Caren Kaplan, "The Visual Culture of Stealth: Interpretation & Deception in Militarized Aeromobility
2011-11-14 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Communications, Room 139, Communications Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Caren KaplanCaren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis and is Affiliated Faculty in Film Studies, Cultural Studies, and Science & Technology Studies.
Professor Kaplan authored Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (Duke, 1996) and co-authored and co-edited Introduction to Women’s Studies: Gender in a Transnational World (McGraw-Hill, 2001/2005); Between Woman and Nation: Transnational Feminisms and the State (Duke, 1999); Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices (Minnesota, 1994); and two digital multimedia scholarly works, Dead Reckoning and Precision Targets.
This colloquium is presented by Visual and Media Culture, with cosponsorships from the History of Art and Visual Culture, Film & Digital Media, and the Arts Division. For further information and to receive the readings, please contact visualmedia@ucsc.edu.

Gershom Gorenberg: Distinguished Alumni Lecture
2011-11-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson Event Center
Gershom Gorenberg
UCSC alumnus Gershom Gorenberg is the author of the forthcoming book, The Unmaking of Israel, on the crisis of Israeli democracy and how to solve it. The book will be published in November by HarperCollins and is now available for pre-order at all the usual places.
Gershom’s previous book is The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977 (Times Books). Based on previously unpublished documents and extensive interviews, The Accidental Empire presents a strikingly new picture of Israel’s post-1967 history, of major Israeli leaders, and of Israel-U.S. relations.
He is also the author of The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount, which portrays the role of religious radicalism in the Mideast conflict. He co-authored The Jerusalem Report’s 1996 biography of Yitzhak Rabin, Shalom Friend, winner of the National Jewish Book Award, and edited Seventy Facets: A Commentary on the Torah from the Pages from the Jerusalem Report.
As a commentator on Middle East affairs and the interface of religion and politics, Gershom has appeared on Sixty Minutes, Nightline, Dateline, Fresh Air and on CNN and BBC. For many years an associate editor of The Jerusalem Report, he is now a senior correspondent for The American Prospect. He has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Mother Jones and in Hebrew for Ha’aretz.
Gershom has been a visiting professor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and has lectured at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Carnegie Council, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Middle East Institute, the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, and for universities, congregations and other organizations seeking a nuanced view of politics, Mideast affairs and religion.
Gershom was born in St. Louis and grew up in California. After graduating from the University of California at Santa Cruz, he came to Israel in 1977 and earned an MA in education at the Hebrew University. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife, journalist Myra Noveck, and their three children, Yehonatan, Yasmin and Shir-Raz. He is an active member of Kehillat Yedidya, the pioneering progressive Orthodox congregation in South Jerusalem.

Deanna Shemek, "Digital Princess: Toward an Open-Access Online Archive of Renaissance Correspondence"
2011-11-16 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Deanna Shemek
Professor Shemek studies intersections of elite and popular culture in early modern Italy, especially among women. Her current research focuses on early modern letter writing. She is completing an edition of Isabella d’Este’s letters and a book on the broader significance of early modern women’s letters. The talk addresses plans to digitize the manuscript sources for her edition and visualize the social network of a Renaissance princess.
Deanna Shemek is Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz.
This colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies, with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

A Public Dialogue with Jean Baumgarten and Nathaniel Deutsch
2011-11-16 13:00 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
One of the most important—and least appreciated—categories that Jews have employed to experience the world Jewishly is minhag, a Hebrew word typically translated into English as “custom.” Historically, minhag enabled Jews to transform practically every event and action into something with Jewish meaning; it also enabled Jews to differentiate themselves from non-Jews, as well as from Jews from other places or backgrounds (e.g., Ashkenazi vs. Sephardi). Significantly, some Jewish sources went so far as to define minhag as a form of Torah and stressed the importance of maintaining minhagim (the plural form of minhag), while other sources cautioned against the dangers of blindly following minhagim. For centuries, Jews learned minhagim mimetically, that is, by imitating other members of their community or family and through oral transmission. In the early modern period, however, Jews also began to publish printed collections of minhagim, eventually creating a literary genre that exists to this day among Ultra-Orthodox Jews. In the twentieth century, the collection and study of minhagim became one of the central interests of the first ethnographers of Jewish life in Eastern Europe.
In this public dialogue, Professor Jean Baumgarten, a world-renowned expert on Yiddish minhag literature and Professor Nathaniel Deutsch, whose recently published book The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement (Harvard University Press) explores the groundbreaking ethnographic work of S. An-sky, will discuss the history and significance of minhag in its many facets.
Jean Baumgarten, is Professor and Directeur de Recherche (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre des Hautes Etudes Juives, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, in France.
Generous support provided by the David B. Gold Foundation.

Long Bui, "Ms. Little Saigon: Through the Looking Glass of Art, Politics and Community"
2011-11-17 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Feminist Studies presents Long Bui, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow
Ms. Little Saigon: Through the Looking Glass of Art, Politics and Community
This presentation examines the historical legacy of the Vietnam War as it continues to shape political conflicts and ideological differences within the Vietnamese diasporic community. Recognizing the power of cultural media and production to symbolize ideas about nation, gender and class, I investigate a recent public controversy involving mass protests by hundreds of people demonstrating against an art exhibit produced by the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association in Orange County, California.

Giancarlo Casale, "What did it mean to be European in the Sixteenth Century? A View from the Ottoman Empire"
2011-11-17 14:00 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk.
Giancarlo Casale is a specialist in the history of the early modern Ottoman empire, although he also has interests in the history of geography and cartography, global exploration, and comparative empires. He has just completed my first book, “The Ottoman Age of Exploration,” about the history of Ottoman expansion in the Indian Ocean during the sixteenth century. The book was based on extensive research in the archives of both Turkey and Portugal, and explored the ways in which the growth of the Ottoman Empire was part of the same historical process that witnessed the expansion of numerous other imperial powers, ranging from the overseas empires of Spain and Portugal to rival Islamic states like Mughal India and Safavid Iran. His next major project, tentatively titled “Curiosity and Intolerance: The Paradox of Early Modernity,” is a comparative study of the development of ethnographic modes of writing in early modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire. At the same time he is also engaged in several smaller research projects on topics including corsairs and the development of Ottoman naval technology, the connection between naval power and deforestation in the Mediterranean region, and a geo-historical study of the earthquake of Dubrovnik in 1667.

Living Writers Reading Series: David Vann
2011-11-17 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Living Writers Reading Series presents David Vann. David Vann writes both fiction and non-fiction and has won several awards, including the Grace Paley Prize 2007, California Book Award 2008, the Prix Medicis 2010, and the Premi Libreter 2011. David Vann’s work has been published by 22 different publishers in 16 different languages. His books have appeared on 43 Best Book lists in 10 countries. His works include Caribou Island, Sukkwan Island, A Mile Down and Legends of a Suicide.
David Vann
David Vann is an assistant professor of English at University of San Francisco. He teaches creative nonfiction and fiction. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.
For more information about the event, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore.
The Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund, the Porter Hitchcock Fund, the UCSC Literature Department, and the Sain Endowment.

Linguistics Colloquium: Laurence R. Horn,"On the Contrary: Pragmatic Strengthening and Disjunctive Syllogism"
2011-11-18 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Laurence R. Horn
On the Contrary:
Pragmatic Strengthening and Disjunctive Syllogism

The dictum that “The essence of formal negation is to invest the contrary with the character of the contradictory” (Bosanquet 1888) describes the tendency for contradictory (apparent wide-scope) negation to be semantically or pragmatically strengthened to contrary readings whenever possible. This tendency is illustrated by lexicalization asymmetries (e.g. none ‘all not’ vs. *nall ‘not all’) and the widespread diachronic reanalyses of weaker negatives to contraries (e.g Il ne faut pas partir —literally = ‘one need not leave’ > ‘one must not-leave’).
Outside the lexical domain, contrary strengthening typically instantiates the inference schema of disjunctive syllogism (modus tollendo ponens):
f v j
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j
The role of the disjunctive syllogism can be detected in a variety of strengthening shifts in natural language where the disjunctive premise in question is pragmatically presupposed in relevant contexts. It will be shown that a range of apparently quite diverse phenomena—negative strengthening in lexical and clausal contexts (e.g. neg-raising), scope adjustments with negated plural definites and bare plurals, epistemic strengthening of weak implicature in both main and embedded contexts, conjunctive readings of free choice disjunction, and children’s word learning strategies, among others—can be collected under the umbrella of pragmatic strengthening as reflexes of the general preference for contrariety, the operation of disjunctive syllogism, or both.
Laurence R. Horn is Professor of Linguistics and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Yale University. Professor Horn’s primary research program lies in the union (if not the intersection) of classical logic, lexical semantics, and neo-Gricean pragmatic theory. He has been particularly concerned with the exploration of natural language negation and its relation to other operators. He specializes in pragmatics, semantics, syntax, language & gender.
This talk is presented by the Santa Cruz Linguistics and Philosophy Group, a research center of the Institute for Humanities Research. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network and the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.

2nd Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading featuring Kay Ryan
2011-11-20 03:00 - 17:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
THE 2nd ANNUAL MORTON MARCUS MEMOMRIAL POETRY READING honors poet, teacher and film critic Morton Marcus (1936-2009), one of Santa Cruz’s beloved cultural icons. This second annual event will feature Kay Ryan, Pullitzer Prize winner and U.S. Poet Laureate (2008-2010).
FREE ADMISSION. Seating is limited. Parking $6.
MARCUS POETRY ARCHIVE EXHIBIT. An exhibit feturing the Morton Marcus Poetry Archive will be open for viewing in Special Collections at the UC McHenry Library on Sunday, November 20 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM.
DIRECTIONS: Map to UCSC Music Recital Hall. Click Here.
SPONSORS: Poetry Santa Cruz, Ow Family Properties, Cabrillo College English Department, University of California at Santa Cruz, Bookshop Santa Cruz.
For more information: http://www.mortonmarcus.com/reading_current.html

Joshua White "Catch and Release: Piracy, Slavery, and Law in the Early Modern Ottoman Mediterranean"
2011-11-22 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk.
Beginning in the 1570s, incidents of piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean increased exponentially, as the conclusion of the war for Cyprus with Venice and the withdrawal of the imperial navies left behind numerous underemployed and unsupervised Ottoman naval irregulars and opened the door to all manner of pirates from further afield, both Christian and Muslim. The seventeenth century has often been referred to as the “golden age of piracy,” but one aspect of the spectacular rise in maritime violence in this period that has not received adequate attention is the Ottoman administrative and legal response to illegal slave-raiding in its waters. Unscrupulous Ottoman pirates frequently snatched Ottoman subjects and the subjects of the Ottomans’ treaty-partners from ships and shores in contravention of Islamic and sultanic law. The Ottoman government routinely ordered these captives found and freed and was sometimes willing to go to great lengths to ensure that they were released and sent home. In this talk, I shift the spotlight away from the pirates and onto the administrators, jurists, and victims—those who had to contend most with the consequences of maritime violence.
Joshua Michael White studies the social, legal, and diplomatic history of the early modern Ottoman Empire and the Mediterranean. A doctoral candidate in History at the University of Michigan, he earned an M.A in History from the same institution in 2007, a certificate in Arabic from the CASA program at the American University in Cairo in 2005, and a B.A. in History and Islamic Studies from Washington University in St. Louis. His dissertation examines the impact of piracy and amphibious slave-raiding in the early modern Mediterranean from the Ottoman perspective, arguing that increasing maritime violence in the Mediterranean after the 1570s had a tremendous effect on the formation of international law, the conduct of diplomacy, the articulation of Ottoman imperial and Islamic law, and their application in local Ottoman courts. He has conducted dissertation research in Istanbul, Venice, London, and Crete with the support of fellowships and grants from the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, Fulbright-Hays, the American Research Institute in Turkey, and the University of Michigan. His writing is presently supported by a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. He is also the organizer and instructor for the ongoing U-M Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies’ Fall Colloquium Series, “Pirates of the Mediterranean.”

Jennifer Derr, Talk title TBA
2011-11-29 14:00 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk.
Jennifer Derr has her B.S. from Stanford University; M.A., Georgetown University; Ph.D., Stanford. Areas of academic interest include modern Middle Eastern history, African history, Ottoman Empire, early Islamic history. Fellow, Society of Junior Fellows in British Studies, University of Texas at Austin (2009–10); James Birdsall Weter Memorial Fund Dissertation Grant (2008–09); Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2007–08). Has taught at American University in Cairo, University of California at Davis, Stanford University. Articles in Arab Studies Journal, Middle East Report, Molecular and Cellular Biology. At Bard since 2010.

Herman Gray, "At the Limit of Representation: Neoliberalism, Media and African American Visibility"
2011-11-30 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Herman Gray
With African Americans as the primary example, Professor Gray probes the social, intellectual, and political investment in the cultural politics of recognition and visibility in the context of neoliberalism, suggesting that with neoliberalism we have reached the limit of such investments. Looking beyond this investment in representation, recognition and visibility, he examines what other critical modes and sites of cultural analysis and politics are possible.
Herman Gray is Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz.
This colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies, with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther: "Abstraction, the Abstract, and Abstractionism: Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives"
2011-11-30 12:30 - 14:00 | Social Sciences 2, Room 121, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95604, United States
Rasmus Grønfeldt WintherConcepts, models, and theories; words, propositions, and language; are typically understood as abstract representations and abstract maps. The abstract allows us to navigate tentatively and successfully through the concrete world with which we interact as laymen and scientists; adults and infants. How does abstraction take place? What is the abstract, and what is it used for? What are the dangers and limits of both overextending abstractions beyond their appropriate conditions of application, and separating the abstract too much from the concrete, the general too much from the specific, and the universal too much from the particular – i.e., of abstractionism?
This talk explores a variety of analyses of abstraction, the abstract, and abstractionism from psychology (e.g., Barsalou’s “abstraction in perceptual symbol systems,” Gopnik’s and Murphy & Medin’s “theory theory,” and early Kurt Lewin, F. A. Hayek, and Ohlsson and Lehtinen’s “primacy of the abstract”) and from philosophy (e.g., the pragmatism of James and Dewey, the neo-Kantianism of Kuhn and Friedman, and the “kinds of people” analyses of Hacking, following Foucault). The talk also relates abstraction (and the abstract) to closely related—perhaps even co-constitutive—concepts and processes: (1) analogizing (and analogies), (2) mapping (and maps), and (3) distinction-making (and distinctions). In short, a philosophical and psychological anthropology of abstraction, the abstract, and abstractionism is the aim.
Reading: “The Knife and the One” (PDF)
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther is Associate Professor of Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz.

Alide Cagidemetrio: “Choosing Venice: Seduction, Henry James, and The Wings of the Dove”
2011-11-30 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Professor Alide Cagidemetrio of the University of Venice will speak on
“Choosing Venice: Seduction, Henry James, and The Wings of the Dove”
Professor Cagidemetrio will offer some observations about details in the novel, 19th century Venice, James’s biography, and some literary themes such as don juanism, thinking to reinstate curiosity as a legitimate part of aesthetic pleasure. To begin the process, attached is an image of a detail from mosaics of San Marco, and one of Whistler’s lagoon paintings.
At the reception following her talk, Professor Cagidemetriou will discuss the benefits of collaboration between the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari and UCSC and the possibility of summer courses in Venice.
This event is made possible from generous support from the David B. Gold Foundation. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Karen Jesny: "The Interaction of Markedness Factors in Child Consonant Cluster Acquisition"
2011-12-02 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Karen Jesny
Consonant clusters introduce multiple sources of markedness that must be mastered in the course of phonological acquisition. This talk considers how segmental markedness, sonority, and cluster status interact in the acquisition process. Two case studies are presented. The first, drawing on data from the English-acquiring child Trevor (Compton & Streeter 1977, Pater 1997) illustrates how increased segmental markedness can lead to lags in coda cluster acquisition, with a preference for deletion of the segment that contributes the additional markedness. This basic pattern eludes Optimality Theory, but can be modeled within Harmonic Grammar (Legendre, Miyata & Smolensky 1990, Smolensky & Legendre 2006), where weighted constraints interact in a linear fashion. The second case study draws on data from the acquisition of Dutch (Fikkert 1994, Levelt 1994), focusing on cases where sonority and segmental markedness present conflicting demands. Here, segmental factors provide a better explanation for the accuracy and general repair patterns than the sonority cline of the cluster. At the same time, however, the precise simplification patterns observed – specifically the choice of which segment is deleted – are, to the extent possible, governed by sonority. These complex patterns extend beyond what can be modeled through the linear interaction of simple constraints in Harmonic Grammar, and argue in favour of a more articulated series of segmental licensing constraints.
Karen Jesny is a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts. Her primary interests are in phonological theory, phonological acquisition, and learnability.
This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.

John Mowitt: "Radio Silence"
2012-01-10 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
John Mowitt
The emergent field of “radio studies” has given new impetus to the study of radio. Specifically, as the name suggests, “radio studies” has fused an older set of disciplinary preoccupations more typically associated with the concerns of “journalism and mass communications” to the engagements, at once theoretical and political, of “cultural studies.” What this has enabled is the formulation of a set of problematics that have less to do with issues of audience, broadcasts, personalities and the like, and more to do with the conceptual puzzles raised by the experiences transformed in and through radio. In this paper, the puzzle at issue is that of “silence.” In what ways does radiophonic transmission expose us to features of silence that call for theoretical attention? What do the silences of radio provoke us to think about radio itself? Although the matter of music is not engaged explicitly, this line of reflection is meant to remind us that John Cage was interested in both silence and radio.
John Mowitt is Professor of Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature, and English at the University of Minnesota.
This event is presented by the History of Consciousness Department at UCSC.

Anna Tsing: "Critical Description After Progress"
2012-01-18 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Anna Tsing
Anna Tsing
Professor, Anthropology, UCSC
“Critical Description After Progress”
Professor Tsing’s current research tracks the commerce and ecology of a high-value wild mushroom to illuminate contemporary dilemmas of capitalism and multispecies life. The in-progress Living in Ruins explores the consequences of building capitalist supply chains among cultural and biological histories of disturbance and precarious survival.
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The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
ALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.

Visual Performance Studies Presents: Kimberly Jannarone
2012-01-19 17:30 - 19:00 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series, 2011-2012

Kimberly Jannarone
Theater Arts, Digital Arts and New Media, History of Consciousness, UCSC
Memory and Mass Performance
The recent retrospective of the work of Marina Abramovic at MOMA in New York brought to wide public attention the phenomenon of what she called the “reperformance” of her earlier work, which had only existed until then as one-time events recorded on film. Bringing this ephemeral performance work into the museum space as a live artifact raised consciousness of a broader trend currently taking place in contemporary dance, theatre, film, video and performance art. Reenactment raises questions of the differences between reconstruction, revival, adaptation, reinvention, quotation, amplification, and the kinds of temporalities these strategies to recover past performance signify. But beyond the terminological questions, issues of artist identity, authenticity, and history emerge in direct relationship with performative documentary activity. The question of the event and the document become dramatically foregrounded. The question of trauma and catharsis in relation to reenactment is salient as became clear in our first seminar with Chip Lord and Magaret Morse.

Reenactment of the work of one artist by another has been a form of contemporary creativity in theatre, film, dance, and performance for some time, but has been gaining momentum as a major trend of artistic production and research. Clearly, it evokes the connections of historiography and interpretation to art making that documents the past in a non-literal or even paradoxical yet exacting and rigorous way that evades certain mimetic conventions. It is time to ask what sorts of temporality are deployed in reenactments, and how new sorts of temporality reframe notions of documentation, reconstruction/reinvention, citation/quotation, and amplification of an earlier work or event in the contemporary moment.
This year-long speaker series will present artists and scholars specializing in this area of contemporary creativity.

R. Zamora Linmark: "Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives"
2012-01-19 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
R. Zamora Linmark
Creative Writing and Literature present:
UCSC Winter Living Writers Series
R. Zamora Linmark
Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives
Ronaldo V. Wilson, Visiting Assistant Professor
Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities. Whether as editors, publishers, activists, teachers, multi-media artists, and/or co-collaborators, the featured poets in this series present work that reflects their dynamic engagements in the world.
Thursdays / 6:00 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall
Contact: Ronaldo V. Wilson, rvwilson@ucsc.edu or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu
Co-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program.

Chris Chen: "An Axiomatic Chorus": Serial Black Identities and Allegories of Improvisation in Nathaniel Mackey's
2012-01-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for
a position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary):
Chris Chen
“An Axiomatic Chorus”: Serial Black Identities and Allegories of Improvisation in Nathaniel Mackey’s
From A Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate.
Christopher Chen is a Holloway Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley. He received a Ph.D. at Berkeley in 2011 and an MFA in poetry writing from the Iowa Writers Workshop. His dissertation is a comparative study of contemporary African American and Asian American poetry, which explores how the pervasive use of non-narrative, serial poetic forms registers intra- and interracial conflict and foregrounds the question of racial comparison as both impossible and unavoidable in the post-civil rights era.

Mohammed Bamyeh: “Revolutionary Ethics and the Making of the Arab Spring”
2012-01-23 12:30 - 14:00 | College 8, Room 301, College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Sociology Colloquium Series presents:
Mohammed Bamyeh
Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
“Revolutionary Ethics and the Making of the Arab Spring”
Mohammed Bamyeh
Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness, Politics, and Colleges 9 & 10
For more information: http://socyeventsucsc.wordpress.com and http://urban.ihr.ucsc.edu
For accessibility, contact: Barbara Laurence, balauren@ucsc.edu
Event Contact: Deborah Gould, dbgould@ucsc.edu

POSTPONED: The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: Nathaniel Deutsch
2012-01-23 15:30 - 17:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
LECTURE POSTPONED: The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium prevention of Nathaniel Deutsch,“The Jewish Dark Continent: Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement” / has ben postponed from This Monday, January 23rd to Monday, March 12 / 3:30 pm, 261 Social Science 1
The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents:
Nathaniel Deutsch
Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of History, UCSC

“The Jewish Dark Continent: Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement”
On the eve of World War I, the Russian Jewish writer, socialist revolutionary, and aspiring ethnographer named An-sky set out on an ethnographic expedition into the Pale of Settlement, the area of the Russian Empire to which a vast majority of its Jews were restricted prior to the Revolution. Over the course of three seasons, An-sky and his team recorded thousands of tales, jokes, and incantations, took hundreds of photos, and collected numerous artifacts, manuscripts, and other objects. They also designed a massive life-cycle questionnaire consisting of 2087 questions entitled “The Jewish Ethnographic Program” for use in the field. An-sky’s goal was to document the traditional Jewish life of the Pale of Settlement before it disappeared forever and, in the process, to create a distinctly Jewish ethnography.
Nathaniel Deutsch is Professor of History and Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he is also the Director of the Institute for Humanities Research and the Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies. He has been a professor at Swarthmore College, a visiting professor at Stanford University, and the The Workmen’s Circle/Dr. Emanuel Patt Visiting Professor in Eastern European Jewish Studies at the YIVO Institute. Deutsch is the author of five books, most recently The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement(Harvard University Press, 2011), for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Contact: Allyson Ramage, aramage@ucsc.edu for more information.

Neville Hoad: "Colonial Erotopolitics: Customary Law and Migrant Labor Sexuality"
2012-01-25 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Neville Hoad
Associate Professor, English and Women’s and Gender Studies, UT Austin
“Colonial Erotopolitics: Customary Law and Migrant Labor Sexuality”
Author of African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality and Globalization (Minnesota 2007), Professor Hoad is working on a book about representations of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. He focuses on A.S. Mopeli-Paulus and Peter Lanham’s Blanket Boy’s Moon to amplify the dissonances between culture and law on the terrain of sexuality.
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The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
ALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.

Gerard Passannante: "Little Big World: Disaster and the Materialist Imagination"
2012-01-25 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Early Modern Comparative Studies/Shakespeare.
Professor Passannante looks at the habit of making much of little–shifting between small things (details, fossilized seashells, words) and big ideas. Tracing this disaster-courting habit of mind from the writings of Montaigne and Shakespeare’s Othello to Robert Hooke’s discourses on earthquakes and the work of Vico and Boulanger, he argues that this most familiar operation has deep roots in the ways that early modern readers came to terms with the hidden violence of the materialist imagination.
Gerard Passannante received his B.A. from Yale in 2000 and Ph.D. from Princeton in 2007. He is the author of a number of articles on the history of science and literature in the Renaissance, and has recently published a book entitled The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition (Chicago). Professor Passannante has been a Rome Prize fellow at the American Academy in Rome and has had fellowships at The Folger Shakespeare Library and The National Humanities Center.
At 4:30 pm, Professor Passannante will conduct a graduate-student-only seminar on Carlo Ginzburg’s “Clues”

"What is a Reader?" Day of Events
2012-01-26 10:30 - 18:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Alberto Manguel: "Homage to Humpty Dumpty, or Can We Make Words Say What We Want Them to Say?"The Teagle Fund Working Group, “What is a Reader?” invites you to attend a day of events to be hosted at the University of California, Santa Cruz on January 26th, 2012.
What is a Reader? is a multi-campus project supported by the Teagle Foundation’s Big Questions in the Disciplines initiative. Established in 2009 by faculty members in English and Literature departments from Mills College, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Cruz, the group seeks to understand undergraduate literacy today in historical perspective and its implications for the study of literature at the college level. Please see: whatisareader.stanford.edu.
Our special event will be a public lecture by book historian, novelist, and essayist Alberto Manguel at 5 PM in Humanities 1, Room 210. See poster for details. In addition, faculty, staff, and graduate students are warmly invited to two events earlier the same day.

10:30-12:30 UCSC MCHENRY LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS. TWO LECTURES.
Elisabeth Remak-Honnef, McHenry Library Special Collections
“Ten Weeks with Medieval Books in McHenry Library”
Elisabeth Remak-Honnef is the Rare Books Librarian and bibliographer for Art History, Art and Classics at McHenry Library. Before coming to UC Santa Cruz in 1995, she worked for many years at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek cataloging medieval Latin manuscripts. She received her advanced degrees from the University of North Carolina (PhD Comparative Literature) and the Ecole nationale des Chartes in Paris (archiviste-paléographe).
Since 2001, she has regularly taught an upper-division class on the history of the medieval book for the Art History and History departments at UC Santa Cruz. The course provides a survey of the evolution of book production and use in medieval Europe. Concentrating primarily on the relationship between text and image in medieval illuminated manuscripts in the art history class and on the power of writing and book collections in the history class, students examine how and for whom books were made, how they were decorated and used, and how they have survived. This talk will explore how students read and think about reading after an introduction to codicology.
Heidi Brayman Hackell, University of California, Riverside Department of English
“Early Modern Scenes of Reading”
Where did early moderns read? What objects conjured up a scene of reading in early modern drama and prose fiction? This talk will explore the materials that ornamented scenes of reading, the tools readers used, and the primary objects of readerly attention – books, broadsides, letters, inscriptions, images – in order to interrogate the category of the “reader” in early modern England.
Heidi Brayman Hackel is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Reading Material in Early Modern England: Print, Gender, and Literacy (2005) and co-editor of Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 (2008) and Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (forthcoming 2012). Her current book project is titled “Dumb Eloquence: Deafness, Muteness, and Gesture in Early Modern England.”

1:30-3:30 UCSC MCHENRY LIBRARY, SECOND FLOOR. WORKSHOP DISCUSSION OF ESSAYS.
The Teagle Workshop group will be discussing a suite of articles related to the topic of our event, “Spaces of Reading, Objects of Reading.” These readings follow upon those we shared at previous Teagle Workshops, which may be found listed on our group’s Website: whatisareader.stanford.edu
Brayman Hackel, Heidi. “Reading Women.” The History of British Women’s Writing, 1500-1610 (Vol. 2). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 17-33.
This article addresses the challenges of discerning women as readers in the sixteenth century, examining multiple forms of historical evidence of women’s literacy such as diaries and memoirs while carefully distinguishing different reading practices. Evidence of gendered differences in literacy belies any simple assertion that most women were illiterate and therefore not reading.
Grafton, Anthony. “Apocalypse in the stacks? The research library in the age of Google.” Daedalus (Winter 2009): 87-98
This article provides an overview of the logistics of traditional print vs. newer online repositories in libraries, weighing the costs and benefits of both models. Grafton explains that online media are not replacing print media, but that both are proliferating at once, putting dual pressures on university libraries. He explores the changes the Internet has brought to research and reading practices as well as to libraries.
Manguel, Alberto. “The Library as Power.” The Library at Night. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. 91-104.
This chapter explores the totemic power granted books and the power of libraries as monuments and memorials founded by public figures. Though built to consolidate power, ironically, public libraries such as the Carnegie Libraries had the effect of empowering the public that used them.
Poblete, Juan. “Reading as a Historical Practice in Latin America: The first Colonial Period to the Nineteenth Century.” The Literary Cultures of Latin America: A Comparative History (Vol. 1: Configurations of Literary Culture). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Eds. Mario J. Valdes and Djelal Kadir. 178-192.
This article argues for an understanding of the social, collective production of meaning in the interpretation of texts, rather than a decontextualized discourse analysis. This understanding of the location of reading practices is applied to pre-colonial and colonial situations in the reception and understanding of texts in Latin America. The essay offer suggestive points of departure for discussion of the formation of communities of readers in the new media of today.
Interested faculty, staff, and graduates students are welcome to join us. For pdf copies of these readings, contact Laurel Peacock.

5:00 HUMANITIES 1, ROOM 210. ALBERTO MANGUEL: “HOMAGE TO HUMPTY DUMPTY, OR CAN WE MAKE WORDS SAY WHAT WE WANT THEM TO SAY?”

Erica Edwards: "You've become so...American: The Post-9/11 Turn in African American Literature"
2012-01-27 14:00 - 16:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for
a position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary)
Erica R. Edwards is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside and the author of Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership (University of Minnesota Press, 2011). Her work on African American literature, politics, and gender critique has appeared in Callaloo, American Quarterly, American Literary History, and Women and Performance. She is currently at work on a book project titled The Other Side of Terror: African American Literature after 9/11.

CANCELLED: The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: David Graeber
2012-01-30 15:30 - 17:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents:
David Graeber
David Graeber, Goldsmith’s University of London
Monday, January 30 / 3:30 – 5:00 pm / 261 Social Science 1
Contact: Allyson Ramage, aramage@ucsc.edu

Leigh Raiford: “Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle”
2012-01-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Communications, Room 139, Communications Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium Presents:
Professor Leigh Raiford, African American Studies, UCB
Affiliated Faculty in Film Studies, Cultural Studies, and Science & Technology Studies
“Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle”
Leigh Raiford
All readings will be available two weeks prior to talk.
Co-sponsored by the History of Art and Visual Culture, Film & Digital Media, and the Arts Division.
Departmental sites:
http://film.ucsc.edu/news_events
http://havc.ucsc.edu/news_events
To receive readings, contact visualmedia@ucsc.edu.

Alice Yang: “Can the President be Torturer in Chief? John Yoo, Executive Authority and Historical Memory”
2012-02-01 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Alice Yang
Alice Yang
Associate Professor, History, UCSC
Co-Director, Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
“Can the President be Torturer in Chief? John Yoo, Executive Authority and Historical Memory”
Professor Yang examines the legal reasoning of the former Justice Department lawyer’s “torture memos” and his arguments that Al Qaeda and Taliban members were not entitled to protections under the Geneva Convention. She explores how Yoo and his critics relied on different historical memories during debates about torture and executive authority.
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The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
ALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.

John Jordan, Supposing Bleak House
2012-02-02 12:00 - 14:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
John O. Jordan is giving a reading at Bookshop Santa Cruz in honor of Charles Dickens’s bicentenary (born Feb 7, 1812). John will read from his book, Supposing Bleak House, and discuss Dickens, Bleak House, the Dickens Project, and the upcoming Dickens Universe (focusing on Bleak House this summer).
There’s a Bookshop link at http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/john-jordan.

Yair Dalal: "Bridge to Babylon Lecture on Jewish Middle Eastern Music"
2012-02-02 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Composer, violinist, oud player and singer Yair Dalal was born in 1955. His family came to Israel from Baghdad, and his Iraqi roots are embedded in his musical work. Whether working on his own, or with his Alol ensemble, Dalal creates new Middle Eastern music by interweaving the traditions of Iraqi and Jewish Arabic music with a range of influences originating from such diverse cultural milieus as the Balkans to India.
Over the last decade he has recorded 11 albums covering wide and varied cultural territory and authentically representing Israel’s cultures and fusing them through music as whole. Much of Dalal’s work reflects his extensive musical skills in both classical and Arabic music and also reflects a strong affinity he has for the desert and its habitants.
He has played in concerts worldwide, collaborated with top musicians from all over the world, from different disciplines, including: celebrated western classical conductor and Maestro Zubin Mehta, Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI, L. Shankar, Hamza El Din, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Michel Bismuth, Ken Zuckerman, Alam Khan, Jim Santi, Armand Aamar, Shlomo Mintz, Maurice El Medioni, Mustafa Raza, Cihat Askin, Nagati Chelik, Ensemble Kaboul, Adel Salameh, Morwan Abado, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kamerata Jerusalem Orchestra, Melmo symphonic orchestra, and many more.
Presented by the Music Department. Sponsored by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, the David B. Gold Foundation, and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Visual Performance Studies Presents: Fabian Barba
2012-02-02 17:30 - 19:00 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series, 2011-2012

Fabian Barba
Independent artist, Belgium

Reenacting the Dances of Mary Wigman
A Lecture Demonstration (Studio A-105, Theater Arts Center)
Friday, February 3rd at 2pm
The recent retrospective of the work of Marina Abramovic at MOMA in New York brought to wide public attention the phenomenon of what she called the “reperformance” of her earlier work, which had only existed until then as one-time events recorded on film. Bringing this ephemeral performance work into the museum space as a live artifact raised consciousness of a broader trend currently taking place in contemporary dance, theatre, film, video and performance art. Reenactment raises questions of the differences between reconstruction, revival, adaptation, reinvention, quotation, amplification, and the kinds of temporalities these strategies to recover past performance signify. But beyond the terminological questions, issues of artist identity, authenticity, and history emerge in direct relationship with performative documentary activity. The question of the event and the document become dramatically foregrounded. The question of trauma and catharsis in relation to reenactment is salient as became clear in our first seminar with Chip Lord and Magaret Morse.

Reenactment of the work of one artist by another has been a form of contemporary creativity in theatre, film, dance, and performance for some time, but has been gaining momentum as a major trend of artistic production and research. Clearly, it evokes the connections of historiography and interpretation to art making that documents the past in a non-literal or even paradoxical yet exacting and rigorous way that evades certain mimetic conventions. It is time to ask what sorts of temporality are deployed in reenactments, and how new sorts of temporality reframe notions of documentation, reconstruction/reinvention, citation/quotation, and amplification of an earlier work or event in the contemporary moment.
This year-long speaker series will present artists and scholars specializing in this area of contemporary creativity.

UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: Ben Doller and Sandra Doller
2012-02-02 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Ben Doller and Sandra Doller
Creative Writing and Literature present:
UCSC Winter Living Writers Series
Ben Doller and Sandra Doller
Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives
Ronaldo V. Wilson, Visiting Assistant Professor
Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities. Whether as editors, publishers, activists, teachers, multi-media artists, and/or co-collaborators, the featured poets in this series present work that reflects their dynamic engagements in the world.
Thursdays / 6:00 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall
Contact: Ronaldo V. Wilson, rvwilson@ucsc.edu or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu
Co-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program.

Cheryl Higashida: "Black Radicalism’s Queer Record: Erna Brodber and the West Indian Jazz Novel"
2012-02-03 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary).
Cheryl Higashida
“Black Radicalism’s Queer Record: Erna Brodber and the West Indian Jazz Novel”
Cheryl Higashida is Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder, where she has taught since 2002. She earned her PhD at Cornell University (2003) after completing her dissertation as a Fellow with the Five College Program for Minority Scholars. She is the author of Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995 (U of Illinois P, 2011). Her work on African American and Asian American radical culture has also appeared in American Literature, American Quarterly, and Afro/Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections, edited by Fred Ho and Bill Mullen. Her current book in progress is “Mao and Cabral/ Mingus and Coltrane”: The Global Jazz Circuits of the Black Arts Movement.”

Linguistics Colloquium: Masaya Yoshida
2012-02-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Masaya Yoshida
The focus of Professor Yoshida’s research is on aspects of syntactic representations both in static knowledge of language and in real time sentence processing. The studies carried out so far attempted to integrate work in theoretical and typological syntax and experimental psycholinguistics in order to reveal representations of sentence structures built in real time and mechanisms working behind online sentence processing.
Research interests include:

Human Sentence Processing : Syntactic prediction in online sentence processing, Processing of Islands, Processing of Ellipsis.
Syntax: Cross-Linguistic Studies on Island Constraints, Ellipsis Phenomena (the syntax of sluicing and gapping), P-stranding Parameter, The syntax of conditional clauses in Japanese.

Masaya Yoshida is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Northwestern University. This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.

Yair Dalal with Dror Sinai: An Evening of Jewish Music from Iraq
2012-02-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
“Bridge to Babylon” with visiting artists Yair Dalal (oud and violin) and Dror Sinai (percussion)
Composer, violinist, oud player and singer Yair Dalal was born in 1955. His family came to Israel from Baghdad, and his Iraqi roots are embedded in his musical work. Whether working on his own, or with his Alol ensemble, Dalal creates new Middle Eastern music by interweaving the traditions of Iraqi and Jewish Arabic music with a range of influences originating from such diverse cultural milieus as the Balkans to India.
Over the last decade he has recorded 11 albums covering wide and varied cultural territory and authentically representing Israel’s cultures and fusing them through music as whole. Much of Dalal’s work reflects his extensive musical skills in both classical and Arabic music and also reflects a strong affinity he has for the desert and its habitants.
He has played in concerts worldwide, collaborated with top musicians from all over the world, from different disciplines, including: celebrated western classical conductor and Maestro Zubin Mehta, Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI, L. Shankar, Hamza El Din, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Michel Bismuth, Ken Zuckerman, Alam Khan, Jim Santi, Armand Aamar, Shlomo Mintz, Maurice El Medioni, Mustafa Raza, Cihat Askin, Nagati Chelik, Ensemble Kaboul, Adel Salameh, Morwan Abado, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kamerata Jerusalem Orchestra, Melmo symphonic orchestra, and many more.
Dror Sinai is an international performer, educator, and guest artist, as well as the Founder of Rhythm Fusion, Inc. in Santa Cruz. Dror has performed as a solo artist and has appeared in ensembles of many different musical styles, with other talented artists, including Yair Dalal, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Yuval Ron, Alessandra Belloni. Dror has presented lectures, clinics, and workshops to diverse audiences, including Universities, schools, community gatherings, children, and adults, and has taught both professionals and amateurs. He has been a featured instructor for SPECTRA, a program of the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County, and has given clinics at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC). In 2002 he received the Gail Rich Award in Santa Cruz County, and he is a founding member of the World Music Committee for the Percussive Arts Society.
Presented by the Music Department. Sponsored by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
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Hall opens at 7:00 pm
Concert starts at 7:30pm
$12 general
$10 seniors 62+
$8 youth and students w/ ID
Tickets on sale in December at santacruztickets.com and at the UCSC Ticket Office.

Labor Across the Food System Conference
2012-02-04 08:30 - 17:30 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UCSC Center for Labor Studies presents

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3-4, 2012

FOOD SYSTEM WORKERS are often a glaring absence in discussions of the contemporary global food system, even though they are employed in some of the most labor-intensive industries within the entire economy, among them agricultural field work, food processing, food distribution, and restaurants of all kinds. The new food localism privileges questions of “where food comes from” over “how” and “who” questions about the conditions under which food is grown, shipped, processed, cooked, served, and sold. Labor Across the Food System will advance research and advocacy by bringing key scholars and advocates to Santa Cruz for discussions of the critical role of labor and social justice in remaking the global food system.
Keynote Lecture by local historian, Frank Bardacke
author of Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers
Friday, February 3, 2012, 7pm
Humanities Lecture Hall, UCSC
Conference
Saturday, February 4, 2012, 8:30am-5:30pm
Humanities Lecture Hall, UCSC
Participants Include:
Patricia Allen, UC Santa Cruz
Dana Frank, UC Santa Cruz
Shannon Gleeson, UC Santa Cruz
Julie Guthman, UC Santa Cruz
David Brundage, UC Santa Cruz
Carolina Bank Muñoz, Brooklyn College
Deborah Barndt, York University
Lucas Benitez, Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Chris Bohner, UNITE HERE
Sandy Brown, UC Berkeley
Charlotte Chang, UC Berkeley
María Teresa Gastón, University of Nebraska
Eric Holt-Gimenez, Food First
David Griffith, East Carolina University
Saru Jayaraman, Restaurant Opportunity Center
Joann Lo, Food Chain Workers Alliance
Yvonne Yen Liu, Applied Research Center
Don Mitchell, Syracuse University
Mónica Ramírez, Southern Poverty Law Center
Chris Tilly, UC Los Angeles
Labor Across the Food System, organized and sponsored by the Center for Labor Studies in collaboration with the UCSC Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) and the Food First Institute for Food and Development Policy. Major conference sponsors include the Food and the Body Multicampus Research Group, the Institute for Humanities Research, Community Studies Department, Environmental Studies Department, Sociology Department and Politics Department. Additional financial support generously provided by the Departments of American Studies, Anthropology, History, Latin American and Latino Studies, and Psychology.
For further information and updated conference program: http://ihr.ucsc.edu//laboracrossfoodsystem or contact Shann Ritchie at the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research, sritchie@ucsc.edu, (831) 459-5655. Maps: maps.ucsc.edu. Staffing provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. Poster Design: © 2011 Kim Ferrell, kimferrelldesign.com

Julie Sze: "Situating Sustainability Discourse in Shanghai: Global Flows and Urban Transformations in a Warming World"
2012-02-06 12:30 - 14:00 | College 8, Room 301, College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk is drawn from Sze’s current book project which examines flows, fears and fantasies in contemporary urban and global environmental culture, with a sustained look at Shanghai in China. She focuses here on Dongtan, a failed eco-city proposal, framing it within multiple ideological and spatial contexts.
Julie Sze is an Associate Professor of American Studies at UC Davis. She is also the founding director of the Environmental Justice Project for UC Davis’ John Muir Institute for the Environment. and in that capacity is the Faculty Advisor for 25 Stories from the Central Valley.
Sze’s book, Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice, won the 2008 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, awarded annually to the best published book in American Studies.
Sze’s research investigates environmental justice and environmental inequality; culture and environment; race, gender and power; and community health and activism. She has published on a wide range of topics such as energy and air pollution activism; toxicity; the cultural politics of the Hummer, and on environmental justice novels and cultural production.
Sze has been interviewed widely in print and on the radio: World’s Fair, MELDI, Newsweek, Asian Reporter, and Grist Magazine.
The Urban Studies is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research, which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network.

Kathy Lou Shultz: "Diasporic Modernism at Mid-Century: Melvin B. Tolson and Langston Hughes in/and the 1950s."
2012-02-06 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary).
Kathy Lou Schultz is the author of the forthcoming monograph The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History: Tolson, Hughes, Baraka. Schultz’s most recent journal articles are “To Save and Destroy: Melvin B. Tolson, Langston Hughes, and Theories of the Archive” that appeared in Contemporary Literature Vol. 52 No. 1 (Spring 2011) and “Amiri Baraka’s Wise Why’s Wise: Lineages of the Afro-Modernist Epic,” forthcoming in the Journal of Modern Literature. She is also the author of four collections of poetry and experimental prose.

Vanita Seth: “Faces of the Self”
2012-02-08 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Vanita Seth
Vanita Seth
Associate Professor, Politics, UCSC
“Faces of the Self”
The French ban on the burqa and niqab is only one example of the primacy accorded the face in modern western societies. Professor Seth here argues that the fortunes of the face are tied to the birth of modern individuality, and that the face is both the grounds and the reflection of the modern expressive self.
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The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
ALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.

Heather James: "Bison Hamlet"
2012-02-08 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Early Modern Comparative Studies/Shakespeare:
“Bison Hamlet” considers the idea of species extinction in myths of the westward transmission of culture in early modern England (translation of empire) and nineteenth-century America (Manifest Destiny). The chief exhibits are an 1861 painting of the American frontier — in which a bison features as Hamlet — and the graveyard scene of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Heather James teaches English and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California, with emphases on English, Latin, and Italian. Her long-standing interests include classical transmission, poetry and drama, politics, book history and gender. Newer interests include commonplacing and the presence of Renaissance culture in the American West.
At 4 p.m., Professor James will conduct a graduate-student-only seminar on Hamlet Act V, scene 1

Maaike Bleeker: "(Un)Covering artistic thought unfolding"
2012-02-09 17:30 - 19:00 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series, 2011-2012

Maaike Bleeker
Theatre Studies, Utrecht University
(Un)Covering Artistic Thought Unfolding
Following a suggestion by a Dutch dance initiative named Cover, this talk proposes the idea of ‘covering’ as practiced in the context of music as perspective on artistic practices of reenactment. The term ´cover´ points to what is reenacted being artistic creations by other artists, as distinguished from the reenactment of historical situations or events. And also how reenacting these works results in new works, covers. Covers exist in a specific relationship to the original work, the cover being a remake or response to the original work from the position of another artist at a later moment in time. The notion of cover also points to how this relationship is mediated by recordings and documentation. The term ´cover version´ originates from the 1960´s when it was introduced to describe a rival version of a tune recorded to compete with an already released original version. That is, the notion of cover is closely connected to recordings and the recording industry, not to music or songs as live performance.
Maaike Bleeker is a Professor and the Chair of Theatre Studies. She studied Art History, Theatre Studies and Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam where she also completed her PhD on Visuality in the Theatre (2002). Previously, she lectured at the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of Amsterdam, The Piet Zwart Post-Graduate program in Fine Arts (Rotterdam), Media Gn: Centre for Emergent Media (Groningen), The School for New Dance Development (Amsterdam), the post graduate program Arts Performance Theatricality (Antwerp), and in the IPP Performance and Media Studies Summer School of the Johannes Gutenburg Universität, Mainz. Since 1991, she also worked as a dramaturge for various theatre directors, choreographers and visual artists. She performed in several lecture performances, ran her own theatre company (Het Oranjehotel) and translated five plays that were performed by major Dutch theatre companies. She was an Artist in Residence at the Amsterdam School for the Arts (2006-2007) and member of the jury of the Dutch National Theatre Festival TF (2007-2008).
For more information on this speaker series please see our website: http://artsresearch.ucsc.edu/vps/reenactment

UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: Dawn Lundy Martin, Duriel E. Harris, Ronaldo V. Wilson (Black Took Collective)
2012-02-09 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Creative Writing and Literature present:
UCSC Winter Living Writers Series
Dawn Lundy Martin, Duriel E. Harris, Ronaldo V. Wilson (Black Took Collective)
Dawn Lundy Martin, Duriel E. Harris, Ronaldo V. Wilson
Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives
Ronaldo V. Wilson, Visiting Assistant Professor
Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities. Whether as editors, publishers, activists, teachers, multi-media artists, and/or co-collaborators, the featured poets in this series present work that reflects their dynamic engagements in the world.
Thursdays / 6:00 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall
Contact: Ronaldo V. Wilson, rvwilson@ucsc.edu or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu
Co-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program.

"What Latinos Are Reading"
2012-02-10 13:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Latino Literary Cultures Project / Proyecto Culturas Literarias Latinas presents:
What Latinos Are Reading
Bringing together writers and editors, this symposium explores the conditions of possibility for Latino literature today, focusing on its less-explored popular edges. Panelists will explore the conditions of possibility for a US Latino literature–its varied audiences, the kinds of literacy it presupposes or fosters. How do Latino children and young adults come to see themselves as readers or as authors? What genres and language modalities are most popular, most inventive, most effective in creating a Latino reading public? And in the wake of the controversial Tucson school district book banning, what are Latinos not reading?
Schedule:
Symposium: 1:00-3:00 pm
Readings: 3:15-5:00 pm
Followed by book signings.
Featuring:
Gustavo Arellano, journalist and editor, Orange County Weekly; author of the syndicated column and book Ask a Mexican!; and Orange County: A Personal History
Malín Alegría (Ramírez), author of three Young Adult books, and UC Santa Cruz alum
Theresa Hamman, veteran in Global and Bilingual Children’s Publishing
Moderated by Juan Poblete, Literature, UCSC
The Latino Literary Cultures Project / Proyecto Culturas Literarias Latinas is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research, as well as a working group of the Chicano/Latino Research Center. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Bettina Apthekar: “Queering the History of the Communist Left in the United States”
2012-02-15 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:

Bettina Apthekar

Bettina Apthekar
Distinguished Professor, Feminist Studies and History, UCSC
“Queering the History of the Communist Left in the United States”
In 2010 gays and lesbians of the U.S. Communist Party began publishing a newsletter, The Queer Communist, whose emblem is a pink triangle superimposed on a hammer and sickle, marking an extraordinary moment relative to the homophobic history and politics of the CPUSA. The paper analyzes this history.
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The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
ALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.

UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: giovanni singleton and Ara Shirinyan
2012-02-16 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Creative Writing and Literature present:
UCSC Winter Living Writers Series
giovanni singleton and Ara Shirinyan
giovanni singleton
Ara Shirinyan
giovanni singleton is founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts, a critically acclaimed journal dedicated to experimental work by artists and writers of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces. Counterpath Press will publisher ascension, a collection of poems in 2012. singleton is currently at work on AMERICAN LETTERS: works on paper, a collection of concrete poems inspired by African American spirit writing, the aboriginal dreamtime, Tibetan meditation practice, and the study of Japanese language and calligraphy.
Ara Shirinyan lives in Los  Angeles, where he writes and is editor of Make Now Press. He is the author of two books of poetry, Syria Is in the World ( Palm Press, 2007) and Your Country is Great (Futurepoem Books, 2008). With Stan Apps and Teresa Carmody, he co-curates The Last Sunday Reading Series at the  Smell in Los Angeles (an all ages punk/art rock club that he helped  co-found in 1997 and briefly ran for a year). His work has appeared  or is forthcoming in Word Ways, UBUWEB, Greetings, Trepan, Combo, Area Sneaks, Tuli & Savu among others.
Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities. Whether as editors, publishers, activists, teachers, multi-media artists, and/or co-collaborators, the featured poets in this series present work that reflects their dynamic engagements in the world.
Thursdays / 6:00 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall
Contact: Ronaldo V. Wilson, rvwilson@ucsc.edu or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu
Co-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program.

Gautam Premnath: "Urban Form, Minority Identity, and Narrative Drift in Altaf Tyrewala’s No God in Sight"
2012-02-17 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Thirty-two pages into No God in Sight (2005), Altaf Tyrewala’s novel undertakes a dramatic formal turn. By this point, Tyrewala has established an inventive formula, serving up a series of brief, elegantly crafted, loosely connected, first-person narratives that chart sinuous, unpredictable pathways through various Bombay localities. Throughout Tyrewala sustains an unvaryingly wry, detached narratorial voice that levels out differences between petty travails and high tragedy in the lives of his middle-class Muslim characters. Yet as the seventh episode nears its end, a different tonal register irrupts into the narrative. As Amin-bhai, a small shoeshop-owner, anticipates his emigration to the United States, the laconic speaking style he shares with other narrators gives way to an impassioned litany of recrimination and regret. Cataloguing assaults upon Muslims and other religious minorities by Hindu fundamentalist zealots, Amin-bhai punctuates his leavetaking of his country, stating, “Let them have their Hindustan for Hindus.” Here, Tyrewala institutes a formal break, marked by a blank page. When the first-person narrative chain resumes, the scene has shifted to a Gujarati village whose residents are being harangued by a mahant into violence against unspecified “outsiders.” Tyrewala has retrieved his studied equanimity, and the novel renders state-sanctioned pogroms in 2002 Gujarat with a remarkably light touch. Before long the narrative returns to Bombay, and the novel reverts to its earlier guise of urban dérive. But the Gujarat detour has crucially redirected this earlier imperative. This talk analyzes how the novel’s ambitions as urban exploration are conditioned and inflected by its concern to reflect upon the question of contemporary Indian Muslim identity.
GAUTAM PREMNATH is Assistant Professor of English at UC Berkeley, where he specializes in the 20th-century Anglophone literatures of Britain, the Caribbean, and South Asia, and in theories of postcoloniality and diaspora. He has published numerous articles of literary criticism and cultural theory. His first book, Mobile Republics: Itineraries of Postcolonial Authorship between India and the Caribbean, is forthcoming from University of Virginia Press.
This lecture is presented by the Literature Department and the Institute for Humanities Research.
Event is free and open to the public. For further information, please contact Christine Hong at cjhong@ucsc.edu.

Megan Moodie: “We Were Adivasis: Collective Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe”
2012-02-22 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Megan Moodie
Megan Moodie
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, UCSC
“We Were Adivasis: Collective Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe”
Professor Moodie studies the sociality engendered by legal and economic projects for uplift and empowerment, including affirmative action, microfinance, and gender-based rights assertions. Her in-progress book, based on ethnographic work with the Dhanka, examines the gendered impact of affirmative action-based upward mobility.
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The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
ALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.

Sean Keilen: "From Latin Rhetoric to English Poetry: Shakespeare’s Antic Dispositions"
2012-02-22 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Early Modern Comparative Studies/Shakespeare:
Sean Keilen, College of William and Mary
“From Latin Rhetoric to English Poetry: Shakespeare’s Antic Dispositions”
The talk Shakespeare’s efforts to distinguish the poems and plays he was writing from the arguments he had learned to make at school—no small task, given the fact that the study of poetry was subordinate to the study of rhetoric in the Elizabethan curriculum. In particular, the talk focuses on the difference between the role the emotions play in determining the meaning of works of art in Shakespearean texts and the role they play in determining the meaning of a case in Latin rhetoric. According to the laws that defined rhetoric as species of discourse, an emotion is a tool that orators must use to make audiences feel what they want them to feel, and nothing else. Shakespeare’s works, by contrast, identify poetry with aesthetic experiences that give rise to ambiguous feelings, multiple interpretations, and authorless texts.
Sean Keilen teaches courses about Shakespeare, English literature and criticism, and the reception of the classical tradition. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation (2008) and National Humanities Center (2006), he is also the author of Vulgar Eloquence: On the Renaissance Invention of English Literature (Yale 2006), co-editor of Forms of Renaissance Thought: New Essays on Literature and Culture (Palgrave 2008), and a General Editor of the series Studies in Renaissance Literature (Boydell & Brewer).
At 4:00 pm, Professor Keilen will conduct a graduate-student-only seminar on “Reading for Pleasure.”
Texts: Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text (excerpts), Sontag, Against Interpretation, and Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

Jean Franco: "Cruel Modernity"
2012-02-22 17:00 - 19:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Professor Jean Franco was the first Professor of Latin American Literature in England. She was appointed Professor by the University of Essex in 1968 having previously taught at Queen Mary College and Kings College, London University. In 1972 she took up a position at Stanford University where she was later appointed to the Olive H. Palmer chair of Humanities. She has been at Columbia University since 1982, first in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and later in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. She is now Professor Emerita.
Professor Franco is one of the editors of the Cultural Studies of the Americas series, published by Minnesota University Press, and is General Editor of the Library of Latin America series, published by Oxford University Press. She has been writing on Latin American literature since the early sixties. She has published The Modern Culture of Latin America (1967), An Introduction to Latin American Literature (1969), Plotting Women: Gender and Representation in Mexico (1989), and Marcando diferencias: Cruzando Fronteras (1996). A selection of essays, Critical Passions, edited by Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen Newman was published in October 1999 by Duke University Press. Her book, The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America and the Cold War was published by Harvard University Press in 2001 and was translated into Spanish as Decadencia y caída de la ciudad letrada in the collection, Debates. The book was awarded the Bolton-Johnson Prize by the Conference of Latin American Historians for the best work in English on the History of Latin America published in 2003. Plotting Women, Marcando Diferencias, and several chapters of Critical Passions and The Decline and Fall specifically focus on gender and the essays, “Killing Priests, Nuns, Women, Children” and “Gender, Death and Resistance,” have been reprinted on numerous occasions. She is at present working on racial discrimination in Latin America.
Professor Franco has been decorated by the governments of Mexico, Chile and Venezuela for her work on Latin American literature and has received awards from PEN and from the Latin American Studies Association for lifetime achievement. She has served as President of the Latin American Studies Association in Great Britain and of the Latin American Studies Association in the U.S.
Co-sponsored by the Research Groups of Transnationalizing Justice; Borders, Bodies, and Violence; and Latino Literary Cultural Project; the Chicano Latino Research Center, and the Departments of Feminist Studies, Literature, and Latin American and Latino Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

A Seminar with Jean Franco
2012-02-23 10:00 - 12:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
To obtain a copy of the paper that will be discussed at the seminar, please contact Courtney Mahaney (cmahaney@ucsc.edu).
Professor Jean Franco was the first Professor of Latin American Literature in England. She was appointed Professor by the University of Essex in 1968 having previously taught at Queen Mary College and Kings College, London University. In 1972 she took up a position at Stanford University where she was later appointed to the Olive H. Palmer chair of Humanities. She has been at Columbia University since 1982, first in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and later in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. She is now Professor Emerita.
Professor Franco is one of the editors of the Cultural Studies of the Americas series, published by Minnesota University Press, and is General Editor of the Library of Latin America series, published by Oxford University Press. She has been writing on Latin American literature since the early sixties. She has published The Modern Culture of Latin America (1967), An Introduction to Latin American Literature (1969), Plotting Women: Gender and Representation in Mexico (1989), and Marcando diferencias: Cruzando Fronteras (1996). A selection of essays, Critical Passions, edited by Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen Newman was published in October 1999 by Duke University Press. Her book, The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America and the Cold War was published by Harvard University Press in 2001 and was translated into Spanish as Decadencia y caída de la ciudad letrada in the collection, Debates. The book was awarded the Bolton-Johnson Prize by the Conference of Latin American Historians for the best work in English on the History of Latin America published in 2003. Plotting Women, Marcando Diferencias, and several chapters of Critical Passions and The Decline and Fall specifically focus on gender and the essays, “Killing Priests, Nuns, Women, Children” and “Gender, Death and Resistance,” have been reprinted on numerous occasions. She is at present working on racial discrimination in Latin America.
Professor Franco has been decorated by the governments of Mexico, Chile and Venezuela for her work on Latin American literature and has received awards from PEN and from the Latin American Studies Association for lifetime achievement. She has served as President of the Latin American Studies Association in Great Britain and of the Latin American Studies Association in the U.S.
Co-sponsored by the Research Groups of Transnationalizing Justice; Borders, Bodies, and Violence; and Latino Literary Cultural Project; the Chicano Latino Research Center, and the Departments of Feminist Studies, Literature, and Latin American and Latino Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Ory Amitay: "Mary, Paulina and Fulvia: Allegorical History in Josephus' Antiquities 18.53-84"
2012-02-23 12:00 - 14:00 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Ory Amitay is Professor of History at the University of Haifa.
This event is made possible from generous contributions from the Classical Studies Program, the Center for Jewish Studies, the departments of Literature and History, and the David B. Gold Foundation.

Visual Performance Studies Presents: Andre Lepecki
2012-02-23 17:30 - 19:00 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series, 2011-2012

Andre Lepecki,
Performance Studies, New York University
Not as Before, but Again: Reenactments and “Transcreation”
The recent retrospective of the work of Marina Abramovic at MOMA in New York brought to wide public attention the phenomenon of what she called the “reperformance” of her earlier work, which had only existed until then as one-time events recorded on film. Bringing this ephemeral performance work into the museum space as a live artifact raised consciousness of a broader trend currently taking place in contemporary dance, theatre, film, video and performance art. Reenactment raises questions of the differences between reconstruction, revival, adaptation, reinvention, quotation, amplification, and the kinds of temporalities these strategies to recover past performance signify. But beyond the terminological questions, issues of artist identity, authenticity, and history emerge in direct relationship with performative documentary activity. The question of the event and the document become dramatically foregrounded. The question of trauma and catharsis in relation to reenactment is salient as became clear in our first seminar with Chip Lord and Magaret Morse.

Reenactment of the work of one artist by another has been a form of contemporary creativity in theatre, film, dance, and performance for some time, but has been gaining momentum as a major trend of artistic production and research. Clearly, it evokes the connections of historiography and interpretation to art making that documents the past in a non-literal or even paradoxical yet exacting and rigorous way that evades certain mimetic conventions. It is time to ask what sorts of temporality are deployed in reenactments, and how new sorts of temporality reframe notions of documentation, reconstruction/reinvention, citation/quotation, and amplification of an earlier work or event in the contemporary moment.
This year-long speaker series will present artists and scholars specializing in this area of contemporary creativity.

UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: Garrett Hongo
2012-02-23 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Garrett Hongo
Creative Writing and Literature present:
UCSC Winter Living Writers Series
Garrett Hongo
Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives
Ronaldo V. Wilson, Visiting Assistant Professor
Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities. Whether as editors, publishers, activists, teachers, multi-media artists, and/or co-collaborators, the featured poets in this series present work that reflects their dynamic engagements in the world.
Thursdays / 6:00 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall
Contact: Ronaldo V. Wilson, rvwilson@ucsc.edu or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu
Co-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program.

Mary Paster: "Phonologically Conditioned Morphology"
2012-02-24 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Mary Paster (PhD UC Berkeley, 2006) is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College in Claremont, California. Her research focuses on phonology and morphology, and their interface. She specializes in the study of African languages, particularly their tone systems. She has published in such journals as Phonology, Yearbook of Morphology (now Morphology), Word Structure, and Studies in African Linguistics.
The Crosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology Research Cluster is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research, which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network.

2012 Scholarship Benefit Dinner
2012-02-25 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
2012 Scholarship Benefit Dinner
More information TBA.

Crosslinguistic Investigations in Phonology-Syntax Research Cluster presents a Seminar with Mary Paster
2012-02-25 10:00 - 12:00 | Cowell Senior Commons Room, Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062-1225, United States

Angela Elsey, "Life in Senegal / La Vie senegalaise"
2012-02-27 17:00 - 19:00 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
LANGUAGE PROGRAM COLLOQUIUM SERIES
Life in Senegal / La Vie sénégalaise
Angela Elsey
Angela Elsey Lecturer in French
Please join Lecturer in French Angela Elsey for an introduction to daily life in Senegal through photos and short video clips depicting work, school, play, home life, language use, creative activities, and religious practices. Lecturer Elsey has made two trips to Senegal during which she studied at the University of Dakar, traveled the country and spent time with the local people. The talk will be in English.

J. Cameron Monroe: "Elephants for Want of Towns? New Light on Old Cities in West Africa’s Atlantic Age"
2012-02-28 15:30 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Western conceptions of the city have a long and storied history, one that until recently largely dismissed pre-colonial African urbanisms as no more than a passive response to cultural stimulus from outside the continent. This has been particularly true for West African cities that emerged in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. However, landscape archeology is enriching our understanding of how urban centers were organized on the coast of West Africa in the Atlantic Era, providing a sharper picture of indigenous trade, the values of the elite classes and power relationships across the region. This work is demonstrating the active role played by such communities in shaping the contours of Atlantic commerce in this period. This presentation will focus on one such urban tradition, located on the Abomey Plateau in the Republic of Bénin, exploring the dynamic ways that local political factors shaped and were shaped by global economic forces.
J. Cameron Monroe is an historical archaeologist in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Monroe’s research examines political, economic and cultural transformations in West Africa and the African Diaspora in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. He has studied African-American ethnic identity and household-level craft production in early colonial Virginia, and currently he directs the Abomey Plateau Archaeological Project in the Republic of Bénin, West Africa. Integrating documentary, oral and archaeological data, the project focuses on the political economy of landscape and the built environment, and the nature of urban transformation in contact-period West Africa.
Lecture will begin at 4:00 PM, snacks from 3:30 PM. For more information, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu.
This lecture is presented by the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Melissa L. Caldwell: “Sowing the Seeds of Civil Society: Russia’s Garden Democracy”
2012-02-29 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Melissa L. Caldwell
Professor, Anthropology, UCSC
Co-Director, UCMRP on Studies of Food and the Body
“Sowing the Seeds of Civil Society: Russia’s Garden Democracy”
Professor Caldwell examines the politics of poverty, social welfare, care and intimacy in Russia through ethnographic research in Dacha Idylls: Living Organically in Russia’s Countryside (California 2011). Her new research is on Russian-African assistance and development relations in the twentieth century. She also studies changing food practices in the postsocialist world.
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The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
ALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.

Craig Dworkin: "The Politics of the Work"
2012-02-29 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
In Partnership with Poetry and Politics Research Cluster and the Literature Department presents: Craig Dworkin for a Lecture on Poetics.
Craig Dworkin is the author of Reading the Illegible (Northwestern UP), Signature-Effects (Ghos-Ti), Dure (Cuneiform), Strand (Roof), and Parse (Atelos), and the editor of Architectures of Poetry (Rodopi), Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern UP), The Sound of Poetry (Chicago UP), and Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writing of Vito Acconci (MIT). He teaches at the University of Utah and curates two on-line archives: Eclipse and The UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing.
Poetry and Politics is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research, which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network.

Poetry and Politics: Professor Craig Dworkin Poetry Reading
2012-02-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Craig Dworkin is the author of Reading the Illegible (Northwestern UP), Signature-Effects (Ghos-Ti), Dure (Cuneiform), Strand (Roof), and Parse (Atelos), and the editor of Architectures of Poetry (Rodopi), Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern UP), The Sound of Poetry (Chicago UP), and Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writing of Vito Acconci (MIT). He teaches at the University of Utah and curates two on-line archives: Eclipse and The UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing.

Poetry and Politics is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research, which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network.

Linguistics Colloquium: Matthew Gordon
2012-03-02 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Matthew Gordon
Matthew Gordon is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include phonetics, phonology, and typology.
This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.

Helga Tawil-Souri: “Visual Conflict of and in Palestine-Israel”
2012-03-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Communications, Room 139, Communications Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium Presents:
Helga Tawil-Souri, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU
“Visual Conflict of and in Palestine-Israel”
Helga Tawil-Souri
All readings will be available two weeks prior to talk.
Co-sponsored by the History of Art and Visual Culture, Film & Digital Media, and the Arts Division.
Departmental sites:
http://film.ucsc.edu/news_events
http://havc.ucsc.edu/news_events
To receive readings, contact visualmedia@ucsc.edu.

Tracie McMillian: "Real Food vs. Affordable Food: Can we have both?"
2012-03-07 12:00 - 13:30 | Oakes Mural Room, Room 223, Oakes College‎ 150 Heller Drive, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join journalist Tracie McMillan to discuss her work for The American Way of Eating, which chronicles her experience in three undercover jobs across the American food system: California farmworker, produce clerk in a Detroit-area Walmart, New York City Applebee’s kitchen wretch. Weaving policy and agricultural economics into personal narrative, McMillan explores what it would cost to grow food fairly.
Tracie McMillan, a freelance journalist whose work centers on food and class, is a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. Her first book, The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table, will be published by Scribner in February 2012. Learn more on her website.
Presented by the Studies of Food and the Body Multicampus Research Program. Support is provided by the University of California Office of the President. Staff support is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Peter Euben: “Women of Melos”
2012-03-07 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Peter Euben
Peter Euben
Emeritus Research Professor, Political Science and Classical Studies,
Kenan Distinguished Faculty Fellow Emeritus, Duke University
“Women of Melos”
Although the Melian Dialogue is not much of a dialogue, it is anointed as the foundation of political realism. The paper argues that realism is delusional and defeating. The more inclusive dialogue in Euripides’ The Trojan Women juxtaposes the language of power, war and empire with loss, hopelessness and what Saïd called “the crippling sorrow of estrangement.”
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The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
ALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.

The Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture: "Interfaith Perspectives on Economic Justice, and its implications for the worldwide Occupy movement"
2012-03-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson Event Center
The Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture series celebrates the work of the late Noel King, founding father and Professor of History and Comparative Religion at UC Santa Cruz. The series reflects Noel’s lifelong commitment to, and joy in, dialogue between the faiths.
For the 2012 NQK Lecture, representatives of four of the world’s great religions join in conversation:
Interfaith Perspectives on Economic Justice, and its implications for the worldwide Occupy movement.
Ched Myers, leading the discussion, is a fifth generation Californian who has spent three decades working with faith-based peace and justice organizations, including the American Friends Service Committee, the Pacific Concerns Resource Center, and the Pacific Life Community. He is currently with the Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries, focusing on building capacity for biblical literacy, church renewal, and faith based witness for justice.
Rabbi and Congregational Cantor Paula Marcus has served Temple Beth El since 1979. She was ordained as a Rabbi in May, 2004 by the Academy for Jewish Religion in Los Angeles and has apprenticed with cantors in the U.S. and Israel. She received her BA in Judaic studies from SUNY at Binghamton and
her MA degree in Rabbinic studies from the Academy of Jewish Religion.
Imam Zaid Shakir is an American Muslim scholar with a background in politics and international relations. His work balances the academic and spiritual study of Islam with being a voice of conscience in issues of race, peace, and poverty, for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. He has been ranked one of America’s most influential Muslim scholars.
Dr. Inder Mohan Singh, an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, has been instrumental in founding several technology companies as well as the Chardi Kalaa Foundation, which fosters a sense of community and reinforces Sikh values. Dr. Singh is the Chairman of LynuxWorks and cofounder of Excelan and Kalpana. He has long been active in interfaith dialogue.
Reception to follow Stevenson College Event Center University of California, Santa Cruz
Free admission, parking $3.00
Sponsored by the Noel Q. King memorial fund; the University Inter-faith Council; Santa Cruz Progressive Christian Forum; Cowell and Stevenson Colleges; and the Humanities Division of UCSC.

Conservation in No Man's Land: A Colloquium on Values, Science, and the Crisis of Biodiversity
2012-03-10 09:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
PANELISTS
Daniel Guevara
UCSC Department of Philosophy
Claudio Campagna
Wildlife Conservation Society
UCSC Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Ronnie Lipschutz
UCSC Politics Department
Daniel Press
UCSC Department of Environmental Studies

AGENDA
9:00 am Introductory Remarks: Daniel Guevara
9:15 am Introductory Remarks: Claudio Campagna
9:30 am On the Place of Science and Scientists in Conservation
Introduced and Moderated by Claudio Campagna
10:45 am Public Policy, Science and Values in Conservation and Environmentalism
Introduced and Moderated by Daniel Press
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Rights, Property and Other Key Social and Political Concepts in Conservation and Environmentalism
Introduced and Moderated by Ronnie Lipschutz
2:15 pm The Relevance of Philosophy to the Language and Fundamental Concepts of the Conservation and Environmental Movements
Introduced and Moderated by Daniel Guevara
3:45 pm The Direction of the Conservation Movement in the Next Decade: What Is It Likely to Be? What Should It Be?

This event is open to the public and campus community.
Please email Professor Guevara at guevara@ucsc.edu if you plan to attend.
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Santa Cruz

Nathaniel Deutsch, “The Jewish Dark Continent: Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement”
2012-03-12 15:30 - 17:00 | Unnamed Venue, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents:
Nathaniel Deutsch
Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of History, UCSC

“The Jewish Dark Continent: Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement”
On the eve of World War I, the Russian Jewish writer, socialist revolutionary, and aspiring ethnographer named An-sky set out on an ethnographic expedition into the Pale of Settlement, the area of the Russian Empire to which a vast majority of its Jews were restricted prior to the Revolution. Over the course of three seasons, An-sky and his team recorded thousands of tales, jokes, and incantations, took hundreds of photos, and collected numerous artifacts, manuscripts, and other objects. They also designed a massive life-cycle questionnaire consisting of 2087 questions entitled “The Jewish Ethnographic Program” for use in the field. An-sky’s goal was to document the traditional Jewish life of the Pale of Settlement before it disappeared forever and, in the process, to create a distinctly Jewish ethnography.
Nathaniel Deutsch is Professor of History and Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he is also the Director of the Institute for Humanities Research and the Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies. He has been a professor at Swarthmore College, a visiting professor at Stanford University, and the The Workmen’s Circle/Dr. Emanuel Patt Visiting Professor in Eastern European Jewish Studies at the YIVO Institute. Deutsch is the author of five books, most recently The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement(Harvard University Press, 2011), for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Contact: Allyson Ramage, aramage@ucsc.edu for more information.

Allen Wells: "Lives in the Balance: The United States, the Dominican Republic and the Rescue of Jews during World War II"
2012-03-13 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Allen Wells
Initially supportive of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo’s offer to accept 100,000 Jews at the 1938 Evian Conference, Washington began to back away from its ringing endorsement soon after a succession of German victories throughout Western Europe during the spring of 1940. Only 750 refugees would find their way to Sosúa, a farming settlement on the island’s north coast. Why did the Roosevelt administration discourage Trujillo from taking in additional refugees, putting the settlement’s future in jeopardy? This lecture will explore the impact such an abrupt change in policy had for other refugees seeking to flee Nazism and for U.S. policy in Latin America?
Allen Wells is the Roger Howell, Jr. Professor of History at Bowdoin College. His scholarship has focused on modern Mexican history, especially Yucatán, the history of commodities, and U.S.-Latin American relations, and he offers a range of courses in colonial and modern Latin American history. Originally from New York, he received his M.A (1974) and Ph.D. (1979) in History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his B.A. (1973) in History and Latin American Studies from the State University of New York at Binghamton.
This event is sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, with generous support from the Jim Joseph Foundation and the David B. Gold Foundation. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Akira Mizuta Lippit: “Like Cats and Dogs”
2012-03-14 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Akira Mizuta Lippit
Akira Mizuta Lippit
Professor, Comparative Literature,
East Asian Languages and Cultures, USC
Chair, Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts
“Like Cats and Dogs”
Professor Lippit has recently completed a book on contemporary experimental cinema, Ex-cinema: Essays on Experimental Film and Video, and is completing another book on contemporary Japanese cinema and the concept of the world. He is also writing a book on David Lynch and anagrams.
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The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
ALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.

UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: Professor Keorapetse Kgositsile
2012-03-15 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Keorapetse Kgositsile
Creative Writing and Literature present:
UCSC Winter Living Writers Series
Professor Keorapetse Kgositsile
Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives
Ronaldo V. Wilson, Visiting Assistant Professor
Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities. Whether as editors, publishers, activists, teachers, multi-media artists, and/or co-collaborators, the featured poets in this series present work that reflects their dynamic engagements in the world.
Thursdays / 6:00 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall
Contact: Ronaldo V. Wilson, rvwilson@ucsc.edu or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu
Co-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program.

Peter Kenez: "The Coming of the Holocaust"
2012-03-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Media Theater, M110
University of California, Santa Cruz,
Emeriti group presents Emeriti Faculty Lecture by:

Peter Kenez
Professor of History,
Co-Holder of Neufield-Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies UC Santa Cruz
A Holocaust survivor and native of Hungary, Peter Kenez is a scholar of the history of Russia and the former Soviet Union. He is currently completing a book-length study of the Holocaust-a comparative study of the prerequisites for mass murder in countries occupied by the Nazis during the second world war. Professor Kenez is a founding faculty member of Stevenson College.
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Parking is available for $3.00 per car in the Performing Arts lot. For questions or accommodation requirements, contact UC Santa Cruz Special Events Office at 831. 459.5003 or specialevents@ucsc.edu.

Linguistics Colloquium: Gabriela Caballero
2012-03-16 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Gabriela Caballero
Gabriela Caballero is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests include languages of the Americas (particularly Uto-Aztecan languages), phonology, morphology, language description and documentation, comparative/historical linguistics, and typology.
This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.

Charles Hedrick, Sr.: "Secret Mark: Second Edition or Forgery?""
2012-04-02 16:30 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present a pair of lectures in an ongoing series on “Archaeology and the Ancient World”
Professor Charles Hedrick, Sr.
Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, Missouri State University
“Secret Mark: second edition or forgery?”
Monday, April 2 at 5 p.m.
“Secret Mark: the scholarly firestorm that followed…”
Thursday, April 5 at 5 p.m.
Both lectures will be held in Humanities 1, room 210
Coffee will be served before and a reception will follow each lecture

In 1973, Columbia University History Professor Morton Smith published an ancient manuscript that contended the author of the Gospel of Mark later wrote a longer second edition of his gospel. The firestorm of criticism prompted by the book eventually led to accusations that Smith had forged the document. Forty years later, the issue remains unsettled.
Read more about the Secret Gospel of Mark here.
Charles W. Hedrick (Ph.D Claremont Graduate University) is a member of the UNESCO team of scholars who reconstructed and translated the Nag Hammadi Codices, and both a translator and editor of texts in the critical edition of the collection. He is the author of numerous articles and several books including Unlocking the Secrets of the Gospel of Thomas: A Radical Faith for a New Age (Wipf and Stock, 2010), The Gospel of the Savior: A New Ancient Gospel (Polebridge, 1999), and Many Things in Parables: Jesus and his Modern Critics (Westminster, 2004). He is a Fellow of the Jesus Seminar and a retired U. S. Army Chaplain; today he explores the thin line that separates faith from apostasy in writings published on his blog: www.charleshedrick.com.
For more information on the lecture or the AIA, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu.

Selma James on Sex, Race, and Class
2012-04-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Selma James is a renowned women’s rights and anti-racist campaigner and author. In her activist work and her writings, Selma has addressed the power relations within the working class movement, and how to organize across sectors despite divisions of sex, race, and class, South and North. She has founded the International Wages for Housework Campaign in 1972, and in 2000 she helped launch the Global Women’s Strike, which she coordinates. She is currently in the United States on a speaking tour for the publication of her new book, Sex, Race and Class – The Perspective of Winning: A Selection of Writings, 1952-2011 (PM Press, March 2012).
Selma James will be speaking about the historical and contemporary reality of unwaged work in the household, the community, and beyond. She will discuss specifically the exploitation of women in the capitalist system and the context and meaning of the recent assault on welfare and women’s reproductive rights in the current global economic crisis. Come join us for a talk and discussion.
Sponsored by the History of Consciousness Department. Co-sponsored by American Studies, Community Studies and Feminist Studies.

Emanuela Trevisan-Semi: "Why Jews left Morocco: Different Narratives"
2012-04-03 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Emanuela Trevisan Semi is professor of Modern Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice (Italy). She has done research about Jews at the margins (karaites, Jews of Ethiopia, Judaising movements) and mizrahim in Israel. She has recentely published a book in French on memory and represention of Jews in Morocco among Moroccan Muslims (Paris, Publisud, 2011)
This event was made possible by generous support by the David B. Gold Foundation, and the University of California Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Program. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Hayden White: “Fictions of the Holocaust”
2012-04-04 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Hayden White
University Professor, Historical Studies, Emeritus, UCSC
Professor White serves as American Representative of Pasts, Inc. Narrative Therapy: “Get the Past You Deserve.” He wears the title of Philologian, the division of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences into which he was inducted after being rejected by both the history and literature divisions.

Clive Sinclair: "The Jew in the Crown"
2012-04-04 17:00 - 19:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“The Jew in the Crown” will offer a brief examination of the ambiguous role of the semitic anti-hero in English literature; anti-heroes such as Shylock, Fragin, and Svengali, whose half-life continues to radiate.
Clive Sinclair has published 13 books of fiction, travel, and autobiography, some of which have been given prizes. Early in his career he was selected as one of the twenty Best of Young British Novelists. His most acclaimed collection of stories – The Lady and the Laptop – won both the PEN Silver pen for fiction, and the Jewish Quarterly award for fiction. An earlier collection, Bedbugs, was recently republished by Syracuse University Press in its Library of Modern Jewish Literature. In 2008 he published Clive Sinclair’s True Tales of the Wild West, an exercise in Dodgy Realism. He also leads a double-life as an academic and critic: he has published a study of Isaac Bashevis and Israel Joshua Singer – The Brothers Singer – and writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement. His association with UCSC began in 1969, when he arrived from England as a graduate student; it continued in 1980-81, when he returned as a Visiting Lecturer, as he did again in 2003.
Presented by the Center for Jewish Studies, with generous support from the David B. Gold Foundation. Staff support is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Charles Hedrick, Sr.: “Secret Mark: The Scholarly Firestorm that Followed...”
2012-04-05 16:30 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

CANCELLED: Linguistics Colloquium: Hotze Rullmann
2012-04-06 16:00 - 18:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Hotze RullmannHotze Rullmann is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia. Professor Rullmann’s research interests include (formal) semantics and pragmatics, and Dutch and other West-Germanic languages.
This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.

Amelia Jones: "Activating the Feminist Body and the Curating of Feminist Art"
2012-04-10 11:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Museum and Curatorial Studies (MACS) Research Cluster presents:
Amelia Jones, Professor and Grierson Chair in Visual Culture, McGill University
This paper takes off from a brief history of the curating of feminist art in the North American and European contexts. My aim is to think about the exhibition, and the feminist show in particular, as a junction between practice and theoretical thought, a place of intersection between art making, the writing of art history, and the positing of critical interventions in institutions. I propose to look at these interrelated questions by a two-part inquiry, looking at both a history of feminist curating and a small selection of practices that might, precisely by maintaining an openness to ever- shifting structures of sexual and gender difference, be impossible to “tame” fully through curatorial practice.
This is the final event organized according to the 2011-2012 MACS research theme Exhibitions and Performance.
For more information, please contact Lucian Gomoll at macs@ucsc.edu or visit the MACS website at http://macs.ucsc.edu/
Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness, History of Art and Visual Culture, and Feminist Studies.

Isabelle Delpla: “How to Conceptualize Extreme Evil: Eichmann’s Trial & Modern Theodicies”
2012-04-11 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Isabelle Delpla
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Montpellier III
Professor Delpla focuses on the relation between philosophy and anthropology in theorizing international ethics and justice. Her work on postwar Bosnia deals with the Srebrenica massacre, the reception of the International Criminal Tribunal and the status of victims and witnesses.

Charles Post: "The American Road to Capitalism"
2012-04-12 15:00 - 16:30 | Humanities 1, Room 420, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
University Press Books and the 2430 Arts Alliance invite you to join
Charles Post for a reading and discussion of his new book:
The American Road to Capitalism:
Studies in Class Structure, Economic Development and Political Conflict, 1620-1877

“Charles Post’s new book, The American Road to Capitalism, is sure to become a reference point for debates among historians and Marxists about the transformation of the English colonies into the fully developed capitalist United States. […] it should be widely read, appreciated for its insights and rigor, and also debated.” —Ashley Smith, International Socialist Review
“This is a thoughtful, learned, stimulating, challenging and altogether valuable volume. It reprints a series of reflections by the Marxist sociologist Charles Post on various aspects of the rise and evolution of capitalism in North America between the colonial era and the late 19th century. The book is anchored in a wide-ranging study of (and it duly credits) the work of generations of historians.” —Bruce Levine, author of Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War, in Against the Current
“Explaining the origin and early development of American capitalism is a particularly challenging task. It is in some ways even more difficult than in other cases to strike the right historical balance, capturing the systemic imperatives of capitalism, and explaining how they emerged, while doing justice to historical particularities… To confront these historical complexities requires both a command of historical detail and a clear theoretical grasp of capitalism’s systemic imperatives, a combination that is all too rare. Charles Post succeeds in striking that difficult balance, which makes his book a major contribution to truly historical scholarship.” —Ellen Meiksins-Wood, York University, author of The Origins of Capitalism: A Long View.
Unable to analyze the dynamics of specific forms of social labour in the antebellum U.S., most historians of the US Civil War have ignored its deep social roots. To search out these roots, Post applies the theoretical insights from the transition debates to the historical literature on the U.S. to produce a new analysis of the origins of American capitalism.
Charles Post Ph. D. (1983) in Sociology, SUNY-Binghamton, is Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY. He has published in New Left Review, Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal of Agrarian Change, Against the Current and Historical Materialism.
Sponsored by the History of Consciousness Department. Co-sponsored by the Sociology Department and the History Department.

Migration and Ethnic Studies
2012-04-13 09:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Borders, Bodies and Violence Research Cluster presents:
Migration and Ethnic Studies
This symposium brings together scholars roused by recent legislation targeting migrants and ethnic studies, such as Arizona’s SB 1070, one of the most draconian anti-immigration measures in the United States, and HB 2281, the 2010 prohibition on ethnic studies in public schools. Topics to be addressed include language, labor, indigeneity, nativist populism, state surveillance, violence, trauma, displacement, culture wars, and education. Taken together, the works presented will shed light on the nexus of migration and Latino studies, assess the state of this field, and explore the possibilities for its future.
Thursday, April 12
4:00-5:30pm: Keynote
“Politics, Process, and Human Folly: Life among the Arizona Lilliputians of Cultural and Linguistic Suppression”
Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez, Director of the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University
Friday, April 13
9:00-9:30am: Welcome
9:30-11:00am: Panel 1: Ethnographies

Ruben Espinoza (Sociology): “Bodies, Border Thinking, and the Labor Process”
Tania Cruz Salazar (LALS): “Maya Migrant Youth in California”
Mary Virginia Watson (Politics): “‘Taking America Back’: Arizona Nativists and the
Emergence of Nativist Populism”
Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez, respondent

11:00am-12:30pm: Lunch Break
12:30-2:00pm Panel 2: Archival Research and Textual Analysis

Cecilia Rivas (LALS): “The Bodies in the Television: Salvadoran Gardeners, Memory, and Representation”
Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel (Feminist Studies): “Tracking Migrants: Sexual Surveillance and Securing Communities”
Catherine Ramírez (LALS): “Bad Subjects: Chicana/o Studies in the Wake of HB 2281”
Sandra K. Soto, respondent

2:00-2:30pm: Break
2:30-4:00pm: Closing remarks
“Thinking While Brown: Ethnic Studies and Arizona’s Culture Wars”
Sandra K. Soto, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona:
4:00-5:00pm: Reception
Dr. Carlos Velez-Ibanez’ intellectual interests are broadly comparative and interdisciplinary and span specific interests in migration, economic stratification, political ecology, transnational community and household formation, and applied social science. His academic fields include applied anthropology, complex social organizations, culture and education, ethno-class relations in complex social systems, migration and adaptation of human populations, political ecology, qualitative methodology and urban anthropology.
Dr. Velez-Ibanez concentrates his work on the Southwestern United States, Mexico and the Caribbean. His publications are numerous including eleven books, four of which are based on original field research and his grants are many from NSF, NEH, and private foundations. He is presently conducting transnational field research in two rural valleys in California and New Mexico and their sending communities in Mexico. He received a Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of California, San Diego (1975). Later he became Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, 1994-2005. Additionally, he was Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of California, Riverside from 1994-1999.
Previously he had been appointed Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, 1984-1994 and Director of the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, 1982-1994. Prior to this appointment, he was a tenured associate professor at UCLA. His honors include the 2004 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology awarded by the American Anthropology Association, and in 2003 the Bronislaw Malinowski Medal presented by the Society for Applied Anthropology in addition to a number of other awards and fellowships including a Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, California, 1993-94 and elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1999.
He is presently Regents Professor and Motorola Presidential Professor of Neighborhood Revitalization, Professor of School of Transborder Studies and and Human Evolution and Social Change, Director of the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University, and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology of the University of California, Riverside.
Sandra K. Soto is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. She holds a PhD in English, with a focus in Ethnic and Third World Literature, from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching interests are in Chicana/o and Latina/o Literary and Cultural Studies. She is co-editor of the journal Feminist Formations and the author of the book, Reading Chican@ Like a Queer: The De-Mastery of Desire. In 2010 she and Miranda Joseph received the National Education Association Excellence in the Academy Award in Democracy in Higher Education for their essay “Neoliberalism and the Battle over Ethnic Studies in Arizona.” When she is not writing about the politics of Arizona, she works on her book in progress which draws from queer theories of affect to think about the production, circulation, and consumption of cultural production in Greater Mexico, focusing especially on the internationally-renown Mexican photographer, Graciela Iturbide.
The Borders, Bodies and Violence Research Cluster is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network with support from the UCSC Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the Chicano Latino Research Center, and El Centro: Chicano Latino Resource Center.
For more information, contact Shann Ritchie at the Institute for Humanities Research, sritchie@ucsc.edu, (831) 459-5655.

West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
2012-04-15 10:00 - 15:00 | Stevenson Event Center
The 30th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, hosted by the Department of Linguistics and the Linguistics Research Center, will take place on Friday, April 13 to Sunday, April 15, 2012 at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Conference Program (PDF)
For more information and registration, please visit the conference website.
This event is sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Department of Linguistics, the Institute for Humanities Research, the Linguistics Research Center, and Stevenson College.

Ondrej Skovajsa: "Written Voice: Walt Whitman’s first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855) and Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer (1934)"
2012-04-16 15:30 - 16:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Literature Department invites you to a talk by: Ondrej Skovajsa, Visiting Fulbright Scholar
“Written Voice: Walt Whitman’s first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855)
and Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer (1934)”
Discussing first the relevance of oral theory when dealing with texts, the paper deals with the strategies Whitman and Miller share to get their voices across to the reader. With some striking similarities already at the paratextual level, the paper moves to stylistic features, most important of which is the present tense: it aligns these works with the “future focus” of biblical orality that James Nohnrberg defines as contrary to the “nostalgia” of literature. Further, the paper discusses how the two texts employ Marcel Jousse’s notion of “mimisme” as the rhythmical creative law of the universe. (Jousse’s notion is parallel to Dorothee Soelle’s notion of creative happiness, and Elaine Scarry’s notion of beauty that demands a replication of itself.) On a still deeper level, the paper discusses imitatio Christi strongly embraced by both authors: important is the two flâneurs’ “sympathy”, and the notion of “rebirth as hermeneutics” – i.e. as resurrection of the spoken living logos from the “grave of the book”, as discussed by Walter Ong’s in “Maranatha” (1977). Whitman and Miller remain in resurrection of – and constant dialogue with – their textual “fixations” on their further journeys.
Mr. Skovajsa is an assistant professor at Purkyně University in Usti nad Labem, and a doctoral student at the Department of Comparative Literature at Charles University in Prague.

Jonathan Boyarin: "Trickster's Children: Jewishness and the Generations of Anthropology"
2012-04-17 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Jonathan Boyarin is the Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has also taught at Wesleyan University, Dartmouth College, the New School for Social Research and the University of Kansas. Boyarin received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1998, after receiving his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the New School for Social Research in New York in 1984.
His research and writing combine his backgrounds in anthropology and Yiddish to point toward new pathways in the study of Jewish culture. His first book, as co-editor, was From a Ruined Garden: The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry (1983 and 1998), which served as an introduction for younger, English-speaking Jews to first-hand accounts of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. This was followed by Polish Jews in Paris: The Ethnography of Memory (1991), based on his dissertation fieldwork in Paris, and by a volume on the life history of Yiddish scholar Shlomo Noble. Further ethnographic and critical essays, including some dealing with the contemporary Lower East Side in New York, were published in Storm from Paradise: The Politics of Jewish Memory(1992) and Thinking in Jewish (1996). He edited and contributed to The Ethnography of Reading (1993) and Remapping Memory: The Politics of TimeSpace (1994). With his brother, Daniel Boyarin, he co-edited Jews and Other Differences: The New Jewish Cultural Studies (1997). His interest in Zionism, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and revaluation of diaspora in contemporary Jewish life is reflected in Palestine and Jewish History (1996) and (again with Daniel Boyarin) Powers of Diaspora (2002). His books in recent years include Jewishness and the Human Dimension (Fordham, 2008); Time and Human Language Now (with Martin Land; Prickly Paradigm, 2009); The Unconverted Self: Jews, Indians and the Identity of Christian Europe (Chicago, 2009) and Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Lower East Side Summer (Fordham, 2011).
This event was made possible by generous support by the David B. Gold Foundation. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Eva Vibeke Kofoed Pihl: "Pig Patients and their Personalities"
2012-04-18 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Eva Vibeke Kofoed Pihl
Ph.D Fellow, Center for Medical Science and Technology Studies, University of Copenhagen; Visiting Fellow, and The Science and Justice Working Group, UCSC
What makes animal technicians describe a pig as “depressed,” “a rebel” or “girly”? How do scientists get pigs to mimic human patients biologically and become sources of information on human health? Professor Pihl discusses human/pig becomings in biomedical research, focusing on apparatuses and spaces.

Sara M. Benson: "Locating Leavenworth: Prisons and Political Geography"
2012-04-18 17:00 - 18:30 | Humanities 1, Room 320
This talk historicizes the placement of Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary (the U.S. nation’s oldest and largest federal prison designed as a replica of the U.S. capitol building) at the center of the nation in the post-Reconstruction 1890s. Drawing on understandings of political geography from feminist and critical race studies, the talk traces the geography of prisons in what is now the U.S. Midwest, maps the border politics and competing claims to law that brought the federal prison to Kansas, and disrupts the conventional regional narrative of American prisons as North/South institutions. The talk locates Leavenworth in the afterlife of a civil war over slavery that began the Civil War and at the center of the federal strategy to establish, police, and dissolve Indian Territory.
Sara Benson received her Ph.D. from the Department of Politics and was part of the Designated Emphasis Program in Feminist Studies. She is now a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at UCLA.

Jonathan Kahana and Irene Lusztig: Documentary Reenactment
2012-04-18 17:30 - 19:00 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Filmed reenactment has a long, inglorious history: for decades from the origins of cinema, it was a central aesthetic and conceptual method for both fiction and nonfiction filmmakers working with unrecorded pasts. With the invention of cinéma vérité, an ethos which virtually banished reenactment overnight from the toolkit of “serious” historical documentary, reenactment fell from favor during the 1960s. But in the past decade, and with
remarkable alacrity, reenactment has been revived as a critical figure, in all manner of film-historical writing, both in and on film. UCSC Film and Digital Media professors Jonathan Kahana and Irene Lusztig consider some sources and implications of this renewed interest in reenactment as a trope of history, with reference to and excerpts from two of Lusztig’s reenacted documentaries, Reconstruction (2001), and The Samantha Smith Project (2005). In Reconstruction, Lusztig unearths a dark family secret in search of answers and reconciliation, when she travels to Bucharest to construct a portrait of her enigmatic grandmother. The title of the documentary is derived from a bizarre government propaganda film that reenacts the crime and trial of a robbery that “starred” her grandmother, as a member of the infamous Ioanid Gang. Braiding together the story of the briefly-famous ten-year-old girl from Manchester, Maine who became Yuri Andropov’s penpal at the height of the Cold War and a parallel personal narrative of travel to Russia fifteen years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, The Samantha Smith Project explores the aftermath of the Cold War and the contemporary Russian landscape, while meditating on notions of forgetting, nostalgia, and the manufacturing and dismantling of political enemies.
Please visit our website: http://artsresearch.ucsc.edu/vps/reenactment for more information.

Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Laleh Khadivi
2012-04-19 00:00 - 23:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Fund, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Literature Department/Creative Writing Program, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, East Asian Studies Program, Bay Tree Bookstore, Latino and Latin American Studies Center, Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, El Centro, Cantu Queer Center, Chicano Latino Research Center, Stevenson College, Oakes College, and Merrill College.
Books are sold at the readings by The Bay Tree Bookstore.

WHAT ARE WE DOING WHEN WE DO THE HUMANITIES?
2012-04-21 13:00 - 18:00 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Saturday, April 21 @ 1 pm // Museum of Art & History
Free and Open to the Public (includes free museum access)

Join us for an exploration and celebration of the Humanities at the University of California. Hear leading scholars discuss their work and examine the following questions.

What does it mean to do the humanities?
Why do the humanities matter?
What’s public about the humanities?

The afternoon will consist of panel discussions and poster presentations. Panel topics include the power of language, religion and modernity, empire and nation. Poster presentations cover research on the ethnography of disasters, feminist art, slavery and cannibalism, the criminalization of religious practice, party-crashing in medieval literature, the inevitable fate of the novel, and many others.
For details visit: http://humanities.ihr.ucsc.edu/
Bring your family and friends! All of the MAH exhibits will be free and open to the public that afternoon, including the highly anticipated “All You Need Is Love” exhibit. Visitors will be able to enter a free raffle for items donated by local businesses – Logos Books and Records, L’Atelier Salon, Kuumbwa Jazz Center, and many others.
Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network, UCSC Institute for Humanities Research, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, and local Santa Cruz businesses.

Rabindranath Tagore 150th Anniversary with Aparna Sen
2012-04-22 14:00 - 16:30 | Nickelodeon Theater, 210 Lincoln Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Aparna Sen starred at age 16 in Samapti, directed by Satyajit Ray, in 1961. Based on a story by the Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, it was her very first film. Since then Sen has achieved critical acclaim, both nationally and internationally, as an actress and a feminist filmmaker.
On April 21 (Media Theater, UCSC, 5 PM) Ms. Sen will appear on stage after the screening of Samapti, an hour- long film. She will speak on Tagore’s great cultural and literary heritage. (admission free)
On April 22 there will be a screening ofst The Japanese Wife, directed by Ms. Sen, at Nickelodeon at 2 pm. (Nickelodeon, 210 Lincoln Street, Santa Cruz, 95060. Call: 831.426.7511 for reservation)
Ms. Sen will appear on stage for brief Question & Answer sessions after the screening of both the films.
Presented by: Satyajit Ray Film & Study Center, UCSC & ICCR, New Delhi for more information call us 831.459.4012/459.2696, or visit http://satyajitray.ucsc.edu/news.htm

Pedro Di Pietro: “Decolonizing Queer Space: Race, Sexuality and the Production of the Real”
2012-04-25 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Pedro Di Pietro
Visiting Assistant Professor; Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities and Townsend Fellow, UCB; Research Affiliate, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture, Binghamton University
Professor Di Pietro examines the production of queer spaces in the Andes and their diasporic dispersal in the Americas. He also examines geopolitical linkages between subaltern queerness and vernacular spirituality among Latino/as in the U.S., weaving regional epistemologies of sex/gender/desire together with a critique of the human/non-human distinction and its ethico-political aftermath across ethnic, gender, and queer studies.
CO-SPONSORS: The Department of Latin American and Latino Studies, and the Critical Race and Ethnicity Studies Research Cluster.

Stephen Tatum: “Cormac McCarthy, Roberto Bolaño, and the Natural History of Destruction”
2012-04-25 15:00 - 17:00 | Cowell, Room 132, Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In his 1997 lecture series on literature and the air raids of the Second World War, W.G. Sebald asks at one point “how ought such a natural history of destruction begin?” In the process of beginning himself to answer this question, Sebald critiques the German literary failure to confront “the true state of the material and moral ruin in which the country found itself,” to relay the “very real horrors” of the constitutive feature of the European postwar landscape: death. As some critics have more recently observed, death constitutes the very being not only of the Holocaust but also of the contemporary genocide accompanying neoliberalism or our globalizing world system. With Sebald’s question (and provisional answers to it) as a prompt, this talk explores questions of style and affective dynamics in the representations of violence and genocide in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands exemplified by Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men and Roberto Bolaño’s 2666.
As I have argued in another context, the postregional US West ought to be regarded as a rather spectral, deterritorialized discursive terrain produced by the intersection of media imagery and the migration of transnational capital and human and animal bodies with particular geophysical terrains. These fictions by McCarthy and Bolaño specifically disclose how a postregional or global South economy of representation centers on the violent manner in which embodied laboring populations on both sides of the border are brought into and positioned in the spaces of relatively wealthy societies, particularly its maquiladoras and the transportation networks produced by flows of drugs, weapons, and immigrants. Through an analysis of figures of suspended agency living in the aftermath of violent trauma, I will speculate further on the ethical and political consequences of a forensic aesthetic combining pensiveness with parataxis.
Stephen Tatum is Professor of English and Director of the Environmental Humanities graduate program at the University of Utah, where he teaches courses in US West literature, theories of popular culture, and environmental writing and ecocriticism. His recent publications include award-winning essays on postregional western American literature and culture, an edited collection Reading ‘The Virginian’ in the New West, and the books Cormac McCarthy’s ‘All the Pretty Horses’: A Reader’s Guide and In the Remington Moment. He is currently at work on a projected titled Morta Las Vegas.
This event is sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research, and the departments of American Studies and Literature. Staff support provided by the IHR.

ChaeRan Freeze: "Crafting an Elite Russian-Jewish Identity: Subjectivity and Gender in Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova"
2012-04-25 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
ChaeRan Freeze, an associate professor in Jewish history at Brandeis University, has focused her research on the Jews of Russia and women’s and gender studies. Her first book, Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia (Waltham, 2001) examines the impact of modernization on Jewish family practices and patterns in Imperial Russia based on newly-declassified archival materials from the former Soviet Union. It received the Koret Foundation Publication Award and the Salo Baron Award for the Best First Book in Jewish Studies. She also edited Polin: Jewish Women in Eastern Europe, Volume 18 (Oxford, 2005) with Paula Hyman and Antony Polonsky. This volume is the first collection of essays devoted to the study of Jewish women’s experiences in Eastern Europe. She is presently completing a project, “Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia, 1825-1914: Select Documents” (coauthored with Jay Harris, Harvard University) which documents the “everyday” (Alltags) as a site of interaction with modernity where Jews confronted the unfamiliar, and negotiated their environment in strategic and creative ways. This project received a Collaborative NEH Grant, and will be published by the Brandeis University Press. Her new project is to publish the eight diaries of Zinaida Poliakova (1862-1952), a noble Jewish woman who described elite Jewish culture and life in tsarist Russia.
This event is made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Foundation. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Pranav Anand: "All I Want is Some Honest Answers to My Questions: Tracking Argumentation and Stance in Online Political Debate"
2012-04-25 16:00 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Whereas a generation ago, engaging in public discourse might have meant leafleting or writing letters to the editor, today a host of venues exist online, enabling meaningful dialogue on an unprecedented scale. It also provides researchers with an unprecedented look onto the diversity of positions people hold on a given issue align as well as the structure of argumentative combat in general. This talk will describe efforts to computationally discover both the variety of stances that people express in online debate and tactics through which they seek to defend their position.
Following the lecture, there will be a catered reception at the Stevenson provost house.
Pranav Anand is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz. Mr. Anand’s work concentrates on elucidating how contextual factors affect the meaning of linguistic expressions, including expression of affect, belief, perspective, and quantity.

A Tribute to Adrienne Rich
2012-04-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Kresge Town Hall
A Tribute to Adrienne Rich
It was in 1973, in the midst of Black and women’s liberation movements, the Vietnam War, and her own personal distress, that Adrienne Rich wrote and published Diving into the Wreck, which garnered her the National Book Award in 1974. Rich accepted the award on behalf of all women. In the decades that followed, Rich’s poetry, essays, and books addressed issues of feminist politics, lesbian experience, and Jewish identity, and deeply engaged the critical concerns of racial and imperial oppression, war and environmental degradation. Relentless in her commitment to social justice for all peoples, her work has enlightened and inspired. She is considered, in the last half of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century, one of our greatest American poets. In this tribute, members of our campus community will read from her work.

Sponsored by Literature Department, Feminist Studies Department, Porter College, Oakes College, Cowell College, Merrill College, Colleges 9 & 10, Stevenson College, Center for Cultural Studies, Living Writers & the Creative Writing Program.

Herman Blake: About Oakes History and Diversity in the Medical Sciences
2012-04-26 17:00 - 18:30 | Guzman Room, Oakes College, Oakes College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Come join us for a conversation with Oakes’ First Provost and UCSC’s first African American faculty member, Dr. Herman Blake. Dr. Blake is currently the Humanities Scholar in Residence at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Our conversation will center around Oakes History and Diversity in the Medical Sciences field. Refreshments will be served.
Presented by Oakes College, Oakes Science Community, Science and the Justice Working Group. For more information, please contact Philip Longo (plongo@ucsc.edu) or Walter Adams (wjadams@ucsc.edu).
