The Humanities Institute

La Ironía y Anticlericalismo En Halma
2016-04-18 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UCSC Spanish Studies and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Present:
LA IRONÍA Y ANTICLERICALISMO EN HALMA
ÁLVARO ROMERO MARCO (UCSC)
Más allá de las clasificaciones y evoluciones que la crítica ha venido realizando, la novelística de Galdós es consecuencia de su ideología, pues la realidad es observada y transformada a través de su apuesta por la modernidad. En el caso de Halma, los pilares que sustentan la enseñanza que quiere trasmitir el autor son la distancia socarrona y un convencido anticlericalismo; una ironía sin acidez y siempre constructiva y una desconfianza en la institución eclesiástica que nunca significa un ataque a la visión religiosa de la existencia. Tradicionalmente esta novela, que Ediciones Alfar tiene a bien ofrecer al lector, ha sido editada y analizada a la sombra de la famosa “segunda manera” y, particularmente, como la segunda parte de Nazarín. Esta edición presenta la obra aislándola de esas ataduras para que pueda ser leída de manera independiente. En cualquier caso, no hay duda de que Halma es otra de las grandes novelas del autor.

*Light refreshments will be served.

Contemplative Pedagogy Symposium
2016-04-16 09:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Contemplative pedagogy is an integrated approach to teaching and learning that sees education as a transformative process rather than simply a means of accumulating
information. With an emphasis on curiosity, collaboration, engagement, and student-centered learning, contemplative approaches seek to cultivate thinkers and responders rather than consumers of knowledge. Practitioners forge links between traditional disciplinary wisdom and the environmental, ethical, and economic challenges facing humankind.
The goal of contemplative pedagogy, as articulated by the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, is to foster “true community, deeper insight, sustainable living, and a more just society.”
Saturday, April 16 @ 9am-5pm
Contemplative Pedagogy Symposium
Daylong working group in which a small group of interested parties will read central texts in the field of Contemplative Pedagogy and discuss them with our panel of experts. These works will primarily provide an introduction to contemplative teaching methods, although we will be discussing other methodological uses of contemplative approaches.
If you would like to participate in the symposium, please email ihr@ucsc.edu.
Friday, April 15 @ 2-4 pm
Public Roundtable on Contemplative Approaches in Higher Education
McHenry Library Room 4286
This roundtable brings together leaders in the field with expertise in diverse disciplines, including the Humanities, the Natural Sciences, and Legal Studies.
Click here for more info on the Roundtable.
Visitors
Rhonda Magee, Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco, School of Law, and a teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Her scholarly work focuses on race law and policy as well as on humanizing legal education and the practice of law. This effort aims to help law students and practitioners cope with pressure in order to be more successful and effective. A national leader in the movement to humanize law and legal education, and an expert in contemplative pedagogy, Professor Magee recently published “Contemplative Practices and the Renewal of Legal Education,” New Directions for Teaching and Learning: Contemplative Studies in Higher Education, no. 134, (Jossey Bass, 2013), 31.” Magee’s courses share a common theme of examining how law responds to the vulnerable in society. She is the author of numerous journal articles, including “Educating Lawyers to Meditate?” (University of Missouri–Kansas City Law Review, 2011), “Slavery as Immigration?” (University of San Francisco Law Review, 2009), and “Competing Narratives, Competing Jurisprudences: Are Law Schools Racist?” (University of San Francisco Law Review, 2009).

Erin McCarthy, Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Professor in Asian Studies, St. Lawrence University. Dr. Erin McCarthy came to St. Lawrence in 2000. She teaches Asian, feminist, continental and comparative philosophy. Author of the book Ethics Embodied: Rethinking Selfhood through Continental, Japanese and Feminist Philosophies (Lexington, 2010), her work has been published in several anthologies and journals in both French and English and she regularly presents her scholarship both nationally and internationally. She was an inaugural recipient of the “Frederick P. Lenz Foundation Residential Fellowship for Buddhist Studies and American Culture and Values” at Naropa University in 2009. Dr. McCarthy sits on the Editorial board of the journal Comparative and Continental Philosophy and is Co-editor of the ASIANetwork Exchange: A journal for Asian Studies and the Liberal Arts. She has also served as Chair of the Board of Directors of ASIANetwork (a consortium of over 170 North American colleges). Currently, her research interests are taking two directions – the first, a project titled “Re-imagining Maternity,”is a comparative philosophical re-thinking of the norms of maternity; and the second looks at the ways in which contemplative education can be enriched by incorporating feminist philosophies.

Peter Grossenbacher, Professor in Contemplative Education and Contemplative Psychology, Naropa University. Professor Grossenbacher directs Naropa’s internationally known Consciousness Laboratory. In collaboration with students in the lab, he conducts empirical research on meditation instruction, worldview transformation, and engagement with awareness. His research has been covered in the New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, and Discover Magazine. Grossenbacher teaches courses in Perception, Neuroscience, Mindfulness Meditation, Cognitive Psychology, Personality, and Research Methods. He previously conducted research on human attention at the National Institute of Mental Health, and taught at the University of Oregon, England’s University of Cambridge, and American University in Washington, D.C. A practitioner of meditation since 1980, he speaks internationally on contemplative education, synesthesia, meditation, and the brain.
Contemplative Approaches to Higher Education are some of the most exciting and fast-growing developments in post-secondary education in the US.
To see the kind of work being done by some of the leading national centers for Contemplative Approaches, please visit the following websites:
The Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education
University of Virginia Contemplative Sciences Center
Brown University Contemplative Studies Initiative
University of Michigan Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies
Naropa University Contemplative Education Program
Sponsors
Institute for Humanities Research, Contemplative Pedagogy Research Cluster, Center for Public Philosophy, Bill Ladusaw, Literature Department, Philosophy Department, Graduate Division, Porter College, Oakes College, College Eight, Social Sciences Division.

Introducing Contemplative Approaches to Higher Education: A Public Roundtable with Leaders in the Field
2016-04-15 14:00 - 16:00 | McHenry Library UCSC, Room 4286
Contemplative pedagogy is an integrated approach to teaching and learning that sees education as a transformative process rather than simply a means of accumulating
information. With an emphasis on curiosity, collaboration, engagement, and student-centered learning, contemplative approaches seek to cultivate thinkers and responders rather than consumers of knowledge. Practitioners forge links between traditional disciplinary wisdom and the environmental, ethical, and economic challenges facing humankind.
The goal of contemplative pedagogy, as articulated by the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, is to foster “true community, deeper insight, sustainable living, and a more just society.”
Friday, April 15 @ 2-4 pm
Public Roundtable on Contemplative Approaches in Higher Education
McHenry Library Room 4286
This roundtable brings together leaders in the field with expertise in diverse disciplines, including the Humanities, the Natural Sciences, and Legal Studies.
Saturday, April 16 @ 9am-5pm
Contemplative Pedagogy Symposium
A day-long Symposium will follow on Saturday, April 16th. We’ll read central texts in the field of Contemplative Pedagogy and discuss them with our panel of experts. If you would like to participate in the symposium, please email ihr@ucsc.edu. Click here for more info on the Symposium.
Visitors
Rhonda Magee, Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco, School of Law, and a teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Her scholarly work focuses on race law and policy as well as on humanizing legal education and the practice of law. This effort aims to help law students and practitioners cope with pressure in order to be more successful and effective. A national leader in the movement to humanize law and legal education, and an expert in contemplative pedagogy, Professor Magee recently published “Contemplative Practices and the Renewal of Legal Education,” New Directions for Teaching and Learning: Contemplative Studies in Higher Education, no. 134, (Jossey Bass, 2013), 31.” Magee’s courses share a common theme of examining how law responds to the vulnerable in society. She is the author of numerous journal articles, including “Educating Lawyers to Meditate?” (University of Missouri–Kansas City Law Review, 2011), “Slavery as Immigration?” (University of San Francisco Law Review, 2009), and “Competing Narratives, Competing Jurisprudences: Are Law Schools Racist?” (University of San Francisco Law Review, 2009).

Erin McCarthy, Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Professor in Asian Studies, St. Lawrence University. Dr. Erin McCarthy came to St. Lawrence in 2000. She teaches Asian, feminist, continental and comparative philosophy. Author of the book Ethics Embodied: Rethinking Selfhood through Continental, Japanese and Feminist Philosophies (Lexington, 2010), her work has been published in several anthologies and journals in both French and English and she regularly presents her scholarship both nationally and internationally. She was an inaugural recipient of the “Frederick P. Lenz Foundation Residential Fellowship for Buddhist Studies and American Culture and Values” at Naropa University in 2009. Dr. McCarthy sits on the Editorial board of the journal Comparative and Continental Philosophy and is Co-editor of the ASIANetwork Exchange: A journal for Asian Studies and the Liberal Arts. She has also served as Chair of the Board of Directors of ASIANetwork (a consortium of over 170 North American colleges). Currently, her research interests are taking two directions – the first, a project titled “Re-imagining Maternity,”is a comparative philosophical re-thinking of the norms of maternity; and the second looks at the ways in which contemplative education can be enriched by incorporating feminist philosophies.

Peter Grossenbacher, Professor in Contemplative Education and Contemplative Psychology, Naropa University. Professor Grossenbacher directs Naropa’s internationally known Consciousness Laboratory. In collaboration with students in the lab, he conducts empirical research on meditation instruction, worldview transformation, and engagement with awareness. His research has been covered in the New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, and Discover Magazine. Grossenbacher teaches courses in Perception, Neuroscience, Mindfulness Meditation, Cognitive Psychology, Personality, and Research Methods. He previously conducted research on human attention at the National Institute of Mental Health, and taught at the University of Oregon, England’s University of Cambridge, and American University in Washington, D.C. A practitioner of meditation since 1980, he speaks internationally on contemplative education, synesthesia, meditation, and the brain.
Contemplative Approaches to Higher Education are some of the most exciting and fast-growing developments in post-secondary education in the US.
To see the kind of work being done by some of the leading national centers for Contemplative Approaches, please visit the following websites:
The Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education
University of Virginia Contemplative Sciences Center
Brown University Contemplative Studies Initiative
University of Michigan Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies
Naropa University Contemplative Education Program
Sponsors
Institute for Humanities Research, Contemplative Pedagogy Research Cluster, Center for Public Philosophy, Bill Ladusaw, Literature Department, Philosophy Department, Graduate Division, Porter College, Oakes College, College Eight, Social Sciences Division.

Sabine Iatridou - "Fake Things Here and There: Evidence From Now and Then"
2016-04-15 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Sabine Iatridou is Professor of Linguistics, Syntax, Semantics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. See here for more about Professor Iatridou’s work.
Stay tuned for more information.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Claudia Lopez
2016-04-15 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Claudia Lopez
“Contesting ‘Double Displacement’: Rural displaces Persons, informal Settlements, and the ‘Medellin Miracle'”
This presentation examines the Comuna 8, a sector of the city of Medellin resisting displacement by urban renewal. I highlight a historic voting process in 2014, lead by a committee of displaced persons, to contest the implementation of the redeveloped plan.

Friday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
April 8th- Andrew Woods, Politics
April 15th- Claudia Lopez, Sociology
April 22nd- Jordan Reznick, HAVC
April 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies
May 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics
May 13th- Cathy Thomas, Literature
May 20th- Trung Nguyen, History of Consciousness
May 27th- Rebecca Ora, Film of Digital Media
June 3rd- Veronica Zablotsky, Feminist Studies

Living Writers: Kate Schatz
2016-04-14 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Kate Schatz, UCSC creative writing/Lit alum, is the New York Times bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z, a children’s book (for everyone) published by City Lights Books. It’s gotten love from BUST, Publisher’s Weekly, BuzzFeed, MTV, Ms., Teen Vogue, Kirkus Reviews, GOOD, The New York Times, AFROPUNK, and all kinds of other rad outlets.
Her book of fiction, Rid of Me: A Story, was published in 2006 as part of the acclaimed 33 1/3 series. Her work has been published in Oxford American, Denver Quarterly, Joyland, East Bay Express, and San Francisco Chronicle, among others. Her short story “Folsom, Survivor” was a 2010 Notable Short Story in Best American Short Stories 2011.
She is a co-founder of The Encyclopedia Project, and is the Chair of the School of Literary Arts at Oakland School for the Arts. Kate received her MFA in Fiction Writing from Brown, and a double BA in Women’s Studies/Creative Writing from UC Santa Cruz. She lives in the Bay Area with her family.

Spring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line
Why Out of Line?
“I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre, in different genres, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I’m hoping it will encourage our students to think outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks
This event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors!
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
April 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)
April 14: Kate Schatz
April 21: Manuel Gonzales
April 28: Charlie Jane Anders
May 5: NO READING
May 12: Elizabeth McKenzie
May 19: Lev Grossman
May 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier
June 2: Student Reading

Gayle Salamon: "Gender Essentialism and Eidetic Inquiry"
2016-04-14 16:00 - 17:45 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk revisits the essentialism debates within feminism, and reconsiders the impasse in which those debates landed. What understanding of “essence” was operative in those conversations about gender essentialism? And might there be a different way of thinking about the relation between essence and gender? I turn to singular and plural essences in Merleau-Ponty and Husserl’s concept of eidetic variation, showing that that phenomenology offers an articulation of essence in which variation and temporal unfolding, rather than fixity and atemporality, are primary. The phenomenological concept of essence, I will argue, offers a way to reconsider essentialism that steers clear of the straits of bilogical determinism and social constructionism that have deadlocked previous conversations about gender and essence.
About:
Gayle Salamon is an Associate Professor of English and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. Research interests include phenomenology, queer and trans theory, feminist philosophy, 20th Century Continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, and disability studies.

Anne MacNeil: “A new breed of critical edition: the role of digital humanities in transforming music scholarship”
2016-04-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Hands on (Digital) Humanities with Prof. Anne MacNeil
Anne MacNeil will give a demonstration of her digital humanities project, IDEA Music, and the new software toolkit, Prospect, that powers it. In the last year, MacNeil’s close collaboration with programmer Michael Newton (UNC Digital Innovation Lab) and other members of the DIL community in developing Prospect has resulted in a powerful platform that has transformed IDEA Music into a multi-dimensional, multi-media publication that challenges the tradition concept of “critical edition”. The presentation will include a brief video from Michael Newton about his conceptualization of the data science underlying Prospect, together with MacNeil’s demonstration of the project administrator’s role in configuring relational databases and visualizations and of the front-end user interface (GUI). Also included will be a description of Professor MacNeil’s work with bioinformatics specialists in developing a model for music analysis using a modified Waterman algorithm, originally developed for analyzing amino acids.
Co-sponsored by the Music Department, Italian Studies, and The Gary D. Licker Memorial Chair, Cowell College

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New and Emerging Terms in Migration Studies: A Seminar with Nicholas De Genova
2016-04-14 09:30 - 12:00 | Charles E. Merrill Lounge
Inspired by Nicholas De Genova, et. al’s “New Keywords: Migration and Borders”, the International Organization for Migration’s Key Migration Terms, and recent debates regarding the distinction between “refugee” and “migrant,” this one-day seminar explores key and emerging terms in migration studies and the growing gap between vocabulary and lived reality. It kicks off Borders and Belonging, a series of events on human migration organized by the CLRC over the spring of 2016, helps open Rethinking Migration, a two-day conference that the CLRC will host May 6-7, 2016, and helps us prepare for Non-citizenship, our 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Saywer Seminar.
This seminar is open to UCSC faculty and students, although space is limited, so attendees must register in advance. Readings will circulate prior to the seminar.
Please register for the seminar here. Registration will close on Friday, March 25, 2016.
Nicholas De Genova is one of the world’s leading migration scholars. He is the author and editor of numerous publications, among them, The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement (co-edited with Nathalie Peutz, Duke University Press, 2010), Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States (Duke University Press, 2006), Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago (Duke University Press, 2005), and “Migrant ‘Illegality’ and Deportability in Everyday Life” (Annual Review of Anthropology, 2002). His current projects explore migration, race, and postcoloniality in Europe. He holds a permanent appointment as Reader in Urban Geography and directs a research group on spatial politics in the Department of Geography at King’s College London.

Spring Job & Internship Fair
2016-04-13 15:00 - 18:00 | College 8, West Field House
You are invited to the Spring Job & Internship this Wednesday. Don’t miss the last job and internship fair of the academic year!
Spring Job & Internship Fair
Wednesday, April 13
3:00-6:00pm
College Eight West Field House
Where companies come to meet Slug talent!
Check out the companies that are signed up. More to come!
7th Avenue Center
8×8, Inc
Abroad Internships
AXA Advisors
California Public Utilities Commission
CalRecycle
DataCare
Daversa Partners
Del Mar Food Products Corp.
Eargo Inc.
Easter Seals Bay Area
Education First
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Fisher Investments
Foresters Financial Services
Galileo Learning
Game Show Network (GSN) Games
Guidebook Inc.
Happy Valley Conference Center
Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth
Korean Consulate Education Center
KQED, Inc.
LGS Recreation
Looker Data Sciences
Ma Labs
Peace Corps
Plantronics, Inc.
Santa Cruz Seaside Company
Schoolmessenger
Seneca Family of Agencies
Sherwin Williams
Social Security Administration
Surveymonkey
Symphony
Target
Two Pore Guys
United States Air Force
United States Navy
Urban Teachers
Vivint Solar
Walgreens
West Marine
Whiting’s Foods
WSO2 Inc.
Zoho Corporation
Prepare For The Fair
Research the companies you are interested in before coming to the fair. They like to know that you know something about them.
Have your resume ready and verbal introduction practiced.
Think about which companies you want to talk to & come dressed the part!
Check out our Career Fair Tips Pinterest Page for some quick tips!
Student ID required.
All Majors Encouraged to Attend

Roland Tolentino: “Cinema and State in Crisis: Political Film Collectives and the People’s Struggles in the Philippines”
2016-04-13 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Roland Tolentino works on Philippine film, literature, and popular culture in national and transnational contexts. He is a fellow of the UP Institute of Creative Writing and a member of the Filipino Film Critics Group, Congress of Teachers and Educators for Nationalism and Democracy, and People’s Alternative Media Network.
Tolentino is Faculty at University of the Philippines Film Institute and Visiting Professor in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley.

Spring 2016 Colloquium Series

April 6, 2016
April 13, 2016
April 20, 2016
April 27, 2016
May 4,2016
May 11,2016
May 18,2016
May 25,2016

Stay tuned for more information about guest speakers.

Brown Bag Workshop: Teaching with Wikipedia (CANCELED)
2016-04-12 12:00 - 13:30 | FITC, 1336 McHenry Library
A hands-on workshop designed to construct innovative assignments using Wikipedia and its content editing platform. Building assignments that ask students to work on Wikipedia pages will help them:
• Develop writing skills
• Improve Media and Information Literacy
• Refine Critical Thinking and Research Skills
• Learn to work collaboratively
The workshop will also include a discussion about assessment and discipline specific objectives. Get inspired to integrate Wikipedia into your classroom.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Andrew Woods
2016-04-08 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Andrew Woods
“Punk the Academy (aka. Punk as Method)
With a particular emphasis on the non-hierarchical, ambiguous, and D.I.Y. ethos of punk cultures, this paper makes the case that punk can be used as a lens informing our investigations of other objects, scenes, themes, and theories. The information of punk as method is not assuming punk “has all the answers,” but rather that through subversive aesthetic shock and rupture, punk has the potential to open up new ways of thinking through not only our discourses, but also the social world from which they arise.

Friday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
April 8th- Andrew Woods, Politics
April 15th- Claudia Lopez, Sociology
April 22nd- Jordan Reznick, HAVC
April 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies
May 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics
May 13th- Cathy Thomas, Literature
May 20th- Trung Nguyen, History of Consciousness
May 27th- Rebecca Ora, Film of Digital Media
June 3rd- Veronica Zablotsky, Feminist Studies

RESCHEDULED PhD+: Writing for Publication in the Humanities
2016-04-08 | Unnamed Venue
This event has been rescheduled for April 22. Click here for more info.

Living Writers: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)
2016-04-07 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Spring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line
Why Out of Line?
“I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre, in different genres, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I’m hoping it will encourage our students to think outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks
This event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors!
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
April 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)
April 14: Kate Schatz
April 21: Manuel Gonzales
April 28: Charlie Jane Anders
May 5: NO READING
May 12: Elizabeth McKenzie
May 19: Lev Grossman
May 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier
June 2: Student Reading

Book Talk: Sherene Seikaly
2016-04-06 18:00 - 19:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Men of Capital examines British-ruled Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s through a focus on economy. In a departure from the expected histories of Palestine, this book illuminates dynamic class constructions that aimed to shape a pan-Arab utopia in terms of free trade, profit accumulation, and private property. And in so doing, it positions Palestine and Palestinians in the larger world of Arab thought and social life, moving attention away from the limiting debates of Zionist-Palestinian conflict.
Professor Sheren Seikaly is a historian of capitalism, consumption, and development in the modern Middle East. She is Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara. She previously taught at the American University in Cairo. She is Co-founder and Co-editor of the important journal Jadaliyaa.
UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Emerging Worlds and the Center for Cultural Studies present this new series, “Book Talks,” which invites authors to read from their books and engage in discussion. Please visit the Center for Emerging Worlds’ website for more information on their work.

Grad Slam for 2016 Finalists
2016-04-06 17:30 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Grad Slam, also referred to as the 3-Minute Thesis Challenge, is a competition that challenges doctoral students to present years’ worth of academic research in a concise, compelling, three-minute talk to a non-expert audience. It encourages students to clarify their ideas and to help others understand and appreciate the significance of their work.
The contest is open to all doctoral students who have advanced to candidacy.
Congratulations to our 2016 Finalists!
Finalists will present their three-minute thesis presentations at a live event on April 6th at 5:30pm in the Music Recital Hall. This event is open to the public, and a final panel of judges will choose a first place and runner-up winner; the audience will vote for a people’s choice awardee. If the people’s choice awardee is the same as the winner or runner-up, both awards will go to that person.
The winner of the UCSC Grad Slam will receive $3,000; the runner-up receives $1,500; and the people’s choice winner receives $750.
The UCSC Grad Slam winner will go on to present at a UC-wide final Grad Slam to be held in San Francisco on April 22nd. Visit the UCOP Grad Slam page to see more information about finalists across all UC-campuses!

Sherene Seikaly: “Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine”
2016-04-06 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Sherene Seikaly’s current work explores the construction and regulation of the poor in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt in terms of governance and of popular politics. Through a political economy of the history of food, this project rethinks our understanding of the “masses” and the specter of the “bread riot.” This talk is generously co-sponsored by the Center for Emerging Worlds.
Seikaly is Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara.

Spring 2016 Colloquium Series

April 6, 2016
April 13, 2016
April 20, 2016
April 27, 2016
May 4,2016
May 11,2016
May 18,2016
May 25,2016

Saving Capitalism For the Many, Not the Few: A Curated Conversation with Robert Reich
2016-04-05 18:30 - 20:30 | Rio Theater, 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062, United States
Robert Reich, Former Secretary of Labor, in the Clinton administration, is the author of more than a dozen books, including Aftershock, The Work of Nations, and Beyond Outrage. He is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and a Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economics. Reich is also the subject of Inequality for All, an ward-winning documentary film. Inequality for All will be shown at Kresge Town Hall on Thursday, March 31.
Free Admission. Advance Registration Required.
This event has reached capacity; online registration is now closed. To be placed on a waiting list, fill out this form or email the Special Events office.
LIVE STREAMING AVAILABLE!
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/MJEZw4EMeNB

Modeling Culture: 3D Archaeology and the Future of the Past
2016-04-01 09:00 - 17:30 | McHenry Library UCSC, Room 4286
Organizers:
Elaine Sullivan, UC Santa Cruz
J. Cameron Monroe, UC Santa Cruz

Conference Theme:
The past decade has witnessed a dramatic surge in the availability and use of digital technologies in Archaeology, where the increasing power and declining cost of computing technology has transformed the way we think about collecting, analyzing, and presenting archaeological data. While many technologies have been adopted and adapted into the field, the potential for 3D modeling is still being explored. This conference asks leading innovators in the use of 3D research methods to present and evaluate the impact and future of this new technology on the study of the past.
Speakers:
Michael Ashley, Center for Digital Archaeology
Edward González-Tennant, Digital Heritage Interactive
Susan Kuzminsky, UC Santa Cruz
Nicola Lercari, UC Merced
Tom Levy, UC San Diego
Bernard K. Means, Virginia Commonwealth University
Rachel Opitz, Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies
John Rick, Stanford University
Elaine Sullivan, UC Santa Cruz
Willeke Wendrich, UC Los Angeles
Keynote Address by Ruth Tringham, UC Berkeley

Admission is FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required: Register for the Conference

Call For Digital Presentations:
In addition to the above speakers, we invite submissions for a small number of digital presentations focusing on methodological issues in 3D archaeology. These presentations will be presented in a digital “poster-session” in which presenters will use a devoted widescreen LCD. As such, we discourage traditional powerpoint presentations or simple posters, but rather encourage presentations that will make maximum use of the flexibility afforded by a digital presentation mode. We particularly encourage submissions from graduate students, and small travel stipend is available to defray costs for graduate student presenters. To ensure full consideration, abstracts should be submitted online by February 19th using the link below.
Submit an Abstract for the Digital Poster Session

Film Screening: Inequality for All
2016-03-31 18:30 - 20:00 | Kresge Town Hall
An award winning documentary that follows former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich as he looks to raise awareness of the country’s widening economic gap. Introduction by UC Santa Cruz Professor Mary Beth Pudup.
Robert Reich, Former Secretary of Labor, in the Clinton administration, is the author of more than a dozen books, including Aftershock, The Work of Nations, and Beyond Outrage. He is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and a Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economics. Reich is also the subject of Inequality for All, an ward-winning documentary film. Inequality for All will be shown at Kresge Town Hall on Thursday, March 31.
The screening comes prior to a local talk by Robert Reich on April 5 at the Rio Theatre.
Saving Capitalism For the Many, Not the Few: A Curated Conversation with Robert Reich

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Bristol Cave La-Costa
2016-03-11 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Bristol Cave La-Costa
“Sexual Policing and Immigration Policy in the United States at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”
While much research has focused on Chinese Exclusion laws as mostly male-oriented, I consider how the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and 1875 Page Act, which excluded “immoral” immigrants, contributed to categories of sexual morality for Chinese women.

Friday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 15- James Beneda, Politics
January 22- Alex Moore, HAVC
January 29- Whitney Devos, Literature
February 5- Sophia Magnone, Literature
February 12- Andrei Tcacenco, History
February 19- Amanda Reyes, History & Consciousness
February 26- Keith Spencer, Literature
March 4- Laura Harrison, Sociology
March 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa, History

Sex Radical, Afro-Fututrist, and Grand Master of Science Fiction, Samuel R. Delany Reads from His Work
2016-03-10 16:30 - 19:45 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Sex Radical, Afro-Fututrist, and Grand Master of Science Fiction, Samuel Delany Talk 03.10.16 from IHR on Vimeo.
UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series present:
Sex Radical, Afro-Futurist, and Grand Master of Science Fiction, SAMUEL R. DELANY, Reads from His Work
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Music Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz
Free and open to the public
4:30PM Doors Open
5PM Reception & Book signing
6PM Reading
Samuel R. Delany is an American science-fiction novelist and critic whose highly imaginative works address sexual, racial, and social issues, heroic quests, and the nature of language. Born in New York City’s Harlem in 1942, Delany was the first African American writer to achieve note through commercial american science fiction. He is the author of the non-fiction books Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999), and About Writing (2005). His novels include Nova (1968), Dhalgren (1975), The Return to Nevèrÿon Fantasy Series (1979-87), The Mad Man (1995), Dark Reflections (2007), Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders (2012), and Phallos (2013). He has won the Stonewall Book Award and the Lambda Literary Pioneer Award. In 2002 he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and, this year, into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. He is the 31st Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master of Science Fiction and lives in Pennsylvania. Last year he retired from teaching creative writing at Temple University.
Event sponsored by: UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Living Writers Series, Humanities Division, Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, and the Institute for Humanities Research.

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Winter 2016 Living Writers Series:
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.
January 14: Alex Rivera
January 21: Vikram Chandra
January 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales
February 4: Charles Yu
February 11: Branwen Okpako
February 18: Nnedi Okorafor
February 25: Chang-rae Lee
March 3: Jeremy Love
March 10: Samuel Delany

Stereotype Threat: How it affects us and what we can do about it
2016-03-10 16:00 - 18:00 | College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room, College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Dr. Claude Steele, who is called “one of the few great social psychologists,” offers a first-person account of his groundbreaking research and conclusions on stereotypes and identity.
Claude Steele, internationally reknowned social scientist and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at the University of California, Berkeley, will discuss his theory of stereotype threat, which has been the focus of much of his research and writing throughout his academic career. The theory examines how people from different groups, being threatened by different stereotypes, can have quite different experiences in the same situation. It has also been used to understand group differences in performance ranging from the intellectual to the athletic. Steele’s recent book, “Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us and what we Can Do,” published in 2010, was based on this research and lays out a plan to mitigate the negative effects of “stereotype threat”.
Light refreshments will precede the lecture. Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
Please RSVP here.

Anna Tsing: "The Mushroom at the End of the World"
2016-03-09 18:00 - 19:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Emerging Worlds and the Center for Cultural Studies present the new series, “Book Talks,” which invites authors to read from their books and engage in discussion. Next week we present Anna Tsing reading from “The Mushroom at the End of the World.”
A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, “The Mushroom at the End of the World” follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. In all its contradictions, the matsutake mushroom offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: what manages to live in the ruins we have made? By investigating one of the world’s most sought-after fungi, The Mushroom at the End of the World presents an original examination in to the relation between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth.
Anna Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at UCSC and a Neils Bohr Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark, where she codirects Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA). She is author of “Friction” and “In the Realm of the Diamond Queen.”

The Cosmopolitical Forest
2016-03-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Porter College, Room D245
Arts Division, Film & Digital Media, History of Art & Visual Culture, and the Center for Creative Ecologies presents:
Ursula Biemann
Based on comprehensive research, Ursula Biemann elaborates in her video works the far-reaching territorial transformations due to the extraction and engineering of resources, drawing attention to the biological and social micro-dynamics at work in these massive physical encroachments. Her recent fieldwork has taken her to vital forested regions in the Americas. Engaging with the political ecology of oil and water, the artist interweaves vast cinematic landscapes with documentary footage and academic findings to narrate a changing planetary reality. Discussing her artistic practice in the projects Deep Weather and Forest Law, Biemann particularly raises questions regarding the entanglement of aesthetics, ecology and geopolitics.

Dr. Ramzi Fawaz: “‘Flame on!’: Nuclear Families, Unstable Molecules, and the Queer History of ‘The Fantastic Four'”
2016-03-09 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Department of Feminist Studies and the Affect Working Group at UC Santa Cruz Present:
“Flame On!”: Nuclear Families, Unstable Molecules, and the Queer History of The Fantastic Four
DR. RAMZI FAWAZ, U. OF WISCONSIN – MADISON
Released to popular acclaim in 1961, Marvel Comics’ The Fantastic Four told of four anticommunist space adventurers who gain extraordinary powers when cosmic rays alter their physiology, respectively granting them control over living flame, invisibility, impenetrable rock-like skin, and physical pliability. In this talk, Ramzi Fawaz explores the surprisingly queer evolution of the series, which used the mutated bodies of its heroes to depict the transformation of the bread-winning father, doting wife and bickering male siblings of the 1950s nuclear family into icons of 1960s radicalism: the left-wing intellectual, the liberal feminist, the political activist, and the potential queer.
About the Author: Ramzi Fawaz is assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics (NYU Press, 2016), which received the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Fellowship award for best first book manuscript in LGBT Studies. Dr. Fawaz’s research has been published in American Literature, Callaloo, and GLQ.

Discovering the UC Santa Cruz Campus by James Clifford
2016-03-08 19:30 - 21:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UC Santa Cruz Emeriti Group presents the Spring Emeriti Faculty Lecture featuring James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, History of Consciousness.
March 8, 2016, 7:30pm
Doors open at 7pm.
Free and open to the public. (Seating is limited)
The University of California, Santa Cruz, built in a redwood forest overlooking Monterey Bay, is famously beautiful. But the usual language of aesthetics does little to reveal what makes the place extraordinary. The lecture, based on years of walking the rugged site, uses color photography and historical research to explore the interaction of architecture and ecology. It traces UCSC’s experience of environmental design through changing times and ponders its continued significance.
Complimentary parking is available in the Performing Arts parking lot. Parking attendants will be onsite that evening to issue permits.
For questions or accommodation requirements, contact UC Santa Cruz Special Events Office at (831) 459-5003 or specialevents@ucsc.edu

Subatlantic: A Screening and Presentation
2016-03-08 17:30 - 19:15 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Arts Division, Film & Digital Media, History of Art & Visual Culture, and the Center for Creative Ecologies presents:
Ursula Biemann
Swiss video practitioner Ursula Biemann will screen and discuss her recent speculative SF video essay Subatlantic (2015), addressing, among related works and topics, the interdisciplinary-discursive ecotone of geology and climatology merged with human politics and history, as well as her essayistic storytelling and creative imaging. Set in the Shetland Islands, Greenland’s Disco Bay and on a tiny Caribbean Island, and occurring at the end of the 2,500 year old Holocene epoch, the video’s relational eco-geography captures moments of aquatic flows through invisible ocean streams and melting Arctic icescapes, and reads this interconnected system as both a hyperobject (one of an expanded geo-space-time, as Timothy Morton writes), and a modeling of intensive science and virtual philosophy (as according to Manuel De Landa). This event will compliment Biemann’s presentation in the Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium the following afternoon:

Sugar Beets, Biocolonialism, and Memory in the American West
2016-03-08 14:00 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The History Department Presents the Thom Gentle Lecture on Environmental History
Bernadette Jeanne Pérez
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
What can the sugar beet industry tell us about the relationship between agricultural science, capitalism, and American settler colonialism? In this talk, Pérez draws upon turn of the twentieth century beet sugar manuals, which drew upon ideas of heredity and evolution, and mid-twentieth century industry histories, which narrated industry founders as heroic pioneers, to reveal that efforts to breed stronger and healthier sugar beets were part of a broader vision to erase the history of Indigenous peoples, subjugate non-white workers, and construct white American exceptionalism. Between 1870 and 1945, over 160 beet sugar factories opened in rural American towns from Michigan to the Pacific Coast. Hoping to cash in on a crop then touted as “white gold,” landowners allocated millions of acres to beets to feed their local factories. Efforts to dominate and domesticate nature were inseparable from global histories of colonialism, race, and Manifest Destiny.
Bernadette Pérez is a PhD Candidate in US history at the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation, ““Before the Sun Rises: Contesting Power and Cultivating Nations in Colorado Beet Fields, 1900-1945,” is a social, cultural, environmental, and labor history of diverse migrant workers in the sugar beet industry. Her research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the University of Minnesota’s Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, the Organization of American Historian’s Huggins Quarles Award, and the Western History Association’s Sara Jackson Award.

Israeli Music Extravaganza!
2016-03-07 20:30 - 22:00 | Porter/Kresge Dining Hall
Featuring award-winning singer Moran Arad with members of Brazilian Band SambaDá!
Monday, March 7 at 8:30pm
@ UCSC Porter/Kresge Dining Hall
Doors open at 8:00pm
Drums: Gary Kehoe
Guitars: Nelsen Hutchison
Bass: Etienne David Franc
Saxophones: Anne Stafford
Keyboard: Avi Tchamni
Percussion: Noam Harel
The show is FREE for all
For more information, contact atchamni@ucsc.edu.

Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC) 2016
2016-03-05 09:30 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Every year towards the end of the Winter Quarter, the Linguistics at Santa Cruz conference showcases the research of second and third year graduate students. This conference coincides with a visit to campus of prospective graduate students, and it always features as an invited speaker, a Ph.D. alum of the department. This year’s invited speaker will be Ryan Bennett (Ph.D. 2012) an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Yale University.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Laura Harrison
2016-03-04 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Laura Harrison
“Rights Are Not Justice: A Case Study in Campus Segregation and How University Accessibility Policies Do Violence To the Spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act”
“Rights Are Not Justice” is the product of a community facilitated project in public sociology and critical disability studies. This project outlines who and what is at stake when a campus elevator/building is inaccessible by uncovering the answers to thefollowing three questions: 1) who is affected by building segregation; 2) which bureaucratic structures maintain or operationalize the necessary conditions for inaccessibility; and, 3) what ideas work to organize these structures?

Friday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 15- James Beneda, Politics
January 22- Alex Moore, HAVC
January 29- Whitney Devos, Literature
February 5- Sophia Magnone, Literature
February 12- Andrei Tcacenco, History
February 19- Amanda Reyes, History & Consciousness
February 26- Keith Spencer, Literature
March 4- Laura Harrison, Sociology
March 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa, History

PhD+: Work-Life Balance
2016-03-04 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Panelists:
Shelley Stamp, Professor of Film and Digital Media
Meg Corman, Special Assistant to the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor of University Relations
Nathaniel Deutsch, Director, Institute for Humanities Research, Professor of History
Shelley Stamp will offer reflections on Work/Life Balance based on over 20 years experience teaching at UC Santa Cruz. She is the mother of three kids under twelve, the author of two books, and founding editor of the journal Feminist Media Histories.
Meg Corman is a Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) teacher. MBSR was founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn and has been taught and researched for over three decades. Meg teaches locally at Dominican Hospital and at El Camino Hospital in Los Gatos and is nearing completion of a teacher certification program with the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness.
Nathaniel Deutsch will discuss time management for dissertation writing, the importance of exercise, and finding work/life balance in general. He is the father of two kids.
Hope you can join us for this important conversation!
Lunch will be served, as always.

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.
October 9, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel
November 6, 2015: Internship Info Session
December 4, 2015: Coding for Humanists
January 8, 2016: Research Tools and Methods
February 5, 2016: Online Identity
March 4, 2016: Work-Life Balance
April 8, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities
May 13, 2016: Research and Grants
June 3, 2016: End of Year Luncheon
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WORKSHOP: GIS for Humanists
2016-03-04 09:00 - 12:30 | Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library
Looking to start a mapping project? Curious about GIS? Start exploring the world of ArcGIS with Professors Elaine Sullivan and Barry Nickel.
Join us for this introductory workshop. No previous experience with GIS necessary.
Very Limited Seating. Registration Required. Preference will go to graduate students.
Lunch will be served.

Living Writers: Jeremy Love
2016-03-03 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Jeremy Love is an award-winning writer, illustrator, and animator. His critically acclaimed, Eisner Nominated, serialized graphic novel Bayou has been used as curriculum at various high schools and colleges including the University of South Carolina and Dartmouth college. It was also selected by the American Library Association as a Great Graphic Novel for teens. Other projects include Blackest Nightmare for DC Comics, Fierce and Shadow Rock for Dark Horse Comics as a writer and GI Joe, Fraggle Rockfor Archaia and Midnight Mover for Oni as an artist. Love is currently hard at work completing Bayou as well as a new Mini-Series from Dark Horse Comics, The Black Lotus.

Winter 2016 Living Writers Series:
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.
January 14: Alex Rivera
January 21: Vikram Chandra
January 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales
February 4: Charles Yu
February 11: Branwen Okpako
February 18: Nnedi Okorafor
February 25: Chang-rae Lee
March 3: Jeremy Love
March 10: Samuel Delany

Professor Thomas Stoellner Ruhr-University Bochum The Beginnings of Social Inequality: The World’s Earliest Gold Mine
2016-03-03 16:30 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The rise of social inequality in early societies has been a matter of long-standing debate in archaeology. Often archaeologists explicitly focus on long-distance networks and the accumulation of wealth as driving factors, and the consumption of precious metals plays a prominent role in this discussion. However, seldom are the interwoven roles of producers and the complexity of production considered. Simplified models tend to strengthen notions of dependency and dichotomy between ruling elites and a laboring class. Yet mining as a social practice is more complicated and might have been founded on degrees of social complexity from the very beginning. In this lecture, the example of gold mining in the Caucasus in the 4th millennium BC will be introduced, drawing on empirical data, experimental archaeology and the economic complexity of mining. Gold mining such as in Sakdrisi, in particular, raises important questions about whether the use of hard labor in the production of a highly desired material resulted in its own societal dynamics.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Stoellner is Chair of Prehistoric Archaeology at the Ruhr-University Bochum and Head of the Research Department of the German Mining Museum. He has directed excavations and research projects in Austria, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Kazakhstan, Georgia, and Peru. Prof. Stoellner is a leading expert in mining archaeology whose research has broadly contributed to our understanding of prehistoric metallurgy and technology, and the prehistoric economy.
For more information, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu
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Past Time, Past Place: 3D Reconstruction Modeling for Examining Historic Sites
2016-03-02 16:00 - 17:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Archaeologists and historians are utilizing improving 3D technologies to create scholarly reconstructions of ancient places. These visualizations of now-disappeared spaces offer new potential for the examination of the ancient world. In this talk, Professor Sullivan will present her work on the 3D Saqqara project, a 3D visualization of the Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. The project attempts to re-imagine the built and natural environment of the cemetery through space and time, accessing human perception and experience in past landscapes.
Co-sponsored by the History and Classics Department and the Institute for Humanities Research.

Nathaniel Mackey: "Breath and Precarity"
2016-03-02 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies, in partnership with Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, Kresge College, and Porter College, presents Nathaniel Mackey.
Acclaimed poet Nathaniel Mackey’s recent work encompasses three ongoing, decades-long projects: the serial poems Song of the Andoumboulou and “Mu,” and the serial novel or series of novels From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, whose fifth volume, Late Arcade, was recently completed.

Winter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series:
January 13-Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”
January 20-Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes”
January 27-Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”
February 3-Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”
February 10-B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”
February 17-Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
February 24-Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
March 2-Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”

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Questions that Matter: "Play: Games, Life, and Death"
2016-03-01 18:00 - 20:30 | Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Questions that Matter 03.01.16 from IHR on Vimeo.
This series brings together UC Santa Cruz scholars with community members to explore questions that matter to all of us. We invite you to join us on March 1, 2016 for the series launch at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center.
Featuring:
Kimberly Lau, Professor of Literature, UCSC
Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Professor of Computational Media, UCSC
Moderated by: Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of History & Director of the Institute for Humanities Research
The reception begins at 6:00pm, and the program begins at 7:00pm.
Please check back for updated program information.

The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection: February 26 – May 22, 2016
2016-02-26 19:30 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
Explore one of the largest private collections of African American art and artifacts.
Spanning 400 years of history, the Kinsey Collection reflects a rich cultural heritage. Includes work by Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, and Richard Mayhew alongside archival material related to Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, and Malcolm X.
Join us for a MAH Members Only Reception from 5:30-7:30, and a public opening from 7:30-9pm. There will be food, refreshments and a welcoming by Khalil, Bernard and Shirley Kinsey, the show’s curators at 6:30PM the Members Reception. Salif Kone a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Burkina Faso, West Africa will play 5:30-6:30 and at 7:15PM.
The MAH is providing free admission to this exhibition for all Santa Cruz County K-12 students, UCSC and Cabrillo College students. Just show your ID at the desk Feb 27-May 22, Tuesday-Sunday, 11-5, to get in for free. Note: Free Admission does not apply during Third Friday festivals.
Self-guided tour materials also available for school groups and visitors, click here to book a self-guided tour.
Presented in partnership with the Santa Cruz County Office of Education, the Art Forum, the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research and Cabrillo College. For more information visit: santacruzmah.org

Join us for these exhibition-related events:
AT THE MAH:
Opening Reception
Friday Feb 26th
Members/Invites only 5:30-7:30pm
Open to the Public 7:30-9pm
March 1st Friday Opening
March 4th, 5-9PM
5:30-6PM Panel discussion about The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection with Michael Watkins from the Santa Cruz County Office of Education and Simba Kenyata from the Santa Cruz NAACP.
5-9PM Make a protest sign to fight for what you believe in.
3rd Friday Artivism
March 18th, 6-9PM
Explore activism through creative forms of expression: music, dance, poetry, art, food and more. Artivism is co-presented by MAH’s teen program, Subjects to Change.
Community Rental: Barrios Unidos Presents Jazz For Freedom
March 20, 3-4:30PM
Community Rental: Project Pollinate Presents Songs of Freedom: A Journey Through the Kinsey African American History Exhibit and a Birthday Tribute to Paul Robeson
April 8th, 6-9PM
Community Rental: Barrios Unidos Presents Jazz For Freedom
April 9, 3-4:30PM
3rd Friday Beyond Borders
April 15th, 6-9PM
How do we break barriers? We organize. We share stories. We speak out. Break through borders with inspiring local organizations fighting for political, cultural and social justice.
Community Rental: Rising Root Wellness Presents Resuscitating Ancestral Power
April 29th, 6-9PM
Community Rental: Barrios Unidos Presents Jazz For Freedom
May 14th, 3-4:30PM
Community Rental: UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research Presents, A Night at the Museum: A Story of Influence
May 18th, 6PM
A public conversation with Ethan Michaeli, author of the acclaimed new book “The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America”, and David Anthony, Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz. Reception and book signing to follow talk. Free and Open to the Public. Co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz
COMMUNITY EVENTS AROUND TOWN:
Fire in the Heart at Cabrillo College Crocker Theater
March 5th , 7:30PM
Santa Cruz Juneteenth Celebration at Laurel Park behind the Louden Nelson Community Center
June 11th, 12-5PM

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Keith Spencer
2016-02-26 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Keith Spencer
“What We Talk About When We Talk To Aliens”
Throughout the history of the search for ET, strategies for sending radio signals towards potentially inhabited planetary systems have always made unscientific assumptions and projections about alien culture, language, society and even economy. In my presentation I will deconstruct some recent scientific attempts to actively send out radio signals to other star systems and the hegemonic assumptions that are tied to the content of these radio compositions.

Friday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 15- James Beneda, Politics
January 22- Alex Moore, HAVC
January 29- Whitney Devos, Literature
February 5- Sophia Magnone, Literature
February 12- Andrei Tcacenco, History
February 19- Amanda Reyes, History & Consciousness
February 26- Keith Spencer, Literature
March 4- Laura Harrison, Sociology
March 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa, History

Living Writers: Chang-rae Lee
2016-02-25 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Chang-rae Lee is the author of the novels Native Speaker (1995), A Gesture Life (1999), Aloft (2004), The Surrendered (2010), which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and On Such A Full Sea (2014), which won the 2015 Heartland Prize for Fiction and was a Finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction.

His other awards and citations include the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the American Book Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, ALA Notable Book of the Year Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Literary Award, the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, and the NAIBA Book Award for Fiction. He has also has also written stories and articles for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, Conde Nast Traveler, Food & Wine, and many other publications. In 2000 he was named by The New Yorker as one of the 20 Writers for the 21st Century.

He has been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and The American Academy in Rome.

Chang-rae Lee was born in Seoul, Korea and emigrated to the United States when he was three. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Yale, and the University of Oregon. He is Professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University as well as a Shinhan Distinguished Visiting Professor at Yonsei University.

Winter 2016 Living Writers Series:
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.
January 14: Alex Rivera
January 21: Vikram Chandra
January 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales
February 4: Charles Yu
February 11: Branwen Okpako
February 18: Nnedi Okorafor
February 25: Chang-rae Lee
March 3: Jeremy Love
March 10: Samuel Delany

Intro to Sikhs Guest Lecture: Shinder Thandi speaks on Global Sikh Diaspora
2016-02-25 16:00 - 17:45 | Cowell, Room 134
Shinder Thandi

Shinder Thandi is a Global & International Studies Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in Sikhs and Sikh Diaspora, Political Economy of Development, Emerging Economies with special focus on Indian and Chinese Development and Evolving China-India-Africa Relations.
He is the founder-editor of the Journal of Punjab Studies, in publication since 1994. The Journal has been published by the Center for Sikh & Punjab Studies at UC Santa Barbara since 2004. Also one of the founders and later Convenor of the Punjab Research Group which was established in the UK in 1984.
He has published widely on Indian, Punjabi and Sikh migration and on transnational practices of Sikhs, especially Sikh diaspora’s homeland relations. He is co-author (with Michael Fisher and Shompa Lahiri) of A South Asian History of Britain: Four Centuries of Peoples from the Indian Sub-Continent, (Greenwood Press, 2007). He has co-edited two books: Punjabi Identity in a Global Context [ed. with Pritam Singh, OUP, 1999) and People on the Move: Punjabi Colonial and Post Colonial Migration [edited with Ian Talbot, OUP, 2004). He is currently working on a book with Professor Gurinder Singh Mann on Global Sikhism.

Book Talks - Gil Anidjar: "Blood: A Critique of Christianity"
2016-02-24 18:00 - 19:30 | Humanities 2, Room 359
Blood, according to Gil Anidjar, maps the singular history of Christianity. As a category for historical analysis, blood can be seen through its literal and metaphorical uses as determining, sometimes even defining Western Culture, politics, and social practice and their wide-ranging incarnations in nationalism, capitalism, and the law. Flowing across multiple boundaries, infusing them with violent precepts that we must address, blood undoes the presumed oppositions between religion and politics, economy and theology, and kinship and race.
Dr. Anidjar is professor of Religion, Comparative Literature, and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. His books include The Jew, The Arab: A History of the Enemy and Semites: Race, Religion, Literature.
UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Emerging Worlds and the Center for Cultural Studies present this new series, Book Talks, which invites authors to read from their books and engage in discussion. Please visit the Center for Emerging Worlds’ website for more information on their work.

Todd Presner: "The Ethics of the Algorithm: Holocaust Testimony and Digital Humanities"
2016-02-24 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
2016 Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies with Todd Presner
“The Ethics of the Algorithm: Holocaust Testimony and Digital Humanities”
With more than 52,000 testimonies, 100,000+ hours of video footage, and a database of some 6 million records, the Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive is the largest archive of Holocaust testimony in the world. But more than an archive of eyewitness testimony, it is also an information management system, a patented digital library, and a generalizable database for indexing and cataloguing genocide. This talk examines how forms of computation – specifically databases, data structures, algorithms, and information visualizations – function as specific modes of historical emplotment that raise significant ethical questions. Through an investigation of the entirety of the Shoah Foundation’s database, Presner shows how computational analysis can be “read against itself” in order to reveal certain assumptions and patterns in the data. In so doing, he argues for the development of an “ethics of the algorithm” based on insights from the Jewish ethical tradition. The talk will combine his research in Holocaust Studies, history/memory, and Digital Humanities.
Todd Samuel Presner is Professor of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature at UCLA, where he is also the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and Chair of the Digital Humanities Program. His most recent books are: Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture, co-edited with Claudio Fogu and Wulf Kansteiner (Harvard University Press, 2016) and HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities, with co-authors David Shepard and Yoh Kawano (Harvard University Press, 2014).
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.

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Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
2016-02-24 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies presents Beléna Bistué.

In the context of her larger project on early modern collaborative and multilingual translation, Belén Bistué is currently looking at specific instances in which these practices, together with their underlying conceptual models, were adapted to the colonial Spanish American context.

Winter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series:
January 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”
January 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes”
January 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”
February 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”
February 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”
February 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
February 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
March 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”

Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination II: The Venice Ghetto at 500 and the Future of Memory
2016-02-23 12:15 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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This conference addresses the complexity of the Ghetto of Venice at 500, both as a concrete space and as a global metaphor – tracing its refraction across space and time. We bring together representations of the ghetto in art, literature, and photography while embracing the possibilities of digital methodologies. By conceiving of the ghetto as a “memory space that travels” rather than as a static museal site we open up the constellation of representations in which the Ghetto of Venice is situated in the 21st century.
Program:
12:15-1:00 PM – Opening Remarks: by Dean Tyler Stovall presented by Professor Murray Baumgarten
“The Venice Ghetto at 500: Situating the Conversation”
1:00-1:30 PM – Skype conversation with Marjorie Agosín
Questions and Answers. Closing with Poetry Reading
Katie Trostel (Ph.D. Candidate in Literature, University of California Santa Cruz)
1:30-1:45 PM – Coffee Break
1:45-3:15 PM – Panel #1: “The Ghetto as Theater”
Dr. Ariane Helou (University of California, Santa Cruz)
“Voice and Theatricality in Leone de’ Sommi’s Dialoghi.”
Dr. Samuel Arkin (Lecturer in Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz)
“Hath not a Jew a home? Shylock in Venice, Venice in Shylock?”
Respondent: Professor Emeritus Harry Berger, Jr. (Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz)
3:15-3:30 PM – Coffee Break
3:30-5:00 PM – Panel #2: “Mapping Liminal Jewish Space”
Amanda Sharick (Ph.D. candidate in Literature, University of California, Riverside)
“’Beating Vainly at Closed Doors’: Tracing and Transposing the Recurring Ghetto in the Works of Lady Katie Magnus, Amy Levy and Israel Zangwill.”
Professor Alma Heckman (Professor of History and Jewish Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz)
“Porosity and Transgression: Modern Understandings of the Moroccan Mellah and Jews Apart.”
Respondent: Francesco Spagnolo (Curator of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and Lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley)
5:00-5:15 PM – Break
5:15-6:30 PM – Round Table Discussion “The Venice Ghetto at 500”: Moderated by Professor Murray Baumgarten
Dr. Rachel Deblinger (CLIR Post Doctoral Fellow and Digital Humanities Specialist, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Professor Bruce Thompson (Jewish Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Professor Emeritus Peter Kenez (History, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Professor Nathaniel Deutsch (History, University of California, Santa Cruz)
6:30 PM – Reception to follow
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Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Literature Department, and the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Amanda Reyes
2016-02-19 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Amanda Reyes
Dangerous Visibility: The Visual Epistemology of Eugenics
In the 1927 Buck v. Bell decision, the Supreme Court upheld a Virginia statute allowing sterilization of people determined to have “hereditary” mental illnesses such as “idiocy, imbecility, feeble-mindedness or epilepsy.” Key testimony asserted that her infant child had “a look about [her] that is not quite normal” and descriptions of Carrie as “poor in looks” formed the basis of the argument that Carrie’s “feeble-mindedness” was hereditary. Thinking through the ways that representations of the Bucks were curated and challenged, this paper argues that eugenic discourse operates through a visual economy.

Friday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 15- James Beneda, Politics
January 22- Alex Moore, HAVC
January 29- Whitney Devos, Literature
February 5- Sophia Magnone, Literature
February 12- Andrei Tcacenco, History
February 19- Amanda Reyes, History & Consciousness
February 26- Keith Spencer, Literature
March 4- Laura Harrison, Sociology
March 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa, History

Allan Langdale: "Palermo: Travels in the City of Happiness"
2016-02-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Humanities 2, Room 359
Please join us for a lecture and reading by Allan Langdale (History of Art and Visual Culture, UCSC), author of Palermo: Travels in the City of Happiness (2015). Dr. Langdale will read from his new book, show images of Palermo’s art and architecture, and talk about the project and the city’s history.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Languages & Applied Linguistics, Italian Studies, and History of Art and Visual Culture.

Living Writers: Nnedi Okorafor
2016-02-18 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Nnedi Okorafor is an international award-winning novelist of African-based science fiction, fantasy and magical realism for both children and adults. Nnedi Okorafor’s books include Lagoon (a British Science Fiction Association Award finalist for Best Novel),Who Fears Death (a World Fantasy Award winner for Best Novel), Kabu Kabu (A Publisher’s Weekly Best Book for Fall 2013),Akata Witch (an Amazon.com Best Book of the Year), Zahrah the Windseeker (winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature), and The Shadow Speaker (a CBS Parallax Award winner). Her latest works include her novel The Book of Phoenix and her novella Binti. Nnedi is an associate professor at the University at Buffalo, New York (SUNY). Learn more at Nnedi.com

Winter 2016 Living Writers Series:
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.
January 14: Alex Rivera
January 21: Vikram Chandra
January 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales
February 4: Charles Yu
February 11: Branwen Okpako
February 18: Nnedi Okorafor
February 25: Chang-rae Lee
March 3: Jeremy Love
March 10: Samuel Delany

Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
2016-02-17 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies presents Aaron Benanav.

Aaron Benanav’s current research examines the global forces giving rise to both an oversupply of labor and an underdemand for labor, worldwide. He has developed a theory of “surplus populations” to explain the consequences of persistently slack labor markets for working people, who have to work even when no steady work can be found.

Winter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series:
January 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”
January 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes”
January 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”
February 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”
February 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”
February 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
February 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
March 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”

Alicia Garza: 32nd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Convocation
2016-02-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
The annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by presenting speakers who discuss the civil rights issues of equality, freedom, justice, and opportunity. The convocation also seeks to build partnerships and develop dialogue within the campus community and with the local communities served by the university.
Please join us
• Speaker: Alicia Garza
Social Activist and Co-Creator of the Viral Twitter Hashtag and Movement, #BlackLivesMatter
• Date: 7 p.m., Friday, February 12, 2016
• Location: Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
• The event is free and open to the public.
The 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation will feature Alicia Garza, Social Activist and Co-Creator of the Viral Twitter Hashtag and Movement, #BlackLivesMatter.
Social activist Alicia Garza prompted activism nationwide when she introduced the world to the Twitter hashtag #BlackLivesMatter along with movement cofounders Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors. The hashtag evolved into the banner under which this generation’s civil rights movement marches.
Garza, special projects director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, previously served as executive director of People Organized to Win Employment Rights, where she led the charge on significant initiatives, including organizing against the chronic police violence in black neighborhoods.
Committed to challenging society to recognize and celebrate the contributions of all individuals, specifically black people and queer communities, Garza’s activism is rooted in organizational strategies and visions to connect individuals and emerging social movements. Her work has earned her various honors, including two Harvey Milk Democratic Club Community Activist Awards for her work fighting gentrification and environmental racism in San Francisco’s largest remaining black community.
Delivering powerful perspective on the adversities inflicted by social injustice and discrimination, Garza educates and inspires audiences to organize and stand together to transform society into a world where the lives and contributions of all individuals are recognized equally.
Tony Hill Memorial Award
Members of the Santa Cruz and UCSC community are invited to nominate outstanding individuals for the Tony Hill Memorial Award. The recipient will be recognized at the convocation.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Andrei Tcacenco
2016-02-12 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Andrei Tcacenco
“Constructing Socialism From Within: Entertainment and Media in the Soviet Home”
My talk will explore the daily lived condition of real existing socialism during the latter part of the Soviet period. I will engage with official ideology while also showing how Soviet citizens shaped political discourse from the bottom-up by writing letters to local newspapers,television journals and local local radio stations.

Friday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 15- James Beneda, Politics
January 22- Alex Moore, HAVC
January 29- Whitney Devos, Literature
February 5- Sophia Magnone, Literature
February 12- Andrei Tcacenco, History
February 19- Amanda Reyes, History & Consciousness
February 26- Keith Spencer, Literature
March 4- Laura Harrison, Sociology
March 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa, History

Branwen Okpako: Nigerian Filmmaker
2016-02-11 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series presents:
Leading Feminist Nigerian Filmmaker
Branwen Okpako
Film Screening & Q&A with Director: The Education of Auma Obama
Wednesday, Feb 10 @ 7:30pm
Nickelodeon Theatre, Santa Cruz

Living Writers Talk
Thursday, Feb 11 @ 6:00-7:45pm
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206

Both events are Free and open to the public
Branwen Okpako was born in Lagos/Nigeria. She studied political sciences at Bristol University, England, followed by studies in filmmaking at the German Film & Television Academy, Berlin. Her films include the shorts Probe ( 1992), Frida Film (1993), Vorspiel (1994), Landing (1995), Market Forces (1996), Searching for Taid (1997) and Love Love Liebe (1998), The 3 screen installation, Sehe ice was, was du nicht siehst? (Do I see something you don’t?, 2002), for which she received the D-motion special prize for the city of Halle, Germany. For the feature documentary Dirt for Dinner(Dreckfresser) (2000), she won the Bavarian documentary film prize The Young Lion, the German Next-Generation-First-Steps Award for Best Documentary Film and First Prize at the Dubrovnik Documentary Film Festival in 2001. The fiction feature Valley of the Innocent (Tal der Ahnungslosen, 2004) had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film festival in 2003 and went on to compete in the feature film competition at FESPACO 2005.
For her film The Education of Auma Obama Okpako received the 2012 African Movie Academy Award for Best Diaspora Documentary, the Festival Founders Award for Best Documentary at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles (both in 2012), and the Viewers Choice Award at the Africa International Film Festival (2011). Her most recent project, The Curse of Medea (Fluch der Medea), a docu-drama about the life of the late German writer Christa Wolf, was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014.
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Winter 2016 Living Writers Series:
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.
January 14: Alex Rivera
January 21: Vikram Chandra
January 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales
February 4: Charles Yu
February 11: Branwen Okpako
February 18: Nnedi Okorafor
February 25: Chang-rae Lee
March 3: Jeremy Love
March 10: Samuel Delany
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Noa Latham: Meditation and Self-Control
2016-02-11 16:00 - 17:45 | Humanities 2, Room 259
This paper seeks to analyze an under-discussed kind of self-control, namely the control of thoughts and sensations. I distinguish first-order control from second-order control and argue that their central forms are intentional concentration and intentional mindfulness respectively. These correspond to two forms of meditation, concentration meditation and mindfulness meditation, which have been regarded as central both in the traditions in which the practices arose and in the scientific literature on meditation. I analyze them in terms of their characteristic intentions, distingush them from concentration and mindfulness in general, and examine the relations between them. Concentration involves keeping the mind focused on a single object, while mindfulness requires noticing whatever mental states occupy the focus of one’s consciousness. In the course of the investigation I examine the role of phenomenology and volition in the activity of meditating, and how they change as meditative capacities develop.
About:
Noa Latham is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. Research Interests: Ethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Mind

Branwen Okpako: "The Education of Auma Obama"
2016-02-10 19:30 - 21:30 | Nickelodeon Theater, 210 Lincoln Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Branwen Okpako: “The Education of Auma Obama” from IHR on Vimeo.
UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series presents:
Leading Feminist Nigerian Filmmaker
Branwen Okpako
Film Screening & Q&A with Director: The Education of Auma Obama
Wednesday, Feb 10 @ 7:30pm
Nickelodeon Theatre, Santa Cruz

Living Writers Talk
Thursday, Feb 11 @ 6:00-7:45pm
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206

Both events are Free and open to the public
Branwen Okpako was born in Lagos/Nigeria. She studied political sciences at Bristol University, England, followed by studies in filmmaking at the German Film & Television Academy, Berlin. Her films include the shorts Probe ( 1992), Frida Film (1993), Vorspiel (1994), Landing (1995), Market Forces (1996), Searching for Taid (1997) and Love Love Liebe (1998), The 3 screen installation, Sehe ich was, was du nicht siehst? (Do I see something you don’t?, 2002), for which she received the D-motion special prize for the city of Halle, Germany. For the feature documentary Dirt for Dinner(Dreckfresser) (2000), she won the Bavarian documentary film prize The Young Lion, the German Next-Generation-First-Steps Award for Best Documentary Film and First Prize at the Dubrovnik Documentary Film Festival in 2001. The fiction feature Valley of the Innocent (Tal der Ahnungslosen, 2004) had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film festival in 2003 and went on to compete in the feature film competition at FESPACO 2005.
For her film The Education of Auma Obama Okpako received the 2012 African Movie Academy Award for Best Diaspora Documentary, the Festival Founders Award for Best Documentary at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles (both in 2012), and the Viewers Choice Award at the Africa International Film Festival (2011). Her most recent project, The Curse of Medea (Fluch der Medea), a docu-drama about the life of the late German writer Christa Wolf, was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014.

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Works in Progress Session: Mapping Liminal Jewish Spaces with Katie Trostel and Erica Smeltzer
2016-02-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Literature graduate students, Katie Trostel and Erica Smeltzer will present their digital works-in-progress as part of their ongoing work related to the Venice Ghetto and Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination.
Sponsored by the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment.

Katie Trostel,“Shifting Zones of Memory”: Digitally Mapping Marjorie Agosín’s Cartographies: Meditations on Travel (2004)”
This digital mapping project centered on Marjorie Agosín’s Cartographies: Meditations on Travel (2004) stems from larger questions posed by the Venice Ghetto Working Group at UCSC; the group has undertaken the project of thinking through the meaning of the ghetto in the context of its 500th anniversary. Through digital mapping, I trace the complexity of ways in which Jewish spaces, including that of the ghetto, are revisited, re-inscribed, entangled, and recycled in Agosín’s poems, as she simultaneously works through her experience of exile in the period of the Chilean post-dictatorship. The space of the ghetto, as well as globalized Jewish spaces as a broader category, are ways of thinking through the more expansive themes of exile, displacement, national belonging, and exclusion. Through her prose-poems, Agosín complicates the idea of a static geography, weaving personal place-based memories into a complex web of Jewish sites of global significance. Reflecting upon her travels across four continents, she explores both the category of exile and a certain longing for home. I use this work to think about the re-inscription of meanings of place, and how sites of memory can come to embody overlapping stories that span both space and time. I question: How do these sites of memory travel? How can a digital representation of literary space help to visualize and make deeper the layers of history and tangled webs of place-based belonging encoded in the pages of Agosín’s text?

Erica Smeltzer, “Opening Gates and Ghettos: Digitally Mapping the Jewish Spaces of Prague”
This project uses a digital mapping platform to represent the many spatial characteristics attributed to Jewish experience: exile, sequestration, and diaspora. Beginning with the Jewish ghetto in Prague, the “Story Map” will begin with Egon Erwin Kisch’s Tales from Seven Ghettos, following the reportage as it describes place, space, and history in the Jewish quarter. This project evolved from the larger theoretical and comparative questions posed by the Venice Ghetto Working Group at UCSC. The group considers the Venice Ghetto “a memory space that travels.” In this spirit the digital map attempts to represent the intersections between stories of the ghetto, their reiterations, and the dispersal of their authors. In this way the mapping project begins with Egon Erwin Kisch, but it does not end with him. The map slowly expands as his text touches on different nodes (legends, landmarks, and histories) and begins to oppose a purely insular vision of the ghetto through a specialized and expanding network of intertext.

B. Ruby Rich: "The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming"
2016-02-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies presents B. Ruby Rich.

Ruby Rich is the author of New Queer Cinema. Her new research explores notions of the public as constituted by theatrical exhibition from the postwar era to century’s end. As editor of Film Quarterly, she is currently preparing dossiers on the films of Eduardo Coutinho and Chantal Akerman.

Winter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series:
January 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”
January 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes”
January 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”
February 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”
February 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”
February 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
February 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
March 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”

Stay tuned for more information about guest speakers.

Anna Björk: "Ex-hombres, On the Revolutionary Subject in Argentine Proletarian Literature"
2016-02-09 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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Critical Leisure Studies Winter Seminar: Introduction & The Right to be Lazy
2016-02-09 13:00 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 402
In our introductory Winter Seminar, we hope to foster intellectual dialogue amongst a community of scholars interested in exploring the theoretical implications and transformative possibilities in thinking the category of “leisure” historically and in the contemporary moment.
The first half of the meeting, will be an open discussion about the interdisciplinary possibilities of “leisure” as a category of social critique and its intersections with our work. In the second half of the meeting, we intend to engage in a discussion of Paul Lafargue’s short piece The Right to be Lazy as a productive departure point for some of the directions listed above.
Some questions we hope to explore might include:

What differentiates labor and leisure and how have theses categories been historically constructed through racialized, gendered, heteropatriarchal, class, and/or colonial hierarchies?
What social and economic practices figure an activity as work, play, nonwork, or leisure?
How does the formal category of “leisure” itself act to discipline desires?
In what ways does the production and appropriation of excess enable cultural and political forms of participation and belonging?

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Brown Bag Workshop: Teaching with Film and Video
2016-02-09 12:00 - 13:30 | McHenry Library, Room 1350
Join us to learn how to integrate film and video into your pedagogy. This workshop will include an introduction to the new Learning Glass in the FITC, which allows you to face the camera when you record a lecture with a “blackboard,” and discussion about creating video assignments. We will cover technology, tools, and instructions that ensure a meaningful assignment for your students, including how such assignments should be evaluated.
This workshop will inspire you to design new assignments, develop your own multimedia materials, and consider new pedagogical possibilities.
Bring your lunch.

Leadership for Social Justice: Sikh American Perspectives
2016-02-06 10:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This workshop will provide participants with practical tools for conceptualizing and effecting social change. Modules include: understanding and changing mindsets, community cultural leadership, implementing adaptive change, and supporting citizen-centered rather than client-centered approaches.
Workshop trainer: Jyotswaroop Kaur
Education Director, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF)
Free workshop open to all UCSC students and staff. Lunch provided.
Advance registration required. Please use form below.
Jyotswaroop Kaur joined SALDEF’s Southern California office with 10 years of experience in youth education programs, teaching, economic and social justice work. In her role at the helm of the Education Initiative, Kaur is responsible for the strategic growth and development of the organization’s two SikhLEAD programs: The Internship Program and the Leadership Development Program. While she spends the majority of her time running the Southern California Bureau, Kaur has brokered relationships with organizations, government bureaus, and offices on Capitol Hill securing coveted internships for the prestigious Internship Program. Kaur not only hand picks each candidate, but also grooms them with resume and interview coaching prior to their arrival in D.C. Just as she winds down her D.C. partnerships, Kaur begins creating the strategic plan and class for the Leadership Development Program where she carefully culls pioneers and changemakers from our nation’s top industries—entrepreneurs, lawyers, journalists, and community organizers— to speak with her incoming LDP class. Kaur also oversees much of the community relations work including the Law Enforcement Partnership Program. She serves on the Board of Directors of SAJE (Strategic Actions for a Just Economy) — a community based organization in South Los Angeles. Kaur graduated with her M.A. in Public Administration, Non-Profit Management and Policy degree from the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University, and received her B.A. in English with a minor in Conflict Resolution from the University of California at Irvine.
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Agenda:
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome and Introduction
10:15 – 11:15 Mindset
Carol Dweck, Mindset, The Mindsets copy
11:15 – 11:25 Break
11:30 – 12:00 Leadership
Marshall Ganz reading on Leadership
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 1:30 Sikh American Civil Rights Timeline
1:30 – 2:30 Adaptive Change
Video of Ron Heifetz
2:30- 2:45 Break
2:45 – 3:15 Clients vs. Citizens
John McKnight reading, Services are Bad for People
3:15- 3:45 Social Justice Work
3:45- 4:00 Evaluations

Colin Phillips: "Speaking, understanding, and the architecture of language"
2016-02-05 14:00 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
We speak and understand the same language, but it’s generally assumed that language production and comprehension are subserved by separate cognitive systems. So they must presumably draw on a third, task-neutral cognitive system (“grammar”). So comprehension-production differences are a thorn in the side of anybody who might want to collapse grammar and language processing mechanisms (i.e., me!). In this talk I will show how the same underlying mechanism can have rather different surface effects in speaking and understanding. In production, I will discuss studies in English and Japanese that show syntactically constrained look-ahead in sentence planning, and that show that syntactic category acts as a strong filter on lexical access. In comprehension, I will discuss ERP studies in English, Mandarin, and Japanese that illustrate surprisingly “dumb” word prediction mechanisms. These predictive mechanisms are nevertheless subject to the same category constraint observed in sentence production, as reflected in different effects of case marker manipulation.

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 for Graduate Research: Sophia Magnone
2016-02-05 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Sophia Magnone
“There is risk in dealing with a partner”: “Bloodchild” and Interspecies Encounter
I focus on “Bloodchild,” Octavia Butler’s story of extremely intimate yet profoundly troubling relations between species. On an extraterrestrial world, refugee humans become reproductive partners with their insectoid hosts, a relationship that mixes familial and sexual love with coercion and objectification. Yet in Butler’s own words, “Bloodchild” is a story of love, not slavery; she insists on the possibility of maintaining true affinity between profoundly different and unequal beings. What would it take to rescript the story of humans and nonhumans on our own

Friday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 15- James Beneda, Politics
January 22- Alex Moore, HAVC
January 29- Whitney Devos, Literature
February 5- Sophia Magnone, Literature
February 12- Andrei Tcacenco, History
February 19- Amanda Reyes, History & Consciousness
February 26- Keith Spencer, Literature
March 4- Laura Harrison, Sociology
March 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa, History

PhD+: Online Identity
2016-02-05 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Learn how to perfect your online identity and social media presence as an academic or higher ed professional.
Melissa De Witte (Web Coordinator, Social Sciences) will lead a discussion about how you can build your social media presence as an academic.
Whether you are a novice or an expert, a technophobe or an early adopter, this interactive talk will discuss the dos and don’ts, tips, strategies, common mistakes, and ways you can make the most out of social media in academia.
Melissa De Witte handles the digital and social media for the Division of Social Sciences here at UC Santa Cruz. She has an MA in Media, Culture and Communication from New York University.
Lunch will be served, as usual.

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.
October 9, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel
November 6, 2015: Internship Info Session
December 4, 2015: Coding for Humanists
January 8, 2016: Research Tools and Methods
February 5, 2016: Online Identity
March 4, 2016: Work-Life Balance
April 8, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities
May 13, 2016: Research and Grants
June 3, 2016: End of Year Luncheon
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Living Writers: Charles Yu
2016-02-04 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Charles Yu is an Asian American writer of three well received works of speculative fiction, How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe, Third Class Superhero, and Sorry Please Thank You. Born 1976 in Los Angeles, Yu graduated from University of California at Berkeley and Columbia Law School. He lives with his wife and children in Santa Monica, California. He has been widely published in such places as Oxford American, The Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, Mississippi Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review and has been cited for special mention in the Pushcart Prize Anthology XXVIII. He won the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award for his story “Class Three Superhero.” He was selected by the National Book Foundation as one of its 5 Under 35 program, which highlights the work of the next generation of fiction writers. It is determined by previous National Book Award winners and finalists selecting one fiction writer under the age of 35 whose work they find promising or interesting. Richard Powers, winner of the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction, selected Yu for the honor.
His novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe was ranked the year’s second best science fiction novel by the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas, and a runner up for the John W Campbell Memorial Award. The novel has been optioned for a film. The novel focuses on a father-son relationship and the narrator’s search for a father. It includes themes of how we live, time, memory, and creation of the self, and features a narrator who shares the author’s name and who lives in a time machine with his non-existent dog. His fiction deals with loneliness, isolation, time, memory, speculative technology, and is touched with a great deal of humor.

Winter 2016 Living Writers Series:
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.
January 14: Alex Rivera
January 21: Vikram Chandra
January 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales
February 4: Charles Yu
February 11: Branwen Okpako
February 18: Nnedi Okorafor
February 25: Chang-rae Lee
March 3: Jeremy Love
March 10: Samuel Delany

Jonathan Beecher: "Visions of Revolution: European Writers and the French Revolution of 1848"
2016-02-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies presents Jonathan Beecher

Jonathan Beecher’s current project consists of linked essays on writers who witnessed and wrote about the first months of the French revolution of 1848, some familiar, others less so. The central question: How do these writers explain the collapse of the radical dreams that inspired revolutionaries in 1848?

Winter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series:

January 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”
January 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes”
January 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”
February 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”
February 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”
February 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
February 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
March 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”

Stay tuned for more information about guest speakers.

LASER (Leonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous)
2016-02-02 18:30 - 20:00 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Arts Division at the University of California, Santa Cruz present:

LASER

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108

Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists, scientists, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations.
Please join us in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 for refreshments at 6:30 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by:
Wes Modes, “A Secret History of American River People”
Christopher Wilmers, “Who knew there was a puma in my backyard!”
Beth Shapiro, “How to Clone a Mammoth”
Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman, “Making Last Day of Freedom”
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Parking ($4) is available in the Performing Arts Lot adjacent to Digital Arts Research Center.
BIOS:
Wes Modes is a Santa Cruz artist focused on social practice, sculpture, performance and new media work. He holds an MFA from the Digital Art and New Media program at UCSC. He has exhibited his art and performed regionally since 1996. He is also a UCSC art lecturer and curator for the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. In other lives, he is a high-tech runaway, writer, community organizer, geek, and mischief-maker.
Christopher Wilmers is a wildlife ecologist who studies how global change influences animal behavior, population dynamics and community organization. An Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at UC Santa Cruz, Wilmers is the founder and lead researcher for the Santa Cruz Puma Project—the most comprehensive study of Northern California cougars. Since 2008, Wilmers and his team of researchers have fitted mountain lions in Northern California with specially designed collars with radio telecommunications, global positioning, and an accelerometer device to record activities like pouncing and even mating.
Beth Shapiro is an evolutionary biologist who specializes in the genetics of ice age animals and plants to help develop strategies for the conservation of species under threat from climate change today. A pioneer in the young field called “ancient DNA,” Shapiro is an Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCSC. She has been named a Royal Society University Research Fellow, Searle Scholar, Packard Fellow, and a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. In 2009, Shapiro received a MacArthur “genius” award. Her recent book is How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-extinction.
Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman collaborate on art, film and interactive projects that look at the ways power structures and politics impact everyday lives. Hibbert-Jones is an Associate Professor of Art & New Media at UCSC; Talisman is a freelance editor and animator. Their current film project, Last Day Of Freedom, has won multiple awards, including the International Documentary Association’s Best Short Film of 2015; Best Short Film at Full Frame Documentary Festival; and the Filmmaker Award from the Center for Documentary Studies, among others.
For more information, email ias@ucsc.edu

Zephyr Frank: "Beyond Eyeballmetrics: Visualization and Analysis in Digital Scholarship"
2016-02-02 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Part of the Hands on (Digital) Humanities Series
This talk explores the boundary between visualization and analysis in contemporary digital scholarship. It argues for a shift in focus from creating visualizations (and related tools) toward a more robust analytical practice based on quantitative measurement. In this sense, visualization is seen as a useful but often insufficient step in the research process. A critical assessment of a series of examples of work from Stanford’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis will provide the foundation for the talk.
Zephyr Frank is Professor of History at Stanford and the Director of the Program on Urban Studies. He is also the founding director of the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA). At CESTA, Professor Frank directs the Spatial History Project. His most recent book is Reading Rio de Janeiro: Literature and Society in the Nineteenth Century (Stanford, 2016).

OpEd Project Fellowship Application Deadline: "Write to Change the World"
2016-02-01 | UCSC
The “Write to Change the World” program will build our faculty’s capacity to translate their research for the public and to engage in debate at a national level based on their areas of  expertise. Our focus will be on increasing underrepresented voices within these debates. Working in partnership with the OpEd Project, we will host three one-day workshops led by OpEd Project facilitators, at three regional hubs: UC Davis, UC Merced, and UCLA, with 20 fellows in each workshop, from nine participating campuses (UCSF, UCSB, UCI, UCR,UCSD, UCSC), for a total of 60 fellows. Invitational priorities for applicants include: 1) sustainability and the environment 2) social justice and inequality 3) big data and digital humanities 4) public health and medical humanities 5) arts and public life. After the 1-day workshop, fellows will have access to a yearlong mentorship with media mentors through the OpEd Project. This program provides extraordinary resources, access and support, including cutting edge game-based, research-driven programming, and access to a prestigious network of fellows at peer institutions nationwide.
N.B. Faculty traveling to attend the workshop at another campus may receive travel support from their Center if their campus is not hosting a workshop. This amount will be indicated in their award letter from their Center.
REQUIREMENTS:
1) Attend a 1-day workshop
2) Draft an Op-Ed within three months following the workshop
3) Connect with a media mentor through the OpEd Project within three months following the workshop
DATES and LOCATIONS:
UC Davis: May 23, 2016
UC Merced: April 29, 2016
UCLA: June 10, 2016
Application deadline: Feb. 1, 2016. Applicants from UCM, UCSD, UCLA, UCSB, UCD, UCSC, UCR, UCSF, and UCI can apply below.
Information and application online at: http://crha.ucmerced.edu/form/oped-project-fellowship-application
SPONSORED BY:
UC Humanities Research Institute, UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research,
UC Davis Humanities Institute, UC Irvine Humanities Commons, UCLA Humanities,
UC Merced Center for the Humanities, UC Riverside Center for Ideas and Society,
UC San Diego Center for the Humanities, UC San Francisco Center for Humanities
and Health Sciences, UC Santa Barbara Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.

Shaul Bassi: "Shylock vs. Sarra Copia Sullam: Reframing the Venice Ghetto, 1516-2016"
2016-01-29 16:00 - 18:00 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Ghetto of Venice, founded 500 years ago, has been long haunted by the ghostly presence of Shylock, the most famous imaginary Jew. The lecture will consider Shakespeare alongside the work of Jewish Venetian poet Sarra Copia Sullam (1592-1641), as well as contemporary poetry and fiction that reimagines the Ghetto for the global present.
Shaul Bassi is Associate Professor of English and postcolonial literature at Ca’Foscari University of Venice. His research, teaching and publications are divided between Shakespeare, postcolonial studies (India and Africa), and Jewish studies. He has published Le metamorfosi di Otello. Storia di un’etnicità immaginaria (Grafis, 2000) and edited an Italian critical edition of Otello (Marsilio, 2009). Recent publications include Visions of Venice in Shakespeare (with Laura Tosi, Ashgate, 2011), Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures (with Annalisa Oboe, Routledge, 2011); Shakespeare’s Italy and Italy’s Shakespeare. Place, ‘Race’, and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan) is forthcoming. He is currently involved in multiple literary and cultural projects related to the 500th anniversary of the Ghetto of Venice (1516-2016).

Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, Shakespeare Workshop, Italian Studies, Cowell College, and the Institute for Humanities Research.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Whitney Devos
2016-01-29 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Whitney Devos
“After Lives, After Palimpsests: Aimé Césaire & Claudia Rankine’s (Caribbean) ‘American Lyrics’ “
My project seeks to frame certain forms of poetry as attempts at experimental, non-linear historiography, examining the ways in which lyric and documentary impulses—so often pitted against one another critically—are intertwined from the inception of documentary poetics, an
emerging multi-genre’d genre I read as quintessentially “American”: North, South, and Central.

Friday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 15- James Beneda, Politics
January 22- Alex Moore, HAVC
January 29- Whitney Devos, Literature
February 5- Sophia Magnone, Literature
February 12- Andrei Tcacenco, History
February 19- Amanda Reyes, History & Consciousness
February 26- Keith Spencer, Literature
March 4- Laura Harrison, Sociology
March 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa, History

William D. Adams: "'Wicked Problems': The Humanities in the Time of STEM"
2016-01-28 19:30 - 21:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UCSC Institute for Humanities Research presents:
“Wicked Problems“: The Humanities in the Time of STEM
15th Annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture by William D. Adams,
Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities
William D. Adams, NEH ChairmanPhoto by Fred Field, courtesy of Colby College
Dr. William D. Adams was nominated by President Barack Obama as the 10th Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and confirmed by the Senate in July 2014. Dr. Adams previously served as President of Colby College in Waterville, Maine from 2000 until June 2014, and as President of Bucknell University from 1995 to 2000. He was Vice President and Secretary of Wesleyan University from 1993 to 1995, and was Program Coordinator of the Great Works in Western Culture program at Stanford University from 1986 to 1988. Earlier in his career, he held various teaching positions at Stanford University, Santa Clara University, and the University of North Carolina. Dr. Adams served in the Vietnam War as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. In 1977, he became a Fulbright Scholar and conducted research at the École des Hautes Études and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France. Dr. Adams received a B.A. from Colorado College and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
*Wicked Problems, a phrase introduced in 1967 by C. West Churchman, denotes a problem that is resistant to resolution, rather than evil.
Complimentary parking is available in the Performing Arts parking lot.
Free and open to the public. Space is limited, registration is required.
We have reached maximum capacity with a growing waiting list for this event.
To be added to the waiting list please email specialevents@ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-5003.
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Living Writers: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales
2016-01-28 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Stephen Graham Jones is the author of fifteen novels and six story collections. Next up is the werewolf novel Mongrels, from William Morrow. Stephen lives in Boulder, Colorado, and teaches in the MFA program there and at UCR-Palm Desert.
Christopher David Rosales is from Paramount, CA. His first novel, Silence the Bird, Silence the Keeper, won him the McNamara Creative Arts Grant. His stories have appeared in journals in the U.S. and abroad, and he is a regular contributor to LitReactor. Rosales currently lives in Denver, where he is the fiction editor for SpringGun Press and a PhD candidate at DU. His second novel, Gods on the Lam, is forthcoming Summer 2016.

Winter 2016 Living Writers Series:
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.
January 14: Alex Rivera
January 21: Vikram Chandra
January 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales
February 4: Charles Yu
February 11: Branwen Okpako
February 18: Nnedi Okorafor
February 25: Chang-rae Lee
March 3: Jeremy Love
March 10: Samuel Delany

Joes Segal: "Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage"
2016-01-27 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies and the Socialism/Postsocialism Research Cluster presents Joes Segal
Like street names, public monuments tend to celebrate historical heroes and events that are deemed exemplary for the present state and the future direction of society. Taken together, they constitute a canon of collective memory. However, this canon is seldom uncontested, and in times of revolution or regime change the new political leaders often try to redefine history in order to support their worldview and claim to power. Old heroes, symbols and monuments suddenly become obsolete while new ones are created to evoke a sense of historical rupture or a brand new vision of historical continuity. Taking the fate of socialist monuments and their often ultra-nationalistic replacements after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union as a case study, in this lecture I will explore the politics surrounding public monuments.
Joes Segal is Chief Curator of The Wende Museum of the Cold War in Culver City, CA. Segal has published extensively on Cold War culture, German cultural history, and art and politics in the twentieth century. He is chair of the Culture Network of the European Social Science and History Conference (ESSHC) and managing editor of the International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity (HCM).

Winter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series:
January 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”
January 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes”
January 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”
February 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”
February 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”
February 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
February 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
March 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”

Joes Segal: "Cultural Integration"
2016-01-26 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In an interview from 1990, German artist Georg Baselitz asserted that there were no artists in the GDR. Instead, there were “assholes” who had supported a criminal system by betraying the essence of true art. Baselitz’s statement exemplifies a remarkable feature of public discourse in 1990s Germany: the return of a Cold War rhetoric after the end of the Cold War. This presentation examines the cultural aspects of the German reunification process by focusing on the public debates on East German cultural heritage, in particular the stormy dispute over the meaning and relevance of East German art. It will be argued that since the visual arts had played an important role in the construction of an East German and a West German identity after World War II, the art debates of the 1990s reflect the broader issue of identity and belonging in post-socialist Germany.
Joes Segal is Chief Curator of The Wende Museum of the Cold War in Culver City, CA. Segal has published extensively on Cold War culture, German cultural history, and art and politics in the twentieth century. He is chair of the Culture Network of the European Social Science and History Conference (ESSHC) and managing editor of the International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity (HCM).

Brown Bag Workshop: Teaching with Multimedia & Audio
2016-01-26 12:00 - 13:30 | FITC, 1336 McHenry Library
Interested in creating multimedia presentations to support your lectures or creating short narrated videos that students can listen to before class? Join us over lunch to learn how. This workshop will include an introduction to the kinds of tools available for use in the FITC and a discussion about designing assignments that include multimedia and audio components.
This workshop will inspire you to design new assignments, develop your own multimedia materials, and consider new pedagogical possibilities.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Alex Moore
2016-01-22 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Alex Moore
“Captive Natures: Grotesque desire in the performative sculptures of Amber Hawk Swanson”
In this paper I examine two projects by the artist Amber Hawk Swanson, Tilikum, 2011 and Lolita, 2013. Through a process of radical identification with the captive Orca whales Tilikum and Lolita, Hawk Swanson explores the ethics of aquatic theme park performances. I argue that the grotesque sculptures make visible the violence done to both humans and Orcas in the conceptions of nature, culture, and relationship manifested in the Shamu spectacle.

Friday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 15- James Beneda, Politics
January 22- Alex Moore, HAVC
January 29- Whitney Devos, Literature
February 5- Sophia Magnone, Literature
February 12- Andrei Tcacenco, History
February 19- Amanda Reyes, History & Consciousness
February 26- Keith Spencer, Literature
March 4- Laura Harrison, Sociology
March 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa, History

WORKSHOP: Coding for Humanists with Fabiola Hanna
2016-01-22 09:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Interested in coding, but not sure where to start? Fabiola Hanna, a new media artist and PhD Candidate in the department of Film and Digital Media, will walk us through the basics of coding for the web. Following Hanna’s short introductory workshop in December, this more intensive session will offer instruction for writing in HTML, styling with CSS, and building dynamic web content using Java Script.
This introduction will not make you into expert coders – but it will provide you with insight into coding that you can apply to customize existing sites and work within easy-to-use platforms (like WordPress, Drupal). You will also gain an understanding of next steps so you can continue developing your coding skills.
Join us for this introductory workshop. No previous experience with coding necessary.
Be sure to bring a LAPTOP (not a tablet).
*Registration Required. Reserve a seat today. *

Hedy Rose: "My Childhood in Hiding: Amsterdam, 1942-1945"
2016-01-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join us for a talk with Hedy Rose.
Following her father’s arrest by the Nazis, Hedy Rose, her mother, and sister spent nearly four years hidden in an Amsterdam cellar by a Christian samaritan.
Admission is free, but pre-registration is required: http://goo.gl/forms/3Q3LZbYz8y
Reception will follow at 8pm.
$4 parking; Recommended lot: Performing Arts
For more information, including accessibility, please contact Beverly Iniguez at binguez@ucsc.edu.

Film Screening: "For Marx"
2016-01-21 18:30 - 21:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Film Screening Hosted by Socialsim / Postsocialism Research Cluster
“For Marx” (2012)
Directed by is Svetlana Baskova

“While the presence of the New Left in the new Russian culture cannot be denied nor ignored this ideological direction produces at this moment more questions than answers. Baskova’s new film channels some of the most burning ones: can Marxism indeed be repeated in Russia? How might this new attempt deal with the earlier, problematic incarnation? Who will be its new interpreters and how will they discern a new theory from practice? All these anxiety-producing questions, raised vividly by For Marx, make it contemporary, controversial, and one of the most worthwhile film experiences of 2012.” – quote from Polina Barskova, Associate Professor of Russian Literature at Hampshire College

Living Writers: Vikram Chandra
2016-01-21 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Vikram Chandra’s latest book is Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty. He has also written the novels Sacred Games and Red Earth and Pouring Rain and the short story collection Love and Longing in Bombay. His honours include a Guggenheim fellowship, the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia), the Crossword Prize, and the Salon Book Award. He teaches creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley. His work has been translated into nineteen languages.

Winter 2016 Living Writers Series:
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.
January 14: Alex Rivera
January 21: Vikram Chandra
January 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales
February 4: Charles Yu
February 11: Branwen Okpako
February 18: Nnedi Okorafor
February 25: Chang-rae Lee
March 3: Jeremy Love
March 10: Samuel Delany

Nicholas Mitchell: "On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes"
2016-01-20 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies presents Nicholas Mitchell
Nicholas Mitchell’s current project, Disciplinary Matters: Black Studies, Women’s Studies, and the Neoliberal University, locates the institutional projects of black studies and women’s studies at the heart of the consolidation of the post-Civil Rights U.S. university.
Mitchell is Assistant Professor in Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz.

Winter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series:
January 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”
January 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes”
January 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”
February 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”
February 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”
February 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
February 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
March 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”

Margaret Frantz Memorial
2016-01-17 14:00 - 17:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
A memorial for Marge Frantz (1922-2015) a Hist Con graduate (1984) and longtime colleague at UC Santa Cruz in Women’s Studies and American Studies will be held on Sunday, January 17th from 2-5pm.
Refreshments & reception following the program.
Ample and free parking is available. Enter UCSC at the WEST entrance. Three stop signs and turn right and proceed to the end of the road. Recital Hall is in front of you.
Contributions in Marge’s memory are welcomed by Aptheker/Frantz Women’s Studies Endowment at UCSC, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, and Alzheimer’s Association, Northern California and Northern Nevada Chapter.
“An inspiring and beloved teacher, skilled activist and generous friend, Marge Frantz died in Santa Cruz on October 16 at the age of 93. Passionately committed to social justice, she identified strongly with the three great social movements of her time: socialism, civil rights and feminism. They shaped her as an organizer, intellectual, and teacher who refused hierarchies while embracing and delighting in differences. She crossed boundaries wherever she encountered them—between teachers and students, academics and activists, young and old, rich and poor, gay and straight, black and white. Her emphasis on commonalities was crucial to the success of the progressive communities she created and sustained throughout her life…” Read more.
Read Frantz’ obituary in the Santa Cruz Sentinel here.

Sharon Inkelas: "The A-map model: Articulatory reliability in child-specific phonology"
2016-01-15 14:00 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk, based on joint work with Tara McAllister Byun and Yvan Rose, addresses a phenomenon of longstanding interest: the existence of child-specific phonological patterns which are not attested in adult language. We propose a new theoretical approach, termed the A(rticulatory)-Map model, to account for the origin and elimination of child-specific phonological patterns. Due to the performance limitations imposed by structural and motor immaturity, children’s outputs differ from adult target forms in both systematic and sporadic ways. The computations of the child’s grammar are influenced by the distributional properties of motor-acoustic traces of previous productions, stored in episodic memory and indexed in the eponymous A-map. We propose that child phonological patterns are shaped by competition between two essential forces: the pressure to match adult productions of a given word (even if the attempt is likely to fail due to performance limitations), and the pressure to attempt a pronunciation that can be realized reliably (even if phonetically inaccurate). These forces are expressed in the grammar by two constraints that draw on the motor-acoustic detail stored in the A-map. These constraints are not child-specific, but remain present in the adult grammar, although their influence is greatly attenuated as a wide range of motor plans come to be realized with a similar degree of reliability. The A-map model thus not only offers an account of a problematic phenomenon in development, but also provides a mechanism to model motor- grammar interactions in adult speech, including in cases of acquired speech impairment.
Sharon Inkelas is Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley.

Linguistic Colloquium Series:
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 for Graduate Research: James Beneda
2016-01-15 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
James Beneda
“The Morally Incoherent Indoctrination of the American Soldier in Iraq: An Institutional Theory of Traumatic Experience”
I take up an issue that most of us cannot help but see as a problem of individual psychology and restate it in terms of institutional politics and political ideologies. Starting from cognitive sociology and recent clinical research that reframes post-traumatic stress (PTSD) as ‘moral injury’, I argue that the traumatic experiences of American soldiers in the Iraq War resulted from flawed cultural and institutional indoctrination.

Friday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 15- James Beneda, Politics
January 22- Alex Moore, HAVC
January 29- Whitney Devos, Literature
February 5- Sophia Magnone, Literature
February 12- Andrei Tcacenco, History
February 19- Amanda Reyes, History & Consciousness
February 26- Keith Spencer, Literature
March 4- Laura Harrison, Sociology
March 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa, HistoryJ

Living Writers: Alex Rivera
2016-01-14 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Alex Rivera is a filmmaker who, for the past fifteen years, has been telling new, urgent, and visually adventurous Latino stories. His first feature film, Sleep Dealer, a science-fiction feature set on the U.S./Mexico border, won awards at the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival, was screened at the Museum of Modern Art, and had a commercial release in the U.S, France, Japan, and other countries. Alex is a Sundance Fellow, Rockefeller Fellow, was The Rothschild Lecturer at Harvard University, and was named one of Variety Magazine’s “10 Directors to Watch.” In 2015 Alex was awarded major support from the Surdna Foundation and the Ford Foundation for his film-in-progress, ‘The Infiltrators,’ and he received an Art & Technology Lab Grant from LACMA for an upcoming project in virtual reality.

Winter 2016 Living Writers Series:
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.
January 14: Alex Rivera
January 21: Vikram Chandra
January 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales
February 4: Charles Yu
February 11: Branwen Okpako
February 18: Nnedi Okorafor
February 25: Chang-rae Lee
March 3: Jeremy Love
March 10: Samuel Delany

Socialism and Postsocialism Roundtable Discussion with Elena Gapova
2016-01-14 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Berlin Wall collapsed in 1989, marking the ostensible end of the socialist project and the triumph of neoliberal economic policies around the globe. The result has been widespread de-industrialization, unemployment, ethnic conflict, poverty, and proliferating sex-traffic in the formerly socialist world, which now in many ways exemplifies trends toward stagnation and crisis that affect the whole of the capitalist world economy. The purpose of this project is not only to address the issues which capitalism creates and subsequently ignores in its unrestricted expansion; but also to provide viable alternatives and solutions to these problems by using the lens of socialism, which, conceived of both as a set of historical projects to achieve a post-capitalist society as well as a horizon of political perspective and activity, retains its urgency today in the face of the recent crises and long term trends of global capitalism.

At the same time, we view socialism not merely as a question of area studies, but also as a global historical phenomenon, and in this sense, we aim to pose the problem of postsocialism as one that ramifies far beyond the territories of current or formerly socialist states, intersecting in productive ways with any number of other “post”-discourses in contemporary debates, from postcolonialism to postfordism.

Elena Gapova is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Western Michigan University; Founding Director, Centre for Gender Studies, European Humanities University (Belarusian “university-in-exile” in Lithuania).
Hunter Bivens, Literature Department, UCSC
Sara Blaylock, History of Art and Visual Culture, UCSC
Elena Gapova, Department of Sociology, Western Michigan University
Natalia Koulinka, History of Consciousness Department, UCSC
Lisa Rofel, Anthropology Department, UCSC
Andrei Tcacenco, History Department, UCSC
Introduced and Moderated by Neda Atanasoski, Feminist Studies Department,
UCSC

Elena Gapova: "Suffering and the Soviet Man's Search for Meaning: The "Moral Revolutions" of Svetlana Alexievich"
2016-01-13 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies and the Socialism/Postsocialism Research Cluster presents Elena Gapova
Svetlana Alexievich, the recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, is known for her unique literary method that blurs the genres of oral history and documentary prose. For each book, she conducts, over the period of five to ten years, between 500 and 700 interviews with witness-participants or their surviving family members. In her montage of individual narratives, she gives a voice to several Soviet generations, if not to an entire Soviet society that has strained to make sense of the enormous suffering it experienced during the 20th century. Together, Alexievich’s books make up a series that she calls “The Chronicle of the Big Utopia, or The History of the Red Man.” Some scholars claim that Alexievich created a genre of her own, and in this presentation, her work is treated as a form of moral philosophy, a way to approach ethical issues through literature. The most prominent of these seems to be the question of the meaning of suffering, as it is encountered by a post-Soviet man at the moment when the Soviet world is crumbling and falling apart.
Elena Gapova is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Western Michigan University; Founding Director, Centre for Gender Studies, European Humanities University (Belarusian “university-in-exile” in Lithuania).

Winter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series:
January 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”
January 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes”
January 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”
February 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”
February 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”
February 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
February 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
March 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”

PhD+: Research Tools and Methods
2016-01-08 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Refine your research skills, learn about new available research tools, and get to know the library staff that can help you in your research pursuits. This panel, including presentations by Annette Marines, Lucia Orlando, and Rachel Deblinger will offer introductions to:

Locating primary and secondary materials through library-based subscription databases
Analyzing data using web-based tools such as Social Explorer
Managing your citations and research materials with Zotero
Defining a file management system and employing tools to make sense of your archival materials

The panelists will also answer questions about the Presidential Open Access Policy, ILL, and digital research methodologies. Check out these library services and resources and join us to learn more.

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.
October 9, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel
November 6, 2015: Internship Info Session
December 4, 2015: Coding for Humanists
January 8, 2016: Research Tools and Methods
February 5, 2016: Online Identity
March 4, 2016: Work-Life Balance
April 8, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities
May 13, 2016: Research and Grants
June 3, 2016: End of Year Luncheon
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Enduring Power - Photography Exhibit - Nov. 2 - Dec. 17
2015-12-14 12:00 - 16:00, 2015-12-07 12:00 - 16:00 | Resource Center for Non Violence
Enduring Power:
The Middle Eastern and Iranian Women’s Story
— A Photography Exhibit —
November 2 – December 17, 2015
AT: Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, CA
Exhibit HOURS: M-TH noon – 4p.m. or by appointment, 831-423-1626
Sponsored by the Resource Center for Nonviolence and Senses Cultural,
Enduring Power’s striking images represent a wide range of experiences, aspirations, fears and realities of Middle Eastern and Iranian women from Yemen, Egypt, Bahrain, Iran and Kuwait. A collection of work from several female photographers of Middle Eastern backgrounds, Enduring Power shows an intimate and unique perspective of an otherwise private world to the American audience. This exhibition, curated by photographer Sina Araghi, presents powerful stories of education, individuality, familial relationships, societal restraints, and boldness.
“Peering behind the veil and headscarves to reveal real individuals is a delicate but necessary boundary to push. These photographs speak of the greater issues of identity and resilience, and the strength of women within these regions. Their sense of identity has not been erased by culture or governments.
These women are empowering themselves – against all obstacles – through their own will. A clear defiance and a sense of individuality is present. They are not weak or afraid. They are powerful and energized. They command your attention and your interest. Let their stories be heard.” — Sina Araghi, curator of Enduring Power
Senses Cultural, Davis, CA, and the Resource Center for Nonviolence are collaborating on this Senses Cultural’s traveling photography exhibition, which was previously at UC Davis, San Francisco State University. Senses Cultural believes that women – mothers, grandmothers, and daughters – have been the quiet strength that protects the rights of their families, communities, and nations.
Please join us for the First Friday EXHIBIT RECEPTION on December 4, 6-9p.m. featuring Tata Masud, Founder and CEO of Senses Cultural, Davis, CA. Light refreshments will be available.
Co-sponsors (list in formation): WILPF Santa Cruz
For more information: 831-423-1626, rcnv.org
Curator Statement by Sina Araghi
Enduring Power: The Middle Eastern and Iranian Woman’s Story is a collection of work by seven female photographers from Egypt, Kuwait, Bahrain, Yemen, and Iran, examining the lives and livelihoods of women in that region.
Apart from their exceptional photographic work, these photographers were selected in great part due to their diverse coverage of topics regarding women, spanning across many different countries throughout the Middle East.
Peering behind the veil and headscarves to reveal real individuals is a delicate but necessary boundary to push. It is so vital to the future and progress of women in these cultures to be seen succeeding, thriving, and discovering – all on their own. Whether they are generations apart or contemporaries, progress is achieved when women grow and improve on their own terms, separate from the male influence that so strongly permeates their public culture and the worldwide media. There is an almost constant push/pull between the individualized and powerful identity of the Middle Eastern woman, and the attempts by culture and government to erase that identity.
This collection of images illustrate how that sense of identity has not been erased. This collection is a celebration of the progress and growth that has happened, and a tangible foreshadowing of what is still to come.
The division of gender throughout daily life creates two very different worlds within the same culture. The photographic perspective in this exhibition is unique to women who are inside these cultures and countries. These 7 photographers are not outsiders, tourists, or just passing through, and the familiarity and camaraderie felt between ‘insiders’ is tangible in these photographs. Being a female photographer creates uniquely privileged access into the lives and experiences of the Middle Eastern woman – access into a world that men seldom are privy to. Respecting this access while still honoring the truth in moments witnessed requires grace and trust. There is fragility in that access. As an Iranian male photographer, I admire this perspective, knowing full well the limitations and privileges of my own gender.
Collectively, these photographs speak of the greater issues of identity and resilience, and the strength of women within these regions. They are empowering themselves – against all obstacles – through their own will. A clear defiance and sense of individuality is present (an especially sacred quality in a world of appearance commonality), and there is no apologizing for any of it. These women are not weak or afraid. They are resilient, powerful, and energized. They command your attention and your interest.
Let their stories be heard.
-Sina Araghi, curator
For more information: 831-423-1626, rcnv.org

Friday Forum: Lara Galas "Languaging the Landscape: A Translational Analysis of the Geopolitical in Nineteenth Century American Literature"
2015-12-04 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 Lara Galas (Literature) presenting her talk “Languaging the Landscape: A Translational Analysis of the Geopolitical in Nineteenth Century American Literature”.
For more info, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

PhD+: Coding for Humanists
2015-12-04 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Part of the PhD+ Workshop Series, Sponsored by the IHR
Interested in coding, but not sure where to start? Fabiola Hanna, a new media artist and PhD Candidate in the department of Film and Digital Media, will walk us through the basics of coding for the web. We will explore HTML, CSS, and (time permitting) Java Script by remixing existing website code. Think deconstruction as a way of learning how websites are built and how code processes work. This introduction will not make you into expert coders – but it will provide you with insight into coding that you can apply to customize existing sites and work within easy-to-use platforms (like WordPress, Drupal). You will also gain an understanding of next steps so you can continue developing your coding skills.
Join us for this introductory workshop. No previous experience with coding necessary.
Be sure to bring a LAPTOP (not a tablet). Before the workshop: Download the Firefox Browser.

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.
October 9, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel
November 6, 2015: Internship Info Session
December 4, 2015: Coding for Humanists
January 8, 2016: Research Tools and Methods
February 5, 2016: Online Identity
March 4, 2016: Work-Life Balance
April 8, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities
May 13, 2016: Research and Grants
June 3, 2016: End of Year Luncheon
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Living Writers: Claudia Rankine: University of Southern California
2015-12-03 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Claudia Rankine
University of Southern California
Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely; two plays including Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue; and is the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. She also co-produces a video series, “The Situation,” alongside John Lucas, and is the founder of the Open Letter Project: Race and the Creative Imagination. Among her numerous awards and honors, Rankine is the recipient of the Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts.
Rankine’s bestselling book, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf, 2014), uses poetry, essay, cultural criticism, and visual images, to explore what it means to be an American citizen in a “post-racial” society. A defining text for our time, Citizen was the winner of the 2015 Forward Prize for Best Collection, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (it was also a finalist in the criticism category, making it the first book in the award’s history to be a double nominee), the NAACP Image Award, the PEN Open Book Award, and the LA Times Book Award for poetry. Citizen was nominated for the Hurston/Wright 2015 Legacy Award, was a finalist for the 2014 National Book Award, and was selected as an NPR Best Book of 2014, who stated: “This collection examines everyday encounters with racism in the second person, forcing the read-er—regardless of identity—to engage a narrative haunted by the deaths of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Renisha McBride.” Citizen also holds the distinction of being the only poetry book to be a New York Times bestseller in the nonfiction category.
In all of her work, whether writing about intimacy or alienation, Rankine’s voice is one of unrelenting candor, and her poetry is some of the most innovative and thoughtful work to emerge in recent years. Her work often crosses genres as it tracks wild and precise movements of mind. In the words of the Judges Citation for the Jackson Prize: “The moral vision of Claudia Rankine’s poetry is astounding. In a body of work that pushes the boundaries of the contemporary lyric, Rankine has managed to make space for meditation and vigorous debate upon some of the most relevant and troubling social themes of the 20th and 21st centuries….These poems do the work of art of the highest order—teach-ing, chastening, changing, astounding, and humanizing the reader.”
Her other poetry collections are Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (2008); the award-winning Nothing in Nature is Private; The End of the Alphabet; and Plot, wherein she welds the cerebral and the spiritual, the sensual and the grotesque. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely—a multi-genre project that blends poetry, essays, and image—is an experimental and deeply personal exploration of the condition of fragmented selfhood in contem-porary America. Rankine is also the author of the play, Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue, which is performed on a bus ride through the Bronx. The New York Times calls it an “engrossing urban adventure, which does not conform to the standard formula for theater but does make the bustle outside the bus throb with history, mystery and meaning, as the best live performances do.”
Rankine co-edited the anthology American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language, and her work is included in several anthologies, including Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present, Best American Poetry 2001, Giant Step: African American Writ-ing at the Crossroads of the Century, and The Garden Thrives: Twentieth Century African-American Poetry. Her work has been published in numerous journals including Boston Review, TriQuarterly, and The Poetry Project Newsletter.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, and educated at Williams College and Columbia University, she lives in California and is the Aerol Arnold Chair in the University of Southern California English Department.

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

Screening of “Okinawa: The Afterburn” with Director John Junkerman
2015-12-03 16:30 - 18:30 | Communications 150, Studio C
Q&A with Director John Junkerman to follow the film

Introduction by Professor Alan Christy, Department of History

Directed by John Junkerman, long-term resident of Japan and Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, the brand-new “Okinawa: The Afterburn” is a sweeping, in-depth look at the wartime and postwar history of Okinawa and the massive American military presence on the island. Consisting of interviews and rare archival footage on the 1945 Battle of Okinawa, the 27-year American occupation and the ongoing struggles of the local people up until the present, the film is a powerful statement on the historical background and complex reality of US bases on Okinawa, an issue that remains highly controversial on both the island itself and in mainland Japan.

Co-sponsors:

Center for Documentary Arts and Research
Department of History
Institute for East Asian Studies
Film and Digital Media
The Gail Project

Last Day of Freedom Film Screening
2015-12-03 15:30 - 18:00 | Kresge Town Hall
You are invited to a film screening and presentation of Last Day of Freedom, an award winning film by UCSC Associate Professor Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman.
Last Day of Freedom is a richly animated personal narrative that tells the story of one man’s decision to stand by his brother, a Veteran returning from war, as he faces criminal charges, racism, and ultimately the death penalty.
Q&A with filmmakers and Estrus Tucker, Vietnam-era Veteran, ordained minister and Master Facilitator on issues of race and reconciliation. Board member National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
Funded by Porter College, UCSC Art Department, SPARC at UCSC & the Institute for Humanities Research at UC Santa Cruz

Digital Humanities Reading Group
2015-12-02 16:00 - 18:00 | Cowell Senior Commons Room, Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062-1225, United States
Hypercities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities
by Todd Presner, David Shepard, and Yoh Kawano
Join the Digital Humanities Working Group will meet to discuss Hypercities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities. Elaine Sullivan will lead our discussion about Hypercities and the impact of mapping on Humanities research. For a copy of the selected reading, email digitalhumanities@ucsc.edu.
For more details click here!

CANCELLED: Jonathan Ellis: "Philosophy and the Public"
2015-12-01 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Works in Progress Talk by Jonathan Ellis has been cancelled. It will be rescheduled for a date in January. Please stay tuned for more information.

Jonathan Ellis Works in Progress: Philosophy and the Public
At least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty.
The format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited.
All members of the campus community and interested public are welcome to attend.
