BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20140309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20141102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151016T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151016T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20151007T214018Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151007T214018Z UID:10005141-1444998600-1445004000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum: Matthew Edwards "TBA" DESCRIPTION:The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities\, Social Sciences\, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. \nThis meeting will feature Matthew Edwards (History of Consciousness). \nFor more info\, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year\, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-matthew-edwards-tba-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151016T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151016T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20151015T182852Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151015T182852Z UID:10006279-1445004000-1445007600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistic Colloquium: Heidi Harley DESCRIPTION:Heidi Harley\, University of Arizona \n“Suppressing Subject Arguments in Hiaki” \nThe Hiaki passive suffix -wa appears in a very normal-looking personal passive\, and also in an odd impersonal passive—odd in that it is productive with unaccusative as well as unergative intransitive predicates\, provided they have a [+human] argument. It appears that -wa can even make a personal passive out of a raising predicate\, suppressing the embedded subject and promoting the embedded object. \nI will lay out the empirical picture for you\, mainly focussing on investigating whether the apparent impersonal construction might have a null impersonal subject argument\, and arguing that it does not. Then I will illustrate where my thinking is going about how -wa operates\, aiming for a unified treatment of -wa across the personal and impersonal constructions using half of Lechner 2012’s reflexivization operation. Then I will ask for lots and lots of input. \n\n  \nLinguistic Colloquium: \nThe Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFall 2015\nOctober 9th: Keith Johnson\, UC Berkeley\nOctober 16th: Heidi Harley\, University of Arizona\nOctober 30th: Ivano Caponigro\, UC San Diego\nNovember 20th: Elliott Moreton\, University of North Carolina \nWinter 2016\nJanuary 15th: Sharon Inkelas\, UC Berkeley\nFebruary 5th: Colin Phillips\, University of Maryland\nFebruary 6th: N. Goodman\, Stanford University and A. Kehler\, UC San Diego\nMarch 5th: Linguistics Conference at Santa Cruz Conference \nSpring 2016\nApril 15th: Sabine Iatridou\, MIT\nApril 29th: Paul Kiparsky\, Stanford University\nMay 6\, 7\, 8: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9\nMay 20th: Kyle Johnson\, University of Massachusetts\nMay 27th/June 3rd (TBA): Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-heidi-harley-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151019T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151019T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20150923T184653Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150923T184653Z UID:10006217-1445274000-1445281200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Quantifying Creativity: Art through the Eyes of Computation DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Data Science Initiative \n  \nIs the experience of art uniquely human? Can algorithms be artistic producers? Or\, do machines remove the context and meaning from creativity? As artificial agents generate media and evaluate originality\, how will we draw the line between human and machine aesthetics? How will the relationship between art\, and humanity\, be redefined? \nPresentations by Dr. Ahmed Elgammal (Assistant Professor) and Babak Saleh (PhD Student)\, Department of Computer Science\, Rutgers University\, and Chris Smith\, Co-founder at BitMesh\, will be followed by an interdisciplinary panel. David Cope (UCSC\, Music)\, Arnav Jhala (UCSC\, Computational Media)\, Samantha Matherne (UCSC\, Philosophy)\, and Albert Narath (UCSC\, History of Art and Visual Culture) will respond to the presentations and debate the value of using algorithms to assess and understand creativity.\n\nWine and Cheese will be served. Seats are limited: ONLINE REGISTRATION REQUIRED.\n\n  \nFor more details click here! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/quantifying-creativity-art-through-the-eyes-of-computation-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151021T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151021T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20150612T204326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T204326Z UID:10005115-1445428800-1445434200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Tyrus Miller: "The Non-Contemporaneity of György Lukács: Cold War Contradictions and the Aesthetics of Visual Arts" DESCRIPTION:Tyrus Miller has recently published Modernism and the Frankfurt School\, and his forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis will appear in 2015. He is the translator/editor of György Lukács’s\, The Culture of People’s Democracy: Hungarian Essays on Literature\, Art\, and Democratic Transition and series co-editor (with Erik Bachman) of Brill’s Lukács Library Series. Current work includes a study of 20th-century architectural and urbanistic utopias and a translation-in-progress of György Lukács’s Heidelberg writings on aesthetics and the philosophy of art. \nMiller is the Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nFall 2015 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series\n  \nOctober 28\, 2015\nJuliana Spahr\nThe Politics of Poetry Production>The Politics of Poetic Form\n  \nNovember 4\, 2015\nJasmine Syedullah\n“‘Not Contraband\, but Soldier’: Against the Domestic Violence of National Security”\n  \nNovember 18\, 2015\nCatherine Sue Ramírez\n“’Our Porto Ricans’: Puerto Rican Students at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School\, 1898-1923″ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-4-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151021T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151021T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20151015T195917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151015T195917Z UID:10006288-1445454000-1445461200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ozploitation Film Series Presents: Wyrmwood DESCRIPTION:We need to find a zombie fast.\nThe visually striking feature-film debut of director Kiah Roache-Turner\, who made it on weekends with friends and actors over a number of years\, Wyrmwood approaches the ubiquitous zombie apocalypse (familiar to us from so many works of popular culture over the past decade or so) in an unusually inventive and frenetic do-it-yourself spirit. A passing meteor (our star of Wormwood from the Book of Revelation here) seems to be the instigating force in the transformation of much of the world’s population into zombies\, though a few humans manage to hold off against zombification and try to make their way across the Outback to save one of their family members. A mad scientist\, telepathically controlled zombie hordes\, and a novel solution to the world energy crisis all help make this stand out from recent zombie films/television shows. Not to be missed! \n\n  \nFor the remainder of the quarter\, we will be showing exploitation films from Australia each week on Wednesdays. Same time starting at 7 pm in Stevenson Room 150. All are welcome! Tell your family and invite your friends. \nWeek 1 – Wolf Creek (2005; dir. Greg McLean)\nWeek 2 – Wake in Fright (1971; dir. Ted Kotcheff)\nWeek 3 – Razorback (1984; dir. Russell Mulcahy)\nWeek 4 – Wyrmwood (2014; dir. Kiah Roache-Turner)\nWeek 5 – Long Weekend (1978; dir. Colin Eggleston)\nWeek 6 – Patrick (1978; dir. Richard Franklin)\nWeek 7 – Next of Kin (1982; dir. Tony Williams)\nWeek 8 – The Loved Ones (2009; dir. Sean Byrne)\nWeek 9 – Stone (1974; dir. Sandy Harbutt)\nWeek 10 – Dead End Drive-In (1986; dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ozploitation-film-series-presents-wyrmwood-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/wyrmwood.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151022T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151022T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20150918T190811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150918T190811Z UID:10006172-1445536800-1445543100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: John Keene: Rutgers University\, Newark DESCRIPTION:John Keene\nRutgers University\, Newark \nJohn Keene is the author of the novel Annotations (New Directions); the text-art collection Seismosis (1913 Press) with artist Christopher Stackhouse; and the short fiction collection Counternarratives (New Directions). He also translated Brazilian author Hilda Hilst’s novel Letters from a Seducer (Nightboat/A Bolha Editora). He has published his work in a wide array of periodicals and anthologies\, and has exhibited his artwork in Brooklyn and Berlin. He teaches in the departments of English and African American and African Studies\, which he chairs\, and also is a core faculty member in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Newark. \n  \n\n  \n\nFall 2015 Living Writers Series: \nCreative Work & Critical Play \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nCreative 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. \nOctober 8: CA Conrad: The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage\nOctober 15: Tonya Foster: California College of the Arts\nOctober 22: John Keene: Rutgers University\, Newark\nOctober 29: Ronaldo V. Wilson: University of California\, Santa Cruz\nNovember 5: Student Reading\nNovember 12: Al Young: California Poet Laureate\, Emeritus\nNovember 19: Juliana Spahr: Mills College & Jasper Bernes: University of California\, Berkeley\nDecember 3: Claudia Rankine: University of Southern California \n\n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-fall-2015-john-keene-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Living-Writers-2015-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151023T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151023T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20151007T214751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151007T214751Z UID:10005143-1445603400-1445608800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum: AK Morais "Blundering Empire: The Smithsonian African Expedition of 1919-1920" DESCRIPTION:The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities\, Social Sciences\, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. \nThis meeting will feature AK Morais (History of Consciousness) presenting his talk “Blundering Empire: The Smithsonian African Expedition of 1919-1920”. \nFor more info\, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year\, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-ak-morais-blundering-empire-the-smithsonian-african-expedition-of-1919-1920-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151025T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151025T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20150610T231924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150610T231924Z UID:10006137-1445769000-1445781600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:50th Anniversary: First Annual UCSC Downtown Fair DESCRIPTION:As part of the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the founding of the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, the City of Santa Cruz will host the first annual UCSC Downtown Fair on Sunday\, October 25\, 2015 following the 50th celebration parade being co-organized by the city and University Relations. The fair will be located at Cooper Street and Abbott Square (next to the Museum of Art and History)\, and activities will run from approximately 10:30am to 2pm. \nFor five decades\, students\, faculty\, staff and researchers at UCSC have been seeking answers to life’s most difficult questions. Today the community is asking: \nHow do you make a banana slug float? \nIt could involve a decorated car—or perhaps a glass of root beer? An inflatable raft? \nYou decide… and then ENTER YOURSELF (https://fs16.formsite.com/Downtown/Slug/index.html) in the “first-time-on-the-planet” Banana Slug Parade in Downtown Santa Cruz on Sunday\, October 25 at 11 am. The parade is part of our community’s celebration of the 50th Anniversary of UCSC. \nThink about it: a parade in this innovative and creative community built on the theme of Banana Slugs. It’s going to be awesome and hilarious and something you need to be a part of. \nGet your organization\, your friends\, your yoga club\, your astronomy class or your ukulele team to come up with an amazing parade entry (think floats\, marching bands\, dance groups\, costumed kids\, costumed old hippies\, giant paper mache banana slugs\, or ?). \nInvite your SLUGGIEST friends to this event page! \nSIGN UP HERE \nThere will be awards and prizes for the top entries. We ask that all entries have a thematic connection with UCSC or Banana Slugs. \nFor more details and for updates on the Expo that follows the parade\, please visit DowntownSantaCruz.com \nThis parade and expo celebrating UCSC’s 50th Anniversary on October 25th is being organized by the City of Santa Cruz and the Downtown Association. \nMore info:\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/445296702306085/\nhttps://events.ucsc.edu/event/3124 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/50th-anniversary-first-annual-downtown-fair-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151026T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151026T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20151009T171039Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151009T171039Z UID:10005157-1445878800-1445886000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Melissa Gregg: "From Productivity to Personal Logistics: A Brief History of Time Management from Shop Floor to Departure Gate" DESCRIPTION:EVENT PHOTOS: \n \nThis talk offers a reading of time management in the workplace and the role of technology in facilitating dominant ideas of productivity. It begins by revisiting classic moments in management theory – Taylor\, Gilbreth\, Mayo\, Drucker\, and more – and develops a framework for understanding contemporary productivity tools in light of these precursors. Rather than simply a metric for efficiency\, today productivity is a lifestyle practiced by elite\, autonomous workers who manage themselves in transient\, adhoc workplaces. Technology is the trusted and reliable companion across multiple domains\, contexts and experiences. \nAlso join us for a discussion with Melissa Greg on Tuesday October 27th at 5pm http://ihr.ucsc.edu/event/melissa-gregg-8-hours-for-what-we-will/ \nMelissa Gregg Bio: \nI am a Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation researching the future of work. My role is to translate strategic insights on the nature of enterprise and employment to business outcomes and opportunities. \nMy recent research tracks the rise of the personal enterprise – a world in which individuals take responsibility for their life’s work with the assistance of freely available technical infrastructure. ‘Ad hoc professionals’ negotiate a changing landscape of work suppliers to sell their services and make a living outside of traditional employment relationships. This type of career poses a challenge to tech business models that differentiate between enterprise and consumer sales. There is a third category emerging between the two thanks to consumer-led enterprise innovation. My aim is to help workers empower themselves and flourish in this context. \nAs an Australian-born researcher\, I have an international profile in gender and cultural studies\, work and organization studies and affect theory. My forthcoming book\, Counterproductive\, is a history of time management self-help in the workplace. It shows how productivity tools came to prominence as employment shifts contributed to a decline in collective opportunities for structured time and ritual. This adds historical depth to my earlier analyses of contemporary work life which include Work’s Intimacy (Polity 2011)\, The Affect Theory Reader (co-edited with Gregory J. Seigworth\, Duke 2010)\, and Cultural Studies’ Affective Voices(Palgrave 2006). \nBefore joining Intel\, I was on faculty in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney (2009-13) following a series of research fellowships at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies\, University of Queensland (2004-8). \nhttp://www.homecookedtheory.com/about-me/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/melissa-gregg-from-productivity-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151027T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151027T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20151009T173158Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151009T173158Z UID:10005159-1445965200-1445970600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Melissa Gregg: "8 Hours for What We Will" DESCRIPTION:Discussion on time management in the workplace and the role of technology in facilitating dominant ideas of productivity. \nRSVP required. Please email Caroline Kao cakao@ucsc.edu. \nIn preparation\, please read 2 chapters of any time management self help book and make a note of those things that are classified as leisure activities by the author. \nSome of Melissa Gregg’s favorite books are:\nLeave the Office Earlier: The Productivity Pro Shows You How to Do More in Less Time…and Feel Great About It\nGetting Things Done: The ABCs of Time Management \nMelissa Gregg Bio: \nI am a Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation researching the future of work. My role is to translate strategic insights on the nature of enterprise and employment to business outcomes and opportunities. \nMy recent research tracks the rise of the personal enterprise – a world in which individuals take responsibility for their life’s work with the assistance of freely available technical infrastructure. ‘Ad hoc professionals’ negotiate a changing landscape of work suppliers to sell their services and make a living outside of traditional employment relationships. This type of career poses a challenge to tech business models that differentiate between enterprise and consumer sales. There is a third category emerging between the two thanks to consumer-led enterprise innovation. My aim is to help workers empower themselves and flourish in this context. \nAs an Australian-born researcher\, I have an international profile in gender and cultural studies\, work and organization studies and affect theory. My forthcoming book\, Counterproductive\, is a history of time management self-help in the workplace. It shows how productivity tools came to prominence as employment shifts contributed to a decline in collective opportunities for structured time and ritual. This adds historical depth to my earlier analyses of contemporary work life which include Work’s Intimacy (Polity 2011)\, The Affect Theory Reader (co-edited with Gregory J. Seigworth\, Duke 2010)\, and Cultural Studies’ Affective Voices(Palgrave 2006). \nBefore joining Intel\, I was on faculty in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney (2009-13) following a series of research fellowships at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies\, University of Queensland (2004-8). \nhttp://www.homecookedtheory.com/about-me/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/melissa-gregg-8-hours-for-what-we-will-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 402 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151028T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151028T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20150612T204620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T204620Z UID:10005116-1446033600-1446039000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Juliana Spahr: "The Politics of Poetry Production > The Politics of Poetic Form" DESCRIPTION:This talk is part of a larger project about contemporary US literature that asks a very old question about the relation between literature and politics. Professor Spahr suggests that turn of the century US literature is somewhat analogous to the earth’s ailing ecosystem\, at risk because of multiple forces– economic changes\, government interference\, liberal foundations\, and higher education–that bolster each other in ways that are expansive and self-reinforcing\, like a Fibonacci sequence. \nSpahr is Professor of English at Mills College. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nFall 2015 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series\n  \nNovember 4\, 2015\nJasmine Syedullah\n“‘Not Contraband\, but Soldier’: Against the Domestic Violence of National Security”\n  \nNovember 18\, 2015\nCatherine Sue Ramírez\n“’Our Porto Ricans’: Puerto Rican Students at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School\, 1898-1923″ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-5-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151028T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151028T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20151022T193922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151022T193922Z UID:10006291-1446040800-1446044400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:UCHRI Funding Information Session DESCRIPTION:UCHRI 2016-2017 Calls for Funding Information Session\nHave questions about UCHRI’s 2016-17 calls for funding? Join our information session and ask UCHRI’s Director and Assistant Director any questions you may have. Open to UC faculty\, staff\, and graduate students. \nTo ask a question\, please click on the Google Hangout link below and click on the chat icon to type in the Google Hangout chat window. \nhttp://bit.ly/oct28infosession\n  \nFor the UCHRI funding overview and calendar\, please visit:\nhttp://uchri.org/uchri/funding-overview-and-calendar \nFor tech support during the Google Hangout\, please visit:\nhttp://uchri.org/funding-information-sessions URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/uchri-funding-information-session-3/ LOCATION:Google Hangout ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/oct28-infosession_email.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151028T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151028T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20151029T233029Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151029T233029Z UID:10006296-1446058800-1446066000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ozploitation Film Series presents : Long Weekend (1978) DESCRIPTION:An unsettling cross between Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) and an early Harold Pinter play\, Colin Eggleston’s Long Weekend presents us with an extremely prickly couple on holiday who are finding it harder and harder to tolerate each other even as it becomes increasingly apparent that nature itself might be out to do them in at their idyllic beach campsite. Petty squabbling and rampant passive aggressivity momentarily distract from the couple’s casual littering and senseless slaughter of animals. As the film goes on\, however\, the couple’s problems with each other and nature’s problems with them start to overlap and soon develop a queasily menacing force. Not to be missed! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ozploitation-film-series-presents-long-weekend-1978-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Long-Weekend-Flyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151029T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151029T174500 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20151013T212142Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151013T212142Z UID:10006278-1446134400-1446140700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Kimberly Robertson: "Dancing with the Devil: Settler Colonialism\, Gendered Violence\, and Indigenous Anti-Violence Activism" DESCRIPTION:Dr. Kimberly Robertson is a citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nation and an activist\, teacher\, scholar\, and mother. She earned an MA in American Indian Studies and a PhD in Women’s Studies from UCLA. Dr. Robertson is an Assistant Professor at Cal State Northridge in Gender & Women’s Studies and American Indian Studies. Her academic and political interests include the relationships between violence against Native women\, the construction of identity\, urbanity\, sovereignty\, and indigenous feminisms. \nThe presentation will take place during the Feminism & Social Justice (FMST 20) class.\nOpen seating\, please arrive early. \nFor more information and disability accommodations\, please call: (831) 459-2427. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kimberly-robertson-dancing-with-the-devil-settler-colonialism-gendered-violence-and-indigenous-anti-violence-activism-2-3/ LOCATION:B206 Earth & Marine Sciences ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/FMST-20-DancingWithTheDevilLastEdits.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151029T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151029T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20150611T215718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150611T215718Z UID:10006143-1446138000-1446145200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rita Lucarelli: "Ghosts and the Restless Dead in Ancient Egypt" DESCRIPTION:EVENT PHOTOS:\n \nRita Lucarelli\nNear Eastern Studies\, UC Berkeley \n“Ghosts and the Restless Dead\nin Ancient Egypt” \nCenter for Ancient Studies at UC Santa Cruz \n  \nThe beliefs in ghosts and spirits of the dead are widespread in world religions. In ancient Egypt\, however\, there is a certain inconsistency when mentioning the manifestations of the dead in magical and religious texts. \nThis paper will present and discuss the various evidence\, which may indicate ghosts\, revenants and evil dead in the spells and objects used in everyday magic as well as in mortuary compositions such as the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. \n-Rita Lucarelli \nRita Lucarelli studied at the University of Naples “L’Orientale\,” Italy\, where she received her MA degree in Classical Languages and Egyptology. She holds her Ph.D. from Leiden University\, the Netherlands (2005). Her Ph.D. thesis was published in 2006 as The Book of the Dead of Gatseshen: Ancient Egyptian Funerary Religion in the 10th Century BC. \nfrom 2005 to 2010\, Lucarelli held a part-time position as a Lecturer of Egyptology at the University of Verona\, Italy. From 2009 to 2012\, she worked as a Research Scholar on the Book of the Dead Project at the University of Bonn\, Germany. \nShe was a Visiting Research Scholar at the Italian Academy of Advanced Studies of Columbia University (2009) and at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) of NYU (2012). \nUntil June 2014 she worked as a Research Scholar and a Lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Department of Egyptology of Bonn University\, and she held a part-time position as a Lecturer of Egyptology at the University of Bari in Italy. \nRita Lucarelli is currently writing a monograph on demonology in ancient Egypt and she is one of the coordinators of the Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project: http://www.demonthings.com. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rita-lucarelli-ghosts-and-the-restless-dead-in-ancient-egypt-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151029T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151029T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20150918T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150918T191451Z UID:10006173-1446141600-1446147900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Ronaldo V. Wilson: University of California\, Santa Cruz DESCRIPTION:Ronaldo V. Wilson\nUniversity of California\, Santa Cruz \nRonaldo V. Wilson\, Ph.D. is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh Press\, 2008)\, winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize; Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books\, 2009) winner of the 2010 Asian American Literary Award and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry; Farther Traveler: Poetry\, Prose Other (Counterpath Press\, 2015); and the forthcoming Lucy 72 (1913 Press\, 2015).  He has held numerous fellowships including the National Research Council Ford Foundation\, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, Yaddo\, Cave Canem\, Kundiman\, Djerassi\, and served as an Artist-in-Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts\, and the Center for Art and Thought (CA+T). Co-founder of the Black Took Collective\, Wilson is currently an Associate Professor of Poetry\, Fiction and Literature\, and Core Faculty of the PhD Creative/Critical Concentration in the Literature Department of the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \n  \n\n  \nFall 2015 Living Writers Series: \nCreative Work & Critical Play \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nCreative 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. \nOctober 8: CA Conrad: The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage\nOctober 15: Tonya Foster: California College of the Arts\nOctober 22: John Keene: Rutgers University\, Newark\nOctober 29: Ronaldo V. Wilson: University of California\, Santa Cruz\nNovember 5: Student Reading\nNovember 12: Al Young: California Poet Laureate\, Emeritus\nNovember 19: Juliana Spahr: Mills College & Jasper Bernes: University of California\, Berkeley\nDecember 3: Claudia Rankine: University of Southern California URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-fall-2015-ronaldo-v-wilson-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Living-Writers-2015-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151030T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151030T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20151007T215240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151007T215240Z UID:10005145-1446208200-1446213600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum: Trey Highton "Surfing the Third Wave: Women's Professional Surfing & the Ethics of Instagram" DESCRIPTION:The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities\, Social Sciences\, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. \nThis meeting will feature Trey Highton (Literature) presenting his talk “Surfing the Third Wave: Women’s Professional Surfing & the Ethics of Instagram”. \nFor more info\, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year\, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-trey-highton-surfing-the-third-wave-womens-professional-surfing-the-ethics-of-instagram-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151030T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151030T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20151015T183701Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151015T183701Z UID:10006280-1446213600-1446217200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistic Colloquium: Ivano Caponigro DESCRIPTION:Linguistic Colloquium: Free-Choice Free Relative Clauses in Italian and Romanian \n\n\n\n  \nEnglish\, Italian\, and Romanian (and many other languages) allow for standard free relative clauses\, i.e.\, non-interrogative wh-clauses with the same distribution and interpretation as definite DPs or PPs (e.g. Elena goes [where Bianca goes]). The same three languages (and many others) also allow for a kind of free relative in which the wh-word has been modified by an affix (e.g.\, Elena goes [wher-everBianca goes]). The semantic behavior of these free relatives\, though\, is not the same across the three languages\, despite their morpho-syntactic identity. \nThe semantic properties of –ever free relatives in English have received significant attention and insightful proposals have been made (cf. Jacobson 1995\, Dayal 1997\, von Fintel 2000\, Heller and Wolter 2011\, Condoravdi 2015\, a.o.). In this talk\, we present the first semantic investigation of the morpho-syntactic equivalent of -everfree relatives in Italian and Romanian\, which we call Free Choice Free Relatives (FC-FRs). We show that semantic properties of FC-FRs differ from -ever free relatives\, while closely resembling headed relative clauses introduced by the free choice determiner any in English. Interestingly\, neither Italian nor Romanian has a free choice item with the same morpho-syntactic shape (i.e.\, non-wh determiner) and the same semantic properties as any in English. We sketch a preliminary compositional analysis of FC-FRs that aims to capture these facts\, based on recent proposal for any and other free choice items by Chierchia (2013) and Dayal (2013). \nWe conclude by touching on the open issue of the difference in meaning between -ever free relatives in English and free choice any and the broader issue of how languages may differ in the way the available free choice items and constructions are mapped onto free choice meanings. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\nThe Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFall 2015\nOctober 9th: Keith Johnson\, UC Berkeley\nOctober 16th: Heidi Harley\, University of Arizona\nOctober 30th: Ivano Caponigro\, UC San Diego\nNovember 20th: Elliott Moreton\, University of North Carolina \nWinter 2016\nJanuary 15th: Sharon Inkelas\, UC Berkeley\nFebruary 5th: Colin Phillips\, University of Maryland\nFebruary 6th: N. Goodman\, Stanford University and A. Kehler\, UC San Diego\nMarch 5th: Linguistics Conference at Santa Cruz Conference \nSpring 2016\nApril 15th: Sabine Iatridou\, MIT\nApril 29th: Paul Kiparsky\, Stanford University\nMay 6\, 7\, 8: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9\nMay 20th: Kyle Johnson\, University of Massachusetts\nMay 27th/June 3rd (TBA): Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference \n  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-ivano-caponigro-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151102 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151103 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20151102T212421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151102T212421Z UID:10006297-1446422400-1446508799@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies "The Future of Education: Advanced Computing\, Ubiquitous Learning\, and the Knowledge Economy" DESCRIPTION:EVENT PHOTOS:\nCreated with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. \nUCSC to host an International e-Learning Conference\, November 2-3 2015\nThis year\, UC Santa Cruz will play host to the Eighth International Conference on e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies from November 2-3\, 2015. The conference is built upon four key features: Internationalism\, Interdisciplinarity\, Inclusiveness\, and Interaction. Conference delegates include leaders in the field as well as emerging artists and scholars who travel to the conference from all corners of the globe and represent a broad range of disciplines and perspectives. A variety of presentation options and session types offer delegates multiple opportunities to engage\, to discuss key issues in the field\, and to build relationships with scholars from other cultures and disciplines. More than 20 countries are expected to be represented at the conference. I encourage our faculty and graduate students to submit proposals to present papers at this conference. \nThe e-Learning Conference will investigate the uses of technologies in learning\, including devices with sophisticated computing and networking capacities that are now pervasively part of our everyday lives. Additionally it explores the possibilities of new forms of technology-mediated learning devices not only in the classroom\, but also in a wider range of places and times than was conventionally the case for education. \nThe conference welcomes submissions from a variety of disciplines and perspectives and encourages faculty and students to jointly submit proposals discussing e-Learning through one of the following themes: \n• Theme 1: Pedagogies\n• Theme 2: Institutions\n• Theme 3: Technologies\n• Theme 4: Social Transformations\n• 2015 Special Focus: The Future of Education: Advanced Computing\, Ubiquitous Learning\, and the Knowledge Economy \nPlenary speakers will include: Satya V. Nitta\, Program Leader of the Cognitive Learning Content research group at IBM’s T J Watson Research Center; Kevin Franklin\, Executive Director of the Institute for Computing in the Humanities\, Arts\, and Social Sciences and Senior Research Scientist for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois; and Jim C. Spohrer\, Director of the IBM Global University Programs. \nFor more information\, including registration pricing\, please visit the conference website at: http://ubi-learn.com/. \nThis conference is co-sponsored by the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research and Academic Affairs. UCSC faculty and staff are welcome to contact Michael Tassio (mtassio@ucsc.edu) for more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/e-learning-and-innovative-pedagogies-3/2015-11-02/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/eLearning.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151102T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151102T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20151113T202305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151113T202305Z UID:10006300-1446465600-1446480000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Enduring Power - Photography Exhibit - Nov. 2 - Dec. 17 DESCRIPTION:Enduring Power: \nThe Middle Eastern and Iranian Women’s Story \n— A Photography Exhibit — \nNovember 2 – December 17\, 2015 \nAT: Resource Center for Nonviolence\, 612 Ocean St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA \nExhibit HOURS: M-TH noon – 4p.m. or by appointment\, 831-423-1626 \nSponsored by the Resource Center for Nonviolence and Senses Cultural\, \nEnduring Power’s striking images represent a wide range of experiences\, aspirations\, fears and realities of Middle Eastern and Iranian women from Yemen\, Egypt\, Bahrain\, Iran and Kuwait. A collection of work from several female photographers of Middle Eastern backgrounds\, Enduring Power shows an intimate and unique perspective of an otherwise private world to the American audience. This exhibition\, curated by photographer Sina Araghi\, presents powerful stories of education\, individuality\, familial relationships\, societal restraints\, and boldness. \n“Peering behind the veil and headscarves to reveal real individuals is a delicate but necessary boundary to push. These photographs speak of the greater issues of identity and resilience\, and the strength of women within these regions. Their sense of identity has not been erased by culture or governments. \n These women are empowering themselves – against all obstacles – through their own will. A clear defiance and a sense of individuality is present. They are not weak or afraid. They are powerful and energized. They command your attention and your interest. Let their stories be heard.” — Sina Araghi\, curator of Enduring Power \nSenses Cultural\, Davis\, CA\, and the Resource Center for Nonviolence are collaborating on this Senses Cultural’s traveling photography exhibition\, which was previously at UC Davis\, San Francisco State University. Senses Cultural believes that women – mothers\, grandmothers\, and daughters – have been the quiet strength that protects the rights of their families\, communities\, and nations. \nPlease join us for the First Friday EXHIBIT RECEPTION on December 4\, 6-9p.m. featuring Tata Masud\, Founder and CEO of Senses Cultural\, Davis\, CA. Light refreshments will be available. \nCo-sponsors (list in formation): WILPF Santa Cruz \nFor more information: 831-423-1626\, rcnv.org \nCurator Statement by Sina Araghi\nEnduring Power: The Middle Eastern and Iranian Woman’s Story is a collection of work by seven female photographers from Egypt\, Kuwait\, Bahrain\, Yemen\, and Iran\, examining the lives and livelihoods of women in that region. \nApart from their exceptional photographic work\, these photographers were selected in great part due to their diverse coverage of topics regarding women\, spanning across many different countries throughout the Middle East. \nPeering behind the veil and headscarves to reveal real individuals is a delicate but necessary boundary to push. It is so vital to the future and progress of women in these cultures to be seen succeeding\, thriving\, and discovering – all on their own. Whether they are generations apart or contemporaries\, progress is achieved when women grow and improve on their own terms\, separate from the male influence that so strongly permeates their public culture and the worldwide media. There is an almost constant push/pull between the individualized and powerful identity of the Middle Eastern woman\, and the attempts by culture and government to erase that identity. \nThis collection of images illustrate how that sense of identity has not been erased. This collection is a celebration of the progress and growth that has happened\, and a tangible foreshadowing of what is still to come. \nThe division of gender throughout daily life creates two very different worlds within the same culture. The photographic perspective in this exhibition is unique to women who are inside these cultures and countries. These 7 photographers are not outsiders\, tourists\, or just passing through\, and the familiarity and camaraderie felt between ‘insiders’ is tangible in these photographs. Being a female photographer creates uniquely privileged access into the lives and experiences of the Middle Eastern woman – access into a world that men seldom are privy to. Respecting this access while still honoring the truth in moments witnessed requires grace and trust. There is fragility in that access. As an Iranian male photographer\, I admire this perspective\, knowing full well the limitations and privileges of my own gender. \nCollectively\, these photographs speak of the greater issues of identity and resilience\, and the strength of women within these regions. They are empowering themselves – against all obstacles – through their own will. A clear defiance and sense of individuality is present (an especially sacred quality in a world of appearance commonality)\, and there is no apologizing for any of it. These women are not weak or afraid. They are resilient\, powerful\, and energized. They command your attention and your interest. \nLet their stories be heard. \n-Sina Araghi\, curator \nFor more information: 831-423-1626\, rcnv.org URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/enduring-power-photography-exhibit-nov-2-dec-17-3/2015-11-02/ LOCATION:Resource Center for Non Violence ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Unknown.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151103 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151104 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20151102T212421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151102T212421Z UID:10006298-1446508800-1446595199@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies "The Future of Education: Advanced Computing\, Ubiquitous Learning\, and the Knowledge Economy" DESCRIPTION:EVENT PHOTOS:\nCreated with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. \nUCSC to host an International e-Learning Conference\, November 2-3 2015\nThis year\, UC Santa Cruz will play host to the Eighth International Conference on e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies from November 2-3\, 2015. The conference is built upon four key features: Internationalism\, Interdisciplinarity\, Inclusiveness\, and Interaction. Conference delegates include leaders in the field as well as emerging artists and scholars who travel to the conference from all corners of the globe and represent a broad range of disciplines and perspectives. A variety of presentation options and session types offer delegates multiple opportunities to engage\, to discuss key issues in the field\, and to build relationships with scholars from other cultures and disciplines. More than 20 countries are expected to be represented at the conference. I encourage our faculty and graduate students to submit proposals to present papers at this conference. \nThe e-Learning Conference will investigate the uses of technologies in learning\, including devices with sophisticated computing and networking capacities that are now pervasively part of our everyday lives. Additionally it explores the possibilities of new forms of technology-mediated learning devices not only in the classroom\, but also in a wider range of places and times than was conventionally the case for education. \nThe conference welcomes submissions from a variety of disciplines and perspectives and encourages faculty and students to jointly submit proposals discussing e-Learning through one of the following themes: \n• Theme 1: Pedagogies\n• Theme 2: Institutions\n• Theme 3: Technologies\n• Theme 4: Social Transformations\n• 2015 Special Focus: The Future of Education: Advanced Computing\, Ubiquitous Learning\, and the Knowledge Economy \nPlenary speakers will include: Satya V. Nitta\, Program Leader of the Cognitive Learning Content research group at IBM’s T J Watson Research Center; Kevin Franklin\, Executive Director of the Institute for Computing in the Humanities\, Arts\, and Social Sciences and Senior Research Scientist for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois; and Jim C. Spohrer\, Director of the IBM Global University Programs. \nFor more information\, including registration pricing\, please visit the conference website at: http://ubi-learn.com/. \nThis conference is co-sponsored by the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research and Academic Affairs. UCSC faculty and staff are welcome to contact Michael Tassio (mtassio@ucsc.edu) for more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/e-learning-and-innovative-pedagogies-3/2015-11-03/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/eLearning.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151103T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151103T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20151026T220026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151026T220026Z UID:10006292-1446552000-1446562800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Fall Job and Internship Fair DESCRIPTION:The Fall Job and Internship Fair is an excellent opportunity for you to meet with hundreds of students seeking employment opportunities. Meet with students from a variety of majors to have dialogue and collect resumes. This event can provide your organization with talent for entry-level positions\, internships\, and summer jobs. Many of our students have had work experience through summer employment\, internships\, and jobs during the academic year. UC Santa Cruz students offer specific job skills\, knowledge developed in a rigorous academic major\, and the breadth of a well-rounded liberal arts education. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fall-job-and-internship-fair-3/ LOCATION:College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room\, College Ten\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151103T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151103T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20151028T221555Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151028T221555Z UID:10006293-1446575400-1446580800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) DESCRIPTION: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. \nPlease 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: \nGiacomo Bernardi “Finding general patterns in the natural world: underwater cuckoos” \nEmily Brodsky “Stress in Faults” \nRobin Hunicke “The Art of Play” \nA. Laurie Palmer “If I were you\, I’d call me us” \nBios: \nGiacomo Bernardi is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC Santa Cruz. His laboratory research focuses on the ecology of coral reefs and understanding speciation mechanisms in marine organisms.​ Bernardi did his undergrad and grad school at the University of Paris where he earned a PhD in Molecular Biology. He did a Post Doc at the Pasteur Institute in Tunis\, Tunisia and a Post Doc at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station before being hired at UCSC. \nEmily Brodsky is a professor and earthquake physicist at the UC Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on identifying the processes that trigger earthquakes and constraining the forces and processes that occur inside a fault zone during slip. Prof. Brodsky earned her A.B. from Harvard in 1995\, Ph.D. from Caltech in 2001 and was a 2001 Miller Fellow at the University of California\, Berkeley. She has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles and presented over 75 invited lectures or keynote talks. Her work was been featured in major press outlets such as the BBC\, NPR\, Time Magazine\, NY Times\, Nature\, Reuters\, LA Times and The Wall Street Journal. \nRobin Hunicke is the Director of the new Art\, Games & Playable Media BA program at UC Santa Cruz. A game designer and producer by training\, she has a background in computer science\, fine art and applied game studies. She has been designing\, making and teaching about games for over 12 years (Journey\, Boom Blox\,MySims\, TheSims2). Robin is also the Co-Founder of the independent game studio Funomena\, where she is currently working on a puzzling fable called Luna and a joyful and musical physics playground called Wattam. Recognized as an influential Woman in Games\, Robin is also an outspoken evangelist for diversity of thought and participation in game design and game culture. In this talk\, she will talk about how game developers can create novel\, experimental games by designing for feeling. \nA. Laurie Palmer is an artist\, writer\, and teacher. Her work includes sculpture\, installation\, writing\, and public art. She is concerned with material explorations of matter’s active nature as it asserts itself on different scales and in different speeds\, and she collaborates on strategic actions that work for social and environmental justice. Her book In the Aura of a Hole: Exploring Sites of Material Extraction (Black Dog\, London\, 2014) investigates what happens to places where materials are removed from the ground\, and how these materials move between the earth and our bodies. Palmer collaborated with the artist group Haha for 20 years on site- and community-based projects. She currently collaborates with Chicago Torture Justice Memorials (CTJM) and the Prison Neighborhood Arts Program (PNAP)\, both based in Chicago. She has shown her work\, both independently and with Haha\, at national and international venues. \nThis event is FREE and open to the public. Parking is available in the Performing Arts Lot adjacent to Digital Arts Research Center. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/leonardo-artscience-evening-rendezvous-laser-3/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151104T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151104T104000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20151008T234221Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151008T234221Z UID:10005155-1446629400-1446633600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Berel Lang: “Primo Levi: Chemist\, Survivor\, Writer” DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, November 4\, Professor Berel Lang of Wesleyan University\, author of Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life\, will visit our campus and offer a lecture entitled “Primo Levi: Chemist\, Survivor\, Writer.”  Professor Lang’s many books include Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide (University of Chicago Press\, 1990)\, The Anatomy of Philosophical Style (Basil Blackwell\, 1990)\, Holocaust Representation: Art within the Limits of History and Ethics (Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2000) and Philosophical Witnessing: The Holocaust as Presence (University Press of New England\, 2009). His recently published biography\, Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life (Yale University Press\, 2013)\, is a groundbreaking study of the convergence of the roles of scientist\, humanist\, witness\, and moral philosopher in Levi’s writing. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/berel-lang-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Berel-Lang-Lecture-Flyer-for-web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151104T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151104T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20150612T204914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T204914Z UID:10005117-1446638400-1446643800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jasmine Syedullah: "‘Not Contraband\, but Soldier': Against the Domestic Violence of National Security" DESCRIPTION:Jasmine Syedullah’s current project\, “No Selves to Defend: Fugitive Justice and Black Feminist Loopholes of Abolition” is a political theory of abolition rooted in the antislavery writings of Harriet Jacobs\, the anti-prison testimonies of political prisoners Angela Davis\, Assata Shakur\, and narratives from the 1971 uprising at Alderson Federal Reformatory for Women. \nSyedullah is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at UC Riverside. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nFall 2015 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series\n  \nNovember 18\, 2015\nCatherine Sue Ramírez\n“’Our Porto Ricans’: Puerto Rican Students at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School\, 1898-1923″ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-6-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151105T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151105T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20151009T224010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151009T224010Z UID:10006275-1446739200-1446746400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Imogen Dickie "Proper Names: Transition to the End Game" DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nI shall prove a principle which brings out the significance for accounts of aboutness and reference of the fact that justification is truth conducive; use this principle to develop an account of reference-fixing for proper names which presents an alternative to the tired menu of traditional causalisms\, descriptivisms\, and crosses between; and identify two questions around which the next phase in discussions of reference-fixing for proper names should be structured. \nAbout: \nImogen Dickie is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Toronto. Research Interests: Philosophy of language and mind: theory of reference\, metasemantics\, acquaintance\, perception\, communication\, singular thought. Some topics in epistemology\, metaphysics\, and philosophy of action. \nacademia.edu: Imogen Dickie academic page \nhttp://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/dickie.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/imogen-dickie-proper-names-transition-to-the-end-game-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151105T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151105T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20151020T160102Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151020T160102Z UID:10006290-1446746400-1446753600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Wage Justice: Fighting Wage Theft in Our Community DESCRIPTION:This community event will launch the public art and findings of a year-long research project – Working for Dignity: Low-Wage Worker Study of Santa Cruz County produced by the UCSC Center for Labor Studies. The event will showcase the project’s website and feature workers\, researchers and students sharing their stories about low pay and wage theft. Community organizations will also be on hand to discuss new\, monthly wage and hour clinics that can help those who have experienced wage theft to act. The event will conclude with a community dialog about workplace conditions and violations and what you can do.\n  \nCo-sponsored by the UCSC Center for Labor Studies\, California Rural Legal Assistance\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, UC Humanities Research Institute\, Santa Cruz Day Worker Center\, and the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County. \nFor more information\, contact Steve McKay at smckay@ucsc.edu or the California Rural Legal Assistance: (831) 724-2253. \nFree and Open to the Public\nTranslation available\nRefreshments provided URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/wage-justice-fighting-wage-theft-in-our-community-3/ LOCATION:Civic Plaza Community Room ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Wage_Justice_SecondEdit_Eng-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151106T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151106T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20150928T191517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T192219Z UID:10005137-1446807600-1446813000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: Internship Info Session DESCRIPTION:In the next couple of months\, the IHR will be launching a new public fellowship/internship program for our graduate students\, allowing them to work in organizations and companies in the area during the summer\, while getting fellowship support from the IHR. \nIf you are interested in learning about this program\, please join us for the next workshop in our PhD+ series on November 6th at 11 am. As always\, lunch will be provided! Please RSVP using the form below. \n\n  \nPhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease 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. Please RSVP below for each workshop you would like to attend. \nOctober 9\, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel\nNovember 6\, 2015: Internship Info Session\nDecember 4\, 2015:  Coding for Humanists\nJanuary 8\, 2016: Research Tools and Methods\nFebruary 5\, 2016: Online Identity\nMarch 4\, 2016: Work-Life Balance\nApril 8\, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities\nMay 13\, 2016: Research and Grants\nJune 3\, 2016: End of Year Luncheon \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-internship-info-session-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151106T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151106T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20151007T220309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151007T220309Z UID:10005147-1446813000-1446818400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum: Samuael Topiary "The Anti-Representational Mode" DESCRIPTION:The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities\, Social Sciences\, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. \nThis meeting will feature Samuael Topiary (Film & Digital Media) presenting his talk “The Anti-Representational Mode”. \nFor more info\, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year\, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-samuael-topiary-the-anti-representational-mode-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151106T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151106T153000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20151029T184506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151029T184506Z UID:10006295-1446818400-1446823800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Joseph M. Pierce: "Writing Queer Sisterhood: The Diaries of Julia and Delfina Bunge and the Argentine Fin de Siglo (1890-1910)" DESCRIPTION:This presentation focuses on a unique coincidence in Argentine fin de siglo (1890-1910): sisters who 1) simultaneously kept a diary for an extended period of time\, 2) actually shared\, read\, and commented on reading each other’s diaries\, and 3) though under quite different circumstances\, published these diaries subsequently. I read the diary as an interface through which textual form influences understandings of self and other in the early years of the 20th century\, arguing that it is\, in this sense\, a technology of self-making. This talk explores not simply what the diarist does\, but what discourses\, what possible modes of feeling and thinking are revealed through the process of writing and reading the diary. In particular the sister serves as critical nucleus for understanding relational subjectivity\, sibling rivalry\, and the queer potentials of lateral kinship. Examining both original manuscript notebooks and later published versions\, I show how writing and reading the diary plays a crucial role in shaping each sister’s ideological positions regarding courtship\, marriage\, and sisterhood\, and from this exploration I argue that the cultural anxiety over the division of public and private space\, and in particular women’s labor\, led each sister to stake a claim of individuality that emerges through the process of imagining herself as different\, but potentially the same as\, her sister.\n  \nJoseph M. Pierce is Assistant Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University. His research focuses on discourses of kinship\, gender\, and sexuality in Latin America and on the intersection of Latin American and North American approaches to citizenship and belonging. He is currently drafting a book manuscript entitled Queer Kinship in the Argentine fin de siglo: La familia Bunge\, and is co-editor with Fernando Blanco and Mario Pecheny of Derechos Sexuales en el Sur: Políticas del amor y escrituras disidentes (Forthcoming\, Cuarto Propio).\n  \nLight refreshments will be served. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joseph-m-pierce-writing-queer-sisterhood-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 402 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Pierce_colloquium_Fall2015-3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151107T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151107T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20151007T171659Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151007T171659Z UID:10006273-1446885000-1446917400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Utopian Dreaming: 50 years of Imagined Futures in California and at UCSC DESCRIPTION:In 2015\, UCSC is celebrating its 50th anniversary\, and Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia its 40th. Both are products of a fertile period of ferment across California\, during the 1960s and 1970s. Why has California been such a fertile and fruitful site for “Utopian Dreaming\,” in film\, fiction\, media\, design\, architecture\, mobility\, electronics\, intentional communities\,ecology and environment\, counter-culture and social movements? What kinds of futures has California come to represent? What has been the role of UCSC in these imaginaries of the future. Does California remain a Promised Land\, or is it a Land of Squandered Promise?\nOn November 6th and 7th\, 2015\, join scholars\, students\, observers and utopian dreamers \, in a conference to celebrate those anniversaries and explore visions of the future that have emerged from California and UCSC about California and UCSC. Presentations will run the gamut from Ecotopia to Technodystopia\, from the real to the fantasized\, from the past to the future\, assessing the impacts of utopian imaginaries on culture\, politics\, environment\, cities\, beliefs and ideologies at UCSC\, across California\, and beyond. \nAdmission is free\, but attendees are asked to register for the conference here. \n\nConference Schedule:\nFriday\, November 6\, UCSC Music Recital Hall\, 7:30-10 PM\n7:30-10: Keynote — Return to Ecotopia: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Ernest Callenbach.\nKim Stanley Robinson\, “Ecotopia and the 1970s Utopian Moment”\nConversation & Reminiscences about Ecotopia & Ernest Callenbach\nMalcolm Margolin (publisher\, Heyday Books\, Berkeley)\,\nJoanna Callenbach (daughter)\nRichard Kahlenberg (Callenbach’s literary agent) \nSaturday\, November 7\, UCSC Music Recital Hall\n8:30-9: Registration & Continental Breakfast\n9-9:30: Keynote — Fred McPherson\, “Utopia at UCSC: The Early Years”\n9:30-11:00: Panel I — California as Eco(u)topia\nBenjamin Wurgaft (MIT)\, “All Futures Green and Chrome: From Callenbach’s Ecotopia to 21st-Century Cornucopianism”\nKristin Miller (Sociology\, UCSC)\, “Postcards from the Future”\n11-11:15: Coffee break\n11:15-12:45: Panel II — Ecotopia and Apocalypse\nAndrew Mathews (Anthropology\, UCSC)\, “Climate Change as Utopia and Apocalypse”\nUrsula Heise (English\, UCLA)\, “What’s the Matter with Dystopia?”\n12:45-1:30: Lunch (provided to attendees on site)\n1:30-3:00: Panel III — Imagining Other Utopian Worlds\nRosaura Sanchez & Beatrice Pita (Literature\, UC San Diego)\, “The Color of Sci Fi: The Presence/Absence of People of Color in Future Imaginaries.” \nMiriam Greenberg (Sociology\, UCSC)\, “Whose Ecotopia? Tracing Multiple Visions of a Sustainable Future in Northern California and Beyond”\n3-3:15: Coffee break\n3:15-4:45: Panel IV — California Techno-pasts and Utopian Futures\nFred Turner (Communications\, Stanford)\, “From Counterculture To Cyberculture: How The Whole Earth Catalog Brought Us Virtual Community”\nRichard Barbrook (Department of Politics and IR\, U. of Westminster\, London)\, “The California Ideology 2.0”\n4:45-5:30: Concluding Remarks\nRonnie D. Lipschutz (Politics and College Eight\, UCSC)\, “Eco-utopias and Other Such Futurist Dreaming in California” \n  \nFor questions and information\, please contact Ronnie Lipschutz\, rlipsch@ucsc.edu (email preferred) or 831-459-3275/459-2543. \nThis conference is sponsored by College Eight\, with funds from the Distinguished Visiting Professor fund\, and the following: the Social Sciences Division\, Anthropology\, Sociology\, Politics\, Latin American & Latino Studies\, Environmental Studies\, Art\, History\, Literature\, Crown College\, Merrill College\, Cowell College\, Stevenson College\, Porter College\, Oakes College\, Kresge College Institute of the Arts & Sciences\, Institute for Humanities Research\, the Everett Program\, the Chicano-Latino Research Center\, the Science & Justice Research Center\, an anonymous donor\, the UCSC Natural Reserve Program\, the Student Environmental Center and University Relations. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/utopian-dreaming-50-years-of-imagined-futures-in-california-and-at-ucsc-2-2/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/utopian-dreaming-poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151107T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151107T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105100 CREATED:20150924T234059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150924T234059Z UID:10006264-1446888600-1446915600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Leadership for Social Justice: A Sikh-American Perspective DESCRIPTION:This one-day workshop provides insights and training for individuals who wish to lead social change efforts. The workshop will be conducted by the Sikh Coalition\, a community-based organization that works toward the realization of civil and human rights for all people\, including Sikh-Americans. It will include sessions devoted to lobbying\, media\, legal remedies\, and a case study on effective advocacy. The workshop will be highly interactive and will provide participants with concrete skills that will enable them to immediately begin advocating on major social and political issues. \nEVENT PHOTOS: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \n\n  \nAbout the Workshop Trainers:\nArjun Singh joined the Sikh Coalition in June 2015 as the Director of Law & Policy. In this role\, he is responsible for advocating and promoting policy solutions to civil rights issues that impact Sikhs and the broader American public. His work focuses on government affairs on Capitol Hill\, inside the White House\, and across numerous federal agencies\, including the Department of Justice\, Department of Homeland Security\, and Department of State. Additionally\, Arjun is an integral contributor to our media relations\, coalition building\, and regional advocacy campaigns. \nArjun joins the Sikh Coalition with nearly a decade of litigation and advocacy experience focused on civil and human rights in Washington D.C. First\, he spent six years working as a Government Affairs and Litigation Associate at the international law firm of Covington & Burling LLP\, where his clients included victims of government profiling\, national security detainees\, and criminal defendants on death row. More recently\, Arjun worked as a National Legislative Counsel for human rights and national security related affairs at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He is a regular contributor to national media outlets like Al Jazeera America\, CNN\, the Washington Post\, and USA Today\, and is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center\, where he teaches a course on 21st century policing and surveillance. \nArjun is a graduate of New York University School of Law and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. \n  \nHarjit Kaur joined the Sikh Coalition as Community Development Manager in May 2014. As Community Development Manager\, she leads program development and implementation for Bay Area youth to encourage leadership and engage them in advocacy and social justice work. She is also responsible for community engagement efforts and education initiatives to raise awareness about Sikhs. \nHarjit initially joined the Sikh Coalition as a graduate of the Sikh Advocate Academy\, Class of 2012. In her role as a Volunteer Sikh Advocate\, she supported key initiatives such as the passage of the Workplace Religious Freedom Act of California and became a member of the Sacramento Area Hate Crimes Task Force at the U.S. Department of Justice \nPrior to joining the Sikh Coalition\, she was a part of the criminal defense team in a recent landmark case\, led by Mani Sidhu\, Esq.\, in which a battered South Asian woman in Yuba City was acquitted of first degree murder due to self-defense and the defense of her unborn female child. She currently serves as a board member of the Sacramento South Asian Bar Association and is the board secretary for the Sacramento Valley Charter School. She is also an adjunct professor and advisory committee board member for the legal assisting program at American River College. \nHarjit earned her J.D. from the University of the Pacific\, McGeorge School of Law in 2011 and is licensed to practice in California. Harjit obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Sonoma State University. \n\n  \nFree and open to all UCSC students and staff. Breakfast\, lunch and coffee/tea provided.\nPre-registration required. Please register by clicking here. Enrollment limited to 20. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/leadership-for-social-justice-a-sikh-american-perspective-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151108 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151110 DTSTAMP:20260403T105101 CREATED:20150916T202258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150916T202258Z UID:10005130-1446940800-1447113599@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:HUMANISTS@WORK DESCRIPTION:Humanists@Work is heading to Sacramento\, California for our next statewide graduate student career professionalization workshop. We invite humanities PhDs\, faculty\, and staff to REGISTER for the workshop and join us for what will be another meaningful and productive gathering of humanities PhDs. We are offering a limited number of travel grants to 3 students from each UC campus (grants will cover your roundtrip travel and accommodation at The Citizen Hotel). Please note that those receiving a travel grant will be invited to the pre-workshop networking dinner. Deadline to apply for a travel grant is October 9th. Please apply online via UCHRI’s FastApps application system. For more information about the pre-workshop networking dinner\, please visit our networking page. \nSCHEDULE: HUMANISTS@WORK GRADUATE CAREER WORKSHOP & NETWORKING DINNER \nNOVEMBER 8-9\, 2015 | SACRAMENTO\, CA \n8:00AM | BREAKFAST \nHot breakfast bar with–yes\, you guessed it–plenty of caffeinated beverages \n9:00AM | WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS \nKelly Anne Brown\, UCHRI’s Assistant Director \n9:15AM | THEORIZING OUR MOMENT: WHAT HUMANISTS@WORK LOOK LIKE \nPart I of a two-part conversation moderated by the Humwork Graduate Student Advisory Committee and continuing the interactive\, DIY activities began in San Diego last year\, the Humwork grad committee will facilitate a conversation about issues such as: the possibilities for work outside/alongside academia\, graduate student education and support\, the general conditions of the humanities in higher education and society more generally\, and the role of gatherings like Humwork to intervene in the many structural\, cultural\, and practical issues surrounding humanities work. \n9:45AM | STORIES FROM THE FIELD \nUC Humanities PhDs share their stories as humanists@work in the world. Featuring: \nJ. Guevara\, Economic Development Manager for the City of Santa Cruz (PhD Literature\, UCSC\, 2012)\nAmy Jamgochian\, Academic Program Director\, Prison University Project (PhD Rhetoric\, UCB\, 2010)\nSusie Lundy\, Bay Area Program Director\, Youth Speaks (PhD Cultural Studies\, UCLA\, 2008)\nMarty Weis\, UC Davis English PhD\, 2015\nModerated by Simon Abramowitsch\, UC Davis English PhD and Humanists@Work Graduate Advisory Committee Member \n11:00AM | COFFEE/NETWORKING BREAK \n11:30AM | RÉSUMÉ REDUX: USING THE WRITING PROCESS AS A TOOL FOR CAREER DISCOVERY \nThe quest to create a replicable résumé development framework for humanities PhD candidates exploring a variety of careers continues! \nSince UCHRI’s February 2015 Humanists@Work workshop in San Diego\, Jared Redick of The Résumé Studio\, Kelly Anne Brown of UCHRI\, and selected UC humanists have been hard at work refining the process of presenting academic experience within the boundaries of a non-academic résumé. \nThis iteration of the workshop builds on the work of past presentations at Berkeley and San Diego\, focusing on how the writing process is being used as a tool for career discovery. Highlights include: \nA glimpse into how current PhD candidates and other graduate students have used the Job Description Analysis to translate their academic and dissertation experience into transferable skills useful within a reimagined résumé.\nBefore and after samples from graduate students who have gone the distance and turned their backgrounds into marketable résumés\, several resulting in new jobs this year.\nUnsurprisingly\, the work focuses on the student’s ability to convert academic activities into work experience that resonates beyond academia. Sounds easier than it is—which is why this series continues. UCLA PhD candidate Dana Linda joins the discussion to share her own experience\, as well as insights she learned while going through the process. \nImportant: \nPlease be sure you have watched the full 1.5 hour Berkeley video before you attend\, otherwise you may not gain the full value of this presentation.\nBring your current CV and/or résumé attempt (no matter how rough\, printed or on your laptop) so it’s on hand for ideas you may capture along the way.\nJared Redick\, The Résumé Studio and Dana Linda\, UCLA Comparative Literature PhD Candidate \n12:45PM | LUNCH \nIn addition to a hot lunch\, participants will have access to view Al Farrow’s Bay Area Figurative Drawings in the special collections gallery. \n1:45PM | BREAKOUT SESSIONS \nSESSION A\nSKETCHING YOUR CAREER’S UNIQUE CHRONOLOGY IN THE RÉSUMÉ CONTEXT \nCROCKER ATRIUM\nJared Redick\, The Résumé Studio \nWorking one-on-one with University of California PhD candidates and other graduate students this year\, one of the surprising elements Jared Redick has discovered has been the complex task of distilling the hierarchy of one’s career within the limitations of the chronological résumé. \nAnd chronological résumés are essential in the world beyond academia because functional résumés—while sometimes useful—are frequently regarded by recruiters and hiring managers as tools for masking periods of unemployment. \nIn this breakout session\, Dana Linda joins Jared Redick for focused table work that utilizes the simplicity of 3×5 cards to wire frame your experience (institution names\, job titles\, dates\, buckets) in a way that is readily understood by recruiters and hiring managers. This breakout is intended for people who are\, or will soon be\, deeply focused on the résumé development process. \nImportant: \nBring a stack of your own 3×5 cards for table work. These are essential to the exercise we’ll be doing\, and we will not have enough to give to everyone.\nBring your current CV and/or résumé attempt\, no matter how rough\, printed or on your laptop.\nPlease be sure you have watched the 1.5 hour Berkeley video before you attend\, otherwise you may not gain the full value of this breakout session.\nSESSION B\nDECODING WORK: A VALUES-BASED APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING CAREERS FOR HUMANITIES PHDS \nCEMO MEETING SPACE\nAnnie Maxfield\, UCLA\nIn this session students will connect their unique strengths and value system to career trajectories by surveying how values are expressed through work\, organizations and industries. We will identify concrete UC-Humanities PhD career paths\, and discuss ways to “decode” jobs\, imagine possibilities\, and identify starting points. \n3:00PM | COFFEE/NETWORKING BREAK \n3:30PM | A MINDFUL INQUIRY INTO THE RIGHT KIND OF WORK \nLauri Mattenson\, UCLA Writing Programs\nMany of our assumptions about the job search are predetermined by the routines and rules of our educational institutions\, and accordingly\, we learn to package ourselves like products for sale to potential employers. If instead\, we regard ourselves as in-process and engage in mindful practices with an attitude of receptive non-judgement\, we can free ourselves from fixed notions of self and success. \nIn this participatory workshop\, we will practice “generative mindfulness” exercises designed to inspire greater insight into what might bring us true professional pleasure and fulfillment. \nMindful meditation is known to facilitate decision-making and cognitive flexibility and enhance well-being\, creativity\, social performance\, and health (Langer\, 1989; 2005; 2009)\, so a mindful inquiry into the right kind of work may help us conceptualize and create a career deeply aligned with our skills and values. \n4:30PM | PART II: THEORIZING OUR MOMENT \n5:30PM | CONCLUDING REMARKS URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanistswork-3/ LOCATION:The Citizen Hotel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Humanists@work.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151109T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151109T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105101 CREATED:20151113T202305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151113T202305Z UID:10006301-1447070400-1447084800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Enduring Power - Photography Exhibit - Nov. 2 - Dec. 17 DESCRIPTION:Enduring Power: \nThe Middle Eastern and Iranian Women’s Story \n— A Photography Exhibit — \nNovember 2 – December 17\, 2015 \nAT: Resource Center for Nonviolence\, 612 Ocean St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA \nExhibit HOURS: M-TH noon – 4p.m. or by appointment\, 831-423-1626 \nSponsored by the Resource Center for Nonviolence and Senses Cultural\, \nEnduring Power’s striking images represent a wide range of experiences\, aspirations\, fears and realities of Middle Eastern and Iranian women from Yemen\, Egypt\, Bahrain\, Iran and Kuwait. A collection of work from several female photographers of Middle Eastern backgrounds\, Enduring Power shows an intimate and unique perspective of an otherwise private world to the American audience. This exhibition\, curated by photographer Sina Araghi\, presents powerful stories of education\, individuality\, familial relationships\, societal restraints\, and boldness. \n“Peering behind the veil and headscarves to reveal real individuals is a delicate but necessary boundary to push. These photographs speak of the greater issues of identity and resilience\, and the strength of women within these regions. Their sense of identity has not been erased by culture or governments. \n These women are empowering themselves – against all obstacles – through their own will. A clear defiance and a sense of individuality is present. They are not weak or afraid. They are powerful and energized. They command your attention and your interest. Let their stories be heard.” — Sina Araghi\, curator of Enduring Power \nSenses Cultural\, Davis\, CA\, and the Resource Center for Nonviolence are collaborating on this Senses Cultural’s traveling photography exhibition\, which was previously at UC Davis\, San Francisco State University. Senses Cultural believes that women – mothers\, grandmothers\, and daughters – have been the quiet strength that protects the rights of their families\, communities\, and nations. \nPlease join us for the First Friday EXHIBIT RECEPTION on December 4\, 6-9p.m. featuring Tata Masud\, Founder and CEO of Senses Cultural\, Davis\, CA. Light refreshments will be available. \nCo-sponsors (list in formation): WILPF Santa Cruz \nFor more information: 831-423-1626\, rcnv.org \nCurator Statement by Sina Araghi\nEnduring Power: The Middle Eastern and Iranian Woman’s Story is a collection of work by seven female photographers from Egypt\, Kuwait\, Bahrain\, Yemen\, and Iran\, examining the lives and livelihoods of women in that region. \nApart from their exceptional photographic work\, these photographers were selected in great part due to their diverse coverage of topics regarding women\, spanning across many different countries throughout the Middle East. \nPeering behind the veil and headscarves to reveal real individuals is a delicate but necessary boundary to push. It is so vital to the future and progress of women in these cultures to be seen succeeding\, thriving\, and discovering – all on their own. Whether they are generations apart or contemporaries\, progress is achieved when women grow and improve on their own terms\, separate from the male influence that so strongly permeates their public culture and the worldwide media. There is an almost constant push/pull between the individualized and powerful identity of the Middle Eastern woman\, and the attempts by culture and government to erase that identity. \nThis collection of images illustrate how that sense of identity has not been erased. This collection is a celebration of the progress and growth that has happened\, and a tangible foreshadowing of what is still to come. \nThe division of gender throughout daily life creates two very different worlds within the same culture. The photographic perspective in this exhibition is unique to women who are inside these cultures and countries. These 7 photographers are not outsiders\, tourists\, or just passing through\, and the familiarity and camaraderie felt between ‘insiders’ is tangible in these photographs. Being a female photographer creates uniquely privileged access into the lives and experiences of the Middle Eastern woman – access into a world that men seldom are privy to. Respecting this access while still honoring the truth in moments witnessed requires grace and trust. There is fragility in that access. As an Iranian male photographer\, I admire this perspective\, knowing full well the limitations and privileges of my own gender. \nCollectively\, these photographs speak of the greater issues of identity and resilience\, and the strength of women within these regions. They are empowering themselves – against all obstacles – through their own will. A clear defiance and sense of individuality is present (an especially sacred quality in a world of appearance commonality)\, and there is no apologizing for any of it. These women are not weak or afraid. They are resilient\, powerful\, and energized. They command your attention and your interest. \nLet their stories be heard. \n-Sina Araghi\, curator \nFor more information: 831-423-1626\, rcnv.org URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/enduring-power-photography-exhibit-nov-2-dec-17-3/2015-11-09/ LOCATION:Resource Center for Non Violence ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Unknown.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151109T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151109T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105101 CREATED:20150611T220357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150611T220357Z UID:10006157-1447088400-1447095600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ruth Wilson Gilmore: "Organized Abandonment and Organized Violence: Devolution and the Police" DESCRIPTION:EVENT VIDEO:\n \nEVENT PHOTOS:\n \n  \nCITY ON A HILL PRESS ARTICLE:\n \nThe UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies invited Ruth Wilson Gilmore to UC Santa Cruz to discuss police violence and mass incarceration in a lecture called “Organized Abandonment & Organized Violence: Devolution and The Police.” Her discussion in the UCSC Music Recital Hall on Nov. 9 paralleled the theme of her prize-winning publication “Golden Gulag\,” a prescient examination of California prisons and the consequences of a punitive justice system. Continue Reading Article \n  \n\nEVENT INFO:\n“America locks up too many people for too many offenses\, jamming prisons\, ruining families and running up steep taxpayer bills. That’s the party line on mass incarceration heard from social critics for years\, but now it’s coming from a new chorus: police chiefs by the score.” –San Francisco Chronicle\, October 22\, 2015 \nOn November 9\, the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz will examine the issue of police and prisons with a free public lecture by Ruth Wilson Gilmore. The title of her talk is “Organized Abandonment & Organized Violence: Devolution & the Police.” Feminist studies professor Bettina Aptheker\, co–chair of the UC Presidential Chair with literature professor Karen Yamashita\, explained why they decided to bring Gilmore to campus. \n“Several years ago\, Ruth Wilson Gilmore wrote a timely and significant book\, ‘Golden Gulag: Prisons\, Surplus\, Crisis\, and Opposition in Globalizing California\,’ published by the University of California Press\,” said Aptheker. “Gilmore\, a well-known public intellectual\, documents in this book the ways in which California embarked upon the largest prison-building project in its and the nation’s history. Her work critically examines the political and economic forces that combined to propel such an ominous course.” Aptheker added that despite a crime rate that has been steadily declining for decades\, California continues to incarcerate\, even in the face of federal court orders to reduce its overcrowded and repressive system. “Most affected by these rates of incarceration are men and women of color\,” Aptheker noted. Continue Reading \nRuth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences\, and American Studies at the Graduate Center\, CUNY. She has many honors and awards\, and has delivered invited lectures at universities and cultural institutions around the world. Among many publications\, her prize-winning book is Golden Gulag: Prisons\, Surplus\, Crisis\, and Opposition in Globalizing California (2007). Current projects include a second edition of Golden Gulag\, as well as several other book projects: Fatal Couplings: Essays on Motion\, Racial Capitalism\, and the Black Radical Tradition; and Big Things: Reconfigured Landscapes and the Infrastructure of Feeling. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and The Caribbean (IRADAC)\, and serves on the boards of many social justice\, cultural\, and scholarly formations in the US\, Europe\, and West Asia. She was a founding member of Critical Resistance\, California Prison Moratorium Project\, and other grassroots organizations. \nUCSC Sponsors\nUC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\nUC Presidential Chair in Criminal Justice Reform\nInstitute for Humanities Research\nArts Division \nDirections & Parking\nThe Music Center is located east of Heller Drive\, and is best accessed from the West Entrance of the campus. At the Main Entrance\, proceed west on Empire Grade\, then turn right on Heller (the West Entrance). Go four stop signs and turn right on Meyer Dr.\n$4 parking available in the Performing Arts Lot #126.\nClick here for a map and directions \nFor information and disability accommodations\, please contact ihr@ucsc.edu or (831) 459-5655. \nJoin the Discussion\nFacebook\n#ihrevents\n#ucsc50 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ruth-wilson-gilmore-2/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Gilmore_Final.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151109T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151109T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105101 CREATED:20151028T222516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151028T222516Z UID:10006294-1447097400-1447104600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:UPDATED TIME: Amalia Mesa-Bains Talk & Film Screening of "Eduardo Carrillo: A Life of Engagement" DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November 9\, 2015\n6 PM\, Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 \nThe Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Museo Eduardo Carrillo invite you to a talk by internationally renowned artist Amalia Mesa-Bains and a screening of the Museo’s new 30 minute documentary Eduardo Carrillo: A Life of Engagement. \nAmalia Mesa-Bains is an artist\, scholar\, curator\, and writer who has been involved in the Chicano artist movement since the 1960s. Dr. Mesa-Bains is a leading altar installation artist\, incorporating Chicano culture and folk traditions into her work. She was the curator for the traveling exhibition\,Ceremony of Memory\, and the regional committee chair (Northern California) for the exhibitionChicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation\, 1965-1985 (CARA). She also has written extensively on Chicano art. \nEduardo Carrillo was a founding faculty member at Oakes College at UC Santa Cruz\, beloved Professor of Art and a renowned painter and muralist. He came of age during the dynamic social change on the 1960s. His tenure at UCSC (1972-1997) began at a turning point on the campus; there was a commitment to become more socially conscious and representative of diversity. Mesa-Bains and Eduardo worked together on a project called the CALIFAS SEMINAR at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery\, Porter College\, UCSC in April\, 1982. Califas gathered Chicano/a artists to discuss the evolving role they played in society. It was a breakthrough event. \nFilmed over 4 years across California and in Baja California\, Mexico\, the award winning documentary\, A Life of Engagement\, documents the artist’s relationship with his Mexican cultural heritage as he negotiated the challenges first generation Americans faced during the tumultuous social changes of the 60s and 70s. It features commentary by Amalia Mesa- Bains. \nJoin us November 9 at 6 pm in Digital Art Research Center\, RM 108. The event is FREE and open to the public. Parking is available in the Performing Arts Lot for $4. \nThis program is cosponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center. Institute programs are supported by the Division of the Arts and and our annual donors. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/amalia-mesa-bains-talk-film-screening-of-eduardo-carrillo-a-life-of-engagement-3/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151112T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151112T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105101 CREATED:20150904T183652Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150904T183652Z UID:10005124-1447344000-1447351200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Miriam Posner: “Head-and-Shoulder Hunting in the Americas: Exploring Lobotomy's Visual Culture” DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the University Library \nBetween 1936 and 1967\, Walter Freeman\, a prominent neurologist\, lobotomized as many as 3\,500 Americans. Freeman was also an obsessive photographer\, taking patients’ photographs before their operations and tracking them down years — even decades — later. In this presentation\, Miriam Posner details her efforts to understand why Freeman was so devoted to this practice\, using computer-assisted image-mining and -analysis techniques to show how these images fit into the larger visual culture of 20th-century psychiatry. \n\n  \nMiriam Posner is the Digital Humanities program coordinator and a member of the core DH faculty at the University of California\, Los Angeles. A film\, media\, and visual culture scholar by training\, she frequently writes on the history of science and technology. She is also a member of the executive council of the Association for Computers and the Humanities. \nMore details click here! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/miriam-posner-head-and-shoulder-hunting-in-the-americas-exploring-lobotomys-visual-culture-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Posner_Poster_11.12.15.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151112T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151112T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105101 CREATED:20150909T181112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150909T181112Z UID:10005127-1447353000-1447358400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading with California's Poet Laureate Emeritus Al Young DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz presents California’s Poet Laureate Emeritus Al Young. \nAl Young\, born in Ocean Springs\, Mississippi\, is an American poet\, novelist\, essayist\, screenwriter\, and professor. In 2005\, he was named poet laureate of California by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Widely translated\, Al Young’s twenty-two books include: poetry—Heaven\, The Sound of Dreams Remembered\, Coastal Nights and Inland Afternoons\, and Something About the Blues; fiction—Who Is Angelina?\, Sitting Pretty\, and Seduction by Light; essays—Jazz Idiom: The Jazz Photography of Charles L. Robinson; anthologies—Yardbird Lives! (co-edited with Ishmael Reed)\, African American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology\, and The Literature of California (with Jack Hicks\, James D. Houston\, and Maxine Hong Kingston); musical memoirs—Bodies & Soul\, Kinds of Blue\, Mingus Mingus: Two Memoirs (with Janet Coleman)\, and Drowning in the Sea of Love. His work has appeared in literary journals and magazines including Paris Review\, Ploughshares\, Essence\, The New York Times\, Chicago Review\, Seattle Review\, Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature\, Chelsea\, Rolling Stone\, Gathering of the Tribes\, and in anthologies including the Norton Anthology of African American Literature\, and the Oxford Anthology of African American Literature. His honors include NEA\, Fulbright\, and Guggenheim Fellowships; the PEN/Library of Congress Award for Short Fiction; the PEN/USA Award for Nonfiction; two Pushcart Prizes; two American Book Awards; the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence; and\, most recently\, the 2011 Thomas Wolfe Award. \nOn the first Friday of each month\, he reads a freshly-composed poem during The California Report\,broadcast at San Francisco’s NPR-affiliate KQED. A teaching veteran (Stanford\, UC Santa Cruz\, University of Michigan\, Colorado College\, University of Washington\, Rice\, University of Arkansas\, Davidson College)\, he currently holds seminars in imaginative writing and creativity at California College of the Arts\, San Francisco. Love Offline\, a new poem collection\, awaits publication. In the 1970s and 80s\, Young wrote screenplays for Sidney Poitier\, Bill Cosby\, and Richard Pryor. Learn more about this versatile Berkeley-based author at www.AlYoung.org \n\n  \nIn conjunction with the Living Writers Series Fall 2015. \nCreative Work & Critical Play \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nCreative 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. \nOctober 8: CA Conrad: The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage\nOctober 15: Tonya Foster: California College of the Arts\nOctober 22: John Keene: Rutgers University\, Newark\nOctober 29: Ronaldo V. Wilson: University of California\, Santa Cruz\nNovember 5: Student Reading\nNovember 12: Al Young: California Poet Laureate\, Emeritus\nNovember 19: Juliana Spahr: Mills College & Jasper Bernes: University of California\, Berkeley\nDecember 3: Claudia Rankine: University of Southern California URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sixth-annual-morton-marcus-memorial-poetry-reading-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/2015-Poster-for-Internet-Al-Young.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151113T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151113T120000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105101 CREATED:20150904T183832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150904T183832Z UID:10005126-1447407000-1447416000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Workshop with Miriam Posner: "How Did They Make That?" DESCRIPTION:Directions in Digital Humanities presents:\nMiriam Posner\nUCLA \nHead-and-Shoulder Hunting in the Americas:\nExploring\nLobotomy’s Visual Culture \nWorkshop: How Did They Make That?\n\nThe catch-all term “digital project” can refer to a daunting array of technologies and methods. For a newcomer (or even an experienced practitioner)\, it can be hard to know where to start. In this presentation\, we’ll examine a range of digital projects to get a handle on what’s out there. Then I’ll share some simple principles for figuring out the sources and technologies that constitute a “project.” You can use these principles to model your own project\, or just to understand and evaluate someone else’s. \n\n  \nMiriam Posner is the Digital Humanities program coordinator and a member of the core DH faculty at the University of California\, Los Angeles. A film\, media\, and visual culture scholar by training\, she frequently writes on the history of science and technology. She is also a member of the executive council of the Association for Computers and the Humanities. \nMore details click here! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/workshop-with-miriam-posner-how-did-they-make-that-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/miriam-posner.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151113T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151113T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105101 CREATED:20151007T220940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151007T220940Z UID:10005149-1447417800-1447423200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum: Maya Iverson "Re-reading the Black Civil Rights Documentary 'Sit-In'" DESCRIPTION:The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities\, Social Sciences\, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. \nThis meeting will feature Maya Iverson (Sociology) presenting her talk “Re-reading the Black Civil Rights Documentary ‘Sit-In'”. Maya Iverson is a PhD student in Sociology. Her research focuses on black American media histories\, archives and representation. Currently her work concerns how media scholars analyze the presence of black Americans in non-fictional depictions of the Civil Rights Movement.\n  \nFor more info\, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year\, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-maya-iverson-re-reading-the-black-civil-rights-documentary-sit-in-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Friday-Forum-Poster-2015-16.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151113T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151113T151000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105101 CREATED:20151109T172621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151109T172621Z UID:10006299-1447423200-1447427400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez: "A Net Made of Words: Intertextuality in Chicano/a Literature" DESCRIPTION:This lecture will explore ways in which Chicano/a literature crosses literary borders\, establishing a net of ties and connections with other literary traditions. \nManuel M. Martín-Rodríguez is Professor of Literature and founding faculty at the University of California\, Merced. He has published the books The Textual Outlaw: Reading John Rechy in the 21st Century (co-edited with Beth Hernandez-Jason\, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares\, 2015)\, Cantas a Marte y das batalla a Apolo: Cinco estudios sobre Gaspar de Villagrá (Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española\, 2014)\, With a Book in Their Hands: Chicano/a Readers and Readership Across the Centuries (University of New Mexico Press\, 2014\, edited; recipient of a 2015 International Latino Book Award)\, a scholarly edition of Gaspar de Villagrá’s Historia de la nueva Mexico (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares\, 2010)\, Gaspar de Villagrá: Legista\, soldado y poeta (Universidad de León\, 2009)\, Life in Search of Readers: Reading (in) Chicano/a Literature (University of New Mexico Press\, 2003)\, La voz urgente: Antología de literatura chicana en español (Editorial Fundamentos\, 1995\, 1999\, and 2006)\, and Rolando Hinojosa y su “cronicón” chicano: Una novela del lector (Universidad de Sevilla\, 1993). His scholarly articles have appeared in PMLA\, Modern Language Quarterly\, The Bilingual Review\, The Americas Review\, La Palabra y el Hombre\, Hispania\, Revista Iberoamericana\, Latin American Literary Review\, REDEN\, and Aztlán\, among others. Martín-Rodríguez is also the publisher of alternaCtive-publicaCtions\, a virtual press that has featured numerous Latino/a authors. He serves on the National Committee of the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award\, and is an elected Académico de Número of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/manuel-m-martin-rodriguez-a-net-made-of-words-intertextuality-in-chicanoa-literature-3/ LOCATION:College 8\, Red Room ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/mmr-flyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151116T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151116T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105101 CREATED:20151113T202305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151113T202305Z UID:10006302-1447675200-1447689600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Enduring Power - Photography Exhibit - Nov. 2 - Dec. 17 DESCRIPTION:Enduring Power: \nThe Middle Eastern and Iranian Women’s Story \n— A Photography Exhibit — \nNovember 2 – December 17\, 2015 \nAT: Resource Center for Nonviolence\, 612 Ocean St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA \nExhibit HOURS: M-TH noon – 4p.m. or by appointment\, 831-423-1626 \nSponsored by the Resource Center for Nonviolence and Senses Cultural\, \nEnduring Power’s striking images represent a wide range of experiences\, aspirations\, fears and realities of Middle Eastern and Iranian women from Yemen\, Egypt\, Bahrain\, Iran and Kuwait. A collection of work from several female photographers of Middle Eastern backgrounds\, Enduring Power shows an intimate and unique perspective of an otherwise private world to the American audience. This exhibition\, curated by photographer Sina Araghi\, presents powerful stories of education\, individuality\, familial relationships\, societal restraints\, and boldness. \n“Peering behind the veil and headscarves to reveal real individuals is a delicate but necessary boundary to push. These photographs speak of the greater issues of identity and resilience\, and the strength of women within these regions. Their sense of identity has not been erased by culture or governments. \n These women are empowering themselves – against all obstacles – through their own will. A clear defiance and a sense of individuality is present. They are not weak or afraid. They are powerful and energized. They command your attention and your interest. Let their stories be heard.” — Sina Araghi\, curator of Enduring Power \nSenses Cultural\, Davis\, CA\, and the Resource Center for Nonviolence are collaborating on this Senses Cultural’s traveling photography exhibition\, which was previously at UC Davis\, San Francisco State University. Senses Cultural believes that women – mothers\, grandmothers\, and daughters – have been the quiet strength that protects the rights of their families\, communities\, and nations. \nPlease join us for the First Friday EXHIBIT RECEPTION on December 4\, 6-9p.m. featuring Tata Masud\, Founder and CEO of Senses Cultural\, Davis\, CA. Light refreshments will be available. \nCo-sponsors (list in formation): WILPF Santa Cruz \nFor more information: 831-423-1626\, rcnv.org \nCurator Statement by Sina Araghi\nEnduring Power: The Middle Eastern and Iranian Woman’s Story is a collection of work by seven female photographers from Egypt\, Kuwait\, Bahrain\, Yemen\, and Iran\, examining the lives and livelihoods of women in that region. \nApart from their exceptional photographic work\, these photographers were selected in great part due to their diverse coverage of topics regarding women\, spanning across many different countries throughout the Middle East. \nPeering behind the veil and headscarves to reveal real individuals is a delicate but necessary boundary to push. It is so vital to the future and progress of women in these cultures to be seen succeeding\, thriving\, and discovering – all on their own. Whether they are generations apart or contemporaries\, progress is achieved when women grow and improve on their own terms\, separate from the male influence that so strongly permeates their public culture and the worldwide media. There is an almost constant push/pull between the individualized and powerful identity of the Middle Eastern woman\, and the attempts by culture and government to erase that identity. \nThis collection of images illustrate how that sense of identity has not been erased. This collection is a celebration of the progress and growth that has happened\, and a tangible foreshadowing of what is still to come. \nThe division of gender throughout daily life creates two very different worlds within the same culture. The photographic perspective in this exhibition is unique to women who are inside these cultures and countries. These 7 photographers are not outsiders\, tourists\, or just passing through\, and the familiarity and camaraderie felt between ‘insiders’ is tangible in these photographs. Being a female photographer creates uniquely privileged access into the lives and experiences of the Middle Eastern woman – access into a world that men seldom are privy to. Respecting this access while still honoring the truth in moments witnessed requires grace and trust. There is fragility in that access. As an Iranian male photographer\, I admire this perspective\, knowing full well the limitations and privileges of my own gender. \nCollectively\, these photographs speak of the greater issues of identity and resilience\, and the strength of women within these regions. They are empowering themselves – against all obstacles – through their own will. A clear defiance and sense of individuality is present (an especially sacred quality in a world of appearance commonality)\, and there is no apologizing for any of it. These women are not weak or afraid. They are resilient\, powerful\, and energized. They command your attention and your interest. \nLet their stories be heard. \n-Sina Araghi\, curator \nFor more information: 831-423-1626\, rcnv.org URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/enduring-power-photography-exhibit-nov-2-dec-17-3/2015-11-16/ LOCATION:Resource Center for Non Violence ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Unknown.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151118T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151118T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105101 CREATED:20150612T205123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T205123Z UID:10005118-1447848000-1447853400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Catherine Ramírez: “'Our Porto Ricans': Puerto Rican Students at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School\, 1898-1923" DESCRIPTION:Catherine Ramírez works on 20th-century Mexican-American history\, histories of migration and assimilation\, Latino literature\, feminist theory\, and comparative ethnic studies. She is writing a book on the history of assimilation in the U.S. and was recently awarded a grant from the Mellon Foundation for her work on migration\, belonging\, and non-citizenship. \nRamírez is Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies and Director of the Chicano Latino Research Center at UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-7-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151119T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151119T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105101 CREATED:20151009T224532Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151009T224532Z UID:10006276-1447948800-1447956000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Casey O'Callaghan "The Multisensory Character of Perception" DESCRIPTION:Abstract: My thesis is that perceptual awareness itself is richly multisensory. I argue for this conclusion on the grounds that certain forms of multisensory perceptual experience are incompatible with the claim that each aspect of a perceptual experience is associated with some specific sensory modality or another. First\, I explicate what it is for some feature of a conscious perceptual episode to be associated with a given modality\, or to be modality specific\, since no clear criterion yet exists in the literature on multisensory perception. Then\, I argue based on philosophical and experimental evidence that some novel intermodal features are perceptible only through the coordinated use of multiple senses. The cases to which I appeal involve consciously perceptible feature instances and feature types that could not be perceptually experienced through the use of individual sense modalities working on their own or simply in parallel. Thus\, not every feature of a conscious perceptual episode is associated with some specific modality or another. Finally\, I offer an account of how to type perceptual experiences by modality that makes room for richly multisensory experiences. The key is rejecting the presumption that perceptual experiences apportion neatly into modality-specific components – an experience’s being visual does not preclude its being auditory. \nPre-reading: The Multisensory Character of Perception \nAbout: Casey O’Callaghan is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. Research Interests: Focus on philosophical questions about perception\, auditory perception and the nature of its objects. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/casey-ocallaghan-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151119T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151119T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T105101 CREATED:20150918T192729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150918T192729Z UID:10006174-1447956000-1447962300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Juliana Spahr & Jasper Bernes DESCRIPTION:Juliana Spahr\n Mills College \nJuliana Spahr edits the book series Chain Links with Jena Osman and the collectively funded Subpress with nineteen other people and Commune Editions with Joshua Clover and Jasper Bernes. With David Buuck she wrote Army of Lovers. She has edited with Stephanie Young A Megaphone: Some Enactments\, Some Numbers\, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism (Chain Links\, 2011)\, with Joan Retallack Poetry & Pedagogy: the Challenge of the Contemporary(Palgrave\, 2006)\, and with Claudia Rankine American Women Poets in the 21st Century(Wesleyan U P\, 2002). With Joshua Clover\, she has twice organized somewhat free schools\, the 95 cent Skool (summer of 2010) and the Durruti Free Skool (summer of 2011)\, written on politics\, on manifestos\, applied for a job at the Poetry Foundation\, and organized\, with Chris Chen too\, the conference Poetry and/or Revolution. \n \n  \nJasper Bernes\n University of California\, Berkeley \nJasper Bernes is the author of two books of poetry\, We Are Nothing and So Can You (2015) and Starsdown (2007). He is currently completing a book of literary history\, Poetry in the Age of Deindustrialization\, about the role poetry and art played in the postindustrial restructuring of labour. With Joshua Clover and Juliana Spahr\, he edits Commune Editions. \n  \n\n  \nFall 2015 Living Writers Series: \nCreative Work & Critical Play \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nCreative 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. \nOctober 8: CA Conrad: The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage\nOctober 15: Tonya Foster: California College of the Arts\nOctober 22: John Keene: Rutgers University\, Newark\nOctober 29: Ronaldo V. Wilson: University of California\, Santa Cruz\nNovember 5: Student Reading\nNovember 12: Al Young: California Poet Laureate\, Emeritus\nNovember 19: Juliana Spahr: Mills College & Jasper Bernes: University of California\, Berkeley\nDecember 3: Claudia Rankine: University of Southern California URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-fall-2015-al-young-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Living-Writers-2015-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151119T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151119T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105101 CREATED:20151019T170223Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151019T170223Z UID:10006289-1447959600-1447966800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Working for Dignity: A Community Discussion on Raising the Minimum Wage DESCRIPTION:This event launches the final report from the Working for Dignity: Low-Wage Worker Study of Santa Cruz County\, produced by UCSC Center for Labor Studies\, and a community conversation on economic justice. The event will include a panel discussion on the state-wide campaign to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour\, featuring local workers and small business owners\, community organizations\, and experts on the minimum wage. A wide range of community groups working on issues such as affordable housing\, wage theft & legal services\, paid family and sick leave\, voter registration\, and immigration reform will be on hand with information about services – and how you can get involved in the fight for economic justice. Refreshments provided and translation available. \nCo-sponsored by the UCSC Center for Labor Studies\, the Economic Justice Alliance\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, UC Humanities Research Institute\, California Rural Legal Assistance\, SC Day Worker Center\, and the Museum of Art and History. \nQuestions? Email smckay@ucsc.edu\n  \n\nTrabajando por la Dignidad: Una conversación comunitaria sobre el aumento del salario mínimo\n7:00-9:00 PM | Noviembre 19\, 2015\nMuseo de Arte y Historia\n705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA \nGratis y abierto al público \nEste evento iniciará una conversación con la comunidad sobre la justicia económica y lanzará el informe final del Trabajo por la Dignidad: Estudio de Trabajadores con Bajos Ingresos del Condado de Santa Cruz\, producido por el Centro de Estudios Laborales UCSC. El evento incluirá un panel de discusión con los trabajadores locales y los propietarios de pequeñas empresas\, organizaciones comunitarias\, y expertos en el salario mínimo sobre la campaña a nivel estatal para aumentar el salario mínimo a $15 la hora. Un amplio gama de grupos comunitarios trabajando en varios temas como la vivienda asequible\, el robo de salarios y servicios legales\, el registro de votantes\, y la reforma migratoria estarán a su disposición con la información sobre servicios– y cómo usted puede participar en la lucha por la justicia económica. Refrescos y traducción disponible. \n¿Preguntas? Ponganse en contacto con Steve smckay@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/working-for-dignity-a-community-discussion-on-raising-the-minimum-wage-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/working_for_dignity.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151120T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151120T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105101 CREATED:20151007T221520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151007T221520Z UID:10005151-1448022600-1448028000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum: Antoinette Wilson "Who Do You Think You Are: The Role of Racial Typicality on In-group Belonging and Stereotyping among African American Youth" DESCRIPTION:Antoinette Wilson is a PhD candidate in Developmental Psychology. Her work investigates ways in which in-group members judge and validate racial authenticity (e.g.\, accusations of “acting White” and bias based on skin tone). Central to her research is exploring adolescents’ perceptions of “Who fits in?”\, “Who is typical of our group”\, and “Who is ‘really’ one of us?” Her dissertation research focuses on how two aspects of racial-ethnic typicality– appearance and behavior–relate to variation in peer belonging and stereotyping among African American adolescents and young adults. Wilson’s talk describes findings from this work and is titled “Who Do You Think You Are: The Role of Racial Typicality on In-group Belonging and Stereotyping among African American Youth”. \nKeywords: Black identity\, Stereotyping\, Development\, In-group Belonging\n  \nThe Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities\, Social Sciences\, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. \nThis meeting will feature Antoinette Wilson (Psych) presenting her talk “Who Do You Think You Are: The Role of Racial Typicality on In-group Belonging and Stereotyping among African American Youth”. \nFor more info\, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year\, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-antoinette-wilson-who-do-you-think-you-are-the-role-of-racial-typicality-on-in-group-belonging-and-stereotyping-among-african-american-youth-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Toni-blurb.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151120T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151120T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105101 CREATED:20151015T190118Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151015T190118Z UID:10006281-1448028000-1448035200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Elliott Moreton: "Implicit and Explicit Learning of Phonotactic Patterns" DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nWhat properties are shared by the processes used for learning linguistic and non-linguistic patterns? What properties are different? Research on non-linguistic (mainly visual) pattern learning has found distinct implicit and explicit processes which have different computational architectures\, are facilitated by different experimental conditions\, and differ in sensitivity to different pattern types. Is the same true of phonological pattern learning (“artificial-language” experiments)? \nExperiment 1 asked whether implicit and explicit process are both available to human learners of a phonological pattern\, and whether the same experimental conditions favor one over the other as in non-linguistic pattern learning. The pattern involved binary gender assignment conditioned by a single phonological or semantic feature. Training conditions were manipulated in ways which\, in analogous non-linguistic experiments\, have been found to elicit more implicit or explicit learning. Participants’ responses were duly shifted towards one or the other\, as measured by self report of strategy\, report of the correct rule\, abruptness of learning curves\, acceleration of response times after the last error\, and bimodality of generalization performance. However\, the shift was not categorical; some implicit and some explicit learners were found in both experimental conditions. \nExperiment 2 asked whether explicit and implicit processes differed in sensitivity to structurally different patterns. In visual pattern learning\, explicit learning has typically been found to be more sensitive to two-feature exclusive-or patterns (red XOR triangle) than to three-feature family-resemblance patterns (at least two of red\, triangle\, or small)\, and a large modelling literature has been dedicated to accounting for the exclusive-or advantage. Conditions which favor implicit learning reduce or reverse the exclusive-or advantage (reviewed in Kurtz et al. 2013). Our experiment reversed both of these results: The family-resemblance pattern was the easier one\, and explicit learners showed a significantly stronger exclusive-or advantage. The reason for this surprising reversal seems to be that rule-seekers have a much harder time distinguishing relevant from irrelevant features in the exclusive-or condition compared to the family-resemblance condition. \nThese findings are discussed in the context of the larger question of how much linguistic and non-linguistic learning have in common (Moreton\, Pater\, & Pertsova\, in press)\, and in connection with the practical question of how to design and interpret phonological-learning experiments.\n \nElliott Moreton is Professor of Linguistics and Director of Graduate Studies and Admissions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.\n  \n\n  \nLinguistic Colloquium: \nThe Linguistic Department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFall 2015\nOctober 9th: Keith Johnson\, UC Berkeley\nOctober 16th: Heidi Harley\, University of Arizona\nOctober 30th: Ivano Caponigro\, UC San Diego\nNovember 20th: Elliott Moreton\, University of North Carolina \nWinter 2016\nJanuary 15th: Sharon Inkelas\, UC Berkeley\nFebruary 5th: Colin Phillips\, University of Maryland\nFebruary 6th: N. Goodman\, Stanford University and A. Kehler\, UC San Diego\nMarch 5th: Linguistics Conference at Santa Cruz Conference \nSpring 2016\nApril 15th: Sabine Iatridou\, MIT\nApril 29th: Paul Kiparsky\, Stanford University\nMay 6\, 7\, 8: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9\nMay 20th: Kyle Johnson\, University of Massachusetts\nMay 27th/June 3rd (TBA): Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-elliott-moreton-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151123T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151123T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105101 CREATED:20151113T202305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151113T202305Z UID:10006303-1448280000-1448294400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Enduring Power - Photography Exhibit - Nov. 2 - Dec. 17 DESCRIPTION:Enduring Power: \nThe Middle Eastern and Iranian Women’s Story \n— A Photography Exhibit — \nNovember 2 – December 17\, 2015 \nAT: Resource Center for Nonviolence\, 612 Ocean St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA \nExhibit HOURS: M-TH noon – 4p.m. or by appointment\, 831-423-1626 \nSponsored by the Resource Center for Nonviolence and Senses Cultural\, \nEnduring Power’s striking images represent a wide range of experiences\, aspirations\, fears and realities of Middle Eastern and Iranian women from Yemen\, Egypt\, Bahrain\, Iran and Kuwait. A collection of work from several female photographers of Middle Eastern backgrounds\, Enduring Power shows an intimate and unique perspective of an otherwise private world to the American audience. This exhibition\, curated by photographer Sina Araghi\, presents powerful stories of education\, individuality\, familial relationships\, societal restraints\, and boldness. \n“Peering behind the veil and headscarves to reveal real individuals is a delicate but necessary boundary to push. These photographs speak of the greater issues of identity and resilience\, and the strength of women within these regions. Their sense of identity has not been erased by culture or governments. \n These women are empowering themselves – against all obstacles – through their own will. A clear defiance and a sense of individuality is present. They are not weak or afraid. They are powerful and energized. They command your attention and your interest. Let their stories be heard.” — Sina Araghi\, curator of Enduring Power \nSenses Cultural\, Davis\, CA\, and the Resource Center for Nonviolence are collaborating on this Senses Cultural’s traveling photography exhibition\, which was previously at UC Davis\, San Francisco State University. Senses Cultural believes that women – mothers\, grandmothers\, and daughters – have been the quiet strength that protects the rights of their families\, communities\, and nations. \nPlease join us for the First Friday EXHIBIT RECEPTION on December 4\, 6-9p.m. featuring Tata Masud\, Founder and CEO of Senses Cultural\, Davis\, CA. Light refreshments will be available. \nCo-sponsors (list in formation): WILPF Santa Cruz \nFor more information: 831-423-1626\, rcnv.org \nCurator Statement by Sina Araghi\nEnduring Power: The Middle Eastern and Iranian Woman’s Story is a collection of work by seven female photographers from Egypt\, Kuwait\, Bahrain\, Yemen\, and Iran\, examining the lives and livelihoods of women in that region. \nApart from their exceptional photographic work\, these photographers were selected in great part due to their diverse coverage of topics regarding women\, spanning across many different countries throughout the Middle East. \nPeering behind the veil and headscarves to reveal real individuals is a delicate but necessary boundary to push. It is so vital to the future and progress of women in these cultures to be seen succeeding\, thriving\, and discovering – all on their own. Whether they are generations apart or contemporaries\, progress is achieved when women grow and improve on their own terms\, separate from the male influence that so strongly permeates their public culture and the worldwide media. There is an almost constant push/pull between the individualized and powerful identity of the Middle Eastern woman\, and the attempts by culture and government to erase that identity. \nThis collection of images illustrate how that sense of identity has not been erased. This collection is a celebration of the progress and growth that has happened\, and a tangible foreshadowing of what is still to come. \nThe division of gender throughout daily life creates two very different worlds within the same culture. The photographic perspective in this exhibition is unique to women who are inside these cultures and countries. These 7 photographers are not outsiders\, tourists\, or just passing through\, and the familiarity and camaraderie felt between ‘insiders’ is tangible in these photographs. Being a female photographer creates uniquely privileged access into the lives and experiences of the Middle Eastern woman – access into a world that men seldom are privy to. Respecting this access while still honoring the truth in moments witnessed requires grace and trust. There is fragility in that access. As an Iranian male photographer\, I admire this perspective\, knowing full well the limitations and privileges of my own gender. \nCollectively\, these photographs speak of the greater issues of identity and resilience\, and the strength of women within these regions. They are empowering themselves – against all obstacles – through their own will. A clear defiance and sense of individuality is present (an especially sacred quality in a world of appearance commonality)\, and there is no apologizing for any of it. These women are not weak or afraid. They are resilient\, powerful\, and energized. They command your attention and your interest. \nLet their stories be heard. \n-Sina Araghi\, curator \nFor more information: 831-423-1626\, rcnv.org URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/enduring-power-photography-exhibit-nov-2-dec-17-3/2015-11-23/ LOCATION:Resource Center for Non Violence ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Unknown.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151123T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151123T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105101 CREATED:20151116T183435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151116T183435Z UID:10006307-1448298000-1448305200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Stacey Katz Bourns: "Integrating Grammar Pedagogy within New Frameworks for Language Instruction" DESCRIPTION:Foreign language programs in the 21st Century are in a period of transition. Many applied linguistics researchers now consider Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) to be antiquated and are initiating alternate approaches\, some more compelling than others. Central to the discussion is the always-controversial topic of grammar pedagogy. How should grammar be taught and learned? How can grammar pedagogy fit into new frameworks for teaching language that favor focusing on texts? Is metalinguistic competence a goal that should be pursued\, and\, if so\, at what level of instruction? At the core of the issue is the changing profile of students who enroll in language classes and the need to balance students’ pragmatic demands with broader programmatic goals. \nStacey Katz Bourns is Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures at Harvard University.\n  \nLight refreshments will be served.\n \n \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stacey-katz-bourns-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151124T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151124T234500 DTSTAMP:20260403T105101 CREATED:20151121T002617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151121T002617Z UID:10005171-1448359200-1448408700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Joel Kaminsky: "Does God Play Favorites?: A Dialogue on Chosenness in Genesis" DESCRIPTION:Professor Kaminsky will explore various motifs surrounding the theme of special divine favor toward certain individuals and groups that pervades Genesis in hopes of illuminating these often troubling narratives. The talk will be conducted as a dialogue prompted by questions raised by Professor Nathaniel Deutsch and the students in his course.  \nJoel S. Kaminsky is the Morningstar Family Chair in Jewish Studies as well a Professor of Bible in the Religion Department at Smith College in Northampton\, Massachusetts. He has lectured widely at universities and colleges across the globe including Oxford\, Cambridge\, Harvard\, St. Andrews\, UCLA\, Middelbury\, University of the Pacific\, University of British Columbia\, University of Kansas\, and University of Virginia. He has been a Visiting Professor at Duke\, Harvard and twice at Yale Divinity School\, as well as serving as a Visiting Jewish Studies Research Scholar in Residence at Durham University in England three times. He has authored many essays in both scholarly and more popular journals as well as authored and edited several books including\, Yet I Loved Jacob: Reclaiming the Biblical Concept of Election\, and most recently he co-authored The Hebrew Bible for Beginners: A Jewish and Christian Introduction.  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joel-kaminsky-does-god-play-favorites-a-dialogue-on-chosenness-in-genesis-3/ LOCATION:Porter College\, Room 144 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151130T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151130T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105101 CREATED:20151113T202305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151113T202305Z UID:10006304-1448884800-1448899200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Enduring Power - Photography Exhibit - Nov. 2 - Dec. 17 DESCRIPTION:Enduring Power: \nThe Middle Eastern and Iranian Women’s Story \n— A Photography Exhibit — \nNovember 2 – December 17\, 2015 \nAT: Resource Center for Nonviolence\, 612 Ocean St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA \nExhibit HOURS: M-TH noon – 4p.m. or by appointment\, 831-423-1626 \nSponsored by the Resource Center for Nonviolence and Senses Cultural\, \nEnduring Power’s striking images represent a wide range of experiences\, aspirations\, fears and realities of Middle Eastern and Iranian women from Yemen\, Egypt\, Bahrain\, Iran and Kuwait. A collection of work from several female photographers of Middle Eastern backgrounds\, Enduring Power shows an intimate and unique perspective of an otherwise private world to the American audience. This exhibition\, curated by photographer Sina Araghi\, presents powerful stories of education\, individuality\, familial relationships\, societal restraints\, and boldness. \n“Peering behind the veil and headscarves to reveal real individuals is a delicate but necessary boundary to push. These photographs speak of the greater issues of identity and resilience\, and the strength of women within these regions. Their sense of identity has not been erased by culture or governments. \n These women are empowering themselves – against all obstacles – through their own will. A clear defiance and a sense of individuality is present. They are not weak or afraid. They are powerful and energized. They command your attention and your interest. Let their stories be heard.” — Sina Araghi\, curator of Enduring Power \nSenses Cultural\, Davis\, CA\, and the Resource Center for Nonviolence are collaborating on this Senses Cultural’s traveling photography exhibition\, which was previously at UC Davis\, San Francisco State University. Senses Cultural believes that women – mothers\, grandmothers\, and daughters – have been the quiet strength that protects the rights of their families\, communities\, and nations. \nPlease join us for the First Friday EXHIBIT RECEPTION on December 4\, 6-9p.m. featuring Tata Masud\, Founder and CEO of Senses Cultural\, Davis\, CA. Light refreshments will be available. \nCo-sponsors (list in formation): WILPF Santa Cruz \nFor more information: 831-423-1626\, rcnv.org \nCurator Statement by Sina Araghi\nEnduring Power: The Middle Eastern and Iranian Woman’s Story is a collection of work by seven female photographers from Egypt\, Kuwait\, Bahrain\, Yemen\, and Iran\, examining the lives and livelihoods of women in that region. \nApart from their exceptional photographic work\, these photographers were selected in great part due to their diverse coverage of topics regarding women\, spanning across many different countries throughout the Middle East. \nPeering behind the veil and headscarves to reveal real individuals is a delicate but necessary boundary to push. It is so vital to the future and progress of women in these cultures to be seen succeeding\, thriving\, and discovering – all on their own. Whether they are generations apart or contemporaries\, progress is achieved when women grow and improve on their own terms\, separate from the male influence that so strongly permeates their public culture and the worldwide media. There is an almost constant push/pull between the individualized and powerful identity of the Middle Eastern woman\, and the attempts by culture and government to erase that identity. \nThis collection of images illustrate how that sense of identity has not been erased. This collection is a celebration of the progress and growth that has happened\, and a tangible foreshadowing of what is still to come. \nThe division of gender throughout daily life creates two very different worlds within the same culture. The photographic perspective in this exhibition is unique to women who are inside these cultures and countries. These 7 photographers are not outsiders\, tourists\, or just passing through\, and the familiarity and camaraderie felt between ‘insiders’ is tangible in these photographs. Being a female photographer creates uniquely privileged access into the lives and experiences of the Middle Eastern woman – access into a world that men seldom are privy to. Respecting this access while still honoring the truth in moments witnessed requires grace and trust. There is fragility in that access. As an Iranian male photographer\, I admire this perspective\, knowing full well the limitations and privileges of my own gender. \nCollectively\, these photographs speak of the greater issues of identity and resilience\, and the strength of women within these regions. They are empowering themselves – against all obstacles – through their own will. A clear defiance and sense of individuality is present (an especially sacred quality in a world of appearance commonality)\, and there is no apologizing for any of it. These women are not weak or afraid. They are resilient\, powerful\, and energized. They command your attention and your interest. \nLet their stories be heard. \n-Sina Araghi\, curator \nFor more information: 831-423-1626\, rcnv.org URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/enduring-power-photography-exhibit-nov-2-dec-17-3/2015-11-30/ LOCATION:Resource Center for Non Violence ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Unknown.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151201T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151201T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105101 CREATED:20151120T214808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151120T214808Z UID:10005170-1448985600-1448991000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Jonathan Ellis: "Philosophy and the Public" DESCRIPTION:The Works in Progress Talk by Jonathan Ellis has been cancelled. It will be rescheduled for a date in January. Please stay tuned for more information.\n  \n\nJonathan Ellis Works in Progress: Philosophy and the Public \nAt least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. \nThe format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited. \nAll members of the campus community and interested public are welcome to attend. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/philosophy-and-the-public-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/jellis.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151202T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151202T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105101 CREATED:20150923T190022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150923T190022Z UID:10006257-1449072000-1449079200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Digital Humanities Reading Group DESCRIPTION:  \nHypercities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities\nby Todd Presner\, David Shepard\, and Yoh Kawano \nJoin the Digital Humanities Working Group will meet to discuss Hypercities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities. Elaine Sullivan will lead our discussion about Hypercities and the impact of mapping on Humanities research. For a copy of the selected reading\, email digitalhumanities@ucsc.edu. \nFor more details click here! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-humanities-reading-group-2/ LOCATION:Cowell Senior Commons Room\, Cowell College 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062-1225\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151203T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151203T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105101 CREATED:20150925T000605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150925T000605Z UID:10005131-1449156600-1449165600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Last Day of Freedom Film Screening DESCRIPTION:You are invited to a film screening and presentation of Last Day of Freedom\, an award winning film by UCSC Associate Professor Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman. \nLast Day of Freedom is a richly animated personal narrative that tells the story of one man’s decision to stand by his brother\, a Veteran returning from war\, as he faces criminal charges\, racism\, and ultimately the death penalty. \nQ&A with filmmakers and Estrus Tucker\, Vietnam-era Veteran\, ordained minister and Master Facilitator on issues of race and reconciliation. Board member National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. \nFunded by Porter College\, UCSC Art Department\, SPARC at UCSC & the Institute for Humanities Research at UC Santa Cruz URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/last-day-of-freedom-film-screening-2/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/UC_POSTER_12_3_eventSM.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151203T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151203T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20151118T212151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151118T212151Z UID:10005168-1449160200-1449167400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Screening of “Okinawa: The Afterburn” with Director John Junkerman DESCRIPTION: Q&A with Director John Junkerman to follow the film\n\nIntroduction by Professor Alan Christy\, Department of History\n\nDirected by John Junkerman\, long-term resident of Japan and Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker\, the brand-new “Okinawa: The Afterburn” is a sweeping\, in-depth look at the wartime and postwar history of Okinawa and the massive American military presence on the island. Consisting of interviews and rare archival footage on the 1945 Battle of Okinawa\, the 27-year American occupation and the ongoing struggles of the local people up until the present\, the film is a powerful statement on the historical background and complex reality of US bases on Okinawa\, an issue that remains highly controversial on both the island itself and in mainland Japan.\n\nCo-sponsors:\n\nCenter for Documentary Arts and Research\nDepartment of History\nInstitute for East Asian Studies\nFilm and Digital Media\nThe Gail Project URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/screening-of-okinawa-the-afterburn-with-director-john-junkerman-3/ LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Junkerman-Film-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151203T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151203T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20150918T195615Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150918T195615Z UID:10006175-1449165600-1449171900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Claudia Rankine: University of Southern California DESCRIPTION:Claudia Rankine\n University of Southern California \nClaudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely; two plays including Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue; and is the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. She also co-produces a video series\, “The Situation\,” alongside John Lucas\, and is the founder of the Open Letter Project: Race and the Creative Imagination. Among her numerous awards and honors\, Rankine is the recipient of the Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts. \nRankine’s bestselling book\, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf\, 2014)\, uses poetry\, essay\, cultural criticism\, and visual images\, to explore what it means to be an American citizen in a “post-racial” society. A defining text for our time\, Citizen was the winner of the 2015 Forward Prize for Best Collection\, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (it was also a finalist in the criticism category\, making it the first book in the award’s history to be a double nominee)\, the NAACP Image Award\, the PEN Open Book Award\, and the LA Times Book Award for poetry. Citizen was nominated for the Hurston/Wright 2015 Legacy Award\, was a finalist for the 2014 National Book Award\, and was selected as an NPR Best Book of 2014\, who stated: “This collection examines everyday encounters with racism in the second person\, forcing the read-er—regardless of identity—to engage a narrative haunted by the deaths of Michael Brown\, Trayvon Martin\, and Renisha McBride.” Citizen also holds the distinction of being the only poetry book to be a New York Times bestseller in the nonfiction category. \nIn all of her work\, whether writing about intimacy or alienation\, Rankine’s voice is one of unrelenting candor\, and her poetry is some of the most innovative and thoughtful work to emerge in recent years. Her work often crosses genres as it tracks wild and precise movements of mind. In the words of the Judges Citation for the Jackson Prize: “The moral vision of Claudia Rankine’s poetry is astounding. In a body of work that pushes the boundaries of the contemporary lyric\, Rankine has managed to make space for meditation and vigorous debate upon some of the most relevant and troubling social themes of the 20th and 21st centuries….These poems do the work of art of the highest order—teach-ing\, chastening\, changing\, astounding\, and humanizing the reader.” \nHer other poetry collections are Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (2008); the award-winning Nothing in Nature is Private; The End of the Alphabet; and Plot\, wherein she welds the cerebral and the spiritual\, the sensual and the grotesque. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely—a multi-genre project that blends poetry\, essays\, and image—is an experimental and deeply personal exploration of the condition of fragmented selfhood in contem-porary America. Rankine is also the author of the play\, Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue\, which is performed on a bus ride through the Bronx. The New York Times calls it an “engrossing urban adventure\, which does not conform to the standard formula for theater but does make the bustle outside the bus throb with history\, mystery and meaning\, as the best live performances do.” \nRankine co-edited the anthology American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language\, and her work is included in several anthologies\, including Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present\, Best American Poetry 2001\, Giant Step: African American Writ-ing at the Crossroads of the Century\, and The Garden Thrives: Twentieth Century African-American Poetry. Her work has been published in numerous journals including Boston Review\, TriQuarterly\, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. \nBorn in Kingston\, Jamaica\, and educated at Williams College and Columbia University\, she lives in California and is the Aerol Arnold Chair in the University of Southern California English Department. \n  \n\n  \nFall 2015 Living Writers Series: \nCreative Work & Critical Play \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nCreative 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. \nOctober 8: CA Conrad: The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage\nOctober 15: Tonya Foster: California College of the Arts\nOctober 22: John Keene: Rutgers University\, Newark\nOctober 29: Ronaldo V. Wilson: University of California\, Santa Cruz\nNovember 5: Student Reading\nNovember 12: Al Young: California Poet Laureate\, Emeritus\nNovember 19: Juliana Spahr: Mills College & Jasper Bernes: University of California\, Berkeley\nDecember 3: Claudia Rankine: University of Southern California URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-fall-2015-claudia-rankine-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Living-Writers-2015-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151204T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151204T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20150928T191856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T192303Z UID:10005138-1449226800-1449232200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: Coding for Humanists DESCRIPTION:Part of the PhD+ Workshop Series\, Sponsored by the IHR \nInterested 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. We will explore HTML\, CSS\, and (time permitting) Java Script by remixing existing website code. Think deconstruction as a way of learning how websites are built and how code processes work. 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. \nJoin us for this introductory workshop. No previous experience with coding necessary.\nBe sure to bring a LAPTOP (not a tablet). Before the workshop: Download the Firefox Browser. \n\n  \nPhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease 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. \nOctober 9\, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel\nNovember 6\, 2015: Internship Info Session\nDecember 4\, 2015:  Coding for Humanists\nJanuary 8\, 2016: Research Tools and Methods\nFebruary 5\, 2016: Online Identity\nMarch 4\, 2016: Work-Life Balance\nApril 8\, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities\nMay 13\, 2016: Research and Grants\nJune 3\, 2016: End of Year Luncheon\nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-coding-for-humanists-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151204T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151204T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20151007T223815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151007T223815Z UID:10005153-1449232200-1449237600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum: Lara Galas "Languaging the Landscape: A Translational Analysis of the Geopolitical in Nineteenth Century American Literature" DESCRIPTION:The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities\, Social Sciences\, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. \nThis meeting will feature Lara Galas (Literature) presenting her talk “Languaging the Landscape: A Translational Analysis of the Geopolitical in Nineteenth Century American Literature”. \nFor more info\, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year\, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-lara-galas-languaging-the-landscape-a-translational-analysis-of-the-geopolitical-in-nineteenth-century-american-literature-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151207T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151207T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20151113T202305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151113T202305Z UID:10006305-1449489600-1449504000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Enduring Power - Photography Exhibit - Nov. 2 - Dec. 17 DESCRIPTION:Enduring Power: \nThe Middle Eastern and Iranian Women’s Story \n— A Photography Exhibit — \nNovember 2 – December 17\, 2015 \nAT: Resource Center for Nonviolence\, 612 Ocean St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA \nExhibit HOURS: M-TH noon – 4p.m. or by appointment\, 831-423-1626 \nSponsored by the Resource Center for Nonviolence and Senses Cultural\, \nEnduring Power’s striking images represent a wide range of experiences\, aspirations\, fears and realities of Middle Eastern and Iranian women from Yemen\, Egypt\, Bahrain\, Iran and Kuwait. A collection of work from several female photographers of Middle Eastern backgrounds\, Enduring Power shows an intimate and unique perspective of an otherwise private world to the American audience. This exhibition\, curated by photographer Sina Araghi\, presents powerful stories of education\, individuality\, familial relationships\, societal restraints\, and boldness. \n“Peering behind the veil and headscarves to reveal real individuals is a delicate but necessary boundary to push. These photographs speak of the greater issues of identity and resilience\, and the strength of women within these regions. Their sense of identity has not been erased by culture or governments. \n These women are empowering themselves – against all obstacles – through their own will. A clear defiance and a sense of individuality is present. They are not weak or afraid. They are powerful and energized. They command your attention and your interest. Let their stories be heard.” — Sina Araghi\, curator of Enduring Power \nSenses Cultural\, Davis\, CA\, and the Resource Center for Nonviolence are collaborating on this Senses Cultural’s traveling photography exhibition\, which was previously at UC Davis\, San Francisco State University. Senses Cultural believes that women – mothers\, grandmothers\, and daughters – have been the quiet strength that protects the rights of their families\, communities\, and nations. \nPlease join us for the First Friday EXHIBIT RECEPTION on December 4\, 6-9p.m. featuring Tata Masud\, Founder and CEO of Senses Cultural\, Davis\, CA. Light refreshments will be available. \nCo-sponsors (list in formation): WILPF Santa Cruz \nFor more information: 831-423-1626\, rcnv.org \nCurator Statement by Sina Araghi\nEnduring Power: The Middle Eastern and Iranian Woman’s Story is a collection of work by seven female photographers from Egypt\, Kuwait\, Bahrain\, Yemen\, and Iran\, examining the lives and livelihoods of women in that region. \nApart from their exceptional photographic work\, these photographers were selected in great part due to their diverse coverage of topics regarding women\, spanning across many different countries throughout the Middle East. \nPeering behind the veil and headscarves to reveal real individuals is a delicate but necessary boundary to push. It is so vital to the future and progress of women in these cultures to be seen succeeding\, thriving\, and discovering – all on their own. Whether they are generations apart or contemporaries\, progress is achieved when women grow and improve on their own terms\, separate from the male influence that so strongly permeates their public culture and the worldwide media. There is an almost constant push/pull between the individualized and powerful identity of the Middle Eastern woman\, and the attempts by culture and government to erase that identity. \nThis collection of images illustrate how that sense of identity has not been erased. This collection is a celebration of the progress and growth that has happened\, and a tangible foreshadowing of what is still to come. \nThe division of gender throughout daily life creates two very different worlds within the same culture. The photographic perspective in this exhibition is unique to women who are inside these cultures and countries. These 7 photographers are not outsiders\, tourists\, or just passing through\, and the familiarity and camaraderie felt between ‘insiders’ is tangible in these photographs. Being a female photographer creates uniquely privileged access into the lives and experiences of the Middle Eastern woman – access into a world that men seldom are privy to. Respecting this access while still honoring the truth in moments witnessed requires grace and trust. There is fragility in that access. As an Iranian male photographer\, I admire this perspective\, knowing full well the limitations and privileges of my own gender. \nCollectively\, these photographs speak of the greater issues of identity and resilience\, and the strength of women within these regions. They are empowering themselves – against all obstacles – through their own will. A clear defiance and sense of individuality is present (an especially sacred quality in a world of appearance commonality)\, and there is no apologizing for any of it. These women are not weak or afraid. They are resilient\, powerful\, and energized. They command your attention and your interest. \nLet their stories be heard. \n-Sina Araghi\, curator \nFor more information: 831-423-1626\, rcnv.org URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/enduring-power-photography-exhibit-nov-2-dec-17-3/2015-12-07/ LOCATION:Resource Center for Non Violence ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Unknown.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151214T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151214T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20151113T202305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151113T202305Z UID:10006306-1450094400-1450108800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Enduring Power - Photography Exhibit - Nov. 2 - Dec. 17 DESCRIPTION:Enduring Power: \nThe Middle Eastern and Iranian Women’s Story \n— A Photography Exhibit — \nNovember 2 – December 17\, 2015 \nAT: Resource Center for Nonviolence\, 612 Ocean St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA \nExhibit HOURS: M-TH noon – 4p.m. or by appointment\, 831-423-1626 \nSponsored by the Resource Center for Nonviolence and Senses Cultural\, \nEnduring Power’s striking images represent a wide range of experiences\, aspirations\, fears and realities of Middle Eastern and Iranian women from Yemen\, Egypt\, Bahrain\, Iran and Kuwait. A collection of work from several female photographers of Middle Eastern backgrounds\, Enduring Power shows an intimate and unique perspective of an otherwise private world to the American audience. This exhibition\, curated by photographer Sina Araghi\, presents powerful stories of education\, individuality\, familial relationships\, societal restraints\, and boldness. \n“Peering behind the veil and headscarves to reveal real individuals is a delicate but necessary boundary to push. These photographs speak of the greater issues of identity and resilience\, and the strength of women within these regions. Their sense of identity has not been erased by culture or governments. \n These women are empowering themselves – against all obstacles – through their own will. A clear defiance and a sense of individuality is present. They are not weak or afraid. They are powerful and energized. They command your attention and your interest. Let their stories be heard.” — Sina Araghi\, curator of Enduring Power \nSenses Cultural\, Davis\, CA\, and the Resource Center for Nonviolence are collaborating on this Senses Cultural’s traveling photography exhibition\, which was previously at UC Davis\, San Francisco State University. Senses Cultural believes that women – mothers\, grandmothers\, and daughters – have been the quiet strength that protects the rights of their families\, communities\, and nations. \nPlease join us for the First Friday EXHIBIT RECEPTION on December 4\, 6-9p.m. featuring Tata Masud\, Founder and CEO of Senses Cultural\, Davis\, CA. Light refreshments will be available. \nCo-sponsors (list in formation): WILPF Santa Cruz \nFor more information: 831-423-1626\, rcnv.org \nCurator Statement by Sina Araghi\nEnduring Power: The Middle Eastern and Iranian Woman’s Story is a collection of work by seven female photographers from Egypt\, Kuwait\, Bahrain\, Yemen\, and Iran\, examining the lives and livelihoods of women in that region. \nApart from their exceptional photographic work\, these photographers were selected in great part due to their diverse coverage of topics regarding women\, spanning across many different countries throughout the Middle East. \nPeering behind the veil and headscarves to reveal real individuals is a delicate but necessary boundary to push. It is so vital to the future and progress of women in these cultures to be seen succeeding\, thriving\, and discovering – all on their own. Whether they are generations apart or contemporaries\, progress is achieved when women grow and improve on their own terms\, separate from the male influence that so strongly permeates their public culture and the worldwide media. There is an almost constant push/pull between the individualized and powerful identity of the Middle Eastern woman\, and the attempts by culture and government to erase that identity. \nThis collection of images illustrate how that sense of identity has not been erased. This collection is a celebration of the progress and growth that has happened\, and a tangible foreshadowing of what is still to come. \nThe division of gender throughout daily life creates two very different worlds within the same culture. The photographic perspective in this exhibition is unique to women who are inside these cultures and countries. These 7 photographers are not outsiders\, tourists\, or just passing through\, and the familiarity and camaraderie felt between ‘insiders’ is tangible in these photographs. Being a female photographer creates uniquely privileged access into the lives and experiences of the Middle Eastern woman – access into a world that men seldom are privy to. Respecting this access while still honoring the truth in moments witnessed requires grace and trust. There is fragility in that access. As an Iranian male photographer\, I admire this perspective\, knowing full well the limitations and privileges of my own gender. \nCollectively\, these photographs speak of the greater issues of identity and resilience\, and the strength of women within these regions. They are empowering themselves – against all obstacles – through their own will. A clear defiance and sense of individuality is present (an especially sacred quality in a world of appearance commonality)\, and there is no apologizing for any of it. These women are not weak or afraid. They are resilient\, powerful\, and energized. They command your attention and your interest. \nLet their stories be heard. \n-Sina Araghi\, curator \nFor more information: 831-423-1626\, rcnv.org URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/enduring-power-photography-exhibit-nov-2-dec-17-3/2015-12-14/ LOCATION:Resource Center for Non Violence ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Unknown.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160108T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160108T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20150928T192144Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T191938Z UID:10005139-1452250800-1452256200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: Research Tools and Methods DESCRIPTION:Refine your research skills\, learn about new available research tools\, and get to know the library staff that can help you in your research pursuits. This panel\, including presentations by Annette Marines\, Lucia Orlando\, and Rachel Deblinger will offer introductions to: \n\nLocating primary and secondary materials through library-based subscription databases\nAnalyzing data using web-based tools such as Social Explorer\nManaging your citations and research materials with Zotero\nDefining a file management system and employing tools to make sense of your archival materials\n\nThe panelists will also answer questions about the Presidential Open Access Policy\, ILL\, and digital research methodologies. Check out these library services and resources and join us to learn more. \n\n  \nPhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease 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. \nOctober 9\, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel\nNovember 6\, 2015: Internship Info Session\nDecember 4\, 2015:  Coding for Humanists\nJanuary 8\, 2016: Research Tools and Methods\nFebruary 5\, 2016: Online Identity\nMarch 4\, 2016: Work-Life Balance\nApril 8\, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities\nMay 13\, 2016: Research and Grants\nJune 3\, 2016: End of Year Luncheon \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-research-tools-and-methods-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160113T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160113T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20150612T212034Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T212034Z UID:10005119-1452686400-1452691800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Elena Gapova: "Suffering and the Soviet Man's Search for Meaning: The "Moral Revolutions" of Svetlana Alexievich" DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies and the Socialism/Postsocialism Research Cluster presents Elena Gapova \nSvetlana Alexievich\, the recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature\, is known for her unique literary method that blurs the genres of oral history and documentary prose. For each book\, she conducts\, over the period of five to ten years\, between 500 and 700 interviews with witness-participants or their surviving family members. In her montage of individual narratives\, she gives a voice to several Soviet generations\, if not to an entire Soviet society that has strained to make sense of the enormous suffering it experienced during the 20th century. Together\, Alexievich’s books make up a series that she calls “The Chronicle of the Big Utopia\, or The History of the Red Man.”  Some scholars claim that Alexievich created a genre of her own\, and in this presentation\, her work is treated as a form of moral philosophy\, a way to approach ethical issues through literature. The most prominent of these seems to be the question of the meaning of suffering\, as it is encountered by a post-Soviet man at the moment when the Soviet world is crumbling and falling apart. \nElena Gapova is Associate Professor\, Department of Sociology\, Western Michigan University; Founding Director\, Centre for Gender Studies\, European Humanities University (Belarusian “university-in-exile” in Lithuania). \n  \n\nWinter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: \nJanuary 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”\nJanuary 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or\, The People Critique Makes”\nJanuary 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”\nFebruary 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”\nFebruary 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”\nFebruary 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People\, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”\nFebruary 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”\nMarch 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-10-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160114T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160114T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20151217T173933Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151217T173933Z UID:10006317-1452787200-1452794400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Socialism and Postsocialism Roundtable Discussion with Elena Gapova DESCRIPTION:The Berlin Wall collapsed in 1989\, marking the ostensible end of the socialist project and the triumph of neoliberal economic policies around the globe. The result has been widespread de-industrialization\, unemployment\, ethnic conflict\, poverty\, and proliferating sex-traffic in the formerly socialist world\, which now in many ways exemplifies trends toward stagnation and crisis that affect the whole of the capitalist world economy. The purpose of this project is not only to address the issues which capitalism creates and subsequently ignores in its unrestricted expansion; but also to provide viable alternatives and solutions to these problems by using the lens of socialism\, which\, conceived of both as a set of historical projects to achieve a post-capitalist society as well as a horizon of political perspective and activity\, retains its urgency today in the face of the recent crises and long term trends of global capitalism. \n\n\nAt the same time\, we view socialism not merely as a question of area studies\, but also as a global historical phenomenon\, and in this sense\, we aim to pose the problem of postsocialism as one that ramifies far beyond the territories of current or formerly socialist states\, intersecting in productive ways with any number of other “post”-discourses in contemporary debates\, from postcolonialism to postfordism. \n\n  \nElena Gapova is Associate Professor\, Department of Sociology\, Western Michigan University; Founding Director\, Centre for Gender Studies\, European Humanities University (Belarusian “university-in-exile” in Lithuania). \nHunter Bivens\, Literature Department\, UCSC\nSara Blaylock\, History of Art and Visual Culture\, UCSC\nElena Gapova\, Department of Sociology\, Western Michigan University\nNatalia Koulinka\, History of Consciousness Department\, UCSC\nLisa Rofel\, Anthropology Department\, UCSC\nAndrei Tcacenco\, History Department\, UCSC \nIntroduced and Moderated by Neda Atanasoski\, Feminist Studies Department\,\nUCSC URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/socialism-and-postsocialism-roundtable-discussion-with-elena-gapova-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160114T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160114T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20160107T181137Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160107T181137Z UID:10006323-1452794400-1452800700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Alex Rivera DESCRIPTION:Alex Rivera is a filmmaker who\, for the past fifteen years\, has been telling new\, urgent\, and visually adventurous Latino stories. His first feature film\, Sleep Dealer\, a science-fiction feature set on the U.S./Mexico border\, won awards at the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival\, was screened at the Museum of Modern Art\, and had a commercial release in the U.S\, France\, Japan\, and other countries. Alex is a Sundance Fellow\, Rockefeller Fellow\, was The Rothschild Lecturer at Harvard University\, and was named one of Variety Magazine’s “10 Directors to Watch.” In 2015 Alex was awarded major support from the Surdna Foundation and the Ford Foundation for his film-in-progress\, ‘The Infiltrators\,’ and he received an Art & Technology Lab Grant from LACMA for an upcoming project in virtual reality. \n\n  \nWinter 2016 Living Writers Series: \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nCreative 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. \nJanuary 14: Alex Rivera\nJanuary 21: Vikram Chandra\nJanuary 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales\nFebruary 4: Charles Yu\nFebruary 11: Branwen Okpako\nFebruary 18: Nnedi Okorafor\nFebruary 25: Chang-rae Lee\nMarch 3: Jeremy Love\nMarch 10: Samuel Delany URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-alex-rivera-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/speculationscolorfinalCORRECTED.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160115T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160115T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20160119T210929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160119T210929Z UID:10006329-1452861000-1452866400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: James Beneda DESCRIPTION:James Beneda \n“The Morally Incoherent Indoctrination of the American Soldier in Iraq: An Institutional Theory of Traumatic Experience” \nI 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. \n\n  \nFriday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule \nFridays\, 12:30 – 2:00pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nJanuary 15- James Beneda\, Politics\nJanuary 22- Alex Moore\, HAVC\nJanuary 29- Whitney Devos\, Literature\nFebruary 5- Sophia Magnone\, Literature\nFebruary 12- Andrei Tcacenco\, History\nFebruary 19- Amanda Reyes\, History & Consciousness\nFebruary 26- Keith Spencer\, Literature\nMarch 4- Laura Harrison\, Sociology\nMarch 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa\, HistoryJ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-james-beneda-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FFPoster_W2016-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160115T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160115T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20151015T190630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151015T190630Z UID:10006282-1452866400-1452870000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sharon Inkelas: "The A-map model: Articulatory reliability in child-specific phonology" DESCRIPTION: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. \nSharon Inkelas is Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley.\n  \nLinguistic Colloquium Series: \nThe Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFall 2015\nOctober 9th: Keith Johnson\, UC Berkeley\nOctober 16th: Heidi Harley\, University of Arizona\nOctober 30th: Ivano Caponigro\, UC San Diego\nNovember 20th: Elliott Moreton\, University of North Carolina \nWinter 2016\nJanuary 15th: Sharon Inkelas\, UC Berkeley\nFebruary 5th: Colin Phillips\, University of Maryland\nFebruary 6th: N. Goodman\, Stanford University and A. Kehler\, UC San Diego\nMarch 5th: Linguistics Conference at Santa Cruz Conference \nSpring 2016\nApril 15th: Sabine Iatridou\, MIT\nApril 29th: Paul Kiparsky\, Stanford University\nMay 6\, 7\, 8: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9\nMay 20th: Kyle Johnson\, University of Massachusetts\nMay 27th/June 3rd (TBA): Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-sharon-inkelas-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160117T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160117T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20160107T004411Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160107T004411Z UID:10006321-1453039200-1453050000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Margaret Frantz Memorial DESCRIPTION: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. \nRefreshments & reception following the program. \nAmple 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. \nContributions 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. \n“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. \nRead Frantz’ obituary in the Santa Cruz Sentinel here. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/margaret-frantz-memorial-3/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/frantz_marge.98-01-05.gif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160120T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160120T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20150612T212750Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T212750Z UID:10006159-1453292100-1453298400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Nicholas Mitchell: "On Afropessimism; or\, The People Critique Makes" DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies presents Nicholas Mitchell \nNicholas 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. \nMitchell is Assistant Professor in Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \n\n\n  \n\nWinter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: \nJanuary 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”\nJanuary 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or\, The People Critique Makes”\nJanuary 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”\nFebruary 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”\nFebruary 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”\nFebruary 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People\, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”\nFebruary 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”\nMarch 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-11-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160121T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160121T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20160107T181657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160107T181657Z UID:10006324-1453399200-1453405500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Vikram Chandra DESCRIPTION: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.  \n\n  \nWinter 2016 Living Writers Series: \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nCreative 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. \nJanuary 14: Alex Rivera\nJanuary 21: Vikram Chandra\nJanuary 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales\nFebruary 4: Charles Yu\nFebruary 11: Branwen Okpako\nFebruary 18: Nnedi Okorafor\nFebruary 25: Chang-rae Lee\nMarch 3: Jeremy Love\nMarch 10: Samuel Delany URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-vikram-chandra-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/speculationscolorfinalCORRECTED.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160121T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160121T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20151209T202247Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151209T202247Z UID:10005174-1453401000-1453410000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Film Screening: "For Marx" DESCRIPTION:Film Screening Hosted by Socialsim / Postsocialism Research Cluster \n“For Marx” (2012)\nDirected by is Svetlana Baskova \n \n“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 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-for-marx-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/For-Marx.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160121T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160121T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20151209T204212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151209T204212Z UID:10005175-1453402800-1453410000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Hedy Rose: "My Childhood in Hiding: Amsterdam\, 1942-1945" DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a talk with Hedy Rose. \nFollowing 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.\nAdmission is free\, but pre-registration is required: http://goo.gl/forms/3Q3LZbYz8y \nReception will follow at 8pm.\n$4 parking; Recommended lot: Performing Arts\nFor more information\, including accessibility\, please contact Beverly Iniguez at binguez@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hedy-rose-3/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/MyChildhoodInHiding.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160122T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160122T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20150925T165251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150925T165251Z UID:10005132-1453453200-1453465800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:WORKSHOP: Coding for Humanists with Fabiola Hanna DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis 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. \nJoin us for this introductory workshop. No previous experience with coding necessary. \nBe sure to bring a LAPTOP (not a tablet). \n*Registration Required. Reserve a seat today. * URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/workshop-coding-for-humanists-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160122T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160122T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20160119T204901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160119T204901Z UID:10006328-1453465800-1453471200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Alex Moore DESCRIPTION:Alex Moore \n“Captive Natures: Grotesque desire in the performative sculptures of Amber Hawk Swanson” \nIn 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. \n\n  \nFriday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule \nFridays\, 12:30 – 2:00pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nJanuary 15- James Beneda\, Politics\nJanuary 22- Alex Moore\, HAVC\nJanuary 29- Whitney Devos\, Literature\nFebruary 5- Sophia Magnone\, Literature\nFebruary 12- Andrei Tcacenco\, History\nFebruary 19- Amanda Reyes\, History & Consciousness\nFebruary 26- Keith Spencer\, Literature\nMarch 4- Laura Harrison\, Sociology\nMarch 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa\, History URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-alex-moore-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FFPoster_W2016-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160126T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160126T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20160104T184000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160104T184000Z UID:10006318-1453809600-1453815000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Brown Bag Workshop: Teaching with Multimedia & Audio DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis workshop will inspire you to design new assignments\, develop your own multimedia materials\, and consider new pedagogical possibilities. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/teaching-with-multimedia-audio-3/ LOCATION:FITC\, 1336 McHenry Library END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160126T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160126T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20151209T210237Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151209T210237Z UID:10005176-1453824000-1453831200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Joes Segal: "Cultural Integration"   DESCRIPTION:  \nIn 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. \nJoes 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). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joes-segal-cultural-integration-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160127T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160127T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20151209T214701Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151209T214701Z UID:10006308-1453896000-1453901400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Joes Segal: "Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage" DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies and the Socialism/Postsocialism Research Cluster presents Joes Segal \nLike 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. \nJoes 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). \n  \n\nWinter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: \nJanuary 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”\nJanuary 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or\, The People Critique Makes”\nJanuary 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”\nFebruary 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”\nFebruary 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”\nFebruary 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People\, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”\nFebruary 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”\nMarch 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joes-segal-post-socialist-monuments-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160128T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160128T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20160107T182235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160107T182235Z UID:10005185-1454004000-1454010300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales DESCRIPTION: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. \nChristopher 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.\n\n\n\n  \nWinter 2016 Living Writers Series: \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nCreative 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. \nJanuary 14: Alex Rivera\nJanuary 21: Vikram Chandra\nJanuary 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales\nFebruary 4: Charles Yu\nFebruary 11: Branwen Okpako\nFebruary 18: Nnedi Okorafor\nFebruary 25: Chang-rae Lee\nMarch 3: Jeremy Love\nMarch 10: Samuel Delany URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-stephen-graham-jones-christopher-rosales-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/speculationscolorfinalCORRECTED.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160128T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160128T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20151119T215213Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151119T215213Z UID:10005169-1454009400-1454014800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:William D. Adams: "'Wicked Problems': The Humanities in the Time of STEM" DESCRIPTION:UCSC Institute for Humanities Research presents:\n“Wicked Problems“: The Humanities in the Time of STEM\n15th Annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture by William D. Adams\,\nChairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities\nWilliam D. Adams\, NEH ChairmanPhoto by Fred Field\, courtesy of Colby College\nDr. 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. \n*Wicked Problems\, a phrase introduced in 1967 by C. West Churchman\, denotes a problem that is resistant to resolution\, rather than evil. \nComplimentary parking is available in the Performing Arts parking lot.\nFree and open to the public. Space is limited\, registration is required. \nWe have reached maximum capacity with a growing waiting list for this event.\nTo be added to the waiting list please email specialevents@ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-5003. \nVIDEO:\n \nEVENT PHOTOS:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/maitra-lecture-3/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Adams_WebPoster_FNL.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160129T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160129T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20160119T211727Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160119T211727Z UID:10006330-1454070600-1454076000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Whitney Devos DESCRIPTION:Whitney Devos \n“After Lives\, After Palimpsests: Aimé Césaire & Claudia Rankine’s (Caribbean) ‘American Lyrics’ “ \nMy 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\nemerging multi-genre’d genre I read as quintessentially “American”: North\, South\, and Central. \n\n  \nFriday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule \nFridays\, 12:30 – 2:00pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nJanuary 15- James Beneda\, Politics\nJanuary 22- Alex Moore\, HAVC\nJanuary 29- Whitney Devos\, Literature\nFebruary 5- Sophia Magnone\, Literature\nFebruary 12- Andrei Tcacenco\, History\nFebruary 19- Amanda Reyes\, History & Consciousness\nFebruary 26- Keith Spencer\, Literature\nMarch 4- Laura Harrison\, Sociology\nMarch 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa\, History URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-whitney-devos-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FFPoster_W2016-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160129T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160129T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20151209T215605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151209T215605Z UID:10006309-1454083200-1454090400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Shaul Bassi: "Shylock vs. Sarra Copia Sullam: Reframing the Venice Ghetto\, 1516-2016" DESCRIPTION: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. \nShaul 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).\n  \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies\, Shakespeare Workshop\, Italian Studies\, Cowell College\, and the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/shaul-bassi-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ShylockVsSophia-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160202 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20160112T202121Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160112T202121Z UID:10006326-1454284800-1454371199@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:OpEd Project Fellowship Application Deadline: "Write to Change the World" DESCRIPTION: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. \nN.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. \nREQUIREMENTS:\n1) Attend a 1-day workshop\n2) Draft an Op-Ed within three months following the workshop\n3) Connect with a media mentor through the OpEd Project within three months following the workshop \nDATES and LOCATIONS:\nUC Davis: May 23\, 2016\nUC Merced: April 29\, 2016\nUCLA: June 10\, 2016 \nApplication deadline: Feb. 1\, 2016. Applicants from UCM\, UCSD\, UCLA\, UCSB\, UCD\, UCSC\, UCR\, UCSF\, and UCI can apply below. \nInformation and application online at: http://crha.ucmerced.edu/form/oped-project-fellowship-application \nSPONSORED BY:\nUC Humanities Research Institute\, UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research\,\nUC Davis Humanities Institute\, UC Irvine Humanities Commons\, UCLA Humanities\,\nUC Merced Center for the Humanities\, UC Riverside Center for Ideas and Society\,\nUC San Diego Center for the Humanities\, UC San Francisco Center for Humanities\nand Health Sciences\, UC Santa Barbara Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/oped-project-fellowship-application-deadline-write-to-change-the-world-3/ LOCATION:UCSC ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/OpEdPoster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160202T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160202T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20151209T221217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151209T221217Z UID:10006310-1454428800-1454436000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Zephyr Frank: "Beyond Eyeballmetrics: Visualization and Analysis in Digital Scholarship" DESCRIPTION:Part of the Hands on (Digital) Humanities Series \nThis 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. \nZephyr 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). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zephyr-frank-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Zephry_Frank_poster_2.2.16.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160202T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160202T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20160126T184516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160126T184516Z UID:10006339-1454437800-1454443200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:LASER (Leonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous) DESCRIPTION:The institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Arts Division at the University of California\, Santa Cruz present:\n\nLASER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, February 2\, 2016\n\n\n\n\nDigital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108\n\n\n\n\n\nLeonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists\, scientists\, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations. \nPlease 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: \nWes Modes\, “A Secret History of American River People” \nChristopher Wilmers\, “Who knew there was a puma in my backyard!” \nBeth Shapiro\, “How to Clone a Mammoth” \nDee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman\, “Making Last Day of Freedom” \nThis event is FREE and open to the public. \nParking ($4) is available in the Performing Arts Lot adjacent to Digital Arts Research Center. \nBIOS: \nWes 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. \nChristopher 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. \nBeth 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. \nDee 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. \nFor more information\, email ias@ucsc.edu \n  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/laser-leonardo-art-science-evening-rendezvous-3/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160203T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160203T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20150612T213151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T213151Z UID:10006161-1454500800-1454506200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jonathan Beecher: "Visions of Revolution: European Writers and the French Revolution of 1848" DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies presents Jonathan Beecher\n\n\nJonathan 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?\n\n\n\n\nWinter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: \n\n\nJanuary 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”\nJanuary 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or\, The People Critique Makes”\nJanuary 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”\nFebruary 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”\nFebruary 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”\nFebruary 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People\, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”\nFebruary 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”\nMarch 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”\n\n\n\n  \nStay tuned for more information about guest speakers. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-13-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160204T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160204T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20160107T182602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160107T182602Z UID:10005187-1454608800-1454615100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Charles Yu DESCRIPTION: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. \nHis 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. \n\n  \nWinter 2016 Living Writers Series: \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nCreative 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. \nJanuary 14: Alex Rivera\nJanuary 21: Vikram Chandra\nJanuary 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales\nFebruary 4: Charles Yu\nFebruary 11: Branwen Okpako\nFebruary 18: Nnedi Okorafor\nFebruary 25: Chang-rae Lee\nMarch 3: Jeremy Love\nMarch 10: Samuel Delany URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-charles-yu-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/speculationscolorfinalCORRECTED.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160205T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160205T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20150928T192713Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T192406Z UID:10005140-1454670000-1454675400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: Online Identity DESCRIPTION:Learn how to perfect your online identity and social media presence as an academic or higher ed professional. \nMelissa De Witte (Web Coordinator\, Social Sciences) will lead a discussion about how you can build your social media presence as an academic. \nWhether 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. \nMelissa 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. \nLunch will be served\, as usual. \n\n  \nPhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease 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. \nOctober 9\, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel\nNovember 6\, 2015: Internship Info Session\nDecember 4\, 2015:  Coding for Humanists\nJanuary 8\, 2016: Research Tools and Methods\nFebruary 5\, 2016: Online Identity\nMarch 4\, 2016: Work-Life Balance\nApril 8\, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities\nMay 13\, 2016: Research and Grants\nJune 3\, 2016: End of Year Luncheon \nEVENT PHOTOS: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-online-identity-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160205T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160205T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20160119T212940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160119T212940Z UID:10006331-1454675400-1454680800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Sophia Magnone DESCRIPTION:Sophia Magnone \n“There is risk in dealing with a partner”: “Bloodchild” and Interspecies Encounter \nI 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 \n\n  \nFriday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule \nFridays\, 12:30 – 2:00pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nJanuary 15- James Beneda\, Politics\nJanuary 22- Alex Moore\, HAVC\nJanuary 29- Whitney Devos\, Literature\nFebruary 5- Sophia Magnone\, Literature\nFebruary 12- Andrei Tcacenco\, History\nFebruary 19- Amanda Reyes\, History & Consciousness\nFebruary 26- Keith Spencer\, Literature\nMarch 4- Laura Harrison\, Sociology\nMarch 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa\, History URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-sophia-magnone-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FFPoster_W2016-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160205T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160205T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20151015T190838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151015T190838Z UID:10006283-1454680800-1454684400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Colin Phillips: "Speaking\, understanding\, and the architecture of language" DESCRIPTION: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.\n  \nLinguistic Colloquium: \nThe Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFall 2015\nOctober 9th: Keith Johnson\, UC Berkeley\nOctober 16th: Heidi Harley\, University of Arizona\nOctober 30th: Ivano Caponigro\, UC San Diego\nNovember 20th: Elliott Moreton\, University of North Carolina \nWinter 2016\nJanuary 15th: Sharon Inkelas\, UC Berkeley\nFebruary 5th: Colin Phillips\, University of Maryland\nFebruary 6th: N. Goodman\, Stanford University and A. Kehler\, UC San Diego\nMarch 5th: Linguistics Conference at Santa Cruz Conference \nSpring 2016\nApril 15th: Sabine Iatridou\, MIT\nApril 29th: Paul Kiparsky\, Stanford University\nMay 6\, 7\, 8: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9\nMay 20th: Kyle Johnson\, University of Massachusetts\nMay 27th/June 3rd (TBA): Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-colin-phillips-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160206T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160206T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105102 CREATED:20151209T221626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151209T221626Z UID:10006311-1454752800-1454774400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Leadership for Social Justice: Sikh American Perspectives DESCRIPTION: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. \nWorkshop trainer: Jyotswaroop Kaur\n Education Director\, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF) \nFree workshop open to all UCSC students and staff. Lunch provided.\nAdvance registration required. Please use form below. \nJyotswaroop 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. \nEVENT PHOTOS: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nAgenda:\n10:00 – 10:15 Welcome and Introduction \n10:15 – 11:15 Mindset\nCarol Dweck\, Mindset\, The Mindsets copy \n11:15 – 11:25 Break \n11:30 – 12:00 Leadership\nMarshall Ganz reading on Leadership \n12:00 – 1:00 Lunch \n1:00 – 1:30 Sikh American Civil Rights Timeline \n1:30 – 2:30 Adaptive Change\nVideo of Ron Heifetz \n2:30- 2:45 Break \n2:45 – 3:15 Clients vs. Citizens\nJohn McKnight reading\, Services are Bad for People \n3:15- 3:45 Social Justice Work \n3:45- 4:00 Evaluations URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/leadership-for-social-justice-sikh-american-perspectives-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160209T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160209T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105103 CREATED:20150925T165607Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150925T165607Z UID:10005133-1455019200-1455024600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Brown Bag Workshop: Teaching with Film and Video DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis workshop will inspire you to design new assignments\, develop your own multimedia materials\, and consider new pedagogical possibilities. \nBring your lunch. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/brown-bag-workshop-teaching-with-film-and-video-2/ LOCATION:McHenry Library\, Room 1350 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160209T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160209T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105103 CREATED:20160113T203533Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160113T203533Z UID:10006327-1455022800-1455033600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Critical Leisure Studies Winter Seminar: Introduction & The Right to be Lazy DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 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. \nSome questions we hope to explore might include: \n\nWhat differentiates labor and leisure and how have theses categories been historically constructed through racialized\, gendered\, heteropatriarchal\, class\, and/or colonial hierarchies?\nWhat social and economic practices figure an activity as work\, play\, nonwork\, or leisure?\nHow does the formal category of “leisure” itself act to discipline desires?\nIn what ways does the production and appropriation of excess enable cultural and political forms of participation and belonging?\n\n  \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/critical-leisure-studies-winter-seminar-introduction-the-right-to-be-lazy-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 402 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160209T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160209T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105103 CREATED:20151209T221826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151209T221826Z UID:10006312-1455033600-1455040800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Anna Björk: "Ex-hombres\, On the Revolutionary Subject in Argentine Proletarian Literature" DESCRIPTION:  \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anna-bjork-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160210T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160210T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105103 CREATED:20150612T213333Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T213333Z UID:10006162-1455105600-1455111000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:B. Ruby Rich: "The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming" DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies presents B. Ruby Rich.\n\nRuby 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. \n\n\n  \n\nWinter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: \nJanuary 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”\nJanuary 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or\, The People Critique Makes”\nJanuary 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”\nFebruary 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”\nFebruary 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”\nFebruary 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People\, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”\nFebruary 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”\nMarch 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”\n\n\n\n  \nStay tuned for more information about guest speakers. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-14-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160210T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160210T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105103 CREATED:20151209T222735Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151209T222735Z UID:10006314-1455105600-1455111000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Works in Progress Session: Mapping Liminal Jewish Spaces with Katie Trostel and Erica Smeltzer DESCRIPTION: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. \nSponsored by the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment.\n  \nKatie Trostel\,“Shifting Zones of Memory”: Digitally Mapping Marjorie Agosín’s Cartographies: Meditations on Travel (2004)”  \nThis 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? \n  \nErica Smeltzer\, “Opening Gates and Ghettos: Digitally Mapping the Jewish Spaces of Prague” \nThis 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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mapping-liminal-spaces-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160210T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160210T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105103 CREATED:20150611T224635Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150611T224635Z UID:10005110-1455132600-1455139800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Branwen Okpako: "The Education of Auma Obama" DESCRIPTION:Branwen Okpako: “The Education of Auma Obama” from IHR on Vimeo. \nUC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series presents:\nLeading Feminist Nigerian Filmmaker\nBranwen Okpako\nFilm Screening & Q&A with Director: The Education of Auma Obama\nWednesday\, Feb 10 @ 7:30pm\nNickelodeon Theatre\, Santa Cruz\n \nLiving Writers Talk\n Thursday\, Feb 11 @ 6:00-7:45pm\n Humanities Lecture Hall\, 206\n \nBoth events are Free and open to the public \nBranwen 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. \nFor 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.\n  \nJoin the Discussion\nKUSP Film Review\nFacebook\n#ihrevents \n \n \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/branwen-okpako-the-education-of-auma-obama-2/ LOCATION:Nickelodeon Theater\, 210 Lincoln Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Branwen-Okpako-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160211T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160211T174500 DTSTAMP:20260403T105103 CREATED:20160122T213621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160122T213621Z UID:10006338-1455206400-1455212700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Noa Latham: Meditation and Self-Control DESCRIPTION: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. \nAbout: \nNoa Latham is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. Research Interests: Ethics\, Metaphysics\, Philosophy of Action\, Philosophy of Mind URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/noa-latham-meditation-and-self-control-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160211T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160211T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T105103 CREATED:20160119T222634Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160119T222634Z UID:10006337-1455213600-1455219900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Branwen Okpako: Nigerian Filmmaker DESCRIPTION:UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series presents:\nLeading Feminist Nigerian Filmmaker\nBranwen Okpako\nFilm Screening & Q&A with Director: The Education of Auma Obama\n Wednesday\, Feb 10 @ 7:30pm\n Nickelodeon Theatre\, Santa Cruz\n \nLiving Writers Talk\nThursday\, Feb 11 @ 6:00-7:45pm\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206\n \nBoth events are Free and open to the public \nBranwen 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. \nFor 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. \nJoin the Discussion\nKUSP Film Review\nFacebook\n#ihrevents \n  \n  \n  \n\nWinter 2016 Living Writers Series: \nCreative 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. \nJanuary 14: Alex Rivera\nJanuary 21: Vikram Chandra\nJanuary 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales\nFebruary 4: Charles Yu\nFebruary 11: Branwen Okpako\nFebruary 18: Nnedi Okorafor\nFebruary 25: Chang-rae Lee\nMarch 3: Jeremy Love\nMarch 10: Samuel Delany \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/branwen-okpako-nigerian-filmmaker-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Branwen-Okpako-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160212T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160212T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105104 CREATED:20160119T214153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160119T214153Z UID:10006332-1455280200-1455285600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Andrei Tcacenco DESCRIPTION:Andrei Tcacenco \n“Constructing Socialism From Within: Entertainment and Media in the Soviet Home” \nMy 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. \n\n  \nFriday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule \nFridays\, 12:30 – 2:00pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nJanuary 15- James Beneda\, Politics\nJanuary 22- Alex Moore\, HAVC\nJanuary 29- Whitney Devos\, Literature\nFebruary 5- Sophia Magnone\, Literature\nFebruary 12- Andrei Tcacenco\, History\nFebruary 19- Amanda Reyes\, History & Consciousness\nFebruary 26- Keith Spencer\, Literature\nMarch 4- Laura Harrison\, Sociology\nMarch 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa\, History URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-andrei-tcacenco-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FFPoster_W2016-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160212T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160212T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105104 CREATED:20151209T222418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151209T222418Z UID:10006313-1455303600-1455310800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Alicia Garza: 32nd Annual Martin Luther King\, Jr Memorial Convocation DESCRIPTION: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. \nPlease join us\n• Speaker: Alicia Garza\nSocial Activist and Co-Creator of the Viral Twitter Hashtag and Movement\, #BlackLivesMatter\n• Date: 7 p.m.\, Friday\, February 12\, 2016\n• Location: Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium\n• The event is free and open to the public. \nThe 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation will feature Alicia Garza\, Social Activist and Co-Creator of the Viral Twitter Hashtag and Movement\, #BlackLivesMatter. \nSocial 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. \nGarza\, 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. \nCommitted 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. \nDelivering 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. \nTony Hill Memorial Award\nMembers 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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mlk-convocation-with-alicia-garza-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/mlk.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCSC Special Events Office":MAILTO:specialevents@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR