BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20130310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20131103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20140309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20141102T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130304T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130304T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130304T232940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130304T232940Z UID:10004801-1362384000-1362416400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The People’s Pacific: Trans-Pacific Solidarity and Alliances in the Age of Obama’s Pivot DESCRIPTION:In his landmark essay\, “The American Century” (1941)\, in which he argued against the foolishness of “isolationist sterility” given the rise of the United States as “the most powerful and most vital nation in the world\,” Henry Luce\, the China-born son of American missionaries\, predicted that “in the decades to come\,” Asia would “be worth to us four\, five\, ten billions of dollars a year.” In order to harness precisely this potential\, Luce advised\, ”we have to decide whether or not we shall have for ourselves and our friends freedom of the seas—the right to go with our ships and our ocean-going airplanes where we wish\, when we wish\, and as we wish.” Echoes of Luce’s hegemonic blueprint for U.S. twentieth-century power projection in Asia would reverberate—several decades later—in then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s October 2011 policy plan\, “America’s Pacific Century\,” which identified the Asia-Pacific region as the most critical sphere of twenty-first century U.S. influence. Addressing a war-weary American public\, Clinton pledged that the United States would remain a key “Pacific power.” Not only would the United States refuse to draw down its military commitments in Asia and the Pacific but also it would “pivot” (from the Middle East) and concentrate its military resources in the region. \nAgainst hegemonic U.S. designs that map the region as an “empire of bases” (Chalmers Johnson) aimed at containing China\, this year’s Pacific Seminar undertakes as its focus critical contemporary counter-imaginaries that chart the power of the region from below—as a “people’s Pacific” (Walden Bello)\, a “sea of islands” (Epeli Hau’ofa)\, and an oceanic commons. Focusing on the urgency of trans-Pacific solidarity and alliances between and among site-specific struggles\, the Pacific Seminar this year brings together three public intellectuals and activist-scholars who will present on their work and with whom we will engage in collective conversation: Kuan-Hsing Chen (National Chiao Tung University)\, the founder of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies and the driving force behind the Modern Asian Thought project; Keith Camacho (UCLA)\, a Chamorro scholar from the Marianas Islands and a key theorist of U.S. militarism in the Pacific; and Koohan Paik (International Forum Group)\, a grassroots anti-base activist and a founder of Moana Nui whose political work has focused on Hawai’i\, Guam\, and Korea. \n\n \nAs in past years\, this year’s Pacific Seminar will be run as a workshop and the following readings will be circulated in advance: \n\n• Kuan-Hsing Chen\, “De-Imperialization: Club 51 and the Imperialist Assumption of Democracy” (2010) \n• Keith Camacho\, “After 9/11: Militarized Borders and Social Movements in the Mariana Islands” (2012) \n• Koohan Paik and Jerry Mander\, “Blowback in the Pacific” (2012) \n• Walden Bello\, “From American Lake to a People’s Pacific in the Twenty-First Century” (2010)\n\nPlease contact Christine Hong (cjhong@ucsc.edu) for readings and with any questions. This event is sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research (UC Santa Cruz) and the Townsend Working Group on Asian Cultural Studies (UC Berkeley). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-peoples-pacific-trans-pacific-solidarity-and-alliances-in-the-age-of-obamas-pivot-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130304T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130304T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130201T001831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130201T001831Z UID:10005350-1362412800-1362420000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:American Indian Writers Series: Kim Shuck DESCRIPTION:Kim Shuck (Cherokee/Sac & Fox) is a poet\, weaver\, educator\, doer of piles of laundry\, planter of seeds\, traveler and child wrangler. Kim is the recipient of the Native Writers of the America’s First Book Award for her 2005 book Smuggling Cherokee. She has an MFA in weaving from SFSU\, and was a member of the board of directors for Califorinia Poets in the Schools. \nThis project is co-sponsored by the American Indian Resource Center\, Care Council\, The Departments of American Studies\, Literature\, and the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/american-indian-writers-series-kim-shuck-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130305T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130305T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130222T171645Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130222T171645Z UID:10005384-1362499200-1362504600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:C.D.C. Reeve: Beginning and Ending with Happiness in Aristotle's Ethics DESCRIPTION:C.D.C. Reeve is the Delta Kappa Epsilon Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He works primarily in ancient Greek philosophy\, especially Plato and Aristotle. His books include\, Philosopher-Kings (Princeton 1988; reissued 2006)\, Socrates in the Apology (Hackett 1989)\, Practices of Reason(Oxford\, 1992) Substantial Knowledge (Hackett 2000)\, Love’s Confusions (Harvard 2005)\, andAction\, Contemplation\, and Happiness: An Essay on Aristotle (Harvard 2012). He has translated Plato’s Cratylus (1997)\, Euthyphro\, Apology\, Crito (2002)\, Republic (2004)\, and Meno (2006) as well as Aristotle’s Politics (1998). \nThis event is free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/c-d-c-reeve-beginning-and-ending-with-happiness-in-aristotles-ethics-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130306T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130306T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20121113T233848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T233848Z UID:10005245-1362572100-1362578400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Celine Parreñas Shimizu: "Straitjacket Sexualities: Mapping Asian American Manhoods" DESCRIPTION:Going beyond the assessment that Asian American men in the movies embody asexuality/effeminacy/queerness\, or a manhood that falls short of the norms\, Celine Shimizu’s Straitjacket Sexualities (Stanford\, 2012)\, explores how Asian/American men in US film history sought to formulate masculinities in\, through\, and beyond constricting notions of their identities. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-celine-parrenas-shimizu-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130307T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130307T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130201T182046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130201T182046Z UID:10005351-1362679200-1362684600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: Student Reading DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our quarterly student reading. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-reading-series-student-reading-2-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130307T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130307T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130213T010535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130213T010535Z UID:10005367-1362682800-1362688200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Karen D. Thompson: "Love is a Dangerous Promise DESCRIPTION:Karen Thompson gained national recognition following the November 13\, 1983 car accident of her partner Sharon Kowalski\, who sustained a traumatic brain injury after a drunk driver hit her car. After the accident\, Sharon’s biological family refused to acknowledge or accept Sharon’s relationship with Karen and kept them apart for more than 3 1/2 years. After an 8-year battle\, Karen was awarded legal custody of Sharon. \nKaren now speaks across the country to raise awareness for human rights issues\, including the legal protection of LGBTQIA relationships. \nUCSC presents Karen Thompson in a lecture titled “Love is a Dangerous Promise” on Thursday\, March 7\, at  7 p.m.\, in the Second Stage Theater in the Performing Arts Center on the UCSC campus. Admission is free\, and the public is invited. Free tickets to the lecture are available at santacruztickets.com. For more information\, call (831) 459-2698. \nThis event is sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Humanities Division\, the UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department\, the Women Lawyers of Santa Cruz County\, the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, and UCSC’s Cantu Center. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-d-thompson-love-is-a-dangerous-promise-2/ LOCATION:2nd Stage\, Theater Arts\, Performing Arts\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130308T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130308T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130206T175114Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130206T175114Z UID:10005355-1362733200-1362763800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Critical Nutrition Symposium DESCRIPTION:Advice about what to eat for health and well being is pervasive in the modern world\, and such advice is delivered as if it were uncontroversial\, universally applicable\, welcome\, and effective. When it appears not to work\, rather than reflection on the scientific\, cultural\, and sociological underpinnings of the endeavor\, the response has been for more informative food labels and more emphasis on food education. What’s wrong or missing in conventional nutritional practice? What are its effects in terms of human health and social justice? What other approaches might work better? This symposium will bring together six leading scholars of nutrition\, public health\, and food science to discuss and debate the place of nutrition science in public health policies and cultural politics today. Representing such disciplines as geography\, public health\, sociology\, and communication\, invited guests include Charlotte Biltekoff (American Studies and Food Science\, UC Davis)\, Jessica Hayes-Conroy (Women’s Studies\, Hobart and William Smith Colleges)\, Adele Hite (Public Health\, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)\, Aya H. Kimura (Women’s Studies\, University of Hawai’i-Manoa)\, Hannah Landecker (Sociology and Center for Society and Genetics\, UCLA)\, and Jessica Mudry (Center for Engineering in Society\, Concordia University). UCSC food scholars Julie Guthman\, Melissa Caldwell\, Nancy Chen\, and Jake Metcalf will provide commentary. The format of the symposium is designed to open up and stimulate discussion and debate among all participants: presenters\, discussants\, and attendees. \nThis event is sponsored by the Multi-campus Research Program on Food and the Body and the “Knowing Food” Research Cluster of the Center for Global\, International\, and Regional Studies. Additional support has been provided by the Community Studies Program\, the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems\, the Science & Justice Research Center\, the Departments of Anthropology\, Environmental Studies\, and Sociology. \nThe event will be held March 8 from 9-5:30 in 261 Social Sciences I and is open to the public. Please RSVP to Lisa Nishioka (global@ucsc.edu) if you plan to attend. \nFor questions regarding the program contact Julie Guthman (jguthman@ucsc.edu) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/critical-nutrition-symposium-2/ LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130308T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130308T104000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130123T181003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130123T181003Z UID:10005330-1362735000-1362739200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:James Young: “Stages of Memory: In Berlin & New York” DESCRIPTION:Reception following lecture. \nJames E. Young is Professor of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst\, where he has taught since 1988\, and currently Chair of the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies. He has also taught at New York University as a Dorot Professor of English and Hebrew/Judaic Studies (1984-88)\, at Bryn Mawr College in the History of Religion\, and at the University of Washington\, Harvard University\, and Princeton University as a visiting professor. He received his B.A. in 1973 from the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, his M.A. in 1976 from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and his Ph.D. from the University of California in 1983. \nProfessor Young is the author of At Memory’s Edge: After-images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture (Yale University Press\, 2000)\, The Texture of Memory (Yale University Press\, 1993)\, which won the National Jewish Book Award in 1994\, and Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust (Indiana University Press\, 1988)\, which won a Choice Outstanding Book Award for 1988. He was also the Guest Curator of an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York City\, entitled “The Art of Memory: Holocaust Memorials in History” (March – August 1994\, with venues in Berlin and Munich\, September 1994 – June 1995) and was the editor of The Art of Memory (Prestel Verlag\, 1994)\, the exhibition catalogue for this show. \nIn 1997\, Professor Young was appointed by the Berlin Senate to the five-member Findungskommission for Germany’s national “Memorial to Europe’s Murdered Jews\,” dedicated in 2005. He has also consulted with Argentina’s government on its memorial to the desaparacidos\, as well as with numerous city agencies on their memorials and museums. Most recently\, he was appointed by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to the jury for the World Trade Center Site Memorial competition\, now under construction. \nHis articles and reviews have appeared in Critical Inquiry\, Representations\, New Literary History\, Partisan Review\, The Yale Journal of Criticism\, Annales\, SAQ\, History and Theory\, Harvard Design Magazine\, Jewish Social Studies\, Contemporary Literature\, History and Memory\, The Chronicle of Higher Education\, The Forward\, Holocaust and Genocide Studies\, Prooftexts\, The Jewish Quarterly\, Tikkun\, The New York Times Magazine and Book Review\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Chicago Tribune\, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung\, and Slate\, among dozens of other journals and collected volumes. His books and articles have been published in German\, French\, Hebrew\, Japanese\, and Swedish. \nProfessor Young is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships\, including a Guggenheim Fellowship\, ACLS Fellowship\, NEH Exhibition planning\, implementation\, and research grants\, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Grants\, an American Philosophical Society Grant\, and a Yad Hanadiv Fellowship at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem\, among others. \nIn 2000\, he was appointed as Editor-in-Chief of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization\, a ten-volume anthology of primary sources\, documents\, texts\, and images\, forthcoming with Yale University Press. He is also currently completing an insider’s account of the World Trade Center Memorial process\, entitled The Stages of Memory at Ground Zero: A Juror’s Report on the World Trade Center Memorial Process. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/james-young-stages-of-memory-in-berlin-new-york-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130308T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130308T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130221T010157Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130221T010157Z UID:10005382-1362754800-1362758400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Åse Vigdis Ystad: "Ibsen as Playwright: Between Dramaturgy and Ethics" DESCRIPTION:Special guest Dr. Åse Vigdis Ystad gives a talk as part of this year’s Arts Divison Lecture Series\, ”Engaging the Mind”\, presenting work obtained through a lifetime of research on Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (Peer Gynt\, A Doll’s House\, Hedda Gabler). \nDr. Ystad is visiting UC Santa Cruz as part of The Gynt Project and the associated conference “Peer Gynt in a Digital Age.” Her visit is sponsored by UCSC’s Cowell College and the Gary D. Licker Memorial Chair. \nThe lecture: From the start of his writing career\, Ibsen focuses on the human personality as his main theme\, but his subsequent attempts to represent love\, passion\, quest\, human morality and ethics as central motives in his work result in dramaturgical problems. This difficulty characterizes Ibsen’s plays from 1850–58 and is not overcome until he suffers a combined personal and poetic crisis around 1860. After the crisis\, he stands out as a mature playwright\, creating masterpieces like The Pretenders (1864)\,  Brand (1866)  and Peer Gynt (1867).  The lecture will also examine Ibsen’s great epic poem ”Terje Vigen” (1862) and give short comments on some of his later prose plays. \nDr. Åse Vigdis Ystad is a fixture of Norwegian arts and letters\, and is one of the world’s leading experts on the playwright Henrik Ibsen. Her lifelong service to Norwegian literature and culture earned her Knighthood in the Order of St Olaf by the King of Norway in 2012. After receiving her PhD in Philospohy at the University of Oslo\, she has been a Professor of Scandinavian literature there since 1973. She is an member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters; the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala; the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters\, History and Antiquities; the Norwegian Academy of Language and Literature; the Society of Norwegian Language and Literature; and the Society of Danish Language and Literature. Ystad has presented lectures in Denmark\, Sweden\, Germany\, the Czech Republic\, Italy\, England\, Scotland\, China\, South Korea\, and the United States. \nThis lecture is free and open to the public. \nParking $4. \nVisit the Gynt Conference website for detailed information on conference and speakers. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ase-vigdis-ystad-ibsen-as-playwright-between-dramaturgy-and-ethics-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130309T081500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130309T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130307T185817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130307T185817Z UID:10004803-1362816900-1362857400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC) DESCRIPTION:Every year towards the end of the Winter Quarter\, the Linguistics at Santa Cruz conference showcases the research of second and third year graduate students. This conference coincides with a visit to campus of prospective graduate students\, and it always features as an invited speaker a Ph.D. alum of the department. This year’s invited speaker is Andy Wedel of the University of Arizona. \nLinguistics at Santa Cruz Program URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-at-santa-cruz-lasc-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130309T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130309T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130221T212858Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130221T212858Z UID:10005383-1362825000-1362848400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:“Peer Gynt in a Digital Age” Conference DESCRIPTION:This international conference brings together scholars\, designers\, and dramaturgs from Norway\, Tel Aviv\, Seattle\, and California for the second weekend of the performance. The event is held with the support of the Norwegian Consulate\, UCSC\, and the Norway House Foundation. \nSpeakers will discuss staging and design histories\, what it’s like to perform Ibsen\, and the international relevance of Ibsen’s most globally-produced work. \nThe “Peer Gynt in a Digital Age” conference will include Brian Johnston\, translator and Professor (retired) Carnegie Mellon University; Sverre Mørkhagen\, Norwegian author and Peer Gynt scholar; Sarah Bryant Bertail\, Associate Professor Emerita\, University of Washington; Freddie Rokem\, Emanuel Herzikowitz Professor of Theatre Studies\, Tel Aviv University; Michael Chemers\, Associate Professor of Theater Arts\, UCSC. \nThe afternoon portion of the conference will include Kimberly Jannarone\, Professor of Theater Arts\, UCSC; Brandin Barón-Nusbaum\, Associate Professor of Theater Arts\, UCSC; Danny Scheie\, Professor of Theater Arts\, UCSC and Nancy Carlin\, Guest Artist; Ben Carson\, Associate Professor of Music\, UCSC; Jessica Hayden Molla and Chris Molla\, soundscape artists and UCSC DANM MFA alumni. \nVisit the Gynt Conference website for detailed information on conference and speakers. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/peer-gynt-in-a-digital-age-conference-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130314T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130314T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130306T214250Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130306T214250Z UID:10004802-1363276800-1363282200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Daniel Guevara: "Has Traditional Ethical Theory Been Made Defunct by Kahneman and Tversky's Prospect Theory?" DESCRIPTION:Work-in-Progress: Daniel Guevara\, Associate Professor of Philosophy\, UC Santa Cruz \nThis talk is based on a paper by Sandra Dreisbach (PhD\, Philosophy\, UC Santa Cruz 2012) and Daniel Guevara. It is a critical assessment of Kahneman and Tversky’s Nobel Prize winning Prospect Theory – especially their so-called Asian Disease Problem – and its bearing on certain important issues in traditional ethical theory. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/daniel-guevara-has-traditional-ethical-theory-been-made-defunct-by-kahneman-and-tverskys-prospect-theory-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130314T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130314T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20121214T202332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121214T202332Z UID:10005276-1363284000-1363284000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Living Writers Reading Series: Xochiquetzal Candelaria DESCRIPTION:Xochiquetzal Candelaria is the author of Empire (University of Arizona Press\, 2011). Her work has appeared in The Nation\, New England Review\, Gulf Coast\, Seneca Review and other magazines. Her essay\, “On the Teaching of Phil Levine” will be published in Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine (University of Iowa Press\, May 2013). Ms. Candelaria was recently awarded an individual literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-reading-series-xochiquetzal-candelaria-2/ LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130321T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130321T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130225T193426Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130225T193426Z UID:10004797-1363892400-1363899600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Book Reading and Conversation with Saru Jayaraman: Behind the Kitchen Door DESCRIPTION:Behind the Kitchen DoorHow do restaurant workers live on some of the lowest wages in America? And how do poor working conditions—discriminatory labor practices\, exploitation\, and unsanitary kitchens— affect the meals that arrive at our restaurant tables? Saru Jayaraman\, who launched the national restaurant workers’ organization\, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United\, sets out to answer these questions by following the lives of restaurant workers in New York City\, Washington\, D.C.\, Philadelphia\, Chicago\, Los Angeles\, Houston\, Miami\, Detroit\, and New Orleans. \nBlending personal narrative and investigative journalism\, Jayaraman shows us that the quality of the food that arrives at our restaurant tables depends not only on the sourcing of the ingredients. Our meals benefit from the attention and skill of the people who chop\, grill\, sauté\, and serve. Behind the Kitchen Door is a groundbreaking exploration of the political\, economic\, and moral implications of dining out. Jayaraman focuses on the stories of individuals\, like Daniel\, who grew up on a farm in Ecuador and sought to improve the conditions for employees at Del Posto; the treatment of workers behind the scenes belied the high-toned Slow Food ethic on display in the front of the house. \nIncreasingly\, Americans are choosing to dine at restaurants that offer organic\, fair-trade\, and free-range ingredients for reasons of both health and ethics. Yet few of these diners are aware of the working conditions at the restaurants themselves. But whether you eat haute cuisine or fast food\, the well-being of restaurant workers is a pressing concern\, affecting our health and safety\, local economies\, and the life of our communities. Highlighting the roles of the 10 million people\, many immigrants\, many people of color\, who bring their passion\, tenacity\, and vision to the American dining experience\, Jayaraman sets out a bold agenda to raise the living standards of the nation’s second-largest private sector workforce—and ensure that dining out is a positive experience on both sides of the kitchen door. \nSaru JayaramanSaru Jayaraman is cofounder and codirector of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United and director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California\, Berkeley. \nFor more information\, please contact smckay@ucsc.edu. \nThis event is co-sponsored by CASFS (Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems)\, UCSC Center for Labor Studies\, Slow Food\, and ROC (Restaurants Opportunities Centers). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-reading-and-conversation-with-saru-jayaraman-behind-the-kitchen-door-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130329 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130331 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20121113T234344Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T234344Z UID:10005247-1364515200-1364687999@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"(Re-)Building Punjab: Political Economy\, Society and Values" Conference DESCRIPTION:Punjab is a state in the nation of India\, but also a state of mind. The larger geographic region of Punjab was the birthplace of the Sikh religion. The Indian state of Punjab\, within that larger region\, is the homeland of the Sikhs\, the nation’s granary\, and a major recipient of diaspora remittances. But within an economically resurgent India\, Punjab is in relative decline\, apparently beset by societal and environmental problems. This multi- and inter-disciplinary conference will explore the complex relations between the Sikh community and its real and imagined homeland. Individual sessions will be on the historical roots of Punjab’s contemporary society\, the state of its politics and political culture\, possibilities of economic improvement\, challenges of environmental degradation\, the role of diaspora philanthropy\, and ways in which Punjab’s situation is expressed in and shaped by music and film as forms of cultural production. \n\n  \nThe conference and dinner are free and open to the public. Conference sessions will take place in the Humanities Building 1\, Room 210 each day.\nDinner space is limited and attendees should register by March 20th\, by emailing Courtney Mahaney.[button link=”mailto:cmahaney@ucsc.edu” color=”orange”]Register Now![/button]   [button link=”http://ihr.ucsc.edu/?p=13631″ color=”orange”]Conference Details[/button]\n\n  \nFriday\, March 29\n8:15-8:45 AM – Breakfast \n8:45-9:00 AM – Welcome \n9:00-10:30 AM – Session 1: Sikh Values and Punjab Society in Historical Perspective\nPresenter: Prof. Pashaura Singh\, Religious Studies\, UC Riverside\nDiscussant: Dr. Harpreet Singh\, South Asian Studies\, Harvard University\nSession Chair: Prof. Nathaniel Deutsch\, History\, UC Santa Cruz \n10:30-10:45 AM – Break \n10:45 AM – 12:15 PM – Session 2: A Case Study of Sikh Diaspora Philanthropy in Punjab\nPresenter: Prof. Verne A. Dusenbery\, Anthropology\, Hamline University\nDiscussant: Prof. Supreet Kaur\, Economics\, Columbia University\nSession Chair: Prof. James Clifford\, History of Consciousness\, UC Santa Cruz \n12:15-1:45 PM – Lunch \n1:45-3:15 PM – Session 3: Punjab Politics and Society\nPresenter: Prof. Pritam Singh\, Accounting\, Finance and Economics\, Oxford Brookes University\nDiscussant: Prof. Jugdep S. Chima\, Political Science\, Hiram College\nSession Chair: Prof. Ronnie D. Lipschutz\, Politics\, UC Santa Cruz \n3:15-3:30 PM – Break \n3:30-5:00 PM – Session 4: The Punjab Economy: Problems and Prospects\nPresenter: Prof. Lakhwinder Singh\, Economics\, Punjabi University\nDiscussant: Prof. Nirvikar Singh\, Economics\, UC Santa Cruz\nSession Chair: Prof. Helen Shapiro\, Sociology\, UC Santa Cruz \n6:30-9:00 PM – Dinner & Lecture: Reflections on the Columbia/UC Santa Barbara Punjab Summer Program\nPresenter: Prof. Gurinder Mann\, Religious Studies\, UC Santa Barbara \nSaturday\, March 30\n8:30-9:00 AM – Breakfast \n9:00-10:30 AM – Session 5: Groundwater in Punjab: Environmental Challenges\nPresenter: Prof. Rajinder Singh Sidhu\, Punjab Agricultural University\nDiscussant: Prof. Upmanu Lall\, Engineering\, Columbia University\nSession Chair: Prof. Ben Crow\, Sociology\, UC Santa Cruz \n10:30-10:45 AM – Break \n10:45 AM – 12:15 PM – Session 6: Punjab’s Ethical Soundscapes: From Asa ki Var to Dhadi Var and Hip Hop\nPresenter: Dr. Inderjit Kaur\, Music\, UC Santa Cruz\nDiscussion and demonstration: Mr. Mandeep S. Sethi\, Rapper\nSession Chair: Prof. Linda Burman-Hall\, Music\, UC Santa Cruz \n12:15-2:30 PM – Session 7: Lunch Panel: Punjab’s Future – What’s to be Done?\nPanelist: Dr. Narinder Kapany\, Sikh Foundation\nPanelist: Dr. Ajit Singh\, Artiman Ventures and Stanford University\nPanelist: Mr. Michael Singh\, Filmmaker\nPanel Chair: Dr. Inder Mohan Singh\, LynuxWorks and Chardi Kalaa Foundation\nSponsored by the UCSC Punjab Studies Endowment and Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sikh-punjabi-studies-rebuilding-punjab-conference-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130404T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130404T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130404T154834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130404T154834Z UID:10005391-1365076800-1365084000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:A Feminist Studies Legal Luncheon: Practicing Domestic Violence Law DESCRIPTION:The Department of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz Presents: \nA Feminist Studies Legal Luncheon\nPRACTICING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LAW \nFeaturing distinguished UC Santa Cruz Women’s Studies Alumna\nNANCY K.D. LEMON (Berkeley Law\, Boalt School of Law) \nWith an introduction by\nProf. D. Kelly Weisberg\, Hastings College of Law \nNancy Lemon was a student founder of UCSC’s Women’s Studies Program and graduated from the Program in 1975. She subsequently graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law\, U.C. Berkeley\, in June 1980 and was admitted to the California Bar in December 1980. Prof. Lemon\, who is a Lecturer in Domestic Violence Law and Director of the Domestic Violence Practicum at Boalt\, introduced and has now taught Domestic Violence Law continuously for 25 years at the school. She authored Domestic Violence Law\, the first U.S. textbook on this topic\, which Austin & Winfield Publishers published in 1996 and for which West Group has published four additional editions\, the most recent in 2009. She has also co-authored Child Custody and Domestic Violence: A Call for Safety (Sage Publications\, 2003) and Working Together to End Domestic Violence (Mancorp Publishing\, 1996) as well as authoring dozens of amicus briefs\, law review articles\, affidavits and books chapters about domestic violence issues. Since 1983\, she has worked on numerous pieces of California state legislation and has conducted hundreds of trainings on domestic violence topics for many different professional groups. Since 1995\, working as an expert witness\, Prof. Lemon has consulted on hundreds of family law\, tort\, asylum and other cases and testified in sixty. She is a Co-founder and Legal Director of the Berkeley Family Violence Appellate Project. \nSeating is limited – please email fmst@ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-2461 to reserve a space at the luncheon. \nFeminist Studies wishes to make this event accessible to all. Please contact (831) 459-2461 for accommodations. This event is free and open to the public\, but reservations are required. \nGenerously sponsored by Cowell College\, The Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, and the Department of Feminist Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-feminist-studies-legal-luncheon-practicing-domestic-violence-law-2/ LOCATION:Unnamed Venue END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130404T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130404T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20121220T232621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121220T232621Z UID:10005280-1365098400-1365104700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Living Writers Reading Series: Tupelo Hassman DESCRIPTION:Tupelo Hassman\, author of the novel Girlchild (FSG 2012) “It takes real talent to make something beautiful out of a trailer park. Girlchild\, Tupelo Hassman’s lacerating debut novel\, is the story of Rory Dawn Hendrix\, a young girl growing up in the Calle\, a cluster of mobile homes on a plot of dust outside Reno\, Nev. Ms. Hassman is such a poised storyteller that her prose practically struts. Her words are as elegant as they are fierce.” –The New York Times URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-reading-series-tupelo-hassman-2/ LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130409T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130409T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130109T213852Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130109T213852Z UID:10004762-1365523200-1365528600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Bruce Lawrence: "Minor Matters - Asian/African\, Muslim/Christian" DESCRIPTION:How do Muslims and Christians together meet the challenge of majority-minority identity politics in the 21st century? I will assess the status of minority citizenship in places of Africa and Asia that have mixed communities where Muslims are the majority\, Christians the minority. Though these communities might be religiously marked as Muslim and Christian\, they also have other cultural\, linguistic\, ethnic\, and locational markings that are consequential. More than minority identity\, I will argue that the litmus test for good will\, comity and collective benefit in each case is citizenship rights as well as access to public space. How are these rights negotiated and maintained\, monitored and modified in diverse settings with disparate resources? I will pay special attention to the circumstances and options for Copts in Egypt\, Kristens and Katolics in Indonesia\, while at the same time linking them to other communities in both Africa and Asia where a similar Muslim-Christian proportionality prevails. \nBruce Lawrence earned his PhD. from Yale University in the History of Religions: Islam and Hinduism. His research ranges from institutional Islam to Indo-Persian Sufism and also encompasses the comparative study of religious movements. He is Professor Emeritus of Islamic Studies at Duke University. His recent books have included On Violence – A Reader (with Aisha Karim); Messages to the World\, The Statements of Osama Bin Laden; The Quran\, A Biography; and\, with his spouse\, Dr. Miriam Cooke\, Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop. \nCosponsored by UCSC Departments of Anthropology\, History\, and Literature. \nMORNING WORKSHOP – 10:00am to Noon – Humanities 1\, Room 210 \nProfessor Lawrence will also be doing a workshop on Tuesday morning which will revolve around  Irfan Ahmad’s article\, “Immanent Critique and Islam: Anthropological Reflections” and Lawrence’s attempt to apply Ahmad’s most salient lessons to his current work-in-progress\, Who is Allah?  \nDownload the articles here:  Irfan Ahmad’s Immanent Critique and Who is Allah (work in progress) \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/religious-and-secular-entanglements-lecture-with-bruce-lawrence-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130410T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130410T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130109T210703Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130109T210703Z UID:10004757-1365596100-1365602400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - Kimberly Lau: "Camping Masculinity" DESCRIPTION:Kimberly Lau’s work explores some of the ways that World of Warcraft engages masculinity in play through the convergence of player practices\, game designers\, and the ongoing interaction between the two.  Reading invocations of hypermasculinity\, Lau investigates how everyday “camp” practices might open up alternative spaces and forms of masculine sociality. \nKimberly Lau is Professor of Literature at UCSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-9/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130410T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130410T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130409T190757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130409T190757Z UID:10005395-1365611400-1365616800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Stevenson College Faculty Lecture Series: Adrian Brasoveanu DESCRIPTION:NEGATION IS A PERVASIVE FEATURE of natural language and for the most part\, the linguistic and psycholinguistic literature takes it to be a categorical\, binary notion: the sentence “Sue left” is positive\, while the sentence “Sue didn’t leave” is negative because of the sentential negation “didn’t.” \nAt the same time\, sentences like “Anna answered none of/few of my letters” have been taken to involve some form of negativity despite the fact that they do not contain sentential negations–-but their negativity has not been explicitly quantified. \nThe first part of the talk presents a new test for detecting and quantifying the negativity of a sentence based on the observation that negative sentences license the particle “no” in agreeing responses\, e.g.\, (1) below\, while positive sentences do not license “no” in agreeing responses\, indicated by the star in (2) below. \n(1)\nA: Anna didn’t answer my letter.\nB: No\, she didn’t.\n\n(2)\nA: Anna answered\nB: *No\, she did. \nAfter providing experimental evidence that backs up this novel test\, the talk discusses an experiment that uses the test to quantify the negativity of sentences like “Anna answered none of/few of my letters.” The results support the view that sentence negativity is a matter of degree and it is influenced by interacting semantic and syntactic factors. \n\n  \nDinner Reception follows at the Stevenson Provost House \nAdrian Brasoveanu is Associate Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz. \nCosponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research and the Department of Linguistics. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stevenson-college-faculty-lecture-series-adrian-brasoveanu-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130411T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130411T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20121220T232815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121220T232815Z UID:10005282-1365703200-1365709500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Living Writers Reading Series: Justin Torres DESCRIPTION:Justin Torres\, author of We The Animals\, was a finalist for the 2012 Indies Choice Book Awards\, winner of a National Book Award for 5 under 35\, and named one of Salon’s “Sexiest Men of 2011.” His work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Granta\, Tin House\, Glimmer Train\, and other publications. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he is a recipient of the Rolón United States Artist Fellowship in Literature\, and is now a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Vanity Fair writes that We The Animals is “A gorgeous\, howling coming-of-age novel that will devour your heart.” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-reading-series-justin-torres-2/ LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130412T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130412T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130405T175057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130405T175057Z UID:10005393-1365782400-1365789600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Simon Goldhill: "First Words\, Dying Moments: Starting and Ending in Sophocles and Euipides" DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Classical Studies Program and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present the annual Carl Deppe Lecture \nHow does tragedy start and stop –\nand what does it tell us about the ends of man? \nSimon Goldhill is Professor of Greek at Cambridge where he also runs the university’s interdisciplinary research center. He has lectured all over the world and appeared on TV and radio and in the theatre in America\, Australia\, Canada as well as regularly in Britain and Europe. His is a leading expert on Greek tragedy and Greek culture. \nFor more information\, please contact jklynn@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/simon-goldhill-first-words-dying-moments-starting-and-ending-in-sophocles-and-euipides-2/ LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130416T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130416T154500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130226T223835Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130226T223835Z UID:10004800-1366120800-1366127100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Adriana M. Brodsky: "Becoming Jewish-Argentines: Marriage choice\, and the construction of a Jewish Argentine Identity (1920-1960)" DESCRIPTION:The presentation explores the marriage patterns of the Sephardi Jewish communities\, paying special attention to when Sephardim began marrying Ashkenazi Jews\, thereby giving birth to a new type of Jewish identity\, neither fully Ashkenazi nor fully Sephardi\, but Argentine. Although initially Sephardim respected the boundaries of their communities of origin\, and usually married ‘within’\, as the twentieth century progressed and new spaces for interaction of Jews from different origins became available choosing a marriage partner outside of the ‘group’ became more common. The presentation will suggest that loyalties to communities of origin slowly evolved into a stronger sense of belonging to the Argentine nation. \nAdriana M. Brodsky\, Associate Professor of Latin American History at St. Mary’s College of Maryland\, obtained her PhD from Duke University in 2004. She is currently finishing a manuscript entitled Becoming Argentine Jews: Sephardim and the Construction of Ethnic and National Identities\, 1880-1960\, which focuses on the Sephardic communities that settled in Argentina from the end of the 19th century to mid-20th century\, and has co-edited with Raanan Rein (Tel Aviv University) a book titled The New Jewish Argentina (Brill\, 2012). She has published on Sephardi schools in Argentina\, and on Jewish Beauty Contests. Her new project explores the experiences of Argentine Sephardi youth in the 1960s-1970s\, which has received support from the Hadassah- Brandeis Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/adriana-brodsky-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130417T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130417T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130109T210845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130109T210845Z UID:10004758-1366200900-1366207200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - Christine Hong: "'War Is the Force That Gives Us Meaning': Militarized Queerness\, Lieutenant Dan Choi\, and Korean War Mascotry" DESCRIPTION:“‘War Is the Force That Gives Us Meaning’: Militarized Queerness\, Lieutenant Dan Choi\, and Korean War Mascotry” \nOffering a historically layered examination of the rights-based battle waged by former Lt. Dan Choi\, son of a war orphan\, against the now-defunct policy of “Don’t Ask\, Don’t Tell\,” this talk inquires into the homology between queer masking in the U.S. military and the Korean War practice of child mascotry. \nChristine Hong is Assistant Professor of Literature at UCSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-2-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130418 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130420 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130109T211754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130109T211754Z UID:10004760-1366243200-1366415999@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Radical Reading Practices\, A Symposium DESCRIPTION:Radical Reading Practices\, A Symposium\, April 18-19\, 2013\nPresented by UCSC’s Poetry and Politics Research Cluster. Sponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund and the UC Humanities Network\, with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \nThis symposium attends to the work that readers perform when reading and reconstructing poetry. We focus on the particular ways poetry makes historically and politically significant demands on readers. We hope to foster a conversation about assumptions that structure the way we approach poetry and the larger aesthetic\, historical and theoretical categories that are implicated by our approach. Is poetry\, for example\, a more radical category than prose? Is there a revolutionary way to read it? Is close reading necessary when reading poetry? Is close reading a more radical mode of engaging with texts than other practices? What might those other practices look like? \nSymposium Schedule:\nThursday\, April 18th\, at the Felix Kulpa Gallery (107 Elm Street\, Santa Cruz) \n5:30-7:00pm An evening of poetry with readings:\nChristopher Nealon\nJoshua Anderson\nEmily Carr\nDavid de La Rocha\nGrace Emilie\nDavid Lau\nEireene Nealand\nRob Wilson\nStephanie Young\nFriday\, April 19th at UC Santa Cruz (Humanities 1\, room 210) \n8:30-9:00am Light Breakfast \n9:00-9:30am Opening remarks\nwith Keegan Finberg and Juliana Leslie \n9:30-10:45am Radical Reading Practices: An Undergraduate Roundtable \nMatthew Strebe\, “‘Boots Shining and Gleaming’: Poetry and State Violence”\nGrace Emilie\, “The Unknown Heart Speaks: Embodied Reading Practices and You”\nAnnie Hill\, “Faust Ubersetzt”\nMichael Moreno\, “Technology and Me: A Look at the Effects of Integrating Technology with Poetry”\nGrace Williams\, “Reproduction through Interpretation: Exploring Critical Reading”\nModerator and respondent: Tim Willcutts \n11:00-12:30pm Panel One: Commons\, Collectivity\, Community: From Ancient to Contemporary\nStephanie Young\, “Precarious Reading”\nEmily Carr\, “A\,B\,C: Reading Cultural Jams in Contemporary Poetry”\nKendra Dority\, “Figuring Letters: A Politics of Comparative Reading in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae”\nModerator and respondent: Christopher Nealon \n12:30-1:30pm Lunch—bring your own or eat on campus restaurants \n1:30-3:00pm Panel Two: Historicizing Revolutionary Reading Practices \nDaniel Benjamin\, “Searching for the Human and Searching for the Ghost in George Oppen’s “Of Being Numerous”\nDavid de la Rocha\, “Nicaraguan Poetry and Reading Revolution”\nDavid Lau\, “Poetry as Superstructure: Comments on Chris Nealon’s The Matter of Capital”\nModerator and respondent: Dion Farquhar \n3:15-4:45pm Panel Three: Models of Reception/Questions of Audience \nWhitney De Vos\, “Artificial Memory & the Fate of Crystallized Intelligence: Reading Poetry as a Means of Retrieval”\nEireene Nealand\, “Why Should We Listen to Criminals?: The Death of the Reader and the Rise of the Trace”\nJoshua Anderson\, “Implications of the Surface: A Critique of Surface Reading”\nModerator and respondent: Chris Chen \n5:00-6:00pm Keynote by Christopher Nealon\, “Poetry without Modernity” \n6:00pm Reception at the Cowell Provost’s House URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetry-and-politics-spring-symposium-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130418 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130420 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130212T183531Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130212T183531Z UID:10005363-1366243200-1366415999@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:25th Anniversary of the UC Humanities Initiative & 2013 Society of Fellows Event DESCRIPTION:Please save the date. Check back for more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/25th-anniversary-of-the-uc-humanities-initiative-2013-society-of-fellows-event-2/ LOCATION:University of California\, Los Angeles\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130418T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130418T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20121220T233712Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121220T233712Z UID:10005288-1366308000-1366314300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Living Writers Reading Series: Patrick DeWitt DESCRIPTION:Patrick DeWitt\, author of The Sisters Brothers\, finalist for the Man Booker Prize\, “If Cormac McCarthy had a sense of humor\, he might have concocted a story like Patrick DeWitt’s bloody\, darkly funny western.” The Los Angeles Times. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-reading-series-patrick-dewitt-2/ LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130424T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130424T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130109T211100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130109T211100Z UID:10004759-1366805700-1366810200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - William Marotti: "Timely and Untimely Politics: Art and Protest in Early 1960s Japan" DESCRIPTION:“Timely and Untimely Politics: Art and Protest in Early 1960s Japan” \nWilliam Marotti explores politics and timeliness by examining the advent of a critical art of the everyday in Japan in the 1960s and its links to political action. Out of sync with eventful mass activism\, artists sought to create eventfulness against a state-promoted\, depoliticized daily life in the high growth economy. \nWilliam Marotti is Associate Professor of History and Chair\, East Asian Studies MA Interdepartmental Program at UCLA. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-3-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130425T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130425T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130401T172835Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130401T172835Z UID:10005385-1366909200-1366918200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Feminist Poetry with Brenda Shaughnessy DESCRIPTION:Reception: 5:00-6:00 PM • Humanities Building 1\, Room 210\nReading: 6:00-7:30 PM • Humanities Lecture Hall \nBrenda Shaughnessy is a prize-winning poet and UCSC alumni (Women’s Studies\, Literature\, 1993) whose latest book of poetry\, Our Andromeda received a rave review in the New York TImes Book Review (February 3\, 2013). Reviewer Victoria Redel wrote\, “This book addresses urgent questions [with] no shortage of invention . . . Shaughnessy conjures our better selves\, lovers\, kinder gods\, sisters . . . Love is the fierce engine of this beautiful and necessary book. Love is the high stakes\, the whip of its power and grief and possibility for repair . . . The result is a book whose song will endure.” We are thrilled to bring Brenda back to UCSC for a reading that is sure to enrich our lives and our world. Now an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers\, University\, Newark\, this public reading inaugurates a series of events that will feature Brenda during UCSC’s Alumni Weekend. \nBrenda Shaughnessy is the author of the poetry collections\, Our Andromeda (2012)\, Human Dark with Sugar (2008)\, which was a finalist for the 2008 NBCC Award\, and Interior with Sudden Joy (1999). Her poems have appeared in Harpers\, McSweeney’s\, The Nation\, The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Slate.com and elsewhere. She is Poetry Editor-At-Large at Tin House Magazine\, and is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers-Newark. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband\, son\, and daughter. \nThe series of events is organized and sponsored by the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and the Feminist Studies Department. Cosponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Living Writers Reading Series. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For further information\, including disabled access\, please contact Shann Ritchie\, sritchie@ucsc.edu\, (831) 459-5655. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-reading-series-brenda-shaughnessy-2/ LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130426T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130426T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130409T224203Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130409T224203Z UID:10005397-1366992000-1366999200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Giovanna Di Chiro: “Embodied Ecologies: Connecting Sustainability and Environmental Justice” DESCRIPTION:Dr. Giovanna Di Chiro’s research bridges academic and community action domains and integrates the fields of environment\, sustainability\, and social justice. She teaches interdisciplinary courses in environmental studies and women’s & gender studies\, and incorporates a community-based\, action research emphasis (currently as the Lang Professor for Issues of Social Change at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania). Di Chiro has published widely on the intersections of race\, class\, gender\, and environmental justice with a focus on activism and policy change addressing environmental health disparities in lower income communities. She collaborates with environmental justice and community development organizations to conduct participatory action research on environmental health concerns and on developing culturally relevant “sustainability” initiatives in diverse communities. \nDi Chiro is co-editor of the volume Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power and is completing a book titled Embodied Ecologies: Science\, Politics\, and Environmental Justice. Embodied Ecologies focuses on what she calls “embodied” or “situated” environmental science and community-based environmental justice activism. The central argument interrogates conventional environmental science and policy approaches\, which tend to concentrate on global\, cosmopolitan\, and macro-level frameworks of organized power: states\, markets\, global institutions\, global environmental sciences\, and international environmental organizations. That selective attention to the macro scale tends to dismiss or simply disregard community/local/situated practices and approaches to environmental science and policy as overly micro level and parochial (i.e.\, not relevant or up to the task of addressing the big environmental problems of the moment\, like global climate change). Using the conceptual framework of “embodiment” and drawing on the feminist political economic theory of social reproduction (the maintenance and sustainability of bodies/families/communities and everyday life)\, Embodied Ecologies examines the harm done to (human and non-human) bodies\, communities\, and local environments\, which has been eclipsed by dominant discourses emphasizing the global scale. The book highlights the innovative and diverse eco-cosmo-politics generated by grassroots activists to build sustainable\, just\, and resilient communities in the face of broad-scale environmental problems like global warming and climate change. \nDi Chiro has a background in Biology (B.A. with honors from UCSC)\, a Master of Science in Environmental Studies from the University of Michigan\, and a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness (Interdisciplinary Studies focusing on Environment\, Health\, and Development) from UC Santa Cruz\, which integrates her interdisciplinary background in biology\, environmental studies\, and socio-cultural theory. Di Chiro has over 20 years teaching experience\, and has taught in Environmental Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies at Deakin University (Australia)\, University of California (Santa Cruz)\, Allegheny College\, Mount Holyoke College\, and Swarthmore College. She has received numerous research fellowships and grants\, including from the Rockefeller Foundation\, the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, the American Association of University Women\, the Nathan Cummings Foundation\, and the US Environmental Protection Agency. \nThis colloquium was established to honor the memory and research of Jessica Roy\, a UC Santa Cruz graduate student in sociology whose life was abruptly cut short while doing her dissertation fieldwork in Kenya. Her research in rural Africa was designed to illuminate the problem of access to safe water resources and the influence of gender relations on this access. Her approach was interdisciplinary\, including environmental\, feminist\, and sociological perspectives. \nCosponsored by the Urban Studies Research Cluster. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/giovanna-di-chiro-embodied-ecologies-connecting-sustainability-and-environmental-justice-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130426T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130426T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130423T161326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130423T161326Z UID:10005401-1366995600-1367002800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Víctor Fuentes: "Literatura memorialista de la inmigración" DESCRIPTION:Víctor Fuentes is the author of a memoir\, Memorias del segundo exilio español (2011) and fourteen books\, among them\, La marcha al pueblo en las letras españolas (1917-1936)\, El cántico material y espiritual de César Vallejo\, Buñuel\, cine y literatura\, Antología de la poesía bohemia española\, Antología del cuento bohemio español. \nHe is Professor Emeritus of the University of California\, Santa Barbara; Full Member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language and Co-editor of the literary magazine Ventana abierta. \n\n  \nProfesor Emérito de la Universidad de California\, Santa Bárbara. Miembro Numerario de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española. Coeditor de Ventana abierta. \nEs autor de numerosas publicaciones\, entre las que se cuentan 14 libros de ensayo\, dos novelas y un libro de memorias. Entre ellos destacan: La marcha al pueblo en las letras españolas (1917- 1936)\, El cántico material y espiritual de César Vallejo\, Buñuel\, cine y literatura (Premio “Letras de Oro”\, 1988)\, Antología de la poesía bohemia española\, Antología del cuento bohemio español\, Morir en Isla Vista (1999); Memorias del segundo exilio español (2011).\n  \nThis event is sponsored by the UCSC Language Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/victor-fuentes-literatura-memorialista-de-la-inmigracion-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 408 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130427T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130427T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130401T173307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130401T173307Z UID:10005386-1367071200-1367085600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Brenda Shaughnessy: "Feminism & Poetry\, Empowerment & Passion" DESCRIPTION:Please join Women’s Studies / Feminist Studies alumni\, classmates\, and faculty for an intriguing afternoon. \n2:00-3:00 PM: Reception\n3:00-4:30 PM: Brenda Shaughnessy will present a talk entitled: “Feminism & Poetry\, Empowerment & Passion”\n4:30-6:00 PM: Feminist Studies Faculty Panel will discuss “The Vibrant State of the Feminist Studies Department” to discuss the launching of the Feminist Studies graduate program\, the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, current curriculum\, faculty research\, and more. \nBrenda Shaughnessy is the author of three collections of poetry\, most recently Our Andromeda (Copper Canyon Press\, September 2012.) Her other books are Human Dark with Sugar\, which was a finalist for the 2008 NBCC Award and winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets\, and Interior with Sudden Joy\, finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry\, Harpers\, McSweeney’s\, The Nation\, The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Yale Review and elsewhere. She is currently Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers University at Newark. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York with her husband\, son\, and daughter. \nThe series of events is organized and sponsored by the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and the Feminist Studies Department. Cosponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Living Writers Reading Series. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For further information\, including disabled access\, please contact Shann Ritchie\, sritchie@ucsc.edu\, (831) 459-5655. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/brenda-shaughnessy-feminism-poetry-empowerment-passion-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130428T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130428T163000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130212T184706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130212T184706Z UID:10005365-1367161200-1367166600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Leviathan: Celebrating 40 Years of Jewish Journalism at UCSC DESCRIPTION:Please join former and current staff members of Leviathan in a celebration of the student publication’s 40th anniversary. Leviathan is one of the longest-running university student publications devoted to Jewish themes in the United States. Over the years\, its articles and artwork have explored contemporary questions of Jewish identity\, the role of Israel\, local Jewish issues\, and a wide range of cultural and historical topics. Many of it editors\, writers\, and artists have gone on to distinguished careers in publishing\, journalism\, education\, and other fields. \nThe event\, to be held in the Fireside Lounge of Stevenson College at 3 p.m. on Sunday\, April 28\, will include a panel discussion with former and current Leviathan staff members\, the official launch of the newly created digital archive of past issues of the publication going back to the 1970s\, and a festive reception with food and beverages. \nCo-sponsored by Leviathan\, the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and Stevenson College. Administrative support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/leviathan-celebrating-40-years-of-jewish-journalism-at-ucsc-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130501T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130501T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130109T213540Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130109T213540Z UID:10004761-1367410500-1367416800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - Soraya Murray: "The Rubble and the Ruin: Spec Ops:The Line as Anti-War Game" DESCRIPTION:“The Rubble and the Ruin: Spec Ops:The Line as Anti-War Game” \nSoraya Murray is an interdisciplinary scholar of contemporary visual culture\, with particular interest in new media and globalization in the arts. In her analysis of photography\, film and digital media\, Murray seeks to illuminate these technological expressions in their cultural contexts. \nSoraya Murray is Assistant Professor of Film and Digital Media and Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program at UCSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-4-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130501T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130501T163000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130429T200806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130429T200806Z UID:10005405-1367420400-1367425800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant WorkerRights in San Jose and Houston DESCRIPTION:In Conflicting Commitments\, Dr. Shannon Gleeson goes beyond the debate over  federal immigration policy to examine the complicated terrain of immigrant worker rights. Federal law requires that basic labor standards apply to all workers\, yet this principle clashes with increasingly restrictive immigration laws and creates a confusing bureaucratic terrain for local policymakers and labor advocates. Gleeson examines this issue in two of the largest immigrant gateways in the country: San Jose\, California\, and Houston\, Texas. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/conflicting-commitments-the-politics-of-enforcing-immigrant-workerrights-in-san-jose-and-houston-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130501T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130501T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130425T233557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130425T233557Z UID:10005403-1367427600-1367434800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Scott Lauria Morgensen: "Idle No More\, Indigenous Feminism & Allied Critiques of Settler Colonialism" DESCRIPTION:Revisiting Indigenous critiques of the sexualization and racialization of colonial rule\, Morgensen highlights how such power is challenged by the Indigenous movement Idle No More. Indigenous feminist and Two Spirit critiques explain that heteropatriarchy and white supremacy produce settler colonization and settler state governance. \nAs explained by participants\, the leadership of Idle No More by Indigenous women as founders and spokespersons exposes heteropatriarchy in Indigenous communities for change by challenging racial and sexual legacies of Canadian colonization. These legacies include the Indian Act\, which preferentially exiled over four generations of Indigenous women and their descendants from their nations and lands; and in the everyday landscapes of gender and sexual violence faced by Indigenous women and Two-Spirit people. \nMorgensen interprets these effects of Idle No More by writing as an allied critic in Canada who answers calls to support Indigenous leadership in transforming colonial rule. Feminist\, queer\, and trans critiques of racialization\, sexualization\, and colonization can resonate with Idle No More as it pursues indigenist and decolonial transformation on behalf of all Indigenous people in Canada. \nScott Lauria Morgensen is an ethnographer and historian of social movements. He is Associate Professor in Gender Studies and the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston\, Ontario\, Canada. His work examines how politicalcommunities struggle over differences\, challenge or reproduce oppressions\, and confront solidarity and alliance. His past and present research examines how racism and settler colonialism shape queer / trans communities in North America. An interdisciplinary scholar trained in Feminist Studies (PhD 2001 Anthropology [Women’s Studies]\, University of California\, Santa Cruz)\, Morgensen engages the theories and methods of Indigenous\, women of color\, and transnational feminisms in his work. His first book\, Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization\, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2011\, and won the 2012 Ruth Benedict Book Prize “Honorable Mention” from the Association for Queer Anthropology. He is co-editor of the collection Queer Indigenous Studies\, and of “Karangatia: Calling Out Gender and Sexuality in Settler Societies\,” a special issue of Settler Colonial Studies. He is co-editor of Journal of Critical Race Inquiry and a proud UCSC Feminist Studies alum. \nAdditional Reading: Dr. Morgensen will present work in dialogue with a recent blog on jadaliyya.com:\nhttp://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/11016/settler-colonialism-and-alliance_comparative-chall URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/scott-lauria-morgensen-idle-no-more-indigenous-feminism-allied-critiques-of-settler-colonialism-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130502 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130505 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130109T214450Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130109T214450Z UID:10004763-1367452800-1367711999@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sea Changes: Mediterranean and Maritime Perspectives on History and Culture DESCRIPTION:The Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP in Mediterranean Studies present:\nAn International Symposium/Workshop to be held at UC Santa Cruz\, 2-4 May\, 2013 \nA maritime perspective provides scholars with a fresh approach to the study of society and culture\, including the development of art\, literature\, and institutions. In the mid-twentieth century\, Fernand Braudel first reformulated the history of Early Modern Europe and the Islamic world by taking the sea between them not as a barrier but as an analytical starting point. Taking geography as its point of departure\, this history focused not on the supposedly inherent qualities that separated them\, but on the connections that bound the people of the coasts and their continental hinterlands to various trans-Mediterranean others. Emphasizing the importance of movement\, trade\, and communication\, it invited the interrogation of categories that had come to seem self-evident (especially the nation)\, challenged the foundations of dominant historical metanarratives\, and called new attention to the significance of peoples and places long regarded as mere intermediaries. \nThis gathering invites scholars of the humanities and social science engaged in the study of maritime environments–in particular\, the application of Oceanic models (pertaining to the Mediterranean\, the Atlantic\, Pacific\, or Indian Oceans\, etc.) to the study of the history of human society and culture. Rather than pure research presentations or case studies\, Papers (20 minutes) should engage explicitly and directly with the Mediterranean and/or Oceanic Studies as methodological frames or emerging disciplines. Themes include: \n– “In the sea” or “of the sea? The practica of maritime methodologies; geographical determinism and/or human adaptations;\n– Revelations and Revisions: What the sea brings to scholarship.\n– The historiography and reception of the sea in scholarship \nThis conference will be held in conjunction with the Mediterranean Studies UCMRP Spring workshop. \nSymposium and Workshop Program (PDF) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sea-changes-mediterranean-and-maritime-perspectives-on-history-and-culture-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130502T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130502T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20121220T233159Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121220T233159Z UID:10005284-1367517600-1367523900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Living Writers Reading Series: Karen Joy Fowler DESCRIPTION:Karen Joy Fowler\, author of six novels and three short story collections. The Jane Austen Book Club spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel\, Sister Noon\, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel\, Sarah Canary\, was a New York Times Notable Book\, as was her second novel\, The Sweetheart Season. In addition\, Sarah Canary won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian\, and was short-listed for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize as well as the Bay Area Book Reviewers Prize. Fowler’s short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award in 1999\, and her collection What I Didn’t See won the World Fantasy Award in 2011. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-reading-series-karen-joy-fowler-2/ LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130503 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130506 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130109T214801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130109T214801Z UID:10004764-1367539200-1367798399@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:23rd Annual Semantics and Linguistics Theory Conference (SALT) DESCRIPTION:Please stay tuned for more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/23rd-annual-semantics-and-linguistics-theory-conference-salt-2/ LOCATION:Unnamed Venue ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130508T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130508T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130109T215137Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130109T215137Z UID:10004765-1368015300-1368019800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - Ken Selden: "'Goldfinger' and the Decline of the Classical Hollywood Narrative" DESCRIPTION:“Goldfinger” and the Decline of the Classical Hollywood Narrative \nThe 1964 film Goldfinger\, released right after the break-up of the Hollywood studio system\, presented a new kind of narrative that did not conform to the classical Hollywood three-act model. In this talk\, I will examine how Goldfinger differed dramaturgically from the classical Hollywood style and why\, fifty years later\, the film’s artistic and financial success remains such a strong influence on almost all Hollywood production. \nKen Selden is a film and television writer/director. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-5-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130508T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130508T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130109T215449Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130109T215449Z UID:10004766-1368028800-1368034200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Helen Diller Family Endowment Lecture with Ari Kelman: "Learning to be Jewish" DESCRIPTION:For most Americans\, the phrase “Jewish education” summons images of Hebrew School. But\, Hebrew School\, or even what we might call “formal Jewish education” amounts to only a very small percentage of where and how people learn to be Jewish. The landscape of Jewish learning might include those sites\, but it certainly includes a much broader spectrum of settings like worship\, film festivals\, popular music\, literature\, home-based rituals (like Passover seders)\, technology\, and encounters with the news. By focusing on the places where and how people learn to be Jewish\, a dramatically different image of Jewish education comes into focus. Building on cutting edge research into educational cultures\, we will explore the variety of ways in which people learn to be Jewish in the 21st century and ask how this new understanding might inform how we understand what it means to be Jewish. \nAn alumnus of UC Santa Cruz (Stevenson\, 1994) Ari Y. Kelman is the inaugural Jim Joseph Professor of Education and Jewish Studies in the Stanford University Graduate School of Education\, where he also serves as an affiliate of the Jewish Studies Program\, the Center for Comparative Race and Ethnicity\, the American Studies Program\, and\, by courtesy\, a professor of Religious Studies. He is the author of Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio\, (University of California Press\, 2009) and the editor of a volume of the work of cartoonist Milt Gross (NYU Press\, 2009). He is also the co-author of Sacred Strategies (Alban Institute Press\, 2010)\, a study of synagogue transformation efforts in the United States and winner of the 2010 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Jewish Education and Identity. In collaboration with Steven M. Cohen\, Ari has authored a number of studies of contemporary American Jewish culture addressing issues from Israel to the internet. Ari recently finished a book entitled Shout to the Lord: Worship and Music in Evangelical America\, and is currently writing about Fiddler on the Roof\, the Jewish Catalog\, Jewish cultural festivals and other extra-scholastic loci in which people learn to be Jewish. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/helen-diller-family-endowment-lecture-with-ari-kelman-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130508T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130508T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130502T213822Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130502T213822Z UID:10005407-1368028800-1368034200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dana Frank: "A Human Rights Disaster in Honduras: Why is the U.S. Supporting a Repressive Regime?" DESCRIPTION:What’s driving this murderous U.S. policy in Honduras? And how are the Hondurans still rising up in resistance?\nSince the June 2009 military coup that deposed democratically-elected President Manuel Zeleya\, the U.S. has been supporting a repressive regime that continues to commit massive human rights violations. Honduras now has the highest murder rate in the world\, and near-complete impunity reigns\, including over 300 documented killings by state security forces. Yet the U.S. continues to pour police and military funds into a regime widely known to be riddled with drug traffickers and organized crime – Congress protests more and more loudly. \nDana Frank is Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz.\nDinner reception immediately follows at the Stevenson Provost House. \nThis event is presented by the Stevenson College Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series. Cosponsored by the Departments of History and Latin American and Latino Studies\, and the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dana-frank-a-human-rights-disaster-in-honduras-why-is-the-u-s-supporting-a-repressive-regime-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130509T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130509T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20121220T233506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121220T233506Z UID:10005286-1368122400-1368128700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Living Writers Reading Series: Elizabeth Graver DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Graver’s new novel\, The End of the Point\, set in a summer community on Buzzard’s Bay from 1942 to 1999\, is forthcoming from HarperCollins in Spring\, 2013. She is the author of three other novels: Awake\, The Honey Thief\, and Unravelling. Her short story collection\, Have You Seen Me?\, won the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories (1991\, 2001); Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards (1994\, 1996\, 2001)\, The Pushcart Prize Anthology (2001)\, and Best American Essays (1998). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-reading-series-elizabeth-graver-2/ LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130510T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130510T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130503T163821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130503T163821Z UID:10005408-1368189000-1368194400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Carol Lynn McKibben: "Gender and Italian Immigration in California: A Monterey Case Study" DESCRIPTION:Regional context is of critical importance in understanding processes of migration. As well\, gender analysis complicates group migration experiences. Dr. McKibben’s talk will focus both on the economic and social environment of California and on the role of women in families that made for a migration experience for Sicilians that counters the usual narratives of Italian migration in the Eastern and Midwestern United State in the twentieth century. Unlike the East and Midwest\, Sicilians in California created ethnic communities that were persistent\, replenished over time with new migrations\, especially in the post-1965 era. \nCarol Lynn McKibben began teaching courses in public history at Stanford in 2006. She received her Ph.D. in American History from the University of California\, Berkeley in 1999. Her book\, Beyond Cannery Row: Sicilian Women\, Immigration\, and Community in Monterey\, California\, 1915-1999 (University of Illinois Press\, February\, 2006) examines the migration and settlement of Sicilian fishing people to the Monterey Peninsula\, with an emphasis on women’s roles in the process. She taught history and policy studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies from 1992-2001\, and is currently Public Historian for the City of Seaside\, California and the Director of the Seaside History Project. She is the author of Seaside (forthcoming\, Arcadia Press\, April\, 2009)\, and completing work on the narrative history of Seaside\, which focuses on race relations and the influence of the military (Fort Ord) on the city\, The Making of a Multi-Cultural Military Town\, Seaside\, California\, 1890-2006.\nThis lecture is presented by Italian Studies\, the Language Program\, and Italian Program at UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/carol-lynn-mckibben-gender-and-italian-immigration-in-california-a-monterey-case-study-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130510T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130510T163000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130109T220139Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130109T220139Z UID:10005297-1368192600-1368203400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:9th Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium DESCRIPTION:Grad students share their research by presenting either oral\, media or posters with an awards ceremony immediately following along with a reception.\n\nFree and open to the public.\n\nMain floor conference rooms for orals and media presentations\, hallways for poster presentations.\n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/9th-annual-graduate-student-research-symposium-2/ LOCATION:McHenry Library (3rd Floor)\, Special Collections END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130514T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130514T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130416T230147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130416T230147Z UID:10005399-1368558000-1368563400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Noel Q. King Annual Lecture: “Higher Mysteries: Faith and Theology in Crime Fiction” DESCRIPTION:The King Lecture Series\, preserving the work of UCSC History and Comparative Religion professor Noel Q. King\, promotes and explores the dialogue between faiths. This year’s lecture also incorporates the interests of his wife\, crime writer Laurie R. King\, in conversation with three other award-winning crime writers\, for an event called: \nHigher Mysteries: Faith and Theology in Crime Fiction\n\nZoë Ferraris moved to Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the first Gulf War\, living in a conservative Muslim community with her then-husband and his family\, a group of Saudi-Palestinians. Zoë has an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University. Her novels are published in over thirty countries. \n  \n\nSharan Newman is a Medieval historian with an MA in Medieval Literature and a PhD in Medieval Studies\,specializing in twelfth-century France. She has been writing fiction since1980\, with ten books in her award-winning series about Catherine LeVendeur\, once a student under the abbess Heloise. Her books explore Medieval ideas of religion as well as Christian/Jewish relations. \n  \n  \n \nJulia Spencer-Fleming\, a bestselling author with an armful of awards\, spent most of her childhood on the move as an army brat\, then studied acting and history at Ithaca College\, receiving a J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law. She writes a crime series about Army helicopter pilot-turned-Episcopal priest Clare Fergusson set in her native upstate New York. \n  \nModerator Laurie R. King\, who did her BA in Comparative Religion at UCSC and her MA in Old Testament Theology at the Graduate Theological Union\, turned to crime (fiction) when she wrote a tale in which young theology student Mary Russell meets the famous skeptic Mr. Sherlock Holmes\, and finds herself apprenticed to him. Many of Laurie’s books have theological and religious themes. \n  \n  \nHigher Mysteries is sponsored by UCSC’s Noel Q. King Memorial and the Santa Cruz Public Libraries. Books will be sold at the event by Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and refreshments served thanks to the Friends of the Public Library. \nFor background reading to the discussion:\nZoë Ferraris: Finding Nouf & City of Veils\nLaurie R. King: A Monstrous Regiment of Women & A Darker Place\nSharan Newman: The Outcast Dove & Strong as Death\nJulia Spencer-Fleming: In the Bleak Midwinter & Out of the Deep I Cry \nPlease RSVP to info@laurieking.com will help the Friends with the chair setup. \nFor more information\, write to info@laurieking.com URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/noel-q-king-annual-lecture-higher-mysteries-faith-and-theology-in-crime-fiction-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Public Library – Downtown Branch\, 224 Church Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130515T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130515T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130109T220521Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130109T220521Z UID:10005298-1368620100-1368624600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - Blake Wentworth: "Bhakti Demands Biography: Crafting the Life of a Tamil Saint" DESCRIPTION:“Bhakti Demands Biography: Crafting the Life of a Tamil Saint” \nBlake Wentworth’s current work revolves around a central feature of south Indian political life in premodernity\, the mapping of sexuality onto the political domain such that lordly power is beautiful. By tracing the genealogy of this trope\, he explores the interplay between ancient Tamil poetics and the wider Sanskrit world. \nBlake Wentworth is Assistant Professor of South and South EastAsian Studies at UC- Berkley. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-6-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130515T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130515T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130513T171518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130513T171518Z UID:10005421-1368637200-1368644400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Richard Miskolci: "Undisciplined studies & the (geo)politics of knowledge" DESCRIPTION:Challenges for a North-South dialogue \nWhy does knowledge continue to travel only from North to South? To understand the powerful continuity in this exchange\, this presentation will start with a historical reconstitution of its creation and functioning. Even in an increasingly decentered world we still witness the hegemony of academic exchange in which North produces theories and South is seen as a space for collecting data or applying Northern theories to particular cases. Knowledges are created under institutional frames that connect them to power interests. During the end of 19th century\, for example\, evolutionism created a kind of alliance between intellectual and ruling classes in different parts of the world. Later\, after World War II\, this same alliance was recreated with a new objective: spreading a modernization ideal based on the assumption that West – the US in particular – was the model for the Rest (of the world). Beginning with the 1960s\, with the historical event Foucault called “the insurgence of subalternized knowledges”\, we saw the rise of a set of studies connected to once overlooked inequalities inside the so called West. These studies challenged the old ways of creating knowledge and connected their work to the interest of subalternized groups like women\, people of color\, gays\, lesbians\, colonized peoples\, and\, more recently\, queer persons. Unfortunately\, this important historical inflection that created specific fields like feminist\, post-colonial and queer studies has not changed the flux of knowledge production from North to the South. \nWhat are the reasons behind this continuity even in fields committed to subalternized people and experiences? Why are feminist\, post-colonial\, racial/ethnic\, and queer studies made in the South not seen as interlocutors in the North? Why isn’t Southern intellectual production circulated or taken into account in Northern genealogies of the so-called “studies”? Have “studies” been dragged into the academic battles inside US and Europe to conquer their internal institutional space while overlooking their possible allies in the South? Why – in a decentered world – do “studies” keep the global South in the position of a silent interlocutor that appears in generalized assumptions of contemporary production subsumed under expressions like international\, transnational and global? Finally\, what are the challenges to create a North-South dialogue? This presentation will try to address these questions and present some hypotheses\, but its main objective is not to give any final answer or present a solution. The idea is to promote the discussion about how knowledge committed to subalternized people and social change can reproduce – and even reinforce – unfair power relations outside the borders in which it is created. \nRichard Miskolci is Professor of Sociology at the Federal University of São Carlos in São Paulo state\, Brazil\, and Researcher at Núcleo de Estudos de Gênero Pagu\, UNICAMP. A key figure in the debate on queer theory in Brazil\, Miskolci has authored several books\, including Thomas Mann\, the Mestizo Artist (2003)\, O desejo da nação: masculinidade e branquitude no Brasil de fins do XIX (2012) and is the editor of Dissident Sexualities (2007)\, the first Brazilian Queer Studies anthology. Dr. Miskolci is a Visiting Scholar in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz this year. \nAdditional Reading: “Undisciplined studies & the (geo)politics of knowledge” \nMiskolci Event Flyer URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/richard-miskolci-undisciplined-studies-the-geopolitics-of-knowledge-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130516T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130516T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130318T192827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130318T192827Z UID:10004804-1368720000-1368725400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ad Neeleman: "Person: Inventory and Realization" DESCRIPTION:“Person: Inventory and Realization” is a joint work with Peter Ackema\, of the University of Edinburgh. \nIn this presentation Dr. Neeleman will develop a theory in which person features are more abstract than usually assumed: they do not refer to speaker or addressee\, but are rather used to navigate a ‘person space’ . The theory is confronted with two typological problems. \n(i) Why is the inventory of persons so limited? Why aren’t there 30 persons? (In this context 30 is not a random number\, but represents the number of potential persons.) \n(ii) What explains the typological observation that syncretism between first and third person is much rarer than syncretism between either first and second\, or second and third person (Baerman et al. 2005\, Baerman and Brown 2011)? \nIf time allows\, he will discuss also Dutch as a case study. In this language there are two person endings that arrange themselves in such a way that there is a 2-3 syncretism in the regular case\, a 1-2 syncretism under subject-verb inversion\, and an optional 1-3 syncretism with a particular lexical class of verbs (modals). \nAd Neeleman is Professor of Linguistics at University College London. His research focuses on syntactic theory and the interaction between the syntax and syntax-external systems. He received his PhD from Utrecht University (Complex Predicates\, 1994) and is the author of some forty research papers and two books (Flexible Syntax\, 1999\, with Fred Weerman\, and Beyond Morphology\, 2004\, with Peter Ackema). His current research deals with linear asymmetries in syntax\, the grammar of person and the linguistic representation of causation. \nThis event is presented by he Crosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology Research Cluster\, and sponsored by the UC Humanities Network. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information\, including disabled access\, please contact: Shann Ritchie\, (831) 459-5655\, sritchie@ucsc.edu. Maps: maps.ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ad-neeleman-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130517T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130517T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130206T202557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130206T202557Z UID:10005359-1368806400-1368811800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Grant McGuire: "Separating voice prototypicality and stereotypicality" DESCRIPTION:Current theories of speech perception emphasize the demonstrated role of direct experience in voice processing where greater experience with a voice or voice type results in various processing advantages. This talk describes early results from a project examining the role of stereotypes\, or more abstracted representations not necessarily based in direct experience\, in the processing of voices. Specifically\, we will detail the role various voice types play in phonetic accommodation\, the phenomenon where a talker adapts properties of another talker’s voice. \nGrant McGuire is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz and recipient of an IHR Faculty Fellowship (2012-13). His primary research interest is in speech perception. He received his PhD in Linguistics from Ohio State University (Phonetic Category Learning\, 2007) and has published research articles on perceptual learning in adults and infants\, audio-visual speech perception\, and gender effects on speech perception. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ihr-faculty-fellow-lecture-by-grant-mcguire-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130519T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130519T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130507T222005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130507T222005Z UID:10005419-1368993600-1369000800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:International Playhouse XIII DESCRIPTION:The Language Program\, Cowell College\, and Stevenson College cordially invite you and your students to attend a performance of The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XIII (IP)\, an annual multilingual program of fully-staged short theater pieces\, now in its 13th season. Four public performances will be held on May 16\, 17\, 18\, 19\, at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center and will feature works in French\, Italian\, Japanese\, and Spanish\, with English super-titles. The program will be directed by Language lecturers\, working with their students. There is no admission charge; however\, evening parking permits are required for the Thursday and Friday performances. Parking permits will be available by attendant in the Cowell/Stevenson lower parking lots (#109/110) for $4.00. Those already in possession of a valid “A”\, “B”\, or “C” permit do not need to purchase an additional permit to park during evening hours. \nThis year’s works include excerpts from (French) LE MALADE IMAGINAIRE (The Hypochondriac) by Molière\, directed by Miriam Ellis; (Italian) NATIVITÀ (Nativity) by La Smorfia\, directed by Giulia Centineo; (Japanese) THE VAMPIRE CABBIE by Murakami\, directed by Sakae Fujita; (Spanish) LAS LUCIÉRNAGAS DEL CARIBE (Caribbean Fireflies) by Carballido\, directed by Marta Navarro. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/international-playhouse-xiii-4-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130520T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130520T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130226T172013Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130226T172013Z UID:10004799-1369065600-1369071000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Lisa Lowe: "Sugar\, Tea\, Opium\, and Coolies: The Intimacies of Four Continents" DESCRIPTION:Lisa Lowe\nThis lecture examines the fetishism of colonial commodities as a mediation of often obscured connections between the transatlantic African slave trade to the Americas\, settler colonialism\, the import of Asian indentured labor\, the East Indies and China trades\, and the emergence of European liberal ideas of citizenship\, wage labor\, and free trade in the late-18th and early-19th centuries. \nLisa Lowe is a professor of English and American Studies at Tufts University and a scholar in the fields of comparative literature\, and the cultural politics of colonialism and migration. Before joining Tufts\, she taught in the Literature Department at UC San Diego for over two decades. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations\, the UC Humanities Research Institute\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, the School of Advanced Study – University of London\, and the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. Lowe is the author of Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Cornell UP)\, Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Politics (Duke UP)\, and coauthor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Duke UP). Her current project\, The Intimacies of Four Continents\, is a study of the global conditions for liberal economy\, knowledge\, culture\, and politics.\nSeminar with Lisa Lowe: \nTuesday\, May 21\, 2013 • 11:00 AM • Humanities 1 Building\, Room 210\nTo receive the seminar readings\, please contact Courtney Mahaney at cmahaney@ucsc.edu. \n  \nThis event is organized and sponsored by the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program. Cosponsored by the University of California Center for New Racial Studies\, the Division of Humanities at UCSC\, the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, Oakes College\, and Stevenson College. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lisa-lowe-sugar-tea-opium-and-coolies-the-intimacies-of-four-continents-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130522T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130522T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130509T203530Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130509T203530Z UID:10005420-1369216800-1369220400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:U.S. Fulbright IIE Information Session DESCRIPTION:The Graduate Division cordially invites undergraduate and graduate students to an information session on the U.S. Fulbright IIE fellowship program. \nIf you are interested in applying for a 2014-2015 Fulbright U. S. Student Program Grant or English Teaching Assistantship plan to attend this information session. \nLink to the competition: http://www.iie.org/fulbright \nPresenters will include:\nPast successful Fulbright IIE applicants\nMarlene Robinson\, UCSC Fulbright Advisor\nDr. Tyrus Miller\, UCSC Graduate Division Dean and Past Fulbright Awardee \nPlease RSVP to Irena Polić\, at ipolic@ucsc.edu\, by May 17th. \nPress Release: Fulbright U.S. Student Program Competition Opens: International Study or Research Grants and English Teaching Assistantship Now Available\n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/u-s-fulbright-iie-information-session-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130522T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130522T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130109T220732Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130109T220732Z UID:10005299-1369224900-1369231200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - Michael Nauenberg: "Teaching Natural Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment" DESCRIPTION:“Teaching Natural Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment” \nMichael Nauenberg has published on the foundations of quantum mechanics and has written extensively on the development of calculus in the seventeenth century with particular reference to the work of Isaac Newton\, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and John Barrow. His current work is on Newton’s development of celestial mechanics and gravitation. \nMichael Nauenberg is Research Professor of Physics at UCSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-7-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130523T043000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130523T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130402T233007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130402T233007Z UID:10005389-1369283400-1369341000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Anthony Barbieri-Low: "Imagining the Tomb of the First Emperor of China" DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on “Archaeology and the Ancient World” \nThe tomb complex of the First Emperor of China is arguably the most important archaeological site in the world. Since the tomb will not be excavated in our lifetime\, if ever\, imagination will always play a major role in trying to understand what is in the tomb. Ever since the Emperor was first interred\, authors\, artists\, and archaeologists have tried to reconstruct and imagine what lies in his tomb. Such reconstructions allow the imaginer to project his fears\, hopes\, and expectations on the site\, and can tell us even more about the imaginers than it does about the world they imagine. This talk will explore how historians\, poets\, artists\, archaeologists\, movie directors\, and video-game designers have imagined the First Emperor’s underground realm. \nTalk begins at 5:00 pm\, refreshments served at 4:30 pm\, with a reception following lecture.\nAnthony Barbieri-Low is Associate Professor of Early Chinese History at UC Santa Barbara. He graduated from UCSC in 1994 with a degree in History\, and went on to receive his M.A from Harvard and Ph.D. from Princeton. He has wide-ranging research interests in many aspects of Early China\, including technology\, organization of production\, labor history\, gender and social relations\, legal process\, material culture\, and state formation. In 2007\, he published the book Artisans in Early Imperial China\, which went on to receive four major international book prizes in ancient history\, art history\, and Chinese studies. He has just completed a book-length translation and study of ancient Chinese legal texts and is preparing another book on interpretations of the First Emperor of China.\nFree parking for lecture in Cowell-Stevenson parking lots. For more information on the lecture or the AIA\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anthony-barbieri-low-imaging-the-tomb-of-the-first-emperor-of-china-2/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130523T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130523T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130514T180821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130514T180821Z UID:10005422-1369324800-1369330200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Neil Sinhababu: "Desire's Explanations" DESCRIPTION:I defend a Humean theory of motivation on which desire motivates all action and drives all practical reasoning. I respond to objections from Christine Korsgaard\, David Velleman\, and others suggesting that this view leaves no room for the self in action. I argue that all the agent’s desires are part of the self\, and that their effects include the self’s decision and action. \nNeil Sinhababu is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at National University of Singapore. He works on Ethics and Metaethics. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/neil-sinhababu-desires-explanations-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 320 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130523T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130523T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20121220T233851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121220T233851Z UID:10005290-1369332000-1369338300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Living Writers Reading Series: Lauren Shufran\, Tsering Wangmo\, and Juliana Leslie DESCRIPTION:Lauren Shufran is the winner of The Motherwell Prize. Her poetry collection Inter Arma will be published be Fence Books in Spring\, 2013. \nTsering Wangmo’s first book of poems\, Rules of the House\, was published by Apogee Press in 2002 was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Awards in 2003. Other publications include My Rice Tastes Like the Lake (Apogee Press 2011) and In the Absent Everyday (also from Apogee Press). A book of creative non-fiction will soon be published in India from Penguin. \nJuliana Leslie’s first book\, More Radiant Signal\, came out in 2010 from Letter Machine Editions. Her second book of poetry\, Green Is For World\, winner of the National Poetry Series\, will be published this year by Coffee House Press. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/shufran-wangmo-leslie-2/ LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130529T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130529T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130109T220944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130109T220944Z UID:10005310-1369829700-1369836000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - Eng-Beng Lim: "The Rice Queen's Brown Boy Dream: On Pedophilic Modernity\, Performance and Queer Asia" DESCRIPTION:“The Rice Queen’s Brown Boy Dream: On Pedophilic Modernity\, Performance and Queer Asia” \nEng-Beng Lim works on transnational\, Asian and queer issues through the lens of performance. His current work is on cultural pedagogies of neoliberal Asia that are produced on the one hand by large-scale transnational theatrical productions and on the other hand by global satellite campuses of U.S. universities in Singapore\, Shanghai\, Abu Dhabi. \nEng-Beng Lim is Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-8-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130530 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130531 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130109T221621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130109T221621Z UID:10005312-1369872000-1369958399@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Celebrating the Humanities Spring Awards DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/celebrating-the-humanities-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130530T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130530T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130109T221322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130109T221322Z UID:10005311-1369929600-1369933200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Humanities Undergraduate Research Award (HUGRA) Presentations DESCRIPTION:Stay tuned for more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-undergraduate-research-award-hugra-presentations-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130530T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130530T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20121220T234103Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121220T234103Z UID:10005292-1369936800-1369943100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Living Writers Reading Series: George Estreich DESCRIPTION:George Estreich is a poet and the author of the memoir\, The Shape of The Eye\, winner of the Oregon Book Award. “The Shape of the Eye is a memoir of a father’s love for his daughter\, his struggle to understand her disability\, and his journey toward embracing her power and depth. Estreich is raw and honest and draws us each into a new view of what it means to be ‘human’ and what it means to be ‘different’. This book is beautifully written\, poetically insightful\, and personally transformative. To read it is to rethink everything and to be happy because of the journey.” –Timothy P. Shriver\, Ph.D.\, Chairman & CEO of Special Olympics URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-reading-series-george-estreich-2/ LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130603T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130603T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130529T212927Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130529T212927Z UID:10004814-1370260800-1370266200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Workshop with Fenella Cannell: "Mormon Intercessions" DESCRIPTION:Join the IHR’s Religious and Secular Entanglements Research Cluster for a workshop with Fenella Cannell. We will be discussing an early draft of her current work on kinship and religion with a specific focus on Mormonism. Attendees should read the draft of her chapter on “Mormon Intercessions” by clicking on the two (2) links below. \n(1) Fenella Cannell -cover note on Mormon intercessions \n(2) Mormon intercessions – chapter three FC URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/workshop-with-fenella-cannell-and-the-religious-secular-entanglements-research-cluster-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130603T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130603T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130529T213759Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130529T213759Z UID:10004816-1370273400-1370278800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Fenella Cannell: "Ghosts and Ancestors in the Modern West" DESCRIPTION:This Anthropology Colloquium is co-sponsored by the IHR’s Religious & Secular Entanglements Research Cluster. \nDr. Fenella Cannell is a specialist in Southeast Asian anthropology\, and has also conducted research on kinship and religion in the United States. She worked in the Philippines in 1988-89\, 1992\, and 1997. Her fieldwork was with Catholic rice-farming people in a rural area\, but on the outskirts of a small town\, where people were also exposed to complex\, urbanising influences and images from Manila and from the West\, especially America. Her research explored the ways in which people come to think about “culture” in a post-colonial society\, and focused on women’s lives and arranged marriage\, spirit-mediumship\, saint’s cults and religion\, and popular performances including transvestite beauty contests. She has since carried out historically-based work on the Philippines\, especially on education\, kinship\, and gender in the American colonial period. She also works with a number of postgraduate students whose research is based in Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia\, and intends to do more work in the region in the future. Most recently\, however\, she has conducted a two-year research project on American kinship and religion\, with a particular focus on Mormonism. Much of this research took place in upstate New York and in Utah. In addition to these field-based projects\, Dr. Cannell has written more broadly on the relationship between Christianity and social theory. \nDr. Fenella Cannell\, London School of Economics and Political Science URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fenella-cannell-ghosts-and-ancestors-in-the-modern-west-2/ LOCATION:Unnamed Venue END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130606T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130606T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130401T174024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130401T174024Z UID:10005387-1370541600-1370547000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Living Writers Reading Series: Student Readings DESCRIPTION:Please join us for readings by UCSC’s creative writing students. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-reading-series-student-readings-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130608 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130609 DTSTAMP:20260403T160207 CREATED:20130225T194321Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130225T194321Z UID:10004798-1370649600-1370735999@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:bodies / moving / borders symposium and performance DESCRIPTION:bodies / moving / borders \ndisplacements and dreams of citizenship \na research symposium and performances re-membering legacies\, pedagogies and ways of knowing with special guests: Julio Salgado\, Leti Volpp\, and Las Bomberas de la Bahia \nThe symposium will extend the dialogue we have built about citizenship\, culture and identity by bringing together scholars and practitioners to think about knowledge formations and embodied practices in the framework of citizenship. \nSCHEDULE \n10am    Panel 1: displacements \n1pm     Panel II: dreams \n3pm     Provocations \n5pm     Performances (Stevenson Event Center) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bodiesmovingborders-symposium-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130626 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130628 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20130607T161835Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130607T161835Z UID:10004831-1372204800-1372377599@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Workshop on Things DESCRIPTION:Note: due to two unfortunate cancellations\, the session originally planned for Tuesday evening\, June 25th\, will not take place. The workshop will begin Wednesday morning. \nAll conference events will take place in Humanities 1\, Room 210. \n\nWednesday\, June 26th \n10:00–11:30 David Hyder (University of Ottawa) “Time and object in Transcendental Deduction §24”\nModerator: Dennis Des Chene \n11:45–1:15 Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech) “Kant on the qualities of things”\nModerator: David Hyder \n1:15–2:45 Lunch \n2:45–4:15 Dennis Des Chene (Washington University St. Louis) “The emergence of mere things”\nModerator: Ori Simchen \n4:30–6:00 Ori Simchen (University of British Columbia) “Things of semantic value”\nModerator: Abe Stone \n6:00-7:00 Tea and Cookies Reception \nThursday\, June 27th\n9:30–11:00 Justin E.H. Smith (University of Paris VII) “Res extensae\, res publicae\, and the political dimensions of things”\nModerator: Ori Simchen \n11:15–12:45 Nick Stang (University of Miami) (title TBA)\nModerator: Justin E.H. Smith \n12:45–1:45 Lunch \n1:45–3:15 Abe Stone “Kant on substances and things”\nModerator: Nick Stang URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/workshop-on-things-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130916T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130916T143000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20130717T000409Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130717T000409Z UID:10005429-1379336400-1379341800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship Information Session at UC Berkeley DESCRIPTION:Dr. Nicole Stahlmann\, Director of Fellowship Programs at the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)\, will host an information session at 1:00 PM in the Geballe Room\, 220 Stephens Hall at UC Berkeley. This presentation will provide an overview of ACLS funding opportunities for faculty and advanced graduate students\, and include information on research proposal preparation and ACLS’s peer-review process. The presentation will conclude with an opportunity for Q&A. \nACLS offers research support to faculty and advanced graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences through more than a dozen programs. With over $15 million in annual fellowship stipends awarded in the 2012-13 competition year\, ACLS is one of the largest supporters of scholars in the humanities. \nInformation on current ACLS competitions and deadlines are available here. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/acls-informational-workshop-2/ LOCATION:Geballe Room END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130924T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130924T164500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20130717T000713Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130717T000713Z UID:10005431-1380029400-1380041100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:National Endowment for the Humanities Application Writing Workshop DESCRIPTION:Daniel Sack\, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Program Officer in the Division of Research Programs\, will provide an overview of NEH programs and initiatives\, offer strategies for application writing\, and facilitate a mock peer review panel session. \nNEH is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research\, education\, preservation\, and public programs in the humanities. \nAgenda:\n1:00-1:30pm – Registration\n1:30-3:00pm – Overview of Endowment Programs and Special Initiatives\n3:00-3:15pm – Break\n3:15-4:45pm – Mock Panel Session/Strategies for Application Writing followed by Q&A \nThis workshop is free and open to the public but pre-registration is recommended to guarantee space. Please email ihr@ucsc.edu by September 20 to reserve a seat. Walk-in registration may be available at the door on September 24. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/neh-program-workshop-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131003T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131003T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20130924T172416Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130924T172416Z UID:10005466-1380816000-1380821400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Otávio Bueno: "Seeing with a Microscope" DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Professor Bueno will propose an empiricist account of visual evidence in the sciences and examine the role it plays in scientific representation (particularly\, in microscopy). To motivate the view\, a critical examination of Bas van Fraassen’s empiricist proposal will be provided. \nOtávio Bueno is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Miami. His research concentrates in philosophy of science\, philosophy of mathematics\, and philosophy of logic. He has published widely in these areas in journals such as: Noûs\, Mind\, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science\, Philosophy of Science\, Synthese\, Journal of Philosophical Logic\, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science\, and Analysis. He is editor-in-chief of Synthese. In his free time\, he enjoys to run ultramarathons. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/otavio-bueno-seeing-with-a-microscope-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 320 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131003T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131003T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20130830T165549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130830T165549Z UID:10005435-1380816000-1380823200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Joanne Barker: "In Debt: A Reconsideration of 'Race\, Empire\, and the Crisis of the Subprime' from Manna-Hata" DESCRIPTION:Intervening in populist\, Occupy Wall Street discourses about the subprime crisis and its remedies\, this talk critically uncovers Manna Hata from Manhattan. Offering a long genealogical view of the militarized dispossession\, genocide\, and enslavement of Native peoples in order to problematize the subprime crisis as a signifier of racism\, this talk focuses on territorial expansion\, resource destruction and extraction\, labor exploitation\, and debt as past and present depredations upon Native nations and their citizens within the United States. In so doing\, this talk addresses Native debt in ways left unaccounted for in a proliferation of recent scholarship on debt\, including the special issue of American Quarterly\, “Race\, Empire\, and the Crisis of the Subprime.” By tracing current U.S. and global economic formations and their crises to inaugural violence upon Native nations and their citizens\, this talk examines the foundational nature of the U.S. military foreclosure of Native lands as part of its territorial homeland and its appropriation of Native bodies into its system of indentured labor relative to the crisis of home mortgages and their speculative securities. \nJoanne Barker (Lenape [Delaware Tribe of Indians]) is associate professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University. She received her Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness Department from the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, in 2000 on the work of identity and identification in indigenous struggles for sovereignty and self-determination. She is author of Native Acts: Law Recognition\, and Cultural Authenticity (Duke University Press\, 2011) and editor of Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination (Nebraska\, 2005). She is involved in cultural repatriation rights\, environmental issues\, human rights\, and anti-war politics. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the University of California\, the Rockefeller Foundation\, and the Ford Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joanne-barker-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131003T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131003T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20130926T160053Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130926T160053Z UID:10005470-1380826800-1380834000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Poetry and/or Revolution DESCRIPTION:Oct 3-5\, UC Santa Cruz\, UC Davis\, UC Berkeley. \nThis conference is a pendant to the recent UK conference on Militant Politics and Poetry at Birkbeck College (Saturday\, 18 May 2013). It features a large number of US and UK scholar-poets. \nThe conference will take up from a variety of perspectives the relationship of poetry to political antagonism\, one which has recently been reanimated through the extensive participation of poets in political militancy. There will be an opening plenary and discussion including a summary of and response to the Birkbeck conference\, held at UC Santa Cruz. The second day will feature “scene reports”: from the UK poet-scholars on recent debates and on the situation in the UK\, and from poetics scholars and poets involved with Bay Area political struggle — to be held at UC Davis. The third day will feature discussions about the situation going forward\, including both theorizations of the poetry/politics relation\, problems of identity and representation\, and practical proposals for next activities — to be held at UC Berkeley. There will be poetry readings on each campus. Of interest to poets and to scholars of poetics\, modern/contemporary British literature\, British Studies\, modern/contemporary US literature\, Cultural Studies\, Transatlantic\, Political Science & Theory. \nUC Santa Cruz • October 3\, 2013\n7-9 PM\nChris Chen\, “Antagonism and/or Difference: Reading Race”\nJennifer Cooke\, “Poetic Sensations: Bodies\, Emotions & Change”\nPoetry Reading: Wendy Trevino\, Danny Hayward\, Jasper Bernes\, Jennifer Cooke\, Juliana Spahr\nHumanities 1\, Room 210\, Santa Cruz \nUC Davis • October 4\, 2013\n10-12 PM\nReport from six UK poet-scholars including organizers of the “Militant Poetry and Politics” conference at Birkbeck University\nVoorhies Hall 126\, Corner of First and A Streets\, Davis \n2-4 PM\nPoetics & Ports: a report from eight poet-scholars involved in Occupy Oakland and Bay Area political organizing\nVoorhies Hall 126\, Corner of First and A Streets\, Davis \n7-9 PM\nOffsite Poetry Reading: David Buuck\, Keston Sutherland\, Jill Richards\, Marianne Morris\, Chris Chen\nThird Space\, 946 Olive Drive at Richards Blvd.\, Davis \nUC Berkeley • October 5\, 2013\n10-12 PM\nRoundtable discussion of the relation between identity-based oppression and literary representation in militant poetics\nWheeler Hall 300\, English Department Media Room \n2-4 PM\nManifestos and/or practical proposals: 13 concise and eloquent considerations of the situation for revolution and/or poetry\nWheeler Hall 300\, English Department Media Room \n7-9 PM\nOffsite Poetry Reading & Farewell Celebration: Sean Bonney\, Imad Hassan\, Francesca Lisette\, Joshua Clover\nLocation announced at afternoon session\nMade possible by generous support from the UCSC Department of Literature and the Institute for Humanities Research at Santa Cruz. \nConference blog with schedule PDF’s of readings:\nhttp://revolutionandorpoetry.wordpress.com URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetry-andor-revolution-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131004T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131004T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20130830T165851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130830T165851Z UID:10005437-1380884400-1380895200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Joanne Barker Seminar DESCRIPTION:Joanne Barker will be lead a seminar followed by a Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) program building discussion. Please register to obtain the seminar readings. \n\nJoanne Barker (Lenape [Delaware Tribe of Indians]) is associate professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University. She received her Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness Department from the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, in 2000 on the work of identity and identification in indigenous struggles for sovereignty and self-determination. She is author of Native Acts: Law Recognition\, and Cultural Authenticity (Duke University Press\, 2011) and editor of Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination (Nebraska\, 2005). She is involved in cultural repatriation rights\, environmental issues\, human rights\, and anti-war politics. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the University of California\, the Rockefeller Foundation\, and the Ford Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joanne-barker-seminar-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131004T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131004T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20130917T235057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130917T235057Z UID:10004833-1380902400-1380907800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jim McCloskey: "Preverbs\, Phases\, and Objecthood: An Irish Perspective on Some Old Problems" DESCRIPTION:The direct object relation is a relation of central importance in syntactic theory and so it was an important moment when the nature of that relation was re-thought in a fundamental way in work of the 1990’s. This paper examines some of the issues raised in that re-thinking\, by looking closely at the expression of the direct object relation in Irish (infinitival) clauses. It focuses in particular on what is to be learned from an intricate pattern of dialectal\, idiolectal\, and generational variation which\, it is claimed\, sheds light on how we should understand `Burzio’s Generalization’\, which is\nitself a central aspect of theories of objecthood which derive from Government Binding Theory. \nJim McCloskey is Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-jim-mccloskey-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20131005 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20131007 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20130929T061934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130929T061934Z UID:10005474-1380931200-1381103999@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:THATCamp Alt-Ac: an Alternative Academics Unconference DESCRIPTION:A space for grad students and recent Ph.D.’s to think through the multiple career options we can explore amidst a declining tenure track job market. We will invite professionals in administrative academic\, non-profit\, arts administration\, tech\, ed-tech\, digital humanities\, and secondary education careers to join our two-day unstructured conference. Planned sessions will include a C.V. to resume workshop\, but the rest will be up to the participants to curate each day of the event. \n Please see http://altac2013.thatcamp.org/ to register and for more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thatcamp-alt-ac-an-alternative-academics-unconference-2/ LOCATION:60 Evans Hall and Dwinelle Classrooms\, UC Berkeley END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131008T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131008T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20130930T230141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130930T230141Z UID:10005476-1381258800-1381264200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"The Motherhood Archives" film screening and discussion DESCRIPTION:Archival montage\, science fiction\, and an homage to 70s feminist filmmaking are woven together to form this haunting and lyrical essay film excavating hidden histories of childbirth in the twentieth century. Assembling an extraordinary archive of over 100 educational\, industrial\, and medical training films (including newly rediscovered Soviet and French childbirth films)\, The Motherhood Archives inventively untangles the complex\, sometimes surprising genealogies of maternal education. Revealing a world of intensive training\, rehearsal\, and performative preparation for the unknown that is ultimately incommensurate with experience\, The Motherhood Archives is a meditation on the maternal body as a site of institutional control\, ideological surveillance\, medical knowledge\, and nationalist state intervention.\n  \nIntroduction by Neda Atanasoski (Feminist Studies) \nPost-screening discussion with the filmmaker\, Irene Lusztig\, and:\nNancy Chen (Anthropology)\nJenny Horne (Film & Digital Media)\nFelicity Schaeffer (Feminist Studies) \nReception to follow in Communications 139\n  \nPresented by the Center for Documentary Arts and Research and the Departments of Anthropology\, Feminist Studies\, and Film & Digital Media. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-motherhood-archives-2/ LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131009T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131009T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20130906T233308Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130906T233308Z UID:10005456-1381320900-1381327200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Deborah Gould: "Becoming Coalitional: The Strange and Miraculous Alliance Between Queer to the Left and the Jesus People\, USA" DESCRIPTION:Interested in the emotional terrains of activism\, Deborah Gould’s current project explores political appetites\, encounters\, and the “not-yet” of politics. \nDeborah Gould is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Sociology at UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-deborah-gould-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131009T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131009T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20131003T194722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131003T194722Z UID:10005478-1381347000-1381352400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Film Screening of "Maestra" with Filmmaker Catherine Murphy DESCRIPTION:Cuba\, 1961: 250\,000 volunteers taught 700\,000 people to read and write in one year. 100\,000 of the teachers were under 18 years old. Over half were women. Maestra explores this story through the personal testimonies of the young women who went out to teach literacy in rural communities across the island – and found themselves deeply transformed in the process. \nThere will be a Q & A with the filmmaker after the screening. \nCo-sponsored by The Chicano/Latino Research Center\, The Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, and the Social Documentation Program. \nFor more information contact the Latin American and Latino Studies Department\, or Professor Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal at: lourdes@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-of-maestra-2/ LOCATION:Charles E. Merrill Lounge END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131010T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131010T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20130607T185935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130607T185935Z UID:10005423-1381411800-1381428000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Undisciplining Feminism: Formations in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies DESCRIPTION:Bringing together a core group of UC and Cal State faculty working at the intersections of feminist studies and ethnic studies\, we will generate a curricular vision that\, rather than being negatively constructed as a critique (of patriarchy\, mainstream feminism\, “wave”-based periodizations\, etc.) begins with concepts like race\, empire\, and settler colonialism. Conversely\, we imagine ethnic studies as foundationally organized around gender and sexuality\, centered on concepts such as reproduction and sexual violence. While critiques of Women and Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies as disciplinary formations have long existed\, we hope that by generating shared curricular materials\, we can further engage the intellectual repercussions of (inter)disciplinarity and strategize ways to make institutional interventions. We aim to collectively generate the kind of work called for by such critiques\, and to share strategies for the careful institutionalization of such work. \nThis event is intended to support current efforts to establish a Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) program at UC Santa Cruz\, in addition to enabling a conversation amongst group participants. While student efforts at establishing ethnic studies as a major have a long history at UCSC\, it was not until the disestablishment of American Studies\, which led to massive student protests against the lack of institutional support for the study of race and ethnicity in 2011-12\, that these efforts received administrative attention. In 2012-13\, a working group consisting of faculty\, undergraduates\, and graduate students has met regularly around a series of talks and workshops aimed at developing a CRES major. The major was approved in Spring 2012\, with courses scheduled to begin 2012-13. The public portion of our event\, sponsored by Bettina Aptheker and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, is intended to be in conversation with and to raise the profile of CRES\, as well as the launch of the Feminist Studies graduate program. \nSome questions that we hope to address through this event: \nWhere\, why and to what effect does the complicity of feminisms with the security state\, the carceral turn\, settler colonial states\, and so forth take place?\nWhat are some alternative genealogies of feminism (perhaps not recognizable or identified as such) that we might consider as generative for thinking about difference? Why might they not be as legible as points of departure for feminism? What are the political possibilities and perils of visibility and legibility?\nHow might existing scholarship already be producing alternative genealogies for a practice and politics of feminism?\nTo learn more about the conference\, and to access the agenda and abstracts\, please visit: http://ihr.ucsc.edu/undisciplining-feminism/. \nThis event is free and open to the public.\n \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undisciplining-feminism-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131010T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131010T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20131004T025919Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131004T025919Z UID:10005491-1381428000-1381434300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Lucy Corin DESCRIPTION:Thresholds and Breaking Points \nThe writers in this series will present across multiple genres\, to include poetry\, fiction\, criticism\, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests thresholds of culture\, race\, nation\, sex\, gender\, and desire through the creative imagination. Central to each will be how these thresholds are performed\, tested\, broken\, clarified and complicated in their works. \nLucy Corin is the author of the short story collection The Entire Predicament (Tin House Books) and the novel Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls (FC2). The collection One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses was just released from McSweeney’s Books. Stories have appeared in American Short Fiction\, Conjunctions\, Ploughshares\, Tin House Magazine\, New Stories From the South: The Year’s Best and other places. She’s been a fellow at Breadloaf and Sewanee\, and spent last year at the American Academy in Rome as the 2012 John Guare Fellow in Literature. She now directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of California\, Davis. \nLocation and Time: All Readings located at Kresge Town Hall 466 | 6-7:45pm \nThe Living Writers Series is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, a Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, the Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program\, Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, and a Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-lucy-corin-2/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131015T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131015T163000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20131009T222535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131009T222535Z UID:10005531-1381827600-1381854600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Exhibition: Albert Camus\, 1913-2013 DESCRIPTION:Beginning on October 15\, UC Santa Cruz will be one of 500 venues worldwide to host an exhibit commemorating the 100th birthday of the French Nobel Prize winning author and philosopher Albert Camus. \nThe new digital/paper exhibit combines print editorial with QR code technology. \nThe exhibit was conceived and produced by the Institut Francais\, an arm of the French State Department in partnership with Camus’ publisher\, Gallimard and Ecole Normale Superieure. \n“There are over 100 images\, and more than 15 minutes of audio and video recordings linked to the various QR codes\,” noted Douglas Hull\, a board member of the Silicon Valley branch of the Alliance Francaise. \n“The exhibit works chronologically\, and is divided into five major periods of his life. Some of the images were never published before\, particularly from his life in Algeria\,” Hull added. \nCoded QR codes allow the viewer to select the nature of the information experienced (magenta equals context/background; codes with a symbolic eye equal zoom in; with a quotation mark equal citations; and with an arrow in a white circle equal audio or video). \nRecordings include Camus’s Nobel acceptance speech in Stockholm\, and zooms include articles he wrote anonymously during WWII for an underground paper and copies of manuscript pages. \nHull added that viewers will also have the chance to upload their own picture with a time and location stamp onto a  global mosaic which will be scrollable and accessible to anyone who has downloaded the exhibit’s app. \nThis exhibit is free and open to the public. It runs through November 14. Open hours are 9 a.m.to 4:30 p.m. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/exhibition-albert-camus-1913-2013-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131016T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131016T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20130906T233657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130906T233657Z UID:10005457-1381925700-1381932000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Daniel Selden: "'Our Films\, Their Films': Postcolonial Critique of the Cinematic Apparatus" DESCRIPTION:PAs a former director of the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Center\, Dan Selden’s long-standing interest in cross-cultural aesthetics extends to film production. Selden focuses on the application of the Western cinematic apparatus to non-Western contexts in an effort to better understand the work of such directors as `Abbās Kiyārostamī and Wong Kar Wai. \nDaniel Selden is Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-daniel-selden-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131017T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131017T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20131004T030755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131004T030755Z UID:10005512-1382032800-1382039100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Frances Richard DESCRIPTION:Thresholds and Breaking Points \nThe writers in this series will present across multiple genres\, to include poetry\, fiction\, criticism\, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests thresholds of culture\, race\, nation\, sex\, gender\, and desire through the creative imagination. Central to each will be how these thresholds are performed\, tested\, broken\, clarified and complicated in their works. \nFrances Richard is the author of Anarch. (Futurepoem\, 2012)\, The Phonemes (Les Figues Press\, 2012) and See Through (Four Way Books\, 2003)\, as well as the chapbooks Shaved Code (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, 2008) and Anarch. (Woodland Editions\, 2008). She writes frequently about contemporary art and is co-author\, with Jeffrey Kastner and Sina Najafi\, of Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Fake Estates” (Cabinet Books\, 2005). She has been a visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture\, the recipient of a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and\, most recently\, a research grant from the Graham Foundation. Currently she teaches at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. \nLocation and Time: All Readings located at Kresge Town Hall 466 | 6-7:45pm \nThe Living Writers Series is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, a Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, the Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program\, Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, and a Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-frances-richard-2/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20131018 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20131019 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20130607T153954Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130607T153954Z UID:10004820-1382054400-1382140799@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:7th Annual Founder's Day Celebration Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony DESCRIPTION:Please join us to celebrate the spirit of community and honor outstanding achievement. \nSeventh Annual Founders Celebration Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony \nFriday\, October 18\, 2013 | 6:30 pm | $125 per seat\nCocoanut Grove Ballroom\, Santa Cruz \n[rb_button size=”small” style=”light” url=”http://community.ucsc.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=22245&eid=306944″ label=”Register Today” target=”_blank” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”]\n  \nThis year’s dinner will sell out early. \nPlease purchase your tickets today!\n  \nFounders Celebration Dinner 2013 Honorees:\nFoundation Medal | Frank Gehry\nFiat Lux Award | Don & Diane Cooley\nAlumni Achievement Award | Jock Reynolds\nFaculty Research Lecturer | Howard Haber & Abraham Seiden\n  \nThe UC Santa Cruz Foundation Forum — In Conversation with Frank Gehry\nFriday\, October 18\, 2013 | 3:00 pm\n  \nForum tickets have sold out. A livestream of the event will be available here: \n[rb_button size=”small” style=”light” url=”http://community.ucsc.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=22244&eid=306944″ label=”Livestream” target=”_blank” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/founders-day-2/ LOCATION:Cocoanut Grove\, 400 Beach Street \, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131021T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131021T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20131017T231717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131017T231717Z UID:10005539-1382358600-1382364000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rocio Rosales: "Stagnant Immigrant Social Networks and Cycles of Exploitation" DESCRIPTION:Based on over four years of ethnographic research among street vendors in Los Angeles and on interviews with family members of vendors and former vendors living in Mexico\, Rocio Rosales examines the influence of a sending community and its social networks on migrant outcomes in the US. These social networks affect migration patterns\, ease entry into the fruit vending business but also facilitate exploitation. Furthermore\, these social networks do not always function as effective conduits of information because its members\, due to feelings of shame or embarrassment\, often fail to add to the existing body of knowledge. As a result\, international migration patterns\, job placement\, and exploitative practices do not change or improve for subsequent migrants. This creates a cycle in which social networks become stagnant and successively fail to function as effective conduits of information and resources in ways that might help network members equally and in the aggregate. \nRocio Rosales is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California\, San Diego. She completed her Ph.D. in Sociology at UCLA in 2012 and received her A.B. in Sociology (cum laude) with a certificate in Latin American Studies from Princeton University. Her dissertation\, “Hidden Economies in Public Spaces: The Fruit Vendors of Los Angeles\,” examines the social and economic lives of a group of undocumented Latino street vendors. Her research interests include international migration\, informal work\, immigrant and ethnic economies\, Latinos/as in the US\, qualitative methods and urban ethnography. Her work has been funded by the American Philosophical Society (2011)\, John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation (2010)\, Ford Foundation (2005-2008)\, and the SSRC Mellon Mays Foundation (2003-2012). Her research appears in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and in Ethnic and Racial Studies (forthcoming). \nLecture presented by the UCSC Sociology Colloquium Series and the UCSC Center for Labor Studies. \nFor more info\, go to: http://socyeventsucsc.wordpress.com/.\nFor info about access to College 8\, contact: Barbara Laurence\, balauren@ucsc.edu.\n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rocio-rosales-2/ LOCATION:Rachel Carson College\, Room 301\, Rachel Carson College 1156 High Stree\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131021T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131021T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20131016T233001Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131016T233001Z UID:10005537-1382365800-1382371200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Graduate Seminar with Visiting Artist Carrie Mae Weems DESCRIPTION:The recipient of a 2013 MacArthur Foundation grant\, Carrie Mae Weems is a photographer and video installation artist examining the complex and contradictory legacy of African American identity\, class\, and culture in the United States. On October 21st\, she will meet with graduate students in a seminar setting for a conversation about how artists talk about their work to the public and to the critics\, scholars\, and journalists who write about it. Ms. Weems’ art practices intricately document and participate in the ongoing and centuries-old struggle for racial equality\, human rights\, and social inclusion in America. Through photography\, installation\, and video\, Weems addresses an array of issues and demonstrates an overarching commitment to understanding the present by closely examining history. We hope you will join us in a conversation with Ms. Weems about communicating politically and emotionally charged practices to different audiences. \nPlease join us October 21st at 2:30 P.M. in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 230. This will be a participatory conversation so please come with questions and prepared to discuss and present aspects of your work. A public lecture will take place later the same day at 7 P.M. in the Media Theater. \nInformation on Ms. Weems work can be found at http://carriemaeweems.net/ \nSponsored by UC Santa Cruz Arts Division\, Art Department\, UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, Film & Digital Media\, Visual and Media Cultures Colloquia\, The Office for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion\, and Institute of the Arts & Sciences. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/graduate-seminar-with-visiting-artist-carrie-mae-weems-2/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab\, Room 306 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131021T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131021T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20131015T161944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131015T161944Z UID:10005535-1382382000-1382387400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Lecture: Carrie Mae Weems\, photographer DESCRIPTION:Photographer and video installation artist Carrie Mae Weems examines the complex and contradictory legacy of African American identity\, class\, and culture in the United States. \nWeems will discuss her work and ideas\, drawing on three decades of artistic activity. The recipient of a 2013 MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant\, Weems has exhibited nationally and internationally over the course of her career. \nPresented by the Art Department\, Arts Division\, Digital Arts and New Media\, and Film and Digital Media. Cosponsored by the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, the Office for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion; Visual & Media Cultures Colloquia\, and the Institute of the Arts & Sciences. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lecture-carrie-mae-weems-photographer-2/ LOCATION:Media Theater\, M110 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131023T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131023T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20130906T234038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130906T234038Z UID:10005458-1382530500-1382536800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jennifer L. Derr: "Embodied Politics and Bilharzia Infection in Colonial Egypt" DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Derr’s work explores the configuration and experience of the colonial state in Egypt through its construction of the agricultural environments that lined the banks of the Nile River. Derr traces the intersections of the colonial state in Egypt with the material experiences of environmental infrastructure\, resource allocation\, disease\, and the geographies of colonial capitalism. \nJennifer Derr is Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-jennifer-derr-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131023T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131023T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20130906T162958Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130906T162958Z UID:10005455-1382547600-1382553000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gihan Abou Zeid: "Egyptian Women in Struggle: Then and Now" DESCRIPTION:Egyptian human rights activist\, journalist and author GIHAN ABOU ZEID is an authority on women’s rights in the Arab world. She was part of the revolution of 2011 that brought millions of people to Tahrir Square. Gihan is the managing editor for the magazine Politics and Religion and writes for the Qatari newspaper Al Arab. She is developing a regional strategy for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on cooperation between UN agencies and faith-based organizations. Gihan served 9 years as vice president of the NGO’s Forum for Women in Development\, and was a policy adviser for the Ministry of Family and Population in Egypt. \nSponsored by the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research. For further information\, including disabled access\, please contact Evin Guy\, ecguy@ucsc.edu\, (831) 459-5655. \n  \n \n  \n \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gihan-abou-zeid-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131024T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131024T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20131004T031116Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131004T031116Z UID:10005523-1382637600-1382643900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Ruth Ellen Kocher DESCRIPTION:Thresholds and Breaking Points \nThe writers in this series will present across multiple genres\, to include poetry\, fiction\, criticism\, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests thresholds of culture\, race\, nation\, sex\, gender\, and desire through the creative imagination. Central to each will be how these thresholds are performed\, tested\, broken\, clarified and complicated in their works. \nRuth Ellen Kocher is the author of Ending in Planes (Noemi Press\, date TBA)\, Goodbye Lyric: The Gigans and Lovely Gun (Sheep Meadow Press 2014)\, domina Un/blued (Tupelo Press 2013)\, One Girl Babylon (New Issues Press 2003)\, When the Moon Knows You’re Wandering\, winner of the Green Rose Prize in Poetry (New Issues Press 2002)\, and Desdemona’s Fire winner of the Naomi Long Madget Award for African American Poets (Lotus Press 1999). Her poems are widely anthologized\, and she has been awarded fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation\, the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets\, and Yaddo. She is Associate Chair of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Colorado where she teaches innovative Poetry\, Poetics\, and Literature. \nLocation and Time: All Readings located at Kresge Town Hall 466 | 6-7:45pm \nThe Living Writers Series is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, a Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, the Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program\, Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, and a Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-ruth-ellen-kocher-2/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20131025 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20131027 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20130607T155938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130607T155938Z UID:10004824-1382659200-1382831999@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"Unfixed Itineraries: Film and Visual Culture from Arab Worlds" DESCRIPTION:[vc_column width=”1/3″ el_position=”first”] [rb_section_title title=”Organizers” icon=”con-none” border=”true” margin=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \nPeter Limbrick\, Associate Professor\, Film and Digital Media\, UCSC\nOmnia El Shakry\, Associate Professor\, History\, UC Davis \n[/vc_column_text] [rb_blank_divider height=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [rb_section_title title=”Steering Committee” icon=”con-none” border=”true” margin=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \nShelby Graham\, Director/Curator\, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery\, UCSC\nSoraya Murray\, Assistant Professor\, Film and Digital Media\, UCSC\nIrene Lusztig\, Assistant Professor\, Film and Digital Media\, UCSC\nNeda Atanasoski\, Associate Professor\, Feminist Studies\, UCSC\nJennifer Derr\, Assistant Professor\, History\, UCSC \n[/vc_column_text] [/vc_column] [vc_column width=”2/3″ el_position=”last”] [rb_section_title title=”Unfixed Itineraries” icon=”con-none” border=”true” margin=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \nUnfixed Itineraries has two components: \na symposium\, free and open to the public\, that will take place October 25-26 2013 at the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)\, bringing scholars and artists together for two days of screenings\, presentations\, and conversations. \na concurrent exhibition at UCSC’s Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery that runs from October 25-December 10. \nBoth events coincide with the series “Moumen Smihi\, Poet of Tangier\,” curated by UCSC film and digital media professor Peter Limbrick\, which takes place at the Pacific Film Archive\, Berkeley\, between October 10 and 27. Smihi will also be a participant at the symposium. http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/smihi \nThe Unfixed Itineraries symposium will encourage innovative perspectives on Arab film and visual culture\, emphasizing their multifaceted and plural nature. Rather than homogenize “the Arab world\,” for example\, we stress the multiple worlds that have been made by diverse histories. Instead of taking for granted the meaning of the word “Arab\,” our event continually questions fixed narratives that produce rigid identities. And by refusing the common tendency to reduce Arab art to the realm of the political or the religious\, we also affirm the inspiring\, arresting pleasures of the aesthetic\, the sensory\, the intellectual\, and the social aspects of film and media from the region. \nParticipants will focus on the production and circulation of Arab visual cultures across multiple temporal and spatial boundaries: from the historical to the recent\, at “home” and in diaspora. The symposium includes opportunities for seeing film and media and for engaging in scholarly\, critical debates with cultural producers (rather than just “about” them). \nArtists and scholars will visit from Lebanon\, Morocco\, Egypt\, Syria\, Canada\, Europe\, and the US and the work presented will cover a wide area of forms\, styles\, and thematic concerns. \nSymposium screenings\, panels\, and presentations will address topics such as: Movement and Extra-territoriality; Itineraries of Intertextuality; Past\, Present\, and Future Itineraries; Narrative and non-Narrative Itineraries; Archives\, Images\, Memory. \n[/vc_column_text] [/vc_column] URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/unfixed-itineraries-film-and-visual-culture-from-arab-worlds-2/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab\, Room 306 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131025T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131025T214500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20131010T215027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131010T215027Z UID:10005533-1382727600-1382737500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners Film Screening DESCRIPTION:Free Angela! is a brilliant documentary that captures the sensational murder and kidnapping trial of Black Communist and UCLA Professor Angela Davis in the early 1970s. It provides extraordinary archival footage\, interviews with Davis\, all four of her trial lawyers and the activists who co-led a massive international movement for her freedom. Davis was deeply involved in a movement to help save the lives of three Black prisoners known as the Soledad Brothers\, and was also active in the Black Panther Party and the anti- Vietnam war movement. Davis was indicted as a co-conspirator by a Marin County Grand Jury and when “unavailable” was placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list.This was the result of an attempt by prisoners from San Quentin to escape during a court case in Marin County on August 7th\, 1970. The judge\, two of the prisoners\, and their young would-be liberator were killed by San Quentin prison guards; the prosecuting attorney and the other escaping prisoner were critically wounded. Condemned in sensational media coverage\, then President Richard Nixon and then California Governor Ronald Reagan denounced Davis as a “dangerous terrorist.” Davis was in fact the target of government revenge as a symbol of the radical fervor of those times. The film tells a complicated story in a comprehensible\, powerful way that continues to reverberate in our own time. \nQ & A following the film with Howard Moore\, lead counsel for Angela Davis\, and Bettina Aptheker\, Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \nShowing sponsored by the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and by the Feminist Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/free-angela-davis-and-all-political-prisoners-film-screening-2/ LOCATION:Classroom Unit 2\, Classroom Unit‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, UC Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131026T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131026T171500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20131008T164326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131008T164326Z UID:10005529-1382778000-1382807700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Stanford School of Philosophy of Science DESCRIPTION:[vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \nIn the 80s and early 90s\, a group of influential philosophers\, historians\, and philosophers of science were concerned with the following themes: disunity and pluralism of scientific theory and practice the nature of scientific modeling (in its dizzying variety\, including mathematical\, diagrammatic\, and classificatory models) post-positivistic and practice-based articulations of scientific knowledge and practice. The aim of this conference is to invite scholars to reflect on the nature\, thematics\, and influence of the “Stanford School” of philosophy of science. \nThis event is free and open to the public. \nPlease e-mail Jill Covington (jillj@stanford.edu) or Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther (rgw@ucsc.edu) if you have any questions. \nEvent Poster (PDF) \n[/vc_column_text] [vc_column width=”1/2″ el_position=”first”] [rb_section_title title=”Friday\, October 25\, 2013″ icon=”con-none” border=”true” margin=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \n9:00 AM – 12:30 PM\nOpening Comments: \nRasmus Grønfeldt Winther (UC Santa Cruz)\nPanel #1: Next Generation(s) \nJordi Cat (Indiana)\nHasok Chang (Cambridge)\nJonathan Kaplan (Oregon State University)\nNaomi Oreskes (Harvard)\nJanet Stemwedel (San José State University)\nMichael Weisberg (University of Pennsylvania)\nRasmus Grønfeldt Winther (UC Santa Cruz) \nChair: Arezoo Islami (Stanford) \n1:30 PM – 5:30 PM\nPanel #2: Parallel Philosophers \nPhilip Kitcher (Columbia)\nHelen Longino (Stanford)\nSergio Martínez Muñoz (National Autonomous University of Mexico\, UNAM)\nBas van Fraassen (San Francisco State University) \nCo-Chairs: Debra Satz (Stanford) and John Perry (Stanford) \n[/vc_column_text] [/vc_column] [vc_column width=”1/2″ el_position=”last”] [rb_section_title title=”Saturday\, October 26\, 2013″ icon=”con-none” border=”true” margin=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \n9:00 AM – 12:30 PM\nPanel #3: Collaborative Local Scientists \nBrian Cantwell-Smith (Toronto)\nPersi Diaconis (Stanford)\nCWF Everitt (Stanford)\nSolomon Feferman (Stanford)\nMarcus Feldman (Stanford)\nMelissa Franklin (Harvard)\nDenis Phillips (Stanford) \nChair: Paolo Mancosu (UC Berkeley) \n1:30 PM – 5:15 PM\nPanel #4: Stanford School Core Members \nNancy Cartwright (Durham)\nJohn Dupré (Exeter)\nPeter Galison (Harvard)\nPeter Godfrey-Smith (CUNY)\nPatrick Suppes (Stanford) \nChair: R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford) \nClosing Comments:\nThomas Ryckman (Stanford) \n[/vc_column_text] [/vc_column] [rb_blank_divider width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \nConference organized by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther. Co-sponsored by Stanford University\, Stanford Philosophy Department\, Stanford Humanities & Sciences Dean’s Office\, Stanford Humanities Center\, Center for the Study of Language and Information\, and the Patrick Suppes Center for History and Philosophy of Science. \n[/vc_column_text] URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-stanford-school-of-philosophy-of-science-2-2/ LOCATION:Cordura Hall – CSLI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131028T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131028T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20131003T230814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131003T230814Z UID:10005480-1382983200-1382994000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Saru Jayaraman: "Behind the Kitchen Door in Santa Cruz and Across America" DESCRIPTION:More Americans are choosing to dine healthy and ethically at restaurants offering organic and fair-trade ingredients. Yet few diners are aware of the working conditions at the restaurants themselves. How do restaurant workers live on some of the lowest wages in America? And how do poor working conditions—discriminatory labor practices\, exploitation\, and unsanitary kitchens—affect the meals that arrive at our restaurant tables? In her book\, Behind the Kitchen Door\, Saru Jayaraman tries to answer these questions by following a group of restaurant workers\, among the 10 million – many of whom are immigrants and people of color – who make up the nation’s second-largest private sector workforce. Whether you eat haute cuisine or fast food\, the well-being of restaurant workers is a pressing concern\, affecting our health and safety\, as well as our local economies. \nMs. Jayaraman’s talk will be followed with a Q&A session with the author along with Gretchen Regenhardt\, attorney and representative of the Watsonville-based group\, California Rural Legal Assistance\, which is launching a survey and research project on low-wage restaurant workers in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties. \nSaru Jayaraman is a graduate of Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and director of the Food Labor Research Center at UC Berkeley. She is also co-Founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United)\, a national organization with 10\,000 members across 26 cities\, which organizes restaurant workers to win workplace justice\, conducts research\, partners with responsible employers\, and launched cooperatively-owned restaurants. She has appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher\, MSNBC\, NBC Nightly News\, and PBS\, among others. \nCalifornia Rural Legal Assistance\, founded in 1966 as a nonprofit legal services program\, now has 21 offices\, providing more than 40\,000 low-income rural Californians with free legal assistance and a variety of community education and outreach programs. \nCo-Sponsored by the UCSC Center for Labor Studies\, the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems\, the Sociology Department\, the Chicano Latino Resource Center\, Oakes College\, and the Institute for Humanities Research. \nFor more information\, please contact smckay@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/behind-the-kitchen-door-2/ LOCATION:Oakes Learning Center\, UCSC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131029T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131029T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20130926T191737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130926T191737Z UID:10005472-1383073200-1383078600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Helene Moglen: "From Frankenstein to Facebook: Reflections on the Dissolution of the Humanities" DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz Emeriti group presents an Emeriti Faculty Lecture cosponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies and the Department of Literature \nAre accounts of our love affairs with our machines stories of imprisonment or empowerment? Are we in charge of our avatars\, personal profiles and robots\, or have they actually mastered us? Drawing on Mary Shelley’s iconic science fiction novel\, Frankenstein\, Moglen explores the relation of humanism to technology and considers the various realities that pleasures of the virtual have concealed. \nHelene Moglen is a literary\, feminist\, and psychoanalytic critic. In addition to the books and articles she has published in the area of literary studies\, she has written about literacy\, pedagogy\, competition among academic women\, power\, and the erosion of the humanities. She is the author of The Trauma of Gender: A Feminist Theory of the English Novel (UC Press 2001) and the co-editor of Female Subjects in Black and White: Race\, Psychoanalysis\, Feminism (UC Press\, 1997). \nFREE parking is available in the Performing Arts lot. For questions or accommodation requirements\, contact UC Santa Cruz Special Events Office at 831.459.5003 or specialevents@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/helene-moglen-from-frankenstein-to-facebook-reflections-on-the-dissolution-of-the-humanities-2/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131029T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131029T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20131028T220427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131028T220427Z UID:10005546-1383073200-1383080400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Film Screening: Gold (1934) DESCRIPTION:The Golden Plague Forging Its Path of Annihilation! \nOne of the few expressly science fiction films produced under German National Socialism\, Gold makes a spectacle of British-German relations in the early years of the Third Reich. An “evil” British alchemist sabotages a “good” German chemist’s experimental attempt to obtain gold from base metals with the help of an atomic reactor\, and the chemist dies in the ensuing explosion. The deceased chemist’s “good” engineer assistant\, Werner Holk (Hans Alber)\, survives the disaster and starts to look for the parties responsible for the death of his mentor. Effectively kidnapped by the Brits during his search and coerced into aiding them\, Holk finds himself in a vast underwater facility where the atomic reactor designed by his dead friend is being reconstructed on a grand scale. While attempting to sabotage this new alchemical project before it destroys the world economy with mass-produced artificial gold\, Holk also has to figure out what to do about his feelings for the daughter of the British alchemist\, Florence (Brigitte Helm). Playing on many of the anxieties and fears connected with Germany’s experiences with hyperinflation in the 1920s\, Hartl’s film is a unique peek into Nazi cinema of the 1930s. Wittily “sampled” in Curt Siodmak’s American sci-fi classic\, The Magnetic Monster (1953)\, excerpts from which will be shown as well\, Gold is not to be missed! \n  \nPresented by It Came from the Thirties! For the remainder of the quarter\, we will be showing 1930s films from different countries each week. Same time\, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family\, invite your friends. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-gold-1934-2/ LOCATION:Porter C-118 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131030T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131030T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20130906T234502Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130906T234502Z UID:10005459-1383135300-1383141600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Clare Monagle: "Neo-medievalism and the Postcolonial: International Relations Theory and Temporality" DESCRIPTION:Though an historian of medieval thought\, Clare Monagle’s most recent work turns to the twentieth-century and the deployment of the Middle Ages in International Relations Theory. Monagle argues that charting the medieval in this frame enables a new insight into the understanding of historical time that informs the discipline of international relations. \nClare Monagle is a graduate of Monash and the Johns Hopkins Universities. She received her PhD in 2007. She is broadly interested in history of intellectuals in the Middle Ages\, as well as the histories of the institutions that housed them. Her work is also concerned with the “medievalism” of twentieth and twenty-first century thought\, that is\, the uses to which the concept of the medieval is put within definitions of modernity and progress. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-clare-monagle-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20131101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20131103 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20130206T201445Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130206T201445Z UID:10005357-1383264000-1383436799@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Salt of the Earth: Exploring the Cultural Diasporas of Surfing DESCRIPTION:[vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \n \nProudly presented by the UCHRI and Porter College\, the spirit of the Salt of the Earth event is to essentially celebrate the indigenous Hawaiian practice of heʻe nalu (surfing) and the impact it has had on the world.  Events include an artist talk by Drew Brophy and an alaia surfboard shaping demo by Tom Pohaku Stone at Porter College on the afternoon of Friday\, 11/1.  That evening there will be screening of Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau presented by director Sam George at the Rio Theater – doors and live music start at 6:45pm.  The following day a surf conference will be held at the UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, from 9:30am – 5:00pm\, that will use the film to segue into some of the most debated aspects of contemporary surf culture: the changing aesthetic representations of surfing\, the evolving methods of surfboard production\, surf industry environmentalism and surfer activism\, and contextualizing localisms in both Oʻahu and Santa Cruz.  These events are free* and open to the public.  For more information\, please visit the event website at saltoftheearth-ucsc.blogspot.com or email Trey Highton at treyhighton@gmail.com. \nSponsored by: Arbor Collective\, Big Creek Lumber\, Burger\, Dark Seas\, Hula’s Island Grill\, Kanalu\, Mollusk Surf Shop\, Obey\, Patagonia\, Santa Cruz Mountain Brewery\, Save the Waves Coalition\, Sawyer Land & Sea Supply\, Surfline\, Surfrider Foundation\, Trader Joe’s\, Woodstock’s Pizza\, and the UCSC Literature Department. \n* A $5 donation will be strongly suggested at the door for the film screening.  This donation will purchase a raffle ticket for various door prizes supplied by our community sponsors.  All proceeds will benefit the Surfrider & Aikau Foundations. \n[/vc_column_text] [vc_column width=”1/2″ el_position=”first”] [rb_section_title title=”Friday\, November 1″ icon=”con-none” border=”true” margin=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \n1:00 PM – Artist Talk with Drew Brophy – “How to Survive as an Artist”\nHitchcock Lounge\, Porter College\, UCSC \n2:30 PM – Indigenous Alaia Surfboard Shaping Demo with Tom Pohaku Stone\nPorter College Amphitheater\, UCSC \n6:45 PM – Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau screening\, plus live music from The Shapes\nRio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Ave\, Santa Cruz \n[/vc_column_text] [/vc_column] [vc_column width=”1/2″ el_position=”last”] [rb_section_title title=”Saturday\, November 2″ icon=”con-none” border=”true” margin=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \n9:30am – 5pm – Surf Conference at UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall \nPanel Discussions Include: \nChanging Aesthetics of Surfing: Technologies of Framing the Oceanic\nSam George\, Marcus Sanders\, Julie Cox\, Daniel Duane\, & Drew Brophy \nOf Surfboards & Soul: A look at the changing manufacturing technologies of surfboards\, and if the surfboard has a soul…\nTom Pohaku Stone\, Chad Kaimanu Jackson\, Ashley Lloyd\, Danny Hess\, & Bob Pearson \nClear Water: An honest conversation about SIMA\, Environmentalism\, and Surfer Activism\nJess Ponting\, Jim Kempton\, Kristian Gustavson\, Kyle Thiermann\, & Nick Mucha \nDeconstructing Localisms: Contextualizing Oahu & Santa Cruz\nIsaiah Helekunihi Walker\, Tom Pohaku Stone\, Ken Collins\, & Frosty Hesson \nFree on-campus parking \n[/vc_column_text] [/vc_column] [rb_blank_divider height=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \nFor more information\, please visit the conference website: http://saltoftheearth-ucsc.blogspot.com \n[/vc_column_text] URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/salt-of-the-earth-exploring-the-cultural-diasporas-of-surfing-2/ LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131104T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131104T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20131018T055207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131018T055207Z UID:10005541-1383584400-1383591600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Debarati Sanyal: "Camus's Afterlives: From the Holocaust to the Age of Terror" DESCRIPTION:Debarati Sanyal is Associate Professor of French at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is the author of The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire\, Irony and the Politics of Form (John Hopkins University Press\, 2006) and a forthcoming book titled Dangerous Intersections: Complicity\, Trauma and Holocaust Memory. She has recently published articles on Alain Resnaiss\, Jean-Paul Sartre\, Albert Camus\, Jonathan Littell\, Giorgio Agamben\, the memory of World War II\, and Holocaust memory. She has also co-edited a 2-volume issue of the Yale French Studies issue titled Noueds de mémoire: Multidirectional Memory in French and Francophone Literature (2010). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/debarati-sanyal-camuss-afterlives-from-the-holocaust-to-the-age-of-terror-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131105T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131105T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20131104T230033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131104T230033Z UID:10004866-1383638400-1383670800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:1930's FIlm Series: "Chapaev (1934)" DESCRIPTION:An important example of socialist realism in Soviet cinema\, Chapaev charts the ideological development and refinement of Chapaev (Boris Babochkin)\, a charismatic leader of a Red Army division. Under the guidance of his accompanying Party commissar\, Dmitri Furmanov (Boris Blinov)\, the impetuous and proud Chapaev learns important lessons in the dialectic of spontaneity and consciousness. Released on the seventeenth anniversary of the October revolution and directed by Georgii and Sergei Vasil’ev (often referred to as the Vasil’ev Brothers\, even though they weren’t fraternally related)\, Chapaev was the most popular Soviet film of its time and a huge hit internationally. Not to be missed! \n\n\n\nFor the remainder of the quarter\, we will be showing 1930s films from different countries each week. Same time\, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family\, invite your friends.\n\n\n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/1930s-film-series-chapaev-1934-2/ LOCATION:Porter C-118 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131106T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131106T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160208 CREATED:20130909T185419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130909T185419Z UID:10005460-1383740100-1383746400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Katherine Gordy: "Situated Theory: Radical Political Thought in Latin America" DESCRIPTION:Katherine Gordy’s current book project traces the interrelations between what she identifies as different “spheres” of Cuban political thought—political doctrine (official sphere)\, political theory (academic sphere)\, and daily practice (popular sphere)—in order to challenge accounts that treat Cuban socialist ideology as solely state-originated dogma or as necessarily in opposition to academic and popular forms of political thought. \nKatherine Gordy is Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University in the Department of Political Science. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-katherine-gordy-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR