BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART: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;VALUE=DATE:20170501 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170502 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20161201T191718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T191718Z UID:10006433-1493596800-1493683199@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Humanists@Work: Graduate Career Workshop in Silicon Valley DESCRIPTION:Humanists@Work Graduate Career Workshop – UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus\nSanta Clara – May 1\, 2017\nWhat is Humanists@Work?\nHumanists@Work is a UC-wide initiative geared towards UC Humanities and humanistic Social Science MAs and PhDs interested in careers outside/alongside the academy. \nOn May 1\, 2017\, HumWork will host a sixth workshop for graduate students and faculty members in partnership with the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Inspired by its location\, Humanists@Work Graduate Career Workshop – Silicon Valley will engage the synergistic possibilities at the intersection of new media\, community engagement\, education and public humanities that is characteristic of the greater Bay Area. \n  \n \nWORKSHOP LOCATION \nUCSC Silicon Valley Extension Campus\n3175 Bowers Ave\nSanta Clara\, CA 95054\nFREE PARKING ON CAMPUS \nWORKSHOP SCHEDULE \n8:00—9:00 AM: HOT BREAKFAST \n9:00—9:30 AM: WELCOME \n9:30—11:00 AM: STORIES FROM THE FIELD \nIn Stories from the Field\, four UC humanities PhDs discuss how long-term\, sustained humanistic thought and labor shape\, and potentially transform\, their career trajectories and the industries in which they find themselves employed. How did their values\, ethics\, and politics inform their post-PhD work choices? \nChristian Blood\nCurriculum Specialist\nZoho Corporation \nDana Douglas DePietro\, Ph.D.\nCultural Resources Division Lead\, FirstCarbon Solutions\nExecutive Director\, S.H.A.R.E \nTamao Nakahara\, PhD\nCo-organizer\nDevXCon \nSheri J. Tatsch\, PhD\nOwner/Principal\nIndigenous Consulting Services \n11:00—11:30 AM: COFFEE BREAK AND INFORMAL NETWORKING \n11:30 AM—1:00 PM: FROM ACADEMIC CV TO INNOVATIVE RÉSUMÉ USING JARED REDICK’S “PURPOSE\, CONTENT\, DESIGN” METHODOLOGIES \nThe Résumé Studio’s Jared Redick returns to Humwork\, sharing his “purpose\, content\, design” techniques aimed at helping recent and soon-to-be PhDs shape a purposeful résumé\, while framing the possibilities of a fulfilling future beyond or alongside academia. \n1:00—2:00 PM: LUNCH \n2:00—3:30 PM: BREAKOUT SESSIONS \nSESSION 1 – HUMANITIES PHDS: DESIGNING CAREER PATHS \nDebra Behrens\, PhD\nPhD Counselor\nUniversity of California\, Berkeley \nThis interactive workshop is for humanities PhDs in the early stages of researching careers who want to Explore career ideas\, Learn to research jobs and engage short-term strategies for gaining experience\, and Design potential career paths. \nSESSION 2 – PERSUASIVE INTERVIEWING \nAnnie Maxfield\, MS\nAssociate Director\, Graduate Student Relations and Services\nUniversity of California\, Los Angeles \nExcelling in interview settings is a skill that requires thought\, practice\, and confidence. During this interactive workshop\, attendees will practice and refine their interviewing skills by learning persuasive techniques that enhance their storytelling abilities and highlight their key contributions. \n3:30—4:00 PM: COFFEE BREAK AND INFORMAL NETWORKING \n4:00—5:30 PM: CANDID CONVERSATIONS: DEBT IN THE HUMANITIES \nStudent debt is a collective experience shared by the majority of humanities PhDs\, so why aren’t we talking about it? Candid Conversations engages faculty\, graduate students\, and university staff in a dialogue around the issue of debt and how it influences your post-PhD careers. \nJoshua A. Anderson\nGraduate Student\nUniversity of California\, Berkeley \nJessica Beard\, PhD\nHigher Education Project Organizer\nAmerican Federation of Teachers \nJennifer E. McSpadden\nABD\nUniversity of California\, Davis \nAllison Perlman\, PhD\nAssistant Professor\nUniversity of California\, Irvine URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanistswork-2-2/ LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Hum@Work-web-banner-5.1.17.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170502T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170502T133000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170426T121148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T121148Z UID:10006508-1493726400-1493731800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Digital Pedagogy Showcase DESCRIPTION:Get some syllabus inspiration! The inaugural cohort of the Digital Instruction Project lead this Brown Bag Session about developing and implementing new digital assignments in their classes. Join us as we discuss the benefits and challenges of adding digital tools into your syllabus and pushing your students to try new forms of scholarly writing. \nThe panel includes Philip Longo (Writing Program)\, Kyle Parry (HAVC)\, Cat Ramirez (LALS)\, Amanda Smith (Literature)\, and Dustin Wright (History) \nThe Digital Instruction Project was launched in Fall 2016 by the Digital Scholarship Commons and the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-pedagogy-showcase-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Digital-Pedagogy-Showcase.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170502T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170502T150000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170414T201204Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T201204Z UID:10006497-1493731800-1493737200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"What's Left of Progressive Politics?" DESCRIPTION:The Center for Emerging Worlds presents \n“What’s Left of Progressive Politics?”\n Roundtable Discussion with\nDr. Vijay Prashad\, Dr. Lisa Rofel\, Dr. Mayanthi Fernando\, and Asad Haider \nDr. Vijay Prashad is Professor of International Studies and South Asian History at Trinity College\, Connecticut and a renowned journalist. He was trained as a historical anthropologist and received his Ph.D from the University of Chicago. Prashad’s work addresses issues like race and imperialism\, race and immigrant communities in the US\, geopolitical changes in the global South after 9/11\, the propagation of policies that produce and exacerbate income inequalities\, the possibilities of political solidarities among social movements committed to progressive change in the world\, and the role of national governments and regional alliances in the context of economic and political changes in the world.    He is the author of numerous books. Some of them are – The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press\, 2016 and New Delhi: LeftWord Books\, 2016). No Free Left: The Futures of Indian Communism (New Delhi: LeftWord Books\, 2015). The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (London: Verso and New Delhi: LeftWord Books\, 2013). Arab Spring\, Libyan Winter (Baltimore: AK Press and New Delhi: LeftWord Books\, 2012). The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World\, (New York: New Press and New Delhi: LeftWord\, 2007). Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (Boston: Beacon Press\, 2001). Karma of Brown Folk (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press\, 2000). Untouchable Freedom: The Social History of a Dalit Community (New Delhi: Oxford University Press\, 1999). His articles appear in media organization s like the Guardian\, the Hindu\, Frontline\, jadaliyya\, and AlterNet. \nFor more information\, contact sjetha@ucsc.edu \nThese events are free and open to the public URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/whats-left-of-progressive-politics-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170502T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170502T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170414T201529Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T201529Z UID:10006498-1493744400-1493751600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:In the Ruins of the Present: Neoliberalism and Cruel Populism Suffocate the Future DESCRIPTION:Vijay Prashad’s talk In the Ruins of the Present: Neoliberalism and Cruel Populism Suffocate the Future traces the rise of populism across the world\, including the global South and North\, in the present historical moment. This type of populism expresses itself in anti-immigrant politics and defines the nation in narrow terms – race\, ethnicity\, and religion. It seeks to exclude immigrants who do not fit within the narrow confines of these categories. This populism does not address the substantive issues of inequality and jobless even if some of its energy is derived from it. \n  \nDr. Vijay Prashad is Professor of International Studies and South Asian History at Trinity College\, Connecticut and a renowned journalist. He was trained as a historical anthropologist and received his Ph.D from the University of Chicago. Prashad’s work addresses issues like race and imperialism\, race and immigrant communities in the US\, geopolitical changes in the global South after 9/11\, the propagation of policies that produce and exacerbate income inequalities\, the possibilities of political solidarities among social movements committed to progressive change in the world\, and the role of national governments and regional alliances in the context of economic and political changes in the world.    He is the author of numerous books. Some of them are – The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press\, 2016 and New Delhi: LeftWord Books\, 2016). No Free Left: The Futures of Indian Communism (New Delhi: LeftWord Books\, 2015). The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (London: Verso and New Delhi: LeftWord Books\, 2013). Arab Spring\, Libyan Winter (Baltimore: AK Press and New Delhi: LeftWord Books\, 2012). The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World\, (New York: New Press and New Delhi: LeftWord\, 2007). Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (Boston: Beacon Press\, 2001). Karma of Brown Folk (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press\, 2000). Untouchable Freedom: The Social History of a Dalit Community (New Delhi: Oxford University Press\, 1999). His articles appear in media organization s like the Guardian\, the Hindu\, Frontline\, jadaliyya\, and AlterNet. \nLocation: TBD \nFor more information\, contact sjetha@ucsc.edu \nThese events are free and open to the public URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/in-the-ruins-of-the-present-neoliberalism-and-cruel-populism-suffocate-the-future-dr-vijay-prashad-2/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170503T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170503T133000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170426T102852Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T102852Z UID:10006505-1493812800-1493818200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Chris Connery: "Contemporary Chinese Capitalism and Its Critical Landscape" DESCRIPTION:“Contemporary Chinese Capitalism and Its Critical Landscape” \nThis talk draws on a work in progress entitled Revolutionary China and its Late Capitalist Fate\, an analysis of the nature of post-reform China’s political economy\, with particular attention to how this has affected everyday life\, intellectual and critical work\, ideological formation\, cultural production\, social movements\, political action\, and social space. \nChris Connery is a Professor of Literature at UCSC and Professor of Cultural Studies at Shanghai University. \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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/chris-connery-contemporary-chinese-capitalism-and-its-critical-landscape-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:20170503T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170503T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170426T122104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T122104Z UID:10006509-1493823600-1493830800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Earl Jackson: "Critical Conditions: Japanese Film Theory and Practice" DESCRIPTION:Earl Jackson Jr. is Professor at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan and Co-Director of the Trans-Asian Screen Cultures Institute in South Korea. \nCo-Sponsored by Cultural Studies\, Cowell College\, and the Literature Department. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/earl-jackson-critical-conditions-japanese-film-theory-and-practice-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/2017/04/unnamed-3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170504T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170504T160000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170503T155024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170503T155024Z UID:10005372-1493906400-1493913600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Doris Leibetseder DESCRIPTION:QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies \nDoris Leibetseder\, Visiting Scholar\, UC Berkeley \nIn this paper I present part of an allied queer-feminist and transgender ethics of reproduc-tion. I look at ARTs and how they raise challenges for transgender and queer people. My focus lies in the ways these technologies confront queer and people with normative expectations concerning biological sex\, gender\, sexuality\, kinship relations and the right to procreate\, and how this leads to medical migration. This presentation gives an overview of my new EU-funded (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) project starting August 2017 at Uppsala University: “Towards an Inclusive Common European Framework for Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART): Queer Transgender Reproduction in the Age of ART.” \n  \nDoris Leibetseder is a researcher at the University of Uppsala\, Sweden in the Centre for Gender Research and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley\, CSMTS (Center for Science\, Technology\, Medicine and Society). \n  \nFeminist Studies Colloquium Series Spring 2017 Schedule:\nMay 4th: Doris Leibetseder\, “QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies”\nMay 17th: Susan O’Neal Stryker\, “What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need”\nJune 1st: Patricia de Santana Pinho\, “We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring Brazil and Bearing their Nation” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-series-doris-leibetseder-3/ LOCATION:Humanites 1\, Room 320\, Humanities and Social Science Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/FMST-Colloq-Spring-2017-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170504T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170504T185000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170414T192023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T192023Z UID:10005368-1493918400-1493923800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa & Eric Sneathen DESCRIPTION:Poet Tsering Wangmo Dhompa’s parents fled Tibet in 1959. Raised by her mother in Tibetan communities in Dharamsala\, India\, and Kathmandu\, Nepal\, She is the author of the poetry chapbooks In Writing the Names (2000) and Recurring Gestures (2000). She has published the full-length collections Rules of the House (2002)\, In the Absent Everyday (2005)\, and My Rice tastes like the lake (2011)\, which was a finalist for the Northern California Independent Bookseller’s Book of the Year Award for 2012. Dhompa’s non-fiction book based on her life is called A Home in Tibet (Penguin India\, 2013). \nEric Sneathen\, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nEric Sneathen is a poet who whose writing has been published by Mondo Bummer\, Elderly\, and Faggot Journal. He is the editor and organizer of Macaroni Necklace\, a Bay Area–based DIY literary journal and reading series. Snail Poems is his first book. \nThe UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents\nThe Lives of Other Songs\nLiving Writers Series Spring 2017 \nThursdays / 5:20-6:50pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nApril 13\, 2017: Tongo Eisen-Martin\, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) \nMay 4\, 2017: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa\, author of A Home in Tibet (Penguin\, 2014) and Eric Sneathen\, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nMay 11\, 2017: Aisha Sasha John\, author of THOU (BookThug\, 2014) \nMay 18\, 2017: Rosa Alcalá\, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books\, 2010) \nJune 1\, 2017: Lauren Levin\, author of The Braid (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nJune 8\, 2017: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-tsering-wangmo-dhompa-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/2017/04/Living-Writers-Spring-2017-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170505T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170505T123000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20161215T195131Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T193742Z UID:10006442-1493982000-1493987400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: Mentorship DESCRIPTION:Mentorship Managed Up: cultivating successful professional relationships within\, alongside\, and outside the academy\n\nThis PhD+ session is being presented in coordination with members of the NEH Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grant Committee. Please join faculty\, administration\, and graduate students in a facilitated discussion and share your thoughts about how to foster and maintain successful mentorship relationships in humanities graduate programs. We’ll open with brief introductory comments before moving into a moderated panel discussion addressing:\n\nthe benefits and challenges associated with establishing a mentor/mentee relationship with different types of individuals who may serve in the mentor role\, e.g.\, faculty advisers (intra- and inter-department)\, non-academic professionals\, peer graduate student mentors\, etc\nthe goals of a mentor/mentee relationship\, discussing achievable milestones or benchmarks\, and setting corresponding expectation\nthe processes for “managing up” in a mentor/mentee relationship in terms of navigating successful accomplishment of the expected milestones and how to resolve conflict\, overcome obstacles or inertia\, etc.\n\n\nEach question will be followed by a brief response from the panelists meant to generate a larger discussion including the members of the audience.  The Planning Committee hopes to use the feedback and discussion to inform its strategic proposals for further discussion\, development\, and possible implementation to better serve the UCSC humanities community.\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. \nLunch will be served\, as always. \nPlease RSVP below.\nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-mentorship-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170505T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170505T140000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170414T190440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T190440Z UID:10005366-1493987400-1493992800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Danielle Crawford DESCRIPTION:Shooting Cameras and Shooting Weapons: U.S. Military Violence and Ecological Ruin in Coppola’s Apocalypse Now \nThis presentation examines the shooting history of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979)\, which was shot on the Philippine island of Luzon. I investigate the collision between Hollywood’s shooting of cameras and the U.S. military’s shooting of weapons\, and the ways these forms of violence intertwine on the set of this Vietnam War film. While the film attempts to blur the geographic boundaries between Vietnam and the Philippines by using Philippine “jungles” as substitute\, I argue that Apocalypse Now ultimately blurs the boundaries between real U.S. warfare and the cinematic reproduction of warfare through its military collaborations and its production of ecological ruin. \nFriday Forum Spring 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. \nApril 21\, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz\, History \nApril 28\, 2017: Baizhu Chen\, Economics \nMay 5\, 2017: Danielle Crawford\, Literature \nMay 12\, 2017: Kristen Laciste\, HAVC \nMay 19\, 2017: Kara Hisatake\, Literature \nMay 26\, 2017: Yuki Obayashi\, Literature \nJune 2\, 2017: Angela Nguyen\, Psychology URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-danielle-crawford-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017-winter-FFPoster11.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170508T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170508T150000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170428T213517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170428T213517Z UID:10006510-1494250200-1494255600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Brett Rushforth: “‘Daily Trafficke with the Frenchmen’: Merchant Colonialism and African Sovereignty in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic" DESCRIPTION:Center for World History Presents \nBrett Rushforth\n“‘Daily Trafficke with the Frenchmen’: Merchant Colonialism and African Sovereignty in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic” \nMay 8\, 2017 @ 1:30-3pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 210\nFree and open to the public \nBrett Rushforth is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. He is a scholar of early American\nand Atlantic history who specializes in slavery\, race\, and the law in the French Atlantic world. His\nmost recent book\, “Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France”\, uncovered the\nhidden history of French colonists enslaving Native North Americans by the thousands in the 1700s\,\nsending captive Sioux\, Apache\, and other Indians to a life of slavery in Montreal\, Quebec\, and even the\nFrench Caribbean. In 2013-14\, “Bonds of Alliance” was named the best book in American social history\nby the Organization of American Historians\, the best book on the history of French colonialism by the\nFrench Colonial Historical Society\, the best book on the history of European expansion by the Forum\non European Expansion and Global Interaction\, and the best book in French Cultural Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/brett-rushforth-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/2017/04/Brett-Rushforth-Daily-Trafficke.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170508T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170508T153000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170328T230220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170328T230220Z UID:10006490-1494252000-1494257400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies Investiture Ceremony DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Division and Feminist Studies department are very excited to announce the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. This endowed chair was recently established with a $500\,000 gift from the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation and matching funds from the UC Regents. Bettina Aptheker\, Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies\, is the inaugural chair holder. The endowed chair will help fund research and teaching as well as graduate fellowships in feminist studies. \n \nFeminist Studies Investiture Ceremony from IHR on Vimeo. \nEvent Photos: by Steve Kurtz\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nJoin us for the Investiture Ceremony\, May 8\, 2017 at 2pm to be held at the Stevenson Event Center. Reception to follow. \nComplimentary parking will be available in the Barn Theater parking lot. Parking permits will be on sale for $4. Continuous shuttle service to Stevenson Event Center will be available from 1:15 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Barn Theater. \n \nAbout Bettina Aptheker \n \nBettina Aptheker is a nationally recognized historian and a scholar of feminist studies. She received her Ph.D. in History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz and became the first ladder-rank faculty member of the Feminist Studies Department\, then known as Women’s Studies\, in 1987. For nearly three decades Bettina has taught one of the country’s largest and most influential introductory feminist studies courses\, exposing more than 10\,000 students to her deeply compelling teaching. Bettina works extensively with graduate students in Feminist Studies\, and other departments\, and teaches graduate seminars\, including Feminist Pedagogy and Black Feminist Reconstruction. She has received numerous awards over the years\, and in June will be presented with the Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award in the Humanities. \nAbout the The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation \n \nThe Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation currently focuses on improving the lives of women and girls and ensuring equal access to education for all community members. UC Santa Cruz and the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation have been partnering on advancing innovative and impactful scholarship for many years. The foundation has funded the Baskin Feminist Scholars Program and the Baskin Scholars Program in Engineering that enable community college students to transfer to UC Santa Cruz\, underwritten fellowships to women doctoral students in engineering\, offered scholarships to women transfer students\, and funded the summer Girls in Engineering program for middle-school girls since its inception. With this new Presidential Chair\, the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation is leading the way in support of teaching and research in feminist studies at UC Santa Cruz. \n  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-peggy-and-jack-baskin-foundation-presidential-chair-in-feminist-studies-investiture-ceremony-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170510T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170510T133000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170426T103156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T103156Z UID:10006506-1494417600-1494423000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Debbora Battaglia: "Roots in Air: People/Plants/Ethics in Suspension" DESCRIPTION:“Roots in Air: People/Plants/Ethics in Suspension” \nOut of the urban ruins and food deprivation of World War II came the prototype for growing plants aeroponically. Aeroponics has since taken surprising turns as a technology for anthropocenic conditions – in Global South laboratories; “vertical gardens”; art installations; plant biology experiments for colonizing the cosmos. In its wake\, questions open concerning the ethics of plant-people relations in future-making projects. \nDebbora Battaglia is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Mt. Holyoke College. \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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/debborah-battaglia-roots-in-air-peopleplantsethics-in-suspension-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:20170511T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170511T133000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170505T184229Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170505T184229Z UID:10005376-1494504000-1494509400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ecology & the Rise of Capitalism Nature\, Power\, and the Origins of Our Times DESCRIPTION:A colloquium by\nAssociate Professor Jason W. Moore\nFernand Braudel Center\nBinghamton University\n\n\nJason W. Moore is an environmental and world historian at Binghamton University\, where he is Associate Professor of Sociology and Research Fellow at the Fernand Braudel Center. He is author of Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso\, 2015) and editor of Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature\, History\, and the Crisis of Capitalism (PM Press\, 2016). A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things\, written with Raj Patel\, will be published this fall (University of California Press). He is coordinator of the World-Ecology Research Network.\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by Rachel Carson College\, the UCSC Humanities Research Institute\, and the Sociology and Environmental Studies Departments.  Professor More will also be speaking at EXTRACTION: A Two-Day Conference on Decolonial Visual Cultures in the Age of the Capitalocene\, May 12-13\, sponsored by the Center for Creative Ecologies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ecology-the-rise-of-capitalism-nature-power-and-the-origins-of-our-times-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Moore-UCSC-talk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170511T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170511T185000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170414T193511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T193511Z UID:10005370-1494523200-1494528600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Aisha Sasha John DESCRIPTION:The UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents \nAisha Sasha John\, author of THOU (BookThug\, 2014) \nAISHA SASHA JOHN is a singing dancer– and the author of the recently published I have to live. (McClelland & Stewart). Aisha’s previous poetry collection THOU (BookThug 2014) was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the ReLit Poetry Award. Later this spring\, Aisha dances the aisha of oz at the Whitney Museum as part of the 2017 Whitney ISP exhibition. Aisha is trained in various Congolese and Ethiopian dances and has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. She was born in Montreal. \n The Lives of Other Songs\nLiving Writers Series Spring 2017 \nThursdays / 5:20-6:50pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nApril 13\, 2017: Tongo Eisen-Martin\, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) \nMay 4\, 2017: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa\, author of A Home in Tibet (Penguin\, 2014) and Eric Sneathen\, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nMay 11\, 2017: Aisha Sasha John\, author of THOU (BookThug\, 2014) \nMay 18\, 2017: Rosa Alcalá\, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books\, 2010) \nJune 1\, 2017: Lauren Levin\, author of The Braid (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nJune 8\, 2017: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-aisha-sasha-john-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/2017/04/Living-Writers-Spring-2017-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170512T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170512T140000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170414T205600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T205600Z UID:10006499-1494592200-1494597600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kristen Laciste DESCRIPTION:From Maidservant to Anomalous Aristocrat: Imaging and Imagining Dido Elizabeth Belle \nThe double portrait of cousins\, entitled\, Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray\, is truly an anomaly in 18th century British art. Depicting two aristocratic women\, one back and one white\, the painting inspired the 2014 film\, Belle. Incorporating the fancy and flair of period dramas\, the creators of Belle fabricated a largely fictional account\, envisioning Dido with a generous measure of agency and influence despite being black and female. This is evident in the portrait revealed in the movie. Though the original painting and film version are nearly identical\, this presentation examines the two\, considering the implications of the alterations made in the latter. \nFriday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule: \nFridays 12:30-2pm\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. \nApril 21\, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz\, History \nApril 28\, 2017: Baizhu Chen\, Economics \nMay 5\, 2017: Danielle Crawford\, Literature \nMay 12\, 2017: Kristen Laciste\, HAVC \nMay 19\, 2017: Kara Hisatake\, Literature \nMay 26\, 2017: Yuki Obayashi\, Literature \nJune 2\, 2017: Angela Nguyen\, Psychology URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-kristen-laciste-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017-winter-FFPoster11.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170512T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170512T163000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20161201T192448Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T192448Z UID:10006434-1494594000-1494606600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:13th Annual Graduate Research Symposium DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nGraduate Research Symposium\nThe Symposium offers graduate students from every division the opportunity to discuss their research with colleagues on campus and with the public. Our students present their work in the form of posters\, live presentations\, and media demonstrations. The Symposium also awards juried prizes\, overseen by a panel of judges comprised of faculty\, staff\, researchers\, alumni\, and industry professionals\, for presenters from each division and two overall awards. \n*This year’s event will be held in the “Information Commons South” area on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library. \nRegistration Information\nWe welcome presenters from all disciplines on campus\, and encourage live and media presentations as well as traditional poster presentations! For 2016\, registration was available for 48 posters\, 30 live presentations\, and 10 media presentations. \nEach presentation must have a primary presenter\, but may also list up to three co-presenters. \nPresenters will be asked to check into the event between 12:30 and 1:15 depending on their selected format. Presentation judging officially begins at 1:30 pm. \nAn awards reception will immediately follow the Symposium until 4:30 pm. Graduate students are also encouraged to attend the Graduate Alumni Social at the Graduate Student Commons in the Quarry Plaza that evening. \n*Please click here to view the 2016 Graduate Research Symposium Program \n  \nPresenters \nPoster Presentations: All posters must fit on 4′ x 4′ easels provided in the Information Commons South. Posters will be arranged in the order in which they arrive. There will be personnel available to assist with set up. Posters presenters must check in at the registration table between 12:45 and 1:15 pm on the 2ndfloor of the McHenry Library. After you register to present\, you will be assigned a one-hour window during which you must stay with your poster for judging.Posters may be removed after 3:30 pm. \nOral Presentations: Oral and live presentations will be in three classrooms on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library. A computer and projector will be available so that presenters can bring slides via either flash drive in PowerPoint or Keynote format\, or saved to Google Drive in Google Slides; you may bring your own laptop if you like\, though this is not recommended because of the time constraints involved in setting up/down. An easel will also be available for additional visual aids upon request. Be sure to indicate your media needs on the registration form. Oral presenters must check in at the registration table between 12:30 noon and 1:00 pm on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library. (Due to time restrictions\, oral/live presentations must be limited to 10 minutes in length including set-up and taking-down.) \nMedia Presentations: Media presentations may be in audio and/or video format. Media presenters will be required to set up a short meeting with McHenry Library staff the week prior to the Symposium to discuss technical and/or physical space needs. Please specify your media needs on your registration form. Media presenters must check in at the registration table between 12:30 noon and 1:00 pm on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library.  After you register to present\, you will be assigned a one-hour window during which you must stay with your presentation for judging. \n*Please click here to review our Best Practices site! \n  \nClick here to see our previous symposium awardees. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/graduate-research-symposium-2-2/ LOCATION:McHenry Library\, UCSC ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/symposium1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170513 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170514 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170421T214845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170421T214845Z UID:10006502-1494633600-1494719999@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ethics Bowl Invitational DESCRIPTION:What It Is:\nEvery Spring the Center for Public Philosophy holds an Outreach Invitational for high schools that have never participated in the Regional Ethics Bowl. This is a fun\, low-stakes way to get their feet wet. \nThis year we have a grant to host ten schools designated LCFF+ by the state of California–schools at which more than 75% of enrolled students are eligible for free/reduced price lunch\, foster youth\, and/or English-language learners. \nThe grant allows us to provide a top undergraduate philosophy student to coach the school’s team(s) in the two months leading up to the event and to provide each school with $1\,000 for costs. We are grateful to the Division of Student Success for this grant. \n  \nParticipating Teams:\nAlisal High School\nSalinas\, CA \nBurton High School\nSan Francisco\, CA \nCostanoa High School\nSanta Cruz\, CA \nDiamond Technology Institute\nWatsonville\, CA \nDowntown College Prep Alum Rock\nSan Jose\, CA \nEscuela Popular\nSan Jose\, CA \nLatino College Preparatory Academy\nSan Jose\, CA \nLuis Valdez Leadership Academy\nSan Jose\, CA \nPajaro Valley High School\nWatsonville\, CA \nWatsonville High School\nWatsonville\, CA \n  \nInformation for May 13:\nThis year there will be two rounds\, followed by a lunch\, one more round and then a debrief over dessert. In each round\, teams will be discussing two of the eight cases downloadable here. \n  \nFor Teams & Coaches:\nTeams should arrive on campus no later than 8:30am and proceed to the Humanities Lecture Hall. \nInformation on parking and directions can be downloaded here. \nThe day’s events will conclude at 2:30pm. You can read the rules of High School Ethics Bowl here. \n  \nFor Judges\nTo our judges: first\, thank you. We couldn’t hold this event without you. We appreciate your time and support. \nJudges should meet in Humanities 1\, 210 at 8:30am for the judges’ meeting. Coffee and pastries provided. Information on parking and directions can be downloaded here. \nIn preparation\, all judges should familiarize themselves with the cases teams will be discussing. And if this is your first time judging\, please watch the judges’ training video here. \n  \nBest of luck to all participating teams!\nIf you’re school or a individual interested in participating next year\, or if you have any questions\, please contact the Bowl Director Kyle Robertson. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ethics-bowl-invitational-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170515T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170515T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170503T154026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170503T154026Z UID:10006512-1494856800-1494871200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Conjuncture / Crisis / Critique: A Symposium on Cultural Studies DESCRIPTION:The start time for this event has been changed to 2pm. \nFeaturing: \nChristopher Chen\, Literature\nJim Clifford\, History of Consciousness\nChristopher Connery\, Literature\nT.J. Demos\, History of Art and Visual Cultures / Center for Creative Ecologies\nCarla Freccero\, Literature / History of Consciousness / Feminist Studies\nSusan Gilman\, Literature\nAsad Haider\, History of Consciousness\nDonna Haraway\, History of Consciousness\nSandra Harvey\, Politics\nGail Hershatter\, History\nLaurie Palmer\, Art\nWarren Sack\, Film and Digital Media / Digital Arts and New Media \n  \nCoffee and refreshments will be provided. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/conjuncture-crisis-critique-a-symposium-on-cultural-studies-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/2017/05/Conjuncture-Crisis-Critique-1-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170516T152000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170516T165500 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170328T225335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170328T225335Z UID:10006489-1494948000-1494953700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Susan Gilson Miller: "Vichy on Trial: Cooperation\, Collaboration and Confrontation in Wartime Morocco" DESCRIPTION:Susan Gilson Miller is Professor of History at the University of California\, Davis. She will be guest speaking on Tuesday\, May 16\, 2017 as a part of Professor Alma Heckman’s course “The Holocaust and the Arab World” (HIS 1850). \nWhen: May 16\, 2017 – 3:20-4:55pm \nLocation: Cowell Acad Classroom 113 \nThis event is free and open to the public \nProfessor Miller was formerly head of the Moroccan Studies Program at Harvard University and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. She is currently a  Research Associate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Prof. Miller has held Visiting Lecturer appointments at Ben Gurion University of the Negev\, the lnstitut d’Etudes de l’Islam et des Sociétés du Monde Musulman (IISMM) at the Ecole  des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris\, and at the Woolf Institute of the University of Cambridge. Her B.A. is from Wellesley College\, she has an M.A. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in the History of the Modern Middle East. Her  research has been supported by grants from the Social Science Research Council\, the National Endowment of the Humanities\, the Fulbright Foundation\, the American Council of Learned Societies\,  the American Institute of Maghribi Studies and the University of California Humanities Research Institute. Her book\, The History of Modern Morocco\, 1830-2000\, (Cambridge University Press\, 2013) was a Finalist for the Leon Carl Brown Best Book award of the American Institute of Maghribi Studies in 2014. Her research interests center on colonial and post-colonial histories in the Maghrib\, minorities\, urbanism\, and the history of travel and migration. Prof. Miller is a  frequent visitor to Morocco\, where she spent three years as a Peace Corps volunteer. Her current project is about the life and times of  Hélène Cazes Benatar\, Morocco’s first woman lawyer and human rights activist\, who rescued thousands of Jews and non-Jews during the period of Vichy rule in North Africa. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vichy-on-trial-cooperation-collaboration-and-confrontation-in-wartime-morocco-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T133000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170426T103325Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T103325Z UID:10006507-1495022400-1495027800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Martin Devecka: "Socratic Economics" DESCRIPTION:Socratic Economics \nMartin Devecka is in the early stages of a research project on leisure and labor in fourth-century Athens.  His work explores the processes through which competing claims to leisure and to the labor of others led to the privileging of politics as a way of thinking about collective action. \nMartin Devecka is an Assistant Professor of Literature and Classics at UCSC. \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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/martin-devecka-socratic-economics-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T160000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170503T155439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170503T155439Z UID:10005373-1495029600-1495036800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Susan O’Neal Stryker DESCRIPTION:What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need\nSusan O’Neal Stryker\, Associate Professor\, University of Arizona \nHistory is a story we tell in the present that links what we know of the past to a future we envision. In this talk\, drawn from her forthcoming book of the same title\, gender theorist and historian Susan Stryker examines the trans-temporal dimensions of what gets labelled “transgender” today\, but which can be thought of as a more general capacity for life to exceed whatever current configurations it might have. At stake\, Stryker contends\, in vexing contemporary conflicts over pronouns and public toilets\, is a deeper ontological struggle over which fantasies of past and futurity have the ability to ground themselves in materiality and come to count as real. \n  \nSusan Stryker is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona\, where she spearheads the Transgender Studies Initiative. \n  \nFeminist Studies Colloquium Series Spring 2017 Schedule:\nMay 4th: Doris Leibetseder\, “QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies”\nMay 17th: Susan O’Neal Stryker\, “What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need”\nJune 1st: Patricia de Santana Pinho\, “We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring Brazil and Bearing their Nation” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-series-doris-leibetseder-2-2/ 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/2017/04/FMST-Colloq-Spring-2017-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170518T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170518T164500 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170505T190006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170505T190006Z UID:10005377-1495098000-1495125900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Eighteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium DESCRIPTION:THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM \nOpening Remarks 9:30 a.m.\nDeanna Shemek\, Chair\, Literature Department\nPanel One: Translating Tradition\n9:45 – 10:45 a.m.\nModerator: Christopher Chen\nVictoria Jones: Ion\nElli Levin: Baby’s First Inferno\, or Dante Alighieri and the Nine Circles \nJessica Ness Poetic: Language in Translation \nAlexander Pérez: The Nation in You \nPanel Two: Cross/Cultural Encounters\n11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon\nModerator: Martin Devecka \nMarcus Dovigi Language and the Law: A Comparison of the American and Islamic Legal Systems \nSavanna Heydon Breaking Borders: Foreigner \nPang Yang Embellishing Lia \nFREE! LUNCH BUFFET\n12:00 – 12:45 p.m. \nPanel Three: Practices of Reading\n12:45 – 1:45 p.m.\nModerator: Amanda Smith \nSarah Ali Reading as an Act of Self Construction\nSamantha Alsina Poetry Politics: Short Commentaries\nHarold D. Surh Jr. Mad in Craft \nPanel Four: Rock and Romanticism\n2:00 – 3:00 p.m.\nModerator: Rob Wilson \nSylvester Cruz On the English Disease\nIsaac Mier The Highway of Excess and the Path to Endless Nights: William Blake and Jim Morrison\nJohn Wilber The Nightingale Up in Arms: Bob Dylan’s “Jokerman” \nPanel Five: The Time of Slavery\n3:15 – 4:15 p.m.\nModerator: Dorian Bell\nIsla Cunningham Blake and Of One Blood: Representations of “Messianic” Time\nFiona Murphy Historicizing Slavery in Fiction: A Study of Cuban Slave Narratives\nCarina Zhur Race Against Time: How Time Fetishizes Race and Suppresses Messianic Power \nClosing Remarks 4:15 p.m.\nA. Hunter Bivens\, Director\, Literature Undergraduate Program Committee \nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. ALL ARE INVITED! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/e-eighteenth-annual-literature-undergraduate-colloquium-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Mail-Attachment1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170518T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170518T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170508T173444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170508T173444Z UID:10005380-1495120500-1495126800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Maudemarie Clark "Nietzsche's Nihilism" DESCRIPTION:Nietzsche claims that in realating the “advent of nihilism\,” he is relating “the history of the next two centuries.” He also claims that he himself has been a nihilist\, but that he had now left it behind\, “outside of [him]self.” In this paper\, I offer an account of how Nietzsche understands nihilism and of how to understand his own (early and middle-period) work as nihilistic. I argue (against Bernard Reginster) that the nihilism of interest to Nietzsche is not\, or at least not mainly\, a philosophical position\, but a cultural condition. The upshot of my account is two-fold: first\, that it was only in overcoming the naturalistic orientation that it has become standard to attribute to him (and that I once attributed to him) that Nietzsche left nihilism behind\, and\, second\, that our current cultural and political situation is well on its way to the kind of nihilism that Nietzsce was particularly concerned with. \nAbout:\nMaudemarie Clark is a Professor of Philosophy at UC Riverside. She specializes in 19th Century German philosophy with a focus on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. \nAdvanced Reading:\nThe Will to Power – first 20 pages \nGenealogy of Morality URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/maudemarie-clark-nietzsches-nihilism-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Clark.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170518T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170518T185000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170414T193747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T193747Z UID:10006493-1495128000-1495133400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Rosa Alcalá DESCRIPTION:Rosa Alcalá\, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books\, 2010) \nRosa Alcalá is the author of a poetry collection Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books\, 2010) and two chapbooks: Some Maritime Disasters This Century (Belladonna\, 2003) and Undocumentary (Dos Press\, 2008). Alcalá has also translated poetry by Cecilia Vicuña\, Lourdes Vázquez\, and Lila Zemborain\, among others. Recent translations include Zemborain’s Guardians of the Secret (Noemi Press\, 2009)\, and poems for The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry (2009). She teaches in the Department of Creative Writing and Bilingual MFA Program at the University of Texas at El Paso. \nThe UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents\nThe Lives of Other Songs\nLiving Writers Series Spring 2017 \nThursdays / 5:20-6:50pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nApril 13\, 2017: Tongo Eisen-Martin\, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) \nMay 4\, 2017: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa\, author of A Home in Tibet (Penguin\, 2014) and Eric Sneathen\, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nMay 11\, 2017: Aisha Sasha John\, author of THOU (BookThug\, 2014) \nMay 18\, 2017: Rosa Alcalá\, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books\, 2010) \nJune 1\, 2017: Lauren Levin\, author of The Braid (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nJune 8\, 2017: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-rosa-alcala-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/2017/04/Living-Writers-Spring-2017-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170518T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170521T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170504T191533Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T191533Z UID:10005375-1495137600-1495404000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse DESCRIPTION:Description:\nThis year’s program will feature fully-staged works in French\, Japanese\, Russian\, and Spanish. English super-titles will translate each of the pieces. The French segment will be devoted to scenes from Jean Giraudoux’s comic fantasy\, La Folle de Chaillot\, (The Madwoman of Chaillot) directed by Miriam Ellis\, while Spanish will present Fable\, by Samaniego\, with Marta Navarro directing her students in this study. Russian will be devoted to an original work\, Happy Dating\, Everyone\, directed by Natasha Samokhina\, who created the piece with her students and will direct. For Japanese\, we will present Music of Japan\, directed by Sakae Fujita. \nAdmission Details: \nThere is no admission charge for this unique multicultural event. Parking is available and attendants will be selling $4.00 permits in the Stevenson parking lots\, 109 and 110 from 7:15pm – 8:30pm all nights of production. \nDates:\nMay 18th – 8:00pm\nMay 19th – 8:00pm\nMay 20th – 8:00pm\nMay 21st  – 8:00pm URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-miriam-ellis-international-playhouse-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/MEIP-17-Poster-Final-draft-8-1_2-X-14-optimized-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170519T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170519T140000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170424T190755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170424T190755Z UID:10006503-1495197000-1495202400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kara Hisatake DESCRIPTION:Pidgin Comedy in Hawai’i: The Queer Resignification of Settler Culture \nIn 1970s Hawai’i\, Pidgin\, also known as Hawai’i Creole english\, was the major medium of comedy because it was the language\, visual culture\, and attitude of the islands\, a stark contrast to imported U.S. settle norms. Rap Reiplinger was a household name with his 1982 TV special Rap’s Hawaii\, which addressed local culture\, politics\, and tourism. Analyzing Reiplinger’s TV special\, I claim that his Pidgin comedy resignifies settler culture and in doing so\, queers dominant settler norms. Reiplinger’s comedy thus becomes a place where Pidgin values are embodied through queer performative-it reiterates to critique. \nFriday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule: \nFridays 12:30-2pm\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. \nApril 21\, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz\, History \nApril 28\, 2017: Baizhu Chen\, Economics \nMay 5\, 2017: Danielle Crawford\, Literature \nMay 12\, 2017: Kristen Laciste\, HAVC \nMay 19\, 2017: Kara Hisatake\, Literature \nMay 26\, 2017: Yuki Obayashi\, Literature \nJune 2\, 2017: Angela Nguyen\, Psychology URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-kara-hisatake-2-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017-winter-FFPoster11.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170519T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170519T173000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170322T210234Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170322T210234Z UID:10006485-1495209600-1495215000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Non-citizenship Fellows Forum with Emily Mitchell-Eaton\, Claudia Lopez\, and Tsering Wangmo DESCRIPTION:  \nWith support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, the CLRC awarded two outstanding UC Santa Cruz graduate students year-long fellowships and hired a postdoctoral scholar as part of our 2016-17 Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship. In this free\, public forum\, our three Mellon fellows will discuss their research and tell us a bit about what their awards allowed them to achieve and their plans for the future. \n  \n Geographies of Imperial Citizenship\nEmily Mitchell-Eaton\, Postdoctoral Scholar\, Chicano Latino Research Center \nThis talk addresses the modes of imperial citizenship and non-citizenship that have emerged for subjects of non-sovereign U.S. territories. An examination of the legal statuses held by these subjects reveals the margins of formal legal citizenship to be quite blurry. As imperial subjects attempt to cross U.S. borders\, pursue employment\, access public benefits and services\, and resist deportation\, these practices often result in precarious mobility and different forms of exclusion. Drawing on a case study of Marshall Islanders who have migrated to Arkansas\, Dr. Mitchell-Eaton explores how Marshallese immigrants’ unique legal status is produced through their encounters with three groups: law enforcement and legal actors; social service providers; and activists. \n  \nThe Life-Cycle of Forced Migration: Partial Citizenship and Internally Displaced Peasants in Medellín\, Colombia\nClaudia Lopez\, Ph.D. candidate\, Department of Sociology \nIn this presentation\, Claudia discusses the dynamics of internal and forced migration of rural peasant farmers\, focusing on their urban resettlement and integration into the city of Medellín\, Colombia. Using this case study of conflict-induced displacement in Colombia—which has the largest population of internally displaced persons in the world—her research brings new attention to internal and forced migration\, viewing the resulting displacement as a serial process that constitutes what she calls the life­cycle of forced migration. She draws from ethnographic interviews and surveys with rural internally displaced persons\, as well as interviews with representatives of government agencies and NGOs\, to argue that\, across the lifecycle\, the state marginalizes displaced peasants and does not consider them capable urban citizens due to their rural origin and inability to contribute through formal labor practices in the city\, thereby rendering them Partial Citizens. Ultimately\, Claudia contends that this research demonstrates the limits of integration and national citizenship\, offers a more nuanced lens for examining citizenship as a spectrum\, and prompts us to examine belonging beyond the binary categories of citizen/non-citizen and included/excluded. \n  \nBelonging in Exile: The Exclusionary Agenda of Unity\nTsering Wangmo\, Ph.D. candidate\, Department of Literature \nTsering Wangmo’s dissertation\, “From the Margins of Exile: Democracy and Dissent within the Tibetan Diaspora\,” juxtaposes the external struggle for international recognition of the Tibetan government-in-exile with the internal struggle to command Tibetan unity since the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1950. It presents a nuanced understanding of how the project of nation building within the conditions of exile must be seen as a constant negotiation between deference and dissent and between unity and difference. In her talk\, Tsering argues that unity was presented simultaneously as the moral and political responsibility of the modern Tibetan “refugee-citizen\,” as well as the traditional duty of a Tibetan Buddhist\, and that\, ultimately\, unity was an exclusionary discourse. \n  \nThis free\, public forum 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-finale-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:20170523T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170523T150000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170512T173620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170512T173620Z UID:10006513-1495546200-1495551600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dr. Nikhil Anand: "Waterlines: Uncertainty and the Future Urban" DESCRIPTION:The IHR Research Cluster on Race\, Violence\, Inequality\, and the Anthropocene presents Dr. Nikhil Anand Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Pennsylvania. \nNikhil Anand’s research focuses on the political ecology of urban infrastructures\, and the social and material relations that they entail. He is the author of Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai (Duke\, 2017). His talk is based on a new project that focuses on the uncertain boundaries of land and water in Mumbai\, looking at how sea level rise and struggles over coastal property intersect with the livelihoods of coastal people. \nThe IHR Research Cluster will also host an off-campus Dinner Salon with Dr. Anand later that evening to discuss his afternoon talk and Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement. The dinner salon will start at 6pm. Please email Mayanthi Fernando (mfernan3@ucsc.edu) by Saturday May 20 to RSVP for the salon and to get the Ghosh reading. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-nikhil-anand-waterlines-uncertainty-and-the-future-urban-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T130000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170516T164910Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170516T164910Z UID:10006514-1495627200-1495630800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Humanities Radio Hour: “Radical Jewish Politics with Alma Heckman and Tony Michels” DESCRIPTION:Please tune in to KZSC 88.1 FM for Artists on Art\nHumanities Radio Hour\nWed\, May 24th at 12:00PM–1:00PM \nInterview with Professors\n– Alma Rachel Heckman Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz whose research crosses Jewish history\, North Africa\, French empire\, and the history of social movements.\n– Tony Michels Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York and editor of Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History \nClick here to listen online URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-radio-hour-on-artists-on-art-radical-jewish-politics-with-alma-heckman-and-tony-michels-2/ LOCATION:KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-13-at-9.49.28-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T133000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20170507T175721Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170507T175721Z UID:10005378-1495627200-1495632600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Johan Mathew\, “Smoke on the Water: Hashish Smuggling and Imperial Surveillance between Asia and the Middle East” DESCRIPTION:Johan Mathew’s current project\, Opiates of the Masses: Labor\, Narcotics\, and Global Capitalism\, explores the history of narcotics in order to interrogate the concepts of “consumer demand” and “rational choice” in market exchange\, focusing on the consumption of narcotics by workers in Asia and Africa to alleviate the stresses of labor under capitalism. \nJohan Matthew is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University. \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. \nEvent Photos: URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/johan-matthew-smoke-on-the-water-hashish-smuggling-and-imperial-surveillance-between-asia-and-the-middle-east-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:20170524T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T200000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063450 CREATED:20161129T225731Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T225731Z UID:10006432-1495648800-1495656000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:UCSC Night at the Museum - Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie DESCRIPTION:UCSC Night at the Museum – Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie from IHR on Vimeo. \n  \nEvent Photos: by Crystal Birns\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nJoin us for “UCSC Night at the Museum – Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie” at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History\nAs we mark the centennial of the Russian Revolution and the stunning electoral success of Bernie Sanders\, the revival of interest in socialism inspires this discussion of the history of radical Jewish Politics. \n  \nRSVP has closed – Due to an overwhelming response\, we are no longer accepting registrations to this event. However you are welcome to come to the Museum the night of the event and we will do our best to accommodate you if a sufficient number of people who have already RSVP’d are not in attendance. \n  \n6:00pm – Doors open\n6:30pm – Public Conversation with Tony Michels Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York and editor of Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History; and Alma Rachel Heckman Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz whose research crosses Jewish history\, North Africa\, French empire\, and the history of social movements. \nSanta Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH)\n705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95060 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/radical-jewish-politics-2/ LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/UC_MAH_Poster_2017_Final.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170525T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170525T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063451 CREATED:20170321T185337Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170321T185337Z UID:10006481-1495720800-1495731600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Radical Jewish Politics Workshop DESCRIPTION:Marking the centennial of the 1917 Russian Revolution\, the UCSC Center for Jewish Studies invites you to attend an afternoon of roundtable discussions around the theme of “Radical Jewish Politics.” This event both addresses and pushes the standard canon to discuss a wide variety of contexts\, not only on their own\, but in conversation with one another. Geographically\, these contexts include Iran\, Iraq\, Israel and Palestine\, Egypt\, Russia\, Hungary\, Egypt\, Morocco\, and the United States of America. Thematically\, these contexts include Queer Jewish histories within the left\, the contemporary Orthodox populations of New York City and reactionary politics\, interactions with Zionism and other nationalisms\, historiography and state memory\, and much more. \n2:00-5:00pm \nAfternoon Roundtable 1: Thematic conversation 1 (including approximately 3-4 panelists) \nAfternoon Roundtable 2: Thematic conversation 2 (including approximately 3-4 panelists) \nConcluding remarks \nDinner \nRSVP required – Please register for the event here \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies\, History Department\, Center for Cultural Studies\, and Institute for Humanities Research. \nScholar Bios: \nBettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies at UCSC\, and is the holder of the UC Presidential Baskin Foundation Endowed Chair in Feminist Studies. She is affiliated faculty in Jewish Studies\, and in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies. Her most recent research has been a project on queering the history of the Communist Left in the United States. Her most recent book is a memoir\, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red\, Fought for Free Speech and Became a Feminist Rebel. A scholar-activist she was featured in the film Free Angela! and all political prisoners\, (2013). She also does work in Black feminist History\, and recently published a scholarly piece\, “The Pageantry of Shirley Graham’s Opera Tom-Tom” published in the journal Souls\, Fall 2016. \nOrit Bashkin is a historian who works on the intellectual\, social and cultural history of the modern Middle East. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University (2004)\, writing a thesis on Iraqi intellectual history under the supervision of Professors Robert Tignor and Samah Selim\, and her BA (1995) and MA (1999) from Tel Aviv University. Since graduation\, she has been working as a professor of modern Middle Eastern history in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Her publications deal with Iraqi history\, the history of Iraqi Jews\, the Arab cultural revival movement (the nahda) in the late 19th century\, and the connections between modern Arab history and Arabic literature.  Her current research project explores the lives of Iraqi Jews in Israel. Her books (published by Stanford University Press are): The Other Iraq\, Pluralism and Culture and Hashemite Iraq\, New Babylonians\, A history of Iraqi Jews\, and Impossible Exodus\, Iraqi Jews in Israel. At the University of Chicago\, she teaches classes on nationalism\, colonialism and postcolonialism in the Middle East\, on modern Islamic civilization\, and on Israeli history. \nJoel Beinin is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1982 before coming to Stanford in 1983. Beinin’s research and writing focus on the social and cultural history and political economy of modern Egypt\, Palestine\, and Israel and on US policy in the Middle East. \nArie M. Dubnov is the inaugural Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies at George Washington University. His fields of expertise are modern Jewish and European intellectual history\, with emphasis on the history of political thought and nationalism studies. His current research examines the relationship and exchange of ideas between pre-1948 Zionist activists and British political thinkers. It seeks to place Jewish nationalism within the context of interwar neo-imperial thinking\, acknowledging a wide spectrum of intra-Zionist ideas ranging from pro-imperial\, federalist thinking to radical anti-colonial notions of struggle. \nPeter Kenez is Professor emeritus of history at UC Santa Cruz. He was one of the founding members of Stevenson College andhas taught and published widely on the history of the Soviet Union and related geopolitical questions. \nLior Sternfeld is an Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Penn State University. He is a social historian of the modern Middle East with particular interests in Jewish (and other minorities’) histories of the region. Sternfeld’s first book manuscript tentatively titled: “Integrated After All: Iranian Jews in the Twentieth Century\,” which examines the integration of the Jewish communities in Iran into the nation-building projects of the twentieth century\, is now under review. This book examines the development of the Iranian Jewish communities vis-à-vis ideologies and institutions such as Iranian nationalism\, Zionism\, and constitutionalism\, among others. His current research project examines the origins of “third-worldism” in the Middle East. \nBob Weinberg  is Isaac H. Clothier Professor of History and International Relations at Swarthmore College. He teaches Russian and European history and has published on the 1905 Revolution in Odessa\, anti-Jewish pogroms\, blood libel\, antisemitism in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union\, and Birobidzhan \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/radical-jewish-politics-workshop-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Radical-Jewish-Politics_-Workshop.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170526T024000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170526T154000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063451 CREATED:20161004T212534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161004T212534Z UID:10006406-1495766400-1495813200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Susan Lin DESCRIPTION:The Linguistics department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFall 2016 \nMay/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-susan-lin-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170526T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170526T140000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063451 CREATED:20170414T211244Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T211244Z UID:10006500-1495800000-1495807200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Yuki Obayashi DESCRIPTION:“This is Your Life”: Hiroshima Maidens and the American ideological superiority in the midst of the Cold War \nIn 1955\, twenty-five female victims of the atomic bombing flown to the United States and received extensive plastic surgery to correct severe deformity from keloids. Initiated by the American journalist Norman Cousins and the Japanese minister Tanimoto Kiyoshi\, this project was supported on multiple fronts in the United States. This paper analyzed the American capitalistic mode of generosity from the TV program\, “This is Your Life” aired on May 11\, 1955\, which featured the Japanese minister Tanimoto\, who recently arrived in the United States with Hiroshima Maidens. The TV program and its host successfully collected $56\,000 in donations by asking its viewers to show their “American way”. This American way generosity demonstrated multiple problematic viewpoints in the ways of how the Americans constructed their superiority through the victims’ radicalized and gendered bodies. \nFriday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule: \nFridays 12:30-2pm\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. \nApril 21\, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz\, History \nApril 28\, 2017: Baizhu Chen\, Economics \nMay 5\, 2017: Danielle Crawford\, Literature \nMay 12\, 2017: Kristen Laciste\, HAVC \nMay 19\, 2017: Kara Hisatake\, Literature \nMay 26\, 2017: Yuki Obayashi\, Literature \nJune 2\, 2017: Angela Nguyen\, Psychology URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-kara-hisatake-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017-winter-FFPoster11.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170526T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170526T153000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063451 CREATED:20170522T183344Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170522T183344Z UID:10006518-1495809000-1495812600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Critical Race & Ethnic Studies Works In Progress DESCRIPTION:“Delinquency As Labor”\nChrissy Anderson-Zavala \nChrissy Anderson-Zavala is a PhD candidate in education with designated emphases in critical race and ethnic studies and feminist studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her dissertation\, How to Write ‘Trouble/d Youth\,’ bridges participatory ethnographic work in a continuation high school and reading practices that “track the figure” of “trouble/d youth” in district and state-level archives to explore how narratives of young people as “trouble” (threat) or “troubled” (at-risk) inform the limits and possibilities of schooling. \n  \n  \n“BioRobotics: Surveillance at the Borders of AnimalHumanInsect”\nFelicity Amaya Schaeffer \nFelicity Amaya Schaeffer is an Associate Professor in the Feminist Studies Department here at UCSC. Her book\, Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship Across the Americas\, was published in 2013 with NYU Press. She is working on a new project called “Tracking Migrants: Biosecurity Across Erotic Borders” that follows the de-humanization of Latina/o migrants branded as biothreats\, or deviant and criminal threats. In this project I follow the ways state surveillance remakes relations between technology-the-body-and nature\, and then decolonizes these state regimes through an Anzalduan approach to what I call an erotic cosmology: using the body as a technology to hone our senses deeper into the sensual relationality of human-animal-cosmic ontologies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/critical-race-ethnic-studies-works-in-progress-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/CRES-event-with-bios.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170531T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170531T143000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063451 CREATED:20170517T183153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170517T183153Z UID:10006515-1496224800-1496241000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Symposium: Charting the Library's Future DESCRIPTION:Program: \n10:00-10:30am\nWelcome and Opening Remarks by Chancellor George Blumenthal and University Librarian Elizabeth Cowell \n  \n10:30-12:00pm\nPanel Discussion \nMacKenzie Smith\, University Librarian at UC Davis\nExpanding Research Support in University Libraries \nAcademic libraries’ research support is inherently interdisciplinary (or omnidisciplinary) so they are uniquely positioned to expand those services to include common modern research tools and methods\, such as spatial and data science\, informatics and analytics\, writing and programming. Providing central\, democratically accessible facilities\, instruction\, and expert support for these essential modern research skills is a natural role for libraries while increasing their value to the universities they serve. \nGünter Waibel\, Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of the California Digital Library\nThis Magic Moment: Are We Coming Together\, or Falling Apart? \nAbstract: What kind of a library does a globally connected faculty working on the grand challenges of our time need? The recent election has sparked a public debate about factual information\, the scientific method and intellectual freedom; it has also deepened the academy’s resolve to uphold those core values. At the same time\, our blue planet faces grand challenges that become tractable only through collective and collaborative action. Both faculty and librarians are striving to respond by working across traditional organizational and/or geopolitical boundaries. The UC system\, and the UC libraries within it\, are a microcosm of a community finding a collective response\, and a case-study in an experiment to go further together. (Examples illustrating these dynamics might came from the national response to safeguarding federal research data\, and the UC libraries strategy to realize our goal of a fully open access future.) \nJeffrey MacKie-Mason\, University Librarian at UC Berkeley\nBringing Together People\, Information and Technology: Connected Learning \nAstract: University libraries always have been providers of public goods and gateways to discovery. They amassed collections of millions of books and scholarly articles to share with all faculty and students\, who could not afford to do so individually. New learners coming through the doors had transcendent — often ecstatic — discovery experiences that fueled individual growth\, and social and scientific progress. We should continue to provide public goods to excite the passions and open the eyes\, but the information environment has changed drastically and so must the learning environments and experiences. We must create connected learning spaces as open-to-all gateways before students reach specialized labs and facilities limited to their choice of major. These spaces must connect people\, information and technology to support collaborative and active learning. The public goods we provide should include not just books and articles (and videos and maps and…) but also new information technologies most students can’t afford for themselves (e.g.\, virtual reality gear\, data visualization systems\, programmable 3-D scanners\, etc.). And we need to provide experts to help them find those head-exploding discoveries that open their eyes to the Age of Information. \n  \n12:00-1:00pm:\nLunch provided for all registered attendees \n  \n1:00-2:30pm:\nLightning Talks and Discussion sessions \nThe Changing Practices of Scholarly Work \nSylvanna Falcón\, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies\nDanielle Crawford\, Graduate Student in Literature and former CART Fellow\nJody Greene\, Professor of Literature\, Feminist Studies\, and History of Consciousness\, and director of the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)\nChristy Caldwell\, Research Support Services Librarian URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/symposium-charting-the-librarys-future-2/ LOCATION:McHenry Library UCSC\, Room 4286 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Library-Symposium-Flyer-May31v3_1-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170531T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170531T133000 DTSTAMP:20260404T063451 CREATED:20170507T175944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170507T175944Z UID:10005379-1496232000-1496237400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Shahzad Bashir\, “Islamic Pasts and Futures: Conceptual Issues” DESCRIPTION:This talk emerges from Professor Bashir’s current project\, Islamic Pasts and Futures: Conceptual Explorations\, a critique of the conceptualization of Islamic history in modern scholarship. Bashir suggests alternatives emphasizing multiple temporalities and engaging contemporary academic debates regarding language\, historiography\, and history on the basis of materials of Islamic provenance. \nShahzad Bashir is professor in Islamic Studies and Director of the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University. \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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/shahzad-bashir-islamic-pasts-and-futures-conceptual-issues-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR