BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20140309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20141102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150501T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150501T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150420T175403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150420T175403Z UID:10006102-1430472600-1430499600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Counteractions: A Symposium of Creative & Critical Inquiries DESCRIPTION:  \nFeaturing papers by: James Beneda\, Whitney DeVos\, Ariane Helou\, Katie Lally\, Kenan Sharpe\, Eric Sneathen\, & Melissa Yinger\nRoundtable conversations from: Christopher Chen\, Kendra Dority\, Johanna Isaacson\, Kyle Lane-McKinley\, Brian Malone\, Tsering Wangmo\, Tim Willcutts\, & others. \n\n  \nSymposium at UCSC \n9:30 a.m.: Breakfast \n10:00 a.m.: Welcome & Opening Remarks \n10:15 a.m.: Panel 1\nModerator: Johanna Isaacson\nPanelists: Katie Lally\, Kenan Sharpe\, Eric Sneathen\, Melissa Yinger \n12 noon: Lunch break (join us at Friday Forum\, in room 202) \n1:30 p.m.: Panel 2\nModerator: Tim Willcutts\nPanelists: James Beneda\, Whitney De Vos\, Ariane Helou \n3:00 p.m.: Break (coffee and tea served) \n3:30 p.m.: Roundtable Discussion\nParticipants: Chris Chen\, Kendra Dority\, Kyle Lane-McKinley\, Brian Malone\, Tsering Wangmo\, Tim Willcutts\, and others. \n5:00 p.m.: Conference Ends; please join us for informal drinks and dinner (location TBA) \nFor more information\, please visit: http://www.ucscpoetrypolitics.com/upcoming-events.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/counteractions-a-symposium-of-creative-critical-inquiries-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150501T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150501T133000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150422T195107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150422T195107Z UID:10006106-1430481600-1430487000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum with Kali Rubaii: “Writing the Future with a Cement Pen: How to Concretize Displacement” 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-kali-rubaii-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150501T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150501T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20141002T190953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141002T190953Z UID:10005835-1430488800-1430496000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Research Colloquia: Grant Goodall DESCRIPTION:Grant Goodall: “Grammar and working memory: How experimental syntax can help us tell the difference” \nThe use of formal experiments to measure sentence acceptability\, known as “experimental syntax”\, is able to capture many fine-grained grammatical contrasts\, but it also captures effects that have long been thought to be extra-grammatical\, such as those induced by increased cost to working memory. This ambiguity in the source of acceptability is a problem in some ways\, but experimental syntax itself gives us some useful tools to address it. I show this through a series of case studies of constraints on wh-dependencies\, including the role of intervening arguments\, finiteness\, D-linking\, and islands. These cases suggest that grammatical and working memory constraints can be usefully distinguished\, with the former sensitive to intervening hierarchical structure and the latter sensitive to intervening referents. \n  \n\n  \nAbout eight times each year the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nMore information at: http://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html \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\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-grant-goodall-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150502T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150502T143000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150324T170200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150324T170200Z UID:10006066-1430571600-1430577000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Book-to-Action | The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness DESCRIPTION:Author Michelle Alexander helped initiate a national movement with her best selling book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. This month\, Santa Cruz Public Libraries sponsors Book-to-Action\, a month-long series of events fostering community dialog and civic engagement. \nEvent Dates and Information: \n  \nFriday April 3 | 6:30pm | Prison USA \nResource Center for Nonviolence | 612 Ocean St \nFriday April 10 | 6pm | Film \nInner Light Center | 5630 Soquel Dr. \nWednesday April 29 | 6pm | Tour of SC County Jail \nTake a tour of our local jail | Please pre-register \nSaturday May 2 | 1pm | Resource Fair & Round Table \nDowntown SC Library | 224 Church  St. \n  \n*Book Circles \nApril 12 | 2pm | SC Library 224 Church St. \nApril 21 | 6pm | Aptos Library 7695 Soquel Dr. \nApril 25 | 4pm | Live Oak Family Resource Center 1740 17th Ave. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-to-action-4-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Public Library – Downtown Branch\, 224 Church Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150504T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150504T133000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150420T154101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150420T154101Z UID:10006092-1430740800-1430746200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sanchita Saxena: "Made in Bangladesh\, Cambodia\, and Sri Lanka: The Labor Behind the Global Garments and Textiles Industries" DESCRIPTION:Join Sanchita Saxena as she discusses her new book\, Made in Bangladesh\, Cambodia\, and Sri Lanka: The Labor Behind the Global Garments and Textiles Industries\, which earned rave reviews from leading experts. It is essential reading for students and researchers in policy studies\, labor studies\, South and Southeast Asian studies\, international trade\, and political science\, as well as those engaged in program design and evaluation of projects focused on labor rights. This study is critical for non-governmental organizations with a thematic focus on the garments and textiles industry\, labor rights\, human rights\, and international trade policy\, as well as for private sector organizations focused on improving labor conditions around the world. \nPrior to joining the Institute for South Asia Studies (ISAS) at UC Berkeley\, Sanchita Banerjee Saxena was the assistant director of Economic Programs at the Asia Foundation\, where she coauthored The Phase-Out of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement: Policy Options and Opportunities for Asia\, served as a consultant to the Asia Foundation on various economic projects\, and was a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. Saxena holds a PhD in political science from UCLA. \nCo-Sponsored by the Anthropology and Economics Departments along with the Center for Labor Studies and the Interdisciplinary Development Working Group URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sanchita-saxena-made-in-bangladesh-cambodia-and-sri-lanka-2/ LOCATION:College 8\, Room 201 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150506T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150506T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150319T224758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150319T224758Z UID:10006039-1430914500-1430920800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Joshua Dienstag "The Human Boundary: Democracy in a Post-Species Age" DESCRIPTION:Joshua Dienstag is the author of Pessimism: Philosophy\, Ethic\, Spirit and many books and articles on the history of political thought\, film\, literature and democratic theory.  He is currently working on a project entitled The Animal Condition: A Political Theory of Human Citizenship. \nJoshua Dienstag is a Professor of Political Science and Law at UCLA; as well as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford 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/joshua-dienstag-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150506T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150506T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150504T173317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150504T173317Z UID:10005099-1430928000-1430935200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Pattern Recognition\, c. 1947 DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this week’s VMCC event\, Pamela M. Lee will be delivering her talk\, entitled “Pattern Recognition\, c. 1947.” This is the final event of the colloquia’s 2014-2015 season. Refreshments will be provided before the talk. \nPamela M. Lee is professor of Art History at Stanford University. Lee received her B.A from Yale University and her Ph.D in the Department of Fine Arts from Harvard University. She also studied at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Her area is the art\, theory and criticism of late modernism and contemporary art. Among other journals\, her work has appeared in October\, Artforum\, Assemblage\, Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics\, Les Cahiers du Musee national d’arte moderne\, Grey Room\, Parkett and Texte zur Kunst. Lee has published four books in addition to journal articles\, reviews and catalogue essays. Three books have appeared with the MIT Press: Object to be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark (Cambridge: The MIT Press\, 2000); Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s (Cambridge: The MIT Press\, 2004) and Forgetting the Art World (Cambridge: The MIT Press\, 2012) Another book New Games: Postmodernism after Contemporary Art was published by Routledge in 2012. Lee is currently working on a book called *Think Tank Aesthetics: Mid-Century Modernism\, The Cold War and the Rise of Visual Culture*. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pattern-recognition-c-1947-2/ LOCATION:Porter College\, Room D245 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150506T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150506T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150313T220846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150313T220846Z UID:10006029-1430931600-1430938800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Patrick Murray-John\, “Latent Data: How\, Where\, And Why (Digital) Humanists Discover Data Hidden In Plain Sight” DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Murray-John will argue that data and the humanities have long held a close and fruitful interrelationship. Data in humanities research is not new; it is the capacity of new technology to do more with data that creates a sense of difference\, possibility\, and even anxiety. This talk will begin by looking at centuries-old treatment of data in the humanities\, and explore how humanists are rediscovering the data in their corporations. \n\nDr. Patrick Murray-John is a Research Assistant Professor and Omeka Developer Manager at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. He has a B.S. in Mathematics from Iowa State University\, and an M.A. in English Literature and Ph.D. in Anglo-Saxon Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Besides helping to develop Omeka\, he uses it and other tools to experiment with making data part of public humanities projects. A recent project of his\, the US Museums Explorer\, an Omeka site built on data released by the Institute for Museum and Library Services\, was recently cited as an example of using open data in the Center For the Future of Museums’ “Trends Watch 2015”. \nThis event is targeted to tool developers\, researchers\, librarians\, archivists\, instructors\, and graduate students from across the UC system. The event is open to all interested and will be especially of interest to those already working in Omeka to develop digital asset libraries\, curate research material\, teach visual arts\, or cultivate digital literacies. \n  \n\nEVENT PHOTOS:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/patrick-murray-john-latent-data-how-where-and-why-digital-humanists-discover-data-hidden-in-plain-sight-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150507T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150507T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150313T221041Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150313T221041Z UID:10006030-1430991000-1431014400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Working with Omeka: Building a Community of Users DESCRIPTION:Join us for an all day symposium about using Omeka across the university and imagining the future of Digital Exhibit Building at the University of California. \nCalling all scholars\, museum professionals\, librarians\, archivists\, researchers and educators. Learn how to use Omeka to share your research or collections with the world\, build online exhibits\, display documents and oral histories\, or create digital archives. Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind\, allowing users to focus on content and to foster user interaction and participation. \nJoin us to explore the possibilities of using Omeka across the university and imagining the future of digital exhibit building at the University of California. Through presentations and directed conversations\, this day-long symposium will yield inspiration for teaching\, research\, publishing\, and future development. \nThe symposium will feature a keynote address\, “How can you tailor your Omeka site\, and Why?” by Patrick Murray-John\, Research Assistant Professor and Omeka Developer Manager at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. \nThis event is targeted to tool developers\, researchers\, librarians\, archivists\, instructors\, and graduate students from across the UC system. The event is open to all interested and will be especially of interest to those already working in Omeka to develop digital asset libraries\, curate research material\, teach visual arts\, or cultivate digital literacies. \nRegistration is required. For more details and registration information\, visit: http://library.ucsc.edu/workingwithomeka \nFollow the conversation at @DH_UCSC and #omekaUCSC. \n\n  \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/omeka-symposium-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150507T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150507T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150414T231249Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150414T231249Z UID:10006075-1431007200-1431018000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:History Department Undergraduate Research Symposium DESCRIPTION:The History Department Undergraduate Research Symposium is an annual event held each spring that recognizes the exceptional research being conducted by UC Santa Cruz history undergraduates. The symposium provides undergraduate students with a unique opportunity to share their research with a larger audience\, as well as provides a forum for students\, faculty\, and the university community to engage in scholarly discussion. In addition\, a UCSC history alumnus is invited each year to deliver a keynote address aimed at undergraduate research. \nThe 8th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium will be held on Thursday\, May 7th\, 2015\, 2-5 pm\, in the Wagstaff Fireside Lounge at Stevenson College. The event is free and open to the public. \n2015 Keynote Speaker – Eryn Brennan\, Urban Planner/Architectural Historian at AKRF\, Inc. Class of 2000. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/history-department-undergraduate-research-symposium-2-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150507T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150507T194500 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150403T200136Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150403T200136Z UID:10005074-1431021600-1431027900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Jared Harvey\, Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez\, Whitney De Vos\, Nicholas James Whittington\, Eric Sneathen 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 \nJared Harvey \nis a an author of several chapbooks\, including Commuting: Have Gone to Ithaca. – Frank Quitely\, Hosni Mubarak\, Mammal\, and his most recent chapbook Here You Are (co-authored with Sara Peck. His poetry has been featured at Ohio Edit and Spork Press. He is currently a Graduate Student and Creative Writing Instructor at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He can be found online at his tumblr page: http://jaredjosephharvey.tumblr.com/ \nGabriela Ramirez-Chavez \nis a Guatemalan-American poet originally from Los Angeles\, California. Gaby’s work has appeared in Plath Profiles\, Kweli\, and The Acentos Review. She received her BA in English Literature and Creative Writing from California State University\, Long Beach\, where she pursued her research on the poetry of Sylvia Plath and S.T. Coleridge. Her graduate research at UCSC is focused on literature by Central Americans and US Central Americans about the state violence and forced disappearances in the isthmus in the 1970s and 1980s\, and the ongoing struggle for justice. She can be found online at: https://gabrielaramirez.wordpress.com/ \nWhitney De Vos \nhas been recognized for her poetry with numerous honors\, and is a PhD student at UC Santa Cruz concentrating on 20th and 21st century American poetry\, poetics\, and politics. As part of an innovative alt-ac pilot program in collaboration with UCSC’s Graduate Division Dean\, Whitney interned at UCHRI during August and September 2014\, working on program development\, research activities\, and scholarly communications for the institute. She can be found online at: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/whitney-devos/69/566/635 \nNicholas James Whittington \nwas born and raised in the City of San Francisco. His poems have appeared in Ambush Review\, Beatitude\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, Big Bell\, Dusie\, Felucca\, Flying Fish\, Greetings\, HamsterRad\, Illuminations\, Marginalia\, Oxalis\, Ping Pong\, Poems by Sunday\, and Polis: Este Jardin\, as well as in the chapbooks SLOUGH and SCORIA. He is currently a PhD student at UCSC and the editor at AMERARCANA: The Bird & Beckett Review\, a serial publication of poetry\, creative & critical prose\, other words & works of art. He can be found online at: https://amerarcana.wordpress.com/ \nEric Sneathen \nlives in Santa Cruz\, California\, where he is studying for his PhD in Literature. His reviews have been published by Small Press Distribution and Tripwire\, and his poetry has been published by Mondo Bummer\, The Equalizer\, and Faggot Journal. He can be found online at: http://literature.ucsc.edu/faculty/singleton.php?inc_graduate=true&inc_faculty=true&singleton=true&cruz_id=esneathe \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-jared-harvey-gabriela-ramirez-chavez-whitney-de-vos-nicholas-james-whittington-eric-sneathen-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150507T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150507T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150420T155403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150420T155403Z UID:10006094-1431025200-1431032400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Working for Dignity: The Santa Cruz County Low-Wage Worker Study\, Photo Exhibit\, and Community Dialog DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 7\, 2015 • 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.\nMuseum of Art and History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\nFree Public Event\n \nThis campus-community event will showcase the findings of a year-long research and multi-media project on workers and working conditions in low-wage jobs in Santa Cruz County. We will unveil a new public digital exhibit and website featuring stories told by local workers\, as well as the results of the large-scale survey and interview project carried out by UC Santa Cruz students. Workers and students will also share their stories and art work. The event will conclude with an open community dialog on issues facing low-wage workers in our County and possible steps forward. \nSponsored by the UCSC Center for Labor Studies\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, Everett Program\, Institute for Humanities Research\, Division of Social Sciences\, UC Humanities Research Institute\, California Rural Legal Assistance\, Santa Cruz Day Worker Center\, and the Museum of Art and History. \nRefreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public. \nFor more information click here or contact Alina Fernandez (aifernan@ucsc.edu) and Steve McKay (smckay@ucsc.edu)\n  \n\n  \nTrabajando para la Dignidad\nUn Estudio de Trabajadores de Bajos Ingresos del Condado de Santa Cruz\nLanzamiento de una página de internet\, exhibición de fotografía\, y una discusión entre la comunidád\n  \nJueves\, 7 de Mayo 2015\nGRATIS\nabierto al publico\n  \nEste evento de la escuela y la comunidád va exhibir resultados y multimedia de un estudio de un año. El estudio demuestra los resultados de una investigación estudiando los trabajadores de bajos ingresos y sus condiciones de trabajo en el condado de Santa Cruz. Vamos a mostrar una nueva exhibición pública y una página de internet con la presentación incluyendo cuentos digitales contado por los trabajadores locales. También vamos a revelar los resultados de la encuesta y las entrevistas elaboradas por estudiantes de UCSC y California Rural Legal Assistance\, Inc. Trabajadores e estudiantes también van a compartir sus cuentos\, testimonios\, y su arte. El evento va a concluir con una discusión comunitaria sobre los problemas que los trabajadores de bajos ingresos enfrentan en nuestro condado. Finalmente el evento va a concluir con una discusión sobre estos desafíos y algunas recomendaciones para el futuro. \nApoyado por el UCSC Center for Labor Studies\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, Everett Program\, Institute for Humanities Research\, Division of Social Sciences\, UC Humanities Research Institute\, California Rural Legal Assistance\, Santa Cruz Day Worker Center\, Museum of Art and History. \nPara mas información\, por favor contacten a Alina Fernandez (aifernan@ucsc.edu) o Steve McKay (smckay@ucsc.edu) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/working-for-dignity-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150508T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150508T141500 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150424T163134Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150424T163134Z UID:10006122-1431086400-1431094500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:In Loving Memory of Christopher Chitty DESCRIPTION:In Loving Memory of Chris Chitty: We mourn the loss of a friend and vibrant member of our academic community. However\, his work is not lost and will continue to act on this world. We would like to invite everyone to join us for a reading and celebration of Chris’s academic writing in place of the presentation that he would have given on this day. This is an invitation to get to know Chris through his work or get to know him better. Everyone should feel welcome and encouraged to attend. There will be light refreshments and space for discussion after the readings.\n  \nThe 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 — In Loving Memory of Christopher Chitty\, History of Consciousness \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-with-cristopher-chitty-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150511T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150511T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150427T170156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150427T170156Z UID:10006126-1431345600-1431352800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Diasporic Religious Identity in Emerging Adulthood: The Case of British Sikhs DESCRIPTION:Diasporic Religious Identity in Emerging Adulthood: The Case of British Sikhs \nThis talk examines processes of religious transmission among members of minority diasporic religious communities\, with a focus on British Sikhs. Using ethnographic methods including the first ever large scale online survey of British Sikhs\, this paper explores the shift which has occurred for many young South Asians in Diaspora who now identify more closely with a religious as opposed to an ethnic identity. Focusing on a number of different arenas of religious transmission including families\, religious institutions and the internet\, this paper examines how processes of religious socialisation and familial nurture impact on identity\, in particular among young people entering the phase of ‘Emerging Adulthood’ (Arnett 2004). \nDr Jasjit Singh is a research fellow at the University of Leeds based in the School of Philosophy\, Religion and the History of Science. His research examines the religious lives of South Asians with a particular focus on understanding processes of religious and cultural transmission among Sikhs in diaspora and the different arenas in which this transmission occurs. To date he has examined the relationship between traditional arenas of religious learning (including the family environment and religious institutions) and newer arenas of transmission including camps\, University faith societies and the Internet. He has recently undertaken a project examining the cultural value of South Asian arts and has a growing interest in the role of religious media. \n\n  \nPHOTOS: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jasjit-singh-tbd-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150511T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150511T133000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150403T171751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150403T171751Z UID:10006070-1431346500-1431351000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Digital Humanities Working Group / Work-in-Progress Conversation Aesthetics: Imagining Histories of Modern Lebanon\, Fabiola Hanna DESCRIPTION:Hanna will present her recent work\, We are History: A People’s History of Lebanon\, a digital interface that collects varied oral histories of a people and presents them in a disruptive but dialogical manner. Using contemporary oral histories about the 1981 siege of Zahle\, Lebanon\, the software is given the goal of generating a narrative from the transcripts of said oral histories. \nLearn more online at http://fabiolahanna.com/weAreHistory.html \nFabiola Hanna is a new media artist\, software designer and activist currently using her skills to address historical amnesia in Lebanon. She is a PhD candidate at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she also gained her MFA in Digital Arts and New Media. Her research lies in software studies\, new media art activism\, and archives and memory. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz\, the New Children’s Museum in San Diego\, the SubZero Festival in San Jose\, the Digital Arts Research Center in Santa Cruz and the MakerFaire in San Mateo. \nEvent co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Commons. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-humanities-working-groupwork-in-progress-fabiola-hanna-we-are-history-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150511T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150511T164000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150508T173657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150508T173657Z UID:10005102-1431358200-1431362400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Imagining Social Identities Through Computing DESCRIPTION:D. Fox Harrell\, Associate Professor of Digital Media\, MIT\nHosted By Noah Wardrip-Fruin \nD. Fox Harrell’s research explores the use of the computer as an expressive and cultural medium. As described in his recent book Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression (MIT Press)\, through both building and analyzing systems\, he investigates how the computer can be used to express cultural meanings through data-structures and algorithms. In this talk\, focusing on cultural meanings of social identity\, Harrell explores how our identities are complicated by their intersection with computing technologies including social networking\, gaming\, virtual worlds and related media forms. Toward this end\, Harrell will discuss how data-structures and algorithms in popular videogames and social media implement not only persistent issues of class\, gender\, sex\, race\, and ethnicity\, but also dynamic construction of social categories\, discourse\, metaphorical thought\, body language\, fashion\, and more. He shall then present technologies developed in his research group\, the MIT Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression Laboratory\, which offer more nuanced and expressive ways to computationally model identity-related phenomena such as social status\, marginalization\, and social stigma in digital media. \nBio: D. Fox Harrell\, Ph.D.\, is Associate Professor of Digital Media in the Comparative Media Studies Program and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT. He founded and directs the MIT Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab). Harrell holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from the University of California\, San Diego. In 2010\, he received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his project “Computing for Advanced Identity Representation.” His recent book Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression was published in 2013 by the MIT Press. He is a 2014-15 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and recipient of the Lenore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg Fellowship in Communication. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/imagining-social-identities-through-computing-2/ LOCATION:Media Theater\, M110 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150511T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150511T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150424T194501Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150424T194501Z UID:10006125-1431363600-1431367200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:To Africa and Back DESCRIPTION:Angela Elsy is a lecturer specialized in La Francophonie\, the countries and regions around the world where French is spoken. For ten years she served as director of La Maison Francophone\, an academic/residential program at Cowell College. She is in her third year and final year as Licker Chair at Cowell. She will present a public lecture in English on her research in Morocco\, Senegal and Cameroun in 2013 and 2014 and the course she taught based on this work. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/to-africa-and-back-2/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150511T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150511T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150508T194252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150508T194252Z UID:10005103-1431370800-1431378000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Public Screening of One Summer DESCRIPTION:You’re cordially invited to a free public screening of One Summer (2014\, 93min.)\, with Director Yang Yishu (Nanjing University\, China) in person. \nABOUT THE FILM:\nOne Summer is Director Yang Yishu’s first fiction feature. In tracing a woman’s efforts to find her husband and to understand why the police took him away without explanation\, the film portrays the sentiment of perpetual anxiety\, uncertainty and vulnerability that prevails contemporary China.\nThe film was selected for the 19th Busan International Film Festival (Korea\, October 2014 ) and the 21th Vesoul International Film Festival (France\, February 2015)\, and was awarded the Jury’s Prize. \nOne Summer follows Director Yang’s two documentaries\, Who is Haoran? (2006)\, and On the Road (2010). Who is Haoran? was selected for the 59th Locarno International Film Festival\, and the 31th Hong Kong International Film Festival. It has been collected by Songzhuang Art Center (a major base of Chinese independent cinema) and released by Lixianting Film fund.\nOn the Road was selected for the 7th China Documentary Film festival\, the 7th China Independent Film Festival\, and 2011 Seoul Independent Documentary Film & Video Festival. \nABOUT THE DIRECTOR:\nDirector Yang Yishu represents an important voice in contemporary independent Chinese cinema. In addition to making films\, she also teaches as Associate Professor and serves as Associate Director of Film and Video Production Center in the Department of Drama\, Film & TV\, in the School of Liberal Arts at Nanjing University\, China. She has published a monograph\, Film Within Film: A Study of Meta-cinema (2012)\, as well as numerous articles on a wide range of topics\, including gender issues\, independent Chinese cinema\, Jane Campion\, and François Truffaut. \nThe screening will be followed by Q & A with Director Yang Yishu and her daughter who played the daughter in the film. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Departments of Film & Digital Media\, Politics\, and Anthropology. \nPlease direct questions to Yiman Wang (yw3@ucsc.edu) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/public-screening-of-one-summer-2/ LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150513T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150513T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150319T224953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150319T224953Z UID:10006058-1431519300-1431525600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Megan Thomas "Lascars\, Sepoys\, and the Traveling Labor of British Empire (Manila\, 1762-4)" DESCRIPTION:Megan Thomas’ research focuses on the British forces that occupied Manila in 1762 just as East India Company rule in the subcontinent began. She traces their composition\, the conditions under which they labored\, and the strategies they employed for what they can tell us about the British empire in and around the Indian Ocean. \nMegan Thomas is an Associate Professor of Politics at UC Santa Cruz. \n  \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/megan-thomas-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150513T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150513T173000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150511T171826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150511T171826Z UID:10005104-1431532800-1431538200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:M: Mothers\, Mountains\, Migration\, and Memory DESCRIPTION:In this spring’s Stevenson College Distinguished Faculty Lecture\, Lisbeth Haas\, Professor of History and Feminist Studies at UCSC\, discusses twentieth-century economic and demographic shifts in the Blue Ridge Mountain town of Hillsville\, Virginia\, home to her mother and a growing Mexican population. \nIn this talk\, Lisbeth Haas\, Professor of History and Feminist Studies\, discusses her search for her mother\, Imogene\, in Hillsville\, Virginia.  World War II brought intense industrialization to this Appalachian hamlet\, but by 2000\, many factories had shuttered.  At the same time\, Hillsville emerged as a destination for migrants from Mexico.  Situating Imogene within a crossroads of global processes\, Professor Haas discusses the politics of motherhood and women’s power in the Blue Ridge Mountain region during the height of its industrialization in the 1950s. \nLisbeth Haas is Professor of History and Feminist Studies at UCSC.  In addition to being Imogene’s daughter\, she is the author of numerous publications.  Her most recent books are Saints and Citizens:  Indigenous Histories of Colonial Missions and Mexican California\, 1750-1850 (University of California Press\, 2014) and Pablo Tac\, Indigenous Scholar (University of California Press\, 2011). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/m-mothers-mountains-migration-and-memory-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Lisbeth-Haas-Lecture.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150514T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150514T194500 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150403T201608Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150403T201608Z UID:10005075-1431626400-1431632700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Dawn Lundy Martin 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 \nDawn Lundy Martin \nis co-founder of the Third Wave Foundation in New York\, a national grant making organization led by young women and transgender youth\, which focuses on social justice activism. She is also a member of the Black Took Collective\, a group of experimental black poets embracing critical theory about gender\, race\, and sexuality. She has been the recipient of two poetry grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and was awarded the 2008 Academy of American Arts and Sciences May Sarton Prize for Poetry. She has taught at Montclair State University\, The New School\, and the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College. She is currently an assistant professor in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh. She can be found online at: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/dawn-lundy-martin \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 \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-dawn-lundy-martin-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150514T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150514T220000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150421T220126Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150421T220126Z UID:10006104-1431633600-1431640800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:15th Annual Miriam Ellis International Playhouse DESCRIPTION:FIFTEEN YEARS AND COUNTING… \nThe Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics\, Cowell College\, and Stevenson College\, will present The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP)\, an annual multilingual program of fully-staged short theater pieces\, for its 15th season. Four public performances will be held on May 14\, 15\, 16\, 17\, at 8:00PM at the Stevenson Event Center\, UCSC\, and will feature works in French\, Italian\, Japanese\, Russian\, and Spanish\, with English super-titles. The program will be directed by Language lecturers and performed by Language students. There is no admission charge\, with nearby parking at $4.00. \nThis year’s works include: (in French) THE GAP\, by Ionesco\, and a scene from THE WOULD-BE GENTLEMAN by Molière\, directed by Miriam Ellis; (in Italian) BROTHER ATM and SERENDIPITY\, by Benni\, directed by Giulia Centineo; (in Japanese) SWEET POISON\, traditional\, directed by Sakae Fujita; (in Russian) THE PATIENT\, by Dovlatov\, directed by Natalya Samokhina; (in Spanish) MISERY\, by Güiraldes\, directed by Marta Navarro. The pieces range in time from medieval and classical periods to modern-day theater\, with emphasis on their comic elements. \nOver the years\, the IP presentations have represented an important annual event for UCSC and have attracted a loyal following. In addition to those on campus\, many community members\, as well as faculty and students from high schools and Cabrillo College\, attend regularly. The English titles make the material easily accessible to audiences\, who are afforded a rare multicultural experience by the diversity of the programs. \nFor further information\, please contact lmhunter@ucsc.edu or ellisan@ucsc.edu. \nAbove: Scene from LE MALADE IMAGINAIRE (THE HYPOCHONDRIAC) by Molière\, (French) INTERNATIONAL PLAYHOUSE XIII\, Camille Charette as Angélique\, Zachary Scovel as Argan\, directed by Miriam Ellis. \nThe community is cordially invited to attend. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/15th-annual-miriam-ellis-international-playhouse-2/2015-05-14/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150515T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150515T123000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150427T184532Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150427T184532Z UID:10006127-1431687600-1431693000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Arts and Humanities Grants and Fellowships Workshop for Graduate Students DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation about funding opportunities\, nuts and bolts of grant proposal writing\, and campus resources available to you in the Arts and Humanities Divisions. \nPanelists: \nDorian Bell\, Associate Professor of Literature\nStephanie Moore\, Research Grants Coordinator\, Arts Division\nIrena Polic\, Associate Director\, Institute for Humanities Research\nWarren Sack\, Professor\, Film & Digital Media Department \nLunch will be provided. Please RSVP by Friday\, May 8 to ihr@ucsc.edu. \nEVENT PHOTOS:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/arts-and-humanities-grants-and-fellowships-workshop-for-graduate-students-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150515T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150515T133000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150422T202156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150422T202156Z UID:10006108-1431691200-1431696600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum with Keegan Cook Finberg: “Reading Poetry of the 1960s: The Fluxus Event Score as Multimedia Encounter” 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-cristopher-chitty-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150518T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150518T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150130T215330Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150130T215330Z UID:10005037-1431964800-1431972000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Maurice Samuels: "French Universalism and the Jews: Anti-Antisemitism and the Right to Difference" DESCRIPTION:The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies presents Maurice Samuels: “French Universalism and the Jews: Anti-Antisemitism and the Right to Difference.” \nIn conflicts over the veil or the return of antisemitism in France today\, minority difference is often seen as a threat not only to public order but to the Republic itself. Long on the defensive\, universalism has now staged a comeback in current discourse that seeks to guard against excessive communitarianism or the fantasized demon of American-style multi-culturalism. However\, the universal and the particular were not always as opposed as today seems to be the case. In this paper\, I look back at the history of the way the universal was theorized in relation to France’s paradigmatic minority—the Jews—from the Revolution through the nineteenth century. My goal is to show that prior to the hardening of positions during the Dreyfus Affair\, French universalism was far more welcoming to minority difference than is ordinarily assumed today. Recovering this history\, I suggest\, might offer ways around France’s current ethnic and religious dilemmas. \nMaurice Samuels is Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French at Yale\, where he also directs the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism. He’s is the author of “The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France\,” published by Cornell University Press in 2004\, and of “Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France\,” published by Stanford University Press in 2010\, which won the Scaglione Prize given by the MLA for the best book in French Studies. He also co-edited “Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature: A Reader\,” published by Stanford in 2013. \nEvery year we honor Helen Diller\, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, by hosting a public lecture series on campus by an internationally recognized scholar. \nThis event was made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Endowment and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \nFREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\nClick here for directions and parking maps: http://ihr.ucsc.edu/directions/\nFor disability related accommodations\, please contact ihr@ucsc.edu or 831-459-5655. \nFacebook \n\n  \nPODCAST: \n \nPHOTOS: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/french-universalism-and-the-jews-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150519T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150519T150000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150513T190818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150513T190818Z UID:10005108-1432044000-1432047600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:David Brundage: "Remembering 1916 in America: The Easter Rising’s Many Faces\, 1919-1962" DESCRIPTION:David Brundage is Professor of history and the History Graduate Program Director. \nThe talk will draw on an essay-in-progress for a collection entitled Remembering 1916: The Easter Rising\, the Somme and the Politics of Memory\, ed. Richard S. Grayson and Fearghal McGarry. Brundage focuses his attention on a period that has been relatively neglected in the history of the Irish in America\, the 1920s through the early 1960s. How (and by whom) was the 1916 Rising remembered in this period? Providing some answers to this question can tell us a great deal about the striking diversity of memory practices\, while also shedding light on important aspects of Irish American (and American) life in these decades. \nA once powerful Irish American nationalist movement shrank dramatically in this period. Nonetheless\, the Rising continued to be remembered (differently) by Catholic churchmen\, Irish American labor leaders\, African American nationalists\, and Hollywood. The telling of the Easter Rising story\, Brundage argues\, had a kind of modular character. That is\, narratives of 1916\, frequently marked by stirring examples of idealism\, courage\, and sacrifice\, could be lifted out of their specifically Irish context and used to legitimize or inspire other sorts of movements and agendas—or simply to entertain. Remembering 1916 in America involved a diverse array of people\, practices\, and motives\, and its analysis has the potential to shed light on important mid-twentieth century topics ranging from African American nationalism to representations of Ireland and the Irish in American popular culture. \nLight refreshments will be provided. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/david-brundage-remembering-1916-in-america-the-easter-risings-many-faces-1919-1962-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/David-BRundage.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150519T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150519T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150122T174822Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150122T174822Z UID:10005993-1432051200-1432058400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Neferti Tadiar: "Next to Nothing" DESCRIPTION:This talk is a meditation on remaindered life\, the unsubsumable\, indivisible yet every-diminishing leftover of life-making practice for those who live in proximity to a social state of utter valuelessness. Drawing on diverse yet connected social contexts of redundant or superfluous populations\, including undocumented immigrants\, refugees\, guest workers\, and criminalized black and brown men and women\, in a global\, post-Fordist economy where all life bears the potential to serve as a direct means and source for the extraction of capitalist value\, the talk explores the significance of lives lived on the perpetual verge of being nothing not only to offer an alternative account of the current globopolitical order. Tracing the constitutive elements of slavery and colonialism in this global present\, the talk also reflects on the petty social currencies of small-time living as a speculative exercise on what is to be done next. \n\n  \nPODCAST: \n \nPHOTOS: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/neferti-tadiar-next-to-nothing-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150519T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150519T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150512T161034Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150512T161034Z UID:10005107-1432060200-1432065600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Last LASER (Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous) of the Year DESCRIPTION:The Institute of the Arts and Sciences invites you to final Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) of the year on May 19 in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108. Join us for refreshments at 6:30 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by: \n• Daniel Press “What is Recycling Good For? The Case of American Paper Today” \n• Roger Linington “Where Do Medicines Come From? In Search of Therapeutics From the World’s Oceans” \n• Anita Chang “Designing Practices in Cross-disciplinary Collaborations and Identities: A Case Study of the Transmedia Documentary Project Tongues of Heaven/RootTongue” \n• Kim Abeles “frugalworld.org and a galleryofsolutions”\n  \nBios: \nDaniel Press is the Olga T. Griswold Professor of Environmental Studies and Executive Director of the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at UC Santa Cruz. His research interests include environmental politics and policy\, land preservation\, water quality regulation and management\, industrial ecology\, and policy analysis. He is the author of Democratic Dilemmas in the Age of Ecology: Trees and Toxics in the American West (Duke University Press\, 1994)\, Saving Open Space: The Politics of Local Preservation in California (UC Press\, 2002)\, and American Environmental Policy: The Failures of Compliance\, Abatement and Mitigation (Edward Elgar\, 2015). \nRoger Linington is Associate Professor of Biochemistry at UC Santa Cruz. His research centers on marine natural products used in biomedical science. Linington’s research has two major focuses: drug discovery for neglected infectious diseases including malaria\, TB and dengue fever\, and the use of natural products as probes for biological systems. \nAnita Chang is an independent filmmaker\, educator and writer. She is also currently a PhD Candidate in Film and Digital Media\, UC Santa Cruz. Chang’s films are engaged in discourses on (post)colonialism\, ethnography\, diaspora and cross-cultural representation. Chang has taught film in numerous community and academic settings in San Francisco\, Nepal and Taiwan. Honors include grant awards from Creative Capital\, Fulbright Foundation\, San Francisco Arts Commission\, National Geographic and KQED Peter J. Owens Filmmaker program. Her essays have appeared in positions: asia critique\, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies and Taiwan Journal of Indigenous Studies. \nKim Abeles is an activist and artist whose installations and community projects cross disciplines and media to explore biography\, geography and environment. The work merges hand-crafted materials with digital representations. Abeles received the 2013 Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship\, and is a recipient of fellowships from J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts\, California Community Foundation and Pollock-Krasner Foundation. She is a 2014/15 Lucas Visual Arts Fellow at the Montalvo Arts Center. She has exhibited in 22 countries\, frequently creating artworks site specific to the location\, including large-scale installations for exhibitions in Vietnam\, Thailand\, Czech Republic\, England\, China\, and South Korea. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/last-laser-leonardo-artscience-evening-rendezvous-of-the-year-2/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/IAS-LASER-poster-May-2015-draft2-white.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150520T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150520T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150122T175044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150122T175044Z UID:10005034-1432123200-1432130400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jonathan Beller: "The Computational Unconscious" DESCRIPTION:Abstract: This talk understands the rise of Capitalism as the first digital culture with universalizing aspirations and capabilities\, and recognizes contemporary culture\, driven as it is by electronic digital computing\, as something like digital culture 2.0. Rather than seeing this shift strictly as a break\, we might consider it as one result of an overall intensification in the practices of quantification. Thus\, if capitalism was already a digital computer\, then “the invisible hand\,” as the non-subjective\, social summation of the individualized practices of the pursuit of private gain\, was an early expression of the computational unconscious. With the broadening and deepening of the imperative towards quantification and rational calculus posited then presupposed during the modern period by the expansionist program of Capital\, the process of the assignation of number to all variables first discernible in the commodity-form\, whereby every use-value was also an exchange-value\, entered into our machines\, rendering first the rationalization of production in the assembly line and then modern computing. Today\, as could be well known from everyday observation if not from media theory\, computation arguably underpins all productive activity\, and particularly significant for this argument\, activities that stretch from image-making\, to writing\, and therefore to thought. The contention here is not simply that capitalism is the unconscious of computation\, it is that the unconscious itself\, as the domain of the unthought that organizes thought\, is computational. Therefore\, not only is consciousness a computational effect\, but all the structural inequalities endemic to capitalist production – often appearing under variants of the ostensibly analog categories of race\, class\, gender\, sexuality\, nation\, etc.\, but just as importantly and as often disappeared into our machines – inhere in the logistics of computation\, and consequently\, in the real-time organization of language\, which is to say\, our thought. \nJonathan Beller is Professor of English and Humanities and Critical and Visual Studies\, Pratt Institute. He is one of the foremost theorists of the visual turn and the attention economy. He works on the history of cinema and the way in which the screen-image has altered all aspects of social life. These alterations range from the lived experiences of gender\, sexuality and race\, to the socio-economic reorganization of peoples\, governments and the environment. His research and pedagogy is undertaken with a commitment to those struggling for social justice in what he calls “the world-media system.” Books and edited volumes include The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle; Acquiring Eyes: Philippine Visuality\, Nationalist Struggle and the World-Media System; and Feminist Media Theory (a special issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online). His current book projects are entitled The Rain of Images and Computational Capital. Beller also serves on the Editorial Collective of the internationally recognized journal Social Text\, and is the current director of The Graduate Program in Media Studies. He teaches Mediologies I and a variety of electives. \n\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/jonathan-beller-the-computational-unconscious-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150520T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150520T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150511T203700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150511T203700Z UID:10005105-1432141200-1432148400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Learning Spanish is a Waste of Time: Understanding Heritage Learner Resistance in a Southwest Charter High School DESCRIPTION:Kimberly Adilia Helmer \nWriting Program at UC Santa Cruz \nThrough the lens of “resistance\,” the current critical ethnography examines some causes of “strike-like” behavior observed in a Spanish heritage language class in a US southwest charter high school. Fundamental to student resistance was the lack of meaningful activity and authentic materials that connected curriculum to students’ linguistic strengths\, target-culture knowledge\, and the communities from which they came. \nThe native Spanish-speaking teacher taught the course as if the Mexican-origin students were foreign language learners without certain native-like language proficiencies and insider cultural knowledge gained from actual experience. \nIn turn\, the instructor did not fully access his own linguistic and cultural repertoire\, but instead relied on published foreign language materials that failed to engage students and constructed them as linguistic and cultural outsiders. A pueblo-based pedagogical framework is proposed to make curriculum more culturally relevant\, authentic\, and engaging. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/learning-spanish-is-a-waste-of-time-understanding-heritage-learner-resistance-in-a-southwest-charter-high-school-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/LAAL-colloquium-flyer-May-20.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150521T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150521T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150513T230828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150513T230828Z UID:10006128-1432198800-1432224000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sixteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium DESCRIPTION:This day-long event\, including a lunch buffet\, will showcase and celebrate undergraduate academic work in the Literature Department. The Undergraduate Colloquium is open to the public; audience members include faculty\, students\, families and other interested parties. \nThe Literature Department’s 2015 Best Undergraduate Essay and Best Senior Essay prizes will be announced during the Opening Remarks at 9:00 a.m. \nPlease see http://literature.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/2015-ugrad-colloq.pdf to download a schedule of the day’s activities. For more information: (831) 459-4778 or litdept@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sixteenth-annual-literature-undergraduate-colloquium-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2015-ugrad-colloq.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150521T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150521T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150505T000940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150505T000940Z UID:10005101-1432220400-1432234800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Perverse Modernities: Conversations in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies DESCRIPTION:Perverse Modernities transgresses modern divisions of knowledge that have historically separated the consideration of sexuality\, and its concern with desire\, gender\, bodies\, and performance\, on the one hand\, from the consideration of race\, colonialism\, and political economy\, on the other\, in order to explore how the mutual implication of race\, colonialism\, and sexuality has been rendered perverse and unintelligible within the logics of modernity. \nBooks in the series have elaborated such perversities in the challenge to modern assumptions about historical narrative and the nation-state\, the epistemology of the human sciences\, the continuities of the citizen-subject and civil society\, the distinction between health and morbidity\, and the rational organization of that society into separate spheres. Perverse modernities\, in this sense\, have included queer of color and queer anticolonial subcultures\, racialized sexualized laborers migrating from the global south to the metropolis\, nonwestern desires and bodies and their incommensurability with the gendered\, national or communal meanings attributed to them\, and analyses of the refusals of normative domestic “healthy” life narratives by subjects who inhabit and perform sexual risk\, different embodiments\, and alternative conceptions of life and death. The project also highlights intellectual “perversities” from disciplinary infidelities and epistemological promiscuity\, to theoretical irreverence and heterotopic imaginings. \n\n  \n3:00-3:30 PM Introduction (Lisa Lowe and J. Jack Halberstam)\n3:30-5:00 PM Panel I: Temporality\, Violence\, and the Problem of Rights: Neda Atanasoski\, Elizabeth Freeman\, Chandan Reddy\, Lisa Lowe\n5:00-5:30 PM Break\n5:30-7:00 PM Panel II: Modernity\, Perversion\, and Queer/Trans Survival: Marcia Ochoa\, Cindy Cruz\, Lisa Rofel\, J. Jack Halberstram URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/perverse-modernities-conversations-in-critical-race-and-ethnic-studies-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150521T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150521T194500 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150403T202909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150403T202909Z UID:10005076-1432231200-1432237500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Eleni Sikelianos\, Josef Sikelianos 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 \nEleni Sikelianos \nbelieves in redistributing wealth (top to bottom) and in the overturning of Citizens United. She is the author of seven books of poetry\, most recently The Loving Detail of the Living & the Dead (Coffee House\, 2013)\, and two hybrid memoirs (The Book of Jon\, City Lights\, and You Animal Machine\, Coffee House). Sikelianos has been the happy recipient of various awards for her poetry\, nonfiction\, and translations\, including two National Endowment for the Arts Awards\, a NYFA\, NYSCA\, and the National Poetry Series. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages\, and is widely anthologized. She has taught poetry in public schools\, homeless shelters\, and prisons\, and collaborated with musicians\, filmmakers\, and visual artists. She is on guest faculty for the Naropa Summer Writing Program\, and for L’Ecole de Littérature in France and Morocco; she teaches at the University of Denver\, where she runs the Writers in the Schools program. She can be found online at: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/eleni-sik%C3%A9lian%C3%B2s \nJosef Sikelianos \nis a songwriter and musician living in Berkeley CA. He heads the indie folk band Baby Teeth\, who are releasing their first full length album this spring. After exploring many disciplines with some thoroughness\, Sikelianos graduated cum laude from San Francisco State University with a degree in fine art. Sikelianos put himself through school doing tree work and is now also the owner of a professional tree service company\, The Urban Arborist\, working in the San Francisco Bay area. Sikelianos notes that “the greatest luxury is the exploration of aesthetics without premeditation or agenda\, and the appreciation of beauty is in every endeavor I undertake.” In his spare time Sikelianos reads his sister’s books. He can be found online at: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/josef-sikelianos/2b/427/545 \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-eleni-sikelianos-josef-sikelianos-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150522T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150522T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150514T155245Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150514T155245Z UID:10006129-1432288800-1432314000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Natives in Game Dev Gathering DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, May 22\, from 10am to 5pm\, the Games and Playable Media MS program\, and the Center for Games and Playable Media will be hosting the Natives in Game Dev event. \nThe event is free for UCSC students and faculty\, and is being held at the UCSC Extension Silicon Valley building\, at 2505 Augustine Dr\, Santa Clara\, California 95054. \nSpeakers\nThere is an excellent lineup of speakers\, including: \nIshmael Angaluuk Hope (Never Alone) \nAllen Turner (Stubbs the Zombie\, Ehdrigohr: The Roleplaying Game\, Hail to\nthe Chimp\, Disney Guilty Party\, Marvel XP) \nJohn Romero (Wolfenstein 3D\, DOOM\, Quake) \nJason Edward Lewis (Initiative for Indigenous Futures\, Aboriginal\nTerritories in Cyberspace\, Skins Video Game Workshops) \nElizabeth LaPensée (Survivance\, The Gift of Food\, Animism\, Singuistics:\nAnishinaabemowin) \nDarrick Baxter (Rez Bomb\, Ojibway) \nManuel Marcano (Max Payne 3\, BioShock\, The Darkness\, Treachery in Beatdown\nCity) \nRenee Nejo (Ever\, Jane\, Gravity Ghost\, Blood Quantum)\n  \nFor more details\, including the schedule\, please see:\nhttps://gpm.soe.ucsc.edu/uc-santa-cruz-to-host-natives-in-game-dev-gathering/ \nTo register for the event:\nUCSC students and faculty can RSVP here using the code “ucscgpm”\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/natives-in-game-devs-gathering-tickets-16962387959 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/natives-in-game-dev-gathering-2/ LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/nativesingamedev.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150522T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150522T133000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150422T202718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150422T202718Z UID:10006109-1432296000-1432301400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum with Muiris Macgiollabhui: “Carrying The Green Bough: An Atlantic History of the United Irishmen\, 1791-1830″ 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-muiris-macgiollabhui-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150522T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150522T133000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150512T160229Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150512T160229Z UID:10005106-1432296000-1432301400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mark Andrejevic: "Drone Theory: Automated Data Collection and Processing and the Always-On War" DESCRIPTION:This presentation is not about drones per se – or even war per se; but rather about the deployment of ubiquitous\, always-on\, networked sensors for the purposes of automated data collection\, processing\, and response. It is also about the ways in which the logic of drone warfare: prediction and pre-emption\, come to characterize a wide realm of social practices: marketing\, job screening\, health care\, romance\, and more. The presentation considers the ways in which some contemporary strands of critical theory replicate and rehearse the logics of data-driven droning: the advent of drone theory. \nMark Andrejevic is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College. He researches the relationship between popular culture\, interactive media\, and surveillance. His books include\, Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched (2004)\, iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era (2007)\, and Infoglut: How Too Much Information is Changing The Way We Think and Know (2013). He examines the social and cultural implications of data mining\, predictive analytics\, and other forms of surveillance that have become integral to how subjects interact with digital media and popular culture. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mark-andrejevic-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Mark-Andrejevic.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150526T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150526T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150313T221245Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150313T221245Z UID:10006031-1432656000-1432663200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Digital Humanities Working Group/Reading Group: A Conversation with Warren Sack DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 26 (4 – 6 PM) at Humanities 210 \nDigital Humanities Working Group/Reading Group:\nA conversation with Warren Sack \nWarren Sack (Film & Digital Media) will lead a conversation about his article\, “A Storytelling Machine: From Propp to Software Studies” (Les Temps Modernes (novembre-décembre 2013)). Join us to consider a genealogy of narrative construction\, interactive storytelling\, software studies\, and the place of technology in “understanding.”  This discussion will prompt us all to think beyond the tools of Digital Humanities to explore the ways thinking is tangled up with technology. \nSack’s article is available online from Digital Studies in French. To receive a copy of Sack’s article in English\, emaildigitalhumanities@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-humanities-working-groupreading-group-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150527T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150527T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150319T225351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150319T225351Z UID:10006060-1432728900-1432735200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:John Modern "Toward a Religious History of Cognitive Science" DESCRIPTION:John Modern is the author of Secularism in Antebellum America and The Bop Apocalypse. John is currently at work on two projects: the first explores the intersections of religion and cognition in American history and the second is a meditation on entropy\, tentatively entitled Akron Devo Divine: A Delirious History of Rubber. \nJohn Modern is the Chair and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin & Marshall College. \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/john-modern-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150528T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150528T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150519T211842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150519T211842Z UID:10006131-1432828800-1432836000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Annual Philosophy Undergraduate Colloquium & Graduation Celebration DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with our End of Year Celebration\, the Philosophy Department will showcase the excellent academic work of students nominated by our faculty. \nCamille Charette\, “Humanitarian Intervention\, a Feminist Perspective”\nAndrew Bunn\, “On Thomas Nagel’s ‘Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness’ ” \nThis event is free and open to the public.\nAll are welcome! \n\nPast (2014) Presenters:\nMatthew Strebe\, “Schopenhauer and Aesthetic Experience”\nLia Salaverry\, “Design Logic and Community Building in Public Transportation”\nAlex Dor\, “Construction of Nation and Nationalism”\nLisa Clark\, “Knowing When I’m Right” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/annual-philosophy-undergraduate-colloquium-graduation-celebration-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/old-books.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150528T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150528T194500 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150403T204102Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150403T204102Z UID:10005077-1432836000-1432842300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Sarah Manguso\, Maggie Nelson 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 \nSarah Manguso \nis an essayist and poet. Her new book\, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary\, is out now. Her five other books include The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend\, named one of the top ten books of 2012 by Salon\, and The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir\, named an Editors’ Choice by the New York Times Book Review and a Best Book of the Year by the Independent\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, the Telegraph\, and Time Out Chicago. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize\, and her books have been translated into Chinese\, German\, Italian\, and Spanish. Her essays have appeared in Harper’s\, the New York Review of Books\, and the New York Times Magazine\, and her poems have won a Pushcart Prize and appeared in four editions of the Best American Poetry series. She grew up near Boston and now lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the Otis College of Art and Design. She can be found online at: http://www.sarahmanguso.com/ \nMaggie Nelson \nis a nonfiction writer\, critic\, scholar\, and poet. Her works of nonfiction include The Argonauts\, a work of “autotheory” about gender\, sexuality\, (queer) family\, and the limitations and possibilities of language; The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (2011)\, which was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Editors’ Choice; the cult hit Bluets (2009); a critical study of poetry and painting titled Women\, the New York School\, and Other True Abstractions (2007); and a memoir about sexual violence and media spectacle titled The Red Parts (2007)\, which will be reissued by Graywolf in Spring 2016. Her books of poetry include Something Bright\, Then Holes (2007); Jane: A Murder (2005; finalist\, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of Memoir)\, The Latest Winter (2003)\, and Shiner (2001). Her awards include a 2007 Arts Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation\, a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship\, a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, and a 2013 Literature grant from Creative Capital. Since 2005 she has taught on the faculty of the School of Critical Studies at CalArts. She currently lives in Los Angeles. She can be found online at: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/maggie-nelson \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 \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-sarah-manguso-maggie-nelson-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150529 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150530 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150513T215325Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150513T215325Z UID:10005109-1432857600-1432943999@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Global Islam: A Weekend of Film and Video DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 29th\n4:00-5:30pm\nVideos by Mounir Fatmi: Mixology (2010)\, Technologia (2010)\, and Rain Making (2004) \nDiscussion with:\nTarek El Haik\, Assistant Professor\, Cinema\, San Francisco State University\nPeter Limbrick\, Associate Professor\, Film and Digital Media\, UC Santa Cruz.\n7:00-9:00pm\nFeature film: Dernier Maquis/Aden\, dir. Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche (France\, 2008) \nDiscussion with:\nMayanthi Fernando\, Associate Professor\, Anthropology\, UC Santa Cruz\nPeter Limbrick\, Associate Professor\, Film and Digital Media\, UC Santa Cruz. \nSaturday\, May 30th\n10:00am-12:30pm\nFilm screening: New Muslim Cool\, dir. Jennifer Maytorena-Taylor (USA\, 2009) \nScreening and discussion with director Jennifer Maytorena-Taylor\, Assistant Professor\, Social Documentation\, UC Santa Cruz\n1:30-3:30pm\nVideos by Monira Al-Qadiri featuring Abu Athiyya (Father of Pain) (2013)\, Behind the Sun (2013)\, Prism (2007-ongoing). \nDiscussion with Monira Al-Qadiri\n4:00-6:00pm\nFilm screening: Descending with Angels\, dir. Christian Suhr (Denmark\, 2013) \nDiscussion with Christian Suhr and Mayanthi Fernando\nCo-Sponsored by the Department of Film and Digital Media\, the Office of Student Affairs\, College 8\, and Colleges 9 & 10\, and the Institute for Humanities Research URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/global-islam-a-weekend-of-film-and-video-2/2015-05-29/ LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/GlobalIslamFlyer_ProgNotes_Page_1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150529T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150529T133000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150422T202935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150422T202935Z UID:10006110-1432900800-1432906200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum with Ann Drevno: “Unintended Consequences of Regulatory Spotlighting Pesticides: The Case of California’s Central Coast Agricultural Waiver program” 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. \n\n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-ann-drevno-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150529T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150529T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150414T204954Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150414T204954Z UID:10006074-1432900800-1432908000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Complicated Labor: Feminism\, Maternity and Creative Practice Presents a Conversation with Sarah Manguso and Maggie Nelson DESCRIPTION:Conversation will be based on two readings. Contact Micah Perks at meperks@ucsc.edu to request reading selections. \nAdditional Event: Public reading by Sarah Manguso and Maggie Nelson in the UCSC Living Writers Series\, Thursday May 28\, Humanities Lecture Hall \nFree and open to the public. \nThe Complicated Labor Research Cluster is an interdisciplinary collaboration that brings together artists and scholars around questions of feminism\, maternity\, and creative process. It seeks to center questions of care in our research and art whether they are explicit sites of inspiration and study or simply important to\nthe conditions in which we undertake expressive practices. \nSarah Manguso is the author\, most recently\, of Ongoingness: The End of a Diary. Her five other books include The Guardians\, named one of the top ten books of the year by Salon\, and The Two Kinds of Decay\, named an Editors’ Choice by the New York Times Book Review and a Best Book of the Year by the Independent\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, the Telegraph\, and Time Out Chicago. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize. \nMaggie Nelson is the author of five books of nonfiction and four books of poetry. Her most recent book is The Argonauts\, a work of “auto-theory” about gender\, sexuality\, sodomitical maternity\, queer family\, and the limitations and possibilities of language. Her 2011 book of art and cultural criticism\, The Art of Cruelty: A\n Reckoning\, was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Editors’ Choice. Her other nonfiction books include the cult hit Bluets. Recent awards include a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction\, a 2011 NEA Fellowship in Poetry and a 2013 Innovative Literature grant from Creative Capital. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/complicated-labor-feminism-maternity-and-creative-practice-presents-a-conversation-with-writers-maggie-nelson-and-sarah-manguso-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150529T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150529T164500 DTSTAMP:20260406T105112 CREATED:20150518T173334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150518T173334Z UID:10006130-1432903500-1432917900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference DESCRIPTION:The Linguistics Department’s annual Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) will be held Friday\, May 29th\, from 12:45 – 4:45pm in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. The Distinguished Alumnus speaker will be Aaron White (2008)\, who is a fifth year PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland. We hope you will attend.\n  \n12:45 p.m. Refreshments \n12:55 p.m. Opening remarks: Adrian Brasoveanu \nSession 1\n1:00 p.m. Jake Vincent: “Chamorro Head-Internal Relative Clauses” \n1:30 p.m. Valery Vanegas: “A Study in Voice Quality Using Accelerometers ” \n2:00 p.m. Break \nSession 2\n2:15 p.m. Matthew Jordan Margulis: “Aspectual Adverbials: The interaction of Aspect and One-By-One” \n2:45 p.m. Chantale Yunt: “Tu comprends tu – Questions of Quebecois” \n3:15 p.m. Break \n3:30 p.m. Distinguished Alumnus Address (introduction: Pranav Anand)\nAaron Steven White: “Learner as Lexical Semanticist”\nUniversity of Maryland \n4:30 p.m. Closing remarks: Grant McGuire URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-undergraduate-research-conference-2-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR