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:20100314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20101107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20110313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20111106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20130310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20131103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111019T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111019T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20110815T210445Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T210445Z UID:10004607-1319025600-1319031000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Eugene Switkes\, "Studies of Visual Perception: A Window into Brain and Behavior" DESCRIPTION:Eugene Switkes\nScientists and humanists have found common interests in understanding correlations between neural events and complex human behavior. Over the past 30 years we have studied how aspects of human visual perception arise from neural processes that occur in the anatomical substrates of human vision. Professor Switkes discusses how understanding the brain’s recoding of spatial and chromatic information sheds light on the neural basis of visual behavioral phenomena. \nEugene Switkes is Professor of Chemistry and Psychobiology at UC Santa Cruz. He is an Affiliate Professor of Vision Sciences and Optometry at UC Berkeley. \nThis colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies\, with staff support from the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/eugene-switkes-studies-of-visual-perception-a-window-into-brain-and-behavior-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:20111019T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111019T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20110823T191647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110823T191647Z UID:10004855-1319045400-1319049000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture: Lisa Jean Moore\, "Among the Missing: Operations in Recovering Bodies" DESCRIPTION:Lisa Jean Moore\nLisa Jean Moore\, medical sociologist and Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Purchase College\, State University of New York\, will present a talk based on her recent book Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility. We know more about the physical body—how it begins\, how it responds to illness\, even how it decomposes—than ever before. Yet not all bodies are created equal\, some bodies clearly count more than others\, and some bodies are not recognized at all. By examining the cultural politics at work in disappearances and inclusions of the physical body Prof. Moore shows how the social\, medical and economic consequences of visibility can reward or undermine privilege in society. \nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. \nRelated Articles:\nPeggy Downes Baskin Profile\nPeggy Downes Baskin Endowment for Interdisciplinary Studies in Ethics\nInaugural Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture\, November 3\, 2010 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-peggy-downes-baskin-ethics-lecture-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:20111020T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111020T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20110926T233206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110926T233206Z UID:10004615-1319133600-1319140800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: Martha Mendoza DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents Martha Mendoza. \nMartha Mendoza\nMartha Mendoza graduated from UCSC and starte a career as an Associated Press National Writer. Mendoza won the 2000 Pulitzer Prise in investigative journalism for her work on the No Gun Ri story. Her writing has prompted congressional meetings and Pentagon investigations alike. \nFor more information about the event\, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk\, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore. \nThe Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund\, the Porter Hitchcock Fund\, the UCSC Literature Department\, and the Sain Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-martha-mendoza-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20111021 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20111022 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111209T193514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111209T193514Z UID:10004651-1319155200-1319241540@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:2011 Founder's Day DESCRIPTION:2011 Founder’s Day \nMore information TBA. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2011-founders-day-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111022T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111022T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111010T234412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111010T234412Z UID:10004884-1319292000-1319299200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Kathleen Lynch: “Sex Sells\, But Who’s Buying? Erotic Imagery on Athenian Vases” DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on “Archaeology and the Ancient World”: \nKathleen Lynch\nProfessor Kathleen Lynch\, University of Cincinnati \n“Sex Sells\, But Who’s Buying? Erotic Imagery on Athenian Vases” \nErotic imagery appears in early Attic black-figure vases but becomes quite popular in red-figure from about 520-475 B.C. The setting of these often-graphic images of heterosexual and homosexual encounters is usually the symposium\, the all-male drinking party. Nearly all studies assume that these images are produced for and about Athenians\, and thus must represent Athenian views on sexuality and morality. Yet a closer look at the archaeological evidence shows that very few vases with graphic sexual images come from Athens itself; instead\, vases with erotic images were sold on the export market\, and more specifically to Etruria. Thus we must re-evaluate the use of these images in assessing Athenian values: we find an Athenian pottery industry with an astute marketing sense that distorts Athenian cultural identity to appeal to foreign perceptions of Greek culture. \nThe lecture will contain vase-painting images of explicit sexual scenes. \nKathleen Lynch is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati and a specialist in Greek pottery\, particularly vase painting and the social aspects of pottery\, and has completed fieldwork in Albania\, Greece\, and Turkey. She has a book forthcoming from the American School of Classical Studies at Athens\, The Symposium in Context: Pottery from a Late Archaic House near the Athenian Agora. \nFree parking for the lecture in Cowell-Stevenson parking lots \nCoffee at 1:30 and more refreshments after the talk \nFor more information\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kathleen-lynch-sex-sells-but-whos-buying-erotic-imagery-on-athenian-vases-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:20111024T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111024T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20110919T230848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110919T230848Z UID:10004859-1319428800-1319475600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Steven Miller\, "Violence Against the Nonliving: the Death Drive & Destruction in Contemporary Philosophy DESCRIPTION:Steven Miller\nProfessor Steven Miller is Professor of English at SUNY Buffalo. He is a faculty mentor for the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture and for Umbr(a). His work in progress is War After Death: Hyperbolic Thinking in Contemporary Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. \nThis lecture is presented by the History of Consciousness Department\, with cosponsorship by the Center for Cultural Studies. For further information\, please contact Michael Holohan\, mholohan@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/steven-miller-violence-against-the-nonliving-the-death-drive-destruction-in-contemporary-philosophy-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:20111024T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111024T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20110815T213916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T213916Z UID:10004844-1319470200-1319475600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Affect Working Group Presents: Affect Across the Disciplines: A Faculty-Graduate Workshop DESCRIPTION:Panelists: \nVilashini Cooppan\, “Affective History and Literary Studies”\nAssociate Professor\, Literature\, UCSC \nProfessor Cooppan’s recent work includes an article in Trauma and Memory in South African Writing (Rodopi\, 2011)\, and a book project on affect\, historical violence and world literature.\n \nSharon Daniel\, “Affect in/through New Media Documentary”\nProfessor\, Film and Digital Media and DANM\, UCSC \nProfessor Daniel’s essays have been published in books and professional journals\, including Database Aesthetics\, the Sarai Reader and Leonardo.\n \nDanilyn Rutherford\, “Affect\, Ethics\, and the Empirical in Anthropology”\nProfessor and Chair\, Anthropology\, UCSC \nProfessor Rutherford is the author of Raiding the Land of the Foreigners: The Limits of the Nation on an Indonesian Frontier (Princeton\, 2002) and the forthcoming Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua (Chicago\, 2012).\n \nNoah Wardrip-Fruin\, “Affective Computational Media”\nAssociate Professor\, Computer Science \nProfessor Wardrip-Fruin has authored or co-edited books on games and digital media\, including The New Media Reader (MIT\, 2003) and Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions\, Computer Games\, and Software Studies (MIT\, 2009).\n \nModerator: Kimberly Lau\nProfessor\, Literature\, American Studies \nProfessor Lau is the author of Body Language: Sisters in Shape\, Black Women’s Fitness\, and Feminist Identity Politics (Temple\, 2011).\n \nFor further information\, please contact Deborah Gould\, dbgould@ucsc.edu. \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-affect-working-group-presents-affect-across-the-disciplines-a-faculty-graduate-workshop-2/ LOCATION:Red Room\, Red Restaurant and Bar‎ 200 Locust Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20110815T210819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T210819Z UID:10004825-1319630400-1319635800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gildas Hamel\, "Monotheism and Empire II" DESCRIPTION:Gildas Hamel\nProfessor Hamel is working on a history of religious representations in Hellenistic and Roman Palestine and the notion of monotheism. He examines recent histories of monolatry and monotheism and accounts of religious mediations\, asking whether monotheism can be explained as a response to the Babylonian and Persian empires\, or as an episode in the cultural borrowing and translation of religious stories and practices. \nGildas Hamel is a S.O.E. Lecturer in History. \nThis colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies\, with staff support from the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gildas-hamel-monotheism-and-empire-ii-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:20111026T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111013T231427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111013T231427Z UID:10004885-1319637600-1319644800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Performing Race at the Victorian Freak Show DESCRIPTION:The Museum and Curatorial Studies (MACS) Research Cluster presents: Nadja Durbach\, Associate Professor\, History and Comparative Gender & Sexuality University of Utah: \nNadja Durbach\nPerforming Race at the Victorian Freak Show \nWhile scholars have examined the display of non-Western peoples at Victorian exhibitions\, and noted that many of the “cannibals” and “savages” who performed were actually fakes\, none have explored in earnest either the preconditions for\, or the ramifications of\, this artifice. This talk interrogates the cultural attitudes that bound ethnic and racial Otherness together\, and the ways in which these relationships were embodied and performed\, in order to explain what made these fake shows not only possible\, but appealing to a broad British public. \nThe widespread use of working-class men\, and the Irish in particular\, to portray Africans or other “savages” at sideshows depended upon and contributed to beliefs about the relationships between class\, ethnicity\, and race. Irishmen were regularly employed to play sideshow savages\, whether American Indians\, Bushmen\, or Zulus\, because of long-standing assumptions about their primitive\, wild and violent natures. Showmen cast them in these roles\, and audiences allowed themselves to be deceived\, because the ruse reinforced widespread beliefs about the racial inferiority of the Irish and conversely the whiteness of other Britons. I argue that most audience members were probably not fooled by these fraudulent acts but were nevertheless entertained and reassured by the messages they conveyed about race and empire\, perhaps even more so than by authentic exhibitions. \nThis event is part of the 2011-2012 MACS research theme Exhibitions and Performance. For more information\, please contact Lucian Gomoll at macs@ucsc.edu or visit the MACS website at http://macs.ucsc.edu/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/performing-race-at-the-victorian-freak-show-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:20111026T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111025T003442Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111025T003442Z UID:10004893-1319650200-1319657400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series: "The Eternal Frame: An Artist’s Reenactment of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy" DESCRIPTION:The Eternal Frame\nThe Center of Visual and Performance Studies presents Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series: “The Eternal Frame:  An Artist’s Reenactment of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy”\, a Screening and Conversation with Film & Digital Media Professor Emeritus Chip Lord and Professor Margaret Morse. \nThe Eternal Frame was a project by Ant Farm and T.R. Uthco\, 1975\, that resulted in a 24 minute video work about the JFK assassination. At the center of this work was a re-enactment of the tragedy produced and performed for the camera\, but unexpectedly many by-standers showed up to watch and were interviewed. \nChip Lord is an artist who works with video and photography. As a member of Ant Farm [1968-1978] he produced the video art classics Media Burn  and The Eternal Frame as well as the Cadillac  Ranch sculpture in Amarillo\, Texas. His media work straddles documentary and experimental genres\, often mixing the two\, and has been shown widely at film and video festivals and in Museums. In 2005 a retrospective of his video work was shown at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arts Reina Sofia in Madrid\, Spain. In 2010 he completed a public video art piece for the remodeled Bradley Terminal at LAX Airport titled To & From LAX.   He is Professor Emeritus in Film & Digital Media. \nMargaret Morse studies cultural change through media in a shifting focus from film to television and video art to new media and digital culture. Her hundred plus publications in books and essays include criticism on a wide range of work by contemporary media artists in the United States and Europe as well as theoretical essays on particular media art forms such as installation and closed-circuit video as well on the meaning of interactivity and immersion in the digital arts. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/temporalities-of-reenactment-a-speaker-series-the-eternal-frame-an-artists-reenactment-of-the-assassination-of-president-john-f-kennedy-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111024T234307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111024T234307Z UID:10004889-1319652000-1319659200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Wooksik Cheong \, “Peace Island”?: Resisting the Militarization of Juju " DESCRIPTION:Today\, Jeju Island is best known for “its booming tourism\, its hardy diving women\, and its lush orange groves” (John Merrill).  Touted as a romantic honeymoon destination and lucrative site for foreign investment\, Jeju is\, however\, far from a paradise.  Prior to June 25\, 1950\, the purported start of the Korean War\, Jeju\, deemed a “Red” island\, was a site of counter-revolutionary violence—indiscriminate state-sponsored bloodshed justified in the name of “national defense.”  In long overdue recognition of the civilian massacres it perpetrated under US watch in 1948\, the South Korean government in 2005 designated Jeju an “Island of Peace.” \nYet\, the legacy of unrestrained militarism and the abuse of government authority are far from over.  Since 2007\, the people of Gangjeong village have waged non-violent resistance against the construction of a massive naval base on Jeju.  Due to be operational by 2014\, the naval base\, which will host 20 warships and two Aegis destroyers integrated within the US Missile Defense System\, not only stands to destroy a UNESCO biosphere reserve and government-recognized “absolute preservation area” characterized by rare rock formations\, abundant and fertile farmlands\, pristine fresh and sea waters\, and endangered animal species\, but also\, to displace Gangjeong villagers from their sea- and land-based livelihoods.  Not merely a local struggle\, the democratic resistance of Gangjeong residents and activists against the naval base raises the question of a neo-Cold War US/South Korea/Japan alliance and a looming regional arms race with China.  With growing global attention to the Jeju resistance\, the South Korean government has intensified its crackdown\, recently dispatching more than 1\,000 riot police from the mainland to forcibly remove and arrest protesters to clear the way for construction. \nWooksik Cheong\, a founding member and representative of Peace Network\, a South Korean NGO formed in 1999 that works for peace and disarmament in Northeast Asia and on the Korean peninsula\, will speak on the resistance movement against the militarization of Jeju. \nFree and open to the public.  Event co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies\, the Asian Pacific Islander Resource Center\, the East Asian Studies Program\, Cowell College\, Oakes College\, and the Resource Center for Nonviolence.   For further information\, please contact Christine Hong at cjhong@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/wooksik-cheong-peace-island-resisting-the-militarization-of-juju-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:20111027T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111027T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111025T001236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111025T001236Z UID:10004890-1319733000-1319740200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ella von der Haide\, "Another World is Plantable! A Documentary on Community Gardening and Food Justice in North America 2010" DESCRIPTION:This Science and Justice Meeting will feature a film by Ella von der Haide\, a Dipl.-Ing. of Urban and Regional Planning\, Garden Activist and feminist Filmmaker from Germany.  She will show one of four feature films she has made about urban community gardens and their connections to emancipatory social movements in South Africa\, Argentina\, Germany and North America. Urban community gardening is a phenomenon that is spreading throughout the world.  This film will focus on the North American context. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ella-von-der-haide-another-world-is-plantable-a-documentary-on-community-gardening-and-food-justice-in-north-america-2010-3/ LOCATION:Communications\, Studio C\, Room 150\, Communications Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111027T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111027T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20110926T234147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110926T234147Z UID:10004616-1319738400-1319745600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: Peter Orner DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents Peter Orner. Peter Orner is a human rights lawyer\, and editor and writer of novels and short stories. His works include: Esther Stories\, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo\, Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives\, and the soon-to-be-released Love and Shame and Love: A Novel. Orner has been awarded several honors including the Guggenheim Fellowship\, Lannan Literary Fellowship\, and the Bard Fiction Prize. \nPeter Orner\nOrner has published fiction in the Atlantic Monthly\, The Paris Review\, McSweeney’s\, The Southern Review\, and various other publications. Stories have been anthologized in Best American Stories and twice won a Pushcart Prize (Best of the Small Presses). Orner was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2006)\, as well as the two-year Lannan Foundation Fellowship (2007). A film version of one of Orner’s stories\, “The Raft” with a screenplay by Orner and the film’s director\, Rob Jones\, is currently in production and stars Ed Asner. \nOrner has taught at the University of Montana\, Bard College\, Charles University in Prague\, Washington University\, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Orner is a long time permanent faculty member at San Francisco State where he is an associate professor. He is a currently visiting fiction faculty at the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. \nFor more information about the event\, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk\, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore. \nThe Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund\, the Porter Hitchcock Fund\, the UCSC Literature Department\, and the Sain Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-reading-series-peter-orner-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111028T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111028T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111020T233957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111020T233957Z UID:10004886-1319828400-1319835600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Poetry Reading and Exhibition of Poem Paintings DESCRIPTION:The Poetry and Politics research cluster presents A poetry reading with Ronaldo Wilson and Lauren Shufran and an exhibition of poem paintings by Matt Landry. \nMatt Landry holds bachelors degrees in French and Comparative Literature from Dickinson College and the University of Toulouse\, an MA in French from Yale University and is currently a PhD student in Literature at UC Santa Cruz\, where he studies modern aesthetic theory and poetry. He is the translator of two books\, The Mills of Toulouse: a Case Study on the Origins of the Corporation and an ancient Chinese book on governance\, the Zhouli. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetry-reading-and-exhibition-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:20111101T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111101T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111031T044621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111031T044621Z UID:10004897-1320163200-1320170400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mary Flanagan\, "Propositions from a Critical Play Perspective" DESCRIPTION:Mary Flanagan\n\n\n\nPropositions from a Critical Play Perspective\nIf games always hold within them cultural beliefs\, norms\, and human values\, how are designers to tackle the vexing responsibility of designing digital games? In this talk\, Flanagan examines the topics of games and values\, games and art\, the history of technology and games\, and motivation. How does art practice inform designing for values? What pitfalls might designers face when making games for social change? Flanagan takes the audience through a number of propositions that uncover strengths and weakness of games as a medium for social change and revolutionary play.\nKnown for her theories on playculture\, activist design\, and critical play\, Flanagan has achieved international acclaim for her novel interdisciplinary games\, artwork\, and theoretical writing\, her commitment to theory/practice research\, and contributions to social justice design arenas. She is particularly interested in issues of equity and authorship in technological environments\, and reworking commonly understood paradigms to provide collective strategies for social change. This talk draws primarily on her work in the Values at Play project and in her 2009 book\, Critical Play (MIT Press). Flanagan is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College.\nhttp://www.maryflanagan.com/\nhttp://www.tiltfactor.org/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mary-flanagan-propositions-from-a-critical-play-perspective-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:20111102T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111102T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20110815T211318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T211318Z UID:10004827-1320235200-1320240600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Steve McKay\, "Masculinities Afloat: The Fragile Gender Projects of Filipino Migrant Sailors" DESCRIPTION:Steve McKay\nProfessor McKay examines the performance of masculinities among a group of men often considered exemplars of masculinity—merchant sailors. The talk explores their gender projects across liminal space (ocean-going ships) and in productive and reproductive spheres. Professor McKay is co-editor of the forthcoming New Routes for Diaspora Studies (Indiana) and working on Born to Sail? Racial Formation\, Masculinity and the Making of Filipino Seafarers. \nSteve McKay is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Labor Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies\, with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/steve-mckay-masculinities-afloat-the-fragile-gender-projects-of-filipino-migrant-sailors-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:20111102T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111102T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111021T003559Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111021T003559Z UID:10004888-1320249600-1320256800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Benjamin Cawthra\, “Envisioning Jazz: Considering Photography\, Race\, and American Music” DESCRIPTION:Benjamin Cawthra\, associate professor of history at \nBenjamin Cawthra\n\nCalifornia State University\, Fullerton and author of\nBlue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz\n(Chicago\, 2011)\, discusses the tradition of jazz\nphotography and its relationship to mid-twentieth\ncentury racial politics. Cawthra will discuss the\nconnections among the photographers\, art directors\,\neditors\, and record producers who crafted a\nlook for jazz that would sell magazines and\nalbums. And on the other side of the lens\, he\nexplores how musicians shaped their public\nimages to further their own nancial and political\ngoals. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/benjamin-cawthra-envisioning-jazz-considering-photography-race-and-american-music-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:20111103T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111103T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111031T012408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111031T012408Z UID:10004895-1320336000-1320343200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Brooke Holmes\, "The Missing Body: Authority\, Immunity\, and Objectivity in Early Greek Medical Writing" DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Program in Classical Studies presents: Professor Brooke Holmes\, Princeton University\, ‘The Missíng Body: Authority\, Immunity\, and Objectivity in Early Greek Medical Writing” \nBrooke Holms\nBrooke Holmes’ paper arises from a simple question: Why doesn’t the physician draw on his experience of his own body as a source of knowledge and authority in early Greek medical writing? In trying to answer it\, Professor Holmes argues that the very absence of the physician’s body represents an early phase in the history of disembodied authority in Western medicine and science. \nBrooke Holmes works at the intersections of Greek literature\, science and medicine\, and philosophy\, with particular interests in the history of subjectivity and the body\, materialism\, tragedy\, ethics\, critical theory\, and reception studies. She received her B.A. in Comparative Literature from Columbia and her Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton in 2005. She has taught since 2007 at Princeton\, where she is the Elias Boudinot Bicentennial Preceptorship\, Her first book\, The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece\, was published in 2010 by Princeton University Press. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/brooke-holmes-the-missing-body-authority-immunity-and-objectivity-in-early-greek-medical-writing-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111103T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111103T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20110926T235234Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110926T235234Z UID:10004617-1320343200-1320350400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: Maggie Nelson DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents Maggie Nelson. Maggie Nelson is a poet and non-fiction writer. Her work includes: The Red Parts: A Memoir\, Bluets\, and\, recently\, the 2011 release of The Art of Cruelty. Nelson’s poetry has been published in six collections; the most recent is Something Bright\, Then Holes. \nMaggie Nelson\nNelson has taught at the Graduate Writing Program of the New School\, Wesleyan University\, and Pratt Institute of Art; she currently teaches in the CalArts MFA writing program. \nFor more information about the event\, please contact Micah Perks by email atmeperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk\, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore. \nThe Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund\, the Porter Hitchcock Fund\, the UCSC Literature Department\, and the Sain Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-reading-series-maggie-nelson-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111103T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111103T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20110927T001138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110927T001138Z UID:10004618-1320343200-1320350400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: C.S. Giscombe DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents C.S. Giscombe. C.S. Giscombe’s love of the outdoors is evident in his poetry as well as his teaching at UC Berkeley\, where he has taken nonfiction classes on nature-oriented field trips. His books include Giscombe Road\, In and Out of Dislocation\, and Prairie Style. In 2008 he received the American Book award for Prairie Style. \nC.S. Giscombe\nFor more information about the event\, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk\, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore. \nThe Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund\, the Porter Hitchcock Fund\, the UCSC Literature Department\, and the Sain Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-cs-giscombe-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111104T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111104T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20110817T153207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110817T153207Z UID:10004845-1320379200-1320429600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Hagit Borer\, "In the Event of a Nominal" DESCRIPTION:Hagit Borer\nThe paper is a detailed study of the properties of Argument-Structure derived -ing nominals versus those of -ing synthetic compounds. In particular\, I show that while -ing Argument Structure nominals are compositional and have event structure\, -ing synthetic compounds do not. I further argues that these contrasts may only be accounted for by a syntactic approach to the derivation of complex words. In particular\, it can only be accounted for under complete syntactic event decomposition\, which severs not only the external but also the internal argument(s) from the root and which allows the internal structure of complex words\, so-called\, to be syntactically visible. \nTaking as a starting point the study of the human language faculty within the generative approach\, Professor Borer’s research for the past 15 years spans three sub-areas of linguistics: comparative syntax\, morphosyntax and language acquisition. Her study of inter-grammatical variation and comparative syntax led to the development of the hypothesis that this variation is reducible to the functional/inflectional component. This hypothesis\, in turn\, served as a starting point for the study of the functional/ inflectional system in general and its interaction with syntax in particular\, therefore leading to the emergence of a morphosyntactic model. From a different perspective\, these hypotheses brought about the investigation of child language and the acquisition of grammatical knowledge. \nIn recent years\, Professor Borer has been pursuing an approach which shifts the computational load away from the lexical entry to the syntactic structure\, subscribing to the view that an independent linguistic lexicon includes a minimal amount of structural information\, and that it is structural constraints which determine traditionally lexical properties such as syntactic category type and argument structure. She has pursued the consequences of that approach for morphosyntax\, for language acquisition\, and for the syntax-semantics interface. \nHagit Borer is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southern California. This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett\, nvarnett@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-hagit-borer-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:20111109T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111109T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20110815T211709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T211709Z UID:10004829-1320840000-1320845400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cary Howie\, "On Transfiguration" DESCRIPTION:Cary Howie\nProfessor Howie thinks about how contemporary American poets re-imagine early Christianity\, using transfiguration to talk about the persistence of figures as they become transformed\, and how poetic and theological concerns speak to gender and sexuality. His books include Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in Medieval Literature (Palgrave\, 2007) and the co-authored Sanctity and Pornography in Medieval Culture: On the Verge (Manchester\, 2010). \nCary Howie is Associate Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University. \nThis colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies\, with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cary-howie-on-transfiguration-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:20111109T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111109T181500 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111010T233446Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111010T233446Z UID:10004883-1320858000-1320862500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Lawrence "Ren" Weschler DESCRIPTION:Lawrence Weschler\nLawrence “Ren” Weschler will present a special lecture “Convergences” in advance of his visit to Bookshop Santa Cruz to promote his latest book\, Uncanny Valley.  In his talk Weschler will consider a spectrum of such convergent effects\, from apophenia (the tendency of humans to see patterns where none exist) through co-causation\, fractalization\, influence (forward and backward\, direct and unconscious)\, homage\, apprenticeship\, allusion\, quotation\, appropriation\, cryptonesia (verbatim appropriation without realizing you’re doing so)\, through outright plagiarism. \nA graduate of Cowell College of the University of California\, Santa Cruz (1974)\, Weschler was for over twenty years (1981–2002) a staff writer at The New Yorker\, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Awards—for Cultural Reporting in 1988 and Magazine Reporting in 1992—and was also a recipient of Lannan Literary Award (1998). Beginning in 1999\, his “Convergences” essays appeared regularly in McSweeney’s Quarterly; a collection of these essays\, Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences\, was published in 2006 and received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. \nSince 2001\, Weschler has been the director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. He taught throughout the 1990s at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. \nIn 2003\, Weschler organized and edited a pilot issue of Omnivore\, a prospective periodical described by Steven Heller as a “biannual (but hoping to be quarterly) magazine of writing and visual culture from The New York Institute of the Humanities at New York University.”[1] As of 2007\, no subsequent issues of Omnivore have been published. \nIn February 2006\, Weschler took on the position of artistic director for the Chicago Humanities Festival. \n  \n\n\nLight refreshments will be served.  Closest parking is OPERS lot. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lawrence-ren-weschler-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111109T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111109T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111103T220320Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111103T220320Z UID:10004901-1320859800-1320865200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Martin Puchner: "Re-Enactment and Site-Specific Performance" DESCRIPTION:Martin Puchner\nWhile re-enactment has long been a popular art\, it has entered performance art in two ways: through site-specific performances such as the ones orchestrated by Mike Pearson or David Levine\, which often explore the history of a place; and the re-enactment of performance art\, as in the recent case of Marina Abramovic. In both cases\, performance art and theater intersect in unexpected ways. I confront these re-enactments with a brief discussion of the New Globe\, where historical reconstruction provides the frame for the established art of theatrical revival. \nMartin Puchner is Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. After studying philosophy\, history\, and literature at the University of Konstanz\, the Università di Bologna\, UC Santa Barbara\, and UC Irvine\, he earned a Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1998. He taught English and comparative literature at Columbia University from 1998 until 2010\, before moving to Harvard University in the summer of 2010. \nThis event has been made possible by The Center for Visual and Performance Studies.\nFor more information on this speaker series please see our website: http://artsresearch.ucsc.edu/vps/reenactment \nContact Jenna Purcell at vpsucsc@gmail.com URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/martin-puchner-re-enactment-and-site-specific-performance-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111110T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111110T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20110927T002103Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110927T002103Z UID:10004619-1320948000-1320955200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: Susie Bright DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents Susie Bright. Susie Bright\, known as a “sexpert\,” is a writer\, performer\, and teacher on the subject of sexuality. A UCSC alum\, she has written several books. including Mommy’s Little Girl and How to Write a Dirty Story. Her latest work is titled Big Sex\, Little Death: A Memoir. Susie Bright has edited several publications and has a weekly program available through audible.com\, called In Bed with Susie Bright. She also founded the first women’s erotica book series\, Herotica\, and acted as editor for serval of its volumes. \nSusie Bright\nFor more information about the event\, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk\, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore. \nThe Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund\, the Porter Hitchcock Fund\, the UCSC Literature Department\, and the Sain Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-reading-series-susie-bright-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111110T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111110T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20110831T233148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110831T233148Z UID:10004856-1320951600-1320962400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sikh and Punjabi Studies: Achievements and New Directions Opening Event DESCRIPTION:In this inaugural conference for the Sikh and Punjabi Studies program at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, leading and emerging scholars will take stock of the state of the field and its future direction\, in the areas of their expertise. Sessions will cover history\, philosophy\, language and literature\, political economy\, musicology and contemporary society. \nThe conference welcomes attendance by scholars and students from all disciplines\, as well as interested members of the general public. \nUC Santa Cruz is close to the San Francisco Bay Area\, with one of the largest concentrations of Sikhs in North America. The conference especially welcomes attendance by community members. \nਜੀ ਆਇਆਂ ਨੂੰ\nWelcome from the heart! \nThe conference will begin with a welcome dinner at the University Center at 7:00 PM on Thursday\, November 10. \nRegistration is required. To register\, please visit: http://community.ucsc.edu/sikhpunjabiconference2011. \nFor further information\, please visit: http://ihr.ucsc.edu//sikhstudiesconference\, or contact Courtney Mahaney at the Institute for Humanities Research\, by phone at (831) 459-3527 or by email at cmahaney@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sikh-and-punjabi-studies-achievements-and-new-directions-opening-event-3/ LOCATION:University Center\, University Center‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20111112 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20111114 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111020T235117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111020T235117Z UID:10004887-1321056000-1321228799@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Pacific Study Group of the North American Kant Society 2011 Meeting DESCRIPTION:Kant\nThe Philosophy Department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz is proud to host the 2011 Meeting of the Pacific Study Group of the North American Kant Society November 12-13\, 2011. \nSpeaking events are open to the public and will be held in the Cowell College Conference Room. \nFor more information or to register for this conference please contact Professor Daniel Guevara via email at guevara@ucsc.edu or 831-459-3600. \n2011 Meeting Program\nSaturday November 12: \n1:00 pm David Hills (Stanford University)\n“Of the (Kantian) Standard of Taste” \n2:30 pm  Michelle Grier (University of San Diego)\n“The Transcendental Ideality of the Kantian Sublime” \n4:00 pm Julie Tannenbaum (Pomona College)\n“Kant’s notion of unconditional goodness” \n5:30 pm Business meeting \n  \nSunday\, November 13: \n8:30 am Light Breakfast \n9:00 am Samantha Matherne (University of California\, Riverside)\n“Kant and the Art of Schematism”\nWinner of the Graduate Student Travel Stipend \n10:30 am Pierre Keller (University of California\, Riverside)\n“Kant’s Copernican Revolution: Ideas as the Source of Normativity” \n12:00 pm Abe Stone (University of California\, Santa Cruz)\n“Kant on Objects and Things” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pacific-study-group-of-the-north-american-kant-society-2011-meeting-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111112T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111112T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20110831T233539Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110831T233539Z UID:10004857-1321084800-1321117200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sikh and Punjabi Studies: Achievements and New Directions Conference DESCRIPTION:In this inaugural conference for the Sikh and Punjabi Studies program at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, leading and emerging scholars will take stock of the state of the field and its future direction\, in the areas of their expertise. Sessions will cover history\, philosophy\, language and literature\, political economy\, musicology and contemporary society. \nThe conference welcomes attendance by scholars and students from all disciplines\, as well as interested members of the general public. \nUC Santa Cruz is close to the San Francisco Bay Area\, with one of the largest concentrations of Sikhs in North America. The conference especially welcomes attendance by community members. \nਜੀ ਆਇਆਂ ਨੂੰ\nWelcome from the heart! \nRegistration is required. To register\, please visit: http://community.ucsc.edu/sikhpunjabiconference2011. \nFor further information\, please visit: http://ihr.ucsc.edu//sikhstudiesconference\, or contact Courtney Mahaney at the Institute for Humanities Research\, by phone at (831) 459-3527 or by email at cmahaney@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sikh-and-punjabi-studies-achievements-and-new-directions-conference-2-3/ 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:20111112T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111112T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20110831T233920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110831T233920Z UID:10004858-1321124400-1321135200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sikh and Punjabi Studies: Achievements and New Directions Dinner DESCRIPTION:In this inaugural conference for the Sikh and Punjabi Studies program at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, leading and emerging scholars will take stock of the state of the field and its future direction\, in the areas of their expertise. Sessions will cover history\, philosophy\, language and literature\, political economy\, musicology and contemporary society. \nThe conference welcomes attendance by scholars and students from all disciplines\, as well as interested members of the general public. \nUC Santa Cruz is close to the San Francisco Bay Area\, with one of the largest concentrations of Sikhs in North America. The conference especially welcomes attendance by community members. \nਜੀ ਆਇਆਂ ਨੂੰ\nWelcome from the heart! \nRegistration is required. To register\, please visit: http://community.ucsc.edu/sikhpunjabiconference2011. \nFor further information\, please visit: http://ihr.ucsc.edu//sikhstudiesconference\, or contact Courtney Mahaney at the Institute for Humanities Research\, by phone at (831) 459-3527 or by email at cmahaney@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sikh-and-punjabi-studies-achievements-and-new-directions-dinner-2-3/ LOCATION:TBD\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111114T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111114T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111025T001750Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111025T001750Z UID:10004891-1321273800-1321279200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Scott Saul\, "What You See Is What You Get"?: Wattstax\, Richard Pryor\, and the Secret History of the Black Aesthetic in 1970s LA" DESCRIPTION:Saul Scott\nThe Urban Studies Research Cluster presents Scott Saul\, “”What You See Is What You Get”?: Wattstax\, Richard Pryor\, and the Secret History of the Black Aesthetic in 1970s LA”. This talk revolves around Pryor’s role as narrator of and interviewee in the 1973 documentary film Wattstax (about the 1972 concert held at the LA Coliseum)\, examines how the film reframes the meaning of the Watts Riots\, as well as the political/cultural role of the black community in Los Angeles. By doing so\, it addresses persistent questions issues around black aesthetics and representations or urban life. \nScott Saul is an associate professor of American Studies and English at UC-Berkeley. His first book\, Freedom Is\, Freedom Ain’t\, on jazz and the 1960s\, was the winner of the American Book Award. He writes frequently on American culture and politics for publications such as Boston Review\, Harper’s\, and The Nation. He is currently working on “Becoming Richard Pryor” which will be the first critical biography of the comedian-entertainer. The study explores the trajectory of Pryor’s  artistic development in conjunction with a set of larger historical trends: the emergence of the counterculture and the Civil Rights and Black Power movements; the debates over the “declining inner city” and the “declining working class” in 1970s culture; and the challenge posed by New Hollywood to the older studio system. \nhttp://urban.ihr.ucsc.edu/speakers/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/scott-saul-what-you-see-is-what-you-get-wattstax-richard-pryor-and-the-secret-history-of-the-black-aesthetic-in-1970s-la-3/ LOCATION:College 8\, Room 301\, College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111114T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111114T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20110919T231930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110919T231930Z UID:10004610-1321297200-1321304400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Caren Kaplan\, "The Visual Culture of Stealth: Interpretation & Deception in Militarized Aeromobility DESCRIPTION:Caren KaplanCaren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies at the University of California\, Davis and is Affiliated Faculty in Film Studies\, Cultural Studies\, and Science & Technology Studies. \nProfessor Kaplan authored Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (Duke\, 1996) and co-authored and co-edited Introduction to Women’s Studies: Gender in a Transnational World (McGraw-Hill\, 2001/2005); Between Woman and Nation: Transnational Feminisms and the State (Duke\, 1999); Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices (Minnesota\, 1994); and two digital multimedia scholarly works\, Dead Reckoning and Precision Targets. \nThis colloquium is presented by Visual and Media Culture\, with cosponsorships from the History of Art and Visual Culture\, Film & Digital Media\, and the Arts Division. For further information and to receive the readings\, please contact visualmedia@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/caren-kaplan-the-visual-culture-of-stealth-interpretation-deception-in-militarized-aeromobility-3/ LOCATION:Communications\, Room 139\, Communications Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111114T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111114T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111102T205732Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111102T205732Z UID:10004899-1321297200-1321304400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gershom Gorenberg: Distinguished Alumni Lecture DESCRIPTION:Gershom Gorenberg\nUCSC alumnus Gershom Gorenberg is the author of the forthcoming book\, The Unmaking of Israel\, on the crisis of Israeli democracy and how to solve it. The book will be published in November by HarperCollins and is now available for pre-order at all the usual places. \nGershom’s previous book is The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements\, 1967-1977 (Times Books). Based on previously unpublished documents and extensive interviews\, The Accidental Empire presents a strikingly new picture of Israel’s post-1967 history\, of major Israeli leaders\, and of Israel-U.S. relations. \nHe is also the author of The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount\, which portrays the role of religious radicalism in the Mideast conflict. He co-authored The Jerusalem Report’s 1996 biography of Yitzhak Rabin\, Shalom Friend\, winner of the National Jewish Book Award\, and edited Seventy Facets: A Commentary on the Torah from the Pages from the Jerusalem Report. \nAs a commentator on Middle East affairs and the interface of religion and politics\, Gershom has appeared on Sixty Minutes\, Nightline\, Dateline\, Fresh Air and on CNN and BBC. For many years an associate editor of The Jerusalem Report\, he is now a senior correspondent for The American Prospect. He has written for The Atlantic Monthly\, The New York Times Magazine\, The New Republic\, Mother Jones and in Hebrew for Ha’aretz. \nGershom has been a visiting professor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism\, and has lectured at the Council on Foreign Relations\, the Carnegie Council\, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy\, the Middle East Institute\, the Wexner Graduate Fellowship\, and for universities\, congregations and other organizations seeking a nuanced view of politics\, Mideast affairs and religion. \nGershom was born in St. Louis and grew up in California. After graduating from the University of California at Santa Cruz\, he came to Israel in 1977 and earned an MA in education at the Hebrew University. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife\, journalist Myra Noveck\, and their three children\, Yehonatan\, Yasmin and Shir-Raz. He is an active member of Kehillat Yedidya\, the pioneering progressive Orthodox congregation in South Jerusalem. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gershom-gorenberg-distinguished-alumni-lecture-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111116T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111116T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20110815T212030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T212030Z UID:10004832-1321444800-1321450200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Deanna Shemek\, "Digital Princess: Toward an Open-Access Online Archive of Renaissance Correspondence" DESCRIPTION:Deanna Shemek\nProfessor Shemek studies intersections of elite and popular culture in early modern Italy\, especially among women. Her current research focuses on early modern letter writing. She is completing an edition of Isabella d’Este’s letters and a book on the broader significance of early modern women’s letters. The talk addresses plans to digitize the manuscript sources for her edition and visualize the social network of a Renaissance princess. \nDeanna Shemek is Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies\, with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deanna-shemek-digital-princess-toward-an-open-access-online-archive-of-renaissance-correspondence-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:20111116T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111116T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20110802T163403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110802T163403Z UID:10004600-1321448400-1321455600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:A Public Dialogue with Jean Baumgarten and Nathaniel Deutsch DESCRIPTION:One of the most important—and least appreciated—categories that Jews have employed to experience the world Jewishly is minhag\, a Hebrew word typically translated into English as “custom.” Historically\, minhag enabled Jews to transform practically every event and action into something with Jewish meaning; it also enabled Jews to differentiate themselves from non-Jews\, as well as from Jews from other places or backgrounds (e.g.\, Ashkenazi vs. Sephardi). Significantly\, some Jewish sources went so far as to define minhag as a form of Torah and stressed the importance of maintaining minhagim (the plural form of minhag)\, while other sources cautioned against the dangers of blindly following minhagim. For centuries\, Jews learned minhagim mimetically\, that is\, by imitating other members of their community or family and through oral transmission. In the early modern period\, however\, Jews also began to publish printed collections of minhagim\, eventually creating a literary genre that exists to this day among Ultra-Orthodox Jews. In the twentieth century\, the collection and study of minhagim became one of the central interests of the first ethnographers of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. \nIn this public dialogue\, Professor Jean Baumgarten\, a world-renowned expert on Yiddish minhag literature and Professor Nathaniel Deutsch\, whose recently published book The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement (Harvard University Press) explores the groundbreaking ethnographic work of S. An-sky\, will discuss the history and significance of minhag in its many facets. \nJean Baumgarten\, is Professor and Directeur de Recherche (CNRS)\, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique\, Centre des Hautes Etudes Juives\, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales\, in France. \nGenerous support provided by the David B. Gold Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jean-baumgarten-and-nathaniel-deutsch-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20111117 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20111118 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111114T191033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111114T191033Z UID:10004907-1321488000-1321574399@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Long Bui\, "Ms. Little Saigon: Through the Looking Glass of Art\, Politics and Community" DESCRIPTION:Feminist Studies presents Long Bui\, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow\nMs. Little Saigon: Through the Looking Glass of Art\, Politics and Community \nThis presentation examines the historical legacy of the Vietnam War as it continues to shape political conflicts and ideological differences within the Vietnamese diasporic community. Recognizing the power of cultural media and production to symbolize ideas about nation\, gender and class\, I investigate a recent public controversy involving mass protests by hundreds of people demonstrating against an art exhibit produced by the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association in Orange County\, California. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/long-bui-ms-little-saigon-through-the-looking-glass-of-art-politics-and-community-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:20111117T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111117T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111116T203847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111116T203847Z UID:10004943-1321538400-1321545600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Giancarlo Casale\, "What did it mean to be European in the Sixteenth Century? A View from the Ottoman Empire" DESCRIPTION:The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk. \nGiancarlo Casale is a specialist in the history of the early modern Ottoman empire\, although he also has interests in the history of geography and cartography\, global exploration\, and comparative empires. He has just completed my first book\, “The Ottoman Age of Exploration\,” about the history of Ottoman expansion in the Indian Ocean during the sixteenth century. The book was based on extensive research in the archives of both Turkey and Portugal\, and explored the ways in which the growth of the Ottoman Empire was part of the same historical process that witnessed the expansion of numerous other imperial powers\, ranging from the overseas empires of Spain and Portugal to rival Islamic states like Mughal India and Safavid Iran. His next major project\, tentatively titled “Curiosity and Intolerance: The Paradox of Early Modernity\,” is a comparative study of the development of ethnographic modes of writing in early modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire. At the same time he is also engaged in several smaller research projects on topics including corsairs and the development of Ottoman naval technology\, the connection between naval power and deforestation in the Mediterranean region\, and a geo-historical study of the earthquake of Dubrovnik in 1667. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/giancarlo-casale-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111117T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111117T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20110927T003653Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110927T003653Z UID:10004860-1321552800-1321560000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: David Vann DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents David Vann. David Vann writes both fiction and non-fiction and has won several awards\, including the Grace Paley Prize 2007\, California Book Award 2008\, the Prix Medicis 2010\, and the Premi Libreter 2011. David Vann’s work has been published by 22 different publishers in 16 different languages. His books have appeared on 43 Best Book lists in 10 countries. His works include Caribou Island\, Sukkwan Island\, A Mile Down and Legends of a Suicide.  \nDavid Vann\nDavid Vann is an assistant professor of English at University of San Francisco. He teaches creative nonfiction and fiction. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. \nFor more information about the event\, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk\, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore. \nThe Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund\, the Porter Hitchcock Fund\, the UCSC Literature Department\, and the Sain Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/david-van-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111118T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111118T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20110817T154003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110817T154003Z UID:10004846-1321632000-1321639200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Laurence R. Horn\,"On the Contrary: Pragmatic Strengthening and Disjunctive Syllogism" DESCRIPTION:Laurence R. Horn\nOn the Contrary: \nPragmatic Strengthening and Disjunctive Syllogism \n  \nThe dictum that “The essence of formal negation is to invest the contrary with the character of the contradictory” (Bosanquet 1888) describes the tendency for contradictory (apparent wide-scope) negation to be semantically or pragmatically strengthened to contrary readings whenever possible. This tendency is illustrated by lexicalization asymmetries (e.g. none ‘all not’ vs. *nall ‘not all’) and the widespread diachronic reanalyses of weaker negatives to contraries (e.g Il ne faut pas partir —literally = ‘one need not leave’ > ‘one must not-leave’). \nOutside the lexical domain\, contrary strengthening typically instantiates the inference schema of disjunctive syllogism (modus tollendo ponens): \n  f v j \n  ¬ f \n  j \nThe role of the disjunctive syllogism can be detected in a variety of strengthening shifts in natural language where the disjunctive premise in question is pragmatically presupposed in relevant contexts. It will be shown that a range of apparently quite diverse phenomena—negative strengthening in lexical and clausal contexts (e.g. neg-raising)\, scope adjustments with negated plural definites and bare plurals\, epistemic strengthening of weak implicature in both main and embedded contexts\, conjunctive readings of free choice disjunction\, and children’s word learning strategies\, among others—can be collected under the umbrella of pragmatic strengthening as reflexes of the general preference for contrariety\, the operation of disjunctive syllogism\, or both. \nLaurence R. Horn is Professor of Linguistics and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Yale University. Professor Horn’s primary research program lies in the union (if not the intersection) of classical logic\, lexical semantics\, and neo-Gricean pragmatic theory. He has been particularly concerned with the exploration of natural language negation and its relation to other operators. He specializes in pragmatics\, semantics\, syntax\, language & gender. \nThis talk is presented by the Santa Cruz Linguistics and Philosophy Group\, a research center of the Institute for Humanities Research. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network and the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett\, nvarnett@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-laurence-horn-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:20111120T030000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111120T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111116T201608Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111116T201608Z UID:10004909-1321758000-1321808400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:2nd Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading featuring Kay Ryan DESCRIPTION:THE 2nd ANNUAL MORTON MARCUS MEMOMRIAL POETRY READING honors poet\, teacher and film critic Morton Marcus (1936-2009)\, one of Santa Cruz’s beloved cultural icons. This second annual event will feature Kay Ryan\, Pullitzer Prize winner and U.S. Poet Laureate (2008-2010). \nFREE ADMISSION. Seating is limited. Parking $6. \nMARCUS POETRY ARCHIVE EXHIBIT. An exhibit feturing the Morton Marcus Poetry Archive will be open for viewing in Special Collections at the UC McHenry Library on Sunday\, November 20 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM. \nDIRECTIONS: Map to UCSC Music Recital Hall. Click Here. \nSPONSORS: Poetry Santa Cruz\, Ow Family Properties\, Cabrillo College English Department\, University of California at Santa Cruz\, Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nFor more information: http://www.mortonmarcus.com/reading_current.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mortonmarcus-3/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111122T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111122T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111116T205037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111116T205037Z UID:10004637-1321970400-1321977600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Joshua White "Catch and Release: Piracy\, Slavery\, and Law in the Early Modern Ottoman Mediterranean" DESCRIPTION:The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk. \nBeginning in the 1570s\, incidents of piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean increased exponentially\, as the conclusion of the war for Cyprus with Venice and the withdrawal of the imperial navies left behind numerous underemployed and unsupervised Ottoman naval irregulars and opened the door to all manner of pirates from further afield\, both Christian and Muslim. The seventeenth century has often been referred to as the “golden age of piracy\,” but one aspect of the spectacular rise in maritime violence in this period that has not received adequate attention is the Ottoman administrative and legal response to illegal slave-raiding in its waters. Unscrupulous Ottoman pirates frequently snatched Ottoman subjects and the subjects of the Ottomans’ treaty-partners from ships and shores in contravention of Islamic and sultanic law. The Ottoman government routinely ordered these captives found and freed and was sometimes willing to go to great lengths to ensure that they were released and sent home. In this talk\, I shift the spotlight away from the pirates and onto the administrators\, jurists\, and victims—those who had to contend most with the consequences of maritime violence. \nJoshua Michael White studies the social\, legal\, and diplomatic history of the early modern Ottoman Empire and the Mediterranean. A doctoral candidate in History at the University of Michigan\, he earned an M.A in History from the same institution in 2007\, a certificate in Arabic from the CASA program at the American University in Cairo in 2005\, and a B.A. in History and Islamic Studies from Washington University in St. Louis. His dissertation examines the impact of piracy and amphibious slave-raiding in the early modern Mediterranean from the Ottoman perspective\, arguing that increasing maritime violence in the Mediterranean after the 1570s had a tremendous effect on the formation of international law\, the conduct of diplomacy\, the articulation of Ottoman imperial and Islamic law\, and their application in local Ottoman courts. He has conducted dissertation research in Istanbul\, Venice\, London\, and Crete with the support of fellowships and grants from the Council of American Overseas Research Centers\, Fulbright-Hays\, the American Research Institute in Turkey\, and the University of Michigan. His writing is presently supported by a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. He is also the organizer and instructor for the ongoing U-M Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies’ Fall Colloquium Series\, “Pirates of the Mediterranean.”  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joshua-white-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:20111129T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111129T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111116T204729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111116T204729Z UID:10004635-1322575200-1322582400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jennifer Derr\, Talk title TBA DESCRIPTION:The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk. \nJennifer Derr has her B.S. from Stanford University; M.A.\, Georgetown University; Ph.D.\, Stanford. Areas of academic interest include modern Middle Eastern history\, African history\, Ottoman Empire\, early Islamic history. Fellow\, Society of Junior Fellows in British Studies\, University of Texas at Austin (2009–10); James Birdsall Weter Memorial Fund Dissertation Grant (2008–09); Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2007–08). Has taught at American University in Cairo\, University of California at Davis\, Stanford University. Articles in Arab Studies Journal\, Middle East Report\, Molecular and Cellular Biology. At Bard since 2010. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jennifer-derr-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111130T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111130T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20110815T212309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T212309Z UID:10004843-1322654400-1322659800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Herman Gray\, "At the Limit of Representation: Neoliberalism\, Media and African American Visibility" DESCRIPTION:Herman Gray\nWith African Americans as the primary example\, Professor Gray probes the social\, intellectual\, and political investment in the cultural politics of recognition and visibility in the context of neoliberalism\, suggesting that with neoliberalism we have reached the limit of such investments. Looking beyond this investment in representation\, recognition and visibility\, he examines what other critical modes and sites of cultural analysis and politics are possible. \nHerman Gray is Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies\, with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/herman-gray-at-the-limit-of-representation-neoliberalism-media-and-african-american-visibility-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:20111130T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111130T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111123T230813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111123T230813Z UID:10004642-1322656200-1322661600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther: "Abstraction\, the Abstract\, and Abstractionism: Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives" DESCRIPTION:Rasmus Grønfeldt WintherConcepts\, models\, and theories; words\, propositions\, and language; are typically understood as abstract representations and abstract maps. The abstract allows us to navigate tentatively and successfully through the concrete world with which we interact as laymen and scientists; adults and infants. How does abstraction take place? What is the abstract\, and what is it used for? What are the dangers and limits of both overextending abstractions beyond their appropriate conditions of application\, and separating the abstract too much from the concrete\, the general too much from the specific\, and the universal too much from the particular – i.e.\, of abstractionism? \nThis talk explores a variety of analyses of abstraction\, the abstract\, and abstractionism from psychology (e.g.\, Barsalou’s “abstraction in perceptual symbol systems\,” Gopnik’s and Murphy & Medin’s “theory theory\,” and early Kurt Lewin\, F. A. Hayek\, and Ohlsson and Lehtinen’s “primacy of the abstract”) and from philosophy (e.g.\, the pragmatism of James and Dewey\, the neo-Kantianism of Kuhn and Friedman\, and the “kinds of people” analyses of Hacking\, following Foucault). The talk also relates abstraction (and the abstract) to closely related—perhaps even co-constitutive—concepts and processes: (1) analogizing (and analogies)\, (2) mapping (and maps)\, and (3) distinction-making (and distinctions). In short\, a philosophical and psychological anthropology of abstraction\, the abstract\, and abstractionism is the aim. \nReading: “The Knife and the One” (PDF) \nRasmus Grønfeldt Winther is Associate Professor of Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rasmus-gronfeldt-winther-abstraction-the-abstract-and-abstractionism-psychological-and-philosophical-perspectives-3/ LOCATION:Social Sciences 2\, Room 121\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95604\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111130T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111130T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111121T232210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111121T232210Z UID:10004639-1322672400-1322679600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Alide Cagidemetrio: “Choosing Venice: Seduction\, Henry James\, and The Wings of the Dove” DESCRIPTION:Professor Alide Cagidemetrio of the University of Venice will speak on\n“Choosing Venice: Seduction\, Henry James\, and The Wings of the Dove” \nProfessor Cagidemetrio will offer some observations about details in the novel\, 19th century Venice\, James’s biography\, and some literary themes such as don juanism\, thinking to reinstate curiosity as a legitimate part of aesthetic pleasure. To begin the process\, attached is an image of a detail from mosaics of San Marco\, and one of Whistler’s lagoon paintings. \nAt the reception following her talk\, Professor Cagidemetriou will discuss the benefits of collaboration between the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari and UCSC and the possibility of summer courses in Venice. \nThis event is made possible from generous support from the David B. Gold Foundation. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alide-cagidemetrio-choosing-venice-seduction-henry-james-and-the-wings-of-the-dove-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:20111202T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111202T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20110817T155027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110817T155027Z UID:10004847-1322841600-1322848800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Karen Jesny: "The Interaction of Markedness Factors in Child Consonant Cluster Acquisition" DESCRIPTION:Karen Jesny\nConsonant clusters introduce multiple sources of markedness that must be mastered in the course of phonological acquisition. This talk considers how segmental markedness\, sonority\, and cluster status interact in the acquisition process. Two case studies are presented. The first\, drawing on data from the English-acquiring child Trevor (Compton & Streeter 1977\, Pater 1997) illustrates how increased segmental markedness can lead to lags in coda cluster acquisition\, with a preference for deletion of the segment that contributes the additional markedness. This basic pattern eludes Optimality Theory\, but can be modeled within Harmonic Grammar (Legendre\, Miyata & Smolensky 1990\, Smolensky & Legendre 2006)\, where weighted constraints interact in a linear fashion. The second case study draws on data from the acquisition of Dutch (Fikkert 1994\, Levelt 1994)\, focusing on cases where sonority and segmental markedness present conflicting demands. Here\, segmental factors provide a better explanation for the accuracy and general repair patterns than the sonority cline of the cluster. At the same time\, however\, the precise simplification patterns observed – specifically the choice of which segment is deleted – are\, to the extent possible\, governed by sonority. These complex patterns extend beyond what can be modeled through the linear interaction of simple constraints in Harmonic Grammar\, and argue in favour of a more articulated series of segmental licensing constraints. \nKaren Jesny is a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts. Her primary interests are in phonological theory\, phonological acquisition\, and learnability. \nThis talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett\, nvarnett@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-karen-jesny-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:20120110T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120110T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120103T190600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120103T190600Z UID:10004654-1326193200-1326198600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:John Mowitt: "Radio Silence" DESCRIPTION:John Mowitt\nThe emergent field of “radio studies” has given new impetus to the study of radio. Specifically\, as the name suggests\, “radio studies” has fused an older set of disciplinary preoccupations more typically associated with the concerns of “journalism and mass communications” to the engagements\, at once theoretical and political\, of “cultural studies.” What this has enabled is the formulation of a set of problematics that have less to do with issues of audience\, broadcasts\, personalities and the like\, and more to do with the conceptual puzzles raised by the experiences transformed in and through radio. In this paper\, the puzzle at issue is that of “silence.” In what ways does radiophonic transmission expose us to features of silence that call for theoretical attention? What do the silences of radio provoke us to think about radio itself? Although the matter of music is not engaged explicitly\, this line of reflection is meant to remind us that John Cage was interested in both silence and radio. \nJohn Mowitt is Professor of Cultural Studies\, Comparative Literature\, and English at the University of Minnesota. \nThis event is presented by the History of Consciousness Department at UCSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-mowitt-radio-silence-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:20120118T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120118T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111202T001059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111202T001059Z UID:10004645-1326888000-1326895200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Anna Tsing: "Critical Description After Progress" DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nAnna Tsing\nAnna Tsing\nProfessor\, Anthropology\, UCSC \n“Critical Description After Progress” \nProfessor Tsing’s current research tracks the commerce and ecology of a high-value wild mushroom to illuminate contemporary dilemmas of capitalism and multispecies life.  The in-progress Living in Ruins explores the consequences of building capitalist supply chains among cultural and biological histories of disturbance and precarious survival. \n———————————————————————————————————— \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors.  The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion.  We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/csc-anna-tsing-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:20120119T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120119T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120110T205600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120110T205600Z UID:10004658-1326994200-1326999600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Visual Performance Studies Presents: Kimberly Jannarone DESCRIPTION:Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series\, 2011-2012 \n\n \n\nKimberly Jannarone \n Theater Arts\, Digital Arts and New Media\, History of Consciousness\, UCSC \nMemory and Mass Performance \nThe recent retrospective of the work of Marina Abramovic at MOMA in New York brought to wide public attention the phenomenon of what she called the “reperformance” of her earlier work\, which had only existed until then as one-time events recorded on film.  Bringing this ephemeral performance work into the museum space as a live artifact raised consciousness of a broader trend currently taking place in contemporary dance\, theatre\, film\, video and performance art.  Reenactment raises questions of the differences between reconstruction\, revival\, adaptation\, reinvention\, quotation\, amplification\, and the kinds of temporalities these strategies to recover past performance signify. But beyond the terminological questions\, issues of artist identity\, authenticity\, and history emerge in direct relationship with performative documentary activity. The question of the event and the document become dramatically foregrounded. The question of trauma and catharsis in relation to reenactment is salient as became clear in our first seminar with Chip Lord and Magaret Morse. \n\n\n\nReenactment of the work of one artist by another has been a form of contemporary creativity in theatre\, film\, dance\, and performance for some time\, but has been gaining momentum as a major trend of artistic production and research.  Clearly\, it evokes the connections of historiography and interpretation to art making that documents the past in a non-literal or even paradoxical yet exacting and rigorous way that evades certain mimetic conventions.  It is time to ask what sorts of temporality are deployed in reenactments\, and how new sorts of temporality reframe notions of documentation\, reconstruction/reinvention\, citation/quotation\, and amplification of an earlier work or event in the contemporary moment. \nThis year-long speaker series will present artists and scholars specializing in this area of contemporary creativity. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vps-jannarone-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120119T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120119T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111207T214307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111207T214307Z UID:10004961-1326996000-1327002300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:R. Zamora Linmark: "Collaborators\, Collectors & Collectives" DESCRIPTION:R. Zamora Linmark\nCreative Writing and Literature present:\nUCSC Winter Living Writers Series \nR. Zamora Linmark \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives\nRonaldo V. Wilson\, Visiting Assistant Professor \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities.  Whether as editors\, publishers\, activists\, teachers\, multi-media artists\, and/or co-collaborators\, the featured poets in this series present work that reflects their dynamic engagements in the world. \nThursdays / 6:00 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nContact: Ronaldo V. Wilson\, rvwilson@ucsc.edu or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu \nCo-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lws-r-zamora-linmark-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120120T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120120T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120119T195308Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120119T195308Z UID:10005045-1327068000-1327075200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Chris Chen: "An Axiomatic Chorus": Serial Black Identities and Allegories of Improvisation in Nathaniel Mackey's DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for\na position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary): \nChris Chen \n“An Axiomatic Chorus”: Serial Black Identities and Allegories of Improvisation in Nathaniel Mackey’s\nFrom A Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate. \nChristopher Chen is a Holloway Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California\, Berkeley. He received a Ph.D. at Berkeley in 2011 and an MFA in poetry writing from the Iowa Writers Workshop. His dissertation is a comparative study of contemporary African American and Asian American poetry\, which explores how the pervasive use of non-narrative\, serial poetic forms registers intra- and interracial conflict and foregrounds the question of racial comparison as both impossible and unavoidable in the post-civil rights era. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/chris-chen-an-axiomatic-chorus-serial-black-identities-and-allegories-of-improvisation-in-nathaniel-mackeys-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:20120123T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120123T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111207T204936Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111207T204936Z UID:10004951-1327321800-1327327200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mohammed Bamyeh: “Revolutionary Ethics and the Making of the Arab Spring” DESCRIPTION:The Sociology Colloquium Series presents:\nMohammed Bamyeh\nProfessor of Sociology\, University of Pittsburgh \n“Revolutionary Ethics and the Making of the Arab Spring” \nMohammed Bamyeh\nCo-sponsored by History of Consciousness\, Politics\, and Colleges 9 & 10 \nFor more information: http://socyeventsucsc.wordpress.com and http://urban.ihr.ucsc.edu \nFor accessibility\, contact: Barbara Laurence\, balauren@ucsc.edu \nEvent Contact: Deborah Gould\, dbgould@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/scc-mohammed-bamyeh-3/ LOCATION:College 8\, Room 301\, College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120123T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120123T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111207T210244Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111207T210244Z UID:10004953-1327332600-1327338000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:POSTPONED: The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: Nathaniel Deutsch DESCRIPTION:LECTURE POSTPONED: The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium prevention of Nathaniel Deutsch\,“The Jewish Dark Continent: Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement” / has ben postponed from This Monday\, January 23rd to Monday\, March 12 / 3:30 pm\, 261 Social Science 1 \nThe Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: \nNathaniel Deutsch\nNathaniel Deutsch\, Professor of History\, UCSC \n\n\n“The Jewish Dark Continent:  Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement”\nOn the eve of World War I\, the Russian Jewish writer\, socialist revolutionary\, and aspiring ethnographer named An-sky set out on an ethnographic expedition into the Pale of Settlement\, the area of the Russian Empire to which a vast majority of its Jews were restricted prior to the Revolution. Over the course of three seasons\, An-sky and his team recorded thousands of tales\, jokes\, and incantations\, took hundreds of photos\, and collected numerous artifacts\, manuscripts\, and other objects. They also designed a massive life-cycle questionnaire consisting of 2087 questions entitled “The Jewish Ethnographic Program” for use in the field. An-sky’s goal was to document the traditional Jewish life of the Pale of Settlement before it disappeared forever and\, in the process\, to create a distinctly Jewish ethnography. \nNathaniel Deutsch is Professor of History and Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he is also the Director of the Institute for Humanities Research and the Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies. He has been a professor at Swarthmore College\, a visiting professor at Stanford University\, and the The Workmen’s Circle/Dr. Emanuel Patt Visiting Professor in Eastern European Jewish Studies at the YIVO Institute. Deutsch is the author of five books\, most recently The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement(Harvard University Press\, 2011)\, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. \nContact: Allyson Ramage\, aramage@ucsc.edu for more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/acc-nathaniel-deutsch-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120125T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120125T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111202T003011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111202T003011Z UID:10004646-1327492800-1327500000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Neville Hoad: "Colonial Erotopolitics: Customary Law and Migrant Labor Sexuality" DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: \nNeville Hoad\nAssociate Professor\, English and Women’s and Gender Studies\, UT Austin \n“Colonial Erotopolitics: Customary Law and Migrant Labor Sexuality” \nAuthor of African Intimacies: Race\, Homosexuality and Globalization (Minnesota 2007)\, Professor Hoad is working on a book about representations of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. He focuses on A.S. Mopeli-Paulus and Peter Lanham’s Blanket Boy’s Moon to amplify the dissonances between culture and law on the terrain of sexuality. \n———————————————————————————————————— \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors.  The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion.  We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/csc-neville-hoad-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:20120125T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120125T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120119T200838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120119T200838Z UID:10005046-1327500000-1327507200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gerard Passannante: "Little Big World: Disaster and the Materialist Imagination" DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Early Modern Comparative Studies/Shakespeare. \nProfessor Passannante looks at the habit of making much of little–shifting between small things (details\, fossilized seashells\, words) and big ideas. Tracing this disaster-courting habit of mind from the writings of Montaigne and Shakespeare’s Othello to Robert Hooke’s discourses on earthquakes and the work of Vico and Boulanger\, he argues that this most familiar operation has deep roots in the ways that early modern readers came to terms with the hidden violence of the materialist imagination. \nGerard Passannante received his B.A. from Yale in 2000 and Ph.D. from Princeton in 2007. He is the author of a number of articles on the history of science and literature in the Renaissance\, and has recently published a book entitled The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition (Chicago). Professor Passannante has been a Rome Prize fellow at the American Academy in Rome and has had fellowships at The Folger Shakespeare Library and The National Humanities Center.\nAt 4:30 pm\, Professor Passannante will conduct a graduate-student-only seminar on Carlo Ginzburg’s “Clues” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gerard-passannante-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:20120126T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120126T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120104T203808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120104T203808Z UID:10004657-1327573800-1327600800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"What is a Reader?" Day of Events DESCRIPTION:Alberto Manguel: "Homage to Humpty Dumpty\, or Can We Make Words Say What We Want Them to Say?"The Teagle Fund Working Group\, “What is a Reader?” invites you to attend a day of events to be hosted at the University of California\, Santa Cruz on January 26th\, 2012. \nWhat is a Reader? is a multi-campus project supported by the Teagle Foundation’s Big Questions in the Disciplines initiative. Established in 2009 by faculty members in English and Literature departments from Mills College\, Stanford University\, UC Berkeley\, and UC Santa Cruz\, the group seeks to understand undergraduate literacy today in historical perspective and its implications for the study of literature at the college level. Please see: whatisareader.stanford.edu. \nOur special event will be a public lecture by book historian\, novelist\, and essayist Alberto Manguel at 5 PM in Humanities 1\, Room 210. See poster for details. In addition\, faculty\, staff\, and graduate students are warmly invited to two events earlier the same day.\n \n10:30-12:30 UCSC MCHENRY LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS. TWO LECTURES.\nElisabeth Remak-Honnef\, McHenry Library Special Collections\n“Ten Weeks with Medieval Books in McHenry Library” \nElisabeth Remak-Honnef is the Rare Books Librarian and bibliographer for Art History\, Art and Classics at McHenry Library. Before coming to UC Santa Cruz in 1995\, she worked for many years at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek cataloging medieval Latin manuscripts. She received her advanced degrees from the University of North Carolina (PhD Comparative Literature) and the Ecole nationale des Chartes in Paris (archiviste-paléographe). \nSince 2001\, she has regularly taught an upper-division class on the history of the medieval book for the Art History and History departments at UC Santa Cruz. The course provides a survey of the evolution of book production and use in medieval Europe. Concentrating primarily on the relationship between text and image in medieval illuminated manuscripts in the art history class and on the power of writing and book collections in the history class\, students examine how and for whom books were made\, how they were decorated and used\, and how they have survived. This talk will explore how students read and think about reading after an introduction to codicology. \nHeidi Brayman Hackell\, University of California\, Riverside Department of English\n“Early Modern Scenes of Reading” \nWhere did early moderns read? What objects conjured up a scene of reading in early modern drama and prose fiction? This talk will explore the materials that ornamented scenes of reading\, the tools readers used\, and the primary objects of readerly attention – books\, broadsides\, letters\, inscriptions\, images – in order to interrogate the category of the “reader” in early modern England. \nHeidi Brayman Hackel is Associate Professor of English at the University of California\, Riverside. She is the author of Reading Material in Early Modern England: Print\, Gender\, and Literacy (2005) and co-editor of Reading Women: Literacy\, Authorship\, and Culture in the Atlantic World\, 1500-1800 (2008) and Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (forthcoming 2012). Her current book project is titled “Dumb Eloquence: Deafness\, Muteness\, and Gesture in Early Modern England.”\n \n1:30-3:30 UCSC MCHENRY LIBRARY\, SECOND FLOOR. WORKSHOP DISCUSSION OF ESSAYS.\nThe Teagle Workshop group will be discussing a suite of articles related to the topic of our event\, “Spaces of Reading\, Objects of Reading.” These readings follow upon those we shared at previous Teagle Workshops\, which may be found listed on our group’s Website: whatisareader.stanford.edu \nBrayman Hackel\, Heidi. “Reading Women.” The History of British Women’s Writing\, 1500-1610 (Vol. 2). New York: Palgrave Macmillan\, 2010. 17-33. \nThis article addresses the challenges of discerning women as readers in the sixteenth century\, examining multiple forms of historical evidence of women’s literacy such as diaries and memoirs while carefully distinguishing different reading practices. Evidence of gendered differences in literacy belies any simple assertion that most women were illiterate and therefore not reading. \nGrafton\, Anthony. “Apocalypse in the stacks? The research library in the age of Google.” Daedalus (Winter 2009): 87-98 \nThis article provides an overview of the logistics of traditional print vs. newer online repositories in libraries\, weighing the costs and benefits of both models. Grafton explains that online media are not replacing print media\, but that both are proliferating at once\, putting dual pressures on university libraries. He explores the changes the Internet has brought to research and reading practices as well as to libraries. \nManguel\, Alberto. “The Library as Power.” The Library at Night. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf\, 2006. 91-104. \nThis chapter explores the totemic power granted books and the power of libraries as monuments and memorials founded by public figures. Though built to consolidate power\, ironically\, public libraries such as the Carnegie Libraries had the effect of empowering the public that used them. \nPoblete\, Juan. “Reading as a Historical Practice in Latin America: The first Colonial Period to the Nineteenth Century.” The Literary Cultures of Latin America: A Comparative History (Vol. 1: Configurations of Literary Culture). Oxford: Oxford University Press\, 2004. Eds. Mario J. Valdes and Djelal Kadir. 178-192. \nThis article argues for an understanding of the social\, collective production of meaning in the interpretation of texts\, rather than a decontextualized discourse analysis. This understanding of the location of reading practices is applied to pre-colonial and colonial situations in the reception and understanding of texts in Latin America. The essay offer suggestive points of departure for discussion of the formation of communities of readers in the new media of today. \nInterested faculty\, staff\, and graduates students are welcome to join us. For pdf copies of these readings\, contact Laurel Peacock.\n \n5:00 HUMANITIES 1\, ROOM 210. ALBERTO MANGUEL: “HOMAGE TO HUMPTY DUMPTY\, OR CAN WE MAKE WORDS SAY WHAT WE WANT THEM TO SAY?” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/what-is-a-reader-day-of-events-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120127T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120127T163000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120125T012424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120125T012424Z UID:10004660-1327672800-1327681800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Erica Edwards: "You've become so...American: The Post-9/11 Turn in African American Literature" DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for\na position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary) \nErica R. Edwards is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California\, Riverside and the author of Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership (University of Minnesota Press\, 2011). Her work on African American literature\, politics\, and gender critique has appeared in Callaloo\, American Quarterly\, American Literary History\, and Women and Performance. She is currently at work on a book project titled The Other Side of Terror: African American Literature after 9/11. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/erica-edwards-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:20120130T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120130T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111207T210834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111207T210834Z UID:10004955-1327937400-1327942800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED: The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: David Graeber DESCRIPTION:The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: \nDavid Graeber\nDavid Graeber\, Goldsmith’s University of London \nMonday\, January 30 / 3:30 – 5:00 pm / 261 Social Science 1 \nContact: Allyson Ramage\, aramage@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/acc-avid-graeber-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120130T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120130T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111207T212011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111207T212011Z UID:10004957-1327950000-1327957200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Leigh Raiford: “Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle” DESCRIPTION:The Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium Presents: \nProfessor Leigh Raiford\, African American Studies\, UCB\nAffiliated Faculty in Film Studies\, Cultural Studies\, and Science & Technology Studies \n“Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle” \nLeigh Raiford\nAll readings will be available two weeks prior to talk. \nCo-sponsored by the History of Art and Visual Culture\, Film & Digital Media\, and the Arts Division. \nDepartmental sites:\nhttp://film.ucsc.edu/news_events\nhttp://havc.ucsc.edu/news_events \nTo receive readings\, contact visualmedia@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vmcc-professor-leigh-raiford-3/ LOCATION:Communications\, Room 139\, Communications Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120201T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120201T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111202T003455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111202T003455Z UID:10004648-1328097600-1328104800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Alice Yang: “Can the President be Torturer in Chief? John Yoo\, Executive Authority and Historical Memory” DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nAlice Yang\nAlice Yang\nAssociate Professor\, History\, UCSC\nCo-Director\, Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories \n“Can the President be Torturer in Chief? John Yoo\, Executive Authority and Historical Memory” \nProfessor Yang examines the legal reasoning of the former Justice Department lawyer’s “torture memos” and his arguments that Al Qaeda and Taliban members were not entitled to protections under the Geneva Convention. She explores how Yoo and his critics relied on different historical memories during debates about torture and executive authority. \n———————————————————————————————————— \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors.  The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion.  We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/csc-alice-yan-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:20120202T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120110T212630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120110T212630Z UID:10005002-1328184000-1328191200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:John Jordan\, Supposing Bleak House DESCRIPTION:John O. Jordan is giving a reading at Bookshop Santa Cruz in honor of Charles Dickens’s bicentenary (born Feb 7\, 1812). John will read from his book\, Supposing Bleak House\, and discuss Dickens\, Bleak House\, the Dickens Project\, and the upcoming Dickens Universe (focusing on Bleak House this summer). \nThere’s a Bookshop link at http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/john-jordan. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/johnojordan-3/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111220T203748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111220T203748Z UID:10004653-1328198400-1328203800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Yair Dalal: "Bridge to Babylon Lecture on Jewish Middle Eastern Music" DESCRIPTION:Composer\, violinist\, oud player and singer Yair Dalal was born in 1955. His family came to Israel from Baghdad\, and his Iraqi roots are embedded in his musical work. Whether working on his own\, or with his Alol ensemble\, Dalal creates new Middle Eastern music by interweaving the traditions of Iraqi and Jewish Arabic music with a range of influences originating from such diverse cultural milieus as the Balkans to India. \nOver the last decade he has recorded 11 albums covering wide and varied cultural territory and authentically representing Israel’s cultures and fusing them through music as whole. Much of Dalal’s work reflects his extensive musical skills in both classical and Arabic music and also reflects a strong affinity he has for the desert and its habitants. \nHe has played in concerts worldwide\, collaborated with top musicians from all over the world\, from different disciplines\, including: celebrated western classical conductor and Maestro Zubin Mehta\, Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI\, L. Shankar\, Hamza El Din\, Omar Faruk Tekbilek\, Michel Bismuth\, Ken Zuckerman\, Alam Khan\, Jim Santi\, Armand Aamar\, Shlomo Mintz\, Maurice El Medioni\, Mustafa Raza\, Cihat Askin\, Nagati Chelik\, Ensemble Kaboul\, Adel Salameh\, Morwan Abado\, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra\, Kamerata Jerusalem Orchestra\, Melmo symphonic orchestra\, and many more. \nPresented by the Music Department. Sponsored by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation\, the David B. Gold Foundation\, and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/yair-dalal-bridge-to-babylon-lecture-on-jewish-middle-eastern-music-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:20120202T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120110T210434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120110T210434Z UID:10004969-1328203800-1328209200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Visual Performance Studies Presents: Fabian Barba DESCRIPTION:Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series\, 2011-2012\n\nFabian Barba\nIndependent artist\, Belgium\n\nReenacting the Dances of Mary Wigman \nA Lecture Demonstration (Studio A-105\, Theater Arts Center) \nFriday\, February 3rd at 2pm \nThe recent retrospective of the work of Marina Abramovic at MOMA in New York brought to wide public attention the phenomenon of what she called the “reperformance” of her earlier work\, which had only existed until then as one-time events recorded on film.  Bringing this ephemeral performance work into the museum space as a live artifact raised consciousness of a broader trend currently taking place in contemporary dance\, theatre\, film\, video and performance art.  Reenactment raises questions of the differences between reconstruction\, revival\, adaptation\, reinvention\, quotation\, amplification\, and the kinds of temporalities these strategies to recover past performance signify. But beyond the terminological questions\, issues of artist identity\, authenticity\, and history emerge in direct relationship with performative documentary activity. The question of the event and the document become dramatically foregrounded. The question of trauma and catharsis in relation to reenactment is salient as became clear in our first seminar with Chip Lord and Magaret Morse. \n\n\n\nReenactment of the work of one artist by another has been a form of contemporary creativity in theatre\, film\, dance\, and performance for some time\, but has been gaining momentum as a major trend of artistic production and research.  Clearly\, it evokes the connections of historiography and interpretation to art making that documents the past in a non-literal or even paradoxical yet exacting and rigorous way that evades certain mimetic conventions.  It is time to ask what sorts of temporality are deployed in reenactments\, and how new sorts of temporality reframe notions of documentation\, reconstruction/reinvention\, citation/quotation\, and amplification of an earlier work or event in the contemporary moment. \nThis year-long speaker series will present artists and scholars specializing in this area of contemporary creativity. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vps-barba-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111207T214853Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111207T214853Z UID:10004963-1328205600-1328211900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: Ben Doller and Sandra Doller DESCRIPTION:Ben Doller and Sandra Doller\nCreative Writing and Literature present:\nUCSC Winter Living Writers Series \nBen Doller and Sandra Doller \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives\nRonaldo V. Wilson\, Visiting Assistant Professor \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities.  Whether as editors\, publishers\, activists\, teachers\, multi-media artists\, and/or co-collaborators\, the featured poets in this series present work that reflects their dynamic engagements in the world. \nThursdays / 6:00 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nContact: Ronaldo V. Wilson\, rvwilson@ucsc.edu or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu \nCo-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lws-ben-and-sandra-doller-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120203T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120203T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120124T203142Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120124T203142Z UID:10005048-1328277600-1328284800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cheryl Higashida: "Black Radicalism’s Queer Record: Erna Brodber and the West Indian Jazz Novel" DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary). \nCheryl Higashida\n“Black Radicalism’s Queer Record: Erna Brodber and the West Indian Jazz Novel” \nCheryl Higashida is Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder\, where she has taught since 2002. She earned her PhD at Cornell University (2003) after completing her dissertation as a Fellow with the Five College Program for Minority Scholars. She is the author of Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left\, 1945-1995 (U of Illinois P\, 2011). Her work on African American and Asian American radical culture has also appeared in American Literature\, American Quarterly\, and Afro/Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections\, edited by Fred Ho and Bill Mullen. Her current book in progress is “Mao and Cabral/ Mingus and Coltrane”: The Global Jazz Circuits of the Black Arts Movement.” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cheryl-higashida-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:20120203T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120203T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20110817T224645Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110817T224645Z UID:10004849-1328284800-1328292000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Masaya Yoshida DESCRIPTION:Masaya Yoshida\nThe focus of Professor Yoshida’s research is on aspects of syntactic representations both in static knowledge of language and in real time sentence processing. The studies carried out so far attempted to integrate work in theoretical and typological syntax and experimental psycholinguistics in order to reveal representations of sentence structures built in real time and mechanisms working behind online sentence processing. \nResearch interests include: \n\nHuman Sentence Processing : Syntactic prediction in online sentence processing\, Processing of Islands\, Processing of Ellipsis.\nSyntax: Cross-Linguistic Studies on Island Constraints\, Ellipsis Phenomena (the syntax of sluicing and gapping)\, P-stranding Parameter\, The syntax of conditional clauses in Japanese.\n\nMasaya Yoshida is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Northwestern University. This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett\, nvarnett@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-masaya-yoshida-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:20120203T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120203T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111129T223637Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111129T223637Z UID:10004644-1328295600-1328302800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Yair Dalal with Dror Sinai: An Evening of Jewish Music from Iraq DESCRIPTION:“Bridge to Babylon” with visiting artists Yair Dalal (oud and violin) and Dror Sinai (percussion) \nComposer\, violinist\, oud player and singer Yair Dalal was born in 1955. His family came to Israel from Baghdad\, and his Iraqi roots are embedded in his musical work. Whether working on his own\, or with his Alol ensemble\, Dalal creates new Middle Eastern music by interweaving the traditions of Iraqi and Jewish Arabic music with a range of influences originating from such diverse cultural milieus as the Balkans to India. \nOver the last decade he has recorded 11 albums covering wide and varied cultural territory and authentically representing Israel’s cultures and fusing them through music as whole. Much of Dalal’s work reflects his extensive musical skills in both classical and Arabic music and also reflects a strong affinity he has for the desert and its habitants. \nHe has played in concerts worldwide\, collaborated with top musicians from all over the world\, from different disciplines\, including: celebrated western classical conductor and Maestro Zubin Mehta\, Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI\, L. Shankar\, Hamza El Din\, Omar Faruk Tekbilek\, Michel Bismuth\, Ken Zuckerman\, Alam Khan\, Jim Santi\, Armand Aamar\, Shlomo Mintz\, Maurice El Medioni\, Mustafa Raza\, Cihat Askin\, Nagati Chelik\, Ensemble Kaboul\, Adel Salameh\, Morwan Abado\, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra\, Kamerata Jerusalem Orchestra\, Melmo symphonic orchestra\, and many more. \nDror Sinai is an international performer\, educator\, and guest artist\, as well as the Founder of Rhythm Fusion\, Inc. in Santa Cruz. Dror has performed as a solo artist and has appeared in ensembles of many different musical styles\, with other talented artists\, including Yair Dalal\, Omar Faruk Tekbilek\, Yuval Ron\, Alessandra Belloni. Dror has presented lectures\, clinics\, and workshops to diverse audiences\, including Universities\, schools\, community gatherings\, children\, and adults\, and has taught both professionals and amateurs. He has been a featured instructor for SPECTRA\, a program of the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County\, and has given clinics at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC). In 2002 he received the Gail Rich Award in Santa Cruz County\, and he is a founding member of the World Music Committee for the Percussive Arts Society. \nPresented by the Music Department. Sponsored by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \n__________ \nHall opens at 7:00 pm\nConcert starts at 7:30pm \n$12 general\n$10 seniors 62+\n$8 youth and students w/ ID \nTickets on sale in December at santacruztickets.com and at the UCSC Ticket Office. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/yair-dalal-with-dror-sinai-an-evening-of-jewish-music-from-iraq-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120204T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120204T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111123T015140Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111123T015140Z UID:10004640-1328344200-1328376600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Labor Across the Food System Conference DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Center for Labor Studies presents\n \n\nFRIDAY & SATURDAY\, FEBRUARY 3-4\, 2012\n\n  \nFOOD SYSTEM WORKERS are often a glaring absence in discussions of the contemporary global food system\, even though they are employed in some of the most labor-intensive industries within the entire economy\, among them agricultural field work\, food processing\, food distribution\, and restaurants of all kinds. The new food localism privileges questions of “where food comes from” over “how” and “who” questions about the conditions under which food is grown\, shipped\, processed\, cooked\, served\, and sold. Labor Across the Food System will advance research and advocacy by bringing key scholars and advocates to Santa Cruz for discussions of the critical role of labor and social justice in remaking the global food system. \nKeynote Lecture by local historian\, Frank Bardacke\nauthor of Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers\nFriday\, February 3\, 2012\, 7pm\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, UCSC \nConference\nSaturday\, February 4\, 2012\, 8:30am-5:30pm\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, UCSC \nParticipants Include:\nPatricia Allen\, UC Santa Cruz\nDana Frank\, UC Santa Cruz\nShannon Gleeson\, UC Santa Cruz\nJulie Guthman\, UC Santa Cruz\nDavid Brundage\, UC Santa Cruz\nCarolina Bank Muñoz\, Brooklyn College\nDeborah Barndt\, York University\nLucas Benitez\, Coalition of Immokalee Workers\nChris Bohner\, UNITE HERE\nSandy Brown\, UC Berkeley\nCharlotte Chang\, UC Berkeley\nMaría Teresa Gastón\, University of Nebraska\nEric Holt-Gimenez\, Food First\nDavid Griffith\, East Carolina University\nSaru Jayaraman\, Restaurant Opportunity Center\nJoann Lo\, Food Chain Workers Alliance\nYvonne Yen Liu\, Applied Research Center\nDon Mitchell\, Syracuse University\nMónica Ramírez\, Southern Poverty Law Center\nChris Tilly\, UC Los Angeles \nLabor Across the Food System\, organized and sponsored by the Center for Labor Studies in collaboration with the UCSC Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) and the Food First Institute for Food and Development Policy. Major conference sponsors include the Food and the Body Multicampus Research Group\, the Institute for Humanities Research\, Community Studies Department\, Environmental Studies Department\, Sociology Department and Politics Department. Additional financial support generously provided by the Departments of American Studies\, Anthropology\, History\, Latin American and Latino Studies\, and Psychology. \nFor further information and updated conference program: http://ihr.ucsc.edu//laboracrossfoodsystem or contact Shann Ritchie at the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research\, sritchie@ucsc.edu\, (831) 459-5655. Maps: maps.ucsc.edu. Staffing provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. Poster Design: © 2011 Kim Ferrell\, kimferrelldesign.com URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/labor-across-the-food-system-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120206T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120206T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111116T203231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111116T203231Z UID:10004922-1328531400-1328536800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Julie Sze: "Situating Sustainability Discourse in Shanghai: Global Flows and Urban Transformations in a Warming World" DESCRIPTION:This talk is drawn from Sze’s current book project which examines flows\, fears and fantasies in contemporary urban and global environmental culture\, with a sustained look at Shanghai in China. She focuses here on Dongtan\, a failed eco-city proposal\, framing it within multiple ideological and spatial contexts. \nJulie Sze is an Associate Professor of American Studies at UC Davis. She is also the founding director of the Environmental Justice Project for UC Davis’ John Muir Institute for the Environment. and in that capacity is the Faculty Advisor for 25 Stories from the Central Valley. \nSze’s book\, Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice\, won the 2008 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize\, awarded annually to the best published book in American Studies. \nSze’s research investigates environmental justice and environmental inequality; culture and environment; race\, gender and power; and community health and activism. She has published on a wide range of topics such as energy and air pollution activism; toxicity; the cultural politics of the Hummer\, and on environmental justice novels and cultural production. \nSze has been interviewed widely in print and on the radio: World’s Fair\, MELDI\, Newsweek\, Asian Reporter\, and Grist Magazine.\nThe Urban Studies is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this event.  Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/julie-sze-3/ LOCATION:College 8\, Room 301\, College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120206T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120206T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120124T203522Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120124T203522Z UID:10004659-1328536800-1328544000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Kathy Lou Shultz: "Diasporic Modernism at Mid-Century: Melvin B. Tolson and Langston Hughes in/and the 1950s." DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary). \nKathy Lou Schultz is the author of the forthcoming monograph The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History: Tolson\, Hughes\, Baraka. Schultz’s most recent journal articles are “To Save and Destroy: Melvin B. Tolson\, Langston Hughes\, and Theories of the Archive” that appeared in Contemporary Literature Vol. 52 No. 1 (Spring 2011) and “Amiri Baraka’s Wise Why’s Wise: Lineages of the Afro-Modernist Epic\,” forthcoming in the Journal of Modern Literature. She is also the author of four collections of poetry and experimental prose. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kathy-lou-shultz-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:20120208T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120208T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111202T003342Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111202T003342Z UID:10004647-1328702400-1328709600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Vanita Seth: “Faces of the Self” DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nVanita Seth\nVanita Seth\nAssociate Professor\, Politics\, UCSC \n“Faces of the Self” \nThe French ban on the burqa and niqab is only one example of the primacy accorded the face in modern western societies. Professor Seth here argues that the fortunes of the face are tied to the birth of modern individuality\, and that the face is both the grounds and the reflection of the modern expressive self. \n———————————————————————————————————— \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors.  The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion.  We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/csc-vanita-seth-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:20120208T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120208T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120128T005642Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120128T005642Z UID:10004661-1328709600-1328716800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Heather James: "Bison Hamlet" DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Early Modern Comparative Studies/Shakespeare: \n“Bison Hamlet” considers the idea of species extinction in myths of the westward transmission of culture in early modern England (translation of empire) and nineteenth-century America (Manifest Destiny). The chief exhibits are an 1861 painting of the American frontier — in which a bison features as Hamlet — and the graveyard scene of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. \nHeather James teaches English and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California\, with emphases on English\, Latin\, and Italian. Her long-standing interests include classical transmission\, poetry and drama\, politics\, book history and gender. Newer interests include commonplacing and the presence of Renaissance culture in the American West. \nAt 4 p.m.\, Professor James will conduct a graduate-student-only seminar on Hamlet Act V\, scene 1 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/heather-james-bison-hamlet-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:20120209T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120209T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120110T211147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120110T211147Z UID:10004970-1328808600-1328814000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Maaike Bleeker: "(Un)Covering artistic thought unfolding" DESCRIPTION:Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series\, 2011-2012\n \nMaaike Bleeker \nTheatre Studies\, Utrecht University \n(Un)Covering Artistic Thought Unfolding \nFollowing a suggestion by a Dutch dance initiative named Cover\, this talk proposes the idea of ‘covering’ as practiced in the context of music as perspective on artistic practices of reenactment. The term ´cover´ points to what is reenacted being artistic creations by other artists\, as distinguished from the reenactment of historical situations or events. And also how reenacting these works results in new works\, covers. Covers exist in a specific relationship to the original work\, the cover being a remake or response to the original work from the position of another artist at a later moment in time. The notion of cover also points to how this relationship is mediated by recordings and documentation. The term ´cover version´ originates from the 1960´s when it was introduced to describe a rival version of a tune recorded to compete with an already released original version. That is\, the notion of cover is closely connected to recordings and the recording industry\, not to music or songs as live performance. \nMaaike Bleeker is a Professor and the Chair of Theatre Studies. She studied Art History\, Theatre Studies and Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam where she also completed her PhD on Visuality in the Theatre (2002). Previously\, she lectured at the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of Amsterdam\, The Piet Zwart Post-Graduate program in Fine Arts (Rotterdam)\, Media Gn: Centre for Emergent Media (Groningen)\, The School for New Dance Development (Amsterdam)\, the post graduate program Arts Performance Theatricality (Antwerp)\, and in the IPP Performance and Media Studies Summer School of the Johannes Gutenburg Universität\, Mainz. Since 1991\, she also worked as a dramaturge for various theatre directors\, choreographers and visual artists. She performed in several lecture performances\, ran her own theatre company (Het Oranjehotel) and translated five plays that were performed by major Dutch theatre companies. She was an Artist in Residence at the Amsterdam School for the Arts (2006-2007) and member of the jury of the Dutch National Theatre Festival TF (2007-2008). \nFor more information on this speaker series please see our website: http://artsresearch.ucsc.edu/vps/reenactment URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vps-bleeker-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120209T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120209T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111207T221453Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111207T221453Z UID:10004965-1328810400-1328816700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: Dawn Lundy Martin\, Duriel E. Harris\, Ronaldo V. Wilson (Black Took Collective) DESCRIPTION:Creative Writing and Literature present:\nUCSC Winter Living Writers Series \n Dawn Lundy Martin\, Duriel E. Harris\, Ronaldo V. Wilson (Black Took Collective) \nDawn Lundy Martin\, Duriel E. Harris\, Ronaldo V. Wilson\nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives\nRonaldo V. Wilson\, Visiting Assistant Professor \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities.  Whether as editors\, publishers\, activists\, teachers\, multi-media artists\, and/or co-collaborators\, the featured poets in this series present work that reflects their dynamic engagements in the world. \nThursdays / 6:00 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nContact: Ronaldo V. Wilson\, rvwilson@ucsc.edu or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu \nCo-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lws-black-tool-collective-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120210T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120210T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120129T011647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120129T011647Z UID:10004662-1328878800-1328893200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"What Latinos Are Reading" DESCRIPTION:The Latino Literary Cultures Project / Proyecto Culturas Literarias Latinas presents: \nWhat Latinos Are Reading\nBringing together writers and editors\, this symposium explores the conditions of possibility for Latino literature today\, focusing on its less-explored popular edges. Panelists will explore the conditions of possibility for a US Latino literature–its varied audiences\, the kinds of literacy it presupposes or fosters. How do Latino children and young adults come to see themselves as readers or as authors? What genres and language modalities are most popular\, most inventive\, most effective in creating a Latino reading public? And in the wake of the controversial Tucson school district book banning\, what are Latinos not reading? \nSchedule:\nSymposium: 1:00-3:00 pm\nReadings: 3:15-5:00 pm\nFollowed by book signings. \nFeaturing:\nGustavo Arellano\, journalist and editor\, Orange County Weekly; author of the syndicated column and book Ask a Mexican!; and Orange County: A Personal History\nMalín Alegría (Ramírez)\, author of three Young Adult books\, and UC Santa Cruz alum\nTheresa Hamman\, veteran in Global and Bilingual Children’s Publishing\nModerated by Juan Poblete\, Literature\, UCSC \nThe Latino Literary Cultures Project / Proyecto Culturas Literarias Latinas is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, as well as a working group of the Chicano/Latino Research Center. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/arellano-alegria-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:20120215T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120215T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111202T010201Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111202T010201Z UID:10004944-1329307200-1329314400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Bettina Apthekar: “Queering the History of the Communist Left in the United States” DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\n\nBettina Apthekar\n\nBettina Apthekar\nDistinguished Professor\, Feminist Studies and History\, UCSC \n“Queering the History of the Communist Left in the United States” \nIn 2010 gays and lesbians of the U.S. Communist Party began publishing a newsletter\, The Queer Communist\, whose emblem is a pink triangle superimposed on a hammer and sickle\, marking an extraordinary moment relative to the homophobic history and politics of the CPUSA. The paper analyzes this history. \n———————————————————————————————————— \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors.  The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion.  We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/csc-bettina-apthekar-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:20120216T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120216T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111207T222402Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111207T222402Z UID:10004967-1329415200-1329421500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: giovanni singleton and Ara Shirinyan DESCRIPTION:Creative Writing and Literature present:\nUCSC Winter Living Writers Series \ngiovanni singleton and Ara Shirinyan \ngiovanni singleton\nAra Shirinyan \ngiovanni singleton is founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts\, a critically acclaimed journal dedicated to experimental work by artists and writers of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces. Counterpath Press will publisher ascension\, a collection of poems in 2012. singleton is currently at work on AMERICAN LETTERS: works on paper\, a collection of concrete poems inspired by African American spirit writing\, the aboriginal dreamtime\, Tibetan meditation practice\, and the study of Japanese language and calligraphy. \nAra Shirinyan lives in Los 
Angeles\, where he writes and is editor of Make Now Press. He is the author of two books of poetry\, Syria Is in the World ( Palm Press\, 2007) and Your Country is Great (Futurepoem Books\, 2008). With Stan Apps and Teresa Carmody\, he co-curates The Last Sunday Reading Series at the 
Smell in Los Angeles (an all ages punk/art rock club that he helped 
co-found in 1997 and briefly ran for a year). His work has appeared 
or is forthcoming in Word Ways\, UBUWEB\, Greetings\, Trepan\, Combo\, Area Sneaks\, Tuli & Savu among others. \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities.  Whether as editors\, publishers\, activists\, teachers\, multi-media artists\, and/or co-collaborators\, the featured poets in this series present work that reflects their dynamic engagements in the world. \nThursdays / 6:00 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nContact: Ronaldo V. Wilson\, rvwilson@ucsc.edu or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu \nCo-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lws-giovanni-singleton-ara-shrinyan-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120217T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120217T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120205T182637Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120205T182637Z UID:10004663-1329487200-1329494400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gautam Premnath: "Urban Form\, Minority Identity\, and Narrative Drift in Altaf Tyrewala’s No God in Sight" DESCRIPTION:Thirty-two pages into No God in Sight (2005)\, Altaf Tyrewala’s novel undertakes a dramatic formal turn. By this point\, Tyrewala has established an inventive formula\, serving up a series of brief\, elegantly crafted\, loosely connected\, first-person narratives that chart sinuous\, unpredictable pathways through various Bombay localities. Throughout Tyrewala sustains an unvaryingly wry\, detached narratorial voice that levels out differences between petty travails and high tragedy in the lives of his middle-class Muslim characters. Yet as the seventh episode nears its end\, a different tonal register irrupts into the narrative. As Amin-bhai\, a small shoeshop-owner\, anticipates his emigration to the United States\, the laconic speaking style he shares with other narrators gives way to an impassioned litany of recrimination and regret. Cataloguing assaults upon Muslims and other religious minorities by Hindu fundamentalist zealots\, Amin-bhai punctuates his leavetaking of his country\, stating\, “Let them have their Hindustan for Hindus.” Here\, Tyrewala institutes a formal break\, marked by a blank page. When the first-person narrative chain resumes\, the scene has shifted to a Gujarati village whose residents are being harangued by a mahant into violence against unspecified “outsiders.” Tyrewala has retrieved his studied equanimity\, and the novel renders state-sanctioned pogroms in 2002 Gujarat with a remarkably light touch. Before long the narrative returns to Bombay\, and the novel reverts to its earlier guise of urban dérive. But the Gujarat detour has crucially redirected this earlier imperative. This talk analyzes how the novel’s ambitions as urban exploration are conditioned and inflected by its concern to reflect upon the question of contemporary Indian Muslim identity. \nGAUTAM PREMNATH is Assistant Professor of English at UC Berkeley\, where he specializes in the 20th-century Anglophone literatures of Britain\, the Caribbean\, and South Asia\, and in theories of postcoloniality and diaspora. He has published numerous articles of literary criticism and cultural theory. His first book\, Mobile Republics: Itineraries of Postcolonial Authorship between India and the Caribbean\, is forthcoming from University of Virginia Press. \nThis lecture is presented by the Literature Department and the Institute for Humanities Research. \nEvent is free and open to the public. For further information\, please contact Christine Hong at cjhong@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gautam-premnath-urban-form-minority-identity-and-narrative-drift-in-altaf-tyrewalas-no-god-in-sight-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:20120222T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120222T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111202T023404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111202T023404Z UID:10004945-1329912000-1329919200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Megan Moodie: “We Were Adivasis: Collective Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe” DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nMegan Moodie\nMegan Moodie\nAssistant Professor\, Anthropology\, UCSC \n“We Were Adivasis: Collective Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe” \nProfessor Moodie studies the sociality engendered by legal and economic projects for uplift and empowerment\, including affirmative action\, microfinance\, and gender-based rights assertions. Her in-progress book\, based on ethnographic work with the Dhanka\, examines the gendered impact of affirmative action-based upward mobility. \n———————————————————————————————————— \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors.  The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion.  We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/csc-megan-moodie-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:20120222T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120222T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120216T231123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120216T231123Z UID:10005060-1329919200-1329926400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sean Keilen: "From Latin Rhetoric to English Poetry: Shakespeare’s Antic Dispositions" DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Early Modern Comparative Studies/Shakespeare: \nSean Keilen\, College of William and Mary\n“From Latin Rhetoric to English Poetry: Shakespeare’s Antic Dispositions” \nThe talk Shakespeare’s efforts to distinguish the poems and plays he was writing from the arguments he had learned to make at school—no small task\, given the fact that the study of poetry was subordinate to the study of rhetoric in the Elizabethan curriculum. In particular\, the talk focuses on the difference between the role the emotions play in determining the meaning of works of art in Shakespearean texts and the role they play in determining the meaning of a case in Latin rhetoric. According to the laws that defined rhetoric as species of discourse\, an emotion is a tool that orators must use to make audiences feel what they want them to feel\, and nothing else. Shakespeare’s works\, by contrast\, identify poetry with aesthetic experiences that give rise to ambiguous feelings\, multiple interpretations\, and authorless texts. \nSean Keilen teaches courses about Shakespeare\, English literature and criticism\, and the reception of the classical tradition. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation (2008) and National Humanities Center (2006)\, he is also the author of Vulgar Eloquence: On the Renaissance Invention of English Literature (Yale 2006)\, co-editor of Forms of Renaissance Thought: New Essays on Literature and Culture (Palgrave 2008)\, and a General Editor of the series Studies in Renaissance Literature (Boydell & Brewer).\nAt 4:00 pm\, Professor Keilen will conduct a graduate-student-only seminar on “Reading for Pleasure.” \nTexts: Barthes\, The Pleasure of the Text (excerpts)\, Sontag\, Against Interpretation\, and Shakespeare\, Venus and Adonis URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sean-keilen-from-latin-rhetoric-to-english-poetry-shakespeares-antic-dispositions-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:20120222T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120222T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120104T191448Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120104T191448Z UID:10004655-1329930000-1329937200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jean Franco: "Cruel Modernity" DESCRIPTION:Professor Jean Franco was the first Professor of Latin American Literature in England. She was appointed Professor by the University of Essex in 1968 having previously taught at Queen Mary College and Kings College\, London University. In 1972 she took up a position at Stanford University where she was later appointed to the Olive H. Palmer chair of Humanities. She has been at Columbia University since 1982\, first in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and later in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. She is now Professor Emerita. \nProfessor Franco is one of the editors of the Cultural Studies of the Americas series\, published by Minnesota University Press\, and is General Editor of the Library of Latin America series\, published by Oxford University Press. She has been writing on Latin American literature since the early sixties. She has published The Modern Culture of Latin America (1967)\, An Introduction to Latin American Literature (1969)\, Plotting Women: Gender and Representation in Mexico (1989)\, and Marcando diferencias: Cruzando Fronteras (1996). A selection of essays\, Critical Passions\, edited by Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen Newman was published in October 1999 by Duke University Press. Her book\, The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America and the Cold War was published by Harvard University Press in 2001 and was translated into Spanish as Decadencia y caída de la ciudad letrada in the collection\, Debates. The book was awarded the Bolton-Johnson Prize by the Conference of Latin American Historians for the best work in English on the History of Latin America published in 2003. Plotting Women\, Marcando Diferencias\, and several chapters of Critical Passions and The Decline and Fall specifically focus on gender and the essays\, “Killing Priests\, Nuns\, Women\, Children” and “Gender\, Death and Resistance\,” have been reprinted on numerous occasions. She is at present working on racial discrimination in Latin America. \nProfessor Franco has been decorated by the governments of Mexico\, Chile and Venezuela for her work on Latin American literature and has received awards from PEN and from the Latin American Studies Association for lifetime achievement. She has served as President of the Latin American Studies Association in Great Britain and of the Latin American Studies Association in the U.S.\nCo-sponsored by the Research Groups of Transnationalizing Justice; Borders\, Bodies\, and Violence; and Latino Literary Cultural Project; the Chicano Latino Research Center\, and the Departments of Feminist Studies\, Literature\, and Latin American and Latino Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jean-franco-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T120000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120104T191557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120104T191557Z UID:10004656-1329991200-1329998400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:A Seminar with Jean Franco DESCRIPTION:To obtain a copy of the paper that will be discussed at the seminar\, please contact Courtney Mahaney (cmahaney@ucsc.edu). \nProfessor Jean Franco was the first Professor of Latin American Literature in England. She was appointed Professor by the University of Essex in 1968 having previously taught at Queen Mary College and Kings College\, London University. In 1972 she took up a position at Stanford University where she was later appointed to the Olive H. Palmer chair of Humanities. She has been at Columbia University since 1982\, first in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and later in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. She is now Professor Emerita. \nProfessor Franco is one of the editors of the Cultural Studies of the Americas series\, published by Minnesota University Press\, and is General Editor of the Library of Latin America series\, published by Oxford University Press. She has been writing on Latin American literature since the early sixties. She has published The Modern Culture of Latin America (1967)\, An Introduction to Latin American Literature (1969)\, Plotting Women: Gender and Representation in Mexico (1989)\, and Marcando diferencias: Cruzando Fronteras (1996). A selection of essays\, Critical Passions\, edited by Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen Newman was published in October 1999 by Duke University Press. Her book\, The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America and the Cold War was published by Harvard University Press in 2001 and was translated into Spanish as Decadencia y caída de la ciudad letrada in the collection\, Debates. The book was awarded the Bolton-Johnson Prize by the Conference of Latin American Historians for the best work in English on the History of Latin America published in 2003. Plotting Women\, Marcando Diferencias\, and several chapters of Critical Passions and The Decline and Fall specifically focus on gender and the essays\, “Killing Priests\, Nuns\, Women\, Children” and “Gender\, Death and Resistance\,” have been reprinted on numerous occasions. She is at present working on racial discrimination in Latin America. \nProfessor Franco has been decorated by the governments of Mexico\, Chile and Venezuela for her work on Latin American literature and has received awards from PEN and from the Latin American Studies Association for lifetime achievement. She has served as President of the Latin American Studies Association in Great Britain and of the Latin American Studies Association in the U.S. \nCo-sponsored by the Research Groups of Transnationalizing Justice; Borders\, Bodies\, and Violence; and Latino Literary Cultural Project; the Chicano Latino Research Center\, and the Departments of Feminist Studies\, Literature\, and Latin American and Latino Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-seminar-with-jean-franco-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120217T001003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120217T001003Z UID:10005062-1329998400-1330005600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ory Amitay: "Mary\, Paulina and Fulvia: Allegorical History in Josephus' Antiquities 18.53-84" DESCRIPTION:Ory Amitay is Professor of History at the University of Haifa. \nThis event is made possible from generous contributions from the Classical Studies Program\, the Center for Jewish Studies\, the departments of Literature and History\, and the David B. Gold Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ory-amitay-mary-paulina-and-fulvia-allegorical-history-in-josephus-antiquities-18-53-84-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120110T211608Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120110T211608Z UID:10004981-1330018200-1330023600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Visual Performance Studies Presents: Andre Lepecki DESCRIPTION:Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series\, 2011-2012\n \nAndre Lepecki\, \nPerformance Studies\, New York University \nNot as Before\, but Again: Reenactments and “Transcreation” \nThe recent retrospective of the work of Marina Abramovic at MOMA in New York brought to wide public attention the phenomenon of what she called the “reperformance” of her earlier work\, which had only existed until then as one-time events recorded on film.  Bringing this ephemeral performance work into the museum space as a live artifact raised consciousness of a broader trend currently taking place in contemporary dance\, theatre\, film\, video and performance art.  Reenactment raises questions of the differences between reconstruction\, revival\, adaptation\, reinvention\, quotation\, amplification\, and the kinds of temporalities these strategies to recover past performance signify. But beyond the terminological questions\, issues of artist identity\, authenticity\, and history emerge in direct relationship with performative documentary activity. The question of the event and the document become dramatically foregrounded. The question of trauma and catharsis in relation to reenactment is salient as became clear in our first seminar with Chip Lord and Magaret Morse. \n\n\n\nReenactment of the work of one artist by another has been a form of contemporary creativity in theatre\, film\, dance\, and performance for some time\, but has been gaining momentum as a major trend of artistic production and research.  Clearly\, it evokes the connections of historiography and interpretation to art making that documents the past in a non-literal or even paradoxical yet exacting and rigorous way that evades certain mimetic conventions.  It is time to ask what sorts of temporality are deployed in reenactments\, and how new sorts of temporality reframe notions of documentation\, reconstruction/reinvention\, citation/quotation\, and amplification of an earlier work or event in the contemporary moment. \nThis year-long speaker series will present artists and scholars specializing in this area of contemporary creativity. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vps-lepecki-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111207T223032Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111207T223032Z UID:10004968-1330020000-1330026300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: Garrett Hongo DESCRIPTION:Garrett Hongo\nCreative Writing and Literature present:\nUCSC Winter Living Writers Series \nGarrett Hongo \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives\nRonaldo V. Wilson\, Visiting Assistant Professor \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities.  Whether as editors\, publishers\, activists\, teachers\, multi-media artists\, and/or co-collaborators\, the featured poets in this series present work that reflects their dynamic engagements in the world. \nThursdays / 6:00 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nContact: Ronaldo V. Wilson\, rvwilson@ucsc.edu or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu \nCo-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lws-garrett-hongo-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120224T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120224T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120113T232628Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120113T232628Z UID:10005024-1330099200-1330106400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mary Paster: "Phonologically Conditioned Morphology" DESCRIPTION:Mary Paster (PhD UC Berkeley\, 2006) is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College in Claremont\, California. Her research focuses on phonology and morphology\, and their interface. She specializes in the study of African languages\, particularly their tone systems. She has published in such journals as Phonology\, Yearbook of Morphology (now Morphology)\, Word Structure\, and Studies in African Linguistics.\nThe Crosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology Research Cluster is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mary-paster-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120225 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120226 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111209T194058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111209T194058Z UID:10004652-1330128000-1330214340@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:2012 Scholarship Benefit Dinner DESCRIPTION:2012 Scholarship Benefit Dinner \nMore information TBA. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2012-scholarship-benefit-dinner-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120225T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120225T120000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120113T232814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120113T232814Z UID:10005044-1330164000-1330171200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Crosslinguistic Investigations in Phonology-Syntax Research Cluster presents a Seminar with Mary Paster DESCRIPTION:Mary Paster (PhD UC Berkeley\, 2006) is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College in Claremont\, California. Her research focuses on phonology and morphology\, and their interface. She specializes in the study of African languages\, particularly their tone systems. She has published in such journals as Phonology\, Yearbook of Morphology (now Morphology)\, Word Structure\, and Studies in African Linguistics.\n \nThe Crosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology Research Cluster is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/crosslinguistic-investigations-in-phonology-syntax-research-cluster-presents-a-seminar-with-mary-paster-3/ 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:20120227T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120227T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120221T221148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120221T221148Z UID:10005068-1330362000-1330369200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Angela Elsey\, "Life in Senegal / La Vie senegalaise" DESCRIPTION:LANGUAGE PROGRAM COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nLife in Senegal / La Vie sénégalaise \nAngela Elsey\nAngela Elsey Lecturer in French \nPlease join Lecturer in French Angela Elsey for an introduction to daily life in Senegal through photos and short video clips depicting work\, school\, play\, home life\, language use\, creative activities\, and religious practices. Lecturer Elsey has made two trips to Senegal during which she studied at the University of Dakar\, traveled the country and spent time with the local people. The talk will be in English. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/angela-elsey-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120228T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120228T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120216T223414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120216T223414Z UID:10005058-1330443000-1330450200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:J. Cameron Monroe: "Elephants for Want of Towns? New Light on Old Cities in West Africa’s Atlantic Age" DESCRIPTION:Western conceptions of the city have a long and storied history\, one that until recently largely dismissed pre-colonial African urbanisms as no more than a passive response to cultural stimulus from outside the continent. This has been particularly true for West African cities that emerged in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. However\, landscape archeology is enriching our understanding of how urban centers were organized on the coast of West Africa in the Atlantic Era\, providing a sharper picture of indigenous trade\, the values of the elite classes and power relationships across the region. This work is demonstrating the active role played by such communities in shaping the contours of Atlantic commerce in this period. This presentation will focus on one such urban tradition\, located on the Abomey Plateau in the Republic of Bénin\, exploring the dynamic ways that local political factors shaped and were shaped by global economic forces. \nJ. Cameron Monroe is an historical archaeologist in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Monroe’s research examines political\, economic and cultural transformations in West Africa and the African Diaspora in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. He has studied African-American ethnic identity and household-level craft production in early colonial Virginia\, and currently he directs the Abomey Plateau Archaeological Project in the Republic of Bénin\, West Africa. Integrating documentary\, oral and archaeological data\, the project focuses on the political economy of landscape and the built environment\, and the nature of urban transformation in contact-period West Africa. \nLecture will begin at 4:00 PM\, snacks from 3:30 PM. For more information\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu. \nThis lecture is presented by the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ancient-studies-presents-j-cameron-monroe-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:20120229T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120229T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111202T023710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111202T023710Z UID:10004946-1330516800-1330524000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Melissa L. Caldwell: “Sowing the Seeds of Civil Society: Russia’s Garden Democracy” DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: \nMelissa L. Caldwell\nProfessor\, Anthropology\, UCSC\nCo-Director\, UCMRP on Studies of Food and the Body \n“Sowing the Seeds of Civil Society: Russia’s Garden Democracy” \nProfessor Caldwell examines the politics of poverty\, social welfare\, care and intimacy in Russia through ethnographic research in Dacha Idylls: Living Organically in Russia’s Countryside (California 2011). Her new research is on Russian-African assistance and development relations in the twentieth century. She also studies changing food practices in the postsocialist world. \n———————————————————————————————————— \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors.  The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion.  We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/csc-melissa-caldwell-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:20120229T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120229T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111114T034340Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111114T034340Z UID:10004903-1330531200-1330538400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Craig Dworkin: "The Politics of the Work" DESCRIPTION:In Partnership with Poetry and Politics Research Cluster and the Literature Department presents: Craig Dworkin for a Lecture on Poetics. \nCraig Dworkin is the author of Reading the Illegible (Northwestern UP)\, Signature-Effects (Ghos-Ti)\, Dure (Cuneiform)\, Strand (Roof)\, and Parse (Atelos)\, and the editor of Architectures of Poetry (Rodopi)\, Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern UP)\, The Sound of Poetry (Chicago UP)\, and Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writing of Vito Acconci (MIT). He teaches at the University of Utah and curates two on-line archives: Eclipse and The UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing.\nPoetry and Politics is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetry-and-politics-professor-craig-dworkin-on-poetics-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120229T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120229T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111114T034555Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111114T034555Z UID:10004905-1330542000-1330549200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Poetry and Politics: Professor Craig Dworkin Poetry Reading DESCRIPTION:Craig Dworkin is the author of Reading the Illegible (Northwestern UP)\, Signature-Effects (Ghos-Ti)\, Dure (Cuneiform)\, Strand (Roof)\, and Parse (Atelos)\, and the editor of Architectures of Poetry (Rodopi)\, Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern UP)\, The Sound of Poetry (Chicago UP)\, and Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writing of Vito Acconci (MIT). He teaches at the University of Utah and curates two on-line archives: Eclipse and The UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing.\n \nPoetry and Politics is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetry-and-politics-professor-craig-dworkin-poetry-reading-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120302T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120302T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20110817T233221Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110817T233221Z UID:10004850-1330704000-1330711200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Matthew Gordon DESCRIPTION:Matthew Gordon\nMatthew Gordon is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. His research interests include phonetics\, phonology\, and typology. \nThis talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett\, nvarnett@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-matthew-gordon-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:20120305T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120305T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111207T213443Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111207T213443Z UID:10004959-1330974000-1330981200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Helga Tawil-Souri: “Visual Conflict of and in Palestine-Israel” DESCRIPTION:The Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium Presents: \nHelga Tawil-Souri\, Department of Media\, Culture\, and Communication\, NYU \n“Visual Conflict of and in Palestine-Israel” \nHelga Tawil-Souri\nAll readings will be available two weeks prior to talk. \nCo-sponsored by the History of Art and Visual Culture\, Film & Digital Media\, and the Arts Division. \nDepartmental sites:\nhttp://film.ucsc.edu/news_events\nhttp://havc.ucsc.edu/news_events \nTo receive readings\, contact visualmedia@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vmcc-helga-tawil-souri-3/ LOCATION:Communications\, Room 139\, Communications Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120307T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120307T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120214T174432Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120214T174432Z UID:10004667-1331121600-1331127000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Tracie McMillian: "Real Food vs. Affordable Food: Can we have both?" DESCRIPTION:Join journalist Tracie McMillan to discuss her work for The American Way of Eating\, which chronicles her experience in three undercover jobs across the American food system: California farmworker\, produce clerk in a Detroit-area Walmart\, New York City Applebee’s kitchen wretch. Weaving policy and agricultural economics into personal narrative\, McMillan explores what it would cost to grow food fairly. \nTracie McMillan\, a freelance journalist whose work centers on food and class\, is a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. Her first book\, The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart\, Applebee’s\, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table\, will be published by Scribner in February 2012. Learn more on her website. \nPresented by the Studies of Food and the Body Multicampus Research Program. Support is provided by the University of California Office of the President. Staff support is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tracie-mcmillian-real-food-vs-affordable-food-can-we-have-both-3/ LOCATION:Oakes Mural Room\, Room 223\, Oakes College‎ 150 Heller Drive\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120307T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120307T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20111202T024558Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111202T024558Z UID:10004947-1331121600-1331128800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Peter Euben: “Women of Melos” DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nPeter Euben\nPeter Euben\nEmeritus Research Professor\, Political Science and Classical Studies\,\nKenan Distinguished Faculty Fellow Emeritus\, Duke University \n“Women of Melos” \nAlthough the Melian Dialogue is not much of a dialogue\, it is anointed as the foundation of political realism. The paper argues that realism is delusional and defeating. The more inclusive dialogue in Euripides’ The Trojan Women juxtaposes the language of power\, war and empire with loss\, hopelessness and what Saïd called “the crippling sorrow of estrangement.” \n———————————————————————————————————— \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors.  The sessions consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion.  We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/csc-peter-euben-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:20120308T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120308T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120214T184346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120214T184346Z UID:10004668-1331233200-1331240400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture: "Interfaith Perspectives on Economic Justice\, and its implications for the worldwide Occupy movement" DESCRIPTION:The Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture series celebrates the work of the late Noel King\, founding father and Professor of History and Comparative Religion at UC Santa Cruz. The series reflects Noel’s lifelong commitment to\, and joy in\, dialogue between the faiths. \nFor the 2012 NQK Lecture\, representatives of four of the world’s great religions join in conversation: \nInterfaith Perspectives on Economic Justice\, and its implications for the worldwide Occupy movement.\nChed Myers\, leading the discussion\, is a fifth generation Californian who has spent three decades working with faith-based peace and justice organizations\, including the American Friends Service Committee\, the Pacific Concerns Resource Center\, and the Pacific Life Community. He is currently with the Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries\, focusing on building capacity for biblical literacy\, church renewal\, and faith based witness for justice. \nRabbi and Congregational Cantor Paula Marcus has served Temple Beth El since 1979. She was ordained as a Rabbi in May\, 2004 by the Academy for Jewish Religion in Los Angeles and has apprenticed with cantors in the U.S. and Israel. She received her BA in Judaic studies from SUNY at Binghamton and\nher MA degree in Rabbinic studies from the Academy of Jewish Religion. \nImam Zaid Shakir is an American Muslim scholar with a background in politics and international relations. His work balances the academic and spiritual study of Islam with being a voice of conscience in issues of race\, peace\, and poverty\, for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. He has been ranked one of America’s most influential Muslim scholars. \nDr. Inder Mohan Singh\, an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley\, has been instrumental in founding several technology companies as well as the Chardi Kalaa Foundation\, which fosters a sense of community and reinforces Sikh values. Dr. Singh is the Chairman of LynuxWorks and cofounder of Excelan and Kalpana. He has long been active in interfaith dialogue. \nReception to follow Stevenson College Event Center University of California\, Santa Cruz\nFree admission\, parking $3.00 \nSponsored by the Noel Q. King memorial fund; the University Inter-faith Council; Santa Cruz Progressive Christian Forum; Cowell and Stevenson Colleges; and the Humanities Division of UCSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/interfaith-perspectives-on-economic-justice-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120310T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120310T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120221T181910Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120221T181910Z UID:10005066-1331370000-1331398800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Conservation in No Man's Land: A Colloquium on Values\, Science\, and the Crisis of Biodiversity DESCRIPTION:PANELISTS \nDaniel Guevara \nUCSC Department of Philosophy \nClaudio Campagna\nWildlife Conservation Society\nUCSC Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology \nRonnie Lipschutz\nUCSC Politics Department \nDaniel Press \nUCSC Department of Environmental Studies \n\n  \nAGENDA \n9:00 am   Introductory Remarks: Daniel Guevara \n9:15 am   Introductory Remarks: Claudio Campagna \n9:30 am   On the Place of Science and Scientists in Conservation \nIntroduced and Moderated by Claudio Campagna \n10:45 am   Public Policy\, Science and Values in Conservation and Environmentalism\nIntroduced and Moderated by Daniel Press \n12:00 pm   Lunch \n1:00 pm   Rights\, Property and Other Key Social and Political Concepts in Conservation and Environmentalism\nIntroduced and Moderated by Ronnie Lipschutz \n2:15 pm   The Relevance of Philosophy to the Language and Fundamental Concepts of the Conservation and Environmental Movements\nIntroduced and Moderated by Daniel Guevara \n3:45 pm   The Direction of the Conservation Movement in the Next Decade: What Is It Likely to Be? What Should It Be? \n  \nThis event is open to the public and campus community. \nPlease email Professor Guevara at guevara@ucsc.edu if you plan to attend. \nSponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology\, UC Santa Cruz URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/conservation-in-no-mans-land-a-colloquium-on-values-science-and-the-crisis-of-biodiversity-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:20120312T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120312T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120123T185921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120123T185921Z UID:10005047-1331566200-1331571600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Nathaniel Deutsch\, “The Jewish Dark Continent: Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement” DESCRIPTION:The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: \nNathaniel Deutsch\nNathaniel Deutsch\, Professor of History\, UCSC \n\n\n“The Jewish Dark Continent: Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement”\nOn the eve of World War I\, the Russian Jewish writer\, socialist revolutionary\, and aspiring ethnographer named An-sky set out on an ethnographic expedition into the Pale of Settlement\, the area of the Russian Empire to which a vast majority of its Jews were restricted prior to the Revolution. Over the course of three seasons\, An-sky and his team recorded thousands of tales\, jokes\, and incantations\, took hundreds of photos\, and collected numerous artifacts\, manuscripts\, and other objects. They also designed a massive life-cycle questionnaire consisting of 2087 questions entitled “The Jewish Ethnographic Program” for use in the field. An-sky’s goal was to document the traditional Jewish life of the Pale of Settlement before it disappeared forever and\, in the process\, to create a distinctly Jewish ethnography. \nNathaniel Deutsch is Professor of History and Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he is also the Director of the Institute for Humanities Research and the Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies. He has been a professor at Swarthmore College\, a visiting professor at Stanford University\, and the The Workmen’s Circle/Dr. Emanuel Patt Visiting Professor in Eastern European Jewish Studies at the YIVO Institute. Deutsch is the author of five books\, most recently The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement(Harvard University Press\, 2011)\, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. \nContact: Allyson Ramage\, aramage@ucsc.edu for more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nathaniel-deutsch-the-jewish-dark-continent-inventing-jewish-ethnography-in-the-russian-pale-of-settlement-3/ LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120313T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120313T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T124622 CREATED:20120213T172758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120213T172758Z UID:10004666-1331647200-1331654400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Allen Wells: "Lives in the Balance: The United States\, the Dominican Republic and the Rescue of Jews during World War II" DESCRIPTION:Allen Wells\nInitially supportive of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo’s offer to accept 100\,000 Jews at the 1938 Evian Conference\, Washington began to back away from its ringing endorsement soon after a succession of German victories throughout Western Europe during the spring of 1940. Only 750 refugees would find their way to Sosúa\, a farming settlement on the island’s north coast. Why did the Roosevelt administration discourage Trujillo from taking in additional refugees\, putting the settlement’s future in jeopardy? This lecture will explore the impact such an abrupt change in policy had for other refugees seeking to flee Nazism and for U.S. policy in Latin America? \nAllen Wells is the Roger Howell\, Jr. Professor of History at Bowdoin College. His scholarship has focused on modern Mexican history\, especially Yucatán\, the history of commodities\, and U.S.-Latin American relations\, and he offers a range of courses in colonial and modern Latin American history. Originally from New York\, he received his M.A (1974) and Ph.D. (1979) in History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his B.A. (1973) in History and Latin American Studies from the State University of New York at Binghamton. \nThis event is sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies\, with generous support from the Jim Joseph Foundation and the David B. Gold Foundation. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/allen-wells-lives-in-the-balance-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR