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SUMMARY:Film Screening: "Dalip Singh Saund: His Life and Legacy"
DESCRIPTION:Dalip Singh Saund: His Life\, His Legacy tells the inspiring story of an ethical and passionate man who rose above prejudice and racism to serve as the first Asian\, the first Indian\, and the first Sikh elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. \nPresented by the Heritage Series\, LLC. In association with the U.S. Capital Historical Society and Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies. Support provided by the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Endowed Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies. \nFor more information about this program\, please email DSSaundDoc@gmail.com.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dalip-singh-saund-his-life-and-legacy-film-screening-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:20140501T180000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series:  Meena Alexander (also\, honoring Roshni Rustomji-Kerns) and in support of graduate conference:  Feminist Interventions:  On Gender & South Asia (hosted by Anjali Arondekar)
DESCRIPTION:Meena Alexander is the author of four collections of poetry\, most recently Birthplace with Buried Stones; an autobiography\, Fault Lines; two novels\, most recently Manhattan Music; the academic study Women in Romanticism; and Poetics of Dislocation\, a collection of essays.  \nRoshni Rustomji-Kerns is the editor of Living in America: Poetry and Fiction by South Asian American Writers; and coeditor of three books: Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas\, Blood Into Ink: South Asian And Middle Eastern Women Write War\, and La china poblana. \n  \nThe spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series\, Dislocations and the Imagined\, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-meena-alexander-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;VALUE=DATE:20140502
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SUMMARY:South Asia by the Bay: Feminist Interventions on Gender and South Asia (Graduate Conference)
DESCRIPTION: 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-interventions-in-south-east-asia-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:20140502T160000
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SUMMARY:Michela Ippolito: "Negative Conditionals"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In this talk I will look again at one kind of counterfactual conditionals\, which I will call Negative Conditionals (NCs)\, from a cross-linguistic perspective. NCs have properties that set them aside from standard would conditionals: (i) they contain a negative element in the antecedent clause or in the complementizer domain; (ii) they are obligatorily counterfactual; (iii) the negation does not anti license PPIs; (iv) the negation does not license NPIs. Drawing on work by Schwarz (2006) and Schwarz and Bhatt (2006)\, I will call the negation that occurs in NCs light negation (LN) and I will argue that (a) LN is a strengthening operator modifying the modal operator and forcing an “iff” interpretation; (b) for interpretability reasons\, LN must move close to the modal and it can do that overtly (as in Chinese) or covertly (as in German and English); (c) LN is factive. This analysis will allow us to explain the facts above as well as other interesting properties of NCs such as their incompatibility with the pro form then in the consequent\, the impossibility of a “backtracking” NC and the rhetorical flavor of questions formed with NCs.\n  \nMichela Ippolito is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. \nLecture sponsored by the Santa Cruz Linguistics and Philosophy Group. Please stay tuned for more information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-michela-ippolito-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140504T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140504T210000
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: Suicide Club
DESCRIPTION:They’re not the enemy.\nThe film that put Shion Sono on the international art house horror map\, Suicide Club opens with the bizarre and eerie sight of 54 uniformed teenage schoolgirls queued up beside a subway platform where they hold hands\, begin to sing\, and then all at once hurl themselves into the path of an arriving train. The police investigation into their deaths seems to be going nowhere when an alarming number of suicides start to sweep through the country\, and a semi-anonymous phone tip directs the detectives to a website keeping count of the suicides\, sometimes listing deaths even before the police know about them. Braiding together this police procedural narrative with comedic skewerings of Japanese popular culture (most notably through the appearances of the fictional pre-teen pop band called Dessert) and some serious misgivings about the loss of interpersonal contact due to developments in technology\, Suicide Club is a tonally shifty film that evades giving the viewer much in the way of resolution even as it leaves you with a set of images and sequences you won’t soon be forgetting. Not to be missed! \nFor the remainder of the quarter\, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France\, Japan\, and the United States each week. Same time\, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family\, invite your friends. \nSponsored (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.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/contemporary-horror-auteur-film-series-suicide-club-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140505T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140505T183000
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SUMMARY:Elisabeth L. Cameron: "A Perfect Colonial Storm: Atinga and Iconoclasm in Southwestern Nigeria"
DESCRIPTION:Elisabeth L. Cameron holds the Patricia & Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in the History of Art and Visual Culture. Her research is concentrated primarily in two regions: Zambia\, where she has observed\, studied\, and documented womenʼs visual culture\, including initiation rites\, art\, power and hierarchy\, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo\, where she has concentrated on colonial and missionary architecture and its impact on indigenous visual culture. Professor Cameron is the author of several publications including Reclusive Rebels: An Approach to the Sala Mpasu and their Neighbors (1991); Isnʼt S/He a Doll? (1996); The Art of the Lega (2001); and numerous articles and reviews. At present\, Professor Cameron is working on a book-length project on the iconoclastic impact of the Atinga movement in Nigeria on the Yoruba during the early 1950s.\n  \nImage Caption: In 2006\, a woman reflects back on her experience as a member of Atinga in 1950. Photograph by Elisabeth Cameron.\n  \nThis event is presented by the Arts Division\, Film & Digital Media\, and History of Art & Visual Culture.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/elisabeth-cameron-2/
LOCATION:Porter College\, Room D245
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140506T163000
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SUMMARY:Christopher Krebs: "What Makes Books Dangerous? The Case of Tacitus' Germania"
DESCRIPTION:Tacitus’ Germania\, a brief ethnography of the peoples the Romans called Germani\, exerted a profound impact on the European History of ideas. By no fault of its author\, it ended up as an ideological cornerstone of the National Socialist regime. This talk will trace the influence of the Germania and reflect more generally on what it is that makes books “dangerous.” \nChristopher B. Krebs is associate professor of classics at Stanford university. He has also held appointments at Harvard university\, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences\, the École Normale Supérieure (Paris)\, and the University of Oxford. His research interests are in ancient historiography\, Latin lexicography\, and the classical tradition. His most recent monograph is A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’ Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich\, which won the 2012 Christian Gauss Award. He is currently engaged in studies of Caesar and the intellectual life of the first century BCE. He also enjoys writing for wider audiences to communicate his fascination with the ancient world and its long and lasting reach. \nRefreshments at 4:30 and reception to follow the lecture. \nLecture presented by UCSC’s Classical Studies\, and the Departments of History and Literature. For more information\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christopher-krebs-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:20140506T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140506T210000
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SUMMARY:LASER: Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous
DESCRIPTION:UCSC’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences invites you to the final LASER of the academic year Tuesday\, May 6! Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists\, scientists\, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations. Please join us in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 for refreshments at 6:45 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by:\n  \nPaul Koch\, “Conservation Paleobiology: Mining the Past to Plan for the Future”\nNorman Locks\, “Photographic Social Landscape Narratives by an Abstract Realist”\nElaine Sullivan\, “Old Places & New Technologies: Visualizing an Ancient Egyptian Temple in 4D”\nRonaldo V. Wilson\, “Art Digital—Ars Poetica”\n  \nPaul Koch is Dean of Physical and Biological Sciences and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UCSC. His research focuses on vertebrate paleoecology and evolution\, which he places in environmental context through reconstruction of ancient ecosystems and climates. Koch’s work often includes biogeochemical analysis of animal tissues (teeth\, bones\, fur\, skin\, etc.) or environmental samples (soil minerals\, fossil plants\, etc) to study environmental changes over the Cenozoic (the last 65 million years.) In this talk\, Koch will discuss how the study of Paleobiology is used in thinking about\, and planning for\, the environmental future. \nNorman Locks is a photographer and Professor of Art at UCSC. He has exhibited his photographic works widely around the United States\, Japan\, and the Czech Republic and published numerous essays and photographic portfolios. His talk will discuss current and past projects including “Digital Narratives\,” an ongoing series of landscape panoramas designed to pose questions about human\, social\, environmental concerns. In “Digital Narratives”\, Locks makes reference to both the forms within art history and to poetic forms to narrate the past\, current\, and future entanglements between people and landscapes. \nElaine Sullivan is Assistant Professor of History at UCSC. Sullivan is an Egyptologist and a Digital Humanist whose work focuses on applying new technologies to ancient cultural materials. Her talk will discuss the Digital Karnak Project\,  a multi-phased 3D virtual reality model of the famous ancient Egyptian temple complex of Karnak. Sullivan will show imagery from the model and discuss how geo-temporal exploration of ancient places offers completely new ways to look at archaeological sites. \nRonaldo V. Wilson is a Assistant Professor of Poetry\, Fiction and Literature in the Literature Department at UCSC. He is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh\, 2008)\, winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books\, 2009)\, winner of the Thom Gunn Award and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry in 2010. His latest book is Farther Traveler: Poetry\, Prose\, Other (Counterpath Press\, 2013). This talk/screening will explore the activities between poetry\, art\, dance\, and visual art\, exemplified through Wilson’ mixed-media video series TEAR-E-AVATAR\, recently completed during his tenure as a 2014 artist-in-residence through the Center for Art and Thought (CA+T). Wilson will explore the ways that digital technologies (video\, audio recordings\, movie and music software) complicate and help to render\, and ultimately reveal what’s possible as both the poem’s form and its formation.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/laser-leonardo-artscience-evening-rendezvous-2/
LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140507T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140507T133000
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SUMMARY:Lauren Berlant: "On Being in Life Without Wanting the World: On Biopolitics and the Attachment to Life"
DESCRIPTION:This talk is located in a shattered\, yet intelligible zone defined by being in life without wanting the world–a state traversing misery and detachment that\, the talk claims\, is well-known to historically structurally subordinated people (people of color\, of non-normative sexuality\, proletarianized laborers . . .). Reading with Claudia Rankine (Don’t Let Me Be Lonely)\, the novel and film of A Single Man (Christopher Isherwood\, 1964; Tom Ford\, 2009)\, and Harryette Mullen (Sleeping with the Dictionary (2002)\, it describes life at the limit of optimism in terms of a dissociative poetics. \nLauren Berlant teaches English at the University of Chicago. Her national sentimentality trilogy — The Anatomy of National Fantasy (1991)\, The Queen of America Goes to Washington City (1997) and The Female Complaint (2008) — has morphed into a quartet\, with Cruel Optimism (2011) addressing precarious publics and the aesthetics of affective adjustment in the contemporary US and Europe. Her interest in affect\, aesthetics\, and politics is also expressed in the edited volumes Intimacy (2000)\, Compassion (2004)\, and On the Case (Critical Inquiry\, 2007). Her most recent sexuality books are Desire/Love (2012) and\, with Lee Edelman\, Sex\, or the Unbearable (2014). Her current projects are to do with modes of comic and of recessive affective performance in relation to critical theory\, political emotion\, and imaginaries of the social.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lauren-berlant-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:20140507T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140507T170000
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SUMMARY:Lauren Berlant: Sex\, or the Unbearable — a faculty-graduate student seminar
DESCRIPTION:Sex\, or the Unbearable (Duke University Press\, 2013) is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman\, two leading theorists of sexuality\, politics and culture. In juxtaposing sex and the unbearable they don’t propose that sex is unbearable\, but that it unleashes unbearable contradictions\, which we nonetheless struggle to bear. Through interpretations of works of cinema\, photography\, critical theory\, and literature\, Berlant and Edelman explore what it means to live with negativity\, with those divisions that may be irreparable. Together\, they consider how such negativity affects politics\, theory and intimately felt encounters. \nLauren Berlant is George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Cruel Optimism\, The Female Complaint\, and The Queen of America Goes to Washington City\, all also published by Duke University Press. \nLee Edelman is Fletcher Professor of English Literature at Tufts University. He is the author of L’impossible Homosexuel; No Future\, also published by Duke University Press; and Homographesis. \nThe book is available at the Literary Guillotine\, on the DUP web site\, as an e-book and for download at https://anonfiles.com/file/2cdfec2994dea16fa6535d23ce016801. \nThe seminar aspires for people to have read the entire (short!) book but welcomes readers of the introduction\, chapter 3 and the afterword. For more information please contact Carla Freccero\, freccero@ucsc.edu and Deborah Gould\, dbgould@ucsc.edu. \nCo-sponsored by Oakes College and the Center for Cultural Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lauren-berlant-sex-or-the-unbearable-a-discussion-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:20140508
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140510
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SUMMARY:The Humanities and Changing Conceptions of Work Culminating Conference
DESCRIPTION:Making the MA/PhD Work Post Graduation: A Career Workshop for Humanities Graduate Students \nMay 8 \n 9:00 AM       Breakfast and Registration (please pre-register) \n10:00            Welcome by David Theo Goldberg\, UCHRI \n10:15            The Working Life \nThis two-part conversation with Christine Baker\, Director\, California Department of Industrial Relations\,Ralph Lewin\, Director\, Cal Humanities\, and Alison Mudditt\, Director\, University of California Press\, addresses the evolving nature of work in our contemporary moment and the transformation of the culture and environments of work. The panelists will also reflect upon their own paths from education to careers. \n11:15              Coffee Break \n11:45              Continuation of The Working Life… \n12:45 PM        Lunch \n1:45                Front Liners Panel: Demystifying the HR Screen \nEver wonder what happens to your resume after you hit SEND? WestEd Human Resources recruiting managers along with another industry HR department (TBA) provide a look behind the HR curtain at who reads your resume and what they’re looking for. \n3:00                The Art of the Informational Interview \nWhat is an informational interview? And why is it important? What do you do in it\, and who should you contact for one? Dr. Debra Behrens\, PhD Career Counselor\, UC Berkeley\, presents the art of the informational interview and answers any questions you may have about the process and experience. \n3:30                Coffee Break \n4:00                Resume Workshop with The Resume Studio \nThis interactive\, hands-on workshop\, geared towards Humanities graduate students\, will be preceded by an online workshop to facilitate the creation of a resume that can be workshopped at the conference. Be prepared to walk away with a resume that looks quite different from your CV. \n6:30               Hosted Dinner \nMay 9 \nCulminating Conference–More Details Coming Soon! \n8:30      Breakfast and Registration \n9:00      Welcome and Introductions\, Carolyn de la Pena\, UC Davis\, and David Theo Goldberg\, UCHRI \n9:30      Session I: Precarious Labor \n11:00     Break \n11:15     Session 2: University + Public + Labor \n1:00       Lunch \n1:45       Session 3: The Culture of Labor/Cultural Labor \n3:30       Break \n3:45       Session 4: The Future of Work and the Humanities \n5:30       Reception \nConference grants will be awarded to up to three graduate students from each UC campus (transportation and lodging\, if required\, covered by UCHN). The deadline for applying for a conference grant is April 7\, 2014. Visit humanitiesandwork.org for more information and to register for the workshop.\n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-humanities-and-changing-conceptions-of-work-culminating-conference-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140508
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140511
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SUMMARY:Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Conference
DESCRIPTION:Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together? Through noticing\, describing\, and imagining\, we renuew conversation about life on earth. \nConference schedule: Thursday\, May 8\, 2014\, 7-9 pm\nUrsula K. Le Guin\nDiscussants: James Clifford and Donna Haraway \nTickets no longer available for The Rio Theater. However\, there are still two options for attending: 1) A few seats will be available at The Rio Theater on a first-come\, first-serve basis. There will be a line outside the theater on the evening of the event for these last-minute seats. 2) The event with be live-casted to the Humanities Lecture Hall (Room 206)\, and you are welcome to view it there (as seating permits).    \nFriday\, May 9\, 2014\nCollege 9/10 Multipurpose Room UCSC campus\nNo registration\, all welcome \n9:00am Introduction \nAnna Tsing \n9:20-10:50am Inhabiting Multispecies Bodies\nDonna Haraway (speculative fabulation) and Margaret McFall-Ngai (microbes)\nDiscussant: Jenny Reardon (Sociology) \n11:00am-12:30pm On Damaged Landscapes
\nKate Brown (plutonium) and 
Deborah Bird Rose (extinction)\nDiscussants: Eric Porter (History)\, William Cronon (History) \n1:45-3:15pm Caring for Country/Rewilding\nJens-Christian Svenning (future megafaunas) and Jessica Weir (indigenous ecologies)\nDiscussants: Ingrid Parker (Biology)\, Chris Connery (Literature) \n3:45-5:45pm Memory\, History\, Place\nWilliam Cronon (American landscapes)\nDiscussants: Andrew Mathews (Anthropology)\, Jens-Christian Svenning (Biology)   \nSaturday\, May 10\, 2014\nCollege 9/10 Multipurpose Room\, UCSC campus\nNo registration\, all welcome \n9:30-11:00am Arts of Noticing\nDeborah Gordon (ants) and Anne Pringle (lichens)\nDiscussants: Donna Haraway (Science Studies)\, Anna Tsing (Anthropology) \n11:15am-12:45pm Cross-Species Histories\nCarla Freccero (wolf/men) and Marianne Lien (homeless salmon)\nDiscussants: Thomas Wentzer (Philosophy)\, Maya Peterson (History) \n1:45-2:45pm Gardens and Graves\nLesley Stern (US-Mexico borderlands) \n3:00-5:00pm Roundtable Nils Bubandt (anthropology)\, Margaret Fitzsimmons (environ- mental studies)\, Peter Funch (zoology)\, Nora Bateson (film) \nFor more information\, visit the conference website.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/environmental-humanities-interdisciplinary-conference-2/
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140508T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140508T200000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Ursula Le Guin (live at the Rio Theater with live feed to Hum Hall) in concert with conference: Anthropocene:  Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (hosted by Anna Tsing)
DESCRIPTION:Spring 2014 UCSC Creative Writing Living Writers lineup: \nUrsula LeGuin is the author of over thirty novels\, children’s books\, and short story\, poetry and essay collections\, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. LeGuin’s work includes the Earthsea and Hainish Cycle novels and short fiction; The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories;Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems; and The Catwings Collection.  \nNote: this event will begin at 7:00 p.m.\, and will be a simulcast of a live talk. \nThe spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series\, Dislocations and the Imagined\, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public. \nMore info and full conference agenda at: anthropo.ihr.ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-ursula-le-guin-live-at-the-rio-theater-with-live-feed-to-hum-hall-in-concert-with-conference-anthropocene-arts-of-living-on-a-damaged-planet-hosted-by-anna-tsing-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:20140508T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140508T210000
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SUMMARY:Ursula K. le Guin
DESCRIPTION:Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet \nVideo \nUrsula K. Le Guin is one of the most-loved writers of our time. Her work includes science fiction\, novels\, essays\, and children’s books. \nDonna Haraway the author of When Species Meet. \nJames Clifford is the author of Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century. \nTickets Required • Sign up free at www.anthropocene.brownpapertickets.com \nMore info and full conference agenda at: anthropo.ihr.ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ursula-k-le-guin-2/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140509T133000
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SUMMARY:10th Annual Graduate Research Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 1:30 pm on Friday\, May 9th\, for the 10th Annual Graduate Research Symposium. This event offers graduate students an opportunity to share their research with faculty\, staff\, friends\, colleagues and the local community in the form of poster\, oral\, live or multimedia presentations. \nThis year’s event will take place in the “Information Commons South” area on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library. The Symposium will feature up to 30 oral and live presentations\, 64 poster presentations and 10 media presentations. The Awards Reception begins at 3:30\, with refreshments being provided by the Global Village Café. \nFor more information\, please visit the Graduate Division website: http://graddiv.ucsc.edu/current-students/student-achievements/graduate-research-symposium.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/10th-annual-graduate-research-symposium-2/
LOCATION:McHenry Library\, UCSC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140509T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140509T173000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023942
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SUMMARY:Jean Fox Tree: "Spontaneous Communication"
DESCRIPTION:Spontaneous communication\, both verbal and written\, includes a wide variety of phenomena generally not found in prepared communication. These include restarted ideas\, ums and uhs\, words like you know and like\, and prosodic phenomena such as uptalk. Spontaneous communication also includes other behaviors whose productions might vary across spontaneous and rehearsed settings\, such as facial expressions\, gestures\, laughter\, backchannels\, and quotation devices. In this talk\, I will present some of the research findings coming out of my lab that provide information about why these phenomena are produced and how they are used. \nJean Fox Tree is Professor of Psychology at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-jean-fox-tree-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140511T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140511T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023942
CREATED:20140425T221515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140425T221515Z
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: The House of the Devil
DESCRIPTION:During the 1980s\, over 70% of American adults believed in the existence of abusive satanic cults.\nA typically low key and intelligent horror film from Ti West\, perhaps the most critically lauded of America’s rising generation of horror movie auteurs\, The House of the Devil is a moody and evocative spin on the satanic cult sub-genre. In an attempt to raise money for a deposit on an apartment\, Samantha (Jocelin Donahue) agrees to babysit for the Ulmans (Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov) on the night of a total lunar eclipse. After admitting that in fact they do not have a child but rather a grandmother who needs tending to\, the Ulmans insist that the old woman not be disturbed and that Samantha really ought to order a pizza for dinner on their dime. True to form for West\, what ought to scare you here might not be the Satanists but the pizza. Not to be missed! \nFor the remainder of the quarter\, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France\, Japan\, and the United States each week. Same time\, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family\, invite your friends. \nSponsored (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.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/contemporary-horror-auteur-film-series-the-house-of-the-devil-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140512T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140512T183000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023942
CREATED:20140502T170656Z
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SUMMARY:Carl Mark Deppe Lecture: Harry Berger Jr.: "Dying Angry: The Wrath of Socrates in Plato's Dialogue\, Phaedo"
DESCRIPTION:Plato wrote four dialogues dramatizing the last days and death of Socrates:  Euthyphro\, The Apology\, Crito\, and Phaedo.  “Dyng Angry” will focus on Socrates’s behavior and performance —and weirdness—in Phaedo. \nHarry Berger Jr. came to Cowell College and UCSC from Yale in 1965 when our campus opened. He was the first appointment in English Literature\, and he was largely responsible for hiring the original cadre of English literature faculty. Since that time he’s taught courses ranging from classics to modern poetry for Cowell College\, the Literature Department\, and History of Consciousness. He retired in 1994 but has taught a lot since then and in general keeps himself too busy to stay out of trouble. \nIn 2003 he received a Lifetime Award from the International Spenser Society.The proceedings of a 2006 conference in his honor were published with revisions and additions in a volume of essays: A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger\, Jr.\, and the Arts of Interpretation\, ed. David Miller and Nina Levine (New York: Fordham University Press\, 2009). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006\, and in 2010 he received the Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award from the University of California. \nBerger has published 13 books and over 100 essays on a wide variety of topics in classics\, art history\, Renaissance culture\, and modern poetry. Many of these deal with Plato\, Shakespeare\, Spenser\, Vermeer\, Rembrandt\, and theories of literature and art. Three new books are forthcoming from Fordham University Press: \nSimonides in Couch City:  Studies in Plato’s Republic and Protagoras\, 2014.\nHarrying: Skills of Offense in Shakespeare’s Henriad\, 2014.\nThe Perils of Uglytown: Studies in Structural Misanthropology from Plato to Rembrandt. 2014.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2014-carl-mark-deppe-lecture-2/
LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\,  Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140513T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140513T133000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023942
CREATED:20140224T172531Z
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Hester: "Bodies as=of knowledge: The ethics and politics of biometrics in health care"
DESCRIPTION:What are the proposed uses of biometrics in health care and the ethics and politics of body data in the digital age? As security and surveillance become the order of the day\, biometric technologies have become a ubiquitous and naturalized part of most aspects of everyday life. Operating from the premise that “bodies don’t lie\,” biometrics promises increased safety\, security\, accuracy\, and reliability in identity recognition and verification. These promises are especially appealing in the health care industry where the verification of patient and provider identities is a necessary security feature for protecting patient data. Despite their promises\, however\, the fact that biometrics facilitates the coding\, analysis\, and judgment of embodied information in new\, more complex\, and more far-reaching ways than were previously possible in health care opens up a host of ethical and political issues for patients\, providers\, and populations. Long-standing virtues in medicine such as privacy\, confidentiality\, justice and beneficence are challenged as numerous and often unknown institutions and individuals beyond the clinic can and will have access to this embodied information for security\, surveillance\, and marketing purposes. \nRebecca J. Hester is assistant professor of social medicine in the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch. She holds a Ph.D. in Politics with an emphasis in Latin American and Latino Studies from UCSC. Her research focuses on the politics of the body as they are manifested at and through the intersections of immigration\, health\, and security.  She is co-author\, with Ronnie Lipschutz\, of “We are the Borg!  Human Assimilation into Cellular Society\,” pp. 366-407\, in: M.G. Michael and Katina Michael (eds.)\, Uberveillance and the Social Implications of Microchip Implants: Emerging Technologies (Hershey\, Penna.: IGI Global\, 2014).\n  \nThese talks are co-sponsored by CGIRS\, College Eight\, the Politics Department\, the Institute for Humanities Research\, the Institute of the Arts & Sciences\, and the Science and Justice Research Center.  The BIOS  (Bodies Imag(in)ed to be Obstacles to Security) Research Cluster is a new project of the Center for Global\, International and Regional Studies\, focused on the surveillance\, management\, interrogation\, discipline and intervention  of human and other bodies in the digital age. If you are interested in joining the cluster\, please contact Ronnie Lipschutz at rlipsch@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rebecca-hester-bodies-asof-knowledge-the-ethics-and-politics-of-biometrics-in-health-care-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:20140514T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140514T133000
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SUMMARY:Martin Holbraad: "How Myths Make Men in Afro-Cuban Divination"
DESCRIPTION:Martin Holbraad \nProfessor Social Anthropology\, University College London and Co-Director of Cosmology\, Religion\, Ontology and Culture Research Group (CROC) \nMartin Holbraad’s main field research is in Cuba\, where he focuses on Afro-Cuban religions and revolutionary politics. Author of Truth in Motion: the Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination (Chicago\, 2012). Holbraad currently directs a major comparative project on the anthropology of revolutions.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/martin-holbraad-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:20140514T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140514T203000
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Gloria Anzaldúa's Legacy: 10th Anniversary of Passing
DESCRIPTION:This year marks the 10th anniversary of Gloria Anzaldúa’s passing. In honor of the legacy left by Gloria Anzaldúa\, The Chicano Latino Resource Center will be hosting a celebration of her life through a formal program with speakers\, an art exhibit from local artists\, an altar\, refreshments\, and an open mic. \nGloria Anzaldúa was a Chicana-tejana-lesbiana-feminist poet\, theorist\, and fiction writer from South Texas. In addition to authoring Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza\, she was the editor of the critical anthology Making Face/Making Soul: Haciendo Caras and co-editor of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color\, winner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. \nShe passed away in 2004 and was honored around the world for shedding visionary light on the Chicana experience by receiving the National Association For Chicano Studies Award in 2005. Gloria was also posthumously awarded her doctoral degree in literature from the University of California Santa Cruz. A number of scholarships and book awards are awarded in her name every year. \nEl Centro is committed to continuing her vision of the New Mestiza Consciousness. The borderlands of higher education are real and thus making a program to remember and celebrate all of the gifts she left us is necessary and important. \nWe look forward to having you and celebrating together the legacy of Gloria Anzaldúa. \nFacebook Event Page: www.facebook.com/events/700386210007910/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/celebrating-gloria-anzalduas-legacy-2/
LOCATION:Namaste Lounge – College 9\, Namaste Lounge\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140515
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140519
DTSTAMP:20260426T023942
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SUMMARY:The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XIV: Theater Pieces in Five Languages
DESCRIPTION:Cowell College\, Stevenson College & Languages and Applied Linguistics present: \nThe Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XIV\nTheater Pieces in Five Languages with English Subtitles\nChinese\nThree Pots of Tea\nby Ting-Ting Wu & Students\nDirected by Ting-Ting Wu \nFrench\nScenes from Marius and Fanny\nby Marcel Pagnol\nDirected by Miriam Ellis \nHebrew\nSongs of Israel\nDirected by Gali Rosen & Students \nRussian\nCheburashka and Crocodile Ghena\nby Edward Uspensky\nDirected by Natalya Samokhina & Students \nSpanish\nSomething Very Serious is Going to Happen in this Town\nby Gabriel Garcia Márquez\nDirected by Marta Navarro
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/international-playhouse-xiv-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140515T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140515T173000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023942
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SUMMARY:Meaghan Morris\, "In Praise of Parochial Blockbusters" (seminar)
DESCRIPTION:Noted film and cultural studies critic Meaghan Morris will give a seminar on the theme of “parochial blockbusters”. The seminar will center on a discussion of her essay\, “Transnational Glamour\, National Allure: Community\, Change and Cliché in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia”\, which is available for downloading at http://ihr.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Morris-Transnational-Glamour-final.pdf\, and which should be read before the seminar.  Professor Morris will also discuss examples of other films of this type from elsewhere in the world. For those interested\, there will be a screening of Australia on Tuesday night\, May 13\, at 7:30 PM in Humanities 620 (viewing the film is not a prerequisite for the seminar). \nMeaghan Morris is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney\, Australia\, and Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University\, Hong Kong. She works on history in popular culture\, especially on popular thinking about social and historical change. Her books include Too Soon\, Too Late: History in Popular Culture (1998); Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema (co-ed. 2005); Identity Anecdotes: Translation and Media Culture (2006) and Creativity and Academic Activism: Instituting Cultural Studies (co-ed. 2012). A former Chair of the international Association for Cultural Studies\, Professor Morris is currently Chair of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society.\n  \nThis event is sponsored by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster with generous support from the Literature Department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/meaghan-morris-in-praise-of-parochial-blockbusters-seminar-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:20140515T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140515T180000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023942
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LAST-MODIFIED:20140421T201812Z
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SUMMARY:Mikkel Johansen: Material and Social Conditions for the Development of Mathematics
DESCRIPTION:Mathematical knowledge has traditionally been taken to be absolutely objective\, i.e. completely independent of contingent facts about the agents who discover the results. Today\, this absolutistic view of mathematics has been challenged by a number of different theories. Most noticeably\, social constructivists such as David Bloor and Donald MacKenzie have stress the influence social factors have had on the development of mathematics\, and Bloor simply describes mathematics as a social institution. Other theorists such as Rafael Núñez and George Lakoff have claimed mathematics to be embodied and fundamentally shaped by sensory-motor experience and certain cognitive strategies. In my talk I will report from a qualitative study of the practice of working mathematicians. The study shows that the production of mathematical knowledge is clearly conditioned both by social factors and by our experience of and ability to actively use the material world. Thus\, the study confirms some of the basic ideas of the two approaches mentioned above. However\, the study also gives reason to questions the reductionism inherent in both the social constructivistic and the embodiment approach. Mathematics cannot be reduced either to the social or to sensory-motor experience. \nADVANCE READING: Whats in a diagram? \nMikkel Willum Johansen is an assistant professor at the faculty of science\, University of Copenhagen. He has a PhD in the philosophy of the mathematical sciences and has worked extensively with mathematical cognition and with the different version of naturalism in the philosophy of mathematics. In 2014 he published the book Invitation til matematikkens videnskabsteori (Eng: Invitation to the philosophy of the mathematical sciences). \nPlease click here for more information
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mikkel-johansen-material-and-social-conditions-for-the-development-of-mathematics-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140515T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140515T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023942
CREATED:20140124T191729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140124T191729Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Mark Axelrod
DESCRIPTION:Mark Axelrod is the author of four novels: Capital Castles; Cloud Castles; Cardboard Castles; and Bombay California; a novel in three books\, The Posthumous Memoirs of Blase Kubash; short story collections Dante’s Foil & Other Sporting Tales\, The Apotheosis of Aaron\, and Borges’ Travel\, Hemingway’s Garage; two books on screenwriting\, Aspects of the Screenplay and Character & Conflict: Cornerstones of Screenwriting; and a book on adaptation\, I Read It At The Movies. \nThe spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series\, Dislocations and the Imagined\, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-mark-axelrod-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:20140518T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140518T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023942
CREATED:20140429T164339Z
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: Pulse
DESCRIPTION:Pulse (2001) \nWould you like to meet a ghost?\nAbout as bleak a depiction of apocalypse as you’re ever likely to come across\, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Pulse is a J-Horror film in which short episodic vignettes slowly disclose a world where ghosts outnumber people and people have been reduced to black ashy stains on the wall. In the midst of dealing with the emotional fallout of their friend’s suicide\, a group of young people start to notice that their computers are accessing the internet on their own and loading websites that ask them if they would like to meet a ghost. As we cycle through a shifting set of characters faced with these phenomena\, it becomes clear that direct contact with the blurry spectral beings results in life-ending melancholy and forlornness\, and the only escape from this dire outcome seems to be isolating yourself in your barricaded house indefinitely. The bleak cinematography\, empty cityscapes\, and knife-like integration of cacophony and silence in the sound design make this an understated and creepily effective counterpoint to the more widely known Ringu (1998). A remarkably atmospheric expression of technological angst and the fear of being alone\, Pulse is not to be missed! \nFor the remainder of the quarter\, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France\, Japan\, and the United States each week. Same time\, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family\, invite your friends. \nSponsored (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.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/contemporary-horror-auteur-film-series-pulse-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140519T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140519T140000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023942
CREATED:20140428T173607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140428T173607Z
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SUMMARY:Lora Bartlett: "Migrant Teachers: How American Schools Import Labor"
DESCRIPTION:Migrant Teachers investigates an overlooked trend in U.S. public schools today: the growing dependence on overseas trained teachers\, as federal mandates require K-12 schools to employ qualified teachers or risk funding cuts. A narrowly technocratic view of teachers as subject specialists has led districts to look abroad\, Lora Bartlett argues\, resulting in transient teaching professionals with little opportunity to connect meaningfully with students. \nHighly recruited by inner-city school districts that struggle to retain educators\, approximately 90\,000 teachers from the Philippines\, India and other countries came to the United States between 2002 and 2008. From administrators’ perspective\, these instructors are excellent employees—well educated and able to teach shortage subjects like math\, science and special education. Because they depend on the school system for their visas\, they are cooperative with authority. But all of this comes at a price. As Bartlett shows\, American schools are failing to reap the possible benefits of the global labor market. Framing teachers as stopgap\, low status workers\, schools may cultivate a high turnover\, low investment workforce that undermines the conditions needed for good teaching and learning. Bartlett calls on schools to provide better support to both overseas-trained teachers and their American counterparts. \nLora Bartlett is an Associate Professor in the Education Department at UC Santa Cruz and author of Migrant Teachers: How American Schools Import Labor (Harvard Press). An interview with Lora appeared in Education Week last month.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lora-bartlett-migrant-teachers-how-american-schools-import-labor-2/
LOCATION:College 8\, Room 301\,  College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140519T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140519T193000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023942
CREATED:20140311T203521Z
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SUMMARY:Yiqun Zhou: “Helen and the Chinese Femmes Fatales”
DESCRIPTION:Helen\, the Spartan queen whose abduction by Paris the prince of Troy ignited the ten-year-long Trojan War\, may be regarded as the femme fatale par excellence. The prominence of Helen’s images in the Greek tradition is as notable as their complexity and ambiguity. Alongside commonplace condemnations of Helen as the cause of a devastating war\, there are also enduring efforts to exonerate\, to redeem\, and even to exalt her act. Ancient China had its own lore of femmes fatales. The fall of each of the three earliest Chinese dynasties is blamed on a woman\, the evil consort of the last monarch. The judgment passed on the three women in the sources is invariably negative\, and their stories are routinely invoked as cautionary lessons for later rulers and noble houses about the potential dangers of female beauty. Whereas the indeterminacy of Helen’s images perpetuated over time and became ever more elusive with the proliferation of representations\, the portrayals of the three classical Chinese femmes fatales conformed to one broad pattern that was only clarified and reinforced with the multiplication of texts. In this talk\, I shall illustrate the contrast just laid out and attempt to explain how it came into being\, thereby illuminating some important differences between the conceptions of beauty and the contexts and functions of literary and historical writings in the two ancient societies. \nYiqun Zhou is Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (and\, by courtesy\, of Classics) at Stanford University. Her research interests include comparative studies of China and Greece as well as Chinese and comparative women’s history\, early Chinese literature and history\, and Chinese and English fiction (1600-1900). Her recent publications include Festivals\, Feasts\, and Gender Relations in Ancient China and Greece (New York: Cambridge University Press\, 2010) and “Spatial Metaphors and Women’s Religious Activities in Ancient China and Greece\,” in Shubha Pathak\, ed. Figuring Religions: Comparing Ideas\, Images\, and Activities (Albany: SUNY Press\, 2013). \nRefreshments at 4:30pm with reception to follow lecture.\nFree parking for lecture in the lower Cowell-Stevenson parking lot.\n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/yiqun-zhou-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:20140520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140522
DTSTAMP:20260426T023942
CREATED:20131112T183702Z
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SUMMARY:Sex and the Archive
DESCRIPTION:Workshop on Sex and the Archive\nMay 20-21\, 2014 • UC Santa Cruz\nOpen to graduate students at UC Berkeley\, UC Davis\, and UC Santa Cruz\nApplication deadline: Wednesday April 23\, 2014\nThis workshop is part of a UCHRI Humanities Studio on Regulating Sex/Religion\, directed by Saba Mahmood (UC Berkeley) and Mayanthi Fernando (UC Santa Cruz)\, that examines how sex and religion are mobilized together in the management of minoritized communities in Europe\, the Middle East\, and South Asia. Rather than take for granted the secular narrative of sexual and religious life as private\, we analyze how secular power entails the twinned regulation of religion and sexuality\, and how the public/private boundary that ostensibly underpins secularity and guarantees both religious freedom and sexual freedom hinges on the management by the secular state of religious and sexual communities. \nA major focus of the Studio\, and of this workshop in particular\, concerns how subjects are produced as members of religious and/or sexual “communities” – Copts and Muslims in Egypt\, Maronites\, Shi‘a\, and Sunni “sects” in Lebanon\, Devadasis in India\, Muslim “natives” in French Algeria – through various technologies of colonial rule\, such as the census and personal status legal codes. The Studio thus excavates the colonial archive\, inquiring into the conditions of production of religious/sexual difference in Egypt\, Lebanon\, India\, Britain\, France\, and Algeria in order better understand the relationship between past and present legal\, political\, and discursive arrangements of religious and/as sexual difference. \nThe workshop includes one day of graduate seminars on Tuesday\, May 20th led by faculty participants on subjects related to their current research and within the broad rubric of sex and the archive. Graduate students will be expected to have read the relevant texts assigned for each seminar by the faculty leaders and to join in discussion alongside faculty participants. Seminar leaders and faculty participants include: Anjali Arondekar (UC Santa Cruz)\, Michael Allan (University of Oregon)\, Gina Dent (UC Santa Cruz)\, Mayanthi Fernando (UC Santa Cruz)\, Suad Joseph (UC Davis)\, Saba Mahmood (UC Berkeley)\, Marc Matera (UC Santa Cruz)\, Maya Mikdashi (NYU/Jadaliyya)\, and Judith Surkis (Rutgers University). \nThe graduate seminars are open to students at UC Santa Cruz\, UC Berkeley\, and UC Davis. Student participants from UC Berkeley and UC Davis will have a hotel room provided for them for the nights of Monday May 19th and Tuesday May 20th. The graduate seminars begin at 9am on Tuesday May 20th. On Wednesday May 21\, faculty participants will meet in a closed-door session to discuss work-in-progress. \nPreliminary Schedule\nTuesday May 20th – Graduate Seminars 9AM-5PM \n9:00AM Opening Remarks and Introductions\n9:30-11:00 Seminar 1 (Faculty leader: Saba Mahmood; topic TBA)\n11:15-12:45 Seminar 2 (Faculty leaders: Anjali Arondekar & Judith Surkis; topic TBA)\n12:45-1:45 Lunch\n2:00-3:30 Seminar 3 (Faculty leaders: Mayanthi Fernando & Marc Matera; topic TBA)\n3:45-5:00PM General discussion \n5:15-6:45PM Reception \nWednesday May 21st – Closed Workshops 9AM-5PM \nHow to apply\nGraduate students wishing to participate should send a CV and a brief statement (maximum 1 page) regarding their current or prospective dissertation project and/or research interests to ihr@ucsc.edu by Wednesday April 23\, 2014. Contact Mayanthi Fernando (mfernan3@ucsc.edu) with any questions.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sex-and-the-archive-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:20140521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140522
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SUMMARY:Despina Kakoudaki: "Robots and Slaves: History\, Allegory\, and the Structural Logic of the Robot Story"
DESCRIPTION:Despina Kakoudaki’s work focuses on literature\, film\, visual and cultural studies\, and the history of technology. Her new book\, titled Anatomy of a Robot: Literature\, Cinema\, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People\, traces our fascination with mechanical and constructed people\, such as robots\, cyborgs\, androids and automata. \nDespina Kakoudaki is Associate Professor at American University\, in Washington\, DC. \nCosponsored by the Graduate Student Association\, Literature Department\, Computer Science Department\, Film & Digital Media\, and Anthropology Department.\n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/despina-kakoudaki-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:20140521T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140521T180000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023942
CREATED:20140512T225258Z
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SUMMARY:Prasenjit Duara: "Circulatory and Competitive Histories: Temporal Foundations for Cosmopolitanism
DESCRIPTION:Stories – narratives of the past – are necessary in all collectivities that seek to constitute and maintain themselves.  In modern times\, competitive states have sought to mobilize all resources and bio-power in their territory by adopting singular\, linear histories of the state\, nation and civilization.  But\, ironically\, just as these singular stories were becoming dominant\, the world was globalizing more actively than ever.  The stories themselves have come to be shaped by global forces. \nWhile the historical enterprise of collective formation – in which distinctive stories are developed within the framework of single states – remains important for the building of local\, national or regional communities\, these enterprises can no longer deny the cosmopolitan circulations that condition them.  This is especially so now that planetary sustainability is at stake.  And indeed\, the most significant Eurasian historical developments have tended to be circulatory and shared.  The early modern era is a particularly fruitful period to consider\, because the distinction between the local and the universal was less pronounced; state territoriality and culture were not conflated.  Can we recapture those kinds of stories?  How might social and political theory look if our histories were not linear\, exclusive accounts of nations and civilizations\, but rather dispersed\, cross-referenced\, mutually shaping and shared histories? \nPrasenjit Duara is Raffles Professor of Humanities and Director of Asia Research Institute and of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore\, where he has taught since 2008.  Prior to that\, he was professor and chairman of the History Department at the University of Chicago. Among his books are Rescuing History from the Nation (1995)\, Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern (2003)\, and Culture\, Power and the State: Rural North China\, 1900-1942 (1988)\, which won the Fairbank Prize of the AHA and the Levenson Prize of the AAS. His most recent work is The Global and the Regional in China’s Nation-Formation (Routledge\, 2009). His work has been widely translated into Chinese\, Japanese and Korean. He will speak from forthcoming book The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Cambridge\, 2014). \nSponsored by the Department of History and the East Asian Studies Program.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/circulatory-and-competitive-histories-temporal-foundations-for-cosmopolitanism-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140521T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140521T180000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023942
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SUMMARY:Graduate Seminar with Despina Kakoudaki
DESCRIPTION:All graduate students are welcome but an RSVP is required by May 19th. Contact ihr@ucsc.edu to RSVP and request seminar readings. \nDespina Kakoudaki’s work focuses on literature\, film\, visual and cultural studies\, and the history of technology. Her forthcoming book\, Anatomy of a Robot: Literature\, Cinema\, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People\, traces our fascination with mechanical and constructed people\, such as robots\, cyborgs\, androids and automata. \nDespina Kakoudaki is Associate Professor of Literature at American University. \nCosponsored by the Graduate Student Association\, Literature Department\, Computer Science Department\, Film & Digital Media\, and Anthropology Department.\n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/graduate-seminar-with-despina-kakoudaki-2/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140522T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140522T170000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023942
CREATED:20140508T181011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140508T181011Z
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SUMMARY:2014 Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:The Fifteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium\n9:00-9:10 AM – Opening Remarks\nKirsten Silva Gruesz\, Director\, Literature Undergraduate Program \n9:10-10:15 AM – Panel One: Borderlands: Creative Writers Read\nModerator\, Micah Perks \nJames Williams: Impertinent Youth\nMarine Ashnalikyan: “In the Living Room” and other Poems\nNarine Ashnalikyan: “After Dinner” and other Poems\nStephen Richter: A Southern Tradition (or Triple Consciousness) \n10:30-11:30 AM – Panel Two: Literature and Metamorphoses\nModerator: Sean Keilen \nJessica Imber: History\, Fiction and a Little Something In Between: Searching for the Migrant Voice through the Labyrinth of Narrative\nAndrew Harmatz: “Where Should This Music Be? I’ Th’ Air or Th’ Earth?”: Ovid’s Orpheus and Poetry as a Harmony of Authorial Voices\nAbbie Jennings: The Chink in the Wall: A Peek at Ovid Through Shakespeare \n11:45-12:45 PM – Panel Three: Doubling and Dialectics\nModerator: A. Hunter Bivens \nSophie Cox: Rose-White Boyhood: Floral Language as Veiled Homosexuality in The Picture of Dorian Gray\nJosephe David Watkins: And Equally We May Find the Opposite\nMelissa Ott: Torches of Progress and Enlightenment: Imperialist Language in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and “To the Person Sitting in Darkness” \n12:45-1:30 PM – Lunch Buffet\n1:30-2:30 PM – Panel Four: History and Memory\nModerator: Vilashini Cooppan \nIan L. Silva: Herodotus and his ‘Setting forth’\nMariah Padilla: The Imagination and Postmemory: The Postgeneration’s Working-through of Trauma\nMatthew Strebe: The Problem of Memory in Literary Representations of the Holocaust \n2:45-3:45 PM – The Pen\, The Book\, and The Robot\nModerator: Kirsten Silva Gruesz \nTaylor Backman: “My Pen”: Oroonoko and the Rise of Female and Subjugated Authors\nC. Austin Knudson: Diego Herva’s Journey To Hell: Relationships Between Textual Materiality and Modern Authorship in The Manuscript Found in Saragossa\nJames Vitiello: RoboCop: Delta City is Inevitable \n3:45-4:00 PM – Closing Remarks\nCarla Freccero\, Chair\, Literature Department
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2014-literature-undergraduate-colloquium-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:20140522T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140522T140000
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SUMMARY:Ken Waltzer Seminar: A Holocaust Micro-History
DESCRIPTION:Professor Kenneth Waltzer  is currently director of the Jewish studies program at Michigan State University.  His interests cover American social and political history\, including urban\, labor\, and minority history\, immigration and social relations in the United States and elsewhere\, and modern Jewish history\, including the study of anti-Semitism and of the Holocaust. His major current project is a book on The Rescue of Children and Youths at Buchenwald. His research on the Buchenwald concentration camp has focused on the rescue of children and youths inside the camp and has included some notable findings. \nMoving Together\, Moving Alone: The Story of Boys on a Transport from Auschwitz to Buchenwald \nOn January 17\, 1945\, a large group of about ten thousand predominantly Jewish prisoners were evacuated from Auschwitz-Buna (Monowitz) and Birkenau and taken on a death march to the west. A few days later\, approximately four thousand survivors of this ordeal reached Gleiwitz\, a rail head and the site of several Nazi satellite camps\, where the Nazis loaded them onto open coal cars and transported them to Buchenwald\, a huge concentration camp near Weimar in Thuringia. The weather was so cold that some prisoners sat on frozen dead bodies as benches. According to Nazi records\, the transport arrived on January 26\, 1945\, with 3\,784 prisoners. Of this number\, 304 youths\, 16 years old or under\, comprised about 8% of the human cargo. One of them\, Lazar (Eliezer) Wiesel\, later wrote about the ordeal in a remarkable memoir\, Night\, which is now known all over the world. \nThese were mostly Slovak-\, Hungarian-\, and Rumanian-Jewish boys who had survived terrible family losses on entering Birkenau in late May 1944 and were in Buna under atrocious conditions. Then\, eight months later they were in Buchenwald\, where many were relocated to the children’s barrack\, Kinderblock 66. In this group\, there were surprisingly numerous social clusters – boys with their fathers like Elie Wiesel\, boys with other boys\, especially brothers or cousins\, and boys with relatives or friends often from the same towns. Many were acting out deep commitments\, they say in their testimonies\, to stay together and help one another under all pressures. But others were alone. \nA large literature stresses that life in the Nazi camps approximated a war of all against all: social relations among prisoners were egoistic and pathogenic. This seminar seeks to test this hypothesis. Using the techniques of micro-history\, it asks in what ways these youths at Buna and Buchenwald were moving together and also moving alone during their ordeal. It shows how by focusing in a detailed way on a distinctive group within prisoner society\, we can study the remarkable and diverse forms of solidarity that continued to co-exist in prisoner society alongside separateness and aloneness among these tormented young people. In this case\, we can also discover the fates of nearly all boys on the transport – those like Wiesel who were in block 66\, those who were not\, and those who were sent out of Buchenwald to the killing satellites. \nKen Waltzer will also be at the film screening of Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald shown at UCSC on May 22 @ 6pm in College 8\, Room 240. \nThese events are free and open to the public. \nSponsored by: UCSC Center for Jewish Studies and Neufeld-Levin Endowed Chair in Holocaust Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ken-waltzer-seminar-a-holocaust-micro-history-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140522T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140522T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023942
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SUMMARY:Ken Waltzer and Film Screening: Kinderblock 66
DESCRIPTION:Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald. Kinderblock 66 is the story of four men who\, as young boys\, were imprisoned by the Nazis in the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp and who\, sixty-five years later\, return to commemorate the sixty-fifth anniversary of their liberation. The film tells the story of the effort undertaken by the camp’s Communist-led underground to protect ad save Jewish children who were arriving in Buchenwald toward the end of the Holocaust. Kinderblock 66 also tells the story of Antonin Kalina\, the head of the block who was personally responsible for saving 904 boys in Buchenwald. \nThe Film Screening of Kinderblock 66 will be shown at UCSC on May 22 @ 6pm in College 8\, Room 240. \nProfessor Kenneth Waltzer is currently director of the Jewish studies program at Michigan State University.  His interests cover American social and political history\, including urban\, labor\, and minority history\, immigration and social relations in the United States and elsewhere\, and modern Jewish history\, including the study of anti-Semitism and of the Holocaust. His major current project is a book on The Rescue of Children and Youths at Buchenwald. His research on the Buchenwald concentration camp has focused on the rescue of children and youths inside the camp and has included some notable findings. \nSeminar with Ken Waltzer held earlier in the day: A Holocaust Micro-History\nMay 22 @ 12pm in Humanities 1\, Room 210. \nThese events are free and open to the public. \nSponsored by: UCSC Center for Jewish Studies and Neufeld-Levin Endowed Chair in Holocaust Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ken-waltzer-film-screening-kinderblock-66-2/
LOCATION:College 8\, Room 240\,  College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140523
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140525
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SUMMARY:"Working w/ Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale" Conference
DESCRIPTION:[vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \nIn celebration of Shakespeare’s 450th birthday\, Working w/ Shakespeare fosters a dialogue between three professions that are especially dedicated to understanding his work: literary critics\, theater designers\, and professional actors. What makes literary criticism\, design\, and performance different as forms of interpretation? How might their distinctive practical techniques and theoretical concerns enrich and transform each other? These questions are the framework for the conference’s three workshops\, each of which will focus on The Winter’s Tale. \n[/vc_column_text] [vc_column width=”1/3″ el_position=”first”] [rb_section_title title=”Workshop I: Acting with Shakespeare” icon=”con-none” border=”true” margin=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \n \nMike Ryan is an actor and the Co-Artistic Director of Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Acting with Shakespeare is an interactive workshop that explores how actors move from the page to the stage; how verse\, rhetoric and complex imagery are made more intelligible to the ear; and how to pull useful clues from Shakespeare’s text that translate the spoken word into action. As one of Shakespeare’s final works\, The Winter’s Tale combines bold experimentation with verse form with the theatrical cunning of a producer at the peak of his game. \n[/vc_column_text] [/vc_column] [vc_column width=”1/3″] [rb_section_title title=”Workshop II: Designing with Shakespeare” icon=”con-none” border=”true” margin=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \n \nKate Edmunds\, Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz\, has designed scenery for over thirty years\, from New York to California\, to great acclaim. In Designing with Shakespeare\, participants will move from the written to the spoken word\, and then from words to the visual images that reflect their own thoughts\, developing designs for The Winter’s Tale that communicate their own insights about the play. Through design\, we will try to “see what we mean” when we work with Shakespeare. \n[/vc_column_text] [/vc_column] [vc_column width=”1/3″ el_position=”last”] [rb_section_title title=”Workshop III: Writing with Shakespeare” icon=”con-none” border=”true” margin=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \n \nSean Keilen teaches Shakespeare in the Literature Department at UC Santa Cruz. Writing with Shakespeare takes The Winter’s Tale as the starting point for a dialogue about literary criticism’s long-standing investment in the hermeneutics of suspicion and the prospect of grounding interpretation\, instead\, in aesthetic experience. Suppose that we approach Shakespeare’s play not only as an object for analysis but also as a model for thinking and writing about art. What\, then\, could our criticism become? \n[/vc_column_text] [/vc_column] [rb_blank_divider height=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column width=”1/2″ el_position=”first”] [rb_section_title title=”Schedule” icon=”con-none” border=”true” margin=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \nFriday\, May 23\nLocation: Digital Arts Research Center\, Room 108 (Map – Park in lot #126) \n9:00-9:30 AM – Welcome and Introductions \n9:30 AM -12:00 PM – Workshop I: Acting with Shakespeare \n12:00-1:00 PM – Lunch @ DARC 3rd floor balcony \nLocation: Theater Arts\, Second Stage (Map – Park in lot #126) \n1:00-3:30 PM – Workshop II: Designing with Shakespeare \nSaturday\, May 24\nLocation: Humanities Building 1\, Room 210 (Map – Park in lot #109) \n9:30 AM – 12:00 PM – Workshop III: Writing with Shakespeare \n12:00-12:30 PM – Closing Lunch Reception \n[/vc_column_text] [/vc_column] [vc_column width=”1/2″ el_position=”last”] [rb_section_title title=”Sponsors” icon=”con-none” border=”true” margin=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \nWorking w/ Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale is presented by Shakespeare’s Disciplines\, a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, with generous support from the Dean of Arts\, the Seigfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Studies Endowment and the Department of Literature\, and w/Shakespeare\, a Multicampus Research Group of the University of California Humanities Network. \n[rb_blank_divider height=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \n[rb_button size=”medium” style=”light” url=”mailto:ihr@ucsc.edu” label=”Request Readings” target=”_blank” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”]  \n[/vc_column_text] [/vc_column]
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/working-with-shakespeare-2/
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140525T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140525T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023942
CREATED:20140429T164458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140429T164458Z
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: You're Next
DESCRIPTION:You never want to do anything interesting anymore. \nIf you’ve ever found yourself wondering what a mumblecore slasher film might be like\, then look no further than You’re Next. Directed by Adam wingard (who also helmed 2010’s elliptically grim A Horrible Way to Die and this year’s John-Carpenter-meets-The-Terminator homage The Guest) and featuring a number of prominent figures from the mumblecore scene (most notably Amy Seimetz and Joe Swanberg)\, the film is a wild recasting of the slasher film’s “Final Girl” as a survivalist killing machine let loose amidst murderous familial dysfunction in a Home Alone-like scenario. Not to be missed! \nFor the remainder of the quarter\, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France\, Japan\, and the United States each week. Same time\, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family\, invite your friends. \nSponsored (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.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/contemporary-horror-auteur-film-series-youre-next-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140528T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140528T133000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023942
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LAST-MODIFIED:20140228T204810Z
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SUMMARY:Gopal Balakrishan: "Breakthroughs of the Young Marx"
DESCRIPTION:Gopal Balakrishan \nProfessor\, History of Consciousness\, UCSC \nOffering an intellectual history of the phases of Marx’s thought from his dissertation on Greek philosophy to The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte\, Gopal Balakrishnan seeks to explain why the emergent syntheses of this early Marx broke down in the aftermath of the failures of the revolutions of 1848.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gopal-balakrishan-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:20140529T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140529T180000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023942
CREATED:20130607T153832Z
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SUMMARY:Spring Awards & Humanities Undergraduate Research Award Presentations
DESCRIPTION:  \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nYou are cordially invited to Spring Awards 2014 on Thursday\, May 29\, 2014. This annual “Celebrating Humanities” event is an important opportunity to acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition\, awards\, and distinctions over the course of this past year. \nThe Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) support and encourage undergraduate research. In 1996\, the Humanities Division began awarding students undertaking truly innovating research projects. The projects must involve research within or including any of the humanities disciplines\, and the research must be performed during the current academic year. \nHighlights include:\nDizikes Faculty Teaching Award in Humanities\nHumanities Undergraduate Research Awards \nSchedule:\n4:00-5:00PM “Celebrating Humanities” Spring Awards (Humanities 1\, Room 210)\n4:00PM Opening Remarks by Dean Ladusaw\n4:15PM Dizikes Award\n5:00-6:00PM HUGRA Poster Presentations and Reception (Humanities Courtyard) \nRefreshments will be served. Free and open to the public. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/spring-awards-humanities-undergraduate-research-award-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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