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SUMMARY:Politics of the Digital: Poetry\, Technology\, and the University
DESCRIPTION:This two-day event includes a poetry reading and an interdisciplinary symposium featuring graduate students\, faculty\, and a keynote from Johanna Drucker. \nFriday\, January 31\, 2014: Poetry reading at 6 p.m. at the Felix Kulpa Gallery \nFeaturing Johanna Drucker with Eireene Nealand\, Margaret Rhee\, and Tsering Wangmo \nSaturday\, February 1\, 2014: Interdisciplinary symposium at Humanities 1\, room 210 \nPanel One: Textual and Visual Technologies—Pre-Histories of a Digital Era \nPanel Two: Digital Practice and Database Aesthetics \nPanel Three: Neoliberalism and the Digital Future \nKeynote from Johanna Drucker: Towards a New Humanism \nThe activities associated with the term “digital humanities” have gained much attention recently in academic and mainstream venues. But have core values of humanism been discounted as a result? Do the techniques of analytic processing or other engagements with large data displace or devalue those of more traditional method and even\, perhaps\, traffic in the worst kind of concessions to administered culture? Might these digital approaches be at odds with the tenets of humanistic inquiry? What are the ways out of a binaristic opposition between a retro-oriented\, possibly conservative\, defense of “the humanities” and a techno-digital approach that seems to some to dehumanize cultural materials by treating them as “data”? The answer might be in recovering the methods of humanism\, rather than just its objects. Engagement with the materiality of texts and artifacts crosses many disciplinary lines—from traditional critical studies\, bibliography\, and law to current studies of media archaeology\, new materialism\, and digital interpretation. This talk addresses ways in which the cultural authority of the humanities might be formulated as a new humanism whose methods and values extend traditional interpretative work while taking up some of the potential offered by data-driven and algorithm-based approaches to the study of human culture. \nReception at the Kresge Provost House \nMore info and full agenda available at http://www.ucscpoetrypolitics.com/upcoming-events.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/politics-of-the-digital-poetry-technology-and-the-university-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:20140202T190000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Misfit Horror Film Series: Arrebato
DESCRIPTION:Misfit Horror  \nA film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. \nFebruary 2nd – Arrebato (1980\, dir. Iván Zulueta) – think of it as a Spanish Videodrome\, only avant la lettre \nFor more information\, please visit: ihr.ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/misfit-horror-2-2-14-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140204T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140204T160000
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SUMMARY:Kristin Ross: "Notes on the 'Cellular Regime of Nationality': Internationalism & The Paris Commune"
DESCRIPTION:The talk is taken from Communal Luxury (forthcoming from Editions La fabrique). Ross discusses the political imaginary that fueled and outlived the Paris Commune of 1871\, here considered within frames provided by contemporary militant concerns: the problem of refashioning an internationalist conjuncture; the future of education\, labor and the status of art; the commune-form and its relation to ecological theory. The “communal luxury” produced by the Commune’s “working existence” was prolonged and elaborated in the political thought produced in the 1870s and the 1880s\, when Communard exiles met up and collaborated with a number of their supporters and fellow travelers\, notably Marx\, Kropotkin and William Morris. \nKristin Ross is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author of The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune (1988); Fast Cars\, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (1995); and May ’68 and its Afterlives (2002). \nThis talk is presented by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster\, and the History of Consciousness and Literature Departments.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kristin-ross-notes-on-the-cellular-regime-of-nationality-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 620\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140204T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140204T183000
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CREATED:20131210T171235Z
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SUMMARY:Steven J. Zipperstein: "How the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom Changed Jewish History"
DESCRIPTION:The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies presents:\nSteven J. Zipperstein: “How the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom Changed Jewish History” \nKishinev’s 1903 pogrom was the first instance when an event in Russian Jewish life received wide hearing. The riot\, leaving 49 dead\, in an obscure border town\, dominated headlines in the western world for weeks\, it intruded on US-Russian relations\, and it left an imprint on an astonishingly diverse range of institutions including the nascent Jewish army in Palestine\, the NAACP\, and\, most likely\, the first version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. How was it that incident came to define so much\, and for so long? \nSteven J. Zipperstein is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. He has also taught at universities in Russia\, Poland\, France\, and Israel; for six years\, he taught at Oxford University. For sixteen years he was Director of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford. He is the author and editor of eight books including The Jews of Odessa: A Cultural History (1986\, winner of the Smilen Prize for the Outstanding book in Jewish history); Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha’am and the Origins of Zionism (1993\, winner of the National Jewish Book Award); Imagining Russian Jewry (1999); and Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame\, Oblivion\, and the Furies of Writing (2008\, shortlisted for the National Jewish Book Award in Biography\, Autobiography and Memoir). His work has been translated into Russian\, Hebrew\, and French. He has been awarded the Leviant Prize of the Modern Language Association\, the Judah Magnes Gold Medal of the American Friends of the Hebrew University\, and the Koret Prize for Outstanding Contributions to the American Jewish community. Zipperstein’s articles have appeared in The New York Times Sunday Book Review\, the Washington Post\, The New Republic\, the Jewish Review of Books\, Chronicle of Higher Education and elsewhere. He is an editor of the journal Jewish Social Studies\, the book series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture\, and the Yale University Press/Leon Black Foundation Jewish Lives series. In spring 2013\, he will be the first Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Zipperstein is Chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History\, in New York.\nEvery year we honor Helen Diller\, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, by hosting a public lecture series on campus by an internationally recognized scholar. \nThis event was made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Endowment and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/steven-zipperstein-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140205T190000
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SUMMARY:Complicated Labors: Feminism\, Maternity\, and Creative Practice (Symposium & Gallery Exhibition)
DESCRIPTION:The Complicated Labor Research Cluster is an interdisciplinary collaboration that brings together artists\, writers\, and scholars around questions of feminism\, maternity\, and creative process. It seeks to center questions of care in our research and art whether they are explicit sites of inspiration and study or simply important to the conditions in which we undertake expressive practices. Through film\, visual art and photography\, performance\, writing\, and scholarship we will explore the complexities of contemporary motherhood. \nThis symposium\, with keynote address by foundational feminist artist Mary Kelly\, will create a space for critical interdisciplinary dialogue around issues of maternity\, feminism\, art-making\, and writing\, explicitly putting the 1970s in conversation with the current moment and putting writers in conversation with visual artists. The symposium is on Feb 5th from 10am-5pm at the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab and will be followed by a gallery exhibition and reception from 5-7pm at the Sesnon Art Gallery. \nSymposium – Feb 5 @ 10:00am-5:00pm\nDigital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab\, UCSC\nFree and Open to the Public \nNearly forty years after Mary Kelly’s germinal 1976 exhibition of Post-Partum Document\, the work of women artists who explicitly engage with images\, processes\, and experiences of maternity remains marginalized and relatively misrecognized in the art world.  Despite a notable resurgence of attention to the maternal in 21st Century art theory and practice\, such work is more often than not\, read inside a discourse of indulgence\, sentimentality\, and identity rather than as representative of larger concerns with ecological systems\, ethics\, care\, or labor.  Complicated Labors investigates this problem\, bringing together historical and contemporary work addressing maternal labor to ask questions about the status of feminism — and feminist art — today. \nGallery Reception – Feb 5 @ 5:00-7:00pm\nSesnon Art Gallery\, UCSC\nComplicated Labors Gallery Exhibition runs from February 5 – March 15\, 2014 \nComplicated Labors builds on recent group exhibitions on the topic\, including Myrel Chernick’s and Jennie Klein’s 2004 and 2006 Maternal Metaphors and Maternal Metaphors II and Natalie Loveless’s 2010 New Maternalisms.  This exhibition addresses recent books such as Andrea Liss’s 2009 Feminist Art and the Maternal\, new journals such as Studies in the Maternal\, and new collectives such as Broodwork. \nSymposium Schedule:\n\n10:00 AM – Welcome (Micah Perks and Irene Lusztig) \n10:30 AM – Mary Kelly Keynote (opening remarks) \n11AM: Maternal Interventions (artist panel and discussion) \n12:30 – LUNCH \n2:30 PM – Maternal Secrets (writer panel and discussion) \n4:15 PM Closing Remarks by Megan Moodie \n5:00 – 7:00 PM Opening reception\, Sesnon Gallery (with performance by Alejandra Herrera Silva) \nAll events are free and open to the public. \nSymposium & Gallery Participants:\nKeynote:\nMary Kelly is an American conceptual artist\, feminist\, writer\, and professor of art and critical theory in the School of Art and Architecture at UCLA. \nWriters:\nAmra Brooks was born and raised in California. Her novella California was published in 2008 by Teenage Teardrops. Her fiction\, critical reviews\, essays\, interviews\, and poems have appeared in such publications as Artforum\, Spin Magazine\, index\, the LA Weekly\, The Encyclopedia Project Volume F-K\, Ping Pong: the literary journal of the Henry Miller Library\, Not Enough Night\, Inventory Magazine\, and others. She has taught at the University of California in Santa Cruz and San Diego\, Naropa University\, and Muhlenberg College. Currently she lives in Providence\, Rhode Island with her family and is the Director of the Creative Writing program at Stonehill College in Easton\, MA. \nKate Moses is the author of Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath and Cakewalk: A Memoir . Moses is the coeditor\, with Camille Peri\, of Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children\, Sex\, Men\, Aging\, Faith\, Race & Themselves and the national bestselling\, American Book Award-winning Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood. As a senior editor and contributing writer for Salon\, Moses cofounded Salon’s groundbreaking\, award-winning Mothers Who Think site. \nMicah Perks is the author of a novel\, We Are Gathered Here\, and a memoir\, Pagan Time\, about growing up on a commune in the Adirondack Wilderness. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, and The Rumpus\, among many other journals and anthologies. She’s won an NEA Award\, a Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts grant\, four Pushcart Prize nominations\, and several residencies at the Blue Mountain Center. Her most recent publication is the short memoir\, Alone In The Woods\, an ebook from Shebooks\, about motherhood and the wild. \nCarmen Giménez Smith is the author of a memoir\, Bring Down the Little Birds\, four poetry collections— Milk and Filth\, Goodbye\, Flicker\, The City She Was\, and Odalisque in Pieces. She is the recipient of a 2011 American Book Award\, the 2011 Juniper Prize for Poetry\, and a 2011-2012 fellowship in creative nonfiction from the Howard Foundation. Formerly a Teaching-Writing Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, she now teaches in the creative writing programs at New Mexico State University\, while serving as the editor-in-chief of the literary journal Puerto del Sol and the publisher of Noemi Press. \nMichelle Tea is the founder and editor of Mutha Magazine\, an alternative parenting site obsessed with all things Mom. Her blog Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea\, on xoJane.com\, has documented her struggle to get knocked up. Tea is the founder and Artistic Director of RADAR Productions\, a literary non-profit which oversees the annual Sister Spit performance tours; Sister Spit Books\, a publishing imprint with City Lights; the monthly RADAR Reading Series at the San Francisco Public Library\, and other programs. She is the author of many memoirs and novels\, and a collection of poetry. \nArtists:\nLenka Clayton is a British conceptual artist whose work exaggerates and reorganizes the accepted rules of everyday life\, extending the familiar into the realms of the poetic and absurd. \nNatalie Loveless is a Canadian artist\, curator\, writer and professor of contemporary art and theory at the University of Alberta whose work explores feminist embodiment\, material entanglement in the everyday\, and the frameworks of artistic research. \nIrene Lusztig is an American filmmaker\, media archeologist\, and new media artist whose film and video work mines old images and technologies for new meanings to reframe\, recuperate\, or reanimate forgotten and neglected histories. \nJill Miller is an American conceptual artist who works collaboratively with communities\, with a focus on on motherhood\, feminism and performance art. Faculty in New Genres and Design and Technology at the San Francisco Art Institute. \nMother Art Collective\nAlejandra Herrera Silva is a Chilean visual and performance artist living and working in LA.  Recent body and action-based pieces have investigated the body as object at the intersection of maternal labour and affect. \nMierle Laderman Ukeles \nVideo Program Artists:\nMyrel Chernick\, Mark and Beth Cooley\, Masha Godovanaya\, Courtney Kessel\, Ellina Kevorkian\, Dillon Paul and Lindsay Wolkowitz \n  \nThis exhibition and symposium are sponsored by UCSC Institute for Humanities Research\, Sesnon Gallery\, Porter College\, University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA)\, UCSC Arts Dean’s Excellence Fund\, UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, Kresge College\, Cowell College\, Oakes College\, Merrill College\, Stevenson College\, History of Art and Visual Culture\, Art\, Literature\, Film and Digital Media\, and Feminist Studies Departments. \n  \nFor more information visit: arts.ucsc.edu/complicatedlabors
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/complicated-labors-2/
LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab\, Room 306
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140205T133000
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SUMMARY:Aristea Fotopoulou: "‘All these emotions\, all these yearnings\, all these data': Platform openess\, data sharing and visions of democracy"
DESCRIPTION:Aristea Fotopoulou works at the intersections of media & cultural studies with science & technologies studies. She has written on digital networks and feminism\, information politics\, knowledge production\, and digital engagement. She currently explores algorithmic living and practices of data sharing. \nAristea Fotopoulou is Research Fellow\, University of Sussex\, UK and 2014 Visiting Scholar at the Science and Justice Research Center\, UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-aristea-fotopoulou-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:20140206T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140206T183000
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CREATED:20131106T215418Z
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SUMMARY:Kathi Weeks: “The Problem with Work: Feminism\, Marxism\, Antiwork Politics and   Postwork Imaginaries”
DESCRIPTION:Kathi Weeks is an Associate Professor in the Women’s Studies Program at Duke University. Her primary interests are in the fields of political theory\, feminist theory\, Marxist thought\, the critical study of work\, and utopian studies. She is the author of The Problem with Work: Feminism\, Marxism\, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries (Duke UP\, 2011) and Constituting Feminist Subjects (Cornell UP\, 1998)\, and a co-editor of The Jameson Reader (Blackwell\, 2000). \nThis event is part of “The Origins of Civil Society” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. The development of the discipline of political economy\, including its dialogue with modern political philosophy\, is closely intertwined with the rise and expansion of capitalist society. As we turn our attention today to capitalism’s crisis tendencies and the future of market society\, a critical examination of this foundational history becomes the starting point of the analysis of the present. This lecture series addresses the origins of civil society from several vantage points: the legal and political forms that underlie market relations; the transformation of the labor process; the role of gender and reproductive labor; and the history of separation from the means of subsistence. \nAdditional events in this series:\nJan 16\, 2014 – Warren Montag: “The Revocation of the Right to Subsistence: On the Legal and Political Origins of the Market”\nMar 6\, 2014 – Michael Perelman: “Primitive Accumulation: From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel” \nPresented by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information\, including disabled access\, please contact Evin Guy: (831) 459-5655\, ecguy@ucsc.edu. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kathi-weeks-crisis-in-the-cultures-of-capitalism-series-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:20140206T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140206T200000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Panel of Editors
DESCRIPTION:Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! \nZoë Ruiz is the managing editor of The Rumpus. Her work was been published by The Weeklings\, Salon\, Two Serious Ladies\, and elsewhere. \nElizabeth McKenzie is the author of Stop That Girl\, which was short-listed for the Story Prize\, and a novel\, MacGregor Tells the World. Her fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly\, Best American Nonrequired Reading\, Pushcart Prize Anthology\, Threepenny Review and others\, and has been recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts.  She is currently Managing Editor of Catamaran Literary Reader and Senior Editor of the Chicago Quarterly Review. \nDaniel Mirk was a staff writer for the satirical website The Onion from 2006 to 2012. He is one of the creators of the Peabody Award winning Onion News Network web series\, the IFC television series of the same name\, and the Amazon Studios pilot Onion News Empire. Daniel has also written for Comedy Central\, Funny Or Die\, and The Upright Citizens Brigade. In 2013 Daniel was nominated for an Emmy for his work on the writing staff of the Comedy Central special “Night Of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together For Autism Programs” hosted by Jon Stewart. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-winter2014-4-2/
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:20140209T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140209T210000
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CREATED:20140116T190634Z
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SUMMARY:Misfit Horror Film Series: The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
DESCRIPTION:Misfit Horror  \nA film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. \nFebruary 9th – The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960\, dir. Terence Fisher) – perhaps the sleaziest and most affecting adaptation of Stevenson’s novella \nSunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. \n  \nFor more information\, please visit: literature.ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/misfit-horror-2-9-14-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140211T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140211T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T123803
CREATED:20140127T164445Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Santa Cruz presents Michael Hannon and Gary Young
DESCRIPTION:Michael Hannon was born in California in 1939. He has been writing and publishing poetry for 53 years. His work has appeared in journals and anthologies both here and abroad. Much of his work has been published by California’s leading book artists in limited editions. His thirty-year collaboration with the artist William T. Wiley has produced books\, sculptures and numerous gallery and museum shows. Kenneth Rexroth said of Hannon’s work: “A very good poet indeed and certainly one of the few Tantric writers in any language who is both profound and witty.” Hannon is the author of thirty-five poetry titles\, including four full-length poetry collections: A Door in the Water(1975)\, Poems & Days (1985)\, Ordinary Messengers (1991)\, Trusting Oblivion (2002)\,Imaginary Burden: Selected Poems (2013). Michael is married to Nancy Dahl and lives in Los Osos\, California. He has 3 grown sons\, Dylan\, Jason\, and Colin and 3 grandsons\, Jadrien\, Oliver and Kai.Download a PDF of two poems by Michael Hannon from the Imaginary Burden:Selected Poems. \nRead praise for Imaginary Burden from Gary Young and Joseph Stroud.\n \nGary Young is a poet\, artist\, printer\, and educator. His numerous awards include recognition from the Poetry Society of America—the 2013 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award (2013)\, the Shelley Memorial Award (2009)\, the William Carlos Williams Award (2003)\, and the Lyric Poem Award (2001). Gary has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities\, and his print work is represented in the Museum of Modern Art\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, the Getty Center for the Arts\, and special collection libraries throughout the country. He teaches Creative Writing\, and is the Director of the Cowell Press at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His books include Hands\, The Dream of a Moral Life\, Days\, Braver Deeds\, No Other Life\, and Pleasure. His latest book\, Even So: New and Selected Poems\, was released in 2012. His most recent poems were written while studying in Japan in 2011. In 2014 White Pine Press will release Precious Mirror\, his translations of and the calligraphy of Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi and Ninja Press will publish a limited edition of new poems\, In Japan. \nSee Gary Young’s website.\n \n\n  \nPoetry Santa Cruz is funded\, in part\, by a grant from Arts Council Santa Cruz County.  Some events are supported by Poets & Writers\, Inc. through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation.  Poetry Santa Cruz is also grateful for the support of its members and donors\, In Celebration of the Muse\, and those who donated in memory of Maude Meehan and Kathleen Flowers.  The William James Association acted as our fiscal sponsor for our first four years.  Our readings are supported by Bookshop Santa Cruz\, Capitola Book Café\, Cabrillo College\, Darling House\, and KUSP.  Membership premiums have been donated by Graywolf Press\, the University of Pittsburgh Press\, Robert Sward\, Coffee House Press\, Copper Canyon Press\, and Farrar\, Straus and Giroux.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetry-santa-cruz-presents-michael-hannon-and-gary-young-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140212T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140212T133000
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SUMMARY:Gildas Hamel: "Stretching time: emergence of apocalyptics and its uses"
DESCRIPTION:Gildas Hamel’s current work is on the economy\, society and religion of ancient Israel and Graeco-Roman Judaea. His research focuses on taxes\, forms of labor\, the competition of various groups for resources and political power\, and the evolution of religious structures\, including the appearance of monotheism and new notions of time. \nGildas Hamel is  Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the History Department at UCSC. \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-gildas-hamel-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:20140213T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140213T200000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Panel of Journalists
DESCRIPTION:Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! \nMartha Mendoza is a Puliter Prize-winning Associated Press National Writer whose reports have won numerous awards and prompted Congressional hearings\, Pentagon investigations and White House responses. She has reported for the AP since 1997\, in Albuquerque\, N.M.\, New York and Mexico City. A UC Santa Cruz graduate\, she was a 2001 Knight Fellow at Stanford University and a 2007 Ferris Professor for Humanities at Princeton University. \nNick Miroff is a correspondent for The Washington Post covering Mexico\, Central America and the Caribbean. He is also a senior correspondent for GlobalPost and a contributor to National Public Radio. Miroff has a master’s degree from the UC Berkeley School of Journalism (2006) and studied Spanish and Latin American literature at UC Santa Cruz (2000). He grew up in Albany\, New York. \nMichael Scherer is TIME magazine’s Washington D.C. Bureau Chief. He joined TIME in December of 2007 and became the magazine’s White House correspondent following the 2008 campaign. He has written a number of cover stories in recent years\, including The Informers\, The Gunfighters\, The New Sheriffs of Wall Street and Yo Decido: the Rise of the Latino Voter. He won the 2012 National Press Club’s Lee Walczak Award for Political Analysis for his series on how the Obama campaign harnessed technology to win the Presidential race. Before coming to TIME\, he worked as a Washington Correspondent for both Salon.com and Mother Jones magazine\, and as a beat reporter for the Daily Hampshire Gazette of Northampton\, Mass. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-winter2014-5-2/
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:20140216T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140216T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T123803
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LAST-MODIFIED:20140116T190856Z
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SUMMARY:Misfit Horror Film Series: Love Object
DESCRIPTION:Misfit Horror  \nA film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. \n  \n \nRelationships come and go\, but plastination is forever!  \nThe only film hitherto written and directed by Robert Parigi\, Love Object creepily tells the story of a love triangle involving a young man\, a young woman\, and an anatomically correct sex doll that looks an awful lot like the young woman. Kenneth (Desmond Harrington) is a socially maladroit technical writer who pines for a temp typist in his office\, Lisa (Melissa Sagemiller)\, but cannot work up the nerve to ask her out. Shown an internet site selling deluxe sex dolls for thousands of dollars\, he designs a life-size rubber doll made to look like Lisa\, though he christens the doll Nikki. After developing a comprehensive relationship with Nikki (including sex and nightly tête–à–têtes)\, Kenneth works up the nerve to approach Lisa\, which only makes Nikki more and more violently jealous. In many respects a companion film to Lucky McKee’s May\, a much more widely known and respected horror film released the previous year—in his excellent book Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen since the 1960s Kim Newman goes so far as to suggest that May and Kenneth “might be soulmates if they weren’t in different films”—Love Object is not to be missed! \nSunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/misfit-horror-2-16-14-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140218T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140218T114500
DTSTAMP:20260501T123803
CREATED:20140115T234737Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140115T234737Z
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SUMMARY:Hedwig C. Rose: "Living the Life of Anne Frank: A Childhood in Hiding"
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Jewish Studies with support from the Neufeld Levin Holocaust Chair Endowment presents:\nHedwig C. Rose: “Living the Life of Anne Frank: A Childhood in Hiding” \nDr. Hedwig C. Rose\, education specialist and former Director of Education Studies at Wesleyan University\, was born in Amsterdam\, The Netherlands. After her father\, his five brothers and their families were rounded up by the Nazi occupiers in 1942\, she spent three years hidden in an Amsterdam cellar. She came to the United States in 1947. \nA visiting fellow at the Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (War Document Archives) in Amsterdam in 2008\, for past eight years she has been visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University\, where she is continuing her research for a book on The Netherlands before and during World War II.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-the-life-of-anne-frank-cjs-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:20140219T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140219T133000
DTSTAMP:20260501T123803
CREATED:20131126T193539Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131126T193539Z
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SUMMARY:Warren Sack - "A Machine to Tell Stories: From Propp to Software Studies:
DESCRIPTION:Warren Sack is currently working on a book entitled “The Software Arts” (for the Software Studies series at MIT Press) where he explores an understanding of computer science as a liberal art and computer programming as a form of writing. \nWarren Sack is Professor of Film & Digital Media at UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-warren-sac-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:20140220T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140220T113000
DTSTAMP:20260501T123803
CREATED:20140211T180228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140211T180228Z
UID:10005633-1392890400-1392895800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Sharon Holland: "Perishment: Thoughts on Blackness and the Human/Animal Distinction"
DESCRIPTION:Sharon Holland\, Professor of American Studies at UNC Chapel Hill has been working on a book project entitled “Perishment\,” a theoretical study that takes German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s notion that humans “die” while animals “perish\,” and reads across the theoretical spectrum of works on the human/animal distinction in order to arrive at a fundamental question: what is the relationship of “blackness” to discourse on the animal?  Do black humans “die” or “perish”?  The prevailing thought in the field of African Americanist scholarship is that “blackness” – through Martin Heidegger and Frantz Fanon in particular – is related to “thingness\,” rather than animality.  This theoretical project re-thinks that interpretive paradigm.  I am particularly invested in how movement away from “the animal\,” writ large in the Cartesian framework\, does not allow for much discussion of an ethical commitment (Emanuel Levinas) to the animal within African Americanist discourse.  My intention is to provide both a critique of the present condition in critical discourse on blackness (especially its gendered assumptions) and a model for how to begin such a conversation within the theoretical language available to us on the human/animal divide. \nSharon P. Holland is a graduate of Princeton University (1986) and holds a PhD in English and African American Studies from the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor (1992).  She is the author of RAISING THE DEAD: READINGS OF DEATH AND (BLACK) SUBJECTIVITY (Duke UP\, 2000)\, which won the Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association (ASA) in 2002.  She is also co-author of a collection of trans-Atlantic Afro-Native criticism with Professor Tiya Miles (American Culture\, UM\, Ann Arbor) entitled Crossing Waters/ Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (Duke University Press\, 2006). Professor Holland is also responsible for bringing a feminist classic\, THE QUEEN IS IN THE GARBAGE by Lila Karp to the attention of The Feminist Press (Summer 2007) for publication (2007).  She is the author of The Erotic Life of Racism (Duke University Press\, 2012)\, a theoretical project that explores the intersection of Critical Race\, Feminist\, and Queer Theory.  She is also at work on the final draft of another book project entitled simply\, “little black girl.”  You can see her work on food\, writing and all things equestrian on her blog\, http://theprofessorstable.wordpress.com//.  She is currently at work on a new project\, “Perishment” an investigation of the human/animal distinction and the place of discourse on blackness within that discussion. She is presently a Professor in the Department of American Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. \nPresented with generous support from: the Institute for Humanities Research\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) and the Feminist Studies Department at UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sharon-holland-2-20-14-2/
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:20140220T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140220T173000
DTSTAMP:20260501T123803
CREATED:20140212T000953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140212T000953Z
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SUMMARY:Becko Copenhaver: "Berkeley on the Language of Nature and the Objects of Vision"
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: Berkeley holds that vision\, in isolation\, presents only color and light. He also claims that typical perceivers experience distance\, figure\, magnitude\, and situation visually. The question posed in New Theory is how we perceive by sight spatial features that are not\, strictly speaking\, visible. Berkeley’s answer is “that the proper objects of vision constitute an universal language of the Author of nature.” For typical humans\, this language of vision comes naturally. Berkeley identifies two sorts of objects of vision: primary (light and colors) and secondary (distance\, figure\, magnitude\, situation). But Berkeley also appeals to a third class of a different sort: visible figure\, magnitude\, and situation\, constituting the vocabulary of the language of vision. By considering two perceivers who lack this vocabulary we may better understand this third category and the difference between those who must learn the language of vision and those for whom it is a natural endowment. \nRead the paper here: Berkeley on the Language of Nature and the Objects of Vision\n  \nRebecca Copenhaver is Professor of Philosophy at Lewis & Clark College\, where she has taught since 2001. Her research interests are in Early Modern Philosophy\, Thomas Reid\, and Philosophy of Mind. Her work has appeared in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy\, Res Philosophica\, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly\, Philosophical Quarterly\, History of Philosophy Quarterly\, The Journal of the History of Philosophy\, The British Journal for the History of Philosophy\, and The Oxford Handbook on British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century. She is co-author with Brian P. Copenhaver of From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy\, 1800 – 1950 (University of Toronto Press\, 2012). She is currently writing a book on Thomas Reid’s theory of mind.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/becko-copenhaver-berkeley-on-the-language-of-nature-and-the-objects-of-vision-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140221T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140221T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T123803
CREATED:20130607T160807Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130607T160807Z
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SUMMARY:Gender. Region. Slavery.
DESCRIPTION:Video from this event will be posted soon. Please click here for updated media.\n \nFor slavery studies\, engagements with the geopolitical have robustly shifted the angles through which the field might begin to imagine collusions\, collaborations and conversations with regions of the world. Historians\, in particular\, have contributed to our understanding of the forces at work in the making of ‘regions’ and ‘slavery’ between the fifteenth and the twentieth centuries. However\, such scholarship has minoritized gender relations in the making of such geographies. This colloquium reverses the trend by foregrounding the question: what would regional histories of ‘slavery’ look like if interrogated as formulations of gender? Eschewing the conventional segregation and/or minoritization of regions as spatialities that provide local historical flavor\, the colloquium seeks to simultaneously correct regional asymmetries of the past of slavery\, as well as highlight the centrality of gender in the making and conceiving of ‘region’ itself. Central to our concerns is an interrogation of race as understood primarily through the history of the transatlantic slave trade\, such that this idea of race could be said to constitute the background against which all representations of racial formation take place. Rather\, our presenters ask\, for example\, what would it mean to imagine an analytic of race that would take the transatlantic trade to the Indian Ocean and not produce African subjects in the same trajectory of slavery? What are the different life-forms and histories of slavery that exceed the hegemonic plantation model of slavery?\n9:30 AM: Introductory Remarks by Anjali Arondekar\, University of California\, Santa Cruz \n10:00 AM: Ronaldo V. Wilson\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\nSlave Slips | Life Forms: a poetry performance \n10:45 AM: Indrani Chatterjee\, University of Texas\, Austin\nDecolonizing the History of Slavery\nRespondent: Juned Shaikh\, University of California\, Santa Cruz \n12:00 PM: Lunch \n1:00 PM: Stephen Best\, University of California\, Berkeley\nUnfit for History\nRespondent: Vilashini Cooppan\, University of California\, Santa Cruz \n2:00 PM: Tea Break \n2:15 PM: Jenny Sharpe\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nThe Degraded Image of Slavery\nRespondent: Gina Dent\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\nSponsored by the Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, with generous contributions from the Departments of Literature\, History\, Sociology\, Anthropology and the Institute for Humanities Research. \nFor further information\, please contact Anjali Arondekar: aarondek@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gender-region-slavery-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;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140222T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140222T203000
DTSTAMP:20260501T123803
CREATED:20140218T193915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140218T193915Z
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SUMMARY:From Books to MOOCs: The Evolution of Teaching in the Liberal Arts
DESCRIPTION:Please join UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal for a special evening of conversation and connection. \nFeaturing: \nMurray Baumgarten\, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature\, and Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies \nPeter Kenez\, Professor Emeritus of History \nFacilitated by Bill Ladusaw\, UCSC Dean of Humanities \nMurray Baumgarten and Peter Kenez will discuss how teaching in the liberal arts has changed over the years\, and how their course\, The Holocaust–taken by hundreds of UCSC students each year–has expanded from the lecture hall to the global electronic stage. As a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)\, the class reached nearly 18\,000 students worldwide. While student-faculty interaction is still a hallmark of UCSC education\, the evening will explore how great teachers can leverage technology to broaden their reach.\n  \nRSVP by February 12\, 2014 online at http://specialevents.ucsc.edu/books-to-moocs \nQuestions? (831) 459-5003 or specialevents@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-books-to-moocs-the-evolution-of-teaching-in-the-liberal-arts-2/
LOCATION:St. Francis Yacht Club on the Marina
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140223T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140223T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T123803
CREATED:20140116T191050Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140116T191050Z
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SUMMARY:Misfit Horror Film Series: A Chinese Ghost Story
DESCRIPTION:Misfit Horror  \nA film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. \nA Chinese Ghost Story (1987\, dir. Siu-Tung Ching) is a remarkable high point of 80s Hong Kong cinema. \nBoth an adaptation of a story by Pu Songling written during the Qing Dynasty and a remake of a Shaw Brothers film entitled The Enchanted Shadow (1960)\, A Chinese Ghost Story is feverish mix of romance\, comedy\, and Evil Dead-style supernatural horror. After he fails to collect a debt owed to him\, a young scholarly tax collector (Leslie Cheung) is forced to spend the night in an abandoned temple where he meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman (Joey Wong)\, whom he subsequently realizes is a ghost enslaved to a Tree Demon (Siu-Ming Lau). With a Taoist swordsman (Ma Wu) at his side\, he sets out to free his beloved spirit from eternal servitude\, even if he has to follow the Tree Demon into the underworld to do so. The inspiration for two sequels\, an animated film version\, a television series\, and a remake in 2011\, A Chinese Ghost Story is a high point of Hong Kong cinema during what was arguably its most fertile creative period. Not to be missed! \nSunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/misfit-horror-2-23-14-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140225T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140225T220000
DTSTAMP:20260501T123803
CREATED:20140205T214602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140205T214602Z
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SUMMARY:Screening and Panel Discussion - The Stuart Hall Project: Revolution\, Politics\, Culture\, and the New Left Experience
DESCRIPTION:A major success in Britain last Fall\, “The Stuart Hall Project” is now being distributed in the USA. It will be screened at UCSC on Tuesday evening\, February 25th. 7:30 PM\, Studio C. (Communications 150) \nThe film\, 102 minutes\, will be followed by an informal panel and general discussion animated by James Clifford (History of Consciousness)\, Jennifer Gonzalez (HAVC)\, and Herman Gray (Sociology). \nRead reviews of and interviews about the film here and here. \nGenerously funded by the Arts Dean’s Fund for Excellence. Co-sponsored by The Center for Cultural Studies and the Department of Film and Digital Media.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/screening-and-panel-discussion-the-stuart-hall-project-revolution-politics-culture-and-the-new-left-experience-2/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140226T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140226T133000
DTSTAMP:20260501T123803
CREATED:20131126T193758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131126T193758Z
UID:10005580-1393416000-1393421400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Matthew Wolf-Meyer - "Nervous Materialities: Love Robots\, Pacified Bulls\, Stimoceivers and Spinoza’s Brain"
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Wolf-Meyer’s work focuses on medicine\, science and media in the United States. He is currently finishing a book manuscript\, tentatively titled What Matters: Autism\, Neuroscience and the Politics of American Brains\, on the alternative histories of American neuroscience\, seen through the lens of extreme anti-social forms of autism. \nMatthew Wolf-Meyer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-matthew-wolf-meyer-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:20140226T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140226T190000
DTSTAMP:20260501T123803
CREATED:20140218T232223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140218T232223Z
UID:10005637-1393434000-1393441200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:A Conversation & Book Party for Neda Atanasoski with Lisa Rofel & Shelley Stamp
DESCRIPTION:When is a war not a war? When it is undertaken in the name of democracy\, against the forces of racism\, sexism\, and religious and political persecution? This is the new world of warfare that Neda Atanasoski observes in Humanitarian Violence\, different in name from the old imperialism but not so different in kind. In particular\, she considers U.S. militarism—humanitarian militarism—during the Vietnam War\, the Soviet-Afghan War\, and the 1990s wars of secession in the former Yugoslavia. \nWhat this book brings to light—through novels\, travel narratives\, photojournalism\, films\, news media\, and political rhetoric—is in fact a system of postsocialist imperialism based on humanitarian ethics. Humanitarian Violence identifies an emerging discourse of race that focuses on ideological and cultural differences and makes postsocialist and Islamic nations the potential targets of U.S. disciplining violence.\n  \nThe Introduction and Chapter 4 will be available to read prior to the talk at:\nhttp://feministstudies.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/neda-book-2014.html \nPlease join us for a small reception in the Feminist Studies library following the reading.\n  \nNeda Atanasoski is an Associate Proressor in the Feminist Studies Department at UCSC. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of U.S and Eastern European media and cultural studies\, with a focus on the politics of religion and sexuality\, postsocialism\, human rights and humanitarianism\, and war and nationalism. Professor Atanasoski’s current research project\, in collaboration with Kalindi Vora (UCSD)\, takes up the relationship between notions of the “network” and “revolution” in the postsocialist era as they assess the ethical frames and moral imperatives undergirding current-day modes of waging war\, biomedical modes of extending life\, and understanding the politics of dissent and consent that both use and critique the “revolutionary” technologies associated such social and political shifts of our postsocialist era.\n  \nConversation and book reading presented by the Feminist Studies Department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-conversation-book-party-for-neda-atanasoski-with-lisa-rofel-shelley-stamp-2/
LOCATION:Humanites 1\, Room 320\, Humanities and Social Science Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140226T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140226T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T123803
CREATED:20140205T180508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140205T180508Z
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SUMMARY:Shakespeare in ASL: A Performance and Discussion with Monique Holt and Tim Chamberlain
DESCRIPTION:O\, learn to read what silent love hath writ:\nTo hear with eyes belongs to love’s fine wit.\nThe Provost of Porter College and the IHR Research Cluster\, Shakespeare’s Disciplines\, invite you to experience a phenomenal new translation of Shakespeare’s Sonnets into American Sign Language. \nIn addition to performing a selection of sonnets in ASL\, Monique Holt and Tim Chamberlain will discuss the art of translation\, the concept of style in signing\, and the relationship between Shakespeare’s poems and his plays.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/shakespeare-in-asl-a-performance-and-discussion-with-monique-holt-and-tim-chamberlain-2/
LOCATION:Theater Arts\, E100
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140227T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140227T183000
DTSTAMP:20260501T123803
CREATED:20140116T000810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140116T000810Z
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SUMMARY:Nicholas D. Cahill: "The City of Sardis"
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” \nThis lecture will present the results of current research at Sardis in western Turkey\, the capital city of the Lydians and of their last king\, Croesus. Recent excavation has dramatically changed our ideas about the Lydian city\, with the discovery of the monumental city wall\, terraces that regularized and organized the rugged natural topography\, very probably used as a palatial quarter; houses burned by the Persian sack of the city in 547 BC. It will consider the later history of the city\, including the temple of Artemis\, the Hellenistic theater\, and a temple of the Roman imperial cult. \nNicholas D. Cahill earned his B.A. at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 1981. After that\, Cahill went on to the University of California-Berkeley to earn both his M.A. in 1984 and his Ph.D. in 1991 in Ancient History and Archaeology. Cahill specializes in Greek and Anatolian archaeology\, especially urbanism and housing. He has done field work in Turkey\, England and Israel. Professor Cahill has been honored with the National Endowment for the Humanities / American Research Institute in Turkey award for sabbatical year research (2005-2006); the title of UW Humanities Institute Fellow (2000-2001); and the American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (1995-1996.) Nicholas is currently teaching at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) where he has been employed since 1993. \nTalk begins at 5:00 pm\, refreshments served at 4:30 pm\, with a reception following lecture.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nicholas-d-cahill-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:20140227T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140227T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T123803
CREATED:20140110T205245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140110T205245Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Poets
DESCRIPTION:Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! \nSesshu Foster has taught composition and literature in East L.A. for 25 years. He’s also taught writing at the University of Iowa\, the California Institute for the Arts\, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His work has been published in The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry\, Language for a New Century: Poetry from the Middle East\, Asia and Beyond\, and State of the Union: 50 Political Poems. Local readings are archived at www.sicklyseason.com. He is collaborates with artist Arturo Romo-Santillano and other writers on the website\, www.ELAguide.org. His most recent books are the novel Atomik Aztex and the hybrid text World Ball Notebook. \nAngel Dominguez writes things. Originally from Los Angeles\, he received his BA in Poetry from UC Santa Cruz. He is currently an MFA candidate at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. He is the founding editor of the Omni Writers Collective Press\, the co-founding editor of TRACT / TRACE: an investigative journal\, and presently the senior editor for the Bombay Gin literary journal. His work has appeared in The Bombay Gin\, Omni Symposium vol.1\, and is forthcoming in the Berkeley Poetry Review. Most recently he completed an interview chapbook TIME-SCAPING with Mary Burger\, published by Pinball Press. Now residing in Boulder Colorado\, he is exploring the sentence and what it is for.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-winter2014-6-2/
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:20140228T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140228T164000
DTSTAMP:20260501T123803
CREATED:20140115T235443Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140115T235443Z
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SUMMARY:Mark A. Raider: "The Changing Image of the Israeli Hero in American Culture"
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Jewish Studies presents: Mark A. Raider \nThis talk surveys the long arc of the Zionist and Israeli hero as perceived in the American setting. Taking a page from scholars of semiotics and iconography\, it pays close attention to a variety of texts\, visual images\, and cultural artifacts drawn from Zionist propaganda and recruitment literature\, photographs and films\, poetry\, novels\, and memoirs\, art\, music\, and dance\, textbooks\, children’s literature and memoirs\, etc. By examining how the trope of the Zionist and Israeli hero changed over time\, I seek to enhance our understanding of the strong bond between the Jews of America and Israel as well as help to explain the ideational linkages that inform the contemporary U.S.-Israel relationship.\nMark A. Raider is Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Department of History at the University of Cincinnati and a Research Associate in the University’s Center for Studies in Jewish Education and Culture. He is also Visiting Professor of American Jewish History at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. \nDr. Raider’s scholarly articles have appeared in The American Jewish Archives Journal\, American Jewish History\, Jewish Social Studies\, The Journal of Israeli History\, and elsewhere. In 2010 he was awarded the American Jewish Historical Society’s Leo Wasserman prize for the best article published in American Jewish History (“The Aristocrat and the Democrat: Louis Marshall\, Stephen S. Wise and the Challenge of American Jewish Leadership”). \nHis books include The Emergence of American Zionism (1998); Abba Hillel Silver and American Zionism\, with Jonathan D. Sarna and Ronald W. Zweig (1997); The Plough Woman: Records of the Pioneer Women of Palestine–A Critical Edition\, with Miriam B. Raider-Roth (2002); American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise\, with Shulamit Reinharz (2005); and Nahum Goldmann: Statesman Without a State (2009). He also wrote a book-length history of the American Jewish experience for the new edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica (vol. 20\, 2006). \nHe most recently completed an edited and annotated anthology titled Free Associations: Selected Writings of Hayim Greenberg–A Critical Edition\, which is under advance contract with the University of Alabama Press. An excerpt from this volume appeared in the summer 2013 issue of The Jewish Review of Books. He is now working on a full-scale biography of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise\, one of the twentieth century’s most important and controversial American Jewish and Zionist leaders. \nDr. Raider teaches courses on U.S. history\, the American Jewish experience\, modern Jewish history\, and Zionism and Israel. He is married to Dr. Miriam B. Raider-Roth and they have three children–Jonah\, Emma\, and Talia.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mark-raider-2/
LOCATION:Social Sciences 2\, Room 75\, Social Sciences 2‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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