The Humanities Institute

LOCATION CHANGE David Biggs: Archipelagic Vietnam - Rethinking Nationalism From the Shoreline
2019-11-13 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA, United States
Please RSVP for the Cultural Studies Colloquium location
Until recent conflicts over islands in the South China Sea, Vietnam’s history was described in terrestrial terms. Vietnam’s nationalist struggles, we were told, involved epic battles with American and other troops in highland jungles and city streets; and the nation’s territorial expansion from Hanoi happened in two directions: southward and uphill. The sea, as so many history books taught, was a nothing space where foreign invasions began. Vietnam’s geo-body was tied to a Westphalian notion of sovereignty reified in so many books and maps. Real sovereignty in Vietnam, however, was and still is relational. Topologies of trade, commerce, migration and communication have for centuries defined where “Vietnam” begins and so many other cultures and ecologies taper off. Rather than assume a closed model, this talk reimagines Vietnam as an archipelago, a more permeable nation-system of nodes linked by flows of energy, food, people and technology moving from the sea to the mountains and spaces beyond. Drawing from his recently published book, Footprints of War: Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam (Washington, 2018), environmental historian David Biggs conducts an archipelagic history tour along Vietnam’s central coast with stops in the ancient, early modern, colonial and post-colonial past.
David Biggs is a Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside, specializing in twentieth century environmental history with an area focus on Vietnam and Southeast Asia. His first book, Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature, won the 2011 George Perkins Marsh Prize in Environmental History; and his essays have appeared in such venues as the Journal of Asian Studies, Technology and Culture and the New York Times. He is currently working on a trans-Pacific history of the mid-twentieth century.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions

A Literary Masquerade with Erin Morgenstern
2019-11-12 19:00 - 21:00 | DNA Comedy Lab, 155 S. River St., Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
You are cordially invited to Bookshop Santa Cruz’s first-ever Literary Masquerade, celebrating the release of Erin Morgenstern’s highly anticipated new novel, The Starless Sea. Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
From Erin Morgenstern, the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world—a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.
Join us on Tuesday, November 12th at 6:00 for a literary masquerade, where you and all who attend are invited to disguise yourself as your favorite literary character or figure to enter the world of The Starless Sea. Dancing and activities plucked from Erin Morgenstern’s magical world will precede a 7:00 talk with Erin Morgenstern, followed by a book signing. Erin Morgenstern will be in conversation with Michael Chemers, Professor of Dramatic Literature in the Department of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz. This event will take place at DNA’s Comedy Lab (155 S River St., Santa Cruz, CA). Themed refreshments, including beer and wine, will be available to purchase from DNA’s Comedy Lab.
Tickets to this enchanting evening are $37, and include one copy of The Starless Sea, an unassigned seat for Erin Morgenstern’s talk, a number for the signing line, and access to all event activities. Literary costumes encouraged.

Masquerade begins at 6:00
Book talk begins at 7:00
ERIN MORGENSTERN is the author of The Night Circus, a number-one national best seller that has been sold around the world and translated into thirty-seven languages. She has a degree in theater from Smith College and lives in Massachusetts.
“Morgenstern’s new fantasy epic is a puzzlebox of a book, full of meta-narratives and small folkloric tales that will delight readers… Morgenstern uses poetic, honey-like prose to tell a story that plays with the very concept of what we expect and want from our stories… She trusts her readers to follow along and speculate, wonder and make leaps themselves as she dives into tales of pirates, book burnings, and men lost in time, giving the book a mythic quality that will stick with readers long after they put it down.”
⁠—Booklist (starred)
“This love letter to bibliophiles is dreamlike and uncanny, grounded in deeply felt emotion, and absolutely thrilling.”
⁠—Publishers Weekly (starred)

Morton Marcus Poetry Reading: Gary Soto
2019-11-07 19:00 | Music Center Recital Hall
Event Photos by Crystal Birns:
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
Gary Soto has published more than forty books for children, young adults and adults, including Too Many Tamales, Chato’s Kitchen, Baseball in April, Buried Onions and The Elements of San Joaquin. He is the author of In and Out of Shadows, a musical about undocumented youth and, most recently, The Afterlife, a one-act play about teen murder and teen suicide.
Event Program:
Poet Gary Young, will host the program, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1,000 prize). The reading will conclude with a book signing and reception. RSVP appreciated – seating is first come, first served.

Doors open at 6:30pm
Program begins at 7:00pm
About Morton Marcus:
The Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet, teacher, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus, a nationally acclaimed poet, called Santa Cruz his home for more than fifty years. This annual poetry series continues Mort’s tradition of bringing acclaimed poets to Santa Cruz County, continues to acknowledge the significant role poetry has played in our community’s history, and works to maintain poetry’s influence in our county’s culture. For more information visit www.mortonmarcus.com. You can also view the Morton Marcus Archive in Special Collections at UCSC.
This community event is presented by the The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by:
Bookshop Santa Cruz
Cabrillo College English Department
Cowell College
Living Writers Series
Ow Family Properties
Poetry Santa Cruz
Porter Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund
Porter College
Santa Cruz Writes
Special Collections & Archives
Directions and Parking:
The UCSC Music Recital Hall is located at 402 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Parking lot attendants will be on site to sell permits and direct guests to available parking in the Performing Arts parking lot #126. The cost for parking is $5.
If you have disability-related needs, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by November 4th, 2019.

Katharyne Mitchell: Cultural Studies Colloquium - Church Sanctuary and the Spatial Politics of the Sacred
2019-11-06 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Church sanctuary is not legal in any state in Europe, but the cultural and religious sense of church space as sacred, and the collective memory of this practice as an alternative form of justice, still has a powerful legacy. In citing past sanctuary ideals and practices, from medieval asylum law to recent sanctuary movements on behalf of refugees, faith-based actors draw on these memories to reactivate older traditions of insurgent citizenship. In this talk, Mitchell explores the critical role of space, collective memory and non-secular webs of belief in these current challenges to orthodox assumptions of state sovereignty.
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.

Katharyne Mitchell is Dean of the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Current research explores various aspects of migration and religion. Recent books include Making Workers: Radical Geographies of Education (Pluto Press, 2018), and the co-edited Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration (Edward Elgar, 2019). Mitchell is the author of over 100 articles and book chapters and the recipient of grants from the MacArthur Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and National Science Foundation. The research for this talk was made possible by a Guggenheim Fellowship.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

CANCELLED - Roumyana Pancheva: Linguistics Colloquia- Temporal Interpretation Without Tense
2019-11-01 13:20 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Languages without overt tense morphemes have typically been analyzed as having semantic tense, either contributed by a phonologically covert lexical item or supplied by a post-syntactic semantic rule. From a neo-Reichenbachian perspective, having semantic tense means having a linguistic device (a lexical item or a rule) dedicated to invoking a reference time in relation to the local evaluation time. The two types of tense accounts have also been offered for the closely related languages Mbya Guaraní and Paraguayan Guaraní (Tonhauser 2011a,b; Thomas 2014). We propose a truly tenseless account of Paraguayan Guaraní. A pronoun at the left edge of the clause, denoting the local evaluation time, directly binds the time variable of viewpoint aspect. In a matrix clause the evaluation time is speech time by default, resulting in present temporal reference, and with the help of a prospective morpheme, in future reference. The evaluation time may shift, as happens in restricted contexts in languages with tense (e.g., the historical present), but here more freely. The mechanism of evaluation time shift underlies past interpretation. The main consequence of this analysis is that tense is not a semantic universal.
Roumyana Pancheva is a professor of Linguistics and Slavic Languages and Literatures at USC, her main areas of research being syntax and semantics. Her research employs formal modeling, cross-linguistic comparison from a synchronic and diachronic perspective, and experimentation.

For more information visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

Against Orthodoxies: Working with Hayden White
2019-11-01 - 2019-11-02 | Cultural Center at Merrill, Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Event Photos by Jessica Guild:
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.

On Friday and Saturday, November 1 and 2, 2019, UC Santa Cruz will hold a conference to honor the late Hayden White.
The event is conceived as an invitation to extend Hayden White’s thinking in new directions. Inspired by his rigorous, daring, iconoclastic spirit, this will be a time for experiment and dialogue. Confirmed participants are innovative scholars from a wide variety of disciplines.
Program timeline – Full Schedule Here

Pre-Conference Gathering: November 1st @ 10:30am, Hayden White Archive Exhibition at McHenry Library
Day 1: November 1st @ 1pm-5:30pm in the Merrill College Cultural Center, dinner to follow
Day 2: November 2nd @ 9am-5:30pm in the Merrill College Cultural Center, reception to follow

Keynote speakers:
Judith Butler (UC Berkeley)
Carol Mavor (University of Manchester)
Susan Stewart (Princeton University)
Participants:

Karyn Ball (University of Alberta)
Amy Elias (University of Tennessee)
Amir Eshel (Stanford)
Robert Harrison (Stanford)
Ethan Kleinberg (Wesleyan)
Paul Kottman (New School for Social Research)
María Inés la Greca (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
David Palumbo-Liu (Stanford)
Todd Presner (UC Los Angeles)
Jose Rabasa (UC Berkeley)
Veronica Tozzi (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

Organizing committee:
Paul Roth, Professor of Philosophy, UCSC
James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, History of Consciousness, UCSC
Karen Bassi, Professor of Literature and Classics, UCSC
Sponsored by:
The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. With support from UCSC’s Cowell College, Stanford University’s Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages, and the Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies.

Cultural Studies Colloquium: Aishwary Kumar
2019-10-30 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
“What is Political Cruelty? An Archeology of the Liberalism of Fear”
Under what conditions might fear become a saturating phenomenon of liberal democracy and extreme violence cease to be even a moral crime? Is this silent war on the body and idea of the citizen on the constitutional theorist and moral philosopher B. R. Ambedkar’s mind when, in his revolutionary classic Annihilation of Caste (1936), he coins the phrase “armed neutrality?” In this lecture, building on a new constellation of thinkers in political theory, Kumar develops the fundamental insight that Ambedkar, Hannah Arendt, and Judith Shklar, in conceptually different ways and with radically different moral psychological consequences, offer on today’s insoluble democratic impasse: that the most catastrophic effect of social inequality is not merely a betrayal of our constitutional compact to justice but a weaponization of a new form of political cruelty. What is this new cruelty? And what kind of constitutional courage– a re-articulation of dignity– might today be necessary to retrieve our freedom?
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.

Aishwary Kumar is an intellectual historian and political theorist with interests in South Asian, European, and American political thought. His work spans a wide spectrum of issues in moral and political philosophy, constitutional theory and political justice, war and ethics, empire and liberalism, and the history of democratic thought and rights. Kumar’s first book, Radical Equality: Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the Risk of Democracy (Stanford, 2015; Delhi, 2019), was listed by The Indian Express among the fifteen most important works on politics, morality, and law to be published anywhere that year. His essays have appeared, among other places, in Modern Intellectual History, Contemporary South Asia, Social History, Indian Economic and Social History Review, and Public Culture. He has also been featured on the radio shows Entitled Opinions and Philosophy Talk. Kumar is currently working on two related book-length studies. The first, titled “The Sovereign Void: Ambedkar’s Critique of Violence,” examines the genealogies of political freedom and war in Southern and Atlantic political thought, and their relation to notions of “force” across epistemological, theological, and secular traditions. The second, titled “The Gravity of Truth: Disenchantment, Disappointment, Democracy,” takes the Obama Presidency as its starting point to explore the place of moral and political judgment in the global constitutional imagination.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

CANCELLED - Elizabeth Strout: Olive, Again
2019-10-29 19:00 - 21:00 | DNA Comedy Lab, 155 S. River St., Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Due to disruptions and concerns about ongoing wildfire and power disruptions across California, Elizabeth Strout’s entire California tour has been cancelled/postponed to a future date. This means our event with Elizabeth Strout on October 29th has been CANCELLED.
If you purchased a ticket to this event, Bookshop Santa Cruz will be in touch with you via email within the next day. Please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com with any questions in the meantime. Thank you.
Cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, Bookshop Santa Cruz presents a very special evening when #1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout. Join us to discuss her highly anticipated new novel, Olive, Again, in which she continues the life of her beloved character Olive Kitteridge. Strout will be in-conversation with writer Elizabeth McKenzie at this ticketed event, also cosponsored by KAZU, which will take place at DNA’s Comedy Lab.
This great night out, perfect for book groups and literature lovers, will also feature a book signing by Elizabeth Strout, raffle prizes and giveaways, plus refreshments (including wine and beer) available for purchase. Literary Soiree attendees will have a chance to win great prizes, including advanced reading copies of fall’s buzz books, Elizabeth Strout’s paperback books, tickets to Bookshop Santa Cruz’s upcoming event with Erin Morgenstern of The Night Circus fame, and more. Each attendee will leave with great book recommendations after they stop by curated book stations in the lobby hosted by Bookshop Santa Cruz Book Group Ambassadors such as “The 5 Best Books My Book Club Have Ever Read” or “Surviving 2020: Books That Will Make You Believe in Humanity.”
Tickets are $32 and include entry for one person to the soiree and one copy of Olive, Again.

Jasmin Young: She Stood There by Him with a Gun - Mabel Williams and the Philosophy of Armed Resistance
2019-10-29 13:00 - 14:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Stevenson Fall Lecture Presented by Jasmin Young:
Mabel Williams practiced armed resistance when white vigilante violence and police repression threatened the lives of activists. This talk interrogates the gendering of armed resistance and reveals the complex set of struggles between Black men and women about Black self-defense.
Jasmin A. Young is a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of African American Studies. She is currently developing her manuscript, Black Women with Guns: Armed Resistance in the Black Freedom Struggle. This work rethinks the history of the Black Freedom Movement by placing Black women’s armed activity at the center of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. The project explores the extensive practice and advocacy of armed resistance by Black women.
Presented by Stevenson College in collaboration with UCSC History Department, CRES, The Humanities Institute, and Feminist Studies departments.

Halloween Lecture "The Vampire in Love" (with costume contest)
2019-10-28 18:15 - 20:00 | Forager, San Jose, 420 S 1st St, San Jose, CA, 95172, United States
Brought to you by the UCSC Prof and a Pint Lecture Series
Oh yeah, there will be a costume contest! And there will be prizes! If you want to compete please gather on the stage at 6:15pm. The lecture will start at 6:30pm as usual.
From the beginning of the earliest English-language vampire narrative in the early nineteenth century, the vampire has been a figure of both fear and desire, often represented through the vampire’s longings and the range of social responses they inspire. This talk considers several different examples of “the vampire in love” in order to explore what the vampire might tell us about our most pressing social, cultural, and political concerns across the twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries.
Kimberly Lau is Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz where she teaches courses on contemporary fiction, vampire narratives, fairy tales, and digital culture in relation to feminist and critical race theories. She has published a number of books and articles on a range of topics, including most recently “Erotic Infidelities: Love and Enchantment in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber” (2015).

CANCELLED - Glenn Tiffert: Censorship, Digitalization and the Fragility of Our Knowledge Base - Lessons from China
2019-10-28 15:00 - 17:00 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Technological and economic forces are radically restructuring our ecosystem of knowledge, and opening our information space increasingly to forms of digital disruption and manipulation that are scalable, difficult to detect, and corrosive of the trust upon which vigorous scholarship and liberal democratic practice depend. Using an illustrative case from the people’s republic of china, this talk shows how a determined actor can exploit those vulnerabilities to tamper dynamically with the historical record. It furthermore demonstrates that machine learning models can now accurately reproduce the choices made by human censors, and warns that we are on the cusp of a new, algorithmic paradigm of information control and censorship that poses an existential threat to the foundations of all empirically-grounded disciplines. At a time of ascendant illiberalism around the world, robust, collective safeguards are urgently required to defend the integrity of our source base, and the knowledge we derive from it.
Glenn Tiffert is a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Tiffert earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley. From 2015-2017, he was the Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in Residence at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he also held faculty appointments in the History Department and Asian Languages & Cultures Department, and taught undergraduate and graduate courses on modern China. He has taught at Berkeley, Harvard, and UCLA, and currently serves on the Projects and Proposals Committee of the American Society for Legal History.

For further information, contact Minghui Hu: mhu@ucsc.edu

Riyaaz Qawwali Performance - Sufi Music Ensemble
2019-10-25 19:30 - 21:30 | Music Center Recital Hall
Qawwali is a musical tradition from present-day India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, dating back 700 years. The group Riyaaz Qawwali brings 13th-century Sufi music to life by overcoming cultural and linguistic barriers, translating lyrics to unravel the cultural heritage of South Asian devotional music. Trained in Eastern and Western classical music, the members have been professionally performing qawwali for the past twelve years.
Riyaaz Qawwali represents the diversity and plurality of South Asia: the ensemble’s musicians, who are settled in the United States, hail from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh and represent multiple religious and spiritual backgrounds. Click here to learn more about the ensemble.

$10 – General Admission
$4 – UCSC Students with ID
Day-of-event ticket window opens at 6:30PM
Doors open at 7:00PM
Parking permit: $5 (cash or credit via attendant in Arts Lot 126)

Presented by the Kamil and Talat Hasan Chair in Classical Indian Music, the Ali Akbar Khan Endowment for Indian Classical Music, and the UC Santa Cruz Music Department. Co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and The Humanities Institute.

Cultural Studies Colloquium: Elizabeth Marcus
2019-10-23 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
“When is a Boycott a Boycott? Lebanon, Palestine and Hollywood, and the Arrest of Ziad Doueiri”
This paper looks at the arrest and court case of Lebanese film director, Ziad Doueiri. Doueiri broke the 1955 Boycott Law by shooting a film in Israel, using Israeli and Palestinian actors. The film was then banned across the all the countries of the Arab League. Marcus argues that his case compelled the law to define the terms around which a cultural object should be subject to a boycott, and she investigates the intersections between old laws, new global movements, and state sovereignty.
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.

Elizabeth Marcus is a Mellon Fellow in the Scholars in the Humanities program at Stanford University and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Leeds. She received her BA from the University of Oxford in Modern History and French, and completed her PhD in French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in 2017. Elizabeth has taught in the Core Curriculum at Columbia University and at MIT as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Global Studies and Languages Department. Her research focuses on the literatures as well as the intellectual and cultural history of the Francophone and Arab world with a particular interest in the relationship between language and cultural politics, intellectual networks, and migration in the afterlife of the French Empire. Her current manuscript, Difference and Dissidence: Cultural Politics and the End of Empire in Lebanon, 1943-1975, uncovers the response of local actors to the unique period of transition Lebanon at the end of the French mandate to the beginning of the civil war in 1975. During her time as a British Academy Fellow, she will start her second project, Paris and the Global University: International Students and Cultural Internationalism at the Cité Universitaire, 1945-1975, which looks at how the Cité internationale Universitaire, a residential campus in the Parisian outskirts, became a crucible of left and right-wing transnational political and cultural activism during the Trente Glorieuses (1945-1975).
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

The Original Thinkers Series: A Conversation About Oliver Sacks
2019-10-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Music Center Recital Hall
Please note a recent change to our lineup: Peabody Award-wining journalist and producer Nikki Silva (Porter, ’73) and Cowell College Provost Alan Christy will engage Ren Weschler in conversation about Oliver Sacks. Robert Krulwich is unable to join us this evening. Please enjoy this recent Kitchen Sisters episode of The Keepers featuring Ren Weschler.
And How Are You, Dr. Sacks? is a biographical memoir about Oliver Sacks written by Ren Weschler (Cowell ’74). It is the definitive portrait of Sacks as our preeminent romantic scientist, a self-described “clinical ontologist” whose entire practice revolved around the single fundamental question he effectively asked each of his patients: How are you? A question which Ren, with this book, turns back on the good doctor himself.
Monday, October 21, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz

Questions?
Contact the Special Events Office at specialevents@ucsc.edu or (831) 459-5003.
SPEAKERS

Lawrence (Ren) Weschler
A graduate of Cowell College (1974), Ren Weschler writes in LitHub about his earliest awareness of Sacks. Ren was a staff writer for more than 20 years (1981–2002) at The New Yorker. The director emeritus of the NY Institute for the Humanities at NYU, Ren is also the author of more than 20 books, including Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder and Vermeer in Bosnia.

Discussion with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
2019-10-18 15:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 620, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join us to discuss excerpts from author Marcelo Hernandez Castillo. Please email Micah Perks at (meperks@ucsc.edu) for the readings and to RSVP for the discussion.
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet, essayist, translator, and immigration advocate. He is the author of Cenzontle (BOA editions, 2018), chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the 2017 A. Poulin Jr. prize and winner of the 2018 Northern California Book Award. Cenzontle maps a parallel between the landscape of the border and the landscape of sexuality through surreal and deeply imagistic poems. Castillo’s ﬁrst chapbook, Dulce (Northwestern University Press, 2018), was chosen by Chris Abani, Ed Roberson, and Matthew Shenoda as the winner of the Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize. His memoir, Children of the Land is forthcoming from Harper Collins in 2020 and explores the ideas of separation from deportation, trauma, and mobility between borders.

Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing
2019-10-18 14:00 - 15:30 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join the Writing Program in celebrating UC Santa Cruz’s tenth annual Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing ceremony on Friday, October 18 from 2:00-3:30pm in Cowell Provost House. Chancellor Larive, UCSC VPDUE Richard Hughey, Writing Program Chair Tonya Ritola, and Writing Program faculty members will be attending the ceremony along with this year’s four winners and their families.

We hope to see you at the event as we honor student writing and the legacy of Don Rothman.

PhD+ Workshop – Research Development: Grants and Fellowships
2019-10-18 11:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Learn about locating fellowship opportunities, framing your research for different funding organizations, and acquiring grants with Nathaniel Deutsch, Irena Polić, Suraiya Jetha (The Humanities Institute) and Kelly Anne Brown (Associate Director at University of California Humanities Research Institute). We’ll share advice about different types of awards and strategies for making your proposal stand out. Bring your ideas and questions for an important conversation on securing funding for Humanities research.

About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the fourth year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.
Lunch will be served.
Please RSVP below:

Loading…

Imagining Otherwise: Resisting and Queering Racial and Gender Violence
2019-10-17 15:15 - 17:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
A Philosophy and MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) sponsored Colloquium. Co-sponsored by the Center for Public Philosophy and the Humanities Institute
This talk will explore how gender violence intersects with racist and transphobic violence and how those intersections are erased or distorted in public discourse. Professor Medina will examine the communicative dysfunctions that exist around gender and racial violence and how sexist, transphobic, and racist imaginaries create vulnerabilities that remain unaddressed. He will discuss how we can exercise the imagination in resistant ways and how we can resist those communicative dysfunctions and oppressive imaginaries by imagining otherwise. He will discuss some specific cases of gender and racial violence and the ways in which they were distorted in the media coverage, showing how critically engaged publics can resist those distortions and the forms of activism that we can engage in to fight gender and racial violence.
Professor José Medina is theWalter Dill Scott Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University

Cultural Studies Colloquium: Sara Mameni
2019-10-16 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Sara Mameni “On the Terracene”
This talk considers the Anthropocene from the perspective of artists working within areas devastated by the War on Terror. While the popularization of the concept of the Anthropocene dates to the early 2000s–the very moment of the declaration of the War on Terror–the two modes of imagining the geopolitics of the present have yet to be considered together. Mameni coins the term “Terracene” as an entry point into considering the condition of the planet under terror.
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.

Sara Mameni is the director of Aesthetics and Politics program and faculty in the school of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts. She received her PhD in Art History from University of California San Diego in 2015 and was a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz in 2016/2017. Her specialization is contemporary art in the Arab/Muslim world with a focus on queer of color theory. Her current research explores biopolitics, racial discourse in the Anthropocene, post-humanist aesthetics and the geo-ecological age of petroleum.
Free and open to the public.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Lit Quake
2019-10-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Funny & Peculiar: Santa Cruz Writers on Keeping it Weird
It’s 2019 and it seems like things couldn’t get any stranger. What better time to mine the oddities of life with noted writers Elizabeth McKenzie, Micah Perks, Peggy Townsend, Liza Monroy and Wallace Baine? Moderated by Dan White and Amy Ettinger. This event is co-presented by Bookshop Santa Cruz.
In honor of Litquake’s 20th anniversary in 2019, the festival is holding 20 events in 20 cities nationwide – including this Santa Cruz event! Read more about Litquake, celebrating it’s 20th Anniversary, here.
About the writers:
Elizabeth McKenzie’s novel The Portable Veblen was longlisted for the National Book Award for fiction and received the California Book Award for fiction. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Tin House, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and others.
Micah Perks is the author of four books, most recently a book of linked short stories, True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape and the novel What Becomes Us, winner of an Independent Publisher’s Book Award and named one of the Top Ten Books about the Apocalypse by The Guardian. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Epoch, Zyzzyva, Tin House, and The Rumpus, amongst many journals and anthologies. She has won an NEA, five Pushcart Prize nominations, residencies at MacDowell and Blue Mountain Center, and the New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC.
Wallace Baine is an award-winning journalist and arts writer who regularly contributes to Santa Cruz Good Times, Metro Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Chronicle. His work has been syndicated in newspapers nationwide and his fiction has appeared in the Catamaran Literary Reader, the Chicago Quarterly Review, and as part of the Santa Cruz Noir collection of short stories. His most recent book is a history of Bookshop Santa Cruz called A Light in the Midst of Darkness.
Peggy Townsend is an award-winning newspaper journalist and author of the bestselling 2018 mystery novel, See Her Run and its follow-up, The Thin Edge, both published by Thomas & Mercer. As a reporter, she has covered serial killers, murder trials and once chased an escaped murderer through a graveyard at midnight. When she isn’t outdoors, she’s either writing magazine profiles for UC Santa Cruz or working on her third novel. She divides her time between Santa Cruz and Lake Tahoe.
Liza Monroy is the author of three books: the novel Mexican High, the memoir The Marriage Act: The Risk I Took To Keep My Best Friend in America and What It Taught Us About Love, and the essay collection Seeing As Your Shoes Are Soon To Be On Fire. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, the LA Times, The Washington Post, O, Marie Claire, Jezebel, Catamaran, and other publications. One of her columns for the New York Times‘ “Modern Love” will appear in this fall’s anthology of the “most popular and unforgettable essays” of the series. She teaches writing at UC Santa Cruz and lives downtown with her husband, two tiny humans, a pug and unruly potbellied pig Señor Bacon. Currently, she is writing her second novel, a dark comedy of technology and obsession.

David Eng: Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation - On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans
2019-10-15 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Please join David L. Eng for a discussion of his new book, Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (Duke University Press, 2019), co-authored with Shinhee Han. The book draws on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with several strands of psychoanalytic thought and clinical practice, Eng and Han develop the concepts of racial melancholia and racial dissociation to investigate changing processes of loss associated with immigration, displacement, diaspora, and assimilation. These case studies of first- and second-generation Asian Americans deal with a range of difficulties, from depression, suicide, and the politics of coming out to broader issues of the model minority stereotype, transnational adoption, parachute children, colorblind discourses in the United States, and the rise of Asia under globalization. Throughout, Eng and Han link psychoanalysis to larger structural and historical phenomena, illuminating how the study of psychic processes of individuals can inform investigations of race, sexuality, and immigration while creating a more sustained conversation about the social lives of Asian Americans and Asians in the diaspora.
David L. Eng is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also Professor in the Program in Asian American Studies, the Program in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory, and the Program in Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies. After receiving his B.A. in English from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley, he taught at Columbia and Rutgers before joining Penn in 2007. Eng has held visiting professorships at the University of Bergen (Norway), King’s College London, Harvard University, and the University of Hong Kong. He is the recipient of research fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, and the Mellon Foundation, among others. In 2016, Eng was elected an honorary member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York City. His areas of specialization include American literature, Asian American studies, Asian diaspora, critical race theory, psychoanalysis, queer studies, gender studies, and visual culture.
Eng is author with Shinhee Han of Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (Duke, 2019), The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy (Duke, 2010), and Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (Duke, 2001). He is co-editor with David Kazanjian of Loss: The Politics of Mourning (California, 2003) and with Alice Y. Hom of Q & A: Queer in Asian America (Temple, 1998, winner of a Lambda Literary Award and Association of Asian American Studies Book Award). In addition, he is co-editor of two special issues of the journal Social Text: with Teemu Ruskola and Shuang Shen, “China and the Human” (2011/2012), and with Jack Halberstam and José Esteban Muñoz, “What’s Queer about Queer Studies Now?” (2005).
Currently, he is co-editing with Jasbir Puar a third special issue of Social Text, “Left of Queer” as well as completing a monograph, “Reparations and the Human,” which investigates the relationship between political and psychic genealogies of reparation in Cold War Asia.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies, Literature, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, History of Consciousness, and Feminist Studies departments.

Blacklisted Jews Like Us: Gerda & Carl Lerner - Intersectionality, Experience as Deviants, and the Film "Black Like Me"
2019-10-15 11:30 - 13:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Speaker: Visiting FMST Scholar Vera Kallenberg
Vera will discuss her research on the life of Gerda Lerner (1920-2013), a pioneer of women’s history who co-wrote the 1964 film Black Like Me with husband and film director Carl Lerner. The film is based on the highly controversial book by John Howard Griffin, a white writer who in 1959 darkened his skin and traveled through the Jim Crow-era “deep South” to expose the everyday realities of racism. The film reflects the Lerners’ experience as participants in the civil rights movement and their own experiences of repression as communists in Cold War America and Gerda’s persecution as a Jew in Nazi Europe
Lunch will be provided.

Santa Cruz Film Festival: General Magic
2019-10-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Colligan Theater at The Tannery Arts Center (View), 1010 River St., Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The Humanities Institute is pleased to sponsor Santa Cruz Film Festival‘s showing of General Magic. The multi-award winning documentary, is a tale of how a great vision, a grave betrayal and an epic failure changed the world. Spun out from Apple in 1990 to create the next big thing, General Magic shipped the first handheld wireless personal communicator in 1994. From the first smartphones to social media, e-commerce and even emoji, the ideas that now dominate the tech industry and our day-to-day lives were born at General Magic.
Combining rare archive footage with contemporary stories of the Magicians today, this documentary tracks the progress of anytime, anywhere communication from a thing of sci-fi fiction in 1994 to a reality in our pockets today. This is the story of one of history’s most talented teams and what happens when those who dream big fail, fail again, fail better and ultimately succeed.

Democratic Interpellations Conference (NOT CANCELLED)
2019-10-11 09:30 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States

CANCELLED Living Writers: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
2019-10-10 19:10 - 20:30 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet, essayist, translator, and immigration advocate. He is the author of Cenzontle (BOA editions, 2018), chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the 2017 A. Poulin Jr. prize and winner of the 2018 Northern California Book Award. Cenzontle maps a parallel between the landscape of the border and the landscape of sexuality through surreal and deeply imagistic poems. Castillo’s first chapbook, Dulce (Northwestern University Press, 2018), was chosen by Chris Abani, Ed Roberson, and Matthew Shenoda as the winner of the Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize. His memoir, Children of the Land is forthcoming from Harper Collins in 2020 and explores the ideas of separation from deportation, trauma, and mobility between borders.

RESCHEDULED Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Beyond the End of the World Sawyer Seminar Series
2019-10-10 17:30 - 19:00 | Music Center Recital Hall – UCSC, 402 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present the inaugural event in the
Beyond the End of the World series.

Due to unforeseen circumstances Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor had to reschedule her engagement in Santa Cruz for January 23, 2020. Click here for updated event information.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an award-winning author on race and inequality as well as Black politics and social movements in the United States. Her books include From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation and How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective. She has a forthcoming book titled Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (University of North Carolina Press). Taylor’s writing has been published in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Boston Review, Paris Review, Guardian, The Nation, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, Jacobin, and beyond. In 2016, she was designated as one of the one hundred most influential African Americans in the United States by the The Root. Taylor is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians and an Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University.
Beyond the End of the World comprises a year-long research and exhibition project and public lecture series, directed by T. J. Demos of the Center for Creative Ecologies, bringing leading international thinkers and cultural practitioners to UC Santa Cruz to discuss what lies beyond dystopian catastrophism, and how we can cultivate radical futures of social justice and ecological flourishing. Keynote presentations include: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, award-winning author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation; Déborah Danowski, co-author of the speculative analysis of our dystopian present, The Ends of the World; Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Brazilian anthropologist and author of Cannibal Metaphysics; Amitav Ghosh, award-winning fiction writer and author of The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable; Nick Estes (Lower Brule Sioux), co-founder of Red Nation and author of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance; Melanie Yazzie (Bilagáana/Diné), Red Nation member and co-editor of Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society; and artist-activists Amin Husain and Nitasha Dhillon of MTL/Decolonize This Place, an action-oriented movement centering Indigenous struggle, Black liberation, free Palestine, global wage workers and de-gentrification.
For more information visit BEYOND.UCSC.EDU. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture and administered by The Humanities Institute.

Kresge's Media and Society: Teju Cole (LOCATION/TIME CHANGED)
2019-10-10 15:00 - 16:00 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join Kresege for the first Media and Society lecture of Fall 2019 with Teju Cole, a photographer, novelist, art historian, and the New York Times Magazine photography critic. He has recently co-authored a book on refugees and displaced people, titled Human Archipelago, and several of his recent pieces for the New York Times focus on the visual depiction of human suffering and its purpose (“A Crime Scene at the Border” and “When the Camera was a Weapon of Imperialism (and still is)“). Co-sponsored by Kresge College, the University Library, the Institute of the Arts and Sciences, The Humanities Institute, EOP, the office of Student Achievement & Equity Innovation, Porter, Merrill, and Cowell Colleges, the African American Resource and Cultural Center, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, HAVC, and SOMeCA.
Click here for more information and to Register for the event

Democratic Interpellations Conference (NOT CANCELLED)
2019-10-10 13:00 - 18:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Please note: this is a two-day event.

Cultural Studies Colloquium: Anjali Arondekar
2019-10-09 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
“What More Remains: Sexuality, Slavery, Historiography”
This talk engages a ‘small’ history of sexuality and slavery in Portuguese India. At stake are three questions: How do we call attention to the displacement of slave pasts within histories of sexuality that are themselves routinely displaced? How do we locate those displacements in itinerant archives of profit and pleasure, than in archives of loss and trauma? How do we open a dialogue between the interdisciplinary fields of area studies and sexuality studies with an eye to understanding how histories of slavery can reshape, even devastate, these very field-formations?
Anjali Arondekar is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, UCSC. Her research engages the poetics and politics of sexuality, colonialism and historiography, with a focus on South Asia. She is the author of For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India (Duke University Press, 2009, Orient Blackswan, India, 2010), winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award for best book in lesbian, gay, or queer studies in literature and cultural studies, Modern Language Association (MLA), 2010. She is co-editor (with Geeta Patel) of “Area Impossible: The Geopolitics of Queer Studies,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (2016). Her talk is an excerpt from her forthcoming book, Abundance: On Sexuality and Historiography.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Eli Yassif: Before Seinfeld - The Early Modern Roots of Jewish Humor
2019-10-07 17:30 - 19:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Please join us for Eli Yassif’s lecture “Before Seinfeld – The Early Modern Roots of Jewish Humor”
Jewish humor has been described as one of the most outstanding characteristics of the Jewish People, and its history dates back to Biblical times. But is there really “Jewish Humor”, and if so, what are its major characteristics? This talk will explore the earliest collections of Jewish jokes, from early in the 19th century, and strive to understand, by analyzing some exemplary jokes, the place and impact Jewish humor has had in and on Early Modern history and culture.
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.

Eli Yassif is the Berger Professor of Jewish Folk-Culture in the School of Jewish Studies at Tel-Aviv University. He studies the history of Jewish folklore and the Hebrew Literature of the Middle Ages, and published over 100 studies – books and scholarly articles in these fields.
His book: The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning was published in 1999 by Indiana University Press, and was elected as the best Jewish scholarly book for that year. It is used as the basic textbook in Israel and in the US in teaching this field.
His latest book was published just this year: The Legend of Safed: Life and Fantasy in the City of Kabbalah (Wayne State University Press, 2019).
Prof. Yassif served as a visiting professor at UCLA and UC Berkeley, Oxford University, University of Michigan, University of Chicago, Yale University and Stanford.

Living Writers: R. Zamora Linmark
2019-10-03 19:10 - 20:30 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
R. Zamora Linmark is the author of The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart, his first novel for young adults from Delacorte/Random House. He has also published two novels, Rolling the R’s (Kaya Press) which he’d adapted for the stage, and Leche (Coffee House Press), as well as four poetry collections, most recently, Pop Vérité, all from Hanging Loose Press. He divides his time between Honolulu, Hawaii, and Baguio, Philippines.

Paul Gootenberg: From Teonanácatl to Miami Vice - Latin America’s Contribution to World Drug Culture
2019-10-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Long before today’s entanglements with coke, meth, and weed, the Americas were a proving ground of global drug cultures. This millennium of shamanistic and Aztec psychedelics, colonial and Atlantic stimulants such as coffee and tobacco, national drug goods like tequila and coca, preceded the menacing 20th-century explosion of illicit drug trafficking, and shed light on our changing relationships to mind drugs and their commerce.

Paul Gootenberg, SUNY Distinguished Professor of History & Sociology at Stony Brook University, and Chair of History, is a Latin Americanist and commodity studies specialist and leader in the field of global drug history. He trained at the University of Chicago and Oxford. His books include Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug (UNC, 2008) and with Liliana M. Dávalos, The Origins of Cocaine: Peasant Colonization and Failed Development in the Amazon Andes (Routledge, 2018). He is General Editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History and President-elect of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society (ADHS).

Co-sponsored by the Center for World History

Jacqueline Woodson: Red at the Bone
2019-09-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Peace United Church, 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to present an evening with acclaimed author Jacqueline Woodson to celebrate the release of her newest book, Red at the Bone. This special book talk, Q+A, and book signing is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.

Ticket options:
Single Entry: $30.00 Admission for 1 person. Includes 1 ticket and 1 copy of Red at the Bone
Double Entry: $38.00 Admission for 2 people. Includes 2 tickets and 1 copy of Red at the Bone
(Red at the Bone publishes September 17th and is $26 retail.)
An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming.  Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. Moving forward and backward in time, with the power of poetry and the emotional richness of a narrative ten times its length, Jacqueline Woodson’s new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of this child.
“[A] beautifully imagined novel…Woodson’s nuanced voice evokes the complexities of race, class, religion, and sexuality in fluid prose and a series of telling details. This is a wise, powerful, and compassionate novel.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Jacqueline Woodson is the bestselling author of more than two dozen award-winning books including the 2016 New York Times-bestselling National Book Award finalist for adult fiction, Another Brooklyn. Among her many accolades, Woodson is a four-time National Book Award finalist, a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a two-time NAACP Image Award Winner, and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award Winner. Her New York Times-bestselling memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming, received the National Book Award in 2014. Woodson is also the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature and recipient of the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and the 2018 Children’s Literature Legacy Award. In 2015, she was named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She lives with her family in New York.

SOLD OUT: An Evening with Malcolm Gladwell - Talking to Strangers
2019-09-21 19:00 - 21:00 | San Mateo Performing Arts Center, 600 N Delaware St, San Mateo, CA, 94401, United States
Event Photos by Crystal Birns:
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, in partnership with Bookshop Santa Cruz, are delighted to present an evening with Malcolm Gladwell for the hardcover tour of Talking to Strangers. Join us at San Mateo Performing Arts Center on Saturday, September 21st at 7:00 p.m. for this very special evening!
This event is now sold out.
About the book: In his first new book in six years, TALKING TO STRANGERS: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know, Gladwell offers an incisive and powerful examination of our interactions with strangers—and why they often go so terribly wrong. Probing the headlines around Bernie Madoff, Amanda Knox, Sylvia Plath, Jerry Sandusky, Sandra Bland and Neville Chamberlain’s interactions with Hitler, he throws into doubt our conception of these stories and makes the case that something is very wrong with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. With the brilliantly engaging storytelling and razor-sharp observations we’ve come to expect from him, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook that helps make sense of our troubled times.
About the Author: Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five international bestsellers: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath. He is the host of the podcast Revisionist History, co-host of the music podcast Broken Record, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He was named one of the 100 most influential people by Time magazine.

Colson Whitehead Reading: The Nickel Boys
2019-09-19 19:00 | Peace United Church, 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Event Photos by Crystal Birns:
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
Bookshop Santa Cruz presents Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Colson Whitehead for a reading of The Nickel Boys, his highly anticipated followup and companion to The Underground Railroad. This special ticketed event will take place at Peace United Church and is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
TICKET PACKAGES: Ticket packages are $30 and include ONE ticket to the event and ONE copy of The Nickel Boys. Purchase ticket packages at Bookshop Santa Cruz or online, while supplies last.

Free entry and a book will be given out to the first 50 UCSC students to attend
(student ID required at the door)
In his speech accepting the 2016 National Book Award for The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead summarized the responsibility of writers in our difficult times: Be Kind. Make Art. Fight the Power. With his astonishing new novel, it’s clear he’s taken his own counsel to heart.
A perfect follow-up and companion to The Underground Railroad, in The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead recreates the horrors of segregation and the struggles of the Civil Rights movement as the backdrop for an emotionally charged and compulsively readable novel populated with deeply empathetic characters.
In the early 1960s, as the Civil Rights movement begins to reach segregated Tallahassee, Florida, one innocent mistake is all it takes for Elwood Curtis to become sentenced to the Nickel Academy — a grotesque chamber of horrors where sadistic staff abuse the students, corrupt officials steal food and supplies, and any boy who resists is likely to disappear “out back.” Elwood takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart. “Throw us in jail and will still love you.” His friend Turner thinks Elwood is worse than naïve — that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. The tension between Elwood’s ideals and Turner’s skepticism leads to a decision with repercussions that will echo for decades.
Highlighting a story that hasn’t been widely shared before about one of our country’s secret tragedies, in The Nickel Boys, not only does Colson Whitehead bring to life vividly the evils of Jim Crow America — he also brings to life the heartbreaking story of two boys and their impossible choices. Elwood and Turner will become known to readers as two of the most indelible characters in modern fiction thanks to Colson Whitehead’s prodigious talent and boundless compassion.

Ahead of the event, read THI’s interview with Tyler Stovall, who will be introducing Whitehead on the night.

Téa Obreht - Inland: A Novel
2019-08-23 19:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome Téa Obreht, National Book Award finalist and bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife, back to the store for a reading and signing of her new novel, INLAND—an epic journey across an unforgettable landscape, a stunning tale of perseverance and family, and a love letter to the complicated and glorious American West. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life—her husband, a newspaperman who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her elder sons, who have vanished after an explosive argument. Nora is biding her time (and enduring her thirst) with her youngest son, who is convinced that a mysterious beast is stalking the land around their home, and her husband’s seventeen-year-old cousin, who communes with spirits.
Lurie is an immigrant—a man born under Ottoman rule who comes to America as a child—and a former outlaw who is haunted by ghosts. He sees lost souls who want something from him, and he finds reprieve from their longing in an unexpected companion who inspires a momentous expedition across the West. The way in which Nora’s and Lurie’s stories intertwine is the surprise and suspense of this brilliant novel.
Téa Obreht is the author of The Tiger’s Wife, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction. An international bestseller, it has sold over a million copies worldwide, with rights sold in 37 countries. Obreht was a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and was named by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best American fiction writers under forty. She was the 2013 Rona Jaffe Foundation fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers and was a recipient of the 2016 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She was born in Belgrade, in the former Yugoslavia, in 1985 and has lived in the United States since the age of twelve. She currently lives in New York City and teaches at Hunter College.
This free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by August 21st.

Weekend with Shakespeare
2019-08-17 - 2019-08-18 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Event Photos by Crystal Birns:
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.

Join Shakespeare scholars and artists for two days of lectures, discussions, and demonstrations about the 2019 Season’s main stage productions, Winter’s Tale and Comedy of Errors.
Weekend with Shakespeare Lecture Series: This year, the Weekend With Shakespeare Lecture Series is free! However, we suggest interested participants RSVP through The Santa Cruz Shakespeare website.

Weekend with Shakespeare is sponsored in partnership with Santa Cruz Shakespeare.
Lecture Series on Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale: Saturday, August 17
12-12:15PM Intro by Dr. Sean Keilen, Provost, Porter College, UC Santa Cruz.
12:15-1:15PM Q&A with actors from The Winter’s Tale, moderated by Artistic Director Mike Ryan.
1:15-1:30PM Break.
1:30-2:30PM In conversation with Ariane Helou, dramaturg of The Winter’s Tale.
2:30-3PM Break with refreshments.
3-4PM Conversation with Professor Sandra Logan and SCS actor Tommy Gomez.
For those who have purchased a ticket to see the evening performance of The Winter’s Tale:
7-7:15PM Pre-performance discussion of ‘5 Things to Look Out For’ with Ariane Helou.
8PM Performance of The Winter’s Tale at The Grove.
Lecture Series on Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors: Sunday, August 18
12-12:15PM Intro by Dr. Sean Keilen, Provost, Porter College, UC Santa Cruz.
12:15-1:15PM In conversation with Professor Gina Bloom.
1:15-1:30PM Break.
1:30-2:30PM In conversation with Ashley Herum, dramaturg of The Comedy of Errors, and Dr. Michael Warren, Head of Dramaturgy at Santa Cruz Shakespeare.
2:30-3PM Break with refreshments.
3-4PM Presentation with Mike Ryan and The Comedy of Errors director Kirsten Brandt on “The opportunities and challenges using one actor to represent twins.”
For those who have purchased a ticket to see the evening performance of The Comedy of Errors:
6-6:15PM Pre-performance discussion of ‘5 Things to Look Out For’ with Professor Gina Bloom.
7PM Performance of The Comedy of Errors at The Grove.
Featuring guest speakers Gina Bloom (UC Davis) and Ariane Helou (UCLA).
Gina Bloom is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. Her research and teaching focus on Shakespeare, gender, theater history and performance, digital arts/humanities, and education. In addition to numerous articles, she has published two books. Voice in Motion: Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007) won the award for best book of the year from The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. Gaming the Stage: Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater (University of Michigan Press, 2018) was named Runner Up for Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) and is available open access. With colleagues in the ModLab at UC Davis, Bloom created the mixed reality Shakespeare game Play the Knave, which has been exhibited in theaters, cultural institutions, libraries and classrooms around the world. Bloom serves on the Executive Committeefor the Shakespeare Forum of the Modern Language Association and has just completed a term as a Trustee for the Shakespeare Association if America.

Ariane Helou teaches in the Department of French & Francophone Studies at UCLA. Her research focuses on drama, music, and poetry in early modern Italy, England, and France. She has held fellowships from the Mellon Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies; the Huntington Library; UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies, among others. Ariane is the co-editor (with Julia R. Lupton) of Romeo and Juliet in Diaspora: Shakespeare Among the Arts and in Translation, forthcoming from The Arden Shakespeare. In addition to publishing scholarship on Shakespeare studies and early modern Italian drama, Ariane is also a translator; a dramaturg; and a performing artist whose background spans early music, theater, and opera. Ariane has been a company member of the Santa Cruz Shakespeare festival since 2012 and is a dramaturg and producing partner of the Los Angeles-based theater company Collaborative Artists Bloc.

Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music - Community Night
2019-08-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
Community Night is back by popular demand! Last season Cabrillo Festival and Music Director Cristi Măcelaru opened their doors in a whole new way and attracted capacity crowds and wild enthusiasm! This year Cristi and members of the Festival Orchestra have designed another captivating concert of new or recent chamber works showcasing these extraordinary musicians as soloists and in small ensembles. This is an invitation for long time Festival-goers and first-timers alike to get a more intimate perspective on the talented artists who come from across the globe to be a part of this phenomenal orchestra. Bring your neighbors! Bring your friends! All seating is general admission. Tickets are required, but pricing is on a pay-what-you-can basis to ensure access for all. It’s going to be another high-spirited evening of live music—complete with special surprises.
THI is pleased to partner with the Cabrillo Festival to offer a limited number of free tickets to Community Night. Use the code: 2019THI (maximum six per order).
MEETUP! Stay after the show to sip wine and chat with these remarkable performers!
Co-sponsored by: The Humanities Institute, Santa Cruz County Bank, Eric Hanson CFP

39th Annual Dickens Universe
2019-07-13 - 2019-07-20 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars, teachers, students, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels, usually (but not always) one by Charles Dickens. In 2019, the Universe will feature Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens.
Full event info and registration: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/universe/index.html
In this early and seldom studied historical novel, Dickens tells a powerful story of public violence and private horror. Set in 18th-century London, the novel is full of mystery and melodrama. Sons struggle against fathers, servants against masters. Religious controversy erupts into riots. Vivid characters enact their passions in a world deeply divided against itself, and a pet raven issues oracular statements that none can forget–or understand.
Now in its 39th year of operation, the Dickens Universe combines features of a scholarly conference, a festival, a book club, and summer camp. Participants include people of all ages and walks of life—distinguished scholars, graduate students, undergraduates, retirees, young professionals, high school teachers, anyone who loves to read and who enjoys long Victorian novels.
Here are some of the things that make the Universe such a special experience.
The college lifestyle: participants live on campus, eat together in the student dining hall, have time to meet and come to know each other in different ways.
Everyone is reading the same book. We all have this one important thing in common. The range of activities—formal lectures, small discussion groups, films, daily Victorian teas, performances, and Victorian dancing. The Universe offers a week of total immersion in the world of Victorian fiction with friendly, like-minded colleagues in a beautiful setting. Whether we’re returning to a Dickens novel that everyone knows and loves, or branching out into a Victorian novel by another author who might be less familiar, during the Universe we build a community out of our passion for reading, talking with one another, and bringing Victorian culture to life.

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel
2019-06-17 19:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
We welcome award winning author Ocean Vuong (Night Sky with Exit Wounds) for a reading of his highly acclaimed debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, named a best book of summer by The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Vulture, Thrillist, Entertainment Weekly, Elle, and more.
“In this achingly beautiful novel, a young Vietnamese American writes a letter to his abusive mother about his struggle to find love and a sense of identity. In the process, he comes to appreciate the struggles of her life, too.” —The Washington Post
Ocean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds, winner of the Whiting Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. His writings have also been featured in The Atlantic, Harper’s, The Nation, New Republic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is his first novel.
Ocean Vuong’s poetry collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, marked the arrival of an incomparable talent. His searing, intimate poems, infused with his love of language, grappled with memories of war and displacement, coming of age as a young gay man, and daily life in Vietnam and America. Named a best book of 2016 by dozens of outlets from The New York Times to NPR to The San Francisco Chronicle, the collection was also the recipient of the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry and the Whiting Award. Readers and critics alike fell in love with Vuong’s lyricism and the deep humanity that runs through all his work.
This free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by June 15th.

Prof and A Pint- The 1930s: The Past of Our Present?
2019-06-10 18:30 - 20:00 | Forager, San Jose, 420 S 1st St, San Jose, CA, 95172, United States
Marc Matera challenges this image of the decade and draws different lessons for our time by considering the 1930s through examples in which global connections and international organization reached new levels on many fronts, from struggles for colonial and racial freedom to the spread of populist authoritarianism.
Comparisons between 1930s and our contemporary moment are everywhere. These comparisons rely on a view of the 1930s as a period of retrenchment behind the security of national borders and economic protectionism and a retreat to xenophobic nationalism following decades of globalization and internationalism.
Marc Matera is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in History at UCSC. His numerous publications include three books: “The Global 1930s: The International Decade,” “Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the 20th Century,” and ‘The Women’s War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria.” Professor Matera received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, his M.A from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and his Ph.D., from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

A Prof and A Pint, a monthly series of informal discussions, served over dinner and drinks, at Forager Tasting Room and Eatery. Brought to you by UC Santa Cruz Alumni, and helping to celebrate 2018 as the Year of Alumni, each talk will engage a UC Santa Cruz faculty member or grad student in discussion with you, the local community of Silicon Valley. Talks are held on the 2nd Monday of each month. Topics include everything from organic artichokes to endangered zebras. Self-driving cars to Shakespeare. Audience participation is encouraged. Enjoy a great meal and learn something while you eat!
Entry is free, but please consider ordering some food and drinks to support *Forager, our host. Current students and alumni, we encourage you to invite your friends, whether they are Banana Slugs or not, to be a part of the discussion.

Graduate Friday Forum with Aaron Franklin
2019-06-07 12:30 - 13:45 | Humanities 1, Room 408
Transcendental Sentimentalism – An Introduction
Broadly construed, moral sentimentalism is the position that human emotions or sentiments play a crucial role in our best normative or descriptive accounts of moral value or judgements thereof. With this presentation, Aaron introduces and sketches a defense of a novel form of more sentimentalism he calls “Transcendental Sentimentalism.” According to transcendental sentimentalism, being in an emotional state about an object is a necessary condition of the possibility of a subject counting as having non-inferential evaluative knowledge about that object. In unpacking each component of this position, he argues that it is both distinct from and more explanatorily attractive than the other approaches to explaining the relationship between emotion and moral thought.
Aaron Franklin is a PhD candidate in philosophy. His research concerns the metaphysics of norms and the relationship between emotion and evaluative thought. In addition to writing his dissertation, Aaron works with the Center for Public Philosophy on a project examining the role that motivated reasoning plays in our public discourse.
Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. For questions, email fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com.
Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the following departments: HAVC, Literature, History of Consciousness, Psychology, and Education

Neal Stephenson: Fall, or Dodge in Hell
2019-06-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz Veterans Hall Auditorium
Bookshop Santa Cruz is thrilled to welcome bestselling author Neal Stephenson for a reading and signing of his highly-anticipated new book, Fall, or Dodge in Hell. This offsite and ticketed event will take place at the Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building, 846 Front Street, Santa Cruz. Cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Tickets for this event are available through Brown Paper Tickets.
Two ticket packages are available:
General Admission Ticket + 1 Book ($39) = Admission for one person plus one copy of the book
Double Admission Ticket + 1 Book ($46) = Admission for two people plus one copy of the book.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Snowcrash, Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller—Paradise Lost by way of Philip K. Dick—that unfolds in the near future, in parallel worlds.
In his youth, Richard “Dodge” Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionarie. Now in his middle years, Dodge appreciates his comfortable, unencumbered life, managing his myriad business interests, and spending time with beloved niece Zula and her young daughter, Sophia.
One beautiful autumn day, while he undergoes a routine medical procedure, something goes irrevocably wrong. Dodge is pronounced brain dead and put on life support, leaving his stunned family and close friends with difficult decisions. Long ago, when a much younger Dodge drew up his will, he directed that his body be given to a cryonics company now owned by enigmatic tech entrepreneur Elmo Shepherd. Legally bound to follow the directive despite their misgivings, Dodge’s family has his brain scanned and its data structures uploaded and stored in the cloud, until it can eventually be revived.
In the coming years, technology allows Dodge’s brain to be turned back on. It is an achievement that is nothing less than the disruption of death itself. An eternal afterlife—the Bitworld—is created, in which humans continue to exist as digital souls.
But this brave new immortal world is not the Utopia it might first seem…
Fall, or Dodge in Hell is pure, unadulterated fun: a grand drama of analog and digital, man and machine, angels and demons, gods and followers, the finite and the eternal. In this exhilarating epic, Neal Stephenson raises profound existential questions and touches on the revolutionary breakthroughs that are transforming our future. Combining the technological, philosophical, and spiritual in one grand myth, he delivers a mind-blowing speculative literary saga for the modern age.
Neal Stephenson is the bestselling author of the novels Reamde, Anathem, The System of the World, The Confusion, Quicksilver, Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work In the Beginning…Was the Command Line. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Nido de Lenguas: Clases
2019-06-06 17:30 - 19:00 | Branciforte Small Schools Campus, 840 N Branciforte Ave, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062, United States
Nido de Lenguas: Clases will offer regular classes turning native speakers into language teachers to share their linguistic heritage with dedicated community members.

Living Writers: Diana Khoi Nguyen
2019-06-06 17:30 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Diana Khoi Nguyen is a multimedia artist and award-winning poet whose work has appeared widely in literary journals such as Poetry, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, PEN America, and The Iowa Review, among others. She recently won the 92Y’s Discovery / Boston Review2017 Poetry Contest and the Omnidawn Open Book Contest. She has also received awards, scholarships, and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, Key West Literary Seminars, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, and Bucknell University. Currently, she lives in Denver where she is a doctoral candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Denver. She teaches at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop and in the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver.
Co-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, The Bay Tree Bookstore, The Humanities Institute, The American Indian Resource Center, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center.

Keith A. Spencer Book Talk
2019-06-05 18:00 - 19:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
“A People’s History of Silicon Valley: How the Tech Industry Exploits Workers, Erodes Privacy and Undermines Democracy” with author Keith A. Spencer
Keith A Spencer is an editor at salon.com where he writes about science and technology, the politics of space colonization, the social and cultural ramifications of the tech industry. http://keithspencer.org/
Light refreshments provided with good and brinks at Lupulo after
Co-sponored by UAW 2865 and the Humanities Institute

Humanities Spring Awards
2019-06-05 16:00 - 19:00 | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Annual Humanities Spring Awards Celebration at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn on Wednesday, June 5th, starting at 4:00 pm. The event includes the Spring Awards ceremony for undergraduate achievements, the Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellows poster session, and a celebration of faculty milestones.
The Humanities Spring Awards Celebration is a wonderful opportunity for staff, faculty, alumni, students and their families to all come together to recognize and honor excellence and outstanding achievement across the division.
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
UCSC Cowell Ranch Hay Barn
Friends and family welcome to attend
4:00-5:00 pm
Spring Awards Ceremony
Opening remarks by Acting Humanities Dean Karen Bassi and EVC Tromp
5:00-5:30 pm
Undergraduate Research Fellowship Poster Session
5:30-7:00 pm
Faculty Milestone Celebration
ADA parking will be available at Cowell Ranch Hay Barn.
General parking will be across Coolidge Drive in Parking Lot 116.
For questions, please contact Rafferty Lincoln at rlincoln@ucsc.edu.

Hindustani Music and Performance of Modernity: A talk and film screening by Tejaswini Niranjana
2019-06-03 13:20 - 17:00 | Music Center Room 131, 1156 HIGH STREET, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Hindustani Music and Performance of Modernity
A documentary film and talk on Hindustani music in Mumbai, based on the forthcoming book, Musicophila in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious.
1:20PM – 3:00PM Talk
3:00PM – 5:00PM Screening
Refreshments will be provided.
Seating is limited.

Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC)
2019-05-31 13:00 - 16:15 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Program:
1:00 PM- Refreshments
1:15 PM- Opening remarks: Amanda Rysling
Session 1: Session Chair: Jennifer Bellik
1:20 PM- Madeleine King and Koy Ruguma: “Recency and Semantic Difference: Effects on Verbatim Memory”
1:45 PM- Max Tarlov: “Trans-derivational Correspondence beyond the Word Level”
2:10 PM- BREAK
Session 2: Session Chair: Steven Foley
2:20 PM- Melanie Gounas: “The Syntactic Representation of Constituent Negation”
2:45 PM- Jared Crawford-Levis: “Subject Bridging: Exploring a New Construction”
3:10 PM- Distinguished Alumnus Address: Introduction by Margaret Kroll Marcin Morzycki
4:05 PM- Closing remarks: Amanda Rysling

Feminist Science Studies Conference: Indigeneity and Climate Justice Day 2
2019-05-31 09:30 - 15:30 | UCSC Arboretum
Organized by Karen Barad and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer.
The 2019 UCSC Feminist Science Studies conference takes as its focus the theme of “Indigeneity and Climate Justice.” Climate Justice, as opposed to the more narrow framings of “environmental justice,” marks the consideration of the entanglement of ecological, cultural, social, political, geological, biological and other forces, understood as simultaneous and mutually constitutive. A shared concern among our esteemed keynote speakers is the question of how to respond to the challenges of collaborative engagements between Indigenous and non-Indigenous approaches to caring for the Earth. We invite them to engage in conversation with each other and students, faculty, staff, and other conference participants about these pressing questions of multiple ontologies, epistemologies, and uneven responsibilities.
Métis Scholar of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, Canada
Visiting Professor of History, Yale University
Key Note Speakers:
Zoe Todd
This talk explores Alberta, Canada as a site of intense western knowledge production about topics that are currently ‘hot’ in euro-western academe, such as: extinction, the Anthropocene, environmental degradation, climate change, and energy studies. Challenging the tendency for scholars to literally or figuratively drop into Alberta to mine it for data and information, Todd explores what it means to re-situate studies of earth violence in the Alberta petro-state as ones that require deep relationality and reciprocity.
Valentin Lopez
Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Anthropology and Geography
Deakin University, Australia
For some, it seems, the concept of the Anthropocene has delivered a welcome dose of universalism. We must put aside the differences which previously proscribed the very existence of a ‘we’ – the ethics which outlawed such pronouns as a presumptuous act of capture – and see that beings on this planet are unified by their inevitable geological materiality; the dark anthropogenic end of their stony fate. In this presentation, Neale offers a critique of these universalist and redemptive manoeuvres by exploring the temporality, offered by several Indigenous interlocutors, of ‘upside down Country.’ What practices and horizons are meaningful in a place where Country – or, the emplaced and providential order of things – has bee churned and flipped?
Timothy Neale
Timothy Neale is a pakeha (settler) researcher and teacher from Aotearoa New Zealand but currently lives in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, where he holds an appointment as Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Geography at Deakin University. His research focuses on environmental governance, settler-Indigenous relations, technoscience, and the intersections of those three topics. He is the author of Wild Articulations: Indigeneity and Environmentalism in Northern Australia (University of Hawaii Press, 2017).
Kyle Powys Whyte
Timnick Chair in the Humanities. Associate Proefssor of Philosophy and Community Sustainability. Michigan State University
Climate change activism and scientific assessments often emphasize that humans must grasp the urgency of taking swift and decisive actions to address an environmental crisis. Yet many such conceptions of urgency obscure the factors that Indigenous peoples have called out as the most pressing concerns about climate justice. This obfuscation explains, in part, why climate change advocacy remains largely unrelated to Indigenous efforts to achieve justice and engage in decolonial actions. Whyte shows why a politics of urgency can be based in assumptions about the relationship among time (temporality) and environmental change that are antithetical to allyship with Indigneous peoples and, ultimately, climate justice.
Kyle Whyte is a professor in the departments of Philosophy and Community Sustainability and holds the Timnick Chair in the Humanities at Michigan State University. His work focuses on environmental justice, especially climate change issues that Indigenous peoples face in planning, policy, science, and activism. He is a Potawatomi and an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
Arboretum Tour with Rick Flores, who is the curator of the California Native Plant Collection and the associate of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust.
Program Day 1
Program Day 2:
9:30am – Mingling and continental breakfast
10:00am – Conference Welcome
10:15am – Timothy Neale
15 minute break
12:00pm – Arboretum Tour with Rick Flores
1:00pm – Lunch
2:00pm – Final Roundtable with keynotes and grad students
3:30pm – Conclusion

For more information including directions and parking please visit:
https://feministstudies.ucsc.edu/news-events/department-news/science-conference/index.html

*ROOM CHANGE* NOW IN 420 - Thi Nguyen: "The Gamification of Public Discourse"
2019-05-30 15:15 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 420, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The pleasures of games include, among other things, the experience of a fantasy of value clarity. In games, our goals and values are clear, quantified, and easy to apply and rank. This provides us with a particular existential balm – a momentary liberation from the ambiguities and difficult pluralities of moral life. Games instrumentalize our ends, for the sake of the pleasure of the experience of play. This is morally acceptable in games, because the ends in games are temporary and disposable. Instrumentalizing our enduring epistemic ends, on the other hand, invites bad faith reasoning. Social media encourages the instrumentalization of our epistemic ends, by offering highly salient quantified targets: Facebook Likes and Twitter Likes and Retweet numbers. It invites us to shift the ends of public discourse from some more subtle value towards, say, maximizing retweet numbers. We would thereby increase the pleasures of value clarity from engaging in discourse. Importantly, among those pleasures are: the pleasures of the simplified experience of moral outrage, and the pleasures of being part of a united epistemic community. But changing one’s epistemic aims for the sake of these pleasures is bad faith reasoning. And the form of the pleasures may help us to understand the relationship between social media and the formation of echo chambers.
The gamification of public discourse is an example of what I call “value capture”. Value capture occurs when: 1.) our values are naturally rich and subtle; 2.) we are placed in a social or institutional setting with simple, explicit, typically quantified representations of those values; 3.) we internalize those simple representations of our values; and 4.) things get worse. Some other examples include being value captured by FitBit’s step counts, academic citation rates, and GPA’s. The gamification of public discourse helps us see how we can understand the problem of value capture: it’s the inappropriate instrumentalizatio of an end.

Feminist Science Studies Conference: Indigeneity and Climate Justice Day 1
2019-05-30 09:30 - 15:30 | UCSC Arboretum
Organized by Karen Barad and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer.
The 2019 UCSC Feminist Science Studies conference takes as its focus the theme of “Indigeneity and Climate Justice.” Climate Justice, as opposed to the more narrow framings of “environmental justice,” marks the consideration of the entanglement of ecological, cultural, social, political, geological, biological and other forces, understood as simultaneous and mutually constitutive. A shared concern among our esteemed keynote speakers is the question of how to respond to the challenges of collaborative engagements between Indigenous and non-Indigenous approaches to caring for the Earth. We invite them to engage in conversation with each other and students, faculty, staff, and other conference participants about these pressing questions of multiple ontologies, epistemologies, and uneven responsibilities.
Métis Scholar of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, Canada
Visiting Professor of History, Yale University
Key Note Speakers:
Zoe Todd
This talk explores Alberta, Canada as a site of intense western knowledge production about topics that are currently ‘hot’ in euro-western academe, such as: extinction, the Anthropocene, environmental degradation, climate change, and energy studies. Challenging the tendency for scholars to literally or figuratively drop into Alberta to mine it for data and information, Todd explores what it means to re-situate studies of earth violence in the Alberta petro-state as ones that require deep relationality and reciprocity.
Valentin Lopez
Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Anthropology and Geography
Deakin University, Australia
For some, it seems, the concept of the Anthropocene has delivered a welcome dose of universalism. We must put aside the differences which previously proscribed the very existence of a ‘we’ – the ethics which outlawed such pronouns as a presumptuous act of capture – and see that beings on this planet are unified by their inevitable geological materiality; the dark anthropogenic end of their stony fate. In this presentation, Neale offers a critique of these universalist and redemptive manoeuvres by exploring the temporality, offered by several Indigenous interlocutors, of ‘upside down Country.’ What practices and horizons are meaningful in a place where Country – or, the emplaced and providential order of things – has bee churned and flipped?
Timothy Neale
Timothy Neale is a pakeha (settler) researcher and teacher from Aotearoa New Zealand but currently lives in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, where he holds an appointment as Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Geography at Deakin University. His research focuses on environmental governance, settler-Indigenous relations, technoscience, and the intersections of those three topics. He is the author of Wild Articulations: Indigeneity and Environmentalism in Northern Australia (University of Hawaii Press, 2017).
Kyle Powys Whyte
Timnick Chair in the Humanities. Associate Proefssor of Philosophy and Community Sustainability. Michigan State University
Climate change activism and scientific assessments often emphasize that humans must grasp the urgency of taking swift and decisive actions to address an environmental crisis. Yet many such conceptions of urgency obscure the factors that Indigenous peoples have called out as the most pressing concerns about climate justice. This obfuscation explains, in part, why climate change advocacy remains largely unrelated to Indigenous efforts to achieve justice and engage in decolonial actions. Whyte shows why a politics of urgency can be based in assumptions about the relationship among time (temporality) and environmental change that are antithetical to allyship with Indigneous peoples and, ultimately, climate justice.
Kyle Whyte is a professor in the departments of Philosophy and Community Sustainability and holds the Timnick Chair in the Humanities at Michigan State University. His work focuses on environmental justice, especially climate change issues that Indigenous peoples face in planning, policy, science, and activism. He is a Potawatomi and an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
Arboretum Tour with Rick Flores, who is the curator of the California Native Plant Collection and the associate of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust.
Program Day 1:
9:30am – Mingling and continental breakfast
10:00am – Conference Welcome
10:15am – Valentin Lopez
15 minute break
11:15am – Zoe Todd
12:45pm – Lunch
2:00pm – Kyle Powys Whyte
3:30pm – Conclusion
Program Day 2

For more information including directions and parking please visit:
https://feministstudies.ucsc.edu/news-events/department-news/science-conference/index.html

Ashwini Tambe: "Tropical Exceptions: Racial Logics in Twentieth Century Intergovernmental Age of Consent Debates"
2019-05-29 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Legal age standards for sexual maturity are challenging enough to devise at the state or national level, but they are especially contentious at the intergovernmental level. Efforts at setting common standards have often been marked by imperial logics on the part of those proposing common standards and misgivings on the part of those most affected. My talk traces how intergovernmental efforts at setting common age standards for sexual consent and marriage occasioned elaborate posturing and coding of racial difference. In the two cases I discuss —League of Nations conventions on trafficking in the 1920s and United Nations conventions on marriage in the 1950s— I show how the proceedings staged contests between competing imperialisms and foregrounded moral differences between parts of the world. In effect, seemingly neutral age categories became a means to express geopolitical hierarchies and undercut formal liberal relationships of equivalence.
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.

Ashwini Tambe studies how societies regulate sexual practices. Ashwini Tambe is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland-College Park and affiliate faculty in the History department and Asian American Studies program. She is also the editorial director of Feminist Studies, the oldest US journal of feminist interdisciplinary scholarship. Her interests include transnational feminist theory, modern South Asian history, and sexuality studies. Her previous books are Codes of Misconduct:Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay (2009, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press/New Delhi: Zubaan) and The Limits of Colonial Control in South Asia: Spaces of Disorder in the Indian Ocean (2008, London: Routledge) coedited with Harald Fischer-Tiné. Her recent articles have spanned topics such as population and age of marriage (Women’s Studies International Forum 2014), climatology in scientific racism (Theory, Culture and Society, 2011), interdisciplinary approaches to feminist state theory (Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2010), economic liberalization and sexual liberalism in contemporary India (Economic and Political Weekly, 2010), and the long record of transnational approaches in feminist scholarship (New Global Studies, 2010). Her current work, supported by SSHRC and NEH grants, examines the legal paradoxes in age standards for sexual consent in India; her forthcoming book on the subject is Defining Girlhood in India: A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws (2019, University of Illinois Press). She is also co-editing a volume on the history and future of transnational feminist theory with Millie Thayer titled Transnational Feminist Itineraries.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Katie Ligmond
2019-05-24 12:30 - 13:45 | Humanities 1, Room 420, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Outcrop of Blue Rocks: Andean Animacy as Illustrated by Guaman Poma
Andeanists have cultivated an obsession with the illustrations and writing of Guaman Poma, and with good reason. There are only three truly illuminated manuscript to come out of Colonial Peru, a scat account in comparison with the plethora from Mexico. Guaman Poma is one of very few Indigenous Peruvian voices that exist in the literary record, and as we have pored over his words and line drawings, very few of us have focused on color. This paper analyzes the use of the color blue in the Galvin Murúa, as it diplicts the rocks as animate, similarly to water, and exists as a hidden code to Indigenous readers of this work.
Katie Ligmond is a second year PhD student in the History of Art and Visual Culture. Her work focuses on the empires of the Andes, including the Warm. Inka, and Spanish imperial forces with a focus on their gendered dynamics and the maintenance of ethic identities.
Friday Forum for Graduate Research is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the following departments HAVC, Literature, History of Consciousness, Psychology, and Education. It is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities.
For questions email: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

Living Writers: Student Readings
2019-05-23 17:30 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Students will be reading from their own work.
Please stay tuned for more information.
Co-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, The Bay Tree Bookstore, The Humanities Institute, The American Indian Resource Center, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center.

Veda Popovici-History Does (Not) Repeat Itself: Speculative Histories of Post-Revolutionary Romania
2019-05-23 17:00 - 18:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Veda Popovici’s work explores the limits of political imagination. In this talk, she presents her latest political art project: a mapping of collective dreams and desires of revolutionary events in the context of post-1989 Romania. Laying out seven radical future pasts, these are stories that could have been, but never happened…feminist unions, Eastern European migrants antifascist organizing, anticapitalist campaigns, solidarity movements between students and coal miners.
Based in Bucharest, Veda Popovici holds a PhD in Art History and Theory from the National University of Art.

The Twentieth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
2019-05-23 09:30 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM
Friends and family are welcome. Come for any part or all of the day.
Opening Remarks 9:30 a.m.
Professor Sean Keilen Director, Literature Undergraduate Program
Panel One: Creative Writing
9:45 – 10:45 a.m.
Moderator: Professor Micah Perks
Mary Miki Arlen, La chanson de Lancelot (et Roland)
Rosa Scupine, How should I remember my grandfather?
Tomas Tedsesco, You ask, “who lives in you?”
Amanda Vong, Body of Water
Holly Voorsanger, Speculative Memoir: Love or Drug?
Panel Two: Literature and Empire
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Moderator: Professor Martin Devecka
Aspen Adams, Inescapable Pasts: Screen Memories and Sublimation in the Nuclear Age
Ryan McElroy, Nuclear Savage’s Questionable Heart: Replicated Genocidal Imagery in a White Savior Narrative
Jessica Parra Moya, Reclamando y Desmantelando La Figura De La Malinche Con Las Herramientas Del Patrón
LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE PRIZES-12:00 – 12:45 p.m.
Professor Carla Freccero Chair, Literature Department
* FREE * LUNCH BUFFET
Panel Three: Literature and Other Arts
12:45 – 1:45 p.m.
Moderator: Professor H. Marshall Leicester, Jr.
Emily Caballero, Kyle Baker’s Nat Turner: Guttered White Violence in the Shadows of Death
Zoe Hildebrand, Theory of The Influencer
Daniel Sachs, Rules of the Boys’ Club: Postmodern Horror Films and the Allegory of the Female Director
Panel Four: Encounters with the Novel
2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Moderator: Professor Chris Connery
Luan Gondim de Alencastro, Complacency in the Absurd: A Study of Metatextuality in As Memorias Postumas de Bras Cubas
Maxwell Shukuya, Emptiness and the Contemporary Novel Under Neoliberalism
Emanuel Trujillo, Finding Adan
Panel Five: Shakespeare’s Late Plays
3:15 – 4:00 p.m.
Moderator: Professor Sean Keilen
Stephanie Bolduc, Forgiveness and Control in The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest
Cynthia Gonzalez, Anger and Forgiveness in The Tempest and Cymbeline
Concluding Remarks 4:00 p.m.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. ALL ARE INVITED!
For more information: literature.ucsc.edu | (831) 459-4778 | litdept@ucsc.edu

My Own Words: The Law & Legacy of RBG
2019-05-22 19:00 - 21:00 | DNA Comedy Lab, 155 S. River St., Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
In anticipation of Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music’s upcoming premiere of a major new work inspired by the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg- When There Are Nine by composer Kristin Kuster The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, Cabrillo Festival, and Bookshop Santa Cruz have come together to present a panel discussion and Community Read kickoff event.
UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor and feminist activist Bettina Aptheker will moderate a conversation with Judge Syda Cogliati, Attorney Anna M. Penrose-Levig, and Attorney Jessica Delgado about the significant cases and opinions Justice Ginsburg has championed over the course of her career and the impact she has had on women’s equality, civil liberties, and racial justice under the law.
Read the Santa Cruz Good Times Coverage if this event here.
Bettina Aptheker: A scholar of history with a national reputation for her talents as an instructor, Bettina Aptheker taught one of the country’s largest and most influential introductory feminist studies courses for nearly three decades at UC Santa Cruz. Starting out in 1980 as the sole lecturer in the Women’s Studies Department, she became the department’s first ladder-rank faculty member in 1987, and was honored with the Alumni Association’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2001. Aptheker’s 2006 book, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech and Became A Feminist Rebel, tells the fascinating story of her life. Described by the Chronicle of Higher Education as a “stunning memoir,” it traces her role in major historical and political events ranging from her co-leadership of the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, the movement against the war in Vietnam, and the trial of Angela Davis, to the building of the Women’s Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz.
Judge Syda Cogliati graduated from UC Santa Cruz and UC Hastings College of the Law and has been a member of the State Bar of California since 1994. She served as a senior appellate research attorney at the Sixth District Court of Appeal before being elected to the Santa Cruz Superior Court bench in 2018.

Anna M. Penrose-Levig is an associate attorney at the law firm of Penrose Chun & Gorman LLP in Santa Cruz. Ms. Penrose-Levig has been practicing law since 2003, is admitted to practice in California and Nevada, and is currently serving on the Board of the Women Lawyers of Santa Cruz County.

Jessica Delgado graduated from UCSC (Merrill, Politics) and Berkeley Law. She is a career public defender currently assigned to the Homicide Division at the Santa Clara County Alternate Defender where she specializes in capital litigation.

Read more about the panelists: https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/RBG
This event is sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, and the Cabrillo Festival. With co-sponsorships from The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation for Feminist Studies, Women Lawyers of Santa Cruz County, and UC Presidential Chair Craig Haney.

Coloquio de Spanish Studies: Shadi Rohana
2019-05-22 16:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Shadi Rohana is a Mexico City-based literary translator, translating between Arabic, Spanish and English. He has introduced and translated a number of Latin American authors from Spanish to Arabic, as well as speeches and declarations from the EZLN in Chiapas. He pursued Latin American Studies in the United States (Swarthmore College) and Mexico (UNAM), and is currently a full-time faculty member at the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México, where he teaches Arabic language and literature. The Arabic translation of José Emilio Pacheco’s Las batallas en el desierto (Palestine, 2016) was his first novel-length work.

Balancing Fair Use and Student Access in Selecting Course Texts: A Workshop for Instructors
2019-05-22 14:00 - 15:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
About the workshop: Understanding how to balance equitable access to course texts with our ethical and legal responsibility to uphold the values of intellectual property can often be challenging. This workshop will help faculty navigate the complexities of copyright and fair use and focus on best practices and resources for choosing course texts for our Humanities classrooms. Faculty will come away with a better understanding of how to protect themselves while at the same time lowering textbook cost for their students.
All faculty instructors (Senate and non-Senate) are strongly encouraged to attend this workshop. Graduate student teaching fellows and associate-ins are also welcome to attend.
Workshop activities will be facilitated by Phillip Longo, Lecturer in the Writing Program, and Annette Marines, Arts and Humanities Librarian at McHenry Library.
Lunch will be served
This workshop is part of a series presented by the Humanities Teaching and Learning Now project of The Humanities Institute. HT&L Now is co-facilitated by Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning and Founding Director of CITL, Jody Greene, and by CITL Associate Director for Programs, Kendra Dority
This event is co-hosted by the Humanities Division,The Humanities Institute, and the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning.
Please RSVP Judy Plummer: jplummer@ucsc.edu
Any questions about the workshop can be address to citl@ucsc.edu

Shadi Rohana: "Cervantes and the Arabs: Don Quixote in translation"
2019-05-22 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The modern Arab reader cannot be indifferent when reading a novel like Don Quixote. Through its geography, historical context, characters and language, the novel evokes to the modern reader one of the Arabs’ most splendorous historical episodes: Al Andalus. This talk traces the Arab and Andalusian presence in Cervantes’ Don Quixote from 1605, and how this presence was later translated into modern Arabic during the 20th century. The talk will also discuss the reception of Don Quixote in varios Arabic speaking contexts.
Shadi Rohana is a Mexico City-based literary translator, translating between Arabic, Spanish and English. He has introduced and translated a number of Latin American authors from Spanish to Arabic, as well as speeches and declarations from the EZLN in Chiapas. He pursued Latin American Studies in the United States (Swarthmore College) and Mexico (UNAM), and is currently a full-time faculty member at the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México, where he teaches Arabic language and literature. The Arabic translation of José Emilio Pacheco’s Las batallas en el desierto (Palestine, 2016) was his first novel-length worth
Spanish:
“Cervantes y los árabes: Las traducciones del Quijote al árabe”
Shadi Rohana es traductor literario y profesor de tiempo completo en el Centro de Estudios de Asia y África de El Colegio de México. Traduce entre el árabe, español e inglés. Ha introducido a la lengua árabe a varios escritores latinoamericanos, así como los comunicados del EZLN en Chiapas. Cursó Estudios Latinoamericanos en los Estados Unidos (Swarthmore College) y México (UNAM). Es traductor al árabe de la novela mexicana Las batallas en el desierto de José Emilio Pacheco (Palestina, 2016).
Al leer el Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes, el lector árabe no puede ser indiferente. En esta novela española del siglo XVII existe un sinnúmero de referencias a la presencia árabe-islámica en la Península ibérica: la geografía, arabismos, moriscos, guerra contra los otomanos, y personajes que hablan en lengua árabe. Dicha presencia es conocida por los árabes como “Al Ándalus”: un territorio y cultura que se extendió, de forma cambiante, en la Península ibérica desde el año 711 hasta la caída de Granada/Ghurnaata en 1492. ¿De qué manera en nuestros días los árabes han leído, interpretado y traducido aquella presencia de Al Ándalus en el Quijote? Abordaré esta cuestión narrando la historia de las traducciones del Quijote al árabe moderno, así como la recepción de la novela y sus personajes en varios contextos de habla árabe.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Faculty Ethics Bowl: Ethics and the Far Future
2019-05-20 | University Center, University Center‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
What role should thinking about the far future—1,000 years ahead and more—play in research on campus? Faculty at UC Santa Cruz have widely divergent views on this question and it’s something the administration needs to decide on soon. Some say we should allocate significant resources; others say very little. This will be the focus of UC Santa Cruz’s first Faculty Ethics Bowl.
But the key here is the Ethics Bowl format. Ethics Bowl is very different from traditional debate. Teams are not automatically pitted against one another, and are docked for using rhetoric, spin, aggression, and clever rationalization. Rather, teams are scored on the basis of active listening, flexibility, collaboration, and analytical rigor–critical ingredients for meaningful discussion on difficult topics.
This event is free and open to the public, no RSVP required.
Team 1: Team 2:

Anthony Aguirre Pranav Anand
Physics Linguistics

Sandra Faber Sylvanna Falcón
Astronomy & Astrophysics Latin American and Latino Studies

David Haussler Nico Orlandi
The Genomics Institute Philosophy

Led by Associate Professor of Philosophy Jon Ellis, in conjunction with the Center for Public Philosophy and The Humanities Institute.

The 19th Season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP XIX)
2019-05-19 20:00, 2019-05-18 20:00, 2019-05-17 20:00 | Stevenson Event Center
Cowell College, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 19th season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XIX), May 17, 18, and 19, at 8:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center at UCSC. The program of fully-staged multilingual theater pieces in Chinese, French, Japanese, and Spanish, with English supertitles, will be performed by Language students and directed by their instructors. There is no admission charge; parking in adjacent lots is $5.00.
This year’s presentation in Japanese will consist of Tales of the Service Industry, comprised of three vignettes by the comic duo of Sandwichman and Un-Jash, directed by Sakae Fujita and her students. Spanish will offer a work by the Chilean playwright, Sergio Vodanovic, El delental blanco (The White Apron), with Carolina Castillo-Trelles directing. Chinese will present Butterfly Lovers, inspired by a Chinese folktale, directed by Ting-Ting Wu, and adapted by her students. French will be represented by On fait le marché avec Papa (Shopping with Papa), a glimpse at adult life through the eyes of a small boy, from Les aventures du petit Nicholas (The Adventures of little Nicholas), by Gocinny and Sempé, Renée Cailloux, who adapted the work for the stage, and Miriam Ellis, will direct.
French
On fait le marché avec Papa (Shopping with Papa)
From The Adventures of little Nicholas
By Gocinny and Sempé Adapted by Renée Cailloux
Directed by Miriam Ellis and Renée Cailloux
Japanese
サービス業カタログ (Anything for You, Dear Customer!)
Based on vignettes by Japanese comic duos
Directed by Sakae Fujita and her students
Spanish
El delantal blanco (The White Apron)
By Sergio Vodanović
Directed by Carolina Castillo-Trelles
Chinese
梁祝 (Butterfly Lovers)
Inspired by a Chinese folktale
Adapted by Ting Ting Wu’s students
Directed by Ting Ting Wu
Over the years, our multilingual theater presentations have attracted loyal audiences, who look forward to hearing their native or acquired languages in this unusual format, and we cordially invite the community to attend.
For more information, please contact Lisa Leslie (lmhunter@ucsc.edu).

Nido de Lenguas: Pop-Up at the Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza
2019-05-19 09:00 - 17:00 | San Lorenzo Park, Santa Cruz
Learn about the indigenous languages of Oaxaca at Nido de Lenguas: Pop-Up, taking place at the 13th Annual Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza. The Pop-Up will feature fun and exciting activities where anybody can directly experience the beauty and value of Oaxacan languages. The Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza is a cultural festival sponsored by Senderos, featuring food, music, dance, and crafts, much like a traditional fiesta in Mexico.

Norman O. Brown Conference: Into the Future, Day 2
2019-05-18 09:00 - 19:00 | Page Smith Library
Day 1 Information
A weekend of presentation, reflection, and inquiry addressing the work and life of Norman O. Brown. From poetics to politics, theology to pedagogy, utopia to apocalypse: scholars from around the country will meet to engage Brown’s long shadow. Amidst the landscapes he traversed incessantly, we can gauge the importance of Norman O. Brown for the 21st century.

Saturday, May 18th
9:00 – 9:30. Breakfast / coffee
9:30 – 11:30. “There is Only Poetry: Form and Possibility in the Brownian Imagination”
11:30 – 1:30. Lunch / visit to the Norman O. Brown archival display
1:30 – 3:30. “Utopia and/or Revolution: Radicalism, Counterculture, Arts”
3:30 – 4:00. Break / coffee
4:00 – 6:00. “Closing Time: A Roundtable on Brown’s Life and Legacy”
7:00 – Onward. Reception and dinner for participants and friends
*
There is Only Poetry: Form and Possibility in the Brownian Imagination
Matthew O’Malley, moderator
Jay Cantor, “On Love’s Body”
Michael Davidson, “The Double Agent: Norman O. Brown / Robert Duncan”
Andrew Schelling, “Nobby, or Metamorphosis”
Daniel Tiffany, “Diction and the Prophetic Voice”
Rob Wilson, “‘Transfiguration’ as a World-Making Poetics”
Utopia and/or Revolution: Radicalism, Counterculture, Arts
Johanna Isaacson, moderator
Rebecca Herzig, “Alma Mater”
Stuart Kendall, “Fearless Majesty: Norman O. Brown’s Dionysian Vision”
Jed Rasula, “Norman O. Brown’s Poetics”
Stephen Carter, “Politics, Metapolitics, and Depoliticization: History and Archetype in the Work of Norman O. Brown”
Jonathan Beecher, “Exchanges with Nobby: Fourier, Faust, Palingenesis”
Gary Miles, “A Naif’s View from the Trenches”
Closing Time: A Roundtable on Brown’s Life and Legacy
Isaac Blacksin, moderator
Nor Hall on pedagogy
Jim Clifford on metamorphosis
Bob Meister on chance
Jerome Neu on Freud
Chris Connery on liberation
*
Sponsored by Cowell College, the Humanities Institute, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, and the History of Consciousness department.

Norman O. Brown Conference: Into the Future, Day 1
2019-05-17 15:00 - 19:00 | Page Smith Library
A weekend of presentation, reflection, and inquiry addressing the work and life of Norman O. Brown. From poetics to politics, theology to pedagogy, utopia to apocalypse: scholars from around the country will meet to engage Brown’s long shadow. Amidst the landscapes he traversed incessantly, we can gauge the importance of Norman O. Brown for the 21st century.

Friday, May 17th
3:00 – 3:30. Opening remarks
3:30 – 4:45. “The Return of the Gods: Brown’s Prophetic Tradition,” part 1
4:45 – 5:00. Break / coffee
5:00 – 6:15. “The Return of the Gods: Brown’s Prophetic Tradition,” part 2
6:15 – 6:30. Film screening, Garden
6:30 – 9:00. Reception and dinner for participants and friends
*
The Return of the Gods: Brown’s Prophetic Tradition
part 1:
Asad Haider, moderator
Thomas Marshall, “Whaddayou Mean “ςπουδαιογελοιον”?: Nabi’s Last Study”
Martin Devecka, “Variae inludunt pestes: Learning and Labor in the Georgics”
Barry Katz, “Opening Time, Closing Time: A Journey from Hermes and Hesiod to Vico and Joyce”
part 2:
Jack Davies, moderator
Edmund Burke, “Prophecy & Apocalypse in the Irano-Semitic Tradition: Norman O. Brown & Marshall Hodgson”
G.S. Sahota, “Identifying Khizr: On the Paths of Goethe and Iqbal”

Day 2 Information
Sponsored by Cowell College, the Humanities Institute, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, and the History of Consciousness department.

PhD+ Workshop Series: Writing for Graduate School and Beyond
2019-05-17 11:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Workshop with Eric Hayot (Penn State)
Why is writing so hard? Can It be easier? Possibly, Eric Hayot argues. But answering these questions well also asks us to think about the place of writing in humanities scholarship, and the ways in which our institutional patterns and structures, and our daily and psychological ones, shape what we mean when we say “writing,” and we think, finally, that writing is for.

About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.
Lunch will be served.
Please RSVP below:
Loading…

Monterey Bay Applied Linguistics Symposium
2019-05-17 09:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Symposium Program
9:00AM- Opening Remarks: Bryan Donaldson, Mark Amengual, Kimberly Adilia Helmer
9:30-10:00 – Thor Sawin (Middlebury Institute of International Studies): From Serial Monolingualism to Polylingualism in the Field: Policy and Perspective Challenges in a Large NGO
10:00-10:30 – John Hedgcock (Middlebury Institute of International Studies): Obstacles and Opportunities in Cultivating Teacher Language Awareness
10:30-11:00 – Jason Martel (Middlebury Institute of International Studies): Enacting an Identity Approach in Language Teacher Education
11:00-11:30 – Netta Avineri (Middlebury Institute of International Studies): Language and Social Justice in Practice: From Classroom Activities to Collaborative Advocacy
11:30-1:30 – Lunch break
1:30-2:00 – Laura Callahan (Santa Clara University): Symbolic Uses of Spanish in U.S. Film and Newspaper
2:00-2:30 – Rebecca Pozzi (California State University Monterey Bay), Chelsea Escalante (University of Wyoming) and Tracy Quan (University of Delaware): The Meta-Pragmatic Awareness of Heritage Speakers Studying Abroad in a Non-Heritage Country
2:30-3:00 – Avizia Long (San Jose State University): Intervocalic Rhotic Pronunciation by Korean Learners of Spanish
3:00-3:30 – Ala Simonchyk (Defense Language Institute): Down the Rabbit Hole: From Separate Categories in Production to Fuzzy Phonolexical Representations in L2
3:30-4:00 – Coffee/Tea break
4:00-4:30 – Magdalena Romera & Gorka Elordieta (University of California, Santa Cruz): The Falling Intonational Contours of Polar Interrogatives in Basque Spanish and Their Correlation With Language Attitudes and Degree of Contact with Basque.
4:30-5:00 – Stephen Fafulas (University of California, Santa Cruz): Cross-linguistic Variation of Simple Present and Present Progressive Forms
5:00-5:30 – Don Miller (University of California, Santa Cruz): Beyond Coverage-Based Evidence of Word List Reliability
5:30-6:00 – Bryan Donaldson (University of California, Santa Cruz): Word Order and Discourse Structure in Early Old French: Clitic Position in Coordinated Declaratives 6:00- Closing Business Meeting and visit to Humble Sea Brewery
Speaker Bios:
Netta Avineri is TESOL/TFL Associate Professor andIntercultural Competence Committee Chair atthe Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS). She is the Middlebury Social Impact Corps Scholars Program Director, co-founded the MIIS Intercultural Digital Storytelling Project, and teaches Service Learning and Teacher Education courses at CSU Monterey Bay. Netta is an applied linguist and linguistic anthropologist who teaches education, intercultural competence, applied linguistics, research methods, and service-learning courses. Her research interests include language and social justice, critical service-learning, interculturality, and heritage and endangered language socialization. Netta’s individual and collaborative research has been published in various media outlets, academic journals, and books. Netta’s book Research Methods for Language Teaching: Inquiry, Process, and Synthesis was published in 2017 and she is one of the five co-editors of the 2019 volume Language and Social Justice in Practice. Netta is also the American Association for Applied Linguistics Public Affairs and Engagement Committee Chair.
Laura Callahan, formerly Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at The City College and Graduate Center-CUNY, currently teaches courses in Spanish language and linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Santa Clara University. Her areas of interest are: codeswitching; language, race, and identity; intercultural communication; heritage language maintenance; and linguistic landscapes. Recent publications have appeared in Spanish in Context, Heritage Language Journal, and L2 Spanish Pragmatics: From Research to Teaching.
Bryan Donaldson (PhD, Indiana University) is an Associate Professor of French and Applied Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz, where he currently serves as Chair of the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics. His research focuses on word order and discourse structure in the acquisition of French as a second language (L2) and in Old French and Old Occitan. In second language acquisition, his work primarily examines the highest levels of L2 attainment and has shown that near- native speakers frequently converge on native speaker performance benchmarks, for example in their use of pragmatically marked word orders and variable structures. In Old French and Old Occitan, he has examined the interplay between word order, discourse structure, and diachronic change. He has published in venues such as Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Learning, Lingua, Applied Psycholinguistics, Journal of Linguistics, andCanadian Journal of Linguistics.
Gorka Elordieta (PhD, University of Southern California, 1997) is a Linguistics professor in the Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). During the 2018-2019 academic year he is a Visiting Research Associate and Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics of the University of California, Santa Cruz. His area of specialization is phonology, more concretely prosody, intonation and the interface of phonology with syntax. He has been the principal investigator of a number of research grants in linguistics, and has published articles in journals such as Phonology, Language and Speech, Journal of the International Phonetic Association or The Linguistic Review and in volumes of Oxford University Press, John Benjamins and Mouton de Gruyter.
Stephen Fafulas is Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi and director of the Study of Communities, Involvement & Outreach and Linguistics (SoCIOLing) Laboratory. Currently, he is conducting research on U.S. Spanish and teaching as a Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research incorporates work on Spanish, English, and Brazilian Portuguese as well as indigenous languages, such as Yagua, which is featured in his forthcoming volume Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution. When not in the classroom or lab, you are likely to find him with his family, at the martial arts academy, or at a local coffee shop.
A Professor of Applied Linguistics, John Hedgcock currently teaches in the MATESOL and MATFL Programs at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS). His recent research has focused on literacy development, genre-oriented literacy instruction, the socialization of foreign- and heritage-language learners in classroom settings, and language teacher preparation. He is the co-author of Teaching Readers of English and Teaching L2 Composition. His other publications have appeared in the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Applied Language Learning, and a number of edited volumes.
Jason Martel is an Associate Professor of TESOL/TFL at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, where he teaches courses on foreign/second language pedagogy and directs the Summer Intensive Language Program (SILP). He is an active member of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) and the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), for which he currently serves as Chair of the Teacher Development Special Interest Group. Along with Francis Troyan and Laurent Cammarata, he is a co-recipient of the 2017 Stephen A. Freeman Award for Best Published Article, conferred by the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL). His publications can be found Foreign Language Annals, Journal of Applied Language Learning, and the French Review.
Avizia Long (Ph.D. Indiana University) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at San José State University. Her research interests include variation in second language Spanish, the acquisition of Spanish by non- English-speaking learners, second language Spanish pronunciation, and pronunciation in task-based language learning and teaching. She is co- author of Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition: Learning to Use Language in Context (Routledge, 2014), and she has published research in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, Hispania, and several edited volumes.
Rebecca Pozzi (Ph.D., University of California, Davis) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish Language and Linguistics at California State University, Monterey Bay, where she coordinates Lower Division Spanish, including the Heritage Language Program, and teaches courses in Spanish language, linguistics, and applied linguistics. Her research focuses on second and heritage language development, sociolinguistics, study abroad, language pedagogy, language policy, and language technology. She has published in journals including Hispania and The CATESOL Journal and in edited volumes from Routledge and Multilingual Matters.
Ala Simonchykis Assistant Professor of Russian at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA. Her research interests focus on pronunciation instruction, experimental phonetics, and second language speech processing, specifically on how various domains, such as perception, production, lexical encoding and orthography interact with each other in the acquisition of L2 phonologies.

Don Miller is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he teaches courses on second language acquisition, L2 teaching, and research in Applied Linguistics. His research interests focus on corpus- based approaches to examining academic vocabulary in published and learner writing. His work has appeared in the Journal of Second Language Writing, the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, and the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics.
Magdalena Romera (PhD, University of Southern California, 2001) is a professor of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Humanities and Education Sciences at the Public University of Navarre (Spain) and Visiting Research Associate at the Languages and Applied Linguistics Department at UC Santa Cruz for the current academic year. She has also been the Director of the Catedra de Patrimonio Inmaterial de Navarra for the past three years. Her research interests include Language Variation, Language Contact and Discourse Analysis. She has participated in several research grants in her areas of expertise, and has published articles in prestigious journals such as Linguistics, International Journal of the Sociology of Language and Discourse and Society.
Thor Sawin is an Associate Professor in the Masters of Teaching Foreign Languages/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages program at Middlebury Language Schools. His research and teaching interests focus mainly on technology in language instruction, grammar pedagogy, and multilingualism in social impact settings. He also does consultancy on language policy and language acquisition support for several multinational organizations. His recent publications have appeared in Reconsidering Development, Journal of Language, Identity and Education, and the CALICO Journal, and he has authored chapters in several volumes published by Multilingual Matters and Cambridge, as well as several field guides and reference articles.
Abstracts:
From Serial Monolingualism to Polylingualism in the Field: Policy and Perspective Challenges in a Large NGO
Thor Sawin (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)
Western NGOs, in their trainings and policy documents, often display language ideologies honed by years of their personnel’s formal language education. These tend to naturalize the so-called Herderian triad (one language, one people, one territory) by enforcing clear distinctions between reified language-as-systems supported by the tentpole of official written standards. Such ideologies endure even when NGO workers’ host communities are complexly multi- and translingual. This paper examines what did and did not shift in language ideology of NGO staff working with indigenous and displaced minority populations across the Middle East, and the process of crafting new language policies. The NGO, previously committed to rigidly serial language acquisition, contacted the author for training on translingual practice. The needs of the organization favor a language-as-mobile-resource approach and contact zone orientation (Harrison, 2007; Blommaert, 2010; Canagarajah, 2017). Data from the participant-authored blogposts before and conversations during the five-day training revealed narratives of vision and blindness, and also of freedom through admitting that the language practices of their hosts were less separable and nameable than their training acknowledged. Resistance centered on felt implausibility of learning “more than one language” –a parallelism refuted by neurological and sociolinguistic research. Unless Western ideologies of language are adapted to the language life ways connecting rural-traditional and urban-migrant spaces, organizations serving, multilingual minority populations may ironically risk reinforcing nationalistic views through their policies on language acquisition (Ndhlovu, 2018).
Obstacles and Opportunities in Cultivating Teacher Language Awareness
John Hedgcock (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)
In a connected, digitized world, language teacher education must prepare teacher candidates to function in a dynamic world of work and communication. Drawing on critical incidents from a U.S. teacher preparation program, the presenter will explore three obstacles to building teachers’ language awareness. These challenges include: (1) cultivating understanding of the naturalness of linguistic variation; (2) promoting the uptake of teaching skills; and (3) nurturing the ability to use and transform the language and genres of skilled educators. Reflecting on his work with developing teachers, the presenter will share field-tested strategies and interventions designed to convert these obstacles into opportunities.
Enacting an Identity Approach in Language Teacher Education
Jason Martel (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)
Scholars have called for an identity approach to language teacher education, which involves employing identity as a lens for helping teacher candidates take ownership over their professional development and assert agency in becoming the types of language teachers they aspire to be. Although previous studies have examined specific identity-oriented tools used in language teacher preparation programs, none has yet addressed a course in which a focus on identity is integrated throughout all assigned activities. The present study thus addresses the experiences of language teacher candidates enrolled in an identity-oriented capstone practicum course as part of a TESOL/TFL master’s degree program. Data were mined from course activities (e.g., teaching journals, post-observation conferences), as well as two additional interviews. Findings include ways in which the participants not only processed identity positions they brought to the course, but also explored new positions related to their experiences during the semester.
Language and Social Justice in Practice: From Classroom Activities to Collaborative Advocacy
Netta Avineri (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)
How can applied linguists mobilize their expertise, experience, and networks to engage in social justice efforts? This talk focuses on collaborations at the intersection of language, social justice, and advocacy, highlighting how applied linguists’ participation in struggles over language are connected to broader justice struggles. First, I present my model of “nested interculturality”, a collective of dispositions and practices for ethical engagement in multilingual and intercultural interactions. Language teacher education and critical service-learning course examples will be shared. Next, I discuss various collaborations in the AAAL Public Affairs and Engagement Committee around immigration and international exchange. Last, case studies from the 2019 volume Language and Social Justice in Practice (Avineri, Graham, Johnson, Riner, and Rosa, Eds.) of collaborative advocacy efforts around the “language gap”, sports team mascot names, immigration, and the US Census will be explored. Overall, the presentation provides applied linguists with multiple avenues for impactful social justice work.
Symbolic Uses of Spanish in U.S. Film and Newspaper
Laura Callahan (Santa Clara University)
This presentation will examine the use of Spanish in U.S. English-medium films and newspapers, with data from over the past 20 years. Examples to be seen range from cases in which the objective seems to be a casual demonstration of the speaker’s power, with Spanish used as a tool to accomplish that purpose, to other instances in which the use of Spanish seems to function as a language display signaling the speaker’s claim to a Latinx identity. The corpus provides fodder for a discussion of various issues germane to the teaching of Spanish and Spanish linguistics, such as Mock Spanish, language and power, pragmatics and second language users, as well as codeswitching and other contact phenomena.
The Meta-Pragmatic Awareness of Heritage Speakers Studying Abroad in a Non-Heritage Country
Rebecca Pozzi (California State University Monterey Bay), Chelsea Escalante (University of Wyoming) and Tracy Quan (University of Delaware)
Although the number of heritage speakers (HSs) studying abroad is projected to grow in the coming years (Shively, 2018), little is known about the pragmatic choices and development of HSs in this context. This study investigates the impact of a 3-week instructional treatment related to requests, apologies, and the use of vos among three HSs of Mexican descent during study abroad (SA) in Mendoza, Argentina. A written elicitation task was used as a pre/post measure of students’ meta- pragmatic awareness and their accommodation ofvoseo. Following explicit instruction, HSs increased their meta-pragmatic awareness and their use of vos. Nevertheless, variation was observed due to individual differences and HS identities. Case studies revealed that participants’ pragmatic choices aligned with their identities, their interactions with Argentines, and their future goals. These findings suggest that these HSs benefited from explicit pragmatics instruction, increased their meta- pragmatic awareness, and made pragmatic choices that reflected their identities.
Intervocalic Rhotic Pronunciation by Korean Learners of Spanish
Avizia Long (San Jose State University)
Previous research on the second language (L2) acquisition of Spanish rhotics has focused on the tap- trill distinction in production by native English-speaking learners (e.g., Face, 2006; Major, 1986; Olsen, 2012; Reeder, 1998; Rose, 2010). There is a lack of research on rhotic pronunciation by learners who speak a non-English first language (L1), limiting the generalizability of attested findings. The present study addresses this gap in the literature by investigating the acquisition of Spanish rhotic production by adult learners whose L1 is Korean. Sixty-six adult Korean learners at four instructional levels of Spanish language study (Long, 2016) completed an oral picture book description task (dePaola, 1978) from which words containing intervocalic rhotics were extracted for acoustic analysis. This talk will present the findings of this analysis, specifically the types of productions observed for the alveolar tap /ɾ/ and trill /r/ at each instructional level sampled.
Down the Rabbit Hole: From Separate Categories in Production to Fuzzy Phonolexical Representations in L2
Ala Simonchyk (Defense Language Institute)
Previous research suggests that accurate realization of L2 phonemes is not necessarily accompanied by learners’ accuracy in other domains of phonological acquisition. The current talk will investigate whether learners who produce a challenging contrast in their L2 store words with this contrast separately in the mental lexicon. Forty American learners of Russian were evaluated on their production and lexical encoding of highly familiar Russian words with palatalization. The results suggest that learners’ ability to accurately differentiate words with the plain/palatalized contrast in production developed independently of their phonolexical representations, which appear to merge in the mental lexicon. Moreover, leaners’ performance was strongly affected by the prosodic position of the target consonants. In intervocalic position, learners made significantly fewer production mistakes than word-finally. However, they accepted a substantially greater number of nonwords with the target consonants in intervocalic position than in word-final position on a lexical encoding task.
The Falling Intonational Contours of Polar Interrogatives in Basque Spanish and Their Correlation with Language Attitudes and Degree of Contact with Basque
Magdalena Romera and Gorka Elordieta (Public University of Navarre and University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)/University of California, Santa Cruz)
The main goal of this paper is to analyse the prosodic features of Spanish varieties that are in contact with Basque in Northern Spain (Basque Country and Navarre) and to observe to what extent social factors, particularly the speakers’ attitudes towards the other language, can determine the degree of linguistic convergence (Romera and Elordieta 2013; Elordieta and Romera in press). We recorded semi-directed conversations in Spanish of a total of 36 speakers (monolingual speakers of Spanish, L1 Spanish-L2 Basque speakers, and L1 Basque-L2 Spanish speakers), in urban and rural areas in the Basque Country and Navarre. In this talk, we concentrate on information-seeking yes/no questions, which present different intonation contours in Basque and in Spanish. In Basque, yes/no questions end in a low or falling contour (cf. Elordieta and Hualde 2014), whereas in Castilian Spanish they end in a rising contour (Navarro Tomás 1918; Quilis 1981; Face 2008; Estebas-Vilaplana and Prieto 2008, 2010; Hualde and Prieto 2015, among others). Preliminary results from 24 speakers show that all of them present a majority of falling final contours in their Spanish, regardless of their knowledge of Basque. Speakers differed in their frequency of occurrence of falling contours, ranging from 66% to 100%. Interestingly, in urban populations (Bilbao and San Sebastian) a correlation was found between attitudes to Basque among monolingual and L1 Spanish speakers and the degree of prosodic convergence towards Basque found in their speech. In other words, the more positive the attitudes, the higher the degree of prosodic convergence shown (i.e. the higher the percentage of yes/no questions ending in a falling contour). Prosody is a trait that strongly identifies Basque speakers; it stands as a fundamental identifying feature. The results indicate then that the adoption of the characteristic prosody of Basque allows these speakers to be recognized as members of the Basque community. In smaller towns, however, where the degree of contact with Basque is higher, no correlation between language and ethnolinguistic attitudes and degree of convergence was found. In general, a higher percentage of final contours in yes/no questions than in the two cities were observed. We conclude that in towns where the presence of Basque in everyday life is stronger, the higher degree of contact with Basque is the main factor that can account for the higher frequency of Basque intonational features. Although this investigation is still in progress, the results obtained so far in this study of a particular aspect of Spanish intonation in contact with Basque reveal the influence of social factors in the degree of convergence between the two languages.
Cross-Linguistic Variation of Simple Present and Present Progressive Forms
Stephen Fafulas (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Accounts of tense-aspect-mood systems hold that cross-linguistically there is a small set of prototypical functions that have followed similar evolutionary paths. For example, in languages that mark progressive aspect obligatorily with the present progressive, the simple present has been edged into habitual territory. However, there are languages such as Spanish that allow for the use of simple present and present progressive forms to encode “action simultaneous with speech”. Still others, like English, show a clearer distinction between progressive and habitual form-function mapping. What is lacking in these accounts is abundant cross-linguistic empirical evidence to substantiate the claims. To address this, the current study compares the distribution of simple presents and present progressives in an oral corpus of Spanish and English to test whether these languages and forms operate as suggested in the previous literature.
Beyond Coverage-Based Evidence of Word List Reliability
Don Miller (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Over the past two decades, the greatest efforts in designing and validating corpus-based word frequency lists have gone into three areas: corpus design, item selection criteria, and coverage-based demonstrations of list robustness. Corpora are now often much larger and better balanced and, as a result, perhaps more representative than ever before; the application of additional distributional statistics allows for better targeting of items with desired distributions (e.g., Gardner & Davies, 2014); and contemporary lexical frequency lists are proving increasingly efficient, providing ever higher coverage of target texts or achieving such coverage with fewer words (e.g., Brezina & Gablasova, 2015). In this talk, I argue that researchers should go beyond coverage-based, indirect evidence of reliability in order to better understand the representativeness of corpora and the generalizability of word lists based on them.
Word Order and Discourse Structure in Early Old French: Clitic Position in Coordinated Declaratives
Bryan Donaldson (University of California, Santa Cruz)
This talk examines clitic position in coordinated declaratives in early Old French. Prior to about 1200, object and adverbial clitics are variably preverbal or postverbal in this context (Simonenko & Hirschbühler 2012), as in (1) and (2).
(1) É li poples ápluvéit de tutes parz é fud é se teneit od Absalon.
“And people came in large numbers from everywhere and were with and stood with Absalom.” (Li quatre livre des reis, Curtius, 1911: 86)
(2) Or ne fera mes plus; trop a avant alé, E pesot li que tant en aveit trespassé.
“From now on, he will not do more; he went too far, and he regretted having gone that far.” (Becket, v.
1020)
An empirical study reveals that the choice of coordinate structure, and clitic position, is
principled and reflects discourse structure. In particular, cases like (1) occur within a single discourse segment, whereas examples like (2) correspond to separate discourse segments.

Living Writers: Daniel Borzutzky
2019-05-16 17:30 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Daniel Borzutzky’s latest poetry collection is Lake Michigan (Pitt Poetry Series, 2018). He is the author of The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press), recipient of the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry. His other books include Memories of my Overdevelopment (Kenning Editions, 2015); In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy (Nightboat, 2015), and The Book of Interfering Bodies (Nightboat, 2011). His translation of Galo Ghigliotto’s Valdivia (Co-im-press) won the American Literary Translator’s Association 2017 National Translation Award. He has translated poetry collections by Chilean poets Raúl Zurita and Jaime Luis Huenún. He teaches in the English Department and Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Co-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, The Bay Tree Bookstore, The Humanities Institute, The American Indian Resource Center, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center.

David Kazanjian: “‘I am he:' Revising the Theory of Dispossession from Colonial Yucatán”
2019-05-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.

In this paper, “‘I am he:’ Revising the Theory of Dispossession from Colonial Yucatán,” I examine a legal case involving an enslaved Afro-diasporan named Juan Patricio and a Mayan woman named Fabiana Pech from turn-of-the-eighteenth-century Yucatán. The case challenges a fundamental presupposition of many contemporary theories of dispossession: namely, that the dispossessed had prior possession over that which was stolen from them by their dispossessors. Like a number of other such cases I have been examining from the 17th and 18th centuries, in this case those who were dispossessed do not make claims about prior possession. Rather, both Juan Patricio and Fabiana Pech seem to have lived dispossession outside the terms of possession as such, critiquing and countering their dispossession in ways that call for a revision of contemporary understandings of dispossession. I suggest we read the archive of a case like this for alternative theories of dispossession as well as as-yet-unrealized anti-dispossessive politics.
David Kazanjian is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD from the Rhetoric Department at the University of California, Berkeley, his M.A. in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex, and his B.A. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. His areas of specialization are transnational American literary and historical studies through the nineteenth century, Latin American studies (especially eighteenth and nineteenth-century Mexico), political philosophy, continental philosophy, colonial discourse studies, and Armenian diaspora studies. He is a member of the organizing collectives of the journal Social Text and of the Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas, and is co-director of the Tepoztlán Institute from 2017-2019. His the author of The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America (Minnesota) and The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (Duke). He has co-edited (with David L. Eng) Loss: The Politics of Mourning (California), as well as (with Shay Brawn, Bonnie Dow, Lisa Maria Hogeland, Mary Klages, Deb Meem, and Rhonda Pettit) The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume One: Seventeenth through Nineteenth Centuries (Aunt Lute Books). He is currently at work on two monographs. The first sets radical aesthetics in the contemporary Armenian diaspora against the diaspora’s melancholically nationalist understandings of genocide. The second finds anti-foundationalist critiques of dispossession in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Afro-Indigenous Atlantic.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
This event is co-sponsored by Feminist Studies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

A Book Talk and Discussion with Dr. Emily Thuma
2019-05-13 15:00 - 16:15 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Feminist Studies present:
A Book Talk and Discussion with Dr. Emily Thuma (Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies, UC Irvine):
ALL OUR TRIALS: PRISONS, POLICING, AND THE FEMINIST FIGHT TO END VIOLENCE (University of Illinois Press, 2019)
Co-Sponsored by the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies and the Department of History of Consciousness

Linguistics Colloquia: Sandy Chung
2019-05-10 13:20 - 15:00 | CA, United States
Sandy Chung (UC Santa Cruz) presents The Ingredients of Control in Chamorro.
About eight times each year, the department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world.
For more information: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

Antisemitism and the Internet: Old Hatred and New
2019-05-09 19:00 - 21:00 | CA, United States
Event Photos by Paul Schraub:
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.

As Ian Bogost noted in The Atlantic this week, recent events have shown that internet technologies facilitate the rapid spread of forms of bigotry and hatred, and the planning of violent terror attacks.
This year’s UC Santa Cruz Night at the Museum seeks to explore the relationship between these technologies and antisemitism, asking: Is there something new about antisemitism today or is it just a continuation of old images and fears? How do social media platforms create environments for the viral spread of global antisemitism?
Join Nathaniel Deutsch and Rachel Deblinger, co-directors of the Digital Jewish Studies Initiative at UC Santa Cruz, to discuss these questions and explore how scholars of antisemitism can work closely with members of the tech community to fight against this and related forms of hatred toward others.

Registration Required
Doors open at 6:30pm. Program begins at 7:00pm.
If you have disability-related needs, please contact the THI at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by May 6, 2019.
Event info:

Registration is required for entrance into this event.
Doors open at 6:30pm. Program begins at 7:00pm.
Directions to the Computer History Museum are here.

Security:

Please be aware that all attendees must pass through security to enter the event venue. Make sure to carefully review the below information to ensure your entry to the event.
There will be no in and out privileges. Once you have passed through security, if you leave the venue re-entry will not be permitted.
All bags are subject to search. Prohibited items include weapons, drugs, and knives of any kind. Anything deemed unsafe by the security team will not be permitted to enter the venue.
All bags, including briefcases, purses, luggage and diaper bags, larger than 14” x 14” x 6” are not permitted. Backpacks and hard-sided bags of any kind are also prohibited. Single-compartment drawstring bags and fashion backpack purses that are smaller than 14” x 14” x 6” are permitted.

Living Writers: Brenda Shaughnessy with Ellen Bass
2019-05-09 17:30 | Peace United Church, 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Brenda Shaughnessy earned a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MFA from Columbia University. She is the author of Interior with Sudden Joy (1999), Human Dark with Sugar (2008), winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, Our Andromeda(2012), So Much Synth (2016), and The Octopus Museum (2019). Her work has appeared in the Yale Review, the Boston Review, McSweeney’s, and Best American Poetry, among other places. Shaughnessy’s work is known for its ability to twin opposites: her poems are both playful and erotic, lyrical and funny, formal and strange. Reviewing Human Dark with Sugar, poet Cate Peebles noted that “Shaughnessy draws attention to the contradiction of being made up of so many parts while appearing to be one single body.” In the New Yorker, Hilton Als said of her book, Our Andromeda: “it further establishes Shaughnessy’s particular genius, which is utterly poetic, but essayistic in scope, encompassing ideas about astronomy, illness, bodies, the family, ‘normalcy,’ home.” Shaughnessy has received numerous honors and awards for her work, including fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute, where she was a Bunting Fellow, the Japan/U.S. Friendship Commission, and the Howard Foundation of Brown University. She has taught at universities including Columbia, the New School, Princeton, and New York University. Shaughnessy is currently an associate professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark.
Poet and teacher Ellen Bass grew up in New Jersey. She earned an MA in creative writing from Boston University, where she studied with Anne Sexton. Bass’s style is direct; she has noted, “I work to speak in a voice that is meaningful communication. Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak from me to myself and then from me to you.” Bass’s collections of poetry include Mules of Love (2002), which won the Lambda Literary Award; The Human Line (2007), named a Notable Book by the San Francisco Chronicle; and Like a Beggar (2014). She helped edit the feminist poetry anthology No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (1973).
Bass has also written works of nonfiction, including, with Laura Davis, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (1988) and Beginning to Heal: A First Book for Men and Women Who Were Sexually Abused as Children (2003, revised edition 2008). With Kate Kaufman, she wrote Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth—and Their Allies (1996). Bass’s honors and awards include a Pushcart Prize, a Pablo Neruda Prize, a Larry Levis Reading Prize, and a New Letters Literary Prize. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and she teaches in the MFA program at Pacific University. Bass lives in Santa Cruz, California.
Co-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, The Bay Tree Bookstore, The Humanities Institute, The American Indian Resource Center, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center.

Deirdre de la Cruz: "Psychic Surgery and Other Philippine Phenomena of the Global Occult"
2019-05-09 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.

In the variegated landscape of the Filipino paranormal, one phenomenon garnered worldwide attention in the last quarter of the twentieth century: psychic surgery. A form of spiritual healing in which the practitioner, or espiritista, usually male, operates on the body of the patient without anaesthesia and using only his hands, psychic surgery achieved particular renown in the United States in the 1980s when celebrity practitioners of New Age spirituality like Shirley MacLaine spoke publicly about their experience with Filipino psychic surgeons. This talk first provides a broad historical outline of the esoteric movements in the twentieth-century Philippines that culminated in the convergence of New Age spirituality and Filipino Spiritism seen in psychic surgery, paying particular attention to the axial shift from Espiritismo (the science of communication with the dead codified by French educator Allan Kardec and introduced to the Philippines at the turn of the twentieth century), to transpacific New Age movements. It then digs deep into the spectacle of healing that drew thousands of patients from around the world at a time when the Philippines was in the sway of the greatest cheat of all, Ferdinand Marcos.

Michael Vann: The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt - Empire, Disease, and Modernity In French Colonial Vietnam
2019-05-08 13:30 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt – Empire, Disease, and Modernity In French Colonial Vietnam”
The History Department Presents Michael Vann Professor of History at Sacramento State University and UCSC History graduate program alum

Banu Bargu: "Catching a Moving Train: Decolonizing Aleatory Materialism"
2019-05-08 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.

This paper analyzes Althusser’s proposal for an aleatory materialism through his engagement with historical materialism, and particularly with Marx on “primitive accumulation.” It identifies two different legacies of Marx’s reflections on the origins of capitalism and discusses how Althusser attempted to rework Marx to reach a non-teleological conception of history. At the same time, taking both thinkers to task on their approach to colonialism, and especially settler colonialism, the paper moves toward decolonizing the aleatory materialist imaginary.
Banu Bargu is associate professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a political theorist, with a focus on modern and contemporary political thought and critical theory. Bargu is the author of Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (Columbia UP, 2014), which received APSA’s First Book Prize given by the Foundations of Political Theory section and was named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice. She is the editor of Turkey’s Necropolitical Laboratory: Democracy, Violence, and Resistance (Edinburgh UP, forthcoming in 2019) and co-editor of Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique (Palgrave, 2017). Her next book, Friends of the Earth: Althusser and the Critique of Teleological Reason, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press in 2020.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

SPOT Research Cluster Workshop
2019-05-04 09:30 - 19:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.

SPOT (Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory) is part of an NSF-funded research project aiming to create a computational platform that generates prosodic structure candidate sets from syntactic (grammatical) structure in different languages. SPOT aims to deepen our understanding of the relationship between grammatical structures on the one hand, and how sentences are pronounced on the other, in a typologically diverse array of natural languages. Following the very successful SPOT 1 workshop on Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017, which led to successful funding from the NSF in 2018, we will hold a THI-sponsored SPOT 2 workshop on Saturday, May 4, 2019. Besides presenting the developments of the program since SPOT 1, the SPOT 2 workshop will also feature research talks on the Syntax-Prosody interface and Optimality Theory by invited speakers from the East Coast and Europe, as well as Bay Area researchers.
SPOT 2 Program:
9:30am – 10:00am Pre-workshop coffee and bagels
10:00am -12:00pm “SPOT: theory and analyses”
Jenny Bellik¹, Gorka Elordieta², Junko Ito¹, Nick Kalivoda¹, Armin Mester¹
(¹UC Santa Cruz, ²University of the Basque Country)
Discussant: Alan Prince (Rutgers University)
12:00pm -1:00pm Lunch (catered)
1:00pm – 2:00pm “Nested Interacting Stress Window Systems”
Naz Merchant (Eckerd College)
Discussant: Arto Anttila (Stanford University)
2:00pm – 3:00pm “Recursive phonological phrasing in Italian”
Nick Van Handel (UC Santa Cruz)
Discussant: Gorka Elordieta (University of the Basque Country)
3:00pm -3:30pm Coffee Break
3:30pm – 4:30pm “Incorporation in Crow as phonological reduction”
Chris Golston, CSUFresno
(with John Boyle, CSUFresno, & Lewis Gebhard, NEIU)
Discussant: Ryan Bennett (UC Santa Cruz)
4:30pm – 5:30pm“Big accent distribution in Stockholm Swedish”
Sara Myrberg (Lund University, Sweden)
Discussant: Nick Kalivoda (UC Santa Cruz)
5:30pm-7:30pm Dinner at the Cowell Provost House

The Carl Mark Deppe Memorial Lecture: Alex Purves
2019-05-03 16:00 - 17:00 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Carl Deppe was a charismatic young man and a promising student. In 1985 he was a sophomore at UCSC, studying Greek and ancient philosophy. While returning from a rock concert, he was killed by a drunk driver on Highway 17. His parents, George and Patricia Deppe, along with his friends, established this annual lecture series in his memory as a tribute to his interest in classical antiquity. Each spring a distinguished scholar is invited to give the Carl Mark Deppe lecture. This year’s lecuture will be given by Professor Alex Purves, UCLA
It is customary to begin each annual lecture by reading the essay Carl wrote when he applied for admission to the University of California: you can see that essay here.

Paolo Gerbaudo, The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy
2019-05-02 13:30 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Paolo Gerbaudo is the Director of the Centre for Digital Culture at King’s College, London. He is the author of Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism (2012), The Mask and the Flag: Citizenism and Global Protest (2017), and Digital Parties: Political Organization and Online Democracy (2018).
From the movements behind Bernie Sanders in the US and Jeremy Corbyn in UK, to the Pirate Parties in Northern Europe to Podemos in Spain and the 5-Star Movement in Italy, to Jean-Luc Melenchon’s presidential bid in France, the last decade has witnessed the rise of a new blueprint for political organization: the ‘digital party’. These new political formations tap into the potential of social media, and use online participatory platforms to include the rank-and-file. Drawing on interviews with key political leaders and digital organizers, Gerbaudo argues that with new structures come worrying changes in political forms, such as the growth of power cliques and the need for centralized, charismatic leaders, the erosion of intermediary party layers and the loss of accountability. However, there is also a growth of strong unity at the centre and extreme flexibility at the margins, creating a promising template which could counter the social polarization created by the Great Recession and the failures of liberal democracy.
Part of the THI Data and Democracy Initiative. Lecture co-sponsored by the Politics Department.

Nidhi Mahajan: "Moorings: Trade Networks and States in the Western Indian Ocean"
2019-05-01 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.

Sailing vessels or dhows have long connected different parts of the western Indian Ocean, transporting goods, and people across South Asia, the Middle East and East Africa. These dhows now function as an economy of arbitrage, servicing minor ports in times of conflict. This talk focuses on the contemporary dhow trade, centered in port cities such as Dubai and Sharjah that have “free trade” policies. I argue that these notions of free trade are entangled with war, conflict, and broader geopolitical concerns across the Indian Ocean region.
Nidhi Mahajan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UCSC and a principal faculty in the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program. Her works examines how vernacular Indian Ocean trade networks articulate with regional and global circuits of capital.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Jody Greene: "Radical Learning - The Heart of the UC Santa Cruz Experience"
2019-04-27 14:00 - 15:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This event will review the bold and radical educational vision of UC Santa Cruz since its inception, while introducing alumni to the innovative 21st-century approaches we are taking to ensure all students can thrive at UC Santa Cruz and leave with the tools to make change in society. We will emphasize the university’s history of active and activist pedagogy; its commitment to an education grounded in social justice; its ahead-of-the-times choice to have no grades and interdisciplinary departments; and its unique status as the only public research university in the country that was also founded as a kind of “alternative school.” The event will include prominent learning scientists as well as undergraduates working on projects related to improving student learning. Participants will give lightning talks on what it takes for students to be outstanding learners in our 21st-century university.
More info about Alumni Weekend: https://alumniweekend.ucsc.edu/

Distinguished Graduate Student Alumni Award Luncheon and Career Paths Panel
2019-04-27 11:30 - 14:15 | Stevenson Event Center
11:30am-12:50pm
Annual award luncheon for five distinguished graduate student alumni, one from each academic division.
This year’s luncheon will include a panel discussion with the five distinguished graduate student alumni honorees about their career trajectories after receiving their graduate-level degree from UCSC to their current positions of distinction, for the benefit of audience members of current and alumni graduate students.
12:50pm-2:15pm
Career Paths Panel of the five distinguished graduate student alumni honorees. Currently enrolled UCSC grad students encouraged to attend.
Click here to Register

Graduate Research Symposium Award Reception
2019-04-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Mchenry Library Second Level Terrace and South Lawn, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Come celebrate the announcement of the winners of this year’s Graduate Research Symposium.
Live music, light refreshments.
Free and open to the public

Linguistics Colloquia: Laura McPherson
2019-04-26 13:20 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Laura McPherson, is an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics program at Dartmouth College. McPherson finished her Ph.D. at UCLA in 2014, with the dissertation Replacive grammatical tone in the Dogon languages. Her primary research interests lie in phonology, morphology, and fieldwork/language documentation. She published her first reference grammar, A Grammar of Tommo So, in 2013 based on fieldwork in Mali from 2008-2012.
McPherson’s current research projects include developing an automated computational tool for tonal annotation with Emily Grabowski (ATLAS: Automated Tone Level Annotation System), analyzing the linguistic underpinnings of a xylophone surrogate language, and fieldwork on Seenku (Mande, Burkina Faso) in preparation for her next reference grammar, supported by NSF Documenting Endangered Languages.
About eight times each year, the department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world.
For More Information: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

Graduate Research Symposium
2019-04-26 13:00 - 15:30 | McHenry Library, UCSC

Living Writers: Wendy Trevino and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
2019-04-25 17:30 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Wendy Trevino is the author of Cruel Fiction (Commune Editions, 2018). She hails from the Rio Grande Valley and works as a grant writer in San Francisco, California, where she lives.Wendy Trevino was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She lives & works as a grant writer in San Francisco. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals, including Abraham Lincoln, Armed Cell, the Capilano Review, The American Reader, LIES, Macaroni Necklace, Mondo Bummer, ELDERLY, and Open House. She has published chapbooks with Perfect Lovers Press, Commune Editions and Krupskaya Books. Her chapbook Brazilian Is Not a Race was among the Poetry Foundation’s 2016 “Staff Picks,” and a bilingual edition of the chapbook – Brazilian no es una raza – was published by the feminist Mexican press Enjambre Literario in July 2018. In September 2018, her first book-length collection of poems Cruel Fiction was published by Commune Editions. In addition, Cruel Fiction was chosen by Momtaza Mehri for Artforum International’s “Best of 2018.”
Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta is an artist and doula living in California. They work sometimes with the visual, sometimes with movement, sometimes with language, sometimes all three at once. Along with Elana Chavez, they’re a founding curator of The Cantíl Reading Series, and with Chavez and Angel Dominguez, a member of La Vidx Locx, a collective of queer Latinx poets. They’ve taught movement and filmmaking to children and adults alike. Work has been exhibited and performed in Los Angeles and the Bay Area: writing has been published in a chapbook, PDF, by Solar Luxuriance; appeared in Esferas; and featured on the SBSM album JOY/RAGE. A split poetry cassette with Elaine Kahn is due out from Practical Records in 2017. The Easy Body is their first book.
Co-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, The Bay Tree Bookstore, The Humanities Institute, The American Indian Resource Center, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center.

Susanah Shaw Romney, "Unfree Intimacies: Gender and the Taking of Terraqueous Space at Batavia in the Seventeenth Century"
2019-04-25 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.

Colonization is not a one-time land grab, but rather an ongoing process of claiming space. Batavia, as the Dutch urban port city on Java in the seventeenth century was known, provides an opportunity to explore the role of gender in this unfolding process. There, the appropriation of local and regional terraqueous space relied on a simultaneous colonization of intimate space. Women of Batavia, as wives, concubines, and slaves, played an often unwilling role in the construction of empire at the intimate, local, and transoceanic scales.
Susanah Shaw Romney, Assistant Professor, earned her Ph.D. from Cornell University, where she worked with Prof. Mary Beth Norton. Her book, New Netherland Connections, is the winner of the 2014 Book Prize from the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, given annually to a first book published by a woman pertaining substantially to the subject of women and gender; the 2013 Jamestown Prize, given every two years by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture; and the 2013 Hendricks Prize, given annually by the New Netherland Institute. She is now at work on a new project looking at gender, settlement, and land claims in the seventeenth-century Dutch empire in North America, Guyana, South Africa, and Java.

Ahmed Kanna: “De-Exceptionalizing the Arab Gulf: Bringing back Class Struggle & Social Reproduction”
2019-04-24 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.

Discourses of urban knowledge professionals (architects, PR professionals, etc.) on the Arab Gulf city have framed this city as an “laboratory,” a “sci-fi” space, and generally have disconnected the space from its social and historical contexts. In this paper I argue that a Marxist or class struggle perspective can best highlight how such discourses promote imperial and capitalist class power in the Gulf. Through combining this framework with a postcolonial discursive critique and feminist scholarship on social reproduction, a class struggle perspective both moves us beyond victimization discourses of Gulf labor and highlights global patterns of capitalist accumulation. In turn, the paper shows how the Gulf is an unexceptional zone of capital accumulation with labor exploitation and social reproduction regimes continuous with, and shaped by, similar such regimes in the Global North.
Ahmed Kanna is associate professor of anthropology at University of the Pacific. He is the author of Dubai: The City as Corporation (2011, University of Minnesota Press), De-Exceptionalizing the Field (with Amelie Le Renard and Neha Vora, forthcoming, Cornell University Press), and articles in Cultural Anthropology, City, and Arab Studies Journal among others.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Counterpoints Book Launch
2019-04-17 15:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Counterpoints: Bay Area Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement
An Atlas by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project

This event will feature members of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project will be offering a preview of their new atlas manuscript, Counterpoints: Bay Area Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement, which will be released by PM Press in the spring of 2020. The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) is a data visualization, digital cartography, and multimedia collective based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The project aims to inform, empower, and activate communities impacted by housing inequity and displacement, supporting the work of collectives fighting for housing justice. By excavating and creating pertinent data, narratives, and maps, the AEMP reorients and repositions power in the community and in the hands of those who are working to restore housing equity in low-income communities and communities of color. Bringing together artists, activists, oral historians, cartographers, muralists, and more, AEMP is rooted in the idea that community-based knowledge production is essential in fighting displacement.
While AEMP has produced hundreds of online interactive maps and oral histories, numerous videos and reports, and even several murals, light projections, zines, and posters, over the last year the project has launched into a new cartographic endeavor. Counterpoints brings together dozens of artists, activists, designers, and cartographers to produce a manuscript-length series of maps, graphics, poems, and text. Content is divided into seven chapters, including: Migration and Relocation; Indigenous Geographies; Evictions and Root Shock; Public Health and Environmental Racism; Financial Speculation and Speculative Futures; Carcerality and Abolition; and Transportation, Infrastructure, and Economy. Counterpoints encompasses geographies ranging from Vallejo to Santa Cruz in an effort to tell a regional story of gentrification, particularly as it is racialized and classed. Different project members are editing and producing original visual content for each chapter, and also working with numerous new community and partners and contributors, thereby expanding the existing scope of AEMP’s work. In addition to the book, AEMP crafting online interactive content and downloadable educational material, which will be available on the PM Press and AEMP websites.

Vanessa Ogle: "'Funk Money': Decolonization and the Expansion of Tax Havens, 1950s-1960"
2019-04-17 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.

This talk explores the emergence of modern offshore tax havens as a way to reopen the history of the decades ca. 1920s-1980s. During these decades an archipelago of distinct legal spaces appeared in a world otherwise increasingly dominated by more sizable nation-states. Tax havens were particularly important among these spaces, reaching from the Channel Islands, Monaco, and Luxembourg to the Bahamas, Panama, and Singapore, among many others. The talk asks why tax havens in particular expanded significantly between ca. 1945 and 1965, and points to decolonization and colonial systems of taxation as one answer. It thus sheds light on a crucial period during which much of today’s tax avoidance industry got off the ground, with lasting implications for the rise of inequality in Europe and North America.
Vanessa Ogle received her PhD at Harvard in 2011, Assistant, was a Associate Professor in modern European history at the University of Pennsylvania, 2011-2017, and is currently an Associate Professor, modern European history, UC Berkeley, 2017-present.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Doing Scholarship in Public: Podcasts, Print Media, and the Urgency of the Humanities
2019-04-16 15:15 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
An informal conversation and open Q & A with Barry Lam about his work as a public scholar, launching a podcast, and his advice about getting started in public scholarship.

Bernard Harcourt: "The Counterrevolution Takes a New Right Turn"
2019-04-15 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.

Bernard E. Harcourt is a contemporary critical theorist and social justice advocate. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is the founding director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought at Columbia University. He is also a Directeur d’études (chaired professor) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Socialesin Paris.
Bernard Harcourt’s writings examine modes of governing in our digital age, especially in the post 9/11 period. Harcourt is the author most recently of The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens (Basic Books, 2018), where he documents our recent turn to the counterinsurgency warfare paradigm as a way of governing populations at home and abroad. He traces the birth of what he calls our “expository society” in Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age (Harvard 2015). He is the author, recently as well, of The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order (Harvard 2011), and Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience with Michael Taussig and W.J.T. Mitchell (Chicago 2013). Earlier books include Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing and Punishing in an Actuarial Age (Chicago 2007), Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy(Chicago 2005), and Illusion of Order: The False Promise Of Broken Windows Policing (Harvard 2001).
Bernard Harcourt is also an editor of the works of Michel Foucault. He recently edited the French edition of Michel Foucault’s 1972-73 lectures at the Collège de France, La Société punitive (Gallimard 2013) and the 1971-1972 lectures, Theories et institutions pénales (Gallimard 2015). He is also the editor of the new Pléiade edition of Surveiller et punirin the collected works of Foucault at Gallimard (2016). He is co-editor with Fabienne Brion of the lectures Foucault delivered at Louvain in 1981, in French and English, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice (Chicago 2014). He is currently working on Foucault’s lectures on Nietzsche for the next series of lecture publications by Gallimard/Le Seuil called Cours et Travaux.
A passionate advocate for justice, Bernard Harcourt started his legal career representing death row inmates, working with Bryan Stevenson at what is now the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama. He lived and worked in Montgomery for several years and still today continues to represent pro bono inmates sentenced to death and life imprisonment without parole. He recently resolved the case of death row inmate Doyle Hamm. He also served on human rights missions to South Africa and Guatemala, and actively challenged the Trump administration’s Muslim Ban, representing pro bono a Syrian medical resident excluded under the executive order, as well as Moseb Zeiton, a Columbia SIPA student.
This event is part of the After Neoliberalism research cluster

Linguistics Colloquia: Sandy Chung
2019-04-12 13:20 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Sandy Chung, UC Santa Cruz, is committed to the idea that lesser-studied languages have as much to contribute to syntactic theory as do languages like English, French, and Italian. These interests have shaped her research on syntactic theory and Austronesian languages. Chung began doing fieldwork on Maori, Tongan, and Samoan (all languages of the South Pacific) as an undergraduate. As a graduate student, she did fieldwork on Indonesian. Since 1977, the main empirical focus of her research has been Chamorro, a language of the Mariana Islands.
She is still (slowly) making progress on the Chamorro reference grammar Chung has been writing since 2009. Currently, she is collaborating with Dr. Elizabeth D. Rechebei, Manuel F. Borja, Tita A. Hocog, and many others in the CNMI on a revision of the Chamorro-English Dictionary. Finally, since 2011, Matt Wagers, Manuel F. Borja, and Chung have been collaborating on psycholinguistic research on Chamorro in the Mariana Islands.
For More information: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

PhD+ Workshop - The Future of the Humanities: High School Teaching and Innovative Curriculum
2019-04-12 11:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The Future of the Humanities: High School Teaching and Innovative Curriculum
with Adam Casdin (Horace Mann School, Bronx, NY)
Independent high schools, committed to the humanities and able to develop and introduce major curricular initiatives quickly, may be students last experience of a broad-based, non-professionalized education. What does the future of teaching and learning look like? Adam Casdin, trained as research scholar, has spent the last 14 years thinking about teaching and learning, most recently leading an experiential learning initiative in partnership with Royal Shakespeare Company. That program brings the plays to life in classrooms Nursery through 12th grade, reimagining the way students’ experience and interpret the works of Shakespeare.
In this open forum on education and the humanities in secondary schools, Casdin will lay out various innovations in teaching, his experience of bringing his PhD training to a prestigious high school, and then open the floor for discussion of how UCSC PhD conceive not just their subjects but how their educational approaches. Bring questions about pedagogy as well as about careers in teaching.

About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.
Lunch will be served.
Please RSVP below:
Loading…

2nd Annual Grad Student Conference: “Citizenship in Flux: Migration and Exclusion in World History, 1750-2019”
2019-04-12 08:30 - 18:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
The rise of nativist or nationalist movements in many countries and the closing of borders to migrants seeking refuge from persecution, war, and violence calls into question the world historical context of migration, borders, and political belonging. This conference queries citizenship and borders across time and region to make sense of their implications for citizens, non-citizens , subjects, refugees, and exiles in world history. We welcome broad definitions of “border,” “citizenship,” and “migration”to include boundaries that migrate even when people themselves do not, citizenships that are defined by entities other than the state, and migrations that don’t require physical movement (eg. movement among identities that can affect citizenship, like race or religion).
Graduate Student Conference hosted by: The UCSC Center for World History Program
Committee: Daniel Joesten, Muiris MacGiollabhui, Jackie Schultz, Crystal Smith
8:30–9:00 Opening Remarks, Coffee, and Pastries
9:00-10:30 Panel One: “Religion, Migration, and the Politics of Citizenship”
Chair: Crystal E. Smith

Jeffrey Turner (University of Utah) – “Polygamy, Race, and Religion in the 1891 Immigration Act”
Robin Keller (University of California, Santa Cruz) – “‘The Only Foreigners We Felt Sorry For:’ Holocaust Refugees and Border Control in World War II Shanghai”
Shimul Chowdhury (University of California, Santa Cruz) – “Stitching Solidarity: Collaborative Craft and the Muslim Identity”

10:45-12:15 Panel Two: “Identity, Family, and the State”
Chair: Jaclyn N. Schultz

Selena Moon (Independent Scholar) – “ Sexism and Racism in U.S. and Japanese Citizenship Laws ”
Emma Bellino (University of Wollongong) – “From Citizen to Alien to Citizen Again: Married Women’s Dependent Nationality in Australia, 1920-1948 ”
Karina Ruiz (University of California, Santa Cruz) – “Cleavages of the State: Legal geographies in the U.S.”

12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15- 2:45 Panel Three: “Exile and Banishment across Borders”
Chair: Muiris MacGiollabhuí

Daisy Munoz (San Francisco State University) – “Viva Reagan: Cuban Republican Partisanship in 1980 & 1984”
Kevan Aguilar (University of California, San Diego) – “‘Cárdenas was Calling Us:’ Race, Class, and Settlement in Mexican & Spanish Exile Imaginaries”
Lily Hindy (University of California, Los Angeles) – “Reconsidering Home: Syrian Refugees, Emigrés, and Exiles Confront a New National Identity”

3:00-4:15 Panel Four: “Culture, Ethnicity, and Nationalism”
Chair: Daniel Joesten

Hardeep Dhillon (Harvard University) – “‘Popularly Understood ’ : U.S. Naturalization in the Early Twentieth Century ”
Amelia Flood (St. Louis University) – “Marooned on American Shores: Migrating Between Citizen and Subject in the U.S. Virgin Islands.”
Alberto Ganis (University of California, Santa Cruz) – “Sub-State Nationalisms and the Other(s) : The Mediated Identities of Friuli”

4:30-6 Keynote
Harry Nii Koney Odamtten (Santa Clara University Associate Professor of Africa and Atlantic History) – “Edward W. Blyden: The Afropolitan Dreams of an Atlantic Denizen”
Co-sponsored by: Center for Jewish Studies, Cowell College, UCSC History Department, and our generous donors from UCSC Giving Day!

Living Writers: Roger Reeves
2019-04-11 17:30 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Roger Reeves received an M.F.A. in creative writing and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas, Austin.Roger Reeves’s poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, and Tin House, among others. Kim Addonizio selected “Kletic of Walt Whitman” for the Best New Poets 2009 anthology. He was awarded a 2013 NEA Fellowship, Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation in 2008, two Bread Loaf Scholarships, an Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and two Cave Canem Fellowships. In 2012, Reeves received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize for his poem “The Field Museum.” He is an Assistant Professor of Poetry at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and a 2014–2015 Hodder Fellow at the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University. King Me (Copper Canyon Press, 2013) is Reeves’s first book.
Co-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, The Bay Tree Bookstore, The Humanities Institute, The American Indian Resource Center, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center.

Barry Lam - Fighting the Future: The Philosophy of Predictive Algorithms in Criminal Justice
2019-04-11 15:15 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
At different stages of the criminal justice system, from policing, bail hearings, and sentencing, computerized algorithms are replacing human decision-making in determining where to police, who to arrest, who goes to jail, and who goes free. This talk will introduce people to how these algorithms work, the under-appreciated moral problems with their implementation, and how the future of criminal justice depends on decisions we make now about the risks we are willing to tolerate for public safety.
Organized by the Humanities Institute, Data and Democracy Initiative, and Center for Public Philosophy
