The Humanities Institute

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Rachel Shellabarger
2017-02-03 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities 1, Room 202
Sustainable Happy cows: Change and Sustainability in California Dairies
California dairy advertisements often feature happy cows, but they mask social and environmental concerns over industrial milk production. Currently, California dairy producers face a mix of challenges with severe drought, regulation of methane emissions from cows, uncertain changes in milk pricing policies, and future implementation of more robust framework labor laws. These converging pressures challenge the industrial mode of dairy production utilized by many California dairies, and may pave a path toward sustainable transformation. In this talk I focus on whose interests are represented as this heavily industrialized sector responds to social and environmental pressures, and what this means for future sustainability of the sector.
Friday Forum Winter quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
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.
January 27, 2017: Sarah Papazoglakis, Literature
February 03, 2017: Rachel Shellabarger, Environmental Studies
February 10, 2017: Kyuhyun Han, History
February 17, 2017: Yulia Gilchinskaya, Film & Digital Media
February 24, 2017: Maggie Wander, HAVC
March 3, 2017: Chessa Adsit-Morris, HAVC

Living Writers: PhD Candidates, Creative/Critical Concentration
2017-02-02 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
C Dylan Bassett’s books are The Invention of Monsters / Plays for the Theater (2015) and A Failed Performance: The Collected Short Plays of Daniil Kharms (forthcoming 2018). His recent work appears in The American Reader, Black Warrior Review, Ninth Letter, and Washington Square. He lives in Santa Cruz.
Matthew Gervase is a Ph.D. candidate in Literature at UCSC, where he teaches creative writing and French courses. His published work has appeared in The French Translator’s Quarter. As a writer he has certain formalist tendencies, one of which is to occasionally exist in the third person. He attempts to balance this out through his research on fascism, orality, and life in France’s Third Republic.
Kendall Grady is a poet!scholar working the couplet as microsystem– contact zone– associative monad– elective affinity– allocentrism– affective capillary– baroque structure of intimacy. Selected poems livewith Jupiter 88, Dusie, and The Atlas Review.
Courtney Kersten’s essays can be seen or are forthcoming from River Teeth, Hotel Amerika, Hayden’s Ferry Review, DIAGRAM, The Sonora Review, Black Warrior Review, The Master’s Review and elsewhere. She was the 2016 writer-in-residence at the Great Basin Writer’s Residency and was a Fulbright Fellow in Riga, Latvia where she researched nonfictional theater and literature. She is currently a PhD student in Literature, Creative Writing, and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Jared Joseph is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is currently pursuing his PhD in Literature at the University of California – Santa Cruz. Recent poems have been published in Fence, Noo Journal, and Company. Jared Joseph and Sara Peck’s collaborative book here you are is available from Horse Less Press, while Drowsy. Drowsy Baby is forthcoming from Entropy Press in 2017
Jose Antonio akterial, 2012). In 2008 he created the AMLT project (www.amltproject.com), which seeks to explore hypertext literature and alternative media forwriting through collective authorship. The project was sponsored by Puma from 2011-2014. His third book, titled “open pit”, is forthcoming from AUB in 2016. He holds an MFA in Writing from the University of California in San Diego.
Kirstin Wagner is a writer and teacher living in Santa Cruz, CA. Her creative work is published/forthcoming in Bombay Gin Literary Journal, Gesture Literary Journal, and Something on Paper. She has taught creativewriting at Naropa University, Indiana University, U.C. Santa Cruz, and in the Boulder public school system. She is currently a PhD student in the Literature Department at UC-Santa Cruz.

Living Writers Series Winter 2017

Improvi/Nations: Riff, Inquiry, and Protest
Improvi/Nations: Riff, Inquiry, and Protest will feature writers and artists who work and play across various disciplines and modes: poetry, prose, visual, sound, performance, art, and theory to address questions of race, gender, sexuality, and other identities. This series will explore the intersections of self-and-nationhood as fracture, memory and possibility via individual, collective and internal forms.

Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Thursdays, 5:20-6:50 PM
All Readings are Free and Open to the Public

January 26: Wayne Koestenbaum, Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and French, CUNY Graduate Center
February 2: Conner Bassett, Matthew Gervase, Kendall Grady, Courtney Kersten, Jared Harvey, Jose Antonio Villarán, Kirstin Wagner, PhD Candidates, Creative/Critical Concentration, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
February 16: Laura Mullen, McElveen Professor of English, Lousiana State University
February 23: Micah Perks, Professor of Creative Writing and Literature, UC Santa Cruz
March 9: Urayoán Noel, Associate Professor of English and Spanish, New York University
March 16: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading
Co-sponsored by The Humanities Division, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, The Literature Department and Creative Writing Program, Chicano Latino Research Center, Literary Cultures/Sawyer Seminar, Latin American and Latino Studies, and The Bay Tree Book Store

Christopher Newfield: "After the Great Mistake: Fixing Public Universities in the Trump Administration"
2017-02-02 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Christopher Newfield’s (Professor of literature and American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara) new book, “The Great Mistake,“ shows how privatization has weakened the educational quality and the budgetary stability of public universities and wrecked their true public mission. But how can they recover during an administration that promises to accelerate privatization in every arena? Newfield argues that universities should use this period to rebuild their public purpose from the ground up, with special attention to the non-college voters that allegedly turned the election towards Donald J. Trump.
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies and the Santa Cruz Faculty Association.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Mikki Stelder
2017-02-02 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Towards Other Scenes of Speaking and Listening: Palestinian Anticolonial Queer Spatialities
Mikki Stelder, Visiting Scholar
In 2010, Palestinian Queers for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions called upon international queer communities to support the Palestinian calls for BDS. My dissertation emerged as one way to respond. First, I lay out the terms within which scholars and activists have engaged with PQBDS’ call and conditions of possibility within which responses emerged. Secondly, I discuss an event that undermined the logics of settler colonialism and sexual imperialism in Israel/Palestine: In 2011, three Palestinian queer groups engaged in email conversation with the International Gay and Lesbian Youth and Student Organization (IGLYO) about its decision to host its General Assembly in Tel Aviv. IGLYO went ahead with its plans, but invited the groups to a public debate with an Israeli LGBT group cohosting the GA. The Palestinian groups refused and then publicized their email correspondence with IGLYO. Viewing these decisions as a politics of refusal, I ask what other practices endure under Israeli occupation and alter the terms of Israel/Palestine engagement.

Mikki Stelder is a PhD Candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. She is a visiting scholar at UCSC in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Department under the auspices and guidance of Gina Dent. She also teaches Feminist and Postcolonial Critique to choreography students at the School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series Winter 2017 Schedule:
January 12th: Soma de Bourbon, “Parenting BinaryTrans Children on the Edge of the Bay Area”
February 2nd: Mikki Stelder, “Towards Other Scenes of speaking and Listening: Palestinian Anticolonial Queer Spatialities”
March 2nd: Omid Mohamadi, “The Iranian Women’s Movement: Rights and Difference”

Regina Kunzel: "In Treatment: Psychiatry and the Archives of Modern Sexuality"
2017-02-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Regina Kunzel’s current project explores the encounter of sexual- and gender-variant people with psychiatry in the mid-twentieth-century U.S. Drawing on multiple archives, she argues for the importance of psychiatric scrutiny, stigma, and medicalization in the making of modern sexuality.
Regina Kunzel is a Professor of History and Gender and Sexuality Studies and Director, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Winter 2017 Colloquium Dates:
January 18th: Susan Buck-Morss
January 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
February 1st: Regina Kunzel
February 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas
February 15th: Gary Wilder
February 22nd: Rick Prelinger
March 1st: Hillary Angelo
March 8th: Akash Kumar

Shakespeare and the Common Good: The Value of a Literary Education
2017-02-01 09:30 - 11:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Julia Reinhard Lupton, Professor of English and Associate Dean for Research in the School of Humanities at UC Irvine, will conduct a professional development seminar for graduate students. The seminar will discuss the purpose of graduate education in the humanities and conclude with a research narrative development workshop, focusing on practical techniques for translating work in the humanities into statements, programs, and publications that engage a wider public. Readings include texts by Hannah Arendt, Leonard Cassuto, and William Shakespeare.
Space is limited: Twelve seats are available.
Humanities 1- Room 210
9:30am-11:30am
For more information contact Sean Keilen at keilen@ucsc.edu
Workshop Readings:
Arendt, Crisis in Education (1954)
Cassuto, In Search of an Ethic
Shakespeare Readings

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Sarah Papazoglakis
2017-01-27 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
American Philanthropy and “Aggressive Altruism” in Richard Wright’s Native Son and Miguel Angel Asturias’ The Green Pope
My dissertation interrogates the narrative power of American philanthropy in the story of the United States’ rise as a global superpower in the twentieth century. For this presentation, I will present an excerpt of a chapter that considers how philanthropy permeates representations of hemispheric American relationships in the interwar period. I read Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) and Miguel Angel Asturias’s El Papa Verde (1952) that center the “Black Metropolis” as the financial engine of the United States and the nucleus of transnational corporate expansion.
Friday Forum Winter quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
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.
January 27, 2017: Sarah Papazoglakis, Literature
February 03, 2017: Rachel Shellabarger, Environmental Studies
February 10, 2017: Kyuhyun Han, History
February 17, 2017: Yulia Gilchinskaya, Film & Digital Media
February 24, 2017: Maggie Wander, HAVC
March 3, 2017: Chessa Adsit-Morris, HAVC

Living Writers: Wayne Koestenbaum
2017-01-26 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Wayne Koestenbaum has published eighteen books of poetry, criticism, and fiction, including Notes on Glaze, The Pink Trance Notebooks, My 1980s & Other Essays, Hotel Theory, Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, Andy Warhol, Humiliation, Jackie Under My Skin, and The Queen’s Throat (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist). His essays and poetry have appeared in The Best American Essays, The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, The New Yorker, London Review of Books, Artforum, The Paris Review, Harper’s, The Believer, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Cabinet, and many other periodicals and anthologies. Koestenbaum has had solo exhibitions of his paintings at White Columns (New York), 356 Mission (Los Angeles), and the University of Kentucky Art Museum. He has given musical performances at the Centre Pompidou, Walker Art Center, The Kitchen, REDCAT, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art; his first piano/vocal solo record, Lounge Act, will be issued by Ugly Duckling Presse Records in 2017. He wrote the libretto for Michael Daughterty’s opera Jackie O, which has been performed around the world and has been released on DVD by Dynamic Italy. Winner of a Whiting Award, Koestenbaum has taught at Yale (in the English department as well as in the School of Art’s painting department), and is a Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and French at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City.

Living Writers Series Winter 2017
Improvi/Nations: Riff, Inquiry, and Protest
Improvi/Nations: Riff, Inquiry, and Protest will feature writers and artists who work and play across various disciplines and modes: poetry, prose, visual, sound, performance, art, and theory to address questions of race, gender, sexuality, and other identities. This series will explore the intersections of self-and-nationhood as fracture, memory and possibility via individual, collective and internal forms.
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Thursdays, 5:20-6:50 PM
All Readings are Free and Open to the Public
January 26: Wayne Koestenbaum, Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and French, CUNY Graduate Center
February 2: Conner Bassett, Matthew Gervase, Kendall Grady, Courtney Kersten, Jared Harvey, Jose Antonio Villarán, Kirstin Wagner, PhD Candidates, Creative/Critical Concentration, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
February 16: Laura Mullen, McElveen Professor of English, Lousiana State University
February 23: Micah Perks, Professor of Creative Writing and Literature, UC Santa Cruz
March 9: Urayoán Noel, Associate Professor of English and Spanish, New York University
March 16: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading
Co-sponsored by The Humanities Division, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, The Literature Department and Creative Writing Program, Chicano Latino Research Center, Literary Cultures/Sawyer Seminar, Latin American and Latino Studies, and The Bay Tree Book Store

Emily Mitchell-Eaton: "What’s Free About ‘Freely Associated Statehood’? Preserving Colonial Legacies in the Marshall Islands"
2017-01-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Emily Mitchell-Eaton’s work explores imperial citizenship forms and statecraft in the U.S. Pacific territories. Her research follows territorial migration policies from their enactment in the islands to the new sites of diaspora where imperial migrants resettle, exposing new racial formations, modes of (un)belonging, and immigrant solidarities.
Emily Mitchell-Eaton is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Non-citizenship, LALS/Chicano Latino Resource Center at UCSC.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Winter 2017 Colloquium Dates:
January 18th: Susan Buck-Morss
January 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
February 1st: Regina Kunzel
February 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas
February 15th: Gary Wilder
February 22nd: Rick Prelinger
March 1st: Hillary Angelo
March 8th: Akash Kumar

Wiring Gaia at the Water-Energy Nexus: Indigenous Water Guardians and Decolonizing Water Science
2017-01-24 11:40 - 13:15 | College 8, Room 301, College Eight Rd‎, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
As emblematized by the ongoing protests at Standing Rock, water is a foundational element—biophysical, epistemological, and spiritual—in Indigenous societies and lifeways. This crucial life source has come under increased threat due to the claimed necessity of extractivist development projects which impact the lives of all of our relations: human and more-than-human. In North America, energy extraction has accelerated processes of accumulation by dispossession, in a context of “light touch” regulation in which threats to water are scantily monitored, under-regulated, and under-reported, creating new and significant breaches of Indigenous rights.
Tuesday, January 24th from 11:40-1:15 in the Rachel Carson College room 301.
Our collective is beginning a large, seven year research project (decolonizingwater.ca) through which we are creating Indigenous-led water monitoring systems embedded in Indigenous water laws, as an expression of Indigenous self-governance. This raises a series of questions about the desirability and possibility of decolonizing water science; resurgent Indigenous self-governance in Canada’s north; the challenges posed to the nation-state by legal pluralism and parallel governance structures. More broadly, our initiative unfolds within the set of possibilities opened up by big data and eco-informatics in the Anthropocene, in which “Wiring Gaia” creates new openings for science, democratic decision-making, and Indigenous self-determination in Canada’s North. How might an “Internet of Earthlings” be co-constituted, and what possibilities (and pitfalls) might it create for all of our relations?
Bio: Dr. Karen Bakker is Professor, Canada Research Chair, and Director of the Program on Water Governance at the University of British Columbia (www.watergovernance.ca). She is currently the midwife (aka Principal Investigator) to a research collective of Indigenous community members, academics, artists, activists who are striving to decolonize water in both theory and practice (www.decolonizingwater.ca). A Rhodes Scholar with a PhD from Oxford, Karen is trained in both the natural and social sciences. She currently works at the intersection of political economy and political ecology, and publishes on a wide range of environmental issues (water, hydropower, food, energy).
Co-sponsored by the IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality and the Anthropocene and the Science and Justice Research Center.

Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies Investiture Ceremony and Reception
2017-01-22 16:00 - 18:00 | College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room, College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join Chancellor George Blumenthal in celebration of the:
Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
Investiture Ceremony and Reception
College 9/10 Multipurpose Room, UC Santa Cruz
Sunday, January 22, 2017 4 p.m.
Light refreshments will be served
RSVP HERE
RSVP by January 6, 2017
Questions? Contact Jessica Guild at (831) 459-1274 or jguild@ucsc.edu

HONOREES
Professor Murray Baumgarten

Professor Murray Baumgarten is a research professor of literature and distinguished professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at UC Santa Cruz. This chair honors Professor Baumgarten, the person most responsible for today’s thriving Jewish Studies program and for founding the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. In 1967, Professor Baumgarten co-founded the world-renowned Dickens Project, and ten years ago, with the help of the Helen Diller Family Foundation, he established the Jewish Studies program.

Professor Nathaniel Deutsch

As the director of the Center for Jewish Studies (CJS), Professor Nathaniel Deutsch is the inaugural chair holder of the Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies. He is a professor of history at UC Santa Cruz and the director of the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research. His work focuses on the modern Jewish experience and its relationship to tradition.

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PhD+ Workshop Postponed
2017-01-20 11:00 - 12:30 | CA
This workshop has been postponed for April 2017.

Susan Buck-Morss Seminar: “Prolegomena to Any Future”
2017-01-19 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Susan Buck Morss, CUNY Graduate Center and Cornell University, will conduct a seminar for faculty and graduate students following her Cultural Studies Colloquia.
Cultural Studies Colloquia with Susan Buck-Morss: “History as Translation”
January 18th 12-1pm in Humanities 1 Room 210
Susan Buck-Morss’s current project, Year 1, dives into recent research on the first century in order to topple various conceptual givens that have shaped modernity as an episteme (and led us into some unhelpful post-modern impasses), and argues there is no way forward without retracing our steps and charting another course (while discovering surprising fellow-travellers along the way).

Susan Buck-Morss: "History as Translation"
2017-01-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Susan Buck-Morss’s current project, Year 1, dives into recent research on the first century in order to topple various conceptual givens that have shaped modernity as an episteme (and led us into some unhelpful post-modern impasses), and argues there is no way forward without retracing our steps and charting another course (while discovering surprising fellow-travellers along the way).
Susan Buck-Morss is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at CUNY Graduate Center and a Professor Emerita of Government at Cornell University.

Co-Sponsored by the Departments of History of Consciousness, Literature, and Politics

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Winter 2017 Colloquium Dates:
January 18th: Susan Buck-Morss
January 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
February 1st: Regina Kunzel
February 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas
February 15th: Gary Wilder
February 22nd: Rick Prelinger
March 1st: Hillary Angelo
March 8th: Akash Kumar

Northern California High School Ethics Bowl
2017-01-14 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Event Photos: by Crystal Birns
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.

What is an Ethics Bowl?
The Ethics Bowl is a collaborative yet competitive event, more nuanced than debate, in which teams are presented with a series of wide-ranging ethical dilemmas and are asked to analyze them; they are then judged on the basis of their analyses. An exciting tournament, it is also a way for students to gain valuable insight into ethical and philosophical issues. According to Michael Steinmann, director of the Stevens Institute High School Ethics Bowl, the events promote intellectual, personal, and social growth. They deepen students’ understanding of the complexity of ethical issues; increase their sense of personal responsibility; and promote a model of rational, civil discourse so essential to functioning democracies.
During each round, a moderator poses a question to two teams composed of five students and the competition follows a predetermined format encompassing team order and time limitations. All teams receive the cases and questions in fall so that they can prepare their responses with their coaches. The panel of judges includes not only those with philosophy backgrounds but businesspeople, politicians, and members of various professions in the community to underscore the fact that ethics is not simply an academic subject. We will also invite the press to attend. Each team will have the opportunity to compete in several rounds to advance to the semifinals and then the championship round. The winners of the competition (and their schools) will receive special recognition.
The ethical dilemmas used in a high school ethics bowl range from those particularly relevant to young students (questions about cheating, plagiarism, peer pressure, use and abuse of social media, the right to privacy, relationship responsibilities) to political and social issues (free speech, gun control, eco-tourism) and bioethical issues (cloning, parental consent).
Schedule:
7:45-8:00am – Judge’s Check-In (Humanities Room 210)
8:00-8:45am – Team Check-In (Humanities Lecture Hall); Judge’s and Moderator’s Training
8:45-8:55am – Welcome
9:00-10:00am – Round 1
10:15–11:15am – Round 2
11:30-12:30pm – Round 3
12:30-1:45pm – Lunch
1:45-2:00pm – Announce Semi-Finalists
2:00-3:00pm – Semi-Final Round
3:15-4:15pm – Final Round
Northern California High School Ethics Bowl will take place on the UCSC campus on January 14, 2017.
Please contact Kyle Robertson at kxrobert@ucsc.edu for further information.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Soma de Bourbon
2017-01-12 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Parenting Binary Trans Children on the Edge of the Bay Area
Soma de Bourbon, Lecturer, Feminist Studies
Parents feel urgency to mitigate the disproportionally high rates of depression and suicide among trans youth. There is evidence (Olson at al. 2016)that a gender-affirming environment can, in part, accomplish this. Many Bay Area families are gender supportive, but is the larger Bay Area? I think we need to address the marginalization of binary trans youth of color within the non-binary movement in the Bay Area. Although the landscape of infinite gender holds radical potential for many, it can shift, and in some cases has shifted, to a repressive space for some. As mother to a binary trans girl, I watch her live in a liminal space-occupying a duality: acceptance as feminized girl when she is stealth and rejection for cissimilation when she is “out.” Both the revolutionary potential of the struggle to unbind the binary, and its capacity to exclude individuals who pioneered its inception and continue to die for it each year, binary trans women of color, are issues I am interested in engaging.

Soma de Bourbon is an adjunct professor at SJSU, De Anza College, and UCSC. She received her Ph.D. from the History of Consciousness Department at UCSC and her B.A. from the Ethics Studies Department at UC Berkeley. Soma’s heritage is Blackfeet and French, and she is the advisor to the Native American Student Organization at SJSU.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series Winter 2017 Schedule:
January 12th: Soma de Bourbon, “Parenting BinaryTrans Children on the Edge of the Bay Area”
February 2nd: Mikki Stelder, “Towards Other Scenes of speaking and Listening: Palestinian Anticolonial Queer Spatialities”
March 2nd: Omid Mohamadi, “The Iranian Women’s Movement: Rights and Difference”

Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record
2017-01-10 11:30 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene presents
Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record
A reading seminar with Dr. Gregg Mitman
We will read two chapters by Gregg Mitman and Faye Ginsburg from Documenting the World: Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record, edited by Gregg Mitman and Kelley Wilder (University of Chicago Press, 2016). Documenting the World concerns the material and social life of photographs and film made in the scientific quest to document the world. Mitman’s chapter investigates the many lives of a 1926 Harvard expedition film shot in Liberia; Ginsburg’s chapter explores the repurposing of Nazi medical films by disability activists. Both chapters examine what can happen when colonial and totalitarian impulses to collect, classify, and control are repurposed by those whose ancestors were once the objects of that documentary gaze.
For the readings and more information, contact mfernan3@ucsc.edu

The Land Beneath Our Feet: A film by Sarita Siegel & Gregg Mitman
2017-01-09 17:30 - 19:30 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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The IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene presents
The Land Beneath Our Feet: A film by Sarita Siegel & Gregg Mitman
The Land Beneath Our Feet, a film by Sarita Siegel & Gregg Mitman, follows a young Liberian man, uprooted by war, who returns from the USA with never-before-seen footage of Liberia’s past. The uncovered footage is embraced as a national treasure. Depicting a 1926 corporate land grab, it is also an explosive reminder of eroding land rights. In post-conflict Liberia, individuals and communities are pitted against multinational corporations, the government, and each other in life-threatening disputes over land. What can this ghostly footage offer a nation, as it debates radical land reforms that could empower communities to shape a more diverse, stable, and sustainable future?
The film showing will be followed by a conversation with Gregg Mitman & Donna Haraway.
RSVP Here
For more information, contact: mfernan3@ucsc.edu
Co-sponsored by: Institute for Humanities Research, Institute of the Arts and Sciences, Center for Creative Ecologies, Science and Justice Research Center, and Center for Emerging Worlds
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Reading seminar with Dr. Gregg Mitman
Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record
January 10, 2017 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Humanities 1, Room 210

Michael Chabon: "Moonglow"
2016-12-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Peace United Church, 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Telegraph Avenue) for an offsite book talk and signing of Moonglow, his first novel in four years.
Moonglow takes the form of a grandfather’s deathbed confession to his grandson and covers the course of the 20th century. It is a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure and the forces that work to destroy us.

“Chabon’s most beautifully realized novel to date …. a masterful and resounding novel of the dark and blazing forces that forged our tumultuous, confounding, and precious world.” —Booklist, starred review
“Luminous…. The story builds to core revelations of wartime horror and postwar heartbreak as powerful as they come.” —Library Journal, starred review
“With clean prose and a candid tone, Chabon narrates the questionable deathbed confession of a character referred to only as ‘my grandfather.’ Although the ratio of truth to fiction in this compelling tale may never be known, Moonglow is an engaging, existential adventure through the speculative past of an enigmatic figure.” –Aric, Bookshop staff

This special offsite event, cosponsored by UCSC’s Institute for Humanities Research, will take place at Peace United Church, 900 High Street, Santa Cruz.
TICKET PACKAGES: Ticket packages are $32.53, and include one copy of Moonglow and two tickets to the event. Purchase tickets below (or at Bookshop), while supplies last.
Purchase tickets at BookshopSantaCruz.com

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Nicole Vandermeer
2016-12-02 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“Writing Hawai’i into the Nation: Narrative Re-mapping in Mark Twain’s Letter’s s a Colonial Prelude to Annexation”
This portion of my dissertation project examines the 1866 letters written by Mark Twain (while dispatched by The Sacramento Union in Hawai’i) as engaged in the colonial process of cartographic incorporation by encouraging American ambitions in, and imaginings of, Hawai’i as a space for continuing expansion westward. In viewing the letters through the lens of cartography, their function as re-making Hawai’i into an American space by re-drawing the imagined boundaries of the US to extend to the islands highlights the importance of narrating place as an essential step in the violence of colonial inclusion via dis-recognition of Indigenous Sovereignty.

Friday Forum Fall 2016 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
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.
October 14th- Mikki Stelder, Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness
October 21st- Kali Rubaii, Anthropology
October 28th- Mitchell Winter, HAVC
November 4th- Hahkyung Darline Kim, Film and Digital Media
November 18th- Sophi Pappenheim, Literature
December 2nd- Nicole Vandermeer, History

Engaging Precarity: A Seminar with Marcel Paret
2016-12-02 11:00 - 13:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Inaugurating Session II of Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz’s 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture, labor scholar Marcel Paret of the University of Utah and University of Johannesburg leads a seminar on Guy Standing’s concept of the precariat. Professor Standing of the School of Oriental and African Studies takes part in a half-day symposium on labor mobility and precarity with Alejandro Grimson of Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Buenos Aires and Biao Xiang of the University of Oxford on Tuesday, February 7, 2017, at the Merrill Cultural Center.
Session II of Non-citizenship focuses on global labor mobility and rising precarity, two concepts that highlight the broad and tiered spaces between citizen and non-citizen and their consequences. Linking labor mobility and precarity and holding them in dynamic tension is the notion of denizenship (residence without citizenship). Precarity—the experience of insecurity and constant risk of exclusion—is also central to the experience of many labor migrants and citizen-workers in our time. Today’s labor migrants are new denizens, something short of full members. They are differentially incorporated into host societies that desire their labor, but reject their presence. From Irish helots, to Chinese “coolies,” to Mexican Braceros, to Silicon Valley’s high-tech guest workers, mobile laborers with limited rights face new opportunities abroad, along with new forms of vulnerability, contingency, and expendability. Meanwhile, citizen-workers are exposed to new forms of labor precarity as social rights (for example, education, health care, and retirement protection) and access to their benefits are increasingly privatized and made contingent.
*Steve McKay, Associate Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for Labor Studies at UC Santa Cruz, will moderate the seminar with Professor Paret.

Marcel Paret is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Utah and Senior Research Associate with the South African Research Chair in Social Change at the University of Johannesburg. His research examines the politics of class formation and how they vary over time and across space. He is especially interested in globalization and marketization, race and migration, labor and social movements, protest and community politics, and the causes and consequences of precarity. He is the author of numerous articles and editor of “Politics of Precarity: Critical Engagements with Guy Standing,” a speical issue of Global Labor Journal (Vol. 7, No. 2 [2016]).
Steve McKay is an internationally renowned scholar of labor, migration, globalization, and race; and author of the award-winning Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands: The Politics of High-tech Production in the Philippines (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006) and co-editor with Sukanya Bannerjee and Aims McGuinness of New Routes for Diaspora Studies (Indiana University Press, 2012). He is the principal investigator of Working for Dignity, a project on low-wage labor in Santa Cruz County, and is now working on a study of the affordable housing crisis in Santa Cruz County. In addition to serving on the CLRC Steering Committee, he directs the Center for Labor Studies and is also a co-principal investigator of Non-citizenship.

Please make sure to register here by Monday November 21,2016.
Attendees are also asked to read the following essays prior to the seminar:
Guy Standing, “Denizens and the Precariat,” in A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), 1-32.
Marcel Paret, “Politics of Solidarity and Agency in an Age of Precarity,” Global Labor Journal Vol. 7, No. 2 (2016): 174-188.
Judith Butler, “Performativity, Precarity and Sexual Politics,” AIBR Vol. 4, No. 3 (2009): 1-13.

PhD+: Meet our Public Fellows
2016-12-02 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join us for our next PhD+ Workshop on December 2nd where we will hear from our fist cohort of Public Fellows. These fellowships provide the opportunity for Humanities doctoral students to contribute to research, programming, communications and fundraising at non-profit organizations, cultural institutions, or companies and are meant to allow the students to apply and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study.
The 9 fellows below will share with us their summer experiences and will be able to help serve as mentors for those of you who are considering applying for the program going forward.
IHR Public Fellows:
David Donley, Philosophy (Santa Cruz County Jail)
Kendra Dority, Literature (Public Scholar funded by IHR and UCHRI and associated with the UC Davis Mellon-funded program)
Ashley Herum, Literature (Santa Cruz Shakespeare)
Kara Hisatake, Literature (Japanese American Museum of San Jose)
Sarah Papazoglakis, Literature (California Humanities)
Katie Trostel, Literature (The Center for the Study of the Holocaust & Religious Minorities in Oslo)
Vivian Underhill, Feminist Studies (Northern Alaska Environmental Center)
Claire Urbanski, Feminist Studies (Arizona State Museum)
Taylor Wondergem, Feminist Studies (Cabrillo College)
Lunch will be served.
Please RSVP below.

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PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss:
possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Baskin Ethics Lecture with Fania Davis: Restorative Justice: A Relational, Healing, and Radical Practice
2016-12-01 19:00 - 20:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Restorative Justice: A Relational, Healing, and Radical Practice
Fania Davis will discuss Restorative Justice origins, principles, practices, and critical issues, with a focus on the ongoing project in Oakland, California. She will address RJ’s origins in indigenous cosmology as well as its kinship with feminist and relational theory. The talk will also explore RJ’s intersections with abolitionism, #BlackLivesMatter, and movements to end sexual violence.

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Fania Davis, Executive Director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY)
About Fania: Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY) Executive Director, Fania Davis, is an African-American woman, long-time social justice activist, a restorative justice scholar and professor, and a civil rights attorney with a Ph.D. in indigenous knowledge. Coming of age in Birmingham, Alabama during the social ferment of the civil rights era, the murder of two close childhood friends in the 1963 Sunday School bombing crystallized within Fania’s passionate commitment to social transformation. For the next decades, she was active in the civil rights, Black liberation, women’s, prisoners’, peace, socialist, anti-imperialist, anti-racial violence and anti-apartheid movements. After receiving her law degree from University of California, Berkeley in 1979, Fania practiced almost 27 years as a civil rights trial lawyer. During the late 1990’s, she entered a Ph.D. program in indigenous studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and apprenticed with traditional healers around the globe, particularly in Africa. Fania has since taught Restorative Justice and Indigenous Peacemaking at graduate and undergraduate levels. Founding Director of RJOY, Fania has also served as counsel to the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. Honors include the Ubuntu Service to Humanity award, the Maloney award recognizing exceptional contributions in youth-based restorative justice, World Trust’s Healing Justice award. She was recently named by the Los Angeles Times as a New Civil Rights Leader of the 21st Century. Fania is also a mother, grandmother, dancer, and practitioner of yoga.

About the Peggy Downes Baskin Endowed Lecture in Ethics:
Peggy Downes Baskin, PhD is an author, university professor, photograph and philanthropist. She graduated from Vassar Magna cum laude in 1953. Thirty years later she earned a doctoral degree in politics from the Claremont Graduate school of Government. She went on to infuse her professional career at Santa Clara University and The University of California, Santa Cruz with her core interests, originating courses on The Politics of Aging, Women & Power, and Presidential Management Styles.
Peggy and her husband Jack Baskin generously endowed a humanities fund in honor of her longtime interest in ethical issues across the disciplines, the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics. “There are so many areas in which ethical problems arise—in journalism, politics, medicine—and the endowment emphasizes the need to address these issues in a cross-disciplinary context,” Peggy said.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Cleo Woelfle-Erskine
2016-12-01 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Queer x Trans x Feminist x Ecology: Toward a Field Science Practice”
Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow
Ecologist are on the front line of the sixth mass extinction, as intimates die at alarming rates. What radical politics and transformative potentials can arise from witnessing these transgressive intimacies, even or especially among more-than-human others dying because of human (in)action? I search for signs of resistant ‘world making’ (Munoz) in ephemeral moments where scientist were able to speak their grief at extinction and love for their study species, through three cases: (1) scientists’ field photos and captions circulated during a twitter #cuteoff, (2) my own encounters with dead salmon during ecological field studies, and (3) “Tell A Salmon Your Troubles,” an interactive performance in which scientist confessed their troubles about data, habitat loss, and extinction to a silent yet responsive salmon character. I explore resonance between queer and trans theory and indigenous theory that foregrounds multispecies ethics and relational practices, and consider how field ecologist can challenge settler ontologies and epistemologies embedded in scientific and environmental management practices.
Dr.Cleo Woelfle-Erskine is an ecologist, hydrologist, writer, and scholar of water, working with mentor Karen Barad to explore queer, transgender, and decolonial possibilities for ecological science. In July 2017, he will join the faculty of the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs at the University of Washington, Seattle as Assistant Professor of Equity and Environmental Justice.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series Fall 2016 Schedule:
October 13th: Sara Mameni, “Ethnofuturism and the Archeology of the Future”
November 3rd: Redi Koobak, “Rethinking Gender, Art & Geopolitics through Post-national War Rhetoric”
December 1st: Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, “Queer x Trans x Ecology: Toward a Field Science Practice”

WHAT GOES UP, MUST COME DOWN: Contemporary Activist Scholarship
2016-12-01 12:20 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
We hope you can join us for this speaker series jointly hosted by Feminist Studies & the History of Consciousness, with support from the Center for Cultural Studies.

AK Thompson
Epistemologies of the Visual From Raphael to Late Capital: Some Observations Regarding Keywords for Radicals and Data Visualization
Thursday, DECEMBER 1 | 12:20-2:00 | HUM 210; UCSC
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Friday, DECEMBER 2 | 6-8pm | SUB ROSA 703 Pacific Ave, Downtown Santa Cruz
Since the visual turn in the social sciences at the beginning of the twenty-first century, images have become important points of engagement both as objects and as modes of analysis. For this reason, along with its 50+ entries exploring the keywords used by contemporary activists, Keywords for Radicals (AK Press 2016) incorporates data visualization to show how the “vocabulary” shared by radicals constitutes a kind of self-supporting small world network.
Such visualizations can help readers to map how the project’s vocabulary “works” and how struggles over word usage and meaning might most effectively be carried out. But while data visualization of this kind can be useful, it also raises significant epistemological questions about the relationship between representation and what’s real.
In this presentation, Keywords for Radicals editor AK Thompson will discuss the theoretical and aesthetic foundations of the project’s data visualization in order to evaluate the promise and perils of this technique in the age of the infographic.
AK Thompson got kicked out of high school for publishing an underground newspaper called The Agitator and has been an activist, writer, and social theorist ever since. Currently teaching social theory at Fordham University, his publications include Black Bloc, White Riot: Anti-Globalization and the Genealogy of Dissent (2010) and Sociology for Changing the World: Social Movements/Social Research (2006). Between 2005 and 2012, he served on the Editorial Committee of Upping The Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action.
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Jordi Aladro "Maria Magdalena: de la santa a la prostituta"
2016-11-30 17:15 - 18:45 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Desde su primera representación en el año 230 en Europos hasta Joaquin Sabina, pasando por Dan Brown y Martin Scorsese, la santa de Magdala ha sido la mujer sin rostro: invención de teólogos, fantasía de misóginos, amor y temblor de poetas. Del medioevo al barroco y de ahi a la modernidad, la cristiandad la ha representado como espejo y reflejo de sus contradicciones.

Jordi Aladro-Font is a professor of Spanish literature in the Literature Department at the University of California Santa Cruz. He is most recently the author of Fray Blas y Verdú, San Raimundo de Peñafort y La Conversión de Santa María Magdalena (2012) and Pedro de Chaves, Libro de la Conversión de Santa María Magdalena (2009).

*This talk will be in Spanish.

Spatial Humanities & Digital Humanities Reading Group: Enchanting the Desert
2016-11-29 16:00 - 18:00 | Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library
The Spatial Humanities interest group is hosting the first reading group event of the quarter. Explore the Stanford Press publication, Enchanting the Desert, and discuss the work with a group of faculty, graduate students and staff investigating how digital tools can enable visualization, representation and analysis of spatial questions.
*Event will be hosted at the Digital Scholarship Commons at the McHenry Library ground level.
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The Devil's Wheels: Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic
2016-11-29 11:40 - 13:15 | Rachel Carson College, Room 301, Rachel Carson College 1156 High Stree, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“The Devil’s Wheels Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic” by Sasha Disko
During the high days of modernization fever, among the many disorienting changes Germans experienced in the Weimar Republic was an unprecedented mingling of consumption and identity: increasingly, what one bought signaled who one was. Exemplary of this volatile dynamic was the era’s burgeoning motorcycle culture. With automobiles largely a luxury of the upper classes, motorcycles complexly symbolized masculinity and freedom, embodying a widespread desire to embrace progress as well as profound anxieties over the course of social transformation. Through its richly textured account of the motorcycle as both icon and commodity, The Devil’s Wheels teases out the intricacies of gender and class in the Weimar years.

Sasha Disko is a historian and independent scholar. She is an alumnus of UCSC (BA in History and German Studies, 1997) and received her PhD in History from New York University. She has been living and working in Germany since 2008. Her research interests include the history of motorization, industrialization, business administration, and leisure. She currently lives in Hamburg, Germany.

Linguistics Colloquium: Kie Zuraw
2016-11-18 14:40 - 15:40 | Humanities 2, Room 259
The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.
Fall 2016
Nov 18: Kie Zuraw, UCLA
Winter 2017
February 7: TBA
March TBD: LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz
Spring 2016
April 14: Junko Ito, UC Santa Cruz
April 28: Ashwini Deo, Yale
May 26: Susan Lin, UC Berkeley
May/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Sophie PappenheimBlack
2016-11-18 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“Black Storm Clouds and a Queer Yellow Light: Reading the Affective Edges of Symbolism in Maru”
My project is to read postcolonial novels that have typically been analyzed as representations of postcolonial politics and instead attend to the nonrepresentational aspects of their language: namely, their affect and literariness. In this talk I focus on Bessie Head’s novella Maru (1971), which itself is concerned with identity, racial prejudice, and tribal politics, as well as representation as mode of signification and figuration, and which has often been read as an allegorical romance. I argue that reading the effect of the novel’s language against its symbolism troubles this allegory and thus appeals for a new mode of politics.

Friday Forum Fall 2016 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
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.
October 14th- Mikki Stelder, Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness
October 21st- Kali Rubaii, Anthropology
October 28th- Mitchell Winter, HAVC
November 4th- Hahkyung Darline Kim, Film and Digital Media
November 18th- Sophi Pappenheim, Literature
December 2nd- Nicole Vandermeer, History

Marc Matera: "The Global 1930s: The International Decade"
2016-11-17 13:30 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The 1930s usually conjure up images of Soviet show trials, jack-booted, brown-shirted German fascists, and breadlines and the dustbowl in the United States. The decade is also associated with the failure of internationalism in the face of economic depression and militaristic nationalisms. Certainly these form part of the picture, but a Europe- and North American-centered view obscures and distorts the broader global context of which they were an integral part. A global perspective on the 1930s not only decenters Europe and the United States but also reveals that, despite incipient or resurgent expressions of the national principle, internationalist impulses and transnational connections better characterize the dynamics of the period.
This talk comes from the forthcoming book, The Global 1930s, which Professor Matera coauthored with Professor Susan Kingsley Kent. The book treats the 1930s as the international decade, focusing particularly on internationalism—as Western imperialists, socialists and communists, and anticolonial activists/intellectuals conceptualized it—to foregrounds the role that imperialism played in fostering global relations at the same time that it destabilized the European world order. Transcolonial connections and anticolonial internationalisms motivated, kindled, and inspired developments that set the stage for decolonization and movements for international standards for human and civil rights that are usually associated with the decades following the Second World War. Postwar conceptions of development, citizenship, and sovereignty, however attenuated, emerged through and in response to the struggles of colonized and semicolonial populations across the global South and in imperial metropoles during the 1930s.
Organized by the IHR Research Center for World History.

Robin Hunicke: “The Art of Feel Engineering: Design, Art, Games & Playable Media at UCSC”
2016-11-16 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Robin Hunicke’s practice focuses on creating boundary-expanding, experimental game experiences by combining unique concepts and technologies. She works to create games that deliver unexpected emotional outcomes to players. This includes games that are peaceful and introspective, creative and healing as well as experiences that encourage intergenerational and international communication and play.
Hunicke is Associate Professor of Digital Arts & New Media at UC Santa Cruz.

The Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee, tea, and cookies.

Clive Sinclair: "One City, Seven Shylocks: Venice’s Most Famous Son Comes Home"
2016-11-14 17:30 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Event Podcast:

“In my time I have seen many Shylocks …..
But never before have I seen seven Shylocks on a single day.”
Clive Sinclair is the author of fourteen books; one of which won the Somerset Maugham Award, another both the PEN Silver Pen and the Jewish Quarterly Prize for Fiction. His fifteenth – a work in progress – is a collection of stories, each orbiting the Merchant of Venice. He lives in London with the artist Haidee Becker. On the 21st of October his article on the Ghetto and the performance of Merchant of Venice and the mock trial of Shylock vs Antonio presided over by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was published in the London Times Literary Supplement.
The Ghetto of Venice by Clive Sinclair
Free and open to the public
Sponsored by: Shakespeare Workshop, Literature Department, Center for Jewish Studies, and the Institute for Humanities Research

Living Writers: Peter Orner
2016-11-10 17:20 - 19:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Peter Orner is the author of two story collections, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge and Esther Stories, and two novels, Love and Shame and Love and The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo. He has received the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Pushcart Prizes, and was a finalist for both the PEN/Hemingway Award. and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Paris Review, the Atlantic, and Best American Stories. Orner has received Guggenheim and Lannan Foundation Fellowships, as well as a Fulbright to Namibia. A faculty member at San Francisco State University and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, he has taught at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the University of Montana, and Northwestern University. He lives in San Francisco and Bolinas, California.
Living Writers is an series of events that are free to students and the public, and happens every Thursday night from 6-7:45pm in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. This series will be focusing on fiction writers as well as film makers. It’s going to be an exciting series and we hope to see you there! For more details, please email us at cwintern@gmail.com
Readings sponsored by The Humanities Division, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Literature Department and Poets and Writers Inc.

The Immigrant Youth Movement and the Fight Against Deportations: A Talk with Dr. Kent Wong
2016-11-10 13:00 - 14:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Dr. Kent Wong is the author and editor of DREAMS DEPORTED: Immigrant Youth and Families Resist Deportation, a UCLA student publication featuring stories of deportation and of the courageous immigrant youth and families who have led the national campaign against deportations and successfully challenged the president of the United States to act.

Kent Wong is the director of the UCLA Labor Center, where he teaches labor studies and ethnic studies. For more than 50 years, the UCLA Labor Center has played a critical role as a research, education, and policy center on work and labor. Kent previously worked as staff attorney for the Service Employees International Union in Los Angeles, and was the first staff attorney for the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, now Advancing Justice. Kent Wong served as the founding president of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO, and the founding president of the United Association for Labor Education. He is co-chair of the California Speaker’s Commission on Labor Education, and is a vice-president of the California Federation of Teachers. Kent has published numerous books on immigrant workers, immigrant students, organizing, popular education, and the new U.S. labor movement. He frequently speaks at labor, civil rights, university, and student conferences in the United States as well as internationally. He has been involved in global labor initiatives in the Pacific Rim, including China, Vietnam, Japan, Korea, Canada, Mexico and Central America. Kent Wong’s most recent publications are Dreams Deported – Immigrant Youth and Families Resist Deportation, and Nonviolence and Social Movements, the Teachings of Rev. James L. Lawson Jr.

Joan Wallach Scott: “Sex and Secularism”
2016-11-09 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Joan Wallach Scott’s recent books, including The Fantasy of Feminist History (2011), focus on the relationship of the particularity of gender to the universalizing force of democratic politics. Her recent work tracks the mutually constitutive operations of gender and politics by examining the discourses of secularism from their nineteenth century anti-clerical origins to their current deployment in anti-Muslim campaigns.
Scott is Professor Emerita of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University.
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Emerging Worlds
The Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee, tea, and cookies.
Fall 2016 Colloquium Dates
November 16 Robin Hunicke

From Concept to Project: A Digital Mapping Workshop for Graduate Students with Yoh Kawano
2016-11-04 13:30 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 402
Are you developing a digital map but feel unsure about your next steps? Or, having trouble reconciling the complexity of spatial theory with the nuts-and-bolts of GIS?
Graduate students interested in mapping and integrating spatial thinking into their research should consider joining this workshop with Yoh Kawano. Kawano is the GIS Specialist at UCLA and a lecturer in Urban Planning and Public Policy. With a 14 year career in GIS, Kawano has contributed to projects for urban planning, emergency preparedness, disaster relief, volunteerism, archaeology, and the digital humanities. He is a co-author of Hypercities: Thick mapping in the digital humanities.
Our objective is to work through some of the challenges that arise when trying to bring complex topics to life as digital projects. During the workshop, Yoh Kawano will work with grad students to help identify and troubleshoot some of the hurdles that arise when planning and executing a map-based projecur objective is to work through some of the challenges that arise when trying to bring complex topics to life as digital projects.
*If you are interested in participating, send a 300-word description of the project you are currently developing to Rachel Deblinger. In this description, please indicate what stage the project is currently in, and a question or challenge related to your project that you would like to discuss in the workshop. If available, please include information about the project platform, data, or a project URL.
Yoh Kawano
Yoh Kawano came to Los Angeles and UCLA in 1995 after living across the globe, in 5 different countries. At UCLA he works at the GIS and Visualization Sandbox as a member of the Research Technology Group for the Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE), serving as the Campus GIS Coordinator. He has supervised projects in urban planning, emergency preparedness, disaster relief, volunteerism, archaeology, and the digital humanities. Current research and projects involve the geo-spatial web, visualization of temporal and spatial data, and creating systems that leverage social media and web services in conjunction with traditional information systems. In the fall of 2015, Yoh enrolled in the PhD program at UCLA’s Department of Urban Planning, where he is pursuing his research on how nuclear power plants transform communities. Yoh has co-authored “Hypercities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities”, published in 2014 via Harvard Press. Yoh has an MA in Urban Planning from UCLA and a BA in Sociology from the International Christian University (ICU) in Tokyo.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Hahkyung Darline Kim
2016-11-04 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“Historicizing Interviews: A Mode of (Re)living and (Re)writing Memories of the Korean War through Documentary”
How can we write a history of the officially unsaid and the unsayable? My talk focuses on the case of the Korean War whose language of antagonism and ideological conflict remains very much alive in Korean society today. I will present parts of MemoRandom, my most recent documentary project based on inconsistent accounts of events during the war involving an alleged communist family, and examine the potential to simulate the perception/ production of historical knowledge through artful mediations of interviews. The project explores the allegorical dimension of interviews- ‘indicated’ stories of/by the individual-as a historiographical tool in documentary.

Friday Forum Fall 2016 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
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.
October 14th- Mikki Stelder, Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness
October 21st- Kali Rubaii, Anthropology
October 28th- Mitchell Winter, HAVC
November 4th- Hahkyung Darline Kim, Film and Digital Media
November 18th- Sophi Pappenheim, Literature
December 2nd- Nicole Vandermeer, History

PhD+: Research Off the Tenure Track
2016-11-04 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
November’s PhD+ workshop focuses on opportunities for research in careers not on the tenure track. Join us for a discussion led by Elaine Sullivan (History) with Yoh Kawano (UCLA, GIS Specialist and lecturer in Urban Planning and Public Policy) and Rachel Deblinger (Director, Digital Scholarship Commons) to consider the multiple forms that fulfilling, meaningful, and impactful research can take. We will discuss what research looks like in non-traditional academic jobs, exploring the potential of collaborative projects, negotiating research time, and being an intellectual partner other people’s research.
Lunch will be served, as always.
Please RSVP below.
PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss:
possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.
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Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Joseph Stroud
2016-11-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Cabrillo College Room 450
Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Joseph Stroud
Thursday, November 3, 2016
6:00 pm
Cabrillo College, Room 450 (Forum)
EVENT PHOTOS: by Lorraine Padgett
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First Song
That long ago morning at Ruth’s farm when I hid in the wisteria and watched hummingbirds. I thought the ruby or gold that gleamed on their throats was the honeyed blood of flowers. They would stick their piercing beaks into a crown of petals until their heads disappeared. The blossoms blurred into wings, and the breathing I heard was the thin, moving stems of wisteria. That night, my face pressed against the window, I looked out into the dark where the moon drowned in the willows by the pond. My heart, bloodstone, turned. That long night, the farm, those jeweled birds, all these gone years. The horses standing quiet and huge in the moon crossing blackness.
Joseph Stroud is the author of five books of poetry: In the Sleep of Rivers, Signatures, Below Cold Mountain, Country of Light, and the most recent, Of This World, New & Selected Poems, which was selected by the San Francisco Poetry Center as the outstanding book by an American poet for the year 2010. It was also short-listed for the PEN Literary Award USA and the Commonwealth California Book of the Year. His work has earned a Pushcart Prize, has been featured on American Public Media’s “The Writer’s Almanac,” and he has appeared as a guest poet on “A Prairie Home Companion.” His awards include the Witter Bynner Fellowship in Poetry from the Library of Congress, the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the prestigious Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Redi Koobak
2016-11-03 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Rethinking Gender, Art & Geopolitic through Post-national War Rhetoric”
Redi Koobak, Assitant Professor, Linkoping University, Sweden
After its 50-year occupation by the Soviets, current political disclosure in Estonia revolves around the importance of proving that despite being small, Estonia is courages and highly reliable NATO ally to defend against the historically perceived threat from Russia. For example, Estonia’s participation in Afghanistan missions was presented as self-evident and largely unquestioned both in parliament and in the media. In this context, it is difficult to find counter-narratives to war in public discourse, with implications for understandings of gender, geopolitics, and nationalism. In search of voices that question the general consensus about Estonia’s participation in NATO missions, I zoom in on the artworks of Estonian artist Maarit Murka who was invited to visit Estonian troops in Afghanistan on the commission of the Estonian Military Museum. Pondering upon three exhibitions she made as a result of her trip, I explore how artistic interventions might denaturalize gendered and nationalized notions of violence and justifications for war.
Redi Koobak is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Thematic Studies- Gender Studies at Linking University, Sweden, where she also defended her dissertation, Whirling Stories: Postsocialist Feminist Imaginaries and the Visual Arts (Linking University Press, 2013). She is a visiting scholar and lecturer in the Feminist Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz during Fall 2016.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series Fall 2016 Schedule:
October 13th: Sara Mameni,”Ethnofuturism and the Archeology of the Future”
November 3rd: Redi Koobak,”Rethinking Gender, Art & Geopolitics through Post-national War Rhetoric”
December 1st: Cleo Woelfle-Erskine,”Queer x Trans x Ecology: Toward a Field Science Practice”

Anna Tsing & Isabelle Carbonell: “‘Golden Snail Opera’: The More-than-human Performance of Friendly Farming on Taiwan’s Lanyang Plain”
2016-11-02 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Written by Anna Tsing, Isabelle Carbonell, Joelle Chevrier and Yen-ling Tsai (Associate Professor of Anthropology at National Chaio Tung University Taiwan), Golden Snail Opera combines video and performance-oriented text into a genre-bending o-pei-la. This piece is a multispecies enactment of experimental natural history considering the “golden treasure snail,” imported to Taiwan in 1979, which is now major pest of rice agriculture. Whereas farmers in the Green Revolution’s legacy use poison to exterminate snails, a new generation of “friendly farmers” attempts to insert farming as one among many multispecies life ways within the paddy.
Anna Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz and Co-Director of Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA).
Isabelle Carbonell is a PhD student in Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz and a documentary filmmaker.
The Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee, tea, and cookies.
Fall 2016 Colloquium Dates
November 2 Anna Tsing / Isbelle Carbonell
November 9 Joan Wallach Scott
November 16 Robin Hunicke

Ronaldo V. Wilson: "Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other"
2016-11-01 17:30 - 19:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Ronaldo V. Wilson is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (2008), Poems of the Black Object (2009), and Lucy 72 (2015). He is co-founder of the Black Took Collective, and is currently Associate Professor of Poetry, Fiction, and Literature at UC Santa Cruz.
Farther Traveler is an expansive, complex hybrid of poetry, prose, and memoir. Wilson writes of loss, desire, abjection and radical possibility, traversing and transgressing boundaries of genre to produce a searing meditation on race, sexuality, and contemporary culture.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Mitchell Winter
2016-10-28 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“Polemics of Disintegration: Advaita Metaphysics in the Works of Alejandro Jodorowsky”
The Chilean artist Alejandro Jodorowsky (b. 1929) often engages with non-linearity and non-sense as narrative devices in his work. Throughout his career Jodorowsky’s thematic repertoire has adopted elements of the Kabbalistic science of the Marseille tarot, European alchemy, and New Age formulations of Hindu and Zen Buddhist thought. I attempt to trave the genealogical articulation of Jodorowsky’s brand of filmmaking and artistic practice by working through his depiction of Hindu, specifically Advaita (non-dualist), philosophy in two films, The Holy Mountain (1973) and The Dance of Reality (2013). Far from appealing to an Orientalist aesthetic, Jodorowsky incorporates Advaita conceptions of indeterminacy which “uses this disintegration {of meaning} and constructs order out of it.

Friday Forum Fall 2016 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
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.
October 14th- Mikki Stelder, Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness
October 21st- Kali Rubaii, Anthropology
October 28th- Mitchell Winter, HAVC
November 4th- Hahkyung Darline Kim, Film and Digital Media
November 18th- Sophi Pappenheim, Literature
December 2nd- Nicole Vandermeer, History

PhD+: Networking and The Versatile PhD
2016-10-28 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Institute for Humanities Research and the Career Center Present
PhD+: Networking and Versatile PhD
Friday, October 28, 2016
Humanities 1, Room 210
11 am – 12:30 pm
Panelists:
Christina Hall, Career Advisor for Graduate Students in the Arts and Humanities, Career Center
Whitney deVos, PhD Candidate Literature; GSR, Institute for Humanities Research; Peer Advisor, Career Center
Networking. It can seem like an ugly word, conjuring up images of used car salesman and shady political quid pro quo. Yet, no tool is more powerful when it comes to conquering the competitive academic job market or navigating the unfamiliar world of work within private industry. This interactive, discussion-based workshop will focus on helping you develop concrete strategies to develop your social capital while still remaining your authentic self.
We’ll also spend time exploring the Versatile PhD, an online networking and information site geared to PhDs looking for opportunities in private industry, non-profit, and government sectors, as well as The Professor is In, From PhD to Life, and other resources that can help you explore a variety of post-PhD career paths, within, alongside, and outside of the academy.
What kinds of professionalization and career preparation should the University provide? We want to hear your thoughts!
Lunch will be provided. Open to all graduate students but limited to 50 attendees. Please register below.
PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss:
possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.
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Film Screening: "Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels" (Non-citizenship series)
2016-10-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Del Mar Theatre
The Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research present an event in the series on Non-citizenship
Historians and filmmakers Philip Misevich and Konrad Tuchscherer of St. John’s University join UC Santa Cruz’s David Anthony and Greg O’Malley in a conversation about forced migration at this free, public screening of “Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels,” 2016 winner of the American Historical Association’s John E. O’Connor Film Award.
EVENT PHOTOS: by Allison Garcia

About the Film
Ghost of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels by Tony Buba is based on Marcus Rediker’s The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (Viking-Penguin, 2012). It chronicles a trip to Sierra Leone in 2013 to visit the home villages of the people who seized the slave schooner Amistad in 1839, to interview elders about local memory of the case, and to search for the long-lost ruins of Lomboko, the slave trading factory where their cruel transatlantic voyage began. The film uses the knowledge of villagers, fishermen, and truck drivers to recover a lost history from below in the struggle against slavery.
“This film is an ambitious and imaginative attempt to explore the impact of the Amistad Mutiny and the repatriation of the brave Africans to their homes in Sierra Leone. It is of great interest to any student of slavery and the slave trade.” – Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University
Location:
Del Mar Theatre, 1124 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA
Event details:
Film at 7:00pm
Q&A Discussion at 8:00pm
Greg O’Malley, Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz, moderates the Q&A with Professors Misevich and Tuchscherer immediately following the screening. David Anthony, Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz, opens and closes the evening.
Admission:
Free and open to the public, but attendees are kindly asked to register in advance.
REGISTER HERE
Guest Speakers
David Anthony, Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz, researches and teaches on African and African-American history, art, music, literature, and cinema; eastern and southern Africa; African Languages; the Indian Ocean wold; African and African American linkages; African diaspora studies; Islamic civilization; and world history. He is the author of numerous publications, including Max Yergan: Race Man, Internationalist, Cold Warrior (New York University Press, 2006).
Philip Misevich is Assistant Professor of History at St. John’s University. He specializes in the study of the slave trade and the development of the Atlantic World. His research focuses on the coerced migration of Africans throughout the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. A practioner and developer of digital humanities scholarship, he is co-principal investigator of the African Origins database project and actively works with a team of scholars on Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, a project that details the movement of 35,000 slave vessels.
Greg O’Malley is Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz. His first book, the award-winning Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807 (University of North Carolina Press, 2014), explores a neglected aspect of the forced migration of African laborers to the Americas. He is co-principal investigator of the NEH-funded “Final Passages Intra-American Slave Trade Database,” which documents more than 7,600 individual shipments of enslaved people between American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He is also conducting research for a new book, The Escapes of David George: One Man’s Struggle with Slavery and Freedom in the Revolutionary Era.
Konrad Tuchscherer, Associate Professor of History and Director of Africana Studies at St. John’s University, is a specialist in African history and languages. His interests include nineteenth and twentieth century West Africa, colonialism in Africa, and Gullah history in South Carolina and Georgia. His research experience in Africa includes Egypt, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and The Gambia. He also serves as co-director of the Bamum Scripts and Archives Project at the Bamum Palace in Cameroon.
UCSC Roundtable Discussion
Professors Misevich, Tuchscherer, and O’Malley will also take part in “Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences beyond Academia,” a roundtable on ways in which scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences share our research with audiences beyond academia on Thursday, October 27, 2016, 12:00-2:00pm, in Humanities 1, Room 210. Due to limited space, this roundtable is open to UC Santa Cruz faculty, students, and staff. Faculty, students, and staff should pre-register here.
About Non-citizenship
Non-citizenship is part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture. Linking citizenship, migration, border, labor, and carceral studies, and juxtaposing spatial and social mobility and immobility, this year-long series of events explores what it means to be a citizen and non-citizen in a world made by migrants, refugees, guest workers, permanent residents, asylum seekers, slaves, prisoners, detainees, the stateless, and denizens (residents who do not hold the same rights as citizens). Non-citizenship is organized around three themes: “Forced Migration” (fall 2016), “Labor Mobility and Precarity” (winter 2017), and “Fluidity of Status: Migrants, Citizens, Denizens” (spring 2017). Click here to learn more.

Roundtable Discussion: Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences beyond Academia
2016-10-27 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Philip Misevich and Konrad Tuchscherer are historians at St. John’s University and co-producers of Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels (2014, dir. Tony Buba), the award-winning documentary based on Marcus Rediker’s powerful account of the most successful slave rebellion in American history, The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (Penguin, 2012). Professors Misevich and Tuchscherer join Greg O’Malley, Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz, in a conversation on why scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences should share our research with audiences beyond academia and how we can do so–for example, via film, museum and digital exhibitions, and public databases, such as Professor O’Malley’s NEH-funded “Final Passages Intra-American Slave Trade Database.”
Due to limited space, this event is open to UC Santa Cruz faculty, students, and staff. UC Santa Cruz faculty, students, and staff should register here for the roundtable by Thursday, October 20.
Members of the campus and community are invited to a free, public screening of Ghosts of Amistad at the Del Mar Theatre (1124 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz) on Thursday, October 27, at 7:00pm. Professor O’Malley will moderate a Q&A with Professors Misevich and Tuchscherer immediately following the screening. PLEASE REGISTER HERE FOR THE FILM SCREENING.
This event is co-sposored by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Living Writers: Elizabeth Willis
2016-10-27 05:20 - 19:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Elizabeth Willis’s most recent book, Alive: New and Selected Poems (New York Review Books, 2015), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Other books include Address (Wesleyan, 2011), recipient of the PEN New England prize for poetry; Meteoric Flowers (Wesleyan, 2006); Turneresque (Burning Deck, 2003); and The Human Abstract (Penguin, 1995). Her poems have appeared in recent issues of A Public Space, Hambone, Harpers, The New Yorker, and Poetry. Willis has received support from the Guggenheim Foundation, the California Arts Council, and the Howard Foundation. She recently joined the faculty of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Living Writers is a series of events that are free to students and the public, and happens every Thursday night from 6-7:45pm in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. This series will be focusing on fiction writers as well as filmmakers. It’s going to be an exciting series and we hope to see you there! For more details, please email us at cwintern@gmail.com
11/10 fiction and non-fiction writer Peter Orner, author most recently of Am I Alone Here, a memoir-essay hybrid about living to read/reading to live
Readings sponsored by The Humanities Division, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Literature Department and Poets and Writers Inc.

P. Sainath: "The People's Archive of Rural India"
2016-10-26 14:30 - 16:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
P. Sainath is India’s most highly awarded journalist and a winner of the Ramon Magsayay Prize (often referred to as the ‘Asian Nobel’). The only Indian to win the Magsayay for journalism in 32 years, Sainath was also the first reporter in the world to win Amnesty International’s Global Journalism Prize, and the only Indian winner so far of the European Commission’s Lorenzo Natali prize, the EC’s main award for development and human rights. Last year, he won the first World Media Summit Global Award for Excellence for his 2014 series of field reports on India’s mega water crisis. He is the author of Everybody Loves A Good Drought (2013), and has spent, on average, around 270 days a year in India’s poorest regions, writing from there for the country’s largest newspaper, including The Times of India and The Hindu, of which he was rural editor for a decade.

Alma Heckman: “Absence and Counter-Narratives: The Years of Lead and the Moroccan Jewish Exodus"
2016-10-26 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Alma Rachel Heckman’s research crosses Jewish history, North Africa, French empire and the history of social movements. Her talk emerges from her project “Radical Nationalists: Moroccan Jewish Communists 1925-1975.”
Heckman is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
The Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee, tea, and cookies.
Fall 2016 Colloquium Date
November 2 Anna Tsing / Isbelle Carbonell
November 9 Joan Wallach Scott
November 16 Robin Hunicke

Digital Research Happy Hour
2016-10-25 17:00 - 19:00 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Get to know the DH Research community to learn more about digital research on campus at an informal happy hour. We invite researchers across campus to discuss their work with a short, lightening style presentation. This is an opportunity to share our projects and meet new colleagues.

Interested researchers are encouraged to send 1 slide that represents your digital project to Rachel Deblinger to be accompanied by a short (1 – 2 min) introduction.

2016 Founders Celebration
2016-10-22 18:00 - 21:00 | UCSC Science and Engineering Library
Please join us at Founders Celebration 2016 for a look into the library as a “collision space” where technology, information, and ideas collide to create new knowledge and support dynamic exploration. This is an exclusive opportunity to celebrate and mingle in a special campus location that symbolizes both the excitement of change and the tradition of learning. The evening will include a reception, dinner, and program. Read more »
The awards presentation will include:
Alumni Achievement Award and Keynote Presentation
Julie Snyder (Kresge ’95, politics), contributing editor for This American Life and co-creator and executive producer of the award-winning podcast Serial, which broke records as the fastest podcast ever to reach 5 million iTunes downloads. Read more »
Faculty Research Award
Sandra Chung, professor of linguistics, who has been recognized for her contributions to teaching and research in linguistics; advancing syntax through insights from under-studied languages, notably Chamorro; and engaging minority communities in linguistic research. Read more »
Fiat Lux Award
Claudia and Alec Webster (College Eight ’02), major UC Santa Cruz philanthropists whose gifts have had a dramatic impact on campus. Their generous donation enabled UC Santa Cruz to restore the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn—revitalizing the main campus entrance—and strengthen programs in sustainable agriculture, linking the larger community to the UC Santa Cruz Farm & Garden. Further gifts established two new endowed chairs. Read more »
Ticket options
Individual tickets: $195 each
Deluxe package: $1,000 (2 dinner ticket and a Ansel Adams commemorative print of the UC Santa Cruz Campus)
Purchase a table: $1,950 (10 seats)
Questions: email specialevents@ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-5003

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kali Rubaii
2016-10-21 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“Enemy Inside Out: Birth Defects in Fallujah”
Hotly debated and widely misunderstood is the epidemic of birth defects in Fallujah, Iraq. While the possibility of knowing the exact cause of this epidemic is diluted by ongoing war, layers of chemical toxicity, and mass displacement/destruction of doctors, patients, and medical facilities; the surrounding enviro-medical discourse is informative. It indexes a broader debate about the politics of scientific research: guilt, responsibility, and the question of reparations to the Iraq people in the ongoing “aftermath” of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq are all at intimate play in the epidemiological research. This paper explores the story of a scientific debate, tracing not only the trajectories of toxicity that arrived in Anbar since 2003, but also the trajectories of political interest surrounding major epidemiological studies conducted on the subsequent “sea of birth defects” in Fallujah.

Friday Forum Fall 2016 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
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.
October 14th- Mikki Stelder, Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness
October 21st- Kali Rubaii, Anthropology
October 28th- Mitchell Winter, HAVC
November 4th- Hahkyung Darline Kim, Film and Digital Media
November 18th- Sophi Pappenheim, Literature
December 2nd- Nicole Vandermeer, History

California Semantics and Pragmatics 9 (CUSP)
2016-10-21 - 2016-10-22 | Humanities 2, Room 259
CUSP 9 will be held at UC Santa Cruz on October 21-22, 2016. Established in 2009, CUSP serves as a venue for researchers in semantics and pragmatics to exchange ideas and receive feedback in a small, friendly, collaborative environment.
For more information visit http://linguistics.ucsc.edu

Living Writers: Alfredo Vea
2016-10-20 17:20 - 19:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Alfredo Vea
Alfredo Véa was born in the desert outside of Phoenix, but not in America. His grandfather was a Yaqui Indian, his grandmother was a Spanish-Mexican curandera who had played piano in silent movie theaters. Their grass covered adobe house stood at the epicenter of hundreds of tarpaper shacks built by Okies and Arkies. There were Apaches, Tarahumara, Navajo, Hindus and black folk everywhere, waiting for trucks to take them to the cotton fields. While his mother barely endured life in this impoverished Babel, her son lived in a wonderland. He luxuriated in the sound of Uto-aztecan, Athabascan, Dravidian and drawl—and the sounds of bible thumping and jive. After ten years or so he was dragged away to work on the migratory labor circuit in California, the land of stucco houses and aluminum window frames. All of it was drudgery until he began working in vineyards. Then he was ripped away from the vines to become a soldier, enslaved in Vietnam. Today, he is an attorney in San Francisco. If you ask him who he is he will never say “lawyer” or “writer.” Touch him and you will find that his skin is adobe. In his dreams, there are goats scuffling about on the roof and he and his grandfather are asleep on a cot under the stars.
Living Writers is a series of events that are free to students and the public, and happens every Thursday night from 6-7:45pm in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. This series will be focusing on fiction writers as well as filmmakers. It’s going to be an exciting series and we hope to see you there! For more details, please email us at cwintern@gmail.com
Living Writers Fall Schedule 2016
9/22 No reading
9/29 Chanan Tigay
10/6 Jennifer Chang
10/13 Michelle Tea
10/20 Alfredo Vea
10/27 Elizabeth Willis
11/3 No reading
11/10 Peter Orner
11/17 No reading
11/24—Thanksgiving
12/1 Student Reading
Readings sponsored by The Humanities Division, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Literature Department and Poets and Writers Inc.

David Landy: "Explanation and Personal Identity in the Appendix to Hume's Treatise"
2016-10-20 15:15 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In the Appendix to his Treatise, Hume famously expresses a deep dissatisfaction with the account of personal identity that he had earlier presented, but offers only the briefest description of what his concern is. Scholars working on this problem have presented a wide variety of suggestions of what Hume might be thinking. I will argue that such scholars have largely overlooked an important clue: the fact that Hume twice presents the problem as one with any theory that purports, “to explain the principles, that unite our successive perceptions in our thought or consciousness.” The key here, I will suggest, lies in understanding Hume’s notion of explanation. The two most prominent accounts of Hume on explanation lie at the extreme ends of an interpretive spectrum, and are both philosophically and exegetically untenable. The first is that scientific explanation aims at nothing more than subsuming particular observations under inductively-established universal generalizations. The second is that Hume makes explanatory appeals to certain substances and causal powers that we cannot in any way represent, but to which we can nonetheless refer. The first gets right Hume’s insistence on the connection of explanation to experience. The second gets right that it is the universal regularities of experience that stand in need of explanation, not that do the explaining. So, I will present a new account of Hume’s understanding of explanation that takes these successes and failures into account, and will show that this interpretation perfectly predicts everything that Hume finds wrong with his account of personal identity.
David Landy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. He works primariy on the history of Modern philosophy, especially Hume and Kant, and also has interests in German Idealism and the work of Wilfrid Sellars.

Geraldine Brooks: "The Secret Chord"
2016-10-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Now out in paperback from Pulitzer Prize winning, bestselling author Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord traces the arc of King David’s journey from obscurity to fame, from shepherd to soldier, from hero to traitor, from beloved king to murderous despot and into his remorseful and diminished dotage. The Secret Chord has received critical acclaim; The Chicago Tribune wrote, “Deeply sympathetic. Brooks offers new perspectives on a character whose story has captured the Western imagination for millennial… she breaks from the biblical version by giving voice to the voiceless women in David’s life: wives and lovers, a daughter, a mother—the beloved and the scorned.” The Guardian called it “A compelling read, contemporary in its relevance… powerful storytelling, its landscape and time evoked in lyrical prose.” And NPR raves: “The best historical fiction… Brooks gives the whole king his due… It’s a tall order to breathe life into such a human being, and she manages it admirably.”
Geraldine Brooks is the author of four novels, the Pulitzer Prize winning March and the international bestsellers Caleb’s Crossing, People of the Book, and Year of Wonders. She has also written the acclaimed nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Born and raised in Australia, she lives on Martha’s Vineyard with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz.
Sponsored by BookShop Santa Cruz, Institute of Humanities Research, and Co-sponsored by Temple Bethe El.

Paul N. Edwards: “Afterworld: Technosphere, Anthropocene, Geostory”
2016-10-19 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Paul N. Edwards’ current research concerns the history and future of knowledge infrastructures, the history of climate science, and other large-scale information infrastructures. Edwards is the author most recently of A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (2010).
Edwards is Professor at the School of Information and Department of History at University of Michigan.

The Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee, tea, and cookies.
Fall 2016 Colloquium Dates
October 26 Alma Heckman
November 2 Anna Tsing / Isbelle Carbonell
November 9 Joan Wallach Scott
November 16 Robin Hunicke

Questions That Matter: "Anger in Politics: From the Bard to the Donald"
2016-10-18 18:00 - 20:00 | Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Presented by the Institute for Humanities Research and Shakespeare Workshop
What place does anger have in public life? Should we welcome the expression of anger in our elections and political deliberations, or does the common good depend on the existence of political institutions and processes from which anger and other strong emotions are excluded? Has the failure of those institutions and processes prompted much of the acrimony, hostility, and rage that we have witnessed (or felt)? What does the theater understand about such questions that politics does not understand? On the eve of an historic election, join UC Santa Cruz faculty and the Institute for Humanities Research for a conversation about anger and politics, from Shakespeare to Donald Trump. Presented in partnership with Shakespeare Workshop.

Questions That Matter: “Anger in Politics: From the Bard to the Donald” from IHR on Vimeo.
EVENT PHOTOS: by Crystal Birns
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Questions That Matter: A Series of Public Dialogues in Santa Cruz
This series brings together UC Santa Cruz scholars with community members to explore questions that matter to all of us. We invite you to join us on October 18, 2016 at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center for “Anger in Politics: From the Bard to the Donald.”
Featuring: Deborah Gould (Sociology), Sean Keilen (Literature), and Daniel Wirls (Politics)
Deborah Gould is an Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz (and affiliated faculty in Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Politics). She is interested in political emotion, from hope and anger to cynicism, resignation, and despair. She is currently working on her second book, Emotional Terrains of Activism: Appetites, Encounters, and the Not-Yet of Politics.

Sean Keilen is Associate Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz, Provost of Porter College, and Director of the Humanities Research Cluster, Shakespeare Workshop. He studies Shakespeare and the history of criticism. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he is writing Shakespeare and the Future of Literary Education, a book about reading, the vocation of teaching, and the importance of the humanities and arts.

Daniel Wirls is Professor of Politics at UC Santa Cruz. Among other works he is author of The Federalist Papers and Institutional Power, Irrational Security: The Politics of Defense from Reagan to Obama, and The Invention of the United States Senate. He is currently working on a critique of the Senate and an analysis of the consequences of post-9/11 policy choices on the structure of American politics.

Please join us for an evening of conversation and connection as we explore questions that matter.
Tuesday, October 18 @ Kuumbwa Jazz Center
6pm wine and hors d’oeuvres / 7pm program
$10 Ticket includes one complimentary drink
Questions That Matter Series
A public humanities series developed by UCSC Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) and the community of Santa Cruz – bringing 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.
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Mikki Stelder
2016-10-14 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“Homozionism: ‘From the Closet into the Knesset'”
My project focuses on the role of sexual politics in Israel’s settler colonial occupation of Palestine, international (queer) complicities, and anti-colonial queer resistance. For this presentation I look forward to discuss the first chapter of my dissertation that charts the globally celebrated genealogy of Israel’s gay movement from “the closet into the Knesset” (Kama 2011). I argue that this move enabled what Palestinian queer activist call Israel’s pinkwashing campaign to emerge. Pinkwashing describes a government sponsored branding campaign that seeks to present Israel in a positive light because of its gay rights achievements. Rather than situate pinkwashing as a post-9/11 phenomenon that can fit neatly into narratives of contemporary homonationalism, Islamphobia and anti-Arab racism in the Global North, I turn to this genealogy as one that I call homozionism.

Friday Forum Fall 2016 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
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.
October 14th- Mikki Stedler, Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness
October 21st- Kali Rubaii, Anthropology
October 28th- Mitchell Winter, HAVC
November 6th- Hahkyung Darline Kim, Film and Digital Media
November 18th- Sophi Pappenheim, Literature
December 2nd- Nicole Vandermeer, History

Living Writers: Michelle Tea
2016-10-13 17:20 - 19:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Living Writers is a series of events that are free to students and the public, and happens every Thursday night in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. This series will be focusing on fiction writers as well as filmmakers. It’s going to be an exciting series and we hope to see you there! For more details, please email us at cwintern@gmail.com
Michelle Tea
Michelle Tea is the author of the memoirs The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America,The Chelsea Whistle, the illustrated Rent Girl and Valencia, winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction. Valencia has been made into a collaborative feature-length film with 21 different directors, and toured film festivals globally after a sold-out premiere at San Francisco’s Castro Theater. Valencia the book has been translated into Slovenian, Japanese, and German. Michelle’s self-published poetry chapbooks, produced in the 90s, are compiled in the poetry collection The Beautiful. She is the author of the novel Rose of No Man’s Land (translated into Italian), and has edited anthologies on first person narratives (Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache), the female experience of growing up working class (Without A Net), feminist fashion (It’s So You) and up and coming queer female writing (Baby, Remember My Name). Her latest book is Black Wave, a memoir-fiction hybrid, published by Feminist Press, where she curates the Amethyst Editions series.
Living Writers Fall Schedule 2016
9/22 No reading
9/29 Chanan Tigay
10/6 Jennifer Chang
10/13 Michelle Tea
10/20 Alfredo Vea
10/27 Elizabeth Willis
11/3 No reading
11/10 Peter Orner
11/17 No reading
11/24—Thanksgiving
12/1 Student Reading
Readings sponsored by The Humanities Division, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Literature Department and Poets and Writers Inc.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Sara Mameni
2016-10-13 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Ethnofuturism and the Archeology of the Future”
Sara Mameni, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow
In her video project, “In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain” (2014), Larissa Sansour enters the fictional world of a resistance group who bury porcelain remains of an imaginary civilization to influence history and support their claims to land and sovereignty. Shuttling between past and future, the film uses science fiction aesthetics and speculative language to re-write the history of the future and lay claim to home. Similarly, Morehshin Allahyari’s ongoing project titled “Material Speculation” (2015) reconstructs archeological artifacts destroyed by ISIS in 3D format , archiving lost objects by including a digital memory card inside each newly constructed artifact. Sansour and Allahyari use the science of past-making to enter into the future. Yet unlike archeology’s attachment to stable land, they propose a virtual archeology of landsand artifacts already lost. I argue that artist such as Sansour and Allahyari launch an ethnofuturist aesthetic geared towards a sustained relationship with otherness, defying temporarily by claiming their politics in the imaginitve space of the future and the speculative space of hope.
Sara Mameni received her PhD in Art History at UC San Diego with dissertation titled “On Persian Blues: Queer Bodies, Racial Affects.” Her research, publications and curatorial work have engaged gender, race and sexuality in art and visual culture in Iran and Arab/Muslim world.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series Fall 2016 Schedule:
October 13th: Sara Mameni,”Ethnofuturism and the Archeology of the Future”
November 3rd: Redi Koobak,”Rethinking Gender, Art & Geopolitics through Post-national War Rhetoric”
December 1st: Cleo Woelfle-Erskine,”Queer x Trans x Ecology: Toward a Field Science Practice”

Bernard Stiegler: "Beyond the Anthropocene"
2016-10-12 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Is it possible to think in a state of emergency?
This is now a pressing question when the Anthropocene disrupts the biosphere where we – permanently connected and algorithmically controlled – live in a permanent state of emergency, universal, and unpredictable.
Lunch will be provided at 11am in Humanities 1, Room 202.
Two theses will be addressed:
– On the one hand, to think in the Anthropocene, one must rethink the Anthropocene itself, and to rethink the Anthropocene, we must think beyond the Anthropocene, which is a dead end.
– On the other hand, beyond the Anthropocene, there is the Neguanthropocene, a coming era in which thinking means taking care (in French, « panser » ; in German « sorgen »).
This is what will be expressed by an untranslatable neologism, a neologism not unrelated to Jacques Derrida’s concept of « differance » : in the Anthropocene, thought becomes « la p(a)nsée ».
Bernard Stiegler will also have an event at 4pm in Porter 245 were he will talk about digital studies at the Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium.
Respondents: Hayden White, Wlad Godzich, and Anna Tsing.
Sponsored by: Computation, Culture, and Games Research Cluster, Center for Cultural Studies, Institute for Humanities Research, Arts Division, DANM, and Film & Digital Media.
Bernard Stiegler directs the Institut de recherche et d’innovation du Centre Pompidou and is president of the Ars Industrialis association. He is affiliate faculty at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne, distinguished professor at Nanjing University, and visiting professor at the Cogut Center for the Humanities at Brown University.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a Wednesday colloquium series, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee, tea, and cookies.
Fall 2016 Colloquium Dates:
October 19 Paul N. Edwards
October 26 Alma Heckman
November 2 Anna Tsing / Isbelle Carbonell
November 9 Joan Wallach Scott
November 16 Robin Hunicke

Anthropocene: Ecological & Political Consequences of Plantations
2016-10-12 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
A Reading seminar with Dr. Kregg Hetherington (Concordia University), with initial discussion comments by Vivian Undersell (Feminist Studies), Rachel Cyper (Anthropology), and Zachary Caple (Anthropology).
Seminar readings:
Gregg Hetherington, “Beans before the Law: Knowledge practices, responsibility, and the Paraguayan soy boom” Cultural Anthropology 28(1): 65-85 2013
(https://www.academia.edu/2510267/beans_before_the_law-knowledge_practices_responsibility_and_the_paraguayan_soy_boom)
or email mfernan3@ucsc.edu for pdf of the reading.
Sponsored by the IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality and the Anthropocene

The Maghrib Workshop: Law and Movement Historical Roots and Contexts Contemporary Questions Part I
2016-10-08 09:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join us for the first meeting of the Maghrib Workshop, an interdisciplinary network for Maghrib studies based at UC Santa Cruz. The meeting is open to the public, but please RSVP by writing to cgomezri@ucsc.edu in order for us to have a head count and circulate the papers for discussion.
Four scholars will share and discuss their work with us:
– Muriam Haleh Davis, UCSC
– Jessica Marglin, USC
– Susan Slyomovics, UCLA
– Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri, UCSD
Schedule:
9:00 am Coffee and Introduction
9:30 Muriam Haleh Davis, “‘Algiers and the Algerian Desert:’ Decolonization and Territorial Planning in France, 1958-1962”
11:00 Susan Slyomovics, “French Mediterraneans En Miroir: Virgin Mary Statues Between France and Algeria”
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri, “Orientalism and Technology: A Dutch Embassy in Early Seventeenth-Century Morocco”
3:00 Break
3:15 Jessica Marglin, “Nationality on Trial: International Private Law across the Mediterranean”
4:45 Concluding remarks
6:00 Dinner at Merrill Provost’s House
The aim of this project is to explore the historical and contemporary development of population flows and other kinds of human movement into, out of, through, and within North Africa and the intersection of that movement with systems of negotiation, adjudication, policing, and control. The theme of “Law and Movement” will provide the framework for an interdisciplinary collaborative investigation by a group of 12-15 UC and California scholars of the Maghrib (broadly understood) with the secondary aim of establishing a wider scholarly network bringing together scholars from across the West Coast. https://uchri.org/awardees/maghrib-workshop/
The meeting is funded by a University of California Humanities Research Institute Multi-Campus Faculty Working Group grant and by the Institute for Humanities Research.
For directions to UC Santa Cruz Humanities, please go to: http://ihr.ucsc.edu/directions/
For more information, contact Camilo Gómez-Rivas (cgomezri@ucsc.edu).

Linguistics Colloquium: Akira Omaki
2016-10-07 14:40 - 15:40 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Akira Omaki will be speaking on Developing incrementality: Grammar and parsing of wh-dependencies in children
It is well established in the adult psycholinguistics literature that our comprehension is incremental: based on partial sentence input, the parser uses linguistic knowledge and multiple sources of information to assign interpretations. However, it has largely remained unknown how
such incremental processing mechanisms emerge during development, or how the immature
parsing mechanisms affect the course of grammar acquisition. In this talk, I will present recent
studies in my lab that explore these questions for wh-dependencies. In the first part of the talk, I
will discuss how the mis-adoption of wh-scope marking grammar in English-speaking children
(Thornton, 1990) could derive from incremental processing of wh-dependencies. I argue that
while this is theoretically feasible, the apparent scope-marking grammar may be a production-
specific phenomenon, and that it does not result from a mis-set parameter, at least in English. In
the second part of the talk, I will explore how incremental mechanisms for wh-dependency
processing develop through language experience. Our visual world eye-tracking studies show
that 5-year-old children do not complete wh-dependencies incrementally, but incremental
dependency processing emerges after production (but not comprehension) priming of such
dependencies. I will discuss implications of these findings for theories of language acquisition
and language processing.
The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.
Fall 2016
Oct 21 & Oct 22: CUSP (California Universities Semantics & Pragmatics)
Nov 18: Kie Zuraw, UCLA
Winter 2017
February 7: TBA
March TBD: LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz
Spring 2016
April 14: Junko Ito, UC Santa Cruz
April 28: Ashwini Deo, Yale
May 26: Susan Lin, UC Berkeley
May/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference

Bridget Anderson: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Citizenship and the Politics of Exclusion (Non-citizenship series)
2016-10-06 18:30 - 20:00 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
The Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research present
Leading labor and migration scholar, Bridget Anderson, for the inaugural event in a series of events on Non-citizenship, our 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture..

Bridget Anderson: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Citizenship and the Politics of Exclusion (Non-citizenship series) 10.6.16 from IHR on Vimeo
EVENT PHOTOS: by Steve Kurtz
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In her keynote address, “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Citizenship and the Politics of Exclusion,” Professor Anderson explores citizenship as both a legal status and moral claim. She examines what attention to debates about migration exposes about the nature of the “good citizen” and the rise of the worker citizen. Rather than seeing migrants and citizens as competitors for the privileges of membership, she argues for the importance of politics that are attentive to the connections between the non-citizen migrant and the “failed citizen” on welfare or with a criminal record. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
Sylvanna Falcón, associate professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz, will facilitate the discussion following Professor Anderson’s remarks.
Photo exhibit Expulsion: Stories of Displacement from Colombia, India, Mexico and the United States, co-curated by Claudia Maria Lopez, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar Graduate Student Fellow.
Bridget Anderson is Professor of Migration and Citizenship and Deputy Director at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford. She is the author of numerous publications, including Us and Them? The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Controls (Oxford University Press, 2013) and Doing the Dirty Work? The Global Politics of Domestic Labour (Zed Books, 2000). Exploring the tension between labor market flexibilities and citizenship rights, she has pioneered an understanding of the functions of immigration in key labor market sectors. Her interest in labor demand has meant an engagement with debates about trafficking, modern day slavery, state enforcement, and deportation. She is particularly concerned with the ways immigration controls increasingly impact citizens and migrants alike.
Location:
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (705 Front Street, Santa Cruz)
Event details:
Reception at 6:30pm / Lecture at 7:00pm
Admission:
Free and open to the public, but attendees are asked to register in advance.
REGISTER HERE
Other Events with Bridget Anderson
Friday, September 16, 11:00am-1:00pm, Charles E. Merrill Lounge
Brown bag luncheon and discussion about the introduction to Bridget Anderson’s Us and Them (Oxford University Press, 2013) and Bridget Anderson and Joseph Carens’ “Critical Dialogue” (Perspectives on Politics Vol. 13, No. 3 [2015]). This event is open to UC Santa Cruz faculty, students, and staff. Attendees are free to bring their own lunches and should email Catherine Ramírez (cathysue@ucsc.edu) to RSVP.
Tuesday, October 4, 11:00am-1:00pm, Humanities 1, Room 210
Linking Citizenship, Migration, Labor, Border, and Carceral Studies: A Seminar with Bridget Anderson. This event is open to UC Santa Cruz faculty, students, and staff. REGISTER HERE for the seminar by Tuesday, September 27th.
Wednesday, October 5, 2:00-4:00pm, in Humanities 1, Room 210
Building Bridges and Institutions: A Conversation with Bridget Anderson. This event is open to UC Santa Cruz faculty, students, and staff. REGISTER HERE for the conversation on institution building by Wednesday, September 28th.
About Non-citizenship
Non-citizenship is part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture. Linking citizenship, migration, border, labor, and carceral studies, and juxtaposing spatial and social mobility and immobility, this year-long series of events explores what it means to be a citizen and non-citizen in a world made by migrants, refugees, guest workers, permanent residents, asylum seekers, slaves, prisoners, detainees, the stateless, and denizens (residents who do not hold the same rights as citizens). Non-citizenship is organized around three themes: “Forced Migration” (fall 2016), “Labor Mobility and Precarity” (winter 2017), and “Fluidity of Status: Migrants, Citizens, Denizens” (spring 2017). Click here to learn more.

Living Writers: Jennifer Chang
2016-10-06 05:20 - 19:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Poet and scholar Jennifer Chang was born in New Jersey. She is a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia, where she is a PhD candidate. Chang’s lyrical poems often explore the shifting boundaries between the outer world and the self. Chang’s debut poetry collection, The History of Anonymity (2008), was selected for the Virginia Quarterly Review’s Poetry Series and was a finalist for the Shenandoah/ Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers. Speaking to the “emotional landscapes” of myths and fairy tales that surface occasionally in her poems, Chang stated in a 2008 interview on Critical Mass (the blog of the National Book Critics Circle board of directors): “As a scholar, I don’t trust autobiography, and as a lyric poet, I don’t trust narrative: both enforce a coherence that reveals more about the writer’s motives at the moment rather than the life or story being told. What I do trust is mystery; I trust confusion.”Chang co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the support and promotion of Asian American poetry. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Living Writers is a series of events that are free to students and the public, and happens every Thursday night from 6-7:45pm in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. This series will be focusing on fiction writers as well as filmmakers. It’s going to be an exciting series and we hope to see you there! For more details, please email us at cwintern@gmail.com
10/13 experimental memoirist Michelle Tea, author most recently of the apocalyptic memoir Black Wave
10/20 novelist Alfredo Vea, author most recently of The Mexican Flyboy, about a Latino super hero who goes back in time to save historical heroes from painful deaths
10/27 poet and Pulitzer prize finalist Elizabeth Willis

11/10 fiction and non-fiction writer Peter Orner, author most recently of Am I Alone Here, a memoir-essay hybrid about living to read/reading to live
Readings sponsored by The Humanities Division, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Literature Department and Poets and Writers Inc.

Building Bridges and Institutions: A Conversation with Bridget Anderson
2016-10-05 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Bridget Anderson, Deputy Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford, discusses her vision and hopes for COMPAS, the relationship between COMPAS and other institutions (for example, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and other academic units), and the relationship between research and society.
This event is open to UC Santa Cruz faculty, students, and staff, particularly those with an interest in developing a field of inquiry or unit.
Attendees are kindly asked to register in advance here by Wednesday, September 28, 2016.
Other Events with Bridget Anderson

Brown bag luncheon and discussion about the introduction to Bridget Anderson’s Us and Them (Oxford University Press, 2013) and Bridget Anderson and Joseph Carens’ “Critical Dialogue” (Perspectives on Politics Vol. 13, No. 3 [2015]), Friday, September 16, 11:00am-1:00pm, Charles E. Merrill Lounge. This is event is open to UC Santa Cruz faculty, students, and staff. Attendees are free to bring their own lunches and should email Catherine Ramírez (cathysue@ucsc.edu) if they plan on joining us.
Linking Citizenship, Migration, Labor, Border, and Carceral Studies: A Seminar with Bridget Anderson, Tuesday, October 4, 11:00am-1:00pm, Humanities 1, Room 210. This event is open to UC Santa Cruz faculty, students, and staff. PLEASE REGISTER FOR THE SEMINAR HERE BY TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2016.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Citizenship and the Politics of Exlcusion, Sawyer Seminar Opening Keynote, Thursday, October 6, 6:30-8:00pm, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (705 Front Street). THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, BUT ATTENDEES ARE ASKED TO REGISTER IN ADVANCE.

This event is co-sponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Julia Clancy-Smith "Springs Equinox in 18th Century Tunsia: Wreaks, People, and Things in the Sea"
2016-10-05 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Julia Clancy-Smith is the author of, most recently, Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800-1900 (2010). Her current work, From Household to Schoolroom: Education and Gender in North Africa, Europe, and the Mediterranean, c. 1900-present, is a multi-sided ethnographic inquiry into gender, education, literacy, and the social circulation of knowledge and people.
Clancy-Smith is Regents Professor of History at University of Arizona.
EVENT PHOTOS:
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The Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee, tea, and cookies.
Fall 2016 Colloquium Dates:
October 12 Bernard Stiegler
October 19 Paul N. Edwards
October 26 Alma Heckman
November 2 Anna Tsing / Isbelle Carbonell
November 9 Joan Wallach Scott
November 16 Robin Hunicke

Micah Perks: "What Becomes Us"
2016-10-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Join us as we celebrate the launch of this wonderfully consuming new novel from local author, professor, and co-director of UCSC’s creative writing program Micah Perks. Following a near-fatal accident, Evie, a mild-mannered, pregnant school teacher, abandons her controlling husband and flees California for the wilds of western New York. She rents a farm house on a dead end road in a close-knit community that is divided by local colonial history, a story that goes deep to the roots of the American conscience—and when she begins teaching at the local high school, Evie herself becomes obsessed with The Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson, the first book written by a woman in the Americas that details Rowlandson’s captivity during King Philip’s War in the seventeenth century. As Mary Rowlandson’s insatiable hunger begins to fill Evie’s dreams, Evie wonders if she may actually be haunted. At the same time, Evie’s connections to her new community begin to simmer, and as she grows more pregnant, her desires and hunger grow out of control, threatening to destroy her new world. Ten years in the making, What Becomes Us will hold you to the last page with its unforgettable cast and story.
“Micah Perks’ book has everything a reader could hope for — her language is lively, her characters appealing. Set in a storied landscape, with themes of independence and community. Romance! History! Food! Plus a tale to tell and some surprising people to tell it. There is real magic here. Micah magic! Completely original, completely delightful.” –Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“I’ve been obsessed with Mary Rowlandson for 20 years, and was delighted to find that Micah Perks writes about her with fireworks. This is a warm, wild, hilarious, eccentric and moving book.” –Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies and Arcadia
Micah Perks grew up in a log cabin on a commune in the Adirondack wilderness. She is the author of a novel, We Are Gathered Here, a memoir, Pagan Time, and a long personal essay, Alone In The Woods: Cheryl Strayed, My Daughter and Me. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in Epoch, Zyzzyva, Tin House, The Toast, OZY and The Rumpus, amongst many journals and anthologies. Excerpts of What Becomes Us won a National Endowment for the Arts grant and The New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More info and work at micahperks.com.
Sponsored by BookShop Santa Cruz and Institute of Humanities Research

Alma Heckman: “Absence and Counter-Narratives: The Years of Lead and the Moroccan Jewish Exodus”
2016-10-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Alma Rachel Heckman’s research crosses Jewish history, North Africa, French empire and the history of social movements. Her talk emerges from her project “Radical Nationalists: Moroccan Jewish Communists 1925-1975.”
Heckman is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz.

The Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee, tea, and cookies.
Fall 2016 Colloquium Dates:
November 2 Anna Tsing / Isbelle Carbonell
November 9 Joan Wallach Scott
November 16 Robin Hunicke

Linking Citizenship, Migration, Labor, Border, and Carceral Studies: A Seminar with Bridget Anderson
2016-10-04 11:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
How, when, where, and why do citizenship, migration, labor, border, and carceral studies converge? What happens when we put these fields in dialogue with one another? Why the distinction between migration studies and refugee studies? When do forced migration and labor migration overlap and when are they different? Who is a “migrant,” “refugee,” “citizen,” and “worker”? What is the difference between prisoner and detainee? Between citizen and denizen? Over 2016-17, scholars at UC Santa Cruz involved with Non-citizenship, our Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture, will grapple with these questions as we reflect on and link our Sawyer Seminar’s 3 themes: forced migration, labor mobility and precarity, and the fluidity of status. Bridget Anderson, Professor of Migration and Citizenship and Deputy Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford, helps kick off our discussion by leading a seminar for UC Santa Cruz faculty, staff, and students on key and emerging questions and concerns in citizenship, migration, labor, border, and carceral studies.
Emily Mitchell-Eaton, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Scholar, will moderate the seminar with Professor Anderson.
UC Santa Cruz faculty, staff, and students should register for the seminar here by Tuesday, September 27. To access the readings, click on the following links:

Mark Freedland and Cathryn Costello, “Migrants at Work and the Division of Labour Law,” in Migrants at Work: Immigration and Vulnerability in Labour Law, ed. Cathryn Costello and Mark Freedland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 1-28.
Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004). CLICK HERE FOR THE INTRODUCTION.
Sarah Van Walsum, The Family and the Nation: Dutch Family Migration Policies in the Context of Changing Family Norms (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008).
Noah Zatz and Eileen Boris, “Seeing Work, Envisioning Citizenship,” Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal Vol. 18: 95-109.

Other Events with Bridget Anderson

Brown bag luncheon and discussion about the introduction to Bridget Anderson’s Us and Them (Oxford University Press, 2013) and Bridget Anderson and Joseph Carens’ “Critical Dialogue” (Perspectives on Politics Vol. 13, No. 3 [2015]), Friday, September 16, 11:00am-1:00pm, Charles E. Merrill Lounge. This event is open to UC Santa Cruz faculty, students, and staff. Attendees are free to bring their own lunches and should email Catherine Ramírez (cathysue@ucsc.edu) if they plan on joining us.
Building Bridges and Institutions: A Conversation with Bridget Anderson, Wednesday, October 5, 2:00-4:00pm, Humanities 1, Room 210. This event is open to UC Santa Cruz faculty, students, and staff. PLEASE REGISTER FOR THE CONVERSATION ON INSTITUTION BUILDING HERE BY WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Citizenship and the Politics of Exlcusion, Sawyer Seminar Opening Keynote, Thursday, October 6, 6:30-8:00pm, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (705 Front Street). THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, BUT ATTENDEES ARE ASKED TO REGISTER IN ADVANCE.

PhD+: Arts and Humanities Grants & Fellowships Workshop for Graduate Students
2016-09-30 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join us for a conversation about funding opportunities, nuts and bolts of grant proposal writing, and campus resources available to you in the Arts and Humanities Divisions.
In this workshop we will focus on Fall deadlines and introduce a new research development service for graduate students in the two divisions: one-on-one consultations!
Friday, September 30, 2016
11-12:30pm
Humanities 1 Bldg, Room 210
Presenters:
Dorian Bell, Associate Professor of Literature, UC Santa Cruz
Sandra Harvey, Graduate Research Development Fellow
Stephanie Moore, Research Grants Coordinator, Arts Division
Irena Polic, Managing Director, Institute for Humanities Research
Samuael Topiary, Graduate Research Development Fellow
Lunch with be provided. Please register below by Friday, September 23rd and let us know in advance if you have any questions you’d like to see addressed.
Check out the IHR website for other workshops in our monthly PhD+ Series!
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Living Writers: Chanan Tigay
2016-09-29 17:20 - 19:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Author of the forthcoming Unholy Scriptures: Fraud, Suicide, Scandal—and the Bible that Rocked the Holy City (Ecco/HarperCollins), and two long works of nonfiction, The Special Populations Unit: Arab Soldiers in Israel’s Army (McSweeney’s) and Nuclear Meltdown, released on the one-year anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan (Rodale Press). Tigay was awarded the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism’s 2011-2012 Investigative Reporting Fellowship, where he worked on a documentary film about Israel’s opposition to the Iranian nuclear program for PBS “Frontline.” His journalism has appeared in publications including Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, New York magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle and The Jerusalem Post. Tigay has taught courses in Stanford University’s Continuing Studies Program on novel writing, the “writing life,” creative non-fiction, magazine and feature writing; and was a writing instructor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He has received residency fellowships at Yaddo, the Blue Mountain Center and the Mesa Refuge. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and a BA in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. Born in Jerusalem and raised in Philadelphia, Tigay is an assistant professor at San Francisco State.
Living Writers is a series of events that are free to students and the public, and happens every Thursday night from 6-7:45pm in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. This series will be focusing on fiction writers as well as filmmakers. It’s going to be an exciting series and we hope to see you there! For more details, please email us at cwintern@gmail.com
Living Writers Fall 2016
10/6 poet Jennifer Chang, author most recently of the book Some Say The Lark
10/13 experimental memoirist Michelle Tea, author most recently of the apocalyptic memoir Black Wave
10/20 novelist Alfredo Vea, author most recently of The Mexican Flyboy, about a Latino super hero who goes back in time to save historical heroes from painful deaths
10/27 poet and Pulitzer prize finalist Elizabeth Willis
11/10 fiction and non-fiction writer Peter Orner, author most recently of Am I Alone Here, a memoir-essay hybrid about living to read/reading to live
Readings sponsored by The Humanities Division, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Literature Department and Poets and Writers Inc.

Silicon Valley Campus Grand Opening
2016-09-28 16:00 - 21:00 | UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley
Please join us for the opening celebration of the UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus, a multidisciplinary teaching and research hub.
The evening will include an open house, ribbon-cutting, reception, and TED-style talks. We welcome you to choose one or all.
Wednesday, September 28, 4-9 p.m.
4-7 p.m. Silicon Valley Campus open house
6-6:15 p.m. Ribbon cutting 2.0
6:15-7 p.m. Small bites reception
7-9 p.m. Evening program with research talks
UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus, 3175 Bowers Ave, Santa Clara

Register by September 21
Questions? Contact specialevents@ucsc.edu or (831) 459-5003

Digital Exhibit Building Symposium
2016-09-14 09:00 - 17:00 | McHenry Library, Digital Commons
The Digital Exhibit Building Symposium will consider the value of curating digital exhibits, communicating with online audiences, and implementing new digital assignments in the classroom. We will also offer hands on workshops that can help you get started. By reorienting the conversation around digital exhibit building away from specific platforms, we will explore the process of building research projects online from inspiration and incubation to sustainability and preservation.
This event is targeted at researchers, librarians, archivists, instructors, IT professionals and Digital Humanists from across the UC system and beyond. The event is open to all interested and will be especially of interest to those working in Omeka or Scalar as well as those frustrated by platform limitations who want to think beyond the tools of digital curation.
More information and registration: digitalscholarship.ucsc.edu

Weekend with Shakespeare 2016
2016-08-12 - 2016-08-14 | De Laveaga Elementary School
Weekend with Shakespeare – August 12 – 14, 2016
Join Shakespeare Workshop for a weekend of lectures, discussions, and demonstrations about Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s summer productions, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hamlet. New this year is an Educators’ Workshop on Sunday, August 14, an event for teachers that provides creative and scholarly resources for enlivening Shakespeare’s plays in classroom settings and beyond.
All Weekend with Shakespeare events will be held at De Laveaga Elementary School (1145 Morrissey Boulevard, Santa Cruz, CA 95065), nearby Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s new location, the Grove at De Laveaga Park.
For ticket information, please visit: www.santacruzshakespeare.org/events

Weekend with Shakespeare Lecture Schedule
Friday, August 12: 5:00 – 6:30pm, Pre-show experience on Midsummer
Saturday, August 13: 9:00 – 10:30am, Post-show experience on Midsummer
Saturday, August 13: 10:30 – 11:30am, Continental Brunch (provided as part of lecture price)
Saturday, August 13: 11:30am – 1:00pm, Pre-show experience on Hamlet
Saturday, August 13: 5:30 – 7:00pm, Post-show experience on Hamlet

Featuring discussions with Bruce Avery, Professor of Theater Arts at San Francisco State University, and Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s (SCS) theater artists.
All lecture participants receive a research guide prior to WWS that provides current scholarship, historical background, and SCS production-specific information.
Lecture attendees are encouraged to attend the SCS productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hamlet either prior to the lecture days OR to see them as a package deal: Friday, August 12, 8pm Midsummer; Saturday, August 13, 2pm Hamlet.

Educators’ Workshop – Sunday, August 14, 12 – 4pm
Exclusively for teachers, this new part of WWS will include three 45-minute sessions on successfully teaching Shakespeare’s work as an integral part of the curriculum. While exploring different methods for engaging with Shakespeare’s plays—performance, text, and design—participants will gain hands-on training and resources for bringing texts to life in the classroom and beyond.
Workshop Sessions:
Performance: Invigorate Shakespeare’s texts with voice and movement
Mike Ryan, Artistic Director of Santa Cruz Shakespeare
Text: Activate Shakespeare’s language while guided by state-adopted ELA and literacy standards
Marvilyn Quiroz, California Reading and Literacy Project Teacher Leader
Design: Envision and create the world of Shakespeare’s plays through hands-on craft
Kate Edmunds, Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz

About the WWS guest Shakespeare scholar:
Bruce Avery is Professor of Theater Arts at San Francisco State University. He holds a PhD in English Literature and Classics from UC Santa Cruz. He has written on Spenser, Joyce, Kipling, Salman Rushdie, Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare, and pedagogy. He is an actor and director, and has played Vladimir in Waiting for Godot, Polonius in Hamlet, Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Old Capulet in Romeo & Juliet, among others. His directing credits include Venus in Fur, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, and Woody Allen’s God, among others, and most recently Much Ado About Nothing.

About the Educators’ Workshop facilitators:
Mike Ryan first came to Santa Cruz in 1997 to play Silvius in As You Like It and Piotr in The Forest at Shakespeare Santa Cruz. That season launched a long career with SSC; he appeared in over 35 productions with the company before it was closed at the end of 2013. Along with Marco Barricelli and the Shakespeare Play On Board of Directors, he founded Santa Cruz Shakespeare in early 2014 and served as Co-Artistic Director for the new non-profit theatre company in its inaugural year before taking over as sole Artistic Director at the end of that season. In addition to his acting work with both Santa Cruz Shakespeare and its predecessor, Bay Area audiences may also know him from performances with American Conservatory Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Jewel Theatre Company, and Aurora. He has also appeared at Laguna Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Denver Center Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Geva Theatre Center, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Festival of Dallas, and Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park. Mr. Ryan received his B.F.A. from Southern Methodist University, where he was a National Merit Scholar, and his M.F.A. from the University of California at San Diego.
Marvilyn Quiroz’ relationship with The Bard started as a twelve-year-old in the libraries of East San Jose deciphering Elizabethan language using the side by side version of Romeo and Juliet. Her mother took her to free plays as an escape from barrio life where she saw Shakespeare’s words come alive. Marvilyn is now a California Reading and Literacy Project Teacher Leader, Central California Writing Project Fellow, and Mentor with the Santa Cruz/Silicon Valley New Teacher Project. She loves designing curriculum and facilitating workshops where teachers explore their craft and share their expertise. As an educator for over ten years in the Pajaro Valley Unified School District she has traversed a range of grade levels and courses from 10th grade Honors English to beginning English Language Development. Her approach to literacy considers all students academic language learners, which highlights her commitment to equity and passion for promoting students’ access to language that will inspire and empower. Her email is marvilyn_quiroz@pvusd.net.
Kate Edmunds has designed scenery throughout the United States for over thirty-five years. She has designed for Manhattan Theatre Club, Berkeley Repertory Theater, ACT/SF, the Mark Taper Forum, the Jewel/SC, Chicago’s Goodman Theater, Seattle Rep., Boston’s Huntington Theater and Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. among many others. She earned her MFA in Design at the Yale School of Drama. Kate teaches design in the Theater Arts department at UCSC.

Sponsored by:
Shakespeare Workshop, a research center of the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research.

MAH 3rd Friday: Changemakers
2016-06-17 18:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
Meet the creative leaders making change happen in Santa Cruz County.
Engage with county supervisors and cycling advocates. Meet artists and food justice activists. Network with film festival directors and Oaxacan cultural preservationists. Interact with hands-on workshops, demonstrations and performances.
C3 (Creative Community Committee) is the MAH’s community think tank of 45 diverse leaders across our county. We have spent the year creatively brainstorming new ways to build cultural bridges in our community. Meet us, learn about our work, step out of your comfort zone and explore all the ways you can connect with these leaders and each other.
Performances
6-7PM Preserving Mexican Cultural Traditions Through Dance and Healing with Senderos’ Centeotl Danza y Baile who will perform Mexican folkloric dance. Senderos are an all-volunteer organization dedicated to sharing cultural arts to provide pathways for Latino youth and an appreciation of our community’s diversity.
Drop-in Workshops & Demonstrations
7-8PM Preserving Mexican Cultural Traditions Through Dance and Healing with Senderos: Oaxaqueña curandera (healer), Marta Martinez Navarro and her husband, Ramiro Hernandez, will demonstrate traditional remedies.
A Living History of Cooperatives in Santa Cruz and Beyond with Zachary Wolinsky from Santa Cruz: PedX Courier & Cargo and Santa Cruz Pedicab: What can we learn from democratically governed businesses in Santa Cruz County? Join us for a few rounds of Co-opoly, the game of cooperatives. Learn about the stories of the local cooperative businesses in Santa Cruz County and how they anchor wealth in the community and create opportunities for human connection. Help us create a map of cooperative business stories across time and space in the past, present, and future.
Everyday Science with Antonia Franco from SACNAS and Irena Polic from the Institute for Humanities Research:Explore your capacity for science and learn how even normal household products can be turned into fun & educational experiments.
Bringing the Museum to Your Bus Stop with County Supervisor John Leopold: Bus stops can be a site to share cultural experiences. Do you know there’s a psychedelic bus stop in Soquel about the history of Counterculture in Santa Cruz? Come see the original model and help turn the Metro’s Bus Shelters into vibrant “mini-museums” by celebrating our County’s art and culture.
The Tree that Overcame with Edgar Ontiveros from Nopal Media and Rebecca Hernandez Rosser from the UCSC American Indian Resource Center: Write on the leaves about a time you had a positive or negative experience around your gender, race/ethnicity, religion, sexuality, nationality, dis/ability or age. Share a moment of empowerment on a paper blossom.
PLACE Bingo with anthropologist and educator Natalie Baloy and Rick Flores, Steward of the Amah Mutsun Relearning Program and Amah Mutsun Land Trust: Get to know your place – Santa Cruz, your neighbors, your community – with a conversational Bingo game. Earn squares by engaging in conversations with fellow visitors – get five squares in a row and you’ll win a prize!
Abstract Identities with Nicole Zahm from the Santa Cruz Farmers Market and Doron Comerchero from Food What?!: Create an abstract image representing your identity and connect with others who share that with you. Explore our shared complex identities.
Pop-Up State Park with Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks Bonnie Hawley, Jorge Savala and Vance Landis-Carey: Transport yourself to the Castro Adobe — play Californio games, make a tortilla ranchero style, and learn to rope. Take a virtual field trip, then come visit the Castro Adobe State Historic Park in Watsonville.
Have you ever built a time machine? with artist and educator Kyle McKinley: Explore the transformed history gallery as a machine for traveling through time. Time machines appear in American literary narratives as a technical solution to the historical dilemma of how to get from where we are to a utopian society. By asking participants to imagine the past and future differently, the idea of a time machine enables us to re-think the ways in which our present day decisions determine the shape that our collective futures will take.
Wayfinding with artist and designer, Raphael Arar: a responsive installation that reflects on the paths one chooses in life and their subsequent periods of chaos and harmony.
Dream Piñata with artist Louise Leong and artist Janis O’Driscoll from the Santa Cruz Public Libraries: What are the obstacles that get in the way of building bridges across difference in Santa Cruz? What are your hopes and dreams for bringing people together? At the end of the night we’ll break through all those obstacles written on the outside of the piñata to release all our dreams inside the piñata!
The Mask You Live In with Monica Martinez and Maria Castillo from Encompass Community Services: We often wear masks on the outside to conceal what’s on the inside. Make a mask that represents the ideas, feelings and experiences we often do not wear openly. See masks made with individuals in our community through Encompass and connect with others who share similar stories to your mask.
My Rite of Passage with Consuelo Alba from the Watsonville Film Festival and Christina Cuevas from the Community Foundation Santa Cruz County inspired by the documentary Xilonen: The Ceremony of Tender Corn. All cultures around the world celebrate rites of passage ceremonies or rituals that mark people’s transition into a new stage of life or a brand new identity. These transitions can be cultural, religious or social; the rites of passage include three phases: separation, transition or adventure and incorporation. Share with us that special moment of transition in your life. What was it? Why it happened? When? Where? Tell us your story.
Story Sharing with Strangers with : Anonymous story sharing will invite you to share a meaningful story with a stranger and listen to theirs.
Finding Home Between Different Worlds: Poems about Culture, Place, and People with UCSC history professor Pedro Castillo and Jacquie Benetua-Rolens from Santa Cruz Community Health Centers: Home means a lot of different things to us all. It is where we’ve unpacked our lives and planted seeds. It is a tapestry of different experiences, different languages and different places. It’s where we rest while it rests in our memories. We leave and come back everyday, carrying it with us, and always with the people we love. Invite us into your home by sharing your story.
Bike the Bay with Tawn Kennedy from Bike Santa Cruz County: Tawn is biking with Santa Cruz youth this year on the Bike the Bay Tour. What should they learn about the communities they’re riding through? What are the secret histories, wild adventures, and fun facts they should discover as they bike along this route?
What is C3? with Creative Community Committee (C3) Interns Ana Leopold & Alma Villa and C3 Members Keisha Frost from the United Way & Jacob Martinez from the Digital Nest: Learn about this group of Changemakers and the topics we’ve been discussing this year.
If you want to learn more contact Stacey Marie Garcia, stacey@santacruzmah.org

Inverting the Spanish Avant Garde: Transatlantic Negotiations in El Estudiante (Salamanca-Madrid 1925-26)
2016-06-03 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UCSC Spanish Studies and the Department of Language and Applied Linguistics present:
Inverting the Spanish Avant Garde: Transatlantic Negotiations in El Estudiante (Salamanca-Madrid 1925-26)
By Vanessa Marie Fernandez (UC Santa Cruz and San Jose SU)
Friday June 3rd, 6:00PM
Humanities 1, Room 210
Vanessa Marie Fernandez completed her PhD in Hispanic Langiages and Literatures form the University of Claifornia, Los Angeles in 2013. She has been a lecturer at Rice University in Houston and an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Duquesne Univeristy in Pittsburgh. Currently, she is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Literature Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and will begin her new position as Assitant Professor of Spanish at San Jose State University in Fall 2016. Her book project “Bridging the Atlantic: Debating Modernity Across Argentine, Mexican, and Spanish Literary Magazines (1920-1930),” argues print culture generated a complex network o exchange amongst avant-garde movements that sheds new light on the development of Latin America and Spain’s post colonial relationship during the 1920s.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Veronika Zablotsky
2016-06-03 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Veronika Zablotsky
“Dealing with the East: Orientalism and the Ideas of Eurasia in Contemporary Geopolitics”
In this talk, I mobilize Edward Said’s critique of Orientalism (1978) as a Europrean “style of thought,” a “corporate institution” and a “systematic discipline” that produces, manages and deals with the “Orient” by means of discourse to think about the idea of “Eurasia” and its uses in contemporary geopolitics.

Friday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
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.
April 8th- Andrew Woods, Politics
April 15th- Claudia Lopez, Sociology
April 22nd- Jordan Reznick, HAVC
April 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies
May 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics
May 13th- Cathy Thomas, Literature
May 20th- Trung Nguyen, History of Consciousness
May 27th- Rebecca Ora, Film of Digital Media
June 3rd- Veronika Zablotsky, Feminist Studies

PhD+: Research and Grants Workshop and End of Year Luncheon
2016-06-03 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the launch of PhD+, our new series! We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for humanities PhDs, online identity issues, internship possibilities, work/life balance, elements of style, grants/fellowships and much, more more.
October 9, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel
November 6, 2015: Internship Info Session
December 4, 2015: Coding for Humanists
January 8, 2016: Research Tools and Methods
February 5, 2016: Online Identity
March 4, 2016: Work-Life Balance
April 8, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities
Rescheduled for June 3, 2016: Research and Grants
June 3, 2016: End of Year Luncheon
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Living Writers: Student Reading
2016-06-02 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Spring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line
Why Out of Line?
“I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre, in different genres, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I’m hoping it will encourage our students to think outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks
This event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors!
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
April 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)
April 14: Kate Schatz
April 21: Manuel Gonzales
April 28: Charlie Jane Anders
May 5: NO READING
May 12: Elizabeth McKenzie
May 19: Lev Grossman
May 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier
June 2: Student Reading

Moira Weigel: "A Genealogy of 'Like': Taste, Emotional Labor, and Technology on the Dating Market"
2016-06-01 00:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating
“But I Want A Guy I Like To Like The Things I Like”
Taste and Emotional Labor on the Dating Market
It is a truth universally acknowledged that “likes” play an important role in contemporary courtship. While all social media invite us to produce our online identities by performing taste, dating apps turn our “likes” into literal searching and sorting mechanisms. The favorite bands, books, foods, and so on that you list on an OkCupid profile determine who can find you–and who might be too unlike you to make a good match. But where does the idea that consumer tastes are good predictors of romantic compatibility come from? As Bourdieu put it in his canonical study, Distinction: “Taste classifies and it classifies the classifier.” Sociologists have shown that even on apps like Tinder, where users are encouraged to make snap decisions based on visual data (photographs) alone, they tend to select partners of similar socioeconomic backgrounds and education levels. Do “likes” simply recapitulate the functions that families, community groups, and schools have historically performed–sorting young people by class? Drawing on my newly released book, “Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating“, I will present a Genealogy of the Like: excavating a wide range.

Moria Weigel is a PhD student in the joint program in Comparative Literature and Film and Media Studies. Before coming to Yale, she earned a BA (summa cum laude) from Harvard University, and an M. Phil (with distinction) from the University of Cambridge, where she was the Harvard Scholar in residence at Emmanuel College. She also worked as an Assistant Editor at Harper’s Magazine.
“Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating,” her first book, is coming out from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in May 2016. In a series of interlinking essays, LOL investigates the shape-shifting institution of dating–which, she contends, names the logic of courtship under consumer driven capitalism. Drawing on Marxist feminism, sociology, and cultural history, she examines how dating has co-evolved with other forms of gendered labor.

*Free lunch will be provided.
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Celebrating Excellence in the Humanities: 2015-16 Spring Awards
2016-05-31 16:00 - 18:00 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Humanists study the stories of humanity, in all their wonderful and tragic manifestations. The annual “Celebrating the Humanities” event is an opportunity for you to participate in this never-ending exploration of what it means to be human.
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I hope you will be able to join me on Tuesday, May 31 from 4-6 pm at Cowell Provost House. Activities will include a poster presentation by the recipients of our Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards, remarks by student scholarship recipients, and last but not least – refreshments on the lawn.
Humanities Division’s 2015-16 awards acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition, distinctions and honors over the course of this last year. The categories for acknowledgement are:
Faculty Awards and Honors
Research Grants and Fellowships
Teaching Awards and Instructional Innovation Major Publications
Undergraduate Awards and Honors
Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) – supports and encourages undergraduate research in the Humanities
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Awards – granted to undergraduates who have completed an outstanding senior thesis or project during the current academic year
This year, the Humanities Division is a proud sponsor of the 2016 Annual Chancellor’s Achievement Awards for Diversity (CAAFD). Established in 2003, these awards honor and showcase people and programs that have made outstanding contributions to furthering diversity, inclusion, and excellence at UC Santa Cruz.
I look forward to seeing you in May.
Tyler Stovall
Dean of Humanities

CANCELLED Covell Meyskens: "Visualizing the Past: The Making of the Website 'Everyday Life in Mao's China'"
2016-05-27 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Covell Meyskens, Assistant Professor of History at the Naval Postgraduate School, will talk about his website Everyday Life in Mao’s China which currently houses over 5,000 images China. Meyskens will discuss the website’s origins, its intended and unintended contributions to the expanding field of PRC history, and suggestions for offer suggestions on how to conduct comparable digital projects on other research topics.
Covell Meyskens is a historian of twentieth century China with a particular interest in industrialization, revolution, and everyday life. His current book project is tentatively titled “Securing Maoist China: The Cold War, Late Development, and Everyday Life in the Third Front, 1964-1980.” It is the first history of China’s largest ever industrial defense project – the Third Front. The book analyzes how the Chinese Communist Party industrialized hinterland regions in order to protect China from American and Soviet threats. Meyskens is also engaged in ongoing research on the history of China’s Railroad Corps, hydropower in Hubei province, and automobiles in China.

This event is sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program, History Department, and IHR Digital Humanities Research Cluster.

BIOS Research Colloquium: Historicizing Surveillance
2016-05-27 14:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
BIOS Research Colloquium: Historicizing Surveillance
Featuring Guest Speakers:
Simone Browne and Simon A. Cole
Friday May 27th, 2-5 pm, Humanities 1 Room 202

Simone Browne, Draw a black line through it: On the Surveillance of Blackness
Situating blackness as an absented presence in the field of surveillance studies, this talk questions how a realization of the conditions of blackness— the historical, the present, and the historical present can help social theorists understand our contemporary conditions of surveillance.
Simone Browne is Associate Professor in the Department of African and American Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Simon A. Cole, Identity or “Mere Identification”? Biometric Databases from Fingerprinting to DNA.
This talk traces the history of biometric identification technologies from their origins through to the present and the ethical and humanistic issues that have persistently been raised by them. It then discusses how we should understand these issues in the present moment of rapid technological advancement. It focuses in particular on the relationship between “mere” identification and broader notions of identity—behavioral, racial, and so on, and implications for the increasing expansion of genetic databases.
Simon Cole is Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and Director of the Newkirk Center for Science and Society at the University of California, Irvine.
These talks will be followed by a conversation about research projects, new issues and directions, information exchange and coffee and cookies. The colloquium is open to the public, and graduate students are encouraged especially to attend. This colloquium is sponsored by the UC Biosurveillance Working Group, the UC Humanities Research Institute and the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Rebecca Ora
2016-05-27 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Rebecca Ora
“Filming Israel From Afar: Ambivalent Diasporic Visions in Performative Non-Fiction”
Citing her recent short film The Intifada-ing and the work of other Jewish American women filmmakers, I discuss the ability of performative nonfiction to map new geographic territories through ethical panic and identity-loss responding to diasporic relationships with Israel-Palestine. This paper cults from theorizations of documentary as well as Joseph Roach’s writings on surrogation and Circum-Atlantic performance.

Friday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
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.
April 8th- Andrew Woods, Politics
April 15th- Claudia Lopez, Sociology
April 22nd- Jordan Reznick, HAVC
April 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies
May 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics
May 13th- Cathy Thomas, Literature
May 20th- Trung Nguyen, History of Consciousness
May 27th- Rebecca Ora, Film of Digital Media
June 3rd- Veronica Zablotsky, Feminist Studies

Ruling Passions: Sexuality, Science and the (Post)colonial State
2016-05-27 10:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The past decade or so has witnessed a rapid rise in scholarship that seeks to seize or transform the language of the “science” for liberatory ends. Such an attachment to the reparative and/or divisive logic of “science” is most evident in minoritized knowledge-formations such as sexuality studies and colonial/postcolonial studies. In the face of contemporary challenges about the limits of scholarship bowing out to the forces of globalization, the colloquium will examine what is at stake for sexuality studies and postcolonial studies to carve out a critical relationship to histories of science?
The types of issues we envisage participants addressing will engage three central questions:
What are the conversations instituted about sexuality in relationship to the colonial and postcolonial state in the global south?
How does sexuality studies’s own adherence/attachment to science studies parochialize key assumptions about freedom, rights and the subject?
What are the ways in which modalities of sentiment, affect, emotion entangle with the logic of state discourses and what role does sexuality play within such exchanges?
Schedule:
10:00am–10:15am: Introductory Remarks
Anjali Arondekar, Feminist Studies, UCSC
10:15am-10:30am: Poetic Techne
Ronaldo Wilson, Literature, UCSC
10:30-12:30: The Arabic Freud and the Invention of the Psychosexual Subject
Omnia El Shakry, History, UC Davis
Respondent: Alma Heckman, History, UCSC
12:30-1:30: Break
1:30-3:30: Origins and the Sexuality of Science in Colonial India
Durba Mitra, History, Fordham
Respondent: Megan Moodie, Anthropology, UCSC
Participants:
Durba Mitra, Department of History, Fordham University
Origins and the Sexuality of Science in Colonial India
Durba Mitra is an assistant professor of history at Fordham University. She is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Penn Humanities Forum at the University of Pennsylvania for the year of “Sex.”
Omnia El Shakry, Department of History, UC Davis
The Arabic Freud and the Invention of the Psychosexual Subject
Omnia El Shakry specializes in the the intellectual history of the Arab world and Europe, with a special emphasis on the history of the human sciences in Egypt. Her current book project, The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt, traces the lineaments of psychoanalysis in postwar Egypt.
CANCELLED – Duana Fullwiley, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
The Racial Embrace: DNA Sequences meet Dream Sequences in Struggles for (Scientific) Liberation
Dr. Duana Fullwiley is an anthropologist of science and medicine interested in how social identities, health outcomes, and molecular genetic findings increasingly intersect. She is the author of The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa (Princeton, 2011), which examines how structural adjustment policies in Africa affected not only the lived experiences of sickle cell patients in Senegal, but also influenced the genetic science about them.

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Living Writers: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier
2016-05-26 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Emily Hunt is the author of the poetry collection Dark Green (The Song Cave, 2015). She holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and her poems have appeared in the Iowa Review, the PEN Poetry Series, The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day Feature, TYPO, The Volta, Diagram, and elsewhere. In 2013, Brave Men Press published This Always Happens, a book of her drawings, and she has provided cover art for several poetry collections. She lives in Oakland, CA.

Poet Julien Poirier grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and was educated at Columbia University. He has described his poems as a system or a conversation already in progress, aligning observed and spoken ephemera with sound echoes, tracing the movement of a restless mind across themes of politics, poetics, and daily life. In an article on reading Poirier for EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts, poet Filip Marinovich stated, “Poirier is a Genius in the classical sense: a resident spirit of Poetry, arcangeling words through the top of one’s lifted head. …” In a 2013 interview with Noel Black for BOMB Magazine, Poirier offered the following: “It’s exciting to be writing poems now … because if you can plunge into the simultaneity of all of these events that warped you in some way, drove you crazy or forced you to find some narrow streak of optimism in the evident relentless disaster, then you might, as a poet, be able to get deeper and deeper into an understanding of what’s happening. You might be able to understand the way things work together and make a poem map, ‘a map to the map’ as my friend Tony said, before you forget. And it’s incredibly exciting because there are about a million ways to go about doing this.”
Poirier is the author of the full-length poetry collection El Golpe Chileño (2010); several chapbooks, including Flying Over the Fence with Amadou Diallo (2000),Short Stack (2005), and Stained Glass Windows of California (2012); and the formally innovative newspaper novel Living! Go and Dream (2005).
A founding member of Ugly Duckling Presse Collective, Poirier edited the New York Nights newspaper from 2001 to 2006. He has taught poetry in New York City public schools and at San Quentin State Prison. He lives in Berkeley with his wife and two daughters.

Spring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line
Why Out of Line?
“I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre, in different genres, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I’m hoping it will encourage our students to think outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks
This event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors!
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
April 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)
April 14: Kate Schatz
April 21: Manuel Gonzales
April 28: Charlie Jane Anders
May 5: NO READING
May 12: Elizabeth McKenzie
May 19: Lev Grossman
May 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier
June 2: Student Reading

The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP) XVI
2016-05-25 20:00 - 2016-05-27 20:00 | Stevenson Event Center
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, Cowell College, and Stevenson College, will present The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP), an annual multilingual program of fully-staged short theater pieces, for its 16th season. Three public performances will be held on May 25, 26, and 27 (Wed. – Fri.) at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center, UCSC, and will feature works in French, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish, with English super-titles projected above the stage. The program will be directed by Language lecturers and performed by Language students. There is no admission charge, with nearby parking at $4.00.
This year’s works include: (in French) Scenes from TARTUFFE, by Molière, directed by Miriam Ellis; (in Japanese) BEST FRIENDS, by Yuuki Himura & Osamu Shitara, directed by Sakae Fujita; (in Russian) UNCLE FYODOR, THE DOG AND THE CAT, by Edward Uspensky, directed by Natalya Samokhina and her students; (in Spanish) THE BAT, based on a myth by Eduardo Galeano, directed by Marta Navarro. The pieces range in style from folklore to classical and modern-day theater, with emphasis on their comic elements.
Over the years, the IP presentations have represented an important annual event for UCSC and have attracted a loyal following. In addition to those on campus, many community members, as well as faculty and students from high schools and Cabrillo College, attend regularly. The English titles make the material easily accessible to audiences, who are afforded a rare multicultural experience by the diversity of the programs.
For further information, please contact lmhunter@ucsc.edu or ellisan@ucsc.edu.

Digital Pedagogy Round Table
2016-05-25 16:00 - 18:00 | McHenry Library, Room 1350
Faculty and instructors from across the university will offer lightning talks about new assignments and classroom strategies that integrate technologies into their pedagogy. Join the Digital Pedagogy group for a broad introduction to innovative learning possibilities.
The presentations will cover a broad range of topics, from digital exhibit building as a final class assignment to creating and employing video taped lectures and classroom content. The panel will consist of:

Benefits of a Flipped Classroom
Matthew Clapham (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Omeka as a platform for student research
Renee Fox (Literature)
The Learning Glass for hybrid and online instruction
Herbie Lee, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs (Applied Math and Statistics)
Google Earth for teaching spatial and global thinking
Elaine Sullivan (History)
From flipped to fully online
Max Tarjan (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)

Dai Jinhua: “A Cultural Landscape with No Coordinates: Contemporary Chinese Cinema”
2016-05-25 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Dai Jinhua is currently researching the cultural politics of China after the post-Cold War, the “rise of China,” and the erasures and elisions of China’s anti-colonial, third world socialist past. Bringing her feminist Marxism to bear, Dai Jinhua interprets Chinese film and culture, examining traces of forgotten histories. This talk is generously co-sponsored by the Center for Emerging Worlds and will have a simultaneous interpreter.
Jinhua is Professor in the Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture at Beijing University.
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Camille Fauroux: "Framing Gender across Boundaries: French Women at Work in Berlin’s War Industry (1940-1945)"
2016-05-24 14:00 - 15:30 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
During the Second World War, 50,000 to 100,000 French women chose to leave France to work for the war industry in Germany. Their transnational experience points to the racial and gendered division of labor that deployed itself throughout Nazi occupied Europe. In an attempt to sustain the war effort while limiting German’s women’s draft and preserve their status as mothers and housewives, the National-socialist state chose to rely on the forced labor of millions of foreign men and women from occupied territories who where brought to the Reich. Drawing from a case study on the high-tech electronic industry in Berlin between 1940 and 1945, I reveal how French women’s “voluntary work” became more and more coerced as the war went on. Segregated housing in camps ensured a tight control of these workers as well as it prevented them from founding families on the German soil, but it also provided unexpected space for solidarity and resistance to forced labor.
Camille Fauroux is a doctoral candidate at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. This year, she is a visiting research associate at UC Santa Cruz. Her dissertation, under the supervision of Prof. Laura Lee Downs, examines French women’s labor in National-socialist Germany between 1940 and 1945. Her research interests include forced labor, migration, sexuality, and the transnational construction of gender.
Light refreshments will be provided.

Linguistic Colloquium: Kyle Johnson
2016-05-20 14:00 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Linguistic Colloquium:
The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.
Fall 2015
October 9th: Keith Johnson, UC Berkeley
October 16th: Heidi Harley, University of Arizona
October 30th: Ivano Caponigro, UC San Diego
November 20th: Elliott Moreton, University of North Carolina
Winter 2016
January 15th: Sharon Inkelas, UC Berkeley
February 5th: Colin Phillips, University of Maryland
February 6th: N. Goodman, Stanford University and A. Kehler, UC San Diego
March 5th: Linguistics Conference at Santa Cruz Conference
Spring 2016
April 15th: Sabine Iatridou, MIT
April 29th: Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University
May 6, 7, 8: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9
May 20th: Kyle Johnson, University of Massachusetts
May 27th/June 3rd (TBA): Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Trung Nguyen
2016-05-20 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Trung Nguyen
“War Material: Vietnamese Objects of Post-War Subjectivity”
Hong-An Truong and Dinh Q. Le are two widely received diasporic Vietnamese artists whose installations have engaged with the interpretative terrains and problematics of memory, subjectivity, and colonialism through Vietnamese historical experience. This presentation will study two of their respective pieces that explicitly confront modes of inhabiting a subjectivity constituted by the material remainders of war.

Friday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
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.
April 8th- Andrew Woods, Politics
April 15th- Claudia Lopez, Sociology
April 22nd- Jordan Reznick, HAVC
April 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies
May 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics
May 13th- Cathy Thomas, Literature
May 20th- Trung Nguyen, History of Consciousness
May 27th- Rebecca Ora, Film of Digital Media
June 3rd- Veronica Zablotsky, Feminist Studies

Living Writers: Lev Grossman
2016-05-19 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Lev Grossman: I was born in 1969 and grew up in Lexington, MA. My parents were both English professors, so naturally I read a lot. I read a lot in college too, and read even more in graduate school. Then I moved to New York City and started writing full time.
My first novel, Warp, came out in 1997. My second, Codex, was published in 2004 and became an international bestseller. The Magicians was published in 2009 and was a New York Times bestseller and one of the New Yorker‘s best books of the year. The sequel, The Magician King, came out in 2011 and was a Times bestseller too. The third and (almost certainly) last Magicians book, The Magician’s Land, was published in 2014 and debuted at #1 on the bestseller list.
The Magicians books have now been published in twenty-five countries and have gotten praise from among others George R.R. Martin, John Green, Audrey Niffenegger, Erin Morgenstern, Joe Hill, William Gibson, Kelly Link, Gregory Maguire, and Junot Diaz. A Syfy series based on the trilogy is currently shooting and will premiere in early 2016.
I also write a lot of journalism. I’ve been the book critic at Time magazine since 2002. The New York Timesdescribed me as “among this country’s smartest and reliable critics.” I’ve written a dozen or so cover stories for Time, and my essays and criticism have also been in the Believer, the Village Voice, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Salon, Slate, Wired, Entertainment Weekly, the Week, Lingua Francaand many other places. I’ve won several awards for journalism, including a Deadline award in 2006. I make regular appearances on campuses, including Harvard, Yale and Oxford, and as a commentator on NPR.
I live in Brooklyn with my wife, two daughters and one son, in a creaky old house.

Spring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line
Why Out of Line?
“I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre, in different genres, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I’m hoping it will encourage our students to think outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks
This event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors!
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
April 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)
April 14: Kate Schatz
April 21: Manuel Gonzales
April 28: Charlie Jane Anders
May 5: NO READING
May 12: Elizabeth McKenzie
May 19: Lev Grossman
May 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier
June 2: Student Reading

Jonathan Ellis: "Motivated Reasoning, Heavy and Light"
2016-05-19 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.
Jonathan Ellis
Motivated Reasoning, Heavy and Light
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Location: Humanities 1, Room 202
Time: 4:00 – 5:30
Coffee, tea, and cookies served.

Marjorie Agosin: "Translating the Soul: Meditations on Poetry"
2016-05-19 12:00 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Marjorie Agosin is the Luella La Mer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies and Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. Professor Agosin’s poetry is inspired by social justice and the dedicated to the remembrance and memorialization of traumatic historical events in the Americas and in European holocaust. As a Chilean-American of Jewish heritage Agosin’s poetry enshrines women’s human rights. As a literary scholar she has published work on Pablo Neruda, María Luisa Bombal, and Gabriela Mistral. She is especially well known for preserving and celebrating Chilean “arpilleras” the resistance quilts made by work addresses the role of women during the Pinochet dictatorship. Some of these will be on display during the poetry reading.

May 18th: Presentation
Marjorie Agosin: Gender & Sexuality in the Work of Gabriela Mistral
May 19th: A Poetry Reading
“Translating the Soul: Meditations on Poetry”

UCSC Night at the Museum: The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection
2016-05-18 18:00 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
PODCAST:

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UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research Presents:
UCSC Night at the Museum: The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection
6:30pm | “The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America”
Public conversation with Ethan Michaeli, author of The Defender, and David Anthony, Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz.
Reception and book signing to follow talk.
May 18, 2016
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH)
705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Please register for Free admission to the museum and the Kinsey Collection
Doors Open at 6pm
Explore one of the largest private collections of African American art and artifacts, while mixing and mingling with UCSC professors.

Register

Parking
There are two parking garages located near the Museum. There is disability parking available in both parking garages.
Soquel/Front Garage: The Soquel/Front Parking Garage is located at the corner of Soquel Avenue and Front Street. The lot is paid hourly parking, seven days a week, except Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. Keep your ticket with you, and pay at one of the Pay-on-Foot stations (located on the ground floor stair towers) or the cashier’s office before returning to your vehicle.
River/Front Garage: The River/Front Garage is located between River and Front Streets next to the Galleria Office Complex. Permits are required for the second and third level and are limited to people who work or live downtown.
Questions, or for disability related accommodations, please contact ihr@ucsc.edu or 831-459-5655.
The Kinsey Collection at MAH:
February 26th, 2016 – May 22nd, 2016
Spanning 400 years of history, the Kinsey Collection reflects a rich cultural heritage. Includes work by Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, and Richard Mayhew alongside archival material related to Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, and Malcolm X.
The MAH is providing free admission to this exhibition for all Santa Cruz County K-12 students, UCSC and Cabrillo College students. Just show your ID at the desk Feb 27-May 22, Tuesday-Sunday, 11-5, to get in for free. Note: Free Admission does not apply during Third Friday festivals.
Self-guided tour materials also available for school groups and visitors, click here to book a self-guided tour.
Presented in partnership with the Santa Cruz County Office of Education, the Art Forum, the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research and Cabrillo College.
For more information visit santacruzmah.org
