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SUMMARY:Alice Yang: “Can the President be Torturer in Chief? John Yoo\, Executive Authority and Historical Memory”
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nAlice Yang\nAlice Yang\nAssociate Professor\, History\, UCSC\nCo-Director\, Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories \n“Can the President be Torturer in Chief? John Yoo\, Executive Authority and Historical Memory” \nProfessor Yang examines the legal reasoning of the former Justice Department lawyer’s “torture memos” and his arguments that Al Qaeda and Taliban members were not entitled to protections under the Geneva Convention. She explores how Yoo and his critics relied on different historical memories during debates about torture and executive authority. \n———————————————————————————————————— \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors.  The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion.  We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/csc-alice-yan-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:20120202T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T140000
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SUMMARY:John Jordan\, Supposing Bleak House
DESCRIPTION:John O. Jordan is giving a reading at Bookshop Santa Cruz in honor of Charles Dickens’s bicentenary (born Feb 7\, 1812). John will read from his book\, Supposing Bleak House\, and discuss Dickens\, Bleak House\, the Dickens Project\, and the upcoming Dickens Universe (focusing on Bleak House this summer). \nThere’s a Bookshop link at http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/john-jordan.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/johnojordan-3/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T173000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170822
CREATED:20111220T203748Z
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SUMMARY:Yair Dalal: "Bridge to Babylon Lecture on Jewish Middle Eastern Music"
DESCRIPTION:Composer\, violinist\, oud player and singer Yair Dalal was born in 1955. His family came to Israel from Baghdad\, and his Iraqi roots are embedded in his musical work. Whether working on his own\, or with his Alol ensemble\, Dalal creates new Middle Eastern music by interweaving the traditions of Iraqi and Jewish Arabic music with a range of influences originating from such diverse cultural milieus as the Balkans to India. \nOver the last decade he has recorded 11 albums covering wide and varied cultural territory and authentically representing Israel’s cultures and fusing them through music as whole. Much of Dalal’s work reflects his extensive musical skills in both classical and Arabic music and also reflects a strong affinity he has for the desert and its habitants. \nHe has played in concerts worldwide\, collaborated with top musicians from all over the world\, from different disciplines\, including: celebrated western classical conductor and Maestro Zubin Mehta\, Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI\, L. Shankar\, Hamza El Din\, Omar Faruk Tekbilek\, Michel Bismuth\, Ken Zuckerman\, Alam Khan\, Jim Santi\, Armand Aamar\, Shlomo Mintz\, Maurice El Medioni\, Mustafa Raza\, Cihat Askin\, Nagati Chelik\, Ensemble Kaboul\, Adel Salameh\, Morwan Abado\, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra\, Kamerata Jerusalem Orchestra\, Melmo symphonic orchestra\, and many more. \nPresented by the Music Department. Sponsored by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation\, the David B. Gold Foundation\, and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/yair-dalal-bridge-to-babylon-lecture-on-jewish-middle-eastern-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:20120202T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T190000
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SUMMARY:Visual Performance Studies Presents: Fabian Barba
DESCRIPTION:Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series\, 2011-2012\n\nFabian Barba\nIndependent artist\, Belgium\n\nReenacting the Dances of Mary Wigman \nA Lecture Demonstration (Studio A-105\, Theater Arts Center) \nFriday\, February 3rd at 2pm \nThe recent retrospective of the work of Marina Abramovic at MOMA in New York brought to wide public attention the phenomenon of what she called the “reperformance” of her earlier work\, which had only existed until then as one-time events recorded on film.  Bringing this ephemeral performance work into the museum space as a live artifact raised consciousness of a broader trend currently taking place in contemporary dance\, theatre\, film\, video and performance art.  Reenactment raises questions of the differences between reconstruction\, revival\, adaptation\, reinvention\, quotation\, amplification\, and the kinds of temporalities these strategies to recover past performance signify. But beyond the terminological questions\, issues of artist identity\, authenticity\, and history emerge in direct relationship with performative documentary activity. The question of the event and the document become dramatically foregrounded. The question of trauma and catharsis in relation to reenactment is salient as became clear in our first seminar with Chip Lord and Magaret Morse. \n\n\n\nReenactment of the work of one artist by another has been a form of contemporary creativity in theatre\, film\, dance\, and performance for some time\, but has been gaining momentum as a major trend of artistic production and research.  Clearly\, it evokes the connections of historiography and interpretation to art making that documents the past in a non-literal or even paradoxical yet exacting and rigorous way that evades certain mimetic conventions.  It is time to ask what sorts of temporality are deployed in reenactments\, and how new sorts of temporality reframe notions of documentation\, reconstruction/reinvention\, citation/quotation\, and amplification of an earlier work or event in the contemporary moment. \nThis year-long speaker series will present artists and scholars specializing in this area of contemporary creativity.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vps-barba-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T194500
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SUMMARY:UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: Ben Doller and Sandra Doller
DESCRIPTION:Ben Doller and Sandra Doller\nCreative Writing and Literature present:\nUCSC Winter Living Writers Series \nBen Doller and Sandra Doller \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives\nRonaldo V. Wilson\, Visiting Assistant Professor \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities.  Whether as editors\, publishers\, activists\, teachers\, multi-media artists\, and/or co-collaborators\, the featured poets in this series present work that reflects their dynamic engagements in the world. \nThursdays / 6:00 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nContact: Ronaldo V. Wilson\, rvwilson@ucsc.edu or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu \nCo-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lws-ben-and-sandra-doller-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:20120203T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120203T160000
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SUMMARY:Cheryl Higashida: "Black Radicalism’s Queer Record: Erna Brodber and the West Indian Jazz Novel"
DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary). \nCheryl Higashida\n“Black Radicalism’s Queer Record: Erna Brodber and the West Indian Jazz Novel” \nCheryl Higashida is Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder\, where she has taught since 2002. She earned her PhD at Cornell University (2003) after completing her dissertation as a Fellow with the Five College Program for Minority Scholars. She is the author of Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left\, 1945-1995 (U of Illinois P\, 2011). Her work on African American and Asian American radical culture has also appeared in American Literature\, American Quarterly\, and Afro/Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections\, edited by Fred Ho and Bill Mullen. Her current book in progress is “Mao and Cabral/ Mingus and Coltrane”: The Global Jazz Circuits of the Black Arts Movement.”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cheryl-higashida-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:20120203T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120203T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170822
CREATED:20110817T224645Z
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Masaya Yoshida
DESCRIPTION:Masaya Yoshida\nThe focus of Professor Yoshida’s research is on aspects of syntactic representations both in static knowledge of language and in real time sentence processing. The studies carried out so far attempted to integrate work in theoretical and typological syntax and experimental psycholinguistics in order to reveal representations of sentence structures built in real time and mechanisms working behind online sentence processing. \nResearch interests include: \n\nHuman Sentence Processing : Syntactic prediction in online sentence processing\, Processing of Islands\, Processing of Ellipsis.\nSyntax: Cross-Linguistic Studies on Island Constraints\, Ellipsis Phenomena (the syntax of sluicing and gapping)\, P-stranding Parameter\, The syntax of conditional clauses in Japanese.\n\nMasaya Yoshida is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Northwestern University. 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-masaya-yoshida-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:20120203T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120203T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170822
CREATED:20111129T223637Z
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SUMMARY:Yair Dalal with Dror Sinai: An Evening of Jewish Music from Iraq
DESCRIPTION:“Bridge to Babylon” with visiting artists Yair Dalal (oud and violin) and Dror Sinai (percussion) \nComposer\, violinist\, oud player and singer Yair Dalal was born in 1955. His family came to Israel from Baghdad\, and his Iraqi roots are embedded in his musical work. Whether working on his own\, or with his Alol ensemble\, Dalal creates new Middle Eastern music by interweaving the traditions of Iraqi and Jewish Arabic music with a range of influences originating from such diverse cultural milieus as the Balkans to India. \nOver the last decade he has recorded 11 albums covering wide and varied cultural territory and authentically representing Israel’s cultures and fusing them through music as whole. Much of Dalal’s work reflects his extensive musical skills in both classical and Arabic music and also reflects a strong affinity he has for the desert and its habitants. \nHe has played in concerts worldwide\, collaborated with top musicians from all over the world\, from different disciplines\, including: celebrated western classical conductor and Maestro Zubin Mehta\, Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI\, L. Shankar\, Hamza El Din\, Omar Faruk Tekbilek\, Michel Bismuth\, Ken Zuckerman\, Alam Khan\, Jim Santi\, Armand Aamar\, Shlomo Mintz\, Maurice El Medioni\, Mustafa Raza\, Cihat Askin\, Nagati Chelik\, Ensemble Kaboul\, Adel Salameh\, Morwan Abado\, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra\, Kamerata Jerusalem Orchestra\, Melmo symphonic orchestra\, and many more. \nDror Sinai is an international performer\, educator\, and guest artist\, as well as the Founder of Rhythm Fusion\, Inc. in Santa Cruz. Dror has performed as a solo artist and has appeared in ensembles of many different musical styles\, with other talented artists\, including Yair Dalal\, Omar Faruk Tekbilek\, Yuval Ron\, Alessandra Belloni. Dror has presented lectures\, clinics\, and workshops to diverse audiences\, including Universities\, schools\, community gatherings\, children\, and adults\, and has taught both professionals and amateurs. He has been a featured instructor for SPECTRA\, a program of the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County\, and has given clinics at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC). In 2002 he received the Gail Rich Award in Santa Cruz County\, and he is a founding member of the World Music Committee for the Percussive Arts Society. \nPresented by the Music Department. Sponsored by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \n__________ \nHall opens at 7:00 pm\nConcert starts at 7:30pm \n$12 general\n$10 seniors 62+\n$8 youth and students w/ ID \nTickets on sale in December at santacruztickets.com and at the UCSC Ticket Office.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/yair-dalal-with-dror-sinai-an-evening-of-jewish-music-from-iraq-3/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120204T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120204T173000
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CREATED:20111123T015140Z
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SUMMARY:Labor Across the Food System Conference
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Center for Labor Studies presents\n \n\nFRIDAY & SATURDAY\, FEBRUARY 3-4\, 2012\n\n  \nFOOD SYSTEM WORKERS are often a glaring absence in discussions of the contemporary global food system\, even though they are employed in some of the most labor-intensive industries within the entire economy\, among them agricultural field work\, food processing\, food distribution\, and restaurants of all kinds. The new food localism privileges questions of “where food comes from” over “how” and “who” questions about the conditions under which food is grown\, shipped\, processed\, cooked\, served\, and sold. Labor Across the Food System will advance research and advocacy by bringing key scholars and advocates to Santa Cruz for discussions of the critical role of labor and social justice in remaking the global food system. \nKeynote Lecture by local historian\, Frank Bardacke\nauthor of Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers\nFriday\, February 3\, 2012\, 7pm\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, UCSC \nConference\nSaturday\, February 4\, 2012\, 8:30am-5:30pm\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, UCSC \nParticipants Include:\nPatricia Allen\, UC Santa Cruz\nDana Frank\, UC Santa Cruz\nShannon Gleeson\, UC Santa Cruz\nJulie Guthman\, UC Santa Cruz\nDavid Brundage\, UC Santa Cruz\nCarolina Bank Muñoz\, Brooklyn College\nDeborah Barndt\, York University\nLucas Benitez\, Coalition of Immokalee Workers\nChris Bohner\, UNITE HERE\nSandy Brown\, UC Berkeley\nCharlotte Chang\, UC Berkeley\nMaría Teresa Gastón\, University of Nebraska\nEric Holt-Gimenez\, Food First\nDavid Griffith\, East Carolina University\nSaru Jayaraman\, Restaurant Opportunity Center\nJoann Lo\, Food Chain Workers Alliance\nYvonne Yen Liu\, Applied Research Center\nDon Mitchell\, Syracuse University\nMónica Ramírez\, Southern Poverty Law Center\nChris Tilly\, UC Los Angeles \nLabor Across the Food System\, organized and sponsored by the Center for Labor Studies in collaboration with the UCSC Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) and the Food First Institute for Food and Development Policy. Major conference sponsors include the Food and the Body Multicampus Research Group\, the Institute for Humanities Research\, Community Studies Department\, Environmental Studies Department\, Sociology Department and Politics Department. Additional financial support generously provided by the Departments of American Studies\, Anthropology\, History\, Latin American and Latino Studies\, and Psychology. \nFor further information and updated conference program: http://ihr.ucsc.edu//laboracrossfoodsystem or contact Shann Ritchie at the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research\, sritchie@ucsc.edu\, (831) 459-5655. Maps: maps.ucsc.edu. Staffing provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. Poster Design: © 2011 Kim Ferrell\, kimferrelldesign.com
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/labor-across-the-food-system-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:20120206T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120206T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170822
CREATED:20111116T203231Z
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SUMMARY:Julie Sze: "Situating Sustainability Discourse in Shanghai: Global Flows and Urban Transformations in a Warming World"
DESCRIPTION:This talk is drawn from Sze’s current book project which examines flows\, fears and fantasies in contemporary urban and global environmental culture\, with a sustained look at Shanghai in China. She focuses here on Dongtan\, a failed eco-city proposal\, framing it within multiple ideological and spatial contexts. \nJulie Sze is an Associate Professor of American Studies at UC Davis. She is also the founding director of the Environmental Justice Project for UC Davis’ John Muir Institute for the Environment. and in that capacity is the Faculty Advisor for 25 Stories from the Central Valley. \nSze’s book\, Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice\, won the 2008 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize\, awarded annually to the best published book in American Studies. \nSze’s research investigates environmental justice and environmental inequality; culture and environment; race\, gender and power; and community health and activism. She has published on a wide range of topics such as energy and air pollution activism; toxicity; the cultural politics of the Hummer\, and on environmental justice novels and cultural production. \nSze has been interviewed widely in print and on the radio: World’s Fair\, MELDI\, Newsweek\, Asian Reporter\, and Grist Magazine.\nThe Urban Studies is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this event.  Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/julie-sze-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:20120206T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120206T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170822
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SUMMARY:Kathy Lou Shultz: "Diasporic Modernism at Mid-Century: Melvin B. Tolson and Langston Hughes in/and the 1950s."
DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary). \nKathy Lou Schultz is the author of the forthcoming monograph The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History: Tolson\, Hughes\, Baraka. Schultz’s most recent journal articles are “To Save and Destroy: Melvin B. Tolson\, Langston Hughes\, and Theories of the Archive” that appeared in Contemporary Literature Vol. 52 No. 1 (Spring 2011) and “Amiri Baraka’s Wise Why’s Wise: Lineages of the Afro-Modernist Epic\,” forthcoming in the Journal of Modern Literature. She is also the author of four collections of poetry and experimental prose. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kathy-lou-shultz-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:20120208T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120208T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170822
CREATED:20111202T003342Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111202T003342Z
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SUMMARY:Vanita Seth: “Faces of the Self”
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nVanita Seth\nVanita Seth\nAssociate Professor\, Politics\, UCSC \n“Faces of the Self” \nThe French ban on the burqa and niqab is only one example of the primacy accorded the face in modern western societies. Professor Seth here argues that the fortunes of the face are tied to the birth of modern individuality\, and that the face is both the grounds and the reflection of the modern expressive self. \n———————————————————————————————————— \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors.  The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion.  We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/csc-vanita-seth-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:20120208T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120208T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170822
CREATED:20120128T005642Z
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SUMMARY:Heather James: "Bison Hamlet"
DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Early Modern Comparative Studies/Shakespeare: \n“Bison Hamlet” considers the idea of species extinction in myths of the westward transmission of culture in early modern England (translation of empire) and nineteenth-century America (Manifest Destiny). The chief exhibits are an 1861 painting of the American frontier — in which a bison features as Hamlet — and the graveyard scene of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. \nHeather James teaches English and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California\, with emphases on English\, Latin\, and Italian. Her long-standing interests include classical transmission\, poetry and drama\, politics\, book history and gender. Newer interests include commonplacing and the presence of Renaissance culture in the American West. \nAt 4 p.m.\, Professor James will conduct a graduate-student-only seminar on Hamlet Act V\, scene 1
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/heather-james-bison-hamlet-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:20120209T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120209T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170822
CREATED:20120110T211147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120110T211147Z
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SUMMARY:Maaike Bleeker: "(Un)Covering artistic thought unfolding"
DESCRIPTION:Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series\, 2011-2012\n \nMaaike Bleeker \nTheatre Studies\, Utrecht University \n(Un)Covering Artistic Thought Unfolding \nFollowing a suggestion by a Dutch dance initiative named Cover\, this talk proposes the idea of ‘covering’ as practiced in the context of music as perspective on artistic practices of reenactment. The term ´cover´ points to what is reenacted being artistic creations by other artists\, as distinguished from the reenactment of historical situations or events. And also how reenacting these works results in new works\, covers. Covers exist in a specific relationship to the original work\, the cover being a remake or response to the original work from the position of another artist at a later moment in time. The notion of cover also points to how this relationship is mediated by recordings and documentation. The term ´cover version´ originates from the 1960´s when it was introduced to describe a rival version of a tune recorded to compete with an already released original version. That is\, the notion of cover is closely connected to recordings and the recording industry\, not to music or songs as live performance. \nMaaike Bleeker is a Professor and the Chair of Theatre Studies. She studied Art History\, Theatre Studies and Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam where she also completed her PhD on Visuality in the Theatre (2002). Previously\, she lectured at the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of Amsterdam\, The Piet Zwart Post-Graduate program in Fine Arts (Rotterdam)\, Media Gn: Centre for Emergent Media (Groningen)\, The School for New Dance Development (Amsterdam)\, the post graduate program Arts Performance Theatricality (Antwerp)\, and in the IPP Performance and Media Studies Summer School of the Johannes Gutenburg Universität\, Mainz. Since 1991\, she also worked as a dramaturge for various theatre directors\, choreographers and visual artists. She performed in several lecture performances\, ran her own theatre company (Het Oranjehotel) and translated five plays that were performed by major Dutch theatre companies. She was an Artist in Residence at the Amsterdam School for the Arts (2006-2007) and member of the jury of the Dutch National Theatre Festival TF (2007-2008). \nFor more information on this speaker series please see our website: http://artsresearch.ucsc.edu/vps/reenactment
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vps-bleeker-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120209T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120209T194500
DTSTAMP:20260430T170822
CREATED:20111207T221453Z
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SUMMARY:UCSC Winter Living Writers Series:  Dawn Lundy Martin\, Duriel E. Harris\, Ronaldo V. Wilson (Black Took Collective)
DESCRIPTION:Creative Writing and Literature present:\nUCSC Winter Living Writers Series \n Dawn Lundy Martin\, Duriel E. Harris\, Ronaldo V. Wilson (Black Took Collective) \nDawn Lundy Martin\, Duriel E. Harris\, Ronaldo V. Wilson\nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives\nRonaldo V. Wilson\, Visiting Assistant Professor \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities.  Whether as editors\, publishers\, activists\, teachers\, multi-media artists\, and/or co-collaborators\, the featured poets in this series present work that reflects their dynamic engagements in the world. \nThursdays / 6:00 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nContact: Ronaldo V. Wilson\, rvwilson@ucsc.edu or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu \nCo-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lws-black-tool-collective-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:20120210T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120210T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170822
CREATED:20120129T011647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120129T011647Z
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SUMMARY:"What Latinos Are Reading"
DESCRIPTION:The Latino Literary Cultures Project / Proyecto Culturas Literarias Latinas presents: \nWhat Latinos Are Reading\nBringing together writers and editors\, this symposium explores the conditions of possibility for Latino literature today\, focusing on its less-explored popular edges. Panelists will explore the conditions of possibility for a US Latino literature–its varied audiences\, the kinds of literacy it presupposes or fosters. How do Latino children and young adults come to see themselves as readers or as authors? What genres and language modalities are most popular\, most inventive\, most effective in creating a Latino reading public? And in the wake of the controversial Tucson school district book banning\, what are Latinos not reading? \nSchedule:\nSymposium: 1:00-3:00 pm\nReadings: 3:15-5:00 pm\nFollowed by book signings. \nFeaturing:\nGustavo Arellano\, journalist and editor\, Orange County Weekly; author of the syndicated column and book Ask a Mexican!; and Orange County: A Personal History\nMalín Alegría (Ramírez)\, author of three Young Adult books\, and UC Santa Cruz alum\nTheresa Hamman\, veteran in Global and Bilingual Children’s Publishing\nModerated by Juan Poblete\, Literature\, UCSC \nThe Latino Literary Cultures Project / Proyecto Culturas Literarias Latinas is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, as well as a working group of the Chicano/Latino Research Center. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/arellano-alegria-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:20120215T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120215T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170822
CREATED:20111202T010201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111202T010201Z
UID:10004944-1329307200-1329314400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Bettina Apthekar: “Queering the History of the Communist Left in the United States”
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\n\nBettina Apthekar\n\nBettina Apthekar\nDistinguished Professor\, Feminist Studies and History\, UCSC \n“Queering the History of the Communist Left in the United States” \nIn 2010 gays and lesbians of the U.S. Communist Party began publishing a newsletter\, The Queer Communist\, whose emblem is a pink triangle superimposed on a hammer and sickle\, marking an extraordinary moment relative to the homophobic history and politics of the CPUSA. The paper analyzes this history. \n———————————————————————————————————— \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors.  The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion.  We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/csc-bettina-apthekar-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:20120216T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120216T194500
DTSTAMP:20260430T170822
CREATED:20111207T222402Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111207T222402Z
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SUMMARY:UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: giovanni singleton and Ara Shirinyan
DESCRIPTION:Creative Writing and Literature present:\nUCSC Winter Living Writers Series \ngiovanni singleton and Ara Shirinyan \ngiovanni singleton\nAra Shirinyan \ngiovanni singleton is founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts\, a critically acclaimed journal dedicated to experimental work by artists and writers of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces. Counterpath Press will publisher ascension\, a collection of poems in 2012. singleton is currently at work on AMERICAN LETTERS: works on paper\, a collection of concrete poems inspired by African American spirit writing\, the aboriginal dreamtime\, Tibetan meditation practice\, and the study of Japanese language and calligraphy. \nAra Shirinyan lives in Los 
Angeles\, where he writes and is editor of Make Now Press. He is the author of two books of poetry\, Syria Is in the World ( Palm Press\, 2007) and Your Country is Great (Futurepoem Books\, 2008). With Stan Apps and Teresa Carmody\, he co-curates The Last Sunday Reading Series at the 
Smell in Los Angeles (an all ages punk/art rock club that he helped 
co-found in 1997 and briefly ran for a year). His work has appeared 
or is forthcoming in Word Ways\, UBUWEB\, Greetings\, Trepan\, Combo\, Area Sneaks\, Tuli & Savu among others. \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities.  Whether as editors\, publishers\, activists\, teachers\, multi-media artists\, and/or co-collaborators\, the featured poets in this series present work that reflects their dynamic engagements in the world. \nThursdays / 6:00 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nContact: Ronaldo V. Wilson\, rvwilson@ucsc.edu or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu \nCo-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lws-giovanni-singleton-ara-shrinyan-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:20120217T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120217T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170822
CREATED:20120205T182637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120205T182637Z
UID:10004663-1329487200-1329494400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Gautam Premnath: "Urban Form\, Minority Identity\, and Narrative Drift   in Altaf Tyrewala’s No God in Sight"
DESCRIPTION:Thirty-two pages into No God in Sight (2005)\, Altaf Tyrewala’s novel undertakes a dramatic formal turn. By this point\, Tyrewala has established an inventive formula\, serving up a series of brief\, elegantly crafted\, loosely connected\, first-person narratives that chart sinuous\, unpredictable pathways through various Bombay localities. Throughout Tyrewala sustains an unvaryingly wry\, detached narratorial voice that levels out differences between petty travails and high tragedy in the lives of his middle-class Muslim characters. Yet as the seventh episode nears its end\, a different tonal register irrupts into the narrative. As Amin-bhai\, a small shoeshop-owner\, anticipates his emigration to the United States\, the laconic speaking style he shares with other narrators gives way to an impassioned litany of recrimination and regret. Cataloguing assaults upon Muslims and other religious minorities by Hindu fundamentalist zealots\, Amin-bhai punctuates his leavetaking of his country\, stating\, “Let them have their Hindustan for Hindus.” Here\, Tyrewala institutes a formal break\, marked by a blank page. When the first-person narrative chain resumes\, the scene has shifted to a Gujarati village whose residents are being harangued by a mahant into violence against unspecified “outsiders.” Tyrewala has retrieved his studied equanimity\, and the novel renders state-sanctioned pogroms in 2002 Gujarat with a remarkably light touch. Before long the narrative returns to Bombay\, and the novel reverts to its earlier guise of urban dérive. But the Gujarat detour has crucially redirected this earlier imperative. This talk analyzes how the novel’s ambitions as urban exploration are conditioned and inflected by its concern to reflect upon the question of contemporary Indian Muslim identity. \nGAUTAM PREMNATH is Assistant Professor of English at UC Berkeley\, where he specializes in the 20th-century Anglophone literatures of Britain\, the Caribbean\, and South Asia\, and in theories of postcoloniality and diaspora. He has published numerous articles of literary criticism and cultural theory. His first book\, Mobile Republics: Itineraries of Postcolonial Authorship between India and the Caribbean\, is forthcoming from University of Virginia Press. \nThis lecture is presented by the Literature Department and the Institute for Humanities Research. \nEvent is free and open to the public. For further information\, please contact Christine Hong at cjhong@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gautam-premnath-urban-form-minority-identity-and-narrative-drift-in-altaf-tyrewalas-no-god-in-sight-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:20120222T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120222T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170822
CREATED:20111202T023404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111202T023404Z
UID:10004945-1329912000-1329919200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Megan Moodie: “We Were Adivasis: Collective Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe”
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nMegan Moodie\nMegan Moodie\nAssistant Professor\, Anthropology\, UCSC \n“We Were Adivasis: Collective Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe” \nProfessor Moodie studies the sociality engendered by legal and economic projects for uplift and empowerment\, including affirmative action\, microfinance\, and gender-based rights assertions. Her in-progress book\, based on ethnographic work with the Dhanka\, examines the gendered impact of affirmative action-based upward mobility. \n———————————————————————————————————— \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors.  The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion.  We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/csc-megan-moodie-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:20120222T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120222T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170822
CREATED:20120216T231123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120216T231123Z
UID:10005060-1329919200-1329926400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Sean Keilen: "From Latin Rhetoric to English Poetry: Shakespeare’s Antic Dispositions"
DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Early Modern Comparative Studies/Shakespeare: \nSean Keilen\, College of William and Mary\n“From Latin Rhetoric to English Poetry: Shakespeare’s Antic Dispositions” \nThe talk Shakespeare’s efforts to distinguish the poems and plays he was writing from the arguments he had learned to make at school—no small task\, given the fact that the study of poetry was subordinate to the study of rhetoric in the Elizabethan curriculum. In particular\, the talk focuses on the difference between the role the emotions play in determining the meaning of works of art in Shakespearean texts and the role they play in determining the meaning of a case in Latin rhetoric. According to the laws that defined rhetoric as species of discourse\, an emotion is a tool that orators must use to make audiences feel what they want them to feel\, and nothing else. Shakespeare’s works\, by contrast\, identify poetry with aesthetic experiences that give rise to ambiguous feelings\, multiple interpretations\, and authorless texts. \nSean Keilen teaches courses about Shakespeare\, English literature and criticism\, and the reception of the classical tradition. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation (2008) and National Humanities Center (2006)\, he is also the author of Vulgar Eloquence: On the Renaissance Invention of English Literature (Yale 2006)\, co-editor of Forms of Renaissance Thought: New Essays on Literature and Culture (Palgrave 2008)\, and a General Editor of the series Studies in Renaissance Literature (Boydell & Brewer).\nAt 4:00 pm\, Professor Keilen will conduct a graduate-student-only seminar on “Reading for Pleasure.” \nTexts: Barthes\, The Pleasure of the Text (excerpts)\, Sontag\, Against Interpretation\, and Shakespeare\, Venus and Adonis
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sean-keilen-from-latin-rhetoric-to-english-poetry-shakespeares-antic-dispositions-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:20120222T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120222T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170822
CREATED:20120104T191448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120104T191448Z
UID:10004655-1329930000-1329937200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Jean Franco: "Cruel Modernity"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Jean Franco was the first Professor of Latin American Literature in England. She was appointed Professor by the University of Essex in 1968 having previously taught at Queen Mary College and Kings College\, London University. In 1972 she took up a position at Stanford University where she was later appointed to the Olive H. Palmer chair of Humanities. She has been at Columbia University since 1982\, first in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and later in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. She is now Professor Emerita. \nProfessor Franco is one of the editors of the Cultural Studies of the Americas series\, published by Minnesota University Press\, and is General Editor of the Library of Latin America series\, published by Oxford University Press. She has been writing on Latin American literature since the early sixties. She has published The Modern Culture of Latin America (1967)\, An Introduction to Latin American Literature (1969)\, Plotting Women: Gender and Representation in Mexico (1989)\, and Marcando diferencias: Cruzando Fronteras (1996). A selection of essays\, Critical Passions\, edited by Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen Newman was published in October 1999 by Duke University Press. Her book\, The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America and the Cold War was published by Harvard University Press in 2001 and was translated into Spanish as Decadencia y caída de la ciudad letrada in the collection\, Debates. The book was awarded the Bolton-Johnson Prize by the Conference of Latin American Historians for the best work in English on the History of Latin America published in 2003. Plotting Women\, Marcando Diferencias\, and several chapters of Critical Passions and The Decline and Fall specifically focus on gender and the essays\, “Killing Priests\, Nuns\, Women\, Children” and “Gender\, Death and Resistance\,” have been reprinted on numerous occasions. She is at present working on racial discrimination in Latin America. \nProfessor Franco has been decorated by the governments of Mexico\, Chile and Venezuela for her work on Latin American literature and has received awards from PEN and from the Latin American Studies Association for lifetime achievement. She has served as President of the Latin American Studies Association in Great Britain and of the Latin American Studies Association in the U.S.\nCo-sponsored by the Research Groups of Transnationalizing Justice; Borders\, Bodies\, and Violence; and Latino Literary Cultural Project; the Chicano Latino Research Center\, and the Departments of Feminist Studies\, Literature\, and Latin American and Latino Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jean-franco-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T120000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170822
CREATED:20120104T191557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120104T191557Z
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SUMMARY:A Seminar with Jean Franco
DESCRIPTION:To obtain a copy of the paper that will be discussed at the seminar\, please contact Courtney Mahaney (cmahaney@ucsc.edu). \nProfessor Jean Franco was the first Professor of Latin American Literature in England. She was appointed Professor by the University of Essex in 1968 having previously taught at Queen Mary College and Kings College\, London University. In 1972 she took up a position at Stanford University where she was later appointed to the Olive H. Palmer chair of Humanities. She has been at Columbia University since 1982\, first in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and later in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. She is now Professor Emerita. \nProfessor Franco is one of the editors of the Cultural Studies of the Americas series\, published by Minnesota University Press\, and is General Editor of the Library of Latin America series\, published by Oxford University Press. She has been writing on Latin American literature since the early sixties. She has published The Modern Culture of Latin America (1967)\, An Introduction to Latin American Literature (1969)\, Plotting Women: Gender and Representation in Mexico (1989)\, and Marcando diferencias: Cruzando Fronteras (1996). A selection of essays\, Critical Passions\, edited by Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen Newman was published in October 1999 by Duke University Press. Her book\, The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America and the Cold War was published by Harvard University Press in 2001 and was translated into Spanish as Decadencia y caída de la ciudad letrada in the collection\, Debates. The book was awarded the Bolton-Johnson Prize by the Conference of Latin American Historians for the best work in English on the History of Latin America published in 2003. Plotting Women\, Marcando Diferencias\, and several chapters of Critical Passions and The Decline and Fall specifically focus on gender and the essays\, “Killing Priests\, Nuns\, Women\, Children” and “Gender\, Death and Resistance\,” have been reprinted on numerous occasions. She is at present working on racial discrimination in Latin America. \nProfessor Franco has been decorated by the governments of Mexico\, Chile and Venezuela for her work on Latin American literature and has received awards from PEN and from the Latin American Studies Association for lifetime achievement. She has served as President of the Latin American Studies Association in Great Britain and of the Latin American Studies Association in the U.S. \nCo-sponsored by the Research Groups of Transnationalizing Justice; Borders\, Bodies\, and Violence; and Latino Literary Cultural Project; the Chicano Latino Research Center\, and the Departments of Feminist Studies\, Literature\, and Latin American and Latino Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-seminar-with-jean-franco-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170822
CREATED:20120217T001003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120217T001003Z
UID:10005062-1329998400-1330005600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Ory Amitay: "Mary\, Paulina and Fulvia: Allegorical History in Josephus' Antiquities 18.53-84"
DESCRIPTION:Ory Amitay is Professor of History at the University of Haifa. \nThis event is made possible from generous contributions from the Classical Studies Program\, the Center for Jewish Studies\, the departments of Literature and History\, and the David B. Gold Foundation.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ory-amitay-mary-paulina-and-fulvia-allegorical-history-in-josephus-antiquities-18-53-84-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170822
CREATED:20120110T211608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120110T211608Z
UID:10004981-1330018200-1330023600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Visual Performance Studies Presents: Andre Lepecki
DESCRIPTION:Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series\, 2011-2012\n \nAndre Lepecki\, \nPerformance Studies\, New York University \nNot as Before\, but Again: Reenactments and “Transcreation” \nThe recent retrospective of the work of Marina Abramovic at MOMA in New York brought to wide public attention the phenomenon of what she called the “reperformance” of her earlier work\, which had only existed until then as one-time events recorded on film.  Bringing this ephemeral performance work into the museum space as a live artifact raised consciousness of a broader trend currently taking place in contemporary dance\, theatre\, film\, video and performance art.  Reenactment raises questions of the differences between reconstruction\, revival\, adaptation\, reinvention\, quotation\, amplification\, and the kinds of temporalities these strategies to recover past performance signify. But beyond the terminological questions\, issues of artist identity\, authenticity\, and history emerge in direct relationship with performative documentary activity. The question of the event and the document become dramatically foregrounded. The question of trauma and catharsis in relation to reenactment is salient as became clear in our first seminar with Chip Lord and Magaret Morse. \n\n\n\nReenactment of the work of one artist by another has been a form of contemporary creativity in theatre\, film\, dance\, and performance for some time\, but has been gaining momentum as a major trend of artistic production and research.  Clearly\, it evokes the connections of historiography and interpretation to art making that documents the past in a non-literal or even paradoxical yet exacting and rigorous way that evades certain mimetic conventions.  It is time to ask what sorts of temporality are deployed in reenactments\, and how new sorts of temporality reframe notions of documentation\, reconstruction/reinvention\, citation/quotation\, and amplification of an earlier work or event in the contemporary moment. \nThis year-long speaker series will present artists and scholars specializing in this area of contemporary creativity.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vps-lepecki-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T194500
DTSTAMP:20260430T170822
CREATED:20111207T223032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111207T223032Z
UID:10004968-1330020000-1330026300@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: Garrett Hongo
DESCRIPTION:Garrett Hongo\nCreative Writing and Literature present:\nUCSC Winter Living Writers Series \nGarrett Hongo \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives\nRonaldo V. Wilson\, Visiting Assistant Professor \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities.  Whether as editors\, publishers\, activists\, teachers\, multi-media artists\, and/or co-collaborators\, the featured poets in this series present work that reflects their dynamic engagements in the world. \nThursdays / 6:00 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nContact: Ronaldo V. Wilson\, rvwilson@ucsc.edu or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu \nCo-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lws-garrett-hongo-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:20120224T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120224T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170822
CREATED:20120113T232628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120113T232628Z
UID:10005024-1330099200-1330106400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Mary Paster: "Phonologically Conditioned Morphology"
DESCRIPTION:Mary Paster (PhD UC Berkeley\, 2006) is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College in Claremont\, California. Her research focuses on phonology and morphology\, and their interface. She specializes in the study of African languages\, particularly their tone systems. She has published in such journals as Phonology\, Yearbook of Morphology (now Morphology)\, Word Structure\, and Studies in African Linguistics.\nThe Crosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology Research Cluster is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mary-paster-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120225
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120226
DTSTAMP:20260430T170822
CREATED:20111209T194058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111209T194058Z
UID:10004652-1330128000-1330214340@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:2012 Scholarship Benefit Dinner
DESCRIPTION:2012 Scholarship Benefit Dinner \nMore information TBA.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2012-scholarship-benefit-dinner-3/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120225T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120225T120000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170822
CREATED:20120113T232814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120113T232814Z
UID:10005044-1330164000-1330171200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Crosslinguistic Investigations in Phonology-Syntax Research Cluster presents a Seminar with Mary Paster
DESCRIPTION:Mary Paster (PhD UC Berkeley\, 2006) is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College in Claremont\, California. Her research focuses on phonology and morphology\, and their interface. She specializes in the study of African languages\, particularly their tone systems. She has published in such journals as Phonology\, Yearbook of Morphology (now Morphology)\, Word Structure\, and Studies in African Linguistics.\n \nThe Crosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology Research Cluster is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/crosslinguistic-investigations-in-phonology-syntax-research-cluster-presents-a-seminar-with-mary-paster-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Senior Commons Room\,  Cowell College 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062-1225\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120227T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120227T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170822
CREATED:20120221T221148Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120221T221148Z
UID:10005068-1330362000-1330369200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Angela Elsey\, "Life in Senegal / La Vie senegalaise"
DESCRIPTION:LANGUAGE PROGRAM COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nLife in Senegal / La Vie sénégalaise \nAngela Elsey\nAngela Elsey Lecturer in French \nPlease join Lecturer in French Angela Elsey for an introduction to daily life in Senegal through photos and short video clips depicting work\, school\, play\, home life\, language use\, creative activities\, and religious practices. Lecturer Elsey has made two trips to Senegal during which she studied at the University of Dakar\, traveled the country and spent time with the local people. The talk will be in English.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/angela-elsey-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120228T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120228T173000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170822
CREATED:20120216T223414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120216T223414Z
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SUMMARY:J. Cameron Monroe: "Elephants for Want of Towns? New Light on Old Cities in West Africa’s Atlantic Age"
DESCRIPTION:Western conceptions of the city have a long and storied history\, one that until recently largely dismissed pre-colonial African urbanisms as no more than a passive response to cultural stimulus from outside the continent. This has been particularly true for West African cities that emerged in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. However\, landscape archeology is enriching our understanding of how urban centers were organized on the coast of West Africa in the Atlantic Era\, providing a sharper picture of indigenous trade\, the values of the elite classes and power relationships across the region. This work is demonstrating the active role played by such communities in shaping the contours of Atlantic commerce in this period. This presentation will focus on one such urban tradition\, located on the Abomey Plateau in the Republic of Bénin\, exploring the dynamic ways that local political factors shaped and were shaped by global economic forces. \nJ. Cameron Monroe is an historical archaeologist in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Monroe’s research examines political\, economic and cultural transformations in West Africa and the African Diaspora in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. He has studied African-American ethnic identity and household-level craft production in early colonial Virginia\, and currently he directs the Abomey Plateau Archaeological Project in the Republic of Bénin\, West Africa. Integrating documentary\, oral and archaeological data\, the project focuses on the political economy of landscape and the built environment\, and the nature of urban transformation in contact-period West Africa. \nLecture will begin at 4:00 PM\, snacks from 3:30 PM. For more information\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu. \nThis lecture is presented by the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ancient-studies-presents-j-cameron-monroe-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:20120229T120000
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SUMMARY:Melissa L. Caldwell: “Sowing the Seeds of Civil Society: Russia’s Garden Democracy”
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: \nMelissa L. Caldwell\nProfessor\, Anthropology\, UCSC\nCo-Director\, UCMRP on Studies of Food and the Body \n“Sowing the Seeds of Civil Society: Russia’s Garden Democracy” \nProfessor Caldwell examines the politics of poverty\, social welfare\, care and intimacy in Russia through ethnographic research in Dacha Idylls: Living Organically in Russia’s Countryside (California 2011). Her new research is on Russian-African assistance and development relations in the twentieth century. She also studies changing food practices in the postsocialist world. \n———————————————————————————————————— \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors.  The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion.  We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/csc-melissa-caldwell-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:20120229T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120229T180000
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SUMMARY:Craig Dworkin: "The Politics of the Work"
DESCRIPTION:In Partnership with Poetry and Politics Research Cluster and the Literature Department presents: Craig Dworkin for a Lecture on Poetics. \nCraig Dworkin is the author of Reading the Illegible (Northwestern UP)\, Signature-Effects (Ghos-Ti)\, Dure (Cuneiform)\, Strand (Roof)\, and Parse (Atelos)\, and the editor of Architectures of Poetry (Rodopi)\, Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern UP)\, The Sound of Poetry (Chicago UP)\, and Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writing of Vito Acconci (MIT). He teaches at the University of Utah and curates two on-line archives: Eclipse and The UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing.\nPoetry and Politics is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetry-and-politics-professor-craig-dworkin-on-poetics-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120229T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120229T210000
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SUMMARY:Poetry and Politics: Professor Craig Dworkin Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Craig Dworkin is the author of Reading the Illegible (Northwestern UP)\, Signature-Effects (Ghos-Ti)\, Dure (Cuneiform)\, Strand (Roof)\, and Parse (Atelos)\, and the editor of Architectures of Poetry (Rodopi)\, Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern UP)\, The Sound of Poetry (Chicago UP)\, and Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writing of Vito Acconci (MIT). He teaches at the University of Utah and curates two on-line archives: Eclipse and The UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing.\n \nPoetry and Politics is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetry-and-politics-professor-craig-dworkin-poetry-reading-3/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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