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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120439 CREATED:20170301T200532Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170301T200532Z UID:10006473-1488988800-1488996000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Alan Craig: "VR\, AR\, and the Brain: Teaching\, Learning\, and Research With Virtual and Augmented Reality" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nAlan B. Craig is the Senior Associate Director for Human-Computer Interaction at the Institute for Computing in Humanities\, Arts\, and Social Sciences (I-CHASS) and a Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). He is also the Humanities\, Arts\, and Social Science sSpecialist for the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). His work centers on the continuum between the physical and the digital. He has done extensive work in virtual reality\, augmented reality\, and personal fabrication\, as well as educational applications of data mining\, visualization\, and collaborative systems. He has authored three books (Understanding Augmented Reality\, Developing Virtual Reality Applications\, and Understanding Augmented Reality)\, and holds three patents. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alan-craig-vr-ar-and-the-brain-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:20170309T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120439 CREATED:20170301T200559Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170301T200559Z UID:10006474-1489057200-1489057200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Why I'm reading Joseph Conrad these days DESCRIPTION:Familiarity with Heart of Darkness helpful\, but not essential. Introduction: Prof. David Marriott\, Chair\, History of Consciousness \n\n\n\n\n\nDiscussant: Isaac Blacksin\, Ph.D. candidate\, History of Consciousness \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nJames Clifford is an interdisciplinary scholar who was a Professor in UCSC’s History of Consciousness department for 33 years until his retirement in 2011. He was elected to the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences in 2011. The History of Consciousness department at UCSC continues to be an intellectual center for innovative critical scholarship in the U.S. and abroad. Since 2000\, Clifford’s writing has focused on processes of globalization and decolonization as they influence contemporary “indigenous” lives\, including Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty First Century (2013). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/why-im-reading-joseph-conrad-these-days-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/2017/03/Jim-Cllifford-poster-v2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T153000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120439 CREATED:20170302T195421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T195421Z UID:10005339-1489066200-1489073400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Zachary Lockman: "Adventures in Field-Building: On the History of Area Studies/Middle East Studies in the United States” DESCRIPTION:Area studies is often simplistically depicted as little more than a Cold War form of knowledge\, but its emergence as a component of the postwar American academic scene was in fact propelled and shaped by visions\, exigencies and contingencies that were not initially or exclusively about the needs of the national security state. Zachary Lockman’s 2016 book Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States draws on extensive archival research to offer a different perspective on the origins and trajectory of area studies in the United States and to explore how the field of Middle East studies in the United States was actually built. The book’s focus is not on intellectual paradigms or scholarly output but rather on funding decisions and their rationales\, efforts to elaborate a distinctive theory and method for area studies\, the anxieties these efforts generated for Middle East studies\, and the unanticipated consequences of building these new academic fields. \nZachary Lockman has taught modern Middle Eastern history at New York University since 1995. His most recent book is Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States (2016). His other books include Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism (2004/2010); Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine\, 1906-1948 (1996); and (with Joel Beinin) Workers on the Nile: Nationalism\, Communism\, Islam\, and the Egyptian Working Class\, 1882-1954 (1987). He is a former president of the Middle East Studies Association\, chairs the wing of MESA’s Committee on Academic Freedom that deals with North America\, and is a contributing editor of Middle East Report. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zachary-lockman-adventures-in-field-building-on-the-history-of-area-studiesmiddle-east-studies-in-the-united-states-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, 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/2017/03/Lockman-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120439 CREATED:20170307T200707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170307T200707Z UID:10005341-1489068000-1489071600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:IHR Public Fellows Info Session 2 DESCRIPTION:IHR PUBLIC FELLOWS \nDeadline: April 30\, 2017 \nAmount: Up to $5\,000 \nNumber of Fellowships: 3 or more (based on the availability of funds) \nThese fellowships will provide the opportunity for humanities doctoral students to contribute to research\, programming\, communications and fundraising at non-profit organizations\, cultural institutions\, or companies and are meant to allow the students to apply and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. Majority of the work should be completed during Summer 2017. Students are welcome to find their own partner organizations or to pursue opportunities from organizations listed below. \nBefore applying\, students are required to attend one of Info Sessions below: \nSession I. March 8\, 10am\, Humanities 1\, Room 202 \nSession II. March 9\, 2pm\, Humanities 1\, Room 402 \nMore information available at ihr.ucsc.edu/programs/fellowships URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ihr-public-fellows-info-session-2-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 402 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120439 CREATED:20170113T192646Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T192646Z UID:10005317-1489080000-1489085400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Urayoán Noel DESCRIPTION:Urayoán Noel is a self-described “stateless poet” whose critical and creative work foregrounds the messy condition of Puerto Rican belonging and non-belonging to the US nation-state. His poetic performances\, texts\, and “video poems” flagrantly comingle English with Spanish\, mixing learned literary allusions with found words generated from cell phones or political demonstrations.   Born and raised in San Juan\, Puerto Rico\, Noel lives in the Bronx and is an associate professor of English and Spanish at NYU. Noel is the author of Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (Arizona\, 2015)\, a Library Journal Top Fall Indie Poetry selection; Hi-Density Politics (BlazeVox\, 2010)\, a National Book Critics Circle Small Press Highlights selection; Kool Logic/La Lógica Kool (Bilingual Review\, 2005)\, an El Nuevo Día Book of the Year; and several books mostly in Spanish\, most recently the performance text EnUncIAdOr (Educación Emergente\, 2014). Other works include the DVD Kool Logic Sessions (Bilingual Review\, 2005)\, a collaboration with composer Monxo López; the artist’s book/performance/website The Edgemere Letters (2011)\, a collaboration with artist Martha Clippinger; and the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (Iowa\, 2014)\, winner of the LASA Latina/o Studies Book Award and recipient of an honorable mention in the MLA Prize in Latina/o and Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Studies. A contributing editor of NACLA Report on the Americas and Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora\, Noel has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation\, the Howard Foundation\, the Bronx Council on the Arts\, and CantoMundo\, and is currently completing a bilingual edition of the poems of Pablo de Rokha. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Winter 2017  \nImprovi/N\ations: Riff\, Inquiry\, and Protest  \nImprovi/N\ations: Riff\, Inquiry\, and Protest will feature writers and artists who work and play across various disciplines and modes: poetry\, prose\, visual\, sound\, performance\, art\, and theory to address questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, and other identities. This series will explore the intersections of self-and-nationhood as fracture\, memory and possibility via individual\, collective and internal forms. \nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nThursdays\, 5:20-6:50 PM \nAll Readings are Free and Open to the Public \nJanuary 26: Wayne Koestenbaum\, Distinguished Professor of English\, Comparative Literature\, and French\, CUNY Graduate Center \nFebruary 2: Conner Bassett\, Matthew Gervase\, Kendall Grady\, Courtney Kersten\, Jared Harvey\, Jose Antonio Villarán\, Kirstin Wagner\, PhD Candidates\, Creative/Critical Concentration\, Literature\, UC Santa Cruz \nFebruary 16: Laura Mullen\, McElveen Professor of English\, Lousiana State University \nFebruary 23: Micah Perks\, Professor of Creative Writing and Literature\, UC Santa Cruz \nMarch 9: Urayoán Noel\, Associate Professor of English and Spanish\, New York University \nMarch 16: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading LWS_Winter17_Proof2-2 \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Division\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, The Literature Department and Creative Writing Program\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, Literary Cultures/Sawyer Seminar\, Latin American and Latino Studies\, and The Bay Tree Book Store URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-urayoan-noel-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/2017/01/LWS_Winter17_Proof2-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170310T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170310T120000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120439 CREATED:20161215T190022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161215T190022Z UID:10005307-1489140000-1489147200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Poetics of Non-Citizenship: A Seminar with Urayoán Noel DESCRIPTION:In this seminar\, Urayoán Noel will discuss his critical work on the nexus of creative expression and political activism\, from the 1960s to the present. He is interested in the subversive power of media\, performance\, and especially of English-Spanish-Spanglish language play\, which cuts across different Latina/o/x constituencies. One dimension of his research involves the use of social media among activist DREAMers and in the Haitian-Dominican context\, expressed in the #Latinx hashtag and Dominican Twitter. Another thread considers “eccentric archives of the Latina/o Sixties” by comparing two poetic movements\, the Royal Chicano Air Force and El Puerto Rican Embassy. Although centered in California and New York respectively\, both groups of poet-performers imagined sites of organization outside the nation-state: “Califas” and “Nuyorico.” Finally\, Professor Noel considers the changing work of the space of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe from the 1970s to the present\, from anti-gentrification to anti-globalization movements. \nPastries\, coffee\, and tea will be served. \n  \nPlease register here prior to attending this event. \n  \nUrayoán Noel is a self-described “stateless poet” whose critical and creative work foregrounds the messy condition of Puerto Rican belonging and non-belonging in and to the U.S. nation-state. His poetic performances\, texts\, and “video poems” flagrantly comingle English with Spanish\, mixing learned literary allusions with found words generated from cell phones or political demonstrations. \nBorn and raised in San Juan\, Puerto Rico\, Professor Noel lives in the Bronx and is an associate professor of English and Spanish at New York University. He is the author of Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (Arizona\, 2015)\,  a Library Journal Top Fall Indie Poetry selection; Hi-Density Politics (BlazeVox\, 2010)\, a National Book Critics Circle Small Press Highlights selection; Kool Logic/La Lógica Kool (Bilingual Review\, 2005)\, an El Nuevo Día Book of the Year; the performance text EnUncIAdOr (Educación Emergente\, 2014); and several books mostly in Spanish. Other works include the DVD Kool Logic Sessions (Bilingual Review\, 2005)\, a collaboration with composer Monxo López; the artist’s book/performance/website The Edgemere Letters (2011)\, a collaboration with artist Martha Clippinger; and the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (Iowa\, 2014)\, winner of the LASA Latina/o Studies Book Award and recipient of an honorable mention in the MLA Prize in Latina/o and Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Studies. A contributing editor to the NACLA Report on the Americas and Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora\, he has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation\, the Howard Foundation\, the Bronx Council on the Arts\, and CantoMundo. He is currently completing a bilingual edition of the poems of Pablo de Rokha. \n  \nThe seminar is co-sponsored by the Literature Department\, Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research\, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetics-of-non-citizenship-a-seminar-with-urayoan-noel-2/ LOCATION:Charles E. Merrill Lounge END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170310T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170310T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120439 CREATED:20161215T193659Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T193529Z UID:10005309-1489143600-1489149000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: Open Access\, Data Management and Library Resources DESCRIPTION:Open Access\, Data Management and Library Resources \nWhat does Open Access mean for you? How can you organize and manage your research materials to best support your writing? And\, what kinds of resources are available to graduate students for accessing data and information?This PhD+ panel features librarians who will discuss a range of issues\, including depositing your dissertation\, data management\, and the ethics of sharing your work in an Open Access world. We will discuss: \n\nThe Presidential Open Access Policy\, and how it pertains to graduate research\nPublishing in Open Access journals and the potential impact on book contracts and job searches (academic + beyond)\nand\, Open Access as Social Justice\n\nTake the opportunity to get to know your librarians and to engage in a graduate student specific conversation about Open Access. The panelists will also answer questions about ILL\, digital research methodologies\, citation software\, library-based subscriptions\, and other related research tools. Check out these library services and resources and join us to learn more. \n  \nLunch will be served\, as always. \n  \nPhD+ 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. \n  \nPlease RSVP below.\nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-open-access-library-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:20170315T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170315T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120439 CREATED:20170307T200950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170307T200950Z UID:10005342-1489579200-1489584600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Akash Kumar: "All the World on a Board: Chess and Cultural Crossings in Dante and Boccaccio" DESCRIPTION:Akash Kumar focuses on the crossing of poetry\, philosophy\, and science in 13th-14th century Italy\, emphasizing multicultural knowledge transmission in the medieval Mediterranean. His talk emerges from his second book project on medieval Italian representations of chess and the exchange made possible by the game across gender\, religious\, and social boundaries. \nAkash Kumar is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature at UCSC. \n  \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. \n  \nWinter 2017 Colloquium Dates: \nJanuary 18th: Susan Buck-Morss \nJanuary 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton \nFebruary 1st: Regina Kunzel \nFebruary 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas \nFebruary 15th: Gary Wilder \nFebruary 22nd: Rick Prelinger \nMarch 1st: Hillary Angelo \nMarch 15th: Akash Kumar URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/akash-kumar-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:20170315T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170315T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120439 CREATED:20170210T205239Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170210T205239Z UID:10006464-1489595400-1489597200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ideology & Identity in the Revival of Spoken Hebrew DESCRIPTION:The revival of Spoken Hebrew took place in Palestine in the early 20 th century\, and is often seen as a historically unique example of successful language revival. In this talk I suggest that Hebrew is also exemplary\, of the ways in which our languages speak through us. What is special about Hebrew is that key properties of the revival process – its rapidity and recency – make it possible to track mechanisms by which broader ideologies (of nation\, ancestry\, class\, gender\, etc.) come to be embedded in the languages we speak. The talk will focus on East-West diasporic dynamics in the negotiation of accent for the new spoken Hebrew\, and on the shifting values of authenticity and sincerity in the construction of the new native-born speech style. \nReception to follow the lecture \nFor more info contact Peter Reed pmreed@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stevenson-distinguished-faculty-lecture-with-ivy-sichel-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170405T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170405T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120439 CREATED:20170313T165013Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170313T165013Z UID:10006478-1491393600-1491397200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Humanities Radio Hour: "Language of Conservation with Daniel Guevara and Claudio Campagna" DESCRIPTION:Please tune in to KZSC 88.1 FM for Artists on Art\nHumanities Radio Hour\nWed\, April 5th at 12:00PM–1:00PM \nInterview with Professors Daniel Guevara and Claudio Campagna about the Language of Conservation Project. \nClick here to listen online \nUC Santa Cruz Faculty:\n– Daniel Guevara\, Chair and Associate Professor of Philosophy\n– Claudio Campagna\, Adjunct Professor\, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; and Conservation Biologist\, Wildlife Conservation Society URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-radio-hour-on-artists-on-art-language-of-conservation-with-daniel-guevara-and-claudio-campagna-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:20170405T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170405T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120439 CREATED:20170328T195604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170328T195604Z UID:10006487-1491393600-1491399000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: Matthew Fuller "In Praise of Plasticity" DESCRIPTION:About the Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAbout “In Praise of Plasticity”: Plasticity\, in neurology\, is the ability to adapt\, change\, grow and find new forms at multiple scalar levels whilst retaining\, rerouting or developing function. Professor Fuller examines the notion of plasticity as it is articulated by cybernetics\, machine learning\, and anarchism. \nMatthew Fuller will be presenting and is a Professor of Cultural Studies and the Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths\, University of London URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-matthew-fuller-in-praise-of-plasticity-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:20170412T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170412T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120439 CREATED:20170328T203917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170328T203917Z UID:10006488-1492009200-1492016400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jewish Studies Open House DESCRIPTION:Come discover what makes the Jewish Studies program at UC Santa Cruz such a unique and vibrant educational opportunity. Meet Jewish Studies faculty and students\, learn about classes\, internship opportunities\, and the Jewish Studies intellectual community. \nWednesday\, April 12\, 3-5pm\nHum 1\, 210 \n  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jewish-studies-open-house-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:20170413T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170413T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120439 CREATED:20170412T231018Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170412T231018Z UID:10006492-1492104000-1492109400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Tongo Eisen-Martin DESCRIPTION:Tongo Eisen-Martin\, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) \nBorn in San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker\, educator\, and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He has educated in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California’s San Quentin State Prison. His work in Rikers Island was featured in the New York Times. He was also adjunct faculty at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York. Subscribing to the Freirian model of education\, he designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. \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-tongo-eisen-martin-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:20170414T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170414T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120439 CREATED:20170310T190759Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170310T190759Z UID:10005344-1492160400-1492191000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Critical Conversations in Cultural Heritage DESCRIPTION:3rd Annual Research Conference \nFree and Open to the Public\nAdvance Registration Required \nAppeals to “heritage” have become increasingly common and visible in recent decades. Whether within the realms of the promotion and re-creation of history\, claims to sovereignty\, protection of landscapes and climate\, or economic development\, connection to the past is often utilized as a demonstration of legitimacy and authority. Making sense of these diverse appeals to heritage and the many ways that the past becomes meaningfully constituted in the present is a challenge. This is due both to the complexity of the issues as well as the fact that heritage scholars tend to be widely scattered between departments and disciplines. To address these challenges our conference at the University of California\, Santa Cruz will bring together an interdisciplinary community of scholars to discuss current research and evaluate future directions for this rapidly growing\, yet still decentralized\, field of study. \nKeynote Speaker\nJane Lydon\, University of Western Australia \nSpeakers\nJane Anderson\, New York University \nSony Atalay\, University of Massachusetts \nJon Daehnke\, UC Santa Cruz \nRobin Gray\, UC Santa Cruz \nRichard Leventhal\, University of Pennsylvania \nAmy Lonetree\, UC Santa Cruz \nKathryn Lafrenz Samuels\, University of Maryland \nTsim D. Schneider\, UC Santa Cruz \nHegnar Watenpaugh\, UC Davis \nRegistration on:\n http://arc.ucsc.edu/conferenceregistration.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/critical-conversations-in-cultural-heritage-2/ LOCATION:University Center\, UCSC\, College Nine and College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/CulturalHeritage_Banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170414T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170414T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120439 CREATED:20170308T171204Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170308T171204Z UID:10005343-1492178400-1492191000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ethics and Language of Conservation Colloquium DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nEthics and Language of Conservation \nWhat is Lost When a Species Goes Extinct?\nA Colloquium on the Unspeakable Value of Life \nFriday\, April 14\, 2017\n2:00-5:30pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 210 \n \nSpeakers:\nClaudio Campagna\nAdjunct Professor\, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology\, UCSC\nWildlife Conservation Society \nDaniel Guevara\nChair\, Department of Philosophy\, UCSC \nPaul Koch\nDean of Physical and Biological Sciences\, UCSC\nDistinguished Professor\, Earth and Planetary Sciences \nBeth Shapiro\nAssociate Professor\, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology\, UCSC \nSponsored by:\nIHR Research Cluster on The Language of Conservation Project\, Center for Public Philosophy\, Dean of Humanities\, Dean of Physical and Biological Sciences \nFor more information visit:\nThe Language of Conservation Project\nCenter for Public Philosophy URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ethics-and-language-of-conservation-colloquium-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/2017/03/poster-colloquium-4.14.17.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170414T144000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170414T154000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20161004T212225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161004T212225Z UID:10006405-1492180800-1492184400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Junko Ito DESCRIPTION:The Linguistics department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nSpring 2016 \nApril 14: Junko Ito\, UC Santa Cruz \nApril 28: Ashwini Deo\, Yale \nMay 26: Susan Lin\, UC Berkeley \nMay/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-junko-ito-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170418T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170418T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170316T002718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170316T002718Z UID:10006479-1492516800-1492524000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Fluidity of Status: A Seminar with Tanya Golash-Boza & Rhacel Parreñas (Non-citizenship Series) DESCRIPTION:Focusing on gender\, deportation\, and labor\, the third and final session of Non-citizenship\, UC Santa Cruz’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture\, approaches citizenship\, denizenship\, and mobility as fluid statuses—as formal (in other words\, documented) positions that are in flux and as practices of belonging that morph as people of various statuses interact with each other. \nPlease join us for this free\, public seminar with Tanya Golash-Boza\, Professor of Sociology at UC Merced\, and Rhacel Parreñas\, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California.  To reserve your lunch and to access the pre-circulated readings\, please register here: \n \nFollowing the seminar\, Professors Golash-Boza and Parreñas will take part in The Fluidity of Status: Non-citizenship\, Deportation\, and Indentured Mobility\, a public conversation at the Museum of Art & History at 705 Front Street in downtown Santa Cruz.\n\n \nTanya Golash-Boza is the author of five books\, including Deported: Immigrant Policing\, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism (New York University Press\, 2015)\, which explains mass deportation in the context of the global economic crisis; Due Process Denied (Routledge\, 2012)\, which describes how and why non-citizens in the United States have been detained and deported for minor crimes\, without regard for constitutional limits on disproportionate punishment; and Immigration Nation (Paradigm\, 2012)\, which provides a critical analysis of the impact that US immigration policy has on human rights.  In addition\, she has published over a dozen articles in peer-reviewed journals on deportations\, racial identity\, and human rights and has written on contemporary issues for Al Jazeera\, The Boston Review\, The Nation\, Counterpunch\, The Houston Chronicle\, Racialicious\, The Chronicle of Higher Education\, and Dissident Voice. \nRhacel Parreñas‘ book\, Illicit Flirtations: Labor\, Migration and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo (Stanford University Press\, 2011)\, won the Distinguished Book Award in the Labor and Labor Movements Section of the American Sociological Association. Probing the intersections of human trafficking and labor migration\, her current research analyzes the constitution of unfree labor among migrant domestic workers in Dubai and Singapore. Her other books include Human Trafficking Reconsidered: Migration and Forced Labor (Open Society Institute\, 2014)\, The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization (New York University Press\, 2008)\, and Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work (second edition\, Stanford University Press\, 2015). Her current research focuses on the unfree labor of migrant contract workers in Asia and the Middle East.\nThis seminar is co-sponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research\, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-fluidity-of-status-a-seminar-with-tanya-golash-boza-rhacel-parrenas-non-citizenship-series-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:20170418T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170418T163000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170413T043952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170413T043952Z UID:10005356-1492527600-1492533000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Common Front for the Right to Housing in Bucharest DESCRIPTION:Comparative urban studies are on the rise\, raising new questions about translation\, fungibility\, and transit. How can we study the material effects of global capital in various urban spaces without conflating the spatial struggles and transformations of one space upon another? How can superimposing Western understandings of gentrification upon non-Western places impose onto-epistemological violence? This talk\, moderated by Feminist Studies doctoral candidate and Anti-Eviction Mapping Project cofounder Erin McElroy\, will feature Bucharest-based housing justice activist\, artist\, and scholar Veda Popovici. Veda will share more about the Bucharest’s direct action collective\, the Common Front for the Right to Housing\, as well as histories of postsocialist neoliberal housing restitution laws that have incited current Romanian spatial struggles. Erin and Veda will discuss a growing call to think both global capital formations and comparative urbanism in Romania through decolonial analytics. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/common-front-for-the-right-to-housing-in-bucharest-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/2017/04/Romanian-UCSCposter-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170418T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170418T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20161129T224703Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T224703Z UID:10006429-1492540200-1492547400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Fluidity of Status: Non-citizenship\, Deportation\, and Indentured Mobility: A Conversation with Tanya Golash-Boza and Rhacel Parreñas DESCRIPTION:Event Photos: by Steve Kurtz\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nPresented by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research\nIn two Ted-style talks\, Tanya Golash-Boza (UC Merced) and Rhacel Parreñas (University of Southern California) help close UC Santa Cruz’s Andrew W. Mellon John E. Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship by discussing what they see as some of the key issues framing debates around migration in our time: gender\, deportation\, incarceration\, slavery\, human trafficking\, structural violence\, and global apartheid. The evening begins with a reception at 6:30pm\, followed by presentations at 7:00pm and a Q&A moderated by Felicity Amaya Schaeffer (UC Santa Cruz). \n“Deported without Due Process: Ryan’s Story”\nTanya Golash-Boza\, Professor of Sociology\, University of California\, Merced \nSince 1996\, five million people have been deported from the United States – 98% of them Latin American and 90% men. Laws passed in 1996 made it easier to deport legal permanent residents\, even those eligible for citizenship. In immigration proceedings\, you have no right to legal representation. You can be detained without bond. You can be deported without a full hearing. In this talk\, Tanya Golash-Boza will explain how legal permanent residents can be deported from the United States with minimal or no due process. \n“The Unfree Labor of Migrant Domestic Workers”\nRhacel Parreñas\, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies\, University of Southern California \nAcross the globe\, migrant domestic workers are unfree workers whose legal residency is contingent on their continued employment as live-in workers with a designated sponsor. Rhacel Parreñas’ talk gives a global overview of the exclusionary terms of their belonging. It then interrogates dominant theoretical frameworks for thinking about contemporary unfreedoms – slavery\, human trafficking and structural violence – and proposes the alternative concept of “indentured mobility\,” which sees migration as simultaneously constituting of financial mobility from a life of poverty in the sending society but at the cost of servitude vis-à-vis a sponsoring employer in the receiving society. The concept of indentured mobility foregrounds not only the severe structural constraints that limit the options of domestic workers but also their agentic negotiations for improving their work conditions and maximizing thepossible gains in their state of unfreedom. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, but attendees are kindly asked to register in advance. \n \nSpeakers \nTanya Golash-Boza is the author of five books\, including Deported: Immigrant Policing\, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism (New York University Press\, 2015)\, which explains mass deportation in the context of the global economic crisis; Due Process Denied (Routledge\, 2012)\, which describes how and why non-citizens in the United States have been detained and deported for minor crimes\, without regard for constitutional limits on disproportionate punishment; and Immigration Nation (Paradigm\, 2012)\, which provides a critical analysis of the impact that US immigration policy has on human rights.  In addition\, she has published over a dozen articles in peer-reviewed journals on deportations\, racial identity\, and human rights and has written on contemporary issues for Al Jazeera\, The Boston Review\, The Nation\, Counterpunch\, The Houston Chronicle\, Racialicious\, The Chronicle of Higher Education\, and Dissident Voice. \nRhacel Parreñas‘ book\, Illicit Flirtations: Labor\, Migration and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo(Stanford University Press\, 2011)\, won the Distinguished Book Award in the Labor and Labor Movements Section of the American Sociological Association. Probing the intersections of human trafficking and labor migration\, her current research analyzes the constitution of unfree labor among migrant domestic workers in Dubai and Singapore. Her other books include Human Trafficking Reconsidered: Migration and Forced Labor (Open Society Institute\, 2014)\, The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization (New York University Press\, 2008)\, and Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work (second edition\, Stanford University Press\, 2015). Her current research focuses on the unfree labor of migrant contract workers in Asia and the Middle East. \nFelicity Amaya Schaeffer is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies and Co-principal Investigator of Non-citizenship\, UC Santa Cruz’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar.  She is the author of Love and Empire:  Cybermarriage and Citizenship across the Americas (New York University Press\, 2013)\, an exploration of the relationship between global shifts and intimate circuits of desire\, love\, and marriage.  Her current research is on surveillance technologies and the sexual criminalization of migrant bodies on and beyond the US-Mexico border.  Other research interests include borderlands and transnationalisms; affect and capitalism; race\, technology\, and subjectivity; and Chicana and Latin American cultural studies. \n  \nThis free\, public event is co-sponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research\, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. \nAbout Non-citizenship\nNon-citizenship is part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture. Linking citizenship\, migration\, border\, labor\, and carceral studies\, and juxtaposing spatial and social mobility and immobility\, this year-long series of events explores what it means to be a citizen and non-citizen in a world made by migrants\, refugees\, guest workers\, permanent residents\, asylum seekers\, slaves\, prisoners\, detainees\, the stateless\, and denizens (residents who do not hold the same rights as citizens). Non-citizenship is organized around three themes: “Forced Migration” (fall 2016)\, “Labor Mobility and Precarity” (winter 2017)\, and “Fluidity of Status” (spring 2017). Click here to learn more. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fluidity-of-status-non-citizenship-deportation-and-indentured-mobility-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/SawyerSeries_FluidityFrntPstcrd_R1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170419T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170419T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170317T192553Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170317T192553Z UID:10006480-1492590600-1492610400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Undergraduate Digital Research Symposium DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Center for Jewish Studies\, Digital Scholarship Commons\, University Library\, IHR\nWith support from the Koret Family Foundation \nThe Digital Scholarship Commons is thrilled to announce the first Undergraduate Digital Research Symposium on April 19\, 2017. At UC Santa Cruz\, undergraduate students are engaged in creative\, critical research using digital tools and platforms. This symposium will showcase innovative undergraduate research and celebrate the digital projects that students develop in class. \nJoin us to explore and engage with public facing\, media-rich\, critically engaged\, and creative student research. The event will include a digital poster session\, two panels featuring undergraduate work\, and a keynote address by Jaye Padgett\, Interim Vice Provost for Student Success. Lunch will be provided for registered attendees. \n  \nProgram:\n8:30 – 9:00am Light Breakfast and Coffee\n9:00 – 9:15am Welcome\, Elizabeth Cowell (University Librarian)\n9:15 – 10:00am Digital Poster Session\n10:00 – 10:45am Panel 1: Undergraduate Digital Research Fellows\n11:00 – 11:45am Panel 2: The Gail Project\, Team Leaders\n12:00 – 1:00pm Lunch (Brown Bag lunch provided for all registered attendees)\n1:00 – 1:45pm Keynote: Jaye Padgett (Interim Vice Provost for Student Success) \n  \nHighlights of the Symposium include:\nSix student groups will be showcasing digital projects (both independent research + class work) in a Digital Poster Session\nEight undergrads will be participating in two panels discussing independent research.\n\n\n  \nClick here to register. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undergraduate-digital-research-symposium-2/ LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry Library ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Undergrad-symposium-flyer_email.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170419T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170419T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170412T230458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170412T230458Z UID:10006491-1492603200-1492608600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Zac Zimmer: “Conquest\, Contact\, and Cosmovision: SF Rewritings of the Conquest of the Americas” DESCRIPTION:Conquest\, Contact\, and Cosmovision: SF Rewritings of the Conquest of the Americas \nZac Zimmer’s current project reads original narratives of the conquest of the Americas and the philosophical debates it engendered with and against recent aesthetic attempts to reimagine that historical moment in marginal genres\, especially alternative history and first contact science fiction\, creating a point of contact between the contemporary world and the hemispheric American colonial encounter. \nZac Zimmer is Assistant Professor of Literature and LALS at UCSC. \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/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-zac-zimmer-conquest-contact-and-cosmovision-sf-rewritings-of-the-conquest-of-the-americas-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:20170419T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170419T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20161129T224751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T224751Z UID:10006430-1492617600-1492624800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies DESCRIPTION:The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies presents: Mitchell Duneier the Maurice P. During\, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University on “Ghetto: Invention of a Place\, History of an Idea” \nLecture at 4:00pm – Humanities 1\, RM 210 \nReception to follow \nParking – Free to attendees – Please follow “Diller Lecture” signs to Cowell/Stevenson parking lots 109 and 110 – Parking attendants will be on hand to issue parking permits URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/diller-lecture-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/2016/11/UC_IHRDillrPstr_2016_FINAL.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170419T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170419T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170412T231728Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170412T231728Z UID:10005354-1492621200-1492621200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Spanish Colloquium: Ximena Briceño\, "A vuelo de pájaro: Vallejo y Arguedas" DESCRIPTION:A vuelo de pájaro: Vallejo y ArguedasA talk in Spanish by Ximena Briceño\nXimena Briceño enseña literatura latinoamericana en el Departamento de Culturas Ibéricas y Latinoamericanas de Stanford University desde 2008. Es doctora por la Universidad de Cornell y egresada de la Universidad Católica del Perú. Su trabajo de investigación se enfoca en teorías de animalidad en la literatura moderna de América Latina\, especialmente de la zona andina. Ha sido becaria del Instituto Iberoamericano de Berlín y es coordinadora del grupo de investigación materia en Stanford. \nExploro el arco trazado por el ave guanera desde Trilce de César Vallejo hasta El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo de José María Arguedas. Quiero discutir la presencia de una poética excrementicia en la vanguardia andina desde una perspectiva post-antropocéntrica. Tomando como punto de partida la idea clásica de la vanguardia latinoamericana como crítica a la modernidad\, esta ponencia extrema esta postura para mostrar que\, más bien\, la línea excrementicia que comunica la escritura de Vallejo y Arguedas marca cómo esa temporalidad colapsa en un tiempo catastrófico que borra la frontera de lo humano y lo no humano. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/spanish-colloquium-ximena-briceno-a-vuelo-de-pajaro-vallejo-y-arguedas-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170419T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170419T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170413T044321Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170413T044321Z UID:10005358-1492632000-1492637400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The "Light” Revolution and its aftermaths: Protest\, resistance and performing Eastern Europe DESCRIPTION:SubRosa\nThroughout all of February\, tens of thousands took the streets in Romania to protest corruption of the political class. Far from being the first spontaneous mass protests in recent local history\, they were the first of such magnitude to affirm a clear right-wing position. As international radicals\, we expect solidarity not with the imperialist narrative of the “at last enlightened East” but with local resistance to the liberal paradigm of civic\, peaceful protest. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-light-revolution-and-its-aftermaths-protest-resistance-and-performing-eastern-europe-2/ LOCATION:Sub Rosa ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Romanian-UCSCposter-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170420T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170420T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170310T193748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170310T193748Z UID:10005345-1492689600-1492693200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Humanities Earth Day DESCRIPTION:Please join the Health Humanities Committee and Green Team for our Earth Day Lunch & Learn on April 20th from 12:00 – 1:00pm in Humanities 1\, Room 210. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-earth-day-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/2017/03/Earth-Day-Flyer-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170421T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170421T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20161215T194718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T193649Z UID:10006441-1492772400-1492777800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: Humanities Townhall to Discuss Graduate Education for Graduate Students and Faculty DESCRIPTION:Last year\, the NEH awarded UCSC a Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grant to help support the campus in instituting wide-ranging changes in its humanities doctoral programs. As such a process process will ultimately affect everyone in the Humanities division\, the grant participants would like to invite Humanities affiliates to a town-hall style forum for a short presentation about our NEH grant\, as well as to provide an opportunity in which to share ideas\, thoughts\, and concerns about the state\, and future of\, humanities graduate education at UCSC–and in general. We hope to integrate the feedback we receive into the strategies that each of our working groups are in the process of developing in order to better serve the UCSC humanities community. After a short introduction about the grant\, an informal panel discussion will provide some groundwork for a larger\, audience-based conservation regarding topics such as community building within/among graduate students and faculty\, skills development opportunities for humanities students\, and understanding/defining expectations for mentor/mentee relationships.  As part of our town hall discussion\, we provide a modest and optional selection of articles from the Chronicle of Higher Education as background reading for those who would like to participate. \nPlease RSVP below. Lunch will be served. \nPhD+ 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. \nPlease RSVP below.\nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-humanities-townhall-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:20170421T122000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170421T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170414T174620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T174620Z UID:10005362-1492777200-1492783200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Jaclyn N. Schultz DESCRIPTION:Advertising Female Futurity: Children’s Books Printed as Advertisements in the U.S.\, 1850-1870 \nIn this presentation\, I examine children’s books printed as advertisemtns between 1850 and 1870 that were directed at female children. Beginning around 1850\, companies produced books that served as advertisements but took the shape of children’s primers\, rhymes\, or storybooks. This presentation carefully studies these books to uncover consumerist lessons directed at children as well as contemporaneous understandings of the women of the future. By examining how female child readers were trained to become a certain kind of women through these advertising books\, my presentation illuminates the distinctive understanding of gendered labor\, consumerism\, and futurity that existed in the U.S. between 1850 and 1870. \nFriday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule: \nFridays 12:20-2pm\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-jaclyn-n-schultz-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:20170421T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170421T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170413T163955Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170413T163955Z UID:10005360-1492794000-1492801200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Lothar Von Falkenhausen: "Trying to Do the Right Thing to Protect the World's Cultural Heritage: One Committee Member's Tale" DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America presents \nLothar Von Falkenhausen\nProfessor of Chinese Archaeology and Art History\, UCLA \nTrying to Do the Right Thing to Protect the World’s Cultural Heritage:\nOne Committee Member’s Tale \nFriday\, April 21 at 5:00 p.m.\nHumanities 1\, Room 210\nFree and open to the public\nRefreshments at 4:30 p.m. and reception to follow the lecture \nProfessor Von Falkenhausen will give an account of his service as a member of President Obama’s\nCultural Property Advisory Committee. He reflects upon the purpose of the committee and its\ncomposition and the nature of its work\, as well as the wider impact of the United States\ngovernment’s efforts to contribute to cultural-heritage preservation worldwide.\nLothar von Falkenhausen is Professor of Chinese Archaeology and Art History at UCLA\, where\nhe heads the East Asian Laboratory at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. His research\nconcerns the archaeology of the Chinese Bronze Age\, focusing on large interdisciplinary and\nhistorical issues on which archaeological materials can provide significant new information. He has\npublished copiously on musical instruments; Chinese bronzes and their inscriptions; Chinese\nritual; regional cultures; trans-Asiatic contacts; the history of archaeology in East Asia; and\nmethod and theory in East Asian archaeology. His Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius\n(1000-250 BC): The Archaeological Evidence (2006) received the Society for American\nArchaeology Book Award. Since 2012\, Professor Von Falkenhausen has served on the\nPresidential Cultural Property Advisory Committee\, charged with implementing the 1970\nUNESCO convention in order to curb the illegal inflow of cultural property into the United States. \nFor more information on the lecture\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu \nMetered parking available in lower Cowell-Stevenson lot (109) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lothar-von-falkenhausen-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/2017/04/VonFalkenhausenTalkLegal.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170425T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170425T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170321T221830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170321T221830Z UID:10006483-1493132400-1493139600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Traci Brynne Voyles: "Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country" DESCRIPTION:The IHR Research Cluster on Race\, Violence\, Inequality\, and the Anthropocene Presents \nTraci Brynne Voyles \nTuesday April 25\, 3-5pm\nWastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country\n(reading workshop for faculty and graduate students)\nHumanities 1\, room 210\nContact krlyons@ucsc.edu for readings \nWednesday April 26\, 2-4pm\n“Can a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea and Settler Colonial Frames for Thinking about Environmental (justice) History\nHumanities 1\, room 210 \nDr. Traci Brynne Voyles is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Loyola Marymount university. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/voyles-wastelanding-legacies-of-uranium-mining-in-navajo-country-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/2017/03/Voyles-poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170426T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170426T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170412T231106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170412T231106Z UID:10005352-1493208000-1493213400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Eric Porter\, "'The Future Appears Both Bleak and Promising': The Politics of Jet Noise Around SFO" DESCRIPTION:This talk is drawn from Professor Porter’s current book project examining the history of San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and various social and political phenomena associated with it as a means of better understanding the core San Francisco Bay Area as a physical\, social\, and imagined urban space. \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/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-eric-porter-the-future-appears-both-bleak-and-promising-the-politics-of-jet-noise-around-sfo-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:20170426T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170426T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170321T222251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170321T222251Z UID:10006484-1493215200-1493222400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Traci Brynne Voyles: "Can a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea and Settler Colonial Frames for Thinking about Environmental (Justice) History" DESCRIPTION:The IHR Research Cluster on Race\, Violence\, Inequality\, and the Anthropocene Presents \nTraci Brynne Voyles \nTuesday April 25\, 3-5pm\nWastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country\n(reading workshop for faculty and graduate students)\nHumanities 1\, room 210\nContact krlyons@ucsc.edu for readings \nWednesday April 26\, 2-4pm\nCan a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea and Settler Colonial Frames for Thinking about Environmental (Justice) History\nHumanities 1\, room 210 \nDr. Traci Brynne Voyles is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Loyola Marymount university. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/voyles-can-a-sea-be-a-settler-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/2017/03/Voyles-poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170426T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170426T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170414T200429Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T200429Z UID:10006496-1493222400-1493226000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Politics of Belonging: Moroccan Communist Jews\, French Empire\, and Nationalisms in the 20th Century DESCRIPTION:This talk examines the place of Jews in colonial Morocco from the interwar period though to independence (achieved in 1956) and beyond. It is structured around one central question: how Moroccan Jews see themselves as emancipated citizens in a future independent Moroccan state? From a period of ideological porosity during the interwar period\, through the anti-Semitic policies of the Vichy regime during WWII\, to the struggle for national liberation\, and finally\, the years of mass Jewish exodus and authoritarianism\, this talk pushes against teleological readings of Moroccan Jewish history and explores a previously obscured narrative of political possibility and radical roads not taken. \nAssistant Professor Alma Heckman\, History \nReception to Follow\nFor accessibitiy concerns\, contact pmreed@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-politics-of-belonging-moroccan-communist-jews-french-empire-and-nationalisms-in-the-20th-century-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Heckman-Talk-Flyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170427T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170427T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170425T182150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T182150Z UID:10006504-1493308800-1493316000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Pictures & Progress: Black Panther\, 1966-2016 closing reception DESCRIPTION:Pictures & Progress: Black Panther\, 1966-2016 closing reception\nThursday\, April 27\, from 4PM to 6PM\nUCSC McHenry Library\, 4th floor\n414 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz CA. 95064 \nLight refreshments served \nThe closing reception of “Pictures & Progress: Black Panther\, 1966-2016” will be a public program bringing into conversation the power of visual representation and the radical tradition. We are happy to host a panel with Jeremy Love graphic novelist (Bayou); Juliana Smith\, UC alum and comic book writer\, and organizer (Hafrocentric); Tarika Lewis\, former Assistant Minister of Culture and the first woman to join the Black Panther Party; and Aaron Dixon\, former Co-Founder Seattle Chapter of the BPP and who helped begin Free Breakfast Program. This panel will be moderated by UCSC professor of Literature\, Vilashini Cooppan. “Pictures and Progress: The Black Panther: 1966-2016” has been a celebration of the 50th anniversary of both the party and the comic book series. Photos featuring women and children of the party from the Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones Photography Collection along with comic books from the James Gunderson and Peter Coha collection will be on display in McHenry at the reception. \n4:00-4:15: Refreshments\n4:15-4:25: Introductions\n4:25-5:20: Panel Discussion\n5:30-6:00: Book Signing \nPanelists:\nTarika Lewis\, former Assistant Minister of Culture and the first woman to join the Black Panther Party\nAaron Dixon\, former Co-Founder Seattle Chapter of the BPP and helped begin Free Breakfast Program\nJeremy Love\, comic book artist and graphic novelist\, Bayou\nJuliana Smith\, comic book creator and community activist\, HafroCentric \nModerator:\nVilashini Cooppan URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pictures-progress-black-panther-1966-2016-closing-reception-2/ LOCATION:McHenry Library UCSC\, Room 4286 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/clsoing-reception-hero.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170428 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170501 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20161129T225541Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T225541Z UID:10006431-1493337600-1493596799@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Alumni Weekend 2017 DESCRIPTION:SAVE THE DATE \nApril 28 – 30\, 2017 \nMore info and event schedule at: alumniweekend.ucsc.edu \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alumni-weekend-2/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/alumniweekendcomehome.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170428T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170428T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170414T184141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T184141Z UID:10005364-1493382600-1493388000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Baizhu Chen DESCRIPTION:Do Lenders Value the Right Characteristics?: Evidence from Peer-to-Peer Lending \nUsing a unique dataset of peer-to-peer lending with detailed loan and borrower information\, I study the following research questions:|1) What are the borrower characteristics that lenders value when choosing which loans to fund?; and (2) Do lenders value the correct characteristics with respect to minimizing to probability of default? In this online context\, the researcher observes everything that the lender does\, enabling unbiased estimation of the borrower characteristics that lenders favor. Estimating the characteristics that predict loan default is problematic due to selection at the funding state. I consider three potential strategies to address this issue:(1) restricting attention to borrower characteristics for which there is no evidence of selection in the first stage; (2) bounding the default estimates in the style of Lee (2009) and (3) exploiting variation in the probability of funding caused by contemporaneous competition on the platform. The evidence suggests that lenders give the correct weight to verified income levels\, underestimate the importance of verified education level and marital status\, and overestimate the importance of verified employment industry. \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-baizhu-chen-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:20170429T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170429T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170301T230441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170301T230441Z UID:10005338-1493463600-1493463600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ethics and the Language of Conservation DESCRIPTION:Daniel Guevara (Philosophy) and Claudio Campagna (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology\, and Wildlife Conservation Society) assert that we need to radically rethink the meaning of conservation. “Sustainable Development” is a failed term\, and as a result\, the crisis of conservation is fundamentally a philosophical crisis with real-world implications. Their goal is to give a compelling and rigorous voice to an authentic ethical concern for Nature. Light refreshments and coffee will be served. \nRegistration link:\nREGISTER HERE URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/language-of-conservation-2/ LOCATION:Cervantes & Velasquez Room\, Baytree Conference Center\, Bay Tree Conference Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/language_banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170429T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170429T120000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170301T230228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170301T230228Z UID:10005337-1493467200-1493467200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Humanities Mix & Mingle DESCRIPTION:Please join us from 12-1 for a lunchtime Mix & Mingle in the Humanities courtyard. Connect with Humanities alumni\, faculty\, and beloved emeriti professors while enjoying complementary beverages and desserts. Tables and chairs will be set up\, so grab your lunch at Quarry Plaza and come spend some time with the Humanities Division! \nRegistration link: URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-mix-mingle-2/ LOCATION:humanites courtyard ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/humanities-banner-300x202.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170429T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170429T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170301T224824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170301T224824Z UID:10005336-1493470800-1493470800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Graduate Alumni Panel Discussions DESCRIPTION:Join us for lively panel discussions: Careers and Resources for Entrepreneurship for Graduate Students in the Santa Cruz Region\, San Francisco to Monterey (1p-2:15p); Graduate Student Alumni Leaders in Santa Cruz Region\, San Francisco to Monterey (2:30p-3:45p) and\, Life after Graduate School. Panelists will share their stories and work experience in academic career\, non-academic career\, government\, and startups. Refreshments will be provided. \nRegistration link:\nREGISTER HERE \n  \nPanel 1: Careers and Entrepreneurship for Graduate Students \n1:00–2:15 p.m.\, Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, Room 259. \nJ Guevara\, Ph.D. Literature 2012; Economic Development Manager\, Santa Cruz Economic Development Office\, and Municipal Broadband and Right-of-Way Manager\, City of Santa Cruz \nAdam Siepel\, Ph.D. Computer Science 2005; Professor\, Watson School of Biological Sciences\, and Chair\, Simons Center for Quantitative Biology\, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory\, Cold Spring Harbor\, NY \nEmily Sloan-Pace\, Ph.D. Literature 2012; Professor in Residence\, Zoho Corp.\, Pleasanton\, CA\, and Chennai\, India \n  \nCoffee and Light Refreshments between panels\, 2:15–2:30. \n  \nPanel 2: Leadership Opportunities for Graduate Students \n2:30–3:45 p.m.\, Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, Room 259. \nClaudio Campagna\, Ph.D. Biology 1987; Marine Conservationist\, Argentina and Marine Programs\, Wildlife Conservation Society\, and Adjunct Professor and Research Associate\, UC Santa Cruz \nDan Heller\, M.F.A. Digital Arts and New Media 2013; CEO\, Two Pore Guys\, Inc.\, Santa Cruz \nBetsy Herbert\, Ph.D. Environmental Studies 2004; Earth Matters international columnist\, Santa Cruz Sentinel\, and Chair\, Science Advisory Panel\, Sempervirens Fund \nAdam Siepel (see bio info above) \nEmily Sloan-Pace (see bio info above) \n  \nNetworking Mixer\, April 29\, 4:00–6:00 p.m.\, Cafe Iveta \nImmediately following the second panel discussion on leadership\, please join the panelists and other visiting graduate student alumni at the networking mixer. Sponsored by the Division of Graduate Studies and administrative and faculty representatives from the five academic divisions in welcoming back to campus our five distinguished graduate student alumni honorees\, panelists\, and other returning graduate student alumni at this social gathering to celebrate our fantastic graduate programs and network with other graduate students from UCSC. \n  \nGraduate Alumni Honored\, 2016-17 \nThe UC Santa Cruz Division of Graduate Studies and the divisions of the Arts\, Engineering\, Humanities\, Physical Sciences\, and Social Sciences will honor five distinguished graduate student alumni representing each division at an award luncheon on April 29\, 2017\, during UCSC’s Alumni Weekend. Click here to read more URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/graduate-alumni-panel-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/grad-discussion-photo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170429T144500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170429T161500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170216T184059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170216T184059Z UID:10006465-1493477100-1493482500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Teach-in with Gina Dent: "Ex Post Facto: How to respond to a ‘post-truth’ world" DESCRIPTION:Gina Dent\, associate professor of feminist studies\, history of consciousness\, and legal studies\, will discuss the role of the humanities in responding to the current discussion of “alternative facts.” How can we develop a critical relationship to “facticity\,” while preserving the ability to think and act politically? \nRegistration link: http://alumniweekend.ucsc.edu/sessions/teach-in-2/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/teach-in-with-gina-dent-ex-post-facto-how-to-respond-to-a-post-truth-world-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ginadent.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170429T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170429T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170301T201611Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170301T201611Z UID:10006475-1493481600-1493481600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Graduate Alumni Networking Mixer DESCRIPTION:Graduate Alumni and current graduate students will have an opportunity to meet each other\, discuss their work and enjoy a relaxed opportunity to reconnect and network. Refreshments will be provided.\n\nLocation: Graduate Student Commons and Cafe Iveta\n\n\nRegistration link:\nREGISTER HERE URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/graduate-alumni-networking-mixer-2/ LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/grad-alum-mixer-photo.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCSC Special Events Office":MAILTO:specialevents@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170429T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170429T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170301T224535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170301T224535Z UID:10006476-1493481600-1493487000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:An Immersion into Dickensian Cocktails DESCRIPTION:Charles Dickens was a unique and protean fellow; writer\, social commentator\, reporter\, actor\, father\, and much more.He was also a great lover of the table and glass\, a noteworthy bon vivant who created wondrous punches\, cups\, cocktails\, and other nourishing potations\, in novels as well as in daily life. This lecture will address Dickens’s skill with wine\, ale\, cider\, rum\, and gin\, interspersed with cocktail demonstrations\, allowing time to taste and ponder these delicious beverages\n\nBurke Owens is a long time Bay Area wine and food industry professional\, educator\, former sommelier\, punch aficionado\, and most  importantly\, parent of two UCSC alums. He now serves as senior pastor at the Petaluma United Methodist Church. His appreciation of food and wine\, of Dickens and the arts\, can all be traced back to his mother who cooked\, his father who sculpted\, and each one’s passionate love of literature.\n Watch Burke’s tutorial to learn how to prepare Cold Gin Punch\, a traditional Victorian beverage. {https://vimeo.com/49291630}\n\nRegistration link:\nREGISTER HERE URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-immersion-into-dickensian-cocktails-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Dickens-book-photo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170501 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170502 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20161201T191718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T191718Z UID:10006433-1493596800-1493683199@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Humanists@Work: Graduate Career Workshop in Silicon Valley DESCRIPTION:Humanists@Work Graduate Career Workshop – UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus\nSanta Clara – May 1\, 2017\nWhat is Humanists@Work?\nHumanists@Work is a UC-wide initiative geared towards UC Humanities and humanistic Social Science MAs and PhDs interested in careers outside/alongside the academy. \nOn May 1\, 2017\, HumWork will host a sixth workshop for graduate students and faculty members in partnership with the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Inspired by its location\, Humanists@Work Graduate Career Workshop – Silicon Valley will engage the synergistic possibilities at the intersection of new media\, community engagement\, education and public humanities that is characteristic of the greater Bay Area. \n  \n \nWORKSHOP LOCATION \nUCSC Silicon Valley Extension Campus\n3175 Bowers Ave\nSanta Clara\, CA 95054\nFREE PARKING ON CAMPUS \nWORKSHOP SCHEDULE \n8:00—9:00 AM: HOT BREAKFAST \n9:00—9:30 AM: WELCOME \n9:30—11:00 AM: STORIES FROM THE FIELD \nIn Stories from the Field\, four UC humanities PhDs discuss how long-term\, sustained humanistic thought and labor shape\, and potentially transform\, their career trajectories and the industries in which they find themselves employed. How did their values\, ethics\, and politics inform their post-PhD work choices? \nChristian Blood\nCurriculum Specialist\nZoho Corporation \nDana Douglas DePietro\, Ph.D.\nCultural Resources Division Lead\, FirstCarbon Solutions\nExecutive Director\, S.H.A.R.E \nTamao Nakahara\, PhD\nCo-organizer\nDevXCon \nSheri J. Tatsch\, PhD\nOwner/Principal\nIndigenous Consulting Services \n11:00—11:30 AM: COFFEE BREAK AND INFORMAL NETWORKING \n11:30 AM—1:00 PM: FROM ACADEMIC CV TO INNOVATIVE RÉSUMÉ USING JARED REDICK’S “PURPOSE\, CONTENT\, DESIGN” METHODOLOGIES \nThe Résumé Studio’s Jared Redick returns to Humwork\, sharing his “purpose\, content\, design” techniques aimed at helping recent and soon-to-be PhDs shape a purposeful résumé\, while framing the possibilities of a fulfilling future beyond or alongside academia. \n1:00—2:00 PM: LUNCH \n2:00—3:30 PM: BREAKOUT SESSIONS \nSESSION 1 – HUMANITIES PHDS: DESIGNING CAREER PATHS \nDebra Behrens\, PhD\nPhD Counselor\nUniversity of California\, Berkeley \nThis interactive workshop is for humanities PhDs in the early stages of researching careers who want to Explore career ideas\, Learn to research jobs and engage short-term strategies for gaining experience\, and Design potential career paths. \nSESSION 2 – PERSUASIVE INTERVIEWING \nAnnie Maxfield\, MS\nAssociate Director\, Graduate Student Relations and Services\nUniversity of California\, Los Angeles \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. \n3:30—4:00 PM: COFFEE BREAK AND INFORMAL NETWORKING \n4:00—5:30 PM: CANDID CONVERSATIONS: DEBT IN THE HUMANITIES \nStudent debt is a collective experience shared by the majority of humanities PhDs\, so why aren’t we talking about it? Candid Conversations engages faculty\, graduate students\, and university staff in a dialogue around the issue of debt and how it influences your post-PhD careers. \nJoshua A. Anderson\nGraduate Student\nUniversity of California\, Berkeley \nJessica Beard\, PhD\nHigher Education Project Organizer\nAmerican Federation of Teachers \nJennifer E. McSpadden\nABD\nUniversity of California\, Davis \nAllison Perlman\, PhD\nAssistant Professor\nUniversity of California\, Irvine URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanistswork-2-2/ LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Hum@Work-web-banner-5.1.17.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170502T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170502T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170426T121148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T121148Z UID:10006508-1493726400-1493731800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Digital Pedagogy Showcase DESCRIPTION:Get some syllabus inspiration! The inaugural cohort of the Digital Instruction Project lead this Brown Bag Session about developing and implementing new digital assignments in their classes. Join us as we discuss the benefits and challenges of adding digital tools into your syllabus and pushing your students to try new forms of scholarly writing. \nThe panel includes Philip Longo (Writing Program)\, Kyle Parry (HAVC)\, Cat Ramirez (LALS)\, Amanda Smith (Literature)\, and Dustin Wright (History) \nThe Digital Instruction Project was launched in Fall 2016 by the Digital Scholarship Commons and the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-pedagogy-showcase-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Digital-Pedagogy-Showcase.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170502T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170502T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170414T201204Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T201204Z UID:10006497-1493731800-1493737200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"What's Left of Progressive Politics?" DESCRIPTION:The Center for Emerging Worlds presents \n“What’s Left of Progressive Politics?”\n Roundtable Discussion with\nDr. Vijay Prashad\, Dr. Lisa Rofel\, Dr. Mayanthi Fernando\, and Asad Haider \nDr. Vijay Prashad is Professor of International Studies and South Asian History at Trinity College\, Connecticut and a renowned journalist. He was trained as a historical anthropologist and received his Ph.D from the University of Chicago. Prashad’s work addresses issues like race and imperialism\, race and immigrant communities in the US\, geopolitical changes in the global South after 9/11\, the propagation of policies that produce and exacerbate income inequalities\, the possibilities of political solidarities among social movements committed to progressive change in the world\, and the role of national governments and regional alliances in the context of economic and political changes in the world.    He is the author of numerous books. Some of them are – The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press\, 2016 and New Delhi: LeftWord Books\, 2016). No Free Left: The Futures of Indian Communism (New Delhi: LeftWord Books\, 2015). The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (London: Verso and New Delhi: LeftWord Books\, 2013). Arab Spring\, Libyan Winter (Baltimore: AK Press and New Delhi: LeftWord Books\, 2012). The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World\, (New York: New Press and New Delhi: LeftWord\, 2007). Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (Boston: Beacon Press\, 2001). Karma of Brown Folk (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press\, 2000). Untouchable Freedom: The Social History of a Dalit Community (New Delhi: Oxford University Press\, 1999). His articles appear in media organization s like the Guardian\, the Hindu\, Frontline\, jadaliyya\, and AlterNet. \nFor more information\, contact sjetha@ucsc.edu \nThese events are free and open to the public URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/whats-left-of-progressive-politics-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170502T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170502T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170414T201529Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T201529Z UID:10006498-1493744400-1493751600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:In the Ruins of the Present: Neoliberalism and Cruel Populism Suffocate the Future DESCRIPTION:Vijay Prashad’s talk In the Ruins of the Present: Neoliberalism and Cruel Populism Suffocate the Future traces the rise of populism across the world\, including the global South and North\, in the present historical moment. This type of populism expresses itself in anti-immigrant politics and defines the nation in narrow terms – race\, ethnicity\, and religion. It seeks to exclude immigrants who do not fit within the narrow confines of these categories. This populism does not address the substantive issues of inequality and jobless even if some of its energy is derived from it. \n  \nDr. Vijay Prashad is Professor of International Studies and South Asian History at Trinity College\, Connecticut and a renowned journalist. He was trained as a historical anthropologist and received his Ph.D from the University of Chicago. Prashad’s work addresses issues like race and imperialism\, race and immigrant communities in the US\, geopolitical changes in the global South after 9/11\, the propagation of policies that produce and exacerbate income inequalities\, the possibilities of political solidarities among social movements committed to progressive change in the world\, and the role of national governments and regional alliances in the context of economic and political changes in the world.    He is the author of numerous books. Some of them are – The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press\, 2016 and New Delhi: LeftWord Books\, 2016). No Free Left: The Futures of Indian Communism (New Delhi: LeftWord Books\, 2015). The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (London: Verso and New Delhi: LeftWord Books\, 2013). Arab Spring\, Libyan Winter (Baltimore: AK Press and New Delhi: LeftWord Books\, 2012). The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World\, (New York: New Press and New Delhi: LeftWord\, 2007). Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (Boston: Beacon Press\, 2001). Karma of Brown Folk (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press\, 2000). Untouchable Freedom: The Social History of a Dalit Community (New Delhi: Oxford University Press\, 1999). His articles appear in media organization s like the Guardian\, the Hindu\, Frontline\, jadaliyya\, and AlterNet. \nLocation: TBD \nFor more information\, contact sjetha@ucsc.edu \nThese events are free and open to the public URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/in-the-ruins-of-the-present-neoliberalism-and-cruel-populism-suffocate-the-future-dr-vijay-prashad-2/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170503T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170503T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170426T102852Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T102852Z UID:10006505-1493812800-1493818200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Chris Connery: "Contemporary Chinese Capitalism and Its Critical Landscape" DESCRIPTION:“Contemporary Chinese Capitalism and Its Critical Landscape” \nThis talk draws on a work in progress entitled Revolutionary China and its Late Capitalist Fate\, an analysis of the nature of post-reform China’s political economy\, with particular attention to how this has affected everyday life\, intellectual and critical work\, ideological formation\, cultural production\, social movements\, political action\, and social space. \nChris Connery is a Professor of Literature at UCSC and Professor of Cultural Studies at Shanghai 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/chris-connery-contemporary-chinese-capitalism-and-its-critical-landscape-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:20170503T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170503T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170426T122104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T122104Z UID:10006509-1493823600-1493830800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Earl Jackson: "Critical Conditions: Japanese Film Theory and Practice" DESCRIPTION:Earl Jackson Jr. is Professor at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan and Co-Director of the Trans-Asian Screen Cultures Institute in South Korea. \nCo-Sponsored by Cultural Studies\, Cowell College\, and the Literature Department. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/earl-jackson-critical-conditions-japanese-film-theory-and-practice-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/2017/04/unnamed-3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170504T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170504T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170503T155024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170503T155024Z UID:10005372-1493906400-1493913600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Doris Leibetseder DESCRIPTION:QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies \nDoris Leibetseder\, Visiting Scholar\, UC Berkeley \nIn this paper I present part of an allied queer-feminist and transgender ethics of reproduc-tion. I look at ARTs and how they raise challenges for transgender and queer people. My focus lies in the ways these technologies confront queer and people with normative expectations concerning biological sex\, gender\, sexuality\, kinship relations and the right to procreate\, and how this leads to medical migration. This presentation gives an overview of my new EU-funded (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) project starting August 2017 at Uppsala University: “Towards an Inclusive Common European Framework for Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART): Queer Transgender Reproduction in the Age of ART.” \n  \nDoris Leibetseder is a researcher at the University of Uppsala\, Sweden in the Centre for Gender Research and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley\, CSMTS (Center for Science\, Technology\, Medicine and Society). \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-doris-leibetseder-3/ 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:20170504T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170504T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170414T192023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T192023Z UID:10005368-1493918400-1493923800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa & Eric Sneathen DESCRIPTION:Poet Tsering Wangmo Dhompa’s parents fled Tibet in 1959. Raised by her mother in Tibetan communities in Dharamsala\, India\, and Kathmandu\, Nepal\, She is the author of the poetry chapbooks In Writing the Names (2000) and Recurring Gestures (2000). She has published the full-length collections Rules of the House (2002)\, In the Absent Everyday (2005)\, and My Rice tastes like the lake (2011)\, which was a finalist for the Northern California Independent Bookseller’s Book of the Year Award for 2012. Dhompa’s non-fiction book based on her life is called A Home in Tibet (Penguin India\, 2013). \nEric Sneathen\, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nEric Sneathen is a poet who whose writing has been published by Mondo Bummer\, Elderly\, and Faggot Journal. He is the editor and organizer of Macaroni Necklace\, a Bay Area–based DIY literary journal and reading series. Snail Poems is his first book. \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-tsering-wangmo-dhompa-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:20170505T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170505T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20161215T195131Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T193742Z UID:10006442-1493982000-1493987400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: Mentorship DESCRIPTION:Mentorship Managed Up: cultivating successful professional relationships within\, alongside\, and outside the academy\n\nThis PhD+ session is being presented in coordination with members of the NEH Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grant Committee. Please join faculty\, administration\, and graduate students in a facilitated discussion and share your thoughts about how to foster and maintain successful mentorship relationships in humanities graduate programs. We’ll open with brief introductory comments before moving into a moderated panel discussion addressing:\n\nthe benefits and challenges associated with establishing a mentor/mentee relationship with different types of individuals who may serve in the mentor role\, e.g.\, faculty advisers (intra- and inter-department)\, non-academic professionals\, peer graduate student mentors\, etc\nthe goals of a mentor/mentee relationship\, discussing achievable milestones or benchmarks\, and setting corresponding expectation\nthe processes for “managing up” in a mentor/mentee relationship in terms of navigating successful accomplishment of the expected milestones and how to resolve conflict\, overcome obstacles or inertia\, etc.\n\n\nEach question will be followed by a brief response from the panelists meant to generate a larger discussion including the members of the audience.  The Planning Committee hopes to use the feedback and discussion to inform its strategic proposals for further discussion\, development\, and possible implementation to better serve the UCSC humanities community.\n  \nPhD+ 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. \nLunch will be served\, as always. \nPlease RSVP below.\nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-mentorship-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:20170505T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170505T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170414T190440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T190440Z UID:10005366-1493987400-1493992800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Danielle Crawford DESCRIPTION:Shooting Cameras and Shooting Weapons: U.S. Military Violence and Ecological Ruin in Coppola’s Apocalypse Now \nThis presentation examines the shooting history of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979)\, which was shot on the Philippine island of Luzon. I investigate the collision between Hollywood’s shooting of cameras and the U.S. military’s shooting of weapons\, and the ways these forms of violence intertwine on the set of this Vietnam War film. While the film attempts to blur the geographic boundaries between Vietnam and the Philippines by using Philippine “jungles” as substitute\, I argue that Apocalypse Now ultimately blurs the boundaries between real U.S. warfare and the cinematic reproduction of warfare through its military collaborations and its production of ecological ruin. \nFriday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule: \nFridays 12:20-2pm\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-danielle-crawford-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:20170508T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170508T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170428T213517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170428T213517Z UID:10006510-1494250200-1494255600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Brett Rushforth: “‘Daily Trafficke with the Frenchmen’: Merchant Colonialism and African Sovereignty in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic" DESCRIPTION:Center for World History Presents \nBrett Rushforth\n“‘Daily Trafficke with the Frenchmen’: Merchant Colonialism and African Sovereignty in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic” \nMay 8\, 2017 @ 1:30-3pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 210\nFree and open to the public \nBrett Rushforth is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. He is a scholar of early American\nand Atlantic history who specializes in slavery\, race\, and the law in the French Atlantic world. His\nmost recent book\, “Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France”\, uncovered the\nhidden history of French colonists enslaving Native North Americans by the thousands in the 1700s\,\nsending captive Sioux\, Apache\, and other Indians to a life of slavery in Montreal\, Quebec\, and even the\nFrench Caribbean. In 2013-14\, “Bonds of Alliance” was named the best book in American social history\nby the Organization of American Historians\, the best book on the history of French colonialism by the\nFrench Colonial Historical Society\, the best book on the history of European expansion by the Forum\non European Expansion and Global Interaction\, and the best book in French Cultural Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/brett-rushforth-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/2017/04/Brett-Rushforth-Daily-Trafficke.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170508T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170508T153000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170328T230220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170328T230220Z UID:10006490-1494252000-1494257400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies Investiture Ceremony DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Division and Feminist Studies department are very excited to announce the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. This endowed chair was recently established with a $500\,000 gift from the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation and matching funds from the UC Regents. Bettina Aptheker\, Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies\, is the inaugural chair holder. The endowed chair will help fund research and teaching as well as graduate fellowships in feminist studies. \n \nFeminist Studies Investiture Ceremony from IHR on Vimeo. \nEvent Photos: by Steve Kurtz\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nJoin us for the Investiture Ceremony\, May 8\, 2017 at 2pm to be held at the Stevenson Event Center. Reception to follow. \nComplimentary parking will be available in the Barn Theater parking lot. Parking permits will be on sale for $4. Continuous shuttle service to Stevenson Event Center will be available from 1:15 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Barn Theater. \n \nAbout Bettina Aptheker \n \nBettina Aptheker is a nationally recognized historian and a scholar of feminist studies. She received her Ph.D. in History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz and became the first ladder-rank faculty member of the Feminist Studies Department\, then known as Women’s Studies\, in 1987. For nearly three decades Bettina has taught one of the country’s largest and most influential introductory feminist studies courses\, exposing more than 10\,000 students to her deeply compelling teaching. Bettina works extensively with graduate students in Feminist Studies\, and other departments\, and teaches graduate seminars\, including Feminist Pedagogy and Black Feminist Reconstruction. She has received numerous awards over the years\, and in June will be presented with the Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award in the Humanities. \nAbout the The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation \n \nThe Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation currently focuses on improving the lives of women and girls and ensuring equal access to education for all community members. UC Santa Cruz and the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation have been partnering on advancing innovative and impactful scholarship for many years. The foundation has funded the Baskin Feminist Scholars Program and the Baskin Scholars Program in Engineering that enable community college students to transfer to UC Santa Cruz\, underwritten fellowships to women doctoral students in engineering\, offered scholarships to women transfer students\, and funded the summer Girls in Engineering program for middle-school girls since its inception. With this new Presidential Chair\, the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation is leading the way in support of teaching and research in feminist studies at UC Santa Cruz. \n  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-peggy-and-jack-baskin-foundation-presidential-chair-in-feminist-studies-investiture-ceremony-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170510T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170510T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170426T103156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T103156Z UID:10006506-1494417600-1494423000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Debbora Battaglia: "Roots in Air: People/Plants/Ethics in Suspension" DESCRIPTION:“Roots in Air: People/Plants/Ethics in Suspension” \nOut of the urban ruins and food deprivation of World War II came the prototype for growing plants aeroponically. Aeroponics has since taken surprising turns as a technology for anthropocenic conditions – in Global South laboratories; “vertical gardens”; art installations; plant biology experiments for colonizing the cosmos. In its wake\, questions open concerning the ethics of plant-people relations in future-making projects. \nDebbora Battaglia is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Mt. Holyoke College. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \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/debborah-battaglia-roots-in-air-peopleplantsethics-in-suspension-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:20170511T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170511T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170505T184229Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170505T184229Z UID:10005376-1494504000-1494509400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ecology & the Rise of Capitalism Nature\, Power\, and the Origins of Our Times DESCRIPTION:A colloquium by\nAssociate Professor Jason W. Moore\nFernand Braudel Center\nBinghamton University\n\n\nJason W. Moore is an environmental and world historian at Binghamton University\, where he is Associate Professor of Sociology and Research Fellow at the Fernand Braudel Center. He is author of Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso\, 2015) and editor of Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature\, History\, and the Crisis of Capitalism (PM Press\, 2016). A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things\, written with Raj Patel\, will be published this fall (University of California Press). He is coordinator of the World-Ecology Research Network.\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by Rachel Carson College\, the UCSC Humanities Research Institute\, and the Sociology and Environmental Studies Departments.  Professor More will also be speaking at EXTRACTION: A Two-Day Conference on Decolonial Visual Cultures in the Age of the Capitalocene\, May 12-13\, sponsored by the Center for Creative Ecologies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ecology-the-rise-of-capitalism-nature-power-and-the-origins-of-our-times-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Moore-UCSC-talk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170511T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170511T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170414T193511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T193511Z UID:10005370-1494523200-1494528600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Aisha Sasha John DESCRIPTION:The UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents \nAisha Sasha John\, author of THOU (BookThug\, 2014) \nAISHA SASHA JOHN is a singing dancer– and the author of the recently published I have to live. (McClelland & Stewart). Aisha’s previous poetry collection THOU (BookThug 2014) was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the ReLit Poetry Award. Later this spring\, Aisha dances the aisha of oz at the Whitney Museum as part of the 2017 Whitney ISP exhibition. Aisha is trained in various Congolese and Ethiopian dances and has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. She was born in Montreal. \n The 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-aisha-sasha-john-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:20170512T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170512T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170414T205600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T205600Z UID:10006499-1494592200-1494597600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kristen Laciste DESCRIPTION:From Maidservant to Anomalous Aristocrat: Imaging and Imagining Dido Elizabeth Belle \nThe double portrait of cousins\, entitled\, Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray\, is truly an anomaly in 18th century British art. Depicting two aristocratic women\, one back and one white\, the painting inspired the 2014 film\, Belle. Incorporating the fancy and flair of period dramas\, the creators of Belle fabricated a largely fictional account\, envisioning Dido with a generous measure of agency and influence despite being black and female. This is evident in the portrait revealed in the movie. Though the original painting and film version are nearly identical\, this presentation examines the two\, considering the implications of the alterations made in the latter. \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-kristen-laciste-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:20170512T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170512T163000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20161201T192448Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T192448Z UID:10006434-1494594000-1494606600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:13th Annual Graduate Research Symposium DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nGraduate Research Symposium\nThe Symposium offers graduate students from every division the opportunity to discuss their research with colleagues on campus and with the public. Our students present their work in the form of posters\, live presentations\, and media demonstrations. The Symposium also awards juried prizes\, overseen by a panel of judges comprised of faculty\, staff\, researchers\, alumni\, and industry professionals\, for presenters from each division and two overall awards. \n*This year’s event will be held in the “Information Commons South” area on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library. \nRegistration Information\nWe welcome presenters from all disciplines on campus\, and encourage live and media presentations as well as traditional poster presentations! For 2016\, registration was available for 48 posters\, 30 live presentations\, and 10 media presentations. \nEach presentation must have a primary presenter\, but may also list up to three co-presenters. \nPresenters will be asked to check into the event between 12:30 and 1:15 depending on their selected format. Presentation judging officially begins at 1:30 pm. \nAn awards reception will immediately follow the Symposium until 4:30 pm. Graduate students are also encouraged to attend the Graduate Alumni Social at the Graduate Student Commons in the Quarry Plaza that evening. \n*Please click here to view the 2016 Graduate Research Symposium Program \n  \nPresenters \nPoster Presentations: All posters must fit on 4′ x 4′ easels provided in the Information Commons South. Posters will be arranged in the order in which they arrive. There will be personnel available to assist with set up. Posters presenters must check in at the registration table between 12:45 and 1:15 pm on the 2ndfloor of the McHenry Library. After you register to present\, you will be assigned a one-hour window during which you must stay with your poster for judging.Posters may be removed after 3:30 pm. \nOral Presentations: Oral and live presentations will be in three classrooms on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library. A computer and projector will be available so that presenters can bring slides via either flash drive in PowerPoint or Keynote format\, or saved to Google Drive in Google Slides; you may bring your own laptop if you like\, though this is not recommended because of the time constraints involved in setting up/down. An easel will also be available for additional visual aids upon request. Be sure to indicate your media needs on the registration form. Oral presenters must check in at the registration table between 12:30 noon and 1:00 pm on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library. (Due to time restrictions\, oral/live presentations must be limited to 10 minutes in length including set-up and taking-down.) \nMedia Presentations: Media presentations may be in audio and/or video format. Media presenters will be required to set up a short meeting with McHenry Library staff the week prior to the Symposium to discuss technical and/or physical space needs. Please specify your media needs on your registration form. Media presenters must check in at the registration table between 12:30 noon and 1:00 pm on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library.  After you register to present\, you will be assigned a one-hour window during which you must stay with your presentation for judging. \n*Please click here to review our Best Practices site! \n  \nClick here to see our previous symposium awardees. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/graduate-research-symposium-2-2/ LOCATION:McHenry Library\, UCSC ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/symposium1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170513 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170514 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170421T214845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170421T214845Z UID:10006502-1494633600-1494719999@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ethics Bowl Invitational DESCRIPTION:What It Is:\nEvery Spring the Center for Public Philosophy holds an Outreach Invitational for high schools that have never participated in the Regional Ethics Bowl. This is a fun\, low-stakes way to get their feet wet. \nThis year we have a grant to host ten schools designated LCFF+ by the state of California–schools at which more than 75% of enrolled students are eligible for free/reduced price lunch\, foster youth\, and/or English-language learners. \nThe grant allows us to provide a top undergraduate philosophy student to coach the school’s team(s) in the two months leading up to the event and to provide each school with $1\,000 for costs. We are grateful to the Division of Student Success for this grant. \n  \nParticipating Teams:\nAlisal High School\nSalinas\, CA \nBurton High School\nSan Francisco\, CA \nCostanoa High School\nSanta Cruz\, CA \nDiamond Technology Institute\nWatsonville\, CA \nDowntown College Prep Alum Rock\nSan Jose\, CA \nEscuela Popular\nSan Jose\, CA \nLatino College Preparatory Academy\nSan Jose\, CA \nLuis Valdez Leadership Academy\nSan Jose\, CA \nPajaro Valley High School\nWatsonville\, CA \nWatsonville High School\nWatsonville\, CA \n  \nInformation for May 13:\nThis year there will be two rounds\, followed by a lunch\, one more round and then a debrief over dessert. In each round\, teams will be discussing two of the eight cases downloadable here. \n  \nFor Teams & Coaches:\nTeams should arrive on campus no later than 8:30am and proceed to the Humanities Lecture Hall. \nInformation on parking and directions can be downloaded here. \nThe day’s events will conclude at 2:30pm. You can read the rules of High School Ethics Bowl here. \n  \nFor Judges\nTo our judges: first\, thank you. We couldn’t hold this event without you. We appreciate your time and support. \nJudges should meet in Humanities 1\, 210 at 8:30am for the judges’ meeting. Coffee and pastries provided. Information on parking and directions can be downloaded here. \nIn preparation\, all judges should familiarize themselves with the cases teams will be discussing. And if this is your first time judging\, please watch the judges’ training video here. \n  \nBest of luck to all participating teams!\nIf you’re school or a individual interested in participating next year\, or if you have any questions\, please contact the Bowl Director Kyle Robertson. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ethics-bowl-invitational-2/ 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:20170515T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170515T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170503T154026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170503T154026Z UID:10006512-1494856800-1494871200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Conjuncture / Crisis / Critique: A Symposium on Cultural Studies DESCRIPTION:The start time for this event has been changed to 2pm. \nFeaturing: \nChristopher Chen\, Literature\nJim Clifford\, History of Consciousness\nChristopher Connery\, Literature\nT.J. Demos\, History of Art and Visual Cultures / Center for Creative Ecologies\nCarla Freccero\, Literature / History of Consciousness / Feminist Studies\nSusan Gilman\, Literature\nAsad Haider\, History of Consciousness\nDonna Haraway\, History of Consciousness\nSandra Harvey\, Politics\nGail Hershatter\, History\nLaurie Palmer\, Art\nWarren Sack\, Film and Digital Media / Digital Arts and New Media \n  \nCoffee and refreshments will be provided. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/conjuncture-crisis-critique-a-symposium-on-cultural-studies-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/Conjuncture-Crisis-Critique-1-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170516T152000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170516T165500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170328T225335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170328T225335Z UID:10006489-1494948000-1494953700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Susan Gilson Miller: "Vichy on Trial: Cooperation\, Collaboration and Confrontation in Wartime Morocco" DESCRIPTION:Susan Gilson Miller is Professor of History at the University of California\, Davis. She will be guest speaking on Tuesday\, May 16\, 2017 as a part of Professor Alma Heckman’s course “The Holocaust and the Arab World” (HIS 1850). \nWhen: May 16\, 2017 – 3:20-4:55pm \nLocation: Cowell Acad Classroom 113 \nThis event is free and open to the public \nProfessor Miller was formerly head of the Moroccan Studies Program at Harvard University and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. She is currently a  Research Associate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Prof. Miller has held Visiting Lecturer appointments at Ben Gurion University of the Negev\, the lnstitut d’Etudes de l’Islam et des Sociétés du Monde Musulman (IISMM) at the Ecole  des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris\, and at the Woolf Institute of the University of Cambridge. Her B.A. is from Wellesley College\, she has an M.A. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in the History of the Modern Middle East. Her  research has been supported by grants from the Social Science Research Council\, the National Endowment of the Humanities\, the Fulbright Foundation\, the American Council of Learned Societies\,  the American Institute of Maghribi Studies and the University of California Humanities Research Institute. Her book\, The History of Modern Morocco\, 1830-2000\, (Cambridge University Press\, 2013) was a Finalist for the Leon Carl Brown Best Book award of the American Institute of Maghribi Studies in 2014. Her research interests center on colonial and post-colonial histories in the Maghrib\, minorities\, urbanism\, and the history of travel and migration. Prof. Miller is a  frequent visitor to Morocco\, where she spent three years as a Peace Corps volunteer. Her current project is about the life and times of  Hélène Cazes Benatar\, Morocco’s first woman lawyer and human rights activist\, who rescued thousands of Jews and non-Jews during the period of Vichy rule in North Africa. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vichy-on-trial-cooperation-collaboration-and-confrontation-in-wartime-morocco-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170426T103325Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T103325Z UID:10006507-1495022400-1495027800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Martin Devecka: "Socratic Economics" DESCRIPTION:Socratic Economics \nMartin Devecka is in the early stages of a research project on leisure and labor in fourth-century Athens.  His work explores the processes through which competing claims to leisure and to the labor of others led to the privileging of politics as a way of thinking about collective action. \nMartin Devecka is an Assistant Professor of Literature and Classics at UCSC. \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/martin-devecka-socratic-economics-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170503T155439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170503T155439Z UID:10005373-1495029600-1495036800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Susan O’Neal Stryker DESCRIPTION:What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need\nSusan O’Neal Stryker\, Associate Professor\, University of Arizona \nHistory is a story we tell in the present that links what we know of the past to a future we envision. In this talk\, drawn from her forthcoming book of the same title\, gender theorist and historian Susan Stryker examines the trans-temporal dimensions of what gets labelled “transgender” today\, but which can be thought of as a more general capacity for life to exceed whatever current configurations it might have. At stake\, Stryker contends\, in vexing contemporary conflicts over pronouns and public toilets\, is a deeper ontological struggle over which fantasies of past and futurity have the ability to ground themselves in materiality and come to count as real. \n  \nSusan Stryker is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona\, where she spearheads the Transgender Studies Initiative. \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-doris-leibetseder-2-2/ 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/2017/04/FMST-Colloq-Spring-2017-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170518T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170518T164500 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170505T190006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170505T190006Z UID:10005377-1495098000-1495125900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Eighteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium DESCRIPTION:THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM \nOpening Remarks 9:30 a.m.\nDeanna Shemek\, Chair\, Literature Department\nPanel One: Translating Tradition\n9:45 – 10:45 a.m.\nModerator: Christopher Chen\nVictoria Jones: Ion\nElli Levin: Baby’s First Inferno\, or Dante Alighieri and the Nine Circles \nJessica Ness Poetic: Language in Translation \nAlexander Pérez: The Nation in You \nPanel Two: Cross/Cultural Encounters\n11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon\nModerator: Martin Devecka \nMarcus Dovigi Language and the Law: A Comparison of the American and Islamic Legal Systems \nSavanna Heydon Breaking Borders: Foreigner \nPang Yang Embellishing Lia \nFREE! LUNCH BUFFET\n12:00 – 12:45 p.m. \nPanel Three: Practices of Reading\n12:45 – 1:45 p.m.\nModerator: Amanda Smith \nSarah Ali Reading as an Act of Self Construction\nSamantha Alsina Poetry Politics: Short Commentaries\nHarold D. Surh Jr. Mad in Craft \nPanel Four: Rock and Romanticism\n2:00 – 3:00 p.m.\nModerator: Rob Wilson \nSylvester Cruz On the English Disease\nIsaac Mier The Highway of Excess and the Path to Endless Nights: William Blake and Jim Morrison\nJohn Wilber The Nightingale Up in Arms: Bob Dylan’s “Jokerman” \nPanel Five: The Time of Slavery\n3:15 – 4:15 p.m.\nModerator: Dorian Bell\nIsla Cunningham Blake and Of One Blood: Representations of “Messianic” Time\nFiona Murphy Historicizing Slavery in Fiction: A Study of Cuban Slave Narratives\nCarina Zhur Race Against Time: How Time Fetishizes Race and Suppresses Messianic Power \nClosing Remarks 4:15 p.m.\nA. Hunter Bivens\, Director\, Literature Undergraduate Program Committee \nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. ALL ARE INVITED! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/e-eighteenth-annual-literature-undergraduate-colloquium-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/Mail-Attachment1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170518T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170518T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170508T173444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170508T173444Z UID:10005380-1495120500-1495126800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Maudemarie Clark "Nietzsche's Nihilism" DESCRIPTION:Nietzsche claims that in realating the “advent of nihilism\,” he is relating “the history of the next two centuries.” He also claims that he himself has been a nihilist\, but that he had now left it behind\, “outside of [him]self.” In this paper\, I offer an account of how Nietzsche understands nihilism and of how to understand his own (early and middle-period) work as nihilistic. I argue (against Bernard Reginster) that the nihilism of interest to Nietzsche is not\, or at least not mainly\, a philosophical position\, but a cultural condition. The upshot of my account is two-fold: first\, that it was only in overcoming the naturalistic orientation that it has become standard to attribute to him (and that I once attributed to him) that Nietzsche left nihilism behind\, and\, second\, that our current cultural and political situation is well on its way to the kind of nihilism that Nietzsce was particularly concerned with. \nAbout:\nMaudemarie Clark is a Professor of Philosophy at UC Riverside. She specializes in 19th Century German philosophy with a focus on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. \nAdvanced Reading:\nThe Will to Power – first 20 pages \nGenealogy of Morality URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/maudemarie-clark-nietzsches-nihilism-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Clark.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170518T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170518T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170414T193747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T193747Z UID:10006493-1495128000-1495133400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Rosa Alcalá DESCRIPTION:Rosa Alcalá\, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books\, 2010) \nRosa Alcalá is the author of a poetry collection Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books\, 2010) and two chapbooks: Some Maritime Disasters This Century (Belladonna\, 2003) and Undocumentary (Dos Press\, 2008). Alcalá has also translated poetry by Cecilia Vicuña\, Lourdes Vázquez\, and Lila Zemborain\, among others. Recent translations include Zemborain’s Guardians of the Secret (Noemi Press\, 2009)\, and poems for The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry (2009). She teaches in the Department of Creative Writing and Bilingual MFA Program at the University of Texas at El Paso. \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-rosa-alcala-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:20170518T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170521T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170504T191533Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T191533Z UID:10005375-1495137600-1495404000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse DESCRIPTION:Description:\nThis year’s program will feature fully-staged works in French\, Japanese\, Russian\, and Spanish. English super-titles will translate each of the pieces. The French segment will be devoted to scenes from Jean Giraudoux’s comic fantasy\, La Folle de Chaillot\, (The Madwoman of Chaillot) directed by Miriam Ellis\, while Spanish will present Fable\, by Samaniego\, with Marta Navarro directing her students in this study. Russian will be devoted to an original work\, Happy Dating\, Everyone\, directed by Natasha Samokhina\, who created the piece with her students and will direct. For Japanese\, we will present Music of Japan\, directed by Sakae Fujita. \nAdmission Details: \nThere is no admission charge for this unique multicultural event. Parking is available and attendants will be selling $4.00 permits in the Stevenson parking lots\, 109 and 110 from 7:15pm – 8:30pm all nights of production. \nDates:\nMay 18th – 8:00pm\nMay 19th – 8:00pm\nMay 20th – 8:00pm\nMay 21st  – 8:00pm URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-miriam-ellis-international-playhouse-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/MEIP-17-Poster-Final-draft-8-1_2-X-14-optimized-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170519T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170519T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170424T190755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170424T190755Z UID:10006503-1495197000-1495202400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kara Hisatake DESCRIPTION:Pidgin Comedy in Hawai’i: The Queer Resignification of Settler Culture \nIn 1970s Hawai’i\, Pidgin\, also known as Hawai’i Creole english\, was the major medium of comedy because it was the language\, visual culture\, and attitude of the islands\, a stark contrast to imported U.S. settle norms. Rap Reiplinger was a household name with his 1982 TV special Rap’s Hawaii\, which addressed local culture\, politics\, and tourism. Analyzing Reiplinger’s TV special\, I claim that his Pidgin comedy resignifies settler culture and in doing so\, queers dominant settler norms. Reiplinger’s comedy thus becomes a place where Pidgin values are embodied through queer performative-it reiterates to critique. \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-2-2/ 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:20170519T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170519T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 CREATED:20170322T210234Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170322T210234Z UID:10006485-1495209600-1495215000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Non-citizenship Fellows Forum with Emily Mitchell-Eaton\, Claudia Lopez\, and Tsering Wangmo DESCRIPTION:  \nWith support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, the CLRC awarded two outstanding UC Santa Cruz graduate students year-long fellowships and hired a postdoctoral scholar as part of our 2016-17 Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship. In this free\, public forum\, our three Mellon fellows will discuss their research and tell us a bit about what their awards allowed them to achieve and their plans for the future. \n  \n Geographies of Imperial Citizenship\nEmily Mitchell-Eaton\, Postdoctoral Scholar\, Chicano Latino Research Center \nThis talk addresses the modes of imperial citizenship and non-citizenship that have emerged for subjects of non-sovereign U.S. territories. An examination of the legal statuses held by these subjects reveals the margins of formal legal citizenship to be quite blurry. As imperial subjects attempt to cross U.S. borders\, pursue employment\, access public benefits and services\, and resist deportation\, these practices often result in precarious mobility and different forms of exclusion. Drawing on a case study of Marshall Islanders who have migrated to Arkansas\, Dr. Mitchell-Eaton explores how Marshallese immigrants’ unique legal status is produced through their encounters with three groups: law enforcement and legal actors; social service providers; and activists. \n  \nThe Life-Cycle of Forced Migration: Partial Citizenship and Internally Displaced Peasants in Medellín\, Colombia\nClaudia Lopez\, Ph.D. candidate\, Department of Sociology \nIn this presentation\, Claudia discusses the dynamics of internal and forced migration of rural peasant farmers\, focusing on their urban resettlement and integration into the city of Medellín\, Colombia. Using this case study of conflict-induced displacement in Colombia—which has the largest population of internally displaced persons in the world—her research brings new attention to internal and forced migration\, viewing the resulting displacement as a serial process that constitutes what she calls the life­cycle of forced migration. She draws from ethnographic interviews and surveys with rural internally displaced persons\, as well as interviews with representatives of government agencies and NGOs\, to argue that\, across the lifecycle\, the state marginalizes displaced peasants and does not consider them capable urban citizens due to their rural origin and inability to contribute through formal labor practices in the city\, thereby rendering them Partial Citizens. Ultimately\, Claudia contends that this research demonstrates the limits of integration and national citizenship\, offers a more nuanced lens for examining citizenship as a spectrum\, and prompts us to examine belonging beyond the binary categories of citizen/non-citizen and included/excluded. \n  \nBelonging in Exile: The Exclusionary Agenda of Unity\nTsering Wangmo\, Ph.D. candidate\, Department of Literature \nTsering Wangmo’s dissertation\, “From the Margins of Exile: Democracy and Dissent within the Tibetan Diaspora\,” juxtaposes the external struggle for international recognition of the Tibetan government-in-exile with the internal struggle to command Tibetan unity since the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1950. It presents a nuanced understanding of how the project of nation building within the conditions of exile must be seen as a constant negotiation between deference and dissent and between unity and difference. In her talk\, Tsering argues that unity was presented simultaneously as the moral and political responsibility of the modern Tibetan “refugee-citizen\,” as well as the traditional duty of a Tibetan Buddhist\, and that\, ultimately\, unity was an exclusionary discourse. \n  \nThis free\, public forum is co-sponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research\, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sawyer-seminar-finale-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:20170523T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170523T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170602T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170602T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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:20260403T120440 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 END:VCALENDAR