BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.20//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:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170201T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170201T113000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082658 CREATED:20160901T183948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160901T183948Z UID:10006385-1485941400-1485948600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Shakespeare and the Common Good: The Value of a Literary Education DESCRIPTION:Julia Reinhard Lupton\, Professor of English and Associate Dean for Research in the School of Humanities at UC Irvine\, will conduct a professional development seminar for graduate students. The seminar will discuss the purpose of graduate education in the humanities and conclude with a research narrative development workshop\, focusing on practical techniques for translating work in the humanities into statements\, programs\, and publications that engage a wider public. Readings include texts by Hannah Arendt\, Leonard Cassuto\, and William Shakespeare. \nSpace is limited: Twelve seats are available. \nHumanities 1- Room 210\n9:30am-11:30am \nFor more information contact Sean Keilen at keilen@ucsc.edu \nWorkshop Readings: \nArendt\, Crisis in Education (1954)  \nCassuto\, In Search of an Ethic \nShakespeare Readings URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/shakespeare-and-the-common-good-3/ 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:20170201T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170201T130000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082658 CREATED:20161212T170824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T170824Z UID:10005300-1485950400-1485954000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Regina Kunzel: "In Treatment: Psychiatry and the Archives of Modern Sexuality" DESCRIPTION:Regina Kunzel’s current project explores the encounter of sexual- and gender-variant people with psychiatry in the mid-twentieth-century U.S. Drawing on multiple archives\, she argues for the importance of psychiatric scrutiny\, stigma\, and medicalization in the making of modern sexuality. \nRegina Kunzel is a Professor of History and Gender and Sexuality Studies and Director\, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public.  Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \n  \nWinter 2017 Colloquium Dates: \nJanuary 18th: Susan Buck-Morss \nJanuary 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton \nFebruary 1st: Regina Kunzel \nFebruary 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas \nFebruary 15th: Gary Wilder \nFebruary 22nd: Rick Prelinger \nMarch 1st: Hillary Angelo \nMarch 8th: Akash Kumar URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/regina-kunzel-in-treatment-psychiatry-and-the-archives-of-modern-sexuality-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:20170202T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170202T160000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082658 CREATED:20170109T203950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T203950Z UID:10006450-1486044000-1486051200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Mikki Stelder DESCRIPTION:Towards Other Scenes of Speaking and Listening: Palestinian Anticolonial Queer Spatialities\nMikki Stelder\, Visiting Scholar \nIn 2010\, Palestinian Queers for Boycott\, Divestment and Sanctions called upon international queer communities to support the Palestinian calls for BDS. My dissertation emerged as one way to respond. First\, I lay out the terms within which scholars and activists have engaged with PQBDS’ call and conditions of possibility within which responses emerged. Secondly\, I discuss an event that undermined the logics of settler colonialism and sexual imperialism in Israel/Palestine: In 2011\, three Palestinian queer groups engaged in email conversation with the International Gay and Lesbian Youth and Student Organization (IGLYO) about its decision to host its General Assembly in Tel Aviv. IGLYO went ahead with its plans\, but invited the groups to a public debate with an Israeli LGBT group cohosting the GA. The Palestinian groups refused and then publicized their email correspondence with IGLYO. Viewing these decisions as a politics of refusal\, I ask what other practices endure under Israeli occupation and alter the terms of Israel/Palestine engagement. \n  \nMikki Stelder is a PhD Candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. She is a visiting scholar at UCSC in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Department under the auspices and guidance of Gina Dent. She also teaches Feminist and Postcolonial Critique to choreography students at the School for New Dance Development\, Amsterdam. \n  \n\nFeminist Studies Colloquium Series Winter 2017 Schedule:\nJanuary 12th: Soma de Bourbon\, “Parenting BinaryTrans Children on the Edge of the Bay Area”\nFebruary 2nd: Mikki Stelder\, “Towards Other Scenes of speaking and Listening: Palestinian Anticolonial Queer Spatialities”\nMarch 2nd: Omid Mohamadi\, “The Iranian Women’s Movement: Rights and Difference” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-series-mikki-stelder-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/2017/01/FMST-Colloq-Winter-2017-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170202T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170202T190000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082658 CREATED:20161212T063024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T063024Z UID:10006439-1486054800-1486062000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Christopher Newfield: "After the Great Mistake: Fixing Public Universities in the Trump Administration" DESCRIPTION:Christopher Newfield’s (Professor of literature and American studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara) new book\, “The Great Mistake\,“ shows how privatization has weakened the educational quality and the budgetary stability of public universities and wrecked their true public mission. But how can they recover during an administration that promises to accelerate privatization in every arena? Newfield argues that universities should use this period to rebuild their public purpose from the ground up\, with special attention to the non-college voters that allegedly turned the election towards Donald J. Trump. \nCo-Sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies and the Santa Cruz Faculty Association. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christopher-newfield-after-the-great-mistake-fixing-public-universities-in-the-trump-administration-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:20170202T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170202T185000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082658 CREATED:20170113T185020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T185020Z UID:10006454-1486056000-1486061400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: PhD Candidates\, Creative/Critical Concentration DESCRIPTION:C Dylan Bassett’s books are The Invention of Monsters / Plays for the Theater (2015) and A Failed Performance: The Collected Short Plays of Daniil Kharms (forthcoming 2018). His recent work appears in The American Reader\, Black Warrior Review\, Ninth Letter\, and Washington Square. He lives in Santa Cruz. \nMatthew Gervase is a Ph.D. candidate in Literature at UCSC\, where he teaches creative writing and French courses. His published work has appeared in The French Translator’s Quarter. As a writer he has certain formalist tendencies\, one of which is to occasionally exist in the third person. He attempts to balance this out through his research on fascism\, orality\, and life in France’s Third Republic. \nKendall Grady is a poet!scholar working the couplet as microsystem– contact zone– associative monad– elective affinity– allocentrism– affective capillary– baroque structure of intimacy. Selected poems livewith Jupiter 88\, Dusie\, and The Atlas Review. \nCourtney Kersten’s essays can be seen or are forthcoming from River Teeth\, Hotel Amerika\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, DIAGRAM\, The Sonora Review\, Black Warrior Review\, The Master’s Review and elsewhere. She was the 2016 writer-in-residence at the Great Basin Writer’s Residency and was a Fulbright Fellow in Riga\, Latvia where she researched nonfictional theater and literature. She is currently a PhD student in Literature\, Creative Writing\, and Feminist Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nJared Joseph is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and is currently pursuing his PhD in Literature at the University of California – Santa Cruz. Recent poems have been published in Fence\, Noo Journal\, and Company. Jared Joseph and Sara Peck’s collaborative book here you are is available from Horse Less Press\, while Drowsy. Drowsy Baby is forthcoming from Entropy Press in 2017 \nJose Antonio akterial\, 2012). In 2008 he created the AMLT project (www.amltproject.com)\, which seeks to explore hypertext literature and alternative media forwriting through collective authorship. The project was sponsored by Puma from 2011-2014. His third book\, titled “open pit”\, is forthcoming from AUB in 2016. He holds an MFA in Writing from the University of California in San Diego. \nKirstin Wagner is a writer and teacher living in Santa Cruz\, CA. Her creative work is published/forthcoming in Bombay Gin Literary Journal\, Gesture Literary Journal\, and Something on Paper. She has taught creativewriting at Naropa University\, Indiana University\, U.C. Santa Cruz\, and in the Boulder public school system.  She is currently a PhD student in the Literature Department at UC-Santa Cruz. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Winter 2017\n \nImprovi/N\ations: Riff\, Inquiry\, and Protest \nImprovi/N\ations: Riff\, Inquiry\, and Protest will feature writers and artists who work and play across various disciplines and modes: poetry\, prose\, visual\, sound\, performance\, art\, and theory to address questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, and other identities. This series will explore the intersections of self-and-nationhood as fracture\, memory and possibility via individual\, collective and internal forms. \n  \nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nThursdays\, 5:20-6:50 PM \nAll Readings are Free and Open to the Public \n  \nJanuary 26: Wayne Koestenbaum\, Distinguished Professor of English\, Comparative Literature\, and French\, CUNY Graduate Center \nFebruary 2: Conner Bassett\, Matthew Gervase\, Kendall Grady\, Courtney Kersten\, Jared Harvey\, Jose Antonio Villarán\, Kirstin Wagner\, PhD Candidates\, Creative/Critical Concentration\, Literature\, UC Santa Cruz \nFebruary 16: Laura Mullen\, McElveen Professor of English\, Lousiana State University \nFebruary 23: Micah Perks\, Professor of Creative Writing and Literature\, UC Santa Cruz \nMarch 9: Urayoán Noel\, Associate Professor of English and Spanish\, New York University \nMarch 16: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Division\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, The Literature Department and Creative Writing Program\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, Literary Cultures/Sawyer Seminar\, Latin American and Latino Studies\, and The Bay Tree Book Store URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-phd-candidates-creativecritical-concentration-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/LWS_Winter17_Proof2-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170203T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170203T133000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082658 CREATED:20170130T193058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170130T193058Z UID:10005325-1486123200-1486128600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Rachel Shellabarger DESCRIPTION:Sustainable Happy cows: Change and Sustainability in California Dairies  \nCalifornia dairy advertisements often feature happy cows\, but they mask social and environmental concerns over industrial milk production. Currently\, California dairy producers face a mix of challenges with severe drought\, regulation of methane emissions from cows\, uncertain changes in milk pricing policies\, and future implementation of more robust framework labor laws. These converging pressures challenge the industrial mode of dairy production utilized by many California dairies\, and may pave a path toward sustainable transformation. In this talk I focus on whose interests are represented as this heavily industrialized sector responds to social and environmental pressures\, and what this means for future sustainability of the sector. \nFriday Forum Winter quarter 2017 Schedule: \nFridays 12:20-2pm\nHumanities 1 Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nJanuary 27\, 2017: Sarah Papazoglakis\, Literature \nFebruary 03\, 2017: Rachel Shellabarger\, Environmental Studies \nFebruary 10\, 2017: Kyuhyun Han\, History \nFebruary 17\, 2017: Yulia Gilchinskaya\, Film & Digital Media \nFebruary 24\, 2017: Maggie Wander\, HAVC \nMarch 3\, 2017: Chessa Adsit-Morris\, HAVC URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-rachel-shellabarger-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/unnamed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170206T140000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082658 CREATED:20161129T222303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T222303Z UID:10006425-1486382400-1486389600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rethinking Labor Mobility and Precarity: A Seminar with Guy Standing\, Alejandro Grimson\, and Biao Xiang DESCRIPTION:Precarity\, the experience of insecurity and constant risk of exclusion\, is central to the experience of many labor migrants and citizen-workers in our time. Session II of Non-citizenship\, UC Santa Cruz’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar\, focuses on precarity\, labor mobility\, and denizenship (the status of being a denizen or inhabitant\, as opposed to a full citizen)\, concepts that highlight the tiered and sometimes overlapping spaces between citizen and non-citizen. Juan Poblete will moderate the seminar with Guy Standing\, Alejandro Grimson\, and Biao Xiang as they discuss migrants\, denizens\, and the precariat in Europe\, the Americas\, and Asia. This seminar\, while self-standing and based on pre-circulated readings\, is meant in preparation for our symposium\, “Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale\,” to be held Tuesday\, February 7\, 2017\, 12:00-5:30pm\, at the Stevenson Event Center. \n  \nPlease check back to access the pre-circulated readings. \n  \nLunch will be served. \n  \nPlease register here prior to attending the seminar. \n  \nAlejandro Grimson\, an expert on south-south migration\, is dean of the School of Social Sciences at Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Buenos Aires\, Argentina. He is the author of many books\, including Relatos de la diferencia y la igualdad: los bolivianos en Buenos Aires (Eudeba\, 1999) and Los límites de la cultura: crítica de las teorías de la identidad (Siglo XXI Argentina\, 2011)\, winner of the Latin American Studies Association’s Premio Iberoamericano for best book of the year. \nJuan Poblete is Professor of Literature and Co-principal Investigator of Non-citizenship\, UC Santa Cruz’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar. His broad and myriad research interests include nineteenth-century Latin American literature\, nation and nationalism\, and popular culture in the Americas. His most recent publications include Sports and Nationalism in Latin America (with Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Robert McKee-Irwin\, Palgrave\, 2015) and Humor in Latin American Cinema (with Juana Suárez\, Palgrave\, 2016). \nGuy Standing\, Professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London\, is a scholar of labor\, globalization\, citizenship\, and social movements. His most recent books include A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens (Bloomsbury Academic Press\, 2014) and The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (Bloomsbury Academic Press\, 2011). From 1999 until March 2006\, he was director of the Socio-Economic Security Programme of the International Labour Organisation in Geneva\, Switzerland. \nBiao Xiang\, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford\, specializes in labor\, migration\, and social change in Asia. An ethnographer\, he has studied migration from rural China to Beijing\, migrant Indian information technology engineers in Australia\, and unskilled labor migration from China to Japan\, South Korea\, and Singapore. He is the author of The Intermediary Trap (Princeton University Press\, forthcoming)\, Global Bodyshopping (Princeton University Press\, 2007)\, Transcending Boundaries (Chinese edition by Sanlian Press\, 2000; English edition by Brill Academic Publishers\, 2005)\, and the co-editor of Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia(Duke University Press\, 2013). \n  \nThis seminar is co-sponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research\, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.   URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sawyer-seminar-with-3-speakers-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:20170207T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170207T173000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082658 CREATED:20161215T184720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161215T184720Z UID:10005306-1486468800-1486488600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: A Symposium with Guy Standing\, Alejandro Grimson\, and Biao Xiang (Non-citizenship Series) DESCRIPTION:Event Videos:\n \nLabor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: Guy Standing from IHR on Vimeo. \n \nLabor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: Alejandro Grimson 2.7.17 from IHR on Vimeo. \n \nLabor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: Biao Xiang from IHR on Vimeo. \n  \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThis symposium explores how global labor mobility and rising precarity affect and connect the experiences of citizens and non-citizens. Precarity\, the experience of insecurity and constant risk of exclusion\, is central to the experience of many labor migrants and citizen-workers in our time. Today’s labor migrants are new denizens—residents or inhabitants who are not quite full members of society. They are incorporated into societies that desire their labor\, but reject their very presence. Meanwhile\, citizen-workers are exposed to new forms of vulnerability as social rights\, such as education\, health care\, and retirement\, are increasingly privatized\, made contingent\, or dissolved altogether. In such contexts\, a majority of British voters demand Brexit and Donald Trump is elected president with the mandate to “make America great again.” \nTo prepare for this symposium\, Guy Standing\, Alejandro Grimson\, and Biao Xiang will take part in a seminar on labor mobility and precarity on Monday\, February 6\, 12:00-2:00\, in Humanities 1\, Room 210. \n  \nPlease register here prior to attending the February 7th symposium. \n  \nSymposium Schedule:\n12:00-12:20pm – Lunch\n12:20-1:50pm – Guy Standing (School of Oriental & African Studies): “The Precariat: The New Denizens” + Q&A\n1:50-2:05pm – Coffee break\n2:05-3:35pm – Alejandro Grimson (Universidad Nacional de San Martín): “The Waste Product of Globalization’s Party” + Q&A\n3:35-3:50pm – Coffee break\n3:50-5:20pm – Biao Xiang (University of Oxford): “The Other Precariat: Notes from Asia” + Q&A \n  \nSpeakers:\nAlejandro Grimson\, an expert on south-south migration\, is dean of the School of Social Sciences at Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Buenos Aires\, Argentina. He is the author of many books\, including Relatos de la diferencia y la igualdad: los bolivianos en Buenos Aires (Eudeba\, 1999) and Los límites de la cultura: crítica de las teorías de la identidad (Siglo XXI Argentina\, 2011)\, winner of the Latin American Studies Association’s Premio Iberoamericano for best book of the year. \nJuan Poblete is Professor of Literature and Co-principal Investigator of Non-citizenship\, UC Santa Cruz’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar. His broad and myriad research interests include nineteenth-century Latin American literature\, nation and nationalism\, and popular culture in the Americas. His most recent publications include Sports and Nationalism in Latin America (with Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Robert McKee-Irwin\, Palgrave\, 2015) and Humor in Latin American Cinema (with Juana Suárez\, Palgrave\, 2016). \nGuy Standing\, Professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London\, is a scholar of labor\, globalization\, citizenship\, and social movements. His most recent books include A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens (Bloomsbury Academic Press\, 2014) and The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (Bloomsbury Academic Press\, 2011). From 1999 until March 2006\, he was director of the Socio-Economic Security Programme of the International Labour Organisation in Geneva\, Switzerland. \nBiao Xiang\, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford\, specializes in labor\, migration\, and social change in Asia. An ethnographer\, he has studied migration from rural China to Beijing\, migrant Indian information technology engineers in Australia\, and unskilled labor migration from China to Japan\, South Korea\, and Singapore. He is the author of The Intermediary Trap (Princeton University Press\, forthcoming)\, Global Bodyshopping (Princeton University Press\, 2007)\, Transcending Boundaries (Chinese edition by Sanlian Press\, 2000; English edition by Brill Academic Publishers\, 2005)\, and the co-editor of Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia(Duke University Press\, 2013). \n  \nThis symposium is co-sponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research\, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/labor-mobility-and-precarity-on-a-global-scale-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/SawyerSeries_Labor_Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170207T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170207T160000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082659 CREATED:20170127T231337Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170127T231337Z UID:10005321-1486476000-1486483200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"The Widow and the Orphan: Stories of Reform in Multigenerational India" DESCRIPTION:The Center for Emerging Worlds and The Department of Anthropology Present: \nDr. Sareeta Amrute \n \n“The Widow and the Orphan: Stories of Reform in Multigenerational India”\nWorks-In-Progress Seminar\nTuesday\, February 7\, 2017\n2-4pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 402\nEmail mfernan3@ucsc.edu for copies of the paper \n  \n“adding.sleep(): Race and Refusal in the Indian Tech Diaspora”\nColloquium\nWednesday\, February 8\, 2017\n3:15- 5:00pm\nSocial Sciences 1\, Room 261 \n  \nDr. Sareeta Amrute is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the university of Washington\, Seattle. Her scholarship investigates personhood and labor within technological capital and throughout the South Asia diaspora. She is particularly interested in how race and class are reviews and remade in sites of new economy work\, such as coding and software economies\, and her first book Encoding Race\, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin was published in Fall 2016 by Duke University Press. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-widow-and-the-orphan-stories-of-reform-in-multigenerational-india-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 402 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/dr.sareeta.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170207T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170207T200000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082659 CREATED:20161004T211951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161004T211951Z UID:10006404-1486494000-1486497600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Faculty Research Lecture with Sandra Chung: “Language Through the Lens of Diversity” DESCRIPTION:Academic Senate 51st Annual Faculty Research Lecture Honors:\nProfessor Sandra Chung \n  \n“Language Through the Lens of Diversity.” \nThe ease and efficiency with which children acquire their first language(s) reveals that the capacity to know and use language is deeply human. It also raises the possibility that all languages have the same design–universal characteristics that make language acquisition possible. Are these views challenged by the great diversity of the world’s languages? In this talk\, Sandra Chung explores this question from the perspective of Chamorro\, an understudied language spoken in Micronesia. She suggests that while language diversity is real\, language universals emerge when ‘small’ languages are investigated in the same depth as first-world languages. \n  \nAbout the Faculty Research Lecture: The Faculty Research Lecture started in 1967. Lecturers are nominated by the Committee on Faculty Research Lecture based on a distinguished record in research and asked to deliver a lecture upon a topic of their choice. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-faculty-research-lecture-2/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sandra-chung.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170208T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170208T130000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082659 CREATED:20161212T191611Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T191611Z UID:10005301-1486555200-1486558800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Camillo Gomez-Rivas: "The Ransom Industry and the Expectation of Refuge on the Medieval Western Mediterranean Muslim-Christian Frontier" DESCRIPTION:Camillo Gomez-Rivas’s current project Refugees of the Reconquista is a history of social responses to displaced populations across the Muslim-Christian frontier over the long territorial decline of al-Andalus. Proceeding from a set of historical questions\, the project is based on readings of multiple sources\, including Arabic\, Castilian\, and Catalan legal\, historiographical\, and literary sources. \nCamillo Gomez-Rivas is an Assistant Professor of Literature at UCSC\, and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \n  \nWinter 2017 Colloquium Dates: \nJanuary 18th: Susan Buck-Morss \nJanuary 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton \nFebruary 1st: Regina Kunzel \nFebruary 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas \nFebruary 15th: Gary Wilder \nFebruary 22nd: Rick Prelinger \nMarch 1st: Hillary Angelo \nMarch 8th: Akash Kumar URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/camillo-gomez-rivas-the-ransom-industry-and-the-expectation-of-refuge-on-the-medieval-western-mediterranean-muslim-christian-frontier-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:20170208T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170208T170000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082659 CREATED:20170127T231722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170127T231722Z UID:10005323-1486566900-1486573200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:adding.sleep(): Race and Refusal in the Indian Tech Diaspora DESCRIPTION:The Center for Emerging Worlds and The Department of Anthropology Present: \nDr. Sareeta Amrute \n  \n“The Widow and the Orphan: Stories of Reform in Multigenerational India” \nWorks-In-Progress Seminar\nTuesday\, February 7\, 2017\n2-4pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 402\nEmail mfernan3@ucsc.edu for copies of the paper \n  \n“adding.sleep(): Race and Refusal in the Indian Tech Diaspora”\nColloquium\nWednesday\, February 8\, 2017\n3:15- 5:00pm\nSocial Sciences 1\, Room 261 \n  \nDr. Sareeta Amrute is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the university of Washington\, Seattle. Her scholarship investigates personhood and labor within technological capital and throughout the South Asia diaspora. She is particularly interested in how race and class are reviews and remade in sites of new economy work\, such as coding and software economies\, and her first book Encoding Race\, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin was published in Fall 2016 by Duke University Press. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/24401-2/ LOCATION:Social Sciences 1\, Room 261\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/dr.sareeta.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170208T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170208T180000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082659 CREATED:20170130T212959Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170130T212959Z UID:10006456-1486573200-1486576800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Spanish Studies Colloquium: Human Rights and US Policy in Post-Coup Honduras: a talk by Dana Frank DESCRIPTION:Human Rights and US Policy in Post-Coup Honduras: a talk by Dana Frank\nDana Frank is professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and the author of Bananeras:Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America\, among other books. Since the 2009 coup her articles about human rights and US policy in Honduras have appeared in the New York Times\, Foreign Affairs\, Foreign Policy\, World Policy Review\, Politico Magazine\, Los Angeles Times\, Miami Herald\, Houston Chronicle\, The Nation\, The Baffler\, Jacobin\, and elsewhere\, and she has been interviewed by the New Yorker\, Washington Post\, New York Times\, Associated Press\, National Public Radio\, BBC World News\, ABC/Fusion\, and regularly for Democracy Now! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/spanish-studies-colloquium-human-rights-and-us-policy-in-post-coup-honduras-a-talk-by-dana-frank-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Dana-Frank-Talk-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170208T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170208T190000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082659 CREATED:20170206T172153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170206T172153Z UID:10006458-1486574100-1486580400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Professor Emeritus Andrew Cohen: "Enhancing the Role of Pragmatics in Teacher Education" DESCRIPTION:Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Presents \nProfessor Emeritus Andrew Cohen\nEnhancing the Role of Pragmatics in Teacher Education \nWednesday\, February 8\n210 Humanities Bldg 1\n5:15PM \nLight refreshments will be served \nThe talk starts with the premise that for many target-language (TL) learners\, the actual learning process consists of the rote memorization of lots of vocabulary and grammar rules\, sometimes or even often without the knowledge of how to make appropriate use of this information in actual communicative situations. The talk will highlight certain specific areas in TL pragmatics that are teachable but often neglected in TL instruction\, as well as some of the challenges involved in teaching this information. The talk will also include brief comment regarding the assessment of the pragmatics that is taught and strategies for students in the learning and performance of pragmatics. The speaker has been studying his 12th TL (Mandarin) for the last five years\, so he can speak from experience about pragmatic failures.  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/enhancing-the-role-of-pragmatics-in-teacher-education-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/2017/02/LAAL-colloquium-flyer-Feb-8.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170209T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170209T210000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082659 CREATED:20161129T222801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T222801Z UID:10006426-1486666800-1486674000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Benjamin Jealous: 33rd Annual Martin Luther King\, Jr Memorial Convocation DESCRIPTION:The annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by presenting speakers who discuss the civil rights issues of equality\, freedom\, justice\, and opportunity. The convocation also seeks to build partnerships and develop dialogue within the campus community and with the local communities served by the university. \nPlease join us \nSpeaker: Benjamin Jealous\nCivil and human rights leader\, former NAACP president\, venture capitalist\, and author \nDate: Thursday\, February 9\, 2017\, 7 p.m. \nLocation: Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium \nThe event is free and open to the public. \nThe 2017 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation will feature Benjamin Jealous\, Civil and human rights leader\, former NAACP president\, venture capitalist\, and author. \nBenjamin Todd Jealous is the former president and CEO of the NAACP. He recently joined the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kapor Capital\, where he plans to continue his goal of growing opportunities for minorities in the tech economy. \nA Rhodes Scholar\, Jealous was named by both Fortune and TIME magazines to their “Top 40 under 40” lists\, and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. \nThe youngest president in NAACP history\, he began his career at age 18 opening mail at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. has been a leader of successful state and local movements to ban the death penalty\, outlaw racial profiling\, defend voting rights\, secure marriage equality\, and end mass incarceration. \nUnder his leadership\, the NAACP grew to be the largest civil rights organization online and on mobile\, and became the largest community-based nonpartisan voter registration operation in the country. \nPrior to leading the NAACP\, he spent 15 years as a journalist and community organizer. \nJealous currently teaches graduate courses on civil rights\, social entrepreneurship\, and leadership at Princeton University and is also a regular commentator on MSNBC. \nMore information at: specialevents.ucsc.edu/mlk URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mlk-convocation-benjamin-jealous-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/benjamin-jealous.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170210T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170210T133000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082659 CREATED:20170130T194406Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170130T194406Z UID:10005327-1486728000-1486733400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kyuhyun Han DESCRIPTION:Sewing the Forest like a state: Forest Management\, Wildlife Conservation\, and Center-Periphery Relations in Northeast China\, 1949 – 1965 \nMy research aims to counter the prevalent premise that Mao-era China (1945-1976) was devoid of environmental consciousness or concern with environmental protection\, and places Chinese policy in the context of the international development of environmental consciousness during that time. It will show the ways in which early Mao-Era Chinese scientists actively participated in and were influenced by the global discussion of pollution\, extinction\, natural conservation\, and biodiversity. It also traces incipient state-initiated conversation policies in the early 1960s. I will explore the ways in which center- periphery tensions and the role of local indigenous people reflected and altered state-initiated conversation policy\, which led to a devastating loss of biodiversity in Heilongjiang province. \n\n\nFriday Forum Winter quarter 2017 Schedule: \nFridays 12:20-2pm\nHumanities 1 Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nJanuary 27\, 2017: Sarah Papazoglakis\, Literature \nFebruary 03\, 2017: Rachel Shellabarger\, Environmental Studies \nFebruary 10\, 2017: Kyuhyun Han\, History \nFebruary 17\, 2017: Yulia Gilchinskaya\, Film & Digital Media \nFebruary 24\, 2017: Maggie Wander\, HAVC \nMarch 3\, 2017: Chessa Adsit-Morris\, HAVC URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-kyuhyun-han-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/unnamed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170213T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170213T210000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082659 CREATED:20161220T214654Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161220T214654Z UID:10006446-1487012400-1487019600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Waves Passing in the Night: a Conversation on Astrophysics\, Harmony\, and Boundaries DESCRIPTION:Event Photos: by Steve Kurtz\n \n  \nUC Santa Cruz Original Thinkers Series \nCowell College and the Institute for Humanities Research Present \nWaves Passing in the Night\nMonday\, February 13\, 7 p.m.\nFollowed by dessert reception and book signing\nMusic Recital Hall\, UC Santa Cruz \nPlease join Chancellor George Blumenthal\, Walter Murch\, a three-time Academy Award-winning sound and film editor\, and author Lawrence (Ren) Weschler (Cowell ’74)\, with astronomer Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz for a conversation on astrophysics\, harmony\, and boundaries.\n\n$10 ticket includes parking in the Performing Arts lot. Free admission for Students who register.\nRen Weschler’s book on Walter Murch\, “Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the land of Astrophysics\,” releases in January 2017. Murch is a 3-time Academy Award-winning sound and film editor with an interest in astrophysics. As a consummate outsider\, Murch had a hard time attracting any sort of comprehensive hearing from professional astrophysicists. However\, Murch has made advances that even some of them find intriguing\, including a connection between Titius Bode and earlier notions–going back past Kepler and Pythagorus–of musical harmony in the heavens.\n“It is controversy that brings science alive.”\n– Lee Smolin\, theoretical physicis\nBrought to you by Cowell College\, in partnership with the Institute for Humanities Research\, Astronomy & Astrophysics Department\, and Film & Digital Media Department. \nQuestions? UC Santa Cruz Special Events Office. Specialevents@ucsc.edu or (831)459-5003 \nAbout the book – Waves Passing in the Night\nFrom Pulitzer Prize nominee Lawrence Weschler\, a fascinating profile of Walter Murch\, a film legend and amateur astrophysicist whose investigations could reshape our understanding of the universe. Click here for more information. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n  \n  \nAbout the Speakers:\nWalter Murch\nMurch has been a Hollywood sound editor for over 45 years\, and has worked with such names as Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. He has won three Academy Awards—one for his work on Apocalypse Now (Best Sound) and two for The English Patient (Best Sound and Best Film Editing). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nLawrence (Ren) Weschler\nA graduate of Cowell College (1974)\, Weschler was a staff writer for over twenty years (1981–2002) at The New Yorker\, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award (for Cultural Reporting in 1988 and Magazine Reporting in 1992) and was also a recipient of Lannan Literary Award (1998). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nEnrico Ramirez-Ruiz\nRamirez-Ruiz is a professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz with a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the violent universe with an emphasis on stellar explosions\, gamma-ray bursts and accretion phenomena. Ramirez-Ruiz is one of the seven international scholars selected this year for the Niels Bohr Professorship Program\, which aims to attract top international researchers to Danish Universities. He leads the international research collaboration in theoretical astrophysics and splits his time between UC Santa Cruz and the University of Copenhagen. \n  \n  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/waves-passing-in-the-night-2/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Ren_Weschler_Web_Banner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCSC Special Events Office":MAILTO:specialevents@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170214T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170214T150000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082659 CREATED:20170208T201339Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170208T201339Z UID:10006462-1487077200-1487084400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Reading Seminar on Freedom Time: Negritude\, Decolonization\, and the Future of the World DESCRIPTION:We will read and discuss Gary Wilder’s recent book\, Freedom Time. Reading the whole book is encouraged and copies of the book are available at the Literary Guillotine. If you need to focus on a few chapters\, please read Chapter 1\, 5\, 6 & 9 (email sjetha@ucsc.edu for PDFs of those chapters) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reading-seminar-on-freedom-time-negritude-decolonization-and-the-future-of-the-world-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 402 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Gary-Wilder.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170215T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170215T130000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082659 CREATED:20161212T192504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T192504Z UID:10005302-1487160000-1487163600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gary Wilder: "Black Radicalism/Radical Humanism: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Cooperative Commonwealth" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nGary Wilder is the author of Freedom Time: Negritude\, Decolonization\, and the Future of the World (2015) and The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism Between the World Wars (2005). He is currently co-editing the volume The Postcolonial Contemporary and working on a book entitled “Cooperative Commonwealth: Radical Humanism and Black Atlantic Criticism.” \nGary Wilder is a Professor of Anthropology\, History\, and French; and Director\, Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the CUNY Graduate Center. \n  \nCo-Sponsored by the Center for Emerging Worlds \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \n  \nWinter 2017 Colloquium Dates: \nJanuary 18th: Susan Buck-Morss \nJanuary 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton \nFebruary 1st: Regina Kunzel \nFebruary 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas \nFebruary 15th: Gary Wilder \nFebruary 22nd: Rick Prelinger \nMarch 1st: Hillary Angelo \nMarch 8th: Akash Kumar URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gary-wilder-black-radicalismradical-humanism-w-e-b-du-boiss-cooperative-commonwealth-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/2017/02/Gary-Wilder.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170216T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170216T150000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082659 CREATED:20161129T223503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T223503Z UID:10006427-1487235600-1487257200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Writing Here → Writing There: A Transfer Model for Teaching and Learning DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nThis conference invites graduate students\, faculty\, staff\, and administrators to participate in a series of roundtables and presentations that showcase our current successes in developing an innovate\, locally-responsive writing curriculum. Participants will also contribute to moving our vision forward so that we set a broader\, campus-wide agenda that accounts for the needs of all stakeholders–from students to WASC. \nNew Keynote Speaker:\nDr. Kara Taczak\, Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of Denver\, will deliver the keynote and a half-day workshop on her award-winning “Teaching for Transfer” curriculum. Her research centers on the transfer of knowledge and practices. Her current project\, The Transfer of Transfer Project\, examines the efficacy of the Teaching for Transfer curriculum in multiple courses across multiple institutional sites. This research is the second phase of the study described in her co-authored book\, Writing Across Contexts\, which was awarded the 2015 Conference on College Composition and Communication Research Impact award and the 2016 Council of Writing Program Administrators Book Award. Taczak’s other publications have appeared in Composition Forum\, Teaching English in a Two-Year College\, and Across the Disciplines. \nClick here to Register \nSchedule:\n8:45-9:10: Coffee and Pastries \n9:10-9:30: Opening Remarks\nHerbie Lee\, Interim Executive Vice Chancellor\nHeather Shearer\, Writing Program Chair\nTonya Ritola\, Writing Program Assessment Coordinator \n9:30-10:00: Keynote Address: Kara Taczak\, “Teaching for Transfer: Shifting from How to What” \n10:00-10:10: Break \n10:10-11:00: Graduate Student Panel\nFacilitator: Veronica Flanagan\, Writing Program Faculty\nElizabeth Goldman\, Psychology\, “Make Your Course More than Just a Graduation Requirement: Teaching Transferable Skills in Your Classroom”\nLindsay Weinberg\, History of Consciousness\,”Rhetorics of Censorship: A Transferrable Interdisciplinary Pedagogy”\nHeather Schlaman\, Education\, “Analysis of Education: Teaching Students About Writing through the Study of Schooling”\nLara Galas\, Literature\, “Engaged Pedagogy and Teaching for Transfer: Helping Students Re-Member Themselves Through Writing”\nKylie Kenner\, Education\, “Utilizing Everyday Genres to Scaffold Writing in New Disciplines” \n11:00-11:10: Break \n11:10-12:00: Staff and Faculty Panel\nFacilitator: Tonya Ritola\nAnna Sher\, Institutional Research\, Assessment\, and Policy Studies\, “Learning Outcomes Assessment of Written Communication Skills: Methods and Results”\nTerry Terhaar\, Writing Program\, “Transfer of Knowledge and Practice Across Multiple Writing Contexts: A Key Term Perspective”\nDeborah A. Murphy and Kenneth Lyons\, University Library\, “Laying the Groundwork for Disciplinary Communication: Library Information Literacy Tools for Writing Students” \n12:00-1:00: Lunch in Humanities 1\, Room 202 \n1:10-2:45: Interactive Workshop: Kara Taczak\, “Key Terms and a Reflection Framework: How to Encourage Successful Transfer” \n2:45-3:00: Closing Remarks\nTonya Ritola\, Writing Program Assessment Coordinator \nSponsors:\nInstitute for Humanities Research\, Division of the Humanities\, Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning\, University Library\, Division of Student Success\, Division of Undergraduate Education\, Division of Graduate Studies\, and the Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/writing-here-writing-there-conference-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Writing-Here-Writing-There_Flyer_FINAL.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170216T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170216T185000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082700 CREATED:20170113T190833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T190833Z UID:10006455-1487265600-1487271000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Laura Mullen DESCRIPTION:Laura Mullen is the author of eight books: Complicated Grief\, Enduring Freedom: A Little Book of Mechanical Brides\, The Surface\, After I Was Dead\, Subject\, Dark Archive\, The Tales of Horror\, and Murmur. Recognitions for her poetry include Ironwood’s Stanford Prize\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Award. She has had several MacDowell Fellowships and has been a frequent visitor to the Summer Writing Program at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa. Her work is included in American Hybrid and Postmodern American Poetry (Norton) as well as other anthologies; recent poems have appeared in The Nation and Poetry. An essay on using Gertrude Stein in the creative writing classroom is included in the forthcoming anthology Approaches to Teaching Stein. Her collaboration with the composer Nathan Davis\, “Ask\,” will be performed at Princeton in 2017. She is the McElveen Professor in English at Louisiana State University. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Winter 2017  \nImprovi/N\ations: Riff\, Inquiry\, and Protest  \nImprovi/N\ations: Riff\, Inquiry\, and Protest will feature writers and artists who work and play across various disciplines and modes: poetry\, prose\, visual\, sound\, performance\, art\, and theory to address questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, and other identities. This series will explore the intersections of self-and-nationhood as fracture\, memory and possibility via individual\, collective and internal forms. \nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nThursdays\, 5:20-6:50 PM \nAll Readings are Free and Open to the Public \nJanuary 26: Wayne Koestenbaum\, Distinguished Professor of English\, Comparative Literature\, and French\, CUNY Graduate Center \nFebruary 2: Conner Bassett\, Matthew Gervase\, Kendall Grady\, Courtney Kersten\, Jared Harvey\, Jose Antonio Villarán\, Kirstin Wagner\, PhD Candidates\, Creative/Critical Concentration\, Literature\, UC Santa Cruz \nFebruary 16: Laura Mullen\, McElveen Professor of English\, Lousiana State University \nFebruary 23: Micah Perks\, Professor of Creative Writing and Literature\, UC Santa Cruz \nMarch 9: Urayoán Noel\, Associate Professor of English and Spanish\, New York University \nMarch 16: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Division\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, The Literature Department and Creative Writing Program\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, Literary Cultures/Sawyer Seminar\, Latin American and Latino Studies\, and The Bay Tree Book Store URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-laura-mullen-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/LWS_Winter17_Proof2-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170217T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170217T123000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082700 CREATED:20161215T193418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161215T193418Z UID:10005308-1487329200-1487334600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Philosophy@Work: Entrepreneurship and Data Analysis in Educational Consulting and Applied Ethics DESCRIPTION:Philosophy@Work: Entrepreneurship and Data Analysis in Educational Consulting and Applied Ethics \nAre you interested in learning more about how graduate training in the humanities can lead to successful and intellectually stimulating careers in consulting? Consulting is an expansive and evolving field\, one that many values-driven PhDs are currently shaping by challenging organizational tenets based on profit-motive. PhD alumni in Philosophy Ben Roome and Jake Metcalf discuss how their doctorates prepared them to become independent and influential consultant-scholars in the fields of data analysis and management\, (educational) technology\, and applied ethics. They’ll also address the ways in which their experiences as UCSC PhDs continue to influence the type of work they accept\, seek out\, and perform\, and how such decisions influence their career trajectories in general. Jacob (Jake) Metcalf is a consultant and independent scholar specializing in data and technology ethics. Ben Roome is an entrepreneur\, an ed tech and data ethics consultant\, a researcher and data analyst. \n  \nLunch will be served\, as always. \n  \nPhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n  \nPlease RSVP below.\nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-philosophy-panel-on-consulting-and-entrepreneurship-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:20170217T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170217T133000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082700 CREATED:20170130T195351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170130T195351Z UID:10005329-1487332800-1487338200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Yulia Gilichinskaya DESCRIPTION:Israel and Palestine: The Landscape of Separation \nThe Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank not only live under the occupation of Israel but also\, contained behind the Wall that Israel erected\, populate a space of physical\, social\, and cultural isolation. The Wall severs communities\, people’s access to services\, livelihoods and religious and cultural amenities. It fragments not only the land\, but also the very social fabric of the Palestinian people. \nIn search for a landscape of hope\, Yulia Gilichinskaya through her research and artwork looks for way to subvert the walls and barriers\, address the issue of separation\, and to amend the dictated borders imposed on the Palestinians. \nFriday Forum Winter quarter 2017 Schedule: \nFridays 12:20-2pm\nHumanities 1 Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nJanuary 27\, 2017: Sarah Papazoglakis\, Literature \nFebruary 03\, 2017: Rachel Shellabarger\, Environmental Studies \nFebruary 10\, 2017: Kyuhyun Han\, History \nFebruary 17\, 2017: Yulia Gilchinskaya\, Film & Digital Media \nFebruary 24\, 2017: Maggie Wander\, HAVC \nMarch 3\, 2017: Chessa Adsit-Morris\, HAVC URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-yulia-gilichinskaya-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/unnamed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170221T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170221T160000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082700 CREATED:20170201T210731Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170201T210731Z UID:10006457-1487689200-1487692800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Angel Nieves: 3D Modeling and the Soweto Historic GIS project DESCRIPTION:Join the Digital Humanities working group for a presentation about 3D Modeling\, Digital Humanities\, and the Soweto Township by Angel Nieves\, Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Hamilton College. Learn more about Digital Humanities and how 3D modeling can be integrated into your teaching. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/angel-nieves-3d-modeling-and-the-soweto-historic-gis-project-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:20170221T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170221T180000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082700 CREATED:20170218T014243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170218T014243Z UID:10006469-1487696400-1487700000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sturt Manning: "Tree-Rings and Radiocarbon in the East Mediterranean and Near East" DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America Presents: \n  \nProfessor Sturt Manning \nDepartment of Classics\, Cornell University \n  \nTree-Rings and Radiocarbon in the East Mediterranean and Near East: Creating an Independent\, Robust and Precise Timeframe for Archaeology and History \nProfessor Manning will discuss his efforts to combine radiocarbon (C14) and dendrochronology (tree-ring dating) to rewrite the chronologies of the civilizations of the Bronze and Early Iron Age eastern Mediterranean. His original and fundamental work has forced a reassessment of some of the linchpin events of this period\, including the famous eruption of the Santorini volcano (which some scholars had linked to the end of the Minoan civilization) and the chronology of Mesopotamia. \n  \nSturt Manning is Goldwin Smith Professor of Classical Archaeology in the Department of Classics at Cornell University and Director of the Cornell Tree Ring Laboratory. He is internationally known for his work in archaeological science\, above all in dendrochronology and radiocarbon chronology. He has published many articles and books\, including A Test of Time: The Volcano of Thera and the Chronology and History of the Aegean and East Mediterranean in the mid Second Millennium BC (second edition 2014). \n  \nOpen to the public. Refreshments will be at 4:30 p.m. and a reception will follow the lecture. \n  \nFor more information on the lecture\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tree-rings-and-radiocarbon-in-the-east-mediterranean-and-near-east-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/2017/02/ManningTalkLegal.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170221T191000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170221T220000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082700 CREATED:20170216T215605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170216T215605Z UID:10006466-1487704200-1487714400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:I Am Not Your Negro - Film Screening and Panel Discussion DESCRIPTION:I Am Not Your Negro\, is an award-winning documentary on the life and writings of James Baldwin.\nOpens at the Del Mar Theater in Santa Cruz on Friday February 17th. \nIn 1979\, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project\, Remember This House\, which was to be a revolutionary\, personal account of three assassinated leaders who were also his close friends—Medgar Evers\, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King\, Jr. At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987\, he left behind only thirty completed pages of his manuscript. Now\, in his incendiary new documentary\, master filmmaker Raoul Peck (Sometimes in April\, Lumumba) envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. Using only Baldwin’s words\, either spoken by the man himself or read by Samuel L. Jackson\, and a flood of rich archival material\, Peck has crafted a radical\, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America. I Am Not Your Negro is a poetic\, eloquent and thought-provoking journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter; it is a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for. Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature. \nPanel:\nBrenda J. Griffin\, President\, NAACP Santa Cruz\nDavid Anthony\, Professor of History\, UCSC\nBettina Aptheker\, Professor of Feminist Studies\, UCSC\nRonaldo Wilson\, Professor of Literature & Creative Writing\, UCSC\nVicki Fabbri\, Communication Studies\, Cabrillo College\nMichael Pebworth\, Professor of History\, Cabrillo College \nFilm screening begins at 7:10pm\, with a panel discussion following at 9pm. Admission to the film includes the panel. Please save your ticket stubs! \nClick here for ticket information \nCo-Sponsored by:\nNAACP Santa Cruz\, Institute for Humanities Research\, Feminist Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/i-am-not-your-negro-film-screening-and-panel-discussion-2/ LOCATION:Del Mar Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/i-am-not-your-negro.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170222T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170222T130000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082700 CREATED:20161212T192953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T192953Z UID:10005303-1487764800-1487768400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rick Prelinger: "Silence\, Cacophony\, Crosstalk: Archival Talking Points" DESCRIPTION:Rick Prelinger’s currently researches the political economy and aesthetics of archives. He produces live urban history film events made for participatory audiences and is in the early stages of a film counterposing the lived experience of citydwellers as shown in home movies with the pronouncements of urban theorists and historians. \nRick Prelinger is an Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at UCSC; Founder of Prelinger Archives; and board member of Internet Archive. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \n  \nWinter 2017 Colloquium Dates: \nJanuary 18th: Susan Buck-Morss \nJanuary 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton \nFebruary 1st: Regina Kunzel \nFebruary 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas \nFebruary 15th: Gary Wilder \nFebruary 22nd: Rick Prelinger \nMarch 1st: Hillary Angelo \nMarch 8th: Akash Kumar URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rick-prelinger-silence-cacophony-crosstalk-archival-talking-points-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:20170222T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170222T163000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082700 CREATED:20170210T184454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170210T184454Z UID:10006463-1487777400-1487781000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Spanish Studies Colloquium: Neo-Extractivismo y Cultura en América Latina DESCRIPTION:Neo-extractivismo y cultura en América Latina:\nA Talk by Héctor Hoyos \nSe propone un modelo crítico que responde a las nuevas formas del capitalismo en la era digital. Tras examinar productos culturales que permiten criticar patrones de acumulación actuales\,se cuestiona el rol de lo literario como elemento disruptivo en regímenes de producción semánticos e industriales\, discutiendo obras críticas de Ericka Beckman y Fernando Ortiz\, así como el cuento “Historia de un computador” del chileno Alejandro Zambra y el policial Coltán del español Alberto VásquezFigueroa. \n  \nHéctor Hoyos es Profesor Asociado del Departamento de Culturas Iberoamericanas\nde la Universidad de Stanford. Es autor de Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin\nAmerican Novel (Columbia University Press\, 2015). Ha sido becario de la Fundación\nHumboldt en Berlín y prepara el manuscrito Things with a History: Transcultural\nMaterialism in Latin America. \n  \nNote: This talk will be in Spanish. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/spanish-studies-colloquium-neo-extractivismo-y-cultura-en-america-latina-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Héctor-Hoyos-Talk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170222T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170222T173000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082700 CREATED:20161209T012136Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161209T012136Z UID:10006436-1487779200-1487784600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Digital Space & Difficult History: Curating The African American and Holocaust Museums DESCRIPTION:Digital Space & Difficult History: Curating The African American and Holocaust Museums 2.22.17 from IHR on Vimeo. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThe new National Museum of African American History and Culture and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum both translate difficult\, often traumatic\, histories into museum exhibitions and invite audiences of all ages to contend with narratives of struggle\, oppression\, violence\, and silence. Digital content has connected these museums to audiences beyond Washington and created opportunities for synthesis\, remembrance and reflection. \nJoin us for a discussion between Angel Nieves (consultant for the “Power of Place” exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture) and Michael Berenbaum (project director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) about building museums\, engaging the public\, and representing difficult memories on the Washington Mall. They will examine the role of museums in today’s post-fact world and the potential for digital tools to reimagine how museums speak to their audiences. \nThis event is free and open to the public. \nClick here for directions to Kresge Town Hall \nParking attendants will be selling $4 permits in the Core West parking lot. Anyone with an ADA placard should park in lot 142 behind Kresge College. \nCo-sponsored by: Center for Jewish Studies\, IHR Digital Humanities Research Cluster\, and Digital Scholarship Commons\, with support from the Koret Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-space-difficult-history-curating-the-african-american-and-holocaust-museums-2/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/unnamed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170222T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170222T190000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082700 CREATED:20170208T200257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170208T200257Z UID:10006461-1487782800-1487790000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dark Deleuze in the Dark DESCRIPTION:Andrew Culp’s Dark Deleuze (University of Minnesota Press\, 2016) offers a radical reinterpretation of the theorist Gilles Deleuze that challenges today’s world of compulsory happiness\, decentralized control\, and overexposure. Arranged in a series of contraries\, Culp’s cataclysmic politics exhorts us to kill our idols and cultivate “hatred for this world.” \n“Dark Deleuze in the Dark” is a conceptual conversation conducted in the dark with Professor Culp that addresses themes from his work on interruption\, un-becoming\, and escape. In our age of ubiquitous connectivity\, joy\, and self-disclosure\, how might darkness help us to cast a line to the outside? As Culp argued in a recent interview\, “A revolution that emerges from the darkness holds the apocalyptic potential of ending the world as we know it.” \nThis event is organized by INTERVAL and hosted by OpenLab with support from Film & Digital Media\, Digital Arts & New Media\, and the Arts Division at UCSC. INTERVAL is a space dedicated to interdisciplinary play and experimentation of art practice and scholarship. \nRefreshments provided. \nAndrew Culp is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Emerging Media and Communication at the University of Texas\, Dallas. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dark-deleuze-in-the-dark-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/2017/02/DarkDeleuze.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170223T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170223T133000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082700 CREATED:20170217T003914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170217T003914Z UID:10006468-1487851200-1487856600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Loess is More: A Spatial and Ecological History of Erosion on Imperial China's Northwest Frontier DESCRIPTION:Loess is More: A Spatial and Ecological History of Erosion on Imperial China’s Northwest Frontier\nRuth Mostern \n  \nAbstract: Beginning in the eleventh century\, the Yellow River shifted from a long-term condition of relative stability to a later state of frequent floods and course changes. In recent years\, environmental scientists and historians have converged on a set of insights about the timing and processes that brought about these changes. All of the evidence confirms that the primary cause of upstream erosion and downstream flooding was the intensification of human activity in the grasslands of the Ordos basin\, the loess soil region contained within the great bend of the Yellow River. This paper introduces environmental science research about the long history of human impacts on the loess plateau during the entire Holocene. In addition it uses historical sources\, spatial analysis and soil science to focus particular particular attention on the northern and western Ordos region during the eleventh century\, explaining why these decades created a tipping point in social and ecological life in north China. \n  \nLunch will be provided. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/loess-is-more-a-spatial-and-ecological-history-of-erosion-on-imperial-chinas-northwest-frontier-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/2017/02/Loess-is-More_-A-Spatial-and-Ecological-History-of-Erosion-on-Imperial-Chinas-Northwest-Frontier..jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170223T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170223T170000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082700 CREATED:20170208T194826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170208T194826Z UID:10006459-1487862900-1487869200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Susanna Schellenberg "Perceptual Consciousness as a Mental Activity" DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nI argue that perceptual consciousness is constituted by a mental activity. The mental activity in question is the activity of employing perceptual capacities\, such as discriminatory\, selective capacities. This is a radical view\, but I hope to make it plausible. In arguing for this mental activist view\, I reject orthodox views on which perceptual consciousness is analyzed in terms of (sensory awareness relations to) peculiar entities\, such as\, phenomenal properties\, external mind-independent properties\, propositions\, sense-data\, qualia\, or intentional objects. \nAbout:\nSusanna Schellenberg is a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and an Executive Council Faculty Member of the Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science. Her work focuses on a range of topics in epistemology\, philosophy of mind\, and philosophy of language. She is particularly interested in the nature of perceptual content\, the epistemic role of perceptual experience\, and mental capacities. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/susanna-schellenberg-perceptual-consciousness-as-a-mental-activity-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/2017/02/schellenberg.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170223T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170223T185000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082700 CREATED:20170113T192017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T192017Z UID:10005315-1487870400-1487875800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Micah Perks DESCRIPTION:Micah Perks grew up in a log cabin in the Adirondack wilderness. She is the author of two novels\, What Becomes Us and We Are Gathered Here\, a memoir\, Pagan Time\, and a long personal essay\, Alone In The Woods: Cheryl Strayed\, My Daughter and Me. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, The Toast\, OZY and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. Excerpts of What Becomes Us won National Endowment for the Arts grant and The New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More details and work at micahperks.com. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Winter 2017  \nImprovi/N\ations: Riff\, Inquiry\, and Protest  \nImprovi/N\ations: Riff\, Inquiry\, and Protest will feature writers and artists who work and play across various disciplines and modes: poetry\, prose\, visual\, sound\, performance\, art\, and theory to address questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, and other identities. This series will explore the intersections of self-and-nationhood as fracture\, memory and possibility via individual\, collective and internal forms. \nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nThursdays\, 5:20-6:50 PM \nAll Readings are Free and Open to the Public \nJanuary 26: Wayne Koestenbaum\, Distinguished Professor of English\, Comparative Literature\, and French\, CUNY Graduate Center \nFebruary 2: Conner Bassett\, Matthew Gervase\, Kendall Grady\, Courtney Kersten\, Jared Harvey\, Jose Antonio Villarán\, Kirstin Wagner\, PhD Candidates\, Creative/Critical Concentration\, Literature\, UC Santa Cruz \nFebruary 16: Laura Mullen\, McElveen Professor of English\, Lousiana State University \nFebruary 23: Micah Perks\, Professor of Creative Writing and Literature\, UC Santa Cruz \nMarch 9: Urayoán Noel\, Associate Professor of English and Spanish\, New York University \nMarch 16: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Division\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, The Literature Department and Creative Writing Program\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, Literary Cultures/Sawyer Seminar\, Latin American and Latino Studies\, and The Bay Tree Book Store URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-micah-perks-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/LWS_Winter17_Proof2-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170224T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170224T133000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082700 CREATED:20170130T202712Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170130T202712Z UID:10005331-1487937600-1487943000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Maggie Wander DESCRIPTION:“Its Ok\,  We’re Safe Here”: Cultural and Eco Activism in the Film Windjarrameru (The Stealing C*nt$) \nSince 2008\, the Karrabing Film Collective has made four films about the various cultural\, political\, and social realists of being Aboriginal in twenty-first century Australia. Their 2015 film\, Windjarrameru (The Stealing C*nt$)\, highlights how social inequalities experienced every day in Aboriginal communities are inseparable from environmental destruction. Both issues are intertwined in Australia’s colonial history; due to the centrality of landscape and environment in Aboriginal worldviews and identities\, the destruction of the former necessarily impacts the latter. Windjarrameru responds to this colonial legacy by subverting ethnographic representations of Aboriginal peoples and the Australian landscape\, while the role of ancestral spirits makes visible the impact of mining on the living beings in this landscape. \nFriday Forum Winter quarter 2017 Schedule: \nFridays 12:20-2pm\nHumanities 1 Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nJanuary 27\, 2017: Sarah Papazoglakis\, Literature \nFebruary 03\, 2017: Rachel Shellabarger\, Environmental Studies \nFebruary 10\, 2017: Kyuhyun Han\, History \nFebruary 17\, 2017: Yulia Gilchinskaya\, Film & Digital Media \nFebruary 24\, 2017: Maggie Wander\, HAVC \nMarch 3\, 2017: Chessa Adsit-Morris\, HAVC URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-maggie-wander-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/unnamed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170224T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170224T193000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082700 CREATED:20161129T224039Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T224039Z UID:10006428-1487957400-1487964600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Grad Slam DESCRIPTION:Grad Slam\, also referred to as the 3-Minute Thesis Challenge*\, is a competition that challenges graduate students to present years’ worth of academic research in a concise\, compelling\, three-minute talk to a non-expert audience. It encourages students to clarify their ideas and to help others understand and appreciate the significance of their work. \nThe contest is open to all graduate students.\nRegister and upload your video here. \nFinalists will present their three-minute thesis presentations at a live event on\nFebruary 24 at 5:30 p.m.\nin the Music Center Recital Hall. \nThis event is free and open to the public. \nA panel of judges will choose first-place and runner-up winners\, and the audience will vote for a people’s choice winner. If the people’s choice awardee is the same as the winner or runner-up\, both awards will go to that person. \nThe winner of the UCSC Grad Slam receives $3\,000; the runner-up receives $1\,500; and the people’s choice winner receives $750. \nThe UCSC Grad Slam winner will go on to present at a UC-wide final Grad Slam to be held May 4\, 2017\, at LinkedIn\, 222 2nd Street in San Francisco. Visit UCOP Grad Slam to view the 2016 finalists from all UC campuses and learn the winner of that competition. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/grad-slam-2/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/grad-slam-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170227T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170227T170000 DTSTAMP:20260427T082700 CREATED:20170216T234139Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170216T234139Z UID:10006467-1488207600-1488214800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cultural Studies Talk with Erick Lyle: "Streetopia and Beyond" DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies Presents: \nStreetopia and Beyond\nA Talk by Eric Lyle \n3-5 pm\nMonday\, February 27\nHumanities 1\, 210 \nWhat does community control look like? How do we organize to build power on a neighborhood level today? In the new Trump Era\, cities like Los Angeles\, New York\, and San Francisco have rushed to reassure that their governments intend to oppose new restrictive federal immigration policies and to reinforce these cities’ status as Sanctuary Cities. But as homeless sweeps and evictions continue to endanger communities of working class and people of color\, we have to ask what does “sanctuary” mean in the era of rampant displacement? Author Erick Lyle suggests the path to resisting Trump Administration policies lies in doubling down on existing anti-gentrification efforts and organizing on a hyperlocal basis to seize community control of development\, housing\, planning\, and utilities. Join Lyle for a discussion of the possibilities for resistance in neighborhood organizing and for a look at the author’s work on Streetopia\, a massive anti-gentrification art fair that took place in San Francisco in 2012\, and brought together residents of the city’s Tenderloin with over a hundred artists and activists to actualize mutual aid-based community projects and to consider utopian aspiration for the city. \nErick Lyle is a writer\, curator\, musician\, and underground journalist. His work has appeared in Art in America\, Vice\, California Sunday Magazine\, Huck\, LA Weekly\, Brooklyn Rail\, and on NPR’s This American Life. Since 1991\, he has written\, edited\, and published the influential punk/activist/art/crime magazine\, SCAM\, and he was a frequent contributor to the arts and literary section of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He has played on some 30 records by at least a dozen bands. He currently lives in Brooklyn\, NY. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-talk-erick-lyle-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR