BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Humanities Institute X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170523T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170523T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104307 CREATED:20170512T173620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170512T173620Z UID:10006513-1495546200-1495551600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dr. Nikhil Anand: "Waterlines: Uncertainty and the Future Urban" DESCRIPTION:The IHR Research Cluster on Race\, Violence\, Inequality\, and the Anthropocene presents Dr. Nikhil Anand Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Pennsylvania. \nNikhil Anand’s research focuses on the political ecology of urban infrastructures\, and the social and material relations that they entail. He is the author of Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai (Duke\, 2017). His talk is based on a new project that focuses on the uncertain boundaries of land and water in Mumbai\, looking at how sea level rise and struggles over coastal property intersect with the livelihoods of coastal people. \nThe IHR Research Cluster will also host an off-campus Dinner Salon with Dr. Anand later that evening to discuss his afternoon talk and Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement. The dinner salon will start at 6pm. Please email Mayanthi Fernando (mfernan3@ucsc.edu) by Saturday May 20 to RSVP for the salon and to get the Ghosh reading. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-nikhil-anand-waterlines-uncertainty-and-the-future-urban-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104307 CREATED:20170516T164910Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170516T164910Z UID:10006514-1495627200-1495630800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Humanities Radio Hour: “Radical Jewish Politics with Alma Heckman and Tony Michels” DESCRIPTION:Please tune in to KZSC 88.1 FM for Artists on Art\nHumanities Radio Hour\nWed\, May 24th at 12:00PM–1:00PM \nInterview with Professors\n– Alma Rachel Heckman Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz whose research crosses Jewish history\, North Africa\, French empire\, and the history of social movements.\n– Tony Michels Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York and editor of Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History \nClick here to listen online URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-radio-hour-on-artists-on-art-radical-jewish-politics-with-alma-heckman-and-tony-michels-2/ LOCATION:KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-13-at-9.49.28-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104307 CREATED:20170507T175721Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170507T175721Z UID:10005378-1495627200-1495632600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Johan Mathew\, “Smoke on the Water: Hashish Smuggling and Imperial Surveillance between Asia and the Middle East” DESCRIPTION:Johan Mathew’s current project\, Opiates of the Masses: Labor\, Narcotics\, and Global Capitalism\, explores the history of narcotics in order to interrogate the concepts of “consumer demand” and “rational choice” in market exchange\, focusing on the consumption of narcotics by workers in Asia and Africa to alleviate the stresses of labor under capitalism. \nJohan Matthew is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \nEvent Photos: URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/johan-matthew-smoke-on-the-water-hashish-smuggling-and-imperial-surveillance-between-asia-and-the-middle-east-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20161129T225731Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T225731Z UID:10006432-1495648800-1495656000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:UCSC Night at the Museum - Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie DESCRIPTION:UCSC Night at the Museum – Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie from IHR on Vimeo. \n  \nEvent Photos: by Crystal Birns\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nJoin us for “UCSC Night at the Museum – Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie” at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History\nAs we mark the centennial of the Russian Revolution and the stunning electoral success of Bernie Sanders\, the revival of interest in socialism inspires this discussion of the history of radical Jewish Politics. \n  \nRSVP has closed – Due to an overwhelming response\, we are no longer accepting registrations to this event. However you are welcome to come to the Museum the night of the event and we will do our best to accommodate you if a sufficient number of people who have already RSVP’d are not in attendance. \n  \n6:00pm – Doors open\n6:30pm – Public Conversation with Tony Michels Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York and editor of Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History; and Alma Rachel Heckman Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz whose research crosses Jewish history\, North Africa\, French empire\, and the history of social movements. \nSanta Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH)\n705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95060 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/radical-jewish-politics-2/ LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/UC_MAH_Poster_2017_Final.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170525T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170525T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170321T185337Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170321T185337Z UID:10006481-1495720800-1495731600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Radical Jewish Politics Workshop DESCRIPTION:Marking the centennial of the 1917 Russian Revolution\, the UCSC Center for Jewish Studies invites you to attend an afternoon of roundtable discussions around the theme of “Radical Jewish Politics.” This event both addresses and pushes the standard canon to discuss a wide variety of contexts\, not only on their own\, but in conversation with one another. Geographically\, these contexts include Iran\, Iraq\, Israel and Palestine\, Egypt\, Russia\, Hungary\, Egypt\, Morocco\, and the United States of America. Thematically\, these contexts include Queer Jewish histories within the left\, the contemporary Orthodox populations of New York City and reactionary politics\, interactions with Zionism and other nationalisms\, historiography and state memory\, and much more. \n2:00-5:00pm \nAfternoon Roundtable 1: Thematic conversation 1 (including approximately 3-4 panelists) \nAfternoon Roundtable 2: Thematic conversation 2 (including approximately 3-4 panelists) \nConcluding remarks \nDinner \nRSVP required – Please register for the event here \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies\, History Department\, Center for Cultural Studies\, and Institute for Humanities Research. \nScholar Bios: \nBettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies at UCSC\, and is the holder of the UC Presidential Baskin Foundation Endowed Chair in Feminist Studies. She is affiliated faculty in Jewish Studies\, and in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies. Her most recent research has been a project on queering the history of the Communist Left in the United States. Her most recent book is a memoir\, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red\, Fought for Free Speech and Became a Feminist Rebel. A scholar-activist she was featured in the film Free Angela! and all political prisoners\, (2013). She also does work in Black feminist History\, and recently published a scholarly piece\, “The Pageantry of Shirley Graham’s Opera Tom-Tom” published in the journal Souls\, Fall 2016. \nOrit Bashkin is a historian who works on the intellectual\, social and cultural history of the modern Middle East. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University (2004)\, writing a thesis on Iraqi intellectual history under the supervision of Professors Robert Tignor and Samah Selim\, and her BA (1995) and MA (1999) from Tel Aviv University. Since graduation\, she has been working as a professor of modern Middle Eastern history in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Her publications deal with Iraqi history\, the history of Iraqi Jews\, the Arab cultural revival movement (the nahda) in the late 19th century\, and the connections between modern Arab history and Arabic literature.  Her current research project explores the lives of Iraqi Jews in Israel. Her books (published by Stanford University Press are): The Other Iraq\, Pluralism and Culture and Hashemite Iraq\, New Babylonians\, A history of Iraqi Jews\, and Impossible Exodus\, Iraqi Jews in Israel. At the University of Chicago\, she teaches classes on nationalism\, colonialism and postcolonialism in the Middle East\, on modern Islamic civilization\, and on Israeli history. \nJoel Beinin is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1982 before coming to Stanford in 1983. Beinin’s research and writing focus on the social and cultural history and political economy of modern Egypt\, Palestine\, and Israel and on US policy in the Middle East. \nArie M. Dubnov is the inaugural Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies at George Washington University. His fields of expertise are modern Jewish and European intellectual history\, with emphasis on the history of political thought and nationalism studies. His current research examines the relationship and exchange of ideas between pre-1948 Zionist activists and British political thinkers. It seeks to place Jewish nationalism within the context of interwar neo-imperial thinking\, acknowledging a wide spectrum of intra-Zionist ideas ranging from pro-imperial\, federalist thinking to radical anti-colonial notions of struggle. \nPeter Kenez is Professor emeritus of history at UC Santa Cruz. He was one of the founding members of Stevenson College andhas taught and published widely on the history of the Soviet Union and related geopolitical questions. \nLior Sternfeld is an Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Penn State University. He is a social historian of the modern Middle East with particular interests in Jewish (and other minorities’) histories of the region. Sternfeld’s first book manuscript tentatively titled: “Integrated After All: Iranian Jews in the Twentieth Century\,” which examines the integration of the Jewish communities in Iran into the nation-building projects of the twentieth century\, is now under review. This book examines the development of the Iranian Jewish communities vis-à-vis ideologies and institutions such as Iranian nationalism\, Zionism\, and constitutionalism\, among others. His current research project examines the origins of “third-worldism” in the Middle East. \nBob Weinberg  is Isaac H. Clothier Professor of History and International Relations at Swarthmore College. He teaches Russian and European history and has published on the 1905 Revolution in Odessa\, anti-Jewish pogroms\, blood libel\, antisemitism in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union\, and Birobidzhan \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/radical-jewish-politics-workshop-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Radical-Jewish-Politics_-Workshop.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170526T024000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170526T154000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20161004T212534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161004T212534Z UID:10006406-1495766400-1495813200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Susan Lin DESCRIPTION:The Linguistics department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFall 2016 \nMay/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-susan-lin-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170526T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170526T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170414T211244Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T211244Z UID:10006500-1495800000-1495807200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Yuki Obayashi DESCRIPTION:“This is Your Life”: Hiroshima Maidens and the American ideological superiority in the midst of the Cold War \nIn 1955\, twenty-five female victims of the atomic bombing flown to the United States and received extensive plastic surgery to correct severe deformity from keloids. Initiated by the American journalist Norman Cousins and the Japanese minister Tanimoto Kiyoshi\, this project was supported on multiple fronts in the United States. This paper analyzed the American capitalistic mode of generosity from the TV program\, “This is Your Life” aired on May 11\, 1955\, which featured the Japanese minister Tanimoto\, who recently arrived in the United States with Hiroshima Maidens. The TV program and its host successfully collected $56\,000 in donations by asking its viewers to show their “American way”. This American way generosity demonstrated multiple problematic viewpoints in the ways of how the Americans constructed their superiority through the victims’ radicalized and gendered bodies. \nFriday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule: \nFridays 12:30-2pm\nHumanities 1 Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nApril 21\, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz\, History \nApril 28\, 2017: Baizhu Chen\, Economics \nMay 5\, 2017: Danielle Crawford\, Literature \nMay 12\, 2017: Kristen Laciste\, HAVC \nMay 19\, 2017: Kara Hisatake\, Literature \nMay 26\, 2017: Yuki Obayashi\, Literature \nJune 2\, 2017: Angela Nguyen\, Psychology URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-kara-hisatake-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017-winter-FFPoster11.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170526T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170526T153000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170522T183344Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170522T183344Z UID:10006518-1495809000-1495812600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Critical Race & Ethnic Studies Works In Progress DESCRIPTION:“Delinquency As Labor”\nChrissy Anderson-Zavala \nChrissy Anderson-Zavala is a PhD candidate in education with designated emphases in critical race and ethnic studies and feminist studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her dissertation\, How to Write ‘Trouble/d Youth\,’ bridges participatory ethnographic work in a continuation high school and reading practices that “track the figure” of “trouble/d youth” in district and state-level archives to explore how narratives of young people as “trouble” (threat) or “troubled” (at-risk) inform the limits and possibilities of schooling. \n  \n  \n“BioRobotics: Surveillance at the Borders of AnimalHumanInsect”\nFelicity Amaya Schaeffer \nFelicity Amaya Schaeffer is an Associate Professor in the Feminist Studies Department here at UCSC. Her book\, Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship Across the Americas\, was published in 2013 with NYU Press. She is working on a new project called “Tracking Migrants: Biosecurity Across Erotic Borders” that follows the de-humanization of Latina/o migrants branded as biothreats\, or deviant and criminal threats. In this project I follow the ways state surveillance remakes relations between technology-the-body-and nature\, and then decolonizes these state regimes through an Anzalduan approach to what I call an erotic cosmology: using the body as a technology to hone our senses deeper into the sensual relationality of human-animal-cosmic ontologies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/critical-race-ethnic-studies-works-in-progress-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/CRES-event-with-bios.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170531T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170531T143000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170517T183153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170517T183153Z UID:10006515-1496224800-1496241000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Symposium: Charting the Library's Future DESCRIPTION:Program: \n10:00-10:30am\nWelcome and Opening Remarks by Chancellor George Blumenthal and University Librarian Elizabeth Cowell \n  \n10:30-12:00pm\nPanel Discussion \nMacKenzie Smith\, University Librarian at UC Davis\nExpanding Research Support in University Libraries \nAcademic libraries’ research support is inherently interdisciplinary (or omnidisciplinary) so they are uniquely positioned to expand those services to include common modern research tools and methods\, such as spatial and data science\, informatics and analytics\, writing and programming. Providing central\, democratically accessible facilities\, instruction\, and expert support for these essential modern research skills is a natural role for libraries while increasing their value to the universities they serve. \nGünter Waibel\, Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of the California Digital Library\nThis Magic Moment: Are We Coming Together\, or Falling Apart? \nAbstract: What kind of a library does a globally connected faculty working on the grand challenges of our time need? The recent election has sparked a public debate about factual information\, the scientific method and intellectual freedom; it has also deepened the academy’s resolve to uphold those core values. At the same time\, our blue planet faces grand challenges that become tractable only through collective and collaborative action. Both faculty and librarians are striving to respond by working across traditional organizational and/or geopolitical boundaries. The UC system\, and the UC libraries within it\, are a microcosm of a community finding a collective response\, and a case-study in an experiment to go further together. (Examples illustrating these dynamics might came from the national response to safeguarding federal research data\, and the UC libraries strategy to realize our goal of a fully open access future.) \nJeffrey MacKie-Mason\, University Librarian at UC Berkeley\nBringing Together People\, Information and Technology: Connected Learning \nAstract: University libraries always have been providers of public goods and gateways to discovery. They amassed collections of millions of books and scholarly articles to share with all faculty and students\, who could not afford to do so individually. New learners coming through the doors had transcendent — often ecstatic — discovery experiences that fueled individual growth\, and social and scientific progress. We should continue to provide public goods to excite the passions and open the eyes\, but the information environment has changed drastically and so must the learning environments and experiences. We must create connected learning spaces as open-to-all gateways before students reach specialized labs and facilities limited to their choice of major. These spaces must connect people\, information and technology to support collaborative and active learning. The public goods we provide should include not just books and articles (and videos and maps and…) but also new information technologies most students can’t afford for themselves (e.g.\, virtual reality gear\, data visualization systems\, programmable 3-D scanners\, etc.). And we need to provide experts to help them find those head-exploding discoveries that open their eyes to the Age of Information. \n  \n12:00-1:00pm:\nLunch provided for all registered attendees \n  \n1:00-2:30pm:\nLightning Talks and Discussion sessions \nThe Changing Practices of Scholarly Work \nSylvanna Falcón\, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies\nDanielle Crawford\, Graduate Student in Literature and former CART Fellow\nJody Greene\, Professor of Literature\, Feminist Studies\, and History of Consciousness\, and director of the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)\nChristy Caldwell\, Research Support Services Librarian URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/symposium-charting-the-librarys-future-2/ LOCATION:McHenry Library UCSC\, Room 4286 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Library-Symposium-Flyer-May31v3_1-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170531T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170531T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170507T175944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170507T175944Z UID:10005379-1496232000-1496237400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Shahzad Bashir\, “Islamic Pasts and Futures: Conceptual Issues” DESCRIPTION:This talk emerges from Professor Bashir’s current project\, Islamic Pasts and Futures: Conceptual Explorations\, a critique of the conceptualization of Islamic history in modern scholarship. Bashir suggests alternatives emphasizing multiple temporalities and engaging contemporary academic debates regarding language\, historiography\, and history on the basis of materials of Islamic provenance. \nShahzad Bashir is professor in Islamic Studies and Director of the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/shahzad-bashir-islamic-pasts-and-futures-conceptual-issues-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170601T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170601T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170519T180259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170519T180259Z UID:10006517-1496325600-1496329200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mat Callahan\, “The Explosion of Deferred Dreams” DESCRIPTION:Presented by The History of Consciousness\, The Center for Cultural Studies\, & UCSC University Library Special Collections & Archives\, with support from Logo’s Books. \nWith special musical guest Dry Days \nAs the fiftieth anniversary of the Summer of Love floods the media with debates and celebrations of music\, political movements\, “flower power\,” “acid rock\,” and “hippies”; author\, musician\, and native San Franciscan Mat Callahan’s new book\, The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco\, 1965–1975 (PM Press\, 2017) offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties. Callahan explores the dynamic links between the Black Panthers and Sly and the Family Stone\, the United Farm Workers and Santana\, the Indian Occupation of Alcatraz and the San Francisco Mime Troupe\, and the New Left and the counterculture. \nCallahan’s meticulous\, impassioned arguments both expose and reframe the political and social context for the San Francisco Sound and the vibrant subcultural uprisings with which it is associated. Using dozens of original interviews\, primary sources\, and personal experiences\, the author shows how the intense interplay of artistic and political movements put San Francisco\, briefly\, in the forefront of a worldwide revolutionary upsurge. \nA must-read for any musician\, historian\, or person who “was there” (or longed to have been)\, The Explosion of Deferred Dreams is substantive and provocative\, inviting us to reinvigorate our historical sense-making of an era that assumes a mythic role in the contemporary American zeitgeist. \nMat Callahan is a musician and author originally from San Francisco\, where he founded Komotion International. He is the author of three books\, Sex\, Death & the Angry Young Man\, Testimony\, and The Trouble with Music as well as the editor of Songs of Freedom: The James Connolly Songbook. He currently resides in Bern\, Switzerland. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mat-callahan-the-explosion-of-deferred-dreams-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/MatCallahan-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170601T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170601T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170503T160107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170503T160107Z UID:10005374-1496325600-1496332800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Patricia de Santana Pinho DESCRIPTION:We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring Brazil and Bearing their Nation\nPatricia de Santana Pinho\, Associate Professor\, UC Santa Cruz \nThe talk presents a chapter of my nearly completed book manuscript Diaspora Detours: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil. Previous chapters examine the effects of national identities on the connections between black diaspora communities. In this chapter I analyze how gender impacts these transnational relations while simultaneously differentiating the experiences of female and male travelers. Analyzing why and how women travel is important in deconstructing the implicitly masculinist abstract tourist subject. At the same time\, by focusing on women travelers\, it is crucial not to confirm men as the norm that goes unexamined and unquestioned. While the chapter looks more closely at women\, it does so in order to examine how travel and tourism function as fundamentally gendered and embodied practices\, which in turn contribute to the gendering of the black diaspora. \n  \nPatricia de Santana Pinho\, Associate Professor in LALS\, is a Brazilian social scientist whose research focuses on topics of blackness\, whiteness\, racism\, anti-racism\, tourism\, and the black diaspora. She is author of Mama Africa: Reinventing Blackness in Bahia (Duke University Press\, 2010). \n  \nFeminist Studies Colloquium Series Spring 2017 Schedule:\nMay 4th: Doris Leibetseder\, “QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies”\nMay 17th: Susan O’Neal Stryker\, “What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need”\nJune 1st: Patricia de Santana Pinho\, “We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring Brazil and Bearing their Nation” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-series-patricia-de-santana-pinho-2/ LOCATION:Humanites 1\, Room 320\, Humanities and Social Science Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/FMST-Colloq-Spring-2017-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170601T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170601T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170414T194013Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T194013Z UID:10006494-1496337600-1496343000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Lauren Levin DESCRIPTION:Lauren Levin\, author of The Braid (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nLauren Levin is the author of THE BRAID (Krupskaya\, 2016) and the forthcoming TWO ESSAYS (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2018) as well as several chapbooks\, including The Lens (Little Red Leaves\, 2014) and Working (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, 2012). From 2011-2014\, she co–edited the Poetic Labor Project. She grew up in New Orleans.\n\nThe UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents\nThe Lives of Other Songs\nLiving Writers Series Spring 2017 \nThursdays / 5:20-6:50pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nApril 13\, 2017: Tongo Eisen-Martin\, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) \nMay 4\, 2017: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa\, author of A Home in Tibet (Penguin\, 2014) and Eric Sneathen\, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nMay 11\, 2017: Aisha Sasha John\, author of THOU (BookThug\, 2014) \nMay 18\, 2017: Rosa Alcalá\, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books\, 2010) \nJune 1\, 2017: Lauren Levin\, author of The Braid (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nJune 8\, 2017: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-lauren-levin-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Living-Writers-Spring-2017-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170602T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170602T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20161215T195352Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T193822Z UID:10006443-1496401200-1496406600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: Thinking Ahead: Grants and Fellowships Workshop for Graduate Students DESCRIPTION:PhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nThis year-end workshop is devoted to developing your fellowship / grant strategy to support your graduate career. We’ll focus on year-long prestigious fellowships such as American Council of Learned Societies\, Ford Foundation\, American Association of University Women\, Fulbright\, and others\, as well as smaller grants\, including UC MEXUS\, designed to fund small\, short-term\, field-specific projects. This workshop will assist you in thinking through your funding timeline for next year and beyond. Please bring any and all of your questions as a significant portion of this year-end meeting will function as an open forum for your questions and ideas. \nPresenters / Facilitators:\nStephanie Moore\, Director of Research Development\, Arts Division\nIrena Polic\, Managing Director\, Institute for Humanities Research\nSamuael Topiary\, Graduate Research Development Fellow \nLunch will be served. \nPlease RSVP below. \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-research-development-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170602T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170602T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170414T212057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T212057Z UID:10006501-1496404800-1496412000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Angela Nguyen DESCRIPTION:“Mom\, can you help me with my homework?” Identifying Tools and Conditions for Intergenerational Dialogue Among Southeast Asian Refugees and Their Children \nThe collective memories of the Southeast Asian diaspora are interwoven with histories of war and colonial violence that continue to be felt in everyday experiences as hauntings. Post-war generations are often without access to resources for contextualizing and deconstructing these lived realities. I discuss my reflexive process while interviewing my family about their experiences with the American-Vietnam War and how this ongoing dialogic process has transformed my relationships to my family and community\, as well as highlighted sociopolitical tensions within Vietnamese American communities. I identify possible tools for intergenerational dialogue and emphasize the need to engage with these loud silences to support communities displaced by war in negotiating “the ending that are not over” (Espiritu\, 2014). \nFriday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule: \nFridays 12:30-2pm\nHumanities 1 Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nApril 21\, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz\, History \nApril 28\, 2017: Baizhu Chen\, Economics \nMay 5\, 2017: Danielle Crawford\, Literature \nMay 12\, 2017: Kristen Laciste\, HAVC \nMay 19\, 2017: Kara Hisatake\, Literature \nMay 26\, 2017: Yuki Obayashi\, Literature \nJune 2\, 2017: Angela Nguyen\, Psychology URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-angela-nguyen-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017-winter-FFPoster11.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170602T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170602T154500 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170522T184723Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170522T184723Z UID:10006519-1496407500-1496418300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) DESCRIPTION:The Linguistics Department’s annual Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) will be held Friday\, June 2nd\, from 12:45 – 3:45pm in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. The Distinguished Alumna speaker will be Maura O’Leary\, who is a PhD graduate student at UCLA. \nWe hope you will attend. \nLinguistics Undergraduate Research Conference Program – coming soon! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-undergraduate-research-conference-lurc-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170602T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170602T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170531T194026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170531T194026Z UID:10006520-1496419200-1496422800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Deanna Shemek: "Digital Isabella d’Este: New Renaissance Navigations" DESCRIPTION:Digital Isabella d’Este: New Renaissance Navigations\nWhen you look at a piece of art in a museum do you ever wonder about the context? Where was the art originally hung? What did the room look like? Who were the people viewing the art? Did they listen to music as they viewed the art?\nPlease join us for Deanna Shemek’s Gary D. Licker Memorial Lecture as she discusses how she and her team are using Isabella d’Este’s personal correspondence to reconstruct Renaissance Italy. Using state of the art technology in virtual and augmented reality along with the work of numerous historians and researchers in the US and in Italy\, Deanna’s work is bringing a whole new meaning to the term bringing history to life. \n  \nIntrigued? Here is a short video about the project: \n \nIsabella d’Este Virtual Studiolo from Future Film Festival on Vimeo. \n  \nPlease RSVP here. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deanna-shemek-digital-isabella-deste-new-renaissance-navigations-2/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170607T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170607T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170518T054107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170518T054107Z UID:10006516-1496847600-1496869200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:IDEA Hub: A Pitch for Social and Creative Enterprise DESCRIPTION:IDEA Hub: Creative and Social Entrepreneurship at UCSC presents \nA Pitch for Social and Creative Enterprise \nJune 7th\, 2017 3-9PM\nParadox Hotel\, Santa Cruz\, CA \n3-6pm – IDEA Hub Pitch for\nSocial Change\n6-9pm – SCNT MeetUp \nApplications are currently being sought from UCSC students and community collaborators who have ideas for innovations that promote positive social change. \nRequirements/Eligibility: Team must have at least one UCSC student member. Innovations must be an original idea that addresses an area of societal need\, including (but not limited to) poverty\, affordable housing\, income inequality\, drug abuse\, violence\, mental & public health\, food security\, discrimination\, cultural sustainability\, participatory governance\, education\, transportation\, environmental sustainability\, climate change. Innovations must have completed R&D sufficient to demonstrate viability and potential to scale beyond initial target application or customers. \nHow to Apply: Send enterprise summary (max 3 pages) that includes name of Team\, Team\nmembers and affiliations\, contact information for team lead\, one sentence mission statement\, problem being solved and your solution to problem\, your intended customers and the value you bring to those\ncustomers\, competing products or services and why your innovation offers a better solution\, estimates of financial costs to develop your innovation/run your enterprise\, and potential source of revenue to cover those costs\, expertise and resources you bring.] \nEmail pdf to: cied@ucsc.edu\nFor more info: cied.ucsc.edu\nideahub.sites.ucsc.edu \nDeadline: May 19th\, 2017 \nPrizes:\n$3K first place\, $2K second place\, $1K third & possibility to apply for seed funding and services URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/idea-hub-a-pitch-for-social-and-creative-enterprise-2/ LOCATION:Hotel Paradox ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/00001.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170607T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170607T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170321T185831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170321T185831Z UID:10006482-1496851200-1496858400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Celebrating Excellence in the Humanities: 2016-17 Spring Awards DESCRIPTION:Event Photos: by Sarah Caldwell\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nHumanists study the stories of humanity\, in all their wonderful and tragic manifestations. The annual “Celebrating the Humanities” event is an opportunity for you to participate in this never-ending exploration of what it means to be human. \nHumanities Division’s awards acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition\, distinctions and honors over the course of this last year. Past year’s categories for acknowledgement have been: \nFaculty Awards and Honors\nResearch Grants and Fellowships\nTeaching Awards and Instructional Innovation Major Publications\nUndergraduate Awards and Honors \nHumanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) – supports and encourages undergraduate research in the Humanities \nDean’s and Chancellor’s Awards – granted to undergraduates who have completed an outstanding senior thesis or project during the current academic year. \n  \n \nClick here to download the Humanities Spring Awards Program URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/celebrating-excellence-in-the-humanities-2016-17-spring-awards-2/ LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2016-17-Spring-Awards-marketing-tools-jguild@ucsc.edu-UC-Santa-Cruz-Mail.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170608T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170608T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170414T194611Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T194611Z UID:10006495-1496942400-1496947800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: UCSC Creative Writing Program DESCRIPTION:UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading\n\nThe UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents\nThe Lives of Other Songs\nLiving Writers Series Spring 2017 \nThursdays / 5:20-6:50pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nApril 13\, 2017: Tongo Eisen-Martin\, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) \nMay 4\, 2017: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa\, author of A Home in Tibet (Penguin\, 2014) and Eric Sneathen\, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nMay 11\, 2017: Aisha Sasha John\, author of THOU (BookThug\, 2014) \nMay 18\, 2017: Rosa Alcalá\, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books\, 2010) \nJune 1\, 2017: Lauren Levin\, author of The Braid (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nJune 8\, 2017: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-ucsc-creative-writing-program-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Living-Writers-Spring-2017-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170609 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170610 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20161220T202052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161220T202052Z UID:10006444-1496966400-1497052799@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:OpEd Project Workshop: "Write to Change the World" DESCRIPTION:Write to Change the World\nThe “Write to Change the World” program builds participants’ capacity to translate their research for the public and to engage in debate at a national level based on their areas of
 expertise. This program focuses on increasing the number of underrepresented voices in the media and bringing the humanities to bear on public debates. Working in partnership with the OpEd Project\, we will host three one-day workshops led by OpEd Project facilitators\, with approximately 20 fellows in each workshop\, from nine participating campuses (UCSF\, UCSB\, UCI\, UCR\, UCSD\, UCSC\, UCD\, UCM\, UCLA)\, for a total of 60+ fellows. After the 1-day workshop\, fellows will have access to a yearlong mentorship with media mentors through the OpEd Project. This program provides extraordinary resources\, access and support\, including cutting edge game-based\, research-driven programming\, and access to a prestigious network of fellows at peer institutions nationwide. Apply now for Spring 2017 workshops at UC Merced\, UC Santa Cruz\, or UC Irvine. \nAbout the OpEd Project\nThe Op-Ed Project envisions a world where the best ideas – regardless of where they come from – will have a chance to be heard\, and to shape society and the world. Working with top universities\, foundations\, think tanks\, nonprofits\, corporations and community organizations\, the OpEd Project scouts and trains under-represented experts to take thought leadership positions in their fields; the OpEd Project connects them with national networks of high-level media mentors; and vets and channels the best new experts and ideas directly to media gatekeepers who need them\, across all platforms. For more on the OpEd Project\, visit their website. \nOur fellows will:\n1) Attend a 1-day workshop\n2) Draft an Op-Ed within three months following the workshop\n3) Connect with a media mentor through the OpEd Project within three months following the workshop \nDates and Locations:\nUC Merced: April 14\, 2017\nUC Santa Cruz: June 9\, 2017\nUC Irvine: June 16\, 2016 \nApply\nFaculty and postdoctoral fellows can apply online for Spring 2017 workshops here by Feb. 1\, 2017.\nFor more information\, contact the Center for the Humanities at UC Merced at humanities@ucmerced.edu. \nUCSC OpEd Workshop Participants\nClick here to read about the faculty fellows at the UCSC workshop  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/oped-project-workshop-write-to-change-the-world-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/oped_poster_2017.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170612 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170613 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170503T153101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170503T153101Z UID:10006511-1497225600-1497311999@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Symposium on Oaxacan Linguistics DESCRIPTION:Guest Speakers:\nEric Campbell (UC Santa Barbara)\nEmiliana Cruz (University of Massachusetts\, Amherst)\nChristian DiCanio (State University of New York\, Buffalo) \n  \nOrganized by the Workshop on the Languages of Meso-America. \n  \n*Stay tuned for more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/symposium-on-oaxacan-linguistics-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170712T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170712T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170510T164732Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170510T164732Z UID:10005381-1499886000-1499893200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jonathan Safran Foer\, Here I Am DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, Institute for Humanities Research\, and Temple Beth El present best-selling and award-winning author Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated\, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) for a reading  and signing of his latest novel\, Here I Am. Ticket packages are $19.98 and include two tickets to the event and one copy of Here I Am in paperback (publication date: June 6th). Purchase tickets here  \nLocation: Santa Cruz High Theater \n“In Foer’s latest novel\, generations of history are laid on the shoulders of one modern Jewish-American family during a time of crisis. So much is endured\, revealed\, and lost that they seem inextricably bound to the reader. At the heart of it all is this: What does it mean to be fully present in one’s life? There are no easy answers\, but I am in awe at the skill with which Foer delves into the heart of familial life.” – Jax\, Bookshop Santa Cruz Staff \nUnfolding over four tumultuous weeks in present-day Washington\, D.C.\, Here I Am is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. As Jacob and Julia Bloch and their three sons are forced to confront the distances between the lives they think they want and the lives they are living\, a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a quickly escalating conflict in the Middle East. At stake is the meaning of home—and the fundamental question of how much aliveness one can bear. One of the year’s most anticipated novels\, Here I Am is bestselling Safran Foer’s most searching\, hard-hitting\, and grandly entertaining novel yet. \nJonathan Safran Foer is the author of the novels Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close\, and the nonfiction book Eating Animals. His work has received numerous awards and has been translated into thirty-eight languages. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jonathan-safran-foer-here-i-am-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz High Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Jonathan-Safran-Foer_Here-I-am.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170730 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170806 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170310T214355Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170310T214355Z UID:10006477-1501372800-1501977599@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:37th Annual Dickens Universe featuring Middlemarch DESCRIPTION:The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars\, teachers\, students\, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels\, usually (but not always) one by Charles Dickens.\n\nIn 2017\, in anticipation of the 2019 bicentenary of George Eliot’s birth\, the Universe will feature her novel\, Middlemarch.\n\nNow in its 37th year of operation\, the Dickens Universe combines features of a scholarly conference\, a festival\, a book club\, and summer camp. Participants include people of all ages and walks of life—distinguished scholars\, graduate students\, undergraduates\, retirees\, young professionals\, high school teachers\, anyone who loves to read and who enjoys long Victorian novels.\n\nHere are some of the things that make the Universe such as special experience.\n\nThe college lifestyle: participants live on campus\, eat together in the student dining hall\, have time to meet and come to know each other in different ways.\nEveryone is reading the same book. We all have this one important thing in common.\nThe range of activities—formal lectures\, small discussion groups\, films\, daily Victorian teas\, performances\, and Victorian dancing.\n\n\n\nThe Universe offers a week of total immersion in the world of Victorian fiction with friendly\, like-minded colleagues in a beautiful setting. Whether we’re returning to a Dickens novel that everyone knows and loves\, or branching out into a Victorian novel by another author who might be less familiar\, during the Universe we build a community out of our passion of reading\, talking with one another\, and bringing Victorian culture to life.\nRegistration link: \n\nREGISTER HERE \nWatch the Dickens Project Mini Documentary {https://youtu.be/JJgV87yGBSs} \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/37th-annual-dickens-universe-featuring-middlemarch-2/ LOCATION:College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room\, College Ten\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/gjh.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170818 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170821 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170711T202738Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170711T202738Z UID:10006521-1503014400-1503273599@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Weekend with Shakespeare DESCRIPTION:About: Join Shakespeare scholars and artists for two days of lectures\, discussions\, and demonstrations about this season’s mainstage productions. Educator’s Day on Sunday\, August 20 is built to provide teachers with tools and lesson plans to gain confidence and strategies for teaching Shakespeare in the classroom and beyond. \nWeekend schedule: \nWeekend with Shakespeare will be Friday & Saturday\, 12-5pm at the UCSC Arboretum. \nEducator’s Day will be Sunday\, 11-3pm\, featuring three 45 minute workshops including an acting/text workshop led by Artistic Director Mike Ryan\, and a workshop on Common Core integration at UCSC Humanities 1\, Room 210. \nRegistration: \nAttend the lectures only\, or attend both the lectures and performances at a great discount! \nLecture only: $50 members / $55 non-members*\nLecture + 2 play package: $135 members / $150 non-members*\nTeacher Training Day: $25 \n*Lecture only and Teacher Training Day tickets can be purchased at the Ticket Office or online. Packages (lecture + 2-plays) must be purchased by phone to ensure the exclusive reserved seating. \nRegister online: https://www.santacruzshakespeare.org/wws/ \nWeekend with Shakespeare is sponsored in partnership with Shakespeare Workshop\, a program with the Institute for Humanities Research at UC Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz Shakespeare. \nFull program schedule available at: https://www.santacruzshakespeare.org/wws/ \nLocation: \n\n\n\n\nDay 1 and 2 of the workshop will take place at the UCSC Arboretum\n\n\nEducator’s Day on Sunday August 20 will take place at Humanities 1\, Room 210 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/weekend-with-shakespeare-2/ LOCATION:UCSC Arboretum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Weekend-SCS-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170926T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170926T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170926T212226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T212226Z UID:10005410-1506427200-1506430800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Humanities Radio Hour: “Ben Breen” DESCRIPTION:Please tune in to KZSC 88.1 FM for Artists on Art\nHumanities Radio Hour \nClick here to listen online URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-radio-hour-ben-breen-2/ LOCATION:KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-13-at-9.49.28-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171002T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171002T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170918T215045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170918T215045Z UID:10006539-1506970800-1506978000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Kim Stanley Robinson\, New York 2140 DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz and the Institute for Humanities Research are pleased to welcome New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson as he returns for a book talk and signing of his bold and brilliant vision of New York City in the next century: New York 2140. \n“In the not-so-distant future\, a diverse cast of characters inherit a New York that has been flooded and overwhelmed as a result of the environmental\, economic\, and social disasters we are facing today. New York 2140 is timely and relevant and more realistic than the sci-fi I typically read. Significantly\, it purposes a future in which ethics and moral reasoning are still being undermined by the status quo. I’d recommend reading it with friends!” – Ashley\, Bookshop Santa Cruz Staff \nRegister for the event: http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/event/kim-stanley-robinson-new-york-2140 \nAs the sea levels rose\, every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. For the residents of one apartment building in Madison Square\, however\, New York in the year 2140 is far from a drowned city. There is the market trader\, who finds opportunities where others find trouble. There is the detective\, whose work will never disappear — along with the lawyers\, of course. There is the internet star\, beloved by millions for her airship adventures\, and the building’s manager\, quietly respected for his attention to detail. Then there are two boys who don’t live there\, but have no other home– and who are more important to its future than anyone might imagine. Lastly there are the coders\, temporary residents on the roof\, whose disappearance triggers a sequence of events that threatens the existence of all– and even the long-hidden foundations on which the city rests. New York 2140 is an extraordinary and unforgettable novel\, from a writer uniquely qualified to the story of its future. \nKim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo\, Nebula\, and Locus awards. He is the author of nineteen previous books\, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain\, Fifty Degrees Below\, Sixty Days and Counting\, The Years of Rice and Salt\, and Antarctica. In 2008\, he was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine\, and he recently joined in the Sequoia Parks Foundation’s Artists in the Back Country program. He lives in Davis\, California.\n“A thoroughly enjoyable exercise in worldbuilding\, written with a cleareyed love for the city’s past\, present\, and future.” ―Kirkus \n“The tale is one of adventure\, intrigue\, relationships\, and market forces…. The individual threads weave together into a complex story well worth the read.” ―Booklist\n“Science fiction is threaded everywhere through culture nowadays\, and it would take an act of critical myopia to miss the fact that Robinson is one of the world’s finest working novelists\, in any genre. New York 2140 is a towering novel about a genuinely grave threat to civilisation.” ―Guardian URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kim-stanley-robinson-new-york-2140-2/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-08-19-at-12.48.24-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171004T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171004T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170926T212702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T212702Z UID:10005411-1507118400-1507122000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Humanities Radio Hour: “Gail Project” with Alan Christy\, Shelby Graham\, & Irena Polic DESCRIPTION:Please tune in to KZSC 88.1 FM for Artists on Art\nHumanities Radio Hour \nClick here to listen online URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-radio-hour-gail-project-with-alan-christy-shelby-irena-polic-2/ LOCATION:KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-13-at-9.49.28-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171004T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171004T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170821T045621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170821T045621Z UID:10006532-1507118400-1507123800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Briohny Doyle\, "Postapocalypse Now" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nBriohny Doyle’s research positions the postapocalyptic imagination as a reply to apocalyptic forms that obliterate & totalize. Her work considers postapocalyptic literary & theoretical texts that move beyond revelation to consider the various breakdowns of capitalism through potent figures like the ruin\, the virus\, & the nomad. ​ \nBriohny Doyle is a Melbourne-based writer and academic. Her debut novel\, The Island Will Sink\, is the critically acclaimed first book published by The Lifted Brow. Her first book of nonfiction Adult Fantasy is out through Scribe in 2017. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-briohny-doyle-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171005T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171005T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170907T194015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170907T194015Z UID:10006533-1507222800-1507230000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Opening Reception: The Gail Project Exhibition - An Okinawan-American Dialogue DESCRIPTION:The Gail Project Exhibition – An Okinawan-American Dialogue at the Sesnon Gallery\, Porter College \nOpening Reception: Thursday\, October 5\, 5:00-7:00 pm\nExhibition run dates:\nThu\, Oct 5\, 2017 to Sat\, Dec 2\, 2017 \nWeekly events every Wednesday 6-8pm. \nClosed for Thanksgiving Holiday November 23- 27 \nThe Gail Project is a collaborative\, international public history project that explores the founding years of the American military occupation of Okinawa. The project is inspired by a collection of photos taken in Okinawa in 1952 by an American Army Captain: Charles Eugene Gail. The photos were generously donated to Special Collections at McHenry Library by Charles’ daughter\, Geri Gail\, and have since been made available for student research. Our team of faculty\, staff\, and undergraduate students at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, are developing a traveling exhibition of Gail’s photographs with an accompanying digital archive that is comprised of the photos\, key texts and documents\, and oral histories from both America and Okinawa. We believe that using the photographs as a lens through which to view this crucial time is relevant to populations throughout Okinawa\, Japan\, the United States and the entire Pacific region\, and we aim to establish a dialogue by shedding light on both historical and contemporary issues. \nThe project emphasizes hands-on research and creation by undergraduate students and as an innovative platform for new educational methods that encourage the use of multimedia\, social media\, archival research and travel. \nThe Gail Project is directed by Professor Alan Christy of the Department of History at UC Santa Cruz and curated by Shelby Graham of the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery at Porter College\, UC Santa Cruz. \nGallery hours:\n(through the academic year) \nTuesday – Saturday\, 12–5 p.m. \nWednesday 12-8 p.m. \nFor more information: https://gailproject.ucsc.edu/ \nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheGailProject \nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegailproject/ \nMedium: https://medium.com/the-gail-project \nTumblr: http://thegailproject.tumblr.com \nTwitter: https://twitter.com/TheGailProject URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/opening-reception-the-gail-project-exhibition-an-okinawan-american-dialogue-2/ LOCATION:Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/gail-project-0.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171005T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171005T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170923T154944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170923T154944Z UID:10006544-1507224000-1507229400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Michael Arcega DESCRIPTION:Michael Arcega is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture and installation. His research-based work revolves largely around language and sociopolitical dynamics. Directly informed by Historic narratives\, material significance\, and geography\, his subject matter deals with circumstances where power relations are unbalanced. \nAs a naturalized American\, his investigation of cultural markers are embedded in objects\, food\, architecture\, visual lexicons\, and vernacular languages. For instance\, vernacular Tagalog\, is infused with Spanish and English words\, lending itself to verbal mutation. This malleability result in wordplay and jokes that transform words like Persuading to First wedding\, Tenacious to Tennis Shoes\, and Masturbation to Mass Starvation. His practice draws from the sensibility of the insider and outsider- jumbling signifier\, material\, linguistics\, and site. \nMichael has a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited at venues including the Asian Art Museum\, Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego\, the de Young Museum in San Francisco\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, the Orange County Museum of Art\, The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu\, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston\, Cue Arts Foundation\, and the Asia Society in NY among many others. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-michael-arcega-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171006T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171006T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170809T171349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170809T171349Z UID:10006522-1507287600-1507302000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"Writing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World" Symposium DESCRIPTION:“Writing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World”\nIn the past decade\, historians and literary scholars have become increasingly interested in the global circulation of the written word. Much of this scholarship has focused on the movement of printed books. Other projects\, such as Stanford’s Mapping the Republic of Letters initiative\, have traced epistolary networks that spanned continents and oceans. But what about the cross-cultural movement of textual artifacts that weren’t books or letters? This symposium will explore the limits of book history. At what point does an object shade into being a textual artifact? How can we make space for a less Eurocentric book history by following the itineraries of objects\, like textiles\, tattoos\, or mummies\, which encoded information in ways that differed from the format of book or the letter?\n\n\n\nGuest Speakers:\nChris Heaney – University of Texas\, Austin – “Dead Archives: Inca Bodies as the Lost Founding Texts of Peru?”   – In 1989\, the social anthropologist Paul Connerton highlighted how Western scholarship privileges inscriptive   practices of history—which write\, photograph\, record\, and trap information “long after the human organism has   stopped informing”—over incorporative practices: gestures\, ceremonies\, rituals that invoke and transmit the past and   its continuities via the human body. Inspired by Connerton\, the cultural anthropologist Frank Salomon subsequently   observed that when the Spanish invaded in 1532\, they encountered a Peruvian dead that “transmit[ted] both kind of   messages”: a society headed by the ancestral mummies of Inca emperors and other pre-conquest Andeans who were   seated\, dried\, and dressed as if they were alive—arms posed in authoritative gesture—and paraded in ceremonies   whose commemorative ballads further made legible their sanctity\, nobility\, and orders of descent and importance. This   paper explores how the earliest Spanish managed their illiteracy when faced with those mummies’ inscribed   historicity; it shows how they moved from attempting to inscribe the corpse of Atahualpa as a founding text of   Christian  Peru\, to outright confiscating what we might call the ‘banned books’ of the Inca dead\, the mummies   themselves\, 27 years after the conquest begun. While other scholars have asked what the loss of those mummified   ancestors meant socially and religiously for the Inca and other Andeans\, this paper ultimately asks what their loss as ‘texts’ meant for the foundational histories of Peru written by both Spaniards and Incas between 1533 and the early seventeenth century\, many of which attempted to reproduce the absent and illegible imperial bodies at their core.\n\n\nMairin Odle – University of Alabama – Marin Odle is Assistant Professor of American Studies and teaches courses in Native American Studies and early American culture. Her research interests include   Native-newcomer relations\, the history of the body\, and how selfhood\, experience\, and identity were   narrated in early America. Her current book project investigates how cross-cultural body modification in   early America remade both physical appearances as well as ideas about identity. Focusing on indigenous   practices of tattooing and scalping\, the book traces how these practices were rapidly adopted and   transformed by colonial powers\, making them key sites of cultural contestation. \nProfessor Odle’s talk “Reading Their ‘Marckes’: English Perceptions of Tattooing as Indigenous Literacy” explores early English interpretations of Native American tattooing\, focusing on writing and art produced in response to late sixteenth-century voyages. Artists and scholars on such expeditions paid close attention to bodily appearance and inscription. Lines marked on Native bodies were then transferred—and translated—as lines within European books. Colonial observers conceived of indigenous tattooing as an important communication system\, and one that they hoped to employ for their own goals—even as they simultaneously claimed that Natives were people with “no letters”. \n  \nHosted by the Center for World History \nCo-sponsored by the “Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography at Rare Books School” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ben-breen-rare-books-conference-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Oct-6-2017-Writing-Across-Cultures.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171006T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171006T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20171003T235709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171003T235709Z UID:10005414-1507305600-1507312800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Ashwini Deo DESCRIPTION:Linguistics Colloquium 2017-2018 \nAshwini Deo\, “Alternative circumstances of evaluation and the ser/estar distinction in Spanish” \nAbstract: The Spanish copulas ser and estar have distributional and interpretational patterns that have resisted an adequate analysis. In this talk\, I work towards a unified analysis that treats the two copulas as being presuppositional variants that are differentially sensitive to properties of the circumstances at which the truth of the copular sentence is evaluated. On the proposed analysis\, estar presupposes that the prejacent is boundedly true at the evaluation circumstance. The prejacent’s bounded truth at a circumstance i at a given context of use c depends on two conditions: \n(a) there are no-weaker alternative circumstances i′ accessible at c where the prejacent is false\, and \n(b) i is a maximal verifying circumstance at c. \nCentral to the analysis is the notion of a strength ordering over alternative circumstances of evaluation — a circumstantial counterpart to the more familiar ordering over alternative propositions. Assuming that this content is conventionally associated with estar allows for an account of its distinct flavors and readings with a range of predicates. ser is shown to be associated with its own inferences that derive from its status as the presuppositionally weaker\, neutral member of the pair. \nAshwini Deo is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Ohio State University. \nAbout eight times each year\, the department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. Unless otherwise stated\, talks take place on Fridays in Humanities 1\, Room 210 at 4 p.m. during the fall quarter 2017 and at 2:30 p.m. during winter and spring quarters 2018. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ashwini-deo-alternative-circumstances-of-evaluation-and-the-serestar-distinction-in-spanish-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171010T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171010T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20171009T184359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171009T184359Z UID:10006555-1507631400-1507647600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Calamities\, Prose\, Houses: The Art And Writing of Renee Gladman DESCRIPTION:Please join us next Tuesday October 10th for a Creative/Critical symposium on the art and writing of Renee Gladman–featuring a talk and reading by the author from 10:30-12 in Hum 1 210. There will also be a later panel on Gladman’s work from 1:30-3 in Hum 1 210 featuring Mary Wilson\, Cathy Thomas\, and David Buuck. \nThis event is part of Communal Presence: New Narrative Writing Today\, a joint UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley conference on the legacy of New Narrative–a literary movement emerging from the Bay Area in the 1970s. For a full schedule of UC Berkeley readings\, film showings\, walks\, and talks\, see: https://communalpresence.com/ \n+ \nRenee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with lines\, crossings\, thresholds\, and geographies as they play out in the interstices of poetry and prose. She is the author of eleven published works\, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants\, the Ravickians—Event Factory (2010)\, The Ravickians (2011)\, Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge (2013)\, and Houses of Ravicka (forthcoming fall 2017)—as well as the recently released Prose Architectures\, her first monograph of drawings\, and Calamities\, a collection of linked essay-fictions on the intersections of writing\, drawing\, and community\, which won the 2017 CLMP Firecracker Award for Creative Non-Fiction. Recent essays and visual work have appeared in The Paris Review\, Granta\, Harper’s\, Stonecutter\, and Poetry Magazine. A 2014-15 fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and recipient of a 2016 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant and a 2017 Lannan Foundation Writing Residency in Marfa\, TX\, she makes work in New England. \n​This event is sponsored by the Department of Literature\, Living Writers\, and the Puknat Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/calamities-prose-houses-the-art-and-writing-of-renee-gladman-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/unnamed-7.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170809T172137Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170809T172137Z UID:10006523-1507723200-1507728600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Carrie Smith\, "Digital Feminist Futures: Creative Resistance\, Art Activism\, & the Affects of Political Practice" DESCRIPTION:Carrie Smith-Prei’s research examines how the digital restructures cultures of feminism\, including creative materializations & world-making practices. It asks after the future of feminist craft & activism in the digital sphere & the meaning (and limits) of global feminist solidarity\, intersectional community-building\, & transnational collaboration in developing just futures on & offline. \nSmith-Prei Associate Professor of of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-carrie-smith-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170922T164347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T164347Z UID:10006540-1507726800-1507741200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:IDEA Hub Fall Open House DESCRIPTION:Engage in social and creative enterprise with a growing community of entrepreneurs at UCSC. Learn about social and creative innovation projects and opportunities. Tour the OpenLap incubator spaces. \nWednesday\, October 11\, 2017 \n1:00-5:00 p.m. \nDigital Arts Research Center \nRoom 108 \nSchedule of Events: \n1:00 p.m.   Information Botths OpenLab Tours Lunch Buffet \n1:45 p.m.   Introductions \n2:00 p.m.  Current Project Presentations Pitches: Funding Opportunties \n3:30 p.m.   Networking Team Formations URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/idea-hub-fall-open-house-2/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/IDEA_hub-open-house.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20171004T213701Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171004T213701Z UID:10006553-1507730400-1507737600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium: Fatima Mojaddedi DESCRIPTION:Fatima Mojaddedi\, “Body Mike: Alternating Words on the Afghan Frontier” \nThis talk examines how the U.S. military’s counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan relies on a fetishistic misrecognition of speaking as inspiration\, and takes linguistic expression as the dissemination of terroristic violence through oral networks of exchange and emboldening. It suggests that the more obvious powers of language (particularly a language that demands its own translation (English) into one that signifies what Afghans do not know (Persian/ Pashto)\, doubles as a harbinger of wartime death and surveillance.  It illustrates how military translators mediate the exchange of words and sense-making\, and participate in the construction of a dangerous rural subjectivity as the exemplification of ineradicable danger. \nLinguistic and biometric practices deployed in intercultural translation within military campaigns\, while newly commodified and bearing much greater and more devastating consequences\, are also the ideological heirs of an earlier imperial discourse on nomadism and irregular frontier movement in the subcontinent. This now transpires in contexts of counterinsurgency\, and speech has come to signify collaboration or guilt (apostasy or terrorism). It informs the contemporary fear about the status of dialect in the Afghan countryside\, where rural subjects are thought to be especially (and dangerously) itinerant\, taking their dialect with them in order to evade military interrogation and biometric capture. \nFatima Mojaddedi\, a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Anthropology Department at UCBerkeley\, completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology at Columbia University in 2016. Her ethnographic research\, based in Kabul\, Afghanistan\, considers the nature of contemporary warfare\, language\, and questions of cultural representation and catastrophe. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-fatima-mojaddedi-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/0001-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171012T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171012T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20171004T185503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171004T185503Z UID:10006550-1507821300-1507827600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium: Jonathan Cohen\, "Many Molyneux Questions" DESCRIPTION:“Many Molyneux Questions”\nMohan Matthen and Jonathan Cohen \nMolyneux asked whether a newly sighted man would recognize and distinguish a sphere and a cube by sight alone\, assuming that he could previously do this by touch. The most historically important responses to Molyneux arise from views that apply uniformly to questions about the transferability of representations of (not just shape\, but) any arbitrary feature shared by any two modalities. Our starting point is that this is over-simple. The scientific literature contains investigations of many such questions; some are answered positively\, others negatively. The answer to each question is empirical and each has to be investigated separately. Given this fragmentation\, we suggest that the most fruitful approach to MQ is “dimensional:” we identify and organize the problem around parameters that pose processing difficulties for various modalities\, and ask how these difficulties affect MQ. This approach yields many novel MQs\, some new\, others re-applications of problems posed in other contexts. \nJonathan Cohen is a Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego. He specializes in Philosophy of mind\, language\, and perception\, particularly as these are informed by the cognitive sciences; color and color vision. \nAdvanced Reading: Molyneux Questions\, p. 364 (pdf p. 186) to p. 399 (pdf p. 203). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/philosophy-colloquium-jonathan-cohen-many-molyneux-questions-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171012T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171012T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170923T155714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170923T155714Z UID:10006545-1507828800-1507834200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o DESCRIPTION:Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o\, novelist and theorist of post-colonial literature\, is currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Irvine\, USA. He was born in Kenya\, in 1938 into a large peasant family. He was educated at Kamandura\, Manguu and Kinyogori primary schools; Alliance High School\, all in Kenya; Makerere University College (then a campus of London University)\, Kampala\, Uganda; and the University of Leeds\, Britain. \nIn his latest book\, Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening\, Ngũgĩ recounts the four years he spent in Makerere University in Kampala\, Uganda\, where he found his voice as a playwright\, journalist\, and novelist. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-ngugi-wa-thiongo-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171013T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171013T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170912T181022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T193915Z UID:10006535-1507892400-1507897800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: Pedagogy Beyond the College Classroom - Careers in Curriculum Development & Instructional Design DESCRIPTION:“Pedagogy Beyond the College Classroom: Careers in Curriculum Development & Instructional Design” is the first event for the 2017-2018 PhD+ series. Three panelists who completed their PhDs in the humanities at UC Santa Cruz will will discuss their careers in curriculum development and instructional design and offer insights into transferring skillsets and content knowledge into this field of work. A moderated question and answer period will follow the panel presentation. \nPanelists\nJoanna Meadvin\nPhD Literature\, 2016\nSobrato Early Academic Language Model Trainer\nSobrato Foundation \nLaura Rosenzweig\nPhD History\, 2013\nInstructional Designer\nUniversity of California Office of the President \nMichele Ryan\nPhD History\, 2003\nInstructional Design Consultant\nGoogle Inc. \nModerator\nSarah Papazoglakis\nPhD Candidate\, Literature \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, and much more. \nLunch provided to all attendees. \nPlease RSVP below: \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-pedagogy-beyond-the-college-classroom-careers-in-curriculum-development-instructional-design-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171017T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171017T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20171002T230104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171002T230104Z UID:10005413-1508256000-1508261400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Taking Scholarship Public: White Supremacy\, Medieval Studies\, and Mass Media DESCRIPTION:The “unofficial medievalist to CNN\,” David M. Perry is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in CNN.com\, The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, The Guardian\, The Washington Post\, The Nation\, The Los Angeles Times\, Rolling Stone\, the Chronicle of Higher Education\, Salon\, Chicago Tribune\, and many other venues. In addition to commenting on Medieval History in the news\, he focuses on issues of history\, higher education\, and disability rights. He is currently at work on Cult of Compliance: Disability Is Not A Crime\, expected from Beacon Press in 2018. \nTrained as a medieval historian\, Perry was formerly Associate Professor of History at Dominican University. His book Sacred Plunder: Venice and the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade was published by Penn State University Press in 2015. \nSponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research\, Cowell College\, and the Literature Department. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/taking-scholarship-public-white-supremacy-medieval-studies-and-mass-media-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171018T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171018T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170809T172433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170809T172433Z UID:10006524-1508328000-1508333400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:María Inés La Greca: "The Collective Shout of 'Ni una menos' ('Not one less') in the Streets\, the Media & the University: Feminists & Women’s Movement Against Gender Violence in Argentina" DESCRIPTION:María Inés La Greca’s research focuses on the relationship between narrativity\, performativity and gender. In light of Judith Butler’s work\, especially her recent ethical interest on narrative\, psychoanalysis & subject formation\, her aim is to offer a critical reflection on discourse\, embodiment & identity constitution in gender theory and feminist writing. \nInés La Greca is an adjunct professor at Tres de Febrero National University in Argentina. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-professor-la-greca-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171019T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171019T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20171007T181058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171007T181058Z UID:10006554-1508427000-1508434200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Digital Humanities Happy Hour DESCRIPTION:Share your digital research with the DH community!  \nJoin the DH Research Cluster to learn more about DH research on campus at an informal happy hour. We invite researchers across campus to share their work with a short\, lightening style presentation. The introductions will be open-mic style\, do you do not have to prepare in advance. This is an opportunity to meet new colleagues\, share your work\, and recognize mutual research interests. \n\nAll students\, faculty\, staff welcome. You do not have to present to attend. \nFood and drinks courtesy of the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-humanities-happy-hour-2-2/ LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171019T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171019T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170911T222504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170911T222504Z UID:10006534-1508439600-1508446800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:No Place Like Home DESCRIPTION:No Place Like Home is a campus-community event to unveil the findings of our county-wide research on the affordable housing crisis in Santa Cruz. We will share the results of over 1400 surveys and interviews with local residents an dhow they are experiencing the housing crisis. The event also features a visual and literary art exhibit on the meaning on “home”. Finally\, the event kicks off Affordable Housing week\, with a wide-range of county organizations and community groups participating in an open discussion of responses to the crisis and sharing information about strategies\, campaigns\, and upcoming events seeking a way forward. \nNo Place Like Home is on-going research project funded by the UC Humanities Research Initiative and an extension of the Working for Dignity program of the Center for Labor Studies\, the Critical Sustainabilities Project\, Department of Sociology\, Division of Social Sciences\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Community Bridges\, Community Action Board\, and the Economic Justice Alliance. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/no-place-like-home-2-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/no-place-like-home-flyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171019T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171019T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170923T160301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170923T160301Z UID:10006546-1508439600-1508446800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Việt Thanh Nguyễn DESCRIPTION:Việt Thanh Nguyễn’s novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Other honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize\, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America\, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association\, the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction\, a Gold Medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards\, and the Asian/Pacific American Literature Award from the Asian/Pacific American Librarian Association. His other books are Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction) and Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His current book is the bestselling short story collection\, The Refugees.  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-viet-thanh-nguyen-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171020T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171020T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20171004T000026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171004T000026Z UID:10005415-1508515200-1508522400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Judith Aissen DESCRIPTION:Linguistics Colloquium 2017-2018 \nJudith Aissen is Professor Emeritus in the Linguistics Department at UCSC. Her research focuses on morphosyntax\, especially in the Mayan languages\, especially Tzotzil\, a language spoken in Chiapas\, Mexico. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-judith-aissen-uc-santa-cruz-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171025T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171025T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170809T172929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170809T172929Z UID:10006525-1508932800-1508938200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Carla Freccero\, "Queer/Animal/Theory: Psychoanalysis & Subjectivity" DESCRIPTION:Psychoanalysis is queer insofar as it does not presume a model of sexuality & gender from which to extrapolate a normative outcome. Likewise\, psychoanalysis does not presume “the human” as the starting point for analyzing how adult human subjectivity is achieved. How might we describe a non-anthropocentric subjectivity in psychoanalytic & queer theoretical terms? \nCarla Freccero is Distinguished Professor of Literature and History of Consciousness\, and Professor of Feminist Studies\, at UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-2-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171025T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171025T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20171019T205544Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171019T205544Z UID:10006556-1508950800-1508958000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Informal Reading Seminar on Assembly by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with Michael Hardt’s lecture on Friday October 27\, we will hold an informal reading seminar for faculty and graduate students on Wednesday October 25 from 5-7pm (Humanities 1\, Room 210) to discuss excerpts from Assembly (Oxford\, 2017). Please email sjetha@ucsc.edu for a PDF of the reading (Ch. 1-3\, 5\, 14-15; though you are welcome to read more of the book if you can). Please note that Hardt himself will not be there; this is simply an occasion to discuss his and Negri’s work in anticipation of his talk. \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies and Center for Emerging Worlds URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/informal-reading-seminar-on-assembly-by-michael-hardt-and-antonio-negri-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171026T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171026T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170922T164911Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T164911Z UID:10006541-1509022800-1509033600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Digital Humanities: A Virtual Reality Open House DESCRIPTION:Explore the new DSC VizLab and experience Virtual Reality. We invite you to test the HTC VIVE headset\, Samsung Gear VR\, and Google Cardboard Headset. DSC Staff will be available to answer questions and introduce you to available resources and hardware.\nIf you’ve never tried VR before\, this is your chance. \nLocation: Digital Scholarship Commons (Ground Floor McHenry Library) \nCo-Sponsored by the Digital Scholarship Commons and the Institute for Humanties Research URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-virtual-reality-open-house-2/ LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry Library END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171026T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171026T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170923T160516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170923T160516Z UID:10006547-1509038400-1509043800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Renee Tajima-Peña DESCRIPTION:Professor Renee Tajima-Peña is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker whose credits include the documentaries\, Calavera Highway\, Skate Manzanar\, Labor Women\, My America…or Honk if You Love Buddha and Who Killed Vincent Chin? Her films have premiered at the Cannes\, Locarno\, New Directors/New Films\, San Francisco\, Sundance and Toronto film festivals and the Whitney Biennial. \nHer current works are the documentary and transmedia project\, No Más Bebés Por Vida (No More Babies For Life) about the sterilization of Mexican-origin women at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center during the 1960s and 70s\, and an interactive history documentary and video game-based learning project on the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans\, Building History 3.0. \nTajima-Peña has been deeply involved in the Asian American independent film community as an activist\, writer and filmmaker.  She was the director at Asian Cine-Vision in New York and a founding member of the Center for Asian American Media (formerly National Asian American Telecommunications Association.  As a writer\, she was a film critic for The Village Voice\, a cultural commentator for National Public Radio and editor of Bridge: Asian American Perspectives. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-renee-tajima-pena-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171027T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171027T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170809T174343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170809T174343Z UID:10006526-1509120000-1509127200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Michael Hardt: "Where have all the leaders gone?" DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies and the Institute for Humanities Research presents: \n“Where Have All the Leaders Gone?”\nEach year\, we continue to witness the eruption of “leaderless” social movements.  From North Africa and the Middle East to Europe\, the Americas\, and East Asia\, movements have left journalists\, political analysts\, police forces\, and governments disoriented and perplexed.  Activists too have struggled to understand and evaluate the power and effectiveness of horizontal movements.  Why have the movements\, which express the needs and desires of so many\, not been able to achieve lasting change and a more just society?  Many assume that if only social movements could find new leaders they would return to their earlier glory and be able to sustain and achieve projects of social transformation and liberation.  Where\, they ask\, are the new Martin Luther King Jr.s\, Rudi Dutschkes\, Patrice Lumumbas\, and Stephen Bikos?  Where have all the leaders gone? \nIn this lecture Professor Hardt will use examples from past theory and practice to situate and clarify some of the issues and alternatives involved in the organization of social movements today. \nEvent Photos\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nClick here for directions\, where to park\, and how to find the Kresge Town Hall. \n  \n \nAbout Professor Hardt: Michael Hardt teaches at Duke University\, where he is co-director of the Social Movements Lab. He is author of Gilles Deleuze and co-author (with Antonio Negri) of six books. Their Empire trilogy (Empire\, Multitude\, and Commonwealth) analyzes the contemporary capitalist global order and investigates the existing resources for creating alternatives oriented toward democracy and liberation. Their most recent book\, Assembly\, explores how social movements today can enact lasting political transformations. Michael Hardt also currently serves as the editor of The South Atlantic Quarterly. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. \nCO-SPONSORED BY THE LITERATURE DEPARTMENT\, THE POLITICS DEPARTMENT\, AND THE HISTORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS DEPARTMENT. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/michael-hardt-where-have-all-the-leaders-gone-2/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Leaders_Final.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171101T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171101T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170929T184333Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170929T184333Z UID:10005412-1509537600-1509541200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Humanities Radio Hour: "Merchant of Venice" with Sean Keilen\, Nathaniel Deutsch\, Irena Polic DESCRIPTION:Please tune in to KZSC 88.1 FM for Artists on Art\nHumanities Radio Hour \nClick here to listen online. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-radio-hour-merchant-of-venice-with-sean-keilen-nathaniel-deutsch-irena-polic-2/ LOCATION:KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/artist-on-art.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171101T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171101T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170809T174604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170809T174604Z UID:10006527-1509537600-1509543000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Najat Abdulhaq\, "Unconventional Revision of Narratives: The Emergence of the 'Arab Jew' in Contemporary Arabic Literature" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nFor decades\, two official nationalist narratives\, Arab-Egyptian & Israeli\, dominated the discourse on the history of Egypt’s Jews. Recently\, a different narrative is emerging in the Arabic speaking sphere\, with documentaries\, films & novels taking a cardinal role in this process. How and why is this emergence taking place? \nNajat Abdulhaq is the author of Jewish and Greek Communities in Egypt: Entrepreneurship and Business Before Nasser (I. B. Tauris). \nThis week’s Cultural Studies colloquium is co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-3-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171102T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171102T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170809T175937Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170809T175937Z UID:10005390-1509638400-1509645600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Marina Rustow: "The Cairo Geniza and the Middle East’s Archive Problem" DESCRIPTION:The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies Presents:\nMarina Rustow: “The Cairo Geniza and the Middle East’s Archive Problem”  \nThe Cairo Geniza\, a cache of 400\,000 manuscript pages preserved in a medieval Egyptian synagogue\, has yielded many unexpected finds\, but perhaps none so unexpected as thousands of documents in Arabic script from the archives of the Fatimid caliphs (969–1171). How did papers from a state archive in Cairo find their way into the hands of the Jewish scribes who reused them as scrap paper for compositions in Hebrew script? Did Jews who handled government documents know what they were looking at? This is a period from which only a tiny number of documents is believed to have survived. The very abundance and ubiquity of documentation in the Geniza suggest otherwise\, and have much to say about the largest Jewish community in the medieval world and about the culture of legal and political rights in the Middle East. \nEvent Photos\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nMarina Rustow is the Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East and Professor of History at Princeton University\, where she also directs the Princeton Geniza Lab. She is the author of Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate (2008). In 2015\, she was named a MacArthur Fellow. \n  \nEvery year\, we honor Helen Diller\, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz by hosting a public lecture series on campus by an internationally recognized scholar. This event is made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Endowment and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \n  \n  \nPlease direct any questions or disability accommodation requests to ihr@ucsc.edu or 831-459-1274. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/marina-rustov-the-cairo-geniza-and-the-middle-easts-archive-problem-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Marina-Rustow-11.2.17.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171102T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171102T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170923T160806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170923T160806Z UID:10006548-1509643200-1509648600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Sesshu Foster DESCRIPTION:Sesshu Foster is a poet\, teacher\, and community activist born and raised in East Los Angeles. He earned his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and returned to LA to continue teaching\, writing\, and community organizing. His first collection of poetry\, City Terrace Field Manual (1996)\, celebrates the neighborhood Foster grew up in. He has said that representing his community as one of his central tasks. He is the author of American Loneliness: Selected Poems (2006). His third collection of poetry\, World Ball Notebook (2009)\, won an American Book Award and an Asian American Literary Award for Poetry. Foster is the author of the novel of speculative fiction Atomik Aztex (2005)\, which won the Believer Book Award and imagines an America free of European colonizers. \nFoster’s work has been published in The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry (2000)\, Language for a New Century: Poetry from the Middle East\, Asia and Beyond (2008)\, and State of the Union: 50 Political Poems (2008). He coedited the anthology Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry (1989). Foster taught in East LA for 25 years as well as at the University of Iowa\, the California Institute for the Arts\, Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics\, and the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He lives in Los Angeles. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-sesshu-foster-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171103T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171103T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170913T162739Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T194049Z UID:10006536-1509706800-1509712200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+ : Gateway to Digital Humanities - an Introduction to Digital Methodologies & Resources at UCSC DESCRIPTION:This co-led event provides students with first-hand experience working in DH\, resources to continue building upon this project\, and a larger discussion regarding the possibilities for individual and collaborative digital research. Rachel Deblinger will open with a 45 minute hands-on workshop\, introducing the process of building a dataset and visualizing data as an analytical method. She will also share the resources available through the Digital Scholarship Commons (DSC) and discuss the range of digital skills sought on the academic job market. Following this workshop and discussion\, Zac Zimmer will talk about his personal experience with DH communities as well as the need to engage with digital concerns in traditional scholarly pursuits. Together\, they present DH not as a set of tools or skills\, but as a way of learning about and developing a critical vocabulary for a understanding the contemporary digital world. This includes the network interfaces we use daily\, the tools we employ to collect and organize research materials\, etc. For this session\, advance registration  (below) will be required. Please review this handout: https://docs.google.com/a/ucsc.edu/document/d/1u1CQq2SNOj-wVduFclQTQcLGSckE46MpJ1ifnhRH2mU/edit?usp=sharing\, and bring the requested materials to the session. \nEvent Photos\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nPhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, and much more. \nLunch provided to all attendees. \nPlease RSVP below: \n\nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-gateway-to-digital-humanities-an-introduction-to-digital-methodologies-resources-on-the-ucsc-campus-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171103T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171103T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20171020T195807Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T195807Z UID:10006557-1509717600-1509724800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium: "Agrarian Questions in Urban India" DESCRIPTION:Fall 2017 Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: “Agrarian Questions in Urban India” \nVinay Gidwani\, University of Minnesota\nPriti Ramamurthy\, University of Washington \nBased on recent life histories of urban migrants who work within informal sector occupations in Delhi and Hyderabad\, we ask how “agrarian questions” orient workers’ attitudes to forms of labor and habitation. By also considering gender and caste\, we ask how these\, as embodied imprints of the agrarian\, impose limit conditions on possible politics for urban migrants. We explore two propositions: First\, workers are constantly striving to disarticulate from the sway of value\, and the growth of urban informal economies has made this both necessary and more possible. Second\, agrarian origins\, when mediated through gender and caste\, become limit conditions on possible autonomy. The issue is not only proscriptions on forms of labor\, but also how workers – females more acutely than males – remain orientated to agrarian caste relations and norms even when they work in the city (and are the enablers of men’s economic trajectories). In short\, we foreground the spatial dialectics of social reproduction: how social reproduction straddles village and city\, and is at once oppressive and nurturing. \nVinay Gidwani is a professor of Geography\, Environment\, and Society at the Institute forGlobal Studies\, University of Minnesota. He studies the interactions of labor processes and ecologies in agrarian and urban settings\, as well as capitalist transformations of these. \nPriti Ramamurthy\, a professor in Gender\, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington\, is an ethnographer\, who has returned to the same villages in the Telangana region of southern India for three decades\, to understand the relationship between the social reproduction of families\, lives and livelihoods and processes of agrarian transformation. \nPresented by the UCSC Feminist Studies Department and the Center for South Asian Studies\, with generous contributions from the UCSC Division of the Humanities\, UCSC Arts Department\, and UCSC Economics Department URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-agrarian-questions-in-urban-india-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/0001-2-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171106T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171106T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20171103T192334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171103T192334Z UID:10006559-1509984000-1509991200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Opening reception for "Inside the Gail Project: An Experiential Research Odyssey" DESCRIPTION:On November 6 from 4-6 pm\, the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery in Cowell College will be hosting an opening reception for “Inside the Gail Project: An Experiential Research Odyssey\,” a companion show to the current exhibition at the Sesnon Gallery. This exhibition highlights student research and the active learning that takes place in the Gail Project. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/opening-reception-for-inside-the-gail-project-an-experiential-research-odyssey-2/ LOCATION:Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, Cowell College\, Cowell College‎ 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/0001-4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171107T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171107T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20171101T182433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171101T182433Z UID:10006558-1510070400-1510075800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Before and After: How We Redesigned Courses for Educational Equity and Active Learning DESCRIPTION:Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now Workshop Series \nBefore and After: How We Redesigned Courses for Educational Equity and Active Learning\nwith Alan Christy and Jody Greene \nThe Institute for Humanities Research cluster “Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now” is hosting a new workshop series that features educators in humanities fields at UC Santa Cruz sharing changes they have made to their teaching—ranging from changes to in-class policies and styles\, to assignment re-design\, to whole course transformations. The workshop series seeks to promote collective conversations about how we teach in the humanities now\, and is open to all graduate students and faculty. \nIn the first workshop\, “Before and After: How We Redesigned a Course for Educational Equity and Active Learning\,” Alan Christy (Associate Professor of History) and Jody Greene (Professor of Literature\, Feminist Studies\, and History of Consciousness) will discuss how they transformed lecture or survey courses to enhance educational equity and active learning in their classrooms. \nTransforming “The Japanese Empire”\nAssociate Professor Alan Christy will discuss the transformation of a survey history course into a research seminar driven by the experience of discovery and focused on three key skills for researchers: asking good questions\, finding sources\, and articulating value. \nTransforming “The Eighteenth-Century English Novel”\nProfessor Jody Greene will discuss the transformation of a traditional lecture course into a small course for entering transfer students\, including the introduction of sequenced writing assignments\, structured in-class activities\, and presentations on the “hidden” aspects of the curriculum—e.g. how to take notes\, how to read for a literature course\, and how to write effectively within the discipline. \n**If you’re interested in joining the research cluster and would like to be included on the cluster email list\, please contact Jody Greene at jgreene@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/before-and-after-how-we-redesigned-courses-for-educational-equity-and-active-learning-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171107T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171107T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170918T175243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T204556Z UID:10006537-1510077600-1510084800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Freedom\, Justice\, Difference: The Merchant of Venice Now DESCRIPTION:Event Video:\n \nFreedom\, Justice\, Difference: The Merchant of Venice Now 11.7.17 from IHR on Vimeo. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nKarin Coonrod\, the Founding Director of Compagnia de’ Colombari\, will join Nathaniel Deutsch and Sean Keilen for a public discussion of her path-breaking production of The Merchant of Venice in the Venice Ghetto (2016). Join us to discover why Shakespeare’s play about Jews and Christians in Renaissance Italy is a key text for deciding how to be free and just in the global society we inhabit now. With introductory remarks by Mike Ryan (Santa Cruz Shakespeare) and Murray Baumgarten. \nDoors open at 6:00pm \nEvent begins at 6:30pm \nRSVP Appreciated\, Seating is first come\, first serve. Overflow space will be available. \nPlease RSVP for the event here. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact the IHR at ihr@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274. \nSponsored by Institute for Humanities Research\, Center for Jewish Studies\, Shakespeare Workshop\, Porter College\, and Arts Division. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/freedom-justice-difference-the-merchant-of-venice-now-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Freedom_Final_A.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171108T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171108T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170809T174852Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170809T174852Z UID:10005388-1510142400-1510147800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Nirvikar Singh\, "The Other One Percent? Indians in Trump’s America" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nWhat is the selection process that governed the migration of people of Indian origin to the United States? How has that selection been important in determining of the economic success of this group? This talk highlights the diversity within this broad group\, & the lessons of that diversity\, and concludes by exploring some of the challenges that Indian Americans face as a minority in the contemporary United States & the implications of events in contemporary India. \nNirvikar Singh holds the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair of Sikh and Punjabi Studies at UC Santa Cruz. He also directs the UCSC South Asian Studies Initiative within the Division of Social Sciences. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-4-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171109T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171109T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20171004T185226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171004T185226Z UID:10005418-1510248000-1510253400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Toni Jensen DESCRIPTION:Toni Jensen’s first story collection\, From the Hilltop\, was published through the Native Storiers Series at the University of Nebraska Press. Her stories have been published in journals such as Ecotone\, Denver Quarterly\, and Fiction International and have been anthologized in New Stories from the South\, Best of the Southwest\, and Best of the West: Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri. She’s working on a collection-in-progress\, called Cowboyistan\, about fracking and the sex trafficking of Indigenous women. She teaches in the Programs in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas. She is Métis. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-toni-jensen-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171115T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171115T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170809T180153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170809T180153Z UID:10005392-1510747200-1510752600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:On Barak\, "Against Energy: Provincializing Thermodynamics between Aden and Port Said" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nDespite feigning perpetuity\, “energy” is a child of its time\, the nineteenth century. Born from the related challenges of steam engineering and British imperialism its legacies still haunt and limit our thinking on matters ranging from fossil fuels to race\, from labor to the underground. This talk seeks to situate the emblematic energy source – coal – back in its imperial context\, revealing what may be called “coalonialism” at play in the territories between the two major global fueling stations of the century\, Aden and Port Said. Such acts of provincializing flesh out alternative ways for regarding fossil fuels\, including ethical\, political and environmental insights that the science of thermodynamics helped evaporate. \nBarak is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern & African History at Tel Aviv University. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-5-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171115T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171115T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170922T165136Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T165136Z UID:10006542-1510750800-1510754400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Digital Humanities: Intro to Scalar Workshop DESCRIPTION:Online Publishing and Non-Linear Argumentation\nThis introductory workshop is designed to let you start using Scalar\, an online publishing platform. The workshop will focus on adding media content to Scalar and creating non-linear relationships. This is a hands on opportunity: bring ideas and content to the workshop. You will leave ready to explore and build on your own. \nLocation: Digital Scholarship Commons (Ground Floor McHenry Library) \nCo-Sponsored by the Digital Scholarship Commons and the Institute for Humanties Research URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/intro-to-scalar-workshop-2/ LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry Library END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171116T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171116T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20171108T232624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171108T232624Z UID:10006560-1510848000-1510855200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Reading Seminar with On Barak\, "Strands of Tentacular Thinking" DESCRIPTION:The “Race\, Violence\, Inequality\, and the Anthropocene” Research Cluster invites faculty and graduate students to a reading seminar with On Barak\, Senior Lecturer in the History Department at Tel Aviv University. Dr. Barak is a historian of the modern Middle East\, specializing in the introduction of science and technology into non-Western settings. He is the author of On Time: Technology and Temporality in Modern Egypt (UC Press\, 2013).  We will be meeting in Humanities 408\, on Thursday\, November 16\, from 4:00-6:00 pm. \nStrands of Tentacular Thinking: \nWhat can the non-Western humanities offer in the face of climate change – a phenomenon usually situated squarely in the domain of technoscience and entrenched in the fossil-fueled European Industrial Revolution and capitalism? A chapter-draft from On Barak’s book project Coalonialism grapples with such questions by drawing on nineteenth-century translations of geology books into Arabic and Ottoman Turkish. The reading seminar puts this chapter in dialogue with works by Donna Haraway and Peter Godfrey-Smith. Read together\, these texts constitute an attempt to recruit the octopus – a creature whose arms are said to be smarter than its brain – to reconsider imperial flows of concepts and power.​ \nSeminar readings: \nStaying with Trouble – Donna Haraway  \nThe Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life – Peter Godfrey-Smith  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reading-seminar-with-on-barak-strands-of-tentacular-thinking-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 408 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171116T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171116T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20170324T163214Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170324T163214Z UID:10006486-1510853400-1510862400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Dorianne Laux DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThe Eighth Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading presented by the Institute for Humanities Research and the Living Writers Series featuring Dorianne Laux Thursday November 16\, 2017 at 5:30pm \nPoet Gary Young\, will host the program\, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1\,000 prize). This annual free event will have first-come\, first-served seating. Doors will open at 5:20 PM. The reading will conclude with a book signing and reception. \nThe Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet\, teacher\, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus\, a nationally acclaimed poet\, called Santa Cruz his home for more than fifty years. This annual poetry series continues Mort’s tradition of bringing acclaimed poets to Santa Cruz County\, continues to acknowledge the significant role poetry has played in our community’s history\, and works to maintain poetry’s influence in our county’s culture. \nFree Admission \nDoors will open at 5:20pm\, event starts at 5:30pm \nBook signing and reception to follow \nParking information and directions:\nPlease park at the Cowell/Stevenson Parking lot 109 (map here: http://maps.ucsc.edu/sites/default/files/Humanities_and_Social_Sciences_Facility.pdf). Follow path from lot 109 to Humanities Lecture Hall. Permits are $4.00 and attendants will be present at parking lot to sell permits to event attendees. For disability accommodations\, please contact ihr@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274. \nAbout Dorianne Laux: Dorianne Laux’s fifth collection\, The Book of Men\, was awarded The Paterson Prize. Her fourth book of poems\, Facts About the Moon won The Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Laux is also the author of Awake; What We Carry\, a finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award; Smoke; as well as a fine small press edition\, The Book of Women. She is the co-author of the celebrated text The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. Laux teaches poetry in the Program in Creative Writing at North Carolina State University and is a founding faculty of Pacific University’s Low Residency MFA Program. \nAbout Morton Marcus: The Morton Marcus Poetry Reading event commemorates Santa Cruz poet Morton Marcus who was a poet\, author\, teacher\, film critic\, as well as an activist for the arts. Born in New York City\, Morton spent most of his professional life in Santa Cruz\, California\, and he is strongly associated with its poetry and art community. For more information visit www.mortonmarcus.com \nVisit the Morton Marcus Archive in Special Collections at UCSC: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8fx79zs/entire_text/. \nThis community event is co-sponsored by: The Institute for Humanities Research\, Living Writers Series\, Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Special Collections & Archives\, Cowell College\, Porter College\, Ow Family Properties\, Poetry Santa Cruz\, Cabrillo College English Department\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Santa Cruz Writes. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/morton-marcus-poetry-reading-dorianne-laux-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/08_Poster_1-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171117T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171117T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20171004T000415Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171004T000415Z UID:10005416-1510934400-1510941600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Brian Dillon DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics presents: \nBrian Dillon \n“Process and representation in morphosyntactic processing: A psychophysical approach using Signal Detection Theory”\n \nAbstract:\nIntuitive acceptability judgments have long formed the empirical foundation of syntactic and (to a lesser extent) psycholinguistic theories (Schütze\, 1996). Despite their centrality\, there remain many open issues in the collection\, analysis\, and interpretation of acceptability judgment data. One important thread of research in experimental syntax addresses these issues by borrowing methodology from psychophysics\, such as magnitude estimation (Bard et al. 1996; Cowart\, 1997)\, to more precisely model the relationship between linguistic stimuli and perceived acceptability. \nIn this talk I will follow these researchers in treating intuitions of acceptability as psychological evidence. Accordingly\, I will argue that acceptability judgments can be fruitfully understood as psychophysical data. To this end\, I will describe a framework for analyzing acceptability judgment data using Signal Detection Theory (Bader & Haussler\, 2010; Macmillan & Creelman\, 2005). This approach offers an explicit model of how the underlying percept of acceptability is reflected in experimental measures of acceptability\, such as judgments in a rating task. \nTo illustrate this approach\, I survey a series of studies that investigate diverse illusory agreement licensing phenomena (“agreement attraction”) in English using untimed acceptability judgment measures (joint work with Charles Clifton\, Christopher Hammerly\, Joshua Levy\, and Adrian Staub). I report several results. First\, untimed judgment measure mirror the patterns seen in more ‘online’ measures of sentence comprehension. Second\, the untimed judgment data exhibit surprisingly little evidence of contamination from slow\, ‘deliberative’ processes (cf. Bader & Haussler\, 2010). Third\, and perhaps most interestingly\, this analysis of the judgment data yields unique insights into the cognitive processes and representations that underly agreement attraction effects. In particular\, the judgment data lend support to models that analyze illusory agreement errors as the result of mis-identification of an agreement controller in working memory (e.g. Badecker & Kuminiak\, 2007; Wagers et al.\, 2009)\, rather than models that locate the error in a noisy representation of the morphosyntactic features of the agreement controller (e.g. Eberhard\, Cutting & Bock\, 2005). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-brian-dillon-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/brian.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171118T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171118T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104308 CREATED:20171004T000900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181128T211102Z UID:10005417-1510999200-1511024400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:SPOT (Syntax-Prosody in OT) Workshop DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThis is a one-day IHR-sponsored workshop (Saturday\, Nov. 18\, 2017)\, called SPOT (“Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory”\, which is part of a research project aiming to create a computational platform that generates prosodic candidate sets from syntactic structure. The syntax-prosody interface is the study of how syntactic (grammatical) structures are mapped onto the prosodic structures in different languages. Several strands of work in prosodic theory have recently converged on a number of common themes\, from different directions\, broadly couched in Optimality Theory. Selkirk (2011) has developed a vastly simplified approach to the syntax-prosody mapping which distinguishes only three levels (word\, phrase\, and clause)\, and syntactic constituents are systematically made to correspond to phonological domains (“Match Theory”). In an independent line of research\, a long string of papers reaching back into the 1980s has convincingly demonstrated that recursive structures are by no means an exclusive property of syntax\, but also play a crucial role in phonology. One of the hallmarks of Match Theory is the idea that the main force interfering with syntax-prosody isomorphism is not some kind of non-isomorphic mapping algorithm flattening out the structure\, as first contemplated in SPE (Chomsky and Halle 1968\, 372) and more fully worked out in later proposals\, such as the edge-based theory built on one-sided alignment. It is rather the effect of genuine phonological wellformedness constraints on prosodic structure. \nBesides presenting the pilot SPOT program for comments\, the workshop will consist of research talks focused on the syntax-prosody interface by both invited speakers from the East Coast and Europe and Bay Area researchers. \nMore information about the IHR SPOT Research Cluster: http://ihr.ucsc.edu/portfolio/syntax-prosody-in-optimality-theory-spot/ \nPROGRAM \nSPOT Program: Saturday\, Nov. 18\, 2017 \n9:15am – 10:00am Pre-workshop coffee/tea\, bagels\, pastries and fruit \n10:00am -11:00am “Match Theory and the Asymmetry Problem: Intonational phrase marking in Stockholm Swedish” (abstract and handouts)\nShinichiro Ishihara (Lund University) \n11:15am -12:00pm “Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory” (abstract and handouts) Jenny Bellik and Nick Kalivoda (UC Santa Cruz) \n12:00pm -1:00pm Mexican buffet lunch \n1:00pm – 2:00pm“Syntactic Constituency Spell-Out through Match Constraints” (abstract and handouts)\nLisa Selkirk (UMass/Amherst) \n2:15pm – 3:00pm“Syntactic Constituency Spell-Out through Match Constraints” (abstract and handouts)\nNicholas Rolle (UC Berkeley) \n3:00pm -3:30pm Coffee Break \n3:30pm – 4:15pm“Syntactic Constituency Spell-Out through Match Constraints” (abstract and handouts)\nRyan Bennett\, Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz)\, and Emily Elfner (York University) \n4:30pm – 6:30pm Post-workshop reception \nFor more information contact Junko Ito (ito@ucsc.edu) or Armin Mester (mester@ucsc.edu) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/spot-syntax-prosody-in-ot-workshop-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/SPOT-for-event.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171129T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171129T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20170809T180821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170809T180821Z UID:10005394-1511956800-1511962200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jenny Reardon\, "The Postgenomic Condition: Meaning and Justice After the Genome" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nJenny Reardon’s research draws into focus questions about identity\, justice and democracy that are often silently embedded in scientific ideas and practices\, particularly in modern genomic research. Her training spans molecular biology\, the history of biology\, science studies\, feminist and critical race studies\, and the sociology of science\, technology and medicine. \nDr. Reardon is a Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Science and Justice Research Center at the UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-6-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171130T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171130T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20171004T185756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171004T185756Z UID:10006551-1512062400-1512067800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: James Janko & Ellen Greenblatt DESCRIPTION:James Janko refused to carry a weapon while serving in Viet Nam as a medic in an infantry battalion commanded by Colonel George Armstrong Custer III in 1970. His medals include the Bronze Star for Valor\, which he returned to the U.S. government in 1986 to protest their involvement in wars in Central America. In 2008\, Janko gave away other medals to Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange: Mrs. Dang Hong Nhut\, who suffers from thyroid cancer and has had numerous miscarriages\, and Ms. Tran Thi Hoan\, who was born without legs due to her mother’s exposure to Agent Orange. Janko’s novel\, The Clubhouse Thief\, won the AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) Award for the Novel and is forthcoming from New Issues Poetry and Prose (Western Michigan University) in January of 2018. An earlier novel\, Buffalo Boy and Geronimo (Curbstone Press)\, received wide critical acclaim and two awards: The Association of Asian American Studies Prose Award and the Northern California Book Award for Fiction. Janko’s short stories have appeared in The Massachusetts Review. \nEllen Greenblatt’s work as an educator has often focused on teaching literature in the context of social and historical issues. She met and became friends with James Janko when he appeared several times as a guest in her course about the American War in Vietnam\, a course which included the voices of American\, Vietnamese\, and Vietnamese-American speakers and authors. As a result of that course\, Ellen became part of the Veterans Writing Group started by Maxine Hong Kingston. \nEllen’s writing work includes creating educational materials for television documentaries and for teachers of literature\, and she has developed a literature-based approach to teaching about conflict and its aftermaths. Ellen has worked with teachers throughout the US and internationally\, and she has been an on-stage interviewer for City Arts and Lectures in San Francisco\, conducting literary interviews before a live audience. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-james-janko-ellen-greenblatt-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171201T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171201T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20170918T180148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T194204Z UID:10006538-1512126000-1512131400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: Proposal Writing - Framing Your Research for Fellowship and Grant Proposals DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThis workshop is devoted to developing a fellowship and grant strategy that will assist you in making your research proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss how the jargon of field-specific descriptions can affect both the clarity and persuasiveness of funding proposals\, and focus instead on teasing out the larger humanistic stakes of individual research projects. Please upload an abstract of your own by Friday\, November 24 to the shared Google Drive folder at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YR76sm_j34z5-0i3NOIsAVgLNHgMhTMP\, and bring a hardcopy with you to the workshop. A portion of our conversation will be devoted to revising current and/or future research proposals in order to appeal to scholars from a variety of humanistic departments and programs. \nPhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, and much more. \nLunch provided to all attendees. \nPlease RSVP below: \n  \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-competitive-proposals-for-ihr-funding-framing-your-research-for-fellowship-and-grant-proposals-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171202T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171202T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20171115T004105Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171115T004105Z UID:10006566-1512216000-1512230400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:2017 Symposium for Undergraduate Research at UCSC - Humanities And Social Sciences DESCRIPTION:The Symposium for Undergraduate Research at UCSC – Humanities And Social Sciences (SURU-HASS) is an event designed to allow students from different disciplines to come together to share and learn about research. Because of a need for more events like this in the Humanities and Social Sciences\, we especially encourage students from those disciplines to apply\, but research projects from all areas are welcome! \nThe application deadline is November 18\, 2017 at 11:59pm and the event will take place on December 2\, 2017. \nCheck out the SURU-HASS website to learn more: https://tinyurl.com/SURU-HASS \nWhat SURU-HASS can do for you: \n– We will be hosting workshops for doing an oral presentation and making a poster to help you with practical presentation skills!\n– This symposium is a great opportunity to network with other undergraduates\, graduate students\, and even faculty and staff\, within your major and beyond.\n– The symposium is an opportunity to know the real-world problems other majors are trying to solve. \nFor more information contact: SURU-HASS@UCSC.EDU URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2017-symposium-for-undergraduate-research-at-ucsc-humanities-and-social-sciences-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/SURU-HASS-event-flyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171205T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171205T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20180130T013141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180130T013141Z UID:10005453-1512460800-1512493200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:New Event Layout DESCRIPTION:Curabitur blandit tempus porttitor. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet\, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce dapibus\, tellus ac cursus commodo\, tortor mauris condimentum nibh\, ut fermentum massa justo sit amet risus. Cras mattis consectetur purus sit amet fermentum. Maecenas faucibus mollis interdum. Nullam id dolor id nibh ultricies vehicula ut id elit. \nDonec ullamcorper nulla non metus auctor fringilla. Nullam quis risus eget urna mollis ornare vel eu leo. Duis mollis\, est non commodo luctus\, nisi erat porttitor ligula\, eget lacinia odio sem nec elit. Praesent commodo cursus magna\, vel scelerisque nisl consectetur et. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/new-event-layout/ LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/The-Little-Database-3.20.18-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171205T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20170922T165541Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T165541Z UID:10006543-1512489600-1512496800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:3D Scanning\, Bronze Age Swords & Social Networks: Using data to reconstruct shared knowledge DESCRIPTION:3D Scanning\, Bronze Age Swords & Social Networks: Using data to reconstruct shared knowledge \nCome learn about 3D scanning\, statistics\, and network analysis!\n \nKristy Golubiewski-Davis will detail her research using 3D scans of Bronze Age swords (~1600-800BC) to recreate community networks of knowledge. The aim of the work is to visualize the networks of specialized knowledge across space. Digital methods were used to identify the decisions of specialized craft workers and generate social networks that spread knowledge around the world.\n \nThis project serves as a case study for thinking about digital project development and management: how can you juggle multiple methods and a large data set while staying focused on building scholarly arguments?\n \nLocation: Digital Scholarship Commons (Ground Floor McHenry Library)\n\n\nCosponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research and the Digital Scholarship Commons URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/3d-scanning-bronze-age-swords-social-networks-using-data-to-reconstruct-shared-knowledge-2/ LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry Library END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171207T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171207T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20171129T185746Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171129T185746Z UID:10005436-1512658800-1512666000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CRES: Works in Progress featuring Sheeva Sabati & Nick Mitchell DESCRIPTION: URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cres-works-in-progress-featuring-sheeva-sabti-nick-mitchell-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171207T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171207T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20171004T190900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171004T190900Z UID:10006552-1512667200-1512672600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Student Reading DESCRIPTION:This event will feature undergraduate student readings. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-student-reading-3-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180111T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180111T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20171113T194244Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180116T182140Z UID:10006565-1515677400-1515682800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ana Candela: "From Compradors to Hacendados: Cantonese Merchants in Peru and the Expanding Settler Colonial Frontiers of the Cantonese Pacific" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nBiography: \nAna Maria Candela is a historian of Modern China and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University. Her research focuses on Chinese migrations to Latin America as a way to explore the global dimensions of Chinese history. Her work has appeared in Critical Asian Studies and the Journal of World-Systems Research. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled Intimate Others: Peruvian Chinese Between Native Place\, Nation and World\, 1880s-1940s. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ana-candela-asian-migration-to-south-america/ LOCATION:CA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Solstice-Music-Fest.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180112T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180112T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20170925T191408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T194318Z UID:10006549-1515754800-1515760200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: "Undisciplining Your Research: A Hands-On Workshop to Translate Academic Humanities Research for Multiple Publics" DESCRIPTION:“Undisciplining Your Research: A Hands-On Workshop to Translate Academic Humanities Research for Multiple Publics” \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nPanelists:  \n– Sarah Papazoglakis\, PhD Candidate\, Literature \n– Kara Hisatake\, PhD Candidate\, Literature & MLA Public Engagement Fellow \nAbout: As doctoral students in the humanities\, how do we communicate the importance of our work outside of our disciplines without it sounding reductive? How do we communicate what we do and why it matters to people outside of academia\, including prospective employers?   \nIn this workshop\, you will: \n– Hear from several hiring managers in the private and nonprofit sectors about what turns them on and off when humanities PhDs apply for jobs at their organizations. Learn to avoid common pitfalls. \n– Create a one-page draft cover letter for a job in the private or public sector. \n– Make an informal 3-minute video about your research using your smartphone or computer. Enter the video into the UCSC Grad Slam competition for a chance to win $3000! \nChoose from sample job descriptions and cover letter templates provided at the workshop. Or bring a job description that interests you and your own sample cover letter. \nKara Hisatake is a PhD Candidate in Literature and a 2018-2019 MLA Connected Academics Career Development Boot Camp Fellow. Sarah Papazoglakis is a PhD Candidate in Literature and part of the 2018 UCSC Chancellor’s Graduate Internship Program Cohort. \nPhD+ Workshop Series \nPlease join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Humanities Institute. We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, and much more. \nLunch provided to all attendees \n*Stay tuned for more information. \n\nPlease RSVP below: \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-undisciplining-your-research-a-hands-on-workshop-to-translate-academic-humanities-research-for-multiple-publics/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180113 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180114 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20171113T193830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180108T202458Z UID:10006564-1515801600-1515887999@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Center for Public Philosophy: High School Ethics Bowl DESCRIPTION:What is an Ethics Bowl? \nThe 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. According to Michael Steinmann\, director of the Stevens Institute High School Ethics Bowl\, the events promote intellectual\, personal\, and social growth. They deepen students’ understanding of the complexity of ethical issues; increase their sense of personal responsibility; and promote a model of rational\, civil discourse so essential to functioning democracies. \nDuring each round\, a moderator poses a question to two teams composed of five students and the competition follows a predetermined format encompassing team order and time limitations. All teams receive the cases and questions in fall so that they can prepare their responses with their coaches. The panel of judges includes not only those with philosophy backgrounds but businesspeople\, politicians\, and members of various professions in the community to underscore the fact that ethics is not simply an academic subject. We will also invite the press to attend. Each team will have the opportunity to compete in several rounds to advance to the semifinals and then the championship round. The winners of the competition (and their schools) will receive special recognition. \nThe ethical dilemmas used in a high school ethics bowl range from those particularly relevant to young students (questions about cheating\, plagiarism\, peer pressure\, use and abuse of social media\, the right to privacy\, relationship responsibilities) to political and social issues (free speech\, gun control\, eco-tourism) and bioethical issues (cloning\, parental consent). \nFree and open to the public. \nSchedule: \n8:45-8:55am – Welcome\n9:00-10:00am – Round 1\n10:30–11:30am – Round 2\n12:00-1:00pm – Round 3\n1:00-2:00pm – Lunch\n2:00-2:30pm – Announce Semi-Finalists\n2:45-3:45pm – Semi-Final Round\n4:00-5:00pm – Final Round \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ethics-bowl/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180114T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180114T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20180110T195346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180110T195907Z UID:10006574-1515938400-1515945600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Introduction to Little Dorrit DESCRIPTION:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club featuring Little Dorrit \nThe Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms\, students\, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel\, beginning this January with Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit. Join us each month for conversations about the novel and guest speaker presentations to help us contextualize our readings. \n  \nSanta Cruz Pickwick Club meets every second Sunday of each month from January – May 2018 at 2pm at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. \nSchedule: \nJanuary 14th: Introduction of the Novel\nFebruary 11th: Little Dorrit in Historical Context\nMarch 11th: Victorian Colonialism\nApril 8th: “How Did the Grim Reaper’s Swift Scythe Sharpen Little Dorrit’s Plot?”\nMay 13th: The Dickens Universe \nMore information\, including schedule can be found by visiting: https://goo.gl/zFQq2M. \n  \nBook club is free and open to the public.\nRegistration requested. \nQuestions? Contact Courtney at (831)459-2103 or dpj@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-featuring-little-dorrit/ LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Pickwick-flyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180117T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180117T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20170809T181003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180116T164914Z UID:10005396-1516190400-1516195800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CANCELED: Roddey Reid: "Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: Affect and Activism in the Trump Era and Beyond" DESCRIPTION:Roddey Reid is Professor Emeritus of French Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of California\, San Diego. Reid is the author three books including most recently of Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: A Citizen’s Guide for the Trump Era and Beyond; of Families in Jeopardy: Regulating the Social Body in France\, 1750-1910; co-editor with Sharon Traweek of Doing Science + Culture; and author of Globalizing Tobacco Control: Anti-Smoking Campaigns in California\, France\, and Japan. His latest writing has been on trauma\, daily life\, and the culture of intimidation and bullying in the U.S. and Europe. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-7-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180118T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180118T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20180110T191919Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180112T201409Z UID:10006573-1516288500-1516294800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ram Neta: "Puzzle of Transparency" DESCRIPTION:The Puzzle of Transparency\nAs you and I are out for a walk\, I notice that the sky is getting cloudier and so I ask you “do you believe that it’s going to rain?” In response to this question\, you normally do not pay attention to your own states of mind\, but rather to the way the sky looks and the air feels. But if I’m asking about what you believe\, then shouldn’t you pay attention to your own state of mind\, instead of to your perceptible environment? Some philosophers claim that\, when I utter the interrogative sentence “do you believe that it’s going to rain?”\, I’m not curious about your state of mind\, but only about the weather. But this is false: I could ask you the very same question even if I happen to know perfectly well that it’s going to rain\, and I’m just curious what you make of the current weather conditions. So\, if I’m asking about your beliefs\, why do you normally answer me by paying attention to the weather instead of paying attention to your state of mind? In order to answer this question\, I argue\, we will have to admit that the capacity to represent one’s own mental states can make a metaphysical difference to the nature of those states. \n  \nRam Neta is a Professor of Philosophy at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He specializes in epistemology and is currently at work on a book on the nature of knowledge. In particular\, he is trying to understand what knowledge is by examining the various ways in which knowing some things depends upon knowing other things. \n  \nAdvanced Reading: The Puzzle of Transparency URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ram-neta-puzzle-transparency/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180119T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180119T152000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20171115T194610Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180110T232324Z UID:10005428-1516368000-1516375200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Martina Wiltschko: "Nominal speech act structure. A personal view." DESCRIPTION:The concept of person is in many ways tied to speech acts. This is obvious just by exploring the interpretation of\npronouns: 1st person pronouns are used to refer to the speaker\, 2nd person pronouns are used to refer to the addressee\,\nand 3rd person is used for individuals other than the speech act participants. Another way in which person plays a\nrole for speech acts has to with the fact that in much of the current literature that seeks to “syntacticize speech acts”\n(Ross 1970\, Speas and Tenny 2003\, Zu 2013\, Miyagawa 2017\, a.o.) speech act participants are part of the syntactic\nrepresentation of sentences\, as evidenced\, for example\, by speaker or addressee-agreement. However\, 1st and\n2nd person pronouns can receive an impersonal interpretation (Gruber 2013\, Zobel 2014) while still triggering\ngrammatical agreement for 1st and 2nd person. This suggests that there are at least two notions of person: one purely\ngrammatical and the other pragmatic in nature. \nIn this talk I examine yet another way in which person may be tied to speech acts. In particular\, assuming the well-\nestablished parallel between the functional architecture of clauses and nominal projections (Chomsky 1970\, Abney \n1987\, Grimshaw 2005\, Rijkhoff 2008)\, we might expect that – just as clauses – nominal projections too are\ndominated by a dedicated speech act structure. Specifically\, I will argue that the arguments of (clausal and nominal)\nspeech act structure do not correspond to speech act participants directly\, but instead they correspond to each speech\nact participant’s ‘ground’ – hence I assume a speaker- and addressee-oriented projection. The function of this layer\nof structure is to encode the mutual process of grounding – the joint activity which allows interlocutors to establish\ncommon ground. To support this hypothesis\, I review literature from dialogue based frameworks according to which\nreferring to an individual is a collaborative effort between speaker and addressee (Clark and Wilkes-Gibbs 1986\,\nClark and Bangerter 2004). With this as my background assumption\, I discuss the implications of the nominal\nspeech act hypothesis for a number of empirical phenomena including: impersonals\, logophors\, and social deixis. \nMartina Wiltschko is Professor of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/martina-wiltschko-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180124T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180124T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20171113T193320Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180118T234823Z UID:10006563-1516795200-1516798800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Humanities Radio Hour DESCRIPTION:Please tune in to KZSC 88.1 FM for Artists on Art’s Humanities Radio Hour for a discussion of the upcoming Questions That Matter: Freedom & Race. UC Santa Cruz Humanities Dean Tyler Stovall and History of Art and Visual Culture professor Jennifer González will preview their 1/30 talk. \n  \nClick here to listen online. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-radio-hour-2/ LOCATION:KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/artist-on-art.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180124T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180124T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20170809T181210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180129T201651Z UID:10005398-1516795200-1516800600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Megan Moodie: "Emerging Genres: What Lies between Fiction and Ethnography" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nMegan Moodie’s work focuses on feminist political and legal anthropology and experimental ethnographic writing in India\, East Europe\, and the U.S. Moodie will read from her full-length novel-in-progress\, The Wishful\, based in part on fieldwork in Rajasthan\, India\, and discuss the relationship between aesthetics and analytics in ethnographic practice and textual production. \nMegan Moodie is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-8-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180124T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180124T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20171213T193823Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T205546Z UID:10005442-1516798800-1516806000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Digital Humanities VizLab Open House DESCRIPTION:If you’ve never tried VR before\, this is your chance. Explore the new DSC VizLab and experience Virtual Reality. \nWe invite you to test the HTC VIVE headset\, Samsung Gear VR\, and Google Cardboard Headset. DSC Staff will be available to answer questions and introduce you to available resources and hardware. \nCosponsored by the IDEA Hub and the Digital Scholarship Commons. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-humanities-vizlab-open-house-2/ LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry Library ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/VizWall-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180125T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180125T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20171227T182707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180123T041537Z UID:10006569-1516900800-1516906200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Jennifer Tamayo DESCRIPTION:Jennif(f)er Tamayo is a writer and performer. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago and her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Louisiana State University. She is the author of the collection of poems and art work\, Red Missed Aches Read Missed Aches Red Mistakes Read Mistakes (Switchback\, 2011) and the limited edition chapbook POEMS ARE THE ONLY REAL BODIES  (Bloof Books\, 2013).  Her second full collection of poems and artwork is YOU DA ONE (Noemi 2017\, Coconut 2014). From 2010-2015\, JT has served as the Managing Editor for Futurepoem  an independent NYC press publishing contemporary poetry and prose. She is a Canto Mundo Fellow and a Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics EmergeNYC Fellow (2016.) She currently lives and works in Sacramento\, California. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Winter 2018: \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art\, and Space \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry\, prose\, visual and textile arts\, photography\, film\, dance\, and improvisation to address questions of gender\, sexuality\, and race.  This series will explore the intersections of literature\, writing and performance\, and the ways that themes of nation\, exile\, trauma\, and joy move through individual\, collective and individual artistic practices.\nThis series will also feature three “Live Models\,” in the form of master conversations/performances\, mainly for the Creative/Critical (and other) graduate students\, faculty\, and the larger Cowell College Community. \n  \nWinter 2018 Schedule:\nJanuary 25th: Jennifer Tamayo\nFebruary 1st: Karen Tei Yamashita\nFebruary 15th: Duriel E. Harris\nFebruary 22nd: Cecilia Vicuña\nMarch 15th: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \n  \nAll Living Writers readings are free and open to the public. Please contact Ronaldo Wilson at rvwilson@ucsc.edu with any questions or concerns. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, and Literature Department and Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-jennifer-tamayo-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/living-writers-w18.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180126T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180126T134500 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20180119T205812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T205515Z UID:10006584-1516969800-1516974300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Steven Haug: "Community in Heidegger's Philosophy of Art" DESCRIPTION:In order for a work of art to be great\, according to Heidegger\, at least one of the conditions it must meet is the community condition. While this condition is discussed much less in the literature than the relation of art to truth in Heidegger\, it is of more consequence. It is art’s inability to meet the community condition which led Heidegger to conclude that art since the Middle Ages is not great art. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of the community condition in Heidegger’s philosophy of art and explain just what the condition is. \nSteven Haug is a philosophy Phd student who works primarily on the philosophy of art\, especially 20th century German philosophy of art. His most recent project focuses on elucidating the importance of community in Heidegger’s philosophy of art. \nFriday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments: HAVC\, Literature\, and History of Consciousness. \nFor questions\, email fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stephen-haug-community-heideggers-philosophy-art/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180129T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180129T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20180124T010519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180124T010536Z UID:10006585-1517238000-1517245200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"Intentional Design: Making Assignments that Work" DESCRIPTION:“Intentional Design: Making Assignments that Work\,” with Jessie Dubreuil\, Kimberly Helmer\, Philip Longo\, Tonya Ritola\, and Heather Shearer \nThis is the second teaching workshop of The Humanities Institute research cluster “Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now”\, designed to promote collective conversations about how we teach in the humanities now. Whether you teach a large lecture course or a small seminar\, join us to explore and discuss best practices for assignment design that go beyond the traditional essay. Writing Program faculty will introduce research-based strategies to promote conceptual thinking and build competency. The interactive workshop will provide faculty with strategies to apply to current or future assignments. Please bring an assignment you would like to work on. All Senate and non-Senate faculty and graduate students welcome. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/intentional-design-making-assignments-work/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180130T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180130T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20170809T181347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180226T225841Z UID:10005400-1517335200-1517344200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Questions That Matter:"Freedom and Race" DESCRIPTION:America has famously been called “the land of the free\,” and yet when the “Star Spangled Banner” was written\, people of African descent were enslaved within its borders\, including by the song’s own author\, Francis Scott Key. Today\, the relationship between freedom and race continues to vex the United States and the rest of the world. Join us for a frank and thoughtful discussion of this question that matters. \nFeaturing: \nJennifer González is a Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at UCSC. She writes about contemporary art with an emphasis on installation art\, digital art and activist art. She is interested in understanding the strategic use of space (exhibition space\, public space\, virtual space) by contemporary artists and by cultural institutions such as museums. More specifically\, she has focused on the representation of the human body and its relation to discourses of race and gender. \nTyler Stovall is a Distinguished Professor of History and Dean of Humanities at UCSC\, as well as the current President of the American Historical Association. His work centers on questions of race and class\, blackness\, postcolonial history\, and transnational history as applied to modern and twentieth century France\, and covers a wide range of topics from the Paris suburbs to black American expatriates in France to the French Caribbean. \nModerated by: \nNathaniel Deutsch \nDirector of The Humanities Institute \n \nQuestions that Matter “Freedom and Race” from IHR on Vimeo. \n  \n  \nTUESDAY\, JANUARY 30\, 2018 \nKuumbwa Jazz Center – Directions and Parking Details  \n$15 Ticket \n6pm – Wine and hors d’oeuvres reception \n7pm – Program \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274. \nBuy Tickets \n  \nQuestions That Matter: A Series of Public Dialogues in Santa Cruz\nA public humanities series developed by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and the community of Santa Cruz – bringing together two or more UC Santa Cruz scholars with community residents and students to explore questions that matter to all of us. The series is a part of a strategic initiative of the Institute to champion the role and value of the humanities in contemporary life. At the University of California Santa Cruz\, we understand that the humanities are a crucial element of any first-rate liberal arts education. Indeed\, what distinguishes the best universities in the United States is the fact that the humanities are an integral part of their core curriculum\, along with the arts and sciences. The series is designed as a lecture and conversation\, with plenty of time built in for participant questions and answers. We invite you to join us on January 30\, 2018 at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center for “Freedom and Race.” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/questions-that-matter-freedom-and-race/ LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/thi-concept-email-3e.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180131T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180131T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20170809T181837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T185928Z UID:10005402-1517400000-1517405400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Derek Murray: "On Post-Blackness: Queer Satire in Contemporary African-American Art" DESCRIPTION:Derek Conrad Murray is an interdisciplinary theorist specializing in the history\, theory and criticism of contemporary art\, visual culture and cultural studies. Author of Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights\, Murray is completing two additional book manuscripts\, Regarding Difference: Contemporary African-American Art and the Politics of Recognition and Mapplethorpe and the Flower: Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nDerek Murray is an Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-9-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180131T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180131T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20180116T192255Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180213T202346Z UID:10006581-1517412600-1517419800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Yarimar Bonilla: "The Wait of Disaster: Hurricanes and the Politics of Recovery in Puerto Rico" DESCRIPTION:The Race\, Violence\, Inequality\, and the Anthropocene Research Cluster Presents: \n“Dr. Yarimar Bonilla\, The Wait of Disaster: Hurricanes and the Politics of Recovery in Puerto Rico” \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nDr. Yarimar Bonilla is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latino/Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University.\nHer research focuses on the colonial logics of sovereignty and on questions of race\, citizenship\, and nation\nacross the Americas. She is the author of Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of\nDisenchantment (2016). \nFree and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/wait-disaster-hurricanes-politics-recovery-puerto-rico/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/8.5X11-Yarimar-Bonilla-W2018.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180201T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180201T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20171227T183350Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180131T183651Z UID:10006570-1517505600-1517511000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Karen Tei Yamashita DESCRIPTION:Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest\, Brazil-Maru\, Tropic of Orange\, Circle K Cycles\, I Hotel\, Anime Wong: Fictions of Performance\, and most recently\, Letters to Memory\, 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 received a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellowship and is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Winter 2018: \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art\, and Space \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry\, prose\, visual and textile arts\, photography\, film\, dance\, and improvisation to address questions of gender\, sexuality\, and race.  This series will explore the intersections of literature\, writing and performance\, and the ways that themes of nation\, exile\, trauma\, and joy move through individual\, collective and individual artistic practices.\nThis series will also feature three “Live Models\,” in the form of master conversations/performances\, mainly for the Creative/Critical (and other) graduate students\, faculty\, and the larger Cowell College Community. \n  \nWinter 2018 Schedule:\nJanuary 25th: Jennifer Tamayo\nFebruary 1st: Karen Tei Yamashita\nFebruary 15th: Duriel E. Harris\nFebruary 22nd: Cecilia Vicuña\nMarch 15th: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \n  \nAll Living Writers readings are free and open to the public. Please contact Ronaldo Wilson at rvwilson@ucsc.edu with any questions or concerns. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, and Literature Department and Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-karen-tei-yamashita-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/living-writers-w18.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180202T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180202T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20170925T191711Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T194422Z UID:10005409-1517569200-1517574600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: Effective Interviewing Practices & Job Offer Negotiation Skills: A Workshop with Annie Maxfield (UCLA Career Center) DESCRIPTION:Persuasive Interviewing and Negotiation Tips for Humanities PhDs with Annie Maxfield \nExcelling in interview settings is a skill that requires thought\, practice\, and confidence. During this interactive workshop\, attendees will practice and refine their interviewing skills by learning persuasive techniques that enhance their storytelling abilities and highlight their key contributions. \nAnnie Maxfield is the associate director for graduate student relations and services at the UCLA career center\, where she leads campus-wide initiatives to prepare PhDs for careers in and beyond the academy. She has had the opportunity to lead workshops across the UC-System and at national conferences for Humanities and Social Science PhDs.  She is an experienced teacher\, having taught digital and strategic communication courses\, interviewing and personal branding at 6 different universities including the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill\, the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California.  She earned her bachelor’s degrees in philosophy and communication and her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Utah. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nPhD+ Workshop Series \nPlease join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Humanities Institute. We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, and much more. \nLunch provided to all attendees. \n  \n*Stay tuned for more information. \n\nPlease RSVP below: \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-effective-interviewing-practices-job-offer-negotiation-skills-a-workshop-with-annie-maxfield-ucla-career-center-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180207T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180207T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20170809T182226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180213T202359Z UID:10005404-1518004800-1518010200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Roddey Reid: “Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: Affect and Activism in the Trump Era and Beyond” DESCRIPTION:Roddey Reid is Professor Emeritus of French Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of California\, San Diego. Reid is the author three books including most recently of Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: A Citizen’s Guide for the Trump Era and Beyond; of Families in Jeopardy: Regulating the Social Body in France\, 1750-1910; co-editor with Sharon Traweek of Doing Science + Culture; and author of Globalizing Tobacco Control: Anti-Smoking Campaigns in California\, France\, and Japan. His latest writing has been on trauma\, daily life\, and the culture of intimidation and bullying in the U.S. and Europe. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-10-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180207T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180207T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20171213T194054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T191046Z UID:10005444-1518019200-1518026400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Opening Reception: New Visualization Spaces in the Digital Scholarship Commons DESCRIPTION:Celebrate two new Visualization spaces in McHenry Library and the campus partnerships that enhance digital scholarship at UCSC. \nThe David Kirk Digital Scholarship Commons is thrilled to formally launch the VizWall\, a large scale visualization installation\, and the VizLab\, a Virtual Reality and 360 Lab. These new spaces are built through partnerships between the University Library\, The Humanities Institute\, the Humanities Division\, CITIRIS\, and the IDEA Hub. \nJoin us to toast these collaborative partnerships\, explore these new spaces\, and experience new modes of scholarly production. The event will include a featured presentation by Elaine Sullivan (History) about her work with 4D models of ancient Egyptian temple sites. Demonstrations in Virtual Reality will also be available throughout the reception. \n \nRefreshments and wine will be served. Click here to register. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-humanities-vizwall-launch-2/ LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry Library ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/DAVID-KIRKDIGITAL-SCHOLARSHIP-COMMONS.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180208T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180208T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20180116T184642Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180124T215443Z UID:10006580-1518116400-1518123600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Kimberlé Crenshaw: 34th Annual Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Convocation DESCRIPTION:The annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by presenting speakers who discuss the civil rights issues of equality\, freedom\, justice\, and opportunity. The convocation also seeks to build partnerships and develop dialogue within the campus community and with the local communities served by the university. \nSpeaker: Kimberlé Crenshaw\nProfessor of law at UCLA and Columbia Law School\, leading authority on civil rights\, black feminist legal theory\, and race\, racism\, and the law.\n \nHarriet’s Legacy: Navigating Intersectionality in the Age of Trump \nPositioned at the crossroads of race and gender\, women and girls of color face unique barriers under the burdens of both sexism and racism. This is especially true in the wake of the 2016 election\, as discrimination\, racialized hate speech and gendered violence have been normalized and\, seemingly encouraged\, by the White House. As we enter the 2nd year under the current administration\, we must reflect back not only on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\, but of the Black women who\, although often misremembered or outright forgotten\, fought for civil rights and equality throughout history. In this lecture\, Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw will utilize a historical analysis with an intersectional lens to expose the impact of institutional oppression within marginalized communities’ configured networks between identities\, i.e. race\, gender\, and socioeconomic status\, a reflect on the contemporary legacy of social justice and the continued struggle for equality in the United States. \nRead More URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kimberle-crenshaw-34th-annual-martin-luther-king-jr-memorial-convocation/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/mlk-2018.gif ORGANIZER;CN="UCSC Special Events Office":MAILTO:specialevents@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180209T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180209T134500 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20180130T204512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180131T183038Z UID:10006586-1518179400-1518183900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum: Stephen David Engel DESCRIPTION:Stephen David Engel is a PhD student in the History of Consciousness Department. \nFriday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments: HAVC\, Literature\, and History of Consciousness. \nFor questions\, email fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-stephen-david-engel/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180209T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180209T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20180129T184755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180205T172115Z UID:10005450-1518184800-1518192000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Victoria Bañales: "Community College Teaching - A View From Inside" DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department Graduate Program Alumni Speaker Series Presents: \n“Community College Teaching: A View From Inside”\nVictoria Bañales \nVictoria Bañales earned a Ph.D. in Literature with a Parenthetical Notation in Feminist Studies from UCSC. Her work has appeared in the anthologies Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representations and Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/ a Américas. Victoria is a tenured English faculty member at Cabrillo College where she has taught for over twelve ears. She serves on numerous committees and is the chair of the Cabrillo Hispanic Affairs Council. She is last year’s recipient of Cabrillo’s EOPS Instructor of the Year Award. \n  \nOther Upcoming Events: \nApril 11 & 12th: “‘In Defense of Sex’ and the Post PhD Path” by Chris Breu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/community-college-teaching-view-inside/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Revised-Banales.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180211T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180211T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T104309 CREATED:20180110T195917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180110T195917Z UID:10006575-1518357600-1518364800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Little Dorrit in Historical Context DESCRIPTION:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club featuring Little Dorrit \nThe Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms\, students\, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel\, beginning this January with Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit. Join us each month for conversations about the novel and guest speaker presentations to help us contextualize our readings. \n  \nSanta Cruz Pickwick Club meets every second Sunday of each month from January – May 2018 at 2pm at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. \nSchedule: \nJanuary 14th: Introduction of the Novel\nFebruary 11th: Little Dorrit in Historical Context\nMarch 11th: Victorian Colonialism\nApril 8th: “How Did the Grim Reaper’s Swift Scythe Sharpen Little Dorrit’s Plot?”\nMay 13th: The Dickens Universe \nMore information\, including schedule can be found by visiting: https://goo.gl/zFQq2M. \n  \nBook club is free and open to the public.\nRegistration requested. \nQuestions? Contact Courtney at (831)459-2103 or dpj@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-little-dorrit-historical-context/ LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Pickwick-flyer.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR