BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Humanities Institute X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160525T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160525T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160518T182035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160518T182035Z UID:10006383-1464177600-1464184800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dai Jinhua: “A Cultural Landscape with No Coordinates: Contemporary Chinese Cinema” DESCRIPTION:Dai Jinhua is currently researching the cultural politics of China after the post-Cold War\, the “rise of China\,” and the erasures and elisions of China’s anti-colonial\, third world socialist past.  Bringing her feminist Marxism to bear\, Dai Jinhua interprets Chinese film and culture\, examining traces of forgotten histories.  This talk is generously co-sponsored by the Center for Emerging Worlds and will have a simultaneous interpreter. \nJinhua is Professor in the Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture at Beijing University. \nEVENT PHOTOS:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dai-jinhua-a-cultural-landscape-with-no-coordinates-contemporary-chinese-cinema-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/dai-120x120.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160524T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160524T153000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160519T220303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160519T220303Z UID:10005244-1464098400-1464103800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Camille Fauroux: "Framing Gender across Boundaries: French Women at Work in Berlin’s War Industry (1940-1945)" DESCRIPTION:During the Second World War\, 50\,000 to 100\,000 French women chose to leave France to work for the war industry in Germany. Their transnational experience points to the racial and gendered division of labor that deployed itself throughout Nazi occupied Europe. In an attempt to sustain the war effort while limiting German’s women’s draft and preserve their status as mothers and housewives\, the National-socialist state chose to rely on the forced labor of millions of foreign men and women from occupied territories who where brought to the Reich. Drawing from a case study on the high-tech electronic industry in Berlin between 1940 and 1945\, I reveal how French women’s “voluntary work” became more and more coerced as the war went on. Segregated housing in camps ensured a tight control of these workers as well as it prevented them from founding families on the German soil\, but it also provided unexpected space for solidarity and resistance to forced labor. \nCamille Fauroux is a doctoral candidate at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. This year\, she is a visiting research associate at UC Santa Cruz. Her dissertation\, under the supervision of Prof. Laura Lee Downs\, examines French women’s labor in National-socialist Germany between 1940 and 1945. Her research interests include forced labor\, migration\, sexuality\, and the transnational construction of gender. \nLight refreshments will be provided. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/camille-fauroux-framing-gender-across-boundaries-french-women-at-work-in-berlins-war-industry-1940-1945-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Fauroux-talk_375w1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160520T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160520T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20151015T192724Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151015T192724Z UID:10006287-1463752800-1463756400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistic Colloquium: Kyle Johnson DESCRIPTION:Linguistic Colloquium: \nThe Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFall 2015\nOctober 9th: Keith Johnson\, UC Berkeley\nOctober 16th: Heidi Harley\, University of Arizona\nOctober 30th: Ivano Caponigro\, UC San Diego\nNovember 20th: Elliott Moreton\, University of North Carolina \nWinter 2016\nJanuary 15th: Sharon Inkelas\, UC Berkeley\nFebruary 5th: Colin Phillips\, University of Maryland\nFebruary 6th: N. Goodman\, Stanford University and A. Kehler\, UC San Diego\nMarch 5th: Linguistics Conference at Santa Cruz Conference \nSpring 2016\nApril 15th: Sabine Iatridou\, MIT\nApril 29th: Paul Kiparsky\, Stanford University\nMay 6\, 7\, 8: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9\nMay 20th: Kyle Johnson\, University of Massachusetts\nMay 27th/June 3rd (TBA): Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-kyle-johnson-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160520T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160520T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160406T194024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160406T194024Z UID:10005230-1463747400-1463752800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Trung Nguyen DESCRIPTION:Trung Nguyen \n“War Material: Vietnamese Objects of Post-War Subjectivity” \nHong-An Truong and Dinh Q. Le are two widely received diasporic Vietnamese artists whose installations have engaged with the interpretative terrains and problematics of memory\, subjectivity\, and colonialism through Vietnamese historical experience. This presentation will study two of their respective pieces that explicitly confront modes of inhabiting a subjectivity constituted by the material remainders of war. \n\n  \nFriday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule \nFridays\, 12:30 – 2:00pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nApril 8th- Andrew Woods\, Politics\nApril 15th- Claudia Lopez\, Sociology\nApril 22nd- Jordan Reznick\, HAVC\nApril 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies\nMay 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics\nMay 13th- Cathy Thomas\, Literature\nMay 20th- Trung Nguyen\, History of Consciousness\nMay 27th- Rebecca Ora\, Film of Digital Media\nJune 3rd- Veronica Zablotsky\, Feminist Studies URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-trung-nguyen-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/FFPoster_SP2016.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160519T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160519T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160405T165333Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T165333Z UID:10006360-1463680800-1463687100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Lev Grossman DESCRIPTION:Lev Grossman: I was born in 1969 and grew up in Lexington\, MA. My parents were both English professors\, so naturally I read a lot. I read a lot in college too\, and read even more in graduate school. Then I moved to New York City and started writing full time. \nMy first novel\, Warp\, came out in 1997. My second\, Codex\, was published in 2004 and became an international bestseller. The Magicians was published in 2009 and was a New York Times bestseller and one of the New Yorker‘s best books of the year. The sequel\, The Magician King\, came out in 2011 and was a Times bestseller too. The third and (almost certainly) last Magicians book\, The Magician’s Land\, was published in 2014 and debuted at #1 on the bestseller list. \nThe Magicians books have now been published in twenty-five countries and have gotten praise from among others George R.R. Martin\, John Green\, Audrey Niffenegger\, Erin Morgenstern\, Joe Hill\, William Gibson\, Kelly Link\, Gregory Maguire\, and Junot Diaz. A Syfy series based on the trilogy is currently shooting and will premiere in early 2016. \nI also write a lot of journalism. I’ve been the book critic at Time magazine since 2002. The New York Timesdescribed me as “among this country’s smartest and reliable critics.” I’ve written a dozen or so cover stories for Time\, and my essays and criticism have also been in the Believer\, the Village Voice\, the Wall Street Journal\, the New York Times\, Salon\, Slate\, Wired\, Entertainment Weekly\,  the Week\, Lingua Francaand many other places. I’ve won several awards for journalism\, including a Deadline award in 2006. I make regular appearances on campuses\, including Harvard\, Yale and Oxford\, and as a commentator on NPR. \nI live in Brooklyn with my wife\, two daughters and one son\, in a creaky old house. \n\n  \nSpring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line \nWhy Out of Line? \n“I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre\, in different genres\, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I’m hoping it will encourage our students to think outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general\, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks \nThis event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors! \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nApril 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)\nApril 14: Kate Schatz\nApril 21: Manuel Gonzales\nApril 28: Charlie Jane Anders\nMay 5: NO READING\nMay 12: Elizabeth McKenzie\nMay 19: Lev Grossman\nMay 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier\nJune 2: Student Reading URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-lev-grossman-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Living-Writerss.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160519T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160519T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160513T221122Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160513T221122Z UID:10006382-1463673600-1463679000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jonathan Ellis: "Motivated Reasoning\, Heavy and Light" DESCRIPTION:At least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. \nThe format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited. \nAll members of the campus community and interested public are welcome to attend. \nJonathan Ellis\nMotivated Reasoning\, Heavy and Light\nThursday\, May 19\, 2016\nLocation: Humanities 1\, Room 202\nTime: 4:00 – 5:30 \nCoffee\, tea\, and cookies served. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jonathan-ellis-motivated-reasoning-heavy-and-light-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160519T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160519T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160425T214430Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160425T214430Z UID:10006371-1463659200-1463666400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Marjorie Agosin: "Translating the Soul: Meditations on Poetry" DESCRIPTION:Marjorie Agosin is the Luella La Mer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies and Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. Professor Agosin’s poetry is inspired by social justice and the dedicated to the remembrance and memorialization of traumatic historical events in the Americas and in European holocaust. As a Chilean-American of Jewish heritage Agosin’s poetry enshrines women’s human rights. As a literary scholar she has published work on Pablo Neruda\, María Luisa Bombal\, and Gabriela Mistral. She is especially well known for preserving and celebrating Chilean “arpilleras” the resistance quilts made by work addresses the role of women during the Pinochet dictatorship. Some of these will be on display during the poetry reading. \n\n  \nMay 18th: Presentation\nMarjorie Agosin: Gender & Sexuality in the Work of Gabriela Mistral \nMay 19th: A Poetry Reading\n“Translating the Soul: Meditations on Poetry” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/marjorie-agosin-gender-sexuality-in-the-work-of-gabriela-mistral-2-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/event-thng.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160518T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160518T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160225T191711Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181018T200347Z UID:10005206-1463594400-1463594400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:UCSC Night at the Museum: The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection DESCRIPTION:PODCAST:\n \nEVENT PHOTOS:\nby Steve Kurtz\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n \nUC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research Presents: \nUCSC Night at the Museum: The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection\n6:30pm | “The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America”\nPublic conversation with Ethan Michaeli\, author of The Defender\, and David Anthony\, Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz.\nReception and book signing to follow talk. \nMay 18\, 2016\nSanta Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH)\n705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95060 \nPlease register for Free admission to the museum and the Kinsey Collection\nDoors Open at 6pm\nExplore one of the largest private collections of African American art and artifacts\, while mixing and mingling with UCSC professors. \n  \nRegister \n  \nParking\nThere are two parking garages located near the Museum. There is disability parking available in both parking garages. \nSoquel/Front Garage: The Soquel/Front Parking Garage is located at the corner of Soquel Avenue and Front Street. The lot is paid hourly parking\, seven days a week\, except Thanksgiving Day\, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. Keep your ticket with you\, and pay at one of the Pay-on-Foot stations (located on the ground floor stair towers) or the cashier’s office before returning to your vehicle. \nRiver/Front Garage: The River/Front Garage is located between River and Front Streets next to the Galleria Office Complex. Permits are required for the second and third level and are limited to people who work or live downtown. \nQuestions\, or for disability related accommodations\, please contact ihr@ucsc.edu or 831-459-5655. \nThe Kinsey Collection at MAH:\nFebruary 26th\, 2016 – May 22nd\, 2016\nSpanning 400 years of history\, the Kinsey Collection reflects a rich cultural heritage. Includes work by Romare Bearden\, Elizabeth Catlett\, Jacob Lawrence\, and Richard Mayhew alongside archival material related to Frederick Douglass\, Zora Neale Hurston\, and Malcolm X. \nThe MAH is providing free admission to this exhibition for all Santa Cruz County K-12 students\, UCSC and Cabrillo College students. Just show your ID at the desk Feb 27-May 22\, Tuesday-Sunday\, 11-5\, to get in for free. Note: Free Admission does not apply during Third Friday festivals. \nSelf-guided tour materials also available for school groups and visitors\, click here to book a self-guided tour. \nPresented in partnership with the Santa Cruz County Office of Education\, the Art Forum\, the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research and Cabrillo College. \nFor more information visit santacruzmah.org URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kinsey-ucsc-night-at-the-museum-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160518T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160518T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160318T205135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160318T205135Z UID:10006353-1463585400-1463592600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Marjorie Agosin: "Gender & Sexuality in the Work of Gabriela Mistral" DESCRIPTION:Marjorie Agosin is the Luella La Mer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies and Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. Professor Agosin’s poetry is inspired by social justice and the dedicated to the remembrance and memorialization of traumatic historical events in the Americas and in European holocaust. As a Chilean-American of Jewish heritage Agosin’s poetry enshrines women’s human rights. As a literary scholar she has published work on Pablo Neruda\, María Luisa Bombal\, and Gabriela Mistral. She is especially well known for preserving and celebrating Chilean “arpilleras” the resistance quilts made by work addresses the role of women during the Pinochet dictatorship. Some of these will be on display during the poetry reading. \n\n  \nMay 18th: Presentation\nMarjorie Agosin: Gender & Sexuality in the Work of Gabriela Mistral \nMay 19th: A Poetry Reading\n“Translating the Soul: Meditations on Poetry” \nEvent Photos\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/marjorie-agosin-gender-sexuality-in-the-work-of-gabriela-mistral-4/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/event-thng.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160518T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160518T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20150612T215741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T215741Z UID:10005122-1463573700-1463580000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ronaldo V. Wilson: “Your Micro-Aggression\, My Macro-Response: Some Renderings” DESCRIPTION:Ronaldo Wilson’s current project AVATAR|DIASPORA\, wrestles with the idea of the obliterated black body and its juncture with poetry and visual culture.  This project documents his current practice through sonic landscapes\, video\, dance\, and writing as ways to explore race\, sexuality\, and representation. \nWilson is Associate Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. \nEVENT PHOTOS:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n\nSpring 2016 Colloquium Series\n\n\nApril 6\, 2016\nApril 13\, 2016\nApril 20\, 2016\nApril 27\, 2016\nMay 4\,2016\nMay 11\,2016\nMay 18\,2016\nMay 25\,2016 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-24-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160517T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160517T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160507T180740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160507T180740Z UID:10006381-1463504400-1463504400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Hearing Gender: Stereotypes and Context in Voice Processing DESCRIPTION:When we speak\, in addition to our intended linguistic message\, we communicate quite a bit about ourselves\, such as our perceived gender\, ethnicity\, region of origin\, etc. Expectations about these social categories interact with our comprehension at a very basic perceptual level. In this talk I’ll discuss current research on how gender stereotype affects on voice processing impact our understanding of the speech communication system. \nFor more information contact Peter Reed\, pmreed@ucsc.edu\, 831-459-1026. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hearing-gender-stereotypes-and-context-in-voice-processing-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/hearing-gender.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160513T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160513T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160426T183329Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160426T183329Z UID:10006373-1463147100-1463162400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cathy Park Hong: "Stand Up: A Symposium on Race and the Avant-Garde" DESCRIPTION:UCSC’s Poetry & Politics Research Collective invites you to attend our spring event\, “Stand Up: A Symposium on Race and the Avant-Garde with Cathy Park Hong.” \nPlease join us on Friday\, May 13 for a symposium featuring creative and critical work by Literature faculty\, lecturers\, and graduate students\, and a keynote reading by Cathy Park Hong (poet and professor at Sarah Lawrence College). Presenters will include Chris Chen\, Vanessa Fernandez\, David Lau\, Rob Sean Wilson\, and Ronaldo Wilson. Coffee\, snacks\, and refreshments will be offered. \nCathy Park Hong’s latest poetry collection\, Engine Empire\, was published in 2012 by W.W. Norton. Her other collections include Dance Dance Revolution\, chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women Poets Prize\, and Translating Mo’um. Hong is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have been published in Poetry\, A Public Space\, Paris Review\, McSweeney’s\, Baffler\, Boston Review\, The Nation\, and other journals. She is the poetry editor of The New Republic and is an Associate Professor at Sarah Lawrence College. \n\n  \nSYMPOSIUM \n1:45 p.m.: Welcome & Opening Remarks \n2:00 p.m.: Panel 1\nWhitney De Vos\nVanessa Fernandez\nKenan Sharpe\nRob Sean Wilson \nModerator: To be announced \n3:45 p.m.: Break (coffee and tea served) \n4:00 p.m.: Panel 2\nChris Chen\nRonaldo Wilson\nDavid Lau \nModerator: To be announced \n4:30 p.m.: Break (coffee and tea served) \n4:45 p.m.: Keynote Reading by Cathy Park Hong \n6:00 p.m.: Conference ends; please join us for a reception (snacks and wine served)\nLocation TBA \nFor more information on the symposium\, please see our website: www.ucscpoetrypolitics.com/upcoming-events.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cathy-park-hong-stand-up-a-symposium-on-race-and-the-avant-garde-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160513T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160513T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160404T224548Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160404T224548Z UID:10005225-1463142600-1463148000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Cathy Thomas DESCRIPTION:Cathy Thomas \n“Defining the Fête: The Utopian Potential of Drag\, Disease and Diaspora in Oonya Kempadoo’s Carnival Imaginary” \nThe catharsis associated with Caribbean Carnivale has always been situated in the body. This paper considers the fête bodies of a transnational costume designer\, the Queen of the Band and a gay reveler living with AIDS in Oonya Kempadoo’s tragicomic novel All Decent Animals as allegorical and political sites for producing and produced by trauma. \n\n  \nFriday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule \nFridays\, 12:30 – 2:00pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nApril 8th- Andrew Woods\, Politics\nApril 15th- Claudia Lopez\, Sociology\nApril 22nd- Jordan Reznick\, HAVC\nApril 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies\nMay 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics\nMay 13th- Cathy Thomas\, Literature\nMay 20th- Trung Nguyen\, History of Consciousness\nMay 27th- Rebecca Ora\, Film of Digital Media\nJune 3rd- Veronica Zablotsky\, Feminist Studies URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-cathy-thomas-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/FFPoster_SP2016.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160513T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160513T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20151002T173518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T192849Z UID:10006270-1463137200-1463142600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:POSTPONED PhD+: Research and Grants DESCRIPTION:This event has been postponed to June 3rd. \n\n  \nPhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the launch of PhD+\, our new series! We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, online identity issues\, internship possibilities\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, grants/fellowships and much\, more more. \nOctober 9\, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel\nNovember 6\, 2015: Internship Info Session\nDecember 4\, 2015: Coding for Humanists\nJanuary 8\, 2016: Research Tools and Methods\nFebruary 5\, 2016: Online Identity\nMarch 4\, 2016: Work-Life Balance\nApril 8\, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities\nRescheduled for June 3\, 2016: Research and Grants\nJune 3\, 2016: End of Year Luncheon \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-research-and-grants-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160512T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160512T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160405T165143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T165143Z UID:10006359-1463076000-1463082300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Elizabeth McKenzie DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth McKenzie is the author of The Portable Veblen\, published by Penguin Press and 4th Estate. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic Monthly\, Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology\, and recorded for NPR’s Selected shorts. Her collection\, Stop That Girl\, was short-listed for The Story Prize\, and her novel MacGregor Tells the World was a Chicago Tribune\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and Library Journal Best Nook of the year. She is the senior editor of the Chicago Quarterly Review and the managing editor of Catamaran Literary Reader. She is also a UCSC creative writing alum! \n\n  \nSpring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line \nWhy Out of Line? \n“I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre\, in different genres\, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I’m hoping it will encourage our students to think outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general\, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks \nThis event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors! \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nApril 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)\nApril 14: Kate Schatz\nApril 21: Manuel Gonzales\nApril 28: Charlie Jane Anders\nMay 5: NO READING\nMay 12: Elizabeth McKenzie\nMay 19: Lev Grossman\nMay 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier\nJune 2: Student Reading URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-elizabeth-mckenzie-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Living-Writerss.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160511T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160511T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160426T205804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160426T205804Z UID:10006376-1462991400-1462996800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Leonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) DESCRIPTION: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. \nPlease join us in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 for refreshments at 6:30 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by marine biologist Nicole Crane\, artist Elaine Gan\, film archivist Rick Prelinger\, and astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz. \nNicole Crane “One People One Reef: combining culture\, context and science to manage changing ecosystems”\nElaine Gan “Making Time Appear”\nRick Prelinger “Inconvenient Materialities”\nEnrico Ramirez-Ruiz “Turning Stars into Gold” \nThis event is FREE and open to the public. \nParking ($4) is available in the Performing Arts Lot adjacent to Digital Arts Research Center. \n\n  \nNicole Crane is Professor of Biology\, Cabrillo College and a Senior Conservation Scientist at the Oceanic Society. Her research focuses on long term monitoring\, with an emphasis in ecology of coral and temperate reefs with the aim of conservation and protection of marine resources. Crane’s field work includes temperate and tropical reef monitoring\, fish biology\, stream ecology\, plant communities\, and marine mammal ecology. With the Oceanic Society\, she works with communities to set up monitoring programs\, looking at habitat and fish populations on reefs and leading natural history expeditions. \nElaine Gan is a doctoral candidate in the department of Film & Digital Media at UCSC and also serves as art director of Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA) in Denmark. She has been a fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts and a graduate fellow of the Science & Justice Center at UCSC. Recent interdisciplinary projects include co-curating an exhibition titled DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking at Kunsthal Aarhus\, Denmark (2015); running a seminar series on multispecies technologies in the Anthropocene at Haus der Kulturen der Welt/HKW Berlin (2016); and co-editing an anthology\, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Stories from the Anthropocene (forthcoming 2016). \nRick Prelinger is Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. An archivist\, writer\, filmmaker and educator\, his collection of 60\,000 ephemeral films was acquired by Library of Congress in 2002. Beginning in 2000\, he partnered with Internet Archive to make a subset of the Prelinger Collection (now 6\,500 films) available online for free viewing\, downloading and reuse. His archival feature Panorama Ephemera (2004) played in venues around the world\, and his new feature project No More Road Trips? received a Creative Capital grant in 2012. His Lost Landscapes participatory urban history projects have played to many thousands of viewers in San Francisco\, Detroit\, Oakland\, Los Angeles and elsewhere. He is a board member of Internet Archive and frequently writes and speaks on the future of archives and issues relating to archival access and regeneration. With Megan Shaw Prelinger\, he co-founded Prelinger Library in 2004. \nEnrico Ramirez-Ruiz is Professor and Chair of Astronomy and Astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz. He is also Director of Theoretical Astrophysics Santa Cruz Institute\, Executive Director and Founder UCSC’s OpenLab\, and the Sophie and Tycho Brahe Visiting Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute. His research focuses on the violent universe with an emphasis on stellar explosions\, gamma-ray bursts\, and accretion phenomena near compact objects. Ramirez-Ruiz is the youngest person to be inducted into the Mexican Academy of Sciences and has earned numerous awards including a Packard Fellowship and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/leonardo-art-science-evening-rendezvous-laser-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160511T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160511T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20150612T215614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T215614Z UID:10005121-1462968900-1462975200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Stephanie Jones-Rogers: “Lady Flesh Stealers\, Female Soul Drivers\, and She-Merchants: White Women and the American Slave Market” DESCRIPTION:Stephanie Jones-Rogers is completing her manuscript “Mistresses of the Market: White Women and the Economy of American Slavery.” It examines white women’s economic investments in American slavery and reveals their active participation in the South’s slave market economy. \nJones-Rogers is Assistant Professor of History at UC Berkeley. \n\n\nSpring 2016 Colloquium Series\n\n\nApril 6\, 2016\nApril 13\, 2016\nApril 20\, 2016\nApril 27\, 2016\nMay 4\,2016\nMay 11\,2016\nMay 18\,2016\nMay 25\,2016 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-23-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160511 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160512 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160427T215201Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160427T215201Z UID:10006379-1462924800-1463011199@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Giving Day at UC Santa Cruz DESCRIPTION:Get ready to play the Giving Day Game\nA 24-hour online fundraising drive to support UC Santa Cruz students\, faculty\, and programs. \nGreat projects all across campus are being featured by academic divisions\, colleges\, student groups\, and others. \nThe UC Santa Cruz community is invited to be a part of the fun of Giving Day by spreading the word\, telling others about projects they might want to support\, and by making a gift on May 11. \nVisit Givingday.ucsc.edu on May 11th to play! \nSupport a Humanities Project:\nThe Gail Project\nThe Gail Project is a collaborative\, international public history project that explores the founding years of the American military occupation of Okinawa. The project emphasizes hands-on research and creation of content by undergraduate students and serves as an innovative platform for new educational methods that encourage the use of multimedia\, social media\, archival research and travel. On Giving Day\, there is a one-to-one match fund of $5\,000. \nThe Dickens Project\nYour gift helps support our partnership with the Neighborhood Academic Initiative and provides scholarships for four students from underserved Los Angeles-area high schools to attend the week-long Dickens Universe conference this summer. For these first-generation students\, it’s a unique opportunity to taste the college experience at UCSC\, alongside international faculty\, graduate students\, and others. On Giving Day\, there is a one-to-one match fund of $1\,500. \nGraduate Student Internships\nThe Graduate Division is fundraising for internships for graduate students. Internships help build real-world skills—from collaboration to project management to innovation within or outside of academia. These opportunities provide crucial financial help and supporting relationship-building and professional development.\n  \n\nClick Here\, to check out all the fundraising projects people across campus are pitching for support! \nClick Here\, and take the pledge to play and be a part of the fun! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/giving-day-at-uc-santa-cruz-3/ LOCATION:Unnamed Venue ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/giving-day-white.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160508T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160509T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160405T174814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T174814Z UID:10006365-1462694400-1462813200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Humanists@Work Graduate Career Workshop DESCRIPTION:Graduate students\, faculty\, and staff\, please register here. \nMore detailed information is forthcoming\, but for now\, here is an outline of the workshop sessions that will by offered at the upcoming Humanists@Work Graduate Career Workshop on May 8-9 in Los Angeles\, CA. Please see our networking page for information about how to participate in our networking dinner and training session on May 8. \nApplications for travel grants to the Graduate Career Workshop will be accepted between February 8 – April 11\, 2016. Click here to apply. \nAll day LinkedIn Photo booth for professional pictures \n8-9 AM Breakfast \n9-9:20 Welcome and Introductions with David Theo Goldberg and Kelly Anne Brown \n9:30-11 Stories from the Field: Four UC Humanities PhDs will share their stories as humanists at work in the world.\nKeith Danner\, Lecturer\, UC Irvine\nMelanie Ho\, Executive Director\, EAB Strategic Research\, The Advisory Board Company\nStephanie Schrader\, Curator\, Drawings Department\, J. Paul Getty Museum\nMichael Ursell\, ACLS Public Fellow at LA Review of Books \n11-11:30 Coffee Break and Networking \n11:30-1 LinkedIn for Humanists\nDr. Ann Dela Cruz\, Director of Diversity\, Inclusion & Admissions at UCLA’s Graduate Division will lead a session on the ways that LinkedIn can provide powerful networking and career search opportunities for humanists. \n1-2 PM Lunch and open viewing of the permanent collection at the museum \n2-3:30 Resume Redux: Using the Writing Process as a Tool for Career Discovery\nThe effort to convert humanities experience into language that reinstates beyond the academy continues. Jared Redick of The Resume Studio in San Francisco joins UCHRI in his ongoing journey to help humanities Ph.D.s and post-docs unravel complex matters related to converting an academic CV into a commercially-useful resume. Join the conversation whether you’re new to Jared’s methodologies\, in the midst of your own career inflection\, or happily on the other side of your job search. \n3:30-4 Coffee Break and Networking \n4-5:30 Candid Conversations\nA multi-media\, experimental dialogue between Faculty and Graduate Students about career preparation and the future of graduate education with\nErica Edwards\, UCR English\nDavid MacFadyen\, UCLA Comparative Literature\nOlufemi Taiwo\, UCLA Philosophy\nHelga Zambrano\, UCLA Comparative Literature \n5:30 Closing Remarks URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanistswork-graduate-career-workshop-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/humwork-LA_finalprint-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160506T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160506T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160404T223824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160404T223824Z UID:10005224-1462537800-1462543200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Raul Tadle DESCRIPTION:Raul Tadle \n“FOMC Sentiment Extraction and its Transmission to Financial Markets” \nSince December 2004\, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)\, the governing board that determines U.S. monetary policy\, has expedited the release of the minutes of its meetings from six to three weeks after the meetings are held. The reasoning behind this move is that markets benefit from having information from the minutes sooner. But does information in the minutes actually cause a reaction in the financial market? \n\n  \n  \nFriday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule \nFridays\, 12:30 – 2:00pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nApril 8th- Andrew Woods\, Politics\nApril 15th- Claudia Lopez\, Sociology\nApril 22nd- Jordan Reznick\, HAVC\nApril 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies\nMay 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics\nMay 13th- Cathy Thomas\, Literature\nMay 20th- Trung Nguyen\, History of Consciousness\nMay 27th- Rebecca Ora\, Film of Digital Media\nJune 3rd- Veronica Zablotsky\, Feminist Studies URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-raul-tadle-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/FFPoster_SP2016.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160506T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160508T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20150612T191618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T191618Z UID:10005112-1462525200-1462710600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9 (SULA 9) DESCRIPTION:EVENT PHOTOS:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nSemantics of Under-Represented Languages in Americas 9 \nSULA  9 will be held at the University of California\, Santa Cruz on May 6-8\, 2016. The conference is a venue for researchers working on languages or dialects spoken in the Americas that do not have an established tradition of work in formal semantics. We especially encourage abstract submissions from those who do primary fieldwork or experimental work\, as well as analysis. We also strongly encourage graduate students to submit. Click here for the SULA 9 website and conference program. \n  \nInvited speakers: \nLisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia)\nVincent Medina (Muwekma Ohlone Tribe)\nLine Mikkelsen (University of California\, Berkeley)\nSarah Murray (Cornell University)\nKatie Sardinha (University of California\, Berkeley) \n  \n\nRegistration: \nPlease submit a registration form by clicking here. \n  \n*If you have any questions\, please don’t hesitate to contact: sula9@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sula-conference-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/sula.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160506T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160507T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160216T205123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160216T205123Z UID:10006345-1462523400-1462640400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rethinking Migration Conference DESCRIPTION:Part of Borders and Belonging: A Series of Events on Human Migration and leading up to our 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Saywer Seminar on non-citizenship\, this free\, public two-day conference brings together scholars in the humanities and social sciences to expand the discourse on migration by analyzing key\, emerging\, and enduring terms in migration studies\, such as alien\, denizen\, detention\, deferral\, (in)security\, migrant\, non-citizen\, precarity\, and refugee. It features addresses\, panel presentations\, and workshops in which participants share works-in-progress. \nClick here for more info and to register for the conference. \nGuest Speakers: \nLeisy Abrego\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nLisa Marie Cacho\, University of Illinois\, Champaign-Urbana\nAlicia Schmidt Camacho\, Yale University\nSusan Bibler Coutin\, University of California\, Irvine\nShannon Gleeson\, Cornell University\nDaniel Kanstroom\, Boston College Law School\nRachel Lewis\, George Mason University\nRhacel Parreñas\, University of Southern California/Institute for Advanced Study\nSarah Swider\, Wayne State University \nUCSC Participants: \nGabriela Arredondo\, Latin American & Latino Studies\nAngie Bonilla\, Literature\nRuben Espinoza\, Sociology\nAdrián Félix\, Latin American & Latino Studies\nKirsten Silva Gruesz\, Literature\nSteve McKay\, Sociology\nJuan Poblete\, Literature\nCecilia Rivas\, Latin American & Latino Studies\nFelicity Amaya Schaeffer\, Feminist Studies\nVeronica Terriquez\, Sociology\nPat Zavella\, Latin American & Latino Studies \nThis free\, public event is part of Borders and Belonging: A Series of Events on Human Migration.  The CLRC is proud to cosponsor it with the Latin American and Latino Studies Department\, Institute for Humanities Research\, and Division of Social Sciences\, with generous support from the Dean’s Fund. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rethinking-migration-3/ LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/rethink-migrstion.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160505T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160505T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160426T202236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160426T202236Z UID:10006375-1462471200-1462478400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Patricia Piccinini and Donna Haraway in Conversation DESCRIPTION:Australian artist Patricia Piccinini will join UC Santa Cruz professor emerita Donna Haraway for a conversation about their shared interest in what Haraway calls “technoculture and speculative fabulations.” \nPatricia Piccinini works in a variety of media\, including painting\, video\, sound\, installation\, digital prints\, and sculpture. In 2014 she was awarded the Artist Award by the Melbourne Art Foundation’s Awards for the Visual Arts. She is well known for her invented\, hybrid creatures which explore the end limits of evolution\, both technological and biological. These creatures evoke the biotechnology and digital technologies that are challenging the boundaries of humanity. \nAs Donna Haraway writes\, “Piccinini is a compelling story teller in the radical experimental lineage of feminist science fiction. In a sf sense\, Piccinini’s objects are replete with narrative speculative fabulation. Her visual and sculptural art is about worlding; i.e.\, “naturaltechnical” worlds at stake\, worlds needy for care and response\, worlds full of unsettling but oddly familiar critters who turn out to be simultaneously near kin and alien colonists.” \nDonna Haraway is a Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Departments at UC Santa Cruz. She is a prominent scholar in the field of science and technology studies and the author of numerous books and essays that bring together questions of science and feminism\, such as A Cyborg Manifesto: Science\, Technology\, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (1985) and Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective (1988). In September 2000\, Haraway was awarded the highest honor given by the Society for Social Studies of Science\, the J.D. Bernal Prize\, for lifetime contributions to the field. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/patricia-piccinini-and-donna-haraway-in-conversation-3/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160505T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160505T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160426T211431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160426T211431Z UID:10006378-1462467600-1462471200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Carol Dougherty: "Nobody's Home: Metis\, Improvisation\, and the Instability of Return in Homer's Odyssey" DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Classical Studies Program presents The Annual Carl Deppe Lecture with\nProfessor Carol Dougherty Wellesley College \nThis talk considers Homer’s Odyssey in light of recent work in improvisatory studies to suggest that returning home is a creative rather than restorative act. Odysseus is famous for his mētis\, exactly the kind of practical reasoning upon which improvisation depends\, and close readings of his encounters abroad with the Cyclops and at home with Eumaeus\, Telemachus\, Penelope\, and Laertes will show that Odysseus’ lies and acts of deception do not temporarily disguise his true identity but rather enable him to construct himself anew upon his return. \nCarol Dougherty is Professor of Classical Studies and Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literature at Wellesley College. She has published numerous books and articles on the literature and cultural history of archaic and classical Greece and is currently working on a book on Homecomings and Housekeepings in Classical and Contemporary Literature. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nobodys-home-metis-improvisation-and-the-instability-of-return-in-homers-odyssey-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/DoughertyDeppeLegal.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160505T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160505T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160107T221138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160107T221138Z UID:10005201-1462464000-1462471200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Christina Schwenkel - Designing the Rational City: Gender and the 'Housing Question' Revisited in Late Socialist Vietnam DESCRIPTION:Christina Schwenkel\, Professor of Anthropology\, UC Riverside \nProfessor Schwenkel’s work addresses transnationalism\, historical memory\, aesthetics and visual culture in Vietnam.  Her book\, “The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation (2009) examines encounters between U.S. and Vietnamese recollections and representations of the war\, and seeks to define and maintain particular visions of historical truth\, knowledge and objectivity. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/socialismpostsocialism-cluster-with-christina-schwenkel-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Christina-Schwenkel-flyer-5.5.16.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160505T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160505T163000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160404T211858Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160404T211858Z UID:10005218-1462456800-1462465800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Undergraduate History Showcase DESCRIPTION:The Undergraduate History Showcase is an annual event held each spring that recognizes the exceptional research conducted by UC Santa Cruz history undergraduates. In addition\, a history alumnus delivers a keynote address in which they expound on the valuable career skills they acquired by majoring in history. \nSCHEDULE OF EVENTS: \nI. Student Presentations – 2:00-2:45 PM \nII. Keynote Address – 3:00-3:30 PM\n “History! What is it good for?” by Brian Mathias Photo \nBrian Mathias\nAttorney & Constitutional Law Fellow\nThis talk will explore how a background in history and the historical method is applied to the practice of law and everyday life. \nBrian Mathias is a 2008 UCSC European History major graduate\, a local attorney\, and a Constitutional Law Fellow at the Monterey College of Law. \nIII. Student Presentations – 3:40-4:30 PM \n  \n*Light refreshments to be provided. This event is free and open to everyone! \n\n  \nBrian Mathias is a 2008 UC Santa Cruz European History major graduate\, a local attorney\, and a Constitutional Law Fellow at the Monterey College of Law. \nBrian has always had a strong interest in history\, biographies\, and geography beginning as a young boy. However\, his passion for history grew exponentially as a freshman when he took “Medieval Europe” taught by Professor Cynthia Polecritti. This was the first of five Italian and European History courses that Brian took from Professor Polecritti. Brian’s history background inspired him to complete his degree in the medieval city of Göttingen\, Germany. \nBrian has continued his independent study of history after graduation\, studying in-depth his own genealogy\, Christianity\, Winston Churchill\, Abraham Lincoln\, and most recently Simon Bolivar. \nBrian’s talk\, “History! What is it good for?” will discuss how a background in history and the historical method is applied to the practice of law and everyday life. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undergraduate-history-showcase-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/showcase2016_1080.gif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160505T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160505T153000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160426T190921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160426T190921Z UID:10006374-1462456800-1462462200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:A Book Reading and Conversation with Anubha Bhonsle DESCRIPTION:The Feminist Studies Department\, along with the South Asia Studies Initiative and the Office for Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion\, invite you join us for to a Book Reading & Conversation with Anubha Bhonsle!\n  \nAnubha Bhonsle\, author of\nMother\, Where’s My Country?\nJournalist\, Executive Editor\, CNN-IBN\nFulbright Humphrey Fellow\, 2015-16\n  \nMother\, Where’s My country? arc the life of Manipular\, a state located in India’s north east\, a diverse\, picturesque\, and strategically-vial state. It is also home to multiple insurgencies\, a contested political identity\, and a law called the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). Based on nine years of reporting from Manipur\, including more than 200 interviews\, scrutinizing dozens of court documents and testimonials\, and revisiting places and conversations\, Anubha Bhonsle paints a picture where impunity\, fake encounters\, protests and denial of memory and justice continue in an endless cycle. The book is available in the United Sates via Amazon.\n  \nPraise for the book – P Sainath: “…Anubha Bhonsle reproaches our hypocrisy but addresses our humanity.” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-book-reading-and-conversation-with-anubha-bhonsle-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Anubha-Bhonsle.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160504T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160504T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160419T200959Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160419T200959Z UID:10006370-1462384800-1462392000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Book Talk with Donna Haraway: "Manifestly Haraway" DESCRIPTION:The Center for Emerging Worlds\, the Center for Cultural Studies\, and the Science & Justice Research Center present: \nBook Talks with Donna Haraway reading from Manifestly Haraway\nFollowed by a conversation between Donna Haraway & Cary Wolfe \nManifestly Haraway brings together Donna Haraway’s seminal “Cyborg Manifesto” and “Companion Species Manifesto.” Manifestly Haraway also includes a wide-ranging conversation between Haraway and Cary Wolfe on the history and meaning of the manifestos in the context of biopolitics\, feminism\, Marxism\, human-nonhuman relationships\, making kin\, material semiotics\, the negative way of knowing\, secular Catholicism\, and more. \nDonna J. Haraway is distinguished professor emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of\, among other works\, “Primate Visions\,” “Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium\,” and “When Species Meet.” \nCary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University\, where he is also founding director of 3CT (Center for Critical and Cultural Theory). He is the author of “Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal and What Is Posthumanism?” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-talks-with-donna-haraway-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Haraway-Wolfe-Poster-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160504T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160504T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20150612T215426Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T215426Z UID:10005120-1462364100-1462370400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Donna V. Jones: “’I want more life’: Reflections on Time\, Race and Duration in Ridley Scott’s Bladerunner” DESCRIPTION:  \nDonna V. Jones is the author of Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Vitalism\, Negritude and Modernity. Her publications and research interests include comparative modernisms\, postcolonial literature\, life philosophies and biopolitics\, and science fiction and science studies. Her current project is Cursed Immortality: Life\, Duration\, and Biopolitics in Late Capitalism. \nJones is Associate Professor of English at UC Berkeley. \n\n\nSpring 2016 Colloquium Series\n\n\nApril 6\, 2016\nApril 13\, 2016\nApril 20\, 2016\nApril 27\, 2016\nMay 4\,2016\nMay 11\,2016\nMay 18\,2016\nMay 25\,2016 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-22-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160504T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160504T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160104T192255Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160104T192255Z UID:10006320-1462356000-1462365000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Building in Scalar and Exploring the Future of Scholarly Publishing Workshop DESCRIPTION:With Craig Deitrich and Tara McPherson. This workshop will serve as an introduction to Scalar\, a free\, open source authoring and publishing platform designed for scholars writing media-rich\, long-form\, born-digital scholarship. Developed by The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture at the University of Southern California\, Scalar allows scholars to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose that media with their own writing in a variety of ways; to annotate video\, audio\, images\, source code and text using the platform’s built-in media annotation tools; and to structure essay- and book-length works in ways that take advantage of the unique capabilities of digital writing\, including nested\, recursive\, and non-linear formats. The workshop will cover basic features of the platform\, including a review of existing Scalar books and a hands-on introduction to paths\, tags\, annotations and importing media. It will also cover more advanced topics including Scalar’s built-in visualizations\, annotating with media\, and a sprinkling of design theory by Craig Dietrich\, Scalar’s Information Design Director. \nThis event requires registration! | REGISTER NOW  \nCoffee will be available from 9:30 AM and lunch will be served at 12 PM for registered participants. \nCo-sponsored by the UCSC IGHERT Program\, Film + Digital Media\, HAVC\,  University Library\, Grad Division URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/workshop-publishing-in-scalar-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Scalar-poster-Final_11-17.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160503T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160503T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160426T172844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160426T172844Z UID:10006372-1462293000-1462298400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Paul Lee: "The Greeks had a word for it: thumos" DESCRIPTION:Paul Lee studied philosophy at St. Olaf College and received his divinity degree and PhD from Harvard. He has taught at Harvard\, MIT\, and UC Santa Cruz\, where he founded the first organic garden on a university with Alan Chadwick in 1967. \nIn 1976 alongside Paige Smith\, he began the California Conservation Corps under Jerry Brown’s administration. Dr. Lee organized and proposed the Greenbelt Initiative to save the Pogonip in 1978. In 1985 he founded the organization that became Santa Cruz’s Homeless Services Center. \nThe campus community and interested public are welcome at all Philosophy Department sponsored colloquia\, conferences and workshops.  \n  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/paul-lee-the-greeks-had-a-word-for-it-thumos-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Provost House END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160503T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160503T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160104T192021Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160104T192021Z UID:10006319-1462291200-1462298400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Designing Digital Scholarship: Art\, Feminism + the Digital Humanities DESCRIPTION:With Craig Deitrich (Claremont Colleges) and Tara McPherson (USC) \nThe story of the digital humanities is often narrated at a decades-long history of the computational manipulation of print. What alternative histories are concealed by such a story? How might we imagine DH differently if we move beyond a focus on text toward multimodal expression and design? What audiences might such work reach? This talk will trace some of the alternate histories of DH\, paying particular attention to the visual and the political by engaging the work of feminists\, artists\, and scholars of color. \nMcPherson will also consider how scholarly evidence might be engaged anew through the aesthetic possibilities of the digital archive. By taking up the work of the Vectors Lab\, she will approach these questions through concrete examples of digital scholarship today. \n\n  \nCraig Dietrich is a digital artist\, scholar\, and educator. Deitrich is currently the Director of the Digital Humanities Research Studio at Claremont Colleges. \nTara McPherson is Associate Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. She is a core faculty member of the IMAP program\, USC’s innovative practice based-Ph.D.\, and also an affiliated faculty member in the American Studies and Ethnicity Department. Her research engages the cultural dimensions of media\, including the intersection of gender\, race\, affect and place. She has a particular interest in digital media. Here\, her research focuses on the digital humanities\, early software histories\, gender\, and race\, as well as upon the development of new tools and paradigms for digital publishing\, learning\, and authorship. \nCo-sponsored by the UCSC IGHERT Program\, Film + Digital Media\, HAVC\,  University Library\, Grad Division URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hands-on-digital-humanities-scalar-the-future-of-scholarly-publishing-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Scalar-poster-Final_11-17.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160430T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160430T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160318T223719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160318T223719Z UID:10006354-1462042800-1462050000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Race\, Class & Culture through the Lens of Jazz DESCRIPTION:EVENT PHOTOS:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nKuumbwa Jazz Center and the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research present: \nRace\, Class & Culture through the Lens of Jazz\nFeaturing a headline performance by jazz vocalist Kim Nalley\, UC Santa Cruz Humanities is celebrating International Jazz Day 2016! In the spirit of UNESCO’s International Jazz Day and in collaboration with the Kuumbwa Jazz center downtown\, come join us and help celebrate. Enjoy refreshments and reconnect with your fellow alumni in the spirit of International Jazz Day. The program will begin with a fascinating conversation on the global historical role of jazz on race\, class\, and culture led by our expert panelists\, including Humanities Dean Tyler Stovall\, History Professor Eric Porter and jazz singer/historian Kim Nalley. Stick around to enjoy the fun as Nalley switches from historian to jazz and blues vocalist for the evening’s featured performance. All guests are welcome to linger after the show.\n  \nTickets \n$25 tickets are available through the UCSC Alumni Weekend website\n  \nPanelists\nTyler Stovall is Dean of Humanities at UC Santa Cruz and is the author of several books and numerous articles in the field of modern French history\, specializing in transnational history\, labor\, colonialism\, and race. \nEric Porter is a History Professor at UC Santa Cruz. His research includes black cultural and intellectual history\, US cultural history and cultural studies\, critical race and ethics studies\, and popular music and jazz studies. \nKim Nalley is a well-known Bay Area jazz artist and is on faculty at the California Jazz Conservatory. She is also Ph.D. candidate focusing on the globalization of jazz and black cultural politics. \nSaturday\, April 30\, 2016 at 7:00pm\nKuumbwa Jazz Center\n7:00pm – Doors\, bar and cafe open \n7:30pm – Program begins at with conversation on the global historical role of jazz on race\, class\, and culture led by our expert panelists \n8:00pm – Headline performance by jazz singer/historian Kim Nalley\n  \nRead Article\n \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/race-class-culture-through-the-lens-of-jazz-3/ LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/IntlJazz_Poster_PRESS.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160429T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160429T164000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160407T172913Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160407T172913Z UID:10005234-1461943800-1461948000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Public Reading and Q&A with novelist Micheal Nava DESCRIPTION:Michael Nava is an attorney\, the author of the acclaimed seven-volume Henry Rios detective series\, and has won 6 Lambda Literary awards. He is currently in the midst of writing a new series of novels\, the first of which is The City of Palaces (University of Wisconsin Press\, 2014). Set before and during the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution\, this novel follows the lives of two families in Mexico City during the clash between Francisco Madero and Porfirio Diaz. \nco-sponsored by Kresge College\, the Literature Department\, and the Chicano Latino Research Center\nfor questions or more information\, email Dr. Beth Hernandez-Jason bhj@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/public-reading-and-qa-with-novelist-micheal-nava-3/ LOCATION:Kresge Seminar Room 159\, Seminar Room Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, University of California Santa Cruz: Kresge College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/michael-nava-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160429T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160429T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20151015T192521Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151015T192521Z UID:10006286-1461938400-1461942000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistic Colloquium: Paul Kiparsky DESCRIPTION:Linguistic Colloquium: \nThe Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFall 2015\nOctober 9th: Keith Johnson\, UC Berkeley\nOctober 16th: Heidi Harley\, University of Arizona\nOctober 30th: Ivano Caponigro\, UC San Diego\nNovember 20th: Elliott Moreton\, University of North Carolina \nWinter 2016\nJanuary 15th: Sharon Inkelas\, UC Berkeley\nFebruary 5th: Colin Phillips\, University of Maryland\nFebruary 6th: N. Goodman\, Stanford University and A. Kehler\, UC San Diego\nMarch 5th: Linguistics Conference at Santa Cruz Conference \nSpring 2016\nApril 15th: Sabine Iatridou\, MIT\nApril 29th: Paul Kiparsky\, Stanford University\nMay 6\, 7\, 8: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9\nMay 20th: Kyle Johnson\, University of Massachusetts\nMay 27th/June 3rd (TBA): Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference \n\n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/21748-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160429T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160429T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160401T170947Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160401T170947Z UID:10005217-1461934800-1461945600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:12th Annual Graduate Research Symposium DESCRIPTION:The Symposium offers graduate students from every division the opportunity to discuss their research with colleagues on campus and with the public. Our students present their work in the form of posters\, live presentations\, and media demonstrations. The Symposium also awards juried prizes\, overseen by a panel of judges comprised of faculty\, staff\, researchers\, alumni\, and industry professionals\, for presenters from each division and two overall awards. \nThis year’s event will be held in the “Information Commons South” area on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/12th-annual-graduate-research-symposium-3/ LOCATION:McHenry Library\, UCSC ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/symposium1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160429T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160429T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160404T223116Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160404T223116Z UID:10005223-1461933000-1461938400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Erin McElroy DESCRIPTION:Erin McElroy \n“Disposals through the #DigitalNomad: The Materialization of a Dispossessive Avatar”  \nThe “Digital Nomad\,” an illusive figure flourishing alongside the growth of digital and network technologies\, has conjured ideas of travel and freedom with the emergence of the Silicon Valley induced Tech Boom. I trace how digital networks\, accompanied by fantasies of mobility\, contribute to gentrifying economies that precipitate material dispossessions in locales undergoing economic and social transformation. \n\n  \nFriday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule \nFridays\, 12:30 – 2:00pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nApril 8th- Andrew Woods\, Politics\nApril 15th- Claudia Lopez\, Sociology\nApril 22nd- Jordan Reznick\, HAVC\nApril 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies\nMay 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics\nMay 13th- Cathy Thomas\, Literature\nMay 20th- Trung Nguyen\, History of Consciousness\nMay 27th- Rebecca Ora\, Film of Digital Media\nJune 3rd- Veronica Zablotsky\, Feminist Studies URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-erin-mcelroy-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/FFPoster_SP2016.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160429T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160429T120000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160308T202310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160308T202310Z UID:10006346-1461924000-1461931200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Jungle and the Beast: A Conversation with Lewis Watts and Óscar Martínez DESCRIPTION:The Jungle and the Beast: A Conversation with Lewis Watts and Óscar Martínez is the second event in the Borders and Belonging Series hosted by the CLRC. In The Beast (Los migrantes que no importan\, in the original Spanish)\, intrepid Salvadoran journalist Óscar Martínez accompanies migrants on “the Beast\,” the train that travels from Central America through Mexico to the United States. Meanwhile\, UCSC Professor Emeritus Lewis Watts has captured some of the stasis of migration in his recent photos of “the Jungle\,” the makeshift migrant camp in Calais\, France. Mr. Martínez discusses the migrant trail and Professor Watts shares some of his recent photos from Calais.\nClick here for more info and to register for the event. \nThe title of Martinez’s celebrated book comes from la Bestia\, the old and decrepit train thousands of migrants cling to every day in the hopes of crossing from Central America heading north. Intimately familiar with this scene from his days of on-the-ground reporting in El Salvador\, Martinez compiled his short briefs into one searing look at the crisis of those who many call the “invisible people.” Martinez also is a staff writer for El Faro out of San Salvador and runs “Sala Negra\,” a project with fellow journalists\, investigating the challenging questions addressing and concerning gang violence in Central America. Launched in 2011\, la Sala Negra cover Nicaragua\, Honduras\, El Salvador and Guatemala; four of the most volatile regions in the world today. The consortium works on issues mostly related to organized crime\, prison systems and the culture of violence in the region. Martinez is widely considered a leading voice on these topics and migration related concerns throughout Latin America \nLewis Watts’ photos of “La jungle\,” the makeshift migrant camp in Calais\, France\, describe an intimate and profound look at one of the most dangerous and heavily-trafficked migrant crossings in the world. As the Syrian refugee crisis continues to unfold in the news\, Professor Watts’ imagery shows the universal face of the immigrant and forced migration struggle. The conversation will also be joined by Jennifer González\, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture\, who will moderate the morning’s conversation about migrants and migration in different regions of the world. \nÓscar Martínez is the author of Los migrantes que no importan: En el camino con los centroamericanos indocumentados en México (Icaria/El Faro\, 2010)\, which was translated by Daniela Maria Ugaz and John Washington as The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail (Verso\, 2013). The New York Times has described Mr. Martínez’s writing as “graceful” and “incisive.” His second book\, A History of Violence\, is forthcoming from Verso in 2016. Based in El Salvador\, he writes for Elfaro.net\, Latin America’s first online newspaper. \nLewis Watts joined the Art Department at UC Santa Cruz in 2001 after having taught at UC Berkeley for 23 years. He is a photographer of cultural and urban landscapes\, with a focus on the African diaposora. He has photographed African and Afro-descent communities in the United States\, Latin America\, and Europe and is the co-author (with Elizabeth Pepin) ofHarlem of the West: The San Francisco Jazz Fillmore Era (Chronicle Books\, 2005) and (with Eric Porter) New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition (University of California\, 2013). \nFor questions\, please contact Catherine Ramírez at cathysue@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-jungle-and-the-beast-a-conversation-with-lewis-watts-and-oscar-martinez-3/ LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Maria_Tierra_Nadie_Jungle_Beast_Watts_Oscar_Martinez.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160429 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160502 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20150709T180341Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150709T180341Z UID:10005123-1461888000-1462147199@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:UC Santa Cruz Alumni Weekend 2016 DESCRIPTION:SAVE THE DATE \nApril 28 – May 1\, 2016  \nMore info and event schedule at: alumniweekend.ucsc.edu \nQuestions? Contact alumni@ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-5003. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/uc-santa-cruz-alumni-weekend-2016-2/ LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/alumni-weekend-homepage-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160428T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160428T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160308T201621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160308T201621Z UID:10005214-1461870000-1461877200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:María en tierra de nadie: Screening & Q&A with Marcela Zamora DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free\, public film screening to kickoff Borders and Belonging: A Series of Events on Human Migration \nTo foster a conversation about migration\, LALS and the CLRC are jointly hosting a special screening of Marcela Zamora’s María en tierra de nadie (María in No Man’s Land)\, 2010. This is the story of three Salvadoran women and their journey to the United States. The film has been called unprecedented and a critical addition to the global migration conversation. The journalists and filmographers involved in creating this unique documentary spent months riding the trains and sleeping in the same shelters as they followed immigrants from El Salvador and Mexico\, attempting to make the harrowing crossing to the United States. \nImmediately following the screening\, Professors John J. Leaños (Film & Digital Media) and Cecilia Rivas (LALS) will moderate a Q&A with the director\, Marcela Zamora. \nMarcela Zamora is a documentary filmmaker and journalist. She has made 14 films about gender and human rights\, including María en tierra de nadie and El cuarto de los huesos / The Room of Bones (2015)\, a documentary about the quest to unearth and identify the disappeared in El Salvador. She studied journalism in Costa Rica and documentary filmmaking in Cuba and has worked for Al Jazeera\, Tele Sur\, and Elfaro.net\, Latin America’s first online newspaper. \nClick here for more info and to register for the event. \nFor questions\, please contact Catherine Ramírez at cathysue@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/maria-en-tierra-de-nadie-screening-qa-with-marcela-zamora-3/ LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Maria_Tierra_Nadie_Jungle_Beast_Watts_Oscar_Martinez.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160428T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160428T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160405T164746Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T164746Z UID:10006358-1461866400-1461872700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Charlie Jane Anders DESCRIPTION:Charlie Jane Anders: I’m probably the only person to have become a fictional character in a Star Trek novel and in one of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City books. \nI’m the editor of io9.com\, where I’m probably best known for my reviews of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and The Last Airbender. Ormy super detailed look at the making of Mork and Mindy. Or for my Game of Thrones recaps. Or for my writing advice columns. Ormy in-depth investigation of people who claim HIV doesn’t cause AIDS. Or my geeky articles about topics like the search for a cure for cancer\, or how Leonard Nimoy changed everything\, or how the TV show Star Blazers helped me deal with being bullied. Or just generally being an obnoxious loud-mouth. \nI won the Emperor Norton Award\, for “extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason.” \nI have published a ton of short fiction – way over 100 short stories at this point. I’ve stopped counting. My stories have appeared in Tor.com\, Lightspeed Magazine\,McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction\, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine\, Tin House\, ZYZZYVA\, Strange Horizons\, Apex Magazine\,Uncanny Magazine\, 3 AM Magazine\, Flurb.net\, Monkey Bicycle\, Pindeldyboz\, Instant City\, Broken Pencil\, and in tons and tons of anthologies. One year\, I was in one of the Year’s Best SF anthologies and in Best Lesbian Erotica at the same time. My novelette “Six Months\, Three Days” won a Hugo Award and was shortlisted for the Nebula and Theodore Sturgeon awards. My novel Choir Boy won a Lambda Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Edmund White Award. \nI organizeWriters With Drinks\, which is a monthly reading series here in San Francisco that mashes up a ton of different genres. Every month\, I make up weird fictional bios for the readers and performers\, and nobody’s sued yet. Readers/performers at Writers With Drinks have included the aforementioned Armistead Maupin\, plus Mary Gaitskill\, Amy Tan\, Rick Moody\, Jonathan Lethem\, Dorothy Allison\, W. Kamau Bell\, Luis Alberto Urrea\, Ruth Ozeki\, Ishmael Reed\, Karen Joy Fowler\, Maureen McHugh and just countless others. The SF Chronicle did a really nice article about Writers With Drinks. \nBack in 2007\, Annalee Newitz and I put out a book of first-person stories by female geeks called She’s Such a Geek: Women Write About Science\, Technology and Other Nerdy Stuff. There was a lot of resistance to doing this book\, because nobody believed there was a market for writing about female geeks. Also\, Annalee and I put out a print magazine calledother\, which was about pop culture\, politics and general weirdness\, aimed at people who don’t fit into other categories. To raise money for other magazine\, we put on events like a Ballerina Pie Fight – which is just what it sounds like – and a sexy show in a hair salon where people took off their clothes while getting their hair cut. \n\n  \nSpring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line \nWhy Out of Line? \n“I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre\, in different genres\, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I’m hoping it will encourage our students to think outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general\, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks \nThis event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors! \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nApril 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)\nApril 14: Kate Schatz\nApril 21: Manuel Gonzales\nApril 28: Charlie Jane Anders\nMay 5: NO READING\nMay 12: Elizabeth McKenzie\nMay 19: Lev Grossman\nMay 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier\nJune 2: Student Reading URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-charlie-jane-anders-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Living-Writerss.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160428T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160428T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160419T191620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160419T191620Z UID:10006369-1461862800-1461862800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mireille Lee “The Archaeology of Ancient Greek Dress” DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and The UCSC Archaeological Research Center present: \nArchaeology provides important evidence for ancient Greek dress\, which was essential to the construction of social identities. Although no complete garments survive\, preserved fragments of silk and embroideries indicate the elite status of the wearer. Jewelry\, dress fasteners\, toilet implements\, perfume vessels\, cosmetics\, and mirrors are also important indicators of status and gender. The visual sources\, including sculpture and vase-painting\, depict men and women performing various dress practices. Although some practices\, such as bathing and the use of perfumes\, are common to both genders\, others are specific to either men or women. The visual sources demonstrate other aspects of identity: age and social role are often indicated by hairstyle\, whereas ethnicity is also conveyed by means of garments and body-modifications. Although dress is often considered a mundane aspect of culture\, Professor Lee argues that dress provides unique insight into ancient Greek ideologies. \nRefreshments at 4:30 and reception to follow the lecture \nFree parking for lecture in the lower Cowell parking lot \nMireille Lee is Assistant Professor with the Departments of History of Art and Classical Studies at Vanderbilt University\, and holds her degrees from Bryn Mawr (Ph.D.) and Occidental College. Her research interests include Greek art and archaeology\, in particular the construction of gender in ancient visual and material culture. She has published widely on the social functions of dress in ancient Greece\, including her volume Body\, Dress\, and Identity in Ancient Greece (Cambridge University Press\, 2015). Her current research focuses on ancient Greek mirrors as social objects. \n  \nEVENT PHOTOS:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mireille-lee-the-archaeology-of-ancient-greek-dress-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160428T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160428T174500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160405T192841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T192841Z UID:10005227-1461859200-1461865500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Walter Sinnott-Armstrong "Implicit Moral Attitudes" DESCRIPTION:Most moral philosophers and psychologists focus on explicit moral beliefs that people give as answers to questions. However\, much research in social psychology shows that implicit moral attitudes (unconscious beliefs or associations) also affect our thinking and behavior. This talk will report our new psychological and neuroscientific research on implicit moral attitudes (using a process dissociation procedure) and then explore potential implications for scientific moral psychology as well as for philosophical theories of moral epistemology\, responsibility\, and virtue. If there is time\, I will discuss practical uses of these findings in criminal law\, especially regarding the treatment of psychopaths and prediction of their recidivism. \nWalter Sinnott-Armstrong is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He has published widely on ethics (theoretical and applied as well as meta-ethics)\, empirical moral psychology and neuroscience\, philosophy of law\, epistemology\, philosophy of religion\, and informal logic. His current work is on moral psychology and brain science as well as uses of neuroscience in legal systems. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/walter-sinnott-armstrong-implicit-moral-attitudes-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/sinnott_armstronglead.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160427T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160427T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20150612T215237Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T215237Z UID:10006169-1461759300-1461765600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Irene Lusztig: “Yours in Sisterhood: Utopian Conversation\, Public Feminisms\, and Talking to the 70’s” DESCRIPTION:Irene Lusztig’s recent nonfiction moving image projects engage the methods and questions of 1970’s collaborative feminist documentary practice\, interrogating the contemporary status of public feminism. The presentation focuses on materials and methods from her current work in progress\, Yours in Sisterhood\, a participatory documentary project based on published and unpublished letters to the editor of Ms. magazine. \nLusztig is Associate Professor of Film + Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. \n\n\nSpring 2016 Colloquium Series\n\n\nApril 6\, 2016\nApril 13\, 2016\nApril 20\, 2016\nApril 27\, 2016\nMay 4\,2016\nMay 11\,2016\nMay 18\,2016\nMay 25\,2016 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160426T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160426T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160426T210501Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160426T210501Z UID:10006377-1461691800-1461695400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Hong Kong Democracy Movement: A Student Leader Speaks DESCRIPTION:The Hong Kong Democracy Movement: A Student Leader Speaks \nIn the autumn of 2014\, a massive protest led by students demanded genuine universal suffrage for China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The protest became known as the Umbrella Movement. Nathan Kwun-chung Law will give an eyewitness report on that movement\, as well as an account of the ongoing struggle to expand political rights in Hong Kong. \nNathan Law\, 22\, is a well-known student leader and organizer in Hong Kong. He is Secretary General of the Hong Kong Federation of Students\, and was a Standing Committee member from 2014-15. He participated in the only negotiation session with the Hong Kong SAR government during the Umbrella Movement. \nTuesday\, April 26\, 2016\n5:30 PM\nHumanities 1 Room 210 \nSponsored by the UC Santa Cruz East Asian Studies Program URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-hong-kong-democracy-movement-a-student-leader-speaks-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Hong-Kong-democracy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160423T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160423T184500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160316T201700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160316T201700Z UID:10006351-1461434400-1461437100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Remembering Shakespeare\, 1564-1616 DESCRIPTION:Remembering Shakespeare\, 1564-1616\nReadings from the works and about the man \nA memorial service\, commemorating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death in 1616. \nSaturday\, April 23\, 2016\nMusic Recital Hall\, UC Santa Cruz\n6:00-6:45 p.m.\nFree and open to the public \nThis event takes place before Experimental Baroque\, a concert by Santa Cruz Baroque Festival. Concert info/tickets available at:  www.scbaroque.org \nRemembering Shakespeare\, 1564-1616\, is sponsored by Shakespeare Workshop\, Institute for Humanities Research\, Porter College\, and Santa Cruz Baroque Festival. \nEVENT PHOTOS:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/remembering-shakespeare-3/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Shakespeare_FINAL.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160422T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160422T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160404T222339Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160404T222339Z UID:10005222-1461328200-1461333600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Jordan Reznick DESCRIPTION:Jordan Reznick  \n“Selfie Suburbia: Whites Online in the Early Twenty-First Century” \nSnapshot photography has been a means for white Americans to affirm their identities and collectively participate in circulating fictions about “normal” Americans that naturalize and legitimize ideals of whiteness. As whites became more precarious in the early twenty-first century\, they adopted several new snapshot trends for signifying their enjoyment of increasingly fictional good life fantasies. \n\n  \nFriday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule \nFridays\, 12:30 – 2:00pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nApril 8th- Andrew Woods\, Politics\nApril 15th- Claudia Lopez\, Sociology\nApril 22nd- Jordan Reznick\, HAVC\nApril 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies\nMay 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics\nMay 13th- Cathy Thomas\, Literature\nMay 20th- Trung Nguyen\, History of Consciousness\nMay 27th- Rebecca Ora\, Film of Digital Media\nJune 3rd- Veronica Zablotsky\, Feminist Studies URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-jordan-reznick-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/FFPoster_SP2016.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160422T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160422T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160413T210613Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160413T210613Z UID:10006367-1461324600-1461330000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Humanities Earth Day Lunch and Learn DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Green Team would like to invite you to join us for Earth Day! \nFriday\, April 22nd\, 2016 \n11:30am – 1:00pm \n\nProgram: \n11:30am-12:00pm: Green Team introductions \n12:00pm-12:15pm: PSI presentation \n12:15pm-1:00pm: “Bin Confused” presentation \n\nCome enjoy delicious food provided by local caterers while learning about how to achieve zero waste in your office\, events\, and at home! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-earth-day-lunch-and-learn-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/humanities-earth-day-event-2016-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160422T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160422T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20150612T183144Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T192746Z UID:10005111-1461322800-1461328200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: Eric Hayot: "Writing for Publication in the Humanities" DESCRIPTION:PODCAST: \n“Writing for Publication in the Humanities” \nEric Hayot is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Professor Hayot will present strategies–both psychological and practical–for writing for publication in the humanities from his recent book\, The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities (Columbia UP\, 2014). His talk will offer specific insights into how to write literary scholarship in the mode that was born out of the influence of philosophy and cultural studies on literary criticism over the last three decades. \nProfessor Hayot is the author of Chinese Dreams (Michigan\, 2004)\, The Hypothetical Mandarin: Sympathy\, Modernity\, and Chinese Pain (Oxford\, 2009)\, and On Literary Worlds (Oxford\, 2012). He edits the “Global Asias” series for Oxford and serves as Director of Penn State’s Center for Humanities and Information. Learn more at erichayot.org. \nSponsored by: IHR\, the Graduate Student Association\, the Graduate Student Commons\, the Departments of Literature\, Politics\, History of Art & Visual Culture\, Latin American & Latino Studies\, Anthropology\, and Film & Digital Media. \n\n  \nPhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the launch of PhD+\, our new series! We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, online identity issues\, internship possibilities\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, grants/fellowships and much\, more more. \nOctober 9\, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel\nNovember 6\, 2015: Internship Info Session\nDecember 4\, 2015: Coding for Humanists\nJanuary 8\, 2016: Research Tools and Methods\nFebruary 5\, 2016: Online Identity\nMarch 4\, 2016: Work-Life Balance\nApril 22\, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities\nMay 13\, 2016: Research and Grants\nJune 3\, 2016: End of Year Luncheon \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/graduate-studies-workshop-with-eric-hayot-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/PhD-Year-Long-Flyer-v4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160421T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160421T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160405T162907Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T162907Z UID:10006357-1461261600-1461267900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Manuel Gonzales DESCRIPTION:Manuel Gonzales is the author of The Miniature Wife And Other Stories (Riverhead) and the forthcoming novel\, The Regional Office Is Under Attack! (Riverhead). He graduated with a BA in English from the University of Texas in 1996 and then with an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Columbia University’s School of the Arts in 2003. His fiction and nonfiction have been published in McSweeney’s\, Fence\, Tin House\, Open City\, One Story\, The Believer\, i09.com\, and various other publications. \nHe is the recipient of the Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kaufman Price for First Fiction and the Binghamton University John Gardner Prize for Fiction. For four years he ran the nonprofit writing and tutoring center for kids\, Austin Bat Cave\, and in times past he co-owned The Clarksville Pie Company in Austin\, TX\, where he baked pies for a living. \n\n  \nSpring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line \nWhy Out of Line? \n“I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre\, in different genres\, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I’m hoping it will encourage our students to think outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general\, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks \nThis event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors! \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nApril 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)\nApril 14: Kate Schatz\nApril 21: Manuel Gonzales\nApril 28: Charlie Jane Anders\nMay 5: NO READING\nMay 12: Elizabeth McKenzie\nMay 19: Lev Grossman\nMay 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier\nJune 2: Student Reading \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-manuel-gonzales-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Living-Writerss.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160421T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160421T114500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160405T190006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T190006Z UID:10005226-1461232800-1461239100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Tony Michels: "Soviet America: The Russian Revolution in Jewish Life” DESCRIPTION:The Russian Revolution of 1917 radically altered American Jewish politics.  Whereas most Americans viewed the revolution as a threat to western civilization\, Jews wished for the success of the Bolsheviks\, who offered the only possibility of rescue from the mass slaughter carried out by anti-Communist forces.   A minority of Jews went so far as to join the American Communist Part with the hope of replicating the Russian Revolution on American soil.   Although only a minority\, Communists put forward a persistently attractive alternative to the dominant model of Americanization\, according to which Jews ought to integrate into a liberal\, political order.   In the decades following the Russian Revolution\, American Jews moved between competing poles of Communism and liberalism and\, simultaneously\,  between competing ideals of universalism and Jewish particularity.  All the while\, Jews wrestled with the question of totalitarianism\, one of the most divisive questions of the twentieth century.   What was Soviet Russia?   Was it a daring social experiment that wedded scientific planning with ideals of equality in all areas of human endeavor?  Or was the Soviet Union a vast prison system built upon ruthless repression of the working class?  Over a four decade period\, from the outbreak of the Russian Revolution until the end of the Second World War\, a period framed by enormous catastrophes yet animated by utopian visions of social justice\, American Jews defined themselves in relation to the Soviet Union. \nTony Michels is George L. Mosse Associate Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He teaches courses in American Jewish history\, with a special emphasis on immigration\, politics\, and comparative ethnic history\, as well as courses in labor history and radical political movements. His research focuses on the political and cultural history of the Jews. He is author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York (2005)\, winner of the Salo Baron Prize from the American Academy for Jewish Research\, and Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History (2012). He is currently working on a book about the relationship of American Jews to Soviet Russia between the 1920s and 1960s. \n  \nEVENT PHOTOS:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tony-michels-soviet-america-the-russian-revolution-in-jewish-life-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/tMichels.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160420T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160420T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20150612T215100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T215100Z UID:10006168-1461154500-1461160800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Joshua Brahinsky: “The Cultivated Event: Why Pentecostals Were the Best Organizers of the 20th Century and How to Translate Their Strategies For the Rest of Us” DESCRIPTION:Joshua Brahinsky’s current book project is “God’s Bodies: Pentecostal Training in Art of Immediacy.” He is working on a research project on global evangelicalism and theory of mind\, and is an organizer for UC-AFT and the Economic Justice Alliance. \nBrahinsky has his PhD from the Department of History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz. \n\n\nSpring 2016 Colloquium Series\n\n\nApril 6\, 2016\nApril 13\, 2016\nApril 20\, 2016\nApril 27\, 2016\nMay 4\,2016\nMay 11\,2016\nMay 18\,2016\nMay 25\,2016\n\n  \nStay tuned for more information about guest speakers. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-21-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160419T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160419T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160316T212049Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160316T212049Z UID:10006352-1461081600-1461085200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sikhism in the Global Age DESCRIPTION:Mark Juergensmeyer is Kundan Kaur Kapany Chair of Global and Sikh Studies\, fellow of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies\, professor of sociology\, and affiliate professor of religious studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He is an expert on religious violence\, conflict resolution and South Asian religion and politics\, and has published more than two hundred articles and twenty books\, including the recently-released Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State (University of California Press 2008). His widely-read Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (University of California Press\, revised edition 2003)\, is based on interviews with religious activists around the world–including individuals convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing\, leaders of Hamas\, and abortion clinic bombers in the United States–and was listed by the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times as one of the best nonfiction books of the year. A previous book\, The New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State (University of California Press\, 1993) covers the rise of religious activism and its confrontation with secular modernity. It was named by the New York Times as one of the notable books of the year. His book on Gandhian conflict resolution has been reprinted as Gandhi’s Way (University of California Press\, Updated Edition\, 2005)\, and was selected as Community Book of the Year at the University of California\, Davis. He has edited the Oxford Handbook of Global Religion (Oxford University Press 2006) and Religion in Global Civil Society (Oxford University Press 2005)\, and is co-editing The Encyclopedia of Global Religions (Sage Publications 2008) and The Encyclopedia of Global Studies (Sage Publications 2009). His 2006 Stafford Little Lectures at Princeton University\, God and War\, will be published by Princeton University Press. \nJuergensmeyer has received research fellowships from the Wilson Center in Washington D.C.\, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation\, the U.S. Institute of Peace\, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is the 2003 recipient of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for contributions to the study of religion\, and is the 2004 recipient of the Silver Award of the Queen Sofia Center for the Study of Violence in Spain. He received an Honorary Doctorate from Lehigh University in 2004\, a Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California\, Santa Barbara in 2006\, and the Unitas Distinguished Alumnus Award from Union Theological Seminary\, New York\, in 2007. He was elected president of the American Academy of Religion\, and chairs the working group on Religion and International Affairs for the national Social Science Research Council. Since the events of September 11 he has been a frequent commentator in the news media\, including CNN\, NBC\, CBS\, BBC\, NPR\, Fox News\, ABC’s Politically Incorrect\, and CNBC’s Dennis Miller Show. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sikhism-in-the-global-age-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Sikhism-in-the-Global-Age-4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160418T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160418T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160413T212356Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160413T212356Z UID:10006368-1460998800-1461006000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:La Ironía y Anticlericalismo En Halma DESCRIPTION:UCSC Spanish Studies and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Present: \nLA IRONÍA Y ANTICLERICALISMO EN HALMA \nÁLVARO ROMERO MARCO (UCSC) \nMás allá de las clasificaciones y evoluciones que la crítica ha venido realizando\, la novelística de Galdós es consecuencia de su ideología\, pues la realidad es observada y transformada a través de su apuesta por la modernidad. En el caso de Halma\, los pilares que sustentan la enseñanza que quiere trasmitir el autor son la distancia socarrona y un convencido anticlericalismo; una ironía sin acidez y siempre constructiva y una desconfianza en la institución eclesiástica que nunca significa un ataque a la visión religiosa de la existencia. Tradicionalmente esta novela\, que Ediciones Alfar tiene a bien ofrecer al lector\, ha sido editada y analizada a la sombra de la famosa “segunda manera” y\, particularmente\, como la segunda parte de Nazarín. Esta edición presenta la obra aislándola de esas ataduras para que pueda ser leída de manera independiente. En cualquier caso\, no hay duda de que Halma es otra de las grandes novelas del autor. \n\n\n*Light refreshments will be served. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/la-ironia-y-anticlericalismo-en-halma-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Alvaro_colloquium_Spring2016-2-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160416T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160416T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160107T213905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160107T213905Z UID:10005199-1460797200-1460826000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Contemplative Pedagogy Symposium DESCRIPTION:Contemplative pedagogy is an integrated approach to teaching and learning that sees education as a transformative process rather than simply a means of accumulating\ninformation. With an emphasis on curiosity\, collaboration\, engagement\, and student-centered learning\, contemplative approaches seek to cultivate thinkers and responders rather than consumers of knowledge. Practitioners forge links between traditional disciplinary wisdom and the environmental\, ethical\, and economic challenges facing humankind. \nThe goal of contemplative pedagogy\, as articulated by the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society\, is to foster “true community\, deeper insight\, sustainable living\, and a more just society.” \nSaturday\, April 16 @ 9am-5pm\nContemplative Pedagogy Symposium\nDaylong working group in which a small group of interested parties will read central texts in the field of Contemplative Pedagogy and discuss them with our panel of experts. These works will primarily provide an introduction to contemplative teaching methods\, although we will be discussing other methodological uses of contemplative approaches. \nIf you would like to participate in the symposium\, please email ihr@ucsc.edu. \nFriday\, April 15 @ 2-4 pm\nPublic Roundtable on Contemplative Approaches in Higher Education\nMcHenry Library Room 4286\nThis roundtable brings together leaders in the field with expertise in diverse disciplines\, including the Humanities\, the Natural Sciences\, and Legal Studies. \nClick here for more info on the Roundtable. \nVisitors\nRhonda Magee\, Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco\, School of Law\, and a teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Her scholarly work focuses on race law and policy as well as on humanizing legal education and the practice of law. This effort aims to help law students and practitioners cope with pressure in order to be more successful and effective. A national leader in the movement to humanize law and legal education\, and an expert in contemplative pedagogy\, Professor Magee recently published “Contemplative Practices and the Renewal of Legal Education\,” New Directions for Teaching and Learning: Contemplative Studies in Higher Education\, no. 134\, (Jossey Bass\, 2013)\, 31.” Magee’s courses share a common theme of examining how law responds to the vulnerable in society. She is the author of numerous journal articles\, including “Educating Lawyers to Meditate?” (University of Missouri–Kansas City Law Review\, 2011)\, “Slavery as Immigration?” (University of San Francisco Law Review\, 2009)\, and “Competing Narratives\, Competing Jurisprudences: Are Law Schools Racist?” (University of San Francisco Law Review\, 2009). \n \nErin McCarthy\, Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Professor in Asian Studies\, St. Lawrence University. Dr. Erin McCarthy came to St. Lawrence in 2000. She teaches Asian\, feminist\, continental and comparative philosophy. Author of the book Ethics Embodied: Rethinking Selfhood through Continental\, Japanese and Feminist Philosophies (Lexington\, 2010)\, her work has been published in several anthologies and journals in both French and English and she regularly presents her scholarship both nationally and internationally. She was an inaugural recipient of the “Frederick P. Lenz Foundation Residential Fellowship for Buddhist Studies and American Culture and Values” at Naropa University in 2009. Dr. McCarthy sits on the Editorial board of the journal Comparative and Continental Philosophy and is Co-editor of the ASIANetwork Exchange: A journal for Asian Studies and the Liberal Arts. She has also served as Chair of the Board of Directors of ASIANetwork (a consortium of over 170 North American colleges). Currently\, her research interests are taking two directions – the first\, a project titled “Re-imagining Maternity\,”is a comparative philosophical re-thinking of the norms of maternity; and the second looks at the ways in which contemplative education can be enriched by incorporating feminist philosophies. \n \nPeter Grossenbacher\, Professor in Contemplative Education and Contemplative Psychology\, Naropa University. Professor Grossenbacher directs Naropa’s internationally known Consciousness Laboratory. In collaboration with students in the lab\, he conducts empirical research on meditation instruction\, worldview transformation\, and engagement with awareness. His research has been covered in the New York Times\, Smithsonian Magazine\, and Discover Magazine. Grossenbacher teaches courses in Perception\, Neuroscience\, Mindfulness Meditation\, Cognitive Psychology\, Personality\, and Research Methods. He previously conducted research on human attention at the National Institute of Mental Health\, and taught at the University of Oregon\, England’s University of Cambridge\, and American University in Washington\, D.C. A practitioner of meditation since 1980\, he speaks internationally on contemplative education\, synesthesia\, meditation\, and the brain. \nContemplative Approaches to Higher Education are some of the most exciting and fast-growing developments in post-secondary education in the US.\nTo see the kind of work being done by some of the leading national centers for Contemplative Approaches\, please visit the following websites: \nThe Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education         \nUniversity of Virginia Contemplative Sciences Center                      \nBrown University Contemplative Studies Initiative                           \nUniversity of Michigan Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies       \nNaropa University Contemplative Education Program                       \nSponsors\nInstitute for Humanities Research\, Contemplative Pedagogy Research Cluster\, Center for Public Philosophy\, Bill Ladusaw\, Literature Department\, Philosophy Department\, Graduate Division\, Porter College\, Oakes College\, College Eight\, Social Sciences Division. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/contemplative-pedagogy-symposium-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160415T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160415T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160107T213649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160107T213649Z UID:10005197-1460728800-1460736000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Introducing Contemplative Approaches to Higher Education: A Public Roundtable with Leaders in the Field DESCRIPTION:Contemplative pedagogy is an integrated approach to teaching and learning that sees education as a transformative process rather than simply a means of accumulating\ninformation. With an emphasis on curiosity\, collaboration\, engagement\, and student-centered learning\, contemplative approaches seek to cultivate thinkers and responders rather than consumers of knowledge. Practitioners forge links between traditional disciplinary wisdom and the environmental\, ethical\, and economic challenges facing humankind. \nThe goal of contemplative pedagogy\, as articulated by the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society\, is to foster “true community\, deeper insight\, sustainable living\, and a more just society.” \nFriday\, April 15 @ 2-4 pm\nPublic Roundtable on Contemplative Approaches in Higher Education\nMcHenry Library Room 4286\nThis roundtable brings together leaders in the field with expertise in diverse disciplines\, including the Humanities\, the Natural Sciences\, and Legal Studies. \nSaturday\, April 16 @ 9am-5pm\nContemplative Pedagogy Symposium\nA day-long Symposium will follow on Saturday\, April 16th. We’ll read central texts in the field of Contemplative Pedagogy and discuss them with our panel of experts. If you would like to participate in the symposium\, please email ihr@ucsc.edu. Click here for more info on the Symposium. \nVisitors\nRhonda Magee\, Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco\, School of Law\, and a teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Her scholarly work focuses on race law and policy as well as on humanizing legal education and the practice of law. This effort aims to help law students and practitioners cope with pressure in order to be more successful and effective. A national leader in the movement to humanize law and legal education\, and an expert in contemplative pedagogy\, Professor Magee recently published “Contemplative Practices and the Renewal of Legal Education\,” New Directions for Teaching and Learning: Contemplative Studies in Higher Education\, no. 134\, (Jossey Bass\, 2013)\, 31.” Magee’s courses share a common theme of examining how law responds to the vulnerable in society. She is the author of numerous journal articles\, including “Educating Lawyers to Meditate?” (University of Missouri–Kansas City Law Review\, 2011)\, “Slavery as Immigration?” (University of San Francisco Law Review\, 2009)\, and “Competing Narratives\, Competing Jurisprudences: Are Law Schools Racist?” (University of San Francisco Law Review\, 2009). \n \nErin McCarthy\, Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Professor in Asian Studies\, St. Lawrence University. Dr. Erin McCarthy came to St. Lawrence in 2000. She teaches Asian\, feminist\, continental and comparative philosophy. Author of the book Ethics Embodied: Rethinking Selfhood through Continental\, Japanese and Feminist Philosophies (Lexington\, 2010)\, her work has been published in several anthologies and journals in both French and English and she regularly presents her scholarship both nationally and internationally. She was an inaugural recipient of the “Frederick P. Lenz Foundation Residential Fellowship for Buddhist Studies and American Culture and Values” at Naropa University in 2009. Dr. McCarthy sits on the Editorial board of the journal Comparative and Continental Philosophy and is Co-editor of the ASIANetwork Exchange: A journal for Asian Studies and the Liberal Arts. She has also served as Chair of the Board of Directors of ASIANetwork (a consortium of over 170 North American colleges). Currently\, her research interests are taking two directions – the first\, a project titled “Re-imagining Maternity\,”is a comparative philosophical re-thinking of the norms of maternity; and the second looks at the ways in which contemplative education can be enriched by incorporating feminist philosophies. \n \nPeter Grossenbacher\, Professor in Contemplative Education and Contemplative Psychology\, Naropa University. Professor Grossenbacher directs Naropa’s internationally known Consciousness Laboratory. In collaboration with students in the lab\, he conducts empirical research on meditation instruction\, worldview transformation\, and engagement with awareness. His research has been covered in the New York Times\, Smithsonian Magazine\, and Discover Magazine. Grossenbacher teaches courses in Perception\, Neuroscience\, Mindfulness Meditation\, Cognitive Psychology\, Personality\, and Research Methods. He previously conducted research on human attention at the National Institute of Mental Health\, and taught at the University of Oregon\, England’s University of Cambridge\, and American University in Washington\, D.C. A practitioner of meditation since 1980\, he speaks internationally on contemplative education\, synesthesia\, meditation\, and the brain. \nContemplative Approaches to Higher Education are some of the most exciting and fast-growing developments in post-secondary education in the US.\nTo see the kind of work being done by some of the leading national centers for Contemplative Approaches\, please visit the following websites: \nThe Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education         \nUniversity of Virginia Contemplative Sciences Center                      \nBrown University Contemplative Studies Initiative                           \nUniversity of Michigan Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies       \nNaropa University Contemplative Education Program                       \nSponsors\nInstitute for Humanities Research\, Contemplative Pedagogy Research Cluster\, Center for Public Philosophy\, Bill Ladusaw\, Literature Department\, Philosophy Department\, Graduate Division\, Porter College\, Oakes College\, College Eight\, Social Sciences Division. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/contemplative-pedagogy-roundtable-3/ LOCATION:McHenry Library UCSC\, Room 4286 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160415T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160415T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160407T022434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160407T022434Z UID:10005233-1460728800-1460728800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sabine Iatridou - "Fake Things Here and There: Evidence From Now and Then" DESCRIPTION:Sabine Iatridou is Professor of Linguistics\, Syntax\, Semantics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  See here for more about Professor Iatridou’s work. \nStay tuned for more information. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sabine-iatridou-fake-things-here-and-there-evidence-from-now-and-then-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160415T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160415T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160404T221129Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160404T221129Z UID:10005220-1460723400-1460728800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Claudia Lopez DESCRIPTION:Claudia Lopez \n“Contesting ‘Double Displacement’: Rural displaces Persons\, informal Settlements\, and the ‘Medellin Miracle'” \nThis presentation examines the Comuna 8\, a sector of the city of Medellin resisting displacement by urban renewal. I highlight a historic voting process in 2014\, lead by a committee of displaced persons\, to contest the implementation of the redeveloped plan. \n\nFriday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule \nFridays\, 12:30 – 2:00pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nApril 8th- Andrew Woods\, Politics\nApril 15th- Claudia Lopez\, Sociology\nApril 22nd- Jordan Reznick\, HAVC\nApril 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies\nMay 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics\nMay 13th- Cathy Thomas\, Literature\nMay 20th- Trung Nguyen\, History of Consciousness\nMay 27th- Rebecca Ora\, Film of Digital Media\nJune 3rd- Veronica Zablotsky\, Feminist Studies URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-claudia-lopez-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/FFPoster_SP2016.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160414T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160414T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160404T225011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160404T225011Z UID:10006356-1460656800-1460663100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Kate Schatz DESCRIPTION:Kate Schatz\, UCSC creative writing/Lit alum\, is the New York Times bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z\, a children’s book (for everyone) published by City Lights Books. It’s gotten love from BUST\, Publisher’s Weekly\, BuzzFeed\, MTV\, Ms.\, Teen Vogue\, Kirkus Reviews\, GOOD\, The New York Times\, AFROPUNK\, and all kinds of other rad outlets. \nHer book of fiction\, Rid of Me: A Story\, was published in 2006 as part of the acclaimed 33 1/3 series. Her work has been published in Oxford American\, Denver Quarterly\, Joyland\, East Bay Express\, and San Francisco Chronicle\, among others. Her short story “Folsom\, Survivor” was a 2010 Notable Short Story in Best American Short Stories 2011. \nShe is a co-founder of The Encyclopedia Project\, and is the Chair of the School of Literary Arts at Oakland School for the Arts. Kate received her MFA in Fiction Writing from Brown\, and a double BA in Women’s Studies/Creative Writing from UC Santa Cruz. She lives in the Bay Area with her family. \n\n  \nSpring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line \nWhy Out of Line? \n“I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre\, in different genres\, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I’m hoping it will encourage our students to think outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general\, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks \nThis event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors! \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nApril 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)\nApril 14: Kate Schatz\nApril 21: Manuel Gonzales\nApril 28: Charlie Jane Anders\nMay 5: NO READING\nMay 12: Elizabeth McKenzie\nMay 19: Lev Grossman\nMay 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier\nJune 2: Student Reading URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-kate-schatz-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Living-Writerss.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160414T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160414T174500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160405T165753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T165753Z UID:10006362-1460649600-1460655900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gayle Salamon: "Gender Essentialism and Eidetic Inquiry" DESCRIPTION:This talk revisits the essentialism debates within feminism\, and reconsiders the impasse in which those debates landed. What understanding of “essence” was operative in those conversations about gender essentialism? And might there be a different way of thinking about the relation between essence and gender? I turn to singular and plural essences in Merleau-Ponty and Husserl’s concept of eidetic variation\, showing that that phenomenology offers an articulation of essence in which variation and temporal unfolding\, rather than fixity and atemporality\, are primary. The phenomenological concept of essence\, I will argue\, offers a way to reconsider essentialism that steers clear of the straits of bilogical determinism and social constructionism that have deadlocked previous conversations about gender and essence. \nAbout:\nGayle Salamon is an Associate Professor of English and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. Research interests include phenomenology\, queer and trans theory\, feminist philosophy\, 20th Century Continental philosophy\, psychoanalysis\, and disability studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gayle-salamon-gender-essentialism-and-eidetic-inquiry-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/gayle_salamon_0.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160414T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160414T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160405T174548Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T174548Z UID:10006364-1460642400-1460649600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Anne MacNeil: “A new breed of critical edition: the role of digital humanities in transforming music scholarship” DESCRIPTION:Hands on (Digital) Humanities with Prof. Anne MacNeil \nAnne MacNeil will give a demonstration of her digital humanities project\, IDEA Music\, and the new software toolkit\, Prospect\, that powers it. In the last year\, MacNeil’s close collaboration with programmer Michael Newton (UNC Digital Innovation Lab) and other members of the DIL community in developing Prospect has resulted in a powerful platform that has transformed IDEA Music into a multi-dimensional\, multi-media publication that challenges the tradition concept of “critical edition”. The presentation will include a brief video from Michael Newton about his conceptualization of the data science underlying Prospect\, together with MacNeil’s demonstration of the project administrator’s role in configuring relational databases and visualizations and of the front-end user interface (GUI). Also included will be a description of Professor MacNeil’s work with bioinformatics specialists in developing a model for music analysis using a modified Waterman algorithm\, originally developed for analyzing amino acids. \nCo-sponsored by the Music Department\, Italian Studies\, and The Gary D. Licker Memorial Chair\, Cowell College \n  \nEVENT PHOTOS:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hands-on-digital-humanities-with-prof-anne-macneil-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Updated-Poter.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160414T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160414T120000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160107T212604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160107T212604Z UID:10005195-1460626200-1460635200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:New and Emerging Terms in Migration Studies: A Seminar with Nicholas De Genova DESCRIPTION:Inspired by Nicholas De Genova\, et. al’s “New Keywords: Migration and Borders”\, the International Organization for Migration’s Key Migration Terms\, and recent debates regarding the distinction between “refugee” and “migrant\,” this one-day seminar explores key and emerging terms in migration studies and the growing gap between vocabulary and lived reality.  It kicks off Borders and Belonging\, a series of events on human migration organized by the CLRC over the spring of 2016\, helps open Rethinking Migration\, a two-day conference that the CLRC will host May 6-7\, 2016\, and helps us prepare for Non-citizenship\, our 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Saywer Seminar. \nThis seminar is open to UCSC faculty and students\, although space is limited\, so attendees must register in advance.  Readings will circulate prior to the seminar.  \nPlease register for the seminar here. Registration will close on Friday\, March 25\, 2016. \nNicholas De Genova is one of the world’s leading migration scholars.  He is the author and editor of numerous publications\, among them\, The Deportation Regime:  Sovereignty\, Space\, and the Freedom of Movement (co-edited with Nathalie Peutz\, Duke University Press\, 2010)\, Racial Transformations:  Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States (Duke University Press\, 2006)\, Working the Boundaries:  Race\, Space\, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago (Duke University Press\, 2005)\, and “Migrant ‘Illegality’ and Deportability in Everyday Life” (Annual Review of Anthropology\, 2002).  His current projects explore migration\, race\, and postcoloniality in Europe.  He holds a permanent appointment as Reader in Urban Geography and directs a research group on spatial politics in the Department of Geography at King’s College London. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/preliminary-seminar-with-nicholas-digenova-socsci-3/ LOCATION:Charles E. Merrill Lounge END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160413T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160413T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160412T164157Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160412T164157Z UID:10005236-1460559600-1460570400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Spring Job & Internship Fair DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the Spring Job & Internship this Wednesday. Don’t miss the last job and internship fair of the academic year! \nSpring Job & Internship Fair\nWednesday\, April 13\n3:00-6:00pm\nCollege Eight West Field House \nWhere companies come to meet Slug talent!\nCheck out the companies that are signed up. More to come! \n7th Avenue Center\n8×8\, Inc\nAbroad Internships\nAXA Advisors\nCalifornia Public Utilities Commission\nCalRecycle\nDataCare\nDaversa Partners\nDel Mar Food Products Corp.\nEargo Inc.\nEaster Seals Bay Area\nEducation First\nEnterprise Rent-A-Car\nFisher Investments\nForesters Financial Services\nGalileo Learning\nGame Show Network (GSN) Games\nGuidebook Inc.\nHappy Valley Conference Center\nJohns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth\nKorean Consulate Education Center\nKQED\, Inc.\nLGS Recreation\nLooker Data Sciences\nMa Labs\nPeace Corps\nPlantronics\, Inc.\nSanta Cruz Seaside Company\nSchoolmessenger\nSeneca Family of Agencies\nSherwin Williams\nSocial Security Administration\nSurveymonkey\nSymphony\nTarget\nTwo Pore Guys\nUnited States Air Force\nUnited States Navy\nUrban Teachers\nVivint Solar\nWalgreens\nWest Marine\nWhiting’s Foods\nWSO2 Inc.\nZoho Corporation \nPrepare For The Fair\nResearch the companies you are interested in before coming to the fair. They like to know that you know something about them.\nHave your resume ready and verbal introduction practiced.\nThink about which companies you want to talk to & come dressed the part!\nCheck out our Career Fair Tips Pinterest Page for some quick tips!\nStudent ID required. \nAll Majors Encouraged to Attend URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/spring-job-internship-fair-3/ LOCATION:College 8\, West Field House END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160413T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160413T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20150612T214841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T214841Z UID:10006167-1460549700-1460556000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Roland Tolentino: “Cinema and State in Crisis: Political Film Collectives and the People’s Struggles in the Philippines” DESCRIPTION:Roland Tolentino works on Philippine film\, literature\, and popular culture in national and transnational contexts. He is a fellow of the UP Institute of Creative Writing and a member of the Filipino Film Critics Group\, Congress of Teachers and Educators for Nationalism and Democracy\, and People’s Alternative Media Network. \nTolentino is Faculty at University of the Philippines Film Institute and Visiting Professor in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. \n\n\nSpring 2016 Colloquium Series\n\n\nApril 6\, 2016\nApril 13\, 2016\nApril 20\, 2016\nApril 27\, 2016\nMay 4\,2016\nMay 11\,2016\nMay 18\,2016\nMay 25\,2016\n\n  \nStay tuned for more information about guest speakers. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-20-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160412T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160412T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20150925T170216Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150925T170216Z UID:10005134-1460462400-1460467800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Brown Bag Workshop: Teaching with Wikipedia (CANCELED) DESCRIPTION:A hands-on workshop designed to construct innovative assignments using Wikipedia and its content editing platform. Building assignments that ask students to work on Wikipedia pages will help them: \n• Develop writing skills\n• Improve Media and Information Literacy\n• Refine Critical Thinking and Research Skills\n• Learn to work collaboratively \nThe workshop will also include a discussion about assessment and discipline specific objectives. Get inspired to integrate Wikipedia into your classroom. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/brown-bag-workshop-teaching-with-wikipedia-2/ LOCATION:FITC\, 1336 McHenry Library END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160408T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160408T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160404T215601Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160404T215601Z UID:10005219-1460118600-1460124000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Andrew Woods DESCRIPTION:Andrew Woods \n“Punk the Academy (aka. Punk as Method) \nWith a particular emphasis on the non-hierarchical\, ambiguous\, and D.I.Y. ethos of punk cultures\, this paper makes the case that punk can be used as a lens informing our investigations of other objects\, scenes\, themes\, and theories. The information of punk as method is not assuming punk “has all the answers\,” but rather that through subversive aesthetic shock and rupture\, punk has the potential to open up new ways of thinking through not only our discourses\, but also the social world from which they arise. \n\n  \nFriday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule \nFridays\, 12:30 – 2:00pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nApril 8th- Andrew Woods\, Politics\nApril 15th- Claudia Lopez\, Sociology\nApril 22nd- Jordan Reznick\, HAVC\nApril 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies\nMay 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics\nMay 13th- Cathy Thomas\, Literature\nMay 20th- Trung Nguyen\, History of Consciousness\nMay 27th- Rebecca Ora\, Film of Digital Media\nJune 3rd- Veronica Zablotsky\, Feminist Studies URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-andrew-woods-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/FFPoster_SP2016.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160408 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160409 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160315T215942Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T192707Z UID:10006350-1460073600-1460159999@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED PhD+: Writing for Publication in the Humanities DESCRIPTION:This event has been rescheduled for April 22. Click here for more info. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rescheduled-phd-with-eric-hayot-writing-and-publishing-in-the-humanities-3/ LOCATION:Unnamed Venue CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160407T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160407T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160405T193906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T193906Z UID:10005228-1460052000-1460058300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED) DESCRIPTION:  \nSpring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line \nWhy Out of Line? \n“I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre\, in different genres\, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I’m hoping it will encourage our students to think outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general\, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks \nThis event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors! \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nApril 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)\nApril 14: Kate Schatz\nApril 21: Manuel Gonzales\nApril 28: Charlie Jane Anders\nMay 5: NO READING\nMay 12: Elizabeth McKenzie\nMay 19: Lev Grossman\nMay 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier\nJune 2: Student Reading URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-githa-hariharan-canceled-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Living-Writerss.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160406T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160406T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160331T024913Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160331T024913Z UID:10005215-1459965600-1459971000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Book Talk: Sherene Seikaly DESCRIPTION:Men of Capital examines British-ruled Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s through a focus on economy. In a departure from the expected histories of Palestine\, this book illuminates dynamic class constructions that aimed to shape a pan-Arab utopia in terms of free trade\, profit accumulation\, and private property. And in so doing\, it positions Palestine and Palestinians in the larger world of Arab thought and social life\, moving attention away from the limiting debates of Zionist-Palestinian conflict. \nProfessor Sheren Seikaly is a historian of capitalism\, consumption\, and development in the modern Middle East. She is Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara. She previously taught at the American University in Cairo. She is Co-founder and Co-editor of the important journal Jadaliyaa. \nUC Santa Cruz’s Center for Emerging Worlds and the Center for Cultural Studies present this new series\, “Book Talks\,” which invites authors to read from their books and engage in discussion. Please visit the Center for Emerging Worlds’ website for more information on their work. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-talk-sherene-seikaly-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/SEIKALY-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160406T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160406T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160401T165236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160401T165236Z UID:10005216-1459963800-1459963800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Grad Slam for 2016 Finalists DESCRIPTION:Grad Slam\, also referred to as the 3-Minute Thesis Challenge\, is a competition that challenges doctoral students to present years’ worth of academic research in a concise\, compelling\, three-minute talk to a non-expert audience. It encourages students to clarify their ideas and to help others understand and appreciate the significance of their work. \nThe contest is open to all doctoral students who have advanced to candidacy.\nCongratulations to our 2016 Finalists!\nFinalists will present their three-minute thesis presentations at a live event on April 6th at 5:30pm in the Music Recital Hall. This event is open to the public\, and a final panel of judges will choose a first place and runner-up winner; the audience will vote for a people’s choice awardee. If the people’s choice awardee is the same as the winner or runner-up\, both awards will go to that person. \nThe winner of the UCSC Grad Slam will receive $3\,000; the runner-up receives $1\,500; and the people’s choice winner receives $750. \nThe UCSC Grad Slam winner will go on to present at a UC-wide final Grad Slam to be held in San Francisco on April 22nd. Visit the UCOP Grad Slam page to see more information about finalists across all UC-campuses! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/grad-slam-for-2016-finalists-3/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/grad-slam-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160406T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160406T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20150612T214622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T214622Z UID:10006166-1459944900-1459951200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sherene Seikaly: “Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine” DESCRIPTION:Sherene Seikaly’s current work explores the construction and regulation of the poor in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt in terms of governance and of popular politics. Through a political economy of the history of food\, this project rethinks our understanding of the “masses” and the specter of the “bread riot.” This talk is generously co-sponsored by the Center for Emerging Worlds. \nSeikaly is Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara. \n\n\nSpring 2016 Colloquium Series\n\n\nApril 6\, 2016\nApril 13\, 2016\nApril 20\, 2016\nApril 27\, 2016\nMay 4\,2016\nMay 11\,2016\nMay 18\,2016\nMay 25\,2016 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-19-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160405T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160405T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160310T180657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160310T180657Z UID:10006347-1459881000-1459888200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Saving Capitalism For the Many\, Not the Few: A Curated Conversation with Robert Reich DESCRIPTION:Robert Reich\, Former Secretary of Labor\, in the Clinton administration\, is the author of more than a dozen books\, including Aftershock\, The Work of Nations\, and Beyond Outrage. He is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and a Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economics. Reich is also the subject of Inequality for All\, an ward-winning documentary film. Inequality for All will be shown at Kresge Town Hall on Thursday\, March 31. \nFree Admission. Advance Registration Required.\nThis event has reached capacity; online registration is now closed. To be placed on a waiting list\, fill out this form or email the Special Events office. \nLIVE STREAMING AVAILABLE!\nhttp://www.ustream.tv/channel/MJEZw4EMeNB URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/robert-reich-3/ LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/1516-328A_ReichPosterR2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160401T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160401T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160107T171947Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160107T171947Z UID:10006322-1459501200-1459531800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Modeling Culture: 3D Archaeology and the Future of the Past DESCRIPTION:Organizers:\nElaine Sullivan\, UC Santa Cruz\nJ. Cameron Monroe\, UC Santa Cruz\n  \nConference Theme:\nThe past decade has witnessed a dramatic surge in the availability and use of digital technologies in Archaeology\, where the increasing power and declining cost of computing technology has transformed the way we think about collecting\, analyzing\, and presenting archaeological data. While many technologies have been adopted and adapted into the field\, the potential for 3D modeling is still being explored. This conference asks leading innovators in the use of 3D research methods to present and evaluate the impact and future of this new technology on the study of the past. \nSpeakers:\nMichael Ashley\, Center for Digital Archaeology\nEdward González-Tennant\, Digital Heritage Interactive\nSusan Kuzminsky\, UC Santa Cruz\nNicola Lercari\, UC Merced\nTom Levy\, UC San Diego\nBernard K. Means\, Virginia Commonwealth University\nRachel Opitz\, Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies\nJohn Rick\, Stanford University\nElaine Sullivan\, UC Santa Cruz\nWilleke Wendrich\, UC Los Angeles \nKeynote Address by Ruth Tringham\, UC Berkeley\n  \nAdmission is FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required: Register for the Conference\n  \nCall For Digital Presentations:\nIn addition to the above speakers\, we invite submissions for a small number of digital presentations focusing on methodological issues in 3D archaeology. These presentations will be presented in a digital “poster-session” in which presenters will use a devoted widescreen LCD. As such\, we discourage traditional powerpoint presentations or simple posters\, but rather encourage presentations that will make maximum use of the flexibility afforded by a digital presentation mode. We particularly encourage submissions from graduate students\, and small travel stipend is available to defray costs for graduate student presenters. To ensure full consideration\, abstracts should be submitted online by February 19th using the link below. \nSubmit an Abstract for the Digital Poster Session URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-archaeology-conference-3/ LOCATION:McHenry Library UCSC\, Room 4286 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Modeling_Banner_small.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160331T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160331T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160310T181323Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160310T181323Z UID:10006348-1459449000-1459454400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Film Screening: Inequality for All DESCRIPTION:An award winning documentary that follows former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich as he looks to raise awareness of the country’s widening economic gap. Introduction by UC Santa Cruz Professor Mary Beth Pudup. \nRobert Reich\, Former Secretary of Labor\, in the Clinton administration\, is the author of more than a dozen books\, including Aftershock\, The Work of Nations\, and Beyond Outrage. He is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and a Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economics. Reich is also the subject of Inequality for All\, an ward-winning documentary film. Inequality for All will be shown at Kresge Town Hall on Thursday\, March 31. \nThe screening comes prior to a local talk by Robert Reich on April 5 at the Rio Theatre.\nSaving Capitalism For the Many\, Not the Few: A Curated Conversation with Robert Reich URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-inequality-for-all-3/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Film.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160311T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160311T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20160119T220644Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160119T220644Z UID:10006336-1457699400-1457704800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Bristol Cave La-Costa DESCRIPTION:Bristol Cave La-Costa \n“Sexual Policing and Immigration Policy in the United States at the Turn of the Twentieth Century” \nWhile much research has focused on Chinese Exclusion laws as mostly male-oriented\, I consider how the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and 1875 Page Act\, which excluded “immoral” immigrants\, contributed to categories of sexual morality for Chinese women. \n\n  \nFriday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule \nFridays\, 12:30 – 2:00pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nJanuary 15- James Beneda\, Politics\nJanuary 22- Alex Moore\, HAVC\nJanuary 29- Whitney Devos\, Literature\nFebruary 5- Sophia Magnone\, Literature\nFebruary 12- Andrei Tcacenco\, History\nFebruary 19- Amanda Reyes\, History & Consciousness\nFebruary 26- Keith Spencer\, Literature\nMarch 4- Laura Harrison\, Sociology\nMarch 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa\, History URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-bristol-cave-la-costa-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FFPoster_W2016-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160310T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160310T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120632 CREATED:20151117T170827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151117T170827Z UID:10005167-1457627400-1457639100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sex Radical\, Afro-Fututrist\, and Grand Master of Science Fiction\, Samuel R. Delany Reads from His Work DESCRIPTION:Sex Radical\, Afro-Fututrist\, and Grand Master of Science Fiction\, Samuel Delany Talk 03.10.16 from IHR on Vimeo. \nUC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series present: \nSex Radical\, Afro-Futurist\, and Grand Master of Science Fiction\, SAMUEL R. DELANY\, Reads from His Work \nThursday\, March 10\, 2016\nMusic Recital Hall\, UC Santa Cruz\nFree and open to the public \n4:30PM Doors Open\n5PM Reception & Book signing\n6PM Reading \nSamuel R. Delany is an American science-fiction novelist and critic whose highly imaginative works address sexual\, racial\, and social issues\, heroic quests\, and the nature of language. Born in New York City’s Harlem in 1942\, Delany was the first African American writer to achieve note through commercial american science fiction. He is the author of the non-fiction books Times Square Red\, Times Square Blue (1999)\, and About Writing (2005). His novels include Nova (1968)\, Dhalgren (1975)\, The Return to Nevèrÿon Fantasy Series (1979-87)\, The Mad Man (1995)\, Dark Reflections (2007)\, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders (2012)\, and Phallos (2013). He has won the Stonewall Book Award and the Lambda Literary Pioneer Award. In 2002 he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and\, this year\, into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. He is the 31st Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master of Science Fiction and lives in Pennsylvania. Last year he retired from teaching creative writing at Temple University. \nEvent sponsored by: UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, Living Writers Series\, Humanities Division\, Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and the Institute for Humanities Research. \n  \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nJoin the Discussion\n#ihrevents\nFacebook \n\n  \nWinter 2016 Living Writers Series: \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nCreative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation\, they mine issues of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class through several genres and media\, to include poetry\, fiction\, critical prose\, performance\, sonic and visual art\, memoir\, as well as hybrid forms. \nJanuary 14: Alex Rivera\nJanuary 21: Vikram Chandra\nJanuary 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales\nFebruary 4: Charles Yu\nFebruary 11: Branwen Okpako\nFebruary 18: Nnedi Okorafor\nFebruary 25: Chang-rae Lee\nMarch 3: Jeremy Love\nMarch 10: Samuel Delany URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/samuel-delany-3/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/SDelany_FINALweb.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160310T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160310T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20160211T193809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160211T193809Z UID:10006342-1457625600-1457632800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Stereotype Threat: How it affects us and what we can do about it DESCRIPTION:Dr. Claude Steele\, who is called “one of the few great social psychologists\,” offers a first-person account of his groundbreaking research and conclusions on stereotypes and identity. \nClaude Steele\, internationally reknowned social scientist and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at the University of California\, Berkeley\, will discuss his theory of stereotype threat\, which has been the focus of much of his research and writing throughout his academic career. The theory examines how people from different groups\, being threatened by different stereotypes\, can have quite different experiences in the same situation. It has also been used to understand group differences in performance ranging from the intellectual to the athletic. Steele’s recent book\, “Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us and what we Can Do\,” published in 2010\, was based on this research and lays out a plan to mitigate the negative effects of “stereotype threat”. \nLight refreshments will precede the lecture. Free and open to the public. Seating is limited. \nPlease RSVP here. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stereotype-threat-how-it-affects-us-and-what-we-can-do-about-it-3/ LOCATION:College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room\, College Ten\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160309T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160309T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20160303T222901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160303T222901Z UID:10005213-1457546400-1457551800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Anna Tsing: "The Mushroom at the End of the World" DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Emerging Worlds and the Center for Cultural Studies present the new series\, “Book Talks\,” which invites authors to read from their books and engage in discussion. Next week we present Anna Tsing reading from “The Mushroom at the End of the World.” \nA tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes\, “The Mushroom at the End of the World” follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. In all its contradictions\, the matsutake mushroom offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: what manages to live in the ruins we have made? By investigating one of the world’s most sought-after fungi\, The Mushroom at the End of the World presents an original examination in to the relation between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes\, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth. \nAnna Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at UCSC and a Neils Bohr Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark\, where she codirects Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA). She is author of “Friction” and “In the Realm of the Diamond Queen.” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anna-tsing-the-mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-world-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/TSING-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160309T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160309T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20160303T202453Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160303T202453Z UID:10005212-1457539200-1457542800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Cosmopolitical Forest DESCRIPTION:Arts Division\, Film & Digital Media\, History of Art & Visual Culture\, and the Center for Creative Ecologies presents: \nUrsula Biemann \nBased on comprehensive research\, Ursula Biemann elaborates in her video works the far-reaching territorial transformations due to the extraction and engineering of resources\, drawing attention to the biological and social micro-dynamics at work in these massive physical encroachments. Her recent fieldwork has taken her to vital forested regions in the Americas. Engaging with the political ecology of oil and water\, the artist interweaves vast cinematic landscapes with documentary footage and academic findings to narrate a changing planetary reality. Discussing her artistic practice in the projects Deep Weather and Forest Law\, Biemann particularly raises questions regarding the entanglement of aesthetics\, ecology and geopolitics. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-cosmopolitical-forest-3/ LOCATION:Porter College\, Room D245 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Ursula.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160309T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160309T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20160302T234200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160302T234200Z UID:10005210-1457524800-1457530200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dr. Ramzi Fawaz: “‘Flame on!’: Nuclear Families\, Unstable Molecules\, and the Queer History of ‘The Fantastic Four'” DESCRIPTION:The Department of Feminist Studies and the Affect Working Group at UC Santa Cruz Present: \n“Flame On!”: Nuclear Families\, Unstable Molecules\, and the Queer History of The Fantastic Four \nDR. RAMZI FAWAZ\, U. OF WISCONSIN – MADISON \nReleased to popular acclaim in 1961\, Marvel Comics’ The Fantastic Four told of four anticommunist space adventurers who gain extraordinary powers when cosmic rays alter their physiology\, respectively granting them control over living flame\, invisibility\, impenetrable rock-like skin\, and physical pliability. In this talk\, Ramzi Fawaz explores the surprisingly queer evolution of the series\, which used the mutated bodies of its heroes to depict the transformation of the bread-winning father\, doting wife and bickering male siblings of the 1950s nuclear family into icons of 1960s radicalism: the left-wing intellectual\, the liberal feminist\, the political activist\, and the potential queer. \nAbout the Author: Ramzi Fawaz is assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin\, Madison. He is the author of The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics (NYU Press\, 2016)\, which received the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Fellowship award for best first book manuscript in LGBT Studies. Dr. Fawaz’s research has been published in American Literature\, Callaloo\, and GLQ. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-ramzi-fawaz-flame-on-nuclear-families-unstable-molecules-and-the-queer-history-of-the-fantastic-four-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/fawaz_ucsc030916.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160308T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160308T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20160211T195632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160211T195632Z UID:10006343-1457465400-1457470800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Discovering the UC Santa Cruz Campus by James Clifford DESCRIPTION:The UC Santa Cruz Emeriti Group presents the Spring Emeriti Faculty Lecture featuring James Clifford\, Professor Emeritus\, History of Consciousness. \nMarch 8\, 2016\, 7:30pm\n Doors open at 7pm.\n Free and open to the public. (Seating is limited) \nThe University of California\, Santa Cruz\, built in a redwood forest overlooking Monterey Bay\, is famously beautiful. But the usual language of aesthetics does little to reveal what makes the place extraordinary. The lecture\, based on years of walking the rugged site\, uses color photography and historical research to explore the interaction of architecture and ecology. It traces UCSC’s experience of environmental design through changing times and ponders its continued significance. \nComplimentary parking is available in the Performing Arts parking lot. Parking attendants will be onsite that evening to issue permits. \nFor questions or accommodation requirements\, contact UC Santa Cruz Special Events Office at (831) 459-5003 or specialevents@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/discovering-the-uc-santa-cruz-campus-by-james-clifford-3/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160308T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160308T191500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20160303T202112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160303T202112Z UID:10005211-1457458200-1457464500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Subatlantic: A Screening and Presentation DESCRIPTION:Arts Division\, Film & Digital Media\, History of Art & Visual Culture\, and the Center for Creative Ecologies presents: \nUrsula Biemann \nSwiss video practitioner Ursula Biemann will screen and discuss her recent speculative SF video essay Subatlantic (2015)\, addressing\, among related works and topics\, the interdisciplinary-discursive ecotone of geology and climatology merged with human politics and history\, as well as her essayistic storytelling and creative imaging. Set in the Shetland Islands\, Greenland’s Disco Bay and on a tiny Caribbean Island\, and occurring at the end of the 2\,500 year old Holocene epoch\, the video’s relational eco-geography captures moments of aquatic flows through invisible ocean streams and melting Arctic icescapes\, and reads this interconnected system as both a hyperobject (one of an expanded geo-space-time\, as Timothy Morton writes)\, and a modeling of intensive science and virtual philosophy (as according to Manuel De Landa). This event will compliment Biemann’s presentation in the Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium the following afternoon: URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/subatlantic-a-screening-and-presentation-3/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Ursula.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160308T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160308T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20160225T195419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160225T195419Z UID:10005207-1457445600-1457449200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sugar Beets\, Biocolonialism\, and Memory in the American West DESCRIPTION:The History Department Presents the Thom Gentle Lecture on Environmental History \nBernadette Jeanne Pérez\nPh.D. Candidate\nUniversity of Minnesota\, Twin Cities \nWhat can the sugar beet industry tell us about the relationship between agricultural science\, capitalism\, and American settler colonialism? In this talk\, Pérez draws upon turn of the twentieth century beet sugar manuals\, which drew upon ideas of heredity and evolution\, and mid-twentieth century industry histories\, which narrated industry founders as heroic pioneers\, to reveal that efforts to breed stronger and healthier sugar beets were part of a broader vision to erase the history of Indigenous peoples\, subjugate non-white workers\, and construct white American exceptionalism. Between 1870 and 1945\, over 160 beet sugar factories opened in rural American towns from Michigan to the Pacific Coast. Hoping to cash in on a crop then touted as “white gold\,” landowners allocated millions of acres to beets to feed their local factories. Efforts to dominate and domesticate nature were inseparable from global histories of colonialism\, race\, and Manifest Destiny. \nBernadette Pérez is a PhD Candidate in US history at the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation\, ““Before the Sun Rises: Contesting Power and Cultivating Nations in Colorado Beet Fields\, 1900-1945\,” is a social\, cultural\, environmental\, and labor history of diverse migrant workers in the sugar beet industry. Her research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation\, the University of Minnesota’s Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change\, the Organization of American Historian’s Huggins Quarles Award\, and the Western History Association’s Sara Jackson Award. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sugar-beets-biocolonialism-and-memory-in-the-american-west-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160307T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160307T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20160301T174037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160301T174037Z UID:10005209-1457382600-1457388000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Israeli Music Extravaganza! DESCRIPTION:Featuring award-winning singer Moran Arad with members of Brazilian Band SambaDá! \nMonday\, March 7 at 8:30pm\n@ UCSC Porter/Kresge Dining Hall\nDoors open at 8:00pm \nDrums: Gary Kehoe\nGuitars: Nelsen Hutchison\nBass: Etienne David Franc\nSaxophones: Anne Stafford\nKeyboard: Avi Tchamni\nPercussion: Noam Harel \nThe show is FREE for all \nFor more information\, contact atchamni@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/israeli-music-extravaganza-3/ LOCATION:Porter/Kresge Dining Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160305T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160305T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20151015T191601Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151015T191601Z UID:10006284-1457170200-1457199000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC) 2016 DESCRIPTION:Every year towards the end of the Winter Quarter\, the Linguistics at Santa Cruz conference showcases the research of second and third year graduate students. This conference coincides with a visit to campus of prospective graduate students\, and it always features as an invited speaker\, a Ph.D. alum of the department. This year’s invited speaker will be Ryan Bennett (Ph.D. 2012) an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Yale University. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-conference-at-santa-cruz-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160304T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160304T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20160119T220020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160119T220020Z UID:10006335-1457094600-1457100000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Laura Harrison DESCRIPTION:Laura Harrison \n“Rights Are Not Justice: A Case Study in Campus Segregation and How University Accessibility Policies Do Violence To the Spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act” \n“Rights Are Not Justice” is the product of a community facilitated project in public sociology and critical disability studies. This project outlines who and what is at stake when a campus elevator/building is inaccessible by uncovering the answers to thefollowing three questions: 1) who is affected by building segregation; 2) which bureaucratic structures maintain or operationalize the necessary conditions for inaccessibility; and\, 3) what ideas work to organize these structures? \n\n  \nFriday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule \nFridays\, 12:30 – 2:00pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nJanuary 15- James Beneda\, Politics\nJanuary 22- Alex Moore\, HAVC\nJanuary 29- Whitney Devos\, Literature\nFebruary 5- Sophia Magnone\, Literature\nFebruary 12- Andrei Tcacenco\, History\nFebruary 19- Amanda Reyes\, History & Consciousness\nFebruary 26- Keith Spencer\, Literature\nMarch 4- Laura Harrison\, Sociology\nMarch 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa\, History URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-laura-harrison-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FFPoster_W2016-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160304T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160304T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20151002T172451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T192455Z UID:10006269-1457089200-1457094600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: Work-Life Balance DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nShelley Stamp\, Professor of Film and Digital Media\nMeg Corman\, Special Assistant to the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor of University Relations\nNathaniel Deutsch\, Director\, Institute for Humanities Research\, Professor of History\nShelley Stamp will offer reflections on Work/Life Balance based on over 20 years experience teaching at UC Santa Cruz. She is the mother of three kids under twelve\, the author of two books\, and founding editor of the journal Feminist Media Histories. \nMeg Corman is a Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) teacher. MBSR was founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn and has been taught and researched for over three decades. Meg teaches locally at Dominican Hospital and at El Camino Hospital in Los Gatos and is nearing completion of a teacher certification program with the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness. \nNathaniel Deutsch will discuss time management for dissertation writing\, the importance of exercise\, and finding work/life balance in general. He is the father of two kids. \nHope you can join us for this important conversation! \nLunch will be served\, as always. \n\n  \nPhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the launch of PhD+\, our new series! We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, online identity issues\, internship possibilities\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, grants/fellowships and much\, more more. \nOctober 9\, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel\nNovember 6\, 2015: Internship Info Session\nDecember 4\, 2015: Coding for Humanists\nJanuary 8\, 2016: Research Tools and Methods\nFebruary 5\, 2016: Online Identity\nMarch 4\, 2016: Work-Life Balance\nApril 8\, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities\nMay 13\, 2016: Research and Grants\nJune 3\, 2016: End of Year Luncheon \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-work-life-balance-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160304T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160304T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20150930T203148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150930T203148Z UID:10006266-1457082000-1457094600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:WORKSHOP: GIS for Humanists DESCRIPTION:Looking to start a mapping project? Curious about GIS? Start exploring the world of ArcGIS with Professors Elaine Sullivan and Barry Nickel. \nJoin us for this introductory workshop. No previous experience with GIS necessary. \nVery Limited Seating. Registration Required. Preference will go to graduate students. \nLunch will be served. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/workshop-gis-for-humanists-2/ LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry Library END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160303T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160303T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20160107T183800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160107T183800Z UID:10005193-1457028000-1457034300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Jeremy Love DESCRIPTION:Jeremy Love is an award-winning writer\, illustrator\, and animator. His critically acclaimed\, Eisner Nominated\, serialized graphic novel Bayou has been used as curriculum at various high schools and colleges including the University of South Carolina and Dartmouth college. It was also selected by the American Library Association as a Great Graphic Novel for teens. Other projects include Blackest Nightmare for DC Comics\, Fierce and Shadow Rock for Dark Horse Comics as a writer and GI Joe\, Fraggle Rockfor Archaia and Midnight Mover for Oni as an artist.  Love is currently hard at work completing Bayou as well as a new Mini-Series from Dark Horse Comics\, The Black Lotus. \n\n  \nWinter 2016 Living Writers Series: \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nCreative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation\, they mine issues of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class through several genres and media\, to include poetry\, fiction\, critical prose\, performance\, sonic and visual art\, memoir\, as well as hybrid forms. \nJanuary 14: Alex Rivera\nJanuary 21: Vikram Chandra\nJanuary 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales\nFebruary 4: Charles Yu\nFebruary 11: Branwen Okpako\nFebruary 18: Nnedi Okorafor\nFebruary 25: Chang-rae Lee\nMarch 3: Jeremy Love\nMarch 10: Samuel Delany URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-jeremy-love-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/speculationscolorfinalCORRECTED.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160303T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160303T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20160225T202342Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160225T202342Z UID:10005208-1457022600-1457028000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Professor Thomas Stoellner Ruhr-University Bochum The Beginnings of Social Inequality: The World’s Earliest Gold Mine DESCRIPTION:The rise of social inequality in early societies has been a matter of long-standing debate in archaeology. Often archaeologists explicitly focus on long-distance networks and the accumulation of wealth as driving factors\, and the consumption of precious metals plays a prominent role in this discussion. However\, seldom are the interwoven roles of producers and the complexity of production considered. Simplified models tend to strengthen notions of dependency and dichotomy between ruling elites and a laboring class. Yet mining as a social practice is more complicated and might have been founded on degrees of social complexity from the very beginning. In this lecture\, the example of gold mining in the Caucasus in the 4th millennium BC will be introduced\, drawing on empirical data\, experimental archaeology and the economic complexity of mining. Gold mining such as in Sakdrisi\, in particular\, raises important questions about whether the use of hard labor in the production of a highly desired material resulted in its own societal dynamics. \nProf. Dr. Thomas Stoellner is Chair of Prehistoric Archaeology at the Ruhr-University Bochum and Head of the Research Department of the German Mining Museum. He has directed excavations and research projects in Austria\, Germany\, Hungary\, Iran\, Kazakhstan\, Georgia\, and Peru. Prof. Stoellner is a leading expert in mining archaeology whose research has broadly contributed to our understanding of prehistoric metallurgy and technology\, and the prehistoric economy. \nFor more information\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/professor-thomas-stoellner-ruhr-university-bochum-the-beginnings-of-social-inequality-the-worlds-earliest-gold-mine-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/StoellnerTalkLegal.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160302T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160302T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20160211T214340Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160211T214340Z UID:10006344-1456934400-1456938000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Past Time\, Past Place: 3D Reconstruction Modeling for Examining Historic Sites DESCRIPTION:Archaeologists and historians are utilizing improving 3D technologies to create scholarly reconstructions of ancient places. These visualizations of now-disappeared spaces offer new potential for the examination of the ancient world. In this talk\, Professor Sullivan will present her work on the 3D Saqqara project\, a 3D visualization of the Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. The project attempts to re-imagine the built and natural environment of the cemetery through space and time\, accessing human perception and experience in past landscapes. \nCo-sponsored by the History and Classics Department and the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/past-time-past-place-3d-reconstruction-modeling-for-examining-historic-sites-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Elaine-Sullivan-talk-poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160302T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160302T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20150612T213830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T213830Z UID:10006165-1456920900-1456927200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Nathaniel Mackey: "Breath and Precarity" DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies\, in partnership with Critical Race & Ethnic Studies\, Kresge College\, and Porter College\, presents Nathaniel Mackey.\nAcclaimed poet Nathaniel Mackey’s recent work encompasses three ongoing\, decades-long projects: the serial poems Song of the Andoumboulou and “Mu\,” and the serial novel or series of novels From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate\, whose fifth volume\, Late Arcade\, was recently completed.\n  \n\n\nWinter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: \nJanuary 13-Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”\nJanuary 20-Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or\, The People Critique Makes”\nJanuary 27-Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”\nFebruary 3-Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”\nFebruary 10-B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”\nFebruary 17-Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People\, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”\nFebruary 24-Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”\nMarch 2-Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-17-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160301T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160301T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20151202T224641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151202T224641Z UID:10005173-1456855200-1456864200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Questions that Matter: "Play: Games\, Life\, and Death" DESCRIPTION:Questions that Matter 03.01.16 from IHR on Vimeo. \nThis series brings together UC Santa Cruz scholars with community members to explore questions that matter to all of us. We invite you to join us on March 1\, 2016 for the series launch at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center. \nFeaturing: \nKimberly Lau\, Professor of Literature\, UCSC \nNoah Wardrip-Fruin\, Professor of Computational Media\, UCSC \nModerated by: Nathaniel Deutsch\, Professor of History & Director of the Institute for Humanities Research \nThe reception begins at 6:00pm\, and the program begins at 7:00pm. \nPlease check back for updated program information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/play-3/ LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/gaming.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160226T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160226T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20160225T183812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160225T183812Z UID:10005205-1456515000-1456520400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection: February 26 – May 22\, 2016 DESCRIPTION:Explore one of the largest private collections of African American art and artifacts. \nSpanning 400 years of history\, the Kinsey Collection reflects a rich cultural heritage. Includes work by Romare Bearden\, Elizabeth Catlett\, Jacob Lawrence\, and Richard Mayhew alongside archival material related to Frederick Douglass\, Zora Neale Hurston\, and Malcolm X. \nJoin us for a MAH Members Only Reception from 5:30-7:30\, and a public opening from 7:30-9pm. There will be food\, refreshments and a welcoming by Khalil\, Bernard and Shirley Kinsey\, the show’s curators at 6:30PM the Members Reception. Salif Kone a singer\, songwriter\, and multi-instrumentalist from Burkina Faso\, West Africa will play 5:30-6:30 and at 7:15PM. \nThe MAH is providing free admission to this exhibition for all Santa Cruz County K-12 students\, UCSC and Cabrillo College students. Just show your ID at the desk Feb 27-May 22\, Tuesday-Sunday\, 11-5\, to get in for free. Note: Free Admission does not apply during Third Friday festivals. \nSelf-guided tour materials also available for school groups and visitors\, click here to book a self-guided tour. \nPresented in partnership with the Santa Cruz County Office of Education\, the Art Forum\, the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research and Cabrillo College. For more information visit: santacruzmah.org\n \n\nJoin us for these exhibition-related events:\nAT THE MAH: \nOpening Reception\nFriday Feb 26th\nMembers/Invites only 5:30-7:30pm\nOpen to the Public 7:30-9pm \nMarch 1st Friday Opening\nMarch 4th\, 5-9PM\n5:30-6PM Panel discussion about The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection with Michael Watkins from the Santa Cruz County Office of Education and Simba Kenyata from the Santa Cruz NAACP.\n5-9PM Make a protest sign to fight for what you believe in. \n3rd Friday Artivism\nMarch 18th\, 6-9PM\nExplore activism through creative forms of expression: music\, dance\, poetry\, art\, food and more. Artivism is co-presented by MAH’s teen program\, Subjects to Change. \nCommunity Rental: Barrios Unidos Presents Jazz For Freedom\nMarch 20\, 3-4:30PM \nCommunity Rental: Project Pollinate Presents Songs of Freedom: A Journey Through the Kinsey African American History Exhibit and a Birthday Tribute to Paul Robeson\nApril 8th\, 6-9PM \nCommunity Rental: Barrios Unidos Presents Jazz For Freedom\nApril 9\, 3-4:30PM \n3rd Friday Beyond Borders\nApril 15th\, 6-9PM\nHow do we break barriers? We organize. We share stories. We speak out. Break through borders with inspiring local organizations fighting for political\, cultural and social justice. \nCommunity Rental: Rising Root Wellness Presents Resuscitating Ancestral Power\nApril 29th\, 6-9PM \nCommunity Rental: Barrios Unidos Presents Jazz For Freedom\nMay 14th\, 3-4:30PM \nCommunity Rental: UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research Presents\, A Night at the Museum: A Story of Influence\nMay 18th\, 6PM\nA public conversation with Ethan Michaeli\, author of the acclaimed new book “The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America”\, and David Anthony\, Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz. Reception and book signing to follow talk. Free and Open to the Public. Co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz \nCOMMUNITY EVENTS AROUND TOWN:\nFire in the Heart at Cabrillo College Crocker Theater\nMarch 5th \, 7:30PM \nSanta Cruz Juneteenth Celebration at Laurel Park behind the Louden Nelson Community Center\nJune 11th\, 12-5PM URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-kinsey-african-american-art-history-collection-february-26th-2016-may-22nd-2016-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/kinseybanner-1024x530.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160226T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160226T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20160119T215434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160119T215434Z UID:10006334-1456489800-1456495200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Keith Spencer DESCRIPTION:Keith Spencer \n“What We Talk About When We Talk To Aliens” \nThroughout the history of the search for ET\, strategies for sending radio signals towards potentially inhabited planetary systems have always made unscientific assumptions and projections about alien culture\, language\, society and even economy. In my presentation I will deconstruct some recent scientific attempts to actively send out radio signals to other star systems and the hegemonic assumptions that are tied to the content of these radio compositions. \n\n  \nFriday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule \nFridays\, 12:30 – 2:00pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nJanuary 15- James Beneda\, Politics\nJanuary 22- Alex Moore\, HAVC\nJanuary 29- Whitney Devos\, Literature\nFebruary 5- Sophia Magnone\, Literature\nFebruary 12- Andrei Tcacenco\, History\nFebruary 19- Amanda Reyes\, History & Consciousness\nFebruary 26- Keith Spencer\, Literature\nMarch 4- Laura Harrison\, Sociology\nMarch 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa\, History URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-keith-spencer-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FFPoster_W2016-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160225T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160225T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20160107T183518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160107T183518Z UID:10005191-1456423200-1456429500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Chang-rae Lee DESCRIPTION:Chang-rae Lee is the author of the novels Native Speaker (1995)\,  A Gesture Life (1999)\, Aloft (2004)\, The Surrendered (2010)\, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist\, and On Such A Full Sea (2014)\, which won the 2015 Heartland Prize for Fiction  and was a Finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction.\n\nHis other awards and citations include the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award\, the American Book Award\, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award\, ALA Notable Book of the Year Award\, the Anisfield-Wolf Literary Award\, the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award\, and the NAIBA Book Award for Fiction. He has also has also written stories and articles for The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, Granta\, Conde Nast Traveler\, Food & Wine\, and many other publications.  In 2000 he was named by The New Yorker as one of the 20 Writers for the 21st Century.\n\nHe has been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and The American Academy in Rome.\n\nChang-rae Lee was born in Seoul\, Korea and emigrated to the United States when he was three. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy\, Yale\, and the University of Oregon. He is Professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University as well as a Shinhan Distinguished Visiting Professor at Yonsei University.\n\n\n  \nWinter 2016 Living Writers Series: \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nCreative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation\, they mine issues of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class through several genres and media\, to include poetry\, fiction\, critical prose\, performance\, sonic and visual art\, memoir\, as well as hybrid forms. \nJanuary 14: Alex Rivera\nJanuary 21: Vikram Chandra\nJanuary 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales\nFebruary 4: Charles Yu\nFebruary 11: Branwen Okpako\nFebruary 18: Nnedi Okorafor\nFebruary 25: Chang-rae Lee\nMarch 3: Jeremy Love\nMarch 10: Samuel Delany URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-chang-rae-lee-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/speculationscolorfinalCORRECTED.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160225T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160225T174500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20151209T223747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151209T223747Z UID:10006316-1456416000-1456422300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Intro to Sikhs Guest Lecture: Shinder Thandi speaks on Global Sikh Diaspora DESCRIPTION:Shinder Thandi\n \n  \nShinder Thandi is a Global & International Studies Professor at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He specializes in Sikhs and Sikh Diaspora\, Political Economy of Development\, Emerging Economies with special focus on Indian and Chinese Development and Evolving China-India-Africa Relations. \nHe is the founder-editor of the Journal of Punjab Studies\, in publication since 1994. The Journal has been published by the Center for Sikh & Punjab Studies at UC Santa Barbara since 2004. Also one of the founders and later Convenor of the Punjab Research Group which was established in the UK in 1984. \nHe has published widely on Indian\, Punjabi and Sikh migration and on transnational practices of Sikhs\, especially Sikh diaspora’s homeland relations. He is co-author (with Michael Fisher and Shompa Lahiri) of A South Asian History of Britain: Four Centuries of Peoples from the Indian Sub-Continent\, (Greenwood Press\, 2007). He has co-edited two books: Punjabi Identity in a Global Context [ed. with Pritam Singh\, OUP\, 1999) and People on the Move: Punjabi Colonial and Post Colonial Migration [edited with Ian Talbot\, OUP\, 2004). He is currently working on a book with Professor Gurinder Singh Mann on Global Sikhism. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/intro-to-sikhs-class-visitor-cres-70s-3/ LOCATION:Cowell\, Room 134 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160224T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160224T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20160208T211307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160208T211307Z UID:10006341-1456336800-1456342200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Book Talks - Gil Anidjar: "Blood: A Critique of Christianity" DESCRIPTION:Blood\, according to Gil Anidjar\, maps the singular history of Christianity. As a category for historical analysis\, blood can be seen through its literal and metaphorical uses as determining\, sometimes even defining Western Culture\, politics\, and social practice and their wide-ranging incarnations in nationalism\, capitalism\, and the law. Flowing across multiple boundaries\, infusing them with violent precepts that we must address\, blood undoes the presumed oppositions between religion and politics\, economy and theology\, and kinship and race. \nDr. Anidjar is professor of Religion\, Comparative Literature\, and Middle Eastern\, South Asian\, and African Studies at Columbia University. His books include The Jew\, The Arab: A History of the Enemy and Semites: Race\, Religion\, Literature. \nUC Santa Cruz’s Center for Emerging Worlds and the Center for Cultural Studies present this new series\, Book Talks\, which invites authors to read from their books and engage in discussion. Please visit the Center for Emerging Worlds’ website for more information on their work. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-talks-gil-anidjar-blood-a-critique-of-christianity-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/ANIDJAR-poster-revised.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160224T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160224T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20151202T221455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151202T221455Z UID:10005172-1456329600-1456336800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Todd Presner: "The Ethics of the Algorithm: Holocaust Testimony and Digital Humanities" DESCRIPTION:2016 Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies with Todd Presner\n“The Ethics of the Algorithm: Holocaust Testimony and Digital Humanities” \nWith more than 52\,000 testimonies\, 100\,000+ hours of video footage\, and a database of some 6 million records\, the Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive is the largest archive of Holocaust testimony in the world. But more than an archive of eyewitness testimony\, it is also an information management system\, a patented digital library\, and a generalizable database for indexing and cataloguing genocide. This talk examines how forms of computation – specifically databases\, data structures\, algorithms\, and information visualizations – function as specific modes of historical emplotment that raise significant ethical questions. Through an investigation of the entirety of the Shoah Foundation’s database\, Presner shows how computational analysis can be “read against itself” in order to reveal certain assumptions and patterns in the data. In so doing\, he argues for the development of an “ethics of the algorithm” based on insights from the Jewish ethical tradition. The talk will combine his research in Holocaust Studies\, history/memory\, and Digital Humanities. \nTodd Samuel Presner is Professor of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature at UCLA\, where he is also the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and Chair of the Digital Humanities Program. His most recent books are: Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture\, co-edited with Claudio Fogu and Wulf Kansteiner (Harvard University Press\, 2016) and HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities\, with co-authors David Shepard and Yoh Kawano (Harvard University Press\, 2014).\nEvery year we honor Helen Diller\, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, by hosting a public lecture series on campus by an internationally recognized scholar. This event was made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Endowment and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \n  \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/todd-presner-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/UC_IHRDillrPoster_2016_FINAL.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160224T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160224T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120633 CREATED:20150612T213651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T213651Z UID:10006164-1456316100-1456322400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America” DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies presents Beléna Bistué.\n\n\nIn the context of her larger project on early modern collaborative and multilingual translation\, Belén Bistué is currently looking at specific instances in which these practices\, together with their underlying conceptual models\, were adapted to the colonial Spanish American context. \n\n  \n\n\nWinter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: \nJanuary 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”\nJanuary 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or\, The People Critique Makes”\nJanuary 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”\nFebruary 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”\nFebruary 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”\nFebruary 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People\, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”\nFebruary 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”\nMarch 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-16-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR