BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20100314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20101107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20110313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20111106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110406T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110406T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145049 CREATED:20110313T192105Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110313T192105Z UID:10004776-1302092100-1302096600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Guriqbal Singh Sahota: "Resemblances of Pure Content" DESCRIPTION:Professor Sahota will join the Literature department as an Assistant Professor in 2011. He is finishing Late Colonial Sublime (UC\, 2012). His research addresses conflicts of dogmatic and speculative belief cultures in contemporary global society with a special focus on the postcolonial. He has begun a long-term project on the question of reason in the Sikh tradition from the 16th through the 20th century. The first installment of this project will appear as “Guru Nanak and Rational Civil Theology” in Sikh Formations (2011). \nSponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research\, UCSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/guriqbal-singh-sahota-resemblances-of-pure-content-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110407 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110410 DTSTAMP:20260403T145049 CREATED:20101013T025845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101013T025845Z UID:10004627-1302134400-1302393540@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rethinking Capitalism DESCRIPTION:Three decades of advances in financial economics have transformed global markets. As a matter of theory\, the valuing of options (financial products) became increasingly central to understanding the market in any commodity; as a matter of politics questions about the direction and sustainability of the market system were supplanted by questions about its volatility—how to manage the uncertainty that it creates. The Crisis of 2008 illustrates the need to better understand what is new\, and what is not\, about conceiving of capitalism as a whole in this way. This conference brings theories of economic value and regulation into conversation with the study of culture\, institutions\, ethics\, history\,  geography and theology. Its aim is to consider in what ways capitalism is producing a future that is unlike its past. Panel topics include: \n1) Eschatology\, Visualization and Scenario Planning\n2) Market Institutions\, Government and Crisis\n3) Affective\, Spatial and Material Flows of Value\n4) Social Risk\, Human Capital and Financializing Inequality\n5) Critique\, Confession and Conversion in the Aftermath of 2008.  \nPlease visit http://rethinkingcapitalism.ucsc.edu for more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/re-thinking-capitalism-ii-2/ LOCATION:University Center\, UCSC\, College Nine and College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110407T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110407T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T145049 CREATED:20110404T054755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110404T054755Z UID:10004577-1302199200-1302205500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Chang-Rae Lee DESCRIPTION:Chang-Rae Lee’s first two novels\, Native Speaker and A Gesture Life\, have between them won a host of literary honors\, including the Hemingway/PEN Award for first fiction\, QPB’s New Voices Award\, the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award\, an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation\, the Oregon Book Award\, and the Asian-American Literary Award. Lee was recently selected by The New Yorker as one of the Twenty Best Writers Under Forty. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays\, The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, and numerous anthologies. \nEach quarter\, the Living Writers Reading Series brings visiting authors and poets to UC Santa Cruz to give students an in-depth look into the world of the working writer.  Sponsored by Oakes College and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-chang-rae-lee-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110408T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110408T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145049 CREATED:20110401T190651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110401T190651Z UID:10004573-1302276600-1302282000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Maria Gouskova: "Vug\, vg-a: An Experimental Investigation of Russian Yer Deletion" DESCRIPTION:Russian has a well-known rule called yer deletion: stem mid vowels are deleted when a vowel-initial suffix follows (as in [rov] `ditch (nom sg)’ vs. [rv-a] (gen sg)). The rule is lexically idiosyncratic: most mid vowels in identical contexts do not alternate (as in [rʲov] `howl (nom sg)’ vs. [rʲov-a] (gen sg)). There are two types of approaches to such alternations. I will advocate a theory in which entire morphemes are labeled in the lexicon as subject to this alternation\, and the phonological grammar is responsible for deriving generalizations about where deletion is possible or blocked (Gouskova to appear\, cf. Yearley 1995). A much better known alternative theory holds that the alternating vowels must be labeled on a segment-by-segment basis\, and that the conditioning environment for deletion is opaque: yers are realized when followed by abstract yers in the UR but delete otherwise (Lightner 1972\, Pesetsky 1979\, Kenstowicz and Rubach 1987\, Halle and Matushansky 2006). These theories make different predictions for how speakers might extend the alternation to novel forms. The goal of this talk is to demonstrate that speakers are aware of the phonological generalizations that govern the alternations. \nEven though vowel-zero alternations in Russian are lexically idiosyncratic\, the identity of alternating vowels is partially predictable: only mid vowels can alternate\, and there are certain phonological contexts where alternations are predictably blocked. This talk reports on two experiments that asked Russian speakers to rate pairs of inflected words in which a vowel was deleted. The results show that the rating strongly correlates with the quality of the vowel: deletion of mid vowels (as in [xel] and [xl-a]) was rated higher than deletion of high and low vowels (e.g.\, [gil] and [gl-a] or [ʃap] and [ʃp-a]). An experiment also tested context effects: deletion that creates a medial CCC cluster that violates sonority sequencing\, deletion of vowels in different stress contexts\, and deletion in CVCC stems. These results suggest that speakers have a grammar even for this non-productive and lexically limited alternation. \nThis talk is presented as part of the Linguistics Colloquium Series. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/maria-gouskova-vug-vg-a-an-experimental-investigation-of-russian-yer-deletion-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110413T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110413T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145049 CREATED:20110313T192424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110313T192424Z UID:10004778-1302696900-1302701400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cristina Lombardi-Diop: "Spotless Italy: Advertising Culture and the Post-racial Imagination" DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: \nCristina Lombardi-Diop\, Italian Studies\, UC Berkeley\n“Spotless Italy: Advertising Culture and the Post-racial Imagination“ \nProfessor Lombardi-Diop has published on gender and Italian colonial literature\, African-Italian autobiographies\, and the African diaspora in Italy. Her in-progress book is on the memory of Italian colonialism in Italy’s postwar cultural history. The talk explores Italy as a post-racial society and focuses on when the idea of whiteness as a discursive formation infiltrates Italian popular and mass culture. \nCristina Lombardi-Diop is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at The American University of Rome and Visiting Professor of Italian Studies at UC Berkeley. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cristina-lombardi-diop-spotless-italy-advertising-culture-and-the-post-racial-imagination-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110413T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110413T163000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145049 CREATED:20110406T194319Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110406T194319Z UID:10004794-1302708600-1302712200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Florence Howe DESCRIPTION:Kresge Writer’s House\, Living Writers\, & Feminist Studies presents: \nFlorence Howe\, founder of The Feminist Press and author of the memoir\, A Life in Motion URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/florence-howe-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110413T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110413T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145049 CREATED:20101015T003715Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101015T003715Z UID:10004629-1302710400-1302717600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gregg Herken: "Was J. Robert Oppenheimer\, 'Father of the Atomic Bomb\,' a Soviet Spy?" DESCRIPTION:One of the great unresolved controversies of the Cold War is whether American physicist Robert Oppenheimer–the “father of the atomic bomb”–was\, in fact\, a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.  Recently-declassified documents–from U.S. and former Soviet sources–make it possible to finally answer that question. \nGregg Herken (Stevenson College with Honors\, History BA with Honors\, Government with Highest Honors\, 1969) is an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California\, and was a Founding Faculty member at UC Merced.  He received a Ph.D. in modern American diplomatic history from Princeton University in 1974\, and subsequent taught at Oberlin College\, Yale University\, and Caltech.  From 1988-2003\, Herken was a senior Historian and Curator\, as well as the chairman of the Department of Space History at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington\, D.C.  He is the author of four books\, The Winning Weapon:  The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War (Knopf\, 1981; Princeton\, 1988)\, Counsels of War (Knopf\, 1985; Oxford\, 1986)\, Cardinal Choices:  Presidential Science Advising from the Atomic Bomb to SDI (Oxford\, 1992; Stanford\, 1999)\, and Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer\, Ernest Lawrence\, and Edward Teller (Henry Holt\, 2002; Holt\, 2003)\, which was a finalist for the 2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History. \nCo-sponsored by The Institute for Humanities Research and The Department of History.  Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gregg-herken-was-j-robert-oppenheimer-father-of-the-atomic-bomb-a-soviet-spy-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110414T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110414T153000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145049 CREATED:20110406T191803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110406T191803Z UID:10004793-1302789600-1302795000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Karen Sánchez-Eppler: "In the Archives of Childhood" DESCRIPTION:Karen Sánchez-Eppler is Professor of American Studies and English at Amherst College. She is the author of Touching Liberty: Abolition\, Feminism\, and the Politics of the Body (California\, 1993) and Dependent States: The Child’s Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (Chicago\, 2005)\, and a founding co-editor of The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. She is spending this year as a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center where she is completing a project on manuscript books entitled The Unpublished Republic: Manuscript Culture of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States\, and beginning a new one\, In the Archives of Childhood\, which probes the relations between our different ways of holding the past. Her talk at Santa Cruz draws from the introduction to this new project\, examining the intersection of archival practice and childhood studies in an effort to illuminate the attractions and limitations of both. \n“Archive Fever” as Jacques Derrida describes it\, epitomizes the infectious desire to locate and possess origins. For scholarship in the humanities the “archival turn” proves to have much in common with the study of childhood. Both have been there all along: the repositories of our cultural and personal pasts. In many ways\, for each of us\, childhood is the archive\, a treasure-box of the formative and the forgotten. Yet until the last few decades both our archives and our childhoods have remained largely under-theorized sites of origin. My talk will examine the intersection of archival practice and childhood studies in an effort to illuminate the attractions and limitations of both. Childhood manuscripts and documents demonstrate the potential of archival work for gaining access to children’s voices\, experiences\, and everyday life. Looking beyond this utility\, I hope to suggest how an attention to childhood may help rethink the nature of archival records\, organization\, and purpose itself. The traces of childhood found in archives tend toward the ephemeral—the scrap and the scribble far more likely than the tome—and thus puts pressure on the claims and nature of preservation and valuation. What constitutes the trivial as trivial? If childhood is ephemeral by nature—a stage to be outgrown—then what can it teach us about the archival tasks of keeping and cataloging? Age is not generally a classificatory category for archival holdings\, a fact that exemplifies the expressions of power at stake in the way knowledge is organized. Children tend to appear in archives in two ways\, on the fringes of collections of individual or family papers\, a residue of domestic life that accompanies the valuable work of adults\, for whose prominence these materials have been saved; and in the records of those institutions charged with the protection\, punishment\, and education of the young. Thus to think about childhood in the archives is to think about the tensions and collaborations between individual and institutional frames\, affection and control\, fame and loss. This will be a speculative discussion\, but one that theorizes from particular childhood stuff. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-sanchez-eppler-in-the-archives-of-childhood-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110414T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110414T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145049 CREATED:20110411T162950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110411T162950Z UID:10004807-1302796800-1302802200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Hans Sluga: “From Normative Theory to Diagnostic Practice” DESCRIPTION:From the Greeks to the present our moral and political philosophizing has been preoccupied with a search for the timeless and the universal: timeless norms of moral action and universal principles of political life. Where this may once have seemed to be a plausible undertaking\, it is not obviously so any longer. A clear understanding of the nature of our rapidly changing world should alert us to the need for another form of philosophical thinking – one that pays attention to the condition in which we find ourselves and that seeks to reach practical conclusions\, if any\,on the basis of a proper diagnosis of the present. In place of the usual normative theorizing we need to foster\, what I will call\, a diagnostic practice in moral and political philosophy. \nProfessor Hans Sluga will be speaking at 4:00PM on Thursday\, April 14\, 2011 at the invitation of the Philosophy Department. This event is free and open to the public. \nHans Sluga studied at Oxford University\, where he became familiar with the writings of Wittgenstein. Sluga credits Sir Michael Dumment with influencing his extensive interest in Frege’s contribution to the development of modern logic and philosophy of language. During his time at Oxford he also studied under R.M. Hare and Isaiah Berlin\, stirring his interest in questions of ethics and politics. \nProfessor Sluga’s overall philosophical outlook is radically historical as he believes that “we can understand ourselves only as being with a particular evolution and history”.  As such he is drawn to the works of Nietzsche and Foucault. Sluga claims to be “attracted to a realist and naturalistic view of things rather than any sort of formalistic rationalism”. \nHe has recently taught courses on Political Philosophy\, Nietzsche\, and Hegel’s “Philosophy of Right”. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hans-sluga-from-normative-theory-to-diagnostic-practice-2/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110414T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110414T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T145049 CREATED:20110404T055225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110404T055225Z UID:10004788-1302804000-1302810300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Andrew Sean Greer DESCRIPTION:Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage\, which The New York Times has called an “inspired\, lyrical novel\,” and The Confessions of Max Tivoli\, which was named a Best Book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. His first novel\, The Path of Minor Planets\, and his story collection\, How It Was for Me\, were also published to wide acclaim. Greer’s stories have appeared in Esquire\, The Paris Review\, and The New Yorker\, and have been anthologized in The Book of Other People and Best American Nonrequired Reading. He is the recipient of the PEN/O’Henry Prize for Short Fiction\, the Northern California Book Award\, the California Book Award\, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. \nEach quarter\, the Living Writers Reading Series brings visiting authors and poets to UC Santa Cruz to give students an in-depth look into the world of the working writer.  Sponsored by Oakes College and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-andrew-sean-greer-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110415T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110415T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145049 CREATED:20110401T191246Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110401T191246Z UID:10004574-1302881400-1302886800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rajesh Bhatt: "Locating Agreement in Grammar" DESCRIPTION:The Linguistics Colloquium Series Presents: \nRajesh Bhatt (UMass Amherst) \nThe location of agreement in the grammar has been the topic of considerable recent discussion. Bobaljik 2008 has argued that agreement is a post-syntactic process\, other approaches (Boskovic 2009 and Chomsky 1999) locate it entirely within the syntactic system. More recently the data from agreement with conjoined noun phrases has played an important role in this debate; in this domain we find closest conjunct agreement\, a phenomenon whose seeming sensitivity to linear proximity indicates a post-syntactic component to agreement (Marusic et al. 2006). We analyze a novel set of data from Hindi-Urdu that shows that a proper analysis of agreement requires reference to both a pre-spellout syntactic and a post-syntactic component. Hindi-Urdu is a language with both subject and object agreement and we show that while subject agreement is calculated in the pre-spellout syntactic component\, the resolution of object agreement takes place in the post-syntactic component. \nThis presentation represents joint work with Martin Walkow. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rajesh-bhatt-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110415T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110415T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145049 CREATED:20110407T175039Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110407T175039Z UID:10004805-1302881400-1302890400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gianfranco Norelli and Surma Kurien: "Pane Amaro" DESCRIPTION:Italian Studies Program\, Language Program\, American Studies Program and History Department Present  a screening of the 2009  documentary film\,  \nPane Amaro (Bitter Bread)\ndir. Gianfranco Norelli  \nFollowed by a conversation with the director and co‐producer Suma Kurien \n“The story of migration to the U.S. is a very complex one. “Feel good” narratives about immigrants catapulting from rags  to riches or moralizing tales of “pulling ourselves up by our own bootstraps” do not begin to capture that complexity. In Pane Amaro\, viewers learn of events and people known until now mainly to scholars. This is a rich panorama of images and voices from every corner of the Italian American community. Accessible and challenging\, it should be on the list of every ethnic studies course that wants to tackle the difficult process by which European immigrants became white as they became American.”  \nDonna Gabaccia. Director\, Immigration History Research Center\, University of Minnesota  \nFor more information contact:  gckg@ucsc.edu  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gianfranco-norelli-and-surma-kurien-pane-amaro-2/ LOCATION:Cowell\, Room 131\, Cowell College 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110418T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110418T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145049 CREATED:20110328T235629Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110328T235629Z UID:10004570-1303129800-1303135200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Patricia Clough: "War by Other Means: What Difference Do(es) the Graphic(s) Make?" DESCRIPTION:Patricia T. Clough is a Professor of Sociology\, Women’s Studies\, and Intercultural Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. \nHer books include Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology (Minnesota 2000)\, Feminist Thought: Desire\, Power and Academic Discourse (co-edited with Charles Lemert\, J.W. Wiley\, 1995) and The End(s) of Ethnography (Peter Lang 1992\, revised 1998). Her most recent book\, co-edited with Jean Halley\, is The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social (Duke 2007). \n  \nClough on Probabilities\, Predictions and Prophecies\, Part 2\, The New School: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TgMlpa57hU \nPatricia Clough on the internet as playground and factory: http://vimeo.com/6797762 \nClough and Han: Metronome Beating:  http://www.vimeo.com/5400775 \nSponsored by the Affect Working Group\, the Department of Sociology\, and the Center for Cultural Studies. For more information on this event and/or future events of the Affect Working Group please contact Prof. D. Gould (dbgould@ucsc.edu) or Prof. D. Takagi (takagi@ucsc.edu) or Prof. C. Freccero (freccero@ucsc.edu). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/patricia-clough-war-by-other-means-what-difference-does-the-graphics-make-2/ LOCATION:Rachel Carson College\, Room 301\, Rachel Carson College 1156 High Stree\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110421T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110421T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145049 CREATED:20110310T184947Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110310T184947Z UID:10004564-1303401600-1303407000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Bill Fletcher\, Jr.: "Right-Wing Populism and the Crisis of Organized Labor" DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Center for Labor Studies presents: \nBill Fletcher\, Jr.:  “Right-Wing Populism and the Crisis of Organized Labor” \nFree and Open to the Public \nRight-wing populism is a phenomenon deeply rooted in the US system.  It tends to emerge in a virulent form during times of economic distress and crisis.  It plays upon fears and prejudices and is integrally connected to matters of race.  Bill Fletcher\, Jr. will address the importance of understanding right-wing populism and the role that a renewed labor movement can play in combating this irrationalist and divisive force. \nBill Fletcher\, Jr.\, is a longtime labor\, racial justice and international activist. He is an Editorial Board member and columnist for BlackCommentator.com and a Senior Scholar for the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington\, DC. He is the immediate past president of TransAfrica Forum and a founder of the Black Radical Congress. \nFletcher is the co-author (with Fernando Gapasin) of Solidarity Divided\, The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice (University of California Press). He was formerly the Vice President for International Trade Union Development Programs for the George Meany Center of the AFL-CIO. Prior to the George Meany Center\, Fletcher served as Education Director and later Assistant to the President of the AFL-CIO. \nFletcher got his start in the labor movement as a rank-and-file member of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America. Combining labor and community work\, he was also involved in ongoing efforts to desegregate the Boston building trades. He later served in leadership and staff positions in District 65-United Auto Workers\, the National Postal Mail Handlers Union\, and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).  Fletcher is a graduate of Harvard University and has authored numerous articles and speaks widely on domestic and international topics\, racial justice and labor issues. \nThe UCSC Center for Labor Studies is funded by the Miguel Contreras Labor Fund of the University of California Office of the President\, and co-sponsored by the UCSC Division of Humanities.  This event is generously co-sponsored by  College Ten\, Stevenson College\, Oakes College CHECK\, and the Department of Politics.  Staffing provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \nVIDEO: INSIDE GOVERNMENT TV: AFGE Authors’ Night URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bill-fletcher-jr-right-wing-populism-and-the-crisis-of-organized-labor-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110421T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110421T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145049 CREATED:20110410T163800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110410T163800Z UID:10004806-1303412400-1303419600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Joy Harjo: "Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears" DESCRIPTION:The American Indian Resource Center will be hosting internationally acclaimed poet/musician/playwright JOY HARJO (Har-joe) on April 21st\, 2011\, at Merrill College Event Center\, from 7-9pm. Harjo will be performing a brand new solo work Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears\, blending music\, poetry\, personal reflection\, and cultural histories\, accompanied by Grammy-award winning guitarist and producer LARRY MITCHELL.\n \nJoy Harjo was born in Tulsa\, Oklahoma and is a member of the Mvskoke Nation. Her seven books of poetry\, which includes such well-known titles as How We Became Human- New and Selected Poems\, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky\, and She Had Some Horses have garnered many awards.  These include the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts\, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas; and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. For A Girl Becoming\, a young adult/coming of age book\, was released in 2009 and is Harjo’s most recent publication.\nShe has released four award-winning CD’s of original music and in 2009 won a Native American Music Award (NAMMY) for Best Female Artist of the Year for Winding Through the Milky Way. Her most recent CD release is a traditional flute album: Red Dreams\, A Trail Beyond Tears. She performs nationally and internationally with her band\, the Arrow Dynamics. She also performs her one-woman show\, Wings of Night Sky\, Wings of Morning Light\, which premiered at the Wells Fargo Theater in Los Angeles in 2009 with recent performances at the Public Theater in NYC and La Jolla Playhouse as part of the Native Voices at the Autry. She has received a Rasmusson US Artists Fellowship and is a founding board member of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Harjo writes a column “Comings and Goings” for her tribal newspaper\, the Muscogee Nation News. She lives in Albuquerque\, New Mexico. \nFor more information contact the American Indian Resource Center at 831-459-2881. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joy-harjo-red-dreams-a-trail-beyond-tears-2/ LOCATION:Merrill Event Center\, Merrill Event Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110421T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110421T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145049 CREATED:20110418T040456Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110418T040456Z UID:10004579-1303412400-1303419600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Harry Berger\, Jr.: "Caterpillage: Small-scale Violence in 17th Century Dutch Still-Life Painting" DESCRIPTION:This talk is about the strange accent on disorder in 17th century Dutch paintings of still life. The still-life genre includes pictures of flowers and food in domestic and outdoor settings. Its focus is on the conflict between an emphasis on order\, harmony\, and formal beauty\, and an emphasis on disorder\, damage\, and death. I’ll view still life through the lens provided by Stephen Colbert’s idea of “truthiness” and devote special attention to the way still life painters delight in depicting the depredations inflicted by such tiny terrorists as snails and caterpillars. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/harry-berger-jr-caterpillage-small-scale-violence-in-17th-century-dutch-still-life-painting-2/ LOCATION:Merrill Event Center\, Merrill Event Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110425T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110425T153000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145049 CREATED:20110418T222921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110418T222921Z UID:10004581-1303740000-1303745400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Bettina Aptheker: "The Passion and Pageantry of Shirley Graham {Du Bois}: Composer & Playwright\, 1920s-1930s" DESCRIPTION:Shirley Graham {Du Bois} (1896-1977) had a successful early career as composer\, performer and playwright that included her formal studies at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music\, Yale University\, and the near completion of a Ph D at NYU. In 1932 her opera\, “Tom-Tom” for which she wrote the libretto and composed the music\, was performed as part of the Cleveland (Ohio) Summer Opera Festival to a capacity audience of 15\,000 on opening night; the opera was a sensation. She later won a coveted two-year Young Playwrights Fellowship to Yale\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and became the Director of Negro Theater for the Federal Theater Project in Chicago in the 1930s. This presentation will examine the passion and pageantry of her work\, focusing in particular on her operatic/composing career and its historical significance. Unable to pursue her artistic life because she was a single mother with two young children in the midst of the Depression\, Graham went onto work in a variety of race-related and increasingly radical political projects\, and became the very successful author of young adult biographies of famous Black Americans in the 1940s and 1950s. She married Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois in 1951. In addition to extensive archival work\, this presentation is based upon Aptheker’s friendship with the Du Bois’. \nThis colloquium is presented at the invitation of the Music Department; all are welcome to attend. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bettina-aptheker-the-passion-and-pageantry-of-shirley-graham-du-bois-composer-playwright-1920s-1930s-2/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110425T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110425T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145049 CREATED:20110417T232239Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110417T232239Z UID:10004808-1303758000-1303763400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Writing Program's Reading Series DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an evening of poetry and prose with past and present Writing Program faculty: \nChuck Atkinson\,  Jeff Arnett\, Roxi Power Hamilton\, Ingrid Moody\,  Robin Sommers\, and Stephen Sweat URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-writing-programs-reading-series-2/ LOCATION:Silverman Conference Room\, Stevenson\, Stevenson College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110426T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110426T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145049 CREATED:20110216T004621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110216T004621Z UID:10004751-1303833600-1303840800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Paul Horwich: "Wittgenstein's Meta-Philosophy" DESCRIPTION:My aim will be to describe and assess Wittgenstein’s anti-theoretical view of why philosophy ought not to be in conducted in the traditional way\, how it should instead be done\, and what can be accomplished by pursuing it properly. I will be especially concerned with the questions: (1) of how this view is related to his conception of ‘meaning’ as use’\, (2) of whether it is self-defeatingly ‘theoretical’\, (3) of how it evolved from his earlier (Tractatus) position\, and (4) of whether his departures from that position were sufficiently radical. \nProfessor Paul Horwich (BA Oxford 1966\, MA Yale 1969\, PhD Cornell 1974) will be speaking on Tuesday\, April 26\, 2011 at the invitation of the Linguistics and Philosophy Group.  His talk is co-sponsored by the Institute for Humanities research and the UCSC Philosophy Department.  Prof. Horwich’s principle contributions to the field have been a probabilistic account of scientific methodology\, a unified explanation of temporally asymmetric phenomena\, a deflationary conception of truth\, and a naturalistic use-theory of meaning. He has received fellowship support for his work from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the National Science Foundation\, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has been on the faculties of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (73-95)\, University College London (95-00)\, and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (00-05). He has also given courses at UCLA\, the CNRS Institute d’Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences et Technique\, the University of Sydney\, the École Normale Supérieure\, and the University of Tokyo. His main present project is a monograph on Wittgenstein’s meta-philosophy. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/paul-horwich-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110427T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110427T120000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145049 CREATED:20110418T145305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110418T145305Z UID:10004580-1303898400-1303905600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Afro-Latinos in the Américas DESCRIPTION:A panel with Juan Flores (NYU)\,  Miriam Jiménez Román (The Schomburg Center)\,  Nancy Raquel Mirabal (SFSU)\, and Mark Anderson (UCSC).   \nLourdes Martínez Echazábal (Literature) will be respondent. Juan Poblete (Literature) will moderate \nIn celebration of the recent publication of Juan Flores and Miriam Jimenez Roman’s “Afro-Latin@ Reader” (Duke\, 2011)  \nThe Afro-Latin@ Reader focuses attention on a large\, vibrant\, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean. The presence of Afro-Latin@s in the United States (and throughout the Americas) belies the notion that Blacks and Latin@s are two distinct categories or cultures. Afro-Latin@s are uniquely situated to bridge the widening social divide between Latin@s and African Americans; at the same time\, their experiences reveal pervasive racism among Latin@s and ethnocentrism among African Americans. \nQuestions? Contact Shannon Mahoney at kresgeprovostassistant@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/afro-latinos-in-the-americas-2/ LOCATION:Kresge\, Room 159\, Kresge College\, UC Santa Cruz\, Kresge College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110427T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110427T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145049 CREATED:20110313T193450Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110313T193450Z UID:10004780-1303906500-1303911000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Matt O'Hara: “The History of the Future in Mexico” DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: \nMatt O’Hara\,  History\,  UCSC\n“The History of the Future in Mexico” \nHistorians of Latin America have spent much energy studying historical legacies. The notion that “the past weighs heavily on the present” is a standard frame for historical analysis. Stepping outside this paradigm\, Professor O’Hara’s book project examines how Mexicans thought about\, planned for\, and accessed the future from the mid-colonial period into the early republic. \nMatthew O’Hara is Associate Professor of History at UCSC \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/matt-ohara-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110427T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110427T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110328T032023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110328T032023Z UID:10004569-1303921800-1303929000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jennifer L. Morgan: "Quotidian Erasures: Gender and the Records of the Trans-­Atlantic Slave Trade" DESCRIPTION:“Quotidian Erasures: Gender and the Records of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade” will argue that the emergence of what early modern political theorists described as “political arithmetic”—and what we term demography—is a product of the trade in slaves that bolstered the colonial economies they were at pains to describe. Numeracy\, political arithmetic\, and the science of demography emerged in the crucible of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and early modern mercantilism. Thus\, those of us charting the lives of women and men of African descent in the Atlantic must turn careful attention to the ways in which demography both supports our work and comprises a core part of the legacies of archival violence with which we must grapple. Demography is evidence\, but it is also a critical problem of early modern ideology—as is what the gathering of demographic evidence meant to those who were both collecting it and being collected. \nHow do we move from a world in which the free African man Anthony Johnson can petition for and receive special to one in which English travelers to Africa as early as the sixteenth century routinely glossed men and women as “merchandize?” The power of numerical reckoning is not a new question for scholars of the post-colonial. But a clear disciplinary boundary is drawn in the early modern period\, between those working on the political valence demography\, and those working on the demographic parameters of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. It is in this juncture between histories of political science and economic studies of the trade that I am interested in staking a embedded in numerical evidence\, the development of “political arithmetic\,” and the ways in which men and women were and are reduced to and embedded in a system of monetary or commercial value? \nJennifer L. Morgan is Professor in the departments of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University. She is the author of Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in the Making of New World Slavery (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 2003). Her research examines the intersections of gender and race in colonial America. She is currently at work on a project that considers colonial numeracy\, racism and the rise of the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade tentatively entitled Accounting for the Women in Slavery. \nThis event is made possible through generous contributions from the Departments of History\, American Studies and Sociology. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jennifer-l-morgan-quotidian-erasures-gender-and-the-records-of-the-trans-%c2%adatlantic-slave-trade-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110428T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110428T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110425T152952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110425T152952Z UID:10004582-1303992000-1303997400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Clive Sinclair: "The Belmont Quota" DESCRIPTION:Clive Sinclair has published 14 books of fiction – The Lady and the Laptop received major critical acclaim in England and he is noted for his criticism\, including a study of Isaac Bashevis and Isaac Joshua Singer\, –  a collection of his stories\, Bedbugs\, was published last year by Syracuse University Press. \nClive Sinclair will speak on English attitudes to Venice\, discussing Dreamers of the Ghetto– the stories of Israel Zangwill (1898) – as well as Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. \nThis talk will take place in Murray Baumgarten’s class “Jewish Writers and the European City.”  It is open to the public and will be followed by a discussion. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/clive-sinclair-the-belmont-quota-2/ LOCATION:Kresge\, Room 325\, Kresge College\, UC Santa Cruz\, Kresge College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110428T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110428T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110310T190807Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110310T190807Z UID:10004565-1304006400-1304011800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Alicia Schmidt Camacho: "When Human Beings Become Illegal" DESCRIPTION:Drawing on migrant testimony\, this talk will discuss the implications of government refusals to recognize and protect the mobility of poor people in their pursuit of economic survival. Migrants routinely experience grave abuses and assault in the course of their travels through the North American migratory circuit at the hands of both state and criminal actors. This violence\, Schmidt Camacho argues\, arises from transformations in the nature of sovereign power arising from economic restructuring and democratic state failure in the region. The increased use of force in immigration law enforcement is symptomatic of a pronounced rise in state violence during the last decade\, roundly legitimated by governments as defending the rule of law. \nAlicia Schmidt Camacho is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration at Yale University.  She is the author of Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (NYU\, 2008). She is currently at work on a book about state security and social violence along the North American migratory circuit. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alicia-schmidt-camacho-when-human-beings-become-illegal-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110428T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110428T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110404T055708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110404T055708Z UID:10004789-1304013600-1304019900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Claudia Rankine DESCRIPTION:Claudia Rankine was born in Jamaica in 1963. She is the author of four collections of poetry\, including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely\, The End of the Alphabet\, and Nothing in Nature is Private (1995)\, which received the Cleveland State Poetry Prize. Rankine is co-editor of American Women Poets in the Twenty-First Century (Wesleyan University Press). Her poetry is also included in several anthologies\, including Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present\, Best American Poetry 2001\, Giant Step: African American Writing at the Crossroads of the Century\, and The Garden Thrives: Twentieth Century African-American Poetry. She teaches in the writing program at the University of Houston. \nEach quarter\, the Living Writers Reading Series brings visiting authors and poets to UC Santa Cruz to give students an in-depth look into the world of the working writer.  Sponsored by Oakes College and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-claudia-rankine-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110429 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110501 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110329T233405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110329T233405Z UID:10004571-1304035200-1304207999@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Pasolini's Body: New Directions in Pasolini Scholarship DESCRIPTION:Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) — poet\, film director\, screenwriter and theatre critic\, playwright\, essayist\, journalist\, graphic artist\, and novelist — was one of the great Italian artistic and intellectual figures of the twentieth century.  Since his mysterious murder in 1975\, Pasolini has been reviled; then sanctified. Our goal is to historicize Pasolini. This conference focuses on configurations of the body and gesture that arise in Pasolini’s performative\, visual\, and poetic practices with respect to the artist image\, the ‘popular body’\, the Third World\, narrative and choreographic movement\, Pasolini’s life\, and his conceptions of the political and eroticism as they intersect history\, culture\, and myth. \nThursday \n7:30-10 pm – Film Screening: Arabian Nights \nIntroduction: Peter Limbrick\, UCSC \nLocation: Studio C\, Communications Building \nFriday \n8:30-9:00 – Coffee \n9:00-9:30 – Opening Remarks\nDavid Yager\, Dean of the Arts\,\nMark Franko\, Director of the Center for Visual and Performance Studies \n9:30-11:30 – Panel: Corporeal Poetics\nTyrus Miller\, UCSC\n“Transhumanize and Organize: Pasolini’s Crossing of Philology and Biopolitics” \nArmando Maggi\, U. Chicago\n“Norman O. Brown’s Love’s Body and Pasolini’s Calderón” \nColleen Ryan-Scheutz\, Indiana U.\n“Pasolini’s Final Word(s): From the Divina Mimesis to Petrolio and Salo” \nModerator: Deanna Shemek\, UCSC \n11:30-1:00 – Lunch \n1:00-3:00 – Panel: Visualizing the Body \nGian Maria Annovi\, Columbia\n“Pasolini’s Cinematographic Body” \nMark Franko\, UCSC\n“Notes on Pasolini and the ‘Language’ of Dance” \nSilvestra Mariniello\, U. Montreal\n“Myth and the Pace of Life. Pasolini’s Poetics of History” \nModerator: Cathy Soussloff\, UBC \n3:00-3:30 – Break \n3:30-5:30 – Panel: Political Kinesthetics \nStaisey Divorski\, UCLA\n“The Heretical Absence of the Word: Pasolini’s Teorema” \nEvan Calder Williams\, UCSC\n“A Vital Desperation: On Rage and Communist Pessimism” \nWlad Godzich\, UCSC\n“Body\, Narrative\, and Politics” \nModerator: Karen Bassi\, UCSC \n5:30-7:30 – Reception & Film Screening: Notes on an African Orestes \nIntroduction: Peter Limbrick\, UCSC \nLocation: Studio C\, Communications Building \nSaturday \n10:00-10:30 – Coffee \n10:30-1:00 – Panel: Postcolonial Figurations \nDavid Pendleton\, Harvard\n“Pasolini on the Beach: Semiosis\, Erotics and the Politics of the Image” \nDerek Duncan\, U. Bristol\n“Graceless: Pasolini’s Postcolonial Body” \nGiovanna Trento\, French Center for Ethiopian Studies\n“Il corpo popolare according to Pier Paolo Pasolini: body\, sexuality\, subalternity\, reality\, resistance\, agency and death” \nLuca Caminati\, Concodria\n“Notes on Pasolini’s Third World” \nModerator: Peter Limbrick \nSponsored by UCSC Arts Division\, UCSC Arts Research Institute\, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di San Francisco\,  Cowell College\, Theater Arts Department\, Literature  Department\, Film and Digital Media Department\, History of Art and Visual Culture Department\,  History of Consciousness Department\, Feminist Studies Department\, and History Department URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pasolinis-body-vps-conference-2/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110429T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110429T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110425T153710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110425T153710Z UID:10004583-1304092800-1304100000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Bhanu Kapil: "Performance and Narrative: Writing (not writing) a tragic scene: NOTES: towards the Southall Race Riot of 1979" DESCRIPTION:Bhanu Kapil has written four full-length cross-genre works: The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press\, 2001)\, Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works\, 2006)\, humanimal [a project for future children] (Kelsey Street Press\, 2009)\, and Schizophrene (forthcoming\, Nightboat Books). Recent classes at Naropa have engaged architecture\, somatics\, biology and memory as ways to approach or navigate contemporary narrative and poetics. An on-going experimental pedagogy and reflection can be found at her blog: “Was Jack Kerouac a Punjabi? [A Day in the Life of a Naropa University Writing Professor.]” \nPoetry and Politics is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network. Cosponsored by UCSC Porter College Hitchcock Poetry Fund the Center for Cultural Studies\, and the Literature Department. \nPlease contact Andrea Quaid (aquaid@ucsc.edu) or Juliana Leslie (julianaleslie@gmail.com) with any questions. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bhanu-kapil-performance-and-narrative-writing-not-writing-a-tragic-scene-notes-towards-the-southall-race-riot-of-1979-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110429T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110429T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110425T154207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110425T154207Z UID:10004584-1304103600-1304110800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Bhanu Kapil and Sesshu Foster DESCRIPTION:Bhanu Kapil has written four full-length cross-genre works: The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press\, 2001)\, Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works\, 2006)\, humanimal [a project for future children] (Kelsey Street Press\, 2009)\, and Schizophrene (forthcoming\, Nightboat Books). Recent classes at Naropa have engaged architecture\, somatics\, biology and memory as ways to approach or navigate contemporary narrative and poetics. An on-going experimental pedagogy and reflection can be found at her blog: “Was Jack Kerouac a Punjabi? [A Day in the Life of a Naropa University Writing Professor.]” \nSesshu Foster has taught writing in East Los Angeles for 20 years in addition to teaching at the University of Iowa\, the California Institute for the Arts\, and UC Santa Cruz. He is the author of Atomik Aztex; World Ball Notebook; American Loneliness: Selected Poems; and City Terrace Field Manual\, a finalist for the PEN Center West Poetry Prize. He also co-edited Invocation LA: Urban Multicultural Poetry. \nPoetry and Politics is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network. Cosponsored by UCSC Porter College Hitchcock Poetry Fund the Center for Cultural Studies\, and the Literature Department. \nPlease contact Andrea Quaid (aquaid@ucsc.edu) or Juliana Leslie (julianaleslie@gmail.com) with any questions. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetry-reading-bhanu-kapil-and-sesshu-foster-2/ LOCATION:Felix Kulpa Gallery\, 107 Elm Street\, Santa Cruz\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110430 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110501 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110108T001304Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110108T001304Z UID:10004533-1304121600-1304207999@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Day by the Bay DESCRIPTION:An exciting array of events and activities are planned on campus during UCSC’s upcoming “Day By The Bay” event. The campus’s annual  reunion weekend will take place this year from Friday\, April 29\, through Sunday\, May 1. \nA complete schedule of events — and all related details — can be found at: http://events.ucsc.edu/daybythebay/ \nWe hope you will join us for as many of the following special events as possible: \nSaturday\, April 30\nIntellectual Forum\n11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.\, Humanities Lecture Hall\n“Game Changers: Green Chemistry and Social Change Philanthropy” \nOakes Provost Kimberly Lau will moderate a discussion between UCSC alumni who are creating major paradigm shifts in our collective approach to meeting social\, environmental\, and economic challenges. Featured speakers are: \nDrummond Pike (Stevenson ’70) founder of Tides and cofounder of Working Assets\nMichael Wilson (Stevenson ’84) research scientist and pioneer in the emerging field of “green” chemistry \nPlease register for this free event on the Day by the Bay web site. \nDay by the Bay Picnic\n12–3 p.m.\, East Field\nDelicious local food\, microbrews\, and wine. Fun activities for kids (including a bounce house and climbing wall)\, robotics displays\, displays from the colleges\, student entertainment\, and much\, much more. \nThis year\, we have also planned for a “Faculty & Staff Lounge” at the site of the picnic. In the largest tent in the center of the picnic\, the “lounge” will be provide another opportunity for alumni to reconnect with favorite professors and staff. There will be comfy lounge furniture and coffee for you to enjoy while you reminisce along with alumni from all eras. \nPlease register for this free event on the Day by the Bay web site. \nAll Alumni Wine Reception\nCowell Provost House Lawn\, 3–4:30 p.m.\nJoin us for a toast to celebrate our alumni. Reconnect with old classmates and faculty\, meet new friends and share your story about how UCSC has impacted your life. \nPlease register for this free event on the Day by the Bay web site.\n\nUCSC Class of 1971 40-Year Reunion Dinner\nUniversity Center\, 6 p.m.\nReconnect with fellow alumni and your favorite faculty and staff for a night of mingling and memories to celebrate the last 40 years.\nTickets to this event cost $45. \nPlease register for this event by Friday\, April 15\, on the Day by the Bay web site. \nSunday\, May 1\nWriters Life: A celebration of writing at UC Santa Cruz\nHumanities Lecture Hall and Plaza\, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. \nHumanities is hosting a selection of alumni writers–novelists\, journalists\, and screenwriters–coming together for a community event to focus on the joys and challenges of writing as a living\, the business of writing\, and trends for the future. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/day-by-the-bay-2-2/ LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110501T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110501T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110108T001602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110108T001602Z UID:10004534-1304244000-1304265600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:A Writer's Life DESCRIPTION:Join us on May 1\, 2011\, (10am to 4pm) in celebrating writing at UCSC. As part of UCSC’s Day By The Bay celebrations\, Humanities is hosting a selection of alumni writers – novelists\, journalists\, and screenwriters—coming together for a community event to focus on the joys and challenges of writing as a living\, the business of writing\, and trends for the future.\n  \nUCSC students\, alumni and Santa Cruz community members are all welcome to this free event. The day begins at 10am with a keynote speech by alumnus David Talbot founder of Salon.com and best-selling author of Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years. Other writers participating in this event are: Susan Blackaby – children’s book author; David Ehrman – screenwriter; Charlie Haas – author; Claire Hoffman – freelance journalist; Robert Irion – freelance magazine journalist; Laurie King – author; Dan Pulcrano – CEO and Executive Editor\, Metro Newspapers; Matt Skenazy – freelance journalist; and Gary Young – poet.\n  \nThe day will conclude with a book faire and reception with the panelists.\n  \nFor more information\, visit http://writerslife.ucsc.edu/. Visit our registration site to RSVP. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-writers-life-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110503T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110503T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110426T181841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110426T181841Z UID:10004586-1304424000-1304427600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Herbie Lee: "Computer Model Emulation" DESCRIPTION:Many modern problems involve computer simulations of physical or social processes. The field of statistics provides a range of tools to help with the design\, analysis\, and use of computer simulators. This talk will give an overview of these problems and the statistical perspective\, with applications ranging from rocket science to hydrology to health care policy. \nHerbie Lee is Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Interim Vice Provost for Academic Affairs\, UCSC. Dr. Lee’s research focuses on Bayesian statistics\, particularly computer models and connections between statistics and machine learning. He has published numerous articles and two books: Multiscale Modeling: A Bayesian Perspective (Springer) and Bayesian Nonparametrics via Neural Networks (SIAM). He is also well known as an outstanding teacher of statistics at all levels. \nThis talk is present as part of the The Linguistics Research Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/herbie-lee-computer-model-emulation-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110504T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110504T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110313T193815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110313T193815Z UID:10004782-1304511300-1304515800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jacob Metcalf: "Meet Shmeat: Animal Biotechnologies and the Philosophical Tensions of the New Foods Movements" DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: \nJacob Metcalf\, Science and Social Justice Postdoctoral Fellow\, UCSC\n“Meet Shmeat: Animal Biotechnologies and the Philosophical Tensions of the New Foods Movements” \nDoctor Metcalf is the Postdoctoral Fellow in an NSF-funded program training graduate students in interdisciplinary inquiry on the co-constitution of ethics and scientific knowledge. His research concerns the construction of ethical inquiry. He proposes new applied ethics methodologies that account for the boundaries drawn within techno-scientific apparatuses\, and asks how science and technology might become more responsive to the conditions and consequences of those boundaries. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jacob-metcalf-meet-shmeat-animal-biotechnologies-and-the-philosophical-tensions-of-the-new-foods-movements-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110505T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110505T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110311T210104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110311T210104Z UID:10004567-1304611200-1304616600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Regine Basha: "Tuning Baghdad" DESCRIPTION:Regine Basha has been an curator of contemporary art and art writer since the early 1990s. Her exhibition and writing history can be found on bashaprojects.com. Amongst her most recent projects is Tuning Baghdad\, an audio-visual forum for chronicling Iraqi-Jewish music scene and their house parties (based on her own background). This ongoing project brings to light the movement of this diasporic community and their displacement from Iraq as evidenced through their love of Arabic music and the Iraqi Maqam. Basha currently sits on the board of the foundation Art Matters (New York)\, Aurora Picture Show (Houston) and is a Curatorial Host to Cabinet Magazine’s new space in Gowanus\, Brooklyn. \nRegine Basha will discuss the background of Tuning Baghdad\, the decisions behind creating it online and not as a documentary\, and the future plans for the site. During the course of the talk\, she will show video\, play audio collages and present books related to the subject. If all goes according to plan\, a surprise guest may be invited to sing over Skype video. \nRegine Basha will give this talk in her capacity as visiting scholar at the Center for Jewish Studies. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/regine-basha-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110505T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110505T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110404T060213Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110404T060213Z UID:10004790-1304618400-1304624700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Jessica Hagedorn DESCRIPTION:Jessica Hagedorn received her education at the American Conservatory Theater training program. To further pursue playwriting and music\, she moved to New York in 1978. Joseph Papp produced her first play Mango Tango in 1978. Hagedorn’s other productions include Tenement Lover\, Holy Food\, and Teenytown. Her mixed media style often incorporates song\, poetry\, images\, and spoken dialogue. Hagerdorn is the author of the novel Dogeaters\, which illuminates many different aspects of Filipino experience\, focusing on the influence of America through radio\, television\, and movie theaters\, and which earned a 1990 National Book Award nomination and an American Book Award. \nEach quarter\, the Living Writers Reading Series brings visiting authors and poets to UC Santa Cruz to give students an in-depth look into the world of the working writer.  Sponsored by Oakes College and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-jessica-hagedorn-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110506T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110506T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110401T192214Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110401T192214Z UID:10004576-1304695800-1304701200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Susanne Gahl: "Why So Short? Competing Explanations for Variation" DESCRIPTION:Frequent or contextually-predictable words are often phonetically reduced\, e.g. shortened or produced with articulatory undershoot. Three common explanations for this phenomenon attribute phonetic reduction\, and pronunciation variation generally\, to variation in (1) intelligibility\, (2) speed of lexical access\, and (3) probabilistic properties of whole utterances. In this talk\, I discuss recent results (Gahl\, Yao & Johnson\, under review; Gahl\, in prep.) investigating the sources of pronunciation variation. While these results are consistent with speaker-internal approaches to variation\, I argue that they are best explained by moving beyond the listener vs. speaker dichotomy: Some perceptually-based effects are speaker-internal; and some production-based effects give rise to structured variation in intelligibility resulting in usable cues for recognition. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/susanne-gahl-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110510T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110510T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110307T184851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110307T184851Z UID:10004560-1305043200-1305048600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Manlio Argueta and Jorge Argueta: Beyond the Volcano DESCRIPTION:The Latino Literary Cultures Research Cluster presents: \nManlio Argueta is a Salvadoran writer\, critic\, and novelist born in 1935. Although he considers himself first and foremost a poet\, he is known in the English speaking world for his book Un día en la vida\, One Day of Life. \nArgueta was born in San Miguel\, El Salvador\, on November 24\, 1935. Argueta has stated that his exposure to “poetic sounds” began during his childhood and that his foundation in poetry stemmed from his childhood imagination. Argueta’s interest in literature was strongly influenced by the world literature he read as a teenager. Argueta began his writing career by the age of 13 as a poet. He cites Pablo Neruda and Federico García Lorca as some of his early poetic influences. Although he was relatively unknown at the time\, Argueta won a national prize for his poetry around 1956\, which gained him some recognition among Salvadoran and Central American poets. As he became more involved with the literary community of El Salvador\, Argueta became a member of the “Committed Generation”. Because of his writings criticizing the government\, Argueta was exiled to Costa Rica in 1972 and was not able to return to El Salvador until the 1990s. Argueta currently lives in El Salvador where he holds the position of Director of the National Public Library. \nJorge Argueta– Born in El Salvador\, Jorge immigrated to San Francisco\, California in 1980.  He is a prize-winning poet and author of many bilingual children’s books and poetry books.  His first book for Children’s Book Press\, A Movie in My Pillow / Una película en mi almohada\, received numerous awards including the 2002 Américas Book Award for Latin American Literature\, the IPPY Award for Multicultural Fiction–Juvenile/Young Adults\, and the Skipping Stones Honor Award for Multicultural and International Books.  Jorge’s books have been published by pretigious editorial houses in Canada (Groundwood Books)\, the United States (Children’s Book Press) and Spain (Alfaguara). His books have been beautifully illustrated by well-known Latin- American illustrators. \nJorge makes presentations and holds poetry workshops throughout the United States and Central America – in public and private schools\, universities\, cultural centers\, community centers\, museums\, festivals\, hospitals and youth\nguidance centers.  In 2009\, he was invited to participate in the John F. Kennedy Multicultural Book Festival in Washington\, DC. Jorge is active in the cultural life of the city in which he resides and also works with humanitarian organizations to assist families and children in El Salvador.  Jorge Argueta is also the Director of “Talleres de Poesia” a literary organization based in the US\, that launched and organized the First Annual Children’s Poetry Festival in El Salvador (November 2010). \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/manlio-argueta-and-jorge-argueta-2/ LOCATION:Cervantes & Velasquez Room\, Baytree Conference Center\, Bay Tree Conference Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110511T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110511T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110313T194337Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110313T194337Z UID:10004784-1305116100-1305120600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cécile Alduy: "Obscenity\, Obstetrics\, and the Origin of the Pornographic Gaze" DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: \nCécile Alduy\, French and Italian\, Stanford University\n“Obscenity\, Obstetrics\, and the Origin of the Pornographic Gaze” \nProfessor Alduy is chair of Renaissances\, an interdisciplinary forum on the present and future of early modern studies\, and director of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Stanford University. One of her current projects is Archaeology of a Close-Up: The “Blasons anatomiques” and the Prehistory of Obscenity\, which looks at the intersection between the field of obstetrics\, its book market\, and the pre-history of obscenity. \nCécile Alduy is Associate Professor of French and Italian at Stanford University. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cecile-alduy-obscenity-obstetrics-and-the-origin-of-the-pornographic-gaze-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110511T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110511T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110311T210713Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110311T210713Z UID:10004768-1305129600-1305135000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Humanities Spring Awards DESCRIPTION:Join us as we recognize the outstanding accomplishments of our faculty\, staff and students who have received awards\, honors\, grants and/or fellowships over the course of the 2010-11 academic year. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-spring-awards-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110511T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110511T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110502T152819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110502T152819Z UID:10004587-1305131400-1305138600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Banu Subramaniam: "Tracking Ghosts: Hauntings from a Eugenic Past" DESCRIPTION:What do morning glory flowers or exotic plant and animal species have to do with the history of race or eugenics? In this talk\, I trace the genealogies of ecology and evolutionary biology to explore how histories of gender and race shape contemporary biological theories and what lessons we can learn about the relationships between natures and cultures. \nBanu Subramaniam is associate professor of Women\, Gender\, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. She is coeditor of Feminist Science Studies: A New Generation (Routledge\, 2001) and Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties (Rowman and Littlefield\, 2005). Trained as a plant evolutionary biologist\, she seeks to engage the social and cultural studies of science in the practice of science. Spanning the humanities\, social sciences\, and the biological sciences\, her research is located at the intersections of biology\, women’s studies\, ethnic studies and postcolonial studies. Her current work focuses on the genealogies of variation in evolutionary biology\, the xenophobia and nativism that accompany frameworks on invasive plant species\, and the relationship of science and religious nationalism in India. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Feminist Studies Department and the Science and Justice Working Group. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/banu-subramaniam-tracking-ghosts-hauntings-from-a-eugenic-past-2/ LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Room 599\, Engineering 2\, 1156 High St‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110512T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110512T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110311T211833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110311T211833Z UID:10004772-1305216000-1305221400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Kuan-Hsing Chen: "Asia as Method" DESCRIPTION:Kuan-Hsing Chen is Professor in the Graduate Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies; coordinator of the Center for Asia-Pacific/Cultural Studies at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan; and co-executive editor of the journal\, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements. His most recent book is Asia as Method: Towards Deimperialiazation (Duke\, 2010). \nReadings available at:  http://ccs.ihr.ucsc.edu/files/2011/03/Asia_as_Method.pdf \nPresented by the Center for Cultural Studies with co-sponsorship by the Asian Diasporas Research Cluster of the IHR\, Film and Digital Media Department\, and the Nee Fund of the Dept of History\, UCSC. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research\, UCSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kuan-hsing-chen-2/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110512T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110512T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110311T211747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110311T211747Z UID:10004770-1305219600-1305223200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sarah Nelson: "Korea and the Silk Road" DESCRIPTION:UCSC Society of the Archeological Institute of America and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on “Archaeology and the Ancient World” \n \nProfessor Sarah Milledge Nelson: “Korea and the Silk Road”\nThursday\, May 12 at 5 pm (refreshments at 4:30)\nHumanities 1\, Room 210\n  \nThe Korean peninsula was almost the Asian end of the “Silk Road\,” yet exotic objects from the Mediterranean world are found in Korean burials beginning in the first century B.C. In studying how these objects came to be deposited in Korean burials\, it becomes clear that objects arrived in Korea by at least three different routes. Professor Nelson will discuss the Steppe Route north of the Altai Mountains\, the Silk Road through Xinjinag\, and a Sea Route\, along with the objects that arrived in Korea from as far away as the Mediterranean world. \n \nSarah Milledge Nelson is the John Evans Distinguished Professor with the University of Denver’s Department of Anthropology. She received her degrees from Wellesley College\, and the University of Michigan (M.A. and Ph.D.)\, and her areas of specialization are East Asia\, particularly Korea and northeast China\, gender issues\, religion in archaeology\, leadership\, and ethnicity. Professor Nelson has conducted fieldwork in China and South Korea\, as well as several sites in the southwest U.S. Her recent main publications include Shamanism and the Origin of States\, Spirit\, Power and Gender in East Asia (2008\, Left Coast Press)\, and the edited volume Gender in Archaeology (2006\, Alta Mira Press). \nFree parking for lecture in Cowell-Stevenson parking lots. For more information on the lecture or the AIA\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sarah-nelson-korea-and-the-silk-road-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110512T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110512T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110404T060648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110404T060648Z UID:10004791-1305223200-1305229500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Aimee Bender DESCRIPTION:Aimee Bender is the author of four books: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (1998)\, which was a NY Times Notable Book; An Invisible Sign of My Own (2000)\, an L.A. Times pick of the year; Willful Creatures (2005)\, which was nominated by The Believer as one of the best books of the year; and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (2010)\, which recently won the SCIBA award for best fiction\, and an Alex Award. Her short fiction has been published in Granta\, GQ\, Harper’s\, Tin House\, McSweeney’s\, and The Paris Review\, as well as heard on PRI’s This American Life and Selected Shorts. She has received two Pushcart prizes\, and was nominated for the TipTree award in 2005\, and the Shirley Jackson short story award in 2010. \nEach quarter\, the Living Writers Reading Series brings visiting authors and poets to UC Santa Cruz to give students an in-depth look into the world of the working writer.  Sponsored by Oakes College and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-aimee-bender-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110513T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110513T163000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110310T191515Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110310T191515Z UID:10004566-1305289800-1305304200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Science Studies Creative Writing Workshop DESCRIPTION:The Science Studies Research Cluster invites you to join us for The Science Studies Creative Writing Workshop: \nScience Studies teaches us that narratives\, tropes\, figures\, genres\, and writing styles matter in knowledge-making practices.  For example\, in “The Egg and the Sperm\,” Emily Martin argues that staging human fertilization as a fairy tale starring active\, aggressive\, masculine sperm and receptive\, passive \, feminine ova has both political and epistemological consequences.  Although we have become very good at identifying these narrative elements in the stories of others\, we do not often address the aesthetics and politics of our own storytelling practices.  Due to time constraints and academic convention\, we rarely have the opportunity to  try out different styles of writing. \nWith this in mind\, the UCSC Science Studies Research Cluster presents “The Science Studies Creative Writing Workshop.”  We invite Science Studies scholars (broadly construed!) to submit a short manuscript (<600 words) that presents your research in a style or genre that differs from your regular academic work.  The workshop includes a roundtable where we will discuss each piece in detail\, while discussing strategies for using\, playing with\, and subverting academic conventions.  We offer this workshop as an opportunity to explore creative approaches to writing\, not in service of the “innovative” or “avant-garde\,” but as a practical experiment in the political aesthetics of writing. \nIf you are interested in participating in this workshop\, please e-mail Martha Kenney (mkenney@ucsc.edu) by March 25 to reserve your spot. Mini-manuscripts will be due April 29.  \nThis event is funded by the Center for Cultural Studies.  Staff support is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-science-studies-creative-writing-workshop-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110516T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110516T153000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110513T152353Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110513T152353Z UID:10004817-1305554400-1305559800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jessica Enevold: "Mama Ludens vs Fanboi – What is wrong with the Gaming Revolution?" DESCRIPTION:It has been hailed for a while\, in articles\, book introductions and sales reports: the gaming revolution. Fun for all is finally here and if we put our minds to it\, games may even save the world! Then\, what is wrong with the gaming revolution? The question can be read both as a complaint and a celebration of what is happening. This talk questions the gaming revolution by playfully pitting Mama Ludens vs Fan-boi\, here representing everyday playing practices of adult female gamers and conservative discursive elements of game culture\, in a symbolic battle over ludic fun. It nevertheless welcomes the gaming revolution as a cultural evolution\, but calls for a more profound and radical ludic revolution. \nJessica Enevold is Assistant Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences\, section for ethnology at Lund University\, Sweden where she organizes the Digital Cultures and Games Lecture and Lab Series and works as course coordinator\, supervisor and teacher in the Master’s Program Applied Cultural Analysis (MACA). She runs the research projects “Gaming Moms: Juggling Time\, Play and Family Life” and “Games and Play – For Better For Worse”. She currently co-edits an anthology on Game Love and is the Managing Editor for the international journal Game Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jessica-enevold-mama-ludens-vs-fanboi-what-is-wrong-with-the-gaming-revolution-2/ LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Room 599\, Engineering 2\, 1156 High St‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110517T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110517T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110513T152819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110513T152819Z UID:10004819-1305633600-1305639000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:John Davison: "What will the games business look like in 5 years?" DESCRIPTION:John Davison\, VP of programming at CBS Interactive – GameSpot and Metacritic\, will look at the way the audience for games is changing\, and how the games industry is adjusting and adapting to new tastes\, technology\, and trends. \nJohn Davison is VP of programming at CBS Interactive for GameSpot and Metacritic. Davison comes to CBS’ gaming properties from IDG’s GamePro\, where he served as Executive Vice President of Content. Davison’s career in game journalism spans nearly 20 years and includes high-ranking positions at outlets including Electronic Gaming Monthly\, the Official PlayStation Magazine\, and What They Play\, a family-focused consumer site which he founded and later sold to IGN Entertainment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-davison-what-will-the-games-business-look-like-in-5-years-2/ LOCATION:Media Theater\, M110 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110518T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110518T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110313T195114Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110313T195114Z UID:10004786-1305720900-1305725400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mark Franko: "Myth\, Nationalism\, and Embodiment in Martha Graham's American Document" DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: \nMark Franko\, Dance and Performance Studies\, UCSC\n“Myth\, Nationalism\, and Embodiment in Martha Graham’s American Document“ \nProfessor Franko\, a UC Humanities Network Scholar\, is editor of Dance Research Journal\, founding editor of the Oxford Studies in Dance Theory book series\, and Director of the Center for Visual and Performance Studies at UCSC. He is finishing a book on Martha Graham in the 1940s (Oxford) supported by an NEH research fellowship and a UC President’s Research Fellowship. \nMark Franko is Professor of Dance and Performance Studies in Theater Arts at UCSC. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mark-franko-myth-nationalism-and-embodiment-in-martha-grahams-american-document-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110518T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110518T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110517T175343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110517T175343Z UID:10004592-1305727200-1305738000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Professor William Ladusaw’s Vision for the Humanities DESCRIPTION:University of California\, Santa Cruz \nHUMANITIES DEAN CANDIDATE PRESENTATION \nProfessor William Ladusaw’s Vision for the Humanities \nThe presentation will be followed by a brief question and answer session. Meetings will be held for Humanities Faculty\, Students\, and Staff\, beginning at 2:45PM \n2:00 – 2:45pm    Candidate Presentation \n2:45 – 3:30pm   Humanities Faculty and Department Chairs \n3:30 – 4:00pm   Humanities Graduate Students \n4:00 – 4:30pm   Humanities Undergraduate Students \n4:30 – 5:00pm   Humanities Staff & Department Managers URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/professor-william-ladusaws-vision-for-the-humanities-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110519T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110519T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110507T231534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110507T231534Z UID:10004811-1305795600-1305820800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Literature Undergraduate Colloquium DESCRIPTION:All members of the UCSC community and the general public are invited to attend the Twelfth Annual UCSC Literature Undergraduate Colloquium onThursday\, May 19\, 2011 in Humanities 1\, room 210. The Undergraduate Colloquium is a day-long event showcasing and celebrating undergraduate academic work in the Literature Department\, and is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be available throughout the day. For more information please see literature.ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-4778. \nThe colloquium schedule is as follows: \nOpening Remarks\n9:00 – 9:10 a.m.\nKaren Bassi\, Literature Department Chair \nPanel One: Morphologies\n9:10 – 10:30 a.m.\nModerator: John O. Jordan\nKirby A. Conrod\, Dialog and Morphology in the Novel\nNicole Green\, Explorations of the Nature of Reality in To the Lighthouse\nAshley Overhouse\, Read Between the Paratexts: Resistance in the 19th Century Race Novel\nAlicia Roll\, Poetic Inspiration \nPanel Two: Pacific Crossings\n10:45 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.\nModerator: Tim Yamamura\nAlyssa Benveniste\, The Body of a Woman: Exploring the Nation in Chang Rae Lee’s A Gesture Life\nDavid Manalo\, An Investigation Into The Literary Sublime of the 21st Century Asian Diaspora\nKyle Murphy\, Kerouac and Oriental Worlding \nLunch Buffet 12:10 – 12:55 p.m. \nPanel Three: Creative Writing\n1:00 – 2:20 p.m.\nModerator: Juliana Leslie\nJohan Flyvbjerg\, Flakes and Cherries\nKatharine Elyse Wheeler-Dubin\, Inside Games\nJessica Jones\, The Garden Not Forgotten \nPanel Four: Negotiating Identity\n2:30 – 3:50 p.m.\nModerator: A. Hunter Bivens\nJulia Franceschini\, Comic-book Cinema: How Maus Captures Reality\nBrenda Houser\, Zoot Suit: Pachuco Mythology and the Redefinition of Chicano Identity\nJessica Mead\, Liberating Cuba: The Use of Historical Romance to Imagine a Nation\nMegan Susman\, Jews\, Errants\, Disaster: From the Destruction of the Second Temple to Michael Chabon’s Kavalier and Clay URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/literature-undergraduate-colloquium-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110519T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110519T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110512T173349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110512T173349Z UID:10004812-1305824400-1305831600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Emily Greenwood: "Regarding Priam: Reconciliation and Classical Reception" DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Classical Studies Program and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present the annual Carl Deppe Lecture: \nIn light of David Malouf’s 2009 novel Ransom\, based on Priam’s supplication of Achilles in Book 24 of Homer’s Iliad\, the lecture will consider the figure of Priam as a vehicle for reconciling cultures and histories via the study of classical receptions\, paying particular attention to debates about restorative justice. \nEmily Greenwood is Associate Professor of Classics at Yale University. Her research interests include ancient Greek historiography\, Greek prose literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE\, twentieth century classical receptions (especially uses of Classics in Africa\, Britain\, the Caribbean\, and Greece)\, Classics and Postcolonialism\, and the theory and practice of translating the ‘classics’ of Greek and Roman literature. She is the author of Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press\, 2010). \nReception to follow. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/emily-greenwood-regarding-priam-reconciliation-and-classical-reception-2/ LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110519T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110519T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110512T174554Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110512T174554Z UID:10004815-1305831600-1305838800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Film Screening: "La Carta: Sagrario nunca has muerto para mí" DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, May 20th\, contributors to the book Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas\, will be speaking about their research and activism in the campaign to end feminicide in Mexico and on the borderlands.  The speakers will also address the human rights crisis in Mexico\, violence targeting human rights activists\, and the social movement for peace and an end to violence in Mexico. \nSpeakers:  Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba (University of Texas at Austin)\, Eva Arce (Ciudad Juárez)\, Alma Gómez (Centro de Derechos Humanos\, Chihuahua City)\, and Cynthia Bejarano (New Mexico State University). \nTIME & PLACE: 12-2 PM @ Namaste Lounge\, College 9 \nOn Thursday evening\, May 19th\, there will be a screening: La Carta: Sagrario nunca has muerto para mí (English sub-titles) directed by Rafael Bonilla.  The film documents the life of Paula Bonilla Flores and her struggle for justice on behalf of her daughter and other murdered and disappeared women. \nQ&A with Paula Flores (director of Fundación María Sagrario and mother of feminicide victim\, María Sagrario González from Ciudad Juárez); and Hector Domínguez-Ruvalcaba (University of Texas\, Austin). \nTIME & PLACE: 7-9 PM @ Merrill College Cultural Center \nPlease note that ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF THE BOOK\, Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas\, go to select organizations listed in www.stopterrorizingwomen.com \nSponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies\, El Centro (Chicano/Latino Resource Center)\, Chicano/Latino Research Center\, and the Women’s Center. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-la-carta-sagrario-nunca-has-muerto-para-mi-2/ LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110520T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110520T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110513T153252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110513T153252Z UID:10004821-1305889200-1305894600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Damon Brown: "Porn and Pong" DESCRIPTION:McDonald’s has “Fast Food Nation\,” the fish industry has “Cod\,” but no book has successfully weaved the cautionary tales and humorous history of the world of video games into our modern society… until now. For “Porn and Pong” Playboy Magazine journalist Damon Brown spent five years exploring how the $20 billion video game industry traces our evolution in sexual mores\, technological dependence and personal interaction. The VCR and the dawn of the modern porn industry parallels the first Atari systems\, Reality TV skyrocketed the same year as The Sims\, and the surgically-endowed Pamela Anderson was only outshined by one other woman: Lara Croft. In one of the most stimulating moments\, Brown examines Presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2005 tirade against Grand Theft Auto\, and how politics\, hidden agendas and financial pressure affect all controversial art forms. \nDamon Brown writes about sex\, technology\, music and video games for Playboy\, New York Post and Family Circle\, and is the tech columnist for AARP Online and PlanetOut. He is the author of several books\, most recently Porn & Pong: How Grand Theft Auto\, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Our Culture. Damon has a Masters in Magazine Publishing from Chicago’s Northwestern University and a degree in Journalism and Computing from Detroit’s Oakland University. The Jersey native considers New Orleans\, Chicago and Lansing (Michigan) his hometowns\, but recently established his secret headquarters in Northern California. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/damon-brown-porn-and-pong-2/ LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Simularium\, Room 180\, Baskin Engineering\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110520T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110520T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110512T174140Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110512T174140Z UID:10004813-1305892800-1305900000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gender Violence in Mexico DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, May 20th\, contributors to the book Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas\, will be speaking about their research and activism in the campaign to end feminicide in Mexico and on the borderlands.  The speakers will also address the human rights crisis in Mexico\, violence targeting human rights activists\, and the social movement for peace and an end to violence in Mexico. \nSpeakers:  Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba (University of Texas at Austin)\, Eva Arce (Ciudad Juárez)\, Alma Gómez (Centro de Derechos Humanos\, Chihuahua City)\, and Cynthia Bejarano (New Mexico State University). \nTIME & PLACE: 12-2 PM @ Namaste Lounge\, College 9 \nOn Thursday evening\, May 19th\, there will be a screening: La Carta: Sagrario nunca has muerto para mí (English sub-titles) directed by Rafael Bonilla.  The film documents the life of Paula Bonilla Flores and her struggle for justice on behalf of her daughter and other murdered and disappeared women. \nQ&A with Paula Flores (director of Fundación María Sagrario and mother of feminicide victim\, María Sagrario González from Ciudad Juárez); and Hector Domínguez-Ruvalcaba (University of Texas\, Austin). \nTIME & PLACE: 7-9 PM @ Merrill College Cultural Center \nPlease note that ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF THE BOOK\, Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas\, go to select organizations listed in www.stopterrorizingwomen.com \nSponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies\, El Centro (Chicano/Latino Resource Center)\, Chicano/Latino Research Center\, and the Women’s Center. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gender-violence-in-mexico-2/ LOCATION:Namaste Lounge – College 9\, Namaste Lounge\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110520T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110520T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110425T214359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110425T214359Z UID:10004585-1305905400-1305910800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Scott AnderBois: "What is a Question? An Answer from Yucatec Maya" DESCRIPTION:The act of questioning is central to human conversation\, but how do we know if a given sentence is a question in the first place? Looking at English\, there are two reasonable accounts we might give. First\, questions are defined by their semantics: i.e. questions have a particular kind of meaning which is distinct from that of other sentences\, and\, in particular\, from assertions. Alternatively\, questions might be defined by their syntax: i.e. the form of questions make use of particular elements (e.g. question words like `who’\, `what’\, and `why’) which distinguish them from assertions. \nThis talk addresses the title question from the perspective of Yucatec Maya\, an indigenous language of Mexico spoken by roughly 800\,000 people. Questions in Yucatec Maya often have no single element in their form which distinguishes them from assertions. Rather\, they consist of particular combinations of elements\, each of which occurs on its own in sentences which are clearly not questions. To understand why such sentences are questions\, then\, requires a particular understanding of the meaning of these elements individually\, and of how these meanings interact in a given sentence. In so doing\, we not only shed light on the nature of questions across languages\, but also on the nature of the elements from which questions are built. \nScott AnderBois is a fifth year grad student in Linguistics. His dissertation research investigates the grammatical properties of questions and related constructions\, such as indefinite pronouns (i.e. words like ‘someone’\, ‘something’) whose function is to introduce issues for immediate or future conversation. In order to address these general questions\, Mr. AnderBois has been engaged in primary fieldwork on the properties of these constructions in Yukatek Maya\, an indigenous language of Mexico\, currently spoken by approximately 800\,000 people in the Yucatán Peninsula. Whereas questions in English are clearly identified by the presence of question words like ‘who’ and ‘what’\, analogous questions in Yukatek Maya are formed by placing a word which otherwise means ‘someone’ or ‘something’ in a particular position within the sentence. Expanding on this exploration of the tight relationship between indefinite pronouns and questions in Yukatek Maya\, Mr. AnderBois’s research sheds light on the meanings of both constructions as a general phenomenon in human language. \nThis event is made possible by the UC Society of Fellows and the UC Humanities Network.  Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research\, UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/scott-anderbois-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110522 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110525 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110311T213227Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110311T213227Z UID:10004774-1306022400-1306281599@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Women\, Jews and Venetians Conference DESCRIPTION:“L’Italie\, Laboratoire de la modernite juive\,” — Workshop of Jewish Modernity –  a group of scholars recently characterized Venice and the Ghetto and thereby focused discussion on how this laboratory shaped Jewish modernity.  Carrying forward a recently emerging scholarly view about early modern Jewish communities\, these essays emphasize the interaction of the Jews in the Ghetto with the larger Venetian populace and polity\, reminding us that the Ghetto came to be named “La Citta degli ebrei.” An island set apart from and yet part of the city on the lagoon\, the Ghetto became a political\, social\, and cultural locus of historical and symbolic status. \nYet the roles women played in this forging of modern Jewish identity are often absent from the conversation. Notable women such as Dona Gracia Nasi and Sarra Copia Sulam appear here and there. However\, there is little sustained attentiveness to the ways in which Jewish and Venetian women across the social spectrum responded to emerging modern habits and processes. Their contribution to the “workshop of Jewish modernity” has not been charted – and thus we know little as to how and to what extent women were able to express and take agency in many spheres\, from cultural practices and financial activities to intellectual pursuits. \nOur gathering is directed to bringing women into the Venetian historical account. We will focus on the ways in which Jewish women\, in part through their connections to other Venetian and Italian women\, helped to articulate what it was to be modern\, and thus participated in the forging of modern Venetian\, Italian\, and Jewish identities. We anticipate that there also will be discussion of the contributions of non-Jewish women in shaping the image and understanding of contemporary Venice and Venetian Jewish life. We envision that this objective might be approached through multiple disciplines\, literature\, history\, and art history among them. \nThis conference seeks to help open new lines of scholarly inquiry\, which we might continue to build at subsequent gatherings\, with the eventual aim of organizing a larger conference in Venice in the near future. In keeping with the exploratory purpose of this gathering\, featured lectures are followed by panels\, — whose participants will take the conversation forward. \nSchedule (View Program) \nSUNDAY\, MAY 22 \n7:00–8:30 pm \nShaul Bassi\, Ca’ Foscari\, University of Venice\, “From Shakespeare to Erica Jong: Jewish Women and Cultural Politics” \n8:30 pm \nReception \nMONDAY\, MAY 23 \n9:00–11:00 am \nPANEL: Venice\, Portal to Jewish Modernity \nLisa Calevi\, University of Oregon\, “Jewish Childhoods” \nDr. Leonard Rothman\, MD OBGYN retired\, Independent Scholar formerly of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine\, “Venetian Midwives\, and Modern Medicine” \nMonique Balbuena\, University of Oregon\,  “The Languages of the Conversas” \nRespondent: Lisa Pon\, Southern Methodist University \n11:15 am – 12:15 pm \nCynthia Baker\, Bates College\, “The Essentially Ambiguous Jewess: An Ancient Trope in Modern Europe” \n12:15–2:00 pm \nLunch \nMurray Baumgarten\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\,  “Ghetto Matters\, the Venice Center\, and Planning for 2016: Suggestions and Discussion” \n2:00–3:30 pm \nPANEL: Women and the Arts \nJill Fields\, California State University Fresno\, “The Writing of Peggy Guggenheim: Narrating Gender\, Jewish Identity\, and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Venice” \nDr. Joanna Harris\, dance historian\, Osher Lifelong Learning\, University of California\, Berkeley\, “Two Historic Italian Women And Their Contribution To The Arts: Isabella Andreini — Commedia Dell’arte—and Catherine De Medici– Classical Ballet” \nRespondent: Deanna Shemek\, University of California\, Santa Cruz \n3:30–4:00 pm \nRefreshments \n4:00–5:15 pm \nGretchen-Starr-Lebeau\, University of Kentucky\, “Judging by Gender: Venetian Jewish Women Before the Inquisition” \n5:15–6:15 pm \nDinner \n6:15–7:15 pm             \nHoward Adelman\, Queen’s University\, Kingston\, Ontario\, “What Jews on the Rialto?  The Venetian Adventures of Beatrice and Reyna de Luna” \n7:30–8:45 pm \nPANEL: Representations of Venetian Jewish Women \nMiriam Shein\, Independent Scholar\, “Reflection from the Ghetto: Creating a Venetian Jewish Heroine” \nYael Chaver\, University of California\, Berkeley\, “20th Century Jewish Translations of Jessica.”   \nRespondent: Robin Russin\, University of California\, Riverside \n 8:45–9: 15 pm \nRefreshments \nTUESDAY\, MAY 24 \n9:00–10:15 am \nDon Harrán\, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, “Sarra Copia Sulam\, A Seventeenth-Century Jewish Poet in Search of Immortality” \n10:15–10:30 \nCoffee \n10:30–12:30 \nPANEL: Jewish Women and the Public World \nDr. Ariella Lang\, Barnard College\, “Margherita Sarfatti\, Mussolini\, and 20th Century Public Life” \n Michael Shapiro\, University of Illinois/Loyola University\, “Women and Hidden Jews under Nazi Occupation: Roberto Bassi’s Evidence” \nWill Wells \, Dean\, Rhodes State College\, “Translating the Poems of Sarra Copia Sulam” \nRespondent: Paul Michelson\, Huntington University \n12:30 pm \nLunch & a riverderci \nThis conference sponsored by the UCSC Center for Jewish Studies\, the Museo Italo-Americano of San Francisco\, and the Venice Center for International Jewish Studies. Major support provided by the David B. Gold Foundation\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and the Department of Literature\, with staff support from the Institute for Humanities Research. \nThe Santa Cruz Conference is free and open to the public. Please let us know if you plan to attend by calling (831) 459–5655 or (831) 459-2566. \nFor further information\, including disabled access\, contact Shann Ritchie at the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research\, sritchie@ucsc.edu\, (831) 459-5655. \n*San Francisco Preview Panel at the Museo Italo-Americano in Fort Mason\, Sunday morning\, May 22\, from 9:30 am – 12:30 pm in conjunction with exhibited materials from Il Ghetto: Forging Italian Jewish Identities. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/women-jews-and-venetians-conference-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110525T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110525T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110313T195643Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110313T195643Z UID:10004787-1306325700-1306330200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Tamara Spira: "Neoliberal Captivities: Pisagua Prison and the Low Intensity Form" DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: \nTamara Spira\, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Cultural Studies\, UC Davis\n“Neoliberal Captivities: Pisagua Prison and the Low Intensity Form” \nDoctor Spira works at the intersections of feminist\, comparative ethnic and hemispheric American studies\, and is completing Movements of Feeling: Neoliberalism\, Affect and (Post) Revolutionary Memory in the Americas. The talk provides a reading of (the now converted) Pisagua prison in northern Chile\, which intermittently served as a concentration camp for leftists and “sexual dissidents” throughout the 20th century. \nTamara Spira is the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Cultural Studies at UC Davis. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tamara-spira-neoliberal-captivities-pisagua-prison-and-the-low-intensity-form-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110525T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110525T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110505T184340Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110505T184340Z UID:10004809-1306339200-1306344600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Joan Retallack: "Reciprocal Alterities\, Questions of Poethics for Difficult Times" DESCRIPTION:Poetry and Politics Research Cluster presents:\n \nA talk and workshop with Joan Retallack\, followed by a poetry reading at Felix Kulpa Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz. \n \nJoan Retallack’s most recent publication Procedural Elegies  / Western Civ Cont’d / (Roof Books) was the poetry volume named by Artforum as a best book of 2010. Other poetry includes Memnoir (Post-Apollo\, 2004)\, How To Do Things With Words (Sun & Moon Classics\, 1998)\, Afterrimages (Wesleyan\, 1995)\, and Errata 5uite (Edge Books\, 1993)\, chosen by Robert Creeley for the Columbia Book Award of that year. Her critical books include Gertrude Stein: Selections (2008) for which she wrote an extensive introduction to Stein’s work\,  and The Poethical Wager (2004)—both from University of California Press. Poetry & Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary (2006\, Palgrave MacMillan) is co-edited with Juliana Spahr; MUSICAGE: John Cage in Conversation with Joan Retallack (1996\, Wesleyan University Press) won the America Award for Belles-Lettres. She is a recipient of a Lannan Poetry Award\, two Gertrude Stein awards\, and National Endowment for the Arts funding for an artist’s book project—Westorn Civ Cont’d\, An Open Book. She has recently written the introduction for a new\, corrected edition of Gertrude Stein’s Stanzas in Meditation\, forthcoming from Yale University Press. Her current projects are “The Reinvention of Truth” and “The Bosch Bookshelf.” Retallack lives in the Hudson Valley where she is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College. \nPoetry and Politics is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this\nevent. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network. Cosponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies\, the Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, and the Literature Department. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joan-retallack-reciprocal-alterities-questions-of-poethics-for-difficult-times-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110525T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110525T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110514T180455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110514T180455Z UID:10004823-1306343700-1306350000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Nancy Hornberger: "Multilingual Education Policy and Practice: Ten Certainties (Grounded in Indigenous Experience)" DESCRIPTION:Ethnic diversity and inequality\, intercultural communication and contact\, and global political and economic interdependence are acknowledged realities in today’s world. Multilingual education\, too\, is a fact of life\, and though there are a great variety of contexts\, models\, contents\, and developmental trajectories in multilingual education policy and practice\, it is possible to discern continuities that characterize successful multilingual education wherever it is found. My emphasis here is on what we know and are sure of\, analytically formulated as ten certainties and illustrated by empirical research.\nThis talk is presented by the Language Program Colloquium Series.\n  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nancy-hornberger-multilingual-education-policy-and-practice-ten-certainties-grounded-in-indigenous-experience-2/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110525T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110525T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110505T184817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110505T184817Z UID:10004810-1306350000-1306355400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Joan Retallack: Poetry Reading DESCRIPTION:Poetry and Politics Research Cluster presents:\n \nA talk and workshop with Joan Retallack\, followed by a poetry reading at Felix Kulpa Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz. \n \nJoan Retallack’s most recent publication Procedural Elegies  / Western Civ Cont’d / (Roof Books) was the poetry volume named by Artforum as a best book of 2010. Other poetry includes Memnoir (Post-Apollo\, 2004)\, How To Do Things With Words (Sun & Moon Classics\, 1998)\, Afterrimages (Wesleyan\, 1995)\, and Errata 5uite (Edge Books\, 1993)\, chosen by Robert Creeley for the Columbia Book Award of that year. Her critical books include Gertrude Stein: Selections (2008) for which she wrote an extensive introduction to Stein’s work\,  and The Poethical Wager (2004)—both from University of California Press. Poetry & Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary (2006\, Palgrave MacMillan) is co-edited with Juliana Spahr; MUSICAGE: John Cage in Conversation with Joan Retallack (1996\, Wesleyan University Press) won the America Award for Belles-Lettres. She is a recipient of a Lannan Poetry Award\, two Gertrude Stein awards\, and National Endowment for the Arts funding for an artist’s book project—Westorn Civ Cont’d\, An Open Book. She has recently written the introduction for a new\, corrected edition of Gertrude Stein’s Stanzas in Meditation\, forthcoming from Yale University Press. Her current projects are “The Reinvention of Truth” and “The Bosch Bookshelf.” Retallack lives in the Hudson Valley where she is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College. \nPoetry and Politics is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this\nevent. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network. Cosponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies\, the Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, and the Literature Department. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joan-retallack-poetry-reading-2/ LOCATION:Felix Kulpa Gallery\, 107 Elm Street\, Santa Cruz\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110526T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110526T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110505T182404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110505T182404Z UID:10004588-1306425600-1306431000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dai Jin-hua: "In Vogue: Politics and National Ethnicity in Lust\, Caution and the Lust\, Caution Phenomenon in China" DESCRIPTION:Dai Jinhua is Founder and Director of the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies and Film Studies at Peking University\, where she is also Professor of Chinese Literature and Language.  She is a prominent cultural scholar of literature\, film\, and popular culture. With Meng Yue\, she wrote the 1989 Emerging on the Horizon of History\, one of the first works of feminist scholarship published in reform-era China.  Her work as a film scholar and media critic questions the social legitimacy of consumer culture in China\, while problematizing the elitist lineage of Western Marxism and reflecting on Chinese modes of intellectual endeavor during the last three decades. Dai Jinhua’s publications include Film Theory and Criticism\, Gendering China\, Cinema and Desire\, and Scenery in the Fog: Chinese Cinema Culture 1978-1988.   The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture comments of her work\, “Her innovative experiments with different critical approaches and the feminist perspective with which she re-examined dominant theories of literature\, film and popular culture introduced a new way of critical analysis far beyond her field in China. The development of her own dynamic cultural critique also addressed a growing audience in Taiwan\, Hong Kong and the West.” \nSponsored by the Department of History with Generous Support from the Nee Fun URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dai-jin-hua-in-vogue-politics-and-national-ethnicity-in-lust-caution-and-the-lust-caution-phenomenon-in-china-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110526T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110526T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110404T061238Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110404T061238Z UID:10004792-1306432800-1306439100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Neo Benshi DESCRIPTION:Neo Benshi\, Roxi Power Hamilton\, Jen Hofer and Konrad Steiner present a new take on the Japanese tradition of “benshi”—a writer or actor who provides live narration and commentary alongside films. The neo-benshi concept invites writers/performers to choose scenes from well-known narrative features or TV shows\, mute the soundtrack\, and re-inscribe the familiar images with new meanings. \nEach quarter\, the Living Writers Reading Series brings visiting authors and poets to UC Santa Cruz to give students an in-depth look into the world of the working writer.  Sponsored by Oakes College and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-neo-benshi-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110527T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110527T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110401T191731Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110401T191731Z UID:10004575-1306510200-1306515600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Roumyana Pancheva DESCRIPTION:The Linguistics Colloquium Series Presents: \nRoumyana Pancheva (USC) \nStay tuned for more details! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/roumyana-pancheva-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110527T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110527T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110516T173849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110516T173849Z UID:10004590-1306512000-1306522800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Under the Sign of War: U.S. Militarism and Asian Americanist Critique DESCRIPTION:This year’s Pacific Seminar returns focus to war\, both as a way of invoking the foundational anti-Vietnam War struggles that inaugurated Asian American studies as an urgent political and epistemological project and as a contemporary analytic that wields the potential of reconfiguring the project of Asian American studies today.  In particular\, this year’s Pacific Seminar workshop\, led by Wei Ming Dariotis (San Francisco State) and Jennifer Kwon-Dobbs (St. Olaf College)\, highlights and historicizes the emergence of mixed-race studies and critical adoption studies as simultaneously origin-animating and field-transforming directions within Asian American studies.  Inquiring into the centrality of U.S. wars in Asia to mixed-race studies and critical adoption studies\, this year’s workshop approaches Asian American studies not as a rigid crystallized academic tradition but rather as a critical intellectual formation whose shifting contours are shaped and renewed by engagement with the political.  In other words\, not simply reducible to new identitarian directions in an academic field whose expansion (and incoherence)\, as critics have argued\, reflect demographic changes brought on by immigration\, mixed-race studies and critical adoption studies\, by raising the question of geopolitics\, biopolitics\, and necropolitics relative to U.S. wars and militarism in the Asia Pacific region\, pose fundamental challenges to an identity-based approach to Asian American studies.   As with the inaugural formation of Asian American studies\, these emergent areas of activism and socially engaged scholarship\, as this year’s workshop will explore\, cannot be theorized outside a framework of U.S. imperialism and war. \nWei Ming Dariotis is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies\, with an emphasis on Asian Americans of Mixed Heritage and Asian American Literature\, Arts\, and Culture. She has served on the Boards of Directors of Hapa Issues Forum\, the Asian American Theater Company\, and iPride\, and on the Advisory Boards of Kearny Street Workshop and the Asian American Women Artists Association.  Her poetry has been published in Mixed Up\,Too Mixed Up\, 580 Split\, and Yellow as Turmeric\, Fragrant as Cloves: A Contemporary Anthology of Asian American Women’s Poetry. Her academic essays have been published in Mixed Race Literature (2002)\, Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian American Activists (2004)\, Chinese America: History and Perspectives (2007)\, The Influence of Star Trek on Television\, Film and Culture (2007)\, and Interracial Relationships in the 21st Century (2009).  Her current project is War Baby | Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art\, co-curated and co-edited with Laura Kina\, an art exhibit (Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle and the De Paul University Art Museum in Chicago\, 2013)\, and a book (under formal review at University of Washington Press). \nJennifer Kwon Dobbs is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing and director of American Race and Multicultural Studies at St. Olaf College.  She is former core staff for Truth and Reconciliation for the Adoption Community of Korea (TRACK) and a current fellow with the Korea Policy Institute.  Jennifer’s debut collection\, Paper Pavilion (White Pine Press 2007)\, received the White Pine Press Poetry Prize and the Sheila Motton Book Award\, and her chapbook\, Song of a Mirror\, was a finalist for the Tupelo Press Snowbound Series Chapbook Award.  Columns and new stories about Jennifer’s present research on Korean adoptee birth searches and unwed mothers have appeared in Chosun Ilbo\, Conducive Magazine\, Gyeonghyang News\, Hankyoreh\, Korea Herald\, Korea Times\, Pressian\, and Yonhap News.  Currently she is writing a book of essays about unwed moms’ realities with the Korean Unwed Mothers and Families Association and a second book of poetry. \nParticipation: Please note that this is a reading workshop.  To take part in the workshop and to obtain readings in advance\, please RSVP to Christine Hong at cjhong@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/under-the-sign-of-war-u-s-militarism-and-asian-americanist-critique-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 320 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110528 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110530 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20101013T030030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101013T030030Z UID:10004628-1306540800-1306713540@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Music and Greek Drama: History\, Theory\, and Practice DESCRIPTION:University of California\, Santa Cruz Presents:\nMusic and Greek Drama: History\, Theory\, and Practice\nAn International Conference\n \nIn connection with the UCSC Theater Arts production of Orestes Terrorist\,\na new version of Euripides’ Orestes by Mary-Kay Gamel\,\nMainstage Theater\, UCSC\, May 20-29\n \nMay 28-29\, 2011\nCollege 8\, Room 240\n \nScholars and theater practitioners will discuss how music affects the meaning and impact of dramatic performance ancient and modern. How do scholars and musicians reconstruct the likely sounds and styles of ancient Greek music and dance? How did the music of the Athenian theater respond to\, and in turn shape\, the socio-cultural trends and political controversies of the day? What can and should be the role of music in modern productions of Greek drama? The use of music in the theatrical production of Orestes Terrorist will serve as a case study.\n \nKeynote Address by Peter Kivy\, Rutgers University\n \nSpeakers\nAmy R. Cohen\, Randolph College\nPhilip Collins\, New Music Works\, Santa Cruz\nMichael Ewans\, University of Newcastle\nJohn C. Franklin\, University of Vermont\nMary-Kay Gamel\, UC Santa Cruz\nMark Griffith\, UC Berkeley\nStefan Hagel\, Austrian Academy of Sciences\nRobert Ketterer\, University of Iowa\nPauline Le Van\, Yale University\nFiona Macintosh\, University of Oxford\nC.W. Marshall\, University of British Columbia\nDonald Mastronarde\, UC Berkeley\nLucia Prauscello\, University of Cambridge\nDanny Scheie\, UC Santa Cruz\nAndrew Simpson\, Catholic University of America\n \nThis conference is presented by University of California Humanities Research Institute\, with generous support from the Klio Distinguished Professorship\, UC Berkeley; Institute for Humanities Research\, UCSC; Committee on Research\, UCSC.\nFor further information\, including disabled access\, contact Courtney Mahaney at the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research\, cmahaney@ucsc.edu\, (831) 459-3527; web: http://ihr.ucsc.edu/. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu. Staffing provided by the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/music-in-greek-tragedy-2/ LOCATION:College 8\, Room 240\, College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110531T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110531T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110310T183944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110310T183944Z UID:10004563-1306836000-1306846800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Humanities Undergraduate Research Award Presentations DESCRIPTION:Recipients of this years Humanities Undergraduate Research Award (HUGRA) will be presenting their projects during Student Achievement week. All are welcome and encouraged to support these students!\n  \nIn 1996\, the Humanities Division began awarding undergraduate students to support and encourage innovative research projects.   This year’s Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) symposium brings together a unique blend of projects ranging from historical narratives to linguistic experimentations. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-undergraduate-research-award-presentations-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110602 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110602T152930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110602T152930Z UID:10004598-1306886400-1306972799@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Teach-In on Islamaphobia: Between the War on Terror and Arab Revolution DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nSnehal Shingavi\, English and South Asian Studies\, UT Austin\nZahra Billoo\, Council on American-Islamic Relations \nWednesday\, June 1\n6 p.m.\nKresge Town Hall \nSnehal Shingavi is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas\, Austin. He got his PhD from UC Berkeley where he was involved in a number of social justice campaigns. He was a shop steward for the Association of Graduate Student Employees (AGSE/UAW local 2865)\, a participant in the 1999 strike for Ethnic Studies organized by the third world Liberation Front (twLF)\, a member of the International Socialist Organization\, a member of the Campaign to the End Death Penalty (CEDP)\, an organizer against the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia\, a former member of the coordinating committee of the United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS)\, a participant in the 2000 antiglobalization protests and the protest at the Democratic National Convention in LA\, a founding member of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)\, a founding member of the Berkeley Stop the War Coalition (BSTW) which organized against the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq\, a member of Friends of South Asia (FOSA)\, a member of the Students for Nader campaign in 2000\, campaign manager for Aimee Allison – Green Party candidate for Oakland City Council in 2006\, a member of the Texas State Employees Union (TSEU CWA local 6186)\, and the Stop the Cuts Coalition at the University of Texas. He has published pieces in The Nation\, Counterpunch\, Z Magazine\, and the International Socialist Review\, and has appeared on Democracy Now\, Flashpoints with Dennis Bernstein\, the Real News Network\, as well as on MSNBC\, CNN\, and Fox News. \nA community organizer and labor and civil rights advocate committed to promoting justice and understanding at local and national levels\, Zahra Billoo is Executive Director for the CAIR San Francisco Bay Area (CAIR-SFBA) chapter. She frequently provides trainings at local mosques and universities as part of CAIR’s efforts to empower the community\, while building bridges with allies on key civil rights issues. At her direction\, CAIR-SFBA filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice challenging their warrantless use of GPS tracking devices to target American Muslims. Her work with CAIR-SFBA has been highlighted in local and national media outlets. Most notably\, she made waves when she appeared on FOX O’Reilly Factor to discuss invasive TSA practices. As an undergraduate\, she worked with the California Faculty Association on issues including faculty salaries and the defunding of public higher education. A 2010 recipient of the San Francisco Minority Bar Coalition’s Unity Award\, she earned her J.D. from UC Hastings. \nCo-sponsored by Asian Diasporas Research Cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, UC Center for New Racial Studies\, Ethnic Resource Centers\, Asian American and Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Muslim Student Association\, Olive Tree Initiative\, Committee for Justice in Palestine\, Resource Center for Nonviolence\, Palestine-Israel Action Committee. \nThis event is free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/teach-in-on-islamaphobia-between-the-war-on-terror-and-arab-revolution-2/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110601T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110601T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110313T195908Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110313T195908Z UID:10004568-1306930500-1306935000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Erik Butler: "The Ruse of Faith: Spiritual Politics in Der Nister's Soviet Symbolism" DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series and the Center for Jewish Studies Present: \nErik Butler\, German Studies\, Emory University\n“The Ruse of Faith: Spiritual Politics in Der Nister’s Soviet Symbolism” \nProfessor Butler has published Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film (Camden House\, 2010) and The Bellum Grammaticale and the Rise of European Literature (Ashgate\, 2010). His translation of Der Nister’s Regrowth (Vidervuks) is forthcoming (Northwestern\, 2011). The current book\, Cruelty and Mystification\, explores violence and ruse in modernist fiction. \nErik Butler is Assistant Professor of German Studies at Emory University. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/erik-butler-the-ruse-of-faith-spiritual-politics-in-der-nisters-soviet-symbolism-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110604T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110604T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110528T193141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110528T193141Z UID:10004596-1307178000-1307214000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Between the Disciplines DESCRIPTION:Please join us on June 4th in Humanities I\, room 210 as we take the opportunity presented by the current state of crisis to evaluate and re-imagine interdisciplinary work as both a project and an enterprise. Now that interdisciplinarity has itself become something of a philosopher’s stone\, a general panacea for the woes and wiles of University research\, what is it that those of us engaged in interdisciplinary research are doing and how does that fit in the remaking of University research and education? As the disciplines themselves seek to dissolve their disciplinary boundaries\, what sort of work could justify the continued existence of a space and a program that aims to investigate what is left out or discouraged in disciplinary work? And\, further\, what is the status of disciplinary work itself? As cuts to public higher education and shifting administrative priorities threaten to sink Interdisciplinary programs across the country\, we might use this occasion as an opportunity to grasp the foundations and delicate lineaments of the Interdisciplinary project. \n9-10: breakfast \n10-11:30 – Questioning Crisis: Adam Dylan Hefty (Valences of Discipline in the Times of Imperiled Institutions)\, Surya Parekh (Graduate Work)\, and Mario Diaz-Perez (Max Weber and the Crises of the Sciences) \n11:45-1:15 – Articulating Histories: Todd Chretien (Listening to the Subaltern Speak: Methods for Recovering History)\, Joshua Brahinsky (Tentative Musings on the Friction Between Disciplines when Making Resistances from Speaking Tongues)\, and Fritzie de Mata (Dead Bodies and the Balikbayan Boxes: Unpacking Spatial Linkages in the Subaltern Pacific) \n2:15-3:45 – Perceiving Violence: Maya Gonzalez (On Primitive Accumulation)\, Steve Carter (Military Reading as Interdisciplinary Approach)\, Aaron Reed (What If I’m the Bad Guy) \n4-5:30 – Thinking With/Partaking in the World: Madeline McDonald (On the Problem of Utopias: Toward an Edge-Topology of ‘Post-Sixties Narratives’)\, Erin Ellison (The Girls are Alright: Addressing Gendered Power Dynamics Within a Youth Participatory Action Research Setting)\, Joshua LaBare (The Ecology of Everyday Life) \n5:45-6:45 – Symposium of HistCon Alumni \n6:45-following – refreshments URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/between-the-disciplines-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110606T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110606T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110528T153640Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110528T153640Z UID:10004594-1307374200-1307381400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Writing Program's 2011 Reading Series DESCRIPTION: URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-writing-programs-2011-reading-series-4-2/ LOCATION:Porter Hall Gallery\, UCSC\, Porter College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110924T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110924T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110921T204225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110921T204225Z UID:10004611-1316885400-1316892600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dr. Karan Singh\, "Nava Vedanta: Ancient Indian Philosophy of Non-dualism & its Modern Transformation." DESCRIPTION:Dr. Karan Singh\nDistinguished Indian statesman and diplomat Dr. Karan Singh will deliver the 2011 Satyajit Ray Lecture at UC Santa Cruz on Saturday\, September 24\, at 5:30 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall. \nCurrently the president of the Indian Council of Cultural Relations in New Delhi\, Singh is the last Maharaja of Kashmir\, and served as its governor for 18 years. \nHe was a member of Indira Gandhi’s cabinet when she was prime minister\, and has also served as Indian ambassador to the United States. \nRecognized as one of India’s outstanding thinkers and leaders\, Singh is the author of numerous books and has lectured widely—both in India and abroad–on political science\, philosophy\, education\, religion and culture. \nSingh will speak on the topic: “Nava Vedanta: Ancient Indian Philosophy of Non-dualism & its Modern Transformation.” \nThe lecture will be preceded by a screening of renowned Indian Director Satyajit Ray’s last movie: Agantuk (The Stranger) at 3 p.m. in the UCSC Media Theater. \nThe New York Times has described the film as “a gentle\, exquisitely realized comedy\, beautifully observed\, sweet\, and enriching\,” and the New Yorker called it “ a graceful comedy made in a serene\, leisurely classical style.” \nThe London Times noted: “Ray’s eye for detail and the old magic of his genius can’t let go of The Stranger\, a tour-de-force. The camera is wielded like a conductor’s baton as it strikes chords deep in the mind.” \nThe lecture and film screening are presented by The Satyajit Ray Film and Study Center (Ray FASC)–a research center in the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. The center is dedicated to the preservation of Satyajit Ray’s cinematic\, literary and artistic work. \nUnder the direction of founding director Dilip Basu\, Ray FASC has a collection of 32 of Ray’s 36 films\, including 22 fully restored prints. \nThe restoration work is conducted at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles—the same academy that honored Ray with a special Oscar in 2002 for his lifetime achievements as a filmmaker. \nBasu noted that film prints from Ray FASC are now screened at major museums and film festivals around the world. \n“During the past year\, we have curated complete retrospectives at film museums in Munich\, Zurich\, Basel\, London\, Paris\, Singapore and at the Lincoln Center in New York\,” said Basu. “We expect to continue to have similar global reach in the foreseeable future.” \nBasu noted that Ray FASC also hosts scholars\, students\, and film makers who visit its facility for research and study. \nA professor of history at UC Santa Cruz\, Basu also teaches an annual upper division class titled  “Cinema and History: Film Author Satyajit Ray.” \nFor tickets and/or more information about the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Collection\, go to:  http://satyajitray.ucsc.edu\, call 831-459-4012 or e-mail satyajit@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-karan-singh-nava-vedanta-ancient-indian-philosophy-of-non-dualism-its-modern-transformation-3/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110927 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110928 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110802T163619Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110802T163619Z UID:10004602-1317081600-1317167940@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Every Protection: Exploring Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Jewish Pale of Settlement DESCRIPTION:Debra Olin: Images and Nathaniel Deutsch: Text\n\nSeptember 27 – October 11\, 2011\nOpening reception: Tuesday\, September 27\, 4-7pm\n \nEloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, Cowell College\, UC Santa Cruz\n \n \nUntil 1917\, most Jews of the Russian Empire were restricted to a region called the Pale of Settlement\, where they created their own distinctive folk culture. In 1914 the writer\, socialist revolutionary\, and ethnographer\, Sh. An-sky\, produced a massive Yiddish ethnographic questionnaire to document this culture\, including many questions concerning Jewish customs and beliefs connected to pregnancy and childbirth. In The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement (Harvard University Press)\, UCSC professor Nathaniel Deutsch has translated An-sky’s questionnaire into English for the first time\, placing it within a rich historical context. Collaborating with Deutsch and inspired by her deep interest in Jewish women’s folk traditions\, Debra Olin has created illuminating artworks that represent and explore the dangerous\, magical\, and\, above all\, powerful experience of pregnancy and childbirth in the Pale of Settlement. \nDebra Olin is a printmaker\, living and working in Somerville\, Massachusetts. She received her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art in 1980. Olin has shown in exhibitions across the U.S.\, South Africa and Cuba. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Boston Public Library; Temple Israel\, Brookline\, Mass.; YIVO Institute\, NYC; The DeCordova Museum\, Lincoln\, Mass.; and the Fogg Art Museum\, Harvard University. In 2004 Debra was awarded the Rappaport Prize\, the largest public annual award to an individual artist in New England. For more information\, visit the artist’s website: http://debraolin.com/.\n \nGallery hours: 11am – 4pm\, Tuesday – Sunday. For more information call: (831) 459-2953. Gallery is fully accessible. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/every-protection-exploring-pregnancy-and-childbirth-in-the-jewish-pale-of-settlement-2/ LOCATION:Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, Cowell College\, Cowell College‎ 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110929T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110929T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110926T160624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110926T160624Z UID:10004613-1317319200-1317324600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: Jaimy Gordon DESCRIPTION:Jaimy GordonThe Living Writers Reading Series presents Jaimy Gordon. Jaimy Gordon’s “fantasy” novel\, Shamp of the City-Solo\, gathered an underground following\, and is regarded as one of the finest comic novels in the last fifty years. Her most recent book\, Lord of Misrule\, won the National Book Award for fiction. \nJaimy Gordon is Professor of English at Western Michigan University. For further information about Professor Gordon\, please visit her webpage at WMU: http://www.wmich.edu/english/directory/faculty/gordon.html. \nFor more information about the event\, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk\, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore. \nThe Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund\, the Porter Hitchcock Fund\, the UCSC Literature Department\, and the Sain Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-reading-series-jaimy-gordon-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110930T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110930T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110817T155656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110817T155656Z UID:10004848-1317398400-1317405600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Pranav Anand\, "Assessing the pragmatics of experiments: The case of scalar implicature" DESCRIPTION:Pranav Anand\n“There is a growing impetus to examine pragmatic phenomena experimentally. Potentially complicating these investigations is the way in which the experimental environment itself shapes participants’ models of extra‐linguistic context. A spate of recent results collectively suggest that the computation of scalar implicature may be sensitive to a host of factors: task structure\, social norms\, and type of response elicited. However\, these results provide only a few points in a vast space of potential task parameters\, thereby limiting our ability to systematically model the interaction between linguistic forms\, context and pragmatic inference. This talk reports ongoing work to systematically investigate the parametric space of task design. We find that implicature calculation rates are sensitive to both the structure of the response elicited (e.g.\, scalar vs. unordered) as well as the task prompt (whether the participant judges “accuracy”\, “informativity”\, or “goodness”)\, and discuss the methodological lessons of this kind of work.” \nPranav Anand is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz. Professor Anand’s research focuses largely on two matters: how context intrudes into or guides the interpretive process and how perspective is grammatically represented. These are manifested by my interest in the de re/de se/de dicto contrasts\, the nature of subjectivity in evaluative and epistemic predication\, and the structure of indexical shift. \nHis current projects include the fine lexical semantics of attitude verbs; real-time processing of implicatures and plurality; computational modeling of multi-party discourse; and computational modeling of high-level discourse plans\, especially those involved in argumentation and persuasion. \nThis talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett\, nvarnett@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-pranav-anand-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111004T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111004T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110922T224347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110922T224347Z UID:10004612-1317729600-1317736800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Clare Hemmings\, "Techniques for Reimagining Feminist Theory: Starting from How We Feel" DESCRIPTION:Clare Hemmings\n“Feminist theory seems caught in its own narratives of progress\, loss and return\, which I argue echo broader conservative agendas that position feminism as over or anachronistic. It does not seem enough to tell different stories\, to simply multiply feminisms. Might we instead tell stories differently? This paper makes the case for two different modes of telling that start from the affective location of the teller with the aim of interrupting these dominant narratives. The first explores the practice of recitation\, a technique to intervene in the histories produced through citation practices; the second starts from affective breakdown by exploring the importance of ‘the unspeakable’ in reimagining recent feminist history and the subject’s role in its narration.” \n  \nClare Hemmings is Reader in Feminist Theory at the Gender Institute\, London School of Economics\, where she has recently completed a period as Director. She is the author of Why Stories Matter: the Political Grammar of Feminist Theory (Duke\, 2011) and Bisexual Spaces (Routledge\, 2002). She is a member of the Feminist Review Collective\, which seeks to create alternative spaces for feminist theory and practice. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/techniques-for-reimagining-feminist-theory-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111005T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111005T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110815T205243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T205243Z UID:10004604-1317816000-1317821400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Juliana Schiesari\, “Rethinking Humanism: Horses\, Honor and Virtue in the Italian Renaissance” DESCRIPTION:Juliana Schiesari\nProfessor Schiesari is working on the relation between humanism and the post-human by rethinking the human and non-human as they are constructed in the Italian Renaissance. Her recent publications include Beasts and Beauties: Animals\, Gender and Domestication in the Italian Renaissance (Toronto\, 2010) and Polymorphous Domesticities: Pets\, Bodies and Desire in Four Modern Writers (UC\, forthcoming). \nJuliana Schiesari is Professor of Italian and Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at UC Davis. This colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/juliana-schiesari-rethinking-humanism-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111005T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111005T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110927T004710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110927T004710Z UID:10004862-1317830400-1317837600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:2011 Humanities Don Rothman Writing Awards Ceremony DESCRIPTION:Recipients of the 2010-2011 Humanities Don Rothman Writing Awards recipients and their writing teachers will be honored. \nDon Rothman\nAdam Beighley\, for Twin Forces of a Wave” (Maggie Amis) \nAND \nSarah Edelstein\, for “’Til Death Do We Choose” (Kiva Silver) \nHonorable Mentions: \nBriana Bernstein\, for “Freud’s Model of Civilization and Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four” (Brij Lunine) \nKerianne Doi\, for “Mackey Versus Pollan: War of Whole Foods” (Robin Somers) \nRosalie Evans\, for “The Graphic Truth” (Carol Gerster) \nJackson Greer\, for “Getting Back to the Farm” (Jude Todd) \nFor information about the ceremony: \nJames A. Wilson\, PhD\, Chair\, Writing Program \nCowell Office 209\, 459-2627\, jawilson@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2011-humanities-don-rothman-writing-awards-ceremony-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111006T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111006T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110926T232123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110926T232123Z UID:10004614-1317924000-1317931200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: Nina Revoyr DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents Nina Revoyr. Nina Revoyr has authored four novels: The Necessary Hunger\, Southland\, The Age of Dreaming\, and Wingshooters\, for which she received the Windwest Bookseller’s Choice Award and the Indie Bookseller’s Choice Award. Wingshooters was also named one of Oprah’s ‘boks to watch out for.’ \nNina Revoyr\nNina is the executive vice president of a large child and family service agency in Los Angeles. She has also been an Associate Faculty member at Antioch University\, and a Visiting Professor at Cornell University\, Occidental College\, and Pitzer College. \nFor more information about the event\, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk\, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-reading-series-nina-revoyr-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111012T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111012T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110815T210104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T210104Z UID:10004606-1318420800-1318426200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rei Terada\, "Pasolini’s Acceptance" DESCRIPTION:Rei Terada\nIn his late writings\, Pasolini claims to give up on Italian politics and his own erstwhile projects. The talk considers Pasolini’s “repudiation” and the questions of periodization it raises. Professor Terada is the author of Derek Walcott’s Poetry: American Mimicry (Northeastern\, 1992); Feeling in Theory: Emotion after the “Death of the Subject” (Harvard\, 2001); and Looking Away: Phenomenality and Dissatisfaction (Harvard\, 2009). \nRei Terada is Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Irvine. \nThis colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. Cosponsored by the Affect Working Group. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rei-terada-pasolinis-acceptance-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111012T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111012T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20111007T194045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111007T194045Z UID:10004864-1318435200-1318438800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:From Civil Defense to Civil Rights: The Growth of Jewish American Interracial Activism in Los Angeles in the 20th Century DESCRIPTION:UCSC Jewish Studies and History Department present\nFrom Civil Defense to Civil Rights: The Growth of Jewish American Interracial Activism in Los Angeles in the 20th Century \nBridges of Reform\n\nShana Bernstien\nSouthwestern University\nAuthor of Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in 20th Century Los Angeles (2011) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-civil-defense-to-civil-rights-the-growth-of-jewish-american-interracial-activism-in-los-angeles-in-the-20th-century-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111019T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111019T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110815T210445Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T210445Z UID:10004607-1319025600-1319031000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Eugene Switkes\, "Studies of Visual Perception: A Window into Brain and Behavior" DESCRIPTION:Eugene Switkes\nScientists and humanists have found common interests in understanding correlations between neural events and complex human behavior. Over the past 30 years we have studied how aspects of human visual perception arise from neural processes that occur in the anatomical substrates of human vision. Professor Switkes discusses how understanding the brain’s recoding of spatial and chromatic information sheds light on the neural basis of visual behavioral phenomena. \nEugene Switkes is Professor of Chemistry and Psychobiology at UC Santa Cruz. He is an Affiliate Professor of Vision Sciences and Optometry at UC Berkeley. \nThis colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies\, with staff support from the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/eugene-switkes-studies-of-visual-perception-a-window-into-brain-and-behavior-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111019T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111019T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110823T191647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110823T191647Z UID:10004855-1319045400-1319049000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture: Lisa Jean Moore\, "Among the Missing: Operations in Recovering Bodies" DESCRIPTION:Lisa Jean Moore\nLisa Jean Moore\, medical sociologist and Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Purchase College\, State University of New York\, will present a talk based on her recent book Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility. We know more about the physical body—how it begins\, how it responds to illness\, even how it decomposes—than ever before. Yet not all bodies are created equal\, some bodies clearly count more than others\, and some bodies are not recognized at all. By examining the cultural politics at work in disappearances and inclusions of the physical body Prof. Moore shows how the social\, medical and economic consequences of visibility can reward or undermine privilege in society. \nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. \nRelated Articles:\nPeggy Downes Baskin Profile\nPeggy Downes Baskin Endowment for Interdisciplinary Studies in Ethics\nInaugural Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture\, November 3\, 2010 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-peggy-downes-baskin-ethics-lecture-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111020T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111020T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110926T233206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110926T233206Z UID:10004615-1319133600-1319140800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: Martha Mendoza DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents Martha Mendoza. \nMartha Mendoza\nMartha Mendoza graduated from UCSC and starte a career as an Associated Press National Writer. Mendoza won the 2000 Pulitzer Prise in investigative journalism for her work on the No Gun Ri story. Her writing has prompted congressional meetings and Pentagon investigations alike. \nFor more information about the event\, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk\, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore. \nThe Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund\, the Porter Hitchcock Fund\, the UCSC Literature Department\, and the Sain Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-martha-mendoza-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20111021 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20111022 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20111209T193514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111209T193514Z UID:10004651-1319155200-1319241540@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:2011 Founder's Day DESCRIPTION:2011 Founder’s Day \nMore information TBA. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2011-founders-day-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111022T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111022T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20111010T234412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111010T234412Z UID:10004884-1319292000-1319299200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Kathleen Lynch: “Sex Sells\, But Who’s Buying? Erotic Imagery on Athenian Vases” DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on “Archaeology and the Ancient World”: \nKathleen Lynch\nProfessor Kathleen Lynch\, University of Cincinnati \n“Sex Sells\, But Who’s Buying? Erotic Imagery on Athenian Vases” \nErotic imagery appears in early Attic black-figure vases but becomes quite popular in red-figure from about 520-475 B.C. The setting of these often-graphic images of heterosexual and homosexual encounters is usually the symposium\, the all-male drinking party. Nearly all studies assume that these images are produced for and about Athenians\, and thus must represent Athenian views on sexuality and morality. Yet a closer look at the archaeological evidence shows that very few vases with graphic sexual images come from Athens itself; instead\, vases with erotic images were sold on the export market\, and more specifically to Etruria. Thus we must re-evaluate the use of these images in assessing Athenian values: we find an Athenian pottery industry with an astute marketing sense that distorts Athenian cultural identity to appeal to foreign perceptions of Greek culture. \nThe lecture will contain vase-painting images of explicit sexual scenes. \nKathleen Lynch is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati and a specialist in Greek pottery\, particularly vase painting and the social aspects of pottery\, and has completed fieldwork in Albania\, Greece\, and Turkey. She has a book forthcoming from the American School of Classical Studies at Athens\, The Symposium in Context: Pottery from a Late Archaic House near the Athenian Agora. \nFree parking for the lecture in Cowell-Stevenson parking lots \nCoffee at 1:30 and more refreshments after the talk \nFor more information\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kathleen-lynch-sex-sells-but-whos-buying-erotic-imagery-on-athenian-vases-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111024T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111024T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110919T230848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110919T230848Z UID:10004859-1319428800-1319475600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Steven Miller\, "Violence Against the Nonliving: the Death Drive & Destruction in Contemporary Philosophy DESCRIPTION:Steven Miller\nProfessor Steven Miller is Professor of English at SUNY Buffalo. He is a faculty mentor for the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture and for Umbr(a). His work in progress is War After Death: Hyperbolic Thinking in Contemporary Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. \nThis lecture is presented by the History of Consciousness Department\, with cosponsorship by the Center for Cultural Studies. For further information\, please contact Michael Holohan\, mholohan@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/steven-miller-violence-against-the-nonliving-the-death-drive-destruction-in-contemporary-philosophy-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111024T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111024T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110815T213916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T213916Z UID:10004844-1319470200-1319475600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Affect Working Group Presents: Affect Across the Disciplines: A Faculty-Graduate Workshop DESCRIPTION:Panelists: \nVilashini Cooppan\, “Affective History and Literary Studies”\nAssociate Professor\, Literature\, UCSC \nProfessor Cooppan’s recent work includes an article in Trauma and Memory in South African Writing (Rodopi\, 2011)\, and a book project on affect\, historical violence and world literature.\n \nSharon Daniel\, “Affect in/through New Media Documentary”\nProfessor\, Film and Digital Media and DANM\, UCSC \nProfessor Daniel’s essays have been published in books and professional journals\, including Database Aesthetics\, the Sarai Reader and Leonardo.\n \nDanilyn Rutherford\, “Affect\, Ethics\, and the Empirical in Anthropology”\nProfessor and Chair\, Anthropology\, UCSC \nProfessor Rutherford is the author of Raiding the Land of the Foreigners: The Limits of the Nation on an Indonesian Frontier (Princeton\, 2002) and the forthcoming Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua (Chicago\, 2012).\n \nNoah Wardrip-Fruin\, “Affective Computational Media”\nAssociate Professor\, Computer Science \nProfessor Wardrip-Fruin has authored or co-edited books on games and digital media\, including The New Media Reader (MIT\, 2003) and Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions\, Computer Games\, and Software Studies (MIT\, 2009).\n \nModerator: Kimberly Lau\nProfessor\, Literature\, American Studies \nProfessor Lau is the author of Body Language: Sisters in Shape\, Black Women’s Fitness\, and Feminist Identity Politics (Temple\, 2011).\n \nFor further information\, please contact Deborah Gould\, dbgould@ucsc.edu. \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-affect-working-group-presents-affect-across-the-disciplines-a-faculty-graduate-workshop-2/ LOCATION:Red Room\, Red Restaurant and Bar‎ 200 Locust Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110815T210819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T210819Z UID:10004825-1319630400-1319635800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gildas Hamel\, "Monotheism and Empire II" DESCRIPTION:Gildas Hamel\nProfessor Hamel is working on a history of religious representations in Hellenistic and Roman Palestine and the notion of monotheism. He examines recent histories of monolatry and monotheism and accounts of religious mediations\, asking whether monotheism can be explained as a response to the Babylonian and Persian empires\, or as an episode in the cultural borrowing and translation of religious stories and practices. \nGildas Hamel is a S.O.E. Lecturer in History. \nThis colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies\, with staff support from the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gildas-hamel-monotheism-and-empire-ii-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20111013T231427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111013T231427Z UID:10004885-1319637600-1319644800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Performing Race at the Victorian Freak Show DESCRIPTION:The Museum and Curatorial Studies (MACS) Research Cluster presents: Nadja Durbach\, Associate Professor\, History and Comparative Gender & Sexuality University of Utah: \nNadja Durbach\nPerforming Race at the Victorian Freak Show \nWhile scholars have examined the display of non-Western peoples at Victorian exhibitions\, and noted that many of the “cannibals” and “savages” who performed were actually fakes\, none have explored in earnest either the preconditions for\, or the ramifications of\, this artifice. This talk interrogates the cultural attitudes that bound ethnic and racial Otherness together\, and the ways in which these relationships were embodied and performed\, in order to explain what made these fake shows not only possible\, but appealing to a broad British public. \nThe widespread use of working-class men\, and the Irish in particular\, to portray Africans or other “savages” at sideshows depended upon and contributed to beliefs about the relationships between class\, ethnicity\, and race. Irishmen were regularly employed to play sideshow savages\, whether American Indians\, Bushmen\, or Zulus\, because of long-standing assumptions about their primitive\, wild and violent natures. Showmen cast them in these roles\, and audiences allowed themselves to be deceived\, because the ruse reinforced widespread beliefs about the racial inferiority of the Irish and conversely the whiteness of other Britons. I argue that most audience members were probably not fooled by these fraudulent acts but were nevertheless entertained and reassured by the messages they conveyed about race and empire\, perhaps even more so than by authentic exhibitions. \nThis event is part of the 2011-2012 MACS research theme Exhibitions and Performance. For more information\, please contact Lucian Gomoll at macs@ucsc.edu or visit the MACS website at http://macs.ucsc.edu/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/performing-race-at-the-victorian-freak-show-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20111025T003442Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111025T003442Z UID:10004893-1319650200-1319657400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series: "The Eternal Frame: An Artist’s Reenactment of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy" DESCRIPTION:The Eternal Frame\nThe Center of Visual and Performance Studies presents Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series: “The Eternal Frame:  An Artist’s Reenactment of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy”\, a Screening and Conversation with Film & Digital Media Professor Emeritus Chip Lord and Professor Margaret Morse. \nThe Eternal Frame was a project by Ant Farm and T.R. Uthco\, 1975\, that resulted in a 24 minute video work about the JFK assassination. At the center of this work was a re-enactment of the tragedy produced and performed for the camera\, but unexpectedly many by-standers showed up to watch and were interviewed. \nChip Lord is an artist who works with video and photography. As a member of Ant Farm [1968-1978] he produced the video art classics Media Burn  and The Eternal Frame as well as the Cadillac  Ranch sculpture in Amarillo\, Texas. His media work straddles documentary and experimental genres\, often mixing the two\, and has been shown widely at film and video festivals and in Museums. In 2005 a retrospective of his video work was shown at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arts Reina Sofia in Madrid\, Spain. In 2010 he completed a public video art piece for the remodeled Bradley Terminal at LAX Airport titled To & From LAX.   He is Professor Emeritus in Film & Digital Media. \nMargaret Morse studies cultural change through media in a shifting focus from film to television and video art to new media and digital culture. Her hundred plus publications in books and essays include criticism on a wide range of work by contemporary media artists in the United States and Europe as well as theoretical essays on particular media art forms such as installation and closed-circuit video as well on the meaning of interactivity and immersion in the digital arts. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/temporalities-of-reenactment-a-speaker-series-the-eternal-frame-an-artists-reenactment-of-the-assassination-of-president-john-f-kennedy-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20111024T234307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111024T234307Z UID:10004889-1319652000-1319659200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Wooksik Cheong \, “Peace Island”?: Resisting the Militarization of Juju " DESCRIPTION:Today\, Jeju Island is best known for “its booming tourism\, its hardy diving women\, and its lush orange groves” (John Merrill).  Touted as a romantic honeymoon destination and lucrative site for foreign investment\, Jeju is\, however\, far from a paradise.  Prior to June 25\, 1950\, the purported start of the Korean War\, Jeju\, deemed a “Red” island\, was a site of counter-revolutionary violence—indiscriminate state-sponsored bloodshed justified in the name of “national defense.”  In long overdue recognition of the civilian massacres it perpetrated under US watch in 1948\, the South Korean government in 2005 designated Jeju an “Island of Peace.” \nYet\, the legacy of unrestrained militarism and the abuse of government authority are far from over.  Since 2007\, the people of Gangjeong village have waged non-violent resistance against the construction of a massive naval base on Jeju.  Due to be operational by 2014\, the naval base\, which will host 20 warships and two Aegis destroyers integrated within the US Missile Defense System\, not only stands to destroy a UNESCO biosphere reserve and government-recognized “absolute preservation area” characterized by rare rock formations\, abundant and fertile farmlands\, pristine fresh and sea waters\, and endangered animal species\, but also\, to displace Gangjeong villagers from their sea- and land-based livelihoods.  Not merely a local struggle\, the democratic resistance of Gangjeong residents and activists against the naval base raises the question of a neo-Cold War US/South Korea/Japan alliance and a looming regional arms race with China.  With growing global attention to the Jeju resistance\, the South Korean government has intensified its crackdown\, recently dispatching more than 1\,000 riot police from the mainland to forcibly remove and arrest protesters to clear the way for construction. \nWooksik Cheong\, a founding member and representative of Peace Network\, a South Korean NGO formed in 1999 that works for peace and disarmament in Northeast Asia and on the Korean peninsula\, will speak on the resistance movement against the militarization of Jeju. \nFree and open to the public.  Event co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies\, the Asian Pacific Islander Resource Center\, the East Asian Studies Program\, Cowell College\, Oakes College\, and the Resource Center for Nonviolence.   For further information\, please contact Christine Hong at cjhong@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/wooksik-cheong-peace-island-resisting-the-militarization-of-juju-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111027T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111027T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20111025T001236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111025T001236Z UID:10004890-1319733000-1319740200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ella von der Haide\, "Another World is Plantable! A Documentary on Community Gardening and Food Justice in North America 2010" DESCRIPTION:This Science and Justice Meeting will feature a film by Ella von der Haide\, a Dipl.-Ing. of Urban and Regional Planning\, Garden Activist and feminist Filmmaker from Germany.  She will show one of four feature films she has made about urban community gardens and their connections to emancipatory social movements in South Africa\, Argentina\, Germany and North America. Urban community gardening is a phenomenon that is spreading throughout the world.  This film will focus on the North American context. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ella-von-der-haide-another-world-is-plantable-a-documentary-on-community-gardening-and-food-justice-in-north-america-2010-3/ LOCATION:Communications\, Studio C\, Room 150\, Communications Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111027T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111027T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110926T234147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110926T234147Z UID:10004616-1319738400-1319745600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: Peter Orner DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents Peter Orner. Peter Orner is a human rights lawyer\, and editor and writer of novels and short stories. His works include: Esther Stories\, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo\, Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives\, and the soon-to-be-released Love and Shame and Love: A Novel. Orner has been awarded several honors including the Guggenheim Fellowship\, Lannan Literary Fellowship\, and the Bard Fiction Prize. \nPeter Orner\nOrner has published fiction in the Atlantic Monthly\, The Paris Review\, McSweeney’s\, The Southern Review\, and various other publications. Stories have been anthologized in Best American Stories and twice won a Pushcart Prize (Best of the Small Presses). Orner was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2006)\, as well as the two-year Lannan Foundation Fellowship (2007). A film version of one of Orner’s stories\, “The Raft” with a screenplay by Orner and the film’s director\, Rob Jones\, is currently in production and stars Ed Asner. \nOrner has taught at the University of Montana\, Bard College\, Charles University in Prague\, Washington University\, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Orner is a long time permanent faculty member at San Francisco State where he is an associate professor. He is a currently visiting fiction faculty at the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. \nFor more information about the event\, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk\, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore. \nThe Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund\, the Porter Hitchcock Fund\, the UCSC Literature Department\, and the Sain Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-reading-series-peter-orner-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111028T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111028T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20111020T233957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111020T233957Z UID:10004886-1319828400-1319835600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Poetry Reading and Exhibition of Poem Paintings DESCRIPTION:The Poetry and Politics research cluster presents A poetry reading with Ronaldo Wilson and Lauren Shufran and an exhibition of poem paintings by Matt Landry. \nMatt Landry holds bachelors degrees in French and Comparative Literature from Dickinson College and the University of Toulouse\, an MA in French from Yale University and is currently a PhD student in Literature at UC Santa Cruz\, where he studies modern aesthetic theory and poetry. He is the translator of two books\, The Mills of Toulouse: a Case Study on the Origins of the Corporation and an ancient Chinese book on governance\, the Zhouli. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetry-reading-and-exhibition-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111101T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111101T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20111031T044621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111031T044621Z UID:10004897-1320163200-1320170400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mary Flanagan\, "Propositions from a Critical Play Perspective" DESCRIPTION:Mary Flanagan\n\n\n\nPropositions from a Critical Play Perspective\nIf games always hold within them cultural beliefs\, norms\, and human values\, how are designers to tackle the vexing responsibility of designing digital games? In this talk\, Flanagan examines the topics of games and values\, games and art\, the history of technology and games\, and motivation. How does art practice inform designing for values? What pitfalls might designers face when making games for social change? Flanagan takes the audience through a number of propositions that uncover strengths and weakness of games as a medium for social change and revolutionary play.\nKnown for her theories on playculture\, activist design\, and critical play\, Flanagan has achieved international acclaim for her novel interdisciplinary games\, artwork\, and theoretical writing\, her commitment to theory/practice research\, and contributions to social justice design arenas. She is particularly interested in issues of equity and authorship in technological environments\, and reworking commonly understood paradigms to provide collective strategies for social change. This talk draws primarily on her work in the Values at Play project and in her 2009 book\, Critical Play (MIT Press). Flanagan is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College.\nhttp://www.maryflanagan.com/\nhttp://www.tiltfactor.org/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mary-flanagan-propositions-from-a-critical-play-perspective-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111102T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111102T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110815T211318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T211318Z UID:10004827-1320235200-1320240600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Steve McKay\, "Masculinities Afloat: The Fragile Gender Projects of Filipino Migrant Sailors" DESCRIPTION:Steve McKay\nProfessor McKay examines the performance of masculinities among a group of men often considered exemplars of masculinity—merchant sailors. The talk explores their gender projects across liminal space (ocean-going ships) and in productive and reproductive spheres. Professor McKay is co-editor of the forthcoming New Routes for Diaspora Studies (Indiana) and working on Born to Sail? Racial Formation\, Masculinity and the Making of Filipino Seafarers. \nSteve McKay is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Labor Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies\, with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/steve-mckay-masculinities-afloat-the-fragile-gender-projects-of-filipino-migrant-sailors-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111102T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111102T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20111021T003559Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111021T003559Z UID:10004888-1320249600-1320256800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Benjamin Cawthra\, “Envisioning Jazz: Considering Photography\, Race\, and American Music” DESCRIPTION:Benjamin Cawthra\, associate professor of history at \nBenjamin Cawthra\n\nCalifornia State University\, Fullerton and author of\nBlue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz\n(Chicago\, 2011)\, discusses the tradition of jazz\nphotography and its relationship to mid-twentieth\ncentury racial politics. Cawthra will discuss the\nconnections among the photographers\, art directors\,\neditors\, and record producers who crafted a\nlook for jazz that would sell magazines and\nalbums. And on the other side of the lens\, he\nexplores how musicians shaped their public\nimages to further their own nancial and political\ngoals. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/benjamin-cawthra-envisioning-jazz-considering-photography-race-and-american-music-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111103T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111103T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20111031T012408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111031T012408Z UID:10004895-1320336000-1320343200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Brooke Holmes\, "The Missing Body: Authority\, Immunity\, and Objectivity in Early Greek Medical Writing" DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Program in Classical Studies presents: Professor Brooke Holmes\, Princeton University\, ‘The Missíng Body: Authority\, Immunity\, and Objectivity in Early Greek Medical Writing” \nBrooke Holms\nBrooke Holmes’ paper arises from a simple question: Why doesn’t the physician draw on his experience of his own body as a source of knowledge and authority in early Greek medical writing? In trying to answer it\, Professor Holmes argues that the very absence of the physician’s body represents an early phase in the history of disembodied authority in Western medicine and science. \nBrooke Holmes works at the intersections of Greek literature\, science and medicine\, and philosophy\, with particular interests in the history of subjectivity and the body\, materialism\, tragedy\, ethics\, critical theory\, and reception studies. She received her B.A. in Comparative Literature from Columbia and her Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton in 2005. She has taught since 2007 at Princeton\, where she is the Elias Boudinot Bicentennial Preceptorship\, Her first book\, The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece\, was published in 2010 by Princeton University Press. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/brooke-holmes-the-missing-body-authority-immunity-and-objectivity-in-early-greek-medical-writing-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111103T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111103T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110926T235234Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110926T235234Z UID:10004617-1320343200-1320350400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: Maggie Nelson DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents Maggie Nelson. Maggie Nelson is a poet and non-fiction writer. Her work includes: The Red Parts: A Memoir\, Bluets\, and\, recently\, the 2011 release of The Art of Cruelty. Nelson’s poetry has been published in six collections; the most recent is Something Bright\, Then Holes. \nMaggie Nelson\nNelson has taught at the Graduate Writing Program of the New School\, Wesleyan University\, and Pratt Institute of Art; she currently teaches in the CalArts MFA writing program. \nFor more information about the event\, please contact Micah Perks by email atmeperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk\, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore. \nThe Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund\, the Porter Hitchcock Fund\, the UCSC Literature Department\, and the Sain Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-reading-series-maggie-nelson-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111103T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111103T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110927T001138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110927T001138Z UID:10004618-1320343200-1320350400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: C.S. Giscombe DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents C.S. Giscombe. C.S. Giscombe’s love of the outdoors is evident in his poetry as well as his teaching at UC Berkeley\, where he has taken nonfiction classes on nature-oriented field trips. His books include Giscombe Road\, In and Out of Dislocation\, and Prairie Style. In 2008 he received the American Book award for Prairie Style. \nC.S. Giscombe\nFor more information about the event\, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk\, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore. \nThe Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund\, the Porter Hitchcock Fund\, the UCSC Literature Department\, and the Sain Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-cs-giscombe-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111104T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111104T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110817T153207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110817T153207Z UID:10004845-1320379200-1320429600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Hagit Borer\, "In the Event of a Nominal" DESCRIPTION:Hagit Borer\nThe paper is a detailed study of the properties of Argument-Structure derived -ing nominals versus those of -ing synthetic compounds. In particular\, I show that while -ing Argument Structure nominals are compositional and have event structure\, -ing synthetic compounds do not. I further argues that these contrasts may only be accounted for by a syntactic approach to the derivation of complex words. In particular\, it can only be accounted for under complete syntactic event decomposition\, which severs not only the external but also the internal argument(s) from the root and which allows the internal structure of complex words\, so-called\, to be syntactically visible. \nTaking as a starting point the study of the human language faculty within the generative approach\, Professor Borer’s research for the past 15 years spans three sub-areas of linguistics: comparative syntax\, morphosyntax and language acquisition. Her study of inter-grammatical variation and comparative syntax led to the development of the hypothesis that this variation is reducible to the functional/inflectional component. This hypothesis\, in turn\, served as a starting point for the study of the functional/ inflectional system in general and its interaction with syntax in particular\, therefore leading to the emergence of a morphosyntactic model. From a different perspective\, these hypotheses brought about the investigation of child language and the acquisition of grammatical knowledge. \nIn recent years\, Professor Borer has been pursuing an approach which shifts the computational load away from the lexical entry to the syntactic structure\, subscribing to the view that an independent linguistic lexicon includes a minimal amount of structural information\, and that it is structural constraints which determine traditionally lexical properties such as syntactic category type and argument structure. She has pursued the consequences of that approach for morphosyntax\, for language acquisition\, and for the syntax-semantics interface. \nHagit Borer is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southern California. This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett\, nvarnett@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-hagit-borer-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111109T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111109T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T145050 CREATED:20110815T211709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T211709Z UID:10004829-1320840000-1320845400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cary Howie\, "On Transfiguration" DESCRIPTION:Cary Howie\nProfessor Howie thinks about how contemporary American poets re-imagine early Christianity\, using transfiguration to talk about the persistence of figures as they become transformed\, and how poetic and theological concerns speak to gender and sexuality. His books include Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in Medieval Literature (Palgrave\, 2007) and the co-authored Sanctity and Pornography in Medieval Culture: On the Verge (Manchester\, 2010). \nCary Howie is Associate Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University. \nThis colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies\, with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cary-howie-on-transfiguration-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR