BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.16.3//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:20111004T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111004T140000 DTSTAMP:20260617T001922 CREATED:20110922T224347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110922T224347Z UID:10004612-1317729600-1317736800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Clare Hemmings\, "Techniques for Reimagining Feminist Theory: Starting from How We Feel" DESCRIPTION:Clare Hemmings\n“Feminist theory seems caught in its own narratives of progress\, loss and return\, which I argue echo broader conservative agendas that position feminism as over or anachronistic. It does not seem enough to tell different stories\, to simply multiply feminisms. Might we instead tell stories differently? This paper makes the case for two different modes of telling that start from the affective location of the teller with the aim of interrupting these dominant narratives. The first explores the practice of recitation\, a technique to intervene in the histories produced through citation practices; the second starts from affective breakdown by exploring the importance of ‘the unspeakable’ in reimagining recent feminist history and the subject’s role in its narration.” \n  \nClare Hemmings is Reader in Feminist Theory at the Gender Institute\, London School of Economics\, where she has recently completed a period as Director. She is the author of Why Stories Matter: the Political Grammar of Feminist Theory (Duke\, 2011) and Bisexual Spaces (Routledge\, 2002). She is a member of the Feminist Review Collective\, which seeks to create alternative spaces for feminist theory and practice. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/techniques-for-reimagining-feminist-theory-3/ 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:20111005T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111005T133000 DTSTAMP:20260617T001922 CREATED:20110815T205243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T205243Z UID:10004604-1317816000-1317821400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Juliana Schiesari\, “Rethinking Humanism: Horses\, Honor and Virtue in the Italian Renaissance” DESCRIPTION:Juliana Schiesari\nProfessor Schiesari is working on the relation between humanism and the post-human by rethinking the human and non-human as they are constructed in the Italian Renaissance. Her recent publications include Beasts and Beauties: Animals\, Gender and Domestication in the Italian Renaissance (Toronto\, 2010) and Polymorphous Domesticities: Pets\, Bodies and Desire in Four Modern Writers (UC\, forthcoming). \nJuliana Schiesari is Professor of Italian and Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at UC Davis. This colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/juliana-schiesari-rethinking-humanism-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:20111005T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111005T180000 DTSTAMP:20260617T001922 CREATED:20110927T004710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110927T004710Z UID:10004862-1317830400-1317837600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:2011 Humanities Don Rothman Writing Awards Ceremony DESCRIPTION:Recipients of the 2010-2011 Humanities Don Rothman Writing Awards recipients and their writing teachers will be honored. \nDon Rothman\nAdam Beighley\, for Twin Forces of a Wave” (Maggie Amis) \nAND \nSarah Edelstein\, for “’Til Death Do We Choose” (Kiva Silver) \nHonorable Mentions: \nBriana Bernstein\, for “Freud’s Model of Civilization and Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four” (Brij Lunine) \nKerianne Doi\, for “Mackey Versus Pollan: War of Whole Foods” (Robin Somers) \nRosalie Evans\, for “The Graphic Truth” (Carol Gerster) \nJackson Greer\, for “Getting Back to the Farm” (Jude Todd) \nFor information about the ceremony: \nJames A. Wilson\, PhD\, Chair\, Writing Program \nCowell Office 209\, 459-2627\, jawilson@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2011-humanities-don-rothman-writing-awards-ceremony-3/ 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:20111006T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111006T200000 DTSTAMP:20260617T001922 CREATED:20110926T232123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110926T232123Z UID:10004614-1317924000-1317931200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: Nina Revoyr DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents Nina Revoyr. Nina Revoyr has authored four novels: The Necessary Hunger\, Southland\, The Age of Dreaming\, and Wingshooters\, for which she received the Windwest Bookseller’s Choice Award and the Indie Bookseller’s Choice Award. Wingshooters was also named one of Oprah’s ‘boks to watch out for.’ \nNina Revoyr\nNina is the executive vice president of a large child and family service agency in Los Angeles. She has also been an Associate Faculty member at Antioch University\, and a Visiting Professor at Cornell University\, Occidental College\, and Pitzer College. \nFor more information about the event\, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk\, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-reading-series-nina-revoyr-3/ 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:20111012T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111012T133000 DTSTAMP:20260617T001922 CREATED:20110815T210104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T210104Z UID:10004606-1318420800-1318426200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rei Terada\, "Pasolini’s Acceptance" DESCRIPTION:Rei Terada\nIn his late writings\, Pasolini claims to give up on Italian politics and his own erstwhile projects. The talk considers Pasolini’s “repudiation” and the questions of periodization it raises. Professor Terada is the author of Derek Walcott’s Poetry: American Mimicry (Northeastern\, 1992); Feeling in Theory: Emotion after the “Death of the Subject” (Harvard\, 2001); and Looking Away: Phenomenality and Dissatisfaction (Harvard\, 2009). \nRei Terada is Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Irvine. \nThis colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. Cosponsored by the Affect Working Group. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rei-terada-pasolinis-acceptance-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:20111012T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111012T170000 DTSTAMP:20260617T001922 CREATED:20111007T194045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111007T194045Z UID:10004864-1318435200-1318438800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:From Civil Defense to Civil Rights: The Growth of Jewish American Interracial Activism in Los Angeles in the 20th Century DESCRIPTION:UCSC Jewish Studies and History Department present\nFrom Civil Defense to Civil Rights: The Growth of Jewish American Interracial Activism in Los Angeles in the 20th Century \nBridges of Reform\n\nShana Bernstien\nSouthwestern University\nAuthor of Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in 20th Century Los Angeles (2011) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-civil-defense-to-civil-rights-the-growth-of-jewish-american-interracial-activism-in-los-angeles-in-the-20th-century-3/ 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:20111019T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111019T133000 DTSTAMP:20260617T001922 CREATED:20110815T210445Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T210445Z UID:10004607-1319025600-1319031000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Eugene Switkes\, "Studies of Visual Perception: A Window into Brain and Behavior" DESCRIPTION:Eugene Switkes\nScientists and humanists have found common interests in understanding correlations between neural events and complex human behavior. Over the past 30 years we have studied how aspects of human visual perception arise from neural processes that occur in the anatomical substrates of human vision. Professor Switkes discusses how understanding the brain’s recoding of spatial and chromatic information sheds light on the neural basis of visual behavioral phenomena. \nEugene Switkes is Professor of Chemistry and Psychobiology at UC Santa Cruz. He is an Affiliate Professor of Vision Sciences and Optometry at UC Berkeley. \nThis colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies\, with staff support from the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/eugene-switkes-studies-of-visual-perception-a-window-into-brain-and-behavior-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:20111019T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111019T183000 DTSTAMP:20260617T001922 CREATED:20110823T191647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110823T191647Z UID:10004855-1319045400-1319049000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture: Lisa Jean Moore\, "Among the Missing: Operations in Recovering Bodies" DESCRIPTION:Lisa Jean Moore\nLisa Jean Moore\, medical sociologist and Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Purchase College\, State University of New York\, will present a talk based on her recent book Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility. We know more about the physical body—how it begins\, how it responds to illness\, even how it decomposes—than ever before. Yet not all bodies are created equal\, some bodies clearly count more than others\, and some bodies are not recognized at all. By examining the cultural politics at work in disappearances and inclusions of the physical body Prof. Moore shows how the social\, medical and economic consequences of visibility can reward or undermine privilege in society. \nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. \nRelated Articles:\nPeggy Downes Baskin Profile\nPeggy Downes Baskin Endowment for Interdisciplinary Studies in Ethics\nInaugural Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture\, November 3\, 2010 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-peggy-downes-baskin-ethics-lecture-3/ 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:20111020T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111020T200000 DTSTAMP:20260617T001922 CREATED:20110926T233206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110926T233206Z UID:10004615-1319133600-1319140800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: Martha Mendoza DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents Martha Mendoza. \nMartha Mendoza\nMartha Mendoza graduated from UCSC and starte a career as an Associated Press National Writer. Mendoza won the 2000 Pulitzer Prise in investigative journalism for her work on the No Gun Ri story. Her writing has prompted congressional meetings and Pentagon investigations alike. \nFor more information about the event\, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk\, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore. \nThe Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund\, the Porter Hitchcock Fund\, the UCSC Literature Department\, and the Sain Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-martha-mendoza-3/ 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:20111021 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20111022 DTSTAMP:20260617T001922 CREATED:20111209T193514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111209T193514Z UID:10004651-1319155200-1319241540@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:2011 Founder's Day DESCRIPTION:2011 Founder’s Day \nMore information TBA. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2011-founders-day-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111022T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111022T160000 DTSTAMP:20260617T001922 CREATED:20111010T234412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111010T234412Z UID:10004884-1319292000-1319299200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Kathleen Lynch: “Sex Sells\, But Who’s Buying? Erotic Imagery on Athenian Vases” DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on “Archaeology and the Ancient World”: \nKathleen Lynch\nProfessor Kathleen Lynch\, University of Cincinnati \n“Sex Sells\, But Who’s Buying? Erotic Imagery on Athenian Vases” \nErotic imagery appears in early Attic black-figure vases but becomes quite popular in red-figure from about 520-475 B.C. The setting of these often-graphic images of heterosexual and homosexual encounters is usually the symposium\, the all-male drinking party. Nearly all studies assume that these images are produced for and about Athenians\, and thus must represent Athenian views on sexuality and morality. Yet a closer look at the archaeological evidence shows that very few vases with graphic sexual images come from Athens itself; instead\, vases with erotic images were sold on the export market\, and more specifically to Etruria. Thus we must re-evaluate the use of these images in assessing Athenian values: we find an Athenian pottery industry with an astute marketing sense that distorts Athenian cultural identity to appeal to foreign perceptions of Greek culture. \nThe lecture will contain vase-painting images of explicit sexual scenes. \nKathleen Lynch is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati and a specialist in Greek pottery\, particularly vase painting and the social aspects of pottery\, and has completed fieldwork in Albania\, Greece\, and Turkey. She has a book forthcoming from the American School of Classical Studies at Athens\, The Symposium in Context: Pottery from a Late Archaic House near the Athenian Agora. \nFree parking for the lecture in Cowell-Stevenson parking lots \nCoffee at 1:30 and more refreshments after the talk \nFor more information\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kathleen-lynch-sex-sells-but-whos-buying-erotic-imagery-on-athenian-vases-3/ 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:20111024T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111024T170000 DTSTAMP:20260617T001922 CREATED:20110919T230848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110919T230848Z UID:10004859-1319428800-1319475600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Steven Miller\, "Violence Against the Nonliving: the Death Drive & Destruction in Contemporary Philosophy DESCRIPTION:Steven Miller\nProfessor Steven Miller is Professor of English at SUNY Buffalo. He is a faculty mentor for the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture and for Umbr(a). His work in progress is War After Death: Hyperbolic Thinking in Contemporary Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. \nThis lecture is presented by the History of Consciousness Department\, with cosponsorship by the Center for Cultural Studies. For further information\, please contact Michael Holohan\, mholohan@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/steven-miller-violence-against-the-nonliving-the-death-drive-destruction-in-contemporary-philosophy-3/ 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:20111024T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111024T170000 DTSTAMP:20260617T001922 CREATED:20110815T213916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T213916Z UID:10004844-1319470200-1319475600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Affect Working Group Presents: Affect Across the Disciplines: A Faculty-Graduate Workshop DESCRIPTION:Panelists: \nVilashini Cooppan\, “Affective History and Literary Studies”\nAssociate Professor\, Literature\, UCSC \nProfessor Cooppan’s recent work includes an article in Trauma and Memory in South African Writing (Rodopi\, 2011)\, and a book project on affect\, historical violence and world literature.\n \nSharon Daniel\, “Affect in/through New Media Documentary”\nProfessor\, Film and Digital Media and DANM\, UCSC \nProfessor Daniel’s essays have been published in books and professional journals\, including Database Aesthetics\, the Sarai Reader and Leonardo.\n \nDanilyn Rutherford\, “Affect\, Ethics\, and the Empirical in Anthropology”\nProfessor and Chair\, Anthropology\, UCSC \nProfessor Rutherford is the author of Raiding the Land of the Foreigners: The Limits of the Nation on an Indonesian Frontier (Princeton\, 2002) and the forthcoming Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua (Chicago\, 2012).\n \nNoah Wardrip-Fruin\, “Affective Computational Media”\nAssociate Professor\, Computer Science \nProfessor Wardrip-Fruin has authored or co-edited books on games and digital media\, including The New Media Reader (MIT\, 2003) and Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions\, Computer Games\, and Software Studies (MIT\, 2009).\n \nModerator: Kimberly Lau\nProfessor\, Literature\, American Studies \nProfessor Lau is the author of Body Language: Sisters in Shape\, Black Women’s Fitness\, and Feminist Identity Politics (Temple\, 2011).\n \nFor further information\, please contact Deborah Gould\, dbgould@ucsc.edu. \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-affect-working-group-presents-affect-across-the-disciplines-a-faculty-graduate-workshop-2/ LOCATION:Red Room\, Red Restaurant and Bar‎ 200 Locust Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T133000 DTSTAMP:20260617T001922 CREATED:20110815T210819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T210819Z UID:10004825-1319630400-1319635800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gildas Hamel\, "Monotheism and Empire II" DESCRIPTION:Gildas Hamel\nProfessor Hamel is working on a history of religious representations in Hellenistic and Roman Palestine and the notion of monotheism. He examines recent histories of monolatry and monotheism and accounts of religious mediations\, asking whether monotheism can be explained as a response to the Babylonian and Persian empires\, or as an episode in the cultural borrowing and translation of religious stories and practices. \nGildas Hamel is a S.O.E. Lecturer in History. \nThis colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies\, with staff support from the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gildas-hamel-monotheism-and-empire-ii-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:20111026T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T160000 DTSTAMP:20260617T001922 CREATED:20111013T231427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111013T231427Z UID:10004885-1319637600-1319644800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Performing Race at the Victorian Freak Show DESCRIPTION:The Museum and Curatorial Studies (MACS) Research Cluster presents: Nadja Durbach\, Associate Professor\, History and Comparative Gender & Sexuality University of Utah: \nNadja Durbach\nPerforming Race at the Victorian Freak Show \nWhile scholars have examined the display of non-Western peoples at Victorian exhibitions\, and noted that many of the “cannibals” and “savages” who performed were actually fakes\, none have explored in earnest either the preconditions for\, or the ramifications of\, this artifice. This talk interrogates the cultural attitudes that bound ethnic and racial Otherness together\, and the ways in which these relationships were embodied and performed\, in order to explain what made these fake shows not only possible\, but appealing to a broad British public. \nThe widespread use of working-class men\, and the Irish in particular\, to portray Africans or other “savages” at sideshows depended upon and contributed to beliefs about the relationships between class\, ethnicity\, and race. Irishmen were regularly employed to play sideshow savages\, whether American Indians\, Bushmen\, or Zulus\, because of long-standing assumptions about their primitive\, wild and violent natures. Showmen cast them in these roles\, and audiences allowed themselves to be deceived\, because the ruse reinforced widespread beliefs about the racial inferiority of the Irish and conversely the whiteness of other Britons. I argue that most audience members were probably not fooled by these fraudulent acts but were nevertheless entertained and reassured by the messages they conveyed about race and empire\, perhaps even more so than by authentic exhibitions. \nThis event is part of the 2011-2012 MACS research theme Exhibitions and Performance. For more information\, please contact Lucian Gomoll at macs@ucsc.edu or visit the MACS website at http://macs.ucsc.edu/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/performing-race-at-the-victorian-freak-show-3/ 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:20111026T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T193000 DTSTAMP:20260617T001922 CREATED:20111025T003442Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111025T003442Z UID:10004893-1319650200-1319657400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series: "The Eternal Frame: An Artist’s Reenactment of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy" DESCRIPTION:The Eternal Frame\nThe Center of Visual and Performance Studies presents Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series: “The Eternal Frame:  An Artist’s Reenactment of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy”\, a Screening and Conversation with Film & Digital Media Professor Emeritus Chip Lord and Professor Margaret Morse. \nThe Eternal Frame was a project by Ant Farm and T.R. Uthco\, 1975\, that resulted in a 24 minute video work about the JFK assassination. At the center of this work was a re-enactment of the tragedy produced and performed for the camera\, but unexpectedly many by-standers showed up to watch and were interviewed. \nChip Lord is an artist who works with video and photography. As a member of Ant Farm [1968-1978] he produced the video art classics Media Burn  and The Eternal Frame as well as the Cadillac  Ranch sculpture in Amarillo\, Texas. His media work straddles documentary and experimental genres\, often mixing the two\, and has been shown widely at film and video festivals and in Museums. In 2005 a retrospective of his video work was shown at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arts Reina Sofia in Madrid\, Spain. In 2010 he completed a public video art piece for the remodeled Bradley Terminal at LAX Airport titled To & From LAX.   He is Professor Emeritus in Film & Digital Media. \nMargaret Morse studies cultural change through media in a shifting focus from film to television and video art to new media and digital culture. Her hundred plus publications in books and essays include criticism on a wide range of work by contemporary media artists in the United States and Europe as well as theoretical essays on particular media art forms such as installation and closed-circuit video as well on the meaning of interactivity and immersion in the digital arts. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/temporalities-of-reenactment-a-speaker-series-the-eternal-frame-an-artists-reenactment-of-the-assassination-of-president-john-f-kennedy-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T200000 DTSTAMP:20260617T001922 CREATED:20111024T234307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111024T234307Z UID:10004889-1319652000-1319659200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Wooksik Cheong \, “Peace Island”?: Resisting the Militarization of Juju " DESCRIPTION:Today\, Jeju Island is best known for “its booming tourism\, its hardy diving women\, and its lush orange groves” (John Merrill).  Touted as a romantic honeymoon destination and lucrative site for foreign investment\, Jeju is\, however\, far from a paradise.  Prior to June 25\, 1950\, the purported start of the Korean War\, Jeju\, deemed a “Red” island\, was a site of counter-revolutionary violence—indiscriminate state-sponsored bloodshed justified in the name of “national defense.”  In long overdue recognition of the civilian massacres it perpetrated under US watch in 1948\, the South Korean government in 2005 designated Jeju an “Island of Peace.” \nYet\, the legacy of unrestrained militarism and the abuse of government authority are far from over.  Since 2007\, the people of Gangjeong village have waged non-violent resistance against the construction of a massive naval base on Jeju.  Due to be operational by 2014\, the naval base\, which will host 20 warships and two Aegis destroyers integrated within the US Missile Defense System\, not only stands to destroy a UNESCO biosphere reserve and government-recognized “absolute preservation area” characterized by rare rock formations\, abundant and fertile farmlands\, pristine fresh and sea waters\, and endangered animal species\, but also\, to displace Gangjeong villagers from their sea- and land-based livelihoods.  Not merely a local struggle\, the democratic resistance of Gangjeong residents and activists against the naval base raises the question of a neo-Cold War US/South Korea/Japan alliance and a looming regional arms race with China.  With growing global attention to the Jeju resistance\, the South Korean government has intensified its crackdown\, recently dispatching more than 1\,000 riot police from the mainland to forcibly remove and arrest protesters to clear the way for construction. \nWooksik Cheong\, a founding member and representative of Peace Network\, a South Korean NGO formed in 1999 that works for peace and disarmament in Northeast Asia and on the Korean peninsula\, will speak on the resistance movement against the militarization of Jeju. \nFree and open to the public.  Event co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies\, the Asian Pacific Islander Resource Center\, the East Asian Studies Program\, Cowell College\, Oakes College\, and the Resource Center for Nonviolence.   For further information\, please contact Christine Hong at cjhong@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/wooksik-cheong-peace-island-resisting-the-militarization-of-juju-3/ 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:20111027T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111027T183000 DTSTAMP:20260617T001922 CREATED:20111025T001236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111025T001236Z UID:10004890-1319733000-1319740200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ella von der Haide\, "Another World is Plantable! A Documentary on Community Gardening and Food Justice in North America 2010" DESCRIPTION:This Science and Justice Meeting will feature a film by Ella von der Haide\, a Dipl.-Ing. of Urban and Regional Planning\, Garden Activist and feminist Filmmaker from Germany.  She will show one of four feature films she has made about urban community gardens and their connections to emancipatory social movements in South Africa\, Argentina\, Germany and North America. Urban community gardening is a phenomenon that is spreading throughout the world.  This film will focus on the North American context. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ella-von-der-haide-another-world-is-plantable-a-documentary-on-community-gardening-and-food-justice-in-north-america-2010-3/ LOCATION:Communications\, Studio C\, Room 150\, Communications Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111027T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111027T200000 DTSTAMP:20260617T001922 CREATED:20110926T234147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110926T234147Z UID:10004616-1319738400-1319745600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: Peter Orner DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents Peter Orner. Peter Orner is a human rights lawyer\, and editor and writer of novels and short stories. His works include: Esther Stories\, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo\, Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives\, and the soon-to-be-released Love and Shame and Love: A Novel. Orner has been awarded several honors including the Guggenheim Fellowship\, Lannan Literary Fellowship\, and the Bard Fiction Prize. \nPeter Orner\nOrner has published fiction in the Atlantic Monthly\, The Paris Review\, McSweeney’s\, The Southern Review\, and various other publications. Stories have been anthologized in Best American Stories and twice won a Pushcart Prize (Best of the Small Presses). Orner was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2006)\, as well as the two-year Lannan Foundation Fellowship (2007). A film version of one of Orner’s stories\, “The Raft” with a screenplay by Orner and the film’s director\, Rob Jones\, is currently in production and stars Ed Asner. \nOrner has taught at the University of Montana\, Bard College\, Charles University in Prague\, Washington University\, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Orner is a long time permanent faculty member at San Francisco State where he is an associate professor. He is a currently visiting fiction faculty at the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. \nFor more information about the event\, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk\, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore. \nThe Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund\, the Porter Hitchcock Fund\, the UCSC Literature Department\, and the Sain Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-reading-series-peter-orner-3/ 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:20111028T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111028T210000 DTSTAMP:20260617T001922 CREATED:20111020T233957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111020T233957Z UID:10004886-1319828400-1319835600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Poetry Reading and Exhibition of Poem Paintings DESCRIPTION:The Poetry and Politics research cluster presents A poetry reading with Ronaldo Wilson and Lauren Shufran and an exhibition of poem paintings by Matt Landry. \nMatt Landry holds bachelors degrees in French and Comparative Literature from Dickinson College and the University of Toulouse\, an MA in French from Yale University and is currently a PhD student in Literature at UC Santa Cruz\, where he studies modern aesthetic theory and poetry. He is the translator of two books\, The Mills of Toulouse: a Case Study on the Origins of the Corporation and an ancient Chinese book on governance\, the Zhouli. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetry-reading-and-exhibition-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR