Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Aubrey Hobart
2015-01-30 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities 1, Room 202
Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202.

Winter 2015 Schedule:
January 16th – Jesica Siham Fernández, Social Psychology, “Latina/o Children as Cultural Citizens: Membership, Sense of Belonging, Space and Rights”
January 23rd – Wes Modes, DANM, “A Secret History of American River People”
January 30th – Aubrey Hobart, Visual Studies, “The Queen of Heaven and the Prince of Angels: Saintly Rivalry in Colonial Mexico”
February 6th – Melissa Brzycki, History, “Inventing the Socialist Child, 1945-1976″
February 13th – Delio Vásquez, HISC, “The Criminal Revolutionary and the Revolutionary Criminal: Illegal Black Resistance in the 60s and 70s”
February 20th – Melissa Yinger, Literature, “Ronsard’s Echo-critical Poetic Narcissism: The Elegies for Narcissus and Gâtine”
February 27th – Tracy Perkins, Sociology, “From Protest to Policy: The Political Evolution of California Environmental Justice Activism, 1980s-2010s”
March 6th – Michael Wilson, Politics, “Violent Constructions: Classifying, Explaining, and Misrepresenting Contentious Politics”
March 13th – Jessica Calvanico, Feminist Studies, “On the Politics of Owning a Kara Walker”

This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the departments of Literature, History of Consciousness. Anthropology, Feminist Studies, HAVC, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Sociology, Institute for Humanities Research, as well as the GSA and GSC.

Michael Frachetti: "Uncovering a Nomadic City Along the Medieval Silk Road"
2015-01-30 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
From at least 200 BC to the 16th century CE, the Eurasian Silk Road formed the most extensive network of trade and commerce the world had ever seen. Its pathways linked populations from Beijing to Jerusalem in one of the first global networks. Much of what we know about the Silk Road is defined by archaeology from lowland oases, but mountainous regions occupied by nomads offer new insights. The newly discovered city of Tashbulak, unearthed in 2011 in the highlands of Uzbekistan, is one of the most recent and exciting discoveries along the Medieval Silk Road. Tashbulak pushes us to question our common understanding of the role of nomads in shaping the history and technology of medieval empires across Central Asia and sparks many questions about political, religious and economic change in the 11th century CE.
Dr. Michael Frachetti is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. His work addresses the ancient nomadic societies of Central and Eastern Eurasia and how these shaped inter-regional networks from as early as 2000 BCE (the Mid-Bronze Age) down to the time of the later Silk Roads. He is the author of Pastoralist Landscapes and Social Interaction in Bronze Age Eurasia (UCPress, 2008). He currently conducts archaeological field research in Eastern Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

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Steve Wright: "The Political: Some Experiences from the Italian Operaismo of the 1960s and 1970s"
2015-02-02 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk will critically examine debates around ‘the political’ amongst the Italian workerists. While championing new understandings of class composition that challenged the traditional leninist separation of economic and political struggles, the workerists of the 1960s and 1970s nonetheless struggled to formulate an agreed approach to theorising and practicing ‘the political’. The talk will seek to explore the ways in which this tension played itself out, from early debates concerning the traditional institutions of the workers movement, to efforts to develop organizational projects outside the existing parties and unions. Along the way, attention will also be paid to the contributions of those (such as the editors of Collegamenti and Le operaie della casa) who, despite the incisiveness of many of their contributions, found themselves situated largely on the margins of the workerists’ debates as these unfolded at the time.
Steve Wright teaches in the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, and is the author of Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism (Pluto Press, 2002). His current research is focussed on the creation and use of documents amongst the Italian workerists of the 1960s and 1970s.

PRESENTATION SLIDES:
“The Political:  Some Experiences from the   Italian Operaismo of the 1960s & 1970s”

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Steve Wright seminar: “Revolution from Above? Money and Class Composition in Italian Operaismo"
2015-02-03 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Steve Wright will be leading a seminar discussion based on “Revolution from Above? Money and Class Composition in Italian Operaismo,” recently published in Marcel van der Linden and Karl Heinz Roth, Beyond Marx: Theorising the Global Labour Relations of the Twenty-First Century (Brill, 2013).
Participants are invited to read the text and join the discussion.
The text can be downloaded at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/037e976xsu37xzv/Steve%20Wright%2C%20Revolution%20from%20Above.pdf?dl=0
This seminar is part of the series “What Is to Be Done? Organizational Forms and Political Futures,” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster and the Institute for Humanities Research, with the co-sponsorship of the Literature, Sociology, Anthropology, and Politics Departments; Stevenson, Cowell, and Porter Colleges; and the Vice Chancellor for Research.

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Madhavi Murty: "The Story about Development: Caste, Religion and Poverty in Post Reform India’s Popular Culture"
2015-02-04 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Madhavi Murty works in the fields of feminist media studies, gender and globalization, nationalism and South Asian cultural studies. Madhavi is currently working on a book manuscript titled Myths of the Real: Political Economy and the Spectacle of the Ordinary in Post Reform India. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech.

Winter 2015 Colloquium Series
January 14 : Maya Peterson
January 21: Naveeda Khan
January 28: Carolyn Dean
February 4: Madhavi Murty
February 11: Kris Alexanderson
February 18: Jennifer Horne
February 25: Gayle Salamon
March 4: Christopher Chen

Living Writers Series: Rigoberto Gonzalez
2015-02-05 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Creative Writing Program presents Rigoberto Gonzalez in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series.
Rigoberto González is the author of fifteen books of poetry and prose, and the editor of Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing. He is the recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, winner of the American Book Award, The Poetry Center Book Award, The Shelley Memorial Award of The Poetry Society of America, the Lambda Literary Award, the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is contributing editor for Poets & Writers Magazine, on the executive board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle, and is professor of English at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey.

Winter 2015 Living Writers Series:
January 15: Cherrie Moraga, poet/playwright
January 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta, poets
January 29: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet)
February 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez, poet
February 12: Luis Alfaro, performance artist/playwright
February 19: John Jota Leanos, filmmaker
February 26: Anita Hill, attorney
March 5: Maceo Montoya, fiction writer
March 12: student reading

The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Melissa Brzycki
2015-02-06 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202.

Winter 2015 Schedule:
January 16th – Jessica Siham Fernández, Social Psychology, “Latina/o Children as Cultural Citizens: Membership, Sense of Belonging, Space and Rights”
January 23rd – Wes Modes, DANM, “A Secret History of American River People”
January 30th – Aubrey Hobart, Visual Studies, “The Queen of Heaven and the Prince of Angels: Saintly Rivalry in Colonial Mexico”
February 6th – Melissa Brzycki, History, “Inventing the Socialist Child, 1945-1976”
February 13th – Delio Vásquez, HISC, “The Criminal Revolutionary and the Revolutionary Criminal: Illegal Black Resistance in the 60s and 70s”
February 20th – Melissa Yinger, Literature, “Ronsard’s Echo-critical Poetic Narcissism: The Elegies for Narcissus and Gâtine”
February 27th – Tracy Perkins, Sociology, “From Protest to Policy: The Political Evolution of California Environmental Justice Activism, 1980s-2010s”
March 6th – Michael Wilson, Politics, “Violent Constructions: Classifying, Explaining, and Misrepresenting Contentious Politics”
March 13th – Jessica Calvanico, Feminist Studies, “On the Politics of Owning a Kara Walker”

This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the departments of Literature, History of Consciousness. Anthropology, Feminist Studies, HAVC, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Sociology, Institute for Humanities Research, as well as the GSA and GSC.

Rachel Walker: "Partially Overlapping Harmonies: Implications for Agreement by Correspondence"
2015-02-06 14:00 - 16:00 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Abstract: Correspondence relations among segments in an output, known as surface correspondence, provide a means for enforcing (dis)agreement among segments (Hansson 2001, Rose & Walker 2004, Bennett 2013). In this talk, I examine a problematic prediction of proposals about the formal properties of surface correspondence for harmony patterns that are partially overlapping in a language. I discuss the types of refinements necessary for a surface correspondence account, and consider implications for the theoretical approach in general.
More specifically, this talk identifies a novel and problematic typological prediction of transitive surface correspondence relations with chain-‐adjacent evaluation of identity, dubbed the Closest Correspondent Trigger Prediction. The problem is exemplified by the interaction of two overlapping vowel harmonies in the dialect of Pasiego Montañes, where a target vowel agrees with different trigger segments for different features. A revised feature-‐restricted evaluation of identity constraints that operate over surface correspondents is proposed, where evaluation is restricted to the subset of correspondents that share a given set of features. This move essentially merges the previous division of labor in surface correspondence theory between constraints that promote interactions among similar segments and those that enforce identity between such segments. The result is a theory where surface identity constraints are the prime locus of pattern-‐shaping and there is a much reduced role for constraints that drive surface correspondence. Future directions on the status of constraints that drive surface correspondence and the treatment of locality are considered.

About eight times each year the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.

2014 – 2015 Speakers
FALL 2014
October 17th
Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers
December 12th
Adam Albright, MIT
WINTER 2015
January 16th
Claire Halpert, University of Minnesota
January 23rd
Valentine Hacquard, Maryland
February 6th
Rachel Walker, USC
mid-March: date TBA
LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz Conference
SPRING 2015
April 10th
Daniel Lassiter, Stanford
April 17th
Keith Johnson, UC Berkeley
May 1st
Grant Goodall, UC San Diego
May/June: date TBA
LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference

Fighting for the Emperor: Nisei Soldiers in the Imperial Armed Forces
2015-02-07 13:00 - 14:30 | Japanese American Museum of San Jose
While more than 110,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans in the United States endured mass incarceration during WWII, the war also altered the lives of thousands of Japanese Americans who were stranded in Japan. For many Nisei strandees in Japan, the war blurred the boundaries of their citizenship, as they found themselves in situations where they had little room to negotiate their national allegiance. As the battles in the Pacific theater dragged on, the Japanese government drafted a significant number of Nisei men in Japan to serve in the military and take arms against the United States.
The Nisei soldiers and sailors in the Japanese armed forces who survived the war learned that they had been stripped of their U.S. citizenship as a result of their service to the Japanese emperor. Although these veterans of the Japanese military could recover their U.S. citizenship after the war, the onus was on them to convince the U.S. government that they had been forced to serve the Japanese emperor.
Dr. Michael Jin of Texas A&M University will be at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose (JAMsj) to discuss his research in a presentation entitled “The War and Its Aftermath: Nisei Draftees in the Imperial Armed Forces.” His presentation will be followed by a special discussion featuring two Japanese Americans who found themselves serving in the Japanese military during WWII: Peter Sano and Jimmie Matsuda.

MICHAEL JIN is an assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. His areas of specialty include migration and diaspora studies, critical race and ethnic studies, and Asian American and Pacific Islander history. He is currently working on a manuscript that examines the experiences of U.S.-born Japanese American migrants in Japan and the Japanese colonial world in Asia before and during WWII.
PETER SANO grew up in a large farming family in Brawley, California. At the age of 15, although he knew no Japanese, he was sent to Japan to become the adopted son of a wealthy uncle and aunt who were childless. In 1945, he was drafted into the Japanese Army and was sent to Korea, then Manchuria, close to the Soviet border. After his unit surrendered to the Russians, he was sent to a Siberian POW camp for nearly three years. He returned to the United States in 1952 and later wrote a book about his experiences entitled 1,000 Days in Siberia.
JIMMIE MATSUDA was born in 1927 in Hood River, Oregon. At the age of 11, while visiting Japan, he got sick, causing his family to miss the ship that was to carry them back to the United States. So they decided to stay in Japan. Bu t in 1943, after graduating from high school, Matsuda volunteered for the Japanese Navy and became a kamikaze pilot. His unit was ordered to Okinawa in 1945, but because of his knowledge of English, he was ordered to stay behind to translate U.S. military code. He returned to California in the early 1950s.

Cost: Free with admission to the museum (non-members, $5; students and seniors over age 65, $3; JAMsj members and children under 12, free).
RSVP: Contact PublicPrograms@jamsj.org or call (408) 294-3138 to reserve a spot.

Ching Kwan Lee: "Buying Stability in China: Markets, Protests and Authoritarianism”
2015-02-09 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk outlines China’s trajectory of commodification and the counter-movements by state and society in the past quarter century. Unpacking the class specific dynamics and experiences of precarization, I discuss how the commodification of land, labor, housing and the environment has triggered collective struggles by farmers, workers and the middle class. To maintain social stability, the Chinese state has responded, on the one hand, with new social protection policies of uneven effectiveness, and on the other, a practice of “buying stability” which unwittingly commodifies state authority and citizen’s rights, sowing seeds of precariousness in the regime’s authoritarian governance.
Ching Kwan Lee is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She obtained her PhD in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Michigan before moving to UCLA. Her publications have focused on labor, social activism, political sociology and development in China and the Global South.
Lee is author of Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt (2007), and Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women (1998). Her edited and co-edited books include From the Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization: Markets, Workers and the State in a Changing China (2011); Reclaiming Chinese Society: New Social Activism (2009), Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: Politics and Poetics of Collective Memory in Reform China (2007) and Working in China: Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation (2007).
She is currently working on two book manuscripts. One is on forty years of state and society relation in China, and the other on Chinese investment in Zambia.

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Robert Davis: “The Socio-Economy of Head Hunting in Late Renaissance Italy”
2015-02-09 17:00 - 18:30 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
A distinguished professor of Early Modern Italy, Venice, and the Mediterranean, Professor Robert Davis has written or co-authored eight books and many articles that deal with a variety of topics, including slavery in the Mediterranean, Venetian shipbuilding, masculinity and the rituals of public violence, and Venice as a modern tourist city. His broad interests are always anchored by his fascination with the lives of ordinary people. Professor Davis’ current work is on brigandage in Early Modern Italy.
This lecture is co-sponsored by Italian Studies, the History Department, and Stevenson College. Contact: clpolecr@ucsc.edu

Understanding Conflict in South Sudan
2015-02-10 18:30 - 19:30 | Social Sciences 2, Room 75, Social Sciences 2‎ University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
CENTER FOR EMERGING WORLDS
2014-2015 Theme: GLOBAL ISLAM
Winter Quarter Events
Featuring: Noah Salomon, Assistant Professor of Religion, Carleton College

Tuesday, February 10th
Public Event
“Understanding Conflict in South Sudan”
6:30-7:30 PM,
Social Sciences 2, Room 075
Moderated by Mark Massoud, Assistant Professor of Politics and Legal Studies, UCSC
Wednesday, February 11th
Colloquium
“When the State is Everywhere: Rethinking the Islamic Public Sphere”
3:30-5:00 PM, Humanities 1, Room 202
Thursday, February 12th
Manuscript Reading Seminar*
Selections from “The People of Sudan Love You, Oh Messenger of God: An Ethnography of the Islamic State”
10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Social Sciences 1, Room 261
*To receive readings, please email sjetha@ucsc.edu

Kris Alexanderson: "Japanese Penetration and Dutch Conciliation: Transoceanic Politics in Maritime Asia during the 1930s"
2015-02-11 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Kris Alexanderson’s current book project examines the collaborative efforts of the Netherlands East Indies’ colonial administration, Dutch shipping businesses, and foreign consulates in port cities across the Middle East and Asia in controlling the flow of anti-Western and anti-colonial ideas—including pan-Islamism, Communism, and pan-Asianism. She is Assistant Professor of History at University of the Pacific.

Winter 2015 Colloquium Series
January 14 : Maya Peterson
January 21: Naveeda Khan
January 28: Carolyn Dean
February 4: Madhavi Murty
February 11: Kris Alexanderson
February 18: Jennifer Horne
February 25: Gayle Salamon
March 4: Christopher Chen

GSC: The Secrets of Negotiation for Grad Students
2015-02-11 15:00 - 17:00 | Graduate Student Commons
Dr. Richard Kaye will share the skills and tools for successful negotiations in every aspects of your lives.
This is a professional development event open to all the graduate students at UCSC. Snacks and beverages will be served.
If you plan to attend, please RSVP using the link below by 7pm on Mon, Feb 9th:
http://goo.gl/forms/ZoC18frvdy [You need to be logged into your UCSC email/google account.]

"When the State is Everywhere: Rethinking the Islamic Public Sphere"
2015-02-11 15:30 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202

DH Working Group Meeting / Digital Pedagogy Session
2015-02-11 17:00 - 19:00 | Cowell Senior Commons Room, Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062-1225, United States
Join the DH Working Group to begin an ongoing conversation about teaching in the digital age. What kinds of digital tools have you used in the classroom? What worked and what didn’t? How do new technologies change learning practices? Bring your experiences, your questions, and your skepticism as we debate new pedagogical frontiers.
The Digital Humanities Working Group meets once-a-month to share ongoing work, read foundational texts, and create a vision for Digital Humanities at UCSC. All students, faculty, and staff welcome.
Contact digitalhumanities@ucsc.edu for more details about any of the above events.
Follow @DH_UCSC on Twitter and Digital Humanities at UCSC on Facebook.

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Manuscript Reading Seminar: "The People of Sudan Love You, Oh Messenger of God"
2015-02-12 10:00 - 12:00 | Social Sciences 1, Room 261, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Living Writers Series: Luis Alfaro
2015-02-12 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Creative Writing Program presents Luis Alfaro in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series.
Luis Alfaro is a Chicano writer and performer known for his work in poetry, theatre, short stories, performance and journalism. He is also a producer and director who spent ten years at the Mark Taper Forum as Associate Producer, Director of New Play Development and co-director of the Latino Theatre Initiative.
His work has been shown at venues including La Jolla Playhouse, Smithsonian Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art in London, The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Magic Theatre, Goodman Theatre-Chicago, and Latino Chicago and Playwrights Arena in Los Angeles. His plays and performances includeOedipus el Rey, Electricidad, Downtown, No Holds Barrio, Body of Faith, Straight as a Line, Bitter Homes and Gardens, Ladybird, Black Butterfly, and Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.
He teaches at the University of Southern California (in the Graduate Playwriting Program, Solo Performance, and Youth Theater) and California Institute of the Arts (in Solo Performance and Actors Studio).

Winter 2015 Living Writers Series:
January 15: Cherrie Moraga, poet/playwright
January 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta, poets
January 29: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet)
February 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez, poet
February 12: Luis Alfaro, performance artist/playwright
February 19: John Jota Leanos, filmmaker
February 26: Anita Hill, attorney
March 5: Maceo Montoya, fiction writer
March 12: student reading

The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu.

Ray Gibbs: "Embodied Meaning, Thinking, and Communication"
2015-02-12 18:00 - 19:45 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015.
Ray Gibbs is a psychology professor at UCSC.
Winter 2015 Lecture Series Schedule:
Robin Dunkin
Tuesday, January 27, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Building Blocks of the Brain: Neuron and Glia Form & Function”
*****
Michael Anderson
Thursday, January 29, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neural Reuse and Hebbian Learning: Two Kinds of Neuroplasticity in the Brain”
*****
Nicolas Davidenko
Tuesday, February 3, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Suggestible Nature of Motion Perception”
*****
Janette Dinishak
Thursday, February 12, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Autism & Neurodiversity”
*****
Ray Gibbs
Thursday, February 12, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Embodied Meaning, Thinking, and Communication”
*****
Craig Schindler
Tuesday, February 17, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Enduring Wisdom, Mindfulness & Emerging Neuroscience”
*****
John Brown Childs
Thursday, February 19, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Transcommunality”
*****
Dada Nabhaniilananda
Thursday, February 19, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Dragon Taming for Smart People”
*****
Natalia Carrillo
Tuesday, February 24, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“A History of the Action Potential”
*****
Doc Edge
Tuesday, February 24, Humanities Lecture Hall at 12:00
“Talking About Race: Geneticists, Philosophers, the Media, and the People”
*****
Brian Cantwell Smith
Thursday, February 26, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“The Three R’s: Representation, Registration, and Reality”
Thursday, February 26, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction and the Anxious Mind”
*****
Octavio Valadez
Tuesday, March 3, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Co-Teaching and Revolutionary Teaching”
*****
Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero
Thursday, March 5, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“From Queer Theory to Teoria Cuir: Latinamerican appropriations of Gay Identities”
Thursday, March 5, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neuro-Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation and Their Counter-explanations”

Carmen Boullosa: “Texas: The Great Theft”
2015-02-13 10:00 - 12:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Carmen Boullosa is one of Mexico’s leading novelists, poets, and playwrights, whose works interweave speculative, historical, and psychological themes with a powerful feminist point of view and a sharp satirical wit. She has published fifteen novels, among them El complot de los románticos (winner of the Premio de Novela Café Gijón in 2008), Las paredes hablan, La virgen y el violin, and perhaps most famously, Llanto. Her works in English translation include They’re Cows, We’re Pigs; Leaving Tabasco; and Cleopatra Dismounts, all published by Grove Press, and Jump of the Manta Ray, with illustrations by Philip Hughes, published by The Old Press. Her novels have also been translated into Italian, Dutch, German, French, Portuguese, Chinese, and Russian. A prominent essayist and journalist, she writes a regular column for El Universal in Mexico City. She has taught at Georgetown, Columbia, and New York University, as well as at universities in nearly a dozen other countries. She is currently Distinguished Lecturer at the City College of New York.
In her latest novel, Texas: The Great Theft (Deep Vellum, 2014), originally published as Tejas: La gran ladronería en la frontera norte (Editorial Alfaguera, 2013), Carmen Boullosa challenges US versions of the romantic origins of Texas. Set on the eve of the US Civil War in the fictional twin border cities of Bruneville and Matasanchez, the novel depicts relations among gringos, German immigrants, Mexican landowners and laborers, escaped slaves, Apaches, and Comanches. In the words of the Dallas Morning News’ Roberto Ontiveros, it “sardonically explodes and seductively reins itself back in with a panoptic prose that stares down hard into the absurd and uncomfortable prejudices that have historically split this region.”
For an advance PDF copy of the novel in Spanish and/or in English, please contact Kirsten Silva Gruesz (ksgruesz@ucsc.edu).

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Delio Vásquez
2015-02-13 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202.

Winter 2015 Schedule:
January 16th – Jesica Siham Fernández, Social Psychology, “Latina/o Children as Cultural Citizens: Membership, Sense of Belonging, Space and Rights”
January 23rd – Wes Modes, DANM, “A Secret History of American River People”
January 30th – Aubrey Hobart, Visual Studies, “The Queen of Heaven and the Prince of Angels: Saintly Rivalry in Colonial Mexico”
February 6th – Melissa Brzycki, History, “Inventing the Socialist Child, 1945-1976”
February 13th – Delio Vásquez, HISC, “The Criminal Revolutionary and the Revolutionary Criminal: Illegal Black Resistance in the 60s and 70s”
February 20th – Melissa Yinger, Literature, “Ronsard’s Echo-critical Poetic Narcissism: The Elegies for Narcissus and Gâtine”
February 27th – Tracy Perkins, Sociology, “From Protest to Policy: The Political Evolution of California Environmental Justice Activism, 1980s-2010s”
March 6th – Michael Wilson, Politics, “Violent Constructions: Classifying, Explaining, and Misrepresenting Contentious Politics”
March 13th – Jessica Calvanico, Feminist Studies, “On the Politics of Owning a Kara Walker”

This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the departments of Literature, History of Consciousness. Anthropology, Feminist Studies, HAVC, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Sociology, Institute for Humanities Research, as well as the GSA and GSC.

“Polly Want a Caesar? Talking Birds and Prophetic Birds in Early Imperial Rome”
2015-02-13 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In Republican Rome, birds had served as the messengers of the gods, communicating in ways that only a few religious specialists could fully understand and interpret. At the turn of the first century CE, these same birds began to speak plain Latin, apparently endorsing the new regime of the Caesars in language that anyone could understand. On closer examination, however, these talking birds turn out to be transmitting a much more troubling message about the constitution of the Roman body politic at a moment of uncertainty and rapid change.
Martin Devecka is a post-doctoral fellow at Yale University who will join the Classical Studies faculty at UC Santa Cruz in 2015-16. He is a cultural historian with a special interest in applying the methods of sociology to the ancient world. Current projects include a comparative history of ruins, a historical zoology of the Roman Empire, and an investigation of peripatetic attitudes toward technology.

Digital Happy Hour
2015-02-17 17:00 - 19:00 | Cowell Senior Commons Room, Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062-1225, United States
Join the Digital Humanities Research Cluster for an informal cocktail hour. Meet other scholars doing digital work and contribute to a conversation that will help shape what digital scholarship looks like at UC Santa Cruz. This is an open and informal event and we encourage all who are interested to stop by.

Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination Conference
2015-02-18 - 2015-02-19 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Venice Ghetto serves as the starting point from which we address questions of modern Jewish spaces –a site that has played a central role in Jewish and European culture since the Jews were sequestered in the Ghetto at its founding in 1516. Contemporary globalization brings into focus the relationship between identity and spatial location, and highlights new and cross-cutting transnational allegiances.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

WEDNESDAY, February 18th (5:00-7:00PM):5:00-5:30PM: Opening Remarks, “The Importance of the Venice Ghetto for Modern Jewish Studies” by Professor Murray Baumgarten
5:30-7:00PM: Panel #1: Sculptural and Literary Israeli Space
Amanda Sharick, University of California, Riverside: “Envisioning “Friends” (2011) and “Brotherhood” (2013) in Haifa: Yosl Bergner and Contested Histories of Cooperation/Coercion in ‘Mixed’ City Spaces.”
Chen Bar-Itzhak, Ben-Gurion University: “The Dissolution of Utopia: Literary Representations of Haifa, from Herzl’s Altneuland to Later Israeli Writing” (VIDEO TALK)
Respondent: Professor Bruce Thompson, University of California, Santa Cruz
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THURSDAY, February 19th (9:30-4:30PM, Reception To Follow):
9:30-11:00AM: Panel #2: European Jewish Spaces
Erica Smeltzer, University of California, Santa Cruz: “Metamorphosis and Other Stories: Narrating Life on the Borders of a Divided City.”
Professor Peter Kenez, University of California, Santa Cruz: “Jewish Budapest.”
Professor Emily Finer, University of St. Andrews: “Lev Lunts’ ‘Across the Border.’”
Respondent: Professor Vilashini Cooppan, University of California Santa Cruz
11:00-11:30AM – Coffee Break
11:30-1:00PM: Panel #3: American Jewish Spaces
Joanna Meadvin, University of California, Santa Cruz: “An Other Jewish America: Henry Roth discovers Sepharad.”
Katie Trostel, University of California, Santa Cruz: “Ceques: Networked Jewish Memory in the works of Tununa Mercado (Argentina) and Karina Pacheco Medrano (Peru).”
Respondent: Professor Dorian Bell
1:00-2:15PM: Lunch
2:30-4:00PM: Panel #4: Virtual Jewish Spaces
Lee Jaffe, University of California, Santa Cruz: “The Jewish Anthology: A Space For Negotiating Jewish Identity.”
Caroline Luce, University of California, Los Angeles: “Reconstructing the Landscape of Yiddish Culture in “Dos Durem-Land Baym Yam (The Southland by the Sea).”
Respondent: Rachel Deblinger, CLIR Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of California, Santa Cruz.
4:00-4:30PM: Concluding Remarks with Professor Nathaniel Deutsch
Performance by Michael Alpert, klezmer musician.
Reception with light food and refreshments held in Humanities 1, Room 202

SPONSORS:
Center for Jewish Studies, Helen Diller Endowment for Jewish Studies, and Institute for Humanities ResearchDIRECTIONS & PARKING:
http://ihr.ucsc.edu/directions/

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EVENT PODCASTS:

Jennifer Horne: "Serial Americans and the 'Conquest Program'"
2015-02-18 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Jennifer Horne’s work considers the film-program-as-civics-lesson in the context of the American civics movement. Centering on a film series from 1917, rife with conquesting tropes of manifest destiny, empire and nation, it explores the programming context of the late silent era to theorize seriality as a mode of American visual education. She is Assistant Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz.

Winter 2015 Colloquium Series
January 14 : Maya Peterson
January 21: Naveeda Khan
January 28: Carolyn Dean
February 4: Madhavi Murty
February 11: Kris Alexanderson
February 18: Jennifer Horne
February 25: Gayle Salamon
March 4: Christopher Chen

Manu Bhagavan - Toward universal relief and rehabilitation: India, UNRRA, and the new internationalism
2015-02-18 14:00 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join the History Department for this scholarly talk by Manu Bhagavan of Hunter College:
Toward universal relief and rehabilitation: India, UNRRA, and the new
“India” had been involved in the United Nations even in its wartime incarnation, inasmuch as the Crown Government of the colonized region brought the territory into the Second World War and, in turn, voted to support various institutions created to deal with the challenges wrought by the conflict. Among the most prominent of these was the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (UNRRA), the mission of which was to aid countries negatively impacted by the military campaigns. The British Government of India strongly signaled its support even as the subcontinent weathered the effects of one the worst famines ever encountered in the region. UNRRA was based in the United States and led by several men who considered themselves friends of India, most notably famed New Yorkers Herbert Lehman and Fiorello LaGuardia. Over the next several years, UNRRA pushed to create an Indian office and to incorporate Indians into administration based in the US, in a good faith effort to circumvent charges of imperial complicity. So the agency leadership was especially surprised when they ran into resistance from India’s anti-colonial icons. UNRRA was too blind to the pernicious stranglehold of imperialism the Indians believed, and so had to be challenged, even as it was admired. The encounter thus exemplifies colonial India’s efforts to challenge and undo Great Power/Global North/Western control of UN bureaucracies from the outset, and to reset both the tone and the substance of international relations by insisting on shared responsibilities and mutual respect.
Manu Bhagavan is the Chair of the Human Rights Program at the Roosevelt House Public Policy institute and a Professor of History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. He is a specialist on modern India, focusing on the twentieth-century late-colonial and post-colonial periods, with particular interests in human rights, (inter)nationalism, and questions of sovereignty. His most recent publication is The Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World (Haper Collins, 2012).

Karen Barad: Histories of Now: "Time Diffractions, Virtuality, and Material Imaginings"
2015-02-18 16:00 - 18:00 | Porter College, Room D245
Please join us for Karen Barad’s Visual & Media Cultures Colloquia talk, “Histories of Now: Time Diffractions, Virtuality, and Material Imaginings,” on Wednesday, February 18 at 4 pm in Porter D245. Refreshments will be available 30 minutes before the talk. See the attached flyer for all pertinent information, and please distribute widely.
Karen Barad is Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Barad’s Ph.D. is in theoretical particle physics and quantum field theory. Barad held a tenured appointment in a physics department before moving into more interdisciplinary spaces. Barad is the author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Duke University Press, 2007) and numerous articles in the fields of physics, philosophy, science studies, poststructuralist theory, and feminist theory. Barad’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Hughes Foundation, the Irvine Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Barad is the Co-Director of the Science & Justice Graduate Training Program at UCSC.

Works in Progress: Abe Stone
2015-02-19 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Please join the Philosophy Department for a Works-in-Progress presentation by Professor Abe Stone.
At least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. The format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited.
All members of the campus community and interested public are welcome to attend.
Coffee, tea, and cookies served.

Reviving Philosophy of History
Paul Roth
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
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“Why Does Space Have More than One Dimension?”
Abe Stone
Thursday, February 19, 2015
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Ernst Cassirer’s Philosophy of Physics
Samantha Matherne
Thursday, April 9, 2015

Living Writers Series: John Jota Leanos
2015-02-19 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Creative Writing Program presents John Jota Leanos in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series.
John Jota Leaños is an award-winning Chicano new media artist using animation, documentary and performance focusing on the convergence of memory, social space and decolonization. Leaños’ animation work has been shown internationally at festivals and museums including the Sundance Film Festival, the Morelia International Film Festival, Mexico, San Francisco International Festival of Animation, the KOS Convention ’07, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Leaños has also exhibited at the 2002 and 2008 Whitney Biennial in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Leaños is a Guggenheim Fellow in Film (2012), Creative Capital Foundation Grantee and has been an artist in residence at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Center for Chicano Studies, Carnegie Mellon University in the Center for Arts in Society, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. Leaños is currently an Associate Professor of Social Documentary at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Winter 2015 Living Writers Series:
January 15: Cherrie Moraga, poet/playwright
January 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta, poets
January 29: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet)
February 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez, poet
February 12: Luis Alfaro, performance artist/playwright
February 19: John Jota Leanos, filmmaker
February 26: Anita Hill, attorney
March 5: Maceo Montoya, fiction writer
March 12: student reading

The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu.

Humanists @ Work: Graduate Career Workshop
2015-02-20 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UC Humanities Research Institute and the UC Humanities Network invite graduate students to attend the next statewide career workshop to be held in San Diego on Friday, February 20th.

The daylong, hands-on workshop will include:

• Stories from the Field: A roundtable of recent UC PhDs employed in careers alongside/beyond the academy
• Two-part workshop on informational interviews and career trajectories for Humanities PhDs led by Dr. Debra Behrens, Career Counselor at UCB
• Hands-on workshop with The Resume Studio
• Theorizing Our Moment: A panel conversation about work and graduate student experiences

The UC Humanities Network is pleased to provide travel and lodging grants for up to three students from each UC campus to attend the event. To register for or learn more about the conference, and to apply for a travel grant, please visit Humanists@Work, humwork.uchri.org. Travel grant applications due January 19, 2015.

Steven Salaita: “Inter/Nationalism from the New World to the Holy Land: Encountering Palestine in American Indian Studies”
2015-02-20 10:00 - 12:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) Presents a seminar and a public Lecture by Steven Salaita.
At 10 A.M. the reading seminar: “Inter/Nationalism from the New World to the Holy Land: Encountering Palestine in American Indian Studies”
*For Pre-Circulated Readings and to RSVP, Please Contact Juliana Bruno (JulianaB@ucsc.edu)
At 2 P.M. the public talk: “Silencing Dissent: Palestine, Academic Freedom, and the New McCarthyism”
Co-Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Labor, the IHR Cultures in the Crisis of Capitalism Research Cluster, Students for Justice in Palestine, UAW 2865, the Santa Cruz Resource Center for Non-Violence, and the Palestine-Israel Action Committee.
For Further Information, Contact Juliana Bruno (JulianaB@ucsc.edu).

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Melissa Yinger
2015-02-20 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202

Steven Salaita: “Silencing Dissent: Palestine, Academic Freedom, and the New McCarthyism”
2015-02-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Public Film Screening: "Anita: Speaking Truth to Power"
2015-02-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Nickelodeon Theater, 210 Lincoln Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Public Film Screenings:
“Anita: Speaking Truth to Power” (77 min. Documentary by Director Freida Mock)
Nickelodeon Theater
Sunday, Feb 22 @ 11am
Monday, Feb 23 @ 7pm
Tickets: www.thenick.com
An entire country watched transfixed as a poised, beautiful African-American woman in a blue dress sat before a Senate committee of 14 white men and with a clear, unwavering voice recounted the repeated acts of sexual harassment she had endured while working with U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. That October day in 1991 Anita Hill, a bookish law professor from Oklahoma, was thrust onto the world stage and instantly became a celebrated, hated, venerated, and divisive figure.
Anita Hill’s graphic testimony was a turning point for gender equality in the U.S. and ignited a political firestorm about sexual misconduct and power in the workplace that resonates still today. She has become an American icon, empowering millions of women and men around the world to stand up for equality and justice.
Against a backdrop of sex, politics, and race, ANITA reveals the intimate story of a woman who spoke truth to power. Directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Freida Mock, the film is both a celebration of Anita Hill’s legacy and a rare glimpse into her private life with friends and family, many of whom were by her side that fateful day 22 years ago. Anita Hill courageously speaks openly and intimately for the first time about her experiences that led her to testify before the Senate and the obstacles she faced in simply telling the truth. She also candidly discusses what happened to her life and work in the 22 years since.

Public Lecture with Anita Hill at UCSC:
ANITA HILL: “SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: GENDER AND RACIAL EQUALITY – 1991-2015″
A candid dialogue regarding resistance to individual civil rights, campus sexual assault debates, why black lives matter, and challenges to equality in ‘post-identity’ America.
Thursday, February 26, 2015
UC Santa Cruz, College 9/10 Multipurpose Room
5:30pm Doors Open | 6pm Program | 7:30pm Book signing
Free and open to the public. Limited seating is first-come first-serve (no tickets).
MORE INFO: www.ihr.ucsc.edu/event/anita-hill

Campus Film Screening:
“Anita: Speaking Truth to Power” documentary will be shown in the Humanities Lecture Hall with a panel and Q&A on campus sexual harassment, gender and race.
Panel: Professors Eileen Zurbriggen (Psychology) and Sylvanna Falcon (LALS) and Tracey Tsugawa (UCSC Title IX Officer). Everyone is welcome to attend.
Tuesday, Feb 24 @ 7:30pm
Humanities Lecture Hall (map)

For more information on the film visit: anitahill-film.com

Natalia Carrillo: "A History of the Action Potential"
2015-02-24 18:00 - 19:45 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015.
Natalia Carrillo is a graduate student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). SHe studied a master degree in Philosophy of Cognitive Science (2 year program) at UNAM. Her thesis (“Objetividad en el modelo mecanicista de expliación en las neurociencias”) versed on the notion of objectivity (structural, mechanical, procedural, absolute, etc) behind the mechanistic model of explanation.
She has a bachelor degree in mathematics where she had the opportunity of taking several courses in science: Molecular Biology, Neurobiology, Cognitive Science, Dynamical Systems, Mechanics, Artificial Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence. During her master she has taken several courses in Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind and Epistemology.
She is also interested in Gender and Science, different notions of objectivity, the Hodgkin Huxley Model of the action potential, Philosophy of Mind and Humanistic Psychoanalysis.
Winter 2015 Lecture Series Schedule:
Robin Dunkin
Tuesday, January 27, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Building Blocks of the Brain: Neuron and Glia Form & Function”
*****
Michael Anderson
Thursday, January 29, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neural Reuse and Hebbian Learning: Two Kinds of Neuroplasticity in the Brain”
*****
Nicolas Davidenko
Tuesday, February 3, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Suggestible Nature of Motion Perception”
*****
Janette Dinishak
Thursday, February 12, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Autism & Neurodiversity”
*****
Ray Gibbs
Thursday, February 12, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Embodied Meaning, Thinking, and Communication”
*****
Craig Schindler
Tuesday, February 17, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Enduring Wisdom, Mindfulness & Emerging Neuroscience”
*****
John Brown Childs
Thursday, February 19, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Transcommunality”
*****
Dada Nabhaniilananda
Thursday, February 19, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Dragon Taming for Smart People”
*****
Natalia Carrillo
Tuesday, February 24, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“A History of the Action Potential”
*****
Doc Edge
Tuesday, February 24, Humanities Lecture Hall at 12:00
“Talking About Race: Geneticists, Philosophers, the Media, and the People”
*****
Brian Cantwell Smith
Thursday, February 26, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“The Three R’s: Representation, Registration, and Reality”
Thursday, February 26, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction and the Anxious Mind”
*****
Octavio Valadez
Tuesday, March 3, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Co-Teaching and Revolutionary Teaching”
*****
Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero
Thursday, March 5, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“From Queer Theory to Teoria Cuir: Latinamerican appropriations of Gay Identities”
Thursday, March 5, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neuro-Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation and Their Counter-explanations”

Campus Film Screening: "Anita: Speaking Truth to Power"
2015-02-24 19:30 - 21:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Campus Film Screening:
“Anita: Speaking Truth to Power” documentary will be shown in the Humanities Lecture Hall with a panel and Q&A on campus sexual harassment, gender and race.
Panel: Professors Eileen Zurbriggen (Psychology) and Sylvanna Falcon (LALS) and Tracey Tsugawa (UCSC Title IX Officer). Everyone is welcome to attend.
Tuesday, Feb 24 @ 7:30pm
Humanities Lecture Hall (map)
An entire country watched transfixed as a poised, beautiful African-American woman in a blue dress sat before a Senate committee of 14 white men and with a clear, unwavering voice recounted the repeated acts of sexual harassment she had endured while working with U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. That October day in 1991 Anita Hill, a bookish law professor from Oklahoma, was thrust onto the world stage and instantly became a celebrated, hated, venerated, and divisive figure.
Anita Hill’s graphic testimony was a turning point for gender equality in the U.S. and ignited a political firestorm about sexual misconduct and power in the workplace that resonates still today. She has become an American icon, empowering millions of women and men around the world to stand up for equality and justice.
Against a backdrop of sex, politics, and race, ANITA reveals the intimate story of a woman who spoke truth to power. Directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Freida Mock, the film is both a celebration of Anita Hill’s legacy and a rare glimpse into her private life with friends and family, many of whom were by her side that fateful day 22 years ago. Anita Hill courageously speaks openly and intimately for the first time about her experiences that led her to testify before the Senate and the obstacles she faced in simply telling the truth. She also candidly discusses what happened to her life and work in the 22 years since.

Public Lecture with Anita Hill at UCSC:
ANITA HILL: “SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: GENDER AND RACIAL EQUALITY – 1991-2015″
A candid dialogue regarding resistance to individual civil rights, campus sexual assault debates, why black lives matter, and challenges to equality in ‘post-identity’ America.
Thursday, February 26, 2015
UC Santa Cruz, College 9/10 Multipurpose Room
5:30pm Doors Open | 6pm Program | 7:30pm Book signing
Free and open to the public. Limited seating is first-come first-serve (no tickets).
MORE INFO: www.ihr.ucsc.edu/event/anita-hill

Public Film Screenings:
“Anita: Speaking Truth to Power” (77 min. Documentary by Director Freida Mock)
Nickelodeon Theater
Sunday, Feb 22 @ 11am
Monday, Feb 23 @ 7pm
Tickets: www.thenick.com

For more information on the film visit: anitahill-film.com

Gayle Salamon: "The Life and Death of Leticia King"
2015-02-25 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Gayle Salamon is currently working on two manuscripts the first of which is an exploration of narrations of bodily pain and disability titled Painography: Metaphor and the Phenomenology of Chronic Pain while the second manuscript Passing Period, analyzes the 2008 classroom shooting of gender-transgressive 15-year-old Leticia King. She is Associate Professor of English and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University.

Winter 2015 Colloquium Series
January 14 : Maya Peterson
January 21: Naveeda Khan
January 28: Carolyn Dean
February 4: Madhavi Murty
February 11: Kris Alexanderson
February 18: Jennifer Horne
February 25: Gayle Salamon
March 4: Christopher Chen

Jaye Padgett: What Irish Gaelic tells us about all linguistic sound systems
2015-02-25 16:00 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
A Distinguished Faculty Lecture Presented by Stevenson College,the Linguistics Department,and the Institute for Humanities Research.
Irish, one of the Celtic languages, is a minority language in Ireland, with some features that are rare among the world’s languages. We’ll look at these striking properties of the Irish sound system. However, we’ll also see ways in which Irish reflects deep truths about all linguistic sound systems. This will include considering how the language’s status as a minority language in a largely English- speaking country may be permanently altering its sound system. Along the way we’ll learn about using ultrasound and perceptual experiments to study sound systems.

Alt-ac Careers and Digital Humanities in the Academic Job Market
2015-02-25 16:00 - 18:00 | Graduate Student Commons
Snacks and beverages will be provided.
What does it mean when a job ad lists DH preferred? Can digital skills help you get a tenure track job? Does a blog count as a publication?
Open to all graduate students: Rachel Deblinger, the Digital Humanities Specialist, will share her experience navigating the academic and alt/ac job markets as a Digital Humanist and answer questions about how Digital Humanities has impacted traditional academic job searches. Bring any and all questions.
If you plan to attend, please RSVP using the link below:
http://goo.gl/forms/0bSc1Pf9nk

Stephanie Lain: "Content-Based Design Using Constructivist Connectionist Principles"
2015-02-25 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In this talk I discuss the challenges involved in designing content-based curricula for foreign language courses. I will illustrate the main concepts by focusing on the example of a first-year Spanish course developed for The Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS), whose Language Studies division follows an exclusively content-based model of instruction. Though I will be speaking about a strict interpretation of content-based instruction (where only authentic target language materials are used), the information presented will be easily applicable to any foreign language learning context where the instructor seeks to incorporate authentic content as part of the curriculum.
In order to plan effectively for a content-‐based course, it is important to establish and clarify early on a set of guidelines for how the curriculum should be structured. I argue that an understanding of language as expressed through the perspectives of constructivism and connectionism not only lends support to the validity of content-‐based methodology but also can provide clear directives for the kinds of activities instructors can use to engage students.

Brian Cantwell Smith: "The Three R's: Representation, Registration, and Reality"
2015-02-26 12:00 - 13:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015.
Brian Cantwell Smith received his B.S. (1974), M.S. (1978) and Ph.D. (1982) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After receiving his doctorate, he held senior research and administrative positions at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre in California, and was an adjunct associate professor in the Philosophy and Computer Science departments at Stanford University. He was a founder and principal investigator of the Stanford-based Centre for the Study of Language and Information, and was a founder and first President of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
In 1996 Brian moved to the Indiana University at Bloomington, where he was professor of cognitive science, computer science, philosophy, and informatics, and a fellow of the Center for Social Informatics in the School of Library and Information Sciences. He then moved to Duke University, as the Kimberly J. Jenkins University Professor of Philosophy and New Technologies, and professor of Philosophy and Computer Science.
Brian is the author of more than 35 articles and of On the Origin of Objects (MIT, 1996). His research focuses on the conceptual foundations of computation and information (to be reported in a 7-volume series, entitled The Age of Significance: An Essay on the Origins of Computation and Intentionality, accepted for publication by MIT Press) and on new forms of metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology. A two-volume series of edited papers, entitled Indiscrete Affairs, will be published by Harvard University Press in 2013.
As well as being Professor at the Faculty of Information Studies, Brian is cross-appointed as Professor in the departments of Philosophy and Computer Science and in the Program in Communication, Culture and Technology at University of Toronto at Mississauga. He is also a senior fellow at Massey College, and a fellow of University College.
Winter 2015 Lecture Series Schedule:
Robin Dunkin
Tuesday, January 27, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Building Blocks of the Brain: Neuron and Glia Form & Function”
*****
Michael Anderson
Thursday, January 29, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neural Reuse and Hebbian Learning: Two Kinds of Neuroplasticity in the Brain”
*****
Nicolas Davidenko
Tuesday, February 3, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Suggestible Nature of Motion Perception”
*****
Janette Dinishak
Thursday, February 12, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Autism & Neurodiversity”
*****
Ray Gibbs
Thursday, February 12, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Embodied Meaning, Thinking, and Communication”
*****
Craig Schindler
Tuesday, February 17, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Enduring Wisdom, Mindfulness & Emerging Neuroscience”
*****
John Brown Childs
Thursday, February 19, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Transcommunality”
*****
Dada Nabhaniilananda
Thursday, February 19, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Dragon Taming for Smart People”
*****
Natalia Carrillo
Tuesday, February 24, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“A History of the Action Potential”
*****
Doc Edge
Tuesday, February 24, Humanities Lecture Hall at 12:00
“Talking About Race: Geneticists, Philosophers, the Media, and the People”
*****
Brian Cantwell Smith
Thursday, February 26, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“The Three R’s: Representation, Registration, and Reality”
Thursday, February 26, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction and the Anxious Mind”
*****
Octavio Valadez
Tuesday, March 3, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Co-Teaching and Revolutionary Teaching”
*****
Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero
Thursday, March 5, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“From Queer Theory to Teoria Cuir: Latinamerican appropriations of Gay Identities”
Thursday, March 5, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neuro-Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation and Their Counter-explanations”

A Dramatic Reading of Dacia Maraini's Play "Norma '44"
2015-02-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Italian Studies Program Presents:
A Dramatic Reading of Dacia Maraini’s Play
Norma ’44
Adapted for the stage from the translation by Monica Streifer and Lucia Re
Directed by Kimberly Jannarone (UCSC Theater Arts)
Set in an unnamed concentration camp in 1944 Germany, Norma ’44 tells the story of the perverse bond that grows between two female prisoners and the SS officer who coerces them into a performance of Bellini and Romani’s bel canto opera, Norma. The play explores dynamics of power, women’s solidarity, and art’s capacity to mediate, resist, and revise experience.
Author Dacia Maraini will be present for discussion with the audience.

ANITA HILL at UCSC: “Speaking Truth to Power: Gender and Racial Equality - 1991-2015"
2015-02-26 17:30 - 19:30 | College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room, College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies is pleased to bring Anita Hill to UC Santa Cruz for a candid dialogue regarding resistance to individual civil rights, campus sexual assault debates, why black lives matter, and challenges to equality in ‘post-identity’ America. After the talk Anita Hill will be signing copies of her book, “Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding a Home” (book signing hosted by Bookshop Santa Cruz). There will also be a public screening of the film “Anita! Speaking Truth to Power” at the Nickelodeon Theater in Santa Cruz and a campus film screening with a panel on campus sexual harassment issues.
5:30pm Doors Open | 6pm Program | 7:30pm Book signing
Free and open to the public. Limited seating is first-come first-serve (no tickets).
$4 parking and shuttles available at Core West Parking Structure.
Overflow simulcast in Humanities Lecture Hall Living Writers Series.
Talk Description:
In 1991, Judge Clarence Thomas’ Senate Confirmation hearing sparked nation-wide conversations regarding gender representation, sexual harassment, and race. Anita Hill testified about Thomas’ inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace when he served as Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in the Department of Education and Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Her testimony before a television audience of 22 million put the issues of sexual harassment on the national agenda. In her lecture, she will explore the impact of the hearing, including the legal developments, and related issues of credibility, consent, agency, and the interplay of culture, race, class, gender, and sexuality.
Public Film Screenings:
“Anita! Speaking Truth to Power” (77 min. Documentary by Director Freida Mock) will be shown at the Nickelodeon Theater on:
Sunday, Feb 22 @ 11am
Monday, Feb 23 @ 7pm
Tickets: www.thenick.com
Campus Film Screening:
“Anita! Speaking Truth to Power” documentary will be shown in the Humanities Lecture Hall with a panel and Q&A on campus sexual harassment, gender and race.
Panel: Professors Eileen Zurbriggen (Psychology) and Sylvanna Falcon (LALS) and Tracey Tsugawa (UCSC Title IX Officer). Everyone is welcome to attend.
Tuesday, Feb 24 @ 7:30pm
About Anita Hill:
Senior Advisor to the Provost, Brandeis University
Professor of Law, Public Policy and Women’s Studies
Heller Graduate School of Policy and Management
Of Counsel at Cohen, Milstein, Sellers and Toll
Anita Hill was thrust into the public spotlight in 1991 when she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee during the confirmation hearing for U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Judge Clarence Thomas. After, the hearings Ms. Hill began speaking to audiences worldwide about how to build on the great strides of women’s and civil rights struggles. She presents concrete proposals that encourage us to extend our vision of equality to include more than legal rights. Her goal is to encourage creative, equitable and positive resolution of race, gender and class issues.
Sponsors:

Co-Sponsors: UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, Office of the Dean of Students, Humanities Division, Social Sciences Division, Arts Division, and the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Questions:
For information and disability accommodations, please contact ihr@ucsc.edu or 831-459-5655.

UC Santa Cruz Celebrating 50 Years of Being Truly Original
This is a place like no other. It was imagined from the minds of original thinkers—the rebels and visionaries, artists, scientists, and poets who had the courage to strike off on a different path in search of ideas that question norms in hopes of making the world a better place. Let’s celebrate 50 amazing years. Visit 50years.ucsc.edu and see what we are planning.

Living Writers Series: Anita Hill
2015-02-26 18:00 - 19:45 | College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room, College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Creative Writing Program presents Anita Hill in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series.
In 1991, Anita Hill was thrust into the public spotlight when she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee during the confirmation hearing for U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Judge Clarence Thomas. After the hearings, Ms. Hill began speaking to audiences worldwide about how to build on the great strides of women’s and civil rights struggles. In 1997, Ms. Hill published her autobiography, Speaking Truth to Power, in which she chronicles the events of the Clarence Thomas confirmation and in 2011 Ms. Hill published her second book, Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home. Ms. Hill is the subject of a 2013 documentary film, Anita, which chronicles her experiences during the Clarence Thomas confirmation.
In her work, Ms. Hill presents concrete proposals that encourage us to extend our vision of equality to include more than legal rights. Her goal is to encourage creative, equitable and positive resolution of race, gender and class issues.

Winter 2015 Living Writers Series:
January 15: Cherrie Moraga, poet/playwright
January 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta, poets
January 29: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet)
February 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez, poet
February 12: Luis Alfaro, performance artist/playwright
February 19: John Jota Leanos, filmmaker
February 26: Anita Hill, attorney
March 5: Maceo Montoya, fiction writer
March 12: student reading

The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu.

Brian Cantwell Smith: "The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction and the Anxious Mind"
2015-02-26 18:00 - 19:45 | Jack Baskin 152

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Tracy Perkins
2015-02-27 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202

An Evening with Italian Writer: Dacia Maraini
2015-02-27 17:15 - 19:00 | Cowell, Room 131, Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Cowell College Provost, Italian Studies Program, Languages & Applied Linguistics Department present:
An Evening with Italian Writer, Dacia Maraini
Preceded by Screening of 2013 Irish Braschi’s documentary film IO SONO NATA VIAGGIANDO: I was born travelling: A travel in Dacia Maraini’s memories.
Dacia Maraini is an influential writer, social critic and iconic figure in Italian contemporary literature and culture. She is the author of numerous novels, plays, short story and poetry collections including La lunga vita di Marianna Ucria, 1990, The Silent Duchess, and her latest work Chiara d’Assisi, Elogio della Disobbedienza, 2013, Chiara of Assisi, in Praise of Disobedience.

Octavio Valadez: "Co-Teaching and Revolutionary Teaching"
2015-03-03 12:00 - 13:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015.
Édgar Octavio Valadez Blanco is currently studying his PhD in Philosophy of Science at UNAM in Mexico City, with the project “Complexity and Transdisciplinarity: Theory and practice of cancer as a complex problem.” Octavio obtained his B.Sc. degree in Basic Biomedical Research at UNAM with his thesis work “Cancer as a complex disease: networks and levels of organization” (2008), with Germinal Cocho Gil as advisor. In 2010, he obtained his Masters in Philosophy from the UAM-Iztapalapa and was awarded the UAM academic merit medal. His thesis (advised by Mario Casanueva) addressed the scientific explanation of cancer based on the model of “part-whole science” proposed by Rasmus (Winther 2011, Synthese), which develops a pluralistic research horizon.
Octavio’s main academic interests are the complexity of cancer, as this problem cannot be understood, much less solved if we do not consider and articulate the philosophical, sociological, historical and political aspects involved. Octavio intends to contribute to a critical focus on the theories and practices in the scientific disciplines related to cancer research–especially the biomedical sciences–in which abstractions often turn into reifications of reality thus hampering the creativity and the possibility of a plurality of scientific views and practices. This critical approach has in part evolved from Octavio’s great concern for the deep contradictory realities prevailing in Mexico, which has also prompted him to undertake studies on politics and pedagogy, as well as to actively participate in novel scholarly projects, extra-curricular organizations, and general education.
Winter 2015 Lecture Series Schedule:
Robin Dunkin
Tuesday, January 27, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Building Blocks of the Brain: Neuron and Glia Form & Function”
*****
Michael Anderson
Thursday, January 29, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neural Reuse and Hebbian Learning: Two Kinds of Neuroplasticity in the Brain”
*****
Nicolas Davidenko
Tuesday, February 3, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Suggestible Nature of Motion Perception”
*****
Janette Dinishak
Thursday, February 12, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Autism & Neurodiversity”
*****
Ray Gibbs
Thursday, February 12, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Embodied Meaning, Thinking, and Communication”
*****
Craig Schindler
Tuesday, February 17, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Enduring Wisdom, Mindfulness & Emerging Neuroscience”
*****
John Brown Childs
Thursday, February 19, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Transcommunality”
*****
Dada Nabhaniilananda
Thursday, February 19, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Dragon Taming for Smart People”
*****
Natalia Carrillo
Tuesday, February 24, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“A History of the Action Potential”
*****
Doc Edge
Tuesday, February 24, Humanities Lecture Hall at 12:00
“Talking About Race: Geneticists, Philosophers, the Media, and the People”
*****
Brian Cantwell Smith
Thursday, February 26, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“The Three R’s: Representation, Registration, and Reality”
Thursday, February 26, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction and the Anxious Mind”
*****
Octavio Valadez
Tuesday, March 3, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Co-Teaching and Revolutionary Teaching”
*****
Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero
Thursday, March 5, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“From Queer Theory to Teoria Cuir: Latinamerican appropriations of Gay Identities”
Thursday, March 5, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neuro-Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation and Their Counter-explanations”

Johanna Ogden: "Mutiny in Oregon: Early Twentieth Century East Indian Radicals and the Birth of the Ghadar Party"
2015-03-03 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Hindustani Association of the Pacific Coast, better known as the Ghadar Party, was a game-changing development in Indian history. Ghadarites called for and attempted the overthrow of British colonial rule in India during WWI, seeking a caste-free, secular and independent Indian nation. Ghadar was overwhelmingly initiated by and composed of Sikh laborers from the North American West and became a worldwide movement drawn from people of all castes and religions. San Francisco was home to the movement’s public office and its weekly newspaper, Ghadar, and has often been logged as the movement’s birthplace, especially by historians of the North American West. But remote Astoria, Oregon holds this distinction. Drawing on Indian historical accounts, oral histories and Oregon archival materials, Ms. Ogden both repopulates the East Indian community in Oregon and traces reasons for and key moments in Ghadar’s seemingly unlikely genesis there. Her larger interest, however, is exploring the dis-remembering of East Indians in Oregon and the window it provides into the targeting of Arabs, Muslims and South Asians in post-9/11 America.
Johanna Ogden is an independent historian and activist from Oregon. In 2013 she initiated and was the consulting historian for Astoria’s two-day Ghadar Party Centenary Commemoration and in 2014 participated in an international conference on Ghadar in Chandigarh, Punjab. Her most recent publications include the award-winning “Ghadar, Historical Silences & Notions of Belonging” Oregon Historical Quarterly, Summer 2012; “Ghadar’s Oregon Roots,” The Ghadar Movement: Background, Ideology, Action and Legacies (Punjabi Uni: 2013). She is presently writing a book about Ghadar’s roots in Oregon for the University of Washington Press.

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Will the Robots Win? Promises and Perils of Technology in Society
2015-03-03 18:00 - 19:45 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Technology is ubiquitous. Computers and phones impact our daily rhythms, communicative abilities, and cognitive energies. Consider being hospitalized, flying from one country to another, or taking a prescription medicine. Or think about the police searching big databases, or the government military-industrial complex and its automated war machines. Or imagine the potential of nanotechnology, transhumanism, and artificial intelligence. Technology is powerful.
Which effects does technology have on our individual psychology, and on our social values celebrating freedom, diversity, and the pursuit of happiness? Can it help us lead healthier, fuller, and more democratic lives? Which dark sides does technology have, and how might it inflict pain and violence?
Come join us for a broad-ranging conversation on technology and on its ethical, political, religious, and social dimensions. The panelists are scientists and philosophers who have thought deeply about the promises and strengths—and perils and weaknesses—of technology. The public is free to ask questions and challenge all of us on urgent matters.
This event is free and open to the public.

PANELISTS
Scott Lokey received his undergraduate degree from Trinity University in San Antonio, TX. Here, he cultivated a strong interest in both the sciences and the humanities. During his time at Trinity University, Scott developed an interest in Chemistry, which he pursued to receive his PhD at the University of Texas, Austin. After receiving his PhD, Scott spent time away from academia traveling the world. Upon his return to the US, Scott began a Post Doc at Genentech in San Francisco. Afterwards, he pursued a second Post Doc at the Institute of Chemistry and Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School. Finally, in 2002, Scott joined UCSC as a Chemistry Professor and started his own research lab. Currently, Scott and his lab are researching new drug paradigms, hoping to develop drugs that go beyond typical drugs which pass through the cell membrane. Scott and his lab study membrane permeability in molecules that are traditionally considered to be too large to be used in drugs. He has strong interests in consciousness studies and Buddhism.
Andrew Sivak is a doctoral candidate in History of Consciousness at UCSC. He is interested in political theory, theology, and William Blake. His courses include “Nuclear Criticism,” “The Adventure of French Philosophy,” and “Prophecy Against Empire.”
Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero studied Biology in the Faculty of Sciences at UNAM from 2000 to 2004 and wrote, as his undergraduate thesis, a taxonomic revision of the genus Jatropha (fam. Euphorbiaceae). From 2004 to 2006 he was a masters student in the Program in Philosophy of Science also at UNAM. There he wrote his master thesis focusing on the philosophical problems of phylogenetic reconstruction. His masters thesis won two prizes: the Norman Sverdlin prize for best philosophy thesis in 2006, and the UNAM prize medal “Alfonso Caso.”He started his doctorate in the same program in 2006. In his dissertation, he analyzed homosexuality in the context of philosophical accounts of mechanistic explanation and biopower.He successfully defended (with honors) his dissertation in November 2010: La homosexualidad a la luz de la filosofía de la ciencia: Mecanismos biologicos, subjetividad y poder (Homosexuality in Light of the Philosophy of Science: Biological Mechanisms, Subjectivity, and Power).
Octavio Valadez is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy of Science at UNAM in Mexico City, with the project “Complexity and Transdisciplinarity: Theory and practice of cancer as a complex problem.” Octavio obtained his B.Sc. degree in Basic Biomedical Research at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) with his thesis work “Cancer as a complex disease: networks and levels of organization” (2008), with Germinal Cocho Gil as advisor. In 2010, he obtained his Masters in Philosophy from the UAM-Iztapalapa and was awarded the UAM academic merit medal. His thesis (advised by Mario Casanueva) addressed the scientific explanation of cancer based on the model of “part-whole science” proposed by Rasmus Winther (2011, Synthese), which develops a pluralistic research horizon. His main academic interests are the complexity of cancer, as this problem cannot be understood, much less solved, if we do not consider and articulate the philosophical, sociological, historical and political aspects involved.
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). At UCSC he is also affiliated faculty with the Department of Psychology and the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies. He was previously an assistant professor at UNAM and a part-time guest researcher at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. His degrees are from Stanford University (Philosophy) and Indiana University (History and Philosophy of Science; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology). Winther works in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of biology, and has strong interests in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, the history of philosophy, comparative philosophy, and the philosophy of multiculturalism. To date he has published over 40 articles in journals both in philosophy of science and philosophy of biology and in science more generally. Winther has held over 60 lectures at international conferences in Australia, Denmark, Germany, Mexico, South Africa, UK, USA, and at universities including Berkeley, Cambridge, Humboldt (Berlin), London School of Economics, MIT, University of Chicago, as well as venues like Google. He is the PI of the “Philosophy in a Multicultural Context” Research Cluster, a collaborative research project involving UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis, and Stanford University. Currently, he is working on maps in science and philosophy, and the science and philosophy (and art) of maps: http://ihr.ucsc.edu/when-maps-become-the-world/

CANCELLED "Into the Sea" Documentary Screening
2015-03-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Cultural Center at Merrill, Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Dr. Easkey Britton lives in Ireland and she’s an amazing competitive big wave surfer –one of the few women in the sport–and she has a PhD in Environment and Society. Among her many projects, Easkey recently led an expedition to Iran to introduce young women there to the ocean and to surfing. She is looking for ways to use her love of the ocean and her research interests to promote understanding of the ocean, gender equity, international diplomacy, etc.
There will be a screening of a 52-min. documentary, Into the Sea, about this experience, which will be followed by a Q&A with Dr. Easeky Britton. The event will be on Tuesday evening, March 3rd, from 6-8pm in the Merrill Cultural Center.
This event is free and open to the public and proudly supported by The Institute for Humanities Research, Porter College, Literature Department, Environmental Studies Department, & the Sea Slugs.
EVENT WEBSITE
Into The Sea info
TED Talk

Christopher Chen: "Ed Roberson and the Poetics of Serial Identities"
2015-03-04 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Christopher Chen’s scholarly interests include theories of comparative racialization, racial capitalism and the black radical tradition, and debates over what Charles Taylor and others have called the “politics of recognition.” Christopher is currently working on a book-length comparative study of contemporary African-American and Asian-American experimental or “avant-garde” writing. He is Assistant Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz.

Winter 2015 Colloquium Series
January 14 : Maya Peterson
January 21: Naveeda Khan
January 28: Carolyn Dean
February 4: Madhavi Murty
February 11: Kris Alexanderson
February 18: Jennifer Horne
February 25: Gayle Salamon
March 4: Christopher Chen

Antonella Guidazzoli: "Open Virtual Heritage Applications: From Research Tools to Emotional and Participatory Virtual Spaces"
2015-03-04 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Antonella Guidazzoli, CINECA Supercomputer Center, Bologna Italy, leads research services for the 3D Virtual Information Research Lab at Italy’s supercomputer center in Bologna, CINECA, a non-profit consortium comprising 69 Italian universities, two national research centres, and the Ministry of Universities and Research. She has done distinguished work in the creation of virtual cultural heritage sites, including a 3D project on the Etruscans that includes an educational video featuring the Etruscan character, Ati: http://www.glietruschielaldila.it
Contact digitalhumanities@ucsc.edu for more details about any of the above events.
Follow @DH_UCSC on Twitter and Digital Humanities at UCSC on Facebook.

Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero: "From Queer Theory to Teoria Cuir: Latinamerican appropriations of Gay Identities"
2015-03-05 12:00 - 13:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015.
Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero studied Biology in the Faculty of Sciences at UNAM from 2000 to 2004 and wrote, as his undergraduate thesis, a taxonomic revision of the genus Jatropha (fam. Euphorbiaceae). From 2004 to 2006 he was a masters student in the Program in Philosophy of Science also at UNAM. There he wrote his master thesis focusing on the philosophical problems of phylogenetic reconstruction. His masters thesis won two prizes: the Norman Sverdlin prize for best philosophy thesis in 2006, and the UNAM prize medal “Alfonso Caso.”He started his doctorate in the same program in 2006. In his dissertation, he analyzed homosexuality in the context of philosophical accounts of mechanistic explanation and biopower.He successfully defended (with honors) his dissertation in November 2010: La homosexualidad a la luz de la filosofía de la ciencia: Mecanismos biologicos, subjetividad y poder (Homosexuality in Light of the Philosophy of Science: Biological Mechanisms, Subjectivity, and Power)
Fabrizzio is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at UNAM.
Winter 2015 Lecture Series Schedule:
Robin Dunkin
Tuesday, January 27, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Building Blocks of the Brain: Neuron and Glia Form & Function”
*****
Michael Anderson
Thursday, January 29, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neural Reuse and Hebbian Learning: Two Kinds of Neuroplasticity in the Brain”
*****
Nicolas Davidenko
Tuesday, February 3, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Suggestible Nature of Motion Perception”
*****
Janette Dinishak
Thursday, February 12, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Autism & Neurodiversity”
*****
Ray Gibbs
Thursday, February 12, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Embodied Meaning, Thinking, and Communication”
*****
Craig Schindler
Tuesday, February 17, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Enduring Wisdom, Mindfulness & Emerging Neuroscience”
*****
John Brown Childs
Thursday, February 19, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Transcommunality”
*****
Dada Nabhaniilananda
Thursday, February 19, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Dragon Taming for Smart People”
*****
Natalia Carrillo
Tuesday, February 24, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“A History of the Action Potential”
*****
Doc Edge
Tuesday, February 24, Humanities Lecture Hall at 12:00
“Talking About Race: Geneticists, Philosophers, the Media, and the People”
*****
Brian Cantwell Smith
Thursday, February 26, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“The Three R’s: Representation, Registration, and Reality”
Thursday, February 26, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction and the Anxious Mind”
*****
Octavio Valadez
Tuesday, March 3, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Co-Teaching and Revolutionary Teaching”
*****
Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero
Thursday, March 5, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“From Queer Theory to Teoria Cuir: Latinamerican appropriations of Gay Identities”
Thursday, March 5, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neuro-Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation and Their Counter-explanations”

Living Writers Series: Maceo Montoya
2015-03-05 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Creative Writing Program presents Maceo Montoya in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series.
Maceo Montoya grew up in Elmira, California. He graduated from Yale University in 2002 and received his Master of Fine Arts in painting from Columbia University in 2006. His paintings, drawings, and prints have been featured in exhibitions and publications throughout the country as well as internationally. Montoya’s first novel, The Scoundrel and the Optimist (Bilingual Review, 2010), was awarded the 2011 International Latino Book Award for “Best First Book” and Latino Stories named him one of its “Top Ten New Latino Writers to Watch.” In 2014, University of New Mexico Press published his second novel, The Deportation of Wopper Barraza, and Copilot Press published Letters to the Poet from His Brother, a hybrid book combining images, prose poems, and essays.
Montoya is an assistant professor in the Chicana/o Studies Department at UC Davis where he teaches the Chicana/o Mural Workshop and courses in Chicano Literature. He is also affiliated with Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer (TANA), a community-based arts organization located in Woodland, CA.

Winter 2015 Living Writers Series:
January 15: Cherrie Moraga, poet/playwright
January 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta, poets
January 29: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet)
February 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez, poet
February 12: Luis Alfaro, performance artist/playwright
February 19: John Jota Leanos, filmmaker
February 26: Anita Hill, attorney
March 5: Maceo Montoya, fiction writer
March 12: student reading

The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu.

Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero: "Neuro-Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation and Their Counter-Explanations"
2015-03-05 18:00 - 19:45 | Jack Baskin 152
Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39), co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC, Winter 2015.

Explaining Sexual Orientation, or for that matter, Gender Identity in Trans subjects, has been at the core of Human Biology for the last 150 years. The technological innovations that nowadays allow us to gain epistemic access to the brain in terms of its structure, physiology and development are only the most recent examples of this historical trend. In this talk I analyze the structure of these explanations and suggest how an analytic feminist perspective might be useful in detecting and criticizing possible gender biases.
Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero studied Biology in the Faculty of Sciences at UNAM from 2000 to 2004 and wrote, as his undergraduate thesis, a taxonomic revision of the genus Jatropha (fam. Euphorbiaceae). From 2004 to 2006 he was a masters student in the Program in Philosophy of Science also at UNAM. There he wrote his master thesis focusing on the philosophical problems of phylogenetic reconstruction. His masters thesis won two prizes: the Norman Sverdlin prize for best philosophy thesis in 2006, and the UNAM prize medal “Alfonso Caso.”He started his doctorate in the same program in 2006. In his dissertation, he analyzed homosexuality in the context of philosophical accounts of mechanistic explanation and biopower.He successfully defended (with honors) his dissertation in November 2010: La homosexualidad a la luz de la filosofía de la ciencia: Mecanismos biologicos, subjetividad y poder (Homosexuality in Light of the Philosophy of Science: Biological Mechanisms, Subjectivity, and Power)
Fabrizzio is currently Assistant Professor, Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM), in Mexico City.
This talk is supported by the “Philosophy in a Multicultural Context” IHR Research Cluster

Winter 2015 Lecture Series Schedule:
Robin Dunkin
Tuesday, January 27, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Building Blocks of the Brain: Neuron and Glia Form & Function”
*****
Michael Anderson
Thursday, January 29, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neural Reuse and Hebbian Learning: Two Kinds of Neuroplasticity in the Brain”
*****
Nicolas Davidenko
Tuesday, February 3, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Suggestible Nature of Motion Perception”
*****
Janette Dinishak
Thursday, February 12, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Autism & Neurodiversity”
*****
Ray Gibbs
Thursday, February 12, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Embodied Meaning, Thinking, and Communication”
*****
Craig Schindler
Tuesday, February 17, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Enduring Wisdom, Mindfulness & Emerging Neuroscience”
*****
John Brown Childs
Thursday, February 19, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Transcommunality”
*****
Dada Nabhaniilananda
Thursday, February 19, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Dragon Taming for Smart People”
*****
Natalia Carrillo
Tuesday, February 24, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“A History of the Action Potential”
*****
Doc Edge
Tuesday, February 24, Humanities Lecture Hall at 12:00
“Talking About Race: Geneticists, Philosophers, the Media, and the People”
*****
Brian Cantwell Smith
Thursday, February 26, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“The Three R’s: Representation, Registration, and Reality”
Thursday, February 26, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction and the Anxious Mind”
*****
Octavio Valadez
Tuesday, March 3, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“Co-Teaching and Revolutionary Teaching”
*****
Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero
Thursday, March 5, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00
“From Queer Theory to Teoria Cuir: Latinamerican appropriations of Gay Identities”
Thursday, March 5, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00
“Neuro-Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation and Their Counter-explanations”

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Michael Wilson
2015-03-06 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202

Rebecca Kukla CHANGED TO MARCH 6: "The Sedimentation of Bias in Medical Institutions"
2015-03-06 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Abstract:
Bias is becoming an increasingly central topic in both moral psychology and bioethics. We have ample evidence that biases shape our interactions, including interactions between health professionals and patients, in complicated and penetrating ways that are resistant to first person access and to manipulation. Typically, biases are presumed to be distortions at the level of individual cognitive processes. I examine how bias can be built into the institutions, spaces, policies, and practices of medicine, quite apart from any person-level cognitive distortions. I examine three types of examples: (1) judgments of scientific uncertainty and epistemic risk in health care research and delivery; (2) material medical environments that perpetuate specific ideological distortions; (3) the inflation of drug-treatable diseases and the overvaluing of pharmaceutical interventions. The upshot is that bias in medicine requires structural solutions, not just the ‘education’ of individuals.
About:
Rebecca Kukla is a Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Her research interests include social epistemology (including the epistemology and methodology of medical research), philosophy of language, feminist philosophy, metaethics, reproductive ethics and the culture of pregnancy and motherhood, and research ethics. Much of her research bridges ethics, epistemology, and philosophy of language. She also has serious interests in eighteenth century philosophy, especially the work of Rousseau and Kant.
She received her B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1990 and her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh in 1996. From 2003-2005, she was a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at The Johns Hopkins University. In the summer of 2004, she was a Visiting Scholar at the USDA, studying ethical issues concerning food and nutrition assistance programs. She also received her Sommelier certification from Algonquin College in 2007.

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

Shelley Wilcox, San Francisco State

Winter 2015

Rebecca Kukla, Georgetown
Felipe De Brigard, Duke

Fall 2014

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

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

First Annual Grad Slam
2015-03-06 17:30 - 19:00 | B206 Earth & Marine Sciences
Also known as the 3 Minute Thesis® competition, started by the University of Queensland, Australia, the UCSC Grad Slam will challenge graduate students to present a compelling presentation of their dissertation research in just three minutes, using language appropriate for a non-specialist audience.
The Grad Slam is not an exercise in trivializing or dumbing-down research; rather, it is meant to encourage students to clarify their ideas and to help others understand and appreciate the significance of their research.
The Grad Slam is open to all graduate students who have Advanced To Candidacy.
Finalists will present their three minute thesis presentations at a live event on March 6th in Earth & Marine Sciences B206. This event will be open to the public, and a final panel of judges will choose a first place and runner-up winner; the audience will vote for a people’s choice awardee. If the people’s choice awardee is the same as the winner or runner-up, both awards will go to that person.
The winner of the UCSC Grad Slam will receive $3,000; the runner-up receives $1,500; and the people’s choice winner receives $750.
The UCSC Grad Slam winner will go on to present at a UC-wide final Grad Slam to be held in Oakland, on May 4th.

From Ferguson to Salinas: Intersections Against State-Sanctioned Violence
2015-03-07 10:00 - 16:00 | Resource Center for Non Violence
From Ferguson to Salinas: Intersections Against State-Sanctioned Violence
March 6 at the Oakes Learning Center, University of California, Santa Cruz
March 7 at the Resource Center for Nonviolence, Santa Cruz
As folks across the country demand justice for Mike Brown and Eric Garner, community members in Salinas, CA are fighting the police murders of Angel Ruiz, 42 (d. March 20, 2014); Osman Hernandez, 26 (d May 9, 2014); Carlos Mejia-Gomez, 44 (d. May 20, 2014); Frank Alvarado, Jr., 39 (d. July 10, 2014); and Jaime Garcia, 35 (d. October 31, 2014). “From Ferguson to Salinas: Intersections Against State-Sanctioned Violence” brings together community members, political organizers, scholars, and artists/poets from across California to discuss the ongoing historical crisis of state-sanctioned violence against people of color and the movement to oppose white supremacist policing in the U.S. We hope to build upon the momentum we’ve witnessed over the last six months as people have taken to the streets to demand justice and offer visions of a world in which black and brown lives matter. We seek an analysis of the historical relationship between anti-black and anti-brown violence in the U.S. in the hopes of strengthening cross-racial solidarities. We seek to raise awareness about the intersections between racialization and economic violence, between police brutality and mass incarceration, and between intimate and state-based gender violence. We are interested in building connections between those who are grieving the loss of their loved ones, those who fight to stay alive despite the injustices of the U.S. justice system, and those who mobilize poetic imaginaries to build the world anew.
March 7, 10-4 // Resource Center for Nonviolence
Ofrenda y altares Workshop, 10-11:30 am
Led by Emma Garcia from the Santa Cruz Arts Council, this workshop will teach participants how to create altars to commemorate people who have been harmed by the state. We will make four altars in total — one for the indigenous communities who lived, struggled, and died at Mission Santa Cruz in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; one for the people persecuted by the anti-Chinese movement in Santa Cruz throughout the nineteenth century; one for Jose Chamales and Francisco Arias, who were lynched by a mob and hanged from the Water Street Bridge in 1877; and one for the people of Salinas who are being targeted and murdered by police today. Participants will later deliver these altars to sites we visit during the anti-colonial walking tour.
Lunch served by Food Not Bombs
Poetic Imaginaries Against Violence, 12-1:30 pm
Readings and Discussion with Ronaldo Wilson (Assistant Professor, Literature and Creative Writing, UCSC, and author of Poems of the Black Object and Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man) and Tisa Bryant (Critical Studies Faculty, California Institute of the Arts, and author of Unexplained Presence, [the curator], and Tzimmes).
Anti-Colonial Walking Tour, 2-5 pm
We will leave the RCNV at 2 pm to visit sites of white supremacist violence in Santa Cruz, including Mission Santa Cruz, the Front St. Post Office (one of four former Chinatowns), the alley beside the El Palomar Restaurant (where Eduardo Carrillo’s mural was destroyed by the city), the Water Street Bridge, and the Beach Flats. Each site will be narrated by a different storyteller, as well as activated by the altars we leave behind.

DH Working Group Meeting / Reading Group
2015-03-11 17:15 - 19:00 | Cowell Senior Commons Room, Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062-1225, United States
The Digital Humanities Working Group will meet to discuss a shared reading. This quarter we will consider the field of Digital Humanities broadly and the challenges to the idea of a Digital Humanities field. To spark this discussion, we will read 3 selections from Matthew Gold, ed. Debatesin Digital Humanities (First published in print by University of Minnesota, 2012 and now available and expanded online at http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates).
Matthew Gold, “The Digital Humanities Moment”
Matthew Kirshenbaum, “What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments?“
Tom Scheinfeldt, “Sunsetfor Ideology, Sunrise for Methodology?“
Co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Commons.
The Digital Humanities Working Group meets once-a-month to share ongoing work, read foundational texts, and create a vision for Digital Humanities at UCSC. All students, faculty, and staff welcome.
Contact digitalhumanities@ucsc.edu for more details about any of the above events.
Follow @DH_UCSC on Twitter and Digital Humanities at UCSC on Facebook.

Felipe De Brigard: "The Explanatory Indispensability of Memory Traces"
2015-03-12 16:15 - 17:45 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Abstract:
Many philosophers of memory have wondered whether or not it is indispensible to postulate the existence of memory traces to explain remembering. In this talk I will offer an argument in favor of the explanatory indispensability of memory traces. To that end, I will begin by demonstrating that the main arguments in favor of the claim that we need memory traces to explain remembering share the logical structure of a inference to the best explanation. As a result, most arguments against the claim that we need memory traces to explain remembering aim to show that we can have equally successful explanations that do not require the postulation of such entities. My argument aims to show that there is a large number of memory phenomena for which explanations that do not postulate the existence of memory traces would be inadequate.
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About:
Felipe De Brigard
Assistant Professor
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Philosophy, Arts & Sciences
Duke University
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Research Interests: Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science and Neuroscience; Neurophilosophy; Moral Psychology
Most of my research focuses on the way in which memory and imagination interact. So far, I have explored ways in which episodic memory both guides and constrains episodic counterfactual thinking (i.e., thoughts about alternative ways in which past personal events could have occurred), and how this interaction affects the perceived plausibility of imagined counterfactual events. I also explore the differential contribution of episodic and semantic memory in the generation of different kinds of counterfactual simulations, as well as the effect of counterfactual thinking on the memories they derive from. In addition, my research attempts to understand how prior experience helps to constrain the way in which we reconstruct episodic memories. Finally, I am also interested in the role of internal attention during conscious recollection. To address these issues I use behavioral and functional magnetic resonance imaging techniques, as well as the conceptual rigor of philosophical analysis.

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

Shelley Wilcox, San Francisco State

Winter 2015

Rebecca Kukla, Georgetown
Felipe De Brigard, Duke

Fall 2014

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

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

Sikh Rappers & Social Justice
2015-03-12 18:00 - 19:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Sikh hip-hop artists Baagi and Hoodini will explore facets of the immigrant and minority experience in multicultural America, in an evening of music, poetry and collective discussion. The evening will touch on topics such as race relations and social inequalities in today’s complex society. Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
Baagi
“Babbey nu Kanna, Gaggay nu Bihari.” In spelling the word “Baagi,” the celebration of a rebellious Punjabi heritage is reborn. Baagi is one of the few artists to rap exclusively in Panjabi. Born and raised in Bombay until moving to Los Angeles in his early teens, Baagi brings a unique perspective both to Hip-Hop and to the evolution of Punjabi culture. A childhood passion for composing Punjabi poetry coupled with his love for Hip-Hop eventually turned an after-school hobby into a career of expression. This artist uses Farsi, Hindi and Panjabi vocabulary to add a new voice to the musical conglomerate. Baagi uses his platform to paint pictures of social issues, easygoing personal anecdotes, and day-to-day experiences, as seen through the lens of a young man influenced by the intersections of many worlds. Professor Navdeep Dhillon writes, “I am looking to forward to seeing what else he comes up with and remain optimistic that he will be the breath of fresh air for Punjabi music, both in Punjab and overseas…” Baagi has performed extensively throughout North America and has collaborated with renowned Punjabi artists such as Nishawn Bhullar and Tigerstyle. His debut album, titled Baagi Di Vaari, is available for free download at http://beabaagi.bandcamp.com. You can follow him on Twitter @BaagiMedia.
Hoodini
Hoodini, also known as Hoodeez the Hindoo, has been hailed as “one of the most lyrical and charismatic emcees of South Asian descent” by critics. The poet and Hip-Hop artist combines witty wordplay, lyrical agility, and keen storytelling to present a novel narrative to his audience with natural ease. Born and raised in Los Angeles to immigrant parents from Punjab, Hoodini shares the experiences of a young man trying to find his way in an increasingly complex society. He is both participator and observer, analytical of the world around him while reporting on it with humor and abandon. In listening to a Hoodini record, you may easily find yourself migrating from a commentary on issues of race relations to a jaunty reminiscence of a past love interest, often within the same verse. Hoodeez has released four studio albums to date and has shared the stage with notable Hip-Hop artists including Blu, Pacific Division, Skeme, and RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan. You can keep up with his latest works at http://HoodiniDidIt.com and on Twitter @HoodiniDidIt.
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Living Writers Series: Student Reading TBD
2015-03-12 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
To end the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series, a selected student TBD will present their work.

Winter 2015 Living Writers Series:
January 15: Cherrie Moraga, poet/playwright
January 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta, poets
January 29: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet)
February 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez, poet
February 12: Luis Alfaro, performance artist/playwright
February 19: John Jota Leanos, filmmaker
February 26: Anita Hill, attorney
March 5: Maceo Montoya, fiction writer
March 12: student reading

The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Jessica Calvanico
2015-03-13 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202

Shakespeare and Music
2015-03-14 13:00 - 16:30 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Shakespeare is famous for his speeches, but the London theaters where his plays took place were also filled with music. “Shakespeare and Music” is a symposium exploring the popular music of Renaissance England, the practice of vocal and instrumental music in Shakespeare’s plays, and Shakespeare’s meditation on music as a metaphor for his art and its effects. Featuring a keynote address by Ross Duffin, The Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music at Case Western University and author of Shakespeare’s Songbook (W.W. Norton 2004). Free and open to the public. The symposium is held in conjunction with “Treasures from the Age of Shakespeare”, a performance of the Baltimore Consort for the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival at 7:30pm in the UCSC Music Recital Hall (Tickets: scbaroque.org/tickets).
Panelists:

Ross Duffin: “Reconstructing Shakespeare’s Songbook”
Samuel Arkin: “Shakespeare’s Music and Shylock’s Ears”
Ariane Helou: “Shakespeare’s Singers”

Sponsors:
Shakespeare Workshop, Institute for Humanities Research, and the Arts Division.
Directions & Parking:
Parking $3 (permits available at vending machines in parking lot 126 “Performing Arts”).
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After the conference, please join us at the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival featuring:
Treasures From the Age of Shakespeare with The Baltimore Consort
March 14, 2015 @ 7:30pm
UCSC Music Recital Hall
$5 student tickets / $20 seniors / $25 general
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Vera Gribanova: "Head movement, ellipsis, and Russian polarity focus"
2015-03-14 16:00 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Vera Gribanova is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University.

Abstract:
In this talk I chart the interaction between head movement, ellipsis, and non-canonical word orders in the analysis of a variety of Russian responses to statements or questions that raise polar alternatives in the discourse.

(1) Evgenija poslala posylku v Moskvu?
Evgenija send.PST.3SG.F package.ACC to Moscow.LOC
‘Did Eugenia send the package to Moscow?’
a. (Net,) Ne poslala / (Da,) Poslala.
No NEG send.PST.3SG.F / yes send.PST.3SG.F
‘(No,) she didn’t / (Yes,) she did.’
b. (Də) (net,) ne poslala ona eë!
PRT no NEG send.PST.3SG.F she.nom it.F.ACC
‘(No,) she DIDN’T send it!’
c. V Moskvu {poslala / da}, a v Piter {ne poslala / net}.
to Moscow {send.PST.3SG.F / yes} but to Piter {NEG send.PST.3SG.F / no}
‘To Moscow yes (she did), to St. Petersburg, no (she didn’t).’

Although some of these seemingly diverse constructions have already received individual analyses (Kazenin, 2006; Laleko, 2010; Gribanova, 2013; Bailyn, To appear), I argue that besides sharing a discourse function, they are also syntactically unifiable. As a first step, I defend an axis of novel claims about the expression of polarity in canonical Russian clauses: features associated with polarity are located in Pol, but may be expressed in a lower head (Neg), which enters the syntactic derivation with unvalued polarity features that are valued via an agree relation with Pol. I then extend this analysis to the cases in (1), arguing that these involve the expression of polarity features in a high clausal Polarity head (Pol), either via the realization of polarity particles or via the movement of the verbal complex to this high position (yielding discourse-marked vso orders).
Since many of the expressions in (1) also involve some readily observable form of ellipsis (Kazenin, 2006; Gribanova, 2013), the resulting empirical picture provides fertile ground for an exploration of the interaction of ellipsis and head movement, ultimately shedding light on the controversial question of the modular status of head movement (see Matushansky 2006; Roberts 2010 for useful overviews). Considering the head movement alone, a consequence of my proposal is that there are two possible landing sites for the verb: an intermediate position below T and the surface position of the subject for canonical svo orders (Bailyn, 1995; Gribanova, 2013) and a high position (above the surface position of the subject) for various instantiations of polarity focus, yielding discourse-marked vso orders. We can combine this observation with insights from the current literature on ellipsis in Russian, which suggests that at least two sizes of ellipsis site are available: TP (Kazenin, 2006) and vP (Gribanova, 2013). Crossing the ellipsis and head movement possibilities, we arrive at four logical possibilities:
I demonstrate that only three of these are attested, explaining the impossibility of the variant in D as the result of a violation of MaxElide (Merchant, 2008), a constraint which forces ellipsis of a larger domain over a smaller one in certain configurations. The effect of MaxElide canonically emerges when a variable inside the ellipsis site is bound from outside that ellipsis site — that is, it emerges in the context of movement in the narrow syntax. The finding that head movement also may trigger a MaxElide effect indicates — echoing similar findings by Hartman (2011) — that it, too, occurs in the narrow syntax.

References
Bailyn, John Frederick. 1995. Underlying phrase structure and ‘short’ verb movement in Russian. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 3 (1): 13–58.
Bailyn, John Frederick. To appear. Against a VP ellipsis account of Russian verb-stranding constructions. In Studies in Japanese and Korean linguistics and beyond, ed. Alexander Vovin. Folkestone and Leiden: Global Oriental/Brill.
Gribanova, Vera. 2013. Verb-stranding verb phrase ellipsis and the structure of theRussian verbal complex. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 31 (1): 91–136.
Hartman, Jeremy. 2011. The semantic uniformity of traces: Evidence from ellipsis parallelism. Linguistic Inquiry 42 (3): 367–388.
Kazenin, Konstantin. 2006. Polarity in Russian and typology of predicate ellipsis. Moscow State University.
Laleko, Oksana. 2010. Negative-contrastive ellipsis in Russian: Syntax meets information structure. In Formal studies in Slavic linguistics, eds. Anastasia Smirnova, Vedrana Mihaliˇcek, and Lauren Ressue, 197–218. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Matushansky, Ora. 2006. Head movement in linguistic theory. Linguistic Inquiry 1: 69–109.
Merchant, Jason. 2008. Variable island repair under ellipsis. In Topics in ellipsis, ed. Kyle Johnson, 132– 153. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Roberts, Ian. 2010. Agreement and head movement: Clitics, incorporation, and defective goals. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Santa Cruz Baroque Festival: Treasures from the Age of Shakespeare
2015-03-14 19:30 - 21:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Featuring: The Baltimore Consort
Heavenly harmony and earthly delights from the time of the bard. Reveal in the triumphal return of America’s favorite early music ensemble, playing their ‘exquisite consort’ of Renaissance instruments -lute, cittern, viols, and flute. Concertgoers will also enjoy the grand prize winning group from our Youth Chamber Music Competition. UCSC Music Recital Hall.

Individual ticket prices: $25 general, $20 seniors, $5 student & youth. Purchase tickets to the concert online at: scbaroque.org/tickets

Join us for “Shakespeare and Music” Conference earlier in the day on March 14, 2015 from 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm. Free and open to the public. Click here for more info: ihr.ucsc.edu/event/shakespeare-and-music-conference

“Scholars” y tópicos: Alicia de Colombí-Monguió como paradigma
2015-03-19 09:45 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Conference organized by Jordi Aladro, Professor of Literature
Wednesday 18th
7:00pm – Welcome for participants with a “vino español” (a generous donation from Instituto Cervantes, New York)
Thursday 19th
University of California, Santa Cruz. Humanities 1, Room 202
9:45am
Introduction: Jordi Aladro
Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz
10:15am
“The Indefinite Garden: Ovid’s Metaphors and Metamorphoses in Chaucer’s Merchant’s Tale”
Edward Milowicki
Emeritus Professor, Mills College
10:45am
“La traducción del hexámetro latino de Petrarca en castellano”
Alejandro Higashi
Área de Semiología Literaria, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Iztapalapa
11:15am
“La lengua de la Descripción de Esmeraldas”
Eva Mendieta
Chair and Professor of Spanish Department of Modern Languages, Indiana University Northwest
11:45am
“Las ilustraciones de trasgos y estantiguas en el Compendio de Manila”
Marisa García Verdugo
Chair and Professor of Spanish Department of Modern Languages, Purdue University
12:15pm
“Borges, Alicia y las maravillas”
Graciela Taquini
Profesora en Historia de las Artes, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
12:45 – 2:00pm
Break
2:00pm
“‘Retirado en la paz de estos desiertos’: poema de destierro”
Montserrat Mochón
Saint Mary’s College
2:30pm
“Representación de la heroína indígena en El Arauco domado de Lope de Vega”
Luzmila Camacho
Ohio State University at Marion
3:00pm
“Revalorización de la primera comedia de Salazar y Torres en la preceptiva de la época”
Esther Murillo
Associate Professor of Spanish, Foreign Language Department The College of Saint Rose
3:30pm
“Noticias sobre el primer Quijote y la imprenta”
Enrique Rodríguez Cepeda
Emeritus Professor University of California, Los Angeles
4:00pm
“Luis Monguió, un exiliado leal”
Álvaro Romero
University of California, Santa Cruz
4:30pm
Book presentation: “Homenaje a Alicia de Colombí-Monguió”
Eva Mendieta and Marisa García Verdugo
5:00pm – Closing Remarks by Alicia de Colombí-Monguió
Co-Sponsored by:
Instituto Cervantes, New York
Department of Literature
Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics
Spanish Studies
Cowell Provost
Institute for Humanities Research

Leonardo Art and Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
2015-03-31 18:45 - 20:00 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join us for another Leonardo Art and Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) March 31 in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108. There will be refreshments at 6:45 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by the conceptual artist/photographer Catherine Wagner, Mills College; documentary filmmaker Jennifer Maytorena Taylor, UCSC; composer, artist, and bio-acoustic reseacher David Dunn, UCSC, and archeologist/anthropologist J. Cameron Monroe, UCSC.
David Dunn “Communication within the Soundscape”
J. Cameron Monroe “Cana in Dahomey – A West African City in the Era of the Slave Trade.”
Jennifer Maytorena Taylor “Selfies, Surveillance, and Social Documentation”
Catherine Wagner “Art & Science: Investigating Matter”
The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available for $4 in the adjacent Theater Arts parking lot.

David Dunn is Assistant Professor of Sound Art and Design in Music and Digital Arts and New Media at UC Santa Cruz. Dunn is a a composer, artist, and bio-acoustic researcher who prefers to lecture and engage in site-specific interactions or research-oriented activities. Much of his work is focused upon listening strategies and technologies for environmental sound monitoring in both aesthetic and scientific contexts.
J. Cameron Monroe is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and the Director of the Archaeological Research Center at UC Santa Cruz. Specializing in the Archaeology of West Africa and the African Diaspora, Professor Monroe directs the Abomey Plateau Archaeological Project (Bénin), which explores the dynamic histories of urbanism in West African during the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. He has published numerous articles and two books, including The Precolonial State in West Africa: Building Power in Dahomey (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Jennifer Maytorena Taylor is Assistant Professor in Social Documentation and the Department of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. She imakes character-based films about real people with extraordinary stories, often with Latino themes and Spanish-language content. Recent films include the award-winning feature documentaries New Muslim Cool and Special Circumstances and Street Knowledge 2 College, a 15-part web series for PBS.org.
Catherine Wagner is an artist and Professor of Studio Art, Mill College. She has received many major awards, including the Rome Prize , a Guggenheim Fellowship, NEA Fellowships, and the Ferguson Award. Her work is represented in major collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, SFMOMA, The Whitney Museum of American Art, MFA Houston. Wagner also published several monographs, including American Classroom, Art & Science: Investigating Matter, and Cross Sections

Linguistics@Santa Cruz: Theory & Practice
2015-04-04 11:00 - 15:00 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
SESSION I
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Opening remarks / MC: Pranav Anand
Judith Aissen: Bill Shipley: Founding linguist
at UC Santa Cruz
Amy Rose Deal: Possibilities in Nez Perce
Maziar Toosarvandani: Creating Northern Paiute
documentation for linguists and
the language community
Judith Aissen: Working among the Maya
12:30 – 1:00 pm Break

SESSION II
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm
Junko Ito: What Anime and Karaoke Have in
Common: A Linguistic Perspective
Grant McGuire: Laboratory phonology outside
the laboratory: Ultrasound and Irish
Matt Wagers: The Chamorro Psycholinguistics
Project: Bringing the Lab to the Field,
and the Field to the Lab
2:15-3:00 pm Reception, department photos,
ultrasound demonstrations & discussions

The Targeted Village, A Documentary by Chie Mikami
2015-04-04 13:30 - 16:30 | Resource Center for Non Violence
“In Okinawa, the people of Takae village are convicted by the Japanese government for obstructing traffic in the struggle against the construction of new helipads. Their story embodies U.S. military strategy dating back to the Vietnam War, the blocking of gates to the Futenma base, and their town’s rage against their state.”
Film will be followed by a Q&A and Discussion with UCSC Professor Alan Christy & Doctoral Student Yoko Fukumura.
Suggested Donation: $5-$10, no one is turned away.

Lisa Snyder: "The Devil is in the Detective Work: Researching and Reconstructing Cultural Heritage Sites with Special Emphasis on The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893"
2015-04-06 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
One might argue that the creation of a computer reconstruction of a cultural heritage site requires a curious mix of academic training, detective work, and obsession. Unlike automated or algorithmic technologies that record extant sites and artifacts, building a three-dimensional computer model of an ephemeral or long-demolished environment combines traditional historical methods with new technologies and results in an entirely new form of scholarly publication. Rather than a printed monograph, the hours spent in search of obscure details buried in primary source materials or pouring over archival manuscripts and photographs are transformed into an interactive learning environment for interrogation by students and secondary scholars. Using her computer reconstruction of the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 as a case study, Snyder will address the process of researching and reconstructing historic urban environments, the challenges of translating multi-media research materials into a cohesive computer model, and the opportunities for teaching and learning afforded by this new form of scholarship. (And, yes, obsession will be discussed.)
Lisa M. Snyder (Ph.D. UCLA) is an architectural historian and research scholar with UCLA’s Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) and is an Associate Editor of Digital Studies / Le Champ Numérique. From 1996 – 2013 she was a senior member of the Urban Simulation Team at UCLA. Snyder’s primary research is on educational applications for three-dimensional computer models of historic urban environments. She developed the reconstruction model of the Herodian Temple Mount installed in 2001 at the Davidson Center in Jerusalem, and is currently working on a reconstruction model of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition that is shown regularly at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. In 2010 she received an NEH-Digital Humanities Start-Up grant (HD-50958-10) for the development of a software interface (VSim) that provides users with the ability to craft narratives in three-dimensional space as well as the ability to embed annotations and links to primary and secondary resources and web content from within the environments. This work is continuing under an NEH Digital Humanities Implementation Grant (HK-50164-14). Snyder is also co-PI on “Advanced Challenges in Theory and Practice in 3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage Sites,” an NEH Summer Institute being hosted at UMass Amherst in June 2015 and at UCLA in June 2016 (HT-50091-14).
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NEW DATE & LOCATION: Works in Progress: Samantha Matherne
2015-04-07 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join the Philosophy Department for a Works-in-Progress presentation by Professor Samantha Matherne.
At least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. The format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited.
All members of the campus community and interested public are welcome to attend.
Coffee, tea, and cookies served.

Reviving Philosophy of History
Paul Roth
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
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Why Does Space Have More than One Dimension?
Abe Stone
Thursday, February 19, 2015
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Ernst Cassirer’s Philosophy of Physics
Samantha Matherne
Thursday, April 9, 2015

Adrienne Mayor: "The Warrior's Husband: Theseus, Antiope, and the Amazons”
2015-04-07 17:00 - 18:30 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Fierce Amazons are at the center of some of the most famous Greek myths. Every great hero, from Heracles to Achilles, tangled with warrior queens, and Theseus captured and married the Amazon Antiope. Were Amazons mere figments of the Greek imagination? Combining classical myth and art, nomad traditions, and scientific archaeology, this lecture reveals intimate, surprising details and original insights about the fighting women known as Amazons, with a special focus on Antiope.
Adrienne Mayor’s most recent book is The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World (Princeton 2014). She is also the author of numerous publications; other books include a biography of Mithradates, The Poison King, a nonfiction finalist for the 2009 National Book Award, and The First Fossil Hunters (2000). A research scholar in Classics and History of Science at Stanford, Mayor’s work is often featured on the BBC, The History Channel, National Geographic, History Today, and other media.

Neloufer de Mel "The Perethaya's Fury: Ethical Frameworks and Zones of Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka"
2015-04-08 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Neloufer de Mel is the author of Militarizing Sri Lanka and Women and the Nation’s Narrative: Gender and Nationalism in Twentieth Century Sri Lanka. Her current research is on cultures of justice in postwar Sri Lanka, disability performance, and the politics of aesthetic work in contexts of violence.
Neloufer de Mel is a Professor of English at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka.

Spring 2015 Colloquium Series
April 8, 2015 – Neloufer de Mel: “The ‘Perethaya’s’ Fury: Ethical Frameworks and Zones of Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka”
April 15, 2015 – Karen de Vries: “Queer Storytelling, Secular Religion, and the Anthropocene Blues”
April 22, 2015 – T.J. Demos: “Rights of Nature: The Art and Politics of Earth Jurisprudence”
April 29, 2015 – Brian Connolly: “The Curse of Canaan: A Fantasy of Race in the Nineteenth-Century United States”
May 6, 2015 – Joshua Dienstag: “The Human Boundary: Democracy in a Post-Species Age”
May 13, 2015 – Megan Thomas: “Lascars, Sepoys, and the Traveling Labor of British Empire (Manila, 1762-4)”
May 20, 2015 – Jonathan Beller: “The Computational Unconscious”
May 27, 2015 – John Modern: “Toward a Religious History of Cognitive Science”

Gender-Differential Effects of Terrorism on Education: The Case of the Punjab Insurgency 1981-1993
2015-04-08 15:30 - 17:00 | Economics Conference Room (E2 Room 499)
This study explores the long-run effect of the 1981-1993 Punjab Insurgency on the educational attainment of adults who were between ages 6-16 years at the time of the insurgency. To examine the long-term effect of the insurgency on education, we use a large scale cross-sectional dataset – the 2005 India Human Development Survey. To explore the channels through which the conflict affected education, we use a unique historical dataset on the annual expenditure decisions by farmers (farm account surveys) for Punjab during 1978-1989. We combine both datasets with the annual district level data on major terrorist incidents from the South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP). We find a substantial and statistically significant effect of terrorism on educational attainment by girls who were of school age during the conflict. We also identify the impact of terrorism at the household level. Households that had high ratios of girls to boys and who resided in the districts that experienced terrorist events, had reduced the amount of educational expenditures. This finding suggests that this reduction was one of the channels through which conflict affected education.
Prakarsh Singh is Assistant Professor of Economics at Amherst College, Massachusetts. His research falls into three main categories in development economics: a. Performance Incentives in Public Health to target Child Malnutrition; b. Causes and Consequences of Conflict, particularly civil wars; c. Teaching Development Economics. He has written and published widely in all three areas. A sampling of his recent work can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/prakarshsinghac/research.

Envisioning Central Coast Water in 2030: Ecology, Equity, Ingenuity
2015-04-08 16:00 - 17:30 | Oakes College 231
Governor Jerry Brown’s recent move to implement mandatory state-wide drought restrictions re-affirms growing uncertainties about California’s water future. Images of dwindling rainfall and worsening drought often re-enforce popular perceptions of impending shortages as chiefly physical phenomena, restricting possibilities for robust and innovative responses through the social sphere. In the Central Coast, in particular, seemingly intractable divisions between public water agencies and homeowners’ coalitions, between groundwater aquifers and the needs of agriculture and between people and fish result in a fragmented political and ecological landscape where polarizing battles are not only seen as normal, but self-evident. This cocktail hour will invite participants to engage in an uncommon civic dialogue to imagine and envision what broad-based, collective interventions for Central Coast water might look like. Participants from all backgrounds will be strongly encouraged to share and discuss innovative suggestions for how a more ecologically-sound, socially-equitable water plan might be drafted and implemented. Using the year 2030 as a horizon, participants will have the opportunity to share suggestions and expertise across disciplinary boundaries and to consider whether and how competing visions for Central Coast water might be reconciled.

Using Zotero for Graduate Student Research: A Library Workshop for Humanities Division Graduate Students
2015-04-09 16:00 - 17:30 | McHenry Library, Room 2353
Led by: Annette Marines and Rachel Deblinger
Zotero is an open source (free) citation management software that allows you to attach PDFs, notes and images to your citations, organize them into collections for different projects, and create bibliographies. It lives in your browser and connects directly to library catalogues and research databases. This workshop will help you get started with Zotero so that you can:
• Create a personal library of research materials
• Import references directly from most research databases and library catalogs
• Organize and annotate references
• Format references and bibliographies in Microsoft Word and other word processing program documents
• Share your citations or collaborate with others online

Yannis Galanakis: "The Diplomat, the Dealer and the Digger: Writing the History of the Antiquities Trade in 19th century Greece"
2015-04-09 16:30 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
During the 19th century in Europe, new states were founded and nationalism and colonialism were strengthened; while some Empires disintegrated, others managed to maintain or even increase their power. At the same time, archaeology was transformed into a structured discipline and large-scale excavation projects commenced across the Mediterranean. The stories of the people behind the antiquities trade in Greece during the 19th century—the diplomats stationed in Athens, the local art dealers and the private diggers—help us write an important chapter in the social, economic, and cultural history of Europe and of Mediterranean archaeology as a whole. This lecture explores how the commodification of the past became interwoven with power politics and gave rise both to different attitudes toward collecting and to debates on cultural property, ownership and the value of things in our modern world.
Yannis Galanakis is Lecturer in Classics (Greek Prehistory), Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics, Sidney Sussex College.
For more information, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu

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The Feminist Architecture of Gloria Anzaldúa: New Translations, Crossings and Pedagogies in Anzaldúan Thought
2015-04-10 - 2015-04-11 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
A Conference on the Work of Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa
Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa — poet, philosopher, and critical scholar — founded, wrote, and encouraged a transformative body of writing and scholarship, with generative influences on critical race, feminist, queer, and decolonizing ways of knowing. Importantly for UCSC, Anzaldúa was a vital presence on our campus for over twenty years, and her legacy is a profound part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the campus.
The UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies is proud to initiate a celebration of the intellectual legacy of Gloria Anzaldúa. This year-long celebration includes a series of undergraduate workshops and creative writing seminars, advanced study seminars for graduate students and faculty, performances by artists and poets as part of the creative writing Living Writers’ reading series, and an installation of Anzaldúa’s writing altar from her archives in McHenry Library’s Special Collections. Finally, our celebration will culminate in a two-day (April 10-11, 2015) scholarly conference: The Feminist Architecture of Gloria E. Anzaldúa: New Translations, Crossings, and Pedagogies in Anzaldúan Thought.
Conference Description
Beginning with her co-editorship of This Bridge Called My Back: Writing by Radical Women of Color (1981) to the foundational Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987) to the anthologies Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras (1990) and This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation (2002), the collection of engagements in Interviews/Entrevistas (2000), The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader (2009) and her children’s books, the work of Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa has greatly influenced critical race, feminist, queer and decolonizing theories of an active subjectivity and agency. Her worldview as intellectual, lesbian of color, poet, teacher privileges the knowledge that comes from experiencing life in-between spaces—the border dweller, the queer, the colored, and the mestiza. Embracing ambiguity, liminality and border thinking, Anzaldúa affirms life from within these spaces. Her call for women of color, particularly lesbians of color, to write, engage and interrogate the world, challenges the hegemony of knowledge production and categorical logic. The movement of U.S. third world feminists that Anzaldúa initiates centers coalitional politics and intersectional analysis of the lived experiences of women of color, yet there continues to be a problem of legibility, a misrecognition and appropriation of the theoretical contributions of these writers (Perez, 2010). I believe that it is the issue of legibility that deflects scholars’ attention from engaging Anzaldúan thought in the critical ways that it deserves.
This will be a 2 day conference, April 10-11, to think together about the work of Gloria Anzaldúa with scholars who are engaging purposefully, where discussions will center around these questions:
● How do the efforts of the El Mundo Zurdo conference, new archival material and translations invite us to participate and connect in new ways the living heart of Anzaldúa’s work?
● How have scholars engaged/translated Anzaldúan theory into pedagogical practices, either through alternative methodologies or epistemologies?
● How is Anzaldúa’s work engaged with current theories of the post-human, settler colonialism, or decolonial thinking?
● What provocations can we take from Anzaldúa’s work?
● How do we move Anzaldúa 1.0 to Anzaldúa 2.0?

Conference Schedule
FRIDAY
Location: Humanities 1 Room 210
3:00pm Welcome
Bettina Aptheker and Karen Yamashita, UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies
Felicity Amaya Schaeffer and Cindy Cruz, Conference Co-Chairs
Alma Sifuentes, Dean of Students, UCSC
3:15-4:30pm Keynote: Laura Perez, UC Berkeley
4:30-6:15pm Panel 1: Un Travesía/A Crossing: Thinking Anzaldúa across the Disciplines
Karen Barad, UCSC
Gaye Theresa Johnson, UCSB
Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, UCSC
Sonia Saldivar-Hull, University of Texas San Antonio
Pedro DiPietro, Syracuse University
Moderators: Jennifer Gonzales, UCSC / Cat Ramirez, UCSC
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SATURDAY
Location: Humanities Lecture Hall
9:30-10:00am Coffee and Refreshments
10:00-12:00pm Panel 2: La Facultad: Bridging Theory to Praxis in Anzaldúan Thought
Pat Zavella, UCSC
Aida Hurtado, UCSB
Sofia Villenas, Cornell University
Alejandra Elenes, Arizona State University
Moderator: Marcia Ochoa, Chair of Feminist Studies, UCSC
12:00-1:00pm Lunch
1:00-2:45pm Panel 3: Roundtable – Santa Cruz Feminist of Color Collective
Sandra Alvarez, Chapman University
Pascha Bueno Hansen, University of Delaware
Susy Zepeda, UC Davis
Roya Rastegar, Los Angeles, Filmmaker
Moderator: Cindy Cruz, UCSC
2:45-3:00pm Break
3:00-4:30pm Keynote Conversation: Maria Lugones, Binghamton University
Moderators: Rosa-Linda Fregoso, UCSC / Bettina Apthekar, UCSC

Directions & Parking:
Park near the Humanities Complex (Cowell/Stevenson parking lots 107, 108, 109, and 110). Parking attendants will be available at the beginning of the event to sell permits. Otherwise, permits can be purchased at pay stations in lots.
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Special Exhibit of Anzaldúa Artifacts:
McHenry Library Special Collections will display the artifacts of the Anzaldúa Writing Altar in the Library California Room on April 9-10 from 10am-12pm & 1pm-4pm.
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Articles:
http://news.ucsc.edu/2015/04/Anzaldua-feminist-conference.html
http://www.cityonahillpress.com/2015/04/14/anzalduan-thought-transcends-borderlands/

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Friday, March 10
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Saturday, March 11
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Sponsors:
UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, Office of the Dean of Students, Graduate Student Association, El Centro: The Chicano Latino Resource Center, Chicano Latino Research Center, Latin American & Latino Studies, Cowell College Provost, College 8, Stevenson College, Literature Department, Feminist Studies Department, Politics Department, Anthropology Department, and the Institute for Humanities Research.

UC Santa Cruz Celebrating 50 Years of Being Truly Original
This is a place like no other. It was imagined from the minds of original thinkers—the rebels and visionaries, artists, scientists, and poets who had the courage to strike off on a different path in search of ideas that question norms in hopes of making the world a better place. Let’s celebrate 50 amazing years. Visit 50years.ucsc.edu and see what we are planning.

Friday Forum with Jess Whatcott: “Abolition Feminism Against Eugenics in California Prisons”
2015-04-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. Light refreshments will be available.
For more info, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

Spring 2015 Schedule:
10 April — Jess Whatcott, Politics
17 April — Evan Grupsmith, History
24 April — Rose Grose, Social Psychology
1 May — Kali Rubaii, Anthropology
8 May — Cristopher Chitty, History of Consciousness
15 May — Keegan Cook Finberg, Literature
22 May — Muiris Macgiollabhui, History: “Carrying The Green Bough: An Atlantic History of the United Irishmen, 1791-1830”
29 May — Ann Drevno, ENVS
5 June — Veronika Zablotsky, FMST
This event series is made possible through the generous support from the Institute for Humanities Research and the departments of Literature, History of Consciousness, Anthropology, Feminist Studies, HAVC, Philosophy, Joe’s Pizza and Subs, Politics, Psychology and Sociology as well as the GSA and GSC.

Daniel Lassiter: "Nested and informative epistemics in a graphical models framework"
2015-04-10 14:00 - 15:30 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
We propose a new semantics and pragmatics for epistemic statements which builds on the systems of Yalcin (2012) and Moss (2015), but offers several empirical advantages. The key improvements stem from (a) modeling information states using probabilistic graphical models, a framework for knowledge representation that is highly influential in psychology, AI, and philosophy; and (b) a new method of treating probabilities as ordinary random variables, making it possible to condition information states on probability statements such as Rain is likely [roughly, P(rain) > .5]. This feature makes it possible to account for the dynamic effects of epistemic sentences while maintaining a thoroughgoing Bayesianism, with conditioning as the only update operation. Nested epistemic statements are also given a natural interpretation in terms of higher-order probability, which is implicitly defined once probabilities are treated as random variables. This approach simplifies Moss’ account and avoids some of its less desirable features, but the simplification re-introduces certain empirical challenges, which are discussed in conclusion.
Daniel Lassiter is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University.

An Evening of Futuristic Musical Poetry with Luciano Chessa
2015-04-10 17:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
An evening with Italian composer, performer, and musicologist Luciano Chessa. Chessa will perform Piedigrotta (a Futurist musical poem). Chessa is the author of Luigi Russolo, Futurist: Noise, Visual Arts, and the Occult (UC, 2012), the first English-language monograph dedicated to Russolo and the art of Noise. He has been performing futurist sound poetry for well over 10 years. He has been active in Europe, the U.S., Australia, and South America as a practitioner of world avantgarde music; his scholarly areas include both 20th-century and late-14th-century music. Compositions include a piano and percussion duet after Pier Paolo Pasoliniʼs “Petrolio.”
Reception to follow.

Karen deVries "Queer Storytelling, Secular Religion, and the Anthropocene Blues"
2015-04-15 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Working at the intersection of religion, science, and feminist studies, Karen deVries examines structures of knowledge and power in the Contemporary American West. Her current book project deploys queer storytelling both to explore tensions and schisms between religious and secular knowledge formations and to produce more livable futures.
Karen deVries is a Lecturer in the Political Science Department at Montana State University in Bozeman.

Spring 2015 Colloquium Series

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Development From Below: Supporting Indigenous Innovations and Knowledge Justice in Mazvihwa Communal Area, Zimbabwe
2015-04-15 16:00 - 17:30 | Oakes College 231
Join us for a conversation with Alice Ndlovu about the community-based research and indigenous innovations currently blossoming in Mazvihwa Communal Area, Zimbabwe. Alice will give us examples of creative farming practices, water harvesting techniques, and household innovations. We will discuss how participatory research is helping to fight data poverty and empowering the community. What does “the life informatic” look like in this context and for these people? What are its benefits and drawbacks?
Alice Ndlovu Mutanda, Director of Operations and Administration of Muonde Trust, was born and bred in Mazvihwa. She is married to Tinashe Mutanda. Alice has Honours and Masters Degree in Development Studies from Midlands State University. In addition she holds a certificate in “working with communities affected by poverty displacement and HIV and AIDS” from the University of Kwazulu Natal in South Africa. Alice has been working in Mazvihwa and across Zvishavane District for the past 7 years. For six years she worked at Bethany Project as a Programme Officer implementing livelihoods programmes in the Mazvihwa community. 2014 marked a turnaround in her career when she joined Muonde Trust to work directly with her community to support indigenous innovation. Alice has a keen interest on girls and women empowerment.

Living Writer Series: Janice Lee
2015-04-16 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms, and through a variety of media to include poetry, fiction, film, graphic art, dance, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines multiple genres and materials, whether textual, sonic, visual, and/or embodied to explore intersections of race, sexuality, gender, and class in their written, screened, and staged performances.
The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. For more information, please email rvwilson@ucsc.edu
Janice Lee
is a writer, artist, editor, designer, curator, instructor, and scholar. She is the author of KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press, 2010), Daughter (Jaded Ibis, 2011), and Damnation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2013). She also has several chapbooks, most recently a poetic collaboration with Will Alexander, The Transparent As Witness (Solar Luxuriance, 2013). She is currently working on several collaborations: a critical book on Bela Tarr’s Satantango with Jared Woodland and an ekphrastic project about decapitations in films with Michael du Plessis. The Sky Isn’t Blue: The Poetics of Spaces, a book of essays, is forthcoming from Civil Coping Mechanisms in 2016. She is Co-Editor of [out of nothing], Editor of the new #RECURRENT Novel Series for Jaded Ibis Press, Assistant Editor at Fanzine, Executive Editor at Entropy, and Founder/CEO of POTG Design. She currently lives in Los Angeles where she is a Co-Founder of Code Talk, a new initiative to teach web development to low-income women, and where she teaches Graphic Texts & Interface Culture at CalArts. She can be found online at http://janicel.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spring 2015 Colloquium Series

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friday Forum with Rose Grose: “A Sexual Empowerment Process for Heterosexual and Sexual Minority Women”
2015-04-24 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. Light refreshments will be available.
For more info, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

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

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

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

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