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 Please join us for the opening celebration of the UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus, a multidisciplinary teaching and research hub. The evening will include an open house, ribbon-cutting, reception, and TED-style talks. We welcome you to choose one or all. Wednesday, September 28, 4-9 p.m. 4-7 p.m. Silicon Valley Campus open house 6-6:15 p.m. […] |
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 Author of the forthcoming Unholy Scriptures: Fraud, Suicide, Scandal—and the Bible that Rocked the Holy City (Ecco/HarperCollins), and two long works of nonfiction, The Special Populations Unit: Arab Soldiers in Israel’s Army (McSweeney’s) and Nuclear Meltdown, released on the one-year anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan (Rodale Press). Tigay was awarded the UC […] |
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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. In this workshop we will focus on Fall deadlines and introduce a new research development service for graduate students in the two divisions: one-on-one consultations! Friday, September 30, […]
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Linking Citizenship, Migration, Labor, Border, and Carceral Studies: A Seminar with Bridget Anderson 
Linking Citizenship, Migration, Labor, Border, and Carceral Studies: A Seminar with Bridget Anderson How, when, where, and why do citizenship, migration, labor, border, and carceral studies converge? What happens when we put these fields in dialogue with one another? Why the distinction between migration studies and refugee studies? When do forced migration and labor migration overlap and when are they different? Who is a "migrant," "refugee," "citizen," and […]
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Alma Rachel Heckman’s research crosses Jewish history, North Africa, French empire and the history of social movements. Her talk emerges from her project “Radical Nationalists: Moroccan Jewish Communists 1925-1975.” Heckman is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. The Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series, […]
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 Join us as we celebrate the launch of this wonderfully consuming new novel from local author, professor, and co-director of UCSC’s creative writing program Micah Perks. Following a near-fatal accident, Evie, a mild-mannered, pregnant school teacher, abandons her controlling husband and flees California for the wilds of western New York. She rents a farm house […] |
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Julia Clancy-Smith is the author of, most recently, Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800-1900 (2010). Her current work, From Household to Schoolroom: Education and Gender in North Africa, Europe, and the Mediterranean, c. 1900-present, is a multi-sided ethnographic inquiry into gender, education, literacy, and the social circulation of knowledge and people. […]
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 Bridget Anderson, Deputy Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford, discusses her vision and hopes for COMPAS, the relationship between COMPAS and other institutions (for example, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and other academic units), and the relationship between research and society. This event is open to UC Santa […] |
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 Poet and scholar Jennifer Chang was born in New Jersey. She is a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia, where she is a PhD candidate. Chang’s lyrical poems often explore the shifting boundaries between the outer world and the self. Chang’s debut poetry collection, The History of Anonymity (2008), was selected for the […]
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 The Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research present Leading labor and migration scholar, Bridget Anderson, for the inaugural event in a series of events on Non-citizenship, our 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture.. Bridget Anderson: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Citizenship […]
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 Akira Omaki will be speaking on Developing incrementality: Grammar and parsing of wh-dependencies in children It is well established in the adult psycholinguistics literature that our comprehension is incremental: based on partial sentence input, the parser uses linguistic knowledge and multiple sources of information to assign interpretations. However, it has largely remained unknown how such […] |
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 Please join us for the first meeting of the Maghrib Workshop, an interdisciplinary network for Maghrib studies based at UC Santa Cruz. The meeting is open to the public, but please RSVP by writing to cgomezri@ucsc.edu in order for us to have a head count and circulate the papers for discussion. Four scholars will share […]
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A Reading seminar with Dr. Kregg Hetherington (Concordia University), with initial discussion comments by Vivian Undersell (Feminist Studies), Rachel Cyper (Anthropology), and Zachary Caple (Anthropology). Seminar readings: Gregg Hetherington, "Beans before the Law: Knowledge practices, responsibility, and the Paraguayan soy boom" Cultural Anthropology 28(1): 65-85 2013 (https://www.academia.edu/2510267/beans_before_the_law-knowledge_practices_responsibility_and_the_paraguayan_soy_boom) or email mfernan3@ucsc.edu for pdf of the reading. […]
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 Is it possible to think in a state of emergency? This is now a pressing question when the Anthropocene disrupts the biosphere where we – permanently connected and algorithmically controlled – live in a permanent state of emergency, universal, and unpredictable. Lunch will be provided at 11am in Humanities 1, Room 202. Two theses will […]
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 "Ethnofuturism and the Archeology of the Future" Sara Mameni, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow In her video project, "In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain" (2014), Larissa Sansour enters the fictional world of a resistance group who bury porcelain remains of an imaginary civilization to influence history and support their claims to land and […]
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 Living Writers is a series of events that are free to students and the public, and happens every Thursday night in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. This series will be focusing on fiction writers as well as filmmakers. It's going to be an exciting series and we hope to see you there! For more […] |
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 "Homozionism: 'From the Closet into the Knesset'" My project focuses on the role of sexual politics in Israel's settler colonial occupation of Palestine, international (queer) complicities, and anti-colonial queer resistance. For this presentation I look forward to discuss the first chapter of my dissertation that charts the globally celebrated genealogy of Israel's gay movement from […]
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 Presented by the Institute for Humanities Research and Shakespeare Workshop What place does anger have in public life? Should we welcome the expression of anger in our elections and political deliberations, or does the common good depend on the existence of political institutions and processes from which anger and other strong emotions are excluded? Has […] |
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 Paul N. Edwards’ current research concerns the history and future of knowledge infrastructures, the history of climate science, and other large-scale information infrastructures. Edwards is the author most recently of A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (2010). Edwards is Professor at the School of Information and Department of History […]
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 Now out in paperback from Pulitzer Prize winning, bestselling author Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord traces the arc of King David's journey from obscurity to fame, from shepherd to soldier, from hero to traitor, from beloved king to murderous despot and into his remorseful and diminished dotage. The Secret Chord has received critical acclaim; The […] |
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 In the Appendix to his Treatise, Hume famously expresses a deep dissatisfaction with the account of personal identity that he had earlier presented, but offers only the briefest description of what his concern is. Scholars working on this problem have presented a wide variety of suggestions of what Hume might be thinking. I will argue […]
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 Alfredo Vea Alfredo Véa was born in the desert outside of Phoenix, but not in America. His grandfather was a Yaqui Indian, his grandmother was a Spanish-Mexican curandera who had played piano in silent movie theaters. Their grass covered adobe house stood at the epicenter of hundreds of tarpaper shacks built by Okies and Arkies. […] |
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CUSP 9 will be held at UC Santa Cruz on October 21-22, 2016. Established in 2009, CUSP serves as a venue for researchers in semantics and pragmatics to exchange ideas and receive feedback in a small, friendly, collaborative environment. For more information visit http://linguistics.ucsc.edu
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"Enemy Inside Out: Birth Defects in Fallujah" Hotly debated and widely misunderstood is the epidemic of birth defects in Fallujah, Iraq. While the possibility of knowing the exact cause of this epidemic is diluted by ongoing war, layers of chemical toxicity, and mass displacement/destruction of doctors, patients, and medical facilities; the surrounding enviro-medical discourse is […]
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 Please join us at Founders Celebration 2016 for a look into the library as a "collision space" where technology, information, and ideas collide to create new knowledge and support dynamic exploration. This is an exclusive opportunity to celebrate and mingle in a special campus location that symbolizes both the excitement of change and the tradition […] |
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Get to know the DH Research community to learn more about digital research on campus at an informal happy hour. We invite researchers across campus to discuss their work with a short, lightening style presentation. This is an opportunity to share our projects and meet new colleagues. Interested researchers are encouraged to send 1 slide that […]
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 Alma Rachel Heckman’s research crosses Jewish history, North Africa, French empire and the history of social movements. Her talk emerges from her project “Radical Nationalists: Moroccan Jewish Communists 1925-1975.” Heckman is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. The Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series, which […]
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 P. Sainath is India's most highly awarded journalist and a winner of the Ramon Magsayay Prize (often referred to as the 'Asian Nobel'). The only Indian to win the Magsayay for journalism in 32 years, Sainath was also the first reporter in the world to win Amnesty International's Global Journalism Prize, and the only Indian […]
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 Elizabeth Willis's most recent book, Alive: New and Selected Poems (New York Review Books, 2015), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Other books include Address (Wesleyan, 2011), recipient of the PEN New England prize for poetry; Meteoric Flowers (Wesleyan, 2006); Turneresque (Burning Deck, 2003); and The Human Abstract (Penguin, 1995). Her poems have appeared […]
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 Philip Misevich and Konrad Tuchscherer are historians at St. John's University and co-producers of Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels (2014, dir. Tony Buba), the award-winning documentary based on Marcus Rediker's powerful account of the most successful slave rebellion in American history, The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (Penguin, 2012). […]
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 The Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research present an event in the series on Non-citizenship Historians and filmmakers Philip Misevich and Konrad Tuchscherer of St. John's University join UC Santa Cruz's David Anthony and Greg O'Malley in a conversation about forced migration at this free, public screening of "Ghosts of Amistad: In […]
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The Institute for Humanities Research and the Career Center Present PhD+: Networking and Versatile PhD Friday, October 28, 2016 Humanities 1, Room 210 11 am - 12:30 pm Panelists: Christina Hall, Career Advisor for Graduate Students in the Arts and Humanities, Career Center Whitney deVos, PhD Candidate Literature; GSR, Institute for Humanities Research; Peer Advisor, […]
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"Polemics of Disintegration: Advaita Metaphysics in the Works of Alejandro Jodorowsky" The Chilean artist Alejandro Jodorowsky (b. 1929) often engages with non-linearity and non-sense as narrative devices in his work. Throughout his career Jodorowsky's thematic repertoire has adopted elements of the Kabbalistic science of the Marseille tarot, European alchemy, and New Age formulations of Hindu […]
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 Ronaldo V. Wilson is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (2008), Poems of the Black Object (2009), and Lucy 72 (2015). He is co-founder of the Black Took Collective, and is currently Associate Professor of Poetry, Fiction, and Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Farther Traveler is […]
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 Written by Anna Tsing, Isabelle Carbonell, Joelle Chevrier and Yen-ling Tsai (Associate Professor of Anthropology at National Chaio Tung University Taiwan), Golden Snail Opera combines video and performance-oriented text into a genre-bending o-pei-la. This piece is a multispecies enactment of experimental natural history considering the “golden treasure snail,” imported to Taiwan in 1979, which is now major pest of […]
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 "Rethinking Gender, Art & Geopolitic through Post-national War Rhetoric" Redi Koobak, Assitant Professor, Linkoping University, Sweden After its 50-year occupation by the Soviets, current political disclosure in Estonia revolves around the importance of proving that despite being small, Estonia is courages and highly reliable NATO ally to defend against the historically perceived threat from Russia. […]
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 Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Joseph Stroud Thursday, November 3, 2016 6:00 pm Cabrillo College, Room 450 (Forum) EVENT PHOTOS: by Lorraine Padgett First Song That long ago morning at Ruth’s farm when I hid in the wisteria and watched hummingbirds. I thought the ruby or gold that gleamed on their throats was the honeyed […]
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November's PhD+ workshop focuses on opportunities for research in careers not on the tenure track. Join us for a discussion led by Elaine Sullivan (History) with Yoh Kawano (UCLA, GIS Specialist and lecturer in Urban Planning and Public Policy) and Rachel Deblinger (Director, Digital Scholarship Commons) to consider the multiple forms that fulfilling, meaningful, and […]
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"Historicizing Interviews: A Mode of (Re)living and (Re)writing Memories of the Korean War through Documentary" How can we write a history of the officially unsaid and the unsayable? My talk focuses on the case of the Korean War whose language of antagonism and ideological conflict remains very much alive in Korean society today. I will […]
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Are you developing a digital map but feel unsure about your next steps? Or, having trouble reconciling the complexity of spatial theory with the nuts-and-bolts of GIS? Graduate students interested in mapping and integrating spatial thinking into their research should consider joining this workshop with Yoh Kawano. Kawano is the GIS Specialist at UCLA and a lecturer […]
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