BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Humanities Institute X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171118T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171118T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20171004T000900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181128T211102Z UID:10005417-1510999200-1511024400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:SPOT (Syntax-Prosody in OT) Workshop DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThis is a one-day IHR-sponsored workshop (Saturday\, Nov. 18\, 2017)\, called SPOT (“Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory”\, which is part of a research project aiming to create a computational platform that generates prosodic candidate sets from syntactic structure. The syntax-prosody interface is the study of how syntactic (grammatical) structures are mapped onto the prosodic structures in different languages. Several strands of work in prosodic theory have recently converged on a number of common themes\, from different directions\, broadly couched in Optimality Theory. Selkirk (2011) has developed a vastly simplified approach to the syntax-prosody mapping which distinguishes only three levels (word\, phrase\, and clause)\, and syntactic constituents are systematically made to correspond to phonological domains (“Match Theory”). In an independent line of research\, a long string of papers reaching back into the 1980s has convincingly demonstrated that recursive structures are by no means an exclusive property of syntax\, but also play a crucial role in phonology. One of the hallmarks of Match Theory is the idea that the main force interfering with syntax-prosody isomorphism is not some kind of non-isomorphic mapping algorithm flattening out the structure\, as first contemplated in SPE (Chomsky and Halle 1968\, 372) and more fully worked out in later proposals\, such as the edge-based theory built on one-sided alignment. It is rather the effect of genuine phonological wellformedness constraints on prosodic structure. \nBesides presenting the pilot SPOT program for comments\, the workshop will consist of research talks focused on the syntax-prosody interface by both invited speakers from the East Coast and Europe and Bay Area researchers. \nMore information about the IHR SPOT Research Cluster: http://ihr.ucsc.edu/portfolio/syntax-prosody-in-optimality-theory-spot/ \nPROGRAM \nSPOT Program: Saturday\, Nov. 18\, 2017 \n9:15am – 10:00am Pre-workshop coffee/tea\, bagels\, pastries and fruit \n10:00am -11:00am “Match Theory and the Asymmetry Problem: Intonational phrase marking in Stockholm Swedish” (abstract and handouts)\nShinichiro Ishihara (Lund University) \n11:15am -12:00pm “Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory” (abstract and handouts) Jenny Bellik and Nick Kalivoda (UC Santa Cruz) \n12:00pm -1:00pm Mexican buffet lunch \n1:00pm – 2:00pm“Syntactic Constituency Spell-Out through Match Constraints” (abstract and handouts)\nLisa Selkirk (UMass/Amherst) \n2:15pm – 3:00pm“Syntactic Constituency Spell-Out through Match Constraints” (abstract and handouts)\nNicholas Rolle (UC Berkeley) \n3:00pm -3:30pm Coffee Break \n3:30pm – 4:15pm“Syntactic Constituency Spell-Out through Match Constraints” (abstract and handouts)\nRyan Bennett\, Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz)\, and Emily Elfner (York University) \n4:30pm – 6:30pm Post-workshop reception \nFor more information contact Junko Ito (ito@ucsc.edu) or Armin Mester (mester@ucsc.edu) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/spot-syntax-prosody-in-ot-workshop-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/SPOT-for-event.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171129T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171129T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20170809T180821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170809T180821Z UID:10005394-1511956800-1511962200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jenny Reardon\, "The Postgenomic Condition: Meaning and Justice After the Genome" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nJenny Reardon’s research draws into focus questions about identity\, justice and democracy that are often silently embedded in scientific ideas and practices\, particularly in modern genomic research. Her training spans molecular biology\, the history of biology\, science studies\, feminist and critical race studies\, and the sociology of science\, technology and medicine. \nDr. Reardon is a Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Science and Justice Research Center at the UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-6-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171130T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171130T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20171004T185756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171004T185756Z UID:10006551-1512062400-1512067800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: James Janko & Ellen Greenblatt DESCRIPTION:James Janko refused to carry a weapon while serving in Viet Nam as a medic in an infantry battalion commanded by Colonel George Armstrong Custer III in 1970. His medals include the Bronze Star for Valor\, which he returned to the U.S. government in 1986 to protest their involvement in wars in Central America. In 2008\, Janko gave away other medals to Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange: Mrs. Dang Hong Nhut\, who suffers from thyroid cancer and has had numerous miscarriages\, and Ms. Tran Thi Hoan\, who was born without legs due to her mother’s exposure to Agent Orange. Janko’s novel\, The Clubhouse Thief\, won the AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) Award for the Novel and is forthcoming from New Issues Poetry and Prose (Western Michigan University) in January of 2018. An earlier novel\, Buffalo Boy and Geronimo (Curbstone Press)\, received wide critical acclaim and two awards: The Association of Asian American Studies Prose Award and the Northern California Book Award for Fiction. Janko’s short stories have appeared in The Massachusetts Review. \nEllen Greenblatt’s work as an educator has often focused on teaching literature in the context of social and historical issues. She met and became friends with James Janko when he appeared several times as a guest in her course about the American War in Vietnam\, a course which included the voices of American\, Vietnamese\, and Vietnamese-American speakers and authors. As a result of that course\, Ellen became part of the Veterans Writing Group started by Maxine Hong Kingston. \nEllen’s writing work includes creating educational materials for television documentaries and for teachers of literature\, and she has developed a literature-based approach to teaching about conflict and its aftermaths. Ellen has worked with teachers throughout the US and internationally\, and she has been an on-stage interviewer for City Arts and Lectures in San Francisco\, conducting literary interviews before a live audience. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-james-janko-ellen-greenblatt-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171201T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171201T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20170918T180148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T194204Z UID:10006538-1512126000-1512131400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: Proposal Writing - Framing Your Research for Fellowship and Grant Proposals DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThis workshop is devoted to developing a fellowship and grant strategy that will assist you in making your research proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss how the jargon of field-specific descriptions can affect both the clarity and persuasiveness of funding proposals\, and focus instead on teasing out the larger humanistic stakes of individual research projects. Please upload an abstract of your own by Friday\, November 24 to the shared Google Drive folder at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YR76sm_j34z5-0i3NOIsAVgLNHgMhTMP\, and bring a hardcopy with you to the workshop. A portion of our conversation will be devoted to revising current and/or future research proposals in order to appeal to scholars from a variety of humanistic departments and programs. \nPhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, and much more. \nLunch provided to all attendees. \nPlease RSVP below: \n  \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-competitive-proposals-for-ihr-funding-framing-your-research-for-fellowship-and-grant-proposals-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171202T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171202T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20171115T004105Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171115T004105Z UID:10006566-1512216000-1512230400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:2017 Symposium for Undergraduate Research at UCSC - Humanities And Social Sciences DESCRIPTION:The Symposium for Undergraduate Research at UCSC – Humanities And Social Sciences (SURU-HASS) is an event designed to allow students from different disciplines to come together to share and learn about research. Because of a need for more events like this in the Humanities and Social Sciences\, we especially encourage students from those disciplines to apply\, but research projects from all areas are welcome! \nThe application deadline is November 18\, 2017 at 11:59pm and the event will take place on December 2\, 2017. \nCheck out the SURU-HASS website to learn more: https://tinyurl.com/SURU-HASS \nWhat SURU-HASS can do for you: \n– We will be hosting workshops for doing an oral presentation and making a poster to help you with practical presentation skills!\n– This symposium is a great opportunity to network with other undergraduates\, graduate students\, and even faculty and staff\, within your major and beyond.\n– The symposium is an opportunity to know the real-world problems other majors are trying to solve. \nFor more information contact: SURU-HASS@UCSC.EDU URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2017-symposium-for-undergraduate-research-at-ucsc-humanities-and-social-sciences-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/SURU-HASS-event-flyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171205T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171205T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20180130T013141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180130T013141Z UID:10005453-1512460800-1512493200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:New Event Layout DESCRIPTION:Curabitur blandit tempus porttitor. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet\, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce dapibus\, tellus ac cursus commodo\, tortor mauris condimentum nibh\, ut fermentum massa justo sit amet risus. Cras mattis consectetur purus sit amet fermentum. Maecenas faucibus mollis interdum. Nullam id dolor id nibh ultricies vehicula ut id elit. \nDonec ullamcorper nulla non metus auctor fringilla. Nullam quis risus eget urna mollis ornare vel eu leo. Duis mollis\, est non commodo luctus\, nisi erat porttitor ligula\, eget lacinia odio sem nec elit. Praesent commodo cursus magna\, vel scelerisque nisl consectetur et. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/new-event-layout/ LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/The-Little-Database-3.20.18-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171205T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20170922T165541Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T165541Z UID:10006543-1512489600-1512496800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:3D Scanning\, Bronze Age Swords & Social Networks: Using data to reconstruct shared knowledge DESCRIPTION:3D Scanning\, Bronze Age Swords & Social Networks: Using data to reconstruct shared knowledge \nCome learn about 3D scanning\, statistics\, and network analysis!\n \nKristy Golubiewski-Davis will detail her research using 3D scans of Bronze Age swords (~1600-800BC) to recreate community networks of knowledge. The aim of the work is to visualize the networks of specialized knowledge across space. Digital methods were used to identify the decisions of specialized craft workers and generate social networks that spread knowledge around the world.\n \nThis project serves as a case study for thinking about digital project development and management: how can you juggle multiple methods and a large data set while staying focused on building scholarly arguments?\n \nLocation: Digital Scholarship Commons (Ground Floor McHenry Library)\n\n\nCosponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research and the Digital Scholarship Commons URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/3d-scanning-bronze-age-swords-social-networks-using-data-to-reconstruct-shared-knowledge-2/ LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry Library END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171207T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171207T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20171129T185746Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171129T185746Z UID:10005436-1512658800-1512666000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CRES: Works in Progress featuring Sheeva Sabati & Nick Mitchell DESCRIPTION: URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cres-works-in-progress-featuring-sheeva-sabti-nick-mitchell-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171207T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171207T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20171004T190900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171004T190900Z UID:10006552-1512667200-1512672600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Student Reading DESCRIPTION:This event will feature undergraduate student readings. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-student-reading-3-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180111T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180111T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20171113T194244Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180116T182140Z UID:10006565-1515677400-1515682800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ana Candela: "From Compradors to Hacendados: Cantonese Merchants in Peru and the Expanding Settler Colonial Frontiers of the Cantonese Pacific" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nBiography: \nAna Maria Candela is a historian of Modern China and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University. Her research focuses on Chinese migrations to Latin America as a way to explore the global dimensions of Chinese history. Her work has appeared in Critical Asian Studies and the Journal of World-Systems Research. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled Intimate Others: Peruvian Chinese Between Native Place\, Nation and World\, 1880s-1940s. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ana-candela-asian-migration-to-south-america/ LOCATION:CA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Solstice-Music-Fest.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180112T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180112T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20170925T191408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T194318Z UID:10006549-1515754800-1515760200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: "Undisciplining Your Research: A Hands-On Workshop to Translate Academic Humanities Research for Multiple Publics" DESCRIPTION:“Undisciplining Your Research: A Hands-On Workshop to Translate Academic Humanities Research for Multiple Publics” \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nPanelists:  \n– Sarah Papazoglakis\, PhD Candidate\, Literature \n– Kara Hisatake\, PhD Candidate\, Literature & MLA Public Engagement Fellow \nAbout: As doctoral students in the humanities\, how do we communicate the importance of our work outside of our disciplines without it sounding reductive? How do we communicate what we do and why it matters to people outside of academia\, including prospective employers?   \nIn this workshop\, you will: \n– Hear from several hiring managers in the private and nonprofit sectors about what turns them on and off when humanities PhDs apply for jobs at their organizations. Learn to avoid common pitfalls. \n– Create a one-page draft cover letter for a job in the private or public sector. \n– Make an informal 3-minute video about your research using your smartphone or computer. Enter the video into the UCSC Grad Slam competition for a chance to win $3000! \nChoose from sample job descriptions and cover letter templates provided at the workshop. Or bring a job description that interests you and your own sample cover letter. \nKara Hisatake is a PhD Candidate in Literature and a 2018-2019 MLA Connected Academics Career Development Boot Camp Fellow. Sarah Papazoglakis is a PhD Candidate in Literature and part of the 2018 UCSC Chancellor’s Graduate Internship Program Cohort. \nPhD+ Workshop Series \nPlease join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Humanities Institute. We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, and much more. \nLunch provided to all attendees \n*Stay tuned for more information. \n\nPlease RSVP below: \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-undisciplining-your-research-a-hands-on-workshop-to-translate-academic-humanities-research-for-multiple-publics/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180113 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180114 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20171113T193830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180108T202458Z UID:10006564-1515801600-1515887999@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Center for Public Philosophy: High School Ethics Bowl DESCRIPTION:What is an Ethics Bowl? \nThe Ethics Bowl is a collaborative yet competitive event\, more nuanced than debate\, in which teams are presented with a series of wide-ranging ethical dilemmas and are asked to analyze them; they are then judged on the basis of their analyses. An exciting tournament\, it is also a way for students to gain valuable insight into ethical and philosophical issues. According to Michael Steinmann\, director of the Stevens Institute High School Ethics Bowl\, the events promote intellectual\, personal\, and social growth. They deepen students’ understanding of the complexity of ethical issues; increase their sense of personal responsibility; and promote a model of rational\, civil discourse so essential to functioning democracies. \nDuring each round\, a moderator poses a question to two teams composed of five students and the competition follows a predetermined format encompassing team order and time limitations. All teams receive the cases and questions in fall so that they can prepare their responses with their coaches. The panel of judges includes not only those with philosophy backgrounds but businesspeople\, politicians\, and members of various professions in the community to underscore the fact that ethics is not simply an academic subject. We will also invite the press to attend. Each team will have the opportunity to compete in several rounds to advance to the semifinals and then the championship round. The winners of the competition (and their schools) will receive special recognition. \nThe ethical dilemmas used in a high school ethics bowl range from those particularly relevant to young students (questions about cheating\, plagiarism\, peer pressure\, use and abuse of social media\, the right to privacy\, relationship responsibilities) to political and social issues (free speech\, gun control\, eco-tourism) and bioethical issues (cloning\, parental consent). \nFree and open to the public. \nSchedule: \n8:45-8:55am – Welcome\n9:00-10:00am – Round 1\n10:30–11:30am – Round 2\n12:00-1:00pm – Round 3\n1:00-2:00pm – Lunch\n2:00-2:30pm – Announce Semi-Finalists\n2:45-3:45pm – Semi-Final Round\n4:00-5:00pm – Final Round \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ethics-bowl/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180114T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180114T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20180110T195346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180110T195907Z UID:10006574-1515938400-1515945600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Introduction to Little Dorrit DESCRIPTION:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club featuring Little Dorrit \nThe Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms\, students\, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel\, beginning this January with Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit. Join us each month for conversations about the novel and guest speaker presentations to help us contextualize our readings. \n  \nSanta Cruz Pickwick Club meets every second Sunday of each month from January – May 2018 at 2pm at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. \nSchedule: \nJanuary 14th: Introduction of the Novel\nFebruary 11th: Little Dorrit in Historical Context\nMarch 11th: Victorian Colonialism\nApril 8th: “How Did the Grim Reaper’s Swift Scythe Sharpen Little Dorrit’s Plot?”\nMay 13th: The Dickens Universe \nMore information\, including schedule can be found by visiting: https://goo.gl/zFQq2M. \n  \nBook club is free and open to the public.\nRegistration requested. \nQuestions? Contact Courtney at (831)459-2103 or dpj@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-featuring-little-dorrit/ LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Pickwick-flyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180117T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180117T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20170809T181003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180116T164914Z UID:10005396-1516190400-1516195800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CANCELED: Roddey Reid: "Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: Affect and Activism in the Trump Era and Beyond" DESCRIPTION:Roddey Reid is Professor Emeritus of French Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of California\, San Diego. Reid is the author three books including most recently of Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: A Citizen’s Guide for the Trump Era and Beyond; of Families in Jeopardy: Regulating the Social Body in France\, 1750-1910; co-editor with Sharon Traweek of Doing Science + Culture; and author of Globalizing Tobacco Control: Anti-Smoking Campaigns in California\, France\, and Japan. His latest writing has been on trauma\, daily life\, and the culture of intimidation and bullying in the U.S. and Europe. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-7-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180118T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180118T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20180110T191919Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180112T201409Z UID:10006573-1516288500-1516294800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ram Neta: "Puzzle of Transparency" DESCRIPTION:The Puzzle of Transparency\nAs you and I are out for a walk\, I notice that the sky is getting cloudier and so I ask you “do you believe that it’s going to rain?” In response to this question\, you normally do not pay attention to your own states of mind\, but rather to the way the sky looks and the air feels. But if I’m asking about what you believe\, then shouldn’t you pay attention to your own state of mind\, instead of to your perceptible environment? Some philosophers claim that\, when I utter the interrogative sentence “do you believe that it’s going to rain?”\, I’m not curious about your state of mind\, but only about the weather. But this is false: I could ask you the very same question even if I happen to know perfectly well that it’s going to rain\, and I’m just curious what you make of the current weather conditions. So\, if I’m asking about your beliefs\, why do you normally answer me by paying attention to the weather instead of paying attention to your state of mind? In order to answer this question\, I argue\, we will have to admit that the capacity to represent one’s own mental states can make a metaphysical difference to the nature of those states. \n  \nRam Neta is a Professor of Philosophy at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He specializes in epistemology and is currently at work on a book on the nature of knowledge. In particular\, he is trying to understand what knowledge is by examining the various ways in which knowing some things depends upon knowing other things. \n  \nAdvanced Reading: The Puzzle of Transparency URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ram-neta-puzzle-transparency/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180119T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180119T152000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20171115T194610Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180110T232324Z UID:10005428-1516368000-1516375200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Martina Wiltschko: "Nominal speech act structure. A personal view." DESCRIPTION:The concept of person is in many ways tied to speech acts. This is obvious just by exploring the interpretation of\npronouns: 1st person pronouns are used to refer to the speaker\, 2nd person pronouns are used to refer to the addressee\,\nand 3rd person is used for individuals other than the speech act participants. Another way in which person plays a\nrole for speech acts has to with the fact that in much of the current literature that seeks to “syntacticize speech acts”\n(Ross 1970\, Speas and Tenny 2003\, Zu 2013\, Miyagawa 2017\, a.o.) speech act participants are part of the syntactic\nrepresentation of sentences\, as evidenced\, for example\, by speaker or addressee-agreement. However\, 1st and\n2nd person pronouns can receive an impersonal interpretation (Gruber 2013\, Zobel 2014) while still triggering\ngrammatical agreement for 1st and 2nd person. This suggests that there are at least two notions of person: one purely\ngrammatical and the other pragmatic in nature. \nIn this talk I examine yet another way in which person may be tied to speech acts. In particular\, assuming the well-\nestablished parallel between the functional architecture of clauses and nominal projections (Chomsky 1970\, Abney \n1987\, Grimshaw 2005\, Rijkhoff 2008)\, we might expect that – just as clauses – nominal projections too are\ndominated by a dedicated speech act structure. Specifically\, I will argue that the arguments of (clausal and nominal)\nspeech act structure do not correspond to speech act participants directly\, but instead they correspond to each speech\nact participant’s ‘ground’ – hence I assume a speaker- and addressee-oriented projection. The function of this layer\nof structure is to encode the mutual process of grounding – the joint activity which allows interlocutors to establish\ncommon ground. To support this hypothesis\, I review literature from dialogue based frameworks according to which\nreferring to an individual is a collaborative effort between speaker and addressee (Clark and Wilkes-Gibbs 1986\,\nClark and Bangerter 2004). With this as my background assumption\, I discuss the implications of the nominal\nspeech act hypothesis for a number of empirical phenomena including: impersonals\, logophors\, and social deixis. \nMartina Wiltschko is Professor of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/martina-wiltschko-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180124T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180124T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20171113T193320Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180118T234823Z UID:10006563-1516795200-1516798800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Humanities Radio Hour DESCRIPTION:Please tune in to KZSC 88.1 FM for Artists on Art’s Humanities Radio Hour for a discussion of the upcoming Questions That Matter: Freedom & Race. UC Santa Cruz Humanities Dean Tyler Stovall and History of Art and Visual Culture professor Jennifer González will preview their 1/30 talk. \n  \nClick here to listen online. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-radio-hour-2/ LOCATION:KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/artist-on-art.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180124T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180124T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20170809T181210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180129T201651Z UID:10005398-1516795200-1516800600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Megan Moodie: "Emerging Genres: What Lies between Fiction and Ethnography" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nMegan Moodie’s work focuses on feminist political and legal anthropology and experimental ethnographic writing in India\, East Europe\, and the U.S. Moodie will read from her full-length novel-in-progress\, The Wishful\, based in part on fieldwork in Rajasthan\, India\, and discuss the relationship between aesthetics and analytics in ethnographic practice and textual production. \nMegan Moodie is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-8-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180124T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180124T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20171213T193823Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T205546Z UID:10005442-1516798800-1516806000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Digital Humanities VizLab Open House DESCRIPTION:If you’ve never tried VR before\, this is your chance. Explore the new DSC VizLab and experience Virtual Reality. \nWe invite you to test the HTC VIVE headset\, Samsung Gear VR\, and Google Cardboard Headset. DSC Staff will be available to answer questions and introduce you to available resources and hardware. \nCosponsored by the IDEA Hub and the Digital Scholarship Commons. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-humanities-vizlab-open-house-2/ LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry Library ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/VizWall-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180125T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180125T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20171227T182707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180123T041537Z UID:10006569-1516900800-1516906200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Jennifer Tamayo DESCRIPTION:Jennif(f)er Tamayo is a writer and performer. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago and her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Louisiana State University. She is the author of the collection of poems and art work\, Red Missed Aches Read Missed Aches Red Mistakes Read Mistakes (Switchback\, 2011) and the limited edition chapbook POEMS ARE THE ONLY REAL BODIES  (Bloof Books\, 2013).  Her second full collection of poems and artwork is YOU DA ONE (Noemi 2017\, Coconut 2014). From 2010-2015\, JT has served as the Managing Editor for Futurepoem  an independent NYC press publishing contemporary poetry and prose. She is a Canto Mundo Fellow and a Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics EmergeNYC Fellow (2016.) She currently lives and works in Sacramento\, California. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Winter 2018: \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art\, and Space \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry\, prose\, visual and textile arts\, photography\, film\, dance\, and improvisation to address questions of gender\, sexuality\, and race.  This series will explore the intersections of literature\, writing and performance\, and the ways that themes of nation\, exile\, trauma\, and joy move through individual\, collective and individual artistic practices.\nThis series will also feature three “Live Models\,” in the form of master conversations/performances\, mainly for the Creative/Critical (and other) graduate students\, faculty\, and the larger Cowell College Community. \n  \nWinter 2018 Schedule:\nJanuary 25th: Jennifer Tamayo\nFebruary 1st: Karen Tei Yamashita\nFebruary 15th: Duriel E. Harris\nFebruary 22nd: Cecilia Vicuña\nMarch 15th: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \n  \nAll Living Writers readings are free and open to the public. Please contact Ronaldo Wilson at rvwilson@ucsc.edu with any questions or concerns. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, and Literature Department and Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-jennifer-tamayo-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/living-writers-w18.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180126T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180126T134500 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20180119T205812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T205515Z UID:10006584-1516969800-1516974300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Steven Haug: "Community in Heidegger's Philosophy of Art" DESCRIPTION:In order for a work of art to be great\, according to Heidegger\, at least one of the conditions it must meet is the community condition. While this condition is discussed much less in the literature than the relation of art to truth in Heidegger\, it is of more consequence. It is art’s inability to meet the community condition which led Heidegger to conclude that art since the Middle Ages is not great art. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of the community condition in Heidegger’s philosophy of art and explain just what the condition is. \nSteven Haug is a philosophy Phd student who works primarily on the philosophy of art\, especially 20th century German philosophy of art. His most recent project focuses on elucidating the importance of community in Heidegger’s philosophy of art. \nFriday Forum is 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. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments: HAVC\, Literature\, and History of Consciousness. \nFor questions\, email fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stephen-haug-community-heideggers-philosophy-art/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180129T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180129T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20180124T010519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180124T010536Z UID:10006585-1517238000-1517245200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"Intentional Design: Making Assignments that Work" DESCRIPTION:“Intentional Design: Making Assignments that Work\,” with Jessie Dubreuil\, Kimberly Helmer\, Philip Longo\, Tonya Ritola\, and Heather Shearer \nThis is the second teaching workshop of The Humanities Institute research cluster “Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now”\, designed to promote collective conversations about how we teach in the humanities now. Whether you teach a large lecture course or a small seminar\, join us to explore and discuss best practices for assignment design that go beyond the traditional essay. Writing Program faculty will introduce research-based strategies to promote conceptual thinking and build competency. The interactive workshop will provide faculty with strategies to apply to current or future assignments. Please bring an assignment you would like to work on. All Senate and non-Senate faculty and graduate students welcome. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/intentional-design-making-assignments-work/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180130T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180130T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20170809T181347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180226T225841Z UID:10005400-1517335200-1517344200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Questions That Matter:"Freedom and Race" DESCRIPTION:America has famously been called “the land of the free\,” and yet when the “Star Spangled Banner” was written\, people of African descent were enslaved within its borders\, including by the song’s own author\, Francis Scott Key. Today\, the relationship between freedom and race continues to vex the United States and the rest of the world. Join us for a frank and thoughtful discussion of this question that matters. \nFeaturing: \nJennifer González is a Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at UCSC. She writes about contemporary art with an emphasis on installation art\, digital art and activist art. She is interested in understanding the strategic use of space (exhibition space\, public space\, virtual space) by contemporary artists and by cultural institutions such as museums. More specifically\, she has focused on the representation of the human body and its relation to discourses of race and gender. \nTyler Stovall is a Distinguished Professor of History and Dean of Humanities at UCSC\, as well as the current President of the American Historical Association. His work centers on questions of race and class\, blackness\, postcolonial history\, and transnational history as applied to modern and twentieth century France\, and covers a wide range of topics from the Paris suburbs to black American expatriates in France to the French Caribbean. \nModerated by: \nNathaniel Deutsch \nDirector of The Humanities Institute \n \nQuestions that Matter “Freedom and Race” from IHR on Vimeo. \n  \n  \nTUESDAY\, JANUARY 30\, 2018 \nKuumbwa Jazz Center – Directions and Parking Details  \n$15 Ticket \n6pm – Wine and hors d’oeuvres reception \n7pm – Program \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274. \nBuy Tickets \n  \nQuestions That Matter: A Series of Public Dialogues in Santa Cruz\nA public humanities series developed by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and the community of Santa Cruz – bringing together two or more UC Santa Cruz scholars with community residents and students to explore questions that matter to all of us. The series is a part of a strategic initiative of the Institute to champion the role and value of the humanities in contemporary life. At the University of California Santa Cruz\, we understand that the humanities are a crucial element of any first-rate liberal arts education. Indeed\, what distinguishes the best universities in the United States is the fact that the humanities are an integral part of their core curriculum\, along with the arts and sciences. The series is designed as a lecture and conversation\, with plenty of time built in for participant questions and answers. We invite you to join us on January 30\, 2018 at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center for “Freedom and Race.” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/questions-that-matter-freedom-and-race/ LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/thi-concept-email-3e.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180131T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180131T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20170809T181837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T185928Z UID:10005402-1517400000-1517405400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Derek Murray: "On Post-Blackness: Queer Satire in Contemporary African-American Art" DESCRIPTION:Derek Conrad Murray is an interdisciplinary theorist specializing in the history\, theory and criticism of contemporary art\, visual culture and cultural studies. Author of Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights\, Murray is completing two additional book manuscripts\, Regarding Difference: Contemporary African-American Art and the Politics of Recognition and Mapplethorpe and the Flower: Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nDerek Murray is an Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-9-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180131T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180131T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20180116T192255Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180213T202346Z UID:10006581-1517412600-1517419800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Yarimar Bonilla: "The Wait of Disaster: Hurricanes and the Politics of Recovery in Puerto Rico" DESCRIPTION:The Race\, Violence\, Inequality\, and the Anthropocene Research Cluster Presents: \n“Dr. Yarimar Bonilla\, The Wait of Disaster: Hurricanes and the Politics of Recovery in Puerto Rico” \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nDr. Yarimar Bonilla is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latino/Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University.\nHer research focuses on the colonial logics of sovereignty and on questions of race\, citizenship\, and nation\nacross the Americas. She is the author of Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of\nDisenchantment (2016). \nFree and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/wait-disaster-hurricanes-politics-recovery-puerto-rico/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/8.5X11-Yarimar-Bonilla-W2018.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180201T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180201T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20171227T183350Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180131T183651Z UID:10006570-1517505600-1517511000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Karen Tei Yamashita DESCRIPTION:Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest\, Brazil-Maru\, Tropic of Orange\, Circle K Cycles\, I Hotel\, Anime Wong: Fictions of Performance\, and most recently\, Letters to Memory\, all published by Coffee House Press. I Hotel was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the California Book Award\, the American Book Award\, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award\, and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. She received a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellowship and is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Winter 2018: \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art\, and Space \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry\, prose\, visual and textile arts\, photography\, film\, dance\, and improvisation to address questions of gender\, sexuality\, and race.  This series will explore the intersections of literature\, writing and performance\, and the ways that themes of nation\, exile\, trauma\, and joy move through individual\, collective and individual artistic practices.\nThis series will also feature three “Live Models\,” in the form of master conversations/performances\, mainly for the Creative/Critical (and other) graduate students\, faculty\, and the larger Cowell College Community. \n  \nWinter 2018 Schedule:\nJanuary 25th: Jennifer Tamayo\nFebruary 1st: Karen Tei Yamashita\nFebruary 15th: Duriel E. Harris\nFebruary 22nd: Cecilia Vicuña\nMarch 15th: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \n  \nAll Living Writers readings are free and open to the public. Please contact Ronaldo Wilson at rvwilson@ucsc.edu with any questions or concerns. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, and Literature Department and Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-karen-tei-yamashita-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/living-writers-w18.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180202T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180202T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20170925T191711Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T194422Z UID:10005409-1517569200-1517574600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: Effective Interviewing Practices & Job Offer Negotiation Skills: A Workshop with Annie Maxfield (UCLA Career Center) DESCRIPTION:Persuasive Interviewing and Negotiation Tips for Humanities PhDs with Annie Maxfield \nExcelling in interview settings is a skill that requires thought\, practice\, and confidence. During this interactive workshop\, attendees will practice and refine their interviewing skills by learning persuasive techniques that enhance their storytelling abilities and highlight their key contributions. \nAnnie Maxfield is the associate director for graduate student relations and services at the UCLA career center\, where she leads campus-wide initiatives to prepare PhDs for careers in and beyond the academy. She has had the opportunity to lead workshops across the UC-System and at national conferences for Humanities and Social Science PhDs.  She is an experienced teacher\, having taught digital and strategic communication courses\, interviewing and personal branding at 6 different universities including the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill\, the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California.  She earned her bachelor’s degrees in philosophy and communication and her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Utah. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nPhD+ Workshop Series \nPlease join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Humanities Institute. We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, and much more. \nLunch provided to all attendees. \n  \n*Stay tuned for more information. \n\nPlease RSVP below: \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-effective-interviewing-practices-job-offer-negotiation-skills-a-workshop-with-annie-maxfield-ucla-career-center-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180207T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180207T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20170809T182226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180213T202359Z UID:10005404-1518004800-1518010200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Roddey Reid: “Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: Affect and Activism in the Trump Era and Beyond” DESCRIPTION:Roddey Reid is Professor Emeritus of French Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of California\, San Diego. Reid is the author three books including most recently of Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: A Citizen’s Guide for the Trump Era and Beyond; of Families in Jeopardy: Regulating the Social Body in France\, 1750-1910; co-editor with Sharon Traweek of Doing Science + Culture; and author of Globalizing Tobacco Control: Anti-Smoking Campaigns in California\, France\, and Japan. His latest writing has been on trauma\, daily life\, and the culture of intimidation and bullying in the U.S. and Europe. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-10-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180207T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180207T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20171213T194054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T191046Z UID:10005444-1518019200-1518026400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Opening Reception: New Visualization Spaces in the Digital Scholarship Commons DESCRIPTION:Celebrate two new Visualization spaces in McHenry Library and the campus partnerships that enhance digital scholarship at UCSC. \nThe David Kirk Digital Scholarship Commons is thrilled to formally launch the VizWall\, a large scale visualization installation\, and the VizLab\, a Virtual Reality and 360 Lab. These new spaces are built through partnerships between the University Library\, The Humanities Institute\, the Humanities Division\, CITIRIS\, and the IDEA Hub. \nJoin us to toast these collaborative partnerships\, explore these new spaces\, and experience new modes of scholarly production. The event will include a featured presentation by Elaine Sullivan (History) about her work with 4D models of ancient Egyptian temple sites. Demonstrations in Virtual Reality will also be available throughout the reception. \n \nRefreshments and wine will be served. Click here to register. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-humanities-vizwall-launch-2/ LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry Library ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/DAVID-KIRKDIGITAL-SCHOLARSHIP-COMMONS.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180208T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180208T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20180116T184642Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180124T215443Z UID:10006580-1518116400-1518123600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Kimberlé Crenshaw: 34th Annual Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Convocation DESCRIPTION:The annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by presenting speakers who discuss the civil rights issues of equality\, freedom\, justice\, and opportunity. The convocation also seeks to build partnerships and develop dialogue within the campus community and with the local communities served by the university. \nSpeaker: Kimberlé Crenshaw\nProfessor of law at UCLA and Columbia Law School\, leading authority on civil rights\, black feminist legal theory\, and race\, racism\, and the law.\n \nHarriet’s Legacy: Navigating Intersectionality in the Age of Trump \nPositioned at the crossroads of race and gender\, women and girls of color face unique barriers under the burdens of both sexism and racism. This is especially true in the wake of the 2016 election\, as discrimination\, racialized hate speech and gendered violence have been normalized and\, seemingly encouraged\, by the White House. As we enter the 2nd year under the current administration\, we must reflect back not only on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\, but of the Black women who\, although often misremembered or outright forgotten\, fought for civil rights and equality throughout history. In this lecture\, Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw will utilize a historical analysis with an intersectional lens to expose the impact of institutional oppression within marginalized communities’ configured networks between identities\, i.e. race\, gender\, and socioeconomic status\, a reflect on the contemporary legacy of social justice and the continued struggle for equality in the United States. \nRead More URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kimberle-crenshaw-34th-annual-martin-luther-king-jr-memorial-convocation/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/mlk-2018.gif ORGANIZER;CN="UCSC Special Events Office":MAILTO:specialevents@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180209T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180209T134500 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20180130T204512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180131T183038Z UID:10006586-1518179400-1518183900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum: Stephen David Engel DESCRIPTION:Stephen David Engel is a PhD student in the History of Consciousness Department. \nFriday Forum is 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. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments: HAVC\, Literature\, and History of Consciousness. \nFor questions\, email fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-stephen-david-engel/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180209T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180209T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20180129T184755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180205T172115Z UID:10005450-1518184800-1518192000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Victoria Bañales: "Community College Teaching - A View From Inside" DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department Graduate Program Alumni Speaker Series Presents: \n“Community College Teaching: A View From Inside”\nVictoria Bañales \nVictoria Bañales earned a Ph.D. in Literature with a Parenthetical Notation in Feminist Studies from UCSC. Her work has appeared in the anthologies Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representations and Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/ a Américas. Victoria is a tenured English faculty member at Cabrillo College where she has taught for over twelve ears. She serves on numerous committees and is the chair of the Cabrillo Hispanic Affairs Council. She is last year’s recipient of Cabrillo’s EOPS Instructor of the Year Award. \n  \nOther Upcoming Events: \nApril 11 & 12th: “‘In Defense of Sex’ and the Post PhD Path” by Chris Breu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/community-college-teaching-view-inside/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Revised-Banales.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180211T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180211T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105146 CREATED:20180110T195917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180110T195917Z UID:10006575-1518357600-1518364800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Little Dorrit in Historical Context DESCRIPTION:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club featuring Little Dorrit \nThe Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms\, students\, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel\, beginning this January with Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit. Join us each month for conversations about the novel and guest speaker presentations to help us contextualize our readings. \n  \nSanta Cruz Pickwick Club meets every second Sunday of each month from January – May 2018 at 2pm at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. \nSchedule: \nJanuary 14th: Introduction of the Novel\nFebruary 11th: Little Dorrit in Historical Context\nMarch 11th: Victorian Colonialism\nApril 8th: “How Did the Grim Reaper’s Swift Scythe Sharpen Little Dorrit’s Plot?”\nMay 13th: The Dickens Universe \nMore information\, including schedule can be found by visiting: https://goo.gl/zFQq2M. \n  \nBook club is free and open to the public.\nRegistration requested. \nQuestions? Contact Courtney at (831)459-2103 or dpj@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-little-dorrit-historical-context/ LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Pickwick-flyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180214T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180214T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20170809T182322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180220T183204Z UID:10005406-1518609600-1518615000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Neel Ahuja: "Reversible Human: Rectal Feeding\, Gut Plasticity\, and Racial Control in US Carceral Warfare" DESCRIPTION:Neel Ahuja’s research explores the relationship of the body to forms of imperial warfare and security. Focusing on the association of rectal feeding\, used as a form of medical rape in CIA prisons\, and bodily plasticity\, the presentation argues that the terrorist body is not only a useful discursive figure in the current wars\, but also an experimental material that can be used to modulate time\, sensation\, and resistance toward forms of racial control. \nNeel Ahuja teaches in the interdisciplinary humanities programs at UC Santa Cruz. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-11-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180215T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180215T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180118T181104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180220T184337Z UID:10006583-1518696000-1518701400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Daniel Lee: "A Sleepy English Village and a North African Jew: An Unlikely Story of French Resistance during World War Two" DESCRIPTION:The story of the Free French who rallied to Charles de Gaulle in London following the fall of France in June 1940 is well-known. But until now\, historians have ignored the experiences of men and women from France and the French Empire who were not sympathetic to De Gaulle and the Free French\, but who nonetheless fought in Britain for the allied cause. In the same vein\, existing scholarship has not explored how North African Jews\, persecuted by Vichy antisemitic laws\, sought to re-integrate into the new structures that emerged following the allied liberation of North Africa in November 1942. This talk will re-examine these dual phenomena through the unlikely lens of the village of Elvington in Yorkshire and the diary of a North African Jewish airman stationed there\, whose story reveals a new Sephardi perspective on World War Two. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nDaniel Lee is a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Sheffield. Before joining Sheffield in 2015\, Lee was a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at Brasenose College\, Oxford. His first book\, Pétain’s Jewish Children: French Jewish Youth and the Vichy Regime\, 1940–1942 was published with Oxford University Press in 2014. He has held fellowships at the Institute of Historical Research\, the European University Institute\, Yad Vashem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. As a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker\, Lee is a regular broadcaster on radio. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-jewish-studies-daniel-lee/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Daniel-Lee-Poster-2.15.18.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180215T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180215T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20171227T183840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180110T213725Z UID:10006571-1518715200-1518720600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Duriel E. Harris DESCRIPTION:Duriel E. Harris\, poet\, performer\, and sound artist\, is author of No Dictionary of a Living\nTongue\, Drag and Amnesiac and coauthor of the poetry video Speleology. Current undertakings\ninclude “Blood Labyrinth” and the solo performance project Thingification. Harris is an\nassociate professor of English in the graduate creative writing program at Illinois State\nUniversity and the Editor of Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Winter 2018: \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art\, and Space \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry\, prose\, visual and textile arts\, photography\, film\, dance\, and improvisation to address questions of gender\, sexuality\, and race.  This series will explore the intersections of literature\, writing and performance\, and the ways that themes of nation\, exile\, trauma\, and joy move through individual\, collective and individual artistic practices.\nThis series will also feature three “Live Models\,” in the form of master conversations/performances\, mainly for the Creative/Critical (and other) graduate students\, faculty\, and the larger Cowell College Community. \n  \nWinter 2018 Schedule:\nJanuary 25th: Jennifer Tamayo\nFebruary 1st: Karen Tei Yamashita\nFebruary 15th: Duriel E. Harris\nFebruary 22nd: Cecilia Vicuña\nMarch 15th: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \n  \nAll Living Writers readings are free and open to the public. Please contact Ronaldo Wilson at rvwilson@ucsc.edu with any questions or concerns. \n \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, and Literature Department and Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-duriel-e-harris-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/living-writers-w18.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180216T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180216T152000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20171115T194744Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180209T185132Z UID:10005430-1518787200-1518794400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Adam Ussishkin: "Roots\, or consonants? On the early role of morphology in lexical access" DESCRIPTION:Words consist of a phoneme or letter sequence that maps onto meaning. Most prominent theories of both auditory and visual word recognition portray the recognition process as a connection between these units and a semantic level. However\, there is a growing body of evidence in the priming literature suggesting that there is an additional\, morphological level that mediates the recognition process. In morphologically linear languages like English\, however\, morphemes and letter or sound sequences are co-extensive\, so the source of priming effects between related words could be due to simple phonological overlap as opposed to morphological overlap. In Semitic languages\, though\, the morphological structure of words reduces this confound\, since morphemes are interdigitated in a non-linear fashion. Semitic words are typically composed of a discontiguous root (made up of three consonants) embedded in a word pattern specifying the vowels and the ordering between consonants and vowels. Active-passive pairs in Maltese illustrate this relationship (the root is underlined); e.g.\, fetaħ ‘open’-miftuħ ‘opened’. In this talk\, I report on a series of experiments on the Semitic language Maltese investigating the extent to which root morphemes facilitate visual and auditory word recognition\, and to what extent potential priming effects are independent of the phonological overlap typically inherent in morphological relationships. These experiments make use of the visual masked (Forster and Davis\, 1984) and auditory masked (Kouider and Dupoux\, 2005) priming techniques. The results of the experiments show that not only do roots facilitate visual and auditory word recognition in Maltese\, but that these morphological effects are independent of phonological overlap effects. \nAdam Ussishkin is associate professor in the Department of Linguistics\, with appointments in the UA Cognitive Science program\, the UA Second Language Acquisition and Teaching program\, the Department of Middle Eastern and North African Studies\, The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies\, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. His research focuses on the lexicon\, and is informed by psycholinguistic experimentation\, as well as formal and laboratory phonology and morphology. Much of the research he conducts centers on Semitic languages\, especially Maltese and Modern Hebrew. He also works on corpus creation and evaluation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/adam-ussishkin-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180220T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180220T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20171213T194441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180307T225504Z UID:10006567-1519128000-1519133400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dr. Angus Forbes: "Immersive Interpretation - Exploring Data in Virtual Reality" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nImmersive Interpretation: Exploring Data in Virtual Reality\nAngus Forbes (UCSC\, Computational Media) \nForbes will discuss the opportunities for exploring and analyzing data using contemporary display technologies\, such as interactive video walls\, ambisonic theaters\, and virtual reality headsets. I present a range of projects that examine novel ways of representing scientific and cultural datasets\, including an interactive art installation that explores connections between photographic images and literary themes in the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ One Hundred Years of Solitude\, dynamic visualizations of the human brain connectome and protein interaction networks\, and an outdoor museum exhibition that superimposes historical photographs onto relevant architectural features. By taking advantage of the new forms of representation and interaction that these technologies make possible\, we can provide useful interpretations of and new perspectives into the complex systems that that govern\, or perhaps define\, contemporary life. \n  \nDr. Angus Forbes is an assistant professor in the Computational Media department at University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he directs the UCSC Creative Coding lab. His research investigates new forms of visualizing and interacting with complex scientific information; his computational artwork has been featured at museums\, galleries\, and festivals throughout the world. Angus was the general chair of the IEEE VIS Arts Program from 2013 through 2017\, and will serve as the art papers chair for ACM SIGGRAPH 2018. \nClick here for any additional information about Angus’s research and artwork.  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/angus-forbes-digital-humanities-lecture-2/ LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry Library ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/AngusinBrooklynDec2017-e1516655521596.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180221T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180221T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180206T201925Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180307T230206Z UID:10006590-1519214400-1519219800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jodi Byrd: "Fire & Flood - Settler Colonialisms & Pessimistic Indigenous Futurisms" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThe Feminist Studies Department and CRES are pleased to partner with The Center for Cultural Studies to present this CULT Colloquium Series talk:\n“Fire & Flood: Settler Colonialisms & Pessimistic Indigenous Futurisms” \nCaught within the both/and of dystopic collapse\, colonial fantasies of American futurities often reproduce themselves through nineteenth-century signs of the struggle for colonial dominance. This talk closely reads HBO’s Westworld alongside LeAnne Howe’s Indian Radio Days to consider how procedural elements of technological play produce dystopic visions of American collapse as the failure of indigenous futures. \n  \nJodi Byrd is Associate Professor\, English and Gender & Women’s Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prof. Byrd is a Chickasaw decolonial thinker\, writer\, teacher\, and video gamer. She is a faculty affiliate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fire-flood-settler-colonialisms-pessimistic-indigenous-futurisms/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Jodi-Byrd-2.21.18-flyer-Final.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180221T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180221T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180219T171235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180219T171522Z UID:10006595-1519234200-1519241400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Film Screening: Io sono Li (Shun Li & the Poet) DESCRIPTION:Crossings Film Series \nOver 2017-18\, the CLRC and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is proud to present “Crossings\,” a quarterly film series about migration and the Mediterranean. We open with the 2014 documentary\, “Io sto con la sposa\,” winner of the Human Rights Nights Award at the Venice International Film Festival. All films are subtitled and screenings are free and open to the public. \nIo sono Li (Shun Li & the Poet\, 2013) \nTwo outsiders become unlikely friends in this drama from filmmaker Andrea Segre. Shun Li (Zhao Tao) is a thirtysomething single mother from China who has come to Italy in the hope of providing a better life for herself and her son. However\, Shun Li has partnered with an unscrupulous employment agency that shifts her from job to job and makes it difficult for her to pay her fees so she can make enough money to bring her son to Italy. She works as a barmaid in a shabby waterfront tavern in the fishing village of Chioggia; there\, she meets Bepi (Rade Serbedzija)\, an exile from Eastern Europe who has a fondness for poetry and pens doggerel verse himself. Shun Li shares with Bepi stories of Qu Yuan\, China’s most celebrated poet\, and the two strike up a friendship that has the potential to become something more. However\, the Chioggia natives make it clear that they don’t approve of Shun Li and Bepi’s budding relationship\, especially given their suspicions about her Chinese heritage. \nCo-sponsored by the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/io-sono-li-shun-li-poet/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20171129T211008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180307T230849Z UID:10005438-1519306200-1519311600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Titas Chakraborty: Controlling "Quarrelsome Workers": Boatmen of Bengal\, English East India Company State and the Global Mobility Transition\, 1701-1806 DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThe Center for World History presents: \nControlling “Quarrelsome Workers”: Boatmen of Bengal\, English East India Company State and the Global Mobility Transition\, 1701-1806 \nTitas Chakraborty URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/controlling-quarrelsome-workers-boatmen-of-bengal-english-east-india-company-state-and-the-global-mobility-transition-1701-1806-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Titas-Chakraborty-2.22.18.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180130T201430Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180213T225123Z UID:10005454-1519315200-1519322400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sora Y. Han: "Poetics of MU" DESCRIPTION:The daughter appears in Hortense Spillers’s literary criticism as an oblique subject of both the Oedipal “law of the Father” and the slave law of partus sequitur ventrem. With this figure\, this talk presents the broader question of how a law of reproduction without genealogy raises the stakes of theorizing race\, colonialism\, and the limits of translation. Slave law\, Oedipus\, kinship\, and language as forms of law contain two essential a-genealogical characteristics. The first concerns the perverse logics of law\, and the fact that submission to or refusal of law offers no protection against its violence and judgment; and the second\, where genealogy can neither be named nor established\, what issues forth can only\, in the present circumstances\, be described as an obscene obliteration of law’s reference. This peculiar co-presence of law and non-referentiality\, differentially explored by Edouard Glissant\, David Marriott\, Nathaniel Mackey\, Fred Moten\, and Theresa Had Kyung Cha\, can only be grasped by a transversal writing\, the “poetics of mu\,” not simply at the limits of translation\, but also\, transliteration and utterance. \n  \nSora Han is Associate Professor of Criminology\, Law and and the School of Law at UC Irvine. She also is core faculty of the Culture and Theory Ph.D. program\, and affiliate faculty of African American Studies. Professor Han is the author of Letters of the Law (Stanford University Press 2015) and she has two books in-progress: Slavery as Contract: A Study in the Case of Blackness\, which brings together poetics\, contract law and afro-pessimist theory to think beyond the property metaphor of slavery; and Mu\, the First Letter of an Anti-Colonial Alphabet\, an experimental text which offers a speculative meditation on the “anagrammatic scramble” (Nathaniel Mackey) of the unconscious materiality of abolitionism. Her most recent publication on this new line of research\, “Slavery as Contract\,” was published by Law and Literature (2016) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sora-y-han-poetic-mu/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-30-at-10.31.19-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20171227T184045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180215T004937Z UID:10006572-1519320000-1519325400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Gabriella Ramirez-Chavez & José Villarán on the work of Cecilia Vicuña DESCRIPTION:ANNOUNCEMENT: Cecilia Vicuña will be unable to join us on February 22. However\, the event will be held as scheduled but in a different iteration.\n \nIn Lieu of Cecilia Vicuña’s absence\, Literature Creative-Critical PhD students\, Gabriella Ramirez-Chavez\, and José Antonio Villarán will curate some of Cecilia Vicuña’s work\, showing video/sound footage\, and providing comments\, revolving around their own engagements with her art and poetry. \n\n  \nCecilia Vicuña is a poet\, artist\, filmmaker and activist. Her work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world including ecological destruction\, human rights and cultural homogenization. Born and raised in Santiago de Chile\, she has been in exile since the early 1970s\, after the military coup against elected president Salvador Allende. Vicuña’s work began in the mid 60s in Chile\, as a way of “hearing an ancient silence waiting to be heard”;. Her art has been exhibited at The Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago; The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London; The Whitechapel Art Gallery in London; The Berkeley Art Museum; The Whitney Museum of American Art; and MoMA\, The Museum of Modern Art in New York. It was included in Documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel\, Germany\, 2017. Her itinerant exhibition Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen\, opened at the Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans in March 2017 and will travel to various museums in the U.S during 2018. Vicuña has published twenty-five art and poetry books\, including About to Happen\, 2017\, Read Thread\, The Story of the Red Thread\, 2017\, and Kuntur Ko\, 2015. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Winter 2018: \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art\, and Space \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry\, prose\, visual and textile arts\, photography\, film\, dance\, and improvisation to address questions of gender\, sexuality\, and race.  This series will explore the intersections of literature\, writing and performance\, and the ways that themes of nation\, exile\, trauma\, and joy move through individual\, collective and individual artistic practices.\nThis series will also feature three “Live Models\,” in the form of master conversations/performances\, mainly for the Creative/Critical (and other) graduate students\, faculty\, and the larger Cowell College Community. \n  \nWinter 2018 Schedule:\nJanuary 25th: Jennifer Tamayo\nFebruary 1st: Karen Tei Yamashita\nFebruary 15th: Duriel E. Harris\nFebruary 22nd: Cecilia Vicuña\nMarch 15th: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \n  \nAll Living Writers readings are free and open to the public. Please contact Ronaldo Wilson at rvwilson@ucsc.edu with any questions or concerns. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, and Literature Department and Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-cecilia-vicuna-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/living-writers-w18.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180223T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180223T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180206T191917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180209T232929Z UID:10006589-1519376400-1519383600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Reading Group: Cathy Davidson "The New Education" DESCRIPTION:The Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now research cluster will meet on Friday\, February 23 (9-11am in 2 HUM 259) to discuss The New Education in preparation for Cathy Davidson’s visit on March 1. Davidson will also be facilitating a hands-on workshop with the research cluster on Friday\, March 2 at 2-4 pm in 1 HUM 202. \nFor copies of Cathy Davidson’s book The New Education\, please email the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning at citl@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/teaching-learning-humanities-now-cathy-davidson/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180223T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180223T120000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180213T181921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180216T185049Z UID:10006594-1519383600-1519387200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Graduate Funding Support Info Session DESCRIPTION:Join us to learn more about support services offered for grant and fellowship research and writing through Arts Research Development Office and The Humanities Institute. \nIn this information session\, we will share key resources for finding funding opportunities and crafting compelling application materials. You will also meet the graduate student fellows who offer one-on-one consultations. \nRegister \n  \nPresenters:\nS. Topiary Landberg\, Arts/Humanities Research Development Fellow\nSarah Papazoglakis\, Graduate Fellow\, Chancellor’s Graduate Internship Program URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/info-session-graduate-funding-support/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180223T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180223T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180201T230947Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180201T230947Z UID:10006587-1519407000-1519412400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:UCSC Grad Slam DESCRIPTION:Congratulations to our 12 finalists for 2018! Come cheer them on at the Grad Slam and vote for the People’s Choice Award: \nTony Assi\nKimberley Bitterwolf\nStephan Bitterwolf\nEilin Francis\nSharmistha Guha\nHelen Holmlund\nCourtney Kersten\nNickolas Knightly\nStephanie Montgomery\nRebecca Ora\nTiffany Thang\nTalia Waltzer \nGrad Slam\, a competition also referred to as the 3-Minute Thesis Challenge\,* challenges graduate students to present years’ worth of academic research in a concise\, compelling\, three-minute talk to a non-expert audience. It encourages students to clarify their ideas and help others understand and appreciate the significance of their research or other graduate work. The contest is open to all graduate students. \nThe winner of the UCSC Grad Slam receives $3\,000; the runner-up receives $1\,500; and the people’s choice winner receives $750. The UCSC Grad Slam winner goes on to compete in the UC-wide Grad Slam in late April or early May. UCSC’s 2017 champion\, John Felts\, took second place at the UC Grad Slam held May 4\, 2017\, at LinkedIn\, 222 2nd Street in San Francisco. Visit UCOP Grad Slam to view the 2017 finalists from all UC campuses and learn the first-place\, third-place\, and people’s choice winner of that competition. \nRegistration for the 2018 Grad Slam opened November 13\, 2017\, and closed January 21\, 2018\, at midnight PST. All registrants must submit a 3-minute-maximum video of their presentation via a share link entered in the registration form. A panel of UCSC staff judges will review the videos and select the finalists (10 to 12 graduate students) to compete in UCSC’s live Grad Slam on Friday\, February 23\, 2018\, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.\, at the Music Center Recital Hall\, with a reception following for competitors and audience. \n\nCheck out the 2017 winners here. \nView video of the three awardees\, and the complete list of finalists from the UCSC 2016 Grad Slam\nView video of the three awardees\, and the complete list of finalists from the UCSC 2015 Grad Slam \n\n*Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is a registered trademark of The University of Queensland. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ucsc-grad-slam/ LOCATION:Music Recital Hall ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/grad-slam-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180228 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180301 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20171113T192307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171113T192307Z UID:10006562-1519776000-1519862399@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Giving Day DESCRIPTION:Be a Part of Giving Day at UC Santa Cruz \nGiving Day is an energized 24-hour online fundraising drive to support UC Santa Cruz students\, faculty\, and campus programs. It’s a day for people everywhere to come together in a circle of giving for UC Santa Cruz. Generous donors provide incentives to make the day a success. They create matching funds that increase the impact of gifts to individual projects and they support challenge funds that inspire friendly competition among project teams. Givingday.ucsc.edu \nHumanities participants are: The Center for Public Philosophy\, The Classics Program\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES)\, The Dickens Project\, and The Gail Project. \nOur Classics Program will be competing for a prize of $500-$1000 for the 7-8 am “Challenge Hour”. The goal is to have the most donors during that time window\, so if you plan to give to the Carl Deppe Memorial Lecture in Classics\, that will be a great time to do so! \nWe would appreciate your participation in whatever way suits you: whether it is by spreading the word through social media or by donating. The minimum donation this year is $5\, and every bit helps. \nIf you have questions\, or are interested in providing a matching gift\, please contact Jenna Hurley at jehurley@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/giving-day-2-2/ LOCATION:UCSC ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/giving-day.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180228T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180228T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20170809T182506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180307T231258Z UID:10006528-1519819200-1519824600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Christina Gerhardt: "The Legacy of 1968 & Global Cinema" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nChristina Gerhardt is the author of Screening the Red Army Faction: Historical and Cultural Memory\, and co-editor of 1968 and Global Cinema and Celluloid Revolt: German Screen Cultures and the Long Sixties. Currently\, she is working on a new book project\, 1968 and West German Cinemas\, which examines the cinemas of West Germany’s long sixties that have long stood in the shadow of New German Cinema. \n  \nChristina Gerhardt is a Visiting Scholar at the UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-13-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180301T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180301T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180207T234702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180208T175801Z UID:10006593-1519911000-1519916400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Tera W. Hunter: "Bound in Wedlock - Slave and Free Black Marriage in the 19th Century" DESCRIPTION:The History Department Presents: Tera W. Hunter is Professor of History and African-American Studies at Princeton University. She is currently a fellow at the National Humanities Center. She will be speaking about her new book\, Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century\, a finalist for the Lincoln Prize of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Her first book\, To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War\, was the recipient of multiple awards and established her as one of the most prominent scholars of African American history and US women’s history. \nCo-sponsored by the Feminist Studies and Sociology Departments\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, The Center for Labor Studies and The Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tera-w-hunter-bound-wedlock-slave-free-black-marriage-19th-century/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Hunter-Poster-3_1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180301T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180301T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20170809T182720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180306T200637Z UID:10006529-1519923600-1519930800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cathy Davidson: "The New Education" DESCRIPTION:How can we revolutionize the university to better prepare students for our age of constant change? How can we retool our classrooms as activist\, engaged learning environments that model a more just society? In this talk\, Cathy N. Davidson will discuss her book The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux and show how we can revolutionize our universities to help students be leaders of change\, not simply subject to it. \n \nCathy Davidson: "The New Education" 3.1.18 from IHR on Vimeo. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nReception: 5:00pm  |  Talk begins: 5:30pm \nParking will be very limited at Colleges 9/10 so please plan to either walk from Core West Parking structure or take alternative transportation to campus for the event. Parking attendants will be on hand at Colleges 9/10 to direct attendees to the University Center. \n  \nRSVP appreciated \nRegister \n  \nCathy N. Davidson is Distinguished Professor of English and Founding Director of the Futures Initiative at the Graduate Center\, CUNY. She is the co-founding director (2002-2017\, now co-director) of HASTAC\, the Humanities\, Arts\, Science\, and Technology Alliance Collaboratory. As the 2016 recipient of the Ernest J. Boyer Award for Significant Contributions to Higher Education\, she champions new ideas and methods for learning and professional development—in school\, in the workplace\, and in everyday life. For more information on Cathy Davidson\, visit her website at: www.cathydavidson.com \n  \nAdditional Events:  The Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now research cluster will meet on Friday\, February 23 from 9-11am to discuss The New Education in preparation for Davidson’s visit. Davidson will also facilitate a hands-on workshop with the research cluster on Friday\, March 2 at 2-4pm. \nFor copies of Cathy Davidson’s book The New Education\, please email the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning at citl@ucsc.edu \n  \nPresented by:  The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning. Co-sponsored by: Arts Division\, Physical & Biological Sciences Division\, Student Achievement & Equity Innovation\, Literature Department\, History Department\, Social Sciences Division\, Sociology Department\, Philosophy Department\, Chicano Latino Research Center. \n  \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cathy-davidson-the-new-education/ LOCATION:University Center\, University Center‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/thi-new-education-banner-1b.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180302T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180302T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20170809T183009Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T194523Z UID:10006530-1519988400-1519993800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: Ken Wissoker (Duke UP): An Insider's Guide to Academic Publishing DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nHow different is the structure of your dissertation from the form of your first book? Who are the audiences for your research? How soon after completing the dissertation should you expect to begin drafting and pitching your book proposal? What is the history behind these publishing norms and how did they become what they are today? \nThese are some of the mysteries around academic publishing that Ken Wissoker\, the editorial director for Duke University Press and the director of The Graduate Center at CUNY’s Intellectual Publics program\, will demystify for us. Ken is known for giving people an optimistic way of thinking about their own work\, to help them see what is really at stake in their research and how to structure a book around it. This event promises to generate a lively discussion around all aspects of academic publishing from edited volumes to developing your first book manuscript. Bring your questions\, concerns\, and anxieties \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nLunch will be served. \nPlease RSVP below: \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ken-wissoker-phd-workshop-series-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180302T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180302T134500 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180227T183436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180227T212756Z UID:10006600-1519993800-1519998300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum: Elizabeth Goldman DESCRIPTION:Once Helpful\, Always Helpful? Infants’ Expectations About Helping and Hindering Behavior Across Scenarios \nThe present work examined 16 to 18 month-olds’abilities to generalize a person’s tendency to help or hinder across multiple scenarios. Infants saw three familiarization events where an agent consistently helped or hindered another agent. In test\, infants saw two test trials (consistent or inconsistent with the behavior in familiarization) in a new scenario. Experiment 1 showed that infants tracked a person’s helping behavior across scenarios and expected the person to be helpful again in the future. However\, generalizing a person’s tendency to hinder proved more challenging. Experiment 2 replicated the positive results in Experiment 1 and showed that with the stronger cues of hindering intent\, tracking hindering behavior across events appeared easier for infants. \nElizabeth Goldman is Psychology PhD student who works in the Infant Development Lab. Her research\nprimarily focuses on children’s understanding of prosocial (helping) behavior. This project looks at whether\nchildren expect a person’s helping or hindering behavior to continue and carryover to other situations. \nFriday Forum is 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. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments: HAVC\, Literature\, and History of Consciousness. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-elizabeth-goldman/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/FridayForum2018_Goldman.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180302T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180302T153000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20171115T195209Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180227T213956Z UID:10005432-1519997400-1520004600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Kristen Syrett\, Rutgers University DESCRIPTION:“Experimental evidence for context sensitivity in the nominal domain: What children and adults reveal” \nAbstract: Part of what it means to become a proficient speaker of a language is to recognize that the context in which we communicate with each other\, including what a speaker’s intentions or goals are\, affects the way we arrive at certain interpretations. This seems entirely reasonable for context-dependent expressions like pronouns (they) or relative gradable adjectives (big\, expensive)\, but what about seemingly stable expressions\, such as count nouns (fork\, ball)? Are words like these—words that appear early in child-directed and child-produced speech—also sensitive to context? In collaborative research with Athulya Aravind (MIT)\, we have asked precisely this question. We start with a curious yet robust puzzle observed in the developmental psychology literature: young children\, when presented with a set of partial and whole objects (like forks) and asked to count or quantify them\, appear to treat the partial objects as if they were wholes (Shipley & Shepperson 1990\, among others). While children’s non-adultlike behavior may be taken to signal a conceptual shift in development\, we adopt a different perspective\, entertaining the possibility that children are doing something that adults might indeed be willing to do in certain instances\, and that their response patterns reveal something interesting about the context sensitivity of nouns\, which we argue is similar to that seen with gradable adjectives. Across three tasks\, we show that adults and children are more alike than the previous research has revealed: both age groups not only include partial objects but also impose limits on their inclusion in a category\, depending on the speaker’s intentions or goals and the perceptual representation of the object\, and a comparison with gradable adjectives reveals (perhaps surprisingly) that adults recruit a minimum standard of comparison for nominals. Thus\, we argue there is conceptual and linguistic continuity in this aspect of development\, and that experimental data from both children and adults sheds light on the semantics of nominal expressions. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kristen-syrett-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180302T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180302T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20171113T191052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180209T233233Z UID:10006561-1519999200-1520006400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cathy Davidson Workshop DESCRIPTION:Cathy Davidson will offer a hands-on workshop on engaged pedagogy with the Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now research cluster\, working with the research group to address a topic of their choice. Students from Humanities\, Social Sciences\, and Arts are all encouraged to attend. Come prepared with a pedagogy question to dive into. \nFor copies of Cathy Davidson’s book The New Education\, please email the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning at citl@ucsc.edu \nPresented by UC Santa Cruz Humanities Institute and Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning \nPlease note that the Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now research cluster will meet on Friday\, February 23 (9-11am in 2 HUM 259) to discuss Cathy Davidson’s book “The New Education” in preparation for Davidson’s event on March 1. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cathy-davidson-seminar-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180306T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180306T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20171213T194616Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180307T224115Z UID:10006568-1520350200-1520355600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Danny Snelson: "The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThe Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats\nDanny Snelson (UCLA\, English) \nAs you read these lines\, the Utah Data Center continues its process of deciphering untold exabytes of information collected by the NSA. This enterprise\, like certain strands in the digital humanities and the corporate world alike\, stakes its hopes for meaningful interpretation of the present on the parsing of tremendous amounts of data. Directly responding to these currents\, I turn to the little database as an integral model for understanding our place in a rapidly changing information environment. Ranging from a private collection of MP3s hosted on your personal computer to a collection of poetry readings on a university-hosted website like PennSound\, a little database is at once too large to “read” in a traditional way and\, at the same time\, small enough to be absolutely ordinary. Like the little magazines of the historical avant-gardes\, the little database presents a dynamic forum for investigating the situation of politics\, aesthetics\, and meaning in a time of extensive technological change. In this presentation\, I discuss a series of influential sites presenting avant-garde art and letters online\, including Eclipse\, PennSound\, and UbuWeb. Tracing the transformative role of media formats\, I examine an unlikely and contingent poetics that emerges through the use and reuse of historical works across the formats and platforms of the present. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-humanities-ucla-exchange-danny-snelson-2/ LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry Library ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/The-Little-Database-3.20.18-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180306T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180306T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180202T012845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180228T185337Z UID:10006588-1520359200-1520366400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Tyler Stovall: "White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea" DESCRIPTION:Aptos Community Reads presents: \nWhite Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea \nPresented by: Tyler Stovall\, Dean of Humanities\, University of California\, Santa Cruz \nThe relationship between freedom and race has been one of the key themes of modern society and politics in the Western world. The enduring presence of racism in the history of America\, a nation built both upon ideas of liberty and upon African slavery\, Indian genocide\, and systematic racial discrimination\, has provided the most dramatic (but not the only) example of this complex relationship. In this talk\, Dean of the Humanities Division and French historian\, Tyler Stovall\, will explore the ways in which freedom and race are not just enemies but also allies whose histories cannot be understood separately. Part of the Humanities Institute’s Freedom and Race series. \nMarch 6\, 2018 @ 6:30 p.m. (doors open at 6) \n  \n\nThe Aptos Community Reads program is designed to bring members of the Santa Cruz County community together around one book. This year the winning book is: \nBorn a Crime\nStories from a South African Childhood\n by Trevor Noah \n\n \n#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\n WINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZE for AMERICAN HUMOR \nThis memoir depicts Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother his birth was an offence punishable by five years in prison. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. \n  \nFrom late January through early March 2018 the selected book\, and themes in the book\, will be highlighted in a series of special events:  Films  •  Art Exhibits  •  Discussion Groups  •  Trivia Nights •  Guest Speakers  •   Happy Hours •  Music •  Story Times • and more. \nWe encourage all readers to get involved! \nGifts of $50 or more\, received by March 1\, 2018\, will entitle you to a free copy of the winning book! \nDonate online. Please direct your gift to Aptos Chapter of Friends of SCPL. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/white-freedom-racial-history-idea/ LOCATION:Rio Sands Hotel in Aptos\, 116 Aptos Beach Dr\, Aptos\, CA\, 95003 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/White-Freedom-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180307T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180307T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20170809T183330Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180307T223506Z UID:10006531-1520424000-1520429400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ben Breen: "Unknown Pleasures: Intoxication and Globalization in the Eighteenth Century" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nBenjamin Breen’s current project is Age of Intoxication: The Origins of the Global Drug Trade\, which examines the trade in medicinal drugs\, poisons\, and intoxicants in the Portuguese and British empires\, circa 1640 to 1800. The book argues that the formation of ‘drugs’ as an epistemological\, legal\, and commercial category grew out of early modern colonialism. \nBen Breen is an Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-14-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180309T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180309T134500 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180227T182733Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180227T182822Z UID:10006599-1520598600-1520603100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum: Kiki Loveday DESCRIPTION:What You Love: The Library at Alexandria\, Quotation\, and Survival \nThe figure of Sappho is paradigmatic of the queer-feminist archive: she is the founding figure of female artistic genius and sexual deviance in Western Civilization\, yet neither her work nor her story has survived. Between 1896 and 1931 over twenty cinematic versions of Sappho were produce for the screen\, making it one of the most ubiquitous texts of the silent film era. Yet this once wildly popular and frequently re-made text has been all but erased from cinema history. How might we reimagine the parameters of cinema and media history and theory by reimagining and remaking the parameters of the archive? Drawing examples from What You Love\, an archive of contemporary queer feelings produced in residency at The Huntington Library in Los Angeles\, this presentation will rethink the history of cinema and sexuality\, questioning contemporary conceptions of romantic love\, the loss of queer female voices from the historical imagination\, and the parameters of the archive. \nKiki Loveday is a PhD student in Film and Digital Media. She is an experimental filmmaker obsessed with deconstructing (and reconstructing) cinematic conventions: rethinking genre\, mixing mediums\, and practicing alternative production paradigms. Much of her work is concerned with isolation\, people’s sometimes silly and heartbreaking inability to fit-in\, connect with each other\, or figure out how to live in a culture they didn’t create. \nFriday Forum is 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. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments: HAVC\, Literature\, and History of Consciousness. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-kiki-loveday/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/FridayForum2018_Loveday.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180310T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180310T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20171115T195504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180228T214348Z UID:10005434-1520672400-1520701200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Peter Svenonius: Linguistics at Santa Cruz DESCRIPTION:Every year towards the end of the Winter Quarter\, the Linguistics at Santa Cruz conference showcases the research of second and third year graduate students. This conference coincides with a visit to campus of prospective graduate students\, and it always features as an invited speaker\, a Ph.D. alum of the department. This year’s invited speaker is Peter Svenonius (PhD\, 1994)\, Professor of English Linguistics & Senior Researcher at the University of Tromsø. \nClick here for more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-at-santa-cruz-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180311T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180311T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180110T200351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180110T200351Z UID:10006576-1520776800-1520784000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Victorian Colonialism DESCRIPTION:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club featuring Little Dorrit \nThe Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms\, students\, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel\, beginning this January with Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit. Join us each month for conversations about the novel and guest speaker presentations to help us contextualize our readings. \n  \nSanta Cruz Pickwick Club meets every second Sunday of each month from January – May 2018 at 2pm at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. \nSchedule: \nJanuary 14th: Introduction of the Novel\nFebruary 11th: Little Dorrit in Historical Context\nMarch 11th: Victorian Colonialism\nApril 8th: “How Did the Grim Reaper’s Swift Scythe Sharpen Little Dorrit’s Plot?”\nMay 13th: The Dickens Universe \nMore information\, including schedule can be found by visiting: https://goo.gl/zFQq2M. \n  \nBook club is free and open to the public.\nRegistration requested. \nQuestions? Contact Courtney at (831)459-2103 or dpj@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-victorian-colonialism/ LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Pickwick-flyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180312T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180312T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180307T232556Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180307T232647Z UID:10006602-1520856000-1520859600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Writing Crises: How to Write When You Just Can't Write DESCRIPTION: Register at https://tinyurl.com/WritingCrises URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/writing-crises-write-just-cant-write/ LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/0001-12.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180312T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180312T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180221T220534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180301T174446Z UID:10006598-1520874000-1520883000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Letters to Memory: A Reading by Karen Tei Yamashita DESCRIPTION:The Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department presents: \nLetters to Memory\nfeaturing a reading by Karen Tei Yamashita with remarks by Alice Yang and Christine Hong \nLetters to Memory is an excursion through the Japanese mass incarceration during World War II using archival materials from the Yamashita family as well as a series of epistolary conversations with composite characters representing a range of academic specialties. Historians\, anthropologists\, classicists—their disciplines\, and Yamashita’s engagement with them\, are a way for her to explore various aspects of the mass incarceration and to expand its meaning beyond her family\, and our borders\, to ideas of debt\, forgiveness\, civil rights\, orientalism\, and community. \nAbout the Author: Karen Tei Yamashita is a Professor of Literature and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Yamashita is the author of Letters to Memory\, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest\, Brazil-Maru\, Tropic of Orange\, Circle K Cycles\, I Hotel\, and Anime Wong\, all published by Coffee House Press. I Hotel was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the California Book Award\, the American Book Award\, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award\, and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. She has been a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellow and co-holder of the University of California Presidential Chair for Feminist & Critical Race & Ethnic Studies. \n\nMarch 12\, 2018\n5-:00-7:30pm\nFeminist Studies Library\nHumanities 1\, Room 316 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/letters-memory-reading-karen-tei-yamashita/ LOCATION:CA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Letters.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180314T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180314T191500 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180307T215333Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180307T215333Z UID:10006601-1521048600-1521054900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:IPAs are like a Hoppy Craft Beer: Acquiring a Taste for Task-based Language Teaching and Integrated Performance Assessments DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: \n“IPAs are Like a Hoppy Craft Beer: Acquiring a Taste for Task-based Language Teaching and Integrated Performance Assessments” \nJill Pellettieri\, Ph.D. \nThis workshop focuses on the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) as simply one specific model of task-based language learning and assessment. Like the hoppy beer\, it pairs well in some settings but not in others. We will critically examine the IPA with an eye towards identifying its strengths and weaknesses as a tool for assessment in university language courses and programs. Participants will learn general principles for designing authentic\, integrated language tasks and specific guidelines for modifying and adapting the ACTFL IPA for their language courses. It is unclear at this time whether we will actually be sampling craft brews. \n  \nJill Pellettieri is an Associate Professor of Spanish and chair of the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at Santa Clara University. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish applied linguistics with a Designated Emphasis in Second Language Acquisition from the University of California\, Davis. Her areas of specialization include oral and computer-mediated interaction\, task-based language learning\, and community-based learning. Prior to joining the faculty at SCU\, she was an Associate Professor of Spanish\, Graduate TA trainer and supervisor\, and chair of the Dept. of World Languages at Cal State San Marcos. She has published several articles and book chapters in her areas of specialization\, and she has authored and coauthored several textbooks for the teaching of Spanish at the university level\, including Palabra abierta\, an advanced composition text\, and Rumbos\, a textbook for intermediate Spanish. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ipas-like-hoppy-craft-beer-acquiring-taste-task-based-language-teaching-integrated-performance-assessments/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Colloquium-Flyer-Mar-14-2018.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180314T184000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180314T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180129T225054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180308T192908Z UID:10005452-1521052800-1521059400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:And Then They Came for Us: "From the Incarceration of Japanese Americans to the Travel Ban" DESCRIPTION:Seventy-five years ago\, Executive Order 9066 paved the way to the profound violation of constitutional rights that resulted in the forced incarceration of 120\,000 Japanese Americans.  “And Then They Came for Us” brings history into the present\, retelling this difficult story and following Japanese American activists as they speak out against the Muslim registry and travel ban.  Knowing our history is the first step to ensuring we do not repeat it.  “And Then They Came for Us” is a cautionary and inspiring tale for these dark times. Part of the Humanities Institute’s Freedom and Race Series. \nPresented by The Humanities Institute and Cowell College. Co-sponsored by the Office for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion\, CRES\, Stevenson College\, the History Department\, and McHenry Library. \nDue to overwhelming interest\, this event is SOLD OUT. We hope to see you at another event soon! \nFilm screening and panel discussion. \n6:40 pm – Doors open \n7:00 pm – program begins \nParking and directions to the Del Mar Theater here \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274. \nFeaturing: \nAbby Ginzberg – Director “And Then They Came for Us” \nDonald K. Tamaki – Managing Partner of Minami Tamaki \nAmmad Rafiqi – Civil rights attorney with the Council on American Islamic Relations \nQ & A moderated by Alice Yang – History Professor\, UC Santa Cruz \nAbby Ginzberg is a Peabody-winning producer and director who has been making award-winning documentaries about race and social justice for the past 30 years. Her most recent film\, “And Then They Came for Us” has screened at film festivals across the country. Agents of Change\, co-directed with Frank Dawson\, tells the story of the black-led student protest movement of the late 1960’s on college campuses. It will be broadcast on America Reframed in Feb\, 2018. \nHer film Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa won a Peabody award in 2015 and has screened at film festivals around the world\, winning four audience awards for Best Documentary. The Barber of Birmingham\, (Consulting Producer)\, was nominated for an Oscar in the short doc category in 2012. \nDonald K. Tamaki is the Managing Partner of Minami Tamaki LLP in San Francisco. In 1983 to 1985\, he served on the legal team which reopened the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case of Fred Korematsu\, overturning his criminal convictions for refusing to be interned. The reopening was based on newly discovered evidence from the Justice Department\, War Department\, Navy\, F.B.I.\, and F.C.C. admitting that Japanese Americans had committed no wrong and posed no threat. Other Justice Department memoranda characterized the Army’s claims that Japanese Americans were spying as “intentional falsehoods.” These official reports were never presented to the Supreme Court\, having been intentionally suppressed\, altered and destroyed pursuant to the orders of high government officials so as to manipulate the outcome of the Korematsu decision. Mr. Tamaki graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley in 1973 and received his J.D. from Berkeley in 1976. Upon graduation\, he practiced poverty and civil rights law in San Jose and there\, he co- founded the Asian Law Alliance\, a public interest law firm which has provided representation and advocacy for thousands of low-income Asian Americans in Santa Clara County\, and is a past Executive Director of the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco\, the nation’s first public interest law firm representing Asian Americans in civil rights and poverty law cases. \nAmmad Rafiqi is a civil rights attorney with the Council on American Islamic Relations chapter of the San Francisco Bay Area. As the office’s Civil Rights and Legal Services Coordinator\, he assists individuals facing structural and private discrimination\, hate crimes\, law enforcement harassment/surveillance as well as documenting and writing reports. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/and-then-they-came-for-us-incarceration-japanese-americans-travel-ban/ LOCATION:Del Mar Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/thi-attcfu-banner-fb.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180315T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180315T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180110T215326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180110T215351Z UID:10006579-1521134400-1521139800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Undergraduate Student Reading DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series Winter 2018: \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art\, and Space \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry\, prose\, visual and textile arts\, photography\, film\, dance\, and improvisation to address questions of gender\, sexuality\, and race.  This series will explore the intersections of literature\, writing and performance\, and the ways that themes of nation\, exile\, trauma\, and joy move through individual\, collective and individual artistic practices.\nThis series will also feature three “Live Models\,” in the form of master conversations/performances\, mainly for the Creative/Critical (and other) graduate students\, faculty\, and the larger Cowell College Community. \n  \nWinter 2018 Schedule:\nJanuary 25th: Jennifer Tamayo\nFebruary 1st: Karen Tei Yamashita\nFebruary 15th: Duriel E. Harris\nFebruary 22nd: Cecilia Vicuña\nMarch 15th: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \n  \nAll Living Writers readings are free and open to the public. Please contact Ronaldo Wilson at rvwilson@ucsc.edu with any questions or concerns. \n \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, and Literature Department and Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-undergraduate-student-reading/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/living-writers-w18.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180402T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180402T120000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180321T201630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180321T201714Z UID:10006616-1522663200-1522670400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Reading Seminar: Jeffrey Santa Ana's Transpacific Ecological Imagination DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Santa Ana is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty in Asian & Asian American Studies and Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University\, the State University of New York. He is the author of Radical Feelings: Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of Emotion (Temple University Press\, 2015). He is currently writing a book entitled Transpacific Ecological Imagination: Environmental Memory in the Asian-Pacific Diaspora.  \nFor pre-circulated readings\, please email Christine Hong at cjhong@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cres-reading-seminar-jeffrey-santa-anas-transpacific-ecological-imagination/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Critical-Race-and-Ethnic-Studies-CRES-is-pleased-to-present-two-events-with.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180402T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180402T163000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180321T201016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180321T201016Z UID:10006615-1522681200-1522686600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jeffrey Santa Ana: "Queer Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Disremembering place and witnessing imperial debris in Han Ong’s The Disinherited" DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Santa Ana is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty in Asian & Asian American Studies and Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University\, the State University of New York. He is the author of Radical Feelings: Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of Emotion (Temple University Press\, 2015). He is currently writing a book entitled Transpacific Ecological Imagination: Environmental Memory in the Asian-Pacific Diaspora.  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jeffrey-santa-ana-queer-postcolonial-ecocriticism-disremembering-place-witnessing-imperial-debris-han-ongs-disinherited/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Critical-Race-and-Ethnic-Studies-CRES-is-pleased-to-present-two-events-with.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180404T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180404T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180308T213152Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180321T182542Z UID:10006603-1522857600-1522863000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Laura Rosenzweig: “The Story of Hollywood’s Spies: Jewish Resistance to Nazism in Los Angeles in the 1930s” DESCRIPTION:Laura Rosenzweig will present at the Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture during Graduate Recruitment Day on April 4. The title of her talk is: “The Story of Hollywood’s Spies: Jewish Resistance to Nazism in Los Angeles in the 1930s” and will include a discussion about her journey from a UCSC doctoral student to a bestselling author. The talk will be from 4-5:30 at the Stevenson Fireside Lounge and will be followed by a reception at the Stevenson provost’s house. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/laura-rosenzweig-story-hollywoods-spies-jewish-resistance-nazism-los-angeles-1930s/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Laura-Rosenzweig-event-poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180405T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180405T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180314T225020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180314T225426Z UID:10006607-1522941300-1522947600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Maeve Cooke: "Civil Disobedience as Civil Regeneration: The Radically Transformative Power of Political Law-Breaking" DESCRIPTION:Maeve Cooke is Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin\, Ireland and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. Professor Cooke’s work focuses on the question of truth (intrinsic value) in social and political theory\, with particular attention to debates on religion and politics. Her principal book publications are Language and Reason: A Study of Haberma’s Pragmatics (MIT Press\, 1994) and Re-Presenting the Good Society (MIT Press\, 2006). She is editor and translator of Habermas: On the Pragmatics of Communication (MIT Press\, 1998) and has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and books\, mainly in the areas of social and political philosophy. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/maeve-cooke-civil-disobedience-civil-regeneration-radically-transformative-power-political-law-breaking/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180407T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180407T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180220T224957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180322T223445Z UID:10006596-1523091600-1523120400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Intimate States: Family\, Domestic Space\, and the State DESCRIPTION:Center for World History presents: Intimate States: Family\, Domestic Space\, and the State\nFull Conference Agenda here: 4-7-18 Intimate States Conference Agenda \nConference Key Note: “The Household\, the State\, and ‘Economic Development Strategies’ in Europe and China Around 1800.” \nMary Jo Maynes \nThis talk will explore the comparative logics of statebuilding in China and Europe in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries\, focusing in particular the ways in which state policies had implications for the household-economy nexus. Mary Jo will discuss several dimensions of state policy having implications for household structure\, and for gender and generational relations including: fiscal policy (taxation\, subsidy\, etc.); state-run industries; state-produced information and education (technology manuals\, encyclopedias\, schools\, etc.); laws and regulations; and state relations with relevant social groups such as producers and merchants. She hopes to rise comparative questions for discussion about long-term historical developments that connect statebuilding processes with the economic viability of household economies. \nMary Jo Maynes is a Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She is a historian of Modern Europe with interests in comparative and world history. Her work explores the social and cultural history of the family\, gender and generational relations\, class dynamics\, and personal narratives. Her books include The Family: A World History (Oxford\, 2012)\, co-authored with Ann Waltner; Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History (Cornell\, 2008)\, co-authored with Jennifer Pierce and Barbara Laslett and Secret Gardens\, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European History (Indiana\, 2004)\, co-edited with Birgitte Søland and Christina Benninghaus. She is currently a co-editor of Gender & History and co-organizer of two U of MN research collaboratives: “Narrative/Medicine” at the Institute for Advanced Study and “Subjects\, Objects\, Agents: Young People’s Lives and Livelihoods in the Global South” at the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Social Change. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-world-history-workshop-intimate-states-family-domestic-space-state/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/mj2-rework.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180408T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180408T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180110T201112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180110T201112Z UID:10006577-1523196000-1523203200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick: "How Did the Grim Reaper's Swift Scythe Sharpen Little Dorrit's Plot?" DESCRIPTION:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club featuring Little Dorrit \nThe Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms\, students\, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel\, beginning this January with Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit. Join us each month for conversations about the novel and guest speaker presentations to help us contextualize our readings. \n  \nSanta Cruz Pickwick Club meets every second Sunday of each month from January – May 2018 at 2pm at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. \nSchedule: \nJanuary 14th: Introduction of the Novel\nFebruary 11th: Little Dorrit in Historical Context\nMarch 11th: Victorian Colonialism\nApril 8th: “How Did the Grim Reaper’s Swift Scythe Sharpen Little Dorrit’s Plot?”\nMay 13th: The Dickens Universe \nMore information\, including schedule can be found by visiting: https://goo.gl/zFQq2M. \n  \nBook club is free and open to the public.\nRegistration requested. \nQuestions? Contact Courtney at (831)459-2103 or dpj@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-grim-reapers-swift-scythe-sharpen-little-dorrits-plot/ LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Pickwick-flyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180410T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180410T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180410T233818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180410T233818Z UID:10005483-1523347200-1523379600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Carmen Giménez Smith & giovanni singleton DESCRIPTION:Born in New York\, poet Carmen Giménez Smith earned a BA in English from San Jose State University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa. She writes lyric essays as well as poetry\, and is the author of the poetry chapbook Casanova Variations (2009)\, the full-length collection Odalisque in Pieces (2009)\, and the memoir Bring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering\, Art\, Work\, and Everything Else (2010). Her most recent book\, Milk and Filth (2013)\, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poems have been included in the anthologies Floricanto Si! U.S. Latina Poets (1998) and Contextos: Poemas (1994). Giménez Smith is the editor-in-chief of Puerto del Sol and publisher of Noemi Press. She teaches at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces\, New Mexico. \ngiovanni singleton is a native of Richmond\, Virginia\, a former debutant\, and founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts\, a journal dedicated to experimental work of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces. Her debut poetry collection\, Ascension (Counterpath Press)\, informed by the music and life of Alice Coltrane\, received the 81st California Book Award Gold Medal. She has received fellowships from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Workshop\, Napa Valley Writers Conference\, and Cave Canem. singleton regularly consults and gives presentations on writing\, editing\, graphic design\, and publishing at high schools\, colleges\, and conferences. Her work has appeared in What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America\, Best American Experimental Writing\, Inquiring Mind\, Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology\, and elsewhere\, and has also been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institute’s American Jazz Museum\, San Francisco’s first Visual Poetry and Performance Festival\, and on the building of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She has taught poetry at the de Young Museum\, CalArts\, Naropa University\, and Sonoma State University. She was the 2015-16 Visiting Assistant Professor in the creative writing programs at New Mexico State University and currently coordinates the Lunch Poems reading series at UC Berkeley. A new book\, American Letters: works on paper\, was published by Canarium Books in 2018. \nSpring 2018 Living Writers:\n A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement \nThis spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories\, persons and things\, race and freedom\, kinship and loss\, and the human and non-human natural world. \nApril 12: Sherwin Bitsui \nApril 26: Leif Haven\, Jared Harvey \nMay 3: Courtney Kersten \nMay 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton \nMay 24: Sawako Nakayasu \nMay 31: Robin Coste Lewis \nJune 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nThursdays\, 5:20-6:50 PM \nAll Readings are Free and Open to the Public \nContact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu) \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, American Indian Resource Center\, El Centro\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, the Literature Department\, and the Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-carmen-gimenez-smith-giovanni-singleton/ LOCATION:CA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/0001-13.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180410T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180410T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180326T170136Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180326T170136Z UID:10006618-1523361600-1523365200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Humanities Institute Public Fellows Info Session DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an information session about The Humanities Institute’s Public Fellows program on Tuesday\, April 10 from 12:00-1:00 pm in Humanities Room 202 where we will hear from our 2017 cohort of Public Fellows\, and also cover the opportunities for public fellows this coming summer which include new partner organizations. \nIn addition\, we are launching a new public fellows program that will allow students to work as public fellows during the school year (we will cover tuition\, fees\, and stipends for selected applicants). \nThese fellowships provide the opportunity for doctoral students in the humanities to contribute to research\, programming\, communications and fundraising at non-profit organizations\, cultural institutions\, or companies and are meant to allow the students to apply and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. \nThe 8 fellows below will share with us their summer experiences and will be able to help serve as mentors for those of you who are considering applying for the program going forward: \nDanielle Crawford\, Literature\, Project: “Planning and Conservation League”\nAndrew Hedding\, Linguistics\, Project: “Senderos”\nRyan King\, Feminist Studies\, Project: “Digital NEST”\nAmani Liggett\, Literature\, Project: “Santa Cruz Shakespeare\nPriscilla Martinez\, History\, Project: “Tucson Chinese Cultural Center”\nJason Ostrove\, Linguistics\, Project: “Barra Heritage Centre”\nKirstin Wagner\, Literature\, Project: “Catamaran Literary Reader” \nWe hope to see you there! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-institute-public-fellows-info-session/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180410T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180410T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180319T201209Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180319T201344Z UID:10006613-1523365200-1523372400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Digital Humanities VizLab Open House DESCRIPTION:If you’ve never tried VR before\, this is your chance. Explore the new DSC VizLab and experience Virtual Reality. \nWe invite you to test the HTC VIVE headset\, Samsung Gear VR\, and Google Cardboard Headset. DSC Staff will be available to answer questions and introduce you to available resources and hardware. \nCosponsored by the IDEA Hub and the Digital Scholarship Commons. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vizlab-open-house/ LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry Library ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/vizwall-400.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180411T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180411T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180228T220816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180402T021613Z UID:10005465-1523448000-1523453400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Amanda Smith: "Cartographic Delusion: When Maps Lie & People Believe Them" DESCRIPTION:Amanda M. Smith approaches literary expression as a point of entry into spatialities effaced from other official records. She proposes a reading practice of rigorous intertextuality to recover geographic textures smoothed by homogenizing processes of spatial integration. In this talk\, she addresses the stakes of such a spatial reading by exploring the legacy of misreading in contemporary Amazonia. \nSmith is Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature in the Department of Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She specializes in 20th and 21st-century Latin American literatures and cultures\, working across the fields of Indigenous studies and the spatial humanities\, with emphasis on the Andean and Amazonian regions. Her current project\, tentatively titled Novel Maps\, examines how literature and cartography have both overlapped and clashed in transforming Amazonia into a landscape of extraction. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-amanda-smith/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180411T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180411T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180314T005018Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180515T191942Z UID:10006605-1523458800-1523466000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gabrielle Hecht - "Residual Governance: Mining Afterlives and Molecular Colonialism in a South African Anthropocene" DESCRIPTION:“Residual Governance: Mining Afterlives and Molecular Colonialism in a South African Anthropocene” \nThis talk explores residual governance in contemporary South Africa. Since the early 20th century\, piles of mine waste have defined Johannesburg’s topography. Today\, corporations and individuals continually revisit these piles – at very different scales – in the eternal hope of extracting further value. Particles from these mine wastes seep into water supplies\, infiltrating bodies with heavy metals\, solvents\, and radioactive particles. Violence results from entanglements between human\, corporate\, geological\, (post)colonial\, and chemical time. New sacrificial topographies emerge continually\, as the “new South Africa” demands that some people give up immediate personal aspirations for the sake of the collective good\, engaging in its own forced relocations in the name of development\, moving people onto valueless land – excess earth\, contaminated by radioactive debris\, chemicals\, and heavy metals. \n  \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gabrielle-hecht-residual-governance-mining-afterlives-molecular-colonialism-south-african-anthropocene/ LOCATION:Social Sciences 1\, Room 261\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/IMG_3257.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180412T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180412T120000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180129T185917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180404T223328Z UID:10005451-1523527200-1523534400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Christopher Breu: "In Defense of Sex" DESCRIPTION:Christopher Breu: “In Defense of Sex”\nLecture at 10am \nAre sex and gender the same thing? Are trans* and intersex the same thing? Do we even need the category of sex anymore? Is it hopelessly retrograde\, a category that has run its course and has rightly been replaced by the endlessly more flexible category of gender? “In Defense of Sex” will put forward a concept of sex as embodying a different materiality than gender\, one that can form in tension with gendered embodiments and identifications and that asserts its own forms of agency\, resistance\, and refusal. It will do so by drawing on intersex theory\, gender theory\, trans* theory\, and a range of different materialist theories. A robust and nonreductive account of gender\, sexuality\, identification\, and subjectivity needs to retheorize sex. This talk will begin the work of retheorizing sex for the present. \nChristopher Breu is Professor of English at Illinois State University\, where he teaches courses on cultural and critical theory\, American literature 1900 to the present\, American popular culture\, literature and culture in a global context\, gender and sexuality. His publications include Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics (Minnesota 2014) and Hard-Boiled Masculinities (Minnesota 2005). He earned his PhD in Literature from UC Santa Cruz in 2000. \nSponsored by the Department of Literature\, Siegfried and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/defense-sex-post-phd-path/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Christopher-Breu.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180412T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180412T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180404T223117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180404T223606Z UID:10006620-1523534400-1523539800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Christopher Breu: "The Post-PhD Path" DESCRIPTION:The Post-PhD Path: Nourishing the Internal Career\, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Writing\nRSVP for lunch at 12pm by emailing Janina Larenas (jlarenas@ucsc.edu) \nChristopher Breu is Professor of English at Illinois State University\, where he teaches courses on cultural and critical theory\, American literature 1900 to the present\, American popular culture\, literature and culture in a global context\, gender and sexuality. His publications include Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics (Minnesota 2014) and Hard-Boiled Masculinities (Minnesota 2005). He earned his PhD in Literature from UC Santa Cruz in 2000. \nSponsored by the Department of Literature\, Siegfried and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christopher-breu-post-phd-path/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Christopher-Breu-791x1024.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180412T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180412T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180410T232832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180410T232905Z UID:10006621-1523553600-1523559000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Sherwin Bitsui DESCRIPTION:Originally from White Cone\, Arizona\, on the Navajo Reservation\, Sherwin Bitsui is the author of two collections of poetry\, Flood Song (Copper Canyon) and Shapeshift (University of Arizona Press). He is Diné of the Todí­ch’ii’nii (Bitter Water Clan)\, born for the Tlizí­laaní­ (Many Goats Clan) and holds an AFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts Creative Writing Program and a BA from University of Arizona in Tucson. His recent honors include a 2011 Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship and a 2011 Native Arts & Culture Foundation Arts Fellowship. He is also the recipient of 2010 PEN Open Book Award\, an American Book Award\, and a Whiting Writers Award. Bitsui has published his poems in Narrative\, Black Renaissance Noir\, American Poet\, The Iowa Review\, LIT\, and elsewhere. \nSteeped in Native American culture\, mythology\, and history\, Bitsui’s poems reveal the tensions in the intersection of Native American and contemporary urban culture. As an ecopoet\, his poems are imagistic\, surreal\, and rich with details of the landscape of the Southwest. \nSpring 2018 Living Writers:\n A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement \nThis spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories\, persons and things\, race and freedom\, kinship and loss\, and the human and non-human natural world. \nApril 12: Sherwin Bitsui \nApril 26: Leif Haven\, Jared Harvey \nMay 3: Courtney Kersten \nMay 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton \nMay 24: Sawako Nakayasu \nMay 31: Robin Coste Lewis \nJune 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nThursdays\, 5:20-6:50 PM \nAll Readings are Free and Open to the Public \nContact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu) \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, American Indian Resource Center\, El Centro\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, the Literature Department\, and the Creative Writing Program. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/41740/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/0001-13.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180418T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180418T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180228T221148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180524T172728Z UID:10005467-1524052800-1524058200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mayanthi Fernando: "SuperNatureCulture: Human/Nonhuman Entanglements Beyond the Secular" DESCRIPTION:Mayanthi Fernando works on Islam\, secularism\, and the politics of difference in the North Atlantic. Her current project tracks the secular genealogies of the recent posthumanist turn. Reading this scholarship alongside other traditions of nonhuman ontologies\, including Islamic sciences of the unseen\, she asks whether we might rethink “natureculture” as “supernatureculture.” \nMayanthi Fernando is an associate professor of Anthropology at UCSC\, and the director of the Center For Emerging Worlds. Her current project attends to the nexus of sex and religion in the articulation of modern secularity\, analyzing how the secular state’s project of regulating and transforming religious life is interwoven with its project of sexual normalization\, i.e. the production of secular\, sexually “normal” citizens. She is interested in how proper religion and proper sexuality are mutually constituted (often in opposition to each other) by secular rule. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-mayanthi-fernando/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180420 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180422 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20171115T191921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180419T220056Z UID:10005426-1524182400-1524355199@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Unintelligible: Noise Against Capture DESCRIPTION:Graduate student conference exploring the potentials of a critical sound studies. \nThis conference seeks to cultivate an interdisciplinary understanding of the field of Sound Studies by taking up the ubiquitous sonic trope of noise\, considering its counter-productive character and how it can be a tactic for critique against the capture of individuals and communities of resistance. We will look at how “Others” are produced by noise\, asking: can we understand these subjects that destabilize normativity to be a kind of noise? Can noise understood as negation (“disruptive\,” “illegible\,” “unintelligible”) still be productive and resistant? How do we slow the impulse to turn noise into a metaphor and highlight its material role in neighborhoods\, institutions\, and culture? \n  \nKeynote (Arpil 20): Jeramy DeCristo\, UC Davis\nJeramy DeCristo is Assistant Professor in American Studies at UC Davis. Their work focuses on the interplay between sound\, race\, gender\, and embodiment\, as well as the ways in which sound and race are continually bound together through forms of mediation. In their most current book project\, Blackness and the Writing of Sound in Modernity\, Jeramy tracks and imagines a legacy of black sonic experimentation\, in artists ranging from Bessie Smith to Roscoe Mitchell\, that emerges out of black music’s refusal and dissemblance of technological modernity’s legacies of embodiment and capture. Their talk is entitled\, “Sounds Like Us”.\n\nPanels and presentations:\n\nApril 20\, 2018 in Humanities 1\, Room 210\nApril 21\, 2018 in the Humanities Lecture Hall \n\nAdditional Events:\n\nApril 20th: Evening concert co-presented by Indexical at Idea Fab Labs Santa Cruz; featuring Happy Valley Band\, Zachary James Watkins\, and Blectum from Blechdom. \nApril 21st: Continental breakfast at the UCSC Arboretum\, and tour of FOREST (for a thousand years)\, co-presented by Institute of the Arts & Sciences. [rsvp ias@ucsc.edu] \n  \nFor the most recently updated information please visit https://noise.sites.ucsc.edu/unintelligible/ \n  \nSupport has been provide by UC Humanities Research Institute\, with additional support from The Humanities Institute\, The Dickens Project\, History of Consciousness and Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, part of the Arts Division. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/unintelligible-noise-against-capture/ LOCATION:CA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/SoundStudies_UCSC_FINAL-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180420T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180420T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180319T201037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T194901Z UID:10006612-1524222000-1524227400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+ Stephanie Montgomery and Melissa Brzycki: "Podcasting Pop Culture - Engaging Public Audiences in East Asian History" DESCRIPTION:“Podcasting Pop Culture – Engaging Public Audiences in East Asian History”\nStephanie Montgomery and Melissa Brzycki\nA Special PhD+ Event at the VizWall (DSC\, McHenry Library) \nConsumable anywhere\, podcasts have emerged as an important medium for cultural discussions. Join us for a conversation about East Asia for All\, a public history podcast that provides nuanced discussion and context for English-speaking fans of East Asian popular culture. History graduate students Melissa Brzycki and Stephanie Montgomery created EAFA to reach a wide audience outside academia\, but still allow for in-depth\, “long-form” discussions. They will consider how\, as scholar-educators\, podcasting can help us hone our communication skills and challenge us to think about representing historical narratives in a way that is both informed and accessible. \nSponsored by the Digital Scholarship Commons\, The Humanities Institute\, and the History Department. \nPhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, and much more. \nPlease RSVP that you would like to attend this event. Lunch will be provided. \n  \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stephanie-montgomery-melissa-brzycki-east-asia-podcast/ LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry Library CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180425T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180425T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180228T221353Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180524T173219Z UID:10005469-1524657600-1524663000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Yiannis Papadakis: "Here/There: Immigrants\, Comparison & Critique" DESCRIPTION:Yiannis Papadakis holds an appointment in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cyprus\, and is a visiting scholar at UCSC. Papadakis’s published work on Cyprus has focused on ethnic conflict\, borders\, nationalism\, memory\, museums\, historiography\, history education and cinema. His recent work explores issues of migration and social democracy in Denmark\, based on fieldwork with Greek and Greek Cypriot immigrants in Copenhagen. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-yiannis-papadakis/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180426T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180426T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180410T233401Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180410T233401Z UID:10005481-1524763200-1524768600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Leif Haven & Jared Harvey DESCRIPTION:Leif Haven Martinson is a writer\, poet\, and designer. His first book\, Arcane Rituals From The Future\, was selected by Claudia Rankine as the winner of the 1913 Book Prize and published by 1913 Press in 2016. He is currently the Lead Designer at Botanic Technologies\, where he helps develop chatbots\, voice assistants\, and avatars. Previously\, he developed user-centered web services for the City of Oakland and designed educational games and experiences about CRISPR\, neutrinos\, and gardening in space with Field Day Lab\, an education innovation lab at the University of Wisconsin. \nJared Harvey (Jared Joseph) is the author of Drowsy. Drowsy Baby from Civil Coping Mechanisms and\, alongside Sara Peck\, the co-author of here you are via Horse Less Press. Recent work has been published in Fence\, Yes\, and Prelude\, while maybe a million chapbooks float around. He lives in Santa Cruz. \nSpring 2018 Living Writers:\n A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement \nThis spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories\, persons and things\, race and freedom\, kinship and loss\, and the human and non-human natural world. \nApril 12: Sherwin Bitsui \nApril 26: Leif Haven\, Jared Harvey \nMay 3: Courtney Kersten \nMay 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton \nMay 24: Sawako Nakayasu \nMay 31: Robin Coste Lewis \nJune 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nThursdays\, 5:20-6:50 PM \nAll Readings are Free and Open to the Public \nContact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu) \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, American Indian Resource Center\, El Centro\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, the Literature Department\, and the Creative Writing Program. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-leif-haven-jared-harvey/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/0001-13.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180427 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180430 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180116T221643Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180419T010615Z UID:10006582-1524787200-1525046399@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Alumni Weekend 2018 DESCRIPTION:SAVE THE DATE \nAlumni Weekend 2018\nApril 27-29 \nFor more info visit: alumniweekend.ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alumni-weekend-2018/ LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/alumni-weekend-2018.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180428T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180417T180836Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T194731Z UID:10006622-1524816000-1524938400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Pronouns in Competition Workshop DESCRIPTION:Pronouns in Competition \nLong distance dependencies involving pronouns have figured prominently both in theories of competence and in theories of performance. Bringing these diverse lines of inquiry closer together is a challenging\, yet fundamental\, goal for linguistic theory. In this workshop we propose to study the role(s) that competition and optimality may play in these domains. \nThe idea that the distribution of pronouns\, even some aspects of their interpretation\, may be governed by competition with a more optimal alternative\, is not new. However\, so far relatively little progress has been made towards a general theory of pronominal competitions and especially on the question of how the candidate set for comparison is determined. We propose to broaden the empirical domain of inquiry by considering pronominal competitions of various kinds\, and across languages: between pronouns and anaphors\, pronouns and gaps in A-bar dependencies\, pronouns and demonstratives\, overt vs. null pronouns\, pronouns and definite descriptions (in ‘Condition C’ effects) and so on. \nThe idea that competition plays a role in sentence processing has long been recognized and it is inherent in computational models of constraint satisfaction as well as in theories of encoding and retrieval from working memory. In the past decade especially\, the empirical breadth of sentence processing research on pronouns has increased dramatically. And interestingly there are many recent experiments on bound pronouns (primarily reflexives\, but also resumptives) that give evidence that initial interpretive processes can be selective and non-competitive. So an important goal of the workshop will be to consider whether or how notions of competition that can explain distributional facts about pronouns are related to mechanisms of sentence production and comprehension. We also hope that discussions which take place might guide future explorations of the territory. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganizers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJim McCloskey\, Ivy Sichel & Matt Wagers URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-pronouns-competition-workshop/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T111500 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180425T223305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180425T223421Z UID:10005495-1524823200-1524827700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:2018 Graduate Student Alumni Career Paths Panel DESCRIPTION:  \nDistinguished graduate student alumni honorees serve as panelists to discuss their career paths from UCSC after receiving their graduate-level degrees to their positions of distinction. Current and alumni graduate students encouraged to attend. \nThe Humanities recipient is Naomi J. Andrews\, associate professor of history at Santa Clara University\, had a comprehensive educational experience at UC Santa Cruz\, where she earned a B.A. in history in 1988\, an M.A. in history in 1993\, and a Ph.D. in history in 1998. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2018-graduate-student-alumni-career-paths-panel/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T134500 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180417T170950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180418T215337Z UID:10005485-1524832200-1524836700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum: Allison Nguyen DESCRIPTION:Fake News and Desirable Difficulties \nFriday Forum is 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. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments: HAVC\, Literature\, and History of Consciousness. \nFor questions\, email fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-form-allison-nguyen/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 408 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/FF_Spring2018_Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180306T200046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180306T200235Z UID:10005479-1524834000-1524852000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:14th Annual Graduate Research Symposium DESCRIPTION:14th Annual Graduate Research Symposium\nMcHenry Library\nApril 27\, 2018 \nThe UC Santa Cruz Graduate Research Symposium offers graduate students from every division the opportunity to discuss their research with colleagues on campus and with the public. Graduate students present their work in the following formats and venues: \n\n8-minute-maximum talk with or without visual aids\, which may be an overhead-projected slide presentation (e.g.\, Microsoft PowerPoint) in a library classroom bordering the 2nd-floor Information Commons South\n4’ x 4’ poster in the open-forum showcase of the library’s Information Commons South\nrecorded media presentation in the open-forum showcase of the library’s Information Commons South\n\nThe chancellor\, vice provost and dean of the Division of Graduate Studies\, and the five academic deans sponsor symposium awards decided by judges invited by the Division of Graduate Studies from among faculty\, staff\, postdoctoral scholars\, alumni\, trustees\, and community members. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/14th-annual-graduate-research-symposium/ LOCATION:McHenry Library\, UCSC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180428T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180428T121500 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180315T173041Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180423T145615Z UID:10006608-1524913200-1524917700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:2018 Baskin Ethics Lecture & Alumni Weekend Keynote "The Ethical Role of the Public University" DESCRIPTION:“The Ethical Role of the Public University” \nPeggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture / Alumni Weekend Faculty Keynote \nwith Bettina Aptheker and Marlene Tromp \nBettina Aptheker\, distinguished professor and Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, will deliver the weekend’s faculty keynote address and this year’s Baskin Ethics Lecture. Aptheker\, an alumna herself\, created one of the country’s largest and most influential introductory feminist studies courses\, taken by more than 16\,000 UC Santa Cruz students over the last four decades. Aptheker will talk about the ethical role of the public university and its potential to be a center of courage\, insight\, and principled rational discourse. Marlene Tromp\, Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor will join her in conversation. \nRegister today to be part of this compelling discussion! \nRegister here: http://alumniweekend.ucsc.edu/sessions/faculty-keynote/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alumni-weekend-faculty-keynote-bettina-aptheker-marlene-tromp-ethical-role-public-university/ LOCATION:Quarry Amphitheater\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/4-28-18_Lecture-Flyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180428T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180428T143000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180315T173414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180423T145535Z UID:10006609-1524922200-1524925800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Bettina Aptheker: "Women in the Arts" DESCRIPTION:Opera Parallèle\, a Bay Area opera company\, founded by UCSC Music Professor Emerita\, Nicole Paiement\, who is its musical director and conductor\, has commissioned an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe\, in her early career and before she was the icon we know today. This represents a milestone for women in the arts: a commissioned work by a woman composer\, about a woman artist\, with a woman conductor. \nThis new opera will be rehearsed in workshops while it is still in the process of creation\, May 29\, 30 and 31 at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz and on campus. Rehearsals will be free and open to the public. \nBettina Aptheker\, distinguished professor of feminist studies at UCSC and chair holder of the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, is collaborating with Nicole Paiement. Bettina and panelists will talk about the opera\, and more generally about women in the arts. \nCome and enjoy. Light refreshments will be served. \nRegister here: http://alumniweekend.ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bettina-aptheker-women-arts/ LOCATION:Cervantes & Velasquez Room\, Baytree Conference Center\, Bay Tree Conference Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/31368350412_91f7db1783_b.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180501T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180501T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180316T230115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180420T173445Z UID:10006611-1525174200-1525181400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Reading Seminar: Dr. Lesley Green DESCRIPTION:Reading Seminar on #ScienceMustFall and an ABC of Plant Medicine: On Posing Cosmopolitical Questions featuring Dr. Lesley Green (Associate Professor of Anthropology\, University of Cape Town and Founding Director: Environmental Humanities South). \nPlease email krlyons@ucsc.edu for the readings URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reading-seminar-sciencemustfall-abc-plant-medicine-posing-cosmopolitical-questions/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 408 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180502T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180502T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180228T221947Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180524T172245Z UID:10005471-1525262400-1525267800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Kyla Schuller: "The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race\, Sex\, & Science in the Nineteenth Century" DESCRIPTION:Kyla Schuller is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University\, New Brunswick and an External Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center (2017-2018). She has previously held fellowships from ACLS and the UC Humanities Research Institute and a visiting scholar position at UC Berkeley. Schuller investigates the intersections between race\, gender\, sexuality\, and the sciences in U.S. culture\, and is particularly interested in ideas about how the body interacts with its environment from the periods both before and after classical genetics\, i.e. the 19th century and the present. Overall\, she examines how science and culture function as systems of knowledge that share methods and sources in common\, even as they rhetorically claim distinct spheres. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-kyla-schuller/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180502T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180502T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180316T225744Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180316T225857Z UID:10006610-1525275000-1525282200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Lesley Green: "Sons and Daughters of Soil?" DESCRIPTION:“Sons and Daughters of Soil?” \nDr. Lesley Green (Associate Professor of Anthropology\, University of Cape Town and Founding Director: Environmental Humanities South) \nResponding\, as researchers\, to Earth Mastery that includes not only violent machines\, but a violation of evidence and epistemes including the scientific episteme\, requires accumulating and presenting evidence for existences that do not exist — at least\, not in neoliberal discourses.  In trying to research and support specific situations of Black environmental struggle in South Africa\, I find myself standing with that which has no existence in conventional discourses: for a cliff that no longer exists; for molecules that have no existence in local knowledge; for people who have no existence in the mining companies\, for the assassinated Bazooka Radebe\, whose existence is now with the Ancestors\, and with the soil he died to conserve.  Environmental Humanities South had begun by asking a question about how to generate evidence in the geological Anthropocene.  By the time our first three years had ticked by and we had encountered the Capitalocene\, I had learned that a far more fundamental struggle has to be the focus of our work. What exists? Who exists? In what registers and modes? How do we take on the new conquistadors with their machines called Earth Masters\, given that it is their owners’ logic that has come to define who exists and what exists and what can be ground to dust? How can scholarship contribute to the building of a broad-based environmental public? Presented as a dilemma tale\, this talk sketches six moves toward an ecopolitics in South Africa\, with the question: what else could be in this discussion? \n*This event is co-sponsored by the Science and Justice Research Center and the Anthropology Department\, and is open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lesley-green-sons-daughters-soil/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180427T231428Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180427T231428Z UID:10005501-1525360500-1525366800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium: Ori Simchen DESCRIPTION:“Realism and Instrumentalism in Metaphysical Explanation” \nOri Simchen is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia\, Vancouver. Professor Simchen works mostly in the philosophy of language and metaphysics. Most recently he’s been working on metasemantics\, or foundational semantics\, and its relation to formal semantics. He is particularly interested in how to think about intentionality (or aboutness) in light of the pronouncements of contemporary semantic theory. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/philosophy-colloquium-ori-simchen/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180124T214742Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180524T171107Z UID:10005445-1525363200-1525368600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Devin Naar: “Sephardic Archives from Analog to Digital: Three Tales of Memory and Visibility" DESCRIPTION:“Sephardic Archives from Analog to Digital: Three Tales of Memory and Visibility” \nJoin us as Devin E. Naar\, founder of the Sephardic Studies Program at the University of Washington\, traces three key moments in the development of Sephardic Studies libraries and archives in the 1880s\, 1930s\, and today. Often relying on community members to supply source materials\, these archiving efforts have legitimized and rendered more visible the often-marginalized Sephardic experience. Professor Naar’s work demonstrates how digital humanities initiatives can draw upon methods and aspirations of previous generations while also providing new possibilities and opportunities in the 21st century. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nDevin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies\, Associate Professor in the department of History and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. As the founder and chair of the Sephardic Studies Program\, Naar oversees the Sephardic Studies Digital Collection\, which has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His book\, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece (Stanford University Press\, 2016)\, won a National Jewish Book Award and the Keeley Prize for best book in Modern Greek Studies. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-diaspora-new-approaches-sephardi-north-african-jewish-studies/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Naar_Webbanner_R3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180410T233634Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180410T233634Z UID:10005482-1525368000-1525373400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Courtney Kersten DESCRIPTION:Courtney Kersten is the author of Daughter in Retrograde: A Memoir (University of Wisconsin Press 2018). Her essays can be seen or are forthcoming from Brevity\, The Normal School\, River Teeth\, Hotel Amerika\, DIAGRAM\, The Sonora Review\, Black Warrior Review\, The Master’s Review\, Brevity and elsewhere. She was a Fulbright Fellow to Riga\, Latvia\, and is currently a PhD student in Literature and CreativeWriting at the University of California at Santa Cruz. \nSpring 2018 Living Writers:\n A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement \nThis spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories\, persons and things\, race and freedom\, kinship and loss\, and the human and non-human natural world. \nApril 12: Sherwin Bitsui \nApril 26: Leif Haven\, Jared Harvey \nMay 3: Courtney Kersten \nMay 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton \nMay 24: Sawako Nakayasu \nMay 31: Robin Coste Lewis \nJune 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nThursdays\, 5:20-6:50 PM \nAll Readings are Free and Open to the Public \nContact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu) \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, American Indian Resource Center\, El Centro\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, the Literature Department\, and the Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-courtney-kersten/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/0001-13.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180425T220829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180425T221855Z UID:10005493-1525424400-1525453200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Emerging Ecologies: Arcaeologies of Slavery\, Landscape\, and Environmental Change DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Atlantic Era was a period of intense commercial integration linking key economic players in Western Europe\, the Americas\, the Indian Ocean littorals\, and West and Central Africa. The period was marked by dramatic increases in the volume of commerce at both the regional and global levels\, radically transforming the societies and environments of these core areas. In fact\, it is arguable that few communities on earth escaped the wide-reaching effects of commercial expansion and integration in this period. African slavery in the Atlantic World facilitated this integration. The slave trade linked four continents as traders carried European exports to Africa\, exchanged them for enslaved people\, and ferried those captives to the Americas. African people and cultures dispersed across the Americas\, and the crops and natural resources that enslaved people harvested in the New World were shipped around the globe. This political\, cultural\, and ecological process laid the foundations for the cultures\, environments\, and economies of the modern world. At the very heart of this transformation were cities\, ports\, and plantations that wreaked vast ecological changes across their respective landscapes. Large swaths of land were cleared for agricultural production\, port cities were established for import and export\, and flora and fauna were transplanted across hemispheres in a process known as the Columbian Exchange. These intentional and unintentional ecological transformations were accompanied by violent social and economic changes. Plantation labor regimes emerged as models for industrial factory work\, contributing directly to rapid industrialization in the Atlantic world. The trans-Atlantic Slave Trade thus stands as a point of origin for the Anthropocene\, the contemporary moment in which environments around the world have been profoundly shaped by human action. This one-day symposium explores of the impacts and legacies of slavery and the slave trade across the landscapes of our rapidly changing world. \nOrganizers\nJustin Dunnavant and J. Cameron Monroe \nSpeakers\nGeorgia Fox (CSU Chico)\nMark Hauser (Northwestern University)\nPaul Lane (Uppsala University)\nAmanda Logan (Northwestern University)\nMarco Meniketti (Sans José State University)\nFraser Neiman (Monticello Archaeology)\nLisa Randle (University of South Carolina)\nMeredith Reifschneider (San Francisco State University)\nElizabeth Reitz (Georgia Museum of Natural History)\nKrish Seetah (Stanford University)\nDiane Wallman (University of South Florida) \n***Keynote Address – Judith Carney (UCLA) \nAdmission is FREE and open to the public.\nAdvance registration is REQUESTED to ensure we have sufficient seating. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/emerging-ecologies-arcaeologies-slavery-landscape-environmental-change/ LOCATION:University Center\, University Center‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/unnamed-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180228T205639Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T194814Z UID:10005463-1525431600-1525437000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: PhDs in Leadership Positions at UCSC  DESCRIPTION:Foundational Labor: PhDs in Leadership Positions at UCSC \nAre you interested in learning more about the work of PhDs who are actively reimagining pedagogy and student support at UC Santa Cruz? This session will feature two PhDs who are currently employing their research and teaching experience in a variety of interrelated ways\, including program development\, project management\, and mentorship\, all of which are vital to the University’s mission and its commitment to equitably serving undergraduate students and graduate student-instructors. Kendra Dority is Assistant Director of the UCSC Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)\, and Zia Isola is Director of the UCSC Genomics Institute Office of Diversity Programs\, Co-Director of the UCSC Bridge to Doctorate Program (NSF-LSAMP)\, and Staff Advisor for UCSC Women in Science & Engineering (WISE). Participants will have an opportunity to hear about the day-to-day experience of working in two campus positions\, as well as how the PhD has influenced or helped reimagine their approach to their work. \nPhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, and much more. \nLunch provided to all attendees. \n*Stay tuned for more information. \nPlease RSVP below: \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T134500 DTSTAMP:20260403T105147 CREATED:20180417T171457Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180425T224021Z UID:10005486-1525437000-1525441500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum: LuLing Osofsky DESCRIPTION:“Based on a (Mostly) True Story: Conflicting Cinematic Portrayals of Jewish Champions Boxing at Auschwitz ” \nIn 2011\, I traveled to Tel Aviv to interview eighty-seven year old Noah Klieger\, the last remaining Holocaust survivor to have boxed for Nazi officials at Auschwitz. That amateur and champion Jewish boxers boxed at the camps to entertain SS is largely unknown\, and the few accounts are contested and contradictory. The “based on a true story” 1989 film Triumph of the Spirit shows Jews boxing fellow Jews to the death; Klieger derided the film as lies. It compelled me to investigate the complications and consequences of representing and narrativizing this horrific predicament in film. My essay blends interview and film criticism\, and reflects on which Holocaust narratives get preserved\, adapted\, or willfully winnowed away. \nLuLing Osofsky is a PhD student in the History of Art and Visual Culture program. She’s interested in how artists\, filmmakers\, curators\, and political entities represent and narrativize trauma\, destruction and disaster. \nFriday Forum is 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. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments: HAVC\, Literature\, and History of Consciousness. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-luling-osofsky/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/FF_Spring2018_Poster.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR