BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20100314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20101107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20110313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20111106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110406T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110406T133000 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110313T192105Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110313T192105Z UID:10004776-1302092100-1302096600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Guriqbal Singh Sahota: "Resemblances of Pure Content" DESCRIPTION:Professor Sahota will join the Literature department as an Assistant Professor in 2011. He is finishing Late Colonial Sublime (UC\, 2012). His research addresses conflicts of dogmatic and speculative belief cultures in contemporary global society with a special focus on the postcolonial. He has begun a long-term project on the question of reason in the Sikh tradition from the 16th through the 20th century. The first installment of this project will appear as “Guru Nanak and Rational Civil Theology” in Sikh Formations (2011). \nSponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research\, UCSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/guriqbal-singh-sahota-resemblances-of-pure-content-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110407 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110410 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20101013T025845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101013T025845Z UID:10004627-1302134400-1302393540@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rethinking Capitalism DESCRIPTION:Three decades of advances in financial economics have transformed global markets. As a matter of theory\, the valuing of options (financial products) became increasingly central to understanding the market in any commodity; as a matter of politics questions about the direction and sustainability of the market system were supplanted by questions about its volatility—how to manage the uncertainty that it creates. The Crisis of 2008 illustrates the need to better understand what is new\, and what is not\, about conceiving of capitalism as a whole in this way. This conference brings theories of economic value and regulation into conversation with the study of culture\, institutions\, ethics\, history\,  geography and theology. Its aim is to consider in what ways capitalism is producing a future that is unlike its past. Panel topics include: \n1) Eschatology\, Visualization and Scenario Planning\n2) Market Institutions\, Government and Crisis\n3) Affective\, Spatial and Material Flows of Value\n4) Social Risk\, Human Capital and Financializing Inequality\n5) Critique\, Confession and Conversion in the Aftermath of 2008.  \nPlease visit http://rethinkingcapitalism.ucsc.edu for more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/re-thinking-capitalism-ii-2/ LOCATION:University Center\, UCSC\, College Nine and College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110407T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110407T194500 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110404T054755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110404T054755Z UID:10004577-1302199200-1302205500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Chang-Rae Lee DESCRIPTION:Chang-Rae Lee’s first two novels\, Native Speaker and A Gesture Life\, have between them won a host of literary honors\, including the Hemingway/PEN Award for first fiction\, QPB’s New Voices Award\, the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award\, an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation\, the Oregon Book Award\, and the Asian-American Literary Award. Lee was recently selected by The New Yorker as one of the Twenty Best Writers Under Forty. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays\, The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, and numerous anthologies. \nEach quarter\, the Living Writers Reading Series brings visiting authors and poets to UC Santa Cruz to give students an in-depth look into the world of the working writer.  Sponsored by Oakes College and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-chang-rae-lee-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110408T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110408T170000 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110401T190651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110401T190651Z UID:10004573-1302276600-1302282000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Maria Gouskova: "Vug\, vg-a: An Experimental Investigation of Russian Yer Deletion" DESCRIPTION:Russian has a well-known rule called yer deletion: stem mid vowels are deleted when a vowel-initial suffix follows (as in [rov] `ditch (nom sg)’ vs. [rv-a] (gen sg)). The rule is lexically idiosyncratic: most mid vowels in identical contexts do not alternate (as in [rʲov] `howl (nom sg)’ vs. [rʲov-a] (gen sg)). There are two types of approaches to such alternations. I will advocate a theory in which entire morphemes are labeled in the lexicon as subject to this alternation\, and the phonological grammar is responsible for deriving generalizations about where deletion is possible or blocked (Gouskova to appear\, cf. Yearley 1995). A much better known alternative theory holds that the alternating vowels must be labeled on a segment-by-segment basis\, and that the conditioning environment for deletion is opaque: yers are realized when followed by abstract yers in the UR but delete otherwise (Lightner 1972\, Pesetsky 1979\, Kenstowicz and Rubach 1987\, Halle and Matushansky 2006). These theories make different predictions for how speakers might extend the alternation to novel forms. The goal of this talk is to demonstrate that speakers are aware of the phonological generalizations that govern the alternations. \nEven though vowel-zero alternations in Russian are lexically idiosyncratic\, the identity of alternating vowels is partially predictable: only mid vowels can alternate\, and there are certain phonological contexts where alternations are predictably blocked. This talk reports on two experiments that asked Russian speakers to rate pairs of inflected words in which a vowel was deleted. The results show that the rating strongly correlates with the quality of the vowel: deletion of mid vowels (as in [xel] and [xl-a]) was rated higher than deletion of high and low vowels (e.g.\, [gil] and [gl-a] or [ʃap] and [ʃp-a]). An experiment also tested context effects: deletion that creates a medial CCC cluster that violates sonority sequencing\, deletion of vowels in different stress contexts\, and deletion in CVCC stems. These results suggest that speakers have a grammar even for this non-productive and lexically limited alternation. \nThis talk is presented as part of the Linguistics Colloquium Series. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/maria-gouskova-vug-vg-a-an-experimental-investigation-of-russian-yer-deletion-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110413T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110413T133000 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110313T192424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110313T192424Z UID:10004778-1302696900-1302701400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cristina Lombardi-Diop: "Spotless Italy: Advertising Culture and the Post-racial Imagination" DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: \nCristina Lombardi-Diop\, Italian Studies\, UC Berkeley\n“Spotless Italy: Advertising Culture and the Post-racial Imagination“ \nProfessor Lombardi-Diop has published on gender and Italian colonial literature\, African-Italian autobiographies\, and the African diaspora in Italy. Her in-progress book is on the memory of Italian colonialism in Italy’s postwar cultural history. The talk explores Italy as a post-racial society and focuses on when the idea of whiteness as a discursive formation infiltrates Italian popular and mass culture. \nCristina Lombardi-Diop is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at The American University of Rome and Visiting Professor of Italian Studies at UC Berkeley. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cristina-lombardi-diop-spotless-italy-advertising-culture-and-the-post-racial-imagination-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110413T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110413T163000 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110406T194319Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110406T194319Z UID:10004794-1302708600-1302712200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Florence Howe DESCRIPTION:Kresge Writer’s House\, Living Writers\, & Feminist Studies presents: \nFlorence Howe\, founder of The Feminist Press and author of the memoir\, A Life in Motion URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/florence-howe-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110413T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110413T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20101015T003715Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101015T003715Z UID:10004629-1302710400-1302717600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gregg Herken: "Was J. Robert Oppenheimer\, 'Father of the Atomic Bomb\,' a Soviet Spy?" DESCRIPTION:One of the great unresolved controversies of the Cold War is whether American physicist Robert Oppenheimer–the “father of the atomic bomb”–was\, in fact\, a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.  Recently-declassified documents–from U.S. and former Soviet sources–make it possible to finally answer that question. \nGregg Herken (Stevenson College with Honors\, History BA with Honors\, Government with Highest Honors\, 1969) is an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California\, and was a Founding Faculty member at UC Merced.  He received a Ph.D. in modern American diplomatic history from Princeton University in 1974\, and subsequent taught at Oberlin College\, Yale University\, and Caltech.  From 1988-2003\, Herken was a senior Historian and Curator\, as well as the chairman of the Department of Space History at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington\, D.C.  He is the author of four books\, The Winning Weapon:  The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War (Knopf\, 1981; Princeton\, 1988)\, Counsels of War (Knopf\, 1985; Oxford\, 1986)\, Cardinal Choices:  Presidential Science Advising from the Atomic Bomb to SDI (Oxford\, 1992; Stanford\, 1999)\, and Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer\, Ernest Lawrence\, and Edward Teller (Henry Holt\, 2002; Holt\, 2003)\, which was a finalist for the 2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History. \nCo-sponsored by The Institute for Humanities Research and The Department of History.  Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gregg-herken-was-j-robert-oppenheimer-father-of-the-atomic-bomb-a-soviet-spy-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110414T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110414T153000 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110406T191803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110406T191803Z UID:10004793-1302789600-1302795000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Karen Sánchez-Eppler: "In the Archives of Childhood" DESCRIPTION:Karen Sánchez-Eppler is Professor of American Studies and English at Amherst College. She is the author of Touching Liberty: Abolition\, Feminism\, and the Politics of the Body (California\, 1993) and Dependent States: The Child’s Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (Chicago\, 2005)\, and a founding co-editor of The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. She is spending this year as a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center where she is completing a project on manuscript books entitled The Unpublished Republic: Manuscript Culture of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States\, and beginning a new one\, In the Archives of Childhood\, which probes the relations between our different ways of holding the past. Her talk at Santa Cruz draws from the introduction to this new project\, examining the intersection of archival practice and childhood studies in an effort to illuminate the attractions and limitations of both. \n“Archive Fever” as Jacques Derrida describes it\, epitomizes the infectious desire to locate and possess origins. For scholarship in the humanities the “archival turn” proves to have much in common with the study of childhood. Both have been there all along: the repositories of our cultural and personal pasts. In many ways\, for each of us\, childhood is the archive\, a treasure-box of the formative and the forgotten. Yet until the last few decades both our archives and our childhoods have remained largely under-theorized sites of origin. My talk will examine the intersection of archival practice and childhood studies in an effort to illuminate the attractions and limitations of both. Childhood manuscripts and documents demonstrate the potential of archival work for gaining access to children’s voices\, experiences\, and everyday life. Looking beyond this utility\, I hope to suggest how an attention to childhood may help rethink the nature of archival records\, organization\, and purpose itself. The traces of childhood found in archives tend toward the ephemeral—the scrap and the scribble far more likely than the tome—and thus puts pressure on the claims and nature of preservation and valuation. What constitutes the trivial as trivial? If childhood is ephemeral by nature—a stage to be outgrown—then what can it teach us about the archival tasks of keeping and cataloging? Age is not generally a classificatory category for archival holdings\, a fact that exemplifies the expressions of power at stake in the way knowledge is organized. Children tend to appear in archives in two ways\, on the fringes of collections of individual or family papers\, a residue of domestic life that accompanies the valuable work of adults\, for whose prominence these materials have been saved; and in the records of those institutions charged with the protection\, punishment\, and education of the young. Thus to think about childhood in the archives is to think about the tensions and collaborations between individual and institutional frames\, affection and control\, fame and loss. This will be a speculative discussion\, but one that theorizes from particular childhood stuff. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-sanchez-eppler-in-the-archives-of-childhood-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110414T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110414T173000 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110411T162950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110411T162950Z UID:10004807-1302796800-1302802200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Hans Sluga: “From Normative Theory to Diagnostic Practice” DESCRIPTION:From the Greeks to the present our moral and political philosophizing has been preoccupied with a search for the timeless and the universal: timeless norms of moral action and universal principles of political life. Where this may once have seemed to be a plausible undertaking\, it is not obviously so any longer. A clear understanding of the nature of our rapidly changing world should alert us to the need for another form of philosophical thinking – one that pays attention to the condition in which we find ourselves and that seeks to reach practical conclusions\, if any\,on the basis of a proper diagnosis of the present. In place of the usual normative theorizing we need to foster\, what I will call\, a diagnostic practice in moral and political philosophy. \nProfessor Hans Sluga will be speaking at 4:00PM on Thursday\, April 14\, 2011 at the invitation of the Philosophy Department. This event is free and open to the public. \nHans Sluga studied at Oxford University\, where he became familiar with the writings of Wittgenstein. Sluga credits Sir Michael Dumment with influencing his extensive interest in Frege’s contribution to the development of modern logic and philosophy of language. During his time at Oxford he also studied under R.M. Hare and Isaiah Berlin\, stirring his interest in questions of ethics and politics. \nProfessor Sluga’s overall philosophical outlook is radically historical as he believes that “we can understand ourselves only as being with a particular evolution and history”.  As such he is drawn to the works of Nietzsche and Foucault. Sluga claims to be “attracted to a realist and naturalistic view of things rather than any sort of formalistic rationalism”. \nHe has recently taught courses on Political Philosophy\, Nietzsche\, and Hegel’s “Philosophy of Right”. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hans-sluga-from-normative-theory-to-diagnostic-practice-2/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110414T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110414T194500 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110404T055225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110404T055225Z UID:10004788-1302804000-1302810300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Andrew Sean Greer DESCRIPTION:Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage\, which The New York Times has called an “inspired\, lyrical novel\,” and The Confessions of Max Tivoli\, which was named a Best Book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. His first novel\, The Path of Minor Planets\, and his story collection\, How It Was for Me\, were also published to wide acclaim. Greer’s stories have appeared in Esquire\, The Paris Review\, and The New Yorker\, and have been anthologized in The Book of Other People and Best American Nonrequired Reading. He is the recipient of the PEN/O’Henry Prize for Short Fiction\, the Northern California Book Award\, the California Book Award\, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. \nEach quarter\, the Living Writers Reading Series brings visiting authors and poets to UC Santa Cruz to give students an in-depth look into the world of the working writer.  Sponsored by Oakes College and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-andrew-sean-greer-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110415T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110415T170000 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110401T191246Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110401T191246Z UID:10004574-1302881400-1302886800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rajesh Bhatt: "Locating Agreement in Grammar" DESCRIPTION:The Linguistics Colloquium Series Presents: \nRajesh Bhatt (UMass Amherst) \nThe location of agreement in the grammar has been the topic of considerable recent discussion. Bobaljik 2008 has argued that agreement is a post-syntactic process\, other approaches (Boskovic 2009 and Chomsky 1999) locate it entirely within the syntactic system. More recently the data from agreement with conjoined noun phrases has played an important role in this debate; in this domain we find closest conjunct agreement\, a phenomenon whose seeming sensitivity to linear proximity indicates a post-syntactic component to agreement (Marusic et al. 2006). We analyze a novel set of data from Hindi-Urdu that shows that a proper analysis of agreement requires reference to both a pre-spellout syntactic and a post-syntactic component. Hindi-Urdu is a language with both subject and object agreement and we show that while subject agreement is calculated in the pre-spellout syntactic component\, the resolution of object agreement takes place in the post-syntactic component. \nThis presentation represents joint work with Martin Walkow. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rajesh-bhatt-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110415T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110415T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110407T175039Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110407T175039Z UID:10004805-1302881400-1302890400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gianfranco Norelli and Surma Kurien: "Pane Amaro" DESCRIPTION:Italian Studies Program\, Language Program\, American Studies Program and History Department Present  a screening of the 2009  documentary film\,  \nPane Amaro (Bitter Bread)\ndir. Gianfranco Norelli  \nFollowed by a conversation with the director and co‐producer Suma Kurien \n“The story of migration to the U.S. is a very complex one. “Feel good” narratives about immigrants catapulting from rags  to riches or moralizing tales of “pulling ourselves up by our own bootstraps” do not begin to capture that complexity. In Pane Amaro\, viewers learn of events and people known until now mainly to scholars. This is a rich panorama of images and voices from every corner of the Italian American community. Accessible and challenging\, it should be on the list of every ethnic studies course that wants to tackle the difficult process by which European immigrants became white as they became American.”  \nDonna Gabaccia. Director\, Immigration History Research Center\, University of Minnesota  \nFor more information contact:  gckg@ucsc.edu  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gianfranco-norelli-and-surma-kurien-pane-amaro-2/ LOCATION:Cowell\, Room 131\, Cowell College 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110418T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110418T140000 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110328T235629Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110328T235629Z UID:10004570-1303129800-1303135200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Patricia Clough: "War by Other Means: What Difference Do(es) the Graphic(s) Make?" DESCRIPTION:Patricia T. Clough is a Professor of Sociology\, Women’s Studies\, and Intercultural Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. \nHer books include Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology (Minnesota 2000)\, Feminist Thought: Desire\, Power and Academic Discourse (co-edited with Charles Lemert\, J.W. Wiley\, 1995) and The End(s) of Ethnography (Peter Lang 1992\, revised 1998). Her most recent book\, co-edited with Jean Halley\, is The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social (Duke 2007). \n  \nClough on Probabilities\, Predictions and Prophecies\, Part 2\, The New School: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TgMlpa57hU \nPatricia Clough on the internet as playground and factory: http://vimeo.com/6797762 \nClough and Han: Metronome Beating:  http://www.vimeo.com/5400775 \nSponsored by the Affect Working Group\, the Department of Sociology\, and the Center for Cultural Studies. For more information on this event and/or future events of the Affect Working Group please contact Prof. D. Gould (dbgould@ucsc.edu) or Prof. D. Takagi (takagi@ucsc.edu) or Prof. C. Freccero (freccero@ucsc.edu). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/patricia-clough-war-by-other-means-what-difference-does-the-graphics-make-2/ LOCATION:Rachel Carson College\, Room 301\, Rachel Carson College 1156 High Stree\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110421T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110421T173000 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110310T184947Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110310T184947Z UID:10004564-1303401600-1303407000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Bill Fletcher\, Jr.: "Right-Wing Populism and the Crisis of Organized Labor" DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Center for Labor Studies presents: \nBill Fletcher\, Jr.:  “Right-Wing Populism and the Crisis of Organized Labor” \nFree and Open to the Public \nRight-wing populism is a phenomenon deeply rooted in the US system.  It tends to emerge in a virulent form during times of economic distress and crisis.  It plays upon fears and prejudices and is integrally connected to matters of race.  Bill Fletcher\, Jr. will address the importance of understanding right-wing populism and the role that a renewed labor movement can play in combating this irrationalist and divisive force. \nBill Fletcher\, Jr.\, is a longtime labor\, racial justice and international activist. He is an Editorial Board member and columnist for BlackCommentator.com and a Senior Scholar for the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington\, DC. He is the immediate past president of TransAfrica Forum and a founder of the Black Radical Congress. \nFletcher is the co-author (with Fernando Gapasin) of Solidarity Divided\, The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice (University of California Press). He was formerly the Vice President for International Trade Union Development Programs for the George Meany Center of the AFL-CIO. Prior to the George Meany Center\, Fletcher served as Education Director and later Assistant to the President of the AFL-CIO. \nFletcher got his start in the labor movement as a rank-and-file member of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America. Combining labor and community work\, he was also involved in ongoing efforts to desegregate the Boston building trades. He later served in leadership and staff positions in District 65-United Auto Workers\, the National Postal Mail Handlers Union\, and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).  Fletcher is a graduate of Harvard University and has authored numerous articles and speaks widely on domestic and international topics\, racial justice and labor issues. \nThe UCSC Center for Labor Studies is funded by the Miguel Contreras Labor Fund of the University of California Office of the President\, and co-sponsored by the UCSC Division of Humanities.  This event is generously co-sponsored by  College Ten\, Stevenson College\, Oakes College CHECK\, and the Department of Politics.  Staffing provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \nVIDEO: INSIDE GOVERNMENT TV: AFGE Authors’ Night URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bill-fletcher-jr-right-wing-populism-and-the-crisis-of-organized-labor-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110421T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110421T210000 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110410T163800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110410T163800Z UID:10004806-1303412400-1303419600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Joy Harjo: "Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears" DESCRIPTION:The American Indian Resource Center will be hosting internationally acclaimed poet/musician/playwright JOY HARJO (Har-joe) on April 21st\, 2011\, at Merrill College Event Center\, from 7-9pm. Harjo will be performing a brand new solo work Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears\, blending music\, poetry\, personal reflection\, and cultural histories\, accompanied by Grammy-award winning guitarist and producer LARRY MITCHELL.\n \nJoy Harjo was born in Tulsa\, Oklahoma and is a member of the Mvskoke Nation. Her seven books of poetry\, which includes such well-known titles as How We Became Human- New and Selected Poems\, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky\, and She Had Some Horses have garnered many awards.  These include the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts\, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas; and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. For A Girl Becoming\, a young adult/coming of age book\, was released in 2009 and is Harjo’s most recent publication.\nShe has released four award-winning CD’s of original music and in 2009 won a Native American Music Award (NAMMY) for Best Female Artist of the Year for Winding Through the Milky Way. Her most recent CD release is a traditional flute album: Red Dreams\, A Trail Beyond Tears. She performs nationally and internationally with her band\, the Arrow Dynamics. She also performs her one-woman show\, Wings of Night Sky\, Wings of Morning Light\, which premiered at the Wells Fargo Theater in Los Angeles in 2009 with recent performances at the Public Theater in NYC and La Jolla Playhouse as part of the Native Voices at the Autry. She has received a Rasmusson US Artists Fellowship and is a founding board member of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Harjo writes a column “Comings and Goings” for her tribal newspaper\, the Muscogee Nation News. She lives in Albuquerque\, New Mexico. \nFor more information contact the American Indian Resource Center at 831-459-2881. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joy-harjo-red-dreams-a-trail-beyond-tears-2/ LOCATION:Merrill Event Center\, Merrill Event Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110421T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110421T210000 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110418T040456Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110418T040456Z UID:10004579-1303412400-1303419600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Harry Berger\, Jr.: "Caterpillage: Small-scale Violence in 17th Century Dutch Still-Life Painting" DESCRIPTION:This talk is about the strange accent on disorder in 17th century Dutch paintings of still life. The still-life genre includes pictures of flowers and food in domestic and outdoor settings. Its focus is on the conflict between an emphasis on order\, harmony\, and formal beauty\, and an emphasis on disorder\, damage\, and death. I’ll view still life through the lens provided by Stephen Colbert’s idea of “truthiness” and devote special attention to the way still life painters delight in depicting the depredations inflicted by such tiny terrorists as snails and caterpillars. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/harry-berger-jr-caterpillage-small-scale-violence-in-17th-century-dutch-still-life-painting-2/ LOCATION:Merrill Event Center\, Merrill Event Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110425T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110425T153000 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110418T222921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110418T222921Z UID:10004581-1303740000-1303745400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Bettina Aptheker: "The Passion and Pageantry of Shirley Graham {Du Bois}: Composer & Playwright\, 1920s-1930s" DESCRIPTION:Shirley Graham {Du Bois} (1896-1977) had a successful early career as composer\, performer and playwright that included her formal studies at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music\, Yale University\, and the near completion of a Ph D at NYU. In 1932 her opera\, “Tom-Tom” for which she wrote the libretto and composed the music\, was performed as part of the Cleveland (Ohio) Summer Opera Festival to a capacity audience of 15\,000 on opening night; the opera was a sensation. She later won a coveted two-year Young Playwrights Fellowship to Yale\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and became the Director of Negro Theater for the Federal Theater Project in Chicago in the 1930s. This presentation will examine the passion and pageantry of her work\, focusing in particular on her operatic/composing career and its historical significance. Unable to pursue her artistic life because she was a single mother with two young children in the midst of the Depression\, Graham went onto work in a variety of race-related and increasingly radical political projects\, and became the very successful author of young adult biographies of famous Black Americans in the 1940s and 1950s. She married Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois in 1951. In addition to extensive archival work\, this presentation is based upon Aptheker’s friendship with the Du Bois’. \nThis colloquium is presented at the invitation of the Music Department; all are welcome to attend. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bettina-aptheker-the-passion-and-pageantry-of-shirley-graham-du-bois-composer-playwright-1920s-1930s-2/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110425T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110425T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110417T232239Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110417T232239Z UID:10004808-1303758000-1303763400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Writing Program's Reading Series DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an evening of poetry and prose with past and present Writing Program faculty: \nChuck Atkinson\,  Jeff Arnett\, Roxi Power Hamilton\, Ingrid Moody\,  Robin Sommers\, and Stephen Sweat URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-writing-programs-reading-series-2/ LOCATION:Silverman Conference Room\, Stevenson\, Stevenson College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110426T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110426T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110216T004621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110216T004621Z UID:10004751-1303833600-1303840800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Paul Horwich: "Wittgenstein's Meta-Philosophy" DESCRIPTION:My aim will be to describe and assess Wittgenstein’s anti-theoretical view of why philosophy ought not to be in conducted in the traditional way\, how it should instead be done\, and what can be accomplished by pursuing it properly. I will be especially concerned with the questions: (1) of how this view is related to his conception of ‘meaning’ as use’\, (2) of whether it is self-defeatingly ‘theoretical’\, (3) of how it evolved from his earlier (Tractatus) position\, and (4) of whether his departures from that position were sufficiently radical. \nProfessor Paul Horwich (BA Oxford 1966\, MA Yale 1969\, PhD Cornell 1974) will be speaking on Tuesday\, April 26\, 2011 at the invitation of the Linguistics and Philosophy Group.  His talk is co-sponsored by the Institute for Humanities research and the UCSC Philosophy Department.  Prof. Horwich’s principle contributions to the field have been a probabilistic account of scientific methodology\, a unified explanation of temporally asymmetric phenomena\, a deflationary conception of truth\, and a naturalistic use-theory of meaning. He has received fellowship support for his work from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the National Science Foundation\, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has been on the faculties of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (73-95)\, University College London (95-00)\, and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (00-05). He has also given courses at UCLA\, the CNRS Institute d’Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences et Technique\, the University of Sydney\, the École Normale Supérieure\, and the University of Tokyo. His main present project is a monograph on Wittgenstein’s meta-philosophy. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/paul-horwich-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110427T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110427T120000 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110418T145305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110418T145305Z UID:10004580-1303898400-1303905600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Afro-Latinos in the Américas DESCRIPTION:A panel with Juan Flores (NYU)\,  Miriam Jiménez Román (The Schomburg Center)\,  Nancy Raquel Mirabal (SFSU)\, and Mark Anderson (UCSC).   \nLourdes Martínez Echazábal (Literature) will be respondent. Juan Poblete (Literature) will moderate \nIn celebration of the recent publication of Juan Flores and Miriam Jimenez Roman’s “Afro-Latin@ Reader” (Duke\, 2011)  \nThe Afro-Latin@ Reader focuses attention on a large\, vibrant\, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean. The presence of Afro-Latin@s in the United States (and throughout the Americas) belies the notion that Blacks and Latin@s are two distinct categories or cultures. Afro-Latin@s are uniquely situated to bridge the widening social divide between Latin@s and African Americans; at the same time\, their experiences reveal pervasive racism among Latin@s and ethnocentrism among African Americans. \nQuestions? Contact Shannon Mahoney at kresgeprovostassistant@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/afro-latinos-in-the-americas-2/ LOCATION:Kresge\, Room 159\, Kresge College\, UC Santa Cruz\, Kresge College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110427T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110427T133000 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110313T193450Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110313T193450Z UID:10004780-1303906500-1303911000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Matt O'Hara: “The History of the Future in Mexico” DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: \nMatt O’Hara\,  History\,  UCSC\n“The History of the Future in Mexico” \nHistorians of Latin America have spent much energy studying historical legacies. The notion that “the past weighs heavily on the present” is a standard frame for historical analysis. Stepping outside this paradigm\, Professor O’Hara’s book project examines how Mexicans thought about\, planned for\, and accessed the future from the mid-colonial period into the early republic. \nMatthew O’Hara is Associate Professor of History at UCSC \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/matt-ohara-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110427T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110427T183000 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110328T032023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110328T032023Z UID:10004569-1303921800-1303929000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jennifer L. Morgan: "Quotidian Erasures: Gender and the Records of the Trans-­Atlantic Slave Trade" DESCRIPTION:“Quotidian Erasures: Gender and the Records of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade” will argue that the emergence of what early modern political theorists described as “political arithmetic”—and what we term demography—is a product of the trade in slaves that bolstered the colonial economies they were at pains to describe. Numeracy\, political arithmetic\, and the science of demography emerged in the crucible of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and early modern mercantilism. Thus\, those of us charting the lives of women and men of African descent in the Atlantic must turn careful attention to the ways in which demography both supports our work and comprises a core part of the legacies of archival violence with which we must grapple. Demography is evidence\, but it is also a critical problem of early modern ideology—as is what the gathering of demographic evidence meant to those who were both collecting it and being collected. \nHow do we move from a world in which the free African man Anthony Johnson can petition for and receive special to one in which English travelers to Africa as early as the sixteenth century routinely glossed men and women as “merchandize?” The power of numerical reckoning is not a new question for scholars of the post-colonial. But a clear disciplinary boundary is drawn in the early modern period\, between those working on the political valence demography\, and those working on the demographic parameters of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. It is in this juncture between histories of political science and economic studies of the trade that I am interested in staking a embedded in numerical evidence\, the development of “political arithmetic\,” and the ways in which men and women were and are reduced to and embedded in a system of monetary or commercial value? \nJennifer L. Morgan is Professor in the departments of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University. She is the author of Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in the Making of New World Slavery (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 2003). Her research examines the intersections of gender and race in colonial America. She is currently at work on a project that considers colonial numeracy\, racism and the rise of the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade tentatively entitled Accounting for the Women in Slavery. \nThis event is made possible through generous contributions from the Departments of History\, American Studies and Sociology. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jennifer-l-morgan-quotidian-erasures-gender-and-the-records-of-the-trans-%c2%adatlantic-slave-trade-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110428T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110428T133000 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110425T152952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110425T152952Z UID:10004582-1303992000-1303997400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Clive Sinclair: "The Belmont Quota" DESCRIPTION:Clive Sinclair has published 14 books of fiction – The Lady and the Laptop received major critical acclaim in England and he is noted for his criticism\, including a study of Isaac Bashevis and Isaac Joshua Singer\, –  a collection of his stories\, Bedbugs\, was published last year by Syracuse University Press. \nClive Sinclair will speak on English attitudes to Venice\, discussing Dreamers of the Ghetto– the stories of Israel Zangwill (1898) – as well as Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. \nThis talk will take place in Murray Baumgarten’s class “Jewish Writers and the European City.”  It is open to the public and will be followed by a discussion. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/clive-sinclair-the-belmont-quota-2/ LOCATION:Kresge\, Room 325\, Kresge College\, UC Santa Cruz\, Kresge College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110428T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110428T173000 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110310T190807Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110310T190807Z UID:10004565-1304006400-1304011800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Alicia Schmidt Camacho: "When Human Beings Become Illegal" DESCRIPTION:Drawing on migrant testimony\, this talk will discuss the implications of government refusals to recognize and protect the mobility of poor people in their pursuit of economic survival. Migrants routinely experience grave abuses and assault in the course of their travels through the North American migratory circuit at the hands of both state and criminal actors. This violence\, Schmidt Camacho argues\, arises from transformations in the nature of sovereign power arising from economic restructuring and democratic state failure in the region. The increased use of force in immigration law enforcement is symptomatic of a pronounced rise in state violence during the last decade\, roundly legitimated by governments as defending the rule of law. \nAlicia Schmidt Camacho is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration at Yale University.  She is the author of Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (NYU\, 2008). She is currently at work on a book about state security and social violence along the North American migratory circuit. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alicia-schmidt-camacho-when-human-beings-become-illegal-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110428T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110428T194500 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110404T055708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110404T055708Z UID:10004789-1304013600-1304019900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Claudia Rankine DESCRIPTION:Claudia Rankine was born in Jamaica in 1963. She is the author of four collections of poetry\, including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely\, The End of the Alphabet\, and Nothing in Nature is Private (1995)\, which received the Cleveland State Poetry Prize. Rankine is co-editor of American Women Poets in the Twenty-First Century (Wesleyan University Press). Her poetry is also included in several anthologies\, including Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present\, Best American Poetry 2001\, Giant Step: African American Writing at the Crossroads of the Century\, and The Garden Thrives: Twentieth Century African-American Poetry. She teaches in the writing program at the University of Houston. \nEach quarter\, the Living Writers Reading Series brings visiting authors and poets to UC Santa Cruz to give students an in-depth look into the world of the working writer.  Sponsored by Oakes College and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-claudia-rankine-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110429 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110501 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110329T233405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110329T233405Z UID:10004571-1304035200-1304207999@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Pasolini's Body: New Directions in Pasolini Scholarship DESCRIPTION:Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) — poet\, film director\, screenwriter and theatre critic\, playwright\, essayist\, journalist\, graphic artist\, and novelist — was one of the great Italian artistic and intellectual figures of the twentieth century.  Since his mysterious murder in 1975\, Pasolini has been reviled; then sanctified. Our goal is to historicize Pasolini. This conference focuses on configurations of the body and gesture that arise in Pasolini’s performative\, visual\, and poetic practices with respect to the artist image\, the ‘popular body’\, the Third World\, narrative and choreographic movement\, Pasolini’s life\, and his conceptions of the political and eroticism as they intersect history\, culture\, and myth. \nThursday \n7:30-10 pm – Film Screening: Arabian Nights \nIntroduction: Peter Limbrick\, UCSC \nLocation: Studio C\, Communications Building \nFriday \n8:30-9:00 – Coffee \n9:00-9:30 – Opening Remarks\nDavid Yager\, Dean of the Arts\,\nMark Franko\, Director of the Center for Visual and Performance Studies \n9:30-11:30 – Panel: Corporeal Poetics\nTyrus Miller\, UCSC\n“Transhumanize and Organize: Pasolini’s Crossing of Philology and Biopolitics” \nArmando Maggi\, U. Chicago\n“Norman O. Brown’s Love’s Body and Pasolini’s Calderón” \nColleen Ryan-Scheutz\, Indiana U.\n“Pasolini’s Final Word(s): From the Divina Mimesis to Petrolio and Salo” \nModerator: Deanna Shemek\, UCSC \n11:30-1:00 – Lunch \n1:00-3:00 – Panel: Visualizing the Body \nGian Maria Annovi\, Columbia\n“Pasolini’s Cinematographic Body” \nMark Franko\, UCSC\n“Notes on Pasolini and the ‘Language’ of Dance” \nSilvestra Mariniello\, U. Montreal\n“Myth and the Pace of Life. Pasolini’s Poetics of History” \nModerator: Cathy Soussloff\, UBC \n3:00-3:30 – Break \n3:30-5:30 – Panel: Political Kinesthetics \nStaisey Divorski\, UCLA\n“The Heretical Absence of the Word: Pasolini’s Teorema” \nEvan Calder Williams\, UCSC\n“A Vital Desperation: On Rage and Communist Pessimism” \nWlad Godzich\, UCSC\n“Body\, Narrative\, and Politics” \nModerator: Karen Bassi\, UCSC \n5:30-7:30 – Reception & Film Screening: Notes on an African Orestes \nIntroduction: Peter Limbrick\, UCSC \nLocation: Studio C\, Communications Building \nSaturday \n10:00-10:30 – Coffee \n10:30-1:00 – Panel: Postcolonial Figurations \nDavid Pendleton\, Harvard\n“Pasolini on the Beach: Semiosis\, Erotics and the Politics of the Image” \nDerek Duncan\, U. Bristol\n“Graceless: Pasolini’s Postcolonial Body” \nGiovanna Trento\, French Center for Ethiopian Studies\n“Il corpo popolare according to Pier Paolo Pasolini: body\, sexuality\, subalternity\, reality\, resistance\, agency and death” \nLuca Caminati\, Concodria\n“Notes on Pasolini’s Third World” \nModerator: Peter Limbrick \nSponsored by UCSC Arts Division\, UCSC Arts Research Institute\, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di San Francisco\,  Cowell College\, Theater Arts Department\, Literature  Department\, Film and Digital Media Department\, History of Art and Visual Culture Department\,  History of Consciousness Department\, Feminist Studies Department\, and History Department URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pasolinis-body-vps-conference-2/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110429T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110429T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110425T153710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110425T153710Z UID:10004583-1304092800-1304100000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Bhanu Kapil: "Performance and Narrative: Writing (not writing) a tragic scene: NOTES: towards the Southall Race Riot of 1979" DESCRIPTION:Bhanu Kapil has written four full-length cross-genre works: The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press\, 2001)\, Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works\, 2006)\, humanimal [a project for future children] (Kelsey Street Press\, 2009)\, and Schizophrene (forthcoming\, Nightboat Books). Recent classes at Naropa have engaged architecture\, somatics\, biology and memory as ways to approach or navigate contemporary narrative and poetics. An on-going experimental pedagogy and reflection can be found at her blog: “Was Jack Kerouac a Punjabi? [A Day in the Life of a Naropa University Writing Professor.]” \nPoetry and Politics is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network. Cosponsored by UCSC Porter College Hitchcock Poetry Fund the Center for Cultural Studies\, and the Literature Department. \nPlease contact Andrea Quaid (aquaid@ucsc.edu) or Juliana Leslie (julianaleslie@gmail.com) with any questions. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bhanu-kapil-performance-and-narrative-writing-not-writing-a-tragic-scene-notes-towards-the-southall-race-riot-of-1979-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110429T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110429T210000 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110425T154207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110425T154207Z UID:10004584-1304103600-1304110800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Bhanu Kapil and Sesshu Foster DESCRIPTION:Bhanu Kapil has written four full-length cross-genre works: The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press\, 2001)\, Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works\, 2006)\, humanimal [a project for future children] (Kelsey Street Press\, 2009)\, and Schizophrene (forthcoming\, Nightboat Books). Recent classes at Naropa have engaged architecture\, somatics\, biology and memory as ways to approach or navigate contemporary narrative and poetics. An on-going experimental pedagogy and reflection can be found at her blog: “Was Jack Kerouac a Punjabi? [A Day in the Life of a Naropa University Writing Professor.]” \nSesshu Foster has taught writing in East Los Angeles for 20 years in addition to teaching at the University of Iowa\, the California Institute for the Arts\, and UC Santa Cruz. He is the author of Atomik Aztex; World Ball Notebook; American Loneliness: Selected Poems; and City Terrace Field Manual\, a finalist for the PEN Center West Poetry Prize. He also co-edited Invocation LA: Urban Multicultural Poetry. \nPoetry and Politics is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network. Cosponsored by UCSC Porter College Hitchcock Poetry Fund the Center for Cultural Studies\, and the Literature Department. \nPlease contact Andrea Quaid (aquaid@ucsc.edu) or Juliana Leslie (julianaleslie@gmail.com) with any questions. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetry-reading-bhanu-kapil-and-sesshu-foster-2/ LOCATION:Felix Kulpa Gallery\, 107 Elm Street\, Santa Cruz\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110430 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110501 DTSTAMP:20260423T055649 CREATED:20110108T001304Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110108T001304Z UID:10004533-1304121600-1304207999@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Day by the Bay DESCRIPTION:An exciting array of events and activities are planned on campus during UCSC’s upcoming “Day By The Bay” event. The campus’s annual  reunion weekend will take place this year from Friday\, April 29\, through Sunday\, May 1. \nA complete schedule of events — and all related details — can be found at: http://events.ucsc.edu/daybythebay/ \nWe hope you will join us for as many of the following special events as possible: \nSaturday\, April 30\nIntellectual Forum\n11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.\, Humanities Lecture Hall\n“Game Changers: Green Chemistry and Social Change Philanthropy” \nOakes Provost Kimberly Lau will moderate a discussion between UCSC alumni who are creating major paradigm shifts in our collective approach to meeting social\, environmental\, and economic challenges. Featured speakers are: \nDrummond Pike (Stevenson ’70) founder of Tides and cofounder of Working Assets\nMichael Wilson (Stevenson ’84) research scientist and pioneer in the emerging field of “green” chemistry \nPlease register for this free event on the Day by the Bay web site. \nDay by the Bay Picnic\n12–3 p.m.\, East Field\nDelicious local food\, microbrews\, and wine. Fun activities for kids (including a bounce house and climbing wall)\, robotics displays\, displays from the colleges\, student entertainment\, and much\, much more. \nThis year\, we have also planned for a “Faculty & Staff Lounge” at the site of the picnic. In the largest tent in the center of the picnic\, the “lounge” will be provide another opportunity for alumni to reconnect with favorite professors and staff. There will be comfy lounge furniture and coffee for you to enjoy while you reminisce along with alumni from all eras. \nPlease register for this free event on the Day by the Bay web site. \nAll Alumni Wine Reception\nCowell Provost House Lawn\, 3–4:30 p.m.\nJoin us for a toast to celebrate our alumni. Reconnect with old classmates and faculty\, meet new friends and share your story about how UCSC has impacted your life. \nPlease register for this free event on the Day by the Bay web site.\n\nUCSC Class of 1971 40-Year Reunion Dinner\nUniversity Center\, 6 p.m.\nReconnect with fellow alumni and your favorite faculty and staff for a night of mingling and memories to celebrate the last 40 years.\nTickets to this event cost $45. \nPlease register for this event by Friday\, April 15\, on the Day by the Bay web site. \nSunday\, May 1\nWriters Life: A celebration of writing at UC Santa Cruz\nHumanities Lecture Hall and Plaza\, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. \nHumanities is hosting a selection of alumni writers–novelists\, journalists\, and screenwriters–coming together for a community event to focus on the joys and challenges of writing as a living\, the business of writing\, and trends for the future. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/day-by-the-bay-2-2/ LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR