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SUMMARY:Nidhi Mahajan: "Moorings: Trade Networks and States in the Western Indian Ocean"
DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nSailing vessels or dhows have long connected different parts of the western Indian Ocean\, transporting goods\, and people across South Asia\, the Middle East and East Africa. These dhows now function as an economy of arbitrage\, servicing minor ports in times of conflict. This talk focuses on the contemporary dhow trade\, centered in port cities such as Dubai and Sharjah that have “free trade” policies. I argue that these notions of free trade are entangled with war\, conflict\, and broader geopolitical concerns across the Indian Ocean region. \nNidhi Mahajan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UCSC and a principal faculty in the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program. Her works examines how vernacular Indian Ocean trade networks articulate with regional and global circuits of capital. \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.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-12/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190502T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190502T150000
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SUMMARY:Paolo Gerbaudo\, The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy
DESCRIPTION:  \nPaolo Gerbaudo is the Director of the Centre for Digital Culture at King’s College\, London. He is the author of Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism (2012)\, The Mask and the Flag: Citizenism and Global Protest (2017)\, and Digital Parties: Political Organization and Online Democracy (2018).\nFrom the movements behind Bernie Sanders in the US and Jeremy Corbyn in UK\, to the Pirate Parties in Northern Europe to Podemos in Spain and the 5-Star Movement in Italy\, to Jean-Luc Melenchon’s presidential bid in France\, the last decade has witnessed the rise of a new blueprint for political organization: the ‘digital party’. These new political formations tap into the potential of social media\, and use online participatory platforms to include the rank-and-file. Drawing on interviews with key political leaders and digital organizers\, Gerbaudo argues that with new structures come worrying changes in political forms\, such as the growth of power cliques and the need for centralized\, charismatic leaders\, the erosion of intermediary party layers and the loss of accountability. However\, there is also a growth of strong unity at the centre and extreme flexibility at the margins\, creating a promising template which could counter the social polarization created by the Great Recession and the failures of liberal democracy. \nPart of the THI Data and Democracy Initiative. Lecture co-sponsored by the Politics Department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lecture-paolo-gerbaudo/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190503T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190503T170000
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SUMMARY:The Carl Mark Deppe Memorial Lecture: Alex Purves
DESCRIPTION:Carl Deppe was a charismatic young man and a promising student. In 1985 he was a sophomore at UCSC\, studying Greek and ancient philosophy. While returning from a rock concert\, he was killed by a drunk driver on Highway 17. His parents\, George and Patricia Deppe\, along with his friends\, established this annual lecture series in his memory as a tribute to his interest in classical antiquity. Each spring a distinguished scholar is invited to give the Carl Mark Deppe lecture. This year’s lecuture will be given by Professor Alex Purves\, UCLA \nIt is customary to begin each annual lecture by reading the essay Carl wrote when he applied for admission to the University of California: you can see that essay here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/carl-mark-deppe-memorial-lecture-professor-alex-purves/
LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\,  Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190504T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190504T193000
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SUMMARY:SPOT Research Cluster Workshop
DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nSPOT (Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory) is part of an NSF-funded research project aiming to create a computational platform that generates prosodic structure candidate sets from syntactic (grammatical) structure in different languages. SPOT aims to deepen our understanding of the relationship between grammatical structures on the one hand\, and how sentences are pronounced on the other\, in a typologically diverse array of natural languages. Following the very successful SPOT 1 workshop on Saturday\, Nov. 18\, 2017\, which led to successful funding from the NSF in 2018\, we will hold a THI-sponsored SPOT 2 workshop on Saturday\, May 4\, 2019. Besides presenting the developments of the program since SPOT 1\, the SPOT 2 workshop will also feature research talks on the Syntax-Prosody interface and Optimality Theory by invited speakers from the East Coast and Europe\, as well as Bay Area researchers. \nSPOT 2 Program: \n9:30am – 10:00am Pre-workshop coffee and bagels \n10:00am -12:00pm “SPOT: theory and analyses”\nJenny Bellik¹\, Gorka Elordieta²\, Junko Ito¹\, Nick Kalivoda¹\, Armin Mester¹\n (¹UC Santa Cruz\, ²University of the Basque Country)\nDiscussant: Alan Prince (Rutgers University) \n12:00pm -1:00pm Lunch (catered) \n1:00pm – 2:00pm “Nested Interacting Stress Window Systems”\nNaz Merchant (Eckerd College)\nDiscussant: Arto Anttila (Stanford University) \n2:00pm – 3:00pm “Recursive phonological phrasing in Italian”\nNick Van Handel (UC Santa Cruz)\nDiscussant: Gorka Elordieta (University of the Basque Country) \n3:00pm -3:30pm Coffee Break \n3:30pm – 4:30pm “Incorporation in Crow as phonological reduction”\nChris Golston\, CSUFresno\n (with John Boyle\, CSUFresno\, & Lewis Gebhard\, NEIU)\nDiscussant: Ryan Bennett (UC Santa Cruz) \n4:30pm – 5:30pm“Big accent distribution in Stockholm Swedish”\nSara Myrberg (Lund University\, Sweden)\nDiscussant: Nick Kalivoda (UC Santa Cruz) \n5:30pm-7:30pm Dinner at the Cowell Provost House
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/spot-research-cluster-workshop/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Banu Bargu: "Catching a Moving Train: Decolonizing Aleatory Materialism"
DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nThis paper analyzes Althusser’s proposal for an aleatory materialism through his engagement with historical materialism\, and particularly with Marx on “primitive accumulation.” It identifies two different legacies of Marx’s reflections on the origins of capitalism and discusses how Althusser attempted to rework Marx to reach a non-teleological conception of history. At the same time\, taking both thinkers to task on their approach to colonialism\, and especially settler colonialism\, the paper moves toward decolonizing the aleatory materialist imaginary. \nBanu Bargu is associate professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is a political theorist\, with a focus on modern and contemporary political thought and critical theory. Bargu is the author of Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (Columbia UP\, 2014)\, which received APSA’s First Book Prize given by the Foundations of Political Theory section and was named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice. She is the editor of Turkey’s Necropolitical Laboratory: Democracy\, Violence\, and Resistance (Edinburgh UP\, forthcoming in 2019) and co-editor of Feminism\, Capitalism\, and Critique (Palgrave\, 2017). Her next book\, Friends of the Earth: Althusser and the Critique of Teleological Reason\, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press in 2020. \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.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-13/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190508T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190508T150000
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SUMMARY:Michael Vann: The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt - Empire\, Disease\, and Modernity In French Colonial Vietnam
DESCRIPTION:“The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt – Empire\, Disease\, and Modernity In French Colonial Vietnam” \nThe History Department Presents Michael Vann Professor of History at Sacramento State University and UCSC History graduate program alum
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/michael-vann-great-hanoi-rat-hunt-empire-disease-modernity-french-colonial-vietnam/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190509T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190509T173000
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SUMMARY:Deirdre de la Cruz: "Psychic Surgery and Other Philippine Phenomena of the Global Occult"
DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nIn the variegated landscape of the Filipino paranormal\, one phenomenon garnered worldwide attention in the last quarter of the twentieth century: psychic surgery. A form of spiritual healing in which the practitioner\, or espiritista\, usually male\, operates on the body of the patient without anaesthesia and using only his hands\, psychic surgery achieved particular renown in the United States in the 1980s when celebrity practitioners of New Age spirituality like Shirley MacLaine spoke publicly about their experience with Filipino psychic surgeons. This talk first provides a broad historical outline of the esoteric movements in the twentieth-century Philippines that culminated in the convergence of New Age spirituality and Filipino Spiritism seen in psychic surgery\, paying particular attention to the axial shift from Espiritismo (the science of communication with the dead codified by French educator Allan Kardec and introduced to the Philippines at the turn of the twentieth century)\, to transpacific New Age movements. It then digs deep into the spectacle of healing that drew thousands of patients from around the world at a time when the Philippines was in the sway of the greatest cheat of all\, Ferdinand Marcos.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deirdre-de-la-cruz-psychic-surgery-philippine-phenomena-global-occult/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190509T173000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Brenda Shaughnessy with Ellen Bass
DESCRIPTION:Brenda Shaughnessy earned a BA from the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and an MFA from Columbia University. She is the author of Interior with Sudden Joy (1999)\, Human Dark with Sugar (2008)\, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets\, Our Andromeda(2012)\, So Much Synth (2016)\, and The Octopus Museum (2019). Her work has appeared in the Yale Review\, the Boston Review\, McSweeney’s\, and Best American Poetry\, among other places. Shaughnessy’s work is known for its ability to twin opposites: her poems are both playful and erotic\, lyrical and funny\, formal and strange. Reviewing Human Dark with Sugar\, poet Cate Peebles noted that “Shaughnessy draws attention to the contradiction of being made up of so many parts while appearing to be one single body.” In the New Yorker\, Hilton Als said of her book\, Our Andromeda: “it further establishes Shaughnessy’s particular genius\, which is utterly poetic\, but essayistic in scope\, encompassing ideas about astronomy\, illness\, bodies\, the family\, ‘normalcy\,’ home.” Shaughnessy has received numerous honors and awards for her work\, including fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute\, where she was a Bunting Fellow\, the Japan/U.S. Friendship Commission\, and the Howard Foundation of Brown University. She has taught at universities including Columbia\, the New School\, Princeton\, and New York University. Shaughnessy is currently an associate professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. \nPoet and teacher Ellen Bass grew up in New Jersey. She earned an MA in creative writing from Boston University\, where she studied with Anne Sexton. Bass’s style is direct; she has noted\, “I work to speak in a voice that is meaningful communication. Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak from me to myself and then from me to you.” Bass’s collections of poetry include Mules of Love (2002)\, which won the Lambda Literary Award; The Human Line (2007)\, named a Notable Book by the San Francisco Chronicle; and Like a Beggar (2014). She helped edit the feminist poetry anthology No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (1973). \nBass has also written works of nonfiction\, including\, with Laura Davis\, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (1988) and Beginning to Heal: A First Book for Men and Women Who Were Sexually Abused as Children (2003\, revised edition 2008). With Kate Kaufman\, she wrote Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay\, Lesbian\, and Bisexual Youth—and Their Allies (1996). Bass’s honors and awards include a Pushcart Prize\, a Pablo Neruda Prize\, a Larry Levis Reading Prize\, and a New Letters Literary Prize. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets\, and she teaches in the MFA program at Pacific University. Bass lives in Santa Cruz\, California. \nCo-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, The Bay Tree Bookstore\, The Humanities Institute\, The American Indian Resource Center\, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-brenda-shaughnessy-ellen-bass/
LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190509T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190509T210000
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SUMMARY:Antisemitism and the Internet: Old Hatred and New
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos by Paul Schraub: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nAs Ian Bogost noted in The Atlantic this week\, recent events have shown that internet technologies facilitate the rapid spread of forms of bigotry and hatred\, and the planning of violent terror attacks. \nThis year’s UC Santa Cruz Night at the Museum seeks to explore the relationship between these technologies and antisemitism\, asking: Is there something new about antisemitism today or is it just a continuation of old images and fears? How do social media platforms create environments for the viral spread of global antisemitism? \nJoin Nathaniel Deutsch and Rachel Deblinger\, co-directors of the Digital Jewish Studies Initiative at UC Santa Cruz\, to discuss these questions and explore how scholars of antisemitism can work closely with members of the tech community to fight against this and related forms of hatred toward others. \n\nRegistration Required \nDoors open at 6:30pm. Program begins at 7:00pm. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact the THI at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by May 6\, 2019. \nEvent info: \n\nRegistration is required for entrance into this event.\nDoors open at 6:30pm. Program begins at 7:00pm.\nDirections to the Computer History Museum are here.\n\nSecurity: \n\nPlease be aware that all attendees must pass through security to enter the event venue. Make sure to carefully review the below information to ensure your entry to the event.\nThere will be no in and out privileges. Once you have passed through security\, if you leave the venue re-entry will not be permitted.\nAll bags are subject to search. Prohibited items include weapons\, drugs\, and knives of any kind. Anything deemed unsafe by the security team will not be permitted to enter the venue.\nAll bags\, including briefcases\, purses\, luggage and diaper bags\, larger than 14” x 14” x 6” are not permitted. Backpacks and hard-sided bags of any kind are also prohibited. Single-compartment drawstring bags and fashion backpack purses that are smaller than 14” x 14” x 6” are permitted.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anti-semitism-online/
LOCATION:CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190510T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190510T150000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Sandy Chung
DESCRIPTION:Sandy Chung (UC Santa Cruz) presents The Ingredients of Control in Chamorro. \nAbout eight times each year\, the department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor more information: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-sandy-chung-2/
LOCATION:CA\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190513T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190513T161500
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SUMMARY:A Book Talk and Discussion with Dr. Emily Thuma
DESCRIPTION:Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Feminist Studies present: \nA Book Talk and Discussion with Dr. Emily Thuma (Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies\, UC Irvine): \nALL OUR TRIALS: PRISONS\, POLICING\, AND THE FEMINIST FIGHT TO END VIOLENCE (University of Illinois Press\, 2019) \nCo-Sponsored by the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies and the Department of History of Consciousness \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/emily-l-thuma-feminist-cres-book/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190515T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190515T133000
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SUMMARY:David Kazanjian: “‘I am he:' Revising the Theory of Dispossession from Colonial Yucatán”
DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nIn this paper\, “‘I am he:’ Revising the Theory of Dispossession from Colonial Yucatán\,” I examine a legal case involving an enslaved Afro-diasporan named Juan Patricio and a Mayan woman named Fabiana Pech from turn-of-the-eighteenth-century Yucatán. The case challenges a fundamental presupposition of many contemporary theories of dispossession: namely\, that the dispossessed had prior possession over that which was stolen from them by their dispossessors. Like a number of other such cases I have been examining from the 17th and 18th centuries\, in this case those who were dispossessed do not make claims about prior possession. Rather\, both Juan Patricio and Fabiana Pech seem to have lived dispossession outside the terms of possession as such\, critiquing and countering their dispossession in ways that call for a revision of contemporary understandings of dispossession. I suggest we read the archive of a case like this for alternative theories of dispossession as well as as-yet-unrealized anti-dispossessive politics. \nDavid Kazanjian is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD from the Rhetoric Department at the University of California\, Berkeley\, his M.A. in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex\, and his B.A. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. His areas of specialization are transnational American literary and historical studies through the nineteenth century\, Latin American studies (especially eighteenth and nineteenth-century Mexico)\, political philosophy\, continental philosophy\, colonial discourse studies\, and Armenian diaspora studies. He is a member of the organizing collectives of the journal Social Text and of the Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas\, and is co-director of the Tepoztlán Institute from 2017-2019. His the author of The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America (Minnesota) and The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (Duke). He has co-edited (with David L. Eng) Loss: The Politics of Mourning (California)\, as well as (with Shay Brawn\, Bonnie Dow\, Lisa Maria Hogeland\, Mary Klages\, Deb Meem\, and Rhonda Pettit) The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers\, Volume One: Seventeenth through Nineteenth Centuries (Aunt Lute Books). He is currently at work on two monographs. The first sets radical aesthetics in the contemporary Armenian diaspora against the diaspora’s melancholically nationalist understandings of genocide. The second finds anti-foundationalist critiques of dispossession in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Afro-Indigenous Atlantic. \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. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Feminist Studies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-14/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190516T173000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Daniel Borzutzky
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Borzutzky’s latest poetry collection is Lake Michigan (Pitt Poetry Series\, 2018). He is the author of The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press)\, recipient of the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry. His other books include Memories of my Overdevelopment (Kenning Editions\, 2015); In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy (Nightboat\, 2015)\, and The Book of Interfering Bodies (Nightboat\, 2011). His translation of Galo Ghigliotto’s Valdivia (Co-im-press) won the American Literary Translator’s Association 2017 National Translation Award. He has translated poetry collections by Chilean poets Raúl Zurita and Jaime Luis Huenún. He teaches in the English Department and Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. \nCo-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, The Bay Tree Bookstore\, The Humanities Institute\, The American Indian Resource Center\, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-daniel-borzutzky/
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:20190517T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190517T180000
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SUMMARY:Monterey Bay Applied Linguistics Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Symposium Program \n9:00AM- Opening Remarks: Bryan Donaldson\, Mark Amengual\, Kimberly Adilia Helmer \n9:30-10:00 – Thor Sawin (Middlebury Institute of International Studies): From Serial Monolingualism to Polylingualism in the Field: Policy and Perspective Challenges in a Large NGO \n10:00-10:30 – John Hedgcock (Middlebury Institute of International Studies): Obstacles and Opportunities in Cultivating Teacher Language Awareness \n10:30-11:00 – Jason Martel (Middlebury Institute of International Studies): Enacting an Identity Approach in Language Teacher Education \n11:00-11:30 – Netta Avineri (Middlebury Institute of International Studies): Language and Social Justice in Practice: From Classroom Activities to Collaborative Advocacy \n11:30-1:30 – Lunch break \n1:30-2:00 – Laura Callahan (Santa Clara University): Symbolic Uses of Spanish in U.S. Film and Newspaper \n2:00-2:30 – Rebecca Pozzi (California State University Monterey Bay)\, Chelsea Escalante (University of Wyoming) and Tracy Quan (University of Delaware): The Meta-Pragmatic Awareness of Heritage Speakers Studying Abroad in a Non-Heritage Country \n2:30-3:00 – Avizia Long (San Jose State University): Intervocalic Rhotic Pronunciation by Korean Learners of Spanish \n3:00-3:30 – Ala Simonchyk (Defense Language Institute): Down the Rabbit Hole: From Separate Categories in Production to Fuzzy Phonolexical Representations in L2 \n3:30-4:00 – Coffee/Tea break \n4:00-4:30 – Magdalena Romera & Gorka Elordieta (University of California\, Santa Cruz): The Falling Intonational Contours of Polar Interrogatives in Basque Spanish and Their Correlation With Language Attitudes and Degree of Contact with Basque. \n4:30-5:00 – Stephen Fafulas (University of California\, Santa Cruz): Cross-linguistic Variation of Simple Present and Present Progressive Forms \n5:00-5:30 – Don Miller (University of California\, Santa Cruz): Beyond Coverage-Based Evidence of Word List Reliability \n5:30-6:00 – Bryan Donaldson (University of California\, Santa Cruz): Word Order and Discourse Structure in Early Old French: Clitic Position in Coordinated Declaratives
6:00- Closing Business Meeting and visit to Humble Sea Brewery \nSpeaker Bios: \nNetta Avineri is TESOL/TFL Associate Professor andIntercultural Competence Committee Chair atthe Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS). She is the Middlebury Social Impact Corps Scholars Program Director\, co-founded the MIIS Intercultural Digital Storytelling Project\, and teaches Service Learning and Teacher Education courses at CSU Monterey Bay. Netta is an applied linguist and linguistic anthropologist who teaches education\, intercultural competence\, applied linguistics\, research methods\, and service-learning courses. Her research interests include language and social justice\, critical service-learning\, interculturality\, and heritage and endangered language socialization. Netta’s individual and collaborative research has been published in various media outlets\, academic journals\, and books. Netta’s book Research Methods for Language Teaching: Inquiry\, Process\, and Synthesis was published in 2017 and she is one of the five co-editors of the 2019 volume Language and Social Justice in Practice. Netta is also the American Association for Applied Linguistics Public Affairs and Engagement Committee Chair. \nLaura Callahan\, formerly Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at The City College and Graduate Center-CUNY\, currently teaches courses in Spanish language and linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Santa Clara University. Her areas of interest are: codeswitching; language\, race\, and identity; intercultural communication; heritage language maintenance; and linguistic landscapes. Recent publications have appeared in Spanish in Context\, Heritage Language Journal\, and L2 Spanish Pragmatics: From Research to Teaching. \nBryan Donaldson (PhD\, Indiana University) is an Associate Professor of French and Applied Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz\, where he currently serves as Chair of the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics. His research focuses on word order and discourse structure in the acquisition of French as a second language (L2) and in Old French and Old Occitan. In second language acquisition\, his work primarily examines the highest levels of L2 attainment and has shown that near- native speakers frequently converge on native speaker performance benchmarks\, for example in their use of pragmatically marked word orders and variable structures. In Old French and Old Occitan\, he has examined the interplay between word order\, discourse structure\, and diachronic change. He has published in venues such as Studies in Second Language Acquisition\, Language Learning\, Lingua\, Applied Psycholinguistics\, Journal of Linguistics\, andCanadian Journal of Linguistics. \nGorka Elordieta (PhD\, University of Southern California\, 1997) is a Linguistics professor in the Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). During the 2018-2019 academic year he is a Visiting Research Associate and Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics of the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His area of specialization is phonology\, more concretely prosody\, intonation and the interface of phonology with syntax. He has been the principal investigator of a number of research grants in linguistics\, and has published articles in journals such as Phonology\, Language and Speech\, Journal of the International Phonetic Association or The Linguistic Review and in volumes of Oxford University Press\, John Benjamins and Mouton de Gruyter. \nStephen Fafulas is Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi and director of the Study of Communities\, Involvement & Outreach and Linguistics (SoCIOLing) Laboratory. Currently\, he is conducting research on U.S. Spanish and teaching as a Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His research incorporates work on Spanish\, English\, and Brazilian Portuguese as well as indigenous languages\, such as Yagua\, which is featured in his forthcoming volume Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution. When not in the classroom or lab\, you are likely to find him with his family\, at the martial arts academy\, or at a local coffee shop. \nA Professor of Applied Linguistics\, John Hedgcock currently teaches in the MATESOL and MATFL Programs at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS). His recent research has focused on literacy development\, genre-oriented literacy instruction\, the socialization of foreign- and heritage-language learners in classroom settings\, and language teacher preparation. He is the co-author of Teaching Readers of English and Teaching L2 Composition. His other publications have appeared in the Journal of English for Academic Purposes\, Applied Language Learning\, and a number of edited volumes. \nJason Martel is an Associate Professor of TESOL/TFL at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey\, where he teaches courses on foreign/second language pedagogy and directs the Summer Intensive Language Program (SILP). He is an active member of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) and the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)\, for which he currently serves as Chair of the Teacher Development Special Interest Group. Along with Francis Troyan and Laurent Cammarata\, he is a co-recipient of the 2017 Stephen A. Freeman Award for Best Published Article\, conferred by the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL). His publications can be found Foreign Language Annals\, Journal of Applied Language Learning\, and the French Review. \nAvizia Long (Ph.D. Indiana University) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at San José State University. Her research interests include variation in second language Spanish\, the acquisition of Spanish by non- English-speaking learners\, second language Spanish pronunciation\, and pronunciation in task-based language learning and teaching. She is co- author of Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition: Learning to Use Language in Context (Routledge\, 2014)\, and she has published research in Studies in Second Language Acquisition\, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics\, Hispania\, and several edited volumes. \nRebecca Pozzi (Ph.D.\, University of California\, Davis) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish Language and Linguistics at California State University\, Monterey Bay\, where she coordinates Lower Division Spanish\, including the Heritage Language Program\, and teaches courses in Spanish language\, linguistics\, and applied linguistics. Her research focuses on second and heritage language development\, sociolinguistics\, study abroad\, language pedagogy\, language policy\, and language technology. She has published in journals including Hispania and The CATESOL Journal and in edited volumes from Routledge and Multilingual Matters. \nAla Simonchykis Assistant Professor of Russian at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey\, CA. Her research interests focus on pronunciation instruction\, experimental phonetics\, and second language speech processing\, specifically on how various domains\, such as perception\, production\, lexical encoding and orthography interact with each other in the acquisition of L2 phonologies. \n  \nDon Miller is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he teaches courses on second language acquisition\, L2 teaching\, and research in Applied Linguistics. His research interests focus on corpus- based approaches to examining academic vocabulary in published and learner writing. His work has appeared in the Journal of Second Language Writing\, the Journal of English for Academic Purposes\, and the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. \nMagdalena Romera (PhD\, University of Southern California\, 2001) is a professor of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Humanities and Education Sciences at the Public University of Navarre (Spain) and Visiting Research Associate at the Languages and Applied Linguistics Department at UC Santa Cruz for the current academic year. She has also been the Director of the Catedra de Patrimonio Inmaterial de Navarra for the past three years. Her research interests include Language Variation\, Language Contact and Discourse Analysis. She has participated in several research grants in her areas of expertise\, and has published articles in prestigious journals such as Linguistics\, International Journal of the Sociology of Language and Discourse and Society. \nThor Sawin is an Associate Professor in the Masters of Teaching Foreign Languages/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages program at Middlebury Language Schools. His research and teaching interests focus mainly on technology in language instruction\, grammar pedagogy\, and multilingualism in social impact settings. He also does consultancy on language policy and language acquisition support for several multinational organizations. His recent publications have appeared in Reconsidering Development\, Journal of Language\, Identity and Education\, and the CALICO Journal\, and he has authored chapters in several volumes published by Multilingual Matters and Cambridge\, as well as several field guides and reference articles. \nAbstracts: \nFrom Serial Monolingualism to Polylingualism in the Field: Policy and Perspective Challenges in a Large NGO\nThor Sawin (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)\nWestern NGOs\, in their trainings and policy documents\, often display language ideologies honed by years of their personnel’s formal language education. These tend to naturalize the so-called Herderian triad (one language\, one people\, one territory) by enforcing clear distinctions between reified language-as-systems supported by the tentpole of official written standards. Such ideologies endure even when NGO workers’ host communities are complexly multi- and translingual. This paper examines what did and did not shift in language ideology of NGO staff working with indigenous and displaced minority populations across the Middle East\, and the process of crafting new language policies. The NGO\, previously committed to rigidly serial language acquisition\, contacted the author for training on translingual practice. The needs of the organization favor a language-as-mobile-resource approach and contact zone orientation (Harrison\, 2007; Blommaert\, 2010; Canagarajah\, 2017). Data from the participant-authored blogposts before and conversations during the five-day training revealed narratives of vision and blindness\, and also of freedom through admitting that the language practices of their hosts were less separable and nameable than their training acknowledged. Resistance centered on felt implausibility of learning “more than one language” –a parallelism refuted by neurological and sociolinguistic research. Unless Western ideologies of language are adapted to the language life ways connecting rural-traditional and urban-migrant spaces\, organizations serving\, multilingual minority populations may ironically risk reinforcing nationalistic views through their policies on language acquisition (Ndhlovu\, 2018). \nObstacles and Opportunities in Cultivating Teacher Language Awareness \nJohn Hedgcock (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)\nIn a connected\, digitized world\, language teacher education must prepare teacher candidates to function in a dynamic world of work and communication. Drawing on critical incidents from a U.S. teacher preparation program\, the presenter will explore three obstacles to building teachers’ language awareness. These challenges include: (1) cultivating understanding of the naturalness of linguistic variation; (2) promoting the uptake of teaching skills; and (3) nurturing the ability to use and transform the language and genres of skilled educators. Reflecting on his work with developing teachers\, the presenter will share field-tested strategies and interventions designed to convert these obstacles into opportunities. \nEnacting an Identity Approach in Language Teacher Education \nJason Martel (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)\nScholars have called for an identity approach to language teacher education\, which involves employing identity as a lens for helping teacher candidates take ownership over their professional development and assert agency in becoming the types of language teachers they aspire to be. Although previous studies have examined specific identity-oriented tools used in language teacher preparation programs\, none has yet addressed a course in which a focus on identity is integrated throughout all assigned activities. The present study thus addresses the experiences of language teacher candidates enrolled in an identity-oriented capstone practicum course as part of a TESOL/TFL master’s degree program. Data were mined from course activities (e.g.\, teaching journals\, post-observation conferences)\, as well as two additional interviews. Findings include ways in which the participants not only processed identity positions they brought to the course\, but also explored new positions related to their experiences during the semester. \nLanguage and Social Justice in Practice: From Classroom Activities to Collaborative Advocacy \nNetta Avineri (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)\nHow can applied linguists mobilize their expertise\, experience\, and networks to engage in social justice efforts? This talk focuses on collaborations at the intersection of language\, social justice\, and advocacy\, highlighting how applied linguists’ participation in struggles over language are connected to broader justice struggles. First\, I present my model of “nested interculturality”\, a collective of dispositions and practices for ethical engagement in multilingual and intercultural interactions. Language teacher education and critical service-learning course examples will be shared. Next\, I discuss various collaborations in the AAAL Public Affairs and Engagement Committee around immigration and international exchange. Last\, case studies from the 2019 volume Language and Social Justice in Practice (Avineri\, Graham\, Johnson\, Riner\, and Rosa\, Eds.) of collaborative advocacy efforts around the “language gap”\, sports team mascot names\, immigration\, and the US Census will be explored. Overall\, the presentation provides applied linguists with multiple avenues for impactful social justice work. \nSymbolic Uses of Spanish in U.S. Film and Newspaper \nLaura Callahan (Santa Clara University)\nThis presentation will examine the use of Spanish in U.S. English-medium films and newspapers\, with data from over the past 20 years. Examples to be seen range from cases in which the objective seems to be a casual demonstration of the speaker’s power\, with Spanish used as a tool to accomplish that purpose\, to other instances in which the use of Spanish seems to function as a language display signaling the speaker’s claim to a Latinx identity. The corpus provides fodder for a discussion of various issues germane to the teaching of Spanish and Spanish linguistics\, such as Mock Spanish\, language and power\, pragmatics and second language users\, as well as codeswitching and other contact phenomena. \nThe Meta-Pragmatic Awareness of Heritage Speakers Studying Abroad in a Non-Heritage Country \nRebecca Pozzi (California State University Monterey Bay)\, Chelsea Escalante (University of Wyoming) and Tracy Quan (University of Delaware)\nAlthough the number of heritage speakers (HSs) studying abroad is projected to grow in the coming years (Shively\, 2018)\, little is known about the pragmatic choices and development of HSs in this context. This study investigates the impact of a 3-week instructional treatment related to requests\, apologies\, and the use of vos among three HSs of Mexican descent during study abroad (SA) in Mendoza\, Argentina. A written elicitation task was used as a pre/post measure of students’ meta- pragmatic awareness and their accommodation ofvoseo. Following explicit instruction\, HSs increased their meta-pragmatic awareness and their use of vos. Nevertheless\, variation was observed due to individual differences and HS identities. Case studies revealed that participants’ pragmatic choices aligned with their identities\, their interactions with Argentines\, and their future goals. These findings suggest that these HSs benefited from explicit pragmatics instruction\, increased their meta- pragmatic awareness\, and made pragmatic choices that reflected their identities. \nIntervocalic Rhotic Pronunciation by Korean Learners of Spanish \nAvizia Long (San Jose State University)\nPrevious research on the second language (L2) acquisition of Spanish rhotics has focused on the tap- trill distinction in production by native English-speaking learners (e.g.\, Face\, 2006; Major\, 1986; Olsen\, 2012; Reeder\, 1998; Rose\, 2010). There is a lack of research on rhotic pronunciation by learners who speak a non-English first language (L1)\, limiting the generalizability of attested findings. The present study addresses this gap in the literature by investigating the acquisition of Spanish rhotic production by adult learners whose L1 is Korean. Sixty-six adult Korean learners at four instructional levels of Spanish language study (Long\, 2016) completed an oral picture book description task (dePaola\, 1978) from which words containing intervocalic rhotics were extracted for acoustic analysis. This talk will present the findings of this analysis\, specifically the types of productions observed for the alveolar tap /ɾ/ and trill /r/ at each instructional level sampled. \nDown the Rabbit Hole: From Separate Categories in Production to Fuzzy Phonolexical Representations in L2 \nAla Simonchyk (Defense Language Institute)\nPrevious research suggests that accurate realization of L2 phonemes is not necessarily accompanied by learners’ accuracy in other domains of phonological acquisition. The current talk will investigate whether learners who produce a challenging contrast in their L2 store words with this contrast separately in the mental lexicon. Forty American learners of Russian were evaluated on their production and lexical encoding of highly familiar Russian words with palatalization. The results suggest that learners’ ability to accurately differentiate words with the plain/palatalized contrast in production developed independently of their phonolexical representations\, which appear to merge in the mental lexicon. Moreover\, leaners’ performance was strongly affected by the prosodic position of the target consonants. In intervocalic position\, learners made significantly fewer production mistakes than word-finally. However\, they accepted a substantially greater number of nonwords with the target consonants in intervocalic position than in word-final position on a lexical encoding task. \nThe Falling Intonational Contours of Polar Interrogatives in Basque Spanish and Their Correlation with Language Attitudes and Degree of Contact with Basque \nMagdalena Romera and Gorka Elordieta (Public University of Navarre and University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)/University of California\, Santa Cruz)\nThe main goal of this paper is to analyse the prosodic features of Spanish varieties that are in contact with Basque in Northern Spain (Basque Country and Navarre) and to observe to what extent social factors\, particularly the speakers’ attitudes towards the other language\, can determine the degree of linguistic convergence (Romera and Elordieta 2013; Elordieta and Romera in press). We recorded semi-directed conversations in Spanish of a total of 36 speakers (monolingual speakers of Spanish\, L1 Spanish-L2 Basque speakers\, and L1 Basque-L2 Spanish speakers)\, in urban and rural areas in the Basque Country and Navarre. In this talk\, we concentrate on information-seeking yes/no questions\, which present different intonation contours in Basque and in Spanish. In Basque\, yes/no questions end in a low or falling contour (cf. Elordieta and Hualde 2014)\, whereas in Castilian Spanish they end in a rising contour (Navarro Tomás 1918; Quilis 1981; Face 2008; Estebas-Vilaplana and Prieto 2008\, 2010; Hualde and Prieto 2015\, among others). Preliminary results from 24 speakers show that all of them present a majority of falling final contours in their Spanish\, regardless of their knowledge of Basque. Speakers differed in their frequency of occurrence of falling contours\, ranging from 66% to 100%. Interestingly\, in urban populations (Bilbao and San Sebastian) a correlation was found between attitudes to Basque among monolingual and L1 Spanish speakers and the degree of prosodic convergence towards Basque found in their speech. In other words\, the more positive the attitudes\, the higher the degree of prosodic convergence shown (i.e. the higher the percentage of yes/no questions ending in a falling contour). Prosody is a trait that strongly identifies Basque speakers; it stands as a fundamental identifying feature. The results indicate then that the adoption of the characteristic prosody of Basque allows these speakers to be recognized as members of the Basque community. In smaller towns\, however\, where the degree of contact with Basque is higher\, no correlation between language and ethnolinguistic attitudes and degree of convergence was found. In general\, a higher percentage of final contours in yes/no questions than in the two cities were observed. We conclude that in towns where the presence of Basque in everyday life is stronger\, the higher degree of contact with Basque is the main factor that can account for the higher frequency of Basque intonational features. Although this investigation is still in progress\, the results obtained so far in this study of a particular aspect of Spanish intonation in contact with Basque reveal the influence of social factors in the degree of convergence between the two languages. \nCross-Linguistic Variation of Simple Present and Present Progressive Forms \nStephen Fafulas (University of California\, Santa Cruz)\nAccounts of tense-aspect-mood systems hold that cross-linguistically there is a small set of prototypical functions that have followed similar evolutionary paths. For example\, in languages that mark progressive aspect obligatorily with the present progressive\, the simple present has been edged into habitual territory. However\, there are languages such as Spanish that allow for the use of simple present and present progressive forms to encode “action simultaneous with speech”. Still others\, like English\, show a clearer distinction between progressive and habitual form-function mapping. What is lacking in these accounts is abundant cross-linguistic empirical evidence to substantiate the claims. To address this\, the current study compares the distribution of simple presents and present progressives in an oral corpus of Spanish and English to test whether these languages and forms operate as suggested in the previous literature. \nBeyond Coverage-Based Evidence of Word List Reliability \nDon Miller (University of California\, Santa Cruz)\nOver the past two decades\, the greatest efforts in designing and validating corpus-based word frequency lists have gone into three areas: corpus design\, item selection criteria\, and coverage-based demonstrations of list robustness. Corpora are now often much larger and better balanced and\, as a result\, perhaps more representative than ever before; the application of additional distributional statistics allows for better targeting of items with desired distributions (e.g.\, Gardner & Davies\, 2014); and contemporary lexical frequency lists are proving increasingly efficient\, providing ever higher coverage of target texts or achieving such coverage with fewer words (e.g.\, Brezina & Gablasova\, 2015). In this talk\, I argue that researchers should go beyond coverage-based\, indirect evidence of reliability in order to better understand the representativeness of corpora and the generalizability of word lists based on them. \nWord Order and Discourse Structure in Early Old French: Clitic Position in Coordinated Declaratives \nBryan Donaldson (University of California\, Santa Cruz)\nThis talk examines clitic position in coordinated declaratives in early Old French. Prior to about 1200\, object and adverbial clitics are variably preverbal or postverbal in this context (Simonenko & Hirschbühler 2012)\, as in (1) and (2).\n(1) É li poples ápluvéit de tutes parz é fud é se teneit od Absalon.\n“And people came in large numbers from everywhere and were with and stood with Absalom.” (Li quatre livre des reis\, Curtius\, 1911: 86)\n(2) Or ne fera mes plus; trop a avant alé\, E pesot li que tant en aveit trespassé.\n“From now on\, he will not do more; he went too far\, and he regretted having gone that far.” (Becket\, v.\n1020)\nAn empirical study reveals that the choice of coordinate structure\, and clitic position\, is\nprincipled and reflects discourse structure. In particular\, cases like (1) occur within a single discourse segment\, whereas examples like (2) correspond to separate discourse segments.
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LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop Series: Writing for Graduate School and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Workshop with Eric Hayot (Penn State) \nWhy is writing so hard? Can It be easier? Possibly\, Eric Hayot argues. But answering these questions well also asks us to think about the place of writing in humanities scholarship\, and the ways in which our institutional patterns and structures\, and our daily and psychological ones\, shape what we mean when we say “writing\,” and we think\, finally\, that writing is for. \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nLunch will be served. \nPlease RSVP below: \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-graduate-student-workshop-series-writing-graduate-school-beyond/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Norman O. Brown Conference: Into the Future\, Day 1
DESCRIPTION:A weekend of presentation\, reflection\, and inquiry addressing the work and life of Norman O. Brown. From poetics to politics\, theology to pedagogy\, utopia to apocalypse: scholars from around the country will meet to engage Brown’s long shadow. Amidst the landscapes he traversed incessantly\, we can gauge the importance of Norman O. Brown for the 21st century. \n  \nFriday\, May 17th\n3:00 – 3:30. Opening remarks\n3:30 – 4:45. “The Return of the Gods: Brown’s Prophetic Tradition\,” part 1\n4:45 – 5:00. Break / coffee\n5:00 – 6:15. “The Return of the Gods: Brown’s Prophetic Tradition\,” part 2\n6:15 – 6:30. Film screening\, Garden\n6:30 – 9:00. Reception and dinner for participants and friends \n* \nThe Return of the Gods: Brown’s Prophetic Tradition\npart 1:\nAsad Haider\, moderator\nThomas Marshall\, “Whaddayou Mean “ςπουδαιογελοιον”?: Nabi’s Last Study”\nMartin Devecka\, “Variae inludunt pestes: Learning and Labor in the Georgics”\nBarry Katz\, “Opening Time\, Closing Time: A Journey from Hermes and Hesiod to Vico and Joyce” \npart 2:\nJack Davies\, moderator\nEdmund Burke\, “Prophecy & Apocalypse in the Irano-Semitic Tradition: Norman O. Brown & Marshall Hodgson”\nG.S. Sahota\, “Identifying Khizr: On the Paths of Goethe and Iqbal” \n  \nDay 2 Information \nSponsored by Cowell College\, the Humanities Institute\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and the History of Consciousness department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/norman-o-brown-conference-future/
LOCATION:Page Smith Library
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SUMMARY:The 19th Season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP XIX)
DESCRIPTION:Cowell College\, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 19th season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XIX)\, May 17\, 18\, and 19\, at 8:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center at UCSC. The program of fully-staged multilingual theater pieces in Chinese\, French\, Japanese\, and Spanish\, with English supertitles\, will be performed by Language students and directed by their instructors. There is no admission charge; parking in adjacent lots is $5.00. \nThis year’s presentation in Japanese will consist of Tales of the Service Industry\, comprised of three vignettes by the comic duo of Sandwichman and Un-Jash\, directed by Sakae Fujita and her students. Spanish will offer a work by the Chilean playwright\, Sergio Vodanovic\, El delental blanco (The White Apron)\, with Carolina Castillo-Trelles directing. Chinese will present Butterfly Lovers\, inspired by a Chinese folktale\, directed by Ting-Ting Wu\, and adapted by her students. French will be represented by On fait le marché avec Papa (Shopping with Papa)\, a glimpse at adult life through the eyes of a small boy\, from Les aventures du petit Nicholas (The Adventures of little Nicholas)\, by Gocinny and Sempé\, Renée Cailloux\, who adapted the work for the stage\, and Miriam Ellis\, will direct. \nFrench\nOn fait le marché avec Papa (Shopping with Papa) \nFrom The Adventures of little Nicholas  \nBy Gocinny and Sempé Adapted by Renée Cailloux \nDirected by Miriam Ellis and Renée Cailloux \nJapanese  \nサービス業カタログ (Anything for You\, Dear Customer!)\nBased on vignettes by Japanese comic duos \nDirected by Sakae Fujita and her students \nSpanish  \nEl delantal blanco (The White Apron) \nBy Sergio Vodanović \nDirected by Carolina Castillo-Trelles \n Chinese  \n梁祝 (Butterfly Lovers) \nInspired by a Chinese folktale \nAdapted by Ting Ting Wu’s students \nDirected by Ting Ting Wu \nOver 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 (lmhunter@ucsc.edu).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/19th-season-miriam-ellis-international-playhouse-meip-xix/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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SUMMARY:Norman O. Brown Conference: Into the Future\, Day 2
DESCRIPTION:Day 1 Information \nA weekend of presentation\, reflection\, and inquiry addressing the work and life of Norman O. Brown. From poetics to politics\, theology to pedagogy\, utopia to apocalypse: scholars from around the country will meet to engage Brown’s long shadow. Amidst the landscapes he traversed incessantly\, we can gauge the importance of Norman O. Brown for the 21st century. \n  \nSaturday\, May 18th\n9:00 – 9:30. Breakfast / coffee\n9:30 – 11:30. “There is Only Poetry: Form and Possibility in the Brownian Imagination”\n11:30 – 1:30. Lunch / visit to the Norman O. Brown archival display\n1:30 – 3:30. “Utopia and/or Revolution: Radicalism\, Counterculture\, Arts”\n3:30 – 4:00. Break / coffee\n4:00 – 6:00. “Closing Time: A Roundtable on Brown’s Life and Legacy”\n7:00 – Onward. Reception and dinner for participants and friends \n* \nThere is Only Poetry: Form and Possibility in the Brownian Imagination\nMatthew O’Malley\, moderator\nJay Cantor\, “On Love’s Body”\nMichael Davidson\, “The Double Agent: Norman O. Brown / Robert Duncan”\nAndrew Schelling\, “Nobby\, or Metamorphosis”\nDaniel Tiffany\, “Diction and the Prophetic Voice”\nRob Wilson\, “‘Transfiguration’ as a World-Making Poetics” \nUtopia and/or Revolution: Radicalism\, Counterculture\, Arts\nJohanna Isaacson\, moderator\nRebecca Herzig\, “Alma Mater”\nStuart Kendall\, “Fearless Majesty: Norman O. Brown’s Dionysian Vision”\nJed Rasula\, “Norman O. Brown’s Poetics”\nStephen Carter\, “Politics\, Metapolitics\, and Depoliticization: History and Archetype in the Work of Norman O. Brown”\nJonathan Beecher\, “Exchanges with Nobby: Fourier\, Faust\, Palingenesis”\nGary Miles\, “A Naif’s View from the Trenches” \nClosing Time: A Roundtable on Brown’s Life and Legacy\nIsaac Blacksin\, moderator\nNor Hall on pedagogy\nJim Clifford on metamorphosis\nBob Meister on chance\nJerome Neu on Freud\nChris Connery on liberation \n* \nSponsored by Cowell College\, the Humanities Institute\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and the History of Consciousness department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/norman-o-brown-conference-future-day-2/
LOCATION:Page Smith Library
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190518T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190518T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T090914
CREATED:20190424T172240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190513T192751Z
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SUMMARY:The 19th Season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP XIX)
DESCRIPTION:Cowell College\, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 19th season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XIX)\, May 17\, 18\, and 19\, at 8:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center at UCSC. The program of fully-staged multilingual theater pieces in Chinese\, French\, Japanese\, and Spanish\, with English supertitles\, will be performed by Language students and directed by their instructors. There is no admission charge; parking in adjacent lots is $5.00. \nThis year’s presentation in Japanese will consist of Tales of the Service Industry\, comprised of three vignettes by the comic duo of Sandwichman and Un-Jash\, directed by Sakae Fujita and her students. Spanish will offer a work by the Chilean playwright\, Sergio Vodanovic\, El delental blanco (The White Apron)\, with Carolina Castillo-Trelles directing. Chinese will present Butterfly Lovers\, inspired by a Chinese folktale\, directed by Ting-Ting Wu\, and adapted by her students. French will be represented by On fait le marché avec Papa (Shopping with Papa)\, a glimpse at adult life through the eyes of a small boy\, from Les aventures du petit Nicholas (The Adventures of little Nicholas)\, by Gocinny and Sempé\, Renée Cailloux\, who adapted the work for the stage\, and Miriam Ellis\, will direct. \nFrench\nOn fait le marché avec Papa (Shopping with Papa) \nFrom The Adventures of little Nicholas  \nBy Gocinny and Sempé Adapted by Renée Cailloux \nDirected by Miriam Ellis and Renée Cailloux \nJapanese  \nサービス業カタログ (Anything for You\, Dear Customer!)\nBased on vignettes by Japanese comic duos \nDirected by Sakae Fujita and her students \nSpanish  \nEl delantal blanco (The White Apron) \nBy Sergio Vodanović \nDirected by Carolina Castillo-Trelles \n Chinese  \n梁祝 (Butterfly Lovers) \nInspired by a Chinese folktale \nAdapted by Ting Ting Wu’s students \nDirected by Ting Ting Wu \nOver 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 (lmhunter@ucsc.edu).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/19th-season-miriam-ellis-international-playhouse-meip-xix-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190519T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190519T170000
DTSTAMP:20260408T090914
CREATED:20190506T174253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190617T222453Z
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SUMMARY:Nido de Lenguas: Pop-Up at the Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza
DESCRIPTION:Learn about the indigenous languages of Oaxaca at Nido de Lenguas: Pop-Up\, taking place at the 13th Annual Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza. The Pop-Up will feature fun and exciting activities where anybody can directly experience the beauty and value of Oaxacan languages. The Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza is a cultural festival sponsored by Senderos\, featuring food\, music\, dance\, and crafts\, much like a traditional fiesta in Mexico.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nido-de-lenguas-pop-vive-oaxaca-guelaguetza/
LOCATION:San Lorenzo Park\, Santa Cruz
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190519T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190519T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T090914
CREATED:20190424T172544Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190513T192829Z
UID:10005601-1558296000-1558296000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:The 19th Season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP XIX)
DESCRIPTION:Cowell College\, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 19th season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XIX)\, May 17\, 18\, and 19\, at 8:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center at UCSC. The program of fully-staged multilingual theater pieces in Chinese\, French\, Japanese\, and Spanish\, with English supertitles\, will be performed by Language students and directed by their instructors. There is no admission charge; parking in adjacent lots is $5.00. \nThis year’s presentation in Japanese will consist of Tales of the Service Industry\, comprised of three vignettes by the comic duo of Sandwichman and Un-Jash\, directed by Sakae Fujita and her students. Spanish will offer a work by the Chilean playwright\, Sergio Vodanovic\, El delental blanco (The White Apron)\, with Carolina Castillo-Trelles directing. Chinese will present Butterfly Lovers\, inspired by a Chinese folktale\, directed by Ting-Ting Wu\, and adapted by her students. French will be represented by On fait le marché avec Papa (Shopping with Papa)\, a glimpse at adult life through the eyes of a small boy\, from Les aventures du petit Nicholas (The Adventures of little Nicholas)\, by Gocinny and Sempé\, Renée Cailloux\, who adapted the work for the stage\, and Miriam Ellis\, will direct. \nFrench\nOn fait le marché avec Papa (Shopping with Papa) \nFrom The Adventures of little Nicholas  \nBy Gocinny and Sempé Adapted by Renée Cailloux \nDirected by Miriam Ellis and Renée Cailloux \nJapanese  \nサービス業カタログ (Anything for You\, Dear Customer!)\nBased on vignettes by Japanese comic duos \nDirected by Sakae Fujita and her students \nSpanish  \nEl delantal blanco (The White Apron) \nBy Sergio Vodanović \nDirected by Carolina Castillo-Trelles \n Chinese  \n梁祝 (Butterfly Lovers) \nInspired by a Chinese folktale \nAdapted by Ting Ting Wu’s students \nDirected by Ting Ting Wu \nOver 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 (lmhunter@ucsc.edu).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/19th-season-miriam-ellis-international-playhouse-meip-xix-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190521
DTSTAMP:20260408T090914
CREATED:20190227T212453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190508T173936Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Ethics Bowl:  Ethics and the Far Future
DESCRIPTION:What role should thinking about the far future—1\,000 years ahead and more—play in research on campus? Faculty at UC Santa Cruz have widely divergent views on this question and it’s something the administration needs to decide on soon. Some say we should allocate significant resources; others say very little. This will be the focus of UC Santa Cruz’s first Faculty Ethics Bowl. \nBut the key here is the Ethics Bowl format. Ethics Bowl is very different from traditional debate. Teams are not automatically pitted against one another\, and are docked for using rhetoric\, spin\, aggression\, and clever rationalization. Rather\, teams are scored on the basis of active listening\, flexibility\, collaboration\, and analytical rigor–critical ingredients for meaningful discussion on difficult topics. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, no RSVP required. \nTeam 1:                                                                                       Team 2:  \n  \nAnthony Aguirre                                                     Pranav Anand\nPhysics                                                                      Linguistics \n  \n  \n  \nSandra Faber                                                          Sylvanna Falcón \nAstronomy & Astrophysics                       Latin American and Latino Studies \n  \n  \n  \nDavid Haussler                                                     Nico Orlandi\nThe Genomics Institute                                         Philosophy \n  \n  \n  \nLed by Associate Professor of Philosophy Jon Ellis\, in conjunction with the Center for Public Philosophy and The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-public-philosophy-faculty-ethics-bowl/
LOCATION:University Center\, University Center‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T133000
DTSTAMP:20260408T090914
CREATED:20181015T195749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190408T192155Z
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SUMMARY:Shadi Rohana: "Cervantes and the Arabs: Don Quixote in translation"
DESCRIPTION:The modern Arab reader cannot be indifferent when reading a novel like Don Quixote. Through its geography\, historical context\, characters and language\, the novel evokes to the modern reader one of the Arabs’ most splendorous historical episodes: Al Andalus. This talk traces the Arab and Andalusian presence in Cervantes’ Don Quixote from 1605\, and how this presence was later translated into modern Arabic during the 20th century. The talk will also discuss the reception of Don Quixote in varios Arabic speaking contexts. \nShadi Rohana is a Mexico City-based literary translator\, translating between Arabic\, Spanish and English. He has introduced and translated a number of Latin American authors from Spanish to Arabic\, as well as speeches and declarations from the EZLN in Chiapas. He pursued Latin American Studies in the United States (Swarthmore College) and Mexico (UNAM)\, and is currently a full-time faculty member at the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México\, where he teaches Arabic language and literature. The Arabic translation of José Emilio Pacheco’s Las batallas en el desierto (Palestine\, 2016) was his first novel-length worth \nSpanish: \n“Cervantes y los árabes: Las traducciones del Quijote al árabe” \nShadi Rohana es traductor literario y profesor de tiempo completo en el Centro de Estudios de Asia y África de El Colegio de México. Traduce entre el árabe\, español e inglés. Ha introducido a la lengua árabe a varios escritores latinoamericanos\, así como los comunicados del EZLN en Chiapas. Cursó Estudios Latinoamericanos en los Estados Unidos (Swarthmore College) y México (UNAM). Es traductor al árabe de la novela mexicana Las batallas en el desierto de José Emilio Pacheco (Palestina\, 2016). \nAl leer el Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes\, el lector árabe no puede ser indiferente. En esta novela española del siglo XVII existe un sinnúmero de referencias a la presencia árabe-islámica en la Península ibérica: la geografía\, arabismos\, moriscos\, guerra contra los otomanos\, y personajes que hablan en lengua árabe. Dicha presencia es conocida por los árabes como “Al Ándalus”: un territorio y cultura que se extendió\, de forma cambiante\, en la Península ibérica desde el año 711 hasta la caída de Granada/Ghurnaata en 1492. ¿De qué manera en nuestros días los árabes han leído\, interpretado y traducido aquella presencia de Al Ándalus en el Quijote? Abordaré esta cuestión narrando la historia de las traducciones del Quijote al árabe moderno\, así como la recepción de la novela y sus personajes en varios contextos de habla árabe. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-15/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T153000
DTSTAMP:20260408T090914
CREATED:20190401T183934Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190403T230501Z
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SUMMARY:Balancing Fair Use and Student Access in Selecting Course Texts: A Workshop for Instructors
DESCRIPTION:  \nAbout the workshop: Understanding how to balance equitable access to course texts with our ethical and legal responsibility to uphold the values of intellectual property can often be challenging. This workshop will help faculty navigate the complexities of copyright and fair use and focus on best practices and resources for choosing course texts for our Humanities classrooms. Faculty will come away with a better understanding of how to protect themselves while at the same time lowering textbook cost for their students. \nAll faculty instructors (Senate and non-Senate) are strongly encouraged to attend this workshop. Graduate student teaching fellows and associate-ins are also welcome to attend. \nWorkshop activities will be facilitated by Phillip Longo\, Lecturer in the Writing Program\, and Annette Marines\, Arts and Humanities Librarian at McHenry Library. \nLunch will be served \nThis workshop is part of a series presented by the Humanities Teaching and Learning Now project of The Humanities Institute. HT&L Now is co-facilitated by Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning and Founding Director of CITL\, Jody Greene\, and by CITL Associate Director for Programs\, Kendra Dority \nThis event is co-hosted by the Humanities Division\,The Humanities Institute\, and the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning. \nPlease RSVP Judy Plummer: jplummer@ucsc.edu\nAny questions about the workshop can be address to citl@ucsc.edu \n\n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/balancing-fair-use-student-access-selecting-course-texts-workshop-instructors/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T170000
DTSTAMP:20260408T090914
CREATED:20190513T175813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190513T181416Z
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SUMMARY:Coloquio de Spanish Studies: Shadi Rohana
DESCRIPTION:Shadi Rohana is a Mexico City-based literary translator\, translating between Arabic\, Spanish and English. He has introduced and translated a number of Latin American authors from Spanish to Arabic\, as well as speeches and declarations from the EZLN in Chiapas. He pursued Latin American Studies in the United States (Swarthmore College) and Mexico (UNAM)\, and is currently a full-time faculty member at the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México\, where he teaches Arabic language and literature. The Arabic translation of José Emilio Pacheco’s Las batallas en el desierto (Palestine\, 2016) was his first novel-length work.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/coloquio-de-spanish-studies-shadi-rohana/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T090914
CREATED:20190327T205518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190521T224649Z
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SUMMARY:My Own Words: The Law & Legacy of RBG
DESCRIPTION:In anticipation of Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music’s upcoming premiere of a major new work inspired by the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg- When There Are Nine by composer Kristin Kuster The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, Cabrillo Festival\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz have come together to present a panel discussion and Community Read kickoff event. \nUC Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor and feminist activist Bettina Aptheker will moderate a conversation with Judge Syda Cogliati\, Attorney Anna M. Penrose-Levig\, and Attorney Jessica Delgado about the significant cases and opinions Justice Ginsburg has championed over the course of her career and the impact she has had on women’s equality\, civil liberties\, and racial justice under the law. \nRead the Santa Cruz Good Times Coverage if this event here. \nBettina Aptheker: A scholar of history with a national reputation for her talents as an instructor\, Bettina Aptheker taught one of the country’s largest and most influential introductory feminist studies courses for nearly three decades at UC Santa Cruz. Starting out in 1980 as the sole lecturer in the Women’s Studies Department\, she became the department’s first ladder-rank faculty member in 1987\, and was honored with the Alumni Association’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2001. Aptheker’s 2006 book\, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red\, Fought for Free Speech and Became A Feminist Rebel\, tells the fascinating story of her life. Described by the Chronicle of Higher Education as a “stunning memoir\,” it traces her role in major historical and political events ranging from her co-leadership of the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley\, the movement against the war in Vietnam\, and the trial of Angela Davis\, to the building of the Women’s Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz. \nJudge Syda Cogliati graduated from UC Santa Cruz and UC Hastings College of the Law and has been a member of the State Bar of California since 1994. She served as a senior appellate research attorney at the Sixth District Court of Appeal before being elected to the Santa Cruz Superior Court bench in 2018. \n  \nAnna M. Penrose-Levig is an associate attorney at the law firm of Penrose Chun & Gorman LLP in Santa Cruz. Ms. Penrose-Levig has been practicing law since 2003\, is admitted to practice in California and Nevada\, and is currently serving on the Board of the Women Lawyers of Santa Cruz County. \n  \nJessica Delgado graduated from UCSC (Merrill\, Politics) and Berkeley Law. She is a career public defender currently assigned to the Homicide Division at the Santa Clara County Alternate Defender where she specializes in capital litigation. \n  \n  \nRead more about the panelists: https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/RBG \nThis event is sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz\, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, and the Cabrillo Festival. With co-sponsorships from The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation for Feminist Studies\, Women Lawyers of Santa Cruz County\, and UC Presidential Chair Craig Haney.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/words-law-legacy-rbg/
LOCATION:DNA Comedy Lab\, 155 S. River St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T160000
DTSTAMP:20260408T090914
CREATED:20190522T205416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190522T205416Z
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SUMMARY:The Twentieth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM \nFriends and family are welcome. Come for any part or all of the day. \nOpening Remarks 9:30 a.m. \nProfessor Sean Keilen Director\, Literature Undergraduate Program \nPanel One: Creative Writing \n9:45 – 10:45 a.m.\nModerator: Professor Micah Perks \nMary Miki Arlen\, La chanson de Lancelot (et Roland) \nRosa Scupine\, How should I remember my grandfather? \nTomas Tedsesco\, You ask\, “who lives in you?” \nAmanda Vong\, Body of Water \nHolly Voorsanger\, Speculative Memoir: Love or Drug? \nPanel Two: Literature and Empire \n11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon \nModerator: Professor Martin Devecka \nAspen Adams\, Inescapable Pasts: Screen Memories and Sublimation in the Nuclear Age \nRyan McElroy\, Nuclear Savage’s Questionable Heart: Replicated Genocidal Imagery in a White Savior Narrative \nJessica Parra Moya\, Reclamando y Desmantelando La Figura De La Malinche Con Las Herramientas Del Patrón \nLITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE PRIZES-12:00 – 12:45 p.m. \nProfessor Carla Freccero Chair\, Literature Department \n* FREE * LUNCH BUFFET \nPanel Three: Literature and Other Arts \n12:45 – 1:45 p.m. \nModerator: Professor H. Marshall Leicester\, Jr. \nEmily Caballero\, Kyle Baker’s Nat Turner: Guttered White Violence in the Shadows of Death \nZoe Hildebrand\, Theory of The Influencer \nDaniel Sachs\, Rules of the Boys’ Club: Postmodern Horror Films and the Allegory of the Female Director \nPanel Four: Encounters with the Novel \n2:00 – 3:00 p.m. \nModerator: Professor Chris Connery \nLuan Gondim de Alencastro\, Complacency in the Absurd: A Study of Metatextuality in As Memorias Postumas de Bras Cubas \nMaxwell Shukuya\, Emptiness and the Contemporary Novel Under Neoliberalism \nEmanuel Trujillo\, Finding Adan \nPanel Five: Shakespeare’s Late Plays \n3:15 – 4:00 p.m. \nModerator: Professor Sean Keilen \nStephanie Bolduc\, Forgiveness and Control in The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest \nCynthia Gonzalez\, Anger and Forgiveness in The Tempest and Cymbeline \nConcluding Remarks 4:00 p.m. \n  \nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. ALL ARE INVITED! \nFor more information: literature.ucsc.edu | (831) 459-4778 | litdept@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/twentieth-annual-literature-undergraduate-colloquium/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T183000
DTSTAMP:20260408T090914
CREATED:20190515T172458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190515T172714Z
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SUMMARY:Veda Popovici-History Does (Not) Repeat Itself: Speculative Histories of Post-Revolutionary Romania
DESCRIPTION:Veda Popovici’s work explores the limits of political imagination. In this talk\, she presents her latest political art project: a mapping of collective dreams and desires of revolutionary events in the context of post-1989 Romania. Laying out seven radical future pasts\, these are stories that could have been\, but never happened…feminist unions\, Eastern European migrants antifascist organizing\, anticapitalist campaigns\, solidarity movements between students and coal miners. \nBased in Bucharest\, Veda Popovici holds a PhD in Art History and Theory from the National University of Art.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/veda-popovici-history-not-repeat-speculative-histories-post-revolutionary-romania/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T173000
DTSTAMP:20260408T090914
CREATED:20190403T221454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190403T221454Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Student Readings
DESCRIPTION:Students will be reading from their own work. \nPlease stay tuned for more information. \nCo-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, The Bay Tree Bookstore\, The Humanities Institute\, The American Indian Resource Center\, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-student-readings/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190524T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190524T134500
DTSTAMP:20260408T090914
CREATED:20190520T191644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190520T191737Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Katie Ligmond
DESCRIPTION:The Outcrop of Blue Rocks: Andean Animacy as Illustrated by Guaman Poma \nAndeanists have cultivated an obsession with the illustrations and writing of Guaman Poma\, and with good reason. There are only three truly illuminated manuscript to come out of Colonial Peru\, a scat account in comparison with the plethora from Mexico. Guaman Poma is one of very few Indigenous Peruvian voices that exist in the literary record\, and as we have pored over his words and line drawings\, very few of us have focused on color. This paper analyzes the use of the color blue in the Galvin Murúa\, as it diplicts the rocks as animate\, similarly to water\, and exists as a hidden code to Indigenous readers of this work. \nKatie Ligmond is a second year PhD student in the History of Art and Visual Culture. Her work focuses on the empires of the Andes\, including the Warm. Inka\, and Spanish imperial forces with a focus on their gendered dynamics and the maintenance of  ethic identities. \nFriday Forum for Graduate Research is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments HAVC\, Literature\, History of Consciousness\, Psychology\, and Education. It is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. \nFor questions email: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-graduate-research-katie-ligmond/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190529T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190529T133000
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SUMMARY:Ashwini Tambe: "Tropical Exceptions: Racial Logics in Twentieth Century Intergovernmental Age of Consent Debates"
DESCRIPTION:Legal age standards for sexual maturity are challenging enough to devise at the state or national level\, but they are especially contentious at the intergovernmental level. Efforts at setting common standards have often been marked by imperial logics on the part of those proposing common standards and misgivings on the part of those most affected. My talk traces how intergovernmental efforts at setting common age standards for sexual consent and marriage occasioned elaborate posturing and coding of racial difference. In the two cases I discuss —League of Nations conventions on trafficking in the 1920s and United Nations conventions on marriage in the 1950s— I show how the proceedings staged contests between competing imperialisms and foregrounded moral differences between parts of the world. In effect\, seemingly neutral age categories became a means to express geopolitical hierarchies and undercut formal liberal relationships of equivalence. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nAshwini Tambe studies how societies regulate sexual practices. Ashwini Tambe is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland-College Park and affiliate faculty in the History department and Asian American Studies program. She is also the editorial director of Feminist Studies\, the oldest US journal of feminist interdisciplinary scholarship. Her interests include transnational feminist theory\, modern South Asian history\, and sexuality studies. Her previous books are Codes of Misconduct:Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay (2009\, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press/New Delhi: Zubaan) and The Limits of Colonial Control in South Asia: Spaces of Disorder in the Indian Ocean (2008\, London: Routledge) coedited with Harald Fischer-Tiné. Her recent articles have spanned topics such as population and age of marriage (Women’s Studies International Forum 2014)\, climatology in scientific racism (Theory\, Culture and Society\, 2011)\, interdisciplinary approaches to feminist state theory (Comparative Studies of South Asia\, Africa and the Middle East\, 2010)\, economic liberalization and sexual liberalism in contemporary India (Economic and Political Weekly\, 2010)\, and the long record of transnational approaches in feminist scholarship (New Global Studies\, 2010). Her current work\, supported by SSHRC and NEH grants\, examines the legal paradoxes in age standards for sexual consent in India; her forthcoming book on the subject is Defining Girlhood in India: A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws (2019\, University of Illinois Press). She is also co-editing a volume on the history and future of transnational feminist theory with Millie Thayer titled Transnational Feminist Itineraries. \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.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-16/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190530T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190530T153000
DTSTAMP:20260408T090914
CREATED:20190501T172618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190501T184103Z
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SUMMARY:Feminist Science Studies Conference: Indigeneity and Climate Justice Day 1
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Karen Barad and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer. \nThe 2019 UCSC Feminist Science Studies conference takes as its focus the theme of “Indigeneity and Climate Justice.” Climate Justice\, as opposed to the more narrow framings of “environmental justice\,” marks the consideration of the entanglement of ecological\, cultural\, social\, political\, geological\, biological and other forces\, understood as simultaneous and mutually constitutive. A shared concern among our esteemed keynote speakers is the question of how to respond to the challenges of collaborative engagements between Indigenous and non-Indigenous approaches to caring for the Earth.  We invite them to engage in conversation with each other and students\, faculty\, staff\, and other conference participants about these pressing questions of multiple ontologies\, epistemologies\, and uneven responsibilities.\nMétis Scholar of Sociology and Anthropology\, Carleton University\, Canada\nVisiting Professor of History\, Yale University \nKey Note Speakers: \nZoe Todd \nThis talk explores Alberta\, Canada as a site of intense western knowledge production about topics that are currently ‘hot’ in euro-western academe\, such as: extinction\, the Anthropocene\, environmental degradation\, climate change\, and energy studies.  Challenging the tendency for scholars to literally or figuratively drop into Alberta to mine it for data and information\, Todd explores what it means to re-situate studies of earth violence in the Alberta petro-state as ones that require deep relationality and reciprocity. \nValentin Lopez \nAlfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Anthropology and Geography\nDeakin University\, Australia \nFor some\, it seems\, the concept of the Anthropocene has delivered a welcome dose of universalism. We must put aside the differences which previously proscribed the very existence of a ‘we’ – the ethics which outlawed such pronouns as a presumptuous act of capture – and see that beings on this planet are unified by their inevitable geological materiality; the dark anthropogenic end of their stony fate. In this presentation\, Neale offers a critique of these universalist and redemptive manoeuvres by exploring the temporality\, offered by several Indigenous interlocutors\, of ‘upside down Country.’ What practices and horizons are meaningful in a place where Country – or\, the emplaced and providential order of things – has bee churned and flipped? \nTimothy Neale \nTimothy Neale is a pakeha (settler) researcher and teacher from Aotearoa New Zealand but currently lives in Naarm/Melbourne\, Australia\, where he holds an appointment as Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Geography at Deakin University. His research focuses on environmental governance\, settler-Indigenous relations\, technoscience\, and the intersections of those three topics. He is the author of Wild Articulations: Indigeneity and Environmentalism in Northern Australia (University of Hawaii Press\, 2017). \nKyle Powys Whyte \nTimnick Chair in the Humanities. Associate Proefssor of Philosophy and Community Sustainability. Michigan State University \nClimate change activism and scientific assessments often emphasize that humans must grasp the urgency of taking swift and decisive actions to address an environmental crisis. Yet many such conceptions of urgency obscure the factors that Indigenous peoples have called out as the most pressing concerns about climate justice. This obfuscation explains\, in part\, why climate change advocacy remains largely unrelated to Indigenous efforts to achieve justice and engage in decolonial actions. Whyte shows why a politics of urgency can be based in assumptions about the relationship among time (temporality) and environmental change that are antithetical to allyship with Indigneous peoples and\, ultimately\, climate justice.\nKyle Whyte is a professor in the departments of Philosophy and Community Sustainability and holds the Timnick Chair in the Humanities at Michigan State University. His work focuses on environmental justice\, especially climate change issues that Indigenous peoples face in planning\, policy\, science\, and activism. He is a Potawatomi and an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. \nArboretum Tour with Rick Flores\, who is the curator of the California Native Plant Collection and the associate of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust. \nProgram Day 1: \n9:30am – Mingling and continental breakfast \n10:00am – Conference Welcome \n10:15am – Valentin Lopez \n15 minute break \n11:15am – Zoe Todd \n12:45pm – Lunch \n2:00pm – Kyle Powys Whyte \n3:30pm – Conclusion \nProgram Day 2 \n  \nFor more information including directions and parking please visit: \nhttps://feministstudies.ucsc.edu/news-events/department-news/science-conference/index.html 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-science-studies-conference-indigeneity-climate-justice-day-1/
LOCATION:UCSC Arboretum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190530T151500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190530T170000
DTSTAMP:20260408T090914
CREATED:20190501T174832Z
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SUMMARY:*ROOM CHANGE* NOW IN 420 - Thi Nguyen: "The Gamification of Public Discourse"
DESCRIPTION:The pleasures of games include\, among other things\, the experience of a fantasy of value clarity. In games\, our goals and values are clear\, quantified\, and easy to apply and rank. This provides us with a particular existential balm – a momentary liberation from the ambiguities and difficult pluralities of moral life. Games instrumentalize our ends\, for the sake of the pleasure of the experience of play. This is morally acceptable in games\, because the ends in games are temporary and disposable. Instrumentalizing our enduring epistemic ends\, on the other hand\, invites bad faith reasoning. Social media encourages the instrumentalization of our epistemic ends\, by offering highly salient quantified targets: Facebook Likes and Twitter Likes and Retweet numbers. It invites us to shift the ends of public discourse from some more subtle value towards\, say\, maximizing retweet numbers. We would thereby increase the pleasures of value clarity from engaging in discourse. Importantly\, among those pleasures are: the pleasures of the simplified experience of moral outrage\, and the pleasures of being part of a united epistemic community. But changing one’s epistemic aims for the sake of these pleasures is bad faith reasoning. And the form of the pleasures may help us to understand the relationship between social media and the formation of echo chambers. \nThe gamification of public discourse is an example of what I call “value capture”. Value capture occurs when: 1.) our values are naturally rich and subtle; 2.) we are placed in a social or institutional setting with simple\, explicit\, typically quantified representations of those values; 3.) we internalize those simple representations of our values; and 4.) things get worse. Some other examples include being value captured by FitBit’s step counts\, academic citation rates\, and GPA’s. The gamification of public discourse helps us see how we can understand the problem of value capture: it’s the inappropriate instrumentalizatio of an end.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-nguyen-gamification-public-discourse/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190531T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190531T153000
DTSTAMP:20260408T090914
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190501T184304Z
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SUMMARY:Feminist Science Studies Conference: Indigeneity and Climate Justice Day 2
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Karen Barad and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer. \nThe 2019 UCSC Feminist Science Studies conference takes as its focus the theme of “Indigeneity and Climate Justice.” Climate Justice\, as opposed to the more narrow framings of “environmental justice\,” marks the consideration of the entanglement of ecological\, cultural\, social\, political\, geological\, biological and other forces\, understood as simultaneous and mutually constitutive. A shared concern among our esteemed keynote speakers is the question of how to respond to the challenges of collaborative engagements between Indigenous and non-Indigenous approaches to caring for the Earth.  We invite them to engage in conversation with each other and students\, faculty\, staff\, and other conference participants about these pressing questions of multiple ontologies\, epistemologies\, and uneven responsibilities.\nMétis Scholar of Sociology and Anthropology\, Carleton University\, Canada\nVisiting Professor of History\, Yale University \nKey Note Speakers: \nZoe Todd \nThis talk explores Alberta\, Canada as a site of intense western knowledge production about topics that are currently ‘hot’ in euro-western academe\, such as: extinction\, the Anthropocene\, environmental degradation\, climate change\, and energy studies.  Challenging the tendency for scholars to literally or figuratively drop into Alberta to mine it for data and information\, Todd explores what it means to re-situate studies of earth violence in the Alberta petro-state as ones that require deep relationality and reciprocity. \nValentin Lopez \nAlfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Anthropology and Geography\nDeakin University\, Australia \nFor some\, it seems\, the concept of the Anthropocene has delivered a welcome dose of universalism. We must put aside the differences which previously proscribed the very existence of a ‘we’ – the ethics which outlawed such pronouns as a presumptuous act of capture – and see that beings on this planet are unified by their inevitable geological materiality; the dark anthropogenic end of their stony fate. In this presentation\, Neale offers a critique of these universalist and redemptive manoeuvres by exploring the temporality\, offered by several Indigenous interlocutors\, of ‘upside down Country.’ What practices and horizons are meaningful in a place where Country – or\, the emplaced and providential order of things – has bee churned and flipped? \nTimothy Neale \nTimothy Neale is a pakeha (settler) researcher and teacher from Aotearoa New Zealand but currently lives in Naarm/Melbourne\, Australia\, where he holds an appointment as Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Geography at Deakin University. His research focuses on environmental governance\, settler-Indigenous relations\, technoscience\, and the intersections of those three topics. He is the author of Wild Articulations: Indigeneity and Environmentalism in Northern Australia (University of Hawaii Press\, 2017). \nKyle Powys Whyte \nTimnick Chair in the Humanities. Associate Proefssor of Philosophy and Community Sustainability. Michigan State University \nClimate change activism and scientific assessments often emphasize that humans must grasp the urgency of taking swift and decisive actions to address an environmental crisis. Yet many such conceptions of urgency obscure the factors that Indigenous peoples have called out as the most pressing concerns about climate justice. This obfuscation explains\, in part\, why climate change advocacy remains largely unrelated to Indigenous efforts to achieve justice and engage in decolonial actions. Whyte shows why a politics of urgency can be based in assumptions about the relationship among time (temporality) and environmental change that are antithetical to allyship with Indigneous peoples and\, ultimately\, climate justice.\nKyle Whyte is a professor in the departments of Philosophy and Community Sustainability and holds the Timnick Chair in the Humanities at Michigan State University. His work focuses on environmental justice\, especially climate change issues that Indigenous peoples face in planning\, policy\, science\, and activism. He is a Potawatomi and an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. \nArboretum Tour with Rick Flores\, who is the curator of the California Native Plant Collection and the associate of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust. \nProgram Day 1 \nProgram Day 2: \n9:30am – Mingling and continental breakfast \n10:00am – Conference Welcome \n10:15am – Timothy Neale \n15 minute break \n12:00pm – Arboretum Tour with Rick Flores \n1:00pm – Lunch \n2:00pm – Final Roundtable with keynotes and grad students \n3:30pm – Conclusion \n  \nFor more information including directions and parking please visit: \nhttps://feministstudies.ucsc.edu/news-events/department-news/science-conference/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/46037/
LOCATION:UCSC Arboretum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190531T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190531T161500
DTSTAMP:20260408T090914
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC)
DESCRIPTION:Program: \n1:00 PM- Refreshments \n1:15 PM- Opening remarks: Amanda Rysling \nSession 1: Session Chair: Jennifer Bellik \n1:20 PM- Madeleine King and Koy Ruguma: “Recency and Semantic Difference: Effects on Verbatim Memory” \n1:45 PM- Max Tarlov: “Trans-derivational Correspondence beyond the Word Level” \n2:10 PM- BREAK \nSession 2: Session Chair: Steven Foley \n2:20 PM- Melanie Gounas: “The Syntactic Representation of Constituent Negation” \n2:45 PM- Jared Crawford-Levis: “Subject Bridging: Exploring a New Construction” \n3:10 PM- Distinguished Alumnus Address: Introduction by Margaret Kroll Marcin Morzycki \n4:05 PM- Closing remarks: Amanda Rysling
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-undergraduate-research-conference-lurc/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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