I Am Not Your Negro - Film Screening and Panel Discussion
2017-02-21 19:10 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Del Mar Theatre
I Am Not Your Negro, is an award-winning documentary on the life and writings of James Baldwin.
Opens at the Del Mar Theater in Santa Cruz on Friday February 17th.
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House, which was to be a revolutionary, personal account of three assassinated leaders who were also his close friends—Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only thirty completed pages of his manuscript. Now, in his incendiary new documentary, master filmmaker Raoul Peck (Sometimes in April, Lumumba) envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. Using only Baldwin’s words, either spoken by the man himself or read by Samuel L. Jackson, and a flood of rich archival material, Peck has crafted a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America. I Am Not Your Negro is a poetic, eloquent and thought-provoking journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter; it is a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for. Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature.
Panel:
Brenda J. Griffin, President, NAACP Santa Cruz
David Anthony, Professor of History, UCSC
Bettina Aptheker, Professor of Feminist Studies, UCSC
Ronaldo Wilson, Professor of Literature & Creative Writing, UCSC
Vicki Fabbri, Communication Studies, Cabrillo College
Michael Pebworth, Professor of History, Cabrillo College
Film screening begins at 7:10pm, with a panel discussion following at 9pm. Admission to the film includes the panel. Please save your ticket stubs!
Click here for ticket information
Co-Sponsored by:
NAACP Santa Cruz, Institute for Humanities Research, Feminist Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz.

Rick Prelinger: "Silence, Cacophony, Crosstalk: Archival Talking Points"
2017-02-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Rick Prelinger’s currently researches the political economy and aesthetics of archives. He produces live urban history film events made for participatory audiences and is in the early stages of a film counterposing the lived experience of citydwellers as shown in home movies with the pronouncements of urban theorists and historians.
Rick Prelinger is an Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at UCSC; Founder of Prelinger Archives; and board member of Internet Archive.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Winter 2017 Colloquium Dates:
January 18th: Susan Buck-Morss
January 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
February 1st: Regina Kunzel
February 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas
February 15th: Gary Wilder
February 22nd: Rick Prelinger
March 1st: Hillary Angelo
March 8th: Akash Kumar

Spanish Studies Colloquium: Neo-Extractivismo y Cultura en América Latina
2017-02-22 15:30 - 16:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Neo-extractivismo y cultura en América Latina:
A Talk by Héctor Hoyos
Se propone un modelo crítico que responde a las nuevas formas del capitalismo en la era digital. Tras examinar productos culturales que permiten criticar patrones de acumulación actuales,se cuestiona el rol de lo literario como elemento disruptivo en regímenes de producción semánticos e industriales, discutiendo obras críticas de Ericka Beckman y Fernando Ortiz, así como el cuento “Historia de un computador” del chileno Alejandro Zambra y el policial Coltán del español Alberto VásquezFigueroa.

Héctor Hoyos es Profesor Asociado del Departamento de Culturas Iberoamericanas
de la Universidad de Stanford. Es autor de Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin
American Novel (Columbia University Press, 2015). Ha sido becario de la Fundación
Humboldt en Berlín y prepara el manuscrito Things with a History: Transcultural
Materialism in Latin America.

Note: This talk will be in Spanish.

Digital Space & Difficult History: Curating The African American and Holocaust Museums
2017-02-22 16:00 - 17:30 | Kresge Town Hall
Digital Space & Difficult History: Curating The African American and Holocaust Museums 2.22.17 from IHR on Vimeo.
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The new National Museum of African American History and Culture and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum both translate difficult, often traumatic, histories into museum exhibitions and invite audiences of all ages to contend with narratives of struggle, oppression, violence, and silence. Digital content has connected these museums to audiences beyond Washington and created opportunities for synthesis, remembrance and reflection.
Join us for a discussion between Angel Nieves (consultant for the “Power of Place” exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture) and Michael Berenbaum (project director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) about building museums, engaging the public, and representing difficult memories on the Washington Mall. They will examine the role of museums in today’s post-fact world and the potential for digital tools to reimagine how museums speak to their audiences.
This event is free and open to the public.
Click here for directions to Kresge Town Hall
Parking attendants will be selling $4 permits in the Core West parking lot. Anyone with an ADA placard should park in lot 142 behind Kresge College.
Co-sponsored by: Center for Jewish Studies, IHR Digital Humanities Research Cluster, and Digital Scholarship Commons, with support from the Koret Foundation.

Dark Deleuze in the Dark
2017-02-22 17:00 - 19:00 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Andrew Culp’s Dark Deleuze (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) offers a radical reinterpretation of the theorist Gilles Deleuze that challenges today’s world of compulsory happiness, decentralized control, and overexposure. Arranged in a series of contraries, Culp’s cataclysmic politics exhorts us to kill our idols and cultivate “hatred for this world.”
“Dark Deleuze in the Dark” is a conceptual conversation conducted in the dark with Professor Culp that addresses themes from his work on interruption, un-becoming, and escape. In our age of ubiquitous connectivity, joy, and self-disclosure, how might darkness help us to cast a line to the outside? As Culp argued in a recent interview, “A revolution that emerges from the darkness holds the apocalyptic potential of ending the world as we know it.”
This event is organized by INTERVAL and hosted by OpenLab with support from Film & Digital Media, Digital Arts & New Media, and the Arts Division at UCSC. INTERVAL is a space dedicated to interdisciplinary play and experimentation of art practice and scholarship.
Refreshments provided.
Andrew Culp is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Emerging Media and Communication at the University of Texas, Dallas.

Loess is More: A Spatial and Ecological History of Erosion on Imperial China's Northwest Frontier
2017-02-23 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Loess is More: A Spatial and Ecological History of Erosion on Imperial China’s Northwest Frontier
Ruth Mostern

Abstract: Beginning in the eleventh century, the Yellow River shifted from a long-term condition of relative stability to a later state of frequent floods and course changes. In recent years, environmental scientists and historians have converged on a set of insights about the timing and processes that brought about these changes. All of the evidence confirms that the primary cause of upstream erosion and downstream flooding was the intensification of human activity in the grasslands of the Ordos basin, the loess soil region contained within the great bend of the Yellow River. This paper introduces environmental science research about the long history of human impacts on the loess plateau during the entire Holocene. In addition it uses historical sources, spatial analysis and soil science to focus particular particular attention on the northern and western Ordos region during the eleventh century, explaining why these decades created a tipping point in social and ecological life in north China.

Lunch will be provided.

Susanna Schellenberg "Perceptual Consciousness as a Mental Activity"
2017-02-23 15:15 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Abstract:
I argue that perceptual consciousness is constituted by a mental activity. The mental activity in question is the activity of employing perceptual capacities, such as discriminatory, selective capacities. This is a radical view, but I hope to make it plausible. In arguing for this mental activist view, I reject orthodox views on which perceptual consciousness is analyzed in terms of (sensory awareness relations to) peculiar entities, such as, phenomenal properties, external mind-independent properties, propositions, sense-data, qualia, or intentional objects.
About:
Susanna Schellenberg is a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and an Executive Council Faculty Member of the Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science. Her work focuses on a range of topics in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. She is particularly interested in the nature of perceptual content, the epistemic role of perceptual experience, and mental capacities.

Living Writers: Micah Perks
2017-02-23 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Micah Perks grew up in a log cabin in the Adirondack wilderness. She is the author of two novels, What Becomes Us and We Are Gathered Here, a memoir, Pagan Time, and a long personal essay, Alone In The Woods: Cheryl Strayed, My Daughter and Me. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in Epoch, Zyzzyva, Tin House, The Toast, OZY and The Rumpus, amongst many journals and anthologies. Excerpts of What Becomes Us won National Endowment for the Arts grant and The New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More details and work at micahperks.com.

Living Writers Series Winter 2017
Improvi/Nations: Riff, Inquiry, and Protest
Improvi/Nations: Riff, Inquiry, and Protest will feature writers and artists who work and play across various disciplines and modes: poetry, prose, visual, sound, performance, art, and theory to address questions of race, gender, sexuality, and other identities. This series will explore the intersections of self-and-nationhood as fracture, memory and possibility via individual, collective and internal forms.
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Thursdays, 5:20-6:50 PM
All Readings are Free and Open to the Public
January 26: Wayne Koestenbaum, Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and French, CUNY Graduate Center
February 2: Conner Bassett, Matthew Gervase, Kendall Grady, Courtney Kersten, Jared Harvey, Jose Antonio Villarán, Kirstin Wagner, PhD Candidates, Creative/Critical Concentration, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
February 16: Laura Mullen, McElveen Professor of English, Lousiana State University
February 23: Micah Perks, Professor of Creative Writing and Literature, UC Santa Cruz
March 9: Urayoán Noel, Associate Professor of English and Spanish, New York University
March 16: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading
Co-sponsored by The Humanities Division, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, The Literature Department and Creative Writing Program, Chicano Latino Research Center, Literary Cultures/Sawyer Seminar, Latin American and Latino Studies, and The Bay Tree Book Store

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Maggie Wander
2017-02-24 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“Its Ok, We’re Safe Here”: Cultural and Eco Activism in the Film Windjarrameru (The Stealing C*nt$)
Since 2008, the Karrabing Film Collective has made four films about the various cultural, political, and social realists of being Aboriginal in twenty-first century Australia. Their 2015 film, Windjarrameru (The Stealing C*nt$), highlights how social inequalities experienced every day in Aboriginal communities are inseparable from environmental destruction. Both issues are intertwined in Australia’s colonial history; due to the centrality of landscape and environment in Aboriginal worldviews and identities, the destruction of the former necessarily impacts the latter. Windjarrameru responds to this colonial legacy by subverting ethnographic representations of Aboriginal peoples and the Australian landscape, while the role of ancestral spirits makes visible the impact of mining on the living beings in this landscape.
Friday Forum Winter quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 27, 2017: Sarah Papazoglakis, Literature
February 03, 2017: Rachel Shellabarger, Environmental Studies
February 10, 2017: Kyuhyun Han, History
February 17, 2017: Yulia Gilchinskaya, Film & Digital Media
February 24, 2017: Maggie Wander, HAVC
March 3, 2017: Chessa Adsit-Morris, HAVC

Grad Slam
2017-02-24 17:30 - 19:30 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Grad Slam, also referred to as the 3-Minute Thesis Challenge*, is a competition that challenges graduate students to present years’ worth of academic research in a concise, compelling, three-minute talk to a non-expert audience. It encourages students to clarify their ideas and to help others understand and appreciate the significance of their work.
The contest is open to all graduate students.
Register and upload your video here.
Finalists will present their three-minute thesis presentations at a live event on
February 24 at 5:30 p.m.
in the Music Center Recital Hall.
This event is free and open to the public.
A panel of judges will choose first-place and runner-up winners, and the audience will vote for a people’s choice winner. If the people’s choice awardee is the same as the winner or runner-up, both awards will go to that person.
The winner of the UCSC Grad Slam receives $3,000; the runner-up receives $1,500; and the people’s choice winner receives $750.
The UCSC Grad Slam winner will go on to present at a UC-wide final Grad Slam to be held May 4, 2017, at LinkedIn, 222 2nd Street in San Francisco. Visit UCOP Grad Slam to view the 2016 finalists from all UC campuses and learn the winner of that competition.

Cultural Studies Talk with Erick Lyle: "Streetopia and Beyond"
2017-02-27 15:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies Presents:
Streetopia and Beyond
A Talk by Eric Lyle
3-5 pm
Monday, February 27
Humanities 1, 210
What does community control look like? How do we organize to build power on a neighborhood level today? In the new Trump Era, cities like Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco have rushed to reassure that their governments intend to oppose new restrictive federal immigration policies and to reinforce these cities’ status as Sanctuary Cities. But as homeless sweeps and evictions continue to endanger communities of working class and people of color, we have to ask what does “sanctuary” mean in the era of rampant displacement? Author Erick Lyle suggests the path to resisting Trump Administration policies lies in doubling down on existing anti-gentrification efforts and organizing on a hyperlocal basis to seize community control of development, housing, planning, and utilities. Join Lyle for a discussion of the possibilities for resistance in neighborhood organizing and for a look at the author’s work on Streetopia, a massive anti-gentrification art fair that took place in San Francisco in 2012, and brought together residents of the city’s Tenderloin with over a hundred artists and activists to actualize mutual aid-based community projects and to consider utopian aspiration for the city.
Erick Lyle is a writer, curator, musician, and underground journalist. His work has appeared in Art in America, Vice, California Sunday Magazine, Huck, LA Weekly, Brooklyn Rail, and on NPR’s This American Life. Since 1991, he has written, edited, and published the influential punk/activist/art/crime magazine, SCAM, and he was a frequent contributor to the arts and literary section of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He has played on some 30 records by at least a dozen bands. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Hillary Angelo: "Manufacturing Gesellschaft: Urbanized Nature and the 'Green Screen'"
2017-03-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Hillary Angelo is preparing a book on the history of urban “greening” in Germany’s Ruhr region, as well as projects on infrastructure and sociology, and on equity in urban sustainability planning.
Hillary Angelo is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCSC.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Winter 2017 Colloquium Dates:
January 18th: Susan Buck-Morss
January 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
February 1st: Regina Kunzel
February 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas
February 15th: Gary Wilder
February 22nd: Rick Prelinger
March 1st: Hillary Angelo
March 8th: Akash Kumar

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Omid Mohamadi
2017-03-02 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Iranian Women’s Movement: Rights and Difference
Omid Mohamadi, Lecturer, Feminist Studies
My talk centers on the Irania women’s movement and the One Million Signatures Campaign that seeks equal rights for all Iranian women within the laws of the Islamic Republic. Focusing on the campaign’s central text, The Effect of Laws on Women’s Lives, and activists’ testimonies, I show how the Iranian women’s movement appeals to (and also challenges) multiple sites simultaneously, and highlight and critique scholars who subscribe to a shared historical narrative suggesting that the current unity between secular and religious feminists is evidence that the women’s movement has superseded a century of internecine conflict and possibly ideology itself. One must also look at the internal logic of rights themselves and their ability to either imperil or strengthen social movements. I argue that two central facets of rights coupled with two historical development after the 1979 Revolution are responsible for the recent rights-based activism of Iranian feminist, and conclude by thinking through the politics of difference within the movement, especially claims of radical alterity that fray when confronted with the complex relationship between secularism and religion.

Omid Mohamadi earned his Ph.D. in Politics at UCSC with a Designated Emphasis in Feminist Studies. Focusing on contemporary Iran, his research utilizes feminist and political theory to explore interrelated questions on religion, secularism, gender, rights, the state, art, and social movements.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series Winter 2017 Schedule:
January 12th: Soma de Bourbon, “Parenting BinaryTrans Children on the Edge of the Bay Area”
February 2nd: Mikki Stelder, “Towards Other Scenes of speaking and Listening: Palestinian Anticolonial Queer Spatialities”
March 2nd: Omid Mohamadi, “The Iranian Women’s Movement: Rights and Difference”

Audun Dahl: The Empirical Reality of Moral Reasoning
2017-03-02 15:15 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Many theories have viewed reason and reasoning as essential to making moral judgments. In contrast, recent psychological proposals have contested the centrality of reasoning, arguing that most or many moral judgments are based on automatic, emotional reactions (sometimes termed “institutions,” e.g. Greene, 2013; Haidt 2013). These proposals are based on experiments taken to show that people are sometimes unable to justify their moral evaluations and that such evaluations are sensitive to factors presumed morally irrelevant. In this talk, I will argue that these studies have a number of methodological and theoretical limitations. Research without these limitations, for instance on responses to so-called trolley dilemmas, indicates that reasoning plays important roles when individuals make moral judgments. Furthermore, this research suggests a realistic view of moral reasoning that is not premised on the dichotomy between reasoning and emotional reactions.
About:
Audun Dahl is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at UC Santa Cruz. His research investigates early moral development. One line of work deals with the emergence of infant helping behavior and a second line deals with how young children acquire an aversion to harming others. His research combines naturalistic and experimental methods to study how infants’ everyday social interactions contribute to these developments.

The Maghrib Workshop and The Spain-North Africa Project
2017-03-03 - 2017-03-04 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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Friday, March 3
Law and Movement: Historical Roots and Contexts,  Contemporary Questions, Part 2 (The Maghrib Workshop)
Morning
9:00 Coffee and Introduction
9:30 Camilo Gómez-Rivas, Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Refugees of the Reconquista and the Ransoming of Captives”
11:00 Marc Andre, Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes, “Militarizing the Metropolis? The Army during the Algerian War in France through the Fortress Montluc”
12:30 Lunch
Afternoon
1:30 Lia Brozgal, French and Francophone Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, “‘Heureux les kabyles blonds’: Reading Race in the October 17 Archive”
3:00 Break
3:15 Alma Heckman, History and Jewish Studies, UCSC, “The Rights and Obligations of Divorce: Jews and Moroccan Independence”
4:45 Concluding Remarks
6:00 Dinner
Saturday, March 4
Andalusī Musical Traditions of the Western Mediterranean (The Spain-North Africa Project)
Morning
9:00 Coffee and Introduction
9:30 Rachel Colwell, Music, University of California, Berkeley, “al-Jaww al-Malouf al-Tounsi, an Acoustemology of Listening”
10:30 Jonathan Glasser, Anthropology, College of William and Mary, “The Problem of Muslim-Jewish Musical Borderlands at Algeria’s Spanish-Ottoman Frontier”
12:00 Lunch
Afternoon
1:00 Chris Silver, History, University of California, Los Angeles, “Marching (and Waltzing) toward Independence: North African Jewish Musicians at Mid-Century”
2:30 Break
2:45 Dwight Reynolds, Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Al-Andalus in the Musical World of the Medieval Mediterranean”
4:15 Brain-Storming Session on Follow-up
5:00 End!

Contact:
Camilo Gómez-Rivas
831.205.9001
cgomezri@ucsc.edu
Funded by:
University of California Humanities Research Institute  (UCHRI) Faculty Working Group grant and the Institute for Humanities Research

The Center for Emerging Worlds presents Subversive Sounds: Music and Politics of the Global South
2017-03-03 10:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 2, Room 359
The Center for Emerging Worlds presents
Subversive Sounds: Music and Politics of the Global South
Friday March 3, 2017
Humanities 2, Room 359
UC Santa Cruz
The event is free and open to the public
During the final decades of the major European empires and at the beginning of a century of American hegemony, the advent of electrical sound recording, and the spread of the radio broadcasting gramophone records generated new spaces and modalities of cultural circulation and political discourse. Port cities around the globe, in particular, produced hybrid musical forms that inspired imitators and innovators elsewhere. From the end of World War I to the present, new telecommunications technologies have served as instruments of power, means of manufacturing consent, and media of political and commercial colonization, while vernacular musics and recordings of political speeches and sermons have carried insurgent, otherworldly visions in opposition to empire. While textuality, printed media, and visual culture conventionally receive more attention, this daylong conference foregrounds soundscapes and the anticolonial audiopolitics of the Global South.
10:00 AM
Marc Matera (UC Santa Cruz) – Opening Remarks
10:30 AM-12:15 PM
Alejandra Bronfman (University of British Columbia)
“Drums, Mines, Coils, Voices: Histories of Media and Materiality”
– Discussion Comments by Katherine Gordy (San Francisco State University)
12:15 PM-1:30PM Lunch
1:30 PM-3:15 PM
Michael Denning (Yale University)
“‘A Noisy Heaven and a Syncopated Earth’: The Transcolonial Reverberations of Vernacular Phonograph Music”
– Discussion Comments by Eric Porter (UC Santa Cruz)
3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Closing Roundtable with Michael Denning, Alejandra Bronfman, Eric Porter, and David Anthony (UC Santa Cruz)
For more information, contact sjetha@ucsc.edu

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Chessa Adsit-Morries
2017-03-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Creative Ecologies of Practice: Collaborative Agential Modes of Eco-Aesthetic Pedagogy
This presentation will discuss two collaborative environmental art projects aimed at creating experimental and experiential trans-disciplinary pedagogical practices. Both projects are examples of “creative ecologies of practice” enabling and requiring multiple modes of thought, multiple modes of encounter, and multiple modes of pedagogy. They are imaginative and speculative, require resonance and creative response, and include practices and discourses of eco-aesthetics to foster sites of refuge, sites of agency and cities response-ablitiy. They enable collaborative inquires into urgent social, political and ecological challenges, exploring elements that help to activate, integrate and support collaborative endeavors that challenge current (neoliberal capitalistic) representations, foster (multi species) agency and create new knowledge(s).
Friday Forum Winter quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 27, 2017: Sarah Papazoglakis, Literature
February 03, 2017: Rachel Shellabarger, Environmental Studies
February 10, 2017: Kyuhyun Han, History
February 17, 2017: Yulia Gilchinskaya, Film & Digital Media
February 24, 2017: Maggie Wander, HAVC
March 3, 2017: Chessa Adsit-Morris, HAVC

Improvised Shakespeare
2017-03-03 20:00 - 22:00 | Center Stage, Downtown Santa Cruz
Improv Playhouse of San Francisco will perform a completely improvised piece using their original format, “Improvised Shakespeare,” at Center Stage in downtown Santa Cruz on Friday, March 3, staring at 8:00 pm. Tickets are free and limited to UCSC affiliates. They will be available via Brown Paper Tickets. (One ticket reservation per UCSC email.) The players describe the performance this way: “​Shakespeare’s stories take place in a tumultuous world full of unrequited love, treachery, passion, war, mistaken identity, political intrigue and, sometimes, magic. In our shows, we strive to inhabit that world and to play characters who go through similar adventures and emotions. We don’t know in advance if the show will be a romantic comedy or a tragedy, or some of both. But we do know that it will be completely improvised. Each show is unique, the audience joining us on the journey to discover what story lies in wait for our merry players…huzzah!”

Acting Improvisation Workshop
2017-03-05 12:30 - 18:30
On Sunday, March 5, Lisa Rowland (a member of Improv Playhouse) will conduct an Acting Improvisation Workshop, focussing on Shakespeare, from 12:30 until 6:30 pm. Space is limited to 20 UCSC students, for whom the workshop is free. Email Bob Giges otom@ucsc.edu for registration/information. Lisa describes the program in this way “This workshop is a journey into the language and spirit of improvised Shakespeare. The beauty and poetry of the language will be explored, while at the same time we will emphasize simplicity and above all communication.”
Registration/Information,. email Bob Giges otom@ucsc.edu

Slow Seminar on Race, Violence, Inequality and the Anthropocene
2017-03-07 13:00 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 408
2016-2017 SLOW SEMINARS
RACE, VIOLENCE, INEQUALITY AND THE ANTHROPOCENE
The contemporary moment is marked by global environmental change, the collapse of states and the reconfiguration of economies. This era, where human disturbances asymmetrically affect all ecosystems, is increasingly being called the ‘Anthropocene.’ We approach Anthropocene conditions as inextricably linked to long-term histories of plant and animal domestication, and to more recent histories of European colonialism, transatlantic slavery and capitalism. Via a year-long slow seminar and a series of public events, we hope to enrich conversations about the Anthropocene – as term, concept, and historical era – by bringing together diverse bodies of scholarship, in particular decolonial and postcolonial theory. This re-politicizes the Anthropocene as an object of study, making race and empire, capitalism and colonialism, and social inequality and violence central to the story of ecological transformation.
SEMINAR 2:
Tuesday March 7th, 1-3pm
Humanities 1, Room 408
Seminar readings:
Elizabeth Povinelli, Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism (Duke University Press, 2016)
NB: We will be reading the whole book. Copies have been ordered at the Literary Guillotine and can be purchased there.
Sponsored by the IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality and the Anthropocene

IHR Public Fellows Info Session 1
2017-03-08 10:00 - 11:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
IHR PUBLIC FELLOWS
Deadline: April 30, 2017
Amount: Up to $5,000
Number of Fellowships: 3 or more (based on the availability of funds)
These fellowships will provide the opportunity for humanities doctoral students to contribute to research, programming, communications and fundraising at non-profit organizations, cultural institutions, or companies and are meant to allow the students to apply and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. Majority of the work should be completed during Summer 2017. Students are welcome to find their own partner organizations or to pursue opportunities from organizations listed below.
Before applying, students are required to attend one of Info Sessions below:
Session I. March 8, 10am, Humanities 1, Room 202
Session II. March 9, 2pm, Humanities 1, Room 402
More information available at ihr.ucsc.edu/programs/fellowships

RESCHEDULED Akash Kumar
2017-03-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Rescheduled for March 15, 2017

Alan Craig: "VR, AR, and the Brain: Teaching, Learning, and Research With Virtual and Augmented Reality"
2017-03-08 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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Alan B. Craig is the Senior Associate Director for Human-Computer Interaction at the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (I-CHASS) and a Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). He is also the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science sSpecialist for the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). His work centers on the continuum between the physical and the digital. He has done extensive work in virtual reality, augmented reality, and personal fabrication, as well as educational applications of data mining, visualization, and collaborative systems. He has authored three books (Understanding Augmented Reality, Developing Virtual Reality Applications, and Understanding Augmented Reality), and holds three patents.

Why I'm reading Joseph Conrad these days
2017-03-09 11:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Familiarity with Heart of Darkness helpful, but not essential. Introduction: Prof. David Marriott, Chair, History of Consciousness

Discussant: Isaac Blacksin, Ph.D. candidate, History of Consciousness

James Clifford is an interdisciplinary scholar who was a Professor in UCSC’s History of Consciousness department for 33 years until his retirement in 2011. He was elected to the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences in 2011. The History of Consciousness department at UCSC continues to be an intellectual center for innovative critical scholarship in the U.S. and abroad. Since 2000, Clifford’s writing has focused on processes of globalization and decolonization as they influence contemporary “indigenous” lives, including Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty First Century (2013).

Zachary Lockman: "Adventures in Field-Building: On the History of Area Studies/Middle East Studies in the United States”
2017-03-09 13:30 - 15:30 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Area studies is often simplistically depicted as little more than a Cold War form of knowledge, but its emergence as a component of the postwar American academic scene was in fact propelled and shaped by visions, exigencies and contingencies that were not initially or exclusively about the needs of the national security state. Zachary Lockman’s 2016 book Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States draws on extensive archival research to offer a different perspective on the origins and trajectory of area studies in the United States and to explore how the field of Middle East studies in the United States was actually built. The book’s focus is not on intellectual paradigms or scholarly output but rather on funding decisions and their rationales, efforts to elaborate a distinctive theory and method for area studies, the anxieties these efforts generated for Middle East studies, and the unanticipated consequences of building these new academic fields.
Zachary Lockman has taught modern Middle Eastern history at New York University since 1995. His most recent book is Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States (2016). His other books include Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism (2004/2010); Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 (1996); and (with Joel Beinin) Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954 (1987). He is a former president of the Middle East Studies Association, chairs the wing of MESA’s Committee on Academic Freedom that deals with North America, and is a contributing editor of Middle East Report.

IHR Public Fellows Info Session 2
2017-03-09 14:00 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 402

Living Writers: Urayoán Noel
2017-03-09 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Urayoán Noel is a self-described “stateless poet” whose critical and creative work foregrounds the messy condition of Puerto Rican belonging and non-belonging to the US nation-state. His poetic performances, texts, and “video poems” flagrantly comingle English with Spanish, mixing learned literary allusions with found words generated from cell phones or political demonstrations. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Noel lives in the Bronx and is an associate professor of English and Spanish at NYU. Noel is the author of Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (Arizona, 2015), a Library Journal Top Fall Indie Poetry selection; Hi-Density Politics (BlazeVox, 2010), a National Book Critics Circle Small Press Highlights selection; Kool Logic/La Lógica Kool (Bilingual Review, 2005), an El Nuevo Día Book of the Year; and several books mostly in Spanish, most recently the performance text EnUncIAdOr (Educación Emergente, 2014). Other works include the DVD Kool Logic Sessions (Bilingual Review, 2005), a collaboration with composer Monxo López; the artist’s book/performance/website The Edgemere Letters (2011), a collaboration with artist Martha Clippinger; and the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (Iowa, 2014), winner of the LASA Latina/o Studies Book Award and recipient of an honorable mention in the MLA Prize in Latina/o and Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Studies. A contributing editor of NACLA Report on the Americas and Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Noel has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Howard Foundation, the Bronx Council on the Arts, and CantoMundo, and is currently completing a bilingual edition of the poems of Pablo de Rokha.

Living Writers Series Winter 2017
Improvi/Nations: Riff, Inquiry, and Protest
Improvi/Nations: Riff, Inquiry, and Protest will feature writers and artists who work and play across various disciplines and modes: poetry, prose, visual, sound, performance, art, and theory to address questions of race, gender, sexuality, and other identities. This series will explore the intersections of self-and-nationhood as fracture, memory and possibility via individual, collective and internal forms.
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Thursdays, 5:20-6:50 PM
All Readings are Free and Open to the Public
January 26: Wayne Koestenbaum, Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and French, CUNY Graduate Center
February 2: Conner Bassett, Matthew Gervase, Kendall Grady, Courtney Kersten, Jared Harvey, Jose Antonio Villarán, Kirstin Wagner, PhD Candidates, Creative/Critical Concentration, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
February 16: Laura Mullen, McElveen Professor of English, Lousiana State University
February 23: Micah Perks, Professor of Creative Writing and Literature, UC Santa Cruz
March 9: Urayoán Noel, Associate Professor of English and Spanish, New York University
March 16: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading LWS_Winter17_Proof2-2
Co-sponsored by The Humanities Division, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, The Literature Department and Creative Writing Program, Chicano Latino Research Center, Literary Cultures/Sawyer Seminar, Latin American and Latino Studies, and The Bay Tree Book Store

Poetics of Non-Citizenship: A Seminar with Urayoán Noel
2017-03-10 10:00 - 12:00 | Charles E. Merrill Lounge
In this seminar, Urayoán Noel will discuss his critical work on the nexus of creative expression and political activism, from the 1960s to the present. He is interested in the subversive power of media, performance, and especially of English-Spanish-Spanglish language play, which cuts across different Latina/o/x constituencies. One dimension of his research involves the use of social media among activist DREAMers and in the Haitian-Dominican context, expressed in the #Latinx hashtag and Dominican Twitter. Another thread considers “eccentric archives of the Latina/o Sixties” by comparing two poetic movements, the Royal Chicano Air Force and El Puerto Rican Embassy. Although centered in California and New York respectively, both groups of poet-performers imagined sites of organization outside the nation-state: “Califas” and “Nuyorico.” Finally, Professor Noel considers the changing work of the space of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe from the 1970s to the present, from anti-gentrification to anti-globalization movements.
Pastries, coffee, and tea will be served.

Please register here prior to attending this event.

Urayoán Noel is a self-described “stateless poet” whose critical and creative work foregrounds the messy condition of Puerto Rican belonging and non-belonging in and to the U.S. nation-state. His poetic performances, texts, and “video poems” flagrantly comingle English with Spanish, mixing learned literary allusions with found words generated from cell phones or political demonstrations.
Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Professor Noel lives in the Bronx and is an associate professor of English and Spanish at New York University. He is the author of Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (Arizona, 2015), a Library Journal Top Fall Indie Poetry selection; Hi-Density Politics (BlazeVox, 2010), a National Book Critics Circle Small Press Highlights selection; Kool Logic/La Lógica Kool (Bilingual Review, 2005), an El Nuevo Día Book of the Year; the performance text EnUncIAdOr (Educación Emergente, 2014); and several books mostly in Spanish. Other works include the DVD Kool Logic Sessions (Bilingual Review, 2005), a collaboration with composer Monxo López; the artist’s book/performance/website The Edgemere Letters (2011), a collaboration with artist Martha Clippinger; and the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (Iowa, 2014), winner of the LASA Latina/o Studies Book Award and recipient of an honorable mention in the MLA Prize in Latina/o and Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Studies. A contributing editor to the NACLA Report on the Americas and Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, he has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Howard Foundation, the Bronx Council on the Arts, and CantoMundo. He is currently completing a bilingual edition of the poems of Pablo de Rokha.

The seminar is co-sponsored by the Literature Department, Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

PhD+: Open Access, Data Management and Library Resources
2017-03-10 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Open Access, Data Management and Library Resources
What does Open Access mean for you? How can you organize and manage your research materials to best support your writing? And, what kinds of resources are available to graduate students for accessing data and information?This PhD+ panel features librarians who will discuss a range of issues, including depositing your dissertation, data management, and the ethics of sharing your work in an Open Access world. We will discuss:

The Presidential Open Access Policy, and how it pertains to graduate research
Publishing in Open Access journals and the potential impact on book contracts and job searches (academic + beyond)
and, Open Access as Social Justice

Take the opportunity to get to know your librarians and to engage in a graduate student specific conversation about Open Access. The panelists will also answer questions about ILL, digital research methodologies, citation software, library-based subscriptions, and other related research tools. Check out these library services and resources and join us to learn more.

Lunch will be served, as always.

PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

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Akash Kumar: "All the World on a Board: Chess and Cultural Crossings in Dante and Boccaccio"
2017-03-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Akash Kumar focuses on the crossing of poetry, philosophy, and science in 13th-14th century Italy, emphasizing multicultural knowledge transmission in the medieval Mediterranean. His talk emerges from his second book project on medieval Italian representations of chess and the exchange made possible by the game across gender, religious, and social boundaries.
Akash Kumar is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature at UCSC.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Winter 2017 Colloquium Dates:
January 18th: Susan Buck-Morss
January 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
February 1st: Regina Kunzel
February 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas
February 15th: Gary Wilder
February 22nd: Rick Prelinger
March 1st: Hillary Angelo
March 15th: Akash Kumar

Ideology & Identity in the Revival of Spoken Hebrew
2017-03-15 16:30 - 17:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
The revival of Spoken Hebrew took place in Palestine in the early 20 th century, and is often seen as a historically unique example of successful language revival. In this talk I suggest that Hebrew is also exemplary, of the ways in which our languages speak through us. What is special about Hebrew is that key properties of the revival process – its rapidity and recency – make it possible to track mechanisms by which broader ideologies (of nation, ancestry, class, gender, etc.) come to be embedded in the languages we speak. The talk will focus on East-West diasporic dynamics in the negotiation of accent for the new spoken Hebrew, and on the shifting values of authenticity and sincerity in the construction of the new native-born speech style.
Reception to follow the lecture
For more info contact Peter Reed pmreed@ucsc.edu.

Humanities Radio Hour: "Language of Conservation with Daniel Guevara and Claudio Campagna"
2017-04-05 12:00 - 13:00 | KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FM
Please tune in to KZSC 88.1 FM for Artists on Art
Humanities Radio Hour
Wed, April 5th at 12:00PM–1:00PM
Interview with Professors Daniel Guevara and Claudio Campagna about the Language of Conservation Project.
Click here to listen online
UC Santa Cruz Faculty:
– Daniel Guevara, Chair and Associate Professor of Philosophy
– Claudio Campagna, Adjunct Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; and Conservation Biologist, Wildlife Conservation Society

Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: Matthew Fuller "In Praise of Plasticity"
2017-04-05 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
About the Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
About “In Praise of Plasticity”: Plasticity, in neurology, is the ability to adapt, change, grow and find new forms at multiple scalar levels whilst retaining, rerouting or developing function. Professor Fuller examines the notion of plasticity as it is articulated by cybernetics, machine learning, and anarchism.
Matthew Fuller will be presenting and is a Professor of Cultural Studies and the Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London

Jewish Studies Open House
2017-04-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Come discover what makes the Jewish Studies program at UC Santa Cruz such a unique and vibrant educational opportunity. Meet Jewish Studies faculty and students, learn about classes, internship opportunities, and the Jewish Studies intellectual community.
Wednesday, April 12, 3-5pm
Hum 1, 210

Living Writers: Tongo Eisen-Martin
2017-04-13 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Tongo Eisen-Martin, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press, 2015)
Born in San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker, educator, and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He has educated in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California’s San Quentin State Prison. His work in Rikers Island was featured in the New York Times. He was also adjunct faculty at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York. Subscribing to the Freirian model of education, he designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson, MS.
The UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents
The Lives of Other Songs
Living Writers Series Spring 2017
Thursdays / 5:20-6:50pm / Humanities Lecture Hall
April 13, 2017: Tongo Eisen-Martin, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press, 2015)
May 4, 2017: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, author of A Home in Tibet (Penguin, 2014) and Eric Sneathen, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya, 2016)
May 11, 2017: Aisha Sasha John, author of THOU (BookThug, 2014)
May 18, 2017: Rosa Alcalá, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010)
June 1, 2017: Lauren Levin, author of The Braid (Krupskaya, 2016)
June 8, 2017: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading

Critical Conversations in Cultural Heritage
2017-04-14 09:00 - 17:30 | University Center, UCSC, College Nine and College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
3rd Annual Research Conference
Free and Open to the Public
Advance Registration Required
Appeals to “heritage” have become increasingly common and visible in recent decades. Whether within the realms of the promotion and re-creation of history, claims to sovereignty, protection of landscapes and climate, or economic development, connection to the past is often utilized as a demonstration of legitimacy and authority. Making sense of these diverse appeals to heritage and the many ways that the past becomes meaningfully constituted in the present is a challenge. This is due both to the complexity of the issues as well as the fact that heritage scholars tend to be widely scattered between departments and disciplines. To address these challenges our conference at the University of California, Santa Cruz will bring together an interdisciplinary community of scholars to discuss current research and evaluate future directions for this rapidly growing, yet still decentralized, field of study.
Keynote Speaker
Jane Lydon, University of Western Australia
Speakers
Jane Anderson, New York University
Sony Atalay, University of Massachusetts
Jon Daehnke, UC Santa Cruz
Robin Gray, UC Santa Cruz
Richard Leventhal, University of Pennsylvania
Amy Lonetree, UC Santa Cruz
Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels, University of Maryland
Tsim D. Schneider, UC Santa Cruz
Hegnar Watenpaugh, UC Davis
Registration on:
http://arc.ucsc.edu/conferenceregistration.html

Ethics and Language of Conservation Colloquium
2017-04-14 14:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Event Photos:
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.

Ethics and Language of Conservation
What is Lost When a Species Goes Extinct?
A Colloquium on the Unspeakable Value of Life
Friday, April 14, 2017
2:00-5:30pm
Humanities 1, Room 210

Speakers:
Claudio Campagna
Adjunct Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCSC
Wildlife Conservation Society
Daniel Guevara
Chair, Department of Philosophy, UCSC
Paul Koch
Dean of Physical and Biological Sciences, UCSC
Distinguished Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
Beth Shapiro
Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCSC
Sponsored by:
IHR Research Cluster on The Language of Conservation Project, Center for Public Philosophy, Dean of Humanities, Dean of Physical and Biological Sciences
For more information visit:
The Language of Conservation Project
Center for Public Philosophy

Linguistics Colloquium: Junko Ito
2017-04-14 14:40 - 15:40 | Humanities 2, Room 259
The Linguistics department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.
Spring 2016
April 14: Junko Ito, UC Santa Cruz
April 28: Ashwini Deo, Yale
May 26: Susan Lin, UC Berkeley
May/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference

The Fluidity of Status: A Seminar with Tanya Golash-Boza & Rhacel Parreñas (Non-citizenship Series)
2017-04-18 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Focusing on gender, deportation, and labor, the third and final session of Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture, approaches citizenship, denizenship, and mobility as fluid statuses—as formal (in other words, documented) positions that are in flux and as practices of belonging that morph as people of various statuses interact with each other.
Please join us for this free, public seminar with Tanya Golash-Boza, Professor of Sociology at UC Merced, and Rhacel Parreñas, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. To reserve your lunch and to access the pre-circulated readings, please register here:

Following the seminar, Professors Golash-Boza and Parreñas will take part in The Fluidity of Status: Non-citizenship, Deportation, and Indentured Mobility, a public conversation at the Museum of Art & History at 705 Front Street in downtown Santa Cruz.

Tanya Golash-Boza is the author of five books, including Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism (New York University Press, 2015), which explains mass deportation in the context of the global economic crisis; Due Process Denied (Routledge, 2012), which describes how and why non-citizens in the United States have been detained and deported for minor crimes, without regard for constitutional limits on disproportionate punishment; and Immigration Nation (Paradigm, 2012), which provides a critical analysis of the impact that US immigration policy has on human rights. In addition, she has published over a dozen articles in peer-reviewed journals on deportations, racial identity, and human rights and has written on contemporary issues for Al Jazeera, The Boston Review, The Nation, Counterpunch, The Houston Chronicle, Racialicious, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Dissident Voice.
Rhacel Parreñas‘ book, Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo (Stanford University Press, 2011), won the Distinguished Book Award in the Labor and Labor Movements Section of the American Sociological Association. Probing the intersections of human trafficking and labor migration, her current research analyzes the constitution of unfree labor among migrant domestic workers in Dubai and Singapore. Her other books include Human Trafficking Reconsidered: Migration and Forced Labor (Open Society Institute, 2014), The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization (New York University Press, 2008), and Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work (second edition, Stanford University Press, 2015). Her current research focuses on the unfree labor of migrant contract workers in Asia and the Middle East.
This seminar is co-sponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Common Front for the Right to Housing in Bucharest
2017-04-18 15:00 - 16:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Comparative urban studies are on the rise, raising new questions about translation, fungibility, and transit. How can we study the material effects of global capital in various urban spaces without conflating the spatial struggles and transformations of one space upon another? How can superimposing Western understandings of gentrification upon non-Western places impose onto-epistemological violence? This talk, moderated by Feminist Studies doctoral candidate and Anti-Eviction Mapping Project cofounder Erin McElroy, will feature Bucharest-based housing justice activist, artist, and scholar Veda Popovici. Veda will share more about the Bucharest’s direct action collective, the Common Front for the Right to Housing, as well as histories of postsocialist neoliberal housing restitution laws that have incited current Romanian spatial struggles. Erin and Veda will discuss a growing call to think both global capital formations and comparative urbanism in Romania through decolonial analytics.

The Fluidity of Status: Non-citizenship, Deportation, and Indentured Mobility: A Conversation with Tanya Golash-Boza and Rhacel Parreñas
2017-04-18 18:30 - 20:30 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Event Photos: by Steve Kurtz
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
Presented by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research
In two Ted-style talks, Tanya Golash-Boza (UC Merced) and Rhacel Parreñas (University of Southern California) help close UC Santa Cruz’s Andrew W. Mellon John E. Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship by discussing what they see as some of the key issues framing debates around migration in our time: gender, deportation, incarceration, slavery, human trafficking, structural violence, and global apartheid. The evening begins with a reception at 6:30pm, followed by presentations at 7:00pm and a Q&A moderated by Felicity Amaya Schaeffer (UC Santa Cruz).
“Deported without Due Process: Ryan’s Story”
Tanya Golash-Boza, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Merced
Since 1996, five million people have been deported from the United States – 98% of them Latin American and 90% men. Laws passed in 1996 made it easier to deport legal permanent residents, even those eligible for citizenship. In immigration proceedings, you have no right to legal representation. You can be detained without bond. You can be deported without a full hearing. In this talk, Tanya Golash-Boza will explain how legal permanent residents can be deported from the United States with minimal or no due process.
“The Unfree Labor of Migrant Domestic Workers”
Rhacel Parreñas, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, University of Southern California
Across the globe, migrant domestic workers are unfree workers whose legal residency is contingent on their continued employment as live-in workers with a designated sponsor. Rhacel Parreñas’ talk gives a global overview of the exclusionary terms of their belonging. It then interrogates dominant theoretical frameworks for thinking about contemporary unfreedoms – slavery, human trafficking and structural violence – and proposes the alternative concept of “indentured mobility,” which sees migration as simultaneously constituting of financial mobility from a life of poverty in the sending society but at the cost of servitude vis-à-vis a sponsoring employer in the receiving society. The concept of indentured mobility foregrounds not only the severe structural constraints that limit the options of domestic workers but also their agentic negotiations for improving their work conditions and maximizing thepossible gains in their state of unfreedom.
This event is free and open to the public, but attendees are kindly asked to register in advance.

Speakers
Tanya Golash-Boza is the author of five books, including Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism (New York University Press, 2015), which explains mass deportation in the context of the global economic crisis; Due Process Denied (Routledge, 2012), which describes how and why non-citizens in the United States have been detained and deported for minor crimes, without regard for constitutional limits on disproportionate punishment; and Immigration Nation (Paradigm, 2012), which provides a critical analysis of the impact that US immigration policy has on human rights. In addition, she has published over a dozen articles in peer-reviewed journals on deportations, racial identity, and human rights and has written on contemporary issues for Al Jazeera, The Boston Review, The Nation, Counterpunch, The Houston Chronicle, Racialicious, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Dissident Voice.
Rhacel Parreñas‘ book, Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo(Stanford University Press, 2011), won the Distinguished Book Award in the Labor and Labor Movements Section of the American Sociological Association. Probing the intersections of human trafficking and labor migration, her current research analyzes the constitution of unfree labor among migrant domestic workers in Dubai and Singapore. Her other books include Human Trafficking Reconsidered: Migration and Forced Labor (Open Society Institute, 2014), The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization (New York University Press, 2008), and Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work (second edition, Stanford University Press, 2015). Her current research focuses on the unfree labor of migrant contract workers in Asia and the Middle East.
Felicity Amaya Schaeffer is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies and Co-principal Investigator of Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar. She is the author of Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship across the Americas (New York University Press, 2013), an exploration of the relationship between global shifts and intimate circuits of desire, love, and marriage. Her current research is on surveillance technologies and the sexual criminalization of migrant bodies on and beyond the US-Mexico border. Other research interests include borderlands and transnationalisms; affect and capitalism; race, technology, and subjectivity; and Chicana and Latin American cultural studies.

This free, public event is co-sponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
About Non-citizenship
Non-citizenship is part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture. Linking citizenship, migration, border, labor, and carceral studies, and juxtaposing spatial and social mobility and immobility, this year-long series of events explores what it means to be a citizen and non-citizen in a world made by migrants, refugees, guest workers, permanent residents, asylum seekers, slaves, prisoners, detainees, the stateless, and denizens (residents who do not hold the same rights as citizens). Non-citizenship is organized around three themes: “Forced Migration” (fall 2016), “Labor Mobility and Precarity” (winter 2017), and “Fluidity of Status” (spring 2017). Click here to learn more.

Undergraduate Digital Research Symposium
2017-04-19 08:30 - 14:00 | Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library
Sponsored by Center for Jewish Studies, Digital Scholarship Commons, University Library, IHR
With support from the Koret Family Foundation
The Digital Scholarship Commons is thrilled to announce the first Undergraduate Digital Research Symposium on April 19, 2017. At UC Santa Cruz, undergraduate students are engaged in creative, critical research using digital tools and platforms. This symposium will showcase innovative undergraduate research and celebrate the digital projects that students develop in class.
Join us to explore and engage with public facing, media-rich, critically engaged, and creative student research. The event will include a digital poster session, two panels featuring undergraduate work, and a keynote address by Jaye Padgett, Interim Vice Provost for Student Success. Lunch will be provided for registered attendees.

Program:
8:30 – 9:00am Light Breakfast and Coffee
9:00 – 9:15am Welcome, Elizabeth Cowell (University Librarian)
9:15 – 10:00am Digital Poster Session
10:00 – 10:45am Panel 1: Undergraduate Digital Research Fellows
11:00 – 11:45am Panel 2: The Gail Project, Team Leaders
12:00 – 1:00pm Lunch (Brown Bag lunch provided for all registered attendees)
1:00 – 1:45pm Keynote: Jaye Padgett (Interim Vice Provost for Student Success)

Highlights of the Symposium include:
Six student groups will be showcasing digital projects (both independent research + class work) in a Digital Poster Session
Eight undergrads will be participating in two panels discussing independent research.

Click here to register.

Zac Zimmer: “Conquest, Contact, and Cosmovision: SF Rewritings of the Conquest of the Americas”
2017-04-19 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Conquest, Contact, and Cosmovision: SF Rewritings of the Conquest of the Americas
Zac Zimmer’s current project reads original narratives of the conquest of the Americas and the philosophical debates it engendered with and against recent aesthetic attempts to reimagine that historical moment in marginal genres, especially alternative history and first contact science fiction, creating a point of contact between the contemporary world and the hemispheric American colonial encounter.
Zac Zimmer is Assistant Professor of Literature and LALS at UCSC.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies
2017-04-19 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies presents: Mitchell Duneier the Maurice P. During, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University on “Ghetto: Invention of a Place, History of an Idea”
Lecture at 4:00pm – Humanities 1, RM 210
Reception to follow
Parking – Free to attendees – Please follow “Diller Lecture” signs to Cowell/Stevenson parking lots 109 and 110 – Parking attendants will be on hand to issue parking permits

Spanish Colloquium: Ximena Briceño, "A vuelo de pájaro: Vallejo y Arguedas"
2017-04-19 17:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
A vuelo de pájaro: Vallejo y ArguedasA talk in Spanish by Ximena Briceño
Ximena Briceño enseña literatura latinoamericana en el Departamento de Culturas Ibéricas y Latinoamericanas de Stanford University desde 2008. Es doctora por la Universidad de Cornell y egresada de la Universidad Católica del Perú. Su trabajo de investigación se enfoca en teorías de animalidad en la literatura moderna de América Latina, especialmente de la zona andina. Ha sido becaria del Instituto Iberoamericano de Berlín y es coordinadora del grupo de investigación materia en Stanford.
Exploro el arco trazado por el ave guanera desde Trilce de César Vallejo hasta El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo de José María Arguedas. Quiero discutir la presencia de una poética excrementicia en la vanguardia andina desde una perspectiva post-antropocéntrica. Tomando como punto de partida la idea clásica de la vanguardia latinoamericana como crítica a la modernidad, esta ponencia extrema esta postura para mostrar que, más bien, la línea excrementicia que comunica la escritura de Vallejo y Arguedas marca cómo esa temporalidad colapsa en un tiempo catastrófico que borra la frontera de lo humano y lo no humano.

The "Light” Revolution and its aftermaths: Protest, resistance and performing Eastern Europe
2017-04-19 20:00 - 21:30 | Sub Rosa
SubRosa
Throughout all of February, tens of thousands took the streets in Romania to protest corruption of the political class. Far from being the first spontaneous mass protests in recent local history, they were the first of such magnitude to affirm a clear right-wing position. As international radicals, we expect solidarity not with the imperialist narrative of the “at last enlightened East” but with local resistance to the liberal paradigm of civic, peaceful protest.

Humanities Earth Day
2017-04-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join the Health Humanities Committee and Green Team for our Earth Day Lunch & Learn on April 20th from 12:00 – 1:00pm in Humanities 1, Room 210.

PhD+: Humanities Townhall to Discuss Graduate Education for Graduate Students and Faculty
2017-04-21 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Last year, the NEH awarded UCSC a Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grant to help support the campus in instituting wide-ranging changes in its humanities doctoral programs. As such a process process will ultimately affect everyone in the Humanities division, the grant participants would like to invite Humanities affiliates to a town-hall style forum for a short presentation about our NEH grant, as well as to provide an opportunity in which to share ideas, thoughts, and concerns about the state, and future of, humanities graduate education at UCSC–and in general. We hope to integrate the feedback we receive into the strategies that each of our working groups are in the process of developing in order to better serve the UCSC humanities community. After a short introduction about the grant, an informal panel discussion will provide some groundwork for a larger, audience-based conservation regarding topics such as community building within/among graduate students and faculty, skills development opportunities for humanities students, and understanding/defining expectations for mentor/mentee relationships. As part of our town hall discussion, we provide a modest and optional selection of articles from the Chronicle of Higher Education as background reading for those who would like to participate.
Please RSVP below. Lunch will be served.
PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Jaclyn N. Schultz
2017-04-21 12:20 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Advertising Female Futurity: Children’s Books Printed as Advertisements in the U.S., 1850-1870
In this presentation, I examine children’s books printed as advertisemtns between 1850 and 1870 that were directed at female children. Beginning around 1850, companies produced books that served as advertisements but took the shape of children’s primers, rhymes, or storybooks. This presentation carefully studies these books to uncover consumerist lessons directed at children as well as contemporaneous understandings of the women of the future. By examining how female child readers were trained to become a certain kind of women through these advertising books, my presentation illuminates the distinctive understanding of gendered labor, consumerism, and futurity that existed in the U.S. between 1850 and 1870.
Friday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
April 21, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz, History
April 28, 2017: Baizhu Chen, Economics
May 5, 2017: Danielle Crawford, Literature
May 12, 2017: Kristen Laciste, HAVC
May 19, 2017: Kara Hisatake, Literature
May 26, 2017: Yuki Obayashi, Literature
June 2, 2017: Angela Nguyen, Psychology

Lothar Von Falkenhausen: "Trying to Do the Right Thing to Protect the World's Cultural Heritage: One Committee Member's Tale"
2017-04-21 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America presents
Lothar Von Falkenhausen
Professor of Chinese Archaeology and Art History, UCLA
Trying to Do the Right Thing to Protect the World’s Cultural Heritage:
One Committee Member’s Tale
Friday, April 21 at 5:00 p.m.
Humanities 1, Room 210
Free and open to the public
Refreshments at 4:30 p.m. and reception to follow the lecture
Professor Von Falkenhausen will give an account of his service as a member of President Obama’s
Cultural Property Advisory Committee. He reflects upon the purpose of the committee and its
composition and the nature of its work, as well as the wider impact of the United States
government’s efforts to contribute to cultural-heritage preservation worldwide.
Lothar von Falkenhausen is Professor of Chinese Archaeology and Art History at UCLA, where
he heads the East Asian Laboratory at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. His research
concerns the archaeology of the Chinese Bronze Age, focusing on large interdisciplinary and
historical issues on which archaeological materials can provide significant new information. He has
published copiously on musical instruments; Chinese bronzes and their inscriptions; Chinese
ritual; regional cultures; trans-Asiatic contacts; the history of archaeology in East Asia; and
method and theory in East Asian archaeology. His Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius
(1000-250 BC): The Archaeological Evidence (2006) received the Society for American
Archaeology Book Award. Since 2012, Professor Von Falkenhausen has served on the
Presidential Cultural Property Advisory Committee, charged with implementing the 1970
UNESCO convention in order to curb the illegal inflow of cultural property into the United States.
For more information on the lecture, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu
Metered parking available in lower Cowell-Stevenson lot (109)

Traci Brynne Voyles: "Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country"
2017-04-25 15:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene Presents
Traci Brynne Voyles
Tuesday April 25, 3-5pm
Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country
(reading workshop for faculty and graduate students)
Humanities 1, room 210
Contact krlyons@ucsc.edu for readings
Wednesday April 26, 2-4pm
“Can a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea and Settler Colonial Frames for Thinking about Environmental (justice) History
Humanities 1, room 210
Dr. Traci Brynne Voyles is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Loyola Marymount university.

Eric Porter, "'The Future Appears Both Bleak and Promising': The Politics of Jet Noise Around SFO"
2017-04-26 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk is drawn from Professor Porter’s current book project examining the history of San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and various social and political phenomena associated with it as a means of better understanding the core San Francisco Bay Area as a physical, social, and imagined urban space.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Traci Brynne Voyles: "Can a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea and Settler Colonial Frames for Thinking about Environmental (Justice) History"
2017-04-26 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene Presents
Traci Brynne Voyles
Tuesday April 25, 3-5pm
Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country
(reading workshop for faculty and graduate students)
Humanities 1, room 210
Contact krlyons@ucsc.edu for readings
Wednesday April 26, 2-4pm
Can a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea and Settler Colonial Frames for Thinking about Environmental (Justice) History
Humanities 1, room 210
Dr. Traci Brynne Voyles is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Loyola Marymount university.

The Politics of Belonging: Moroccan Communist Jews, French Empire, and Nationalisms in the 20th Century
2017-04-26 16:00 - 17:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
This talk examines the place of Jews in colonial Morocco from the interwar period though to independence (achieved in 1956) and beyond. It is structured around one central question: how Moroccan Jews see themselves as emancipated citizens in a future independent Moroccan state? From a period of ideological porosity during the interwar period, through the anti-Semitic policies of the Vichy regime during WWII, to the struggle for national liberation, and finally, the years of mass Jewish exodus and authoritarianism, this talk pushes against teleological readings of Moroccan Jewish history and explores a previously obscured narrative of political possibility and radical roads not taken.
Assistant Professor Alma Heckman, History
Reception to Follow
For accessibitiy concerns, contact pmreed@ucsc.edu

Pictures & Progress: Black Panther, 1966-2016 closing reception
2017-04-27 16:00 - 18:00 | McHenry Library UCSC, Room 4286
Pictures & Progress: Black Panther, 1966-2016 closing reception
Thursday, April 27, from 4PM to 6PM
UCSC McHenry Library, 4th floor
414 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz CA. 95064
Light refreshments served
The closing reception of “Pictures & Progress: Black Panther, 1966-2016” will be a public program bringing into conversation the power of visual representation and the radical tradition. We are happy to host a panel with Jeremy Love graphic novelist (Bayou); Juliana Smith, UC alum and comic book writer, and organizer (Hafrocentric); Tarika Lewis, former Assistant Minister of Culture and the first woman to join the Black Panther Party; and Aaron Dixon, former Co-Founder Seattle Chapter of the BPP and who helped begin Free Breakfast Program. This panel will be moderated by UCSC professor of Literature, Vilashini Cooppan. “Pictures and Progress: The Black Panther: 1966-2016” has been a celebration of the 50th anniversary of both the party and the comic book series. Photos featuring women and children of the party from the Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones Photography Collection along with comic books from the James Gunderson and Peter Coha collection will be on display in McHenry at the reception.
4:00-4:15: Refreshments
4:15-4:25: Introductions
4:25-5:20: Panel Discussion
5:30-6:00: Book Signing
Panelists:
Tarika Lewis, former Assistant Minister of Culture and the first woman to join the Black Panther Party
Aaron Dixon, former Co-Founder Seattle Chapter of the BPP and helped begin Free Breakfast Program
Jeremy Love, comic book artist and graphic novelist, Bayou
Juliana Smith, comic book creator and community activist, HafroCentric
Moderator:
Vilashini Cooppan

Alumni Weekend 2017
2017-04-28 - 2017-04-30
SAVE THE DATE
April 28 – 30, 2017
More info and event schedule at: alumniweekend.ucsc.edu

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Baizhu Chen
2017-04-28 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Do Lenders Value the Right Characteristics?: Evidence from Peer-to-Peer Lending
Using a unique dataset of peer-to-peer lending with detailed loan and borrower information, I study the following research questions:|1) What are the borrower characteristics that lenders value when choosing which loans to fund?; and (2) Do lenders value the correct characteristics with respect to minimizing to probability of default? In this online context, the researcher observes everything that the lender does, enabling unbiased estimation of the borrower characteristics that lenders favor. Estimating the characteristics that predict loan default is problematic due to selection at the funding state. I consider three potential strategies to address this issue:(1) restricting attention to borrower characteristics for which there is no evidence of selection in the first stage; (2) bounding the default estimates in the style of Lee (2009) and (3) exploiting variation in the probability of funding caused by contemporaneous competition on the platform. The evidence suggests that lenders give the correct weight to verified income levels, underestimate the importance of verified education level and marital status, and overestimate the importance of verified employment industry.
Friday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:30-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
April 21, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz, History
April 28, 2017: Baizhu Chen, Economics
May 5, 2017: Danielle Crawford, Literature
May 12, 2017: Kristen Laciste, HAVC
May 19, 2017: Kara Hisatake, Literature
May 26, 2017: Yuki Obayashi, Literature
June 2, 2017: Angela Nguyen, Psychology

Ethics and the Language of Conservation
2017-04-29 11:00 | Cervantes & Velasquez Room, Baytree Conference Center, Bay Tree Conference Center, UC Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Daniel Guevara (Philosophy) and Claudio Campagna (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Wildlife Conservation Society) assert that we need to radically rethink the meaning of conservation. “Sustainable Development” is a failed term, and as a result, the crisis of conservation is fundamentally a philosophical crisis with real-world implications. Their goal is to give a compelling and rigorous voice to an authentic ethical concern for Nature. Light refreshments and coffee will be served.
Registration link:
REGISTER HERE

Humanities Mix & Mingle
2017-04-29 12:00 | humanites courtyard
Please join us from 12-1 for a lunchtime Mix & Mingle in the Humanities courtyard. Connect with Humanities alumni, faculty, and beloved emeriti professors while enjoying complementary beverages and desserts. Tables and chairs will be set up, so grab your lunch at Quarry Plaza and come spend some time with the Humanities Division!
Registration link:

Graduate Alumni Panel Discussions
2017-04-29 13:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Join us for lively panel discussions: Careers and Resources for Entrepreneurship for Graduate Students in the Santa Cruz Region, San Francisco to Monterey (1p-2:15p); Graduate Student Alumni Leaders in Santa Cruz Region, San Francisco to Monterey (2:30p-3:45p) and, Life after Graduate School. Panelists will share their stories and work experience in academic career, non-academic career, government, and startups. Refreshments will be provided.
Registration link:
REGISTER HERE

Panel 1: Careers and Entrepreneurship for Graduate Students
1:00–2:15 p.m., Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Room 259.
J Guevara, Ph.D. Literature 2012; Economic Development Manager, Santa Cruz Economic Development Office, and Municipal Broadband and Right-of-Way Manager, City of Santa Cruz
Adam Siepel, Ph.D. Computer Science 2005; Professor, Watson School of Biological Sciences, and Chair, Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Emily Sloan-Pace, Ph.D. Literature 2012; Professor in Residence, Zoho Corp., Pleasanton, CA, and Chennai, India

Coffee and Light Refreshments between panels, 2:15–2:30.

Panel 2: Leadership Opportunities for Graduate Students
2:30–3:45 p.m., Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Room 259.
Claudio Campagna, Ph.D. Biology 1987; Marine Conservationist, Argentina and Marine Programs, Wildlife Conservation Society, and Adjunct Professor and Research Associate, UC Santa Cruz
Dan Heller, M.F.A. Digital Arts and New Media 2013; CEO, Two Pore Guys, Inc., Santa Cruz
Betsy Herbert, Ph.D. Environmental Studies 2004; Earth Matters international columnist, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and Chair, Science Advisory Panel, Sempervirens Fund
Adam Siepel (see bio info above)
Emily Sloan-Pace (see bio info above)

Networking Mixer, April 29, 4:00–6:00 p.m., Cafe Iveta
Immediately following the second panel discussion on leadership, please join the panelists and other visiting graduate student alumni at the networking mixer. Sponsored by the Division of Graduate Studies and administrative and faculty representatives from the five academic divisions in welcoming back to campus our five distinguished graduate student alumni honorees, panelists, and other returning graduate student alumni at this social gathering to celebrate our fantastic graduate programs and network with other graduate students from UCSC.

Graduate Alumni Honored, 2016-17
The UC Santa Cruz Division of Graduate Studies and the divisions of the Arts, Engineering, Humanities, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences will honor five distinguished graduate student alumni representing each division at an award luncheon on April 29, 2017, during UCSC’s Alumni Weekend. Click here to read more

Teach-in with Gina Dent: "Ex Post Facto: How to respond to a ‘post-truth’ world"
2017-04-29 14:45 - 16:15 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Gina Dent, associate professor of feminist studies, history of consciousness, and legal studies, will discuss the role of the humanities in responding to the current discussion of “alternative facts.” How can we develop a critical relationship to “facticity,” while preserving the ability to think and act politically?
Registration link: http://alumniweekend.ucsc.edu/sessions/teach-in-2/

Graduate Alumni Networking Mixer
2017-04-29 16:00 | Graduate Student Commons
Graduate Alumni and current graduate students will have an opportunity to meet each other, discuss their work and enjoy a relaxed opportunity to reconnect and network. Refreshments will be provided.

Location: Graduate Student Commons and Cafe Iveta

Registration link:
REGISTER HERE

An Immersion into Dickensian Cocktails
2017-04-29 16:00 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Charles Dickens was a unique and protean fellow; writer, social commentator, reporter, actor, father, and much more.He was also a great lover of the table and glass, a noteworthy bon vivant who created wondrous punches, cups, cocktails, and other nourishing potations, in novels as well as in daily life. This lecture will address Dickens’s skill with wine, ale, cider, rum, and gin, interspersed with cocktail demonstrations, allowing time to taste and ponder these delicious beverages

Burke Owens is a long time Bay Area wine and food industry professional, educator, former sommelier, punch aficionado, and most importantly, parent of two UCSC alums. He now serves as senior pastor at the Petaluma United Methodist Church. His appreciation of food and wine, of Dickens and the arts, can all be traced back to his mother who cooked, his father who sculpted, and each one’s passionate love of literature.
Watch Burke’s tutorial to learn how to prepare Cold Gin Punch, a traditional Victorian beverage. {https://vimeo.com/49291630}

Registration link:
REGISTER HERE

Humanists@Work: Graduate Career Workshop in Silicon Valley
2017-05-01 | UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus
Humanists@Work Graduate Career Workshop – UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus
Santa Clara – May 1, 2017
What is Humanists@Work?
Humanists@Work is a UC-wide initiative geared towards UC Humanities and humanistic Social Science MAs and PhDs interested in careers outside/alongside the academy.
On May 1, 2017, HumWork will host a sixth workshop for graduate students and faculty members in partnership with the University of California, Santa Cruz. Inspired by its location, Humanists@Work Graduate Career Workshop – Silicon Valley will engage the synergistic possibilities at the intersection of new media, community engagement, education and public humanities that is characteristic of the greater Bay Area.

WORKSHOP LOCATION
UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Campus
3175 Bowers Ave
Santa Clara, CA 95054
FREE PARKING ON CAMPUS
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
8:00—9:00 AM: HOT BREAKFAST
9:00—9:30 AM: WELCOME
9:30—11:00 AM: STORIES FROM THE FIELD
In Stories from the Field, four UC humanities PhDs discuss how long-term, sustained humanistic thought and labor shape, and potentially transform, their career trajectories and the industries in which they find themselves employed. How did their values, ethics, and politics inform their post-PhD work choices?
Christian Blood
Curriculum Specialist
Zoho Corporation
Dana Douglas DePietro, Ph.D.
Cultural Resources Division Lead, FirstCarbon Solutions
Executive Director, S.H.A.R.E
Tamao Nakahara, PhD
Co-organizer
DevXCon
Sheri J. Tatsch, PhD
Owner/Principal
Indigenous Consulting Services
11:00—11:30 AM: COFFEE BREAK AND INFORMAL NETWORKING
11:30 AM—1:00 PM: FROM ACADEMIC CV TO INNOVATIVE RÉSUMÉ USING JARED REDICK’S “PURPOSE, CONTENT, DESIGN” METHODOLOGIES
The Résumé Studio’s Jared Redick returns to Humwork, sharing his “purpose, content, design” techniques aimed at helping recent and soon-to-be PhDs shape a purposeful résumé, while framing the possibilities of a fulfilling future beyond or alongside academia.
1:00—2:00 PM: LUNCH
2:00—3:30 PM: BREAKOUT SESSIONS
SESSION 1 – HUMANITIES PHDS: DESIGNING CAREER PATHS
Debra Behrens, PhD
PhD Counselor
University of California, Berkeley
This interactive workshop is for humanities PhDs in the early stages of researching careers who want to Explore career ideas, Learn to research jobs and engage short-term strategies for gaining experience, and Design potential career paths.
SESSION 2 – PERSUASIVE INTERVIEWING
Annie Maxfield, MS
Associate Director, Graduate Student Relations and Services
University of California, Los Angeles
Excelling in interview settings is a skill that requires thought, practice, and confidence. During this interactive workshop, attendees will practice and refine their interviewing skills by learning persuasive techniques that enhance their storytelling abilities and highlight their key contributions.
3:30—4:00 PM: COFFEE BREAK AND INFORMAL NETWORKING
4:00—5:30 PM: CANDID CONVERSATIONS: DEBT IN THE HUMANITIES
Student debt is a collective experience shared by the majority of humanities PhDs, so why aren’t we talking about it? Candid Conversations engages faculty, graduate students, and university staff in a dialogue around the issue of debt and how it influences your post-PhD careers.
Joshua A. Anderson
Graduate Student
University of California, Berkeley
Jessica Beard, PhD
Higher Education Project Organizer
American Federation of Teachers
Jennifer E. McSpadden
ABD
University of California, Davis
Allison Perlman, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of California, Irvine

Digital Pedagogy Showcase
2017-05-02 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 2, Room 359
Get some syllabus inspiration! The inaugural cohort of the Digital Instruction Project lead this Brown Bag Session about developing and implementing new digital assignments in their classes. Join us as we discuss the benefits and challenges of adding digital tools into your syllabus and pushing your students to try new forms of scholarly writing.
The panel includes Philip Longo (Writing Program), Kyle Parry (HAVC), Cat Ramirez (LALS), Amanda Smith (Literature), and Dustin Wright (History)
The Digital Instruction Project was launched in Fall 2016 by the Digital Scholarship Commons and the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL).

"What's Left of Progressive Politics?"
2017-05-02 13:30 - 15:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
The Center for Emerging Worlds presents
“What’s Left of Progressive Politics?”
Roundtable Discussion with
Dr. Vijay Prashad, Dr. Lisa Rofel, Dr. Mayanthi Fernando, and Asad Haider
Dr. Vijay Prashad is Professor of International Studies and South Asian History at Trinity College, Connecticut and a renowned journalist. He was trained as a historical anthropologist and received his Ph.D from the University of Chicago. Prashad’s work addresses issues like race and imperialism, race and immigrant communities in the US, geopolitical changes in the global South after 9/11, the propagation of policies that produce and exacerbate income inequalities, the possibilities of political solidarities among social movements committed to progressive change in the world, and the role of national governments and regional alliances in the context of economic and political changes in the world. He is the author of numerous books. Some of them are – The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016 and New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2016). No Free Left: The Futures of Indian Communism (New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2015). The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (London: Verso and New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2013). Arab Spring, Libyan Winter (Baltimore: AK Press and New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2012). The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World, (New York: New Press and New Delhi: LeftWord, 2007). Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (Boston: Beacon Press, 2001). Karma of Brown Folk (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000). Untouchable Freedom: The Social History of a Dalit Community (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999). His articles appear in media organization s like the Guardian, the Hindu, Frontline, jadaliyya, and AlterNet.
For more information, contact sjetha@ucsc.edu
These events are free and open to the public

In the Ruins of the Present: Neoliberalism and Cruel Populism Suffocate the Future
2017-05-02 17:00 - 19:00
Vijay Prashad’s talk In the Ruins of the Present: Neoliberalism and Cruel Populism Suffocate the Future traces the rise of populism across the world, including the global South and North, in the present historical moment. This type of populism expresses itself in anti-immigrant politics and defines the nation in narrow terms – race, ethnicity, and religion. It seeks to exclude immigrants who do not fit within the narrow confines of these categories. This populism does not address the substantive issues of inequality and jobless even if some of its energy is derived from it.

Dr. Vijay Prashad is Professor of International Studies and South Asian History at Trinity College, Connecticut and a renowned journalist. He was trained as a historical anthropologist and received his Ph.D from the University of Chicago. Prashad’s work addresses issues like race and imperialism, race and immigrant communities in the US, geopolitical changes in the global South after 9/11, the propagation of policies that produce and exacerbate income inequalities, the possibilities of political solidarities among social movements committed to progressive change in the world, and the role of national governments and regional alliances in the context of economic and political changes in the world. He is the author of numerous books. Some of them are – The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016 and New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2016). No Free Left: The Futures of Indian Communism (New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2015). The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (London: Verso and New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2013). Arab Spring, Libyan Winter (Baltimore: AK Press and New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2012). The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World, (New York: New Press and New Delhi: LeftWord, 2007). Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (Boston: Beacon Press, 2001). Karma of Brown Folk (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000). Untouchable Freedom: The Social History of a Dalit Community (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999). His articles appear in media organization s like the Guardian, the Hindu, Frontline, jadaliyya, and AlterNet.
Location: TBD
For more information, contact sjetha@ucsc.edu
These events are free and open to the public

Chris Connery: "Contemporary Chinese Capitalism and Its Critical Landscape"
2017-05-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Contemporary Chinese Capitalism and Its Critical Landscape”
This talk draws on a work in progress entitled Revolutionary China and its Late Capitalist Fate, an analysis of the nature of post-reform China’s political economy, with particular attention to how this has affected everyday life, intellectual and critical work, ideological formation, cultural production, social movements, political action, and social space.
Chris Connery is a Professor of Literature at UCSC and Professor of Cultural Studies at Shanghai University.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Earl Jackson: "Critical Conditions: Japanese Film Theory and Practice"
2017-05-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Earl Jackson Jr. is Professor at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan and Co-Director of the Trans-Asian Screen Cultures Institute in South Korea.
Co-Sponsored by Cultural Studies, Cowell College, and the Literature Department.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Doris Leibetseder
2017-05-04 14:00 - 16:00 | Humanites 1, Room 320, Humanities and Social Science Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Doris Leibetseder, Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley
In this paper I present part of an allied queer-feminist and transgender ethics of reproduc-tion. I look at ARTs and how they raise challenges for transgender and queer people. My focus lies in the ways these technologies confront queer and people with normative expectations concerning biological sex, gender, sexuality, kinship relations and the right to procreate, and how this leads to medical migration. This presentation gives an overview of my new EU-funded (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) project starting August 2017 at Uppsala University: “Towards an Inclusive Common European Framework for Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART): Queer Transgender Reproduction in the Age of ART.”

Doris Leibetseder is a researcher at the University of Uppsala, Sweden in the Centre for Gender Research and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, CSMTS (Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society).

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series Spring 2017 Schedule:
May 4th: Doris Leibetseder, “QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies”
May 17th: Susan O’Neal Stryker, “What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need”
June 1st: Patricia de Santana Pinho, “We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring Brazil and Bearing their Nation”

Living Writers: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa & Eric Sneathen
2017-05-04 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Poet Tsering Wangmo Dhompa’s parents fled Tibet in 1959. Raised by her mother in Tibetan communities in Dharamsala, India, and Kathmandu, Nepal, She is the author of the poetry chapbooks In Writing the Names (2000) and Recurring Gestures (2000). She has published the full-length collections Rules of the House (2002), In the Absent Everyday (2005), and My Rice tastes like the lake (2011), which was a finalist for the Northern California Independent Bookseller’s Book of the Year Award for 2012. Dhompa’s non-fiction book based on her life is called A Home in Tibet (Penguin India, 2013).
Eric Sneathen, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya, 2016)
Eric Sneathen is a poet who whose writing has been published by Mondo Bummer, Elderly, and Faggot Journal. He is the editor and organizer of Macaroni Necklace, a Bay Area–based DIY literary journal and reading series. Snail Poems is his first book.
The UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents
The Lives of Other Songs
Living Writers Series Spring 2017
Thursdays / 5:20-6:50pm / Humanities Lecture Hall
April 13, 2017: Tongo Eisen-Martin, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press, 2015)
May 4, 2017: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, author of A Home in Tibet (Penguin, 2014) and Eric Sneathen, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya, 2016)
May 11, 2017: Aisha Sasha John, author of THOU (BookThug, 2014)
May 18, 2017: Rosa Alcalá, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010)
June 1, 2017: Lauren Levin, author of The Braid (Krupskaya, 2016)
June 8, 2017: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading

PhD+: Mentorship
2017-05-05 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Mentorship Managed Up: cultivating successful professional relationships within, alongside, and outside the academy

This PhD+ session is being presented in coordination with members of the NEH Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grant Committee. Please join faculty, administration, and graduate students in a facilitated discussion and share your thoughts about how to foster and maintain successful mentorship relationships in humanities graduate programs. We’ll open with brief introductory comments before moving into a moderated panel discussion addressing:

the benefits and challenges associated with establishing a mentor/mentee relationship with different types of individuals who may serve in the mentor role, e.g., faculty advisers (intra- and inter-department), non-academic professionals, peer graduate student mentors, etc
the goals of a mentor/mentee relationship, discussing achievable milestones or benchmarks, and setting corresponding expectation
the processes for “managing up” in a mentor/mentee relationship in terms of navigating successful accomplishment of the expected milestones and how to resolve conflict, overcome obstacles or inertia, etc.

Each question will be followed by a brief response from the panelists meant to generate a larger discussion including the members of the audience. The Planning Committee hopes to use the feedback and discussion to inform its strategic proposals for further discussion, development, and possible implementation to better serve the UCSC humanities community.

PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.
Lunch will be served, as always.
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Danielle Crawford
2017-05-05 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Shooting Cameras and Shooting Weapons: U.S. Military Violence and Ecological Ruin in Coppola’s Apocalypse Now
This presentation examines the shooting history of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979), which was shot on the Philippine island of Luzon. I investigate the collision between Hollywood’s shooting of cameras and the U.S. military’s shooting of weapons, and the ways these forms of violence intertwine on the set of this Vietnam War film. While the film attempts to blur the geographic boundaries between Vietnam and the Philippines by using Philippine “jungles” as substitute, I argue that Apocalypse Now ultimately blurs the boundaries between real U.S. warfare and the cinematic reproduction of warfare through its military collaborations and its production of ecological ruin.
Friday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
April 21, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz, History
April 28, 2017: Baizhu Chen, Economics
May 5, 2017: Danielle Crawford, Literature
May 12, 2017: Kristen Laciste, HAVC
May 19, 2017: Kara Hisatake, Literature
May 26, 2017: Yuki Obayashi, Literature
June 2, 2017: Angela Nguyen, Psychology

Brett Rushforth: “‘Daily Trafficke with the Frenchmen’: Merchant Colonialism and African Sovereignty in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic"
2017-05-08 13:30 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Center for World History Presents
Brett Rushforth
“‘Daily Trafficke with the Frenchmen’: Merchant Colonialism and African Sovereignty in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic”
May 8, 2017 @ 1:30-3pm
Humanities 1, Room 210
Free and open to the public
Brett Rushforth is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. He is a scholar of early American
and Atlantic history who specializes in slavery, race, and the law in the French Atlantic world. His
most recent book, “Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France”, uncovered the
hidden history of French colonists enslaving Native North Americans by the thousands in the 1700s,
sending captive Sioux, Apache, and other Indians to a life of slavery in Montreal, Quebec, and even the
French Caribbean. In 2013-14, “Bonds of Alliance” was named the best book in American social history
by the Organization of American Historians, the best book on the history of French colonialism by the
French Colonial Historical Society, the best book on the history of European expansion by the Forum
on European Expansion and Global Interaction, and the best book in French Cultural Studies.

The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies Investiture Ceremony
2017-05-08 14:00 - 15:30 | Stevenson Event Center
The Humanities Division and Feminist Studies department are very excited to announce the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. This endowed chair was recently established with a $500,000 gift from the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation and matching funds from the UC Regents. Bettina Aptheker, Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies, is the inaugural chair holder. The endowed chair will help fund research and teaching as well as graduate fellowships in feminist studies.

Feminist Studies Investiture Ceremony from IHR on Vimeo.
Event Photos: by Steve Kurtz
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
Join us for the Investiture Ceremony, May 8, 2017 at 2pm to be held at the Stevenson Event Center. Reception to follow.
Complimentary parking will be available in the Barn Theater parking lot. Parking permits will be on sale for $4. Continuous shuttle service to Stevenson Event Center will be available from 1:15 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Barn Theater.

About Bettina Aptheker

Bettina Aptheker is a nationally recognized historian and a scholar of feminist studies. She received her Ph.D. in History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz and became the first ladder-rank faculty member of the Feminist Studies Department, then known as Women’s Studies, in 1987. For nearly three decades Bettina has taught one of the country’s largest and most influential introductory feminist studies courses, exposing more than 10,000 students to her deeply compelling teaching. Bettina works extensively with graduate students in Feminist Studies, and other departments, and teaches graduate seminars, including Feminist Pedagogy and Black Feminist Reconstruction. She has received numerous awards over the years, and in June will be presented with the Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award in the Humanities.
About the The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation

The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation currently focuses on improving the lives of women and girls and ensuring equal access to education for all community members. UC Santa Cruz and the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation have been partnering on advancing innovative and impactful scholarship for many years. The foundation has funded the Baskin Feminist Scholars Program and the Baskin Scholars Program in Engineering that enable community college students to transfer to UC Santa Cruz, underwritten fellowships to women doctoral students in engineering, offered scholarships to women transfer students, and funded the summer Girls in Engineering program for middle-school girls since its inception. With this new Presidential Chair, the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation is leading the way in support of teaching and research in feminist studies at UC Santa Cruz.

Debbora Battaglia: "Roots in Air: People/Plants/Ethics in Suspension"
2017-05-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Roots in Air: People/Plants/Ethics in Suspension”
Out of the urban ruins and food deprivation of World War II came the prototype for growing plants aeroponically. Aeroponics has since taken surprising turns as a technology for anthropocenic conditions – in Global South laboratories; “vertical gardens”; art installations; plant biology experiments for colonizing the cosmos. In its wake, questions open concerning the ethics of plant-people relations in future-making projects.
Debbora Battaglia is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Mt. Holyoke College.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Ecology & the Rise of Capitalism Nature, Power, and the Origins of Our Times
2017-05-11 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
A colloquium by
Associate Professor Jason W. Moore
Fernand Braudel Center
Binghamton University

Jason W. Moore is an environmental and world historian at Binghamton University, where he is Associate Professor of Sociology and Research Fellow at the Fernand Braudel Center. He is author of Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso, 2015) and editor of Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism (PM Press, 2016). A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, written with Raj Patel, will be published this fall (University of California Press). He is coordinator of the World-Ecology Research Network.

This event is co-sponsored by Rachel Carson College, the UCSC Humanities Research Institute, and the Sociology and Environmental Studies Departments. Professor More will also be speaking at EXTRACTION: A Two-Day Conference on Decolonial Visual Cultures in the Age of the Capitalocene, May 12-13, sponsored by the Center for Creative Ecologies.

Living Writers: Aisha Sasha John
2017-05-11 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents
Aisha Sasha John, author of THOU (BookThug, 2014)
AISHA SASHA JOHN is a singing dancer– and the author of the recently published I have to live. (McClelland & Stewart). Aisha’s previous poetry collection THOU (BookThug 2014) was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the ReLit Poetry Award. Later this spring, Aisha dances the aisha of oz at the Whitney Museum as part of the 2017 Whitney ISP exhibition. Aisha is trained in various Congolese and Ethiopian dances and has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. She was born in Montreal.
The Lives of Other Songs
Living Writers Series Spring 2017
Thursdays / 5:20-6:50pm / Humanities Lecture Hall
April 13, 2017: Tongo Eisen-Martin, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press, 2015)
May 4, 2017: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, author of A Home in Tibet (Penguin, 2014) and Eric Sneathen, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya, 2016)
May 11, 2017: Aisha Sasha John, author of THOU (BookThug, 2014)
May 18, 2017: Rosa Alcalá, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010)
June 1, 2017: Lauren Levin, author of The Braid (Krupskaya, 2016)
June 8, 2017: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kristen Laciste
2017-05-12 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
From Maidservant to Anomalous Aristocrat: Imaging and Imagining Dido Elizabeth Belle
The double portrait of cousins, entitled, Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray, is truly an anomaly in 18th century British art. Depicting two aristocratic women, one back and one white, the painting inspired the 2014 film, Belle. Incorporating the fancy and flair of period dramas, the creators of Belle fabricated a largely fictional account, envisioning Dido with a generous measure of agency and influence despite being black and female. This is evident in the portrait revealed in the movie. Though the original painting and film version are nearly identical, this presentation examines the two, considering the implications of the alterations made in the latter.
Friday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:30-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
April 21, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz, History
April 28, 2017: Baizhu Chen, Economics
May 5, 2017: Danielle Crawford, Literature
May 12, 2017: Kristen Laciste, HAVC
May 19, 2017: Kara Hisatake, Literature
May 26, 2017: Yuki Obayashi, Literature
June 2, 2017: Angela Nguyen, Psychology

13th Annual Graduate Research Symposium
2017-05-12 13:00 - 16:30 | McHenry Library, UCSC
Event Photos:
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
Graduate Research Symposium
The Symposium offers graduate students from every division the opportunity to discuss their research with colleagues on campus and with the public. Our students present their work in the form of posters, live presentations, and media demonstrations. The Symposium also awards juried prizes, overseen by a panel of judges comprised of faculty, staff, researchers, alumni, and industry professionals, for presenters from each division and two overall awards.
*This year’s event will be held in the “Information Commons South” area on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library.
Registration Information
We welcome presenters from all disciplines on campus, and encourage live and media presentations as well as traditional poster presentations! For 2016, registration was available for 48 posters, 30 live presentations, and 10 media presentations.
Each presentation must have a primary presenter, but may also list up to three co-presenters.
Presenters will be asked to check into the event between 12:30 and 1:15 depending on their selected format. Presentation judging officially begins at 1:30 pm.
An awards reception will immediately follow the Symposium until 4:30 pm. Graduate students are also encouraged to attend the Graduate Alumni Social at the Graduate Student Commons in the Quarry Plaza that evening.
*Please click here to view the 2016 Graduate Research Symposium Program

Presenters
Poster Presentations: All posters must fit on 4′ x 4′ easels provided in the Information Commons South. Posters will be arranged in the order in which they arrive. There will be personnel available to assist with set up. Posters presenters must check in at the registration table between 12:45 and 1:15 pm on the 2ndfloor of the McHenry Library. After you register to present, you will be assigned a one-hour window during which you must stay with your poster for judging.Posters may be removed after 3:30 pm.
Oral Presentations: Oral and live presentations will be in three classrooms on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library. A computer and projector will be available so that presenters can bring slides via either flash drive in PowerPoint or Keynote format, or saved to Google Drive in Google Slides; you may bring your own laptop if you like, though this is not recommended because of the time constraints involved in setting up/down. An easel will also be available for additional visual aids upon request. Be sure to indicate your media needs on the registration form. Oral presenters must check in at the registration table between 12:30 noon and 1:00 pm on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library. (Due to time restrictions, oral/live presentations must be limited to 10 minutes in length including set-up and taking-down.)
Media Presentations: Media presentations may be in audio and/or video format. Media presenters will be required to set up a short meeting with McHenry Library staff the week prior to the Symposium to discuss technical and/or physical space needs. Please specify your media needs on your registration form. Media presenters must check in at the registration table between 12:30 noon and 1:00 pm on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library. After you register to present, you will be assigned a one-hour window during which you must stay with your presentation for judging.
*Please click here to review our Best Practices site!

Click here to see our previous symposium awardees.

Ethics Bowl Invitational
2017-05-13 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
What It Is:
Every Spring the Center for Public Philosophy holds an Outreach Invitational for high schools that have never participated in the Regional Ethics Bowl. This is a fun, low-stakes way to get their feet wet.
This year we have a grant to host ten schools designated LCFF+ by the state of California–schools at which more than 75% of enrolled students are eligible for free/reduced price lunch, foster youth, and/or English-language learners.
The grant allows us to provide a top undergraduate philosophy student to coach the school’s team(s) in the two months leading up to the event and to provide each school with $1,000 for costs. We are grateful to the Division of Student Success for this grant.

Participating Teams:
Alisal High School
Salinas, CA
Burton High School
San Francisco, CA
Costanoa High School
Santa Cruz, CA
Diamond Technology Institute
Watsonville, CA
Downtown College Prep Alum Rock
San Jose, CA
Escuela Popular
San Jose, CA
Latino College Preparatory Academy
San Jose, CA
Luis Valdez Leadership Academy
San Jose, CA
Pajaro Valley High School
Watsonville, CA
Watsonville High School
Watsonville, CA

Information for May 13:
This year there will be two rounds, followed by a lunch, one more round and then a debrief over dessert. In each round, teams will be discussing two of the eight cases downloadable here.

For Teams & Coaches:
Teams should arrive on campus no later than 8:30am and proceed to the Humanities Lecture Hall.
Information on parking and directions can be downloaded here.
The day’s events will conclude at 2:30pm. You can read the rules of High School Ethics Bowl here.

For Judges
To our judges: first, thank you. We couldn’t hold this event without you. We appreciate your time and support.
Judges should meet in Humanities 1, 210 at 8:30am for the judges’ meeting. Coffee and pastries provided. Information on parking and directions can be downloaded here.
In preparation, all judges should familiarize themselves with the cases teams will be discussing. And if this is your first time judging, please watch the judges’ training video here.

Best of luck to all participating teams!
If you’re school or a individual interested in participating next year, or if you have any questions, please contact the Bowl Director Kyle Robertson.

Conjuncture / Crisis / Critique: A Symposium on Cultural Studies
2017-05-15 14:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The start time for this event has been changed to 2pm.
Featuring:
Christopher Chen, Literature
Jim Clifford, History of Consciousness
Christopher Connery, Literature
T.J. Demos, History of Art and Visual Cultures / Center for Creative Ecologies
Carla Freccero, Literature / History of Consciousness / Feminist Studies
Susan Gilman, Literature
Asad Haider, History of Consciousness
Donna Haraway, History of Consciousness
Sandra Harvey, Politics
Gail Hershatter, History
Laurie Palmer, Art
Warren Sack, Film and Digital Media / Digital Arts and New Media

Coffee and refreshments will be provided.

Susan Gilson Miller: "Vichy on Trial: Cooperation, Collaboration and Confrontation in Wartime Morocco"
2017-05-16 15:20 - 16:55
Susan Gilson Miller is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. She will be guest speaking on Tuesday, May 16, 2017 as a part of Professor Alma Heckman’s course “The Holocaust and the Arab World” (HIS 1850).
When: May 16, 2017 – 3:20-4:55pm
Location: Cowell Acad Classroom 113
This event is free and open to the public
Professor Miller was formerly head of the Moroccan Studies Program at Harvard University and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. She is currently a Research Associate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Prof. Miller has held Visiting Lecturer appointments at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, the lnstitut d’Etudes de l’Islam et des Sociétés du Monde Musulman (IISMM) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and at the Woolf Institute of the University of Cambridge. Her B.A. is from Wellesley College, she has an M.A. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in the History of the Modern Middle East. Her research has been supported by grants from the Social Science Research Council, the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Institute of Maghribi Studies and the University of California Humanities Research Institute. Her book, The History of Modern Morocco, 1830-2000, (Cambridge University Press, 2013) was a Finalist for the Leon Carl Brown Best Book award of the American Institute of Maghribi Studies in 2014. Her research interests center on colonial and post-colonial histories in the Maghrib, minorities, urbanism, and the history of travel and migration. Prof. Miller is a frequent visitor to Morocco, where she spent three years as a Peace Corps volunteer. Her current project is about the life and times of Hélène Cazes Benatar, Morocco’s first woman lawyer and human rights activist, who rescued thousands of Jews and non-Jews during the period of Vichy rule in North Africa.

Martin Devecka: "Socratic Economics"
2017-05-17 12:00 - 13:30
Socratic Economics
Martin Devecka is in the early stages of a research project on leisure and labor in fourth-century Athens. His work explores the processes through which competing claims to leisure and to the labor of others led to the privileging of politics as a way of thinking about collective action.
Martin Devecka is an Assistant Professor of Literature and Classics at UCSC.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Susan O’Neal Stryker
2017-05-17 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need
Susan O’Neal Stryker, Associate Professor, University of Arizona
History is a story we tell in the present that links what we know of the past to a future we envision. In this talk, drawn from her forthcoming book of the same title, gender theorist and historian Susan Stryker examines the trans-temporal dimensions of what gets labelled “transgender” today, but which can be thought of as a more general capacity for life to exceed whatever current configurations it might have. At stake, Stryker contends, in vexing contemporary conflicts over pronouns and public toilets, is a deeper ontological struggle over which fantasies of past and futurity have the ability to ground themselves in materiality and come to count as real.

Susan Stryker is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona, where she spearheads the Transgender Studies Initiative.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series Spring 2017 Schedule:
May 4th: Doris Leibetseder, “QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies”
May 17th: Susan O’Neal Stryker, “What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need”
June 1st: Patricia de Santana Pinho, “We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring Brazil and Bearing their Nation”

The Eighteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
2017-05-18 09:00 - 16:45 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM
Opening Remarks 9:30 a.m.
Deanna Shemek, Chair, Literature Department
Panel One: Translating Tradition
9:45 – 10:45 a.m.
Moderator: Christopher Chen
Victoria Jones: Ion
Elli Levin: Baby’s First Inferno, or Dante Alighieri and the Nine Circles
Jessica Ness Poetic: Language in Translation
Alexander Pérez: The Nation in You
Panel Two: Cross/Cultural Encounters
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Moderator: Martin Devecka
Marcus Dovigi Language and the Law: A Comparison of the American and Islamic Legal Systems
Savanna Heydon Breaking Borders: Foreigner
Pang Yang Embellishing Lia
FREE! LUNCH BUFFET
12:00 – 12:45 p.m.
Panel Three: Practices of Reading
12:45 – 1:45 p.m.
Moderator: Amanda Smith
Sarah Ali Reading as an Act of Self Construction
Samantha Alsina Poetry Politics: Short Commentaries
Harold D. Surh Jr. Mad in Craft
Panel Four: Rock and Romanticism
2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Moderator: Rob Wilson
Sylvester Cruz On the English Disease
Isaac Mier The Highway of Excess and the Path to Endless Nights: William Blake and Jim Morrison
John Wilber The Nightingale Up in Arms: Bob Dylan’s “Jokerman”
Panel Five: The Time of Slavery
3:15 – 4:15 p.m.
Moderator: Dorian Bell
Isla Cunningham Blake and Of One Blood: Representations of “Messianic” Time
Fiona Murphy Historicizing Slavery in Fiction: A Study of Cuban Slave Narratives
Carina Zhur Race Against Time: How Time Fetishizes Race and Suppresses Messianic Power
Closing Remarks 4:15 p.m.
A. Hunter Bivens, Director, Literature Undergraduate Program Committee
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. ALL ARE INVITED!

Maudemarie Clark "Nietzsche's Nihilism"
2017-05-18 15:15 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Nietzsche claims that in realating the “advent of nihilism,” he is relating “the history of the next two centuries.” He also claims that he himself has been a nihilist, but that he had now left it behind, “outside of [him]self.” In this paper, I offer an account of how Nietzsche understands nihilism and of how to understand his own (early and middle-period) work as nihilistic. I argue (against Bernard Reginster) that the nihilism of interest to Nietzsche is not, or at least not mainly, a philosophical position, but a cultural condition. The upshot of my account is two-fold: first, that it was only in overcoming the naturalistic orientation that it has become standard to attribute to him (and that I once attributed to him) that Nietzsche left nihilism behind, and, second, that our current cultural and political situation is well on its way to the kind of nihilism that Nietzsce was particularly concerned with.
About:
Maudemarie Clark is a Professor of Philosophy at UC Riverside. She specializes in 19th Century German philosophy with a focus on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Advanced Reading:
The Will to Power – first 20 pages
Genealogy of Morality

Living Writers: Rosa Alcalá
2017-05-18 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Rosa Alcalá, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010)
Rosa Alcalá is the author of a poetry collection Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010) and two chapbooks: Some Maritime Disasters This Century (Belladonna, 2003) and Undocumentary (Dos Press, 2008). Alcalá has also translated poetry by Cecilia Vicuña, Lourdes Vázquez, and Lila Zemborain, among others. Recent translations include Zemborain’s Guardians of the Secret (Noemi Press, 2009), and poems for The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry (2009). She teaches in the Department of Creative Writing and Bilingual MFA Program at the University of Texas at El Paso.
The UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents
The Lives of Other Songs
Living Writers Series Spring 2017
Thursdays / 5:20-6:50pm / Humanities Lecture Hall
April 13, 2017: Tongo Eisen-Martin, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press, 2015)
May 4, 2017: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, author of A Home in Tibet (Penguin, 2014) and Eric Sneathen, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya, 2016)
May 11, 2017: Aisha Sasha John, author of THOU (BookThug, 2014)
May 18, 2017: Rosa Alcalá, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010)
June 1, 2017: Lauren Levin, author of The Braid (Krupskaya, 2016)
June 8, 2017: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading

The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
2017-05-18 20:00 - 2017-05-21 22:00 | Stevenson Event Center
Description:
This year’s program will feature fully-staged works in French, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. English super-titles will translate each of the pieces. The French segment will be devoted to scenes from Jean Giraudoux’s comic fantasy, La Folle de Chaillot, (The Madwoman of Chaillot) directed by Miriam Ellis, while Spanish will present Fable, by Samaniego, with Marta Navarro directing her students in this study. Russian will be devoted to an original work, Happy Dating, Everyone, directed by Natasha Samokhina, who created the piece with her students and will direct. For Japanese, we will present Music of Japan, directed by Sakae Fujita.
Admission Details:
There is no admission charge for this unique multicultural event. Parking is available and attendants will be selling $4.00 permits in the Stevenson parking lots, 109 and 110 from 7:15pm – 8:30pm all nights of production.
Dates:
May 18th – 8:00pm
May 19th – 8:00pm
May 20th – 8:00pm
May 21st – 8:00pm

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kara Hisatake
2017-05-19 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Pidgin Comedy in Hawai’i: The Queer Resignification of Settler Culture
In 1970s Hawai’i, Pidgin, also known as Hawai’i Creole english, was the major medium of comedy because it was the language, visual culture, and attitude of the islands, a stark contrast to imported U.S. settle norms. Rap Reiplinger was a household name with his 1982 TV special Rap’s Hawaii, which addressed local culture, politics, and tourism. Analyzing Reiplinger’s TV special, I claim that his Pidgin comedy resignifies settler culture and in doing so, queers dominant settler norms. Reiplinger’s comedy thus becomes a place where Pidgin values are embodied through queer performative-it reiterates to critique.
Friday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:30-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
April 21, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz, History
April 28, 2017: Baizhu Chen, Economics
May 5, 2017: Danielle Crawford, Literature
May 12, 2017: Kristen Laciste, HAVC
May 19, 2017: Kara Hisatake, Literature
May 26, 2017: Yuki Obayashi, Literature
June 2, 2017: Angela Nguyen, Psychology

Non-citizenship Fellows Forum with Emily Mitchell-Eaton, Claudia Lopez, and Tsering Wangmo
2017-05-19 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the CLRC awarded two outstanding UC Santa Cruz graduate students year-long fellowships and hired a postdoctoral scholar as part of our 2016-17 Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship. In this free, public forum, our three Mellon fellows will discuss their research and tell us a bit about what their awards allowed them to achieve and their plans for the future.

Geographies of Imperial Citizenship
Emily Mitchell-Eaton, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chicano Latino Research Center
This talk addresses the modes of imperial citizenship and non-citizenship that have emerged for subjects of non-sovereign U.S. territories. An examination of the legal statuses held by these subjects reveals the margins of formal legal citizenship to be quite blurry. As imperial subjects attempt to cross U.S. borders, pursue employment, access public benefits and services, and resist deportation, these practices often result in precarious mobility and different forms of exclusion. Drawing on a case study of Marshall Islanders who have migrated to Arkansas, Dr. Mitchell-Eaton explores how Marshallese immigrants’ unique legal status is produced through their encounters with three groups: law enforcement and legal actors; social service providers; and activists.

The Life-Cycle of Forced Migration: Partial Citizenship and Internally Displaced Peasants in Medellín, Colombia
Claudia Lopez, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology
In this presentation, Claudia discusses the dynamics of internal and forced migration of rural peasant farmers, focusing on their urban resettlement and integration into the city of Medellín, Colombia. Using this case study of conflict-induced displacement in Colombia—which has the largest population of internally displaced persons in the world—her research brings new attention to internal and forced migration, viewing the resulting displacement as a serial process that constitutes what she calls the lifecycle of forced migration. She draws from ethnographic interviews and surveys with rural internally displaced persons, as well as interviews with representatives of government agencies and NGOs, to argue that, across the lifecycle, the state marginalizes displaced peasants and does not consider them capable urban citizens due to their rural origin and inability to contribute through formal labor practices in the city, thereby rendering them Partial Citizens. Ultimately, Claudia contends that this research demonstrates the limits of integration and national citizenship, offers a more nuanced lens for examining citizenship as a spectrum, and prompts us to examine belonging beyond the binary categories of citizen/non-citizen and included/excluded.

Belonging in Exile: The Exclusionary Agenda of Unity
Tsering Wangmo, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Literature
Tsering Wangmo’s dissertation, “From the Margins of Exile: Democracy and Dissent within the Tibetan Diaspora,” juxtaposes the external struggle for international recognition of the Tibetan government-in-exile with the internal struggle to command Tibetan unity since the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1950. It presents a nuanced understanding of how the project of nation building within the conditions of exile must be seen as a constant negotiation between deference and dissent and between unity and difference. In her talk, Tsering argues that unity was presented simultaneously as the moral and political responsibility of the modern Tibetan “refugee-citizen,” as well as the traditional duty of a Tibetan Buddhist, and that, ultimately, unity was an exclusionary discourse.

This free, public forum is co-sponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Dr. Nikhil Anand: "Waterlines: Uncertainty and the Future Urban"
2017-05-23 13:30 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
The IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene presents Dr. Nikhil Anand Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Pennsylvania.
Nikhil Anand’s research focuses on the political ecology of urban infrastructures, and the social and material relations that they entail. He is the author of Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai (Duke, 2017). His talk is based on a new project that focuses on the uncertain boundaries of land and water in Mumbai, looking at how sea level rise and struggles over coastal property intersect with the livelihoods of coastal people.
The IHR Research Cluster will also host an off-campus Dinner Salon with Dr. Anand later that evening to discuss his afternoon talk and Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement. The dinner salon will start at 6pm. Please email Mayanthi Fernando (mfernan3@ucsc.edu) by Saturday May 20 to RSVP for the salon and to get the Ghosh reading.

Humanities Radio Hour: “Radical Jewish Politics with Alma Heckman and Tony Michels”
2017-05-24 12:00 - 13:00 | KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FM
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Humanities Radio Hour
Wed, May 24th at 12:00PM–1:00PM
Interview with Professors
– Alma Rachel Heckman Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz whose research crosses Jewish history, North Africa, French empire, and the history of social movements.
– Tony Michels Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York and editor of Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History
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Johan Mathew, “Smoke on the Water: Hashish Smuggling and Imperial Surveillance between Asia and the Middle East”
2017-05-24 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Johan Mathew’s current project, Opiates of the Masses: Labor, Narcotics, and Global Capitalism, explores the history of narcotics in order to interrogate the concepts of “consumer demand” and “rational choice” in market exchange, focusing on the consumption of narcotics by workers in Asia and Africa to alleviate the stresses of labor under capitalism.
Johan Matthew is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
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UCSC Night at the Museum - Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie
2017-05-24 18:00 - 20:00 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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Event Photos: by Crystal Birns
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Join us for “UCSC Night at the Museum – Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie” at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
As we mark the centennial of the Russian Revolution and the stunning electoral success of Bernie Sanders, the revival of interest in socialism inspires this discussion of the history of radical Jewish Politics.

RSVP has closed – Due to an overwhelming response, we are no longer accepting registrations to this event. However you are welcome to come to the Museum the night of the event and we will do our best to accommodate you if a sufficient number of people who have already RSVP’d are not in attendance.

6:00pm – Doors open
6:30pm – Public Conversation with Tony Michels Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York and editor of Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History; and Alma Rachel Heckman Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz whose research crosses Jewish history, North Africa, French empire, and the history of social movements.
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH)
705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Radical Jewish Politics Workshop
2017-05-25 14:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Marking the centennial of the 1917 Russian Revolution, the UCSC Center for Jewish Studies invites you to attend an afternoon of roundtable discussions around the theme of “Radical Jewish Politics.” This event both addresses and pushes the standard canon to discuss a wide variety of contexts, not only on their own, but in conversation with one another. Geographically, these contexts include Iran, Iraq, Israel and Palestine, Egypt, Russia, Hungary, Egypt, Morocco, and the United States of America. Thematically, these contexts include Queer Jewish histories within the left, the contemporary Orthodox populations of New York City and reactionary politics, interactions with Zionism and other nationalisms, historiography and state memory, and much more.
2:00-5:00pm
Afternoon Roundtable 1: Thematic conversation 1 (including approximately 3-4 panelists)
Afternoon Roundtable 2: Thematic conversation 2 (including approximately 3-4 panelists)
Concluding remarks
Dinner
RSVP required – Please register for the event here
Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, History Department, Center for Cultural Studies, and Institute for Humanities Research.
Scholar Bios:
Bettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies at UCSC, and is the holder of the UC Presidential Baskin Foundation Endowed Chair in Feminist Studies. She is affiliated faculty in Jewish Studies, and in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies. Her most recent research has been a project on queering the history of the Communist Left in the United States. Her most recent book is a memoir, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech and Became a Feminist Rebel. A scholar-activist she was featured in the film Free Angela! and all political prisoners, (2013). She also does work in Black feminist History, and recently published a scholarly piece, “The Pageantry of Shirley Graham’s Opera Tom-Tom” published in the journal Souls, Fall 2016.
Orit Bashkin is a historian who works on the intellectual, social and cultural history of the modern Middle East. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University (2004), writing a thesis on Iraqi intellectual history under the supervision of Professors Robert Tignor and Samah Selim, and her BA (1995) and MA (1999) from Tel Aviv University. Since graduation, she has been working as a professor of modern Middle Eastern history in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Her publications deal with Iraqi history, the history of Iraqi Jews, the Arab cultural revival movement (the nahda) in the late 19th century, and the connections between modern Arab history and Arabic literature. Her current research project explores the lives of Iraqi Jews in Israel. Her books (published by Stanford University Press are): The Other Iraq, Pluralism and Culture and Hashemite Iraq, New Babylonians, A history of Iraqi Jews, and Impossible Exodus, Iraqi Jews in Israel. At the University of Chicago, she teaches classes on nationalism, colonialism and postcolonialism in the Middle East, on modern Islamic civilization, and on Israeli history.
Joel Beinin is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1982 before coming to Stanford in 1983. Beinin’s research and writing focus on the social and cultural history and political economy of modern Egypt, Palestine, and Israel and on US policy in the Middle East.
Arie M. Dubnov is the inaugural Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies at George Washington University. His fields of expertise are modern Jewish and European intellectual history, with emphasis on the history of political thought and nationalism studies. His current research examines the relationship and exchange of ideas between pre-1948 Zionist activists and British political thinkers. It seeks to place Jewish nationalism within the context of interwar neo-imperial thinking, acknowledging a wide spectrum of intra-Zionist ideas ranging from pro-imperial, federalist thinking to radical anti-colonial notions of struggle.
Peter Kenez is Professor emeritus of history at UC Santa Cruz. He was one of the founding members of Stevenson College andhas taught and published widely on the history of the Soviet Union and related geopolitical questions.
Lior Sternfeld is an Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Penn State University. He is a social historian of the modern Middle East with particular interests in Jewish (and other minorities’) histories of the region. Sternfeld’s first book manuscript tentatively titled: “Integrated After All: Iranian Jews in the Twentieth Century,” which examines the integration of the Jewish communities in Iran into the nation-building projects of the twentieth century, is now under review. This book examines the development of the Iranian Jewish communities vis-à-vis ideologies and institutions such as Iranian nationalism, Zionism, and constitutionalism, among others. His current research project examines the origins of “third-worldism” in the Middle East.
Bob Weinberg is Isaac H. Clothier Professor of History and International Relations at Swarthmore College. He teaches Russian and European history and has published on the 1905 Revolution in Odessa, anti-Jewish pogroms, blood libel, antisemitism in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, and Birobidzhan

Linguistics Colloquium: Susan Lin
2017-05-26 02:40 - 15:40 | Humanities 2, Room 259
The Linguistics department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.
Fall 2016
May/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Yuki Obayashi
2017-05-26 12:00 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“This is Your Life”: Hiroshima Maidens and the American ideological superiority in the midst of the Cold War
In 1955, twenty-five female victims of the atomic bombing flown to the United States and received extensive plastic surgery to correct severe deformity from keloids. Initiated by the American journalist Norman Cousins and the Japanese minister Tanimoto Kiyoshi, this project was supported on multiple fronts in the United States. This paper analyzed the American capitalistic mode of generosity from the TV program, “This is Your Life” aired on May 11, 1955, which featured the Japanese minister Tanimoto, who recently arrived in the United States with Hiroshima Maidens. The TV program and its host successfully collected $56,000 in donations by asking its viewers to show their “American way”. This American way generosity demonstrated multiple problematic viewpoints in the ways of how the Americans constructed their superiority through the victims’ radicalized and gendered bodies.
Friday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:30-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
April 21, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz, History
April 28, 2017: Baizhu Chen, Economics
May 5, 2017: Danielle Crawford, Literature
May 12, 2017: Kristen Laciste, HAVC
May 19, 2017: Kara Hisatake, Literature
May 26, 2017: Yuki Obayashi, Literature
June 2, 2017: Angela Nguyen, Psychology

Critical Race & Ethnic Studies Works In Progress
2017-05-26 14:30 - 15:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“Delinquency As Labor”
Chrissy Anderson-Zavala
Chrissy Anderson-Zavala is a PhD candidate in education with designated emphases in critical race and ethnic studies and feminist studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her dissertation, How to Write ‘Trouble/d Youth,’ bridges participatory ethnographic work in a continuation high school and reading practices that “track the figure” of “trouble/d youth” in district and state-level archives to explore how narratives of young people as “trouble” (threat) or “troubled” (at-risk) inform the limits and possibilities of schooling.

“BioRobotics: Surveillance at the Borders of AnimalHumanInsect”
Felicity Amaya Schaeffer
Felicity Amaya Schaeffer is an Associate Professor in the Feminist Studies Department here at UCSC. Her book, Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship Across the Americas, was published in 2013 with NYU Press. She is working on a new project called “Tracking Migrants: Biosecurity Across Erotic Borders” that follows the de-humanization of Latina/o migrants branded as biothreats, or deviant and criminal threats. In this project I follow the ways state surveillance remakes relations between technology-the-body-and nature, and then decolonizes these state regimes through an Anzalduan approach to what I call an erotic cosmology: using the body as a technology to hone our senses deeper into the sensual relationality of human-animal-cosmic ontologies.

Symposium: Charting the Library's Future
2017-05-31 10:00 - 14:30 | McHenry Library UCSC, Room 4286
Program:
10:00-10:30am
Welcome and Opening Remarks by Chancellor George Blumenthal and University Librarian Elizabeth Cowell

10:30-12:00pm
Panel Discussion
MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian at UC Davis
Expanding Research Support in University Libraries
Academic libraries’ research support is inherently interdisciplinary (or omnidisciplinary) so they are uniquely positioned to expand those services to include common modern research tools and methods, such as spatial and data science, informatics and analytics, writing and programming. Providing central, democratically accessible facilities, instruction, and expert support for these essential modern research skills is a natural role for libraries while increasing their value to the universities they serve.
Günter Waibel, Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of the California Digital Library
This Magic Moment: Are We Coming Together, or Falling Apart?
Abstract: What kind of a library does a globally connected faculty working on the grand challenges of our time need? The recent election has sparked a public debate about factual information, the scientific method and intellectual freedom; it has also deepened the academy’s resolve to uphold those core values. At the same time, our blue planet faces grand challenges that become tractable only through collective and collaborative action. Both faculty and librarians are striving to respond by working across traditional organizational and/or geopolitical boundaries. The UC system, and the UC libraries within it, are a microcosm of a community finding a collective response, and a case-study in an experiment to go further together. (Examples illustrating these dynamics might came from the national response to safeguarding federal research data, and the UC libraries strategy to realize our goal of a fully open access future.)
Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, University Librarian at UC Berkeley
Bringing Together People, Information and Technology: Connected Learning
Astract: University libraries always have been providers of public goods and gateways to discovery. They amassed collections of millions of books and scholarly articles to share with all faculty and students, who could not afford to do so individually. New learners coming through the doors had transcendent — often ecstatic — discovery experiences that fueled individual growth, and social and scientific progress. We should continue to provide public goods to excite the passions and open the eyes, but the information environment has changed drastically and so must the learning environments and experiences. We must create connected learning spaces as open-to-all gateways before students reach specialized labs and facilities limited to their choice of major. These spaces must connect people, information and technology to support collaborative and active learning. The public goods we provide should include not just books and articles (and videos and maps and…) but also new information technologies most students can’t afford for themselves (e.g., virtual reality gear, data visualization systems, programmable 3-D scanners, etc.). And we need to provide experts to help them find those head-exploding discoveries that open their eyes to the Age of Information.

12:00-1:00pm:
Lunch provided for all registered attendees

1:00-2:30pm:
Lightning Talks and Discussion sessions
The Changing Practices of Scholarly Work
Sylvanna Falcón, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies
Danielle Crawford, Graduate Student in Literature and former CART Fellow
Jody Greene, Professor of Literature, Feminist Studies, and History of Consciousness, and director of the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)
Christy Caldwell, Research Support Services Librarian
