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SUMMARY:Linguistics@Santa Cruz: Theory & Practice
DESCRIPTION:SESSION I \n11:00 am – 12:30 pm \nOpening remarks / MC: Pranav Anand \nJudith Aissen: Bill Shipley: Founding linguist \nat UC Santa Cruz \nAmy Rose Deal: Possibilities in Nez Perce \nMaziar Toosarvandani: Creating Northern Paiute \ndocumentation for linguists and \nthe language community \nJudith Aissen: Working among the Maya \n12:30 – 1:00 pm Break \n  \nSESSION II \n1:00 pm – 2:15 pm \nJunko Ito: What Anime and Karaoke Have in \nCommon: A Linguistic Perspective \nGrant McGuire: Laboratory phonology outside \nthe laboratory: Ultrasound and Irish \nMatt Wagers: The Chamorro Psycholinguistics \nProject: Bringing the Lab to the Field\, \nand the Field to the Lab \n2:15-3:00 pm Reception\, department photos\, \nultrasound demonstrations & discussions
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguisticssanta-cruz-theory-practice-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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SUMMARY:The Targeted Village\, A Documentary by Chie Mikami
DESCRIPTION:“In Okinawa\, the people of Takae village are convicted by the Japanese government for obstructing traffic in the struggle against the construction of new helipads. Their story embodies U.S. military strategy dating back to the Vietnam War\, the blocking of gates to the Futenma base\, and their town’s rage against their state.” \nFilm will be followed by a Q&A and Discussion with UCSC Professor Alan Christy & Doctoral Student Yoko Fukumura. \nSuggested Donation: $5-$10\, no one is turned away.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-targeted-village-a-documentary-by-chie-mikami-2/
LOCATION:Resource Center for Non Violence
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SUMMARY:Lisa Snyder: "The Devil is in the Detective Work: Researching and Reconstructing Cultural Heritage Sites with Special Emphasis on The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893"
DESCRIPTION:One might argue that the creation of a computer reconstruction of a cultural heritage site requires a curious mix of academic training\, detective work\, and obsession. Unlike automated or algorithmic technologies that record extant sites and artifacts\, building a three-dimensional computer model of an ephemeral or long-demolished environment combines traditional historical methods with new technologies and results in an entirely new form of scholarly publication. Rather than a printed monograph\, the hours spent in search of obscure details buried in primary source materials or pouring over archival manuscripts and photographs are transformed into an interactive learning environment for interrogation by students and secondary scholars. Using her computer reconstruction of the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 as a case study\, Snyder will address the process of researching and reconstructing historic urban environments\, the challenges of translating multi-media research materials into a cohesive computer model\, and the opportunities for teaching and learning afforded by this new form of scholarship. (And\, yes\, obsession will be discussed.) \nLisa M. Snyder (Ph.D. UCLA) is an architectural historian and research scholar with UCLA’s Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) and is an Associate Editor of Digital Studies / Le Champ Numérique. From 1996 – 2013 she was a senior member of the Urban Simulation Team at UCLA. Snyder’s primary research is on educational applications for three-dimensional computer models of historic urban environments. She developed the reconstruction model of the Herodian Temple Mount installed in 2001 at the Davidson Center in Jerusalem\, and is currently working on a reconstruction model of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition that is shown regularly at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. In 2010 she received an NEH-Digital Humanities Start-Up grant (HD-50958-10) for the development of a software interface (VSim) that provides users with the ability to craft narratives in three-dimensional space as well as the ability to embed annotations and links to primary and secondary resources and web content from within the environments. This work is continuing under an NEH Digital Humanities Implementation Grant (HK-50164-14). Snyder is also co-PI on “Advanced Challenges in Theory and Practice in 3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage Sites\,” an NEH Summer Institute being hosted at UMass Amherst in June 2015 and at UCLA in June 2016 (HT-50091-14). \nEVENT PHOTOS:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lisa-snyder-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:NEW DATE & LOCATION: Works in Progress: Samantha Matherne
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Philosophy Department for a Works-in-Progress presentation by Professor Samantha Matherne. \nAt least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. The format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited. \nAll members of the campus community and interested public are welcome to attend. \nCoffee\, tea\, and cookies served. \n\n  \nReviving Philosophy of History \nPaul Roth\nTuesday\, January 20\, 2015 \n*** \nWhy Does Space Have More than One Dimension? \nAbe Stone\nThursday\, February 19\, 2015 \n*** \nErnst Cassirer’s Philosophy of Physics \nSamantha Matherne\nThursday\, April 9\, 2015
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/works-in-progress-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Adrienne Mayor: "The Warrior's Husband: Theseus\, Antiope\, and the Amazons”
DESCRIPTION:Fierce Amazons are at the center of some of the most famous Greek myths. Every great hero\, from Heracles to Achilles\, tangled with warrior queens\, and Theseus captured and married the Amazon Antiope. Were Amazons mere figments of the Greek imagination? Combining classical myth and art\, nomad traditions\, and scientific archaeology\, this lecture reveals intimate\, surprising details and original insights about the fighting women known as Amazons\, with a special focus on Antiope. \nAdrienne Mayor’s most recent book is The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World (Princeton 2014). She is also the author of numerous publications; other books include a biography of Mithradates\, The Poison King\, a nonfiction finalist for the 2009 National Book Award\, and The First Fossil Hunters (2000). A research scholar in Classics and History of Science at Stanford\, Mayor’s work is often featured on the BBC\, The History Channel\, National Geographic\, History Today\, and other media.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/adrienne-mayor-the-warriors-husband-theseus-antiope-and-the-amazons-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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SUMMARY:Neloufer de Mel  "The Perethaya's Fury: Ethical Frameworks and Zones of Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka"
DESCRIPTION:Neloufer de Mel is the author of Militarizing Sri Lanka and Women and the Nation’s Narrative: Gender and Nationalism in Twentieth Century Sri Lanka. Her current research is on cultures of justice in postwar Sri Lanka\, disability performance\, and the politics of aesthetic work in contexts of violence. \nNeloufer de Mel is a Professor of English at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka. \n\n  \nSpring 2015 Colloquium Series \nApril 8\, 2015 – Neloufer de Mel: “The ‘Perethaya’s’ Fury: Ethical Frameworks and Zones of Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka” \nApril 15\, 2015 – Karen de Vries: “Queer Storytelling\, Secular Religion\, and the Anthropocene Blues” \nApril 22\, 2015 – T.J. Demos: “Rights of Nature: The Art and Politics of Earth Jurisprudence” \nApril 29\, 2015 – Brian Connolly: “The Curse of Canaan: A Fantasy of Race in the Nineteenth-Century United States” \nMay 6\, 2015 – Joshua Dienstag: “The Human Boundary: Democracy in a Post-Species Age” \nMay 13\, 2015 – Megan Thomas: “Lascars\, Sepoys\, and the Traveling Labor of British Empire (Manila\, 1762-4)” \nMay 20\, 2015 – Jonathan Beller: “The Computational Unconscious” \nMay 27\, 2015 – John Modern: “Toward a Religious History of Cognitive Science”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/neloufer-de-mel-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gender-Differential Effects of Terrorism on Education: The Case of the Punjab Insurgency 1981-1993
DESCRIPTION:This study explores the long-run effect of the 1981-1993 Punjab Insurgency on the educational attainment of adults who were between ages 6-16 years at the time of the insurgency. To examine the long-term effect of the insurgency on education\, we use a large scale cross-sectional dataset – the 2005 India Human Development Survey. To explore the channels through which the conflict affected education\, we use a unique historical dataset on the annual expenditure decisions by farmers (farm account surveys) for Punjab during 1978-1989. We combine both datasets with the annual district level data on major terrorist incidents from the South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP). We find a substantial and statistically significant effect of terrorism on educational attainment by girls who were of school age during the conflict. We also identify the impact of terrorism at the household level. Households that had high ratios of girls to boys and who resided in the districts that experienced terrorist events\, had reduced the amount of educational expenditures. This finding suggests that this reduction was one of the channels through which conflict affected education. \nPrakarsh Singh is Assistant Professor of Economics at Amherst College\, Massachusetts. His research falls into three main categories in development economics: a. Performance Incentives in Public Health to target Child Malnutrition; b. Causes and Consequences of Conflict\, particularly civil wars; c. Teaching Development Economics. He has written and published widely in all three areas. A sampling of his recent work can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/prakarshsinghac/research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gender-differential-effects-of-terrorism-on-education-the-case-of-the-punjab-insurgency-1981-1993-2/
LOCATION:Economics Conference Room (E2 Room 499)
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SUMMARY:Envisioning Central Coast Water in 2030: Ecology\, Equity\, Ingenuity
DESCRIPTION:Governor Jerry Brown’s recent move to implement mandatory state-wide drought restrictions re-affirms growing uncertainties about California’s water future. Images of dwindling rainfall and worsening drought often re-enforce popular perceptions of impending shortages as chiefly physical phenomena\, restricting possibilities for robust and innovative responses through the social sphere. In the Central Coast\, in particular\, seemingly intractable divisions between public water agencies and homeowners’ coalitions\, between groundwater aquifers and the needs of agriculture and between people and fish result in a fragmented political and ecological landscape where polarizing battles are not only seen as normal\, but self-evident. This cocktail hour will invite participants to engage in an uncommon civic dialogue to imagine and envision what broad-based\, collective interventions for Central Coast water might look like. Participants from all backgrounds will be strongly encouraged to share and discuss innovative suggestions for how a more ecologically-sound\, socially-equitable water plan might be drafted and implemented. Using the year 2030 as a horizon\, participants will have the opportunity to share suggestions and expertise across disciplinary boundaries and to consider whether and how competing visions for Central Coast water might be reconciled.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/envisioning-central-coast-water-in-2030-ecology-equity-ingenuity-2/
LOCATION:Oakes College 231
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SUMMARY:Using Zotero for Graduate Student Research: A Library Workshop for Humanities Division Graduate Students
DESCRIPTION:Led by: Annette Marines and Rachel Deblinger \nZotero is an open source (free) citation management software that allows you to attach PDFs\, notes and images to your citations\, organize them into collections for different projects\, and create bibliographies. It lives in your browser and connects directly to library catalogues and research databases. This workshop will help you get started with Zotero so that you can: \n• Create a personal library of research materials\n• Import references directly from most research databases and library catalogs\n• Organize and annotate references\n• Format references and bibliographies in Microsoft Word and other word processing program documents\n• Share your citations or collaborate with others online
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/using-zotero-for-graduate-student-research-a-library-workshop-for-humanities-division-graduate-students-2/
LOCATION:McHenry Library\, Room 2353
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SUMMARY:Yannis Galanakis: "The Diplomat\, the Dealer and the Digger: Writing the History of the Antiquities Trade in 19th century Greece"
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]During the 19th century in Europe\, new states were founded and nationalism and colonialism were strengthened; while some Empires disintegrated\, others managed to maintain or even increase their power. At the same time\, archaeology was transformed into a structured discipline and large-scale excavation projects commenced across the Mediterranean. The stories of the people behind the antiquities trade in Greece during the 19th century—the diplomats stationed in Athens\, the local art dealers and the private diggers—help us write an important chapter in the social\, economic\, and cultural history of Europe and of Mediterranean archaeology as a whole. This lecture explores how the commodification of the past became interwoven with power politics and gave rise both to different attitudes toward collecting and to debates on cultural property\, ownership and the value of things in our modern world. \nYannis Galanakis is Lecturer in Classics (Greek Prehistory)\, Faculty of Classics\, University of Cambridge Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics\, Sidney Sussex College. \nFor more information\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu \n\n  \nEVENT PHOTOS: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/aiakress-lecture-with-yannis-galanakis-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Feminist Architecture of Gloria Anzaldúa: New Translations\, Crossings and Pedagogies in Anzaldúan Thought
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nA Conference on the Work of Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa\nGloria Evangelina Anzaldúa — poet\, philosopher\, and critical scholar — founded\, wrote\, and encouraged a transformative body of writing and scholarship\, with generative influences on critical race\, feminist\, queer\, and decolonizing ways of knowing. Importantly for UCSC\, Anzaldúa was a vital presence on our campus for over twenty years\, and her legacy is a profound part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the campus. \nThe UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies is proud to initiate a celebration of the intellectual legacy of Gloria Anzaldúa. This year-long celebration includes a series of undergraduate workshops and creative writing seminars\, advanced study seminars for graduate students and faculty\, performances by artists and poets as part of the creative writing Living Writers’ reading series\, and an installation of Anzaldúa’s writing altar from her archives in McHenry Library’s Special Collections. Finally\, our celebration will culminate in a two-day (April 10-11\, 2015) scholarly conference: The Feminist Architecture of Gloria E. Anzaldúa: New Translations\, Crossings\, and Pedagogies in Anzaldúan Thought. \nConference Description\nBeginning with her co-editorship of This Bridge Called My Back: Writing by Radical Women of Color (1981) to the foundational Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987) to the anthologies Making Face\, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras (1990) and This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation (2002)\, the collection of engagements in Interviews/Entrevistas (2000)\, The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader (2009) and her children’s books\, the work of Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa has greatly influenced critical race\, feminist\, queer and decolonizing theories of an active subjectivity and agency. Her worldview as intellectual\, lesbian of color\, poet\, teacher privileges the knowledge that comes from experiencing life in-between spaces—the border dweller\, the queer\, the colored\, and the mestiza. Embracing ambiguity\, liminality and border thinking\, Anzaldúa affirms life from within these spaces. Her call for women of color\, particularly lesbians of color\, to write\, engage and interrogate the world\, challenges the hegemony of knowledge production and categorical logic. The movement of U.S. third world feminists that Anzaldúa initiates centers coalitional politics and intersectional analysis of the lived experiences of women of color\, yet there continues to be a problem of legibility\, a misrecognition and appropriation of the theoretical contributions of these writers (Perez\, 2010). I believe that it is the issue of legibility that deflects scholars’ attention from engaging Anzaldúan thought in the critical ways that it deserves. \nThis will be a 2 day conference\, April 10-11\, to think together about the work of Gloria Anzaldúa with scholars who are engaging purposefully\, where discussions will center around these questions: \n● How do the efforts of the El Mundo Zurdo conference\, new archival material and translations invite us to participate and connect in new ways the living heart of Anzaldúa’s work?\n● How have scholars engaged/translated Anzaldúan theory into pedagogical practices\, either through alternative methodologies or epistemologies?\n● How is Anzaldúa’s work engaged with current theories of the post-human\, settler colonialism\, or decolonial thinking?\n● What provocations can we take from Anzaldúa’s work?\n● How do we move Anzaldúa 1.0 to Anzaldúa 2.0? \n\n  \nConference Schedule\nFRIDAY \nLocation: Humanities 1 Room 210 \n3:00pm Welcome\nBettina Aptheker and Karen Yamashita\, UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies\nFelicity Amaya Schaeffer and Cindy Cruz\, Conference Co-Chairs\nAlma Sifuentes\, Dean of Students\, UCSC \n3:15-4:30pm Keynote: Laura Perez\, UC Berkeley \n4:30-6:15pm Panel 1: Un Travesía/A Crossing: Thinking Anzaldúa across the Disciplines \nKaren Barad\, UCSC\nGaye Theresa Johnson\, UCSB\nFelicity Amaya Schaeffer\, UCSC\nSonia Saldivar-Hull\, University of Texas San Antonio\nPedro DiPietro\, Syracuse University \nModerators: Jennifer Gonzales\, UCSC / Cat Ramirez\, UCSC \n+++++++++ \nSATURDAY \nLocation: Humanities Lecture Hall \n9:30-10:00am Coffee and Refreshments \n10:00-12:00pm Panel 2: La Facultad: Bridging Theory to Praxis in Anzaldúan Thought \nPat Zavella\, UCSC\nAida Hurtado\, UCSB\nSofia Villenas\, Cornell University\nAlejandra Elenes\, Arizona State University \nModerator: Marcia Ochoa\, Chair of Feminist Studies\, UCSC \n12:00-1:00pm Lunch \n1:00-2:45pm Panel 3: Roundtable – Santa Cruz Feminist of Color Collective \nSandra Alvarez\, Chapman University\nPascha Bueno Hansen\, University of Delaware\nSusy Zepeda\, UC Davis\nRoya Rastegar\, Los Angeles\, Filmmaker \nModerator: Cindy Cruz\, UCSC \n2:45-3:00pm Break \n3:00-4:30pm Keynote Conversation: Maria Lugones\, Binghamton University \nModerators: Rosa-Linda Fregoso\, UCSC / Bettina Apthekar\, UCSC \n  \n\n  \nDirections & Parking:\nPark near the Humanities Complex (Cowell/Stevenson parking lots 107\, 108\, 109\, and 110). Parking attendants will be available at the beginning of the event to sell permits. Otherwise\, permits can be purchased at pay stations in lots. \nClick here for directions and map  \n  \n\n  \nSpecial Exhibit of Anzaldúa Artifacts:\nMcHenry Library Special Collections will display the artifacts of the Anzaldúa Writing Altar in the Library California Room on April 9-10 from 10am-12pm & 1pm-4pm. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \n\n  \nJoin the Conversation:\nFacebook\n#ihrevents \n  \n\n  \nArticles:\nhttp://news.ucsc.edu/2015/04/Anzaldua-feminist-conference.html \nhttp://www.cityonahillpress.com/2015/04/14/anzalduan-thought-transcends-borderlands/ \n  \n\n\nEvent Photos:\nFriday\, March 10 \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nSaturday\, March 11 \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \n\nEvent Podcast:\n \n \n \n  \n\nEvent Video:\n \n\n\nSponsors:\nUC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies\, Office of the Dean of Students\, Graduate Student Association\, El Centro: The Chicano Latino Resource Center\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, Latin American & Latino Studies\, Cowell College Provost\, College 8\, Stevenson College\, Literature Department\, Feminist Studies Department\, Politics Department\, Anthropology Department\, and the Institute for Humanities Research. \n\n  \nUC Santa Cruz Celebrating 50 Years of Being Truly Original\nThis is a place like no other. It was imagined from the minds of original thinkers—the rebels and visionaries\, artists\, scientists\, and poets who had the courage to strike off on a different path in search of ideas that question norms in hopes of making the world a better place. Let’s celebrate 50 amazing years. Visit 50years.ucsc.edu and see what we are planning. \n  \n  [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anzaldua-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Friday Forum with Jess Whatcott: “Abolition Feminism Against Eugenics in California Prisons”
DESCRIPTION:The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities\, Social Sciences\, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. Light refreshments will be available. \nFor more info\, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year\, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com \n\n  \nSpring 2015 Schedule: \n10 April — Jess Whatcott\, Politics\n17 April — Evan Grupsmith\, History\n24 April — Rose Grose\, Social Psychology\n1 May — Kali Rubaii\, Anthropology\n8 May — Cristopher Chitty\, History of Consciousness\n15 May — Keegan Cook Finberg\, Literature\n22 May — Muiris Macgiollabhui\, History: “Carrying The Green Bough: An Atlantic History of the United Irishmen\, 1791-1830”\n29 May — Ann Drevno\, ENVS\n5 June — Veronika Zablotsky\, FMST \nThis event series is made possible through the generous support from the Institute for Humanities Research and the departments of Literature\, History of Consciousness\, Anthropology\, Feminist Studies\, HAVC\, Philosophy\, Joe’s Pizza and Subs\, Politics\, Psychology and Sociology as well as the GSA and GSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-jess-whatcott-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Daniel Lassiter: "Nested and informative epistemics in a graphical models framework"
DESCRIPTION:We propose a new semantics and pragmatics for epistemic statements which builds on the systems of Yalcin (2012) and Moss (2015)\, but offers several empirical advantages. The key improvements stem from (a) modeling information states using probabilistic graphical models\, a framework for knowledge representation that is highly influential in psychology\, AI\, and philosophy; and (b) a new method of treating probabilities as ordinary random variables\, making it possible to condition information states on probability statements such as Rain is likely [roughly\, P(rain) > .5]. This feature makes it possible to account for the dynamic effects of epistemic sentences while maintaining a thoroughgoing Bayesianism\, with conditioning as the only update operation. Nested epistemic statements are also given a natural interpretation in terms of higher-order probability\, which is implicitly defined once probabilities are treated as random variables. This approach simplifies Moss’ account and avoids some of its less desirable features\, but the simplification re-introduces certain empirical challenges\, which are discussed in conclusion. \nDaniel Lassiter is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/daniel-lassiter-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:20150410T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150410T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T110541
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Futuristic Musical Poetry with Luciano Chessa
DESCRIPTION:An evening with Italian composer\, performer\, and musicologist Luciano Chessa. Chessa will perform Piedigrotta (a Futurist musical poem). Chessa is the author of Luigi Russolo\, Futurist: Noise\, Visual Arts\, and the Occult (UC\, 2012)\, the first English-language monograph dedicated to Russolo and the art of Noise. He has been performing futurist sound poetry for well over 10 years. He has been active in Europe\, the U.S.\, Australia\, and South America as a practitioner of world avantgarde music; his scholarly areas include both 20th-century and late-14th-century music. Compositions include a piano and percussion duet after Pier Paolo Pasoliniʼs “Petrolio.” \nReception to follow.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-of-futuristic-musical-poetry-with-luciano-chessa-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150415T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150415T140000
DTSTAMP:20260407T110541
CREATED:20150319T224035Z
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SUMMARY:Karen deVries "Queer Storytelling\, Secular Religion\, and the Anthropocene Blues"
DESCRIPTION:Working at the intersection of religion\, science\, and feminist studies\, Karen deVries examines structures of knowledge and power in the Contemporary American West. Her current book project deploys queer storytelling both to explore tensions and schisms between religious and secular knowledge formations and to produce more livable futures. \nKaren deVries is a Lecturer in the Political Science Department at Montana State University in Bozeman. \n\nSpring 2015 Colloquium Series\n\n\nApril 8\, 2015 – Neloufer de Mel: “The ‘Perethaya’s’ Fury: Ethical Frameworks and Zones of Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka”\n\nApril 15\, 2015 – Karen de Vries: “Queer Storytelling\, Secular Religion\, and the Anthropocene Blues”\n\nApril 22\, 2015 – T.J. Demos: “Rights of Nature: The Art and Politics of Earth Jurisprudence”\n\nApril 29\, 2015 – Brian Connolly: “The Curse of Canaan: A Fantasy of Race in the Nineteenth-Century United States”\n\nMay 6\, 2015 – Joshua Dienstag: “The Human Boundary: Democracy in a Post-Species Age”\n\nMay 13\, 2015 – Megan Thomas: “Lascars\, Sepoys\, and the Traveling Labor of British Empire (Manila\, 1762-4)”\n\nMay 20\, 2015 – Jonathan Beller: “The Computational Unconscious”\n\nMay 27\, 2015 – John Modern: “Toward a Religious History of Cognitive Science”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-devries-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:20150415T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150415T173000
DTSTAMP:20260407T110541
CREATED:20150420T163509Z
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SUMMARY:Development From Below: Supporting Indigenous Innovations and Knowledge Justice in Mazvihwa Communal Area\, Zimbabwe
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with Alice Ndlovu about the community-based research and indigenous innovations currently blossoming in Mazvihwa Communal Area\, Zimbabwe. Alice will give us examples of creative farming practices\, water harvesting techniques\, and household innovations. We will discuss how participatory research is helping to fight data poverty and empowering the community. What does “the life informatic” look like in this context and for these people? What are its benefits and drawbacks? \nAlice Ndlovu Mutanda\, Director of Operations and Administration of Muonde Trust\, was born and bred in Mazvihwa. She is married to Tinashe Mutanda. Alice has Honours and Masters Degree in Development Studies from Midlands State University. In addition she holds a certificate in “working with communities affected by poverty displacement and HIV and AIDS” from the University of Kwazulu Natal in South Africa. Alice has been working in Mazvihwa and across Zvishavane District for the past 7 years. For six years she worked at Bethany Project as a Programme Officer implementing livelihoods programmes in the Mazvihwa community. 2014 marked a turnaround in her career when she joined Muonde Trust to work directly with her community to support indigenous innovation. Alice has a keen interest on girls and women empowerment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/development-from-below-supporting-indigenous-innovations-and-knowledge-justice-in-mazvihwa-communal-area-zimbabwe-2/
LOCATION:Oakes College 231
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150416T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150416T194500
DTSTAMP:20260407T110541
CREATED:20150403T192520Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writer Series: Janice Lee
DESCRIPTION:The Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms\, and through a variety of media to include poetry\, fiction\, film\, graphic art\, dance\, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines multiple genres and materials\, whether textual\, sonic\, visual\, and/or embodied to explore intersections of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class in their written\, screened\, and staged performances. \nThe Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays\, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. For more information\, please email rvwilson@ucsc.edu \nJanice Lee \nis a writer\, artist\, editor\, designer\, curator\, instructor\, and scholar. She is the author of KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press\, 2010)\, Daughter (Jaded Ibis\, 2011)\, and Damnation (Penny-Ante Editions\, 2013). She also has several chapbooks\, most recently a poetic collaboration with Will Alexander\, The Transparent As Witness (Solar Luxuriance\, 2013). She is currently working on several collaborations: a critical book on Bela Tarr’s Satantango with Jared Woodland and an ekphrastic project about decapitations in films with Michael du Plessis. The Sky Isn’t Blue: The Poetics of Spaces\, a book of essays\, is forthcoming from Civil Coping Mechanisms in 2016. She is Co-Editor of [out of nothing]\, Editor of the new #RECURRENT Novel Series for Jaded Ibis Press\, Assistant Editor at Fanzine\, Executive Editor at Entropy\, and Founder/CEO of POTG Design. She currently lives in Los Angeles where she is a Co-Founder of Code Talk\, a new initiative to teach web development to low-income women\, and where she teaches Graphic Texts & Interface Culture at CalArts. She can be found online at http://janicel.com \n\n  \nSpring 2015 Living Writer Series:\nApril 16: Janice Lee\nApril 23: Terri Witek\, Jai Arun Ravine\nApril 30: Marilyn Chin\nMay 7: Jared Harvey\, Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez\, Whitney De Vos\, Nicholas James Whittington\, Eric Sneathen\nMay 14: Dawn Lundy Martin\nMay 21: Eleni Sikelianos\, Josef Sikelianos\nMay 28: Sarah Manguso\, Maggie Nelson\nJune 4: Student Reading\nJune 11: Senior Projects Reading
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writer-series-janice-lee-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:20150417T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150417T133000
DTSTAMP:20260407T110541
CREATED:20150408T212719Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Forum with Evan Grupsmith: “Revolutionary Movement: Class Based Inclusion and Exclusion in the Cultural Revolution Chuanlian Movement”
DESCRIPTION:The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities\, Social Sciences\, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. Light refreshments will be available. \nFor more info\, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year\, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com \n\n  \nSpring 2015 Schedule: \n10 April — Jess Whatcott\, Politics\n17 April — Evan Grupsmith\, History\n24 April — Rose Grose\, Social Psychology\n1 May — Kali Rubaii\, Anthropology\n8 May — Cristopher Chitty\, History of Consciousness\n15 May — Keegan Cook Finberg\, Literature\n22 May — To be confirmed\n29 May — Ann Drevno\, ENVS\n5 June — Veronika Zablotsky\, FMST \nThis event series is made possible through the generous support from the Institute for Humanities Research and the departments of Literature\, History of Consciousness\, Anthropology\, Feminist Studies\, HAVC\, Philosophy\, Joe’s Pizza and Subs\, Politics\, Psychology and Sociology as well as the GSA and GSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-evan-grupsmith-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150417T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150417T160000
DTSTAMP:20260407T110541
CREATED:20141002T190742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141002T190742Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED Linguistics Research Colloquia: Keith Johnson
DESCRIPTION:About eight times each year the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.\nMore information on the talk will be available soon. \n2014 – 2015 Speakers \nFALL 2014\nOctober 17th\nJane Grimshaw\, Rutgers \nDecember 12th\nAdam Albright\, MIT \nWINTER 2015\nJanuary 16th\nClaire Halpert\, University of Minnesota \nJanuary 23rd\nValentine Hacquard\, Maryland \nFebruary 6th\nRachel Walker\, USC \nmid-March: date TBA\nLASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz Conference \nSPRING 2015\nApril 10th\nDaniel Lassiter\, Stanford \nApril 17th – CANCELLED\nKeith Johnson\, UC Berkeley \nMay 1st\nGrant Goodall\, UC San Diego \nMay/June: date TBA\nLURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-research-colloquia-keith-johnson-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:20150419T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150419T140000
DTSTAMP:20260407T110541
CREATED:20150309T173717Z
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SUMMARY:Jewish Studies in the Digital Age
DESCRIPTION:An Interactive Panel Discussion and Presentation of Work for Faculty and Graduate Students in Jewish Studies \nFeaturing\nRachel Deblinger\nCLIR Postdoctoral Fellow and Digital Humanities Specialist\, UC Santa Cruz \nAri Y. Kelman\nChair in Education and Jewish Studies\, Stanford University \nFrancesco Spagnolo\nCurator\, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and\nLecturer\, Department of Music\, UC Berkeley \nModerated by\nNathaniel Deutsch\nCo-Director\, Center for Jewish Studies\, UC Santa Cruz \n\n  \nThe ongoing revolutions in computing power and digital technologies have opened up new modes of understanding and engagement for scholars in all fields. Enhanced computing power has already enabled the collection and analysis of large amounts of data such as pages of Talmud\, narrative themes in diverse bodies of literature\, historical events\, and various forms of quantitative data. For others\, digital tools have provided new modes of access to formerly inaccessible documents\, sites\, and other phenomena – prominent examples include the Shoah Foundation’s work to enable its twenty year history in collecting Holocaust testimonies to be searchable and accessible\, and the efforts of Jewish museums to catalogue and curate large cultural collections online. \nAs the field of Jewish Studies confronts new possibilities for scholarly research\, analysis\, and communication in the digital age\, we take up the challenge of employing digital tools to ask new questions about the Jewish past\, present\, and future and illuminate connections previously unseen or unimagined. In this event\, we seek to explore how these new methodologies and theories can direct future inquiries in Jewish Studies and ask if Jewish Studies has something unique to bring to the Digital Humanities. \nKindly register by Tuesday\, April 14.\nFree of charge. Dairy/vegetarian lunch will be served. \nRegister Now \n  \n  \nThis event is for faculty and graduate students in Jewish Studies programs.\nPlease extend an invitation to others who may also be interested in this event.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jewish-studies-in-the-digital-age-2/
LOCATION:The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150421T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150421T153000
DTSTAMP:20260407T110541
CREATED:20150413T221401Z
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SUMMARY:Ernesto Chávez: "My Dear Noël": Ramón Novarro\, Noël Sullivan\, and the Negotiation of a Catholic/Mexican/Queer Identity
DESCRIPTION:Ernesto Chávez\, Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas\, El Paso\, and Visiting Researcher at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center\, reads expressions of devout Catholicism and queer codes in the early- and mid-twentieth-century letters of silent screen actor\, Ramón Novarro\, and arts philanthropist Noël Sullivan. This free\, public lecture takes place Tuesday\, April 21\, 2015\, at 2:00pm in Humanities 1\, Room 520. \nIn this presentation\, Ernesto Chávez offers preliminary thoughts on materials pertaining to Ramón Novarro\, the Mexican-born\, gay\, silent screen actor and devout Roman Catholic. Novarro\, the subject of Professor Chávez’s current book project\, was perhaps best known for playing the title role in the 1925 version of Ben-Hur\, which propelled him to stardom. The bulk of his career occurred at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and after his stardom waned\, he continued to act in movies and television until his violent murder at the hands of a hustler in 1968. The manner of his death ensured that he was outed posthumously. Yet\, if one reads interviews with him and letters that he wrote to friends\, queer codes that deflected his homosexuality emerge. Such is the case with the 102 letters that he wrote to Bay Area arts philanthropist Noël Sullivan. The letters\, which are housed at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library\, are the basis of this talk. In these missives\, Novarro expressed his devout Catholicism to Sullivan\, who was both gay and Catholic. The letters provide insight into a platonic relationship between two gay men in the early to mid-twentieth century and allow us to glimpse an intimacy that was mitigated by religiosity\, but that nonetheless had at its core a common homosexuality. \nErnesto Chávez HeadshotErnesto Chávez\, Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas\, El Paso\, is currently a Visiting Researcher at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and Institute of American Cultures. His work intersects Chicano/a\, Latino/a\, and Borderlands History and examines the history of the American Southwest\, focusing on the matrix of race\, class\, and sexuality throughout the ethnic Mexican and Latino American past. In 2014\, he received the American Historical Association’s Equity Award. \nClick here for more info \nThe Chicano Latino Research Center is proud to cosponsor this free\, public lecture with the Departments of History and Latin American and Latino Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ernesto-chavez-my-dear-noel-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:20150422T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150422T140000
DTSTAMP:20260407T110541
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SUMMARY:T.J. Demos: "Rights of Nature: The Art and Politics of Earth Jurisprudence"
DESCRIPTION:T.J. Demos’s current work explores the intersection of visual culture\, art\, environmental and indigenous activism\, and the recent biocentric turn in law\, particularly as it relates to political ecology in the Americas. His research accompanied the preparation for Rights of Nature: Art and Ecology in the Americas\, a 2015 exhibition he co-curated at Nottingham Contemporary in the U.K. \nT.J. Demos is Professor of History in Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz. \n\nSpring 2015 Colloquium Series\n\n\nApril 8\, 2015 – Neloufer de Mel: “The ‘Perethaya’s’ Fury: Ethical Frameworks and Zones of Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka”\n\nApril 15\, 2015 – Karen de Vries: “Queer Storytelling\, Secular Religion\, and the Anthropocene Blues”\n\nApril 22\, 2015 – T.J. Demos: “Rights of Nature: The Art and Politics of Earth Jurisprudence”\n\nApril 29\, 2015 – Brian Connolly: “The Curse of Canaan: A Fantasy of Race in the Nineteenth-Century United States”\n\nMay 6\, 2015 – Joshua Dienstag: “The Human Boundary: Democracy in a Post-Species Age”\n\nMay 13\, 2015 – Megan Thomas: “Lascars\, Sepoys\, and the Traveling Labor of British Empire (Manila\, 1762-4)”\n\nMay 20\, 2015 – Jonathan Beller: “The Computational Unconscious”\n\nMay 27\, 2015 – John Modern: “Toward a Religious History of Cognitive Science”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-t-j-demos-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:20150422T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150422T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T110541
CREATED:20150320T222202Z
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SUMMARY:Fixing the Pathological Body
DESCRIPTION:The medical industry leans heavily upon a distinction between the “normal” and the “pathological.” Panelists Janette Dinishak (Assistant Professor of Philosophy\, UCSC) Kelly Ormond (Professor of Genetics\, Stanford School of Medicine) and Matthew Wolf-Meyer (Associate Professor of Anthropology\, UCSC) will discuss how and why we continue to define this distinction\, and for whom are these categories useful? What are some alternative ways to organize the lived experiences of human bodies and/or minds? \nJanette Dinishak is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her research interests include philosophy and history of psychology and psychiatry (especially autism)\, Wittgenstein\, philosophy of mind\, disability\, and ethical theory. \nKelly Ormond is a Professor of Genetics at the Stanford School of Medicine. While Ormond’s primary role is to direct the MS in Human Genetics and Genetic Counseling program\, her research focuses on the intersection between genetics and ethics\, particularly around the translation of new genetic technologies (such as genome sequencing or non-invasive prenatal diagnosis) into clinical practice. She is especially interested in patient decision making\, informed consent\, and the interface between genetics and disability. \nMatthew Wolf-Meyer is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota\, specializing in medical anthropology\, the social study of science and technology\, and neuroscience. He is author of The Slumbering Masses: Sleep\, Medicine and Modern American Life (UMN Press\, 2012)\, which focuses on sleep in American culture and its historical and contemporary relations to capitalism. His second book\, What Matters: The Politics of American Brains\, focuses on the ethical and epistemological practices in contemporary neuroscience\, cybernetics\, disability activism\, and psychoanalysis in American society. Currently he is in the early stage of a new project focused on the neurological turn to the gut as an extension of the nervous system\, the history of shit in the United States\, and the therapeutic uses of human excrement in modern medicine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fixing-the-pathological-body-2/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Room 399
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150422T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150422T190000
DTSTAMP:20260407T110541
CREATED:20150414T194208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150414T194208Z
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SUMMARY:Mark Amengual: "Living in Two Languages: Lexical Effects in Bilingual Production"
DESCRIPTION:In this talk I will present the results of an experiment that investigates voice onset times (VOTs) to determine if cognates enhance the cross-°©‐language phonetic influences in the speech production of a range of Spanish–English bilinguals: Spanish heritage speakers\, English heritage speakers\, advanced L2 Spanish learners\, and advanced L2 English learners. \nTo answer this question\, lexical items with considerable phonological\, semantic\, and orthographic overlap (cognates) and lexical items with no phonological overlap with their English translation equivalents (non-°©‐cognates) were examined. The results indicate that there is a significant effect of cognate status in the Spanish production of VOT by Spanish–English bilinguals. \nThese bilinguals produced /t/ with longer VOT values (more English-°©‐like) in the Spanish production of cognates compared to non-°©‐cognate words. It is proposed that the exemplar model of lexical representation (Bybee\, 2001; Pierrehumbert\, 2001) can be extended to include bilingual lexical connections by which cognates facilitate phonetic interference in the bilingual mental lexicon.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-in-two-languages-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:20150423
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150427
DTSTAMP:20260407T110541
CREATED:20140716T202109Z
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SUMMARY:UCSC Alumni Weekend
DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz is a place like no other. It was imagined from the minds of original thinkers—the rebels and visionaries\, artists\, scientists\, and poets who had the courage to strike off on a different path. They were in search of ideas that question norms in hopes of making the world a better place. \nNow we are celebrating 50 years of questioning authority. Stay tuned for more details. \nAlumni Weekend 2015\nApril 23-26 at UC Santa Cruz\nhttp://specialevents.ucsc.edu/alumniweekend/ \nQuestions? Contact alumni@ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-5003.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ucsc-alumni-weekend-2/
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150423T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150423T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T110541
CREATED:20150320T183033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150320T183033Z
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SUMMARY:Twitter 101 with Melissa De Witte
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Twitter 101: A Hands-on Workshop [#ucsctweets] \nThursday\, April 23 (12 – 1) at Graduate Student Commons\n\n \n\nIt’s impossible to ignore the word (and world of) Twitter. “Hashtag this” and “140-character that” is everywhere you go. You’ve probably seen people Live Tweeting at academic conferences and heard about a peer who saw exponential downloads on their latest research paper thanks to social media. \nIf you’ve hesitated to make the leap to Tweet\, now’s the time to get started. \nOn April 23rd\, join Melissa De Witte\, web presence coordinator for the Division of Social Sciences at UCSC for a Twitter 101 workshop – an interactive meetup that will talk you through the basic steps to get started and Tweeting away. \nBring your laptop for this hands-on event where you will leave with your own Twitter account\, a few new followers\, and all the ideas you need to start Tweeting. \nMelissa will walk you through things like: \n\nChoosing the right username\nCreating your account\nWriting a Bio\nWhat to Tweet\nWho to Follow\n\nAttendee Information: \n– PLEASE BRING A LAPTOP as this is a hands-on event. Don’t have a laptop? UCSC students\, staff and faculty can borrow one from the University Library:\nhttp://library.ucsc.edu/computing/borrow-a-laptop \n– PLEASE also take a moment to review Melissa’s previous Digital Humanities talk about the importance of building an online presence:\nhttp://www.slideshare.net/melissadewitte/building-a-better-online-identi... \n– Start early and share your excitement using #ucsctweets. \n\n\n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/twitter-101-with-melissa-de-witte-2/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150423T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150423T194500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Terri Witek\, Jai Arun Ravine
DESCRIPTION:The Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms\, and through a variety of media to include poetry\, fiction\, film\, graphic art\, dance\, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines multiple genres and materials\, whether textual\, sonic\, visual\, and/or embodied to explore intersections of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class in their written\, screened\, and staged performances. \nThe Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays\, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. For more information\, please email rvwilson@ucsc.edu \nTerri Witek \nis the author of Exit Island\, The Shipwreck Dress (both Florida Book Award medalists) \, Carnal World \, Fools and Crows\, Courting Couples(Winner of the 2000 Center for Book Arts Contest)\, First Shot at Fort Sumter/ Possum (a poetry/comics chapzine) and Robert Lowell and LIFE STUDIES:Revising the Self . A new chapbook\, On Gavdos Ferry\, and a new book of poems\, Body Swap are forthcoming. \nHer poems have appeared in American Poetry Review\, Slate\, Poetry\, Threepenny Review\, Hudson Review\, and many other journals and anthologies\, including Best of Poetry Daily 2007 and Old Flames–10 years of 32 Poems (2013). She has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell\, The Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers\, The Blue Flower Arts/ Atlantic Center for the Arts\, Sewanee\, and the state of Florida. A professor of English at Stetson University\, where she directs the creative writing program\, her summer faculty positions have included the Prague Summer Literary Program\, the West Chester Poetry Conference\, Poetry by the Sea\, and the DisQuiet International program in Lisbon\, where she and Cyriaco Lopes run “The Fernando Pessoa Game.” They will be core faculty in Poetry in an Expanded Field in Stetson University’s new low-residency MFA program. She can be found online at: http://terriwitek.com \nJai Arun Ravine \nThey are a writer\, dancer and graphic designer. They are the author of แล้ว AND THEN ENTWINE: LESSON PLANS\, POEMS\, KNOTS; IS THIS JANUARY; THE SPIDERBOI FILES; and the director of the short film TOM/TRANS/THAI\, which has screened in Bangkok\, Berlin\, Los Angeles and San Francisco\, among others. They hold an MFA in Writing & Poetics from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School. Creative and critical writing appears most recently in Transgender Studies Quarterly\, Tarpaulin Sky Literary Journal\, Eleven Eleven\, EOAGH and TENDE RLOIN. A recipient of fellowships from ComPeung\, Djerassi and Kundiman\, they are a former Staff Writer for Lantern Review. They can be found online at: http://jaiarunravine.com/ \n\n  \nSpring 2015 Living Writer Series:\nApril 16: Janice Lee\nApril 23: Terri Witek\, Jai Arun Ravine\nApril 30: Marilyn Chin\nMay 7: Jared Harvey\, Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez\, Whitney De Vos\, Nicholas James Whittington\, Eric Sneathen\nMay 14: Dawn Lundy Martin\nMay 21: Eleni Sikelianos\, Josef Sikelianos\nMay 28: Sarah Manguso\, Maggie Nelson\nJune 4: Student Reading\nJune 11: Senior Projects Reading
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-terri-witek-jai-arun-ravine-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Friday Forum with Rose Grose: “A Sexual Empowerment Process for Heterosexual and Sexual Minority Women”
DESCRIPTION:The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities\, Social Sciences\, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. Light refreshments will be available. \nFor more info\, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year\, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com \n\n  \nSpring 2015 Schedule: \n10 April — Jess Whatcott\, Politics\, “Abolition Feminism Against Eugenics in California Prisons” \n17 April — Evan Grupsmith\, History\, “Revolutionary Movement: Class Based Inclusion and Exclusion in the Cultural Revolution Chuanlian Movement” \n24 April — Rose Grose\, Social Psychology\, “A Sexual Empowerment Process for Heterosexual and Sexual Minority Women” \n1 May — Kali Rubaii\, Anthropology\, “Writing the Future with a Cement Pen: How to Concretize Displacement” \n8 May — Cristopher Chitty\, History of Consciousness\, “Scandals of Appetite: Machiavelli\, Sodomy and the Fall of the Florentine Republic” \n15 May — Keegan Cook Finberg\, Literature\, “Reading Poetry of the 1960s: The Fluxus Event Score as Multimedia Encounter” \n22 May — Muiris Macgiollabhui\, History\, “Carrying The Green Bough: An Atlantic History of the United Irishmen\, 1791-1830″ \n29 May — Ann Drevno\, ENVS\, “Unintended Consequences of Regulatory Spotlighting Pesticides: The Case of California’s Central Coast Agricultural Waiver program” \n5 June — Veronika Zablotsky\, FMST\, “On the Question of Socialist Governmentality: Being Interested in Early Soviet Armenia” \nThis event series is made possible through the generous support from the Institute for Humanities Research and the departments of Literature\, History of Consciousness\, Anthropology\, Feminist Studies\, HAVC\, Philosophy\, Joe’s Pizza and Subs\, Politics\, Psychology and Sociology as well as the GSA and GSC
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-rose-grose-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:11th Annual Graduate Research Symposium
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]The Graduate Research Symposium highlights the innovative research being conducted by graduate students in our thirty-eight programs across five academic divisions. \nIt celebrates the scholarly\, creative\, social and commercial impact they make within California and around the world! \nIn addition to graduate students presenting their research to a general audience\, graduate alumni selected by the Division of Graduate Studies will serve as Symposium judges\, and graduate symposium alumni researchers noteworthy contributions will be highlighted. Join us at the Symposium to view presentations and discuss students’ research. \nFor more information\, visit event page![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/11th-annual-graduate-research-symposium-2/
LOCATION:McHenry Library\, UCSC
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150425T130000
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SUMMARY:Celebrating 50 Years of Literature
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] \nIn order to celebrate our tradition of working and teaching across national\, linguistic\, and disciplinary divides\, the UCSC Literature Department is pleased host 50 Years of Literature at UCSC\, an event commemorating the achievement of Literature alumni and faculty. This special anniversary event will feature discussions with emeritus and current faculty\, and UCSC alumni. It will take place at beautiful Kresge College\, a perfect venue for lively\, engaging conversation. Join us for conviviality and lunch with friends and faculty! \n* \nSchedule of the Day’s Events \nWelcome: Professor Carla Freccero\, Literature Department Chair \nPanel One: Literature at UCSC: Then and Now: with Professor Emeritus Harry Berger\, Jr.\, and Professors Vilashini Cooppan and H. Marshall (Marsh) Leicester\, Jr. \nPanel Two: The Literature Difference: A Student-Faculty Dialogue\, with Professor and UCSC alumna Karen Bassi\, Professor Susan Gillman\, and Alumnus Stephen Richter \nReception and Light Lunch: Alumni\, Literature faculty and staff \n  \nFor more information\, visit event page!\nQuestions? Contact Stephanie Casher\, Literature Department Manager.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/20877-2/
LOCATION:Kresge College Room 327
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150425T153000
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SUMMARY:Tales as Tall as the Redwoods: Reflections on UCSC's Founding Years
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] \nTo commemorate UC Santa Cruz’s 50th Anniversary\, the Department of History has invited a few distinguished faculty emeriti and alumni to share stories about their experiences at UC Santa Cruz during its early years. This is a rare opportunity to hear the oral histories of the individuals who helped shape the future of our beloved campus. Our engaging list of panelists includes: \n  \nPeter Kenez (Professor Emeritus)\nMultiple generations of UC Santa Cruz students recognize the name Peter Kenez. A Ph.D. graduate from Harvard University and celebrating 50 years on campus in 2016\, it is not uncommon for students ask\, “Does Peter Kenez still teach history here? My dad was a student of his!” A wonderful opportunity to hear the wisdom of a much beloved pioneer. \nDavid Thomas (Professor Emeritus)\nDavid Thomas was a professor of politics at UCSC from 1966 to 1999. From 1980\, he taught a course\, whose final title was “Sexual Politics: Queer Politics.” The course was a major contribution to queer life at UCSC and was one of the first of its kind in the United States. A true trailblazer in his field and one we welcome home for Alumni Weekend. \nGregg Herken (Stevenson ’69)\nGregg Herken is a distinguished UC Santa Cruz alumnus and Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California. He taught at Oberlin College and Yale before becoming a Founding Faculty member at UC Merced. He is the author of five books and was a finalist for the 2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History. \nLinda Peterson (Stevenson ’70)\nLinda Peterson currently serves as a UC Santa Cruz Foundation Trustee and Associate General Counsel at Occidental Petroleum. Her distinguished career includes tenures as Director of the The Mary Magdalene Project\, President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals\, and founding member of the Board of Directors of Theater By The Blind (now theater Breaking Through Barriers)\, a New York City-based theater company that works with the disabled. \nGail Hershatter – Moderator\nGail Hershatter is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she has taught since 1991. Her books include The Workers of Tianjin\, 1900-1949 (1986)\, Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980s (with Emily Honig\, 1988)\, Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (1997)\, Women in China’s Long Twentieth Century (2007)\, and The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past (2011). She chaired the History Department from 2010-2013 and is a former President of the Association for Asian Studies (2011-2012). \nAdmission details: Registration Required![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tales-as-tall-as-the-redwoods-reflections-on-ucscs-founding-years-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150425T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150425T160000
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SUMMARY:Teach In: Bettina Aptheker
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Be a student again for an afternoon! Attend a lecture entitled “Feminism & Social Justice” from faculty professor of feminist studies Bettina Aptheker. \nJoin fellow alums for a lively look at current movements in social justice and the ways in which gender\, race\, class\, and sexuality interconnect with each other. \nFrom birth matters to thinking about prisons\, from queer stakes to transgender identities\, from immigrant lives to environmental justice in scores of communities across the country\, these issues animate and agitate. Join in debate\, dialogue and discussion. \nFor more information\, visit event page!\nQuestions? Contact Samantha Li\, Regional Program Assistant\, University Relations.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/teach-in-bettina-aptheker-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150429T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150429T140000
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SUMMARY:Brian Connolly "The Curse of Canaan: A Fantasy of Race in the Nineteenth-Century United States"
DESCRIPTION:Brian Connolly is currently working on two book projects.  The first\, Sacred Kin: Sovereignty\, Kinship\, and Religion in the Nineteenth-Century United States\, excavates the relationship between national sovereignty and religion. The second project\, Against the Human\, is a genealogy of the human as a category of emancipation. \nBrian Connolly is an Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida in the School of Social Science – Institute for Advanced Study\, as well as Princeton University. \n\nSpring 2015 Colloquium Series\n\n\nApril 8\, 2015 – Neloufer de Mel: “The ‘Perethaya’s’ Fury: Ethical Frameworks and Zones of Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka”\n\nApril 15\, 2015 – Karen de Vries: “Queer Storytelling\, Secular Religion\, and the Anthropocene Blues”\n\nApril 22\, 2015 – T.J. Demos: “Rights of Nature: The Art and Politics of Earth Jurisprudence”\n\nApril 29\, 2015 – Brian Connolly: “The Curse of Canaan: A Fantasy of Race in the Nineteenth-Century United States”\n\nMay 6\, 2015 – Joshua Dienstag: “The Human Boundary: Democracy in a Post-Species Age”\n\nMay 13\, 2015 – Megan Thomas: “Lascars\, Sepoys\, and the Traveling Labor of British Empire (Manila\, 1762-4)”\n\nMay 20\, 2015 – Jonathan Beller: “The Computational Unconscious”\n\nMay 27\, 2015 – John Modern: “Toward a Religious History of Cognitive Science”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/brian-connolly-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:20150429T170000
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SUMMARY:Transcultural Interpretation and the Production of Alterity: Photography\, Materiality\, and Mediation in the Making of "African Art"
DESCRIPTION:Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie (Ph.D. Northwestern University\, 2000) is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture of Global Africa at the University of California Santa Barbara. He is the author of Ben Enwonwu: The Making of an African Modernist (University of Rochester Press\, 2008: winner of the 2009 Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association for best scholarly publication in African studies)\, Making History: The Femi Akinsanya African Art Collection (Milan: 5 Continents Editions\, 2011)\, and editor of Artists of Nigeria (Milan: 5 Continents Editions\, 2012). Ogbechie is also the founder and editor of Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture. He organized and coordinated the First International Nollywood Convention and Symposium (Los Angeles\, June 2005) and subsequently founded in 2006 the Nollywood Foundation\, which produced annual African film conventions in Los Angeles. Ogbechie has received prestigious fellowships\, grants and awards for his research from the American Academy in Berlin\, Getty Research Institute\, Rockefeller Foundation\, Institute for International Education\, Smithsonian Institution and the Ford Foundation. His current research focuses on the role of cultural informatics and new media in analysis of the art and cultural patrimony of Africa and its Diaspora in the age of globalization. \nRefreshments will be available before the talk.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/transcultural-interpretation-and-the-production-of-alterity-photography-materiality-and-mediation-in-the-making-of-african-art-2/
LOCATION:Porter College\, Room D245
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SUMMARY:Digital Humanities Working Group/Digital Pedagogy
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 29 (5 – 7 PM) at FITC (McHenry 1350) \nDigital Humanities Working Group/Digital Pedagogy \nCo-sponsored by the Graduate Student Commons\, Learning Technologies\, and FITC \nFaculty from across the university will offer lightning talks about new assignments and classroom strategies that integrate technologies into their pedagogy. Join the Digital Pedagogy group for a broad introduction to innovative learning possibilities. \n  \nThe Lightning Round will include short presentations & an expanded discussion by: \nBen Leeds Carson (Music): Permissions for online instruction \nAlan Christy (History): Annotation as a Class Project \nJenny Lynn (Classical Studies): Online quizzes for language instruction \nKristin Miller (Sociology): Social Explorer for working with Statistics \nErin Todd (Earth & Planetary Sciences): Using Google Earth for scientific learning \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-humanities-working-groupdigital-pedagogy-2/
LOCATION:McHenry Library\, Room 1350
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150430T174500
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SUMMARY:Shelly Wilcox: "Immigration Justice in Nonideal Circumstances"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nIn recent years\, political philosophers have begun to interrogate the methodology they use to construct normative principles. Some have voiced the concern that prevailing liberal egalitarian principles are constructed under idealized assumptions and thus are ill-suited to real-world circumstances where such assumptions do not apply. Specifically\, critics have raised three related objections to so-called ideal theory: (1) ideal theory cannot help us understand current injustices in the actual\, nonideal world; (2) ideal principles are not sufficiently action-guiding; and (3) ideal theory is counterproductive or even dangerous because it tends to reflect and perpetuate illicit group privilege. \nThis paper explores recent work on the ethics of immigration in light of these methodological criticisms\, focusing on the open borders debate. The central question in this debate is whether liberal states have a moral right to restrict immigration. I argue that prominent arguments on both sides of this issue are subject to the standard criticisms of ideal theory\, and thus that a nonideal normative approach to immigration in urgently needed. I then develop several methodological desiderata for such an approach and draw upon these criteria to outline the broad contours of an adequate nonideal theory of justice in immigration. \n*** \nBiography: \nShelley Wilcox is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. She works in the areas of social and political philosophy\, feminist philosophy\, and applied ethics\, with a special interest in immigration\, global justice\, and urban environmental issues. She has published articles on the ethics of immigration and globalization in Philosophical Studies\, Social Theory and Practice\, Journal of Social Philosophy\, Philosophy Compass\, and The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy\, as well as in numerous anthologies. She is currently working on a book manuscript on urban environmental ethics and serving as Book Review Editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. \n  \n\n  \nThe campus community and interested public are welcome at all Philosophy Department sponsored colloquia\, conferences and workshops. \nSpring 2015 \n\nShelly Wilcox\, San Francisco State\n\nWinter 2015 \n\nRebecca Kukla\, Georgetown\nFelipe De Brigard\, Duke\n\nFall 2014 \n\nEric Schwitzgebel\, UC Riverside: The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors\n\n  \nMore info at: http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia-conferences/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/shelley-wilcox-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Marilyn Chin
DESCRIPTION:The Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms\, and through a variety of media to include poetry\, fiction\, film\, graphic art\, dance\, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines multiple genres and materials\, whether textual\, sonic\, visual\, and/or embodied to explore intersections of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class in their written\, screened\, and staged performances. \nThe Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays\, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. For more information\, please email rvwilson@ucsc.edu \nMarilyn Chin \nis an award-winning poet and the author of Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen\, Rhapsody in Plain Yellow\, The Phoenix Gone\, the Terrace Empty and Dwarf Bamboo. Her writing has appeared in The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. \nShe was born in Hong Kong and raised in Portland\, Oregon. Her books have become Asian American classics and are taught in classrooms internationally. Marilyn Chin has read her poetry at the Library of Congress. She was interviewed by Bill Moyers’ and featured in his PBS series The Language of Lifeand in PBS Poetry Everywhere. She can be found online at: http://www.marilynchin.org/ \n\n  \nSpring 2015 Living Writer Series:\nApril 16: Janice Lee\nApril 23: Terri Witek\, Jai Arun Ravine\nApril 30: Marilyn Chin\nMay 7: Jared Harvey\, Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez\, Whitney De Vos\, Nicholas James Whittington\, Eric Sneathen\nMay 14: Dawn Lundy Martin\nMay 21: Eleni Sikelianos\, Josef Sikelianos\nMay 28: Sarah Manguso\, Maggie Nelson\nJune 4: Student Reading\nJune 11: Senior Projects Reading
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-marilyn-chin-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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