The Humanities Institute

HUMANISTS@WORK
2015-11-08 - 2015-11-09 | The Citizen Hotel
Humanists@Work is heading to Sacramento, California for our next statewide graduate student career professionalization workshop. We invite humanities PhDs, faculty, and staff to REGISTER for the workshop and join us for what will be another meaningful and productive gathering of humanities PhDs. We are offering a limited number of travel grants to 3 students from each UC campus (grants will cover your roundtrip travel and accommodation at The Citizen Hotel). Please note that those receiving a travel grant will be invited to the pre-workshop networking dinner. Deadline to apply for a travel grant is October 9th. Please apply online via UCHRI’s FastApps application system. For more information about the pre-workshop networking dinner, please visit our networking page.
SCHEDULE: HUMANISTS@WORK GRADUATE CAREER WORKSHOP & NETWORKING DINNER
NOVEMBER 8-9, 2015 | SACRAMENTO, CA
8:00AM | BREAKFAST
Hot breakfast bar with–yes, you guessed it–plenty of caffeinated beverages
9:00AM | WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS
Kelly Anne Brown, UCHRI’s Assistant Director
9:15AM | THEORIZING OUR MOMENT: WHAT HUMANISTS@WORK LOOK LIKE
Part I of a two-part conversation moderated by the Humwork Graduate Student Advisory Committee and continuing the interactive, DIY activities began in San Diego last year, the Humwork grad committee will facilitate a conversation about issues such as: the possibilities for work outside/alongside academia, graduate student education and support, the general conditions of the humanities in higher education and society more generally, and the role of gatherings like Humwork to intervene in the many structural, cultural, and practical issues surrounding humanities work.
9:45AM | STORIES FROM THE FIELD
UC Humanities PhDs share their stories as humanists@work in the world. Featuring:
J. Guevara, Economic Development Manager for the City of Santa Cruz (PhD Literature, UCSC, 2012)
Amy Jamgochian, Academic Program Director, Prison University Project (PhD Rhetoric, UCB, 2010)
Susie Lundy, Bay Area Program Director, Youth Speaks (PhD Cultural Studies, UCLA, 2008)
Marty Weis, UC Davis English PhD, 2015
Moderated by Simon Abramowitsch, UC Davis English PhD and Humanists@Work Graduate Advisory Committee Member
11:00AM | COFFEE/NETWORKING BREAK
11:30AM | RÉSUMÉ REDUX: USING THE WRITING PROCESS AS A TOOL FOR CAREER DISCOVERY
The quest to create a replicable résumé development framework for humanities PhD candidates exploring a variety of careers continues!
Since UCHRI’s February 2015 Humanists@Work workshop in San Diego, Jared Redick of The Résumé Studio, Kelly Anne Brown of UCHRI, and selected UC humanists have been hard at work refining the process of presenting academic experience within the boundaries of a non-academic résumé.
This iteration of the workshop builds on the work of past presentations at Berkeley and San Diego, focusing on how the writing process is being used as a tool for career discovery. Highlights include:
A glimpse into how current PhD candidates and other graduate students have used the Job Description Analysis to translate their academic and dissertation experience into transferable skills useful within a reimagined résumé.
Before and after samples from graduate students who have gone the distance and turned their backgrounds into marketable résumés, several resulting in new jobs this year.
Unsurprisingly, the work focuses on the student’s ability to convert academic activities into work experience that resonates beyond academia. Sounds easier than it is—which is why this series continues. UCLA PhD candidate Dana Linda joins the discussion to share her own experience, as well as insights she learned while going through the process.
Important:
Please be sure you have watched the full 1.5 hour Berkeley video before you attend, otherwise you may not gain the full value of this presentation.
Bring your current CV and/or résumé attempt (no matter how rough, printed or on your laptop) so it’s on hand for ideas you may capture along the way.
Jared Redick, The Résumé Studio and Dana Linda, UCLA Comparative Literature PhD Candidate
12:45PM | LUNCH
In addition to a hot lunch, participants will have access to view Al Farrow’s Bay Area Figurative Drawings in the special collections gallery.
1:45PM | BREAKOUT SESSIONS
SESSION A
SKETCHING YOUR CAREER’S UNIQUE CHRONOLOGY IN THE RÉSUMÉ CONTEXT
CROCKER ATRIUM
Jared Redick, The Résumé Studio
Working one-on-one with University of California PhD candidates and other graduate students this year, one of the surprising elements Jared Redick has discovered has been the complex task of distilling the hierarchy of one’s career within the limitations of the chronological résumé.
And chronological résumés are essential in the world beyond academia because functional résumés—while sometimes useful—are frequently regarded by recruiters and hiring managers as tools for masking periods of unemployment.
In this breakout session, Dana Linda joins Jared Redick for focused table work that utilizes the simplicity of 3×5 cards to wire frame your experience (institution names, job titles, dates, buckets) in a way that is readily understood by recruiters and hiring managers. This breakout is intended for people who are, or will soon be, deeply focused on the résumé development process.
Important:
Bring a stack of your own 3×5 cards for table work. These are essential to the exercise we’ll be doing, and we will not have enough to give to everyone.
Bring your current CV and/or résumé attempt, no matter how rough, printed or on your laptop.
Please be sure you have watched the 1.5 hour Berkeley video before you attend, otherwise you may not gain the full value of this breakout session.
SESSION B
DECODING WORK: A VALUES-BASED APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING CAREERS FOR HUMANITIES PHDS
CEMO MEETING SPACE
Annie Maxfield, UCLA
In this session students will connect their unique strengths and value system to career trajectories by surveying how values are expressed through work, organizations and industries. We will identify concrete UC-Humanities PhD career paths, and discuss ways to “decode” jobs, imagine possibilities, and identify starting points.
3:00PM | COFFEE/NETWORKING BREAK
3:30PM | A MINDFUL INQUIRY INTO THE RIGHT KIND OF WORK
Lauri Mattenson, UCLA Writing Programs
Many of our assumptions about the job search are predetermined by the routines and rules of our educational institutions, and accordingly, we learn to package ourselves like products for sale to potential employers. If instead, we regard ourselves as in-process and engage in mindful practices with an attitude of receptive non-judgement, we can free ourselves from fixed notions of self and success.
In this participatory workshop, we will practice “generative mindfulness” exercises designed to inspire greater insight into what might bring us true professional pleasure and fulfillment.
Mindful meditation is known to facilitate decision-making and cognitive flexibility and enhance well-being, creativity, social performance, and health (Langer, 1989; 2005; 2009), so a mindful inquiry into the right kind of work may help us conceptualize and create a career deeply aligned with our skills and values.
4:30PM | PART II: THEORIZING OUR MOMENT
5:30PM | CONCLUDING REMARKS

Leadership for Social Justice: A Sikh-American Perspective
2015-11-07 09:30 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This one-day workshop provides insights and training for individuals who wish to lead social change efforts. The workshop will be conducted by the Sikh Coalition, a community-based organization that works toward the realization of civil and human rights for all people, including Sikh-Americans. It will include sessions devoted to lobbying, media, legal remedies, and a case study on effective advocacy. The workshop will be highly interactive and will provide participants with concrete skills that will enable them to immediately begin advocating on major social and political issues.
EVENT PHOTOS:
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About the Workshop Trainers:
Arjun Singh joined the Sikh Coalition in June 2015 as the Director of Law & Policy. In this role, he is responsible for advocating and promoting policy solutions to civil rights issues that impact Sikhs and the broader American public. His work focuses on government affairs on Capitol Hill, inside the White House, and across numerous federal agencies, including the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of State. Additionally, Arjun is an integral contributor to our media relations, coalition building, and regional advocacy campaigns.
Arjun joins the Sikh Coalition with nearly a decade of litigation and advocacy experience focused on civil and human rights in Washington D.C. First, he spent six years working as a Government Affairs and Litigation Associate at the international law firm of Covington & Burling LLP, where his clients included victims of government profiling, national security detainees, and criminal defendants on death row. More recently, Arjun worked as a National Legislative Counsel for human rights and national security related affairs at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He is a regular contributor to national media outlets like Al Jazeera America, CNN, the Washington Post, and USA Today, and is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches a course on 21st century policing and surveillance.
Arjun is a graduate of New York University School of Law and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Harjit Kaur joined the Sikh Coalition as Community Development Manager in May 2014. As Community Development Manager, she leads program development and implementation for Bay Area youth to encourage leadership and engage them in advocacy and social justice work. She is also responsible for community engagement efforts and education initiatives to raise awareness about Sikhs.
Harjit initially joined the Sikh Coalition as a graduate of the Sikh Advocate Academy, Class of 2012. In her role as a Volunteer Sikh Advocate, she supported key initiatives such as the passage of the Workplace Religious Freedom Act of California and became a member of the Sacramento Area Hate Crimes Task Force at the U.S. Department of Justice
Prior to joining the Sikh Coalition, she was a part of the criminal defense team in a recent landmark case, led by Mani Sidhu, Esq., in which a battered South Asian woman in Yuba City was acquitted of first degree murder due to self-defense and the defense of her unborn female child. She currently serves as a board member of the Sacramento South Asian Bar Association and is the board secretary for the Sacramento Valley Charter School. She is also an adjunct professor and advisory committee board member for the legal assisting program at American River College.
Harjit earned her J.D. from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 2011 and is licensed to practice in California. Harjit obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Sonoma State University.

Free and open to all UCSC students and staff. Breakfast, lunch and coffee/tea provided.
Pre-registration required. Please register by clicking here. Enrollment limited to 20.

Utopian Dreaming: 50 years of Imagined Futures in California and at UCSC
2015-11-07 08:30 - 17:30 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In 2015, UCSC is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia its 40th. Both are products of a fertile period of ferment across California, during the 1960s and 1970s. Why has California been such a fertile and fruitful site for “Utopian Dreaming,” in film, fiction, media, design, architecture, mobility, electronics, intentional communities,ecology and environment, counter-culture and social movements? What kinds of futures has California come to represent? What has been the role of UCSC in these imaginaries of the future. Does California remain a Promised Land, or is it a Land of Squandered Promise?
On November 6th and 7th, 2015, join scholars, students, observers and utopian dreamers , in a conference to celebrate those anniversaries and explore visions of the future that have emerged from California and UCSC about California and UCSC. Presentations will run the gamut from Ecotopia to Technodystopia, from the real to the fantasized, from the past to the future, assessing the impacts of utopian imaginaries on culture, politics, environment, cities, beliefs and ideologies at UCSC, across California, and beyond.
Admission is free, but attendees are asked to register for the conference here.

Conference Schedule:
Friday, November 6, UCSC Music Recital Hall, 7:30-10 PM
7:30-10: Keynote — Return to Ecotopia: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Ernest Callenbach.
Kim Stanley Robinson, “Ecotopia and the 1970s Utopian Moment”
Conversation & Reminiscences about Ecotopia & Ernest Callenbach
Malcolm Margolin (publisher, Heyday Books, Berkeley),
Joanna Callenbach (daughter)
Richard Kahlenberg (Callenbach’s literary agent)
Saturday, November 7, UCSC Music Recital Hall
8:30-9: Registration & Continental Breakfast
9-9:30: Keynote — Fred McPherson, “Utopia at UCSC: The Early Years”
9:30-11:00: Panel I — California as Eco(u)topia
Benjamin Wurgaft (MIT), “All Futures Green and Chrome: From Callenbach’s Ecotopia to 21st-Century Cornucopianism”
Kristin Miller (Sociology, UCSC), “Postcards from the Future”
11-11:15: Coffee break
11:15-12:45: Panel II — Ecotopia and Apocalypse
Andrew Mathews (Anthropology, UCSC), “Climate Change as Utopia and Apocalypse”
Ursula Heise (English, UCLA), “What’s the Matter with Dystopia?”
12:45-1:30: Lunch (provided to attendees on site)
1:30-3:00: Panel III — Imagining Other Utopian Worlds
Rosaura Sanchez & Beatrice Pita (Literature, UC San Diego), “The Color of Sci Fi: The Presence/Absence of People of Color in Future Imaginaries.”
Miriam Greenberg (Sociology, UCSC), “Whose Ecotopia? Tracing Multiple Visions of a Sustainable Future in Northern California and Beyond”
3-3:15: Coffee break
3:15-4:45: Panel IV — California Techno-pasts and Utopian Futures
Fred Turner (Communications, Stanford), “From Counterculture To Cyberculture: How The Whole Earth Catalog Brought Us Virtual Community”
Richard Barbrook (Department of Politics and IR, U. of Westminster, London), “The California Ideology 2.0”
4:45-5:30: Concluding Remarks
Ronnie D. Lipschutz (Politics and College Eight, UCSC), “Eco-utopias and Other Such Futurist Dreaming in California”

For questions and information, please contact Ronnie Lipschutz, rlipsch@ucsc.edu (email preferred) or 831-459-3275/459-2543.
This conference is sponsored by College Eight, with funds from the Distinguished Visiting Professor fund, and the following: the Social Sciences Division, Anthropology, Sociology, Politics, Latin American & Latino Studies, Environmental Studies, Art, History, Literature, Crown College, Merrill College, Cowell College, Stevenson College, Porter College, Oakes College, Kresge College Institute of the Arts & Sciences, Institute for Humanities Research, the Everett Program, the Chicano-Latino Research Center, the Science & Justice Research Center, an anonymous donor, the UCSC Natural Reserve Program, the Student Environmental Center and University Relations.

Joseph M. Pierce: "Writing Queer Sisterhood: The Diaries of Julia and Delfina Bunge and the Argentine Fin de Siglo (1890-1910)"
2015-11-06 14:00 - 15:30 | Humanities 1, Room 402
This presentation focuses on a unique coincidence in Argentine fin de siglo (1890-1910): sisters who 1) simultaneously kept a diary for an extended period of time, 2) actually shared, read, and commented on reading each other’s diaries, and 3) though under quite different circumstances, published these diaries subsequently. I read the diary as an interface through which textual form influences understandings of self and other in the early years of the 20th century, arguing that it is, in this sense, a technology of self-making. This talk explores not simply what the diarist does, but what discourses, what possible modes of feeling and thinking are revealed through the process of writing and reading the diary. In particular the sister serves as critical nucleus for understanding relational subjectivity, sibling rivalry, and the queer potentials of lateral kinship. Examining both original manuscript notebooks and later published versions, I show how writing and reading the diary plays a crucial role in shaping each sister’s ideological positions regarding courtship, marriage, and sisterhood, and from this exploration I argue that the cultural anxiety over the division of public and private space, and in particular women’s labor, led each sister to stake a claim of individuality that emerges through the process of imagining herself as different, but potentially the same as, her sister.

Joseph M. Pierce is Assistant Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University. His research focuses on discourses of kinship, gender, and sexuality in Latin America and on the intersection of Latin American and North American approaches to citizenship and belonging. He is currently drafting a book manuscript entitled Queer Kinship in the Argentine fin de siglo: La familia Bunge, and is co-editor with Fernando Blanco and Mario Pecheny of Derechos Sexuales en el Sur: Políticas del amor y escrituras disidentes (Forthcoming, Cuarto Propio).

Light refreshments will be served.

Friday Forum: Samuael Topiary "The Anti-Representational Mode"
2015-11-06 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research.
This meeting will feature Samuael Topiary (Film & Digital Media) presenting his talk “The Anti-Representational Mode”.
For more info, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

PhD+: Internship Info Session
2015-11-06 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In the next couple of months, the IHR will be launching a new public fellowship/internship program for our graduate students, allowing them to work in organizations and companies in the area during the summer, while getting fellowship support from the IHR.
If you are interested in learning about this program, please join us for the next workshop in our PhD+ series on November 6th at 11 am. As always, lunch will be provided! Please RSVP using the form below.

PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the launch of PhD+, our new series! We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for humanities PhDs, online identity issues, internship possibilities, work/life balance, elements of style, grants/fellowships and much more. Please RSVP below for each workshop you would like to attend.
October 9, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel
November 6, 2015: Internship Info Session
December 4, 2015: Coding for Humanists
January 8, 2016: Research Tools and Methods
February 5, 2016: Online Identity
March 4, 2016: Work-Life Balance
April 8, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities
May 13, 2016: Research and Grants
June 3, 2016: End of Year Luncheon
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Wage Justice: Fighting Wage Theft in Our Community
2015-11-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Civic Plaza Community Room
This community event will launch the public art and findings of a year-long research project – Working for Dignity: Low-Wage Worker Study of Santa Cruz County produced by the UCSC Center for Labor Studies. The event will showcase the project’s website and feature workers, researchers and students sharing their stories about low pay and wage theft. Community organizations will also be on hand to discuss new, monthly wage and hour clinics that can help those who have experienced wage theft to act. The event will conclude with a community dialog about workplace conditions and violations and what you can do.

Co-sponsored by the UCSC Center for Labor Studies, California Rural Legal Assistance, Chicano Latino Research Center, UC Humanities Research Institute, Santa Cruz Day Worker Center, and the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County.
For more information, contact Steve McKay at smckay@ucsc.edu or the California Rural Legal Assistance: (831) 724-2253.
Free and Open to the Public
Translation available
Refreshments provided

Imogen Dickie "Proper Names: Transition to the End Game"
2015-11-05 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Abstract:
I shall prove a principle which brings out the significance for accounts of aboutness and reference of the fact that justification is truth conducive; use this principle to develop an account of reference-fixing for proper names which presents an alternative to the tired menu of traditional causalisms, descriptivisms, and crosses between; and identify two questions around which the next phase in discussions of reference-fixing for proper names should be structured.
About:
Imogen Dickie is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Toronto. Research Interests: Philosophy of language and mind: theory of reference, metasemantics, acquaintance, perception, communication, singular thought. Some topics in epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of action.
academia.edu: Imogen Dickie academic page
http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/dickie.html

Jasmine Syedullah: "‘Not Contraband, but Soldier': Against the Domestic Violence of National Security"
2015-11-04 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Jasmine Syedullah’s current project, “No Selves to Defend: Fugitive Justice and Black Feminist Loopholes of Abolition” is a political theory of abolition rooted in the antislavery writings of Harriet Jacobs, the anti-prison testimonies of political prisoners Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, and narratives from the 1971 uprising at Alderson Federal Reformatory for Women.
Syedullah is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at UC Riverside.
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.
Fall 2015 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series

November 18, 2015
Catherine Sue Ramírez
“’Our Porto Ricans’: Puerto Rican Students at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1898-1923″

Berel Lang: “Primo Levi: Chemist, Survivor, Writer”
2015-11-04 09:30 - 10:40 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
On Wednesday, November 4, Professor Berel Lang of Wesleyan University, author of Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life, will visit our campus and offer a lecture entitled “Primo Levi: Chemist, Survivor, Writer.” Professor Lang’s many books include Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide (University of Chicago Press, 1990), The Anatomy of Philosophical Style (Basil Blackwell, 1990), Holocaust Representation: Art within the Limits of History and Ethics (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000) and Philosophical Witnessing: The Holocaust as Presence (University Press of New England, 2009). His recently published biography, Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life (Yale University Press, 2013), is a groundbreaking study of the convergence of the roles of scientist, humanist, witness, and moral philosopher in Levi’s writing.

Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
2015-11-03 18:30 - 20:00 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists, scientists, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations.
Please join us in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 for refreshments at 6:30 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by:
Giacomo Bernardi “Finding general patterns in the natural world: underwater cuckoos”
Emily Brodsky “Stress in Faults”
Robin Hunicke “The Art of Play”
A. Laurie Palmer “If I were you, I’d call me us”
Bios:
Giacomo Bernardi is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC Santa Cruz. His laboratory research focuses on the ecology of coral reefs and understanding speciation mechanisms in marine organisms.​ Bernardi did his undergrad and grad school at the University of Paris where he earned a PhD in Molecular Biology. He did a Post Doc at the Pasteur Institute in Tunis, Tunisia and a Post Doc at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station before being hired at UCSC.
Emily Brodsky is a professor and earthquake physicist at the UC Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on identifying the processes that trigger earthquakes and constraining the forces and processes that occur inside a fault zone during slip. Prof. Brodsky earned her A.B. from Harvard in 1995, Ph.D. from Caltech in 2001 and was a 2001 Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. She has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles and presented over 75 invited lectures or keynote talks. Her work was been featured in major press outlets such as the BBC, NPR, Time Magazine, NY Times, Nature, Reuters, LA Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Robin Hunicke is the Director of the new Art, Games & Playable Media BA program at UC Santa Cruz. A game designer and producer by training, she has a background in computer science, fine art and applied game studies. She has been designing, making and teaching about games for over 12 years (Journey, Boom Blox,MySims, TheSims2). Robin is also the Co-Founder of the independent game studio Funomena, where she is currently working on a puzzling fable called Luna and a joyful and musical physics playground called Wattam. Recognized as an influential Woman in Games, Robin is also an outspoken evangelist for diversity of thought and participation in game design and game culture. In this talk, she will talk about how game developers can create novel, experimental games by designing for feeling.
A. Laurie Palmer is an artist, writer, and teacher. Her work includes sculpture, installation, writing, and public art. She is concerned with material explorations of matter’s active nature as it asserts itself on different scales and in different speeds, and she collaborates on strategic actions that work for social and environmental justice. Her book In the Aura of a Hole: Exploring Sites of Material Extraction (Black Dog, London, 2014) investigates what happens to places where materials are removed from the ground, and how these materials move between the earth and our bodies. Palmer collaborated with the artist group Haha for 20 years on site- and community-based projects. She currently collaborates with Chicago Torture Justice Memorials (CTJM) and the Prison Neighborhood Arts Program (PNAP), both based in Chicago. She has shown her work, both independently and with Haha, at national and international venues.
This event is FREE and open to the public. Parking is available in the Performing Arts Lot adjacent to Digital Arts Research Center.

Fall Job and Internship Fair
2015-11-03 12:00 - 15:00 | College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room, College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Fall Job and Internship Fair is an excellent opportunity for you to meet with hundreds of students seeking employment opportunities. Meet with students from a variety of majors to have dialogue and collect resumes. This event can provide your organization with talent for entry-level positions, internships, and summer jobs. Many of our students have had work experience through summer employment, internships, and jobs during the academic year. UC Santa Cruz students offer specific job skills, knowledge developed in a rigorous academic major, and the breadth of a well-rounded liberal arts education.

e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies "The Future of Education: Advanced Computing, Ubiquitous Learning, and the Knowledge Economy"
2015-11-03, 2015-11-02 | Stevenson Event Center
EVENT PHOTOS:
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UCSC to host an International e-Learning Conference, November 2-3 2015
This year, UC Santa Cruz will play host to the Eighth International Conference on e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies from November 2-3, 2015. The conference is built upon four key features: Internationalism, Interdisciplinarity, Inclusiveness, and Interaction. Conference delegates include leaders in the field as well as emerging artists and scholars who travel to the conference from all corners of the globe and represent a broad range of disciplines and perspectives. A variety of presentation options and session types offer delegates multiple opportunities to engage, to discuss key issues in the field, and to build relationships with scholars from other cultures and disciplines. More than 20 countries are expected to be represented at the conference. I encourage our faculty and graduate students to submit proposals to present papers at this conference.
The e-Learning Conference will investigate the uses of technologies in learning, including devices with sophisticated computing and networking capacities that are now pervasively part of our everyday lives. Additionally it explores the possibilities of new forms of technology-mediated learning devices not only in the classroom, but also in a wider range of places and times than was conventionally the case for education.
The conference welcomes submissions from a variety of disciplines and perspectives and encourages faculty and students to jointly submit proposals discussing e-Learning through one of the following themes:
• Theme 1: Pedagogies
• Theme 2: Institutions
• Theme 3: Technologies
• Theme 4: Social Transformations
• 2015 Special Focus: The Future of Education: Advanced Computing, Ubiquitous Learning, and the Knowledge Economy
Plenary speakers will include: Satya V. Nitta, Program Leader of the Cognitive Learning Content research group at IBM’s T J Watson Research Center; Kevin Franklin, Executive Director of the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and Senior Research Scientist for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois; and Jim C. Spohrer, Director of the IBM Global University Programs.
For more information, including registration pricing, please visit the conference website at: http://ubi-learn.com/.
This conference is co-sponsored by the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research and Academic Affairs. UCSC faculty and staff are welcome to contact Michael Tassio (mtassio@ucsc.edu) for more information.

Enduring Power - Photography Exhibit - Nov. 2 - Dec. 17
2015-11-02 12:00 - 16:00 | Resource Center for Non Violence
Enduring Power:
The Middle Eastern and Iranian Women’s Story
— A Photography Exhibit —
November 2 – December 17, 2015
AT: Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, CA
Exhibit HOURS: M-TH noon – 4p.m. or by appointment, 831-423-1626
Sponsored by the Resource Center for Nonviolence and Senses Cultural,
Enduring Power’s striking images represent a wide range of experiences, aspirations, fears and realities of Middle Eastern and Iranian women from Yemen, Egypt, Bahrain, Iran and Kuwait. A collection of work from several female photographers of Middle Eastern backgrounds, Enduring Power shows an intimate and unique perspective of an otherwise private world to the American audience. This exhibition, curated by photographer Sina Araghi, presents powerful stories of education, individuality, familial relationships, societal restraints, and boldness.
“Peering behind the veil and headscarves to reveal real individuals is a delicate but necessary boundary to push. These photographs speak of the greater issues of identity and resilience, and the strength of women within these regions. Their sense of identity has not been erased by culture or governments.
These women are empowering themselves – against all obstacles – through their own will. A clear defiance and a sense of individuality is present. They are not weak or afraid. They are powerful and energized. They command your attention and your interest. Let their stories be heard.” — Sina Araghi, curator of Enduring Power
Senses Cultural, Davis, CA, and the Resource Center for Nonviolence are collaborating on this Senses Cultural’s traveling photography exhibition, which was previously at UC Davis, San Francisco State University. Senses Cultural believes that women – mothers, grandmothers, and daughters – have been the quiet strength that protects the rights of their families, communities, and nations.
Please join us for the First Friday EXHIBIT RECEPTION on December 4, 6-9p.m. featuring Tata Masud, Founder and CEO of Senses Cultural, Davis, CA. Light refreshments will be available.
Co-sponsors (list in formation): WILPF Santa Cruz
For more information: 831-423-1626, rcnv.org
Curator Statement by Sina Araghi
Enduring Power: The Middle Eastern and Iranian Woman’s Story is a collection of work by seven female photographers from Egypt, Kuwait, Bahrain, Yemen, and Iran, examining the lives and livelihoods of women in that region.
Apart from their exceptional photographic work, these photographers were selected in great part due to their diverse coverage of topics regarding women, spanning across many different countries throughout the Middle East.
Peering behind the veil and headscarves to reveal real individuals is a delicate but necessary boundary to push. It is so vital to the future and progress of women in these cultures to be seen succeeding, thriving, and discovering – all on their own. Whether they are generations apart or contemporaries, progress is achieved when women grow and improve on their own terms, separate from the male influence that so strongly permeates their public culture and the worldwide media. There is an almost constant push/pull between the individualized and powerful identity of the Middle Eastern woman, and the attempts by culture and government to erase that identity.
This collection of images illustrate how that sense of identity has not been erased. This collection is a celebration of the progress and growth that has happened, and a tangible foreshadowing of what is still to come.
The division of gender throughout daily life creates two very different worlds within the same culture. The photographic perspective in this exhibition is unique to women who are inside these cultures and countries. These 7 photographers are not outsiders, tourists, or just passing through, and the familiarity and camaraderie felt between ‘insiders’ is tangible in these photographs. Being a female photographer creates uniquely privileged access into the lives and experiences of the Middle Eastern woman – access into a world that men seldom are privy to. Respecting this access while still honoring the truth in moments witnessed requires grace and trust. There is fragility in that access. As an Iranian male photographer, I admire this perspective, knowing full well the limitations and privileges of my own gender.
Collectively, these photographs speak of the greater issues of identity and resilience, and the strength of women within these regions. They are empowering themselves – against all obstacles – through their own will. A clear defiance and sense of individuality is present (an especially sacred quality in a world of appearance commonality), and there is no apologizing for any of it. These women are not weak or afraid. They are resilient, powerful, and energized. They command your attention and your interest.
Let their stories be heard.
-Sina Araghi, curator
For more information: 831-423-1626, rcnv.org

Linguistic Colloquium: Ivano Caponigro
2015-10-30 14:00 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Linguistic Colloquium: Free-Choice Free Relative Clauses in Italian and Romanian

English, Italian, and Romanian (and many other languages) allow for standard free relative clauses, i.e., non-interrogative wh-clauses with the same distribution and interpretation as definite DPs or PPs (e.g. Elena goes [where Bianca goes]). The same three languages (and many others) also allow for a kind of free relative in which the wh-word has been modified by an affix (e.g., Elena goes [wher-everBianca goes]). The semantic behavior of these free relatives, though, is not the same across the three languages, despite their morpho-syntactic identity.
The semantic properties of –ever free relatives in English have received significant attention and insightful proposals have been made (cf. Jacobson 1995, Dayal 1997, von Fintel 2000, Heller and Wolter 2011, Condoravdi 2015, a.o.). In this talk, we present the first semantic investigation of the morpho-syntactic equivalent of -everfree relatives in Italian and Romanian, which we call Free Choice Free Relatives (FC-FRs). We show that semantic properties of FC-FRs differ from -ever free relatives, while closely resembling headed relative clauses introduced by the free choice determiner any in English. Interestingly, neither Italian nor Romanian has a free choice item with the same morpho-syntactic shape (i.e., non-wh determiner) and the same semantic properties as any in English. We sketch a preliminary compositional analysis of FC-FRs that aims to capture these facts, based on recent proposal for any and other free choice items by Chierchia (2013) and Dayal (2013).
We conclude by touching on the open issue of the difference in meaning between -ever free relatives in English and free choice any and the broader issue of how languages may differ in the way the available free choice items and constructions are mapped onto free choice meanings.

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

Friday Forum: Trey Highton "Surfing the Third Wave: Women's Professional Surfing & the Ethics of Instagram"
2015-10-30 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research.
This meeting will feature Trey Highton (Literature) presenting his talk “Surfing the Third Wave: Women’s Professional Surfing & the Ethics of Instagram”.
For more info, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

Living Writers: Ronaldo V. Wilson: University of California, Santa Cruz
2015-10-29 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Ronaldo V. Wilson
University of California, Santa Cruz
Ronaldo V. Wilson, Ph.D. is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize; Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books, 2009) winner of the 2010 Asian American Literary Award and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry; Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose Other (Counterpath Press, 2015); and the forthcoming Lucy 72 (1913 Press, 2015). He has held numerous fellowships including the National Research Council Ford Foundation, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Yaddo, Cave Canem, Kundiman, Djerassi, and served as an Artist-in-Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Center for Art and Thought (CA+T). Co-founder of the Black Took Collective, Wilson is currently an Associate Professor of Poetry, Fiction and Literature, and Core Faculty of the PhD Creative/Critical Concentration in the Literature Department of the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Fall 2015 Living Writers Series:
Creative Work & Critical Play
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Creative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation, they mine issues of race, sexuality, gender, and class through several genres and media, to include poetry, fiction, critical prose, performance, sonic and visual art, memoir, as well as hybrid forms.
October 8: CA Conrad: The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
October 15: Tonya Foster: California College of the Arts
October 22: John Keene: Rutgers University, Newark
October 29: Ronaldo V. Wilson: University of California, Santa Cruz
November 5: Student Reading
November 12: Al Young: California Poet Laureate, Emeritus
November 19: Juliana Spahr: Mills College & Jasper Bernes: University of California, Berkeley
December 3: Claudia Rankine: University of Southern California

Rita Lucarelli: "Ghosts and the Restless Dead in Ancient Egypt"
2015-10-29 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
EVENT PHOTOS:

Rita Lucarelli
Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley
“Ghosts and the Restless Dead
in Ancient Egypt”
Center for Ancient Studies at UC Santa Cruz

The beliefs in ghosts and spirits of the dead are widespread in world religions. In ancient Egypt, however, there is a certain inconsistency when mentioning the manifestations of the dead in magical and religious texts.
This paper will present and discuss the various evidence, which may indicate ghosts, revenants and evil dead in the spells and objects used in everyday magic as well as in mortuary compositions such as the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.
-Rita Lucarelli
Rita Lucarelli studied at the University of Naples “L’Orientale,” Italy, where she received her MA degree in Classical Languages and Egyptology. She holds her Ph.D. from Leiden University, the Netherlands (2005). Her Ph.D. thesis was published in 2006 as The Book of the Dead of Gatseshen: Ancient Egyptian Funerary Religion in the 10th Century BC.
from 2005 to 2010, Lucarelli held a part-time position as a Lecturer of Egyptology at the University of Verona, Italy. From 2009 to 2012, she worked as a Research Scholar on the Book of the Dead Project at the University of Bonn, Germany.
She was a Visiting Research Scholar at the Italian Academy of Advanced Studies of Columbia University (2009) and at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) of NYU (2012).
Until June 2014 she worked as a Research Scholar and a Lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Department of Egyptology of Bonn University, and she held a part-time position as a Lecturer of Egyptology at the University of Bari in Italy.
Rita Lucarelli is currently writing a monograph on demonology in ancient Egypt and she is one of the coordinators of the Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project: http://www.demonthings.com.

Kimberly Robertson: "Dancing with the Devil: Settler Colonialism, Gendered Violence, and Indigenous Anti-Violence Activism"
2015-10-29 16:00 - 17:45 | B206 Earth & Marine Sciences
Dr. Kimberly Robertson is a citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nation and an activist, teacher, scholar, and mother. She earned an MA in American Indian Studies and a PhD in Women’s Studies from UCLA. Dr. Robertson is an Assistant Professor at Cal State Northridge in Gender & Women’s Studies and American Indian Studies. Her academic and political interests include the relationships between violence against Native women, the construction of identity, urbanity, sovereignty, and indigenous feminisms.
The presentation will take place during the Feminism & Social Justice (FMST 20) class.
Open seating, please arrive early.
For more information and disability accommodations, please call: (831) 459-2427.

Ozploitation Film Series presents : Long Weekend (1978)
2015-10-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
An unsettling cross between Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) and an early Harold Pinter play, Colin Eggleston’s Long Weekend presents us with an extremely prickly couple on holiday who are finding it harder and harder to tolerate each other even as it becomes increasingly apparent that nature itself might be out to do them in at their idyllic beach campsite. Petty squabbling and rampant passive aggressivity momentarily distract from the couple’s casual littering and senseless slaughter of animals. As the film goes on, however, the couple’s problems with each other and nature’s problems with them start to overlap and soon develop a queasily menacing force. Not to be missed!

UCHRI Funding Information Session
2015-10-28 14:00 - 15:00 | Google Hangout
UCHRI 2016-2017 Calls for Funding Information Session
Have questions about UCHRI’s 2016-17 calls for funding? Join our information session and ask UCHRI’s Director and Assistant Director any questions you may have. Open to UC faculty, staff, and graduate students.
To ask a question, please click on the Google Hangout link below and click on the chat icon to type in the Google Hangout chat window.
http://bit.ly/oct28infosession

For the UCHRI funding overview and calendar, please visit:
http://uchri.org/uchri/funding-overview-and-calendar
For tech support during the Google Hangout, please visit:
http://uchri.org/funding-information-sessions

Juliana Spahr: "The Politics of Poetry Production > The Politics of Poetic Form"
2015-10-28 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 part of a larger project about contemporary US literature that asks a very old question about the relation between literature and politics. Professor Spahr suggests that turn of the century US literature is somewhat analogous to the earth’s ailing ecosystem, at risk because of multiple forces– economic changes, government interference, liberal foundations, and higher education–that bolster each other in ways that are expansive and self-reinforcing, like a Fibonacci sequence.
Spahr is Professor of English at Mills College.
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.
Fall 2015 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series

November 4, 2015
Jasmine Syedullah
“‘Not Contraband, but Soldier’: Against the Domestic Violence of National Security”

November 18, 2015
Catherine Sue Ramírez
“’Our Porto Ricans’: Puerto Rican Students at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1898-1923″

Melissa Gregg: "8 Hours for What We Will"
2015-10-27 17:00 - 18:30 | Humanities 1, Room 402
Discussion on time management in the workplace and the role of technology in facilitating dominant ideas of productivity.
RSVP required. Please email Caroline Kao cakao@ucsc.edu.
In preparation, please read 2 chapters of any time management self help book and make a note of those things that are classified as leisure activities by the author.
Some of Melissa Gregg’s favorite books are:
Leave the Office Earlier: The Productivity Pro Shows You How to Do More in Less Time…and Feel Great About It
Getting Things Done: The ABCs of Time Management
Melissa Gregg Bio:
I am a Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation researching the future of work. My role is to translate strategic insights on the nature of enterprise and employment to business outcomes and opportunities.
My recent research tracks the rise of the personal enterprise – a world in which individuals take responsibility for their life’s work with the assistance of freely available technical infrastructure. ‘Ad hoc professionals’ negotiate a changing landscape of work suppliers to sell their services and make a living outside of traditional employment relationships. This type of career poses a challenge to tech business models that differentiate between enterprise and consumer sales. There is a third category emerging between the two thanks to consumer-led enterprise innovation. My aim is to help workers empower themselves and flourish in this context.
As an Australian-born researcher, I have an international profile in gender and cultural studies, work and organization studies and affect theory. My forthcoming book, Counterproductive, is a history of time management self-help in the workplace. It shows how productivity tools came to prominence as employment shifts contributed to a decline in collective opportunities for structured time and ritual. This adds historical depth to my earlier analyses of contemporary work life which include Work’s Intimacy (Polity 2011), The Affect Theory Reader (co-edited with Gregory J. Seigworth, Duke 2010), and Cultural Studies’ Affective Voices(Palgrave 2006).
Before joining Intel, I was on faculty in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney (2009-13) following a series of research fellowships at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland (2004-8).
http://www.homecookedtheory.com/about-me/

Melissa Gregg: "From Productivity to Personal Logistics: A Brief History of Time Management from Shop Floor to Departure Gate"
2015-10-26 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
EVENT PHOTOS:

This talk offers a reading of time management in the workplace and the role of technology in facilitating dominant ideas of productivity. It begins by revisiting classic moments in management theory – Taylor, Gilbreth, Mayo, Drucker, and more – and develops a framework for understanding contemporary productivity tools in light of these precursors. Rather than simply a metric for efficiency, today productivity is a lifestyle practiced by elite, autonomous workers who manage themselves in transient, adhoc workplaces. Technology is the trusted and reliable companion across multiple domains, contexts and experiences.
Also join us for a discussion with Melissa Greg on Tuesday October 27th at 5pm http://ihr.ucsc.edu/event/melissa-gregg-8-hours-for-what-we-will/
Melissa Gregg Bio:
I am a Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation researching the future of work. My role is to translate strategic insights on the nature of enterprise and employment to business outcomes and opportunities.
My recent research tracks the rise of the personal enterprise – a world in which individuals take responsibility for their life’s work with the assistance of freely available technical infrastructure. ‘Ad hoc professionals’ negotiate a changing landscape of work suppliers to sell their services and make a living outside of traditional employment relationships. This type of career poses a challenge to tech business models that differentiate between enterprise and consumer sales. There is a third category emerging between the two thanks to consumer-led enterprise innovation. My aim is to help workers empower themselves and flourish in this context.
As an Australian-born researcher, I have an international profile in gender and cultural studies, work and organization studies and affect theory. My forthcoming book, Counterproductive, is a history of time management self-help in the workplace. It shows how productivity tools came to prominence as employment shifts contributed to a decline in collective opportunities for structured time and ritual. This adds historical depth to my earlier analyses of contemporary work life which include Work’s Intimacy (Polity 2011), The Affect Theory Reader (co-edited with Gregory J. Seigworth, Duke 2010), and Cultural Studies’ Affective Voices(Palgrave 2006).
Before joining Intel, I was on faculty in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney (2009-13) following a series of research fellowships at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland (2004-8).
http://www.homecookedtheory.com/about-me/

50th Anniversary: First Annual UCSC Downtown Fair
2015-10-25 10:30 - 14:00 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
As part of the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the founding of the University of California, Santa Cruz, the City of Santa Cruz will host the first annual UCSC Downtown Fair on Sunday, October 25, 2015 following the 50th celebration parade being co-organized by the city and University Relations. The fair will be located at Cooper Street and Abbott Square (next to the Museum of Art and History), and activities will run from approximately 10:30am to 2pm.
For five decades, students, faculty, staff and researchers at UCSC have been seeking answers to life’s most difficult questions. Today the community is asking:
How do you make a banana slug float?
It could involve a decorated car—or perhaps a glass of root beer? An inflatable raft?
You decide… and then ENTER YOURSELF (https://fs16.formsite.com/Downtown/Slug/index.html) in the “first-time-on-the-planet” Banana Slug Parade in Downtown Santa Cruz on Sunday, October 25 at 11 am. The parade is part of our community’s celebration of the 50th Anniversary of UCSC.
Think about it: a parade in this innovative and creative community built on the theme of Banana Slugs. It’s going to be awesome and hilarious and something you need to be a part of.
Get your organization, your friends, your yoga club, your astronomy class or your ukulele team to come up with an amazing parade entry (think floats, marching bands, dance groups, costumed kids, costumed old hippies, giant paper mache banana slugs, or ?).
Invite your SLUGGIEST friends to this event page!
SIGN UP HERE
There will be awards and prizes for the top entries. We ask that all entries have a thematic connection with UCSC or Banana Slugs.
For more details and for updates on the Expo that follows the parade, please visit DowntownSantaCruz.com
This parade and expo celebrating UCSC’s 50th Anniversary on October 25th is being organized by the City of Santa Cruz and the Downtown Association.
More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/445296702306085/
https://events.ucsc.edu/event/3124

Friday Forum: AK Morais "Blundering Empire: The Smithsonian African Expedition of 1919-1920"
2015-10-23 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research.
This meeting will feature AK Morais (History of Consciousness) presenting his talk “Blundering Empire: The Smithsonian African Expedition of 1919-1920”.
For more info, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

Living Writers: John Keene: Rutgers University, Newark
2015-10-22 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
John Keene
Rutgers University, Newark
John Keene is the author of the novel Annotations (New Directions); the text-art collection Seismosis (1913 Press) with artist Christopher Stackhouse; and the short fiction collection Counternarratives (New Directions). He also translated Brazilian author Hilda Hilst’s novel Letters from a Seducer (Nightboat/A Bolha Editora). He has published his work in a wide array of periodicals and anthologies, and has exhibited his artwork in Brooklyn and Berlin. He teaches in the departments of English and African American and African Studies, which he chairs, and also is a core faculty member in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Newark.

Fall 2015 Living Writers Series:
Creative Work & Critical Play
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Creative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation, they mine issues of race, sexuality, gender, and class through several genres and media, to include poetry, fiction, critical prose, performance, sonic and visual art, memoir, as well as hybrid forms.
October 8: CA Conrad: The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
October 15: Tonya Foster: California College of the Arts
October 22: John Keene: Rutgers University, Newark
October 29: Ronaldo V. Wilson: University of California, Santa Cruz
November 5: Student Reading
November 12: Al Young: California Poet Laureate, Emeritus
November 19: Juliana Spahr: Mills College & Jasper Bernes: University of California, Berkeley
December 3: Claudia Rankine: University of Southern California

Ozploitation Film Series Presents: Wyrmwood
2015-10-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
We need to find a zombie fast.
The visually striking feature-film debut of director Kiah Roache-Turner, who made it on weekends with friends and actors over a number of years, Wyrmwood approaches the ubiquitous zombie apocalypse (familiar to us from so many works of popular culture over the past decade or so) in an unusually inventive and frenetic do-it-yourself spirit. A passing meteor (our star of Wormwood from the Book of Revelation here) seems to be the instigating force in the transformation of much of the world’s population into zombies, though a few humans manage to hold off against zombification and try to make their way across the Outback to save one of their family members. A mad scientist, telepathically controlled zombie hordes, and a novel solution to the world energy crisis all help make this stand out from recent zombie films/television shows. Not to be missed!

For the remainder of the quarter, we will be showing exploitation films from Australia each week on Wednesdays. Same time starting at 7 pm in Stevenson Room 150. All are welcome! Tell your family and invite your friends.
Week 1 – Wolf Creek (2005; dir. Greg McLean)
Week 2 – Wake in Fright (1971; dir. Ted Kotcheff)
Week 3 – Razorback (1984; dir. Russell Mulcahy)
Week 4 – Wyrmwood (2014; dir. Kiah Roache-Turner)
Week 5 – Long Weekend (1978; dir. Colin Eggleston)
Week 6 – Patrick (1978; dir. Richard Franklin)
Week 7 – Next of Kin (1982; dir. Tony Williams)
Week 8 – The Loved Ones (2009; dir. Sean Byrne)
Week 9 – Stone (1974; dir. Sandy Harbutt)
Week 10 – Dead End Drive-In (1986; dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith)

Tyrus Miller: "The Non-Contemporaneity of György Lukács: Cold War Contradictions and the Aesthetics of Visual Arts"
2015-10-21 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Tyrus Miller has recently published Modernism and the Frankfurt School, and his forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis will appear in 2015. He is the translator/editor of György Lukács’s, The Culture of People’s Democracy: Hungarian Essays on Literature, Art, and Democratic Transition and series co-editor (with Erik Bachman) of Brill’s Lukács Library Series. Current work includes a study of 20th-century architectural and urbanistic utopias and a translation-in-progress of György Lukács’s Heidelberg writings on aesthetics and the philosophy of art.
Miller is the Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz.
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.
Fall 2015 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series

October 28, 2015
Juliana Spahr
The Politics of Poetry Production>The Politics of Poetic Form

November 4, 2015
Jasmine Syedullah
“‘Not Contraband, but Soldier’: Against the Domestic Violence of National Security”

November 18, 2015
Catherine Sue Ramírez
“’Our Porto Ricans’: Puerto Rican Students at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1898-1923″

Quantifying Creativity: Art through the Eyes of Computation
2015-10-19 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Co-sponsored by the Data Science Initiative

Is the experience of art uniquely human? Can algorithms be artistic producers? Or, do machines remove the context and meaning from creativity? As artificial agents generate media and evaluate originality, how will we draw the line between human and machine aesthetics? How will the relationship between art, and humanity, be redefined?
Presentations by Dr. Ahmed Elgammal (Assistant Professor) and Babak Saleh (PhD Student), Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, and Chris Smith, Co-founder at BitMesh, will be followed by an interdisciplinary panel. David Cope (UCSC, Music), Arnav Jhala (UCSC, Computational Media), Samantha Matherne (UCSC, Philosophy), and Albert Narath (UCSC, History of Art and Visual Culture) will respond to the presentations and debate the value of using algorithms to assess and understand creativity.

Wine and Cheese will be served. Seats are limited: ONLINE REGISTRATION REQUIRED.

For more details click here!

Linguistic Colloquium: Heidi Harley
2015-10-16 14:00 - 15:00 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Heidi Harley, University of Arizona
“Suppressing Subject Arguments in Hiaki”
The Hiaki passive suffix -wa appears in a very normal-looking personal passive, and also in an odd impersonal passive—odd in that it is productive with unaccusative as well as unergative intransitive predicates, provided they have a [+human] argument. It appears that -wa can even make a personal passive out of a raising predicate, suppressing the embedded subject and promoting the embedded object.
I will lay out the empirical picture for you, mainly focussing on investigating whether the apparent impersonal construction might have a null impersonal subject argument, and arguing that it does not. Then I will illustrate where my thinking is going about how -wa operates, aiming for a unified treatment of -wa across the personal and impersonal constructions using half of Lechner 2012’s reflexivization operation. Then I will ask for lots and lots of input.

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

Friday Forum: Matthew Edwards "TBA"
2015-10-16 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research.
This meeting will feature Matthew Edwards (History of Consciousness).
For more info, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

Comparative Empires: Feminist Meditations
2015-10-16 10:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Histories of empire have been tethered over-determinedly to singular histories of nation-states, temporalities and/or geopolitics. Rather than locate empire as a stable or temporal concept, the colloquium attends to the imaginative possibilities offered by a turn to a more comparative relationship to empire within a south-south framework. To do so, we turn to two clusters of critical attachments that are rarely configured through and against the language(s) of empire (1) How do we understand empire delinked from locality, and locality delinked from geopolitical territory? (2) How do we attend to a politics of comparative empires that would be less about given political identities and geographies and more about vernacular epistemologies shaping, social and human collectivities? To attend to these issues, the colloquium foregrounds south-south engagement and brings together work on empire from South Asia, African diaspora studies and aboriginal/indigenous histories.

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Program
10:00 AM – Introductory Remarks
Anjali Arondekar, Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz
10:10 AM – “Silent Incantations “
Ronaldo Wilson, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
10:30 AM – “A Minor History of Empire: Indenture, Abolition, and the Post-bellum Polity”
Mrinalini Sinha, History, University of Michigan
12:00 PM – Lunch
1:30 PM – “Engaging Geontopower, Films by the Karrabing Film Collective”
Elizabeth Povinelli, Anthropology, Columbia University
Respondent: Mayanthi Fernando, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
3:00 PM – Tea Break
3:30 PM – “An Ethereal Girl in an Imperial World: Inside U.S. Empire with Grace Halsell”
Robin D.G. Kelley, History, UCLA
Respondent: Gina Dent, Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz
The colloquium is sponsored by the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, with generous contributions from the Departments of History, Sociology, Literature, History of Consciousness, and Anthropology.
For questions or for disability related accommodations, please contact ihr@ucsc.edu, or 831.459.5655.

Living Writers: Tonya Foster: California College of the Arts
2015-10-15 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Tonya Foster
California College of the Arts
Tonya M. Foster is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court and coeditor of Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art. Her writing and research focus on ideas of place and emplacement, and on intersections between the visual and the written. Her poetry, prose, and essays have appeared in Callaloo, Tripwire, boundary2, MiPOESIAS, NY Arts Magazine, NYFA Arts Quarterly, the Poetry Project Newsletter, and elsewhere. A graduate of The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Tulane University, and the University of Houston, she is completing a dissertation in the PhD Program in English at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is an Assistant Professor of Writing & Literature at California College of the Arts.

Fall 2015 Living Writers Series:
Creative Work & Critical Play
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Creative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation, they mine issues of race, sexuality, gender, and class through several genres and media, to include poetry, fiction, critical prose, performance, sonic and visual art, memoir, as well as hybrid forms.
October 8: CA Conrad: The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
October 15: Tonya Foster: California College of the Arts
October 22: John Keene: Rutgers University, Newark
October 29: Ronaldo V. Wilson: University of California, Santa Cruz
November 5: Student Reading
November 12: Al Young: California Poet Laureate, Emeritus
November 19: Juliana Spahr: Mills College & Jasper Bernes: University of California, Berkeley
December 3: Claudia Rankine: University of Southern California

Linguistic Colloquium: Sabine Iatridou
2015-10-15 14:00 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Linguistic Colloquium:
The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.
Fall 2015
October 9th: Keith Johnson, UC Berkeley
October 16th: Heidi Harley, University of Arizona
October 30th: Ivano Caponigro, UC San Diego
November 20th: Elliott Moreton, University of North Carolina
Winter 2016
January 15th: Sharon Inkelas, UC Berkeley
February 5th: Colin Phillips, University of Maryland
February 6th: N. Goodman, Stanford University and A. Kehler, UC San Diego
March 5th: Linguistics Conference at Santa Cruz Conference
Spring 2016
April 15th: Sabine Iatridou, MIT
April 29th: Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University
May 6, 7, 8: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9
May 20th: Kyle Johnson, University of Massachusetts
May 27th/June 3rd (TBA): Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference

Ozploitation Film Series Presents: Razorback
2015-10-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
There’s something about blasting the shit out of a razorback that brightens up my whole day.
As one would expect from a film about a car-sized boar rampaging through the outback with a bloodlust for humans, Razorback is equal parts style, surface, and absurdity. Accordingly, plot summaries fail to do justice to the sheer bloody loveliness of the highly artificial lighting (in particular, the dead of night in the outback has never looked so neon blue) and gratuitous camera movements that appear to be straight out of an early Duran Duran music video, which is as apt given that this is indeed the narrative feature-length film debut of Russell Mulcahy, the director of the bulk of said early Duran Duran music videos. Come for the killer boar, stay for the cinematography. Not to be missed!
For the remainder of the quarter, we will be showing exploitation films from Australia each week. Same time, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family, invite your friends.

Food for Thought: Marcia Ochoa on Colonialism impact on current views of gender and sexuality
2015-10-14 17:30 - 19:00 | Namaste Lounge – College 9, Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Cannibalism, Sodomy, and the Failings of Modernity
Marcia Ochoa, Feminist Studies Department
Professor Marcia Ochao’s research areas include transgender studies, gender and sexuality, colonial historiography, and many more. In this talk she will show how European colonizers focused on non-Western practices of spirituality (which they called idolatry), relation to the body, (cannibalism), and gender systems (sodomy) as key forms of difference that legitimized their project of colonizing the Americas. Professor Ochoa will discuss how colonization and specific historic events have shaped gender and sexuality ever since, and continue to reproduce violence in the lives of gender-variant people. What will it take to create a society that does not reproduce this kind of violence?
Food for Thought is an opportunity for students to connect with faculty in an informal and interactive setting. Join us each quarter for a presentation from a renowned UCSC faculty member. Hear about the speaker’s research and professional experience, learn more about an aspect of their work, and enjoy an opportunity to interact and ask questions. And, get to know another side of the faculty speaker through food – light refreshments provided will represent some favorite food or cuisine of our invited guest and/or reflect the evening’s topic.
For more information or accessibility needs, please contact coco@ucsc.edu.

Ronnie Lipschutz: "Utopia or Catastrophe"
2015-10-14 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 connected to Professor Lipschutz’s work on politics and popular culture, of which his most recent publication was Political Economy, Capitalism and Popular Culture. Lipschutz is Professor and Chair of Politics and Provost of College Eight at UC Santa Cruz.
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.

Fall 2015 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series

October 21, 2015
Tyrus Miller
“The Non-Contemporaneity of György Lukács: Cold War Contradictions and the Aesthetics of Visual Arts”

October 28, 2015
Juliana Spahr
The Politics of Poetry Production>The Politics of Poetic Form

November 4, 2015
Jasmine Syedullah
“‘Not Contraband, but Soldier’: Against the Domestic Violence of National Security”

November 18, 2015
Catherine Sue Ramírez
“’Our Porto Ricans’: Puerto Rican Students at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1898-1923″

DataLex: Privacy, Big Data, & the Law
2015-10-13 08:30 - 18:30 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Today, across nearly every societal sector, from corrections to education to health care, large-scale data analysis is a widely adopted tool. Our most personal behaviors and traits are regularly quantified by a rapidly growing array of sensors and devices around us. These devices are connected to intelligent systems that can render critical predictions about our conduct and choices—what we will buy, our health, when we will leave our jobs, whether we pay our bills, even whether we will commit crimes.
While data analytics promise to unlock extraordinary advances in productivity and research, fascinating legal and ethical issues arise as Big Data is deployed in new contexts:

How does privacy law constrain the ability of data controllers to use or apply predictive judgments about us?
Are the algorithms that increasingly measure and curate our lives fair, or can they encode discriminatory biases?
In some contexts, such as genomic research, are privacy risks to individuals outweighed by the potentially life-saving benefits to society of research that requires large-scale processing of personal information?
What is the role of information governance and regulation in facilitating and sculpting the uses of Big Data?

To interrogate these issues, DataLex is bringing together data scientists, policymakers, legal scholars, and privacy advocates to collectively consider these important issues using technical, social and ethical lenses simultaneously.
To register for this event, or for further information, including registration, please visit http://lex.ucsc.edu/resources/datalex_registration.html

Amitav Ghosh: "Flood of Fire: India and the First Opium War"
2015-10-12 12:00 - 13:30 | Kresge Town Hall
UC Santa Cruz Center For Emerging Worlds presents in collaboration with Kresge College and the UCSC Living Writers Series
“Flood of Fire: India and the First Opium War”
A talk and reading by Dr. Amitav Ghosh from his new book, Flood of Fire
Monday | October 12, 2015
Kresge Town Hall
12:00-1:30 PM
Free and open to the public
For more information, contact lrofel@ucsc.edu or sjetha@ucsc.edu

Keith Johnson: "Adventures in Phonetic Neuroscience"
2015-10-09 14:00 - 16:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Abstract: In studying linguistic knowledge and the cognitive processing that uses this knowledge, linguists and psycholinguists have looked for ways to find out what is cognitively “real” that underlies the patterns found in language and linguistic behavior. We are generally faced with the problem of being on the outside looking in. Each method of acquiring data from people as they speak and listen (elicitation of forms, recording of corpora, recording behavioral responses in experiments) contributes to a more sophisticated understanding of linguistic knowledge and processing.
In this talk I will present some results from recent investigations in phonetic neuroscience. The data come from recordings from a dense grid of electrodes placed directly on the surface of the brain in patients who were undergoing surgery for epilepsy. These neural imaging data have fine resolution in both time and frequency and have low enough noise that a relatively few trials is needed in order to find rich phonetic information. In the first of the three studies that I will describe, we found that during speaking the motor cortex shows patterns of activity that group sounds by articulator – labials are similar to other labials, dorsals are similar to other dorsals, etc (Bouchard et al., 2013, Nature 495, 327-332). In the second study, we found that during listening the superior temporal gyrus shows patterns of activity that group sounds by manner of articulation – stops are similar to stops, fricatives to fricatives, etc. (Mesgarani et al., 2014, Science 1006-1010). The third study examines a pattern of activity in the motor areas of the cortex that appears during listening. This pattern has been noted by prior researchers who have speculated that motor activity during speech perception suggests the activity of mirror neurons and perhaps that the motor theory of speech perception is supported. Our data complicate this interpretation because we are able to decode the phonetic information in the motor area during perception and what we find is surprising. The pattern of activity is like the pattern found by Mesgarani et al. in STG – sounds are grouped with each other by manner of articulation, not by articulator. I’ll discuss the implications of this finding, and the broader implications of neuroscience for linguistics.

Keith Johnson is a linguist and a phonetician at the University of California, Berkeley. He also serves as the Director of the UC Berkeley Phonology Lab.

UCHRI Funding Workshop
2015-10-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
UCHRI’s Assistant Director Kelly Brown will provide an overview of UCHRI’s funding opportunities for the 2016-17 year, with special attention to the four new calls for funding (digital humanities grant, supplemental graduate student funding grant, graduate dissertation support grant, and the junior faculty manuscript review grant). Kelly will be available to meet individually with faculty who would like to talk through potential projects. Please sign up for 1:1 meetings with IHR in advance of the workshop.

Friday Forum: Candy Martinez "In Search of Decolonizing Representations: Learning from indigenous visual media in Oaxaca, Mexico"
2015-10-09 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research.
This meeting will feature Candy Martinez (LALS) presenting her talk “In Search of Decolonizing Representations: Learning from indigenous visual media in Oaxaca, Mexico”.
For more info, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

PhD+ : Humanists@Work*
2015-10-09 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Our panelists will discuss their current positions, what factored into their decisions, how they found – and got – their jobs. We will also discuss converting CVs into Resumes, hybrid positions, and the wild-west of Digital Humanities.
Panelists:
Kelly Anne Brown, Assistant Director, UC Humanities Research Institute (PhD, Literature, UC Santa Cruz)
Rachel Deblinger, Digital Humanities Specialists and CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Santa Cruz (PhD, History, UC Los Angeles)
Marcy McCullaugh, Global Issues and Public Policy Advisor, Chevron Corporation (PhD, Political Science, UC Berkeley)
Please RSVP by emailing us at ihr@ucsc.edu no later than Wednesday, October 7 so we can make sure we have enough food.
*Humanists@Work is a project of UCHRI. You can find more information about it here: http://humwork.uchri.org

PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the launch of PhD+, our new series! We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for humanities PhDs, online identity issues, internship possibilities, work/life balance, elements of style, grants/fellowships and much, more more.
November 6, 2015: Internship Info Session
December 4, 2015: Coding for Humanists
January 8, 2016: Research Tools and Methods
February 5, 2016: Online Identity
March 4, 2016: Work-Life Balance
April 8, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities
May 13, 2016: Research and Grants
June 3, 2016: End of Year Luncheon

Living Writers: CA Conrad: The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage
2015-10-08 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
CA Conrad
The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage
CA Conrad’s childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He is the author of seven books, the latest is titled ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness (Wave Books, 2014). He is a 2015 Headlands Art Fellow, and has also received fellowships from Lannan Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Banff, Ucross, RADAR, and the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. He conducts workshops on (Soma)tic Poetry and Ecopoetics. Visit him online at http://CAConrad.blogspot.com

Fall 2015 Living Writers Series:
Creative Work & Critical Play
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Creative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation, they mine issues of race, sexuality, gender, and class through several genres and media, to include poetry, fiction, critical prose, performance, sonic and visual art, memoir, as well as hybrid forms.
October 8: CA Conrad: The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
October 15: Tonya Foster: California College of the Arts
October 22: John Keene: Rutgers University, Newark
October 29: Ronaldo V. Wilson: University of California, Santa Cruz
November 5: Student Reading
November 12: Al Young: California Poet Laureate, Emeritus
November 19: Juliana Spahr: Mills College & Jasper Bernes: University of California, Berkeley
December 3: Claudia Rankine: University of Southern California

Tyler Stovall: "White Freedom: Race & Liberty in the Modern Era"
2015-10-07 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Tyler Stovall is currently working on two research projects. One concerns the history of migration from the French Caribbean to France during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The other explores the relationship between freedom and race, arguing that modern concepts of liberty are often racialized.
Stovall is the Dean of Humanities and Distinguished Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz.
Fall 2015 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series:

October 14 – Ronnie Lipschutz: “Utopia or Catastrophe”
October 21 – Tyrus Miller: “The Non-Contemporaneity of György Lukács: Cold War Contradictions & the Aesthetics of Visual Arts”
October 28 – Juliana Spahr: “The Politics of Poetry Production>The Politics of Poetic Form”
November 4 – Jasmine Syedullah: “‘Not Contraband, but Soldier:’ Against the Domestic Violence of National Security”
November 18 – Catherine Sue Ramírez: “‘Our Porto Ricans’: Puerto Rican Students at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1898-1923”

Digital Pedagogy: New Possibilities for Teaching with Canvas
2015-10-06 16:00 - 18:00 | McHenry Library, Room 1350
Co-sponsored by FITC and Academic Affairs
UCSC is piloting the Canvas learning management system in the 2015-2016 academic year. Learn more about how Canvas can help manage your course materials and facilitate interactive online student engagement. A brief presentation will be followed by a series of demonstrations and opportunities to experiment with Canvas. Learn how to:
• Populate a course in Canvas
• Integrate media and apply captioning
• Use Gradebook and Speedgrader
• Integrate audience participation
• Encourage dynamic discussions
• Facilitate collaborative assignments
Join us in this demonstration and discussion. You’ll also be able to request participation in the pilot for your course.
More details: https://digitalhumanities.sites.ucsc.edu/2015/09/10/10615-digital-pedagogy/

An Uncommon Place: Shaping the UC Santa Cruz Campus
2015-10-04 11:00 - 16:00 | Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Cowell College, Cowell College‎ 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
As part of UCSC’s 50th Anniversary celebration
An Uncommon Place: Shaping the UC Santa Cruz Campus
Exhibition Dates: Friday, September 18, 2015 – Sunday, October 25, 2015

Public reception at the Smith Gallery at Cowell College:
Friday, September 18, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Curated by Emeriti Professors James Clifford, Michael Cowan, Virginia Jansen, and Emeritus Campus Architect Frank Zwart.
All events are FREE
The exhibition, originally presented last spring at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery at Porter College, traces the decisive moments in the early creation of UC Santa Cruz’s built environment.
Everyone agrees that the UC Santa Cruz campus is breathtaking. How was it created? An Uncommon Place traces decisive moments in the site’s early development. Here an innovative educational project engaged with a beautiful and challenging environment. The university took shape among steep ravines and dramatic trees in a way that respected as it transformed the landscape. Using architectural plans, photographs, and oral histories, the exhibition illustrates paths taken and not taken-decisions, constraints, and hopes. It celebrates the achievement of UCSC’s founding planners while analyzing the tensions and contradictions that were built into their project. Through its many subsequent transformations, the UC Santa Cruz campus remains an extraordinary work of environmental art.
Remembering these formative years can perhaps help us renew a powerful utopian experiment. At UC Santa Cruz, architecture and environment still conspire to create an uncommon place, a setting for teaching, research and imagination outside the bounds of the ordinary.
Sponsored by UCSC Alumni Association; Divisions of the Arts, Humanities, Physical and Biological Sciences, Social Sciences; Colleges: Cowell, Eight, Kresge, Oakes, Porter, and Stevenson; McHenry Library Special Collections & Archives; and University Relations.

Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Sunday, 11:00am to 4:00pm (Exhibition Dates: September 18 – October 25)
The gallery is wheelchair accessible and admission is free. Group tours are available by appointment (831) 459-3606. Please visit our website http://art.ucsc.edu/galleries/uncommon-place

Friday Forum: Joe Lehnert: “Managing Bodies-in-Motion: Algorithmic Surveillance and Predictive Policing.”
2015-10-02 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Join us Friday, October 2, at 12:00 PM in Humanities 1, Room 202, for the first Friday Forum for Graduate Research​ of 2015-16​!
The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30 PM and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research.
The first meeting of the year will feature Joe Lehnert (Politics) presenting his published research in a talk entitled “Managing Bodies-in-Motion: Algorithmic Surveillance and Predictive Policing.”
Abstract:
Surveillance is a ubiquitous feature of contemporary social life. The advent of algorithmic analysis and surveillance augurs a world in which bodies-in-motion are managed through the dictates of data-based governance. Algorithmic surveillance creates new categories into which non-normative bodies can be grouped and (re)shapes subjectivity by manipulating behaviors/actions rendered as normative. I explore the algorithmic (re)creation of bodies-in-motion through the example of “predictive policing,” which seeks to collect and analyze data in order to identity proclivities toward crime and deviance, producing archetypal bodies that “fit” into resultant categorical constructions. Predictive policing constitutes an example of the position algorithm surveillance occupies in the larger cultural imaginary- that danger “out there” emanates from particular categories of individuals, and that they must be known, policed and, if possible, eliminated. I conclude with reflections and questions surrounding algorithmic surveillance, and its larger social implications.
For more info, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

Founders Celebration Dinner
2015-09-26 18:00 | East Field, UC Santa Cruz
A spectacular evening under the stars in celebration of trailblazers, radicals, and legends.

September 26, 2015, 6 p.m., East Field, UC Santa Cruz
Tickets: $175 per person
Join us for a once-in-a-lifetime evening and be part of the crowning event of UC Santa Cruz’s 50th celebratory year.
This year’s Founders Celebration dinner will be unlike anything we have done before. Served in a pavilion overlooking the Monterey Bay, Kathryn Sullivan (Stevenson ‘73), the first American woman to walk in space, will be our master of ceremonies as we honor chef and food activist Alice Waters with the Foundation Medal and our pioneer staff and faculty with the Fiat Lux Award. The evening promises to be an electrifying night under the stars.

More Info: Save the Date | UCSC Founders Celebration

SAVE THE DATE: Founders Celebration Events
2015-09-25 - 2015-09-27 | UC Santa Cruz
Join us for our most spectacular Founders Celebration event yet, during our fall signature weekend of 50th festivities, Sept. 25-27. The Founder’s event will be a deliciously interesting evening with Foundation Medal awardee Alice Waters—chef, activist, author, and owner of famed Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse. The full weekend of programming will include other events celebrating our history and looking to our next 50 years.
Founders Celebration Events September 25 – 27

DEADLINE: School Programs Internship at MAH
2015-09-18 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
School Programs Internship
Dates: Weekday mornings, must commit to a full academic school year (October-June)
Hours per week: 6 hours per week
(this includes: 2 hour meetings once a month and a minimum of 4 tours per month)
Deadline to Apply: Accepting applications on an ongoing basis; final deadline Sept. 18th.
Description: As a School Programs Intern, you will lead interactive field trips (grades 3-12) and help brainstorm new activities for future tours based on our exhibitions. You’ll empower youth with immersive explorations throughout our entire museum, integrating both art and history to help them build a stronger, more connected Santa Cruz. This is an unpaid volunteer position and we are seeking enthusiastic individuals who are comfortable with public speaking, have some experience with kids and are excited about local art & history.
We will begin offering Bilingual Tours in Fall 2016 and are seeking bilingual applicants.
Send cover letter and resume to School Programs Coordinator, Jamie Keil at: jamie@santacruzmah.org
For more information call 831.429.1964 ext 7020

DEADLINE: C3 Creative Community Committee Internship
2015-09-17 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
Call for Internship
Dates: 1-2 days per week, days and hours are flexible Monday – Friday * please see specific mandatory meeting dates
Hours per week: Approximately 1-5 hours per week
Deadline to Apply: September 17th
Description: This position assists in our Creative Community Committee (C3), a leadership network of 45 creative, diverse representatives building a stronger, more connected Santa Cruz County. Interns will assist in planning icebreaker activities, preparing materials and actively attend all C3 meetings. Interns will assist in engagement research, data compiling and data entry after each meeting. This intern will also assist with large festival events. Interns will gain experience in: arts education, community organizing, museum programs and community engagement. Click here for the full description: C3 Intern Description 2015 2016
How to Apply: Please send a cover letter and resume via email to Stacey Marie Garcia stacey@santacruzmah.org.
Please title the email ‘Community Engagement Intern Application’ and clearly state your availability in the body of the email.

Weekend with Shakespeare: Santa Cruz Shakespeare
2015-08-14 - 2015-08-15 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This two-day event features leading Shakespeare scholars and theater artists who share their insights into this season’s plays through lectures, demonstrations, and discussions. Weekend with Shakespeare offers two options for purchase: a lecture-only package, which allows you to purchase and see the plays on your own schedule; or as a package that includes Premium seating at all three productions over the conference weekend and participation in a post-show discussion with the actors all at a discounted price. Schedule and participants will be announced soon.

Lecture only tickets can be purchased by calling the Ticket Office at 831.459.2159 or online at santacruztickets.com.
Packages must be purchased by phone or in person at the Ticket Office to ensure the exclusive reserved seating.

Lecture only: $49.50 members / $55.50 non-members*
Lecture + three play package: $156.50 members / $171.50 non-members*
Space is limited for this symposium, so purchase your tickets today!
* Weekend with Shakespeare lecture and tickets prices include Ticket Office handling fees.

Weekend with Shakespeare Schedule
Friday August 14
1:00-2:30
Welcome and First Panel: Shakespeare after 1600, a discussion moderated by Sean Keilen
2:30-3:00
Break
3:00-4:30
Second Panel: The Liar and The Rover featuring Art Manke, Ariane Helou and Katherine Burris
4:30-7:30
Break and Dinner – available for purchase at Hoffman’s Tavern on the Glen or on your own
8:00
The Liar evening performance
Saturday August 15
9:00
Breakfast (Continental breakfast provided)
9:30-10:45
Third Panel: The Liar and Much Ado About Nothing featuring Art Manke, Mike Ryan, and Robert Hornback
10:45-11:00
Break
11:00-12:15
Fourth Panel; Macbeth, featuring Frances Dolan, Mara Sherman, and Michael Warren
12:15-1:30
Lunch – available for purchase at Hoffman’s Tavern on the Glen or on your own
2:00
Much Ado About Nothing matinee
5:00
Post-Show Discussion with actors in the Glen
5:30-7:30
Break and Dinner – available for purchase at Hoffman’s Tavern on the Glen or on your own
8:00
Macbeth evening performance
End of Program
Location
All events will be held in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Building, Room 108.

Living Writers Series: Senior Projects Reading
2015-06-11 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms, and through a variety of media to include poetry, fiction, film, graphic art, dance, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines multiple genres and materials, whether textual, sonic, visual, and/or embodied to explore intersections of race, sexuality, gender, and class in their written, screened, and staged performances.
The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. For more information, please email rvwilson@ucsc.edu

Spring 2015 Living Writer Series:
April 16: Janice Lee
April 23: Terri Witek, Jai Arun Ravine
April 30: Marilyn Chin
May 7: Jared Harvey, Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez, Whitney De Vos, Nicholas James Whittington, Eric Sneathen
May 14: Dawn Lundy Martin
May 21: Eleni Sikelianos, Josef Sikelianos
May 28: Sarah Manguso, Maggie Nelson
June 4: Student Reading
June 11: Senior Projects Reading

Friday Forum with Veronika Zablotsky: "On the Question of Socialist Governmentality: Being Interested in Early Soviet Armenia”
2015-06-05 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. Light refreshments will be available.
For more info, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

Spring 2015 Schedule:
10 April — Jess Whatcott, Politics, “Abolition Feminism Against Eugenics in California Prisons”
17 April — Evan Grupsmith, History, “Revolutionary Movement: Class Based Inclusion and Exclusion in the Cultural Revolution Chuanlian Movement”
24 April — Rose Grose, Social Psychology, “A Sexual Empowerment Process for Heterosexual and Sexual Minority Women”
1 May — Kali Rubaii, Anthropology, “Writing the Future with a Cement Pen: How to Concretize Displacement”
8 May — Cristopher Chitty, History of Consciousness, “Scandals of Appetite: Machiavelli, Sodomy and the Fall of the Florentine Republic”
15 May — Keegan Cook Finberg, Literature, “Reading Poetry of the 1960s: The Fluxus Event Score as Multimedia Encounter”
22 May — Muiris Macgiollabhui, History, “Carrying The Green Bough: An Atlantic History of the United Irishmen, 1791-1830″
29 May — Ann Drevno, ENVS, “Unintended Consequences of Regulatory Spotlighting Pesticides: The Case of California’s Central Coast Agricultural Waiver program”
5 June — Veronika Zablotsky, FMST, “On the Question of Socialist Governmentality: Being Interested in Early Soviet Armenia”
This event series is made possible through the generous support from the Institute for Humanities Research and the departments of Literature, History of Consciousness, Anthropology, Feminist Studies, HAVC, Philosophy, Joe’s Pizza and Subs, Politics, Psychology and Sociology as well as the GSA and GSC.

Spring Awards & Humanities Undergraduate Research Award Presentations (HUGRA)
2015-06-04 16:30 - 18:00 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
SPRING AWARDS & HUMANITIES UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD PRESENTATIONS
This annual “Celebrating Humanities” event is an important opportunity to acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition, awards, and distinctions over the course of this past year.
The Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) support and encourage undergraduate research. In 1996, the Humanities Division began awarding students undertaking truly innovating research projects. The projects must involve research within or including any of the humanities disciplines, and the research must be performed during the current academic year. Click here to learn more about HUGRA.

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Coming Home from War: The Arts and Humanities in the Public Sphere
2015-06-02 16:00 - 18:00 | Kresge Town Hall
Join Stephan Wolfert (Founding Director, Veterans Center for the Performing Arts), Humanities and Arts Division faculty and students from UC Santa Cruz, and local veterans and their families for a discussion about the vital role that literature and the arts can play in understanding the veteran experience and the challenges and opportunities, for both veterans and civilians, of returning from war.
Panelists Include:
• Charles Hedrick (Professor, History Department)
• Dee Hibbert-Jones (Associate Professor, Art Department; Founder & Co-Director Social Practice Research Center)
• Kimberly Jannarone (Professor, Theater Arts Department; Director, The Odyssey Project)
• Sean Keilen (Associate Professor, Literature Department; Director, Shakespeare Workshop)
• Brenda Sanfilippo, (Lecturer, Literature Department and Writing Program)
• Stephan Wolfert (Founding Director, Veterans Center for the Performing Arts
In addition, be sure to join us for “Cry Havoc“! a one-person play by military veteran Stephan Wolfert, that seamlessly interweaves Shakespeare’s most famous speeches with personal experience to help us understand the national crises we face when we fail in reintegrating our veterans. One night only.
June 1, 2015 | 6pm | Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building.
Brought to you by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop and the Institute for Humanities Research.
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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Gloria E. Chacón
2015-06-02 10:00 - 11:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Sponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center’s Latino Literary Cultures Research Cluster
Event 1: Workshop: 10 am-11:30 am in Humanities 1, Room 210
“Political Movements from the South and Chicano Texts”
A conversation on indigenismo, Chicana/o theories of mestizaje, and their relationship to Central American and Zapatista political movements. All are welcome. Participants are encouraged to read in advance the pre-circulated paper by the same title, which is available by emailing ksgruesz@ucsc.edu.
Event 2: Public talk, 4-6 p.m. in Humanities 1, Room 210
“Ajchowen and the Double Gaze: Theorizing Contemporary Mayan Women’s Theater”
Professor Chacón will speak on her work with indigenous poet-performers who challenge patriarchal versions of Ajchowen, or art that expresses a Maya worldview.
Gloria E. Chacón is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego, where she teaches hemispheric indigenous studies and Latina/o studies and is currently a Hellman Faculty Fellow. Her scholarship on contemporary Maya and Zapotec writers works across the disciplines of literature, history, anthropology, and translation studies, bringing feminist and decolonial perspectives to the study of Mesoamerican cultures across national boundaries. Professor Chacón earned her PhD in Literature at the UC Santa Cruz in 2006, and went on to hold postdoctoral fellowships in Native American Studies at UC Davis, and at the Charles Young Library at UCLA. In addition to several articles on women’s poetry in Chiapas and Guatemala, she has published essays on Salvadoran folklore and on indigenista writing, and has edited a forthcoming issue of the journal Diálogo titled “The Five Points in Contemporary Indigenous Literature.” She is a past recipient of the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship, and a UC Mexus Dissertation Grant.
Event webpage: http://clrc.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/news-article-gloria-chacon-political-movements-and-ajchowen.html

"Cry Havoc"!
2015-06-01 17:30 - 19:30 | Santa Cruz Veterans Hall Auditorium
Over 23 million living veterans have been wired for war but never re-wired to come home: Cry Havoc, a one-person play by military veteran Stephan Wolfert, that seamlessly interweaves Shakespeare’s most famous speeches with personal experience to help us understand the national crises we face when we fail in re-integrating our veterans.
The military recruits citizens and wires them for war, but does not un-wire them. What does the “De-Cruit® ” process look like? Is there room for improvement in the way in which we re-integrate our veterans back into society? How do we come together to re-learn how to live? The performance is followed by an engaging talk back between actor, audience, and veterans that dares to answer these questions.
Free and open to the public! One night only.
5:30pm Reception
*LIVE music by veteran Paul Damon – Paul Damon Music
6:00pm Performance
*Actor and veteran Stephan Wolfert – Veterans Center for the Performing Arts

In addition, be sure to join actor Stephan Wolfert (Founding Director, Veterans Center for the Performing Arts), and Humanities and Arts Division faculty and students from UC Santa Cruz for “Coming Home from War: The Arts and Humanities in the Public Sphere” a panel discussion on June 2, 2015 4-6pm at Kresge Town Hall, UC Santa Cruz.
Brought to you by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop and the Institute for Humanities Research.
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
For disability accommodations please contact IHR at 831-459-5655 or ihr@ucsc.edu.
Downtown Parking near the Veterans Hall: Front Street Garage No.7 or street metered parking.
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Launch and Presentation of the Critical Sustainabilities Website
2015-06-01 12:00 - 14:00 | College 8, Room 201
From activism to ecology, alternative culture to industry, “sustainability,” it seems, is everywhere. In the face of economic and environmental crisis, and unprecedented rates of urbanization, the term has become ubiquitous in policy circles and across many social domains. Yet this ubiquity presents us with competing and often contradictory meanings and applications, and can lead to conflicts over fundamental questions such as “sustainability of what and for whom?” This in turn poses challenges for sustainability scholarship, planning, policy, and practice.
Critical Sustainabilities is a new website that aims to address these issues. It focus on iconic sustainability efforts in Northern California — many of which have popularized the concept nationally and globally — while exploring the multiple, often contested ways these efforts have made use of the term. It offers tools in the forms of “keywords” and “sites” to help grasp the histories and locations through which ideas about sustainability have been produced and become powerful. And it presents “projects” that explore these ideas through a creative and critical lens.
Please join us as we launch Critical Sustainabilities, and share a few contributions from the site:
* Miriam Greenberg (UCSC): “Sustainabilities”
* Simon Sadler (UC Davis): “Keyword: Ecological Design” and “Site: Bateson Building”
* Elsa Ramos (UCSC) “Keyword: Transit Oriented Development” and “Site: 16th and Mission BART Plaza”
* Tracy Perkins (UCSC): “Site: Gonzales” and “Project: Voices from the Valley”
* Kristin Miller (UCSC): “Keyword: Google Bus” and “Projects: Postcards from the Future”
* Rachel Brahinsky (University of San Francisco): “Teaching Critical Sustainabilities”

Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
2015-05-29 12:45 - 16:45 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Linguistics Department’s annual Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) will be held Friday, May 29th, from 12:45 – 4:45pm in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. The Distinguished Alumnus speaker will be Aaron White (2008), who is a fifth year PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland. We hope you will attend.

12:45 p.m. Refreshments
12:55 p.m. Opening remarks: Adrian Brasoveanu
Session 1
1:00 p.m. Jake Vincent: “Chamorro Head-Internal Relative Clauses”
1:30 p.m. Valery Vanegas: “A Study in Voice Quality Using Accelerometers ”
2:00 p.m. Break
Session 2
2:15 p.m. Matthew Jordan Margulis: “Aspectual Adverbials: The interaction of Aspect and One-By-One”
2:45 p.m. Chantale Yunt: “Tu comprends tu – Questions of Quebecois”
3:15 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. Distinguished Alumnus Address (introduction: Pranav Anand)
Aaron Steven White: “Learner as Lexical Semanticist”
University of Maryland
4:30 p.m. Closing remarks: Grant McGuire

Complicated Labor: Feminism, Maternity and Creative Practice Presents a Conversation with Sarah Manguso and Maggie Nelson
2015-05-29 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Conversation will be based on two readings. Contact Micah Perks at meperks@ucsc.edu to request reading selections.
Additional Event: Public reading by Sarah Manguso and Maggie Nelson in the UCSC Living Writers Series, Thursday May 28, Humanities Lecture Hall
Free and open to the public.
The Complicated Labor Research Cluster is an interdisciplinary collaboration that brings together artists and scholars around questions of feminism, maternity, and creative process. It seeks to center questions of care in our research and art whether they are explicit sites of inspiration and study or simply important to
the conditions in which we undertake expressive practices.
Sarah Manguso is the author, most recently, of Ongoingness: The End of a Diary. Her five other books include The Guardians, named one of the top ten books of the year by Salon, and The Two Kinds of Decay, named an Editors’ Choice by the New York Times Book Review and a Best Book of the Year by the Independent, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Telegraph, and Time Out Chicago. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize.
Maggie Nelson is the author of five books of nonfiction and four books of poetry. Her most recent book is The Argonauts, a work of “auto-theory” about gender, sexuality, sodomitical maternity, queer family, and the limitations and possibilities of language. Her 2011 book of art and cultural criticism, The Art of Cruelty: A
Reckoning, was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Editors’ Choice. Her other nonfiction books include the cult hit Bluets. Recent awards include a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction, a 2011 NEA Fellowship in Poetry and a 2013 Innovative Literature grant from Creative Capital.

Friday Forum with Ann Drevno: “Unintended Consequences of Regulatory Spotlighting Pesticides: The Case of California’s Central Coast Agricultural Waiver program”
2015-05-29 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202

Global Islam: A Weekend of Film and Video
2015-05-29 | Communications 150, Studio C
Friday, May 29th
4:00-5:30pm
Videos by Mounir Fatmi: Mixology (2010), Technologia (2010), and Rain Making (2004)
Discussion with:
Tarek El Haik, Assistant Professor, Cinema, San Francisco State University
Peter Limbrick, Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz.
7:00-9:00pm
Feature film: Dernier Maquis/Aden, dir. Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche (France, 2008)
Discussion with:
Mayanthi Fernando, Associate Professor, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
Peter Limbrick, Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz.
Saturday, May 30th
10:00am-12:30pm
Film screening: New Muslim Cool, dir. Jennifer Maytorena-Taylor (USA, 2009)
Screening and discussion with director Jennifer Maytorena-Taylor, Assistant Professor, Social Documentation, UC Santa Cruz
1:30-3:30pm
Videos by Monira Al-Qadiri featuring Abu Athiyya (Father of Pain) (2013), Behind the Sun (2013), Prism (2007-ongoing).
Discussion with Monira Al-Qadiri
4:00-6:00pm
Film screening: Descending with Angels, dir. Christian Suhr (Denmark, 2013)
Discussion with Christian Suhr and Mayanthi Fernando
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Film and Digital Media, the Office of Student Affairs, College 8, and Colleges 9 & 10, and the Institute for Humanities Research

Living Writers Series: Sarah Manguso, Maggie Nelson
2015-05-28 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms, and through a variety of media to include poetry, fiction, film, graphic art, dance, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines multiple genres and materials, whether textual, sonic, visual, and/or embodied to explore intersections of race, sexuality, gender, and class in their written, screened, and staged performances.
The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. For more information, please email rvwilson@ucsc.edu
Sarah Manguso
is an essayist and poet. Her new book, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, is out now. Her five other books include The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend, named one of the top ten books of 2012 by Salon, and The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir, named an Editors’ Choice by the New York Times Book Review and a Best Book of the Year by the Independent, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Telegraph, and Time Out Chicago. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize, and her books have been translated into Chinese, German, Italian, and Spanish. Her essays have appeared in Harper’s, the New York Review of Books, and the New York Times Magazine, and her poems have won a Pushcart Prize and appeared in four editions of the Best American Poetry series. She grew up near Boston and now lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the Otis College of Art and Design. She can be found online at: http://www.sarahmanguso.com/
Maggie Nelson
is a nonfiction writer, critic, scholar, and poet. Her works of nonfiction include The Argonauts, a work of “autotheory” about gender, sexuality, (queer) family, and the limitations and possibilities of language; The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (2011), which was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Editors’ Choice; the cult hit Bluets (2009); a critical study of poetry and painting titled Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (2007); and a memoir about sexual violence and media spectacle titled The Red Parts (2007), which will be reissued by Graywolf in Spring 2016. Her books of poetry include Something Bright, Then Holes (2007); Jane: A Murder (2005; finalist, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of Memoir), The Latest Winter (2003), and Shiner (2001). Her awards include a 2007 Arts Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation, a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a 2013 Literature grant from Creative Capital. Since 2005 she has taught on the faculty of the School of Critical Studies at CalArts. She currently lives in Los Angeles. She can be found online at: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/maggie-nelson

Spring 2015 Living Writer Series:
April 16: Janice Lee
April 23: Terri Witek, Jai Arun Ravine
April 30: Marilyn Chin
May 7: Jared Harvey, Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez, Whitney De Vos, Nicholas James Whittington, Eric Sneathen
May 14: Dawn Lundy Martin
May 21: Eleni Sikelianos, Josef Sikelianos
May 28: Sarah Manguso, Maggie Nelson
June 4: Student Reading
June 11: Senior Projects Reading

Annual Philosophy Undergraduate Colloquium & Graduation Celebration
2015-05-28 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In conjunction with our End of Year Celebration, the Philosophy Department will showcase the excellent academic work of students nominated by our faculty.
Camille Charette, “Humanitarian Intervention, a Feminist Perspective”
Andrew Bunn, “On Thomas Nagel’s ‘Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness’ ”
This event is free and open to the public.
All are welcome!

Past (2014) Presenters:
Matthew Strebe, “Schopenhauer and Aesthetic Experience”
Lia Salaverry, “Design Logic and Community Building in Public Transportation”
Alex Dor, “Construction of Nation and Nationalism”
Lisa Clark, “Knowing When I’m Right”

John Modern "Toward a Religious History of Cognitive Science"
2015-05-27 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
John Modern is the author of Secularism in Antebellum America and The Bop Apocalypse. John is currently at work on two projects: the first explores the intersections of religion and cognition in American history and the second is a meditation on entropy, tentatively entitled Akron Devo Divine: A Delirious History of Rubber.
John Modern is the Chair and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin & Marshall College.

Spring 2015 Colloquium Series

April 8, 2015 – Neloufer de Mel: “The ‘Perethaya’s’ Fury: Ethical Frameworks and Zones of Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka”

April 15, 2015 – Karen de Vries: “Queer Storytelling, Secular Religion, and the Anthropocene Blues”

April 22, 2015 – T.J. Demos: “Rights of Nature: The Art and Politics of Earth Jurisprudence”

April 29, 2015 – Brian Connolly: “The Curse of Canaan: A Fantasy of Race in the Nineteenth-Century United States”

May 6, 2015 – Joshua Dienstag: “The Human Boundary: Democracy in a Post-Species Age”

May 13, 2015 – Megan Thomas: “Lascars, Sepoys, and the Traveling Labor of British Empire (Manila, 1762-4)”

May 20, 2015 – Jonathan Beller: “The Computational Unconscious”

May 27, 2015 – John Modern: “Toward a Religious History of Cognitive Science”

Digital Humanities Working Group/Reading Group: A Conversation with Warren Sack
2015-05-26 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Tuesday, May 26 (4 – 6 PM) at Humanities 210
Digital Humanities Working Group/Reading Group:
A conversation with Warren Sack
Warren Sack (Film & Digital Media) will lead a conversation about his article, “A Storytelling Machine: From Propp to Software Studies” (Les Temps Modernes (novembre-décembre 2013)). Join us to consider a genealogy of narrative construction, interactive storytelling, software studies, and the place of technology in “understanding.” This discussion will prompt us all to think beyond the tools of Digital Humanities to explore the ways thinking is tangled up with technology.
Sack’s article is available online from Digital Studies in French. To receive a copy of Sack’s article in English, emaildigitalhumanities@ucsc.edu.

Mark Andrejevic: "Drone Theory: Automated Data Collection and Processing and the Always-On War"
2015-05-22 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This presentation is not about drones per se – or even war per se; but rather about the deployment of ubiquitous, always-on, networked sensors for the purposes of automated data collection, processing, and response. It is also about the ways in which the logic of drone warfare: prediction and pre-emption, come to characterize a wide realm of social practices: marketing, job screening, health care, romance, and more. The presentation considers the ways in which some contemporary strands of critical theory replicate and rehearse the logics of data-driven droning: the advent of drone theory.
Mark Andrejevic is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College. He researches the relationship between popular culture, interactive media, and surveillance. His books include, Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched (2004), iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era (2007), and Infoglut: How Too Much Information is Changing The Way We Think and Know (2013). He examines the social and cultural implications of data mining, predictive analytics, and other forms of surveillance that have become integral to how subjects interact with digital media and popular culture.

Friday Forum with Muiris Macgiollabhui: “Carrying The Green Bough: An Atlantic History of the United Irishmen, 1791-1830″
2015-05-22 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. Light refreshments will be available.
For more info, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

Spring 2015 Schedule:
10 April — Jess Whatcott, Politics, “Abolition Feminism Against Eugenics in California Prisons”
17 April — Evan Grupsmith, History, “Revolutionary Movement: Class Based Inclusion and Exclusion in the Cultural Revolution Chuanlian Movement”
24 April — Rose Grose, Social Psychology, “A Sexual Empowerment Process for Heterosexual and Sexual Minority Women”
1 May — Kali Rubaii, Anthropology, “Writing the Future with a Cement Pen: How to Concretize Displacement”
8 May — Cristopher Chitty, History of Consciousness, “Scandals of Appetite: Machiavelli, Sodomy and the Fall of the Florentine Republic”
15 May — Keegan Cook Finberg, Literature, “Reading Poetry of the 1960s: The Fluxus Event Score as Multimedia Encounter”
22 May — Muiris Macgiollabhui, History, “Carrying The Green Bough: An Atlantic History of the United Irishmen, 1791-1830″
29 May — Ann Drevno, ENVS, “Unintended Consequences of Regulatory Spotlighting Pesticides: The Case of California’s Central Coast Agricultural Waiver program”
5 June — Veronika Zablotsky, FMST, “On the Question of Socialist Governmentality: Being Interested in Early Soviet Armenia”
This event series is made possible through the generous support from the Institute for Humanities Research and the departments of Literature, History of Consciousness, Anthropology, Feminist Studies, HAVC, Philosophy, Joe’s Pizza and Subs, Politics, Psychology and Sociology as well as the GSA and GSC

Natives in Game Dev Gathering
2015-05-22 10:00 - 17:00 | UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley
On Friday, May 22, from 10am to 5pm, the Games and Playable Media MS program, and the Center for Games and Playable Media will be hosting the Natives in Game Dev event.
The event is free for UCSC students and faculty, and is being held at the UCSC Extension Silicon Valley building, at 2505 Augustine Dr, Santa Clara, California 95054.
Speakers
There is an excellent lineup of speakers, including:
Ishmael Angaluuk Hope (Never Alone)
Allen Turner (Stubbs the Zombie, Ehdrigohr: The Roleplaying Game, Hail to
the Chimp, Disney Guilty Party, Marvel XP)
John Romero (Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, Quake)
Jason Edward Lewis (Initiative for Indigenous Futures, Aboriginal
Territories in Cyberspace, Skins Video Game Workshops)
Elizabeth LaPensée (Survivance, The Gift of Food, Animism, Singuistics:
Anishinaabemowin)
Darrick Baxter (Rez Bomb, Ojibway)
Manuel Marcano (Max Payne 3, BioShock, The Darkness, Treachery in Beatdown
City)
Renee Nejo (Ever, Jane, Gravity Ghost, Blood Quantum)

For more details, including the schedule, please see:
https://gpm.soe.ucsc.edu/uc-santa-cruz-to-host-natives-in-game-dev-gathering/
To register for the event:
UCSC students and faculty can RSVP here using the code “ucscgpm”
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/natives-in-game-devs-gathering-tickets-16962387959

Living Writers Series: Eleni Sikelianos, Josef Sikelianos
2015-05-21 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms, and through a variety of media to include poetry, fiction, film, graphic art, dance, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines multiple genres and materials, whether textual, sonic, visual, and/or embodied to explore intersections of race, sexuality, gender, and class in their written, screened, and staged performances.
The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. For more information, please email rvwilson@ucsc.edu
Eleni Sikelianos
believes in redistributing wealth (top to bottom) and in the overturning of Citizens United. She is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently The Loving Detail of the Living & the Dead (Coffee House, 2013), and two hybrid memoirs (The Book of Jon, City Lights, and You Animal Machine, Coffee House). Sikelianos has been the happy recipient of various awards for her poetry, nonfiction, and translations, including two National Endowment for the Arts Awards, a NYFA, NYSCA, and the National Poetry Series. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages, and is widely anthologized. She has taught poetry in public schools, homeless shelters, and prisons, and collaborated with musicians, filmmakers, and visual artists. She is on guest faculty for the Naropa Summer Writing Program, and for L’Ecole de Littérature in France and Morocco; she teaches at the University of Denver, where she runs the Writers in the Schools program. She can be found online at: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/eleni-sik%C3%A9lian%C3%B2s
Josef Sikelianos
is a songwriter and musician living in Berkeley CA. He heads the indie folk band Baby Teeth, who are releasing their first full length album this spring. After exploring many disciplines with some thoroughness, Sikelianos graduated cum laude from San Francisco State University with a degree in fine art. Sikelianos put himself through school doing tree work and is now also the owner of a professional tree service company, The Urban Arborist, working in the San Francisco Bay area. Sikelianos notes that “the greatest luxury is the exploration of aesthetics without premeditation or agenda, and the appreciation of beauty is in every endeavor I undertake.” In his spare time Sikelianos reads his sister’s books. He can be found online at: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/josef-sikelianos/2b/427/545

Spring 2015 Living Writer Series:
April 16: Janice Lee
April 23: Terri Witek, Jai Arun Ravine
April 30: Marilyn Chin
May 7: Jared Harvey, Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez, Whitney De Vos, Nicholas James Whittington, Eric Sneathen
May 14: Dawn Lundy Martin
May 21: Eleni Sikelianos, Josef Sikelianos
May 28: Sarah Manguso, Maggie Nelson
June 4: Student Reading
June 11: Senior Projects Reading

Perverse Modernities: Conversations in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2015-05-21 15:00 - 19:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Perverse Modernities transgresses modern divisions of knowledge that have historically separated the consideration of sexuality, and its concern with desire, gender, bodies, and performance, on the one hand, from the consideration of race, colonialism, and political economy, on the other, in order to explore how the mutual implication of race, colonialism, and sexuality has been rendered perverse and unintelligible within the logics of modernity.
Books in the series have elaborated such perversities in the challenge to modern assumptions about historical narrative and the nation-state, the epistemology of the human sciences, the continuities of the citizen-subject and civil society, the distinction between health and morbidity, and the rational organization of that society into separate spheres. Perverse modernities, in this sense, have included queer of color and queer anticolonial subcultures, racialized sexualized laborers migrating from the global south to the metropolis, nonwestern desires and bodies and their incommensurability with the gendered, national or communal meanings attributed to them, and analyses of the refusals of normative domestic “healthy” life narratives by subjects who inhabit and perform sexual risk, different embodiments, and alternative conceptions of life and death. The project also highlights intellectual “perversities” from disciplinary infidelities and epistemological promiscuity, to theoretical irreverence and heterotopic imaginings.

3:00-3:30 PM Introduction (Lisa Lowe and J. Jack Halberstam)
3:30-5:00 PM Panel I: Temporality, Violence, and the Problem of Rights: Neda Atanasoski, Elizabeth Freeman, Chandan Reddy, Lisa Lowe
5:00-5:30 PM Break
5:30-7:00 PM Panel II: Modernity, Perversion, and Queer/Trans Survival: Marcia Ochoa, Cindy Cruz, Lisa Rofel, J. Jack Halberstram

Sixteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
2015-05-21 09:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This day-long event, including a lunch buffet, will showcase and celebrate undergraduate academic work in the Literature Department. The Undergraduate Colloquium is open to the public; audience members include faculty, students, families and other interested parties.
The Literature Department’s 2015 Best Undergraduate Essay and Best Senior Essay prizes will be announced during the Opening Remarks at 9:00 a.m.
Please see http://literature.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/2015-ugrad-colloq.pdf to download a schedule of the day’s activities. For more information: (831) 459-4778 or litdept@ucsc.edu.

Learning Spanish is a Waste of Time: Understanding Heritage Learner Resistance in a Southwest Charter High School
2015-05-20 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Kimberly Adilia Helmer
Writing Program at UC Santa Cruz
Through the lens of “resistance,” the current critical ethnography examines some causes of “strike-like” behavior observed in a Spanish heritage language class in a US southwest charter high school. Fundamental to student resistance was the lack of meaningful activity and authentic materials that connected curriculum to students’ linguistic strengths, target-culture knowledge, and the communities from which they came.
The native Spanish-speaking teacher taught the course as if the Mexican-origin students were foreign language learners without certain native-like language proficiencies and insider cultural knowledge gained from actual experience.
In turn, the instructor did not fully access his own linguistic and cultural repertoire, but instead relied on published foreign language materials that failed to engage students and constructed them as linguistic and cultural outsiders. A pueblo-based pedagogical framework is proposed to make curriculum more culturally relevant, authentic, and engaging.

Jonathan Beller: "The Computational Unconscious"
2015-05-20 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Abstract: This talk understands the rise of Capitalism as the first digital culture with universalizing aspirations and capabilities, and recognizes contemporary culture, driven as it is by electronic digital computing, as something like digital culture 2.0. Rather than seeing this shift strictly as a break, we might consider it as one result of an overall intensification in the practices of quantification. Thus, if capitalism was already a digital computer, then “the invisible hand,” as the non-subjective, social summation of the individualized practices of the pursuit of private gain, was an early expression of the computational unconscious. With the broadening and deepening of the imperative towards quantification and rational calculus posited then presupposed during the modern period by the expansionist program of Capital, the process of the assignation of number to all variables first discernible in the commodity-form, whereby every use-value was also an exchange-value, entered into our machines, rendering first the rationalization of production in the assembly line and then modern computing. Today, as could be well known from everyday observation if not from media theory, computation arguably underpins all productive activity, and particularly significant for this argument, activities that stretch from image-making, to writing, and therefore to thought. The contention here is not simply that capitalism is the unconscious of computation, it is that the unconscious itself, as the domain of the unthought that organizes thought, is computational. Therefore, not only is consciousness a computational effect, but all the structural inequalities endemic to capitalist production – often appearing under variants of the ostensibly analog categories of race, class, gender, sexuality, nation, etc., but just as importantly and as often disappeared into our machines – inhere in the logistics of computation, and consequently, in the real-time organization of language, which is to say, our thought.
Jonathan Beller is Professor of English and Humanities and Critical and Visual Studies, Pratt Institute. He is one of the foremost theorists of the visual turn and the attention economy. He works on the history of cinema and the way in which the screen-image has altered all aspects of social life. These alterations range from the lived experiences of gender, sexuality and race, to the socio-economic reorganization of peoples, governments and the environment. His research and pedagogy is undertaken with a commitment to those struggling for social justice in what he calls “the world-media system.” Books and edited volumes include The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle; Acquiring Eyes: Philippine Visuality, Nationalist Struggle and the World-Media System; and Feminist Media Theory (a special issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online). His current book projects are entitled The Rain of Images and Computational Capital. Beller also serves on the Editorial Collective of the internationally recognized journal Social Text, and is the current director of The Graduate Program in Media Studies. He teaches Mediologies I and a variety of electives.

Spring 2015 Colloquium Series

April 8, 2015 – Neloufer de Mel: “The ‘Perethaya’s’ Fury: Ethical Frameworks and Zones of Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka”

April 15, 2015 – Karen de Vries: “Queer Storytelling, Secular Religion, and the Anthropocene Blues”

April 22, 2015 – T.J. Demos: “Rights of Nature: The Art and Politics of Earth Jurisprudence”

April 29, 2015 – Brian Connolly: “The Curse of Canaan: A Fantasy of Race in the Nineteenth-Century United States”

May 6, 2015 – Joshua Dienstag: “The Human Boundary: Democracy in a Post-Species Age”

May 13, 2015 – Megan Thomas: “Lascars, Sepoys, and the Traveling Labor of British Empire (Manila, 1762-4)”

May 20, 2015 – Jonathan Beller: “The Computational Unconscious”

May 27, 2015 – John Modern: “Toward a Religious History of Cognitive Science”

Last LASER (Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous) of the Year
2015-05-19 18:30 - 20:00 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Institute of the Arts and Sciences invites you to final Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) of the year on May 19 in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108. Join us for refreshments at 6:30 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by:
• Daniel Press “What is Recycling Good For? The Case of American Paper Today”
• Roger Linington “Where Do Medicines Come From? In Search of Therapeutics From the World’s Oceans”
• Anita Chang “Designing Practices in Cross-disciplinary Collaborations and Identities: A Case Study of the Transmedia Documentary Project Tongues of Heaven/RootTongue”
• Kim Abeles “frugalworld.org and a galleryofsolutions”

Bios:
Daniel Press is the Olga T. Griswold Professor of Environmental Studies and Executive Director of the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at UC Santa Cruz. His research interests include environmental politics and policy, land preservation, water quality regulation and management, industrial ecology, and policy analysis. He is the author of Democratic Dilemmas in the Age of Ecology: Trees and Toxics in the American West (Duke University Press, 1994), Saving Open Space: The Politics of Local Preservation in California (UC Press, 2002), and American Environmental Policy: The Failures of Compliance, Abatement and Mitigation (Edward Elgar, 2015).
Roger Linington is Associate Professor of Biochemistry at UC Santa Cruz. His research centers on marine natural products used in biomedical science. Linington’s research has two major focuses: drug discovery for neglected infectious diseases including malaria, TB and dengue fever, and the use of natural products as probes for biological systems.
Anita Chang is an independent filmmaker, educator and writer. She is also currently a PhD Candidate in Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz. Chang’s films are engaged in discourses on (post)colonialism, ethnography, diaspora and cross-cultural representation. Chang has taught film in numerous community and academic settings in San Francisco, Nepal and Taiwan. Honors include grant awards from Creative Capital, Fulbright Foundation, San Francisco Arts Commission, National Geographic and KQED Peter J. Owens Filmmaker program. Her essays have appeared in positions: asia critique, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies and Taiwan Journal of Indigenous Studies.
Kim Abeles is an activist and artist whose installations and community projects cross disciplines and media to explore biography, geography and environment. The work merges hand-crafted materials with digital representations. Abeles received the 2013 Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and is a recipient of fellowships from J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts, California Community Foundation and Pollock-Krasner Foundation. She is a 2014/15 Lucas Visual Arts Fellow at the Montalvo Arts Center. She has exhibited in 22 countries, frequently creating artworks site specific to the location, including large-scale installations for exhibitions in Vietnam, Thailand, Czech Republic, England, China, and South Korea.

Neferti Tadiar: "Next to Nothing"
2015-05-19 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk is a meditation on remaindered life, the unsubsumable, indivisible yet every-diminishing leftover of life-making practice for those who live in proximity to a social state of utter valuelessness. Drawing on diverse yet connected social contexts of redundant or superfluous populations, including undocumented immigrants, refugees, guest workers, and criminalized black and brown men and women, in a global, post-Fordist economy where all life bears the potential to serve as a direct means and source for the extraction of capitalist value, the talk explores the significance of lives lived on the perpetual verge of being nothing not only to offer an alternative account of the current globopolitical order. Tracing the constitutive elements of slavery and colonialism in this global present, the talk also reflects on the petty social currencies of small-time living as a speculative exercise on what is to be done next.

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David Brundage: "Remembering 1916 in America: The Easter Rising’s Many Faces, 1919-1962"
2015-05-19 14:00 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
David Brundage is Professor of history and the History Graduate Program Director.
The talk will draw on an essay-in-progress for a collection entitled Remembering 1916: The Easter Rising, the Somme and the Politics of Memory, ed. Richard S. Grayson and Fearghal McGarry. Brundage focuses his attention on a period that has been relatively neglected in the history of the Irish in America, the 1920s through the early 1960s. How (and by whom) was the 1916 Rising remembered in this period? Providing some answers to this question can tell us a great deal about the striking diversity of memory practices, while also shedding light on important aspects of Irish American (and American) life in these decades.
A once powerful Irish American nationalist movement shrank dramatically in this period. Nonetheless, the Rising continued to be remembered (differently) by Catholic churchmen, Irish American labor leaders, African American nationalists, and Hollywood. The telling of the Easter Rising story, Brundage argues, had a kind of modular character. That is, narratives of 1916, frequently marked by stirring examples of idealism, courage, and sacrifice, could be lifted out of their specifically Irish context and used to legitimize or inspire other sorts of movements and agendas—or simply to entertain. Remembering 1916 in America involved a diverse array of people, practices, and motives, and its analysis has the potential to shed light on important mid-twentieth century topics ranging from African American nationalism to representations of Ireland and the Irish in American popular culture.
Light refreshments will be provided.

Maurice Samuels: "French Universalism and the Jews: Anti-Antisemitism and the Right to Difference"
2015-05-18 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 Maurice Samuels: “French Universalism and the Jews: Anti-Antisemitism and the Right to Difference.”
In conflicts over the veil or the return of antisemitism in France today, minority difference is often seen as a threat not only to public order but to the Republic itself. Long on the defensive, universalism has now staged a comeback in current discourse that seeks to guard against excessive communitarianism or the fantasized demon of American-style multi-culturalism. However, the universal and the particular were not always as opposed as today seems to be the case. In this paper, I look back at the history of the way the universal was theorized in relation to France’s paradigmatic minority—the Jews—from the Revolution through the nineteenth century. My goal is to show that prior to the hardening of positions during the Dreyfus Affair, French universalism was far more welcoming to minority difference than is ordinarily assumed today. Recovering this history, I suggest, might offer ways around France’s current ethnic and religious dilemmas.
Maurice Samuels is Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French at Yale, where he also directs the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism. He’s is the author of “The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France,” published by Cornell University Press in 2004, and of “Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France,” published by Stanford University Press in 2010, which won the Scaglione Prize given by the MLA for the best book in French Studies. He also co-edited “Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature: A Reader,” published by Stanford in 2013.
Every year we honor Helen Diller, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz, by hosting a public lecture series on campus by an internationally recognized scholar.
This event was made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Endowment and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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Friday Forum with Keegan Cook Finberg: “Reading Poetry of the 1960s: The Fluxus Event Score as Multimedia Encounter”
2015-05-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202

Arts and Humanities Grants and Fellowships Workshop for Graduate Students
2015-05-15 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join us for a conversation about funding opportunities, nuts and bolts of grant proposal writing, and campus resources available to you in the Arts and Humanities Divisions.
Panelists:
Dorian Bell, Associate Professor of Literature
Stephanie Moore, Research Grants Coordinator, Arts Division
Irena Polic, Associate Director, Institute for Humanities Research
Warren Sack, Professor, Film & Digital Media Department
Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP by Friday, May 8 to ihr@ucsc.edu.
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15th Annual Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
2015-05-14 20:00 - 22:00 | Stevenson Event Center
FIFTEEN YEARS AND COUNTING…
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, Cowell College, and Stevenson College, will present The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP), an annual multilingual program of fully-staged short theater pieces, for its 15th season. Four public performances will be held on May 14, 15, 16, 17, at 8:00PM at the Stevenson Event Center, UCSC, and will feature works in French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish, with English super-titles. The program will be directed by Language lecturers and performed by Language students. There is no admission charge, with nearby parking at $4.00.
This year’s works include: (in French) THE GAP, by Ionesco, and a scene from THE WOULD-BE GENTLEMAN by Molière, directed by Miriam Ellis; (in Italian) BROTHER ATM and SERENDIPITY, by Benni, directed by Giulia Centineo; (in Japanese) SWEET POISON, traditional, directed by Sakae Fujita; (in Russian) THE PATIENT, by Dovlatov, directed by Natalya Samokhina; (in Spanish) MISERY, by Güiraldes, directed by Marta Navarro. The pieces range in time from medieval and classical periods to modern-day theater, with emphasis on their comic elements.
Over the years, the IP presentations have represented an important annual event for UCSC and have attracted a loyal following. In addition to those on campus, many community members, as well as faculty and students from high schools and Cabrillo College, attend regularly. The English titles make the material easily accessible to audiences, who are afforded a rare multicultural experience by the diversity of the programs.
For further information, please contact lmhunter@ucsc.edu or ellisan@ucsc.edu.
Above: Scene from LE MALADE IMAGINAIRE (THE HYPOCHONDRIAC) by Molière, (French) INTERNATIONAL PLAYHOUSE XIII, Camille Charette as Angélique, Zachary Scovel as Argan, directed by Miriam Ellis.
The community is cordially invited to attend.

Living Writers Series: Dawn Lundy Martin
2015-05-14 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms, and through a variety of media to include poetry, fiction, film, graphic art, dance, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines multiple genres and materials, whether textual, sonic, visual, and/or embodied to explore intersections of race, sexuality, gender, and class in their written, screened, and staged performances.
The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. For more information, please email rvwilson@ucsc.edu
Dawn Lundy Martin
is co-founder of the Third Wave Foundation in New York, a national grant making organization led by young women and transgender youth, which focuses on social justice activism. She is also a member of the Black Took Collective, a group of experimental black poets embracing critical theory about gender, race, and sexuality. She has been the recipient of two poetry grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and was awarded the 2008 Academy of American Arts and Sciences May Sarton Prize for Poetry. She has taught at Montclair State University, The New School, and the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College. She is currently an assistant professor in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh. She can be found online at: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/dawn-lundy-martin

Spring 2015 Living Writer Series:
April 16: Janice Lee
April 23: Terri Witek, Jai Arun Ravine
April 30: Marilyn Chin
May 7: Jared Harvey, Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez, Whitney De Vos, Nicholas James Whittington, Eric Sneathen
May 14: Dawn Lundy Martin
May 21: Eleni Sikelianos, Josef Sikelianos
May 28: Sarah Manguso, Maggie Nelson
June 4: Student Reading
June 11: Senior Projects Reading

M: Mothers, Mountains, Migration, and Memory
2015-05-13 16:00 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In this spring’s Stevenson College Distinguished Faculty Lecture, Lisbeth Haas, Professor of History and Feminist Studies at UCSC, discusses twentieth-century economic and demographic shifts in the Blue Ridge Mountain town of Hillsville, Virginia, home to her mother and a growing Mexican population.
In this talk, Lisbeth Haas, Professor of History and Feminist Studies, discusses her search for her mother, Imogene, in Hillsville, Virginia. World War II brought intense industrialization to this Appalachian hamlet, but by 2000, many factories had shuttered. At the same time, Hillsville emerged as a destination for migrants from Mexico. Situating Imogene within a crossroads of global processes, Professor Haas discusses the politics of motherhood and women’s power in the Blue Ridge Mountain region during the height of its industrialization in the 1950s.
Lisbeth Haas is Professor of History and Feminist Studies at UCSC. In addition to being Imogene’s daughter, she is the author of numerous publications. Her most recent books are Saints and Citizens: Indigenous Histories of Colonial Missions and Mexican California, 1750-1850 (University of California Press, 2014) and Pablo Tac, Indigenous Scholar (University of California Press, 2011).

Megan Thomas "Lascars, Sepoys, and the Traveling Labor of British Empire (Manila, 1762-4)"
2015-05-13 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Megan Thomas’ research focuses on the British forces that occupied Manila in 1762 just as East India Company rule in the subcontinent began. She traces their composition, the conditions under which they labored, and the strategies they employed for what they can tell us about the British empire in and around the Indian Ocean.
Megan Thomas is an Associate Professor of Politics at UC Santa Cruz.

Spring 2015 Colloquium Series

April 8, 2015 – Neloufer de Mel: “The ‘Perethaya’s’ Fury: Ethical Frameworks and Zones of Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka”

April 15, 2015 – Karen de Vries: “Queer Storytelling, Secular Religion, and the Anthropocene Blues”

April 22, 2015 – T.J. Demos: “Rights of Nature: The Art and Politics of Earth Jurisprudence”

April 29, 2015 – Brian Connolly: “The Curse of Canaan: A Fantasy of Race in the Nineteenth-Century United States”

May 6, 2015 – Joshua Dienstag: “The Human Boundary: Democracy in a Post-Species Age”

May 13, 2015 – Megan Thomas: “Lascars, Sepoys, and the Traveling Labor of British Empire (Manila, 1762-4)”

May 20, 2015 – Jonathan Beller: “The Computational Unconscious”

May 27, 2015 – John Modern: “Toward a Religious History of Cognitive Science”

Public Screening of One Summer
2015-05-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Communications 150, Studio C
You’re cordially invited to a free public screening of One Summer (2014, 93min.), with Director Yang Yishu (Nanjing University, China) in person.
ABOUT THE FILM:
One Summer is Director Yang Yishu’s first fiction feature. In tracing a woman’s efforts to find her husband and to understand why the police took him away without explanation, the film portrays the sentiment of perpetual anxiety, uncertainty and vulnerability that prevails contemporary China.
The film was selected for the 19th Busan International Film Festival (Korea, October 2014 ) and the 21th Vesoul International Film Festival (France, February 2015), and was awarded the Jury’s Prize.
One Summer follows Director Yang’s two documentaries, Who is Haoran? (2006), and On the Road (2010). Who is Haoran? was selected for the 59th Locarno International Film Festival, and the 31th Hong Kong International Film Festival. It has been collected by Songzhuang Art Center (a major base of Chinese independent cinema) and released by Lixianting Film fund.
On the Road was selected for the 7th China Documentary Film festival, the 7th China Independent Film Festival, and 2011 Seoul Independent Documentary Film & Video Festival.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Director Yang Yishu represents an important voice in contemporary independent Chinese cinema. In addition to making films, she also teaches as Associate Professor and serves as Associate Director of Film and Video Production Center in the Department of Drama, Film & TV, in the School of Liberal Arts at Nanjing University, China. She has published a monograph, Film Within Film: A Study of Meta-cinema (2012), as well as numerous articles on a wide range of topics, including gender issues, independent Chinese cinema, Jane Campion, and François Truffaut.
The screening will be followed by Q & A with Director Yang Yishu and her daughter who played the daughter in the film.
This event is co-sponsored by Departments of Film & Digital Media, Politics, and Anthropology.
Please direct questions to Yiman Wang (yw3@ucsc.edu)

To Africa and Back
2015-05-11 17:00 - 18:00 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Angela Elsy is a lecturer specialized in La Francophonie, the countries and regions around the world where French is spoken. For ten years she served as director of La Maison Francophone, an academic/residential program at Cowell College. She is in her third year and final year as Licker Chair at Cowell. She will present a public lecture in English on her research in Morocco, Senegal and Cameroun in 2013 and 2014 and the course she taught based on this work.

Imagining Social Identities Through Computing
2015-05-11 15:30 - 16:40 | Media Theater, M110
D. Fox Harrell, Associate Professor of Digital Media, MIT
Hosted By Noah Wardrip-Fruin
D. Fox Harrell’s research explores the use of the computer as an expressive and cultural medium. As described in his recent book Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination, Computation, and Expression (MIT Press), through both building and analyzing systems, he investigates how the computer can be used to express cultural meanings through data-structures and algorithms. In this talk, focusing on cultural meanings of social identity, Harrell explores how our identities are complicated by their intersection with computing technologies including social networking, gaming, virtual worlds and related media forms. Toward this end, Harrell will discuss how data-structures and algorithms in popular videogames and social media implement not only persistent issues of class, gender, sex, race, and ethnicity, but also dynamic construction of social categories, discourse, metaphorical thought, body language, fashion, and more. He shall then present technologies developed in his research group, the MIT Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory, which offer more nuanced and expressive ways to computationally model identity-related phenomena such as social status, marginalization, and social stigma in digital media.
Bio: D. Fox Harrell, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Digital Media in the Comparative Media Studies Program and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT. He founded and directs the MIT Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab). Harrell holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego. In 2010, he received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his project “Computing for Advanced Identity Representation.” His recent book Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination, Computation, and Expression was published in 2013 by the MIT Press. He is a 2014-15 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and recipient of the Lenore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg Fellowship in Communication.

Digital Humanities Working Group / Work-in-Progress Conversation Aesthetics: Imagining Histories of Modern Lebanon, Fabiola Hanna
2015-05-11 12:15 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Hanna will present her recent work, We are History: A People’s History of Lebanon, a digital interface that collects varied oral histories of a people and presents them in a disruptive but dialogical manner. Using contemporary oral histories about the 1981 siege of Zahle, Lebanon, the software is given the goal of generating a narrative from the transcripts of said oral histories.
Learn more online at http://fabiolahanna.com/weAreHistory.html
Fabiola Hanna is a new media artist, software designer and activist currently using her skills to address historical amnesia in Lebanon. She is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she also gained her MFA in Digital Arts and New Media. Her research lies in software studies, new media art activism, and archives and memory. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz, the New Children’s Museum in San Diego, the SubZero Festival in San Jose, the Digital Arts Research Center in Santa Cruz and the MakerFaire in San Mateo.
Event co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Commons.

Diasporic Religious Identity in Emerging Adulthood: The Case of British Sikhs
2015-05-11 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Diasporic Religious Identity in Emerging Adulthood: The Case of British Sikhs
This talk examines processes of religious transmission among members of minority diasporic religious communities, with a focus on British Sikhs. Using ethnographic methods including the first ever large scale online survey of British Sikhs, this paper explores the shift which has occurred for many young South Asians in Diaspora who now identify more closely with a religious as opposed to an ethnic identity. Focusing on a number of different arenas of religious transmission including families, religious institutions and the internet, this paper examines how processes of religious socialisation and familial nurture impact on identity, in particular among young people entering the phase of ‘Emerging Adulthood’ (Arnett 2004).
Dr Jasjit Singh is a research fellow at the University of Leeds based in the School of Philosophy, Religion and the History of Science. His research examines the religious lives of South Asians with a particular focus on understanding processes of religious and cultural transmission among Sikhs in diaspora and the different arenas in which this transmission occurs. To date he has examined the relationship between traditional arenas of religious learning (including the family environment and religious institutions) and newer arenas of transmission including camps, University faith societies and the Internet. He has recently undertaken a project examining the cultural value of South Asian arts and has a growing interest in the role of religious media.

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In Loving Memory of Christopher Chitty
2015-05-08 12:00 - 14:15 | Humanities 1, Room 202
In Loving Memory of Chris Chitty: We mourn the loss of a friend and vibrant member of our academic community. However, his work is not lost and will continue to act on this world. We would like to invite everyone to join us for a reading and celebration of Chris’s academic writing in place of the presentation that he would have given on this day. This is an invitation to get to know Chris through his work or get to know him better. Everyone should feel welcome and encouraged to attend. There will be light refreshments and space for discussion after the readings.

The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. Light refreshments will be available.
For more info, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

Spring 2015 Schedule:
10 April — Jess Whatcott, Politics, “Abolition Feminism Against Eugenics in California Prisons”
17 April — Evan Grupsmith, History, “Revolutionary Movement: Class Based Inclusion and Exclusion in the Cultural Revolution Chuanlian Movement”
24 April — Rose Grose, Social Psychology, “A Sexual Empowerment Process for Heterosexual and Sexual Minority Women”
1 May — Kali Rubaii, Anthropology, “Writing the Future with a Cement Pen: How to Concretize Displacement”
8 May — In Loving Memory of Christopher Chitty, History of Consciousness
15 May — Keegan Cook Finberg, Literature, “Reading Poetry of the 1960s: The Fluxus Event Score as Multimedia Encounter”
22 May — Muiris Macgiollabhui, History, “Carrying The Green Bough: An Atlantic History of the United Irishmen, 1791-1830″
29 May — Ann Drevno, ENVS, “Unintended Consequences of Regulatory Spotlighting Pesticides: The Case of California’s Central Coast Agricultural Waiver program”
5 June — Veronika Zablotsky, FMST, “On the Question of Socialist Governmentality: Being Interested in Early Soviet Armenia”
This event series is made possible through the generous support from the Institute for Humanities Research and the departments of Literature, History of Consciousness, Anthropology, Feminist Studies, HAVC, Philosophy, Joe’s Pizza and Subs, Politics, Psychology and Sociology as well as the GSA and GSC

Working for Dignity: The Santa Cruz County Low-Wage Worker Study, Photo Exhibit, and Community Dialog
2015-05-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
Thursday, May 7, 2015 • 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Museum of Art and History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz
Free Public Event

This campus-community event will showcase the findings of a year-long research and multi-media project on workers and working conditions in low-wage jobs in Santa Cruz County. We will unveil a new public digital exhibit and website featuring stories told by local workers, as well as the results of the large-scale survey and interview project carried out by UC Santa Cruz students. Workers and students will also share their stories and art work. The event will conclude with an open community dialog on issues facing low-wage workers in our County and possible steps forward.
Sponsored by the UCSC Center for Labor Studies, Chicano Latino Research Center, Everett Program, Institute for Humanities Research, Division of Social Sciences, UC Humanities Research Institute, California Rural Legal Assistance, Santa Cruz Day Worker Center, and the Museum of Art and History.
Refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public.
For more information click here or contact Alina Fernandez (aifernan@ucsc.edu) and Steve McKay (smckay@ucsc.edu)

Trabajando para la Dignidad
Un Estudio de Trabajadores de Bajos Ingresos del Condado de Santa Cruz
Lanzamiento de una página de internet, exhibición de fotografía, y una discusión entre la comunidád

Jueves, 7 de Mayo 2015
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Este evento de la escuela y la comunidád va exhibir resultados y multimedia de un estudio de un año. El estudio demuestra los resultados de una investigación estudiando los trabajadores de bajos ingresos y sus condiciones de trabajo en el condado de Santa Cruz. Vamos a mostrar una nueva exhibición pública y una página de internet con la presentación incluyendo cuentos digitales contado por los trabajadores locales. También vamos a revelar los resultados de la encuesta y las entrevistas elaboradas por estudiantes de UCSC y California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. Trabajadores e estudiantes también van a compartir sus cuentos, testimonios, y su arte. El evento va a concluir con una discusión comunitaria sobre los problemas que los trabajadores de bajos ingresos enfrentan en nuestro condado. Finalmente el evento va a concluir con una discusión sobre estos desafíos y algunas recomendaciones para el futuro.
Apoyado por el UCSC Center for Labor Studies, Chicano Latino Research Center, Everett Program, Institute for Humanities Research, Division of Social Sciences, UC Humanities Research Institute, California Rural Legal Assistance, Santa Cruz Day Worker Center, Museum of Art and History.
Para mas información, por favor contacten a Alina Fernandez (aifernan@ucsc.edu) o Steve McKay (smckay@ucsc.edu)

Living Writers Series: Jared Harvey, Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez, Whitney De Vos, Nicholas James Whittington, Eric Sneathen
2015-05-07 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms, and through a variety of media to include poetry, fiction, film, graphic art, dance, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines multiple genres and materials, whether textual, sonic, visual, and/or embodied to explore intersections of race, sexuality, gender, and class in their written, screened, and staged performances.
The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. For more information, please email rvwilson@ucsc.edu
Jared Harvey
is a an author of several chapbooks, including Commuting: Have Gone to Ithaca. – Frank Quitely, Hosni Mubarak, Mammal, and his most recent chapbook Here You Are (co-authored with Sara Peck. His poetry has been featured at Ohio Edit and Spork Press. He is currently a Graduate Student and Creative Writing Instructor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He can be found online at his tumblr page: http://jaredjosephharvey.tumblr.com/
Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez
is a Guatemalan-American poet originally from Los Angeles, California. Gaby’s work has appeared in Plath Profiles, Kweli, and The Acentos Review. She received her BA in English Literature and Creative Writing from California State University, Long Beach, where she pursued her research on the poetry of Sylvia Plath and S.T. Coleridge. Her graduate research at UCSC is focused on literature by Central Americans and US Central Americans about the state violence and forced disappearances in the isthmus in the 1970s and 1980s, and the ongoing struggle for justice. She can be found online at: https://gabrielaramirez.wordpress.com/
Whitney De Vos
has been recognized for her poetry with numerous honors, and is a PhD student at UC Santa Cruz concentrating on 20th and 21st century American poetry, poetics, and politics. As part of an innovative alt-ac pilot program in collaboration with UCSC’s Graduate Division Dean, Whitney interned at UCHRI during August and September 2014, working on program development, research activities, and scholarly communications for the institute. She can be found online at: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/whitney-devos/69/566/635
Nicholas James Whittington
was born and raised in the City of San Francisco. His poems have appeared in Ambush Review, Beatitude, Beloit Poetry Journal, Big Bell, Dusie, Felucca, Flying Fish, Greetings, HamsterRad, Illuminations, Marginalia, Oxalis, Ping Pong, Poems by Sunday, and Polis: Este Jardin, as well as in the chapbooks SLOUGH and SCORIA. He is currently a PhD student at UCSC and the editor at AMERARCANA: The Bird & Beckett Review, a serial publication of poetry, creative & critical prose, other words & works of art. He can be found online at: https://amerarcana.wordpress.com/
Eric Sneathen
lives in Santa Cruz, California, where he is studying for his PhD in Literature. His reviews have been published by Small Press Distribution and Tripwire, and his poetry has been published by Mondo Bummer, The Equalizer, and Faggot Journal. He can be found online at: http://literature.ucsc.edu/faculty/singleton.php?inc_graduate=true&inc_faculty=true&singleton=true&cruz_id=esneathe

Spring 2015 Living Writer Series:
April 16: Janice Lee
April 23: Terri Witek, Jai Arun Ravine
April 30: Marilyn Chin
May 7: Jared Harvey, Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez, Whitney De Vos, Nicholas James Whittington, Eric Sneathen
May 14: Dawn Lundy Martin
May 21: Eleni Sikelianos, Josef Sikelianos
May 28: Sarah Manguso, Maggie Nelson
June 4: Student Reading
June 11: Senior Projects Reading

History Department Undergraduate Research Symposium
2015-05-07 14:00 - 17:00 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The History Department Undergraduate Research Symposium is an annual event held each spring that recognizes the exceptional research being conducted by UC Santa Cruz history undergraduates. The symposium provides undergraduate students with a unique opportunity to share their research with a larger audience, as well as provides a forum for students, faculty, and the university community to engage in scholarly discussion. In addition, a UCSC history alumnus is invited each year to deliver a keynote address aimed at undergraduate research.
The 8th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium will be held on Thursday, May 7th, 2015, 2-5 pm, in the Wagstaff Fireside Lounge at Stevenson College. The event is free and open to the public.
2015 Keynote Speaker – Eryn Brennan, Urban Planner/Architectural Historian at AKRF, Inc. Class of 2000.

Working with Omeka: Building a Community of Users
2015-05-07 09:30 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join us for an all day symposium about using Omeka across the university and imagining the future of Digital Exhibit Building at the University of California.
Calling all scholars, museum professionals, librarians, archivists, researchers and educators. Learn how to use Omeka to share your research or collections with the world, build online exhibits, display documents and oral histories, or create digital archives. Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content and to foster user interaction and participation.
Join us to explore the possibilities of using Omeka across the university and imagining the future of digital exhibit building at the University of California. Through presentations and directed conversations, this day-long symposium will yield inspiration for teaching, research, publishing, and future development.
The symposium will feature a keynote address, “How can you tailor your Omeka site, and Why?” by Patrick Murray-John, Research Assistant Professor and Omeka Developer Manager at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
This event is targeted to tool developers, researchers, librarians, archivists, instructors, and graduate students from across the UC system. The event is open to all interested and will be especially of interest to those already working in Omeka to develop digital asset libraries, curate research material, teach visual arts, or cultivate digital literacies.
Registration is required. For more details and registration information, visit: http://library.ucsc.edu/workingwithomeka
Follow the conversation at @DH_UCSC and #omekaUCSC.

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Patrick Murray-John, “Latent Data: How, Where, And Why (Digital) Humanists Discover Data Hidden In Plain Sight”
2015-05-06 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In this talk, Murray-John will argue that data and the humanities have long held a close and fruitful interrelationship. Data in humanities research is not new; it is the capacity of new technology to do more with data that creates a sense of difference, possibility, and even anxiety. This talk will begin by looking at centuries-old treatment of data in the humanities, and explore how humanists are rediscovering the data in their corporations.

Dr. Patrick Murray-John is a Research Assistant Professor and Omeka Developer Manager at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. He has a B.S. in Mathematics from Iowa State University, and an M.A. in English Literature and Ph.D. in Anglo-Saxon Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Besides helping to develop Omeka, he uses it and other tools to experiment with making data part of public humanities projects. A recent project of his, the US Museums Explorer, an Omeka site built on data released by the Institute for Museum and Library Services, was recently cited as an example of using open data in the Center For the Future of Museums’ “Trends Watch 2015”.
This event is targeted to tool developers, researchers, librarians, archivists, instructors, and graduate students from across the UC system. The event is open to all interested and will be especially of interest to those already working in Omeka to develop digital asset libraries, curate research material, teach visual arts, or cultivate digital literacies.

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Pattern Recognition, c. 1947
2015-05-06 16:00 - 18:00 | Porter College, Room D245
Please join us for this week’s VMCC event, Pamela M. Lee will be delivering her talk, entitled “Pattern Recognition, c. 1947.” This is the final event of the colloquia’s 2014-2015 season. Refreshments will be provided before the talk.
Pamela M. Lee is professor of Art History at Stanford University. Lee received her B.A from Yale University and her Ph.D in the Department of Fine Arts from Harvard University. She also studied at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Her area is the art, theory and criticism of late modernism and contemporary art. Among other journals, her work has appeared in October, Artforum, Assemblage, Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, Les Cahiers du Musee national d’arte moderne, Grey Room, Parkett and Texte zur Kunst. Lee has published four books in addition to journal articles, reviews and catalogue essays. Three books have appeared with the MIT Press: Object to be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2000); Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2004) and Forgetting the Art World (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2012) Another book New Games: Postmodernism after Contemporary Art was published by Routledge in 2012. Lee is currently working on a book called *Think Tank Aesthetics: Mid-Century Modernism, The Cold War and the Rise of Visual Culture*.
