The Humanities Institute

International Playhouse XIII
2013-05-19 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Stevenson Event Center
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.
This 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.

Lisa Lowe: "Sugar, Tea, Opium, and Coolies: The Intimacies of Four Continents"
2013-05-20 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Lisa Lowe
This 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.
Lisa 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.
Seminar with Lisa Lowe:
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 • 11:00 AM • Humanities 1 Building, Room 210
To receive the seminar readings, please contact Courtney Mahaney at cmahaney@ucsc.edu.

This 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.

U.S. Fulbright IIE Information Session
2013-05-22 10:00 - 11:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
The Graduate Division cordially invites undergraduate and graduate students to an information session on the U.S. Fulbright IIE fellowship program.
If 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.
Link to the competition: http://www.iie.org/fulbright
Presenters will include:
Past successful Fulbright IIE applicants
Marlene Robinson, UCSC Fulbright Advisor
Dr. Tyrus Miller, UCSC Graduate Division Dean and Past Fulbright Awardee
Please RSVP to Irena Polić, at ipolic@ucsc.edu, by May 17th.
Press Release: Fulbright U.S. Student Program Competition Opens: International Study or Research Grants and English Teaching Assistantship Now Available

Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - Michael Nauenberg: "Teaching Natural Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment"
2013-05-22 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Teaching Natural Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment”
Michael 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.
Michael Nauenberg is Research Professor of Physics at UCSC.

Anthony Barbieri-Low: "Imagining the Tomb of the First Emperor of China"
2013-05-23 04:30 - 20:30 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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”
The 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.
Talk begins at 5:00 pm, refreshments served at 4:30 pm, with a reception following lecture.
Anthony 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.
Free parking for lecture in Cowell-Stevenson parking lots. For more information on the lecture or the AIA, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu.

Neil Sinhababu: "Desire's Explanations"
2013-05-23 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 1, Room 320
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.
Neil Sinhababu is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at National University of Singapore. He works on Ethics and Metaethics.

The Living Writers Reading Series: Lauren Shufran, Tsering Wangmo, and Juliana Leslie
2013-05-23 18:00 - 19:45 | Unnamed Venue, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Lauren Shufran is the winner of The Motherwell Prize. Her poetry collection Inter Arma will be published be Fence Books in Spring, 2013.
Tsering 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.
Juliana 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.

Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - Eng-Beng Lim: "The Rice Queen's Brown Boy Dream: On Pedophilic Modernity, Performance and Queer Asia"
2013-05-29 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“The Rice Queen’s Brown Boy Dream: On Pedophilic Modernity, Performance and Queer Asia”
Eng-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.
Eng-Beng Lim is Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University.

Celebrating the Humanities Spring Awards
2013-05-30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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Humanities Undergraduate Research Award (HUGRA) Presentations
2013-05-30 16:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Stay tuned for more information.

The Living Writers Reading Series: George Estreich
2013-05-30 18:00 - 19:45 | Unnamed Venue, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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

Workshop with Fenella Cannell: "Mormon Intercessions"
2013-06-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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.
(1) Fenella Cannell -cover note on Mormon intercessions
(2) Mormon intercessions – chapter three FC

Fenella Cannell: "Ghosts and Ancestors in the Modern West"
2013-06-03 15:30 - 17:00 | Unnamed Venue
This Anthropology Colloquium is co-sponsored by the IHR’s Religious & Secular Entanglements Research Cluster.
Dr. 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.
Dr. Fenella Cannell, London School of Economics and Political Science

The Living Writers Reading Series: Student Readings
2013-06-06 18:00 - 19:30 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join us for readings by UCSC’s creative writing students.

bodies / moving / borders symposium and performance
2013-06-08 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
bodies / moving / borders
displacements and dreams of citizenship
a 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
The 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.
SCHEDULE
10am Panel 1: displacements
1pm Panel II: dreams
3pm Provocations
5pm Performances (Stevenson Event Center)

Workshop on Things
2013-06-26 - 2013-06-27 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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.
All conference events will take place in Humanities 1, Room 210.

Wednesday, June 26th
10:00–11:30 David Hyder (University of Ottawa) “Time and object in Transcendental Deduction §24”
Moderator: Dennis Des Chene
11:45–1:15 Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech) “Kant on the qualities of things”
Moderator: David Hyder
1:15–2:45 Lunch
2:45–4:15 Dennis Des Chene (Washington University St. Louis) “The emergence of mere things”
Moderator: Ori Simchen
4:30–6:00 Ori Simchen (University of British Columbia) “Things of semantic value”
Moderator: Abe Stone
6:00-7:00 Tea and Cookies Reception
Thursday, June 27th
9:30–11:00 Justin E.H. Smith (University of Paris VII) “Res extensae, res publicae, and the political dimensions of things”
Moderator: Ori Simchen
11:15–12:45 Nick Stang (University of Miami) (title TBA)
Moderator: Justin E.H. Smith
12:45–1:45 Lunch
1:45–3:15 Abe Stone “Kant on substances and things”
Moderator: Nick Stang

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship Information Session at UC Berkeley
2013-09-16 13:00 - 14:30 | Geballe Room
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.
ACLS 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.
Information on current ACLS competitions and deadlines are available here.

National Endowment for the Humanities Application Writing Workshop
2013-09-24 13:30 - 16:45 | Humanities 1, Room 202
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.
NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.
Agenda:
1:00-1:30pm – Registration
1:30-3:00pm – Overview of Endowment Programs and Special Initiatives
3:00-3:15pm – Break
3:15-4:45pm – Mock Panel Session/Strategies for Application Writing followed by Q&A
This 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.

Otávio Bueno: "Seeing with a Microscope"
2013-10-03 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 1, Room 320
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.
Otávio 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.

Joanne Barker: "In Debt: A Reconsideration of 'Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime' from Manna-Hata"
2013-10-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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.
Joanne 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.

Poetry and/or Revolution
2013-10-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Oct 3-5, UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis, UC Berkeley.
This 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.
The 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.
UC Santa Cruz • October 3, 2013
7-9 PM
Chris Chen, “Antagonism and/or Difference: Reading Race”
Jennifer Cooke, “Poetic Sensations: Bodies, Emotions & Change”
Poetry Reading: Wendy Trevino, Danny Hayward, Jasper Bernes, Jennifer Cooke, Juliana Spahr
Humanities 1, Room 210, Santa Cruz
UC Davis • October 4, 2013
10-12 PM
Report from six UK poet-scholars including organizers of the “Militant Poetry and Politics” conference at Birkbeck University
Voorhies Hall 126, Corner of First and A Streets, Davis
2-4 PM
Poetics & Ports: a report from eight poet-scholars involved in Occupy Oakland and Bay Area political organizing
Voorhies Hall 126, Corner of First and A Streets, Davis
7-9 PM
Offsite Poetry Reading: David Buuck, Keston Sutherland, Jill Richards, Marianne Morris, Chris Chen
Third Space, 946 Olive Drive at Richards Blvd., Davis
UC Berkeley • October 5, 2013
10-12 PM
Roundtable discussion of the relation between identity-based oppression and literary representation in militant poetics
Wheeler Hall 300, English Department Media Room
2-4 PM
Manifestos and/or practical proposals: 13 concise and eloquent considerations of the situation for revolution and/or poetry
Wheeler Hall 300, English Department Media Room
7-9 PM
Offsite Poetry Reading & Farewell Celebration: Sean Bonney, Imad Hassan, Francesca Lisette, Joshua Clover
Location announced at afternoon session
Made possible by generous support from the UCSC Department of Literature and the Institute for Humanities Research at Santa Cruz.
Conference blog with schedule PDF’s of readings:
http://revolutionandorpoetry.wordpress.com

Joanne Barker Seminar
2013-10-04 11:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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.

Joanne 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.

Jim McCloskey: "Preverbs, Phases, and Objecthood: An Irish Perspective on Some Old Problems"
2013-10-04 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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
itself a central aspect of theories of objecthood which derive from Government Binding Theory.
Jim McCloskey is Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz.

THATCamp Alt-Ac: an Alternative Academics Unconference
2013-10-05 - 2013-10-06 | 60 Evans Hall and Dwinelle Classrooms, UC Berkeley
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.
Please see http://altac2013.thatcamp.org/ to register and for more information.

"The Motherhood Archives" film screening and discussion
2013-10-08 19:00 - 20:30 | Communications 150, Studio C
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.

Introduction by Neda Atanasoski (Feminist Studies)
Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker, Irene Lusztig, and:
Nancy Chen (Anthropology)
Jenny Horne (Film & Digital Media)
Felicity Schaeffer (Feminist Studies)
Reception to follow in Communications 139

Presented by the Center for Documentary Arts and Research and the Departments of Anthropology, Feminist Studies, and Film & Digital Media.

Deborah Gould: "Becoming Coalitional: The Strange and Miraculous Alliance Between Queer to the Left and the Jesus People, USA"
2013-10-09 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Interested in the emotional terrains of activism, Deborah Gould’s current project explores political appetites, encounters, and the “not-yet” of politics.
Deborah Gould is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Sociology at UC Santa Cruz.

Film Screening of "Maestra" with Filmmaker Catherine Murphy
2013-10-09 19:30 - 21:00 | Charles E. Merrill Lounge
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.
There will be a Q & A with the filmmaker after the screening.
Co-sponsored by The Chicano/Latino Research Center, The Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, and the Social Documentation Program.
For more information contact the Latin American and Latino Studies Department, or Professor Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal at: lourdes@ucsc.edu

Undisciplining Feminism: Formations in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2013-10-10 13:30 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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.
This 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.
Some questions that we hope to address through this event:
Where, 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?
What 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?
How might existing scholarship already be producing alternative genealogies for a practice and politics of feminism?
To learn more about the conference, and to access the agenda and abstracts, please visit: http://ihr.ucsc.edu/undisciplining-feminism/.
This event is free and open to the public.

Living Writers Series: Lucy Corin
2013-10-10 18:00 - 19:45 | Kresge Town Hall
Thresholds and Breaking Points
The 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.
Lucy 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.
Location and Time: All Readings located at Kresge Town Hall 466 | 6-7:45pm
The 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.

Exhibition: Albert Camus, 1913-2013
2013-10-15 09:00 - 16:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
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.
The new digital/paper exhibit combines print editorial with QR code technology.
The 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.
“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.
“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.
Coded 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).
Recordings 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.
Hull 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.
This exhibit is free and open to the public. It runs through November 14. Open hours are 9 a.m.to 4:30 p.m.

Daniel Selden: "'Our Films, Their Films': Postcolonial Critique of the Cinematic Apparatus"
2013-10-16 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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.
Daniel Selden is Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz.

Living Writers Series: Frances Richard
2013-10-17 18:00 - 19:45 | Kresge Town Hall
Thresholds and Breaking Points
The 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.
Frances 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.
Location and Time: All Readings located at Kresge Town Hall 466 | 6-7:45pm
The 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.

7th Annual Founder's Day Celebration Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony
2013-10-18 | Cocoanut Grove, 400 Beach Street , Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Please join us to celebrate the spirit of community and honor outstanding achievement.
Seventh Annual Founders Celebration Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony
Friday, October 18, 2013 | 6:30 pm | $125 per seat
Cocoanut Grove Ballroom, Santa Cruz

This year’s dinner will sell out early.
Please purchase your tickets today!

Founders Celebration Dinner 2013 Honorees:
Foundation Medal | Frank Gehry
Fiat Lux Award | Don & Diane Cooley
Alumni Achievement Award | Jock Reynolds
Faculty Research Lecturer | Howard Haber & Abraham Seiden

The UC Santa Cruz Foundation Forum — In Conversation with Frank Gehry
Friday, October 18, 2013 | 3:00 pm

Forum tickets have sold out. A livestream of the event will be available here:

Rocio Rosales: "Stagnant Immigrant Social Networks and Cycles of Exploitation"
2013-10-21 12:30 - 14:00 | Rachel Carson College, Room 301, Rachel Carson College 1156 High Stree, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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.
Rocio 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).
Lecture presented by the UCSC Sociology Colloquium Series and the UCSC Center for Labor Studies.
For more info, go to: http://socyeventsucsc.wordpress.com/.
For info about access to College 8, contact: Barbara Laurence, balauren@ucsc.edu.

Graduate Seminar with Visiting Artist Carrie Mae Weems
2013-10-21 14:30 - 16:00 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab, Room 306
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.
Please 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.
Information on Ms. Weems work can be found at http://carriemaeweems.net/
Sponsored 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.

Lecture: Carrie Mae Weems, photographer
2013-10-21 19:00 - 20:30 | Media Theater, M110
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.
Weems 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.
Presented 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.

Jennifer L. Derr: "Embodied Politics and Bilharzia Infection in Colonial Egypt"
2013-10-23 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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.
Jennifer Derr is Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz.

Gihan Abou Zeid: "Egyptian Women in Struggle: Then and Now"
2013-10-23 17:00 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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.
Sponsored 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.

Living Writers Series: Ruth Ellen Kocher
2013-10-24 18:00 - 19:45 | Kresge Town Hall
Thresholds and Breaking Points
The 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.
Ruth 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.
Location and Time: All Readings located at Kresge Town Hall 466 | 6-7:45pm
The 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.

"Unfixed Itineraries: Film and Visual Culture from Arab Worlds"
2013-10-25 - 2013-10-26 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab, Room 306
Peter Limbrick, Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media, UCSC
Omnia El Shakry, Associate Professor, History, UC Davis

Shelby Graham, Director/Curator, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, UCSC
Soraya Murray, Assistant Professor, Film and Digital Media, UCSC
Irene Lusztig, Assistant Professor, Film and Digital Media, UCSC
Neda Atanasoski, Associate Professor, Feminist Studies, UCSC
Jennifer Derr, Assistant Professor, History, UCSC

Unfixed Itineraries has two components:
a 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.
a concurrent exhibition at UCSC’s Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery that runs from October 25-December 10.
Both 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
The 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.
Participants 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).
Artists 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.
Symposium 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.

Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners Film Screening
2013-10-25 19:00 - 21:45 | Classroom Unit 2, Classroom Unit‎ University of California Santa Cruz, UC Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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.
Q & A following the film with Howard Moore, lead counsel for Angela Davis, and Bettina Aptheker, Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
Showing sponsored by the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and by the Feminist Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz.

The Stanford School of Philosophy of Science
2013-10-26 09:00 - 17:15 | Cordura Hall – CSLI
In 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.
This event is free and open to the public.
Please e-mail Jill Covington (jillj@stanford.edu) or Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther (rgw@ucsc.edu) if you have any questions.
Event Poster (PDF)

9:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Opening Comments:
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther (UC Santa Cruz)
Panel #1: Next Generation(s)
Jordi Cat (Indiana)
Hasok Chang (Cambridge)
Jonathan Kaplan (Oregon State University)
Naomi Oreskes (Harvard)
Janet Stemwedel (San José State University)
Michael Weisberg (University of Pennsylvania)
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther (UC Santa Cruz)
Chair: Arezoo Islami (Stanford)
1:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Panel #2: Parallel Philosophers
Philip Kitcher (Columbia)
Helen Longino (Stanford)
Sergio Martínez Muñoz (National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM)
Bas van Fraassen (San Francisco State University)
Co-Chairs: Debra Satz (Stanford) and John Perry (Stanford)

9:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Panel #3: Collaborative Local Scientists
Brian Cantwell-Smith (Toronto)
Persi Diaconis (Stanford)
CWF Everitt (Stanford)
Solomon Feferman (Stanford)
Marcus Feldman (Stanford)
Melissa Franklin (Harvard)
Denis Phillips (Stanford)
Chair: Paolo Mancosu (UC Berkeley)
1:30 PM – 5:15 PM
Panel #4: Stanford School Core Members
Nancy Cartwright (Durham)
John Dupré (Exeter)
Peter Galison (Harvard)
Peter Godfrey-Smith (CUNY)
Patrick Suppes (Stanford)
Chair: R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford)
Closing Comments:
Thomas Ryckman (Stanford)

Conference 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.

Saru Jayaraman: "Behind the Kitchen Door in Santa Cruz and Across America"
2013-10-28 18:00 - 21:00 | Oakes Learning Center, UCSC
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.
Ms. 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.
Saru 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.
California 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.
Co-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.
For more information, please contact smckay@ucsc.edu

Helene Moglen: "From Frankenstein to Facebook: Reflections on the Dissolution of the Humanities"
2013-10-29 19:00 - 20:30 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UC Santa Cruz Emeriti group presents an Emeriti Faculty Lecture cosponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies and the Department of Literature
Are 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.
Helene 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).
FREE 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.

Film Screening: Gold (1934)
2013-10-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Porter C-118
The Golden Plague Forging Its Path of Annihilation!
One 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!

Presented 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.

Clare Monagle: "Neo-medievalism and the Postcolonial: International Relations Theory and Temporality"
2013-10-30 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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.
Clare 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.

Salt of the Earth: Exploring the Cultural Diasporas of Surfing
2013-11-01 - 2013-11-02 | Rio Theater, 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062, United States
Proudly 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.
Sponsored 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.
* 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.

1:00 PM – Artist Talk with Drew Brophy – “How to Survive as an Artist”
Hitchcock Lounge, Porter College, UCSC
2:30 PM – Indigenous Alaia Surfboard Shaping Demo with Tom Pohaku Stone
Porter College Amphitheater, UCSC
6:45 PM – Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau screening, plus live music from The Shapes
Rio Theater, 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

9:30am – 5pm – Surf Conference at UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall
Panel Discussions Include:
Changing Aesthetics of Surfing: Technologies of Framing the Oceanic
Sam George, Marcus Sanders, Julie Cox, Daniel Duane, & Drew Brophy
Of Surfboards & Soul: A look at the changing manufacturing technologies of surfboards, and if the surfboard has a soul…
Tom Pohaku Stone, Chad Kaimanu Jackson, Ashley Lloyd, Danny Hess, & Bob Pearson
Clear Water: An honest conversation about SIMA, Environmentalism, and Surfer Activism
Jess Ponting, Jim Kempton, Kristian Gustavson, Kyle Thiermann, & Nick Mucha
Deconstructing Localisms: Contextualizing Oahu & Santa Cruz
Isaiah Helekunihi Walker, Tom Pohaku Stone, Ken Collins, & Frosty Hesson
Free on-campus parking

For more information, please visit the conference website: http://saltoftheearth-ucsc.blogspot.com

Debarati Sanyal: "Camus's Afterlives: From the Holocaust to the Age of Terror"
2013-11-04 17:00 - 19:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
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).

1930's FIlm Series: "Chapaev (1934)"
2013-11-05 08:00 - 17:00 | Porter C-118
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!

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.

Katherine Gordy: "Situated Theory: Radical Political Thought in Latin America"
2013-11-06 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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.
Katherine Gordy is Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University in the Department of Political Science.

Humanities Research Development Workshop
2013-11-06 14:30 - 15:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please stay tuned for more information

Korea Peace Day
2013-11-07 16:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Santa Cruz Korea Peace Day 2013
“No Gun Ri: No Reconciliation Without Truth”
Lecture by Charles Hanley
(Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist)
Screening of Memory of Forgotten War
A film by Deann Borshay Liem and Ramsay Liem<
Additional Speakers: Paul Liem (Korea Policy Institute), Sarah Sloan (ANSWER Coalition), and Stephen McNeil (American Friends Services Committee)
About the talk: Although South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has investigated many of more than 200 alleged cases of what it categorizes as civilian massacres committed by U.S. soldiers during the Korean War, a war that has yet to be ended with a peace treaty, the U.S. government has investigated only one, the refugee killings at No Gun Ri. The U.S. government’s 300-page report on that inquiry exonerated the U.S. military of wrongdoing. President Clinton stated that the evidence was not clear that there was responsibility “high enough in the chain of command.” In reporting their findings, however, the U.S. Army investigators ignored and left undisclosed many of the most relevant documents and testimony. The most significant example is the “Muccio letter,” in which the U.S. ambassador to South Korea informed the State Department that the Army, fearing infiltrators, had decided to fire on South Korean refugees approaching U.S. lines despite warning shots. The No Gun Ri carnage began the next day.
About the speaker: Charles J. Hanley is a retired journalist with more than 40 years’ experience as reporter and editor, largely internationally. As an Associated Press special correspondent from the late 1970s to 2011, he reported from some 100 countries on stories ranging from summit conferences and arms negotiations to climate change and the plight of a threatened tribe in New Guinea. He also reported from a dozen war zones, including extensively from Afghanistan and Iraq beginning in 2002. He served as AP assistant and deputy managing editor in 1987-92. In 1998-99, he was part of the Associated Press investigative team that confirmed the U.S. military’s large-scale killing of South Korean refugees at No Gun Ri in 1950, early in the Korean War. That work earned the team a Pulitzer Prize and 11 other major national and international journalism awards. Hanley’s reporting was recognized with a half-dozen other major awards over the years.
About the film: Four Korean American survivors testify to the brutality of the Korean War and the pain of divided families, 60 years later. Interwoven with the history of the war, their stories speak loudly for a long overdue end to the unresolved Korean War.

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research, the Asian American and Pacific Islander Resource Center, the Department of History, the Department of Film and Digital Media, Cowell College, Stevenson College, the Korea Policy Institute, and the American Friends Services Committee.
Free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Christine Hong (cjhong@ucsc.edu).

Living Writers Series: Carolyn Cooke
2013-11-07 18:00 - 19:45 | Kresge Town Hall
Thresholds and Breaking Points
The 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.
Carolyn Cooke’s novel Daughters of the Revolution was listed among the best novels of 2011 by the San Francisco Chronicle and The New Yorker Magazine. Her short fiction, collected in The Bostons, won the PEN/Bingham Award, and has appeared in AGNI, The Paris Review, Ploughshares and two volumes each of Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prize Stories. Her new collection, Amor & Psycho, was published by Alfred A. Knopf this summer. Carolyn directs the MFA programs at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.
Location and Time: All Readings located at Kresge Town Hall 466 | 6-7:45pm
The 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.

Anna Szabolcsi: "What do quantifier particles do?"
2013-11-08 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Abstract: In Szabolcsi (2010: Ch 12.5) and subsequent work I embarked on a program to investigate the compositional semantics of quantifier words. Taking apart someone and everyone and specifying what the quantifier particles and the indeterminate pronoun mean are not daunting tasks. The interesting part of the project begins when we observe that in many languages, the “quantifier particles” also serve in multiple other roles, and set out to investigate whether and how the same interpretations extend to those contexts. Best-known is the case of Japanese, where “someone” (dare-ka) is formed with the morpheme ka and “everyone/anyone” (dare-mo) with the morpheme mo, both of which have busy lives of their own. In addition to indefinites, ka shows up in disjunctions (John-ka Mary(-ka)) and questions (Dare-ga VP ka; John-ga VP ka) . In addition to universals, mo serves as an additive and scalar particle (John-mo) and shows up in distributive conjunctions (John-mo Mary-mo). Hungarian vala/vagy, –e, mind, and is exhibit very similar behavior. A natural first stab is to observe that members of the cross-linguistic KA family are join operators, whereas members of the MO family are meet operators. This talk will confront a particular problem for that interpretation: the fact that in many constructions multiple copies of the same particle occur. A semantic approach will be proposed.
Anna Szabolsci is Professor of Linguistics at New York University.

Billy Collins: "Aimless Love"
2013-11-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome two-term U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins for a reading and signing of his new collection, Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems. Local poet and artist Gary Young, who teaches at UCSC and was Santa Cruz County’s first Poet Laureate, will introduce Mr. Collins.
Billy Collins is famous for conversational, witty poems that welcome readers with humor but often slip into quirky, tender or profound observation on the everyday, reading and writing, and poetry itself. Aimless Love combines more than fifty new poems with selections from four previous books—Nine Horses, The Trouble with Poetry, Ballistics, and Horoscopes for the Dead. By turns playful, ironic, and serious, Collins’s poetry captures the nuances of everyday life while leading the reader into zones of inspired wonder. In the poet’s own words, he hopes that his poems “begin in Kansas and end in Oz.” Touching on the themes of love, loss, joy, and poetry itself, these poems showcase the best work of this “poet of plenitude, irony, and Augustan grace” (The New Yorker).

This offsite event will take place at UCSC Music Recital Hall. Parking is $3, but is located next to the venue and is easily accessible.
People with disabilities needing assistance are asked to contact us in advance: email bookshopevents@yahoo.com or call 46-3232
PLEASE NOTE: Tickets will be sold by row, with open seating within each row. If you are planning on attending this event with others, you will want to purchase tickets as a group if you’d like to sit next to each other.

TICKETS: $28.30, includes one ticket to the event & one copy of Aimless Love.
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Author photo courtesy of Suzannah Gilman

Karla Mallette: "'A narcocracy of language': The Cosmopolitan Language Against Translation"
2013-11-13 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Karla Mallette is currently working on a monograph, tentatively titled Lives of the Great Languages, which is a theoretical study of the cosmopolitan language system: the trans-regional and trans-historical mega-languages that were the literary media of cultural life in the pre-modern Mediterranean.
Karla Mallette is Associate Professor, Italian and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan.

An Evening with Peter Kenez, Murray Baumgarten, and Lee Jaffe
2013-11-13 18:00 - 19:30 | Silverman Conference Room, Stevenson, Stevenson College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join us for a celebration of two recently published books: The Coming of the Holocaust: From Anti-Semitism to Genocide by Peter Kenez, and The Jewish Street: The City and Modern Jewish Writing by Murray Baumgarten and Lee Jaffe. The authors will discuss their books, copies of which will be available for sale and signing. Refreshments will be served.
Peter Kenez is Emeritus Professor of History, UCSC
Murray Baumgarten is Distinguished Professor of Literature and Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies, UCSC
Lee Jaffe is the Librarian for Jewish Studies, Philosophy & Theater Arts, UCSC
This event is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies and the University Library.

Bettina Aptheker: "The Meaning of Freedom of Speech: Surveillance, Incarceration & the Politics of the First Amendment"
2013-11-13 19:00 - 20:30 | Namaste Lounge – College 9, Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Bettina Aptheker co-led the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in 1964. She will give a brief retrospective and then consider the different ways in which race, gender, class, and sexuality effect the exercise of freedom of speech as a collective right established by the First (and Fourteenth) amendments. Bettina will clarify the difference between freedom of speech and academic freedom, and ask us to think about both in the context of Tea Party politics, mass incarceration, and the unprecedented technologies of surveillance.
Everyone welcome. Questions and answers to follow the talk.
Food for Thought Quarterly Faculty Speaker Series is an opportunity for students to connect with faculty in an informal and interactive setting. Join us each quarter for a presentation from a renowned UCSC faculty member. Hear about the speaker’s research and professional experience, learn more about an aspect of their work, and enjoy an opportunity to interact and ask questions. And, get to know the other side of the faculty member through food – light refreshments provided will represent some favorite food or cuisine of our invited guest.
Presented by the College Nine and College Ten CoCurricular Programs Office. For more information or accessibility needs, please contact coco@ucsc.edu.

Rachel Chrastil: "Inventing Humanitarianism: Gender and the Civilian Male in Besieged Strasbourg"
2013-11-14 14:00 - 15:30 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In August 1870 the Prussians and their German allies laid siege to the French city of Strasbourg and bombed the city center, killing and wounding civilian men, women and children. The siege gave rise to the first instance of wartime international humanitarian aid to civilians. This talk examines the experience of that aid from the perspective of the recipients as well as the ethical debates over the city’s continued resistance in the face of overwhelming force.

Rachel Chrastil joined the faculty at Xavier University in 2005, after receiving her Ph.D. in History at Yale University. Since then, she has written two books on the civilian experience of war, including The Siege of Strasbourg (forthcoming, Harvard University Press). She has been a Fulbright U.S. Scholar and an invited speaker on humanitarianism, human rights and historical memory. She currently holds a Xavier University Faculty Fellowship to promote quantitative literacy across the curriculum.

Philosophy Colloquium with Seth Yalcin: "Epistemic Modality De Re"
2013-11-14 16:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
I describe some new puzzles about the interaction of epistemic modality with quantification. I offer to dissolve the puzzles using a nonstandard kind of situation semantics. On the theory I develop, possibilities are partial, and quantification involves tacit modality.
(Ph.D., MIT) Professor Yalcin works primarily in the philosophy of language, though his research extends to issues in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, formal epistemology, and linguistics. Yalcin runs the Meaning Sciences Club at UC Berkeley, which is focused on semantics and related topics in syntax, pragmatics, logic, cognitive science, and the philosophy of language. Yalcin is also co-organizer of The History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science group at UC Berkeley, a Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities Working Group devoted to the discussion of historical and philosophical issues in symbolic logic, mathematics, and science.

Morton Marcus Poetry Reading: Naomi Shihab Nye
2013-11-14 18:00 - 19:45 | Kresge Town Hall
Thresholds and Breaking Points
The 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.
Naomi Shihab Nye is an Award-winning Palestinian-American Poet, Writer, Anthologist, and Educator. She is the author/or editor of more than thirty volumes of poetry, essays, short stories, novels and anthologies including: 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, A Maze Me: Poems for Girls, Red Suitcase, Words Under the Words, Fuel, and You & Yours (a best-selling poetry book of 2006). She has read and led writing workshops extensively both nationally and internationally. Shihab Nye has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Witter Bynner Fellow. She has received a Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, four Pushcart Prizes, and numerous honors for her children’s literature. In 2010, Shihab Nye was elected to the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets. In 2012, she was named laureate of the 2013 NSK Prize for Children’s Literature.
Location and Time: All Readings located at Kresge Town Hall 466 | 6-7:45pm
The 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.

Translation and Mediterranean Culture Conference
2013-11-15 08:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Mediterranean Seminar UCMRP Fall Workshop and Conference will be held in conjunction with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California Berkeley on Friday and Saturday, November 15 and 16, 2013.
The theme of the Conference (November 15) is Translation and Mediterranean Culture. We are interested in translation as both a social and a literary practice. Who the translators were; what translation meant in different historical and cultural contexts; the existence of lingua francas; translation and the foundation of Mediterranean culture, etc. We especially welcome presentations that address the role of translation in Mediterranean Studies.
Confirmed speakers include:
Ellen Finkelpearl, Scripps College
Dan Selden, UC Santa Cruz
Chris Chism, UCLA
Zrinka Stahuljak, UCLA
David Wacks, University of Oregon
The Workshop (November 16) consists of discussion of three pre-circulated papers and a talk by our featured scholar, Karla Mallette (Romance Languages, University of Michigan), “Against translation: The cosmopolitan language as literary medium.”

UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-campus Research Project Fall Workshop
2013-11-16 08:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Inaugural Talk: "Lit Up"
2013-11-18 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
What first turned your professors into readers? What do they read for pleasure, and why? Come find out at “LIT UP,” a new series of informal talks by UCSC Literature professors specifically for the undergraduate community, and open to everyone.

The inaugural LIT UP event is “Welcome to the Jungle: Conrad and Me,” with Professor Vilashini Cooppan, on Monday, November 18 from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. in Humanities 1, room 210.
Professor Cooppan was honored with a campuswide Excellence in Teaching Award in 2013. Her courses this year include LTEL 190L/Studies in English Language Literature: Trauma, History, Memory; LTWL 115A/Fiction in a Global Context: Postcolonial Novel; and LIT 101/Theory and Interpretation: Race/Colonialism/Ethnicity.
Questions, discussion, and light refreshments will follow the talk. We look forward to seeing you there!

CANCELLED: Gopal Balakrishnan: "The Historical World of Karl Marx"
2013-11-20 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Following on his earlier work on Adam Smith and David Ricardo, Gopal Balakrishnan’s current work on Marx seeks to demonstrate the logical unity of Marx’s mature economic thought, while recognizing its specifically 19th century assumptions, as well as its incompleteness as an account of the history of capitalism.
Gopal Balakrishnan is associate professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, working on political thought, intellectual history, and critical theory.

CANCELLED: Sarah Rebolloso McCullough: "Groovin' and Movin': Mountain Biking, Counterculture, and the Grateful Dead"
2013-11-20 16:15 - 17:45 | California Room
What does mountain biking have to do with the Grateful Dead? This talk will discuss the intricate role the counterculture played upon the innovation of mountain biking, begun in the hills of Marin county in the early 1970s. The scene and culture surrounding the Grateful Dead and the San Francisco music scene proved crucial to building the social networks and bodily desires from which mountain biking emerged.
Sarah Rebolloso McCullough studies the role of bodily sensation and ability in the making of technology and the built environment. McCullough is the Associate Director of the Center for the Humanities at UC San Diego and received her PhD in Cultural Studies from UC Davis. She has published articles in Fashion Theory and thirdspace: a journal of feminist theory & culture (available online), and is currently working on a manuscript on the origins of mountain biking. She is also the curator of the Mountain Biking History & Culture Archive.
This talk is presented by the McHenry Library and cosponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information, including disabled access, please contact Robin Chandler: rlchandler@ucsc.edu, (831) 459-4212.

Living Writers Series: Douglas Kearney
2013-11-21 18:00 - 19:45 | Kresge Town Hall
Thresholds and Breaking Points
The 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.
Poet/performer/librettist Douglas Kearney’s second, full-length collection of poetry, The Black Automaton (Fence Books, 2009), was Catherine Wagner’s selection for the National Poetry Series. Red Hen Press will publish Kearney’s third collection, Patter, in 2014. He has received a Whiting Writers Award, a Coat Hanger award and fellowships at Idyllwild, Cave Canem, and others. He teaches at CalArts.
Location and Time: All Readings located at Kresge Town Hall 466 | 6-7:45pm
The 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.

Language Program Colloquium with Midori Ishida
2013-11-25 17:15 - 19:00 | Humanities 1, Room 408
This paper explores the issue of roles of social interaction for developing pragmatic competence in a second language. As an example, it examines interactions between a learner of Japanese and native speakers, focusing on ‘receipts’, or a kind of listener responses (e.g. soo desu ne [That’s true]). A learner’s conversations recorded during one-year study abroad in Japan and recorded in the U.S. before and after the period were analyzed using conversation analysis. Even though corrective feedback was rarely provided to the learner’s inappropriate receipt use, his interlocutor’s next-turn action served as implicit feedback and provided him an opportunity for a more competent action. Moreover, although not interactionally modified, the interlocutor’s utterances and embodied actions provide comprehensible linguistic resources that the L2 speaker can draw on when performing similar actions.
Midori Ishida earned her Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her research interests include interlanguage pragmatics, conversation analysis, and the roles of interaction in second language acquisition. Her works have been published in Language Learning, Pragmatics and Language Learning, the Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, and other edited books. She is currently teaching Japanese at Santa Clara University.

Contemporary Capitalism and Marxist Critique
2013-12-03 17:00 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
To inaugurate a year of events, the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism research cluster is holding a panel which follows two interrelated threads. The first is the analysis of capitalism as a system, from its origins to its contemporary transformations. This analysis extends across disciplines and theoretical orientations, and one goal of this interdisciplinary panel is to represent the wide range of approaches that UCSC faculty are taking in their research into capitalism. The second thread is the reexamination of Marxist theory. Throughout its history Marxism has extended into a range of fields, from sociology to literary criticism, and has remained a crucial reference point for theory which seeks to understand social life historically. This panel will extend the historical analysis to Marxism itself, critically reexamining its evolution and its engagement with its changing social and political context.
Panelists include:

Miriam Greenberg, Associate Professor of Sociology: “Crisis-Driven Urbanization and Contemporary Capitalism”
Jonathan Beecher, Professor Emeritus of History: “David Riazanov and the Marx-Engels Institute”
Tyrus Miller, Professor of Literature, Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies: “Theaters of History: Drama, Action, and Historical Agency in the Work of György Lukács
Neda Atanasoski, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies: “Revolutions and Networks: Technology and the Social Body after Socialism”
Moderated by Gopal Balakrishnan, Associate Professor of History of Consciousness

Upcoming event series: “The Origins of Civil Society”
The development of the discipline of political economy, including its dialogue with modern political philosophy, is closely intertwined with the rise and expansion of capitalist society. As we turn our attention today to capitalism’s crisis tendencies and the future of market society, a critical examination of this foundational history becomes the starting point of the analysis of the present. This lecture series addresses the origins of civil society from several vantage points: the legal and political forms that underlie market relations; the transformation of the labor process; the role of gender and reproductive labor; and the history of separation from the means of subsistence.
Jan 16, 2014 – Warren Montag: “The Revocation of the Right to Subsistence: On the Legal and Political Origins of the Market”
Feb 6, 2014 – Kathi Weeks: “The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries”
Mar 6, 2014 – Michael Perelman: “Primitive Accumulation: From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel”
Presented by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information, including disabled access, please contact Evin Guy: (831) 459-5655, ecguy@ucsc.edu. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu.

Chair Lisbeth Haas - Saints & Citizens: Book Reading & Discussion
2013-12-04 17:00 - 19:30 | Humanities 1, Room 320
Saints and Citizens is a bold new excavation of the history of Indigenous people in California in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, showing how the missions became sites of their authority, memory, and identity. Shining a forensic eye on colonial encounters in Chumash, Luiseño, and Yokuts territories, Lisbeth Haas depicts how native painters incorporated their cultural iconography in mission painting and how leaders harnessed new knowledge for control in other ways. Through her portrayal of highly varied societies, she explores the politics of Indigenous citizenship in the independent Mexican nation through events such as the Chumash War of 1824, native emancipation after 1826, and the political pursuit of Indigenous rights and land through 1848.
Lisbeth Haas is Professor of History and Chair of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Pablo Tac, Indigenous Scholar: Writing on Luiseño Language and Colonial History, c. 1840 (UC Press, 2011) and Conquests and Historical Identities in California, 1769–1936 (UC Press, 1995). Professor Haas’s research interests include local histories of globalization, indigenous histories of California, subaltern scholars and their writing and painting, Spanish colonial and Mexican California, the Borderlands – especially the U.S. and Mexico, the Colonial Americas, California Studies, Global Histories of Race, Ethnicity, and Diaspora, Gendered Stories.
There will be a small reception following the reading.

Julia Phillips Cohen: "Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era"
2013-12-05 18:00 - 19:45 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Ottoman-Jewish story has long been told as a romance between Jews and the empire. The prevailing view is that Ottoman Jews were protected and privileged by imperial policies and in return offered their unflagging devotion to the imperial government over many centuries. In this talk, Julia Phillips Cohen offers a corrective, arguing that Jewish leaders who promoted this vision did so in response to a series of reforms enacted by the nineteenth-century Ottoman state: the new equality they gained came with a new set of expectations. Ottoman subjects were suddenly to become imperial citizens, to consider their neighbors as brothers and their empire as a homeland. Yet the process was not seamless: as they sought to teach each other how to become modern citizens of their state, Ottoman Jews soon learned that their patriotic project could entail uncomfortable choices and disturbing consequences.
Charting Ottoman Jews’ responses to these developments, this talk provides new perspectives for understanding Jewish encounters with modernity and citizenship in a centralizing, modernizing Islamic state and an imperial, multi-faith landscape.
Julia Phillips Cohen is Assistant Professor in the Program in Jewish Studies and the Department of History at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), and, together with Sarah Abrevaya Stein, editor of Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014).
Presented by the Center for Jewish Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information, including disabled access, please contact Evin Guy: (831) 459-5655, ecguy@ucsc.edu. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu.

Living Writers Series: Reyna Grande
2014-01-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni!
Novelist/Memoirist Reyna Grande is the author of the novels Across a Hundred Mountains andDancing with Butterflies, for which she received an American Book Award (2007) and an International Latino Book Award (2010). Her most recent book, The Distance Between Us, is a memoir about her life before and after illegally immigrating from Mexico to the United States. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as“the Angela’s Ashes of the modern Mexican immigrant experience,” it was a finalist for the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award.

Berenice Darwich: "Continuity and discontinuity in syntactic patterns in New York City. A look at co-referential complex sentences"
2014-01-13 17:00 - 18:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Speaker: Berenice Darwich, Hispanic Linguistics, CUNY Colleges; New York, New York.
Abstract:
The variable phenomenon of subject expression, specifically in the second clause of co-referential complex sentences, is analyzed in a subset of interviews of Mexican and Dominican Spanish speakers from the Otheguy and Zentella corpus of Spanish in New York City.
By taking into account the generation of speakers (first and second) and the syntactic hierarchy of the second clause (main or subordinate), the study will address the following questions:
Is there pattern continuity in regards to subject expression in contexts of co-reference among generation of speakers?
Is there an influence of English in regards to this pattern in second generation speakers?
Is there a correlation between subject expression and the syntactic hierarchy of a clause across geographical varieties?
The hypothesis that guides this investigation is that in this context, subject pronoun expression in the second clause is an instrument to signal the principal information of a message, carried in the main clause of a complex sentence.
Results confirm previous studies regarding this variable phenomenon in Spanish in general and in New York City: Dominican Spanish speakers favor pronoun subject expression more than Mexican Spanish speakers, even in the second clause of co-referential complex sentences. When we look at the frequencies by each geographical variety in this very specific context, the distributional differences allow a classification of the varieties in two different groups (Mexican pattern and Dominican pattern). But this trend does not hold when the generational group is considered, showing a reverse pattern in the second generation Dominican speakers.
These findings confirm partially the hypothesis since it is only the first generation Dominicans who do not use subject pronoun expression as a mean to signal hierarchical syntactic information.

Warren Montag: "Althusser's Lenin"
2014-01-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Warren Montag’s research has two foci: French and Italian thought of the 1960s and 1970s, especially Althusser; and Literature and Philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. His recent book concerns the emergence of a necro-economics from French economic thinkers to Adam Smith (and beyond, from Malthus to Von Mises).
Warren Montag is Brown Family Professor of Literature in the English Department at Occidental College.

Warren Montag: “The Revocation of the Right to Subsistence: On the Legal and Political Origins of the Market”
2014-01-16 17:00 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Warren Montag is the Brown Family Professor of Literature, English Department, Occidental College. He has published widely on French and Italian thought of the 1960s and 1970s, especially Louis Althusser, as well as on literature and philosophy of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Swift, and Adam Smith. His most recent book is Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy’s Perpetual War (Duke University Press,2013), and he has also published translations of Althusser, Pierre Macherey, and Étienne Balibar. His forthcoming book, co-authored with Mike Hill, is “The Other Adam Smith: Popular Contention, Commercial Society and the Birth of Necro-Economics” (Stanford University Press).
This event is part of “The Origins of Civil Society” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. The development of the discipline of political economy, including its dialogue with modern political philosophy, is closely intertwined with the rise and expansion of capitalist society. As we turn our attention today to capitalism’s crisis tendencies and the future of market society, a critical examination of this foundational history becomes the starting point of the analysis of the present. This lecture series addresses the origins of civil society from several vantage points: the legal and political forms that underlie market relations; the transformation of the labor process; the role of gender and reproductive labor; and the history of separation from the means of subsistence.
Additional events in this series:
Feb 6, 2014 – Kathi Weeks: “The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries”
Mar 6, 2014 – Michael Perelman: “Primitive Accumulation: From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel”
Presented by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information, including disabled access, please contact Evin Guy: (831) 459-5655, ecguy@ucsc.edu. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu.

Lisa Pearl: "More learnable than thou? Testing knowledge representations with realistic acquisition data"
2014-01-17 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Abstract: One (often implicit) motivation for a linguistic knowledge representation (e.g., a set of linguistic parameters or constraints) comes from an argument from acquisition, where language acquisition is assumed to be straightforward if children’s hypothesis space is defined by the correct knowledge representation. Acquisition then becomes the process of selecting the correct language-specific grammar from that hypothesis space, based on the language input encountered. I discuss quantitative metrics based on an argument from acquisition for comparing knowledge representations and the grammars they define. These metrics involve assessing grammar learnability from realistic input data, and I use them to evaluate three prominent knowledge representations in the domain of metrical phonology that each define a grammar for English. Somewhat surprisingly, I discover that learnability issues arise for the English grammars in all three representations. I discuss aspects of the proposed English grammars that may be hurting learnability as well as ways a child may still be able to learn the proposed English grammars from English input.
Lisa Pearl is Assistant Professor of Cognitive Sciences at UC Irvine.

Marcela Depiante: "Preposition Stranding in Heritage Speakers of Spanish: Implications for the Interface Hypothesis"
2014-01-17 17:00 - 18:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Abstract:
In this talk, we discuss the properties of Heritage Languages by examining Preposition Stranding in the Spanish of Heritage
speakers versus monolingual speakers of Spanish. We discuss the implications of this work for the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace 2000, Tsimpli and Sorace 2006) as applied to Heritage speakers (Montrul 2009, Montrul & Polinsky 2011) according to which changes in Heritage speaker syntax are restricted to areas of the grammar where the syntax interfaces with interpretable domains such as discourse/pragmatics.
Since the possibility of preposition stranding constructions is one of purely syntactic features, this hypothesis predicts that Heritage speakers of Spanish should not show variation from monolingual Spanish speakers with respect to these constructions. However, the data that will be presented will show that they do and they do so in different syntactic contexts and with different types of prepositions. The data argues against extending the Interface Hypothesis to Heritage Speakers.
In addition, we do not interpret the data found in this study of Spanish Heritage speakers as instances of incomplete acquisition. Instead, the variation we observe between Heritage speakers and monolingual Spanish speakers with respect to the possibility of preposition stranding can be seen as variation between speakers of different varieties of Spanish and used as a further source of insight into the human language faculty.
Speaker: Marcela Depiante is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire

Misfit Horror Film Series: Who Can Kill a Child?
2014-01-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
Misfit Horror
A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected.

January 19th – Who Can Kill a Child? One of the most disturbing horror films from a decade that was conspicuously filled with them, Who Can Kill a Child? takes The Birds (1963) and replaces Alfred Hitchcock’s bloodthirsty birds with an island full of homicidal children. Directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador (whose other horror film of note is the wonderfully sordid and atmospheric The House That Screamed from 1969), this Spanish production opens with a documentary montage of atrocity footage from around the world (the Holocaust, the Korean War, the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, etc.) to polemically motivate the reasons why the children of the small island of Almanzora have collectively murdered the adult population there. Arriving in Almanzora on holiday, the baby-expecting couple of Tom (Lewis Fiander) and Evelyn (Prunella Ransome) discover that the island appears to be deserted. Shops are untended, no bellboys are waiting in the foyers of the island’s hotels, restaurants are totally devoid of patrons or servers. The benign suspicion that the inhabitants are all on siesta, however, soon shifts to doubts and fears about the children who start to appear everywhere. Though not a gory film, Who Can Kill a Child? remains a supremely unsettling film that will linger with you for a long time, like it or lump it. Not to be missed!

Sunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

For more information, please visit: ihr.ucsc.edu

Rebecca Karl: "Economics, Culture, and Historical Time: A 1930s Chinese Critique"
2014-01-22 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Rebecca Karl’s current work includes a forthcoming book entitled The Magic of Concepts: Philosophy and the Economic in Twentieth Century China; this book examines the intersections between philosophical and economic questions as they emerge and re-emerge over the course of China’s twentieth century. Ongoing work includes a project on histories of economic concepts in China tentatively entitled, Worlds of Chinese Economic Thought.
Rebecca Karl is Professor of Chinese History at New York University.

Research Proposal Writing Workshop for Faculty and PIs
2014-01-22 14:00 - 15:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Goal: Guide Humanities faculty on the processes and resources available when submitting a Humanities research proposal and post-award considerations
Presenters: Irena Polić, Cayla McEwen, Anne Callahan, Lisa Oman
To sign up for this session, please RSVP to: annem@ucsc.edu

Living Writers Series: Beth Lisick
2014-01-23 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni!
Writer/Performer Beth Lisick is the author of five books: the memoir collection Yokohama Threeway and Other Small Shames, the New York Times bestselling comic memoir Everybody Into the Pool, the gonzo self-help manifesto Helping Me Help Myself, the story collection This Too Can Be Yours, and the performance poetry/story collection Monkey Girl. Since 1999 she has been collaborating with writer/comedian Tara Jepsen on stage and video projects. They have performed at Dixon Place, UCB Theatre, SF MOMA and screened their films at OUTfest, Frameline, and the Mix Film Festival of Sexual Diversity in Sao Paulo, Brasil.

Martin Devecka: "Some Ends of the City: Ruins and Utopia in the Ancient World"
2014-01-24 15:15 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Mediterranean Studies: Ancient Comparative
Why do ruins happen? Are they caused by natural catastrophes, invasions, economic collapse, state failure, or by something else? This talk will address these questions from a new perspective, integrating sociological comparison of ancient societies including Arabia, Athens, and Rome with analysis of ancient writings about ruins to suggest that literary fantasies about post-urban life may play as important a part in bringing about the destruction of cities as any of the causes conventionally invoked by historians.
Martin Devecka is a Mellon Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University, where he received his Ph.D. in Classics and Comparative Literature in 2012. He has taught there and at Brown University on subjects ranging from Latin political thought to Greco-Roman zoology. His research interests include animals, the history of technology, and the cultures of the Red Sea.

Annie Gagliardi: "Grammar-parser tension in language acquisition: Evidence from Q'anjob'al relative clauses"
2014-01-24 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Built into the grammatical architecture of any language we find constraints on possible structures. The processing system that uses these structures appears to have inherent preferences in how we interpret them. By looking at a domain where there exists tension between what constraint a learner might expect their language to conform to and the interpretations that are easier to arrive at, we can learn more about what a learner’s own abilities and expectations contribute to language acquisition. In this talk we look at one case where grammatical constraints pull in the opposite direction of the preferences of the system using those constraints: A-bar extraction of transitive subjects. In particular, we look at the comprehension of relative clauses by children and adults in Q’anjob’al, Mayan language where extraction of ergative marked subjects is reportedly banned. Results of a comprehension experiment with adults and children suggest that this tension does affect language acquisition, and may effect language change.
Annie Gagliardi is a Linguistics Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University.

Gabriela Zapata: "Investigating the Connection between Learning and Assessment: Formative Assessment in Intermediate L2 Spanish Classes"
2014-01-24 17:00 - 18:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Abstract: This paper investigates the connection between learning and assessment by examining the implementation of ACTFL’s Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) in intermediate, L2 Spanish classes. There were 880 students who participated in this classroom-based study. This presentation will discuss the following: 1) the theoretical and pedagogical bases of IPA; 2) the materials and tasks that were created; 3) the steps followed for its successful implementation; and 4) the results of a study on students’ and instructors’ perceptions of IPA and the relationship between classroom content and assessment. In addition, we will compare the results of IPA-based assessment tools with those from previous, more traditional evaluation tools.
Gabriela Zapata is Associate Professor and Director of Spanish and Portuguese Language Programs at the University of Southern California.

Misfit Horror Film Series: The House with Laughing Windows
2014-01-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
The House with Laughing Windows (1976, dir. Pupi Avati) – a moody and masterful giallo (Italian thriller / mystery / slasher film)
One of the most remarkable (albeit atypical) examples of a giallo (Italian mystery-thriller-slasher film) out there, Pupi Avati’s The House with Laughing Windows is a masterpiece of mood and ambient creepiness whose ability to stretch an atmosphere of queasy apprehension to the absolute breaking point over the course of a feature-length film is probably second only to Nicholas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now, made just three years previously. A young art historian named Stefano (Lino Capolicchio) comes to a remote Italian village to restore some twentieth-century frescos that depict the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian in an old church. Some rumors suggest that the deceased artist of the works actually tortured and murdered his real-life models. Meanwhile, Stefano’s efforts to restore the frescoes get sidetracked by all the locals who have secrets they want to share with him but cannot because they keep dying under mysterious circumstances before they can actually get down to the business of telling him much of anything. This is a movie whose tensions and uneasiness build and build and build . . . Not to be missed!
Misfit Horror is a film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected.
Sunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

Silvia Perpiñan: "Microparametric variation among Romance languages: the L2 acquisition of Spanish locative and existential constructions by Catalan and Italian speakers"
2014-01-27 17:00 - 18:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Abstract: Selection of copula verbs in Spanish is a classic challenging area for L2 learners. Even so, it has received moderate attention on SLA research, and most of the studies have focused on the acquisition of the semantic and pragmatic distinctions between ser and estar, particularly when combined with adjectives (Bruhn de Garavito & Valenzuela, 2006; Geeslin, 2002; 2003; Schmitt & Miller, 2007; among others). The present study goes beyond the alternation between ser and estar + adjective by looking at the selection of copula verbs to express location, and existentials.
Following Freeze (1992), I assume a universal locative paradigm with three surface structures that imply the use of three different verbs in Spanish: estar for the predicate locative when the subject is an object (1), and ser when it is an event (2); the existential with haber (2); and the possessive or ‘have’ using tener.
Three microparametric differences among Spanish, Italian, and Catalan are investigated, which regulate (a) the distribution of ser vs. estar in locatives (the eventiveness effect, which does not exist in Standard Catalan or Italian), (b) the distribution of haber vs. estar (the definiteness effect, Milsark, 1977, which is only obeyed in Spanish), and (c) the use of clitics in locatives (Spanish does not have a locative clitic, whereas in Catalan and Italian it is obligatory). Given these differences, we question whether L2 speakers of Spanish are able to fully acquire the distribution of estar in locative predicates and observe the restriction on definite DPs in Spanish existential constructions. Furthermore, we wonder how the bilingual mind will restructure her clitic system into a reduced morphological paradigm with no partitive or locative clitics.
The present study analyzes the expression of L2 Spanish existential and locative constructions in 20 native speakers of Catalan, 34 native speakers of Italian (from Rome), and 20 monolingual Spanish speakers with two main tasks, an Acceptability Judgment Task and an elicited oral production task. Results indicated that L2 learners used significantly less ester to express location than native speakers, showing that this verb develops later than ser as previously reported for English (VanPatten, 1985, 1987), and as predicted by recent analyses of the copular ser/estar (Brucart, 2012; Gallego & Uriagereka, 2011). Nonetheless, Italian speakers also overgeneralized estar to localize events, and in existential constructions, when ser or haber are required in Spanish.
Finally, Italian speakers of intermediate proficiency, and some Catalan speakers continued using ser to localize objects. More interestingly, both L2 groups accepted definite DPs in presentational sentences, violating the definiteness effect, displaying problems when assembling semantic features into specific lexical pieces. These results will be discussed within the debate on dissociation between acquisition of syntax and acquisition of semantics, and the feature assembly or feature matching hypothesis (Lardiere, 2008, 2009; Slabakova, 2009).
Speaker: Silvia Perpiñan is Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Western Ontario.

Mayanthi Fernando: "Improper Intimacies, or the Cunning of Secularism"
2014-01-29 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Mayanthi Fernando works on religion, politics, and the secular. Her first book on the Islamic revival and French secularity will be out in 2014. Her new project examines the nexus of sex, religion, and secularism, and in particular the French state’s regulation of Muslim women’s sexual and religious intimacies.
Mayanthi Fernando is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UCSC.

North French Hebrew Miscellany
2014-01-30 16:30 - 17:30 | McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special Collections
Come to Special Collections to look at and learn about a spectacular book recently acquired by Special Collections.
UCSC Special Collections has recently acquired a facsimile of one of the world’s most important medieval Jewish manuscripts, the North French Hebrew Miscellany.
The manuscript was written and lavishly illustrated in northern France in about 1280 at a time of upheaval for the Jews of Europe. Comprising almost 1500 pages with 84 different groups of texts, this small volume served as a portable library. The texts include scripture, daily prayers, mahzor, the Passover Haggadah, religious poetry, blessings, calendars, formularies for legal deeds and the earliest known copy of Isaac de Corbeil’s Sefer Mitsvot Katan, composed in 1277. Three to five artists worked with the scribe to decorate and illuminate the manuscript, most likely in or near Troyes. It is now housed in the British Library.
Please join us on to welcome this wonderful addition to Special Collections – the facsimile will be on display and Professors Sharon Kinoshita and Gildas Hamel will share their expertise with us.

Living Writers Series: Rachel Swirsky and Sina Grace
2014-01-30 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni!
Fantasy Writer Rachel Swirsky has published over fifty short stories in venues including The New Haven Review, Tor.com and Clarkesworld Magazine. Her speculative fiction has been nominated for most of the genre’s major awards, including the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award, and in 2010, she won the Nebula Award for her novella “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window.” She holds a master’s degree in fiction from the Iowa Writing Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her second collection, HOW THE WORLD BECAME QUIET: MYTHS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE, came out from Subterranean Press at the end of September.
Sina Grace is the author and illustrator of the indie mini-series Books with Pictures, the neo-noirCedric Hollows in Dial M for Magic, and the autobiographical one-shot, Self-Obsessed. Not My Bag, which recounts a story of retail hell, is his new book from Image Comics. He lives in Los Angeles, where he can be found in coffee shops working on his revenge video game-kickback, Burn the Orphanage.

An Evening with the UCSC Dickens Project
2014-01-30 18:50 - 21:00 | Nickelodeon Theater, 210 Lincoln Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The Nickelodeon Theatre will host “An Evening with the UCSC Dickens Project” on Thursday January 30 in conjunction with the screening of “The Invisible Woman” film, showing at 6:50 pm. The film, which stars Ralph Fiennes as Charles Dickens, is based on the Claire Tomalin book of the same title, delves into the closely-held secret of Dickens’s love affair with the much-younger actress, Ellen Ternan. During this period, Dickens was also involved in a harrowing railway accident, and nearly lost the manuscript to his novel, Our Mutual Friend. The novel is the featured book for this summer’s Dickens Universe conference.
Dickens Project founders Murray Baumgarten and John Jordan will lead a discussion after the film, joined by Jessica Kuskey and Nirshan Perera. The event is open to the public. Students will receive a special discount of $3 off the normal admission.

Politics of the Digital: Poetry, Technology, and the University
2014-01-31 - 2014-02-01 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This two-day event includes a poetry reading and an interdisciplinary symposium featuring graduate students, faculty, and a keynote from Johanna Drucker.
Friday, January 31, 2014: Poetry reading at 6 p.m. at the Felix Kulpa Gallery
Featuring Johanna Drucker with Eireene Nealand, Margaret Rhee, and Tsering Wangmo
Saturday, February 1, 2014: Interdisciplinary symposium at Humanities 1, room 210
Panel One: Textual and Visual Technologies—Pre-Histories of a Digital Era
Panel Two: Digital Practice and Database Aesthetics
Panel Three: Neoliberalism and the Digital Future
Keynote from Johanna Drucker: Towards a New Humanism
The activities associated with the term “digital humanities” have gained much attention recently in academic and mainstream venues. But have core values of humanism been discounted as a result? Do the techniques of analytic processing or other engagements with large data displace or devalue those of more traditional method and even, perhaps, traffic in the worst kind of concessions to administered culture? Might these digital approaches be at odds with the tenets of humanistic inquiry? What are the ways out of a binaristic opposition between a retro-oriented, possibly conservative, defense of “the humanities” and a techno-digital approach that seems to some to dehumanize cultural materials by treating them as “data”? The answer might be in recovering the methods of humanism, rather than just its objects. Engagement with the materiality of texts and artifacts crosses many disciplinary lines—from traditional critical studies, bibliography, and law to current studies of media archaeology, new materialism, and digital interpretation. This talk addresses ways in which the cultural authority of the humanities might be formulated as a new humanism whose methods and values extend traditional interpretative work while taking up some of the potential offered by data-driven and algorithm-based approaches to the study of human culture.
Reception at the Kresge Provost House
More info and full agenda available at http://www.ucscpoetrypolitics.com/upcoming-events.html

Kathryn Pruitt: "Culminativity in Harmonic Serialism"
2014-01-31 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Abstract: This talk considers the typology of word-headedness in languages with iterative stress and discusses a traditional classification of such systems—top-down vs. bottom-up (Hayes 1995)—in the context of Harmonic Serialism (McCarthy 2010). In some languages the primary stress is autonomous, having properties that are different from those of its secondary stresses, which has been used to argue against bottom-up metrification in serial theories (van der Hulst 1984, 1997, 2009, Bailey 1995). Other languages, however, show a primary stress which is clearly parasitic on secondary stresses, which follows straightforwardly from a bottom-up theory but is incompatible with a top-down one (Hayes 1995). To account for both autonomous and parasitic culminativity in Harmonic Serialism, this talk outlines the following proposals: (1) primary stress assignment can and must happen simultaneously with foot-building, in a basically top-down fashion, and (2) the primary stress must be allowed to move to another foot in the course of a derivation. In other words, the conclusion will be that attested patterns of primary stress assignment provide evidence for limited parallelism in stress, even when general metrification, and the grammar itself, is otherwise serial. Allowing limited parallelism without giving up serialism altogether is also defended, as the predicted typology of culminativity in a serial theory with limited parallelism is shown to be superior to that of theory with unrestricted parallelism.
References
Bailey, Todd Mark (1995). Non-metrical constraints on stress. Doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota.
Hayes, Bruce (1995). Metrical stress theory: principles and case studies. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
van der Hulst, Harry (1984). Syllable structure and stress in Dutch. Foris, Dordrecht.
van der Hulst, Harry (1997). Primary accent is non-metrical. Revista di Linguistica 9: 99–127.
van der Hulst, Harry (2009). Brackets and grid marks, or theories of primary accent and rhythm. In Eric Raimy and Charles E. Cairns (eds.), Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representations in Phonological Theory, pp. 225–245. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
McCarthy, John J. (2010). An introduction to Harmonic Serialism. Language and Linguistics Compass 4(10): 1010–1018.
Kathryn Pruitt is at Assistant Professor of English at Arizona State University.

CANCELLED: Misfit Horror Film Series: Arrebato
2014-02-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
Misfit Horror
A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected.
February 2nd – Arrebato (1980, dir. Iván Zulueta) – think of it as a Spanish Videodrome, only avant la lettre
For more information, please visit: ihr.ucsc.edu

Kristin Ross: "Notes on the 'Cellular Regime of Nationality': Internationalism & The Paris Commune"
2014-02-04 14:00 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 620, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The talk is taken from Communal Luxury (forthcoming from Editions La fabrique). Ross discusses the political imaginary that fueled and outlived the Paris Commune of 1871, here considered within frames provided by contemporary militant concerns: the problem of refashioning an internationalist conjuncture; the future of education, labor and the status of art; the commune-form and its relation to ecological theory. The “communal luxury” produced by the Commune’s “working existence” was prolonged and elaborated in the political thought produced in the 1870s and the 1880s, when Communard exiles met up and collaborated with a number of their supporters and fellow travelers, notably Marx, Kropotkin and William Morris.
Kristin Ross is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author of The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune (1988); Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (1995); and May ’68 and its Afterlives (2002).
This talk is presented by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster, and the History of Consciousness and Literature Departments.

Steven J. Zipperstein: "How the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom Changed Jewish History"
2014-02-04 17:00 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies presents:
Steven J. Zipperstein: “How the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom Changed Jewish History”
Kishinev’s 1903 pogrom was the first instance when an event in Russian Jewish life received wide hearing. The riot, leaving 49 dead, in an obscure border town, dominated headlines in the western world for weeks, it intruded on US-Russian relations, and it left an imprint on an astonishingly diverse range of institutions including the nascent Jewish army in Palestine, the NAACP, and, most likely, the first version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. How was it that incident came to define so much, and for so long?
Steven J. Zipperstein is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. He has also taught at universities in Russia, Poland, France, and Israel; for six years, he taught at Oxford University. For sixteen years he was Director of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford. He is the author and editor of eight books including The Jews of Odessa: A Cultural History (1986, winner of the Smilen Prize for the Outstanding book in Jewish history); Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha’am and the Origins of Zionism (1993, winner of the National Jewish Book Award); Imagining Russian Jewry (1999); and Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing (2008, shortlisted for the National Jewish Book Award in Biography, Autobiography and Memoir). His work has been translated into Russian, Hebrew, and French. He has been awarded the Leviant Prize of the Modern Language Association, the Judah Magnes Gold Medal of the American Friends of the Hebrew University, and the Koret Prize for Outstanding Contributions to the American Jewish community. Zipperstein’s articles have appeared in The New York Times Sunday Book Review, the Washington Post, The New Republic, the Jewish Review of Books, Chronicle of Higher Education and elsewhere. He is an editor of the journal Jewish Social Studies, the book series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture, and the Yale University Press/Leon Black Foundation Jewish Lives series. In spring 2013, he will be the first Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Zipperstein is Chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History, in New York.
Every year we honor Helen Diller, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz, by hosting a public lecture series on campus by an internationally recognized scholar.
This event was made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Endowment and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz.

Complicated Labors: Feminism, Maternity, and Creative Practice (Symposium & Gallery Exhibition)
2014-02-05 10:00 - 19:00 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab, Room 306
The Complicated Labor Research Cluster is an interdisciplinary collaboration that brings together artists, writers, and scholars around questions of feminism, maternity, and creative process. It seeks to center questions of care in our research and art whether they are explicit sites of inspiration and study or simply important to the conditions in which we undertake expressive practices. Through film, visual art and photography, performance, writing, and scholarship we will explore the complexities of contemporary motherhood.
This symposium, with keynote address by foundational feminist artist Mary Kelly, will create a space for critical interdisciplinary dialogue around issues of maternity, feminism, art-making, and writing, explicitly putting the 1970s in conversation with the current moment and putting writers in conversation with visual artists. The symposium is on Feb 5th from 10am-5pm at the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab and will be followed by a gallery exhibition and reception from 5-7pm at the Sesnon Art Gallery.
Symposium – Feb 5 @ 10:00am-5:00pm
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab, UCSC
Free and Open to the Public
Nearly forty years after Mary Kelly’s germinal 1976 exhibition of Post-Partum Document, the work of women artists who explicitly engage with images, processes, and experiences of maternity remains marginalized and relatively misrecognized in the art world. Despite a notable resurgence of attention to the maternal in 21st Century art theory and practice, such work is more often than not, read inside a discourse of indulgence, sentimentality, and identity rather than as representative of larger concerns with ecological systems, ethics, care, or labor. Complicated Labors investigates this problem, bringing together historical and contemporary work addressing maternal labor to ask questions about the status of feminism — and feminist art — today.
Gallery Reception – Feb 5 @ 5:00-7:00pm
Sesnon Art Gallery, UCSC
Complicated Labors Gallery Exhibition runs from February 5 – March 15, 2014
Complicated Labors builds on recent group exhibitions on the topic, including Myrel Chernick’s and Jennie Klein’s 2004 and 2006 Maternal Metaphors and Maternal Metaphors II and Natalie Loveless’s 2010 New Maternalisms. This exhibition addresses recent books such as Andrea Liss’s 2009 Feminist Art and the Maternal, new journals such as Studies in the Maternal, and new collectives such as Broodwork.
Symposium Schedule:

10:00 AM – Welcome (Micah Perks and Irene Lusztig)
10:30 AM – Mary Kelly Keynote (opening remarks)
11AM: Maternal Interventions (artist panel and discussion)
12:30 – LUNCH
2:30 PM – Maternal Secrets (writer panel and discussion)
4:15 PM Closing Remarks by Megan Moodie
5:00 – 7:00 PM Opening reception, Sesnon Gallery (with performance by Alejandra Herrera Silva)
All events are free and open to the public.
Symposium & Gallery Participants:
Keynote:
Mary Kelly is an American conceptual artist, feminist, writer, and professor of art and critical theory in the School of Art and Architecture at UCLA.
Writers:
Amra Brooks was born and raised in California. Her novella California was published in 2008 by Teenage Teardrops. Her fiction, critical reviews, essays, interviews, and poems have appeared in such publications as Artforum, Spin Magazine, index, the LA Weekly, The Encyclopedia Project Volume F-K, Ping Pong: the literary journal of the Henry Miller Library, Not Enough Night, Inventory Magazine, and others. She has taught at the University of California in Santa Cruz and San Diego, Naropa University, and Muhlenberg College. Currently she lives in Providence, Rhode Island with her family and is the Director of the Creative Writing program at Stonehill College in Easton, MA.
Kate Moses is the author of Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath and Cakewalk: A Memoir . Moses is the coeditor, with Camille Peri, of Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race & Themselves and the national bestselling, American Book Award-winning Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood. As a senior editor and contributing writer for Salon, Moses cofounded Salon’s groundbreaking, award-winning Mothers Who Think site.
Micah Perks is the author of a novel, We Are Gathered Here, and a memoir, Pagan Time, about growing up on a commune in the Adirondack Wilderness. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Epoch, Zyzzyva, Tin House, and The Rumpus, among many other journals and anthologies. She’s won an NEA Award, a Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts grant, four Pushcart Prize nominations, and several residencies at the Blue Mountain Center. Her most recent publication is the short memoir, Alone In The Woods, an ebook from Shebooks, about motherhood and the wild.
Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of a memoir, Bring Down the Little Birds, four poetry collections— Milk and Filth, Goodbye, Flicker, The City She Was, and Odalisque in Pieces. She is the recipient of a 2011 American Book Award, the 2011 Juniper Prize for Poetry, and a 2011-2012 fellowship in creative nonfiction from the Howard Foundation. Formerly a Teaching-Writing Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she now teaches in the creative writing programs at New Mexico State University, while serving as the editor-in-chief of the literary journal Puerto del Sol and the publisher of Noemi Press.
Michelle Tea is the founder and editor of Mutha Magazine, an alternative parenting site obsessed with all things Mom. Her blog Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea, on xoJane.com, has documented her struggle to get knocked up. Tea is the founder and Artistic Director of RADAR Productions, a literary non-profit which oversees the annual Sister Spit performance tours; Sister Spit Books, a publishing imprint with City Lights; the monthly RADAR Reading Series at the San Francisco Public Library, and other programs. She is the author of many memoirs and novels, and a collection of poetry.
Artists:
Lenka Clayton is a British conceptual artist whose work exaggerates and reorganizes the accepted rules of everyday life, extending the familiar into the realms of the poetic and absurd.
Natalie Loveless is a Canadian artist, curator, writer and professor of contemporary art and theory at the University of Alberta whose work explores feminist embodiment, material entanglement in the everyday, and the frameworks of artistic research.
Irene Lusztig is an American filmmaker, media archeologist, and new media artist whose film and video work mines old images and technologies for new meanings to reframe, recuperate, or reanimate forgotten and neglected histories.
Jill Miller is an American conceptual artist who works collaboratively with communities, with a focus on on motherhood, feminism and performance art. Faculty in New Genres and Design and Technology at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Mother Art Collective
Alejandra Herrera Silva is a Chilean visual and performance artist living and working in LA. Recent body and action-based pieces have investigated the body as object at the intersection of maternal labour and affect.
Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Video Program Artists:
Myrel Chernick, Mark and Beth Cooley, Masha Godovanaya, Courtney Kessel, Ellina Kevorkian, Dillon Paul and Lindsay Wolkowitz

This exhibition and symposium are sponsored by UCSC Institute for Humanities Research, Sesnon Gallery, Porter College, University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA), UCSC Arts Dean’s Excellence Fund, UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Kresge College, Cowell College, Oakes College, Merrill College, Stevenson College, History of Art and Visual Culture, Art, Literature, Film and Digital Media, and Feminist Studies Departments.

For more information visit: arts.ucsc.edu/complicatedlabors

Aristea Fotopoulou: "‘All these emotions, all these yearnings, all these data': Platform openess, data sharing and visions of democracy"
2014-02-05 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Aristea Fotopoulou works at the intersections of media & cultural studies with science & technologies studies. She has written on digital networks and feminism, information politics, knowledge production, and digital engagement. She currently explores algorithmic living and practices of data sharing.
Aristea Fotopoulou is Research Fellow, University of Sussex, UK and 2014 Visiting Scholar at the Science and Justice Research Center, UCSC.

Kathi Weeks: “The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries”
2014-02-06 17:00 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Kathi Weeks is an Associate Professor in the Women’s Studies Program at Duke University. Her primary interests are in the fields of political theory, feminist theory, Marxist thought, the critical study of work, and utopian studies. She is the author of The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries (Duke UP, 2011) and Constituting Feminist Subjects (Cornell UP, 1998), and a co-editor of The Jameson Reader (Blackwell, 2000).
This event is part of “The Origins of Civil Society” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. The development of the discipline of political economy, including its dialogue with modern political philosophy, is closely intertwined with the rise and expansion of capitalist society. As we turn our attention today to capitalism’s crisis tendencies and the future of market society, a critical examination of this foundational history becomes the starting point of the analysis of the present. This lecture series addresses the origins of civil society from several vantage points: the legal and political forms that underlie market relations; the transformation of the labor process; the role of gender and reproductive labor; and the history of separation from the means of subsistence.
Additional events in this series:
Jan 16, 2014 – Warren Montag: “The Revocation of the Right to Subsistence: On the Legal and Political Origins of the Market”
Mar 6, 2014 – Michael Perelman: “Primitive Accumulation: From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel”
Presented by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information, including disabled access, please contact Evin Guy: (831) 459-5655, ecguy@ucsc.edu. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu.

Living Writers Series: Panel of Editors
2014-02-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni!
Zoë Ruiz is the managing editor of The Rumpus. Her work was been published by The Weeklings, Salon, Two Serious Ladies, and elsewhere.
Elizabeth McKenzie is the author of Stop That Girl, which was short-listed for the Story Prize, and a novel, MacGregor Tells the World. Her fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Pushcart Prize Anthology, Threepenny Review and others, and has been recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts. She is currently Managing Editor of Catamaran Literary Reader and Senior Editor of the Chicago Quarterly Review.
Daniel Mirk was a staff writer for the satirical website The Onion from 2006 to 2012. He is one of the creators of the Peabody Award winning Onion News Network web series, the IFC television series of the same name, and the Amazon Studios pilot Onion News Empire. Daniel has also written for Comedy Central, Funny Or Die, and The Upright Citizens Brigade. In 2013 Daniel was nominated for an Emmy for his work on the writing staff of the Comedy Central special “Night Of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together For Autism Programs” hosted by Jon Stewart.

Misfit Horror Film Series: The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
2014-02-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
Misfit Horror
A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected.
February 9th – The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960, dir. Terence Fisher) – perhaps the sleaziest and most affecting adaptation of Stevenson’s novella
Sunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

For more information, please visit: literature.ucsc.edu
