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SUMMARY:A Feminist Studies Legal Luncheon: Practicing Domestic Violence Law
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz Presents: \nA Feminist Studies Legal Luncheon\nPRACTICING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LAW \nFeaturing distinguished UC Santa Cruz Women’s Studies Alumna\nNANCY K.D. LEMON (Berkeley Law\, Boalt School of Law) \nWith an introduction by\nProf. D. Kelly Weisberg\, Hastings College of Law \nNancy Lemon was a student founder of UCSC’s Women’s Studies Program and graduated from the Program in 1975. She subsequently graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law\, U.C. Berkeley\, in June 1980 and was admitted to the California Bar in December 1980. Prof. Lemon\, who is a Lecturer in Domestic Violence Law and Director of the Domestic Violence Practicum at Boalt\, introduced and has now taught Domestic Violence Law continuously for 25 years at the school. She authored Domestic Violence Law\, the first U.S. textbook on this topic\, which Austin & Winfield Publishers published in 1996 and for which West Group has published four additional editions\, the most recent in 2009. She has also co-authored Child Custody and Domestic Violence: A Call for Safety (Sage Publications\, 2003) and Working Together to End Domestic Violence (Mancorp Publishing\, 1996) as well as authoring dozens of amicus briefs\, law review articles\, affidavits and books chapters about domestic violence issues. Since 1983\, she has worked on numerous pieces of California state legislation and has conducted hundreds of trainings on domestic violence topics for many different professional groups. Since 1995\, working as an expert witness\, Prof. Lemon has consulted on hundreds of family law\, tort\, asylum and other cases and testified in sixty. She is a Co-founder and Legal Director of the Berkeley Family Violence Appellate Project. \nSeating is limited – please email fmst@ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-2461 to reserve a space at the luncheon. \nFeminist Studies wishes to make this event accessible to all. Please contact (831) 459-2461 for accommodations. This event is free and open to the public\, but reservations are required. \nGenerously sponsored by Cowell College\, The Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, and the Department of Feminist Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-feminist-studies-legal-luncheon-practicing-domestic-violence-law-2/
LOCATION:Unnamed Venue
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SUMMARY:The Living Writers Reading Series: Tupelo Hassman
DESCRIPTION:Tupelo Hassman\, author of the novel Girlchild (FSG 2012) “It takes real talent to make something beautiful out of a trailer park. Girlchild\, Tupelo Hassman’s lacerating debut novel\, is the story of Rory Dawn Hendrix\, a young girl growing up in the Calle\, a cluster of mobile homes on a plot of dust outside Reno\, Nev. Ms. Hassman is such a poised storyteller that her prose practically struts. Her words are as elegant as they are fierce.” –The New York Times
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-reading-series-tupelo-hassman-2/
LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130409T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130409T173000
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SUMMARY:Bruce Lawrence: "Minor Matters - Asian/African\, Muslim/Christian"
DESCRIPTION:How do Muslims and Christians together meet the challenge of majority-minority identity politics in the 21st century? I will assess the status of minority citizenship in places of Africa and Asia that have mixed communities where Muslims are the majority\, Christians the minority. Though these communities might be religiously marked as Muslim and Christian\, they also have other cultural\, linguistic\, ethnic\, and locational markings that are consequential. More than minority identity\, I will argue that the litmus test for good will\, comity and collective benefit in each case is citizenship rights as well as access to public space. How are these rights negotiated and maintained\, monitored and modified in diverse settings with disparate resources? I will pay special attention to the circumstances and options for Copts in Egypt\, Kristens and Katolics in Indonesia\, while at the same time linking them to other communities in both Africa and Asia where a similar Muslim-Christian proportionality prevails. \nBruce Lawrence earned his PhD. from Yale University in the History of Religions: Islam and Hinduism. His research ranges from institutional Islam to Indo-Persian Sufism and also encompasses the comparative study of religious movements. He is Professor Emeritus of Islamic Studies at Duke University. His recent books have included On Violence – A Reader (with Aisha Karim); Messages to the World\, The Statements of Osama Bin Laden; The Quran\, A Biography; and\, with his spouse\, Dr. Miriam Cooke\, Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop. \nCosponsored by UCSC Departments of Anthropology\, History\, and Literature. \nMORNING WORKSHOP – 10:00am to Noon – Humanities 1\, Room 210 \nProfessor Lawrence will also be doing a workshop on Tuesday morning which will revolve around  Irfan Ahmad’s article\, “Immanent Critique and Islam: Anthropological Reflections” and Lawrence’s attempt to apply Ahmad’s most salient lessons to his current work-in-progress\, Who is Allah?  \nDownload the articles here:  Irfan Ahmad’s Immanent Critique and Who is Allah (work in progress) \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/religious-and-secular-entanglements-lecture-with-bruce-lawrence-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:20130410T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130410T140000
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SUMMARY:Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - Kimberly Lau: "Camping Masculinity"
DESCRIPTION:Kimberly Lau’s work explores some of the ways that World of Warcraft engages masculinity in play through the convergence of player practices\, game designers\, and the ongoing interaction between the two.  Reading invocations of hypermasculinity\, Lau investigates how everyday “camp” practices might open up alternative spaces and forms of masculine sociality. \nKimberly Lau is Professor of Literature at UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-9/
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:20130410T163000
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SUMMARY:Stevenson College Faculty Lecture Series: Adrian Brasoveanu
DESCRIPTION:NEGATION IS A PERVASIVE FEATURE of natural language and for the most part\, the linguistic and psycholinguistic literature takes it to be a categorical\, binary notion: the sentence “Sue left” is positive\, while the sentence “Sue didn’t leave” is negative because of the sentential negation “didn’t.” \nAt the same time\, sentences like “Anna answered none of/few of my letters” have been taken to involve some form of negativity despite the fact that they do not contain sentential negations–-but their negativity has not been explicitly quantified. \nThe first part of the talk presents a new test for detecting and quantifying the negativity of a sentence based on the observation that negative sentences license the particle “no” in agreeing responses\, e.g.\, (1) below\, while positive sentences do not license “no” in agreeing responses\, indicated by the star in (2) below. \n(1)\nA: Anna didn’t answer my letter.\nB: No\, she didn’t.\n\n(2)\nA: Anna answered\nB: *No\, she did. \nAfter providing experimental evidence that backs up this novel test\, the talk discusses an experiment that uses the test to quantify the negativity of sentences like “Anna answered none of/few of my letters.” The results support the view that sentence negativity is a matter of degree and it is influenced by interacting semantic and syntactic factors. \n\n  \nDinner Reception follows at the Stevenson Provost House \nAdrian Brasoveanu is Associate Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz. \nCosponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research and the Department of Linguistics.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stevenson-college-faculty-lecture-series-adrian-brasoveanu-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Living Writers Reading Series: Justin Torres
DESCRIPTION:Justin Torres\, author of We The Animals\, was a finalist for the 2012 Indies Choice Book Awards\, winner of a National Book Award for 5 under 35\, and named one of Salon’s “Sexiest Men of 2011.” His work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Granta\, Tin House\, Glimmer Train\, and other publications. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he is a recipient of the Rolón United States Artist Fellowship in Literature\, and is now a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Vanity Fair writes that We The Animals is “A gorgeous\, howling coming-of-age novel that will devour your heart.”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-reading-series-justin-torres-2/
LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130412T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130412T180000
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SUMMARY:Simon Goldhill: "First Words\, Dying Moments: Starting and Ending in Sophocles and Euipides"
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Classical Studies Program and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present the annual Carl Deppe Lecture \nHow does tragedy start and stop –\nand what does it tell us about the ends of man? \nSimon Goldhill is Professor of Greek at Cambridge where he also runs the university’s interdisciplinary research center. He has lectured all over the world and appeared on TV and radio and in the theatre in America\, Australia\, Canada as well as regularly in Britain and Europe. His is a leading expert on Greek tragedy and Greek culture. \nFor more information\, please contact jklynn@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/simon-goldhill-first-words-dying-moments-starting-and-ending-in-sophocles-and-euipides-2/
LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\,  Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130416T154500
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SUMMARY:Adriana M. Brodsky: "Becoming Jewish-Argentines: Marriage choice\, and the construction of a Jewish Argentine Identity (1920-1960)"
DESCRIPTION:The presentation explores the marriage patterns of the Sephardi Jewish communities\, paying special attention to when Sephardim began marrying Ashkenazi Jews\, thereby giving birth to a new type of Jewish identity\, neither fully Ashkenazi nor fully Sephardi\, but Argentine. Although initially Sephardim respected the boundaries of their communities of origin\, and usually married ‘within’\, as the twentieth century progressed and new spaces for interaction of Jews from different origins became available choosing a marriage partner outside of the ‘group’ became more common. The presentation will suggest that loyalties to communities of origin slowly evolved into a stronger sense of belonging to the Argentine nation. \nAdriana M. Brodsky\, Associate Professor of Latin American History at St. Mary’s College of Maryland\, obtained her PhD from Duke University in 2004. She is currently finishing a manuscript entitled Becoming Argentine Jews: Sephardim and the Construction of Ethnic and National Identities\, 1880-1960\, which focuses on the Sephardic communities that settled in Argentina from the end of the 19th century to mid-20th century\, and has co-edited with Raanan Rein (Tel Aviv University) a book titled The New Jewish Argentina (Brill\, 2012). She has published on Sephardi schools in Argentina\, and on Jewish Beauty Contests. Her new project explores the experiences of Argentine Sephardi youth in the 1960s-1970s\, which has received support from the Hadassah- Brandeis Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/adriana-brodsky-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:20130417T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130417T140000
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SUMMARY:Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - Christine Hong: "'War Is the Force That Gives Us Meaning': Militarized Queerness\, Lieutenant Dan Choi\, and Korean War Mascotry"
DESCRIPTION:“‘War Is the Force That Gives Us Meaning’: Militarized Queerness\, Lieutenant Dan Choi\, and Korean War Mascotry” \nOffering a historically layered examination of the rights-based battle waged by former Lt. Dan Choi\, son of a war orphan\, against the now-defunct policy of “Don’t Ask\, Don’t Tell\,” this talk inquires into the homology between queer masking in the U.S. military and the Korean War practice of child mascotry. \nChristine Hong is Assistant Professor of Literature at UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-2-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130420
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SUMMARY:Radical Reading Practices\, A Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Radical Reading Practices\, A Symposium\, April 18-19\, 2013\nPresented by UCSC’s Poetry and Politics Research Cluster. Sponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund and the UC Humanities Network\, with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \nThis symposium attends to the work that readers perform when reading and reconstructing poetry. We focus on the particular ways poetry makes historically and politically significant demands on readers. We hope to foster a conversation about assumptions that structure the way we approach poetry and the larger aesthetic\, historical and theoretical categories that are implicated by our approach. Is poetry\, for example\, a more radical category than prose? Is there a revolutionary way to read it? Is close reading necessary when reading poetry? Is close reading a more radical mode of engaging with texts than other practices? What might those other practices look like? \nSymposium Schedule:\nThursday\, April 18th\, at the Felix Kulpa Gallery (107 Elm Street\, Santa Cruz) \n5:30-7:00pm An evening of poetry with readings:\nChristopher Nealon\nJoshua Anderson\nEmily Carr\nDavid de La Rocha\nGrace Emilie\nDavid Lau\nEireene Nealand\nRob Wilson\nStephanie Young\nFriday\, April 19th at UC Santa Cruz (Humanities 1\, room 210) \n8:30-9:00am Light Breakfast \n9:00-9:30am Opening remarks\nwith Keegan Finberg and Juliana Leslie \n9:30-10:45am Radical Reading Practices: An Undergraduate Roundtable \nMatthew Strebe\, “‘Boots Shining and Gleaming’: Poetry and State Violence”\nGrace Emilie\, “The Unknown Heart Speaks: Embodied Reading Practices and You”\nAnnie Hill\, “Faust Ubersetzt”\nMichael Moreno\, “Technology and Me: A Look at the Effects of Integrating Technology with Poetry”\nGrace Williams\, “Reproduction through Interpretation: Exploring Critical Reading”\nModerator and respondent: Tim Willcutts \n11:00-12:30pm Panel One: Commons\, Collectivity\, Community: From Ancient to Contemporary\nStephanie Young\, “Precarious Reading”\nEmily Carr\, “A\,B\,C: Reading Cultural Jams in Contemporary Poetry”\nKendra Dority\, “Figuring Letters: A Politics of Comparative Reading in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae”\nModerator and respondent: Christopher Nealon \n12:30-1:30pm Lunch—bring your own or eat on campus restaurants \n1:30-3:00pm Panel Two: Historicizing Revolutionary Reading Practices \nDaniel Benjamin\, “Searching for the Human and Searching for the Ghost in George Oppen’s “Of Being Numerous”\nDavid de la Rocha\, “Nicaraguan Poetry and Reading Revolution”\nDavid Lau\, “Poetry as Superstructure: Comments on Chris Nealon’s The Matter of Capital”\nModerator and respondent: Dion Farquhar \n3:15-4:45pm Panel Three: Models of Reception/Questions of Audience \nWhitney De Vos\, “Artificial Memory & the Fate of Crystallized Intelligence: Reading Poetry as a Means of Retrieval”\nEireene Nealand\, “Why Should We Listen to Criminals?: The Death of the Reader and the Rise of the Trace”\nJoshua Anderson\, “Implications of the Surface: A Critique of Surface Reading”\nModerator and respondent: Chris Chen \n5:00-6:00pm Keynote by Christopher Nealon\, “Poetry without Modernity” \n6:00pm Reception at the Cowell Provost’s House
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetry-and-politics-spring-symposium-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130418
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SUMMARY:25th Anniversary of the UC Humanities Initiative & 2013 Society of Fellows Event
DESCRIPTION:Please save the date. Check back for more information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/25th-anniversary-of-the-uc-humanities-initiative-2013-society-of-fellows-event-2/
LOCATION:University of California\, Los Angeles\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130418T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130418T194500
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SUMMARY:The Living Writers Reading Series: Patrick DeWitt
DESCRIPTION:Patrick DeWitt\, author of The Sisters Brothers\, finalist for the Man Booker Prize\, “If Cormac McCarthy had a sense of humor\, he might have concocted a story like Patrick DeWitt’s bloody\, darkly funny western.” The Los Angeles Times.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-reading-series-patrick-dewitt-2/
LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130424T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130424T133000
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SUMMARY:Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - William Marotti: "Timely and Untimely Politics: Art and Protest in Early 1960s Japan"
DESCRIPTION:“Timely and Untimely Politics: Art and Protest in Early 1960s Japan” \nWilliam Marotti explores politics and timeliness by examining the advent of a critical art of the everyday in Japan in the 1960s and its links to political action. Out of sync with eventful mass activism\, artists sought to create eventfulness against a state-promoted\, depoliticized daily life in the high growth economy. \nWilliam Marotti is Associate Professor of History and Chair\, East Asian Studies MA Interdepartmental Program at UCLA.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-3-2/
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:20130425T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130425T193000
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SUMMARY:Feminist Poetry with Brenda Shaughnessy
DESCRIPTION:Reception: 5:00-6:00 PM • Humanities Building 1\, Room 210\nReading: 6:00-7:30 PM • Humanities Lecture Hall \nBrenda Shaughnessy is a prize-winning poet and UCSC alumni (Women’s Studies\, Literature\, 1993) whose latest book of poetry\, Our Andromeda received a rave review in the New York TImes Book Review (February 3\, 2013). Reviewer Victoria Redel wrote\, “This book addresses urgent questions [with] no shortage of invention . . . Shaughnessy conjures our better selves\, lovers\, kinder gods\, sisters . . . Love is the fierce engine of this beautiful and necessary book. Love is the high stakes\, the whip of its power and grief and possibility for repair . . . The result is a book whose song will endure.” We are thrilled to bring Brenda back to UCSC for a reading that is sure to enrich our lives and our world. Now an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers\, University\, Newark\, this public reading inaugurates a series of events that will feature Brenda during UCSC’s Alumni Weekend. \nBrenda Shaughnessy is the author of the poetry collections\, Our Andromeda (2012)\, Human Dark with Sugar (2008)\, which was a finalist for the 2008 NBCC Award\, and Interior with Sudden Joy (1999). Her poems have appeared in Harpers\, McSweeney’s\, The Nation\, The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Slate.com and elsewhere. She is Poetry Editor-At-Large at Tin House Magazine\, and is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers-Newark. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband\, son\, and daughter. \nThe series of events is organized and sponsored by the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and the Feminist Studies Department. Cosponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Living Writers Reading Series. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For further information\, including disabled access\, please contact Shann Ritchie\, sritchie@ucsc.edu\, (831) 459-5655. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-reading-series-brenda-shaughnessy-2/
LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130426T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130426T180000
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SUMMARY:Giovanna Di Chiro: “Embodied Ecologies: Connecting Sustainability and Environmental Justice”
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Giovanna Di Chiro’s research bridges academic and community action domains and integrates the fields of environment\, sustainability\, and social justice. She teaches interdisciplinary courses in environmental studies and women’s & gender studies\, and incorporates a community-based\, action research emphasis (currently as the Lang Professor for Issues of Social Change at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania). Di Chiro has published widely on the intersections of race\, class\, gender\, and environmental justice with a focus on activism and policy change addressing environmental health disparities in lower income communities. She collaborates with environmental justice and community development organizations to conduct participatory action research on environmental health concerns and on developing culturally relevant “sustainability” initiatives in diverse communities. \nDi Chiro is co-editor of the volume Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power and is completing a book titled Embodied Ecologies: Science\, Politics\, and Environmental Justice. Embodied Ecologies focuses on what she calls “embodied” or “situated” environmental science and community-based environmental justice activism. The central argument interrogates conventional environmental science and policy approaches\, which tend to concentrate on global\, cosmopolitan\, and macro-level frameworks of organized power: states\, markets\, global institutions\, global environmental sciences\, and international environmental organizations. That selective attention to the macro scale tends to dismiss or simply disregard community/local/situated practices and approaches to environmental science and policy as overly micro level and parochial (i.e.\, not relevant or up to the task of addressing the big environmental problems of the moment\, like global climate change). Using the conceptual framework of “embodiment” and drawing on the feminist political economic theory of social reproduction (the maintenance and sustainability of bodies/families/communities and everyday life)\, Embodied Ecologies examines the harm done to (human and non-human) bodies\, communities\, and local environments\, which has been eclipsed by dominant discourses emphasizing the global scale. The book highlights the innovative and diverse eco-cosmo-politics generated by grassroots activists to build sustainable\, just\, and resilient communities in the face of broad-scale environmental problems like global warming and climate change. \nDi Chiro has a background in Biology (B.A. with honors from UCSC)\, a Master of Science in Environmental Studies from the University of Michigan\, and a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness (Interdisciplinary Studies focusing on Environment\, Health\, and Development) from UC Santa Cruz\, which integrates her interdisciplinary background in biology\, environmental studies\, and socio-cultural theory. Di Chiro has over 20 years teaching experience\, and has taught in Environmental Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies at Deakin University (Australia)\, University of California (Santa Cruz)\, Allegheny College\, Mount Holyoke College\, and Swarthmore College. She has received numerous research fellowships and grants\, including from the Rockefeller Foundation\, the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, the American Association of University Women\, the Nathan Cummings Foundation\, and the US Environmental Protection Agency. \nThis colloquium was established to honor the memory and research of Jessica Roy\, a UC Santa Cruz graduate student in sociology whose life was abruptly cut short while doing her dissertation fieldwork in Kenya. Her research in rural Africa was designed to illuminate the problem of access to safe water resources and the influence of gender relations on this access. Her approach was interdisciplinary\, including environmental\, feminist\, and sociological perspectives.  \nCosponsored by the Urban Studies Research Cluster.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/giovanna-di-chiro-embodied-ecologies-connecting-sustainability-and-environmental-justice-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130426T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130426T190000
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SUMMARY:Víctor Fuentes: "Literatura memorialista de la inmigración"
DESCRIPTION:Víctor Fuentes is the author of a memoir\, Memorias del segundo exilio español (2011) and fourteen books\, among them\, La marcha al pueblo en las letras españolas (1917-1936)\, El cántico material y espiritual de César Vallejo\, Buñuel\, cine y literatura\, Antología de la poesía bohemia española\, Antología del cuento bohemio español. \nHe is Professor Emeritus of the University of California\, Santa Barbara; Full Member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language and Co-editor of the literary magazine Ventana abierta. \n\n  \nProfesor Emérito de la Universidad de California\, Santa Bárbara. Miembro Numerario de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española. Coeditor de Ventana abierta. \nEs autor de numerosas publicaciones\, entre las que se cuentan 14 libros de ensayo\, dos novelas y un libro de memorias. Entre ellos destacan: La marcha al pueblo en las letras españolas (1917- 1936)\, El cántico material y espiritual de César Vallejo\, Buñuel\, cine y literatura (Premio “Letras de Oro”\, 1988)\, Antología de la poesía bohemia española\, Antología del cuento bohemio español\, Morir en Isla Vista (1999); Memorias del segundo exilio español (2011).\n  \nThis event is sponsored by the UCSC Language Program.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/victor-fuentes-literatura-memorialista-de-la-inmigracion-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 408
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SUMMARY:Brenda Shaughnessy: "Feminism & Poetry\, Empowerment & Passion"
DESCRIPTION:Please join Women’s Studies / Feminist Studies alumni\, classmates\, and faculty for an intriguing afternoon. \n2:00-3:00 PM: Reception\n3:00-4:30 PM: Brenda Shaughnessy will present a talk entitled: “Feminism & Poetry\, Empowerment & Passion”\n4:30-6:00 PM: Feminist Studies Faculty Panel will discuss “The Vibrant State of the Feminist Studies Department” to discuss the launching of the Feminist Studies graduate program\, the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, current curriculum\, faculty research\, and more. \nBrenda Shaughnessy is the author of three collections of poetry\, most recently Our Andromeda (Copper Canyon Press\, September 2012.) Her other books are Human Dark with Sugar\, which was a finalist for the 2008 NBCC Award and winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets\, and Interior with Sudden Joy\, finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry\, Harpers\, McSweeney’s\, The Nation\, The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Yale Review and elsewhere. She is currently Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers University at Newark. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York with her husband\, son\, and daughter. \nThe series of events is organized and sponsored by the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and the Feminist Studies Department. Cosponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Living Writers Reading Series. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For further information\, including disabled access\, please contact Shann Ritchie\, sritchie@ucsc.edu\, (831) 459-5655. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/brenda-shaughnessy-feminism-poetry-empowerment-passion-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:20130428T150000
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SUMMARY:Leviathan: Celebrating 40 Years of Jewish Journalism at UCSC
DESCRIPTION:Please join former and current staff members of Leviathan in a celebration of the student publication’s 40th anniversary. Leviathan is one of the longest-running university student publications devoted to Jewish themes in the United States. Over the years\, its articles and artwork have explored contemporary questions of Jewish identity\, the role of Israel\, local Jewish issues\, and a wide range of cultural and historical topics. Many of it editors\, writers\, and artists have gone on to distinguished careers in publishing\, journalism\, education\, and other fields. \nThe event\, to be held in the Fireside Lounge of Stevenson College at 3 p.m. on Sunday\, April 28\, will include a panel discussion with former and current Leviathan staff members\, the official launch of the newly created digital archive of past issues of the publication going back to the 1970s\, and a festive reception with food and beverages. \nCo-sponsored by Leviathan\, the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and Stevenson College. Administrative support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/leviathan-celebrating-40-years-of-jewish-journalism-at-ucsc-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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