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SUMMARY:Humanities Radio Hour: "Merchant of Venice" with Sean Keilen\, Nathaniel Deutsch\, Irena Polic
DESCRIPTION:Please tune in to KZSC 88.1 FM for Artists on Art\nHumanities Radio Hour \nClick here to listen online.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-radio-hour-merchant-of-venice-with-sean-keilen-nathaniel-deutsch-irena-polic-2/
LOCATION:KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FM
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171101T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171101T133000
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SUMMARY:Najat Abdulhaq\, "Unconventional Revision of Narratives: The Emergence of the 'Arab Jew' in Contemporary Arabic Literature"
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nFor decades\, two official nationalist narratives\, Arab-Egyptian & Israeli\, dominated the discourse on the history of Egypt’s Jews. Recently\, a different narrative is emerging in the Arabic speaking sphere\, with documentaries\, films & novels taking a cardinal role in this process. How and why is this emergence taking place? \nNajat Abdulhaq is the author of Jewish and Greek Communities in Egypt: Entrepreneurship and Business Before Nasser (I. B. Tauris). \nThis week’s Cultural Studies colloquium is co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program. \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/cultural-studies-colloquium-3-2/
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:20171102T160000
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SUMMARY:Marina Rustow: "The Cairo Geniza and the Middle East’s Archive Problem"
DESCRIPTION:The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies Presents:\nMarina Rustow: “The Cairo Geniza and the Middle East’s Archive Problem”  \nThe Cairo Geniza\, a cache of 400\,000 manuscript pages preserved in a medieval Egyptian synagogue\, has yielded many unexpected finds\, but perhaps none so unexpected as thousands of documents in Arabic script from the archives of the Fatimid caliphs (969–1171). How did papers from a state archive in Cairo find their way into the hands of the Jewish scribes who reused them as scrap paper for compositions in Hebrew script? Did Jews who handled government documents know what they were looking at? This is a period from which only a tiny number of documents is believed to have survived. The very abundance and ubiquity of documentation in the Geniza suggest otherwise\, and have much to say about the largest Jewish community in the medieval world and about the culture of legal and political rights in the Middle East. \nEvent Photos\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \n  \nMarina Rustow is the Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East and Professor of History at Princeton University\, where she also directs the Princeton Geniza Lab. She is the author of Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate (2008). In 2015\, she was named a MacArthur Fellow. \n  \nEvery year\, we honor Helen Diller\, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz by hosting a public lecture series on campus by an internationally recognized scholar. This event is made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Endowment and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \n  \n  \nPlease direct any questions or disability accommodation requests to ihr@ucsc.edu or 831-459-1274.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/marina-rustov-the-cairo-geniza-and-the-middle-easts-archive-problem-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:20171102T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171102T185000
DTSTAMP:20260417T022956
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Sesshu Foster
DESCRIPTION:Sesshu Foster is a poet\, teacher\, and community activist born and raised in East Los Angeles. He earned his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and returned to LA to continue teaching\, writing\, and community organizing. His first collection of poetry\, City Terrace Field Manual (1996)\, celebrates the neighborhood Foster grew up in. He has said that representing his community as one of his central tasks. He is the author of American Loneliness: Selected Poems (2006). His third collection of poetry\, World Ball Notebook (2009)\, won an American Book Award and an Asian American Literary Award for Poetry. Foster is the author of the novel of speculative fiction Atomik Aztex (2005)\, which won the Believer Book Award and imagines an America free of European colonizers. \nFoster’s work has been published in The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry (2000)\, Language for a New Century: Poetry from the Middle East\, Asia and Beyond (2008)\, and State of the Union: 50 Political Poems (2008). He coedited the anthology Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry (1989). Foster taught in East LA for 25 years as well as at the University of Iowa\, the California Institute for the Arts\, Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics\, and the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-sesshu-foster-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171103T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171103T123000
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CREATED:20170913T162739Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ : Gateway to Digital Humanities - an Introduction to Digital Methodologies & Resources at UCSC
DESCRIPTION:This co-led event provides students with first-hand experience working in DH\, resources to continue building upon this project\, and a larger discussion regarding the possibilities for individual and collaborative digital research. Rachel Deblinger will open with a 45 minute hands-on workshop\, introducing the process of building a dataset and visualizing data as an analytical method. She will also share the resources available through the Digital Scholarship Commons (DSC) and discuss the range of digital skills sought on the academic job market. Following this workshop and discussion\, Zac Zimmer will talk about his personal experience with DH communities as well as the need to engage with digital concerns in traditional scholarly pursuits. Together\, they present DH not as a set of tools or skills\, but as a way of learning about and developing a critical vocabulary for a understanding the contemporary digital world. This includes the network interfaces we use daily\, the tools we employ to collect and organize research materials\, etc. For this session\, advance registration  (below) will be required. Please review this handout: https://docs.google.com/a/ucsc.edu/document/d/1u1CQq2SNOj-wVduFclQTQcLGSckE46MpJ1ifnhRH2mU/edit?usp=sharing\, and bring the requested materials to the session. \nEvent Photos\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nPhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the third 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\, and much more. \nLunch provided to all attendees. \nPlease RSVP below: \n\nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-gateway-to-digital-humanities-an-introduction-to-digital-methodologies-resources-on-the-ucsc-campus-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:20171103T140000
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SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium: "Agrarian Questions in Urban India"
DESCRIPTION:Fall 2017 Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: “Agrarian Questions in Urban India” \nVinay Gidwani\, University of Minnesota\nPriti Ramamurthy\, University of Washington \nBased on recent life histories of urban migrants who work within informal sector occupations in Delhi and Hyderabad\, we ask how “agrarian questions” orient workers’ attitudes to forms of labor and habitation. By also considering gender and caste\, we ask how these\, as embodied imprints of the agrarian\, impose limit conditions on possible politics for urban migrants. We explore two propositions: First\, workers are constantly striving to disarticulate from the sway of value\, and the growth of urban informal economies has made this both necessary and more possible. Second\, agrarian origins\, when mediated through gender and caste\, become limit conditions on possible autonomy. The issue is not only proscriptions on forms of labor\, but also how workers – females more acutely than males – remain orientated to agrarian caste relations and norms even when they work in the city (and are the enablers of men’s economic trajectories). In short\, we foreground the spatial dialectics of social reproduction: how social reproduction straddles village and city\, and is at once oppressive and nurturing. \nVinay Gidwani is a professor of Geography\, Environment\, and Society at the Institute forGlobal Studies\, University of Minnesota. He studies the interactions of labor processes and ecologies in agrarian and urban settings\, as well as capitalist transformations of these. \nPriti Ramamurthy\, a professor in Gender\, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington\, is an ethnographer\, who has returned to the same villages in the Telangana region of southern India for three decades\, to understand the relationship between the social reproduction of families\, lives and livelihoods and processes of agrarian transformation. \nPresented by the UCSC Feminist Studies Department and the Center for South Asian Studies\, with generous contributions from the UCSC Division of the Humanities\, UCSC Arts Department\, and UCSC Economics Department
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-agrarian-questions-in-urban-india-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:20171106T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171106T180000
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SUMMARY:Opening reception for "Inside the Gail Project: An Experiential Research Odyssey"
DESCRIPTION:On November 6 from 4-6 pm\, the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery in Cowell College will be hosting an opening reception for “Inside the Gail Project: An Experiential Research Odyssey\,” a companion show to the current exhibition at the Sesnon Gallery. This exhibition highlights student research and the active learning that takes place in the Gail Project.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/opening-reception-for-inside-the-gail-project-an-experiential-research-odyssey-2/
LOCATION:Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, Cowell College\, Cowell College‎ 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171107T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171107T173000
DTSTAMP:20260417T022956
CREATED:20171101T182433Z
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SUMMARY:Before and After: How We Redesigned Courses for Educational Equity and Active Learning
DESCRIPTION:Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now Workshop Series \nBefore and After: How We Redesigned Courses for Educational Equity and Active Learning\nwith Alan Christy and Jody Greene \nThe Institute for Humanities Research cluster “Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now” is hosting a new workshop series that features educators in humanities fields at UC Santa Cruz sharing changes they have made to their teaching—ranging from changes to in-class policies and styles\, to assignment re-design\, to whole course transformations. The workshop series seeks to promote collective conversations about how we teach in the humanities now\, and is open to all graduate students and faculty. \nIn the first workshop\, “Before and After: How We Redesigned a Course for Educational Equity and Active Learning\,” Alan Christy (Associate Professor of History) and Jody Greene (Professor of Literature\, Feminist Studies\, and History of Consciousness) will discuss how they transformed lecture or survey courses to enhance educational equity and active learning in their classrooms. \nTransforming “The Japanese Empire”\nAssociate Professor Alan Christy will discuss the transformation of a survey history course into a research seminar driven by the experience of discovery and focused on three key skills for researchers: asking good questions\, finding sources\, and articulating value. \nTransforming “The Eighteenth-Century English Novel”\nProfessor Jody Greene will discuss the transformation of a traditional lecture course into a small course for entering transfer students\, including the introduction of sequenced writing assignments\, structured in-class activities\, and presentations on the “hidden” aspects of the curriculum—e.g. how to take notes\, how to read for a literature course\, and how to write effectively within the discipline. \n**If you’re interested in joining the research cluster and would like to be included on the cluster email list\, please contact Jody Greene at jgreene@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/before-and-after-how-we-redesigned-courses-for-educational-equity-and-active-learning-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171107T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171107T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T022956
CREATED:20170918T175243Z
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SUMMARY:Freedom\, Justice\, Difference: The Merchant of Venice Now
DESCRIPTION:Event Video:\n \nFreedom\, Justice\, Difference: The Merchant of Venice Now 11.7.17 from IHR on Vimeo. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nKarin Coonrod\, the Founding Director of Compagnia de’ Colombari\, will join Nathaniel Deutsch and Sean Keilen for a public discussion of her path-breaking production of The Merchant of Venice in the Venice Ghetto (2016). Join us to discover why Shakespeare’s play about Jews and Christians in Renaissance Italy is a key text for deciding how to be free and just in the global society we inhabit now. With introductory remarks by Mike Ryan (Santa Cruz Shakespeare) and Murray Baumgarten. \nDoors open at 6:00pm \nEvent begins at 6:30pm \nRSVP Appreciated\, Seating is first come\, first serve. Overflow space will be available. \nPlease RSVP for the event here. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact the IHR at ihr@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274. \nSponsored by Institute for Humanities Research\, Center for Jewish Studies\, Shakespeare Workshop\, Porter College\, and Arts Division.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/freedom-justice-difference-the-merchant-of-venice-now-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171108T133000
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SUMMARY:Nirvikar Singh\, "The Other One Percent? Indians in Trump’s America"
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nWhat is the selection process that governed the migration of people of Indian origin to the United States? How has that selection been important in determining of the economic success of this group? This talk highlights the diversity within this broad group\, & the lessons of that diversity\, and concludes by exploring some of the challenges that Indian Americans face as a minority in the contemporary United States & the implications of events in contemporary India. \nNirvikar Singh holds the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair of Sikh and Punjabi Studies at UC Santa Cruz. He also directs the UCSC South Asian Studies Initiative within the Division of Social Sciences. \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/cultural-studies-colloquium-4-2/
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:20171109T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171109T185000
DTSTAMP:20260417T022956
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Toni Jensen
DESCRIPTION:Toni Jensen’s first story collection\, From the Hilltop\, was published through the Native Storiers Series at the University of Nebraska Press. Her stories have been published in journals such as Ecotone\, Denver Quarterly\, and Fiction International and have been anthologized in New Stories from the South\, Best of the Southwest\, and Best of the West: Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri. She’s working on a collection-in-progress\, called Cowboyistan\, about fracking and the sex trafficking of Indigenous women. She teaches in the Programs in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas. She is Métis.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-toni-jensen-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171115T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T022956
CREATED:20170809T180153Z
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SUMMARY:On Barak\, "Against Energy: Provincializing Thermodynamics between Aden and Port Said"
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nDespite feigning perpetuity\, “energy” is a child of its time\, the nineteenth century. Born from the related challenges of steam engineering and British imperialism its legacies still haunt and limit our thinking on matters ranging from fossil fuels to race\, from labor to the underground. This talk seeks to situate the emblematic energy source – coal – back in its imperial context\, revealing what may be called “coalonialism” at play in the territories between the two major global fueling stations of the century\, Aden and Port Said. Such acts of provincializing flesh out alternative ways for regarding fossil fuels\, including ethical\, political and environmental insights that the science of thermodynamics helped evaporate. \nBarak is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern & African History at Tel Aviv 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/cultural-studies-colloquium-5-2/
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:20171115T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171115T140000
DTSTAMP:20260417T022956
CREATED:20170922T165136Z
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SUMMARY:Digital Humanities: Intro to Scalar Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Online Publishing and Non-Linear Argumentation\nThis introductory workshop is designed to let you start using Scalar\, an online publishing platform. The workshop will focus on adding media content to Scalar and creating non-linear relationships. This is a hands on opportunity: bring ideas and content to the workshop. You will leave ready to explore and build on your own. \nLocation: Digital Scholarship Commons (Ground Floor McHenry Library) \nCo-Sponsored by the Digital Scholarship Commons and the Institute for Humanties Research
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/intro-to-scalar-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry  Library
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171116T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171116T180000
DTSTAMP:20260417T022956
CREATED:20171108T232624Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Seminar with On Barak\, "Strands of Tentacular Thinking"
DESCRIPTION:The “Race\, Violence\, Inequality\, and the Anthropocene” Research Cluster invites faculty and graduate students to a reading seminar with On Barak\, Senior Lecturer in the History Department at Tel Aviv University. Dr. Barak is a historian of the modern Middle East\, specializing in the introduction of science and technology into non-Western settings. He is the author of On Time: Technology and Temporality in Modern Egypt (UC Press\, 2013).  We will be meeting in Humanities 408\, on Thursday\, November 16\, from 4:00-6:00 pm. \nStrands of Tentacular Thinking: \nWhat can the non-Western humanities offer in the face of climate change – a phenomenon usually situated squarely in the domain of technoscience and entrenched in the fossil-fueled European Industrial Revolution and capitalism? A chapter-draft from On Barak’s book project Coalonialism grapples with such questions by drawing on nineteenth-century translations of geology books into Arabic and Ottoman Turkish. The reading seminar puts this chapter in dialogue with works by Donna Haraway and Peter Godfrey-Smith. Read together\, these texts constitute an attempt to recruit the octopus – a creature whose arms are said to be smarter than its brain – to reconsider imperial flows of concepts and power.​ \nSeminar readings: \nStaying with Trouble – Donna Haraway  \nThe Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life – Peter Godfrey-Smith  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reading-seminar-with-on-barak-strands-of-tentacular-thinking-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 408
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171116T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171116T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T022956
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SUMMARY:Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Dorianne Laux
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nThe Eighth Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading presented by the Institute for Humanities Research and the Living Writers Series featuring Dorianne Laux Thursday November 16\, 2017 at 5:30pm \nPoet Gary Young\, will host the program\, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1\,000 prize). This annual free event will have first-come\, first-served seating. Doors will open at 5:20 PM. The reading will conclude with a book signing and reception. \nThe Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet\, teacher\, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus\, a nationally acclaimed poet\, called Santa Cruz his home for more than fifty years. This annual poetry series continues Mort’s tradition of bringing acclaimed poets to Santa Cruz County\, continues to acknowledge the significant role poetry has played in our community’s history\, and works to maintain poetry’s influence in our county’s culture. \nFree Admission \nDoors will open at 5:20pm\, event starts at 5:30pm \nBook signing and reception to follow \nParking information and directions:\nPlease park at the Cowell/Stevenson Parking lot 109 (map here: http://maps.ucsc.edu/sites/default/files/Humanities_and_Social_Sciences_Facility.pdf). Follow path from lot 109 to Humanities Lecture Hall. Permits are $4.00 and attendants will be present at parking lot to sell permits to event attendees. For disability accommodations\, please contact ihr@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274. \nAbout Dorianne Laux: Dorianne Laux’s fifth collection\, The Book of Men\, was awarded The Paterson Prize. Her fourth book of poems\, Facts About the Moon won The Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Laux is also the author of Awake; What We Carry\, a finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award; Smoke; as well as a fine small press edition\, The Book of Women. She is the co-author of the celebrated text The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. Laux teaches poetry in the Program in Creative Writing at North Carolina State University and is a founding faculty of Pacific University’s Low Residency MFA Program. \nAbout Morton Marcus: The Morton Marcus Poetry Reading event commemorates Santa Cruz poet Morton Marcus who was a poet\, author\, teacher\, film critic\, as well as an activist for the arts. Born in New York City\, Morton spent most of his professional life in Santa Cruz\, California\, and he is strongly associated with its poetry and art community. For more information visit www.mortonmarcus.com \nVisit the Morton Marcus Archive in Special Collections at UCSC: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8fx79zs/entire_text/. \nThis community event is co-sponsored by: The Institute for Humanities Research\, Living Writers Series\, Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Special Collections & Archives\, Cowell College\, Porter College\, Ow Family Properties\, Poetry Santa Cruz\, Cabrillo College English Department\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Santa Cruz Writes.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/morton-marcus-poetry-reading-dorianne-laux-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:Linguistics Colloquium: Brian Dillon
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics presents: \nBrian Dillon \n“Process and representation in morphosyntactic processing: A psychophysical approach using Signal Detection Theory”\n \nAbstract:\nIntuitive acceptability judgments have long formed the empirical foundation of syntactic and (to a lesser extent) psycholinguistic theories (Schütze\, 1996). Despite their centrality\, there remain many open issues in the collection\, analysis\, and interpretation of acceptability judgment data. One important thread of research in experimental syntax addresses these issues by borrowing methodology from psychophysics\, such as magnitude estimation (Bard et al. 1996; Cowart\, 1997)\, to more precisely model the relationship between linguistic stimuli and perceived acceptability. \nIn this talk I will follow these researchers in treating intuitions of acceptability as psychological evidence. Accordingly\, I will argue that acceptability judgments can be fruitfully understood as psychophysical data. To this end\, I will describe a framework for analyzing acceptability judgment data using Signal Detection Theory (Bader & Haussler\, 2010; Macmillan & Creelman\, 2005). This approach offers an explicit model of how the underlying percept of acceptability is reflected in experimental measures of acceptability\, such as judgments in a rating task. \nTo illustrate this approach\, I survey a series of studies that investigate diverse illusory agreement licensing phenomena (“agreement attraction”) in English using untimed acceptability judgment measures (joint work with Charles Clifton\, Christopher Hammerly\, Joshua Levy\, and Adrian Staub). I report several results. First\, untimed judgment measure mirror the patterns seen in more ‘online’ measures of sentence comprehension. Second\, the untimed judgment data exhibit surprisingly little evidence of contamination from slow\, ‘deliberative’ processes (cf. Bader & Haussler\, 2010). Third\, and perhaps most interestingly\, this analysis of the judgment data yields unique insights into the cognitive processes and representations that underly agreement attraction effects. In particular\, the judgment data lend support to models that analyze illusory agreement errors as the result of mis-identification of an agreement controller in working memory (e.g. Badecker & Kuminiak\, 2007; Wagers et al.\, 2009)\, rather than models that locate the error in a noisy representation of the morphosyntactic features of the agreement controller (e.g. Eberhard\, Cutting & Bock\, 2005).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-brian-dillon-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171118T170000
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SUMMARY:SPOT (Syntax-Prosody in OT) Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nThis is a one-day IHR-sponsored workshop (Saturday\, Nov. 18\, 2017)\, called SPOT (“Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory”\, which is part of a research project aiming to create a computational platform that generates prosodic candidate sets from syntactic structure. The syntax-prosody interface is the study of how syntactic (grammatical) structures are mapped onto the prosodic structures in different languages. Several strands of work in prosodic theory have recently converged on a number of common themes\, from different directions\, broadly couched in Optimality Theory. Selkirk (2011) has developed a vastly simplified approach to the syntax-prosody mapping which distinguishes only three levels (word\, phrase\, and clause)\, and syntactic constituents are systematically made to correspond to phonological domains (“Match Theory”). In an independent line of research\, a long string of papers reaching back into the 1980s has convincingly demonstrated that recursive structures are by no means an exclusive property of syntax\, but also play a crucial role in phonology. One of the hallmarks of Match Theory is the idea that the main force interfering with syntax-prosody isomorphism is not some kind of non-isomorphic mapping algorithm flattening out the structure\, as first contemplated in SPE (Chomsky and Halle 1968\, 372) and more fully worked out in later proposals\, such as the edge-based theory built on one-sided alignment. It is rather the effect of genuine phonological wellformedness constraints on prosodic structure. \nBesides presenting the pilot SPOT program for comments\, the workshop will consist of research talks focused on the syntax-prosody interface by both invited speakers from the East Coast and Europe and Bay Area researchers. \nMore information about the IHR SPOT Research Cluster: http://ihr.ucsc.edu/portfolio/syntax-prosody-in-optimality-theory-spot/ \nPROGRAM \nSPOT Program: Saturday\, Nov. 18\, 2017 \n9:15am – 10:00am Pre-workshop coffee/tea\, bagels\, pastries and fruit \n10:00am -11:00am “Match Theory and the Asymmetry Problem: Intonational phrase marking in Stockholm Swedish” (abstract and handouts)\nShinichiro Ishihara (Lund University) \n11:15am -12:00pm “Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory” (abstract and handouts) Jenny Bellik and Nick Kalivoda (UC Santa Cruz) \n12:00pm -1:00pm Mexican buffet lunch \n1:00pm – 2:00pm“Syntactic Constituency Spell-Out through Match Constraints” (abstract and handouts)\nLisa Selkirk (UMass/Amherst) \n2:15pm – 3:00pm“Syntactic Constituency Spell-Out through Match Constraints” (abstract and handouts)\nNicholas Rolle (UC Berkeley) \n3:00pm -3:30pm Coffee Break \n3:30pm – 4:15pm“Syntactic Constituency Spell-Out through Match Constraints” (abstract and handouts)\nRyan Bennett\, Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz)\, and Emily Elfner (York University) \n4:30pm – 6:30pm Post-workshop reception \nFor more information contact Junko Ito (ito@ucsc.edu) or Armin Mester (mester@ucsc.edu)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/spot-syntax-prosody-in-ot-workshop-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:20171129T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171129T133000
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SUMMARY:Jenny Reardon\, "The Postgenomic Condition: Meaning and Justice After the Genome"
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nJenny Reardon’s research draws into focus questions about identity\, justice and democracy that are often silently embedded in scientific ideas and practices\, particularly in modern genomic research. Her training spans molecular biology\, the history of biology\, science studies\, feminist and critical race studies\, and the sociology of science\, technology and medicine. \nDr. Reardon is a Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Science and Justice Research Center at the UC Santa Cruz. \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/cultural-studies-colloquium-6-2/
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:20171130T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171130T185000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: James Janko & Ellen Greenblatt
DESCRIPTION:James Janko refused to carry a weapon while serving in Viet Nam as a medic in an infantry battalion commanded by Colonel George Armstrong Custer III in 1970. His medals include the Bronze Star for Valor\, which he returned to the U.S. government in 1986 to protest their involvement in wars in Central America. In 2008\, Janko gave away other medals to Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange: Mrs. Dang Hong Nhut\, who suffers from thyroid cancer and has had numerous miscarriages\, and Ms. Tran Thi Hoan\, who was born without legs due to her mother’s exposure to Agent Orange. Janko’s novel\, The Clubhouse Thief\, won the AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) Award for the Novel and is forthcoming from New Issues Poetry and Prose (Western Michigan University) in January of 2018. An earlier novel\, Buffalo Boy and Geronimo (Curbstone Press)\, received wide critical acclaim and two awards: The Association of Asian American Studies Prose Award and the Northern California Book Award for Fiction. Janko’s short stories have appeared in The Massachusetts Review. \nEllen Greenblatt’s work as an educator has often focused on teaching literature in the context of social and historical issues. She met and became friends with James Janko when he appeared several times as a guest in her course about the American War in Vietnam\, a course which included the voices of American\, Vietnamese\, and Vietnamese-American speakers and authors. As a result of that course\, Ellen became part of the Veterans Writing Group started by Maxine Hong Kingston. \nEllen’s writing work includes creating educational materials for television documentaries and for teachers of literature\, and she has developed a literature-based approach to teaching about conflict and its aftermaths. Ellen has worked with teachers throughout the US and internationally\, and she has been an on-stage interviewer for City Arts and Lectures in San Francisco\, conducting literary interviews before a live audience.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-james-janko-ellen-greenblatt-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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