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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ASL Festival: Rosa Lee, Sneak Preview House Concert

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

Wednesday, November 12, 2014 – 7:30pm

Private home in Santa Cruz

ASL Festival: Poetry Performance by Patrick Graybill

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

Thursday, November 13, 2014 – 4:00pm

Humanities Lecture Hall – UCSC

ASL Festival: Eye Music at the MAH

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

Friday, November 14, 2014 – 7:30pm

Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz

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

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

Saturday, November 15, 2014 – 1:00pm

Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)

ASL Festival: Panel – “Artivism”

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

Saturday, November 15, 2014 – 3:00pm

Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)

ASL Festival: Eye Music – Performance

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

Saturday, November 15, 2014 – 7:30pm

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

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

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

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

Please join the IHR Digital Humanities Research Cluster and the University Library for a series of interactive lectures focused on “Digital Humanities & Cultural Heritage.” This inaugural speaker series will highlight digital projects from across the humanities and enable lively discussion about the role of the digital in preserving, building, and making accessible cultural materials from around the world.
No digital skills required. Contact digitalhumanities@ucsc.edu for more information.
Follow us at @DH_UCSC and start a conversation with #DHUCSC

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Living Writers Series: Patrick Graybill, Interpreter Aaron Brace
2014-11-13 16:00 - 17:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Patrick Graybill is a pioneer in ASL performance through his early work with the National Theater of the Deaf. He is a prolific translator of English to ASL, and a teacher of other poets, having taught for many years at the National Technological Institute of the Deaf in Rochester, New York (one of two American universities, along with Gallaudet, where sign is the official language). Graybill’s work is an important influence on later generations of ASL poets.
Aaron Brace has been interpreting for over 30 years, primarily as a community and conference interpreter and also for six years as a designated interpreter for a university professor. He credits Patrick Graybill, Ted Supalla, and the Deaf communities of Rochester, NY and the San Francisco Bay Area for making him the interpreter he is today. While it’s debatable whether he deserves his reputation, it’s absolutely true that he hasn’t always.
Fall 2014 Living Writers Series:
October 9: Ariel Gore
October 16: Kelly Link, Kim Stanley Robinson, Karen Joy Fowler
October 23: Andrew Lam, Kate Gale
October 30: Tobias Wolff
November 6: Helene Wecker
November 13: ASL Performer Patrick Graybill, Interpreter Aaron Brace
November 20: Kelly Link, Kim Stanley Robinson, Karen Joy Fowler
December 4: Katie Crouch
December 11: Student Reading

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

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

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

Shelley Wilcox, San Francisco State

Winter 2015

Rebecca Kukla, Georgetown
Felipe De Brigard, Duke

Fall 2014

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

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

Pritam Singh: "Spatial Shift and Ecological Crisis: An Eco-Socialist Perspective”
2014-11-13 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
A spatial shift has been taking place in global capitalism in the last few decades, in the form of declining importance of the older advanced capitalism and the rising importance of “emerging economies.” The most dramatic representation of this shift is that China has recently overtaken US as the largest economy in the world. For the first time, capitalism is expanding into countries with very large populations such as China, India and Indonesia. The rising consumption in these economies is sharpening the global ecological crisis.
Pritam Singh has a doctorate in economics from University of Oxford and is currently a Professor of economics at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford. He focuses on the sustainability implications of global capitalism, and Indian capitalism with emphasis on decentralization and human rights. His two most recent books are Federalism, Nationalism and Development: India and the Punjab Economy, and Economy, Culture and Human Rights: Turbulence in Punjab, India and Beyond.
This talk is part of the series “What is To Be Done? Organizational Forms and Political Futures,” organized by:
The Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster and the Institute for Humanities Research, with the cosponsorship of the Literature, Sociology, Anthropology, and Politics Departments; Stevenson, Cowell, and Porter Colleges; and the Vice Chancellor for Research.
Poster image: photo via fortes.com

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Fifth Annual Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading
2014-11-13 18:00 | Cabrillo College Room 450
THE 5th ANNUAL MORTON MARCUS MEMORIAL POETRY READING honors poet, teacher and film critic Morton Marcus (1936-2009), one of Santa Cruz’s beloved cultural icons. This fifth annual event will feature award-winning poets Peter Everwine and Chuck Hanzlicek. The evening will be hosted by Gary Young and will also feature the winner of the 3rd Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Contest, Marsha De La O.
Seating is limited. Free parking in lots E, F, G and H. All other lots will be ticketed.

Stephen Zunes: "Israel, Palestine, and the United States: The Failure of Governments and the Hope from Civil Society"
2014-11-13 18:00 - 19:45 | Merrill Academics 102
UCSC Cowell College Presents
Conflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine
Tuesday Evenings Fall 2014
6:00-7:45pm, Merrill Academy 102
Tuesday Oct 7: Christine King (Lecturer Kresge College). “Making Peace with Conflict”
Tuesday Oct 14: Dr. Jennifer Derr (History Department, UC Santa Cruz). The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation.
Tuesday Oct 21: Dr. Bruce Thompson (History and Jewish Studies, UCSC)- “The History of Zionism: From Hertzl to Ben-Gurion.
Tuesday Oct 28: Jean-Jacques Surbeck (Executive Director of Training and Education about the Middle East). Israel and the World, a Unique Lesson in Double Standards.
Tuesday Nov 4: Hatam Bazian (Near Eastern Studies and Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley). Palestine, Islamophobia and Global Dispossession
*Thursday Nov 13: Stephen Zunes (Politics and International Studies, University of San Francisco)- Israel, Palestine, and the United States: The Failure of Governments and the Hope from Civil Society
Tuesday Novr 18: Eran Kaplan (Chair Israel Studies, San Francisco State University). Changes in Israel society and the Peace Process.
Tuesday Nov 25: Lee Ross (Psychology, Stanford) and Byron Bland (Stanford Law School). Barriers for Peace.
Tuesday Dec 2: Aaron Hahn Tapper (Peace and Justice Studies, University of San Francisco) and Tom Pettigrew (Psychology, UC Santa Cruz). Contact, Intergroup dialogue and the Question of Normalization.

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

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

Jeffrey Omari: "Cyber Insecurity: Intellectual Property, Urban Development, and Civic Unrest in Brazil"
2014-11-14 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
Fridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brown Bag Lunch: Doing Digital Humanities (Open to all graduate students)
2014-11-24 12:00 - 13:30 | Graduate Student Commons
Interested in digital tools but not sure where to start? Excited about presenting your research to a public audience, but can’t imagine what that might look like? Meet with UCSC faculty and graduate students who are doing digital work and learn more about the process of making digital projects.
Jon Ellis (Philosophy), Tracy Perkins (Sociology, grad), and Elaine Sullivan (History) will discuss their digital projects, the process of getting started, finding grant support, and expressing their scholarly work in digital form. This presentation of Digital Humanities projects will offer examples for how digital work can amplify, complement, or reimagine scholarly research and help expand your academic network. There will be ample time for conversation around Doing Digital Humanities.
Contact digitalhumanities@ucsc.edu for more information.
Follow us at @DH_UCSC and start a conversation with #DHUCSC

Lee Ross and Byron Bland: "Barriers for Peace"
2014-11-25 18:00 - 19:45 | Merrill Academics 102
Conflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine
Tuesday Evenings Fall 2014 • 6:00-7:45pm, Merrill Academy 102

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Panel discussion presented by the Career Center, cosponsored by the Cowell Provost and the Institute for Humanities Research.

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

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

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

Sponsored by the University Library and IHR Digital Humanities Research Cluster

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

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

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

Light refreshments will be served.

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

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

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

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

Madeline Lane-McKinley: "Free Love Utopias: A Feminist Spatial Analysis of New Communalism"
2014-12-12 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202

Adam Albright: "Testing phonological biases with Artificial Grammar learning experiments"
2014-12-12 16:00 - 18:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
As with most linguistic input, the data that children receive about phonological patterns is rife with ambiguity. For example, children hearing voicing alternations in German ([diːp] ~ [diːbə] ‘thief-sg./pl.’, [maʊs] ~ [mɔɪzɐ] ‘mouse-sg./pl.’) receive no evidence as to whether a single final devoicing process affects all word-final obstruents, or just the subset of obstruents that German happens to have, or whether separate processes affect different subsets of segments. Thus, the data radically underdetermines the analysis (poverty of the stimulus), and learners must employ prior biases in order to favor one analysis over another. By observing how speakers extend alternations to novel words, strings, and segments, it is possible to gain insight into these biases—e.g., a preference for simpler rules may lead them to generalize devoicing to as broad a class of segments as possible, while a preference for typologically common rules favor generalization of devoicing to other obstruents, but not to sonorants. In this talk, I present experimental evidence test three types of bias: (1) a bias against alternations, favoring uniform paradigms (McCarthy 1998); (2) a bias in favor of alternations that target broader classes of segments (Peperkamp et al. 2006); (3) a substantive bias against perceptually salient alternations (Steriade 2001).
Learners’ biases were probed using Artificial Grammar experiments, in which adult English speakers were taught singular~plural pairs in a “Martian language”, and were then asked to produce or rate plural forms. In all of the languages reported here, obstruent-final stems exhibited voicing or continuancy alternations (dap~dabi, brup~brufi). A premise of learning biases is that the less data learners have received, the more their behavior will reflect prior biases. In the first set of experiments, we manipulated the amount of data that learners received by varying the frequency of alternations across different segments, in order to test how generalization changes with increasing amounts of data. For example, if learners are biased to expect non-alternation, we expect fewer alternating responses for languages with less data about obstruents, and for rarer segments within a language. If learners expect alternations to apply to broad classes of segments, we expect processes affecting attested segments to be generalized to unattested or rarer segments. Finally, if learners are biased to expect certain alternations (e.g., voicing) over others (e.g., continuancy), we expect participants to generalize preferred alternations at higher rates than dispreferred alternations. In a second set of experiments, we independently manipulated the evidence that learners received for alternation and also non-alternation, in order to test whether the preference for non-alternation is purely a prior bias (OO-Faith » Markedness), or whether it is learned on the basis of data from non-alternating paradigms. The results show that increasing the number of training items with alternating paradigms significantly increases the probability of choosing alternations in the test phase, while increasing the number of items with non-alternating paradigms does not increase the probability of selecting a uniform paradigm. Thus, the results are generally support a prior bias for uniform paradigms.
These results can be modeled accurately using a maximum entropy (maxent) grammar of weighted constraints. Three properties of maxent models make them well suited to modeling the observed biases. First, the set of prior/innate constraints is a parameter of the model, and by including correspondence (faithfulness) constraints in the grammar, it is possible to model an expectation for non-alternation. By specifying prior distributions over constraint weights, we can model an initial bias to obey certain constraints (such as faithfulness) at the expense of others. Finally, it is possible to specific different distributions for different constraints, reflecting the fact that learners demote some constraints more readily than others. This allows us to model the fact that participants favor alternations that target broad classes of segments, and favor certain alternations over others.
(Joint work with Youngah Do, Georgetown University)

About eight times each year the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.

Upcoming colloquia:
WINTER 2015
January 16th
Claire Halpert, University of Minnesota
January 23rd
Valentine Hacquard, Maryland
February 6th
Rachel Walker, USC
mid-March: date TBA
LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz Conference
SPRING 2015
April 10th
Daniel Lassiter, Stanford
April 17th
Keith Johnson, UC Berkeley
May 1st
Grant Goodall, UC San Diego
May/June: date TBA
LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference

Music of The Waves: A Conversation with Lawrence Weschler and William Finnegan Moderated by Harry Berger Jr.
2014-12-19 16:00 - 18:00 | Page Smith Library
Lawrence Weschler and William Finnegan both graduated from Cowell College, UCSC, in 1974. Both worked at The New Yorker, where Finnegan still works. Both studied here at UCSC with Harry Berger. And all three – Weschler, Finnegan, and Berger – are public intellectuals known for their humor and incisiveness and also for the zany connections they like to make.
In this symposium the three literary giants reflect on writing, music, time, and surfing. Weschler focuses on the temporality of both writing and music. The writer and the musician structure time much as the architect, the painter, and the sculptor structure spaces. Finnegan sees timing as crucial to his writing and to his passion for surfing, where the consequences of poor timing can be much more disastrous than in writing. Berger, who is still prolific into his ninth decade, will comment briefly on the ideas presented by Weschler and Finnegan; and then the gates will be thrust open for discussion among all in the room.
For more information, please contact Katie Linder, Cowell Events and Outreach Coordinator at klinder@ucsc.edu or call Emily Sloan-Pace, Cowell’s College Academic Programs Coordinator at cwprvsta@ucsc.edu.
Please note that parking can pose a challenge, but we hope the Cowell and Stevenson lots will be relatively open. Those lots include a parking station.

Kalindi Vora: “Life Support: Legacies of Imperial Science and Surrogate Technologies of Racialized Reproduction”
2015-01-06 17:00 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Transnational commercial surrogacy brings together India’s colonial history and its economic development through outsourcing and globalization with instrumentalized notions of the reproductive body. Addressing the intertwined historical relationships and contemporary disparities in medical and legal protections to bear upon reections on recent innovations in articial uterine environments, this talk suggests that the metaphors we use to structure our understanding of bodies and body parts impact how we imagine appropriate roles for people and their bodies in ways that are still deeply entangled with imperial histories of science. The techno-fantasy of the isolated womb is part of the originating conditions for the structure and discourse of Indian surrogacy as “wombs for rent,” and the notion of the disembodied uterus that has arisen in scientic and medical practice allows for alienating logic of the “gestational carrier” as a functional role in Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) practices. Given these ongoing histories and metaphors, it is important to consider the unequal positions of participants in transnational fertility exchanges when evaluating recent articulations of the relationship between governance, medicine, and transnational ART markets in the debates about draft ART legislation in India.
Kalindi Vora is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and aliate faculty of the Critical Gender and Science Studies Programs at UC San Diego. Her book, Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor (University of Minnesota Press, 2015), examines domestic work, customer care, the commodication of human organs, gestational surrogacy and knowledge work as representing a global economy of vitality that relies on aective and biological labor of feminized workers. Her research and publications have focused on gendered labor, globalization, South Asian area and diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, and feminist theory.

Upcoming Feminist Science Studies Colloquia
Ann Fink, New York University
“Feminist Ethics and the Neurobiology of Memory”
January 13, 5:00 – 6:30pm, Humanities 1 Room 210
Sara Giordano, San Diego State University
“Tinkering with Science: IRB, DIY and Feminist Science Ethics”
January 20, 5:00 – 6:30pm, Humanities 1 Room 210
Kristina Lyons, University of California of Santa Cruz
“Decomposition as Life Politics: Soils, Shared Bodies, and Stamina Under the Gun of the U.S.-Colombia War on Drugs”
January 27, 5:00 – 6:30pm, Humanities 1 Room 210

Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar Informational Session
2015-01-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join us for an informational session on the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminars on Thursday, January 8th from noon to 1:00 PM where we can address questions, think about budgets, and possible collaborations.
Sawyer Seminar information: http://www.mellon.org/programs/higher-education-and-scholarship-humanities/fellowships/sawyer-seminars/

Eric Schwitzgebel: "The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors"
2015-01-08 16:00 - 17:45 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Do professional ethicists behave any morally better than do non-ethicists of similar social background? If not, do they at least show greater consistency between their normative attitudes and their outward behavior? Despite a long philosophical tradition associating philosophical reflection with improved moral behavior, these questions have never been empirically examined. I describe four possible models of the relationship between philosophical moral reflection and real-world moral behavior (boosterism, epiphenomenalism, rationalization, and inert discovery). I then present convergent evidence from studies of about a dozen different types of moral behavior. The results suggest that ethicists behave no morally better on average or any more consistently with their espoused values, compared to other groups of professors. Using a combination of direct observation and self-report measures, I examine: the misappropriation of library books, voting in public elections, courtesy at professional meetings, responsiveness to student emails, charitable donation, organ and blood donation, staying in touch with one’s mother, vegetarianism, honesty in responses to surveys, nonpayment of conference registration fees, Nazi party membership in the 1930s, and peer evaluation of overall moral behavior. The overall results will be compared with the predictions of the four models.
Eric Schwitzgebel is a Professor of Philosophy at UC Riverside. He has written extensively on consciousness, self-knowledge, attitudes, and moral psychology. His most recent book is Perplexities of Consciousness. He blogs at The Splintered Mind.

Ann Fink: “Feminist Ethics and the Neurobiology of Memory”
2015-01-13 17:00 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department Presents: Feminist Science Studies Colloquia
Kalindi Vora, University of California of San Diego
“Life Support: Legacies of Imperial Science and Surrogate Technologies of Racialized Reproduction”
January 6, 5:oo – 6:30pm, Humanities 1 Room 210
Ann Fink, New York University
“Feminist Ethics and the Neurobiology of Memory”
January 13, 5:00 – 6:30pm, Humanities 1 Room 210
Sara Giordano, San Diego State University
“Tinkering with Science: IRB, DIY and Feminist Science Ethics”
January 20, 5:00 – 6:30pm, Humanities 1 Room 210
Kristina Lyons, University of California of Santa Cruz
“Decomposition as Life Politics: Soils, Shared Bodies, and Stamina Under the Gun of the U.S.-Colombia War on Drugs”
January 27, 5:00 – 6:30pm, Humanities 1 Room 210

Maya Peterson: "The Padishah of the Hungry Steppe: Irrigation and Empire in Russian Turkestan"
2015-01-14 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Maya Peterson’s work stands at the intersection of environmental history and imperial history. Her current book project explores the ways in which a focus on the physical environment might open up new avenues for thinking about modernity and colonial relationships in Central Asia under Russian and Soviet rule. She is Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz.

Winter 2015 Colloquium Series
January 14 : Maya Peterson
January 21: Naveeda Khan
January 28: Carolyn Dean
February 4: Madhavi Murty
February 11: Kris Alexanderson
February 18: Jennifer Horne
February 25: Gayle Salamon
March 4: Christopher Chen

DH Working Group Meeting / Works in Progress Session
2015-01-14 17:00 - 19:00 | Cowell Senior Commons Room, Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062-1225, United States
Alan Christy (History) will share his work on The Gail Project (http://thegailproject.routes.ucsc.edu/). Join us to discuss the challenges of organizing, and sharing digital materials and the possibilities of memory collection online.
The Digital Humanities Working Group meets once-a-month to share ongoing work, read foundational texts, and create a vision for Digital Humanities at UCSC. All students, faculty, and staff welcome.
Contact digitalhumanities@ucsc.edu for more details about any of the above events.
Follow @DH_UCSC on Twitter and Digital Humanities at UCSC on Facebook.

Campus 50th Anniversary Kickoff: Dress Up Like It's 1965!
2015-01-15 12:00 - 14:00 | Quarry Amphitheater
Join us in Quarry Plaza for a fun 50th kick-off event. Come dressed up like it’s 1965, be photographed by a professional photographer, and compete for the best outfit.
Noon to 2pm
January 15, 2015, at Quarry Plaza
What did they actually wear in 1965?
Follow our social media channels for hot tips from UC Santa Cruz alumna and Mad Men Co-Costume Designer Tiffany White Stanton (Kresge ‘03, psychology). Share your “look” by hashtagging your photos #ucsc50
Compete for the most authentic 1965 outfit by posing for a photo for Tiffany to judge. The winners will be featured in the UCSC alumni magazine and on our social media channels.
KZSC will be onsite broadcasting live and spinning tunes from 1965.
It’ll be swinging’.
More info at: 50years.ucsc.edu/kick-off

Living Writers Series: Cherrie Moraga
2015-01-15 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Creative Writing Program presents Cherrie Moraga in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series.
Cherríe L. Moraga is playwright, poet, and essayist whose plays and publications have received national recognition and is a recipient of The American Studies Association Lifetime Achievement Award.
Moraga has premiered and developed her work at theatres throughout San Francisco. Brava’s production of “Heroes and Saints” in 1992 received numerous awards for best original script, including the Drama-logue and Critic Circles Awards and the Pen West Award. Her most recent play, NEW FIRE—To Put Things Right Again, a collaboration with visual artist, Celia Herrera Rodríguez, had its world premiere at Brava Theater Center in San Francisco in January 2012.
Moraga has served as an Artist in Residence in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University and currently also shares a joint appointment with Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity. She teaches Creative Writing, Chicano/Latino and Indigenous Studies, and Playwriting.
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Winter 2015 Living Writers Series:
January 15: Cherrie Moraga, poet/playwright
January 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta, poets
January 29: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet)
February 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez, poet
February 12: Luis Alfaro, performance artist/playwright
February 19: John Jota Leanos, filmmaker
February 26: Anita Hill, attorney
March 5: Maceo Montoya, fiction writer
March 12: student reading

The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Jesica Siham Fernández
2015-01-16 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202.

Winter 2015 Schedule:
January 16th – Jesica Siham Fernández, Social Psychology, “Latina/o Children as Cultural Citizens: Membership, Sense of Belonging, Space and Rights”
Jesica Siham Fernández is a Ph.D. Candidate in Social Psychology with an emphasis in Latin American & Latino Studies (LALS). Her research focuses on social constructions of citizenship, specifically how people define, practice and embody citizenship in everyday life. Jesica is the recipient of the UC President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship. Her dissertation is a critical ethnography of Latina/o children’s cultural citizenship. In her work, she explores how fourth- and fifth-grade Latina/o children in an after-school program define the terms citizen, citizenship and rights, and how they enact cultural citizenship. Jesica will be discussing a chapter of her dissertation, which focuses on children’s cultural citizenship embodiment and processes (e.g. membership, sense of belonging, space and rights).
January 23rd – Wes Modes, DANM, “A Secret History of American River People”
January 30th – Aubrey Hobart, Visual Studies, “The Queen of Heaven and the Prince of Angels: Saintly Rivalry in Colonial Mexico”
February 6th – Melissa Brzycki, History, “Inventing the Socialist Child, 1945-1976”
February 13th – Delio Vásquez, HISC, “The Criminal Revolutionary and the Revolutionary Criminal: Illegal Black Resistance in the 60s and 70s”
February 20th – Melissa Yinger, Literature, “Ronsard’s Echo-critical Poetic Narcissism: The Elegies for Narcissus and Gâtine”
February 27th – Tracy Perkins, Sociology, “From Protest to Policy: The Political Evolution of California Environmental Justice Activism, 1980s-2010s”
March 6th – Michael Wilson, Politics, “Violent Constructions: Classifying, Explaining, and Misrepresenting Contentious Politics”
March 13th – Jessica Calvanico, Feminist Studies, “On the Politics of Owning a Kara Walker”

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

Linguistics Research Colloquia: Claire Halpert
2015-01-16 14:00 - 16:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
About eight times each year the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.

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

Alan Christy: "The Keystone of the Pacific: A History of America in Okinawa"
2015-01-18 10:00 - 12:15 | Stevenson Event Center
A plan by the U.S. and Japan to build a new military base in a place called Henoko has brought Okinawa into the news lately. Prof. Christy, an expert in the history of Japan, social science, colonialism, and nationalism, will present a history of American Japanese post WWII relations specifically as they pertain to Okinawa. This will set the stage for looking at modern relations with Okinawa, where a recent gubernatorial election revealed strong opposition to the base construction.
Alan S. Christy is Associate Professor of History, East Asian Studies Director, and Co-Director, Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories.

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UCSC General Meetings
Our members gather monthly, September through May inclusive, except in December, on the third Sunday from 10 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in the Stevenson College Event Center to socialize, conduct business, and hear a speaker, often a UCSC professor. We greet, meet, and eat (coffee & cake), and interact with a speaker of note. At the first meeting of the year after the summer break, in September, in lieu of hearing from a speaker, we find out about and sign-up for interest groups.

Research Workshop for Humanities Graduate Students
2015-01-20 16:00 - 17:30 | McHenry Library, Room 2353
Pursuing and Managing Your Research: A Library Workshop for Humanities Division Graduate Students
-refine strategies for locating materials (e.g., using archivegrid; in-house and ILL resources)
-develop facility with tools to manage research (e.g., zotero)
-get to know library staff (every researcher’s best friends)
Led by: Annette Marines and Lucia Orlando
When: Tuesday, January 20, 4-5:30 p.m.
Where: McHenry Library, room 2353
Please RSVP: www.surveymonkey.com/s/RSVPHumanities

Sara Giordano: “Tinkering with Science: IRB, DIY and Feminist Science Ethics"
2015-01-20 17:00 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Naveeda Khan: "The Call to Islam and Early Warning Systems in Bangladesh: The Mutual Absorption of the Political, Religious and the Natural"
2015-01-21 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Naveeda Khan’s work traverses spaces of religious crisis and conflict in urban Pakistan to everyday life on shifting land and emergent perceptions of climate change in riparian Bangladesh. Her current interest is to explore the physiognomy of the natural from within the social and the theological. She is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.
Winter 2015 Colloquium Series
January 14 : Maya Peterson
January 21: Naveeda Khan
January 28: Carolyn Dean
February 4: Madhavi Murty
February 11: Kris Alexanderson
February 18: Jennifer Horne
February 25: Gayle Salamon
March 4: Christopher Chen

Social Impact Career Fair
2015-01-21 16:30 - 19:30 | College 8, West Field House
The Social Impact Fair is targeted toward non-profits and social services that are searching for students who would like to impact their community. Employers are looking to meet qualified UC Santa Cruz students with specific job skills and knowledge developed in a rigorous academic major, and the breadth of a well-rounded liberal arts education.
Companies scheduled to attend:
CALPIRG – Citizen Outreach Chapter
We are the Citizen Outreach office for CALPIRG in Santa Cruz! We work to educate individuals about extremely pressing issues and to win campaigns that will benefit the public. We’re looking for students to fill part-time PAID positions to help us win these campaigns and protect public interest! Right now we’re working on a campaign to protect public health and stop the overuse of antibiotics on factory farms. This is an extremely urgent and important campaign and UCSC students are the perfect types of passionate individuals we need to really make a difference!
Industry: Social Services & Non-Profit
FoodCorps
FoodCorps is a nationwide team of leaders that connects kids to real food and helps them grow up healthy. We do that by placing motivated leaders in limited-resource communities for a year of paid public service. Working under the direction of local partner organizations, we implement a three-ingredient recipe for healthy kids. Our Service Members teach kids about what healthy food is and where it comes from, build and tend school gardens, and bring high-quality local food into public school cafeterias.
Industry: Social Services & Non-Profit
Los Gatos-Saratoga Sport & Recreation
The mission of LGS Recreation is to provide fee-based public recreation programs for Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Saratoga and the Los Gatos mountain communities, as well as to provide fee-based supplemental education programs and child care services for Los Gatos Union School District, Saratoga Union School District and Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District.
Industry: Social Services & Non-Profit

Seneca Family of Agencies
At Seneca Family of Agencies, our mission is to help children and families through the most difficult times of their lives. Throughout the 1990s and into the 21st century, Seneca has dedicated itself to becoming a “system of care” agency providing a comprehensive continuum of community-based and family-focused treatment services for children and families. Seneca’s continuum of care now includes in-home wraparound services; foster family-based treatment; mobile crisis response services; integrated day treatment and special education services; after-school therapeutic recreation services; and public school-based mental health services.
Industry: Social Services & Non-Profit
Teach For America
We recruit a diverse group of leaders with a record of achievement who work to expand educational opportunity, starting by teaching for two years in a low-income community.
Industry: Education & Higher Education
US Department of State
As the lead foreign affairs agency, the US Department of State is dedicated to protecting and strengthening America’s interests worldwide. We work to ensure that our country’s diplomatic leadership enhances our economic, food and energy security and stability.
Industry: ﻿Government
More info: http://careers.ucsc.edu/student/CareerEvents/Fairs/Winter/socimpact2015.html

Warren Neidich on "Cognitive Capitalism"
2015-01-22 10:00 - 11:45 | Oakes College, Room 105, Oakes College,‎ 150 Heller Drive, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Warren Neidich is an artist and critic, editor of The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism (Archive Books, 2013). He will be speaking in Warren Sack’s lecture course, and interested parties are invited to attend. Those who would like to participate in a further discussion with Neidich that afternoon should email wsack@ucsc.edu.

Lauren Berlant: "Structures of Unfeeling Mysterious Skin"
2015-01-22 14:00 - 15:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Living Writers Series: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta
2015-01-22 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Creative Writing Program presents Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series.
Verónica Reyes is a Chicana feminist jota poet from East Los Angeles, California. She earned her BA from California State University, Long Beach and her MFA from University of Texas, El Paso. She scripts poetry for the people. Her poems give voice to all her communities: Chicanas/os, immigrants, Mexicanas/os, and la jotería. Reyes has won AWP’s Intro-Journal Project, an Astraea Lesbian Foundation Emerging Artist award, and was a Finalist for Andrés Montoya Poetry award. Her work has appeared in Calyx, Feminist Studies, ZYZZYZVA, The New York Quarterly, Ms. Magazine (Online), and The Minnesota Review. She is a proud member of Macondo Writers’ Workshop.
Her first poetry book, Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from Bordered Lives (Arktoi Books, an imprint of Red Hen Press 2013), has won Best Poetry from International Latino Book Awards 2014, Best Poetry from Golden Crown Literary Society Awards 2014, Goldie award, and was a Finalist for Lesbian Poetry from Lambda Literary Awards 2014.
Javier O. Huerta is the author of Some Clarifications y otros poemas (Arte Publico 2007), which received the Chicano/Latino Literary Prize from UC Irvine, and American Copia: An Immigrant Epic (Arte Publico 2012). His poems have recently been anthologized in American Tensions: Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011, and Everyman’s Library Art and Artists: Poems. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Winter 2015 Living Series:
January 15: Cherrie Moraga, poet/playwright
January 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta, poets
January 29: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet)
February 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez, poet
February 12: Luis Alfaro, performance artist/playwright
February 19: John Jota Leanos, filmmaker
February 26: Anita Hill, attorney
March 5: Maceo Montoya, fiction writer
March 12: student reading

The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Wes Modes
2015-01-23 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202.

Winter 2015 Schedule:
January 16th – Jesica Siham Fernández, Social Psychology, “Latina/o Children as Cultural Citizens: Membership, Sense of Belonging, Space and Rights”
January 23rd – Wes Modes, DANM, “A Secret History of American River People”
January 30th – Aubrey Hobart, Visual Studies, “The Queen of Heaven and the Prince of Angels: Saintly Rivalry in Colonial Mexico”
February 6th – Melissa Brzycki, History, “Inventing the Socialist Child, 1945-1976”
February 13th – Delio Vásquez, HISC, “The Criminal Revolutionary and the Revolutionary Criminal: Illegal Black Resistance in the 60s and 70s”
February 20th – Melissa Yinger, Literature, “Ronsard’s Echo-critical Poetic Narcissism: The Elegies for Narcissus and Gâtine”
February 27th – Tracy Perkins, Sociology, “From Protest to Policy: The Political Evolution of California Environmental Justice Activism, 1980s-2010s”
March 6th – Michael Wilson, Politics, “Violent Constructions: Classifying, Explaining, and Misrepresenting Contentious Politics”
March 13th – Jessica Calvanico, Feminist Studies, “On the Politics of Owning a Kara Walker”

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

Linguistics Research Colloquia: Valentine Hacquard
2015-01-23 14:00 - 16:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
About eight times each year the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.

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

Valentine Hacquard: "Bootstrapping into Attitudes"
2015-01-23 14:00 - 16:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Valentine Hacquard from the University of Maryland will be presenting this talk which explores two classic problems at the semantics-pragmatics interface from a learner’s perspective. First, the meaning that speakers convey often goes beyond the literal meaning of the sentences they utter. Second, not all content encoded in utterances has equal standing: some is foregrounded, some backgrounded. Yet a sentence does not formally distinguish what a speaker asserts from what she presupposes or merely implicates. For this reason, the child acquiring a language has a daunting task. She must both extract the literal meaning from the overall message, and separate the background assumptions that are linguistically required from those that are incidental. I will discuss, through a few case studies on children’s acquisition of attitudes, the ways in which the syntax might guide the child with this daunting task.

Kristina Lyons: “Decomposition as Life Politics: Soils, Shared Bodies, and Stamina Under the Gun of the U.S.-Colombia War on Drugs”
2015-01-27 17:00 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Questions that Matter: Making The Cosmos Local
2015-01-27 18:00 - 20:30 | Kuumbwa Jazz Center
MAKING THE COSMOS LOCAL
For millennia, people across the globe have searched the sky for answers. They have imagined and reimagined the cosmos, from an infinite and eternal backdrop full of other worlds, to a young Earth encircled by nearby planets and crystal spheres of stars. What is the relation between our lives here on Earth and the wider realm of nearby planets, distant stars, unfathomably faraway galaxies, and a potentially infinite universe—or swarm of universes? Where do we find, or create, meaning in such a picture?
Questions That Matter is a series of public dialogues presented by the Institute for Humanities Research. This series brings together UC Santa Cruz scholars with community residents to explore questions that matter to all of us. We invite you to join us on Jan 27, 2015 for the series launch at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center.
Featuring: Minghui Hu (History) and Anthony Aguirre (Physics). Facilitated by: Nathaniel Deutsch (IHR Director)
Please join us for an evening of conversation and connection as we bring these questions down to earth and make the cosmos local.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015
6pm wine and hors d’ oeuvres * 7pm program starts
Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Seating is limited. Tickets are $10 (includes service charges and one complimentary drink).
Questions: ihr@ucsc.edu or 831-459-5655
Background readings available at Bookshop Santa Cruz, including The View from the Center of the Universe by Joel Primack and Nancy Abrams.

Bios:
Anthony Aguirre, Professor of physics at UC Santa Cruz, studies the formation, nature, and evolution of the universe, focusing primarily on the model of eternal inflation—the idea that inflation goes on forever in some regions of universe—and what it may mean for the ultimate beginning of the universe and time. He is the co-founder and associate scientific director of the Foundational Questions Institute, which supports research on questions at the foundations and new frontiers of physics and cosmology. Learn more at www.anthony-aguirre.com.
Minghui Hu is an Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz and his research focuses on the intellectual history of early modern China. His monograph “China’s Transition to Modernity: The Classical Vision of Dai Zhen” will be published by the University of Washington Press in 2015. He has organized an international conference “Cosmopolitanism in China, 1600-1950” at UCSC. The multi-authored book, drawn from this conference, will be published under the same tile by Cambria Press in 2015. He is currently working on a new monograph tentatively called “Becoming a Communist: Qu Qiubai and the Formation of Chinese Communist Party.”

Nathaniel Deutsch is a Professor in the Department of History at UC Santa Cruz, where he is also the Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies and the Director of the Institute for Humanities Research.

Sponsors:

UC Santa Cruz Celebrating 50 Years of Being Truly Original. This is a place like no other. It was imagined from the minds of original thinkers—the rebels and visionaries, artists, scientists, and poets who had the courage to strike off on a different path in search of ideas that question norms in hopes of making the world a better place. Let’s celebrate 50 amazing years. Visit 50years.ucsc.edu and see what we are planning.
Questions that Matter is a public humanities series developed by UCSC Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) and the community of Santa Cruz. It will bring together in conversation two or more UC Santa Cruz scholars with community residents and students to explore questions that matter to all of us. The series is a part of a strategic initiative of the IHR to champion the role and value of the humanities in contemporary life. At the University of California Santa Cruz, we understand that the humanities are a crucial element of any first-rate liberal arts education. Indeed, what distinguishes the best universities in the United States is the fact that the humanities are an integral part of their core curriculum, along with the arts and sciences. The series is designed as a lecture and conversation, with plenty of time built in for participant questions and answers. The series will be in partnership with Bookshop Santa Cruz, the Santa Cruz Public Libraries, and the Kuumbwa Jazz Center.

GSC: Non-Academic Interviewing
2015-01-28 10:30 - 12:00 | Graduate Student Commons
This is a professional development event open to all the graduate students at UCSC.
Snacks and beverages will be served. If you plan to attend, please RSVP using the link below by 7pm on Tue, Jan 27th:
http://goo.gl/forms/eKhl1mr3PR [You need to be logged into your UCSC email/google account.]
Presented by Jennifer May, Career Center adviser (http://careers.ucsc.edu/about/staff.html).

Carolyn Dean: "All that Glitters: Incommensurability in Spanish American Visual Culture"
2015-01-28 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Carolyn Dean is currently working on a co-authored book project entitled Colonial Things, Cosmopolitan Thinking: Locating the Indigenous Art of Spanish America. Recognizing that the humanistic disciplines have often had an uncomfortable relationship with objects created outside Western traditions, this project seeks to illuminate how indigenous things in the colonial past have been used and invested with meaning. She is Professor of History of Art & Visual Culture Department at UC Santa Cruz.

Winter 2015 Colloquium Series
January 14 : Maya Peterson
January 21: Naveeda Khan
January 28: Carolyn Dean
February 4: Madhavi Murty
February 11: Kris Alexanderson
February 18: Jennifer Horne
February 25: Gayle Salamon
March 4: Christopher Chen

Julio Torres: "Individual Differences in Prior Language Experience: The Heritage Language Bilingual"
2015-01-28 17:00 - 18:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Individual differences play a key role in explaining variability in learning outcomes among adult second language learners. Researchers have begun examining the additional language learning experiences of learners with different profiles including bilinguals, aging learners and learners with low literacy levels in their first language. In this talk, I will present briefly data from three studies that address the prior language learning experience of adult heritage bilinguals, or speakers who grew up speaking a non-English language (Spanish) at home and in their communities. These studies entertain the following general questions: (1). Are heritage bilinguals the true agents of language change?; (2). Do heritage bilinguals demonstrate an advantage in cognitive control?; and (3). Are task-based pedagogical interventions effective in promoting heritage bilinguals’ (re) learning of the heritage language? The results of these studies imply that the experience of heritage bilinguals lead to various learning and cognitive outcomes.
Julio Torres is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Irvine.

Angela Davis: “Racism, Militarism, Poverty: From Ferguson to Palestine” at the 31st Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Convocation
2015-01-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
The 2015 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation will feature Angela Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita, UC Santa Cruz
Angela Davis: “Racism, Militarism, Poverty: From Ferguson to Palestine”
Date: 7 p.m., Wednesday, January 28th 2015
Location: Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
The event is free and open to the public
Through her activism and scholarship over the last decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in our nation’s quest for social justice. Her work as an educator – both at the university level and in the larger public sphere – has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender equality. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz, and the author of nine books, including her most recent book of essays called The Meaning of Freedom.
In recent years a persistent theme of her work has been the range of social problems associated with incarceration and the generalized criminalization of those communities that are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination. She draws upon her own experiences in the early seventies as a person who spent eighteen months in jail and on trial, after being placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted List.”
She is a founding member of Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to the dismantling of the prison industrial complex. Internationally, she is affiliated with Sisters Inside, an abolitionist organization based in Queensland, Australia that works in solidarity with women in prison.
Having helped to popularize the notion of a “prison industrial complex,” she now urges her audiences to think seriously about the future possibility of a world without prisons and to help forge a 21st century abolitionist movement.
Also featuring a performance by: Singer and songwriter, AlexisRose

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UCSC Shuttles
UC Santa Cruz shuttles will be provided to students for transportation to the Civic Auditorium and return to campus after the event.
Beginning at the campus main entrance at 5:30pm and 6:30pm, the shuttle will make all stops along the perimeter route to pickup students, exit the west entrance, and arrive at the Civic at app. 6:00pm and 7:00pm. (With an expectation of a large audience this year, riders are encouraged to consider taking the earlier shuttle to insure securing of the best seats. Doors open at 6:30pm, and a line is anticipated.)
The shuttle will be parked in front of the Civic at the conclusion of the Convocation and depart for campus app. 10 minutes after the Convocation ends. It will make all perimeter route stops on its return trip.

Tony Hill Memorial Award
Members of the Santa Cruz and UCSC community are invited to nominate outstanding individuals for the Tony Hill Memorial Award. The recipient will be recognized at the convocation.
Criteria for nomination: The individual is actively engaged in the needs of the community and seeks to provide tools to work toward a solution. The individual demonstrates hands-on service that results in building connections among diverse groups, promoting equality and justice.
The deadline for the Tony Hill award nomination is January 9th, 2015.

Brown Bag Lunch: Building a Better Online Identity
2015-01-29 12:00 - 13:30 | Graduate Student Commons
Learn how to perfect your online identity and social media presence as an academic. Melissa De Witte (Web Coordinator, Social Sciences) will lead a discussion about how to build your network, develop meaningful connections, and how you could Twitter your way into your next speaking engagement or job interview.
Whether you are a novice or an expert, a technophobe or an early adopter, this interactive talk will discuss the dos and don’ts, tips, strategies and more to making the most out of an online presence. Discover the importance social media plays on your search engine results and learn how elevating your digital profile is as easy as a Tweet and just a “like” away.
The session will also include practical exercises with the hope that you will leave with some digital collateral of your own. Laptops are encouraged but not required.
Melissa De Witte handles the digital and social media for the Division of Social Sciences here at UC Santa Cruz. She is also an editorial contributor to Social Media Club, the world’s largest community of social media professionals. She has an extensive background across the media industry in New York and London. Melissa has an MA in Media, Culture and Communication from New York University. You can Tweet her @melissadewitte
Open to all graduate students, staff, and faculty.
Contact digitalhumanities@ucsc.edu for more details about any of the above events.
Follow @DH_UCSC on Twitter and Digital Humanities at UCSC on Facebook.

Living Writers Series: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano & Maya Chinchilla
2015-01-29 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Creative Writing Program presents Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano & Maya Chincilla in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series.
Maya Chinchilla is a Guatemalan, Bay Area-based writer, video artist, and educator. Maya received her MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College and her undergraduate degree from University of California, Santa Cruz, where she also founded and co-edited the annual non-exclusive publication, La Revista. Maya writes and performs poetry that explores themes of historical memory, heartbreak, tenderness, sexuality, and alternative futures. Her work —sassy, witty, performative, and self-aware— draws on a tradition of truth-telling and poking fun at the wounds we carry.
Her work has been published in anthologies and journals including: Mujeres de Maíz, Sinister Wisdom, Americas y Latinas: A Stanford Journal of Latin American Studies, Cipactli Journal, and The Lunada Literary Anthology. Maya is a founding member of the performance group Las Manas, a former artist-in-residence at Galería de La Raza in San Francisco, CA, and La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley, CA, and is a VONA Voices and Dos Brujas workshop alum. She is the co-editor of Desde El Epicentro: An anthology of Central American Poetry and Art and is a lecturer at San Francisco State University.

Winter 2015 Living Writers Series:
January 15: Cherrie Moraga, poet/playwright
January 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta, poets
January 29: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chinchilla (poet)
February 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez, poet
February 12: Luis Alfaro, performance artist/playwright
February 19: John Jota Leanos, filmmaker
February 26: Anita Hill, attorney
March 5: Maceo Montoya, fiction writer
March 12: student reading

The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu.

Michael Anderson: "Neural Reuse and Hebbian Learning: Two Kinds of Neuroplasticity in the Brain"
2015-01-29 18:00 - 19:45 | Jack Baskin 152
Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015.
Michael L. Anderson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at F&M, and a Visiting Associate Professor at the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he is also a member of the Graduate Faculty in the Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science. He earned a B.S. with honors in pre-medical studies at the University of Notre Dame, a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University (where he was a Sterling Prize Fellow), and did a post-doc in computer science at the University of Maryland. In 2012 he was selected to be a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, at Stanford University.
Prof. Anderson is author or co-author of over eighty scholarly and scientific publications in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and philosophy of mind. His work has appeared in such journals as Artificial Intelligence, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Connection Science, Journal of Logic and Computation, The Neuroscientist, Philosophical Psychology and Synthese.
Winter 2015 Lecture Series Schedule:
Robin Dunkin
Tuesday, January 27, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Building Blocks of the Brain: Neuron and Glia Form & Function”
*****
Michael Anderson
Thursday, January 29, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neural Reuse and Hebbian Learning: Two Kinds of Neuroplasticity in the Brain”
*****
Nicolas Davidenko
Tuesday, February 3, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Suggestible Nature of Motion Perception”
*****
Janette Dinishak
Thursday, February 12, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Autism & Neurodiversity”
*****
Ray Gibbs
Thursday, February 12, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Embodied Meaning, Thinking, and Communication”
*****
Craig Schindler
Tuesday, February 17, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Enduring Wisdom, Mindfulness & Emerging Neuroscience”
*****
John Brown Childs
Thursday, February 19, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Transcommunality”
*****
Dada Nabhaniilananda
Thursday, February 19, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Dragon Taming for Smart People”
*****
Natalia Carrillo
Tuesday, February 24, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“A History of the Action Potential”
*****
Doc Edge
Tuesday, February 24, Humanities Lecture Hall at 12:00
“Talking About Race: Geneticists, Philosophers, the Media, and the People”
*****
Brian Cantwell Smith
Thursday, February 26, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“The Three R’s: Representation, Registration, and Reality”
Thursday, February 26, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction and the Anxious Mind”
*****
Octavio Valadez
Tuesday, March 3, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Co-Teaching and Revolutionary Teaching”
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Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero
Thursday, March 5, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“From Queer Theory to Teoria Cuir: Latinamerican appropriations of Gay Identities”
Thursday, March 5, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neuro-Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation and Their Counter-explanations”

"Trade and Exchange" Winter MRP Workshop & Ottomanists Workshop
2015-01-30 09:30 - 17:30 | UC Davis
The Mediterranean Seminar/University of California Multi-Campus Research Project (MRP) in Mediterranean Studies announces its Winter 2014 Workshop, to be held at UC Davis on Friday, January 30, to be held in conjunction with the Western Ottomanists Workshop (WOW) on Saturday, January 31.
The Workshop consists of discussion of three pre-circulated papers and a talk by our featured scholar, Molly Greene (History, Princeton University), who will present “Where are the Ottomans in Mediterranean History?”
Please stay tuned for more information.
For the WOW workshop, see https://faculty.unlv.edu/curryj5/WOW/WOWindex.html

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Aubrey Hobart
2015-01-30 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202.

Winter 2015 Schedule:
January 16th – Jesica Siham Fernández, Social Psychology, “Latina/o Children as Cultural Citizens: Membership, Sense of Belonging, Space and Rights”
January 23rd – Wes Modes, DANM, “A Secret History of American River People”
January 30th – Aubrey Hobart, Visual Studies, “The Queen of Heaven and the Prince of Angels: Saintly Rivalry in Colonial Mexico”
February 6th – Melissa Brzycki, History, “Inventing the Socialist Child, 1945-1976″
February 13th – Delio Vásquez, HISC, “The Criminal Revolutionary and the Revolutionary Criminal: Illegal Black Resistance in the 60s and 70s”
February 20th – Melissa Yinger, Literature, “Ronsard’s Echo-critical Poetic Narcissism: The Elegies for Narcissus and Gâtine”
February 27th – Tracy Perkins, Sociology, “From Protest to Policy: The Political Evolution of California Environmental Justice Activism, 1980s-2010s”
March 6th – Michael Wilson, Politics, “Violent Constructions: Classifying, Explaining, and Misrepresenting Contentious Politics”
March 13th – Jessica Calvanico, Feminist Studies, “On the Politics of Owning a Kara Walker”

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

Michael Frachetti: "Uncovering a Nomadic City Along the Medieval Silk Road"
2015-01-30 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
From at least 200 BC to the 16th century CE, the Eurasian Silk Road formed the most extensive network of trade and commerce the world had ever seen. Its pathways linked populations from Beijing to Jerusalem in one of the first global networks. Much of what we know about the Silk Road is defined by archaeology from lowland oases, but mountainous regions occupied by nomads offer new insights. The newly discovered city of Tashbulak, unearthed in 2011 in the highlands of Uzbekistan, is one of the most recent and exciting discoveries along the Medieval Silk Road. Tashbulak pushes us to question our common understanding of the role of nomads in shaping the history and technology of medieval empires across Central Asia and sparks many questions about political, religious and economic change in the 11th century CE.
Dr. Michael Frachetti is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. His work addresses the ancient nomadic societies of Central and Eastern Eurasia and how these shaped inter-regional networks from as early as 2000 BCE (the Mid-Bronze Age) down to the time of the later Silk Roads. He is the author of Pastoralist Landscapes and Social Interaction in Bronze Age Eurasia (UCPress, 2008). He currently conducts archaeological field research in Eastern Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

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Steve Wright: "The Political: Some Experiences from the Italian Operaismo of the 1960s and 1970s"
2015-02-02 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk will critically examine debates around ‘the political’ amongst the Italian workerists. While championing new understandings of class composition that challenged the traditional leninist separation of economic and political struggles, the workerists of the 1960s and 1970s nonetheless struggled to formulate an agreed approach to theorising and practicing ‘the political’. The talk will seek to explore the ways in which this tension played itself out, from early debates concerning the traditional institutions of the workers movement, to efforts to develop organizational projects outside the existing parties and unions. Along the way, attention will also be paid to the contributions of those (such as the editors of Collegamenti and Le operaie della casa) who, despite the incisiveness of many of their contributions, found themselves situated largely on the margins of the workerists’ debates as these unfolded at the time.
Steve Wright teaches in the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, and is the author of Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism (Pluto Press, 2002). His current research is focussed on the creation and use of documents amongst the Italian workerists of the 1960s and 1970s.

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“The Political:  Some Experiences from the   Italian Operaismo of the 1960s & 1970s”

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Steve Wright seminar: “Revolution from Above? Money and Class Composition in Italian Operaismo"
2015-02-03 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Steve Wright will be leading a seminar discussion based on “Revolution from Above? Money and Class Composition in Italian Operaismo,” recently published in Marcel van der Linden and Karl Heinz Roth, Beyond Marx: Theorising the Global Labour Relations of the Twenty-First Century (Brill, 2013).
Participants are invited to read the text and join the discussion.
The text can be downloaded at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/037e976xsu37xzv/Steve%20Wright%2C%20Revolution%20from%20Above.pdf?dl=0
This seminar is part of the series “What Is to Be Done? Organizational Forms and Political Futures,” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster and the Institute for Humanities Research, with the co-sponsorship of the Literature, Sociology, Anthropology, and Politics Departments; Stevenson, Cowell, and Porter Colleges; and the Vice Chancellor for Research.

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Madhavi Murty: "The Story about Development: Caste, Religion and Poverty in Post Reform India’s Popular Culture"
2015-02-04 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Madhavi Murty works in the fields of feminist media studies, gender and globalization, nationalism and South Asian cultural studies. Madhavi is currently working on a book manuscript titled Myths of the Real: Political Economy and the Spectacle of the Ordinary in Post Reform India. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech.

Winter 2015 Colloquium Series
January 14 : Maya Peterson
January 21: Naveeda Khan
January 28: Carolyn Dean
February 4: Madhavi Murty
February 11: Kris Alexanderson
February 18: Jennifer Horne
February 25: Gayle Salamon
March 4: Christopher Chen

Living Writers Series: Rigoberto Gonzalez
2015-02-05 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Creative Writing Program presents Rigoberto Gonzalez in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series.
Rigoberto González is the author of fifteen books of poetry and prose, and the editor of Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing. He is the recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, winner of the American Book Award, The Poetry Center Book Award, The Shelley Memorial Award of The Poetry Society of America, the Lambda Literary Award, the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is contributing editor for Poets & Writers Magazine, on the executive board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle, and is professor of English at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey.

Winter 2015 Living Writers Series:
January 15: Cherrie Moraga, poet/playwright
January 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta, poets
January 29: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet)
February 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez, poet
February 12: Luis Alfaro, performance artist/playwright
February 19: John Jota Leanos, filmmaker
February 26: Anita Hill, attorney
March 5: Maceo Montoya, fiction writer
March 12: student reading

The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Melissa Brzycki
2015-02-06 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202.

Winter 2015 Schedule:
January 16th – Jessica Siham Fernández, Social Psychology, “Latina/o Children as Cultural Citizens: Membership, Sense of Belonging, Space and Rights”
January 23rd – Wes Modes, DANM, “A Secret History of American River People”
January 30th – Aubrey Hobart, Visual Studies, “The Queen of Heaven and the Prince of Angels: Saintly Rivalry in Colonial Mexico”
February 6th – Melissa Brzycki, History, “Inventing the Socialist Child, 1945-1976”
February 13th – Delio Vásquez, HISC, “The Criminal Revolutionary and the Revolutionary Criminal: Illegal Black Resistance in the 60s and 70s”
February 20th – Melissa Yinger, Literature, “Ronsard’s Echo-critical Poetic Narcissism: The Elegies for Narcissus and Gâtine”
February 27th – Tracy Perkins, Sociology, “From Protest to Policy: The Political Evolution of California Environmental Justice Activism, 1980s-2010s”
March 6th – Michael Wilson, Politics, “Violent Constructions: Classifying, Explaining, and Misrepresenting Contentious Politics”
March 13th – Jessica Calvanico, Feminist Studies, “On the Politics of Owning a Kara Walker”

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

Rachel Walker: "Partially Overlapping Harmonies: Implications for Agreement by Correspondence"
2015-02-06 14:00 - 16:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Abstract: Correspondence relations among segments in an output, known as surface correspondence, provide a means for enforcing (dis)agreement among segments (Hansson 2001, Rose & Walker 2004, Bennett 2013). In this talk, I examine a problematic prediction of proposals about the formal properties of surface correspondence for harmony patterns that are partially overlapping in a language. I discuss the types of refinements necessary for a surface correspondence account, and consider implications for the theoretical approach in general.
More specifically, this talk identifies a novel and problematic typological prediction of transitive surface correspondence relations with chain-‐adjacent evaluation of identity, dubbed the Closest Correspondent Trigger Prediction. The problem is exemplified by the interaction of two overlapping vowel harmonies in the dialect of Pasiego Montañes, where a target vowel agrees with different trigger segments for different features. A revised feature-‐restricted evaluation of identity constraints that operate over surface correspondents is proposed, where evaluation is restricted to the subset of correspondents that share a given set of features. This move essentially merges the previous division of labor in surface correspondence theory between constraints that promote interactions among similar segments and those that enforce identity between such segments. The result is a theory where surface identity constraints are the prime locus of pattern-‐shaping and there is a much reduced role for constraints that drive surface correspondence. Future directions on the status of constraints that drive surface correspondence and the treatment of locality are considered.

About eight times each year the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.

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

Fighting for the Emperor: Nisei Soldiers in the Imperial Armed Forces
2015-02-07 13:00 - 14:30 | Japanese American Museum of San Jose
While more than 110,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans in the United States endured mass incarceration during WWII, the war also altered the lives of thousands of Japanese Americans who were stranded in Japan. For many Nisei strandees in Japan, the war blurred the boundaries of their citizenship, as they found themselves in situations where they had little room to negotiate their national allegiance. As the battles in the Pacific theater dragged on, the Japanese government drafted a significant number of Nisei men in Japan to serve in the military and take arms against the United States.
The Nisei soldiers and sailors in the Japanese armed forces who survived the war learned that they had been stripped of their U.S. citizenship as a result of their service to the Japanese emperor. Although these veterans of the Japanese military could recover their U.S. citizenship after the war, the onus was on them to convince the U.S. government that they had been forced to serve the Japanese emperor.
Dr. Michael Jin of Texas A&M University will be at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose (JAMsj) to discuss his research in a presentation entitled “The War and Its Aftermath: Nisei Draftees in the Imperial Armed Forces.” His presentation will be followed by a special discussion featuring two Japanese Americans who found themselves serving in the Japanese military during WWII: Peter Sano and Jimmie Matsuda.

MICHAEL JIN is an assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. His areas of specialty include migration and diaspora studies, critical race and ethnic studies, and Asian American and Pacific Islander history. He is currently working on a manuscript that examines the experiences of U.S.-born Japanese American migrants in Japan and the Japanese colonial world in Asia before and during WWII.
PETER SANO grew up in a large farming family in Brawley, California. At the age of 15, although he knew no Japanese, he was sent to Japan to become the adopted son of a wealthy uncle and aunt who were childless. In 1945, he was drafted into the Japanese Army and was sent to Korea, then Manchuria, close to the Soviet border. After his unit surrendered to the Russians, he was sent to a Siberian POW camp for nearly three years. He returned to the United States in 1952 and later wrote a book about his experiences entitled 1,000 Days in Siberia.
JIMMIE MATSUDA was born in 1927 in Hood River, Oregon. At the age of 11, while visiting Japan, he got sick, causing his family to miss the ship that was to carry them back to the United States. So they decided to stay in Japan. Bu t in 1943, after graduating from high school, Matsuda volunteered for the Japanese Navy and became a kamikaze pilot. His unit was ordered to Okinawa in 1945, but because of his knowledge of English, he was ordered to stay behind to translate U.S. military code. He returned to California in the early 1950s.

Cost: Free with admission to the museum (non-members, $5; students and seniors over age 65, $3; JAMsj members and children under 12, free).
RSVP: Contact PublicPrograms@jamsj.org or call (408) 294-3138 to reserve a spot.

Ching Kwan Lee: "Buying Stability in China: Markets, Protests and Authoritarianism”
2015-02-09 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk outlines China’s trajectory of commodification and the counter-movements by state and society in the past quarter century. Unpacking the class specific dynamics and experiences of precarization, I discuss how the commodification of land, labor, housing and the environment has triggered collective struggles by farmers, workers and the middle class. To maintain social stability, the Chinese state has responded, on the one hand, with new social protection policies of uneven effectiveness, and on the other, a practice of “buying stability” which unwittingly commodifies state authority and citizen’s rights, sowing seeds of precariousness in the regime’s authoritarian governance.
Ching Kwan Lee is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She obtained her PhD in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Michigan before moving to UCLA. Her publications have focused on labor, social activism, political sociology and development in China and the Global South.
Lee is author of Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt (2007), and Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women (1998). Her edited and co-edited books include From the Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization: Markets, Workers and the State in a Changing China (2011); Reclaiming Chinese Society: New Social Activism (2009), Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: Politics and Poetics of Collective Memory in Reform China (2007) and Working in China: Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation (2007).
She is currently working on two book manuscripts. One is on forty years of state and society relation in China, and the other on Chinese investment in Zambia.

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Robert Davis: “The Socio-Economy of Head Hunting in Late Renaissance Italy”
2015-02-09 17:00 - 18:30 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
A distinguished professor of Early Modern Italy, Venice, and the Mediterranean, Professor Robert Davis has written or co-authored eight books and many articles that deal with a variety of topics, including slavery in the Mediterranean, Venetian shipbuilding, masculinity and the rituals of public violence, and Venice as a modern tourist city. His broad interests are always anchored by his fascination with the lives of ordinary people. Professor Davis’ current work is on brigandage in Early Modern Italy.
This lecture is co-sponsored by Italian Studies, the History Department, and Stevenson College. Contact: clpolecr@ucsc.edu

Understanding Conflict in South Sudan
2015-02-10 18:30 - 19:30 | Social Sciences 2, Room 75, Social Sciences 2‎ University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
CENTER FOR EMERGING WORLDS
2014-2015 Theme: GLOBAL ISLAM
Winter Quarter Events
Featuring: Noah Salomon, Assistant Professor of Religion, Carleton College

Tuesday, February 10th
Public Event
“Understanding Conflict in South Sudan”
6:30-7:30 PM,
Social Sciences 2, Room 075
Moderated by Mark Massoud, Assistant Professor of Politics and Legal Studies, UCSC
Wednesday, February 11th
Colloquium
“When the State is Everywhere: Rethinking the Islamic Public Sphere”
3:30-5:00 PM, Humanities 1, Room 202
Thursday, February 12th
Manuscript Reading Seminar*
Selections from “The People of Sudan Love You, Oh Messenger of God: An Ethnography of the Islamic State”
10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Social Sciences 1, Room 261
*To receive readings, please email sjetha@ucsc.edu

Kris Alexanderson: "Japanese Penetration and Dutch Conciliation: Transoceanic Politics in Maritime Asia during the 1930s"
2015-02-11 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Kris Alexanderson’s current book project examines the collaborative efforts of the Netherlands East Indies’ colonial administration, Dutch shipping businesses, and foreign consulates in port cities across the Middle East and Asia in controlling the flow of anti-Western and anti-colonial ideas—including pan-Islamism, Communism, and pan-Asianism. She is Assistant Professor of History at University of the Pacific.

Winter 2015 Colloquium Series
January 14 : Maya Peterson
January 21: Naveeda Khan
January 28: Carolyn Dean
February 4: Madhavi Murty
February 11: Kris Alexanderson
February 18: Jennifer Horne
February 25: Gayle Salamon
March 4: Christopher Chen

GSC: The Secrets of Negotiation for Grad Students
2015-02-11 15:00 - 17:00 | Graduate Student Commons
Dr. Richard Kaye will share the skills and tools for successful negotiations in every aspects of your lives.
This is a professional development event open to all the graduate students at UCSC. Snacks and beverages will be served.
If you plan to attend, please RSVP using the link below by 7pm on Mon, Feb 9th:
http://goo.gl/forms/ZoC18frvdy [You need to be logged into your UCSC email/google account.]

"When the State is Everywhere: Rethinking the Islamic Public Sphere"
2015-02-11 15:30 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202

DH Working Group Meeting / Digital Pedagogy Session
2015-02-11 17:00 - 19:00 | Cowell Senior Commons Room, Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062-1225, United States
Join the DH Working Group to begin an ongoing conversation about teaching in the digital age. What kinds of digital tools have you used in the classroom? What worked and what didn’t? How do new technologies change learning practices? Bring your experiences, your questions, and your skepticism as we debate new pedagogical frontiers.
The Digital Humanities Working Group meets once-a-month to share ongoing work, read foundational texts, and create a vision for Digital Humanities at UCSC. All students, faculty, and staff welcome.
Contact digitalhumanities@ucsc.edu for more details about any of the above events.
Follow @DH_UCSC on Twitter and Digital Humanities at UCSC on Facebook.

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Manuscript Reading Seminar: "The People of Sudan Love You, Oh Messenger of God"
2015-02-12 10:00 - 12:00 | Social Sciences 1, Room 261, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Living Writers Series: Luis Alfaro
2015-02-12 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Creative Writing Program presents Luis Alfaro in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series.
Luis Alfaro is a Chicano writer and performer known for his work in poetry, theatre, short stories, performance and journalism. He is also a producer and director who spent ten years at the Mark Taper Forum as Associate Producer, Director of New Play Development and co-director of the Latino Theatre Initiative.
His work has been shown at venues including La Jolla Playhouse, Smithsonian Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art in London, The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Magic Theatre, Goodman Theatre-Chicago, and Latino Chicago and Playwrights Arena in Los Angeles. His plays and performances includeOedipus el Rey, Electricidad, Downtown, No Holds Barrio, Body of Faith, Straight as a Line, Bitter Homes and Gardens, Ladybird, Black Butterfly, and Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.
He teaches at the University of Southern California (in the Graduate Playwriting Program, Solo Performance, and Youth Theater) and California Institute of the Arts (in Solo Performance and Actors Studio).

Winter 2015 Living Writers Series:
January 15: Cherrie Moraga, poet/playwright
January 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta, poets
January 29: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet)
February 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez, poet
February 12: Luis Alfaro, performance artist/playwright
February 19: John Jota Leanos, filmmaker
February 26: Anita Hill, attorney
March 5: Maceo Montoya, fiction writer
March 12: student reading

The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu.

Ray Gibbs: "Embodied Meaning, Thinking, and Communication"
2015-02-12 18:00 - 19:45 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015.
Ray Gibbs is a psychology professor at UCSC.
Winter 2015 Lecture Series Schedule:
Robin Dunkin
Tuesday, January 27, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Building Blocks of the Brain: Neuron and Glia Form & Function”
*****
Michael Anderson
Thursday, January 29, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neural Reuse and Hebbian Learning: Two Kinds of Neuroplasticity in the Brain”
*****
Nicolas Davidenko
Tuesday, February 3, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Suggestible Nature of Motion Perception”
*****
Janette Dinishak
Thursday, February 12, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Autism & Neurodiversity”
*****
Ray Gibbs
Thursday, February 12, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Embodied Meaning, Thinking, and Communication”
*****
Craig Schindler
Tuesday, February 17, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Enduring Wisdom, Mindfulness & Emerging Neuroscience”
*****
John Brown Childs
Thursday, February 19, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Transcommunality”
*****
Dada Nabhaniilananda
Thursday, February 19, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Dragon Taming for Smart People”
*****
Natalia Carrillo
Tuesday, February 24, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“A History of the Action Potential”
*****
Doc Edge
Tuesday, February 24, Humanities Lecture Hall at 12:00
“Talking About Race: Geneticists, Philosophers, the Media, and the People”
*****
Brian Cantwell Smith
Thursday, February 26, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“The Three R’s: Representation, Registration, and Reality”
Thursday, February 26, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction and the Anxious Mind”
*****
Octavio Valadez
Tuesday, March 3, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Co-Teaching and Revolutionary Teaching”
*****
Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero
Thursday, March 5, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“From Queer Theory to Teoria Cuir: Latinamerican appropriations of Gay Identities”
Thursday, March 5, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neuro-Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation and Their Counter-explanations”

Carmen Boullosa: “Texas: The Great Theft”
2015-02-13 10:00 - 12:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Carmen Boullosa is one of Mexico’s leading novelists, poets, and playwrights, whose works interweave speculative, historical, and psychological themes with a powerful feminist point of view and a sharp satirical wit. She has published fifteen novels, among them El complot de los románticos (winner of the Premio de Novela Café Gijón in 2008), Las paredes hablan, La virgen y el violin, and perhaps most famously, Llanto. Her works in English translation include They’re Cows, We’re Pigs; Leaving Tabasco; and Cleopatra Dismounts, all published by Grove Press, and Jump of the Manta Ray, with illustrations by Philip Hughes, published by The Old Press. Her novels have also been translated into Italian, Dutch, German, French, Portuguese, Chinese, and Russian. A prominent essayist and journalist, she writes a regular column for El Universal in Mexico City. She has taught at Georgetown, Columbia, and New York University, as well as at universities in nearly a dozen other countries. She is currently Distinguished Lecturer at the City College of New York.
In her latest novel, Texas: The Great Theft (Deep Vellum, 2014), originally published as Tejas: La gran ladronería en la frontera norte (Editorial Alfaguera, 2013), Carmen Boullosa challenges US versions of the romantic origins of Texas. Set on the eve of the US Civil War in the fictional twin border cities of Bruneville and Matasanchez, the novel depicts relations among gringos, German immigrants, Mexican landowners and laborers, escaped slaves, Apaches, and Comanches. In the words of the Dallas Morning News’ Roberto Ontiveros, it “sardonically explodes and seductively reins itself back in with a panoptic prose that stares down hard into the absurd and uncomfortable prejudices that have historically split this region.”
For an advance PDF copy of the novel in Spanish and/or in English, please contact Kirsten Silva Gruesz (ksgruesz@ucsc.edu).

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Delio Vásquez
2015-02-13 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202

“Polly Want a Caesar? Talking Birds and Prophetic Birds in Early Imperial Rome”
2015-02-13 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In Republican Rome, birds had served as the messengers of the gods, communicating in ways that only a few religious specialists could fully understand and interpret. At the turn of the first century CE, these same birds began to speak plain Latin, apparently endorsing the new regime of the Caesars in language that anyone could understand. On closer examination, however, these talking birds turn out to be transmitting a much more troubling message about the constitution of the Roman body politic at a moment of uncertainty and rapid change.
Martin Devecka is a post-doctoral fellow at Yale University who will join the Classical Studies faculty at UC Santa Cruz in 2015-16. He is a cultural historian with a special interest in applying the methods of sociology to the ancient world. Current projects include a comparative history of ruins, a historical zoology of the Roman Empire, and an investigation of peripatetic attitudes toward technology.

Digital Happy Hour
2015-02-17 17:00 - 19:00 | Cowell Senior Commons Room, Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062-1225, United States
Join the Digital Humanities Research Cluster for an informal cocktail hour. Meet other scholars doing digital work and contribute to a conversation that will help shape what digital scholarship looks like at UC Santa Cruz. This is an open and informal event and we encourage all who are interested to stop by.

Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination Conference
2015-02-18 - 2015-02-19 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Venice Ghetto serves as the starting point from which we address questions of modern Jewish spaces –a site that has played a central role in Jewish and European culture since the Jews were sequestered in the Ghetto at its founding in 1516. Contemporary globalization brings into focus the relationship between identity and spatial location, and highlights new and cross-cutting transnational allegiances.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

WEDNESDAY, February 18th (5:00-7:00PM):5:00-5:30PM: Opening Remarks, “The Importance of the Venice Ghetto for Modern Jewish Studies” by Professor Murray Baumgarten
5:30-7:00PM: Panel #1: Sculptural and Literary Israeli Space
Amanda Sharick, University of California, Riverside: “Envisioning “Friends” (2011) and “Brotherhood” (2013) in Haifa: Yosl Bergner and Contested Histories of Cooperation/Coercion in ‘Mixed’ City Spaces.”
Chen Bar-Itzhak, Ben-Gurion University: “The Dissolution of Utopia: Literary Representations of Haifa, from Herzl’s Altneuland to Later Israeli Writing” (VIDEO TALK)
Respondent: Professor Bruce Thompson, University of California, Santa Cruz
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THURSDAY, February 19th (9:30-4:30PM, Reception To Follow):
9:30-11:00AM: Panel #2: European Jewish Spaces
Erica Smeltzer, University of California, Santa Cruz: “Metamorphosis and Other Stories: Narrating Life on the Borders of a Divided City.”
Professor Peter Kenez, University of California, Santa Cruz: “Jewish Budapest.”
Professor Emily Finer, University of St. Andrews: “Lev Lunts’ ‘Across the Border.’”
Respondent: Professor Vilashini Cooppan, University of California Santa Cruz
11:00-11:30AM – Coffee Break
11:30-1:00PM: Panel #3: American Jewish Spaces
Joanna Meadvin, University of California, Santa Cruz: “An Other Jewish America: Henry Roth discovers Sepharad.”
Katie Trostel, University of California, Santa Cruz: “Ceques: Networked Jewish Memory in the works of Tununa Mercado (Argentina) and Karina Pacheco Medrano (Peru).”
Respondent: Professor Dorian Bell
1:00-2:15PM: Lunch
2:30-4:00PM: Panel #4: Virtual Jewish Spaces
Lee Jaffe, University of California, Santa Cruz: “The Jewish Anthology: A Space For Negotiating Jewish Identity.”
Caroline Luce, University of California, Los Angeles: “Reconstructing the Landscape of Yiddish Culture in “Dos Durem-Land Baym Yam (The Southland by the Sea).”
Respondent: Rachel Deblinger, CLIR Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of California, Santa Cruz.
4:00-4:30PM: Concluding Remarks with Professor Nathaniel Deutsch
Performance by Michael Alpert, klezmer musician.
Reception with light food and refreshments held in Humanities 1, Room 202

SPONSORS:
Center for Jewish Studies, Helen Diller Endowment for Jewish Studies, and Institute for Humanities ResearchDIRECTIONS & PARKING:
http://ihr.ucsc.edu/directions/

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EVENT PODCASTS:

Jennifer Horne: "Serial Americans and the 'Conquest Program'"
2015-02-18 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Jennifer Horne’s work considers the film-program-as-civics-lesson in the context of the American civics movement. Centering on a film series from 1917, rife with conquesting tropes of manifest destiny, empire and nation, it explores the programming context of the late silent era to theorize seriality as a mode of American visual education. She is Assistant Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz.

Winter 2015 Colloquium Series
January 14 : Maya Peterson
January 21: Naveeda Khan
January 28: Carolyn Dean
February 4: Madhavi Murty
February 11: Kris Alexanderson
February 18: Jennifer Horne
February 25: Gayle Salamon
March 4: Christopher Chen
