BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20110313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20111106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20130310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20131103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20140309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20141102T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120826 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120830 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20120826T160001Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120826T160001Z UID:10005161-1345939200-1346284799@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Media Systems Workshop DESCRIPTION:Full dates: Sunday\, August 26th through Wednesday\, August 29th. \nOur 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. \nPlease visit the website for more information: http://mediasystems.soe.ucsc.edu/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/media-systems-workshop-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120908T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120908T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20120706T215723Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120706T215723Z UID:10005158-1347094800-1347123600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cosmopolitanism in China: 1600-1950 DESCRIPTION: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. \nFor more information\, please visit: http://humweb.ucsc.edu/huminghui/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cosmopolitanism-in-china-1600-1950-3-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121003T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121003T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121030T184600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121030T184600Z UID:10004728-1349290800-1349298000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:World Melodrama Film Series - Lumière d'été DESCRIPTION: Lumière d’été (1943; dir. Jean Grémillon) France \nEvan 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 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/world-melodrama-film-series-lumiere-dete-3/ LOCATION:Social Sciences I\, Room 110\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121010T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121010T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121023T200309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T200309Z UID:10004722-1349871300-1349877600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Carla Freccero: "Wolf\, or Homo homini lupus" DESCRIPTION: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. \nCarla Freccero is Professor and Chair of Literature and History of Consciousness\, and Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/carla-freccero-wolf-or-homo-homini-lupus-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121010T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121010T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121030T184716Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121030T184716Z UID:10005194-1349895600-1349902800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:World Melodrama Film Series - Opfergang DESCRIPTION:Opfergang (1944; dir. Veit Harlan) Germany \nEvan 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 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/world-melodrama-film-series-opfergang-3/ LOCATION:Social Sciences I\, Room 110\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121011T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121011T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121023T175113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T175113Z UID:10005181-1349978400-1349984700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Living Writers Reading Series: Tisa Bryant DESCRIPTION: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. \nTisa 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. \nCo-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 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-reading-series-tisa-bryant-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121012T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121012T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20120824T202817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120824T202817Z UID:10005160-1350066600-1350075600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Founder's Day Faculty Research Lecturer: Gail Hershatter DESCRIPTION: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. \nGail 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. \nDuring 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. \nRegistration: Buy Tickets \nFor more information about Founders Day please visit: http://events.ucsc.edu/founders/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/founders-day-faculty-research-lecturer-gail-hershatter-3/ LOCATION:Cocoanut Grove\, 400 Beach Street \, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121017T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121017T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121023T201047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T201047Z UID:10004723-1350476100-1350482400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:James Martel: "A Revolution No One Believed In: The Haitian Subversion of the Ideals of the French Revolution" DESCRIPTION: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. \nJames Martel is Professor and Chair of Political Science at San Francisco State University. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/james-martel-a-revolution-no-one-believed-in-the-haitian-subversion-of-the-ideals-of-the-french-revolution-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121017T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121017T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121030T184845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121030T184845Z UID:10005196-1350500400-1350507600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:World Melodrama Film Series - Madonna of the Seven Moons DESCRIPTION:Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945; dir. Arthur Crabtree) United Kingdom \nEvan 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 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/world-melodrama-film-series-madonna-of-the-seven-moons-3/ LOCATION:Social Sciences I\, Room 110\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121018T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121018T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121023T175748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T175748Z UID:10005182-1350583200-1350589500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Living Writers Reading Series: Kevin Killian and Dodie Bellamy DESCRIPTION: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. \nKevin 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. \nDodie 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. \nCo-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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-reading-series-kevin-killian-and-dodie-bellamy-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121020T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121020T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121024T220356Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121024T220356Z UID:10004724-1350723600-1350752400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Birth of a Poet: William Everson Centennial DESCRIPTION: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. \nWilliam 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. \nAfter 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”. \nIn 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. \nIn 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) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-birth-of-a-poet-william-everson-centennial-3/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121020T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121020T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20120208T195427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120208T195427Z UID:10004664-1350727200-1350756000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Philosophy in a Multicultural Context DESCRIPTION: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. \nFor more information\, please visit the conference website: http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia-conferences/postscripts.html \nOrganized by Professor Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther \nSupport provided by the IHR; Philosophy Department; College 8; Cowell College; Merrill College; Office for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion; Impact Media Group URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/philosophy-in-a-multicultural-context-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121023T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121023T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121022T191609Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121022T191609Z UID:10005163-1351008000-1351015200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Affect Across the Disciplines II DESCRIPTION: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. \nErin Gray (History of Consciousness): “The White Flesh of the World: Affect and Racialization” \nErin 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. \nLaurel Peacock (Literature): “Affect and Poetics”\nLaurel is working on a dissertation on affect in contemporary feminist poetry. \nPascal Emmer (Sociology): “Talkin’ ‘Bout Meta-Generation: ACT UP History and Queer Futurity”\nPascal is interested in the nexus of affect\, generation\, queer activist histories and futures\, oral history\, and the politics of memory. \nBen Samuel (Computer Science): “Affect and Expressive Intelligence”\nBen 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. \nPlease join us for a sensorium of refreshments! \nFor information about the research cluster\, please contact dbgould@ucsc.edu or freccero@ucsc.edu. \nStaff support for this event is provided by the IHR staff. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/affect-across-the-disciplines-ii-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121024T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121024T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121022T190039Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121022T190039Z UID:10005162-1351080900-1351087200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:James Clifford: "Always Coming Home: On Postcolonial (Im)possibility in California" DESCRIPTION: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. \nJames Clifford is Professor of History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/james-clifford-always-coming-home-on-postcolonial-impossibility-in-california-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121024T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121024T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121030T185023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121030T185023Z UID:10005198-1351105200-1351112400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:World Melodrama Film Series - Nobody's Children DESCRIPTION:Nobody’s Children (1950; dir. Raffaello Matarazzo) Italy \nEvan 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 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/world-melodrama-film-series-nobodys-children-3/ LOCATION:Social Sciences I\, Room 110\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121025T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121025T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121023T173743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T173743Z UID:10005178-1351188000-1351194300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Living Writers Series: Cathy Park Hong DESCRIPTION: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. \nCathy 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. \nCo-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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-series-cathy-park-hong-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121031T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121031T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121023T171710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T171710Z UID:10005166-1351685700-1351692000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jenny Reardon: "The Post-Genomic Condition: Ethics\, Justice\, Knowledge after the Genome" DESCRIPTION: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. \nJenny 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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jenny-reardon-the-post-genomic-condition-ethics-justice-knowledge-after-the-genome-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121031T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121031T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121030T185534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121030T185534Z UID:10005200-1351710000-1351717200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:World Melodrama Film Series - Aventurera DESCRIPTION:Aventurera (1950; dir. Alberto Gout) Mexico \nEvan 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 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/world-melodrama-film-series-aventurera-3/ LOCATION:Social Sciences I\, Room 110\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121101T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121101T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121030T214408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121030T214408Z UID:10005238-1351771200-1351774800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Funding Database Workshop DESCRIPTION: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. \n1) It is easy to use. All you need is a ucsc email account to log in.\n2) It contains the most comprehensive listing of funding opportunities in all fields\, billions of dollars worth of funding.\n3) It has RSS feeds\, one of which is Humanities and Social Science Funding News.\n4) The searches are sophisticated and can be customized just for you. \nPlease join us. You will be amazed at what’s in there. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/funding-database-workshop-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121101T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121101T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121023T174246Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T174246Z UID:10005179-1351792800-1351799100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Living Writers Reading Series: Peter Orner DESCRIPTION: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. \nPeter 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. \nCo-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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-reading-series-peter-orner-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121101T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121101T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121023T000153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T000153Z UID:10005164-1351796400-1351803600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Satyajit Ray Film Series: Pather Panchali ("Song of the Road") DESCRIPTION: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. \nPlease join us for a showing of Pather Panchali (“Song of the Road”)\, with an introduction by Dr. Dilip Basu\, Founding Director of RayFASC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/satyajit-ray-film-series-pather-panchali-song-of-the-road-3/ LOCATION:Crown Fireside Lounge\, Fireside Lounge‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Crown College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121102T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121102T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121101T163314Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121101T163314Z UID:10004730-1351864800-1351875600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Lewis Watts: New Orleans Suite\, First Friday - Curator's Walk Through DESCRIPTION: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 \nLewis 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. \nNew Orleans Suite will be at the Sesnon Gallery from October 3 – November 21\, 2012. \nOther programming includes:\n* Ongoing every Wed. eve 5-8p open mic for jazz groups\, film and photography discussions\n* Sunday\, November 4 at 4:00pm – special weekend event featuring music from Cuba\, Flor de Caña \nMore information available at Sesnon Gallery web site – http://art.ucsc.edu/galleries/sesnon/current URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lewis-watts-new-orleans-suite-first-friday-curators-walk-through-3/ LOCATION:Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121102T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121102T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121029T162239Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121029T162239Z UID:10004727-1351872000-1351877400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ben Munson: "Perceived gender and fricative identification" DESCRIPTION: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. \nBen Munson is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at the University of Minnesota. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ben-munson-perceived-gender-and-fricative-identification-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121107T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121107T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121023T173218Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T173218Z UID:10005177-1352290500-1352296800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Laurie Palmer: "How Long I Ask You to Watch" DESCRIPTION: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. \nLaurie Palmer is Professor in the Sculptural Department\, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/laurie-palmer-how-long-i-ask-you-to-watch-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121107T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121107T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121026T214248Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121026T214248Z UID:10004726-1352302200-1352307600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Anat Gilboa: "Rembrandt's Depictions of Jewish Themes" DESCRIPTION: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. \nDr. 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. \nThis event is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies\, with cosponsorship by the David B. Gold Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anat-gilboa-rembrandts-depictions-of-jewish-themes-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121107T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121107T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121031T163852Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121031T163852Z UID:10005239-1352307600-1352313000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Greatest Story Never Told (In the West): The Rāmāyaṇa and the Cultural Universe of South and Southeast Asia DESCRIPTION: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. \nGoldman will also be speaking to the undergraduate class (LIT61P) on the Valmiki-­‐ Ramayana from 2-­‐3:10 in Baskin Auditorium\, also on November 7th. \nRobert P. Goldman Professor of Sanskrit University of California\, Berkeley \nThis 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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-greatest-story-never-told-in-the-west-the-ramaya%e1%b9%87a-and-the-cultural-universe-of-south-and-southeast-asia-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121107T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121107T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121030T185713Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121030T185713Z UID:10005202-1352314800-1352322000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:World Melodrama Film Series - All That Heaven Allows DESCRIPTION:All That Heaven Allows (1955; dir. Douglas Sirk) U.S \nEvan 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 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/world-melodrama-series-all-that-heaven-allows-3/ LOCATION:Social Sciences I\, Room 110\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121108T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121108T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121102T033115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121102T033115Z UID:10004734-1352383200-1352390400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sustaining Activism and Political Hope: Webinar with Grace Lee Boggs DESCRIPTION:Anyone who wishes to attend the webinar online instead of in person\, please contact Nancy Chen 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. \n—- \nA 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. \nParticipants 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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sustaining-activism-and-political-hope-webinar-with-grace-lee-boggs-3/ LOCATION:Unnamed Venue END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121108T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121108T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121023T174656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T174656Z UID:10005180-1352397600-1352403900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Living Writers Reading Series: Truong Tran DESCRIPTION: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. \nTruong 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. \nCo-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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-reading-series-truong-tran-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121109T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121109T163000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121023T182948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T182948Z UID:10005183-1352451600-1352478600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:UC Mediterranean Studies MRP Fall Workshop: "Excavating the Past" DESCRIPTION: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. \nPapers:\nLuca Zavagno (Visiting Research Fellow\, Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Center\, Princeton)\n“Two Hegemonies\, One Island: Cyprus between the Byzantines and the Umayyads (650-850 A.D.)” \nNikki Malain (Graduate Student\, History\, UC Santa Barbara)\n“Predators and praeda: The Logistics of Piracy in the Twelfth-century Mediterranean” \nKaren R. Mathews (Research Assistant Professor\, Art & Art History\, University of Miami)\n“Anxiety of Origins: Shifting Conceptions of the Past in Genoese Historical Chronicles and Civic Architecture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries” \nFeatured Scholar:\nMarcus Milwright (Associate Professor of Islamic Art & Archaeology\, Director of the Program in Medieval Studies at the University of Victoria)\n“Archaeology and the Study of Traditional Urban Crafts in the Islamic Mediterranean.” \nMarcus 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. \n  \nTo 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). \nThe 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. \nTo join the Mediterranean Seminar\, send your name\, professional status\, affiliation and fields of interest to mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/uc-mediterranean-studies-mrp-fall-workshop-excavating-the-past-3/ LOCATION:The McCune Conference Room\, UCSB\, 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121109T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121109T143000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121026T194647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121026T194647Z UID:10004725-1352466000-1352471400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Tanya Luhrmann Workshop: "How the Hippie Christians Became the Religious Right" DESCRIPTION: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. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tanya-luhrmann-workshop-how-the-hippie-christians-became-the-religious-right-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121110T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121110T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121023T184019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T184019Z UID:10005184-1352539800-1352550600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"Digging up a Mediterranean Past? Archaeology and Comparative Material Culture" DESCRIPTION:A one-day conference sponsored by the UCSB Program in Medieval Studies. \nThe 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. \nFull program available soon at http://medievalstudies.ucsb.edu/events.html. \nTo 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). \nThe 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. \nTo join the Mediterranean Seminar\, send your name\, professional status\, affiliation and fields of interest to mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digging-up-a-mediterranean-past-archaeology-and-comparative-material-culture-3/ LOCATION:The McCune Conference Room\, UCSB\, 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121113T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121113T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121101T181336Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121101T181336Z UID:10004732-1352822400-1352827800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sunaina Maira: "More Delicate Than a Flower\, Yet Harder Than a Rock: Human Rights in the Shadow of an Empire" DESCRIPTION: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. \nSunaina 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.\nThis 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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sunaina-maira-more-delicate-than-a-flower-yet-harder-than-a-rock-human-rights-in-the-shadow-of-an-empire-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121114T043000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121114T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121023T194215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T194215Z UID:10004720-1352867400-1352917800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Katherine Dunbabin: "The Romans at Dinner: A View from Archaeology and Art" DESCRIPTION: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. \nLight refreshments served at 4:30 PM\, talk at 5:00 PM \nCosponsored by the Archaeology Institute of America. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/katherine-dunbabin-the-romans-at-dinner-a-view-from-archaeology-and-art-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121114T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121114T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121023T192522Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T192522Z UID:10005192-1352895300-1352901600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Greg O'Malley: "To El Dorado via Slave Trade: British Commercial Imperialism in Spanish America & the Logic of Human Commodification\, 1660-1713 DESCRIPTION: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. \nGregory E. O’Malley is Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/greg-omalley-to-el-dorado-via-slave-trade-british-commercial-imperialism-in-spanish-america-the-logic-of-human-commodification-1660-1713-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121114T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121114T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121030T185835Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121030T185835Z UID:10005204-1352919600-1352926800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:World Melodrama Film Series - Tokyo Twilight DESCRIPTION: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  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/world-melodrama-film-series-tokyo-twilight-3/ LOCATION:Social Sciences I\, Room 110\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121115T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121115T154500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121023T195302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T195302Z UID:10004721-1352988000-1352994300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:William Wells: "Keeping Faith in Word and Spirit: Translating the Work of Two Jewish/Italian Poets" DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis event is made possible from generous support from the David B. Gold Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/william-wells-keeping-faith-in-word-and-spirit-translating-the-work-of-two-jewishitalian-poets-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121115T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121115T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121110T012108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121110T012108Z UID:10004736-1352995200-1353000600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium ~ Scott Gilbert: "We are all lichens: How symbiosis research has reconstituted a new realm of individuality" DESCRIPTION:4:00pm\, Humanities 1\, Room 210\nCo-Sponsored by UCSC Philosophy\, History of Consciousness\, Cultural Studies\, and Science and Justice Working Group \n 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. \nABOUT: 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. \nHe 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. \nOutside the class and laboratory\, his interests include hiking\, photography\, and he plays piano in KNISH\, one of Swarthmore’s premier Klezmer bands URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/philosophy-colloquium-scott-gilbert-we-are-all-lichens-how-symbiosis-research-has-reconstituted-a-new-realm-of-individuality-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121115T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121115T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121023T185434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T185434Z UID:10005188-1353000600-1353006000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Learning from the Oak Creek Wisconsin Tragedy: Sikhs and Pluralism in America DESCRIPTION: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. \n5:30-­6:30 pm – Program and Speakers\nWelcome by Sikh Students Association Introductory Remarks\nDean William Ladusaw\, Humanities Division \nUCSC Panel Discussion\nProfessor Nathaniel Deutsch\, UCSC\nDr. Seema Kaur Sidhu\, United Sikhs\nMs. Amrit Kaur Sidhu\, United Sikhs\nProfessor Nirvikar Singh\, UCSC (Moderator) \n6:30-­7:00 pm – Dinner and Informal Discussion \nAbout the Speakers\nNathaniel Deutsch is Director of the Institute for Humanities Research\, Co-­Director of the Center for Jewish Studies\, and Professor of History at UCSC. \nSeema 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. \nAmrit Kaur Sidhu is a United Sikhs intern\, and graduated from UCSC in June 2012 with a BS in Human Biology and a Politics minor. \nNirvikar Singh is the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair of Sikh and Punjabi Studies and Professor of Economics at UCSC. \nThis 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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sikh-and-punjabi-studies-symposium-on-the-oak-creek-tragedy-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121115T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121115T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121023T153116Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T153116Z UID:10005165-1353006000-1353013200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Satyajit Ray Film Series: Agantuk ("The Arriver") DESCRIPTION: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. \nPlease join us for a showing of Agantuk (“The Arriver”)\, with an introduction by Dr. Daniel Seldon\, Director of RayFASC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/satyajit-ray-film-series-agantuk-the-arriver-3/ LOCATION:Crown Fireside Lounge\, Fireside Lounge‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Crown College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121116T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121116T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121113T174325Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T174325Z UID:10004738-1353081600-1353087000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Andries W. Coetzee: "A lexical route to voicing co-occurrence restrictions: the case of Afrikaans" DESCRIPTION: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. \nAndries W. Coetzee is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/andries-w-coetzee-a-lexical-route-to-voicing-co-occurrence-restrictions-the-case-of-afrikaans-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121128T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121128T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121023T193233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T193233Z UID:10004719-1354104900-1354111200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Elizabeth Lambourn: "The Material Presence of a Medieval Past: New Approaches to the Materiality & 'Thingness' of Cairo Geniza" DESCRIPTION: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. \nElizabeth 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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/elizabeth-lambourn-the-material-presence-of-a-medieval-past-new-approaches-to-the-materiality-thingness-of-cairo-geniza-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121128T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121128T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121030T190011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121030T190011Z UID:10005221-1354129200-1354136400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:World Melodrama Film Series - The Cranes Are Flying DESCRIPTION:The Cranes Are Flying (1957; dir. Mikhail Kalatozov) U.S.S.R. \nEvan 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 \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/world-melodrama-film-series-the-cranes-are-flying-3/ LOCATION:Social Sciences I\, Room 110\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121129T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121129T134500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121129T172207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121129T172207Z UID:10005255-1354190400-1354196700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Phaedon Sinis to Lecture on the Music of the Ottoman Empire DESCRIPTION: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. \nPhaedon 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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phaedon-sinis-to-lecture-on-the-music-of-the-ottoman-empire-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121129T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121129T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121023T191832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T191832Z UID:10005190-1354212000-1354218300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:A Night of Poetry & Music with M. NourbeSe Philip DESCRIPTION:The UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies presents \nA Night of Poetry & Music with M. NourbeSe Philip\naccompanied by a jazz duo led by Karlton Hester\, Professor of Music\, UCSC \nM. 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. \nReception: 5:00-6:00 PM in 210 Humanities 1. \nThis 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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-night-of-poetry-music-with-m-nourbese-philip-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121130T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121130T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121023T184607Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T184607Z UID:10005186-1354273200-1354302000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Latino Literature / La literatura latina IV Conference DESCRIPTION:  \nBringing 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. \n11am – 4:30pm Scholarly panels featuring:\n• Marcial González\n• Claudia Milian\n• Desirée Martín\n• Javier O. Huerta\n• Angie Bonilla\n• Kendra Dority \n5-7pm Featured Author Readings and Book Signings from:\n• Juan Felipe Herrera\, Poet Laureate of California\, author of 21 books and winner of multiple awards including the National Book Critics Circle\n• Melinda Palacio\, author of two books\, PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award winner\n• Javier O. Huerta\, award-winning poet and author of two books \nFor more information\, please visit: http://culturas.ucsc.edu/. \n  \n\n  \nThis 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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/latino-literature-la-literatura-latina-iv-conference-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121201T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121201T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121121T214824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121121T214824Z UID:10005249-1354350600-1354381200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:UCSC will host the California Regional Ethics Bowl DESCRIPTION:The philosophy department is proud to announce that UCSC will be hosting two Ethics Bowl debate competitions this year. \nOn 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! \nThe competition is open to the public\, and any interested students\, faculty\, and community members are invited to attend. \nThe 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 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/california-regional-ethics-bowl-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121203T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121203T164000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121129T171922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121129T171922Z UID:10005253-1354548600-1354552800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ethan Michaeli: “Between Memory and History: Growing Up in the Shadow of the Holocaust” DESCRIPTION: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. \nEthan 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. \nEthan’s work is inspired by his parents\, both of whom are survivors of the Holocaust. He lives in Chicago with his wife and son. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ethan-michaeli-between-memory-and-history-growing-up-in-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121203T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121203T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121129T171115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121129T171115Z UID:10005251-1354561200-1354572000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:WILDNESS: Film Screening and Discussion with Wu Tsang and Roya Rastegar DESCRIPTION:Click on image to enlarge flyer.\nThe Departments of Feminist Studies and Film + Digital Media and the Graduate Program in Social Documentation Present: \nWILDNESS\na film by Wu Tsang \nScreening and Discussion with director Wu Tsang and co-writer Roya Rastegar \nReception to follow screening and discussion\nABOUT THE FILM \nRooted 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. \nWhat 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. \nThe 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. \nFeminist 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. \nThis event is free and open to the public.\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS \nWU 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. \nROYA 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.\nCosponsored 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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/wildness-film-screening-and-discussion-with-wu-tsang-and-roya-rastegar-3/ LOCATION:Media Theater\, M110 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121205T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121205T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121030T190059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121030T190059Z UID:10005235-1354734000-1354741200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:World Melodrama Film Series - Cairo Station DESCRIPTION:Cairo Station (1958; dir. Youssef Chahine) Egypt \nEvan 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 \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/world-melodrama-film-series-cairo-station-3/ LOCATION:Social Sciences I\, Room 110\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121212T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121212T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121030T190226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121030T190226Z UID:10005237-1355338800-1355346000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:World Melodrama Film Series - The Lin Family Shop DESCRIPTION:The Lin Family ‘s Shop (1959; dir. Shui Hua) China\n\nEvan 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 \n  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/world-melodrama-film-series-the-lin-family-shop-3/ LOCATION:Social Sciences I\, Room 110\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130109T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130109T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121212T193444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121212T193444Z UID:10005257-1357747200-1357752600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Roderick A. Ferguson: "Comparative Ethnic Studies: Retrieving\, Redistributing\, and Holding the Institution Under Erasure" DESCRIPTION: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. \nRoderick 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). \n \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/roderick-a-ferguson-comparative-ethnic-studies-retrieving-redistributing-and-holding-the-institution-under-erasure-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130112T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130112T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20130109T172551Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130109T172551Z UID:10005296-1358010000-1358017200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Book Launch and Reading: Juliana Leslie at the Capitola Book Café DESCRIPTION: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. \n“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 \n“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 \nPoet 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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-launch-and-reading-juliana-leslie-at-the-capitola-book-cafe-2/ LOCATION:Capitola Book Café\, 1475 41st Avenue\, Capitola\, CA\, 95010\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130116T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130116T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121113T231453Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T231453Z UID:10004740-1358338500-1358344800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Aminda Smith: "Remolding Minds in Postsocialist China: Maoist Reeducation & 21-century Subjects" DESCRIPTION: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. \nAminda Smith is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-aminda-smith-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130122T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130122T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20130131T233904Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130131T233904Z UID:10005347-1358870400-1358877600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:American Indian Writers Reading Series: Deborah Miranda DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis 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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/american-indian-writers-reading-series-deborah-miranda-2/ LOCATION:Charles E. Merrill Lounge END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130123T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130123T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121113T231700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T231700Z UID:10004742-1358943300-1358949600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Donna Haraway: "Playing String Figures with Companion Species: Staying with the Trouble" DESCRIPTION: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. \nDonna Haraway is Distinguished Professor Emerita\, History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-donna-haraway-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130123T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130123T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20130117T230926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130117T230926Z UID:10004771-1358955000-1358960400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading by Javier O. Huerta DESCRIPTION: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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/creative-writing-reading-by-javier-huerta-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130123T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130123T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121218T002659Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121218T002659Z UID:10005278-1358967600-1358973000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Documentary Film Screening and Discussion with Professor Gilbert Gonzalez DESCRIPTION:Laborers in the Bracero Program\nThe 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. \nThe film screening will be followed by a Q and A session with Dr. Gonzales. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/documentary-film-screening-and-discussion-with-professor-gilbert-gonzalez-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130124T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130124T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20130117T231127Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130117T231127Z UID:10004773-1359050400-1359055800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading by Javier O. Huerta DESCRIPTION: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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-reading-by-javier-huerta-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130126T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130126T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20130116T192924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130116T192924Z UID:10004769-1359198000-1359216000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Sikh: The Feminine\, The Activist DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n  \nSpeakers \nDr. Nikky Guninder Kaur Singh\nThe 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. \nBalpreet Kaur\nA 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. \nDr. Jaideep Singh\nAn expert in comparative ethnic studies and the first American educated endowed chair holder in Sikh Studies in the country. \nDr. Seema Kaur\nThe 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. \nAmrit Kaur\nUnited Sikhs intern\, graduated from UCSC in June 2012 with a B.S. in Human Biology and a Politics minor. \n\n  \nProgram \n11:00-11:30AM         Opening remarks and breakfast\n11:30-12:00PM         Balpreet Kaur\n12:00-12:30PM         Dr. Nikky Guninder Kaur Singh\n12:30-1:00PM           Open floor discussion\n1:00-1:45PM             Lunch\n1:45-2:15PM             Dr. Seema Kaur/Amrit Kaur\n2:15-2:45PM             Dr. Jaideep Singh\n2:45-3:15PM             Open floor discussion\n3:15-4:00PM             Entertainment and refreshments \n\n  \nA 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. \nThis 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!\nContact Us \nSikh Student Association wishes to make this event accessible to people with disabilities. If you need accommodation\, please contact SOAR at (831) 459-2934. \nFor additional information\, or any questions\, please contact SSA at ucscsikhstudents@gmail.com or (408) 621-7223. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-sikh-the-feminine-the-activist-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130128T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130128T134500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20130108T003558Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130108T003558Z UID:10005294-1359376200-1359380700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Clive Sinclair: “Zion Down Under\, or Israel through the Looking Glass” DESCRIPTION:Photo of Melech Ravitch with a young Aboriginal woman in the outback. Photo courtesy of Monash University.\nDr. Sinclair will tell us how Melech Ravitch – poet\, traveller\, and (until 1934) Executive Secretary of the Fareyn fun Yidishe Literatn un Zhurnalistn in Varshe – got wind of the approaching catastrophe of the Holocaust\, and scanned the globe for a place of refuge. With this in mind he set out for Australia in 1933\, and upon arrival mounted an expedition to the Kimberleys in the Northern Territory. \nHis account of the journey – written in Yiddish – and his numerous photographs\, display a remarkable and unusual sympathy for the aboriginal people. Indeed\, he saw in them a reflection of the suffering of his own people he had left behind in Europe. \nRavitch is an engaging companion. And if it weren’t for the historic tragedies that befell both Jews and Aborigines his journey would be the stuff of comedy. \nIn the 1980s his journey and experience was recreated on canvas by his famous son\, Yosl Bergner. Still only seventeen\, Bergner had followed his father to Australia\, where he soon established himself as the conscience of Australian art. Like his father he felt a kinship for the Aborigines\, magnified by the awareness of what exactly had befallen European Jewry. In 1950 Yosl Bergner arrived in Israel\, where he eventually became one of the country’s most distinguished artists. Just as his father saw Australia as a sort of double-exposure – Europe over-laid upon Australasia – so Bergner juxtaposes Israel and Australia\, producing a looking-glass image of the Promised Land. In short\, the father presents a version of What-Might-Have-Been\, while the son offers a portrait of a dreamer disappointed.\nClive Sinclair has published 13 books of fiction\, travel\, and autobiography\, some of which have been given prizes. Early in his career he was selected as one of the twenty Best of Young British Novelists. His most acclaimed collection of stories – The Lady and the Laptop – won both the PEN Silver pen for fiction\, and the Jewish Quarterly award for fiction. An earlier collection\, Bedbugs\, was recently republished by Syracuse University Press in its Library of Modern Jewish Literature. In 2008 he published Clive Sinclair’s True Tales of the Wild West\, an exercise in Dodgy Realism. He also leads a double-life as an academic and critic: he has published a study of Isaac Bashevis and Israel Joshua Singer – The Brothers Singer – and writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement. His association with UCSC began in 1969\, when he arrived from England as a graduate student; it continued in 1980-81\, when he returned as a Visiting Lecturer\, as he did again in 2003. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/clive-sinclair-zion-down-under-or-israel-through-the-looking-glass-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130130T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130130T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121113T231821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T231821Z UID:10004744-1359548100-1359554400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Christopher Connery: "Is China Socialist (And Why Are We Asking this Question)?" DESCRIPTION:Christopher Connery’s recent work has centered on the global 1960s and its aftermaths\, Chinese urbanism\, and Shanghai studies. He is currently working on a psychogeographical study of Shanghai. His talk is part of a series of reflections on left and anti-capitalist critical discourse on contemporary China\, in China and internationally. \nChristopher Connery is Professor of World Literature and Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-christopher-connery-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130130T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130130T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20130125T232533Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130125T232533Z UID:10005332-1359558000-1359565200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:UCSC Educational Technology Trade Show: Faculty Helping Faculty DESCRIPTION:Come learn from faculty and instructional support staff about educational technologies that can charm and engage students. No matter whether you use Mac\, PC\, iOS\, or Linux\, we will have examples of educational technologies that work on each of these platforms. Presentations from faculty in each academic division\, Learning Technologies\, and UCSC Extension. Although the event runs from 3-5:00 p.m.\, dropping by for just 20 minutes would allow you to visit a couple of tables and be inspired. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ucsc-educational-technology-trade-show-faculty-helping-faculty-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130130T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130130T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20130117T231531Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130117T231531Z UID:10004775-1359559800-1359565200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading by Carmen Gimenez Smith DESCRIPTION:Please stay tuned for more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/creative-writing-reading-by-carmen-gimenez-smith-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130130T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130130T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20130114T170128Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130114T170128Z UID:10005313-1359561600-1359567000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Marilyn Westerkamp: "Gracious Invaders and Frightened Magistrates: Gender\, Charisma\, and the Limits of Political Power in 17th Century New England" DESCRIPTION:Marilyn Westerkamp is Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz. \nDinner reception follows at the Stevenson Provost House. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research and the History Department. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/marilyn-westerkamp-gracious-invaders-and-frightened-magistrates-gender-charisma-and-the-limits-of-political-power-in-17th-century-new-england-2/ LOCATION:Silverman Conference Room\, Stevenson\, Stevenson College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130131T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130131T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20130131T232225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130131T232225Z UID:10005346-1359648000-1359653400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jan Boxill: "Using Sports as a Public Forum for Ethics" DESCRIPTION:Dr. Jan Boxill is Director of the Parr Center for Ethics\, Chair of the Faculty\, and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. \nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. Presented annually by the Philosophy Department\, the Ethics Lecture is made possible by the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics\, a fund created in honor of Peggy Downes’s longtime interest in ethical issues across the academic spectrum. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jan-boxill-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130131T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130131T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20130117T231753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130117T231753Z UID:10004777-1359655200-1359660600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading by Carmen Gimenez Smith DESCRIPTION:Please stay tuned for more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-reading-by-carmen-gimenez-smith-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130202T084500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130202T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20130114T171113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130114T171113Z UID:10005314-1359794700-1359824400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:2013 California Regional High School Ethics Bowl Competition DESCRIPTION:An Ethics Bowl is a collaborative yet competitive event\, more nuanced than debate\, in which teams are presented with a series of wide-ranging ethical dilemmas and are asked to analyze them; they are then judged on the basis of their analyses. An exciting tournament\, it is also a way for students to gain valuable insight into ethical and philosophical issues.\nLocation:\nCollege Nine: Social Science 1\, Rooms 110 and 161 \nCollege Ten: Social Sciences 2\, Rooms 71\, 75 and 179\nSchedule: \n8:00 Judges Training: Social Science 2\, Room 141 \n8:45 Welcome \n9:00 Round 1 \n10:10 Round 2 \n11:20 Round 3 \n12:30 Lunch \n1:30 Round 4 \n3:00 Final Round with reception ending at 5:00\nFor more information\, please visit: http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/ethicsbowl/highschoolethicsbowl.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2013-california-regional-high-school-ethics-bowl-competition-2/ LOCATION:Multiple Venues\, College 9 & College 10\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130202T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130202T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121113T232452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T232452Z UID:10004746-1359797400-1359824400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mediterranean Studies MRP Workshop - UCLA DESCRIPTION:The Mediterranean Seminar/University of California Multi-Campus Research Project (MRP) in Mediterranean Studies announces its Winter 2013 Workshop\, to be held at UCLA on Saturday\, 2 February 2013. This is part of a three-day event which also includes the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) Ahmanson Conference\, “Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean\,” to be held on January 31-February 1. \nThe Workshop consists of discussion of three pre-circulated papers and a talk by our featured scholar\, Michael Herzfeld (Anthropology\, Harvard University). \nCarol Lansing\, Professor of History\, UC Santa Barbara\n“Captive Women in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Later Middle Ages” \nErith Jaffe-Berg\, Associate Professor of Theater\, UC Riverside\n“Mediterranean Cartographies of Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell’ Arte Actresses” \nLucia Carminati\, Graduate Student\, Middle Eastern and North African Studies\, University of Arizona\n“Egypt 1919: Working-class Cosmopolitanism and Shifting Boundaries of Belonging” \nMichael Herzfeld\, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences\, Harvard University\n“Gender\, Geography\, and the Imagining of the Mediterranean” \nSpace is limited\, so please register now. Registration opens for UC faculty and graduate students and those at institutions affiliated with the Mediterranean Consortium today. Registration for all others will begin on Dec. 26 (registration requests may be sent in at any time; early applications will be queued in the order they are received). \nTravel assistance (max $350) will be provided to attendees coming from outside the LA area. UC graduate students and faculty are guaranteed this support; others can apply\, and it will be awarded on the basis of availability. \nRegistration requests and other inquiries should be directed to Courtney Mahaney (cmahaney@ucsc.edu) at the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research. \nAttendees are encouraged to register for the Ahmanson Conference. This is done through UCLA’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; see http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/calendar_jan13.html#1-30. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mediterranean-studies-3/ LOCATION:University of California\, Los Angeles\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130206T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130206T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121113T232826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T232826Z UID:10004748-1360152900-1360159200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Lyn Hejinian: "The Avant-Garde in Progress" DESCRIPTION:Lynn Hejinian is currently at work on a book-length essay\, tentatively titled The Positions of the Sun\, and exploring practical as well as conceptual possibilities for avant-garde and quotidian practices under conditions of late (or perhaps\, now\, triumphant) capitalism. \nLyn Hejinian is professor of English at UC Berkeley. She is a poet and critic. She works on modernist and postmodern literature\, American postwar experimental literature\, Gertrude Stein\, the Objectivists\, Language Writing\, Soviet Russian poetry\, translation\, small press publishing\, and questions of aesthetics and ethics. \nHer work includes the following books of poetry: Saga / Circus (Omnidawn Books\, 2008) Situations\, Sings (written with Jack Collom; Adventures in Poetry\, 2008) The Lake (with Emilie Clark; Granary Books\, 2004) My Life in the Nineties (Shark Books\, 2003) The Fatalist (Omnidawn Books\, 2003) Slowly (Tuumba Press\, 2002) A Border Comedy (Granary Books\, 2001) The Beginner (Spectacular Books\, 2000; Tuumba Press\, 2002) Happily (Post-Apollo Press\, 2000) Sight (written with Leslie Scalapino; Edge Books\, 1999) Oxota: A Short Russian Novel (The Figures\, 1991)\, and My Life (second version; Sun & Moon Press\, 1987). \nHer non-fiction work includes The Language of Inquiry (University of California Press\, 2000) Leningrad\, written with Michael Davidson\, Ron Silliman\, Barrett Watten (Mercury House\, 1991). She has also published two translations: Description\, poems by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (Sun & Moon Press\, 1990) and Xenia\, poems by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (Sun & Moon Press\, 1994). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-lyn-hejinian-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130206T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130206T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20130117T232002Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130117T232002Z UID:10004779-1360164600-1360170000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading by Josie Sigler Sibara DESCRIPTION:Stay tuned for more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/creative-writing-reading-by-josie-sigler-sibarra-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130206T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130206T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121213T003219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121213T003219Z UID:10005259-1360171800-1360177200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Poetry Reading with Lyn Hejinian\, Keegan Finberg and Michael Dhyne DESCRIPTION:Lyn Hejinian\nLyn Hejinian is professor of English at UC Berkeley. She is a poet and critic. She works on modernist and postmodern literature\, American postwar experimental literature\, Gertrude Stein\, the Objectivists\, Language Writing\, Soviet Russian poetry\, translation\, small press publishing\, and questions of aesthetics and ethics. \nHer work includes the following books of poetry: Saga / Circus (Omnidawn Books\, 2008) Situations\, Sings (written with Jack Collom; Adventures in Poetry\, 2008) The Lake (with Emilie Clark; Granary Books\, 2004) My Life in the Nineties (Shark Books\, 2003) The Fatalist (Omnidawn Books\, 2003) Slowly (Tuumba Press\, 2002) A Border Comedy (Granary Books\, 2001) The Beginner (Spectacular Books\, 2000; Tuumba Press\, 2002) Happily (Post-Apollo Press\, 2000) Sight (written with Leslie Scalapino; Edge Books\, 1999) Oxota: A Short Russian Novel (The Figures\, 1991)\, and My Life (second version; Sun & Moon Press\, 1987). \nHer non-fiction work includes The Language of Inquiry (University of California Press\, 2000) Leningrad\, written with Michael Davidson\, Ron Silliman\, Barrett Watten (Mercury House\, 1991). She has also published two translations: Description\, poems by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (Sun & Moon Press\, 1990) and Xenia\, poems by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (Sun & Moon Press\, 1994). \nKeegan Cook Finberg\nKeegan Cook Finberg is a PhD candidate in Literature at University of California\, Santa Cruz. She works on twentieth and twenty-first-century poetry in English and French\, especially avant-garde and experimental works. Her approach includes particular attention to poetry’s relation to media\, architectural space\, and affect. She also co-directs the Poetry and Politics Research Cluster and Reading Series at UCSC. Her poetry has been published in Bone Bouquet (2012) and The Little Jackie Paper (2006). She is currently finishing up a poetry manuscript about bed bugs. \nMichael Dhyne\nMichael Dhyne is from Burlingame\, CA and is currently an undergraduate student at UCSC studying Creative Writing. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetry-reading-with-lyn-hejinian-keegan-finberg-michael-dhyne-2/ LOCATION:Felix Kulpa Gallery\, 107 Elm Street\, Santa Cruz\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130207T060000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130207T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20130117T232229Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130117T232229Z UID:10004781-1360216800-1360265400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading by Josie Sigler Sibara DESCRIPTION:Please stay tuned for more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-reading-by-josie-sigler-sibarra-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130207T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130207T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20130131T011021Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130131T011021Z UID:10005335-1360238400-1360243800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Maziar Toosarvandani: "Gapping is VP Ellipsis " DESCRIPTION:Where does the gap in gapping — e.g. Some had ordered mussels\, and others swordfish — come from? The traditional answer is deletion (Ross 1970\, Hankamer 1979\, among others). Johnson (2009) presents a formidable challenge to this view. He argues that gapping cannot arise through deletion because gapping has several unique properties that distinguish it from more familiar deletion operations\, such as VP-ellipsis. Instead\, Johnson proposes that the gap in gapping arises through ‘low coordination’ — coordination of vPs — and across-the-board movement. \nFirst\, I argue that across-the-board movement cannot be a general account of gapping\, since it is not able to derive the gap in coordination structures with corrective but (Vicente 2010\, Toosarvandani\, to appear). Then\, I revive a version of the deletion account\,  in which gapping is VP-ellipsis in a low-coordination structure. This correctly generates gapping in corrective but sentences. Moreover\, once the information-structural properties of low coordinations are taken into consideration — low coordinates must have parallel focus structures — it also accounts for the unique properties of gapping. \nReferences \nRoss\, John Robert. 1970. Gapping and the order of constituents. In Progress in linguistics\, eds. Manfred Bierwisch and Karl Erich Heidolph\, 249-259. The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter.\nHankamer\, Jorge. 1979. Deletion in coordinate structures. New York: Garland Publishing.\nJohnson\, Kyle. 2009. Gapping is not (VP-)ellipsis. Linguistic Inquiry 40:289-328.\nToosarvandani\, Maziar. To appear. Corrective but coordinates clauses not always but sometimes. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.\nVicente\, Luis. 2010. On the syntax of adversative coordination. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 28:381-415. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/maziar-toosarvandani-gapping-is-vp-ellipsis-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130207T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130207T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20130129T180837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130129T180837Z UID:10005334-1360252800-1360258200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jonathan Kaplan: "Turning social categories into biological realities: 'Race' made biological" DESCRIPTION:Biological facts can neither determine nor justify the racial categories identified in our ordinary social discourse. Claims to the contrary confuse our ability to find biological correlates to populations with our social reasons for picking out and maintaining those categories over time. Using recent arguments surrounding “race” and medicine as an example\, I argue that rejecting misguided claims regarding the biological nature of “race” remains important if we are to respond appropriately to the injustices inherent in the fundamental importance that socially ascribed racial categories continue to have in determining people’s life-prospects \nDr. Jonathan Kaplan‘s main research interests lie in the Philosophy of Biology and in Social and Political Philosophy. His recent publications include work on human behavior genetics\, on the conceptual foundations of evolutionary biology\, on issues surrounding the roles that race plays in medicine and in housing\, and on the discourses surrounding race and human biology more generally. He is currently an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University.\nArticle of interest: \nPrisoners of Abstraction? The Theory and Measure of Genetic Variation\, and the Very Concept of “Race”\nby Jonathan Michael Kaplan & Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jonathan-kaplan-turning-social-categories-into-biological-realities-race-made-biological-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130211T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130211T104000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20130123T180247Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130123T180247Z UID:10005326-1360575000-1360579200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Michael Thaler: “Role of Bio-Science and Medicine in Nazi Radical Policies and the Holocaust” DESCRIPTION:Reception to follow lecture. \nMichael Thaler is a Professor Emeritus of Pediatric Medicine\, UC San Francisco\, and a Lecturer in History\, UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/michael-thaler-role-of-bio-science-and-medicine-in-nazi-radical-policies-and-the-holocaust-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130212T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130212T120000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20130212T182709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130212T182709Z UID:10005361-1360659600-1360670400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable XV DESCRIPTION:UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SANTA CRUZ: MARCH 22-24\, 2013\nSession V (9 a.m.-Noon)\nChair: Paul Roth\, UCSC \nAnalytical sociology and rhetoric: Large scale social phenomena arguably triggered by innocuous rhetorical devices\nAlban Bouvier\, Jean Nicod Institute\, Paris \nThe Idea of Philosophy and its Relation to Social Science\nMark Theunissen\, The New School \nThe Concept of a ‘Process’ in Norbert Elias’s Figurational Sociology\nPhilip Walsh\, York University\nThe Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable thanks the following units at UCSC for their financial support of this conference: Institute for Humanities Research; Department of Philosophy; Department of Economics URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/philosophy-of-social-science-roundtable-xv-3-2/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130212T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130212T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20130114T232736Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130114T232736Z UID:10005316-1360695600-1360701000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gail Hershatter: "Rural Women\, Memory\, and China’s Collective Past" DESCRIPTION:The 47th Annual Faculty Research Lecture will be given by Distinguished Professor of History\, Gail Hershatter\, on Tuesday February 12th\, 2013 at 7pm at the Music Recital hall in the Performing Arts Complex. A reception in the lobby will immediately follow the lecture. Doors open at 6:30pm. This event is free and open to the public. Parking $4. Doors open at 6:30pm \nWhat can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group—rural women—at the center of the inquiry? In this talk\, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of women in rural Shaanxi province during the early decades of state socialism\, the 1950s and 1960s. She suggests that we think of gender not as a structure\, but rather as a fractured\, unpredictable\, and expansive terrain. Beginning with the memories of a former child daughter-in-law turned village activist\, she asks whether rural Chinese women had a revolution\, and if so\, when and what sort of revolution it was. Such questions encourage us to consider others that preoccupy historians: when is gender a useful category of historical analysis? How is the historical record shaped in interactions with the present moment? What counts as an event? Who gets to decide? URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gail-hershatter-rural-women-memory-and-chinas-collective-past-2/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130213T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130213T104000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20130123T180505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130123T180505Z UID:10005328-1360747800-1360752000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dora Sorell: “Tell the Children” DESCRIPTION:Reception following lecture. \nDora Sorell grew up in the small town of Sighet in Northern Romania between the two World Wars. In May 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz along with most of the town’s 10\,000 Jewish inhabitants. She survived the ordeal\, but her parents\, two of her brothers\, and some 40 members of her extended family perished in the gas chambers. Dora returned to Sighet\, married her high school sweetheart\, and built a career and raised a family before emigrating to the West to be with her surviving brothers. More information about her autobiography\, Tell the Children\, Letters to Miriam\, is can be found on her website: http://www.letterstomygrandchildren.com/index.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dora-sorell-tell-the-children-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130213T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130213T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121113T233458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T233458Z UID:10005241-1360757700-1360764000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sharon Kinoshita: "Re-Orientations: The Worlding of Marco Polo" DESCRIPTION:In her new translation of Marco Polo’s Travels\, Sharon Kinoshita reorients a text typically read as a western narrative of first contact\, by returning it to its original context\, the midpoint of the century chronicled in Abu-Lughod’s Before European Hegemony\, and to its original title\, The Description of the World. \nSharon Kinoshita is Professor of Literature\, and Co-Director of the Center for Mediterranean Studies at UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-sharon-kinoshita-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130213T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130213T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20130117T232803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130117T232803Z UID:10004783-1360769400-1360774800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading by Ronaldo Wilson DESCRIPTION:Ronaldo V. Wilson is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh\, 2008)\, winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books\, 2009)\, winner of the Thom Gunn Award and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry in 2010. His latest book\, Farther Traveler: Poetry\, Prose\, Other\, is forthcoming from Counterpath Press in 2013. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in the journals Callaloo\, Interim\, Bombay Gin\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, 1913\, and The Volta\, as well as in the anthologies Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (Norton\, 2013); The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare (Nightboat Books\, 2012); and Among Friends Engendering the Social Site of Poetry (University of Iowa Press\, 2013). He holds a PhD in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York\, a MA in Poetry from New York University’s Graduate Creative Writing Program\, and an AB in English from the University of California\, Berkeley. Co-founder of the Black Took Collective\, Wilson is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry\, Fiction and Literature in the Literature Department of the University of California\, Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/creative-writing-reading-by-ronaldo-wilson-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130214T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130214T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121113T233040Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T233040Z UID:10005240-1360859400-1360864800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:David Blank: "Volumina Herculanensia: the Library of the Villa of the Papyri and its books" DESCRIPTION:Between 1752 and 1754 the only library to survive from the Roman world complete with its books was discovered in a grand villa in the seaside town of Herculaneum. The talk will serve as an introduction to this remarkable discovery and the treatment of its books\, from the 18th to the 20th centuries. \nDavid Blank is a student of ancient philosophy\, from the Presocratics to the later Platonists. He has worked especially on philosophy of language and philology in antiquity. He has also worked extensively on the Herculaneum Papyri and is editing several papyri of Philodemus’ On Rhetoric. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics at UCLA. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ancient-studies-david-blank-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130214T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130214T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20130117T232937Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130117T232937Z UID:10004785-1360864800-1360870200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading by Ronaldo Wilson DESCRIPTION:Ronaldo V. Wilson is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh\, 2008)\, winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books\, 2009)\, winner of the Thom Gunn Award and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry in 2010. His latest book\, Farther Traveler: Poetry\, Prose\, Other\, is forthcoming from Counterpath Press in 2013. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in the journals Callaloo\, Interim\, Bombay Gin\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, 1913\, and The Volta\, as well as in the anthologies Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (Norton\, 2013); The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare (Nightboat Books\, 2012); and Among Friends Engendering the Social Site of Poetry (University of Iowa Press\, 2013). He holds a PhD in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York\, a MA in Poetry from New York University’s Graduate Creative Writing Program\, and an AB in English from the University of California\, Berkeley. Co-founder of the Black Took Collective\, Wilson is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry\, Fiction and Literature in the Literature Department of the University of California\, Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-reading-by-ronaldo-wilson-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130220T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130220T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20130201T000833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130201T000833Z UID:10005348-1361361600-1361368800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:American Indian Writers Series: Rain Archambeau-Marshall DESCRIPTION:Rain L. Archambeau Marshall (Yankton/Choctaw) is an attorney and professor in Native American Environmental Studies at Humboldt State University. Formerly Attorney General for the Rosebud Sioux tribe\, Rain is a American Civil Liberties Union Ira Glasser Racial Justice Fellow. She will speak on civil rights in education. \nThis 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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/american-indian-writers-series-rain-archambeau-marshall-2/ LOCATION:Cervantes & Velasquez Room\, Baytree Conference Center\, Bay Tree Conference Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130220T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130220T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20121113T233612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T233612Z UID:10005242-1361362500-1361368800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Janette Dinishak: "Autism & Neurodiversity" DESCRIPTION:Janette Dinishak’s work explores how Wittgenstein’s concept “noticing an aspect” can provide a frame for capturing and understanding commonly neglected phenomena that are characteristic of autistic experience. She also traces the inter-relations between scientific\, cultural\, and first-person perspectives on autism and how these perspectives interact in shaping our understanding of autism. \nJanette Dinishak is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-janette-dinishak-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130220T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130220T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20130117T233158Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130117T233158Z UID:10005320-1361374200-1361379600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading by Amaranth Borsuk DESCRIPTION:Amaranth Borsuk is the author of Handiwork (Slope\, 2012)\, selected by Paul Hoover for the 2011 Slope Books Prize\, and\, together with programmer Brad Bouse\, of Between Page and Screen (Siglio\, 2012)\, a book of augmented-reality poems. In 2010\, her chapbook-length erasure\, Tonal Saw\, was published by The Song Cave. Her poems\, essays\, translations and reviews have appeared widely in print and online\, and pieces have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Chicago Review\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, American Letters & Commentary\, and The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare. Her intermedia project Abra\, a hybrid book-performance collaboration with Kate Durbin\, Zach Kleyn\, and Ian Hatcher\, recently received an Expanded Artists’ Books grant from the Center for Book and Paper Arts in Chicago and will be issued as an artist’s book and iOS app in fall of 2013. She teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington\, Bothell. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/creative-writing-reading-by-amaranth-borsuk-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130220T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130220T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20130201T001535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130201T001535Z UID:10005349-1361376000-1361383200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:American Indian Writers Series: Rain Gomez DESCRIPTION:Rain Gomez won the 2009 First Book Award in poetry for Smoked Mullet Cornbread Crawdad Memory (Mongrel Empire Press\, Fall 2012). A self described “TriRacially Fluffy and Fabulous” Louisiana Méstiza\,poet\, academic and musician.Her critical work\, “Brackish Bayou Blood: Weaving Mixed Blood Indian Creole Identity Outside the Written Record\,” appears in American Indian Culture and Research Journal. \nThis 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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/american-indian-writers-series-rain-gomez-2/ LOCATION:Ethnic Resource Lounge\, Bay Tree Conference Center\, Bay Tree Conference Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130221T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130221T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20130216T020626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130216T020626Z UID:10005371-1361448000-1361455200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Joseph Sabbagh: "Specificity and Objecthood in Tagalog" DESCRIPTION:LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM\nJoseph Sabbagh (UT Arlington) \nCurrent analyses of the syntax of transitive constructions in Tagalog (Austronesian\, Philippines) are constructed around the claim that the theme argument of a transitive verb\, if it is semantically specific\, must be realized as the subject of a ‘theme-subject’ clause. In reality\, a specific theme may be realized in one of three different ways: (i) as the subject of a ‘theme-subject’ clause; (ii) as an oblique-marked direct object of an `actor-subject’ clause; or (iii) as an “ordinary” (genitive marked) direct object of an ‘actor-subject’ clause. Which of these options is available depends on the type of theme involved: Option(iii) is not available for pronouns or proper nouns\, but is available for other specific and non-specific themes; options (i) and (ii) are unavailable for non-specific themes; and all three are available for all other types of specific theme. \nUnderlying these different morpho-syntactic options\, I argue\, is a clause structure in which there are at least three distinct syntactic positions available for theme arguments. Pronoun and proper noun themes obligatorily occur in the highest of these three positions (a position that is above the external argument)\, while non-specific themes occupy the lowest of these positions (the base/theta-position of the theme). Otherspecific themes occupy an intermediate position within vP (below the external argument\, but above the base/theta-position of the theme). Much of the talk is devoted to motivating these three syntactic positions. This particular distribution of syntactic positions provides positive evidence for proposals that postulate a direct\,formally coded\, correspondence between syntactic prominence and the semantic/pragmatic prominence relations posited by relational/markedness hierarchies—in particular\, the Definiteness Scale (Pronoun > Proper noun > Definite > Specific (indefinite)). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joseph-sabbagh-specificity-and-objecthood-in-tagalog-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130221T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130221T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120634 CREATED:20121214T185015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121214T185015Z UID:10005261-1361462400-1361469600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"Asian America: Triangulations about a Semisphere" DESCRIPTION:The UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies presents: \nAsian America: Triangulations about a Semisphere\nA creative presentation\, Karen Tei Yamashita will read excerpts from her novel\, I Hotel\, forthcoming book of performances\, Anime Wong\, and the essay “Borges & I\,” as an opportunity think about the past 45 years of Asian American and Ethnic Studies with respect to our present and future. This will be followed by an informal conversation with Aimee Bahng and Alondra Nelson. \n  \nKaren Tei Yamashita (photo by Carolyn Lagattuta)\nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest\, Brazil-Maru\, Tropic of Orange\, Circle K Cycles\, and I Hotel\, all published by Coffee House Press. I Hotel was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the California Book Award\, the American Book Award\, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award\, and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. She is currently a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellow and Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \n  \n  \nAimee Bahng\nAimee Bahng is an assistant professor of English at Dartmouth College with affiliations in Women’s and Gender Studies\, Asian American Studies\, and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies. Her work on postcolonial science fiction has appeared in MELUS and Critical Studies. Her current book manuscript on speculation examines competing narratives of futurity in contemporary fiction\, film\, and finance. \n  \n  \nAlondra Nelson\nAlondra Nelson is Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Columbia University. An interdisciplinary social scientist\, she writes about the intersections of science\, technology\, medicine\, and inequality. Her first book\, Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination\, was recognized with several professional prizes\, including the Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians. She is also an editor of Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA\, Race\, and History; Technicolor: Race\, Technology\, and Everyday Life; and “Afrofuturism” a special issue of Social Text. Her next book\, The Social Life of DNA\, will be published by Beacon Press.\nThis event is organized and sponsored by the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute of Humanities Research. For further information\, including disabled access\, please contact Shann Ritchie\, sritchie@ucsc.edu\, (831) 459-5655. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/asian-america-triangulations-about-a-semisphere-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130221T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130221T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120634 CREATED:20130117T233435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130117T233435Z UID:10005322-1361469600-1361475000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading by Amaranth Borsuk DESCRIPTION:Amaranth Borsuk is the author of Handiwork (Slope\, 2012)\, selected by Paul Hoover for the 2011 Slope Books Prize\, and\, together with programmer Brad Bouse\, of Between Page and Screen (Siglio\, 2012)\, a book of augmented-reality poems. In 2010\, her chapbook-length erasure\, Tonal Saw\, was published by The Song Cave. Her poems\, essays\, translations and reviews have appeared widely in print and online\, and pieces have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Chicago Review\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, American Letters & Commentary\, and The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare. Her intermedia project Abra\, a hybrid book-performance collaboration with Kate Durbin\, Zach Kleyn\, and Ian Hatcher\, recently received an Expanded Artists’ Books grant from the Center for Book and Paper Arts in Chicago and will be issued as an artist’s book and iOS app in fall of 2013. She teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington\, Bothell. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-reading-by-amaranth-borsuk-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130225T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130225T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120634 CREATED:20130214T200630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130214T200630Z UID:10005369-1361795400-1361800800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Tanya Maria Golash-Boza: "Mass Deportation and the Neoliberal Cycle" DESCRIPTION:The United States is deporting more people than ever before – nearly 400\,000 each year since 2006. Many deportees have close ties to the United States: in 2011\, 100\,000 deportees had U.S. citizen children. The vast majority of deportees are men of color. How do we explain this devastating policy shift? I argue that neoliberalism and\, by extension\, global capitalism\, make the mass deportation of men of color possible in the current context. Mass deportation is a U.S. policy response designed to relocate surplus labor to the periphery and to keep labor in the United States compliant. The U.S. public accepts this policy response because it targets men of color – people perceived to be expendable in the current economy. \nTanya Golash-Boza is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California\, Merced. She is the author of three books: 1) Due Process Denied (2012)\, which describes how and why non-citizens in the United States have been detained and deported for minor crimes\, without regard for constitutional limits on disproportionate punishment; 2) Immigration Nation (2012)\, which provides a critical analysis of the impact that U.S. immigration policy has on human rights; and 3) Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru (2011)\, the first book in English to address what it means to be black in Peru. She has also published many articles in peer-reviewed journals on deportations\, racial identity\, human rights\, U.S. Latinos/as and Latin America\, in addition to essays and chapters in edited volumes and online venues. Her innovative scholarship was awarded the Distinguished Early Career Award from the Racial and Ethnic Minorities Studies Section of the American Sociological Association in 2010. \nEvent presented by the UCSC Sociology Colloquium Series and the Center for Labor Studies. For Information about access\, please contact Barbara Laurence at balauren@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tanya-maria-golash-boza-mass-deportation-and-the-neoliberal-cycle-2/ LOCATION:College 8\, Room 301\, College Eight Rd‎\, University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130225T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130225T184500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120634 CREATED:20130118T180945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130118T180945Z UID:10005324-1361811600-1361817900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:David Myers: "A Hasidic Town in New York? As American as Apple Pie?" DESCRIPTION:David Myers is professor of Jewish history and chair of the UCLA History Department. He is currently at work with Nomi Stolzenberg (USC) on a book on the Satmar Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel\, New York. This project represents a significant departure from his work in the fields of German-Jewish intellectual history\, the history of Jewish historiography\, and the history of Zionism. In his current work\, he is combining historical\, ethnographic\, and legal approaches to examine the rise to prominence of a self-contained and legally recognized municipality in the State of New York that consists entirely of Hasidic Jews. His research shows that the creation of such a homogeneous shtetl has had few parallels in Jewish history\, though it is not nearly so unusual in American history\, which has an identifiable tradition of permitting strong forms of religious sub-communities to take root.\nReception to follow talk. \nThis event is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies with generous support from the David B. Gold Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/david-myers-a-hasidic-town-in-new-york-as-american-as-apple-pie-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130225T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130225T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120634 CREATED:20130206T171918Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130206T171918Z UID:10005353-1361820600-1361827800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:“Mendelsohn’s Incessant Visions” Screening and Q&A with Director Duki Dror DESCRIPTION:Free and Open to the Public\nGeneral Admission Seating\, first come\, first served\nParking available in Performing Arts Lot ($4) \nSynopsis: This film is a cinematic mediation about the untold story of Erich Mendelsohn\,  whose life and career were as enigmatic and tragic as the path of the century. He drew sketches on tiny pieces of paper and sent them from the trenches to a young cellist\, who was waiting for him in Berlin.  She thought he was a genius and after WWI\, she helped him become the busiest architect in Germany.  When she planned to leave him for a communist poet\, he built a perfect house for her\, entirely planned by him from the lakeview living room\, to the silverware and her evening gowns.  When the Nazis came to power\, they abandoned the house and left Germany forever.  Erich and Louise Mendelsohn have wandered between continents\, between world wars\, between success and failure.  The buildings that Erich built around the world\, scattered as a trail of their journey\, have changed the history of architecture. \nAward-winning filmmaker and current Schusterman Visiting Artist\, Duki Dror (The Journey of Vaan Nguyen\, Raging Dove) has created a spectacular interpretation based on Erich and Louise’s relationship\, for one of the most captivating chapters in the development of modern art. \nWatch the Trailer \nPresented by The Arts Division and Film and Digital Media. Co-Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies\, Arts Dean’s Arts Excellence Fund\, and Santa Cruz Jewish Film Festival. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mendelsohns-incessant-visions-screening-and-qa-with-director-duki-dror-2/ LOCATION:Media Theater\, M110 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130226T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130226T161500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120634 CREATED:20130225T170047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130225T170047Z UID:10004795-1361890800-1361895300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Claire Farago: "Seeing the Unmodern in the Modern: Leonardo and the Legibility of Religion" DESCRIPTION:Written in an era before modern distinctions among art\, science\, and religion existed\, Leonardo da Vinci’s treatise on painting is regarded today as a canonical text in the history of western art for its scientific approach to problems of representation. New evidence suggests that prior to publication this text was appropriated in a Catholic Reformation effort designed to promote a legible style of painting suitable for sacred subjects. Today\, we do not usually think of it as ideologically freighted by the concerns of Christianity with the ontology of images. What does bringing together historical and contemporary theoretical approaches to questions of artifice–especially to the fantasy of a transparent\, indexical way of imitating nature that avoids artifice–offer contemporary visual studies? \nClaire Farago is Professor of Renaissance Art\, Theory\, and Criticism at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Her publications include Leonardo da Vinci’s Paragone: A Critical Interpretation (1992) and most recently\, Art Is Not What You Think It Is (2012)\, co-authored with Donald Preziosi\, as well as edited volumes and other collaborative projects including Reframing the Renaissance: Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America 1450 to 1650 (1995)\, Grasping the World: The Idea of the Museum (2004)\, Transforming Images: New Mexican Santos in-between Worlds (2006)\, and Re-Reading Leonardo: The Treatise on Painting across Europe 1550-1900 (2009). She has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at UCLA\, the Wiley Visiting Professor of Renaissance Art at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill\, MacGeorge Fellow Visiting Professor at the University of Melbourne\, and the inaugural Fulbright-York Scholar at the University of York\, UK. Working with an international team of scholars\, currently she is preparing a modern critical edition of Leonardo da Vinci’s abridged Treatise on Painting first published in 1651. \nFor information or to accommodate a disability: History of Art and Visual Culture\, 459-4564\, havc@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/claire-farago-seeing-the-unmodern-in-the-modern-leonardo-and-the-legibility-of-religion-2/ LOCATION:Porter C-118 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130227T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130227T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120634 CREATED:20121113T233724Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T233724Z UID:10005243-1361967300-1361973600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Marc Matera: "Modernism in the Art & Criticism on Ronald Moody" DESCRIPTION:Marc Matera is finishing a book\, London and the Black International\, on the wider Atlantic and imperial horizons of black activism\, intellectual work\, and cultural production in London between the world wars. His most recent work examines the Jamaican visual artist Ronald Moody’s agonistic relationship to modernism. \nMarc Matera is Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-marc-matera-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130227T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130227T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120634 CREATED:20130225T170405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130225T170405Z UID:10004796-1361991600-1361998800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Film Screening: Dante's Inferno directed by Sandow Birk DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public (English dialogue) \nMelding the seemingly disparate traditions of apocalyptic live-action graphic novel and charming Victorian-era toy theater\, Dante’s Inferno is a subversive\, darkly satirical update of the original 14th-century literary classic\, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. Retold with the use of intricately hand-drawn paper puppets and miniature sets\, and without the use of CGI effects\, this brilliant film takes viewers on a tour of Hell. \nSporting a hoodie and a hangover from the previous night’s debauchery\, Dante wakes to find he is lost — literally and metaphorically — in a strange part of town. He asks the first guy he sees for some help\, who turns out to be the ancient Roman poet Virgil\, author of the Aeneid. \nThe pair descends into the underworld\, where Virgil shows Dante the underbelly of the Inferno. Oddly enough\, it closely resembles the decayed landscape of modern urban life: used car lots\, strip malls\, airport security checks\, and the U.S. Capitol URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-dantes-inferno-directed-by-sandow-birk-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130228T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130228T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120634 CREATED:20121214T201910Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121214T201910Z UID:10005275-1362074400-1362074400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Living Writers Reading Series: Geoffrey G. O'Brien DESCRIPTION:Geoffrey G. O’Brien is the author of Metropole (2011)\, Green and Gray (2007)\, and The Guns and Flags Project (2002)\, all from The University of California Press. His next book\, People on Sunday (Wave Books)\, Fall 2013; his chapbooks include Hesiod (Song Cave\, 2010)\, and Poem with No Good Lines (Hand Held Editions\, 2010). He is the coauthor (with John Ashbery and Timothy Donnelly) of Three Poets: Ashbery\, Donnelly\, O’Brien (Minus A Press\, 2012)\, and in collaboration with the poet Jeff Clark is the author of 2A (Quemadura\, 2006). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-reading-series-geoffrey-g-obrien-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130228T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130228T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120634 CREATED:20121214T200223Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121214T200223Z UID:10005273-1362078000-1362085200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Emerging Worlds Lecture Series: "Shifting Worlds" DESCRIPTION:The Anthropology Department presents:\nEmerging Worlds Lecture Series: “Shifting Worlds” \nMarilyn Strathern\nDame Marilyn Strathern was the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University from 1994 to 2008. She has written about new reproductive technologies and intellectual property law and her most recent work focuses on the complexities of transparency\, accountability\, and audit\, especially within the academy. She is the author many of books\, among which the most influential are The Gender of the Gift (University of Calfornia Press\, 1988)\, Partial Connections (Altamira Press2004 [1991]); Kinship\, Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are Often a Surprise (Cambridge University Press\, 2005). \nDonna Haraway\nDonna Haraway is Professor of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her research interests include feminist theory\, cultural and historical studies of science and technology\, relation of life and human sciences\, and human-animal relations. In her refusal of human-exceptionalism\, Haraway explores multi-species entanglements and is a leading thinker in the post-humanities. She is author of many books including\, Simians\, Cyborgs\, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (Routledge\, 1991)\, which has become an authoritative text in theorizing the politics of the post-human\, Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience (Routledge\, 1997)\, and her most recent book\, When Species Meet: Encounters in Dogland (University of Minnesota Press\, 2007). \nMegan Moodie\nMegan Moodie is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she studies the sociality engendered by legal and economic projects for uplift and empowerment\, including affirmative action\, microfinance\, and gender-based rights assertions. She is currently working on a book manuscript based on ethnographic fieldwork with an urban tribal community in Jaipur\, India. Recent publications include “Microfinance and the Gender of Risk: The Case of Kiva.org” in the current issue of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/emerging-worlds-lecture-series-shifting-worlds-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130302T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130302T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120634 CREATED:20121214T201202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121214T201202Z UID:10005274-1362214800-1362245400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"Occupation Affect: On Political Emotion" Conference DESCRIPTION:“Occupation Affect” seeks to take the emotional pulse of the current moment. Staging a day of public talks and a roundtable discussion\, followed by a half-day meeting\, we will gather a group of scholars to investigate the feelings that permeate both this era of economic collapse and the modes of adaptation as well as rebellion that have arisen in its midst. We want to explore the affective dimensions of the Great Recession and jobless “recovery\,” of bail-outs and sell-outs\, of tea parties and coffee klatches\, of magnificent inequality and vanishing public services\, of the growing concentration of wealth and the emergence of autonomous\, decentralized social movements\, of hopes dashed and hopes raised\, of diminishing faith in government and expanding political imaginaries\, of economic freefall and resurgent activist energy. We will\, in short\, investigate the current conjuncture through the lens of political emotion. \nIn this moment of economic restructuring toward an uncertain future and growing rebellion against the neoliberal global order\, we are curious about ordinary and extraordinary affects: their circulation and effects\, how we feel them and what we do with them\, what they signal and what they obscure\, how they use us and how we might use them. We want to better understand the conditions of possibility for political hope and despair; the sources and effects of apocalyptic feelings; and how senses of impossibility sometimes fade and new horizons suddenly emerge. What do we all do to stay afloat\, what new subjectivities are arising amid ongoing crises\, what new social relations\, new ways of thinking\, feeling\, and doing\, are being generated in the current conjuncture? \nFeelings\, emotion\, and affect have continued for over a decade now to fascinate scholars across the disciplines. The terrain is slippery\, taking as its object of research viscerality\, nonrationality\, the sensed\, that which is bodily\, inchoate\, ineffable\, and to the side of consciousness. We wish to investigate the theoretical\, philosophical\, and political trajectories the affective turn opens up for making sense of\, and figuring out how to intervene in\, the contemporary moment. \nThe Affect Working Group draws together faculty and graduate students from across the University—American Studies\, Anthropology\, Art\, Computer Science\, Feminist Studies\, Film and Digital Media\, History of Art and Visual Culture\, History of Consciousness\, Latin American and Latino Studies\, Literature\, Politics\, and Sociology—who are interested in the felt dimensions of social life. With this conference\, we hope to advance our discussions with one another and contribute to a larger discussion among similar research/art/activist collaboratives around the country\, including Feel Tank Chicago and Public Feelings groups in Austin\, Texas and New York City.\n  \nConference Schedule\, Saturday\, Humanities 210 \n9:00 a.m. – Breakfast \n9:30 a.m. – Introduction \n10 – 11:30 a.m.\nPanel 1: Political Emotion and Activist Affect: Occupy and other Social Movements\nModerator: Dean Mathiowetz (Politics\, UCSC)\nElizabeth Freeman (English\, UCD)\nDebbie Gould (Sociology\, UCSC)\nLyn Hejinian (English\, UCB)\nRei Terada (Comparative Literature\, UCI) \n11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.\nPanel 2: Affective Technologies and New Media\nModerator: Sharon Daniel (Film & Digital Media\, UCSC)\nHerman Gray (Sociology\, UCSC)\nKim Lau (Literature\, UCSC)\nSoraya Murray (Film & Digital Media\, UCSC)\nNoah Wardrip-Fruin (Compute Science\, SOE\, UCSC) \n1 – 2:15 p.m. – Lunch \n2:30 – 4 p.m.\nPanel 3: The Politics of Ordinary Affect\nModerator: Carla Freccero (Literature\, History of Consciousness\, Feminist Studies\, UCSC)\nMel Chen (Gender & Women’s Studies\, UCB)\nArlie Hochschild (Sociology\, UCB)\nJerry Neu (Humanities\, UCSC)\nSianne Ngai (English\, Stanford) \n4 – 4:15 p.m. – Coffee break \n4:15 – 5:30 p.m.\nConcluding Roundtable \nKaren Barad (Feminist Studies\, UCSC)\nVilashini Cooppan (Literature\, UCSC)\nSharon Daniel (Film & Digital Media\, UCSC)\nDee Hibbert-Jones (Art\, UCSC)\nDean Mathiowetz (Politics\, UCSC)\nVanita Seth (Politics\, UCSC)\nAnna Tsing (Anthropology\, UCSC)\n  \nSponsored by the UC Humanities Network\, a UCHRI Conference Grant\, the Social Sciences Division. Staff support provided by the IHR. For more information\, including disabled access\, please contact Shann Ritchie\, sritchie@ucsc.edu. 831-459-5655. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/occupation-affect-on-political-emotion-conference-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130304T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130304T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120634 CREATED:20130304T232940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130304T232940Z UID:10004801-1362384000-1362416400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The People’s Pacific: Trans-Pacific Solidarity and Alliances in the Age of Obama’s Pivot DESCRIPTION:In his landmark essay\, “The American Century” (1941)\, in which he argued against the foolishness of “isolationist sterility” given the rise of the United States as “the most powerful and most vital nation in the world\,” Henry Luce\, the China-born son of American missionaries\, predicted that “in the decades to come\,” Asia would “be worth to us four\, five\, ten billions of dollars a year.” In order to harness precisely this potential\, Luce advised\, ”we have to decide whether or not we shall have for ourselves and our friends freedom of the seas—the right to go with our ships and our ocean-going airplanes where we wish\, when we wish\, and as we wish.” Echoes of Luce’s hegemonic blueprint for U.S. twentieth-century power projection in Asia would reverberate—several decades later—in then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s October 2011 policy plan\, “America’s Pacific Century\,” which identified the Asia-Pacific region as the most critical sphere of twenty-first century U.S. influence. Addressing a war-weary American public\, Clinton pledged that the United States would remain a key “Pacific power.” Not only would the United States refuse to draw down its military commitments in Asia and the Pacific but also it would “pivot” (from the Middle East) and concentrate its military resources in the region. \nAgainst hegemonic U.S. designs that map the region as an “empire of bases” (Chalmers Johnson) aimed at containing China\, this year’s Pacific Seminar undertakes as its focus critical contemporary counter-imaginaries that chart the power of the region from below—as a “people’s Pacific” (Walden Bello)\, a “sea of islands” (Epeli Hau’ofa)\, and an oceanic commons. Focusing on the urgency of trans-Pacific solidarity and alliances between and among site-specific struggles\, the Pacific Seminar this year brings together three public intellectuals and activist-scholars who will present on their work and with whom we will engage in collective conversation: Kuan-Hsing Chen (National Chiao Tung University)\, the founder of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies and the driving force behind the Modern Asian Thought project; Keith Camacho (UCLA)\, a Chamorro scholar from the Marianas Islands and a key theorist of U.S. militarism in the Pacific; and Koohan Paik (International Forum Group)\, a grassroots anti-base activist and a founder of Moana Nui whose political work has focused on Hawai’i\, Guam\, and Korea. \n\n \nAs in past years\, this year’s Pacific Seminar will be run as a workshop and the following readings will be circulated in advance: \n\n• Kuan-Hsing Chen\, “De-Imperialization: Club 51 and the Imperialist Assumption of Democracy” (2010) \n• Keith Camacho\, “After 9/11: Militarized Borders and Social Movements in the Mariana Islands” (2012) \n• Koohan Paik and Jerry Mander\, “Blowback in the Pacific” (2012) \n• Walden Bello\, “From American Lake to a People’s Pacific in the Twenty-First Century” (2010)\n\nPlease contact Christine Hong (cjhong@ucsc.edu) for readings and with any questions. This event is sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research (UC Santa Cruz) and the Townsend Working Group on Asian Cultural Studies (UC Berkeley). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-peoples-pacific-trans-pacific-solidarity-and-alliances-in-the-age-of-obamas-pivot-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR