optimistic” spokesperson for the Writing Program across the campus\, speaking with faculty across the divisions about the importance of writing and emphasizing the value of undergraduate education–particularly at a research university. \n“Part of Don’s message is to remind the university that the effective teaching of writing to undergraduate students is essential to the mission of a research university\,” said Wilson. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/annual-don-rothman-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141028T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141028T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20141016T164516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141016T164516Z UID:10005881-1414519200-1414525500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jean-Jacques Surbeck: "Israel and the World\, a Unique Lesson in Double Standards" DESCRIPTION:UCSC Cowell College Presents\nConflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine \nTuesday Evenings Fall 2014\n6:00-7:45pm\, Merrill Academy 102 \nTuesday Oct 7: Christine King (Lecturer Kresge College). “Making Peace with Conflict” \nTuesday Oct 14: Dr. Jennifer Derr (History Department\, UC Santa Cruz). The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation. \nTuesday Oct 21: Dr. Bruce Thompson (History and Jewish Studies\, UCSC)- “The History of Zionism: From Hertzl to Ben-Gurion. \nTuesday Oct 28: Jean-Jacques Surbeck (Executive Director of Training and Education about the Middle East). Israel and the World\, a Unique Lesson in Double Standards. \nTuesday Nov 4: Hatam Bazian (Near Eastern Studies and Ethnic Studies\, UC Berkeley). Palestine\, Islamophobia and Global Dispossession \n*Thursday Nov 13: Stephen Zunes (Politics and International Studies\, University of San Francisco)- Israel\, Palestine\, and the United States: The Failure of Governments and the Hope from Civil Society \nTuesday Novr 18: Eran Kaplan (Chair Israel Studies\, San Francisco State University). Changes in Israel society and the Peace Process. \nTuesday Nov 25: Lee Ross (Psychology\, Stanford) and Byron Bland (Stanford Law School). Barriers for Peace. \nTuesday Dec 2: Aaron Hahn Tapper (Peace and Justice Studies\, University of San Francisco) and Tom Pettigrew (Psychology\, UC Santa Cruz). Contact\, Intergroup dialogue and the Question of Normalization. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jean-jacques-surbeck-israel-and-the-world-a-unique-lesson-in-double-standards-2/ LOCATION:CA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141028T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141028T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20141016T171357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141016T171357Z UID:10005889-1414521900-1414526400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:UCSC's Institute of the Arts and Sciences presents LASER DESCRIPTION:UCSC’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences invites you to the first LASER of the academic year Tuesday\, October 28! Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists\, scientists\, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations. Please join us in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 for refreshments at 6:45 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by: \nCarolyn Dean “Moving Stones: An Inka Perspective”\n David Glowacki “Modeling Humans as Energy Fields”\n Stacy Philpott “Urban garden insect biodiversity: fascinating and functional”\n Karen Tei Yamashita will be reading from her new work \nCarolyn Dean is Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz. Dean studies Inca visual and performance culture. She is author of Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco Peru (Duke University Press\, 1999) and A Culture of Stone: Inka Perspectives on Rock (Duke University Press\, 2010). \nDavid Glowacki is a Royal Society Research Fellow\, holding joint appointments in chemistry and computer science at Stanford University and the University of Bristol. He specializes in computational nano-physics and interactive digital art. Glowacki is the creator of danceroom Spectroscopy (dS)\, an interactive digital framework that has been used to create the award-winning dance piece Hidden Fields. \nStacy Philpott is Associate Professor in Agroecology at UC Santa Cruz. She is an agroecologist and insect ecologist interested in community ecology\, ecosystem services\, urban agroecology\, and interactions between agriculture\, conservation\, and farmer livelihoods. She has worked in agroecosystems the US\, Latin America\, and Indonesia. \nKaren Tei Yamashita is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at UC Santa Cruz\, and currently co-holds the UC Presidential Chair for Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. She is the author of six books\, including I Hotel and Anime Wong: Fictions of Performance\, all published by Coffee House Press. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ucscs-institute-of-the-arts-and-sciences-presents-laser-2/ LOCATION:CA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141028T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141028T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140923T163942Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140923T163942Z UID:10004960-1414522800-1414530000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Azar Nafisi: "The Republic of Imagination" DESCRIPTION:The bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran will discuss and sign copies of her new book\, The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books—a hymn to the power of fiction to change lives. \nTen years ago\, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller\, Reading Lolita in Tehran\, which told the story of how\, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions\, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in Iran. In this exhilarating follow-up\, Nafisi has written the book her fans have been waiting for: an impassioned\, beguiling\, and utterly original tribute to the vital importance of fiction in a democratic society. \nTaking her cue from a challenge thrown to her in Seattle\, where a skeptical reader told her that Americans don’t care about books the way they did back in Iran\, she energetically responds to those who say fiction has nothing to teach us. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite American novels—The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\, Babbitt\, and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\, among others—she invites us to join her as citizens of her “Republic of Imagination\,” a country where the villains are conformity and orthodoxy and the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream. \n“Nafisi makes a passionate argument for returning to key American novels in order to foster creativity and engagement.” —Kirkus Reviews \nThis offsite ticketed event will take place at Peace United Church. Purchase tickets below or in-person at Bookshop Santa Cruz. \n“We are all citizens of Azar Nafisi’s Republic of Imagination. Without imagination there are no dreams\, without dreams there is no art\, and without art there is nothing. Her words are essential.” —Marjane Satrapi \nTICKETS: $31.50\, includes two tickets to the event and one copy of The Republic of Imagination. This event will take place at Peace United Church. Open seating.\n  \nTickets & Information\n \n  \nEvent presented by Bookshop Santa Cruz\, in partnership with the Institute for Humanities Research.\n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/azar-nafisi-the-republic-of-imagination-2/ LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141029T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141029T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140929T184805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140929T184805Z UID:10005779-1414584000-1414589400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Nirvikar Singh: "Sikh Studies & Post-Modern Orientalism" DESCRIPTION:NIRVIKAR SINGH\nSarbjit Singh Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies and Professor of Economics\, UCSC \nProfessor Singh explores how Sikh Studies in the North American academy is engaging with intellectual currents that can broadly be termed “post-modern.” More specifically\, he critiques the asymmetrical privileging of Western ‘post-modern’ scholarship on Sikhs against the Sikh community’s own self-understanding.\n  \nFall 2014 Colloquium Series: \nOctober 15: Bali Sahota \nOctober 22: Vilashini Cooppan \nOctober 29: Nirvikar Singh \nNovember 5: Juned Shaikh \nNovember 12: Dean Mathiowetz \nNovember 19: David L. Clark \nDecember 3: Terry Burke URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-nirvikar-singh-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141029T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141029T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20141016T194917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141016T194917Z UID:10004995-1414598400-1414605600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"Digital is not a Dirty Word” - Digital Humanities Graduate Student Open House DESCRIPTION:Let’s talk digital. Are you unsure what Digital Humanities means? Are you interested in mapping\, databases\, blogs\, or twitter\, but don’t know how they help your work? Are you skeptical\, but curious? Come join an open\, informal\, and frank talk about the Digital Humanities. Rachel Deblinger\, the new Digital Humanities Specialist\, will offer a brief description of what DH might mean at UCSC and invites critical conversation and questions. Pizza My Heart will be served. Open to all Graduate Students. \nFor more information please contact Rachel at digitalhumanities@ucsc.edu. \nSponsored by the University Library and IHR Digital Humanities Research Cluster \nFollow us at @DH_UCSC and start a conversation with #DHUCSC URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-is-not-a-dirty-word-2/ LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141029T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141029T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20141016T172933Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141016T172933Z UID:10005890-1414602000-1414607400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Bryan Donaldson: "Information structure and word order in medieval Occitan" DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I draw on elements of discourse analysis and information structure–specifically topic-marking–to address a long-standing problem in the syntax of Old Occitan\, a medieval Romance language spoken in what is now the south of France. In Old Occitan\, the position of object and adverbial clitic (weak\, atonic) pronouns remains incompletely understood (Wanner 2010). I analyze clitic position specifically in affirmative main declarative sentences that contain overt preverbal subjects. In this context\, clitics are either preverbal\, as in (1)\, or post verbal\, as in (2)\, with no apparent semantic distinction.\n  \n(1) E.N Constantis s’en anet.\nand.Sir Constantine himself.from-there went\n‘And Sir Constantine left.’ (Razo of 80\,20 & 80\,32 §8; Boutière 1964: 92) \n(2) E.N Guilhem anet. s’en.\nand.Sir Guillaume went himself.from-there\n‘And Sir Guillaume left.’ (Razo of 208\,1\, §34; Boutière 1964: 325)\n  \nPrevious analyses have concluded that this variation is random (Mériz 1978) or du to regional or dialectal variation (Hinzelin 2007). Neither approach satisfactorily addresses the underlying grammar or the principles underlying the distribution of the variants appears. The present analysis draws on the discourse-functional notion of topic (e.g.\, Reinhart 1981) as well as theoretical claims about the clausal left periphery in medieval Romance (Benincà 2006). I report empirical data from the complete troubadour biographies (vidas and razos; 13th-14th centuries) and the vida of Saint Douceline (early 14th century). Results from 470 subject-verb declaratives establish that the subject in (2) is left-dislocated\, albeit covertly so. I argue that (2) is one of several instantiations of subject left-dislocation in Old Occitan and that it is both functionally and formally distinct from (1). More precisely\, (1) signals topic continuity\, whereas (2) is a shifting topic.\n  \nBryan Donaldson is Assistant Professor of Languages and French Applied Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bryan-donaldson-information-structure-and-word-order-in-medieval-occitan-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141029T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141029T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140930T211842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140930T211842Z UID:10005816-1414602000-1414609200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Arlene Davila: Locating Neoliberalism in Time\, Space & Latino/Latin American Cultures DESCRIPTION:The Latin American & Latino Studies Distinguished Speaker Series is proud to present Arlene Davila to begin the 2014-15 year. Davila uses ethnographic and transnational perspectives to theorize the intersections of culture and neoliberalism across the Americas.\n  \nMore information on the speaker and the rest of the LALS Distinguished Speaker Series will be available soon. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lals-arlene-davila-2/ LOCATION:University Center\, UCSC\, College Nine and College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141030T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141030T174500 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20140929T200225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140929T200225Z UID:10005788-1414684800-1414691100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Tobias Wolff DESCRIPTION:Tobias Wolff is the author of the novels The Barracks Thief and Old School\, the memoirs This Boy’s Life andIn Pharaoh’s Army\, and the short story collections In the Garden of the North American Martyrs\, Back in the World\, and The Night in Question. His most recent collection of short stories\, Our Story Begins\, won The Story Prize for 2008. Other honors include the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award – both for excellence in the short story – the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and the PEN/Faulkner Award.  He has also been the editor of Best American Short Stories\, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories\, and A Doctor’s Visit: The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov. His work appears regularly in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Harper’s\, and other magazines and literary journals. \nFall 2014 Living Writers Series: \nOctober 9: Ariel Gore \nOctober 16: Kelly Link\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, Karen Joy Fowler \nOctober 23: Andrew Lam\, Kate Gale \nOctober 30: Tobias Wolff \nNovember 6: Helene Wecker \nNovember 13: ASL Performer Patrick Graybill\, Interpreter Aaron Brace \nNovember 20: Kelly Link\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, Karen Joy Fowler \nDecember 4: Katie Crouch \nDecember 11: Student Reading \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public from 4:00-5:45pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information\, or email meperks@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-tobias-wolff-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141031T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141031T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20141009T170800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141009T170800Z UID:10005877-1414756800-1414762200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Joan Raspo: DANM BIRTH OF STARS: a play that asks "What would you give up to gain the universe?" DESCRIPTION:Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nFridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1\, Room 202 \n  \n\n  \nThis event series is also made possible through the generous support of the departments of Literature\, History of Consciousness. Anthropology\, Feminist Studies\, HAVC\, Philosophy\, Politics\, Psychology and Sociology as well as the GSA and GSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joan-raspo-danm-birth-of-stars-a-play-that-asks-what-would-you-give-up-to-gain-the-universe-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141103T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141103T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130100 CREATED:20141001T210538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141001T210538Z UID:10004975-1415037600-1415044800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Veterans History Project DESCRIPTION:The Santa Cruz Public Libraries invites you to contribute to the national archive. Were you a veteran? Your story matters. \nWhat is the Veterans History Project? \nThe United States Congress created the Veterans History Project (VHP) in 2000 as part of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. VHP’s mission is to collect\, preserve\, and make accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war. Santa Cruz Public Libraries is participating in this project\, along with many public libraries across the country. \nWhat can you contribute? \nSanta Cruz Public Libraries is making equipment and technical expertise available to help you tell your story. If you’re a US Veteran\, from any conflict\, consider documenting your story with the library. Alternatively if you are a civilian who actively supported the war effort\, such as a war industry worker\, flight instructor\, medical volunteer\, or USO worker\, consider being interviewed. You’ll be contributing to both the national archive and your local community. We’ll record a conversation about your military experiences for 30 minutes or more. We’ll provide the interviewing space\, supplies and equipment. There is no charge for this service. We’ll provide you with a copy of your interview and we will submit the original and any accompanying materials to the VHP project at the Library of Congress. With your permission\, a copy of your materials will also remain in the Santa Cruz Public Libraries local collection. \nYou may contribute a video or audio interview 30 minutes or longer (Santa Cruz Public Libraries can help you create this). Additional contributions are optional and may include: 10 or more original photographs • Two-dimensional artwork • Letters • Official military documents • 20 pages or more of original unpublished memoirs\, diaries or journals. \nAfter you receive a copy\, your original interview and all donated items (pictures\, letters etc.) will be submitted on your behalf to the Library of Congress Veterans History Project. You maintain the copyright and your contributions will be housed in a preservation environment within the permanent collections of the Library of Congress. Within a six-month processing period\, all donated materials are available to researchers\, scholars\, students\, Congress\, authors\, filmmakers\, and anyone else visiting the Library or viewing the collections online. \n  \nHow Do I Get Started? \nIf you are interested in participating\, contact our project coordinator directly: Jennifer Cockerill at 831-427-7700 ext 7668 or email at cockerillj@santacruzpl.org. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/veterans-history-project-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR