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Refine your research skills, learn about new available research tools, and get to know the library staff that can help you in your research pursuits. This panel, including presentations by Annette Marines, Lucia Orlando, and Rachel Deblinger will offer introductions to: Locating primary and secondary materials through library-based subscription databases Analyzing data using web-based tools […]
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The Center for Cultural Studies and the Socialism/Postsocialism Research Cluster presents Elena Gapova Svetlana Alexievich, the recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, is known for her unique literary method that blurs the genres of oral history and documentary prose. For each book, she conducts, over the period of five to ten years, between 500 and 700 interviews […]
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The Berlin Wall collapsed in 1989, marking the ostensible end of the socialist project and the triumph of neoliberal economic policies around the globe. The result has been widespread de-industrialization, unemployment, ethnic conflict, poverty, and proliferating sex-traffic in the formerly socialist world, which now in many ways exemplifies trends toward stagnation and crisis that affect […]
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Alex Rivera is a filmmaker who, for the past fifteen years, has been telling new, urgent, and visually adventurous Latino stories. His first feature film, Sleep Dealer, a science-fiction feature set on the U.S./Mexico border, won awards at the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival, was screened at the Museum of Modern Art, […]
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James Beneda "The Morally Incoherent Indoctrination of the American Soldier in Iraq: An Institutional Theory of Traumatic Experience" I take up an issue that most of us cannot help but see as a problem of individual psychology and restate it in terms of institutional politics and political ideologies. Starting from cognitive sociology and recent clinical research that reframes post-traumatic […]
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This talk, based on joint work with Tara McAllister Byun and Yvan Rose, addresses a phenomenon of longstanding interest: the existence of child-specific phonological patterns which are not attested in adult language. We propose a new theoretical approach, termed the A(rticulatory)-Map model, to account for the origin and elimination of child-specific phonological patterns. Due to […]
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A memorial for Marge Frantz (1922-2015) a Hist Con graduate (1984) and longtime colleague at UC Santa Cruz in Women's Studies and American Studies will be held on Sunday, January 17th from 2-5pm. Refreshments & reception following the program. Ample and free parking is available. Enter UCSC at the WEST entrance. Three stop signs and […] |
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The Center for Cultural Studies presents Nicholas Mitchell Nicholas Mitchell’s current project, Disciplinary Matters: Black Studies, Women’s Studies, and the Neoliberal University, locates the institutional projects of black studies and women’s studies at the heart of the consolidation of the post-Civil Rights U.S. university. Mitchell is Assistant Professor in Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic […]
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Vikram Chandra’s latest book is Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty. He has also written the novels Sacred Games and Red Earth and Pouring Rain and the short story collection Love and Longing in Bombay. His honours include a Guggenheim fellowship, the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia), the Crossword Prize, and the […]
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Film Screening Hosted by Socialsim / Postsocialism Research Cluster "For Marx" (2012) Directed by is Svetlana Baskova "While the presence of the New Left in the new Russian culture cannot be denied nor ignored this ideological direction produces at this moment more questions than answers. Baskova’s new film channels some of the most burning ones: can […]
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Please join us for a talk with Hedy Rose. Following her father's arrest by the Nazis, Hedy Rose, her mother, and sister spent nearly four years hidden in an Amsterdam cellar by a Christian samaritan. Admission is free, but pre-registration is required: http://goo.gl/forms/3Q3LZbYz8y Reception will follow at 8pm. $4 parking; Recommended lot: Performing Arts For […]
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Interested in coding, but not sure where to start? Fabiola Hanna, a new media artist and PhD Candidate in the department of Film and Digital Media, will walk us through the basics of coding for the web. Following Hanna’s short introductory workshop in December, this more intensive session will offer instruction for writing in HTML, styling with CSS, and […]
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Alex Moore "Captive Natures: Grotesque desire in the performative sculptures of Amber Hawk Swanson" In this paper I examine two projects by the artist Amber Hawk Swanson, Tilikum, 2011 and Lolita, 2013. Through a process of radical identification with the captive Orca whales Tilikum and Lolita, Hawk Swanson explores the ethics of aquatic theme park performances. I argue […]
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Interested in creating multimedia presentations to support your lectures or creating short narrated videos that students can listen to before class? Join us over lunch to learn how. This workshop will include an introduction to the kinds of tools available for use in the FITC and a discussion about designing assignments that include multimedia and […]
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In an interview from 1990, German artist Georg Baselitz asserted that there were no artists in the GDR. Instead, there were “assholes” who had supported a criminal system by betraying the essence of true art. Baselitz’s statement exemplifies a remarkable feature of public discourse in 1990s Germany: the return of a Cold War rhetoric […]
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The Center for Cultural Studies and the Socialism/Postsocialism Research Cluster presents Joes Segal Like street names, public monuments tend to celebrate historical heroes and events that are deemed exemplary for the present state and the future direction of society. Taken together, they constitute a canon of collective memory. However, this canon is seldom uncontested, and […]
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Stephen Graham Jones is the author of fifteen novels and six story collections. Next up is the werewolf novel Mongrels, from William Morrow. Stephen lives in Boulder, Colorado, and teaches in the MFA program there and at UCR-Palm Desert. Christopher David Rosales is from Paramount, CA. His first novel, Silence the Bird, Silence the Keeper, won him the McNamara Creative Arts Grant. His stories […]
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UCSC Institute for Humanities Research presents: "Wicked Problems": The Humanities in the Time of STEM 15th Annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture by William D. Adams, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities William D. Adams, NEH ChairmanPhoto by Fred Field, courtesy of Colby College Dr. William D. Adams was nominated by President Barack Obama […]
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Whitney Devos "After Lives, After Palimpsests: Aimé Césaire & Claudia Rankine's (Caribbean) 'American Lyrics' " My project seeks to frame certain forms of poetry as attempts at experimental, non-linear historiography, examining the ways in which lyric and documentary impulses—so often pitted against one another critically—are intertwined from the inception of documentary poetics, an emerging multi-genre'd genre I read […]
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The Ghetto of Venice, founded 500 years ago, has been long haunted by the ghostly presence of Shylock, the most famous imaginary Jew. The lecture will consider Shakespeare alongside the work of Jewish Venetian poet Sarra Copia Sullam (1592-1641), as well as contemporary poetry and fiction that reimagines the Ghetto for the global present. Shaul […]
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The "Write to Change the World" program will build our faculty's capacity to translate their research for the public and to engage in debate at a national level based on their areas of expertise. Our focus will be on increasing underrepresented voices within these debates. Working in partnership with the OpEd Project, we will host […]
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Part of the Hands on (Digital) Humanities Series This talk explores the boundary between visualization and analysis in contemporary digital scholarship. It argues for a shift in focus from creating visualizations (and related tools) toward a more robust analytical practice based on quantitative measurement. In this sense, visualization is seen as a useful but often […]
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The institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Arts Division at the University of California, Santa Cruz present: LASER Tuesday, February 2, 2016 Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists, scientists, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations. Please […]
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The Center for Cultural Studies presents Jonathan Beecher Jonathan Beecher’s current project consists of linked essays on writers who witnessed and wrote about the first months of the French revolution of 1848, some familiar, others less so. The central question: How do these writers explain the collapse of the radical dreams that inspired revolutionaries in 1848? […]
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Charles Yu is an Asian American writer of three well received works of speculative fiction, How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe, Third Class Superhero, and Sorry Please Thank You. Born 1976 in Los Angeles, Yu graduated from University of California at Berkeley and Columbia Law School. He lives with his wife and […]
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Learn how to perfect your online identity and social media presence as an academic or higher ed professional. Melissa De Witte (Web Coordinator, Social Sciences) will lead a discussion about how you can build your social media presence as an academic. Whether you are a novice or an expert, a technophobe or an early adopter, […]
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Sophia Magnone “There is risk in dealing with a partner”: “Bloodchild” and Interspecies Encounter I focus on “Bloodchild,” Octavia Butler’s story of extremely intimate yet profoundly troubling relations between species. On an extraterrestrial world, refugee humans become reproductive partners with their insectoid hosts, a relationship that mixes familial and sexual love with coercion and objectification. Yet in Butler’s own words, […]
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We speak and understand the same language, but it’s generally assumed that language production and comprehension are subserved by separate cognitive systems. So they must presumably draw on a third, task-neutral cognitive system (“grammar”). So comprehension-production differences are a thorn in the side of anybody who might want to collapse grammar and language processing mechanisms […]
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This workshop will provide participants with practical tools for conceptualizing and effecting social change. Modules include: understanding and changing mindsets, community cultural leadership, implementing adaptive change, and supporting citizen-centered rather than client-centered approaches. Workshop trainer: Jyotswaroop Kaur Education Director, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF) Free workshop open to all UCSC students and […]
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