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: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:20180302T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180302T123000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082804 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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:20260404T082805 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T143000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180417T181236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T213936Z UID:10006623-1525441500-1525444200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Liz Coppock\, Boston Univeristy DESCRIPTION:Liz Coppock is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Boston University\, specializing in semantics and pragmatics. Her research concerns the meanings of small words in various languages\, the invisible forces that give complex expressions their meanings\, and sometimes even the nature of meaning itself. \nAs Principal Investigator of the Swedish Research Council project Most and more: Quantity superlatives across languages\, she maintains a part-time position as biträdande lektor at the University of Gothenburg\, in the department of Philosophy\, Linguistics\, and Theory of Science\, where she has worked since 2012. \nShe received a B.A. in Linguistics from Northwestern University in 2002 and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University in 2009. She became Docent in Linguistics through the University of Gothenburg in December 2013. (“Docent” is the Swedish equivalent of a German “Habilitation”\, a post-Ph.D. qualification\, regardless of what Google Translate might have you believe.) \nAbstract: \nThis paper focuses on languages in which a superlative interpretation is typically indicated merely by a combination of a definiteness marker with a comparative marker\, including French\, Spanish\, Italian\, Romanian\, and Greek (‘DEF+CMP languages). Despite ostensibly using definiteness markers to form the superlative\, superlatives are not always definite-marking in these languages\, and the distribution of definiteness-making varies across languages. Constituently structure appears to vary across languages as well. To account for these patterns of variation\, we identify conflicting pressures that all of the languages in consideration may be subject to\, and suggest that different languages prioritize differently in the resolution of these conflicts. What these languages have in common\, we suggest\, is a mechanism of Definite Null Instantiation for the degree-type standard argument of the comparative. Among the parameters along which languages are proposed to differ is the relative importance of marking uniqueness vs. avoiding determiners with predicates of entities that arrant individuals. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-liz-coppock-boston-univeristy/ 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/Speaker-flyer-Coppock.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180313T202720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180515T192443Z UID:10006604-1525442400-1525453200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Language of Conservation Project: In Search of “Values as Yet Uncaptured by Language” DESCRIPTION:In Search of “Values as Yet Uncaptured by Language:” Learning from Great Historical Paradigm Shifts \nA Language of Conservation Project Colloquium. Presented by The Humanities Institute and the Center for Public Philosophy. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nSpeakers: \nDaniel Guevara – Chair\, Department of Philosophy at UCSC \nClaudio Campagna – Adjunct Professor\, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at UCSC\, Wildlife Conservation Society \nKaren Barad – Professor of Feminist Studies at UCSC \nEric Porter – Chair\, History of Consciousness at UCSC & Professor of History at UCSC \nRSVP required. Reading materials sent upon RSVP. \nPlease RSVP here: http://bit.ly/2G3PIvQ \nCo-sponsored by: Cowell College\, The Dean of Humanities\, and Department of Philosophy URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/language-conservation-colloquium/ LOCATION:Page Smith Library ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/flyer-colloquium-2018.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180505T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180505T160000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180423T215256Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180423T215256Z UID:10006632-1525509000-1525536000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Pacific Island Worlds Transpacific Dis/Positions Symposium DESCRIPTION:In this symposium\, artists and scholars explore creative expression and research that chart\nPacific Island Studies in the 21st century. Speakers examine the Pacific Ocean as worlds of\ncomplex human interaction and dynamic spaces in which diverse communities have produced a\nrange of cultural and political identity dis/positions through kinship\, colonial histories\, and\ndiasporas. The symposium honors the memory of UCSC alum Teresia Teaiwa. \nSpeakers will discuss performance and poetry\, debates on cultural preservation\, imaging\nOceanic histories and places\, the cultures of Pacific travel and diasporas\, and Oceanic\necopoetics. \nSpeakers \n‘Ava ceremony with student group Oceania Navigators Empowerment\nJames Clifford\, UC Santa Cruz\, Keynote\nDiana Looser\, Stanford University\nJoe Balaz\, Poet\nKiri Sailiata\, UC Los Angeles\nJewel Castro\, University of Washington\nJane Chang Mi\, Pepperdine University\nKaili Chun\, Kapi’olani Community College\nJesi Lujan Bennett\, University of Hawai’i\nDavid Chang\, University of Minnesota\nRob Wilson\, UC Santa Cruz \nAll events are free and open to the public. \nPaid parking available at Cowell\, Stevenson\, and DARC lots. Weekend free parking at East Remote lot. See parking map for more details. \nFor disability-related or other questions\, please contact Stacy Kamehiro (kamehiro@ucsc.edu) or Kara Hisatake (khisatak@ucsc.edu). \n  \nRelated Events\nMay 4\, 2018\nDARC 206 \n“Veritas”: Talk by Award-Winning Artist Kaili Chun\, 2 pm \n“Seeing the Unseen: A Telephotography Workshop” with Jane Chang Mi\, 4:30 pm URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pacific-island-worlds-transpacific-dis-positions-symposium/ 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/2018/04/0.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180509T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180509T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180319T201507Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T183257Z UID:10006614-1525878000-1525885200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:POSTPONED Digital Humanities Meet Up DESCRIPTION:**THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED** \nShare your digital research with the DH community!  \nJoin the DH Research Cluster to learn more about DH research on campus at an informal meet up. We invite researchers across campus to share their work with a short\, lightening style presentation. The introductions will be open-mic style\, do you do not have to prepare in advance. This is an opportunity to meet new colleagues\, share your work\, and recognize mutual research interests. \n\nAll students\, faculty\, staff welcome. You do not have to present to attend. \nFood and drinks courtesy of The Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-humanities-meet/ LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180510T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180510T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180427T231248Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180507T150538Z UID:10005500-1525965300-1525971600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium: Gene Witmer DESCRIPTION:“Metaphysics and A Priori Vindication” \nIs there reason to expect any interesting kind of a priori access to metaphysical truths of the sort often in dispute in contemporary philosophy? In this paper I zero in on truths about what is metaphysically necessary and about the essences or natures of things as key topics in metaphysics and aim to delineate a well-motivated thesis about a priori access to such. After examining a few approaches that don’t succeed\, I introduce and defend a positive thesis of “semantic rationalism.” The relevance of that thesis for the topics of metaphysical necessities and essences is then explored\, with attention in particular to whether the rationalism in question has enough bite to be of interest. \nGene Witmer is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department at the University of Florida. His research focuses on metaphysics and philosophy of mind\, with a special focus on physicalism. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/philosophy-colloquium-gene-witmer/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180510T152000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180510T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180427T035414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180427T035600Z UID:10005497-1525965600-1525971600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Engaging and Including Student Veterans in the Classroom DESCRIPTION:Writing Program Pedagogy Workshop \nThe number of student veterans is rapidly growing\, with more than a million currently enrolled in US colleges. Many institutions support veterans by promoting access to student services but overlook what actually happens in the classroom. What do we need to know as instructors about student veterans’ learning practices\, literacies\, and instructional needs? This workshop will enhance your cultural competence and provide new pedagogical tools to engage and include student veterans in our classrooms. \nDr. Brenda Sanfillipo is a lecturer with the UCSC Writing Program\, Stevenson College\, and Porter College. Her research focuses on representations of war since 9/11. In addition to her academic work and teaching on contemporary warfare\, she spent five years as part of the Army community. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/engaging-including-student-veterans-classroom/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/0001-15.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180511T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180511T134500 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180417T172334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180417T172334Z UID:10005487-1526041800-1526046300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum: Sam Hughes DESCRIPTION:The Origins of Kink-Oriented Desires: Perspectives from an Online Community of Kinky People \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-sam-hughes/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 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:20180513T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180513T160000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180110T201407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180110T201407Z UID:10006578-1526220000-1526227200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: The Dickens Universe 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-dickens-universe/ 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;VALUE=DATE:20180515 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180518 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180427T205050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180508T184014Z UID:10005499-1526342400-1526601599@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Right Livelihood Conference DESCRIPTION:  \n‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ Laureates at UCSC \nIn May 2018\, a group of Right Livelihood change-makers based in Canada and the US will convene at the University of California\, Santa Cruz to discuss challenges and opportunities for advancing social and environmental justice.  In these tumultuous times\, this meeting will deepen and ground our local efforts toward a more sustainable\, equitable\, and peaceful world. \nPublic Program Dates: May 15 – 17\, 2018\nPlace: University of California\, Santa Cruz\, USA \n  \nThe Right Livelihood Award \nThe Right Livelihood Award—widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’—was established in 1980 to honor and support courageous people and organizations offering visionary and exemplary solutions to the root causes of global problems. In addition to presenting the annual award\, the Right Livelihood Award Foundation also supports the work of its Laureates\, particularly those whose lives may be in danger due to the nature of their activities. \n  \nThe Right Livelihood College \nCommon Ground Center at UC Santa Cruz’s Kresge College is the one and only Right Livelihood College in North America\, and we are honored to host the first North American Regional Conference featuring many Laureates from the USA and Canada. By linking activists and academics\, the Right Livelihood College highlights UC Santa Cruz’s trailblazing leadership in service of people and the planet\, and makes vital contributions to the intellectual life of the campus and community. \n  \n\n\nLaureates attending \nThe following Laureates have confirmed their attendance: \n\nRobert Bilott (USA\, 2017)\n\n“…for exposing a decades-long history of chemical pollution\, winning long-sought justice for the victims\, and setting a precedent for effective regulation of hazardous substances.”\n\n\nSheila Watt-Cloutier (Canada\, 2015)\n\n“…for her lifelong work to protect the Inuit of the Arctic and defend their right to maintain their livelihoods and culture\, which are acutely threatened by climate change.”\n\n\nBill McKibben / 350.org (USA\, 2014)\n\n“…for mobilising growing popular support in the USA and around the world for strong action to counter the threat of global climate change.”\n\n\nPaul Walker (USA\, 2013)\n\n“…for working tirelessly to rid the world of chemical weapons.”\n\n\nJamila Raqib on behalf of Gene Sharp (USA\, 2012)\n\n“…for developing and articulating the core principles and strategies of nonviolent resistance and supporting their practical implementation in conflict areas around the world.”\n\n\nYannick Beaudoin (David Suzuki Foundation)\, on behalf of David Suzuki (Canada\, 2009)\n\n“…for his lifetime advocacy of the socially responsible use of science\, and for his massive contribution to raising awareness about the perils of climate change and building public support for policies to address it”.\n\n\nAmy Goodman (USA\, 2008)\n\n“…for developing an innovative model of truly independent political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by mainstream media.”\n\n\nDaniel Ellsberg (USA\, 2006)\n\n“…for putting peace and truth first\, at considerable personal risk\, and dedicating his life to inspiring others to follow his example.”\n\n\nMaude Barlow (Canada\, 2005)\n\n“… for their exemplary and longstanding worldwide work for trade justice and the recognition of the fundamental human right to water.”\n\n\nTony Clarke (Canada\, 2005)\n\n“… for their exemplary and longstanding worldwide work for trade justice and the recognition of the fundamental human right to water.”\n\n\nWes Jackson / The Land Institute (USA\, 2000)\n\n“…for his single-minded commitment to developing an agriculture that is both highly productive and truly ecologically sustainable.”\n\n\nAlice Tepper Marlin (USA\, 1990)\n\n“…for showing the direction in which the Western economy must develop to promote the well-being of humanity.”\n\n\nFrances Moore Lappé (Small Planet Institute) (USA\, 1987)\n\n“…for revealing the political and economic causes of world hunger and how citizens can help to remedy them.”\n\n\nAmory Lovins (USA\, 1983)\n\n“…for pioneering soft energy paths for global security.”\n\n\nPat Mooney (Canada\, 1985)\n\n“…for working to save the world’s genetic plant heritage.”\n\n\nLisa Wartinger\, Bruce Curtis and/or Peter Schweizer of Plenty International (USA\, 1980)\n\n“…for caring\, sharing and acting with and on behalf of those in need at home and abroad.”\n\n\n\n\n  \nPartner Organisations \nA number of groups at UC Santa Cruz are collaborating to co-host this event\, including:UCSC Foundation\nCommon Ground Center\nKresge College\nBlum Center on Poverty\, Social Enterprise\, and Participatory Governance\nEverett Program for Technology & Social Change\nCenter for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems\nDivision of Social Sciences\nThe Humanities Institute\nUniversity Relations\nScience and Justice Research Center\nSustainability Office\nEnvironmental Studies Department\nHeller Chair in Agroecology\nRachel Carson College & Headley Chair for Integral Ecology and Environmental JusticePlease contact us using the information below if you would like to contribute to the conference.\n\n  \nConference Background \nSince 2013\, the Right Livelihood Award has arranged a series of regional conferences for its Laureates. It was after a call from one of our Colombian Laureates\, asking for help to strengthen their regional network\, that we decided to bring Laureates from Latin America and the Caribbean together for the first time. Since it was such an important and fruitful meeting\, this meeting was followed by regional meetings for Laureates in Africa and the Middle East in 2014\, in Asia in 2015\, and\, in 2016\, Laureates in Europe. The meeting of North American Right Livelihood Award Laureates will be the fifth regional conference. In times when safe spaces for action are shrinking for civil society all over the world\, these meetings provide an enabling environment for important actors toward a more sustainable and peaceful world. Award recipients have been able to share struggles\, exchange ideas\, strengthen networks of collaboration\, and engage more deeply with change makers and communities local to the areas where the meetings have been held.\n\nAdd strength to change-makers by supporting this conference \nSince its founding by Jakob von Uexkull\, Individual donations have been the backbone of the Right Livelihood Award. Institutional donors also help to support the Award. If you would like to contribute to this meeting of courageous people and organisations in North America that have found practical solutions to the root causes of global problems\, please visit the ‘Donate‘ section. \nMark your support: “Regional conf.\, Santa Cruz” \n  \nContact information \nKajsa Övergaard\nSenior Programme Director\nRight Livelihood Award Foundation\nkajsa@rightlivelihood.org\n+46-8-7020340 \nDavid Shaw\nCoordinator\, RLC Campus Santa Cruz\nCo-Director\, Common Ground Center\nUCSC Kresge College\ndaveshaw@ucsc.edu\n+1-831-222-0253 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/right-livelihood-conference/ LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/RLC-banner-email-rla-santa-cruz-no-border-1334x386.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180515T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180515T133000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180425T222259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180425T222625Z UID:10005494-1526385600-1526391000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Building a Coding Workflow from Terminal to Github: Workshop with Fabiola Hanna DESCRIPTION:  \nConfused by Github? Scared by the black screen of the Terminal? \nIf you’re looking to code\, but don’t know how to get started join Fabiola Hanna for an introductory workshop and learn how to set up a coding workflow. We’ll start with basic scripts in Terminal then move to setting up Brackets and working with GitHub. You’ll learn how to fork\, branch\, push\, pull\, etc… If you don’t know what any of these words mean\, you’re more than welcome! Start here. \nRegistration Required. Limited Seating. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/building-coding-workflow-terminal-github-workshop-fabiola-hanna/ LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry Library END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180516T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180516T133000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180228T234026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180922T183101Z UID:10005473-1526472000-1526477400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jennifer Doyle: "Harassment & the Unravelling of the Queer Commons" DESCRIPTION:This talk will attempt to speak to the difficulty of this moment for queer/feminist theorists—for teachers\, students and staff who live and work with harassment\, with forms of misogyny that are so embedded in professional life as\, in some ways\, to feel synonymous with it. This work is a return to a scene many of us have never left\, but which critical formations tend to represent as having passed: super-sexual political writing calling for openness against an intolerable future. \nJennifer Doyle is a Professor of English at UC Riverside. \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-jennifer-doyle/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180516T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180516T200000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180125T193612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180524T170809Z UID:10005447-1526493600-1526500800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:UCSC Night at the Museum: "Global 1968 - Race and Revolution around the World" DESCRIPTION:6:00pm – doors open  |  6:30pm – program begins \n  \nFifty years ago\, countries and cities around the globe erupted with protests and revolutionary movements demanding change and seeking to create a better future. Featuring four renowned historians\, “Global 1968” spotlights marginalized groups and lesser-known events and places in the global upheavals of 1968—from Mexico to China\, Oakland to West Africa—while considering what lessons can be drawn for politics and protest today. \nRegistration Required – Registration has closed\nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nSpeakers:\nJean Allman (Washington University in St. Louis)\nJaime Pensado (University of Notre Dame)\nDonna Murch (Rutgers University)\nEmily Honig (UC Santa Cruz)\nModerated by: Marc Matera (UC Santa Cruz) \n  \nPhotography Exhibit: \nIncluded in the evening’s event will be a pop-up exhibit of images from a 1968 photography project launched by artist Ruth-Marion Baruch to document the people and the work of California’s Black Panther Party. The now-iconic photographs she and her husband Pirkle Jones took of the Panthers were both celebrated and criticized for their sympathetic portrayal of a maligned community. Black Panthers\, 1968 is one of many projects revealing Baruch’s and Jones’s commitment to art and social change that are preserved in their archive at UC Santa Cruz’s Special Collections & Archives. \n  \nRegistration Required. Each attendee must submit a registration form. Seating is first come\, first serve. Overflow space will be available. If you have disability-related needs\, please contact The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274. Please note that if you do not receive an email confirmation with your form responses\, you have not successfully registered for the event. \n  \nCo-sponsored by: The Center for World History and the History Department. Part of The Humanities Institute’s Freedom and Race Series\, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ucsc-night-museum/ LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/banner-1b-1024x520.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180517T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180517T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180423T220257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180509T163243Z UID:10005492-1526572800-1526580000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jennifer Kelly: “Subjection and Performance: Tourism\, Witnessing\, and Acts of Refusal in Palestine” DESCRIPTION:Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program Presents: \n“Subjection and Performance: Tourism\, Witnessing\, and Acts of Refusal in Palestine” \nDrawing from multi-sited ethnographic research on solidarity tours in Palestine\, in this talk Jennifer Kelly shows how Palestinian solidarity tour guides reject performing subjection in an industry that treats the recitation of subjection as a prerequisite. On solidarity tours\, Palestinians are expected to rehearse their displacement and provide evidence of their dispossession against a constellation of U.S. and Israeli state sanctioned narratives that have rendered them unreliable narrators. Kelly shows how Palestinian tour guides disrupt tourist expectations by refusing to perform subjection for the tourist gaze. In alternative performances of pleasure and through acts of “hanging out\,” Palestinian tour guides intervene in tourist expectations of performances of trauma and instead ask tourists to confront the violences of their own desire in Palestine. \nJennifer Kelly is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Asian American Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/critical-race-ethnic-studies-program-presents/ 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/ACFrOgDdy997WofAVTT3_-O1bZNl-q7DdQz5yOa5MbnD5VeDWNE1PTYw57ydlrn3kNh18xyt-trNXOj1I7r8H05fUgwdmD-JAZg5VV5KV1maix98o8r8tpIrZXA5L-o.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180517T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180517T185000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180507T172412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180507T172600Z UID:10006633-1526577600-1526583000@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 is the author of six collections of poetry\, including Cruel Futures (City Lights\, 2018); Milk and Filth (2013)\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Goodbye\, Flicker (University of Massachusetts Press\, 2012)\, winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. She is the author of the memoir Bring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering\, Art\, Work\, and Everything Else (University of Arizona Press\, 2010)\, which received an American Book Award. She also coedited Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing (Counterpath Press\, 2014). \ngiovanni singleton earned a BA from American University and an MFA from the New College of California. She is the author of the poetry collections AMERICAN LETTERS: works on paper (2017) and Ascension (2011)\, which won a California Book Award for Poetry. The book earned praise for its evocative use of white space\, silence\, and omissions. Poet Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon noted that singleton’s “poems are minimalist\, while engaging a concern for the historical\, the personal\, the spiritual\, as expanses… The buildup is slow\, and culminates as play\, in the clear space left as we literally watch an I disappear. Thereafter\, we find the blank page again. And time to make another poem.” \nSpring 2018 Living Writers:\nA 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-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/2018/04/0001-13.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180517T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180517T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180423T205846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180423T210241Z UID:10006628-1526587200-1526594400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Miriam Ellis International Playhouse DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics\, Cowell\, and Stevenson Colleges at UCSC will present the 18th season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP) from May 17th through May 20th at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center on campus. In this unique multilingual program\, students will be featured in fully-staged excerpts of short works in Punjabi\, French. German\, and Spanish\, with English super-titles. \nThere is no admission charge for the event; nearby parking is $4.00. \nThere are exciting innovations in the program this year\, with the first MEIP presentation of works in Punjabi\, including a short play and poetry\, directed by Arshinder Kaur\, and excerpts from Mozart’s opera\, The Magic Flute\, sung in German\, directed by Sheila Willey\, and performed by students of the University Opera Theater\, as a preview of their upcoming production of the opera\, which will take place from May 31 to June 3 at the UCSC Music Center Recital Hall. Students of French will portray scenes from Marcel Pagnol’s Fanny\, one of the plays in his trilogy about a group of serio-comic characters in Marseille\, directed by Miriam Ellis and Renée Cailloux. Spanish will offer a contemporary comedy\, Black and White\, by Ignacio Dominis\, directed by Carolina Castillo-Trelles\, which explores characters who live in two different worlds\, separated by a line never to be crossed. Over the years\, our multilingual theater presentations have attracted loyal audiences who look forward to hearing their native or acquired languages in this unusual format\, and we cordially invite the community to attend. \nFor more information\, please contact Lisa Leslie at lmhunter@ucsc.edu or (831-459- 2054). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/miriam-ellis-international-playhouse/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/JapaneseSweet-Poison-MEIP-XV.-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180427T034325Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180427T034325Z UID:10005496-1526630400-1526670000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"¿Cómo te comunicas?": 7th annual UC Comparative Iberian Studies Symposium DESCRIPTION:The 7th annual UC Comparative Iberian Studies Symposium “¿Cómo te comunicas?” will feature a cohort of 15-17 UC professors\, working in a variety of fields within the discipline of Iberian Studies\, stretching from medieval topics to cultural studies until the 21st century. \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and UCHRI. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/como-te-comunicas-7th-annual-uc-comparative-iberian-studies-symposium/ 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/2018/04/0001-14.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T134500 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180417T174633Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180417T175308Z UID:10005488-1526646600-1526651100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum: Rebekkah Gross DESCRIPTION:Situational Features Influences College Students’ Evaluations About Helping \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-rebekkah-gross/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 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:20180518T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T143000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180417T181455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180515T205841Z UID:10006624-1526650200-1526653800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Meghan Sumner DESCRIPTION:“Usage-based linguistic models and understanding human behavior” \nThe past three decades of research in phonetics and psycholinguistics have led to great advances in our understanding of language\, representation\, and the relationship between language and other cognitive domains. While debates certainly still exist\, we can take as established that how often and in what context different speech patterns occur influence both memory and processing. The question now is what we do with this rich foundation. \nIn this talk\, I present a few\, short examples of how usage-based approaches to phonetics and psycholinguistics help us understand social biases and human behavior. I provide some evidence showing that phonetically-cued talker information (e.g.\, emotion\, gender) directly activates lexical items\, providing us with some insights into the timing and availability of this\ninformation. The purpose of this first part is to illuminate the complexity of experiencing linguistic events from the perspective of a listener. \nFor the remainder of the talk\, I move away from phonetics\, taking the basic insights from the studies initially presented (e.g.\, that we are pattern recognizers) to question assumptions about language use and experience and ask how our understanding of language use\, semantic associations and culture can inform society at large. Specifically\, I spend the last large chunk of\nthis talk investigating how we can understand the refugee experience through the lens of spoken language comprehension. \nMeghan Sumner is an associate professor of Linguistics at Stanford University. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-meghan-sumner-stanford/ 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/2018/04/0001-19.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180423T205929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180423T210338Z UID:10006629-1526673600-1526680800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Miriam Ellis International Playhouse DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics\, Cowell\, and Stevenson Colleges at UCSC will present the 18th season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP) from May 17th through May 20th at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center on campus. In this unique multilingual program\, students will be featured in fully-staged excerpts of short works in Punjabi\, French. German\, and Spanish\, with English super-titles. \nThere is no admission charge for the event; nearby parking is $4.00. \nThere are exciting innovations in the program this year\, with the first MEIP presentation of works in Punjabi\, including a short play and poetry\, directed by Arshinder Kaur\, and excerpts from Mozart’s opera\, The Magic Flute\, sung in German\, directed by Sheila Willey\, and performed by students of the University Opera Theater\, as a preview of their upcoming production of the opera\, which will take place from May 31 to June 3 at the UCSC Music Center Recital Hall. Students of French will portray scenes from Marcel Pagnol’s Fanny\, one of the plays in his trilogy about a group of serio-comic characters in Marseille\, directed by Miriam Ellis and Renée Cailloux. Spanish will offer a contemporary comedy\, Black and White\, by Ignacio Dominis\, directed by Carolina Castillo-Trelles\, which explores characters who live in two different worlds\, separated by a line never to be crossed. Over the years\, our multilingual theater presentations have attracted loyal audiences who look forward to hearing their native or acquired languages in this unusual format\, and we cordially invite the community to attend. \nFor more information\, please contact Lisa Leslie at lmhunter@ucsc.edu or (831-459- 2054). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/miriam-ellis-international-playhouse-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/JapaneseSweet-Poison-MEIP-XV.-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180519T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180519T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180423T210128Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180423T210557Z UID:10006630-1526760000-1526767200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Miriam Ellis International Playhouse DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics\, Cowell\, and Stevenson Colleges at UCSC will present the 18th season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP) from May 17th through May 20th at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center on campus. In this unique multilingual program\, students will be featured in fully-staged excerpts of short works in Punjabi\, French. German\, and Spanish\, with English super-titles. \nThere is no admission charge for the event; nearby parking is $4.00. \nThere are exciting innovations in the program this year\, with the first MEIP presentation of works in Punjabi\, including a short play and poetry\, directed by Arshinder Kaur\, and excerpts from Mozart’s opera\, The Magic Flute\, sung in German\, directed by Sheila Willey\, and performed by students of the University Opera Theater\, as a preview of their upcoming production of the opera\, which will take place from May 31 to June 3 at the UCSC Music Center Recital Hall. Students of French will portray scenes from Marcel Pagnol’s Fanny\, one of the plays in his trilogy about a group of serio-comic characters in Marseille\, directed by Miriam Ellis and Renée Cailloux. Spanish will offer a contemporary comedy\, Black and White\, by Ignacio Dominis\, directed by Carolina Castillo-Trelles\, which explores characters who live in two different worlds\, separated by a line never to be crossed. Over the years\, our multilingual theater presentations have attracted loyal audiences who look forward to hearing their native or acquired languages in this unusual format\, and we cordially invite the community to attend. \nFor more information\, please contact Lisa Leslie at lmhunter@ucsc.edu or (831-459- 2054). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/miriam-ellis-international-playhouse-3/ LOCATION:CA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/JapaneseSweet-Poison-MEIP-XV.-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180520T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180520T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180515T233125Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180515T233125Z UID:10006636-1526806800-1526835600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join Senderos for our 13th annual Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza on Sunday\, May 20 at San Lorenzo Park\, Santa Cruz (new location). This is an all-day (9am to 5pm) dance\, music\, food\, crafts festival which brings the rich cultural traditions of Oaxaca to our County. Last year we had over 3700 in attendance. \nIn addition to Guelaguetza we are presenting these FREE family-friendly events in May! \nSaturday\, May 5 – MÚSICA CLÁSICA EN LA MISIÓN 2-5:30pm\nSanta Cruz Mission Historic Park: tours of Mission\, crafts\, Oaxacan food for sale with outdoor concert at 3:30pm featuring the wonderful student musicians from Oaxaca who will be with Senderos for a 3 week cultural exchange.\nThis event presented in partnership with Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks and California State Parks \nSaturday\, May 12 – Senderos Fiesta – 5-7pm\, Cooper Street\nMusic\, dancing\, Oaxacan food for sale – street party!\nThis event presented in partnership with Santa Cruz City Arts and Santa Cruz MAH \nCo-sponsored by:\nNido de Lenguas – a project of the UCSC Humanities Institute and the UCSC Linguistics Department to share the value of the indigenous languages of Oaxaca. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vive-oaxaca-guelaguetza/ LOCATION:San Lorenzo Park\, Santa Cruz END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180520T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180520T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180423T210431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180423T214219Z UID:10006631-1526846400-1526853600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Miriam Ellis International Playhouse DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics\, Cowell\, and Stevenson Colleges at UCSC will present the 18th season of the (MEIP) from May 17th through May 20th at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center on campus. In this unique multilingual program\, students will be featured in fully-staged excerpts of short works in Punjabi\, French. German\, and Spanish\, with English super-titles. \nThere is no admission charge for the event; nearby parking is $4.00. \nThere are exciting innovations in the program this year\, with the first MEIP presentation of works in Punjabi\, including a short play and poetry\, directed by Arshinder Kaur\, and excerpts from Mozart’s opera\, The Magic Flute\, sung in German\, directed by Sheila Willey\, and performed by students of the University Opera Theater\, as a preview of their upcoming production of the opera\, which will take place from May 31 to June 3 at the UCSC Music Center Recital Hall. Students of French will portray scenes from Marcel Pagnol’s Fanny\, one of the plays in his trilogy about a group of serio-comic characters in Marseille\, directed by Miriam Ellis and Renée Cailloux. Spanish will offer a contemporary comedy\, Black and White\, by Ignacio Dominis\, directed by Carolina Castillo-Trelles\, which explores characters who live in two different worlds\, separated by a line never to be crossed. Over the years\, our multilingual theater presentations have attracted loyal audiences who look forward to hearing their native or acquired languages in this unusual format\, and we cordially invite the community to attend. \nFor more information\, please contact Lisa Leslie at lmhunter@ucsc.edu or (831-459- 2054). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/miriam-ellis-international-playhouse-4/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/JapaneseSweet-Poison-MEIP-XV.-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180521T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180521T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180521T200333Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180521T200333Z UID:10006637-1526916600-1526922000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dayna Barnes: "Learning Lessons? A comparison of Planning for the Occupations of Japan and Iraq" DESCRIPTION: URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dayna-barnes-learning-lessons-comparison-planning-occupations-japan-iraq/ LOCATION:Charles E. Merrill Lounge ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/0001-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T150000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180417T183546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180510T032913Z UID:10006626-1527066000-1527087600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Digital Research and Teaching Symposium featuring Undergraduate Digital Research and Innovative Pedagogy DESCRIPTION:  \nThis event will showcase the independent\, digital research and classroom work of undergraduate students alongside the innovative assignment design and pedagogical experimentation of faculty and graduate students. Join us in the morning to focus on undergraduate digital research and in the afternoon for an in-depth discussion about new methods in active and engaged pedagogy. \nLunch will be included for participants and registered attendees.  \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning\, and The Digital Scholarship Commons (University Library). \nREGISTER NOW\n\nPROGRAM \nWednesday\, May 23\, 2018\n9 am – 3pm in the Digital Scholarship Commons (Ground Floor\, McHenry Library) \n9: 00 Light Breakfast + Coffee \n9:30 – 10:30 Digital Poster Session​: Undergraduate Research + Graduate Student Pedagogy projects \n10:30 – 11:45 Panel of Undergraduate Digital Research Fellows (Moderator\, Ebad Rahman) \n11:45 – 1:30 Lunch + Break \n1:30 – 3:00 Round table on Innovative Pedagogy with Faculty and Graduate Students (Moderators\, Kendra Dority and Aaron Zachmeier) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-research-teaching-symposium-featuring-undergraduate-digital-research-innovative-pedagogy/ LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry Library END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T133000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180228T234424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180402T015140Z UID:10005475-1527076800-1527082200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Saein Park: "Dancing Waste of History: Lumpen in Heine\, Marx\, & Benjamin" DESCRIPTION:Saein Park’s current project argues that the discourses of Lumpen record the changing demarcations of disposable lives during the emergence of European industrial modernity. She researches 19th- and early-20th-century German-language literature\, political philosophy\, and critical theory\, focusing on translation and reception studies\, theories of waste\, and plant studies. \nSaein Park is a Visiting Assistant Professor 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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-saein-park/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180509T222821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180509T222821Z UID:10006634-1527089400-1527102000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Applied Linguistics Colloquia DESCRIPTION: URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/applied-linguistics-colloquia/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/0001-17.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180524T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180524T150000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180427T191320Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180430T194953Z UID:10005498-1527168600-1527174000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mitch Aso: "Rubber and the Making of Vietnam" DESCRIPTION:  \nRubber has been a key commodity for industrial societies since the nineteenth century. Yet\, studies of the impact of the production of this good on various regions around the world have mostly been narrowly focused on the industry and its workers. My forthcoming book\, Rubber and the Making of Vietnam\, adopts a broader lens\, what I call an ecological history\, to examine the role of rubber in shaping Vietnamese society in the twentieth century. Through this lens\, I examine how the evolving relationships between humans and non-humans contributed to both the projects of empire and nation building. I argue that rubber\, and rubber plantations\, structured the material and symbolic bodies and landscapes of the postcolonial nation of Vietnam. In my talk\, I will touch on the promises and the perils of such ecological histories and the new perspectives on the past that they offer. \nMore info on The Center for World History URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mitch-aso-rubber-making-vietnam/ 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/Aso-talk-image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180524T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180524T185000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180410T234117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180410T234117Z UID:10005484-1527182400-1527187800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Sawako Nakayasu DESCRIPTION:Sawako Nakayasu is a transnational poet\, translator\, and occasional performance artist who has lived in Japan\, France\, China\, and the US. Her books include The Ants and Texture Notes\, and recent translations include The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa\, and Costume en Face – a handwritten notebook of Tatsumi Hijikata’s dance notations. She is co-editor\, with Lisa Samuels\, of A Transpacific Poetics\, a gathering of poetry and poetics engaging transpacific imaginaries. She teaches at Brown University. \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-sawako-nakayasu/ 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:20180525T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180525T134500 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180417T174902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180417T174902Z UID:10005489-1527251400-1527255900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum: Madison Treece DESCRIPTION:Maya Textile Arts Influence Contemporary Politics in Zapatista Embroidery \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-madison-treece/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/FF_Spring2018_Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180529 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180530 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180125T193828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180521T220033Z UID:10005448-1527552000-1527638399@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Opera Works: Journey in Creation DESCRIPTION:Workshop rehearsals with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe. \n“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”\nTuesday\, May 29\, 2018 \n2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop \nThe Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, and the Humanities Institute\, invite students\, faculty\, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe\, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele\, a San Francisco based company under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita\, UCSC Music Department)\, commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers\, the librettists\, the composer\, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshop is free and open to everyone. \n  \nRELATED EVENTS \n  \nTuesday\, May 29th \nPanel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts”  – Registration Required  \nFeaturing: \nRobin Coste Lewis\, Poet\, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus\nNicole Paiement\, Conductor\, Musical Director\, Opera Parallele\nLaura Kaminsky\, Opera Composer\nJennifer Gonzalez\, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture\, UCSC\nBettina Aptheker\, Professor of Feminist Studies\, UCSC (moderator) \nDoors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen \nEvent starts at 7:00pm \n  \nWed\, May 30th\nCultural Studies talk with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities 1\, Room 210 @ 12:15pm\nRobin Coste Lewis reading and book signing – Bookshop Santa Cruz @ 7pm \n  \nThurs\, May 31st\nLiving Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm \n  \nThese events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, Arts Division\, Porter College\, Living Writers & Cultural Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/georgia-okeefe-opera-workshop-panel/ LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Okeefe_R1a_Webbanner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180529T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180529T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180515T210329Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180515T210351Z UID:10006635-1527614100-1527620400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jeff Michno: "Nicaragua Y ¿Vos\, tú o usted?" DESCRIPTION:  \nIn this talk\, I highlight variation in second-person singular pronoun use (vos\, tú\, and usted) by local residents of a rural Nicaraguan community experiencing linguistic and cultural contact driven by tourism. I demonstrate that pronoun selection can vary according to the amount of contact locals have with outsiders in their community\, providing evidence that locals use tú\, a variant reported as virtually absent from Nicaraguan Spanish\, with both outsiders and other locals. Utilizing local commentary\, I show that this practice coincides with a sense of prestige attributed to the tú form\, and stigma\, to vos\, the form reported as ubiquitous in Nicaraguan Spanish. In addition\, through an interactional analysis\, I identify several functions of pronoun switching (e.g. from vos to tú) by a given speaker with the same conversational partner\, including: flirting\, enhancing or reducing deference\, emphasizing youthfulness\, and negotiating identity status and stance in new relationships. Most notably\, I show how locals systematically switch pronouns to shift from direct address (e.g. ¿Cómo te llamas? ‘What is your[tú] name?’) to an impersonal stance (e.g. Tenés que trabajar para comer. ‘You[vos] have [one has] to work to eat.’). The evidence supports the view that impersonal use of second-person pronouns implies some type of generalization\, which can serve to create solidarity between conversational partners. \nJeff Michno is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at Furman University in Greenville\, SC. Professor Michno’s research focuses on language and culture contact\, examining both well-established contact settings\, such as the Texas-Mexico region\, as well as more recent scenarios rooted in migration\, globalization and tourism. He is currently investigating a rural Nicaraguan community experiencing linguistic and cultural contact due to tourism. His primary research goal is to highlight ways in which language varies according to the social characteristics of individuals as well as their moment-to-moment communicative moves (i.e. variation according to both social and pragmatic factors). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jeff-michno-nicaragua-y-vos-tu-o-usted/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/0001-21.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180529T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180529T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180423T183657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180530T182550Z UID:10006627-1527618600-1527625800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"Always Moving Uphill: Women in the Arts" Panel DESCRIPTION:Our panel will discuss the struggle of women artists\, writers\, and poets to find voice in a world that has been\, until very recently\, so completely dominated and controlled by (white) male power and money. \nPanel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts” featuring: \nRobin Coste Lewis\, Poet\, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus\nNicole Paiement\, Conductor\, Musical Director\, Opera Parallele\nLaura Kaminsky\, Opera Composer\nJennifer Gonzalez\, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture\, UCSC\nBettina Aptheker\, Professor of Feminist Studies\, UCSC (moderator) \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nRegistration required – registration has closed \n  \nDoors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen \nEvent starts at 7:00pm \nRELATED EVENTS \nTuesday\, May 29th\n“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”\nWorkshop rehearsal with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe.\n2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop \nThe Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, and the Humanities Institute\, invites students\, faculty\, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe\, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele\, San Francisco based company\, under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita\, UCSC Music Department)\, commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers\, the librettists\, the composer\, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshops are free and open to everyone. \nWed\, May 30th\nCultural Studies talk with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities 1\, Room 210 @ 12:15pm\nRobin Coste Lewis reading and book signing – Bookshop Santa Cruz @ 7pm \nThurs\, May 31st\nLiving Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm \nThese events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, Arts Division\, Porter College\, Living Writers & Cultural Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/always-moving-uphill-women-arts-panel/ LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Okeefe_R1a_Webbanner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180530T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180530T133000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180228T234756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180521T220105Z UID:10005477-1527681600-1527687000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Robin Coste Lewis: "Voyage of the Sable Venus: Bodies\, Art\, Race\, & Poetry" DESCRIPTION:Robin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015)\, which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies\, including The Massachusetts Review\, Callaloo\, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review\, Transition\, and VIDA. \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. \nRELATED EVENTS \nTuesday\, May 29th\n“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”\nWorkshop rehearsals with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe.\n2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop \nThe Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, and the Humanities Institute\, invites students\, faculty\, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe\, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele\, San Francisco based company\, under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita\, UCSC Music Department)\, commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers\, the librettists\, the composer\, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshops are free and open to everyone. \n  \nTuesday\, May 29th \nPanel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts”– Registration Required \nFeaturing: \nRobin Coste Lewis\, Poet\, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus\nNicole Paiement\, Conductor\, Musical Director\, Opera Parallele\nLaura Kaminsky\, Opera Composer\nJennifer Gonzalez\, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture\, UCSC\nBettina Aptheker\, Professor of Feminist Studies\, UCSC (moderator) \nDoors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen \nEvent starts at 7:00pm \n  \nWed\, May 30th\nRobin Coste Lewis reading and book signing – Bookshop Santa Cruz @ 7pm \n  \nThurs\, May 31st\nLiving Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm \n  \nThese events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, Arts Division\, Porter College\, Living Writers & Cultural Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-robin-coste-lewis/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180530T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180530T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180322T221006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180521T220138Z UID:10006617-1527706800-1527714000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Robin Coste Lewis at Bookshop Santa Cruz DESCRIPTION:Robin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015)\, which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies\, including The Massachusetts Review\, Callaloo\, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review\, Transition\, and VIDA. \nThis free event will take place in Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. \nFull event info: http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/event/robin-coste-lewis-voyage-sable-venus \nRELATED EVENTS \nTuesday\, May 29th\n“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”\nWorkshop rehearsals with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe.\n2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop \nThe Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, and the Humanities Institute\, invite students\, faculty\, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe\, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele\, San Francisco based company\, under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita\, UCSC Music Department)\, commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers\, the librettists\, the composer\, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshops are free and open to everyone. \n  \nTuesday\, May 29th \nPanel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts” – Registration Required  \nFeaturing: \nRobin Coste Lewis\, Poet\, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus\nNicole Paiement\, Conductor\, Musical Director\, Opera Parallele\nLaura Kaminsky\, Opera Composer\nJennifer Gonzalez\, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture\, UCSC\nBettina Aptheker\, Professor of Feminist Studies\, UCSC (moderator) \nDoors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen \nEvent starts at 7:00pm \nWed\, May 30th\nCultural Studies talk with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities 1\, Room 210 @ 12:15pm \n  \nThurs\, May 31st\nLiving Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm \n  \nThese events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, Arts Division\, Porter College\, Living Writers & Cultural Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/robin-coste-lewis-bookshop-santa-cruz/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180531T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180531T172000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180327T091005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180521T220225Z UID:10006619-1527787200-1527787200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Robin Coste Lewis DESCRIPTION:Robin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015)\, which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies\, including The Massachusetts Review\, Callaloo\, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review\, Transition\, and VIDA. \nLewis earned her MFA from NYU’s Creative Writing Program where she was a Goldwater fellow in poetry. She also earned a MTS degree in Sanskrit and comparative religious literature from Harvard Divinity School. She is a Cave Canem fellow and was awarded a Provost’s fellowship in the Creative Writing & Literature PhD Program at USC. Other fellowships and awards include the Caldera Foundation\, the Ragdale Foundation\, the Headlands Center for the Arts\, the Can Serrat International Art Centre in Barcelona\, and the Summer Literary Seminars in Kenya. She was a finalist for the International War Poetry Prize\, the National Rita Dove Prize\, and semi-finalist for the “Discovery”/Boston Review Prize and the Crab Orchard Series Open Poetry Prize. \nLewis has taught at Wheaton College\, Hunter College\, Hampshire College and the NYU Low-Residency MFA in Paris. Born in Compton\, California\, her family is from New Orleans. \n  \nAbout Living Writers\, Spring 2018: “A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement” \nSpring quarter 2018 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. \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. \nRELATED EVENTS \nTuesday\, May 29th\n“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”\nWorkshop rehearsals with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe.\n2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop \nThe Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, and the Humanities Institute\, invite students\, faculty\, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe\, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele\, San Francisco based company\, under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita\, UCSC Music Department)\, commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers\, the librettists\, the composer\, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshops are free and open to everyone. \n  \nTuesday\, May 29th \nPanel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts”  – Registration Required \nFeaturing: \nRobin Coste Lewis\, Poet\, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus\nNicole Paiement\, Conductor\, Musical Director\, Opera Parallele\nLaura Kaminsky\, Opera Composer\nJennifer Gonzalez\, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture\, UCSC\nBettina Aptheker\, Professor of Feminist Studies\, UCSC (moderator) \nDoors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen \nEvent starts at 7:00pm \n  \nWed\, May 30th\nCultural Studies talk with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities 1\, Room 210 @ 12:15pm\nRobin Coste Lewis reading and book signing – Bookshop Santa Cruz @ 7pm \n  \nThurs\, May 31st\nLiving Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm \n  \nThese events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, Arts Division\, Porter College\, Living Writers & Cultural Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/41625/ 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:20180601T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180601T134500 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180417T175511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180520T162454Z UID:10005490-1527856200-1527860700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum: Sheeva Sabati DESCRIPTION:Coloniality of the West: The Formation of the UC System \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-sheeva-sabati/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 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:20180606T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180606T133000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180125T193231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T172227Z UID:10005446-1528286400-1528291800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Stephanie Bosch Santana: "The Digital Worlding of African Literature: From Blog and Facebook Fiction to the Blockchain" DESCRIPTION:Stephanie Bosch Santana is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Her work\, which has been supported by the Mellon foundation\, focuses on Anglophone and African language fiction from southern Africa. Her current book project examines an alternative history of literary forms in periodical print and digital media from the 1950s to the present. It argues that writers from South Africa\, Malawi\, Zambia\, and Zimbabwe have developed new genres of fiction in these media to imagine changing modes of interconnection across space. \nThis Cultural Studies Colloquium is part of the UCHRI Junior Faculty Lecture Circuit. \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/cs-colloquium-ucla-junior-faculty-exchange-talk-stephanie-santana/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180607T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180607T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180314T224437Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180524T232954Z UID:10006606-1528398000-1528403400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jennifer Egan: "Manhattan Beach" DESCRIPTION:BUY TICKETS \nBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan to town for a reading and signing of her fantastic novel\, Manhattan Beach. \nTickets for this special offsite event (which will be held at Peace United Church) are on sale now online at Bookshop Santa Cruz. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute UC Santa Cruz. \nJoin us prior to the event for a wine reception at 6:30. \nPraise for Manhattan Beach\nManhattan Beach may seem like a straightforward historical novel\, but with Egan’s peerless writing and keen emotional intelligence\, it plumbs the depths of human will\, connection\, and reinvention. Mesmerizing\, hauntingly beautiful\, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller and a wealth of detail about organized crime\, the merchant marine and the clash of classes in New York\, Egan’s first historical novel is a masterpiece\, a deft\, startling\, intimate exploration of a transformative moment in the lives of women and men\, America\, and the world. \n– Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction\n– A San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Book of the Year\n– A New York Times Notable Book & Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2017\n– Winner of the Booklist Top of the List for Fiction\n– Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction\n– Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR\, The Guardian & Kirkus Reviews \n“Joy\, purification\, renewal\, death—the sea is all of these things in Manhattan Beach\, Jennifer Egan’s intricately patterned and visionary new novel.” —The Atlantic \n“Manhattan Beach is stunning. Read the first page and sigh with immense pleasure at having started something magnificent.” —Melinda\, Bookshop Head Book Buyer \nBio\nJennifer Egan is the author of five previous books of fiction: A Visit from the Goon Squad\, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Keep; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me\, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus. \n \nTicket Details\nTicket packages are $20.00 and include one ticket to the event and one paperback copy of Manhattan Beach (paperback release: June 5th). A companion ticket (event only\, no book included) is available for $7.00 when purchasing a ticket package. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jennifer-egan-manhattan-beach/ LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Jennifer-Egan-event-poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180608T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180608T154500 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180417T181920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180417T181920Z UID:10006625-1528462800-1528472700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference DESCRIPTION:Towards the end of the spring quarter each year\, the Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) showcases the research of the department’s undergraduate students. This conference always features as an invited speaker\, a distinguished alumnus or alumna of the department. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lurc-linguistics-undergraduate-research-conference/ 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:20180608T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180608T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180125T194011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180716T181228Z UID:10005449-1528473600-1528484400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Celebrating the Humanities: Spring Awards and Retirement Celebration DESCRIPTION:Humanists study the stories of humanity\, in all their wonderful and tragic manifestations. The annual “Celebrating the Humanities” event is an opportunity for you to participate in this never-ending exploration of what it means to be human. \nHumanities Division’s awards acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition\, distinctions and honors over the course of this last year. See the event program and all award winners here. \n \n Celebrating the Humanities – 2018 Spring Awards from THI on Vimeo. \nView our full event photo album on Flickr: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nProgram Schedule\n4:00-5:00pm Spring Awards \n5:00-5:30pm Undergraduate Research Fellowship Poster Session \n5:30-7:00pm Retirement Celebration URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-spring-awards/ LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180715 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180722 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180227T184250Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180912T235923Z UID:10005461-1531612800-1532217599@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:38th Annual Dickens Universe Conference featuring Little Dorrit DESCRIPTION:The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars\, teachers\, students\, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels\, usually (but not always) one by Charles Dickens. \nView our full event photo album on Flickr: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nIn 2018\, the Universe featured Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens. Full of contrasts—light and shade\, comedy and pathos—Little Dorrit is one of the great social novels of the Victorian age. It takes as its central themes the prison of this lower world\, the vicissitudes of love in middle age and the inescapable power of money. Intricately plotted and full of Dickensian humor and sentiment\, the novel displays a broad social vision and remarkable psychological insight. \nNow in its 38th year of operation\, the Dickens Universe combines features of a scholarly conference\, a festival\, a book club\, and summer camp. Participants include people of all ages and walks of life—distinguished scholars\, graduate students\, undergraduates\, retirees\, young professionals\, high school teachers\, anyone who loves to read and who enjoys long Victorian novels. Here are some of the things that make the Universe such a special experience: \n\nThe college lifestyle: participants live on campus\, eat together in the student dining hall\, have time to meet and come to know each other in different ways.\nEveryone is reading the same book. We all have this one important thing in common.\nThe range of activities—formal lectures\, small discussion groups\, films\, daily Victorian teas\, performances\, and Victorian dancing.\n\nThe Universe offers a week of total immersion in the world of Victorian fiction with friendly\, like-minded colleagues in a beautiful setting. Whether we’re returning to a Dickens novel that everyone knows and loves\, or branching out into a Victorian novel by another author who might be less familiar\, during the Universe we build a community out of our passion for reading\, talking with one another\, and bringing Victorian culture to life. \nMore information and registration: \nGeneral Website: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/\nRegistration Link: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/universe/registration/index.html\nPhone: (831) 459-2103\nEmail: cmahaney@ucsc.edu\nVideo Link: https://youtu.be/JJgV87yGBSs URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/38th-annual-dickens-universe-conference-featuring-little-dorrit/ LOCATION:CA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Dickens-Banner-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180809T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180809T200000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180605T213350Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T213350Z UID:10006638-1533841200-1533844800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cabrillo Music Festival Community Night DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to announce a new public partnership with the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. THI will serve as a sponsor of the Festival’s new Community Night event on August 9\, 2018. Community Night will include a dynamic short concert of chamber works performed by members of the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra designed for new listeners. The program includes fan favorites from recent seasons plus a few surprises – all led by conductor Cristi Măcelaru. \nTo celebrate this new partnership\, THI will make 100 free tickets available for Community Night. The first 50 people to request tickets through this online form will receive 2 free tickets. \n“THI and the Cabrillo Festival share a deep commitment to telling stories that reflect diverse cultural backgrounds and speak to the human spirit. We’re honored to be part of the community they have cultivated for more than 50 years\,” says Irena Polic\, THI Managing Director. \nThe annual music festival serves as a celebration of music and community\, bringing together players\, composers and music lovers for two weeks of contemporary musical performances. \n“The Festival’s rich tradition of showcasing new and experimental music embodies our goal of making culture accessible and meaningful to everyone in our community\,” says Polic. “We’re proud to be a co-sponsor of Community Night and look forward to rolling out additional programming connected to the festival in the years ahead.” \nThe Cabrillo Festival runs from July 29 through August 12 and tickets are now on sale. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cabrillo-music-festival-community-night/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180811 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180813 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180221T184147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180810T195039Z UID:10006597-1533945600-1534118399@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Weekend with Shakespeare DESCRIPTION:Join Shakespeare scholars and artists for two days of lectures\, discussions\, and demonstrations about the 2018 Season’s mainstage productions\, Romeo & Juliet and Love’s Labour’s Lost. \nWeekend with Shakespeare Lecture Series: This year\, the Weekend With Shakespeare Lecture Series is free! However\, we suggest interested participants RSVP through The Santa Cruz Shakespeare website. \nWeekend with Shakespeare is sponsored in partnership with Santa Cruz Shakespeare. \nLECTURE SERIES SCHEDULE\nDAY ONE Lecture Series\, Love’s Labour’s Lost: Saturday\, August 11 \nNoon welcome (light lunch provided) \n12:15-1:15 – Sean Keilen\, Professor of Literature (UC Santa Cruz)\, discusses Shakespeare’s wit in Love’s Labour’s Lost \n1:15-1:30 – Break \n1:30-2:30 – Conversation with Michael Warren\, Emeritus Professor of Literature (UC Santa Cruz) and Head of Dramatugy at Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, and Ashley Herum\, Dramaturg for Love’s Labour’s Lost \n2:30-3:00 – Break with refreshments and light snacks. \n3:00-4:00 – Q&A with cast from Love’s Labour’s Lost\, moderated Mike Ryan\, Artistic Director of Shakespeare Santa Cruz . \n** \n7:00 – Bring your own picnic dinner at The Grove. \n7:00-7:15 – Pre-performance talk: ‘5 Things to Look For\,” with Sean Keilen \n8:00 – Evening performance of Love’s Labour’s Lost. \nDAY TWO: Lecture Series\, Romeo & Juliet: Sunday\, August 12 \nNoon Welcome (light lunch provided) \n12:15-1:30 – Dr. Ariane Helou\, Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies (UCLA) and Dramaturg for Romeo and Juliet\, discusses poetry and transformation in Romeo and Juliet \n1:30-2:15 – Break with refreshments and light snacks \n2:15-3:30 – Workshop on sonnets with Mike Ryan and Sean Keilen\n**\n7:00 – Bring your own picnic dinner at The Grove. \n7:00-7:15 – Pre-performance discussion of “5 Things to Look For\,” with Ariane Helou \n8:00 – Evening performance of Romeo and Juliet URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/weekend-with-shakespeare/ LOCATION:UCSC Arboretum END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180929T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180929T160000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180911T215734Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180918T175550Z UID:10005514-1538215200-1538236800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Nido de Lenguas: Summer Camp DESCRIPTION:Nido de Lenguas Summer Camp is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Please sign up online using the form or by emailing us at nidodelenguas@ucsc.edu. \nWhat is Summer Camp?\nIt is a one-day event where anybody has the opportunity to learn about — and learn how to speak — a Oaxacan language. Currently\, participants can choose the Zapotec of Santiago Laxopa or the Mixtec of San Martín Peras. \nSummer Camp brings together community members with native speaker and linguists from UC Santa Cruz. There are fun group activities and fast-paced games\, each geared toward learning a Oaxacan language. \nWho comes to Summer Camp?\nParticipants are community members who were excited to discover the indigenous languages of Oaxaca\, many spoken by their neighbors across the Monterey Bay area. Native speakers of Mixtec and Zapotec teach their languages\, and linguistics professors and students from UC Santa Cruz facilitate the activities. \nDate: Saturday\, September 29\, 2018\nTime: 10 am to 4 pm \nWhere: Santa Cruz Adult School\, 319 La Fonda Ave\, Santa Cruz URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nido-de-lenguas-summer-camp/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Adult School\, 319 La Fonda Ave\, Santa Cruz\, 95062\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180929T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180929T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180924T213845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180927T030336Z UID:10005520-1538229600-1538240400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Madhuri Shekar’s Queen + Panel DESCRIPTION:With prestigious accolade only days away\, the numbers start adding up to an ethical dilemma for UC Santa Cruz graduate researchers\, Ariel Spiegel [Stacy Fairley] and Sanam Rao [Nandini Ravindran]\, and their supervisor\, Dr. Philip Hayes [Michael Boehm] in Madhuri Shekar’s Queen.  Is financier\, Arvind Patel [Snehal Pachigar]\, correct that their whole hypothesis is motivated by left-wing bias?  \nThe drama directed by EnActe Arts’ Artistic Director and Founder\, Vinita Sud Belani\, and launches EnActe Art’s 2018-19 season dedicated to the telling of women’s stories in response to author Kamila Shamsie’s challenge to publishing houses for 2018 to be a year of publishing women. \nFollowing the 2 pm performance on September 29\, a panel of UCSC faculty will address the joys and challenges facing women in academia and scientific research. Featuring: Vilashini Coopan (Literature)\, Needhi Bhalla (Molecular\, Cell\, and Developmental Biology)\, and Jennifer Derr (History). \n  \nTickets Required \nUCSC Students\, Faculty and Staff\, use code UCSCQUEEN for free tickets. \nGeneral Seating $25.00 \nStudent/Senior $10.00 \nTickets available at https://www.tikkl.com/enacte/c/queen URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/madhuri-shekars-queen-panel/ LOCATION:De Anza College\, Cupertino\, CA\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Queen-QUAD-banner-Copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181002T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181002T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180810T163613Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181008T180430Z UID:10005505-1538506800-1538514000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Reyna Grande Book Launch: A Dream Called Home DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz alumna\, Reyna Grande\, will discuss her new memoir\, A Dream Called Home\, in conversation with Micah Perks\, UC Santa Cruz Literature Professor. \nA DREAM CALLED HOME is Grande’s lyrical and moving follow-up to The Distance Between Us. This memoir tells the story of her pursuit to become the first in her family to earn a college degree at UC Santa Cruz and become an award-winning and bestselling author. Grande shares an inspiring\, personal account of what it means to find a home and place of belonging in America as a undocumented\, first-generation Latina. \nEvent Photos by Crystal Birns: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nGet a copy of A Dream Called Home at Bookshop Santa Cruz\, at the event\, or at www.bookshopsantacruz.com. Free books will be given out to the first 50 UCSC students to attend (student ID required at the door). \nReyna Grande is the recipient of the 2015 Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. Her first novel\, Across a Hundred Mountains (Atria\, 2006)\, received a 2006 El Premio Aztlan Literary Award\, a 2007 American Book Award\, and a 2010 Latino Books Into Movies Award. Her second novel\, Dancing with Butterflies (Washington Square Press\, 2009) was critically acclaimed and was the recipient of a 2010 International Latino Book Award\, Best Women’s Issues\, and a 2010 Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club Selection. She was also a 2003 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow. The Distance Between Us was a 2012 National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalist and has been selected by numerous city-wide read programs\, including Rochester Reads 2018\, MacReads 2018\, One Book/One Michiana 2018\, All Henrico Reads 2018\, Timberland Reads Together 2017\, Telluride One Book/One Canyon 2017\, Estes Park One Book/One Valley 2017\, Saginaw One Book/One Community 2016\, Camarillo Reads 2016\, Roswell Reads 2015\, and One Maryland/One Book 2014\, among others. To learn more about Reyna Grande and her work\, visit www.reynagrande.com. \nPresented by: Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute \nCo-sponsored by:\nResearch Center for the Americas\nUCSC First Gen Initiative\nKresge College\nUCSC Year of Alumni \nParking is limited. Please carpool or choose alternative transportation if you are able. If you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reyna-grande-book-launch-dream-called-home/ LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ReynaGrande_Banner_FINAL.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181008T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181008T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180925T154858Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181003T172404Z UID:10005521-1539014400-1539021600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Digital Humanities Meet Up DESCRIPTION:Join the Digital Humanities campus community for a Fall Quarter Meet Up. This is an opportunity to meet digital scholarship practitioners across campus and connect as we start a new year. The Meet Up is informal: please invite colleagues interested in building a DH portfolio and learning more about digital scholarship. \nZac Zimmer\, Assistant Professor of Literature\, will present a short paper\, “Cryptography\, Subjectivity and Spyware: From PGP Source Code and Internals to Pegasus\,” to kick off a DH-focused conversation related to the 2018 – 2019 THI theme\, Data and Democracy.  \nRead Cyberwar for Sale beforehand and come prepared to discuss the issues \nThis brief intervention will use two examples from the world of secure communications to explore the intersection of global norms of privacy and local conceptions of political subjectivity. \nThe first example is a book published by Philip Zimmermann and MIT Press in 1995. That 900-page tome was a hard copy print out of the source code for his open source implementation of the public-key RSA cryptosystem. In the early 1990s\, Zimmermann was being prosecuted by the US Government for distributing his software. By publishing his source code as a book\, Zimmermann claimed free speech protections\, while resourceful users knew that by scanning the pages they’d be able to compile their own versions of the software. PGP has since gone through several iterations\, yet remains a global standard for email encryption. And yet it is not foolproof. In 2017\, The Citizen Lab reported an exploit used by the Mexican state. “Pegasus\,” produced by the Israeli cyberarms firm the NSO Group\, allowed Mexican authorities to surveil and target Mexican lawyers\, journalists\, activists\, and others. Pegasus uses social engineering and “spear-phising” attacks to compromise communications systems. There is no cryptographic solution to Pegasus. \nThrough tracing the trajectory from PGP to Pegasus\, I pose the following questions: Is there a work-around to surveillance society? Will Big Data recognize any other civil rights framework\, other than “privacy”? Is there a way to “transmediate” cryptographic protocols\, in the spirit of Zimmermann and MIT Press’ collaboration\, in order to protect against exploits like Pegasus? \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Digital Scholarship Commons URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-humanities-meet-2/ LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/aidan-granberry-630661-unsplash.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181009T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181009T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180924T171928Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180924T175413Z UID:10005517-1539111600-1539118800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams: History vs. Women DESCRIPTION:Join us at Bookshop Santa Cruz for discussion and signing with Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams\, moderated by UCSC Professor of Film and Digital Media Shelley Stamp\, about their new book\, History vs. Women.  \nRebels\, rulers\, scientists\, artists\, warriors and villains. \nWomen are\, and have always been\, all these things and more. \nLooking through the ages and across the globe\, Anita Sarkeesian\, founder of Feminist Frequency\, along with Ebony Adams PHD\, have reclaimed the stories of twenty-five remarkable women who dared to defy history and change the world around them. From Mongolian wrestlers to Chinese pirates\, Native American ballerinas to Egyptian scientists\, Japanese novelists to British Prime Ministers\, History vs Women will reframe the history that you thought you knew. \nFeaturing beautiful full-color illustrations of each woman and a bold graphic design\, this standout nonfiction title is the perfect read for teens (or adults!) who want the true stories of phenomenal women from around the world and insight into how their lives and accomplishments impacted both their societies and our own. \nAnita Sarkeesian is an award-winning media critic and the creator and executive director of Feminist Frequency\, an educational nonprofit that explores the representations of women in pop culture narratives. Best known as the creator and host of Feminist Frequency’s highly influential series Tropes vs. Women in Video Games\, Anita lectures at universities\, conferences and game development studios around the world. Anita dreams of owning a life-size replica of Buffy’s scythe. She is the coauthor of History vs Women. \nEbony Adams\, Ph.D. is an author\, activist\, and former college educator whose work foregrounds the lives and work of black women in the diaspora. She lives in Los Angeles with a steadily-increasing collection of Doctor Who memorabilia. She writes widely on film criticism\, social justice\, and pop culture\, and is the coauthor of History vs Women. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. While seating is open (chairs are usually set up an hour ahead of time)\, you can reserve you place in the signing line by preordering your copy of History vs. Women with a priority signing line voucher from Bookshop Santa Cruz below. \nIf you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please contact bookshopevents@gmail.com by October 8th. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anita-sarkeesian-ebony-adams-history-vs-women/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181010T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181010T133000 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20180810T165109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181019T202816Z UID:10005506-1539172800-1539178200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Chris Benner: "A Universal Technology Dividend? - Rethinking price\, value\, work and the commons" DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Dr. Benner will discuss his current work exploring the idea of a Universal Technology Dividend. He will explore questions related to the common-property characteristics of technology and innovation\, the monopolistic characteristics of information markets\, and the need to rethink how we define work in contemporary labor markets. \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nChris Benner is the Dorothy E. Everett Chair in Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship\, and a Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He currently directs the Everett Program for Technology and Social Change and the Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation. His research examines the relationships between technological change\, regional development\, and the structure of economic opportunity\, focusing on regional labor markets and the transformation of work and employment. He has authored or co-authored six books (most recently Equity\, Growth and Community\, 2015\, UC Press) and more that 70 journal articles\, chapters and research reports. He received his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California\, Berkeley. \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/chris-benner-cultural-studies-colloquium/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181011T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181011T185500 DTSTAMP:20260404T082805 CREATED:20181010T174022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181010T184435Z UID:10006659-1539278400-1539284100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Samiya Bashir DESCRIPTION:Samiya Bashir is the author of three books of poetry: Field Theories\, and Gospel\, and Where the Apple Falls. Sometimes she makes poems of dirt. Sometimes zeros and ones. Sometimes variously rendered text. Sometimes light. Her work has been widely published\, performed\, installed\, printed\, screened\, and experienced. Bashir holds a BA from the University of California\, Berkeley\, where she served as Poet Laureate\, and an MFA from the University of Michigan\, where she received two Hopwood Poetry Awards. Bashir lives in Portland\, Oregon where she teaches at Reed College. \n  \nAbout Living Writers\, Fall 2018: “Sentence & Sentience: Forms” \nThis series features seven contemporary poets\, critics\, and artists who each render\, albeit in differing forms and across a diversity of experiences\, the unit of the sentence for powerfully sentient effects. Whether through poetic argument\, the fictive line\, or the scholarly imagination\, each of these authors explore questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, nature\, and nation in their respective practices and forms. \n*Note: All Readings\, except for the Morton Marcus Reading\, featuring Gary Snyder\, will take place from 5:20-6:55 in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the dates listed below.  The Gary Snyder Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading will be held in the Music Recital Hall on November 15th from 6-8:00 PM. \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-samiya-bashir/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingWritersFtSize.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR