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:20110313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20111106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20130310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20131103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121115T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121115T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121023T153116Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T153116Z UID:10005165-1353006000-1353013200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Satyajit Ray Film Series: Agantuk ("The Arriver") DESCRIPTION:Satyajit Ray is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. The Ray Film and Study Center (RayFASC) is newly located at Crown College and holds the largest collections of Ray’s films outside of India. \nPlease join us for a showing of Agantuk (“The Arriver”)\, with an introduction by Dr. Daniel Seldon\, Director of RayFASC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/satyajit-ray-film-series-agantuk-the-arriver-3/ LOCATION:Crown Fireside Lounge\, Fireside Lounge‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Crown College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121115T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121115T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121023T185434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T185434Z UID:10005188-1353000600-1353006000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Learning from the Oak Creek Wisconsin Tragedy: Sikhs and Pluralism in America DESCRIPTION:The fatal shooting at a Sikh gurdwara (temple) in Wisconsin last August\, and the possible motivation of the shooter\, require reflection on religious and social tolerance and the idea/ideal of America as a pluralistic society in the 21st century. This event seeks to further our understanding of these issues. \n5:30-­6:30 pm – Program and Speakers\nWelcome by Sikh Students Association Introductory Remarks\nDean William Ladusaw\, Humanities Division \nUCSC Panel Discussion\nProfessor Nathaniel Deutsch\, UCSC\nDr. Seema Kaur Sidhu\, United Sikhs\nMs. Amrit Kaur Sidhu\, United Sikhs\nProfessor Nirvikar Singh\, UCSC (Moderator) \n6:30-­7:00 pm – Dinner and Informal Discussion \nAbout the Speakers\nNathaniel Deutsch is Director of the Institute for Humanities Research\, Co-­Director of the Center for Jewish Studies\, and Professor of History at UCSC. \nSeema Kaur Sidhu is the United Sikhs Regional Director for Community Empowerment and Education and Business Development. She works with Sikh youth in promoting health awareness\, empowering new youth leaders and engaging them in education and social justice initiatives. She is also a practicing obstetrician and gynecologist. \nAmrit Kaur Sidhu is a United Sikhs intern\, and graduated from UCSC in June 2012 with a BS in Human Biology and a Politics minor. \nNirvikar Singh is the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair of Sikh and Punjabi Studies and Professor of Economics at UCSC. \nThis event is sponsored by the UCSC Sikh Student Association\, the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies\, and the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sikh-and-punjabi-studies-symposium-on-the-oak-creek-tragedy-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121115T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121115T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121110T012108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121110T012108Z UID:10004736-1352995200-1353000600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium ~ Scott Gilbert: "We are all lichens: How symbiosis research has reconstituted a new realm of individuality" DESCRIPTION:4:00pm\, Humanities 1\, Room 210\nCo-Sponsored by UCSC Philosophy\, History of Consciousness\, Cultural Studies\, and Science and Justice Working Group \n ABSTRACT: The notion of the “biological individual” is crucial to studies of genetics\, immunology\, evolution\, development\, anatomy\, and physiology. Each of these biological sub-disciplines has a specific conception of individuality\, which has historically provided conceptual contexts for integrating newly acquired data. During the past decade\, nucleic acid analysis\, especially genomic sequencing and high-throughput RNA techniques\, has challenged each of these disciplinary definitions by finding significant interactions of animals and plants with symbiotic microorganisms that disrupt the boundaries which heretofore had characterized the biological individual. Animals cannot be considered individuals by anatomical\, or physiological criteria\, because a diversity of symbionts are both present and functional in completing metabolic pathways and serving other physiological functions. Similarly\, these new studies have shown that animal development is incomplete without symbionts. Symbionts also constitute a second mode of genetic inheritance\, providing selectable genetic variation for natural selection. The immune system also develops\, in part\, in dialogue with symbionts\, and thereby functions as a mechanism for integrating microbes into the animal-cell community. Recognizing the “holobiont”—the multicellular eukaryote plus its colonies of persistent symbionts– as a critically important unit of anatomy\, development\, physiology\, immunology\, and evolution\, opens up new investigative avenues and conceptually challenges the ways in which the biological sub-disciplines have heretofore characterized living entities. \nABOUT: Scott F. Gilbert is the Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology at Swarthmore College\, where he teaches developmental genetics\, embryology\, and the history and critiques of biology. He received his B.A. in both biology and religion from Wesleyan University (1971)\, and he earned his PhD in biology from the pediatric genetics laboratory of Dr. Barbara Migeon at the Johns Hopkins University (1976). His M.A. in the history of science\, also from The Johns Hopkins University\, was done under the supervision of Dr. Donna Haraway. He pursued postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin in the laboratories of Dr. Masayasu Nomura and Dr. Robert Auerbach. Dr. Gilbert has been Chair of the Division of Developmental and Cell Biology of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology\, and he is a member of the education committee of the Society for Developmental Biology. \nHe has also been elected a fellow of the AAAS and the St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists. He currently has three books in print:Developmental Biology (a textbook in its eighth edition)\, Bioethics and the New Embryology (a volume\, co-authored with two students\, that discusses new findings in developmental biology with respect to philosophy and religion)\, and Ecological Developmental Biology\, a textbook co-authored with David Epel which integrates developmental plasticity\, epigenetics\, and symbiosis into discussions of medicine and evolution. Scott has received several awards\, including the Medal of François I from the Collège de France\, the Dwight J. Ingle Memorial Writing Award\, the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award\,  honorary doctorates from the University of Helsinki and the University of Tartu\, and a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Grant. In 2002\, the Society for Developmental Biology awarded him its first Viktor Hamburger Prize for Excellence in Education\, and in 2004\, he was awarded the Kowalevsky Prize in Evolutionary Developmental Biology. He has recently become a Finland Distinguished Professor at the University of Helsinki and has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to work on that most interesting of topics-how the turtle forms its shell-and he continues to do research and write in both developmental biology and in the history and philosophy of biology. \nOutside the class and laboratory\, his interests include hiking\, photography\, and he plays piano in KNISH\, one of Swarthmore’s premier Klezmer bands URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/philosophy-colloquium-scott-gilbert-we-are-all-lichens-how-symbiosis-research-has-reconstituted-a-new-realm-of-individuality-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121115T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121115T154500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121023T195302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T195302Z UID:10004721-1352988000-1352994300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:William Wells: "Keeping Faith in Word and Spirit: Translating the Work of Two Jewish/Italian Poets" DESCRIPTION:Will’s most recent book of poems\, Unsettled Accounts\, won the 2009 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and was published in February of 2010 by Ohio University/Swallow Press. On its basis\, he was chosen as a Walter E. Dakin Fellow in Poetry for the 2010 Sewanee Writers’ Conference and as 2010 Ohio Poet of the Year (selected by the State Library of Ohio). He has previously won an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council (1996)\, an N.E.A. Fellowship in poetry\, and four scholarly fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, most of which have involved translation of various Italian poets. Most recently\, this involved translating the sonnets of Sara Coppia Sullam during the NEH Summer Institute on “Venice\, The Jews and Italian Culture” in 2006. Subsequent presentations and articles have focused upon the translation of Sullam’s sonnets. Other N.E.H. experiences included a summer Institute on Literary Translation at the University of California\, Santa Cruz in 1988. His previous volume of poems\, Conversing with the Light\, was chosen by Henry Taylor for the 1987 Anhinga Prize and published by Anhinga Press of Tallahassee. He has also translated Umberto Saba’s first volume of poems\, Trieste and a Lady\, and that volume is currently in circulation with publishers. His current poetry manuscript\, tentatively\, titled Scraps and Damaged Lots\, is nearly finished. He serves as Professor of English and Dean of Arts & Sciences at Rhodes State College in Ohio. \nThis event is made possible from generous support from the David B. Gold Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/william-wells-keeping-faith-in-word-and-spirit-translating-the-work-of-two-jewishitalian-poets-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121114T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121114T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121030T185835Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121030T185835Z UID:10005204-1352919600-1352926800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:World Melodrama Film Series - Tokyo Twilight DESCRIPTION:Tokyo Twilight (1957; dir. Yasujirô Ozu) Japan   Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama\, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/world-melodrama-film-series-tokyo-twilight-3/ LOCATION:Social Sciences I\, Room 110\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121114T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121114T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121023T192522Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T192522Z UID:10005192-1352895300-1352901600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Greg O'Malley: "To El Dorado via Slave Trade: British Commercial Imperialism in Spanish America & the Logic of Human Commodification\, 1660-1713 DESCRIPTION:Gregory E. O’Malley is currently finishing his first book\, Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America\, 1619-1807. It examines a complex network for distributing enslaved Africans throughout North America and the Caribbean after their survival of the infamous (and much more thoroughly studied) Middle Passage across the Atlantic. \nGregory E. O’Malley is Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/greg-omalley-to-el-dorado-via-slave-trade-british-commercial-imperialism-in-spanish-america-the-logic-of-human-commodification-1660-1713-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121114T043000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121114T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121023T194215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T194215Z UID:10004720-1352867400-1352917800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Katherine Dunbabin: "The Romans at Dinner: A View from Archaeology and Art" DESCRIPTION:Katherine Dunbabin is Emerita with the Department of Classics\, McMaster University\, and holds her degrees from Oxford University. Her areas of specialization are Roman art and mosaics\, Roman dining customs\, and theater and spectacle in the Roman Empire\, and she has published widely on these topics. She served as the specialist on the Roman mosaics for the University of Michigan excavations at Carthage\, and has also worked at a number of sites in Italy. Professor Dunbabin holds the AIA’s Norton Lectureship for 2012/2013. \nLight refreshments served at 4:30 PM\, talk at 5:00 PM \nCosponsored by the Archaeology Institute of America. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/katherine-dunbabin-the-romans-at-dinner-a-view-from-archaeology-and-art-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121113T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121113T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121101T181336Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121101T181336Z UID:10004732-1352822400-1352827800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sunaina Maira: "More Delicate Than a Flower\, Yet Harder Than a Rock: Human Rights in the Shadow of an Empire" DESCRIPTION:This talk focuses on the political mobilization of young people targeted by the War on Terror\, exploring what it means to challenge the U.S. imperial state from within and to engage in solidarity with those beyond its borders who are targets of imperial violence. It draws on an ethnographic study of South Asian\, Arab\, and Afghan American youth in Silicon Valley and new forms of politics and coalition-building that have emerged since 9/11 among youth who are seen as prime suspects in the domestic War on Terror. What does it mean to view the political subjecthood of South Asian\, Arab\, and Afghan American youth through the theoretical lenses of critical ethnic studies and work on imperialism and settler colonialism? The research demonstrates that while college-age youth often turn to the framework of civil rights and human rights in responding to regimes of surveillance and policing and opposing overseas wars and occupation\, they also have to confront the failure of liberal rights-talk in particular instances of political organizing that go beyond a politics of multicultural recognition. \nSunaina Maira is Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California\, Davis. She is the author of Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City and Missing: Youth\, Citizenship\, and Empire After 9/11. She is coeditor (with Elisabeth Soep) of Youthscapes: The Popular\, the National\, the Global and (with Rajini Srikanth) of Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America\, which won the American Book Award in 1997. Maira has worked with various antiwar\, civil rights\, and immigrant rights groups in the Bay Area.\nThis event is organized and sponsored by the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program. Cosponsored by the University of California Center for New Racial Studies\, the Division of Humanities at UCSC\, and the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sunaina-maira-more-delicate-than-a-flower-yet-harder-than-a-rock-human-rights-in-the-shadow-of-an-empire-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121110T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121110T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121023T184019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T184019Z UID:10005184-1352539800-1352550600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"Digging up a Mediterranean Past? Archaeology and Comparative Material Culture" DESCRIPTION:A one-day conference sponsored by the UCSB Program in Medieval Studies. \nThe conference will feature a panel of UC Santa Barbara scholars\, including John Lee\, Chris Thomas\, Claudio Fogu\, and Fikret Yegül\, discussing the archaeology of the Mediterranean\, ranging from ancient Greek work to that of the Italian fascists. In the afternoon\, there will be one or more sessions (TBA) with papers on topics such as early Medieval Venice\, Venetian fortresses in the Morea\, Ottoman pottery in the Levant\, and archaeology and myth. \nFull program available soon at http://medievalstudies.ucsb.edu/events.html. \nTo register for the conference\, please contact Courtney Mahaney (cmahaney@ucsc.edu) at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. UC-affiliated faculty and graduate students will be eligible for up to $350 for travel expenses; non-UC participants may apply but support will granted as available (and only after the workshop concludes). \nThe Mediterranean Seminar is an interdisciplinary scholarly forum the aim of which to promote collaborative research and the development of the field of Mediterranean Studies. The UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Project is funded by the UC Office of the President\, and is administered by the Institute for Humanities Research at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nTo join the Mediterranean Seminar\, send your name\, professional status\, affiliation and fields of interest to mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digging-up-a-mediterranean-past-archaeology-and-comparative-material-culture-3/ LOCATION:The McCune Conference Room\, UCSB\, 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121109T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121109T143000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121026T194647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121026T194647Z UID:10004725-1352466000-1352471400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Tanya Luhrmann Workshop: "How the Hippie Christians Became the Religious Right" DESCRIPTION:The Religious and Secular Entanglements Research Cluster hosts a workshop with Tanya Luhrmann. Participants should read her current work-in-progress\, “How the Hippie Christians Became the Religious Right\,” in advance. Two graduate students\, Sarah Kelman and Brent Crosson\, will lead the discussion. All are welcome. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tanya-luhrmann-workshop-how-the-hippie-christians-became-the-religious-right-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121109T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121109T163000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121023T182948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T182948Z UID:10005183-1352451600-1352478600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:UC Mediterranean Studies MRP Fall Workshop: "Excavating the Past" DESCRIPTION:The UC Mediterranean Studies MRP Fall Workshop\, “Excavating the Past\,” will feature three pre-circulated papers and a presentation by our featured scholar. All interested graduate students and scholars are welcome; pre-registration is required\, and attendance is limited so please register soon. UC-affiliated scholars may register immediately\, non-UC scholars on or after October 8. \nPapers:\nLuca Zavagno (Visiting Research Fellow\, Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Center\, Princeton)\n“Two Hegemonies\, One Island: Cyprus between the Byzantines and the Umayyads (650-850 A.D.)” \nNikki Malain (Graduate Student\, History\, UC Santa Barbara)\n“Predators and praeda: The Logistics of Piracy in the Twelfth-century Mediterranean” \nKaren R. Mathews (Research Assistant Professor\, Art & Art History\, University of Miami)\n“Anxiety of Origins: Shifting Conceptions of the Past in Genoese Historical Chronicles and Civic Architecture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries” \nFeatured Scholar:\nMarcus Milwright (Associate Professor of Islamic Art & Archaeology\, Director of the Program in Medieval Studies at the University of Victoria)\n“Archaeology and the Study of Traditional Urban Crafts in the Islamic Mediterranean.” \nMarcus Milwright is a professor in the Department of History in Art\, University of Victoria. He received his doctorate in 1999 from the Oriental Institute\, University of Oxford. His research interests include the art and archaeology of the Islamic Middle East\, labour and craft practices in the urban environment\, and cross-cultural contacts in the Medieval Mediterranean. He has published two books\, The Fortress of the Raven: Karak in the Middle Islamic Period (1100-1650) (Brill\, 2008) and An Introduction to Islamic Archaeology (Edinburgh University Press\, 2010). He is currently working on a history of the balsam gardens of Matariyya in Egypt and a study of the Umayyad mosaic inscriptions in the Dome of the Rock. \n  \nTo register for the workshop and receive the draft papers\, please contact Courtney Mahaney (cmahaney@ucsc.edu) at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. UC-affiliated faculty and graduate students will be eligible for up to $350 for travel expenses; non-UC participants may apply but support will granted as available (and only after the workshop concludes). \nThe Mediterranean Seminar is an interdisciplinary scholarly forum the aim of which to promote collaborative research and the development of the field of Mediterranean Studies. The UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Project is funded by the UC Office of the President\, and is administered by the Institute for Humanities Research at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nTo join the Mediterranean Seminar\, send your name\, professional status\, affiliation and fields of interest to mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/uc-mediterranean-studies-mrp-fall-workshop-excavating-the-past-3/ LOCATION:The McCune Conference Room\, UCSB\, 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121108T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121108T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121023T174656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T174656Z UID:10005180-1352397600-1352403900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Living Writers Reading Series: Truong Tran DESCRIPTION:Into Archives—Across Genres is a reading/performance series featuring poets\, critics\, memoirists\, activists\, visual artists\, essayists\, short story writers\, and novelists who mine various archives to investigate race\, gender\, sexuality\, and class. Writing across multiple disciplines – whether via the epistle\, film & photo essay\, poem\, story\, collage or hybrid text – these authors mine history and present day experience\, exploring and complicating the possibilities and features of genre in their art. \nTruong Tran is a poet and visual artist. He is the author of five collections of poetry\, and a children’s book. His work has been translated into Dutch\, French\, Spanish and Vietnamese. Truong recently presented both his visual and written work at the Smithsonian Gallery in Washington DC. In 2011\, he was featured writer at The Poetry Festival International\, in Rotterdam\, The Netherlands. \nCo-Sponsored by Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund; Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation; Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center; Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program; UC Presidential Chair Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies; Music Department; Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment; The Ethnic Resource Centers and the African American Resource & Cultural Center; Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-reading-series-truong-tran-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121108T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121108T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121102T033115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121102T033115Z UID:10004734-1352383200-1352390400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sustaining Activism and Political Hope: Webinar with Grace Lee Boggs DESCRIPTION:Anyone who wishes to attend the webinar online instead of in person\, please contact Nancy Chen as soon as possible to reserve a spot. We will be using Google + hangouts as the webinar platform so be prepared to have a Google account.  The platform is limited to 10 parties so please rsvp by November 7 for instructions. \n—- \nA legendary activist for social justice\, Grace Lee Boggs—now 97 years old—has participated in social and political movements against war and on behalf of labor\, civil rights\, environmental justice\, Black Power\, Asian Americans\, and women. In her writing and through her organizing\, Boggs has helped to transform the lived experience of work\, community and politics. Someone who perceives a vacant lot to be a space of possibility rather than an occasion for despair\, Boggs has been a leader in the nationally recognized movement to construct a new kind of economy “from the ground up” in Detroit and to effect a paradigm shift there in the concept of education. \nParticipants in the webinar are encouraged to read Grace Lee Boggs’s book\, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century (UC Press\, 2011)\, which includes autobiographical and theoretical chapters\, chapters about the economic and educational movements in Detroit\, and a conversation between Grace Lee Boggs and Immanuel Wallerstein. Chapter Two of the book—“Revolution as a New Beginning”—is available here or here. Copies of the book are available at the Literary Guillotine. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sustaining-activism-and-political-hope-webinar-with-grace-lee-boggs-3/ LOCATION:Unnamed Venue END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121107T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121107T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121030T185713Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121030T185713Z UID:10005202-1352314800-1352322000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:World Melodrama Film Series - All That Heaven Allows DESCRIPTION:All That Heaven Allows (1955; dir. Douglas Sirk) U.S \nEvan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama\, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/world-melodrama-series-all-that-heaven-allows-3/ LOCATION:Social Sciences I\, Room 110\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121107T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121107T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121031T163852Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121031T163852Z UID:10005239-1352307600-1352313000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Greatest Story Never Told (In the West): The Rāmāyaṇa and the Cultural Universe of South and Southeast Asia DESCRIPTION:Robert P. Goldman is the author of several key works in the fields of Sanskrit literature and Indian thought\, and has recently completed the translation of the Ramayana of Valmiki. The recipient of several honors\, including election as fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, Goldman currently serves as editor of “South Asia Across the Disciplines\,” a monograph series published jointly by the presses of Columbia University\, University of Chicago\, and the University of California. \nGoldman will also be speaking to the undergraduate class (LIT61P) on the Valmiki-­‐ Ramayana from 2-­‐3:10 in Baskin Auditorium\, also on November 7th. \nRobert P. Goldman Professor of Sanskrit University of California\, Berkeley \nThis public lecture is sponsored by the Departments of History\, Literature\, and Classics. For more information or accommodation needs\, please contact G.S. Sahota at sahota@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-greatest-story-never-told-in-the-west-the-ramaya%e1%b9%87a-and-the-cultural-universe-of-south-and-southeast-asia-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121107T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121107T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121026T214248Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121026T214248Z UID:10004726-1352302200-1352307600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Anat Gilboa: "Rembrandt's Depictions of Jewish Themes" DESCRIPTION:Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) is known for his vivid interpretation of themes from the Hebrew Bible. His reputation as a painter of histories\, based on pictorial and literary sources\, was formed early in his career. Male figures from the Bible such as Moses\, Abraham or Jeremiah are represented as heroic protagonists. Female figures\, essential to the Bible and the narrative of ancient Israel\, are prominently depicted in various roles: as mothers and wives or lovers of patriarchs\, heroes and kings. Reflecting moralistic attitudes in art of the time\, Rembrandt often portrayed these women in the context of corrupting influence or precipitating fatal events. Yet in the master’s late depictions of biblical histories\, we discover a deep understanding of human nature\, especially noticed in his late portrayals of biblical heroines. \nDr. Anat Gilboa is an art historian\, specializing in early modern art\, Jewish and Israeli visual culture. She has taught at universities in Israel\, Canada and the US. Her research has resulted in a book and in various publications in American and European journals and conferences. \nThis event is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies\, with cosponsorship by the David B. Gold Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anat-gilboa-rembrandts-depictions-of-jewish-themes-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121107T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121107T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121023T173218Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T173218Z UID:10005177-1352290500-1352296800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Laurie Palmer: "How Long I Ask You to Watch" DESCRIPTION:Laurie Palmer’s current work explores matter’s agency as it asserts itself at different speeds and scales. In the contexts of sculptural practice and public participatory projects\, she asks how we might access differing temporalities to re-imagine our entanglements in the material/social world. \nLaurie Palmer is Professor in the Sculptural Department\, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/laurie-palmer-how-long-i-ask-you-to-watch-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121102T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121102T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121029T162239Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121029T162239Z UID:10004727-1351872000-1351877400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ben Munson: "Perceived gender and fricative identification" DESCRIPTION:Two theoretical problems have stood at the core of psycholinguistic research in syntactic comprehension: (1) the resolution of local ambiguity; and (2) syntactic complexity\, or the difficulty incurred in processing locally unambiguous structures. This talk describes a unified treatment of these two problems through the theory of surprisal\, which proposes that comprehenders rationally deploy probabilistic knowledge to yield variability in word-by-word processing difficulty that reflects a wide range of evidential information sources. I present computational modeling and experimental studies showing how surprisal effects account for a range of both garden-path ambiguity resolution and syntactic complexity effects\, and give empirical evidence for the specific quantitative relationship between subjective probability and processing difficulty — as measured by word-by-word reading times — proposed by surprisal theory. For problems of syntactic complexity I compare the predictions of surprisal theory to those of theories positing a primary role of distance-sensitive locality due to memory constraints\, and present new empirical data from studies on German and Russian syntactic processing that provide evidence of both surprisal and locality effects. I close with speculation on possible ways forward toward a unified theory of probabilistic knowledge and memory constraints in incremental sentence comprehension. \nBen Munson is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at the University of Minnesota. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ben-munson-perceived-gender-and-fricative-identification-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121102T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121102T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121101T163314Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121101T163314Z UID:10004730-1351864800-1351875600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Lewis Watts: New Orleans Suite\, First Friday - Curator's Walk Through DESCRIPTION:New Orleans Suite presents a window into the landscape of life in New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina. Vivid black and white photography exposes the contrast of devastation and humanity in such a rich sector of American jazz culture. Additionally the gallery will showcase some of Watts’ new work from Cuba\, where he is continuing his photographic research \nLewis Watts is a photographer\, archivist and Professor of Art at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He is co-author of “Harlem of the West\, The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era” which consists of found photographs and oral histories of an African American Community that sprang up as a result of the migration west during WW II and that was “urban renewed” out of existence in the late 1960s. He is also the co-author with Professor Eric Porter of “New Orleans Suite” scheduled for publication by the University of California Press in 2013. \nNew Orleans Suite will be at the Sesnon Gallery from October 3 – November 21\, 2012. \nOther programming includes:\n* Ongoing every Wed. eve 5-8p open mic for jazz groups\, film and photography discussions\n* Sunday\, November 4 at 4:00pm – special weekend event featuring music from Cuba\, Flor de Caña \nMore information available at Sesnon Gallery web site – http://art.ucsc.edu/galleries/sesnon/current URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lewis-watts-new-orleans-suite-first-friday-curators-walk-through-3/ LOCATION:Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121101T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121101T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121023T000153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T000153Z UID:10005164-1351796400-1351803600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Satyajit Ray Film Series: Pather Panchali ("Song of the Road") DESCRIPTION:Satyajit Ray is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. The Ray Film and Study Center (RayFASC) is newly located at Crown College and holds the largest collections of Ray’s films outside of India. \nPlease join us for a showing of Pather Panchali (“Song of the Road”)\, with an introduction by Dr. Dilip Basu\, Founding Director of RayFASC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/satyajit-ray-film-series-pather-panchali-song-of-the-road-3/ LOCATION:Crown Fireside Lounge\, Fireside Lounge‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Crown College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121101T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121101T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121023T174246Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T174246Z UID:10005179-1351792800-1351799100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Living Writers Reading Series: Peter Orner DESCRIPTION:Into Archives—Across Genres is a reading/performance series featuring poets\, critics\, memoirists\, activists\, visual artists\, essayists\, short story writers\, and novelists who mine various archives to investigate race\, gender\, sexuality\, and class. Writing across multiple disciplines – whether via the epistle\, film & photo essay\, poem\, story\, collage or hybrid text – these authors mine history and present day experience\, exploring and complicating the possibilities and features of genre in their art. \nPeter Orner is the author of four books of fiction including\, Love and Shame and Love\, a New York Times Editor’s Choice Book\, and The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo\, winner of the Bard Fiction Prize. His first book\, Esther Stories\, will be re-issued next year with a forward by Marilynne Robinson. His latest collection\, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge will also be published next year. Recepient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, Orner is a professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University. \nCo-Sponsored by Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund; Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation; Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center; Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program; UC Presidential Chair Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies; Music Department; Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment; The Ethnic Resource Centers and the African American Resource & Cultural Center; Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-reading-series-peter-orner-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121101T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121101T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121030T214408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121030T214408Z UID:10005238-1351771200-1351774800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Funding Database Workshop DESCRIPTION:Come learn how to navigate the Community of Science database to best aid your research funding explorations. This database is the best way to search and track funding opportunities that fit your exact research areas and funding needs. \n1) It is easy to use. All you need is a ucsc email account to log in.\n2) It contains the most comprehensive listing of funding opportunities in all fields\, billions of dollars worth of funding.\n3) It has RSS feeds\, one of which is Humanities and Social Science Funding News.\n4) The searches are sophisticated and can be customized just for you. \nPlease join us. You will be amazed at what’s in there. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/funding-database-workshop-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121031T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121031T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121030T185534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121030T185534Z UID:10005200-1351710000-1351717200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:World Melodrama Film Series - Aventurera DESCRIPTION:Aventurera (1950; dir. Alberto Gout) Mexico \nEvan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama\, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/world-melodrama-film-series-aventurera-3/ LOCATION:Social Sciences I\, Room 110\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121031T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121031T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121023T171710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T171710Z UID:10005166-1351685700-1351692000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jenny Reardon: "The Post-Genomic Condition: Ethics\, Justice\, Knowledge after the Genome" DESCRIPTION:Jenny Reardon is currently working on a manuscript entitled The Post-Genomic Condition: Ethics\, Justice\, Knowledge after the Genome. This book traces the efforts to transform genomics from a fields that in the 1990s sparked fears of racism and dehumanization to one that todays claims the banners of democracy and justice. \nJenny Reardon is Associate Professor of Sociology\, Faculty Affiliate in the Center for Biomolecular Sciences\, Director of the Science and Justice Research Center\, and the Co-Director of the Science and Justice Training Program at UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jenny-reardon-the-post-genomic-condition-ethics-justice-knowledge-after-the-genome-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121025T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121025T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121023T173743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T173743Z UID:10005178-1351188000-1351194300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Living Writers Series: Cathy Park Hong DESCRIPTION:Into Archives—Across Genres is a reading/performance series featuring poets\, critics\, memoirists\, activists\, visual artists\, essayists\, short story writers\, and novelists who mine various archives to investigate race\, gender\, sexuality\, and class. Writing across multiple disciplines – whether via the epistle\, film & photo essay\, poem\, story\, collage or hybrid text – these authors mine history and present day experience\, exploring and complicating the possibilities and features of genre in their art. \nCathy Park Hong’s first book\, Translating Mo’um was published in 2002 by Hanging Loose Press. Her second collection\, Dance Dance Revolution\, was chosen for the Barnard Women Poets Prize and was published in 2007 by WW Norton. Her third book of poems\, Engine Empire\, was published in May 2012 by WW Norton. Hong is also the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She is a professor at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York. \nCo-Sponsored by Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund; Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation; Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center; Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program; UC Presidential Chair Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies; Music Department; Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment; The Ethnic Resource Centers and the African American Resource & Cultural Center; Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-series-cathy-park-hong-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121024T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121024T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121030T185023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121030T185023Z UID:10005198-1351105200-1351112400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:World Melodrama Film Series - Nobody's Children DESCRIPTION:Nobody’s Children (1950; dir. Raffaello Matarazzo) Italy \nEvan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama\, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/world-melodrama-film-series-nobodys-children-3/ LOCATION:Social Sciences I\, Room 110\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121024T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121024T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121022T190039Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121022T190039Z UID:10005162-1351080900-1351087200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:James Clifford: "Always Coming Home: On Postcolonial (Im)possibility in California" DESCRIPTION:James Clifford taught in UCSC’s History of Consciousness Department for 33 years and was the founding director of the Center for Cultural Studies. Clifford is currently completing Returns\, a book about indigenous cultural politics that will be the third in a trilogy. The first volume\, The Predicament of Culture (1988) juxtaposed essays on 20th-century ethnography\, literature\, and art. The second\, Routes (1997) explored the dialectics of dwelling and traveling in post-modernity. \nJames Clifford is Professor of History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/james-clifford-always-coming-home-on-postcolonial-impossibility-in-california-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121023T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121023T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121022T191609Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121022T191609Z UID:10005163-1351008000-1351015200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Affect Across the Disciplines II DESCRIPTION:Affect Studies offers new opportunities to traverse the boundaries between the humanities\, social sciences\, and engineering. This year’s panel features presentations by UCSC graduate students whose varying approaches to the study of “affect” demonstrate the breadth of the field and its interdisciplinary possibility. \nErin Gray (History of Consciousness): “The White Flesh of the World: Affect and Racialization” \nErin researches white supremacist visual and material culture and she is currently thinking about the relationship between lynching\, the U.S. culture industry\, and the development of monopoly capitalism. \nLaurel Peacock (Literature): “Affect and Poetics”\nLaurel is working on a dissertation on affect in contemporary feminist poetry. \nPascal Emmer (Sociology): “Talkin’ ‘Bout Meta-Generation: ACT UP History and Queer Futurity”\nPascal is interested in the nexus of affect\, generation\, queer activist histories and futures\, oral history\, and the politics of memory. \nBen Samuel (Computer Science): “Affect and Expressive Intelligence”\nBen will discuss two research projects in development at UCSC’s Expressive Intelligence Studio\, which not only make use of sate of the art AI systems to model affect\, but are playable media experiences which afford the user opportunities for self reflection on affect in their own lives. \nPlease join us for a sensorium of refreshments! \nFor information about the research cluster\, please contact dbgould@ucsc.edu or freccero@ucsc.edu. \nStaff support for this event is provided by the IHR staff. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/affect-across-the-disciplines-ii-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121020T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121020T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120208T195427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120208T195427Z UID:10004664-1350727200-1350756000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Philosophy in a Multicultural Context DESCRIPTION:This public conference investigates the relation between philosophy and its multicultural context. Are there immutable questions and universal answers regarding knowledge\, values\, and reality\, or is philosophical inquiry bound by history\, geography\, and culture? Should the philosopher be responsible to the public? Four panels of local intellectuals from Google\, San Francisco State University\, San José State University\, Stanford\, UC Santa Cruz\, and University of San Francisco wish to engage with a diverse audience. \nFor more information\, please visit the conference website: http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia-conferences/postscripts.html \nOrganized by Professor Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther \nSupport provided by the IHR; Philosophy Department; College 8; Cowell College; Merrill College; Office for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion; Impact Media Group URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/philosophy-in-a-multicultural-context-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121020T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121020T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121024T220356Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121024T220356Z UID:10004724-1350723600-1350752400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Birth of a Poet: William Everson Centennial DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the centennial anniversary of the birth of one of California’s great treasures\, William Everson/Brother Antoninus: teacher\, shamanistic poet-in-residence at UCSC from 1970 to 1981\, famed hand-press printer\, advocate of an erotic\, earth-based spirituality and herald of the environmental revolution. \nWilliam Everson was born in Sacramento\, California in 1912 to Christian Science parents on a farm near Selma in the San Joaquin Valley. During the Depression\, he attended Fresno State College\, but soon dropped out to devote his life to poetry after discovering the works of Robinson Jeffers. Everson published his first book of verse\, We Are the Ravens in 1935. During World War II\, he declared himself a conscientious objector and was placed in a series of work camps in the Pacific Northwest\, where he first learned the art of handset printing and where he also completed The Residual Years\, which brought him national attention. His marriage did not survive the war. \nAfter the war\, Everson joined the San Francisco Renaissance movement of poets and anarchists surrounding Kenneth Rexroth. In 1951\, following his second failed marriage\, he entered the Dominican Order. Donning the traditional Dominican robe and hood\, he was a colorful and widely respected figure in the Beat literary movement for nearly two decades. He took the name of Brother Antoninus\, under which he became well known. In 1957\, after Kenneth Rexroth‘s “San Francisco Letter” appeared in the Evergreen Review\, Everson was regarded as one of the San Francisco Renaissance poets (the Beats) and he was tagged with the name of “The Beat Friar”. \nIn 1969\, having fallen in love with his third wife\, Susanna Rickson\, Everson renounced his Dominican calling. Two years later he took a position at UCSC\, where he taught a popular course called “Birth of a Poet” and founded the University’s Lime Kiln Press. He also established himself as an important literary theorist with the publication of Archetype West: The Pacific Coast as a Literary Region. \nIn 1991\, Everson was honored as Artist of the Year by the Santa Cruz County Arts Commission. (Source: http://www.rooknet.net/beatpage/writers/everson.html) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-birth-of-a-poet-william-everson-centennial-3/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121018T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121018T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121023T175748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T175748Z UID:10005182-1350583200-1350589500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Living Writers Reading Series: Kevin Killian and Dodie Bellamy DESCRIPTION:Into Archives—Across Genres is a reading/performance series featuring poets\, critics\, memoirists\, activists\, visual artists\, essayists\, short story writers\, and novelists who mine various archives to investigate race\, gender\, sexuality\, and class. Writing across multiple disciplines – whether via the epistle\, film & photo essay\, poem\, story\, collage or hybrid text – these authors mine history and present day experience\, exploring and complicating the possibilities and features of genre in their art. \nKevin Killian has written two novels\, Shy (1989) and Arctic Summer (1997)\, a book of memoirs\, Bedrooms Have Windows (1990)\, and three books of stories\, Little Men (1996)\, I Cry Like a Baby (2001)\, and Impossible Princess (2009). He is the author of two coillections of poetry\, Argento Series (2001)\, and Action Kylie (2008). For the San Francisco Poets Theater Killian has written forty plays\, most recently Box of Rain (2012). Recent projects include Screen Tests\, an edition of Killian’s film writing\, a show inspired by the late poet Elizabeth Bishop (in collaboration with artist Ajit Chauhan) at Oakland’s Sight School last fall\, and a book of Killian’s intimate photographs\, Tagged\, to appear in the spring. His new novel\, 22 years in the making\, is called Spreadeagle from Publication Studio. \nDodie Bellamy’s most recent book is the buddhist. Time Out New York named her chapbook Barf Manifesto\, “Best Book Under 30 Pages” for 2009. Other books include Academonia\, Pink Steam\, Cunt-Ups and The Letters of Mina Harker. She has been awarded a Firecracker Alternative Book Award and a Bay Guardian Goldie Award. She is a columnist for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Open Space blog. \nCo-Sponsored by Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund; Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation; Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center; Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program; UC Presidential Chair Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies; Music Department; Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment; The Ethnic Resource Centers and the African American Resource & Cultural Center; Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-reading-series-kevin-killian-and-dodie-bellamy-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121017T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121017T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121030T184845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121030T184845Z UID:10005196-1350500400-1350507600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:World Melodrama Film Series - Madonna of the Seven Moons DESCRIPTION:Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945; dir. Arthur Crabtree) United Kingdom \nEvan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama\, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/world-melodrama-film-series-madonna-of-the-seven-moons-3/ LOCATION:Social Sciences I\, Room 110\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121017T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121017T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121023T201047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T201047Z UID:10004723-1350476100-1350482400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:James Martel: "A Revolution No One Believed In: The Haitian Subversion of the Ideals of the French Revolution" DESCRIPTION:Through a study of the Haitian Revolution\, James Martel’s recent work not only questions the liberal universalism of the French Revolution\, but also the myriad of ways in which Haitians appropriated\, subverted\, and radicalized Enlightenment principles. \nJames Martel is Professor and Chair of Political Science at San Francisco State University. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/james-martel-a-revolution-no-one-believed-in-the-haitian-subversion-of-the-ideals-of-the-french-revolution-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121012T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121012T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120824T202817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120824T202817Z UID:10005160-1350066600-1350075600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Founder's Day Faculty Research Lecturer: Gail Hershatter DESCRIPTION:Faculty Research Lecturer: For pioneering field research and oral history among Chinese women\, and her major contributions to the history of women\, labor\, and sexuality. \nGail Hershatter is a specialist in Modern Chinese social and cultural history who has pioneered field research and oral history among Chinese women. Her books have covered topics including the formation of the working class in Tianjin in Northern China\, prostitution in Shanghai\, and the construction of socialism in China in the ’50s and ’60s. She has helped develop feminist theory and has made major contributions to women’s history. \nDuring her 21 years at UCSC\, Hershatter also has served as director of the Institute for Humanities Research and co-director of the Center for Cultural Studies on campus. \nRegistration: Buy Tickets \nFor more information about Founders Day please visit: http://events.ucsc.edu/founders/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/founders-day-faculty-research-lecturer-gail-hershatter-3/ LOCATION:Cocoanut Grove\, 400 Beach Street \, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121011T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121011T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121023T175113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T175113Z UID:10005181-1349978400-1349984700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Living Writers Reading Series: Tisa Bryant DESCRIPTION:Into Archives—Across Genres is a reading/performance series featuring poets\, critics\, memoirists\, activists\, visual artists\, essayists\, short story writers\, and novelists who mine various archives to investigate race\, gender\, sexuality\, and class. Writing across multiple disciplines – whether via the epistle\, film & photo essay\, poem\, story\, collage or hybrid text – these authors mine history and present day experience\, exploring and complicating the possibilities and features of genre in their art. \nTisa Bryant is the author of Unexplained Presence (Leon Works\, 2007); co-editor/founder of The Encyclopedia Project\, and co-editor of the anthology\, War Diaries\, a collection of writings on Black gay male desire and survival in the aftermath of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. She recently participated in a conference\, “Emergent Communities\,” hosted by the Poetics & Politics research cluster at UCSC\, a reading tour with The Dark Room Collective\, which celebrates the 25th anniversary of their founding of a nationally-renown\, self-funded African diasporic reading series and arts exhibition\, and has just completed research at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\, in Harlem\, NY\, for her novel\, The Curator. Ms. Bryant is faculty in the MFA Writing Program at the California Institute of the Arts. \nCo-Sponsored by Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund; Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation; Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center; Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program; UC Presidential Chair Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies; Music Department; Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment; The Ethnic Resource Centers and the African American Resource & Cultural Center; Institute for Humanities Research URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-reading-series-tisa-bryant-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121010T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121010T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121030T184716Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121030T184716Z UID:10005194-1349895600-1349902800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:World Melodrama Film Series - Opfergang DESCRIPTION:Opfergang (1944; dir. Veit Harlan) Germany \nEvan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama\, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/world-melodrama-film-series-opfergang-3/ LOCATION:Social Sciences I\, Room 110\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121010T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121010T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121023T200309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T200309Z UID:10004722-1349871300-1349877600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Carla Freccero: "Wolf\, or Homo homini lupus" DESCRIPTION:Carla Freccero has taught at UCSC since 1991. This paper\, a chapter of the in-progress Animate Figures\, explores the long genealogy of human wolf eradication and figuration in the west\, from economic competitor in Plautus’s “homo hominy lupus” to sovereign double in Derrida’s The Beast and the Sovereign. \nCarla Freccero is Professor and Chair of Literature and History of Consciousness\, and Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/carla-freccero-wolf-or-homo-homini-lupus-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121003T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121003T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20121030T184600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121030T184600Z UID:10004728-1349290800-1349298000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:World Melodrama Film Series - Lumière d'été DESCRIPTION: Lumière d’été (1943; dir. Jean Grémillon) France \nEvan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama\, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/world-melodrama-film-series-lumiere-dete-3/ LOCATION:Social Sciences I\, Room 110\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120908T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120908T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120706T215723Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120706T215723Z UID:10005158-1347094800-1347123600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cosmopolitanism in China: 1600-1950 DESCRIPTION:Over the course of this conference\, Cosmopolitanism in China\, 1600–1950\, we shall explore and rethink aspects of modern Chinese culture\, religion\, state\, and society from various Eurasian and global perspectives. A focus on cosmopolitanism will open new views of the literati theory of knowledge\, the transition from the Qing regime to the modern republic\, the creation of new social and legal associations\, and shifting perceptions of the domestic and the foreign. The conference will be held at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, on September 7 and 8\, 2012\, and is part of “Constructing Modern Knowledge in China\, 1600–1949\,” a project headed by So-an Chang of the Institute of Modern History\, Academia Sinica. \nFor more information\, please visit: http://humweb.ucsc.edu/huminghui/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cosmopolitanism-in-china-1600-1950-3-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120826 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120830 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120826T160001Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120826T160001Z UID:10005161-1345939200-1346284799@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Media Systems Workshop DESCRIPTION:Full dates: Sunday\, August 26th through Wednesday\, August 29th. \nOur project seeks to catalyze major progress in how we create and understand the computational systems that drive interactive media. We will begin by convening a set of field leaders who have been working across the boundaries of media-focused computer science\, the digital humanities\, and the digital arts. This is supported by an unprecedented group of partners: the National Science Foundation\, National Endowment for the Humanities\, National Endowment for the Arts\, and both Microsoft Research and Microsoft Studios. Our meeting will take place August 26th through 29th of 2012 on the campus of UC Santa Cruz\, hosted by the Center for Games and Playable Media in collaboration with the Institute for Humanities Research. \nPlease visit the website for more information: http://mediasystems.soe.ucsc.edu/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/media-systems-workshop-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120615T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120615T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120607T211010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120607T211010Z UID:10005156-1339786800-1339797600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Sammy Awards DESCRIPTION:Click image to enlarge\nJoin us for the Sammy Awards\, the UC Santa Cruz Annual Game Design Awards showcasing student work from the Computer Science Game Design major. \nFeaturing CS Chair Jim WHitehead as MC\, and a panel of tech and game industry judges from Google\, Microsoft\, EA\, Pixar\, and more! \nMusic by Terminal Degree! http://terminaldegree.posterous.com/ \nThis event is open to the public. \nWhen: Friday\, June 15th\, 7-10pm\nWhere: The Rio Theatre\, 1205 Soquel Avenue.\nTickets: $5\, advance purchase only. We can not sell tickets at the door!\nTo register: http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/registration/1 \nMore info: http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/sammys-2012 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-sammy-awards-3/ LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120607T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120607T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120418T180625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120418T180625Z UID:10005096-1339092000-1339099200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Student Reading DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Fund\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department/Creative Writing Program\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, East Asian Studies Program\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, Latino and Latin American Studies Center\, Office of Diversity\, Equity & Inclusion\, El Centro\, Cantu Queer Center\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, Stevenson College\, Oakes College\, and Merrill College. \nBooks are sold at the readings by The Bay Tree Bookstore. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/student-reading-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120607T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120607T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120530T180026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120530T180026Z UID:10005152-1339075800-1339081200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Zaricor Rare Flags on Display DESCRIPTION:Join us for this unique opportunity to view the Zaricor Flag Collection.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFlags from: U.S. Presidents\, Abraham Lincoln\, World Trade Center\, George Custer\, True Betsy Ross\, Women’s Suffrage\, Taliban\, and many more will be shown. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n36 Star President A. Lincoln Mourning Flag\, photo courtesy of Zaricor Flag Collection.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1:30-3:00 pm with formal remarks and Q&A at 2 pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOpen to students\, staff\, faculty and the general public. Admission is free. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParking permits may be purchased at the main entrance kiosk. \nSimilar information and flyer (attached) can be found by visiting\nhttp://socialsciences.ucsc.edu/news-events/events/zaricor-flags.html \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSponsored by the Zaricor Family\, the Division of Humanities\, and the Division of Social Sciences.  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zaricor-rare-flags-on-display-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120606T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120606T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120518T233017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120518T233017Z UID:10005146-1338984000-1338989400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Funding Workshop for Graduate Students on June 6 DESCRIPTION:The IHR will host a workshop on funding opportunities and grant writing on Wednesday\, June 6. \nFOOD AND COFFEE provided! Please email Irena Polić (ipolic@ucsc.edu) by May 23rd if you are interested in coming\, so that we can order the appropriate amount of food. \nPlease also email Irena by then a list of topics you would like to see covered\, and any questions you have about resources available to you on our campus. \nWe hope to see you there! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/funding-workshop-for-graduate-students-on-june-6-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120605T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120605T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120510T171733Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120510T171733Z UID:10005125-1338912000-1338917400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Robert Weinberg: "Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia: Popular Antisemitism\, the Occult and the Trial of Mendel Beilis" DESCRIPTION:Professor Weinberg will explore the nature of popular antisemitism in the Russian Empire during the trial of Mendel Beilis\, a Kievan Jew accused of ritual murder in 1913. Concerned citizens sent letters to the prosecution during the trial in order to buttress the government’s case against Beilis. The letters permit us to delve into the popular beliefs and practices of the literate public and provide insight into the social\, intellectual\, and cultural tensions caused by late Imperial Russia’s encounter with modernity. \nBio: Professor Weinberg has been teaching at Swarthmore College for nearly 25 years. His research has focused on various aspects of the Jewish experience in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. His first book examined Jewish-gentile relations in the context of the 1905 revolution in Odessa (Blood on the Steps: The Revolutoin of 1905 in Odessa) and his second book explored the establishment of the Jewish Autonomous Region\, aka Birobidzhan\, in the Soviet Far East (Stalin’s Forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland). He is currently putting the finishing touches on a document reader about the Beilis Affair. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/robert-weinberg-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120601T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120601T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120522T161307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120522T161307Z UID:10005150-1338559200-1338570000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Digital Art & Democracy: People\, Places\, Participation DESCRIPTION:Have recent developments in digital art led to new “democratic” spaces? Who constitutes a democratic subject in on-line digital space? What does a new politics of representation look like? How do race and ethnicity appear (or disappear) in such spaces? How can artworks constitute democratic audiences? Join scholars and artists as they discuss these topics and recent online projects. Participants include Jennifer Gonzalez\, Carlos Motta\, Soraya Murray\, Warren Sack and Peggy Weil. \nhttp://people.ucsc.edu/~jag/digitalartdemo.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-art-democracy-people-places-participation-3/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab\, Room 306 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120601T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120601T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120531T165740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120531T165740Z UID:10005154-1338523200-1338571800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Hotze Rullman: "Epistemic Modality in the Scope of Past Tense" DESCRIPTION:Abstract: For many years the majority opinion in the literature has been that epistemic modals cannot scope under past tense (e.g.\, Groenendijk & Stokhof 1975\, Cinque 1999\, Abraham 2001\, Drubig 2001\, Fagan 2001\, Condoravdi 2002\, Stowell 2004\, Hacquard 2006\, Borgonovo & Cummins 2007\, Demirdache & Uribe-Etxebarria 2008\, Laca 2008). This view is based largely on the claim that epistemic modals in unembedded contexts are never interpreted with a past temporal perspective (in the sense of Condoravdi 2002). \nIn this paper we provide data from four languages (English\, Dutch\, Gitksan\, and St’át’imcets) to show that epistemic modals can scope under past tense. We thus join the minority of researchers who believe that past-T.P. epistemic readings are possible (e.g.\, Eide 2003\, Boogart 2007\, Martin 2009\, Homer 2010\, von Fintel and Gillies 2008)\, but unlike many of these authors\, we do not explain away the readings as dependent on free indirect discourse or some other exceptional mechanism. On the contrary\, we claim that the null hypothesis holds with respect to interactions between tense and the conversational backgrounds of modals: there are no grammatical constraints. In principle\, any modal can have any type of conversational background\, irrespective of its relation to tense. \nOur analysis is a modified version of Condoravdi’s\, with certain restrictions removed; we also build on insights from Abusch (2008). For English\, we rely not on have optionally scoping over the modal\, but on have optionally triggering the defective past tense of might. This is independently motivated by the behaviour of might and the other defective past-tense modals in sequence of tense environments (cf. Stowell 2004). \nHotze Rullman is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia. This talk is presented by UCSC’s Department of Linguistics. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hotze-rullman-epistemic-modality-in-the-scope-of-past-tense-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120531T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120531T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120418T180458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120418T180458Z UID:10005095-1338487200-1338494400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Lysley Tenorio DESCRIPTION:Lysley Tenorio is a Filipino-American short story writer. Lysley Tenorio’s stories have appeared in The Atlantic\, Zoetrope: All-Story\, Ploughshares\, Manoa\, and The Best New American Voices and Pushcart Prize anthologies. A Whiting Writer’s Award winner and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, he has received fellowships from the University of Wisconsin\, Phillips Exeter Academy\, Yaddo\, The MacDowell Colony\, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Tenorio currently lives in San Francisco\, and is an associate professor at Saint Mary’s College of California. \nThe Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Fund\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department/Creative Writing Program\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, East Asian Studies Program\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, Latino and Latin American Studies Center\, Office of Diversity\, Equity & Inclusion\, El Centro\, Cantu Queer Center\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, Stevenson College\, Oakes College\, and Merrill College. \nBooks are sold at the readings by The Bay Tree Bookstore. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lysley-tenorio-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120531T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120531T120000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120518T230005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120518T230005Z UID:10005144-1338458400-1338465600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sam Ball: "Graphic Novelists on Film" DESCRIPTION:SAM BALL WILL PRESENT HIS WORK WITH TWO GRAPHIC NOVELISTS:\nJoann Sfar Draws from Memory and Ben Katchor: Pleasures of Urban Decay \nSam Ball’s documentaries have been exhibited at many of America’s most prestigious venues for independent film\, ranging from the Sundance Film Festival to the Museum of Modern Art – New York’s documentary fortnight\, and several of them have aired on public television. His most recent film\, Joann Sfar Draws from Memory (a collaboration with KQED PRESENTS\, distributed to PBS affiliates nationally) profiles a bestselling graphic novelist whose work explores intersections of North African and European heritage. \nThis event is presented by UCSC’s Center for Jewish Studies\, and is made possible from generous support from the David B. Gold Foundation. For more information\, please contact Shann Ritchie at the Institute for Humanities Research\, sritchie@ucsc.edu\, or (831) 459-3527. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sam-ball-film-producer-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120530T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120530T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120308T203005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120308T203005Z UID:10004677-1338379200-1338386400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Michael Ursell:“Surviving Humanism: Petrarchan Autobiography and Ecology" DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nMichael Ursell\nLiterature\, UCSC\nWhile critics have dismissed an image of the Renaissance humanist Petrarch as a nature-lover\, this talk reconsiders a poetics of the living in his work. Professor Ursell looks at how Petrarch’s “life writing” and “life reading” have been understood in relation to global ecology and world literature. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/michael-ursellsurviving-humanism-petrarchan-autobiography-and-ecology-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120524T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120524T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120418T180325Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120418T180325Z UID:10005094-1337882400-1337886000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Justin Chin DESCRIPTION:Justin Chin was born in Malaysia\, raised & educated in Singapore\, shipped to the U.S. by way of Hawaii\, and now living in San Francisco. Author of 3 books of poetry\, all published by Manic D Press: Bite Hard (1997); Harmless Medicine (2001)\, a finalist in the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Awards; and\, Gutted (2006)\, which received the 2007 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry by the Publishing Triangle. Squeezed in between these were 2 non-fictions: Mongrel: Essays\, Diatribes & Pranks (St. Martins\, 1999)\, and the ur-memoir\, Burden of Ashes (Alyson Publications\, 2002). \nThe Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Fund\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department/Creative Writing Program\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, East Asian Studies Program\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, Latino and Latin American Studies Center\, Office of Diversity\, Equity & Inclusion\, El Centro\, Cantu Queer Center\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, Stevenson College\, Oakes College\, and Merrill College. \nBooks are sold at the readings by The Bay Tree Bookstore. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/justin-chin-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120524T084500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120524T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120521T153612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120521T153612Z UID:10005148-1337849100-1337875200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Thirteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium DESCRIPTION:Opening Remarks 8:45 – 9:00 a.m.\nKaren Tei Yamashita Director\, Literature Department Undergraduate Program \nPanel One: Creative Writing: Memoir\n9:00 – 10:30 a.m.\nClaire Williams: This Girl Pulls the Whole World Over Herself: A Short Memoir in 3 Parts\nLauren Vargas: The Echoes of Light\nCynthia Pinto: A Picture Starts a Lifetime\nCheyenne Street Houck: Heritage\nBrooke Velasquez: Things I Did After My Mother Died \nPanel Two: Translation Theory\n10:45 – 11:45 a.m.\nRosa Angélica Castañeda: En Palabras Este Son: A creative transposition of the Mexican Folklórico dance El Son de La Negra\nAbigail Louise Jennings: Huckleberry Finn: Putting Theory into Practice\nKyle Thomson: Playing for a Limited Stage Only: The Difficulty of Translating Resistance and Spectatorship as Cultural Memory \nPanel Three: Literature and the Body\n12:00 – 1:15 p.m.\nHannah Louise Denyer: Code\, Language\, and the Wild\nCory Austin Knudson: Mind/Body: Toward Asymptotic Becoming\nKerry Keith: Escaping Exile: The (Im)Prisoned Body of Assata Shakur\nAlexis Robles: Transformations of Little Red Riding Hood: Erotic\, Traditional\, and Feminist Bodies \nLUNCH BUFFET 1:15 – 1:45 p.m. \nPanel Four: Poetry: Pre/Early/Modern\n1:45 – 2:45 p.m.\nCrystal Franco: How to go Beyond Language by Using Language: Metaphor’s Groundbreaking Role in Maurice Scève’s Emblems of Desire\nAmber McCready: Visual and Auditory Codes in “El Desdichado”\nBrenda Houser: Transgendering Comedy and Pathos in Ovid’s “Iphis and Ianthe” \nPanel Five: Literature and Film\n3:00 – 4:00 p.m.\nKile Bigbee: Lost in Fear: The Experience of The Blair Witch Project\nMerav Walklet: “I’VE COME HERE TO CHEW BUBBLEGUM AND TO KICK ASS… …AND I’M ALL OUT OF BUBBLEGUM.”\nAlyssa Shimmin: Fantasy and Wish Fulfillment in Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994): An Oedipal Reading of Dylan \nClosing Remarks 4:00 p.m.\nKaren Bassi Chair\, Literature Department \nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. ALL ARE INVITED!\nFor more information: Literature.ucsc.edu\, or litdept@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thirteenth-annual-literature-undergraduate-colloquium-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120523T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120523T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120308T202829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120308T202829Z UID:10004676-1337774400-1337781600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Anjali Arondekar: "Orienting Margins: Sexuality’s Geopolitics" DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nAnjali Arondekar \nAssociate Professor\, Feminist Studies\, UCSC \nHistories of sexuality routinely mediate geopolitical difference(s) through the narrative forms of marginality\, disenfranchisement and loss. What happens if we shift our attention from the reading of sexuality as marginality to understanding it as a site of vitalized abundance–even futurity? URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anjali-arondekar-orienting-margins-sexualitys-geopolitics-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120522T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120522T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120430T073940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120430T073940Z UID:10004692-1337702400-1337706000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:An Evening with David Talbot DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Division and the Institute for Humanities Research presents:\nAn Evening with David Talbot\n\n\n\n\nDavid Talbot\, founder and CEO of the San Francisco based web magazine Salon\, is uniquely poised to tell his iconic city’s story in all its terrible glory. He will read from his new book\, Season of the Witch. Talbot has worked as a senior editor for Mother Jones magazine and as a features editor for the San Francisco Examiner. Talbot has written for The New Yorker\, Rolling Stone\, TIME among other publications. Talbot\, who lives with his family in San Francisco is a 1973 graduate of Stevenson College\, UC Santa Cruz. \nThis event is cosponsored by Stevenson College. \nPhoto by Sibylla Herbrich. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-with-david-talbot-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120518T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120518T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120504T162305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120504T162305Z UID:10004701-1337371200-1337378400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:International Playhouse XII DESCRIPTION:COWELL COLLEGE\, STEVENSON COLLEGE\, & THE LANGUAGE PROGRAM present \nInternational Playhouse XII \nTHEATER PIECES in EIGHT languages with ENGLISH SUPERTITLES \nTHURSDAY & SATURDAY\, May 17 &19\, 2012\, at 8 PM (Chinese Italian Russian French) \n神來之筆 (The Magic Brush) \nby A. Stang\, directed by Ting-Ting Wu and Anna Stang \nLA RAGAZZA MELA (The Apple Girl) \nby I. Calvino\, directed by Giulia Centineo and Tessa Brown \nПациент (The Patient) \nby S. Dovlatov\, directed by Natalya Samokhina \nLA CANTATRICE CHAUVE (The Bald Soprano) \nby E. Ionesco\, directed by Miriam Ellis \n  \nFRIDAY & SUNDAY\, May 18 & 20\, at 8 PM (Greek German Japanese Spanish) \nΝΕΦΕΛΑΙ (Clouds) \nby Aristophanes\, directed by Alexander Clayden \nAUGEN IN DER GROßSTADT (Metropolitan Montage) \nby Tucholsky et al.\, directed by Judith Harris-Frisk \n柑子 (Three Tangerines) \nBased on an Izumi School script \nDIFUNTOS DE FIN DE SIGLO (The Dead at Century’s End) \nby E. Carballido\, directed by Carolina Castillo-Trelles and Marta Navarro URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/international-playhouse-xii-2-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120518T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120518T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20110818T162956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110818T162956Z UID:10004854-1337356800-1337364000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Lisa Davidson DESCRIPTION:Lisa Davidson\nLisa Davidson is Associate Professor of Linguistics\, Director of the Phonetics & Experimental Phonology Lab and Affiliate Faculty in Psychology at New York University. Her research focuses on laboratory phonology\, speech production and perception\, and language acquisition. \nThis talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett\, nvarnett@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-lisa-davidson-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120517T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120517T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120418T180156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120418T180156Z UID:10005093-1337277600-1337284800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Tom Marshall & Rusty Morrison DESCRIPTION:Having survived residence in 4 states and 1 province\, 20 towns & cities\, 23 jobs\, 3 families\, and 15 schools\, Marshall has slipped the noose of his handful of chapbooks and for now settled into a fresh way of making his poetry: free and green in blogbooks online. Impressed by the productive tensions between vocabularies in leading arts like dance\, he has let pictures into his poems. This began with a chuckle at Facebook and the form it offered with its way for posting a photo and saying something about it. His work still gets picked up by magazines\, but they too are drifting into the ether to find new formats. Teaching at many institutions (Cabrillo College for the last 22 years) has taught him about ineffable effect\, and politics have turned him away from object production. Marshall is a product of his times\, here and there on the web\, but not a commodity. \nRusty Morrison is an American poet and publisher. She received a BA in English from Mills College in Oakland\, California\, an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Saint Mary’s College in Moraga\, California\, and an MA in Education from California State University\, San Francisco. She has taught in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco\, and was Poet in Residence at Saint Mary’s College in 2009. She has also served as a visiting poet at a number of colleges and universities\, including the University of Redlands\, Redlands\, California; University of Arizona\, Tucson\, Arizona; Boise State University\, Boise\, Idaho; Marylhurst University\, Marylhurst\, Oregon\, and Millikin University\, Decatur\, Illinois. In 2001\, Morrison and her husband\, Ken Keegan\, founded Omnidawn Publishing in Richmond\, California and continue to work as co-publishers. \nThe Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Fund\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department/Creative Writing Program\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, East Asian Studies Program\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, Latino and Latin American Studies Center\, Office of Diversity\, Equity & Inclusion\, El Centro\, Cantu Queer Center\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, Stevenson College\, Oakes College\, and Merrill College. \nBooks are sold at the readings by The Bay Tree Bookstore. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tom-marshall-rusty-morrison-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120516T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120516T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120328T224740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120328T224740Z UID:10004681-1337184000-1337189400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Tarlochan Singh Nahal: "Religion and Politics in Sikhism" DESCRIPTION:Dr. Tarlochan Singh Nahal will speak about his new book\, Religion and Politics in Sikhism\, in conversation with Professor Nirvikar Singh. Dr. Nahal received his PhD in Political Science from Senior University International\, under the supervision of Dr. Noel Q. King\, then Professor Emeritus at UCSC. Dr. Nahal has organized several international conferences on Sikhism\, and he works actively with local Sikh youth promoting sports and healthy living. \nAll are welcome to attend. There will be time for questions and answers with the audience\, and light refreshments will be served.\nBiography: Dr. Tarlochan Singh Nahal was born in the Jalandhar district of Punjab\, India. He received an M.A. degree in English from Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar in 1977. He also studied Punjabi at M. A. level and finished M.A. Part I with a distinction. He won the Punjab State Merit Scholarship in B.A. Part III. He was the captain of the college wrestling team at Guru Gobind Singh Republic College\, Jandiala (Jalandhar)\, Punjab. He came to the US in 1979. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Senior University International\, Wyoming in 1999 under the supervision of late Dr. Noel Q. King\, Professor Emeritus UC Santa Cruz\, California. The topic of his Ph.D. thesis was “Miri and Piri: Religion and Politics in Sikhism with Special Reference to the Sikh Struggle (1947-1997).” \nDr. Nahal is currently employed as a Sr. Staff Technical Writer at Qualcomm Atheros\, Inc. in San Jose\, CA. He has been working as a Technical Writer in the Silicon Valley for the last 29 years and has written over 150 technical manuals in the computer industry. Dr. Nahal has been invited by various Universities and Sikh and non-Sikh organizations to speak on various topics related to Sikhism in the US and Canada. He has organized several Sikh Academic conferences in the San Jose area over the last seventeen years. He has appeared on local and regional television and radio many times on the Sikh issues. He is often consulted by the news media on various Sikh issues. Dr. Tarlochan Singh Nahal is one of the founding members of Sikh Gurdwara – San Jose. He has served as the Secretary General of World Sikh Council – America Region\, a representative body of Sikh Gurdwaras and institutions in the US. \nDr. Nahal has been actively working with local Sikh youth in promoting sports and healthy living. He has been working as the Secretary General of Sikh Sports Association of USA for the last several years. \nDr. Nahal has written dozens of research papers. He is an avid reader and maintains a large personal library that has thousands of books. He is the author of Religion and Politics in Sikhism: The Khalsa Perspective\, a major academic work dealing with religious and political aspects of Sikhism\, especially the Khalistan movement. He is currently doing some research on ancient Punjab related to Alexander the Great’s invasion of Punjab in 326 B.C. He is also doing some research on the Ghadar Movement started by the Sikhs in California around 1914. \nDr. Nahal has been honored twice with a siropa (Robe of Honor) from Sri Akal Takhat Sahib the seat of Sikh Spiritual and Temporal authority at Amritsar\, India in 2008 and 2011\, respectively for his research on the Sikh history and dedication to the Khalsa Panth. \nDr. Nahal lives in San Jose\, California with his family. He can be reached at tnahal99@yahoo.com. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tarlochan-singh-nahal-religion-and-politics-in-sikhism-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120516T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120516T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120418T181359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120418T181359Z UID:10005097-1337176800-1337184000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Reading: Immanuel Wallerstein: "The Uncertainties of Knowledge" DESCRIPTION:The Department of Anthropology’s Emerging Worlds Lecture Series \nProfessor Immanuel Wallerstein \n\n\nYale University“World-Systems Analysis and the Disciplines: The Past\, the Present\, and Hopefully the Future” \n\n\nProfessor David Palumbo-Liu\, Stanford University\, Discussant\nTuesday\, May 15\, 2012\n7:00pm-9:00pm\nKresge Town Hall Graduate Student Workshop\nWednesday\, May 16\, 2012\n10:00am – 12:00 noon\nSocial Sciences 1\, Room 261Graduate Student and Faculty Reading Seminar\nReading: Immanuel Wallerstein\, The Uncertainties of Knowledge (available at the Literary Guillotine)\n2:00pm – 4:00pm\nLocation: TBA\n\n\nPre-registration requested: Please email Allyson Ramage ataramage@ucsc.edu\n\nProfessor Immanuel Wallerstein is the pre-eminent theorist of world-systems. His writings have consistently focused on the unequal distribution of resources\, power and life chances resulting from world-systems hierarchies.  His work on world-systems subsequently led him to analyze the ordering of disciplinary knowledge.  Professor Wallerstein is currently Senior Research Scholar at Yale and formerly Director of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies\, Historical Systems\, and Civilizations at SUNY\, Binghamton\, where he was also distinguished professor of Sociology.\nProfessor David Palumbo-Liu co-edited\, with Bruce Robbins and Nirvana Tanoukhi\, Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System\, Scale\, Culture (Duke University Press\, 2011). His most recent work is The Deliverance of Others–Reading Literature in a Global Age ( Duke UP\, forthcoming).These events are co-sponsored by the Division of Graduate Studies\, the Division of Social Sciences and Kresge College. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reading-immanuel-wallerstein-3/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120516T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120516T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120308T202654Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120308T202654Z UID:10004675-1337169600-1337176800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Kate Brown: "Dismantling the Plutonium Curtain: Local Knowledge and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters" DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nKate Brown \nHistory Associate Professor\, University of Maryland\, Baltimore \nModern utopias and nuclear wastelands come together in Professor Brown’s “Plutopia” about the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium–Richland\, Washington and Ozersk\, Russia. New postwar communities of high-risk affluence alongside plutonium disasters and public health catastrophes were thus created on two of the world’s most radiated landscapes. \nCO-SPONSORS: History\, Anthropology URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kate-brown-dismantling-the-plutonium-curtain-local-knowledge-and-the-great-soviet-and-american-plutonium-disasters-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120515 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120516 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120515T160004Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120515T160004Z UID:10005142-1337040000-1337126399@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dr. Immanuel Wallerstein: “World-Systems Analysis and the Disciplines: The Past\, the Present\, and Hopefully the Future” DESCRIPTION:The Department of Anthropology’s Emerging Worlds Lecture SeriesProfessor Immanuel Wallerstein \n\nYale University“World-Systems Analysis and the Disciplines: The Past\, the Present\, and Hopefully the Future” \n\n\nProfessor David Palumbo-Liu\, Stanford University\, Discussant\nTuesday\, May 15\, 2012\n7:00pm-9:00pm\nKresge Town HallGraduate Student Workshop\nWednesday\, May 16\, 2012\n10:00am – 12:00 noon\nSocial Sciences 1\, Room 261 \nGraduate Student and Faculty Reading Seminar\nReading: Immanuel Wallerstein\, The Uncertainties of Knowledge (available at the Literary Guillotine)\n2:00pm – 4:00pm\nLocation: TBA\n\n \n\nPre-registration requested: Please email Allyson Ramage ataramage@ucsc.edu\n\nProfessor Immanuel Wallerstein is the pre-eminent theorist of world-systems. His writings have consistently focused on the unequal distribution of resources\, power and life chances resulting from world-systems hierarchies.  His work on world-systems subsequently led him to analyze the ordering of disciplinary knowledge.  Professor Wallerstein is currently Senior Research Scholar at Yale and formerly Director of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies\, Historical Systems\, and Civilizations at SUNY\, Binghamton\, where he was also distinguished professor of Sociology.Professor David Palumbo-Liu co-edited\, with Bruce Robbins and Nirvana Tanoukhi\, Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System\, Scale\, Culture (Duke University Press\, 2011). His most recent work is The Deliverance of Others–Reading Literature in a Global Age ( Duke UP\, forthcoming). \nThese events are co-sponsored by the Division of Graduate Studies\, the Division of Social Sciences and Kresge College. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-immanuel-wallerstein-world-systems-analysis-and-the-disciplines-the-past-the-present-and-hopefully-the-future-3/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120514T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120514T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20111116T202638Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111116T202638Z UID:10004911-1336998600-1337004000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Elsa Davidson: "The Burdens of Aspiration: Schools\, Youth\, and Success in the Divided Social Worlds of Silicon Valley" DESCRIPTION:Elsa Davidson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Montclair State University in New Jersey. Her research focuses on processes of aspiration formation and social reproduction among youth from diverse class\, racial\, and ethnic backgrounds. In particular\, Dr. Davidson is interested in how young people forge aspirations in relation to experiences of schooling\, rapid social and economic transformation\, and their exposure to emergent ideals of citizenship in the contemporary United States. She is the author of The Burdens of Aspiration: Schools\, Youth\, and Success in the Divided Social Worlds of Silicon Valley (New York University Press\, 2011) from which this talk is drawn. She has also published articles in American Anthropologist\, Environment & Planning A\, and Ethnography. \nThe Urban Studies is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this event.  Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/elsa-davidson-3/ LOCATION:College 8\, Room 301\, College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120511T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120511T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20110818T162311Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110818T162311Z UID:10004853-1336752000-1336759200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Linguistics Colloquium: Dominique Sportiche DESCRIPTION:Dominique Sportiche works on formal syntax. He has focused on the theory of constituent structure\, and properties of the syntax/semantics interface (especially in French and the Romance languages) as they bear on the architecture of syntactic or grammatical theory and on cognition in general. He has published work on phrase structure\, agreement\, clitics\, and reconstruction phenomena. His current theoretical interests and ongoing works include phrase structure and the functional sequence\, the internal structure of VPs\, reconstruction phenomena and the binding theory. From an empirical standpoint his work focalizes primarily on various aspects of the syntax systems of English\, and of French and the Romance languages (complementizers\, relative pronouns\, reflexive constructions\, binding theory). In recent years his work has extended to the relation between linguistic theory and (i) linguistic impairment (in Huntington’s disease patients)\, (ii) very early acquisition of syntax and (iii) grounding theoretical choices in more systematic methods of data collection and control (particularly regarding the binding theory\, and the French complementizer system). \nDominique Sportiche is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California\, Los Angeles. \nThis talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett\, nvarnett@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-dominique-sportiche-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120511T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120511T163000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120504T210524Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120504T210524Z UID:10004705-1336743000-1336753800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Graduate Research Symposium DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, May 11th for the 8th Annual Graduate Research Symposium. This event offers students an opportunity to share their research with faculty\, staff\, friends\, colleagues and the local community in the form of poster\, oral\, live or multimedia presentations. \nThis year’s event featurs 20 oral and live presentations\, 100 poster presentations and 5 media presentations\, representing a wide range of research from insight into California Sea Otter population\, to song and rhetoric in mondern Italy. Once again the Terminal Degree Jazz Band will entertain us out on the veranda for the entirety of the event. \nFor participant and presenter information\, please click here to download the program\, or visit the Division of Graduate Studies website. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/graduate-research-symposium-4/ LOCATION:University Center\, UCSC\, College Nine and College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120510T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120510T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120418T180010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120418T180010Z UID:10005092-1336672800-1336680000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Natalie Handal DESCRIPTION:Natalie Handal is an award-winning poet\, playwright\, and editor. She has lived in Europe\, the United States\, the Caribbean\, Latin America and the Arab world. Her poetry collections include: The Neverfield\, The Lives of Rain\, shortlisted for The Agnes Lynch Starret Poetry Prize and the recipient of the Menada Literary Award\, and Love and Strange Horses\, University of Pittsburgh Press\, 2010\, winner of the Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award 2011\, and an Honorable Mention at the San Francisco Book Festival and the New England Book Festival. The New York Times says it is “a book that trembles with belonging (and longing).” She is a Lannan Foundation Fellow\, a Fundación Araguaney Fellow\, recipient of the Alejo Zuloaga Order in Literature 2011\, the AE Ventures Fellowship\, an Honored Finalist for the 2009 Gift of Freedom Award\, and was shortlisted for New London Writers Awards and The Arts Council of England Writers Awards. Handal was listed as one of the “100 Most Powerful Arab Women 2011” in a Special Report by ArabianBusiness.com. Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa writes: “This cosmopolitan voice belongs to the human family\, and it luxuriates in crossing necessary borders.” Her new collection\, Poet in Andalucía\, is forthcoming in Spring 2012. \nThe Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Fund\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department/Creative Writing Program\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, East Asian Studies Program\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, Latino and Latin American Studies Center\, Office of Diversity\, Equity & Inclusion\, El Centro\, Cantu Queer Center\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, Stevenson College\, Oakes College\, and Merrill College. \nBooks are sold at the readings by The Bay Tree Bookstore. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/natalie-handal-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120510T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120510T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120314T200632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120314T200632Z UID:10005087-1336665600-1336671000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Trevor Joy Sangrey: “’Put One More “S” in the USA’: Pamphlet Literature and the Productive Fiction of the Black Nation Thesis” DESCRIPTION:In 1928 the Communist Party developed an unconventional and intriguing proposal that black people in the Black Belt of the Southern United States were an unrecognized national group and should have rights to self-determination\, a move later called the “Black Nation Thesis.” Written in Moscow\, the Black Nation Thesis was forged in the US through direct action campaigns for the Scottsboro Nine\, local organizing around unemployment\, and an extensive production of pamphlets. \nThis paper focuses on pamphlets produced between 1932 and 1935\, especially The American Negro\, The Position of Negro Women\, and The Negroes in a Soviet America\, looking at the pamphlets as a literature of dissent that offers a strong critique of Jim Crow\, Chain Gangs\, Lynch Law\, and the economic and cultural oppression of black people. Alongside a critical analysis of the US\, the pamphlet develops a fictional a concept of a “Soviet America” in the Black Belt\, offering a new vision of radical freedom for black Southerners and enabling new conversations about race and class. \nTracing a different history of black radicalism in small press pamphlet literature\, this paper looks at a specific moment of dissident print culture\, whcih was spectacular\, imaginative\, and importantly pedagogical. Probing how radical visions grow and spread\, my research on 1930s CPUSA pamphlets reveals how pamphlets offer a place for internal critical thinking and stimulate movement participants to generate substantive critique of the US while also developing their own visions for a radical future. \nTrevor Joy Sangrey is a PhD candidate working in history\, education\, american studies\, race and ethnicity studies\, and gender studies\, with a focus on social movements. Trevor also teaches and has published in the interdisciplinary field of Transgender Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/trevor-joy-sangrey-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120509T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120509T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120504T164643Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120504T164643Z UID:10004703-1336584600-1336590000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mussolini's Secret DESCRIPTION:UCSC Language Program\, Italian Studies Program\, Cowell Provost and History Department \nPresent: \n \nA 2005 documentary folk by Gianfranco Norelli and Fabrizio Laurenti followed by a conversation with director Norelli. \nReception at Cowell Provost’s House 7:00PM. \n \nRunning tim 55 minutes in English \nMussolini’s Secret tells the unknown story of Benito Albino\, Mussolini’s secret son\, and his mother Ida Dalser\, and documents the inner workings of a dictatorship and the ways in which ordinary people collaborate in the destruction of innocent fellow citizens. \nFor information contact gckg@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mussolinis-secret-3/ LOCATION:Classroom Unit 2\, Classroom Unit‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, UC Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120509T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120509T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120430T074740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120430T074740Z UID:10004693-1336581000-1336586400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jon Varese: "Digital Dickens". DESCRIPTION:The Dickens Project would like to welcome everyone to visit the exhibit of its 32-year history\, mounted in four display cases just outside Special Collections on the 3rd floor of McHenry Library. The exhibit makes note of both the scholarly and the outreach missions of the Project\, and will be up for the duration of Spring Quarter.In conjunction with the exhibit\, Jon Varese\, Director of Digital Initiatives for the Dickens Project\, who recently completed his PhD in Literature at UCSC\, will give a talk called “Digital Dickens”\, Seating is very limited. A reception will follow\, downstairs in the Library. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jon-varese-digital-dickens-3/ LOCATION:McHenry Library (3rd Floor)\, Special Collections END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120509T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120509T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120418T173106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120418T173106Z UID:10004688-1336564800-1336570200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Loren Goldman: “Vaclav Havel and the Politics and Practice of Hope” DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\n \nLoren Goldman \nAssistant Professor\, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities\, Townsend Fellow at UCB \nProfessor Goldman is a political theorist whose work concerns the intersection of utopian thought and political agency. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the concept of political hope in the modern period from Kant to Dewey. \nCo-sponsored by The Politics Department URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/loren-goldman-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120508T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120508T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120418T173537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120418T173537Z UID:10004689-1336482000-1336496400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Are You My Data? A Research Ethics Forum DESCRIPTION:The Office of Research is sponsoring a series of Research Ethics Fora for faculty\, postdocs and graduate students.  The first forum in the Series “Are You My Data?” is on Tuesday May 8th in the Alumni Room of the University Center and is hosted by Prof. Jennifer Reardon of the Science & Justice Working Group.  This is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the challenges of managing research data. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAre You My Data?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith a human genome sequenced and a map of variable sites in that genome created\, governments and many other public and private actors now seek to make genomic data relevant to health\, medicine and the society.  However\, to do so they must navigate the conjunction of two different approaches to data.  Within the biomedical domain there are important\, well-articulated infrastructures and commitments arising out of concerns about individual rights\, patient privacy and the doctor-patient relationship that limit access to biomedical data.  This stands in stark contrast to the culture of open access forged by those who worked on the Human Genome Project\, and that has continued to be a central commitment of ongoing Human Genome research.  Thus\, architects of the genomic revolution face competing\, complex technical and ethical challenges that arise from this meeting of these domains with substantially different ethos.  Additionally\, the rise of social media has led to a broad and contested discussion about the proper relationship between persons and data and who profits through access to it. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe goal of the proposed workshop is to map out the challenges of building and controlling genomic data architectures that are responsive to these conditions.  Rather than suggesting that either openness or privacy is the answer\, the workshop will ask which kinds of openness and privacy might be possible and adequate\, and in which contexts?   Further\, who has the authority to decide?  Who can/should authorize the flow of data and what forms of consent are required? What kinds of flow of data should be allowed (e.g.\, ones that lead back to persons\, etc.)?  Finally\, the workshop will consider questions around where and how data should be accessed.  Is “the cloud” a viable option?  What other options exist to manage deluging data\, and what ethical and material challenges do they present? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhile the workshop will focus on the specific context of genomics\, of course the broader issues raised are not unique to genomics.  We hope the workshop is only one of  several we will host to consider the current gathering of fundamental and entwined issues of science\, engineering\, ethics and policy at the site of data. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSchedule\n1:00-2:30 Panel 1: The Collision of Privacy and Openness\n2:30-2:45 Break\n2:45-4:15 Panel 2: Creating and Sustaining Trust\n4:15-4:30 BREAK\n4:30-5:00 Agenda Setting for Future Discussions \nSpeakers:\nConfirmed (*)\n*David Winickoff\, Associate Professor of Bioethics and Society\, UC Berkeley\n*Malia Fullerton\, Associate Professor in the Department of Bioethics & Humanities at the University of Washington School of Medicine\n*Bob Zimmerman\, Program Director\, Cancer Genome Hub\n*John Wilbanks\, VP of Science\, Science Commons URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/are-you-my-data-3/ LOCATION:University Center\, UCSC\, College Nine and College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120507T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120507T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120504T161610Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120504T161610Z UID:10004699-1336410000-1336417200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Patricia Lunn: "In the Defense of Linguistic Grammar" DESCRIPTION:LANGUAGE PROGRAM COLLOQUIUM SERIES PRESENTS: \n“In the Defense of Linguistic Grammar” \n \nPatricia Lunn \nProfessor Emeritus of Spanish Michigan State University \nDiscussions about teaching grammar in the foreign language classroom are usually cast in terms of when (in order of acquisition) and how much (as against other activities). A little-discussed aspect of grammar teaching is what the content of grammar lessons should be. But not all grammatical description is equal\, and some is not even accurate. This presentation argues that the simplicity and descriptive adequacy of linguistic grammar should be recognized and exploited. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/patricia-lunn-in-the-defense-of-linguistic-grammar-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 320 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120505T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120505T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120314T190924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120314T190924Z UID:10005084-1336208400-1336248000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:“Emergent Communities in Experimental Writing” Conference DESCRIPTION:This conference is organized around experimental writing and its many\, varying communities including performance art collaborations\, small press publishing and editorial projects\, virtual and digital work\, academic affiliations\, and intersecting aesthetic\, social and political identities and representations. The goal of this conference is to embrace the productive and generative connotations of these two terms as innovative acts and encounters that are always in the process of both venturing to do something previously untried\, and questioning and testing the very boundaries and mores\, however contingent\, established by those attempts. Of particular interest is how writing communities might be changing historically in the early twenty-first century\, and how writers theorize and make use (or not) of various conceptualizations and practices of community. What do such formations include and leave out? What are the conditions of possibility for a community to emerge? From where does one emerge? How are writing communities that share an often contested collective vision themselves experimental formations for attempting new modes of relation\, affiliation and creation? This conference is organized around experimental writing and its many\, varying communities including performance art collaborations\, small press publishing and editorial projects\, virtual and digital work\, academic affiliations\, and intersecting aesthetic\, social and political identities and representations. The goal of this conference is to embrace the productive and generative connotations of these two terms as innovative acts and encounters that are always in the process of both venturing to do something previously untried\, and questioning and testing the very boundaries and mores\, however contingent\, established by those attempts. Of particular interest is how writing communities might be changing historically in the early twenty-first century\, and how writers theorize and make use (or not) of various conceptualizations and practices of community. What do such formations include and leave out? What are the conditions of possibility for a community to emerge? From where does one emerge? How are writing communities that share an often contested collective vision themselves experimental formations for attempting new modes of relation\, affiliation and creation? (Conference website: http://ucsccommunitypoetryconf.tumblr.com/) \nFriday\n9:00-9:30am Opening Comments \n9:30-10:45am Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n11:00am-12:15pm Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n12:15-1:15pm Lunch / Collaborative Writing Tables \n1:15-2:30pm Roundtable\n4 presenters \n2:45-4:00pm Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n4:30-6:30pm Dinner \n7:00pm Poetry Reading at the Felix Kulpa Gallery \nSaturday\n9:00-10:15am Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n10:30-11:45 Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n11:45am-1:00pm Lunch / Reading \n1:00-2:15pm Roundtable\n4 presenters \n2:30-4:00pm Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n4:00-6:15pm Dinner \n6:30pm Poetry Reading at the Felix Kulpa Gallery URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/emergent-communities-in-experimental-writing-conference-2-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120504T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120504T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120217T205820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120217T205820Z UID:10005064-1336147200-1336152600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Matthew Tucker\, "Variable Agreement: The Morphosyntax of Syntactic Binding" DESCRIPTION:Matthew Tucker\nThis talk discusses the interplay between syntax (the order of words and structure in sentences) and morphology (the structure of words) in natural language and the role it can play in linguistic theorizing. While traditional approaches often look at purely syntactic or purely morphological explanations\, data from three unrelated syntactic phenomena can be understood in a unified light if theories of language take the syntax- morphology interface as an object of study. The first of these\, called the Anaphor Agreement Effect\, involves the inability of reflexive elements (such as English himself\, or Italian se stesso) to control verbal agreement. The second and third are the inability of question words in some languages to control regular verbal agreement\, known variably as the Anti-Agreement Effect and wh-Agreement. Drawing on data from Berber\, Italian\, Abaza\, and other genetically unrelated languages\, I show that a unified understanding of these processes can be given if morphology is allowed to interpret the same syntactic structures in one of several different ways\, corresponding to the range of empirical phenomena seen in reflexive and question agreement. This in turn supports a methodological conclusion that deep descriptive\, partially abstract linguistic analysis is a prerequisite to understanding the possible space of cross-linguistic variation. \nMatthew Tucker is a fifth year graduate student in the Department of Linguistics. Mr. Tucker’s research focuses on the interaction between syntax (word order) and other parts of language. He is involved in the IHR research cluster Crosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax-Prosody\, where his work focuses on Arabic and the connections between syntax and word-level metrical structure. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/matthew-tucker-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120504T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120504T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120314T190705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120314T190705Z UID:10005083-1336122000-1336165200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"Emergent Communities in Experimental Writing" Conference DESCRIPTION:This conference is organized around experimental writing and its many\, varying communities including performance art collaborations\, small press publishing and editorial projects\, virtual and digital work\, academic affiliations\, and intersecting aesthetic\, social and political identities and representations. The goal of this conference is to embrace the productive and generative connotations of these two terms as innovative acts and encounters that are always in the process of both venturing to do something previously untried\, and questioning and testing the very boundaries and mores\, however contingent\, established by those attempts. Of particular interest is how writing communities might be changing historically in the early twenty-first century\, and how writers theorize and make use (or not) of various conceptualizations and practices of community. What do such formations include and leave out? What are the conditions of possibility for a community to emerge? From where does one emerge? How are writing communities that share an often contested collective vision themselves experimental formations for attempting new modes of relation\, affiliation and creation? This conference is organized around experimental writing and its many\, varying communities including performance art collaborations\, small press publishing and editorial projects\, virtual and digital work\, academic affiliations\, and intersecting aesthetic\, social and political identities and representations. The goal of this conference is to embrace the productive and generative connotations of these two terms as innovative acts and encounters that are always in the process of both venturing to do something previously untried\, and questioning and testing the very boundaries and mores\, however contingent\, established by those attempts. Of particular interest is how writing communities might be changing historically in the early twenty-first century\, and how writers theorize and make use (or not) of various conceptualizations and practices of community. What do such formations include and leave out? What are the conditions of possibility for a community to emerge? From where does one emerge? How are writing communities that share an often contested collective vision themselves experimental formations for attempting new modes of relation\, affiliation and creation? (Conference website: http://ucsccommunitypoetryconf.tumblr.com/) \nFriday\n9:00-9:30am Opening Comments \n9:30-10:45am Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n11:00am-12:15pm Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n12:15-1:15pm Lunch / Collaborative Writing Tables \n1:15-2:30pm Roundtable\n4 presenters \n2:45-4:00pm Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n4:30-6:30pm Dinner \n7:00pm Poetry Reading at the Felix Kulpa Gallery \nSaturday\n9:00-10:15am Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n10:30-11:45 Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n11:45am-1:00pm Lunch / Reading \n1:00-2:15pm Roundtable\n4 presenters \n2:30-4:00pm Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n4:00-6:15pm Dinner \n6:30pm Poetry Reading at the Felix Kulpa Gallery URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/emergent-communities-in-experimental-writing-conference-4/ 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:20120503T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120503T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20111209T192727Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111209T192727Z UID:10004650-1336060800-1336068000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Celebrating Humanities Spring Awards DESCRIPTION:The annual “Celebrating Humanities” event is an important opportunity to acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition\, awards\, distinctions and honors over the course of this last year. Highlights include the presentation of the John Dizikes Teaching Awards in Humanities\, which honors the teaching efforts of faculty. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nThe categories for acknowledgement this year are: \n\nFaculty Awards and Honors\nResearch Grants and Fellowships\nTeaching Awards and Instructional Innovation\nMajor Publications\nUndergraduate Awards and Honors:\n• HUGRA – supports and encourages undergraduate research in the Humanities\n• Dean’s and Chancellor’s – granted to undergraduates who have completed an outstanding senior thesis or project during the current academic year\n\nThis year’s Celebrating Humanities event will be held in conjunction with the HUGRA awards. Following is the schedule: \n1:00 – 3:00 pm: HUGRA Awards \n3:00 – 4:00 pm: Refreshments \n4:00 – 6:00 pm: Spring Awards \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2011-2012-spring-awards-event-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120503T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120503T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120314T182336Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120314T182336Z UID:10005082-1336050000-1336057200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:HUGRA Award Presentations DESCRIPTION:This year’s Humanities Undergraduate Research Award Presentations will be held in conjunction with the Celebrating Humanities event. Following is the schedule: \n1:00 – 3:00 pm: HUGRA Awards \n3:00 – 4:00 pm: Refreshments \n4:00 – 6:00 pm: Spring Awards URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hugra-award-presentations-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120503T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120503T230000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120503T160001Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120503T160001Z UID:10004697-1336003200-1336086000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dizikes Award and "Celebrating the Humanities" 2012 DESCRIPTION:Alan Christy\, Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies Director\, is the 2012 recipient of the John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities. Both students and colleagues alike offered high praise regarding Alan’s teaching skills and the positive impact he has had on students over the years. \nJohn Dizikes will be on hand to present the award to Alan and will join Humanities faculty\, staff\, and students in honoring our other Humanities affiliates receiving recognition during our “Celebrating Excellence in the Humanities 2012 “ Spring Awards Event on Thursday\, May 3rd. \nFor more detailed information about this event\, please follow this link: http://humanities.ucsc.edu/news-events/announcements/news-article-spring-awards-call.html \nThe annual “Celebrating Humanities” event is an important opportunity to acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition\, awards\, distinctions and honors over the course of this last year. Highlights include the presentation of the Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award in Humanities\, which honors the teaching efforts of faculty. \nThe categories for acknowledgement this year are:\nFaculty Awards and Honors\nResearch Grants and Fellowships\nTeaching Awards and Instructional Innovation\nMajor Publications\nUndergraduate Awards and Honors:\nHUGRA – supports and encourages undergraduate research in the Humanities\nDean’s and Chancellor’s – granted to undergraduates who have completed an outstanding senior thesis or project during the current academic year \nThis year’s Celebrating Humanities event will be held in conjunction with the HUGRA awards. Following is the schedule: \n1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.: HUGRA Awards\n3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.: Refreshments\n4:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m.: Dizikes Award\n4:15 p.m.-6:00 p.m.: Spring Awards URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dizikes-award-and-celebrating-the-humanities-2012-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120502T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120502T230000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120319T162820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120319T162820Z UID:10005088-1335960000-1335999600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:A Dickens Day Celebration DESCRIPTION:A Celebration in Honor of Charles Dickens’s 200th Birthday Anniversary Year \nCo-sponsored by The Dickens Project\, University of California\, Santa Cruz \nAn Important Notice of (perhaps) the one and only all-day Dickens Day Celebration in San Francisco\, hence\, one that should not be missed on all account. Thus\, a brief description of what will occur by way of discourse and disquisition\, literary enrichment\, theatrical engagement\, delectable fare\, and of course\, sheer fun. \nA Dickens Day Celebration (in honor of Charles Dickens’s 200th Birthday Anniversary Year will be held on Wednesday\, May 2 from NOON – 8:30 pm at San Francisco’s historic Mechanics’ Institute Library & Chess Room (founded in 1854). The day will start at Noon with lunch in the Six Jolly Fellowship Porters Pub followed by a series of talks from 12:30 -3:30 pm on Discovering Dickens’s London. From 3:30 – 4:30 pm we feature English Tea with Charles Dickens in Residence (performed by Robert Young) with additional “5 minute Dickens” readings from the audience. The evening program from 6:30 -8:30 pm features a keynote address by Jane Smiley (Charles Dickens (2002)\, followed by a panel titled\, A Writer’s Life: Author\, Celebrity\, Social Reformer\, Intrepid Traveler\, Amateur Actor & Family Man and Dickens in the Digital Age with professors from the UC Santa Cruz Dickens Project and others; culminating with a dramatic reading by actor Paul Whitworth. \nSix Jolly Fellowship Porters Pub will offer hearty tavern fare from NOON – 6:00 pm with a special Tea Service from 3:30 -5:00 pm. The audience and participants are welcomed to come in costumes as favorite characters from Dickens’s novels or people of the times! \nAfternoon Program\nDiscovering Dickens’s London\n12:00 – Six Jolly Fellowship Porters Pub (hearty tavern fare & libations 12:00 – 6:00 pm) \n12:30-1:30 – John Jordan\, Arriving in Dickens’s London \n1:30-2:30 – Murray Baumgarten\, Reading Dickens Writing London \n2:30-3:30 – Peter Orner\, Dickens and Melville: A Tale of Two Scriveners \n3:30-4:30 – Tea Readings with Charles Dickens (Robert Young) Dramatic Reading by the Author!\n        “5-Minute Dickens” with audience participation – bring your favorite selection to share!\n        English Tea Service available!\n \nEvening Program\nA Writer’s Life: Author\, Celebrity\, Social Reformer\, Intrepid Traveler\, Amateur Actor & Family Man and\nDickens in the Digital Age\n6:00 – Doors Open – Victorian Guests & Surprises \n6:30-8:30 – Keynote Address: Jane Smiley\, author of Charles Dickens (2002) \nPanel discussion\, moderated by John Jordan with Murray Baumgarten\, Edwin Eigner\, Jane Smiley\, Peter Orner\, Jon Michael Varese \nFrom Page to Stage –A Dramatic Reading by actor Paul Whitworth\n \nReservations Required: (415) 393-0100 or rsvp@milibrary.org www.milibrary.org \nMembers Free; Public $15 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-dickens-day-celebration-3/ LOCATION:Mechanic’s Institute\, 57 Post Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120502T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120502T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120430T075505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120430T075505Z UID:10004695-1335960000-1335967200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Lisa Kaborych of the Medici Archive Project and Its New Digital Interactive Platform DESCRIPTION:The Medici Archive Project Presents: \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPreview a presentation by Lisa Kaborycha of the Medici Archive Project\, Florence\, of  a new\, interactive digital platform that will debut as freeware this July. This platform is adaptable for the needs of many kinds of document management\, and Lisa will be on hand to discuss its properties and capacities. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lisa-kaborych-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 620\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120502T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120502T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120308T202501Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120308T202501Z UID:10004674-1335960000-1335967200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Catherine Jones: “Children and the Problem of Agency” DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nCatherine Jones \nHistory\, UCSC \nExcluded from favored liberal remedies for realizing new freedoms in postemancipation Virginia\, children nevertheless shaped broad Reconstruction contests over the meaning of freedom. This paper focuses on children in order to consider whether liberal assumptions embedded in the idea of agency have excessively narrowed historians’ analysis of postemancipation politics. \nSPONSORS: The Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/catherine-jones-children-and-the-problem-of-agency-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120428 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120429 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120428T160001Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120428T160001Z UID:10004691-1335571200-1335657540@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:2012 Reunion Weekend DESCRIPTION:2012 Reunion Weekend\nMore information TBA. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2012-reunion-weekend-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120427T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120427T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120214T191010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120214T191010Z UID:10005050-1335542400-1335547800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Craig Schiffer: Santa Cruz to Wall Street DESCRIPTION:The University of California Satna Cruz Humanities presents the East Coast Distinguished Alumni Guest Lecture Speaker\, Craig Schiffer – Cowell\, Class of ’78 \nSanta Cruz to Wall Street\nHow I got from UCSC to Wall Street\, my experience in the world of finance and investment banking\, and the options for someone coming out of school now \nReception immediately following the lecture. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/east-coast-distinguished-alumni-lecture-featuring-craig-schiffer-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120427T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120427T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120420T191556Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120420T191556Z UID:10005100-1335535200-1335542400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jeff Hull: "Unlocking the Power of Play; Immersive Narrative in the Civic Realm" DESCRIPTION:Jeff Hull is engaged in a decade long metaphysical street battle against banality and routine. This takes the form of fictional cults with real world induction centers\, pirate radio broadcasts from rogue agencies\, bizarre team building exercises\, guerrilla masonry\, covert subterranean exploration\, sasquatch dance bombs\, and all manner of subterfuge. As the founder of Oaklandish and The Jejune Institute he has taken Situationism and Street Art in unseen new directions\, blowing minds and winning awards along the way. His talk will offer a glimpse into the future of storytelling. \nJeff Hull is the creative director of Nonchalance\, a San Francisco based Situational Design agency whose mission is to provoke discovery through visceral experience and pervasive play. This is achieved this by means of interactive narrative\, game design\, augmented reality\, automated environments\, event production\, installation art\, spatial navigation and cultural curation. They are best known for their award winning independent projects The Jejune Institute and Oaklandish. \nHosted By the Center for Games and Playable Media URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jeff-hull-unlocking-the-power-of-play-immersive-narrative-in-the-civic-realm-3/ LOCATION:Media Theater\, M110 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120426T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120426T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120418T175652Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120418T175652Z UID:10005091-1335463200-1335470400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Nalo Hopkinson DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Fund\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department/Creative Writing Program\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, East Asian Studies Program\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, Latino and Latin American Studies Center\, Office of Diversity\, Equity & Inclusion\, El Centro\, Cantu Queer Center\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, Stevenson College\, Oakes College\, and Merrill College. \nBooks are sold at the readings by The Bay Tree Bookstore. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nalohopkinson-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120426T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120426T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120417T230310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120417T230310Z UID:10004687-1335459600-1335465000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Herman Blake: About Oakes History and Diversity in the Medical Sciences DESCRIPTION:Come join us for a conversation with Oakes’ First Provost and UCSC’s first African American faculty member\, Dr. Herman Blake. Dr. Blake is currently the Humanities Scholar in Residence at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Our conversation will center around Oakes History and Diversity in the Medical Sciences field. Refreshments will be served. \nPresented by Oakes College\, Oakes Science Community\, Science and the Justice Working Group. For more information\, please contact Philip Longo (plongo@ucsc.edu) or Walter Adams (wjadams@ucsc.edu). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/herman-blake-about-oakes-history-and-diversity-in-the-medical-sciences-3/ LOCATION:Guzman Room\, Oakes College\, Oakes College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120425T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120425T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120418T174902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120418T174902Z UID:10005090-1335380400-1335387600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:A Tribute to Adrienne Rich DESCRIPTION:A Tribute to Adrienne Rich\nIt was in 1973\, in the midst of Black and women’s liberation movements\, the Vietnam War\, and her own personal distress\, that Adrienne Rich wrote and published Diving into the Wreck\, which garnered her the National Book Award in 1974. Rich accepted the award on behalf of all women. In the decades that followed\, Rich’s poetry\, essays\, and books addressed issues of feminist politics\, lesbian experience\, and Jewish identity\, and deeply engaged the critical concerns of racial and imperial oppression\, war and environmental degradation. Relentless in her commitment to social justice for all peoples\, her work has enlightened and inspired. She is considered\, in the last half of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century\, one of our greatest American poets. In this tribute\, members of our campus community will read from her work. \n \nSponsored by Literature Department\, Feminist Studies Department\, Porter College\, Oakes College\, Cowell College\, Merrill College\, Colleges 9 & 10\, Stevenson College\, Center for Cultural Studies\, Living Writers & the Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-tribute-to-adrienne-rich-3/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120425T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120425T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120420T193612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120420T193612Z UID:10004690-1335369600-1335375000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Pranav Anand: "All I Want is Some Honest Answers to My Questions: Tracking Argumentation and Stance in Online Political Debate" DESCRIPTION:Whereas a generation ago\, engaging in public discourse might have meant leafleting or writing letters to the editor\, today a host of venues exist online\, enabling meaningful dialogue on an unprecedented scale. It also provides researchers with an unprecedented look onto the diversity of positions people hold on a given issue align as well as the structure of argumentative combat in general. This talk will describe efforts to computationally discover both the variety of stances that people express in online debate and tactics through which they seek to defend their position. \nFollowing the lecture\, there will be a catered reception at the Stevenson provost house. \nPranav Anand is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz. Mr. Anand’s work concentrates on elucidating how contextual factors affect the meaning of linguistic expressions\, including expression of affect\, belief\, perspective\, and quantity. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pranav-anand-all-i-want-is-some-honest-answers-to-my-questions-tracking-argumentation-and-stance-in-online-political-debate-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120425T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120425T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120214T200400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120214T200400Z UID:10005056-1335369600-1335375000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:ChaeRan Freeze: "Crafting an Elite Russian-Jewish Identity: Subjectivity and Gender in Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova" DESCRIPTION:ChaeRan Freeze\, an associate professor in Jewish history at Brandeis University\, has focused her research on the Jews of Russia and women’s and gender studies. Her first book\, Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia (Waltham\, 2001) examines the impact of modernization on Jewish family practices and patterns in Imperial Russia based on newly-declassified archival materials from the former Soviet Union. It received the Koret Foundation Publication Award and the Salo Baron Award for the Best First Book in Jewish Studies. She also edited Polin: Jewish Women in Eastern Europe\, Volume 18 (Oxford\, 2005) with Paula Hyman and Antony Polonsky. This volume is the first collection of essays devoted to the study of Jewish women’s experiences in Eastern Europe. She is presently completing a project\, “Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia\, 1825-1914: Select Documents” (coauthored with Jay Harris\, Harvard University) which documents the “everyday” (Alltags) as a site of interaction with modernity where Jews confronted the unfamiliar\, and negotiated their environment in strategic and creative ways. This project received a Collaborative NEH Grant\, and will be published by the Brandeis University Press. Her new project is to publish the eight diaries of Zinaida Poliakova (1862-1952)\, a noble Jewish woman who described elite Jewish culture and life in tsarist Russia. \nThis event is made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Foundation. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/helen-diller-family-foundation-distinguished-lecture-chaeran-freeze-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120425T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120425T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120313T232745Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120313T232745Z UID:10005070-1335366000-1335373200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Stephen Tatum: “Cormac McCarthy\, Roberto Bolaño\, and the Natural History of Destruction” DESCRIPTION:In his 1997 lecture series on literature and the air raids of the Second World War\, W.G. Sebald asks at one point “how ought such a natural history of destruction begin?” In the process of beginning himself to answer this question\, Sebald critiques the German literary failure to confront “the true state of the material and moral ruin in which the country found itself\,” to relay the “very real horrors” of the constitutive feature of the European postwar landscape: death. As some critics have more recently observed\, death constitutes the very being not only of the Holocaust but also of the contemporary genocide accompanying neoliberalism or our globalizing world system. With Sebald’s question (and provisional answers to it) as a prompt\, this talk explores questions of style and affective dynamics in the representations of violence and genocide in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands exemplified by Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men and Roberto Bolaño’s 2666. \nAs I have argued in another context\, the postregional US West ought to be regarded as a rather spectral\, deterritorialized discursive terrain produced by the intersection of media imagery and the migration of transnational capital and human and animal bodies with particular geophysical terrains. These fictions by McCarthy and Bolaño specifically disclose how a postregional or global South economy of representation centers on the violent manner in which embodied laboring populations on both sides of the border are brought into and positioned in the spaces of relatively wealthy societies\, particularly its maquiladoras and the transportation networks produced by flows of drugs\, weapons\, and immigrants. Through an analysis of figures of suspended agency living in the aftermath of violent trauma\, I will speculate further on the ethical and political consequences of a forensic aesthetic combining pensiveness with parataxis. \nStephen Tatum is Professor of English and Director of the Environmental Humanities graduate program at the University of Utah\, where he teaches courses in US West literature\, theories of popular culture\, and environmental writing and ecocriticism. His recent publications include award-winning essays on postregional western American literature and culture\, an edited collection Reading ‘The Virginian’ in the New West\, and the books Cormac McCarthy’s ‘All the Pretty Horses’: A Reader’s Guide and In the Remington Moment. He is currently at work on a projected titled Morta Las Vegas. \nThis event is sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research\, and the departments of American Studies and Literature. Staff support provided by the IHR. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stephen-tatum-3/ LOCATION:Cowell\, Room 132\, Cowell College 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120425T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120425T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120308T202254Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120308T202254Z UID:10004673-1335355200-1335362400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Pedro Di Pietro: “Decolonizing Queer Space: Race\, Sexuality and the Production of the Real” DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nPedro Di Pietro \nVisiting Assistant Professor; Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities and Townsend Fellow\, UCB; Research Affiliate\, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Philosophy\, Interpretation\, and Culture\, Binghamton University \nProfessor Di Pietro examines the production of queer spaces in the Andes and their diasporic dispersal in the Americas. He also examines geopolitical linkages between subaltern queerness and vernacular spirituality among Latino/as in the U.S.\, weaving regional epistemologies of sex/gender/desire together with a critique of the human/non-human distinction and its ethico-political aftermath across ethnic\, gender\, and queer studies. \nCO-SPONSORS: The Department of Latin American and Latino Studies\, and the Critical Race and Ethnicity Studies Research Cluster. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pedro-di-pietro-decolonizing-queer-space-race-sexuality-and-the-production-of-the-real-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120422T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120422T163000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120404T231353Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120404T231353Z UID:10004683-1335103200-1335112200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rabindranath Tagore 150th Anniversary with Aparna Sen DESCRIPTION:Aparna Sen starred at age 16 in Samapti\, directed by Satyajit Ray\, in 1961. Based on a story by the Nobel Laureate\, Rabindranath Tagore\, it was her very first film. Since then Sen has achieved critical acclaim\, both nationally and internationally\, as an actress and a feminist filmmaker. \nOn April 21 (Media Theater\, UCSC\, 5 PM) Ms. Sen will appear on stage after the screening of Samapti\, an hour- long film. She will speak on Tagore’s great cultural and literary heritage. (admission free) \nOn April 22 there will be a screening ofst The Japanese Wife\, directed by Ms. Sen\, at Nickelodeon at 2 pm. (Nickelodeon\, 210 Lincoln Street\, Santa Cruz\, 95060. Call: 831.426.7511 for reservation) \nMs. Sen will appear on stage for brief Question & Answer sessions after the screening of both the films. \nPresented by: Satyajit Ray Film & Study Center\, UCSC & ICCR\, New Delhi for more information call us 831.459.4012/459.2696\, or visit http://satyajitray.ucsc.edu/news.htm URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rabindranath-tagore-150th-anniversary-with-aparna-sen-2-3/ LOCATION:Nickelodeon Theater\, 210 Lincoln Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120421T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120421T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120228T203104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120228T203104Z UID:10004669-1335013200-1335031200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:WHAT ARE WE DOING WHEN WE DO THE HUMANITIES? DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 21 @ 1 pm  //  Museum of Art & History\nFree and Open to the Public (includes free museum access)\n\nJoin us for an exploration and celebration of the Humanities at the University of California. Hear leading scholars discuss their work and examine the following questions. \n\nWhat does it mean to do the humanities?\nWhy do the humanities matter?\nWhat’s public about the humanities?\n\nThe afternoon will consist of panel discussions and poster presentations. Panel topics include the power of language\, religion and modernity\, empire and nation. Poster presentations cover research on the ethnography of disasters\, feminist art\, slavery and cannibalism\, the criminalization of religious practice\, party-crashing in medieval literature\, the inevitable fate of the novel\, and many others. \nFor details visit: http://humanities.ihr.ucsc.edu/ \nBring your family and friends! All of the MAH exhibits will be free and open to the public that afternoon\, including the highly anticipated “All You Need Is Love” exhibit. Visitors will be able to enter a free raffle for items donated by local businesses – Logos Books and Records\, L’Atelier Salon\, Kuumbwa Jazz Center\, and many others. \nSponsored by the UC Humanities Network\, UCSC Institute for Humanities Research\, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, and local Santa Cruz businesses. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/what-are-we-doing-when-we-do-the-humanities-2-3/ LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120419T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120419T230000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120419T160000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120419T160000Z UID:10005098-1334793600-1334876400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Laleh Khadivi DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Fund\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department/Creative Writing Program\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, East Asian Studies Program\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, Latino and Latin American Studies Center\, Office of Diversity\, Equity & Inclusion\, El Centro\, Cantu Queer Center\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, Stevenson College\, Oakes College\, and Merrill College. \nBooks are sold at the readings by The Bay Tree Bookstore. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/laleh-khadivi-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120418T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120418T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120412T235816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120412T235816Z UID:10004686-1334770200-1334775600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jonathan Kahana and Irene Lusztig: Documentary Reenactment DESCRIPTION:Filmed reenactment has a long\, inglorious history: for decades from the origins of cinema\, it was a central aesthetic and conceptual method for both fiction and nonfiction filmmakers working with unrecorded pasts. With the invention of cinéma vérité\, an ethos which virtually banished reenactment overnight from the toolkit of “serious” historical documentary\, reenactment fell from favor during the 1960s. But in the past decade\, and with\nremarkable alacrity\, reenactment has been revived as a critical figure\, in all manner of film-historical writing\, both in and on film. UCSC Film and Digital Media professors Jonathan Kahana and Irene Lusztig consider some sources and implications of this renewed interest in reenactment as a trope of history\, with reference to and excerpts from two of Lusztig’s reenacted documentaries\, Reconstruction (2001)\, and The Samantha Smith Project (2005). In Reconstruction\, Lusztig unearths a dark family secret in search of answers and reconciliation\, when she travels to Bucharest to construct a portrait of her enigmatic grandmother. The title of the documentary is derived from a bizarre government propaganda film that reenacts the crime and trial of a robbery that “starred” her grandmother\, as a member of the infamous Ioanid Gang. Braiding together the story of the briefly-famous ten-year-old girl from Manchester\, Maine who became Yuri Andropov’s penpal at the height of the Cold War and a parallel personal narrative of travel to Russia fifteen years after the collapse of the Soviet Union\, The Samantha Smith Project explores the aftermath of the Cold War and the contemporary Russian landscape\, while meditating on notions of forgetting\, nostalgia\, and the manufacturing and dismantling of political enemies. \nPlease visit our website: http://artsresearch.ucsc.edu/vps/reenactment for more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jonathan-kahana-and-irene-lusztig-documentary-reenactment-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120418T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120418T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120406T171706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120406T171706Z UID:10004684-1334768400-1334773800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sara M. Benson: "Locating Leavenworth: Prisons and Political Geography" DESCRIPTION:This talk historicizes the placement of Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary (the U.S. nation’s oldest and largest federal prison designed as a replica of the U.S. capitol building) at the center of the nation in the post-Reconstruction 1890s. Drawing on understandings of political geography from feminist and critical race studies\, the talk traces the geography of prisons in what is now the U.S. Midwest\, maps the border politics and competing claims to law that brought the federal prison to Kansas\, and disrupts the conventional regional narrative of American prisons as North/South institutions. The talk locates Leavenworth in the afterlife of a civil war over slavery that began the Civil War and at the center of the federal strategy to establish\, police\, and dissolve Indian Territory. \nSara Benson received her Ph.D. from the Department of Politics and was part of the Designated Emphasis Program in Feminist Studies. She is now a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at UCLA. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sara-m-benson-locating-leavenworth-prisons-and-political-geography-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 320 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120418T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120418T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120308T202058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120308T202058Z UID:10004672-1334750400-1334757600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Eva Vibeke Kofoed Pihl: "Pig Patients and their Personalities" DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: \nEva Vibeke Kofoed Pihl \nPh.D Fellow\, Center for Medical Science and Technology Studies\, University of Copenhagen; Visiting Fellow\, and The Science and Justice Working Group\, UCSC \nWhat  makes animal technicians describe a pig as “depressed\,” “a rebel” or “girly”? How do scientists get pigs to mimic human patients biologically and become sources of information on human health? Professor Pihl discusses human/pig becomings in biomedical research\, focusing on apparatuses and spaces. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/eva-vibeke-kofoed-pihl-pig-patients-and-their-personalities-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120417T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120417T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120214T193005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120214T193005Z UID:10005052-1334678400-1334683800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jonathan Boyarin: "Trickster's Children: Jewishness and the Generations of Anthropology" DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Boyarin is the Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill. He has also taught at Wesleyan University\, Dartmouth College\, the New School for Social Research and the University of Kansas. Boyarin received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1998\, after receiving his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the New School for Social Research in New York in 1984. \nHis research and writing combine his backgrounds in anthropology and Yiddish to point toward new pathways in the study of Jewish culture. His first book\, as co-editor\, was From a Ruined Garden: The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry (1983 and 1998)\, which served as an introduction for younger\, English-speaking Jews to first-hand accounts of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. This was followed by Polish Jews in Paris: The Ethnography of Memory (1991)\, based on his dissertation fieldwork in Paris\, and by a volume on the life history of Yiddish scholar Shlomo Noble. Further ethnographic and critical essays\, including some dealing with the contemporary Lower East Side in New York\, were published in Storm from Paradise: The Politics of Jewish Memory(1992) and Thinking in Jewish (1996). He edited and contributed to The Ethnography of Reading (1993) and Remapping Memory: The Politics of TimeSpace (1994). With his brother\, Daniel Boyarin\, he co-edited Jews and Other Differences: The New Jewish Cultural Studies (1997). His interest in Zionism\, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict\, and revaluation of diaspora in contemporary Jewish life is reflected in Palestine and Jewish History (1996) and (again with Daniel Boyarin) Powers of Diaspora (2002). His books in recent years include Jewishness and the Human Dimension (Fordham\, 2008); Time and Human Language Now (with Martin Land; Prickly Paradigm\, 2009); The Unconverted Self: Jews\, Indians and the Identity of Christian Europe (Chicago\, 2009) and Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Lower East Side Summer (Fordham\, 2011). \nThis event was made possible by generous support by the David B. Gold Foundation. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jonathan-boyarin-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120416T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120416T163000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120406T212341Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120406T212341Z UID:10004685-1334590200-1334593800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ondrej Skovajsa: "Written Voice: Walt Whitman’s first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855) and Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer (1934)" DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to a talk by: Ondrej Skovajsa\, Visiting Fulbright Scholar \n“Written Voice: Walt Whitman’s first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855)\nand Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer (1934)”\nDiscussing first the relevance of oral theory when dealing with texts\, the paper deals with the strategies Whitman and Miller share to get their voices across to the reader. With some striking similarities already at the paratextual level\, the paper moves to stylistic features\, most important of which is the present tense: it aligns these works with the “future focus” of biblical orality that James Nohnrberg defines as contrary to the “nostalgia” of literature. Further\, the paper discusses how the two texts employ Marcel Jousse’s notion of “mimisme” as the rhythmical creative law of the universe. (Jousse’s notion is parallel to Dorothee Soelle’s notion of creative happiness\, and Elaine Scarry’s notion of beauty that demands a replication of itself.) On a still deeper level\, the paper discusses imitatio Christi strongly embraced by both authors: important is the two flâneurs’ “sympathy”\, and the notion of “rebirth as hermeneutics” – i.e. as resurrection of the spoken living logos from the “grave of the book”\, as discussed by Walter Ong’s in “Maranatha” (1977). Whitman and Miller remain in resurrection of – and constant dialogue with – their textual “fixations” on their further journeys. \nMr. Skovajsa is an assistant professor at Purkyně University in Usti nad Labem\, and a doctoral student at the Department of Comparative Literature at Charles University in Prague. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ondrej-skovajsa-written-voice-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120415T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120415T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120210T222329Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120210T222329Z UID:10004665-1334484000-1334502000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics DESCRIPTION:The 30th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics\, hosted by the Department of Linguistics and the Linguistics Research Center\, will take place on Friday\, April 13 to Sunday\, April 15\, 2012 at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.\nConference Program (PDF)\nFor more information and registration\, please visit the conference website. \nThis event is sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Department of Linguistics\, the Institute for Humanities Research\, the Linguistics Research Center\, and Stevenson College. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/west-coast-conference-on-formal-linguistics-3-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120413T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120413T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20120314T175151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120314T175151Z UID:10005080-1334307600-1334332800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Migration and Ethnic Studies DESCRIPTION:The Borders\, Bodies and Violence Research Cluster presents: \nMigration and Ethnic Studies\nThis symposium brings together scholars roused by recent legislation targeting migrants and ethnic studies\, such as Arizona’s SB 1070\, one of the most draconian anti-immigration measures in the United States\, and HB 2281\, the 2010 prohibition on ethnic studies in public schools. Topics to be addressed include language\, labor\, indigeneity\, nativist populism\, state surveillance\, violence\, trauma\, displacement\, culture wars\, and education. Taken together\, the works presented will shed light on the nexus of migration and Latino studies\, assess the state of this field\, and explore the possibilities for its future. \nThursday\, April 12\n4:00-5:30pm: Keynote\n“Politics\, Process\, and Human Folly: Life among the Arizona Lilliputians of Cultural and Linguistic Suppression”\nCarlos Vélez-Ibáñez\, Director of the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University \nFriday\, April 13\n9:00-9:30am: Welcome \n9:30-11:00am: Panel 1: Ethnographies \n\nRuben Espinoza (Sociology): “Bodies\, Border Thinking\, and the Labor Process”\nTania Cruz Salazar (LALS): “Maya Migrant Youth in California”\nMary Virginia Watson (Politics): “‘Taking America Back’: Arizona Nativists and the\nEmergence of Nativist Populism”\nCarlos Vélez-Ibáñez\, respondent\n\n11:00am-12:30pm: Lunch Break \n12:30-2:00pm Panel 2: Archival Research and Textual Analysis \n\nCecilia Rivas (LALS): “The Bodies in the Television: Salvadoran Gardeners\, Memory\, and Representation”\nFelicity Schaeffer-Grabiel (Feminist Studies): “Tracking Migrants: Sexual Surveillance and Securing Communities”\nCatherine Ramírez (LALS): “Bad Subjects: Chicana/o Studies in the Wake of HB 2281”\nSandra K. Soto\, respondent\n\n2:00-2:30pm: Break \n2:30-4:00pm: Closing remarks\n“Thinking While Brown: Ethnic Studies and Arizona’s Culture Wars”\nSandra K. Soto\, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona: \n4:00-5:00pm: Reception\nDr. Carlos Velez-Ibanez’ intellectual interests are broadly comparative and interdisciplinary and span specific interests in migration\, economic stratification\, political ecology\, transnational community and household formation\, and applied social science. His academic fields include applied anthropology\, complex social organizations\, culture and education\, ethno-class relations in complex social systems\, migration and adaptation of human populations\, political ecology\, qualitative methodology and urban anthropology. \nDr. Velez-Ibanez concentrates his work on the Southwestern United States\, Mexico and the Caribbean. His publications are numerous including eleven books\, four of which are based on original field research and his grants are many from NSF\, NEH\, and private foundations. He is presently conducting transnational field research in two rural valleys in California and New Mexico and their sending communities in Mexico. He received a Ph.D. in Anthropology\, University of California\, San Diego (1975). Later he became Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology\, University of California\, Riverside\, 1994-2005. Additionally\, he was Dean of the College of Humanities\, Arts\, and Social Sciences at the University of California\, Riverside from 1994-1999. \nPreviously he had been appointed Professor of Anthropology\, Department of Anthropology\, University of Arizona\, Tucson\, 1984-1994 and Director of the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology\, Department of Anthropology\, University of Arizona\, Tucson\, 1982-1994. Prior to this appointment\, he was a tenured associate professor at UCLA. His honors include the 2004 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology awarded by the American Anthropology Association\, and in 2003 the Bronislaw Malinowski Medal presented by the Society for Applied Anthropology in addition to a number of other awards and fellowships including a Fellow\, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences\, Palo Alto\, California\, 1993-94 and elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science\, 1999. \nHe is presently Regents Professor and Motorola Presidential Professor of Neighborhood Revitalization\, Professor of School of Transborder Studies and and Human Evolution and Social Change\, Director of the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University\, and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology of the University of California\, Riverside. \nSandra K. Soto is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. She holds a PhD in English\, with a focus in Ethnic and Third World Literature\, from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching interests are in Chicana/o and Latina/o Literary and Cultural Studies. She is co-editor of the journal Feminist Formations and the author of the book\, Reading Chican@ Like a Queer: The De-Mastery of Desire. In 2010 she and Miranda Joseph received the National Education Association Excellence in the Academy Award in Democracy in Higher Education for their essay “Neoliberalism and the Battle over Ethnic Studies in Arizona.” When she is not writing about the politics of Arizona\, she works on her book in progress which draws from queer theories of affect to think about the production\, circulation\, and consumption of cultural production in Greater Mexico\, focusing especially on the internationally-renown Mexican photographer\, Graciela Iturbide.\nThe Borders\, Bodies and Violence Research Cluster is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research which has provided staff support for this event. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network with support from the UCSC Office for Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, and El Centro: Chicano Latino Resource Center. \nFor more information\, contact Shann Ritchie at the Institute for Humanities Research\, sritchie@ucsc.edu\, (831) 459-5655. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/migration-and-ethnic-studies-2-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR