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SUMMARY:A Writer's Life
DESCRIPTION:Join us on May 1\, 2011\, (10am to 4pm) in celebrating writing at UCSC. As part of UCSC’s Day By The Bay celebrations\, Humanities 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.\n  \nUCSC students\, alumni and Santa Cruz community members are all welcome to this free event. The day begins at 10am with a keynote speech by alumnus David Talbot founder of Salon.com and best-selling author of Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years. Other writers participating in this event are: Susan Blackaby – children’s book author; David Ehrman – screenwriter; Charlie Haas – author; Claire Hoffman – freelance journalist; Robert Irion – freelance magazine journalist; Laurie King – author; Dan Pulcrano – CEO and Executive Editor\, Metro Newspapers; Matt Skenazy – freelance journalist; and Gary Young – poet.\n  \nThe day will conclude with a book faire and reception with the panelists.\n  \nFor more information\, visit http://writerslife.ucsc.edu/. Visit our registration site to RSVP.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-writers-life-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110503T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110503T130000
DTSTAMP:20260429T053426
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SUMMARY:Herbie Lee: "Computer Model Emulation"
DESCRIPTION:Many modern problems involve computer simulations of physical or social processes. The field of statistics provides a range of tools to help with the design\, analysis\, and use of computer simulators. This talk will give an overview of these problems and the statistical perspective\, with applications ranging from rocket science to hydrology to health care policy. \nHerbie Lee is Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Interim Vice Provost for Academic Affairs\, UCSC. Dr. Lee’s research focuses on Bayesian statistics\, particularly computer models and connections between statistics and machine learning. He has published numerous articles and two books: Multiscale Modeling: A Bayesian Perspective (Springer) and Bayesian Nonparametrics via Neural Networks (SIAM). He is also well known as an outstanding teacher of statistics at all levels. \nThis talk is present as part of the The Linguistics Research Center Brown Bag Lunch Series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/herbie-lee-computer-model-emulation-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110504T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110504T133000
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SUMMARY:Jacob Metcalf: "Meet Shmeat: Animal Biotechnologies and the Philosophical Tensions of the New Foods Movements"
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: \nJacob Metcalf\, Science and Social Justice Postdoctoral Fellow\, UCSC\n“Meet Shmeat: Animal Biotechnologies and the Philosophical Tensions of the New Foods Movements” \nDoctor Metcalf is the Postdoctoral Fellow in an NSF-funded program training graduate students in interdisciplinary inquiry on the co-constitution of ethics and scientific knowledge. His research concerns the construction of ethical inquiry. He proposes new applied ethics methodologies that account for the boundaries drawn within techno-scientific apparatuses\, and asks how science and technology might become more responsive to the conditions and consequences of those boundaries. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jacob-metcalf-meet-shmeat-animal-biotechnologies-and-the-philosophical-tensions-of-the-new-foods-movements-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110505T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110505T173000
DTSTAMP:20260429T053426
CREATED:20110311T210104Z
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SUMMARY:Regine Basha: "Tuning Baghdad"
DESCRIPTION:Regine Basha has been an curator of contemporary art and art writer since the early 1990s. Her exhibition and writing history can be found on bashaprojects.com. Amongst her most recent projects is Tuning Baghdad\, an audio-visual forum for chronicling Iraqi-Jewish music scene and their house parties (based on her own background). This ongoing project brings to light the movement of this diasporic community and their displacement from Iraq as evidenced through their love of Arabic music and the Iraqi Maqam. Basha currently sits on the board of the foundation Art Matters (New York)\, Aurora Picture Show (Houston) and is a Curatorial Host to Cabinet Magazine’s new space in Gowanus\, Brooklyn. \nRegine Basha will discuss the background of Tuning Baghdad\, the decisions behind creating it online and not as a documentary\, and the future plans for the site. During the course of the talk\, she will show video\, play audio collages and present books related to the subject. If all goes according to plan\, a surprise guest may be invited to sing over Skype video. \nRegine Basha will give this talk in her capacity as visiting scholar at the Center for Jewish Studies. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/regine-basha-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110505T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110505T194500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Jessica Hagedorn
DESCRIPTION:Jessica Hagedorn received her education at the American Conservatory Theater training program. To further pursue playwriting and music\, she moved to New York in 1978. Joseph Papp produced her first play Mango Tango in 1978. Hagedorn’s other productions include Tenement Lover\, Holy Food\, and Teenytown. Her mixed media style often incorporates song\, poetry\, images\, and spoken dialogue. Hagerdorn is the author of the novel Dogeaters\, which illuminates many different aspects of Filipino experience\, focusing on the influence of America through radio\, television\, and movie theaters\, and which earned a 1990 National Book Award nomination and an American Book 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-jessica-hagedorn-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110506T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110506T170000
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SUMMARY:Susanne Gahl: "Why So Short? Competing Explanations for Variation"
DESCRIPTION:Frequent or contextually-predictable words are often phonetically reduced\, e.g. shortened or produced with articulatory undershoot. Three common explanations for this phenomenon attribute phonetic reduction\, and pronunciation variation generally\, to variation in (1) intelligibility\, (2) speed of lexical access\, and (3) probabilistic properties of whole utterances. In this talk\, I discuss recent results (Gahl\, Yao & Johnson\, under review; Gahl\, in prep.) investigating the sources of pronunciation variation. While these results are consistent with speaker-internal approaches to variation\, I argue that they are best explained by moving beyond the listener vs. speaker dichotomy: Some perceptually-based effects are speaker-internal; and some production-based effects give rise to structured variation in intelligibility resulting in usable cues for recognition.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/susanne-gahl-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110510T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110510T173000
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SUMMARY:Manlio Argueta and Jorge Argueta: Beyond the Volcano
DESCRIPTION:The Latino Literary Cultures Research Cluster presents: \nManlio Argueta is a Salvadoran writer\, critic\, and novelist born in 1935. Although he considers himself first and foremost a poet\, he is known in the English speaking world for his book Un día en la vida\, One Day of Life. \nArgueta was born in San Miguel\, El Salvador\, on November 24\, 1935. Argueta has stated that his exposure to “poetic sounds” began during his childhood and that his foundation in poetry stemmed from his childhood imagination. Argueta’s interest in literature was strongly influenced by the world literature he read as a teenager. Argueta began his writing career by the age of 13 as a poet. He cites Pablo Neruda and Federico García Lorca as some of his early poetic influences. Although he was relatively unknown at the time\, Argueta won a national prize for his poetry around 1956\, which gained him some recognition among Salvadoran and Central American poets. As he became more involved with the literary community of El Salvador\, Argueta became a member of the “Committed Generation”. Because of his writings criticizing the government\, Argueta was exiled to Costa Rica in 1972 and was not able to return to El Salvador until the 1990s. Argueta currently lives in El Salvador where he holds the position of Director of the National Public Library. \nJorge Argueta– Born in El Salvador\, Jorge immigrated to San Francisco\, California in 1980.  He is a prize-winning poet and author of many bilingual children’s books and poetry books.  His first book for Children’s Book Press\, A Movie in My Pillow / Una película en mi almohada\, received numerous awards including the 2002 Américas Book Award for Latin American Literature\, the IPPY Award for Multicultural Fiction–Juvenile/Young Adults\, and the Skipping Stones Honor Award for Multicultural and International Books.  Jorge’s books have been published by pretigious editorial houses in Canada (Groundwood Books)\, the United States (Children’s Book Press) and Spain (Alfaguara). His books have been beautifully illustrated by well-known Latin- American illustrators. \nJorge makes presentations and holds poetry workshops throughout the United States and Central America – in public and private schools\, universities\, cultural centers\, community centers\, museums\, festivals\, hospitals and youth\nguidance centers.  In 2009\, he was invited to participate in the John F. Kennedy Multicultural Book Festival in Washington\, DC. Jorge is active in the cultural life of the city in which he resides and also works with humanitarian organizations to assist families and children in El Salvador.  Jorge Argueta is also the Director of “Talleres de Poesia” a literary organization based in the US\, that launched and organized the First Annual Children’s Poetry Festival in El Salvador (November 2010). \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/manlio-argueta-and-jorge-argueta-2/
LOCATION:Cervantes & Velasquez Room\, Baytree Conference Center\, Bay Tree Conference Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110511T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110511T133000
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CREATED:20110313T194337Z
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SUMMARY:Cécile Alduy: "Obscenity\, Obstetrics\, and the Origin of the Pornographic Gaze"
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: \nCécile Alduy\, French and Italian\, Stanford University\n“Obscenity\, Obstetrics\, and the Origin of the Pornographic Gaze” \nProfessor Alduy is chair of Renaissances\, an interdisciplinary forum on the present and future of early modern studies\, and director of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Stanford University. One of her current projects is Archaeology of a Close-Up: The “Blasons anatomiques” and the Prehistory of Obscenity\, which looks at the intersection between the field of obstetrics\, its book market\, and the pre-history of obscenity. \nCécile Alduy is Associate Professor of French and Italian at Stanford University. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cecile-alduy-obscenity-obstetrics-and-the-origin-of-the-pornographic-gaze-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110511T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110511T173000
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CREATED:20110311T210713Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Spring Awards
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we recognize the outstanding accomplishments of our faculty\, staff and students who have received awards\, honors\, grants and/or fellowships over the course of the 2010-11 academic year.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-spring-awards-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110511T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110511T183000
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SUMMARY:Banu Subramaniam: "Tracking Ghosts: Hauntings from a Eugenic Past"
DESCRIPTION:What do morning glory flowers or exotic plant and animal species have to do with the history of race or eugenics? In this talk\, I trace the genealogies of ecology and evolutionary biology to explore how histories of gender and race shape contemporary biological theories and what lessons we can learn about the relationships between natures and cultures. \nBanu Subramaniam is associate professor of Women\, Gender\, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. She is coeditor of Feminist Science Studies: A New Generation (Routledge\, 2001) and Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties (Rowman and Littlefield\, 2005). Trained as a plant evolutionary biologist\, she seeks to engage the social and cultural studies of science in the practice of science. Spanning the humanities\, social sciences\, and the biological sciences\, her research is located at the intersections of biology\, women’s studies\, ethnic studies and postcolonial studies. Her current work focuses on the genealogies of variation in evolutionary biology\, the xenophobia and nativism that accompany frameworks on invasive plant species\, and the relationship of science and religious nationalism in India. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Feminist Studies Department and the Science and Justice Working Group.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/banu-subramaniam-tracking-ghosts-hauntings-from-a-eugenic-past-2/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Room 599\,  Engineering 2\, 1156 High St‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110512T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110512T173000
DTSTAMP:20260429T053426
CREATED:20110311T211833Z
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SUMMARY:Kuan-Hsing Chen: "Asia as Method"
DESCRIPTION:Kuan-Hsing Chen is Professor in the Graduate Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies; coordinator of the Center for Asia-Pacific/Cultural Studies at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan; and co-executive editor of the journal\, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements. His most recent book is Asia as Method: Towards Deimperialiazation (Duke\, 2010). \nReadings available at:  http://ccs.ihr.ucsc.edu/files/2011/03/Asia_as_Method.pdf \nPresented by the Center for Cultural Studies with co-sponsorship by the Asian Diasporas Research Cluster of the IHR\, Film and Digital Media Department\, and the Nee Fund of the Dept of History\, UCSC. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research\, UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kuan-hsing-chen-2/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110512T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110512T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T053426
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SUMMARY:Sarah Nelson: "Korea and the Silk Road"
DESCRIPTION:UCSC Society of the Archeological Institute of America and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on “Archaeology and the Ancient World” \n \nProfessor Sarah Milledge Nelson: “Korea and the Silk Road”\nThursday\, May 12 at 5 pm (refreshments at 4:30)\nHumanities 1\, Room 210\n  \nThe Korean peninsula was almost the Asian end of the “Silk Road\,” yet exotic objects from the Mediterranean world are found in Korean burials beginning in the first century B.C. In studying how these objects came to be deposited in Korean burials\, it becomes clear that objects arrived in Korea by at least three different routes. Professor Nelson will discuss the Steppe Route north of the Altai Mountains\, the Silk Road through Xinjinag\, and a Sea Route\, along with the objects that arrived in Korea from as far away as the Mediterranean world. \n \nSarah Milledge Nelson is the John Evans Distinguished Professor with the University of Denver’s Department of Anthropology. She received her degrees from Wellesley College\, and the University of Michigan (M.A. and Ph.D.)\, and her areas of specialization are East Asia\, particularly Korea and northeast China\, gender issues\, religion in archaeology\, leadership\, and ethnicity. Professor Nelson has conducted fieldwork in China and South Korea\, as well as several sites in the southwest U.S. Her recent main publications include Shamanism and the Origin of States\, Spirit\, Power and Gender in East Asia (2008\, Left Coast Press)\, and the edited volume Gender in Archaeology (2006\, Alta Mira Press). \nFree parking for lecture in Cowell-Stevenson parking lots. For more information on the lecture or the AIA\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sarah-nelson-korea-and-the-silk-road-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110512T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110512T194500
DTSTAMP:20260429T053426
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Aimee Bender
DESCRIPTION:Aimee Bender is the author of four books: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (1998)\, which was a NY Times Notable Book; An Invisible Sign of My Own (2000)\, an L.A. Times pick of the year; Willful Creatures (2005)\, which was nominated by The Believer as one of the best books of the year; and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (2010)\, which recently won the SCIBA award for best fiction\, and an Alex Award. Her short fiction has been published in Granta\, GQ\, Harper’s\, Tin House\, McSweeney’s\, and The Paris Review\, as well as heard on PRI’s This American Life and Selected Shorts. She has received two Pushcart prizes\, and was nominated for the TipTree award in 2005\, and the Shirley Jackson short story award in 2010. \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-aimee-bender-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110513T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110513T163000
DTSTAMP:20260429T053426
CREATED:20110310T191515Z
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SUMMARY:The Science Studies Creative Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Science Studies Research Cluster invites you to join us for The Science Studies Creative Writing Workshop: \nScience Studies teaches us that narratives\, tropes\, figures\, genres\, and writing styles matter in knowledge-making practices.  For example\, in “The Egg and the Sperm\,” Emily Martin argues that staging human fertilization as a fairy tale starring active\, aggressive\, masculine sperm and receptive\, passive \, feminine ova has both political and epistemological consequences.  Although we have become very good at identifying these narrative elements in the stories of others\, we do not often address the aesthetics and politics of our own storytelling practices.  Due to time constraints and academic convention\, we rarely have the opportunity to  try out different styles of writing. \nWith this in mind\, the UCSC Science Studies Research Cluster presents “The Science Studies Creative Writing Workshop.”  We invite Science Studies scholars (broadly construed!) to submit a short manuscript (<600 words) that presents your research in a style or genre that differs from your regular academic work.  The workshop includes a roundtable where we will discuss each piece in detail\, while discussing strategies for using\, playing with\, and subverting academic conventions.  We offer this workshop as an opportunity to explore creative approaches to writing\, not in service of the “innovative” or “avant-garde\,” but as a practical experiment in the political aesthetics of writing. \nIf you are interested in participating in this workshop\, please e-mail Martha Kenney (mkenney@ucsc.edu) by March 25 to reserve your spot. Mini-manuscripts will be due April 29.   \nThis event is funded by the Center for Cultural Studies.  Staff support is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-science-studies-creative-writing-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110516T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110516T153000
DTSTAMP:20260429T053426
CREATED:20110513T152353Z
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SUMMARY:Jessica Enevold: "Mama Ludens vs Fanboi – What is wrong with the Gaming Revolution?"
DESCRIPTION:It has been hailed for a while\, in articles\, book introductions and sales reports: the gaming revolution. Fun for all is finally here and if we put our minds to it\, games may even save the world! Then\, what is wrong with the gaming revolution? The question can be read both as a complaint and a celebration of what is happening. This talk questions the gaming revolution by playfully pitting Mama Ludens vs Fan-boi\, here representing everyday playing practices of adult female gamers and conservative discursive elements of game culture\, in a symbolic battle over ludic fun. It nevertheless welcomes the gaming revolution as a cultural evolution\, but calls for a more profound and radical ludic revolution. \nJessica Enevold is Assistant Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences\, section for ethnology at Lund University\, Sweden where she organizes the Digital Cultures and Games Lecture and Lab Series and works as course coordinator\, supervisor and teacher in the Master’s Program Applied Cultural Analysis (MACA). She runs the research projects “Gaming Moms: Juggling Time\, Play and Family Life” and “Games and Play – For Better For Worse”. She currently co-edits an anthology on Game Love and is the Managing Editor for the international journal Game Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jessica-enevold-mama-ludens-vs-fanboi-what-is-wrong-with-the-gaming-revolution-2/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Room 599\,  Engineering 2\, 1156 High St‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110517T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110517T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T053426
CREATED:20110513T152819Z
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SUMMARY:John Davison: "What will the games business look like in 5 years?"
DESCRIPTION:John Davison\, VP of programming at CBS Interactive – GameSpot and Metacritic\, will look at the way the audience for games is changing\, and how the games industry is adjusting and adapting to new tastes\, technology\, and trends. \nJohn Davison is VP of programming at CBS Interactive for GameSpot and Metacritic. Davison comes to CBS’ gaming properties from IDG’s GamePro\, where he served as Executive Vice President of Content. Davison’s career in game journalism spans nearly 20 years and includes high-ranking positions at outlets including Electronic Gaming Monthly\, the Official PlayStation Magazine\, and What They Play\, a family-focused consumer site which he founded and later sold to IGN Entertainment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-davison-what-will-the-games-business-look-like-in-5-years-2/
LOCATION:Media Theater\, M110
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110518T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110518T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T053426
CREATED:20110313T195114Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20110313T195114Z
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SUMMARY:Mark Franko: "Myth\, Nationalism\, and Embodiment in Martha Graham's American Document"
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: \nMark Franko\, Dance and Performance Studies\, UCSC\n“Myth\, Nationalism\, and Embodiment in Martha Graham’s American Document“ \nProfessor Franko\, a UC Humanities Network Scholar\, is editor of Dance Research Journal\, founding editor of the Oxford Studies in Dance Theory book series\, and Director of the Center for Visual and Performance Studies at UCSC. He is finishing a book on Martha Graham in the 1940s (Oxford) supported by an NEH research fellowship and a UC President’s Research Fellowship. \nMark Franko is Professor of Dance and Performance Studies in Theater Arts at UCSC. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mark-franko-myth-nationalism-and-embodiment-in-martha-grahams-american-document-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110518T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110518T170000
DTSTAMP:20260429T053426
CREATED:20110517T175343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20110517T175343Z
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SUMMARY:Professor William Ladusaw’s Vision for the Humanities
DESCRIPTION:University of California\, Santa Cruz \nHUMANITIES DEAN CANDIDATE PRESENTATION \nProfessor William Ladusaw’s Vision for the Humanities \nThe presentation will be followed by a brief question and answer session. Meetings will be held for Humanities Faculty\, Students\, and Staff\, beginning at 2:45PM \n2:00 – 2:45pm    Candidate Presentation \n2:45 – 3:30pm   Humanities Faculty and Department Chairs \n3:30 – 4:00pm   Humanities Graduate Students \n4:00 – 4:30pm   Humanities Undergraduate Students \n4:30 – 5:00pm   Humanities Staff & Department Managers
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/professor-william-ladusaws-vision-for-the-humanities-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110519T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110519T160000
DTSTAMP:20260429T053426
CREATED:20110507T231534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20110507T231534Z
UID:10004811-1305795600-1305820800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:All members of the UCSC community and the general public are invited to attend the Twelfth Annual UCSC Literature Undergraduate Colloquium onThursday\, May 19\, 2011 in Humanities 1\, room 210. The Undergraduate Colloquium is a day-long event showcasing and celebrating undergraduate academic work in the Literature Department\, and is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be available throughout the day. For more information please see literature.ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-4778. \nThe colloquium schedule is as follows: \nOpening Remarks\n9:00 – 9:10 a.m.\nKaren Bassi\, Literature Department Chair \nPanel One: Morphologies\n9:10 – 10:30 a.m.\nModerator: John O. Jordan\nKirby A. Conrod\, Dialog and Morphology in the Novel\nNicole Green\, Explorations of the Nature of Reality in To the Lighthouse\nAshley Overhouse\, Read Between the Paratexts: Resistance in the 19th Century Race Novel\nAlicia Roll\, Poetic Inspiration \nPanel Two: Pacific Crossings\n10:45 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.\nModerator: Tim Yamamura\nAlyssa Benveniste\, The Body of a Woman: Exploring the Nation in Chang Rae Lee’s A Gesture Life\nDavid Manalo\, An Investigation Into The Literary Sublime of the 21st Century Asian Diaspora\nKyle Murphy\, Kerouac and Oriental Worlding \nLunch Buffet 12:10 – 12:55 p.m. \nPanel Three: Creative Writing\n1:00 – 2:20 p.m.\nModerator: Juliana Leslie\nJohan Flyvbjerg\, Flakes and Cherries\nKatharine Elyse Wheeler-Dubin\, Inside Games\nJessica Jones\, The Garden Not Forgotten \nPanel Four: Negotiating Identity\n2:30 – 3:50 p.m.\nModerator: A. Hunter Bivens\nJulia Franceschini\, Comic-book Cinema: How Maus Captures Reality\nBrenda Houser\, Zoot Suit: Pachuco Mythology and the Redefinition of Chicano Identity\nJessica Mead\, Liberating Cuba: The Use of Historical Romance to Imagine a Nation\nMegan Susman\, Jews\, Errants\, Disaster: From the Destruction of the Second Temple to Michael Chabon’s Kavalier and Clay
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/literature-undergraduate-colloquium-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110519T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110519T190000
DTSTAMP:20260429T053426
CREATED:20110512T173349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20110512T173349Z
UID:10004812-1305824400-1305831600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Emily Greenwood: "Regarding Priam: Reconciliation and Classical Reception"
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Classical Studies Program and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present the annual Carl Deppe Lecture: \nIn light of David Malouf’s 2009 novel Ransom\, based on Priam’s supplication of Achilles in Book 24 of Homer’s Iliad\, the lecture will consider the figure of Priam as a vehicle for reconciling cultures and histories via the study of classical receptions\, paying particular attention to debates about restorative justice. \nEmily Greenwood is Associate Professor of Classics at Yale University. Her research interests include ancient Greek historiography\, Greek prose literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE\, twentieth century classical receptions (especially uses of Classics in Africa\, Britain\, the Caribbean\, and Greece)\, Classics and Postcolonialism\, and the theory and practice of translating the ‘classics’ of Greek and Roman literature. She is the author of Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press\, 2010). \nReception to follow.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/emily-greenwood-regarding-priam-reconciliation-and-classical-reception-2/
LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\,  Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110519T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110519T210000
DTSTAMP:20260429T053426
CREATED:20110512T174554Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20110512T174554Z
UID:10004815-1305831600-1305838800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Film Screening: "La Carta: Sagrario nunca has muerto para mí"
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, May 20th\, contributors to the book Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas\, will be speaking about their research and activism in the campaign to end feminicide in Mexico and on the borderlands.  The speakers will also address the human rights crisis in Mexico\, violence targeting human rights activists\, and the social movement for peace and an end to violence in Mexico. \nSpeakers:  Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba (University of Texas at Austin)\, Eva Arce (Ciudad Juárez)\, Alma Gómez (Centro de Derechos Humanos\, Chihuahua City)\, and Cynthia Bejarano (New Mexico State University). \nTIME & PLACE: 12-2 PM @ Namaste Lounge\, College 9 \nOn Thursday evening\, May 19th\, there will be a screening: La Carta: Sagrario nunca has muerto para mí (English sub-titles) directed by Rafael Bonilla.  The film documents the life of Paula Bonilla Flores and her struggle for justice on behalf of her daughter and other murdered and disappeared women. \nQ&A with Paula Flores (director of Fundación María Sagrario and mother of feminicide victim\, María Sagrario González from Ciudad Juárez); and Hector Domínguez-Ruvalcaba (University of Texas\, Austin). \nTIME & PLACE: 7-9 PM @ Merrill College Cultural Center \nPlease note that ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF THE BOOK\, Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas\, go to select organizations listed in www.stopterrorizingwomen.com \nSponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies\, El Centro (Chicano/Latino Resource Center)\, Chicano/Latino Research Center\, and the Women’s Center.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-la-carta-sagrario-nunca-has-muerto-para-mi-2/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110520T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110520T123000
DTSTAMP:20260429T053426
CREATED:20110513T153252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20110513T153252Z
UID:10004821-1305889200-1305894600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Damon Brown: "Porn and Pong"
DESCRIPTION:McDonald’s has “Fast Food Nation\,” the fish industry has “Cod\,” but no book has successfully weaved the cautionary tales and humorous history of the world of video games into our modern society… until now. For “Porn and Pong” Playboy Magazine journalist Damon Brown spent five years exploring how the $20 billion video game industry traces our evolution in sexual mores\, technological dependence and personal interaction. The VCR and the dawn of the modern porn industry parallels the first Atari systems\, Reality TV skyrocketed the same year as The Sims\, and the surgically-endowed Pamela Anderson was only outshined by one other woman: Lara Croft. In one of the most stimulating moments\, Brown examines Presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2005 tirade against Grand Theft Auto\, and how politics\, hidden agendas and financial pressure affect all controversial art forms. \nDamon Brown writes about sex\, technology\, music and video games for Playboy\, New York Post and Family Circle\, and is the tech columnist for AARP Online and PlanetOut. He is the author of several books\, most recently Porn & Pong: How Grand Theft Auto\, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Our Culture. Damon has a Masters in Magazine Publishing from Chicago’s Northwestern University and a degree in Journalism and Computing from Detroit’s Oakland University. The Jersey native considers New Orleans\, Chicago and Lansing (Michigan) his hometowns\, but recently established his secret headquarters in Northern California.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/damon-brown-porn-and-pong-2/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Simularium\, Room 180\, Baskin Engineering\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110520T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110520T140000
DTSTAMP:20260429T053426
CREATED:20110512T174140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20110512T174140Z
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SUMMARY:Gender Violence in Mexico
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, May 20th\, contributors to the book Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas\, will be speaking about their research and activism in the campaign to end feminicide in Mexico and on the borderlands.  The speakers will also address the human rights crisis in Mexico\, violence targeting human rights activists\, and the social movement for peace and an end to violence in Mexico. \nSpeakers:  Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba (University of Texas at Austin)\, Eva Arce (Ciudad Juárez)\, Alma Gómez (Centro de Derechos Humanos\, Chihuahua City)\, and Cynthia Bejarano (New Mexico State University). \nTIME & PLACE: 12-2 PM @ Namaste Lounge\, College 9 \nOn Thursday evening\, May 19th\, there will be a screening: La Carta: Sagrario nunca has muerto para mí (English sub-titles) directed by Rafael Bonilla.  The film documents the life of Paula Bonilla Flores and her struggle for justice on behalf of her daughter and other murdered and disappeared women. \nQ&A with Paula Flores (director of Fundación María Sagrario and mother of feminicide victim\, María Sagrario González from Ciudad Juárez); and Hector Domínguez-Ruvalcaba (University of Texas\, Austin). \nTIME & PLACE: 7-9 PM @ Merrill College Cultural Center \nPlease note that ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF THE BOOK\, Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas\, go to select organizations listed in www.stopterrorizingwomen.com \nSponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies\, El Centro (Chicano/Latino Resource Center)\, Chicano/Latino Research Center\, and the Women’s Center.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gender-violence-in-mexico-2/
LOCATION:Namaste Lounge – College 9\, Namaste Lounge\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110520T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110520T170000
DTSTAMP:20260429T053426
CREATED:20110425T214359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20110425T214359Z
UID:10004585-1305905400-1305910800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Scott AnderBois: "What is a Question? An Answer from Yucatec Maya"
DESCRIPTION:The act of questioning is central to human conversation\, but how do we know if a given sentence is a question in the first place? Looking at English\, there are two reasonable accounts we might give. First\, questions are defined by their semantics: i.e. questions have a particular kind of meaning which is distinct from that of other sentences\, and\, in particular\, from assertions. Alternatively\, questions might be defined by their syntax: i.e. the form of questions make use of particular elements (e.g. question words like `who’\, `what’\, and `why’) which distinguish them from assertions. \nThis talk addresses the title question from the perspective of Yucatec Maya\, an indigenous language of Mexico spoken by roughly 800\,000 people. Questions in Yucatec Maya often have no single element in their form which distinguishes them from assertions. Rather\, they consist of particular combinations of elements\, each of which occurs on its own in sentences which are clearly not questions. To understand why such sentences are questions\, then\, requires a particular understanding of the meaning of these elements individually\, and of how these meanings interact in a given sentence. In so doing\, we not only shed light on the nature of questions across languages\, but also on the nature of the elements from which questions are built. \nScott AnderBois is a fifth year grad student in Linguistics. His dissertation research investigates the grammatical properties of questions and related constructions\, such as indefinite pronouns (i.e. words like ‘someone’\, ‘something’) whose function is to introduce issues for immediate or future conversation. In order to address these general questions\, Mr. AnderBois has been engaged in primary fieldwork on the properties of these constructions in Yukatek Maya\, an indigenous language of Mexico\, currently spoken by approximately 800\,000 people in the Yucatán Peninsula. Whereas questions in English are clearly identified by the presence of question words like ‘who’ and ‘what’\, analogous questions in Yukatek Maya are formed by placing a word which otherwise means ‘someone’ or ‘something’ in a particular position within the sentence. Expanding on this exploration of the tight relationship between indefinite pronouns and questions in Yukatek Maya\, Mr. AnderBois’s research sheds light on the meanings of both constructions as a general phenomenon in human language. \nThis event is made possible by the UC Society of Fellows and the UC Humanities Network.  Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research\, UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/scott-anderbois-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110522
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110525
DTSTAMP:20260429T053426
CREATED:20110311T213227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20110311T213227Z
UID:10004774-1306022400-1306281599@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Women\, Jews and Venetians Conference
DESCRIPTION:“L’Italie\, Laboratoire de la modernite juive\,” — Workshop of Jewish Modernity –  a group of scholars recently characterized Venice and the Ghetto and thereby focused discussion on how this laboratory shaped Jewish modernity.  Carrying forward a recently emerging scholarly view about early modern Jewish communities\, these essays emphasize the interaction of the Jews in the Ghetto with the larger Venetian populace and polity\, reminding us that the Ghetto came to be named “La Citta degli ebrei.” An island set apart from and yet part of the city on the lagoon\, the Ghetto became a political\, social\, and cultural locus of historical and symbolic status. \nYet the roles women played in this forging of modern Jewish identity are often absent from the conversation. Notable women such as Dona Gracia Nasi and Sarra Copia Sulam appear here and there. However\, there is little sustained attentiveness to the ways in which Jewish and Venetian women across the social spectrum responded to emerging modern habits and processes. Their contribution to the “workshop of Jewish modernity” has not been charted – and thus we know little as to how and to what extent women were able to express and take agency in many spheres\, from cultural practices and financial activities to intellectual pursuits. \nOur gathering is directed to bringing women into the Venetian historical account. We will focus on the ways in which Jewish women\, in part through their connections to other Venetian and Italian women\, helped to articulate what it was to be modern\, and thus participated in the forging of modern Venetian\, Italian\, and Jewish identities. We anticipate that there also will be discussion of the contributions of non-Jewish women in shaping the image and understanding of contemporary Venice and Venetian Jewish life. We envision that this objective might be approached through multiple disciplines\, literature\, history\, and art history among them. \nThis conference seeks to help open new lines of scholarly inquiry\, which we might continue to build at subsequent gatherings\, with the eventual aim of organizing a larger conference in Venice in the near future. In keeping with the exploratory purpose of this gathering\, featured lectures are followed by panels\, — whose participants will take the conversation forward. \nSchedule (View Program) \nSUNDAY\, MAY 22 \n7:00–8:30 pm \nShaul Bassi\, Ca’ Foscari\, University of Venice\, “From Shakespeare to Erica Jong: Jewish Women and Cultural Politics” \n8:30 pm \nReception \nMONDAY\, MAY 23 \n9:00–11:00 am \nPANEL: Venice\, Portal to Jewish Modernity  \nLisa Calevi\, University of Oregon\, “Jewish Childhoods” \nDr. Leonard Rothman\, MD OBGYN retired\, Independent Scholar formerly of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine\, “Venetian Midwives\, and Modern Medicine” \nMonique Balbuena\, University of Oregon\,  “The Languages of the Conversas” \nRespondent: Lisa Pon\, Southern Methodist University \n11:15 am – 12:15 pm \nCynthia Baker\, Bates College\, “The Essentially Ambiguous Jewess: An Ancient Trope in Modern Europe” \n12:15–2:00 pm \nLunch \nMurray Baumgarten\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\,  “Ghetto Matters\, the Venice Center\, and Planning for 2016: Suggestions and Discussion” \n2:00–3:30 pm \nPANEL: Women and the Arts  \nJill Fields\, California State University Fresno\, “The Writing of Peggy Guggenheim: Narrating Gender\, Jewish Identity\, and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Venice” \nDr. Joanna Harris\, dance historian\, Osher Lifelong Learning\, University of California\, Berkeley\, “Two Historic Italian Women And Their Contribution To The Arts: Isabella Andreini — Commedia Dell’arte—and Catherine De Medici– Classical Ballet” \nRespondent: Deanna Shemek\, University of California\, Santa Cruz \n3:30–4:00 pm \nRefreshments \n4:00–5:15 pm \nGretchen-Starr-Lebeau\, University of Kentucky\, “Judging by Gender: Venetian Jewish Women Before the Inquisition” \n5:15–6:15 pm \nDinner \n6:15–7:15 pm             \nHoward Adelman\, Queen’s University\, Kingston\, Ontario\, “What Jews on the Rialto?  The Venetian Adventures of Beatrice and Reyna de Luna” \n7:30–8:45 pm \nPANEL: Representations of Venetian Jewish Women \nMiriam Shein\, Independent Scholar\, “Reflection from the Ghetto: Creating a Venetian Jewish Heroine” \nYael Chaver\, University of California\, Berkeley\, “20th Century Jewish Translations of Jessica.”    \nRespondent: Robin Russin\, University of California\, Riverside \n 8:45–9: 15 pm \nRefreshments \nTUESDAY\, MAY 24 \n9:00–10:15 am \nDon Harrán\, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, “Sarra Copia Sulam\, A Seventeenth-Century Jewish Poet in Search of Immortality” \n10:15–10:30 \nCoffee \n10:30–12:30 \nPANEL: Jewish Women and the Public World  \nDr. Ariella Lang\, Barnard College\, “Margherita Sarfatti\, Mussolini\, and 20th Century Public Life”  \n Michael Shapiro\, University of Illinois/Loyola University\, “Women and Hidden Jews under Nazi Occupation: Roberto Bassi’s Evidence” \nWill Wells \, Dean\, Rhodes State College\, “Translating the Poems of Sarra Copia Sulam”  \nRespondent: Paul Michelson\, Huntington University \n12:30 pm \nLunch & a riverderci \nThis conference sponsored by the UCSC Center for Jewish Studies\, the Museo Italo-Americano of San Francisco\, and the Venice Center for International Jewish Studies. Major support provided by the David B. Gold Foundation\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and the Department of Literature\, with staff support from the Institute for Humanities Research. \nThe Santa Cruz Conference is free and open to the public. Please let us know if you plan to attend by calling (831) 459–5655 or (831) 459-2566. \nFor further information\, including disabled access\, contact Shann Ritchie at the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research\, sritchie@ucsc.edu\, (831) 459-5655. \n*San Francisco Preview Panel at the Museo Italo-Americano in Fort Mason\, Sunday morning\, May 22\, from 9:30 am – 12:30 pm in conjunction with exhibited materials from Il Ghetto: Forging Italian Jewish Identities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/women-jews-and-venetians-conference-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110525T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110525T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T053426
CREATED:20110313T195643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20110313T195643Z
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SUMMARY:Tamara Spira: "Neoliberal Captivities: Pisagua Prison and the Low Intensity Form"
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: \nTamara Spira\, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Cultural Studies\, UC Davis\n“Neoliberal Captivities: Pisagua Prison and the Low Intensity Form” \nDoctor Spira works at the intersections of feminist\, comparative ethnic and hemispheric American studies\, and is completing Movements of Feeling: Neoliberalism\, Affect and (Post) Revolutionary Memory in the Americas. The talk provides a reading of (the now converted) Pisagua prison in northern Chile\, which intermittently served as a concentration camp for leftists and “sexual dissidents” throughout the 20th century. \nTamara Spira is the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Cultural Studies at UC Davis. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tamara-spira-neoliberal-captivities-pisagua-prison-and-the-low-intensity-form-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110525T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110525T173000
DTSTAMP:20260429T053426
CREATED:20110505T184340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20110505T184340Z
UID:10004809-1306339200-1306344600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Joan Retallack: "Reciprocal Alterities\, Questions of Poethics for Difficult Times"
DESCRIPTION:Poetry and Politics Research Cluster presents:\n \nA talk and workshop with Joan Retallack\, followed by a poetry reading at Felix Kulpa Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz. \n \nJoan Retallack’s most recent publication Procedural Elegies  / Western Civ Cont’d / (Roof Books) was the poetry volume named by Artforum as a best book of 2010. Other poetry includes Memnoir (Post-Apollo\, 2004)\, How To Do Things With Words (Sun & Moon Classics\, 1998)\, Afterrimages (Wesleyan\, 1995)\, and Errata 5uite (Edge Books\, 1993)\, chosen by Robert Creeley for the Columbia Book Award of that year. Her critical books include Gertrude Stein: Selections (2008) for which she wrote an extensive introduction to Stein’s work\,  and The Poethical Wager (2004)—both from University of California Press. Poetry & Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary (2006\, Palgrave MacMillan) is co-edited with Juliana Spahr; MUSICAGE: John Cage in Conversation with Joan Retallack (1996\, Wesleyan University Press) won the America Award for Belles-Lettres. She is a recipient of a Lannan Poetry Award\, two Gertrude Stein awards\, and National Endowment for the Arts funding for an artist’s book project—Westorn Civ Cont’d\, An Open Book. She has recently written the introduction for a new\, corrected edition of Gertrude Stein’s Stanzas in Meditation\, forthcoming from Yale University Press. Her current projects are “The Reinvention of Truth” and “The Bosch Bookshelf.” Retallack lives in the Hudson Valley where she is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College. \nPoetry and Politics is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this\nevent. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network. Cosponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies\, the Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, and the Literature Department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joan-retallack-reciprocal-alterities-questions-of-poethics-for-difficult-times-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110525T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110525T190000
DTSTAMP:20260429T053426
CREATED:20110514T180455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20110514T180455Z
UID:10004823-1306343700-1306350000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Nancy Hornberger: "Multilingual Education Policy and Practice: Ten Certainties (Grounded in Indigenous Experience)"
DESCRIPTION:Ethnic diversity and inequality\, intercultural communication and contact\, and global political and economic interdependence are acknowledged realities in today’s world. Multilingual education\, too\, is a fact of life\, and though there are a great variety of contexts\, models\, contents\, and developmental trajectories in multilingual education policy and practice\, it is possible to discern continuities that characterize successful multilingual education wherever it is found. My emphasis here is on what we know and are sure of\, analytically formulated as ten certainties and illustrated by empirical research.\nThis talk is presented by the Language Program Colloquium Series.\n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nancy-hornberger-multilingual-education-policy-and-practice-ten-certainties-grounded-in-indigenous-experience-2/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110525T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110525T203000
DTSTAMP:20260429T053426
CREATED:20110505T184817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20110505T184817Z
UID:10004810-1306350000-1306355400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Joan Retallack: Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Poetry and Politics Research Cluster presents:\n \nA talk and workshop with Joan Retallack\, followed by a poetry reading at Felix Kulpa Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz. \n \nJoan Retallack’s most recent publication Procedural Elegies  / Western Civ Cont’d / (Roof Books) was the poetry volume named by Artforum as a best book of 2010. Other poetry includes Memnoir (Post-Apollo\, 2004)\, How To Do Things With Words (Sun & Moon Classics\, 1998)\, Afterrimages (Wesleyan\, 1995)\, and Errata 5uite (Edge Books\, 1993)\, chosen by Robert Creeley for the Columbia Book Award of that year. Her critical books include Gertrude Stein: Selections (2008) for which she wrote an extensive introduction to Stein’s work\,  and The Poethical Wager (2004)—both from University of California Press. Poetry & Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary (2006\, Palgrave MacMillan) is co-edited with Juliana Spahr; MUSICAGE: John Cage in Conversation with Joan Retallack (1996\, Wesleyan University Press) won the America Award for Belles-Lettres. She is a recipient of a Lannan Poetry Award\, two Gertrude Stein awards\, and National Endowment for the Arts funding for an artist’s book project—Westorn Civ Cont’d\, An Open Book. She has recently written the introduction for a new\, corrected edition of Gertrude Stein’s Stanzas in Meditation\, forthcoming from Yale University Press. Her current projects are “The Reinvention of Truth” and “The Bosch Bookshelf.” Retallack lives in the Hudson Valley where she is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College. \nPoetry and Politics is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this\nevent. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network. Cosponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies\, the Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, and the Literature Department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joan-retallack-poetry-reading-2/
LOCATION:Felix Kulpa Gallery\, 107 Elm Street\, Santa Cruz\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110526T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110526T173000
DTSTAMP:20260429T053426
CREATED:20110505T182404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20110505T182404Z
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SUMMARY:Dai Jin-hua: "In Vogue: Politics and National Ethnicity in Lust\, Caution and the Lust\, Caution Phenomenon in China"
DESCRIPTION:Dai Jinhua is Founder and Director of the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies and Film Studies at Peking University\, where she is also Professor of Chinese Literature and Language.  She is a prominent cultural scholar of literature\, film\, and popular culture. With Meng Yue\, she wrote the 1989 Emerging on the Horizon of History\, one of the first works of feminist scholarship published in reform-era China.  Her work as a film scholar and media critic questions the social legitimacy of consumer culture in China\, while problematizing the elitist lineage of Western Marxism and reflecting on Chinese modes of intellectual endeavor during the last three decades. Dai Jinhua’s publications include Film Theory and Criticism\, Gendering China\, Cinema and Desire\, and Scenery in the Fog: Chinese Cinema Culture 1978-1988.   The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture comments of her work\, “Her innovative experiments with different critical approaches and the feminist perspective with which she re-examined dominant theories of literature\, film and popular culture introduced a new way of critical analysis far beyond her field in China. The development of her own dynamic cultural critique also addressed a growing audience in Taiwan\, Hong Kong and the West.” \nSponsored by the Department of History with Generous Support from the Nee Fun
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dai-jin-hua-in-vogue-politics-and-national-ethnicity-in-lust-caution-and-the-lust-caution-phenomenon-in-china-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110526T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110526T194500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Neo Benshi
DESCRIPTION:Neo Benshi\, Roxi Power Hamilton\, Jen Hofer and Konrad Steiner present a new take on the Japanese tradition of “benshi”—a writer or actor who provides live narration and commentary alongside films. The neo-benshi concept invites writers/performers to choose scenes from well-known narrative features or TV shows\, mute the soundtrack\, and re-inscribe the familiar images with new meanings. \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-neo-benshi-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110527T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110527T170000
DTSTAMP:20260429T053426
CREATED:20110401T191731Z
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SUMMARY:Roumyana Pancheva
DESCRIPTION:The Linguistics Colloquium Series Presents: \nRoumyana Pancheva (USC) \nStay tuned for more details!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/roumyana-pancheva-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110527T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110527T190000
DTSTAMP:20260429T053426
CREATED:20110516T173849Z
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SUMMARY:Under the Sign of War: U.S. Militarism and Asian Americanist Critique
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Pacific Seminar returns focus to war\, both as a way of invoking the foundational anti-Vietnam War struggles that inaugurated Asian American studies as an urgent political and epistemological project and as a contemporary analytic that wields the potential of reconfiguring the project of Asian American studies today.  In particular\, this year’s Pacific Seminar workshop\, led by Wei Ming Dariotis (San Francisco State) and Jennifer Kwon-Dobbs (St. Olaf College)\, highlights and historicizes the emergence of mixed-race studies and critical adoption studies as simultaneously origin-animating and field-transforming directions within Asian American studies.  Inquiring into the centrality of U.S. wars in Asia to mixed-race studies and critical adoption studies\, this year’s workshop approaches Asian American studies not as a rigid crystallized academic tradition but rather as a critical intellectual formation whose shifting contours are shaped and renewed by engagement with the political.  In other words\, not simply reducible to new identitarian directions in an academic field whose expansion (and incoherence)\, as critics have argued\, reflect demographic changes brought on by immigration\, mixed-race studies and critical adoption studies\, by raising the question of geopolitics\, biopolitics\, and necropolitics relative to U.S. wars and militarism in the Asia Pacific region\, pose fundamental challenges to an identity-based approach to Asian American studies.   As with the inaugural formation of Asian American studies\, these emergent areas of activism and socially engaged scholarship\, as this year’s workshop will explore\, cannot be theorized outside a framework of U.S. imperialism and war. \nWei Ming Dariotis is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies\, with an emphasis on Asian Americans of Mixed Heritage and Asian American Literature\, Arts\, and Culture. She has served on the Boards of Directors of Hapa Issues Forum\, the Asian American Theater Company\, and iPride\, and on the Advisory Boards of Kearny Street Workshop and the Asian American Women Artists Association.  Her poetry has been published in Mixed Up\,Too Mixed Up\, 580 Split\, and Yellow as Turmeric\, Fragrant as Cloves: A Contemporary Anthology of Asian American Women’s Poetry. Her academic essays have been published in Mixed Race Literature (2002)\, Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian American Activists (2004)\, Chinese America: History and Perspectives (2007)\, The Influence of Star Trek on Television\, Film and Culture (2007)\, and Interracial Relationships in the 21st Century (2009).  Her current project is War Baby | Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art\, co-curated and co-edited with Laura Kina\, an art exhibit (Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle and the De Paul University Art Museum in Chicago\, 2013)\, and a book (under formal review at University of Washington Press). \nJennifer Kwon Dobbs is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing and director of American Race and Multicultural Studies at St. Olaf College.  She is former core staff for Truth and Reconciliation for the Adoption Community of Korea (TRACK) and a current fellow with the Korea Policy Institute.  Jennifer’s debut collection\, Paper Pavilion (White Pine Press 2007)\, received the White Pine Press Poetry Prize and the Sheila Motton Book Award\, and her chapbook\, Song of a Mirror\, was a finalist for the Tupelo Press Snowbound Series Chapbook Award.  Columns and new stories about Jennifer’s present research on Korean adoptee birth searches and unwed mothers have appeared in Chosun Ilbo\, Conducive Magazine\, Gyeonghyang News\, Hankyoreh\, Korea Herald\, Korea Times\, Pressian\, and Yonhap News.  Currently she is writing a book of essays about unwed moms’ realities with the Korean Unwed Mothers and Families Association and a second book of poetry. \nParticipation: Please note that this is a reading workshop.  To take part in the workshop and to obtain readings in advance\, please RSVP to Christine Hong at cjhong@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/under-the-sign-of-war-u-s-militarism-and-asian-americanist-critique-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 320
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110528
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110530
DTSTAMP:20260429T053426
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SUMMARY:Music and Greek Drama: History\, Theory\, and Practice
DESCRIPTION:University of California\, Santa Cruz Presents:\nMusic and Greek Drama: History\, Theory\, and Practice\nAn International Conference\n \nIn connection with the UCSC Theater Arts production of Orestes Terrorist\,\na new version of Euripides’ Orestes by Mary-Kay Gamel\,\nMainstage Theater\, UCSC\, May 20-29\n \nMay 28-29\, 2011\nCollege 8\, Room 240\n \nScholars and theater practitioners will discuss how music affects the meaning and impact of dramatic performance ancient and modern. How do scholars and musicians reconstruct the likely sounds and styles of ancient Greek music and dance? How did the music of the Athenian theater respond to\, and in turn shape\, the socio-cultural trends and political controversies of the day? What can and should be the role of music in modern productions of Greek drama? The use of music in the theatrical production of Orestes Terrorist will serve as a case study.\n \nKeynote Address by Peter Kivy\, Rutgers University\n \nSpeakers\nAmy R. Cohen\, Randolph College\nPhilip Collins\, New Music Works\, Santa Cruz\nMichael Ewans\, University of Newcastle\nJohn C. Franklin\, University of Vermont\nMary-Kay Gamel\, UC Santa Cruz\nMark Griffith\, UC Berkeley\nStefan Hagel\, Austrian Academy of Sciences\nRobert Ketterer\, University of Iowa\nPauline Le Van\, Yale University\nFiona Macintosh\, University of Oxford\nC.W. Marshall\, University of British Columbia\nDonald Mastronarde\, UC Berkeley\nLucia Prauscello\, University of Cambridge\nDanny Scheie\, UC Santa Cruz\nAndrew Simpson\, Catholic University of America\n \nThis conference is presented by University of California Humanities Research Institute\, with generous support from the Klio Distinguished Professorship\, UC Berkeley; Institute for Humanities Research\, UCSC; Committee on Research\, UCSC.\nFor further information\, including disabled access\, contact Courtney Mahaney at the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research\, cmahaney@ucsc.edu\, (831) 459-3527; web: http://ihr.ucsc.edu/. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu. Staffing provided by the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/music-in-greek-tragedy-2/
LOCATION:College 8\, Room 240\,  College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110531T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110531T130000
DTSTAMP:20260429T053426
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SUMMARY:Humanities Undergraduate Research Award Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Recipients of this years Humanities Undergraduate Research Award (HUGRA) will be presenting their projects during Student Achievement week. All are welcome and encouraged to support these students!\n  \nIn 1996\, the Humanities Division began awarding undergraduate students to support and encourage innovative research projects.   This year’s Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) symposium brings together a unique blend of projects ranging from historical narratives to linguistic experimentations.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-undergraduate-research-award-presentations-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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