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SUMMARY:Against Orthodoxies: Working with Hayden White
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos by Jessica Guild: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nOn Friday and Saturday\, November 1 and 2\, 2019\, UC Santa Cruz will hold a conference to honor the late Hayden White. \nThe event is conceived as an invitation to extend Hayden White’s thinking in new directions. Inspired by his rigorous\, daring\, iconoclastic spirit\, this will be a time for experiment and dialogue. Confirmed participants are innovative scholars from a wide variety of disciplines. \nProgram timeline – Full Schedule Here \n\nPre-Conference Gathering: November 1st @ 10:30am\, Hayden White Archive Exhibition at McHenry Library\nDay 1: November 1st @ 1pm-5:30pm in the Merrill College Cultural Center\, dinner to follow\nDay 2: November 2nd @ 9am-5:30pm in the Merrill College Cultural Center\, reception to follow\n\n \nKeynote speakers:  \nJudith Butler (UC Berkeley)\nCarol Mavor (University of Manchester)\nSusan Stewart (Princeton University) \nParticipants:  \n\nKaryn Ball (University of Alberta)\nAmy Elias (University of Tennessee)\nAmir Eshel (Stanford)\nRobert Harrison (Stanford)\nEthan Kleinberg (Wesleyan)\nPaul Kottman (New School for Social Research)\nMaría Inés la Greca (Universidad de Buenos Aires)\nDavid Palumbo-Liu (Stanford)\nTodd Presner (UC Los Angeles)\nJose Rabasa (UC Berkeley)\nVeronica Tozzi (Universidad de Buenos Aires)\n\nOrganizing committee: \nPaul Roth\, Professor of Philosophy\, UCSC\nJames Clifford\, Professor Emeritus\, History of Consciousness\, UCSC\nKaren Bassi\, Professor of Literature and Classics\, UCSC \nSponsored by: \nThe Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. With support from UCSC’s Cowell College\, Stanford University’s Division of Literatures\, Cultures and Languages\, and the Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/orthodoxies-working-hayden-white/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Roumyana Pancheva: Linguistics Colloquia- Temporal Interpretation Without Tense
DESCRIPTION:Languages without overt tense morphemes have typically been analyzed as having semantic tense\, either contributed by a phonologically covert lexical item or supplied by a post-syntactic semantic rule. From a neo-Reichenbachian perspective\, having semantic tense means having a linguistic device (a lexical item or a rule) dedicated to invoking a reference time in relation to the local evaluation time. The two types of tense accounts have also been offered for the closely related languages Mbya Guaraní and Paraguayan Guaraní (Tonhauser 2011a\,b; Thomas 2014). We propose a truly tenseless account of Paraguayan Guaraní. A pronoun at the left edge of the clause\, denoting the local evaluation time\, directly binds the time variable of viewpoint aspect. In a matrix clause the evaluation time is speech time by default\, resulting in present temporal reference\, and with the help of a prospective morpheme\, in future reference. The evaluation time may shift\, as happens in restricted contexts in languages with tense (e.g.\, the historical present)\, but here more freely. The mechanism of evaluation time shift underlies past interpretation. The main consequence of this analysis is that tense is not a semantic universal. \nRoumyana Pancheva is a professor of Linguistics and Slavic Languages and Literatures at USC\, her main areas of research being syntax and semantics. Her research employs formal modeling\, cross-linguistic comparison from a synchronic and diachronic perspective\, and experimentation. \n  \n  \nFor more information visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-roumyana-pancheva/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191106T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191106T133000
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SUMMARY:Katharyne Mitchell: Cultural Studies Colloquium - Church Sanctuary and the Spatial Politics of the Sacred
DESCRIPTION:Church sanctuary is not legal in any state in Europe\, but the cultural and religious sense of church space as sacred\, and the collective memory of this practice as an alternative form of justice\, still has a powerful legacy. In citing past sanctuary ideals and practices\, from medieval asylum law to recent sanctuary movements on behalf of refugees\, faith-based actors draw on these memories to reactivate older traditions of insurgent citizenship. In this talk\, Mitchell explores the critical role of space\, collective memory and non-secular webs of belief in these current challenges to orthodox assumptions of state sovereignty. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nKatharyne Mitchell is Dean of the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Current research explores various aspects of migration and religion. Recent books include Making Workers: Radical Geographies of Education (Pluto Press\, 2018)\, and the co-edited Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration (Edward Elgar\, 2019). Mitchell is the author of over 100 articles and book chapters and the recipient of grants from the MacArthur Foundation\, Spencer Foundation\, and National Science Foundation. The research for this talk was made possible by a Guggenheim Fellowship. \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/cultural-studies-colloquium-katharyne-mitchell/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191107T190000
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SUMMARY:Morton Marcus Poetry Reading: Gary Soto
DESCRIPTION:  \nEvent Photos by Crystal Birns: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nGary Soto has published more than forty books for children\, young adults and adults\, including Too Many Tamales\, Chato’s Kitchen\, Baseball in April\, Buried Onions and The Elements of San Joaquin. He is the author of In and Out of Shadows\, a musical about undocumented youth and\, most recently\, The Afterlife\, a one-act play about teen murder and teen suicide. \nEvent Program:\nPoet Gary Young\, will host the program\, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1\,000 prize). The reading will conclude with a book signing and reception. RSVP appreciated – seating is first come\, first served. \n \nDoors open at 6:30pm \nProgram begins at 7:00pm \nAbout Morton Marcus:\nThe Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet\, teacher\, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus\, a nationally acclaimed poet\, called Santa Cruz his home for more than fifty years. This annual poetry series continues Mort’s tradition of bringing acclaimed poets to Santa Cruz County\, continues to acknowledge the significant role poetry has played in our community’s history\, and works to maintain poetry’s influence in our county’s culture. For more information visit www.mortonmarcus.com. You can also view the Morton Marcus Archive in Special Collections at UCSC. \nThis community event is presented by the The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by: \nBookshop Santa Cruz\nCabrillo College English Department\nCowell College\nLiving Writers Series\nOw Family Properties\nPoetry Santa Cruz\nPorter Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund\nPorter College\nSanta Cruz Writes\nSpecial Collections & Archives \nDirections and Parking:\nThe UCSC Music Recital Hall is located at 402 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95064\nParking lot attendants will be on site to sell permits and direct guests to available parking in the Performing Arts parking lot #126. The cost for parking is $5.\nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by November 4th\, 2019.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/morton-marcus-poetry-reading-gary-soto/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191112T190000
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SUMMARY:A Literary Masquerade with Erin Morgenstern
DESCRIPTION:You are cordially invited to Bookshop Santa Cruz’s first-ever Literary Masquerade\, celebrating the release of Erin Morgenstern’s highly anticipated new novel\, The Starless Sea. Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nFrom Erin Morgenstern\, the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus\, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world—a place of pirates\, painters\, lovers\, liars\, and ships that sail upon a starless sea. \nJoin us on Tuesday\, November 12th at 6:00 for a literary masquerade\, where you and all who attend are invited to disguise yourself as your favorite literary character or figure to enter the world of The Starless Sea. Dancing and activities plucked from Erin Morgenstern’s magical world will precede a 7:00 talk with Erin Morgenstern\, followed by a book signing. Erin Morgenstern will be in conversation with Michael Chemers\, Professor of Dramatic Literature in the Department of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz. This event will take place at DNA’s Comedy Lab (155 S River St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA). Themed refreshments\, including beer and wine\, will be available to purchase from DNA’s Comedy Lab. \nTickets to this enchanting evening are $37\, and include one copy of The Starless Sea\, an unassigned seat for Erin Morgenstern’s talk\, a number for the signing line\, and access to all event activities. Literary costumes encouraged. \n \nMasquerade begins at 6:00\nBook talk begins at 7:00 \nERIN MORGENSTERN is the author of The Night Circus\, a number-one national best seller that has been sold around the world and translated into thirty-seven languages. She has a degree in theater from Smith College and lives in Massachusetts. \n“Morgenstern’s new fantasy epic is a puzzlebox of a book\, full of meta-narratives and small folkloric tales that will delight readers… Morgenstern uses poetic\, honey-like prose to tell a story that plays with the very concept of what we expect and want from our stories… She trusts her readers to follow along and speculate\, wonder and make leaps themselves as she dives into tales of pirates\, book burnings\, and men lost in time\, giving the book a mythic quality that will stick with readers long after they put it down.”\n⁠—Booklist (starred) \n“This love letter to bibliophiles is dreamlike and uncanny\, grounded in deeply felt emotion\, and absolutely thrilling.”\n⁠—Publishers Weekly (starred) \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-literary-masquerade-with-erin-morgenstern/
LOCATION:DNA Comedy Lab\, 155 S. River St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T120000
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SUMMARY:LOCATION CHANGE David Biggs: Archipelagic Vietnam - Rethinking Nationalism From the Shoreline
DESCRIPTION:Please RSVP for the Cultural Studies Colloquium location \nUntil recent conflicts over islands in the South China Sea\, Vietnam’s history was described in terrestrial terms. Vietnam’s nationalist struggles\, we were told\, involved epic battles with American and other troops in highland jungles and city streets; and the nation’s territorial expansion from Hanoi happened in two directions: southward and uphill. The sea\, as so many history books taught\, was a nothing space where foreign invasions began. Vietnam’s geo-body was tied to a Westphalian notion of sovereignty reified in so many books and maps. Real sovereignty in Vietnam\, however\, was and still is relational. Topologies of trade\, commerce\, migration and communication have for centuries defined where “Vietnam” begins and so many other cultures and ecologies taper off. Rather than assume a closed model\, this talk reimagines Vietnam as an archipelago\, a more permeable nation-system of nodes linked by flows of energy\, food\, people and technology moving from the sea to the mountains and spaces beyond. Drawing from his recently published book\, Footprints of War: Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam (Washington\, 2018)\, environmental historian David Biggs conducts an archipelagic history tour along Vietnam’s central coast with stops in the ancient\, early modern\, colonial and post-colonial past. \nDavid Biggs is a Professor of History at the University of California\, Riverside\, specializing in twentieth century environmental history with an area focus on Vietnam and Southeast Asia. His first book\, Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature\, won the 2011 George Perkins Marsh Prize in Environmental History; and his essays have appeared in such venues as the Journal of Asian Studies\, Technology and Culture and the New York Times. He is currently working on a trans-Pacific history of the mid-twentieth century. \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-david-biggs/
LOCATION:CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T170000
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SUMMARY:LOCATION CHANGE Dean Spade: Solidarity Not Charity - Mutual Aid for Mobilization and Survival
DESCRIPTION:Join the Feminist Studies department as they present their second FMST Colloquium for the 2019 Fall quarter! \nWidespread\, effective social movements usually include mutual aid strategies that directly address conditions faced by targeted people\, such as providing housing\, food\, healthcare and transportation. Examples include the Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast Program\, the Young Lords’ hijacking of New York’s tuberculosis testing mobile unit to high-risk\, medically neglected neighborhoods\, and feminist organizing to provide underground abortions in the 1970s. This talk will look at why mutual aid is an important part of building participatory movements\, and how it intentionally departs from charity frameworks. \nDean Spade is a lawyer\, writer\, trans activist\, and an Associate Professor at Seattle University School of Law\, where he teaches Administrative Law\, Poverty Law\, Gender and Law\, Policing and Imprisonment\, and Law and Social Movements.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dean-spade-solidarity-not-charity-mutual-aid-for-mobilization-and-survival/
LOCATION:Resource Center for Non Violence
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T163000
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SUMMARY:Mikael Wolfe: Extreme Weather and the Mexican Revolution - Historical Reality and Perception
DESCRIPTION:Speaker\, Mikael Wolfe\, presents recently published research that combines environmental history and historical climatology to examine the relationship between extreme weather events\, especially drought and frost\, and the origins of the Mexican Revolution. His findings suggest that inaccurate and misleading weather reporting—what he calls “politico-environmental” coverage—by a variety of newspapers throughout the country was as important as actual climatic variability in exacerbating the economic and political crises that culminated in the 1910-11 armed insurrection. The research not only changes our understanding of the Mexican Revolution; it also helps to historicize the current study of climate change and conflict\, such as in the Syrian civil war\, which has a number of striking parallels to Mexico’s civil war exactly one century before. \nMikael Wolfe is an environmental historian of water and climate issues in modern Latin America. He is currently Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University and the author of Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico (Duke University Press\, 2017)\, which won the Elinor K. Melville Book Prize for Latin American environmental history and was short-listed for the María Elena Martínez Prize on the history of Mexico in 2018. His second book project is tentatively entitled Revolution in the Air: A Comparative Historical Climatology of the Mexican and Cuban Revolutions. \n  \nJoin the Center for World History in welcoming Mikael Wolfe to UCSC for their first CWH event of the 2019-2020 academic year!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mikael-wolfe-extreme-weather-and-the-mexican-revolution-historical-reality-and-perception/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Extreme Weather and the Mexican Revolution: Historical Reality and Perception
DESCRIPTION:This talk will present recently published research that combines environmental history and historical climatology to examine the relationship between extreme weather events\, especially drought and frost\, and the origins of the Mexican Revolution. Wolfe’s findings suggest that inaccurate and misleading weather reporting—what he calls “politico-environmental” coverage—by a variety of newspapers throughout the country was as important as actual climatic variability in exacerbating the economic and political crises that culminated in the 1910-11 armed insurrection. Wolfe’s research not only changes our understanding of the Mexican Revolution; it also helps to historicize the current study of climate change and conflict\, such as in the Syrian civil war\, which has a number of striking parallels to Mexico’s civil war exactly one century before. \nMikael Wolfe is an environmental historian of water and climate issues in modern Latin America and author of Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico (Duke University Press\, 2017). \nPresented by the Center for World History\, cwh@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/extreme-weather-and-the-mexican-revolution-historical-reality-and-perception/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T160000
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SUMMARY:THI Open House
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we kick off the 20th anniversary of The Humanities Institute: a vibrant community at the center of UC Santa Cruz and at the cutting edge of Humanities research\, education\, and public engagement. \nRaise a glass\, meet our fellows\, and connect with your colleagues. In many ways\, The Humanities Institute is a demonstration of where the Humanities is headed and we are stronger when we do this work together. \n \nThe Open House is an opportunity to celebrate the community we’ve built over the past 20 years and to acknowledge where we want to be. \nPhotos by Crystal Birns \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n\n  \nAfter the open house celebration\, please join us for Living Writers: After Ursula on November 14th at 7pm in the Humanities Lecture Hall. Four renowned writers–Karen Joy Fowler\, Molly Gloss\, Nisi Shawl and Kim Stanley Robinson–will participate in a conversation centered around sci/fi speculative fiction author Ursula LeGuin\, who recently died in 2018.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-open-house/
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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SUMMARY:Living Writers: "After Ursula" with Karen Joy Fowler\, Molly Gloss\, Nisi Shawl\, and Kim Stanley Robinson
DESCRIPTION:After Ursula: Four renowned Sci Fi/Fantasy Writers all mentored by Ursula K Le Guin read from their work. \nMolly Gloss is the author of several novels including The Jump-Off Creek\, The Dazzle of Day\, Wild Life\, The Hearts of Horses and Falling From Horses\, as well as the story collection Unforeseen. She writes both realistic fiction and science fiction\, and her novels have received\, among other honors\, a PEN West Fiction Prize\, an Oregon Book Award\, two Pacific Northwest Booksellers Awards\, the James Tiptree\, Jr. Award\, and a Whiting Writers Award. \nKaren Joy Fowler is the author of six novels\, including Sarah Canary and The Jane Austen Book Club\, and three short story collections\, including What I Didn’t See. Her most recent novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves\, was published by Putnam in May 2013 and won the Pen Faulkner award that year. She currently lives in Santa Cruz. \nNisi Shawl wrote the 2016 Nebula finalist Everfair and the 2008 Tiptree Award-winning collection Filter House. In 2005 she co-wrote Writing the Other: A Practical Approach\, a standard text on inclusive representation in the imaginative genres. Her stories have appeared in Strange Horizons\, Asimov’s SF Magazine\, and many other publications. She edited the anthology New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color; and co-edited Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany; Strange Matings: Science Fiction\, Feminism\, African American Voices\, and Octavia E. Butler. Shawl is a Carl Brandon Society founder and a Clarion West board member. She lives in Seattle near an enticingly large lake. \nKim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer. He is the author of more than twenty books\, including the international bestselling Mars trilogy\, and more recently Red Moon\, New York 2140\, Aurora\, Shaman\, Green Earth\, and 2312. He was sent to the Antarctic by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers’ Program in 1995\, and returned in their Antarctic media program in 2016. In 2008 he was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine. He works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute\, the Clarion Writers’ Workshop\, and UC San Diego’s Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination. His work has been translated into 25 languages\, and won a dozen awards in five countries\, including the Hugo\, Nebula\, Locus\, and World Fantasy awards. In 2016 asteroid 72432 was named “Kimrobinson.” \n  \n\n  \nThis Living Writers event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \nPlease join us as we kick off the 20th anniversary of The Humanities Institute at our Open House Celebration on November 14th from 4-6pm. Raise a glass\, meet our fellows\, and connect with your community. In many ways\, The Humanities Institute is a demonstration of where the Humanities is headed and we are stronger when we do this work together. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-after-ursula-karen-joy-fowler-molly-gloss-nisi-shawl-and-kim-stanley-robinson/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191115T123000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Demystifying the Publishing Process with UC Press
DESCRIPTION:Learn about the publishing process\, including book proposals\, pitches\, meeting with editors\, and contracts. \nUniversity of California Press (UC Press) is one of the most forward-thinking scholarly publishers\, committed to influencing public discourse and challenging the status quo. At a time of dramatic change for scholarship and publishing\, UC Press collaborates with faculty\, librarians\, authors\, and students to stay ahead of today’s knowledge demands and shape the future of publishing. \n  \nKim Robinson\, Editorial Director\, received a B.A. in English from UC Santa Barbara. Before joining UC Press in 2009\, she spent eight years at Oxford University Press in New York\, both as music editor and editorial director of the scholarly reference group. Before stepping into the role of Editorial Director\, she was Social Sciences Publisher and regional editor at UC Press. Previous to her career in publishing\, Kim spent a decade working for nonprofit organizations and foundations focused on the environment and equal access to information and technology. A few of Kim’s UC Press acquisitions include California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It\, A People’s Guide to Los Angeles\, and the launch of Boom: A Journal of California. \n  \nSince 2010\, Eric A. Schmidt\, has extended the Classics program beyond Greece and Rome to include the cultural networks in and between Europe\, Africa\, the Middle East\, and Asia\, particularly in the period of Late Antiquity. In 2017\, Eric started acquiring titles on the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period\, with a focus on books that highlight the passage of people\, things\, and ideas across the boundaries of land and language. In addition to promoting cutting-edge scholarship\, Eric acquires pedagogically sophisticated materials for undergraduate teaching\, including annotated translations of important texts\, readers of primary source materials\, and synthetic treatments of major topics. Recent highlights from his list include Richard Payne’s State of Mixture\, Aaron Hahn Tapper’s Judaisms\, Barry Powell’s translation of the works of Hesiod\, and Joel Blecher’s Said the Prophet of God. \nAreas of acquisition: World History (Ancient\, Medieval\, and Early Modern)\, Religion\, and World Literature in Translation \n  \nKate Marshall joined UC Press in 2008 and manages several award-winning lists\, including anthropology and our interdisciplinary programs on food and Latin America. In 2013\, she launched a new list in Latin American history. Recent highlights from her list include Jason De León’s The Land of Open Graves\, Raj Patel and Jason Moore’s A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things\, Joyce Goldstein’s The New Mediterranean Jewish Table\, and the 10th anniversary edition of Marion Nestle’s Food Politics. Across fields\, Kate is motivated to publish scholarly and general interest titles that address pressing social or environmental problems. \nAreas of acquisition: Anthropology\, Food Studies\, Latin American Studies \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the fourth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Humanities Institute. 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-workshop-uc-press/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191115T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191115T150000
DTSTAMP:20260406T174130
CREATED:20191002T175537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191114T014306Z
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Jorge Hankamer
DESCRIPTION:Jorge Hankamer (UC Santa Cruz) – CP Complements to D \nAbout eight times each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full information visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-jorge-hankamer/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191115T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191115T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T174130
CREATED:20191014T224713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191014T224713Z
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SUMMARY:After Ursula Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join us to discuss excerpts from authors Karen Joy Fowler\, Molly Gloss\, Nisi Shawl\, and Kim Stanley Robinson. Please email Micah Perks at (meperks@ucsc.edu) for the readings and to RSVP for the discussion. \nKim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer. He is the author of more than twenty books\, including the international bestselling Mars trilogy\, and more recently Red Moon\, New York 2140\, Aurora\, Shaman\, Green Earth\, and 2312. He was sent to the Antarctic by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers’ Program in 1995\, and returned in their Antarctic media program in 2016. In 2008 he was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine. He works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute\, the Clarion Writers’ Workshop\, and UC San Diego’s Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination. His work has been translated into 25 languages\, and won a dozen awards in five countries\, including the Hugo\, Nebula\, Locus\, and World Fantasy awards. In 2016 asteroid 72432 was named “Kimrobinson.” \nKaren Joy Fowler is the author of six novels\, including Sarah Canary and The Jane Austen Book Club\, and three short story collections\, including What I Didn’t See. Her most recent novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves\, was published by Putnam in May 2013 and won the Pen Faulkner award that year. She currently lives in Santa Cruz. \nMolly Gloss is the author of several novels including The Jump-Off Creek\, The Dazzle of Day\, Wild Life\, The Hearts of Horses and Falling From Horses\, as well as the story collection Unforeseen. She writes both realistic fiction and science fiction\, and her novels have received\, among other honors\, a PEN West Fiction Prize\, an Oregon Book Award\, two Pacific Northwest Booksellers Awards\, the James Tiptree\, Jr. Award\, and a Whiting Writers Award. \nNisi Shawl wrote the 2016 Nebula finalist Everfair and the 2008 Tiptree Award-winning collection Filter House. In 2005 she co-wrote Writing the Other: A Practical Approach\, a standard text on inclusive representation in the imaginative genres. Her stories have appeared in Strange Horizons\, Asimov’s SF Magazine\, and many other publications. She edited the anthology New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color; and co-edited Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany; Strange Matings: Science Fiction\, Feminism\, African American Voices\, and Octavia E. Butler. Shawl is a Carl Brandon Society founder and a Clarion West board member. She lives in Seattle near an enticingly large lake.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/after-ursula-discussion/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191116T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191116T153000
DTSTAMP:20260406T174130
CREATED:20191115T222356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191115T222356Z
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SUMMARY:Nido de Lenguas: Camp
DESCRIPTION:¡Únete a nosotros para un día de aprendizaje de idiomas y desarrollo comunitario! Nuestros maestros compartirán el mixteco de San Martín Peras\, un idioma de Oaxaca. Comienza a aprender o desarrolla tus habilidades con juegos y otras actividades grupales. \n¡No se necesita experiencia previa! \nGratuito y abierto al público \n¡Por favor regístrete en línea! \n  \nJoin us for a day of language learning and community building! Our language teachers will be sharing San Martín Peras Mixtec\, a language of Oaxaca. Start learning or build your skills through games & other group activities.\nNo prior experience needed! \nFree & open to the public \nPlease sign up online!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nido-de-lenguas-camp/
LOCATION:Watsonville Public Library\, 275 Main St.\, Ste 100\, Watsonville\, CA\, 95076\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191119T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191119T140000
DTSTAMP:20260406T174130
CREATED:20191104T234133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191104T234215Z
UID:10005659-1574166600-1574172000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Eve Zyzik: Spanish Studies Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Spelling is an aspect of literacy that causes significant difficulties for Spanish heritage language learners. The current research study targets one of the most problematic areas of Spanish orthography: substitution of “s” and “c” letters to represent /s/. Participants (n=72) were young adults\, heritage speakers of Spanish\, who completed a dictation task in addition to a standardized measure of proficiency. The results indicate a main effect for cognates (Spanish/English cognates are spelled more accurately)\, but no effect for letter. In other words\, the data show that “s” is not the default letter for representing /s/\, contrary to what had been found in a number of previous studies. These results are discussed in the broader context of pedagogical proposals for targeting orthography among college-aged heritage language learners. \n  \nEve Zyzik (PhD\, UC Davis) is currently Professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz. She has published over twenty-five articles and chapters related to second language acquisition\, heritage language development\, and language pedagogy. Her articles appear in journals such as Applied Psycholinguistics\, Language Learning\, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism\, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition. She has also published two books: El español y la lingüística aplicada (with Robert Blake) and Authentic Materials Myths: Applying Second Language Research to Classroom Teaching (with Charlene Polio). \n  \nNote: Event will be given in Spanish
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/eve-zyzik-spanish-studies-colloquium/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T140000
DTSTAMP:20260406T174130
CREATED:20191104T232923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191216T203619Z
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SUMMARY:Anjali Arondekar: What More Remains - Sexuality\, Slavery\, Historiography
DESCRIPTION:This talk engages a ‘small’ history of sexuality and slavery in Portuguese India. At stake are three questions: How do we call attention to the displacement of slave pasts within histories of sexuality that are themselves routinely displaced? How do we locate those displacements in itinerant archives of profit and pleasure\, than in archives of loss and trauma? How do we open a dialogue between the interdisciplinary fields of area studies and sexuality studies with an eye to understanding how histories of slavery can reshape\, even devastate\, these very field-formations? \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nAnjali Arondekar is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies\, UCSC. Her research engages the poetics and politics of sexuality\, colonialism and historiography\, with a focus on South Asia. She is the author of For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India (Duke University Press\, 2009\, Orient Blackswan\, India\, 2010)\, winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award for best book in lesbian\, gay\, or queer studies in literature and cultural studies\, Modern Language Association (MLA)\, 2010. She is co-editor (with Geeta Patel) of “Area Impossible: The Geopolitics of Queer Studies\,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (2016). Her talk is an excerpt from her forthcoming book\, Abundance: On Sexuality and Historiography.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anjali-arondekar-what-more-remains-sexuality-slavery-historiography/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191124
DTSTAMP:20260406T174130
CREATED:20191004T195439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191029T163130Z
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SUMMARY:FrankenCon 2019
DESCRIPTION:For over two hundred years\, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has haunted our days and chilled our dreaming nights. Celebrate and explore the enduring legacy of the world’s first science-fiction horror story with FRANKENCON\, a three-day conference of scientists\, theorists\, and artists on November 21-23\, 2019 at UC Santa Cruz. \nThe conference is in conjunction with the Theater Arts Department production of The Frankenstein Project\, a play by Kirsten Brandt. \nIn the centuries since Mary Shelley first penned the novel\, the lore and magic of Frankenstein has molded the modern genre of science fiction. With the explosive proliferation of golems\, robots\, monsters of artificial intelligence and genetically-engineered dinosaurs\, Frankenstein and its cultural progeny have come to dominate cultural discussions about the ethics of science\, the problems of modernity\, the obligations of parents and children\, and the painful act of creation itself. \nFree and open to the public \nFull information including guest speakers\, schedule\, and how to attend at:\n FRANKENCON.COM \nPresented by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies\, The Humanities Institute and The Division of the Arts. With the support of Porter College\, Crown College\, The Science & Justice Research Center\, The Theater Arts Department\, Oakes College\, and the Department of Art & Design: Games & Playable Media; and with the generosity of our friends at DNA’s Comedy Lab & Experimental Theatre and Good Times Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/frankencon-2019/
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T174130
CREATED:20190821T174915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191107T190253Z
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SUMMARY:Dylan Riley: Capitalism\, Democracy\, and Authoritarianism - A Reconsideration 
DESCRIPTION:Dylan Riley is Professor of Sociology at the University of California\, Berkeley. He is the author of The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe: Italy\, Spain\, and Romania 1870-1945 (Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2010\, Verso\, 2019). He is also the co-author of a two-volume work with Rebecca Jean Emigh and Patricia Ahmed entitled Antecedents of Censuses: From Medieval to Nation States and Changes in Censuses: From Imperialism to Welfare States (Palgrave 2016). In addition to these books\, he has published articles in the American Journal of Sociology\, American Sociological Review\, Catalyst\, Comparative Sociology\, Contemporary Sociology\, Comparative Studies in Society and History\, Social Science History\, The Socio-Economic Review and the New Left Review (of which he is a member of the editorial committee). His work has been translated into German\, Portuguese\, Russian\, and Spanish.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dylan-john-riley-neo-authoritarianism-cluster/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T191000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T204500
DTSTAMP:20260406T174130
CREATED:20191104T222415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191107T201156Z
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SUMMARY:Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Database
DESCRIPTION:Jessica Kolopenuk will talk with Science & Justice and the Crown College about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women database. For resources\, news articles\, tool-kits and webinars that frame the issues\, refer to the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center‘s page on the special collection. Read or Listen to: Native American Activists Look To Next Steps After Murdered And Missing Indigenous Women Study Bill Passes (3/21/19) \nHosted by the Crown College Core Course (Ethical and Political Implications of Emerging Technologies) and the Science & Justice Research Center\, with an introduction from Kim TallBear. \n  \nJessica Kolopenuk (Cree\, Peguis First Nation) is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Native Studies\, University of Alberta and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria. Her doctoral project\, The Science of Indigeneity: DNA Beyond Ancestry is a study of how\, in Canada\, genomic biotechnologies are impacting definitions of Indigeneity in the fields of forensic science\, biomedical research\, and physical anthropology. She identifies opportunities where Indigenous peoples may intervene to govern the genetic/genome sciences that affect their bodies\, territories\, and peoples. Over the past two years\, with TallBear\, she has been involved with co-developing the Indigenous Science\, Technology\, and Society Research and Training Program at the UofA. Jessica is a co-organizer of the Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics Canada (SING Canada). \n  \nKim TallBear (UCSC HistCon\, SJRC Advisor) Associate Professor\, Faculty of Native Studies\, University of Alberta\, and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples\, Technoscience & Environment. She is building a research hub in Indigenous Science\, Technology\, and Society (www.IndigenousSTS.com). Follow them at @indigenous_sts. TallBear is author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science (University of Minnesota Press\, 2013). Her Indigenous STS work recently turned to also address decolonial and Indigenous sexualities. She founded a University of Alberta arts-based research lab and co-produces the sexy storytelling show\, Tipi Confessions\, sparked by the popular Austin\, Texas show\, Bedpost Confessions. Building on lessons learned with geneticists about how race categories get settled\, TallBear is working on a book that interrogates settler-colonial commitments to settlement in place\, within disciplines\, and within monogamous\, state-sanctioned marriage. She is a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate in South Dakota. She tweets @KimTallBear and @CriticalPoly. \nCo-sponsored by: the Science & Justice Research Center\, Crown College\, the Human Paleogenomics Lab\, Feminist Studies\, the Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation\, and The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-database/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T191000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T174130
CREATED:20190910T234038Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191219T204802Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Peg Alford Pursell and Sophia Shalmiyev
DESCRIPTION:Peg Alford Pursell is the author of A Girl Goes Into the Forest\, (Dzanc Books\, July 2019)\, and of Show Her A Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow\, the 2017 Indies Book of the Year for Literary Fiction. Her work has been published in many journals and anthologies\, including Permafrost\, Joyland\, and the Los Angeles Review. Most recently\, her microfiction\, flash fiction\, and hybrid prose have been nominated for Best Small Microfictions and Pushcart Prizes. She is the founder and director of WTAW Press\, a nonprofit publisher of literary books\, and of Why There Are Words\, the national literary reading series. She is a member of the SF Writers Grotto. See more at: www.pegalfordpursell.com \n  \nSophia Shalmiyev is an immigrant from the Soviet Union and the author of Mother Winter (2019\, S&S)\, which Kirkus Reviews describes as “a rich tapestry of autobiography and meditations on feminism\, motherhood\, art\, and culture\, this book is as intellectually satisfying as it is artistically profound. A sharply intelligent\, lyrically provocative memoir.” Shalmiyev has an MFA from Portland State University and a second master’s degree in creative arts therapy from the School of Visual Arts. She lives in Portland with her two children. Her latest work can be found at Lit Hub and Guernica. \n  \nPresented with support from the Humanities Institute’s Body\, (Anti)Narrative\, and Corporeal Creative Practices Research Cluster
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-sophia-shalmiyev/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191122T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191122T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T174130
CREATED:20190911T180217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190920T183205Z
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SUMMARY:Discussion with Peg Alford Pursell and Sophia Shalmiyev
DESCRIPTION:Join us to discuss excerpts from Mother Winter\, a memoir by Sophia Shalmiyev and A Girl Goes Into The Forest\, a collection of short stories by Peg Alford Pursell. Please email Micah Perks at (meperks@ucsc.edu) for the readings and to RSVP for the discussion. \nPeg Alford Pursell is the author of A Girl Goes Into the Forest\, (Dzanc Books\, July 2019)\, and of Show Her A Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow\, the 2017 Indies Book of the Year for Literary Fiction. Her work has been published in many journals and anthologies\, including Permafrost\, Joyland\, and the Los Angeles Review. Most recently\, her microfiction\, flash fiction\, and hybrid prose have been nominated for Best Small Microfictions and Pushcart Prizes. She is the founder and director of WTAW Press\, a nonprofit publisher of literary books\, and of Why There Are Words\, the national literary reading series. She is a member of the SF Writers Grotto. See more at: www.pegalfordpursell.com \nSophia Shalmiyev is an immigrant from the Soviet Union and the author of Mother Winter (2019\, S&S)\, which Kirkus Reviews describes as “a rich tapestry of autobiography and meditations on feminism\, motherhood\, art\, and culture\, this book is as intellectually satisfying as it is artistically profound. A sharply intelligent\, lyrically provocative memoir.” Shalmiyev has an MFA from Portland State University and a second master’s degree in creative arts therapy from the School of Visual Arts. She lives in Portland with her two children. Her latest work can be found at Lit Hub and Guernica.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/discussion-with-sophia-shalmiyev/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191122T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191122T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T174130
CREATED:20191115T212429Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191115T212429Z
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SUMMARY:Stephen Roddy: Testing Allegiances - Ueda Akinari's Rewriting of an Exemplary Chinese Friendship
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines the transcultural implications of Ueda Akinari’s (1734-1809) short story “The Chrysanthemum Pledge” (Kikka no chigiri)\, a masterpiece considered to have overshadowed the 17th-century Chinese tale of exemplary friendship on which it is closely modeled. Despite the Confucian tenor of both the Chinese and the Japanese versions\, I argue that Akinari subtly but unmistakably undermines the moral rectitude of the protagonists recounted in his tale. By reading this and other examples of Akinari’s fiction in juxtaposition with the author’s extensive oeuvre of wagaku and other scholarship\, we can more fully appreciate his nuanced position as both connoisseur and skeptic toward cultural products emanating from the Western Lands (which for him mostly meant China and India). \nStephen Roddy is a professor of Modern and Classical Languages\, received his PhD in East Asian Studies from Princeton University\, and specializes in the fiction and other prose genres of 18th and 19th century China and Japan. His current interests focus on the influences of Chinese fiction on late-Tokugawa writers\, and of Meiji-period thinkers on essayists of the late-Qing. He teaches courses in Japanese and Chinese literature\, culture\, and language. \nFor further information\, Contact Minghui Hu (mhu@ucsc.edu)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stephen-roddy-testing-allegiances-ueda-akinaris-rewriting-of-an-exemplary-chinese-friendship/
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:20191125T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191125T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T174130
CREATED:20191115T214541Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191115T214541Z
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SUMMARY:Eugene Park: A Genealogy of Dissent - The Progeny of Fallen Royals in Chosŏn Korea
DESCRIPTION:This lecture makes observations on politics\, society\, and culture of Korea since 1392 through a story of human interest. Decades after a bloody persecution that virtually exterminated the royal Wangs of the vanquished Koryŏ dynasty (918-1392)\, the succeeding Chosŏn dynasty (1392-1910) rehabilitated the lucky survivors. Contrary to a popular assumption that the Wangs remained politically marginalized\, many fared well. The most privileged among them won the patronage of the court\, for which they performed ancestral rites in honor of Koryŏ monarchs; passed government service examinations; attained prestigious offices; commanded armies\, and constituted local elite lineages. As members of a revived aristocratic descent group\, the Wangs remained committed to a confucian moral universe\, at the heart of which was a subject’s loyalty to the ruler — of course\, the Chosŏn. At the time\, an emerging body of subversive narrative\, both written and oral\, articulated sympathy toward the Wangs as victims of the tumultuous politics of Koryŏ-Chosŏn dynastic change\, although the Wangs wisely steered clear of such a discourse until after Japan’s annexation of Korea in 1910. Such forces of modernity as colonialism\, urbanization\, industrialization\, the Cold War\, and globalization have transformed the Wangs as members of a distinct descent group to individuals from all walks of life. \nJoin the East Asian Colloquium in the third talk of their ongoing lecture series!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/eugene-park-a-genealogy-of-dissent-the-progeny-of-fallen-royals-in-choson-korea/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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