The Humanities Institute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Living Writers Series Winter 2017

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

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

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

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

Rethinking Labor Mobility and Precarity: A Seminar with Guy Standing, Alejandro Grimson, and Biao Xiang
2017-02-06 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Precarity, the experience of insecurity and constant risk of exclusion, is central to the experience of many labor migrants and citizen-workers in our time. Session II of Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, focuses on precarity, labor mobility, and denizenship (the status of being a denizen or inhabitant, as opposed to a full citizen), concepts that highlight the tiered and sometimes overlapping spaces between citizen and non-citizen. Juan Poblete will moderate the seminar with Guy Standing, Alejandro Grimson, and Biao Xiang as they discuss migrants, denizens, and the precariat in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. This seminar, while self-standing and based on pre-circulated readings, is meant in preparation for our symposium, “Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale,” to be held Tuesday, February 7, 2017, 12:00-5:30pm, at the Stevenson Event Center.

Please check back to access the pre-circulated readings.

Lunch will be served.

Please register here prior to attending the seminar.

Alejandro Grimson, an expert on south-south migration, is dean of the School of Social Sciences at Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is the author of many books, including Relatos de la diferencia y la igualdad: los bolivianos en Buenos Aires (Eudeba, 1999) and Los límites de la cultura: crítica de las teorías de la identidad (Siglo XXI Argentina, 2011), winner of the Latin American Studies Association’s Premio Iberoamericano for best book of the year.
Juan Poblete is Professor of Literature and Co-principal Investigator of Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar. His broad and myriad research interests include nineteenth-century Latin American literature, nation and nationalism, and popular culture in the Americas. His most recent publications include Sports and Nationalism in Latin America (with Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Robert McKee-Irwin, Palgrave, 2015) and Humor in Latin American Cinema (with Juana Suárez, Palgrave, 2016).
Guy Standing, Professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, is a scholar of labor, globalization, citizenship, and social movements. His most recent books include A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2014) and The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2011). From 1999 until March 2006, he was director of the Socio-Economic Security Programme of the International Labour Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland.
Biao Xiang, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, specializes in labor, migration, and social change in Asia. An ethnographer, he has studied migration from rural China to Beijing, migrant Indian information technology engineers in Australia, and unskilled labor migration from China to Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. He is the author of The Intermediary Trap (Princeton University Press, forthcoming), Global Bodyshopping (Princeton University Press, 2007), Transcending Boundaries (Chinese edition by Sanlian Press, 2000; English edition by Brill Academic Publishers, 2005), and the co-editor of Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia(Duke University Press, 2013).

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

Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: A Symposium with Guy Standing, Alejandro Grimson, and Biao Xiang (Non-citizenship Series)
2017-02-07 12:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Event Center
Event Videos:

Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: Guy Standing from IHR on Vimeo.

Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: Alejandro Grimson 2.7.17 from IHR on Vimeo.

Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: Biao Xiang from IHR on Vimeo.

Event Photos:
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
This symposium explores how global labor mobility and rising precarity affect and connect the experiences of citizens and non-citizens. Precarity, the experience of insecurity and constant risk of exclusion, is central to the experience of many labor migrants and citizen-workers in our time. Today’s labor migrants are new denizens—residents or inhabitants who are not quite full members of society. They are incorporated into societies that desire their labor, but reject their very presence. Meanwhile, citizen-workers are exposed to new forms of vulnerability as social rights, such as education, health care, and retirement, are increasingly privatized, made contingent, or dissolved altogether. In such contexts, a majority of British voters demand Brexit and Donald Trump is elected president with the mandate to “make America great again.”
To prepare for this symposium, Guy Standing, Alejandro Grimson, and Biao Xiang will take part in a seminar on labor mobility and precarity on Monday, February 6, 12:00-2:00, in Humanities 1, Room 210.

Please register here prior to attending the February 7th symposium.

Symposium Schedule:
12:00-12:20pm – Lunch
12:20-1:50pm – Guy Standing (School of Oriental & African Studies): “The Precariat: The New Denizens” + Q&A
1:50-2:05pm – Coffee break
2:05-3:35pm – Alejandro Grimson (Universidad Nacional de San Martín): “The Waste Product of Globalization’s Party” + Q&A
3:35-3:50pm – Coffee break
3:50-5:20pm – Biao Xiang (University of Oxford): “The Other Precariat: Notes from Asia” + Q&A

Speakers:
Alejandro Grimson, an expert on south-south migration, is dean of the School of Social Sciences at Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is the author of many books, including Relatos de la diferencia y la igualdad: los bolivianos en Buenos Aires (Eudeba, 1999) and Los límites de la cultura: crítica de las teorías de la identidad (Siglo XXI Argentina, 2011), winner of the Latin American Studies Association’s Premio Iberoamericano for best book of the year.
Juan Poblete is Professor of Literature and Co-principal Investigator of Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar. His broad and myriad research interests include nineteenth-century Latin American literature, nation and nationalism, and popular culture in the Americas. His most recent publications include Sports and Nationalism in Latin America (with Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Robert McKee-Irwin, Palgrave, 2015) and Humor in Latin American Cinema (with Juana Suárez, Palgrave, 2016).
Guy Standing, Professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, is a scholar of labor, globalization, citizenship, and social movements. His most recent books include A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2014) and The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2011). From 1999 until March 2006, he was director of the Socio-Economic Security Programme of the International Labour Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland.
Biao Xiang, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, specializes in labor, migration, and social change in Asia. An ethnographer, he has studied migration from rural China to Beijing, migrant Indian information technology engineers in Australia, and unskilled labor migration from China to Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. He is the author of The Intermediary Trap (Princeton University Press, forthcoming), Global Bodyshopping (Princeton University Press, 2007), Transcending Boundaries (Chinese edition by Sanlian Press, 2000; English edition by Brill Academic Publishers, 2005), and the co-editor of Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia(Duke University Press, 2013).

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

"The Widow and the Orphan: Stories of Reform in Multigenerational India"
2017-02-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 402
The Center for Emerging Worlds and The Department of Anthropology Present:
Dr. Sareeta Amrute

“The Widow and the Orphan: Stories of Reform in Multigenerational India”
Works-In-Progress Seminar
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
2-4pm
Humanities 1, Room 402
Email mfernan3@ucsc.edu for copies of the paper

“adding.sleep(): Race and Refusal in the Indian Tech Diaspora”
Colloquium
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
3:15- 5:00pm
Social Sciences 1, Room 261

Dr. Sareeta Amrute is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the university of Washington, Seattle. Her scholarship investigates personhood and labor within technological capital and throughout the South Asia diaspora. She is particularly interested in how race and class are reviews and remade in sites of new economy work, such as coding and software economies, and her first book Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin was published in Fall 2016 by Duke University Press.

Faculty Research Lecture with Sandra Chung: “Language Through the Lens of Diversity”
2017-02-07 19:00 - 20:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Academic Senate 51st Annual Faculty Research Lecture Honors:
Professor Sandra Chung

“Language Through the Lens of Diversity.”
The ease and efficiency with which children acquire their first language(s) reveals that the capacity to know and use language is deeply human. It also raises the possibility that all languages have the same design–universal characteristics that make language acquisition possible. Are these views challenged by the great diversity of the world’s languages? In this talk, Sandra Chung explores this question from the perspective of Chamorro, an understudied language spoken in Micronesia. She suggests that while language diversity is real, language universals emerge when ‘small’ languages are investigated in the same depth as first-world languages.

About the Faculty Research Lecture: The Faculty Research Lecture started in 1967. Lecturers are nominated by the Committee on Faculty Research Lecture based on a distinguished record in research and asked to deliver a lecture upon a topic of their choice.

Camillo Gomez-Rivas: "The Ransom Industry and the Expectation of Refuge on the Medieval Western Mediterranean Muslim-Christian Frontier"
2017-02-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Camillo Gomez-Rivas’s current project Refugees of the Reconquista is a history of social responses to displaced populations across the Muslim-Christian frontier over the long territorial decline of al-Andalus. Proceeding from a set of historical questions, the project is based on readings of multiple sources, including Arabic, Castilian, and Catalan legal, historiographical, and literary sources.
Camillo Gomez-Rivas is an Assistant Professor of Literature at UCSC, and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow.

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

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

adding.sleep(): Race and Refusal in the Indian Tech Diaspora
2017-02-08 15:15 - 17:00 | Social Sciences 1, Room 261, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Spanish Studies Colloquium: Human Rights and US Policy in Post-Coup Honduras: a talk by Dana Frank
2017-02-08 17:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Human Rights and US Policy in Post-Coup Honduras: a talk by Dana Frank
Dana Frank is professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of Bananeras:Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America, among other books. Since the 2009 coup her articles about human rights and US policy in Honduras have appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, World Policy Review, Politico Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle, The Nation, The Baffler, Jacobin, and elsewhere, and she has been interviewed by the New Yorker, Washington Post, New York Times, Associated Press, National Public Radio, BBC World News, ABC/Fusion, and regularly for Democracy Now!

Professor Emeritus Andrew Cohen: "Enhancing the Role of Pragmatics in Teacher Education"
2017-02-08 17:15 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Presents
Professor Emeritus Andrew Cohen
Enhancing the Role of Pragmatics in Teacher Education
Wednesday, February 8
210 Humanities Bldg 1
5:15PM
Light refreshments will be served
The talk starts with the premise that for many target-language (TL) learners, the actual learning process consists of the rote memorization of lots of vocabulary and grammar rules, sometimes or even often without the knowledge of how to make appropriate use of this information in actual communicative situations. The talk will highlight certain specific areas in TL pragmatics that are teachable but often neglected in TL instruction, as well as some of the challenges involved in teaching this information. The talk will also include brief comment regarding the assessment of the pragmatics that is taught and strategies for students in the learning and performance of pragmatics. The speaker has been studying his 12th TL (Mandarin) for the last five years, so he can speak from experience about pragmatic failures.

Benjamin Jealous: 33rd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Convocation
2017-02-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
The annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by presenting speakers who discuss the civil rights issues of equality, freedom, justice, and opportunity. The convocation also seeks to build partnerships and develop dialogue within the campus community and with the local communities served by the university.
Please join us
Speaker: Benjamin Jealous
Civil and human rights leader, former NAACP president, venture capitalist, and author
Date: Thursday, February 9, 2017, 7 p.m.
Location: Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
The event is free and open to the public.
The 2017 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation will feature Benjamin Jealous, Civil and human rights leader, former NAACP president, venture capitalist, and author.
Benjamin Todd Jealous is the former president and CEO of the NAACP. He recently joined the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kapor Capital, where he plans to continue his goal of growing opportunities for minorities in the tech economy.
A Rhodes Scholar, Jealous was named by both Fortune and TIME magazines to their “Top 40 under 40” lists, and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
The youngest president in NAACP history, he began his career at age 18 opening mail at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. has been a leader of successful state and local movements to ban the death penalty, outlaw racial profiling, defend voting rights, secure marriage equality, and end mass incarceration.
Under his leadership, the NAACP grew to be the largest civil rights organization online and on mobile, and became the largest community-based nonpartisan voter registration operation in the country.
Prior to leading the NAACP, he spent 15 years as a journalist and community organizer.
Jealous currently teaches graduate courses on civil rights, social entrepreneurship, and leadership at Princeton University and is also a regular commentator on MSNBC.
More information at: specialevents.ucsc.edu/mlk

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kyuhyun Han
2017-02-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Sewing the Forest like a state: Forest Management, Wildlife Conservation, and Center-Periphery Relations in Northeast China, 1949 – 1965
My research aims to counter the prevalent premise that Mao-era China (1945-1976) was devoid of environmental consciousness or concern with environmental protection, and places Chinese policy in the context of the international development of environmental consciousness during that time. It will show the ways in which early Mao-Era Chinese scientists actively participated in and were influenced by the global discussion of pollution, extinction, natural conservation, and biodiversity. It also traces incipient state-initiated conversation policies in the early 1960s. I will explore the ways in which center- periphery tensions and the role of local indigenous people reflected and altered state-initiated conversation policy, which led to a devastating loss of biodiversity in Heilongjiang province.

Friday Forum Winter quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 27, 2017: Sarah Papazoglakis, Literature
February 03, 2017: Rachel Shellabarger, Environmental Studies
February 10, 2017: Kyuhyun Han, History
February 17, 2017: Yulia Gilchinskaya, Film & Digital Media
February 24, 2017: Maggie Wander, HAVC
March 3, 2017: Chessa Adsit-Morris, HAVC

Waves Passing in the Night: a Conversation on Astrophysics, Harmony, and Boundaries
2017-02-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Music Center Recital Hall
Event Photos: by Steve Kurtz

UC Santa Cruz Original Thinkers Series
Cowell College and the Institute for Humanities Research Present
Waves Passing in the Night
Monday, February 13, 7 p.m.
Followed by dessert reception and book signing
Music Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz
Please join Chancellor George Blumenthal, Walter Murch, a three-time Academy Award-winning sound and film editor, and author Lawrence (Ren) Weschler (Cowell ’74), with astronomer Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz for a conversation on astrophysics, harmony, and boundaries.

$10 ticket includes parking in the Performing Arts lot. Free admission for Students who register.
Ren Weschler’s book on Walter Murch, “Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the land of Astrophysics,” releases in January 2017. Murch is a 3-time Academy Award-winning sound and film editor with an interest in astrophysics. As a consummate outsider, Murch had a hard time attracting any sort of comprehensive hearing from professional astrophysicists. However, Murch has made advances that even some of them find intriguing, including a connection between Titius Bode and earlier notions–going back past Kepler and Pythagorus–of musical harmony in the heavens.
“It is controversy that brings science alive.”
– Lee Smolin, theoretical physicis
Brought to you by Cowell College, in partnership with the Institute for Humanities Research, Astronomy & Astrophysics Department, and Film & Digital Media Department.
Questions? UC Santa Cruz Special Events Office. Specialevents@ucsc.edu or (831)459-5003
About the book – Waves Passing in the Night
From Pulitzer Prize nominee Lawrence Weschler, a fascinating profile of Walter Murch, a film legend and amateur astrophysicist whose investigations could reshape our understanding of the universe. Click here for more information.

About the Speakers:
Walter Murch
Murch has been a Hollywood sound editor for over 45 years, and has worked with such names as Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. He has won three Academy Awards—one for his work on Apocalypse Now (Best Sound) and two for The English Patient (Best Sound and Best Film Editing).

Lawrence (Ren) Weschler
A graduate of Cowell College (1974), Weschler was a staff writer for over twenty years (1981–2002) at The New Yorker, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award (for Cultural Reporting in 1988 and Magazine Reporting in 1992) and was also a recipient of Lannan Literary Award (1998).

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
Ramirez-Ruiz is a professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz with a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the violent universe with an emphasis on stellar explosions, gamma-ray bursts and accretion phenomena. Ramirez-Ruiz is one of the seven international scholars selected this year for the Niels Bohr Professorship Program, which aims to attract top international researchers to Danish Universities. He leads the international research collaboration in theoretical astrophysics and splits his time between UC Santa Cruz and the University of Copenhagen.

Reading Seminar on Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World
2017-02-14 13:00 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 402
We will read and discuss Gary Wilder’s recent book, Freedom Time. Reading the whole book is encouraged and copies of the book are available at the Literary Guillotine. If you need to focus on a few chapters, please read Chapter 1, 5, 6 & 9 (email sjetha@ucsc.edu for PDFs of those chapters)

Gary Wilder: "Black Radicalism/Radical Humanism: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Cooperative Commonwealth"
2017-02-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Event Photos:
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.

Gary Wilder is the author of Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (2015) and The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism Between the World Wars (2005). He is currently co-editing the volume The Postcolonial Contemporary and working on a book entitled “Cooperative Commonwealth: Radical Humanism and Black Atlantic Criticism.”
Gary Wilder is a Professor of Anthropology, History, and French; and Director, Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Co-Sponsored by the Center for Emerging Worlds

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

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

Writing Here → Writing There: A Transfer Model for Teaching and Learning
2017-02-16 09:00 - 15:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
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This conference invites graduate students, faculty, staff, and administrators to participate in a series of roundtables and presentations that showcase our current successes in developing an innovate, locally-responsive writing curriculum. Participants will also contribute to moving our vision forward so that we set a broader, campus-wide agenda that accounts for the needs of all stakeholders–from students to WASC.
New Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Kara Taczak, Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of Denver, will deliver the keynote and a half-day workshop on her award-winning “Teaching for Transfer” curriculum. Her research centers on the transfer of knowledge and practices. Her current project, The Transfer of Transfer Project, examines the efficacy of the Teaching for Transfer curriculum in multiple courses across multiple institutional sites. This research is the second phase of the study described in her co-authored book, Writing Across Contexts, which was awarded the 2015 Conference on College Composition and Communication Research Impact award and the 2016 Council of Writing Program Administrators Book Award. Taczak’s other publications have appeared in Composition Forum, Teaching English in a Two-Year College, and Across the Disciplines.
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Schedule:
8:45-9:10: Coffee and Pastries
9:10-9:30: Opening Remarks
Herbie Lee, Interim Executive Vice Chancellor
Heather Shearer, Writing Program Chair
Tonya Ritola, Writing Program Assessment Coordinator
9:30-10:00: Keynote Address: Kara Taczak, “Teaching for Transfer: Shifting from How to What”
10:00-10:10: Break
10:10-11:00: Graduate Student Panel
Facilitator: Veronica Flanagan, Writing Program Faculty
Elizabeth Goldman, Psychology, “Make Your Course More than Just a Graduation Requirement: Teaching Transferable Skills in Your Classroom”
Lindsay Weinberg, History of Consciousness,”Rhetorics of Censorship: A Transferrable Interdisciplinary Pedagogy”
Heather Schlaman, Education, “Analysis of Education: Teaching Students About Writing through the Study of Schooling”
Lara Galas, Literature, “Engaged Pedagogy and Teaching for Transfer: Helping Students Re-Member Themselves Through Writing”
Kylie Kenner, Education, “Utilizing Everyday Genres to Scaffold Writing in New Disciplines”
11:00-11:10: Break
11:10-12:00: Staff and Faculty Panel
Facilitator: Tonya Ritola
Anna Sher, Institutional Research, Assessment, and Policy Studies, “Learning Outcomes Assessment of Written Communication Skills: Methods and Results”
Terry Terhaar, Writing Program, “Transfer of Knowledge and Practice Across Multiple Writing Contexts: A Key Term Perspective”
Deborah A. Murphy and Kenneth Lyons, University Library, “Laying the Groundwork for Disciplinary Communication: Library Information Literacy Tools for Writing Students”
12:00-1:00: Lunch in Humanities 1, Room 202
1:10-2:45: Interactive Workshop: Kara Taczak, “Key Terms and a Reflection Framework: How to Encourage Successful Transfer”
2:45-3:00: Closing Remarks
Tonya Ritola, Writing Program Assessment Coordinator
Sponsors:
Institute for Humanities Research, Division of the Humanities, Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning, University Library, Division of Student Success, Division of Undergraduate Education, Division of Graduate Studies, and the Writing Program.

Living Writers: Laura Mullen
2017-02-16 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Laura Mullen is the author of eight books: Complicated Grief, Enduring Freedom: A Little Book of Mechanical Brides, The Surface, After I Was Dead, Subject, Dark Archive, The Tales of Horror, and Murmur. Recognitions for her poetry include Ironwood’s Stanford Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Award. She has had several MacDowell Fellowships and has been a frequent visitor to the Summer Writing Program at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa. Her work is included in American Hybrid and Postmodern American Poetry (Norton) as well as other anthologies; recent poems have appeared in The Nation and Poetry. An essay on using Gertrude Stein in the creative writing classroom is included in the forthcoming anthology Approaches to Teaching Stein. Her collaboration with the composer Nathan Davis, “Ask,” will be performed at Princeton in 2017. She is the McElveen Professor in English at Louisiana State University.

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

Philosophy@Work: Entrepreneurship and Data Analysis in Educational Consulting and Applied Ethics
2017-02-17 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Philosophy@Work: Entrepreneurship and Data Analysis in Educational Consulting and Applied Ethics
Are you interested in learning more about how graduate training in the humanities can lead to successful and intellectually stimulating careers in consulting? Consulting is an expansive and evolving field, one that many values-driven PhDs are currently shaping by challenging organizational tenets based on profit-motive. PhD alumni in Philosophy Ben Roome and Jake Metcalf discuss how their doctorates prepared them to become independent and influential consultant-scholars in the fields of data analysis and management, (educational) technology, and applied ethics. They’ll also address the ways in which their experiences as UCSC PhDs continue to influence the type of work they accept, seek out, and perform, and how such decisions influence their career trajectories in general. Jacob (Jake) Metcalf is a consultant and independent scholar specializing in data and technology ethics. Ben Roome is an entrepreneur, an ed tech and data ethics consultant, a researcher and data analyst.

Lunch will be served, as always.

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

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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Yulia Gilichinskaya
2017-02-17 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Israel and Palestine: The Landscape of Separation
The Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank not only live under the occupation of Israel but also, contained behind the Wall that Israel erected, populate a space of physical, social, and cultural isolation. The Wall severs communities, people’s access to services, livelihoods and religious and cultural amenities. It fragments not only the land, but also the very social fabric of the Palestinian people.
In search for a landscape of hope, Yulia Gilichinskaya through her research and artwork looks for way to subvert the walls and barriers, address the issue of separation, and to amend the dictated borders imposed on the Palestinians.
Friday Forum Winter quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 27, 2017: Sarah Papazoglakis, Literature
February 03, 2017: Rachel Shellabarger, Environmental Studies
February 10, 2017: Kyuhyun Han, History
February 17, 2017: Yulia Gilchinskaya, Film & Digital Media
February 24, 2017: Maggie Wander, HAVC
March 3, 2017: Chessa Adsit-Morris, HAVC

Angel Nieves: 3D Modeling and the Soweto Historic GIS project
2017-02-21 15:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join the Digital Humanities working group for a presentation about 3D Modeling, Digital Humanities, and the Soweto Township by Angel Nieves, Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Hamilton College. Learn more about Digital Humanities and how 3D modeling can be integrated into your teaching.

Sturt Manning: "Tree-Rings and Radiocarbon in the East Mediterranean and Near East"
2017-02-21 17:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America Presents:

Professor Sturt Manning
Department of Classics, Cornell University

Tree-Rings and Radiocarbon in the East Mediterranean and Near East: Creating an Independent, Robust and Precise Timeframe for Archaeology and History
Professor Manning will discuss his efforts to combine radiocarbon (C14) and dendrochronology (tree-ring dating) to rewrite the chronologies of the civilizations of the Bronze and Early Iron Age eastern Mediterranean. His original and fundamental work has forced a reassessment of some of the linchpin events of this period, including the famous eruption of the Santorini volcano (which some scholars had linked to the end of the Minoan civilization) and the chronology of Mesopotamia.

Sturt Manning is Goldwin Smith Professor of Classical Archaeology in the Department of Classics at Cornell University and Director of the Cornell Tree Ring Laboratory. He is internationally known for his work in archaeological science, above all in dendrochronology and radiocarbon chronology. He has published many articles and books, including A Test of Time: The Volcano of Thera and the Chronology and History of the Aegean and East Mediterranean in the mid Second Millennium BC (second edition 2014).

Open to the public. Refreshments will be at 4:30 p.m. and a reception will follow the lecture.

For more information on the lecture, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu

I Am Not Your Negro - Film Screening and Panel Discussion
2017-02-21 19:10 - 22:00 | Del Mar Theatre
I Am Not Your Negro, is an award-winning documentary on the life and writings of James Baldwin.
Opens at the Del Mar Theater in Santa Cruz on Friday February 17th.
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House, which was to be a revolutionary, personal account of three assassinated leaders who were also his close friends—Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only thirty completed pages of his manuscript. Now, in his incendiary new documentary, master filmmaker Raoul Peck (Sometimes in April, Lumumba) envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. Using only Baldwin’s words, either spoken by the man himself or read by Samuel L. Jackson, and a flood of rich archival material, Peck has crafted a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America. I Am Not Your Negro is a poetic, eloquent and thought-provoking journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter; it is a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for. Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature.
Panel:
Brenda J. Griffin, President, NAACP Santa Cruz
David Anthony, Professor of History, UCSC
Bettina Aptheker, Professor of Feminist Studies, UCSC
Ronaldo Wilson, Professor of Literature & Creative Writing, UCSC
Vicki Fabbri, Communication Studies, Cabrillo College
Michael Pebworth, Professor of History, Cabrillo College
Film screening begins at 7:10pm, with a panel discussion following at 9pm. Admission to the film includes the panel. Please save your ticket stubs!
Click here for ticket information
Co-Sponsored by:
NAACP Santa Cruz, Institute for Humanities Research, Feminist Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz.

Rick Prelinger: "Silence, Cacophony, Crosstalk: Archival Talking Points"
2017-02-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Rick Prelinger’s currently researches the political economy and aesthetics of archives. He produces live urban history film events made for participatory audiences and is in the early stages of a film counterposing the lived experience of citydwellers as shown in home movies with the pronouncements of urban theorists and historians.
Rick Prelinger is an Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at UCSC; Founder of Prelinger Archives; and board member of Internet Archive.

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

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

Spanish Studies Colloquium: Neo-Extractivismo y Cultura en América Latina
2017-02-22 15:30 - 16:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Neo-extractivismo y cultura en América Latina:
A Talk by Héctor Hoyos
Se propone un modelo crítico que responde a las nuevas formas del capitalismo en la era digital. Tras examinar productos culturales que permiten criticar patrones de acumulación actuales,se cuestiona el rol de lo literario como elemento disruptivo en regímenes de producción semánticos e industriales, discutiendo obras críticas de Ericka Beckman y Fernando Ortiz, así como el cuento “Historia de un computador” del chileno Alejandro Zambra y el policial Coltán del español Alberto VásquezFigueroa.

Héctor Hoyos es Profesor Asociado del Departamento de Culturas Iberoamericanas
de la Universidad de Stanford. Es autor de Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin
American Novel (Columbia University Press, 2015). Ha sido becario de la Fundación
Humboldt en Berlín y prepara el manuscrito Things with a History: Transcultural
Materialism in Latin America.

Note: This talk will be in Spanish.

Digital Space & Difficult History: Curating The African American and Holocaust Museums
2017-02-22 16:00 - 17:30 | Kresge Town Hall
Digital Space & Difficult History: Curating The African American and Holocaust Museums 2.22.17 from IHR on Vimeo.
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The new National Museum of African American History and Culture and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum both translate difficult, often traumatic, histories into museum exhibitions and invite audiences of all ages to contend with narratives of struggle, oppression, violence, and silence. Digital content has connected these museums to audiences beyond Washington and created opportunities for synthesis, remembrance and reflection.
Join us for a discussion between Angel Nieves (consultant for the “Power of Place” exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture) and Michael Berenbaum (project director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) about building museums, engaging the public, and representing difficult memories on the Washington Mall. They will examine the role of museums in today’s post-fact world and the potential for digital tools to reimagine how museums speak to their audiences.
This event is free and open to the public.
Click here for directions to Kresge Town Hall
Parking attendants will be selling $4 permits in the Core West parking lot. Anyone with an ADA placard should park in lot 142 behind Kresge College.
Co-sponsored by: Center for Jewish Studies, IHR Digital Humanities Research Cluster, and Digital Scholarship Commons, with support from the Koret Foundation.

Dark Deleuze in the Dark
2017-02-22 17:00 - 19:00 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Andrew Culp’s Dark Deleuze (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) offers a radical reinterpretation of the theorist Gilles Deleuze that challenges today’s world of compulsory happiness, decentralized control, and overexposure. Arranged in a series of contraries, Culp’s cataclysmic politics exhorts us to kill our idols and cultivate “hatred for this world.”
“Dark Deleuze in the Dark” is a conceptual conversation conducted in the dark with Professor Culp that addresses themes from his work on interruption, un-becoming, and escape. In our age of ubiquitous connectivity, joy, and self-disclosure, how might darkness help us to cast a line to the outside? As Culp argued in a recent interview, “A revolution that emerges from the darkness holds the apocalyptic potential of ending the world as we know it.”
This event is organized by INTERVAL and hosted by OpenLab with support from Film & Digital Media, Digital Arts & New Media, and the Arts Division at UCSC. INTERVAL is a space dedicated to interdisciplinary play and experimentation of art practice and scholarship.
Refreshments provided.
Andrew Culp is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Emerging Media and Communication at the University of Texas, Dallas.

Loess is More: A Spatial and Ecological History of Erosion on Imperial China's Northwest Frontier
2017-02-23 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Loess is More: A Spatial and Ecological History of Erosion on Imperial China’s Northwest Frontier
Ruth Mostern

Abstract: Beginning in the eleventh century, the Yellow River shifted from a long-term condition of relative stability to a later state of frequent floods and course changes. In recent years, environmental scientists and historians have converged on a set of insights about the timing and processes that brought about these changes. All of the evidence confirms that the primary cause of upstream erosion and downstream flooding was the intensification of human activity in the grasslands of the Ordos basin, the loess soil region contained within the great bend of the Yellow River. This paper introduces environmental science research about the long history of human impacts on the loess plateau during the entire Holocene. In addition it uses historical sources, spatial analysis and soil science to focus particular particular attention on the northern and western Ordos region during the eleventh century, explaining why these decades created a tipping point in social and ecological life in north China.

Lunch will be provided.

Susanna Schellenberg "Perceptual Consciousness as a Mental Activity"
2017-02-23 15:15 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Abstract:
I argue that perceptual consciousness is constituted by a mental activity. The mental activity in question is the activity of employing perceptual capacities, such as discriminatory, selective capacities. This is a radical view, but I hope to make it plausible. In arguing for this mental activist view, I reject orthodox views on which perceptual consciousness is analyzed in terms of (sensory awareness relations to) peculiar entities, such as, phenomenal properties, external mind-independent properties, propositions, sense-data, qualia, or intentional objects.
About:
Susanna Schellenberg is a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and an Executive Council Faculty Member of the Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science. Her work focuses on a range of topics in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. She is particularly interested in the nature of perceptual content, the epistemic role of perceptual experience, and mental capacities.

Living Writers: Micah Perks
2017-02-23 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Micah Perks grew up in a log cabin in the Adirondack wilderness. She is the author of two novels, What Becomes Us and We Are Gathered Here, a memoir, Pagan Time, and a long personal essay, Alone In The Woods: Cheryl Strayed, My Daughter and Me. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in Epoch, Zyzzyva, Tin House, The Toast, OZY and The Rumpus, amongst many journals and anthologies. Excerpts of What Becomes Us won National Endowment for the Arts grant and The New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More details and work at micahperks.com.

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

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Maggie Wander
2017-02-24 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“Its Ok, We’re Safe Here”: Cultural and Eco Activism in the Film Windjarrameru (The Stealing C*nt$)
Since 2008, the Karrabing Film Collective has made four films about the various cultural, political, and social realists of being Aboriginal in twenty-first century Australia. Their 2015 film, Windjarrameru (The Stealing C*nt$), highlights how social inequalities experienced every day in Aboriginal communities are inseparable from environmental destruction. Both issues are intertwined in Australia’s colonial history; due to the centrality of landscape and environment in Aboriginal worldviews and identities, the destruction of the former necessarily impacts the latter. Windjarrameru responds to this colonial legacy by subverting ethnographic representations of Aboriginal peoples and the Australian landscape, while the role of ancestral spirits makes visible the impact of mining on the living beings in this landscape.
Friday Forum Winter quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 27, 2017: Sarah Papazoglakis, Literature
February 03, 2017: Rachel Shellabarger, Environmental Studies
February 10, 2017: Kyuhyun Han, History
February 17, 2017: Yulia Gilchinskaya, Film & Digital Media
February 24, 2017: Maggie Wander, HAVC
March 3, 2017: Chessa Adsit-Morris, HAVC

Grad Slam
2017-02-24 17:30 - 19:30 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Grad Slam, also referred to as the 3-Minute Thesis Challenge*, is a competition that challenges graduate students to present years’ worth of academic research in a concise, compelling, three-minute talk to a non-expert audience. It encourages students to clarify their ideas and to help others understand and appreciate the significance of their work.
The contest is open to all graduate students.
Register and upload your video here.
Finalists will present their three-minute thesis presentations at a live event on
February 24 at 5:30 p.m.
in the Music Center Recital Hall.
This event is free and open to the public.
A panel of judges will choose first-place and runner-up winners, and the audience will vote for a people’s choice winner. If the people’s choice awardee is the same as the winner or runner-up, both awards will go to that person.
The winner of the UCSC Grad Slam receives $3,000; the runner-up receives $1,500; and the people’s choice winner receives $750.
The UCSC Grad Slam winner will go on to present at a UC-wide final Grad Slam to be held May 4, 2017, at LinkedIn, 222 2nd Street in San Francisco. Visit UCOP Grad Slam to view the 2016 finalists from all UC campuses and learn the winner of that competition.

Cultural Studies Talk with Erick Lyle: "Streetopia and Beyond"
2017-02-27 15:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies Presents:
Streetopia and Beyond
A Talk by Eric Lyle
3-5 pm
Monday, February 27
Humanities 1, 210
What does community control look like? How do we organize to build power on a neighborhood level today? In the new Trump Era, cities like Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco have rushed to reassure that their governments intend to oppose new restrictive federal immigration policies and to reinforce these cities’ status as Sanctuary Cities. But as homeless sweeps and evictions continue to endanger communities of working class and people of color, we have to ask what does “sanctuary” mean in the era of rampant displacement? Author Erick Lyle suggests the path to resisting Trump Administration policies lies in doubling down on existing anti-gentrification efforts and organizing on a hyperlocal basis to seize community control of development, housing, planning, and utilities. Join Lyle for a discussion of the possibilities for resistance in neighborhood organizing and for a look at the author’s work on Streetopia, a massive anti-gentrification art fair that took place in San Francisco in 2012, and brought together residents of the city’s Tenderloin with over a hundred artists and activists to actualize mutual aid-based community projects and to consider utopian aspiration for the city.
Erick Lyle is a writer, curator, musician, and underground journalist. His work has appeared in Art in America, Vice, California Sunday Magazine, Huck, LA Weekly, Brooklyn Rail, and on NPR’s This American Life. Since 1991, he has written, edited, and published the influential punk/activist/art/crime magazine, SCAM, and he was a frequent contributor to the arts and literary section of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He has played on some 30 records by at least a dozen bands. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Hillary Angelo: "Manufacturing Gesellschaft: Urbanized Nature and the 'Green Screen'"
2017-03-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Hillary Angelo is preparing a book on the history of urban “greening” in Germany’s Ruhr region, as well as projects on infrastructure and sociology, and on equity in urban sustainability planning.
Hillary Angelo is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCSC.

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

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

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Omid Mohamadi
2017-03-02 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Iranian Women’s Movement: Rights and Difference
Omid Mohamadi, Lecturer, Feminist Studies
My talk centers on the Irania women’s movement and the One Million Signatures Campaign that seeks equal rights for all Iranian women within the laws of the Islamic Republic. Focusing on the campaign’s central text, The Effect of Laws on Women’s Lives, and activists’ testimonies, I show how the Iranian women’s movement appeals to (and also challenges) multiple sites simultaneously, and highlight and critique scholars who subscribe to a shared historical narrative suggesting that the current unity between secular and religious feminists is evidence that the women’s movement has superseded a century of internecine conflict and possibly ideology itself. One must also look at the internal logic of rights themselves and their ability to either imperil or strengthen social movements. I argue that two central facets of rights coupled with two historical development after the 1979 Revolution are responsible for the recent rights-based activism of Iranian feminist, and conclude by thinking through the politics of difference within the movement, especially claims of radical alterity that fray when confronted with the complex relationship between secularism and religion.

Omid Mohamadi earned his Ph.D. in Politics at UCSC with a Designated Emphasis in Feminist Studies. Focusing on contemporary Iran, his research utilizes feminist and political theory to explore interrelated questions on religion, secularism, gender, rights, the state, art, and social movements.

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

Audun Dahl: The Empirical Reality of Moral Reasoning
2017-03-02 15:15 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Many theories have viewed reason and reasoning as essential to making moral judgments. In contrast, recent psychological proposals have contested the centrality of reasoning, arguing that most or many moral judgments are based on automatic, emotional reactions (sometimes termed “institutions,” e.g. Greene, 2013; Haidt 2013). These proposals are based on experiments taken to show that people are sometimes unable to justify their moral evaluations and that such evaluations are sensitive to factors presumed morally irrelevant. In this talk, I will argue that these studies have a number of methodological and theoretical limitations. Research without these limitations, for instance on responses to so-called trolley dilemmas, indicates that reasoning plays important roles when individuals make moral judgments. Furthermore, this research suggests a realistic view of moral reasoning that is not premised on the dichotomy between reasoning and emotional reactions.
About:
Audun Dahl is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at UC Santa Cruz. His research investigates early moral development. One line of work deals with the emergence of infant helping behavior and a second line deals with how young children acquire an aversion to harming others. His research combines naturalistic and experimental methods to study how infants’ everyday social interactions contribute to these developments.

The Maghrib Workshop and The Spain-North Africa Project
2017-03-03 - 2017-03-04 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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Friday, March 3
Law and Movement: Historical Roots and Contexts,  Contemporary Questions, Part 2 (The Maghrib Workshop)
Morning
9:00 Coffee and Introduction
9:30 Camilo Gómez-Rivas, Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Refugees of the Reconquista and the Ransoming of Captives”
11:00 Marc Andre, Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes, “Militarizing the Metropolis? The Army during the Algerian War in France through the Fortress Montluc”
12:30 Lunch
Afternoon
1:30 Lia Brozgal, French and Francophone Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, “‘Heureux les kabyles blonds’: Reading Race in the October 17 Archive”
3:00 Break
3:15 Alma Heckman, History and Jewish Studies, UCSC, “The Rights and Obligations of Divorce: Jews and Moroccan Independence”
4:45 Concluding Remarks
6:00 Dinner
Saturday, March 4
Andalusī Musical Traditions of the Western Mediterranean (The Spain-North Africa Project)
Morning
9:00 Coffee and Introduction
9:30 Rachel Colwell, Music, University of California, Berkeley, “al-Jaww al-Malouf al-Tounsi, an Acoustemology of Listening”
10:30 Jonathan Glasser, Anthropology, College of William and Mary, “The Problem of Muslim-Jewish Musical Borderlands at Algeria’s Spanish-Ottoman Frontier”
12:00 Lunch
Afternoon
1:00 Chris Silver, History, University of California, Los Angeles, “Marching (and Waltzing) toward Independence: North African Jewish Musicians at Mid-Century”
2:30 Break
2:45 Dwight Reynolds, Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Al-Andalus in the Musical World of the Medieval Mediterranean”
4:15 Brain-Storming Session on Follow-up
5:00 End!

Contact:
Camilo Gómez-Rivas
831.205.9001
cgomezri@ucsc.edu
Funded by:
University of California Humanities Research Institute  (UCHRI) Faculty Working Group grant and the Institute for Humanities Research

The Center for Emerging Worlds presents Subversive Sounds: Music and Politics of the Global South
2017-03-03 10:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 2, Room 359
The Center for Emerging Worlds presents
Subversive Sounds: Music and Politics of the Global South
Friday March 3, 2017
Humanities 2, Room 359
UC Santa Cruz
The event is free and open to the public
During the final decades of the major European empires and at the beginning of a century of American hegemony, the advent of electrical sound recording, and the spread of the radio broadcasting gramophone records generated new spaces and modalities of cultural circulation and political discourse. Port cities around the globe, in particular, produced hybrid musical forms that inspired imitators and innovators elsewhere. From the end of World War I to the present, new telecommunications technologies have served as instruments of power, means of manufacturing consent, and media of political and commercial colonization, while vernacular musics and recordings of political speeches and sermons have carried insurgent, otherworldly visions in opposition to empire. While textuality, printed media, and visual culture conventionally receive more attention, this daylong conference foregrounds soundscapes and the anticolonial audiopolitics of the Global South.
10:00 AM
Marc Matera (UC Santa Cruz) – Opening Remarks
10:30 AM-12:15 PM
Alejandra Bronfman (University of British Columbia)
“Drums, Mines, Coils, Voices: Histories of Media and Materiality”
– Discussion Comments by Katherine Gordy (San Francisco State University)
12:15 PM-1:30PM Lunch
1:30 PM-3:15 PM
Michael Denning (Yale University)
“‘A Noisy Heaven and a Syncopated Earth’: The Transcolonial Reverberations of Vernacular Phonograph Music”
– Discussion Comments by Eric Porter (UC Santa Cruz)
3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Closing Roundtable with Michael Denning, Alejandra Bronfman, Eric Porter, and David Anthony (UC Santa Cruz)
For more information, contact sjetha@ucsc.edu

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Chessa Adsit-Morries
2017-03-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Creative Ecologies of Practice: Collaborative Agential Modes of Eco-Aesthetic Pedagogy
This presentation will discuss two collaborative environmental art projects aimed at creating experimental and experiential trans-disciplinary pedagogical practices. Both projects are examples of “creative ecologies of practice” enabling and requiring multiple modes of thought, multiple modes of encounter, and multiple modes of pedagogy. They are imaginative and speculative, require resonance and creative response, and include practices and discourses of eco-aesthetics to foster sites of refuge, sites of agency and cities response-ablitiy. They enable collaborative inquires into urgent social, political and ecological challenges, exploring elements that help to activate, integrate and support collaborative endeavors that challenge current (neoliberal capitalistic) representations, foster (multi species) agency and create new knowledge(s).
Friday Forum Winter quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 27, 2017: Sarah Papazoglakis, Literature
February 03, 2017: Rachel Shellabarger, Environmental Studies
February 10, 2017: Kyuhyun Han, History
February 17, 2017: Yulia Gilchinskaya, Film & Digital Media
February 24, 2017: Maggie Wander, HAVC
March 3, 2017: Chessa Adsit-Morris, HAVC

Improvised Shakespeare
2017-03-03 20:00 - 22:00 | Center Stage, Downtown Santa Cruz
Improv Playhouse of San Francisco will perform a completely improvised piece using their original format, “Improvised Shakespeare,” at Center Stage in downtown Santa Cruz on Friday, March 3, staring at 8:00 pm. Tickets are free and limited to UCSC affiliates. They will be available via Brown Paper Tickets. (One ticket reservation per UCSC email.) The players describe the performance this way: “​Shakespeare’s stories take place in a tumultuous world full of unrequited love, treachery, passion, war, mistaken identity, political intrigue and, sometimes, magic. In our shows, we strive to inhabit that world and to play characters who go through similar adventures and emotions. We don’t know in advance if the show will be a romantic comedy or a tragedy, or some of both. But we do know that it will be completely improvised. Each show is unique, the audience joining us on the journey to discover what story lies in wait for our merry players…huzzah!”

Acting Improvisation Workshop
2017-03-05 12:30 - 18:30 | CA
On Sunday, March 5, Lisa Rowland (a member of Improv Playhouse) will conduct an Acting Improvisation Workshop, focussing on Shakespeare, from 12:30 until 6:30 pm. Space is limited to 20 UCSC students, for whom the workshop is free. Email Bob Giges otom@ucsc.edu for registration/information. Lisa describes the program in this way “This workshop is a journey into the language and spirit of improvised Shakespeare. The beauty and poetry of the language will be explored, while at the same time we will emphasize simplicity and above all communication.”
Registration/Information,. email Bob Giges otom@ucsc.edu

Slow Seminar on Race, Violence, Inequality and the Anthropocene
2017-03-07 13:00 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 408
2016-2017 SLOW SEMINARS
RACE, VIOLENCE, INEQUALITY AND THE ANTHROPOCENE
The contemporary moment is marked by global environmental change, the collapse of states and the reconfiguration of economies. This era, where human disturbances asymmetrically affect all ecosystems, is increasingly being called the ‘Anthropocene.’ We approach Anthropocene conditions as inextricably linked to long-term histories of plant and animal domestication, and to more recent histories of European colonialism, transatlantic slavery and capitalism. Via a year-long slow seminar and a series of public events, we hope to enrich conversations about the Anthropocene – as term, concept, and historical era – by bringing together diverse bodies of scholarship, in particular decolonial and postcolonial theory. This re-politicizes the Anthropocene as an object of study, making race and empire, capitalism and colonialism, and social inequality and violence central to the story of ecological transformation.
SEMINAR 2:
Tuesday March 7th, 1-3pm
Humanities 1, Room 408
Seminar readings:
Elizabeth Povinelli, Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism (Duke University Press, 2016)
NB: We will be reading the whole book. Copies have been ordered at the Literary Guillotine and can be purchased there.
Sponsored by the IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality and the Anthropocene

IHR Public Fellows Info Session 1
2017-03-08 10:00 - 11:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
IHR PUBLIC FELLOWS
Deadline: April 30, 2017
Amount: Up to $5,000
Number of Fellowships: 3 or more (based on the availability of funds)
These fellowships will provide the opportunity for humanities doctoral students to contribute to research, programming, communications and fundraising at non-profit organizations, cultural institutions, or companies and are meant to allow the students to apply and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. Majority of the work should be completed during Summer 2017. Students are welcome to find their own partner organizations or to pursue opportunities from organizations listed below.
Before applying, students are required to attend one of Info Sessions below:
Session I. March 8, 10am, Humanities 1, Room 202
Session II. March 9, 2pm, Humanities 1, Room 402
More information available at ihr.ucsc.edu/programs/fellowships

RESCHEDULED Akash Kumar
2017-03-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Rescheduled for March 15, 2017

Alan Craig: "VR, AR, and the Brain: Teaching, Learning, and Research With Virtual and Augmented Reality"
2017-03-08 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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Alan B. Craig is the Senior Associate Director for Human-Computer Interaction at the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (I-CHASS) and a Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). He is also the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science sSpecialist for the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). His work centers on the continuum between the physical and the digital. He has done extensive work in virtual reality, augmented reality, and personal fabrication, as well as educational applications of data mining, visualization, and collaborative systems. He has authored three books (Understanding Augmented Reality, Developing Virtual Reality Applications, and Understanding Augmented Reality), and holds three patents.

Why I'm reading Joseph Conrad these days
2017-03-09 11:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Familiarity with Heart of Darkness helpful, but not essential. Introduction: Prof. David Marriott, Chair, History of Consciousness

Discussant: Isaac Blacksin, Ph.D. candidate, History of Consciousness

James Clifford is an interdisciplinary scholar who was a Professor in UCSC’s History of Consciousness department for 33 years until his retirement in 2011. He was elected to the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences in 2011. The History of Consciousness department at UCSC continues to be an intellectual center for innovative critical scholarship in the U.S. and abroad. Since 2000, Clifford’s writing has focused on processes of globalization and decolonization as they influence contemporary “indigenous” lives, including Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty First Century (2013).

Zachary Lockman: "Adventures in Field-Building: On the History of Area Studies/Middle East Studies in the United States”
2017-03-09 13:30 - 15:30 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Area studies is often simplistically depicted as little more than a Cold War form of knowledge, but its emergence as a component of the postwar American academic scene was in fact propelled and shaped by visions, exigencies and contingencies that were not initially or exclusively about the needs of the national security state. Zachary Lockman’s 2016 book Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States draws on extensive archival research to offer a different perspective on the origins and trajectory of area studies in the United States and to explore how the field of Middle East studies in the United States was actually built. The book’s focus is not on intellectual paradigms or scholarly output but rather on funding decisions and their rationales, efforts to elaborate a distinctive theory and method for area studies, the anxieties these efforts generated for Middle East studies, and the unanticipated consequences of building these new academic fields.
Zachary Lockman has taught modern Middle Eastern history at New York University since 1995. His most recent book is Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States (2016). His other books include Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism (2004/2010); Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 (1996); and (with Joel Beinin) Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954 (1987). He is a former president of the Middle East Studies Association, chairs the wing of MESA’s Committee on Academic Freedom that deals with North America, and is a contributing editor of Middle East Report.

IHR Public Fellows Info Session 2
2017-03-09 14:00 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 402

Living Writers: Urayoán Noel
2017-03-09 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Urayoán Noel is a self-described “stateless poet” whose critical and creative work foregrounds the messy condition of Puerto Rican belonging and non-belonging to the US nation-state. His poetic performances, texts, and “video poems” flagrantly comingle English with Spanish, mixing learned literary allusions with found words generated from cell phones or political demonstrations. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Noel lives in the Bronx and is an associate professor of English and Spanish at NYU. Noel is the author of Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (Arizona, 2015), a Library Journal Top Fall Indie Poetry selection; Hi-Density Politics (BlazeVox, 2010), a National Book Critics Circle Small Press Highlights selection; Kool Logic/La Lógica Kool (Bilingual Review, 2005), an El Nuevo Día Book of the Year; and several books mostly in Spanish, most recently the performance text EnUncIAdOr (Educación Emergente, 2014). Other works include the DVD Kool Logic Sessions (Bilingual Review, 2005), a collaboration with composer Monxo López; the artist’s book/performance/website The Edgemere Letters (2011), a collaboration with artist Martha Clippinger; and the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (Iowa, 2014), winner of the LASA Latina/o Studies Book Award and recipient of an honorable mention in the MLA Prize in Latina/o and Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Studies. A contributing editor of NACLA Report on the Americas and Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Noel has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Howard Foundation, the Bronx Council on the Arts, and CantoMundo, and is currently completing a bilingual edition of the poems of Pablo de Rokha.

Living Writers Series Winter 2017
Improvi/Nations: Riff, Inquiry, and Protest
Improvi/Nations: Riff, Inquiry, and Protest will feature writers and artists who work and play across various disciplines and modes: poetry, prose, visual, sound, performance, art, and theory to address questions of race, gender, sexuality, and other identities. This series will explore the intersections of self-and-nationhood as fracture, memory and possibility via individual, collective and internal forms.
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Thursdays, 5:20-6:50 PM
All Readings are Free and Open to the Public
January 26: Wayne Koestenbaum, Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and French, CUNY Graduate Center
February 2: Conner Bassett, Matthew Gervase, Kendall Grady, Courtney Kersten, Jared Harvey, Jose Antonio Villarán, Kirstin Wagner, PhD Candidates, Creative/Critical Concentration, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
February 16: Laura Mullen, McElveen Professor of English, Lousiana State University
February 23: Micah Perks, Professor of Creative Writing and Literature, UC Santa Cruz
March 9: Urayoán Noel, Associate Professor of English and Spanish, New York University
March 16: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading LWS_Winter17_Proof2-2
Co-sponsored by The Humanities Division, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, The Literature Department and Creative Writing Program, Chicano Latino Research Center, Literary Cultures/Sawyer Seminar, Latin American and Latino Studies, and The Bay Tree Book Store

Poetics of Non-Citizenship: A Seminar with Urayoán Noel
2017-03-10 10:00 - 12:00 | Charles E. Merrill Lounge
In this seminar, Urayoán Noel will discuss his critical work on the nexus of creative expression and political activism, from the 1960s to the present. He is interested in the subversive power of media, performance, and especially of English-Spanish-Spanglish language play, which cuts across different Latina/o/x constituencies. One dimension of his research involves the use of social media among activist DREAMers and in the Haitian-Dominican context, expressed in the #Latinx hashtag and Dominican Twitter. Another thread considers “eccentric archives of the Latina/o Sixties” by comparing two poetic movements, the Royal Chicano Air Force and El Puerto Rican Embassy. Although centered in California and New York respectively, both groups of poet-performers imagined sites of organization outside the nation-state: “Califas” and “Nuyorico.” Finally, Professor Noel considers the changing work of the space of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe from the 1970s to the present, from anti-gentrification to anti-globalization movements.
Pastries, coffee, and tea will be served.

Please register here prior to attending this event.

Urayoán Noel is a self-described “stateless poet” whose critical and creative work foregrounds the messy condition of Puerto Rican belonging and non-belonging in and to the U.S. nation-state. His poetic performances, texts, and “video poems” flagrantly comingle English with Spanish, mixing learned literary allusions with found words generated from cell phones or political demonstrations.
Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Professor Noel lives in the Bronx and is an associate professor of English and Spanish at New York University. He is the author of Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (Arizona, 2015), a Library Journal Top Fall Indie Poetry selection; Hi-Density Politics (BlazeVox, 2010), a National Book Critics Circle Small Press Highlights selection; Kool Logic/La Lógica Kool (Bilingual Review, 2005), an El Nuevo Día Book of the Year; the performance text EnUncIAdOr (Educación Emergente, 2014); and several books mostly in Spanish. Other works include the DVD Kool Logic Sessions (Bilingual Review, 2005), a collaboration with composer Monxo López; the artist’s book/performance/website The Edgemere Letters (2011), a collaboration with artist Martha Clippinger; and the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (Iowa, 2014), winner of the LASA Latina/o Studies Book Award and recipient of an honorable mention in the MLA Prize in Latina/o and Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Studies. A contributing editor to the NACLA Report on the Americas and Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, he has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Howard Foundation, the Bronx Council on the Arts, and CantoMundo. He is currently completing a bilingual edition of the poems of Pablo de Rokha.

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

PhD+: Open Access, Data Management and Library Resources
2017-03-10 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Open Access, Data Management and Library Resources
What does Open Access mean for you? How can you organize and manage your research materials to best support your writing? And, what kinds of resources are available to graduate students for accessing data and information?This PhD+ panel features librarians who will discuss a range of issues, including depositing your dissertation, data management, and the ethics of sharing your work in an Open Access world. We will discuss:

The Presidential Open Access Policy, and how it pertains to graduate research
Publishing in Open Access journals and the potential impact on book contracts and job searches (academic + beyond)
and, Open Access as Social Justice

Take the opportunity to get to know your librarians and to engage in a graduate student specific conversation about Open Access. The panelists will also answer questions about ILL, digital research methodologies, citation software, library-based subscriptions, and other related research tools. Check out these library services and resources and join us to learn more.

Lunch will be served, as always.

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

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Akash Kumar: "All the World on a Board: Chess and Cultural Crossings in Dante and Boccaccio"
2017-03-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Akash Kumar focuses on the crossing of poetry, philosophy, and science in 13th-14th century Italy, emphasizing multicultural knowledge transmission in the medieval Mediterranean. His talk emerges from his second book project on medieval Italian representations of chess and the exchange made possible by the game across gender, religious, and social boundaries.
Akash Kumar is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature at UCSC.

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

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

Ideology & Identity in the Revival of Spoken Hebrew
2017-03-15 16:30 - 17:00 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The revival of Spoken Hebrew took place in Palestine in the early 20 th century, and is often seen as a historically unique example of successful language revival. In this talk I suggest that Hebrew is also exemplary, of the ways in which our languages speak through us. What is special about Hebrew is that key properties of the revival process – its rapidity and recency – make it possible to track mechanisms by which broader ideologies (of nation, ancestry, class, gender, etc.) come to be embedded in the languages we speak. The talk will focus on East-West diasporic dynamics in the negotiation of accent for the new spoken Hebrew, and on the shifting values of authenticity and sincerity in the construction of the new native-born speech style.
Reception to follow the lecture
For more info contact Peter Reed pmreed@ucsc.edu.

Humanities Radio Hour: "Language of Conservation with Daniel Guevara and Claudio Campagna"
2017-04-05 12:00 - 13:00 | KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FM
Please tune in to KZSC 88.1 FM for Artists on Art
Humanities Radio Hour
Wed, April 5th at 12:00PM–1:00PM
Interview with Professors Daniel Guevara and Claudio Campagna about the Language of Conservation Project.
Click here to listen online
UC Santa Cruz Faculty:
– Daniel Guevara, Chair and Associate Professor of Philosophy
– Claudio Campagna, Adjunct Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; and Conservation Biologist, Wildlife Conservation Society

Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: Matthew Fuller "In Praise of Plasticity"
2017-04-05 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
About the Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
About “In Praise of Plasticity”: Plasticity, in neurology, is the ability to adapt, change, grow and find new forms at multiple scalar levels whilst retaining, rerouting or developing function. Professor Fuller examines the notion of plasticity as it is articulated by cybernetics, machine learning, and anarchism.
Matthew Fuller will be presenting and is a Professor of Cultural Studies and the Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London

Jewish Studies Open House
2017-04-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Come discover what makes the Jewish Studies program at UC Santa Cruz such a unique and vibrant educational opportunity. Meet Jewish Studies faculty and students, learn about classes, internship opportunities, and the Jewish Studies intellectual community.
Wednesday, April 12, 3-5pm
Hum 1, 210

Living Writers: Tongo Eisen-Martin
2017-04-13 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Tongo Eisen-Martin, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press, 2015)
Born in San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker, educator, and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He has educated in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California’s San Quentin State Prison. His work in Rikers Island was featured in the New York Times. He was also adjunct faculty at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York. Subscribing to the Freirian model of education, he designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson, MS.
The UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents
The Lives of Other Songs
Living Writers Series Spring 2017
Thursdays / 5:20-6:50pm / Humanities Lecture Hall
April 13, 2017: Tongo Eisen-Martin, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press, 2015)
May 4, 2017: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, author of A Home in Tibet (Penguin, 2014) and Eric Sneathen, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya, 2016)
May 11, 2017: Aisha Sasha John, author of THOU (BookThug, 2014)
May 18, 2017: Rosa Alcalá, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010)
June 1, 2017: Lauren Levin, author of The Braid (Krupskaya, 2016)
June 8, 2017: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading

Critical Conversations in Cultural Heritage
2017-04-14 09:00 - 17:30 | University Center, UCSC, College Nine and College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
3rd Annual Research Conference
Free and Open to the Public
Advance Registration Required
Appeals to “heritage” have become increasingly common and visible in recent decades. Whether within the realms of the promotion and re-creation of history, claims to sovereignty, protection of landscapes and climate, or economic development, connection to the past is often utilized as a demonstration of legitimacy and authority. Making sense of these diverse appeals to heritage and the many ways that the past becomes meaningfully constituted in the present is a challenge. This is due both to the complexity of the issues as well as the fact that heritage scholars tend to be widely scattered between departments and disciplines. To address these challenges our conference at the University of California, Santa Cruz will bring together an interdisciplinary community of scholars to discuss current research and evaluate future directions for this rapidly growing, yet still decentralized, field of study.
Keynote Speaker
Jane Lydon, University of Western Australia
Speakers
Jane Anderson, New York University
Sony Atalay, University of Massachusetts
Jon Daehnke, UC Santa Cruz
Robin Gray, UC Santa Cruz
Richard Leventhal, University of Pennsylvania
Amy Lonetree, UC Santa Cruz
Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels, University of Maryland
Tsim D. Schneider, UC Santa Cruz
Hegnar Watenpaugh, UC Davis
Registration on:
http://arc.ucsc.edu/conferenceregistration.html

Ethics and Language of Conservation Colloquium
2017-04-14 14:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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Ethics and Language of Conservation
What is Lost When a Species Goes Extinct?
A Colloquium on the Unspeakable Value of Life
Friday, April 14, 2017
2:00-5:30pm
Humanities 1, Room 210

Speakers:
Claudio Campagna
Adjunct Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCSC
Wildlife Conservation Society
Daniel Guevara
Chair, Department of Philosophy, UCSC
Paul Koch
Dean of Physical and Biological Sciences, UCSC
Distinguished Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
Beth Shapiro
Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCSC
Sponsored by:
IHR Research Cluster on The Language of Conservation Project, Center for Public Philosophy, Dean of Humanities, Dean of Physical and Biological Sciences
For more information visit:
The Language of Conservation Project
Center for Public Philosophy

Linguistics Colloquium: Junko Ito
2017-04-14 14:40 - 15:40 | Humanities 2, Room 259
The Linguistics department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.
Spring 2016
April 14: Junko Ito, UC Santa Cruz
April 28: Ashwini Deo, Yale
May 26: Susan Lin, UC Berkeley
May/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference

The Fluidity of Status: A Seminar with Tanya Golash-Boza & Rhacel Parreñas (Non-citizenship Series)
2017-04-18 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Focusing on gender, deportation, and labor, the third and final session of Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture, approaches citizenship, denizenship, and mobility as fluid statuses—as formal (in other words, documented) positions that are in flux and as practices of belonging that morph as people of various statuses interact with each other.
Please join us for this free, public seminar with Tanya Golash-Boza, Professor of Sociology at UC Merced, and Rhacel Parreñas, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. To reserve your lunch and to access the pre-circulated readings, please register here:

Following the seminar, Professors Golash-Boza and Parreñas will take part in The Fluidity of Status: Non-citizenship, Deportation, and Indentured Mobility, a public conversation at the Museum of Art & History at 705 Front Street in downtown Santa Cruz.

Tanya Golash-Boza is the author of five books, including Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism (New York University Press, 2015), which explains mass deportation in the context of the global economic crisis; Due Process Denied (Routledge, 2012), which describes how and why non-citizens in the United States have been detained and deported for minor crimes, without regard for constitutional limits on disproportionate punishment; and Immigration Nation (Paradigm, 2012), which provides a critical analysis of the impact that US immigration policy has on human rights. In addition, she has published over a dozen articles in peer-reviewed journals on deportations, racial identity, and human rights and has written on contemporary issues for Al Jazeera, The Boston Review, The Nation, Counterpunch, The Houston Chronicle, Racialicious, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Dissident Voice.
Rhacel Parreñas‘ book, Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo (Stanford University Press, 2011), won the Distinguished Book Award in the Labor and Labor Movements Section of the American Sociological Association. Probing the intersections of human trafficking and labor migration, her current research analyzes the constitution of unfree labor among migrant domestic workers in Dubai and Singapore. Her other books include Human Trafficking Reconsidered: Migration and Forced Labor (Open Society Institute, 2014), The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization (New York University Press, 2008), and Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work (second edition, Stanford University Press, 2015). Her current research focuses on the unfree labor of migrant contract workers in Asia and the Middle East.
This seminar is co-sponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Common Front for the Right to Housing in Bucharest
2017-04-18 15:00 - 16:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Comparative urban studies are on the rise, raising new questions about translation, fungibility, and transit. How can we study the material effects of global capital in various urban spaces without conflating the spatial struggles and transformations of one space upon another? How can superimposing Western understandings of gentrification upon non-Western places impose onto-epistemological violence? This talk, moderated by Feminist Studies doctoral candidate and Anti-Eviction Mapping Project cofounder Erin McElroy, will feature Bucharest-based housing justice activist, artist, and scholar Veda Popovici. Veda will share more about the Bucharest’s direct action collective, the Common Front for the Right to Housing, as well as histories of postsocialist neoliberal housing restitution laws that have incited current Romanian spatial struggles. Erin and Veda will discuss a growing call to think both global capital formations and comparative urbanism in Romania through decolonial analytics.

The Fluidity of Status: Non-citizenship, Deportation, and Indentured Mobility: A Conversation with Tanya Golash-Boza and Rhacel Parreñas
2017-04-18 18:30 - 20:30 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Event Photos: by Steve Kurtz
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Presented by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research
In two Ted-style talks, Tanya Golash-Boza (UC Merced) and Rhacel Parreñas (University of Southern California) help close UC Santa Cruz’s Andrew W. Mellon John E. Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship by discussing what they see as some of the key issues framing debates around migration in our time: gender, deportation, incarceration, slavery, human trafficking, structural violence, and global apartheid. The evening begins with a reception at 6:30pm, followed by presentations at 7:00pm and a Q&A moderated by Felicity Amaya Schaeffer (UC Santa Cruz).
“Deported without Due Process: Ryan’s Story”
Tanya Golash-Boza, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Merced
Since 1996, five million people have been deported from the United States – 98% of them Latin American and 90% men. Laws passed in 1996 made it easier to deport legal permanent residents, even those eligible for citizenship. In immigration proceedings, you have no right to legal representation. You can be detained without bond. You can be deported without a full hearing. In this talk, Tanya Golash-Boza will explain how legal permanent residents can be deported from the United States with minimal or no due process.
“The Unfree Labor of Migrant Domestic Workers”
Rhacel Parreñas, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, University of Southern California
Across the globe, migrant domestic workers are unfree workers whose legal residency is contingent on their continued employment as live-in workers with a designated sponsor. Rhacel Parreñas’ talk gives a global overview of the exclusionary terms of their belonging. It then interrogates dominant theoretical frameworks for thinking about contemporary unfreedoms – slavery, human trafficking and structural violence – and proposes the alternative concept of “indentured mobility,” which sees migration as simultaneously constituting of financial mobility from a life of poverty in the sending society but at the cost of servitude vis-à-vis a sponsoring employer in the receiving society. The concept of indentured mobility foregrounds not only the severe structural constraints that limit the options of domestic workers but also their agentic negotiations for improving their work conditions and maximizing thepossible gains in their state of unfreedom.
This event is free and open to the public, but attendees are kindly asked to register in advance.

Speakers
Tanya Golash-Boza is the author of five books, including Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism (New York University Press, 2015), which explains mass deportation in the context of the global economic crisis; Due Process Denied (Routledge, 2012), which describes how and why non-citizens in the United States have been detained and deported for minor crimes, without regard for constitutional limits on disproportionate punishment; and Immigration Nation (Paradigm, 2012), which provides a critical analysis of the impact that US immigration policy has on human rights. In addition, she has published over a dozen articles in peer-reviewed journals on deportations, racial identity, and human rights and has written on contemporary issues for Al Jazeera, The Boston Review, The Nation, Counterpunch, The Houston Chronicle, Racialicious, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Dissident Voice.
Rhacel Parreñas‘ book, Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo(Stanford University Press, 2011), won the Distinguished Book Award in the Labor and Labor Movements Section of the American Sociological Association. Probing the intersections of human trafficking and labor migration, her current research analyzes the constitution of unfree labor among migrant domestic workers in Dubai and Singapore. Her other books include Human Trafficking Reconsidered: Migration and Forced Labor (Open Society Institute, 2014), The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization (New York University Press, 2008), and Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work (second edition, Stanford University Press, 2015). Her current research focuses on the unfree labor of migrant contract workers in Asia and the Middle East.
Felicity Amaya Schaeffer is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies and Co-principal Investigator of Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar. She is the author of Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship across the Americas (New York University Press, 2013), an exploration of the relationship between global shifts and intimate circuits of desire, love, and marriage. Her current research is on surveillance technologies and the sexual criminalization of migrant bodies on and beyond the US-Mexico border. Other research interests include borderlands and transnationalisms; affect and capitalism; race, technology, and subjectivity; and Chicana and Latin American cultural studies.

This free, public event is co-sponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
About Non-citizenship
Non-citizenship is part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture. Linking citizenship, migration, border, labor, and carceral studies, and juxtaposing spatial and social mobility and immobility, this year-long series of events explores what it means to be a citizen and non-citizen in a world made by migrants, refugees, guest workers, permanent residents, asylum seekers, slaves, prisoners, detainees, the stateless, and denizens (residents who do not hold the same rights as citizens). Non-citizenship is organized around three themes: “Forced Migration” (fall 2016), “Labor Mobility and Precarity” (winter 2017), and “Fluidity of Status” (spring 2017). Click here to learn more.

Undergraduate Digital Research Symposium
2017-04-19 08:30 - 14:00 | Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library
Sponsored by Center for Jewish Studies, Digital Scholarship Commons, University Library, IHR
With support from the Koret Family Foundation
The Digital Scholarship Commons is thrilled to announce the first Undergraduate Digital Research Symposium on April 19, 2017. At UC Santa Cruz, undergraduate students are engaged in creative, critical research using digital tools and platforms. This symposium will showcase innovative undergraduate research and celebrate the digital projects that students develop in class.
Join us to explore and engage with public facing, media-rich, critically engaged, and creative student research. The event will include a digital poster session, two panels featuring undergraduate work, and a keynote address by Jaye Padgett, Interim Vice Provost for Student Success. Lunch will be provided for registered attendees.

Program:
8:30 – 9:00am Light Breakfast and Coffee
9:00 – 9:15am Welcome, Elizabeth Cowell (University Librarian)
9:15 – 10:00am Digital Poster Session
10:00 – 10:45am Panel 1: Undergraduate Digital Research Fellows
11:00 – 11:45am Panel 2: The Gail Project, Team Leaders
12:00 – 1:00pm Lunch (Brown Bag lunch provided for all registered attendees)
1:00 – 1:45pm Keynote: Jaye Padgett (Interim Vice Provost for Student Success)

Highlights of the Symposium include:
Six student groups will be showcasing digital projects (both independent research + class work) in a Digital Poster Session
Eight undergrads will be participating in two panels discussing independent research.

Click here to register.

Zac Zimmer: “Conquest, Contact, and Cosmovision: SF Rewritings of the Conquest of the Americas”
2017-04-19 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Conquest, Contact, and Cosmovision: SF Rewritings of the Conquest of the Americas
Zac Zimmer’s current project reads original narratives of the conquest of the Americas and the philosophical debates it engendered with and against recent aesthetic attempts to reimagine that historical moment in marginal genres, especially alternative history and first contact science fiction, creating a point of contact between the contemporary world and the hemispheric American colonial encounter.
Zac Zimmer is Assistant Professor of Literature and LALS at UCSC.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies
2017-04-19 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies presents: Mitchell Duneier the Maurice P. During, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University on “Ghetto: Invention of a Place, History of an Idea”
Lecture at 4:00pm – Humanities 1, RM 210
Reception to follow
Parking – Free to attendees – Please follow “Diller Lecture” signs to Cowell/Stevenson parking lots 109 and 110 – Parking attendants will be on hand to issue parking permits

Spanish Colloquium: Ximena Briceño, "A vuelo de pájaro: Vallejo y Arguedas"
2017-04-19 17:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
A vuelo de pájaro: Vallejo y ArguedasA talk in Spanish by Ximena Briceño
Ximena Briceño enseña literatura latinoamericana en el Departamento de Culturas Ibéricas y Latinoamericanas de Stanford University desde 2008. Es doctora por la Universidad de Cornell y egresada de la Universidad Católica del Perú. Su trabajo de investigación se enfoca en teorías de animalidad en la literatura moderna de América Latina, especialmente de la zona andina. Ha sido becaria del Instituto Iberoamericano de Berlín y es coordinadora del grupo de investigación materia en Stanford.
Exploro el arco trazado por el ave guanera desde Trilce de César Vallejo hasta El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo de José María Arguedas. Quiero discutir la presencia de una poética excrementicia en la vanguardia andina desde una perspectiva post-antropocéntrica. Tomando como punto de partida la idea clásica de la vanguardia latinoamericana como crítica a la modernidad, esta ponencia extrema esta postura para mostrar que, más bien, la línea excrementicia que comunica la escritura de Vallejo y Arguedas marca cómo esa temporalidad colapsa en un tiempo catastrófico que borra la frontera de lo humano y lo no humano.

The "Light” Revolution and its aftermaths: Protest, resistance and performing Eastern Europe
2017-04-19 20:00 - 21:30 | Sub Rosa
SubRosa
Throughout all of February, tens of thousands took the streets in Romania to protest corruption of the political class. Far from being the first spontaneous mass protests in recent local history, they were the first of such magnitude to affirm a clear right-wing position. As international radicals, we expect solidarity not with the imperialist narrative of the “at last enlightened East” but with local resistance to the liberal paradigm of civic, peaceful protest.

Humanities Earth Day
2017-04-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join the Health Humanities Committee and Green Team for our Earth Day Lunch & Learn on April 20th from 12:00 – 1:00pm in Humanities 1, Room 210.

PhD+: Humanities Townhall to Discuss Graduate Education for Graduate Students and Faculty
2017-04-21 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Last year, the NEH awarded UCSC a Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grant to help support the campus in instituting wide-ranging changes in its humanities doctoral programs. As such a process process will ultimately affect everyone in the Humanities division, the grant participants would like to invite Humanities affiliates to a town-hall style forum for a short presentation about our NEH grant, as well as to provide an opportunity in which to share ideas, thoughts, and concerns about the state, and future of, humanities graduate education at UCSC–and in general. We hope to integrate the feedback we receive into the strategies that each of our working groups are in the process of developing in order to better serve the UCSC humanities community. After a short introduction about the grant, an informal panel discussion will provide some groundwork for a larger, audience-based conservation regarding topics such as community building within/among graduate students and faculty, skills development opportunities for humanities students, and understanding/defining expectations for mentor/mentee relationships. As part of our town hall discussion, we provide a modest and optional selection of articles from the Chronicle of Higher Education as background reading for those who would like to participate.
Please RSVP below. Lunch will be served.
PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Jaclyn N. Schultz
2017-04-21 12:20 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Advertising Female Futurity: Children’s Books Printed as Advertisements in the U.S., 1850-1870
In this presentation, I examine children’s books printed as advertisemtns between 1850 and 1870 that were directed at female children. Beginning around 1850, companies produced books that served as advertisements but took the shape of children’s primers, rhymes, or storybooks. This presentation carefully studies these books to uncover consumerist lessons directed at children as well as contemporaneous understandings of the women of the future. By examining how female child readers were trained to become a certain kind of women through these advertising books, my presentation illuminates the distinctive understanding of gendered labor, consumerism, and futurity that existed in the U.S. between 1850 and 1870.
Friday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
April 21, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz, History
April 28, 2017: Baizhu Chen, Economics
May 5, 2017: Danielle Crawford, Literature
May 12, 2017: Kristen Laciste, HAVC
May 19, 2017: Kara Hisatake, Literature
May 26, 2017: Yuki Obayashi, Literature
June 2, 2017: Angela Nguyen, Psychology

Lothar Von Falkenhausen: "Trying to Do the Right Thing to Protect the World's Cultural Heritage: One Committee Member's Tale"
2017-04-21 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America presents
Lothar Von Falkenhausen
Professor of Chinese Archaeology and Art History, UCLA
Trying to Do the Right Thing to Protect the World’s Cultural Heritage:
One Committee Member’s Tale
Friday, April 21 at 5:00 p.m.
Humanities 1, Room 210
Free and open to the public
Refreshments at 4:30 p.m. and reception to follow the lecture
Professor Von Falkenhausen will give an account of his service as a member of President Obama’s
Cultural Property Advisory Committee. He reflects upon the purpose of the committee and its
composition and the nature of its work, as well as the wider impact of the United States
government’s efforts to contribute to cultural-heritage preservation worldwide.
Lothar von Falkenhausen is Professor of Chinese Archaeology and Art History at UCLA, where
he heads the East Asian Laboratory at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. His research
concerns the archaeology of the Chinese Bronze Age, focusing on large interdisciplinary and
historical issues on which archaeological materials can provide significant new information. He has
published copiously on musical instruments; Chinese bronzes and their inscriptions; Chinese
ritual; regional cultures; trans-Asiatic contacts; the history of archaeology in East Asia; and
method and theory in East Asian archaeology. His Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius
(1000-250 BC): The Archaeological Evidence (2006) received the Society for American
Archaeology Book Award. Since 2012, Professor Von Falkenhausen has served on the
Presidential Cultural Property Advisory Committee, charged with implementing the 1970
UNESCO convention in order to curb the illegal inflow of cultural property into the United States.
For more information on the lecture, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu
Metered parking available in lower Cowell-Stevenson lot (109)

Traci Brynne Voyles: "Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country"
2017-04-25 15:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene Presents
Traci Brynne Voyles
Tuesday April 25, 3-5pm
Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country
(reading workshop for faculty and graduate students)
Humanities 1, room 210
Contact krlyons@ucsc.edu for readings
Wednesday April 26, 2-4pm
“Can a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea and Settler Colonial Frames for Thinking about Environmental (justice) History
Humanities 1, room 210
Dr. Traci Brynne Voyles is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Loyola Marymount university.

Eric Porter, "'The Future Appears Both Bleak and Promising': The Politics of Jet Noise Around SFO"
2017-04-26 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk is drawn from Professor Porter’s current book project examining the history of San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and various social and political phenomena associated with it as a means of better understanding the core San Francisco Bay Area as a physical, social, and imagined urban space.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Traci Brynne Voyles: "Can a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea and Settler Colonial Frames for Thinking about Environmental (Justice) History"
2017-04-26 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene Presents
Traci Brynne Voyles
Tuesday April 25, 3-5pm
Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country
(reading workshop for faculty and graduate students)
Humanities 1, room 210
Contact krlyons@ucsc.edu for readings
Wednesday April 26, 2-4pm
Can a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea and Settler Colonial Frames for Thinking about Environmental (Justice) History
Humanities 1, room 210
Dr. Traci Brynne Voyles is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Loyola Marymount university.

The Politics of Belonging: Moroccan Communist Jews, French Empire, and Nationalisms in the 20th Century
2017-04-26 16:00 - 17:00 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk examines the place of Jews in colonial Morocco from the interwar period though to independence (achieved in 1956) and beyond. It is structured around one central question: how Moroccan Jews see themselves as emancipated citizens in a future independent Moroccan state? From a period of ideological porosity during the interwar period, through the anti-Semitic policies of the Vichy regime during WWII, to the struggle for national liberation, and finally, the years of mass Jewish exodus and authoritarianism, this talk pushes against teleological readings of Moroccan Jewish history and explores a previously obscured narrative of political possibility and radical roads not taken.
Assistant Professor Alma Heckman, History
Reception to Follow
For accessibitiy concerns, contact pmreed@ucsc.edu

Pictures & Progress: Black Panther, 1966-2016 closing reception
2017-04-27 16:00 - 18:00 | McHenry Library UCSC, Room 4286
Pictures & Progress: Black Panther, 1966-2016 closing reception
Thursday, April 27, from 4PM to 6PM
UCSC McHenry Library, 4th floor
414 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz CA. 95064
Light refreshments served
The closing reception of “Pictures & Progress: Black Panther, 1966-2016” will be a public program bringing into conversation the power of visual representation and the radical tradition. We are happy to host a panel with Jeremy Love graphic novelist (Bayou); Juliana Smith, UC alum and comic book writer, and organizer (Hafrocentric); Tarika Lewis, former Assistant Minister of Culture and the first woman to join the Black Panther Party; and Aaron Dixon, former Co-Founder Seattle Chapter of the BPP and who helped begin Free Breakfast Program. This panel will be moderated by UCSC professor of Literature, Vilashini Cooppan. “Pictures and Progress: The Black Panther: 1966-2016” has been a celebration of the 50th anniversary of both the party and the comic book series. Photos featuring women and children of the party from the Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones Photography Collection along with comic books from the James Gunderson and Peter Coha collection will be on display in McHenry at the reception.
4:00-4:15: Refreshments
4:15-4:25: Introductions
4:25-5:20: Panel Discussion
5:30-6:00: Book Signing
Panelists:
Tarika Lewis, former Assistant Minister of Culture and the first woman to join the Black Panther Party
Aaron Dixon, former Co-Founder Seattle Chapter of the BPP and helped begin Free Breakfast Program
Jeremy Love, comic book artist and graphic novelist, Bayou
Juliana Smith, comic book creator and community activist, HafroCentric
Moderator:
Vilashini Cooppan

Alumni Weekend 2017
2017-04-28 - 2017-04-30 | CA
SAVE THE DATE
April 28 – 30, 2017
More info and event schedule at: alumniweekend.ucsc.edu

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Baizhu Chen
2017-04-28 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Do Lenders Value the Right Characteristics?: Evidence from Peer-to-Peer Lending
Using a unique dataset of peer-to-peer lending with detailed loan and borrower information, I study the following research questions:|1) What are the borrower characteristics that lenders value when choosing which loans to fund?; and (2) Do lenders value the correct characteristics with respect to minimizing to probability of default? In this online context, the researcher observes everything that the lender does, enabling unbiased estimation of the borrower characteristics that lenders favor. Estimating the characteristics that predict loan default is problematic due to selection at the funding state. I consider three potential strategies to address this issue:(1) restricting attention to borrower characteristics for which there is no evidence of selection in the first stage; (2) bounding the default estimates in the style of Lee (2009) and (3) exploiting variation in the probability of funding caused by contemporaneous competition on the platform. The evidence suggests that lenders give the correct weight to verified income levels, underestimate the importance of verified education level and marital status, and overestimate the importance of verified employment industry.
Friday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:30-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
April 21, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz, History
April 28, 2017: Baizhu Chen, Economics
May 5, 2017: Danielle Crawford, Literature
May 12, 2017: Kristen Laciste, HAVC
May 19, 2017: Kara Hisatake, Literature
May 26, 2017: Yuki Obayashi, Literature
June 2, 2017: Angela Nguyen, Psychology

Ethics and the Language of Conservation
2017-04-29 11:00 | Cervantes & Velasquez Room, Baytree Conference Center, Bay Tree Conference Center, UC Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Daniel Guevara (Philosophy) and Claudio Campagna (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Wildlife Conservation Society) assert that we need to radically rethink the meaning of conservation. “Sustainable Development” is a failed term, and as a result, the crisis of conservation is fundamentally a philosophical crisis with real-world implications. Their goal is to give a compelling and rigorous voice to an authentic ethical concern for Nature. Light refreshments and coffee will be served.
Registration link:
REGISTER HERE

Humanities Mix & Mingle
2017-04-29 12:00 | humanites courtyard
Please join us from 12-1 for a lunchtime Mix & Mingle in the Humanities courtyard. Connect with Humanities alumni, faculty, and beloved emeriti professors while enjoying complementary beverages and desserts. Tables and chairs will be set up, so grab your lunch at Quarry Plaza and come spend some time with the Humanities Division!
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Graduate Alumni Panel Discussions
2017-04-29 13:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Join us for lively panel discussions: Careers and Resources for Entrepreneurship for Graduate Students in the Santa Cruz Region, San Francisco to Monterey (1p-2:15p); Graduate Student Alumni Leaders in Santa Cruz Region, San Francisco to Monterey (2:30p-3:45p) and, Life after Graduate School. Panelists will share their stories and work experience in academic career, non-academic career, government, and startups. Refreshments will be provided.
Registration link:
REGISTER HERE

Panel 1: Careers and Entrepreneurship for Graduate Students
1:00–2:15 p.m., Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Room 259.
J Guevara, Ph.D. Literature 2012; Economic Development Manager, Santa Cruz Economic Development Office, and Municipal Broadband and Right-of-Way Manager, City of Santa Cruz
Adam Siepel, Ph.D. Computer Science 2005; Professor, Watson School of Biological Sciences, and Chair, Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Emily Sloan-Pace, Ph.D. Literature 2012; Professor in Residence, Zoho Corp., Pleasanton, CA, and Chennai, India

Coffee and Light Refreshments between panels, 2:15–2:30.

Panel 2: Leadership Opportunities for Graduate Students
2:30–3:45 p.m., Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Room 259.
Claudio Campagna, Ph.D. Biology 1987; Marine Conservationist, Argentina and Marine Programs, Wildlife Conservation Society, and Adjunct Professor and Research Associate, UC Santa Cruz
Dan Heller, M.F.A. Digital Arts and New Media 2013; CEO, Two Pore Guys, Inc., Santa Cruz
Betsy Herbert, Ph.D. Environmental Studies 2004; Earth Matters international columnist, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and Chair, Science Advisory Panel, Sempervirens Fund
Adam Siepel (see bio info above)
Emily Sloan-Pace (see bio info above)

Networking Mixer, April 29, 4:00–6:00 p.m., Cafe Iveta
Immediately following the second panel discussion on leadership, please join the panelists and other visiting graduate student alumni at the networking mixer. Sponsored by the Division of Graduate Studies and administrative and faculty representatives from the five academic divisions in welcoming back to campus our five distinguished graduate student alumni honorees, panelists, and other returning graduate student alumni at this social gathering to celebrate our fantastic graduate programs and network with other graduate students from UCSC.

Graduate Alumni Honored, 2016-17
The UC Santa Cruz Division of Graduate Studies and the divisions of the Arts, Engineering, Humanities, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences will honor five distinguished graduate student alumni representing each division at an award luncheon on April 29, 2017, during UCSC’s Alumni Weekend. Click here to read more

Teach-in with Gina Dent: "Ex Post Facto: How to respond to a ‘post-truth’ world"
2017-04-29 14:45 - 16:15 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Gina Dent, associate professor of feminist studies, history of consciousness, and legal studies, will discuss the role of the humanities in responding to the current discussion of “alternative facts.” How can we develop a critical relationship to “facticity,” while preserving the ability to think and act politically?
Registration link: http://alumniweekend.ucsc.edu/sessions/teach-in-2/

Graduate Alumni Networking Mixer
2017-04-29 16:00 | Graduate Student Commons
Graduate Alumni and current graduate students will have an opportunity to meet each other, discuss their work and enjoy a relaxed opportunity to reconnect and network. Refreshments will be provided.

Location: Graduate Student Commons and Cafe Iveta

Registration link:
REGISTER HERE

An Immersion into Dickensian Cocktails
2017-04-29 16:00 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Charles Dickens was a unique and protean fellow; writer, social commentator, reporter, actor, father, and much more.He was also a great lover of the table and glass, a noteworthy bon vivant who created wondrous punches, cups, cocktails, and other nourishing potations, in novels as well as in daily life. This lecture will address Dickens’s skill with wine, ale, cider, rum, and gin, interspersed with cocktail demonstrations, allowing time to taste and ponder these delicious beverages

Burke Owens is a long time Bay Area wine and food industry professional, educator, former sommelier, punch aficionado, and most importantly, parent of two UCSC alums. He now serves as senior pastor at the Petaluma United Methodist Church. His appreciation of food and wine, of Dickens and the arts, can all be traced back to his mother who cooked, his father who sculpted, and each one’s passionate love of literature.
Watch Burke’s tutorial to learn how to prepare Cold Gin Punch, a traditional Victorian beverage. {https://vimeo.com/49291630}

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Humanists@Work: Graduate Career Workshop in Silicon Valley
2017-05-01 | UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus
Humanists@Work Graduate Career Workshop – UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus
Santa Clara – May 1, 2017
What is Humanists@Work?
Humanists@Work is a UC-wide initiative geared towards UC Humanities and humanistic Social Science MAs and PhDs interested in careers outside/alongside the academy.
On May 1, 2017, HumWork will host a sixth workshop for graduate students and faculty members in partnership with the University of California, Santa Cruz. Inspired by its location, Humanists@Work Graduate Career Workshop – Silicon Valley will engage the synergistic possibilities at the intersection of new media, community engagement, education and public humanities that is characteristic of the greater Bay Area.

WORKSHOP LOCATION
UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Campus
3175 Bowers Ave
Santa Clara, CA 95054
FREE PARKING ON CAMPUS
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
8:00—9:00 AM: HOT BREAKFAST
9:00—9:30 AM: WELCOME
9:30—11:00 AM: STORIES FROM THE FIELD
In Stories from the Field, four UC humanities PhDs discuss how long-term, sustained humanistic thought and labor shape, and potentially transform, their career trajectories and the industries in which they find themselves employed. How did their values, ethics, and politics inform their post-PhD work choices?
Christian Blood
Curriculum Specialist
Zoho Corporation
Dana Douglas DePietro, Ph.D.
Cultural Resources Division Lead, FirstCarbon Solutions
Executive Director, S.H.A.R.E
Tamao Nakahara, PhD
Co-organizer
DevXCon
Sheri J. Tatsch, PhD
Owner/Principal
Indigenous Consulting Services
11:00—11:30 AM: COFFEE BREAK AND INFORMAL NETWORKING
11:30 AM—1:00 PM: FROM ACADEMIC CV TO INNOVATIVE RÉSUMÉ USING JARED REDICK’S “PURPOSE, CONTENT, DESIGN” METHODOLOGIES
The Résumé Studio’s Jared Redick returns to Humwork, sharing his “purpose, content, design” techniques aimed at helping recent and soon-to-be PhDs shape a purposeful résumé, while framing the possibilities of a fulfilling future beyond or alongside academia.
1:00—2:00 PM: LUNCH
2:00—3:30 PM: BREAKOUT SESSIONS
SESSION 1 – HUMANITIES PHDS: DESIGNING CAREER PATHS
Debra Behrens, PhD
PhD Counselor
University of California, Berkeley
This interactive workshop is for humanities PhDs in the early stages of researching careers who want to Explore career ideas, Learn to research jobs and engage short-term strategies for gaining experience, and Design potential career paths.
SESSION 2 – PERSUASIVE INTERVIEWING
Annie Maxfield, MS
Associate Director, Graduate Student Relations and Services
University of California, Los Angeles
Excelling in interview settings is a skill that requires thought, practice, and confidence. During this interactive workshop, attendees will practice and refine their interviewing skills by learning persuasive techniques that enhance their storytelling abilities and highlight their key contributions.
3:30—4:00 PM: COFFEE BREAK AND INFORMAL NETWORKING
4:00—5:30 PM: CANDID CONVERSATIONS: DEBT IN THE HUMANITIES
Student debt is a collective experience shared by the majority of humanities PhDs, so why aren’t we talking about it? Candid Conversations engages faculty, graduate students, and university staff in a dialogue around the issue of debt and how it influences your post-PhD careers.
Joshua A. Anderson
Graduate Student
University of California, Berkeley
Jessica Beard, PhD
Higher Education Project Organizer
American Federation of Teachers
Jennifer E. McSpadden
ABD
University of California, Davis
Allison Perlman, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of California, Irvine

Digital Pedagogy Showcase
2017-05-02 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 2, Room 359
Get some syllabus inspiration! The inaugural cohort of the Digital Instruction Project lead this Brown Bag Session about developing and implementing new digital assignments in their classes. Join us as we discuss the benefits and challenges of adding digital tools into your syllabus and pushing your students to try new forms of scholarly writing.
The panel includes Philip Longo (Writing Program), Kyle Parry (HAVC), Cat Ramirez (LALS), Amanda Smith (Literature), and Dustin Wright (History)
The Digital Instruction Project was launched in Fall 2016 by the Digital Scholarship Commons and the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL).

"What's Left of Progressive Politics?"
2017-05-02 13:30 - 15:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
The Center for Emerging Worlds presents
“What’s Left of Progressive Politics?”
Roundtable Discussion with
Dr. Vijay Prashad, Dr. Lisa Rofel, Dr. Mayanthi Fernando, and Asad Haider
Dr. Vijay Prashad is Professor of International Studies and South Asian History at Trinity College, Connecticut and a renowned journalist. He was trained as a historical anthropologist and received his Ph.D from the University of Chicago. Prashad’s work addresses issues like race and imperialism, race and immigrant communities in the US, geopolitical changes in the global South after 9/11, the propagation of policies that produce and exacerbate income inequalities, the possibilities of political solidarities among social movements committed to progressive change in the world, and the role of national governments and regional alliances in the context of economic and political changes in the world. He is the author of numerous books. Some of them are – The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016 and New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2016). No Free Left: The Futures of Indian Communism (New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2015). The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (London: Verso and New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2013). Arab Spring, Libyan Winter (Baltimore: AK Press and New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2012). The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World, (New York: New Press and New Delhi: LeftWord, 2007). Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (Boston: Beacon Press, 2001). Karma of Brown Folk (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000). Untouchable Freedom: The Social History of a Dalit Community (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999). His articles appear in media organization s like the Guardian, the Hindu, Frontline, jadaliyya, and AlterNet.
For more information, contact sjetha@ucsc.edu
These events are free and open to the public

In the Ruins of the Present: Neoliberalism and Cruel Populism Suffocate the Future
2017-05-02 17:00 - 19:00 | CA
Vijay Prashad’s talk In the Ruins of the Present: Neoliberalism and Cruel Populism Suffocate the Future traces the rise of populism across the world, including the global South and North, in the present historical moment. This type of populism expresses itself in anti-immigrant politics and defines the nation in narrow terms – race, ethnicity, and religion. It seeks to exclude immigrants who do not fit within the narrow confines of these categories. This populism does not address the substantive issues of inequality and jobless even if some of its energy is derived from it.

Dr. Vijay Prashad is Professor of International Studies and South Asian History at Trinity College, Connecticut and a renowned journalist. He was trained as a historical anthropologist and received his Ph.D from the University of Chicago. Prashad’s work addresses issues like race and imperialism, race and immigrant communities in the US, geopolitical changes in the global South after 9/11, the propagation of policies that produce and exacerbate income inequalities, the possibilities of political solidarities among social movements committed to progressive change in the world, and the role of national governments and regional alliances in the context of economic and political changes in the world. He is the author of numerous books. Some of them are – The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016 and New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2016). No Free Left: The Futures of Indian Communism (New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2015). The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (London: Verso and New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2013). Arab Spring, Libyan Winter (Baltimore: AK Press and New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2012). The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World, (New York: New Press and New Delhi: LeftWord, 2007). Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (Boston: Beacon Press, 2001). Karma of Brown Folk (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000). Untouchable Freedom: The Social History of a Dalit Community (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999). His articles appear in media organization s like the Guardian, the Hindu, Frontline, jadaliyya, and AlterNet.
Location: TBD
For more information, contact sjetha@ucsc.edu
These events are free and open to the public

Chris Connery: "Contemporary Chinese Capitalism and Its Critical Landscape"
2017-05-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Contemporary Chinese Capitalism and Its Critical Landscape”
This talk draws on a work in progress entitled Revolutionary China and its Late Capitalist Fate, an analysis of the nature of post-reform China’s political economy, with particular attention to how this has affected everyday life, intellectual and critical work, ideological formation, cultural production, social movements, political action, and social space.
Chris Connery is a Professor of Literature at UCSC and Professor of Cultural Studies at Shanghai University.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Earl Jackson: "Critical Conditions: Japanese Film Theory and Practice"
2017-05-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Earl Jackson Jr. is Professor at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan and Co-Director of the Trans-Asian Screen Cultures Institute in South Korea.
Co-Sponsored by Cultural Studies, Cowell College, and the Literature Department.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Doris Leibetseder
2017-05-04 14:00 - 16:00 | Humanites 1, Room 320, Humanities and Social Science Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Doris Leibetseder, Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley
In this paper I present part of an allied queer-feminist and transgender ethics of reproduc-tion. I look at ARTs and how they raise challenges for transgender and queer people. My focus lies in the ways these technologies confront queer and people with normative expectations concerning biological sex, gender, sexuality, kinship relations and the right to procreate, and how this leads to medical migration. This presentation gives an overview of my new EU-funded (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) project starting August 2017 at Uppsala University: “Towards an Inclusive Common European Framework for Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART): Queer Transgender Reproduction in the Age of ART.”

Doris Leibetseder is a researcher at the University of Uppsala, Sweden in the Centre for Gender Research and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, CSMTS (Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society).

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series Spring 2017 Schedule:
May 4th: Doris Leibetseder, “QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies”
May 17th: Susan O’Neal Stryker, “What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need”
June 1st: Patricia de Santana Pinho, “We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring Brazil and Bearing their Nation”

Living Writers: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa & Eric Sneathen
2017-05-04 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Poet Tsering Wangmo Dhompa’s parents fled Tibet in 1959. Raised by her mother in Tibetan communities in Dharamsala, India, and Kathmandu, Nepal, She is the author of the poetry chapbooks In Writing the Names (2000) and Recurring Gestures (2000). She has published the full-length collections Rules of the House (2002), In the Absent Everyday (2005), and My Rice tastes like the lake (2011), which was a finalist for the Northern California Independent Bookseller’s Book of the Year Award for 2012. Dhompa’s non-fiction book based on her life is called A Home in Tibet (Penguin India, 2013).
Eric Sneathen, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya, 2016)
Eric Sneathen is a poet who whose writing has been published by Mondo Bummer, Elderly, and Faggot Journal. He is the editor and organizer of Macaroni Necklace, a Bay Area–based DIY literary journal and reading series. Snail Poems is his first book.
The UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents
The Lives of Other Songs
Living Writers Series Spring 2017
Thursdays / 5:20-6:50pm / Humanities Lecture Hall
April 13, 2017: Tongo Eisen-Martin, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press, 2015)
May 4, 2017: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, author of A Home in Tibet (Penguin, 2014) and Eric Sneathen, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya, 2016)
May 11, 2017: Aisha Sasha John, author of THOU (BookThug, 2014)
May 18, 2017: Rosa Alcalá, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010)
June 1, 2017: Lauren Levin, author of The Braid (Krupskaya, 2016)
June 8, 2017: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading

PhD+: Mentorship
2017-05-05 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Mentorship Managed Up: cultivating successful professional relationships within, alongside, and outside the academy

This PhD+ session is being presented in coordination with members of the NEH Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grant Committee. Please join faculty, administration, and graduate students in a facilitated discussion and share your thoughts about how to foster and maintain successful mentorship relationships in humanities graduate programs. We’ll open with brief introductory comments before moving into a moderated panel discussion addressing:

the benefits and challenges associated with establishing a mentor/mentee relationship with different types of individuals who may serve in the mentor role, e.g., faculty advisers (intra- and inter-department), non-academic professionals, peer graduate student mentors, etc
the goals of a mentor/mentee relationship, discussing achievable milestones or benchmarks, and setting corresponding expectation
the processes for “managing up” in a mentor/mentee relationship in terms of navigating successful accomplishment of the expected milestones and how to resolve conflict, overcome obstacles or inertia, etc.

Each question will be followed by a brief response from the panelists meant to generate a larger discussion including the members of the audience. The Planning Committee hopes to use the feedback and discussion to inform its strategic proposals for further discussion, development, and possible implementation to better serve the UCSC humanities community.

PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.
Lunch will be served, as always.
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Danielle Crawford
2017-05-05 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Shooting Cameras and Shooting Weapons: U.S. Military Violence and Ecological Ruin in Coppola’s Apocalypse Now
This presentation examines the shooting history of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979), which was shot on the Philippine island of Luzon. I investigate the collision between Hollywood’s shooting of cameras and the U.S. military’s shooting of weapons, and the ways these forms of violence intertwine on the set of this Vietnam War film. While the film attempts to blur the geographic boundaries between Vietnam and the Philippines by using Philippine “jungles” as substitute, I argue that Apocalypse Now ultimately blurs the boundaries between real U.S. warfare and the cinematic reproduction of warfare through its military collaborations and its production of ecological ruin.
Friday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
April 21, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz, History
April 28, 2017: Baizhu Chen, Economics
May 5, 2017: Danielle Crawford, Literature
May 12, 2017: Kristen Laciste, HAVC
May 19, 2017: Kara Hisatake, Literature
May 26, 2017: Yuki Obayashi, Literature
June 2, 2017: Angela Nguyen, Psychology

Brett Rushforth: “‘Daily Trafficke with the Frenchmen’: Merchant Colonialism and African Sovereignty in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic"
2017-05-08 13:30 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Center for World History Presents
Brett Rushforth
“‘Daily Trafficke with the Frenchmen’: Merchant Colonialism and African Sovereignty in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic”
May 8, 2017 @ 1:30-3pm
Humanities 1, Room 210
Free and open to the public
Brett Rushforth is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. He is a scholar of early American
and Atlantic history who specializes in slavery, race, and the law in the French Atlantic world. His
most recent book, “Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France”, uncovered the
hidden history of French colonists enslaving Native North Americans by the thousands in the 1700s,
sending captive Sioux, Apache, and other Indians to a life of slavery in Montreal, Quebec, and even the
French Caribbean. In 2013-14, “Bonds of Alliance” was named the best book in American social history
by the Organization of American Historians, the best book on the history of French colonialism by the
French Colonial Historical Society, the best book on the history of European expansion by the Forum
on European Expansion and Global Interaction, and the best book in French Cultural Studies.

The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies Investiture Ceremony
2017-05-08 14:00 - 15:30 | Stevenson Event Center
The Humanities Division and Feminist Studies department are very excited to announce the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. This endowed chair was recently established with a $500,000 gift from the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation and matching funds from the UC Regents. Bettina Aptheker, Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies, is the inaugural chair holder. The endowed chair will help fund research and teaching as well as graduate fellowships in feminist studies.

Feminist Studies Investiture Ceremony from IHR on Vimeo.
Event Photos: by Steve Kurtz
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
Join us for the Investiture Ceremony, May 8, 2017 at 2pm to be held at the Stevenson Event Center. Reception to follow.
Complimentary parking will be available in the Barn Theater parking lot. Parking permits will be on sale for $4. Continuous shuttle service to Stevenson Event Center will be available from 1:15 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Barn Theater.

About Bettina Aptheker

Bettina Aptheker is a nationally recognized historian and a scholar of feminist studies. She received her Ph.D. in History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz and became the first ladder-rank faculty member of the Feminist Studies Department, then known as Women’s Studies, in 1987. For nearly three decades Bettina has taught one of the country’s largest and most influential introductory feminist studies courses, exposing more than 10,000 students to her deeply compelling teaching. Bettina works extensively with graduate students in Feminist Studies, and other departments, and teaches graduate seminars, including Feminist Pedagogy and Black Feminist Reconstruction. She has received numerous awards over the years, and in June will be presented with the Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award in the Humanities.
About the The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation

The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation currently focuses on improving the lives of women and girls and ensuring equal access to education for all community members. UC Santa Cruz and the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation have been partnering on advancing innovative and impactful scholarship for many years. The foundation has funded the Baskin Feminist Scholars Program and the Baskin Scholars Program in Engineering that enable community college students to transfer to UC Santa Cruz, underwritten fellowships to women doctoral students in engineering, offered scholarships to women transfer students, and funded the summer Girls in Engineering program for middle-school girls since its inception. With this new Presidential Chair, the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation is leading the way in support of teaching and research in feminist studies at UC Santa Cruz.
