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SUMMARY:Mary Flanagan\, "Propositions from a Critical Play Perspective"
DESCRIPTION:Mary Flanagan\n\n\n\nPropositions from a Critical Play Perspective\nIf games always hold within them cultural beliefs\, norms\, and human values\, how are designers to tackle the vexing responsibility of designing digital games? In this talk\, Flanagan examines the topics of games and values\, games and art\, the history of technology and games\, and motivation. How does art practice inform designing for values? What pitfalls might designers face when making games for social change? Flanagan takes the audience through a number of propositions that uncover strengths and weakness of games as a medium for social change and revolutionary play.\nKnown for her theories on playculture\, activist design\, and critical play\, Flanagan has achieved international acclaim for her novel interdisciplinary games\, artwork\, and theoretical writing\, her commitment to theory/practice research\, and contributions to social justice design arenas. She is particularly interested in issues of equity and authorship in technological environments\, and reworking commonly understood paradigms to provide collective strategies for social change. This talk draws primarily on her work in the Values at Play project and in her 2009 book\, Critical Play (MIT Press). Flanagan is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College.\nhttp://www.maryflanagan.com/\nhttp://www.tiltfactor.org/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mary-flanagan-propositions-from-a-critical-play-perspective-3/
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:20111102T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111102T133000
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SUMMARY:Steve McKay\, "Masculinities Afloat: The Fragile Gender Projects of Filipino Migrant Sailors"
DESCRIPTION:Steve McKay\nProfessor McKay examines the performance of masculinities among a group of men often considered exemplars of masculinity—merchant sailors. The talk explores their gender projects across liminal space (ocean-going ships) and in productive and reproductive spheres. Professor McKay is co-editor of the forthcoming New Routes for Diaspora Studies (Indiana) and working on Born to Sail? Racial Formation\, Masculinity and the Making of Filipino Seafarers. \nSteve McKay is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Labor Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis 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/steve-mckay-masculinities-afloat-the-fragile-gender-projects-of-filipino-migrant-sailors-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:20111102T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111102T180000
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Cawthra\, “Envisioning Jazz: Considering Photography\, Race\, and American Music”
DESCRIPTION:Benjamin Cawthra\, associate professor of history at \nBenjamin Cawthra\n\nCalifornia State University\, Fullerton and author of\nBlue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz\n(Chicago\, 2011)\, discusses the tradition of jazz\nphotography and its relationship to mid-twentieth\ncentury racial politics. Cawthra will discuss the\nconnections among the photographers\, art directors\,\neditors\, and record producers who crafted a\nlook for jazz that would sell magazines and\nalbums. And on the other side of the lens\, he\nexplores how musicians shaped their public\nimages to further their own nancial and political\ngoals.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/benjamin-cawthra-envisioning-jazz-considering-photography-race-and-american-music-3/
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:20111103T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111103T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T175158
CREATED:20111031T012408Z
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SUMMARY:Brooke Holmes\, "The Missing Body: Authority\, Immunity\, and Objectivity in Early Greek Medical Writing"
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Program in Classical Studies presents: Professor Brooke Holmes\, Princeton University\, ‘The Missíng Body: Authority\, Immunity\, and Objectivity in Early Greek Medical Writing” \nBrooke Holms\nBrooke Holmes’ paper arises from a simple question: Why doesn’t the physician draw on his experience of his own body as a source of knowledge and authority in early Greek medical writing? In trying to answer it\, Professor Holmes argues that the very absence of the physician’s body represents an early phase in the history of disembodied authority in Western medicine and science. \nBrooke Holmes works at the intersections of Greek literature\, science and medicine\, and philosophy\, with particular interests in the history of subjectivity and the body\, materialism\, tragedy\, ethics\, critical theory\, and reception studies. She received her B.A. in Comparative Literature from Columbia and her Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton in 2005. She has taught since 2007 at Princeton\, where she is the Elias Boudinot Bicentennial Preceptorship\, Her first book\, The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece\, was published in 2010 by Princeton University Press.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/brooke-holmes-the-missing-body-authority-immunity-and-objectivity-in-early-greek-medical-writing-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111103T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111103T200000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: Maggie Nelson
DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents Maggie Nelson. Maggie Nelson is a poet and non-fiction writer. Her work includes: The Red Parts: A Memoir\, Bluets\, and\, recently\, the 2011 release of The Art of Cruelty. Nelson’s poetry has been published in six collections; the most recent is Something Bright\, Then Holes. \nMaggie Nelson\nNelson has taught at the Graduate Writing Program of the New School\, Wesleyan University\, and Pratt Institute of Art; she currently teaches in the CalArts MFA writing program. \nFor more information about the event\, please contact Micah Perks by email atmeperks@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-maggie-nelson-3/
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:20111103T180000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: C.S. Giscombe
DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents C.S. Giscombe. C.S. Giscombe’s love of the outdoors is evident in his poetry as well as his teaching at UC Berkeley\, where he has taken nonfiction classes on nature-oriented field trips. His books include Giscombe Road\, In and Out of Dislocation\, and Prairie Style. In 2008 he received the American Book award for Prairie Style. \nC.S. Giscombe\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-cs-giscombe-3/
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:20111104T040000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Hagit Borer\, "In the Event of a Nominal"
DESCRIPTION:Hagit Borer\nThe paper is a detailed study of the properties of Argument-Structure derived -ing nominals versus those of -ing synthetic compounds. In particular\, I show that while -ing Argument Structure nominals are compositional and have event structure\, -ing synthetic compounds do not. I further argues that these contrasts may only be accounted for by a syntactic approach to the derivation of complex words. In particular\, it can only be accounted for under complete syntactic event decomposition\, which severs not only the external but also the internal argument(s) from the root and which allows the internal structure of complex words\, so-called\, to be syntactically visible. \nTaking as a starting point the study of the human language faculty within the generative approach\, Professor Borer’s research for the past 15 years spans three sub-areas of linguistics: comparative syntax\, morphosyntax and language acquisition. Her study of inter-grammatical variation and comparative syntax led to the development of the hypothesis that this variation is reducible to the functional/inflectional component. This hypothesis\, in turn\, served as a starting point for the study of the functional/ inflectional system in general and its interaction with syntax in particular\, therefore leading to the emergence of a morphosyntactic model. From a different perspective\, these hypotheses brought about the investigation of child language and the acquisition of grammatical knowledge. \nIn recent years\, Professor Borer has been pursuing an approach which shifts the computational load away from the lexical entry to the syntactic structure\, subscribing to the view that an independent linguistic lexicon includes a minimal amount of structural information\, and that it is structural constraints which determine traditionally lexical properties such as syntactic category type and argument structure. She has pursued the consequences of that approach for morphosyntax\, for language acquisition\, and for the syntax-semantics interface. \nHagit Borer is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southern California. This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett\, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-hagit-borer-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:20111109T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111109T133000
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SUMMARY:Cary Howie\, "On Transfiguration"
DESCRIPTION:Cary Howie\nProfessor Howie thinks about how contemporary American poets re-imagine early Christianity\, using transfiguration to talk about the persistence of figures as they become transformed\, and how poetic and theological concerns speak to gender and sexuality. His books include Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in Medieval Literature (Palgrave\, 2007) and the co-authored Sanctity and Pornography in Medieval Culture: On the Verge (Manchester\, 2010). \nCary Howie is Associate Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University. \nThis 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/cary-howie-on-transfiguration-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:20111109T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111109T181500
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SUMMARY:Lawrence "Ren" Weschler
DESCRIPTION:Lawrence Weschler\nLawrence “Ren” Weschler will present a special lecture “Convergences” in advance of his visit to Bookshop Santa Cruz to promote his latest book\, Uncanny Valley.  In his talk Weschler will consider a spectrum of such convergent effects\, from apophenia (the tendency of humans to see patterns where none exist) through co-causation\, fractalization\, influence (forward and backward\, direct and unconscious)\, homage\, apprenticeship\, allusion\, quotation\, appropriation\, cryptonesia (verbatim appropriation without realizing you’re doing so)\, through outright plagiarism. \nA graduate of Cowell College of the University of California\, Santa Cruz (1974)\, Weschler was for over twenty years (1981–2002) a staff writer at The New Yorker\, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Awards—for Cultural Reporting in 1988 and Magazine Reporting in 1992—and was also a recipient of Lannan Literary Award (1998). Beginning in 1999\, his “Convergences” essays appeared regularly in McSweeney’s Quarterly; a collection of these essays\, Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences\, was published in 2006 and received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. \nSince 2001\, Weschler has been the director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. He taught throughout the 1990s at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. \nIn 2003\, Weschler organized and edited a pilot issue of Omnivore\, a prospective periodical described by Steven Heller as a “biannual (but hoping to be quarterly) magazine of writing and visual culture from The New York Institute of the Humanities at New York University.”[1] As of 2007\, no subsequent issues of Omnivore have been published. \nIn February 2006\, Weschler took on the position of artistic director for the Chicago Humanities Festival. \n  \n\n\nLight refreshments will be served.  Closest parking is OPERS lot.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lawrence-ren-weschler-3/
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:20111109T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111109T190000
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SUMMARY:Martin Puchner: "Re-Enactment and Site-Specific Performance"
DESCRIPTION:Martin Puchner\nWhile re-enactment has long been a popular art\, it has entered performance art in two ways: through site-specific performances such as the ones orchestrated by Mike Pearson or David Levine\, which often explore the history of a place; and the re-enactment of performance art\, as in the recent case of Marina Abramovic. In both cases\, performance art and theater intersect in unexpected ways. I confront these re-enactments with a brief discussion of the New Globe\, where historical reconstruction provides the frame for the established art of theatrical revival. \nMartin Puchner is Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. After studying philosophy\, history\, and literature at the University of Konstanz\, the Università di Bologna\, UC Santa Barbara\, and UC Irvine\, he earned a Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1998. He taught English and comparative literature at Columbia University from 1998 until 2010\, before moving to Harvard University in the summer of 2010.  \nThis event has been made possible by The Center for Visual and Performance Studies.\nFor more information on this speaker series please see our website: http://artsresearch.ucsc.edu/vps/reenactment \nContact Jenna Purcell at vpsucsc@gmail.com
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/martin-puchner-re-enactment-and-site-specific-performance-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111110T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111110T200000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: Susie Bright
DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents Susie Bright. Susie Bright\, known as a “sexpert\,” is a writer\, performer\, and teacher on the subject of sexuality. A UCSC alum\, she has written several books. including Mommy’s Little Girl and How to Write a Dirty Story. Her latest work is titled Big Sex\, Little Death: A Memoir. Susie Bright has edited several publications and has a weekly program available through audible.com\, called In Bed with Susie Bright. She also founded the first women’s erotica book series\, Herotica\, and acted as editor for serval of its volumes. \nSusie Bright\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-susie-bright-3/
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:20111110T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111110T220000
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SUMMARY:Sikh and Punjabi Studies: Achievements and New Directions Opening Event
DESCRIPTION:In this inaugural conference for the Sikh and Punjabi Studies program at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, leading and emerging scholars will take stock of the state of the field and its future direction\, in the areas of their expertise. Sessions will cover history\, philosophy\, language and literature\, political economy\, musicology and contemporary society. \nThe conference welcomes attendance by scholars and students from all disciplines\, as well as interested members of the general public. \nUC Santa Cruz is close to the San Francisco Bay Area\, with one of the largest concentrations of Sikhs in North America. The conference especially welcomes attendance by community members. \nਜੀ ਆਇਆਂ ਨੂੰ\nWelcome from the heart! \nThe conference will begin with a welcome dinner at the University Center at 7:00 PM on Thursday\, November 10. \nRegistration is required.  To register\, please visit: http://community.ucsc.edu/sikhpunjabiconference2011. \nFor further information\, please visit: http://ihr.ucsc.edu//sikhstudiesconference\, or contact Courtney Mahaney at the Institute for Humanities Research\, by phone at (831) 459-3527 or by email at cmahaney@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sikh-and-punjabi-studies-achievements-and-new-directions-opening-event-3/
LOCATION:University Center\, University Center‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20111112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20111114
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SUMMARY:Pacific Study Group of the North American Kant Society 2011 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Kant\nThe Philosophy Department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz is proud to host the 2011 Meeting of the Pacific Study Group of the North American Kant Society November 12-13\, 2011. \nSpeaking events are open to the public and will be held in the Cowell College Conference Room. \nFor more information or to register for this conference please contact Professor Daniel Guevara via email at guevara@ucsc.edu or 831-459-3600. \n2011 Meeting Program\nSaturday November 12: \n1:00 pm David Hills (Stanford University)\n“Of the (Kantian) Standard of Taste” \n2:30 pm  Michelle Grier (University of San Diego)\n“The Transcendental Ideality of the Kantian Sublime” \n4:00 pm Julie Tannenbaum (Pomona College)\n“Kant’s notion of unconditional goodness” \n5:30 pm Business meeting \n  \nSunday\, November 13: \n8:30 am Light Breakfast \n9:00 am Samantha Matherne (University of California\, Riverside)\n“Kant and the Art of Schematism”\nWinner of the Graduate Student Travel Stipend \n10:30 am Pierre Keller (University of California\, Riverside)\n“Kant’s Copernican Revolution: Ideas as the Source of Normativity” \n12:00 pm Abe Stone (University of California\, Santa Cruz)\n“Kant on Objects and Things”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pacific-study-group-of-the-north-american-kant-society-2011-meeting-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111112T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111112T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T175158
CREATED:20110831T233539Z
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SUMMARY:Sikh and Punjabi Studies: Achievements and New Directions Conference
DESCRIPTION:In this inaugural conference for the Sikh and Punjabi Studies program at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, leading and emerging scholars will take stock of the state of the field and its future direction\, in the areas of their expertise. Sessions will cover history\, philosophy\, language and literature\, political economy\, musicology and contemporary society. \nThe conference welcomes attendance by scholars and students from all disciplines\, as well as interested members of the general public. \nUC Santa Cruz is close to the San Francisco Bay Area\, with one of the largest concentrations of Sikhs in North America. The conference especially welcomes attendance by community members. \nਜੀ ਆਇਆਂ ਨੂੰ\nWelcome from the heart! \nRegistration is required. To register\, please visit: http://community.ucsc.edu/sikhpunjabiconference2011. \nFor further information\, please visit: http://ihr.ucsc.edu//sikhstudiesconference\, or contact Courtney Mahaney at the Institute for Humanities Research\, by phone at (831) 459-3527 or by email at cmahaney@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sikh-and-punjabi-studies-achievements-and-new-directions-conference-2-3/
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:20111112T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111112T220000
DTSTAMP:20260428T175158
CREATED:20110831T233920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20110831T233920Z
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SUMMARY:Sikh and Punjabi Studies: Achievements and New Directions Dinner
DESCRIPTION:In this inaugural conference for the Sikh and Punjabi Studies program at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, leading and emerging scholars will take stock of the state of the field and its future direction\, in the areas of their expertise. Sessions will cover history\, philosophy\, language and literature\, political economy\, musicology and contemporary society. \nThe conference welcomes attendance by scholars and students from all disciplines\, as well as interested members of the general public. \nUC Santa Cruz is close to the San Francisco Bay Area\, with one of the largest concentrations of Sikhs in North America. The conference especially welcomes attendance by community members. \nਜੀ ਆਇਆਂ ਨੂੰ\nWelcome from the heart! \nRegistration is required.  To register\, please visit: http://community.ucsc.edu/sikhpunjabiconference2011. \nFor further information\, please visit: http://ihr.ucsc.edu//sikhstudiesconference\, or contact Courtney Mahaney at the Institute for Humanities Research\, by phone at (831) 459-3527 or by email at cmahaney@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sikh-and-punjabi-studies-achievements-and-new-directions-dinner-2-3/
LOCATION:TBD\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111114T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111114T140000
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SUMMARY:Scott Saul\, "What You See Is What You Get"?: Wattstax\, Richard Pryor\, and the Secret History of the Black Aesthetic in 1970s LA"
DESCRIPTION:Saul Scott\nThe Urban Studies Research Cluster presents Scott Saul\, “”What You See Is What You Get”?: Wattstax\, Richard Pryor\, and the Secret History of the Black Aesthetic in 1970s LA”. This talk revolves around Pryor’s role as narrator of and interviewee in the 1973 documentary film Wattstax (about the 1972 concert held at the LA Coliseum)\, examines how the film reframes the meaning of the Watts Riots\, as well as the political/cultural role of the black community in Los Angeles. By doing so\, it addresses persistent questions issues around black aesthetics and representations or urban life. \nScott Saul is an associate professor of American Studies and English at UC-Berkeley. His first book\, Freedom Is\, Freedom Ain’t\, on jazz and the 1960s\, was the winner of the American Book Award. He writes frequently on American culture and politics for publications such as Boston Review\, Harper’s\, and The Nation. He is currently working on “Becoming Richard Pryor” which will be the first critical biography of the comedian-entertainer. The study explores the trajectory of Pryor’s  artistic development in conjunction with a set of larger historical trends: the emergence of the counterculture and the Civil Rights and Black Power movements; the debates over the “declining inner city” and the “declining working class” in 1970s culture; and the challenge posed by New Hollywood to the older studio system. \nhttp://urban.ihr.ucsc.edu/speakers/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/scott-saul-what-you-see-is-what-you-get-wattstax-richard-pryor-and-the-secret-history-of-the-black-aesthetic-in-1970s-la-3/
LOCATION:College 8\, Room 301\,  College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111114T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111114T210000
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SUMMARY:Caren Kaplan\, "The Visual Culture of Stealth: Interpretation & Deception in Militarized Aeromobility
DESCRIPTION:Caren KaplanCaren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies at the University of California\, Davis and is Affiliated Faculty in Film Studies\, Cultural Studies\, and Science & Technology Studies. \nProfessor Kaplan authored Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (Duke\, 1996) and co-authored and co-edited Introduction to Women’s Studies: Gender in a Transnational World (McGraw-Hill\, 2001/2005); Between Woman and Nation: Transnational Feminisms and the State (Duke\, 1999); Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices (Minnesota\, 1994); and two digital multimedia scholarly works\, Dead Reckoning and Precision Targets. \nThis colloquium is presented by Visual and Media Culture\, with cosponsorships from the History of Art and Visual Culture\, Film & Digital Media\, and the Arts Division. For further information and to receive the readings\, please contact visualmedia@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/caren-kaplan-the-visual-culture-of-stealth-interpretation-deception-in-militarized-aeromobility-3/
LOCATION:Communications\, Room 139\, Communications Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111114T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111114T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T175158
CREATED:20111102T205732Z
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SUMMARY:Gershom Gorenberg: Distinguished Alumni Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Gershom Gorenberg\nUCSC alumnus Gershom Gorenberg is the author of the forthcoming book\, The Unmaking of Israel\, on the crisis of Israeli democracy and how to solve it. The book will be published in November by HarperCollins and is now available for pre-order at all the usual places. \nGershom’s previous book is The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements\, 1967-1977 (Times Books). Based on previously unpublished documents and extensive interviews\, The Accidental Empire presents a strikingly new picture of Israel’s post-1967 history\, of major Israeli leaders\, and of Israel-U.S. relations. \nHe is also the author of The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount\, which portrays the role of religious radicalism in the Mideast conflict. He co-authored The Jerusalem Report’s 1996 biography of Yitzhak Rabin\, Shalom Friend\, winner of the National Jewish Book Award\, and edited Seventy Facets: A Commentary on the Torah from the Pages from the Jerusalem Report. \nAs a commentator on Middle East affairs and the interface of religion and politics\, Gershom has appeared on Sixty Minutes\, Nightline\, Dateline\, Fresh Air and on CNN and BBC. For many years an associate editor of The Jerusalem Report\, he is now a senior correspondent for The American Prospect. He has written for The Atlantic Monthly\, The New York Times Magazine\, The New Republic\, Mother Jones and in Hebrew for Ha’aretz. \nGershom has been a visiting professor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism\, and has lectured at the Council on Foreign Relations\, the Carnegie Council\, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy\, the Middle East Institute\, the Wexner Graduate Fellowship\, and for universities\, congregations and other organizations seeking a nuanced view of politics\, Mideast affairs and religion. \nGershom was born in St. Louis and grew up in California. After graduating from the University of California at Santa Cruz\, he came to Israel in 1977 and earned an MA in education at the Hebrew University. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife\, journalist Myra Noveck\, and their three children\, Yehonatan\, Yasmin and Shir-Raz. He is an active member of Kehillat Yedidya\, the pioneering progressive Orthodox congregation in South Jerusalem.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gershom-gorenberg-distinguished-alumni-lecture-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111116T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T175158
CREATED:20110815T212030Z
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SUMMARY:Deanna Shemek\, "Digital Princess: Toward an Open-Access Online Archive of Renaissance Correspondence"
DESCRIPTION:Deanna Shemek\nProfessor Shemek studies intersections of elite and popular culture in early modern Italy\, especially among women. Her current research focuses on early modern letter writing. She is completing an edition of Isabella d’Este’s letters and a book on the broader significance of early modern women’s letters. The talk addresses plans to digitize the manuscript sources for her edition and visualize the social network of a Renaissance princess. \nDeanna Shemek is Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis 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/deanna-shemek-digital-princess-toward-an-open-access-online-archive-of-renaissance-correspondence-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:20111116T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111116T150000
DTSTAMP:20260428T175158
CREATED:20110802T163403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20110802T163403Z
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SUMMARY:A Public Dialogue with Jean Baumgarten and Nathaniel Deutsch
DESCRIPTION:One of the most important—and least appreciated—categories that Jews have employed to experience the world Jewishly is minhag\, a Hebrew word typically translated into English as “custom.” Historically\, minhag enabled Jews to transform practically every event and action into something with Jewish meaning; it also enabled Jews to differentiate themselves from non-Jews\, as well as from Jews from other places or backgrounds (e.g.\, Ashkenazi vs. Sephardi). Significantly\, some Jewish sources went so far as to define minhag as a form of Torah and stressed the importance of maintaining minhagim (the plural form of minhag)\, while other sources cautioned against the dangers of blindly following minhagim. For centuries\, Jews learned minhagim mimetically\, that is\, by imitating other members of their community or family and through oral transmission. In the early modern period\, however\, Jews also began to publish printed collections of minhagim\, eventually creating a literary genre that exists to this day among Ultra-Orthodox Jews. In the twentieth century\, the collection and study of minhagim became one of the central interests of the first ethnographers of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. \nIn this public dialogue\, Professor Jean Baumgarten\, a world-renowned expert on Yiddish minhag literature and Professor Nathaniel Deutsch\, whose recently published book The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement (Harvard University Press) explores the groundbreaking ethnographic work of S. An-sky\, will discuss the history and significance of minhag in its many facets. \nJean Baumgarten\, is Professor and Directeur de Recherche (CNRS)\, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique\, Centre des Hautes Etudes Juives\, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales\, in France. \nGenerous support provided by the David B. Gold Foundation.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jean-baumgarten-and-nathaniel-deutsch-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20111117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20111118
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CREATED:20111114T191033Z
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SUMMARY:Long Bui\, "Ms. Little Saigon: Through the Looking Glass of Art\, Politics and Community"
DESCRIPTION:Feminist Studies presents Long Bui\, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow\nMs. Little Saigon: Through the Looking Glass of Art\, Politics and Community \nThis presentation examines the historical legacy of the Vietnam War as it continues to shape political conflicts and ideological differences within the Vietnamese diasporic community. Recognizing the power of cultural media and production to symbolize ideas about nation\, gender and class\, I investigate a recent public controversy involving mass protests by hundreds of people demonstrating against an art exhibit produced by the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association in Orange County\, California.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/long-bui-ms-little-saigon-through-the-looking-glass-of-art-politics-and-community-3/
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:20111117T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111117T160000
DTSTAMP:20260428T175158
CREATED:20111116T203847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111116T203847Z
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SUMMARY:Giancarlo Casale\, "What did it mean to be European in the Sixteenth Century? A View from the Ottoman Empire"
DESCRIPTION:The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk. \nGiancarlo Casale is a specialist in the history of the early modern Ottoman empire\, although he also has interests in the history of geography and cartography\, global exploration\, and comparative empires. He has just completed my first book\, “The Ottoman Age of Exploration\,” about the history of Ottoman expansion in the Indian Ocean during the sixteenth century. The book was based on extensive research in the archives of both Turkey and Portugal\, and explored the ways in which the growth of the Ottoman Empire was part of the same historical process that witnessed the expansion of numerous other imperial powers\, ranging from the overseas empires of Spain and Portugal to rival Islamic states like Mughal India and Safavid Iran. His next major project\, tentatively titled “Curiosity and Intolerance: The Paradox of Early Modernity\,” is a comparative study of the development of ethnographic modes of writing in early modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire. At the same time he is also engaged in several smaller research projects on topics including corsairs and the development of Ottoman naval technology\, the connection between naval power and deforestation in the Mediterranean region\, and a geo-historical study of the earthquake of Dubrovnik in 1667.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/giancarlo-casale-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111117T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111117T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T175158
CREATED:20110927T003653Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: David Vann
DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents David Vann. David Vann writes both fiction and non-fiction and has won several awards\, including the Grace Paley Prize 2007\, California Book Award 2008\, the Prix Medicis 2010\, and the Premi Libreter 2011. David Vann’s work has been published by 22 different publishers in 16 different languages. His books have appeared on 43 Best Book lists in 10 countries. His works include Caribou Island\, Sukkwan Island\, A Mile Down and Legends of a Suicide.  \nDavid Vann\nDavid Vann is an assistant professor of English at University of San Francisco. He teaches creative nonfiction and fiction. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. \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/david-van-3/
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:20111118T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111118T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T175158
CREATED:20110817T154003Z
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Laurence R. Horn\,"On the Contrary: Pragmatic Strengthening and Disjunctive Syllogism"
DESCRIPTION:Laurence R. Horn\nOn the Contrary: \nPragmatic Strengthening and Disjunctive Syllogism  \n  \nThe dictum that “The essence of formal negation is to invest the contrary with the character of the contradictory” (Bosanquet 1888) describes the tendency for contradictory (apparent wide-scope) negation to be semantically or pragmatically strengthened to contrary readings whenever possible. This tendency is illustrated by lexicalization asymmetries (e.g. none ‘all not’ vs. *nall ‘not all’) and the widespread diachronic reanalyses of weaker negatives to contraries (e.g Il ne faut pas partir —literally = ‘one need not leave’ > ‘one must not-leave’). \nOutside the lexical domain\, contrary strengthening typically instantiates the inference schema of disjunctive syllogism (modus tollendo ponens): \n  f v j \n  ¬ f \n  j \nThe role of the disjunctive syllogism can be detected in a variety of strengthening shifts in natural language where the disjunctive premise in question is pragmatically presupposed in relevant contexts. It will be shown that a range of apparently quite diverse phenomena—negative strengthening in lexical and clausal contexts (e.g. neg-raising)\, scope adjustments with negated plural definites and bare plurals\, epistemic strengthening of weak implicature in both main and embedded contexts\, conjunctive readings of free choice disjunction\, and children’s word learning strategies\, among others—can be collected under the umbrella of pragmatic strengthening as reflexes of the general preference for contrariety\, the operation of disjunctive syllogism\, or both. \nLaurence R. Horn is Professor of Linguistics and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Yale University. Professor Horn’s primary research program lies in the union (if not the intersection) of classical logic\, lexical semantics\, and neo-Gricean pragmatic theory. He has been particularly concerned with the exploration of natural language negation and its relation to other operators. He specializes in pragmatics\, semantics\, syntax\, language & gender. \nThis talk is presented by the Santa Cruz Linguistics and Philosophy Group\, a research center of the Institute for Humanities Research. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network and the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett\, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-laurence-horn-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:20111120T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111120T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T175158
CREATED:20111116T201608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111116T201608Z
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SUMMARY:2nd Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading featuring Kay Ryan
DESCRIPTION:THE 2nd ANNUAL MORTON MARCUS MEMOMRIAL POETRY READING honors poet\, teacher and film critic Morton Marcus (1936-2009)\, one of Santa Cruz’s beloved cultural icons. This second annual event will feature Kay Ryan\, Pullitzer Prize winner and U.S. Poet Laureate (2008-2010). \nFREE ADMISSION. Seating is limited. Parking $6. \nMARCUS POETRY ARCHIVE EXHIBIT. An exhibit feturing the Morton Marcus Poetry Archive will be open for viewing in Special Collections at the UC McHenry Library on Sunday\, November 20 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM. \nDIRECTIONS: Map to UCSC Music Recital Hall. Click Here. \nSPONSORS: Poetry Santa Cruz\, Ow Family Properties\, Cabrillo College English Department\, University of California at Santa Cruz\, Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nFor more information: http://www.mortonmarcus.com/reading_current.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mortonmarcus-3/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111122T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111122T160000
DTSTAMP:20260428T175158
CREATED:20111116T205037Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111116T205037Z
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SUMMARY:Joshua White "Catch and Release: Piracy\, Slavery\, and Law in the Early Modern Ottoman Mediterranean"
DESCRIPTION:The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk. \nBeginning in the 1570s\, incidents of piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean increased exponentially\, as the conclusion of the war for Cyprus with Venice and the withdrawal of the imperial navies left behind numerous underemployed and unsupervised Ottoman naval irregulars and opened the door to all manner of pirates from further afield\, both Christian and Muslim. The seventeenth century has often been referred to as the “golden age of piracy\,” but one aspect of the spectacular rise in maritime violence in this period that has not received adequate attention is the Ottoman administrative and legal response to illegal slave-raiding in its waters. Unscrupulous Ottoman pirates frequently snatched Ottoman subjects and the subjects of the Ottomans’ treaty-partners from ships and shores in contravention of Islamic and sultanic law. The Ottoman government routinely ordered these captives found and freed and was sometimes willing to go to great lengths to ensure that they were released and sent home. In this talk\, I shift the spotlight away from the pirates and onto the administrators\, jurists\, and victims—those who had to contend most with the consequences of maritime violence. \nJoshua Michael White studies the social\, legal\, and diplomatic history of the early modern Ottoman Empire and the Mediterranean. A doctoral candidate in History at the University of Michigan\, he earned an M.A in History from the same institution in 2007\, a certificate in Arabic from the CASA program at the American University in Cairo in 2005\, and a B.A. in History and Islamic Studies from Washington University in St. Louis. His dissertation examines the impact of piracy and amphibious slave-raiding in the early modern Mediterranean from the Ottoman perspective\, arguing that increasing maritime violence in the Mediterranean after the 1570s had a tremendous effect on the formation of international law\, the conduct of diplomacy\, the articulation of Ottoman imperial and Islamic law\, and their application in local Ottoman courts. He has conducted dissertation research in Istanbul\, Venice\, London\, and Crete with the support of fellowships and grants from the Council of American Overseas Research Centers\, Fulbright-Hays\, the American Research Institute in Turkey\, and the University of Michigan. His writing is presently supported by a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. He is also the organizer and instructor for the ongoing U-M Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies’ Fall Colloquium Series\, “Pirates of the Mediterranean.” 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joshua-white-3/
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:20111129T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111129T160000
DTSTAMP:20260428T175158
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Derr\, Talk title TBA
DESCRIPTION:The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk. \nJennifer Derr has her B.S. from Stanford University; M.A.\, Georgetown University; Ph.D.\, Stanford. Areas of academic interest include modern Middle Eastern history\, African history\, Ottoman Empire\, early Islamic history. Fellow\, Society of Junior Fellows in British Studies\, University of Texas at Austin (2009–10); James Birdsall Weter Memorial Fund Dissertation Grant (2008–09); Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2007–08). Has taught at American University in Cairo\, University of California at Davis\, Stanford University. Articles in Arab Studies Journal\, Middle East Report\, Molecular and Cellular Biology. At Bard since 2010.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jennifer-derr-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111130T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111130T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T175158
CREATED:20110815T212309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T212309Z
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SUMMARY:Herman Gray\, "At the Limit of Representation:  Neoliberalism\, Media and African American Visibility"
DESCRIPTION:Herman Gray\nWith African Americans as the primary example\, Professor Gray probes the social\, intellectual\, and political investment in the cultural politics of recognition and visibility in the context of neoliberalism\, suggesting that with neoliberalism we have reached the limit of such investments. Looking beyond this investment in representation\, recognition and visibility\, he examines what other critical modes and sites of cultural analysis and politics are possible. \nHerman Gray is Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis 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/herman-gray-at-the-limit-of-representation-neoliberalism-media-and-african-american-visibility-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:20111130T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111130T140000
DTSTAMP:20260428T175158
CREATED:20111123T230813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111123T230813Z
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SUMMARY:Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther: "Abstraction\, the Abstract\, and Abstractionism: Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives"
DESCRIPTION:Rasmus Grønfeldt WintherConcepts\, models\, and theories; words\, propositions\, and language; are typically understood as abstract representations and abstract maps. The abstract allows us to navigate tentatively and successfully through the concrete world with which we interact as laymen and scientists; adults and infants. How does abstraction take place? What is the abstract\, and what is it used for? What are the dangers and limits of both overextending abstractions beyond their appropriate conditions of application\, and separating the abstract too much from the concrete\, the general too much from the specific\, and the universal too much from the particular – i.e.\, of abstractionism? \nThis talk explores a variety of analyses of abstraction\, the abstract\, and abstractionism from psychology (e.g.\, Barsalou’s “abstraction in perceptual symbol systems\,” Gopnik’s and Murphy & Medin’s “theory theory\,” and early Kurt Lewin\, F. A. Hayek\, and Ohlsson and Lehtinen’s “primacy of the abstract”) and from philosophy (e.g.\, the pragmatism of James and Dewey\, the neo-Kantianism of Kuhn and Friedman\, and the “kinds of people” analyses of Hacking\, following Foucault). The talk also relates abstraction (and the abstract) to closely related—perhaps even co-constitutive—concepts and processes: (1) analogizing (and analogies)\, (2) mapping (and maps)\, and (3) distinction-making (and distinctions). In short\, a philosophical and psychological anthropology of abstraction\, the abstract\, and abstractionism is the aim. \nReading: “The Knife and the One” (PDF) \nRasmus Grønfeldt Winther is Associate Professor of Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rasmus-gronfeldt-winther-abstraction-the-abstract-and-abstractionism-psychological-and-philosophical-perspectives-3/
LOCATION:Social Sciences 2\, Room 121\,  Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95604\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111130T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111130T190000
DTSTAMP:20260428T175158
CREATED:20111121T232210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111121T232210Z
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SUMMARY:Alide Cagidemetrio: “Choosing Venice: Seduction\, Henry James\, and The Wings of the Dove”
DESCRIPTION:Professor Alide Cagidemetrio of the University of Venice will speak on\n“Choosing Venice: Seduction\, Henry James\, and The Wings of the Dove” \nProfessor Cagidemetrio will offer some observations about details in the novel\, 19th century Venice\, James’s biography\, and some literary themes such as don juanism\, thinking to reinstate curiosity as a legitimate part of aesthetic pleasure. To begin the process\, attached is an image of a detail from mosaics of San Marco\, and one of Whistler’s lagoon paintings. \nAt the reception following her talk\, Professor Cagidemetriou will discuss the benefits of collaboration between the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari and UCSC and the possibility of summer courses in Venice. \nThis event is made possible from generous support from the David B. Gold Foundation. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alide-cagidemetrio-choosing-venice-seduction-henry-james-and-the-wings-of-the-dove-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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