"Working w/ Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale" Conference
2014-05-23 - 2014-05-24 | UC Santa Cruz
In celebration of Shakespeare’s 450th birthday, Working w/ Shakespeare fosters a dialogue between three professions that are especially dedicated to understanding his work: literary critics, theater designers, and professional actors. What makes literary criticism, design, and performance different as forms of interpretation? How might their distinctive practical techniques and theoretical concerns enrich and transform each other? These questions are the framework for the conference’s three workshops, each of which will focus on The Winter’s Tale.

Mike Ryan is an actor and the Co-Artistic Director of Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Acting with Shakespeare is an interactive workshop that explores how actors move from the page to the stage; how verse, rhetoric and complex imagery are made more intelligible to the ear; and how to pull useful clues from Shakespeare’s text that translate the spoken word into action. As one of Shakespeare’s final works, The Winter’s Tale combines bold experimentation with verse form with the theatrical cunning of a producer at the peak of his game.

Kate Edmunds, Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz, has designed scenery for over thirty years, from New York to California, to great acclaim. In Designing with Shakespeare, participants will move from the written to the spoken word, and then from words to the visual images that reflect their own thoughts, developing designs for The Winter’s Tale that communicate their own insights about the play. Through design, we will try to “see what we mean” when we work with Shakespeare.

Sean Keilen teaches Shakespeare in the Literature Department at UC Santa Cruz. Writing with Shakespeare takes The Winter’s Tale as the starting point for a dialogue about literary criticism’s long-standing investment in the hermeneutics of suspicion and the prospect of grounding interpretation, instead, in aesthetic experience. Suppose that we approach Shakespeare’s play not only as an object for analysis but also as a model for thinking and writing about art. What, then, could our criticism become?

Friday, May 23
Location: Digital Arts Research Center, Room 108 (Map – Park in lot #126)
9:00-9:30 AM – Welcome and Introductions
9:30 AM -12:00 PM – Workshop I: Acting with Shakespeare
12:00-1:00 PM – Lunch @ DARC 3rd floor balcony
Location: Theater Arts, Second Stage (Map – Park in lot #126)
1:00-3:30 PM – Workshop II: Designing with Shakespeare
Saturday, May 24
Location: Humanities Building 1, Room 210 (Map – Park in lot #109)
9:30 AM – 12:00 PM – Workshop III: Writing with Shakespeare
12:00-12:30 PM – Closing Lunch Reception

Working w/ Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale is presented by Shakespeare’s Disciplines, a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research, with generous support from the Dean of Arts, the Seigfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Studies Endowment and the Department of Literature, and w/Shakespeare, a Multicampus Research Group of the University of California Humanities Network.

Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: You're Next
2014-05-25 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Stevenson, Room 150
You never want to do anything interesting anymore.
If you’ve ever found yourself wondering what a mumblecore slasher film might be like, then look no further than You’re Next. Directed by Adam wingard (who also helmed 2010’s elliptically grim A Horrible Way to Die and this year’s John-Carpenter-meets-The-Terminator homage The Guest) and featuring a number of prominent figures from the mumblecore scene (most notably Amy Seimetz and Joe Swanberg), the film is a wild recasting of the slasher film’s “Final Girl” as a survivalist killing machine let loose amidst murderous familial dysfunction in a Home Alone-like scenario. Not to be missed!
For the remainder of the quarter, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France, Japan, and the United States each week. Same time, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family, invite your friends.
Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

Gopal Balakrishan: "Breakthroughs of the Young Marx"
2014-05-28 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Gopal Balakrishan
Professor, History of Consciousness, UCSC
Offering an intellectual history of the phases of Marx’s thought from his dissertation on Greek philosophy to The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Gopal Balakrishnan seeks to explain why the emergent syntheses of this early Marx broke down in the aftermath of the failures of the revolutions of 1848.

Spring Awards & Humanities Undergraduate Research Award Presentations
2014-05-29 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Event Photos:
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You are cordially invited to Spring Awards 2014 on Thursday, May 29, 2014. This annual “Celebrating Humanities” event is an important opportunity to acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition, awards, and distinctions over the course of this past year.
The Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) support and encourage undergraduate research. In 1996, the Humanities Division began awarding students undertaking truly innovating research projects. The projects must involve research within or including any of the humanities disciplines, and the research must be performed during the current academic year.
Highlights include:
Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award in Humanities
Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards
Schedule:
4:00-5:00PM “Celebrating Humanities” Spring Awards (Humanities 1, Room 210)
4:00PM Opening Remarks by Dean Ladusaw
4:15PM Dizikes Award
5:00-6:00PM HUGRA Poster Presentations and Reception (Humanities Courtyard)
Refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public.

Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: One Missed Call
2014-06-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
Helmed by the wildly prolific Takashi Miike, whose other notable horror credits include Audition (1999), Visitor Q (2001), Gozu (2003), and Imprint (2006), One Missed Call takes the anxieties surrounding the obsolescence of video tape technology that were so gloomily evoked in Ringu (1998) and shifts them onto the rise of cellular phone communication and the exploitative potentials of reality television. Yumi Nakamura (Kô Shibasaki) tries to find out who or what is behind the death of her friend, Yoko (Anna Nagata). Two days before her death, Yoko receives a voice message from herself dated two days in the future, and in this message Yoko and Yumi can hear Yoko screaming. Yumi’s search for answers becomes increasingly urgent as she too receives a voice message from herself with the date of her future death. Followed by two sequels, a short-lived Japanese TV series, and an American remake, One Missed Call is not to be missed!
For the remainder of the quarter, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France, Japan, and the United States each week. Same time, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family, invite your friends.
Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
2014-06-03 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Feminist Studies Department is proud to announce…
Queen for a Day
Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
A Conversation & Book Party
for Marcia Ochoa
with Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal & B. Ruby Rich
Tuesday, June 3
About the Book
Queen for a Day is a queer diasporic ethnography of beauty and femininity that connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national femininity. is ethnography examines how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela contest, on the well-traveled Caracas avenue where transgender women (transformistas) project themselves into the urban imaginary, and on the bodies of both
transformistas and beauty pageant contestants (misses). Placing transformistas and misses in the same analytic frame enables Ochoa to delve deeply into complex questions of media and spectacle, gender and sexuality, race and class, and self-fashioning and identity.
Venezuela has won more international beauty contests than any other. e femininity performed by Venezuelan women in high-profile, widely viewed pageants defines a kind of national femininity. Ochoa argues that as transformistas and misses work to achieve the bodies, clothing and makeup styles, and postures and gestures of this national femininity, they come to embody Venezuelan modernity.
About the Author
Marcia Ochoa is an Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz. An ethnographer of media, Ochoa’s work focuses on the role of the imaginary in the survival of queer and transgender people in Latin America, and the place of these subjects in the nation. She is a founder and advisor to El/La Para TransLatinas, a social justice project for transgender Latina immigrants in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. Ochoa is incoming co-editor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.
A chapter from the book will be available to read prior to the talk at:
Chapter 5: Sacar el Cuerpo
Please join us for a small reception in the Feminist Studies library following the reading.

Mary Niall Mitchell: Workshop “Archival Challenges: Children, Slavery, and Nineteenth Century Visual Culture”
2014-06-04 09:00 - 11:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Workshop: “Archival Challenges: Children, Slavery, and Nineteenth Century Visual Culture”
Wednesday, June 4 @ 9-11a.m.
For access to pre-circulated readings for the workshop, please contact Institute for Humanities Research at ihr@ucsc.edu.
Cultural Studies Colloquium: “The Slave Girl in the Archive: A Tale of Paper and Glass”
Wednesday June 4 @ 12:15-1:30p.m.
In her current project, Mary Niall Mitchell tells the story of a girl named Mary Botts, the first light-skinned formerly enslaved child to be
photographed for abolitionist purposes. Beginning with the deposit of the child’s daguerreotype portrait at the Massachusetts Historical
Society in 1921, she unspools the history of Mary’s family and their long efforts to be free from slavery. “The Slave Girl in the Archive” uses
this narrative to explore connections between the lives of enslaved people and the variety of documents and artifacts that contain traces of
them.”
Mary Niall Mitchell, author of Raising Freedom’s Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future after Slavery (New York University Press, 2010), is
Joseph Tregle Professor in Early American History, Ethel & Herman Midlo Chair in New Orleans Studies, and Associate Professor at the
University of New Orleans.
This event is presented by the Working Group on the Study of Children (Research Cluster), with generous support from the Society for the History of Children and Youth, and the Center for Cultural Studies at UCSC.
Directions and Parking
Parking permits are required seven days a week in the lots located closest to Humanities (Cowell/Stevenson parking lots 107, 109, and 110). One-day visitor permits may be purchased from the parking attendants in the lot (during the first hour of the event) or at the main entrance Kiosk (open M-F 8am-1pm). On evenings and weekends, the pay station in lot 109 will dispense permits for $3 after 4:30pm on weekdays, and all day on weekends.
For more information, including disabled access, please contact Evin Guy at ecguy@ucsc.edu, or (831) 459-5655.

Mary Niall Mitchell: “The Slave Girl in the Archive: a Tale on Paper and Glass”
2014-06-04 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Workshop: “Archival Challenges: Children, Slavery, and Nineteenth Century Visual Culture”
Wednesday, June 4 @ 9-11a.m.
For access to pre-circulated readings for the workshop, please contact Institute for Humanities Research at ihr@ucsc.edu.
Cultural Studies Colloquium: “The Slave Girl in the Archive: A Tale of Paper and Glass”
Wednesday June 4 @ 12:15-1:30p.m.
In her current project, Mary Niall Mitchell tells the story of a girl named Mary Botts, the first light-skinned formerly enslaved child to be
photographed for abolitionist purposes. Beginning with the deposit of the child’s daguerreotype portrait at the Massachusetts Historical
Society in 1921, she unspools the history of Mary’s family and their long efforts to be free from slavery. “The Slave Girl in the Archive” uses
this narrative to explore connections between the lives of enslaved people and the variety of documents and artifacts that contain traces of
them.”
Mary Niall Mitchell, author of Raising Freedom’s Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future after Slavery (New York University Press, 2010), is
Joseph Tregle Professor in Early American History, Ethel & Herman Midlo Chair in New Orleans Studies, and Associate Professor at the
University of New Orleans.
This event is presented by the IHR Working Group on the Study of Children (Research Cluster), with generous support from the Society for the History of Children and Youth, and the Center for Cultural Studies at UCSC.
Directions and Parking
Parking permits are required seven days a week in the lots located closest to Humanities (Cowell/Stevenson parking lots 107, 109, and 110). One-day visitor permits may be purchased from the parking attendants in the lot (during the first hour of the event) or at the main entrance Kiosk (open M-F 8am-1pm). On evenings and weekends, the pay station in lot 109 will dispense permits for $3 after 4:30pm on weekdays, and all day on weekends.
For more information, including disabled access, please contact Evin Guy at ecguy@ucsc.edu, or (831) 459-5655.

Living Writers Series: Publications Reading
2014-06-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
A selection of Publications Readings.
The spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series, Dislocations and the Imagined, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public.

"Doing Critical Race and Ethnic Studies in a Neoliberal Age" Symposium
2014-06-06 - 2014-06-07 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This spring bears the fruit of many years of student activism at UC Santa Cruz, namely, the inauguration of a Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) program dedicated to studying the ideological formations and institutional productions of race and ethnicity. Recognizing that the institutionalization of CRES is both an exciting moment and a reminder of the work we must keep showing up for, we ask:
• How can we foster creative ways to keep activist and academic knowledges in conversation?
• How can scholarly activity be held accountable to social justice struggles?
• How can we build and strengthen ties across institutional and organizational walls?
The context of this moment of institutionalization is the neoliberal erosion of public education and the casualization of all forms of academic labor that have transformed education into a privileged commodity available only to a few and rendered education a site of labor precariousness. At UC Santa Cruz, recent student experiences with the literal “campus to jail busline” attest to these neoliberal processes. Aimed at fostering critical dialogue about doing critical race work in this historical moment, this symposium brings together community organizers and social justice activists with campus organizers, students, staff, and faculty from regional community colleges, state colleges, and universities to examine militarization, post-9/11 terror-baiting, and the criminalization of racialized bodies as the effects of neoliberal policies that cut across campus and community boundaries.
Please join us June 6-7 at UC Santa Cruz to strengthen the bonds of solidarity, combine our knowledges, and build coalitions around interconnected struggles.
Free and open to the public.
Note, event has been moved to the Humanities Lecture Hall.

Friday, June 6
4:00 PM: Welcome and Coffee Sandra Harvey (CRES Student Working Group)
4:05 PM: Blessing by Corrina Gould (Indian People Organizing for Change)
4:20 PM: State of CRES and Reportback on Critical Ethnic Studies Conference by Jasmine Syedullah (CRES Student Working Group)
4:30-6:30 PM: Discussion I: The Prison Industrial Complex & the Public University
Facilitator: Gina Dent (Feminist Studies)
Participants: Sadie Reynolds (Sociology, Cabrillo College), OT Quintero (Barrios Unidos), Misty Rojo (Justice Now), Tash Nguyen* (Sin Barras), Ivan Medina (IGNITE)

Saturday, June 7
9:30 AM: Welcome and Coffee William Ladusaw (Dean of Humanities)
10:00-12:00 PM: Discussion II: Militarization, Criminalization, and Racial and Gender Violence
Facilitator: Christine Hong (Literature)
Participants: Lara Kiswani (Arab Resource & Organizing Center), Sami Abed (Resource Center for Non-Violence), Boian-Christoph Boianov (Committee for Justice in Palestine), Tierney Yates (Black Unity Group, San Jose State), Isa Noyola and Marcia Ochoa (El/La Para Translatinas), Monica Jones (Sex Worker Outreach Program Phoenix)
12:00-1:30 PM: Lunch
1:30-3:30 PM: Discussion III: Political Education and Activist Knowledges
Facilitator: Cindy Cruz (Education)
Participants: Nancy Kim (Asian American & Pacific Islander Resource Center and Ethnic Resource Centers), Carolyn Dunn (American Indian Resource Center), Corrina Gould (Indian People Organizing for Change), Xamuel Banales (Ethnic Studies, Northern Arizona University), Shaila Ramos, David Padilla, Mayra Chavez, Marjory Ruiz (Students Informing Now), Michael James (Popular Education 2.0)
3:30 PM: Coffee Break
4:00-5:30 PM: Closing Discussion: Envisioning CRES on Campus and Beyond
Facilitators: Marcia Ochoa (Feminist Studies) and Jessica Whatcott (CRES Student Working Group)
6:00-7:00 PM: Closing reception with light food and refreshments

Presented by the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Research Cluster, with generous support from the Division of Humanities; Graduate Student Association; UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; UC Center for New Racial Studies; Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Stevenson College; and the Departments of American Studies, History, Literature, and Politics.
Poster Art: LA PROMESA DE LOMA PRIETA: QUE NO SE REPITA LA HISTORIA (THE PROMISE OF LOMA PRIETA: THAT HISTORY NOT REPEAT ITSELF), the University of California at Santa Cruz, Oakes College Mural, by Juana Alicia ©1992. All rights reserved. Photo by Aleixo Goncalves.

Parking permits are required seven days a week in the lots located closest to Humanities (Cowell/Stevenson parking lots 107, 109, and 110). One-day visitor permits may be purchased from the parking attendants in the lot (during the first hour of the event) or at the main entrance Kiosk (open M-F 8am-1pm). On evenings and weekends, the pay station in lot 109 will dispense permits for $3 after 4:30pm on weekdays, and all day on weekends.

What Makes Applied Linguistics Applied? Language Acquisition & Language in Use
2014-06-06 17:00 - 20:00 | University Center, University Center‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Language Program has been granted department status earlier this spring, and we are hosting an event to celebrate becoming the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics. Professor Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, a leading scholar in second language acquisition, will give a talk on June 6 in the University Center after a brief welcome by Dean William Ladusaw. The event will begin at 5 pm, with a reception following 6-8 pm.

Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: À l ́interieur
2014-06-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
A French body horror film that takes home invasion movies to their ne plus ultra, Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s À l’intérieur depicts the attempts of Sarah (Alysson Paradis), very pregnant and very alone in her house on Christmas Eve, to ward off the efforts of “La Femme” (Beátrice Dalle) to break into Sarah’s home and (if she can) Sarah’s womb to take the baby for herself. Mixing together this gruesome premise with yuletide ennui and the aftereffects of the banlieue riots of 2005, the film is a moody and unsettlingly downbeat Christmas tale. Not to be missed!
For the remainder of the quarter, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France, Japan, and the United States each week. Same time, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family, invite your friends.
Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

Mortality: Facing Death in Ancient Greece
2014-06-29
Mortality: Facing Death in Ancient Greece is a four-week Summer Institute funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Beginning from the premise that mortality is the condition that gives life its singular human quality, the goal of the Institute is to develop a multi-disciplinary approach to mortality in ancient Greece as the basis for rigorous and innovative teaching and scholarship in the Humanities. Under the guidance of experts, the Institute will bring together twenty-five college and university teachers and three graduate students to examine relevant material from a broad range of ancient Greek literary sources, visual and archaeological remains, and historical periods, ranging from the 8th to the 3rd centuries BCE. The Institute encourages the study of mortality in ancient Greece as the basis for comparative study across cultures, disciplines, and historical periods.
Institute Faculty:
Karen Bassi, Institute Director
Brooke Holmes, Visiting Scholar
Sarah Iles Johnston, Visiting Scholar
Sheila Murnaghan, Visiting Scholar
Yiannis Petropoulos, Visiting Scholar
Kirk Sanders, Visiting Scholar
Yannis Tzifopoulos, Visiting Scholar
Michael Wedde, Local Guest Scholar
Visit the Institute website for more information: mortality.ihr.ucsc.edu

Modern Jewish Spaces From the Venice Ghetto to Contemporary Classifications: Summer Workshop for Young Researchers in Jewish Culture and Identity
2014-06-30 08:00 - 2014-07-02 17:00 | Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Modern Jewish Spaces From the Venice Ghetto to Contemporary Classifications
Summer Workshop for Young Researchers in Jewish Culture and Identity
In conjunction with the University of California, Santa Cruz
June 30 – July 2, 2014 at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Attending the workshop is by invitation only
Summer Workshop Program
Contemporary globalization brings to the forefront the relation between identity and spatial location; it highlights new and multiple cross-cutting transnational allegiances that bear on central aspects of Jewish identity, which some contemporary writers and researchers have begun to explore and elaborate. The Venice Ghetto raises a range of questions about Modern Jewish Spaces that have played central roles in Jewish and European culture since the Jews were sequestered in the Ghetto at its founding in 1516. The history of the Ghetto, its image and its symbolic resonances have generated different models that have become subtexts of several Modern Jewish Spaces, often implicitly reverted to in desperate Jewish historical moments. A broad range of questions arise from the study of Modern Jewish Spaces, such as the following:
• Are there sets of necessary and sufficient conditions that constitute different paradigmatic Modern Jewish Spaces?
• What do Modern Jewish Spaces mean for those who live in them, or for those outside?
• What roles do political, social and cultural power play in and for these Modern Jewish Spaces?
• What was/is the influence of the State of Israel on contemporary definitions of Jewish people?
• What roles do minority cultures in Modern Jewish Spaces assume and fulfill?
The summer workshop will provide an opportunity to investigate these and other related questions.
Academic committee:
Prof. Shaul Bassi, Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten,
Prof. Murray Baumgarten, Dr. Yotam Benziman,
Dr. Manuela Consonni, Prof. Shmuel Feiner,
Prof. Aviad Hacohen, Prof. Debra Kaplan,
Prof. Haviva Pedaya, Prof. Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin,
Prof. Uzi Rebhun, Dr. Avinoam Rosenak,
Rabbi Naftali Rothenberg, Dafna Schreiber
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
43 Jabotinsky St., Jerusalem
www.vanleer.org.il
Photographs taken at the event will be posted on the Institute’s website and on social networks.

Santa Cruz Shakespeare: "As You Like It" (Jul 1 - Aug 10)
2014-07-01 | Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen
As You Like It
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Mark Rucker
In the Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen
July 1 – August 10
Previews July 1st , 2nd and 3rd
(All Preview Tickets are $20.00)
Love at first sight, a wrestling match, cross-dressing and a fool! Shakespeare’s delightful, romantic comedy As You Like It boasts all four, cleverly intertwined with the trials and triumphs of love. Exiled from court, Rosalind ventures into the idyllic Forest of Arden with the fool, Touchstone, only to discover her true love Orlando awaits her. What follows is an elaborate scheme to capture his heart through her witty and playful ploy: instruct Orlando how to woo a woman while disguised as a boy. As You Like It explores the vast and varied incarnations of love culminating in a woodland wedding extravaganza!
Santa Cruz Shakespeare (SCS) is a new, independent non-profit theatre company rooted in Santa Cruz, California and dedicated to the plays of William Shakespeare and other dynamic playwrights whose work celebrates language. SCS will carry on the tradition of professional, thought-provoking and passionate theater in Santa Cruz.
SCS was funded by theatre-lovers in Santa Cruz and beyond after its predecessor, a 32-year old Shakespeare Festival affiliated with the University of California at Santa Cruz, closed in December 2013. Thanks to the generosity of its donors, and the fiscal sponsorship of Arts Council Santa Cruz County, SCS’s 2014 Summer Season is fully forward-funded. This means that all the money required for production this year is already in-hand. Simply put: ticket revenue, along with all donations and grants received after March 1, 2014, will help to ensure a 2015 season. As we are fond of saying, “we have thrown away the credit card and broken out the debit card.” It also means that in many ways our future success as a company rests in the hands of this community. If our audiences buy tickets to the season, donate, volunteer, and urge friends to do the same, Santa Cruz Shakespeare will not only survive, but thrive.
In addition to the summer repertory season, SCS is proud to interface with the community through a number of vital education and outreach initiatives including an Intern Program, the Don Rothman pre-show and post-show discussion talkbacks as well as Weekend with Shakespeare in conjunction with UCSC’s Associate Professor of Literature Sean Keilen and Professor Emeritus, Michael Warren.

Santa Cruz Shakespeare: "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (Jul 13 - Aug 10)
2014-07-13 | Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen
The Merry Wives of Windsor
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Kirsten Brandt
In the Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen
July 13 – August 10
Previews July 13th, 14th and 15th
(All Preview Tickets are $20.00)
The Merry Wives of Windsor marks the return of audience favorite Sir John Falstaff once again down on both luck and cash. Hatching a ruse to fatten his wallet he schemes to seduce Mistresses Ford and Page in an attempt to swindle their husbands’ money. Falstaff, as always, overestimates his ingenuity and the two women concoct a plan of their own to make a buffoon of the knight. Richard Ziman returns to Santa Cruz to helm this cheeky, mischievous romp.
Santa Cruz Shakespeare (SCS) is a new, independent non-profit theatre company rooted in Santa Cruz, California and dedicated to the plays of William Shakespeare and other dynamic playwrights whose work celebrates language. SCS will carry on the tradition of professional, thought-provoking and passionate theater in Santa Cruz.
SCS was funded by theatre-lovers in Santa Cruz and beyond after its predecessor, a 32-year old Shakespeare Festival affiliated with the University of California at Santa Cruz, closed in December 2013. Thanks to the generosity of its donors, and the fiscal sponsorship of Arts Council Santa Cruz County, SCS’s 2014 Summer Season is fully forward-funded. This means that all the money required for production this year is already in-hand. Simply put: ticket revenue, along with all donations and grants received after March 1, 2014, will help to ensure a 2015 season. As we are fond of saying, “we have thrown away the credit card and broken out the debit card.” It also means that in many ways our future success as a company rests in the hands of this community. If our audiences buy tickets to the season, donate, volunteer, and urge friends to do the same, Santa Cruz Shakespeare will not only survive, but thrive.
In addition to the summer repertory season, SCS is proud to interface with the community through a number of vital education and outreach initiatives including an Intern Program, the Don Rothman pre-show and post-show discussion talkbacks as well as Weekend with Shakespeare in conjunction with UCSC’s Associate Professor of Literature Sean Keilen and Professor Emeritus, Michael Warren.

Santa Cruz Shakespeare: "The Fringe Show: The Beard of Avon" (Jul 29 & Aug 5)
2014-07-29 | Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen
The Fringe Show: The Beard of Avon
By Amy Freed
Directed by Steve Boyle
In the Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen
July 29th and August 5th ONLY
(All Fringe Show Tickets are $16.00)
In this mad-cap comedy a swain known as “Will Shakspere” who longs to be an artist flees his rural life for the stages of Elizabethan London. Did this novice actor become the ghost writer for the Earl of Oxford, Sir Francis Bacon, and even Queen Elizabeth? Authors too proud to admit they scribbled plays for the unwashed masses? This intelligent and fun-filled farce deliberates the longstanding debate over who really penned Shakespeare’s canon. With a gleeful wink at intervening centuries, Amy Freed’s deliciously witty The Beard of Avon portrays Will’s comic struggles to become an artist in his own right in this bawdy, hilarious, conspiracy-laden origin story of how a poor hayseed with wild dreams found himself in over his head and became the man we know as Shakespeare.
Santa Cruz Shakespeare (SCS) is a new, independent non-profit theatre company rooted in Santa Cruz, California and dedicated to the plays of William Shakespeare and other dynamic playwrights whose work celebrates language. SCS will carry on the tradition of professional, thought-provoking and passionate theater in Santa Cruz.
SCS was funded by theatre-lovers in Santa Cruz and beyond after its predecessor, a 32-year old Shakespeare Festival affiliated with the University of California at Santa Cruz, closed in December 2013. Thanks to the generosity of its donors, and the fiscal sponsorship of Arts Council Santa Cruz County, SCS’s 2014 Summer Season is fully forward-funded. This means that all the money required for production this year is already in-hand. Simply put: ticket revenue, along with all donations and grants received after March 1, 2014, will help to ensure a 2015 season. As we are fond of saying, “we have thrown away the credit card and broken out the debit card.” It also means that in many ways our future success as a company rests in the hands of this community. If our audiences buy tickets to the season, donate, volunteer, and urge friends to do the same, Santa Cruz Shakespeare will not only survive, but thrive.
In addition to the summer repertory season, SCS is proud to interface with the community through a number of vital education and outreach initiatives including an Intern Program, the Don Rothman pre-show and post-show discussion talkbacks as well as Weekend with Shakespeare in conjunction with UCSC’s Associate Professor of Literature Sean Keilen and Professor Emeritus, Michael Warren.

Church Street Fair: A celebration of music, art, food and wine
2014-08-02 - 2014-08-03 | Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
Saturday and Sunday, August 2nd and 3rd see the return of Cabrillo Festival’s popular Church Street Fair – a festival of music, art & wine. Celebrating its 23rd year, the two-day festival within the Festival offers an inspiring reflection of the arts in Santa Cruz. The weekend bursts with non-stop world and ethnic music and dance on the outdoor Church Street Stage, and dozens of premier artists and craftspeople selling their treasures all along Church Street in front of the Civic Auditorium.
Never is the spirit of Santa Cruz more alive than on the Church Street Stage when the spotlight is focused on Santa Cruz’s exceptional musicians. Audiences will travel the globe with musical voices from Mexico to Ireland, Africa to Cuba, and dance traditions from the Middle Eastern to European classical ballet, American urban styles. Some groups make their Church Street Stage debut, and many are old favorites returning for the fun.
You’ll have lots of tasty local treats to choose from, including mobile gourmet vendors Cruz’n Gourmet and Low n Slow, scoops from the Penny Ice Creamery, and wine tasting with Vinocruz.
To learn more about the wonderful musicians, artists and vendors involved in the Church Street Fair, check out our Tumblr blog, and check out even more content on our Facebook and Pinterest pages!
Hosted by KUSP programmer Brett Taylor, the Church Street Fair is a collaboration between the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium.
CHURCH STREET STAGE PERFORMERS:
SATURDAY, AUGUST 2
11:15 The Great Morgani
12:15 Samba Cruz Quartet
1:15 Shakti Bhakti Ensemble
2:15 Rebecca Lomnicky & David Brewer
3:30 Diaspora Dance Company
4:15 Pacific Voices
5:15 Desert Dream Music & Dance
6:30 The Mosaic Quartet
SUNDAY, AUGUST 3
11:15 Jesse Autumn & Shelley Phillips Harp Duo
12:15 Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre
1:00 Free Family Concert
2:30 Watsonville Taiko
3:30 Xochipilli CompaÃ±ia Danza De Mexico
4:15 On The Spot Trio
5:15 Kat Parra Latin World Ensemble
6:30 AZA

Free Family Concert: A Conference of the Birds Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, conductor Marin Alsop
2014-08-03 13:00 | Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
The Cabrillo Festival’s wildly popular Free Family Concert introduces kids to the wonderful world of orchestral music. It begins with a Tour of the Orchestra where kids can make an up-close and personal connection to the different instruments and players. This year weâ€™ll feature a world premiere Festival Commission composed and narrated by Jonathan Sheffer. The Conference of the Birds was inspired by a Persian folk tale about a flock of birds on a spiritual journey, and explores the orchestraâ€™s ability to imitate the chirps, coos, and calls of our feathered friends.

Integrative Graduate Humanities Education and Research Training (IGHERT) Workshop
2014-09-19 - 2014-09-20 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UC Santa Cruz’s Institute for Humanities Research is one of four CHCI member centers and institutes that will lead the research through 2017 on one of the pilot projects, Integrative Graduate Humanities Research Education and Training (IGHERT). The project brings together faculty, doctoral students, and post-doctoral scholars in a series of structured collaborations to undertake jointly mentored, international research. The four partners are the Institute for Humanities Research, University of California, Santa Cruz; Center for 21st Century Studies, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus Liebig University in Giessen; and Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra. Focusing on the interdisciplinary theme of indigeneity, together they will engage graduate students in a series of collaborative training and research activities and will test, refine, and assess a scalable model of skill training and digital archiving that can be applied in multiple contexts and to multiple themes.
IGHERT further aims to attune the participants to the larger public contexts in which expert knowledge in the humanities is meaningful and to equip them with the written and oral skills necessary to communicate with these public constituencies more effectively. Students from Ph.D. programs in UC Santa Cruz’s Division of Humanities will be selected to participate in a series of themed meetings and workshops in Santa Cruz, Milwaukee, Canberra, and Giessen, as well as to receive on-going mentoring from both local and partner faculty participants over the period of the project. In collaboration with the Division of Graduate Studies, the IGHERT pilot will provide fellowship and project travel support for our student participants.
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LRC Workshop: On Syntax and Information Structure
2014-10-04 10:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
We will begin the academic year at Santa Cruz with a workshop centered on issues at the interface between syntax and information structure. The workshop will feature four talks.

10:00-10:10 AM – Opening Remarks
10:10-11:10 AM – Bern Samko (Santa Cruz): Verum Focus and Scalar Emphasis in English VP-Preposing
11:10-11:30 AM – Break
11:30-12:30 PM – Line Mikkelsen (Berkeley): What goes post verbal in a verb-final language? On the interplay of prosody, information structure, and word order in Karuk
12:30-01:30 PM – Lunch
01:30-02:30 PM – Vera Gribanova (Stanford): On certain manifestations of polarity focus in Russian
02:30-03:00 PM – Break
03:00-04:00 PM – Karen Lahousse (Leuven): Syntax and information structure in verb-subject inversion in French

Christine King: "“Making Peace with Conflict”
2014-10-07 18:00 - 19:45
UCSC Cowell College Presents
Conflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine
Tuesday Evenings Fall 2014
6:00-7:45pm, Merrill Academy 102
Tuesday Oct 7: Christine King (Lecturer Kresge College). “Making Peace with Conflict”
Tuesday Oct 14: Dr. Jennifer Derr (History Department, UC Santa Cruz). The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation.
Tuesday Oct 21: Dr. Bruce Thompson (History and Jewish Studies, UCSC)- “The History of Zionism: From Hertzl to Ben-Gurion.
Tuesday Oct 28: Jean-Jacques Surbeck (Executive Director of Training and Education about the Middle East). Israel and the World, a Unique Lesson in Double Standards.
Tuesday Nov 4: Hatam Bazian (Near Eastern Studies and Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley). Palestine, Islamophobia and Global Dispossession
*Thursday Nov 13: Stephen Zunes (Politics and International Studies, University of San Francisco)- Israel, Palestine, and the United States: The Failure of Governments and the Hope from Civil Society
Tuesday Novr 18: Eran Kaplan (Chair Israel Studies, San Francisco State University). Changes in Israel society and the Peace Process.
Tuesday Nov 25: Lee Ross (Psychology, Stanford) and Byron Bland (Stanford Law School). Barriers for Peace.
Tuesday Dec 2: Aaron Hahn Tapper (Peace and Justice Studies, University of San Francisco) and Tom Pettigrew (Psychology, UC Santa Cruz). Contact, Intergroup dialogue and the Question of Normalization.

Living Writers Series: Ariel Gore
2014-10-09 16:00 - 17:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Ariel Gore is the editor & publisher of the Alternative Press Award-winning magazine Hip Mama and the author of eight books. Her latest, The End of Eve, chronicles her years spent caring for her dying mother. The memoir has been called “Terms of Endearment meets Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?”
She’s also edited half a dozen anthologies, including Breeder (Seal Press), The People’s Apocalypse (Lit Star Press), and the LAMBDA-award winning Portland Queer (Lit Star Press).
Ariel lives in Oakland, California, and teaches online at Ariel Gore’s School for Wayward Writers.

Fall 2014 Living Writers Series:
October 9: Ariel Gore
October 16: Kelly Link, Kim Stanley Robinson, Karen Joy Fowler
October 23: Andrew Lam, Kate Gale
October 30: Tobias Wolff
November 6: Helene Wecker
November 13: ASL Performer Patrick Graybill, Interpreter Aaron Brace
November 20: Kelly Link, Kim Stanley Robinson, Karen Joy Fowler
December 4: Katie Crouch
December 11: Student Reading

All events are free and open to the public from 4:00-5:45pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email meperks@ucsc.edu.

Erica Smeltzer: "Porous Time in the City of Gdansk/Danzig"
2014-10-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
Fridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202

This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the departments of Literature, History of Consciousness. Anthropology, Feminist Studies, HAVC, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology and Sociology as well as the GSA and GSC.

Master Memoir Workshop with Ariel Gore
2014-10-10 15:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Master Memoir Workshop with Ariel Gore for faculty and graduate students. Participants will read Gore’s short memoir, Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver and bring 2-3 pages of their own autobiographical material to workshop. Space is limited. Contact Micah Perks meperks@ucsc.edu to RSVP.

Sponsored by the IHR Complicated Labor Research Cluster.

Karl Marlantes: "What It Is Like To Go To War"
2014-10-10 17:30 - 19:30 | Cal State Monterey Bay (CSUMB), Rm 1188
Santa Cruz Public Libraries presents an author visit and discussion with best selling author, Karl Marlantes.
As a Marine lieutenant during the Vietnam War, Karl Marlantes learned what every young officer learns – to fire a rifle, to command a platoon, to fight and to kill. Over the next four decades, he spent his time reading, thinking and writing a memoir that helped him come to terms with that experience.
In his book, “What It Is Like to Go to War,” Marlantes writes that while the Marine Corps trained him to kill, “it didn’t teach me how to deal with killing.”
If the folks at the nonprofit organization Cal Humanities have their way, people will be reading Marlantes’ book this fall. It’s the featured selection of California Reads: The War Comes Home, a program offered by libraries throughout the state. Its goal: to bring people together to think and talk about what it is like to be a veteran.
Marlantes’ book tour as part of California Reads includes multiple stops in Northern and Southern California, at public libraries, colleges and universities, and veterans centers.

Locally, Monterey County Free Libraries will sponsor a discussion with the author on Oct. 10 at 5:30 p.m. in CSU Monterey Bay’s library, Room 1180. While the event is free, attendees must purchase a parking permit from a machine on the lot or online.
The first 100 attendees will receive a free copy of the book.

Dr. Jennifer Derr: "The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation"
2014-10-14 18:00 - 19:45

Bali Sahota: "Veils of the Absolute Subject: Benjamin’s Sublime"
2014-10-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
BALI SAHOTA
Assistant Professor of Literature, UCSC
G.S. Sahota is currently completing two books, Late Colonial
Sublime: Neo-Epics and the End of Romanticism and The Name
of Reason: Sikhism, Secularism, Modernism.

Fall 2014 Colloquium Series:
October 15: Bali Sahota
October 22: Vilashini Cooppan
October 29: Nirvikar Singh
November 5: Juned Shaikh
November 12: Dean Mathiowetz
November 19: David L. Clark
December 3: Terry Burke

Lisa Lowe: "Colonial Difference and the Neoliberal Present"
2014-10-16 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This lecture casts the history of liberal modernity as a complex, braided project, which includes at once the universal promises of rights, emancipation, wage labor and free trade, as well as the global divisions and colonial asymmetries upon which those promises depend, and according to which such liberties are reserved for some and denied to others. A history of the present, which defamiliarizes given narratives of the present social formation, may reveal the subsumption of colonial difference in the history of modern progress, and query the assumptions regarding the continuity of the neoliberal present as either the apotheosis or betrayal of the liberal project.
Lisa Lowe is a scholar in the fields of comparative literature, and the cultural politics of race, colonialism, and diaspora at Tufts University. Before joining Tufts, she taught in the Literature Department at UC San Diego for over two decades. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the UC Humanities Research Institute, the American Council of Learned Societies, the School of Advanced Study-University of London, and the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. Lowe is the author of Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Cornell UP), Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Duke UP), and coauthor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Duke UP). Her most recent project, The Intimacies of Four Continents, a study of the global conditions for liberal economy, knowledge, culture, and politics, is forthcoming from Duke UP in 2015. Lowe received her Ph.D. in Literature from UC Santa Cruz.

SA Smythe: "Culture as the Site of War: On the Production of Italianita"
2014-10-17 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

"Lasting and Passing": The Poetics of Remainders with Margaret Ronda
2014-10-17 15:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Poetry & Politics Presents: Margaret Ronda, featuring Whitney DeVos and Keegan Cook Finberg
This talk offers an extended reading of the work of rural Midwestern modernist poet Lorine Niedecker, whose poetry attends to various forms and speeds of what she calls “human material obsolescing.” The imaginative tarrying with these “outdated remains” (in Benjamin’s phrase) offers an example of a larger poetic archive that reflects on, and reflects, poetry’s diminishing cultural status in the twentieth century. The talk draws on Benjamin and Adorno’s theory of natural history (Naturgeschichte), which understands transience and susceptibility to ruin as the shared characteristic of “natural being” and “historical being.” Bringing a materialist philosophy of history to bear on this poetic archive throws into relief the ecological character of obsolescence itself, illuminating a different version of ecologically-oriented literature than the American environmentalist tradition, with its emphasis on wild nature, has privileged. In turn, this poetics of remainders—the material remnants of the production and commodification of nature, now displaced, unproductive, and uncanny—renders visible the dispossessions and ecological violence on which capital accumulation depends.
Margaret Ronda specializes in American poetry of the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries. Particular areas of interest include Marxist criticism, aesthetic and genre theory, ecological literary modes, and avant-garde poetics. She is currently writing a book entitled Remainders: Poetry at Nature’s End, which examines how modern poetry serves as a distinctive site for charting uneven development and for archiving obsolescent forms of experience. Her first book of poetry, Personification, won the 2009 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize.
We invite you to join us at the Felix Kulpa Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz for a reading with Margaret Ronda and local poets and UCSC graduate students Keegan Cook Finberg and Whitney DeVos. The reading will begin at 6 p.m., with an opening reception at 5:30 p.m.
More information about these events and others can be found at www.ucscpoetrypolitics.com

Jane Grimshaw: "The use of force in clausal complementation"
2014-10-17 16:00 - 18:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Jane Grimshaw of Rutgers University speaking on
The use of force in clausal complementation.
Abstract:
The SAY-schema verbs (Grimshaw in press) combine with a wide range of clauses in complex complementation structures, including quoted and non-quoted clauses in post-verbal complement position, and quoted and non-quoted clauses hosting parentheticals.
Some SAY-schema verbs encode the Illocutionary Force of the speech acts that they report. Others do not. Some of the complementation structures themselves encode Force, while others do not.
The patterns of verb-clause combination, or “selection” effects, result from the interplay between the Force encoded in the verb’s meaning and the Force of the clause. Variation among predicates is highly restricted, and the evidence needed to learn which complements a verb combines with is accessible in simple discourses.

2014 – 2015 Speakers
FALL 2014
October 17th
Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers
December 12th
Adam Albright, MIT
WINTER 2015
January 16th
Claire Halpert, University of Minnesota
January 23rd
Valentine Hacquard, Maryland
February 6th
Rachel Walker, USC
mid-March: date TBA
LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz Conference
SPRING 2015
April 10th
Daniel Lassiter, Stanford
April 17th
Keith Johnson, UC Berkeley
May 1st
Grant Goodall, UC San Diego
May/June: date TBA
LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference

1984 -- Beyond the Trauma
2014-10-18 11:00 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Thirty years ago saw the culmination of increasing social conflict in Punjab, a Sikh-majority state in India. In 1984, the government of India launched a military operation on the Sikhs’ central religious site, aimed at militants but also ensnaring innocent pilgrims. Later that year, Sikh bodyguards assassinated India’s Prime Minister in retribution. This was followed by pogroms against Sikhs all over India, and a decade of violence and repression in Punjab. The perpetrators of state violence have not been brought to justice, and the events of 1984 and after continue to cast a shadow on the people of the region. Prof. Rahuldeep Singh Gill of California Lutheran University (CLU) will speak about this history, and how to move forward positively, but without forgetting the past, especially in the context of the Sikh diaspora in the US. Prof. Gill is Director of the Center for Equality and Justice at CLU.
The talk will be followed by an interactive discussion, moderated by Prof. Nirvikar Singh, Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair of Sikh and Punjabi Studies at UCSC. Prof. Singh was visiting India in 1984 and experienced some of the events described above. All students, faculty and community members are invited. Lunch will be provided, and RSVPs are requested by October 15 at 1 pm. Please RSVP by email to Evin Guy, Institute for Humanities Research, ecguy@ucsc.edu.

This event is co-sponsored by the UCSC Sikh Student Association and the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair of Sikh and Punjabi Studies.

Dr. Bruce Thompson: "The History of Zionism: From Hertzl to Ben-Gurion"
2014-10-21 18:00 - 19:45 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States

Vilashini Cooppan: "World-Scale: World Literature, Comparison, & the Work of Memory"
2014-10-22 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
VILASHINI COOPPAN
Assistant Professor of Literature, UCSC
Vilashini Cooppan is the author of Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing, published by Stanford University Press in 2009. Her most recent scholarship engages postcolonial studies, race and ethnicity, and comparative and world literature.
Fall 2014 Colloquium Series:
October 15: Bali Sahota
October 22: Vilashini Cooppan
October 29: Nirvikar Singh
November 5: Juned Shaikh
November 12: Dean Mathiowetz
November 19: David L. Clark
December 3: Terry Burke

Applying for Grants and Fellowships: A Roundtable for Faculty and Graduate Students in the Humanities and Social Sciences
2014-10-22 16:00 - 18:00 | Charles E. Merrill Lounge
Learn from the experts! Faculty and graduate students who have recently won grants and fellowships discuss the application process and share their tips for a successful application. This roundtable discussion takes place Wednesday, October 22, 2014, 4:00-6:00pm, in the Charles E. Merrill Lounge. Reservations are recommended, but not necessary.
Featured Speakers:
Sylvanna Falcón, Assistant Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies, Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement for Junior Faculty Fellow, 2013-14
Click here to read Professor Falcón’s abstract from her Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship application.

Claudia M. Lopez, PhD candidate, Sociology, University of California Chancellor’s Graduate Teaching Fellowship, 2014-15, and Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Fellow, 2011-12
Click here to read Claudia’s abstract from her SSRC application.
Matt O’Hara, Associate Professor, History, American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, 2013-14, andFranklin Research Grant recipient, American Philosophical Society, 2013-14
Click here to read Professor O’Hara’s abstract from his ACLS application.
Edward Noel Smyth, PhD candidate, History, Atlantic History Research Grant recipient, Harvard University, 2013-14, UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Dissertation Year Fellow, 2013-14, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellow, Huntington Library, 2012-13, Global Gulf South Research Fellow, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, Tulane University, 2012-13, Phillips Fund Grant for Native American Research recipient, American Philosophical Society, 2011
Click here to read Noel’s abstract from his IHR Dissertation Year Fellowship application.
Jimiliz Valiente-Neighbours, PhD candidate, Sociology, University of California President’s Dissertation-Year Fellow, 2014-15, and University of California Center for New Racial Studies Grant recipient, 2013-14
Click here to read Jimi’s abstract from her President’s Dissertation-Year Fellowship application.
To read the speakers’ successful project statements and other application materials, please RSVP toclrc@ucsc.edu by October 20, 2014.
The Chicano Latino Research Center is proud to cosponsor this free, public event with the Division of Graduate Studies.

Rachel Deblinger: "Making Memories/Motifs: Holocaust Memory & the Unexpected Inspiration of Digital Humanities"
2014-10-22 17:00 - 19:00 | McHenry Library UCSC, Room 4286
Please join the Digital Humanities Research Cluster and the University Library for a series of interactive lectures focused on “Digital Humanities & Cultural Heritage.” This inaugural speaker series will highlight digital projects from across the humanities and enable lively discussion about the role of the digital in preserving, building, and making accessible cultural materials from around the world.
No digital skills required. Contact digitalhumanities@ucsc.edu for more information.

Dr. Rachel Deblinger is the Digital Humanities Specialist at UCSC, working with the University Library and Humanities Division to foster digital scholarship across campus as a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow. Rachel received her Ph.D. in history from UCLA, where she developed Memories/Motifs, an online exhibit that showcases the diversity of Holocaust survivor narratives in the immediate postwar period. The exhibit features three Holocaust survivors and traces the transformation of their stories through print, audio, and visual media. For this talk, Memories/Motifs serves as a case study for exploring the possibilities of knowledge making through online tools and the ethical concerns around making personal artifacts and memories publicly accessible.

Next in the series:
Michael Ashley: “Mukurtu CMS: Differential access for the ethical stewardship of cultural and digital heritage”
November 12, 5-7, McHenry Library 4286
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Living Writers Series: Andrew Lam & Kate Gale
2014-10-23 16:00 - 17:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Andrew Lam is the author of Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora, which won the 2006 PEN Open Book Award, and East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres. Lam is an editor and cofounder of New America Media, an association of over three thousand ethnic media outlets in America. He was a regular commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered for many years, and was the subject of a 2004 PBS documentary called My Journey Home. His essays have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times, The LA Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Baltimore Sun, The Atlanta Journal, the Chicago Tribune, Mother Jones, and The Nation, among many others. Birds of Paradise Lost is his first story collection. He lives in San Francisco.
Dr. Kate Gale is Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, Editor of the Los Angeles Review and President of theAmerican Composers Forum, LA. She teaches in the Low Residency MFA program at the University of Nebraska in Poetry, Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction. She serves on the boards of A Room of Her Own Foundation, the School of Arts and Humanities of Claremont Graduate University and Poetry Society of America.
She is author of six books of poetry (her most recent, The Goldilocks Zone, University of New Mexico Press), a novel Lake of Fire, and six librettos including Rio de Sangre, a libretto for an opera with composer Don Davis which had its world premiere October 2010 at the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee.
Kate lives in Los Angeles with her husband and children.

Fall 2014 Living Writers Series:
October 9: Ariel Gore
October 16: Kelly Link, Kim Stanley Robinson, Karen Joy Fowler
October 23: Andrew Lam, Kate Gale
October 30: Tobias Wolff
November 6: Helene Wecker
November 13: ASL Performer Patrick Graybill, Interpreter Aaron Brace
November 20: Kelly Link, Kim Stanley Robinson, Karen Joy Fowler
December 4: Katie Crouch
December 11: Student Reading

All events are free and open to the public from 4:00-5:45pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email meperks@ucsc.edu.

Richard T. Rodriguez of: "Undocumented Desires: On Day Labor, Sex Work, and Neoliberal Queer Politics"
2014-10-23 16:00 - 18:00 | Charles E. Merrill Lounge
Richard T. Rodríguez is Associate Professor of English and Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he is also affiliated with the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. He received his B.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research, teaching, and writing are grounded in Latina/o cultural studies, literary and film studies, and queer theory. The author of numerous articles and reviews, his book, Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics (Duke University Press), won the 2011 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Book Award. Recently named a Conrad Humanities Scholar, a designation supporting the work of promising associate professors in the humanities within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Illinois, he is currently writing a book on queer Latino representation in film and literature and the politics of social space.
Event presented by the Chicano Latino Research Center, cosponsored by the Departments of Literature and Feminist Studies, and the Center for Labor Studies.

Stephanie Montgomery: "Convicts and Mothers: Gender, Criminality, and the Prison in China, 1927-1953"
2014-10-24 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202

Toni Morrison: "Literature and the Silence of Goodness" (Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture)
2014-10-25 16:00 - 18:00 | Rio Theater, 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062, United States
Humanities Division and Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Presents:
Toni Morrison: “LITERATURE AND THE SILENCE OF GOODNESS”
at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz
Tickets:
$12 Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture with Toni Morrison
$145 Founders Celebration Dinner and Baskin Ethics Lecture with Toni Morrison (combo ticket)
*If you were not able to get tickets to the Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture with Toni Morrison it will be live streamed on Oct 25th from 4-6pm at http://specialevents.ucsc.edu/founders/.
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After the lecture, Toni Morrison will be awarded the UC Santa Cruz Foundation Medal at the 2014 Founders Celebration at Coconut Grove for her powerful writing and expressive depictions of Black America, giving life to an essential aspect of American reality. Click here for more information.
Toni Morrison is a novelist, editor, and professor, best known for her novels Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Song of Solomon. She studied humanities at Howard and Cornell Universities, followed by an academic career at Texas Southern University, Howard University, Yale, and Princeton. She made her debut as a novelist in 1970, soon gaining the attention of both critics and a wider audience for her epic power, unerring ear for dialogue, and poetically-charged and richly-expressive depictions of Black America. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for Beloved, the Nobel Prize in 1993, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.
The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Series is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. The Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics enables the Humanities Division to promote a dialogue about ethics and ethics related challenges in an interdisciplinary setting. The endowment was established in honor of Peggy Downes Baskin’s longtime interest in ethical issues across the academic spectrum.

2014 Founders Celebration Dinner
2014-10-25 18:00 - 21:00 | Cocoanut Grove, 400 Beach Street , Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Save the date for the eighth annual UC Santa Cruz Founders Celebration dinner, honoring extraordinary individuals and their outstanding contributions to society. This year’s honorees include Toni Morrison, novelist, editor, and professor; The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation, long-time advocate and supporter of the Santa Cruz community; Mark Headley, board chairman of Matthews International Capital Management; and Craig Haney, celebrated UC Santa Cruz psychology professor. Learn more
Reception 6 p.m.
Dinner 7 p.m.
Cocoanut Grove, Santa Cruz
Toni Morrison will also deliver the Baskin Ethics Lecture at 4 p.m.
“Literature and the Silence of Goodness”
Rio Theatre, Santa Cruz
Tickets:
$135 Dinner
$145 Dinner and Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture with Toni Morrison (combo ticket)
$12 Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture with Toni Morrison

Annual Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing
2014-10-28 14:00 - 15:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Don Rothman began teaching undergraduate writing classes at UC Santa Cruz in 1973.
After more than three decades of guiding teachers and teaching college students, the senior lecturer emeritus in writing–and recipient of the 2002 Distinguished Teaching Award from the UCSC Center for Teaching Excellence–has established an endowment to honor exceptional freshman students and their writing teachers.
“The ‘First Year Writing Award’ seeks to celebrate excellence in writing among first-year UCSC students, and to give them the chance to honor instructors who contributed to their growth as writers,” said Rothman.
“It’s likely that UCSC would not be the institution that it is now if its founders hadn’t intuited the importance of identifying, challenging, and respecting our beginning students’ strengths as thinkers and writers.”
The first awards were presented at an October ceremony which honored seven students and their instructors.
Molly Carpenter received the top prize and had nothing but praise for her teacher, writing lecturer Jeff Arnett.
“Although I’ve always loved to write, I don’t think I knew how to truly write thoughtfully until I took Jeff’s class,” said Carpenter. “Jeff consistently pushed me to be the very best writer I could be.”
“I just want to express how lucky I am to attend a university that encourages original and creative thought through writing, regardless of whether you’re an engineering or art major,” she added.
The UCSC Writing Program serves approximately 3,000 students each year, taking into account core classes. More than 100 classes are offered annually.
Writing Program chair James Wilson noted Rothman’s visionary impact over the years, citing his deep commitment to the writing process, and his ability to bring out the best in both teachers and students.
“Through his years of serving as director of the Central California Writing Project, Don has been a strong advocate for outreach in the wider community, working in schools at all levels from K-12, especially in Santa Cruz County,” said Wilson.
Wilson added that Rothman has also been a “deliberate, persistent, and optimistic” spokesperson for the Writing Program across the campus, speaking with faculty across the divisions about the importance of writing and emphasizing the value of undergraduate education–particularly at a research university.
“Part of Don’s message is to remind the university that the effective teaching of writing to undergraduate students is essential to the mission of a research university,” said Wilson.

Jean-Jacques Surbeck: "Israel and the World, a Unique Lesson in Double Standards"
2014-10-28 18:00 - 19:45

UCSC's Institute of the Arts and Sciences presents LASER
2014-10-28 18:45 - 20:00
UCSC’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences invites you to the first LASER of the academic year Tuesday, October 28! Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists, scientists, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations. Please join us in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 for refreshments at 6:45 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by:
Carolyn Dean “Moving Stones: An Inka Perspective”
David Glowacki “Modeling Humans as Energy Fields”
Stacy Philpott “Urban garden insect biodiversity: fascinating and functional”
Karen Tei Yamashita will be reading from her new work
Carolyn Dean is Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz. Dean studies Inca visual and performance culture. She is author of Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco Peru (Duke University Press, 1999) and A Culture of Stone: Inka Perspectives on Rock (Duke University Press, 2010).
David Glowacki is a Royal Society Research Fellow, holding joint appointments in chemistry and computer science at Stanford University and the University of Bristol. He specializes in computational nano-physics and interactive digital art. Glowacki is the creator of danceroom Spectroscopy (dS), an interactive digital framework that has been used to create the award-winning dance piece Hidden Fields.
Stacy Philpott is Associate Professor in Agroecology at UC Santa Cruz. She is an agroecologist and insect ecologist interested in community ecology, ecosystem services, urban agroecology, and interactions between agriculture, conservation, and farmer livelihoods. She has worked in agroecosystems the US, Latin America, and Indonesia.
Karen Tei Yamashita is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at UC Santa Cruz, and currently co-holds the UC Presidential Chair for Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. She is the author of six books, including I Hotel and Anime Wong: Fictions of Performance, all published by Coffee House Press.

Azar Nafisi: "The Republic of Imagination"
2014-10-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Peace United Church, 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran will discuss and sign copies of her new book, The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books—a hymn to the power of fiction to change lives.
Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in Iran. In this exhilarating follow-up, Nafisi has written the book her fans have been waiting for: an impassioned, beguiling, and utterly original tribute to the vital importance of fiction in a democratic society.
Taking her cue from a challenge thrown to her in Seattle, where a skeptical reader told her that Americans don’t care about books the way they did back in Iran, she energetically responds to those who say fiction has nothing to teach us. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite American novels—The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Babbitt, and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, among others—she invites us to join her as citizens of her “Republic of Imagination,” a country where the villains are conformity and orthodoxy and the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream.
“Nafisi makes a passionate argument for returning to key American novels in order to foster creativity and engagement.” —Kirkus Reviews
This offsite ticketed event will take place at Peace United Church. Purchase tickets below or in-person at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
“We are all citizens of Azar Nafisi’s Republic of Imagination. Without imagination there are no dreams, without dreams there is no art, and without art there is nothing. Her words are essential.” —Marjane Satrapi
TICKETS: $31.50, includes two tickets to the event and one copy of The Republic of Imagination. This event will take place at Peace United Church. Open seating.

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Event presented by Bookshop Santa Cruz, in partnership with the Institute for Humanities Research.

Nirvikar Singh: "Sikh Studies & Post-Modern Orientalism"
2014-10-29 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
NIRVIKAR SINGH
Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies and Professor of Economics, UCSC
Professor Singh explores how Sikh Studies in the North American academy is engaging with intellectual currents that can broadly be termed “post-modern.” More specifically, he critiques the asymmetrical privileging of Western ‘post-modern’ scholarship on Sikhs against the Sikh community’s own self-understanding.

Fall 2014 Colloquium Series:
October 15: Bali Sahota
October 22: Vilashini Cooppan
October 29: Nirvikar Singh
November 5: Juned Shaikh
November 12: Dean Mathiowetz
November 19: David L. Clark
December 3: Terry Burke

"Digital is not a Dirty Word” - Digital Humanities Graduate Student Open House
2014-10-29 16:00 - 18:00 | Graduate Student Commons
Let’s talk digital. Are you unsure what Digital Humanities means? Are you interested in mapping, databases, blogs, or twitter, but don’t know how they help your work? Are you skeptical, but curious? Come join an open, informal, and frank talk about the Digital Humanities. Rachel Deblinger, the new Digital Humanities Specialist, will offer a brief description of what DH might mean at UCSC and invites critical conversation and questions. Pizza My Heart will be served. Open to all Graduate Students.
For more information please contact Rachel at digitalhumanities@ucsc.edu.
Sponsored by the University Library and IHR Digital Humanities Research Cluster
Follow us at @DH_UCSC and start a conversation with #DHUCSC

Bryan Donaldson: "Information structure and word order in medieval Occitan"
2014-10-29 17:00 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In this talk, I draw on elements of discourse analysis and information structure–specifically topic-marking–to address a long-standing problem in the syntax of Old Occitan, a medieval Romance language spoken in what is now the south of France. In Old Occitan, the position of object and adverbial clitic (weak, atonic) pronouns remains incompletely understood (Wanner 2010). I analyze clitic position specifically in affirmative main declarative sentences that contain overt preverbal subjects. In this context, clitics are either preverbal, as in (1), or post verbal, as in (2), with no apparent semantic distinction.

(1) E.N Constantis s’en anet.
and.Sir Constantine himself.from-there went
‘And Sir Constantine left.’ (Razo of 80,20 & 80,32 §8; Boutière 1964: 92)
(2) E.N Guilhem anet. s’en.
and.Sir Guillaume went himself.from-there
‘And Sir Guillaume left.’ (Razo of 208,1, §34; Boutière 1964: 325)

Previous analyses have concluded that this variation is random (Mériz 1978) or du to regional or dialectal variation (Hinzelin 2007). Neither approach satisfactorily addresses the underlying grammar or the principles underlying the distribution of the variants appears. The present analysis draws on the discourse-functional notion of topic (e.g., Reinhart 1981) as well as theoretical claims about the clausal left periphery in medieval Romance (Benincà 2006). I report empirical data from the complete troubadour biographies (vidas and razos; 13th-14th centuries) and the vida of Saint Douceline (early 14th century). Results from 470 subject-verb declaratives establish that the subject in (2) is left-dislocated, albeit covertly so. I argue that (2) is one of several instantiations of subject left-dislocation in Old Occitan and that it is both functionally and formally distinct from (1). More precisely, (1) signals topic continuity, whereas (2) is a shifting topic.

Bryan Donaldson is Assistant Professor of Languages and French Applied Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz.

Arlene Davila: Locating Neoliberalism in Time, Space & Latino/Latin American Cultures
2014-10-29 17:00 - 19:00 | University Center, UCSC, College Nine and College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Latin American & Latino Studies Distinguished Speaker Series is proud to present Arlene Davila to begin the 2014-15 year. Davila uses ethnographic and transnational perspectives to theorize the intersections of culture and neoliberalism across the Americas.

More information on the speaker and the rest of the LALS Distinguished Speaker Series will be available soon.

Living Writers Series: Tobias Wolff
2014-10-30 16:00 - 17:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Tobias Wolff is the author of the novels The Barracks Thief and Old School, the memoirs This Boy’s Life andIn Pharaoh’s Army, and the short story collections In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, Back in the World, and The Night in Question. His most recent collection of short stories, Our Story Begins, won The Story Prize for 2008. Other honors include the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award – both for excellence in the short story – the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He has also been the editor of Best American Short Stories, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories, and A Doctor’s Visit: The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov. His work appears regularly in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, and other magazines and literary journals.
Fall 2014 Living Writers Series:
October 9: Ariel Gore
October 16: Kelly Link, Kim Stanley Robinson, Karen Joy Fowler
October 23: Andrew Lam, Kate Gale
October 30: Tobias Wolff
November 6: Helene Wecker
November 13: ASL Performer Patrick Graybill, Interpreter Aaron Brace
November 20: Kelly Link, Kim Stanley Robinson, Karen Joy Fowler
December 4: Katie Crouch
December 11: Student Reading

All events are free and open to the public from 4:00-5:45pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email meperks@ucsc.edu.

Joan Raspo: DANM BIRTH OF STARS: a play that asks "What would you give up to gain the universe?"
2014-10-31 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202

Veterans History Project
2014-11-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
The Santa Cruz Public Libraries invites you to contribute to the national archive. Were you a veteran? Your story matters.
What is the Veterans History Project?
The United States Congress created the Veterans History Project (VHP) in 2000 as part of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. VHP’s mission is to collect, preserve, and make accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war. Santa Cruz Public Libraries is participating in this project, along with many public libraries across the country.
What can you contribute?
Santa Cruz Public Libraries is making equipment and technical expertise available to help you tell your story. If you’re a US Veteran, from any conflict, consider documenting your story with the library. Alternatively if you are a civilian who actively supported the war effort, such as a war industry worker, flight instructor, medical volunteer, or USO worker, consider being interviewed. You’ll be contributing to both the national archive and your local community. We’ll record a conversation about your military experiences for 30 minutes or more. We’ll provide the interviewing space, supplies and equipment. There is no charge for this service. We’ll provide you with a copy of your interview and we will submit the original and any accompanying materials to the VHP project at the Library of Congress. With your permission, a copy of your materials will also remain in the Santa Cruz Public Libraries local collection.
You may contribute a video or audio interview 30 minutes or longer (Santa Cruz Public Libraries can help you create this). Additional contributions are optional and may include: 10 or more original photographs • Two-dimensional artwork • Letters • Official military documents • 20 pages or more of original unpublished memoirs, diaries or journals.
After you receive a copy, your original interview and all donated items (pictures, letters etc.) will be submitted on your behalf to the Library of Congress Veterans History Project. You maintain the copyright and your contributions will be housed in a preservation environment within the permanent collections of the Library of Congress. Within a six-month processing period, all donated materials are available to researchers, scholars, students, Congress, authors, filmmakers, and anyone else visiting the Library or viewing the collections online.

How Do I Get Started?
If you are interested in participating, contact our project coordinator directly: Jennifer Cockerill at 831-427-7700 ext 7668 or email at cockerillj@santacruzpl.org.

Hatam Bazian: "Palestine, Islamophobia and Global Dispossession"
2014-11-04 18:00 - 19:45

Juned Shaikh: "Translation & Transmission: Marxism & Social Hierarchies in Bombay, 1928-1934"
2014-11-05 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
JUNED SHAIKH
Assistant Professor of History, UCSC
Juned Shaikh works on labor, urbanity, and caste in India. His book focuses on the entanglements and contradictions of space in Bombay city in the 20th century. It explores the role of caste –more particularly the former untouchable or Dalit castes – in city planning, labor markets, trade unions, and the field of literature.

Fall 2014 Colloquium Series:
October 15: Bali Sahota
October 22: Vilashini Cooppan
October 29: Nirvikar Singh
November 5: Juned Shaikh
November 12: Dean Mathiowetz
November 19: David L. Clark
December 3: Terry Burke

Lionel Cantu Lecture Featuring Jasbir Puar
2014-11-05 14:00 - 16:00 | Namaste Lounge – College 9, Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UCSC Sociology Department is pleased to present the
LIONEL CANTÚ LECTURE
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2014
2:00 – 4:00 pm
Namaste Lounge, Colleges Nine/Ten
Reception at 3:30
Featuring:
JASBIR PUAR
Associate Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies
Rutgers University
“The Right to Maim: Disablement, Palestine, and Disaster Capitalism”
Jasbir K. Puar is Associate Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She received her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 and her M.A. from the University of York, England, in Women’s Studies in 1993.
Puar is the author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Duke University Press 2007), which won the 2007 Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. Puar’s forthcoming monograph, Affective Politics: States of Debility and Capacity (Duke University Press, 2014) takes up questions of disability in the context of theories of bodily assemblages that trouble intersectional identity frames.
Puar is currently working on her third book, titled Inhumanist Occupation: Sex, Affect, and Palestine/Israel as a 2013-14 Society for the Humanities Fellow at Cornell University.
This event honors the memory of Dr. Lionel Cantú Jr., Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz, who unexpectedly passed away in 2002. His academic research included international migration, HIV/AIDS, Latina/o studies, queer theories, and feminist studies. Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossing, a co-edited anthology by Lionel Cantú and Eithne Luibhéid, University of Arizona was published posthumously in 2005. A book based on his research was published in 2009, The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men, by Lionel Cantú, co-edited by Nancy Naples, Professor of Sociology & Women’s Studies at the University of Connecticut and Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Assistant Professor of Sociology at American University (New York University Press, February 2009).
Co-sponsored by: Chicano/Latino Research Center, Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness Department, Anthropology Department, Latin American Latino Studies Department, Literature Department, Lionel Cantú GLBTI Resource Center

UCSC Career Center: Fall Job & Internship Fair
2014-11-05 16:30 - 19:30 | College 8, West Field House
Network with a variety of companies hiring for full-time positions and internships.
Dress professionally and bring multiple copies of your resume.
Student ID or Career Center Access Card is required for entrance.
Tips to Get the Most Out of Job Fairs

Digital Humanities Working Group and Opening Reception
2014-11-05 17:00 - 19:00 | Cowell Senior Commons Room, Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062-1225, United States
Join the IHR Digital Humanities Research Cluster to interrogate new trends in Digital Humanities. This first meeting will include a spirited and critical discussion about visualization based on Johanna Drucker’s “Graphesis: Visual Knowledge Production and Representation.” The article can be found online at the Poetess Archive Journal. Please download and read before the meeting. We will also discuss future events and start to build a shared bibliography of DH-related texts. After this discussion, stay for the Opening Reception. Light refreshments will be served at the Cowell Senior Commons Room.

Sponsored by the University Library and IHR Digital Humanities Research Cluster
For more information please contact Rachel at digitalhumanities@ucsc.edu.
Follow us at @DH_UCSC and start a conversation with #DHUCSC

Murray Baumgarten: "The Letters Propelled Me: Resisting Kristallnacht Then and Now"
2014-11-05 19:00 - 20:30 | Smith Auditorium / Chapel of DeLaSalle and His Brothers
The Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College presents
The Seventh Annual Frederick M. Schweitzer Lecture
Murray Baumgarten: “The Letters Propelled Me: Resisting Kristallnacht Then and Now”
Murray Baumgarten directs the program in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he is Distinguished Professor of English & Comparative Literature. He studies the Holocaust, Urban Jewish writing and Victorian Literature, and is the founding director of the Dickens Project.
His books include City Scriptures: Modern Jewish Writing, and Understanding Philip Roth with Barbara Gottfried. He has edited The Jewish Street: Modern Urban Jewish Writing with Lee Jaffe, and Homes and Homelessness in the Victorian Imagination with H. M. Daleski; he has also written many essays on Holocaust Literature, Victorian culture and modern Jewish writing. From 1994-2006 he edited JUDAISM: A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF JEWISH LIFE & THOUGHT, for the American Jewish Congress.
He is a founding member of the Venice Center for International Jewish Studies, and continues to work on the afterlife of the Venice Ghetto, in preparation for the commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto in 2016.
Murray Baumgarten and Peter Kenez’s course on the Holocaust was offered on-line through Coursera to 18,000 people last year.

Living Writers Series: Helene Wecker
2014-11-06 16:00 - 17:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Helene Wecker grew up in Libertyville, Illinois, a small town north of Chicago, and received her Bachelor’s in English from Carleton College in Minnesota. After graduating, she worked a number of marketing and communications jobs in Minneapolis and Seattle before deciding to return to her first love, fiction writing. Accordingly, she moved to New York to pursue a Master’s in fiction at Columbia University.
She now lives near San Francisco with her husband and daughter. Her first novel, THE GOLEM AND THE JINNI, was published in 2013 by HarperCollins.

Fall 2014 Living Writers Series:
October 9: Ariel Gore
October 16: Kelly Link, Kim Stanley Robinson, Karen Joy Fowler
October 23: Andrew Lam, Kate Gale
October 30: Tobias Wolff
November 6: Helene Wecker
November 13: ASL Performer Patrick Graybill, Interpreter Aaron Brace
November 20: Kelly Link, Kim Stanley Robinson, Karen Joy Fowler
December 4: Katie Crouch
December 11: Student Reading

All events are free and open to the public from 4:00-5:45pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email meperks@ucsc.edu.

Elizabeth Hillman: “Sworn to Protect: Sexual Assault in the Military”
2014-11-06 19:00 - 20:30 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UC Santa Cruz / UC Hastings Social Justice Speaker Series presents Elizabeth Hillman
“Sworn to Protect: Sexual Assault in the Military”
Few legal issues have riveted public attention more than sexual assault in the military. This presentation will address the controversies that have erupted over a problem that is often misunderstood and rarely reported. Should commanders control the decision to prosecute? Should each branch of service retain its own investigators, prosecutors, defense counsel, and appellate court? What is the impact of providing legal counsel to victims? How should we evaluate legal outcomes?
This talk will examine this unique challenge to the nature of the American military justice system; the effect of gender dynamics and demographics; and best practices and prospects for improving the response systems to sexual assault in civilian and military arenas. Join the conversation at #UCsjss
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Please register by visiting: http://3plus3.ucsc.edu/sjss
$5 ticket includes parking*
There are a limited number of free tickets available to UCSC Students. These UCSC student tickets can be picked up in person at the UCSC Ticket Office, which is located at the Theater Arts Center.
1 unit of MCLE credit, Elimination of Bias in the Legal Profession, will be provided.
About Dean Elizabeth Hillman:
Dean Hillman serves on the Response Systems Panel (RSP), an independent panel authorized by Congress in 2013 to study and make recommendations regarding the investigation, prosecution, and adjudication of military sexual assault, and is the chair of an RSP subcommittee asked to compare civilian and military systems of responding to adult sexual assault. She is also a director of the National Institute of Military Justice, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting fairness in, and public understanding of, military justice worldwide, and co-legal director of the Palm Center, a public policy research institute that played a key role in ending the “don’t ask/don’t tell” policy of discriminating against gay men and lesbians in the U.S. armed forces.
About the Social Justice Speaker Series:
The UC Hastings Social Justice Speaker Series is a product of the collaboration between UC Hastings College of the Law and UC Santa Cruz. Both campuses launched a joint “3+3 BA/JD” program in 2014. The program, the first of its kind in the University of California system, will enable UC Santa Cruz students to earn a bachelor’s degree and law degree in six years instead of the usual seven.
Event Sponsors:
This event is co-sponsored by: UC Santa Cruz Legal Studies Program, Division of Social Sciences, Institute for Humanities Research, Politics Department, Feminist Studies Department, Philosophy Department, UC Hastings College of the Law, Santa Cruz County Bar Association, Women Lawyers of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz County Trial Lawyers Association, Monarch Services, City of Santa Cruz Commission for Prevention of Violence Against Women, Women’s Commission of Santa Cruz County, The Diversity Center.
* Ticket price includes complimentary parking at the Performing Arts Parking Lot adjacent to the Music Recital Hall. Parking staff will be on site to issue complimentary permits.

Bodies of Knowledge in the Japanese Empire
2014-11-07 11:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Gender studies, history of science, and Japanese studies intertwine in “Bodies of Knowledge in the Japanese Empire,” a panel featuring Susan Burns (University of Chicago) and Mark Driscoll (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). Susan Burns examines gendered conceptions of mental and physical health that drove the development of “alternative” therapies to orthodox biomedicine. Mark Driscoll explores a critique of Euro-American sciences of the body raised in early twentieth-century Japanese sexology. The speakers reveal how re-conceptualization of human bodies as objects of modern scientific knowledge was inflected by the uneasy space of imperial Japan.
Agenda:
• Introduction by Noriko Aso
• Susan Burns presentation
• Mark Driscoll presentation
• Comments by Stephanie Montgomery
• General discussion followed by buffet lunch (1-2pm)
Susan L. Burns is Associate Professor of Japanese History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan (Duke, 2003) and the co-editor of Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium (University of Hawaii Press, 2013). She is currently completing two monograph projects: one examines the history of leprosy in Japan; the other, the history of psychiatry in Japan.
Mark Driscoll is Associate Professor of Japanese and International Studies at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: the Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan’s Imperialism, 1895-1945 (Duke, 2010) and Kannani and Document of Flames: 2 Japanese Colonial Novels (Duke, 2005).
Sponsored by: UC President’s Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and the Institute for Humanities Research.

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Amena Coronado: "The Discipline of Suffering"
2014-11-07 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
Fridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202
*November 7th forum will be in Humanities 2, Room 259.

This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the departments of Literature, History of Consciousness. Anthropology, Feminist Studies, HAVC, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology and Sociology as well as the GSA and GSC.

Veterans Day Remembrance Parade
2014-11-11 09:30 - 11:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
The Santa Cruz Public Libraries is helping to remind people of the Veterans Day Parade which will take place this year on Tuesday, November 11th at 9:30am-11am from St. Patrick’s Church (Ford & Main Street in Watsonville) to Veterans Memorial Building, 215 E. Beach Street, Watsonville, CA.

Eye Music: A Festival of American Sign Language Poetry
2014-11-12 - 2014-11-15
Free and open to the public.
All festival events will be interpreted and are accessible to Deaf and non-Deaf audiences.

ASL Festival: Rosa Lee, Sneak Preview House Concert

Seating is limited. Please make a reservation at ASLfestival@ucsc.edu

Wednesday, November 12, 2014 – 7:30pm

Private home in Santa Cruz

ASL Festival: Poetry Performance by Patrick Graybill

Patrick Graybill, actor, performer, and former professor at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, presents some of his poems and holds an interpreted Q&A with the audience. Part of the Living Writers Series Fall 2014.

Thursday, November 13, 2014 – 4:00pm

Humanities Lecture Hall – UCSC

ASL Festival: Eye Music at the MAH

The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) hosts an evening of performance featuring Flying Words Project, Karen Christie, Shira Grabelsky, Tom Holcolmb, Ella Lentz, Patrick Graybill. Performance curated and hosted by JAC, nationally known mistress of ceremonies, performer,etc.

Friday, November 14, 2014 – 7:30pm

Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz

ASL Festival: Panel – “The Creation and Translation of ASL Poetry”

Panel moderated by Tom Holcomb (with Patrick Graybill and others).
Free and open to the public
parking $4

Saturday, November 15, 2014 – 1:00pm

Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)

ASL Festival: Panel – “Artivism”

Panel moderated by Karen Christie (with Ella Lentz, Peter Cook, and others)
Free and open to the public
Parking $4

Saturday, November 15, 2014 – 3:00pm

Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)

ASL Festival: Eye Music – Performance

Nationally acclaimed Deaf poets and performing artists visit UCSC for an evening of stunning poetry performed in American Sign Language — for Deaf and non-Deaf audiences. Featuring Flying Words Project (Peter Cook and Kenny Lerner, pictured) with Karen Christie and Patrick Graybill.
Free and open to the public.

Saturday, November 15, 2014 – 7:30pm

Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Rm 108 (UCSC)

Curated by Professor of Music Larry Polansky.
Made possible with funding from:
Porter College Hitchcock Poetry Fund, UCSC
Division of the Arts, UCSC
Arts Dean’s Excellence Award, UCSC
Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz
Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (UCSC)
Institute for Humanities Research (UCSC)
Department of Linguistics (UCSC)

Dean Mathiowetz: "Policing the Sensorium: Rancière, Foucault, & Economies of Luxury"
2014-11-12 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
DEAN MATHIOWETZ
Associate Professor of Politics, UCSC
Dean Mathiowetz’s current work is about the pleasures of luxurious superordination, as a form of what he calls “political sadism.” His work makes sense of the challenges that luxury poses for the realization of democratic aims, and explores the possibilities offered by leisure as a counterpoint to these challenges.
Fall 2014 Colloquium Series:
October 15: Bali Sahota
October 22: Vilashini Cooppan
October 29: Nirvikar Singh
November 5: Juned Shaikh
November 12: Dean Mathiowetz
November 19: David L. Clark
December 3: Terry Burke

Michael Ashley: "Mukurtu CMS: Differential Access for the Ethical Stewardship of Cultural and Digital Heritage"
2014-11-12 17:00 - 19:00 | McHenry Library UCSC, Room 4286
Try and recall a family secret, or a cherished memory shared between you and a parent or sibling. Now imagine holding on to that memory so that it could be shared with your descendants in 20 years, or 200. How would you preserve it, in what form? Who has access to it now, and how will that memory be held and transferred from generation to generation? From a single moment to the wider experiences of communities, oral histories and endangered languages, the intimate interchanges that define codes and protocols for sharing do not easily translate to the digital exchange of the world wide web. In this discussion, we will look at where we’re failing and succeeding to connect with indigenous priorities for differential access to cultural content, and what this means for all of us in developing informed exchanges for the digital humanities. We’ll explore Mukurtu CMS, a free and open source platform designed specifically to address some of these challenges and how community based agile software development can help to humanize the Internet.
Michael Ashley, CEO, Center for Digital Archaeology & Director of Development, Murkurtu CMS. Dr. Michael Ashley is Chief Executive Officer at the Center for Digital Archaeology (CoDA), a non-profit company affiliated with UC Berkeley that creates and leverages data management technologies for the preservation and sharing of cultural heritage. He is developing Codifi, an innovative mobile solution for turning buried content into discoverable, data-driven stories. Michael is the Director of Development of Mukurtu CMS, an open source content management solution for Indigenous communities to share, license and curate their digital heritage. He received his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in 2004, where he went on as faculty and staff to co-found several initiatives, including the award winning Open Knowledge and the Public Interest (OKAPI), and the Media Vault Program, a digital preservation and access framework for the university’s museums and archives. An archaeological photographer by training, Michael was the Media Team lead for the Çatalhöyük Research Project for 7 years.

Please join the IHR Digital Humanities Research Cluster and the University Library for a series of interactive lectures focused on “Digital Humanities & Cultural Heritage.” This inaugural speaker series will highlight digital projects from across the humanities and enable lively discussion about the role of the digital in preserving, building, and making accessible cultural materials from around the world.
No digital skills required. Contact digitalhumanities@ucsc.edu for more information.
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Living Writers Series: Patrick Graybill, Interpreter Aaron Brace
2014-11-13 16:00 - 17:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Patrick Graybill is a pioneer in ASL performance through his early work with the National Theater of the Deaf. He is a prolific translator of English to ASL, and a teacher of other poets, having taught for many years at the National Technological Institute of the Deaf in Rochester, New York (one of two American universities, along with Gallaudet, where sign is the official language). Graybill’s work is an important influence on later generations of ASL poets.
Aaron Brace has been interpreting for over 30 years, primarily as a community and conference interpreter and also for six years as a designated interpreter for a university professor. He credits Patrick Graybill, Ted Supalla, and the Deaf communities of Rochester, NY and the San Francisco Bay Area for making him the interpreter he is today. While it’s debatable whether he deserves his reputation, it’s absolutely true that he hasn’t always.
Fall 2014 Living Writers Series:
October 9: Ariel Gore
October 16: Kelly Link, Kim Stanley Robinson, Karen Joy Fowler
October 23: Andrew Lam, Kate Gale
October 30: Tobias Wolff
November 6: Helene Wecker
November 13: ASL Performer Patrick Graybill, Interpreter Aaron Brace
November 20: Kelly Link, Kim Stanley Robinson, Karen Joy Fowler
December 4: Katie Crouch
December 11: Student Reading

All events are free and open to the public from 4:00-5:45pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email meperks@ucsc.edu.

CANCELLED: Eric Schwitzgebel: "The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors"
2014-11-13 16:00 - 17:45 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Do professional ethicists behave any morally better than do non-ethicists of similar social background? If not, do they at least show greater consistency between their normative attitudes and their outward behavior? Despite a long philosophical tradition associating philosophical reflection with improved moral behavior, these questions have never been empirically examined. I describe four possible models of the relationship between philosophical moral reflection and real-world moral behavior (boosterism, epiphenomenalism, rationalization, and inert discovery). I then present convergent evidence from studies of about a dozen different types of moral behavior. The results suggest that ethicists behave no morally better on average or any more consistently with their espoused values, compared to other groups of professors. Using a combination of direct observation and self-report measures, I examine: the misappropriation of library books, voting in public elections, courtesy at professional meetings, responsiveness to student emails, charitable donation, organ and blood donation, staying in touch with one’s mother, vegetarianism, honesty in responses to surveys, nonpayment of conference registration fees, Nazi party membership in the 1930s, and peer evaluation of overall moral behavior. The overall results will be compared with the predictions of the four models.
Eric Schwitzgebel is a Professor of Philosophy at UC Riverside. He has written extensively on consciousness, self-knowledge, attitudes, and moral psychology. His most recent book is Perplexities of Consciousness. He blogs at The Splintered Mind.

The campus community and interested public are welcome at all Philosophy Department sponsored colloquia, conferences and workshops.
Spring 2015

Shelley Wilcox, San Francisco State

Winter 2015

Rebecca Kukla, Georgetown
Felipe De Brigard, Duke

Fall 2014

Eric Schwitzgebel, UC Riverside: The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors

More info at: http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia-conferences/index.html

Pritam Singh: "Spatial Shift and Ecological Crisis: An Eco-Socialist Perspective”
2014-11-13 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
A spatial shift has been taking place in global capitalism in the last few decades, in the form of declining importance of the older advanced capitalism and the rising importance of “emerging economies.” The most dramatic representation of this shift is that China has recently overtaken US as the largest economy in the world. For the first time, capitalism is expanding into countries with very large populations such as China, India and Indonesia. The rising consumption in these economies is sharpening the global ecological crisis.
Pritam Singh has a doctorate in economics from University of Oxford and is currently a Professor of economics at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford. He focuses on the sustainability implications of global capitalism, and Indian capitalism with emphasis on decentralization and human rights. His two most recent books are Federalism, Nationalism and Development: India and the Punjab Economy, and Economy, Culture and Human Rights: Turbulence in Punjab, India and Beyond.
This talk is part of the series “What is To Be Done? Organizational Forms and Political Futures,” organized by:
The Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster and the Institute for Humanities Research, with the cosponsorship of the Literature, Sociology, Anthropology, and Politics Departments; Stevenson, Cowell, and Porter Colleges; and the Vice Chancellor for Research.
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Fifth Annual Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading
2014-11-13 18:00 | Cabrillo College Room 450
THE 5th ANNUAL MORTON MARCUS MEMORIAL POETRY READING honors poet, teacher and film critic Morton Marcus (1936-2009), one of Santa Cruz’s beloved cultural icons. This fifth annual event will feature award-winning poets Peter Everwine and Chuck Hanzlicek. The evening will be hosted by Gary Young and will also feature the winner of the 3rd Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Contest, Marsha De La O.
Seating is limited. Free parking in lots E, F, G and H. All other lots will be ticketed.

Stephen Zunes: "Israel, Palestine, and the United States: The Failure of Governments and the Hope from Civil Society"
2014-11-13 18:00 - 19:45 | Merrill Academics 102

Latino Literature/La literatura latina V: A Symposium
2014-11-14 11:00 - 19:00 | Cultural Center at Merrill, Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Bringing writers and scholars together in thoughtful interchange, this fifth biennial symposium of the Latino Literary Cultures Project at UCSC culminates in an evening reading by prizewinning novelist and journalist Ana Menéndez; writer/artist Maceo Montoya; and poet Xochiquetzal Candelaria.

Please visit the Latino Literary Cultures Project website for the full program.
This free, public event is cosponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center, Puknat Literary Studies Endowment of the Department of Literature, El Centro: Chicano Latino Resource Center, and Merrill, Stevenson, and Kresge Colleges.

Jeffrey Omari: "Cyber Insecurity: Intellectual Property, Urban Development, and Civic Unrest in Brazil"
2014-11-14 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202

Elsewheres and Other-Wise: Critical Theory in a Different Register
2014-11-14 16:30 - 18:30 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
UCHRI presents:
Elsewheres and Other-Wise: Critical Theory in a Different Register
Discussants:
Aijaz Ahmad
Gregoire Chamayou
Derek Gregory
Hsiao Li-Chun
Li Hung-Chiung
Achille Mbembe
Sarah Nuttall
Eyal Weizman
Respondent: Ackbar Abbas
If you are unable to attend, the event will be live streamed at uchri.org/events/elsewheres.

Karen Armstrong: "Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence"
2014-11-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Peace United Church, 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The renowned author of A History of God will discuss and sign copies of her new book, Fields of Blood—a sweeping exploration of religion and the history of human violence.
For the first time, religious self-identification is on the decline in America. Some analysts have cited as cause a post-9/11 perception: that faith in general is a source of aggression, intolerance, and divisiveness—something bad for society. But how accurate is that view? With deep learning and sympathetic understanding, Karen Armstrong sets out to discover the truth about religion and violence in each of the world’s great traditions, taking us on an astonishing journey from prehistoric times to the present.
“A definitive voice in defense of the divine in human culture.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
This offsite ticketed event will take place at Peace United Church. Purchase tickets below or in-person at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
Karen Armstrong is a provocative, original thinker on the role of religion in the modern world. A former Roman Catholic nun and a world-renowned religious scholar, she is the author of numerous bestsellers including A History of God, The Battle for God, Islam, Buddha, and The Spiral Staircase.
TICKETS: $32.70, includes two tickets to the event and one copy of Fields of Blood. This event will take place at Peace United Church. Open seating.

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Event presented by Bookshop Santa Cruz, in partnership with the Institute for Humanities Research.

Brian Turner: "Poetry, War, And Coming Home"
2014-11-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Brian Turner, combat veteran of the Iraq war and award-winning poet, will lead the last discussion of the War Comes Home series in The Forum at Cabrillo College. Mr. Turner will read from his work and interact with the audience discussing veterans returning home from war. Brian has won the Pen Center Best in the West award, Poet’s Prize, and a NY Times Editor’s Choice Award. His appearance is made possible by the Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries.

Global Islam: Entangled Universalisms Panel
2014-11-17 15:30 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
CENTER FOR EMERGING WORLDS
2104-2015: GLOBAL ISLAM
INAUGURAL EVENT
Monday, November 17, 3:30-5, Humanities 1, Room 202
Panel: Entangled Universalisms
Dr. Darryl Li, Associate Research Scholar, Yale Law School,
“Jihad and Other Universalisms”
Professor Henri Lauzière, Northwestern University
“Imperial Entanglement as Moderating Factor”
Monday, November 17, 7:00pm, Social Sciences 2, Room 071
Public Discussion with Dr. Li and Professor Lauzière
“Taking Radicalism Seriously: Or How to Think (or Not Think) About Jihad”
Tuesday, November 18, 9am-12pm, Social Sciences 1, Room 261
Reading Seminar*
Dr. Darryl Li, “Exchanging Arabs: An Interlude”
Professor Henri Lauzière, “Being Salafi in the Early Twentieth Century”
*students welcome. Email sjetha@ucsc.edu to receive the readings.

Global Islam: "Taking Radicalism Seriously: Or How to Think (or Not Think) About Jihad"
2014-11-17 19:00 | Social Sciences 2, Room 071

Global Islam: Reading Seminar
2014-11-18 09:00 - 12:00 | Social Sciences 1, Room 261, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Eran Kaplan: "Changes in Israel Society and the Peace Process"
2014-11-18 18:00 - 19:45 | Merrill Academics 102

CANCELLED: David L. Clark: "On the Promise of Peace: Kant’s Wartime & the Tremulous Body of Philosophy"
2014-11-19 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
DAVID L. CLARK
Professor of English and Cultural Studies and Associate Member of the Department of
Health, Aging and Society, McMaster University, Canada
In addition to completing a book on Immanuel Kant’s late work, (Bodies and Pleasures in Late Kant), David Clark is pursuing two projects: one on the question of animality, atrocity, and the testamentary, and another on the principle of redaction and avisuality in Francisco Goya’s Disasters of War engravings.

Fall 2014 Colloquium Series:
October 15: Bali Sahota
October 22: Vilashini Cooppan
October 29: Nirvikar Singh
November 5: Juned Shaikh
November 12: Dean Mathiowetz
November 19: David L. Clark
December 3: Terry Burke

Lucas McGranahan: "Darwinism and Pragmatism: William James on Evolution and Self-Transformation"
2014-11-20 14:00 - 15:45 | Crown 208
Lucas McGranahan: “Darwinism and Pragmatism: William James on Evolution and Self-Transformation”
Thursday November 20, 2:00 – 3:45 pm
Crown 208, UC Santa Cruz
Abstract
William James presages twentieth-century Neo-Darwinism in his physiological approach to
mental life, his early repudiation of the inheritance of acquired characteristics, and his
creative extension of the concepts of variation and selection to a variety of non-biological
domains. Indeed, James was the first ‘double-barreled’ Darwinian psychologist in that he
was the first to explain individual learning and phylogenetic mental evolution in terms of
analogous processes of variation and selection. However, the chief lessons of Darwinism
for James were not the materialism, mechanism, or reductionism of later Neo-Darwinism,
but rather (1) the idea that both science and philosophy are open-ended processes of
fallible, inductive guesswork, and (2) the idea of consciousness as an evolved and
efficacious ‘fighter for ends.’ In short, Darwinism for James signals a world that is both
theoretically and actually ‘in the making,’ with the individual as an active participant.
Bio
Lucas McGranahan is an independent scholar and nonprofit professional living in Oakland,
California. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy and English from the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, Santa Cruz. In
2011 he won the Douglas Greenlee Prize for best paper by an early-career scholar from
the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, and he is the recipient of
multiple teaching honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has published
on evolutionary theory and pragmatism in The Pluralist.

Living Writers Series: Kelly Link, Kim Stanley Robinson, & Karen Joy Fowler
2014-11-20 16:00 - 17:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Kelly Link is the author of three collections of short stories, Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters. Her short stories have won three Nebulas, a Hugo, and a World Fantasy Award. She was born in Miami, Florida, and once won a free trip around the world by answering the question “Why do you want to go around the world?” (“Because you can’t go through it.”)
Link and her family live in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she and her husband, Gavin J. Grant, run Small Beer Press, and play ping-pong. In 1996 they started the occasional zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet.
Kim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. He is the author of eleven previous books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Fifty Degrees Below, Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt, and Antarctica–for which he was sent to the Antarctic by the U.S. National Science Foundation as part of their Antarctic Artists and Writers’ Program. He lives in Davis, California.
Karen Joy Fowler is the author of six novels and three short story collections. The Jane Austen Book Clubspent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel, Sister Noon, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel, Sarah Canary, was a New York Times Notable Book, as was her second novel, The Sweetheart Season. Fowler’s short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award in 1999, and her collection What I Didn’t See won the World Fantasy Award in 2011. Her most recent novel, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, has been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2014. Fowler and her husband, who have two grown children and five grandchildren, live in Santa Cruz, California.

Fall 2014 Living Writers Series:
October 9: Ariel Gore
October 23: Andrew Lam, Kate Gale
October 30: Tobias Wolff
November 6: Helene Wecker
November 13: ASL Performer Patrick Graybill, Interpreter Aaron Brace
November 20: Kelly Link, Kim Stanley Robinson, Karen Joy Fowler
December 4: Katie Crouch
December 11: Student Reading

All events are free and open to the public from 4:00-5:45pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email meperks@ucsc.edu.

Cornel West: "Ferguson, Racism, and the Media"
2014-11-20 20:00 - 22:00 | Media Theater, M110
Engaging Education & Student Media Present (with the endorsement of A/BSA)…
Speaker Blowout: FERGUSON, RACISM, AND THE MEDIA
Keynote Speaker: CORNEL WEST
Limited tickets available. Free tickets available at Engaging Education and Student Media Center for pickup on Nov 17 & a8 with UC Santa Cruz ID.

Sandra Harvey: "The HeLa Bomb and the Science of Unveiling"
2014-11-21 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202

Brown Bag Lunch: Doing Digital Humanities (Open to all graduate students)
2014-11-24 12:00 - 13:30 | Graduate Student Commons
Interested in digital tools but not sure where to start? Excited about presenting your research to a public audience, but can’t imagine what that might look like? Meet with UCSC faculty and graduate students who are doing digital work and learn more about the process of making digital projects.
Jon Ellis (Philosophy), Tracy Perkins (Sociology, grad), and Elaine Sullivan (History) will discuss their digital projects, the process of getting started, finding grant support, and expressing their scholarly work in digital form. This presentation of Digital Humanities projects will offer examples for how digital work can amplify, complement, or reimagine scholarly research and help expand your academic network. There will be ample time for conversation around Doing Digital Humanities.
Contact digitalhumanities@ucsc.edu for more information.
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Lee Ross and Byron Bland: "Barriers for Peace"
2014-11-25 18:00 - 19:45 | Merrill Academics 102
Conflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine
Tuesday Evenings Fall 2014 • 6:00-7:45pm, Merrill Academy 102

Next Lecture:
Tuesday Dec 2: Aaron Hahn Tapper (Peace and Justice Studies, University of San Francisco) and Tom Pettigrew (Psychology, UC Santa Cruz). Contact, Intergroup dialogue and the Question of Normalization.
Previous Lecture in Series:
Tuesday Oct 7: Christine King (Lecturer Kresge College). “Making Peace with Conflict”
Tuesday Oct 14: Dr. Jennifer Derr (History Department, UC Santa Cruz). The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation.
Tuesday Oct 21: Dr. Bruce Thompson (History and Jewish Studies, UCSC)- “The History of Zionism: From Hertzl to Ben-Gurion.
Tuesday Oct 28: Jean-Jacques Surbeck (Executive Director of Training and Education about the Middle East). Israel and the World, a Unique Lesson in Double Standards.
Tuesday Nov 4: Hatam Bazian (Near Eastern Studies and Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley). Palestine, Islamophobia and Global Dispossession
Thursday Nov 13: Stephen Zunes (Politics and International Studies, University of San Francisco)- Israel, Palestine, and the United States: The Failure of Governments and the Hope from Civil Society
Tuesday Novr 18: Eran Kaplan (Chair Israel Studies, San Francisco State University). Changes in Israel society and the Peace Process.
Tuesday Nov 25: Lee Ross (Psychology, Stanford) and Byron Bland (Stanford Law School). Barriers for Peace.

Diaspora and Memory -- Sikhs and 1984
2014-12-01 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Thirty years ago saw the culmination of increasing social conflict in Punjab, a Sikh-majority state in India. In 1984, the government of India launched a military operation on the Sikhs’ central religious site, aimed at militants, but also ensnaring innocent pilgrims. Later that year, Sikh bodyguards assassinated India’s Prime Minister in retribution, immediately followed by pogroms against Sikhs all over India, and subsequently a decade of violence and repression in Punjab. The perpetrators of state violence have not been brought to justice, and the events of 1984 and after continue to cast a shadow on Sikhs across the globe.
Prof. Gurinder Singh Mann, Kundan Kaur Kapany Chair in Sikh Studies at UC Santa Barbara and Prof. Pashaura Singh, Dr. Jasbir Singh Saini Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies at UC Riverside, will be panelists sharing their thoughts on, and experiences of these events, as well as the continuing implications for the global Sikh community. The panel and discussion will be moderated by Prof. Nirvikar Singh, Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair of Sikh and Punjabi Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
All students, faculty and community members are invited. Lunch will be provided, and RSVPs are requested by November 25th at 1 pm. Please RSVP by email to Evin Guy, Institute for Humanities Research, ecguy@ucsc.edu.
Panel discussion presented by the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Endowed Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies at UC Santa Cruz.

Image credit: “1984: The Storming of the Golden Temple”, 1998, Amrit and Rabindra K.D.Kaur Singh.
London born twin sisters Amrit and Rabindra are contemporary British artists of International standing whose award winning paintings have been acknowledged as constituting a unique genre in British Art and for initiating a new movement in the revival of the Indian miniature tradition within modern art practice.

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Aaron Hahn Tapper and Tom Pettigrew: "Intergroup Dialogue and the Question of Normalization"
2014-12-02 18:00 - 19:45 | Merrill Academics 102

Terry Burke: "The Ethnographic State: France & the Invention of Moroccan Islam"
2014-12-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
TERRY BURKE
Research Professor of History, UCSC
Alone among Muslim countries, Morocco is known for its own national form of Islam, “Moroccan Islam.” In his most recent book The Ethnographic State, Professor Burke argues that Moroccan Islam was actually invented in the early twentieth century by French ethnographers and colonial officers influenced by British colonial practices in India. Through this process the monarchy was resurrected and Morocco was reinvented as a modern polity.

Fall 2014 Colloquium Series:
October 15: Bali Sahota
October 22: Vilashini Cooppan
October 29: Nirvikar Singh
November 5: Juned Shaikh
November 12: Dean Mathiowetz
November 19: David L. Clark
December 3: Terry Burke

Carolyn Dean: "Seeing is Not Believing: Colonialist Visuality, Inka Masonry, and the Challenge of Aniconism"
2014-12-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Porter College, Room D245
Visual & Media Cultures Colloquia talk, the first one of the 2014-15 season, on Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at 4 pm in Porter D245: “Seeing is Not Believing: Colonialist Visuality, Inka Masonry, and the Challenge of Aniconism,” featuring Carolyn Dean.
Carolyn Dean is a Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz. A leading scholar in the field of Pre-Columbian visual studies, Dean studies Andean, particularly Inka (Inca), visual and performance culture both before and after Spanish colonization. She has published numerous articles and two books: Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco Peru (Duke University Press, 1999) and A Culture of Stone: Inka Perspectives on Rock (Duke University Press, 2010). In 2011, she won the Arvey Prize for best book on Latin American Art for A Culture of Stone.
Presented by Arts Division, Film & Digital Media, and History of Art & Visual Culture
Image: Trapezoidal Niche at Ollantaytambo, Peru. Inka, late 15th c. Photograph by Carolyn Dean

Facebook Employee Panel Discussion on Careers
2014-12-03 16:00 - 19:00 | Cervantes & Velasquez Room, Baytree Conference Center, Bay Tree Conference Center, UC Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Interested in working in tech but currently pursuing a degree outside the hard sciences? Come hear from a panel of Facebook content strategists who work in the field of user experience design.
They’ll share information about:

• The content strategy profession
• How their career paths have taken shape
• Pursuing careers in tech with liberal-arts based degrees such as Literature and Political Science
• What it’s like to work at Facebook.

Join us for a formal panel at the Career Center, followed by a networking reception at the Cowell Provost House.

4:00-5:30: Panel Discussion at Cervantes Conference Room at the Career Center: The Facebook employee panelists conducts a formal Q&A panel discussion about their career path and application of liberal arts degree at Facebook
5:30-7:00: Event participants relocate to the Cowell Provost House for informal meet and greet where the panelists/alumni can intermingle with students over refreshments
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Panel discussion presented by the Career Center, cosponsored by the Cowell Provost and the Institute for Humanities Research.

Living Writers Series: Katie Crouch
2014-12-04 16:00 - 17:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Katie Crouch is a New York Times bestselling novelist and essayist. Her books include Girls in Trucks, Men and Dogs, and Abroad. She has also written two novels for young adults, and has contributed to The London Guardian, The San Francisco Chronicle, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Slate, Salon and Glamour. She has a regular column on The Rumpus called “Missed”. A MacDowell Fellow and alumnae of Brown University and the Columbia MFA program, Katie lives with her family in Bolinas, California.
Fall 2014 Living Writers Series:
October 9: Ariel Gore
October 23: Andrew Lam, Kate Gale
October 30: Tobias Wolff
November 6: Helene Wecker
November 13: ASL Performer Patrick Graybill, Interpreter Aaron Brace
November 20: Kelly Link, Kim Stanley Robinson, Karen Joy Fowler
December 4: Katie Crouch
December 11: Student Reading

All events are free and open to the public from 4:00-5:45pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email meperks@ucsc.edu.

Digital Happy Hour: Why Digital Humanities?
2014-12-04 17:00 - 19:00 | Cowell Senior Commons Room, Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062-1225, United States
Join the Digital Humanities Research Cluster for an informal cocktail hour. The first of a series of casual get togethers will start with the question, “Why the Digital Humanities?” Meet other scholars doing digital work and contribute to a conversation that will help shape what digital scholarship looks like at UC Santa Cruz. Open to all faculty, graduate students, and library staff building digital projects, curious about digital tools, or engaged in work with or about new media. This is an open and informal event and we encourage all who are interested to stop by.

Sponsored by the University Library and IHR Digital Humanities Research Cluster

For more information please contact Rachel at digitalhumanities@ucsc.edu. Follow us at @DH_UCSC and start a conversation with #DHUCSC

Crystal Am Nelson: "We Ain't Gotta Be This: Queering Sites of Blackness, an Aesthetic Approach"
2014-12-05 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202

Thor Sawin and Jason Martel: "Fostering foreign language learners’ speaking through ongoing feedback"
2014-12-05 17:00 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
It is now well accepted in foreign language pedagogy that assessment is not solely an end-‐of-‐unit activity. Rather, it is important for teachers to monitor learners’ language development using a variety of techniques throughout the course of a unit of study. Among the many skills to be assessed in foreign language classrooms, speaking presents unique challenges. First, because spoken language samples immediately disappear, it is harder for teachers to give meaningful feedback that can be immediately applied. Second, speaking tends to be assessed formally and only a few times in a term, resulting in unhelpful, institutionally-‐required grades that neither prompt learners to produce more language based on feedback nor motivate them by recognizing the progress they have made. With these considerations in mind, our talk will:
• Define speaking/oral proficiency
• Distinguish between formative and summative assessment
• Discuss the use of speaking portfolios as a motivational and developmental strategy
• Discuss strategies for assessing speaking throughout and at the end of a unit of study, in ways that learners are able to keep track of and take ownership over

Light refreshments will be served.

Franco "Bifo" Berardi: "Social Morphogenesis: The Historical Transition from Revolution to Disentanglement"
2014-12-08 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The subject of this lecture comes from the recent experience of the Occupy movement against financial capitalism. It investigates the political and conceptual limits of these movements, and their inability to put an end to the financial aggression. Focusing on the main actors of the Occupy process – the precarious cognitive workers, embodying the Marx’s concept of “general intellect” – the lecture will seek to grasp the possibilities that this social force has brought about.
Franco “Bifo” Berardi is an Italian political theorist and activist. He is the founder of the legendary magazine A/traverso (1975-1981) and was part of the staff of Radio Alice, the first free radio station in Italy (1976-1978). Involved in the political movement of Autonomia in Italy during the 1970s, he fled to Paris where he worked with Felix Guattari in the field of schizoanalysis. During the 1980s he contributed to the magazines Semiotext(e) (New York), Chimerees (Paris), Metropoli (Rome) and Musica 80 (Milan). In the 1990′s he published Mutazione e Ciberpunk (Genoa, 1993), Cibernauti (Rome, 1994) and was the co-founder of the e-zine rekombinant.org. In the last decade he has published, among others: The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance (Semiotext(e), 2012), Félix (Palgrave McMillan, 2008) and The Soul at Work (Semiotext(e), 2010). His forthcoming book And – Phenomenology of the End will be published by n-1 Publications at the end of 2014.
This talk is part of the series “What Is to Be Done? Organizational Forms and Political Futures,” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster and the Institute for Humanities Research, with the co-sponsorship of the Literature, Sociology, Anthropology, and Politics Departments; Stevenson, Cowell, and Porter Colleges; and the Vice Chancellor for Research.

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Franco Berardi, Seminar Discussion: "Aesthetic Genealogy of Globalization"
2014-12-09 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Franco “Bifo” Berardi will be leading a seminar discussion based on “Aesthetic Genealogy of Globalization,” an excerpt from his forthcoming book And – Phenomenology of the End. Participants are invited to read the text and join the discussion.
The text can be downloaded at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ax682ecxgn4jtzi/Franco%20Berardi%2C%20Aesthetic%20Genealogy%20of%20Globalization.pdf?dl=0.

This seminar is part of the series “What Is to Be Done? Organizational Forms and Political Futures,” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster and the Institute for Humanities Research, with the co-sponsorship of the Literature, Sociology, Anthropology, and Politics Departments; Stevenson, Cowell, and Porter Colleges; and the Vice Chancellor for Research.

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CANCELLED: Abe Stone: "Why Does Space Have More than One Dimension?"
2014-12-11 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
At least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. The format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited.
All members of the campus community and interested public are welcome to attend.
Coffee, tea, and cookies served.
