The Humanities Institute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The categories for acknowledgement this year are:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Are You My Data?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Student Reading
2012-06-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Fund, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Literature Department/Creative Writing Program, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, East Asian Studies Program, Bay Tree Bookstore, Latino and Latin American Studies Center, Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, El Centro, Cantu Queer Center, Chicano Latino Research Center, Stevenson College, Oakes College, and Merrill College.
Books are sold at the readings by The Bay Tree Bookstore.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Birth of a Poet: William Everson Centennial
2012-10-20 09:00 - 17:00 | Kresge Town Hall
Celebrate the centennial anniversary of the birth of one of California’s great treasures, William Everson/Brother Antoninus: teacher, shamanistic poet-in-residence at UCSC from 1970 to 1981, famed hand-press printer, advocate of an erotic, earth-based spirituality and herald of the environmental revolution.
William Everson was born in Sacramento, California in 1912 to Christian Science parents on a farm near Selma in the San Joaquin Valley. During the Depression, he attended Fresno State College, but soon dropped out to devote his life to poetry after discovering the works of Robinson Jeffers. Everson published his first book of verse, We Are the Ravens in 1935. During World War II, he declared himself a conscientious objector and was placed in a series of work camps in the Pacific Northwest, where he first learned the art of handset printing and where he also completed The Residual Years, which brought him national attention. His marriage did not survive the war.
After the war, Everson joined the San Francisco Renaissance movement of poets and anarchists surrounding Kenneth Rexroth. In 1951, following his second failed marriage, he entered the Dominican Order. Donning the traditional Dominican robe and hood, he was a colorful and widely respected figure in the Beat literary movement for nearly two decades. He took the name of Brother Antoninus, under which he became well known. In 1957, after Kenneth Rexroth‘s “San Francisco Letter” appeared in the Evergreen Review, Everson was regarded as one of the San Francisco Renaissance poets (the Beats) and he was tagged with the name of “The Beat Friar”.
In 1969, having fallen in love with his third wife, Susanna Rickson, Everson renounced his Dominican calling. Two years later he took a position at UCSC, where he taught a popular course called “Birth of a Poet” and founded the University’s Lime Kiln Press. He also established himself as an important literary theorist with the publication of Archetype West: The Pacific Coast as a Literary Region.
In 1991, Everson was honored as Artist of the Year by the Santa Cruz County Arts Commission. (Source: http://www.rooknet.net/beatpage/writers/everson.html)

Philosophy in a Multicultural Context
2012-10-20 10:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This public conference investigates the relation between philosophy and its multicultural context. Are there immutable questions and universal answers regarding knowledge, values, and reality, or is philosophical inquiry bound by history, geography, and culture? Should the philosopher be responsible to the public? Four panels of local intellectuals from Google, San Francisco State University, San José State University, Stanford, UC Santa Cruz, and University of San Francisco wish to engage with a diverse audience.
For more information, please visit the conference website: http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia-conferences/postscripts.html
Organized by Professor Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther
Support provided by the IHR; Philosophy Department; College 8; Cowell College; Merrill College; Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Impact Media Group

Affect Across the Disciplines II
2012-10-23 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Affect Studies offers new opportunities to traverse the boundaries between the humanities, social sciences, and engineering. This year’s panel features presentations by UCSC graduate students whose varying approaches to the study of “affect” demonstrate the breadth of the field and its interdisciplinary possibility.
Erin Gray (History of Consciousness): “The White Flesh of the World: Affect and Racialization”
Erin researches white supremacist visual and material culture and she is currently thinking about the relationship between lynching, the U.S. culture industry, and the development of monopoly capitalism.
Laurel Peacock (Literature): “Affect and Poetics”
Laurel is working on a dissertation on affect in contemporary feminist poetry.
Pascal Emmer (Sociology): “Talkin’ ‘Bout Meta-Generation: ACT UP History and Queer Futurity”
Pascal is interested in the nexus of affect, generation, queer activist histories and futures, oral history, and the politics of memory.
Ben Samuel (Computer Science): “Affect and Expressive Intelligence”
Ben will discuss two research projects in development at UCSC’s Expressive Intelligence Studio, which not only make use of sate of the art AI systems to model affect, but are playable media experiences which afford the user opportunities for self reflection on affect in their own lives.
Please join us for a sensorium of refreshments!
For information about the research cluster, please contact dbgould@ucsc.edu or freccero@ucsc.edu.
Staff support for this event is provided by the IHR staff.

James Clifford: "Always Coming Home: On Postcolonial (Im)possibility in California"
2012-10-24 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
James Clifford taught in UCSC’s History of Consciousness Department for 33 years and was the founding director of the Center for Cultural Studies. Clifford is currently completing Returns, a book about indigenous cultural politics that will be the third in a trilogy. The first volume, The Predicament of Culture (1988) juxtaposed essays on 20th-century ethnography, literature, and art. The second, Routes (1997) explored the dialectics of dwelling and traveling in post-modernity.
James Clifford is Professor of History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz.

World Melodrama Film Series - Nobody's Children
2012-10-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Social Sciences I, Room 110, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Nobody’s Children (1950; dir. Raffaello Matarazzo) Italy
Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu

The Living Writers Series: Cathy Park Hong
2012-10-25 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Into Archives—Across Genres is a reading/performance series featuring poets, critics, memoirists, activists, visual artists, essayists, short story writers, and novelists who mine various archives to investigate race, gender, sexuality, and class. Writing across multiple disciplines – whether via the epistle, film & photo essay, poem, story, collage or hybrid text – these authors mine history and present day experience, exploring and complicating the possibilities and features of genre in their art.
Cathy Park Hong’s first book, Translating Mo’um was published in 2002 by Hanging Loose Press. Her second collection, Dance Dance Revolution, was chosen for the Barnard Women Poets Prize and was published in 2007 by WW Norton. Her third book of poems, Engine Empire, was published in May 2012 by WW Norton. Hong is also the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She is a professor at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York.
Co-Sponsored by Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund; Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation; Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center; Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program; UC Presidential Chair Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies; Music Department; Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment; The Ethnic Resource Centers and the African American Resource & Cultural Center; Institute for Humanities Research.

Jenny Reardon: "The Post-Genomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, Knowledge after the Genome"
2012-10-31 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Jenny Reardon is currently working on a manuscript entitled The Post-Genomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, Knowledge after the Genome. This book traces the efforts to transform genomics from a fields that in the 1990s sparked fears of racism and dehumanization to one that todays claims the banners of democracy and justice.
Jenny Reardon is Associate Professor of Sociology, Faculty Affiliate in the Center for Biomolecular Sciences, Director of the Science and Justice Research Center, and the Co-Director of the Science and Justice Training Program at UC Santa Cruz.

World Melodrama Film Series - Aventurera
2012-10-31 19:00 - 21:00 | Social Sciences I, Room 110, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Aventurera (1950; dir. Alberto Gout) Mexico
Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu

Funding Database Workshop
2012-11-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Come learn how to navigate the Community of Science database to best aid your research funding explorations. This database is the best way to search and track funding opportunities that fit your exact research areas and funding needs.
1) It is easy to use. All you need is a ucsc email account to log in.
2) It contains the most comprehensive listing of funding opportunities in all fields, billions of dollars worth of funding.
3) It has RSS feeds, one of which is Humanities and Social Science Funding News.
4) The searches are sophisticated and can be customized just for you.
Please join us. You will be amazed at what’s in there.

The Living Writers Reading Series: Peter Orner
2012-11-01 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Into Archives—Across Genres is a reading/performance series featuring poets, critics, memoirists, activists, visual artists, essayists, short story writers, and novelists who mine various archives to investigate race, gender, sexuality, and class. Writing across multiple disciplines – whether via the epistle, film & photo essay, poem, story, collage or hybrid text – these authors mine history and present day experience, exploring and complicating the possibilities and features of genre in their art.
Peter Orner is the author of four books of fiction including, Love and Shame and Love, a New York Times Editor’s Choice Book, and The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, winner of the Bard Fiction Prize. His first book, Esther Stories, will be re-issued next year with a forward by Marilynne Robinson. His latest collection, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge will also be published next year. Recepient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Orner is a professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University.
Co-Sponsored by Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund; Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation; Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center; Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program; UC Presidential Chair Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies; Music Department; Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment; The Ethnic Resource Centers and the African American Resource & Cultural Center; Institute for Humanities Research.

Satyajit Ray Film Series: Pather Panchali ("Song of the Road")
2012-11-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Crown Fireside Lounge, Fireside Lounge‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Crown College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Satyajit Ray is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. The Ray Film and Study Center (RayFASC) is newly located at Crown College and holds the largest collections of Ray’s films outside of India.
Please join us for a showing of Pather Panchali (“Song of the Road”), with an introduction by Dr. Dilip Basu, Founding Director of RayFASC.

Lewis Watts: New Orleans Suite, First Friday - Curator's Walk Through
2012-11-02 14:00 - 17:00 | Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery
New Orleans Suite presents a window into the landscape of life in New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina. Vivid black and white photography exposes the contrast of devastation and humanity in such a rich sector of American jazz culture. Additionally the gallery will showcase some of Watts’ new work from Cuba, where he is continuing his photographic research
Lewis Watts is a photographer, archivist and Professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is co-author of “Harlem of the West, The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era” which consists of found photographs and oral histories of an African American Community that sprang up as a result of the migration west during WW II and that was “urban renewed” out of existence in the late 1960s. He is also the co-author with Professor Eric Porter of “New Orleans Suite” scheduled for publication by the University of California Press in 2013.
New Orleans Suite will be at the Sesnon Gallery from October 3 – November 21, 2012.
Other programming includes:
* Ongoing every Wed. eve 5-8p open mic for jazz groups, film and photography discussions
* Sunday, November 4 at 4:00pm – special weekend event featuring music from Cuba, Flor de Caña
More information available at Sesnon Gallery web site – http://art.ucsc.edu/galleries/sesnon/current

Ben Munson: "Perceived gender and fricative identification"
2012-11-02 16:00 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Two theoretical problems have stood at the core of psycholinguistic research in syntactic comprehension: (1) the resolution of local ambiguity; and (2) syntactic complexity, or the difficulty incurred in processing locally unambiguous structures. This talk describes a unified treatment of these two problems through the theory of surprisal, which proposes that comprehenders rationally deploy probabilistic knowledge to yield variability in word-by-word processing difficulty that reflects a wide range of evidential information sources. I present computational modeling and experimental studies showing how surprisal effects account for a range of both garden-path ambiguity resolution and syntactic complexity effects, and give empirical evidence for the specific quantitative relationship between subjective probability and processing difficulty — as measured by word-by-word reading times — proposed by surprisal theory. For problems of syntactic complexity I compare the predictions of surprisal theory to those of theories positing a primary role of distance-sensitive locality due to memory constraints, and present new empirical data from studies on German and Russian syntactic processing that provide evidence of both surprisal and locality effects. I close with speculation on possible ways forward toward a unified theory of probabilistic knowledge and memory constraints in incremental sentence comprehension.
Ben Munson is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at the University of Minnesota.

Laurie Palmer: "How Long I Ask You to Watch"
2012-11-07 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Laurie Palmer’s current work explores matter’s agency as it asserts itself at different speeds and scales. In the contexts of sculptural practice and public participatory projects, she asks how we might access differing temporalities to re-imagine our entanglements in the material/social world.
Laurie Palmer is Professor in the Sculptural Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Anat Gilboa: "Rembrandt's Depictions of Jewish Themes"
2012-11-07 15:30 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) is known for his vivid interpretation of themes from the Hebrew Bible. His reputation as a painter of histories, based on pictorial and literary sources, was formed early in his career. Male figures from the Bible such as Moses, Abraham or Jeremiah are represented as heroic protagonists. Female figures, essential to the Bible and the narrative of ancient Israel, are prominently depicted in various roles: as mothers and wives or lovers of patriarchs, heroes and kings. Reflecting moralistic attitudes in art of the time, Rembrandt often portrayed these women in the context of corrupting influence or precipitating fatal events. Yet in the master’s late depictions of biblical histories, we discover a deep understanding of human nature, especially noticed in his late portrayals of biblical heroines.
Dr. Anat Gilboa is an art historian, specializing in early modern art, Jewish and Israeli visual culture. She has taught at universities in Israel, Canada and the US. Her research has resulted in a book and in various publications in American and European journals and conferences.
This event is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies, with cosponsorship by the David B. Gold Foundation.

The Greatest Story Never Told (In the West): The Rāmāyaṇa and the Cultural Universe of South and Southeast Asia
2012-11-07 17:00 - 18:30 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Robert P. Goldman is the author of several key works in the fields of Sanskrit literature and Indian thought, and has recently completed the translation of the Ramayana of Valmiki. The recipient of several honors, including election as fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Goldman currently serves as editor of “South Asia Across the Disciplines,” a monograph series published jointly by the presses of Columbia University, University of Chicago, and the University of California.
Goldman will also be speaking to the undergraduate class (LIT61P) on the Valmiki-‐ Ramayana from 2-‐3:10 in Baskin Auditorium, also on November 7th.
Robert P. Goldman Professor of Sanskrit University of California, Berkeley
This public lecture is sponsored by the Departments of History, Literature, and Classics. For more information or accommodation needs, please contact G.S. Sahota at sahota@ucsc.edu.

World Melodrama Film Series - All That Heaven Allows
2012-11-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Social Sciences I, Room 110, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
All That Heaven Allows (1955; dir. Douglas Sirk) U.S
Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu

Sustaining Activism and Political Hope: Webinar with Grace Lee Boggs
2012-11-08 14:00 - 16:00 | Unnamed Venue
Anyone who wishes to attend the webinar online instead of in person, please contact Nancy Chen <nchenucsc@gmail.com> as soon as possible to reserve a spot. We will be using Google + hangouts as the webinar platform so be prepared to have a Google account. The platform is limited to 10 parties so please rsvp by November 7 for instructions.
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A legendary activist for social justice, Grace Lee Boggs—now 97 years old—has participated in social and political movements against war and on behalf of labor, civil rights, environmental justice, Black Power, Asian Americans, and women. In her writing and through her organizing, Boggs has helped to transform the lived experience of work, community and politics. Someone who perceives a vacant lot to be a space of possibility rather than an occasion for despair, Boggs has been a leader in the nationally recognized movement to construct a new kind of economy “from the ground up” in Detroit and to effect a paradigm shift there in the concept of education.
Participants in the webinar are encouraged to read Grace Lee Boggs’s book, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century (UC Press, 2011), which includes autobiographical and theoretical chapters, chapters about the economic and educational movements in Detroit, and a conversation between Grace Lee Boggs and Immanuel Wallerstein. Chapter Two of the book—“Revolution as a New Beginning”—is available here or here. Copies of the book are available at the Literary Guillotine.

The Living Writers Reading Series: Truong Tran
2012-11-08 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Into Archives—Across Genres is a reading/performance series featuring poets, critics, memoirists, activists, visual artists, essayists, short story writers, and novelists who mine various archives to investigate race, gender, sexuality, and class. Writing across multiple disciplines – whether via the epistle, film & photo essay, poem, story, collage or hybrid text – these authors mine history and present day experience, exploring and complicating the possibilities and features of genre in their art.
Truong Tran is a poet and visual artist. He is the author of five collections of poetry, and a children’s book. His work has been translated into Dutch, French, Spanish and Vietnamese. Truong recently presented both his visual and written work at the Smithsonian Gallery in Washington DC. In 2011, he was featured writer at The Poetry Festival International, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Co-Sponsored by Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund; Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation; Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center; Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program; UC Presidential Chair Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies; Music Department; Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment; The Ethnic Resource Centers and the African American Resource & Cultural Center; Institute for Humanities Research.

UC Mediterranean Studies MRP Fall Workshop: "Excavating the Past"
2012-11-09 09:00 - 16:30 | The McCune Conference Room, UCSB, 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The UC Mediterranean Studies MRP Fall Workshop, “Excavating the Past,” will feature three pre-circulated papers and a presentation by our featured scholar. All interested graduate students and scholars are welcome; pre-registration is required, and attendance is limited so please register soon. UC-affiliated scholars may register immediately, non-UC scholars on or after October 8.
Papers:
Luca Zavagno (Visiting Research Fellow, Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Center, Princeton)
“Two Hegemonies, One Island: Cyprus between the Byzantines and the Umayyads (650-850 A.D.)”
Nikki Malain (Graduate Student, History, UC Santa Barbara)
“Predators and praeda: The Logistics of Piracy in the Twelfth-century Mediterranean”
Karen R. Mathews (Research Assistant Professor, Art & Art History, University of Miami)
“Anxiety of Origins: Shifting Conceptions of the Past in Genoese Historical Chronicles and Civic Architecture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries”
Featured Scholar:
Marcus Milwright (Associate Professor of Islamic Art & Archaeology, Director of the Program in Medieval Studies at the University of Victoria)
“Archaeology and the Study of Traditional Urban Crafts in the Islamic Mediterranean.”
Marcus Milwright is a professor in the Department of History in Art, University of Victoria. He received his doctorate in 1999 from the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford. His research interests include the art and archaeology of the Islamic Middle East, labour and craft practices in the urban environment, and cross-cultural contacts in the Medieval Mediterranean. He has published two books, The Fortress of the Raven: Karak in the Middle Islamic Period (1100-1650) (Brill, 2008) and An Introduction to Islamic Archaeology (Edinburgh University Press, 2010). He is currently working on a history of the balsam gardens of Matariyya in Egypt and a study of the Umayyad mosaic inscriptions in the Dome of the Rock.

To register for the workshop and receive the draft papers, please contact Courtney Mahaney (cmahaney@ucsc.edu) at the University of California, Santa Cruz. UC-affiliated faculty and graduate students will be eligible for up to $350 for travel expenses; non-UC participants may apply but support will granted as available (and only after the workshop concludes).
The Mediterranean Seminar is an interdisciplinary scholarly forum the aim of which to promote collaborative research and the development of the field of Mediterranean Studies. The UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Project is funded by the UC Office of the President, and is administered by the Institute for Humanities Research at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
To join the Mediterranean Seminar, send your name, professional status, affiliation and fields of interest to mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org.

Tanya Luhrmann Workshop: "How the Hippie Christians Became the Religious Right"
2012-11-09 13:00 - 14:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Religious and Secular Entanglements Research Cluster hosts a workshop with Tanya Luhrmann. Participants should read her current work-in-progress, “How the Hippie Christians Became the Religious Right,” in advance. Two graduate students, Sarah Kelman and Brent Crosson, will lead the discussion. All are welcome.

"Digging up a Mediterranean Past? Archaeology and Comparative Material Culture"
2012-11-10 09:30 - 12:30 | The McCune Conference Room, UCSB, 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
A one-day conference sponsored by the UCSB Program in Medieval Studies.
The conference will feature a panel of UC Santa Barbara scholars, including John Lee, Chris Thomas, Claudio Fogu, and Fikret Yegül, discussing the archaeology of the Mediterranean, ranging from ancient Greek work to that of the Italian fascists. In the afternoon, there will be one or more sessions (TBA) with papers on topics such as early Medieval Venice, Venetian fortresses in the Morea, Ottoman pottery in the Levant, and archaeology and myth.
Full program available soon at http://medievalstudies.ucsb.edu/events.html.
To register for the conference, please contact Courtney Mahaney (cmahaney@ucsc.edu) at the University of California, Santa Cruz. UC-affiliated faculty and graduate students will be eligible for up to $350 for travel expenses; non-UC participants may apply but support will granted as available (and only after the workshop concludes).
The Mediterranean Seminar is an interdisciplinary scholarly forum the aim of which to promote collaborative research and the development of the field of Mediterranean Studies. The UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Project is funded by the UC Office of the President, and is administered by the Institute for Humanities Research at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
To join the Mediterranean Seminar, send your name, professional status, affiliation and fields of interest to mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org.

Sunaina Maira: "More Delicate Than a Flower, Yet Harder Than a Rock: Human Rights in the Shadow of an Empire"
2012-11-13 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk focuses on the political mobilization of young people targeted by the War on Terror, exploring what it means to challenge the U.S. imperial state from within and to engage in solidarity with those beyond its borders who are targets of imperial violence. It draws on an ethnographic study of South Asian, Arab, and Afghan American youth in Silicon Valley and new forms of politics and coalition-building that have emerged since 9/11 among youth who are seen as prime suspects in the domestic War on Terror. What does it mean to view the political subjecthood of South Asian, Arab, and Afghan American youth through the theoretical lenses of critical ethnic studies and work on imperialism and settler colonialism? The research demonstrates that while college-age youth often turn to the framework of civil rights and human rights in responding to regimes of surveillance and policing and opposing overseas wars and occupation, they also have to confront the failure of liberal rights-talk in particular instances of political organizing that go beyond a politics of multicultural recognition.
Sunaina Maira is Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City and Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire After 9/11. She is coeditor (with Elisabeth Soep) of Youthscapes: The Popular, the National, the Global and (with Rajini Srikanth) of Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America, which won the American Book Award in 1997. Maira has worked with various antiwar, civil rights, and immigrant rights groups in the Bay Area.
This event is organized and sponsored by the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program. Cosponsored by the University of California Center for New Racial Studies, the Division of Humanities at UCSC, and the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Katherine Dunbabin: "The Romans at Dinner: A View from Archaeology and Art"
2012-11-14 04:30 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Katherine Dunbabin is Emerita with the Department of Classics, McMaster University, and holds her degrees from Oxford University. Her areas of specialization are Roman art and mosaics, Roman dining customs, and theater and spectacle in the Roman Empire, and she has published widely on these topics. She served as the specialist on the Roman mosaics for the University of Michigan excavations at Carthage, and has also worked at a number of sites in Italy. Professor Dunbabin holds the AIA’s Norton Lectureship for 2012/2013.
Light refreshments served at 4:30 PM, talk at 5:00 PM
Cosponsored by the Archaeology Institute of America.

Greg O'Malley: "To El Dorado via Slave Trade: British Commercial Imperialism in Spanish America & the Logic of Human Commodification, 1660-1713
2012-11-14 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Gregory E. O’Malley is currently finishing his first book, Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807. It examines a complex network for distributing enslaved Africans throughout North America and the Caribbean after their survival of the infamous (and much more thoroughly studied) Middle Passage across the Atlantic.
Gregory E. O’Malley is Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz.

World Melodrama Film Series - Tokyo Twilight
2012-11-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Social Sciences I, Room 110, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Tokyo Twilight (1957; dir. Yasujirô Ozu) Japan Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu

William Wells: "Keeping Faith in Word and Spirit: Translating the Work of Two Jewish/Italian Poets"
2012-11-15 14:00 - 15:45 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Will’s most recent book of poems, Unsettled Accounts, won the 2009 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and was published in February of 2010 by Ohio University/Swallow Press. On its basis, he was chosen as a Walter E. Dakin Fellow in Poetry for the 2010 Sewanee Writers’ Conference and as 2010 Ohio Poet of the Year (selected by the State Library of Ohio). He has previously won an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council (1996), an N.E.A. Fellowship in poetry, and four scholarly fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, most of which have involved translation of various Italian poets. Most recently, this involved translating the sonnets of Sara Coppia Sullam during the NEH Summer Institute on “Venice, The Jews and Italian Culture” in 2006. Subsequent presentations and articles have focused upon the translation of Sullam’s sonnets. Other N.E.H. experiences included a summer Institute on Literary Translation at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1988. His previous volume of poems, Conversing with the Light, was chosen by Henry Taylor for the 1987 Anhinga Prize and published by Anhinga Press of Tallahassee. He has also translated Umberto Saba’s first volume of poems, Trieste and a Lady, and that volume is currently in circulation with publishers. His current poetry manuscript, tentatively, titled Scraps and Damaged Lots, is nearly finished. He serves as Professor of English and Dean of Arts & Sciences at Rhodes State College in Ohio.
This event is made possible from generous support from the David B. Gold Foundation.

Philosophy Colloquium ~ Scott Gilbert: "We are all lichens: How symbiosis research has reconstituted a new realm of individuality"
2012-11-15 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
4:00pm, Humanities 1, Room 210
Co-Sponsored by UCSC Philosophy, History of Consciousness, Cultural Studies, and Science and Justice Working Group
ABSTRACT: The notion of the “biological individual” is crucial to studies of genetics, immunology, evolution, development, anatomy, and physiology. Each of these biological sub-disciplines has a specific conception of individuality, which has historically provided conceptual contexts for integrating newly acquired data. During the past decade, nucleic acid analysis, especially genomic sequencing and high-throughput RNA techniques, has challenged each of these disciplinary definitions by finding significant interactions of animals and plants with symbiotic microorganisms that disrupt the boundaries which heretofore had characterized the biological individual. Animals cannot be considered individuals by anatomical, or physiological criteria, because a diversity of symbionts are both present and functional in completing metabolic pathways and serving other physiological functions. Similarly, these new studies have shown that animal development is incomplete without symbionts. Symbionts also constitute a second mode of genetic inheritance, providing selectable genetic variation for natural selection. The immune system also develops, in part, in dialogue with symbionts, and thereby functions as a mechanism for integrating microbes into the animal-cell community. Recognizing the “holobiont”—the multicellular eukaryote plus its colonies of persistent symbionts– as a critically important unit of anatomy, development, physiology, immunology, and evolution, opens up new investigative avenues and conceptually challenges the ways in which the biological sub-disciplines have heretofore characterized living entities.
ABOUT: Scott F. Gilbert is the Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology at Swarthmore College, where he teaches developmental genetics, embryology, and the history and critiques of biology. He received his B.A. in both biology and religion from Wesleyan University (1971), and he earned his PhD in biology from the pediatric genetics laboratory of Dr. Barbara Migeon at the Johns Hopkins University (1976). His M.A. in the history of science, also from The Johns Hopkins University, was done under the supervision of Dr. Donna Haraway. He pursued postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin in the laboratories of Dr. Masayasu Nomura and Dr. Robert Auerbach. Dr. Gilbert has been Chair of the Division of Developmental and Cell Biology of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, and he is a member of the education committee of the Society for Developmental Biology.
He has also been elected a fellow of the AAAS and the St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists. He currently has three books in print:Developmental Biology (a textbook in its eighth edition), Bioethics and the New Embryology (a volume, co-authored with two students, that discusses new findings in developmental biology with respect to philosophy and religion), and Ecological Developmental Biology, a textbook co-authored with David Epel which integrates developmental plasticity, epigenetics, and symbiosis into discussions of medicine and evolution. Scott has received several awards, including the Medal of François I from the Collège de France, the Dwight J. Ingle Memorial Writing Award, the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award, honorary doctorates from the University of Helsinki and the University of Tartu, and a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Grant. In 2002, the Society for Developmental Biology awarded him its first Viktor Hamburger Prize for Excellence in Education, and in 2004, he was awarded the Kowalevsky Prize in Evolutionary Developmental Biology. He has recently become a Finland Distinguished Professor at the University of Helsinki and has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to work on that most interesting of topics-how the turtle forms its shell-and he continues to do research and write in both developmental biology and in the history and philosophy of biology.
Outside the class and laboratory, his interests include hiking, photography, and he plays piano in KNISH, one of Swarthmore’s premier Klezmer bands

Learning from the Oak Creek Wisconsin Tragedy: Sikhs and Pluralism in America
2012-11-15 17:30 - 19:00 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The fatal shooting at a Sikh gurdwara (temple) in Wisconsin last August, and the possible motivation of the shooter, require reflection on religious and social tolerance and the idea/ideal of America as a pluralistic society in the 21st century. This event seeks to further our understanding of these issues.
5:30-6:30 pm – Program and Speakers
Welcome by Sikh Students Association Introductory Remarks
Dean William Ladusaw, Humanities Division
UCSC Panel Discussion
Professor Nathaniel Deutsch, UCSC
Dr. Seema Kaur Sidhu, United Sikhs
Ms. Amrit Kaur Sidhu, United Sikhs
Professor Nirvikar Singh, UCSC (Moderator)
6:30-7:00 pm – Dinner and Informal Discussion
About the Speakers
Nathaniel Deutsch is Director of the Institute for Humanities Research, Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies, and Professor of History at UCSC.
Seema Kaur Sidhu is the United Sikhs Regional Director for Community Empowerment and Education and Business Development. She works with Sikh youth in promoting health awareness, empowering new youth leaders and engaging them in education and social justice initiatives. She is also a practicing obstetrician and gynecologist.
Amrit Kaur Sidhu is a United Sikhs intern, and graduated from UCSC in June 2012 with a BS in Human Biology and a Politics minor.
Nirvikar Singh is the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair of Sikh and Punjabi Studies and Professor of Economics at UCSC.
This event is sponsored by the UCSC Sikh Student Association, the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies, and the Institute for Humanities Research.

Satyajit Ray Film Series: Agantuk ("The Arriver")
2012-11-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Crown Fireside Lounge, Fireside Lounge‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Crown College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Satyajit Ray is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. The Ray Film and Study Center (RayFASC) is newly located at Crown College and holds the largest collections of Ray’s films outside of India.
Please join us for a showing of Agantuk (“The Arriver”), with an introduction by Dr. Daniel Seldon, Director of RayFASC.

Andries W. Coetzee: "A lexical route to voicing co-occurrence restrictions: the case of Afrikaans"
2012-11-16 16:00 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Many languages have restrictions on the co-occurrence of laryngeally marked segments (such as voiced obstruents, aspirates, glottalized consonants, etc.). Current theories of sound change ascribe the origin of these restrictions either to speaker-oriented articulatory forces (grammaticalization of articulatory simplification) or to listener-oriented perceptual forces (grammaticalization of misperception). In this presentation, I will argue for a third possible source for these co-occurrence restrictions, based on a newly developing restriction in Afrikaans. I will argue that co-occurrence restrictions can also arise via a lexical route. Through the gradual lexical accumulation of sound changes, a pattern consistent with a co-occurrence restriction can accidentally arise in the lexicon of some language. Once the pattern has been lexically established, language users can then elevate the pattern to a grammatical principle via a statistical learning mechanism. I will first establish the existence of the voicing co-occurrence in Afrikaans relying on the three kinds of evidence: (i) Evidence for the pattern in the Afrikaans lexicon. (ii) The results of a wug-test with Afrikaans speakers. (iii) Evidence from non-standard minority varieties of Afrikaans in which the restriction has been established more firmly than in Standard Afrikaans. I will then trace the developments of the Afrikaans lexicon from Dutch, showing that the lexical pattern in Afrikaans is an accidental side-effect of a series of unrelated sound changes that applied in the development from Dutch to Afrikaans.
Andries W. Coetzee is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan.

Elizabeth Lambourn: "The Material Presence of a Medieval Past: New Approaches to the Materiality & 'Thingness' of Cairo Geniza"
2012-11-28 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
An historian of Islamic South Asian and the Indian Ocean world, Elizabeth’s research focuses on the mobility of people, things and ideas in the medieval and early modern periods. Elizabeth is also interested in issues of periodization and the need for dialogue and thinking across the pre-Modern/Modern/Contemporary divides.
Elizabeth Lambourn is Professor of South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies at De Montfort University (UK); Visiting Scholar at the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University.

World Melodrama Film Series - The Cranes Are Flying
2012-11-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Social Sciences I, Room 110, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cranes Are Flying (1957; dir. Mikhail Kalatozov) U.S.S.R.
Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu

Phaedon Sinis to Lecture on the Music of the Ottoman Empire
2012-11-29 12:00 - 13:45 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
On November 29, Phaedon Sinis will give a lecture on music in the Ottoman empire: its history and development, the interaction between Jewish and non Jewish musicians, and introduction to Turkish music theory and Maqam system. He will demonstrate singing an playing techniques on several Turkish instruments, among them the Kemence, and the Qanun.
Phaedon Sinis specializes in the study and performance of Ottoman music. He plays classical Kemence, Tarhu, Qanun, and Flute. He worked with ethnomusicologist Professor Ted Levin at Dartmouth College, and later on with Dr. Munir Nurettin Beken, Sokratis Sinopoulos, and Neyzen Ömer Erdogdular on Ottoman modal theory, and performance practice. Phaedon Sinis performs and tours regularly with the Aman Saki Trio.

A Night of Poetry & Music with M. NourbeSe Philip
2012-11-29 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies presents
A Night of Poetry & Music with M. NourbeSe Philip
accompanied by a jazz duo led by Karlton Hester, Professor of Music, UCSC
M. NourbeSe Philip is a poet, essayist, novelist and playwright who lives in the space-time of the City of Toronto. She practiced law in the City of Toronto for seven years before leaving to write full-time. She has published poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fiction. Among her best known published works are She Tries Her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks; Looking for Livingstone; An Odyssey of Silence; and Harriet’s Daughter, a young adult novel. Her most recent work, Zong!, is a genre-breaking, book-length poem which engages with ideas of the law, history, and memory as they relate to the transatlantic slave trade.
Reception: 5:00-6:00 PM in 210 Humanities 1.
This event was organized and sponsored by the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. Cosponsored by the African American Resource Center, the Music Department, and the Living Writers Series. Staff support provided the the Institute for Humanities Research.

Latino Literature / La literatura latina IV Conference
2012-11-30 11:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Event Center
Bringing writers and scholars together in thoughtful interchange, “Latino Literature/La literatura latina IV” is the fourth biennial conference of the Latino Literary Cultures Project/ Proyecto culturas literarias latinas. This daylong event is free and open to the public.
11am – 4:30pm Scholarly panels featuring:
• Marcial González
• Claudia Milian
• Desirée Martín
• Javier O. Huerta
• Angie Bonilla
• Kendra Dority
5-7pm Featured Author Readings and Book Signings from:
• Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of California, author of 21 books and winner of multiple awards including the National Book Critics Circle
• Melinda Palacio, author of two books, PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award winner
• Javier O. Huerta, award-winning poet and author of two books
For more information, please visit: http://culturas.ucsc.edu/.

This conference is sponsored by the Puknat Endowment of the Literature Department; The Institute for Humanities Research; the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity; Kresge, Merrill, and Stevenson Colleges; and the Chicano/Latino Research Center (CLRC). Staffing generously provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

UCSC will host the California Regional Ethics Bowl
2012-12-01 08:30 - 17:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
The philosophy department is proud to announce that UCSC will be hosting two Ethics Bowl debate competitions this year.
On December 1st, 2012, UCSC will host the California Regional Ethics Bowl, a qualifier for the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl. Ethics Bowl is a team debate competition where teams of five undergraduates analyze case studies that demonstrate ethical dilemmas drawn from a wide range of areas (environmental ethics, biomedical ethics, business ethics, institutional ethics, personal ethics, etc.). Come see the UCSC team, the defending California Regional Champions, compete!
The competition is open to the public, and any interested students, faculty, and community members are invited to attend.
The event is all day (8:30-5pm). Spectators can pick-up a schedule at the the check-in/information table located at Stevenson 150. For more information, please visit: http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/ethicsbowl/2012caregionalethicsbowl.html

Ethan Michaeli: “Between Memory and History: Growing Up in the Shadow of the Holocaust”
2012-12-03 15:30 - 16:40 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The children of survivors must navigate between the intimate legacy of their parents’ experiences and their own encounter—via books, films, and other sources—of the Holocaust as a historical event. As the last survivors pass away and lived memory of the event disappears with them, what special role—if any—should their children play in representing and interpreting the Holocaust? Professor Nathaniel Deutsch, the Neufeld-Levin Endowed Chair of Holocaust Studies, whose father was saved by a righteous gentile during World War II, will participate in a public conversation with Ethan Michaeli, a journalist and author, whose mother survived Auschwitz as a teenager.
Ethan Michaeli is an award-winning journalist and publisher whose writing has appeared in The Nation, The Forward, The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Magazine and In These Times, among other publications. He is the founder and director of We The People Media/Residents’ Journal, a non-profit dedicated to working with Chicago Housing Project residents. Michaeli is currently writing The Defender: How Chicago’s Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America, from the Age of the Pullman Porters to the Age of Obama (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, forthcoming), a book about the Chicago Defender, the country’s most important African American newspaper, where he worked as a reporter and editor from 1991 to 1996. Michaeli’s work is inspired by his parents, both of whom are Holocaust survivors.
Ethan’s work is inspired by his parents, both of whom are survivors of the Holocaust. He lives in Chicago with his wife and son.

WILDNESS: Film Screening and Discussion with Wu Tsang and Roya Rastegar
2012-12-03 19:00 - 22:00 | Media Theater, M110
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The Departments of Feminist Studies and Film + Digital Media and the Graduate Program in Social Documentation Present:
WILDNESS
a film by Wu Tsang
Screening and Discussion with director Wu Tsang and co-writer Roya Rastegar
Reception to follow screening and discussion
ABOUT THE FILM
Rooted in the tropical underground of Los Angeles nightlife, WILDNESS is a documentary portrait of the Silver Platter, a historic bar in the MacArthur Park area that has been home for Latin/LGBT immigrant communities since 1963. With a magical realist flourish, the bar itself becomes a character, narrating what happens when a group of young artists create a weekly performance art/dance party (organized by director Wu Tsang and DJs NGUZUNGUZU & Total Freedom) called Wildness, which explodes into creativity and conflict.
What does “safe space” mean, and who needs it? And how does it differ among us? At the Silver Platter, the search for answers to these questions creates coalitions across generations.
The film will be screened in conjunction with Prof. Marcia Ochoa’s courses FMST 41 and Soc Doc 204, and to foster campus dialogue on Transgender Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies.
Feminist Studies wishes to make this program accessible to people with disabilities. If you have disability-related needs, please contact Marti Stanton at (831) 459-3981.
This event is free and open to the public.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
WU TSANG is a filmmaker, artist, and performer based in Los Angeles. As a transgendered second-generation Chinese American, he explores human stories at at the intersection of complex identities. He was named one of 2012’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine. His first feature WILDNESS won the Grand Jury Award for Outstanding Documentary at Outfest 2012 [World Premiere: MoMA Documentary Fortnight (New York, NY), SXSW (Austin, TX), Hot Docs (Toronto, Canada), SANFIC8 (Santiago, Chile)]. WILDNESS was also featured with a companion multi-channel video installation called /GREEN ROOM at the 2012 Whitney Biennial.
ROYA RASTEGAR is a writer and curator living in Los Angeles. She received a Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness, from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Through the guidance of advisors Angela Y. Davis and B. Ruby Rich, her scholarship traces the productive conflicts and coalitions that flourish within cultural spaces. She has curated within both film and art contexts. She was a Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in 2008-9, a Director of the Santa Cruz Women of Color Film & Video Festival, and has participated in the programming of a number of film festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival and as a Programmer at the Tribeca Film Festival from 2008-2011. She has served on the juries of Outfest and the Santiago Festival International de Cine. Rastegar is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Women at UCLA, and writes about film and performance for various publications. Her current book project offers a critical study of American film festivals and the radical possibilities of film and new media curatorial practices. WILDNESS is her feature film writing debut.
Cosponsored by the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Arts Division; the Office of Campus Life and Dean of Students; El Centro – Chicano Latino Resource Center; the Cantú Queer Center; Kresge College; the UC Presidential Chair in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; and the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies.

World Melodrama Film Series - Cairo Station
2012-12-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Social Sciences I, Room 110, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Cairo Station (1958; dir. Youssef Chahine) Egypt
Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu

World Melodrama Film Series - The Lin Family Shop
2012-12-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Social Sciences I, Room 110, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Lin Family ‘s Shop (1959; dir. Shui Hua) China

Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu

Roderick A. Ferguson: "Comparative Ethnic Studies: Retrieving, Redistributing, and Holding the Institution Under Erasure"
2013-01-09 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk looks at the question of comparative ethnic studies through the critique and the rearticulation of comparative projects. It goes on to ask the question of how one might institutionalize and let one’s institutional practice and project be shaped by the critique of institutionalization.
Roderick A. Ferguson is professor of race and critical theory. He is the author of Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (2004) and The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference (2012). He is also the co-editor with Grace Hong of Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization (2011).

Book Launch and Reading: Juliana Leslie at the Capitola Book Café
2013-01-12 17:00 - 19:00 | Capitola Book Café, 1475 41st Avenue, Capitola, CA, 95010, United States
Juliana LesliePlease help celebrate the publication of Juliana Leslie’s Green is for World at Capitola Book Cafe this coming Saturday, January 12. The reception is at 5 pm, the reading at 6pm.
“Green Is for World is a book that expands on the childlike register of its title: it is open, vulnerable, curious… Maybe we should refer to Juliana Leslie’s poems as cascades, not collages; maybe she has given us a new form. If so, it is a form of beauty, mystery, and thoughtfulness. They give me courage, and I think others will find courage in her gentle cascades as well.” —Ange Mlinko, National Poetry Series Judge
“Juliana Leslie’s exciting new book is constantly opening up and breaking into light, revelation, and sound. Green Is for World is a surprising book, wondrously achieved and lovingly composed.” —Peter Gizzi
Poet Juliana Leslie holds degrees from UC Santa Cruz, Mills College and UMass Amherst and is currently finishing a Ph.D. at UC Santa Cruz. She is the author of three chapbooks and of the full-length collection, More Radiant Signal, published in 2010 by Letter Machine Editions. She is also currently a co-organizer of the UC Santa Cruz Poetry and Politics Research Group and a founding editor of the Poetry and Politics Imprint.

Aminda Smith: "Remolding Minds in Postsocialist China: Maoist Reeducation & 21-century Subjects"
2013-01-16 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Aminda Smith’s forthcoming book, Thought Reform and China’s Dangerous Classes: Reeducation, Resistance, and the People focuses on Chinese Communist reformatories, where agents of the state worked to transform beggars, prostitutes, and other “vagrants” into new socialist citizens. She explores reeducation centers as both institutions and symbolic spaces through which “The People” were created.
Aminda Smith is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University.

American Indian Writers Reading Series: Deborah Miranda
2013-01-22 16:00 - 18:00 | Charles E. Merrill Lounge
Deborah Miranda (Esselen/ Chumash) is the author of the poetry volumes The Zen of La Llorona (2005), Deer (2001) and Indian Cartography (1999). She will be reading and signing her new book, Bad Indians: A Memoir.
This project is co-sponsored by the American Indian Resource Center, Care Council, The Departments of American Studies, Literature, and the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies.

Donna Haraway: "Playing String Figures with Companion Species: Staying with the Trouble"
2013-01-23 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This paper insists on working, playing, and thinking in multispecies cosmo- politics in the face of the killing of entire ways of being on earth that characterize the age cunningly called “now” and the place called “here.” Thinking with work- ing homing pigeons leads us into needed knots of SF – string figures, science fic- tion, speculative fabulation, speculative feminism, so far.
Donna Haraway is Distinguished Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz.

Creative Writing Reading by Javier O. Huerta
2013-01-23 15:30 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Javier O. Huerta is the author of American Copia: An Immigrant Epic (Arte Publico 2012) and Some Clarifications y otros poemas (Arte Publico 2007), which received the 31st Chicano/Latino Literary Prize from UC Irvine. His poems have recently been anthologized in Art and Artists: Poems, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011, and American Tensions: Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice. He received his MFA from the Bilingual Creative Writing Program at the University of Texas at El Paso and is currently a doctoral candidate in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. His research examines 19th Century articulations of laughter in relation to the simultaneous belief that laughter is essentially mechanistic and that the essence of laughter is irreducible to mechanism. Other research interests include U.S. Latino Literature and Literature of Immigration, including what he considers to be an emerging field, the Literature of the Undocumented. Huerta has been a contributing writer for Harriet, the blog for the Poetry Foundation.

Documentary Film Screening and Discussion with Professor Gilbert Gonzalez
2013-01-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Laborers in the Bracero Program
The UC Humanities Working Group on Immigrant Labor and Changing Conceptions of Work is pleased to announce that Gilbert Gonzalez, Professor Emeritus of Chicano/Latino Studies at UC Irvine, will return to UC Santa Cruz on January 23, 2013, to present his award-winning documentary Harvest of Loneliness: The Bracero Program. Dr. Gonzalez was a participant in the Working Group’s workshop in October 2012. Harvest of Loneliness explores the historical accounts of migrant Mexican farm workers brought into the U.S. from 1942-1964 under the temporary contract worker program known as the Bracero Program (click here to read a short interview with Dr. Gonzalez and documentary filmmaker Vivian Price. You can also explore the film’s website). This event is co-sponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies Program and El Centro: Chicana/o-Latina/o Resource Center.
The film screening will be followed by a Q and A session with Dr. Gonzales.

Living Writers Reading by Javier O. Huerta
2013-01-24 18:00 - 19:30 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

The Sikh: The Feminine, The Activist
2013-01-26 11:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Event Center
Sikhi is like an ocean, boundless and all encompassing, composed of many shades and hues. During this conference, we will explore two of these colors. First, we will delve into the feminine aspect of spirituality and how it is characterized by the words of the Sikh Gurus, and the importance of women in Sikh tradition. Secondly, we will look at activism and social justice, understanding how they have been integral to Sikh spirituality from the beginning, and discussing their relevance today.

Speakers
Dr. Nikky Guninder Kaur Singh
The Crawford Family Professor at Colby College in Maine, USA. Her interests focus on poetry and feminist issues. She has published extensively in the field of Sikhism, and her areas of expertise are major religions of northern India, Indian women’s issues, role of women in religious literature, and literary analysis of scripture.
Balpreet Kaur
A sophomore at Ohio State University, she is a part of the executive board of the Better Together team, president of the Sikh Student Association, and a Humanities Scholar.
Dr. Jaideep Singh
An expert in comparative ethnic studies and the first American educated endowed chair holder in Sikh Studies in the country.
Dr. Seema Kaur
The United Sikhs Regional Director for Community Empowerment and Education and Business Development. She works with Sikh youth in promoting health awareness, empowering new youth leaders, and engaging them in education and social justice initiatives.
Amrit Kaur
United Sikhs intern, graduated from UCSC in June 2012 with a B.S. in Human Biology and a Politics minor.

Program
11:00-11:30AM Opening remarks and breakfast
11:30-12:00PM Balpreet Kaur
12:00-12:30PM Dr. Nikky Guninder Kaur Singh
12:30-1:00PM Open floor discussion
1:00-1:45PM Lunch
1:45-2:15PM Dr. Seema Kaur/Amrit Kaur
2:15-2:45PM Dr. Jaideep Singh
2:45-3:15PM Open floor discussion
3:15-4:00PM Entertainment and refreshments

A map of the UC Santa Cruz map with directions can be found here, and a map of the event center area with parking and event directions can be found here. An interactive map of the area can be found here, as well.
This event is free and open to the public. A poster for the event can be found here – forward it to your friends and contacts and spread the word!
Contact Us
Sikh Student Association wishes to make this event accessible to people with disabilities. If you need accommodation, please contact SOAR at (831) 459-2934.
For additional information, or any questions, please contact SSA at ucscsikhstudents@gmail.com or (408) 621-7223.
