Tony Michels: "Soviet America: The Russian Revolution in Jewish Life”
2016-04-21 10:00 - 11:45 (America/Los_Angeles) | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Russian Revolution of 1917 radically altered American Jewish politics. Whereas most Americans viewed the revolution as a threat to western civilization, Jews wished for the success of the Bolsheviks, who offered the only possibility of rescue from the mass slaughter carried out by anti-Communist forces. A minority of Jews went so far as to join the American Communist Part with the hope of replicating the Russian Revolution on American soil. Although only a minority, Communists put forward a persistently attractive alternative to the dominant model of Americanization, according to which Jews ought to integrate into a liberal, political order. In the decades following the Russian Revolution, American Jews moved between competing poles of Communism and liberalism and, simultaneously, between competing ideals of universalism and Jewish particularity. All the while, Jews wrestled with the question of totalitarianism, one of the most divisive questions of the twentieth century. What was Soviet Russia? Was it a daring social experiment that wedded scientific planning with ideals of equality in all areas of human endeavor? Or was the Soviet Union a vast prison system built upon ruthless repression of the working class? Over a four decade period, from the outbreak of the Russian Revolution until the end of the Second World War, a period framed by enormous catastrophes yet animated by utopian visions of social justice, American Jews defined themselves in relation to the Soviet Union.
Tony Michels is George L. Mosse Associate Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He teaches courses in American Jewish history, with a special emphasis on immigration, politics, and comparative ethnic history, as well as courses in labor history and radical political movements. His research focuses on the political and cultural history of the Jews. He is author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York (2005), winner of the Salo Baron Prize from the American Academy for Jewish Research, and Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History (2012). He is currently working on a book about the relationship of American Jews to Soviet Russia between the 1920s and 1960s.

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Living Writers: Manuel Gonzales
2016-04-21 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Manuel Gonzales is the author of The Miniature Wife And Other Stories (Riverhead) and the forthcoming novel, The Regional Office Is Under Attack! (Riverhead). He graduated with a BA in English from the University of Texas in 1996 and then with an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Columbia University’s School of the Arts in 2003. His fiction and nonfiction have been published in McSweeney’s, Fence, Tin House, Open City, One Story, The Believer, i09.com, and various other publications.
He is the recipient of the Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kaufman Price for First Fiction and the Binghamton University John Gardner Prize for Fiction. For four years he ran the nonprofit writing and tutoring center for kids, Austin Bat Cave, and in times past he co-owned The Clarksville Pie Company in Austin, TX, where he baked pies for a living.

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

PhD+: Eric Hayot: "Writing for Publication in the Humanities"
2016-04-22 11:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
PODCAST:
“Writing for Publication in the Humanities”
Eric Hayot is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Professor Hayot will present strategies–both psychological and practical–for writing for publication in the humanities from his recent book, The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities (Columbia UP, 2014). His talk will offer specific insights into how to write literary scholarship in the mode that was born out of the influence of philosophy and cultural studies on literary criticism over the last three decades.
Professor Hayot is the author of Chinese Dreams (Michigan, 2004), The Hypothetical Mandarin: Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain (Oxford, 2009), and On Literary Worlds (Oxford, 2012). He edits the “Global Asias” series for Oxford and serves as Director of Penn State’s Center for Humanities and Information. Learn more at erichayot.org.
Sponsored by: IHR, the Graduate Student Association, the Graduate Student Commons, the Departments of Literature, Politics, History of Art & Visual Culture, Latin American & Latino Studies, Anthropology, and Film & Digital Media.

PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the launch of PhD+, our new series! We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for humanities PhDs, online identity issues, internship possibilities, work/life balance, elements of style, grants/fellowships and much, more more.
October 9, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel
November 6, 2015: Internship Info Session
December 4, 2015: Coding for Humanists
January 8, 2016: Research Tools and Methods
February 5, 2016: Online Identity
March 4, 2016: Work-Life Balance
April 22, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities
May 13, 2016: Research and Grants
June 3, 2016: End of Year Luncheon
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Humanities Earth Day Lunch and Learn
2016-04-22 11:30 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Humanities Green Team would like to invite you to join us for Earth Day!
Friday, April 22nd, 2016
11:30am – 1:00pm

Program:
11:30am-12:00pm: Green Team introductions
12:00pm-12:15pm: PSI presentation
12:15pm-1:00pm: “Bin Confused” presentation

Come enjoy delicious food provided by local caterers while learning about how to achieve zero waste in your office, events, and at home!

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Jordan Reznick
2016-04-22 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Jordan Reznick
“Selfie Suburbia: Whites Online in the Early Twenty-First Century”
Snapshot photography has been a means for white Americans to affirm their identities and collectively participate in circulating fictions about “normal” Americans that naturalize and legitimize ideals of whiteness. As whites became more precarious in the early twenty-first century, they adopted several new snapshot trends for signifying their enjoyment of increasingly fictional good life fantasies.

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

Remembering Shakespeare, 1564-1616
2016-04-23 18:00 - 18:45 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Remembering Shakespeare, 1564-1616
Readings from the works and about the man
A memorial service, commemorating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death in 1616.
Saturday, April 23, 2016
Music Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz
6:00-6:45 p.m.
Free and open to the public
This event takes place before Experimental Baroque, a concert by Santa Cruz Baroque Festival. Concert info/tickets available at: www.scbaroque.org
Remembering Shakespeare, 1564-1616, is sponsored by Shakespeare Workshop, Institute for Humanities Research, Porter College, and Santa Cruz Baroque Festival.
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The Hong Kong Democracy Movement: A Student Leader Speaks
2016-04-26 17:30 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Hong Kong Democracy Movement: A Student Leader Speaks
In the autumn of 2014, a massive protest led by students demanded genuine universal suffrage for China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The protest became known as the Umbrella Movement. Nathan Kwun-chung Law will give an eyewitness report on that movement, as well as an account of the ongoing struggle to expand political rights in Hong Kong.
Nathan Law, 22, is a well-known student leader and organizer in Hong Kong. He is Secretary General of the Hong Kong Federation of Students, and was a Standing Committee member from 2014-15. He participated in the only negotiation session with the Hong Kong SAR government during the Umbrella Movement.
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
5:30 PM
Humanities 1 Room 210
Sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz East Asian Studies Program

Irene Lusztig: “Yours in Sisterhood: Utopian Conversation, Public Feminisms, and Talking to the 70’s”
2016-04-27 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Irene Lusztig’s recent nonfiction moving image projects engage the methods and questions of 1970’s collaborative feminist documentary practice, interrogating the contemporary status of public feminism. The presentation focuses on materials and methods from her current work in progress, Yours in Sisterhood, a participatory documentary project based on published and unpublished letters to the editor of Ms. magazine.
Lusztig is Associate Professor of Film + Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz.

Spring 2016 Colloquium Series

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

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong "Implicit Moral Attitudes"
2016-04-28 16:00 - 17:45 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Most moral philosophers and psychologists focus on explicit moral beliefs that people give as answers to questions. However, much research in social psychology shows that implicit moral attitudes (unconscious beliefs or associations) also affect our thinking and behavior. This talk will report our new psychological and neuroscientific research on implicit moral attitudes (using a process dissociation procedure) and then explore potential implications for scientific moral psychology as well as for philosophical theories of moral epistemology, responsibility, and virtue. If there is time, I will discuss practical uses of these findings in criminal law, especially regarding the treatment of psychopaths and prediction of their recidivism.
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He has published widely on ethics (theoretical and applied as well as meta-ethics), empirical moral psychology and neuroscience, philosophy of law, epistemology, philosophy of religion, and informal logic. His current work is on moral psychology and brain science as well as uses of neuroscience in legal systems.

Mireille Lee “The Archaeology of Ancient Greek Dress”
2016-04-28 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and The UCSC Archaeological Research Center present:
Archaeology provides important evidence for ancient Greek dress, which was essential to the construction of social identities. Although no complete garments survive, preserved fragments of silk and embroideries indicate the elite status of the wearer. Jewelry, dress fasteners, toilet implements, perfume vessels, cosmetics, and mirrors are also important indicators of status and gender. The visual sources, including sculpture and vase-painting, depict men and women performing various dress practices. Although some practices, such as bathing and the use of perfumes, are common to both genders, others are specific to either men or women. The visual sources demonstrate other aspects of identity: age and social role are often indicated by hairstyle, whereas ethnicity is also conveyed by means of garments and body-modifications. Although dress is often considered a mundane aspect of culture, Professor Lee argues that dress provides unique insight into ancient Greek ideologies.
Refreshments at 4:30 and reception to follow the lecture
Free parking for lecture in the lower Cowell parking lot
Mireille Lee is Assistant Professor with the Departments of History of Art and Classical Studies at Vanderbilt University, and holds her degrees from Bryn Mawr (Ph.D.) and Occidental College. Her research interests include Greek art and archaeology, in particular the construction of gender in ancient visual and material culture. She has published widely on the social functions of dress in ancient Greece, including her volume Body, Dress, and Identity in Ancient Greece (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Her current research focuses on ancient Greek mirrors as social objects.

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Living Writers: Charlie Jane Anders
2016-04-28 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Charlie Jane Anders: I’m probably the only person to have become a fictional character in a Star Trek novel and in one of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City books.
I’m the editor of io9.com, where I’m probably best known for my reviews of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and The Last Airbender. Ormy super detailed look at the making of Mork and Mindy. Or for my Game of Thrones recaps. Or for my writing advice columns. Ormy in-depth investigation of people who claim HIV doesn’t cause AIDS. Or my geeky articles about topics like the search for a cure for cancer, or how Leonard Nimoy changed everything, or how the TV show Star Blazers helped me deal with being bullied. Or just generally being an obnoxious loud-mouth.
I won the Emperor Norton Award, for “extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason.”
I have published a ton of short fiction – way over 100 short stories at this point. I’ve stopped counting. My stories have appeared in Tor.com, Lightspeed Magazine,McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Tin House, ZYZZYVA, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine,Uncanny Magazine, 3 AM Magazine, Flurb.net, Monkey Bicycle, Pindeldyboz, Instant City, Broken Pencil, and in tons and tons of anthologies. One year, I was in one of the Year’s Best SF anthologies and in Best Lesbian Erotica at the same time. My novelette “Six Months, Three Days” won a Hugo Award and was shortlisted for the Nebula and Theodore Sturgeon awards. My novel Choir Boy won a Lambda Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Edmund White Award.
I organizeWriters With Drinks, which is a monthly reading series here in San Francisco that mashes up a ton of different genres. Every month, I make up weird fictional bios for the readers and performers, and nobody’s sued yet. Readers/performers at Writers With Drinks have included the aforementioned Armistead Maupin, plus Mary Gaitskill, Amy Tan, Rick Moody, Jonathan Lethem, Dorothy Allison, W. Kamau Bell, Luis Alberto Urrea, Ruth Ozeki, Ishmael Reed, Karen Joy Fowler, Maureen McHugh and just countless others. The SF Chronicle did a really nice article about Writers With Drinks.
Back in 2007, Annalee Newitz and I put out a book of first-person stories by female geeks called She’s Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology and Other Nerdy Stuff. There was a lot of resistance to doing this book, because nobody believed there was a market for writing about female geeks. Also, Annalee and I put out a print magazine calledother, which was about pop culture, politics and general weirdness, aimed at people who don’t fit into other categories. To raise money for other magazine, we put on events like a Ballerina Pie Fight – which is just what it sounds like – and a sexy show in a hair salon where people took off their clothes while getting their hair cut.

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

María en tierra de nadie: Screening & Q&A with Marcela Zamora
2016-04-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Rio Theater, 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062, United States
Join us for a free, public film screening to kickoff Borders and Belonging: A Series of Events on Human Migration
To foster a conversation about migration, LALS and the CLRC are jointly hosting a special screening of Marcela Zamora’s María en tierra de nadie (María in No Man’s Land), 2010. This is the story of three Salvadoran women and their journey to the United States. The film has been called unprecedented and a critical addition to the global migration conversation. The journalists and filmographers involved in creating this unique documentary spent months riding the trains and sleeping in the same shelters as they followed immigrants from El Salvador and Mexico, attempting to make the harrowing crossing to the United States.
Immediately following the screening, Professors John J. Leaños (Film & Digital Media) and Cecilia Rivas (LALS) will moderate a Q&A with the director, Marcela Zamora.
Marcela Zamora is a documentary filmmaker and journalist. She has made 14 films about gender and human rights, including María en tierra de nadie and El cuarto de los huesos / The Room of Bones (2015), a documentary about the quest to unearth and identify the disappeared in El Salvador. She studied journalism in Costa Rica and documentary filmmaking in Cuba and has worked for Al Jazeera, Tele Sur, and Elfaro.net, Latin America’s first online newspaper.
Click here for more info and to register for the event.
For questions, please contact Catherine Ramírez at cathysue@ucsc.edu.

UC Santa Cruz Alumni Weekend 2016
2016-04-29 - 2016-05-01 | UC Santa Cruz
SAVE THE DATE
April 28 – May 1, 2016
More info and event schedule at: alumniweekend.ucsc.edu
Questions? Contact alumni@ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-5003.

The Jungle and the Beast: A Conversation with Lewis Watts and Óscar Martínez
2016-04-29 10:00 - 12:00 | Cultural Center at Merrill, Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Jungle and the Beast: A Conversation with Lewis Watts and Óscar Martínez is the second event in the Borders and Belonging Series hosted by the CLRC. In The Beast (Los migrantes que no importan, in the original Spanish), intrepid Salvadoran journalist Óscar Martínez accompanies migrants on “the Beast,” the train that travels from Central America through Mexico to the United States. Meanwhile, UCSC Professor Emeritus Lewis Watts has captured some of the stasis of migration in his recent photos of “the Jungle,” the makeshift migrant camp in Calais, France. Mr. Martínez discusses the migrant trail and Professor Watts shares some of his recent photos from Calais.
Click here for more info and to register for the event.
The title of Martinez’s celebrated book comes from la Bestia, the old and decrepit train thousands of migrants cling to every day in the hopes of crossing from Central America heading north. Intimately familiar with this scene from his days of on-the-ground reporting in El Salvador, Martinez compiled his short briefs into one searing look at the crisis of those who many call the “invisible people.” Martinez also is a staff writer for El Faro out of San Salvador and runs “Sala Negra,” a project with fellow journalists, investigating the challenging questions addressing and concerning gang violence in Central America. Launched in 2011, la Sala Negra cover Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala; four of the most volatile regions in the world today. The consortium works on issues mostly related to organized crime, prison systems and the culture of violence in the region. Martinez is widely considered a leading voice on these topics and migration related concerns throughout Latin America
Lewis Watts’ photos of “La jungle,” the makeshift migrant camp in Calais, France, describe an intimate and profound look at one of the most dangerous and heavily-trafficked migrant crossings in the world. As the Syrian refugee crisis continues to unfold in the news, Professor Watts’ imagery shows the universal face of the immigrant and forced migration struggle. The conversation will also be joined by Jennifer González, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture, who will moderate the morning’s conversation about migrants and migration in different regions of the world.
Óscar Martínez is the author of Los migrantes que no importan: En el camino con los centroamericanos indocumentados en México (Icaria/El Faro, 2010), which was translated by Daniela Maria Ugaz and John Washington as The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail (Verso, 2013). The New York Times has described Mr. Martínez’s writing as “graceful” and “incisive.” His second book, A History of Violence, is forthcoming from Verso in 2016. Based in El Salvador, he writes for Elfaro.net, Latin America’s first online newspaper.
Lewis Watts joined the Art Department at UC Santa Cruz in 2001 after having taught at UC Berkeley for 23 years. He is a photographer of cultural and urban landscapes, with a focus on the African diaposora. He has photographed African and Afro-descent communities in the United States, Latin America, and Europe and is the co-author (with Elizabeth Pepin) ofHarlem of the West: The San Francisco Jazz Fillmore Era (Chronicle Books, 2005) and (with Eric Porter) New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition (University of California, 2013).
For questions, please contact Catherine Ramírez at cathysue@ucsc.edu.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Erin McElroy
2016-04-29 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Erin McElroy
“Disposals through the #DigitalNomad: The Materialization of a Dispossessive Avatar”
The “Digital Nomad,” an illusive figure flourishing alongside the growth of digital and network technologies, has conjured ideas of travel and freedom with the emergence of the Silicon Valley induced Tech Boom. I trace how digital networks, accompanied by fantasies of mobility, contribute to gentrifying economies that precipitate material dispossessions in locales undergoing economic and social transformation.

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

12th Annual Graduate Research Symposium
2016-04-29 13:00 - 16:00 | McHenry Library, UCSC
The Symposium offers graduate students from every division the opportunity to discuss their research with colleagues on campus and with the public. Our students present their work in the form of posters, live presentations, and media demonstrations. The Symposium also awards juried prizes, overseen by a panel of judges comprised of faculty, staff, researchers, alumni, and industry professionals, for presenters from each division and two overall awards.
This year’s event will be held in the “Information Commons South” area on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library.

Linguistic Colloquium: Paul Kiparsky
2016-04-29 14:00 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Linguistic Colloquium:
The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.
Fall 2015
October 9th: Keith Johnson, UC Berkeley
October 16th: Heidi Harley, University of Arizona
October 30th: Ivano Caponigro, UC San Diego
November 20th: Elliott Moreton, University of North Carolina
Winter 2016
January 15th: Sharon Inkelas, UC Berkeley
February 5th: Colin Phillips, University of Maryland
February 6th: N. Goodman, Stanford University and A. Kehler, UC San Diego
March 5th: Linguistics Conference at Santa Cruz Conference
Spring 2016
April 15th: Sabine Iatridou, MIT
April 29th: Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University
May 6, 7, 8: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9
May 20th: Kyle Johnson, University of Massachusetts
May 27th/June 3rd (TBA): Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference

Public Reading and Q&A with novelist Micheal Nava
2016-04-29 15:30 - 16:40 | Kresge Seminar Room 159, Seminar Room Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz, University of California Santa Cruz: Kresge College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Michael Nava is an attorney, the author of the acclaimed seven-volume Henry Rios detective series, and has won 6 Lambda Literary awards. He is currently in the midst of writing a new series of novels, the first of which is The City of Palaces (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014). Set before and during the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution, this novel follows the lives of two families in Mexico City during the clash between Francisco Madero and Porfirio Diaz.
co-sponsored by Kresge College, the Literature Department, and the Chicano Latino Research Center
for questions or more information, email Dr. Beth Hernandez-Jason bhj@ucsc.edu

Race, Class & Culture through the Lens of Jazz
2016-04-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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Kuumbwa Jazz Center and the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research present:
Race, Class & Culture through the Lens of Jazz
Featuring a headline performance by jazz vocalist Kim Nalley, UC Santa Cruz Humanities is celebrating International Jazz Day 2016! In the spirit of UNESCO’s International Jazz Day and in collaboration with the Kuumbwa Jazz center downtown, come join us and help celebrate. Enjoy refreshments and reconnect with your fellow alumni in the spirit of International Jazz Day. The program will begin with a fascinating conversation on the global historical role of jazz on race, class, and culture led by our expert panelists, including Humanities Dean Tyler Stovall, History Professor Eric Porter and jazz singer/historian Kim Nalley. Stick around to enjoy the fun as Nalley switches from historian to jazz and blues vocalist for the evening’s featured performance. All guests are welcome to linger after the show.

Tickets
$25 tickets are available through the UCSC Alumni Weekend website

Panelists
Tyler Stovall is Dean of Humanities at UC Santa Cruz and is the author of several books and numerous articles in the field of modern French history, specializing in transnational history, labor, colonialism, and race.
Eric Porter is a History Professor at UC Santa Cruz. His research includes black cultural and intellectual history, US cultural history and cultural studies, critical race and ethics studies, and popular music and jazz studies.
Kim Nalley is a well-known Bay Area jazz artist and is on faculty at the California Jazz Conservatory. She is also Ph.D. candidate focusing on the globalization of jazz and black cultural politics.
Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 7:00pm
Kuumbwa Jazz Center
7:00pm – Doors, bar and cafe open
7:30pm – Program begins at with conversation on the global historical role of jazz on race, class, and culture led by our expert panelists
8:00pm – Headline performance by jazz singer/historian Kim Nalley

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Designing Digital Scholarship: Art, Feminism + the Digital Humanities
2016-05-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
With Craig Deitrich (Claremont Colleges) and Tara McPherson (USC)
The story of the digital humanities is often narrated at a decades-long history of the computational manipulation of print. What alternative histories are concealed by such a story? How might we imagine DH differently if we move beyond a focus on text toward multimodal expression and design? What audiences might such work reach? This talk will trace some of the alternate histories of DH, paying particular attention to the visual and the political by engaging the work of feminists, artists, and scholars of color.
McPherson will also consider how scholarly evidence might be engaged anew through the aesthetic possibilities of the digital archive. By taking up the work of the Vectors Lab, she will approach these questions through concrete examples of digital scholarship today.

Craig Dietrich is a digital artist, scholar, and educator. Deitrich is currently the Director of the Digital Humanities Research Studio at Claremont Colleges.
Tara McPherson is Associate Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. She is a core faculty member of the IMAP program, USC’s innovative practice based-Ph.D., and also an affiliated faculty member in the American Studies and Ethnicity Department. Her research engages the cultural dimensions of media, including the intersection of gender, race, affect and place. She has a particular interest in digital media. Here, her research focuses on the digital humanities, early software histories, gender, and race, as well as upon the development of new tools and paradigms for digital publishing, learning, and authorship.
Co-sponsored by the UCSC IGHERT Program, Film + Digital Media, HAVC, University Library, Grad Division

Paul Lee: "The Greeks had a word for it: thumos"
2016-05-03 16:30 - 18:00 | Stevenson Provost House
Paul Lee studied philosophy at St. Olaf College and received his divinity degree and PhD from Harvard. He has taught at Harvard, MIT, and UC Santa Cruz, where he founded the first organic garden on a university with Alan Chadwick in 1967.
In 1976 alongside Paige Smith, he began the California Conservation Corps under Jerry Brown’s administration. Dr. Lee organized and proposed the Greenbelt Initiative to save the Pogonip in 1978. In 1985 he founded the organization that became Santa Cruz’s Homeless Services Center.
The campus community and interested public are welcome at all Philosophy Department sponsored colloquia, conferences and workshops.

Building in Scalar and Exploring the Future of Scholarly Publishing Workshop
2016-05-04 10:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
With Craig Deitrich and Tara McPherson. This workshop will serve as an introduction to Scalar, a free, open source authoring and publishing platform designed for scholars writing media-rich, long-form, born-digital scholarship. Developed by The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture at the University of Southern California, Scalar allows scholars to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose that media with their own writing in a variety of ways; to annotate video, audio, images, source code and text using the platform’s built-in media annotation tools; and to structure essay- and book-length works in ways that take advantage of the unique capabilities of digital writing, including nested, recursive, and non-linear formats. The workshop will cover basic features of the platform, including a review of existing Scalar books and a hands-on introduction to paths, tags, annotations and importing media. It will also cover more advanced topics including Scalar’s built-in visualizations, annotating with media, and a sprinkling of design theory by Craig Dietrich, Scalar’s Information Design Director.
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Coffee will be available from 9:30 AM and lunch will be served at 12 PM for registered participants.
Co-sponsored by the UCSC IGHERT Program, Film + Digital Media, HAVC, University Library, Grad Division

Donna V. Jones: “’I want more life’: Reflections on Time, Race and Duration in Ridley Scott’s Bladerunner”
2016-05-04 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Donna V. Jones is the author of Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Vitalism, Negritude and Modernity. Her publications and research interests include comparative modernisms, postcolonial literature, life philosophies and biopolitics, and science fiction and science studies. Her current project is Cursed Immortality: Life, Duration, and Biopolitics in Late Capitalism.
Jones is Associate Professor of English at UC Berkeley.

Spring 2016 Colloquium Series

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

Book Talk with Donna Haraway: "Manifestly Haraway"
2016-05-04 18:00 - 20:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Emerging Worlds, the Center for Cultural Studies, and the Science & Justice Research Center present:
Book Talks with Donna Haraway reading from Manifestly Haraway
Followed by a conversation between Donna Haraway & Cary Wolfe
Manifestly Haraway brings together Donna Haraway’s seminal “Cyborg Manifesto” and “Companion Species Manifesto.” Manifestly Haraway also includes a wide-ranging conversation between Haraway and Cary Wolfe on the history and meaning of the manifestos in the context of biopolitics, feminism, Marxism, human-nonhuman relationships, making kin, material semiotics, the negative way of knowing, secular Catholicism, and more.
Donna J. Haraway is distinguished professor emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of, among other works, “Primate Visions,” “Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium,” and “When Species Meet.”
Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University, where he is also founding director of 3CT (Center for Critical and Cultural Theory). He is the author of “Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal and What Is Posthumanism?”

A Book Reading and Conversation with Anubha Bhonsle
2016-05-05 14:00 - 15:30 | Humanities 2, Room 359
The Feminist Studies Department, along with the South Asia Studies Initiative and the Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, invite you join us for to a Book Reading & Conversation with Anubha Bhonsle!

Anubha Bhonsle, author of
Mother, Where’s My Country?
Journalist, Executive Editor, CNN-IBN
Fulbright Humphrey Fellow, 2015-16

Mother, Where’s My country? arc the life of Manipular, a state located in India’s north east, a diverse, picturesque, and strategically-vial state. It is also home to multiple insurgencies, a contested political identity, and a law called the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). Based on nine years of reporting from Manipur, including more than 200 interviews, scrutinizing dozens of court documents and testimonials, and revisiting places and conversations, Anubha Bhonsle paints a picture where impunity, fake encounters, protests and denial of memory and justice continue in an endless cycle. The book is available in the United Sates via Amazon.

Praise for the book – P Sainath: “…Anubha Bhonsle reproaches our hypocrisy but addresses our humanity.”

Undergraduate History Showcase
2016-05-05 14:00 - 16:30 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Undergraduate History Showcase is an annual event held each spring that recognizes the exceptional research conducted by UC Santa Cruz history undergraduates. In addition, a history alumnus delivers a keynote address in which they expound on the valuable career skills they acquired by majoring in history.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
I. Student Presentations – 2:00-2:45 PM
II. Keynote Address – 3:00-3:30 PM
“History! What is it good for?” by Brian Mathias Photo
Brian Mathias
Attorney & Constitutional Law Fellow
This talk will explore how a background in history and the historical method is applied to the practice of law and everyday life.
Brian Mathias is a 2008 UCSC European History major graduate, a local attorney, and a Constitutional Law Fellow at the Monterey College of Law.
III. Student Presentations – 3:40-4:30 PM

*Light refreshments to be provided. This event is free and open to everyone!

Brian Mathias is a 2008 UC Santa Cruz European History major graduate, a local attorney, and a Constitutional Law Fellow at the Monterey College of Law.
Brian has always had a strong interest in history, biographies, and geography beginning as a young boy. However, his passion for history grew exponentially as a freshman when he took “Medieval Europe” taught by Professor Cynthia Polecritti. This was the first of five Italian and European History courses that Brian took from Professor Polecritti. Brian’s history background inspired him to complete his degree in the medieval city of Göttingen, Germany.
Brian has continued his independent study of history after graduation, studying in-depth his own genealogy, Christianity, Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, and most recently Simon Bolivar.
Brian’s talk, “History! What is it good for?” will discuss how a background in history and the historical method is applied to the practice of law and everyday life.

Christina Schwenkel - Designing the Rational City: Gender and the 'Housing Question' Revisited in Late Socialist Vietnam
2016-05-05 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Christina Schwenkel, Professor of Anthropology, UC Riverside
Professor Schwenkel’s work addresses transnationalism, historical memory, aesthetics and visual culture in Vietnam. Her book, “The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation (2009) examines encounters between U.S. and Vietnamese recollections and representations of the war, and seeks to define and maintain particular visions of historical truth, knowledge and objectivity.

Carol Dougherty: "Nobody's Home: Metis, Improvisation, and the Instability of Return in Homer's Odyssey"
2016-05-05 17:00 - 18:00 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UCSC Classical Studies Program presents The Annual Carl Deppe Lecture with
Professor Carol Dougherty Wellesley College
This talk considers Homer’s Odyssey in light of recent work in improvisatory studies to suggest that returning home is a creative rather than restorative act. Odysseus is famous for his mētis, exactly the kind of practical reasoning upon which improvisation depends, and close readings of his encounters abroad with the Cyclops and at home with Eumaeus, Telemachus, Penelope, and Laertes will show that Odysseus’ lies and acts of deception do not temporarily disguise his true identity but rather enable him to construct himself anew upon his return.
Carol Dougherty is Professor of Classical Studies and Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literature at Wellesley College. She has published numerous books and articles on the literature and cultural history of archaic and classical Greece and is currently working on a book on Homecomings and Housekeepings in Classical and Contemporary Literature.

Patricia Piccinini and Donna Haraway in Conversation
2016-05-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Australian artist Patricia Piccinini will join UC Santa Cruz professor emerita Donna Haraway for a conversation about their shared interest in what Haraway calls “technoculture and speculative fabulations.”
Patricia Piccinini works in a variety of media, including painting, video, sound, installation, digital prints, and sculpture. In 2014 she was awarded the Artist Award by the Melbourne Art Foundation’s Awards for the Visual Arts. She is well known for her invented, hybrid creatures which explore the end limits of evolution, both technological and biological. These creatures evoke the biotechnology and digital technologies that are challenging the boundaries of humanity.
As Donna Haraway writes, “Piccinini is a compelling story teller in the radical experimental lineage of feminist science fiction. In a sf sense, Piccinini’s objects are replete with narrative speculative fabulation. Her visual and sculptural art is about worlding; i.e., “naturaltechnical” worlds at stake, worlds needy for care and response, worlds full of unsettling but oddly familiar critters who turn out to be simultaneously near kin and alien colonists.”
Donna Haraway is a Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Departments at UC Santa Cruz. She is a prominent scholar in the field of science and technology studies and the author of numerous books and essays that bring together questions of science and feminism, such as A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (1985) and Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective (1988). In September 2000, Haraway was awarded the highest honor given by the Society for Social Studies of Science, the J.D. Bernal Prize, for lifetime contributions to the field.

Rethinking Migration Conference
2016-05-06 08:30 - 2016-05-07 17:00 | Cultural Center at Merrill, Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Part of Borders and Belonging: A Series of Events on Human Migration and leading up to our 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Saywer Seminar on non-citizenship, this free, public two-day conference brings together scholars in the humanities and social sciences to expand the discourse on migration by analyzing key, emerging, and enduring terms in migration studies, such as alien, denizen, detention, deferral, (in)security, migrant, non-citizen, precarity, and refugee. It features addresses, panel presentations, and workshops in which participants share works-in-progress.
Click here for more info and to register for the conference.
Guest Speakers:
Leisy Abrego, University of California, Los Angeles
Lisa Marie Cacho, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Yale University
Susan Bibler Coutin, University of California, Irvine
Shannon Gleeson, Cornell University
Daniel Kanstroom, Boston College Law School
Rachel Lewis, George Mason University
Rhacel Parreñas, University of Southern California/Institute for Advanced Study
Sarah Swider, Wayne State University
UCSC Participants:
Gabriela Arredondo, Latin American & Latino Studies
Angie Bonilla, Literature
Ruben Espinoza, Sociology
Adrián Félix, Latin American & Latino Studies
Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Literature
Steve McKay, Sociology
Juan Poblete, Literature
Cecilia Rivas, Latin American & Latino Studies
Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, Feminist Studies
Veronica Terriquez, Sociology
Pat Zavella, Latin American & Latino Studies
This free, public event is part of Borders and Belonging: A Series of Events on Human Migration. The CLRC is proud to cosponsor it with the Latin American and Latino Studies Department, Institute for Humanities Research, and Division of Social Sciences, with generous support from the Dean’s Fund.

Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9 (SULA 9)
2016-05-06 09:00 - 2016-05-08 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in Americas 9
SULA 9 will be held at the University of California, Santa Cruz on May 6-8, 2016. The conference is a venue for researchers working on languages or dialects spoken in the Americas that do not have an established tradition of work in formal semantics. We especially encourage abstract submissions from those who do primary fieldwork or experimental work, as well as analysis. We also strongly encourage graduate students to submit. Click here for the SULA 9 website and conference program.

Invited speakers:
Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia)
Vincent Medina (Muwekma Ohlone Tribe)
Line Mikkelsen (University of California, Berkeley)
Sarah Murray (Cornell University)
Katie Sardinha (University of California, Berkeley)

Registration:
Please submit a registration form by clicking here.

*If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact: sula9@ucsc.edu.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Raul Tadle
2016-05-06 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Raul Tadle
“FOMC Sentiment Extraction and its Transmission to Financial Markets”
Since December 2004, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the governing board that determines U.S. monetary policy, has expedited the release of the minutes of its meetings from six to three weeks after the meetings are held. The reasoning behind this move is that markets benefit from having information from the minutes sooner. But does information in the minutes actually cause a reaction in the financial market?

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

Humanists@Work Graduate Career Workshop
2016-05-08 08:00 - 2016-05-09 17:00 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Graduate students, faculty, and staff, please register here.
More detailed information is forthcoming, but for now, here is an outline of the workshop sessions that will by offered at the upcoming Humanists@Work Graduate Career Workshop on May 8-9 in Los Angeles, CA. Please see our networking page for information about how to participate in our networking dinner and training session on May 8.
Applications for travel grants to the Graduate Career Workshop will be accepted between February 8 – April 11, 2016. Click here to apply.
All day LinkedIn Photo booth for professional pictures
8-9 AM Breakfast
9-9:20 Welcome and Introductions with David Theo Goldberg and Kelly Anne Brown
9:30-11 Stories from the Field: Four UC Humanities PhDs will share their stories as humanists at work in the world.
Keith Danner, Lecturer, UC Irvine
Melanie Ho, Executive Director, EAB Strategic Research, The Advisory Board Company
Stephanie Schrader, Curator, Drawings Department, J. Paul Getty Museum
Michael Ursell, ACLS Public Fellow at LA Review of Books
11-11:30 Coffee Break and Networking
11:30-1 LinkedIn for Humanists
Dr. Ann Dela Cruz, Director of Diversity, Inclusion & Admissions at UCLA’s Graduate Division will lead a session on the ways that LinkedIn can provide powerful networking and career search opportunities for humanists.
1-2 PM Lunch and open viewing of the permanent collection at the museum
2-3:30 Resume Redux: Using the Writing Process as a Tool for Career Discovery
The effort to convert humanities experience into language that reinstates beyond the academy continues. Jared Redick of The Resume Studio in San Francisco joins UCHRI in his ongoing journey to help humanities Ph.D.s and post-docs unravel complex matters related to converting an academic CV into a commercially-useful resume. Join the conversation whether you’re new to Jared’s methodologies, in the midst of your own career inflection, or happily on the other side of your job search.
3:30-4 Coffee Break and Networking
4-5:30 Candid Conversations
A multi-media, experimental dialogue between Faculty and Graduate Students about career preparation and the future of graduate education with
Erica Edwards, UCR English
David MacFadyen, UCLA Comparative Literature
Olufemi Taiwo, UCLA Philosophy
Helga Zambrano, UCLA Comparative Literature
5:30 Closing Remarks

Giving Day at UC Santa Cruz
2016-05-11 | Unnamed Venue
Get ready to play the Giving Day Game
A 24-hour online fundraising drive to support UC Santa Cruz students, faculty, and programs.
Great projects all across campus are being featured by academic divisions, colleges, student groups, and others.
The UC Santa Cruz community is invited to be a part of the fun of Giving Day by spreading the word, telling others about projects they might want to support, and by making a gift on May 11.
Visit Givingday.ucsc.edu on May 11th to play!
Support a Humanities Project:
The Gail Project
The Gail Project is a collaborative, international public history project that explores the founding years of the American military occupation of Okinawa. The project emphasizes hands-on research and creation of content by undergraduate students and serves as an innovative platform for new educational methods that encourage the use of multimedia, social media, archival research and travel. On Giving Day, there is a one-to-one match fund of $5,000.
The Dickens Project
Your gift helps support our partnership with the Neighborhood Academic Initiative and provides scholarships for four students from underserved Los Angeles-area high schools to attend the week-long Dickens Universe conference this summer. For these first-generation students, it’s a unique opportunity to taste the college experience at UCSC, alongside international faculty, graduate students, and others. On Giving Day, there is a one-to-one match fund of $1,500.
Graduate Student Internships
The Graduate Division is fundraising for internships for graduate students. Internships help build real-world skills—from collaboration to project management to innovation within or outside of academia. These opportunities provide crucial financial help and supporting relationship-building and professional development.

Click Here, to check out all the fundraising projects people across campus are pitching for support!
Click Here, and take the pledge to play and be a part of the fun!

Stephanie Jones-Rogers: “Lady Flesh Stealers, Female Soul Drivers, and She-Merchants: White Women and the American Slave Market”
2016-05-11 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Stephanie Jones-Rogers is completing her manuscript “Mistresses of the Market: White Women and the Economy of American Slavery.” It examines white women’s economic investments in American slavery and reveals their active participation in the South’s slave market economy.
Jones-Rogers is Assistant Professor of History at UC Berkeley.

Spring 2016 Colloquium Series

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

Leonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
2016-05-11 18:30 - 20:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Leonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists, scientists, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations.
Please join us in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 for refreshments at 6:30 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by marine biologist Nicole Crane, artist Elaine Gan, film archivist Rick Prelinger, and astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz.
Nicole Crane “One People One Reef: combining culture, context and science to manage changing ecosystems”
Elaine Gan “Making Time Appear”
Rick Prelinger “Inconvenient Materialities”
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz “Turning Stars into Gold”
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Parking ($4) is available in the Performing Arts Lot adjacent to Digital Arts Research Center.

Nicole Crane is Professor of Biology, Cabrillo College and a Senior Conservation Scientist at the Oceanic Society. Her research focuses on long term monitoring, with an emphasis in ecology of coral and temperate reefs with the aim of conservation and protection of marine resources. Crane’s field work includes temperate and tropical reef monitoring, fish biology, stream ecology, plant communities, and marine mammal ecology. With the Oceanic Society, she works with communities to set up monitoring programs, looking at habitat and fish populations on reefs and leading natural history expeditions.
Elaine Gan is a doctoral candidate in the department of Film & Digital Media at UCSC and also serves as art director of Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA) in Denmark. She has been a fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts and a graduate fellow of the Science & Justice Center at UCSC. Recent interdisciplinary projects include co-curating an exhibition titled DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking at Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark (2015); running a seminar series on multispecies technologies in the Anthropocene at Haus der Kulturen der Welt/HKW Berlin (2016); and co-editing an anthology, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Stories from the Anthropocene (forthcoming 2016).
Rick Prelinger is Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. An archivist, writer, filmmaker and educator, his collection of 60,000 ephemeral films was acquired by Library of Congress in 2002. Beginning in 2000, he partnered with Internet Archive to make a subset of the Prelinger Collection (now 6,500 films) available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse. His archival feature Panorama Ephemera (2004) played in venues around the world, and his new feature project No More Road Trips? received a Creative Capital grant in 2012. His Lost Landscapes participatory urban history projects have played to many thousands of viewers in San Francisco, Detroit, Oakland, Los Angeles and elsewhere. He is a board member of Internet Archive and frequently writes and speaks on the future of archives and issues relating to archival access and regeneration. With Megan Shaw Prelinger, he co-founded Prelinger Library in 2004.
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz is Professor and Chair of Astronomy and Astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz. He is also Director of Theoretical Astrophysics Santa Cruz Institute, Executive Director and Founder UCSC’s OpenLab, and the Sophie and Tycho Brahe Visiting Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute. His research focuses on the violent universe with an emphasis on stellar explosions, gamma-ray bursts, and accretion phenomena near compact objects. Ramirez-Ruiz is the youngest person to be inducted into the Mexican Academy of Sciences and has earned numerous awards including a Packard Fellowship and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

Living Writers: Elizabeth McKenzie
2016-05-12 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Elizabeth McKenzie is the author of The Portable Veblen, published by Penguin Press and 4th Estate. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and recorded for NPR’s Selected shorts. Her collection, Stop That Girl, was short-listed for The Story Prize, and her novel MacGregor Tells the World was a Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, and Library Journal Best Nook of the year. She is the senior editor of the Chicago Quarterly Review and the managing editor of Catamaran Literary Reader. She is also a UCSC creative writing alum!

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

POSTPONED PhD+: Research and Grants
2016-05-13 11:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
This event has been postponed to June 3rd.

PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the launch of PhD+, our new series! We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for humanities PhDs, online identity issues, internship possibilities, work/life balance, elements of style, grants/fellowships and much, more more.
October 9, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel
November 6, 2015: Internship Info Session
December 4, 2015: Coding for Humanists
January 8, 2016: Research Tools and Methods
February 5, 2016: Online Identity
March 4, 2016: Work-Life Balance
April 8, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities
Rescheduled for June 3, 2016: Research and Grants
June 3, 2016: End of Year Luncheon
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Cathy Thomas
2016-05-13 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Cathy Thomas
“Defining the Fête: The Utopian Potential of Drag, Disease and Diaspora in Oonya Kempadoo’s Carnival Imaginary”
The catharsis associated with Caribbean Carnivale has always been situated in the body. This paper considers the fête bodies of a transnational costume designer, the Queen of the Band and a gay reveler living with AIDS in Oonya Kempadoo’s tragicomic novel All Decent Animals as allegorical and political sites for producing and produced by trauma.

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

Cathy Park Hong: "Stand Up: A Symposium on Race and the Avant-Garde"
2016-05-13 13:45 - 18:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
UCSC’s Poetry & Politics Research Collective invites you to attend our spring event, “Stand Up: A Symposium on Race and the Avant-Garde with Cathy Park Hong.”
Please join us on Friday, May 13 for a symposium featuring creative and critical work by Literature faculty, lecturers, and graduate students, and a keynote reading by Cathy Park Hong (poet and professor at Sarah Lawrence College). Presenters will include Chris Chen, Vanessa Fernandez, David Lau, Rob Sean Wilson, and Ronaldo Wilson. Coffee, snacks, and refreshments will be offered.
Cathy Park Hong’s latest poetry collection, Engine Empire, was published in 2012 by W.W. Norton. Her other collections include Dance Dance Revolution, chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Translating Mo’um. Hong is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have been published in Poetry, A Public Space, Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Baffler, Boston Review, The Nation, and other journals. She is the poetry editor of The New Republic and is an Associate Professor at Sarah Lawrence College.

SYMPOSIUM
1:45 p.m.: Welcome & Opening Remarks
2:00 p.m.: Panel 1
Whitney De Vos
Vanessa Fernandez
Kenan Sharpe
Rob Sean Wilson
Moderator: To be announced
3:45 p.m.: Break (coffee and tea served)
4:00 p.m.: Panel 2
Chris Chen
Ronaldo Wilson
David Lau
Moderator: To be announced
4:30 p.m.: Break (coffee and tea served)
4:45 p.m.: Keynote Reading by Cathy Park Hong
6:00 p.m.: Conference ends; please join us for a reception (snacks and wine served)
Location TBA
For more information on the symposium, please see our website: www.ucscpoetrypolitics.com/upcoming-events.html

Hearing Gender: Stereotypes and Context in Voice Processing
2016-05-17 17:00 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
When we speak, in addition to our intended linguistic message, we communicate quite a bit about ourselves, such as our perceived gender, ethnicity, region of origin, etc. Expectations about these social categories interact with our comprehension at a very basic perceptual level. In this talk I’ll discuss current research on how gender stereotype affects on voice processing impact our understanding of the speech communication system.
For more information contact Peter Reed, pmreed@ucsc.edu, 831-459-1026.

Ronaldo V. Wilson: “Your Micro-Aggression, My Macro-Response: Some Renderings”
2016-05-18 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Ronaldo Wilson’s current project AVATAR|DIASPORA, wrestles with the idea of the obliterated black body and its juncture with poetry and visual culture. This project documents his current practice through sonic landscapes, video, dance, and writing as ways to explore race, sexuality, and representation.
Wilson is Associate Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz.
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Spring 2016 Colloquium Series

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

Marjorie Agosin: "Gender & Sexuality in the Work of Gabriela Mistral"
2016-05-18 15:30 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Marjorie Agosin is the Luella La Mer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies and Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. Professor Agosin’s poetry is inspired by social justice and the dedicated to the remembrance and memorialization of traumatic historical events in the Americas and in European holocaust. As a Chilean-American of Jewish heritage Agosin’s poetry enshrines women’s human rights. As a literary scholar she has published work on Pablo Neruda, María Luisa Bombal, and Gabriela Mistral. She is especially well known for preserving and celebrating Chilean “arpilleras” the resistance quilts made by work addresses the role of women during the Pinochet dictatorship. Some of these will be on display during the poetry reading.

May 18th: Presentation
Marjorie Agosin: Gender & Sexuality in the Work of Gabriela Mistral
May 19th: A Poetry Reading
“Translating the Soul: Meditations on Poetry”
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UCSC Night at the Museum: The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection
2016-05-18 18:00 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
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UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research Presents:
UCSC Night at the Museum: The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection
6:30pm | “The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America”
Public conversation with Ethan Michaeli, author of The Defender, and David Anthony, Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz.
Reception and book signing to follow talk.
May 18, 2016
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH)
705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Please register for Free admission to the museum and the Kinsey Collection
Doors Open at 6pm
Explore one of the largest private collections of African American art and artifacts, while mixing and mingling with UCSC professors.

Register

Parking
There are two parking garages located near the Museum. There is disability parking available in both parking garages.
Soquel/Front Garage: The Soquel/Front Parking Garage is located at the corner of Soquel Avenue and Front Street. The lot is paid hourly parking, seven days a week, except Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. Keep your ticket with you, and pay at one of the Pay-on-Foot stations (located on the ground floor stair towers) or the cashier’s office before returning to your vehicle.
River/Front Garage: The River/Front Garage is located between River and Front Streets next to the Galleria Office Complex. Permits are required for the second and third level and are limited to people who work or live downtown.
Questions, or for disability related accommodations, please contact ihr@ucsc.edu or 831-459-5655.
The Kinsey Collection at MAH:
February 26th, 2016 – May 22nd, 2016
Spanning 400 years of history, the Kinsey Collection reflects a rich cultural heritage. Includes work by Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, and Richard Mayhew alongside archival material related to Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, and Malcolm X.
The MAH is providing free admission to this exhibition for all Santa Cruz County K-12 students, UCSC and Cabrillo College students. Just show your ID at the desk Feb 27-May 22, Tuesday-Sunday, 11-5, to get in for free. Note: Free Admission does not apply during Third Friday festivals.
Self-guided tour materials also available for school groups and visitors, click here to book a self-guided tour.
Presented in partnership with the Santa Cruz County Office of Education, the Art Forum, the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research and Cabrillo College.
For more information visit santacruzmah.org

Marjorie Agosin: "Translating the Soul: Meditations on Poetry"
2016-05-19 12:00 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Marjorie Agosin is the Luella La Mer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies and Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. Professor Agosin’s poetry is inspired by social justice and the dedicated to the remembrance and memorialization of traumatic historical events in the Americas and in European holocaust. As a Chilean-American of Jewish heritage Agosin’s poetry enshrines women’s human rights. As a literary scholar she has published work on Pablo Neruda, María Luisa Bombal, and Gabriela Mistral. She is especially well known for preserving and celebrating Chilean “arpilleras” the resistance quilts made by work addresses the role of women during the Pinochet dictatorship. Some of these will be on display during the poetry reading.

May 18th: Presentation
Marjorie Agosin: Gender & Sexuality in the Work of Gabriela Mistral
May 19th: A Poetry Reading
“Translating the Soul: Meditations on Poetry”

Jonathan Ellis: "Motivated Reasoning, Heavy and Light"
2016-05-19 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
At least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty.
The format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited.
All members of the campus community and interested public are welcome to attend.
Jonathan Ellis
Motivated Reasoning, Heavy and Light
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Location: Humanities 1, Room 202
Time: 4:00 – 5:30
Coffee, tea, and cookies served.

Living Writers: Lev Grossman
2016-05-19 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Lev Grossman: I was born in 1969 and grew up in Lexington, MA. My parents were both English professors, so naturally I read a lot. I read a lot in college too, and read even more in graduate school. Then I moved to New York City and started writing full time.
My first novel, Warp, came out in 1997. My second, Codex, was published in 2004 and became an international bestseller. The Magicians was published in 2009 and was a New York Times bestseller and one of the New Yorker‘s best books of the year. The sequel, The Magician King, came out in 2011 and was a Times bestseller too. The third and (almost certainly) last Magicians book, The Magician’s Land, was published in 2014 and debuted at #1 on the bestseller list.
The Magicians books have now been published in twenty-five countries and have gotten praise from among others George R.R. Martin, John Green, Audrey Niffenegger, Erin Morgenstern, Joe Hill, William Gibson, Kelly Link, Gregory Maguire, and Junot Diaz. A Syfy series based on the trilogy is currently shooting and will premiere in early 2016.
I also write a lot of journalism. I’ve been the book critic at Time magazine since 2002. The New York Timesdescribed me as “among this country’s smartest and reliable critics.” I’ve written a dozen or so cover stories for Time, and my essays and criticism have also been in the Believer, the Village Voice, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Salon, Slate, Wired, Entertainment Weekly, the Week, Lingua Francaand many other places. I’ve won several awards for journalism, including a Deadline award in 2006. I make regular appearances on campuses, including Harvard, Yale and Oxford, and as a commentator on NPR.
I live in Brooklyn with my wife, two daughters and one son, in a creaky old house.

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

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Trung Nguyen
2016-05-20 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Trung Nguyen
“War Material: Vietnamese Objects of Post-War Subjectivity”
Hong-An Truong and Dinh Q. Le are two widely received diasporic Vietnamese artists whose installations have engaged with the interpretative terrains and problematics of memory, subjectivity, and colonialism through Vietnamese historical experience. This presentation will study two of their respective pieces that explicitly confront modes of inhabiting a subjectivity constituted by the material remainders of war.

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

Linguistic Colloquium: Kyle Johnson
2016-05-20 14:00 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Camille Fauroux: "Framing Gender across Boundaries: French Women at Work in Berlin’s War Industry (1940-1945)"
2016-05-24 14:00 - 15:30 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
During the Second World War, 50,000 to 100,000 French women chose to leave France to work for the war industry in Germany. Their transnational experience points to the racial and gendered division of labor that deployed itself throughout Nazi occupied Europe. In an attempt to sustain the war effort while limiting German’s women’s draft and preserve their status as mothers and housewives, the National-socialist state chose to rely on the forced labor of millions of foreign men and women from occupied territories who where brought to the Reich. Drawing from a case study on the high-tech electronic industry in Berlin between 1940 and 1945, I reveal how French women’s “voluntary work” became more and more coerced as the war went on. Segregated housing in camps ensured a tight control of these workers as well as it prevented them from founding families on the German soil, but it also provided unexpected space for solidarity and resistance to forced labor.
Camille Fauroux is a doctoral candidate at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. This year, she is a visiting research associate at UC Santa Cruz. Her dissertation, under the supervision of Prof. Laura Lee Downs, examines French women’s labor in National-socialist Germany between 1940 and 1945. Her research interests include forced labor, migration, sexuality, and the transnational construction of gender.
Light refreshments will be provided.

Dai Jinhua: “A Cultural Landscape with No Coordinates: Contemporary Chinese Cinema”
2016-05-25 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Dai Jinhua is currently researching the cultural politics of China after the post-Cold War, the “rise of China,” and the erasures and elisions of China’s anti-colonial, third world socialist past. Bringing her feminist Marxism to bear, Dai Jinhua interprets Chinese film and culture, examining traces of forgotten histories. This talk is generously co-sponsored by the Center for Emerging Worlds and will have a simultaneous interpreter.
Jinhua is Professor in the Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture at Beijing University.
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Digital Pedagogy Round Table
2016-05-25 16:00 - 18:00 | McHenry Library, Room 1350
Faculty and instructors from across the university will offer lightning talks about new assignments and classroom strategies that integrate technologies into their pedagogy. Join the Digital Pedagogy group for a broad introduction to innovative learning possibilities.
The presentations will cover a broad range of topics, from digital exhibit building as a final class assignment to creating and employing video taped lectures and classroom content. The panel will consist of:

Benefits of a Flipped Classroom
Matthew Clapham (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Omeka as a platform for student research
Renee Fox (Literature)
The Learning Glass for hybrid and online instruction
Herbie Lee, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs (Applied Math and Statistics)
Google Earth for teaching spatial and global thinking
Elaine Sullivan (History)
From flipped to fully online
Max Tarjan (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)

The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP) XVI
2016-05-25 20:00 - 2016-05-27 20:00 | Stevenson Event Center
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, Cowell College, and Stevenson College, will present The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP), an annual multilingual program of fully-staged short theater pieces, for its 16th season. Three public performances will be held on May 25, 26, and 27 (Wed. – Fri.) at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center, UCSC, and will feature works in French, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish, with English super-titles projected above the stage. The program will be directed by Language lecturers and performed by Language students. There is no admission charge, with nearby parking at $4.00.
This year’s works include: (in French) Scenes from TARTUFFE, by Molière, directed by Miriam Ellis; (in Japanese) BEST FRIENDS, by Yuuki Himura & Osamu Shitara, directed by Sakae Fujita; (in Russian) UNCLE FYODOR, THE DOG AND THE CAT, by Edward Uspensky, directed by Natalya Samokhina and her students; (in Spanish) THE BAT, based on a myth by Eduardo Galeano, directed by Marta Navarro. The pieces range in style from folklore to classical and modern-day theater, with emphasis on their comic elements.
Over the years, the IP presentations have represented an important annual event for UCSC and have attracted a loyal following. In addition to those on campus, many community members, as well as faculty and students from high schools and Cabrillo College, attend regularly. The English titles make the material easily accessible to audiences, who are afforded a rare multicultural experience by the diversity of the programs.
For further information, please contact lmhunter@ucsc.edu or ellisan@ucsc.edu.

Living Writers: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier
2016-05-26 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Emily Hunt is the author of the poetry collection Dark Green (The Song Cave, 2015). She holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and her poems have appeared in the Iowa Review, the PEN Poetry Series, The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day Feature, TYPO, The Volta, Diagram, and elsewhere. In 2013, Brave Men Press published This Always Happens, a book of her drawings, and she has provided cover art for several poetry collections. She lives in Oakland, CA.

Poet Julien Poirier grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and was educated at Columbia University. He has described his poems as a system or a conversation already in progress, aligning observed and spoken ephemera with sound echoes, tracing the movement of a restless mind across themes of politics, poetics, and daily life. In an article on reading Poirier for EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts, poet Filip Marinovich stated, “Poirier is a Genius in the classical sense: a resident spirit of Poetry, arcangeling words through the top of one’s lifted head. …” In a 2013 interview with Noel Black for BOMB Magazine, Poirier offered the following: “It’s exciting to be writing poems now … because if you can plunge into the simultaneity of all of these events that warped you in some way, drove you crazy or forced you to find some narrow streak of optimism in the evident relentless disaster, then you might, as a poet, be able to get deeper and deeper into an understanding of what’s happening. You might be able to understand the way things work together and make a poem map, ‘a map to the map’ as my friend Tony said, before you forget. And it’s incredibly exciting because there are about a million ways to go about doing this.”
Poirier is the author of the full-length poetry collection El Golpe Chileño (2010); several chapbooks, including Flying Over the Fence with Amadou Diallo (2000),Short Stack (2005), and Stained Glass Windows of California (2012); and the formally innovative newspaper novel Living! Go and Dream (2005).
A founding member of Ugly Duckling Presse Collective, Poirier edited the New York Nights newspaper from 2001 to 2006. He has taught poetry in New York City public schools and at San Quentin State Prison. He lives in Berkeley with his wife and two daughters.

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

Ruling Passions: Sexuality, Science and the (Post)colonial State
2016-05-27 10:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The past decade or so has witnessed a rapid rise in scholarship that seeks to seize or transform the language of the “science” for liberatory ends. Such an attachment to the reparative and/or divisive logic of “science” is most evident in minoritized knowledge-formations such as sexuality studies and colonial/postcolonial studies. In the face of contemporary challenges about the limits of scholarship bowing out to the forces of globalization, the colloquium will examine what is at stake for sexuality studies and postcolonial studies to carve out a critical relationship to histories of science?
The types of issues we envisage participants addressing will engage three central questions:
What are the conversations instituted about sexuality in relationship to the colonial and postcolonial state in the global south?
How does sexuality studies’s own adherence/attachment to science studies parochialize key assumptions about freedom, rights and the subject?
What are the ways in which modalities of sentiment, affect, emotion entangle with the logic of state discourses and what role does sexuality play within such exchanges?
Schedule:
10:00am–10:15am: Introductory Remarks
Anjali Arondekar, Feminist Studies, UCSC
10:15am-10:30am: Poetic Techne
Ronaldo Wilson, Literature, UCSC
10:30-12:30: The Arabic Freud and the Invention of the Psychosexual Subject
Omnia El Shakry, History, UC Davis
Respondent: Alma Heckman, History, UCSC
12:30-1:30: Break
1:30-3:30: Origins and the Sexuality of Science in Colonial India
Durba Mitra, History, Fordham
Respondent: Megan Moodie, Anthropology, UCSC
Participants:
Durba Mitra, Department of History, Fordham University
Origins and the Sexuality of Science in Colonial India
Durba Mitra is an assistant professor of history at Fordham University. She is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Penn Humanities Forum at the University of Pennsylvania for the year of “Sex.”
Omnia El Shakry, Department of History, UC Davis
The Arabic Freud and the Invention of the Psychosexual Subject
Omnia El Shakry specializes in the the intellectual history of the Arab world and Europe, with a special emphasis on the history of the human sciences in Egypt. Her current book project, The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt, traces the lineaments of psychoanalysis in postwar Egypt.
CANCELLED – Duana Fullwiley, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
The Racial Embrace: DNA Sequences meet Dream Sequences in Struggles for (Scientific) Liberation
Dr. Duana Fullwiley is an anthropologist of science and medicine interested in how social identities, health outcomes, and molecular genetic findings increasingly intersect. She is the author of The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa (Princeton, 2011), which examines how structural adjustment policies in Africa affected not only the lived experiences of sickle cell patients in Senegal, but also influenced the genetic science about them.

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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Rebecca Ora
2016-05-27 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Rebecca Ora
“Filming Israel From Afar: Ambivalent Diasporic Visions in Performative Non-Fiction”
Citing her recent short film The Intifada-ing and the work of other Jewish American women filmmakers, I discuss the ability of performative nonfiction to map new geographic territories through ethical panic and identity-loss responding to diasporic relationships with Israel-Palestine. This paper cults from theorizations of documentary as well as Joseph Roach’s writings on surrogation and Circum-Atlantic performance.

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

BIOS Research Colloquium: Historicizing Surveillance
2016-05-27 14:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
BIOS Research Colloquium: Historicizing Surveillance
Featuring Guest Speakers:
Simone Browne and Simon A. Cole
Friday May 27th, 2-5 pm, Humanities 1 Room 202

Simone Browne, Draw a black line through it: On the Surveillance of Blackness
Situating blackness as an absented presence in the field of surveillance studies, this talk questions how a realization of the conditions of blackness— the historical, the present, and the historical present can help social theorists understand our contemporary conditions of surveillance.
Simone Browne is Associate Professor in the Department of African and American Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Simon A. Cole, Identity or “Mere Identification”? Biometric Databases from Fingerprinting to DNA.
This talk traces the history of biometric identification technologies from their origins through to the present and the ethical and humanistic issues that have persistently been raised by them. It then discusses how we should understand these issues in the present moment of rapid technological advancement. It focuses in particular on the relationship between “mere” identification and broader notions of identity—behavioral, racial, and so on, and implications for the increasing expansion of genetic databases.
Simon Cole is Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and Director of the Newkirk Center for Science and Society at the University of California, Irvine.
These talks will be followed by a conversation about research projects, new issues and directions, information exchange and coffee and cookies. The colloquium is open to the public, and graduate students are encouraged especially to attend. This colloquium is sponsored by the UC Biosurveillance Working Group, the UC Humanities Research Institute and the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research.

CANCELLED Covell Meyskens: "Visualizing the Past: The Making of the Website 'Everyday Life in Mao's China'"
2016-05-27 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Covell Meyskens, Assistant Professor of History at the Naval Postgraduate School, will talk about his website Everyday Life in Mao’s China which currently houses over 5,000 images China. Meyskens will discuss the website’s origins, its intended and unintended contributions to the expanding field of PRC history, and suggestions for offer suggestions on how to conduct comparable digital projects on other research topics.
Covell Meyskens is a historian of twentieth century China with a particular interest in industrialization, revolution, and everyday life. His current book project is tentatively titled “Securing Maoist China: The Cold War, Late Development, and Everyday Life in the Third Front, 1964-1980.” It is the first history of China’s largest ever industrial defense project – the Third Front. The book analyzes how the Chinese Communist Party industrialized hinterland regions in order to protect China from American and Soviet threats. Meyskens is also engaged in ongoing research on the history of China’s Railroad Corps, hydropower in Hubei province, and automobiles in China.

This event is sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program, History Department, and IHR Digital Humanities Research Cluster.

Celebrating Excellence in the Humanities: 2015-16 Spring Awards
2016-05-31 16:00 - 18:00 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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.
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I hope you will be able to join me on Tuesday, May 31 from 4-6 pm at Cowell Provost House. Activities will include a poster presentation by the recipients of our Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards, remarks by student scholarship recipients, and last but not least – refreshments on the lawn.
Humanities Division’s 2015-16 awards acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition, distinctions and honors over the course of this last year. The categories for acknowledgement are:
Faculty Awards and Honors
Research Grants and Fellowships
Teaching Awards and Instructional Innovation Major Publications
Undergraduate Awards and Honors
Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) – supports and encourages undergraduate research in the Humanities
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Awards – granted to undergraduates who have completed an outstanding senior thesis or project during the current academic year
This year, the Humanities Division is a proud sponsor of the 2016 Annual Chancellor’s Achievement Awards for Diversity (CAAFD). Established in 2003, these awards honor and showcase people and programs that have made outstanding contributions to furthering diversity, inclusion, and excellence at UC Santa Cruz.
I look forward to seeing you in May.
Tyler Stovall
Dean of Humanities

Moira Weigel: "A Genealogy of 'Like': Taste, Emotional Labor, and Technology on the Dating Market"
2016-06-01 00:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating
“But I Want A Guy I Like To Like The Things I Like”
Taste and Emotional Labor on the Dating Market
It is a truth universally acknowledged that “likes” play an important role in contemporary courtship. While all social media invite us to produce our online identities by performing taste, dating apps turn our “likes” into literal searching and sorting mechanisms. The favorite bands, books, foods, and so on that you list on an OkCupid profile determine who can find you–and who might be too unlike you to make a good match. But where does the idea that consumer tastes are good predictors of romantic compatibility come from? As Bourdieu put it in his canonical study, Distinction: “Taste classifies and it classifies the classifier.” Sociologists have shown that even on apps like Tinder, where users are encouraged to make snap decisions based on visual data (photographs) alone, they tend to select partners of similar socioeconomic backgrounds and education levels. Do “likes” simply recapitulate the functions that families, community groups, and schools have historically performed–sorting young people by class? Drawing on my newly released book, “Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating“, I will present a Genealogy of the Like: excavating a wide range.

Moria Weigel is a PhD student in the joint program in Comparative Literature and Film and Media Studies. Before coming to Yale, she earned a BA (summa cum laude) from Harvard University, and an M. Phil (with distinction) from the University of Cambridge, where she was the Harvard Scholar in residence at Emmanuel College. She also worked as an Assistant Editor at Harper’s Magazine.
“Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating,” her first book, is coming out from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in May 2016. In a series of interlinking essays, LOL investigates the shape-shifting institution of dating–which, she contends, names the logic of courtship under consumer driven capitalism. Drawing on Marxist feminism, sociology, and cultural history, she examines how dating has co-evolved with other forms of gendered labor.

*Free lunch will be provided.
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Living Writers: Student Reading
2016-06-02 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Spring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line
Why Out of Line?
“I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre, in different genres, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I’m hoping it will encourage our students to think outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks
This event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors!
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
April 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)
April 14: Kate Schatz
April 21: Manuel Gonzales
April 28: Charlie Jane Anders
May 5: NO READING
May 12: Elizabeth McKenzie
May 19: Lev Grossman
May 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier
June 2: Student Reading

PhD+: Research and Grants Workshop and End of Year Luncheon
2016-06-03 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the launch of PhD+, our new series! We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for humanities PhDs, online identity issues, internship possibilities, work/life balance, elements of style, grants/fellowships and much, more more.
October 9, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel
November 6, 2015: Internship Info Session
December 4, 2015: Coding for Humanists
January 8, 2016: Research Tools and Methods
February 5, 2016: Online Identity
March 4, 2016: Work-Life Balance
April 8, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities
Rescheduled for June 3, 2016: Research and Grants
June 3, 2016: End of Year Luncheon
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Veronika Zablotsky
2016-06-03 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Veronika Zablotsky
“Dealing with the East: Orientalism and the Ideas of Eurasia in Contemporary Geopolitics”
In this talk, I mobilize Edward Said’s critique of Orientalism (1978) as a Europrean “style of thought,” a “corporate institution” and a “systematic discipline” that produces, manages and deals with the “Orient” by means of discourse to think about the idea of “Eurasia” and its uses in contemporary geopolitics.

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

Inverting the Spanish Avant Garde: Transatlantic Negotiations in El Estudiante (Salamanca-Madrid 1925-26)
2016-06-03 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UCSC Spanish Studies and the Department of Language and Applied Linguistics present:
Inverting the Spanish Avant Garde: Transatlantic Negotiations in El Estudiante (Salamanca-Madrid 1925-26)
By Vanessa Marie Fernandez (UC Santa Cruz and San Jose SU)
Friday June 3rd, 6:00PM
Humanities 1, Room 210
Vanessa Marie Fernandez completed her PhD in Hispanic Langiages and Literatures form the University of Claifornia, Los Angeles in 2013. She has been a lecturer at Rice University in Houston and an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Duquesne Univeristy in Pittsburgh. Currently, she is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Literature Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and will begin her new position as Assitant Professor of Spanish at San Jose State University in Fall 2016. Her book project “Bridging the Atlantic: Debating Modernity Across Argentine, Mexican, and Spanish Literary Magazines (1920-1930),” argues print culture generated a complex network o exchange amongst avant-garde movements that sheds new light on the development of Latin America and Spain’s post colonial relationship during the 1920s.

MAH 3rd Friday: Changemakers
2016-06-17 18:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
Meet the creative leaders making change happen in Santa Cruz County.
Engage with county supervisors and cycling advocates. Meet artists and food justice activists. Network with film festival directors and Oaxacan cultural preservationists. Interact with hands-on workshops, demonstrations and performances.
C3 (Creative Community Committee) is the MAH’s community think tank of 45 diverse leaders across our county. We have spent the year creatively brainstorming new ways to build cultural bridges in our community. Meet us, learn about our work, step out of your comfort zone and explore all the ways you can connect with these leaders and each other.
Performances
6-7PM Preserving Mexican Cultural Traditions Through Dance and Healing with Senderos’ Centeotl Danza y Baile who will perform Mexican folkloric dance. Senderos are an all-volunteer organization dedicated to sharing cultural arts to provide pathways for Latino youth and an appreciation of our community’s diversity.
Drop-in Workshops & Demonstrations
7-8PM Preserving Mexican Cultural Traditions Through Dance and Healing with Senderos: Oaxaqueña curandera (healer), Marta Martinez Navarro and her husband, Ramiro Hernandez, will demonstrate traditional remedies.
A Living History of Cooperatives in Santa Cruz and Beyond with Zachary Wolinsky from Santa Cruz: PedX Courier & Cargo and Santa Cruz Pedicab: What can we learn from democratically governed businesses in Santa Cruz County? Join us for a few rounds of Co-opoly, the game of cooperatives. Learn about the stories of the local cooperative businesses in Santa Cruz County and how they anchor wealth in the community and create opportunities for human connection. Help us create a map of cooperative business stories across time and space in the past, present, and future.
Everyday Science with Antonia Franco from SACNAS and Irena Polic from the Institute for Humanities Research:Explore your capacity for science and learn how even normal household products can be turned into fun & educational experiments.
Bringing the Museum to Your Bus Stop with County Supervisor John Leopold: Bus stops can be a site to share cultural experiences. Do you know there’s a psychedelic bus stop in Soquel about the history of Counterculture in Santa Cruz? Come see the original model and help turn the Metro’s Bus Shelters into vibrant “mini-museums” by celebrating our County’s art and culture.
The Tree that Overcame with Edgar Ontiveros from Nopal Media and Rebecca Hernandez Rosser from the UCSC American Indian Resource Center: Write on the leaves about a time you had a positive or negative experience around your gender, race/ethnicity, religion, sexuality, nationality, dis/ability or age. Share a moment of empowerment on a paper blossom.
PLACE Bingo with anthropologist and educator Natalie Baloy and Rick Flores, Steward of the Amah Mutsun Relearning Program and Amah Mutsun Land Trust: Get to know your place – Santa Cruz, your neighbors, your community – with a conversational Bingo game. Earn squares by engaging in conversations with fellow visitors – get five squares in a row and you’ll win a prize!
Abstract Identities with Nicole Zahm from the Santa Cruz Farmers Market and Doron Comerchero from Food What?!: Create an abstract image representing your identity and connect with others who share that with you. Explore our shared complex identities.
Pop-Up State Park with Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks Bonnie Hawley, Jorge Savala and Vance Landis-Carey: Transport yourself to the Castro Adobe — play Californio games, make a tortilla ranchero style, and learn to rope. Take a virtual field trip, then come visit the Castro Adobe State Historic Park in Watsonville.
Have you ever built a time machine? with artist and educator Kyle McKinley: Explore the transformed history gallery as a machine for traveling through time. Time machines appear in American literary narratives as a technical solution to the historical dilemma of how to get from where we are to a utopian society. By asking participants to imagine the past and future differently, the idea of a time machine enables us to re-think the ways in which our present day decisions determine the shape that our collective futures will take.
Wayfinding with artist and designer, Raphael Arar: a responsive installation that reflects on the paths one chooses in life and their subsequent periods of chaos and harmony.
Dream Piñata with artist Louise Leong and artist Janis O’Driscoll from the Santa Cruz Public Libraries: What are the obstacles that get in the way of building bridges across difference in Santa Cruz? What are your hopes and dreams for bringing people together? At the end of the night we’ll break through all those obstacles written on the outside of the piñata to release all our dreams inside the piñata!
The Mask You Live In with Monica Martinez and Maria Castillo from Encompass Community Services: We often wear masks on the outside to conceal what’s on the inside. Make a mask that represents the ideas, feelings and experiences we often do not wear openly. See masks made with individuals in our community through Encompass and connect with others who share similar stories to your mask.
My Rite of Passage with Consuelo Alba from the Watsonville Film Festival and Christina Cuevas from the Community Foundation Santa Cruz County inspired by the documentary Xilonen: The Ceremony of Tender Corn. All cultures around the world celebrate rites of passage ceremonies or rituals that mark people’s transition into a new stage of life or a brand new identity. These transitions can be cultural, religious or social; the rites of passage include three phases: separation, transition or adventure and incorporation. Share with us that special moment of transition in your life. What was it? Why it happened? When? Where? Tell us your story.
Story Sharing with Strangers with : Anonymous story sharing will invite you to share a meaningful story with a stranger and listen to theirs.
Finding Home Between Different Worlds: Poems about Culture, Place, and People with UCSC history professor Pedro Castillo and Jacquie Benetua-Rolens from Santa Cruz Community Health Centers: Home means a lot of different things to us all. It is where we’ve unpacked our lives and planted seeds. It is a tapestry of different experiences, different languages and different places. It’s where we rest while it rests in our memories. We leave and come back everyday, carrying it with us, and always with the people we love. Invite us into your home by sharing your story.
Bike the Bay with Tawn Kennedy from Bike Santa Cruz County: Tawn is biking with Santa Cruz youth this year on the Bike the Bay Tour. What should they learn about the communities they’re riding through? What are the secret histories, wild adventures, and fun facts they should discover as they bike along this route?
What is C3? with Creative Community Committee (C3) Interns Ana Leopold & Alma Villa and C3 Members Keisha Frost from the United Way & Jacob Martinez from the Digital Nest: Learn about this group of Changemakers and the topics we’ve been discussing this year.
If you want to learn more contact Stacey Marie Garcia, stacey@santacruzmah.org

Weekend with Shakespeare 2016
2016-08-12 - 2016-08-14 | De Laveaga Elementary School
Weekend with Shakespeare – August 12 – 14, 2016
Join Shakespeare Workshop for a weekend of lectures, discussions, and demonstrations about Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s summer productions, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hamlet. New this year is an Educators’ Workshop on Sunday, August 14, an event for teachers that provides creative and scholarly resources for enlivening Shakespeare’s plays in classroom settings and beyond.
All Weekend with Shakespeare events will be held at De Laveaga Elementary School (1145 Morrissey Boulevard, Santa Cruz, CA 95065), nearby Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s new location, the Grove at De Laveaga Park.
For ticket information, please visit: www.santacruzshakespeare.org/events

Weekend with Shakespeare Lecture Schedule
Friday, August 12: 5:00 – 6:30pm, Pre-show experience on Midsummer
Saturday, August 13: 9:00 – 10:30am, Post-show experience on Midsummer
Saturday, August 13: 10:30 – 11:30am, Continental Brunch (provided as part of lecture price)
Saturday, August 13: 11:30am – 1:00pm, Pre-show experience on Hamlet
Saturday, August 13: 5:30 – 7:00pm, Post-show experience on Hamlet

Featuring discussions with Bruce Avery, Professor of Theater Arts at San Francisco State University, and Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s (SCS) theater artists.
All lecture participants receive a research guide prior to WWS that provides current scholarship, historical background, and SCS production-specific information.
Lecture attendees are encouraged to attend the SCS productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hamlet either prior to the lecture days OR to see them as a package deal: Friday, August 12, 8pm Midsummer; Saturday, August 13, 2pm Hamlet.

Educators’ Workshop – Sunday, August 14, 12 – 4pm
Exclusively for teachers, this new part of WWS will include three 45-minute sessions on successfully teaching Shakespeare’s work as an integral part of the curriculum. While exploring different methods for engaging with Shakespeare’s plays—performance, text, and design—participants will gain hands-on training and resources for bringing texts to life in the classroom and beyond.
Workshop Sessions:
Performance: Invigorate Shakespeare’s texts with voice and movement
Mike Ryan, Artistic Director of Santa Cruz Shakespeare
Text: Activate Shakespeare’s language while guided by state-adopted ELA and literacy standards
Marvilyn Quiroz, California Reading and Literacy Project Teacher Leader
Design: Envision and create the world of Shakespeare’s plays through hands-on craft
Kate Edmunds, Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz

About the WWS guest Shakespeare scholar:
Bruce Avery is Professor of Theater Arts at San Francisco State University. He holds a PhD in English Literature and Classics from UC Santa Cruz. He has written on Spenser, Joyce, Kipling, Salman Rushdie, Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare, and pedagogy. He is an actor and director, and has played Vladimir in Waiting for Godot, Polonius in Hamlet, Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Old Capulet in Romeo & Juliet, among others. His directing credits include Venus in Fur, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, and Woody Allen’s God, among others, and most recently Much Ado About Nothing.

About the Educators’ Workshop facilitators:
Mike Ryan first came to Santa Cruz in 1997 to play Silvius in As You Like It and Piotr in The Forest at Shakespeare Santa Cruz. That season launched a long career with SSC; he appeared in over 35 productions with the company before it was closed at the end of 2013. Along with Marco Barricelli and the Shakespeare Play On Board of Directors, he founded Santa Cruz Shakespeare in early 2014 and served as Co-Artistic Director for the new non-profit theatre company in its inaugural year before taking over as sole Artistic Director at the end of that season. In addition to his acting work with both Santa Cruz Shakespeare and its predecessor, Bay Area audiences may also know him from performances with American Conservatory Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Jewel Theatre Company, and Aurora. He has also appeared at Laguna Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Denver Center Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Geva Theatre Center, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Festival of Dallas, and Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park. Mr. Ryan received his B.F.A. from Southern Methodist University, where he was a National Merit Scholar, and his M.F.A. from the University of California at San Diego.
Marvilyn Quiroz’ relationship with The Bard started as a twelve-year-old in the libraries of East San Jose deciphering Elizabethan language using the side by side version of Romeo and Juliet. Her mother took her to free plays as an escape from barrio life where she saw Shakespeare’s words come alive. Marvilyn is now a California Reading and Literacy Project Teacher Leader, Central California Writing Project Fellow, and Mentor with the Santa Cruz/Silicon Valley New Teacher Project. She loves designing curriculum and facilitating workshops where teachers explore their craft and share their expertise. As an educator for over ten years in the Pajaro Valley Unified School District she has traversed a range of grade levels and courses from 10th grade Honors English to beginning English Language Development. Her approach to literacy considers all students academic language learners, which highlights her commitment to equity and passion for promoting students’ access to language that will inspire and empower. Her email is marvilyn_quiroz@pvusd.net.
Kate Edmunds has designed scenery throughout the United States for over thirty-five years. She has designed for Manhattan Theatre Club, Berkeley Repertory Theater, ACT/SF, the Mark Taper Forum, the Jewel/SC, Chicago’s Goodman Theater, Seattle Rep., Boston’s Huntington Theater and Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. among many others. She earned her MFA in Design at the Yale School of Drama. Kate teaches design in the Theater Arts department at UCSC.

Sponsored by:
Shakespeare Workshop, a research center of the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research.

Digital Exhibit Building Symposium
2016-09-14 09:00 - 17:00 | McHenry Library, Digital Commons
The Digital Exhibit Building Symposium will consider the value of curating digital exhibits, communicating with online audiences, and implementing new digital assignments in the classroom. We will also offer hands on workshops that can help you get started. By reorienting the conversation around digital exhibit building away from specific platforms, we will explore the process of building research projects online from inspiration and incubation to sustainability and preservation.
This event is targeted at researchers, librarians, archivists, instructors, IT professionals and Digital Humanists from across the UC system and beyond. The event is open to all interested and will be especially of interest to those working in Omeka or Scalar as well as those frustrated by platform limitations who want to think beyond the tools of digital curation.
More information and registration: digitalscholarship.ucsc.edu

Silicon Valley Campus Grand Opening
2016-09-28 16:00 - 21:00 | UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley
Please join us for the opening celebration of the UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus, a multidisciplinary teaching and research hub.
The evening will include an open house, ribbon-cutting, reception, and TED-style talks. We welcome you to choose one or all.
Wednesday, September 28, 4-9 p.m.
4-7 p.m. Silicon Valley Campus open house
6-6:15 p.m. Ribbon cutting 2.0
6:15-7 p.m. Small bites reception
7-9 p.m. Evening program with research talks
UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus, 3175 Bowers Ave, Santa Clara

Register by September 21
Questions? Contact specialevents@ucsc.edu or (831) 459-5003

Living Writers: Chanan Tigay
2016-09-29 17:20 - 19:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Author of the forthcoming Unholy Scriptures: Fraud, Suicide, Scandal—and the Bible that Rocked the Holy City (Ecco/HarperCollins), and two long works of nonfiction, The Special Populations Unit: Arab Soldiers in Israel’s Army (McSweeney’s) and Nuclear Meltdown, released on the one-year anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan (Rodale Press). Tigay was awarded the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism’s 2011-2012 Investigative Reporting Fellowship, where he worked on a documentary film about Israel’s opposition to the Iranian nuclear program for PBS “Frontline.” His journalism has appeared in publications including Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, New York magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle and The Jerusalem Post. Tigay has taught courses in Stanford University’s Continuing Studies Program on novel writing, the “writing life,” creative non-fiction, magazine and feature writing; and was a writing instructor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He has received residency fellowships at Yaddo, the Blue Mountain Center and the Mesa Refuge. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and a BA in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. Born in Jerusalem and raised in Philadelphia, Tigay is an assistant professor at San Francisco State.
Living Writers is a series of events that are free to students and the public, and happens every Thursday night from 6-7:45pm in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. This series will be focusing on fiction writers as well as filmmakers. It’s going to be an exciting series and we hope to see you there! For more details, please email us at cwintern@gmail.com
Living Writers Fall 2016
10/6 poet Jennifer Chang, author most recently of the book Some Say The Lark
10/13 experimental memoirist Michelle Tea, author most recently of the apocalyptic memoir Black Wave
10/20 novelist Alfredo Vea, author most recently of The Mexican Flyboy, about a Latino super hero who goes back in time to save historical heroes from painful deaths
10/27 poet and Pulitzer prize finalist Elizabeth Willis
11/10 fiction and non-fiction writer Peter Orner, author most recently of Am I Alone Here, a memoir-essay hybrid about living to read/reading to live
Readings sponsored by The Humanities Division, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Literature Department and Poets and Writers Inc.

PhD+: Arts and Humanities Grants & Fellowships Workshop for Graduate Students
2016-09-30 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join us for a conversation about funding opportunities, nuts and bolts of grant proposal writing, and campus resources available to you in the Arts and Humanities Divisions.
In this workshop we will focus on Fall deadlines and introduce a new research development service for graduate students in the two divisions: one-on-one consultations!
Friday, September 30, 2016
11-12:30pm
Humanities 1 Bldg, Room 210
Presenters:
Dorian Bell, Associate Professor of Literature, UC Santa Cruz
Sandra Harvey, Graduate Research Development Fellow
Stephanie Moore, Research Grants Coordinator, Arts Division
Irena Polic, Managing Director, Institute for Humanities Research
Samuael Topiary, Graduate Research Development Fellow
Lunch with be provided. Please register below by Friday, September 23rd and let us know in advance if you have any questions you’d like to see addressed.
Check out the IHR website for other workshops in our monthly PhD+ Series!
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Linking Citizenship, Migration, Labor, Border, and Carceral Studies: A Seminar with Bridget Anderson
2016-10-04 11:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
How, when, where, and why do citizenship, migration, labor, border, and carceral studies converge? What happens when we put these fields in dialogue with one another? Why the distinction between migration studies and refugee studies? When do forced migration and labor migration overlap and when are they different? Who is a “migrant,” “refugee,” “citizen,” and “worker”? What is the difference between prisoner and detainee? Between citizen and denizen? Over 2016-17, scholars at UC Santa Cruz involved with Non-citizenship, our Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture, will grapple with these questions as we reflect on and link our Sawyer Seminar’s 3 themes: forced migration, labor mobility and precarity, and the fluidity of status. Bridget Anderson, Professor of Migration and Citizenship and Deputy Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford, helps kick off our discussion by leading a seminar for UC Santa Cruz faculty, staff, and students on key and emerging questions and concerns in citizenship, migration, labor, border, and carceral studies.
Emily Mitchell-Eaton, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Scholar, will moderate the seminar with Professor Anderson.
UC Santa Cruz faculty, staff, and students should register for the seminar here by Tuesday, September 27. To access the readings, click on the following links:

Mark Freedland and Cathryn Costello, “Migrants at Work and the Division of Labour Law,” in Migrants at Work: Immigration and Vulnerability in Labour Law, ed. Cathryn Costello and Mark Freedland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 1-28.
Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004). CLICK HERE FOR THE INTRODUCTION.
Sarah Van Walsum, The Family and the Nation: Dutch Family Migration Policies in the Context of Changing Family Norms (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008).
Noah Zatz and Eileen Boris, “Seeing Work, Envisioning Citizenship,” Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal Vol. 18: 95-109.

Other Events with Bridget Anderson

Brown bag luncheon and discussion about the introduction to Bridget Anderson’s Us and Them (Oxford University Press, 2013) and Bridget Anderson and Joseph Carens’ “Critical Dialogue” (Perspectives on Politics Vol. 13, No. 3 [2015]), Friday, September 16, 11:00am-1:00pm, Charles E. Merrill Lounge. This event is open to UC Santa Cruz faculty, students, and staff. Attendees are free to bring their own lunches and should email Catherine Ramírez (cathysue@ucsc.edu) if they plan on joining us.
Building Bridges and Institutions: A Conversation with Bridget Anderson, Wednesday, October 5, 2:00-4:00pm, Humanities 1, Room 210. This event is open to UC Santa Cruz faculty, students, and staff. PLEASE REGISTER FOR THE CONVERSATION ON INSTITUTION BUILDING HERE BY WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Citizenship and the Politics of Exlcusion, Sawyer Seminar Opening Keynote, Thursday, October 6, 6:30-8:00pm, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (705 Front Street). THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, BUT ATTENDEES ARE ASKED TO REGISTER IN ADVANCE.

Alma Heckman: “Absence and Counter-Narratives: The Years of Lead and the Moroccan Jewish Exodus”
2016-10-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Alma Rachel Heckman’s research crosses Jewish history, North Africa, French empire and the history of social movements. Her talk emerges from her project “Radical Nationalists: Moroccan Jewish Communists 1925-1975.”
Heckman is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz.

The Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee, tea, and cookies.
Fall 2016 Colloquium Dates:
November 2 Anna Tsing / Isbelle Carbonell
November 9 Joan Wallach Scott
November 16 Robin Hunicke

Micah Perks: "What Becomes Us"
2016-10-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Join us as we celebrate the launch of this wonderfully consuming new novel from local author, professor, and co-director of UCSC’s creative writing program Micah Perks. Following a near-fatal accident, Evie, a mild-mannered, pregnant school teacher, abandons her controlling husband and flees California for the wilds of western New York. She rents a farm house on a dead end road in a close-knit community that is divided by local colonial history, a story that goes deep to the roots of the American conscience—and when she begins teaching at the local high school, Evie herself becomes obsessed with The Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson, the first book written by a woman in the Americas that details Rowlandson’s captivity during King Philip’s War in the seventeenth century. As Mary Rowlandson’s insatiable hunger begins to fill Evie’s dreams, Evie wonders if she may actually be haunted. At the same time, Evie’s connections to her new community begin to simmer, and as she grows more pregnant, her desires and hunger grow out of control, threatening to destroy her new world. Ten years in the making, What Becomes Us will hold you to the last page with its unforgettable cast and story.
“Micah Perks’ book has everything a reader could hope for — her language is lively, her characters appealing. Set in a storied landscape, with themes of independence and community. Romance! History! Food! Plus a tale to tell and some surprising people to tell it. There is real magic here. Micah magic! Completely original, completely delightful.” –Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“I’ve been obsessed with Mary Rowlandson for 20 years, and was delighted to find that Micah Perks writes about her with fireworks. This is a warm, wild, hilarious, eccentric and moving book.” –Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies and Arcadia
Micah Perks grew up in a log cabin on a commune in the Adirondack wilderness. She is the author of a novel, We Are Gathered Here, a memoir, Pagan Time, and a long personal essay, Alone In The Woods: Cheryl Strayed, My Daughter and Me. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in Epoch, Zyzzyva, Tin House, The Toast, OZY and The Rumpus, amongst many journals and anthologies. Excerpts of What Becomes Us won a National Endowment for the Arts grant and The New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More info and work at micahperks.com.
Sponsored by BookShop Santa Cruz and Institute of Humanities Research

Julia Clancy-Smith "Springs Equinox in 18th Century Tunsia: Wreaks, People, and Things in the Sea"
2016-10-05 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Julia Clancy-Smith is the author of, most recently, Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800-1900 (2010). Her current work, From Household to Schoolroom: Education and Gender in North Africa, Europe, and the Mediterranean, c. 1900-present, is a multi-sided ethnographic inquiry into gender, education, literacy, and the social circulation of knowledge and people.
Clancy-Smith is Regents Professor of History at University of Arizona.
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The Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee, tea, and cookies.
Fall 2016 Colloquium Dates:
October 12 Bernard Stiegler
October 19 Paul N. Edwards
October 26 Alma Heckman
November 2 Anna Tsing / Isbelle Carbonell
November 9 Joan Wallach Scott
November 16 Robin Hunicke

Building Bridges and Institutions: A Conversation with Bridget Anderson
2016-10-05 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Bridget Anderson, Deputy Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford, discusses her vision and hopes for COMPAS, the relationship between COMPAS and other institutions (for example, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and other academic units), and the relationship between research and society.
This event is open to UC Santa Cruz faculty, students, and staff, particularly those with an interest in developing a field of inquiry or unit.
Attendees are kindly asked to register in advance here by Wednesday, September 28, 2016.
Other Events with Bridget Anderson

Brown bag luncheon and discussion about the introduction to Bridget Anderson’s Us and Them (Oxford University Press, 2013) and Bridget Anderson and Joseph Carens’ “Critical Dialogue” (Perspectives on Politics Vol. 13, No. 3 [2015]), Friday, September 16, 11:00am-1:00pm, Charles E. Merrill Lounge. This is event is open to UC Santa Cruz faculty, students, and staff. Attendees are free to bring their own lunches and should email Catherine Ramírez (cathysue@ucsc.edu) if they plan on joining us.
Linking Citizenship, Migration, Labor, Border, and Carceral Studies: A Seminar with Bridget Anderson, Tuesday, October 4, 11:00am-1:00pm, Humanities 1, Room 210. This event is open to UC Santa Cruz faculty, students, and staff. PLEASE REGISTER FOR THE SEMINAR HERE BY TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2016.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Citizenship and the Politics of Exlcusion, Sawyer Seminar Opening Keynote, Thursday, October 6, 6:30-8:00pm, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (705 Front Street). THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, BUT ATTENDEES ARE ASKED TO REGISTER IN ADVANCE.

This event is co-sponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Living Writers: Jennifer Chang
2016-10-06 05:20 - 19:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Poet and scholar Jennifer Chang was born in New Jersey. She is a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia, where she is a PhD candidate. Chang’s lyrical poems often explore the shifting boundaries between the outer world and the self. Chang’s debut poetry collection, The History of Anonymity (2008), was selected for the Virginia Quarterly Review’s Poetry Series and was a finalist for the Shenandoah/ Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers. Speaking to the “emotional landscapes” of myths and fairy tales that surface occasionally in her poems, Chang stated in a 2008 interview on Critical Mass (the blog of the National Book Critics Circle board of directors): “As a scholar, I don’t trust autobiography, and as a lyric poet, I don’t trust narrative: both enforce a coherence that reveals more about the writer’s motives at the moment rather than the life or story being told. What I do trust is mystery; I trust confusion.”Chang co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the support and promotion of Asian American poetry. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Living Writers is a series of events that are free to students and the public, and happens every Thursday night from 6-7:45pm in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. This series will be focusing on fiction writers as well as filmmakers. It’s going to be an exciting series and we hope to see you there! For more details, please email us at cwintern@gmail.com
10/13 experimental memoirist Michelle Tea, author most recently of the apocalyptic memoir Black Wave
10/20 novelist Alfredo Vea, author most recently of The Mexican Flyboy, about a Latino super hero who goes back in time to save historical heroes from painful deaths
10/27 poet and Pulitzer prize finalist Elizabeth Willis

11/10 fiction and non-fiction writer Peter Orner, author most recently of Am I Alone Here, a memoir-essay hybrid about living to read/reading to live
Readings sponsored by The Humanities Division, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Literature Department and Poets and Writers Inc.

Bridget Anderson: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Citizenship and the Politics of Exclusion (Non-citizenship series)
2016-10-06 18:30 - 20:00 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
The Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research present
Leading labor and migration scholar, Bridget Anderson, for the inaugural event in a series of events on Non-citizenship, our 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture..

Bridget Anderson: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Citizenship and the Politics of Exclusion (Non-citizenship series) 10.6.16 from IHR on Vimeo
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In her keynote address, “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Citizenship and the Politics of Exclusion,” Professor Anderson explores citizenship as both a legal status and moral claim. She examines what attention to debates about migration exposes about the nature of the “good citizen” and the rise of the worker citizen. Rather than seeing migrants and citizens as competitors for the privileges of membership, she argues for the importance of politics that are attentive to the connections between the non-citizen migrant and the “failed citizen” on welfare or with a criminal record. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
Sylvanna Falcón, associate professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz, will facilitate the discussion following Professor Anderson’s remarks.
Photo exhibit Expulsion: Stories of Displacement from Colombia, India, Mexico and the United States, co-curated by Claudia Maria Lopez, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar Graduate Student Fellow.
Bridget Anderson is Professor of Migration and Citizenship and Deputy Director at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford. She is the author of numerous publications, including Us and Them? The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Controls (Oxford University Press, 2013) and Doing the Dirty Work? The Global Politics of Domestic Labour (Zed Books, 2000). Exploring the tension between labor market flexibilities and citizenship rights, she has pioneered an understanding of the functions of immigration in key labor market sectors. Her interest in labor demand has meant an engagement with debates about trafficking, modern day slavery, state enforcement, and deportation. She is particularly concerned with the ways immigration controls increasingly impact citizens and migrants alike.
Location:
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (705 Front Street, Santa Cruz)
Event details:
Reception at 6:30pm / Lecture at 7:00pm
Admission:
Free and open to the public, but attendees are asked to register in advance.
REGISTER HERE
Other Events with Bridget Anderson
Friday, September 16, 11:00am-1:00pm, Charles E. Merrill Lounge
Brown bag luncheon and discussion about the introduction to Bridget Anderson’s Us and Them (Oxford University Press, 2013) and Bridget Anderson and Joseph Carens’ “Critical Dialogue” (Perspectives on Politics Vol. 13, No. 3 [2015]). This event is open to UC Santa Cruz faculty, students, and staff. Attendees are free to bring their own lunches and should email Catherine Ramírez (cathysue@ucsc.edu) to RSVP.
Tuesday, October 4, 11:00am-1:00pm, Humanities 1, Room 210
Linking Citizenship, Migration, Labor, Border, and Carceral Studies: A Seminar with Bridget Anderson. This event is open to UC Santa Cruz faculty, students, and staff. REGISTER HERE for the seminar by Tuesday, September 27th.
Wednesday, October 5, 2:00-4:00pm, in Humanities 1, Room 210
Building Bridges and Institutions: A Conversation with Bridget Anderson. This event is open to UC Santa Cruz faculty, students, and staff. REGISTER HERE for the conversation on institution building by Wednesday, September 28th.
About Non-citizenship
Non-citizenship is part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture. Linking citizenship, migration, border, labor, and carceral studies, and juxtaposing spatial and social mobility and immobility, this year-long series of events explores what it means to be a citizen and non-citizen in a world made by migrants, refugees, guest workers, permanent residents, asylum seekers, slaves, prisoners, detainees, the stateless, and denizens (residents who do not hold the same rights as citizens). Non-citizenship is organized around three themes: “Forced Migration” (fall 2016), “Labor Mobility and Precarity” (winter 2017), and “Fluidity of Status: Migrants, Citizens, Denizens” (spring 2017). Click here to learn more.

Linguistics Colloquium: Akira Omaki
2016-10-07 14:40 - 15:40 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Akira Omaki will be speaking on Developing incrementality: Grammar and parsing of wh-dependencies in children
It is well established in the adult psycholinguistics literature that our comprehension is incremental: based on partial sentence input, the parser uses linguistic knowledge and multiple sources of information to assign interpretations. However, it has largely remained unknown how
such incremental processing mechanisms emerge during development, or how the immature
parsing mechanisms affect the course of grammar acquisition. In this talk, I will present recent
studies in my lab that explore these questions for wh-dependencies. In the first part of the talk, I
will discuss how the mis-adoption of wh-scope marking grammar in English-speaking children
(Thornton, 1990) could derive from incremental processing of wh-dependencies. I argue that
while this is theoretically feasible, the apparent scope-marking grammar may be a production-
specific phenomenon, and that it does not result from a mis-set parameter, at least in English. In
the second part of the talk, I will explore how incremental mechanisms for wh-dependency
processing develop through language experience. Our visual world eye-tracking studies show
that 5-year-old children do not complete wh-dependencies incrementally, but incremental
dependency processing emerges after production (but not comprehension) priming of such
dependencies. I will discuss implications of these findings for theories of language acquisition
and language processing.
The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.
Fall 2016
Oct 21 & Oct 22: CUSP (California Universities Semantics & Pragmatics)
Nov 18: Kie Zuraw, UCLA
Winter 2017
February 7: TBA
March TBD: LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz
Spring 2016
April 14: Junko Ito, UC Santa Cruz
April 28: Ashwini Deo, Yale
May 26: Susan Lin, UC Berkeley
May/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference

The Maghrib Workshop: Law and Movement Historical Roots and Contexts Contemporary Questions Part I
2016-10-08 09:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join us for the first meeting of the Maghrib Workshop, an interdisciplinary network for Maghrib studies based at UC Santa Cruz. The meeting is open to the public, but please RSVP by writing to cgomezri@ucsc.edu in order for us to have a head count and circulate the papers for discussion.
Four scholars will share and discuss their work with us:
– Muriam Haleh Davis, UCSC
– Jessica Marglin, USC
– Susan Slyomovics, UCLA
– Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri, UCSD
Schedule:
9:00 am Coffee and Introduction
9:30 Muriam Haleh Davis, “‘Algiers and the Algerian Desert:’ Decolonization and Territorial Planning in France, 1958-1962”
11:00 Susan Slyomovics, “French Mediterraneans En Miroir: Virgin Mary Statues Between France and Algeria”
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri, “Orientalism and Technology: A Dutch Embassy in Early Seventeenth-Century Morocco”
3:00 Break
3:15 Jessica Marglin, “Nationality on Trial: International Private Law across the Mediterranean”
4:45 Concluding remarks
6:00 Dinner at Merrill Provost’s House
The aim of this project is to explore the historical and contemporary development of population flows and other kinds of human movement into, out of, through, and within North Africa and the intersection of that movement with systems of negotiation, adjudication, policing, and control. The theme of “Law and Movement” will provide the framework for an interdisciplinary collaborative investigation by a group of 12-15 UC and California scholars of the Maghrib (broadly understood) with the secondary aim of establishing a wider scholarly network bringing together scholars from across the West Coast. https://uchri.org/awardees/maghrib-workshop/
The meeting is funded by a University of California Humanities Research Institute Multi-Campus Faculty Working Group grant and by the Institute for Humanities Research.
For directions to UC Santa Cruz Humanities, please go to: http://ihr.ucsc.edu/directions/
For more information, contact Camilo Gómez-Rivas (cgomezri@ucsc.edu).

Anthropocene: Ecological & Political Consequences of Plantations
2016-10-12 10:00 - 12:00 | Social Sciences 1, Room 261, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
A Reading seminar with Dr. Kregg Hetherington (Concordia University), with initial discussion comments by Vivian Undersell (Feminist Studies), Rachel Cyper (Anthropology), and Zachary Caple (Anthropology).
Seminar readings:
Gregg Hetherington, “Beans before the Law: Knowledge practices, responsibility, and the Paraguayan soy boom” Cultural Anthropology 28(1): 65-85 2013
(https://www.academia.edu/2510267/beans_before_the_law-knowledge_practices_responsibility_and_the_paraguayan_soy_boom)
or email mfernan3@ucsc.edu for pdf of the reading.
Sponsored by the IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality and the Anthropocene

Bernard Stiegler: "Beyond the Anthropocene"
2016-10-12 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Is it possible to think in a state of emergency?
This is now a pressing question when the Anthropocene disrupts the biosphere where we – permanently connected and algorithmically controlled – live in a permanent state of emergency, universal, and unpredictable.
Lunch will be provided at 11am in Humanities 1, Room 202.
Two theses will be addressed:
– On the one hand, to think in the Anthropocene, one must rethink the Anthropocene itself, and to rethink the Anthropocene, we must think beyond the Anthropocene, which is a dead end.
– On the other hand, beyond the Anthropocene, there is the Neguanthropocene, a coming era in which thinking means taking care (in French, « panser » ; in German « sorgen »).
This is what will be expressed by an untranslatable neologism, a neologism not unrelated to Jacques Derrida’s concept of « differance » : in the Anthropocene, thought becomes « la p(a)nsée ».
Bernard Stiegler will also have an event at 4pm in Porter 245 were he will talk about digital studies at the Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium.
Respondents: Hayden White, Wlad Godzich, and Anna Tsing.
Sponsored by: Computation, Culture, and Games Research Cluster, Center for Cultural Studies, Institute for Humanities Research, Arts Division, DANM, and Film & Digital Media.
Bernard Stiegler directs the Institut de recherche et d’innovation du Centre Pompidou and is president of the Ars Industrialis association. He is affiliate faculty at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne, distinguished professor at Nanjing University, and visiting professor at the Cogut Center for the Humanities at Brown University.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a Wednesday colloquium series, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee, tea, and cookies.
Fall 2016 Colloquium Dates:
October 19 Paul N. Edwards
October 26 Alma Heckman
November 2 Anna Tsing / Isbelle Carbonell
November 9 Joan Wallach Scott
November 16 Robin Hunicke

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Sara Mameni
2016-10-13 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Ethnofuturism and the Archeology of the Future”
Sara Mameni, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow
In her video project, “In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain” (2014), Larissa Sansour enters the fictional world of a resistance group who bury porcelain remains of an imaginary civilization to influence history and support their claims to land and sovereignty. Shuttling between past and future, the film uses science fiction aesthetics and speculative language to re-write the history of the future and lay claim to home. Similarly, Morehshin Allahyari’s ongoing project titled “Material Speculation” (2015) reconstructs archeological artifacts destroyed by ISIS in 3D format , archiving lost objects by including a digital memory card inside each newly constructed artifact. Sansour and Allahyari use the science of past-making to enter into the future. Yet unlike archeology’s attachment to stable land, they propose a virtual archeology of landsand artifacts already lost. I argue that artist such as Sansour and Allahyari launch an ethnofuturist aesthetic geared towards a sustained relationship with otherness, defying temporarily by claiming their politics in the imaginitve space of the future and the speculative space of hope.
Sara Mameni received her PhD in Art History at UC San Diego with dissertation titled “On Persian Blues: Queer Bodies, Racial Affects.” Her research, publications and curatorial work have engaged gender, race and sexuality in art and visual culture in Iran and Arab/Muslim world.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series Fall 2016 Schedule:
October 13th: Sara Mameni,”Ethnofuturism and the Archeology of the Future”
November 3rd: Redi Koobak,”Rethinking Gender, Art & Geopolitics through Post-national War Rhetoric”
December 1st: Cleo Woelfle-Erskine,”Queer x Trans x Ecology: Toward a Field Science Practice”

Living Writers: Michelle Tea
2016-10-13 17:20 - 19:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Living Writers is a series of events that are free to students and the public, and happens every Thursday night in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. This series will be focusing on fiction writers as well as filmmakers. It’s going to be an exciting series and we hope to see you there! For more details, please email us at cwintern@gmail.com
Michelle Tea
Michelle Tea is the author of the memoirs The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America,The Chelsea Whistle, the illustrated Rent Girl and Valencia, winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction. Valencia has been made into a collaborative feature-length film with 21 different directors, and toured film festivals globally after a sold-out premiere at San Francisco’s Castro Theater. Valencia the book has been translated into Slovenian, Japanese, and German. Michelle’s self-published poetry chapbooks, produced in the 90s, are compiled in the poetry collection The Beautiful. She is the author of the novel Rose of No Man’s Land (translated into Italian), and has edited anthologies on first person narratives (Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache), the female experience of growing up working class (Without A Net), feminist fashion (It’s So You) and up and coming queer female writing (Baby, Remember My Name). Her latest book is Black Wave, a memoir-fiction hybrid, published by Feminist Press, where she curates the Amethyst Editions series.
Living Writers Fall Schedule 2016
9/22 No reading
9/29 Chanan Tigay
10/6 Jennifer Chang
10/13 Michelle Tea
10/20 Alfredo Vea
10/27 Elizabeth Willis
11/3 No reading
11/10 Peter Orner
11/17 No reading
11/24—Thanksgiving
12/1 Student Reading
Readings sponsored by The Humanities Division, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Literature Department and Poets and Writers Inc.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Mikki Stelder
2016-10-14 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“Homozionism: ‘From the Closet into the Knesset'”
My project focuses on the role of sexual politics in Israel’s settler colonial occupation of Palestine, international (queer) complicities, and anti-colonial queer resistance. For this presentation I look forward to discuss the first chapter of my dissertation that charts the globally celebrated genealogy of Israel’s gay movement from “the closet into the Knesset” (Kama 2011). I argue that this move enabled what Palestinian queer activist call Israel’s pinkwashing campaign to emerge. Pinkwashing describes a government sponsored branding campaign that seeks to present Israel in a positive light because of its gay rights achievements. Rather than situate pinkwashing as a post-9/11 phenomenon that can fit neatly into narratives of contemporary homonationalism, Islamphobia and anti-Arab racism in the Global North, I turn to this genealogy as one that I call homozionism.

Friday Forum Fall 2016 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
October 14th- Mikki Stedler, Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness
October 21st- Kali Rubaii, Anthropology
October 28th- Mitchell Winter, HAVC
November 6th- Hahkyung Darline Kim, Film and Digital Media
November 18th- Sophi Pappenheim, Literature
December 2nd- Nicole Vandermeer, History

Questions That Matter: "Anger in Politics: From the Bard to the Donald"
2016-10-18 18:00 - 20:00 | Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Presented by the Institute for Humanities Research and Shakespeare Workshop
What place does anger have in public life? Should we welcome the expression of anger in our elections and political deliberations, or does the common good depend on the existence of political institutions and processes from which anger and other strong emotions are excluded? Has the failure of those institutions and processes prompted much of the acrimony, hostility, and rage that we have witnessed (or felt)? What does the theater understand about such questions that politics does not understand? On the eve of an historic election, join UC Santa Cruz faculty and the Institute for Humanities Research for a conversation about anger and politics, from Shakespeare to Donald Trump. Presented in partnership with Shakespeare Workshop.

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Questions That Matter: A Series of Public Dialogues in Santa Cruz
This series brings together UC Santa Cruz scholars with community members to explore questions that matter to all of us. We invite you to join us on October 18, 2016 at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center for “Anger in Politics: From the Bard to the Donald.”
Featuring: Deborah Gould (Sociology), Sean Keilen (Literature), and Daniel Wirls (Politics)
Deborah Gould is an Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz (and affiliated faculty in Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Politics). She is interested in political emotion, from hope and anger to cynicism, resignation, and despair. She is currently working on her second book, Emotional Terrains of Activism: Appetites, Encounters, and the Not-Yet of Politics.

Sean Keilen is Associate Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz, Provost of Porter College, and Director of the Humanities Research Cluster, Shakespeare Workshop. He studies Shakespeare and the history of criticism. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he is writing Shakespeare and the Future of Literary Education, a book about reading, the vocation of teaching, and the importance of the humanities and arts.

Daniel Wirls is Professor of Politics at UC Santa Cruz. Among other works he is author of The Federalist Papers and Institutional Power, Irrational Security: The Politics of Defense from Reagan to Obama, and The Invention of the United States Senate. He is currently working on a critique of the Senate and an analysis of the consequences of post-9/11 policy choices on the structure of American politics.

Please join us for an evening of conversation and connection as we explore questions that matter.
Tuesday, October 18 @ Kuumbwa Jazz Center
6pm wine and hors d’oeuvres / 7pm program
$10 Ticket includes one complimentary drink
Questions That Matter Series
A public humanities series developed by UCSC Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) and the community of Santa Cruz – bringing together in conversation two or more UC Santa Cruz scholars with community residents and students to explore questions that matter to all of us. The series is a part of a strategic initiative of the IHR to champion the role and value of the humanities in contemporary life. At the University of California Santa Cruz, we understand that the humanities are a crucial element of any first-rate liberal arts education. Indeed, what distinguishes the best universities in the United States is the fact that the humanities are an integral part of their core curriculum, along with the arts and sciences. The series is designed as a lecture and conversation, with plenty of time built in for participant questions and answers.
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Paul N. Edwards: “Afterworld: Technosphere, Anthropocene, Geostory”
2016-10-19 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Paul N. Edwards’ current research concerns the history and future of knowledge infrastructures, the history of climate science, and other large-scale information infrastructures. Edwards is the author most recently of A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (2010).
Edwards is Professor at the School of Information and Department of History at University of Michigan.

The Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee, tea, and cookies.
Fall 2016 Colloquium Dates
October 26 Alma Heckman
November 2 Anna Tsing / Isbelle Carbonell
November 9 Joan Wallach Scott
November 16 Robin Hunicke

Geraldine Brooks: "The Secret Chord"
2016-10-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Now out in paperback from Pulitzer Prize winning, bestselling author Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord traces the arc of King David’s journey from obscurity to fame, from shepherd to soldier, from hero to traitor, from beloved king to murderous despot and into his remorseful and diminished dotage. The Secret Chord has received critical acclaim; The Chicago Tribune wrote, “Deeply sympathetic. Brooks offers new perspectives on a character whose story has captured the Western imagination for millennial… she breaks from the biblical version by giving voice to the voiceless women in David’s life: wives and lovers, a daughter, a mother—the beloved and the scorned.” The Guardian called it “A compelling read, contemporary in its relevance… powerful storytelling, its landscape and time evoked in lyrical prose.” And NPR raves: “The best historical fiction… Brooks gives the whole king his due… It’s a tall order to breathe life into such a human being, and she manages it admirably.”
Geraldine Brooks is the author of four novels, the Pulitzer Prize winning March and the international bestsellers Caleb’s Crossing, People of the Book, and Year of Wonders. She has also written the acclaimed nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Born and raised in Australia, she lives on Martha’s Vineyard with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz.
Sponsored by BookShop Santa Cruz, Institute of Humanities Research, and Co-sponsored by Temple Bethe El.

David Landy: "Explanation and Personal Identity in the Appendix to Hume's Treatise"
2016-10-20 15:15 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In the Appendix to his Treatise, Hume famously expresses a deep dissatisfaction with the account of personal identity that he had earlier presented, but offers only the briefest description of what his concern is. Scholars working on this problem have presented a wide variety of suggestions of what Hume might be thinking. I will argue that such scholars have largely overlooked an important clue: the fact that Hume twice presents the problem as one with any theory that purports, “to explain the principles, that unite our successive perceptions in our thought or consciousness.” The key here, I will suggest, lies in understanding Hume’s notion of explanation. The two most prominent accounts of Hume on explanation lie at the extreme ends of an interpretive spectrum, and are both philosophically and exegetically untenable. The first is that scientific explanation aims at nothing more than subsuming particular observations under inductively-established universal generalizations. The second is that Hume makes explanatory appeals to certain substances and causal powers that we cannot in any way represent, but to which we can nonetheless refer. The first gets right Hume’s insistence on the connection of explanation to experience. The second gets right that it is the universal regularities of experience that stand in need of explanation, not that do the explaining. So, I will present a new account of Hume’s understanding of explanation that takes these successes and failures into account, and will show that this interpretation perfectly predicts everything that Hume finds wrong with his account of personal identity.
David Landy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. He works primariy on the history of Modern philosophy, especially Hume and Kant, and also has interests in German Idealism and the work of Wilfrid Sellars.

Living Writers: Alfredo Vea
2016-10-20 17:20 - 19:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Alfredo Vea
Alfredo Véa was born in the desert outside of Phoenix, but not in America. His grandfather was a Yaqui Indian, his grandmother was a Spanish-Mexican curandera who had played piano in silent movie theaters. Their grass covered adobe house stood at the epicenter of hundreds of tarpaper shacks built by Okies and Arkies. There were Apaches, Tarahumara, Navajo, Hindus and black folk everywhere, waiting for trucks to take them to the cotton fields. While his mother barely endured life in this impoverished Babel, her son lived in a wonderland. He luxuriated in the sound of Uto-aztecan, Athabascan, Dravidian and drawl—and the sounds of bible thumping and jive. After ten years or so he was dragged away to work on the migratory labor circuit in California, the land of stucco houses and aluminum window frames. All of it was drudgery until he began working in vineyards. Then he was ripped away from the vines to become a soldier, enslaved in Vietnam. Today, he is an attorney in San Francisco. If you ask him who he is he will never say “lawyer” or “writer.” Touch him and you will find that his skin is adobe. In his dreams, there are goats scuffling about on the roof and he and his grandfather are asleep on a cot under the stars.
Living Writers is a series of events that are free to students and the public, and happens every Thursday night from 6-7:45pm in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. This series will be focusing on fiction writers as well as filmmakers. It’s going to be an exciting series and we hope to see you there! For more details, please email us at cwintern@gmail.com
Living Writers Fall Schedule 2016
9/22 No reading
9/29 Chanan Tigay
10/6 Jennifer Chang
10/13 Michelle Tea
10/20 Alfredo Vea
10/27 Elizabeth Willis
11/3 No reading
11/10 Peter Orner
11/17 No reading
11/24—Thanksgiving
12/1 Student Reading
Readings sponsored by The Humanities Division, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Literature Department and Poets and Writers Inc.

California Semantics and Pragmatics 9 (CUSP)
2016-10-21 - 2016-10-22 | Humanities 2, Room 259
CUSP 9 will be held at UC Santa Cruz on October 21-22, 2016. Established in 2009, CUSP serves as a venue for researchers in semantics and pragmatics to exchange ideas and receive feedback in a small, friendly, collaborative environment.
For more information visit http://linguistics.ucsc.edu

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kali Rubaii
2016-10-21 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“Enemy Inside Out: Birth Defects in Fallujah”
Hotly debated and widely misunderstood is the epidemic of birth defects in Fallujah, Iraq. While the possibility of knowing the exact cause of this epidemic is diluted by ongoing war, layers of chemical toxicity, and mass displacement/destruction of doctors, patients, and medical facilities; the surrounding enviro-medical discourse is informative. It indexes a broader debate about the politics of scientific research: guilt, responsibility, and the question of reparations to the Iraq people in the ongoing “aftermath” of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq are all at intimate play in the epidemiological research. This paper explores the story of a scientific debate, tracing not only the trajectories of toxicity that arrived in Anbar since 2003, but also the trajectories of political interest surrounding major epidemiological studies conducted on the subsequent “sea of birth defects” in Fallujah.

Friday Forum Fall 2016 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
October 14th- Mikki Stelder, Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness
October 21st- Kali Rubaii, Anthropology
October 28th- Mitchell Winter, HAVC
November 4th- Hahkyung Darline Kim, Film and Digital Media
November 18th- Sophi Pappenheim, Literature
December 2nd- Nicole Vandermeer, History

2016 Founders Celebration
2016-10-22 18:00 - 21:00 | UCSC Science and Engineering Library
Please join us at Founders Celebration 2016 for a look into the library as a “collision space” where technology, information, and ideas collide to create new knowledge and support dynamic exploration. This is an exclusive opportunity to celebrate and mingle in a special campus location that symbolizes both the excitement of change and the tradition of learning. The evening will include a reception, dinner, and program. Read more »
The awards presentation will include:
Alumni Achievement Award and Keynote Presentation
Julie Snyder (Kresge ’95, politics), contributing editor for This American Life and co-creator and executive producer of the award-winning podcast Serial, which broke records as the fastest podcast ever to reach 5 million iTunes downloads. Read more »
Faculty Research Award
Sandra Chung, professor of linguistics, who has been recognized for her contributions to teaching and research in linguistics; advancing syntax through insights from under-studied languages, notably Chamorro; and engaging minority communities in linguistic research. Read more »
Fiat Lux Award
Claudia and Alec Webster (College Eight ’02), major UC Santa Cruz philanthropists whose gifts have had a dramatic impact on campus. Their generous donation enabled UC Santa Cruz to restore the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn—revitalizing the main campus entrance—and strengthen programs in sustainable agriculture, linking the larger community to the UC Santa Cruz Farm & Garden. Further gifts established two new endowed chairs. Read more »
Ticket options
Individual tickets: $195 each
Deluxe package: $1,000 (2 dinner ticket and a Ansel Adams commemorative print of the UC Santa Cruz Campus)
Purchase a table: $1,950 (10 seats)
Questions: email specialevents@ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-5003

Digital Research Happy Hour
2016-10-25 17:00 - 19:00 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Get to know the DH Research community to learn more about digital research on campus at an informal happy hour. We invite researchers across campus to discuss their work with a short, lightening style presentation. This is an opportunity to share our projects and meet new colleagues.

Interested researchers are encouraged to send 1 slide that represents your digital project to Rachel Deblinger to be accompanied by a short (1 – 2 min) introduction.

Alma Heckman: “Absence and Counter-Narratives: The Years of Lead and the Moroccan Jewish Exodus"
2016-10-26 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Alma Rachel Heckman’s research crosses Jewish history, North Africa, French empire and the history of social movements. Her talk emerges from her project “Radical Nationalists: Moroccan Jewish Communists 1925-1975.”
Heckman is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
The Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee, tea, and cookies.
Fall 2016 Colloquium Date
November 2 Anna Tsing / Isbelle Carbonell
November 9 Joan Wallach Scott
November 16 Robin Hunicke

P. Sainath: "The People's Archive of Rural India"
2016-10-26 14:30 - 16:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
P. Sainath is India’s most highly awarded journalist and a winner of the Ramon Magsayay Prize (often referred to as the ‘Asian Nobel’). The only Indian to win the Magsayay for journalism in 32 years, Sainath was also the first reporter in the world to win Amnesty International’s Global Journalism Prize, and the only Indian winner so far of the European Commission’s Lorenzo Natali prize, the EC’s main award for development and human rights. Last year, he won the first World Media Summit Global Award for Excellence for his 2014 series of field reports on India’s mega water crisis. He is the author of Everybody Loves A Good Drought (2013), and has spent, on average, around 270 days a year in India’s poorest regions, writing from there for the country’s largest newspaper, including The Times of India and The Hindu, of which he was rural editor for a decade.

Living Writers: Elizabeth Willis
2016-10-27 05:20 - 19:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Elizabeth Willis’s most recent book, Alive: New and Selected Poems (New York Review Books, 2015), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Other books include Address (Wesleyan, 2011), recipient of the PEN New England prize for poetry; Meteoric Flowers (Wesleyan, 2006); Turneresque (Burning Deck, 2003); and The Human Abstract (Penguin, 1995). Her poems have appeared in recent issues of A Public Space, Hambone, Harpers, The New Yorker, and Poetry. Willis has received support from the Guggenheim Foundation, the California Arts Council, and the Howard Foundation. She recently joined the faculty of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Living Writers is a series of events that are free to students and the public, and happens every Thursday night from 6-7:45pm in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. This series will be focusing on fiction writers as well as filmmakers. It’s going to be an exciting series and we hope to see you there! For more details, please email us at cwintern@gmail.com
11/10 fiction and non-fiction writer Peter Orner, author most recently of Am I Alone Here, a memoir-essay hybrid about living to read/reading to live
Readings sponsored by The Humanities Division, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Literature Department and Poets and Writers Inc.

Roundtable Discussion: Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences beyond Academia
2016-10-27 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Philip Misevich and Konrad Tuchscherer are historians at St. John’s University and co-producers of Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels (2014, dir. Tony Buba), the award-winning documentary based on Marcus Rediker’s powerful account of the most successful slave rebellion in American history, The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (Penguin, 2012). Professors Misevich and Tuchscherer join Greg O’Malley, Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz, in a conversation on why scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences should share our research with audiences beyond academia and how we can do so–for example, via film, museum and digital exhibitions, and public databases, such as Professor O’Malley’s NEH-funded “Final Passages Intra-American Slave Trade Database.”
Due to limited space, this event is open to UC Santa Cruz faculty, students, and staff. UC Santa Cruz faculty, students, and staff should register here for the roundtable by Thursday, October 20.
Members of the campus and community are invited to a free, public screening of Ghosts of Amistad at the Del Mar Theatre (1124 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz) on Thursday, October 27, at 7:00pm. Professor O’Malley will moderate a Q&A with Professors Misevich and Tuchscherer immediately following the screening. PLEASE REGISTER HERE FOR THE FILM SCREENING.
This event is co-sposored by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Film Screening: "Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels" (Non-citizenship series)
2016-10-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Del Mar Theatre
The Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research present an event in the series on Non-citizenship
Historians and filmmakers Philip Misevich and Konrad Tuchscherer of St. John’s University join UC Santa Cruz’s David Anthony and Greg O’Malley in a conversation about forced migration at this free, public screening of “Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels,” 2016 winner of the American Historical Association’s John E. O’Connor Film Award.
EVENT PHOTOS: by Allison Garcia

About the Film
Ghost of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels by Tony Buba is based on Marcus Rediker’s The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (Viking-Penguin, 2012). It chronicles a trip to Sierra Leone in 2013 to visit the home villages of the people who seized the slave schooner Amistad in 1839, to interview elders about local memory of the case, and to search for the long-lost ruins of Lomboko, the slave trading factory where their cruel transatlantic voyage began. The film uses the knowledge of villagers, fishermen, and truck drivers to recover a lost history from below in the struggle against slavery.
“This film is an ambitious and imaginative attempt to explore the impact of the Amistad Mutiny and the repatriation of the brave Africans to their homes in Sierra Leone. It is of great interest to any student of slavery and the slave trade.” – Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University
Location:
Del Mar Theatre, 1124 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA
Event details:
Film at 7:00pm
Q&A Discussion at 8:00pm
Greg O’Malley, Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz, moderates the Q&A with Professors Misevich and Tuchscherer immediately following the screening. David Anthony, Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz, opens and closes the evening.
Admission:
Free and open to the public, but attendees are kindly asked to register in advance.
REGISTER HERE
Guest Speakers
David Anthony, Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz, researches and teaches on African and African-American history, art, music, literature, and cinema; eastern and southern Africa; African Languages; the Indian Ocean wold; African and African American linkages; African diaspora studies; Islamic civilization; and world history. He is the author of numerous publications, including Max Yergan: Race Man, Internationalist, Cold Warrior (New York University Press, 2006).
Philip Misevich is Assistant Professor of History at St. John’s University. He specializes in the study of the slave trade and the development of the Atlantic World. His research focuses on the coerced migration of Africans throughout the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. A practioner and developer of digital humanities scholarship, he is co-principal investigator of the African Origins database project and actively works with a team of scholars on Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, a project that details the movement of 35,000 slave vessels.
Greg O’Malley is Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz. His first book, the award-winning Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807 (University of North Carolina Press, 2014), explores a neglected aspect of the forced migration of African laborers to the Americas. He is co-principal investigator of the NEH-funded “Final Passages Intra-American Slave Trade Database,” which documents more than 7,600 individual shipments of enslaved people between American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He is also conducting research for a new book, The Escapes of David George: One Man’s Struggle with Slavery and Freedom in the Revolutionary Era.
Konrad Tuchscherer, Associate Professor of History and Director of Africana Studies at St. John’s University, is a specialist in African history and languages. His interests include nineteenth and twentieth century West Africa, colonialism in Africa, and Gullah history in South Carolina and Georgia. His research experience in Africa includes Egypt, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and The Gambia. He also serves as co-director of the Bamum Scripts and Archives Project at the Bamum Palace in Cameroon.
UCSC Roundtable Discussion
Professors Misevich, Tuchscherer, and O’Malley will also take part in “Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences beyond Academia,” a roundtable on ways in which scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences share our research with audiences beyond academia on Thursday, October 27, 2016, 12:00-2:00pm, in Humanities 1, Room 210. Due to limited space, this roundtable is open to UC Santa Cruz faculty, students, and staff. Faculty, students, and staff should pre-register here.
About Non-citizenship
Non-citizenship is part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture. Linking citizenship, migration, border, labor, and carceral studies, and juxtaposing spatial and social mobility and immobility, this year-long series of events explores what it means to be a citizen and non-citizen in a world made by migrants, refugees, guest workers, permanent residents, asylum seekers, slaves, prisoners, detainees, the stateless, and denizens (residents who do not hold the same rights as citizens). Non-citizenship is organized around three themes: “Forced Migration” (fall 2016), “Labor Mobility and Precarity” (winter 2017), and “Fluidity of Status: Migrants, Citizens, Denizens” (spring 2017). Click here to learn more.

PhD+: Networking and The Versatile PhD
2016-10-28 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Institute for Humanities Research and the Career Center Present
PhD+: Networking and Versatile PhD
Friday, October 28, 2016
Humanities 1, Room 210
11 am – 12:30 pm
Panelists:
Christina Hall, Career Advisor for Graduate Students in the Arts and Humanities, Career Center
Whitney deVos, PhD Candidate Literature; GSR, Institute for Humanities Research; Peer Advisor, Career Center
Networking. It can seem like an ugly word, conjuring up images of used car salesman and shady political quid pro quo. Yet, no tool is more powerful when it comes to conquering the competitive academic job market or navigating the unfamiliar world of work within private industry. This interactive, discussion-based workshop will focus on helping you develop concrete strategies to develop your social capital while still remaining your authentic self.
We’ll also spend time exploring the Versatile PhD, an online networking and information site geared to PhDs looking for opportunities in private industry, non-profit, and government sectors, as well as The Professor is In, From PhD to Life, and other resources that can help you explore a variety of post-PhD career paths, within, alongside, and outside of the academy.
What kinds of professionalization and career preparation should the University provide? We want to hear your thoughts!
Lunch will be provided. Open to all graduate students but limited to 50 attendees. Please register below.
PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the second 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, online identity issues, and much, much more.
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Mitchell Winter
2016-10-28 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“Polemics of Disintegration: Advaita Metaphysics in the Works of Alejandro Jodorowsky”
The Chilean artist Alejandro Jodorowsky (b. 1929) often engages with non-linearity and non-sense as narrative devices in his work. Throughout his career Jodorowsky’s thematic repertoire has adopted elements of the Kabbalistic science of the Marseille tarot, European alchemy, and New Age formulations of Hindu and Zen Buddhist thought. I attempt to trave the genealogical articulation of Jodorowsky’s brand of filmmaking and artistic practice by working through his depiction of Hindu, specifically Advaita (non-dualist), philosophy in two films, The Holy Mountain (1973) and The Dance of Reality (2013). Far from appealing to an Orientalist aesthetic, Jodorowsky incorporates Advaita conceptions of indeterminacy which “uses this disintegration {of meaning} and constructs order out of it.

Friday Forum Fall 2016 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
October 14th- Mikki Stelder, Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness
October 21st- Kali Rubaii, Anthropology
October 28th- Mitchell Winter, HAVC
November 4th- Hahkyung Darline Kim, Film and Digital Media
November 18th- Sophi Pappenheim, Literature
December 2nd- Nicole Vandermeer, History
