The Humanities Institute

Bettina Aptheker: "The Meaning of Freedom of Speech: Surveillance, Incarceration & the Politics of the First Amendment"
2013-11-13 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Namaste Lounge – College 9, Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Bettina Aptheker co-led the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in 1964. She will give a brief retrospective and then consider the different ways in which race, gender, class, and sexuality effect the exercise of freedom of speech as a collective right established by the First (and Fourteenth) amendments. Bettina will clarify the difference between freedom of speech and academic freedom, and ask us to think about both in the context of Tea Party politics, mass incarceration, and the unprecedented technologies of surveillance.
Everyone welcome. Questions and answers to follow the talk.
Food for Thought Quarterly Faculty Speaker Series 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 the other side of the faculty member through food – light refreshments provided will represent some favorite food or cuisine of our invited guest.
Presented by the College Nine and College Ten CoCurricular Programs Office. For more information or accessibility needs, please contact coco@ucsc.edu.

An Evening with Peter Kenez, Murray Baumgarten, and Lee Jaffe
2013-11-13 18:00 - 19:30 | Silverman Conference Room, Stevenson, Stevenson College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join us for a celebration of two recently published books: The Coming of the Holocaust: From Anti-Semitism to Genocide by Peter Kenez, and The Jewish Street: The City and Modern Jewish Writing by Murray Baumgarten and Lee Jaffe. The authors will discuss their books, copies of which will be available for sale and signing. Refreshments will be served.
Peter Kenez is Emeritus Professor of History, UCSC
Murray Baumgarten is Distinguished Professor of Literature and Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies, UCSC
Lee Jaffe is the Librarian for Jewish Studies, Philosophy & Theater Arts, UCSC
This event is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies and the University Library.

Karla Mallette: "'A narcocracy of language': The Cosmopolitan Language Against Translation"
2013-11-13 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Karla Mallette is currently working on a monograph, tentatively titled Lives of the Great Languages, which is a theoretical study of the cosmopolitan language system: the trans-regional and trans-historical mega-languages that were the literary media of cultural life in the pre-modern Mediterranean.
Karla Mallette is Associate Professor, Italian and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan.

Billy Collins: "Aimless Love"
2013-11-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome two-term U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins for a reading and signing of his new collection, Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems. Local poet and artist Gary Young, who teaches at UCSC and was Santa Cruz County’s first Poet Laureate, will introduce Mr. Collins.
Billy Collins is famous for conversational, witty poems that welcome readers with humor but often slip into quirky, tender or profound observation on the everyday, reading and writing, and poetry itself. Aimless Love combines more than fifty new poems with selections from four previous books—Nine Horses, The Trouble with Poetry, Ballistics, and Horoscopes for the Dead. By turns playful, ironic, and serious, Collins’s poetry captures the nuances of everyday life while leading the reader into zones of inspired wonder. In the poet’s own words, he hopes that his poems “begin in Kansas and end in Oz.” Touching on the themes of love, loss, joy, and poetry itself, these poems showcase the best work of this “poet of plenitude, irony, and Augustan grace” (The New Yorker).

This offsite event will take place at UCSC Music Recital Hall. Parking is $3, but is located next to the venue and is easily accessible.
People with disabilities needing assistance are asked to contact us in advance: email bookshopevents@yahoo.com or call 46-3232
PLEASE NOTE: Tickets will be sold by row, with open seating within each row. If you are planning on attending this event with others, you will want to purchase tickets as a group if you’d like to sit next to each other.

TICKETS: $28.30, includes one ticket to the event & one copy of Aimless Love.
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Author photo courtesy of Suzannah Gilman

Anna Szabolcsi: "What do quantifier particles do?"
2013-11-08 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Abstract: In Szabolcsi (2010: Ch 12.5) and subsequent work I embarked on a program to investigate the compositional semantics of quantifier words. Taking apart someone and everyone and specifying what the quantifier particles and the indeterminate pronoun mean are not daunting tasks. The interesting part of the project begins when we observe that in many languages, the “quantifier particles” also serve in multiple other roles, and set out to investigate whether and how the same interpretations extend to those contexts. Best-known is the case of Japanese, where “someone” (dare-ka) is formed with the morpheme ka and “everyone/anyone” (dare-mo) with the morpheme mo, both of which have busy lives of their own. In addition to indefinites, ka shows up in disjunctions (John-ka Mary(-ka)) and questions (Dare-ga VP ka; John-ga VP ka) . In addition to universals, mo serves as an additive and scalar particle (John-mo) and shows up in distributive conjunctions (John-mo Mary-mo). Hungarian vala/vagy, –e, mind, and is exhibit very similar behavior. A natural first stab is to observe that members of the cross-linguistic KA family are join operators, whereas members of the MO family are meet operators. This talk will confront a particular problem for that interpretation: the fact that in many constructions multiple copies of the same particle occur. A semantic approach will be proposed.
Anna Szabolsci is Professor of Linguistics at New York University.

Living Writers Series: Carolyn Cooke
2013-11-07 18:00 - 19:45 | Kresge Town Hall
Thresholds and Breaking Points
The writers in this series will present across multiple genres, to include poetry, fiction, criticism, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests thresholds of culture, race, nation, sex, gender, and desire through the creative imagination. Central to each will be how these thresholds are performed, tested, broken, clarified and complicated in their works.
Carolyn Cooke’s novel Daughters of the Revolution was listed among the best novels of 2011 by the San Francisco Chronicle and The New Yorker Magazine. Her short fiction, collected in The Bostons, won the PEN/Bingham Award, and has appeared in AGNI, The Paris Review, Ploughshares and two volumes each of Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prize Stories. Her new collection, Amor & Psycho, was published by Alfred A. Knopf this summer. Carolyn directs the MFA programs at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.
Location and Time: All Readings located at Kresge Town Hall 466 | 6-7:45pm
The Living Writers Series is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, a Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation, the Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program, Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading, and a Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment.

Korea Peace Day
2013-11-07 16:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Santa Cruz Korea Peace Day 2013
“No Gun Ri: No Reconciliation Without Truth”
Lecture by Charles Hanley
(Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist)
Screening of Memory of Forgotten War
A film by Deann Borshay Liem and Ramsay Liem<
Additional Speakers: Paul Liem (Korea Policy Institute), Sarah Sloan (ANSWER Coalition), and Stephen McNeil (American Friends Services Committee)
About the talk: Although South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has investigated many of more than 200 alleged cases of what it categorizes as civilian massacres committed by U.S. soldiers during the Korean War, a war that has yet to be ended with a peace treaty, the U.S. government has investigated only one, the refugee killings at No Gun Ri. The U.S. government’s 300-page report on that inquiry exonerated the U.S. military of wrongdoing. President Clinton stated that the evidence was not clear that there was responsibility “high enough in the chain of command.” In reporting their findings, however, the U.S. Army investigators ignored and left undisclosed many of the most relevant documents and testimony. The most significant example is the “Muccio letter,” in which the U.S. ambassador to South Korea informed the State Department that the Army, fearing infiltrators, had decided to fire on South Korean refugees approaching U.S. lines despite warning shots. The No Gun Ri carnage began the next day.
About the speaker: Charles J. Hanley is a retired journalist with more than 40 years’ experience as reporter and editor, largely internationally. As an Associated Press special correspondent from the late 1970s to 2011, he reported from some 100 countries on stories ranging from summit conferences and arms negotiations to climate change and the plight of a threatened tribe in New Guinea. He also reported from a dozen war zones, including extensively from Afghanistan and Iraq beginning in 2002. He served as AP assistant and deputy managing editor in 1987-92. In 1998-99, he was part of the Associated Press investigative team that confirmed the U.S. military’s large-scale killing of South Korean refugees at No Gun Ri in 1950, early in the Korean War. That work earned the team a Pulitzer Prize and 11 other major national and international journalism awards. Hanley’s reporting was recognized with a half-dozen other major awards over the years.
About the film: Four Korean American survivors testify to the brutality of the Korean War and the pain of divided families, 60 years later. Interwoven with the history of the war, their stories speak loudly for a long overdue end to the unresolved Korean War.

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research, the Asian American and Pacific Islander Resource Center, the Department of History, the Department of Film and Digital Media, Cowell College, Stevenson College, the Korea Policy Institute, and the American Friends Services Committee.
Free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Christine Hong (cjhong@ucsc.edu).

Humanities Research Development Workshop
2013-11-06 14:30 - 15:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please stay tuned for more information

Katherine Gordy: "Situated Theory: Radical Political Thought in Latin America"
2013-11-06 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Katherine Gordy’s current book project traces the interrelations between what she identifies as different “spheres” of Cuban political thought—political doctrine (official sphere), political theory (academic sphere), and daily practice (popular sphere)—in order to challenge accounts that treat Cuban socialist ideology as solely state-originated dogma or as necessarily in opposition to academic and popular forms of political thought.
Katherine Gordy is Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University in the Department of Political Science.

1930's FIlm Series: "Chapaev (1934)"
2013-11-05 08:00 - 17:00 | Porter C-118
An important example of socialist realism in Soviet cinema, Chapaev charts the ideological development and refinement of Chapaev (Boris Babochkin), a charismatic leader of a Red Army division. Under the guidance of his accompanying Party commissar, Dmitri Furmanov (Boris Blinov), the impetuous and proud Chapaev learns important lessons in the dialectic of spontaneity and consciousness. Released on the seventeenth anniversary of the October revolution and directed by Georgii and Sergei Vasil’ev (often referred to as the Vasil’ev Brothers, even though they weren’t fraternally related), Chapaev was the most popular Soviet film of its time and a huge hit internationally. Not to be missed!

For the remainder of the quarter, we will be showing 1930s films from different countries each week. Same time, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family, invite your friends.

Debarati Sanyal: "Camus's Afterlives: From the Holocaust to the Age of Terror"
2013-11-04 17:00 - 19:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Debarati Sanyal is Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony and the Politics of Form (John Hopkins University Press, 2006) and a forthcoming book titled Dangerous Intersections: Complicity, Trauma and Holocaust Memory. She has recently published articles on Alain Resnaiss, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Jonathan Littell, Giorgio Agamben, the memory of World War II, and Holocaust memory. She has also co-edited a 2-volume issue of the Yale French Studies issue titled Noueds de mémoire: Multidirectional Memory in French and Francophone Literature (2010).

Salt of the Earth: Exploring the Cultural Diasporas of Surfing
2013-11-01 - 2013-11-02 | Rio Theater, 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062, United States
Proudly presented by the UCHRI and Porter College, the spirit of the Salt of the Earth event is to essentially celebrate the indigenous Hawaiian practice of heʻe nalu (surfing) and the impact it has had on the world. Events include an artist talk by Drew Brophy and an alaia surfboard shaping demo by Tom Pohaku Stone at Porter College on the afternoon of Friday, 11/1. That evening there will be screening of Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau presented by director Sam George at the Rio Theater – doors and live music start at 6:45pm. The following day a surf conference will be held at the UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, from 9:30am – 5:00pm, that will use the film to segue into some of the most debated aspects of contemporary surf culture: the changing aesthetic representations of surfing, the evolving methods of surfboard production, surf industry environmentalism and surfer activism, and contextualizing localisms in both Oʻahu and Santa Cruz. These events are free* and open to the public. For more information, please visit the event website at saltoftheearth-ucsc.blogspot.com or email Trey Highton at treyhighton@gmail.com.
Sponsored by: Arbor Collective, Big Creek Lumber, Burger, Dark Seas, Hula’s Island Grill, Kanalu, Mollusk Surf Shop, Obey, Patagonia, Santa Cruz Mountain Brewery, Save the Waves Coalition, Sawyer Land & Sea Supply, Surfline, Surfrider Foundation, Trader Joe’s, Woodstock’s Pizza, and the UCSC Literature Department.
* A $5 donation will be strongly suggested at the door for the film screening. This donation will purchase a raffle ticket for various door prizes supplied by our community sponsors. All proceeds will benefit the Surfrider & Aikau Foundations.

1:00 PM – Artist Talk with Drew Brophy – “How to Survive as an Artist”
Hitchcock Lounge, Porter College, UCSC
2:30 PM – Indigenous Alaia Surfboard Shaping Demo with Tom Pohaku Stone
Porter College Amphitheater, UCSC
6:45 PM – Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau screening, plus live music from The Shapes
Rio Theater, 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

9:30am – 5pm – Surf Conference at UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall
Panel Discussions Include:
Changing Aesthetics of Surfing: Technologies of Framing the Oceanic
Sam George, Marcus Sanders, Julie Cox, Daniel Duane, & Drew Brophy
Of Surfboards & Soul: A look at the changing manufacturing technologies of surfboards, and if the surfboard has a soul…
Tom Pohaku Stone, Chad Kaimanu Jackson, Ashley Lloyd, Danny Hess, & Bob Pearson
Clear Water: An honest conversation about SIMA, Environmentalism, and Surfer Activism
Jess Ponting, Jim Kempton, Kristian Gustavson, Kyle Thiermann, & Nick Mucha
Deconstructing Localisms: Contextualizing Oahu & Santa Cruz
Isaiah Helekunihi Walker, Tom Pohaku Stone, Ken Collins, & Frosty Hesson
Free on-campus parking

For more information, please visit the conference website: http://saltoftheearth-ucsc.blogspot.com

Clare Monagle: "Neo-medievalism and the Postcolonial: International Relations Theory and Temporality"
2013-10-30 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Though an historian of medieval thought, Clare Monagle’s most recent work turns to the twentieth-century and the deployment of the Middle Ages in International Relations Theory. Monagle argues that charting the medieval in this frame enables a new insight into the understanding of historical time that informs the discipline of international relations.
Clare Monagle is a graduate of Monash and the Johns Hopkins Universities. She received her PhD in 2007. She is broadly interested in history of intellectuals in the Middle Ages, as well as the histories of the institutions that housed them. Her work is also concerned with the “medievalism” of twentieth and twenty-first century thought, that is, the uses to which the concept of the medieval is put within definitions of modernity and progress.

Film Screening: Gold (1934)
2013-10-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Porter C-118
The Golden Plague Forging Its Path of Annihilation!
One of the few expressly science fiction films produced under German National Socialism, Gold makes a spectacle of British-German relations in the early years of the Third Reich. An “evil” British alchemist sabotages a “good” German chemist’s experimental attempt to obtain gold from base metals with the help of an atomic reactor, and the chemist dies in the ensuing explosion. The deceased chemist’s “good” engineer assistant, Werner Holk (Hans Alber), survives the disaster and starts to look for the parties responsible for the death of his mentor. Effectively kidnapped by the Brits during his search and coerced into aiding them, Holk finds himself in a vast underwater facility where the atomic reactor designed by his dead friend is being reconstructed on a grand scale. While attempting to sabotage this new alchemical project before it destroys the world economy with mass-produced artificial gold, Holk also has to figure out what to do about his feelings for the daughter of the British alchemist, Florence (Brigitte Helm). Playing on many of the anxieties and fears connected with Germany’s experiences with hyperinflation in the 1920s, Hartl’s film is a unique peek into Nazi cinema of the 1930s. Wittily “sampled” in Curt Siodmak’s American sci-fi classic, The Magnetic Monster (1953), excerpts from which will be shown as well, Gold is not to be missed!

Presented by It Came from the Thirties! For the remainder of the quarter, we will be showing 1930s films from different countries each week. Same time, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family, invite your friends.

Helene Moglen: "From Frankenstein to Facebook: Reflections on the Dissolution of the Humanities"
2013-10-29 19:00 - 20:30 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UC Santa Cruz Emeriti group presents an Emeriti Faculty Lecture cosponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies and the Department of Literature
Are accounts of our love affairs with our machines stories of imprisonment or empowerment? Are we in charge of our avatars, personal profiles and robots, or have they actually mastered us? Drawing on Mary Shelley’s iconic science fiction novel, Frankenstein, Moglen explores the relation of humanism to technology and considers the various realities that pleasures of the virtual have concealed.
Helene Moglen is a literary, feminist, and psychoanalytic critic. In addition to the books and articles she has published in the area of literary studies, she has written about literacy, pedagogy, competition among academic women, power, and the erosion of the humanities. She is the author of The Trauma of Gender: A Feminist Theory of the English Novel (UC Press 2001) and the co-editor of Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism (UC Press, 1997).
FREE parking is available in the Performing Arts lot. For questions or accommodation requirements, contact UC Santa Cruz Special Events Office at 831.459.5003 or specialevents@ucsc.edu.

Saru Jayaraman: "Behind the Kitchen Door in Santa Cruz and Across America"
2013-10-28 18:00 - 21:00 | Oakes Learning Center, UCSC
More Americans are choosing to dine healthy and ethically at restaurants offering organic and fair-trade ingredients. Yet few diners are aware of the working conditions at the restaurants themselves. How do restaurant workers live on some of the lowest wages in America? And how do poor working conditions—discriminatory labor practices, exploitation, and unsanitary kitchens—affect the meals that arrive at our restaurant tables? In her book, Behind the Kitchen Door, Saru Jayaraman tries to answer these questions by following a group of restaurant workers, among the 10 million – many of whom are immigrants and people of color – who make up the nation’s second-largest private sector workforce. Whether you eat haute cuisine or fast food, the well-being of restaurant workers is a pressing concern, affecting our health and safety, as well as our local economies.
Ms. Jayaraman’s talk will be followed with a Q&A session with the author along with Gretchen Regenhardt, attorney and representative of the Watsonville-based group, California Rural Legal Assistance, which is launching a survey and research project on low-wage restaurant workers in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties.
Saru Jayaraman is a graduate of Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and director of the Food Labor Research Center at UC Berkeley. She is also co-Founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United), a national organization with 10,000 members across 26 cities, which organizes restaurant workers to win workplace justice, conducts research, partners with responsible employers, and launched cooperatively-owned restaurants. She has appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher, MSNBC, NBC Nightly News, and PBS, among others.
California Rural Legal Assistance, founded in 1966 as a nonprofit legal services program, now has 21 offices, providing more than 40,000 low-income rural Californians with free legal assistance and a variety of community education and outreach programs.
Co-Sponsored by the UCSC Center for Labor Studies, the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, the Sociology Department, the Chicano Latino Resource Center, Oakes College, and the Institute for Humanities Research.
For more information, please contact smckay@ucsc.edu

The Stanford School of Philosophy of Science
2013-10-26 09:00 - 17:15 | Cordura Hall – CSLI
In the 80s and early 90s, a group of influential philosophers, historians, and philosophers of science were concerned with the following themes: disunity and pluralism of scientific theory and practice the nature of scientific modeling (in its dizzying variety, including mathematical, diagrammatic, and classificatory models) post-positivistic and practice-based articulations of scientific knowledge and practice. The aim of this conference is to invite scholars to reflect on the nature, thematics, and influence of the “Stanford School” of philosophy of science.
This event is free and open to the public.
Please e-mail Jill Covington (jillj@stanford.edu) or Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther (rgw@ucsc.edu) if you have any questions.
Event Poster (PDF)

9:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Opening Comments:
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther (UC Santa Cruz)
Panel #1: Next Generation(s)
Jordi Cat (Indiana)
Hasok Chang (Cambridge)
Jonathan Kaplan (Oregon State University)
Naomi Oreskes (Harvard)
Janet Stemwedel (San José State University)
Michael Weisberg (University of Pennsylvania)
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther (UC Santa Cruz)
Chair: Arezoo Islami (Stanford)
1:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Panel #2: Parallel Philosophers
Philip Kitcher (Columbia)
Helen Longino (Stanford)
Sergio Martínez Muñoz (National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM)
Bas van Fraassen (San Francisco State University)
Co-Chairs: Debra Satz (Stanford) and John Perry (Stanford)

9:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Panel #3: Collaborative Local Scientists
Brian Cantwell-Smith (Toronto)
Persi Diaconis (Stanford)
CWF Everitt (Stanford)
Solomon Feferman (Stanford)
Marcus Feldman (Stanford)
Melissa Franklin (Harvard)
Denis Phillips (Stanford)
Chair: Paolo Mancosu (UC Berkeley)
1:30 PM – 5:15 PM
Panel #4: Stanford School Core Members
Nancy Cartwright (Durham)
John Dupré (Exeter)
Peter Galison (Harvard)
Peter Godfrey-Smith (CUNY)
Patrick Suppes (Stanford)
Chair: R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford)
Closing Comments:
Thomas Ryckman (Stanford)

Conference organized by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther. Co-sponsored by Stanford University, Stanford Philosophy Department, Stanford Humanities & Sciences Dean’s Office, Stanford Humanities Center, Center for the Study of Language and Information, and the Patrick Suppes Center for History and Philosophy of Science.

Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners Film Screening
2013-10-25 19:00 - 21:45 | Classroom Unit 2, Classroom Unit‎ University of California Santa Cruz, UC Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Free Angela! is a brilliant documentary that captures the sensational murder and kidnapping trial of Black Communist and UCLA Professor Angela Davis in the early 1970s. It provides extraordinary archival footage, interviews with Davis, all four of her trial lawyers and the activists who co-led a massive international movement for her freedom. Davis was deeply involved in a movement to help save the lives of three Black prisoners known as the Soledad Brothers, and was also active in the Black Panther Party and the anti- Vietnam war movement. Davis was indicted as a co-conspirator by a Marin County Grand Jury and when “unavailable” was placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list.This was the result of an attempt by prisoners from San Quentin to escape during a court case in Marin County on August 7th, 1970. The judge, two of the prisoners, and their young would-be liberator were killed by San Quentin prison guards; the prosecuting attorney and the other escaping prisoner were critically wounded. Condemned in sensational media coverage, then President Richard Nixon and then California Governor Ronald Reagan denounced Davis as a “dangerous terrorist.” Davis was in fact the target of government revenge as a symbol of the radical fervor of those times. The film tells a complicated story in a comprehensible, powerful way that continues to reverberate in our own time.
Q & A following the film with Howard Moore, lead counsel for Angela Davis, and Bettina Aptheker, Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
Showing sponsored by the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and by the Feminist Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz.

"Unfixed Itineraries: Film and Visual Culture from Arab Worlds"
2013-10-25 - 2013-10-26 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab, Room 306
Peter Limbrick, Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media, UCSC
Omnia El Shakry, Associate Professor, History, UC Davis

Shelby Graham, Director/Curator, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, UCSC
Soraya Murray, Assistant Professor, Film and Digital Media, UCSC
Irene Lusztig, Assistant Professor, Film and Digital Media, UCSC
Neda Atanasoski, Associate Professor, Feminist Studies, UCSC
Jennifer Derr, Assistant Professor, History, UCSC

Unfixed Itineraries has two components:
a symposium, free and open to the public, that will take place October 25-26 2013 at the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC), bringing scholars and artists together for two days of screenings, presentations, and conversations.
a concurrent exhibition at UCSC’s Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery that runs from October 25-December 10.
Both events coincide with the series “Moumen Smihi, Poet of Tangier,” curated by UCSC film and digital media professor Peter Limbrick, which takes place at the Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, between October 10 and 27. Smihi will also be a participant at the symposium. http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/smihi
The Unfixed Itineraries symposium will encourage innovative perspectives on Arab film and visual culture, emphasizing their multifaceted and plural nature. Rather than homogenize “the Arab world,” for example, we stress the multiple worlds that have been made by diverse histories. Instead of taking for granted the meaning of the word “Arab,” our event continually questions fixed narratives that produce rigid identities. And by refusing the common tendency to reduce Arab art to the realm of the political or the religious, we also affirm the inspiring, arresting pleasures of the aesthetic, the sensory, the intellectual, and the social aspects of film and media from the region.
Participants will focus on the production and circulation of Arab visual cultures across multiple temporal and spatial boundaries: from the historical to the recent, at “home” and in diaspora. The symposium includes opportunities for seeing film and media and for engaging in scholarly, critical debates with cultural producers (rather than just “about” them).
Artists and scholars will visit from Lebanon, Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Canada, Europe, and the US and the work presented will cover a wide area of forms, styles, and thematic concerns.
Symposium screenings, panels, and presentations will address topics such as: Movement and Extra-territoriality; Itineraries of Intertextuality; Past, Present, and Future Itineraries; Narrative and non-Narrative Itineraries; Archives, Images, Memory.

Living Writers Series: Ruth Ellen Kocher
2013-10-24 18:00 - 19:45 | Kresge Town Hall
Thresholds and Breaking Points
The writers in this series will present across multiple genres, to include poetry, fiction, criticism, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests thresholds of culture, race, nation, sex, gender, and desire through the creative imagination. Central to each will be how these thresholds are performed, tested, broken, clarified and complicated in their works.
Ruth Ellen Kocher is the author of Ending in Planes (Noemi Press, date TBA), Goodbye Lyric: The Gigans and Lovely Gun (Sheep Meadow Press 2014), domina Un/blued (Tupelo Press 2013), One Girl Babylon (New Issues Press 2003), When the Moon Knows You’re Wandering, winner of the Green Rose Prize in Poetry (New Issues Press 2002), and Desdemona’s Fire winner of the Naomi Long Madget Award for African American Poets (Lotus Press 1999). Her poems are widely anthologized, and she has been awarded fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation, the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, and Yaddo. She is Associate Chair of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Colorado where she teaches innovative Poetry, Poetics, and Literature.
Location and Time: All Readings located at Kresge Town Hall 466 | 6-7:45pm
The Living Writers Series is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, a Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation, the Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program, Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading, and a Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment.

Gihan Abou Zeid: "Egyptian Women in Struggle: Then and Now"
2013-10-23 17:00 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Egyptian human rights activist, journalist and author GIHAN ABOU ZEID is an authority on women’s rights in the Arab world. She was part of the revolution of 2011 that brought millions of people to Tahrir Square. Gihan is the managing editor for the magazine Politics and Religion and writes for the Qatari newspaper Al Arab. She is developing a regional strategy for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on cooperation between UN agencies and faith-based organizations. Gihan served 9 years as vice president of the NGO’s Forum for Women in Development, and was a policy adviser for the Ministry of Family and Population in Egypt.
Sponsored by the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research. For further information, including disabled access, please contact Evin Guy, ecguy@ucsc.edu, (831) 459-5655.

Jennifer L. Derr: "Embodied Politics and Bilharzia Infection in Colonial Egypt"
2013-10-23 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Jennifer Derr’s work explores the configuration and experience of the colonial state in Egypt through its construction of the agricultural environments that lined the banks of the Nile River. Derr traces the intersections of the colonial state in Egypt with the material experiences of environmental infrastructure, resource allocation, disease, and the geographies of colonial capitalism.
Jennifer Derr is Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz.

Lecture: Carrie Mae Weems, photographer
2013-10-21 19:00 - 20:30 | Media Theater, M110
Photographer and video installation artist Carrie Mae Weems examines the complex and contradictory legacy of African American identity, class, and culture in the United States.
Weems will discuss her work and ideas, drawing on three decades of artistic activity. The recipient of a 2013 MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, Weems has exhibited nationally and internationally over the course of her career.
Presented by the Art Department, Arts Division, Digital Arts and New Media, and Film and Digital Media. Cosponsored by the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Visual & Media Cultures Colloquia, and the Institute of the Arts & Sciences.

Graduate Seminar with Visiting Artist Carrie Mae Weems
2013-10-21 14:30 - 16:00 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab, Room 306
The recipient of a 2013 MacArthur Foundation grant, Carrie Mae Weems is a photographer and video installation artist examining the complex and contradictory legacy of African American identity, class, and culture in the United States. On October 21st, she will meet with graduate students in a seminar setting for a conversation about how artists talk about their work to the public and to the critics, scholars, and journalists who write about it. Ms. Weems’ art practices intricately document and participate in the ongoing and centuries-old struggle for racial equality, human rights, and social inclusion in America. Through photography, installation, and video, Weems addresses an array of issues and demonstrates an overarching commitment to understanding the present by closely examining history. We hope you will join us in a conversation with Ms. Weems about communicating politically and emotionally charged practices to different audiences.
Please join us October 21st at 2:30 P.M. in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 230. This will be a participatory conversation so please come with questions and prepared to discuss and present aspects of your work. A public lecture will take place later the same day at 7 P.M. in the Media Theater.
Information on Ms. Weems work can be found at http://carriemaeweems.net/
Sponsored by UC Santa Cruz Arts Division, Art Department, UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Film & Digital Media, Visual and Media Cultures Colloquia, The Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Institute of the Arts & Sciences.

Rocio Rosales: "Stagnant Immigrant Social Networks and Cycles of Exploitation"
2013-10-21 12:30 - 14:00 | Rachel Carson College, Room 301, Rachel Carson College 1156 High Stree, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Based on over four years of ethnographic research among street vendors in Los Angeles and on interviews with family members of vendors and former vendors living in Mexico, Rocio Rosales examines the influence of a sending community and its social networks on migrant outcomes in the US. These social networks affect migration patterns, ease entry into the fruit vending business but also facilitate exploitation. Furthermore, these social networks do not always function as effective conduits of information because its members, due to feelings of shame or embarrassment, often fail to add to the existing body of knowledge. As a result, international migration patterns, job placement, and exploitative practices do not change or improve for subsequent migrants. This creates a cycle in which social networks become stagnant and successively fail to function as effective conduits of information and resources in ways that might help network members equally and in the aggregate.
Rocio Rosales is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She completed her Ph.D. in Sociology at UCLA in 2012 and received her A.B. in Sociology (cum laude) with a certificate in Latin American Studies from Princeton University. Her dissertation, “Hidden Economies in Public Spaces: The Fruit Vendors of Los Angeles,” examines the social and economic lives of a group of undocumented Latino street vendors. Her research interests include international migration, informal work, immigrant and ethnic economies, Latinos/as in the US, qualitative methods and urban ethnography. Her work has been funded by the American Philosophical Society (2011), John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation (2010), Ford Foundation (2005-2008), and the SSRC Mellon Mays Foundation (2003-2012). Her research appears in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and in Ethnic and Racial Studies (forthcoming).
Lecture presented by the UCSC Sociology Colloquium Series and the UCSC Center for Labor Studies.
For more info, go to: http://socyeventsucsc.wordpress.com/.
For info about access to College 8, contact: Barbara Laurence, balauren@ucsc.edu.

7th Annual Founder's Day Celebration Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony
2013-10-18 | Cocoanut Grove, 400 Beach Street , Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Please join us to celebrate the spirit of community and honor outstanding achievement.
Seventh Annual Founders Celebration Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony
Friday, October 18, 2013 | 6:30 pm | $125 per seat
Cocoanut Grove Ballroom, Santa Cruz

This year’s dinner will sell out early.
Please purchase your tickets today!

Founders Celebration Dinner 2013 Honorees:
Foundation Medal | Frank Gehry
Fiat Lux Award | Don & Diane Cooley
Alumni Achievement Award | Jock Reynolds
Faculty Research Lecturer | Howard Haber & Abraham Seiden

The UC Santa Cruz Foundation Forum — In Conversation with Frank Gehry
Friday, October 18, 2013 | 3:00 pm

Forum tickets have sold out. A livestream of the event will be available here:

Living Writers Series: Frances Richard
2013-10-17 18:00 - 19:45 | Kresge Town Hall
Thresholds and Breaking Points
The writers in this series will present across multiple genres, to include poetry, fiction, criticism, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests thresholds of culture, race, nation, sex, gender, and desire through the creative imagination. Central to each will be how these thresholds are performed, tested, broken, clarified and complicated in their works.
Frances Richard is the author of Anarch. (Futurepoem, 2012), The Phonemes (Les Figues Press, 2012) and See Through (Four Way Books, 2003), as well as the chapbooks Shaved Code (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2008) and Anarch. (Woodland Editions, 2008). She writes frequently about contemporary art and is co-author, with Jeffrey Kastner and Sina Najafi, of Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Fake Estates” (Cabinet Books, 2005). She has been a visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the recipient of a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and, most recently, a research grant from the Graham Foundation. Currently she teaches at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
Location and Time: All Readings located at Kresge Town Hall 466 | 6-7:45pm
The Living Writers Series is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, a Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation, the Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program, Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading, and a Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment.

Daniel Selden: "'Our Films, Their Films': Postcolonial Critique of the Cinematic Apparatus"
2013-10-16 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
PAs a former director of the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Center, Dan Selden’s long-standing interest in cross-cultural aesthetics extends to film production. Selden focuses on the application of the Western cinematic apparatus to non-Western contexts in an effort to better understand the work of such directors as `Abbās Kiyārostamī and Wong Kar Wai.
Daniel Selden is Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz.

Exhibition: Albert Camus, 1913-2013
2013-10-15 09:00 - 16:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Beginning on October 15, UC Santa Cruz will be one of 500 venues worldwide to host an exhibit commemorating the 100th birthday of the French Nobel Prize winning author and philosopher Albert Camus.
The new digital/paper exhibit combines print editorial with QR code technology.
The exhibit was conceived and produced by the Institut Francais, an arm of the French State Department in partnership with Camus’ publisher, Gallimard and Ecole Normale Superieure.
“There are over 100 images, and more than 15 minutes of audio and video recordings linked to the various QR codes,” noted Douglas Hull, a board member of the Silicon Valley branch of the Alliance Francaise.
“The exhibit works chronologically, and is divided into five major periods of his life. Some of the images were never published before, particularly from his life in Algeria,” Hull added.
Coded QR codes allow the viewer to select the nature of the information experienced (magenta equals context/background; codes with a symbolic eye equal zoom in; with a quotation mark equal citations; and with an arrow in a white circle equal audio or video).
Recordings include Camus’s Nobel acceptance speech in Stockholm, and zooms include articles he wrote anonymously during WWII for an underground paper and copies of manuscript pages.
Hull added that viewers will also have the chance to upload their own picture with a time and location stamp onto a global mosaic which will be scrollable and accessible to anyone who has downloaded the exhibit’s app.
This exhibit is free and open to the public. It runs through November 14. Open hours are 9 a.m.to 4:30 p.m.

Living Writers Series: Lucy Corin
2013-10-10 18:00 - 19:45 | Kresge Town Hall
Thresholds and Breaking Points
The writers in this series will present across multiple genres, to include poetry, fiction, criticism, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests thresholds of culture, race, nation, sex, gender, and desire through the creative imagination. Central to each will be how these thresholds are performed, tested, broken, clarified and complicated in their works.
Lucy Corin is the author of the short story collection The Entire Predicament (Tin House Books) and the novel Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls (FC2). The collection One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses was just released from McSweeney’s Books. Stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, Ploughshares, Tin House Magazine, New Stories From the South: The Year’s Best and other places. She’s been a fellow at Breadloaf and Sewanee, and spent last year at the American Academy in Rome as the 2012 John Guare Fellow in Literature. She now directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of California, Davis.
Location and Time: All Readings located at Kresge Town Hall 466 | 6-7:45pm
The Living Writers Series is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, a Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation, the Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program, Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading, and a Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment.

Undisciplining Feminism: Formations in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2013-10-10 13:30 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Bringing together a core group of UC and Cal State faculty working at the intersections of feminist studies and ethnic studies, we will generate a curricular vision that, rather than being negatively constructed as a critique (of patriarchy, mainstream feminism, “wave”-based periodizations, etc.) begins with concepts like race, empire, and settler colonialism. Conversely, we imagine ethnic studies as foundationally organized around gender and sexuality, centered on concepts such as reproduction and sexual violence. While critiques of Women and Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies as disciplinary formations have long existed, we hope that by generating shared curricular materials, we can further engage the intellectual repercussions of (inter)disciplinarity and strategize ways to make institutional interventions. We aim to collectively generate the kind of work called for by such critiques, and to share strategies for the careful institutionalization of such work.
This event is intended to support current efforts to establish a Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) program at UC Santa Cruz, in addition to enabling a conversation amongst group participants. While student efforts at establishing ethnic studies as a major have a long history at UCSC, it was not until the disestablishment of American Studies, which led to massive student protests against the lack of institutional support for the study of race and ethnicity in 2011-12, that these efforts received administrative attention. In 2012-13, a working group consisting of faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students has met regularly around a series of talks and workshops aimed at developing a CRES major. The major was approved in Spring 2012, with courses scheduled to begin 2012-13. The public portion of our event, sponsored by Bettina Aptheker and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, is intended to be in conversation with and to raise the profile of CRES, as well as the launch of the Feminist Studies graduate program.
Some questions that we hope to address through this event:
Where, why and to what effect does the complicity of feminisms with the security state, the carceral turn, settler colonial states, and so forth take place?
What are some alternative genealogies of feminism (perhaps not recognizable or identified as such) that we might consider as generative for thinking about difference? Why might they not be as legible as points of departure for feminism? What are the political possibilities and perils of visibility and legibility?
How might existing scholarship already be producing alternative genealogies for a practice and politics of feminism?
To learn more about the conference, and to access the agenda and abstracts, please visit: http://ihr.ucsc.edu/undisciplining-feminism/.
This event is free and open to the public.

Film Screening of "Maestra" with Filmmaker Catherine Murphy
2013-10-09 19:30 - 21:00 | Charles E. Merrill Lounge
Cuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. 100,000 of the teachers were under 18 years old. Over half were women. Maestra explores this story through the personal testimonies of the young women who went out to teach literacy in rural communities across the island – and found themselves deeply transformed in the process.
There will be a Q & A with the filmmaker after the screening.
Co-sponsored by The Chicano/Latino Research Center, The Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, and the Social Documentation Program.
For more information contact the Latin American and Latino Studies Department, or Professor Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal at: lourdes@ucsc.edu

Deborah Gould: "Becoming Coalitional: The Strange and Miraculous Alliance Between Queer to the Left and the Jesus People, USA"
2013-10-09 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Interested in the emotional terrains of activism, Deborah Gould’s current project explores political appetites, encounters, and the “not-yet” of politics.
Deborah Gould is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Sociology at UC Santa Cruz.

"The Motherhood Archives" film screening and discussion
2013-10-08 19:00 - 20:30 | Communications 150, Studio C
Archival montage, science fiction, and an homage to 70s feminist filmmaking are woven together to form this haunting and lyrical essay film excavating hidden histories of childbirth in the twentieth century. Assembling an extraordinary archive of over 100 educational, industrial, and medical training films (including newly rediscovered Soviet and French childbirth films), The Motherhood Archives inventively untangles the complex, sometimes surprising genealogies of maternal education. Revealing a world of intensive training, rehearsal, and performative preparation for the unknown that is ultimately incommensurate with experience, The Motherhood Archives is a meditation on the maternal body as a site of institutional control, ideological surveillance, medical knowledge, and nationalist state intervention.

Introduction by Neda Atanasoski (Feminist Studies)
Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker, Irene Lusztig, and:
Nancy Chen (Anthropology)
Jenny Horne (Film & Digital Media)
Felicity Schaeffer (Feminist Studies)
Reception to follow in Communications 139

Presented by the Center for Documentary Arts and Research and the Departments of Anthropology, Feminist Studies, and Film & Digital Media.

THATCamp Alt-Ac: an Alternative Academics Unconference
2013-10-05 - 2013-10-06 | 60 Evans Hall and Dwinelle Classrooms, UC Berkeley
A space for grad students and recent Ph.D.’s to think through the multiple career options we can explore amidst a declining tenure track job market. We will invite professionals in administrative academic, non-profit, arts administration, tech, ed-tech, digital humanities, and secondary education careers to join our two-day unstructured conference. Planned sessions will include a C.V. to resume workshop, but the rest will be up to the participants to curate each day of the event.
Please see http://altac2013.thatcamp.org/ to register and for more information.

Jim McCloskey: "Preverbs, Phases, and Objecthood: An Irish Perspective on Some Old Problems"
2013-10-04 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The direct object relation is a relation of central importance in syntactic theory and so it was an important moment when the nature of that relation was re-thought in a fundamental way in work of the 1990’s. This paper examines some of the issues raised in that re-thinking, by looking closely at the expression of the direct object relation in Irish (infinitival) clauses. It focuses in particular on what is to be learned from an intricate pattern of dialectal, idiolectal, and generational variation which, it is claimed, sheds light on how we should understand `Burzio’s Generalization’, which is
itself a central aspect of theories of objecthood which derive from Government Binding Theory.
Jim McCloskey is Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz.

Joanne Barker Seminar
2013-10-04 11:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Joanne Barker will be lead a seminar followed by a Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) program building discussion. Please register to obtain the seminar readings.

Joanne Barker (Lenape [Delaware Tribe of Indians]) is associate professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University. She received her Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness Department from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2000 on the work of identity and identification in indigenous struggles for sovereignty and self-determination. She is author of Native Acts: Law Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity (Duke University Press, 2011) and editor of Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination (Nebraska, 2005). She is involved in cultural repatriation rights, environmental issues, human rights, and anti-war politics. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the University of California, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.

Poetry and/or Revolution
2013-10-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Oct 3-5, UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis, UC Berkeley.
This conference is a pendant to the recent UK conference on Militant Politics and Poetry at Birkbeck College (Saturday, 18 May 2013). It features a large number of US and UK scholar-poets.
The conference will take up from a variety of perspectives the relationship of poetry to political antagonism, one which has recently been reanimated through the extensive participation of poets in political militancy. There will be an opening plenary and discussion including a summary of and response to the Birkbeck conference, held at UC Santa Cruz. The second day will feature “scene reports”: from the UK poet-scholars on recent debates and on the situation in the UK, and from poetics scholars and poets involved with Bay Area political struggle — to be held at UC Davis. The third day will feature discussions about the situation going forward, including both theorizations of the poetry/politics relation, problems of identity and representation, and practical proposals for next activities — to be held at UC Berkeley. There will be poetry readings on each campus. Of interest to poets and to scholars of poetics, modern/contemporary British literature, British Studies, modern/contemporary US literature, Cultural Studies, Transatlantic, Political Science & Theory.
UC Santa Cruz • October 3, 2013
7-9 PM
Chris Chen, “Antagonism and/or Difference: Reading Race”
Jennifer Cooke, “Poetic Sensations: Bodies, Emotions & Change”
Poetry Reading: Wendy Trevino, Danny Hayward, Jasper Bernes, Jennifer Cooke, Juliana Spahr
Humanities 1, Room 210, Santa Cruz
UC Davis • October 4, 2013
10-12 PM
Report from six UK poet-scholars including organizers of the “Militant Poetry and Politics” conference at Birkbeck University
Voorhies Hall 126, Corner of First and A Streets, Davis
2-4 PM
Poetics & Ports: a report from eight poet-scholars involved in Occupy Oakland and Bay Area political organizing
Voorhies Hall 126, Corner of First and A Streets, Davis
7-9 PM
Offsite Poetry Reading: David Buuck, Keston Sutherland, Jill Richards, Marianne Morris, Chris Chen
Third Space, 946 Olive Drive at Richards Blvd., Davis
UC Berkeley • October 5, 2013
10-12 PM
Roundtable discussion of the relation between identity-based oppression and literary representation in militant poetics
Wheeler Hall 300, English Department Media Room
2-4 PM
Manifestos and/or practical proposals: 13 concise and eloquent considerations of the situation for revolution and/or poetry
Wheeler Hall 300, English Department Media Room
7-9 PM
Offsite Poetry Reading & Farewell Celebration: Sean Bonney, Imad Hassan, Francesca Lisette, Joshua Clover
Location announced at afternoon session
Made possible by generous support from the UCSC Department of Literature and the Institute for Humanities Research at Santa Cruz.
Conference blog with schedule PDF’s of readings:
http://revolutionandorpoetry.wordpress.com

Joanne Barker: "In Debt: A Reconsideration of 'Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime' from Manna-Hata"
2013-10-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Intervening in populist, Occupy Wall Street discourses about the subprime crisis and its remedies, this talk critically uncovers Manna Hata from Manhattan. Offering a long genealogical view of the militarized dispossession, genocide, and enslavement of Native peoples in order to problematize the subprime crisis as a signifier of racism, this talk focuses on territorial expansion, resource destruction and extraction, labor exploitation, and debt as past and present depredations upon Native nations and their citizens within the United States. In so doing, this talk addresses Native debt in ways left unaccounted for in a proliferation of recent scholarship on debt, including the special issue of American Quarterly, “Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime.” By tracing current U.S. and global economic formations and their crises to inaugural violence upon Native nations and their citizens, this talk examines the foundational nature of the U.S. military foreclosure of Native lands as part of its territorial homeland and its appropriation of Native bodies into its system of indentured labor relative to the crisis of home mortgages and their speculative securities.
Joanne Barker (Lenape [Delaware Tribe of Indians]) is associate professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University. She received her Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness Department from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2000 on the work of identity and identification in indigenous struggles for sovereignty and self-determination. She is author of Native Acts: Law Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity (Duke University Press, 2011) and editor of Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination (Nebraska, 2005). She is involved in cultural repatriation rights, environmental issues, human rights, and anti-war politics. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the University of California, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.

Otávio Bueno: "Seeing with a Microscope"
2013-10-03 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 1, Room 320
In this talk, Professor Bueno will propose an empiricist account of visual evidence in the sciences and examine the role it plays in scientific representation (particularly, in microscopy). To motivate the view, a critical examination of Bas van Fraassen’s empiricist proposal will be provided.
Otávio Bueno is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Miami. His research concentrates in philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of logic. He has published widely in these areas in journals such as: Noûs, Mind, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Science, Synthese, Journal of Philosophical Logic, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, and Analysis. He is editor-in-chief of Synthese. In his free time, he enjoys to run ultramarathons.

National Endowment for the Humanities Application Writing Workshop
2013-09-24 13:30 - 16:45 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Daniel Sack, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Program Officer in the Division of Research Programs, will provide an overview of NEH programs and initiatives, offer strategies for application writing, and facilitate a mock peer review panel session.
NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.
Agenda:
1:00-1:30pm – Registration
1:30-3:00pm – Overview of Endowment Programs and Special Initiatives
3:00-3:15pm – Break
3:15-4:45pm – Mock Panel Session/Strategies for Application Writing followed by Q&A
This workshop is free and open to the public but pre-registration is recommended to guarantee space. Please email ihr@ucsc.edu by September 20 to reserve a seat. Walk-in registration may be available at the door on September 24.

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship Information Session at UC Berkeley
2013-09-16 13:00 - 14:30 | Geballe Room
Dr. Nicole Stahlmann, Director of Fellowship Programs at the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), will host an information session at 1:00 PM in the Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall at UC Berkeley. This presentation will provide an overview of ACLS funding opportunities for faculty and advanced graduate students, and include information on research proposal preparation and ACLS’s peer-review process. The presentation will conclude with an opportunity for Q&A.
ACLS offers research support to faculty and advanced graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences through more than a dozen programs. With over $15 million in annual fellowship stipends awarded in the 2012-13 competition year, ACLS is one of the largest supporters of scholars in the humanities.
Information on current ACLS competitions and deadlines are available here.

Workshop on Things
2013-06-26 - 2013-06-27 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Note: due to two unfortunate cancellations, the session originally planned for Tuesday evening, June 25th, will not take place. The workshop will begin Wednesday morning.
All conference events will take place in Humanities 1, Room 210.

Wednesday, June 26th
10:00–11:30 David Hyder (University of Ottawa) “Time and object in Transcendental Deduction §24”
Moderator: Dennis Des Chene
11:45–1:15 Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech) “Kant on the qualities of things”
Moderator: David Hyder
1:15–2:45 Lunch
2:45–4:15 Dennis Des Chene (Washington University St. Louis) “The emergence of mere things”
Moderator: Ori Simchen
4:30–6:00 Ori Simchen (University of British Columbia) “Things of semantic value”
Moderator: Abe Stone
6:00-7:00 Tea and Cookies Reception
Thursday, June 27th
9:30–11:00 Justin E.H. Smith (University of Paris VII) “Res extensae, res publicae, and the political dimensions of things”
Moderator: Ori Simchen
11:15–12:45 Nick Stang (University of Miami) (title TBA)
Moderator: Justin E.H. Smith
12:45–1:45 Lunch
1:45–3:15 Abe Stone “Kant on substances and things”
Moderator: Nick Stang

bodies / moving / borders symposium and performance
2013-06-08 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
bodies / moving / borders
displacements and dreams of citizenship
a research symposium and performances re-membering legacies, pedagogies and ways of knowing with special guests: Julio Salgado, Leti Volpp, and Las Bomberas de la Bahia
The symposium will extend the dialogue we have built about citizenship, culture and identity by bringing together scholars and practitioners to think about knowledge formations and embodied practices in the framework of citizenship.
SCHEDULE
10am Panel 1: displacements
1pm Panel II: dreams
3pm Provocations
5pm Performances (Stevenson Event Center)

The Living Writers Reading Series: Student Readings
2013-06-06 18:00 - 19:30 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join us for readings by UCSC’s creative writing students.

Fenella Cannell: "Ghosts and Ancestors in the Modern West"
2013-06-03 15:30 - 17:00 | Unnamed Venue
This Anthropology Colloquium is co-sponsored by the IHR’s Religious & Secular Entanglements Research Cluster.
Dr. Fenella Cannell is a specialist in Southeast Asian anthropology, and has also conducted research on kinship and religion in the United States. She worked in the Philippines in 1988-89, 1992, and 1997. Her fieldwork was with Catholic rice-farming people in a rural area, but on the outskirts of a small town, where people were also exposed to complex, urbanising influences and images from Manila and from the West, especially America. Her research explored the ways in which people come to think about “culture” in a post-colonial society, and focused on women’s lives and arranged marriage, spirit-mediumship, saint’s cults and religion, and popular performances including transvestite beauty contests. She has since carried out historically-based work on the Philippines, especially on education, kinship, and gender in the American colonial period. She also works with a number of postgraduate students whose research is based in Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia, and intends to do more work in the region in the future. Most recently, however, she has conducted a two-year research project on American kinship and religion, with a particular focus on Mormonism. Much of this research took place in upstate New York and in Utah. In addition to these field-based projects, Dr. Cannell has written more broadly on the relationship between Christianity and social theory.
Dr. Fenella Cannell, London School of Economics and Political Science

Workshop with Fenella Cannell: "Mormon Intercessions"
2013-06-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join the IHR’s Religious and Secular Entanglements Research Cluster for a workshop with Fenella Cannell. We will be discussing an early draft of her current work on kinship and religion with a specific focus on Mormonism. Attendees should read the draft of her chapter on “Mormon Intercessions” by clicking on the two (2) links below.
(1) Fenella Cannell -cover note on Mormon intercessions
(2) Mormon intercessions – chapter three FC

The Living Writers Reading Series: George Estreich
2013-05-30 18:00 - 19:45 | Unnamed Venue, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
George Estreich is a poet and the author of the memoir, The Shape of The Eye, winner of the Oregon Book Award. “The Shape of the Eye is a memoir of a father’s love for his daughter, his struggle to understand her disability, and his journey toward embracing her power and depth. Estreich is raw and honest and draws us each into a new view of what it means to be ‘human’ and what it means to be ‘different’. This book is beautifully written, poetically insightful, and personally transformative. To read it is to rethink everything and to be happy because of the journey.” –Timothy P. Shriver, Ph.D., Chairman & CEO of Special Olympics

Humanities Undergraduate Research Award (HUGRA) Presentations
2013-05-30 16:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Stay tuned for more information.

Celebrating the Humanities Spring Awards
2013-05-30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - Eng-Beng Lim: "The Rice Queen's Brown Boy Dream: On Pedophilic Modernity, Performance and Queer Asia"
2013-05-29 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“The Rice Queen’s Brown Boy Dream: On Pedophilic Modernity, Performance and Queer Asia”
Eng-Beng Lim works on transnational, Asian and queer issues through the lens of performance. His current work is on cultural pedagogies of neoliberal Asia that are produced on the one hand by large-scale transnational theatrical productions and on the other hand by global satellite campuses of U.S. universities in Singapore, Shanghai, Abu Dhabi.
Eng-Beng Lim is Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University.

The Living Writers Reading Series: Lauren Shufran, Tsering Wangmo, and Juliana Leslie
2013-05-23 18:00 - 19:45 | Unnamed Venue, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Lauren Shufran is the winner of The Motherwell Prize. Her poetry collection Inter Arma will be published be Fence Books in Spring, 2013.
Tsering Wangmo’s first book of poems, Rules of the House, was published by Apogee Press in 2002 was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Awards in 2003. Other publications include My Rice Tastes Like the Lake (Apogee Press 2011) and In the Absent Everyday (also from Apogee Press). A book of creative non-fiction will soon be published in India from Penguin.
Juliana Leslie’s first book, More Radiant Signal, came out in 2010 from Letter Machine Editions. Her second book of poetry, Green Is For World, winner of the National Poetry Series, will be published this year by Coffee House Press.

Neil Sinhababu: "Desire's Explanations"
2013-05-23 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 1, Room 320
I defend a Humean theory of motivation on which desire motivates all action and drives all practical reasoning. I respond to objections from Christine Korsgaard, David Velleman, and others suggesting that this view leaves no room for the self in action. I argue that all the agent’s desires are part of the self, and that their effects include the self’s decision and action.
Neil Sinhababu is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at National University of Singapore. He works on Ethics and Metaethics.

Anthony Barbieri-Low: "Imagining the Tomb of the First Emperor of China"
2013-05-23 04:30 - 20:30 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on “Archaeology and the Ancient World”
The tomb complex of the First Emperor of China is arguably the most important archaeological site in the world. Since the tomb will not be excavated in our lifetime, if ever, imagination will always play a major role in trying to understand what is in the tomb. Ever since the Emperor was first interred, authors, artists, and archaeologists have tried to reconstruct and imagine what lies in his tomb. Such reconstructions allow the imaginer to project his fears, hopes, and expectations on the site, and can tell us even more about the imaginers than it does about the world they imagine. This talk will explore how historians, poets, artists, archaeologists, movie directors, and video-game designers have imagined the First Emperor’s underground realm.
Talk begins at 5:00 pm, refreshments served at 4:30 pm, with a reception following lecture.
Anthony Barbieri-Low is Associate Professor of Early Chinese History at UC Santa Barbara. He graduated from UCSC in 1994 with a degree in History, and went on to receive his M.A from Harvard and Ph.D. from Princeton. He has wide-ranging research interests in many aspects of Early China, including technology, organization of production, labor history, gender and social relations, legal process, material culture, and state formation. In 2007, he published the book Artisans in Early Imperial China, which went on to receive four major international book prizes in ancient history, art history, and Chinese studies. He has just completed a book-length translation and study of ancient Chinese legal texts and is preparing another book on interpretations of the First Emperor of China.
Free parking for lecture in Cowell-Stevenson parking lots. For more information on the lecture or the AIA, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu.

Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - Michael Nauenberg: "Teaching Natural Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment"
2013-05-22 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Teaching Natural Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment”
Michael Nauenberg has published on the foundations of quantum mechanics and has written extensively on the development of calculus in the seventeenth century with particular reference to the work of Isaac Newton, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and John Barrow. His current work is on Newton’s development of celestial mechanics and gravitation.
Michael Nauenberg is Research Professor of Physics at UCSC.

U.S. Fulbright IIE Information Session
2013-05-22 10:00 - 11:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
The Graduate Division cordially invites undergraduate and graduate students to an information session on the U.S. Fulbright IIE fellowship program.
If you are interested in applying for a 2014-2015 Fulbright U. S. Student Program Grant or English Teaching Assistantship plan to attend this information session.
Link to the competition: http://www.iie.org/fulbright
Presenters will include:
Past successful Fulbright IIE applicants
Marlene Robinson, UCSC Fulbright Advisor
Dr. Tyrus Miller, UCSC Graduate Division Dean and Past Fulbright Awardee
Please RSVP to Irena Polić, at ipolic@ucsc.edu, by May 17th.
Press Release: Fulbright U.S. Student Program Competition Opens: International Study or Research Grants and English Teaching Assistantship Now Available

Lisa Lowe: "Sugar, Tea, Opium, and Coolies: The Intimacies of Four Continents"
2013-05-20 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Lisa Lowe
This lecture examines the fetishism of colonial commodities as a mediation of often obscured connections between the transatlantic African slave trade to the Americas, settler colonialism, the import of Asian indentured labor, the East Indies and China trades, and the emergence of European liberal ideas of citizenship, wage labor, and free trade in the late-18th and early-19th centuries.
Lisa Lowe is a professor of English and American Studies at Tufts University and a scholar in the fields of comparative literature, and the cultural politics of colonialism and migration. Before joining Tufts, she taught in the Literature Department at UC San Diego for over two decades. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the UC Humanities Research Institute, the American Council of Learned Societies, the School of Advanced Study – University of London, and the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. Lowe is the author of Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Cornell UP), Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Politics (Duke UP), and coauthor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Duke UP). Her current project, The Intimacies of Four Continents, is a study of the global conditions for liberal economy, knowledge, culture, and politics.
Seminar with Lisa Lowe:
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 • 11:00 AM • Humanities 1 Building, Room 210
To receive the seminar readings, please contact Courtney Mahaney at cmahaney@ucsc.edu.

This event is organized and sponsored by the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program. Cosponsored by the University of California Center for New Racial Studies, the Division of Humanities at UCSC, the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Oakes College, and Stevenson College.

International Playhouse XIII
2013-05-19 20:00 - 22:00 | Stevenson Event Center
The Language Program, Cowell College, and Stevenson College cordially invite you and your students to attend a performance of The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XIII (IP), an annual multilingual program of fully-staged short theater pieces, now in its 13th season. Four public performances will be held on May 16, 17, 18, 19, at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center and will feature works in French, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish, with English super-titles. The program will be directed by Language lecturers, working with their students. There is no admission charge; however, evening parking permits are required for the Thursday and Friday performances. Parking permits will be available by attendant in the Cowell/Stevenson lower parking lots (#109/110) for $4.00. Those already in possession of a valid “A”, “B”, or “C” permit do not need to purchase an additional permit to park during evening hours.
This year’s works include excerpts from (French) LE MALADE IMAGINAIRE (The Hypochondriac) by Molière, directed by Miriam Ellis; (Italian) NATIVITÀ (Nativity) by La Smorfia, directed by Giulia Centineo; (Japanese) THE VAMPIRE CABBIE by Murakami, directed by Sakae Fujita; (Spanish) LAS LUCIÉRNAGAS DEL CARIBE (Caribbean Fireflies) by Carballido, directed by Marta Navarro.

Grant McGuire: "Separating voice prototypicality and stereotypicality"
2013-05-17 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Current theories of speech perception emphasize the demonstrated role of direct experience in voice processing where greater experience with a voice or voice type results in various processing advantages. This talk describes early results from a project examining the role of stereotypes, or more abstracted representations not necessarily based in direct experience, in the processing of voices. Specifically, we will detail the role various voice types play in phonetic accommodation, the phenomenon where a talker adapts properties of another talker’s voice.
Grant McGuire is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz and recipient of an IHR Faculty Fellowship (2012-13). His primary research interest is in speech perception. He received his PhD in Linguistics from Ohio State University (Phonetic Category Learning, 2007) and has published research articles on perceptual learning in adults and infants, audio-visual speech perception, and gender effects on speech perception.

Ad Neeleman: "Person: Inventory and Realization"
2013-05-16 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Person: Inventory and Realization” is a joint work with Peter Ackema, of the University of Edinburgh.
In this presentation Dr. Neeleman will develop a theory in which person features are more abstract than usually assumed: they do not refer to speaker or addressee, but are rather used to navigate a ‘person space’ . The theory is confronted with two typological problems.
(i) Why is the inventory of persons so limited? Why aren’t there 30 persons? (In this context 30 is not a random number, but represents the number of potential persons.)
(ii) What explains the typological observation that syncretism between first and third person is much rarer than syncretism between either first and second, or second and third person (Baerman et al. 2005, Baerman and Brown 2011)?
If time allows, he will discuss also Dutch as a case study. In this language there are two person endings that arrange themselves in such a way that there is a 2-3 syncretism in the regular case, a 1-2 syncretism under subject-verb inversion, and an optional 1-3 syncretism with a particular lexical class of verbs (modals).
Ad Neeleman is Professor of Linguistics at University College London. His research focuses on syntactic theory and the interaction between the syntax and syntax-external systems. He received his PhD from Utrecht University (Complex Predicates, 1994) and is the author of some forty research papers and two books (Flexible Syntax, 1999, with Fred Weerman, and Beyond Morphology, 2004, with Peter Ackema). His current research deals with linear asymmetries in syntax, the grammar of person and the linguistic representation of causation.
This event is presented by he Crosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology Research Cluster, and sponsored by the UC Humanities Network. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information, including disabled access, please contact: Shann Ritchie, (831) 459-5655, sritchie@ucsc.edu. Maps: maps.ucsc.edu.

Richard Miskolci: "Undisciplined studies & the (geo)politics of knowledge"
2013-05-15 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Challenges for a North-South dialogue
Why does knowledge continue to travel only from North to South? To understand the powerful continuity in this exchange, this presentation will start with a historical reconstitution of its creation and functioning. Even in an increasingly decentered world we still witness the hegemony of academic exchange in which North produces theories and South is seen as a space for collecting data or applying Northern theories to particular cases. Knowledges are created under institutional frames that connect them to power interests. During the end of 19th century, for example, evolutionism created a kind of alliance between intellectual and ruling classes in different parts of the world. Later, after World War II, this same alliance was recreated with a new objective: spreading a modernization ideal based on the assumption that West – the US in particular – was the model for the Rest (of the world). Beginning with the 1960s, with the historical event Foucault called “the insurgence of subalternized knowledges”, we saw the rise of a set of studies connected to once overlooked inequalities inside the so called West. These studies challenged the old ways of creating knowledge and connected their work to the interest of subalternized groups like women, people of color, gays, lesbians, colonized peoples, and, more recently, queer persons. Unfortunately, this important historical inflection that created specific fields like feminist, post-colonial and queer studies has not changed the flux of knowledge production from North to the South.
What are the reasons behind this continuity even in fields committed to subalternized people and experiences? Why are feminist, post-colonial, racial/ethnic, and queer studies made in the South not seen as interlocutors in the North? Why isn’t Southern intellectual production circulated or taken into account in Northern genealogies of the so-called “studies”? Have “studies” been dragged into the academic battles inside US and Europe to conquer their internal institutional space while overlooking their possible allies in the South? Why – in a decentered world – do “studies” keep the global South in the position of a silent interlocutor that appears in generalized assumptions of contemporary production subsumed under expressions like international, transnational and global? Finally, what are the challenges to create a North-South dialogue? This presentation will try to address these questions and present some hypotheses, but its main objective is not to give any final answer or present a solution. The idea is to promote the discussion about how knowledge committed to subalternized people and social change can reproduce – and even reinforce – unfair power relations outside the borders in which it is created.
Richard Miskolci is Professor of Sociology at the Federal University of São Carlos in São Paulo state, Brazil, and Researcher at Núcleo de Estudos de Gênero Pagu, UNICAMP. A key figure in the debate on queer theory in Brazil, Miskolci has authored several books, including Thomas Mann, the Mestizo Artist (2003), O desejo da nação: masculinidade e branquitude no Brasil de fins do XIX (2012) and is the editor of Dissident Sexualities (2007), the first Brazilian Queer Studies anthology. Dr. Miskolci is a Visiting Scholar in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz this year.
Additional Reading: “Undisciplined studies & the (geo)politics of knowledge”
Miskolci Event Flyer

Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - Blake Wentworth: "Bhakti Demands Biography: Crafting the Life of a Tamil Saint"
2013-05-15 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Bhakti Demands Biography: Crafting the Life of a Tamil Saint”
Blake Wentworth’s current work revolves around a central feature of south Indian political life in premodernity, the mapping of sexuality onto the political domain such that lordly power is beautiful. By tracing the genealogy of this trope, he explores the interplay between ancient Tamil poetics and the wider Sanskrit world.
Blake Wentworth is Assistant Professor of South and South EastAsian Studies at UC- Berkley.

Noel Q. King Annual Lecture: “Higher Mysteries: Faith and Theology in Crime Fiction”
2013-05-14 19:00 - 20:30 | Santa Cruz Public Library – Downtown Branch, 224 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The King Lecture Series, preserving the work of UCSC History and Comparative Religion professor Noel Q. King, promotes and explores the dialogue between faiths. This year’s lecture also incorporates the interests of his wife, crime writer Laurie R. King, in conversation with three other award-winning crime writers, for an event called:
Higher Mysteries: Faith and Theology in Crime Fiction

Zoë Ferraris moved to Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the first Gulf War, living in a conservative Muslim community with her then-husband and his family, a group of Saudi-Palestinians. Zoë has an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University. Her novels are published in over thirty countries.

Sharan Newman is a Medieval historian with an MA in Medieval Literature and a PhD in Medieval Studies,specializing in twelfth-century France. She has been writing fiction since1980, with ten books in her award-winning series about Catherine LeVendeur, once a student under the abbess Heloise. Her books explore Medieval ideas of religion as well as Christian/Jewish relations.

Julia Spencer-Fleming, a bestselling author with an armful of awards, spent most of her childhood on the move as an army brat, then studied acting and history at Ithaca College, receiving a J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law. She writes a crime series about Army helicopter pilot-turned-Episcopal priest Clare Fergusson set in her native upstate New York.

Moderator Laurie R. King, who did her BA in Comparative Religion at UCSC and her MA in Old Testament Theology at the Graduate Theological Union, turned to crime (fiction) when she wrote a tale in which young theology student Mary Russell meets the famous skeptic Mr. Sherlock Holmes, and finds herself apprenticed to him. Many of Laurie’s books have theological and religious themes.

Higher Mysteries is sponsored by UCSC’s Noel Q. King Memorial and the Santa Cruz Public Libraries. Books will be sold at the event by Bookshop Santa Cruz, and refreshments served thanks to the Friends of the Public Library.
For background reading to the discussion:
Zoë Ferraris: Finding Nouf & City of Veils
Laurie R. King: A Monstrous Regiment of Women & A Darker Place
Sharan Newman: The Outcast Dove & Strong as Death
Julia Spencer-Fleming: In the Bleak Midwinter & Out of the Deep I Cry
Please RSVP to info@laurieking.com will help the Friends with the chair setup.
For more information, write to info@laurieking.com

9th Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium
2013-05-10 13:30 - 16:30 | McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special Collections
Grad students share their research by presenting either oral, media or posters with an awards ceremony immediately following along with a reception.

Free and open to the public.

Main floor conference rooms for orals and media presentations, hallways for poster presentations.

Carol Lynn McKibben: "Gender and Italian Immigration in California: A Monterey Case Study"
2013-05-10 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Regional context is of critical importance in understanding processes of migration. As well, gender analysis complicates group migration experiences. Dr. McKibben’s talk will focus both on the economic and social environment of California and on the role of women in families that made for a migration experience for Sicilians that counters the usual narratives of Italian migration in the Eastern and Midwestern United State in the twentieth century. Unlike the East and Midwest, Sicilians in California created ethnic communities that were persistent, replenished over time with new migrations, especially in the post-1965 era.
Carol Lynn McKibben began teaching courses in public history at Stanford in 2006. She received her Ph.D. in American History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999. Her book, Beyond Cannery Row: Sicilian Women, Immigration, and Community in Monterey, California, 1915-1999 (University of Illinois Press, February, 2006) examines the migration and settlement of Sicilian fishing people to the Monterey Peninsula, with an emphasis on women’s roles in the process. She taught history and policy studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies from 1992-2001, and is currently Public Historian for the City of Seaside, California and the Director of the Seaside History Project. She is the author of Seaside (forthcoming, Arcadia Press, April, 2009), and completing work on the narrative history of Seaside, which focuses on race relations and the influence of the military (Fort Ord) on the city, The Making of a Multi-Cultural Military Town, Seaside, California, 1890-2006.
This lecture is presented by Italian Studies, the Language Program, and Italian Program at UC Santa Cruz.

The Living Writers Reading Series: Elizabeth Graver
2013-05-09 18:00 - 19:45 | Unnamed Venue, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Elizabeth Graver’s new novel, The End of the Point, set in a summer community on Buzzard’s Bay from 1942 to 1999, is forthcoming from HarperCollins in Spring, 2013. She is the author of three other novels: Awake, The Honey Thief, and Unravelling. Her short story collection, Have You Seen Me?, won the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories (1991, 2001); Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards (1994, 1996, 2001), The Pushcart Prize Anthology (2001), and Best American Essays (1998).

Dana Frank: "A Human Rights Disaster in Honduras: Why is the U.S. Supporting a Repressive Regime?"
2013-05-08 16:00 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
What’s driving this murderous U.S. policy in Honduras? And how are the Hondurans still rising up in resistance?
Since the June 2009 military coup that deposed democratically-elected President Manuel Zeleya, the U.S. has been supporting a repressive regime that continues to commit massive human rights violations. Honduras now has the highest murder rate in the world, and near-complete impunity reigns, including over 300 documented killings by state security forces. Yet the U.S. continues to pour police and military funds into a regime widely known to be riddled with drug traffickers and organized crime – Congress protests more and more loudly.
Dana Frank is Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz.
Dinner reception immediately follows at the Stevenson Provost House.
This event is presented by the Stevenson College Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series. Cosponsored by the Departments of History and Latin American and Latino Studies, and the Institute for Humanities Research.

Helen Diller Family Endowment Lecture with Ari Kelman: "Learning to be Jewish"
2013-05-08 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
For most Americans, the phrase “Jewish education” summons images of Hebrew School. But, Hebrew School, or even what we might call “formal Jewish education” amounts to only a very small percentage of where and how people learn to be Jewish. The landscape of Jewish learning might include those sites, but it certainly includes a much broader spectrum of settings like worship, film festivals, popular music, literature, home-based rituals (like Passover seders), technology, and encounters with the news. By focusing on the places where and how people learn to be Jewish, a dramatically different image of Jewish education comes into focus. Building on cutting edge research into educational cultures, we will explore the variety of ways in which people learn to be Jewish in the 21st century and ask how this new understanding might inform how we understand what it means to be Jewish.
An alumnus of UC Santa Cruz (Stevenson, 1994) Ari Y. Kelman is the inaugural Jim Joseph Professor of Education and Jewish Studies in the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, where he also serves as an affiliate of the Jewish Studies Program, the Center for Comparative Race and Ethnicity, the American Studies Program, and, by courtesy, a professor of Religious Studies. He is the author of Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio, (University of California Press, 2009) and the editor of a volume of the work of cartoonist Milt Gross (NYU Press, 2009). He is also the co-author of Sacred Strategies (Alban Institute Press, 2010), a study of synagogue transformation efforts in the United States and winner of the 2010 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Jewish Education and Identity. In collaboration with Steven M. Cohen, Ari has authored a number of studies of contemporary American Jewish culture addressing issues from Israel to the internet. Ari recently finished a book entitled Shout to the Lord: Worship and Music in Evangelical America, and is currently writing about Fiddler on the Roof, the Jewish Catalog, Jewish cultural festivals and other extra-scholastic loci in which people learn to be Jewish.

Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - Ken Selden: "'Goldfinger' and the Decline of the Classical Hollywood Narrative"
2013-05-08 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Goldfinger” and the Decline of the Classical Hollywood Narrative
The 1964 film Goldfinger, released right after the break-up of the Hollywood studio system, presented a new kind of narrative that did not conform to the classical Hollywood three-act model. In this talk, I will examine how Goldfinger differed dramaturgically from the classical Hollywood style and why, fifty years later, the film’s artistic and financial success remains such a strong influence on almost all Hollywood production.
Ken Selden is a film and television writer/director.

23rd Annual Semantics and Linguistics Theory Conference (SALT)
2013-05-03 - 2013-05-05 | Unnamed Venue
Please stay tuned for more information.

The Living Writers Reading Series: Karen Joy Fowler
2013-05-02 18:00 - 19:45 | Unnamed Venue, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Karen Joy Fowler, author of six novels and three short story collections. The Jane Austen Book Club spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel, Sister Noon, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel, Sarah Canary, was a New York Times Notable Book, as was her second novel, The Sweetheart Season. In addition, Sarah Canary won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian, and was short-listed for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize as well as the Bay Area Book Reviewers Prize. Fowler’s short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award in 1999, and her collection What I Didn’t See won the World Fantasy Award in 2011.

Sea Changes: Mediterranean and Maritime Perspectives on History and Culture
2013-05-02 - 2013-05-04 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP in Mediterranean Studies present:
An International Symposium/Workshop to be held at UC Santa Cruz, 2-4 May, 2013
A maritime perspective provides scholars with a fresh approach to the study of society and culture, including the development of art, literature, and institutions. In the mid-twentieth century, Fernand Braudel first reformulated the history of Early Modern Europe and the Islamic world by taking the sea between them not as a barrier but as an analytical starting point. Taking geography as its point of departure, this history focused not on the supposedly inherent qualities that separated them, but on the connections that bound the people of the coasts and their continental hinterlands to various trans-Mediterranean others. Emphasizing the importance of movement, trade, and communication, it invited the interrogation of categories that had come to seem self-evident (especially the nation), challenged the foundations of dominant historical metanarratives, and called new attention to the significance of peoples and places long regarded as mere intermediaries.
This gathering invites scholars of the humanities and social science engaged in the study of maritime environments–in particular, the application of Oceanic models (pertaining to the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, Pacific, or Indian Oceans, etc.) to the study of the history of human society and culture. Rather than pure research presentations or case studies, Papers (20 minutes) should engage explicitly and directly with the Mediterranean and/or Oceanic Studies as methodological frames or emerging disciplines. Themes include:
– “In the sea” or “of the sea? The practica of maritime methodologies; geographical determinism and/or human adaptations;
– Revelations and Revisions: What the sea brings to scholarship.
– The historiography and reception of the sea in scholarship
This conference will be held in conjunction with the Mediterranean Studies UCMRP Spring workshop.
Symposium and Workshop Program (PDF)

Scott Lauria Morgensen: "Idle No More, Indigenous Feminism & Allied Critiques of Settler Colonialism"
2013-05-01 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Revisiting Indigenous critiques of the sexualization and racialization of colonial rule, Morgensen highlights how such power is challenged by the Indigenous movement Idle No More. Indigenous feminist and Two Spirit critiques explain that heteropatriarchy and white supremacy produce settler colonization and settler state governance.
As explained by participants, the leadership of Idle No More by Indigenous women as founders and spokespersons exposes heteropatriarchy in Indigenous communities for change by challenging racial and sexual legacies of Canadian colonization. These legacies include the Indian Act, which preferentially exiled over four generations of Indigenous women and their descendants from their nations and lands; and in the everyday landscapes of gender and sexual violence faced by Indigenous women and Two-Spirit people.
Morgensen interprets these effects of Idle No More by writing as an allied critic in Canada who answers calls to support Indigenous leadership in transforming colonial rule. Feminist, queer, and trans critiques of racialization, sexualization, and colonization can resonate with Idle No More as it pursues indigenist and decolonial transformation on behalf of all Indigenous people in Canada.
Scott Lauria Morgensen is an ethnographer and historian of social movements. He is Associate Professor in Gender Studies and the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. His work examines how politicalcommunities struggle over differences, challenge or reproduce oppressions, and confront solidarity and alliance. His past and present research examines how racism and settler colonialism shape queer / trans communities in North America. An interdisciplinary scholar trained in Feminist Studies (PhD 2001 Anthropology [Women’s Studies], University of California, Santa Cruz), Morgensen engages the theories and methods of Indigenous, women of color, and transnational feminisms in his work. His first book, Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2011, and won the 2012 Ruth Benedict Book Prize “Honorable Mention” from the Association for Queer Anthropology. He is co-editor of the collection Queer Indigenous Studies, and of “Karangatia: Calling Out Gender and Sexuality in Settler Societies,” a special issue of Settler Colonial Studies. He is co-editor of Journal of Critical Race Inquiry and a proud UCSC Feminist Studies alum.
Additional Reading: Dr. Morgensen will present work in dialogue with a recent blog on jadaliyya.com:
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/11016/settler-colonialism-and-alliance_comparative-chall

Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant WorkerRights in San Jose and Houston
2013-05-01 15:00 - 16:30 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In Conflicting Commitments, Dr. Shannon Gleeson goes beyond the debate over federal immigration policy to examine the complicated terrain of immigrant worker rights. Federal law requires that basic labor standards apply to all workers, yet this principle clashes with increasingly restrictive immigration laws and creates a confusing bureaucratic terrain for local policymakers and labor advocates. Gleeson examines this issue in two of the largest immigrant gateways in the country: San Jose, California, and Houston, Texas.

Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - Soraya Murray: "The Rubble and the Ruin: Spec Ops:The Line as Anti-War Game"
2013-05-01 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“The Rubble and the Ruin: Spec Ops:The Line as Anti-War Game”
Soraya Murray is an interdisciplinary scholar of contemporary visual culture, with particular interest in new media and globalization in the arts. In her analysis of photography, film and digital media, Murray seeks to illuminate these technological expressions in their cultural contexts.
Soraya Murray is Assistant Professor of Film and Digital Media and Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program at UCSC.

Leviathan: Celebrating 40 Years of Jewish Journalism at UCSC
2013-04-28 15:00 - 16:30 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join former and current staff members of Leviathan in a celebration of the student publication’s 40th anniversary. Leviathan is one of the longest-running university student publications devoted to Jewish themes in the United States. Over the years, its articles and artwork have explored contemporary questions of Jewish identity, the role of Israel, local Jewish issues, and a wide range of cultural and historical topics. Many of it editors, writers, and artists have gone on to distinguished careers in publishing, journalism, education, and other fields.
The event, to be held in the Fireside Lounge of Stevenson College at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 28, will include a panel discussion with former and current Leviathan staff members, the official launch of the newly created digital archive of past issues of the publication going back to the 1970s, and a festive reception with food and beverages.
Co-sponsored by Leviathan, the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Stevenson College. Administrative support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Brenda Shaughnessy: "Feminism & Poetry, Empowerment & Passion"
2013-04-27 14:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join Women’s Studies / Feminist Studies alumni, classmates, and faculty for an intriguing afternoon.
2:00-3:00 PM: Reception
3:00-4:30 PM: Brenda Shaughnessy will present a talk entitled: “Feminism & Poetry, Empowerment & Passion”
4:30-6:00 PM: Feminist Studies Faculty Panel will discuss “The Vibrant State of the Feminist Studies Department” to discuss the launching of the Feminist Studies graduate program, the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, current curriculum, faculty research, and more.
Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Our Andromeda (Copper Canyon Press, September 2012.) Her other books are Human Dark with Sugar, which was a finalist for the 2008 NBCC Award and winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Interior with Sudden Joy, finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Harpers, McSweeney’s, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Yale Review and elsewhere. She is currently Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers University at Newark. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband, son, and daughter.
The series of events is organized and sponsored by the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and the Feminist Studies Department. Cosponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Living Writers Reading Series.
Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For further information, including disabled access, please contact Shann Ritchie, sritchie@ucsc.edu, (831) 459-5655. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu.

Víctor Fuentes: "Literatura memorialista de la inmigración"
2013-04-26 17:00 - 19:00 | Humanities 1, Room 408
Víctor Fuentes is the author of a memoir, Memorias del segundo exilio español (2011) and fourteen books, among them, La marcha al pueblo en las letras españolas (1917-1936), El cántico material y espiritual de César Vallejo, Buñuel, cine y literatura, Antología de la poesía bohemia española, Antología del cuento bohemio español.
He is Professor Emeritus of the University of California, Santa Barbara; Full Member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language and Co-editor of the literary magazine Ventana abierta.

￼Profesor Emérito de la Universidad de California, Santa Bárbara. Miembro Numerario de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española. Coeditor de Ventana abierta.
Es autor de numerosas publicaciones, entre las que se cuentan 14 libros de ensayo, dos novelas y un libro de memorias. Entre ellos destacan: La marcha al pueblo en las letras españolas (1917- 1936), El cántico material y espiritual de César Vallejo, Buñuel, cine y literatura (Premio “Letras de Oro”, 1988), Antología de la poesía bohemia española, Antología del cuento bohemio español, Morir en Isla Vista (1999); Memorias del segundo exilio español (2011).

This event is sponsored by the UCSC Language Program.

Giovanna Di Chiro: “Embodied Ecologies: Connecting Sustainability and Environmental Justice”
2013-04-26 16:00 - 18:00 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Dr. Giovanna Di Chiro’s research bridges academic and community action domains and integrates the fields of environment, sustainability, and social justice. She teaches interdisciplinary courses in environmental studies and women’s & gender studies, and incorporates a community-based, action research emphasis (currently as the Lang Professor for Issues of Social Change at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania). Di Chiro has published widely on the intersections of race, class, gender, and environmental justice with a focus on activism and policy change addressing environmental health disparities in lower income communities. She collaborates with environmental justice and community development organizations to conduct participatory action research on environmental health concerns and on developing culturally relevant “sustainability” initiatives in diverse communities.
Di Chiro is co-editor of the volume Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power and is completing a book titled Embodied Ecologies: Science, Politics, and Environmental Justice. Embodied Ecologies focuses on what she calls “embodied” or “situated” environmental science and community-based environmental justice activism. The central argument interrogates conventional environmental science and policy approaches, which tend to concentrate on global, cosmopolitan, and macro-level frameworks of organized power: states, markets, global institutions, global environmental sciences, and international environmental organizations. That selective attention to the macro scale tends to dismiss or simply disregard community/local/situated practices and approaches to environmental science and policy as overly micro level and parochial (i.e., not relevant or up to the task of addressing the big environmental problems of the moment, like global climate change). Using the conceptual framework of “embodiment” and drawing on the feminist political economic theory of social reproduction (the maintenance and sustainability of bodies/families/communities and everyday life), Embodied Ecologies examines the harm done to (human and non-human) bodies, communities, and local environments, which has been eclipsed by dominant discourses emphasizing the global scale. The book highlights the innovative and diverse eco-cosmo-politics generated by grassroots activists to build sustainable, just, and resilient communities in the face of broad-scale environmental problems like global warming and climate change.
Di Chiro has a background in Biology (B.A. with honors from UCSC), a Master of Science in Environmental Studies from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness (Interdisciplinary Studies focusing on Environment, Health, and Development) from UC Santa Cruz, which integrates her interdisciplinary background in biology, environmental studies, and socio-cultural theory. Di Chiro has over 20 years teaching experience, and has taught in Environmental Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies at Deakin University (Australia), University of California (Santa Cruz), Allegheny College, Mount Holyoke College, and Swarthmore College. She has received numerous research fellowships and grants, including from the Rockefeller Foundation, the University of California Humanities Research Institute, the American Association of University Women, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the US Environmental Protection Agency.
This colloquium was established to honor the memory and research of Jessica Roy, a UC Santa Cruz graduate student in sociology whose life was abruptly cut short while doing her dissertation fieldwork in Kenya. Her research in rural Africa was designed to illuminate the problem of access to safe water resources and the influence of gender relations on this access. Her approach was interdisciplinary, including environmental, feminist, and sociological perspectives.
Cosponsored by the Urban Studies Research Cluster.

Feminist Poetry with Brenda Shaughnessy
2013-04-25 17:00 - 19:30 | Unnamed Venue, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Reception: 5:00-6:00 PM • Humanities Building 1, Room 210
Reading: 6:00-7:30 PM • Humanities Lecture Hall
Brenda Shaughnessy is a prize-winning poet and UCSC alumni (Women’s Studies, Literature, 1993) whose latest book of poetry, Our Andromeda received a rave review in the New York TImes Book Review (February 3, 2013). Reviewer Victoria Redel wrote, “This book addresses urgent questions [with] no shortage of invention . . . Shaughnessy conjures our better selves, lovers, kinder gods, sisters . . . Love is the fierce engine of this beautiful and necessary book. Love is the high stakes, the whip of its power and grief and possibility for repair . . . The result is a book whose song will endure.” We are thrilled to bring Brenda back to UCSC for a reading that is sure to enrich our lives and our world. Now an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers, University, Newark, this public reading inaugurates a series of events that will feature Brenda during UCSC’s Alumni Weekend.
Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of the poetry collections, Our Andromeda (2012), Human Dark with Sugar (2008), which was a finalist for the 2008 NBCC Award, and Interior with Sudden Joy (1999). Her poems have appeared in Harpers, McSweeney’s, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Slate.com and elsewhere. She is Poetry Editor-At-Large at Tin House Magazine, and is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers-Newark. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, son, and daughter.
The series of events is organized and sponsored by the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and the Feminist Studies Department. Cosponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Living Writers Reading Series.
Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For further information, including disabled access, please contact Shann Ritchie, sritchie@ucsc.edu, (831) 459-5655. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu.

Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - William Marotti: "Timely and Untimely Politics: Art and Protest in Early 1960s Japan"
2013-04-24 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Timely and Untimely Politics: Art and Protest in Early 1960s Japan”
William Marotti explores politics and timeliness by examining the advent of a critical art of the everyday in Japan in the 1960s and its links to political action. Out of sync with eventful mass activism, artists sought to create eventfulness against a state-promoted, depoliticized daily life in the high growth economy.
William Marotti is Associate Professor of History and Chair, East Asian Studies MA Interdepartmental Program at UCLA.

The Living Writers Reading Series: Patrick DeWitt
2013-04-18 18:00 - 19:45 | Unnamed Venue, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Patrick DeWitt, author of The Sisters Brothers, finalist for the Man Booker Prize, “If Cormac McCarthy had a sense of humor, he might have concocted a story like Patrick DeWitt’s bloody, darkly funny western.” The Los Angeles Times.

25th Anniversary of the UC Humanities Initiative & 2013 Society of Fellows Event
2013-04-18 - 2013-04-19 | University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
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Radical Reading Practices, A Symposium
2013-04-18 - 2013-04-19 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Radical Reading Practices, A Symposium, April 18-19, 2013
Presented by UCSC’s Poetry and Politics Research Cluster. Sponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund and the UC Humanities Network, with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
This symposium attends to the work that readers perform when reading and reconstructing poetry. We focus on the particular ways poetry makes historically and politically significant demands on readers. We hope to foster a conversation about assumptions that structure the way we approach poetry and the larger aesthetic, historical and theoretical categories that are implicated by our approach. Is poetry, for example, a more radical category than prose? Is there a revolutionary way to read it? Is close reading necessary when reading poetry? Is close reading a more radical mode of engaging with texts than other practices? What might those other practices look like?
Symposium Schedule:
Thursday, April 18th, at the Felix Kulpa Gallery (107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz)
5:30-7:00pm An evening of poetry with readings:
Christopher Nealon
Joshua Anderson
Emily Carr
David de La Rocha
Grace Emilie
David Lau
Eireene Nealand
Rob Wilson
Stephanie Young
Friday, April 19th at UC Santa Cruz (Humanities 1, room 210)
8:30-9:00am Light Breakfast
9:00-9:30am Opening remarks
with Keegan Finberg and Juliana Leslie
9:30-10:45am Radical Reading Practices: An Undergraduate Roundtable
Matthew Strebe, “‘Boots Shining and Gleaming’: Poetry and State Violence”
Grace Emilie, “The Unknown Heart Speaks: Embodied Reading Practices and You”
Annie Hill, “Faust Ubersetzt”
Michael Moreno, “Technology and Me: A Look at the Effects of Integrating Technology with Poetry”
Grace Williams, “Reproduction through Interpretation: Exploring Critical Reading”
Moderator and respondent: Tim Willcutts
11:00-12:30pm Panel One: Commons, Collectivity, Community: From Ancient to Contemporary
Stephanie Young, “Precarious Reading”
Emily Carr, “A,B,C: Reading Cultural Jams in Contemporary Poetry”
Kendra Dority, “Figuring Letters: A Politics of Comparative Reading in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae”
Moderator and respondent: Christopher Nealon
12:30-1:30pm Lunch—bring your own or eat on campus restaurants
1:30-3:00pm Panel Two: Historicizing Revolutionary Reading Practices
Daniel Benjamin, “Searching for the Human and Searching for the Ghost in George Oppen’s “Of Being Numerous”
David de la Rocha, “Nicaraguan Poetry and Reading Revolution”
David Lau, “Poetry as Superstructure: Comments on Chris Nealon’s The Matter of Capital”
Moderator and respondent: Dion Farquhar
3:15-4:45pm Panel Three: Models of Reception/Questions of Audience
Whitney De Vos, “Artificial Memory & the Fate of Crystallized Intelligence: Reading Poetry as a Means of Retrieval”
Eireene Nealand, “Why Should We Listen to Criminals?: The Death of the Reader and the Rise of the Trace”
Joshua Anderson, “Implications of the Surface: A Critique of Surface Reading”
Moderator and respondent: Chris Chen
5:00-6:00pm Keynote by Christopher Nealon, “Poetry without Modernity”
6:00pm Reception at the Cowell Provost’s House

Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - Christine Hong: "'War Is the Force That Gives Us Meaning': Militarized Queerness, Lieutenant Dan Choi, and Korean War Mascotry"
2013-04-17 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“‘War Is the Force That Gives Us Meaning’: Militarized Queerness, Lieutenant Dan Choi, and Korean War Mascotry”
Offering a historically layered examination of the rights-based battle waged by former Lt. Dan Choi, son of a war orphan, against the now-defunct policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” this talk inquires into the homology between queer masking in the U.S. military and the Korean War practice of child mascotry.
Christine Hong is Assistant Professor of Literature at UCSC.

Adriana M. Brodsky: "Becoming Jewish-Argentines: Marriage choice, and the construction of a Jewish Argentine Identity (1920-1960)"
2013-04-16 14:00 - 15:45 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The presentation explores the marriage patterns of the Sephardi Jewish communities, paying special attention to when Sephardim began marrying Ashkenazi Jews, thereby giving birth to a new type of Jewish identity, neither fully Ashkenazi nor fully Sephardi, but Argentine. Although initially Sephardim respected the boundaries of their communities of origin, and usually married ‘within’, as the twentieth century progressed and new spaces for interaction of Jews from different origins became available choosing a marriage partner outside of the ‘group’ became more common. The presentation will suggest that loyalties to communities of origin slowly evolved into a stronger sense of belonging to the Argentine nation.
Adriana M. Brodsky, Associate Professor of Latin American History at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, obtained her PhD from Duke University in 2004. She is currently finishing a manuscript entitled Becoming Argentine Jews: Sephardim and the Construction of Ethnic and National Identities, 1880-1960, which focuses on the Sephardic communities that settled in Argentina from the end of the 19th century to mid-20th century, and has co-edited with Raanan Rein (Tel Aviv University) a book titled The New Jewish Argentina (Brill, 2012). She has published on Sephardi schools in Argentina, and on Jewish Beauty Contests. Her new project explores the experiences of Argentine Sephardi youth in the 1960s-1970s, which has received support from the Hadassah- Brandeis Institute.

Simon Goldhill: "First Words, Dying Moments: Starting and Ending in Sophocles and Euipides"
2013-04-12 16:00 - 18:00 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UCSC Classical Studies Program and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present the annual Carl Deppe Lecture
How does tragedy start and stop –
and what does it tell us about the ends of man?
Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek at Cambridge where he also runs the university’s interdisciplinary research center. He has lectured all over the world and appeared on TV and radio and in the theatre in America, Australia, Canada as well as regularly in Britain and Europe. His is a leading expert on Greek tragedy and Greek culture.
For more information, please contact jklynn@ucsc.edu.

The Living Writers Reading Series: Justin Torres
2013-04-11 18:00 - 19:45 | Unnamed Venue, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Justin Torres, author of We The Animals, was a finalist for the 2012 Indies Choice Book Awards, winner of a National Book Award for 5 under 35, and named one of Salon’s “Sexiest Men of 2011.” His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, Glimmer Train, and other publications. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is a recipient of the Rolón United States Artist Fellowship in Literature, and is now a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Vanity Fair writes that We The Animals is “A gorgeous, howling coming-of-age novel that will devour your heart.”

Stevenson College Faculty Lecture Series: Adrian Brasoveanu
2013-04-10 16:30 - 18:00 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
NEGATION IS A PERVASIVE FEATURE of natural language and for the most part, the linguistic and psycholinguistic literature takes it ￼to be a categorical, binary notion: the sentence “Sue left” is positive, while the sentence “Sue didn’t leave” is negative because of the sentential negation “didn’t.”
At the same time, sentences like “Anna answered none of/few of my letters” have been taken to involve some form of negativity despite the fact that they do not contain sentential negations–-but their negativity has not been explicitly quantified.
The first part of the talk presents a new test for detecting and quantifying the negativity of a sentence based on the observation that negative sentences license the particle “no” in agreeing responses, e.g., (1) below, while positive sentences do not license “no” in agreeing responses, indicated by the star in (2) below.
(1)
A: Anna didn’t answer my letter.
B: No, she didn’t.
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(2)
A: Anna answered
B: *No, she did.
After providing experimental evidence that backs up this novel test, the talk discusses an experiment that uses the test to quantify the negativity of sentences like “Anna answered none of/few of my letters.” The results support the view that sentence negativity is a matter of degree and it is influenced by interacting semantic and syntactic factors.

Dinner Reception follows at the Stevenson Provost House
Adrian Brasoveanu is Associate Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz.
Cosponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research and the Department of Linguistics.

Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - Kimberly Lau: "Camping Masculinity"
2013-04-10 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Kimberly Lau’s work explores some of the ways that World of Warcraft engages masculinity in play through the convergence of player practices, game designers, and the ongoing interaction between the two. Reading invocations of hypermasculinity, Lau investigates how everyday “camp” practices might open up alternative spaces and forms of masculine sociality.
Kimberly Lau is Professor of Literature at UCSC.

Bruce Lawrence: "Minor Matters - Asian/African, Muslim/Christian"
2013-04-09 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
How do Muslims and Christians together meet the challenge of majority-minority identity politics in the 21st century? I will assess the status of minority citizenship in places of Africa and Asia that have mixed communities where Muslims are the majority, Christians the minority. Though these communities might be religiously marked as Muslim and Christian, they also have other cultural, linguistic, ethnic, and locational markings that are consequential. More than minority identity, I will argue that the litmus test for good will, comity and collective benefit in each case is citizenship rights as well as access to public space. How are these rights negotiated and maintained, monitored and modified in diverse settings with disparate resources? I will pay special attention to the circumstances and options for Copts in Egypt, Kristens and Katolics in Indonesia, while at the same time linking them to other communities in both Africa and Asia where a similar Muslim-Christian proportionality prevails.
Bruce Lawrence earned his PhD. from Yale University in the History of Religions: Islam and Hinduism. His research ranges from institutional Islam to Indo-Persian Sufism and also encompasses the comparative study of religious movements. He is Professor Emeritus of Islamic Studies at Duke University. His recent books have included On Violence – A Reader (with Aisha Karim); Messages to the World, The Statements of Osama Bin Laden; The Quran, A Biography; and, with his spouse, Dr. Miriam Cooke, Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop.
Cosponsored by UCSC Departments of Anthropology, History, and Literature.
MORNING WORKSHOP – 10:00am to Noon – Humanities 1, Room 210
Professor Lawrence will also be doing a workshop on Tuesday morning which will revolve around Irfan Ahmad’s article, “Immanent Critique and Islam: Anthropological Reflections” and Lawrence’s attempt to apply Ahmad’s most salient lessons to his current work-in-progress, Who is Allah?
Download the articles here: Irfan Ahmad’s Immanent Critique and Who is Allah (work in progress)

The Living Writers Reading Series: Tupelo Hassman
2013-04-04 18:00 - 19:45 | Unnamed Venue, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Tupelo Hassman, author of the novel Girlchild (FSG 2012) “It takes real talent to make something beautiful out of a trailer park. Girlchild, Tupelo Hassman’s lacerating debut novel, is the story of Rory Dawn Hendrix, a young girl growing up in the Calle, a cluster of mobile homes on a plot of dust outside Reno, Nev. Ms. Hassman is such a poised storyteller that her prose practically struts. Her words are as elegant as they are fierce.” –The New York Times

A Feminist Studies Legal Luncheon: Practicing Domestic Violence Law
2013-04-04 12:00 - 14:00 | Unnamed Venue
The Department of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz Presents:
A Feminist Studies Legal Luncheon
PRACTICING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LAW
Featuring distinguished UC Santa Cruz Women’s Studies Alumna
NANCY K.D. LEMON (Berkeley Law, Boalt School of Law)
With an introduction by
Prof. D. Kelly Weisberg, Hastings College of Law
Nancy Lemon was a student founder of UCSC’s Women’s Studies Program and graduated from the Program in 1975. She subsequently graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law, U.C. Berkeley, in June 1980 and was admitted to the California Bar in December 1980. Prof. Lemon, who is a Lecturer in Domestic Violence Law and Director of the Domestic Violence Practicum at Boalt, introduced and has now taught Domestic Violence Law continuously for 25 years at the school. She authored Domestic Violence Law, the first U.S. textbook on this topic, which Austin & Winfield Publishers published in 1996 and for which West Group has published four additional editions, the most recent in 2009. She has also co-authored Child Custody and Domestic Violence: A Call for Safety (Sage Publications, 2003) and Working Together to End Domestic Violence (Mancorp Publishing, 1996) as well as authoring dozens of amicus briefs, law review articles, affidavits and books chapters about domestic violence issues. Since 1983, she has worked on numerous pieces of California state legislation and has conducted hundreds of trainings on domestic violence topics for many different professional groups. Since 1995, working as an expert witness, Prof. Lemon has consulted on hundreds of family law, tort, asylum and other cases and testified in sixty. She is a Co-founder and Legal Director of the Berkeley Family Violence Appellate Project.
Seating is limited – please email fmst@ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-2461 to reserve a space at the luncheon.
Feminist Studies wishes to make this event accessible to all. Please contact (831) 459-2461 for accommodations. This event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required.
Generously sponsored by Cowell College, The Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, and the Department of Feminist Studies.

"(Re-)Building Punjab: Political Economy, Society and Values" Conference
2013-03-29 - 2013-03-30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Punjab is a state in the nation of India, but also a state of mind. The larger geographic region of Punjab was the birthplace of the Sikh religion. The Indian state of Punjab, within that larger region, is the homeland of the Sikhs, the nation’s granary, and a major recipient of diaspora remittances. But within an economically resurgent India, Punjab is in relative decline, apparently beset by societal and environmental problems. This multi- and inter-disciplinary conference will explore the complex relations between the Sikh community and its real and imagined homeland. Individual sessions will be on the historical roots of Punjab’s contemporary society, the state of its politics and political culture, possibilities of economic improvement, challenges of environmental degradation, the role of diaspora philanthropy, and ways in which Punjab’s situation is expressed in and shaped by music and film as forms of cultural production.

The conference and dinner are free and open to the public. Conference sessions will take place in the Humanities Building 1, Room 210 each day.
Dinner space is limited and attendees should register by March 20th, by emailing Courtney Mahaney. Register Now!   Conference Details

Friday, March 29
8:15-8:45 AM – Breakfast
8:45-9:00 AM – Welcome
9:00-10:30 AM – Session 1: Sikh Values and Punjab Society in Historical Perspective
Presenter: Prof. Pashaura Singh, Religious Studies, UC Riverside
Discussant: Dr. Harpreet Singh, South Asian Studies, Harvard University
Session Chair: Prof. Nathaniel Deutsch, History, UC Santa Cruz
10:30-10:45 AM – Break
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM – Session 2: A Case Study of Sikh Diaspora Philanthropy in Punjab
Presenter: Prof. Verne A. Dusenbery, Anthropology, Hamline University
Discussant: Prof. Supreet Kaur, Economics, Columbia University
Session Chair: Prof. James Clifford, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz
12:15-1:45 PM – Lunch
1:45-3:15 PM – Session 3: Punjab Politics and Society
Presenter: Prof. Pritam Singh, Accounting, Finance and Economics, Oxford Brookes University
Discussant: Prof. Jugdep S. Chima, Political Science, Hiram College
Session Chair: Prof. Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Politics, UC Santa Cruz
3:15-3:30 PM – Break
3:30-5:00 PM – Session 4: The Punjab Economy: Problems and Prospects
Presenter: Prof. Lakhwinder Singh, Economics, Punjabi University
Discussant: Prof. Nirvikar Singh, Economics, UC Santa Cruz
Session Chair: Prof. Helen Shapiro, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz
6:30-9:00 PM – Dinner & Lecture: Reflections on the Columbia/UC Santa Barbara Punjab Summer Program
Presenter: Prof. Gurinder Mann, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Saturday, March 30
8:30-9:00 AM – Breakfast
9:00-10:30 AM – Session 5: Groundwater in Punjab: Environmental Challenges
Presenter: Prof. Rajinder Singh Sidhu, Punjab Agricultural University
Discussant: Prof. Upmanu Lall, Engineering, Columbia University
Session Chair: Prof. Ben Crow, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz
10:30-10:45 AM – Break
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM – Session 6: Punjab’s Ethical Soundscapes: From Asa ki Var to Dhadi Var and Hip Hop
Presenter: Dr. Inderjit Kaur, Music, UC Santa Cruz
Discussion and demonstration: Mr. Mandeep S. Sethi, Rapper
Session Chair: Prof. Linda Burman-Hall, Music, UC Santa Cruz
12:15-2:30 PM – Session 7: Lunch Panel: Punjab’s Future – What’s to be Done?
Panelist: Dr. Narinder Kapany, Sikh Foundation
Panelist: Dr. Ajit Singh, Artiman Ventures and Stanford University
Panelist: Mr. Michael Singh, Filmmaker
Panel Chair: Dr. Inder Mohan Singh, LynuxWorks and Chardi Kalaa Foundation
Sponsored by the UCSC Punjab Studies Endowment and Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies

Book Reading and Conversation with Saru Jayaraman: Behind the Kitchen Door
2013-03-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Behind the Kitchen DoorHow do restaurant workers live on some of the lowest wages in America? And how do poor working conditions—discriminatory labor practices, exploitation, and unsanitary kitchens— affect the meals that arrive at our restaurant tables? Saru Jayaraman, who launched the national restaurant workers’ organization, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, sets out to answer these questions by following the lives of restaurant workers in New York City, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, Detroit, and New Orleans.
Blending personal narrative and investigative journalism, Jayaraman shows us that the quality of the food that arrives at our restaurant tables depends not only on the sourcing of the ingredients. Our meals benefit from the attention and skill of the people who chop, grill, sauté, and serve. Behind the Kitchen Door is a groundbreaking exploration of the political, economic, and moral implications of dining out. Jayaraman focuses on the stories of individuals, like Daniel, who grew up on a farm in Ecuador and sought to improve the conditions for employees at Del Posto; the treatment of workers behind the scenes belied the high-toned Slow Food ethic on display in the front of the house.
Increasingly, Americans are choosing to dine at restaurants that offer organic, fair-trade, and free-range ingredients for reasons of both health and ethics. Yet few of these diners are aware of the working conditions at the restaurants themselves. But whether you eat haute cuisine or fast food, the well-being of restaurant workers is a pressing concern, affecting our health and safety, local economies, and the life of our communities. Highlighting the roles of the 10 million people, many immigrants, many people of color, who bring their passion, tenacity, and vision to the American dining experience, Jayaraman sets out a bold agenda to raise the living standards of the nation’s second-largest private sector workforce—and ensure that dining out is a positive experience on both sides of the kitchen door.
Saru JayaramanSaru Jayaraman is cofounder and codirector of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United and director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley.
For more information, please contact smckay@ucsc.edu.
This event is co-sponsored by CASFS (Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems), UCSC Center for Labor Studies, Slow Food, and ROC (Restaurants Opportunities Centers).

The Living Writers Reading Series: Xochiquetzal Candelaria
2013-03-14 18:00 | Unnamed Venue, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Xochiquetzal Candelaria is the author of Empire (University of Arizona Press, 2011). Her work has appeared in The Nation, New England Review, Gulf Coast, Seneca Review and other magazines. Her essay, “On the Teaching of Phil Levine” will be published in Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine (University of Iowa Press, May 2013). Ms. Candelaria was recently awarded an individual literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Daniel Guevara: "Has Traditional Ethical Theory Been Made Defunct by Kahneman and Tversky's Prospect Theory?"
2013-03-14 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Work-in-Progress: Daniel Guevara, Associate Professor of Philosophy, UC Santa Cruz
This talk is based on a paper by Sandra Dreisbach (PhD, Philosophy, UC Santa Cruz 2012) and Daniel Guevara. It is a critical assessment of Kahneman and Tversky’s Nobel Prize winning Prospect Theory – especially their so-called Asian Disease Problem – and its bearing on certain important issues in traditional ethical theory.

“Peer Gynt in a Digital Age” Conference
2013-03-09 10:30 - 17:00 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This international conference brings together scholars, designers, and dramaturgs from Norway, Tel Aviv, Seattle, and California for the second weekend of the performance. The event is held with the support of the Norwegian Consulate, UCSC, and the Norway House Foundation.
Speakers will discuss staging and design histories, what it’s like to perform Ibsen, and the international relevance of Ibsen’s most globally-produced work.
The “Peer Gynt in a Digital Age” conference will include Brian Johnston, translator and Professor (retired) Carnegie Mellon University; Sverre Mørkhagen, Norwegian author and Peer Gynt scholar; Sarah Bryant Bertail, Associate Professor Emerita, University of Washington; Freddie Rokem, Emanuel Herzikowitz Professor of Theatre Studies, Tel Aviv University; Michael Chemers, Associate Professor of Theater Arts, UCSC.
The afternoon portion of the conference will include Kimberly Jannarone, Professor of Theater Arts, UCSC; Brandin Barón-Nusbaum, Associate Professor of Theater Arts, UCSC; Danny Scheie, Professor of Theater Arts, UCSC and Nancy Carlin, Guest Artist; Ben Carson, Associate Professor of Music, UCSC; Jessica Hayden Molla and Chris Molla, soundscape artists and UCSC DANM MFA alumni.
Visit the Gynt Conference website for detailed information on conference and speakers.

Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC)
2013-03-09 08:15 - 19:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Every year towards the end of the Winter Quarter, the Linguistics at Santa Cruz conference showcases the research of second and third year graduate students. This conference coincides with a visit to campus of prospective graduate students, and it always features as an invited speaker a Ph.D. alum of the department. This year’s invited speaker is Andy Wedel of the University of Arizona.
Linguistics at Santa Cruz Program

Åse Vigdis Ystad: "Ibsen as Playwright: Between Dramaturgy and Ethics"
2013-03-08 15:00 - 16:00 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Special guest Dr. Åse Vigdis Ystad gives a talk as part of this year’s Arts Divison Lecture Series, ”Engaging the Mind”, presenting work obtained through a lifetime of research on Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (Peer Gynt, A Doll’s House, Hedda Gabler).
Dr. Ystad is visiting UC Santa Cruz as part of The Gynt Project and the associated conference “Peer Gynt in a Digital Age.” Her visit is sponsored by UCSC’s Cowell College and the Gary D. Licker Memorial Chair.
The lecture: From the start of his writing career, Ibsen focuses on the human personality as his main theme, but his subsequent attempts to represent love, passion, quest, human morality and ethics as central motives in his work result in dramaturgical problems. This difficulty characterizes Ibsen’s plays from 1850–58 and is not overcome until he suffers a combined personal and poetic crisis around 1860. After the crisis, he stands out as a mature playwright, creating masterpieces like The Pretenders (1864), Brand (1866) and Peer Gynt (1867). The lecture will also examine Ibsen’s great epic poem ”Terje Vigen” (1862) and give short comments on some of his later prose plays.
Dr. Åse Vigdis Ystad is a fixture of Norwegian arts and letters, and is one of the world’s leading experts on the playwright Henrik Ibsen. Her lifelong service to Norwegian literature and culture earned her Knighthood in the Order of St Olaf by the King of Norway in 2012. After receiving her PhD in Philospohy at the University of Oslo, she has been a Professor of Scandinavian literature there since 1973. She is an member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters; the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala; the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities; the Norwegian Academy of Language and Literature; the Society of Norwegian Language and Literature; and the Society of Danish Language and Literature. Ystad has presented lectures in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy, England, Scotland, China, South Korea, and the United States.
This lecture is free and open to the public.
Parking $4.
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