BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Humanities Institute 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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180501T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180501T133000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180316T230115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180420T173445Z UID:10006611-1525174200-1525181400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Reading Seminar: Dr. Lesley Green DESCRIPTION:Reading Seminar on #ScienceMustFall and an ABC of Plant Medicine: On Posing Cosmopolitical Questions featuring Dr. Lesley Green (Associate Professor of Anthropology\, University of Cape Town and Founding Director: Environmental Humanities South). \nPlease email krlyons@ucsc.edu for the readings URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reading-seminar-sciencemustfall-abc-plant-medicine-posing-cosmopolitical-questions/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 408 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180502T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180502T133000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180228T221947Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180524T172245Z UID:10005471-1525262400-1525267800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Kyla Schuller: "The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race\, Sex\, & Science in the Nineteenth Century" DESCRIPTION:Kyla Schuller is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University\, New Brunswick and an External Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center (2017-2018). She has previously held fellowships from ACLS and the UC Humanities Research Institute and a visiting scholar position at UC Berkeley. Schuller investigates the intersections between race\, gender\, sexuality\, and the sciences in U.S. culture\, and is particularly interested in ideas about how the body interacts with its environment from the periods both before and after classical genetics\, i.e. the 19th century and the present. Overall\, she examines how science and culture function as systems of knowledge that share methods and sources in common\, even as they rhetorically claim distinct spheres. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \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-kyla-schuller/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180502T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180502T173000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180316T225744Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180316T225857Z UID:10006610-1525275000-1525282200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Lesley Green: "Sons and Daughters of Soil?" DESCRIPTION:“Sons and Daughters of Soil?” \nDr. Lesley Green (Associate Professor of Anthropology\, University of Cape Town and Founding Director: Environmental Humanities South) \nResponding\, as researchers\, to Earth Mastery that includes not only violent machines\, but a violation of evidence and epistemes including the scientific episteme\, requires accumulating and presenting evidence for existences that do not exist — at least\, not in neoliberal discourses.  In trying to research and support specific situations of Black environmental struggle in South Africa\, I find myself standing with that which has no existence in conventional discourses: for a cliff that no longer exists; for molecules that have no existence in local knowledge; for people who have no existence in the mining companies\, for the assassinated Bazooka Radebe\, whose existence is now with the Ancestors\, and with the soil he died to conserve.  Environmental Humanities South had begun by asking a question about how to generate evidence in the geological Anthropocene.  By the time our first three years had ticked by and we had encountered the Capitalocene\, I had learned that a far more fundamental struggle has to be the focus of our work. What exists? Who exists? In what registers and modes? How do we take on the new conquistadors with their machines called Earth Masters\, given that it is their owners’ logic that has come to define who exists and what exists and what can be ground to dust? How can scholarship contribute to the building of a broad-based environmental public? Presented as a dilemma tale\, this talk sketches six moves toward an ecopolitics in South Africa\, with the question: what else could be in this discussion? \n*This event is co-sponsored by the Science and Justice Research Center and the Anthropology Department\, and is open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lesley-green-sons-daughters-soil/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T170000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180427T231428Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180427T231428Z UID:10005501-1525360500-1525366800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium: Ori Simchen DESCRIPTION:“Realism and Instrumentalism in Metaphysical Explanation” \nOri Simchen is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia\, Vancouver. Professor Simchen works mostly in the philosophy of language and metaphysics. Most recently he’s been working on metasemantics\, or foundational semantics\, and its relation to formal semantics. He is particularly interested in how to think about intentionality (or aboutness) in light of the pronouncements of contemporary semantic theory. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/philosophy-colloquium-ori-simchen/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T173000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180124T214742Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180524T171107Z UID:10005445-1525363200-1525368600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Devin Naar: “Sephardic Archives from Analog to Digital: Three Tales of Memory and Visibility" DESCRIPTION:“Sephardic Archives from Analog to Digital: Three Tales of Memory and Visibility” \nJoin us as Devin E. Naar\, founder of the Sephardic Studies Program at the University of Washington\, traces three key moments in the development of Sephardic Studies libraries and archives in the 1880s\, 1930s\, and today. Often relying on community members to supply source materials\, these archiving efforts have legitimized and rendered more visible the often-marginalized Sephardic experience. Professor Naar’s work demonstrates how digital humanities initiatives can draw upon methods and aspirations of previous generations while also providing new possibilities and opportunities in the 21st century. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nDevin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies\, Associate Professor in the department of History and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. As the founder and chair of the Sephardic Studies Program\, Naar oversees the Sephardic Studies Digital Collection\, which has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His book\, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece (Stanford University Press\, 2016)\, won a National Jewish Book Award and the Keeley Prize for best book in Modern Greek Studies. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-diaspora-new-approaches-sephardi-north-african-jewish-studies/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Naar_Webbanner_R3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T185000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180410T233634Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180410T233634Z UID:10005482-1525368000-1525373400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Courtney Kersten DESCRIPTION:Courtney Kersten is the author of Daughter in Retrograde: A Memoir (University of Wisconsin Press 2018). Her essays can be seen or are forthcoming from Brevity\, The Normal School\, River Teeth\, Hotel Amerika\, DIAGRAM\, The Sonora Review\, Black Warrior Review\, The Master’s Review\, Brevity and elsewhere. She was a Fulbright Fellow to Riga\, Latvia\, and is currently a PhD student in Literature and CreativeWriting at the University of California at Santa Cruz. \nSpring 2018 Living Writers:\n A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement \nThis spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories\, persons and things\, race and freedom\, kinship and loss\, and the human and non-human natural world. \nApril 12: Sherwin Bitsui \nApril 26: Leif Haven\, Jared Harvey \nMay 3: Courtney Kersten \nMay 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton \nMay 24: Sawako Nakayasu \nMay 31: Robin Coste Lewis \nJune 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nThursdays\, 5:20-6:50 PM \nAll Readings are Free and Open to the Public \nContact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu) \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, American Indian Resource Center\, El Centro\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, the Literature Department\, and the Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-courtney-kersten/ 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/2018/04/0001-13.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T170000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180425T220829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180425T221855Z UID:10005493-1525424400-1525453200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Emerging Ecologies: Arcaeologies of Slavery\, Landscape\, and Environmental Change DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Atlantic Era was a period of intense commercial integration linking key economic players in Western Europe\, the Americas\, the Indian Ocean littorals\, and West and Central Africa. The period was marked by dramatic increases in the volume of commerce at both the regional and global levels\, radically transforming the societies and environments of these core areas. In fact\, it is arguable that few communities on earth escaped the wide-reaching effects of commercial expansion and integration in this period. African slavery in the Atlantic World facilitated this integration. The slave trade linked four continents as traders carried European exports to Africa\, exchanged them for enslaved people\, and ferried those captives to the Americas. African people and cultures dispersed across the Americas\, and the crops and natural resources that enslaved people harvested in the New World were shipped around the globe. This political\, cultural\, and ecological process laid the foundations for the cultures\, environments\, and economies of the modern world. At the very heart of this transformation were cities\, ports\, and plantations that wreaked vast ecological changes across their respective landscapes. Large swaths of land were cleared for agricultural production\, port cities were established for import and export\, and flora and fauna were transplanted across hemispheres in a process known as the Columbian Exchange. These intentional and unintentional ecological transformations were accompanied by violent social and economic changes. Plantation labor regimes emerged as models for industrial factory work\, contributing directly to rapid industrialization in the Atlantic world. The trans-Atlantic Slave Trade thus stands as a point of origin for the Anthropocene\, the contemporary moment in which environments around the world have been profoundly shaped by human action. This one-day symposium explores of the impacts and legacies of slavery and the slave trade across the landscapes of our rapidly changing world. \nOrganizers\nJustin Dunnavant and J. Cameron Monroe \nSpeakers\nGeorgia Fox (CSU Chico)\nMark Hauser (Northwestern University)\nPaul Lane (Uppsala University)\nAmanda Logan (Northwestern University)\nMarco Meniketti (Sans José State University)\nFraser Neiman (Monticello Archaeology)\nLisa Randle (University of South Carolina)\nMeredith Reifschneider (San Francisco State University)\nElizabeth Reitz (Georgia Museum of Natural History)\nKrish Seetah (Stanford University)\nDiane Wallman (University of South Florida) \n***Keynote Address – Judith Carney (UCLA) \nAdmission is FREE and open to the public.\nAdvance registration is REQUESTED to ensure we have sufficient seating. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/emerging-ecologies-arcaeologies-slavery-landscape-environmental-change/ LOCATION:University Center\, University Center‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/unnamed-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T123000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180228T205639Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T194814Z UID:10005463-1525431600-1525437000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: PhDs in Leadership Positions at UCSC  DESCRIPTION:Foundational Labor: PhDs in Leadership Positions at UCSC \nAre you interested in learning more about the work of PhDs who are actively reimagining pedagogy and student support at UC Santa Cruz? This session will feature two PhDs who are currently employing their research and teaching experience in a variety of interrelated ways\, including program development\, project management\, and mentorship\, all of which are vital to the University’s mission and its commitment to equitably serving undergraduate students and graduate student-instructors. Kendra Dority is Assistant Director of the UCSC Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)\, and Zia Isola is Director of the UCSC Genomics Institute Office of Diversity Programs\, Co-Director of the UCSC Bridge to Doctorate Program (NSF-LSAMP)\, and Staff Advisor for UCSC Women in Science & Engineering (WISE). Participants will have an opportunity to hear about the day-to-day experience of working in two campus positions\, as well as how the PhD has influenced or helped reimagine their approach to their work. \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. \n*Stay tuned for more information. \nPlease RSVP below: \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T134500 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180417T171457Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180425T224021Z UID:10005486-1525437000-1525441500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum: LuLing Osofsky DESCRIPTION:“Based on a (Mostly) True Story: Conflicting Cinematic Portrayals of Jewish Champions Boxing at Auschwitz ” \nIn 2011\, I traveled to Tel Aviv to interview eighty-seven year old Noah Klieger\, the last remaining Holocaust survivor to have boxed for Nazi officials at Auschwitz. That amateur and champion Jewish boxers boxed at the camps to entertain SS is largely unknown\, and the few accounts are contested and contradictory. The “based on a true story” 1989 film Triumph of the Spirit shows Jews boxing fellow Jews to the death; Klieger derided the film as lies. It compelled me to investigate the complications and consequences of representing and narrativizing this horrific predicament in film. My essay blends interview and film criticism\, and reflects on which Holocaust narratives get preserved\, adapted\, or willfully winnowed away. \nLuLing Osofsky is a PhD student in the History of Art and Visual Culture program. She’s interested in how artists\, filmmakers\, curators\, and political entities represent and narrativize trauma\, destruction and disaster. \nFriday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments: HAVC\, Literature\, and History of Consciousness. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-luling-osofsky/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/FF_Spring2018_Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T143000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180417T181236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T213936Z UID:10006623-1525441500-1525444200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Liz Coppock\, Boston Univeristy DESCRIPTION:Liz Coppock is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Boston University\, specializing in semantics and pragmatics. Her research concerns the meanings of small words in various languages\, the invisible forces that give complex expressions their meanings\, and sometimes even the nature of meaning itself. \nAs Principal Investigator of the Swedish Research Council project Most and more: Quantity superlatives across languages\, she maintains a part-time position as biträdande lektor at the University of Gothenburg\, in the department of Philosophy\, Linguistics\, and Theory of Science\, where she has worked since 2012. \nShe received a B.A. in Linguistics from Northwestern University in 2002 and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University in 2009. She became Docent in Linguistics through the University of Gothenburg in December 2013. (“Docent” is the Swedish equivalent of a German “Habilitation”\, a post-Ph.D. qualification\, regardless of what Google Translate might have you believe.) \nAbstract: \nThis paper focuses on languages in which a superlative interpretation is typically indicated merely by a combination of a definiteness marker with a comparative marker\, including French\, Spanish\, Italian\, Romanian\, and Greek (‘DEF+CMP languages). Despite ostensibly using definiteness markers to form the superlative\, superlatives are not always definite-marking in these languages\, and the distribution of definiteness-making varies across languages. Constituently structure appears to vary across languages as well. To account for these patterns of variation\, we identify conflicting pressures that all of the languages in consideration may be subject to\, and suggest that different languages prioritize differently in the resolution of these conflicts. What these languages have in common\, we suggest\, is a mechanism of Definite Null Instantiation for the degree-type standard argument of the comparative. Among the parameters along which languages are proposed to differ is the relative importance of marking uniqueness vs. avoiding determiners with predicates of entities that arrant individuals. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-liz-coppock-boston-univeristy/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Speaker-flyer-Coppock.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T170000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180313T202720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180515T192443Z UID:10006604-1525442400-1525453200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Language of Conservation Project: In Search of “Values as Yet Uncaptured by Language” DESCRIPTION:In Search of “Values as Yet Uncaptured by Language:” Learning from Great Historical Paradigm Shifts \nA Language of Conservation Project Colloquium. Presented by The Humanities Institute and the Center for Public Philosophy. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nSpeakers: \nDaniel Guevara – Chair\, Department of Philosophy at UCSC \nClaudio Campagna – Adjunct Professor\, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at UCSC\, Wildlife Conservation Society \nKaren Barad – Professor of Feminist Studies at UCSC \nEric Porter – Chair\, History of Consciousness at UCSC & Professor of History at UCSC \nRSVP required. Reading materials sent upon RSVP. \nPlease RSVP here: http://bit.ly/2G3PIvQ \nCo-sponsored by: Cowell College\, The Dean of Humanities\, and Department of Philosophy URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/language-conservation-colloquium/ LOCATION:Page Smith Library ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/flyer-colloquium-2018.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180505T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180505T160000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180423T215256Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180423T215256Z UID:10006632-1525509000-1525536000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Pacific Island Worlds Transpacific Dis/Positions Symposium DESCRIPTION:In this symposium\, artists and scholars explore creative expression and research that chart\nPacific Island Studies in the 21st century. Speakers examine the Pacific Ocean as worlds of\ncomplex human interaction and dynamic spaces in which diverse communities have produced a\nrange of cultural and political identity dis/positions through kinship\, colonial histories\, and\ndiasporas. The symposium honors the memory of UCSC alum Teresia Teaiwa. \nSpeakers will discuss performance and poetry\, debates on cultural preservation\, imaging\nOceanic histories and places\, the cultures of Pacific travel and diasporas\, and Oceanic\necopoetics. \nSpeakers \n‘Ava ceremony with student group Oceania Navigators Empowerment\nJames Clifford\, UC Santa Cruz\, Keynote\nDiana Looser\, Stanford University\nJoe Balaz\, Poet\nKiri Sailiata\, UC Los Angeles\nJewel Castro\, University of Washington\nJane Chang Mi\, Pepperdine University\nKaili Chun\, Kapi’olani Community College\nJesi Lujan Bennett\, University of Hawai’i\nDavid Chang\, University of Minnesota\nRob Wilson\, UC Santa Cruz \nAll events are free and open to the public. \nPaid parking available at Cowell\, Stevenson\, and DARC lots. Weekend free parking at East Remote lot. See parking map for more details. \nFor disability-related or other questions\, please contact Stacy Kamehiro (kamehiro@ucsc.edu) or Kara Hisatake (khisatak@ucsc.edu). \n  \nRelated Events\nMay 4\, 2018\nDARC 206 \n“Veritas”: Talk by Award-Winning Artist Kaili Chun\, 2 pm \n“Seeing the Unseen: A Telephotography Workshop” with Jane Chang Mi\, 4:30 pm URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pacific-island-worlds-transpacific-dis-positions-symposium/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/0.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180509T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180509T170000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180319T201507Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T183257Z UID:10006614-1525878000-1525885200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:POSTPONED Digital Humanities Meet Up DESCRIPTION:**THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED** \nShare your digital research with the DH community!  \nJoin the DH Research Cluster to learn more about DH research on campus at an informal meet up. We invite researchers across campus to share their work with a short\, lightening style presentation. The introductions will be open-mic style\, do you do not have to prepare in advance. This is an opportunity to meet new colleagues\, share your work\, and recognize mutual research interests. \n\nAll students\, faculty\, staff welcome. You do not have to present to attend. \nFood and drinks courtesy of The Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-humanities-meet/ LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180510T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180510T170000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180427T231248Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180507T150538Z UID:10005500-1525965300-1525971600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium: Gene Witmer DESCRIPTION:“Metaphysics and A Priori Vindication” \nIs there reason to expect any interesting kind of a priori access to metaphysical truths of the sort often in dispute in contemporary philosophy? In this paper I zero in on truths about what is metaphysically necessary and about the essences or natures of things as key topics in metaphysics and aim to delineate a well-motivated thesis about a priori access to such. After examining a few approaches that don’t succeed\, I introduce and defend a positive thesis of “semantic rationalism.” The relevance of that thesis for the topics of metaphysical necessities and essences is then explored\, with attention in particular to whether the rationalism in question has enough bite to be of interest. \nGene Witmer is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department at the University of Florida. His research focuses on metaphysics and philosophy of mind\, with a special focus on physicalism. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/philosophy-colloquium-gene-witmer/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180510T152000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180510T170000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180427T035414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180427T035600Z UID:10005497-1525965600-1525971600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Engaging and Including Student Veterans in the Classroom DESCRIPTION:Writing Program Pedagogy Workshop \nThe number of student veterans is rapidly growing\, with more than a million currently enrolled in US colleges. Many institutions support veterans by promoting access to student services but overlook what actually happens in the classroom. What do we need to know as instructors about student veterans’ learning practices\, literacies\, and instructional needs? This workshop will enhance your cultural competence and provide new pedagogical tools to engage and include student veterans in our classrooms. \nDr. Brenda Sanfillipo is a lecturer with the UCSC Writing Program\, Stevenson College\, and Porter College. Her research focuses on representations of war since 9/11. In addition to her academic work and teaching on contemporary warfare\, she spent five years as part of the Army community. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/engaging-including-student-veterans-classroom/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/0001-15.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180511T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180511T134500 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180417T172334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180417T172334Z UID:10005487-1526041800-1526046300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum: Sam Hughes DESCRIPTION:The Origins of Kink-Oriented Desires: Perspectives from an Online Community of Kinky People \nFriday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments: HAVC\, Literature\, and History of Consciousness. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-sam-hughes/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/FF_Spring2018_Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180513T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180513T160000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180110T201407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180110T201407Z UID:10006578-1526220000-1526227200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: The Dickens Universe DESCRIPTION:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club featuring Little Dorrit \nThe Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms\, students\, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel\, beginning this January with Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit. Join us each month for conversations about the novel and guest speaker presentations to help us contextualize our readings. \n  \nSanta Cruz Pickwick Club meets every second Sunday of each month from January – May 2018 at 2pm at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. \nSchedule: \nJanuary 14th: Introduction of the Novel\nFebruary 11th: Little Dorrit in Historical Context\nMarch 11th: Victorian Colonialism\nApril 8th: “How Did the Grim Reaper’s Swift Scythe Sharpen Little Dorrit’s Plot?”\nMay 13th: The Dickens Universe \nMore information\, including schedule can be found by visiting: https://goo.gl/zFQq2M. \n  \nBook club is free and open to the public.\nRegistration requested. \nQuestions? Contact Courtney at (831)459-2103 or dpj@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-dickens-universe/ 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/2018/01/Pickwick-flyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180515 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180518 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180427T205050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180508T184014Z UID:10005499-1526342400-1526601599@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Right Livelihood Conference DESCRIPTION:  \n‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ Laureates at UCSC \nIn May 2018\, a group of Right Livelihood change-makers based in Canada and the US will convene at the University of California\, Santa Cruz to discuss challenges and opportunities for advancing social and environmental justice.  In these tumultuous times\, this meeting will deepen and ground our local efforts toward a more sustainable\, equitable\, and peaceful world. \nPublic Program Dates: May 15 – 17\, 2018\nPlace: University of California\, Santa Cruz\, USA \n  \nThe Right Livelihood Award \nThe Right Livelihood Award—widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’—was established in 1980 to honor and support courageous people and organizations offering visionary and exemplary solutions to the root causes of global problems. In addition to presenting the annual award\, the Right Livelihood Award Foundation also supports the work of its Laureates\, particularly those whose lives may be in danger due to the nature of their activities. \n  \nThe Right Livelihood College \nCommon Ground Center at UC Santa Cruz’s Kresge College is the one and only Right Livelihood College in North America\, and we are honored to host the first North American Regional Conference featuring many Laureates from the USA and Canada. By linking activists and academics\, the Right Livelihood College highlights UC Santa Cruz’s trailblazing leadership in service of people and the planet\, and makes vital contributions to the intellectual life of the campus and community. \n  \n\n\nLaureates attending \nThe following Laureates have confirmed their attendance: \n\nRobert Bilott (USA\, 2017)\n\n“…for exposing a decades-long history of chemical pollution\, winning long-sought justice for the victims\, and setting a precedent for effective regulation of hazardous substances.”\n\n\nSheila Watt-Cloutier (Canada\, 2015)\n\n“…for her lifelong work to protect the Inuit of the Arctic and defend their right to maintain their livelihoods and culture\, which are acutely threatened by climate change.”\n\n\nBill McKibben / 350.org (USA\, 2014)\n\n“…for mobilising growing popular support in the USA and around the world for strong action to counter the threat of global climate change.”\n\n\nPaul Walker (USA\, 2013)\n\n“…for working tirelessly to rid the world of chemical weapons.”\n\n\nJamila Raqib on behalf of Gene Sharp (USA\, 2012)\n\n“…for developing and articulating the core principles and strategies of nonviolent resistance and supporting their practical implementation in conflict areas around the world.”\n\n\nYannick Beaudoin (David Suzuki Foundation)\, on behalf of David Suzuki (Canada\, 2009)\n\n“…for his lifetime advocacy of the socially responsible use of science\, and for his massive contribution to raising awareness about the perils of climate change and building public support for policies to address it”.\n\n\nAmy Goodman (USA\, 2008)\n\n“…for developing an innovative model of truly independent political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by mainstream media.”\n\n\nDaniel Ellsberg (USA\, 2006)\n\n“…for putting peace and truth first\, at considerable personal risk\, and dedicating his life to inspiring others to follow his example.”\n\n\nMaude Barlow (Canada\, 2005)\n\n“… for their exemplary and longstanding worldwide work for trade justice and the recognition of the fundamental human right to water.”\n\n\nTony Clarke (Canada\, 2005)\n\n“… for their exemplary and longstanding worldwide work for trade justice and the recognition of the fundamental human right to water.”\n\n\nWes Jackson / The Land Institute (USA\, 2000)\n\n“…for his single-minded commitment to developing an agriculture that is both highly productive and truly ecologically sustainable.”\n\n\nAlice Tepper Marlin (USA\, 1990)\n\n“…for showing the direction in which the Western economy must develop to promote the well-being of humanity.”\n\n\nFrances Moore Lappé (Small Planet Institute) (USA\, 1987)\n\n“…for revealing the political and economic causes of world hunger and how citizens can help to remedy them.”\n\n\nAmory Lovins (USA\, 1983)\n\n“…for pioneering soft energy paths for global security.”\n\n\nPat Mooney (Canada\, 1985)\n\n“…for working to save the world’s genetic plant heritage.”\n\n\nLisa Wartinger\, Bruce Curtis and/or Peter Schweizer of Plenty International (USA\, 1980)\n\n“…for caring\, sharing and acting with and on behalf of those in need at home and abroad.”\n\n\n\n\n  \nPartner Organisations \nA number of groups at UC Santa Cruz are collaborating to co-host this event\, including:UCSC Foundation\nCommon Ground Center\nKresge College\nBlum Center on Poverty\, Social Enterprise\, and Participatory Governance\nEverett Program for Technology & Social Change\nCenter for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems\nDivision of Social Sciences\nThe Humanities Institute\nUniversity Relations\nScience and Justice Research Center\nSustainability Office\nEnvironmental Studies Department\nHeller Chair in Agroecology\nRachel Carson College & Headley Chair for Integral Ecology and Environmental JusticePlease contact us using the information below if you would like to contribute to the conference.\n\n  \nConference Background \nSince 2013\, the Right Livelihood Award has arranged a series of regional conferences for its Laureates. It was after a call from one of our Colombian Laureates\, asking for help to strengthen their regional network\, that we decided to bring Laureates from Latin America and the Caribbean together for the first time. Since it was such an important and fruitful meeting\, this meeting was followed by regional meetings for Laureates in Africa and the Middle East in 2014\, in Asia in 2015\, and\, in 2016\, Laureates in Europe. The meeting of North American Right Livelihood Award Laureates will be the fifth regional conference. In times when safe spaces for action are shrinking for civil society all over the world\, these meetings provide an enabling environment for important actors toward a more sustainable and peaceful world. Award recipients have been able to share struggles\, exchange ideas\, strengthen networks of collaboration\, and engage more deeply with change makers and communities local to the areas where the meetings have been held.\n\nAdd strength to change-makers by supporting this conference \nSince its founding by Jakob von Uexkull\, Individual donations have been the backbone of the Right Livelihood Award. Institutional donors also help to support the Award. If you would like to contribute to this meeting of courageous people and organisations in North America that have found practical solutions to the root causes of global problems\, please visit the ‘Donate‘ section. \nMark your support: “Regional conf.\, Santa Cruz” \n  \nContact information \nKajsa Övergaard\nSenior Programme Director\nRight Livelihood Award Foundation\nkajsa@rightlivelihood.org\n+46-8-7020340 \nDavid Shaw\nCoordinator\, RLC Campus Santa Cruz\nCo-Director\, Common Ground Center\nUCSC Kresge College\ndaveshaw@ucsc.edu\n+1-831-222-0253 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/right-livelihood-conference/ LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/RLC-banner-email-rla-santa-cruz-no-border-1334x386.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180515T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180515T133000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180425T222259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180425T222625Z UID:10005494-1526385600-1526391000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Building a Coding Workflow from Terminal to Github: Workshop with Fabiola Hanna DESCRIPTION:  \nConfused by Github? Scared by the black screen of the Terminal? \nIf you’re looking to code\, but don’t know how to get started join Fabiola Hanna for an introductory workshop and learn how to set up a coding workflow. We’ll start with basic scripts in Terminal then move to setting up Brackets and working with GitHub. You’ll learn how to fork\, branch\, push\, pull\, etc… If you don’t know what any of these words mean\, you’re more than welcome! Start here. \nRegistration Required. Limited Seating. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/building-coding-workflow-terminal-github-workshop-fabiola-hanna/ LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry Library END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180516T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180516T133000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180228T234026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180922T183101Z UID:10005473-1526472000-1526477400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jennifer Doyle: "Harassment & the Unravelling of the Queer Commons" DESCRIPTION:This talk will attempt to speak to the difficulty of this moment for queer/feminist theorists—for teachers\, students and staff who live and work with harassment\, with forms of misogyny that are so embedded in professional life as\, in some ways\, to feel synonymous with it. This work is a return to a scene many of us have never left\, but which critical formations tend to represent as having passed: super-sexual political writing calling for openness against an intolerable future. \nJennifer Doyle is a Professor of English at UC Riverside. \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-jennifer-doyle/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180516T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180516T200000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180125T193612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180524T170809Z UID:10005447-1526493600-1526500800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:UCSC Night at the Museum: "Global 1968 - Race and Revolution around the World" DESCRIPTION:6:00pm – doors open  |  6:30pm – program begins \n  \nFifty years ago\, countries and cities around the globe erupted with protests and revolutionary movements demanding change and seeking to create a better future. Featuring four renowned historians\, “Global 1968” spotlights marginalized groups and lesser-known events and places in the global upheavals of 1968—from Mexico to China\, Oakland to West Africa—while considering what lessons can be drawn for politics and protest today. \nRegistration Required – Registration has closed\nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nSpeakers:\nJean Allman (Washington University in St. Louis)\nJaime Pensado (University of Notre Dame)\nDonna Murch (Rutgers University)\nEmily Honig (UC Santa Cruz)\nModerated by: Marc Matera (UC Santa Cruz) \n  \nPhotography Exhibit: \nIncluded in the evening’s event will be a pop-up exhibit of images from a 1968 photography project launched by artist Ruth-Marion Baruch to document the people and the work of California’s Black Panther Party. The now-iconic photographs she and her husband Pirkle Jones took of the Panthers were both celebrated and criticized for their sympathetic portrayal of a maligned community. Black Panthers\, 1968 is one of many projects revealing Baruch’s and Jones’s commitment to art and social change that are preserved in their archive at UC Santa Cruz’s Special Collections & Archives. \n  \nRegistration Required. Each attendee must submit a registration form. Seating is first come\, first serve. Overflow space will be available. If you have disability-related needs\, please contact The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274. Please note that if you do not receive an email confirmation with your form responses\, you have not successfully registered for the event. \n  \nCo-sponsored by: The Center for World History and the History Department. Part of The Humanities Institute’s Freedom and Race Series\, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ucsc-night-museum/ LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/banner-1b-1024x520.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180517T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180517T180000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180423T220257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180509T163243Z UID:10005492-1526572800-1526580000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jennifer Kelly: “Subjection and Performance: Tourism\, Witnessing\, and Acts of Refusal in Palestine” DESCRIPTION:Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program Presents: \n“Subjection and Performance: Tourism\, Witnessing\, and Acts of Refusal in Palestine” \nDrawing from multi-sited ethnographic research on solidarity tours in Palestine\, in this talk Jennifer Kelly shows how Palestinian solidarity tour guides reject performing subjection in an industry that treats the recitation of subjection as a prerequisite. On solidarity tours\, Palestinians are expected to rehearse their displacement and provide evidence of their dispossession against a constellation of U.S. and Israeli state sanctioned narratives that have rendered them unreliable narrators. Kelly shows how Palestinian tour guides disrupt tourist expectations by refusing to perform subjection for the tourist gaze. In alternative performances of pleasure and through acts of “hanging out\,” Palestinian tour guides intervene in tourist expectations of performances of trauma and instead ask tourists to confront the violences of their own desire in Palestine. \nJennifer Kelly is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Asian American Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/critical-race-ethnic-studies-program-presents/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ACFrOgDdy997WofAVTT3_-O1bZNl-q7DdQz5yOa5MbnD5VeDWNE1PTYw57ydlrn3kNh18xyt-trNXOj1I7r8H05fUgwdmD-JAZg5VV5KV1maix98o8r8tpIrZXA5L-o.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180517T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180517T185000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180507T172412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180507T172600Z UID:10006633-1526577600-1526583000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Carmen Giménez-Smith & giovanni singleton DESCRIPTION:Born in New York\, poet Carmen Giménez Smith earned a BA in English from San Jose State University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa. She is the author of six collections of poetry\, including Cruel Futures (City Lights\, 2018); Milk and Filth (2013)\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Goodbye\, Flicker (University of Massachusetts Press\, 2012)\, winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. She is the author of the memoir Bring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering\, Art\, Work\, and Everything Else (University of Arizona Press\, 2010)\, which received an American Book Award. She also coedited Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing (Counterpath Press\, 2014). \ngiovanni singleton earned a BA from American University and an MFA from the New College of California. She is the author of the poetry collections AMERICAN LETTERS: works on paper (2017) and Ascension (2011)\, which won a California Book Award for Poetry. The book earned praise for its evocative use of white space\, silence\, and omissions. Poet Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon noted that singleton’s “poems are minimalist\, while engaging a concern for the historical\, the personal\, the spiritual\, as expanses… The buildup is slow\, and culminates as play\, in the clear space left as we literally watch an I disappear. Thereafter\, we find the blank page again. And time to make another poem.” \nSpring 2018 Living Writers:\nA Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement \nThis spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories\, persons and things\, race and freedom\, kinship and loss\, and the human and non-human natural world. \nApril 12: Sherwin Bitsui \nApril 26: Leif Haven\, Jared Harvey \nMay 3: Courtney Kersten \nMay 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton \nMay 24: Sawako Nakayasu \nMay 31: Robin Coste Lewis \nJune 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nThursdays\, 5:20-6:50 PM \nAll Readings are Free and Open to the Public \nContact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu) \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, American Indian Resource Center\, El Centro\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, the Literature Department\, and the Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-carmen-gimenez-smith-giovanni-singleton-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/2018/04/0001-13.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180517T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180517T220000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180423T205846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180423T210241Z UID:10006628-1526587200-1526594400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Miriam Ellis International Playhouse DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics\, Cowell\, and Stevenson Colleges at UCSC will present the 18th season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP) from May 17th through May 20th at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center on campus. In this unique multilingual program\, students will be featured in fully-staged excerpts of short works in Punjabi\, French. German\, and Spanish\, with English super-titles. \nThere is no admission charge for the event; nearby parking is $4.00. \nThere are exciting innovations in the program this year\, with the first MEIP presentation of works in Punjabi\, including a short play and poetry\, directed by Arshinder Kaur\, and excerpts from Mozart’s opera\, The Magic Flute\, sung in German\, directed by Sheila Willey\, and performed by students of the University Opera Theater\, as a preview of their upcoming production of the opera\, which will take place from May 31 to June 3 at the UCSC Music Center Recital Hall. Students of French will portray scenes from Marcel Pagnol’s Fanny\, one of the plays in his trilogy about a group of serio-comic characters in Marseille\, directed by Miriam Ellis and Renée Cailloux. Spanish will offer a contemporary comedy\, Black and White\, by Ignacio Dominis\, directed by Carolina Castillo-Trelles\, which explores characters who live in two different worlds\, separated by a line never to be crossed. Over the years\, our multilingual theater presentations have attracted loyal audiences who look forward to hearing their native or acquired languages in this unusual format\, and we cordially invite the community to attend. \nFor more information\, please contact Lisa Leslie at lmhunter@ucsc.edu or (831-459- 2054). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/miriam-ellis-international-playhouse/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/JapaneseSweet-Poison-MEIP-XV.-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T190000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180427T034325Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180427T034325Z UID:10005496-1526630400-1526670000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"¿Cómo te comunicas?": 7th annual UC Comparative Iberian Studies Symposium DESCRIPTION:The 7th annual UC Comparative Iberian Studies Symposium “¿Cómo te comunicas?” will feature a cohort of 15-17 UC professors\, working in a variety of fields within the discipline of Iberian Studies\, stretching from medieval topics to cultural studies until the 21st century. \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and UCHRI. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/como-te-comunicas-7th-annual-uc-comparative-iberian-studies-symposium/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/0001-14.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T134500 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180417T174633Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180417T175308Z UID:10005488-1526646600-1526651100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum: Rebekkah Gross DESCRIPTION:Situational Features Influences College Students’ Evaluations About Helping \nFriday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments: HAVC\, Literature\, and History of Consciousness. \nFor questions\, email fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-rebekkah-gross/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/FF_Spring2018_Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T143000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180417T181455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180515T205841Z UID:10006624-1526650200-1526653800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Meghan Sumner DESCRIPTION:“Usage-based linguistic models and understanding human behavior” \nThe past three decades of research in phonetics and psycholinguistics have led to great advances in our understanding of language\, representation\, and the relationship between language and other cognitive domains. While debates certainly still exist\, we can take as established that how often and in what context different speech patterns occur influence both memory and processing. The question now is what we do with this rich foundation. \nIn this talk\, I present a few\, short examples of how usage-based approaches to phonetics and psycholinguistics help us understand social biases and human behavior. I provide some evidence showing that phonetically-cued talker information (e.g.\, emotion\, gender) directly activates lexical items\, providing us with some insights into the timing and availability of this\ninformation. The purpose of this first part is to illuminate the complexity of experiencing linguistic events from the perspective of a listener. \nFor the remainder of the talk\, I move away from phonetics\, taking the basic insights from the studies initially presented (e.g.\, that we are pattern recognizers) to question assumptions about language use and experience and ask how our understanding of language use\, semantic associations and culture can inform society at large. Specifically\, I spend the last large chunk of\nthis talk investigating how we can understand the refugee experience through the lens of spoken language comprehension. \nMeghan Sumner is an associate professor of Linguistics at Stanford University. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-meghan-sumner-stanford/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/0001-19.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T220000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180423T205929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180423T210338Z UID:10006629-1526673600-1526680800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Miriam Ellis International Playhouse DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics\, Cowell\, and Stevenson Colleges at UCSC will present the 18th season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP) from May 17th through May 20th at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center on campus. In this unique multilingual program\, students will be featured in fully-staged excerpts of short works in Punjabi\, French. German\, and Spanish\, with English super-titles. \nThere is no admission charge for the event; nearby parking is $4.00. \nThere are exciting innovations in the program this year\, with the first MEIP presentation of works in Punjabi\, including a short play and poetry\, directed by Arshinder Kaur\, and excerpts from Mozart’s opera\, The Magic Flute\, sung in German\, directed by Sheila Willey\, and performed by students of the University Opera Theater\, as a preview of their upcoming production of the opera\, which will take place from May 31 to June 3 at the UCSC Music Center Recital Hall. Students of French will portray scenes from Marcel Pagnol’s Fanny\, one of the plays in his trilogy about a group of serio-comic characters in Marseille\, directed by Miriam Ellis and Renée Cailloux. Spanish will offer a contemporary comedy\, Black and White\, by Ignacio Dominis\, directed by Carolina Castillo-Trelles\, which explores characters who live in two different worlds\, separated by a line never to be crossed. Over the years\, our multilingual theater presentations have attracted loyal audiences who look forward to hearing their native or acquired languages in this unusual format\, and we cordially invite the community to attend. \nFor more information\, please contact Lisa Leslie at lmhunter@ucsc.edu or (831-459- 2054). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/miriam-ellis-international-playhouse-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/JapaneseSweet-Poison-MEIP-XV.-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180519T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180519T220000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180423T210128Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180423T210557Z UID:10006630-1526760000-1526767200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Miriam Ellis International Playhouse DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics\, Cowell\, and Stevenson Colleges at UCSC will present the 18th season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP) from May 17th through May 20th at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center on campus. In this unique multilingual program\, students will be featured in fully-staged excerpts of short works in Punjabi\, French. German\, and Spanish\, with English super-titles. \nThere is no admission charge for the event; nearby parking is $4.00. \nThere are exciting innovations in the program this year\, with the first MEIP presentation of works in Punjabi\, including a short play and poetry\, directed by Arshinder Kaur\, and excerpts from Mozart’s opera\, The Magic Flute\, sung in German\, directed by Sheila Willey\, and performed by students of the University Opera Theater\, as a preview of their upcoming production of the opera\, which will take place from May 31 to June 3 at the UCSC Music Center Recital Hall. Students of French will portray scenes from Marcel Pagnol’s Fanny\, one of the plays in his trilogy about a group of serio-comic characters in Marseille\, directed by Miriam Ellis and Renée Cailloux. Spanish will offer a contemporary comedy\, Black and White\, by Ignacio Dominis\, directed by Carolina Castillo-Trelles\, which explores characters who live in two different worlds\, separated by a line never to be crossed. Over the years\, our multilingual theater presentations have attracted loyal audiences who look forward to hearing their native or acquired languages in this unusual format\, and we cordially invite the community to attend. \nFor more information\, please contact Lisa Leslie at lmhunter@ucsc.edu or (831-459- 2054). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/miriam-ellis-international-playhouse-3/ LOCATION:CA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/JapaneseSweet-Poison-MEIP-XV.-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180520T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180520T170000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180515T233125Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180515T233125Z UID:10006636-1526806800-1526835600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join Senderos for our 13th annual Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza on Sunday\, May 20 at San Lorenzo Park\, Santa Cruz (new location). This is an all-day (9am to 5pm) dance\, music\, food\, crafts festival which brings the rich cultural traditions of Oaxaca to our County. Last year we had over 3700 in attendance. \nIn addition to Guelaguetza we are presenting these FREE family-friendly events in May! \nSaturday\, May 5 – MÚSICA CLÁSICA EN LA MISIÓN 2-5:30pm\nSanta Cruz Mission Historic Park: tours of Mission\, crafts\, Oaxacan food for sale with outdoor concert at 3:30pm featuring the wonderful student musicians from Oaxaca who will be with Senderos for a 3 week cultural exchange.\nThis event presented in partnership with Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks and California State Parks \nSaturday\, May 12 – Senderos Fiesta – 5-7pm\, Cooper Street\nMusic\, dancing\, Oaxacan food for sale – street party!\nThis event presented in partnership with Santa Cruz City Arts and Santa Cruz MAH \nCo-sponsored by:\nNido de Lenguas – a project of the UCSC Humanities Institute and the UCSC Linguistics Department to share the value of the indigenous languages of Oaxaca. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vive-oaxaca-guelaguetza/ LOCATION:San Lorenzo Park\, Santa Cruz END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180520T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180520T220000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180423T210431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180423T214219Z UID:10006631-1526846400-1526853600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Miriam Ellis International Playhouse DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics\, Cowell\, and Stevenson Colleges at UCSC will present the 18th season of the (MEIP) from May 17th through May 20th at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center on campus. In this unique multilingual program\, students will be featured in fully-staged excerpts of short works in Punjabi\, French. German\, and Spanish\, with English super-titles. \nThere is no admission charge for the event; nearby parking is $4.00. \nThere are exciting innovations in the program this year\, with the first MEIP presentation of works in Punjabi\, including a short play and poetry\, directed by Arshinder Kaur\, and excerpts from Mozart’s opera\, The Magic Flute\, sung in German\, directed by Sheila Willey\, and performed by students of the University Opera Theater\, as a preview of their upcoming production of the opera\, which will take place from May 31 to June 3 at the UCSC Music Center Recital Hall. Students of French will portray scenes from Marcel Pagnol’s Fanny\, one of the plays in his trilogy about a group of serio-comic characters in Marseille\, directed by Miriam Ellis and Renée Cailloux. Spanish will offer a contemporary comedy\, Black and White\, by Ignacio Dominis\, directed by Carolina Castillo-Trelles\, which explores characters who live in two different worlds\, separated by a line never to be crossed. Over the years\, our multilingual theater presentations have attracted loyal audiences who look forward to hearing their native or acquired languages in this unusual format\, and we cordially invite the community to attend. \nFor more information\, please contact Lisa Leslie at lmhunter@ucsc.edu or (831-459- 2054). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/miriam-ellis-international-playhouse-4/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/JapaneseSweet-Poison-MEIP-XV.-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180521T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180521T170000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180521T200333Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180521T200333Z UID:10006637-1526916600-1526922000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dayna Barnes: "Learning Lessons? A comparison of Planning for the Occupations of Japan and Iraq" DESCRIPTION: URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dayna-barnes-learning-lessons-comparison-planning-occupations-japan-iraq/ LOCATION:Charles E. Merrill Lounge ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/0001-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T150000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180417T183546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180510T032913Z UID:10006626-1527066000-1527087600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Digital Research and Teaching Symposium featuring Undergraduate Digital Research and Innovative Pedagogy DESCRIPTION:  \nThis event will showcase the independent\, digital research and classroom work of undergraduate students alongside the innovative assignment design and pedagogical experimentation of faculty and graduate students. Join us in the morning to focus on undergraduate digital research and in the afternoon for an in-depth discussion about new methods in active and engaged pedagogy. \nLunch will be included for participants and registered attendees.  \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning\, and The Digital Scholarship Commons (University Library). \nREGISTER NOW\n\nPROGRAM \nWednesday\, May 23\, 2018\n9 am – 3pm in the Digital Scholarship Commons (Ground Floor\, McHenry Library) \n9: 00 Light Breakfast + Coffee \n9:30 – 10:30 Digital Poster Session​: Undergraduate Research + Graduate Student Pedagogy projects \n10:30 – 11:45 Panel of Undergraduate Digital Research Fellows (Moderator\, Ebad Rahman) \n11:45 – 1:30 Lunch + Break \n1:30 – 3:00 Round table on Innovative Pedagogy with Faculty and Graduate Students (Moderators\, Kendra Dority and Aaron Zachmeier) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-research-teaching-symposium-featuring-undergraduate-digital-research-innovative-pedagogy/ LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry Library END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T133000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180228T234424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180402T015140Z UID:10005475-1527076800-1527082200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Saein Park: "Dancing Waste of History: Lumpen in Heine\, Marx\, & Benjamin" DESCRIPTION:Saein Park’s current project argues that the discourses of Lumpen record the changing demarcations of disposable lives during the emergence of European industrial modernity. She researches 19th- and early-20th-century German-language literature\, political philosophy\, and critical theory\, focusing on translation and reception studies\, theories of waste\, and plant studies. \nSaein Park is a Visiting Assistant Professor at 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-saein-park/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T190000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180509T222821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180509T222821Z UID:10006634-1527089400-1527102000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Applied Linguistics Colloquia DESCRIPTION: URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/applied-linguistics-colloquia/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/0001-17.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180524T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180524T150000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180427T191320Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180430T194953Z UID:10005498-1527168600-1527174000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mitch Aso: "Rubber and the Making of Vietnam" DESCRIPTION:  \nRubber has been a key commodity for industrial societies since the nineteenth century. Yet\, studies of the impact of the production of this good on various regions around the world have mostly been narrowly focused on the industry and its workers. My forthcoming book\, Rubber and the Making of Vietnam\, adopts a broader lens\, what I call an ecological history\, to examine the role of rubber in shaping Vietnamese society in the twentieth century. Through this lens\, I examine how the evolving relationships between humans and non-humans contributed to both the projects of empire and nation building. I argue that rubber\, and rubber plantations\, structured the material and symbolic bodies and landscapes of the postcolonial nation of Vietnam. In my talk\, I will touch on the promises and the perils of such ecological histories and the new perspectives on the past that they offer. \nMore info on The Center for World History URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mitch-aso-rubber-making-vietnam/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Aso-talk-image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180524T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180524T185000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180410T234117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180410T234117Z UID:10005484-1527182400-1527187800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Sawako Nakayasu DESCRIPTION:Sawako Nakayasu is a transnational poet\, translator\, and occasional performance artist who has lived in Japan\, France\, China\, and the US. Her books include The Ants and Texture Notes\, and recent translations include The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa\, and Costume en Face – a handwritten notebook of Tatsumi Hijikata’s dance notations. She is co-editor\, with Lisa Samuels\, of A Transpacific Poetics\, a gathering of poetry and poetics engaging transpacific imaginaries. She teaches at Brown University. \nSpring 2018 Living Writers:\n A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement \nThis spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories\, persons and things\, race and freedom\, kinship and loss\, and the human and non-human natural world. \nApril 12: Sherwin Bitsui \nApril 26: Leif Haven\, Jared Harvey \nMay 3: Courtney Kersten \nMay 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton \nMay 24: Sawako Nakayasu \nMay 31: Robin Coste Lewis \nJune 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nThursdays\, 5:20-6:50 PM \nAll Readings are Free and Open to the Public \nContact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu) \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, American Indian Resource Center\, El Centro\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, the Literature Department\, and the Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-sawako-nakayasu/ 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/2018/04/0001-13.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180525T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180525T134500 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180417T174902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180417T174902Z UID:10005489-1527251400-1527255900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum: Madison Treece DESCRIPTION:Maya Textile Arts Influence Contemporary Politics in Zapatista Embroidery \nFriday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments: HAVC\, Literature\, and History of Consciousness. \nFor questions\, email fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-madison-treece/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/FF_Spring2018_Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180529 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180530 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180125T193828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180521T220033Z UID:10005448-1527552000-1527638399@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Opera Works: Journey in Creation DESCRIPTION:Workshop rehearsals with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe. \n“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”\nTuesday\, May 29\, 2018 \n2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop \nThe Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, and the Humanities Institute\, invite students\, faculty\, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe\, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele\, a San Francisco based company under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita\, UCSC Music Department)\, commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers\, the librettists\, the composer\, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshop is free and open to everyone. \n  \nRELATED EVENTS \n  \nTuesday\, May 29th \nPanel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts”  – Registration Required  \nFeaturing: \nRobin Coste Lewis\, Poet\, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus\nNicole Paiement\, Conductor\, Musical Director\, Opera Parallele\nLaura Kaminsky\, Opera Composer\nJennifer Gonzalez\, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture\, UCSC\nBettina Aptheker\, Professor of Feminist Studies\, UCSC (moderator) \nDoors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen \nEvent starts at 7:00pm \n  \nWed\, May 30th\nCultural Studies talk with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities 1\, Room 210 @ 12:15pm\nRobin Coste Lewis reading and book signing – Bookshop Santa Cruz @ 7pm \n  \nThurs\, May 31st\nLiving Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm \n  \nThese events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, Arts Division\, Porter College\, Living Writers & Cultural Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/georgia-okeefe-opera-workshop-panel/ LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Okeefe_R1a_Webbanner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180529T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180529T190000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180515T210329Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180515T210351Z UID:10006635-1527614100-1527620400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jeff Michno: "Nicaragua Y ¿Vos\, tú o usted?" DESCRIPTION:  \nIn this talk\, I highlight variation in second-person singular pronoun use (vos\, tú\, and usted) by local residents of a rural Nicaraguan community experiencing linguistic and cultural contact driven by tourism. I demonstrate that pronoun selection can vary according to the amount of contact locals have with outsiders in their community\, providing evidence that locals use tú\, a variant reported as virtually absent from Nicaraguan Spanish\, with both outsiders and other locals. Utilizing local commentary\, I show that this practice coincides with a sense of prestige attributed to the tú form\, and stigma\, to vos\, the form reported as ubiquitous in Nicaraguan Spanish. In addition\, through an interactional analysis\, I identify several functions of pronoun switching (e.g. from vos to tú) by a given speaker with the same conversational partner\, including: flirting\, enhancing or reducing deference\, emphasizing youthfulness\, and negotiating identity status and stance in new relationships. Most notably\, I show how locals systematically switch pronouns to shift from direct address (e.g. ¿Cómo te llamas? ‘What is your[tú] name?’) to an impersonal stance (e.g. Tenés que trabajar para comer. ‘You[vos] have [one has] to work to eat.’). The evidence supports the view that impersonal use of second-person pronouns implies some type of generalization\, which can serve to create solidarity between conversational partners. \nJeff Michno is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at Furman University in Greenville\, SC. Professor Michno’s research focuses on language and culture contact\, examining both well-established contact settings\, such as the Texas-Mexico region\, as well as more recent scenarios rooted in migration\, globalization and tourism. He is currently investigating a rural Nicaraguan community experiencing linguistic and cultural contact due to tourism. His primary research goal is to highlight ways in which language varies according to the social characteristics of individuals as well as their moment-to-moment communicative moves (i.e. variation according to both social and pragmatic factors). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jeff-michno-nicaragua-y-vos-tu-o-usted/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/0001-21.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180529T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180529T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180423T183657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180530T182550Z UID:10006627-1527618600-1527625800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"Always Moving Uphill: Women in the Arts" Panel DESCRIPTION:Our panel will discuss the struggle of women artists\, writers\, and poets to find voice in a world that has been\, until very recently\, so completely dominated and controlled by (white) male power and money. \nPanel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts” featuring: \nRobin Coste Lewis\, Poet\, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus\nNicole Paiement\, Conductor\, Musical Director\, Opera Parallele\nLaura Kaminsky\, Opera Composer\nJennifer Gonzalez\, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture\, UCSC\nBettina Aptheker\, Professor of Feminist Studies\, UCSC (moderator) \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nRegistration required – registration has closed \n  \nDoors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen \nEvent starts at 7:00pm \nRELATED EVENTS \nTuesday\, May 29th\n“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”\nWorkshop rehearsal with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe.\n2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop \nThe Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, and the Humanities Institute\, invites students\, faculty\, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe\, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele\, San Francisco based company\, under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita\, UCSC Music Department)\, commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers\, the librettists\, the composer\, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshops are free and open to everyone. \nWed\, May 30th\nCultural Studies talk with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities 1\, Room 210 @ 12:15pm\nRobin Coste Lewis reading and book signing – Bookshop Santa Cruz @ 7pm \nThurs\, May 31st\nLiving Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm \nThese events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, Arts Division\, Porter College\, Living Writers & Cultural Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/always-moving-uphill-women-arts-panel/ LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Okeefe_R1a_Webbanner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180530T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180530T133000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180228T234756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180521T220105Z UID:10005477-1527681600-1527687000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Robin Coste Lewis: "Voyage of the Sable Venus: Bodies\, Art\, Race\, & Poetry" DESCRIPTION:Robin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015)\, which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies\, including The Massachusetts Review\, Callaloo\, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review\, Transition\, and VIDA. \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 Humanities Institute. \nRELATED EVENTS \nTuesday\, May 29th\n“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”\nWorkshop rehearsals with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe.\n2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop \nThe Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, and the Humanities Institute\, invites students\, faculty\, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe\, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele\, San Francisco based company\, under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita\, UCSC Music Department)\, commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers\, the librettists\, the composer\, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshops are free and open to everyone. \n  \nTuesday\, May 29th \nPanel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts”– Registration Required \nFeaturing: \nRobin Coste Lewis\, Poet\, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus\nNicole Paiement\, Conductor\, Musical Director\, Opera Parallele\nLaura Kaminsky\, Opera Composer\nJennifer Gonzalez\, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture\, UCSC\nBettina Aptheker\, Professor of Feminist Studies\, UCSC (moderator) \nDoors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen \nEvent starts at 7:00pm \n  \nWed\, May 30th\nRobin Coste Lewis reading and book signing – Bookshop Santa Cruz @ 7pm \n  \nThurs\, May 31st\nLiving Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm \n  \nThese events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, Arts Division\, Porter College\, Living Writers & Cultural Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-robin-coste-lewis/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180530T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180530T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180322T221006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180521T220138Z UID:10006617-1527706800-1527714000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Robin Coste Lewis at Bookshop Santa Cruz DESCRIPTION:Robin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015)\, which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies\, including The Massachusetts Review\, Callaloo\, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review\, Transition\, and VIDA. \nThis free event will take place in Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. \nFull event info: http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/event/robin-coste-lewis-voyage-sable-venus \nRELATED EVENTS \nTuesday\, May 29th\n“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”\nWorkshop rehearsals with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe.\n2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop \nThe Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, and the Humanities Institute\, invite students\, faculty\, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe\, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele\, San Francisco based company\, under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita\, UCSC Music Department)\, commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers\, the librettists\, the composer\, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshops are free and open to everyone. \n  \nTuesday\, May 29th \nPanel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts” – Registration Required  \nFeaturing: \nRobin Coste Lewis\, Poet\, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus\nNicole Paiement\, Conductor\, Musical Director\, Opera Parallele\nLaura Kaminsky\, Opera Composer\nJennifer Gonzalez\, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture\, UCSC\nBettina Aptheker\, Professor of Feminist Studies\, UCSC (moderator) \nDoors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen \nEvent starts at 7:00pm \nWed\, May 30th\nCultural Studies talk with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities 1\, Room 210 @ 12:15pm \n  \nThurs\, May 31st\nLiving Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm \n  \nThese events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, Arts Division\, Porter College\, Living Writers & Cultural Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/robin-coste-lewis-bookshop-santa-cruz/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180531T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180531T172000 DTSTAMP:20260426T023945 CREATED:20180327T091005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180521T220225Z UID:10006619-1527787200-1527787200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Robin Coste Lewis DESCRIPTION:Robin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015)\, which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies\, including The Massachusetts Review\, Callaloo\, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review\, Transition\, and VIDA. \nLewis earned her MFA from NYU’s Creative Writing Program where she was a Goldwater fellow in poetry. She also earned a MTS degree in Sanskrit and comparative religious literature from Harvard Divinity School. She is a Cave Canem fellow and was awarded a Provost’s fellowship in the Creative Writing & Literature PhD Program at USC. Other fellowships and awards include the Caldera Foundation\, the Ragdale Foundation\, the Headlands Center for the Arts\, the Can Serrat International Art Centre in Barcelona\, and the Summer Literary Seminars in Kenya. She was a finalist for the International War Poetry Prize\, the National Rita Dove Prize\, and semi-finalist for the “Discovery”/Boston Review Prize and the Crab Orchard Series Open Poetry Prize. \nLewis has taught at Wheaton College\, Hunter College\, Hampshire College and the NYU Low-Residency MFA in Paris. Born in Compton\, California\, her family is from New Orleans. \n  \nAbout Living Writers\, Spring 2018: “A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement” \nSpring quarter 2018 will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories\, persons and things\, race and freedom\, kinship and loss\, and the human and non-human natural world. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, American Indian Resource Center\, El Centro\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, the Literature Department\, and the Creative Writing Program. \nRELATED EVENTS \nTuesday\, May 29th\n“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”\nWorkshop rehearsals with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe.\n2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop \nThe Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, and the Humanities Institute\, invite students\, faculty\, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe\, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele\, San Francisco based company\, under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita\, UCSC Music Department)\, commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers\, the librettists\, the composer\, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshops are free and open to everyone. \n  \nTuesday\, May 29th \nPanel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts”  – Registration Required \nFeaturing: \nRobin Coste Lewis\, Poet\, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus\nNicole Paiement\, Conductor\, Musical Director\, Opera Parallele\nLaura Kaminsky\, Opera Composer\nJennifer Gonzalez\, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture\, UCSC\nBettina Aptheker\, Professor of Feminist Studies\, UCSC (moderator) \nDoors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen \nEvent starts at 7:00pm \n  \nWed\, May 30th\nCultural Studies talk with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities 1\, Room 210 @ 12:15pm\nRobin Coste Lewis reading and book signing – Bookshop Santa Cruz @ 7pm \n  \nThurs\, May 31st\nLiving Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm \n  \nThese events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, Arts Division\, Porter College\, Living Writers & Cultural Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/41625/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR