The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies: Robert Alter
2011-02-16 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Every year, we honor Helen Diller, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC-Santa Cruz, by hosting a public lecture on campus by an internationally recognized scholar. This year’s lecture will be presented by Dr. Robert Alter, and is entitled “Translating the Bible: The Wisdom Books.” The lecture will take place on Wednesday, February 16th from 5-7 pm and will be followed by a reception.
Robert Alter is Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress, and is past president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. He has twice been a Guggenheim Fellow, has been a Senior Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, and Old Dominion Fellow at Princeton University. He has written widely on the European novel from the eighteenth century to the present, on contemporary American fiction, and on modern Hebrew literature. He has also written extensively on literary aspects of the Bible. His twenty-four published books include two prize-winning volumes on biblical narrative and poetry and award-winning translations of Genesis and of the Five Books of Moses. He has devoted book-length studies to Fielding, Stendhal, and the self-reflexive tradition in the novel. Books by him have been translated into eight different languages. Among his publications over the past nineteen years are Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem (1991), The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel (1999), Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture (2000), The Five Book of Moses: A Translation with Commentary (2004), Imagined Cites (2005), The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary (2007), Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible (2010), and The Wisdom Books: A Translation with Commentary (2010). In 2009 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for lifetime contribution to American letters.

Amy Rose Deal: "Case and Caselessness in Nez Perce"
2011-02-17 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Morphological case systems are frequently described in terms of distinctions related to transitivity. To a first approximation, the case system of Nez Perce nicely fits this bill: one case (ergative) marks transitive subjects, a distinct case (objective) marks transitive objects, and intransitive subjects remain in an unmarked (nominative) form.

(1)
Transitive: ERG subject, OBJ object

Caan-nim
paa-‘yaX-n-a
‘inii-ne

John-ERG
3/3-find-P-REM.PAST
house-OBJ

John found a house.

(2)
Intransitive: NOM subject

Sue
hi-pay-n-a

Sue
3SUBJ-arrive-P-REM.PAST

Sue arrived.

However, Nez Perce also shows us a series of circumstances in which the correlation between transitivity and case-marking breaks down. All transitive verbs allow both the case pattern in (1) (ERG subject, OBJ object) and the “caseless” version in (3) (NOM subject, NOM object). Both versions appear to be semantically and syntactically transitive; yet in the caseless version (3), the characteristic subject and object cases of the transitive pattern have disappeared.

(3)
Caseless transitive: NOM subject, NOM object

Caan
hi-‘yaaX-n-a
‘iniit

John
3SUBJ-find-P-REM.PAST
house

John found a house.

What controls the choice of case in transitive clauses? I argue that the deciding factor lies in the grammar of object agreement: all and only clauses with successful object agreement show the ergative and objective case. This finding calls for a theory of morphological case which accords a crucial role not to transitivity itself but to the syntax and morphology of agreement. I propose a version of this view according to which case-markers are morphological realizations of agreement features. If this sort of view can be maintained, case and agreement systems can be handled by grammatical theories which remain relatively featurally sparse. Language does not include related features for case and agreement; these are the same features appearing in distinct morphological environments.
Amy Rose Deal (Harvard) will give this job talk as a candidate for the Linguistics department’s Syntax faculty position.

Kaija Mortensen:"Thought Experiment Intuitions: Rational or Animal?"
2011-02-17 16:00 - 17:00 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk is presented as part of the Philosophy Graduate Student Works in Progress series.

Cameron McNeil: "The Chocolate Tree and Its History among the Ancient Maya"
2011-02-17 17:00 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This presentation will explore the use of the chocolate tree (Theobroma cacao L.) in Mesoamerican communities with a focus on the ancient Maya polity of Copan in Honduras. While the areas where cacao thrived in Mesoamerica were limited, the seeds were easily transportable and became a valued source of stimulants. By 1900 B.C. cacao was used in feasting rituals as evidenced by chemical residue analysis of vessels from Paso de la Amada, Mexico. For the pre-Columbian people T. cacao came to be associated with markers of life passage events (such as birth, marriage, and death), was linked to rulership and power, and was used as a medium of exchange. Where the cacao grew well, it was one of several important tree crops which undoubtedly aided populations in preserving forest cover while providing an esteemed comestible and trade good. Today, traditional cacao consumption and production has been lost in many areas, and where it remains it is on the wane for both positive and negative reasons.

Living Writers Series: Dion Farquhar and Gary Young
2011-02-17 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Dion Farquhar is a poet and fiction writer with recent poems in The Southeast Review, Shampoo, and/or, Dark Sky Magazine, etc. Her chapbook, Cleaving, won first prize at Poets Corner Press in 2007, and her first poetry book was published in November by Evening Street Press. She works as a Lecturer of literature and creative writing at UC Santa Cruz and teaches writing at San Jose City College.

Gary Young is a poet and artist whose honors include the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of American and a Pushcart Prize. His book of poems, The Dream of a Moral Life, won the James D. Phelan Award. He is the co-editor of The Geography of Home: California’s Poetry of Place, and Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California. Since 1975 he has designed, illustrated, and printed limited edition books and broadsides, which are represented in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Alberta Museum, and The Getty Center for the Arts.
Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, the Literature Department, and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund.

Barbara Thompson: "Curatorial Activism: Exhibiting Arts of the 'Other'"
2011-02-22 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In curatorial practices today, asking the question “What is art?” leads to a clear lack of a singularly “correct” answer. Expand the question to “What is African art?” and the territory becomes even murkier in that both the terms “art” and “Africa” resist definition. The navigation toward mutual understanding becomes an almost impassable quagmire of definitions, territorialism, and exclusionism, especially when expanding these questions to the exhibition of arts from various cultures around the world.
In this presentation, Dr. Barbara Thompson re-examines her use of curatorial activism in exhibitions and experimental interventions curated at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, which not only challenged older museological practices but also fostered open dialogue about the development of new paradigms.
Readings are available from macs@ucsc.edu
For more information, please contact Lucian Gomoll at macs@ucsc.edu or visit the MACS website at http://macs.ucsc.edu/
This event is co-sponsored by the Museum and Curatorial Studies (MACS) Cluster, and the History of Consciousness Department

Sandra Koelle: "Intimate Bureaucracies: Roadkill, Policy, and Fieldwork in the Shoulder"
2011-02-23 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Doctor Koelle researches how to develop data visualizations that represent spatial experience as subjective and relational rather than as defined through place. The goal is to map animal and human movements and constraints across the American West at different scales to facilitate an affective and aesthetic experience and provide a way to think about the politics of movement and immobility, from habitat destruction to transit budget cuts.

Sandra Koelle is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Humanities at Stanford University.

Sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research, UCSC.

Sarah Abrevaya Stein: "In Search of a Novel Archive of the Jewish Past"
2011-02-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
What sources are essential to the study of the Jewish past? Where can they be found? In this talk, Sarah Abrevaya Stein discusses her on-going efforts to stretch the linguistic, geographic, and conceptual boundaries of the Jewish past, offering a scholarly travelogue of novel archives of Jewish history.
Sarah Abrevaya Stein is Professor and Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies at the Department of History at UCLA. Co-winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for 2010, she received her A.B. from Brown University in 1993 and her doctorate from Stanford University in 1999. Her scholarship has ranged across the Yiddish and Ladino speaking diasporas and the European, Russian, American, Ottoman and wider Mediterranean settings, but is always engaged with the reasons for and manifestations of Jewish cultural diversity in the modern period. Stein is the author of Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce (Yale University Press, 2008), winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and Making Jews Modern: the Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires (Indiana University Press, hardback 2004, paperback 2006), winner of the Salo Wittmayer Baron Prize for Best First Book in Jewish Studies for 2003 and finalist for the Koret Jewish Book Award in 2004.
Stein is now working on three book projects. With the support of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, she is now writing Misfits: Classifying Jews and the Persistence of Empire, a book that explores Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Jewish encounters with evolving legal systems whose shaping accompanied the dismantling, persistence, and transformation of empires across the globe over the course of the twentieth century. With Julia Phillips Cohen (Vanderbilt University) and the support of a National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant, Stein is also co-editing The Sephardic Studies Reader: 1730-1950 (Stanford University Press, forthcoming). This documentary reader will feature over 300 translated, original sources written over the course of two centuries by or about Sephardic Jews in the heartland of modern Judeo-Spanish culture (the Balkans, Palestine, and Turkey under Ottoman and post-Ottoman rule) and in crucial hubs of the Judeo-Spanish diaspora. Finally, with Aron Rodrigue, Stein is co-editing An Ottoman Rebel: Sa’adi Besalel ha-Levi and Jewish Salonica in the Nineteenth Century (Stanford University Press, 2011), which will present an annotated translation of the first known memoir in Ladino.
Sarah Abrevaya Stein’s talk is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies with generous support by the David B. Gold Foundation.

Jill Hoy: "Singular Dualities: Painting from Life, Painting in the Studio"
2011-02-24 16:00 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UCSC Humanities Presents the East Coast Distinguished Visiting Alumni lecture featuring Jill Hoy Cowell ’77. This is the inaugural talk from the East Coast Distinguished Alumni fund. Jill will present “Singular Dualities: Painting from Life, Painting in the Studio.” Reception to follow.

Whose City? Labor and the Right to the City Movements
2011-02-26 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
A one-day conference at the University of California Santa Cruz
Sponsored by the Center for Labor Studies & Urban Studies Research Cluster
The right to the city is…far more than a right of individual access to the resources that the city embodies: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city more after our heart’s desire. It is, moreover, a collective rather than an individual right since changing the city inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power over the processes of urbanization. The freedom to make and remake ourselves and our cities is…one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights. – David Harvey, 2008

Workers, environmentalists, and urban social movements have recently converged under a new banner: “the right to the city.” The phrase refers to the right of city dwellers—now the world’s majority—to democratically control development and resources in the cities in which they live . In today’s global economy, this “right” is profoundly challenged. Social divisions are experienced increasingly in spatial terms—through gentrified housing markets and polarized job markets; unequal access to green space and unequal exposure to environmental risk; new modes of segregation and policing public space. Against this backdrop, the process of urbanization itself has become a site of political contestation, and the fight for the “right to the city” both a critique and call to organize. Bringing together leading scholars, practitioners, and activists from across California and the U.S., “Whose City?” will provide an opportunity to think critically and creatively about these emerging coalitions—from their historic roots to their possible futures, from their major challenges to their major victories, from their local to their global manifestations.
Panels & Speakers
Keynote: Whose City?
David Harvey, Distinguished Professor, City University of New York
I. Cities for People or Profit? Wage, Housing, and Economic Justice Campaigns
Urban development is now a primary engine of economic growth and profit-making across the U.S. and globally. Yet the benefits of this growth are not equally shared. Rather, cities have become centers of extreme inequality. Rents and property values soar in some cities, waves of foreclosure devastate others. Wages, subsidized housing, unionized jobs, and city services are cut across the board. In response, urban social movements and labor groups turn to battles for living wages, community benefits agreements, and housing rights.
Gilda Haas, Founder, Strategic Action for a Just Economy; Co-Founder Right to the City national alliance: “Beyond Campaigns: Inequality, Popular Education, and Transformation”
Nari Rhee, Associate Academic Specialist, UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research & Education: “What Does Labor Bring to the Politics of Place? Unions and the Right to the City movement in Silicon Valley”
Stephanie Luce, Associate Professor of Labor Studies, Murphy Institute, CUNY: “From Just Economics to Economic Justice: Taking Wage Campaigns to the Next Level”
Gretchen Purser, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Syracuse University: “The Spectre and Spectacle of Eviction: Rethinking America’s Housing Crisis”
II. Cities of Nature: From Environmental Justice to Green Jobs
Urban growth transforms nature; the forces of nature reshape the city. Rampant urban development has made this age-old dynamic increasingly unsustainable, contributing to global warming, species extinction, water scarcity, and toxic pollution. Meanwhile, these conditions exacerbate inequalities of race and class, in the US and globally. Through coalitions of labor, urban, and green movements, these conditions have also become the target of campaigns for environmental justice, sustainable development, and green jobs.
Jon Zerolnick, Research Director, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE): “The Clean and Safe Ports Campaign: False dichotomies and the Underground Economy versus Coalition-building and the Power of Local Government”
Jeff Rickert, National Policy Director, Green For All and former Director, AFL-CIO Center on Green Jobs: “A Brief History of the Green Jobs Movement”
Kevin Danaher, Co-Founder of Global Exchange, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Producer of the Green Festivals: “The Green Economy is the Future”
Melissa Checker, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies, Queens College, City University of New York: “What Do You Mean by Green?’: Green Jobs in a Greed Economy,”
III. Rights to the Global City: Race, Class, Gender and Citizenship across Borders
Immigrant rights, as well as racial, ethnic, and gender equality, have long been central issues of urban justice, and today only more so. From day laborers to low paid service workers, the men and women who sustain the global economy and build our cities are often marginalized by immigration status, language, culture, and identity. This has motivated creative alliances between immigrant rights, human rights, and labor movements, highlighting links between identity, citizenship, and the right to the city.
Faranak Miraftab, Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign: l“Global Restructuring of Social Reproduction and What it Means for the Right to the City Movements:Observations in a Transnational Packing Town in the Midwest.”
Joshua Bloom, PhD Candidate in Sociology, UCLA: “Ally to Win: Black Community Leaders and SEIU’s LA Security Unionization Campaign.“
Gihan Perera, Director, Miami Worker Center, co-founder RTTC national alliance
Gerardo Dominguez, Organizer, United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 5: “Immigrant Mercado Workers’ Struggle to Bring Justice to the Workplace”
For more information: http://urban.ihr.ucsc.edu/events/whose-city/
Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research

Eve Zyzik: "Authentic texts, vocabulary load, and focus-on-form in foreign language teaching"
2011-02-28 17:15 - 18:30 | Humanities 1, Room 320
This talk will present a practical overview of the use of authentic texts for language learning purposes within the context of contemporary second language acquisition (SLA) research. Some of the questions that will be addressed during this talk include:

What are the benefits and potential difficulties of authentic texts vis-à-vis graded readers?
What are the advantages of extensive reading over intensive reading?
How much vocabulary do you need to know in order to read in a foreign language?
How much vocabulary can you “pick up” through reading?
Can authentic texts be used to teach structural features of the language?
How can we get students to enjoy reading in a foreign language?

Eve Zyzik is an Assistant Professor in the Spanish Language Program at UCSC. Her talk is presented as part of the Language Program’s Colloquium Series.

Jael Silliman: "Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women's Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope"
2011-03-01 14:00 - 15:45 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In the nineteenth and twentieth centures the Baghdadi Jewish diaspora stretched from Basra to Shanghai, with Calcutta acting as an important trading center on that route. During that time Calcutta was home to a thriving Jewish community that played an important role in the City’s mercantile development. After India’s Independence, 1947, the community relocated mostly to the Western world. Dr. Silliman, who is a member of that community, will talk about the material, religious and cultural life of the community, and trace the history of this diaspora community through the lives of four generations of women in her family. She will challenge many conventional notions of what it means to live in diaspora, reframe the role that women played in this traveling community, and highlights the ways in which their fluid identities enabled this economically successfull Jewish community to negotiate both colonialism and nationalism to advance their own interests.
Jael Silliman now resides in Calcutta, India. She is an independent Consultant, serves on the Board of Breakthrough for Human Rights, and the Indian Holdeen Fund. She is writing a book of short stories.
Prior to returning to India, Jael served as the Program Officer for Women’s Rights & Gender Equity in the Human Rights Unit, Peace and Social Justice Program of the Ford Foundation. Immediately before that, she was the Program Officer for Reproductive Rights. Prior to joining the Ford Foundation she had been a tenured Associate Professor in the Women’s Studies Department at the University of Iowa.
Jael is the recipient of the Iowa City Human Rights Commission International Human Rights Award and an Open Society Fellow. She is the author of numerous books and articles. Her most recent co-authored book, Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice, received a 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award in the area of bigotry and human rights. She is also the author of Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women’s Narratives from A Diaspora of Hope, and co-editor of Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment and Policing the National Body: Race, Gender and Criminalization.

Maria Frangos: “Queer Morphologies”
2011-03-02 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Professor Frangos’s “Queer Morphologies” explores metamorphosis and non-human embodiment in literature from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance as sites of queer possibility and potentiality. The project asks how human/animal metamorphoses surface and resurface to produce and negotiate nonnormative configurations of sexuality, gender, and kinship.
Professor Frangos is Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature at UCSC.
Sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research, UCSC.

Ned Blackhawk: "The Indigenous West of Mark Twain: Samuel Clemens and American Empire, 1861-1866"
2011-03-03 14:00 - 15:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Building upon the last sections of his first book, Violence over the Land, in this presentation Ned Blackhawk reevaluates the American West’s most famous if often under-recognized author, Samuel Clemens, whose more famous pseudonym, Mark Twain, was first deployed in 1863 in Virginia City, Nevada’s Territorial Enterprise. This presentation considers the place of indigenous peoples—specifically Goshute Shoshones and Native Hawaiians—in Clemens’ early writings and identifies longstanding uncertainties about the place of non-Anglophone and indigenous peoples in Twain’s authorship.

Julie Drucker: "The Jewish Community in Venezuela: Walking the Tightrope of the New Anti-Semitism?"
2011-03-03 16:00 - 17:45 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
For the first time in its history, the Jewish community in Venezuela has found itself facing a consistent, 10-year barrage of anti-Israel, anti-Jewish statements from President Chavez’s administration and his pro-government media. Recent events in Israel, such as the 2006 war in Lebanon, the 2009 Gaza incursion, and the Flotilla event in 2010, have triggered hostile government-led reactions in Venezuela, keeping the local community on edge. How different is this from Jews’ previous experience in Venezuela? How has the community responded? Is the community under threat?
Drawing from current interviews of community leaders and lay people, we will explore these questions to attempt to understand the unfolding of a top-down, new approach to Jews in Venezuela.
Julie Drucker was born in England and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, where she spent 24 years. She grew up in a trilingual environment, and has earned a BA and Masters degree Summa Cum Laude from UCLA in Latin American Studies, with emphasis on Political Science.
At present, Julie works as a certified simultaneous interpreter for the Criminal Courts in Los Angeles and free-lances as a translator for a variety of institutions and artists in the private and public sectors. Ms. Drucker is a contributing writer to the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles and has been closely monitoring the Jewish community in Venezuela for the past 10 years.
Julie Drucker’s talk is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies with generous support by the David B. Gold Foundation.

Living Writers Series: Sesshu Foster and Rob Wilson
2011-03-03 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Sesshu Foster taught composition and literature in East L.A. and writing at the University of Iowa, the California Institute for the Arts, and UC Santa Cruz. He has been published in The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Asia and Beyond, and State of the Union: 50 Political Poems. His works, Atomik Aztex and World Ball Notebook won a 2006 Believer Magazine Annual Book Prize and the 2010 American Book Award.

Rob Wilson has published poems in various journals from Tinfish, Taxi, Manoa, and Central Park, to The New Republic, Ploughshares, Partisan Review and Poetry, and in a book called Waking In Seoul. His study Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted: An American Poetics was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2009. A new work Beat Attitudes: On the Roads to Beatitude for Post-Beat Writers, Dharma Bums, and Cultural-Political Activists is just out with New Pacific Press.
Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, the Literature Department, and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund.

Miguel Tamen: "Resistance and Interpretation"
2011-03-08 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanites 1, Room 320, Humanities and Social Science Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Miguel Tamen specializes in philosophy and literature and Portuguese literature. His interests include the philosophy of language, interpretation, and moral philosophy, as well as aesthetics. He is Professor of Literary Theory and Chair of the Program in Literary Theory at the University of Lisbon. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago since 2000. His first book won the Portuguese PEN Club Essay Award (1987). He is the author of six books, among which are Friends of Interpretable Objects (2001) and The Matter of the Facts (2000). Two more books are forthcoming. In 2010/11 Tamen is a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the National Humanities Center.
Professor Tamen’ talk is sponsored by the Department of Literature and co-sponsored by the departments of History of Consciousness and History of Art and Visual Culture.

Noel King Memorial Lecture: Jonathan Brown and Nathaniel Deutsch
2011-03-08 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Noel King Memorial Lecture
Speakers: Jonathan Brown (Georgetown) and Nathaniel Deutsch (UCSC)
Title: “Muslims, Jews, and Modernity: Religious, Cultural, and Intellectual Responses”
Reception to Follow

James Young: "Holocaust Memorials and the 9/11 New York Memorial"
2011-03-09 08:00 - 09:10 | Classroom Unit 2, Classroom Unit‎ University of California Santa Cruz, UC Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Professor James Young, Director of Jewish and Holocaust Studies at UMass Amherst, will speak Wednesday March 9 at UCSC. His talk will take place in Classroom Building Unit 2 from 8 -9:10 am as part of a class on the Holocaust and is open to the general public. Professor Young was the Chair of the Berlin Holocaust Commission and is the Chair of the 9/11 Memorial Commission in New York City.
He will be speaking about “Holocaust Memorials and the 9/11 New York Memorial” — Professor Young is an alumnus of UCSC and holds a PhD from the campus. He is the General Editor of the Posen Library of Jewish Civilization, published by Yale University Press, and the author of important books on the Holocaust and Visual Memory, including At Memory’s Edge.

Marcia Ochoa: "'La moda nace en Paris y muere en Caracas': Fashion, Beauty and Consumption on the (Trans) National"
2011-03-09 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Professor Ochoa works at the conjuncture of the ethnography of media, modernity in Latin America, and queer/transgender studies. Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Misses and Mass Media in Venezuela (Duke, forthcoming) is a queer diasporic ethnography of femininity, spectacle, and nation in Venezuela.
Marcia Ochoa is Assistant Professor of Community Studies at UCSC.

Sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research, UCSC.

Living Writers Series: Graduate Student Readings
2011-03-10 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This week the Living Writers Series offers a selection of readings by UCSC Graduate Students, including Juliana Leslie, Tim Yamamura, Jake Thomas, Andrea Quaid, and Eireene Nealand.
Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, the Literature Department, and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund.

The Writing Program’s 2011 Reading Series
2011-03-10 19:00 - 20:30 | Charles E. Merrill Lounge
The Writing Program’s 2011 Reading Series
Please join us in welcoming two new voices to the Faculty Reading Series: Terry Terhaar will be reading non-fiction and Travis Mossetti will be reading poetry. A returning reader, Maureen Foster, will also be reading poetry. As we add new teachers to our faculty, it is a pleasure to add their work to our annual series. Please join us for a fantastic evening, and see that we all do far more than teach in the classroom.

Norvin Richards: "Generalized Contiguity"
2011-03-11 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In Richards (2010) I posited a universal condition on the prosody of wh-questions, which was intended to predict whether a given language would move its wh-phrases or leave them in situ. The condition requires a wh-phrase to be in the same prosodic domain as the interrogative complementizer which Agrees with it. Whether a language has to move its wh-phrases then depends on how its prosody is organized. Some languages can leave wh-phrases in situ and manipulate the prosody of the sentence to satisfy the prosodic requirement; others cannot do this, and must move the wh-phrase to make it sufficiently prosodically close to C.
In this talk I will generalize the prosodic requirement I posited for the relation between C and wh-phrases, applying it to all pairs of syntactic objects that are related either by Agree or by selection. Data handled by the resulting theory include a variety of facts about the placement of adverbs in languages like English and French (traditionally accounted for via claims about the structural height of verbs), the Final-over-Final Constraint of Biberauer et al (2010), and the requirement that clauses with English quotative inversion cannot have auxiliaries.
Norvin Richards, Professor of Linguistics at MIT, will give this talk as part of the CrISP Distinguished Visitors Series.

Food Anxieties: A Symposium on the Question of “What to Eat”
2011-03-14 17:00 - 21:00 | Cellar Door Cafe, 328 Ingalls Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The UC Multi-Campus Research Program on Studies of Food and the Body invite you to the Public Event “Food Anxieties: A Symposium on the Question of ‘What to Eat.’” This event will take place on Monday, March 14th from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Cellar Door Cafe at Bonny Doon Vineyard, located at 328 Ingalls Street in Santa Cruz. The symposium will feature a thought-provoking discussion of food advice, risk, and avoidance with renowned food scholars from across the nation. The symposium will be followed by a reception and wine talk with Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon Vineyard.
The event is free and open to the public, though prior registration is required. For a full list of guest speakers and to register, visit the event website at http://foodandbody.ucdavis.edu/?page_id=234
Food Anxieties is sponsored by the UC Studies of Food and the Body Multicampus Research Program, Bonny Doon Wineries, and the Institute for Humanities Research and the UCSC Department of Anthropology.

Paul Festa: "Apparition of the Eternal Church" and "The Glitter Emergency"
2011-03-17 19:00 - 21:00 | First Congregational Church, 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
The UCSC Center for Cultural Studies, departments of History of Art and Visual Culture, History of Consciousness, Literature, Sociology, Film and Digital Media, and the Queer Theory Research Cluster present two films by Paul Festa, with live musical accompaniment.
Apparition of the Eternal Church is winner of Best North American Independent Feature Film – Indianapolis International Film Festival; winner of Best Experimental Film – Rome International Film Festival; winner of Special Director’s Prize – Santa Cruz Film Festival; and winner of Gold Medal for Excellence – Park City Film Festival.
The Glitter Emergency is winner of the Best Experimental Film – Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood.
Paul Festa is the author of Oh My God: Messiaen in the Ear of the Unbeliever based on his film. For more information about the films please visit apparitionfilm.com and theglitteremergency.com.
Sponsored by the Queer Theory Research Cluster. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research, UCSC.

Michael Wagner: "The Locality of Allomorph Selection and Production Planning"
2011-03-29 12:00 - 13:30 | Stanford University
CrISP is proud to present:
Michael Wagner (McGill University): “The Locality of Allomorph Selection and Product Planning”
English -ing varies between two phonologically distinct allomorphs, [iŋ] and [in]. Across different varieties of English this variation has been shown to depend on gender, speaking style, and socio-economic factors (Fischer, 1958; Labov, 1972; Trudgill, 1972). Phonological context has also been shown to be relevant (Houston, 1985): the allomorph [in] is more likely when a coronal segment follows. Strictly localist theories of morphology (e.g., Bobaljik, 2000; Embick, 2010) predict that the phonological context should only be able to affect allomorph selection under syntactic locality conditions. Globalist theories (e.g., theories of allomorph choice formulated within standard optimality theory) predict that in principle any information in a linguistic representation could affect allomorph choice. This paper reports on experimental data involving -ing-allomorphy that seems incompatible with both types of theories.
As illustrated in (1) and (2), we crossed the syntactic environment (local vs. non-local) with the phonological environment (a-[ə] vs. the-[ð]), using a syntactic contrast familiar from studies of prosodic phrasing (e.g., Itzak et al. 2010):
(1)
Local:
a. Whenever the boy was browsing a book the game would fall off the table.
b. Whenever the boy was browsing the book the game would fall off the table.
(2)
Non-Local:
a. Whenever the boy was browsing a book would fall off the table.
b. Whenever the boy was browsing the book would fall off the table.
Localist theories predict that the phonological context should be able to affect the choice of allomorph when the word providing the phonological environment is syntactically local as in (1), but not when it is part of the next sentence (2). Globalist theories predict that phonological context should be relevant in both types of cases.
The results show an effect of phonology both in (1) and (2). This is unexpected under the localist account. However, the effect is much smaller in (2), which is unexpected under the globalist account.
The interaction between phonology and syntax suggests that syntactic locality might be relevant after all. However, within the syntactic conditions, there is a quantitative correlation between the strength of the prosodic boundary separating the verb and its complement and the liklihood of a phonological effect of the following word. In other words, whether the phonological form of the following word has an influence on allomorph choice depends gradiently on the strength of the prosodic boundary separating the two words even within the same syntactic condition. Once these quantitative measures of boundary strength are taken into account, the effect of between syntactic conditions vanishes: the difference between (1) and (2) in the size of the phonological effect is completely explicable as a result of the difference in boundary strength between the two structures.
The pattern of phonological conditioning can be accounted for by a model of allomorph selection that is constrained by the locality of production planning. The segmental content of an upcoming word can have an effect on allomorph choice if its phonological form is already available at the time of vocabulary insertion. The strength of a prosodic boundary negatively correlates with the availability of the following word, and can thus serve as a proxy measure for the locality of production planning.
The data suggests that the phonological effect on allomorph choice, at least in this case, can be stated in purely segmental terms. The apparent effect of syntax on the phonologically conditioning of allomorph choice can be explained by its indirect effect on the likelihood that the phonological material of the upcoming word is already planned out at time when allomorph selection happens. This suggests a more modular view of the syntax/morph-phonology interaction across word boundaries than current approaches that assume an interleaving of phonology and syntax.
The account in terms of the locality of production planning provides a potential explanation why individuals in our experiment and the dialects described in the literature only seem to vary in the proportion with which they choose the allomorphs (from almost always [in] to almost always [iŋ]), but none seem to show a complementary distribution according to phonological or syntactic context: the reason is that the conditioning environment is only probabilistically available depending on how much planning is been possible, and this varies depending on the structure of sentence and other factors. In other words, there might be a reason why ing-allomorph selection is consistently a variable process: reliably planning out an entire utterance in all its phonological detail is difficult if not impossible. Other cases of phonologically conditioned allomorphy are considered and their amenability to an account in terms of the locality of production planning is discussed.
Crosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology (CrISP) s a collaborative research group within the UC Santa Cruz and Stanford University Linguistics Departments. Generous support has been provided by the UC Humanities Network, the Tanya Honig Fund for Linguistics Graduate Students, and Stanford University Linguistics research funding. Staff support provided by the Institution for Humanities Research.

Colin Koopman: "Pleasure and Parrhesia in Foucault's Self-Transformative Ethics"
2011-03-31 16:00 - 18:00 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Michel Foucault’s late writings on ethics have been subjected to severe scrutiny by a host of critics. I suggest that these criticisms have for the most part been misguided because of a meta-ethical error too often relied upon in interpretations of Foucault. I offer a distinction between ethical ‘orientations’ and ethical ‘commitments’. Rather than offering substantive normative content, I argue, Foucault’s ethics are an attempt to specify a formal mode or style of ethical practice which can gain determinate normative content only in contexts of actual ethical practice. The guiding ethical orientation in Foucault’s late writings is, I argue, self-transformation as a practice of freedom. After defending Foucault along these lines, I discuss how self-transformation helps us understand the relatively more determinate ethical conceptions of pleasure and parrhesia (fearless speech) developed in Foucault’s late writings. I conclude with some sharp questions about the lack of sufficient determinate ethical content in these conceptions, thus opening the possibility for supplementing Foucault’s ethics with the work of other self-transformative moral philosophers, including for
instance William James.
Professor Colin Koopman (BA Evergreen State College 1998, MA Leeds University 1999, PhD McMaster University 2006) will be speaking at 4:00 on Thursday, March 31, 2011 at the Philosophy department colloquium held in the Cowell Conference Room. This event is free and open to the campus community. His area of specialty includes but is not limited to Pragmatism & American Philosophy, Genealogy & Critical Theory, Political & Social Philosophy, etc. Professor Koopman was awarded a Doctoral Fellowship (04-06) and Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (06-08) for his work with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. More recently he received the Robert F. and Evelyn Nelson Wulf Professorship, as well as the Oregon Humanities Center Teaching Fellowship (11-12). He has taught at UC Santa Cruz (08-09) and currently resides as a Assistant Professor at University of Oregon. He has also given courses as a visiting lecture at UC Berkeley’s School of Information (09).

Jodi Magness: “The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls”
2011-03-31 17:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In 1946-47, Bedouins found the first Dead Sea Scrolls in a cave near the site of Qumran, by the shore of the Dead Sea. Eventually remains of over 900 scrolls were discovered in 11 caves surrounding Qumran. The scrolls, which date to about the time of Jesus, were deposited in the caves by members of a Jewish sect – apparently the Essenes – who lived at Qumran. In this slide-illustrated lecture, we explore the ancient remains at Qumran and discuss the contents and significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Jodi Magness holds a senior endowed chair in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism. From 1992-2002, she was Associate/ Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology in the Departments of Classics and Art History at Tufts University, Medford, MA. She received her B.A. in Archaeology and History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1977), and her Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania (1989). From 1990-92, Magness was Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Syro- Palestinian Archaeology at the Center for Old World Archaeology and Art at Brown University.
Magness’ book The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls(Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002) won the 2003 Biblical Archaeology Society’s Award for Best Popular Book in Archaeology in 2001-2002 and was selected as an “Outstanding Academic Book for 2003” by Choice Magazine. Magness’ book The Archaeology of the Early Islamic Settlement in Palestine (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2003) was awarded the 2006 Irene Levi-Sala Book Prize in the category of non-fiction on the archaeology of Israel.
Snack reception at 4:30, talk begins at 5.
Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research

Guriqbal Singh Sahota: "Resemblances of Pure Content"
2011-04-06 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Professor Sahota will join the Literature department as an Assistant Professor in 2011. He is finishing Late Colonial Sublime (UC, 2012). His research addresses conflicts of dogmatic and speculative belief cultures in contemporary global society with a special focus on the postcolonial. He has begun a long-term project on the question of reason in the Sikh tradition from the 16th through the 20th century. The first installment of this project will appear as “Guru Nanak and Rational Civil Theology” in Sikh Formations (2011).
Sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research, UCSC.

Rethinking Capitalism
2011-04-07 - 2011-04-09 | University Center, UCSC, College Nine and College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Three decades of advances in financial economics have transformed global markets. As a matter of theory, the valuing of options (financial products) became increasingly central to understanding the market in any commodity; as a matter of politics questions about the direction and sustainability of the market system were supplanted by questions about its volatility—how to manage the uncertainty that it creates. The Crisis of 2008 illustrates the need to better understand what is new, and what is not, about conceiving of capitalism as a whole in this way. This conference brings theories of economic value and regulation into conversation with the study of culture, institutions, ethics, history, geography and theology. Its aim is to consider in what ways capitalism is producing a future that is unlike its past. Panel topics include:
1) Eschatology, Visualization and Scenario Planning
2) Market Institutions, Government and Crisis
3) Affective, Spatial and Material Flows of Value
4) Social Risk, Human Capital and Financializing Inequality
5) Critique, Confession and Conversion in the Aftermath of 2008.
Please visit http://rethinkingcapitalism.ucsc.edu for more information.

Living Writers Series: Chang-Rae Lee
2011-04-07 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Chang-Rae Lee’s first two novels, Native Speaker and A Gesture Life, have between them won a host of literary honors, including the Hemingway/PEN Award for first fiction, QPB’s New Voices Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, the Oregon Book Award, and the Asian-American Literary Award. Lee was recently selected by The New Yorker as one of the Twenty Best Writers Under Forty. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and numerous anthologies.
Each quarter, the Living Writers Reading Series brings visiting authors and poets to UC Santa Cruz to give students an in-depth look into the world of the working writer. Sponsored by Oakes College and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund.

Maria Gouskova: "Vug, vg-a: An Experimental Investigation of Russian Yer Deletion"
2011-04-08 15:30 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Russian has a well-known rule called yer deletion: stem mid vowels are deleted when a vowel-initial suffix follows (as in [rov] `ditch (nom sg)’ vs. [rv-a] (gen sg)). The rule is lexically idiosyncratic: most mid vowels in identical contexts do not alternate (as in [rʲov] `howl (nom sg)’ vs. [rʲov-a] (gen sg)). There are two types of approaches to such alternations. I will advocate a theory in which entire morphemes are labeled in the lexicon as subject to this alternation, and the phonological grammar is responsible for deriving generalizations about where deletion is possible or blocked (Gouskova to appear, cf. Yearley 1995). A much better known alternative theory holds that the alternating vowels must be labeled on a segment-by-segment basis, and that the conditioning environment for deletion is opaque: yers are realized when followed by abstract yers in the UR but delete otherwise (Lightner 1972, Pesetsky 1979, Kenstowicz and Rubach 1987, Halle and Matushansky 2006). These theories make different predictions for how speakers might extend the alternation to novel forms. The goal of this talk is to demonstrate that speakers are aware of the phonological generalizations that govern the alternations.
Even though vowel-zero alternations in Russian are lexically idiosyncratic, the identity of alternating vowels is partially predictable: only mid vowels can alternate, and there are certain phonological contexts where alternations are predictably blocked. This talk reports on two experiments that asked Russian speakers to rate pairs of inflected words in which a vowel was deleted. The results show that the rating strongly correlates with the quality of the vowel: deletion of mid vowels (as in [xel] and [xl-a]) was rated higher than deletion of high and low vowels (e.g., [gil] and [gl-a] or [ʃap] and [ʃp-a]). An experiment also tested context effects: deletion that creates a medial CCC cluster that violates sonority sequencing, deletion of vowels in different stress contexts, and deletion in CVCC stems. These results suggest that speakers have a grammar even for this non-productive and lexically limited alternation.
This talk is presented as part of the Linguistics Colloquium Series.

Cristina Lombardi-Diop: "Spotless Italy: Advertising Culture and the Post-racial Imagination"
2011-04-13 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Cristina Lombardi-Diop, Italian Studies, UC Berkeley
“Spotless Italy: Advertising Culture and the Post-racial Imagination“
Professor Lombardi-Diop has published on gender and Italian colonial literature, African-Italian autobiographies, and the African diaspora in Italy. Her in-progress book is on the memory of Italian colonialism in Italy’s postwar cultural history. The talk explores Italy as a post-racial society and focuses on when the idea of whiteness as a discursive formation infiltrates Italian popular and mass culture.
Cristina Lombardi-Diop is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at The American University of Rome and Visiting Professor of Italian Studies at UC Berkeley.
Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research

Florence Howe
2011-04-13 15:30 - 16:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Kresge Writer’s House, Living Writers, & Feminist Studies presents:
Florence Howe, founder of The Feminist Press and author of the memoir, A Life in Motion

Gregg Herken: "Was J. Robert Oppenheimer, 'Father of the Atomic Bomb,' a Soviet Spy?"
2011-04-13 16:00 - 18:00 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
One of the great unresolved controversies of the Cold War is whether American physicist Robert Oppenheimer–the “father of the atomic bomb”–was, in fact, a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union. Recently-declassified documents–from U.S. and former Soviet sources–make it possible to finally answer that question.
Gregg Herken (Stevenson College with Honors, History BA with Honors, Government with Highest Honors, 1969) is an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California, and was a Founding Faculty member at UC Merced. He received a Ph.D. in modern American diplomatic history from Princeton University in 1974, and subsequent taught at Oberlin College, Yale University, and Caltech. From 1988-2003, Herken was a senior Historian and Curator, as well as the chairman of the Department of Space History at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. He is the author of four books, The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War (Knopf, 1981; Princeton, 1988), Counsels of War (Knopf, 1985; Oxford, 1986), Cardinal Choices: Presidential Science Advising from the Atomic Bomb to SDI (Oxford, 1992; Stanford, 1999), and Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller (Henry Holt, 2002; Holt, 2003), which was a finalist for the 2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History.
Co-sponsored by The Institute for Humanities Research and The Department of History. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Karen Sánchez-Eppler: "In the Archives of Childhood"
2011-04-14 14:00 - 15:30 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Karen Sánchez-Eppler is Professor of American Studies and English at Amherst College. She is the author of Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body (California, 1993) and Dependent States: The Child’s Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (Chicago, 2005), and a founding co-editor of The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. She is spending this year as a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center where she is completing a project on manuscript books entitled The Unpublished Republic: Manuscript Culture of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States, and beginning a new one, In the Archives of Childhood, which probes the relations between our different ways of holding the past. Her talk at Santa Cruz draws from the introduction to this new project, examining the intersection of archival practice and childhood studies in an effort to illuminate the attractions and limitations of both.
“Archive Fever” as Jacques Derrida describes it, epitomizes the infectious desire to locate and possess origins. For scholarship in the humanities the “archival turn” proves to have much in common with the study of childhood. Both have been there all along: the repositories of our cultural and personal pasts. In many ways, for each of us, childhood is the archive, a treasure-box of the formative and the forgotten. Yet until the last few decades both our archives and our childhoods have remained largely under-theorized sites of origin. My talk will examine the intersection of archival practice and childhood studies in an effort to illuminate the attractions and limitations of both. Childhood manuscripts and documents demonstrate the potential of archival work for gaining access to children’s voices, experiences, and everyday life. Looking beyond this utility, I hope to suggest how an attention to childhood may help rethink the nature of archival records, organization, and purpose itself. The traces of childhood found in archives tend toward the ephemeral—the scrap and the scribble far more likely than the tome—and thus puts pressure on the claims and nature of preservation and valuation. What constitutes the trivial as trivial? If childhood is ephemeral by nature—a stage to be outgrown—then what can it teach us about the archival tasks of keeping and cataloging? Age is not generally a classificatory category for archival holdings, a fact that exemplifies the expressions of power at stake in the way knowledge is organized. Children tend to appear in archives in two ways, on the fringes of collections of individual or family papers, a residue of domestic life that accompanies the valuable work of adults, for whose prominence these materials have been saved; and in the records of those institutions charged with the protection, punishment, and education of the young. Thus to think about childhood in the archives is to think about the tensions and collaborations between individual and institutional frames, affection and control, fame and loss. This will be a speculative discussion, but one that theorizes from particular childhood stuff.

Hans Sluga: “From Normative Theory to Diagnostic Practice”
2011-04-14 16:00 - 17:30 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
From the Greeks to the present our moral and political philosophizing has been preoccupied with a search for the timeless and the universal: timeless norms of moral action and universal principles of political life. Where this may once have seemed to be a plausible undertaking, it is not obviously so any longer. A clear understanding of the nature of our rapidly changing world should alert us to the need for another form of philosophical thinking – one that pays attention to the condition in which we find ourselves and that seeks to reach practical conclusions, if any,on the basis of a proper diagnosis of the present. In place of the usual normative theorizing we need to foster, what I will call, a diagnostic practice in moral and political philosophy.
Professor Hans Sluga will be speaking at 4:00PM on Thursday, April 14, 2011 at the invitation of the Philosophy Department. This event is free and open to the public.
Hans Sluga studied at Oxford University, where he became familiar with the writings of Wittgenstein. Sluga credits Sir Michael Dumment with influencing his extensive interest in Frege’s contribution to the development of modern logic and philosophy of language. During his time at Oxford he also studied under R.M. Hare and Isaiah Berlin, stirring his interest in questions of ethics and politics.
Professor Sluga’s overall philosophical outlook is radically historical as he believes that “we can understand ourselves only as being with a particular evolution and history”. As such he is drawn to the works of Nietzsche and Foucault. Sluga claims to be “attracted to a realist and naturalistic view of things rather than any sort of formalistic rationalism”.
He has recently taught courses on Political Philosophy, Nietzsche, and Hegel’s “Philosophy of Right”.

Living Writers Series: Andrew Sean Greer
2011-04-14 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage, which The New York Times has called an “inspired, lyrical novel,” and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named a Best Book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. His ﬁrst novel, The Path of Minor Planets, and his story collection, How It Was for Me, were also published to wide acclaim. Greer’s stories have appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, and The New Yorker, and have been anthologized in The Book of Other People and Best American Nonrequired Reading. He is the recipient of the PEN/O’Henry Prize for Short Fiction, the Northern California Book Award, the California Book Award, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award.
Each quarter, the Living Writers Reading Series brings visiting authors and poets to UC Santa Cruz to give students an in-depth look into the world of the working writer. Sponsored by Oakes College and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund.

Rajesh Bhatt: "Locating Agreement in Grammar"
2011-04-15 15:30 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Linguistics Colloquium Series Presents:
Rajesh Bhatt (UMass Amherst)
The location of agreement in the grammar has been the topic of considerable recent discussion. Bobaljik 2008 has argued that agreement is a post-syntactic process, other approaches (Boskovic 2009 and Chomsky 1999) locate it entirely within the syntactic system. More recently the data from agreement with conjoined noun phrases has played an important role in this debate; in this domain we find closest conjunct agreement, a phenomenon whose seeming sensitivity to linear proximity indicates a post-syntactic component to agreement (Marusic et al. 2006). We analyze a novel set of data from Hindi-Urdu that shows that a proper analysis of agreement requires reference to both a pre-spellout syntactic and a post-syntactic component. Hindi-Urdu is a language with both subject and object agreement and we show that while subject agreement is calculated in the pre-spellout syntactic component, the resolution of object agreement takes place in the post-syntactic component.
This presentation represents joint work with Martin Walkow.

Gianfranco Norelli and Surma Kurien: "Pane Amaro"
2011-04-15 15:30 - 18:00 | Cowell, Room 131, Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Italian Studies Program, Language Program, American Studies Program and History Department Present a screening of the 2009 documentary film,
Pane Amaro (Bitter Bread)
dir. Gianfranco Norelli
Followed by a conversation with the director and co‐producer Suma Kurien
“The story of migration to the U.S. is a very complex one. “Feel good” narratives about immigrants catapulting from rags to riches or moralizing tales of “pulling ourselves up by our own bootstraps” do not begin to capture that complexity. In Pane Amaro, viewers learn of events and people known until now mainly to scholars. This is a rich panorama of images and voices from every corner of the Italian American community. Accessible and challenging, it should be on the list of every ethnic studies course that wants to tackle the difficult process by which European immigrants became white as they became American.”
Donna Gabaccia. Director, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
For more information contact: gckg@ucsc.edu

Patricia Clough: "War by Other Means: What Difference Do(es) the Graphic(s) Make?"
2011-04-18 12:30 - 14:00 | Rachel Carson College, Room 301, Rachel Carson College 1156 High Stree, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Patricia T. Clough is a Professor of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Intercultural Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Her books include Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology (Minnesota 2000), Feminist Thought: Desire, Power and Academic Discourse (co-edited with Charles Lemert, J.W. Wiley, 1995) and The End(s) of Ethnography (Peter Lang 1992, revised 1998). Her most recent book, co-edited with Jean Halley, is The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social (Duke 2007).

Clough on Probabilities, Predictions and Prophecies, Part 2, The New School: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TgMlpa57hU
Patricia Clough on the internet as playground and factory: http://vimeo.com/6797762
Clough and Han: Metronome Beating: http://www.vimeo.com/5400775
Sponsored by the Affect Working Group, the Department of Sociology, and the Center for Cultural Studies. For more information on this event and/or future events of the Affect Working Group please contact Prof. D. Gould (dbgould@ucsc.edu) or Prof. D. Takagi (takagi@ucsc.edu) or Prof. C. Freccero (freccero@ucsc.edu).

Bill Fletcher, Jr.: "Right-Wing Populism and the Crisis of Organized Labor"
2011-04-21 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UCSC Center for Labor Studies presents:
Bill Fletcher, Jr.: “Right-Wing Populism and the Crisis of Organized Labor”
Free and Open to the Public
Right-wing populism is a phenomenon deeply rooted in the US system. It tends to emerge in a virulent form during times of economic distress and crisis. It plays upon fears and prejudices and is integrally connected to matters of race. Bill Fletcher, Jr. will address the importance of understanding right-wing populism and the role that a renewed labor movement can play in combating this irrationalist and divisive force.
Bill Fletcher, Jr., is a longtime labor, racial justice and international activist. He is an Editorial Board member and columnist for BlackCommentator.com and a Senior Scholar for the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC. He is the immediate past president of TransAfrica Forum and a founder of the Black Radical Congress.
Fletcher is the co-author (with Fernando Gapasin) of Solidarity Divided, The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice (University of California Press). He was formerly the Vice President for International Trade Union Development Programs for the George Meany Center of the AFL-CIO. Prior to the George Meany Center, Fletcher served as Education Director and later Assistant to the President of the AFL-CIO.
Fletcher got his start in the labor movement as a rank-and-file member of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America. Combining labor and community work, he was also involved in ongoing efforts to desegregate the Boston building trades. He later served in leadership and staff positions in District 65-United Auto Workers, the National Postal Mail Handlers Union, and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Fletcher is a graduate of Harvard University and has authored numerous articles and speaks widely on domestic and international topics, racial justice and labor issues.
The UCSC Center for Labor Studies is funded by the Miguel Contreras Labor Fund of the University of California Office of the President, and co-sponsored by the UCSC Division of Humanities. This event is generously co-sponsored by College Ten, Stevenson College, Oakes College CHECK, and the Department of Politics. Staffing provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
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Joy Harjo: "Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears"
2011-04-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Merrill Event Center, Merrill Event Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The American Indian Resource Center will be hosting internationally acclaimed poet/musician/playwright JOY HARJO (Har-joe) on April 21st, 2011, at Merrill College Event Center, from 7-9pm. Harjo will be performing a brand new solo work Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears, blending music, poetry, personal reflection, and cultural histories, accompanied by Grammy-award winning guitarist and producer LARRY MITCHELL.

Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is a member of the Mvskoke Nation. Her seven books of poetry, which includes such well-known titles as How We Became Human- New and Selected Poems, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, and She Had Some Horses have garnered many awards. These include the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas; and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. For A Girl Becoming, a young adult/coming of age book, was released in 2009 and is Harjo’s most recent publication.
She has released four award-winning CD’s of original music and in 2009 won a Native American Music Award (NAMMY) for Best Female Artist of the Year for Winding Through the Milky Way. Her most recent CD release is a traditional flute album: Red Dreams, A Trail Beyond Tears. She performs nationally and internationally with her band, the Arrow Dynamics. She also performs her one-woman show, Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light, which premiered at the Wells Fargo Theater in Los Angeles in 2009 with recent performances at the Public Theater in NYC and La Jolla Playhouse as part of the Native Voices at the Autry. She has received a Rasmusson US Artists Fellowship and is a founding board member of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Harjo writes a column “Comings and Goings” for her tribal newspaper, the Muscogee Nation News. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
For more information contact the American Indian Resource Center at 831-459-2881.

Harry Berger, Jr.: "Caterpillage: Small-scale Violence in 17th Century Dutch Still-Life Painting"
2011-04-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Merrill Event Center, Merrill Event Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk is about the strange accent on disorder in 17th century Dutch paintings of still life. The still-life genre includes pictures of flowers and food in domestic and outdoor settings. Its focus is on the conflict between an emphasis on order, harmony, and formal beauty, and an emphasis on disorder, damage, and death. I’ll view still life through the lens provided by Stephen Colbert’s idea of “truthiness” and devote special attention to the way still life painters delight in depicting the depredations inflicted by such tiny terrorists as snails and caterpillars.

Bettina Aptheker: "The Passion and Pageantry of Shirley Graham {Du Bois}: Composer & Playwright, 1920s-1930s"
2011-04-25 14:00 - 15:30 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Shirley Graham {Du Bois} (1896-1977) had a successful early career as composer, performer and playwright that included her formal studies at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Yale University, and the near completion of a Ph D at NYU. In 1932 her opera, “Tom-Tom” for which she wrote the libretto and composed the music, was performed as part of the Cleveland (Ohio) Summer Opera Festival to a capacity audience of 15,000 on opening night; the opera was a sensation. She later won a coveted two-year Young Playwrights Fellowship to Yale, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and became the Director of Negro Theater for the Federal Theater Project in Chicago in the 1930s. This presentation will examine the passion and pageantry of her work, focusing in particular on her operatic/composing career and its historical significance. Unable to pursue her artistic life because she was a single mother with two young children in the midst of the Depression, Graham went onto work in a variety of race-related and increasingly radical political projects, and became the very successful author of young adult biographies of famous Black Americans in the 1940s and 1950s. She married Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois in 1951. In addition to extensive archival work, this presentation is based upon Aptheker’s friendship with the Du Bois’.
This colloquium is presented at the invitation of the Music Department; all are welcome to attend.

The Writing Program's Reading Series
2011-04-25 19:00 - 20:30 | Silverman Conference Room, Stevenson, Stevenson College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join us for an evening of poetry and prose with past and present Writing Program faculty:
Chuck Atkinson, Jeff Arnett, Roxi Power Hamilton, Ingrid Moody, Robin Sommers, and Stephen Sweat

Paul Horwich: "Wittgenstein's Meta-Philosophy"
2011-04-26 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
My aim will be to describe and assess Wittgenstein’s anti-theoretical view of why philosophy ought not to be in conducted in the traditional way, how it should instead be done, and what can be accomplished by pursuing it properly. I will be especially concerned with the questions: (1) of how this view is related to his conception of ‘meaning’ as use’, (2) of whether it is self-defeatingly ‘theoretical’, (3) of how it evolved from his earlier (Tractatus) position, and (4) of whether his departures from that position were sufficiently radical.
Professor Paul Horwich (BA Oxford 1966, MA Yale 1969, PhD Cornell 1974) will be speaking on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at the invitation of the Linguistics and Philosophy Group. His talk is co-sponsored by the Institute for Humanities research and the UCSC Philosophy Department. Prof. Horwich’s principle contributions to the field have been a probabilistic account of scientific methodology, a unified explanation of temporally asymmetric phenomena, a deflationary conception of truth, and a naturalistic use-theory of meaning. He has received fellowship support for his work from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has been on the faculties of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (73-95), University College London (95-00), and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (00-05). He has also given courses at UCLA, the CNRS Institute d’Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences et Technique, the University of Sydney, the École Normale Supérieure, and the University of Tokyo. His main present project is a monograph on Wittgenstein’s meta-philosophy.

Afro-Latinos in the Américas
2011-04-27 10:00 - 12:00 | Kresge, Room 159, Kresge College, UC Santa Cruz, Kresge College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
A panel with Juan Flores (NYU), Miriam Jiménez Román (The Schomburg Center), Nancy Raquel Mirabal (SFSU), and Mark Anderson (UCSC).
Lourdes Martínez Echazábal (Literature) will be respondent. Juan Poblete (Literature) will moderate
In celebration of the recent publication of Juan Flores and Miriam Jimenez Roman’s “Afro-Latin@ Reader” (Duke, 2011)
The Afro-Latin@ Reader focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean. The presence of Afro-Latin@s in the United States (and throughout the Americas) belies the notion that Blacks and Latin@s are two distinct categories or cultures. Afro-Latin@s are uniquely situated to bridge the widening social divide between Latin@s and African Americans; at the same time, their experiences reveal pervasive racism among Latin@s and ethnocentrism among African Americans.
Questions? Contact Shannon Mahoney at kresgeprovostassistant@ucsc.edu

Matt O'Hara: “The History of the Future in Mexico”
2011-04-27 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Matt O’Hara, History, UCSC
“The History of the Future in Mexico”
Historians of Latin America have spent much energy studying historical legacies. The notion that “the past weighs heavily on the present” is a standard frame for historical analysis. Stepping outside this paradigm, Professor O’Hara’s book project examines how Mexicans thought about, planned for, and accessed the future from the mid-colonial period into the early republic.
Matthew O’Hara is Associate Professor of History at UCSC
Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research

Jennifer L. Morgan: "Quotidian Erasures: Gender and the Records of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade"
2011-04-27 16:30 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Quotidian Erasures: Gender and the Records of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade” will argue that the emergence of what early modern political theorists described as “political arithmetic”—and what we term demography—is a product of the trade in slaves that bolstered the colonial economies they were at pains to describe. Numeracy, political arithmetic, and the science of demography emerged in the crucible of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and early modern mercantilism. Thus, those of us charting the lives of women and men of African descent in the Atlantic must turn careful attention to the ways in which demography both supports our work and comprises a core part of the legacies of archival violence with which we must grapple. Demography is evidence, but it is also a critical problem of early modern ideology—as is what the gathering of demographic evidence meant to those who were both collecting it and being collected.
How do we move from a world in which the free African man Anthony Johnson can petition for and receive special to one in which English travelers to Africa as early as the sixteenth century routinely glossed men and women as “merchandize?” The power of numerical reckoning is not a new question for scholars of the post-colonial. But a clear disciplinary boundary is drawn in the early modern period, between those working on the political valence demography, and those working on the demographic parameters of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. It is in this juncture between histories of political science and economic studies of the trade that I am interested in staking a embedded in numerical evidence, the development of “political arithmetic,” and the ways in which men and women were and are reduced to and embedded in a system of monetary or commercial value?
Jennifer L. Morgan is Professor in the departments of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University. She is the author of Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in the Making of New World Slavery (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003). Her research examines the intersections of gender and race in colonial America. She is currently at work on a project that considers colonial numeracy, racism and the rise of the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade tentatively entitled Accounting for the Women in Slavery.
This event is made possible through generous contributions from the Departments of History, American Studies and Sociology.

Clive Sinclair: "The Belmont Quota"
2011-04-28 12:00 - 13:30 | Kresge, Room 325, Kresge College, UC Santa Cruz, Kresge College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Clive Sinclair has published 14 books of fiction – The Lady and the Laptop received major critical acclaim in England and he is noted for his criticism, including a study of Isaac Bashevis and Isaac Joshua Singer, – a collection of his stories, Bedbugs, was published last year by Syracuse University Press.
Clive Sinclair will speak on English attitudes to Venice, discussing Dreamers of the Ghetto– the stories of Israel Zangwill (1898) – as well as Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice.
This talk will take place in Murray Baumgarten’s class “Jewish Writers and the European City.” It is open to the public and will be followed by a discussion.

Alicia Schmidt Camacho: "When Human Beings Become Illegal"
2011-04-28 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Drawing on migrant testimony, this talk will discuss the implications of government refusals to recognize and protect the mobility of poor people in their pursuit of economic survival. Migrants routinely experience grave abuses and assault in the course of their travels through the North American migratory circuit at the hands of both state and criminal actors. This violence, Schmidt Camacho argues, arises from transformations in the nature of sovereign power arising from economic restructuring and democratic state failure in the region. The increased use of force in immigration law enforcement is symptomatic of a pronounced rise in state violence during the last decade, roundly legitimated by governments as defending the rule of law.
Alicia Schmidt Camacho is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University. She is the author of Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (NYU, 2008). She is currently at work on a book about state security and social violence along the North American migratory circuit.
Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Living Writers Series: Claudia Rankine
2011-04-28 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Claudia Rankine was born in Jamaica in 1963. She is the author of four collections of poetry, including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely, The End of the Alphabet, and Nothing in Nature is Private (1995), which received the Cleveland State Poetry Prize. Rankine is co-editor of American Women Poets in the Twenty-First Century (Wesleyan University Press). Her poetry is also included in several anthologies, including Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present, Best American Poetry 2001, Giant Step: African American Writing at the Crossroads of the Century, and The Garden Thrives: Twentieth Century African-American Poetry. She teaches in the writing program at the University of Houston.
Each quarter, the Living Writers Reading Series brings visiting authors and poets to UC Santa Cruz to give students an in-depth look into the world of the working writer. Sponsored by Oakes College and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund.

Pasolini's Body: New Directions in Pasolini Scholarship
2011-04-29 - 2011-04-30 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) — poet, film director, screenwriter and theatre critic, playwright, essayist, journalist, graphic artist, and novelist — was one of the great Italian artistic and intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Since his mysterious murder in 1975, Pasolini has been reviled; then sanctified. Our goal is to historicize Pasolini. This conference focuses on configurations of the body and gesture that arise in Pasolini’s performative, visual, and poetic practices with respect to the artist image, the ‘popular body’, the Third World, narrative and choreographic movement, Pasolini’s life, and his conceptions of the political and eroticism as they intersect history, culture, and myth.
Thursday
7:30-10 pm – Film Screening: Arabian Nights
Introduction: Peter Limbrick, UCSC
Location: Studio C, Communications Building
Friday
8:30-9:00 – Coffee
9:00-9:30 – Opening Remarks
David Yager, Dean of the Arts,
Mark Franko, Director of the Center for Visual and Performance Studies
9:30-11:30 – Panel: Corporeal Poetics
Tyrus Miller, UCSC
“Transhumanize and Organize: Pasolini’s Crossing of Philology and Biopolitics”
Armando Maggi, U. Chicago
“Norman O. Brown’s Love’s Body and Pasolini’s Calderón”
Colleen Ryan-Scheutz, Indiana U.
“Pasolini’s Final Word(s): From the Divina Mimesis to Petrolio and Salo”
Moderator: Deanna Shemek, UCSC
11:30-1:00 – Lunch
1:00-3:00 – Panel: Visualizing the Body
Gian Maria Annovi, Columbia
“Pasolini’s Cinematographic Body”
Mark Franko, UCSC
“Notes on Pasolini and the ‘Language’ of Dance”
Silvestra Mariniello, U. Montreal
“Myth and the Pace of Life. Pasolini’s Poetics of History”
Moderator: Cathy Soussloff, UBC
3:00-3:30 – Break
3:30-5:30 – Panel: Political Kinesthetics
Staisey Divorski, UCLA
“The Heretical Absence of the Word: Pasolini’s Teorema”
Evan Calder Williams, UCSC
“A Vital Desperation: On Rage and Communist Pessimism”
Wlad Godzich, UCSC
“Body, Narrative, and Politics”
Moderator: Karen Bassi, UCSC
5:30-7:30 – Reception & Film Screening: Notes on an African Orestes
Introduction: Peter Limbrick, UCSC
Location: Studio C, Communications Building
Saturday
10:00-10:30 – Coffee
10:30-1:00 – Panel: Postcolonial Figurations
David Pendleton, Harvard
“Pasolini on the Beach: Semiosis, Erotics and the Politics of the Image”
Derek Duncan, U. Bristol
“Graceless: Pasolini’s Postcolonial Body”
Giovanna Trento, French Center for Ethiopian Studies
“Il corpo popolare according to Pier Paolo Pasolini: body, sexuality, subalternity, reality, resistance, agency and death”
Luca Caminati, Concodria
“Notes on Pasolini’s Third World”
Moderator: Peter Limbrick
Sponsored by UCSC Arts Division, UCSC Arts Research Institute, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di San Francisco, Cowell College, Theater Arts Department, Literature Department, Film and Digital Media Department, History of Art and Visual Culture Department, History of Consciousness Department, Feminist Studies Department, and History Department

Bhanu Kapil: "Performance and Narrative: Writing (not writing) a tragic scene: NOTES: towards the Southall Race Riot of 1979"
2011-04-29 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Bhanu Kapil has written four full-length cross-genre works: The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works, 2006), humanimal [a project for future children] (Kelsey Street Press, 2009), and Schizophrene (forthcoming, Nightboat Books). Recent classes at Naropa have engaged architecture, somatics, biology and memory as ways to approach or navigate contemporary narrative and poetics. An on-going experimental pedagogy and reflection can be found at her blog: “Was Jack Kerouac a Punjabi? [A Day in the Life of a Naropa University Writing Professor.]”
Poetry and Politics is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research, which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network. Cosponsored by UCSC Porter College Hitchcock Poetry Fund the Center for Cultural Studies, and the Literature Department.
Please contact Andrea Quaid (aquaid@ucsc.edu) or Juliana Leslie (julianaleslie@gmail.com) with any questions.

Poetry Reading: Bhanu Kapil and Sesshu Foster
2011-04-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, 95060, United States
Bhanu Kapil has written four full-length cross-genre works: The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works, 2006), humanimal [a project for future children] (Kelsey Street Press, 2009), and Schizophrene (forthcoming, Nightboat Books). Recent classes at Naropa have engaged architecture, somatics, biology and memory as ways to approach or navigate contemporary narrative and poetics. An on-going experimental pedagogy and reflection can be found at her blog: “Was Jack Kerouac a Punjabi? [A Day in the Life of a Naropa University Writing Professor.]”
Sesshu Foster has taught writing in East Los Angeles for 20 years in addition to teaching at the University of Iowa, the California Institute for the Arts, and UC Santa Cruz. He is the author of Atomik Aztex; World Ball Notebook; American Loneliness: Selected Poems; and City Terrace Field Manual, a finalist for the PEN Center West Poetry Prize. He also co-edited Invocation LA: Urban Multicultural Poetry.
Poetry and Politics is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research, which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network. Cosponsored by UCSC Porter College Hitchcock Poetry Fund the Center for Cultural Studies, and the Literature Department.
Please contact Andrea Quaid (aquaid@ucsc.edu) or Juliana Leslie (julianaleslie@gmail.com) with any questions.

Day by the Bay
2011-04-30 | UC Santa Cruz
An exciting array of events and activities are planned on campus during UCSC’s upcoming “Day By The Bay” event. The campus’s annual reunion weekend will take place this year from Friday, April 29, through Sunday, May 1.
A complete schedule of events — and all related details — can be found at: http://events.ucsc.edu/daybythebay/
We hope you will join us for as many of the following special events as possible:
Saturday, April 30
Intellectual Forum
11 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Humanities Lecture Hall
“Game Changers: Green Chemistry and Social Change Philanthropy”
Oakes Provost Kimberly Lau will moderate a discussion between UCSC alumni who are creating major paradigm shifts in our collective approach to meeting social, environmental, and economic challenges. Featured speakers are:
Drummond Pike (Stevenson ’70) founder of Tides and cofounder of Working Assets
Michael Wilson (Stevenson ’84) research scientist and pioneer in the emerging field of “green” chemistry
Please register for this free event on the Day by the Bay web site.
Day by the Bay Picnic
12–3 p.m., East Field
Delicious local food, microbrews, and wine. Fun activities for kids (including a bounce house and climbing wall), robotics displays, displays from the colleges, student entertainment, and much, much more.
This year, we have also planned for a “Faculty & Staff Lounge” at the site of the picnic. In the largest tent in the center of the picnic, the “lounge” will be provide another opportunity for alumni to reconnect with favorite professors and staff. There will be comfy lounge furniture and coffee for you to enjoy while you reminisce along with alumni from all eras.
Please register for this free event on the Day by the Bay web site.
All Alumni Wine Reception
Cowell Provost House Lawn, 3–4:30 p.m.
Join us for a toast to celebrate our alumni. Reconnect with old classmates and faculty, meet new friends and share your story about how UCSC has impacted your life.
Please register for this free event on the Day by the Bay web site.

UCSC Class of 1971 40-Year Reunion Dinner
University Center, 6 p.m.
Reconnect with fellow alumni and your favorite faculty and staff for a night of mingling and memories to celebrate the last 40 years.
Tickets to this event cost $45.
Please register for this event by Friday, April 15, on the Day by the Bay web site.
Sunday, May 1
Writers Life: A celebration of writing at UC Santa Cruz
Humanities Lecture Hall and Plaza, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Humanities is hosting a selection of alumni writers–novelists, journalists, and screenwriters–coming together for a community event to focus on the joys and challenges of writing as a living, the business of writing, and trends for the future.

A Writer's Life
2011-05-01 10:00 - 16:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join us on May 1, 2011, (10am to 4pm) in celebrating writing at UCSC. As part of UCSC’s Day By The Bay celebrations, Humanities is hosting a selection of alumni writers – novelists, journalists, and screenwriters—coming together for a community event to focus on the joys and challenges of writing as a living, the business of writing, and trends for the future.

UCSC students, alumni and Santa Cruz community members are all welcome to this free event. The day begins at 10am with a keynote speech by alumnus David Talbot founder of Salon.com and best-selling author of Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years. Other writers participating in this event are: Susan Blackaby – children’s book author; David Ehrman – screenwriter; Charlie Haas – author; Claire Hoffman – freelance journalist; Robert Irion – freelance magazine journalist; Laurie King – author; Dan Pulcrano – CEO and Executive Editor, Metro Newspapers; Matt Skenazy – freelance journalist; and Gary Young – poet.

The day will conclude with a book faire and reception with the panelists.

For more information, visit http://writerslife.ucsc.edu/. Visit our registration site to RSVP.

Herbie Lee: "Computer Model Emulation"
2011-05-03 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Many modern problems involve computer simulations of physical or social processes. The field of statistics provides a range of tools to help with the design, analysis, and use of computer simulators. This talk will give an overview of these problems and the statistical perspective, with applications ranging from rocket science to hydrology to health care policy.
Herbie Lee is Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Interim Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, UCSC. Dr. Lee’s research focuses on Bayesian statistics, particularly computer models and connections between statistics and machine learning. He has published numerous articles and two books: Multiscale Modeling: A Bayesian Perspective (Springer) and Bayesian Nonparametrics via Neural Networks (SIAM). He is also well known as an outstanding teacher of statistics at all levels.
This talk is present as part of the The Linguistics Research Center Brown Bag Lunch Series.

Jacob Metcalf: "Meet Shmeat: Animal Biotechnologies and the Philosophical Tensions of the New Foods Movements"
2011-05-04 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Jacob Metcalf, Science and Social Justice Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSC
“Meet Shmeat: Animal Biotechnologies and the Philosophical Tensions of the New Foods Movements”
Doctor Metcalf is the Postdoctoral Fellow in an NSF-funded program training graduate students in interdisciplinary inquiry on the co-constitution of ethics and scientific knowledge. His research concerns the construction of ethical inquiry. He proposes new applied ethics methodologies that account for the boundaries drawn within techno-scientific apparatuses, and asks how science and technology might become more responsive to the conditions and consequences of those boundaries.
Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research

Regine Basha: "Tuning Baghdad"
2011-05-05 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Regine Basha has been an curator of contemporary art and art writer since the early 1990s. Her exhibition and writing history can be found on bashaprojects.com. Amongst her most recent projects is Tuning Baghdad, an audio-visual forum for chronicling Iraqi-Jewish music scene and their house parties (based on her own background). This ongoing project brings to light the movement of this diasporic community and their displacement from Iraq as evidenced through their love of Arabic music and the Iraqi Maqam. Basha currently sits on the board of the foundation Art Matters (New York), Aurora Picture Show (Houston) and is a Curatorial Host to Cabinet Magazine’s new space in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
Regine Basha will discuss the background of Tuning Baghdad, the decisions behind creating it online and not as a documentary, and the future plans for the site. During the course of the talk, she will show video, play audio collages and present books related to the subject. If all goes according to plan, a surprise guest may be invited to sing over Skype video.
Regine Basha will give this talk in her capacity as visiting scholar at the Center for Jewish Studies.
Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Living Writers Series: Jessica Hagedorn
2011-05-05 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Jessica Hagedorn received her education at the American Conservatory Theater training program. To further pursue playwriting and music, she moved to New York in 1978. Joseph Papp produced her first play Mango Tango in 1978. Hagedorn’s other productions include Tenement Lover, Holy Food, and Teenytown. Her mixed media style often incorporates song, poetry, images, and spoken dialogue. Hagerdorn is the author of the novel Dogeaters, which illuminates many different aspects of Filipino experience, focusing on the influence of America through radio, television, and movie theaters, and which earned a 1990 National Book Award nomination and an American Book Award.
Each quarter, the Living Writers Reading Series brings visiting authors and poets to UC Santa Cruz to give students an in-depth look into the world of the working writer. Sponsored by Oakes College and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund.

Susanne Gahl: "Why So Short? Competing Explanations for Variation"
2011-05-06 15:30 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Frequent or contextually-predictable words are often phonetically reduced, e.g. shortened or produced with articulatory undershoot. Three common explanations for this phenomenon attribute phonetic reduction, and pronunciation variation generally, to variation in (1) intelligibility, (2) speed of lexical access, and (3) probabilistic properties of whole utterances. In this talk, I discuss recent results (Gahl, Yao & Johnson, under review; Gahl, in prep.) investigating the sources of pronunciation variation. While these results are consistent with speaker-internal approaches to variation, I argue that they are best explained by moving beyond the listener vs. speaker dichotomy: Some perceptually-based effects are speaker-internal; and some production-based effects give rise to structured variation in intelligibility resulting in usable cues for recognition.

Manlio Argueta and Jorge Argueta: Beyond the Volcano
2011-05-10 16:00 - 17:30 | Cervantes & Velasquez Room, Baytree Conference Center, Bay Tree Conference Center, UC Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Latino Literary Cultures Research Cluster presents:
Manlio Argueta is a Salvadoran writer, critic, and novelist born in 1935. Although he considers himself first and foremost a poet, he is known in the English speaking world for his book Un día en la vida, One Day of Life.
Argueta was born in San Miguel, El Salvador, on November 24, 1935. Argueta has stated that his exposure to “poetic sounds” began during his childhood and that his foundation in poetry stemmed from his childhood imagination. Argueta’s interest in literature was strongly influenced by the world literature he read as a teenager. Argueta began his writing career by the age of 13 as a poet. He cites Pablo Neruda and Federico García Lorca as some of his early poetic influences. Although he was relatively unknown at the time, Argueta won a national prize for his poetry around 1956, which gained him some recognition among Salvadoran and Central American poets. As he became more involved with the literary community of El Salvador, Argueta became a member of the “Committed Generation”. Because of his writings criticizing the government, Argueta was exiled to Costa Rica in 1972 and was not able to return to El Salvador until the 1990s. Argueta currently lives in El Salvador where he holds the position of Director of the National Public Library.
Jorge Argueta– Born in El Salvador, Jorge immigrated to San Francisco, California in 1980. He is a prize-winning poet and author of many bilingual children’s books and poetry books. His first book for Children’s Book Press, A Movie in My Pillow / Una película en mi almohada, received numerous awards including the 2002 Américas Book Award for Latin American Literature, the IPPY Award for Multicultural Fiction–Juvenile/Young Adults, and the Skipping Stones Honor Award for Multicultural and International Books. Jorge’s books have been published by pretigious editorial houses in Canada (Groundwood Books), the United States (Children’s Book Press) and Spain (Alfaguara). His books have been beautifully illustrated by well-known Latin- American illustrators.
Jorge makes presentations and holds poetry workshops throughout the United States and Central America – in public and private schools, universities, cultural centers, community centers, museums, festivals, hospitals and youth
guidance centers. In 2009, he was invited to participate in the John F. Kennedy Multicultural Book Festival in Washington, DC. Jorge is active in the cultural life of the city in which he resides and also works with humanitarian organizations to assist families and children in El Salvador. Jorge Argueta is also the Director of “Talleres de Poesia” a literary organization based in the US, that launched and organized the First Annual Children’s Poetry Festival in El Salvador (November 2010).
Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Cécile Alduy: "Obscenity, Obstetrics, and the Origin of the Pornographic Gaze"
2011-05-11 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Cécile Alduy, French and Italian, Stanford University
“Obscenity, Obstetrics, and the Origin of the Pornographic Gaze”
Professor Alduy is chair of Renaissances, an interdisciplinary forum on the present and future of early modern studies, and director of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Stanford University. One of her current projects is Archaeology of a Close-Up: The “Blasons anatomiques” and the Prehistory of Obscenity, which looks at the intersection between the field of obstetrics, its book market, and the pre-history of obscenity.
Cécile Alduy is Associate Professor of French and Italian at Stanford University.
Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research

Humanities Spring Awards
2011-05-11 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join us as we recognize the outstanding accomplishments of our faculty, staff and students who have received awards, honors, grants and/or fellowships over the course of the 2010-11 academic year.

Banu Subramaniam: "Tracking Ghosts: Hauntings from a Eugenic Past"
2011-05-11 16:30 - 18:30 | Engineering 2, Room 599, Engineering 2, 1156 High St‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
What do morning glory flowers or exotic plant and animal species have to do with the history of race or eugenics? In this talk, I trace the genealogies of ecology and evolutionary biology to explore how histories of gender and race shape contemporary biological theories and what lessons we can learn about the relationships between natures and cultures.
Banu Subramaniam is associate professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is coeditor of Feminist Science Studies: A New Generation (Routledge, 2001) and Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005). Trained as a plant evolutionary biologist, she seeks to engage the social and cultural studies of science in the practice of science. Spanning the humanities, social sciences, and the biological sciences, her research is located at the intersections of biology, women’s studies, ethnic studies and postcolonial studies. Her current work focuses on the genealogies of variation in evolutionary biology, the xenophobia and nativism that accompany frameworks on invasive plant species, and the relationship of science and religious nationalism in India.
This event is co-sponsored by the Feminist Studies Department and the Science and Justice Working Group.

Kuan-Hsing Chen: "Asia as Method"
2011-05-12 16:00 - 17:30 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Kuan-Hsing Chen is Professor in the Graduate Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies; coordinator of the Center for Asia-Pacific/Cultural Studies at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan; and co-executive editor of the journal, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements. His most recent book is Asia as Method: Towards Deimperialiazation (Duke, 2010).
Readings available at: http://ccs.ihr.ucsc.edu/files/2011/03/Asia_as_Method.pdf
Presented by the Center for Cultural Studies with co-sponsorship by the Asian Diasporas Research Cluster of the IHR, Film and Digital Media Department, and the Nee Fund of the Dept of History, UCSC. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research, UCSC.

Sarah Nelson: "Korea and the Silk Road"
2011-05-12 17:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UCSC Society of the Archeological Institute of America and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on “Archaeology and the Ancient World”

Professor Sarah Milledge Nelson: “Korea and the Silk Road”
Thursday, May 12 at 5 pm (refreshments at 4:30)
Humanities 1, Room 210

The Korean peninsula was almost the Asian end of the “Silk Road,” yet exotic objects from the Mediterranean world are found in Korean burials beginning in the first century B.C. In studying how these objects came to be deposited in Korean burials, it becomes clear that objects arrived in Korea by at least three different routes. Professor Nelson will discuss the Steppe Route north of the Altai Mountains, the Silk Road through Xinjinag, and a Sea Route, along with the objects that arrived in Korea from as far away as the Mediterranean world.

Sarah Milledge Nelson is the John Evans Distinguished Professor with the University of Denver’s Department of Anthropology. She received her degrees from Wellesley College, and the University of Michigan (M.A. and Ph.D.), and her areas of specialization are East Asia, particularly Korea and northeast China, gender issues, religion in archaeology, leadership, and ethnicity. Professor Nelson has conducted fieldwork in China and South Korea, as well as several sites in the southwest U.S. Her recent main publications include Shamanism and the Origin of States, Spirit, Power and Gender in East Asia (2008, Left Coast Press), and the edited volume Gender in Archaeology (2006, Alta Mira Press).
Free parking for lecture in Cowell-Stevenson parking lots. For more information on the lecture or the AIA, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu.
Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Living Writers Series: Aimee Bender
2011-05-12 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Aimee Bender is the author of four books: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (1998), which was a NY Times Notable Book; An Invisible Sign of My Own (2000), an L.A. Times pick of the year; Willful Creatures (2005), which was nominated by The Believer as one of the best books of the year; and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (2010), which recently won the SCIBA award for best fiction, and an Alex Award. Her short fiction has been published in Granta, GQ, Harper’s, Tin House, McSweeney’s, and The Paris Review, as well as heard on PRI’s This American Life and Selected Shorts. She has received two Pushcart prizes, and was nominated for the TipTree award in 2005, and the Shirley Jackson short story award in 2010.
Each quarter, the Living Writers Reading Series brings visiting authors and poets to UC Santa Cruz to give students an in-depth look into the world of the working writer. Sponsored by Oakes College and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund.

The Science Studies Creative Writing Workshop
2011-05-13 12:30 - 16:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Science Studies Research Cluster invites you to join us for The Science Studies Creative Writing Workshop:
Science Studies teaches us that narratives, tropes, figures, genres, and writing styles matter in knowledge-making practices. For example, in “The Egg and the Sperm,” Emily Martin argues that staging human fertilization as a fairy tale starring active, aggressive, masculine sperm and receptive, passive , feminine ova has both political and epistemological consequences. Although we have become very good at identifying these narrative elements in the stories of others, we do not often address the aesthetics and politics of our own storytelling practices. Due to time constraints and academic convention, we rarely have the opportunity to try out different styles of writing.
With this in mind, the UCSC Science Studies Research Cluster presents “The Science Studies Creative Writing Workshop.” We invite Science Studies scholars (broadly construed!) to submit a short manuscript (<600 words) that presents your research in a style or genre that differs from your regular academic work. The workshop includes a roundtable where we will discuss each piece in detail, while discussing strategies for using, playing with, and subverting academic conventions. We offer this workshop as an opportunity to explore creative approaches to writing, not in service of the “innovative” or “avant-garde,” but as a practical experiment in the political aesthetics of writing.
If you are interested in participating in this workshop, please e-mail Martha Kenney (mkenney@ucsc.edu) by March 25 to reserve your spot. Mini-manuscripts will be due April 29.
This event is funded by the Center for Cultural Studies. Staff support is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Jessica Enevold: "Mama Ludens vs Fanboi – What is wrong with the Gaming Revolution?"
2011-05-16 14:00 - 15:30 | Engineering 2, Room 599, Engineering 2, 1156 High St‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
It has been hailed for a while, in articles, book introductions and sales reports: the gaming revolution. Fun for all is finally here and if we put our minds to it, games may even save the world! Then, what is wrong with the gaming revolution? The question can be read both as a complaint and a celebration of what is happening. This talk questions the gaming revolution by playfully pitting Mama Ludens vs Fan-boi, here representing everyday playing practices of adult female gamers and conservative discursive elements of game culture, in a symbolic battle over ludic fun. It nevertheless welcomes the gaming revolution as a cultural evolution, but calls for a more profound and radical ludic revolution.
Jessica Enevold is Assistant Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, section for ethnology at Lund University, Sweden where she organizes the Digital Cultures and Games Lecture and Lab Series and works as course coordinator, supervisor and teacher in the Master’s Program Applied Cultural Analysis (MACA). She runs the research projects “Gaming Moms: Juggling Time, Play and Family Life” and “Games and Play – For Better For Worse”. She currently co-edits an anthology on Game Love and is the Managing Editor for the international journal Game Studies.

John Davison: "What will the games business look like in 5 years?"
2011-05-17 12:00 - 13:30 | Media Theater, M110
John Davison, VP of programming at CBS Interactive – GameSpot and Metacritic, will look at the way the audience for games is changing, and how the games industry is adjusting and adapting to new tastes, technology, and trends.
John Davison is VP of programming at CBS Interactive for GameSpot and Metacritic. Davison comes to CBS’ gaming properties from IDG’s GamePro, where he served as Executive Vice President of Content. Davison’s career in game journalism spans nearly 20 years and includes high-ranking positions at outlets including Electronic Gaming Monthly, the Official PlayStation Magazine, and What They Play, a family-focused consumer site which he founded and later sold to IGN Entertainment.

Mark Franko: "Myth, Nationalism, and Embodiment in Martha Graham's American Document"
2011-05-18 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Mark Franko, Dance and Performance Studies, UCSC
“Myth, Nationalism, and Embodiment in Martha Graham’s American Document“
Professor Franko, a UC Humanities Network Scholar, is editor of Dance Research Journal, founding editor of the Oxford Studies in Dance Theory book series, and Director of the Center for Visual and Performance Studies at UCSC. He is finishing a book on Martha Graham in the 1940s (Oxford) supported by an NEH research fellowship and a UC President’s Research Fellowship.
Mark Franko is Professor of Dance and Performance Studies in Theater Arts at UCSC.
Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research

Professor William Ladusaw’s Vision for the Humanities
2011-05-18 14:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
University of California, Santa Cruz
HUMANITIES DEAN CANDIDATE PRESENTATION
Professor William Ladusaw’s Vision for the Humanities
The presentation will be followed by a brief question and answer session. Meetings will be held for Humanities Faculty, Students, and Staff, beginning at 2:45PM
2:00 – 2:45pm Candidate Presentation
2:45 – 3:30pm Humanities Faculty and Department Chairs
3:30 – 4:00pm Humanities Graduate Students
4:00 – 4:30pm Humanities Undergraduate Students
4:30 – 5:00pm Humanities Staff & Department Managers

Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
2011-05-19 09:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
All members of the UCSC community and the general public are invited to attend the Twelfth Annual UCSC Literature Undergraduate Colloquium onThursday, May 19, 2011 in Humanities 1, room 210. The Undergraduate Colloquium is a day-long event showcasing and celebrating undergraduate academic work in the Literature Department, and is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be available throughout the day. For more information please see literature.ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-4778.
The colloquium schedule is as follows:
Opening Remarks
9:00 – 9:10 a.m.
Karen Bassi, Literature Department Chair
Panel One: Morphologies
9:10 – 10:30 a.m.
Moderator: John O. Jordan
Kirby A. Conrod, Dialog and Morphology in the Novel
Nicole Green, Explorations of the Nature of Reality in To the Lighthouse
Ashley Overhouse, Read Between the Paratexts: Resistance in the 19th Century Race Novel
Alicia Roll, Poetic Inspiration
Panel Two: Pacific Crossings
10:45 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.
Moderator: Tim Yamamura
Alyssa Benveniste, The Body of a Woman: Exploring the Nation in Chang Rae Lee’s A Gesture Life
David Manalo, An Investigation Into The Literary Sublime of the 21st Century Asian Diaspora
Kyle Murphy, Kerouac and Oriental Worlding
Lunch Buffet 12:10 – 12:55 p.m.
Panel Three: Creative Writing
1:00 – 2:20 p.m.
Moderator: Juliana Leslie
Johan Flyvbjerg, Flakes and Cherries
Katharine Elyse Wheeler-Dubin, Inside Games
Jessica Jones, The Garden Not Forgotten
Panel Four: Negotiating Identity
2:30 – 3:50 p.m.
Moderator: A. Hunter Bivens
Julia Franceschini, Comic-book Cinema: How Maus Captures Reality
Brenda Houser, Zoot Suit: Pachuco Mythology and the Redefinition of Chicano Identity
Jessica Mead, Liberating Cuba: The Use of Historical Romance to Imagine a Nation
Megan Susman, Jews, Errants, Disaster: From the Destruction of the Second Temple to Michael Chabon’s Kavalier and Clay

Emily Greenwood: "Regarding Priam: Reconciliation and Classical Reception"
2011-05-19 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
The UCSC Classical Studies Program and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present the annual Carl Deppe Lecture:
In light of David Malouf’s 2009 novel Ransom, based on Priam’s supplication of Achilles in Book 24 of Homer’s Iliad, the lecture will consider the figure of Priam as a vehicle for reconciling cultures and histories via the study of classical receptions, paying particular attention to debates about restorative justice.
Emily Greenwood is Associate Professor of Classics at Yale University. Her research interests include ancient Greek historiography, Greek prose literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, twentieth century classical receptions (especially uses of Classics in Africa, Britain, the Caribbean, and Greece), Classics and Postcolonialism, and the theory and practice of translating the ‘classics’ of Greek and Roman literature. She is the author of Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Reception to follow.

Film Screening: "La Carta: Sagrario nunca has muerto para mí"
2011-05-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Cultural Center at Merrill, Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
On Friday, May 20th, contributors to the book Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas, will be speaking about their research and activism in the campaign to end feminicide in Mexico and on the borderlands. The speakers will also address the human rights crisis in Mexico, violence targeting human rights activists, and the social movement for peace and an end to violence in Mexico.
Speakers: Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba (University of Texas at Austin), Eva Arce (Ciudad Juárez), Alma Gómez (Centro de Derechos Humanos, Chihuahua City), and Cynthia Bejarano (New Mexico State University).
TIME & PLACE: 12-2 PM @ Namaste Lounge, College 9
On Thursday evening, May 19th, there will be a screening: La Carta: Sagrario nunca has muerto para mí (English sub-titles) directed by Rafael Bonilla. The film documents the life of Paula Bonilla Flores and her struggle for justice on behalf of her daughter and other murdered and disappeared women.
Q&A with Paula Flores (director of Fundación María Sagrario and mother of feminicide victim, María Sagrario González from Ciudad Juárez); and Hector Domínguez-Ruvalcaba (University of Texas, Austin).
TIME & PLACE: 7-9 PM @ Merrill College Cultural Center
Please note that ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF THE BOOK, Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas, go to select organizations listed in www.stopterrorizingwomen.com
Sponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies, El Centro (Chicano/Latino Resource Center), Chicano/Latino Research Center, and the Women’s Center.

Damon Brown: "Porn and Pong"
2011-05-20 11:00 - 12:30 | Engineering 2, Simularium, Room 180, Baskin Engineering, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
McDonald’s has “Fast Food Nation,” the fish industry has “Cod,” but no book has successfully weaved the cautionary tales and humorous history of the world of video games into our modern society… until now. For “Porn and Pong” Playboy Magazine journalist Damon Brown spent five years exploring how the $20 billion video game industry traces our evolution in sexual mores, technological dependence and personal interaction. The VCR and the dawn of the modern porn industry parallels the first Atari systems, Reality TV skyrocketed the same year as The Sims, and the surgically-endowed Pamela Anderson was only outshined by one other woman: Lara Croft. In one of the most stimulating moments, Brown examines Presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2005 tirade against Grand Theft Auto, and how politics, hidden agendas and financial pressure affect all controversial art forms.
Damon Brown writes about sex, technology, music and video games for Playboy, New York Post and Family Circle, and is the tech columnist for AARP Online and PlanetOut. He is the author of several books, most recently Porn & Pong: How Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Our Culture. Damon has a Masters in Magazine Publishing from Chicago’s Northwestern University and a degree in Journalism and Computing from Detroit’s Oakland University. The Jersey native considers New Orleans, Chicago and Lansing (Michigan) his hometowns, but recently established his secret headquarters in Northern California.

Gender Violence in Mexico
2011-05-20 12:00 - 14:00 | Namaste Lounge – College 9, Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Scott AnderBois: "What is a Question? An Answer from Yucatec Maya"
2011-05-20 15:30 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The act of questioning is central to human conversation, but how do we know if a given sentence is a question in the first place? Looking at English, there are two reasonable accounts we might give. First, questions are defined by their semantics: i.e. questions have a particular kind of meaning which is distinct from that of other sentences, and, in particular, from assertions. Alternatively, questions might be defined by their syntax: i.e. the form of questions make use of particular elements (e.g. question words like `who’, `what’, and `why’) which distinguish them from assertions.
This talk addresses the title question from the perspective of Yucatec Maya, an indigenous language of Mexico spoken by roughly 800,000 people. Questions in Yucatec Maya often have no single element in their form which distinguishes them from assertions. Rather, they consist of particular combinations of elements, each of which occurs on its own in sentences which are clearly not questions. To understand why such sentences are questions, then, requires a particular understanding of the meaning of these elements individually, and of how these meanings interact in a given sentence. In so doing, we not only shed light on the nature of questions across languages, but also on the nature of the elements from which questions are built.
Scott AnderBois is a fifth year grad student in Linguistics. His dissertation research investigates the grammatical properties of questions and related constructions, such as indefinite pronouns (i.e. words like ‘someone’, ‘something’) whose function is to introduce issues for immediate or future conversation. In order to address these general questions, Mr. AnderBois has been engaged in primary fieldwork on the properties of these constructions in Yukatek Maya, an indigenous language of Mexico, currently spoken by approximately 800,000 people in the Yucatán Peninsula. Whereas questions in English are clearly identified by the presence of question words like ‘who’ and ‘what’, analogous questions in Yukatek Maya are formed by placing a word which otherwise means ‘someone’ or ‘something’ in a particular position within the sentence. Expanding on this exploration of the tight relationship between indefinite pronouns and questions in Yukatek Maya, Mr. AnderBois’s research sheds light on the meanings of both constructions as a general phenomenon in human language.
This event is made possible by the UC Society of Fellows and the UC Humanities Network. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research, UC Santa Cruz.

Women, Jews and Venetians Conference
2011-05-22 - 2011-05-24 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“L’Italie, Laboratoire de la modernite juive,” — Workshop of Jewish Modernity – a group of scholars recently characterized Venice and the Ghetto and thereby focused discussion on how this laboratory shaped Jewish modernity. Carrying forward a recently emerging scholarly view about early modern Jewish communities, these essays emphasize the interaction of the Jews in the Ghetto with the larger Venetian populace and polity, reminding us that the Ghetto came to be named “La Citta degli ebrei.” An island set apart from and yet part of the city on the lagoon, the Ghetto became a political, social, and cultural locus of historical and symbolic status.
Yet the roles women played in this forging of modern Jewish identity are often absent from the conversation. Notable women such as Dona Gracia Nasi and Sarra Copia Sulam appear here and there. However, there is little sustained attentiveness to the ways in which Jewish and Venetian women across the social spectrum responded to emerging modern habits and processes. Their contribution to the “workshop of Jewish modernity” has not been charted – and thus we know little as to how and to what extent women were able to express and take agency in many spheres, from cultural practices and financial activities to intellectual pursuits.
Our gathering is directed to bringing women into the Venetian historical account. We will focus on the ways in which Jewish women, in part through their connections to other Venetian and Italian women, helped to articulate what it was to be modern, and thus participated in the forging of modern Venetian, Italian, and Jewish identities. We anticipate that there also will be discussion of the contributions of non-Jewish women in shaping the image and understanding of contemporary Venice and Venetian Jewish life. We envision that this objective might be approached through multiple disciplines, literature, history, and art history among them.
This conference seeks to help open new lines of scholarly inquiry, which we might continue to build at subsequent gatherings, with the eventual aim of organizing a larger conference in Venice in the near future. In keeping with the exploratory purpose of this gathering, featured lectures are followed by panels, — whose participants will take the conversation forward.
Schedule (View Program)
SUNDAY, MAY 22
7:00–8:30 pm
Shaul Bassi, Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, “From Shakespeare to Erica Jong: Jewish Women and Cultural Politics”
8:30 pm
Reception
MONDAY, MAY 23
9:00–11:00 am
PANEL: Venice, Portal to Jewish Modernity
Lisa Calevi, University of Oregon, “Jewish Childhoods”
Dr. Leonard Rothman, MD OBGYN retired, Independent Scholar formerly of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, “Venetian Midwives, and Modern Medicine”
Monique Balbuena, University of Oregon, “The Languages of the Conversas”
Respondent: Lisa Pon, Southern Methodist University
11:15 am – 12:15 pm
Cynthia Baker, Bates College, “The Essentially Ambiguous Jewess: An Ancient Trope in Modern Europe”
12:15–2:00 pm
Lunch
Murray Baumgarten, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Ghetto Matters, the Venice Center, and Planning for 2016: Suggestions and Discussion”
2:00–3:30 pm
PANEL: Women and the Arts
Jill Fields, California State University Fresno, “The Writing of Peggy Guggenheim: Narrating Gender, Jewish Identity, and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Venice”
Dr. Joanna Harris, dance historian, Osher Lifelong Learning, University of California, Berkeley, “Two Historic Italian Women And Their Contribution To The Arts: Isabella Andreini — Commedia Dell’arte—and Catherine De Medici– Classical Ballet”
Respondent: Deanna Shemek, University of California, Santa Cruz
3:30–4:00 pm
Refreshments
4:00–5:15 pm
Gretchen-Starr-Lebeau, University of Kentucky, “Judging by Gender: Venetian Jewish Women Before the Inquisition”
5:15–6:15 pm
Dinner
6:15–7:15 pm
Howard Adelman, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, “What Jews on the Rialto? The Venetian Adventures of Beatrice and Reyna de Luna”
7:30–8:45 pm
PANEL: Representations of Venetian Jewish Women
Miriam Shein, Independent Scholar, “Reflection from the Ghetto: Creating a Venetian Jewish Heroine”
Yael Chaver, University of California, Berkeley, “20th Century Jewish Translations of Jessica.”
Respondent: Robin Russin, University of California, Riverside
8:45–9: 15 pm
Refreshments
TUESDAY, MAY 24
9:00–10:15 am
Don Harrán, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Sarra Copia Sulam, A Seventeenth-Century Jewish Poet in Search of Immortality”
10:15–10:30
Coffee
10:30–12:30
PANEL: Jewish Women and the Public World
Dr. Ariella Lang, Barnard College, “Margherita Sarfatti, Mussolini, and 20th Century Public Life”
Michael Shapiro, University of Illinois/Loyola University, “Women and Hidden Jews under Nazi Occupation: Roberto Bassi’s Evidence”
Will Wells , Dean, Rhodes State College, “Translating the Poems of Sarra Copia Sulam”
Respondent: Paul Michelson, Huntington University
12:30 pm
Lunch & a riverderci
This conference sponsored by the UCSC Center for Jewish Studies, the Museo Italo-Americano of San Francisco, and the Venice Center for International Jewish Studies. Major support provided by the David B. Gold Foundation, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, and the Department of Literature, with staff support from the Institute for Humanities Research.
The Santa Cruz Conference is free and open to the public. Please let us know if you plan to attend by calling (831) 459–5655 or (831) 459-2566.
For further information, including disabled access, contact Shann Ritchie at the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research, sritchie@ucsc.edu, (831) 459-5655.
*San Francisco Preview Panel at the Museo Italo-Americano in Fort Mason, Sunday morning, May 22, from 9:30 am – 12:30 pm in conjunction with exhibited materials from Il Ghetto: Forging Italian Jewish Identities.

Tamara Spira: "Neoliberal Captivities: Pisagua Prison and the Low Intensity Form"
2011-05-25 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:
Tamara Spira, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Cultural Studies, UC Davis
“Neoliberal Captivities: Pisagua Prison and the Low Intensity Form”
Doctor Spira works at the intersections of feminist, comparative ethnic and hemispheric American studies, and is completing Movements of Feeling: Neoliberalism, Affect and (Post) Revolutionary Memory in the Americas. The talk provides a reading of (the now converted) Pisagua prison in northern Chile, which intermittently served as a concentration camp for leftists and “sexual dissidents” throughout the 20th century.
Tamara Spira is the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Cultural Studies at UC Davis.
Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research

Joan Retallack: "Reciprocal Alterities, Questions of Poethics for Difficult Times"
2011-05-25 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Poetry and Politics Research Cluster presents:

A talk and workshop with Joan Retallack, followed by a poetry reading at Felix Kulpa Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz.

Joan Retallack’s most recent publication Procedural Elegies / Western Civ Cont’d / (Roof Books) was the poetry volume named by Artforum as a best book of 2010. Other poetry includes Memnoir (Post-Apollo, 2004), How To Do Things With Words (Sun & Moon Classics, 1998), Afterrimages (Wesleyan, 1995), and Errata 5uite (Edge Books, 1993), chosen by Robert Creeley for the Columbia Book Award of that year. Her critical books include Gertrude Stein: Selections (2008) for which she wrote an extensive introduction to Stein’s work, and The Poethical Wager (2004)—both from University of California Press. Poetry & Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary (2006, Palgrave MacMillan) is co-edited with Juliana Spahr; MUSICAGE: John Cage in Conversation with Joan Retallack (1996, Wesleyan University Press) won the America Award for Belles-Lettres. She is a recipient of a Lannan Poetry Award, two Gertrude Stein awards, and National Endowment for the Arts funding for an artist’s book project—Westorn Civ Cont’d, An Open Book. She has recently written the introduction for a new, corrected edition of Gertrude Stein’s Stanzas in Meditation, forthcoming from Yale University Press. Her current projects are “The Reinvention of Truth” and “The Bosch Bookshelf.” Retallack lives in the Hudson Valley where she is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College.
Poetry and Politics is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research, which has provided staff support for this
event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network. Cosponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies, the Hitchcock Poetry Fund, and the Literature Department.

Nancy Hornberger: "Multilingual Education Policy and Practice: Ten Certainties (Grounded in Indigenous Experience)"
2011-05-25 17:15 - 19:00 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Ethnic diversity and inequality, intercultural communication and contact, and global political and economic interdependence are acknowledged realities in today’s world. Multilingual education, too, is a fact of life, and though there are a great variety of contexts, models, contents, and developmental trajectories in multilingual education policy and practice, it is possible to discern continuities that characterize successful multilingual education wherever it is found. My emphasis here is on what we know and are sure of, analytically formulated as ten certainties and illustrated by empirical research.
This talk is presented by the Language Program Colloquium Series.

Joan Retallack: Poetry Reading
2011-05-25 19:00 - 20:30 | Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, 95060, United States

Dai Jin-hua: "In Vogue: Politics and National Ethnicity in Lust, Caution and the Lust, Caution Phenomenon in China"
2011-05-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Dai Jinhua is Founder and Director of the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies and Film Studies at Peking University, where she is also Professor of Chinese Literature and Language. She is a prominent cultural scholar of literature, film, and popular culture. With Meng Yue, she wrote the 1989 Emerging on the Horizon of History, one of the first works of feminist scholarship published in reform-era China. Her work as a film scholar and media critic questions the social legitimacy of consumer culture in China, while problematizing the elitist lineage of Western Marxism and reflecting on Chinese modes of intellectual endeavor during the last three decades. Dai Jinhua’s publications include Film Theory and Criticism, Gendering China, Cinema and Desire, and Scenery in the Fog: Chinese Cinema Culture 1978-1988. The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture comments of her work, “Her innovative experiments with different critical approaches and the feminist perspective with which she re-examined dominant theories of literature, film and popular culture introduced a new way of critical analysis far beyond her field in China. The development of her own dynamic cultural critique also addressed a growing audience in Taiwan, Hong Kong and the West.”
Sponsored by the Department of History with Generous Support from the Nee Fun

Living Writers Series: Neo Benshi
2011-05-26 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Neo Benshi, Roxi Power Hamilton, Jen Hofer and Konrad Steiner present a new take on the Japanese tradition of “benshi”—a writer or actor who provides live narration and commentary alongside films. The neo-benshi concept invites writers/performers to choose scenes from well-known narrative features or TV shows, mute the soundtrack, and re-inscribe the familiar images with new meanings.
Each quarter, the Living Writers Reading Series brings visiting authors and poets to UC Santa Cruz to give students an in-depth look into the world of the working writer. Sponsored by Oakes College and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund.

Roumyana Pancheva
2011-05-27 15:30 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Linguistics Colloquium Series Presents:
Roumyana Pancheva (USC)
Stay tuned for more details!

Under the Sign of War: U.S. Militarism and Asian Americanist Critique
2011-05-27 16:00 - 19:00 | Humanities 1, Room 320
This year’s Pacific Seminar returns focus to war, both as a way of invoking the foundational anti-Vietnam War struggles that inaugurated Asian American studies as an urgent political and epistemological project and as a contemporary analytic that wields the potential of reconfiguring the project of Asian American studies today. In particular, this year’s Pacific Seminar workshop, led by Wei Ming Dariotis (San Francisco State) and Jennifer Kwon-Dobbs (St. Olaf College), highlights and historicizes the emergence of mixed-race studies and critical adoption studies as simultaneously origin-animating and field-transforming directions within Asian American studies. Inquiring into the centrality of U.S. wars in Asia to mixed-race studies and critical adoption studies, this year’s workshop approaches Asian American studies not as a rigid crystallized academic tradition but rather as a critical intellectual formation whose shifting contours are shaped and renewed by engagement with the political. In other words, not simply reducible to new identitarian directions in an academic field whose expansion (and incoherence), as critics have argued, reflect demographic changes brought on by immigration, mixed-race studies and critical adoption studies, by raising the question of geopolitics, biopolitics, and necropolitics relative to U.S. wars and militarism in the Asia Pacific region, pose fundamental challenges to an identity-based approach to Asian American studies. As with the inaugural formation of Asian American studies, these emergent areas of activism and socially engaged scholarship, as this year’s workshop will explore, cannot be theorized outside a framework of U.S. imperialism and war.
Wei Ming Dariotis is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, with an emphasis on Asian Americans of Mixed Heritage and Asian American Literature, Arts, and Culture. She has served on the Boards of Directors of Hapa Issues Forum, the Asian American Theater Company, and iPride, and on the Advisory Boards of Kearny Street Workshop and the Asian American Women Artists Association. Her poetry has been published in Mixed Up,Too Mixed Up, 580 Split, and Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves: A Contemporary Anthology of Asian American Women’s Poetry. Her academic essays have been published in Mixed Race Literature (2002), Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian American Activists (2004), Chinese America: History and Perspectives (2007), The Influence of Star Trek on Television, Film and Culture (2007), and Interracial Relationships in the 21st Century (2009). Her current project is War Baby | Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art, co-curated and co-edited with Laura Kina, an art exhibit (Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle and the De Paul University Art Museum in Chicago, 2013), and a book (under formal review at University of Washington Press).
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing and director of American Race and Multicultural Studies at St. Olaf College. She is former core staff for Truth and Reconciliation for the Adoption Community of Korea (TRACK) and a current fellow with the Korea Policy Institute. Jennifer’s debut collection, Paper Pavilion (White Pine Press 2007), received the White Pine Press Poetry Prize and the Sheila Motton Book Award, and her chapbook, Song of a Mirror, was a finalist for the Tupelo Press Snowbound Series Chapbook Award. Columns and new stories about Jennifer’s present research on Korean adoptee birth searches and unwed mothers have appeared in Chosun Ilbo, Conducive Magazine, Gyeonghyang News, Hankyoreh, Korea Herald, Korea Times, Pressian, and Yonhap News. Currently she is writing a book of essays about unwed moms’ realities with the Korean Unwed Mothers and Families Association and a second book of poetry.
Participation: Please note that this is a reading workshop. To take part in the workshop and to obtain readings in advance, please RSVP to Christine Hong at cjhong@ucsc.edu.

Music and Greek Drama: History, Theory, and Practice
2011-05-28 - 2011-05-29 | College 8, Room 240, College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
University of California, Santa Cruz Presents:
Music and Greek Drama: History, Theory, and Practice
An International Conference

In connection with the UCSC Theater Arts production of Orestes Terrorist,
a new version of Euripides’ Orestes by Mary-Kay Gamel,
Mainstage Theater, UCSC, May 20-29

May 28-29, 2011
College 8, Room 240

Scholars and theater practitioners will discuss how music affects the meaning and impact of dramatic performance ancient and modern. How do scholars and musicians reconstruct the likely sounds and styles of ancient Greek music and dance? How did the music of the Athenian theater respond to, and in turn shape, the socio-cultural trends and political controversies of the day? What can and should be the role of music in modern productions of Greek drama? The use of music in the theatrical production of Orestes Terrorist will serve as a case study.

Keynote Address by Peter Kivy, Rutgers University

Speakers
Amy R. Cohen, Randolph College
Philip Collins, New Music Works, Santa Cruz
Michael Ewans, University of Newcastle
John C. Franklin, University of Vermont
Mary-Kay Gamel, UC Santa Cruz
Mark Griffith, UC Berkeley
Stefan Hagel, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Robert Ketterer, University of Iowa
Pauline Le Van, Yale University
Fiona Macintosh, University of Oxford
C.W. Marshall, University of British Columbia
Donald Mastronarde, UC Berkeley
Lucia Prauscello, University of Cambridge
Danny Scheie, UC Santa Cruz
Andrew Simpson, Catholic University of America

This conference is presented by University of California Humanities Research Institute, with generous support from the Klio Distinguished Professorship, UC Berkeley; Institute for Humanities Research, UCSC; Committee on Research, UCSC.
For further information, including disabled access, contact Courtney Mahaney at the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research, cmahaney@ucsc.edu, (831) 459-3527; web: http://ihr.ucsc.edu/. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu. Staffing provided by the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research.

Humanities Undergraduate Research Award Presentations
2011-05-31 10:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Recipients of this years Humanities Undergraduate Research Award (HUGRA) will be presenting their projects during Student Achievement week. All are welcome and encouraged to support these students!

In 1996, the Humanities Division began awarding undergraduate students to support and encourage innovative research projects. This year’s Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) symposium brings together a unique blend of projects ranging from historical narratives to linguistic experimentations.

Teach-In on Islamaphobia: Between the War on Terror and Arab Revolution
2011-06-01 | Kresge Town Hall
Speakers:
Snehal Shingavi, English and South Asian Studies, UT Austin
Zahra Billoo, Council on American-Islamic Relations
Wednesday, June 1
6 p.m.
Kresge Town Hall
Snehal Shingavi is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas, Austin. He got his PhD from UC Berkeley where he was involved in a number of social justice campaigns. He was a shop steward for the Association of Graduate Student Employees (AGSE/UAW local 2865), a participant in the 1999 strike for Ethnic Studies organized by the third world Liberation Front (twLF), a member of the International Socialist Organization, a member of the Campaign to the End Death Penalty (CEDP), an organizer against the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, a former member of the coordinating committee of the United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), a participant in the 2000 antiglobalization protests and the protest at the Democratic National Convention in LA, a founding member of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a founding member of the Berkeley Stop the War Coalition (BSTW) which organized against the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq, a member of Friends of South Asia (FOSA), a member of the Students for Nader campaign in 2000, campaign manager for Aimee Allison – Green Party candidate for Oakland City Council in 2006, a member of the Texas State Employees Union (TSEU CWA local 6186), and the Stop the Cuts Coalition at the University of Texas. He has published pieces in The Nation, Counterpunch, Z Magazine, and the International Socialist Review, and has appeared on Democracy Now, Flashpoints with Dennis Bernstein, the Real News Network, as well as on MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News.
A community organizer and labor and civil rights advocate committed to promoting justice and understanding at local and national levels, Zahra Billoo is Executive Director for the CAIR San Francisco Bay Area (CAIR-SFBA) chapter. She frequently provides trainings at local mosques and universities as part of CAIR’s efforts to empower the community, while building bridges with allies on key civil rights issues. At her direction, CAIR-SFBA filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice challenging their warrantless use of GPS tracking devices to target American Muslims. Her work with CAIR-SFBA has been highlighted in local and national media outlets. Most notably, she made waves when she appeared on FOX O’Reilly Factor to discuss invasive TSA practices. As an undergraduate, she worked with the California Faculty Association on issues including faculty salaries and the defunding of public higher education. A 2010 recipient of the San Francisco Minority Bar Coalition’s Unity Award, she earned her J.D. from UC Hastings.
Co-sponsored by Asian Diasporas Research Cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research, UC Center for New Racial Studies, Ethnic Resource Centers, Asian American and Pacific Islander Resource Center, Muslim Student Association, Olive Tree Initiative, Committee for Justice in Palestine, Resource Center for Nonviolence, Palestine-Israel Action Committee.
This event is free and open to the public.

Erik Butler: "The Ruse of Faith: Spiritual Politics in Der Nister's Soviet Symbolism"
2011-06-01 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series and the Center for Jewish Studies Present:
Erik Butler, German Studies, Emory University
“The Ruse of Faith: Spiritual Politics in Der Nister’s Soviet Symbolism”
Professor Butler has published Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film (Camden House, 2010) and The Bellum Grammaticale and the Rise of European Literature (Ashgate, 2010). His translation of Der Nister’s Regrowth (Vidervuks) is forthcoming (Northwestern, 2011). The current book, Cruelty and Mystification, explores violence and ruse in modernist fiction.
Erik Butler is Assistant Professor of German Studies at Emory University.
Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research

Between the Disciplines
2011-06-04 09:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join us on June 4th in Humanities I, room 210 as we take the opportunity presented by the current state of crisis to evaluate and re-imagine interdisciplinary work as both a project and an enterprise. Now that interdisciplinarity has itself become something of a philosopher’s stone, a general panacea for the woes and wiles of University research, what is it that those of us engaged in interdisciplinary research are doing and how does that fit in the remaking of University research and education? As the disciplines themselves seek to dissolve their disciplinary boundaries, what sort of work could justify the continued existence of a space and a program that aims to investigate what is left out or discouraged in disciplinary work? And, further, what is the status of disciplinary work itself? As cuts to public higher education and shifting administrative priorities threaten to sink Interdisciplinary programs across the country, we might use this occasion as an opportunity to grasp the foundations and delicate lineaments of the Interdisciplinary project.
9-10: breakfast
10-11:30 – Questioning Crisis: Adam Dylan Hefty (Valences of Discipline in the Times of Imperiled Institutions), Surya Parekh (Graduate Work), and Mario Diaz-Perez (Max Weber and the Crises of the Sciences)
11:45-1:15 – Articulating Histories: Todd Chretien (Listening to the Subaltern Speak: Methods for Recovering History), Joshua Brahinsky (Tentative Musings on the Friction Between Disciplines when Making Resistances from Speaking Tongues), and Fritzie de Mata (Dead Bodies and the Balikbayan Boxes: Unpacking Spatial Linkages in the Subaltern Pacific)
2:15-3:45 – Perceiving Violence: Maya Gonzalez (On Primitive Accumulation), Steve Carter (Military Reading as Interdisciplinary Approach), Aaron Reed (What If I’m the Bad Guy)
4-5:30 – Thinking With/Partaking in the World: Madeline McDonald (On the Problem of Utopias: Toward an Edge-Topology of ‘Post-Sixties Narratives’), Erin Ellison (The Girls are Alright: Addressing Gendered Power Dynamics Within a Youth Participatory Action Research Setting), Joshua LaBare (The Ecology of Everyday Life)
5:45-6:45 – Symposium of HistCon Alumni
6:45-following – refreshments

The Writing Program's 2011 Reading Series
2011-06-06 15:30 - 17:30 | Porter Hall Gallery, UCSC, Porter College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Dr. Karan Singh, "Nava Vedanta: Ancient Indian Philosophy of Non-dualism & its Modern Transformation."
2011-09-24 17:30 - 19:30 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Dr. Karan Singh
Distinguished Indian statesman and diplomat Dr. Karan Singh will deliver the 2011 Satyajit Ray Lecture at UC Santa Cruz on Saturday, September 24, at 5:30 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall.
Currently the president of the Indian Council of Cultural Relations in New Delhi, Singh is the last Maharaja of Kashmir, and served as its governor for 18 years.
He was a member of Indira Gandhi’s cabinet when she was prime minister, and has also served as Indian ambassador to the United States.
Recognized as one of India’s outstanding thinkers and leaders, Singh is the author of numerous books and has lectured widely—both in India and abroad–on political science, philosophy, education, religion and culture.
Singh will speak on the topic: “Nava Vedanta: Ancient Indian Philosophy of Non-dualism & its Modern Transformation.”
The lecture will be preceded by a screening of renowned Indian Director Satyajit Ray’s last movie: Agantuk (The Stranger) at 3 p.m. in the UCSC Media Theater.
The New York Times has described the film as “a gentle, exquisitely realized comedy, beautifully observed, sweet, and enriching,” and the New Yorker called it “ a graceful comedy made in a serene, leisurely classical style.”
The London Times noted: “Ray’s eye for detail and the old magic of his genius can’t let go of The Stranger, a tour-de-force. The camera is wielded like a conductor’s baton as it strikes chords deep in the mind.”
The lecture and film screening are presented by The Satyajit Ray Film and Study Center (Ray FASC)–a research center in the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. The center is dedicated to the preservation of Satyajit Ray’s cinematic, literary and artistic work.
Under the direction of founding director Dilip Basu, Ray FASC has a collection of 32 of Ray’s 36 films, including 22 fully restored prints.
The restoration work is conducted at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles—the same academy that honored Ray with a special Oscar in 2002 for his lifetime achievements as a filmmaker.
Basu noted that film prints from Ray FASC are now screened at major museums and film festivals around the world.
“During the past year, we have curated complete retrospectives at film museums in Munich, Zurich, Basel, London, Paris, Singapore and at the Lincoln Center in New York,” said Basu. “We expect to continue to have similar global reach in the foreseeable future.”
Basu noted that Ray FASC also hosts scholars, students, and film makers who visit its facility for research and study.
A professor of history at UC Santa Cruz, Basu also teaches an annual upper division class titled “Cinema and History: Film Author Satyajit Ray.”
For tickets and/or more information about the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Collection, go to: http://satyajitray.ucsc.edu, call 831-459-4012 or e-mail satyajit@ucsc.edu

Every Protection: Exploring Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Jewish Pale of Settlement
2011-09-27 | Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Cowell College, Cowell College‎ 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Debra Olin: Images and Nathaniel Deutsch: Text

September 27 – October 11, 2011
Opening reception: Tuesday, September 27, 4-7pm

Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Cowell College, UC Santa Cruz

Until 1917, most Jews of the Russian Empire were restricted to a region called the Pale of Settlement, where they created their own distinctive folk culture. In 1914 the writer, socialist revolutionary, and ethnographer, Sh. An-sky, produced a massive Yiddish ethnographic questionnaire to document this culture, including many questions concerning Jewish customs and beliefs connected to pregnancy and childbirth. In The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement (Harvard University Press), UCSC professor Nathaniel Deutsch has translated An-sky’s questionnaire into English for the first time, placing it within a rich historical context. Collaborating with Deutsch and inspired by her deep interest in Jewish women’s folk traditions, Debra Olin has created illuminating artworks that represent and explore the dangerous, magical, and, above all, powerful experience of pregnancy and childbirth in the Pale of Settlement.
Debra Olin is a printmaker, living and working in Somerville, Massachusetts. She received her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art in 1980. Olin has shown in exhibitions across the U.S., South Africa and Cuba. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Boston Public Library; Temple Israel, Brookline, Mass.; YIVO Institute, NYC; The DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Mass.; and the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. In 2004 Debra was awarded the Rappaport Prize, the largest public annual award to an individual artist in New England. For more information, visit the artist’s website: http://debraolin.com/.

Gallery hours: 11am – 4pm, Tuesday – Sunday. For more information call: (831) 459-2953. Gallery is fully accessible.

Living Writers Reading Series: Jaimy Gordon
2011-09-29 18:00 - 19:30 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Jaimy GordonThe Living Writers Reading Series presents Jaimy Gordon. Jaimy Gordon’s “fantasy” novel, Shamp of the City-Solo, gathered an underground following, and is regarded as one of the finest comic novels in the last fifty years. Her most recent book, Lord of Misrule, won the National Book Award for fiction.
Jaimy Gordon is Professor of English at Western Michigan University. For further information about Professor Gordon, please visit her webpage at WMU: http://www.wmich.edu/english/directory/faculty/gordon.html.
For more information about the event, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore.
The Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund, the Porter Hitchcock Fund, the UCSC Literature Department, and the Sain Endowment.

Linguistics Colloquium: Pranav Anand, "Assessing the pragmatics of experiments: The case of scalar implicature"
2011-09-30 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Pranav Anand
“There is a growing impetus to examine pragmatic phenomena experimentally. Potentially complicating these investigations is the way in which the experimental environment itself shapes participants’ models of extra‐linguistic context. A spate of recent results collectively suggest that the computation of scalar implicature may be sensitive to a host of factors: task structure, social norms, and type of response elicited. However, these results provide only a few points in a vast space of potential task parameters, thereby limiting our ability to systematically model the interaction between linguistic forms, context and pragmatic inference. This talk reports ongoing work to systematically investigate the parametric space of task design. We find that implicature calculation rates are sensitive to both the structure of the response elicited (e.g., scalar vs. unordered) as well as the task prompt (whether the participant judges “accuracy”, “informativity”, or “goodness”), and discuss the methodological lessons of this kind of work.”
Pranav Anand is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz. Professor Anand’s research focuses largely on two matters: how context intrudes into or guides the interpretive process and how perspective is grammatically represented. These are manifested by my interest in the de re/de se/de dicto contrasts, the nature of subjectivity in evaluative and epistemic predication, and the structure of indexical shift.
His current projects include the fine lexical semantics of attitude verbs; real-time processing of implicatures and plurality; computational modeling of multi-party discourse; and computational modeling of high-level discourse plans, especially those involved in argumentation and persuasion.
This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.
