The Humanities Institute

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

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

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

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

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

Tyrus Miller: "The Non-Contemporaneity of György Lukács: Cold War Contradictions and the Aesthetics of Visual Arts"
2015-10-21 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Tyrus Miller has recently published Modernism and the Frankfurt School, and his forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis will appear in 2015. He is the translator/editor of György Lukács’s, The Culture of People’s Democracy: Hungarian Essays on Literature, Art, and Democratic Transition and series co-editor (with Erik Bachman) of Brill’s Lukács Library Series. Current work includes a study of 20th-century architectural and urbanistic utopias and a translation-in-progress of György Lukács’s Heidelberg writings on aesthetics and the philosophy of art.
Miller is the Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
Fall 2015 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series

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

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

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

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

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

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

For more details click here!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ronnie Lipschutz: "Utopia or Catastrophe"
2015-10-14 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk is connected to Professor Lipschutz’s work on politics and popular culture, of which his most recent publication was Political Economy, Capitalism and Popular Culture. Lipschutz is Professor and Chair of Politics and Provost of College Eight at UC Santa Cruz.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.

Fall 2015 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

More Info: Save the Date | UCSC Founders Celebration

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Coming Home from War: The Arts and Humanities in the Public Sphere
2015-06-02 16:00 - 18:00 | Kresge Town Hall
Join Stephan Wolfert (Founding Director, Veterans Center for the Performing Arts), Humanities and Arts Division faculty and students from UC Santa Cruz, and local veterans and their families for a discussion about the vital role that literature and the arts can play in understanding the veteran experience and the challenges and opportunities, for both veterans and civilians, of returning from war.
Panelists Include:
• Charles Hedrick (Professor, History Department)
• Dee Hibbert-Jones (Associate Professor, Art Department; Founder & Co-Director Social Practice Research Center)
• Kimberly Jannarone (Professor, Theater Arts Department; Director, The Odyssey Project)
• Sean Keilen (Associate Professor, Literature Department; Director, Shakespeare Workshop)
• Brenda Sanfilippo, (Lecturer, Literature Department and Writing Program)
• Stephan Wolfert (Founding Director, Veterans Center for the Performing Arts
In addition, be sure to join us for “Cry Havoc“! a one-person play by military veteran Stephan Wolfert, that seamlessly interweaves Shakespeare’s most famous speeches with personal experience to help us understand the national crises we face when we fail in reintegrating our veterans. One night only.
June 1, 2015 | 6pm | Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building.
Brought to you by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop and the Institute for Humanities Research.
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Click here for directions and parking maps: http://ihr.ucsc.edu/directions/
For disability related accommodations, please contact ihr@ucsc.edu or 831-459-5655.
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Gloria E. Chacón
2015-06-02 10:00 - 11:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Sponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center’s Latino Literary Cultures Research Cluster
Event 1: Workshop: 10 am-11:30 am in Humanities 1, Room 210
“Political Movements from the South and Chicano Texts”
A conversation on indigenismo, Chicana/o theories of mestizaje, and their relationship to Central American and Zapatista political movements. All are welcome. Participants are encouraged to read in advance the pre-circulated paper by the same title, which is available by emailing ksgruesz@ucsc.edu.
Event 2: Public talk, 4-6 p.m. in Humanities 1, Room 210
“Ajchowen and the Double Gaze: Theorizing Contemporary Mayan Women’s Theater”
Professor Chacón will speak on her work with indigenous poet-performers who challenge patriarchal versions of Ajchowen, or art that expresses a Maya worldview.
Gloria E. Chacón is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego, where she teaches hemispheric indigenous studies and Latina/o studies and is currently a Hellman Faculty Fellow. Her scholarship on contemporary Maya and Zapotec writers works across the disciplines of literature, history, anthropology, and translation studies, bringing feminist and decolonial perspectives to the study of Mesoamerican cultures across national boundaries. Professor Chacón earned her PhD in Literature at the UC Santa Cruz in 2006, and went on to hold postdoctoral fellowships in Native American Studies at UC Davis, and at the Charles Young Library at UCLA. In addition to several articles on women’s poetry in Chiapas and Guatemala, she has published essays on Salvadoran folklore and on indigenista writing, and has edited a forthcoming issue of the journal Diálogo titled “The Five Points in Contemporary Indigenous Literature.” She is a past recipient of the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship, and a UC Mexus Dissertation Grant.
Event webpage: http://clrc.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/news-article-gloria-chacon-political-movements-and-ajchowen.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spring 2015 Colloquium Series

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spring 2015 Colloquium Series

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Maurice Samuels: "French Universalism and the Jews: Anti-Antisemitism and the Right to Difference"
2015-05-18 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies presents Maurice Samuels: “French Universalism and the Jews: Anti-Antisemitism and the Right to Difference.”
In conflicts over the veil or the return of antisemitism in France today, minority difference is often seen as a threat not only to public order but to the Republic itself. Long on the defensive, universalism has now staged a comeback in current discourse that seeks to guard against excessive communitarianism or the fantasized demon of American-style multi-culturalism. However, the universal and the particular were not always as opposed as today seems to be the case. In this paper, I look back at the history of the way the universal was theorized in relation to France’s paradigmatic minority—the Jews—from the Revolution through the nineteenth century. My goal is to show that prior to the hardening of positions during the Dreyfus Affair, French universalism was far more welcoming to minority difference than is ordinarily assumed today. Recovering this history, I suggest, might offer ways around France’s current ethnic and religious dilemmas.
Maurice Samuels is Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French at Yale, where he also directs the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism. He’s is the author of “The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France,” published by Cornell University Press in 2004, and of “Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France,” published by Stanford University Press in 2010, which won the Scaglione Prize given by the MLA for the best book in French Studies. He also co-edited “Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature: A Reader,” published by Stanford in 2013.
Every year we honor Helen Diller, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz, by hosting a public lecture series on campus by an internationally recognized scholar.
This event was made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Endowment and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Click here for directions and parking maps: http://ihr.ucsc.edu/directions/
For disability related accommodations, please contact ihr@ucsc.edu or 831-459-5655.
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Friday Forum with Keegan Cook Finberg: “Reading Poetry of the 1960s: The Fluxus Event Score as Multimedia Encounter”
2015-05-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202

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

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

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

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

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

Spring 2015 Colloquium Series

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PHOTOS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jueves, 7 de Mayo 2015
GRATIS
abierto al publico

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joshua Dienstag "The Human Boundary: Democracy in a Post-Species Age"
2015-05-06 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Joshua Dienstag is the author of Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit and many books and articles on the history of political thought, film, literature and democratic theory. He is currently working on a project entitled The Animal Condition: A Political Theory of Human Citizenship.
Joshua Dienstag is a Professor of Political Science and Law at UCLA; as well as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

Spring 2015 Colloquium Series

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sanchita Saxena: "Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka: The Labor Behind the Global Garments and Textiles Industries"
2015-05-04 12:00 - 13:30 | College 8, Room 201
Join Sanchita Saxena as she discusses her new book, Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka: The Labor Behind the Global Garments and Textiles Industries, which earned rave reviews from leading experts. It is essential reading for students and researchers in policy studies, labor studies, South and Southeast Asian studies, international trade, and political science, as well as those engaged in program design and evaluation of projects focused on labor rights. This study is critical for non-governmental organizations with a thematic focus on the garments and textiles industry, labor rights, human rights, and international trade policy, as well as for private sector organizations focused on improving labor conditions around the world.
Prior to joining the Institute for South Asia Studies (ISAS) at UC Berkeley, Sanchita Banerjee Saxena was the assistant director of Economic Programs at the Asia Foundation, where she coauthored The Phase-Out of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement: Policy Options and Opportunities for Asia, served as a consultant to the Asia Foundation on various economic projects, and was a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. Saxena holds a PhD in political science from UCLA.
Co-Sponsored by the Anthropology and Economics Departments along with the Center for Labor Studies and the Interdisciplinary Development Working Group

Book-to-Action | The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
2015-05-02 13:00 - 14:30 | Santa Cruz Public Library – Downtown Branch, 224 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Author Michelle Alexander helped initiate a national movement with her best selling book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. This month, Santa Cruz Public Libraries sponsors Book-to-Action, a month-long series of events fostering community dialog and civic engagement.
Event Dates and Information:

Friday April 3 | 6:30pm | Prison USA
Resource Center for Nonviolence | 612 Ocean St
Friday April 10 | 6pm | Film
Inner Light Center | 5630 Soquel Dr.
Wednesday April 29 | 6pm | Tour of SC County Jail
Take a tour of our local jail | Please pre-register
Saturday May 2 | 1pm | Resource Fair & Round Table
Downtown SC Library | 224 Church St.

*Book Circles
April 12 | 2pm | SC Library 224 Church St.
April 21 | 6pm | Aptos Library 7695 Soquel Dr.
April 25 | 4pm | Live Oak Family Resource Center 1740 17th Ave.

Linguistics Research Colloquia: Grant Goodall
2015-05-01 14:00 - 16:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Grant Goodall: “Grammar and working memory: How experimental syntax can help us tell the difference”
The use of formal experiments to measure sentence acceptability, known as “experimental syntax”, is able to capture many fine-grained grammatical contrasts, but it also captures effects that have long been thought to be extra-grammatical, such as those induced by increased cost to working memory. This ambiguity in the source of acceptability is a problem in some ways, but experimental syntax itself gives us some useful tools to address it. I show this through a series of case studies of constraints on wh-dependencies, including the role of intervening arguments, finiteness, D-linking, and islands. These cases suggest that grammatical and working memory constraints can be usefully distinguished, with the former sensitive to intervening hierarchical structure and the latter sensitive to intervening referents.

About eight times each year the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.
More information at: http://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
2014 – 2015 Speakers
FALL 2014
October 17th
Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers
December 12th
Adam Albright, MIT
WINTER 2015
January 16th
Claire Halpert, University of Minnesota
January 23rd
Valentine Hacquard, Maryland
February 6th
Rachel Walker, USC
mid-March: date TBA
LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz Conference
SPRING 2015
April 10th
Daniel Lassiter, Stanford
April 17th
Keith Johnson, UC Berkeley
May 1st
Grant Goodall, UC San Diego
May/June: date TBA
LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference

Friday Forum with Kali Rubaii: “Writing the Future with a Cement Pen: How to Concretize Displacement”
2015-05-01 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202

Counteractions: A Symposium of Creative & Critical Inquiries
2015-05-01 09:30 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Featuring papers by: James Beneda, Whitney DeVos, Ariane Helou, Katie Lally, Kenan Sharpe, Eric Sneathen, & Melissa Yinger
Roundtable conversations from: Christopher Chen, Kendra Dority, Johanna Isaacson, Kyle Lane-McKinley, Brian Malone, Tsering Wangmo, Tim Willcutts, & others.

Symposium at UCSC
9:30 a.m.: Breakfast
10:00 a.m.: Welcome & Opening Remarks
10:15 a.m.: Panel 1
Moderator: Johanna Isaacson
Panelists: Katie Lally, Kenan Sharpe, Eric Sneathen, Melissa Yinger
12 noon: Lunch break (join us at Friday Forum, in room 202)
1:30 p.m.: Panel 2
Moderator: Tim Willcutts
Panelists: James Beneda, Whitney De Vos, Ariane Helou
3:00 p.m.: Break (coffee and tea served)
3:30 p.m.: Roundtable Discussion
Participants: Chris Chen, Kendra Dority, Kyle Lane-McKinley, Brian Malone, Tsering Wangmo, Tim Willcutts, and others.
5:00 p.m.: Conference Ends; please join us for informal drinks and dinner (location TBA)
For more information, please visit: http://www.ucscpoetrypolitics.com/upcoming-events.html

Living Writers Series: Marilyn Chin
2015-04-30 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms, and through a variety of media to include poetry, fiction, film, graphic art, dance, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines multiple genres and materials, whether textual, sonic, visual, and/or embodied to explore intersections of race, sexuality, gender, and class in their written, screened, and staged performances.
The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. For more information, please email rvwilson@ucsc.edu
Marilyn Chin
is an award-winning poet and the author of Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen, Rhapsody in Plain Yellow, The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty and Dwarf Bamboo. Her writing has appeared in The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry.
She was born in Hong Kong and raised in Portland, Oregon. Her books have become Asian American classics and are taught in classrooms internationally. Marilyn Chin has read her poetry at the Library of Congress. She was interviewed by Bill Moyers’ and featured in his PBS series The Language of Lifeand in PBS Poetry Everywhere. She can be found online at: http://www.marilynchin.org/

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

Shelly Wilcox: "Immigration Justice in Nonideal Circumstances"
2015-04-30 16:15 - 17:45 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Abstract:
In recent years, political philosophers have begun to interrogate the methodology they use to construct normative principles. Some have voiced the concern that prevailing liberal egalitarian principles are constructed under idealized assumptions and thus are ill-suited to real-world circumstances where such assumptions do not apply. Specifically, critics have raised three related objections to so-called ideal theory: (1) ideal theory cannot help us understand current injustices in the actual, nonideal world; (2) ideal principles are not sufficiently action-guiding; and (3) ideal theory is counterproductive or even dangerous because it tends to reflect and perpetuate illicit group privilege.
This paper explores recent work on the ethics of immigration in light of these methodological criticisms, focusing on the open borders debate. The central question in this debate is whether liberal states have a moral right to restrict immigration. I argue that prominent arguments on both sides of this issue are subject to the standard criticisms of ideal theory, and thus that a nonideal normative approach to immigration in urgently needed. I then develop several methodological desiderata for such an approach and draw upon these criteria to outline the broad contours of an adequate nonideal theory of justice in immigration.
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Biography:
Shelley Wilcox is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. She works in the areas of social and political philosophy, feminist philosophy, and applied ethics, with a special interest in immigration, global justice, and urban environmental issues. She has published articles on the ethics of immigration and globalization in Philosophical Studies, Social Theory and Practice, Journal of Social Philosophy, Philosophy Compass, and The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, as well as in numerous anthologies. She is currently working on a book manuscript on urban environmental ethics and serving as Book Review Editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy.

The campus community and interested public are welcome at all Philosophy Department sponsored colloquia, conferences and workshops.
Spring 2015

Shelly Wilcox, San Francisco State

Winter 2015

Rebecca Kukla, Georgetown
Felipe De Brigard, Duke

Fall 2014

Eric Schwitzgebel, UC Riverside: The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors

More info at: http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia-conferences/index.html

Digital Humanities Working Group/Digital Pedagogy
2015-04-29 17:00 - 19:00 | McHenry Library, Room 1350
Wednesday, April 29 (5 – 7 PM) at FITC (McHenry 1350)
Digital Humanities Working Group/Digital Pedagogy
Co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Commons, Learning Technologies, and FITC
Faculty from across the university will offer lightning talks about new assignments and classroom strategies that integrate technologies into their pedagogy. Join the Digital Pedagogy group for a broad introduction to innovative learning possibilities.

The Lightning Round will include short presentations & an expanded discussion by:
Ben Leeds Carson (Music): Permissions for online instruction
Alan Christy (History): Annotation as a Class Project
Jenny Lynn (Classical Studies): Online quizzes for language instruction
Kristin Miller (Sociology): Social Explorer for working with Statistics
Erin Todd (Earth & Planetary Sciences): Using Google Earth for scientific learning

Transcultural Interpretation and the Production of Alterity: Photography, Materiality, and Mediation in the Making of "African Art"
2015-04-29 16:00 - 17:00 | Porter College, Room D245
Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie (Ph.D. Northwestern University, 2000) is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture of Global Africa at the University of California Santa Barbara. He is the author of Ben Enwonwu: The Making of an African Modernist (University of Rochester Press, 2008: winner of the 2009 Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association for best scholarly publication in African studies), Making History: The Femi Akinsanya African Art Collection (Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2011), and editor of Artists of Nigeria (Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2012). Ogbechie is also the founder and editor of Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture. He organized and coordinated the First International Nollywood Convention and Symposium (Los Angeles, June 2005) and subsequently founded in 2006 the Nollywood Foundation, which produced annual African film conventions in Los Angeles. Ogbechie has received prestigious fellowships, grants and awards for his research from the American Academy in Berlin, Getty Research Institute, Rockefeller Foundation, Institute for International Education, Smithsonian Institution and the Ford Foundation. His current research focuses on the role of cultural informatics and new media in analysis of the art and cultural patrimony of Africa and its Diaspora in the age of globalization.
Refreshments will be available before the talk.

Brian Connolly "The Curse of Canaan: A Fantasy of Race in the Nineteenth-Century United States"
2015-04-29 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Brian Connolly is currently working on two book projects. The first, Sacred Kin: Sovereignty, Kinship, and Religion in the Nineteenth-Century United States, excavates the relationship between national sovereignty and religion. The second project, Against the Human, is a genealogy of the human as a category of emancipation.
Brian Connolly is an Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida in the School of Social Science – Institute for Advanced Study, as well as Princeton University.

Spring 2015 Colloquium Series

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Teach In: Bettina Aptheker
2015-04-25 14:30 - 16:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
Be a student again for an afternoon! Attend a lecture entitled “Feminism & Social Justice” from faculty professor of feminist studies Bettina Aptheker.
Join fellow alums for a lively look at current movements in social justice and the ways in which gender, race, class, and sexuality interconnect with each other.
From birth matters to thinking about prisons, from queer stakes to transgender identities, from immigrant lives to environmental justice in scores of communities across the country, these issues animate and agitate. Join in debate, dialogue and discussion.
For more information, visit event page!
Questions? Contact Samantha Li, Regional Program Assistant, University Relations.

Tales as Tall as the Redwoods: Reflections on UCSC's Founding Years
2015-04-25 14:00 - 15:30 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
To commemorate UC Santa Cruz’s 50th Anniversary, the Department of History has invited a few distinguished faculty emeriti and alumni to share stories about their experiences at UC Santa Cruz during its early years. This is a rare opportunity to hear the oral histories of the individuals who helped shape the future of our beloved campus. Our engaging list of panelists includes:

Peter Kenez (Professor Emeritus)
Multiple generations of UC Santa Cruz students recognize the name Peter Kenez. A Ph.D. graduate from Harvard University and celebrating 50 years on campus in 2016, it is not uncommon for students ask, “Does Peter Kenez still teach history here? My dad was a student of his!” A wonderful opportunity to hear the wisdom of a much beloved pioneer.
David Thomas (Professor Emeritus)
David Thomas was a professor of politics at UCSC from 1966 to 1999. From 1980, he taught a course, whose final title was “Sexual Politics: Queer Politics.” The course was a major contribution to queer life at UCSC and was one of the first of its kind in the United States. A true trailblazer in his field and one we welcome home for Alumni Weekend.
Gregg Herken (Stevenson ’69)
Gregg Herken is a distinguished UC Santa Cruz alumnus and Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California. He taught at Oberlin College and Yale before becoming a Founding Faculty member at UC Merced. He is the author of five books and was a finalist for the 2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History.
Linda Peterson (Stevenson ’70)
Linda Peterson currently serves as a UC Santa Cruz Foundation Trustee and Associate General Counsel at Occidental Petroleum. Her distinguished career includes tenures as Director of the The Mary Magdalene Project, President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals, and founding member of the Board of Directors of Theater By The Blind (now theater Breaking Through Barriers), a New York City-based theater company that works with the disabled.
Gail Hershatter – Moderator
Gail Hershatter is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she has taught since 1991. Her books include The Workers of Tianjin, 1900-1949 (1986), Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980s (with Emily Honig, 1988), Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (1997), Women in China’s Long Twentieth Century (2007), and The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past (2011). She chaired the History Department from 2010-2013 and is a former President of the Association for Asian Studies (2011-2012).
Admission details: Registration Required!

Celebrating 50 Years of Literature
2015-04-25 11:00 - 13:00 | Kresge College Room 327
In order to celebrate our tradition of working and teaching across national, linguistic, and disciplinary divides, the UCSC Literature Department is pleased host 50 Years of Literature at UCSC, an event commemorating the achievement of Literature alumni and faculty. This special anniversary event will feature discussions with emeritus and current faculty, and UCSC alumni. It will take place at beautiful Kresge College, a perfect venue for lively, engaging conversation. Join us for conviviality and lunch with friends and faculty!
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Schedule of the Day’s Events
Welcome: Professor Carla Freccero, Literature Department Chair
Panel One: Literature at UCSC: Then and Now: with Professor Emeritus Harry Berger, Jr., and Professors Vilashini Cooppan and H. Marshall (Marsh) Leicester, Jr.
Panel Two: The Literature Difference: A Student-Faculty Dialogue, with Professor and UCSC alumna Karen Bassi, Professor Susan Gillman, and Alumnus Stephen Richter
Reception and Light Lunch: Alumni, Literature faculty and staff

For more information, visit event page!
Questions? Contact Stephanie Casher, Literature Department Manager.

11th Annual Graduate Research Symposium
2015-04-24 13:00 - 15:00 | McHenry Library, UCSC
The Graduate Research Symposium highlights the innovative research being conducted by graduate students in our thirty-eight programs across five academic divisions.
It celebrates the scholarly, creative, social and commercial impact they make within California and around the world!
In addition to graduate students presenting their research to a general audience, graduate alumni selected by the Division of Graduate Studies will serve as Symposium judges, and graduate symposium alumni researchers noteworthy contributions will be highlighted. Join us at the Symposium to view presentations and discuss students’ research.
For more information, visit event page!

Friday Forum with Rose Grose: “A Sexual Empowerment Process for Heterosexual and Sexual Minority Women”
2015-04-24 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202

Living Writers Series: Terri Witek, Jai Arun Ravine
2015-04-23 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms, and through a variety of media to include poetry, fiction, film, graphic art, dance, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines multiple genres and materials, whether textual, sonic, visual, and/or embodied to explore intersections of race, sexuality, gender, and class in their written, screened, and staged performances.
The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. For more information, please email rvwilson@ucsc.edu
Terri Witek
is the author of Exit Island, The Shipwreck Dress (both Florida Book Award medalists) , Carnal World , Fools and Crows, Courting Couples(Winner of the 2000 Center for Book Arts Contest), First Shot at Fort Sumter/ Possum (a poetry/comics chapzine) and Robert Lowell and LIFE STUDIES:Revising the Self . A new chapbook, On Gavdos Ferry, and a new book of poems, Body Swap are forthcoming.
Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Slate, Poetry, Threepenny Review, Hudson Review, and many other journals and anthologies, including Best of Poetry Daily 2007 and Old Flames–10 years of 32 Poems (2013). She has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell, The Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers, The Blue Flower Arts/ Atlantic Center for the Arts, Sewanee, and the state of Florida. A professor of English at Stetson University, where she directs the creative writing program, her summer faculty positions have included the Prague Summer Literary Program, the West Chester Poetry Conference, Poetry by the Sea, and the DisQuiet International program in Lisbon, where she and Cyriaco Lopes run “The Fernando Pessoa Game.” They will be core faculty in Poetry in an Expanded Field in Stetson University’s new low-residency MFA program. She can be found online at: http://terriwitek.com
Jai Arun Ravine
They are a writer, dancer and graphic designer. They are the author of แล้ว AND THEN ENTWINE: LESSON PLANS, POEMS, KNOTS; IS THIS JANUARY; THE SPIDERBOI FILES; and the director of the short film TOM/TRANS/THAI, which has screened in Bangkok, Berlin, Los Angeles and San Francisco, among others. They hold an MFA in Writing & Poetics from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School. Creative and critical writing appears most recently in Transgender Studies Quarterly, Tarpaulin Sky Literary Journal, Eleven Eleven, EOAGH and TENDE RLOIN. A recipient of fellowships from ComPeung, Djerassi and Kundiman, they are a former Staff Writer for Lantern Review. They can be found online at: http://jaiarunravine.com/

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

Twitter 101 with Melissa De Witte
2015-04-23 12:00 - 13:00 | Graduate Student Commons
Twitter 101: A Hands-on Workshop [#ucsctweets]
Thursday, April 23 (12 – 1) at Graduate Student Commons

It’s impossible to ignore the word (and world of) Twitter. “Hashtag this” and “140-character that” is everywhere you go. You’ve probably seen people Live Tweeting at academic conferences and heard about a peer who saw exponential downloads on their latest research paper thanks to social media.
If you’ve hesitated to make the leap to Tweet, now’s the time to get started.
On April 23rd, join Melissa De Witte, web presence coordinator for the Division of Social Sciences at UCSC for a Twitter 101 workshop – an interactive meetup that will talk you through the basic steps to get started and Tweeting away.
Bring your laptop for this hands-on event where you will leave with your own Twitter account, a few new followers, and all the ideas you need to start Tweeting.
Melissa will walk you through things like:

Choosing the right username
Creating your account
Writing a Bio
What to Tweet
Who to Follow

Attendee Information:
– PLEASE BRING A LAPTOP as this is a hands-on event. Don’t have a laptop? UCSC students, staff and faculty can borrow one from the University Library:
http://library.ucsc.edu/computing/borrow-a-laptop
– PLEASE also take a moment to review Melissa’s previous Digital Humanities talk about the importance of building an online presence:
http://www.slideshare.net/melissadewitte/building-a-better-online-identi...
– Start early and share your excitement using #ucsctweets.

UCSC Alumni Weekend
2015-04-23 - 2015-04-26 | UC Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz is a place like no other. It was imagined from the minds of original thinkers—the rebels and visionaries, artists, scientists, and poets who had the courage to strike off on a different path. They were in search of ideas that question norms in hopes of making the world a better place.
Now we are celebrating 50 years of questioning authority. Stay tuned for more details.
Alumni Weekend 2015
April 23-26 at UC Santa Cruz
http://specialevents.ucsc.edu/alumniweekend/
Questions? Contact alumni@ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-5003.

Mark Amengual: "Living in Two Languages: Lexical Effects in Bilingual Production"
2015-04-22 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In this talk I will present the results of an experiment that investigates voice onset times (VOTs) to determine if cognates enhance the cross-°©‐language phonetic influences in the speech production of a range of Spanish–English bilinguals: Spanish heritage speakers, English heritage speakers, advanced L2 Spanish learners, and advanced L2 English learners.
To answer this question, lexical items with considerable phonological, semantic, and orthographic overlap (cognates) and lexical items with no phonological overlap with their English translation equivalents (non-°©‐cognates) were examined. The results indicate that there is a significant effect of cognate status in the Spanish production of VOT by Spanish–English bilinguals.
These bilinguals produced /t/ with longer VOT values (more English-°©‐like) in the Spanish production of cognates compared to non-°©‐cognate words. It is proposed that the exemplar model of lexical representation (Bybee, 2001; Pierrehumbert, 2001) can be extended to include bilingual lexical connections by which cognates facilitate phonetic interference in the bilingual mental lexicon.

Fixing the Pathological Body
2015-04-22 16:00 - 18:00 | Engineering 2, Room 399
The medical industry leans heavily upon a distinction between the “normal” and the “pathological.” Panelists Janette Dinishak (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UCSC) Kelly Ormond (Professor of Genetics, Stanford School of Medicine) and Matthew Wolf-Meyer (Associate Professor of Anthropology, UCSC) will discuss how and why we continue to define this distinction, and for whom are these categories useful? What are some alternative ways to organize the lived experiences of human bodies and/or minds?
Janette Dinishak is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research interests include philosophy and history of psychology and psychiatry (especially autism), Wittgenstein, philosophy of mind, disability, and ethical theory.
Kelly Ormond is a Professor of Genetics at the Stanford School of Medicine. While Ormond’s primary role is to direct the MS in Human Genetics and Genetic Counseling program, her research focuses on the intersection between genetics and ethics, particularly around the translation of new genetic technologies (such as genome sequencing or non-invasive prenatal diagnosis) into clinical practice. She is especially interested in patient decision making, informed consent, and the interface between genetics and disability.
Matthew Wolf-Meyer is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota, specializing in medical anthropology, the social study of science and technology, and neuroscience. He is author of The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine and Modern American Life (UMN Press, 2012), which focuses on sleep in American culture and its historical and contemporary relations to capitalism. His second book, What Matters: The Politics of American Brains, focuses on the ethical and epistemological practices in contemporary neuroscience, cybernetics, disability activism, and psychoanalysis in American society. Currently he is in the early stage of a new project focused on the neurological turn to the gut as an extension of the nervous system, the history of shit in the United States, and the therapeutic uses of human excrement in modern medicine.

T.J. Demos: "Rights of Nature: The Art and Politics of Earth Jurisprudence"
2015-04-22 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
T.J. Demos’s current work explores the intersection of visual culture, art, environmental and indigenous activism, and the recent biocentric turn in law, particularly as it relates to political ecology in the Americas. His research accompanied the preparation for Rights of Nature: Art and Ecology in the Americas, a 2015 exhibition he co-curated at Nottingham Contemporary in the U.K.
T.J. Demos is Professor of History in Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz.

Spring 2015 Colloquium Series

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ernesto Chávez: "My Dear Noël": Ramón Novarro, Noël Sullivan, and the Negotiation of a Catholic/Mexican/Queer Identity
2015-04-21 14:00 - 15:30 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Ernesto Chávez, Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas, El Paso, and Visiting Researcher at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, reads expressions of devout Catholicism and queer codes in the early- and mid-twentieth-century letters of silent screen actor, Ramón Novarro, and arts philanthropist Noël Sullivan. This free, public lecture takes place Tuesday, April 21, 2015, at 2:00pm in Humanities 1, Room 520.
In this presentation, Ernesto Chávez offers preliminary thoughts on materials pertaining to Ramón Novarro, the Mexican-born, gay, silent screen actor and devout Roman Catholic. Novarro, the subject of Professor Chávez’s current book project, was perhaps best known for playing the title role in the 1925 version of Ben-Hur, which propelled him to stardom. The bulk of his career occurred at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and after his stardom waned, he continued to act in movies and television until his violent murder at the hands of a hustler in 1968. The manner of his death ensured that he was outed posthumously. Yet, if one reads interviews with him and letters that he wrote to friends, queer codes that deflected his homosexuality emerge. Such is the case with the 102 letters that he wrote to Bay Area arts philanthropist Noël Sullivan. The letters, which are housed at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, are the basis of this talk. In these missives, Novarro expressed his devout Catholicism to Sullivan, who was both gay and Catholic. The letters provide insight into a platonic relationship between two gay men in the early to mid-twentieth century and allow us to glimpse an intimacy that was mitigated by religiosity, but that nonetheless had at its core a common homosexuality.
Ernesto Chávez HeadshotErnesto Chávez, Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas, El Paso, is currently a Visiting Researcher at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and Institute of American Cultures. His work intersects Chicano/a, Latino/a, and Borderlands History and examines the history of the American Southwest, focusing on the matrix of race, class, and sexuality throughout the ethnic Mexican and Latino American past. In 2014, he received the American Historical Association’s Equity Award.
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The Chicano Latino Research Center is proud to cosponsor this free, public lecture with the Departments of History and Latin American and Latino Studies.

Jewish Studies in the Digital Age
2015-04-19 11:00 - 14:00 | The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
An Interactive Panel Discussion and Presentation of Work for Faculty and Graduate Students in Jewish Studies
Featuring
Rachel Deblinger
CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow and Digital Humanities Specialist, UC Santa Cruz
Ari Y. Kelman
Chair in Education and Jewish Studies, Stanford University
Francesco Spagnolo
Curator, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and
Lecturer, Department of Music, UC Berkeley
Moderated by
Nathaniel Deutsch
Co-Director, Center for Jewish Studies, UC Santa Cruz

The ongoing revolutions in computing power and digital technologies have opened up new modes of understanding and engagement for scholars in all fields. Enhanced computing power has already enabled the collection and analysis of large amounts of data such as pages of Talmud, narrative themes in diverse bodies of literature, historical events, and various forms of quantitative data. For others, digital tools have provided new modes of access to formerly inaccessible documents, sites, and other phenomena – prominent examples include the Shoah Foundation’s work to enable its twenty year history in collecting Holocaust testimonies to be searchable and accessible, and the efforts of Jewish museums to catalogue and curate large cultural collections online.
As the field of Jewish Studies confronts new possibilities for scholarly research, analysis, and communication in the digital age, we take up the challenge of employing digital tools to ask new questions about the Jewish past, present, and future and illuminate connections previously unseen or unimagined. In this event, we seek to explore how these new methodologies and theories can direct future inquiries in Jewish Studies and ask if Jewish Studies has something unique to bring to the Digital Humanities.
Kindly register by Tuesday, April 14.
Free of charge. Dairy/vegetarian lunch will be served.
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This event is for faculty and graduate students in Jewish Studies programs.
Please extend an invitation to others who may also be interested in this event.

CANCELLED Linguistics Research Colloquia: Keith Johnson
2015-04-17 14:00 - 16:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
About eight times each year the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.
More information on the talk will be available soon.
2014 – 2015 Speakers
FALL 2014
October 17th
Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers
December 12th
Adam Albright, MIT
WINTER 2015
January 16th
Claire Halpert, University of Minnesota
January 23rd
Valentine Hacquard, Maryland
February 6th
Rachel Walker, USC
mid-March: date TBA
LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz Conference
SPRING 2015
April 10th
Daniel Lassiter, Stanford
April 17th – CANCELLED
Keith Johnson, UC Berkeley
May 1st
Grant Goodall, UC San Diego
May/June: date TBA
LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference

Friday Forum with Evan Grupsmith: “Revolutionary Movement: Class Based Inclusion and Exclusion in the Cultural Revolution Chuanlian Movement”
2015-04-17 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. Light refreshments will be available.
For more info, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

Spring 2015 Schedule:
10 April — Jess Whatcott, Politics
17 April — Evan Grupsmith, History
24 April — Rose Grose, Social Psychology
1 May — Kali Rubaii, Anthropology
8 May — Cristopher Chitty, History of Consciousness
15 May — Keegan Cook Finberg, Literature
22 May — To be confirmed
29 May — Ann Drevno, ENVS
5 June — Veronika Zablotsky, FMST
This event series is made possible through the generous support from the Institute for Humanities Research and the departments of Literature, History of Consciousness, Anthropology, Feminist Studies, HAVC, Philosophy, Joe’s Pizza and Subs, Politics, Psychology and Sociology as well as the GSA and GSC.
