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SUMMARY:Hillary Angelo: "Manufacturing Gesellschaft: Urbanized Nature and the 'Green Screen'"
DESCRIPTION:Hillary Angelo is preparing a book on the history of urban “greening” in Germany’s Ruhr region\, as well as projects on infrastructure and sociology\, and on equity in urban sustainability planning. \nHillary Angelo is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCSC. \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/hillary-angelo-manufacturing-gesellschaft-urbanized-nature-and-the-green-screen-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170302T140000
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SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Omid Mohamadi
DESCRIPTION:The Iranian Women’s Movement: Rights and Difference\nOmid Mohamadi\, Lecturer\, Feminist Studies \nMy talk centers on the Irania women’s movement and the One Million Signatures Campaign that seeks equal rights for all Iranian women within the laws of the Islamic Republic. Focusing on the campaign’s central text\, The Effect of Laws on Women’s Lives\, and activists’ testimonies\, I show how the Iranian women’s movement appeals to (and also challenges) multiple sites simultaneously\, and highlight and critique scholars who subscribe to a shared historical narrative suggesting that the current unity between secular and religious feminists is evidence that the women’s movement has superseded a century of internecine conflict and possibly ideology itself. One must also look at the internal logic of rights themselves and their ability to either imperil or strengthen social movements. I argue that two central facets of rights coupled with two historical development after the 1979 Revolution are responsible for the recent rights-based activism of Iranian feminist\, and conclude by thinking through the politics of difference within the movement\, especially claims of radical alterity that fray when confronted with the complex relationship between secularism and religion. \n  \nOmid Mohamadi earned his Ph.D. in Politics at UCSC with a Designated Emphasis in Feminist Studies. Focusing on contemporary Iran\, his research utilizes feminist and political theory to explore interrelated questions on religion\, secularism\, gender\, rights\, the state\, art\, and social movements. \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-omid-mohamadi-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Audun Dahl: The Empirical Reality of Moral Reasoning
DESCRIPTION:Many theories have viewed reason and reasoning as essential to making moral judgments. In contrast\, recent psychological proposals have contested the centrality of reasoning\, arguing that most or many moral judgments are based on automatic\, emotional reactions (sometimes termed “institutions\,” e.g. Greene\, 2013; Haidt 2013). These proposals are based on experiments taken to show that people are sometimes unable to justify their moral evaluations and that such evaluations are sensitive to factors presumed morally irrelevant. In this talk\, I will argue that these studies have a number of methodological and theoretical limitations. Research without these limitations\, for instance on responses to so-called trolley dilemmas\, indicates that reasoning plays important roles when individuals make moral judgments. Furthermore\, this research suggests a realistic view of moral reasoning that is not premised on the dichotomy between reasoning and emotional reactions. \nAbout:\nAudun Dahl is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at UC Santa Cruz. His research investigates early moral development. One line of work deals with the emergence of infant helping behavior and a second line deals with how young children acquire an aversion to harming others. His research combines naturalistic and experimental methods to study how infants’ everyday social interactions contribute to these developments.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/audun-dahl-the-empirical-reality-of-moral-reasoning-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:The Maghrib Workshop and The Spain-North Africa Project
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nFriday\, March 3\nLaw and Movement: Historical Roots and Contexts\, 
Contemporary Questions\, Part 2 (The Maghrib Workshop)\nMorning\n9:00 Coffee and Introduction \n9:30 Camilo Gómez-Rivas\, Literature\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\, “Refugees of the Reconquista and the Ransoming of Captives” \n11:00 Marc Andre\, Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes\, “Militarizing the Metropolis? The Army during the Algerian War in France through the Fortress Montluc” \n12:30 Lunch \nAfternoon\n1:30 Lia Brozgal\, French and Francophone Studies\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, “‘Heureux les kabyles blonds’: Reading Race in the October 17 Archive” \n3:00 Break \n3:15 Alma Heckman\, History and Jewish Studies\, UCSC\, “The Rights and Obligations of Divorce: Jews and Moroccan Independence” \n4:45 Concluding Remarks \n6:00 Dinner \nSaturday\, March 4\nAndalusī Musical Traditions of the Western Mediterranean
(The Spain-North Africa Project)\nMorning\n9:00 Coffee and Introduction \n9:30 Rachel Colwell\, Music\, University of California\, Berkeley\, “al-Jaww al-Malouf al-Tounsi\, an Acoustemology of Listening” \n10:30 Jonathan Glasser\, Anthropology\, College of William and Mary\, “The Problem of Muslim-Jewish Musical Borderlands at Algeria’s Spanish-Ottoman Frontier” \n12:00 Lunch \nAfternoon\n1:00 Chris Silver\, History\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, “Marching (and Waltzing) toward Independence: North African Jewish Musicians at Mid-Century” \n2:30 Break \n2:45 Dwight Reynolds\, Religious Studies\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\, “Al-Andalus in the Musical World of the Medieval Mediterranean” \n4:15 Brain-Storming Session on Follow-up \n5:00 End! \n  \nContact: \nCamilo Gómez-Rivas\n831.205.9001\ncgomezri@ucsc.edu \nFunded by: \nUniversity of California Humanities Research Institute 
(UCHRI) Faculty Working Group grant and the Institute for Humanities Research
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-maghrib-workshop-and-the-spain-north-africa-project-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Center for Emerging Worlds presents Subversive Sounds: Music and Politics of the Global South
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Emerging Worlds presents \nSubversive Sounds: Music and Politics of the Global South \nFriday March 3\, 2017\nHumanities 2\, Room 359\nUC Santa Cruz\nThe event is free and open to the public \nDuring the final decades of the major European empires and at the beginning of a century of American hegemony\, the advent of electrical sound recording\, and the spread of the radio broadcasting gramophone records generated new spaces and modalities of cultural circulation and political discourse. Port cities around the globe\, in particular\, produced hybrid musical forms that inspired imitators and innovators elsewhere. From the end of World War I to the present\, new telecommunications technologies have served as instruments of power\, means of manufacturing consent\, and media of political and commercial colonization\, while vernacular musics and recordings of political speeches and sermons have carried insurgent\, otherworldly visions in opposition to empire. While textuality\, printed media\, and visual culture conventionally receive more attention\, this daylong conference foregrounds soundscapes and the anticolonial audiopolitics of the Global South. \n10:00 AM\nMarc Matera (UC Santa Cruz) – Opening Remarks \n10:30 AM-12:15 PM\nAlejandra Bronfman (University of British Columbia)\n“Drums\, Mines\, Coils\, Voices: Histories of Media and Materiality”\n–       Discussion Comments by Katherine Gordy (San Francisco State University) \n12:15 PM-1:30PM Lunch \n1:30 PM-3:15 PM\nMichael Denning (Yale University)\n“‘A Noisy Heaven and a Syncopated Earth’: The Transcolonial Reverberations of Vernacular Phonograph Music”\n–       Discussion Comments by Eric Porter (UC Santa Cruz) \n3:30 PM-5:00 PM\nClosing Roundtable with Michael Denning\, Alejandra Bronfman\, Eric Porter\, and David Anthony (UC Santa Cruz) \nFor more information\, contact sjetha@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-center-for-emerging-worlds-presents-subversive-sounds-music-and-politics-of-the-global-south-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170303T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170303T133000
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SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Chessa Adsit-Morries
DESCRIPTION:Creative Ecologies of Practice: Collaborative Agential Modes of Eco-Aesthetic Pedagogy \nThis presentation will discuss two collaborative environmental art projects aimed at creating experimental and experiential trans-disciplinary pedagogical practices. Both projects are examples of “creative ecologies of practice” enabling and requiring multiple modes of thought\, multiple modes of encounter\, and multiple modes of pedagogy. They are imaginative and speculative\, require resonance and creative response\, and include practices and discourses of eco-aesthetics to foster sites of refuge\, sites of agency and cities response-ablitiy. They enable collaborative inquires into urgent social\, political and ecological challenges\, exploring elements that help to activate\, integrate and support collaborative endeavors that challenge current (neoliberal capitalistic) representations\, foster (multi species) agency and create new knowledge(s). \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-chessa-adsit-morries-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170303T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170303T220000
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SUMMARY:Improvised Shakespeare
DESCRIPTION:Improv Playhouse of San Francisco will perform a completely improvised piece using their original format\, “Improvised Shakespeare\,” at Center Stage in downtown Santa Cruz on Friday\, March 3\, staring at 8:00 pm. Tickets are free and limited to UCSC affiliates. They will be available via Brown Paper Tickets. (One ticket reservation per UCSC email.) The players describe the performance this way: “​Shakespeare’s stories take place in a tumultuous world full of unrequited love\, treachery\, passion\, war\, mistaken identity\, political intrigue and\, sometimes\, magic. In our shows\, we strive to inhabit that world and to play characters who go through similar adventures and emotions. We don’t know in advance if the show will be a romantic comedy or a tragedy\, or some of both. But we do know that it will be completely improvised. Each show is unique\, the audience joining us on the journey to discover what story lies in wait for our merry players…huzzah!”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/improvised-shakespeare-2/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, Downtown Santa Cruz
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170305T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170305T183000
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SUMMARY:Acting Improvisation Workshop
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, March 5\, Lisa Rowland (a member of Improv Playhouse) will conduct an Acting Improvisation Workshop\, focussing on Shakespeare\, from 12:30 until 6:30 pm. Space is limited to 20 UCSC students\, for whom the workshop is free. Email Bob Giges otom@ucsc.edu for registration/information. Lisa describes the program in this way “This workshop is a journey into the language and spirit of improvised Shakespeare.  The beauty and poetry of the language will be explored\, while at the same time we will emphasize simplicity and above all communication.” \nRegistration/Information\,. email Bob Giges otom@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/acting-improvisation-workshop-2/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170307T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170307T150000
DTSTAMP:20260422T170659
CREATED:20170222T201348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170222T201348Z
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SUMMARY:Slow Seminar on Race\, Violence\, Inequality and the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:2016-2017 SLOW SEMINARS \nRACE\, VIOLENCE\, INEQUALITY AND THE ANTHROPOCENE \nThe contemporary moment is marked by global environmental change\, the collapse of states and the reconfiguration of economies. This era\, where human disturbances asymmetrically affect all ecosystems\, is increasingly being called the ‘Anthropocene.’ We approach Anthropocene conditions as inextricably linked to long-term histories of plant and animal domestication\, and to more recent histories of European colonialism\, transatlantic slavery and capitalism. Via a year-long slow seminar and a series of public events\, we hope to enrich conversations about the Anthropocene – as term\, concept\, and historical era – by bringing together diverse bodies of scholarship\, in particular decolonial and postcolonial theory. This re-politicizes the Anthropocene as an object of study\, making race and empire\, capitalism and colonialism\, and social inequality and violence central to the story of ecological transformation. \nSEMINAR 2: \nTuesday March 7th\, 1-3pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 408 \nSeminar readings: \nElizabeth Povinelli\, Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism (Duke University Press\, 2016) \nNB: We will be reading the whole book. Copies have been ordered at the Literary Guillotine and can be purchased there. \nSponsored by the IHR Research Cluster on Race\, Violence\, Inequality and the Anthropocene
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/race-violence-inequality-and-the-anthropocene-seminar-2-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 408
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T110000
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SUMMARY:IHR Public Fellows Info Session 1
DESCRIPTION:IHR PUBLIC FELLOWS \nDeadline: April 30\, 2017 \nAmount: Up to $5\,000 \nNumber of Fellowships: 3 or more (based on the availability of funds) \nThese fellowships will provide the opportunity for humanities doctoral students to contribute to research\, programming\, communications and fundraising at non-profit organizations\, cultural institutions\, or companies and are meant to allow the students to apply and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. Majority of the work should be completed during Summer 2017. Students are welcome to find their own partner organizations or to pursue opportunities from organizations listed below. \nBefore applying\, students are required to attend one of Info Sessions below: \nSession I. March 8\, 10am\, Humanities 1\, Room 202 \nSession II. March 9\, 2pm\, Humanities 1\, Room 402 \nMore information available at ihr.ucsc.edu/programs/fellowships
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ihr-public-fellows-info-session-1-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T130000
DTSTAMP:20260422T170659
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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED Akash Kumar
DESCRIPTION:Rescheduled for March 15\, 2017
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/akash-kumar-all-the-world-on-a-board-chess-and-cultural-crossings-in-dante-and-boccaccio-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T180000
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SUMMARY:Alan Craig: "VR\, AR\, and the Brain: Teaching\, Learning\, and Research With Virtual and Augmented Reality"
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \n  \nAlan B. Craig is the Senior Associate Director for Human-Computer Interaction at the Institute for Computing in Humanities\, Arts\, and Social Sciences (I-CHASS) and a Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). He is also the Humanities\, Arts\, and Social Science sSpecialist for the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). His work centers on the continuum between the physical and the digital. He has done extensive work in virtual reality\, augmented reality\, and personal fabrication\, as well as educational applications of data mining\, visualization\, and collaborative systems. He has authored three books (Understanding Augmented Reality\, Developing Virtual Reality Applications\, and Understanding Augmented Reality)\, and holds three patents.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alan-craig-vr-ar-and-the-brain-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T110000
DTSTAMP:20260422T170659
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SUMMARY:Why I'm reading Joseph Conrad these days
DESCRIPTION:Familiarity with Heart of Darkness helpful\, but not essential. Introduction: Prof. David Marriott\, Chair\, History of Consciousness \n\n\n\n\n\nDiscussant: Isaac Blacksin\, Ph.D. candidate\, History of Consciousness \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nJames Clifford is an interdisciplinary scholar who was a Professor in UCSC’s History of Consciousness department for 33 years until his retirement in 2011. He was elected to the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences in 2011. The History of Consciousness department at UCSC continues to be an intellectual center for innovative critical scholarship in the U.S. and abroad. Since 2000\, Clifford’s writing has focused on processes of globalization and decolonization as they influence contemporary “indigenous” lives\, including Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty First Century (2013).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/why-im-reading-joseph-conrad-these-days-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T153000
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SUMMARY:Zachary Lockman: "Adventures in Field-Building: On the History of Area Studies/Middle East Studies in the United States”
DESCRIPTION:Area studies is often simplistically depicted as little more than a Cold War form of knowledge\, but its emergence as a component of the postwar American academic scene was in fact propelled and shaped by visions\, exigencies and contingencies that were not initially or exclusively about the needs of the national security state. Zachary Lockman’s 2016 book Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States draws on extensive archival research to offer a different perspective on the origins and trajectory of area studies in the United States and to explore how the field of Middle East studies in the United States was actually built. The book’s focus is not on intellectual paradigms or scholarly output but rather on funding decisions and their rationales\, efforts to elaborate a distinctive theory and method for area studies\, the anxieties these efforts generated for Middle East studies\, and the unanticipated consequences of building these new academic fields. \nZachary Lockman has taught modern Middle Eastern history at New York University since 1995. His most recent book is Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States (2016). His other books include Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism (2004/2010); Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine\, 1906-1948 (1996); and (with Joel Beinin) Workers on the Nile: Nationalism\, Communism\, Islam\, and the Egyptian Working Class\, 1882-1954 (1987). He is a former president of the Middle East Studies Association\, chairs the wing of MESA’s Committee on Academic Freedom that deals with North America\, and is a contributing editor of Middle East Report.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zachary-lockman-adventures-in-field-building-on-the-history-of-area-studiesmiddle-east-studies-in-the-united-states-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T150000
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SUMMARY:IHR Public Fellows Info Session 2
DESCRIPTION:IHR PUBLIC FELLOWS \nDeadline: April 30\, 2017 \nAmount: Up to $5\,000 \nNumber of Fellowships: 3 or more (based on the availability of funds) \nThese fellowships will provide the opportunity for humanities doctoral students to contribute to research\, programming\, communications and fundraising at non-profit organizations\, cultural institutions\, or companies and are meant to allow the students to apply and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. Majority of the work should be completed during Summer 2017. Students are welcome to find their own partner organizations or to pursue opportunities from organizations listed below. \nBefore applying\, students are required to attend one of Info Sessions below: \nSession I. March 8\, 10am\, Humanities 1\, Room 202 \nSession II. March 9\, 2pm\, Humanities 1\, Room 402 \nMore information available at ihr.ucsc.edu/programs/fellowships
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ihr-public-fellows-info-session-2-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 402
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T185000
DTSTAMP:20260422T170659
CREATED:20170113T192646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T192646Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Urayoán Noel
DESCRIPTION:Urayoán Noel is a self-described “stateless poet” whose critical and creative work foregrounds the messy condition of Puerto Rican belonging and non-belonging to the US nation-state. His poetic performances\, texts\, and “video poems” flagrantly comingle English with Spanish\, mixing learned literary allusions with found words generated from cell phones or political demonstrations.   Born and raised in San Juan\, Puerto Rico\, Noel lives in the Bronx and is an associate professor of English and Spanish at NYU. Noel is the author of Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (Arizona\, 2015)\, a Library Journal Top Fall Indie Poetry selection; Hi-Density Politics (BlazeVox\, 2010)\, a National Book Critics Circle Small Press Highlights selection; Kool Logic/La Lógica Kool (Bilingual Review\, 2005)\, an El Nuevo Día Book of the Year; and several books mostly in Spanish\, most recently the performance text EnUncIAdOr (Educación Emergente\, 2014). Other works include the DVD Kool Logic Sessions (Bilingual Review\, 2005)\, a collaboration with composer Monxo López; the artist’s book/performance/website The Edgemere Letters (2011)\, a collaboration with artist Martha Clippinger; and the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (Iowa\, 2014)\, winner of the LASA Latina/o Studies Book Award and recipient of an honorable mention in the MLA Prize in Latina/o and Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Studies. A contributing editor of NACLA Report on the Americas and Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora\, Noel has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation\, the Howard Foundation\, the Bronx Council on the Arts\, and CantoMundo\, and is currently completing a bilingual edition of the poems of Pablo de Rokha. \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 LWS_Winter17_Proof2-2 \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-urayoan-noel-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetics of Non-Citizenship: A Seminar with Urayoán Noel
DESCRIPTION:In this seminar\, Urayoán Noel will discuss his critical work on the nexus of creative expression and political activism\, from the 1960s to the present. He is interested in the subversive power of media\, performance\, and especially of English-Spanish-Spanglish language play\, which cuts across different Latina/o/x constituencies. One dimension of his research involves the use of social media among activist DREAMers and in the Haitian-Dominican context\, expressed in the #Latinx hashtag and Dominican Twitter. Another thread considers “eccentric archives of the Latina/o Sixties” by comparing two poetic movements\, the Royal Chicano Air Force and El Puerto Rican Embassy. Although centered in California and New York respectively\, both groups of poet-performers imagined sites of organization outside the nation-state: “Califas” and “Nuyorico.” Finally\, Professor Noel considers the changing work of the space of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe from the 1970s to the present\, from anti-gentrification to anti-globalization movements. \nPastries\, coffee\, and tea will be served. \n  \nPlease register here prior to attending this event. \n  \nUrayoán Noel is a self-described “stateless poet” whose critical and creative work foregrounds the messy condition of Puerto Rican belonging and non-belonging in and to the U.S. nation-state. His poetic performances\, texts\, and “video poems” flagrantly comingle English with Spanish\, mixing learned literary allusions with found words generated from cell phones or political demonstrations. \nBorn and raised in San Juan\, Puerto Rico\, Professor Noel lives in the Bronx and is an associate professor of English and Spanish at New York University. He is the author of Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (Arizona\, 2015)\,  a Library Journal Top Fall Indie Poetry selection; Hi-Density Politics (BlazeVox\, 2010)\, a National Book Critics Circle Small Press Highlights selection; Kool Logic/La Lógica Kool (Bilingual Review\, 2005)\, an El Nuevo Día Book of the Year; the performance text EnUncIAdOr (Educación Emergente\, 2014); and several books mostly in Spanish. Other works include the DVD Kool Logic Sessions (Bilingual Review\, 2005)\, a collaboration with composer Monxo López; the artist’s book/performance/website The Edgemere Letters (2011)\, a collaboration with artist Martha Clippinger; and the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (Iowa\, 2014)\, winner of the LASA Latina/o Studies Book Award and recipient of an honorable mention in the MLA Prize in Latina/o and Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Studies. A contributing editor to the NACLA Report on the Americas and Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora\, he has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation\, the Howard Foundation\, the Bronx Council on the Arts\, and CantoMundo. He is currently completing a bilingual edition of the poems of Pablo de Rokha. \n  \nThe seminar is co-sponsored by the Literature Department\, Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research\, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetics-of-non-citizenship-a-seminar-with-urayoan-noel-2/
LOCATION:Charles E. Merrill Lounge
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170310T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170310T123000
DTSTAMP:20260422T170659
CREATED:20161215T193659Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+: Open Access\, Data Management and Library Resources
DESCRIPTION:Open Access\, Data Management and Library Resources \nWhat does Open Access mean for you? How can you organize and manage your research materials to best support your writing? And\, what kinds of resources are available to graduate students for accessing data and information?This PhD+ panel features librarians who will discuss a range of issues\, including depositing your dissertation\, data management\, and the ethics of sharing your work in an Open Access world. We will discuss: \n\nThe Presidential Open Access Policy\, and how it pertains to graduate research\nPublishing in Open Access journals and the potential impact on book contracts and job searches (academic + beyond)\nand\, Open Access as Social Justice\n\nTake the opportunity to get to know your librarians and to engage in a graduate student specific conversation about Open Access. The panelists will also answer questions about ILL\, digital research methodologies\, citation software\, library-based subscriptions\, and other related research tools. Check out these library services and resources and join us to learn more. \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-open-access-library-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170315T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170315T133000
DTSTAMP:20260422T170659
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SUMMARY:Akash Kumar: "All the World on a Board: Chess and Cultural Crossings in Dante and Boccaccio"
DESCRIPTION:Akash Kumar focuses on the crossing of poetry\, philosophy\, and science in 13th-14th century Italy\, emphasizing multicultural knowledge transmission in the medieval Mediterranean. His talk emerges from his second book project on medieval Italian representations of chess and the exchange made possible by the game across gender\, religious\, and social boundaries. \nAkash Kumar is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature at UCSC. \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 15th: Akash Kumar
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/akash-kumar-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170315T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170315T170000
DTSTAMP:20260422T170659
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SUMMARY:Ideology & Identity in the Revival of Spoken Hebrew
DESCRIPTION:The revival of Spoken Hebrew took place in Palestine in the early 20 th century\, and is often seen as a historically unique example of successful language revival. In this talk I suggest that Hebrew is also exemplary\, of the ways in which our languages speak through us. What is special about Hebrew is that key properties of the revival process – its rapidity and recency – make it possible to track mechanisms by which broader ideologies (of nation\, ancestry\, class\, gender\, etc.) come to be embedded in the languages we speak. The talk will focus on East-West diasporic dynamics in the negotiation of accent for the new spoken Hebrew\, and on the shifting values of authenticity and sincerity in the construction of the new native-born speech style. \nReception to follow the lecture \nFor more info contact Peter Reed pmreed@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stevenson-distinguished-faculty-lecture-with-ivy-sichel-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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