Sunaina Maira: "More Delicate Than a Flower, Yet Harder Than a Rock: Human Rights in the Shadow of an Empire"
2012-11-13 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk focuses on the political mobilization of young people targeted by the War on Terror, exploring what it means to challenge the U.S. imperial state from within and to engage in solidarity with those beyond its borders who are targets of imperial violence. It draws on an ethnographic study of South Asian, Arab, and Afghan American youth in Silicon Valley and new forms of politics and coalition-building that have emerged since 9/11 among youth who are seen as prime suspects in the domestic War on Terror. What does it mean to view the political subjecthood of South Asian, Arab, and Afghan American youth through the theoretical lenses of critical ethnic studies and work on imperialism and settler colonialism? The research demonstrates that while college-age youth often turn to the framework of civil rights and human rights in responding to regimes of surveillance and policing and opposing overseas wars and occupation, they also have to confront the failure of liberal rights-talk in particular instances of political organizing that go beyond a politics of multicultural recognition.
Sunaina Maira is Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City and Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire After 9/11. She is coeditor (with Elisabeth Soep) of Youthscapes: The Popular, the National, the Global and (with Rajini Srikanth) of Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America, which won the American Book Award in 1997. Maira has worked with various antiwar, civil rights, and immigrant rights groups in the Bay Area.
This event is organized and sponsored by the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program. Cosponsored by the University of California Center for New Racial Studies, the Division of Humanities at UCSC, and the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Katherine Dunbabin: "The Romans at Dinner: A View from Archaeology and Art"
2012-11-14 04:30 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Katherine Dunbabin is Emerita with the Department of Classics, McMaster University, and holds her degrees from Oxford University. Her areas of specialization are Roman art and mosaics, Roman dining customs, and theater and spectacle in the Roman Empire, and she has published widely on these topics. She served as the specialist on the Roman mosaics for the University of Michigan excavations at Carthage, and has also worked at a number of sites in Italy. Professor Dunbabin holds the AIA’s Norton Lectureship for 2012/2013.
Light refreshments served at 4:30 PM, talk at 5:00 PM
Cosponsored by the Archaeology Institute of America.

Greg O'Malley: "To El Dorado via Slave Trade: British Commercial Imperialism in Spanish America & the Logic of Human Commodification, 1660-1713
2012-11-14 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Gregory E. O’Malley is currently finishing his first book, Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807. It examines a complex network for distributing enslaved Africans throughout North America and the Caribbean after their survival of the infamous (and much more thoroughly studied) Middle Passage across the Atlantic.
Gregory E. O’Malley is Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz.

World Melodrama Film Series - Tokyo Twilight
2012-11-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Social Sciences I, Room 110, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Tokyo Twilight (1957; dir. Yasujirô Ozu) Japan Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu

William Wells: "Keeping Faith in Word and Spirit: Translating the Work of Two Jewish/Italian Poets"
2012-11-15 14:00 - 15:45 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Will’s most recent book of poems, Unsettled Accounts, won the 2009 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and was published in February of 2010 by Ohio University/Swallow Press. On its basis, he was chosen as a Walter E. Dakin Fellow in Poetry for the 2010 Sewanee Writers’ Conference and as 2010 Ohio Poet of the Year (selected by the State Library of Ohio). He has previously won an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council (1996), an N.E.A. Fellowship in poetry, and four scholarly fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, most of which have involved translation of various Italian poets. Most recently, this involved translating the sonnets of Sara Coppia Sullam during the NEH Summer Institute on “Venice, The Jews and Italian Culture” in 2006. Subsequent presentations and articles have focused upon the translation of Sullam’s sonnets. Other N.E.H. experiences included a summer Institute on Literary Translation at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1988. His previous volume of poems, Conversing with the Light, was chosen by Henry Taylor for the 1987 Anhinga Prize and published by Anhinga Press of Tallahassee. He has also translated Umberto Saba’s first volume of poems, Trieste and a Lady, and that volume is currently in circulation with publishers. His current poetry manuscript, tentatively, titled Scraps and Damaged Lots, is nearly finished. He serves as Professor of English and Dean of Arts & Sciences at Rhodes State College in Ohio.
This event is made possible from generous support from the David B. Gold Foundation.

Philosophy Colloquium ~ Scott Gilbert: "We are all lichens: How symbiosis research has reconstituted a new realm of individuality"
2012-11-15 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
4:00pm, Humanities 1, Room 210
Co-Sponsored by UCSC Philosophy, History of Consciousness, Cultural Studies, and Science and Justice Working Group
ABSTRACT: The notion of the “biological individual” is crucial to studies of genetics, immunology, evolution, development, anatomy, and physiology. Each of these biological sub-disciplines has a specific conception of individuality, which has historically provided conceptual contexts for integrating newly acquired data. During the past decade, nucleic acid analysis, especially genomic sequencing and high-throughput RNA techniques, has challenged each of these disciplinary definitions by finding significant interactions of animals and plants with symbiotic microorganisms that disrupt the boundaries which heretofore had characterized the biological individual. Animals cannot be considered individuals by anatomical, or physiological criteria, because a diversity of symbionts are both present and functional in completing metabolic pathways and serving other physiological functions. Similarly, these new studies have shown that animal development is incomplete without symbionts. Symbionts also constitute a second mode of genetic inheritance, providing selectable genetic variation for natural selection. The immune system also develops, in part, in dialogue with symbionts, and thereby functions as a mechanism for integrating microbes into the animal-cell community. Recognizing the “holobiont”—the multicellular eukaryote plus its colonies of persistent symbionts– as a critically important unit of anatomy, development, physiology, immunology, and evolution, opens up new investigative avenues and conceptually challenges the ways in which the biological sub-disciplines have heretofore characterized living entities.
ABOUT: Scott F. Gilbert is the Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology at Swarthmore College, where he teaches developmental genetics, embryology, and the history and critiques of biology. He received his B.A. in both biology and religion from Wesleyan University (1971), and he earned his PhD in biology from the pediatric genetics laboratory of Dr. Barbara Migeon at the Johns Hopkins University (1976). His M.A. in the history of science, also from The Johns Hopkins University, was done under the supervision of Dr. Donna Haraway. He pursued postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin in the laboratories of Dr. Masayasu Nomura and Dr. Robert Auerbach. Dr. Gilbert has been Chair of the Division of Developmental and Cell Biology of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, and he is a member of the education committee of the Society for Developmental Biology.
He has also been elected a fellow of the AAAS and the St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists. He currently has three books in print:Developmental Biology (a textbook in its eighth edition), Bioethics and the New Embryology (a volume, co-authored with two students, that discusses new findings in developmental biology with respect to philosophy and religion), and Ecological Developmental Biology, a textbook co-authored with David Epel which integrates developmental plasticity, epigenetics, and symbiosis into discussions of medicine and evolution. Scott has received several awards, including the Medal of François I from the Collège de France, the Dwight J. Ingle Memorial Writing Award, the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award, honorary doctorates from the University of Helsinki and the University of Tartu, and a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Grant. In 2002, the Society for Developmental Biology awarded him its first Viktor Hamburger Prize for Excellence in Education, and in 2004, he was awarded the Kowalevsky Prize in Evolutionary Developmental Biology. He has recently become a Finland Distinguished Professor at the University of Helsinki and has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to work on that most interesting of topics-how the turtle forms its shell-and he continues to do research and write in both developmental biology and in the history and philosophy of biology.
Outside the class and laboratory, his interests include hiking, photography, and he plays piano in KNISH, one of Swarthmore’s premier Klezmer bands

Learning from the Oak Creek Wisconsin Tragedy: Sikhs and Pluralism in America
2012-11-15 17:30 - 19:00 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The fatal shooting at a Sikh gurdwara (temple) in Wisconsin last August, and the possible motivation of the shooter, require reflection on religious and social tolerance and the idea/ideal of America as a pluralistic society in the 21st century. This event seeks to further our understanding of these issues.
5:30-6:30 pm – Program and Speakers
Welcome by Sikh Students Association Introductory Remarks
Dean William Ladusaw, Humanities Division
UCSC Panel Discussion
Professor Nathaniel Deutsch, UCSC
Dr. Seema Kaur Sidhu, United Sikhs
Ms. Amrit Kaur Sidhu, United Sikhs
Professor Nirvikar Singh, UCSC (Moderator)
6:30-7:00 pm – Dinner and Informal Discussion
About the Speakers
Nathaniel Deutsch is Director of the Institute for Humanities Research, Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies, and Professor of History at UCSC.
Seema Kaur Sidhu is the United Sikhs Regional Director for Community Empowerment and Education and Business Development. She works with Sikh youth in promoting health awareness, empowering new youth leaders and engaging them in education and social justice initiatives. She is also a practicing obstetrician and gynecologist.
Amrit Kaur Sidhu is a United Sikhs intern, and graduated from UCSC in June 2012 with a BS in Human Biology and a Politics minor.
Nirvikar Singh is the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair of Sikh and Punjabi Studies and Professor of Economics at UCSC.
This event is sponsored by the UCSC Sikh Student Association, the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies, and the Institute for Humanities Research.

Satyajit Ray Film Series: Agantuk ("The Arriver")
2012-11-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Crown Fireside Lounge, Fireside Lounge‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Crown College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Satyajit Ray is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. The Ray Film and Study Center (RayFASC) is newly located at Crown College and holds the largest collections of Ray’s films outside of India.
Please join us for a showing of Agantuk (“The Arriver”), with an introduction by Dr. Daniel Seldon, Director of RayFASC.

Andries W. Coetzee: "A lexical route to voicing co-occurrence restrictions: the case of Afrikaans"
2012-11-16 16:00 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Many languages have restrictions on the co-occurrence of laryngeally marked segments (such as voiced obstruents, aspirates, glottalized consonants, etc.). Current theories of sound change ascribe the origin of these restrictions either to speaker-oriented articulatory forces (grammaticalization of articulatory simplification) or to listener-oriented perceptual forces (grammaticalization of misperception). In this presentation, I will argue for a third possible source for these co-occurrence restrictions, based on a newly developing restriction in Afrikaans. I will argue that co-occurrence restrictions can also arise via a lexical route. Through the gradual lexical accumulation of sound changes, a pattern consistent with a co-occurrence restriction can accidentally arise in the lexicon of some language. Once the pattern has been lexically established, language users can then elevate the pattern to a grammatical principle via a statistical learning mechanism. I will first establish the existence of the voicing co-occurrence in Afrikaans relying on the three kinds of evidence: (i) Evidence for the pattern in the Afrikaans lexicon. (ii) The results of a wug-test with Afrikaans speakers. (iii) Evidence from non-standard minority varieties of Afrikaans in which the restriction has been established more firmly than in Standard Afrikaans. I will then trace the developments of the Afrikaans lexicon from Dutch, showing that the lexical pattern in Afrikaans is an accidental side-effect of a series of unrelated sound changes that applied in the development from Dutch to Afrikaans.
Andries W. Coetzee is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan.

Elizabeth Lambourn: "The Material Presence of a Medieval Past: New Approaches to the Materiality & 'Thingness' of Cairo Geniza"
2012-11-28 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
An historian of Islamic South Asian and the Indian Ocean world, Elizabeth’s research focuses on the mobility of people, things and ideas in the medieval and early modern periods. Elizabeth is also interested in issues of periodization and the need for dialogue and thinking across the pre-Modern/Modern/Contemporary divides.
Elizabeth Lambourn is Professor of South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies at De Montfort University (UK); Visiting Scholar at the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University.

World Melodrama Film Series - The Cranes Are Flying
2012-11-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Social Sciences I, Room 110, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Cranes Are Flying (1957; dir. Mikhail Kalatozov) U.S.S.R.
Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu

Phaedon Sinis to Lecture on the Music of the Ottoman Empire
2012-11-29 12:00 - 13:45 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
On November 29, Phaedon Sinis will give a lecture on music in the Ottoman empire: its history and development, the interaction between Jewish and non Jewish musicians, and introduction to Turkish music theory and Maqam system. He will demonstrate singing an playing techniques on several Turkish instruments, among them the Kemence, and the Qanun.
Phaedon Sinis specializes in the study and performance of Ottoman music. He plays classical Kemence, Tarhu, Qanun, and Flute. He worked with ethnomusicologist Professor Ted Levin at Dartmouth College, and later on with Dr. Munir Nurettin Beken, Sokratis Sinopoulos, and Neyzen Ömer Erdogdular on Ottoman modal theory, and performance practice. Phaedon Sinis performs and tours regularly with the Aman Saki Trio.

A Night of Poetry & Music with M. NourbeSe Philip
2012-11-29 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies presents
A Night of Poetry & Music with M. NourbeSe Philip
accompanied by a jazz duo led by Karlton Hester, Professor of Music, UCSC
M. NourbeSe Philip is a poet, essayist, novelist and playwright who lives in the space-time of the City of Toronto. She practiced law in the City of Toronto for seven years before leaving to write full-time. She has published poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fiction. Among her best known published works are She Tries Her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks; Looking for Livingstone; An Odyssey of Silence; and Harriet’s Daughter, a young adult novel. Her most recent work, Zong!, is a genre-breaking, book-length poem which engages with ideas of the law, history, and memory as they relate to the transatlantic slave trade.
Reception: 5:00-6:00 PM in 210 Humanities 1.
This event was organized and sponsored by the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. Cosponsored by the African American Resource Center, the Music Department, and the Living Writers Series. Staff support provided the the Institute for Humanities Research.

Latino Literature / La literatura latina IV Conference
2012-11-30 11:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Event Center
Bringing writers and scholars together in thoughtful interchange, “Latino Literature/La literatura latina IV” is the fourth biennial conference of the Latino Literary Cultures Project/ Proyecto culturas literarias latinas. This daylong event is free and open to the public.
11am – 4:30pm Scholarly panels featuring:
• Marcial González
• Claudia Milian
• Desirée Martín
• Javier O. Huerta
• Angie Bonilla
• Kendra Dority
5-7pm Featured Author Readings and Book Signings from:
• Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of California, author of 21 books and winner of multiple awards including the National Book Critics Circle
• Melinda Palacio, author of two books, PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award winner
• Javier O. Huerta, award-winning poet and author of two books
For more information, please visit: http://culturas.ucsc.edu/.

This conference is sponsored by the Puknat Endowment of the Literature Department; The Institute for Humanities Research; the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity; Kresge, Merrill, and Stevenson Colleges; and the Chicano/Latino Research Center (CLRC). Staffing generously provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

UCSC will host the California Regional Ethics Bowl
2012-12-01 08:30 - 17:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
The philosophy department is proud to announce that UCSC will be hosting two Ethics Bowl debate competitions this year.
On December 1st, 2012, UCSC will host the California Regional Ethics Bowl, a qualifier for the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl. Ethics Bowl is a team debate competition where teams of five undergraduates analyze case studies that demonstrate ethical dilemmas drawn from a wide range of areas (environmental ethics, biomedical ethics, business ethics, institutional ethics, personal ethics, etc.). Come see the UCSC team, the defending California Regional Champions, compete!
The competition is open to the public, and any interested students, faculty, and community members are invited to attend.
The event is all day (8:30-5pm). Spectators can pick-up a schedule at the the check-in/information table located at Stevenson 150. For more information, please visit: http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/ethicsbowl/2012caregionalethicsbowl.html

Ethan Michaeli: “Between Memory and History: Growing Up in the Shadow of the Holocaust”
2012-12-03 15:30 - 16:40 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The children of survivors must navigate between the intimate legacy of their parents’ experiences and their own encounter—via books, films, and other sources—of the Holocaust as a historical event. As the last survivors pass away and lived memory of the event disappears with them, what special role—if any—should their children play in representing and interpreting the Holocaust? Professor Nathaniel Deutsch, the Neufeld-Levin Endowed Chair of Holocaust Studies, whose father was saved by a righteous gentile during World War II, will participate in a public conversation with Ethan Michaeli, a journalist and author, whose mother survived Auschwitz as a teenager.
Ethan Michaeli is an award-winning journalist and publisher whose writing has appeared in The Nation, The Forward, The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Magazine and In These Times, among other publications. He is the founder and director of We The People Media/Residents’ Journal, a non-profit dedicated to working with Chicago Housing Project residents. Michaeli is currently writing The Defender: How Chicago’s Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America, from the Age of the Pullman Porters to the Age of Obama (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, forthcoming), a book about the Chicago Defender, the country’s most important African American newspaper, where he worked as a reporter and editor from 1991 to 1996. Michaeli’s work is inspired by his parents, both of whom are Holocaust survivors.
Ethan’s work is inspired by his parents, both of whom are survivors of the Holocaust. He lives in Chicago with his wife and son.

WILDNESS: Film Screening and Discussion with Wu Tsang and Roya Rastegar
2012-12-03 19:00 - 22:00 | Media Theater, M110
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The Departments of Feminist Studies and Film + Digital Media and the Graduate Program in Social Documentation Present:
WILDNESS
a film by Wu Tsang
Screening and Discussion with director Wu Tsang and co-writer Roya Rastegar
Reception to follow screening and discussion
ABOUT THE FILM
Rooted in the tropical underground of Los Angeles nightlife, WILDNESS is a documentary portrait of the Silver Platter, a historic bar in the MacArthur Park area that has been home for Latin/LGBT immigrant communities since 1963. With a magical realist flourish, the bar itself becomes a character, narrating what happens when a group of young artists create a weekly performance art/dance party (organized by director Wu Tsang and DJs NGUZUNGUZU & Total Freedom) called Wildness, which explodes into creativity and conflict.
What does “safe space” mean, and who needs it? And how does it differ among us? At the Silver Platter, the search for answers to these questions creates coalitions across generations.
The film will be screened in conjunction with Prof. Marcia Ochoa’s courses FMST 41 and Soc Doc 204, and to foster campus dialogue on Transgender Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies.
Feminist Studies wishes to make this program accessible to people with disabilities. If you have disability-related needs, please contact Marti Stanton at (831) 459-3981.
This event is free and open to the public.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
WU TSANG is a filmmaker, artist, and performer based in Los Angeles. As a transgendered second-generation Chinese American, he explores human stories at at the intersection of complex identities. He was named one of 2012’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine. His first feature WILDNESS won the Grand Jury Award for Outstanding Documentary at Outfest 2012 [World Premiere: MoMA Documentary Fortnight (New York, NY), SXSW (Austin, TX), Hot Docs (Toronto, Canada), SANFIC8 (Santiago, Chile)]. WILDNESS was also featured with a companion multi-channel video installation called /GREEN ROOM at the 2012 Whitney Biennial.
ROYA RASTEGAR is a writer and curator living in Los Angeles. She received a Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness, from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Through the guidance of advisors Angela Y. Davis and B. Ruby Rich, her scholarship traces the productive conflicts and coalitions that flourish within cultural spaces. She has curated within both film and art contexts. She was a Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in 2008-9, a Director of the Santa Cruz Women of Color Film & Video Festival, and has participated in the programming of a number of film festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival and as a Programmer at the Tribeca Film Festival from 2008-2011. She has served on the juries of Outfest and the Santiago Festival International de Cine. Rastegar is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Women at UCLA, and writes about film and performance for various publications. Her current book project offers a critical study of American film festivals and the radical possibilities of film and new media curatorial practices. WILDNESS is her feature film writing debut.
Cosponsored by the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Arts Division; the Office of Campus Life and Dean of Students; El Centro – Chicano Latino Resource Center; the Cantú Queer Center; Kresge College; the UC Presidential Chair in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; and the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies.

World Melodrama Film Series - Cairo Station
2012-12-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Social Sciences I, Room 110, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Cairo Station (1958; dir. Youssef Chahine) Egypt
Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu

World Melodrama Film Series - The Lin Family Shop
2012-12-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Social Sciences I, Room 110, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Lin Family ‘s Shop (1959; dir. Shui Hua) China

Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu

Roderick A. Ferguson: "Comparative Ethnic Studies: Retrieving, Redistributing, and Holding the Institution Under Erasure"
2013-01-09 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk looks at the question of comparative ethnic studies through the critique and the rearticulation of comparative projects. It goes on to ask the question of how one might institutionalize and let one’s institutional practice and project be shaped by the critique of institutionalization.
Roderick A. Ferguson is professor of race and critical theory. He is the author of Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (2004) and The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference (2012). He is also the co-editor with Grace Hong of Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization (2011).

Book Launch and Reading: Juliana Leslie at the Capitola Book Café
2013-01-12 17:00 - 19:00 | Capitola Book Café, 1475 41st Avenue, Capitola, CA, 95010, United States
Juliana LesliePlease help celebrate the publication of Juliana Leslie’s Green is for World at Capitola Book Cafe this coming Saturday, January 12. The reception is at 5 pm, the reading at 6pm.
“Green Is for World is a book that expands on the childlike register of its title: it is open, vulnerable, curious… Maybe we should refer to Juliana Leslie’s poems as cascades, not collages; maybe she has given us a new form. If so, it is a form of beauty, mystery, and thoughtfulness. They give me courage, and I think others will find courage in her gentle cascades as well.” —Ange Mlinko, National Poetry Series Judge
“Juliana Leslie’s exciting new book is constantly opening up and breaking into light, revelation, and sound. Green Is for World is a surprising book, wondrously achieved and lovingly composed.” —Peter Gizzi
Poet Juliana Leslie holds degrees from UC Santa Cruz, Mills College and UMass Amherst and is currently finishing a Ph.D. at UC Santa Cruz. She is the author of three chapbooks and of the full-length collection, More Radiant Signal, published in 2010 by Letter Machine Editions. She is also currently a co-organizer of the UC Santa Cruz Poetry and Politics Research Group and a founding editor of the Poetry and Politics Imprint.

Aminda Smith: "Remolding Minds in Postsocialist China: Maoist Reeducation & 21-century Subjects"
2013-01-16 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Aminda Smith’s forthcoming book, Thought Reform and China’s Dangerous Classes: Reeducation, Resistance, and the People focuses on Chinese Communist reformatories, where agents of the state worked to transform beggars, prostitutes, and other “vagrants” into new socialist citizens. She explores reeducation centers as both institutions and symbolic spaces through which “The People” were created.
Aminda Smith is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University.

American Indian Writers Reading Series: Deborah Miranda
2013-01-22 16:00 - 18:00 | Charles E. Merrill Lounge
Deborah Miranda (Esselen/ Chumash) is the author of the poetry volumes The Zen of La Llorona (2005), Deer (2001) and Indian Cartography (1999). She will be reading and signing her new book, Bad Indians: A Memoir.
This project is co-sponsored by the American Indian Resource Center, Care Council, The Departments of American Studies, Literature, and the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies.

Donna Haraway: "Playing String Figures with Companion Species: Staying with the Trouble"
2013-01-23 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This paper insists on working, playing, and thinking in multispecies cosmo- politics in the face of the killing of entire ways of being on earth that characterize the age cunningly called “now” and the place called “here.” Thinking with work- ing homing pigeons leads us into needed knots of SF – string figures, science fic- tion, speculative fabulation, speculative feminism, so far.
Donna Haraway is Distinguished Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz.

Creative Writing Reading by Javier O. Huerta
2013-01-23 15:30 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Javier O. Huerta is the author of American Copia: An Immigrant Epic (Arte Publico 2012) and Some Clarifications y otros poemas (Arte Publico 2007), which received the 31st Chicano/Latino Literary Prize from UC Irvine. His poems have recently been anthologized in Art and Artists: Poems, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011, and American Tensions: Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice. He received his MFA from the Bilingual Creative Writing Program at the University of Texas at El Paso and is currently a doctoral candidate in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. His research examines 19th Century articulations of laughter in relation to the simultaneous belief that laughter is essentially mechanistic and that the essence of laughter is irreducible to mechanism. Other research interests include U.S. Latino Literature and Literature of Immigration, including what he considers to be an emerging field, the Literature of the Undocumented. Huerta has been a contributing writer for Harriet, the blog for the Poetry Foundation.

Documentary Film Screening and Discussion with Professor Gilbert Gonzalez
2013-01-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Laborers in the Bracero Program
The UC Humanities Working Group on Immigrant Labor and Changing Conceptions of Work is pleased to announce that Gilbert Gonzalez, Professor Emeritus of Chicano/Latino Studies at UC Irvine, will return to UC Santa Cruz on January 23, 2013, to present his award-winning documentary Harvest of Loneliness: The Bracero Program. Dr. Gonzalez was a participant in the Working Group’s workshop in October 2012. Harvest of Loneliness explores the historical accounts of migrant Mexican farm workers brought into the U.S. from 1942-1964 under the temporary contract worker program known as the Bracero Program (click here to read a short interview with Dr. Gonzalez and documentary filmmaker Vivian Price. You can also explore the film’s website). This event is co-sponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies Program and El Centro: Chicana/o-Latina/o Resource Center.
The film screening will be followed by a Q and A session with Dr. Gonzales.

Living Writers Reading by Javier O. Huerta
2013-01-24 18:00 - 19:30 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

The Sikh: The Feminine, The Activist
2013-01-26 11:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Event Center
Sikhi is like an ocean, boundless and all encompassing, composed of many shades and hues. During this conference, we will explore two of these colors. First, we will delve into the feminine aspect of spirituality and how it is characterized by the words of the Sikh Gurus, and the importance of women in Sikh tradition. Secondly, we will look at activism and social justice, understanding how they have been integral to Sikh spirituality from the beginning, and discussing their relevance today.

Speakers
Dr. Nikky Guninder Kaur Singh
The Crawford Family Professor at Colby College in Maine, USA. Her interests focus on poetry and feminist issues. She has published extensively in the field of Sikhism, and her areas of expertise are major religions of northern India, Indian women’s issues, role of women in religious literature, and literary analysis of scripture.
Balpreet Kaur
A sophomore at Ohio State University, she is a part of the executive board of the Better Together team, president of the Sikh Student Association, and a Humanities Scholar.
Dr. Jaideep Singh
An expert in comparative ethnic studies and the first American educated endowed chair holder in Sikh Studies in the country.
Dr. Seema Kaur
The United Sikhs Regional Director for Community Empowerment and Education and Business Development. She works with Sikh youth in promoting health awareness, empowering new youth leaders, and engaging them in education and social justice initiatives.
Amrit Kaur
United Sikhs intern, graduated from UCSC in June 2012 with a B.S. in Human Biology and a Politics minor.

Program
11:00-11:30AM Opening remarks and breakfast
11:30-12:00PM Balpreet Kaur
12:00-12:30PM Dr. Nikky Guninder Kaur Singh
12:30-1:00PM Open floor discussion
1:00-1:45PM Lunch
1:45-2:15PM Dr. Seema Kaur/Amrit Kaur
2:15-2:45PM Dr. Jaideep Singh
2:45-3:15PM Open floor discussion
3:15-4:00PM Entertainment and refreshments

A map of the UC Santa Cruz map with directions can be found here, and a map of the event center area with parking and event directions can be found here. An interactive map of the area can be found here, as well.
This event is free and open to the public. A poster for the event can be found here – forward it to your friends and contacts and spread the word!
Contact Us
Sikh Student Association wishes to make this event accessible to people with disabilities. If you need accommodation, please contact SOAR at (831) 459-2934.
For additional information, or any questions, please contact SSA at ucscsikhstudents@gmail.com or (408) 621-7223.

Clive Sinclair: “Zion Down Under, or Israel through the Looking Glass”
2013-01-28 12:30 - 13:45 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Photo of Melech Ravitch with a young Aboriginal woman in the outback. Photo courtesy of Monash University.
Dr. Sinclair will tell us how Melech Ravitch – poet, traveller, and (until 1934) Executive Secretary of the Fareyn fun Yidishe Literatn un Zhurnalistn in Varshe – got wind of the approaching catastrophe of the Holocaust, and scanned the globe for a place of refuge. With this in mind he set out for Australia in 1933, and upon arrival mounted an expedition to the Kimberleys in the Northern Territory.
His account of the journey – written in Yiddish – and his numerous photographs, display a remarkable and unusual sympathy for the aboriginal people. Indeed, he saw in them a reflection of the suffering of his own people he had left behind in Europe.
Ravitch is an engaging companion. And if it weren’t for the historic tragedies that befell both Jews and Aborigines his journey would be the stuff of comedy.
In the 1980s his journey and experience was recreated on canvas by his famous son, Yosl Bergner. Still only seventeen, Bergner had followed his father to Australia, where he soon established himself as the conscience of Australian art. Like his father he felt a kinship for the Aborigines, magnified by the awareness of what exactly had befallen European Jewry. In 1950 Yosl Bergner arrived in Israel, where he eventually became one of the country’s most distinguished artists. Just as his father saw Australia as a sort of double-exposure – Europe over-laid upon Australasia – so Bergner juxtaposes Israel and Australia, producing a looking-glass image of the Promised Land. In short, the father presents a version of What-Might-Have-Been, while the son offers a portrait of a dreamer disappointed.
Clive Sinclair has published 13 books of fiction, travel, and autobiography, some of which have been given prizes. Early in his career he was selected as one of the twenty Best of Young British Novelists. His most acclaimed collection of stories – The Lady and the Laptop – won both the PEN Silver pen for fiction, and the Jewish Quarterly award for fiction. An earlier collection, Bedbugs, was recently republished by Syracuse University Press in its Library of Modern Jewish Literature. In 2008 he published Clive Sinclair’s True Tales of the Wild West, an exercise in Dodgy Realism. He also leads a double-life as an academic and critic: he has published a study of Isaac Bashevis and Israel Joshua Singer – The Brothers Singer – and writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement. His association with UCSC began in 1969, when he arrived from England as a graduate student; it continued in 1980-81, when he returned as a Visiting Lecturer, as he did again in 2003.

Christopher Connery: "Is China Socialist (And Why Are We Asking this Question)?"
2013-01-30 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Christopher Connery’s recent work has centered on the global 1960s and its aftermaths, Chinese urbanism, and Shanghai studies. He is currently working on a psychogeographical study of Shanghai. His talk is part of a series of reflections on left and anti-capitalist critical discourse on contemporary China, in China and internationally.
Christopher Connery is Professor of World Literature and Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz.

UCSC Educational Technology Trade Show: Faculty Helping Faculty
2013-01-30 15:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Event Center
Come learn from faculty and instructional support staff about educational technologies that can charm and engage students. No matter whether you use Mac, PC, iOS, or Linux, we will have examples of educational technologies that work on each of these platforms. Presentations from faculty in each academic division, Learning Technologies, and UCSC Extension. Although the event runs from 3-5:00 p.m., dropping by for just 20 minutes would allow you to visit a couple of tables and be inspired.

Creative Writing Reading by Carmen Gimenez Smith
2013-01-30 15:30 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please stay tuned for more information.

Marilyn Westerkamp: "Gracious Invaders and Frightened Magistrates: Gender, Charisma, and the Limits of Political Power in 17th Century New England"
2013-01-30 16:00 - 17:30 | Silverman Conference Room, Stevenson, Stevenson College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Marilyn Westerkamp is Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz.
Dinner reception follows at the Stevenson Provost House.
This event is cosponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research and the History Department.

Jan Boxill: "Using Sports as a Public Forum for Ethics"
2013-01-31 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Dr. Jan Boxill is Director of the Parr Center for Ethics, Chair of the Faculty, and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. Presented annually by the Philosophy Department, the Ethics Lecture is made possible by the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics, a fund created in honor of Peggy Downes’s longtime interest in ethical issues across the academic spectrum.

Living Writers Reading by Carmen Gimenez Smith
2013-01-31 18:00 - 19:30 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

2013 California Regional High School Ethics Bowl Competition
2013-02-02 08:45 - 17:00 | Multiple Venues, College 9 & College 10, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
An Ethics Bowl is a collaborative yet competitive event, more nuanced than debate, in which teams are presented with a series of wide-ranging ethical dilemmas and are asked to analyze them; they are then judged on the basis of their analyses. An exciting tournament, it is also a way for students to gain valuable insight into ethical and philosophical issues.
Location:
College Nine: Social Science 1, Rooms 110 and 161
College Ten: Social Sciences 2, Rooms 71, 75 and 179
Schedule:
8:00 Judges Training: Social Science 2, Room 141
8:45 Welcome
9:00 Round 1
10:10 Round 2
11:20 Round 3
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Round 4
3:00 Final Round with reception ending at 5:00
For more information, please visit: http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/ethicsbowl/highschoolethicsbowl.html

Mediterranean Studies MRP Workshop - UCLA
2013-02-02 09:30 - 17:00 | University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
The Mediterranean Seminar/University of California Multi-Campus Research Project (MRP) in Mediterranean Studies announces its Winter 2013 Workshop, to be held at UCLA on Saturday, 2 February 2013. This is part of a three-day event which also includes the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) Ahmanson Conference, “Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean,” to be held on January 31-February 1.
The Workshop consists of discussion of three pre-circulated papers and a talk by our featured scholar, Michael Herzfeld (Anthropology, Harvard University).
Carol Lansing, Professor of History, UC Santa Barbara
“Captive Women in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Later Middle Ages”
Erith Jaffe-Berg, Associate Professor of Theater, UC Riverside
“Mediterranean Cartographies of Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell’ Arte Actresses”
Lucia Carminati, Graduate Student, Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Arizona
“Egypt 1919: Working-class Cosmopolitanism and Shifting Boundaries of Belonging”
Michael Herzfeld, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
“Gender, Geography, and the Imagining of the Mediterranean”
Space is limited, so please register now. Registration opens for UC faculty and graduate students and those at institutions affiliated with the Mediterranean Consortium today. Registration for all others will begin on Dec. 26 (registration requests may be sent in at any time; early applications will be queued in the order they are received).
Travel assistance (max $350) will be provided to attendees coming from outside the LA area. UC graduate students and faculty are guaranteed this support; others can apply, and it will be awarded on the basis of availability.
Registration requests and other inquiries should be directed to Courtney Mahaney (cmahaney@ucsc.edu) at the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research.
Attendees are encouraged to register for the Ahmanson Conference. This is done through UCLA’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; see http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/calendar_jan13.html#1-30.

Lyn Hejinian: "The Avant-Garde in Progress"
2013-02-06 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Lynn Hejinian is currently at work on a book-length essay, tentatively titled The Positions of the Sun, and exploring practical as well as conceptual possibilities for avant-garde and quotidian practices under conditions of late (or perhaps, now, triumphant) capitalism.
Lyn Hejinian is professor of English at UC Berkeley. She is a poet and critic. She works on modernist and postmodern literature, American postwar experimental literature, Gertrude Stein, the Objectivists, Language Writing, Soviet Russian poetry, translation, small press publishing, and questions of aesthetics and ethics.
Her work includes the following books of poetry: Saga / Circus (Omnidawn Books, 2008) Situations, Sings (written with Jack Collom; Adventures in Poetry, 2008) The Lake (with Emilie Clark; Granary Books, 2004) My Life in the Nineties (Shark Books, 2003) The Fatalist (Omnidawn Books, 2003) Slowly (Tuumba Press, 2002) A Border Comedy (Granary Books, 2001) The Beginner (Spectacular Books, 2000; Tuumba Press, 2002) Happily (Post-Apollo Press, 2000) Sight (written with Leslie Scalapino; Edge Books, 1999) Oxota: A Short Russian Novel (The Figures, 1991), and My Life (second version; Sun & Moon Press, 1987).
Her non-fiction work includes The Language of Inquiry (University of California Press, 2000) Leningrad, written with Michael Davidson, Ron Silliman, Barrett Watten (Mercury House, 1991). She has also published two translations: Description, poems by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (Sun & Moon Press, 1990) and Xenia, poems by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (Sun & Moon Press, 1994).

Creative Writing Reading by Josie Sigler Sibara
2013-02-06 15:30 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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Poetry Reading with Lyn Hejinian, Keegan Finberg and Michael Dhyne
2013-02-06 17:30 - 19:00 | Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, 95060, United States
Lyn Hejinian
Lyn Hejinian is professor of English at UC Berkeley. She is a poet and critic. She works on modernist and postmodern literature, American postwar experimental literature, Gertrude Stein, the Objectivists, Language Writing, Soviet Russian poetry, translation, small press publishing, and questions of aesthetics and ethics.
Her work includes the following books of poetry: Saga / Circus (Omnidawn Books, 2008) Situations, Sings (written with Jack Collom; Adventures in Poetry, 2008) The Lake (with Emilie Clark; Granary Books, 2004) My Life in the Nineties (Shark Books, 2003) The Fatalist (Omnidawn Books, 2003) Slowly (Tuumba Press, 2002) A Border Comedy (Granary Books, 2001) The Beginner (Spectacular Books, 2000; Tuumba Press, 2002) Happily (Post-Apollo Press, 2000) Sight (written with Leslie Scalapino; Edge Books, 1999) Oxota: A Short Russian Novel (The Figures, 1991), and My Life (second version; Sun & Moon Press, 1987).
Her non-fiction work includes The Language of Inquiry (University of California Press, 2000) Leningrad, written with Michael Davidson, Ron Silliman, Barrett Watten (Mercury House, 1991). She has also published two translations: Description, poems by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (Sun & Moon Press, 1990) and Xenia, poems by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (Sun & Moon Press, 1994).
Keegan Cook Finberg
Keegan Cook Finberg is a PhD candidate in Literature at University of California, Santa Cruz. She works on twentieth and twenty-first-century poetry in English and French, especially avant-garde and experimental works. Her approach includes particular attention to poetry’s relation to media, architectural space, and affect. She also co-directs the Poetry and Politics Research Cluster and Reading Series at UCSC. Her poetry has been published in Bone Bouquet (2012) and The Little Jackie Paper (2006). She is currently finishing up a poetry manuscript about bed bugs.
Michael Dhyne
Michael Dhyne is from Burlingame, CA and is currently an undergraduate student at UCSC studying Creative Writing.

Living Writers Reading by Josie Sigler Sibara
2013-02-07 06:00 - 19:30 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Maziar Toosarvandani: "Gapping is VP Ellipsis "
2013-02-07 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Where does the gap in gapping — e.g. Some had ordered mussels, and others swordfish — come from? The traditional answer is deletion (Ross 1970, Hankamer 1979, among others). Johnson (2009) presents a formidable challenge to this view. He argues that gapping cannot arise through deletion because gapping has several unique properties that distinguish it from more familiar deletion operations, such as VP-ellipsis. Instead, Johnson proposes that the gap in gapping arises through ‘low coordination’ — coordination of vPs — and across-the-board movement.
First, I argue that across-the-board movement cannot be a general account of gapping, since it is not able to derive the gap in coordination structures with corrective but (Vicente 2010, Toosarvandani, to appear). Then, I revive a version of the deletion account, in which gapping is VP-ellipsis in a low-coordination structure. This correctly generates gapping in corrective but sentences. Moreover, once the information-structural properties of low coordinations are taken into consideration — low coordinates must have parallel focus structures — it also accounts for the unique properties of gapping.
References
Ross, John Robert. 1970. Gapping and the order of constituents. In Progress in linguistics, eds. Manfred Bierwisch and Karl Erich Heidolph, 249-259. The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter.
Hankamer, Jorge. 1979. Deletion in coordinate structures. New York: Garland Publishing.
Johnson, Kyle. 2009. Gapping is not (VP-)ellipsis. Linguistic Inquiry 40:289-328.
Toosarvandani, Maziar. To appear. Corrective but coordinates clauses not always but sometimes. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
Vicente, Luis. 2010. On the syntax of adversative coordination. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 28:381-415.

Jonathan Kaplan: "Turning social categories into biological realities: 'Race' made biological"
2013-02-07 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Biological facts can neither determine nor justify the racial categories identified in our ordinary social discourse. Claims to the contrary confuse our ability to find biological correlates to populations with our social reasons for picking out and maintaining those categories over time. Using recent arguments surrounding “race” and medicine as an example, I argue that rejecting misguided claims regarding the biological nature of “race” remains important if we are to respond appropriately to the injustices inherent in the fundamental importance that socially ascribed racial categories continue to have in determining people’s life-prospects
Dr. Jonathan Kaplan‘s main research interests lie in the Philosophy of Biology and in Social and Political Philosophy. His recent publications include work on human behavior genetics, on the conceptual foundations of evolutionary biology, on issues surrounding the roles that race plays in medicine and in housing, and on the discourses surrounding race and human biology more generally. He is currently an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University.
Article of interest:
Prisoners of Abstraction? The Theory and Measure of Genetic Variation, and the Very Concept of “Race”
by Jonathan Michael Kaplan & Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther

Michael Thaler: “Role of Bio-Science and Medicine in Nazi Radical Policies and the Holocaust”
2013-02-11 09:30 - 10:40 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Reception to follow lecture.
Michael Thaler is a Professor Emeritus of Pediatric Medicine, UC San Francisco, and a Lecturer in History, UC Santa Cruz.

Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable XV
2013-02-12 09:00 - 12:00 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SANTA CRUZ: MARCH 22-24, 2013
Session V (9 a.m.-Noon)
Chair: Paul Roth, UCSC
Analytical sociology and rhetoric: Large scale social phenomena arguably triggered by innocuous rhetorical devices
Alban Bouvier, Jean Nicod Institute, Paris
The Idea of Philosophy and its Relation to Social Science
Mark Theunissen, The New School
The Concept of a ‘Process’ in Norbert Elias’s Figurational Sociology
Philip Walsh, York University
The Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable thanks the following units at UCSC for their financial support of this conference: Institute for Humanities Research; Department of Philosophy; Department of Economics

Gail Hershatter: "Rural Women, Memory, and China’s Collective Past"
2013-02-12 19:00 - 20:30 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The 47th Annual Faculty Research Lecture will be given by Distinguished Professor of History, Gail Hershatter, on Tuesday February 12th, 2013 at 7pm at the Music Recital hall in the Performing Arts Complex. A reception in the lobby will immediately follow the lecture. Doors open at 6:30pm. This event is free and open to the public. Parking $4. Doors open at 6:30pm
What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group—rural women—at the center of the inquiry? In this talk, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of women in rural Shaanxi province during the early decades of state socialism, the 1950s and 1960s. She suggests that we think of gender not as a structure, but rather as a fractured, unpredictable, and expansive terrain. Beginning with the memories of a former child daughter-in-law turned village activist, she asks whether rural Chinese women had a revolution, and if so, when and what sort of revolution it was. Such questions encourage us to consider others that preoccupy historians: when is gender a useful category of historical analysis? How is the historical record shaped in interactions with the present moment? What counts as an event? Who gets to decide?

Dora Sorell: “Tell the Children”
2013-02-13 09:30 - 10:40 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Reception following lecture.
Dora Sorell grew up in the small town of Sighet in Northern Romania between the two World Wars. In May 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz along with most of the town’s 10,000 Jewish inhabitants. She survived the ordeal, but her parents, two of her brothers, and some 40 members of her extended family perished in the gas chambers. Dora returned to Sighet, married her high school sweetheart, and built a career and raised a family before emigrating to the West to be with her surviving brothers. More information about her autobiography, Tell the Children, Letters to Miriam, is can be found on her website: http://www.letterstomygrandchildren.com/index.html

Sharon Kinoshita: "Re-Orientations: The Worlding of Marco Polo"
2013-02-13 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In her new translation of Marco Polo’s Travels, Sharon Kinoshita reorients a text typically read as a western narrative of first contact, by returning it to its original context, the midpoint of the century chronicled in Abu-Lughod’s Before European Hegemony, and to its original title, The Description of the World.
Sharon Kinoshita is Professor of Literature, and Co-Director of the Center for Mediterranean Studies at UC Santa Cruz.

Creative Writing Reading by Ronaldo Wilson
2013-02-13 15:30 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Ronaldo V. Wilson is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh, 2008), winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books, 2009), winner of the Thom Gunn Award and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry in 2010. His latest book, Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other, is forthcoming from Counterpath Press in 2013. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in the journals Callaloo, Interim, Bombay Gin, Spoon River Poetry Review, 1913, and The Volta, as well as in the anthologies Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (Norton, 2013); The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare (Nightboat Books, 2012); and Among Friends Engendering the Social Site of Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 2013). He holds a PhD in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, a MA in Poetry from New York University’s Graduate Creative Writing Program, and an AB in English from the University of California, Berkeley. Co-founder of the Black Took Collective, Wilson is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry, Fiction and Literature in the Literature Department of the University of California, Santa Cruz.

David Blank: "Volumina Herculanensia: the Library of the Villa of the Papyri and its books"
2013-02-14 16:30 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Between 1752 and 1754 the only library to survive from the Roman world complete with its books was discovered in a grand villa in the seaside town of Herculaneum. The talk will serve as an introduction to this remarkable discovery and the treatment of its books, from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
David Blank is a student of ancient philosophy, from the Presocratics to the later Platonists. He has worked especially on philosophy of language and philology in antiquity. He has also worked extensively on the Herculaneum Papyri and is editing several papyri of Philodemus’ On Rhetoric. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics at UCLA.

Living Writers Reading by Ronaldo Wilson
2013-02-14 18:00 - 19:30 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

American Indian Writers Series: Rain Archambeau-Marshall
2013-02-20 12:00 - 14:00 | Cervantes & Velasquez Room, Baytree Conference Center, Bay Tree Conference Center, UC Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Rain L. Archambeau Marshall (Yankton/Choctaw) is an attorney and professor in Native American Environmental Studies at Humboldt State University. Formerly Attorney General for the Rosebud Sioux tribe, Rain is a American Civil Liberties Union Ira Glasser Racial Justice Fellow. She will speak on civil rights in education.
This project is co-sponsored by the American Indian Resource Center, Care Council, The Departments of American Studies, Literature, and the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies.

Janette Dinishak: "Autism & Neurodiversity"
2013-02-20 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Janette Dinishak’s work explores how Wittgenstein’s concept “noticing an aspect” can provide a frame for capturing and understanding commonly neglected phenomena that are characteristic of autistic experience. She also traces the inter-relations between scientific, cultural, and first-person perspectives on autism and how these perspectives interact in shaping our understanding of autism.
Janette Dinishak is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz.

Creative Writing Reading by Amaranth Borsuk
2013-02-20 15:30 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Amaranth Borsuk is the author of Handiwork (Slope, 2012), selected by Paul Hoover for the 2011 Slope Books Prize, and, together with programmer Brad Bouse, of Between Page and Screen (Siglio, 2012), a book of augmented-reality poems. In 2010, her chapbook-length erasure, Tonal Saw, was published by The Song Cave. Her poems, essays, translations and reviews have appeared widely in print and online, and pieces have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Chicago Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, American Letters & Commentary, and The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare. Her intermedia project Abra, a hybrid book-performance collaboration with Kate Durbin, Zach Kleyn, and Ian Hatcher, recently received an Expanded Artists’ Books grant from the Center for Book and Paper Arts in Chicago and will be issued as an artist’s book and iOS app in fall of 2013. She teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington, Bothell.

American Indian Writers Series: Rain Gomez
2013-02-20 16:00 - 18:00 | Ethnic Resource Lounge, Bay Tree Conference Center, Bay Tree Conference Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Rain Gomez won the 2009 First Book Award in poetry for Smoked Mullet Cornbread Crawdad Memory (Mongrel Empire Press, Fall 2012). A self described “TriRacially Fluffy and Fabulous” Louisiana Méstiza,poet, academic and musician.Her critical work, “Brackish Bayou Blood: Weaving Mixed Blood Indian Creole Identity Outside the Written Record,” appears in American Indian Culture and Research Journal.
This project is co-sponsored by the American Indian Resource Center, Care Council, The Departments of American Studies, Literature, and the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies.

Joseph Sabbagh: "Specificity and Objecthood in Tagalog"
2013-02-21 12:00 - 14:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM
Joseph Sabbagh (UT Arlington)
Current analyses of the syntax of transitive constructions in Tagalog (Austronesian, Philippines) are constructed around the claim that the theme argument of a transitive verb, if it is semantically specific, must be realized as the subject of a ‘theme-subject’ clause. In reality, a specific theme may be realized in one of three different ways: (i) as the subject of a ‘theme-subject’ clause; (ii) as an oblique-marked direct object of an `actor-subject’ clause; or (iii) as an “ordinary” (genitive marked) direct object of an ‘actor-subject’ clause. Which of these options is available depends on the type of theme involved: Option(iii) is not available for pronouns or proper nouns, but is available for other specific and non-specific themes; options (i) and (ii) are unavailable for non-specific themes; and all three are available for all other types of specific theme.
Underlying these different morpho-syntactic options, I argue, is a clause structure in which there are at least three distinct syntactic positions available for theme arguments. Pronoun and proper noun themes obligatorily occur in the highest of these three positions (a position that is above the external argument), while non-specific themes occupy the lowest of these positions (the base/theta-position of the theme). Otherspecific themes occupy an intermediate position within vP (below the external argument, but above the base/theta-position of the theme). Much of the talk is devoted to motivating these three syntactic positions. This particular distribution of syntactic positions provides positive evidence for proposals that postulate a direct,formally coded, correspondence between syntactic prominence and the semantic/pragmatic prominence relations posited by relational/markedness hierarchies—in particular, the Definiteness Scale (Pronoun > Proper noun > Definite > Specific (indefinite)).

"Asian America: Triangulations about a Semisphere"
2013-02-21 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies presents:
Asian America: Triangulations about a Semisphere
A creative presentation, Karen Tei Yamashita will read excerpts from her novel, I Hotel, forthcoming book of performances, Anime Wong, and the essay “Borges & I,” as an opportunity think about the past 45 years of Asian American and Ethnic Studies with respect to our present and future. This will be followed by an informal conversation with Aimee Bahng and Alondra Nelson.

Karen Tei Yamashita (photo by Carolyn Lagattuta)
Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, and I Hotel, all published by Coffee House Press. I Hotel was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the California Book Award, the American Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award, and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. She is currently a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellow and Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Aimee Bahng
Aimee Bahng is an assistant professor of English at Dartmouth College with affiliations in Women’s and Gender Studies, Asian American Studies, and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies. Her work on postcolonial science fiction has appeared in MELUS and Critical Studies. Her current book manuscript on speculation examines competing narratives of futurity in contemporary fiction, film, and finance.

Alondra Nelson
Alondra Nelson is Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Columbia University. An interdisciplinary social scientist, she writes about the intersections of science, technology, medicine, and inequality. Her first book, Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination, was recognized with several professional prizes, including the Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians. She is also an editor of Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History; Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life; and “Afrofuturism” a special issue of Social Text. Her next book, The Social Life of DNA, will be published by Beacon Press.
This event is organized and sponsored by the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute of Humanities Research. For further information, including disabled access, please contact Shann Ritchie, sritchie@ucsc.edu, (831) 459-5655. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu.

Living Writers Reading by Amaranth Borsuk
2013-02-21 18:00 - 19:30 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Tanya Maria Golash-Boza: "Mass Deportation and the Neoliberal Cycle"
2013-02-25 12:30 - 14:00 | College 8, Room 301, College Eight Rd‎, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The United States is deporting more people than ever before – nearly 400,000 each year since 2006. Many deportees have close ties to the United States: in 2011, 100,000 deportees had U.S. citizen children. The vast majority of deportees are men of color. How do we explain this devastating policy shift? I argue that neoliberalism and, by extension, global capitalism, make the mass deportation of men of color possible in the current context. Mass deportation is a U.S. policy response designed to relocate surplus labor to the periphery and to keep labor in the United States compliant. The U.S. public accepts this policy response because it targets men of color – people perceived to be expendable in the current economy.
Tanya Golash-Boza is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced. She is the author of three books: 1) Due Process Denied (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; 2) Immigration Nation (2012), which provides a critical analysis of the impact that U.S. immigration policy has on human rights; and 3) Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru (2011), the first book in English to address what it means to be black in Peru. She has also published many articles in peer-reviewed journals on deportations, racial identity, human rights, U.S. Latinos/as and Latin America, in addition to essays and chapters in edited volumes and online venues. Her innovative scholarship was awarded the Distinguished Early Career Award from the Racial and Ethnic Minorities Studies Section of the American Sociological Association in 2010.
Event presented by the UCSC Sociology Colloquium Series and the Center for Labor Studies. For Information about access, please contact Barbara Laurence at balauren@ucsc.edu

David Myers: "A Hasidic Town in New York? As American as Apple Pie?"
2013-02-25 17:00 - 18:45 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
David Myers is professor of Jewish history and chair of the UCLA History Department. He is currently at work with Nomi Stolzenberg (USC) on a book on the Satmar Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel, New York. This project represents a significant departure from his work in the fields of German-Jewish intellectual history, the history of Jewish historiography, and the history of Zionism. In his current work, he is combining historical, ethnographic, and legal approaches to examine the rise to prominence of a self-contained and legally recognized municipality in the State of New York that consists entirely of Hasidic Jews. His research shows that the creation of such a homogeneous shtetl has had few parallels in Jewish history, though it is not nearly so unusual in American history, which has an identifiable tradition of permitting strong forms of religious sub-communities to take root.
Reception to follow talk.
This event is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies with generous support from the David B. Gold Foundation.

“Mendelsohn’s Incessant Visions” Screening and Q&A with Director Duki Dror
2013-02-25 19:30 - 21:30 | Media Theater, M110
Free and Open to the Public
General Admission Seating, first come, first served
Parking available in Performing Arts Lot ($4)
Synopsis: This film is a cinematic mediation about the untold story of Erich Mendelsohn, whose life and career were as enigmatic and tragic as the path of the century. He drew sketches on tiny pieces of paper and sent them from the trenches to a young cellist, who was waiting for him in Berlin. She thought he was a genius and after WWI, she helped him become the busiest architect in Germany. When she planned to leave him for a communist poet, he built a perfect house for her, entirely planned by him from the lakeview living room, to the silverware and her evening gowns. When the Nazis came to power, they abandoned the house and left Germany forever. Erich and Louise Mendelsohn have wandered between continents, between world wars, between success and failure. The buildings that Erich built around the world, scattered as a trail of their journey, have changed the history of architecture.
Award-winning filmmaker and current Schusterman Visiting Artist, Duki Dror (The Journey of Vaan Nguyen, Raging Dove) has created a spectacular interpretation based on Erich and Louise’s relationship, for one of the most captivating chapters in the development of modern art.
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Presented by The Arts Division and Film and Digital Media. Co-Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, Arts Dean’s Arts Excellence Fund, and Santa Cruz Jewish Film Festival.

Claire Farago: "Seeing the Unmodern in the Modern: Leonardo and the Legibility of Religion"
2013-02-26 15:00 - 16:15 | Porter C-118
Written in an era before modern distinctions among art, science, and religion existed, Leonardo da Vinci’s treatise on painting is regarded today as a canonical text in the history of western art for its scientific approach to problems of representation. New evidence suggests that prior to publication this text was appropriated in a Catholic Reformation effort designed to promote a legible style of painting suitable for sacred subjects. Today, we do not usually think of it as ideologically freighted by the concerns of Christianity with the ontology of images. What does bringing together historical and contemporary theoretical approaches to questions of artifice–especially to the fantasy of a transparent, indexical way of imitating nature that avoids artifice–offer contemporary visual studies?
Claire Farago is Professor of Renaissance Art, Theory, and Criticism at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Her publications include Leonardo da Vinci’s Paragone: A Critical Interpretation (1992) and most recently, Art Is Not What You Think It Is (2012), co-authored with Donald Preziosi, as well as edited volumes and other collaborative projects including Reframing the Renaissance: Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America 1450 to 1650 (1995), Grasping the World: The Idea of the Museum (2004), Transforming Images: New Mexican Santos in-between Worlds (2006), and Re-Reading Leonardo: The Treatise on Painting across Europe 1550-1900 (2009). She has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at UCLA, the Wiley Visiting Professor of Renaissance Art at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, MacGeorge Fellow Visiting Professor at the University of Melbourne, and the inaugural Fulbright-York Scholar at the University of York, UK. Working with an international team of scholars, currently she is preparing a modern critical edition of Leonardo da Vinci’s abridged Treatise on Painting first published in 1651.
For information or to accommodate a disability: History of Art and Visual Culture, 459-4564, havc@ucsc.edu

Marc Matera: "Modernism in the Art & Criticism on Ronald Moody"
2013-02-27 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Marc Matera is finishing a book, London and the Black International, on the wider Atlantic and imperial horizons of black activism, intellectual work, and cultural production in London between the world wars. His most recent work examines the Jamaican visual artist Ronald Moody’s agonistic relationship to modernism.
Marc Matera is Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz.

Film Screening: Dante's Inferno directed by Sandow Birk
2013-02-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
Free and open to the public (English dialogue)
Melding the seemingly disparate traditions of apocalyptic live-action graphic novel and charming Victorian-era toy theater, Dante’s Inferno is a subversive, darkly satirical update of the original 14th-century literary classic, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. Retold with the use of intricately hand-drawn paper puppets and miniature sets, and without the use of CGI effects, this brilliant film takes viewers on a tour of Hell.
Sporting a hoodie and a hangover from the previous night’s debauchery, Dante wakes to find he is lost — literally and metaphorically — in a strange part of town. He asks the first guy he sees for some help, who turns out to be the ancient Roman poet Virgil, author of the Aeneid.
The pair descends into the underworld, where Virgil shows Dante the underbelly of the Inferno. Oddly enough, it closely resembles the decayed landscape of modern urban life: used car lots, strip malls, airport security checks, and the U.S. Capitol

The Living Writers Reading Series: Geoffrey G. O'Brien
2013-02-28 18:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Geoffrey G. O’Brien is the author of Metropole (2011), Green and Gray (2007), and The Guns and Flags Project (2002), all from The University of California Press. His next book, People on Sunday (Wave Books), Fall 2013; his chapbooks include Hesiod (Song Cave, 2010), and Poem with No Good Lines (Hand Held Editions, 2010). He is the coauthor (with John Ashbery and Timothy Donnelly) of Three Poets: Ashbery, Donnelly, O’Brien (Minus A Press, 2012), and in collaboration with the poet Jeff Clark is the author of 2A (Quemadura, 2006).

Emerging Worlds Lecture Series: "Shifting Worlds"
2013-02-28 19:00 - 21:00
The Anthropology Department presents:
Emerging Worlds Lecture Series: “Shifting Worlds”
Marilyn Strathern
Dame Marilyn Strathern was the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University from 1994 to 2008. She has written about new reproductive technologies and intellectual property law and her most recent work focuses on the complexities of transparency, accountability, and audit, especially within the academy. She is the author many of books, among which the most influential are The Gender of the Gift (University of Calfornia Press, 1988), Partial Connections (Altamira Press2004 [1991]); Kinship, Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are Often a Surprise (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Donna Haraway
Donna Haraway is Professor of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research interests include feminist theory, cultural and historical studies of science and technology, relation of life and human sciences, and human-animal relations. In her refusal of human-exceptionalism, Haraway explores multi-species entanglements and is a leading thinker in the post-humanities. She is author of many books including, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (Routledge, 1991), which has become an authoritative text in theorizing the politics of the post-human, Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience (Routledge, 1997), and her most recent book, When Species Meet: Encounters in Dogland (University of Minnesota Press, 2007).
Megan Moodie
Megan Moodie is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she studies the sociality engendered by legal and economic projects for uplift and empowerment, including affirmative action, microfinance, and gender-based rights assertions. She is currently working on a book manuscript based on ethnographic fieldwork with an urban tribal community in Jaipur, India. Recent publications include “Microfinance and the Gender of Risk: The Case of Kiva.org” in the current issue of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.

"Occupation Affect: On Political Emotion" Conference
2013-03-02 09:00 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
“Occupation Affect” seeks to take the emotional pulse of the current moment. Staging a day of public talks and a roundtable discussion, followed by a half-day meeting, we will gather a group of scholars to investigate the feelings that permeate both this era of economic collapse and the modes of adaptation as well as rebellion that have arisen in its midst. We want to explore the affective dimensions of the Great Recession and jobless “recovery,” of bail-outs and sell-outs, of tea parties and coffee klatches, of magnificent inequality and vanishing public services, of the growing concentration of wealth and the emergence of autonomous, decentralized social movements, of hopes dashed and hopes raised, of diminishing faith in government and expanding political imaginaries, of economic freefall and resurgent activist energy. We will, in short, investigate the current conjuncture through the lens of political emotion.
In this moment of economic restructuring toward an uncertain future and growing rebellion against the neoliberal global order, we are curious about ordinary and extraordinary affects: their circulation and effects, how we feel them and what we do with them, what they signal and what they obscure, how they use us and how we might use them. We want to better understand the conditions of possibility for political hope and despair; the sources and effects of apocalyptic feelings; and how senses of impossibility sometimes fade and new horizons suddenly emerge. What do we all do to stay afloat, what new subjectivities are arising amid ongoing crises, what new social relations, new ways of thinking, feeling, and doing, are being generated in the current conjuncture?
Feelings, emotion, and affect have continued for over a decade now to fascinate scholars across the disciplines. The terrain is slippery, taking as its object of research viscerality, nonrationality, the sensed, that which is bodily, inchoate, ineffable, and to the side of consciousness. We wish to investigate the theoretical, philosophical, and political trajectories the affective turn opens up for making sense of, and figuring out how to intervene in, the contemporary moment.
The Affect Working Group draws together faculty and graduate students from across the University—American Studies, Anthropology, Art, Computer Science, Feminist Studies, Film and Digital Media, History of Art and Visual Culture, History of Consciousness, Latin American and Latino Studies, Literature, Politics, and Sociology—who are interested in the felt dimensions of social life. With this conference, we hope to advance our discussions with one another and contribute to a larger discussion among similar research/art/activist collaboratives around the country, including Feel Tank Chicago and Public Feelings groups in Austin, Texas and New York City.

Conference Schedule, Saturday, Humanities 210
9:00 a.m. – Breakfast
9:30 a.m. – Introduction
10 – 11:30 a.m.
Panel 1: Political Emotion and Activist Affect: Occupy and other Social Movements
Moderator: Dean Mathiowetz (Politics, UCSC)
Elizabeth Freeman (English, UCD)
Debbie Gould (Sociology, UCSC)
Lyn Hejinian (English, UCB)
Rei Terada (Comparative Literature, UCI)
11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Panel 2: Affective Technologies and New Media
Moderator: Sharon Daniel (Film & Digital Media, UCSC)
Herman Gray (Sociology, UCSC)
Kim Lau (Literature, UCSC)
Soraya Murray (Film & Digital Media, UCSC)
Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Compute Science, SOE, UCSC)
1 – 2:15 p.m. – Lunch
2:30 – 4 p.m.
Panel 3: The Politics of Ordinary Affect
Moderator: Carla Freccero (Literature, History of Consciousness, Feminist Studies, UCSC)
Mel Chen (Gender & Women’s Studies, UCB)
Arlie Hochschild (Sociology, UCB)
Jerry Neu (Humanities, UCSC)
Sianne Ngai (English, Stanford)
4 – 4:15 p.m. – Coffee break
4:15 – 5:30 p.m.
Concluding Roundtable
Karen Barad (Feminist Studies, UCSC)
Vilashini Cooppan (Literature, UCSC)
Sharon Daniel (Film & Digital Media, UCSC)
Dee Hibbert-Jones (Art, UCSC)
Dean Mathiowetz (Politics, UCSC)
Vanita Seth (Politics, UCSC)
Anna Tsing (Anthropology, UCSC)

Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network, a UCHRI Conference Grant, the Social Sciences Division. Staff support provided by the IHR. For more information, including disabled access, please contact Shann Ritchie, sritchie@ucsc.edu. 831-459-5655.

The People’s Pacific: Trans-Pacific Solidarity and Alliances in the Age of Obama’s Pivot
2013-03-04 08:00 - 17:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
In his landmark essay, “The American Century” (1941), in which he argued against the foolishness of “isolationist sterility” given the rise of the United States as “the most powerful and most vital nation in the world,” Henry Luce, the China-born son of American missionaries, predicted that “in the decades to come,” Asia would “be worth to us four, five, ten billions of dollars a year.” In order to harness precisely this potential, Luce advised, ”we have to decide whether or not we shall have for ourselves and our friends freedom of the seas—the right to go with our ships and our ocean-going airplanes where we wish, when we wish, and as we wish.” Echoes of Luce’s hegemonic blueprint for U.S. twentieth-century power projection in Asia would reverberate—several decades later—in then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s October 2011 policy plan, “America’s Pacific Century,” which identified the Asia-Pacific region as the most critical sphere of twenty-first century U.S. influence. Addressing a war-weary American public, Clinton pledged that the United States would remain a key “Pacific power.” Not only would the United States refuse to draw down its military commitments in Asia and the Pacific but also it would “pivot” (from the Middle East) and concentrate its military resources in the region.
Against hegemonic U.S. designs that map the region as an “empire of bases” (Chalmers Johnson) aimed at containing China, this year’s Pacific Seminar undertakes as its focus critical contemporary counter-imaginaries that chart the power of the region from below—as a “people’s Pacific” (Walden Bello), a “sea of islands” (Epeli Hau’ofa), and an oceanic commons. Focusing on the urgency of trans-Pacific solidarity and alliances between and among site-specific struggles, the Pacific Seminar this year brings together three public intellectuals and activist-scholars who will present on their work and with whom we will engage in collective conversation: Kuan-Hsing Chen (National Chiao Tung University), the founder of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies and the driving force behind the Modern Asian Thought project; Keith Camacho (UCLA), a Chamorro scholar from the Marianas Islands and a key theorist of U.S. militarism in the Pacific; and Koohan Paik (International Forum Group), a grassroots anti-base activist and a founder of Moana Nui whose political work has focused on Hawai’i, Guam, and Korea.

As in past years, this year’s Pacific Seminar will be run as a workshop and the following readings will be circulated in advance:

• Kuan-Hsing Chen, “De-Imperialization: Club 51 and the Imperialist Assumption of Democracy” (2010)
• Keith Camacho, “After 9/11: Militarized Borders and Social Movements in the Mariana Islands” (2012)
• Koohan Paik and Jerry Mander, “Blowback in the Pacific” (2012)
• Walden Bello, “From American Lake to a People’s Pacific in the Twenty-First Century” (2010)

Please contact Christine Hong (cjhong@ucsc.edu) for readings and with any questions. This event is sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research (UC Santa Cruz) and the Townsend Working Group on Asian Cultural Studies (UC Berkeley).

American Indian Writers Series: Kim Shuck
2013-03-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Kim Shuck (Cherokee/Sac & Fox) is a poet, weaver, educator, doer of piles of laundry, planter of seeds, traveler and child wrangler. Kim is the recipient of the Native Writers of the America’s First Book Award for her 2005 book Smuggling Cherokee. She has an MFA in weaving from SFSU, and was a member of the board of directors for Califorinia Poets in the Schools.
This project is co-sponsored by the American Indian Resource Center, Care Council, The Departments of American Studies, Literature, and the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies.

C.D.C. Reeve: Beginning and Ending with Happiness in Aristotle's Ethics
2013-03-05 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
C.D.C. Reeve is the Delta Kappa Epsilon Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He works primarily in ancient Greek philosophy, especially Plato and Aristotle. His books include, Philosopher-Kings (Princeton 1988; reissued 2006), Socrates in the Apology (Hackett 1989), Practices of Reason(Oxford, 1992) Substantial Knowledge (Hackett 2000), Love’s Confusions (Harvard 2005), andAction, Contemplation, and Happiness: An Essay on Aristotle (Harvard 2012). He has translated Plato’s Cratylus (1997), Euthyphro, Apology, Crito (2002), Republic (2004), and Meno (2006) as well as Aristotle’s Politics (1998).
This event is free and open to the public.

Celine Parreñas Shimizu: "Straitjacket Sexualities: Mapping Asian American Manhoods"
2013-03-06 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Going beyond the assessment that Asian American men in the movies embody asexuality/effeminacy/queerness, or a manhood that falls short of the norms, Celine Shimizu’s Straitjacket Sexualities (Stanford, 2012), explores how Asian/American men in US film history sought to formulate masculinities in, through, and beyond constricting notions of their identities.

Living Writers Reading Series: Student Reading
2013-03-07 18:00 - 19:30 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join us for our quarterly student reading.

Karen D. Thompson: "Love is a Dangerous Promise
2013-03-07 19:00 - 20:30 | 2nd Stage, Theater Arts, Performing Arts, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Karen Thompson gained national recognition following the November 13, 1983 car accident of her partner Sharon Kowalski, who sustained a traumatic brain injury after a drunk driver hit her car. After the accident, Sharon’s biological family refused to acknowledge or accept Sharon’s relationship with Karen and kept them apart for more than 3 1/2 years. After an 8-year battle, Karen was awarded legal custody of Sharon.
Karen now speaks across the country to raise awareness for human rights issues, including the legal protection of LGBTQIA relationships.
UCSC presents Karen Thompson in a lecture titled “Love is a Dangerous Promise” on Thursday, March 7, at 7 p.m., in the Second Stage Theater in the Performing Arts Center on the UCSC campus. Admission is free, and the public is invited. Free tickets to the lecture are available at santacruztickets.com. For more information, call (831) 459-2698.
This event is sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Humanities Division, the UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department, the Women Lawyers of Santa Cruz County, the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, and UCSC’s Cantu Center.

Critical Nutrition Symposium
2013-03-08 09:00 - 17:30 | Unnamed Venue, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Advice about what to eat for health and well being is pervasive in the modern world, and such advice is delivered as if it were uncontroversial, universally applicable, welcome, and effective. When it appears not to work, rather than reflection on the scientific, cultural, and sociological underpinnings of the endeavor, the response has been for more informative food labels and more emphasis on food education. What’s wrong or missing in conventional nutritional practice? What are its effects in terms of human health and social justice? What other approaches might work better? This symposium will bring together six leading scholars of nutrition, public health, and food science to discuss and debate the place of nutrition science in public health policies and cultural politics today. Representing such disciplines as geography, public health, sociology, and communication, invited guests include Charlotte Biltekoff (American Studies and Food Science, UC Davis), Jessica Hayes-Conroy (Women’s Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges), Adele Hite (Public Health, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), Aya H. Kimura (Women’s Studies, University of Hawai’i-Manoa), Hannah Landecker (Sociology and Center for Society and Genetics, UCLA), and Jessica Mudry (Center for Engineering in Society, Concordia University). UCSC food scholars Julie Guthman, Melissa Caldwell, Nancy Chen, and Jake Metcalf will provide commentary. The format of the symposium is designed to open up and stimulate discussion and debate among all participants: presenters, discussants, and attendees.
This event is sponsored by the Multi-campus Research Program on Food and the Body and the “Knowing Food” Research Cluster of the Center for Global, International, and Regional Studies. Additional support has been provided by the Community Studies Program, the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, the Science & Justice Research Center, the Departments of Anthropology, Environmental Studies, and Sociology.
The event will be held March 8 from 9-5:30 in 261 Social Sciences I and is open to the public. Please RSVP to Lisa Nishioka (global@ucsc.edu) if you plan to attend.
For questions regarding the program contact Julie Guthman (jguthman@ucsc.edu)

James Young: “Stages of Memory: In Berlin & New York”
2013-03-08 09:30 - 10:40 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Reception following lecture.
James E. Young is Professor of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he has taught since 1988, and currently Chair of the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies. He has also taught at New York University as a Dorot Professor of English and Hebrew/Judaic Studies (1984-88), at Bryn Mawr College in the History of Religion, and at the University of Washington, Harvard University, and Princeton University as a visiting professor. He received his B.A. in 1973 from the University of California, Santa Cruz, his M.A. in 1976 from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. from the University of California in 1983.
Professor Young is the author of At Memory’s Edge: After-images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture (Yale University Press, 2000), The Texture of Memory (Yale University Press, 1993), which won the National Jewish Book Award in 1994, and Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust (Indiana University Press, 1988), which won a Choice Outstanding Book Award for 1988. He was also the Guest Curator of an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York City, entitled “The Art of Memory: Holocaust Memorials in History” (March – August 1994, with venues in Berlin and Munich, September 1994 – June 1995) and was the editor of The Art of Memory (Prestel Verlag, 1994), the exhibition catalogue for this show.
In 1997, Professor Young was appointed by the Berlin Senate to the five-member Findungskommission for Germany’s national “Memorial to Europe’s Murdered Jews,” dedicated in 2005. He has also consulted with Argentina’s government on its memorial to the desaparacidos, as well as with numerous city agencies on their memorials and museums. Most recently, he was appointed by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to the jury for the World Trade Center Site Memorial competition, now under construction.
His articles and reviews have appeared in Critical Inquiry, Representations, New Literary History, Partisan Review, The Yale Journal of Criticism, Annales, SAQ, History and Theory, Harvard Design Magazine, Jewish Social Studies, Contemporary Literature, History and Memory, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Forward, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Prooftexts, The Jewish Quarterly, Tikkun, The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Slate, among dozens of other journals and collected volumes. His books and articles have been published in German, French, Hebrew, Japanese, and Swedish.
Professor Young is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, ACLS Fellowship, NEH Exhibition planning, implementation, and research grants, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Grants, an American Philosophical Society Grant, and a Yad Hanadiv Fellowship at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, among others.
In 2000, he was appointed as Editor-in-Chief of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, a ten-volume anthology of primary sources, documents, texts, and images, forthcoming with Yale University Press. He is also currently completing an insider’s account of the World Trade Center Memorial process, entitled The Stages of Memory at Ground Zero: A Juror’s Report on the World Trade Center Memorial Process.

Åse Vigdis Ystad: "Ibsen as Playwright: Between Dramaturgy and Ethics"
2013-03-08 15:00 - 16:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Special guest Dr. Åse Vigdis Ystad gives a talk as part of this year’s Arts Divison Lecture Series, ”Engaging the Mind”, presenting work obtained through a lifetime of research on Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (Peer Gynt, A Doll’s House, Hedda Gabler).
Dr. Ystad is visiting UC Santa Cruz as part of The Gynt Project and the associated conference “Peer Gynt in a Digital Age.” Her visit is sponsored by UCSC’s Cowell College and the Gary D. Licker Memorial Chair.
The lecture: From the start of his writing career, Ibsen focuses on the human personality as his main theme, but his subsequent attempts to represent love, passion, quest, human morality and ethics as central motives in his work result in dramaturgical problems. This difficulty characterizes Ibsen’s plays from 1850–58 and is not overcome until he suffers a combined personal and poetic crisis around 1860. After the crisis, he stands out as a mature playwright, creating masterpieces like The Pretenders (1864), Brand (1866) and Peer Gynt (1867). The lecture will also examine Ibsen’s great epic poem ”Terje Vigen” (1862) and give short comments on some of his later prose plays.
Dr. Åse Vigdis Ystad is a fixture of Norwegian arts and letters, and is one of the world’s leading experts on the playwright Henrik Ibsen. Her lifelong service to Norwegian literature and culture earned her Knighthood in the Order of St Olaf by the King of Norway in 2012. After receiving her PhD in Philospohy at the University of Oslo, she has been a Professor of Scandinavian literature there since 1973. She is an member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters; the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala; the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities; the Norwegian Academy of Language and Literature; the Society of Norwegian Language and Literature; and the Society of Danish Language and Literature. Ystad has presented lectures in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy, England, Scotland, China, South Korea, and the United States.
This lecture is free and open to the public.
Parking $4.
Visit the Gynt Conference website for detailed information on conference and speakers.

Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC)
2013-03-09 08:15 - 19:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Every year towards the end of the Winter Quarter, the Linguistics at Santa Cruz conference showcases the research of second and third year graduate students. This conference coincides with a visit to campus of prospective graduate students, and it always features as an invited speaker a Ph.D. alum of the department. This year’s invited speaker is Andy Wedel of the University of Arizona.
Linguistics at Santa Cruz Program

“Peer Gynt in a Digital Age” Conference
2013-03-09 10:30 - 17:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
This international conference brings together scholars, designers, and dramaturgs from Norway, Tel Aviv, Seattle, and California for the second weekend of the performance. The event is held with the support of the Norwegian Consulate, UCSC, and the Norway House Foundation.
Speakers will discuss staging and design histories, what it’s like to perform Ibsen, and the international relevance of Ibsen’s most globally-produced work.
The “Peer Gynt in a Digital Age” conference will include Brian Johnston, translator and Professor (retired) Carnegie Mellon University; Sverre Mørkhagen, Norwegian author and Peer Gynt scholar; Sarah Bryant Bertail, Associate Professor Emerita, University of Washington; Freddie Rokem, Emanuel Herzikowitz Professor of Theatre Studies, Tel Aviv University; Michael Chemers, Associate Professor of Theater Arts, UCSC.
The afternoon portion of the conference will include Kimberly Jannarone, Professor of Theater Arts, UCSC; Brandin Barón-Nusbaum, Associate Professor of Theater Arts, UCSC; Danny Scheie, Professor of Theater Arts, UCSC and Nancy Carlin, Guest Artist; Ben Carson, Associate Professor of Music, UCSC; Jessica Hayden Molla and Chris Molla, soundscape artists and UCSC DANM MFA alumni.
Visit the Gynt Conference website for detailed information on conference and speakers.

Daniel Guevara: "Has Traditional Ethical Theory Been Made Defunct by Kahneman and Tversky's Prospect Theory?"
2013-03-14 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Work-in-Progress: Daniel Guevara, Associate Professor of Philosophy, UC Santa Cruz
This talk is based on a paper by Sandra Dreisbach (PhD, Philosophy, UC Santa Cruz 2012) and Daniel Guevara. It is a critical assessment of Kahneman and Tversky’s Nobel Prize winning Prospect Theory – especially their so-called Asian Disease Problem – and its bearing on certain important issues in traditional ethical theory.

The Living Writers Reading Series: Xochiquetzal Candelaria
2013-03-14 18:00 | Unnamed Venue, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Xochiquetzal Candelaria is the author of Empire (University of Arizona Press, 2011). Her work has appeared in The Nation, New England Review, Gulf Coast, Seneca Review and other magazines. Her essay, “On the Teaching of Phil Levine” will be published in Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine (University of Iowa Press, May 2013). Ms. Candelaria was recently awarded an individual literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Book Reading and Conversation with Saru Jayaraman: Behind the Kitchen Door
2013-03-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Behind the Kitchen DoorHow do restaurant workers live on some of the lowest wages in America? And how do poor working conditions—discriminatory labor practices, exploitation, and unsanitary kitchens— affect the meals that arrive at our restaurant tables? Saru Jayaraman, who launched the national restaurant workers’ organization, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, sets out to answer these questions by following the lives of restaurant workers in New York City, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, Detroit, and New Orleans.
Blending personal narrative and investigative journalism, Jayaraman shows us that the quality of the food that arrives at our restaurant tables depends not only on the sourcing of the ingredients. Our meals benefit from the attention and skill of the people who chop, grill, sauté, and serve. Behind the Kitchen Door is a groundbreaking exploration of the political, economic, and moral implications of dining out. Jayaraman focuses on the stories of individuals, like Daniel, who grew up on a farm in Ecuador and sought to improve the conditions for employees at Del Posto; the treatment of workers behind the scenes belied the high-toned Slow Food ethic on display in the front of the house.
Increasingly, Americans are choosing to dine at restaurants that offer organic, fair-trade, and free-range ingredients for reasons of both health and ethics. Yet few of these diners are aware of the working conditions at the restaurants themselves. But whether you eat haute cuisine or fast food, the well-being of restaurant workers is a pressing concern, affecting our health and safety, local economies, and the life of our communities. Highlighting the roles of the 10 million people, many immigrants, many people of color, who bring their passion, tenacity, and vision to the American dining experience, Jayaraman sets out a bold agenda to raise the living standards of the nation’s second-largest private sector workforce—and ensure that dining out is a positive experience on both sides of the kitchen door.
Saru JayaramanSaru Jayaraman is cofounder and codirector of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United and director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley.
For more information, please contact smckay@ucsc.edu.
This event is co-sponsored by CASFS (Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems), UCSC Center for Labor Studies, Slow Food, and ROC (Restaurants Opportunities Centers).

"(Re-)Building Punjab: Political Economy, Society and Values" Conference
2013-03-29 - 2013-03-30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Punjab is a state in the nation of India, but also a state of mind. The larger geographic region of Punjab was the birthplace of the Sikh religion. The Indian state of Punjab, within that larger region, is the homeland of the Sikhs, the nation’s granary, and a major recipient of diaspora remittances. But within an economically resurgent India, Punjab is in relative decline, apparently beset by societal and environmental problems. This multi- and inter-disciplinary conference will explore the complex relations between the Sikh community and its real and imagined homeland. Individual sessions will be on the historical roots of Punjab’s contemporary society, the state of its politics and political culture, possibilities of economic improvement, challenges of environmental degradation, the role of diaspora philanthropy, and ways in which Punjab’s situation is expressed in and shaped by music and film as forms of cultural production.

The conference and dinner are free and open to the public. Conference sessions will take place in the Humanities Building 1, Room 210 each day.
Dinner space is limited and attendees should register by March 20th, by emailing Courtney Mahaney. Register Now!   Conference Details

Friday, March 29
8:15-8:45 AM – Breakfast
8:45-9:00 AM – Welcome
9:00-10:30 AM – Session 1: Sikh Values and Punjab Society in Historical Perspective
Presenter: Prof. Pashaura Singh, Religious Studies, UC Riverside
Discussant: Dr. Harpreet Singh, South Asian Studies, Harvard University
Session Chair: Prof. Nathaniel Deutsch, History, UC Santa Cruz
10:30-10:45 AM – Break
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM – Session 2: A Case Study of Sikh Diaspora Philanthropy in Punjab
Presenter: Prof. Verne A. Dusenbery, Anthropology, Hamline University
Discussant: Prof. Supreet Kaur, Economics, Columbia University
Session Chair: Prof. James Clifford, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz
12:15-1:45 PM – Lunch
1:45-3:15 PM – Session 3: Punjab Politics and Society
Presenter: Prof. Pritam Singh, Accounting, Finance and Economics, Oxford Brookes University
Discussant: Prof. Jugdep S. Chima, Political Science, Hiram College
Session Chair: Prof. Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Politics, UC Santa Cruz
3:15-3:30 PM – Break
3:30-5:00 PM – Session 4: The Punjab Economy: Problems and Prospects
Presenter: Prof. Lakhwinder Singh, Economics, Punjabi University
Discussant: Prof. Nirvikar Singh, Economics, UC Santa Cruz
Session Chair: Prof. Helen Shapiro, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz
6:30-9:00 PM – Dinner & Lecture: Reflections on the Columbia/UC Santa Barbara Punjab Summer Program
Presenter: Prof. Gurinder Mann, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Saturday, March 30
8:30-9:00 AM – Breakfast
9:00-10:30 AM – Session 5: Groundwater in Punjab: Environmental Challenges
Presenter: Prof. Rajinder Singh Sidhu, Punjab Agricultural University
Discussant: Prof. Upmanu Lall, Engineering, Columbia University
Session Chair: Prof. Ben Crow, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz
10:30-10:45 AM – Break
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM – Session 6: Punjab’s Ethical Soundscapes: From Asa ki Var to Dhadi Var and Hip Hop
Presenter: Dr. Inderjit Kaur, Music, UC Santa Cruz
Discussion and demonstration: Mr. Mandeep S. Sethi, Rapper
Session Chair: Prof. Linda Burman-Hall, Music, UC Santa Cruz
12:15-2:30 PM – Session 7: Lunch Panel: Punjab’s Future – What’s to be Done?
Panelist: Dr. Narinder Kapany, Sikh Foundation
Panelist: Dr. Ajit Singh, Artiman Ventures and Stanford University
Panelist: Mr. Michael Singh, Filmmaker
Panel Chair: Dr. Inder Mohan Singh, LynuxWorks and Chardi Kalaa Foundation
Sponsored by the UCSC Punjab Studies Endowment and Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies

A Feminist Studies Legal Luncheon: Practicing Domestic Violence Law
2013-04-04 12:00 - 14:00 | Unnamed Venue
The Department of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz Presents:
A Feminist Studies Legal Luncheon
PRACTICING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LAW
Featuring distinguished UC Santa Cruz Women’s Studies Alumna
NANCY K.D. LEMON (Berkeley Law, Boalt School of Law)
With an introduction by
Prof. D. Kelly Weisberg, Hastings College of Law
Nancy Lemon was a student founder of UCSC’s Women’s Studies Program and graduated from the Program in 1975. She subsequently graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law, U.C. Berkeley, in June 1980 and was admitted to the California Bar in December 1980. Prof. Lemon, who is a Lecturer in Domestic Violence Law and Director of the Domestic Violence Practicum at Boalt, introduced and has now taught Domestic Violence Law continuously for 25 years at the school. She authored Domestic Violence Law, the first U.S. textbook on this topic, which Austin & Winfield Publishers published in 1996 and for which West Group has published four additional editions, the most recent in 2009. She has also co-authored Child Custody and Domestic Violence: A Call for Safety (Sage Publications, 2003) and Working Together to End Domestic Violence (Mancorp Publishing, 1996) as well as authoring dozens of amicus briefs, law review articles, affidavits and books chapters about domestic violence issues. Since 1983, she has worked on numerous pieces of California state legislation and has conducted hundreds of trainings on domestic violence topics for many different professional groups. Since 1995, working as an expert witness, Prof. Lemon has consulted on hundreds of family law, tort, asylum and other cases and testified in sixty. She is a Co-founder and Legal Director of the Berkeley Family Violence Appellate Project.
Seating is limited – please email fmst@ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-2461 to reserve a space at the luncheon.
Feminist Studies wishes to make this event accessible to all. Please contact (831) 459-2461 for accommodations. This event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required.
Generously sponsored by Cowell College, The Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, and the Department of Feminist Studies.

The Living Writers Reading Series: Tupelo Hassman
2013-04-04 18:00 - 19:45 | Unnamed Venue, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Tupelo Hassman, author of the novel Girlchild (FSG 2012) “It takes real talent to make something beautiful out of a trailer park. Girlchild, Tupelo Hassman’s lacerating debut novel, is the story of Rory Dawn Hendrix, a young girl growing up in the Calle, a cluster of mobile homes on a plot of dust outside Reno, Nev. Ms. Hassman is such a poised storyteller that her prose practically struts. Her words are as elegant as they are fierce.” –The New York Times

Bruce Lawrence: "Minor Matters - Asian/African, Muslim/Christian"
2013-04-09 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
How do Muslims and Christians together meet the challenge of majority-minority identity politics in the 21st century? I will assess the status of minority citizenship in places of Africa and Asia that have mixed communities where Muslims are the majority, Christians the minority. Though these communities might be religiously marked as Muslim and Christian, they also have other cultural, linguistic, ethnic, and locational markings that are consequential. More than minority identity, I will argue that the litmus test for good will, comity and collective benefit in each case is citizenship rights as well as access to public space. How are these rights negotiated and maintained, monitored and modified in diverse settings with disparate resources? I will pay special attention to the circumstances and options for Copts in Egypt, Kristens and Katolics in Indonesia, while at the same time linking them to other communities in both Africa and Asia where a similar Muslim-Christian proportionality prevails.
Bruce Lawrence earned his PhD. from Yale University in the History of Religions: Islam and Hinduism. His research ranges from institutional Islam to Indo-Persian Sufism and also encompasses the comparative study of religious movements. He is Professor Emeritus of Islamic Studies at Duke University. His recent books have included On Violence – A Reader (with Aisha Karim); Messages to the World, The Statements of Osama Bin Laden; The Quran, A Biography; and, with his spouse, Dr. Miriam Cooke, Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop.
Cosponsored by UCSC Departments of Anthropology, History, and Literature.
MORNING WORKSHOP – 10:00am to Noon – Humanities 1, Room 210
Professor Lawrence will also be doing a workshop on Tuesday morning which will revolve around Irfan Ahmad’s article, “Immanent Critique and Islam: Anthropological Reflections” and Lawrence’s attempt to apply Ahmad’s most salient lessons to his current work-in-progress, Who is Allah?
Download the articles here: Irfan Ahmad’s Immanent Critique and Who is Allah (work in progress)

Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - Kimberly Lau: "Camping Masculinity"
2013-04-10 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Kimberly Lau’s work explores some of the ways that World of Warcraft engages masculinity in play through the convergence of player practices, game designers, and the ongoing interaction between the two. Reading invocations of hypermasculinity, Lau investigates how everyday “camp” practices might open up alternative spaces and forms of masculine sociality.
Kimberly Lau is Professor of Literature at UCSC.

Stevenson College Faculty Lecture Series: Adrian Brasoveanu
2013-04-10 16:30 - 18:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
NEGATION IS A PERVASIVE FEATURE of natural language and for the most part, the linguistic and psycholinguistic literature takes it ￼to be a categorical, binary notion: the sentence “Sue left” is positive, while the sentence “Sue didn’t leave” is negative because of the sentential negation “didn’t.”
At the same time, sentences like “Anna answered none of/few of my letters” have been taken to involve some form of negativity despite the fact that they do not contain sentential negations–-but their negativity has not been explicitly quantified.
The first part of the talk presents a new test for detecting and quantifying the negativity of a sentence based on the observation that negative sentences license the particle “no” in agreeing responses, e.g., (1) below, while positive sentences do not license “no” in agreeing responses, indicated by the star in (2) below.
(1)
A: Anna didn’t answer my letter.
B: No, she didn’t.
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(2)
A: Anna answered
B: *No, she did.
After providing experimental evidence that backs up this novel test, the talk discusses an experiment that uses the test to quantify the negativity of sentences like “Anna answered none of/few of my letters.” The results support the view that sentence negativity is a matter of degree and it is influenced by interacting semantic and syntactic factors.

Dinner Reception follows at the Stevenson Provost House
Adrian Brasoveanu is Associate Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz.
Cosponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research and the Department of Linguistics.

The Living Writers Reading Series: Justin Torres
2013-04-11 18:00 - 19:45 | Unnamed Venue, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Justin Torres, author of We The Animals, was a finalist for the 2012 Indies Choice Book Awards, winner of a National Book Award for 5 under 35, and named one of Salon’s “Sexiest Men of 2011.” His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, Glimmer Train, and other publications. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is a recipient of the Rolón United States Artist Fellowship in Literature, and is now a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Vanity Fair writes that We The Animals is “A gorgeous, howling coming-of-age novel that will devour your heart.”

Simon Goldhill: "First Words, Dying Moments: Starting and Ending in Sophocles and Euipides"
2013-04-12 16:00 - 18:00 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UCSC Classical Studies Program and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present the annual Carl Deppe Lecture
How does tragedy start and stop –
and what does it tell us about the ends of man?
Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek at Cambridge where he also runs the university’s interdisciplinary research center. He has lectured all over the world and appeared on TV and radio and in the theatre in America, Australia, Canada as well as regularly in Britain and Europe. His is a leading expert on Greek tragedy and Greek culture.
For more information, please contact jklynn@ucsc.edu.

Adriana M. Brodsky: "Becoming Jewish-Argentines: Marriage choice, and the construction of a Jewish Argentine Identity (1920-1960)"
2013-04-16 14:00 - 15:45 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The presentation explores the marriage patterns of the Sephardi Jewish communities, paying special attention to when Sephardim began marrying Ashkenazi Jews, thereby giving birth to a new type of Jewish identity, neither fully Ashkenazi nor fully Sephardi, but Argentine. Although initially Sephardim respected the boundaries of their communities of origin, and usually married ‘within’, as the twentieth century progressed and new spaces for interaction of Jews from different origins became available choosing a marriage partner outside of the ‘group’ became more common. The presentation will suggest that loyalties to communities of origin slowly evolved into a stronger sense of belonging to the Argentine nation.
Adriana M. Brodsky, Associate Professor of Latin American History at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, obtained her PhD from Duke University in 2004. She is currently finishing a manuscript entitled Becoming Argentine Jews: Sephardim and the Construction of Ethnic and National Identities, 1880-1960, which focuses on the Sephardic communities that settled in Argentina from the end of the 19th century to mid-20th century, and has co-edited with Raanan Rein (Tel Aviv University) a book titled The New Jewish Argentina (Brill, 2012). She has published on Sephardi schools in Argentina, and on Jewish Beauty Contests. Her new project explores the experiences of Argentine Sephardi youth in the 1960s-1970s, which has received support from the Hadassah- Brandeis Institute.

Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - Christine Hong: "'War Is the Force That Gives Us Meaning': Militarized Queerness, Lieutenant Dan Choi, and Korean War Mascotry"
2013-04-17 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“‘War Is the Force That Gives Us Meaning’: Militarized Queerness, Lieutenant Dan Choi, and Korean War Mascotry”
Offering a historically layered examination of the rights-based battle waged by former Lt. Dan Choi, son of a war orphan, against the now-defunct policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” this talk inquires into the homology between queer masking in the U.S. military and the Korean War practice of child mascotry.
Christine Hong is Assistant Professor of Literature at UCSC.

Radical Reading Practices, A Symposium
2013-04-18 - 2013-04-19 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Radical Reading Practices, A Symposium, April 18-19, 2013
Presented by UCSC’s Poetry and Politics Research Cluster. Sponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund and the UC Humanities Network, with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
This symposium attends to the work that readers perform when reading and reconstructing poetry. We focus on the particular ways poetry makes historically and politically significant demands on readers. We hope to foster a conversation about assumptions that structure the way we approach poetry and the larger aesthetic, historical and theoretical categories that are implicated by our approach. Is poetry, for example, a more radical category than prose? Is there a revolutionary way to read it? Is close reading necessary when reading poetry? Is close reading a more radical mode of engaging with texts than other practices? What might those other practices look like?
Symposium Schedule:
Thursday, April 18th, at the Felix Kulpa Gallery (107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz)
5:30-7:00pm An evening of poetry with readings:
Christopher Nealon
Joshua Anderson
Emily Carr
David de La Rocha
Grace Emilie
David Lau
Eireene Nealand
Rob Wilson
Stephanie Young
Friday, April 19th at UC Santa Cruz (Humanities 1, room 210)
8:30-9:00am Light Breakfast
9:00-9:30am Opening remarks
with Keegan Finberg and Juliana Leslie
9:30-10:45am Radical Reading Practices: An Undergraduate Roundtable
Matthew Strebe, “‘Boots Shining and Gleaming’: Poetry and State Violence”
Grace Emilie, “The Unknown Heart Speaks: Embodied Reading Practices and You”
Annie Hill, “Faust Ubersetzt”
Michael Moreno, “Technology and Me: A Look at the Effects of Integrating Technology with Poetry”
Grace Williams, “Reproduction through Interpretation: Exploring Critical Reading”
Moderator and respondent: Tim Willcutts
11:00-12:30pm Panel One: Commons, Collectivity, Community: From Ancient to Contemporary
Stephanie Young, “Precarious Reading”
Emily Carr, “A,B,C: Reading Cultural Jams in Contemporary Poetry”
Kendra Dority, “Figuring Letters: A Politics of Comparative Reading in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae”
Moderator and respondent: Christopher Nealon
12:30-1:30pm Lunch—bring your own or eat on campus restaurants
1:30-3:00pm Panel Two: Historicizing Revolutionary Reading Practices
Daniel Benjamin, “Searching for the Human and Searching for the Ghost in George Oppen’s “Of Being Numerous”
David de la Rocha, “Nicaraguan Poetry and Reading Revolution”
David Lau, “Poetry as Superstructure: Comments on Chris Nealon’s The Matter of Capital”
Moderator and respondent: Dion Farquhar
3:15-4:45pm Panel Three: Models of Reception/Questions of Audience
Whitney De Vos, “Artificial Memory & the Fate of Crystallized Intelligence: Reading Poetry as a Means of Retrieval”
Eireene Nealand, “Why Should We Listen to Criminals?: The Death of the Reader and the Rise of the Trace”
Joshua Anderson, “Implications of the Surface: A Critique of Surface Reading”
Moderator and respondent: Chris Chen
5:00-6:00pm Keynote by Christopher Nealon, “Poetry without Modernity”
6:00pm Reception at the Cowell Provost’s House

25th Anniversary of the UC Humanities Initiative & 2013 Society of Fellows Event
2013-04-18 - 2013-04-19 | University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
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The Living Writers Reading Series: Patrick DeWitt
2013-04-18 18:00 - 19:45 | Unnamed Venue, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Patrick DeWitt, author of The Sisters Brothers, finalist for the Man Booker Prize, “If Cormac McCarthy had a sense of humor, he might have concocted a story like Patrick DeWitt’s bloody, darkly funny western.” The Los Angeles Times.

Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - William Marotti: "Timely and Untimely Politics: Art and Protest in Early 1960s Japan"
2013-04-24 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Timely and Untimely Politics: Art and Protest in Early 1960s Japan”
William Marotti explores politics and timeliness by examining the advent of a critical art of the everyday in Japan in the 1960s and its links to political action. Out of sync with eventful mass activism, artists sought to create eventfulness against a state-promoted, depoliticized daily life in the high growth economy.
William Marotti is Associate Professor of History and Chair, East Asian Studies MA Interdepartmental Program at UCLA.

Feminist Poetry with Brenda Shaughnessy
2013-04-25 17:00 - 19:30 | Unnamed Venue, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Reception: 5:00-6:00 PM • Humanities Building 1, Room 210
Reading: 6:00-7:30 PM • Humanities Lecture Hall
Brenda Shaughnessy is a prize-winning poet and UCSC alumni (Women’s Studies, Literature, 1993) whose latest book of poetry, Our Andromeda received a rave review in the New York TImes Book Review (February 3, 2013). Reviewer Victoria Redel wrote, “This book addresses urgent questions [with] no shortage of invention . . . Shaughnessy conjures our better selves, lovers, kinder gods, sisters . . . Love is the fierce engine of this beautiful and necessary book. Love is the high stakes, the whip of its power and grief and possibility for repair . . . The result is a book whose song will endure.” We are thrilled to bring Brenda back to UCSC for a reading that is sure to enrich our lives and our world. Now an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers, University, Newark, this public reading inaugurates a series of events that will feature Brenda during UCSC’s Alumni Weekend.
Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of the poetry collections, Our Andromeda (2012), Human Dark with Sugar (2008), which was a finalist for the 2008 NBCC Award, and Interior with Sudden Joy (1999). Her poems have appeared in Harpers, McSweeney’s, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Slate.com and elsewhere. She is Poetry Editor-At-Large at Tin House Magazine, and is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers-Newark. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, son, and daughter.
The series of events is organized and sponsored by the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and the Feminist Studies Department. Cosponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Living Writers Reading Series.
Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For further information, including disabled access, please contact Shann Ritchie, sritchie@ucsc.edu, (831) 459-5655. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu.

Giovanna Di Chiro: “Embodied Ecologies: Connecting Sustainability and Environmental Justice”
2013-04-26 16:00 - 18:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Dr. Giovanna Di Chiro’s research bridges academic and community action domains and integrates the fields of environment, sustainability, and social justice. She teaches interdisciplinary courses in environmental studies and women’s & gender studies, and incorporates a community-based, action research emphasis (currently as the Lang Professor for Issues of Social Change at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania). Di Chiro has published widely on the intersections of race, class, gender, and environmental justice with a focus on activism and policy change addressing environmental health disparities in lower income communities. She collaborates with environmental justice and community development organizations to conduct participatory action research on environmental health concerns and on developing culturally relevant “sustainability” initiatives in diverse communities.
Di Chiro is co-editor of the volume Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power and is completing a book titled Embodied Ecologies: Science, Politics, and Environmental Justice. Embodied Ecologies focuses on what she calls “embodied” or “situated” environmental science and community-based environmental justice activism. The central argument interrogates conventional environmental science and policy approaches, which tend to concentrate on global, cosmopolitan, and macro-level frameworks of organized power: states, markets, global institutions, global environmental sciences, and international environmental organizations. That selective attention to the macro scale tends to dismiss or simply disregard community/local/situated practices and approaches to environmental science and policy as overly micro level and parochial (i.e., not relevant or up to the task of addressing the big environmental problems of the moment, like global climate change). Using the conceptual framework of “embodiment” and drawing on the feminist political economic theory of social reproduction (the maintenance and sustainability of bodies/families/communities and everyday life), Embodied Ecologies examines the harm done to (human and non-human) bodies, communities, and local environments, which has been eclipsed by dominant discourses emphasizing the global scale. The book highlights the innovative and diverse eco-cosmo-politics generated by grassroots activists to build sustainable, just, and resilient communities in the face of broad-scale environmental problems like global warming and climate change.
Di Chiro has a background in Biology (B.A. with honors from UCSC), a Master of Science in Environmental Studies from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness (Interdisciplinary Studies focusing on Environment, Health, and Development) from UC Santa Cruz, which integrates her interdisciplinary background in biology, environmental studies, and socio-cultural theory. Di Chiro has over 20 years teaching experience, and has taught in Environmental Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies at Deakin University (Australia), University of California (Santa Cruz), Allegheny College, Mount Holyoke College, and Swarthmore College. She has received numerous research fellowships and grants, including from the Rockefeller Foundation, the University of California Humanities Research Institute, the American Association of University Women, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the US Environmental Protection Agency.
This colloquium was established to honor the memory and research of Jessica Roy, a UC Santa Cruz graduate student in sociology whose life was abruptly cut short while doing her dissertation fieldwork in Kenya. Her research in rural Africa was designed to illuminate the problem of access to safe water resources and the influence of gender relations on this access. Her approach was interdisciplinary, including environmental, feminist, and sociological perspectives.
Cosponsored by the Urban Studies Research Cluster.

Víctor Fuentes: "Literatura memorialista de la inmigración"
2013-04-26 17:00 - 19:00 | Humanities 1, Room 408
Víctor Fuentes is the author of a memoir, Memorias del segundo exilio español (2011) and fourteen books, among them, La marcha al pueblo en las letras españolas (1917-1936), El cántico material y espiritual de César Vallejo, Buñuel, cine y literatura, Antología de la poesía bohemia española, Antología del cuento bohemio español.
He is Professor Emeritus of the University of California, Santa Barbara; Full Member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language and Co-editor of the literary magazine Ventana abierta.

￼Profesor Emérito de la Universidad de California, Santa Bárbara. Miembro Numerario de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española. Coeditor de Ventana abierta.
Es autor de numerosas publicaciones, entre las que se cuentan 14 libros de ensayo, dos novelas y un libro de memorias. Entre ellos destacan: La marcha al pueblo en las letras españolas (1917- 1936), El cántico material y espiritual de César Vallejo, Buñuel, cine y literatura (Premio “Letras de Oro”, 1988), Antología de la poesía bohemia española, Antología del cuento bohemio español, Morir en Isla Vista (1999); Memorias del segundo exilio español (2011).

This event is sponsored by the UCSC Language Program.

Brenda Shaughnessy: "Feminism & Poetry, Empowerment & Passion"
2013-04-27 14:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join Women’s Studies / Feminist Studies alumni, classmates, and faculty for an intriguing afternoon.
2:00-3:00 PM: Reception
3:00-4:30 PM: Brenda Shaughnessy will present a talk entitled: “Feminism & Poetry, Empowerment & Passion”
4:30-6:00 PM: Feminist Studies Faculty Panel will discuss “The Vibrant State of the Feminist Studies Department” to discuss the launching of the Feminist Studies graduate program, the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, current curriculum, faculty research, and more.
Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Our Andromeda (Copper Canyon Press, September 2012.) Her other books are Human Dark with Sugar, which was a finalist for the 2008 NBCC Award and winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Interior with Sudden Joy, finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Harpers, McSweeney’s, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Yale Review and elsewhere. She is currently Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers University at Newark. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband, son, and daughter.
The series of events is organized and sponsored by the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and the Feminist Studies Department. Cosponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Living Writers Reading Series.
Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For further information, including disabled access, please contact Shann Ritchie, sritchie@ucsc.edu, (831) 459-5655. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu.

Leviathan: Celebrating 40 Years of Jewish Journalism at UCSC
2013-04-28 15:00 - 16:30 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Please join former and current staff members of Leviathan in a celebration of the student publication’s 40th anniversary. Leviathan is one of the longest-running university student publications devoted to Jewish themes in the United States. Over the years, its articles and artwork have explored contemporary questions of Jewish identity, the role of Israel, local Jewish issues, and a wide range of cultural and historical topics. Many of it editors, writers, and artists have gone on to distinguished careers in publishing, journalism, education, and other fields.
The event, to be held in the Fireside Lounge of Stevenson College at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 28, will include a panel discussion with former and current Leviathan staff members, the official launch of the newly created digital archive of past issues of the publication going back to the 1970s, and a festive reception with food and beverages.
Co-sponsored by Leviathan, the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Stevenson College. Administrative support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
