The Humanities Institute

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: James Beneda
2016-01-15 12:30 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities 1, Room 202
James Beneda
“The Morally Incoherent Indoctrination of the American Soldier in Iraq: An Institutional Theory of Traumatic Experience”
I take up an issue that most of us cannot help but see as a problem of individual psychology and restate it in terms of institutional politics and political ideologies. Starting from cognitive sociology and recent clinical research that reframes post-traumatic stress (PTSD) as ‘moral injury’, I argue that the traumatic experiences of American soldiers in the Iraq War resulted from flawed cultural and institutional indoctrination.

Friday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 15- James Beneda, Politics
January 22- Alex Moore, HAVC
January 29- Whitney Devos, Literature
February 5- Sophia Magnone, Literature
February 12- Andrei Tcacenco, History
February 19- Amanda Reyes, History & Consciousness
February 26- Keith Spencer, Literature
March 4- Laura Harrison, Sociology
March 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa, HistoryJ

Sharon Inkelas: "The A-map model: Articulatory reliability in child-specific phonology"
2016-01-15 14:00 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk, based on joint work with Tara McAllister Byun and Yvan Rose, addresses a phenomenon of longstanding interest: the existence of child-specific phonological patterns which are not attested in adult language. We propose a new theoretical approach, termed the A(rticulatory)-Map model, to account for the origin and elimination of child-specific phonological patterns. Due to the performance limitations imposed by structural and motor immaturity, children’s outputs differ from adult target forms in both systematic and sporadic ways. The computations of the child’s grammar are influenced by the distributional properties of motor-acoustic traces of previous productions, stored in episodic memory and indexed in the eponymous A-map. We propose that child phonological patterns are shaped by competition between two essential forces: the pressure to match adult productions of a given word (even if the attempt is likely to fail due to performance limitations), and the pressure to attempt a pronunciation that can be realized reliably (even if phonetically inaccurate). These forces are expressed in the grammar by two constraints that draw on the motor-acoustic detail stored in the A-map. These constraints are not child-specific, but remain present in the adult grammar, although their influence is greatly attenuated as a wide range of motor plans come to be realized with a similar degree of reliability. The A-map model thus not only offers an account of a problematic phenomenon in development, but also provides a mechanism to model motor- grammar interactions in adult speech, including in cases of acquired speech impairment.
Sharon Inkelas is Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley.

Linguistic Colloquium Series:
The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.
Fall 2015
October 9th: Keith Johnson, UC Berkeley
October 16th: Heidi Harley, University of Arizona
October 30th: Ivano Caponigro, UC San Diego
November 20th: Elliott Moreton, University of North Carolina
Winter 2016
January 15th: Sharon Inkelas, UC Berkeley
February 5th: Colin Phillips, University of Maryland
February 6th: N. Goodman, Stanford University and A. Kehler, UC San Diego
March 5th: Linguistics Conference at Santa Cruz Conference
Spring 2016
April 15th: Sabine Iatridou, MIT
April 29th: Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University
May 6, 7, 8: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9
May 20th: Kyle Johnson, University of Massachusetts
May 27th/June 3rd (TBA): Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference

Margaret Frantz Memorial
2016-01-17 14:00 - 17:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
A memorial for Marge Frantz (1922-2015) a Hist Con graduate (1984) and longtime colleague at UC Santa Cruz in Women’s Studies and American Studies will be held on Sunday, January 17th from 2-5pm.
Refreshments & reception following the program.
Ample and free parking is available. Enter UCSC at the WEST entrance. Three stop signs and turn right and proceed to the end of the road. Recital Hall is in front of you.
Contributions in Marge’s memory are welcomed by Aptheker/Frantz Women’s Studies Endowment at UCSC, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, and Alzheimer’s Association, Northern California and Northern Nevada Chapter.
“An inspiring and beloved teacher, skilled activist and generous friend, Marge Frantz died in Santa Cruz on October 16 at the age of 93. Passionately committed to social justice, she identified strongly with the three great social movements of her time: socialism, civil rights and feminism. They shaped her as an organizer, intellectual, and teacher who refused hierarchies while embracing and delighting in differences. She crossed boundaries wherever she encountered them—between teachers and students, academics and activists, young and old, rich and poor, gay and straight, black and white. Her emphasis on commonalities was crucial to the success of the progressive communities she created and sustained throughout her life…” Read more.
Read Frantz’ obituary in the Santa Cruz Sentinel here.

Nicholas Mitchell: "On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes"
2016-01-20 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies presents Nicholas Mitchell
Nicholas Mitchell’s current project, Disciplinary Matters: Black Studies, Women’s Studies, and the Neoliberal University, locates the institutional projects of black studies and women’s studies at the heart of the consolidation of the post-Civil Rights U.S. university.
Mitchell is Assistant Professor in Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz.

Winter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series:
January 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”
January 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes”
January 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”
February 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”
February 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”
February 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
February 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
March 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”

Living Writers: Vikram Chandra
2016-01-21 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Vikram Chandra’s latest book is Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty. He has also written the novels Sacred Games and Red Earth and Pouring Rain and the short story collection Love and Longing in Bombay. His honours include a Guggenheim fellowship, the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia), the Crossword Prize, and the Salon Book Award. He teaches creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley. His work has been translated into nineteen languages.

Winter 2016 Living Writers Series:
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Creative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation, they mine issues of race, sexuality, gender, and class through several genres and media, to include poetry, fiction, critical prose, performance, sonic and visual art, memoir, as well as hybrid forms.
January 14: Alex Rivera
January 21: Vikram Chandra
January 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales
February 4: Charles Yu
February 11: Branwen Okpako
February 18: Nnedi Okorafor
February 25: Chang-rae Lee
March 3: Jeremy Love
March 10: Samuel Delany

Film Screening: "For Marx"
2016-01-21 18:30 - 21:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Film Screening Hosted by Socialsim / Postsocialism Research Cluster
“For Marx” (2012)
Directed by is Svetlana Baskova

“While the presence of the New Left in the new Russian culture cannot be denied nor ignored this ideological direction produces at this moment more questions than answers. Baskova’s new film channels some of the most burning ones: can Marxism indeed be repeated in Russia? How might this new attempt deal with the earlier, problematic incarnation? Who will be its new interpreters and how will they discern a new theory from practice? All these anxiety-producing questions, raised vividly by For Marx, make it contemporary, controversial, and one of the most worthwhile film experiences of 2012.” – quote from Polina Barskova, Associate Professor of Russian Literature at Hampshire College

Hedy Rose: "My Childhood in Hiding: Amsterdam, 1942-1945"
2016-01-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join us for a talk with Hedy Rose.
Following her father’s arrest by the Nazis, Hedy Rose, her mother, and sister spent nearly four years hidden in an Amsterdam cellar by a Christian samaritan.
Admission is free, but pre-registration is required: http://goo.gl/forms/3Q3LZbYz8y
Reception will follow at 8pm.
$4 parking; Recommended lot: Performing Arts
For more information, including accessibility, please contact Beverly Iniguez at binguez@ucsc.edu.

WORKSHOP: Coding for Humanists with Fabiola Hanna
2016-01-22 09:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Interested in coding, but not sure where to start? Fabiola Hanna, a new media artist and PhD Candidate in the department of Film and Digital Media, will walk us through the basics of coding for the web. Following Hanna’s short introductory workshop in December, this more intensive session will offer instruction for writing in HTML, styling with CSS, and building dynamic web content using Java Script.
This introduction will not make you into expert coders – but it will provide you with insight into coding that you can apply to customize existing sites and work within easy-to-use platforms (like WordPress, Drupal). You will also gain an understanding of next steps so you can continue developing your coding skills.
Join us for this introductory workshop. No previous experience with coding necessary.
Be sure to bring a LAPTOP (not a tablet).
*Registration Required. Reserve a seat today. *

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Alex Moore
2016-01-22 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Alex Moore
“Captive Natures: Grotesque desire in the performative sculptures of Amber Hawk Swanson”
In this paper I examine two projects by the artist Amber Hawk Swanson, Tilikum, 2011 and Lolita, 2013. Through a process of radical identification with the captive Orca whales Tilikum and Lolita, Hawk Swanson explores the ethics of aquatic theme park performances. I argue that the grotesque sculptures make visible the violence done to both humans and Orcas in the conceptions of nature, culture, and relationship manifested in the Shamu spectacle.

Friday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 15- James Beneda, Politics
January 22- Alex Moore, HAVC
January 29- Whitney Devos, Literature
February 5- Sophia Magnone, Literature
February 12- Andrei Tcacenco, History
February 19- Amanda Reyes, History & Consciousness
February 26- Keith Spencer, Literature
March 4- Laura Harrison, Sociology
March 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa, History

Brown Bag Workshop: Teaching with Multimedia & Audio
2016-01-26 12:00 - 13:30 | FITC, 1336 McHenry Library
Interested in creating multimedia presentations to support your lectures or creating short narrated videos that students can listen to before class? Join us over lunch to learn how. This workshop will include an introduction to the kinds of tools available for use in the FITC and a discussion about designing assignments that include multimedia and audio components.
This workshop will inspire you to design new assignments, develop your own multimedia materials, and consider new pedagogical possibilities.

Joes Segal: "Cultural Integration"
2016-01-26 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In an interview from 1990, German artist Georg Baselitz asserted that there were no artists in the GDR. Instead, there were “assholes” who had supported a criminal system by betraying the essence of true art. Baselitz’s statement exemplifies a remarkable feature of public discourse in 1990s Germany: the return of a Cold War rhetoric after the end of the Cold War. This presentation examines the cultural aspects of the German reunification process by focusing on the public debates on East German cultural heritage, in particular the stormy dispute over the meaning and relevance of East German art. It will be argued that since the visual arts had played an important role in the construction of an East German and a West German identity after World War II, the art debates of the 1990s reflect the broader issue of identity and belonging in post-socialist Germany.
Joes Segal is Chief Curator of The Wende Museum of the Cold War in Culver City, CA. Segal has published extensively on Cold War culture, German cultural history, and art and politics in the twentieth century. He is chair of the Culture Network of the European Social Science and History Conference (ESSHC) and managing editor of the International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity (HCM).

Joes Segal: "Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage"
2016-01-27 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies and the Socialism/Postsocialism Research Cluster presents Joes Segal
Like street names, public monuments tend to celebrate historical heroes and events that are deemed exemplary for the present state and the future direction of society. Taken together, they constitute a canon of collective memory. However, this canon is seldom uncontested, and in times of revolution or regime change the new political leaders often try to redefine history in order to support their worldview and claim to power. Old heroes, symbols and monuments suddenly become obsolete while new ones are created to evoke a sense of historical rupture or a brand new vision of historical continuity. Taking the fate of socialist monuments and their often ultra-nationalistic replacements after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union as a case study, in this lecture I will explore the politics surrounding public monuments.
Joes Segal is Chief Curator of The Wende Museum of the Cold War in Culver City, CA. Segal has published extensively on Cold War culture, German cultural history, and art and politics in the twentieth century. He is chair of the Culture Network of the European Social Science and History Conference (ESSHC) and managing editor of the International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity (HCM).

Winter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series:
January 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”
January 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes”
January 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”
February 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”
February 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”
February 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
February 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
March 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”

Living Writers: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales
2016-01-28 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Stephen Graham Jones is the author of fifteen novels and six story collections. Next up is the werewolf novel Mongrels, from William Morrow. Stephen lives in Boulder, Colorado, and teaches in the MFA program there and at UCR-Palm Desert.
Christopher David Rosales is from Paramount, CA. His first novel, Silence the Bird, Silence the Keeper, won him the McNamara Creative Arts Grant. His stories have appeared in journals in the U.S. and abroad, and he is a regular contributor to LitReactor. Rosales currently lives in Denver, where he is the fiction editor for SpringGun Press and a PhD candidate at DU. His second novel, Gods on the Lam, is forthcoming Summer 2016.

Winter 2016 Living Writers Series:
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Creative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation, they mine issues of race, sexuality, gender, and class through several genres and media, to include poetry, fiction, critical prose, performance, sonic and visual art, memoir, as well as hybrid forms.
January 14: Alex Rivera
January 21: Vikram Chandra
January 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales
February 4: Charles Yu
February 11: Branwen Okpako
February 18: Nnedi Okorafor
February 25: Chang-rae Lee
March 3: Jeremy Love
March 10: Samuel Delany

William D. Adams: "'Wicked Problems': The Humanities in the Time of STEM"
2016-01-28 19:30 - 21:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UCSC Institute for Humanities Research presents:
“Wicked Problems“: The Humanities in the Time of STEM
15th Annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture by William D. Adams,
Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities
William D. Adams, NEH ChairmanPhoto by Fred Field, courtesy of Colby College
Dr. William D. Adams was nominated by President Barack Obama as the 10th Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and confirmed by the Senate in July 2014. Dr. Adams previously served as President of Colby College in Waterville, Maine from 2000 until June 2014, and as President of Bucknell University from 1995 to 2000. He was Vice President and Secretary of Wesleyan University from 1993 to 1995, and was Program Coordinator of the Great Works in Western Culture program at Stanford University from 1986 to 1988. Earlier in his career, he held various teaching positions at Stanford University, Santa Clara University, and the University of North Carolina. Dr. Adams served in the Vietnam War as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. In 1977, he became a Fulbright Scholar and conducted research at the École des Hautes Études and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France. Dr. Adams received a B.A. from Colorado College and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
*Wicked Problems, a phrase introduced in 1967 by C. West Churchman, denotes a problem that is resistant to resolution, rather than evil.
Complimentary parking is available in the Performing Arts parking lot.
Free and open to the public. Space is limited, registration is required.
We have reached maximum capacity with a growing waiting list for this event.
To be added to the waiting list please email specialevents@ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-5003.
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Whitney Devos
2016-01-29 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Whitney Devos
“After Lives, After Palimpsests: Aimé Césaire & Claudia Rankine’s (Caribbean) ‘American Lyrics’ “
My project seeks to frame certain forms of poetry as attempts at experimental, non-linear historiography, examining the ways in which lyric and documentary impulses—so often pitted against one another critically—are intertwined from the inception of documentary poetics, an
emerging multi-genre’d genre I read as quintessentially “American”: North, South, and Central.

Friday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 15- James Beneda, Politics
January 22- Alex Moore, HAVC
January 29- Whitney Devos, Literature
February 5- Sophia Magnone, Literature
February 12- Andrei Tcacenco, History
February 19- Amanda Reyes, History & Consciousness
February 26- Keith Spencer, Literature
March 4- Laura Harrison, Sociology
March 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa, History

Shaul Bassi: "Shylock vs. Sarra Copia Sullam: Reframing the Venice Ghetto, 1516-2016"
2016-01-29 16:00 - 18:00 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Ghetto of Venice, founded 500 years ago, has been long haunted by the ghostly presence of Shylock, the most famous imaginary Jew. The lecture will consider Shakespeare alongside the work of Jewish Venetian poet Sarra Copia Sullam (1592-1641), as well as contemporary poetry and fiction that reimagines the Ghetto for the global present.
Shaul Bassi is Associate Professor of English and postcolonial literature at Ca’Foscari University of Venice. His research, teaching and publications are divided between Shakespeare, postcolonial studies (India and Africa), and Jewish studies. He has published Le metamorfosi di Otello. Storia di un’etnicità immaginaria (Grafis, 2000) and edited an Italian critical edition of Otello (Marsilio, 2009). Recent publications include Visions of Venice in Shakespeare (with Laura Tosi, Ashgate, 2011), Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures (with Annalisa Oboe, Routledge, 2011); Shakespeare’s Italy and Italy’s Shakespeare. Place, ‘Race’, and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan) is forthcoming. He is currently involved in multiple literary and cultural projects related to the 500th anniversary of the Ghetto of Venice (1516-2016).

Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, Shakespeare Workshop, Italian Studies, Cowell College, and the Institute for Humanities Research.

OpEd Project Fellowship Application Deadline: "Write to Change the World"
2016-02-01 | UCSC
The “Write to Change the World” program will build our faculty’s capacity to translate their research for the public and to engage in debate at a national level based on their areas of  expertise. Our focus will be on increasing underrepresented voices within these debates. Working in partnership with the OpEd Project, we will host three one-day workshops led by OpEd Project facilitators, at three regional hubs: UC Davis, UC Merced, and UCLA, with 20 fellows in each workshop, from nine participating campuses (UCSF, UCSB, UCI, UCR,UCSD, UCSC), for a total of 60 fellows. Invitational priorities for applicants include: 1) sustainability and the environment 2) social justice and inequality 3) big data and digital humanities 4) public health and medical humanities 5) arts and public life. After the 1-day workshop, fellows will have access to a yearlong mentorship with media mentors through the OpEd Project. This program provides extraordinary resources, access and support, including cutting edge game-based, research-driven programming, and access to a prestigious network of fellows at peer institutions nationwide.
N.B. Faculty traveling to attend the workshop at another campus may receive travel support from their Center if their campus is not hosting a workshop. This amount will be indicated in their award letter from their Center.
REQUIREMENTS:
1) Attend a 1-day workshop
2) Draft an Op-Ed within three months following the workshop
3) Connect with a media mentor through the OpEd Project within three months following the workshop
DATES and LOCATIONS:
UC Davis: May 23, 2016
UC Merced: April 29, 2016
UCLA: June 10, 2016
Application deadline: Feb. 1, 2016. Applicants from UCM, UCSD, UCLA, UCSB, UCD, UCSC, UCR, UCSF, and UCI can apply below.
Information and application online at: http://crha.ucmerced.edu/form/oped-project-fellowship-application
SPONSORED BY:
UC Humanities Research Institute, UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research,
UC Davis Humanities Institute, UC Irvine Humanities Commons, UCLA Humanities,
UC Merced Center for the Humanities, UC Riverside Center for Ideas and Society,
UC San Diego Center for the Humanities, UC San Francisco Center for Humanities
and Health Sciences, UC Santa Barbara Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.

Zephyr Frank: "Beyond Eyeballmetrics: Visualization and Analysis in Digital Scholarship"
2016-02-02 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Part of the Hands on (Digital) Humanities Series
This talk explores the boundary between visualization and analysis in contemporary digital scholarship. It argues for a shift in focus from creating visualizations (and related tools) toward a more robust analytical practice based on quantitative measurement. In this sense, visualization is seen as a useful but often insufficient step in the research process. A critical assessment of a series of examples of work from Stanford’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis will provide the foundation for the talk.
Zephyr Frank is Professor of History at Stanford and the Director of the Program on Urban Studies. He is also the founding director of the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA). At CESTA, Professor Frank directs the Spatial History Project. His most recent book is Reading Rio de Janeiro: Literature and Society in the Nineteenth Century (Stanford, 2016).

LASER (Leonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous)
2016-02-02 18:30 - 20:00 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Arts Division at the University of California, Santa Cruz present:

LASER

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108

Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists, scientists, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations.
Please join us in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 for refreshments at 6:30 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by:
Wes Modes, “A Secret History of American River People”
Christopher Wilmers, “Who knew there was a puma in my backyard!”
Beth Shapiro, “How to Clone a Mammoth”
Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman, “Making Last Day of Freedom”
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Parking ($4) is available in the Performing Arts Lot adjacent to Digital Arts Research Center.
BIOS:
Wes Modes is a Santa Cruz artist focused on social practice, sculpture, performance and new media work. He holds an MFA from the Digital Art and New Media program at UCSC. He has exhibited his art and performed regionally since 1996. He is also a UCSC art lecturer and curator for the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. In other lives, he is a high-tech runaway, writer, community organizer, geek, and mischief-maker.
Christopher Wilmers is a wildlife ecologist who studies how global change influences animal behavior, population dynamics and community organization. An Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at UC Santa Cruz, Wilmers is the founder and lead researcher for the Santa Cruz Puma Project—the most comprehensive study of Northern California cougars. Since 2008, Wilmers and his team of researchers have fitted mountain lions in Northern California with specially designed collars with radio telecommunications, global positioning, and an accelerometer device to record activities like pouncing and even mating.
Beth Shapiro is an evolutionary biologist who specializes in the genetics of ice age animals and plants to help develop strategies for the conservation of species under threat from climate change today. A pioneer in the young field called “ancient DNA,” Shapiro is an Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCSC. She has been named a Royal Society University Research Fellow, Searle Scholar, Packard Fellow, and a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. In 2009, Shapiro received a MacArthur “genius” award. Her recent book is How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-extinction.
Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman collaborate on art, film and interactive projects that look at the ways power structures and politics impact everyday lives. Hibbert-Jones is an Associate Professor of Art & New Media at UCSC; Talisman is a freelance editor and animator. Their current film project, Last Day Of Freedom, has won multiple awards, including the International Documentary Association’s Best Short Film of 2015; Best Short Film at Full Frame Documentary Festival; and the Filmmaker Award from the Center for Documentary Studies, among others.
For more information, email ias@ucsc.edu

Jonathan Beecher: "Visions of Revolution: European Writers and the French Revolution of 1848"
2016-02-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies presents Jonathan Beecher

Jonathan Beecher’s current project consists of linked essays on writers who witnessed and wrote about the first months of the French revolution of 1848, some familiar, others less so. The central question: How do these writers explain the collapse of the radical dreams that inspired revolutionaries in 1848?

Winter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series:

January 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”
January 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes”
January 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”
February 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”
February 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”
February 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
February 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
March 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”

Stay tuned for more information about guest speakers.

Living Writers: Charles Yu
2016-02-04 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Charles Yu is an Asian American writer of three well received works of speculative fiction, How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe, Third Class Superhero, and Sorry Please Thank You. Born 1976 in Los Angeles, Yu graduated from University of California at Berkeley and Columbia Law School. He lives with his wife and children in Santa Monica, California. He has been widely published in such places as Oxford American, The Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, Mississippi Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review and has been cited for special mention in the Pushcart Prize Anthology XXVIII. He won the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award for his story “Class Three Superhero.” He was selected by the National Book Foundation as one of its 5 Under 35 program, which highlights the work of the next generation of fiction writers. It is determined by previous National Book Award winners and finalists selecting one fiction writer under the age of 35 whose work they find promising or interesting. Richard Powers, winner of the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction, selected Yu for the honor.
His novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe was ranked the year’s second best science fiction novel by the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas, and a runner up for the John W Campbell Memorial Award. The novel has been optioned for a film. The novel focuses on a father-son relationship and the narrator’s search for a father. It includes themes of how we live, time, memory, and creation of the self, and features a narrator who shares the author’s name and who lives in a time machine with his non-existent dog. His fiction deals with loneliness, isolation, time, memory, speculative technology, and is touched with a great deal of humor.

Winter 2016 Living Writers Series:
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Creative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation, they mine issues of race, sexuality, gender, and class through several genres and media, to include poetry, fiction, critical prose, performance, sonic and visual art, memoir, as well as hybrid forms.
January 14: Alex Rivera
January 21: Vikram Chandra
January 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales
February 4: Charles Yu
February 11: Branwen Okpako
February 18: Nnedi Okorafor
February 25: Chang-rae Lee
March 3: Jeremy Love
March 10: Samuel Delany

PhD+: Online Identity
2016-02-05 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Learn how to perfect your online identity and social media presence as an academic or higher ed professional.
Melissa De Witte (Web Coordinator, Social Sciences) will lead a discussion about how you can build your social media presence as an academic.
Whether you are a novice or an expert, a technophobe or an early adopter, this interactive talk will discuss the dos and don’ts, tips, strategies, common mistakes, and ways you can make the most out of social media in academia.
Melissa De Witte handles the digital and social media for the Division of Social Sciences here at UC Santa Cruz. She has an MA in Media, Culture and Communication from New York University.
Lunch will be served, as usual.

PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the launch of PhD+, our new series! We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for humanities PhDs, online identity issues, internship possibilities, work/life balance, elements of style, grants/fellowships and much, more more.
October 9, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel
November 6, 2015: Internship Info Session
December 4, 2015: Coding for Humanists
January 8, 2016: Research Tools and Methods
February 5, 2016: Online Identity
March 4, 2016: Work-Life Balance
April 8, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities
May 13, 2016: Research and Grants
June 3, 2016: End of Year Luncheon
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Sophia Magnone
2016-02-05 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Sophia Magnone
“There is risk in dealing with a partner”: “Bloodchild” and Interspecies Encounter
I focus on “Bloodchild,” Octavia Butler’s story of extremely intimate yet profoundly troubling relations between species. On an extraterrestrial world, refugee humans become reproductive partners with their insectoid hosts, a relationship that mixes familial and sexual love with coercion and objectification. Yet in Butler’s own words, “Bloodchild” is a story of love, not slavery; she insists on the possibility of maintaining true affinity between profoundly different and unequal beings. What would it take to rescript the story of humans and nonhumans on our own

Friday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 15- James Beneda, Politics
January 22- Alex Moore, HAVC
January 29- Whitney Devos, Literature
February 5- Sophia Magnone, Literature
February 12- Andrei Tcacenco, History
February 19- Amanda Reyes, History & Consciousness
February 26- Keith Spencer, Literature
March 4- Laura Harrison, Sociology
March 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa, History

Colin Phillips: "Speaking, understanding, and the architecture of language"
2016-02-05 14:00 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
We speak and understand the same language, but it’s generally assumed that language production and comprehension are subserved by separate cognitive systems. So they must presumably draw on a third, task-neutral cognitive system (“grammar”). So comprehension-production differences are a thorn in the side of anybody who might want to collapse grammar and language processing mechanisms (i.e., me!). In this talk I will show how the same underlying mechanism can have rather different surface effects in speaking and understanding. In production, I will discuss studies in English and Japanese that show syntactically constrained look-ahead in sentence planning, and that show that syntactic category acts as a strong filter on lexical access. In comprehension, I will discuss ERP studies in English, Mandarin, and Japanese that illustrate surprisingly “dumb” word prediction mechanisms. These predictive mechanisms are nevertheless subject to the same category constraint observed in sentence production, as reflected in different effects of case marker manipulation.

Linguistic Colloquium:
The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.
Fall 2015
October 9th: Keith Johnson, UC Berkeley
October 16th: Heidi Harley, University of Arizona
October 30th: Ivano Caponigro, UC San Diego
November 20th: Elliott Moreton, University of North Carolina
Winter 2016
January 15th: Sharon Inkelas, UC Berkeley
February 5th: Colin Phillips, University of Maryland
February 6th: N. Goodman, Stanford University and A. Kehler, UC San Diego
March 5th: Linguistics Conference at Santa Cruz Conference
Spring 2016
April 15th: Sabine Iatridou, MIT
April 29th: Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University
May 6, 7, 8: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9
May 20th: Kyle Johnson, University of Massachusetts
May 27th/June 3rd (TBA): Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference

Leadership for Social Justice: Sikh American Perspectives
2016-02-06 10:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This workshop will provide participants with practical tools for conceptualizing and effecting social change. Modules include: understanding and changing mindsets, community cultural leadership, implementing adaptive change, and supporting citizen-centered rather than client-centered approaches.
Workshop trainer: Jyotswaroop Kaur
Education Director, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF)
Free workshop open to all UCSC students and staff. Lunch provided.
Advance registration required. Please use form below.
Jyotswaroop Kaur joined SALDEF’s Southern California office with 10 years of experience in youth education programs, teaching, economic and social justice work. In her role at the helm of the Education Initiative, Kaur is responsible for the strategic growth and development of the organization’s two SikhLEAD programs: The Internship Program and the Leadership Development Program. While she spends the majority of her time running the Southern California Bureau, Kaur has brokered relationships with organizations, government bureaus, and offices on Capitol Hill securing coveted internships for the prestigious Internship Program. Kaur not only hand picks each candidate, but also grooms them with resume and interview coaching prior to their arrival in D.C. Just as she winds down her D.C. partnerships, Kaur begins creating the strategic plan and class for the Leadership Development Program where she carefully culls pioneers and changemakers from our nation’s top industries—entrepreneurs, lawyers, journalists, and community organizers— to speak with her incoming LDP class. Kaur also oversees much of the community relations work including the Law Enforcement Partnership Program. She serves on the Board of Directors of SAJE (Strategic Actions for a Just Economy) — a community based organization in South Los Angeles. Kaur graduated with her M.A. in Public Administration, Non-Profit Management and Policy degree from the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University, and received her B.A. in English with a minor in Conflict Resolution from the University of California at Irvine.
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Agenda:
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome and Introduction
10:15 – 11:15 Mindset
Carol Dweck, Mindset, The Mindsets copy
11:15 – 11:25 Break
11:30 – 12:00 Leadership
Marshall Ganz reading on Leadership
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 1:30 Sikh American Civil Rights Timeline
1:30 – 2:30 Adaptive Change
Video of Ron Heifetz
2:30- 2:45 Break
2:45 – 3:15 Clients vs. Citizens
John McKnight reading, Services are Bad for People
3:15- 3:45 Social Justice Work
3:45- 4:00 Evaluations

Brown Bag Workshop: Teaching with Film and Video
2016-02-09 12:00 - 13:30 | McHenry Library, Room 1350
Join us to learn how to integrate film and video into your pedagogy. This workshop will include an introduction to the new Learning Glass in the FITC, which allows you to face the camera when you record a lecture with a “blackboard,” and discussion about creating video assignments. We will cover technology, tools, and instructions that ensure a meaningful assignment for your students, including how such assignments should be evaluated.
This workshop will inspire you to design new assignments, develop your own multimedia materials, and consider new pedagogical possibilities.
Bring your lunch.

Critical Leisure Studies Winter Seminar: Introduction & The Right to be Lazy
2016-02-09 13:00 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 402
In our introductory Winter Seminar, we hope to foster intellectual dialogue amongst a community of scholars interested in exploring the theoretical implications and transformative possibilities in thinking the category of “leisure” historically and in the contemporary moment.
The first half of the meeting, will be an open discussion about the interdisciplinary possibilities of “leisure” as a category of social critique and its intersections with our work. In the second half of the meeting, we intend to engage in a discussion of Paul Lafargue’s short piece The Right to be Lazy as a productive departure point for some of the directions listed above.
Some questions we hope to explore might include:

What differentiates labor and leisure and how have theses categories been historically constructed through racialized, gendered, heteropatriarchal, class, and/or colonial hierarchies?
What social and economic practices figure an activity as work, play, nonwork, or leisure?
How does the formal category of “leisure” itself act to discipline desires?
In what ways does the production and appropriation of excess enable cultural and political forms of participation and belonging?

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Anna Björk: "Ex-hombres, On the Revolutionary Subject in Argentine Proletarian Literature"
2016-02-09 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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B. Ruby Rich: "The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming"
2016-02-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies presents B. Ruby Rich.

Ruby Rich is the author of New Queer Cinema. Her new research explores notions of the public as constituted by theatrical exhibition from the postwar era to century’s end. As editor of Film Quarterly, she is currently preparing dossiers on the films of Eduardo Coutinho and Chantal Akerman.

Winter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series:
January 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”
January 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes”
January 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”
February 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”
February 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”
February 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
February 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
March 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”

Stay tuned for more information about guest speakers.

Works in Progress Session: Mapping Liminal Jewish Spaces with Katie Trostel and Erica Smeltzer
2016-02-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Literature graduate students, Katie Trostel and Erica Smeltzer will present their digital works-in-progress as part of their ongoing work related to the Venice Ghetto and Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination.
Sponsored by the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment.

Katie Trostel,“Shifting Zones of Memory”: Digitally Mapping Marjorie Agosín’s Cartographies: Meditations on Travel (2004)”
This digital mapping project centered on Marjorie Agosín’s Cartographies: Meditations on Travel (2004) stems from larger questions posed by the Venice Ghetto Working Group at UCSC; the group has undertaken the project of thinking through the meaning of the ghetto in the context of its 500th anniversary. Through digital mapping, I trace the complexity of ways in which Jewish spaces, including that of the ghetto, are revisited, re-inscribed, entangled, and recycled in Agosín’s poems, as she simultaneously works through her experience of exile in the period of the Chilean post-dictatorship. The space of the ghetto, as well as globalized Jewish spaces as a broader category, are ways of thinking through the more expansive themes of exile, displacement, national belonging, and exclusion. Through her prose-poems, Agosín complicates the idea of a static geography, weaving personal place-based memories into a complex web of Jewish sites of global significance. Reflecting upon her travels across four continents, she explores both the category of exile and a certain longing for home. I use this work to think about the re-inscription of meanings of place, and how sites of memory can come to embody overlapping stories that span both space and time. I question: How do these sites of memory travel? How can a digital representation of literary space help to visualize and make deeper the layers of history and tangled webs of place-based belonging encoded in the pages of Agosín’s text?

Erica Smeltzer, “Opening Gates and Ghettos: Digitally Mapping the Jewish Spaces of Prague”
This project uses a digital mapping platform to represent the many spatial characteristics attributed to Jewish experience: exile, sequestration, and diaspora. Beginning with the Jewish ghetto in Prague, the “Story Map” will begin with Egon Erwin Kisch’s Tales from Seven Ghettos, following the reportage as it describes place, space, and history in the Jewish quarter. This project evolved from the larger theoretical and comparative questions posed by the Venice Ghetto Working Group at UCSC. The group considers the Venice Ghetto “a memory space that travels.” In this spirit the digital map attempts to represent the intersections between stories of the ghetto, their reiterations, and the dispersal of their authors. In this way the mapping project begins with Egon Erwin Kisch, but it does not end with him. The map slowly expands as his text touches on different nodes (legends, landmarks, and histories) and begins to oppose a purely insular vision of the ghetto through a specialized and expanding network of intertext.

Branwen Okpako: "The Education of Auma Obama"
2016-02-10 19:30 - 21:30 | Nickelodeon Theater, 210 Lincoln Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Branwen Okpako: “The Education of Auma Obama” from IHR on Vimeo.
UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series presents:
Leading Feminist Nigerian Filmmaker
Branwen Okpako
Film Screening & Q&A with Director: The Education of Auma Obama
Wednesday, Feb 10 @ 7:30pm
Nickelodeon Theatre, Santa Cruz

Living Writers Talk
Thursday, Feb 11 @ 6:00-7:45pm
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206

Both events are Free and open to the public
Branwen Okpako was born in Lagos/Nigeria. She studied political sciences at Bristol University, England, followed by studies in filmmaking at the German Film & Television Academy, Berlin. Her films include the shorts Probe ( 1992), Frida Film (1993), Vorspiel (1994), Landing (1995), Market Forces (1996), Searching for Taid (1997) and Love Love Liebe (1998), The 3 screen installation, Sehe ich was, was du nicht siehst? (Do I see something you don’t?, 2002), for which she received the D-motion special prize for the city of Halle, Germany. For the feature documentary Dirt for Dinner(Dreckfresser) (2000), she won the Bavarian documentary film prize The Young Lion, the German Next-Generation-First-Steps Award for Best Documentary Film and First Prize at the Dubrovnik Documentary Film Festival in 2001. The fiction feature Valley of the Innocent (Tal der Ahnungslosen, 2004) had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film festival in 2003 and went on to compete in the feature film competition at FESPACO 2005.
For her film The Education of Auma Obama Okpako received the 2012 African Movie Academy Award for Best Diaspora Documentary, the Festival Founders Award for Best Documentary at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles (both in 2012), and the Viewers Choice Award at the Africa International Film Festival (2011). Her most recent project, The Curse of Medea (Fluch der Medea), a docu-drama about the life of the late German writer Christa Wolf, was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014.

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Noa Latham: Meditation and Self-Control
2016-02-11 16:00 - 17:45 | Humanities 2, Room 259
This paper seeks to analyze an under-discussed kind of self-control, namely the control of thoughts and sensations. I distinguish first-order control from second-order control and argue that their central forms are intentional concentration and intentional mindfulness respectively. These correspond to two forms of meditation, concentration meditation and mindfulness meditation, which have been regarded as central both in the traditions in which the practices arose and in the scientific literature on meditation. I analyze them in terms of their characteristic intentions, distingush them from concentration and mindfulness in general, and examine the relations between them. Concentration involves keeping the mind focused on a single object, while mindfulness requires noticing whatever mental states occupy the focus of one’s consciousness. In the course of the investigation I examine the role of phenomenology and volition in the activity of meditating, and how they change as meditative capacities develop.
About:
Noa Latham is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. Research Interests: Ethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Mind

Branwen Okpako: Nigerian Filmmaker
2016-02-11 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series presents:
Leading Feminist Nigerian Filmmaker
Branwen Okpako
Film Screening & Q&A with Director: The Education of Auma Obama
Wednesday, Feb 10 @ 7:30pm
Nickelodeon Theatre, Santa Cruz

Living Writers Talk
Thursday, Feb 11 @ 6:00-7:45pm
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206

Both events are Free and open to the public
Branwen Okpako was born in Lagos/Nigeria. She studied political sciences at Bristol University, England, followed by studies in filmmaking at the German Film & Television Academy, Berlin. Her films include the shorts Probe ( 1992), Frida Film (1993), Vorspiel (1994), Landing (1995), Market Forces (1996), Searching for Taid (1997) and Love Love Liebe (1998), The 3 screen installation, Sehe ice was, was du nicht siehst? (Do I see something you don’t?, 2002), for which she received the D-motion special prize for the city of Halle, Germany. For the feature documentary Dirt for Dinner(Dreckfresser) (2000), she won the Bavarian documentary film prize The Young Lion, the German Next-Generation-First-Steps Award for Best Documentary Film and First Prize at the Dubrovnik Documentary Film Festival in 2001. The fiction feature Valley of the Innocent (Tal der Ahnungslosen, 2004) had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film festival in 2003 and went on to compete in the feature film competition at FESPACO 2005.
For her film The Education of Auma Obama Okpako received the 2012 African Movie Academy Award for Best Diaspora Documentary, the Festival Founders Award for Best Documentary at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles (both in 2012), and the Viewers Choice Award at the Africa International Film Festival (2011). Her most recent project, The Curse of Medea (Fluch der Medea), a docu-drama about the life of the late German writer Christa Wolf, was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014.
Join the Discussion
KUSP Film Review
Facebook
#ihrevents

Winter 2016 Living Writers Series:
Creative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation, they mine issues of race, sexuality, gender, and class through several genres and media, to include poetry, fiction, critical prose, performance, sonic and visual art, memoir, as well as hybrid forms.
January 14: Alex Rivera
January 21: Vikram Chandra
January 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales
February 4: Charles Yu
February 11: Branwen Okpako
February 18: Nnedi Okorafor
February 25: Chang-rae Lee
March 3: Jeremy Love
March 10: Samuel Delany
Event Photos:
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Andrei Tcacenco
2016-02-12 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Andrei Tcacenco
“Constructing Socialism From Within: Entertainment and Media in the Soviet Home”
My talk will explore the daily lived condition of real existing socialism during the latter part of the Soviet period. I will engage with official ideology while also showing how Soviet citizens shaped political discourse from the bottom-up by writing letters to local newspapers,television journals and local local radio stations.

Friday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 15- James Beneda, Politics
January 22- Alex Moore, HAVC
January 29- Whitney Devos, Literature
February 5- Sophia Magnone, Literature
February 12- Andrei Tcacenco, History
February 19- Amanda Reyes, History & Consciousness
February 26- Keith Spencer, Literature
March 4- Laura Harrison, Sociology
March 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa, History

Alicia Garza: 32nd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Convocation
2016-02-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
The annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by presenting speakers who discuss the civil rights issues of equality, freedom, justice, and opportunity. The convocation also seeks to build partnerships and develop dialogue within the campus community and with the local communities served by the university.
Please join us
• Speaker: Alicia Garza
Social Activist and Co-Creator of the Viral Twitter Hashtag and Movement, #BlackLivesMatter
• Date: 7 p.m., Friday, February 12, 2016
• Location: Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
• The event is free and open to the public.
The 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation will feature Alicia Garza, Social Activist and Co-Creator of the Viral Twitter Hashtag and Movement, #BlackLivesMatter.
Social activist Alicia Garza prompted activism nationwide when she introduced the world to the Twitter hashtag #BlackLivesMatter along with movement cofounders Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors. The hashtag evolved into the banner under which this generation’s civil rights movement marches.
Garza, special projects director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, previously served as executive director of People Organized to Win Employment Rights, where she led the charge on significant initiatives, including organizing against the chronic police violence in black neighborhoods.
Committed to challenging society to recognize and celebrate the contributions of all individuals, specifically black people and queer communities, Garza’s activism is rooted in organizational strategies and visions to connect individuals and emerging social movements. Her work has earned her various honors, including two Harvey Milk Democratic Club Community Activist Awards for her work fighting gentrification and environmental racism in San Francisco’s largest remaining black community.
Delivering powerful perspective on the adversities inflicted by social injustice and discrimination, Garza educates and inspires audiences to organize and stand together to transform society into a world where the lives and contributions of all individuals are recognized equally.
Tony Hill Memorial Award
Members of the Santa Cruz and UCSC community are invited to nominate outstanding individuals for the Tony Hill Memorial Award. The recipient will be recognized at the convocation.

Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
2016-02-17 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies presents Aaron Benanav.

Aaron Benanav’s current research examines the global forces giving rise to both an oversupply of labor and an underdemand for labor, worldwide. He has developed a theory of “surplus populations” to explain the consequences of persistently slack labor markets for working people, who have to work even when no steady work can be found.

Winter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series:
January 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”
January 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes”
January 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”
February 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”
February 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”
February 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
February 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
March 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”

Living Writers: Nnedi Okorafor
2016-02-18 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Nnedi Okorafor is an international award-winning novelist of African-based science fiction, fantasy and magical realism for both children and adults. Nnedi Okorafor’s books include Lagoon (a British Science Fiction Association Award finalist for Best Novel),Who Fears Death (a World Fantasy Award winner for Best Novel), Kabu Kabu (A Publisher’s Weekly Best Book for Fall 2013),Akata Witch (an Amazon.com Best Book of the Year), Zahrah the Windseeker (winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature), and The Shadow Speaker (a CBS Parallax Award winner). Her latest works include her novel The Book of Phoenix and her novella Binti. Nnedi is an associate professor at the University at Buffalo, New York (SUNY). Learn more at Nnedi.com

Winter 2016 Living Writers Series:
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Creative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation, they mine issues of race, sexuality, gender, and class through several genres and media, to include poetry, fiction, critical prose, performance, sonic and visual art, memoir, as well as hybrid forms.
January 14: Alex Rivera
January 21: Vikram Chandra
January 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales
February 4: Charles Yu
February 11: Branwen Okpako
February 18: Nnedi Okorafor
February 25: Chang-rae Lee
March 3: Jeremy Love
March 10: Samuel Delany

Allan Langdale: "Palermo: Travels in the City of Happiness"
2016-02-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Humanities 2, Room 359
Please join us for a lecture and reading by Allan Langdale (History of Art and Visual Culture, UCSC), author of Palermo: Travels in the City of Happiness (2015). Dr. Langdale will read from his new book, show images of Palermo’s art and architecture, and talk about the project and the city’s history.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Languages & Applied Linguistics, Italian Studies, and History of Art and Visual Culture.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Amanda Reyes
2016-02-19 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Amanda Reyes
Dangerous Visibility: The Visual Epistemology of Eugenics
In the 1927 Buck v. Bell decision, the Supreme Court upheld a Virginia statute allowing sterilization of people determined to have “hereditary” mental illnesses such as “idiocy, imbecility, feeble-mindedness or epilepsy.” Key testimony asserted that her infant child had “a look about [her] that is not quite normal” and descriptions of Carrie as “poor in looks” formed the basis of the argument that Carrie’s “feeble-mindedness” was hereditary. Thinking through the ways that representations of the Bucks were curated and challenged, this paper argues that eugenic discourse operates through a visual economy.

Friday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 15- James Beneda, Politics
January 22- Alex Moore, HAVC
January 29- Whitney Devos, Literature
February 5- Sophia Magnone, Literature
February 12- Andrei Tcacenco, History
February 19- Amanda Reyes, History & Consciousness
February 26- Keith Spencer, Literature
March 4- Laura Harrison, Sociology
March 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa, History

Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination II: The Venice Ghetto at 500 and the Future of Memory
2016-02-23 12:15 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
EVENT PODCAST:

This conference addresses the complexity of the Ghetto of Venice at 500, both as a concrete space and as a global metaphor – tracing its refraction across space and time. We bring together representations of the ghetto in art, literature, and photography while embracing the possibilities of digital methodologies. By conceiving of the ghetto as a “memory space that travels” rather than as a static museal site we open up the constellation of representations in which the Ghetto of Venice is situated in the 21st century.
Program:
12:15-1:00 PM – Opening Remarks: by Dean Tyler Stovall presented by Professor Murray Baumgarten
“The Venice Ghetto at 500: Situating the Conversation”
1:00-1:30 PM – Skype conversation with Marjorie Agosín
Questions and Answers. Closing with Poetry Reading
Katie Trostel (Ph.D. Candidate in Literature, University of California Santa Cruz)
1:30-1:45 PM – Coffee Break
1:45-3:15 PM – Panel #1: “The Ghetto as Theater”
Dr. Ariane Helou (University of California, Santa Cruz)
“Voice and Theatricality in Leone de’ Sommi’s Dialoghi.”
Dr. Samuel Arkin (Lecturer in Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz)
“Hath not a Jew a home? Shylock in Venice, Venice in Shylock?”
Respondent: Professor Emeritus Harry Berger, Jr. (Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz)
3:15-3:30 PM – Coffee Break
3:30-5:00 PM – Panel #2: “Mapping Liminal Jewish Space”
Amanda Sharick (Ph.D. candidate in Literature, University of California, Riverside)
“’Beating Vainly at Closed Doors’: Tracing and Transposing the Recurring Ghetto in the Works of Lady Katie Magnus, Amy Levy and Israel Zangwill.”
Professor Alma Heckman (Professor of History and Jewish Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz)
“Porosity and Transgression: Modern Understandings of the Moroccan Mellah and Jews Apart.”
Respondent: Francesco Spagnolo (Curator of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and Lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley)
5:00-5:15 PM – Break
5:15-6:30 PM – Round Table Discussion “The Venice Ghetto at 500”: Moderated by Professor Murray Baumgarten
Dr. Rachel Deblinger (CLIR Post Doctoral Fellow and Digital Humanities Specialist, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Professor Bruce Thompson (Jewish Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Professor Emeritus Peter Kenez (History, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Professor Nathaniel Deutsch (History, University of California, Santa Cruz)
6:30 PM – Reception to follow
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Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Literature Department, and the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment

Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
2016-02-24 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies presents Beléna Bistué.

In the context of her larger project on early modern collaborative and multilingual translation, Belén Bistué is currently looking at specific instances in which these practices, together with their underlying conceptual models, were adapted to the colonial Spanish American context.

Winter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series:
January 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”
January 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes”
January 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”
February 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”
February 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”
February 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
February 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
March 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”

Todd Presner: "The Ethics of the Algorithm: Holocaust Testimony and Digital Humanities"
2016-02-24 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
2016 Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies with Todd Presner
“The Ethics of the Algorithm: Holocaust Testimony and Digital Humanities”
With more than 52,000 testimonies, 100,000+ hours of video footage, and a database of some 6 million records, the Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive is the largest archive of Holocaust testimony in the world. But more than an archive of eyewitness testimony, it is also an information management system, a patented digital library, and a generalizable database for indexing and cataloguing genocide. This talk examines how forms of computation – specifically databases, data structures, algorithms, and information visualizations – function as specific modes of historical emplotment that raise significant ethical questions. Through an investigation of the entirety of the Shoah Foundation’s database, Presner shows how computational analysis can be “read against itself” in order to reveal certain assumptions and patterns in the data. In so doing, he argues for the development of an “ethics of the algorithm” based on insights from the Jewish ethical tradition. The talk will combine his research in Holocaust Studies, history/memory, and Digital Humanities.
Todd Samuel Presner is Professor of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature at UCLA, where he is also the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and Chair of the Digital Humanities Program. His most recent books are: Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture, co-edited with Claudio Fogu and Wulf Kansteiner (Harvard University Press, 2016) and HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities, with co-authors David Shepard and Yoh Kawano (Harvard University Press, 2014).
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.

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Book Talks - Gil Anidjar: "Blood: A Critique of Christianity"
2016-02-24 18:00 - 19:30 | Humanities 2, Room 359
Blood, according to Gil Anidjar, maps the singular history of Christianity. As a category for historical analysis, blood can be seen through its literal and metaphorical uses as determining, sometimes even defining Western Culture, politics, and social practice and their wide-ranging incarnations in nationalism, capitalism, and the law. Flowing across multiple boundaries, infusing them with violent precepts that we must address, blood undoes the presumed oppositions between religion and politics, economy and theology, and kinship and race.
Dr. Anidjar is professor of Religion, Comparative Literature, and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. His books include The Jew, The Arab: A History of the Enemy and Semites: Race, Religion, Literature.
UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Emerging Worlds and the Center for Cultural Studies present this new series, Book Talks, which invites authors to read from their books and engage in discussion. Please visit the Center for Emerging Worlds’ website for more information on their work.

Intro to Sikhs Guest Lecture: Shinder Thandi speaks on Global Sikh Diaspora
2016-02-25 16:00 - 17:45 | Cowell, Room 134
Shinder Thandi

Shinder Thandi is a Global & International Studies Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in Sikhs and Sikh Diaspora, Political Economy of Development, Emerging Economies with special focus on Indian and Chinese Development and Evolving China-India-Africa Relations.
He is the founder-editor of the Journal of Punjab Studies, in publication since 1994. The Journal has been published by the Center for Sikh & Punjab Studies at UC Santa Barbara since 2004. Also one of the founders and later Convenor of the Punjab Research Group which was established in the UK in 1984.
He has published widely on Indian, Punjabi and Sikh migration and on transnational practices of Sikhs, especially Sikh diaspora’s homeland relations. He is co-author (with Michael Fisher and Shompa Lahiri) of A South Asian History of Britain: Four Centuries of Peoples from the Indian Sub-Continent, (Greenwood Press, 2007). He has co-edited two books: Punjabi Identity in a Global Context [ed. with Pritam Singh, OUP, 1999) and People on the Move: Punjabi Colonial and Post Colonial Migration [edited with Ian Talbot, OUP, 2004). He is currently working on a book with Professor Gurinder Singh Mann on Global Sikhism.

Living Writers: Chang-rae Lee
2016-02-25 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Chang-rae Lee is the author of the novels Native Speaker (1995), A Gesture Life (1999), Aloft (2004), The Surrendered (2010), which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and On Such A Full Sea (2014), which won the 2015 Heartland Prize for Fiction and was a Finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction.

His other awards and citations include the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the American Book Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, ALA Notable Book of the Year Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Literary Award, the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, and the NAIBA Book Award for Fiction. He has also has also written stories and articles for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, Conde Nast Traveler, Food & Wine, and many other publications. In 2000 he was named by The New Yorker as one of the 20 Writers for the 21st Century.

He has been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and The American Academy in Rome.

Chang-rae Lee was born in Seoul, Korea and emigrated to the United States when he was three. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Yale, and the University of Oregon. He is Professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University as well as a Shinhan Distinguished Visiting Professor at Yonsei University.

Winter 2016 Living Writers Series:
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Creative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation, they mine issues of race, sexuality, gender, and class through several genres and media, to include poetry, fiction, critical prose, performance, sonic and visual art, memoir, as well as hybrid forms.
January 14: Alex Rivera
January 21: Vikram Chandra
January 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales
February 4: Charles Yu
February 11: Branwen Okpako
February 18: Nnedi Okorafor
February 25: Chang-rae Lee
March 3: Jeremy Love
March 10: Samuel Delany

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Keith Spencer
2016-02-26 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Keith Spencer
“What We Talk About When We Talk To Aliens”
Throughout the history of the search for ET, strategies for sending radio signals towards potentially inhabited planetary systems have always made unscientific assumptions and projections about alien culture, language, society and even economy. In my presentation I will deconstruct some recent scientific attempts to actively send out radio signals to other star systems and the hegemonic assumptions that are tied to the content of these radio compositions.

Friday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 15- James Beneda, Politics
January 22- Alex Moore, HAVC
January 29- Whitney Devos, Literature
February 5- Sophia Magnone, Literature
February 12- Andrei Tcacenco, History
February 19- Amanda Reyes, History & Consciousness
February 26- Keith Spencer, Literature
March 4- Laura Harrison, Sociology
March 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa, History

The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection: February 26 – May 22, 2016
2016-02-26 19:30 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
Explore one of the largest private collections of African American art and artifacts.
Spanning 400 years of history, the Kinsey Collection reflects a rich cultural heritage. Includes work by Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, and Richard Mayhew alongside archival material related to Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, and Malcolm X.
Join us for a MAH Members Only Reception from 5:30-7:30, and a public opening from 7:30-9pm. There will be food, refreshments and a welcoming by Khalil, Bernard and Shirley Kinsey, the show’s curators at 6:30PM the Members Reception. Salif Kone a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Burkina Faso, West Africa will play 5:30-6:30 and at 7:15PM.
The MAH is providing free admission to this exhibition for all Santa Cruz County K-12 students, UCSC and Cabrillo College students. Just show your ID at the desk Feb 27-May 22, Tuesday-Sunday, 11-5, to get in for free. Note: Free Admission does not apply during Third Friday festivals.
Self-guided tour materials also available for school groups and visitors, click here to book a self-guided tour.
Presented in partnership with the Santa Cruz County Office of Education, the Art Forum, the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research and Cabrillo College. For more information visit: santacruzmah.org

Join us for these exhibition-related events:
AT THE MAH:
Opening Reception
Friday Feb 26th
Members/Invites only 5:30-7:30pm
Open to the Public 7:30-9pm
March 1st Friday Opening
March 4th, 5-9PM
5:30-6PM Panel discussion about The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection with Michael Watkins from the Santa Cruz County Office of Education and Simba Kenyata from the Santa Cruz NAACP.
5-9PM Make a protest sign to fight for what you believe in.
3rd Friday Artivism
March 18th, 6-9PM
Explore activism through creative forms of expression: music, dance, poetry, art, food and more. Artivism is co-presented by MAH’s teen program, Subjects to Change.
Community Rental: Barrios Unidos Presents Jazz For Freedom
March 20, 3-4:30PM
Community Rental: Project Pollinate Presents Songs of Freedom: A Journey Through the Kinsey African American History Exhibit and a Birthday Tribute to Paul Robeson
April 8th, 6-9PM
Community Rental: Barrios Unidos Presents Jazz For Freedom
April 9, 3-4:30PM
3rd Friday Beyond Borders
April 15th, 6-9PM
How do we break barriers? We organize. We share stories. We speak out. Break through borders with inspiring local organizations fighting for political, cultural and social justice.
Community Rental: Rising Root Wellness Presents Resuscitating Ancestral Power
April 29th, 6-9PM
Community Rental: Barrios Unidos Presents Jazz For Freedom
May 14th, 3-4:30PM
Community Rental: UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research Presents, A Night at the Museum: A Story of Influence
May 18th, 6PM
A public conversation with Ethan Michaeli, author of the acclaimed new book “The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America”, and David Anthony, Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz. Reception and book signing to follow talk. Free and Open to the Public. Co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz
COMMUNITY EVENTS AROUND TOWN:
Fire in the Heart at Cabrillo College Crocker Theater
March 5th , 7:30PM
Santa Cruz Juneteenth Celebration at Laurel Park behind the Louden Nelson Community Center
June 11th, 12-5PM

Questions that Matter: "Play: Games, Life, and Death"
2016-03-01 18:00 - 20:30 | Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Questions that Matter 03.01.16 from IHR on Vimeo.
This series brings together UC Santa Cruz scholars with community members to explore questions that matter to all of us. We invite you to join us on March 1, 2016 for the series launch at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center.
Featuring:
Kimberly Lau, Professor of Literature, UCSC
Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Professor of Computational Media, UCSC
Moderated by: Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of History & Director of the Institute for Humanities Research
The reception begins at 6:00pm, and the program begins at 7:00pm.
Please check back for updated program information.

Nathaniel Mackey: "Breath and Precarity"
2016-03-02 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies, in partnership with Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, Kresge College, and Porter College, presents Nathaniel Mackey.
Acclaimed poet Nathaniel Mackey’s recent work encompasses three ongoing, decades-long projects: the serial poems Song of the Andoumboulou and “Mu,” and the serial novel or series of novels From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, whose fifth volume, Late Arcade, was recently completed.

Winter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series:
January 13-Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”
January 20-Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes”
January 27-Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”
February 3-Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”
February 10-B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”
February 17-Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
February 24-Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
March 2-Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”

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Past Time, Past Place: 3D Reconstruction Modeling for Examining Historic Sites
2016-03-02 16:00 - 17:00 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Archaeologists and historians are utilizing improving 3D technologies to create scholarly reconstructions of ancient places. These visualizations of now-disappeared spaces offer new potential for the examination of the ancient world. In this talk, Professor Sullivan will present her work on the 3D Saqqara project, a 3D visualization of the Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. The project attempts to re-imagine the built and natural environment of the cemetery through space and time, accessing human perception and experience in past landscapes.
Co-sponsored by the History and Classics Department and the Institute for Humanities Research.

Professor Thomas Stoellner Ruhr-University Bochum The Beginnings of Social Inequality: The World’s Earliest Gold Mine
2016-03-03 16:30 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The rise of social inequality in early societies has been a matter of long-standing debate in archaeology. Often archaeologists explicitly focus on long-distance networks and the accumulation of wealth as driving factors, and the consumption of precious metals plays a prominent role in this discussion. However, seldom are the interwoven roles of producers and the complexity of production considered. Simplified models tend to strengthen notions of dependency and dichotomy between ruling elites and a laboring class. Yet mining as a social practice is more complicated and might have been founded on degrees of social complexity from the very beginning. In this lecture, the example of gold mining in the Caucasus in the 4th millennium BC will be introduced, drawing on empirical data, experimental archaeology and the economic complexity of mining. Gold mining such as in Sakdrisi, in particular, raises important questions about whether the use of hard labor in the production of a highly desired material resulted in its own societal dynamics.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Stoellner is Chair of Prehistoric Archaeology at the Ruhr-University Bochum and Head of the Research Department of the German Mining Museum. He has directed excavations and research projects in Austria, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Kazakhstan, Georgia, and Peru. Prof. Stoellner is a leading expert in mining archaeology whose research has broadly contributed to our understanding of prehistoric metallurgy and technology, and the prehistoric economy.
For more information, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu
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Living Writers: Jeremy Love
2016-03-03 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Jeremy Love is an award-winning writer, illustrator, and animator. His critically acclaimed, Eisner Nominated, serialized graphic novel Bayou has been used as curriculum at various high schools and colleges including the University of South Carolina and Dartmouth college. It was also selected by the American Library Association as a Great Graphic Novel for teens. Other projects include Blackest Nightmare for DC Comics, Fierce and Shadow Rock for Dark Horse Comics as a writer and GI Joe, Fraggle Rockfor Archaia and Midnight Mover for Oni as an artist. Love is currently hard at work completing Bayou as well as a new Mini-Series from Dark Horse Comics, The Black Lotus.

Winter 2016 Living Writers Series:
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Creative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation, they mine issues of race, sexuality, gender, and class through several genres and media, to include poetry, fiction, critical prose, performance, sonic and visual art, memoir, as well as hybrid forms.
January 14: Alex Rivera
January 21: Vikram Chandra
January 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales
February 4: Charles Yu
February 11: Branwen Okpako
February 18: Nnedi Okorafor
February 25: Chang-rae Lee
March 3: Jeremy Love
March 10: Samuel Delany

WORKSHOP: GIS for Humanists
2016-03-04 09:00 - 12:30 | Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library
Looking to start a mapping project? Curious about GIS? Start exploring the world of ArcGIS with Professors Elaine Sullivan and Barry Nickel.
Join us for this introductory workshop. No previous experience with GIS necessary.
Very Limited Seating. Registration Required. Preference will go to graduate students.
Lunch will be served.

PhD+: Work-Life Balance
2016-03-04 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Panelists:
Shelley Stamp, Professor of Film and Digital Media
Meg Corman, Special Assistant to the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor of University Relations
Nathaniel Deutsch, Director, Institute for Humanities Research, Professor of History
Shelley Stamp will offer reflections on Work/Life Balance based on over 20 years experience teaching at UC Santa Cruz. She is the mother of three kids under twelve, the author of two books, and founding editor of the journal Feminist Media Histories.
Meg Corman is a Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) teacher. MBSR was founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn and has been taught and researched for over three decades. Meg teaches locally at Dominican Hospital and at El Camino Hospital in Los Gatos and is nearing completion of a teacher certification program with the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness.
Nathaniel Deutsch will discuss time management for dissertation writing, the importance of exercise, and finding work/life balance in general. He is the father of two kids.
Hope you can join us for this important conversation!
Lunch will be served, as always.

PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the launch of PhD+, our new series! We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for humanities PhDs, online identity issues, internship possibilities, work/life balance, elements of style, grants/fellowships and much, more more.
October 9, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel
November 6, 2015: Internship Info Session
December 4, 2015: Coding for Humanists
January 8, 2016: Research Tools and Methods
February 5, 2016: Online Identity
March 4, 2016: Work-Life Balance
April 8, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities
May 13, 2016: Research and Grants
June 3, 2016: End of Year Luncheon
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Laura Harrison
2016-03-04 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Laura Harrison
“Rights Are Not Justice: A Case Study in Campus Segregation and How University Accessibility Policies Do Violence To the Spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act”
“Rights Are Not Justice” is the product of a community facilitated project in public sociology and critical disability studies. This project outlines who and what is at stake when a campus elevator/building is inaccessible by uncovering the answers to thefollowing three questions: 1) who is affected by building segregation; 2) which bureaucratic structures maintain or operationalize the necessary conditions for inaccessibility; and, 3) what ideas work to organize these structures?

Friday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 15- James Beneda, Politics
January 22- Alex Moore, HAVC
January 29- Whitney Devos, Literature
February 5- Sophia Magnone, Literature
February 12- Andrei Tcacenco, History
February 19- Amanda Reyes, History & Consciousness
February 26- Keith Spencer, Literature
March 4- Laura Harrison, Sociology
March 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa, History

Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC) 2016
2016-03-05 09:30 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Every year towards the end of the Winter Quarter, the Linguistics at Santa Cruz conference showcases the research of second and third year graduate students. This conference coincides with a visit to campus of prospective graduate students, and it always features as an invited speaker, a Ph.D. alum of the department. This year’s invited speaker will be Ryan Bennett (Ph.D. 2012) an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Yale University.

Israeli Music Extravaganza!
2016-03-07 20:30 - 22:00 | Porter/Kresge Dining Hall
Featuring award-winning singer Moran Arad with members of Brazilian Band SambaDá!
Monday, March 7 at 8:30pm
@ UCSC Porter/Kresge Dining Hall
Doors open at 8:00pm
Drums: Gary Kehoe
Guitars: Nelsen Hutchison
Bass: Etienne David Franc
Saxophones: Anne Stafford
Keyboard: Avi Tchamni
Percussion: Noam Harel
The show is FREE for all
For more information, contact atchamni@ucsc.edu.

Sugar Beets, Biocolonialism, and Memory in the American West
2016-03-08 14:00 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The History Department Presents the Thom Gentle Lecture on Environmental History
Bernadette Jeanne Pérez
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
What can the sugar beet industry tell us about the relationship between agricultural science, capitalism, and American settler colonialism? In this talk, Pérez draws upon turn of the twentieth century beet sugar manuals, which drew upon ideas of heredity and evolution, and mid-twentieth century industry histories, which narrated industry founders as heroic pioneers, to reveal that efforts to breed stronger and healthier sugar beets were part of a broader vision to erase the history of Indigenous peoples, subjugate non-white workers, and construct white American exceptionalism. Between 1870 and 1945, over 160 beet sugar factories opened in rural American towns from Michigan to the Pacific Coast. Hoping to cash in on a crop then touted as “white gold,” landowners allocated millions of acres to beets to feed their local factories. Efforts to dominate and domesticate nature were inseparable from global histories of colonialism, race, and Manifest Destiny.
Bernadette Pérez is a PhD Candidate in US history at the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation, ““Before the Sun Rises: Contesting Power and Cultivating Nations in Colorado Beet Fields, 1900-1945,” is a social, cultural, environmental, and labor history of diverse migrant workers in the sugar beet industry. Her research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the University of Minnesota’s Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, the Organization of American Historian’s Huggins Quarles Award, and the Western History Association’s Sara Jackson Award.

Subatlantic: A Screening and Presentation
2016-03-08 17:30 - 19:15 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Arts Division, Film & Digital Media, History of Art & Visual Culture, and the Center for Creative Ecologies presents:
Ursula Biemann
Swiss video practitioner Ursula Biemann will screen and discuss her recent speculative SF video essay Subatlantic (2015), addressing, among related works and topics, the interdisciplinary-discursive ecotone of geology and climatology merged with human politics and history, as well as her essayistic storytelling and creative imaging. Set in the Shetland Islands, Greenland’s Disco Bay and on a tiny Caribbean Island, and occurring at the end of the 2,500 year old Holocene epoch, the video’s relational eco-geography captures moments of aquatic flows through invisible ocean streams and melting Arctic icescapes, and reads this interconnected system as both a hyperobject (one of an expanded geo-space-time, as Timothy Morton writes), and a modeling of intensive science and virtual philosophy (as according to Manuel De Landa). This event will compliment Biemann’s presentation in the Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium the following afternoon:

Discovering the UC Santa Cruz Campus by James Clifford
2016-03-08 19:30 - 21:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UC Santa Cruz Emeriti Group presents the Spring Emeriti Faculty Lecture featuring James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, History of Consciousness.
March 8, 2016, 7:30pm
Doors open at 7pm.
Free and open to the public. (Seating is limited)
The University of California, Santa Cruz, built in a redwood forest overlooking Monterey Bay, is famously beautiful. But the usual language of aesthetics does little to reveal what makes the place extraordinary. The lecture, based on years of walking the rugged site, uses color photography and historical research to explore the interaction of architecture and ecology. It traces UCSC’s experience of environmental design through changing times and ponders its continued significance.
Complimentary parking is available in the Performing Arts parking lot. Parking attendants will be onsite that evening to issue permits.
For questions or accommodation requirements, contact UC Santa Cruz Special Events Office at (831) 459-5003 or specialevents@ucsc.edu

Dr. Ramzi Fawaz: “‘Flame on!’: Nuclear Families, Unstable Molecules, and the Queer History of ‘The Fantastic Four'”
2016-03-09 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Department of Feminist Studies and the Affect Working Group at UC Santa Cruz Present:
“Flame On!”: Nuclear Families, Unstable Molecules, and the Queer History of The Fantastic Four
DR. RAMZI FAWAZ, U. OF WISCONSIN – MADISON
Released to popular acclaim in 1961, Marvel Comics’ The Fantastic Four told of four anticommunist space adventurers who gain extraordinary powers when cosmic rays alter their physiology, respectively granting them control over living flame, invisibility, impenetrable rock-like skin, and physical pliability. In this talk, Ramzi Fawaz explores the surprisingly queer evolution of the series, which used the mutated bodies of its heroes to depict the transformation of the bread-winning father, doting wife and bickering male siblings of the 1950s nuclear family into icons of 1960s radicalism: the left-wing intellectual, the liberal feminist, the political activist, and the potential queer.
About the Author: Ramzi Fawaz is assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics (NYU Press, 2016), which received the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Fellowship award for best first book manuscript in LGBT Studies. Dr. Fawaz’s research has been published in American Literature, Callaloo, and GLQ.

The Cosmopolitical Forest
2016-03-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Porter College, Room D245
Arts Division, Film & Digital Media, History of Art & Visual Culture, and the Center for Creative Ecologies presents:
Ursula Biemann
Based on comprehensive research, Ursula Biemann elaborates in her video works the far-reaching territorial transformations due to the extraction and engineering of resources, drawing attention to the biological and social micro-dynamics at work in these massive physical encroachments. Her recent fieldwork has taken her to vital forested regions in the Americas. Engaging with the political ecology of oil and water, the artist interweaves vast cinematic landscapes with documentary footage and academic findings to narrate a changing planetary reality. Discussing her artistic practice in the projects Deep Weather and Forest Law, Biemann particularly raises questions regarding the entanglement of aesthetics, ecology and geopolitics.

Anna Tsing: "The Mushroom at the End of the World"
2016-03-09 18:00 - 19:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Emerging Worlds and the Center for Cultural Studies present the new series, “Book Talks,” which invites authors to read from their books and engage in discussion. Next week we present Anna Tsing reading from “The Mushroom at the End of the World.”
A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, “The Mushroom at the End of the World” follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. In all its contradictions, the matsutake mushroom offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: what manages to live in the ruins we have made? By investigating one of the world’s most sought-after fungi, The Mushroom at the End of the World presents an original examination in to the relation between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth.
Anna Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at UCSC and a Neils Bohr Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark, where she codirects Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA). She is author of “Friction” and “In the Realm of the Diamond Queen.”

Stereotype Threat: How it affects us and what we can do about it
2016-03-10 16:00 - 18:00 | College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room, College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Dr. Claude Steele, who is called “one of the few great social psychologists,” offers a first-person account of his groundbreaking research and conclusions on stereotypes and identity.
Claude Steele, internationally reknowned social scientist and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at the University of California, Berkeley, will discuss his theory of stereotype threat, which has been the focus of much of his research and writing throughout his academic career. The theory examines how people from different groups, being threatened by different stereotypes, can have quite different experiences in the same situation. It has also been used to understand group differences in performance ranging from the intellectual to the athletic. Steele’s recent book, “Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us and what we Can Do,” published in 2010, was based on this research and lays out a plan to mitigate the negative effects of “stereotype threat”.
Light refreshments will precede the lecture. Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
Please RSVP here.

Sex Radical, Afro-Fututrist, and Grand Master of Science Fiction, Samuel R. Delany Reads from His Work
2016-03-10 16:30 - 19:45 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Sex Radical, Afro-Fututrist, and Grand Master of Science Fiction, Samuel Delany Talk 03.10.16 from IHR on Vimeo.
UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series present:
Sex Radical, Afro-Futurist, and Grand Master of Science Fiction, SAMUEL R. DELANY, Reads from His Work
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Music Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz
Free and open to the public
4:30PM Doors Open
5PM Reception & Book signing
6PM Reading
Samuel R. Delany is an American science-fiction novelist and critic whose highly imaginative works address sexual, racial, and social issues, heroic quests, and the nature of language. Born in New York City’s Harlem in 1942, Delany was the first African American writer to achieve note through commercial american science fiction. He is the author of the non-fiction books Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999), and About Writing (2005). His novels include Nova (1968), Dhalgren (1975), The Return to Nevèrÿon Fantasy Series (1979-87), The Mad Man (1995), Dark Reflections (2007), Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders (2012), and Phallos (2013). He has won the Stonewall Book Award and the Lambda Literary Pioneer Award. In 2002 he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and, this year, into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. He is the 31st Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master of Science Fiction and lives in Pennsylvania. Last year he retired from teaching creative writing at Temple University.
Event sponsored by: UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Living Writers Series, Humanities Division, Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, and the Institute for Humanities Research.

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Winter 2016 Living Writers Series:
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Creative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation, they mine issues of race, sexuality, gender, and class through several genres and media, to include poetry, fiction, critical prose, performance, sonic and visual art, memoir, as well as hybrid forms.
January 14: Alex Rivera
January 21: Vikram Chandra
January 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales
February 4: Charles Yu
February 11: Branwen Okpako
February 18: Nnedi Okorafor
February 25: Chang-rae Lee
March 3: Jeremy Love
March 10: Samuel Delany

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Bristol Cave La-Costa
2016-03-11 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Bristol Cave La-Costa
“Sexual Policing and Immigration Policy in the United States at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”
While much research has focused on Chinese Exclusion laws as mostly male-oriented, I consider how the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and 1875 Page Act, which excluded “immoral” immigrants, contributed to categories of sexual morality for Chinese women.

Friday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 15- James Beneda, Politics
January 22- Alex Moore, HAVC
January 29- Whitney Devos, Literature
February 5- Sophia Magnone, Literature
February 12- Andrei Tcacenco, History
February 19- Amanda Reyes, History & Consciousness
February 26- Keith Spencer, Literature
March 4- Laura Harrison, Sociology
March 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa, History

Film Screening: Inequality for All
2016-03-31 18:30 - 20:00 | Kresge Town Hall
An award winning documentary that follows former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich as he looks to raise awareness of the country’s widening economic gap. Introduction by UC Santa Cruz Professor Mary Beth Pudup.
Robert Reich, Former Secretary of Labor, in the Clinton administration, is the author of more than a dozen books, including Aftershock, The Work of Nations, and Beyond Outrage. He is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and a Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economics. Reich is also the subject of Inequality for All, an ward-winning documentary film. Inequality for All will be shown at Kresge Town Hall on Thursday, March 31.
The screening comes prior to a local talk by Robert Reich on April 5 at the Rio Theatre.
Saving Capitalism For the Many, Not the Few: A Curated Conversation with Robert Reich

Modeling Culture: 3D Archaeology and the Future of the Past
2016-04-01 09:00 - 17:30 | McHenry Library UCSC, Room 4286
Organizers:
Elaine Sullivan, UC Santa Cruz
J. Cameron Monroe, UC Santa Cruz

Conference Theme:
The past decade has witnessed a dramatic surge in the availability and use of digital technologies in Archaeology, where the increasing power and declining cost of computing technology has transformed the way we think about collecting, analyzing, and presenting archaeological data. While many technologies have been adopted and adapted into the field, the potential for 3D modeling is still being explored. This conference asks leading innovators in the use of 3D research methods to present and evaluate the impact and future of this new technology on the study of the past.
Speakers:
Michael Ashley, Center for Digital Archaeology
Edward González-Tennant, Digital Heritage Interactive
Susan Kuzminsky, UC Santa Cruz
Nicola Lercari, UC Merced
Tom Levy, UC San Diego
Bernard K. Means, Virginia Commonwealth University
Rachel Opitz, Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies
John Rick, Stanford University
Elaine Sullivan, UC Santa Cruz
Willeke Wendrich, UC Los Angeles
Keynote Address by Ruth Tringham, UC Berkeley

Admission is FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required: Register for the Conference

Call For Digital Presentations:
In addition to the above speakers, we invite submissions for a small number of digital presentations focusing on methodological issues in 3D archaeology. These presentations will be presented in a digital “poster-session” in which presenters will use a devoted widescreen LCD. As such, we discourage traditional powerpoint presentations or simple posters, but rather encourage presentations that will make maximum use of the flexibility afforded by a digital presentation mode. We particularly encourage submissions from graduate students, and small travel stipend is available to defray costs for graduate student presenters. To ensure full consideration, abstracts should be submitted online by February 19th using the link below.
Submit an Abstract for the Digital Poster Session

Saving Capitalism For the Many, Not the Few: A Curated Conversation with Robert Reich
2016-04-05 18:30 - 20:30 | Rio Theater, 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062, United States
Robert Reich, Former Secretary of Labor, in the Clinton administration, is the author of more than a dozen books, including Aftershock, The Work of Nations, and Beyond Outrage. He is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and a Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economics. Reich is also the subject of Inequality for All, an ward-winning documentary film. Inequality for All will be shown at Kresge Town Hall on Thursday, March 31.
Free Admission. Advance Registration Required.
This event has reached capacity; online registration is now closed. To be placed on a waiting list, fill out this form or email the Special Events office.
LIVE STREAMING AVAILABLE!
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Sherene Seikaly: “Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine”
2016-04-06 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Sherene Seikaly’s current work explores the construction and regulation of the poor in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt in terms of governance and of popular politics. Through a political economy of the history of food, this project rethinks our understanding of the “masses” and the specter of the “bread riot.” This talk is generously co-sponsored by the Center for Emerging Worlds.
Seikaly is Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara.

Spring 2016 Colloquium Series

April 6, 2016
April 13, 2016
April 20, 2016
April 27, 2016
May 4,2016
May 11,2016
May 18,2016
May 25,2016

Grad Slam for 2016 Finalists
2016-04-06 17:30 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Grad Slam, also referred to as the 3-Minute Thesis Challenge, is a competition that challenges doctoral students to present years’ worth of academic research in a concise, compelling, three-minute talk to a non-expert audience. It encourages students to clarify their ideas and to help others understand and appreciate the significance of their work.
The contest is open to all doctoral students who have advanced to candidacy.
Congratulations to our 2016 Finalists!
Finalists will present their three-minute thesis presentations at a live event on April 6th at 5:30pm in the Music Recital Hall. This event is open to the public, and a final panel of judges will choose a first place and runner-up winner; the audience will vote for a people’s choice awardee. If the people’s choice awardee is the same as the winner or runner-up, both awards will go to that person.
The winner of the UCSC Grad Slam will receive $3,000; the runner-up receives $1,500; and the people’s choice winner receives $750.
The UCSC Grad Slam winner will go on to present at a UC-wide final Grad Slam to be held in San Francisco on April 22nd. Visit the UCOP Grad Slam page to see more information about finalists across all UC-campuses!

Book Talk: Sherene Seikaly
2016-04-06 18:00 - 19:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Men of Capital examines British-ruled Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s through a focus on economy. In a departure from the expected histories of Palestine, this book illuminates dynamic class constructions that aimed to shape a pan-Arab utopia in terms of free trade, profit accumulation, and private property. And in so doing, it positions Palestine and Palestinians in the larger world of Arab thought and social life, moving attention away from the limiting debates of Zionist-Palestinian conflict.
Professor Sheren Seikaly is a historian of capitalism, consumption, and development in the modern Middle East. She is Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara. She previously taught at the American University in Cairo. She is Co-founder and Co-editor of the important journal Jadaliyaa.
UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Emerging Worlds and the Center for Cultural Studies present this new series, “Book Talks,” which invites authors to read from their books and engage in discussion. Please visit the Center for Emerging Worlds’ website for more information on their work.

Living Writers: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)
2016-04-07 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Spring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line
Why Out of Line?
“I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre, in different genres, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I’m hoping it will encourage our students to think outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks
This event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors!
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
April 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)
April 14: Kate Schatz
April 21: Manuel Gonzales
April 28: Charlie Jane Anders
May 5: NO READING
May 12: Elizabeth McKenzie
May 19: Lev Grossman
May 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier
June 2: Student Reading

RESCHEDULED PhD+: Writing for Publication in the Humanities
2016-04-08 | Unnamed Venue
This event has been rescheduled for April 22. Click here for more info.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Andrew Woods
2016-04-08 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Andrew Woods
“Punk the Academy (aka. Punk as Method)
With a particular emphasis on the non-hierarchical, ambiguous, and D.I.Y. ethos of punk cultures, this paper makes the case that punk can be used as a lens informing our investigations of other objects, scenes, themes, and theories. The information of punk as method is not assuming punk “has all the answers,” but rather that through subversive aesthetic shock and rupture, punk has the potential to open up new ways of thinking through not only our discourses, but also the social world from which they arise.

Friday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
April 8th- Andrew Woods, Politics
April 15th- Claudia Lopez, Sociology
April 22nd- Jordan Reznick, HAVC
April 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies
May 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics
May 13th- Cathy Thomas, Literature
May 20th- Trung Nguyen, History of Consciousness
May 27th- Rebecca Ora, Film of Digital Media
June 3rd- Veronica Zablotsky, Feminist Studies

Brown Bag Workshop: Teaching with Wikipedia (CANCELED)
2016-04-12 12:00 - 13:30 | FITC, 1336 McHenry Library
A hands-on workshop designed to construct innovative assignments using Wikipedia and its content editing platform. Building assignments that ask students to work on Wikipedia pages will help them:
• Develop writing skills
• Improve Media and Information Literacy
• Refine Critical Thinking and Research Skills
• Learn to work collaboratively
The workshop will also include a discussion about assessment and discipline specific objectives. Get inspired to integrate Wikipedia into your classroom.

Roland Tolentino: “Cinema and State in Crisis: Political Film Collectives and the People’s Struggles in the Philippines”
2016-04-13 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Roland Tolentino works on Philippine film, literature, and popular culture in national and transnational contexts. He is a fellow of the UP Institute of Creative Writing and a member of the Filipino Film Critics Group, Congress of Teachers and Educators for Nationalism and Democracy, and People’s Alternative Media Network.
Tolentino is Faculty at University of the Philippines Film Institute and Visiting Professor in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley.

Spring 2016 Colloquium Series

April 6, 2016
April 13, 2016
April 20, 2016
April 27, 2016
May 4,2016
May 11,2016
May 18,2016
May 25,2016

Stay tuned for more information about guest speakers.

Spring Job & Internship Fair
2016-04-13 15:00 - 18:00 | College 8, West Field House
You are invited to the Spring Job & Internship this Wednesday. Don’t miss the last job and internship fair of the academic year!
Spring Job & Internship Fair
Wednesday, April 13
3:00-6:00pm
College Eight West Field House
Where companies come to meet Slug talent!
Check out the companies that are signed up. More to come!
7th Avenue Center
8×8, Inc
Abroad Internships
AXA Advisors
California Public Utilities Commission
CalRecycle
DataCare
Daversa Partners
Del Mar Food Products Corp.
Eargo Inc.
Easter Seals Bay Area
Education First
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Fisher Investments
Foresters Financial Services
Galileo Learning
Game Show Network (GSN) Games
Guidebook Inc.
Happy Valley Conference Center
Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth
Korean Consulate Education Center
KQED, Inc.
LGS Recreation
Looker Data Sciences
Ma Labs
Peace Corps
Plantronics, Inc.
Santa Cruz Seaside Company
Schoolmessenger
Seneca Family of Agencies
Sherwin Williams
Social Security Administration
Surveymonkey
Symphony
Target
Two Pore Guys
United States Air Force
United States Navy
Urban Teachers
Vivint Solar
Walgreens
West Marine
Whiting’s Foods
WSO2 Inc.
Zoho Corporation
Prepare For The Fair
Research the companies you are interested in before coming to the fair. They like to know that you know something about them.
Have your resume ready and verbal introduction practiced.
Think about which companies you want to talk to & come dressed the part!
Check out our Career Fair Tips Pinterest Page for some quick tips!
Student ID required.
All Majors Encouraged to Attend

New and Emerging Terms in Migration Studies: A Seminar with Nicholas De Genova
2016-04-14 09:30 - 12:00 | Charles E. Merrill Lounge
Inspired by Nicholas De Genova, et. al’s “New Keywords: Migration and Borders”, the International Organization for Migration’s Key Migration Terms, and recent debates regarding the distinction between “refugee” and “migrant,” this one-day seminar explores key and emerging terms in migration studies and the growing gap between vocabulary and lived reality. It kicks off Borders and Belonging, a series of events on human migration organized by the CLRC over the spring of 2016, helps open Rethinking Migration, a two-day conference that the CLRC will host May 6-7, 2016, and helps us prepare for Non-citizenship, our 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Saywer Seminar.
This seminar is open to UCSC faculty and students, although space is limited, so attendees must register in advance. Readings will circulate prior to the seminar.
Please register for the seminar here. Registration will close on Friday, March 25, 2016.
Nicholas De Genova is one of the world’s leading migration scholars. He is the author and editor of numerous publications, among them, The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement (co-edited with Nathalie Peutz, Duke University Press, 2010), Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States (Duke University Press, 2006), Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago (Duke University Press, 2005), and “Migrant ‘Illegality’ and Deportability in Everyday Life” (Annual Review of Anthropology, 2002). His current projects explore migration, race, and postcoloniality in Europe. He holds a permanent appointment as Reader in Urban Geography and directs a research group on spatial politics in the Department of Geography at King’s College London.

Anne MacNeil: “A new breed of critical edition: the role of digital humanities in transforming music scholarship”
2016-04-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Hands on (Digital) Humanities with Prof. Anne MacNeil
Anne MacNeil will give a demonstration of her digital humanities project, IDEA Music, and the new software toolkit, Prospect, that powers it. In the last year, MacNeil’s close collaboration with programmer Michael Newton (UNC Digital Innovation Lab) and other members of the DIL community in developing Prospect has resulted in a powerful platform that has transformed IDEA Music into a multi-dimensional, multi-media publication that challenges the tradition concept of “critical edition”. The presentation will include a brief video from Michael Newton about his conceptualization of the data science underlying Prospect, together with MacNeil’s demonstration of the project administrator’s role in configuring relational databases and visualizations and of the front-end user interface (GUI). Also included will be a description of Professor MacNeil’s work with bioinformatics specialists in developing a model for music analysis using a modified Waterman algorithm, originally developed for analyzing amino acids.
Co-sponsored by the Music Department, Italian Studies, and The Gary D. Licker Memorial Chair, Cowell College

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Gayle Salamon: "Gender Essentialism and Eidetic Inquiry"
2016-04-14 16:00 - 17:45 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk revisits the essentialism debates within feminism, and reconsiders the impasse in which those debates landed. What understanding of “essence” was operative in those conversations about gender essentialism? And might there be a different way of thinking about the relation between essence and gender? I turn to singular and plural essences in Merleau-Ponty and Husserl’s concept of eidetic variation, showing that that phenomenology offers an articulation of essence in which variation and temporal unfolding, rather than fixity and atemporality, are primary. The phenomenological concept of essence, I will argue, offers a way to reconsider essentialism that steers clear of the straits of bilogical determinism and social constructionism that have deadlocked previous conversations about gender and essence.
About:
Gayle Salamon is an Associate Professor of English and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. Research interests include phenomenology, queer and trans theory, feminist philosophy, 20th Century Continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, and disability studies.

Living Writers: Kate Schatz
2016-04-14 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Kate Schatz, UCSC creative writing/Lit alum, is the New York Times bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z, a children’s book (for everyone) published by City Lights Books. It’s gotten love from BUST, Publisher’s Weekly, BuzzFeed, MTV, Ms., Teen Vogue, Kirkus Reviews, GOOD, The New York Times, AFROPUNK, and all kinds of other rad outlets.
Her book of fiction, Rid of Me: A Story, was published in 2006 as part of the acclaimed 33 1/3 series. Her work has been published in Oxford American, Denver Quarterly, Joyland, East Bay Express, and San Francisco Chronicle, among others. Her short story “Folsom, Survivor” was a 2010 Notable Short Story in Best American Short Stories 2011.
She is a co-founder of The Encyclopedia Project, and is the Chair of the School of Literary Arts at Oakland School for the Arts. Kate received her MFA in Fiction Writing from Brown, and a double BA in Women’s Studies/Creative Writing from UC Santa Cruz. She lives in the Bay Area with her family.

Spring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line
Why Out of Line?
“I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre, in different genres, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I’m hoping it will encourage our students to think outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks
This event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors!
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
April 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)
April 14: Kate Schatz
April 21: Manuel Gonzales
April 28: Charlie Jane Anders
May 5: NO READING
May 12: Elizabeth McKenzie
May 19: Lev Grossman
May 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier
June 2: Student Reading

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Claudia Lopez
2016-04-15 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Claudia Lopez
“Contesting ‘Double Displacement’: Rural displaces Persons, informal Settlements, and the ‘Medellin Miracle'”
This presentation examines the Comuna 8, a sector of the city of Medellin resisting displacement by urban renewal. I highlight a historic voting process in 2014, lead by a committee of displaced persons, to contest the implementation of the redeveloped plan.

Friday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
April 8th- Andrew Woods, Politics
April 15th- Claudia Lopez, Sociology
April 22nd- Jordan Reznick, HAVC
April 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies
May 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics
May 13th- Cathy Thomas, Literature
May 20th- Trung Nguyen, History of Consciousness
May 27th- Rebecca Ora, Film of Digital Media
June 3rd- Veronica Zablotsky, Feminist Studies

Sabine Iatridou - "Fake Things Here and There: Evidence From Now and Then"
2016-04-15 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Sabine Iatridou is Professor of Linguistics, Syntax, Semantics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. See here for more about Professor Iatridou’s work.
Stay tuned for more information.

Introducing Contemplative Approaches to Higher Education: A Public Roundtable with Leaders in the Field
2016-04-15 14:00 - 16:00 | McHenry Library UCSC, Room 4286
Contemplative pedagogy is an integrated approach to teaching and learning that sees education as a transformative process rather than simply a means of accumulating
information. With an emphasis on curiosity, collaboration, engagement, and student-centered learning, contemplative approaches seek to cultivate thinkers and responders rather than consumers of knowledge. Practitioners forge links between traditional disciplinary wisdom and the environmental, ethical, and economic challenges facing humankind.
The goal of contemplative pedagogy, as articulated by the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, is to foster “true community, deeper insight, sustainable living, and a more just society.”
Friday, April 15 @ 2-4 pm
Public Roundtable on Contemplative Approaches in Higher Education
McHenry Library Room 4286
This roundtable brings together leaders in the field with expertise in diverse disciplines, including the Humanities, the Natural Sciences, and Legal Studies.
Saturday, April 16 @ 9am-5pm
Contemplative Pedagogy Symposium
A day-long Symposium will follow on Saturday, April 16th. We’ll read central texts in the field of Contemplative Pedagogy and discuss them with our panel of experts. If you would like to participate in the symposium, please email ihr@ucsc.edu. Click here for more info on the Symposium.
Visitors
Rhonda Magee, Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco, School of Law, and a teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Her scholarly work focuses on race law and policy as well as on humanizing legal education and the practice of law. This effort aims to help law students and practitioners cope with pressure in order to be more successful and effective. A national leader in the movement to humanize law and legal education, and an expert in contemplative pedagogy, Professor Magee recently published “Contemplative Practices and the Renewal of Legal Education,” New Directions for Teaching and Learning: Contemplative Studies in Higher Education, no. 134, (Jossey Bass, 2013), 31.” Magee’s courses share a common theme of examining how law responds to the vulnerable in society. She is the author of numerous journal articles, including “Educating Lawyers to Meditate?” (University of Missouri–Kansas City Law Review, 2011), “Slavery as Immigration?” (University of San Francisco Law Review, 2009), and “Competing Narratives, Competing Jurisprudences: Are Law Schools Racist?” (University of San Francisco Law Review, 2009).

Erin McCarthy, Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Professor in Asian Studies, St. Lawrence University. Dr. Erin McCarthy came to St. Lawrence in 2000. She teaches Asian, feminist, continental and comparative philosophy. Author of the book Ethics Embodied: Rethinking Selfhood through Continental, Japanese and Feminist Philosophies (Lexington, 2010), her work has been published in several anthologies and journals in both French and English and she regularly presents her scholarship both nationally and internationally. She was an inaugural recipient of the “Frederick P. Lenz Foundation Residential Fellowship for Buddhist Studies and American Culture and Values” at Naropa University in 2009. Dr. McCarthy sits on the Editorial board of the journal Comparative and Continental Philosophy and is Co-editor of the ASIANetwork Exchange: A journal for Asian Studies and the Liberal Arts. She has also served as Chair of the Board of Directors of ASIANetwork (a consortium of over 170 North American colleges). Currently, her research interests are taking two directions – the first, a project titled “Re-imagining Maternity,”is a comparative philosophical re-thinking of the norms of maternity; and the second looks at the ways in which contemplative education can be enriched by incorporating feminist philosophies.

Peter Grossenbacher, Professor in Contemplative Education and Contemplative Psychology, Naropa University. Professor Grossenbacher directs Naropa’s internationally known Consciousness Laboratory. In collaboration with students in the lab, he conducts empirical research on meditation instruction, worldview transformation, and engagement with awareness. His research has been covered in the New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, and Discover Magazine. Grossenbacher teaches courses in Perception, Neuroscience, Mindfulness Meditation, Cognitive Psychology, Personality, and Research Methods. He previously conducted research on human attention at the National Institute of Mental Health, and taught at the University of Oregon, England’s University of Cambridge, and American University in Washington, D.C. A practitioner of meditation since 1980, he speaks internationally on contemplative education, synesthesia, meditation, and the brain.
Contemplative Approaches to Higher Education are some of the most exciting and fast-growing developments in post-secondary education in the US.
To see the kind of work being done by some of the leading national centers for Contemplative Approaches, please visit the following websites:
The Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education
University of Virginia Contemplative Sciences Center
Brown University Contemplative Studies Initiative
University of Michigan Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies
Naropa University Contemplative Education Program
Sponsors
Institute for Humanities Research, Contemplative Pedagogy Research Cluster, Center for Public Philosophy, Bill Ladusaw, Literature Department, Philosophy Department, Graduate Division, Porter College, Oakes College, College Eight, Social Sciences Division.

Contemplative Pedagogy Symposium
2016-04-16 09:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Contemplative pedagogy is an integrated approach to teaching and learning that sees education as a transformative process rather than simply a means of accumulating
information. With an emphasis on curiosity, collaboration, engagement, and student-centered learning, contemplative approaches seek to cultivate thinkers and responders rather than consumers of knowledge. Practitioners forge links between traditional disciplinary wisdom and the environmental, ethical, and economic challenges facing humankind.
The goal of contemplative pedagogy, as articulated by the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, is to foster “true community, deeper insight, sustainable living, and a more just society.”
Saturday, April 16 @ 9am-5pm
Contemplative Pedagogy Symposium
Daylong working group in which a small group of interested parties will read central texts in the field of Contemplative Pedagogy and discuss them with our panel of experts. These works will primarily provide an introduction to contemplative teaching methods, although we will be discussing other methodological uses of contemplative approaches.
If you would like to participate in the symposium, please email ihr@ucsc.edu.
Friday, April 15 @ 2-4 pm
Public Roundtable on Contemplative Approaches in Higher Education
McHenry Library Room 4286
This roundtable brings together leaders in the field with expertise in diverse disciplines, including the Humanities, the Natural Sciences, and Legal Studies.
Click here for more info on the Roundtable.
Visitors
Rhonda Magee, Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco, School of Law, and a teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Her scholarly work focuses on race law and policy as well as on humanizing legal education and the practice of law. This effort aims to help law students and practitioners cope with pressure in order to be more successful and effective. A national leader in the movement to humanize law and legal education, and an expert in contemplative pedagogy, Professor Magee recently published “Contemplative Practices and the Renewal of Legal Education,” New Directions for Teaching and Learning: Contemplative Studies in Higher Education, no. 134, (Jossey Bass, 2013), 31.” Magee’s courses share a common theme of examining how law responds to the vulnerable in society. She is the author of numerous journal articles, including “Educating Lawyers to Meditate?” (University of Missouri–Kansas City Law Review, 2011), “Slavery as Immigration?” (University of San Francisco Law Review, 2009), and “Competing Narratives, Competing Jurisprudences: Are Law Schools Racist?” (University of San Francisco Law Review, 2009).

Erin McCarthy, Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Professor in Asian Studies, St. Lawrence University. Dr. Erin McCarthy came to St. Lawrence in 2000. She teaches Asian, feminist, continental and comparative philosophy. Author of the book Ethics Embodied: Rethinking Selfhood through Continental, Japanese and Feminist Philosophies (Lexington, 2010), her work has been published in several anthologies and journals in both French and English and she regularly presents her scholarship both nationally and internationally. She was an inaugural recipient of the “Frederick P. Lenz Foundation Residential Fellowship for Buddhist Studies and American Culture and Values” at Naropa University in 2009. Dr. McCarthy sits on the Editorial board of the journal Comparative and Continental Philosophy and is Co-editor of the ASIANetwork Exchange: A journal for Asian Studies and the Liberal Arts. She has also served as Chair of the Board of Directors of ASIANetwork (a consortium of over 170 North American colleges). Currently, her research interests are taking two directions – the first, a project titled “Re-imagining Maternity,”is a comparative philosophical re-thinking of the norms of maternity; and the second looks at the ways in which contemplative education can be enriched by incorporating feminist philosophies.

Peter Grossenbacher, Professor in Contemplative Education and Contemplative Psychology, Naropa University. Professor Grossenbacher directs Naropa’s internationally known Consciousness Laboratory. In collaboration with students in the lab, he conducts empirical research on meditation instruction, worldview transformation, and engagement with awareness. His research has been covered in the New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, and Discover Magazine. Grossenbacher teaches courses in Perception, Neuroscience, Mindfulness Meditation, Cognitive Psychology, Personality, and Research Methods. He previously conducted research on human attention at the National Institute of Mental Health, and taught at the University of Oregon, England’s University of Cambridge, and American University in Washington, D.C. A practitioner of meditation since 1980, he speaks internationally on contemplative education, synesthesia, meditation, and the brain.
Contemplative Approaches to Higher Education are some of the most exciting and fast-growing developments in post-secondary education in the US.
To see the kind of work being done by some of the leading national centers for Contemplative Approaches, please visit the following websites:
The Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education
University of Virginia Contemplative Sciences Center
Brown University Contemplative Studies Initiative
University of Michigan Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies
Naropa University Contemplative Education Program
Sponsors
Institute for Humanities Research, Contemplative Pedagogy Research Cluster, Center for Public Philosophy, Bill Ladusaw, Literature Department, Philosophy Department, Graduate Division, Porter College, Oakes College, College Eight, Social Sciences Division.

La Ironía y Anticlericalismo En Halma
2016-04-18 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UCSC Spanish Studies and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Present:
LA IRONÍA Y ANTICLERICALISMO EN HALMA
ÁLVARO ROMERO MARCO (UCSC)
Más allá de las clasificaciones y evoluciones que la crítica ha venido realizando, la novelística de Galdós es consecuencia de su ideología, pues la realidad es observada y transformada a través de su apuesta por la modernidad. En el caso de Halma, los pilares que sustentan la enseñanza que quiere trasmitir el autor son la distancia socarrona y un convencido anticlericalismo; una ironía sin acidez y siempre constructiva y una desconfianza en la institución eclesiástica que nunca significa un ataque a la visión religiosa de la existencia. Tradicionalmente esta novela, que Ediciones Alfar tiene a bien ofrecer al lector, ha sido editada y analizada a la sombra de la famosa “segunda manera” y, particularmente, como la segunda parte de Nazarín. Esta edición presenta la obra aislándola de esas ataduras para que pueda ser leída de manera independiente. En cualquier caso, no hay duda de que Halma es otra de las grandes novelas del autor.

*Light refreshments will be served.

Sikhism in the Global Age
2016-04-19 16:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Mark Juergensmeyer is Kundan Kaur Kapany Chair of Global and Sikh Studies, fellow of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, professor of sociology, and affiliate professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is an expert on religious violence, conflict resolution and South Asian religion and politics, and has published more than two hundred articles and twenty books, including the recently-released Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State (University of California Press 2008). His widely-read Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (University of California Press, revised edition 2003), is based on interviews with religious activists around the world–including individuals convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, leaders of Hamas, and abortion clinic bombers in the United States–and was listed by the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times as one of the best nonfiction books of the year. A previous book, The New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State (University of California Press, 1993) covers the rise of religious activism and its confrontation with secular modernity. It was named by the New York Times as one of the notable books of the year. His book on Gandhian conflict resolution has been reprinted as Gandhi’s Way (University of California Press, Updated Edition, 2005), and was selected as Community Book of the Year at the University of California, Davis. He has edited the Oxford Handbook of Global Religion (Oxford University Press 2006) and Religion in Global Civil Society (Oxford University Press 2005), and is co-editing The Encyclopedia of Global Religions (Sage Publications 2008) and The Encyclopedia of Global Studies (Sage Publications 2009). His 2006 Stafford Little Lectures at Princeton University, God and War, will be published by Princeton University Press.
Juergensmeyer has received research fellowships from the Wilson Center in Washington D.C., the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is the 2003 recipient of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for contributions to the study of religion, and is the 2004 recipient of the Silver Award of the Queen Sofia Center for the Study of Violence in Spain. He received an Honorary Doctorate from Lehigh University in 2004, a Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2006, and the Unitas Distinguished Alumnus Award from Union Theological Seminary, New York, in 2007. He was elected president of the American Academy of Religion, and chairs the working group on Religion and International Affairs for the national Social Science Research Council. Since the events of September 11 he has been a frequent commentator in the news media, including CNN, NBC, CBS, BBC, NPR, Fox News, ABC’s Politically Incorrect, and CNBC’s Dennis Miller Show.

Joshua Brahinsky: “The Cultivated Event: Why Pentecostals Were the Best Organizers of the 20th Century and How to Translate Their Strategies For the Rest of Us”
2016-04-20 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Joshua Brahinsky’s current book project is “God’s Bodies: Pentecostal Training in Art of Immediacy.” He is working on a research project on global evangelicalism and theory of mind, and is an organizer for UC-AFT and the Economic Justice Alliance.
Brahinsky has his PhD from the Department of History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz.

Spring 2016 Colloquium Series

April 6, 2016
April 13, 2016
April 20, 2016
April 27, 2016
May 4,2016
May 11,2016
May 18,2016
May 25,2016

Stay tuned for more information about guest speakers.

Tony Michels: "Soviet America: The Russian Revolution in Jewish Life”
2016-04-21 10:00 - 11:45 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Russian Revolution of 1917 radically altered American Jewish politics. Whereas most Americans viewed the revolution as a threat to western civilization, Jews wished for the success of the Bolsheviks, who offered the only possibility of rescue from the mass slaughter carried out by anti-Communist forces. A minority of Jews went so far as to join the American Communist Part with the hope of replicating the Russian Revolution on American soil. Although only a minority, Communists put forward a persistently attractive alternative to the dominant model of Americanization, according to which Jews ought to integrate into a liberal, political order. In the decades following the Russian Revolution, American Jews moved between competing poles of Communism and liberalism and, simultaneously, between competing ideals of universalism and Jewish particularity. All the while, Jews wrestled with the question of totalitarianism, one of the most divisive questions of the twentieth century. What was Soviet Russia? Was it a daring social experiment that wedded scientific planning with ideals of equality in all areas of human endeavor? Or was the Soviet Union a vast prison system built upon ruthless repression of the working class? Over a four decade period, from the outbreak of the Russian Revolution until the end of the Second World War, a period framed by enormous catastrophes yet animated by utopian visions of social justice, American Jews defined themselves in relation to the Soviet Union.
Tony Michels is George L. Mosse Associate Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He teaches courses in American Jewish history, with a special emphasis on immigration, politics, and comparative ethnic history, as well as courses in labor history and radical political movements. His research focuses on the political and cultural history of the Jews. He is author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York (2005), winner of the Salo Baron Prize from the American Academy for Jewish Research, and Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History (2012). He is currently working on a book about the relationship of American Jews to Soviet Russia between the 1920s and 1960s.

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Living Writers: Manuel Gonzales
2016-04-21 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Manuel Gonzales is the author of The Miniature Wife And Other Stories (Riverhead) and the forthcoming novel, The Regional Office Is Under Attack! (Riverhead). He graduated with a BA in English from the University of Texas in 1996 and then with an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Columbia University’s School of the Arts in 2003. His fiction and nonfiction have been published in McSweeney’s, Fence, Tin House, Open City, One Story, The Believer, i09.com, and various other publications.
He is the recipient of the Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kaufman Price for First Fiction and the Binghamton University John Gardner Prize for Fiction. For four years he ran the nonprofit writing and tutoring center for kids, Austin Bat Cave, and in times past he co-owned The Clarksville Pie Company in Austin, TX, where he baked pies for a living.

Spring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line
Why Out of Line?
“I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre, in different genres, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I’m hoping it will encourage our students to think outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks
This event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors!
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
April 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)
April 14: Kate Schatz
April 21: Manuel Gonzales
April 28: Charlie Jane Anders
May 5: NO READING
May 12: Elizabeth McKenzie
May 19: Lev Grossman
May 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier
June 2: Student Reading

PhD+: Eric Hayot: "Writing for Publication in the Humanities"
2016-04-22 11:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
PODCAST:
“Writing for Publication in the Humanities”
Eric Hayot is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Professor Hayot will present strategies–both psychological and practical–for writing for publication in the humanities from his recent book, The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities (Columbia UP, 2014). His talk will offer specific insights into how to write literary scholarship in the mode that was born out of the influence of philosophy and cultural studies on literary criticism over the last three decades.
Professor Hayot is the author of Chinese Dreams (Michigan, 2004), The Hypothetical Mandarin: Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain (Oxford, 2009), and On Literary Worlds (Oxford, 2012). He edits the “Global Asias” series for Oxford and serves as Director of Penn State’s Center for Humanities and Information. Learn more at erichayot.org.
Sponsored by: IHR, the Graduate Student Association, the Graduate Student Commons, the Departments of Literature, Politics, History of Art & Visual Culture, Latin American & Latino Studies, Anthropology, and Film & Digital Media.

PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the launch of PhD+, our new series! We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for humanities PhDs, online identity issues, internship possibilities, work/life balance, elements of style, grants/fellowships and much, more more.
October 9, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel
November 6, 2015: Internship Info Session
December 4, 2015: Coding for Humanists
January 8, 2016: Research Tools and Methods
February 5, 2016: Online Identity
March 4, 2016: Work-Life Balance
April 22, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities
May 13, 2016: Research and Grants
June 3, 2016: End of Year Luncheon
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Humanities Earth Day Lunch and Learn
2016-04-22 11:30 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Humanities Green Team would like to invite you to join us for Earth Day!
Friday, April 22nd, 2016
11:30am – 1:00pm

Program:
11:30am-12:00pm: Green Team introductions
12:00pm-12:15pm: PSI presentation
12:15pm-1:00pm: “Bin Confused” presentation

Come enjoy delicious food provided by local caterers while learning about how to achieve zero waste in your office, events, and at home!

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Jordan Reznick
2016-04-22 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Jordan Reznick
“Selfie Suburbia: Whites Online in the Early Twenty-First Century”
Snapshot photography has been a means for white Americans to affirm their identities and collectively participate in circulating fictions about “normal” Americans that naturalize and legitimize ideals of whiteness. As whites became more precarious in the early twenty-first century, they adopted several new snapshot trends for signifying their enjoyment of increasingly fictional good life fantasies.

Friday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
April 8th- Andrew Woods, Politics
April 15th- Claudia Lopez, Sociology
April 22nd- Jordan Reznick, HAVC
April 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies
May 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics
May 13th- Cathy Thomas, Literature
May 20th- Trung Nguyen, History of Consciousness
May 27th- Rebecca Ora, Film of Digital Media
June 3rd- Veronica Zablotsky, Feminist Studies

Remembering Shakespeare, 1564-1616
2016-04-23 18:00 - 18:45 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Remembering Shakespeare, 1564-1616
Readings from the works and about the man
A memorial service, commemorating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death in 1616.
Saturday, April 23, 2016
Music Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz
6:00-6:45 p.m.
Free and open to the public
This event takes place before Experimental Baroque, a concert by Santa Cruz Baroque Festival. Concert info/tickets available at: www.scbaroque.org
Remembering Shakespeare, 1564-1616, is sponsored by Shakespeare Workshop, Institute for Humanities Research, Porter College, and Santa Cruz Baroque Festival.
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The Hong Kong Democracy Movement: A Student Leader Speaks
2016-04-26 17:30 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Hong Kong Democracy Movement: A Student Leader Speaks
In the autumn of 2014, a massive protest led by students demanded genuine universal suffrage for China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The protest became known as the Umbrella Movement. Nathan Kwun-chung Law will give an eyewitness report on that movement, as well as an account of the ongoing struggle to expand political rights in Hong Kong.
Nathan Law, 22, is a well-known student leader and organizer in Hong Kong. He is Secretary General of the Hong Kong Federation of Students, and was a Standing Committee member from 2014-15. He participated in the only negotiation session with the Hong Kong SAR government during the Umbrella Movement.
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
5:30 PM
Humanities 1 Room 210
Sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz East Asian Studies Program

Irene Lusztig: “Yours in Sisterhood: Utopian Conversation, Public Feminisms, and Talking to the 70’s”
2016-04-27 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Irene Lusztig’s recent nonfiction moving image projects engage the methods and questions of 1970’s collaborative feminist documentary practice, interrogating the contemporary status of public feminism. The presentation focuses on materials and methods from her current work in progress, Yours in Sisterhood, a participatory documentary project based on published and unpublished letters to the editor of Ms. magazine.
Lusztig is Associate Professor of Film + Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz.

Spring 2016 Colloquium Series

April 6, 2016
April 13, 2016
April 20, 2016
April 27, 2016
May 4,2016
May 11,2016
May 18,2016
May 25,2016

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong "Implicit Moral Attitudes"
2016-04-28 16:00 - 17:45 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Most moral philosophers and psychologists focus on explicit moral beliefs that people give as answers to questions. However, much research in social psychology shows that implicit moral attitudes (unconscious beliefs or associations) also affect our thinking and behavior. This talk will report our new psychological and neuroscientific research on implicit moral attitudes (using a process dissociation procedure) and then explore potential implications for scientific moral psychology as well as for philosophical theories of moral epistemology, responsibility, and virtue. If there is time, I will discuss practical uses of these findings in criminal law, especially regarding the treatment of psychopaths and prediction of their recidivism.
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He has published widely on ethics (theoretical and applied as well as meta-ethics), empirical moral psychology and neuroscience, philosophy of law, epistemology, philosophy of religion, and informal logic. His current work is on moral psychology and brain science as well as uses of neuroscience in legal systems.

Mireille Lee “The Archaeology of Ancient Greek Dress”
2016-04-28 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and The UCSC Archaeological Research Center present:
Archaeology provides important evidence for ancient Greek dress, which was essential to the construction of social identities. Although no complete garments survive, preserved fragments of silk and embroideries indicate the elite status of the wearer. Jewelry, dress fasteners, toilet implements, perfume vessels, cosmetics, and mirrors are also important indicators of status and gender. The visual sources, including sculpture and vase-painting, depict men and women performing various dress practices. Although some practices, such as bathing and the use of perfumes, are common to both genders, others are specific to either men or women. The visual sources demonstrate other aspects of identity: age and social role are often indicated by hairstyle, whereas ethnicity is also conveyed by means of garments and body-modifications. Although dress is often considered a mundane aspect of culture, Professor Lee argues that dress provides unique insight into ancient Greek ideologies.
Refreshments at 4:30 and reception to follow the lecture
Free parking for lecture in the lower Cowell parking lot
Mireille Lee is Assistant Professor with the Departments of History of Art and Classical Studies at Vanderbilt University, and holds her degrees from Bryn Mawr (Ph.D.) and Occidental College. Her research interests include Greek art and archaeology, in particular the construction of gender in ancient visual and material culture. She has published widely on the social functions of dress in ancient Greece, including her volume Body, Dress, and Identity in Ancient Greece (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Her current research focuses on ancient Greek mirrors as social objects.

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Living Writers: Charlie Jane Anders
2016-04-28 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Charlie Jane Anders: I’m probably the only person to have become a fictional character in a Star Trek novel and in one of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City books.
I’m the editor of io9.com, where I’m probably best known for my reviews of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and The Last Airbender. Ormy super detailed look at the making of Mork and Mindy. Or for my Game of Thrones recaps. Or for my writing advice columns. Ormy in-depth investigation of people who claim HIV doesn’t cause AIDS. Or my geeky articles about topics like the search for a cure for cancer, or how Leonard Nimoy changed everything, or how the TV show Star Blazers helped me deal with being bullied. Or just generally being an obnoxious loud-mouth.
I won the Emperor Norton Award, for “extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason.”
I have published a ton of short fiction – way over 100 short stories at this point. I’ve stopped counting. My stories have appeared in Tor.com, Lightspeed Magazine,McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Tin House, ZYZZYVA, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine,Uncanny Magazine, 3 AM Magazine, Flurb.net, Monkey Bicycle, Pindeldyboz, Instant City, Broken Pencil, and in tons and tons of anthologies. One year, I was in one of the Year’s Best SF anthologies and in Best Lesbian Erotica at the same time. My novelette “Six Months, Three Days” won a Hugo Award and was shortlisted for the Nebula and Theodore Sturgeon awards. My novel Choir Boy won a Lambda Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Edmund White Award.
I organizeWriters With Drinks, which is a monthly reading series here in San Francisco that mashes up a ton of different genres. Every month, I make up weird fictional bios for the readers and performers, and nobody’s sued yet. Readers/performers at Writers With Drinks have included the aforementioned Armistead Maupin, plus Mary Gaitskill, Amy Tan, Rick Moody, Jonathan Lethem, Dorothy Allison, W. Kamau Bell, Luis Alberto Urrea, Ruth Ozeki, Ishmael Reed, Karen Joy Fowler, Maureen McHugh and just countless others. The SF Chronicle did a really nice article about Writers With Drinks.
Back in 2007, Annalee Newitz and I put out a book of first-person stories by female geeks called She’s Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology and Other Nerdy Stuff. There was a lot of resistance to doing this book, because nobody believed there was a market for writing about female geeks. Also, Annalee and I put out a print magazine calledother, which was about pop culture, politics and general weirdness, aimed at people who don’t fit into other categories. To raise money for other magazine, we put on events like a Ballerina Pie Fight – which is just what it sounds like – and a sexy show in a hair salon where people took off their clothes while getting their hair cut.

Spring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line
Why Out of Line?
“I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre, in different genres, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I’m hoping it will encourage our students to think outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks
This event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors!
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
April 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)
April 14: Kate Schatz
April 21: Manuel Gonzales
April 28: Charlie Jane Anders
May 5: NO READING
May 12: Elizabeth McKenzie
May 19: Lev Grossman
May 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier
June 2: Student Reading
