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SUMMARY:Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - Soraya Murray: "The Rubble and the Ruin: Spec Ops:The Line as Anti-War Game"
DESCRIPTION:“The Rubble and the Ruin: Spec Ops:The Line as Anti-War Game” \nSoraya Murray is an interdisciplinary scholar of contemporary visual culture\, with particular interest in new media and globalization in the arts. In her analysis of photography\, film and digital media\, Murray seeks to illuminate these technological expressions in their cultural contexts. \nSoraya Murray is Assistant Professor of Film and Digital Media and Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program at UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-4-2/
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:20130501T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130501T163000
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SUMMARY:Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of  Enforcing Immigrant WorkerRights  in San Jose and Houston
DESCRIPTION:In Conflicting Commitments\, Dr. Shannon Gleeson goes beyond the debate over  federal immigration policy to examine the complicated terrain of immigrant worker rights. Federal law requires that basic labor standards apply to all workers\, yet this principle clashes with increasingly restrictive immigration laws and creates a confusing bureaucratic terrain for local policymakers and labor advocates. Gleeson examines this issue in two of the largest immigrant gateways in the country: San Jose\, California\, and Houston\, Texas.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/conflicting-commitments-the-politics-of-enforcing-immigrant-workerrights-in-san-jose-and-houston-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130501T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130501T190000
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SUMMARY:Scott Lauria Morgensen: "Idle No More\, Indigenous Feminism & Allied Critiques of Settler Colonialism"
DESCRIPTION:Revisiting Indigenous critiques of the sexualization and racialization of colonial rule\, Morgensen highlights how such power is challenged by the Indigenous movement Idle No More. Indigenous feminist and Two Spirit critiques explain that heteropatriarchy and white supremacy produce settler colonization and settler state governance. \nAs explained by participants\, the leadership of Idle No More by Indigenous women as founders and spokespersons exposes heteropatriarchy in Indigenous communities for change by challenging racial and sexual legacies of Canadian colonization. These legacies include the Indian Act\, which preferentially exiled over four generations of Indigenous women and their descendants from their nations and lands; and in the everyday landscapes of gender and sexual violence faced by Indigenous women and Two-Spirit people. \nMorgensen interprets these effects of Idle No More by writing as an allied critic in Canada who answers calls to support Indigenous leadership in transforming colonial rule. Feminist\, queer\, and trans critiques of racialization\, sexualization\, and colonization can resonate with Idle No More as it pursues indigenist and decolonial transformation on behalf of all Indigenous people in Canada. \nScott Lauria Morgensen is an ethnographer and historian of social movements. He is Associate Professor in Gender Studies and the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston\, Ontario\, Canada. His work examines how politicalcommunities struggle over differences\, challenge or reproduce oppressions\, and confront solidarity and alliance. His past and present research examines how racism and settler colonialism shape queer / trans communities in North America. An interdisciplinary scholar trained in Feminist Studies (PhD 2001 Anthropology [Women’s Studies]\, University of California\, Santa Cruz)\, Morgensen engages the theories and methods of Indigenous\, women of color\, and transnational feminisms in his work. His first book\, Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization\, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2011\, and won the 2012 Ruth Benedict Book Prize “Honorable Mention” from the Association for Queer Anthropology. He is co-editor of the collection Queer Indigenous Studies\, and of “Karangatia: Calling Out Gender and Sexuality in Settler Societies\,” a special issue of Settler Colonial Studies. He is co-editor of Journal of Critical Race Inquiry and a proud UCSC Feminist Studies alum. \nAdditional Reading: Dr. Morgensen will present work in dialogue with a recent blog on jadaliyya.com:\nhttp://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/11016/settler-colonialism-and-alliance_comparative-chall
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/scott-lauria-morgensen-idle-no-more-indigenous-feminism-allied-critiques-of-settler-colonialism-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:20130502
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SUMMARY:Sea Changes: Mediterranean and Maritime Perspectives on History and Culture
DESCRIPTION:The Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP in Mediterranean Studies present:\nAn International Symposium/Workshop to be held at UC Santa Cruz\, 2-4 May\, 2013 \nA maritime perspective provides scholars with a fresh approach to the study of society and culture\, including the development of art\, literature\, and institutions. In the mid-twentieth century\, Fernand Braudel first reformulated the history of Early Modern Europe and the Islamic world by taking the sea between them not as a barrier but as an analytical starting point. Taking geography as its point of departure\, this history focused not on the supposedly inherent qualities that separated them\, but on the connections that bound the people of the coasts and their continental hinterlands to various trans-Mediterranean others. Emphasizing the importance of movement\, trade\, and communication\, it invited the interrogation of categories that had come to seem self-evident (especially the nation)\, challenged the foundations of dominant historical metanarratives\, and called new attention to the significance of peoples and places long regarded as mere intermediaries. \nThis gathering invites scholars of the humanities and social science engaged in the study of maritime environments–in particular\, the application of Oceanic models (pertaining to the Mediterranean\, the Atlantic\, Pacific\, or Indian Oceans\, etc.) to the study of the history of human society and culture. Rather than pure research presentations or case studies\, Papers (20 minutes) should engage explicitly and directly with the Mediterranean and/or Oceanic Studies as methodological frames or emerging disciplines. Themes include: \n– “In the sea” or “of the sea? The practica of maritime methodologies; geographical determinism and/or human adaptations;\n– Revelations and Revisions: What the sea brings to scholarship.\n– The historiography and reception of the sea in scholarship \nThis conference will be held in conjunction with the Mediterranean Studies UCMRP Spring workshop. \nSymposium and Workshop Program (PDF)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sea-changes-mediterranean-and-maritime-perspectives-on-history-and-culture-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:20130502T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130502T194500
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SUMMARY:The Living Writers Reading Series: Karen Joy Fowler
DESCRIPTION:Karen Joy Fowler\, author of six novels and three short story collections. The Jane Austen Book Club spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel\, Sister Noon\, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel\, Sarah Canary\, was a New York Times Notable Book\, as was her second novel\, The Sweetheart Season. In addition\, Sarah Canary won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian\, and was short-listed for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize as well as the Bay Area Book Reviewers Prize. Fowler’s short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award in 1999\, and her collection What I Didn’t See won the World Fantasy Award in 2011.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-reading-series-karen-joy-fowler-2/
LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130503
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130506
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SUMMARY:23rd Annual Semantics and Linguistics Theory Conference (SALT)
DESCRIPTION:Please stay tuned for more information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/23rd-annual-semantics-and-linguistics-theory-conference-salt-2/
LOCATION:Unnamed Venue
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130508T121500
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SUMMARY:Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - Ken Selden: "'Goldfinger' and the Decline of the Classical Hollywood Narrative"
DESCRIPTION:“Goldfinger” and the Decline of the Classical Hollywood Narrative \nThe 1964 film Goldfinger\, released right after the break-up of the Hollywood studio system\, presented a new kind of narrative that did not conform to the classical Hollywood three-act model. In this talk\, I will examine how Goldfinger differed dramaturgically from the classical Hollywood style and why\, fifty years later\, the film’s artistic and financial success remains such a strong influence on almost all Hollywood production. \nKen Selden is a film and television writer/director. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-5-2/
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:20130508T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130508T173000
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SUMMARY:Helen Diller Family Endowment Lecture with Ari Kelman: "Learning to be Jewish"
DESCRIPTION:For most Americans\, the phrase “Jewish education” summons images of Hebrew School. But\, Hebrew School\, or even what we might call “formal Jewish education” amounts to only a very small percentage of where and how people learn to be Jewish. The landscape of Jewish learning might include those sites\, but it certainly includes a much broader spectrum of settings like worship\, film festivals\, popular music\, literature\, home-based rituals (like Passover seders)\, technology\, and encounters with the news. By focusing on the places where and how people learn to be Jewish\, a dramatically different image of Jewish education comes into focus. Building on cutting edge research into educational cultures\, we will explore the variety of ways in which people learn to be Jewish in the 21st century and ask how this new understanding might inform how we understand what it means to be Jewish. \nAn alumnus of UC Santa Cruz (Stevenson\, 1994) Ari Y. Kelman is the inaugural Jim Joseph Professor of Education and Jewish Studies in the Stanford University Graduate School of Education\, where he also serves as an affiliate of the Jewish Studies Program\, the Center for Comparative Race and Ethnicity\, the American Studies Program\, and\, by courtesy\, a professor of Religious Studies. He is the author of Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio\, (University of California Press\, 2009) and the editor of a volume of the work of cartoonist Milt Gross (NYU Press\, 2009). He is also the co-author of Sacred Strategies (Alban Institute Press\, 2010)\, a study of synagogue transformation efforts in the United States and winner of the 2010 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Jewish Education and Identity. In collaboration with Steven M. Cohen\, Ari has authored a number of studies of contemporary American Jewish culture addressing issues from Israel to the internet. Ari recently finished a book entitled Shout to the Lord: Worship and Music in Evangelical America\, and is currently writing about Fiddler on the Roof\, the Jewish Catalog\, Jewish cultural festivals and other extra-scholastic loci in which people learn to be Jewish.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/helen-diller-family-endowment-lecture-with-ari-kelman-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:20130508T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130508T173000
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SUMMARY:Dana Frank: "A Human Rights Disaster in Honduras: Why is the U.S. Supporting a Repressive Regime?"
DESCRIPTION:What’s driving this murderous U.S. policy in Honduras? And how are the Hondurans still rising up in resistance?\nSince the June 2009 military coup that deposed democratically-elected President Manuel Zeleya\, the U.S. has been supporting a repressive regime that continues to commit massive human rights violations. Honduras now has the highest murder rate in the world\, and near-complete impunity reigns\, including over 300 documented killings by state security forces. Yet the U.S. continues to pour police and military funds into a regime widely known to be riddled with drug traffickers and organized crime – Congress protests more and more loudly. \nDana Frank is Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz.\nDinner reception immediately follows at the Stevenson Provost House. \nThis event is presented by the Stevenson College Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series. Cosponsored by the Departments of History and Latin American and Latino Studies\, and the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dana-frank-a-human-rights-disaster-in-honduras-why-is-the-u-s-supporting-a-repressive-regime-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130509T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130509T194500
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SUMMARY:The Living Writers Reading Series: Elizabeth Graver
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Graver’s new novel\, The End of the Point\, set in a summer community on Buzzard’s Bay from 1942 to 1999\, is forthcoming from HarperCollins in Spring\, 2013. She is the author of three other novels: Awake\, The Honey Thief\, and Unravelling. Her short story collection\, Have You Seen Me?\, won the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories (1991\, 2001); Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards (1994\, 1996\, 2001)\, The Pushcart Prize Anthology (2001)\, and Best American Essays (1998).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-reading-series-elizabeth-graver-2/
LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130510T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130510T140000
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SUMMARY:Carol Lynn McKibben: "Gender and Italian Immigration in California: A Monterey Case Study"
DESCRIPTION:Regional context is of critical importance in understanding processes of migration. As well\, gender analysis complicates group migration experiences. Dr. McKibben’s talk will focus both on the economic and social environment of California and on the role of women in families that made for a migration experience for Sicilians that counters the usual narratives of Italian migration in the Eastern and Midwestern United State in the twentieth century. Unlike the East and Midwest\, Sicilians in California created ethnic communities that were persistent\, replenished over time with new migrations\, especially in the post-1965 era. \nCarol Lynn McKibben began teaching courses in public history at Stanford in 2006. She received her Ph.D. in American History from the University of California\, Berkeley in 1999. Her book\, Beyond Cannery Row: Sicilian Women\, Immigration\, and Community in Monterey\, California\, 1915-1999 (University of Illinois Press\, February\, 2006) examines the migration and settlement of Sicilian fishing people to the Monterey Peninsula\, with an emphasis on women’s roles in the process. She taught history and policy studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies from 1992-2001\, and is currently Public Historian for the City of Seaside\, California and the Director of the Seaside History Project. She is the author of Seaside (forthcoming\, Arcadia Press\, April\, 2009)\, and completing work on the narrative history of Seaside\, which focuses on race relations and the influence of the military (Fort Ord) on the city\, The Making of a Multi-Cultural Military Town\, Seaside\, California\, 1890-2006.\nThis lecture is presented by Italian Studies\, the Language Program\, and Italian Program at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/carol-lynn-mckibben-gender-and-italian-immigration-in-california-a-monterey-case-study-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130510T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130510T163000
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CREATED:20130109T220139Z
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SUMMARY:9th Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Grad students share their research by presenting either oral\, media or posters with an awards ceremony immediately following along with a reception.\n\nFree and open to the public.\n\nMain floor conference rooms for orals and media presentations\, hallways for poster presentations.\n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/9th-annual-graduate-student-research-symposium-2/
LOCATION:McHenry Library (3rd Floor)\, Special Collections
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130514T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130514T203000
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SUMMARY:Noel Q. King Annual Lecture: “Higher Mysteries: Faith and Theology in Crime Fiction”
DESCRIPTION:The King Lecture Series\, preserving the work of UCSC History and Comparative Religion professor Noel Q. King\, promotes and explores the dialogue between faiths. This year’s lecture also incorporates the interests of his wife\, crime writer Laurie R. King\, in conversation with three other award-winning crime writers\, for an event called: \nHigher Mysteries: Faith and Theology in Crime Fiction\n\nZoë Ferraris moved to Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the first Gulf War\, living in a conservative Muslim community with her then-husband and his family\, a group of Saudi-Palestinians. Zoë has an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University. Her novels are published in over thirty countries. \n  \n\nSharan Newman is a Medieval historian with an MA in Medieval Literature and a PhD in Medieval Studies\,specializing in twelfth-century France. She has been writing fiction since1980\, with ten books in her award-winning series about Catherine LeVendeur\, once a student under the abbess Heloise. Her books explore Medieval ideas of religion as well as Christian/Jewish relations. \n  \n  \n \nJulia Spencer-Fleming\, a bestselling author with an armful of awards\, spent most of her childhood on the move as an army brat\, then studied acting and history at Ithaca College\, receiving a J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law. She writes a crime series about Army helicopter pilot-turned-Episcopal priest Clare Fergusson set in her native upstate New York. \n  \nModerator Laurie R. King\, who did her BA in Comparative Religion at UCSC and her MA in Old Testament Theology at the Graduate Theological Union\, turned to crime (fiction) when she wrote a tale in which young theology student Mary Russell meets the famous skeptic Mr. Sherlock Holmes\, and finds herself apprenticed to him. Many of Laurie’s books have theological and religious themes. \n  \n  \nHigher Mysteries is sponsored by UCSC’s Noel Q. King Memorial and the Santa Cruz Public Libraries. Books will be sold at the event by Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and refreshments served thanks to the Friends of the Public Library. \nFor background reading to the discussion:\nZoë Ferraris: Finding Nouf & City of Veils\nLaurie R. King: A Monstrous Regiment of Women & A Darker Place\nSharan Newman: The Outcast Dove & Strong as Death\nJulia Spencer-Fleming: In the Bleak Midwinter & Out of the Deep I Cry \nPlease RSVP to info@laurieking.com will help the Friends with the chair setup. \nFor more information\, write to info@laurieking.com
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/noel-q-king-annual-lecture-higher-mysteries-faith-and-theology-in-crime-fiction-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Public Library – Downtown Branch\, 224 Church Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130515T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130515T133000
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SUMMARY:Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - Blake Wentworth: "Bhakti Demands Biography: Crafting the Life of a Tamil Saint"
DESCRIPTION:“Bhakti Demands Biography: Crafting the Life of a Tamil Saint” \nBlake Wentworth’s current work revolves around a central feature of south Indian political life in premodernity\, the mapping of sexuality onto the political domain such that lordly power is beautiful. By tracing the genealogy of this trope\, he explores the interplay between ancient Tamil poetics and the wider Sanskrit world. \nBlake Wentworth is Assistant Professor of South and South EastAsian Studies at UC- Berkley.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-6-2/
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:20130515T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130515T190000
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CREATED:20130513T171518Z
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SUMMARY:Richard Miskolci: "Undisciplined studies & the (geo)politics of knowledge"
DESCRIPTION:Challenges for a North-South dialogue \nWhy does knowledge continue to travel only from North to South? To understand the powerful continuity in this exchange\, this presentation will start with a historical reconstitution of its creation and functioning. Even in an increasingly decentered world we still witness the hegemony of academic exchange in which North produces theories and South is seen as a space for collecting data or applying Northern theories to particular cases. Knowledges are created under institutional frames that connect them to power interests. During the end of 19th century\, for example\, evolutionism created a kind of alliance between intellectual and ruling classes in different parts of the world. Later\, after World War II\, this same alliance was recreated with a new objective: spreading a modernization ideal based on the assumption that West – the US in particular – was the model for the Rest (of the world). Beginning with the 1960s\, with the historical event Foucault called “the insurgence of subalternized knowledges”\, we saw the rise of a set of studies connected to once overlooked inequalities inside the so called West. These studies challenged the old ways of creating knowledge and connected their work to the interest of subalternized groups like women\, people of color\, gays\, lesbians\, colonized peoples\, and\, more recently\, queer persons. Unfortunately\, this important historical inflection that created specific fields like feminist\, post-colonial and queer studies has not changed the flux of knowledge production from North to the South. \nWhat are the reasons behind this continuity even in fields committed to subalternized people and experiences? Why are feminist\, post-colonial\, racial/ethnic\, and queer studies made in the South not seen as interlocutors in the North? Why isn’t Southern intellectual production circulated or taken into account in Northern genealogies of the so-called “studies”? Have “studies” been dragged into the academic battles inside US and Europe to conquer their internal institutional space while overlooking their possible allies in the South? Why – in a decentered world – do “studies” keep the global South in the position of a silent interlocutor that appears in generalized assumptions of contemporary production subsumed under expressions like international\, transnational and global? Finally\, what are the challenges to create a North-South dialogue? This presentation will try to address these questions and present some hypotheses\, but its main objective is not to give any final answer or present a solution. The idea is to promote the discussion about how knowledge committed to subalternized people and social change can reproduce – and even reinforce – unfair power relations outside the borders in which it is created. \nRichard Miskolci is Professor of Sociology at the Federal University of São Carlos in São Paulo state\, Brazil\, and Researcher at Núcleo de Estudos de Gênero Pagu\, UNICAMP. A key figure in the debate on queer theory in Brazil\, Miskolci has authored several books\, including Thomas Mann\, the Mestizo Artist (2003)\, O desejo da nação: masculinidade e branquitude no Brasil de fins do XIX (2012) and is the editor of Dissident Sexualities (2007)\, the first Brazilian Queer Studies anthology. Dr. Miskolci is a Visiting Scholar in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz this year. \nAdditional Reading: “Undisciplined studies & the (geo)politics of knowledge” \nMiskolci Event Flyer
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/richard-miskolci-undisciplined-studies-the-geopolitics-of-knowledge-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:20130516T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130516T173000
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SUMMARY:Ad Neeleman: "Person: Inventory and Realization"
DESCRIPTION:“Person: Inventory and Realization” is a joint work with Peter Ackema\, of the University of Edinburgh. \nIn this presentation Dr. Neeleman will develop a theory in which person features are more abstract than usually assumed: they do not refer to speaker or addressee\, but are rather used to navigate a ‘person space’ . The theory is confronted with two typological problems. \n(i) Why is the inventory of persons so limited? Why aren’t there 30 persons? (In this context 30 is not a random number\, but represents the number of potential persons.) \n(ii) What explains the typological observation that syncretism between first and third person is much rarer than syncretism between either first and second\, or second and third person (Baerman et al. 2005\, Baerman and Brown 2011)? \nIf time allows\, he will discuss also Dutch as a case study. In this language there are two person endings that arrange themselves in such a way that there is a 2-3 syncretism in the regular case\, a 1-2 syncretism under subject-verb inversion\, and an optional 1-3 syncretism with a particular lexical class of verbs (modals). \nAd Neeleman is Professor of Linguistics at University College London. His research focuses on syntactic theory and the interaction between the syntax and syntax-external systems. He received his PhD from Utrecht University (Complex Predicates\, 1994) and is the author of some forty research papers and two books (Flexible Syntax\, 1999\, with Fred Weerman\, and Beyond Morphology\, 2004\, with Peter Ackema). His current research deals with linear asymmetries in syntax\, the grammar of person and the linguistic representation of causation. \nThis event is presented by he Crosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology Research Cluster\, and sponsored by the UC Humanities Network. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information\, including disabled access\, please contact: Shann Ritchie\, (831) 459-5655\, sritchie@ucsc.edu. Maps: maps.ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ad-neeleman-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:20130517T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130517T173000
DTSTAMP:20260419T002932
CREATED:20130206T202557Z
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SUMMARY:Grant McGuire: "Separating voice prototypicality and stereotypicality"
DESCRIPTION:Current theories of speech perception emphasize the demonstrated role of direct experience in voice processing where greater experience with a voice or voice type results in various processing advantages. This talk describes early results from a project examining the role of stereotypes\, or more abstracted representations not necessarily based in direct experience\, in the processing of voices. Specifically\, we will detail the role various voice types play in phonetic accommodation\, the phenomenon where a talker adapts properties of another talker’s voice. \nGrant McGuire is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz and recipient of an IHR Faculty Fellowship (2012-13). His primary research interest is in speech perception. He received his PhD in Linguistics from Ohio State University (Phonetic Category Learning\, 2007) and has published research articles on perceptual learning in adults and infants\, audio-visual speech perception\, and gender effects on speech perception.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ihr-faculty-fellow-lecture-by-grant-mcguire-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:20130519T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130519T220000
DTSTAMP:20260419T002932
CREATED:20130507T222005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130507T222005Z
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SUMMARY:International Playhouse XIII
DESCRIPTION:The Language Program\, Cowell College\, and Stevenson College cordially invite you and your students to attend a performance of The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XIII (IP)\, an annual multilingual program of fully-staged short theater pieces\, now in its 13th season. Four public performances will be held on May 16\, 17\, 18\, 19\, at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center and will feature works in French\, Italian\, Japanese\, and Spanish\, with English super-titles. The program will be directed by Language lecturers\, working with their students. There is no admission charge; however\, evening parking permits are required for the Thursday and Friday performances. Parking permits will be available by attendant in the Cowell/Stevenson lower parking lots (#109/110) for $4.00. Those already in possession of a valid “A”\, “B”\, or “C” permit do not need to purchase an additional permit to park during evening hours. \nThis year’s works include excerpts from (French) LE MALADE IMAGINAIRE (The Hypochondriac) by Molière\, directed by Miriam Ellis; (Italian) NATIVITÀ (Nativity) by La Smorfia\, directed by Giulia Centineo; (Japanese) THE VAMPIRE CABBIE by Murakami\, directed by Sakae Fujita; (Spanish) LAS LUCIÉRNAGAS DEL CARIBE (Caribbean Fireflies) by Carballido\, directed by Marta Navarro.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/international-playhouse-xiii-4-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130520T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130520T173000
DTSTAMP:20260419T002932
CREATED:20130226T172013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130226T172013Z
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SUMMARY:Lisa Lowe: "Sugar\, Tea\, Opium\, and Coolies: The Intimacies of Four Continents"
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Lowe\nThis lecture examines the fetishism of colonial commodities as a mediation of often obscured connections between the transatlantic African slave trade to the Americas\, settler colonialism\, the import of Asian indentured labor\, the East Indies and China trades\, and the emergence of European liberal ideas of citizenship\, wage labor\, and free trade in the late-18th and early-19th centuries. \nLisa Lowe is a professor of English and American Studies at Tufts University and a scholar in the fields of comparative literature\, and the cultural politics of colonialism and migration. Before joining Tufts\, she taught in the Literature Department at UC San Diego for over two decades. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations\, the UC Humanities Research Institute\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, the School of Advanced Study – University of London\, and the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. Lowe is the author of Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Cornell UP)\, Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Politics (Duke UP)\, and coauthor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Duke UP). Her current project\, The Intimacies of Four Continents\, is a study of the global conditions for liberal economy\, knowledge\, culture\, and politics.\nSeminar with Lisa Lowe: \nTuesday\, May 21\, 2013 • 11:00 AM • Humanities 1 Building\, Room 210\nTo receive the seminar readings\, please contact Courtney Mahaney at cmahaney@ucsc.edu. \n  \nThis event is organized and sponsored by the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program. Cosponsored by the University of California Center for New Racial Studies\, the Division of Humanities at UCSC\, the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, Oakes College\, and Stevenson College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lisa-lowe-sugar-tea-opium-and-coolies-the-intimacies-of-four-continents-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:20130522T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130522T110000
DTSTAMP:20260419T002932
CREATED:20130509T203530Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130509T203530Z
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SUMMARY:U.S. Fulbright IIE Information Session
DESCRIPTION:The Graduate Division cordially invites undergraduate and graduate students to an information session on the U.S. Fulbright IIE fellowship program. \nIf you are interested in applying for a 2014-2015 Fulbright U. S. Student Program Grant or English Teaching Assistantship plan to attend this information session. \nLink to the competition: http://www.iie.org/fulbright \nPresenters will include:\nPast successful Fulbright IIE applicants\nMarlene Robinson\, UCSC Fulbright Advisor\nDr. Tyrus Miller\, UCSC Graduate Division Dean and Past Fulbright Awardee \nPlease RSVP to Irena Polić\, at ipolic@ucsc.edu\, by May 17th. \nPress Release: Fulbright U.S. Student Program Competition Opens: International Study or Research Grants and English Teaching Assistantship Now Available\n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/u-s-fulbright-iie-information-session-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130522T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130522T140000
DTSTAMP:20260419T002932
CREATED:20130109T220732Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130109T220732Z
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SUMMARY:Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - Michael Nauenberg: "Teaching Natural Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment"
DESCRIPTION:“Teaching Natural Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment” \nMichael Nauenberg has published on the foundations of quantum mechanics and has written extensively on the development of calculus in the seventeenth century with particular reference to the work of Isaac Newton\, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and John Barrow. His current work is on Newton’s development of celestial mechanics and gravitation. \nMichael Nauenberg is Research Professor of Physics at UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-7-2/
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:20130523T043000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130523T203000
DTSTAMP:20260419T002932
CREATED:20130402T233007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130402T233007Z
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SUMMARY:Anthony Barbieri-Low: "Imagining the Tomb of the First Emperor of China"
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on “Archaeology and the Ancient World” \nThe tomb complex of the First Emperor of China is arguably the most important archaeological site in the world. Since the tomb will not be excavated in our lifetime\, if ever\, imagination will always play a major role in trying to understand what is in the tomb. Ever since the Emperor was first interred\, authors\, artists\, and archaeologists have tried to reconstruct and imagine what lies in his tomb. Such reconstructions allow the imaginer to project his fears\, hopes\, and expectations on the site\, and can tell us even more about the imaginers than it does about the world they imagine. This talk will explore how historians\, poets\, artists\, archaeologists\, movie directors\, and video-game designers have imagined the First Emperor’s underground realm. \nTalk begins at 5:00 pm\, refreshments served at 4:30 pm\, with a reception following lecture.\nAnthony Barbieri-Low is Associate Professor of Early Chinese History at UC Santa Barbara. He graduated from UCSC in 1994 with a degree in History\, and went on to receive his M.A from Harvard and Ph.D. from Princeton. He has wide-ranging research interests in many aspects of Early China\, including technology\, organization of production\, labor history\, gender and social relations\, legal process\, material culture\, and state formation. In 2007\, he published the book Artisans in Early Imperial China\, which went on to receive four major international book prizes in ancient history\, art history\, and Chinese studies. He has just completed a book-length translation and study of ancient Chinese legal texts and is preparing another book on interpretations of the First Emperor of China.\nFree parking for lecture in Cowell-Stevenson parking lots. For more information on the lecture or the AIA\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anthony-barbieri-low-imaging-the-tomb-of-the-first-emperor-of-china-2/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130523T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130523T173000
DTSTAMP:20260419T002932
CREATED:20130514T180821Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130514T180821Z
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SUMMARY:Neil Sinhababu: "Desire's Explanations"
DESCRIPTION:I defend a Humean theory of motivation on which desire motivates all action and drives all practical reasoning. I respond to objections from Christine Korsgaard\, David Velleman\, and others suggesting that this view leaves no room for the self in action. I argue that all the agent’s desires are part of the self\, and that their effects include the self’s decision and action. \nNeil Sinhababu is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at National University of Singapore. He works on Ethics and Metaethics.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/neil-sinhababu-desires-explanations-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 320
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130523T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130523T194500
DTSTAMP:20260419T002932
CREATED:20121220T233851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20121220T233851Z
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SUMMARY:The Living Writers Reading Series: Lauren Shufran\, Tsering Wangmo\, and Juliana Leslie
DESCRIPTION:Lauren Shufran is the winner of The Motherwell Prize. Her poetry collection Inter Arma will be published be Fence Books in Spring\, 2013. \nTsering Wangmo’s first book of poems\, Rules of the House\, was published by Apogee Press in 2002 was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Awards in 2003. Other publications include My Rice Tastes Like the Lake (Apogee Press 2011) and In the Absent Everyday (also from Apogee Press). A book of creative non-fiction will soon be published in India from Penguin. \nJuliana Leslie’s first book\, More Radiant Signal\, came out in 2010 from Letter Machine Editions. Her second book of poetry\, Green Is For World\, winner of the National Poetry Series\, will be published this year by Coffee House Press.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/shufran-wangmo-leslie-2/
LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130529T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130529T140000
DTSTAMP:20260419T002932
CREATED:20130109T220944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130109T220944Z
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SUMMARY:Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - Eng-Beng Lim: "The Rice Queen's Brown Boy Dream: On Pedophilic Modernity\, Performance and Queer Asia"
DESCRIPTION:“The Rice Queen’s Brown Boy Dream: On Pedophilic Modernity\, Performance and Queer Asia” \nEng-Beng Lim works on transnational\, Asian and queer issues through the lens of performance. His current work is on cultural pedagogies of neoliberal Asia that are produced on the one hand by large-scale transnational theatrical productions and on the other hand by global satellite campuses of U.S. universities in Singapore\, Shanghai\, Abu Dhabi. \nEng-Beng Lim is Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-8-2/
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:20130530
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130531
DTSTAMP:20260419T002932
CREATED:20130109T221621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130109T221621Z
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the Humanities Spring Awards
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/celebrating-the-humanities-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130530T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130530T170000
DTSTAMP:20260419T002932
CREATED:20130109T221322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130109T221322Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Undergraduate Research Award (HUGRA) Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Stay tuned for more information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-undergraduate-research-award-hugra-presentations-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130530T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130530T194500
DTSTAMP:20260419T002932
CREATED:20121220T234103Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20121220T234103Z
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SUMMARY:The Living Writers Reading Series: George Estreich
DESCRIPTION:George Estreich is a poet and the author of the memoir\, The Shape of The Eye\, winner of the Oregon Book Award. “The Shape of the Eye is a memoir of a father’s love for his daughter\, his struggle to understand her disability\, and his journey toward embracing her power and depth. Estreich is raw and honest and draws us each into a new view of what it means to be ‘human’ and what it means to be ‘different’. This book is beautifully written\, poetically insightful\, and personally transformative. To read it is to rethink everything and to be happy because of the journey.” –Timothy P. Shriver\, Ph.D.\, Chairman & CEO of Special Olympics
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-reading-series-george-estreich-2/
LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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